HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-05-06, Page 2TILE MYSTERIOUS KAY
Olt, PLANNING FOR THE
FU PURE.
Clf:kl'1'l'1t II., early in December, 1 realiz-
ed that the girl's own health was
With a sharply indrawn breath, failing, and again I urged her to
(herald turned to the table, took break up housekeeping and come to
up Miss Winchester's letter, and me. She still refused, and seemed
began to unfold it. strangely nervous and troubled
"i had almost forgotten it," ho w hen I pressed the matter ; she
said wearily ; "but 1 will real it oven appeared to be restless and
aloud, for you will be interestedtncomfoas mall iiduring the Iittle visis-
iu its contents."
"Perhaps there may bo some ingly shortened it, returning to
things in it which I should not my own lonely home earlier than
hear," Lady Brumley gently ob- I had intended. I neither heard
jecti'd. "If there was any vital from nor saw her again until early
socret in connection with your mo- in winter, when, one cold, etorrny
titer's marriage to Mr. Brewster, it day, the child suddenly appeared
may be as well for it to remain berme me, looking very (11 and
such to every one but yourself." i w retched. I realized at once that
"How thoughtful you always she was in no ordinary trouble; but
are!" Gerald replied, and bonding I took her to my heart and bade
an appreciative look upon her. her confide everything to me. Then
"Yeti have always been so good to I learned the reason of her strange.
rue I find myself turning to you in
behaviour, and her persistence in
every emergency. almost as natur-' hving alone in the home that had
ally as 1 would iyou were my mo -1 always been hers. She had been
„ a wife since the month of April
Uh' Thank you, Gerald, for that as -1 previous ! A young man—Adam
surance', and I trust that you will Brewster, by name, and a student
always allow mo to act as such in at Yale—had been attentive to her
so far as I may. I am sure that some time previous to the de•tth of
our fondness for each other is mu - her father. Hu had taken lessons
tual," responded his companion, ion the violin from Professor Harris,
with evident emotion. las a blind, and tor the sole pur-
"Then I shall have no secrete 'pose of enabling him to woo and
from you," he smilingly returned; .vin the heart of his lovely (laugh -
"so I will follow my first impulse ter. Mr. Harris did not approve
and read Aunt Honor's letter to of his attentions, and had openly
you. Sit here," he added, placing discouraged then.; but, immedi-
a comfortable rocker for her, and ately following his death, young
,hon, when she was seated, he Brewster persuaded her to marry
brought the dismantled Winchester him secretly—at least, their rola-
heirloom and placed it before her. tions were to remain a secret only
"Put your feet upon this sacred until his college course was end-
repository—for as ouch I shall ed, which would be the following
henceforth regard it --and take your suinmer, when he world immediate-
henceforth
How this poor relic has fret- ly establish himself in business, and
ted ore every time I have packed then take her to a home such as
ay truuk I But, now it could not t he wished her to o:cupy—"
be purchased from nio for its "Oh' how strange!" suddenly
weight gold, and very soon we broke forth Lady Bromley, in a
will have it made over into afit-
ting ornament for your room." voice of such intense pain that Ger-
ald turned to her in astonishment.
Then, drawing another chair op-
posite her, he began to read from "I—I mean how strange it is that
]kiss Winchester's letter. girls will allow themselves to be
drawn into such snares," she
"My dear boy," was the tender hastened to explain, while she
form of address, "I do not know struggled to regain her serf -control.
when, if ever, this will moat your
oyes, for 1 ant greatly exercised in
my iniad as to the wisdom of un- say `no'—to be firm to resist temp or, in case anything hoe happened „with one picked up the day 1
raveling for you the mystery which talion, and tell their lovers that to him, seek his father, produce the entered the picked
Free State and
from your birth has enshrouded when they aro ready to give them proofs of her marriage,
and do_tenet i found at Paardehurg the
your life. You are far too young their rightful place in the world as Mand that justice and proper re -
day General Cronje sur -
bo be told anything about it at pre- honored wives, then they will give cognitiy b
on be accorded her and her ay before
rendered.
sent, and yet I am impelled to their handin marriage? Oh! a child. But no ; eho was as firm as
write out the history of your another secret marriage is a selfish and cow- s. rock—eho had promised Adam
and your origin, together with cer- at'dly thing for any than to urge up- that their union should remain a
tain data and events, which may on an innocent maiden, and many secret until he came to claimher
possibly becume very valuable to a ono has had her happiness ruined and give her her proper place in
you some time in tho future and for life by weakly yielding to her the world,break her word. A week later, and she would never
would otherwise be utterly future,
lover's persuasions." during one of her violent uutburgts
swallowed in oblivion by sumo un ,
foreseen happening to myself. if
we should both live until you at-
tain your majority, I should then
feel it my duty to tell you every-
thing, and allow you to make such
use of your knowledge as you might
deem best. If, on the other hand,
I should be taken from you before
that time, the story would be ready
for you, and I should doubtless
have warning sufficient to toll you
where to find it. together with the
record of your birth. 1 am not your
own aunt. Gerald—you are not my
brother William's child, as I have
allowed you to believe. That was
only a harmless fiction, to silence
curious questii ns and gossiping
tongues. He was the captain of a
sailing -vessel, and died of fever on
a homeward passage from South
America. Voir father also went
across the sea, but no ono has ever
known why he never came back
again to hie wife. Yc:ur another was
Miriam Harris, the only child of
my sister. who, against the wishes
of her family, married .Arthur Har-
rie, a poor but talented meeieian.
Their home was in New Haven. and
when Miriam was ic'enteen years
old her mother died very suddenly.
el ho:norrhage of the lungs. Her
death broke her husband's heart,
and he never seemed to have any
courage to battle with the wt•rld
afterwitrd, and late the following
sinter he ale() reseed away. after
a brief struggle with that terrible
enc•ny, pneumonia. This left Miri-
aut entirely alone. a•td I offered
her a home with me -1 was at that
time living in a neighboring town
—but for some reason. unknown to
m.e then. she preferred le remain
it the city. and continue her music -
teaching. which. however. barely
gave her a living. Sho was one of
the loveliest girls 1 ever saw, pe-
culiarly refined in person and man -
net, and possessing a sweetness of
temper that made her irresistible
to almost every, one. She told me
that she sh.•uld !till k •ep the old
Lome, which greatly astonished and
displeased rue. for I felt that the
rental of it would materially add to
her income: while 1 also felt that it
was no right for a girl of her years
tc live atone. Later. 1 understood
the strange freak and her obstin•
ace. as 1 then regarded her decis-
lon. The summer following the
•
when, once settled upon a firm
foundation, he would tell the truth,
wet intro duce his bride. 1f he
hoped to yet carry out this project,
he knew he must obey his father,
and so he (0mo: ot! to the tour
abroad.
"He loft a handsome sum with
Miriam for her iuutmdiate needs,
promising to send her Inure, as ho
received his own remittances, and
(ensued his address as soon as he
knew just what his tnosenients were
to be. He said it would be best to
still preserve the secret of their re-
lations
o-lations to each other; 'but ere the
snows of winter fell she mould be
openly acknowledged before the
world.' Miriam trusted him impli-
citly. She promised to do exactly
as ho wished, and that promise
proved fatal to her. It signed her
own death -warrant and robbed you
of your birthright ; for, from the
hour of their parting until her dy-
ing day, she never heard one word
from the man a ho had pledged him-
self before Clod and man to love
and cherish het so long as they both
should live."
"Oh ! how cruel ! how cruel!"
murmured Lady Bromley sorrow-
fully, while Gerald gritted his
teeth savagely, his face like a mssk
of chalk, a lurid light in his eyes.
"The poor girl hoptel and waited
until lunger waiting would have
compelled her either to betray her
secret and produce the proofs of
it, or become the target for a scan-
dal -loving public," the young man
read on. "She had not confide,
to her husband the fact that bo -
fore the anniversary of their mar-
riage should come rotted she hoped
to become a another. She feared
that the knowledge might trouble
him during his absence --three
months would soon pass away, and
her news would safely keep until
then.
"This was the sad story she told
me when sire carne to Ire, that
dreary winter day, and asked ane
to give her food end shelter until
she could die and hide in the grave
what she had begun to believe was
her shame. She would not hear one
word against the author of her mis-
ery—she still loved him with idola-
to bring up her boy in utter iga-r-
ance of his parentage, at least up-
on his father's slue. 1 was to Ju
the best I could for hiur, and ti ort
the rest to Cud- if, she added wear-
ily, there ie any God. 1 have of eu
wondered why elle did not deet ay'
the proofs of her marriage, and
thus preclude the poasihility of un.
future knowledge of it. I hese
trometiures thought she meant to
do so, for she kept them c, istaat!y
by her, but clung to there as lung
as possible, vainly hoping tha: 1 er
husband might come before she
diad. She passed away suddenty
while I was absent from her teem
only a few minutes, and I (rued 1st. Withga good dairy held, cratruns all trou01,e or care about
her marriage -certificate and !ler carefully fed and kept, milk can his shelter or subsistence. The re-
left
clasped tightly ;n tier be produced fur sixty-five cents suit is a breed to which good shelter
left hand, which was concealed he- per cwt., and fat for sixteen cents alai plenty of feed e6 a!1 times aro
noxa► her pillow. I put thorn both per and for Inccost of food con- especially necessary, and without
into the enaelupe containing y••ut which i they may thrive so
> u' corticate era .
had that rite performed for you'breed vary more widely in milk ! Several kinds of lice make trouble
unknown to her, and took the ro- I and butter produced than do the for chickens, but the most cununuu
spu:►sibilty of adding your father's,
kinds are the graylouse, which is
name to the one elle haul chosen j breeds themselves.
for you—and put them carefully, 3rd. Tho large animals consumed about the size of the head of a pin
away, feeling that., since elle had less pounds of dry material per and is found under the wings and
nut destroyed your birthright, a' 1,0x10 pounds live weight per day about the vent, and the head louse,
Higher Power had wisely ordered than did the smaller animals. which is a large gray louse and
attaches itself to the heads of little
chickens and quickly saps their
lives away. Ordinary gray lice find
their best breeding place in filth,
so the first step in getting rid of
them is to clean up the piemiser
thoroughly. Follow this by paintins
tho roosts and all crevices witk
kerusene and dusting insect powder
on the fowls. For head lice the best
remedy is lard or vaseliuo rubbed
on the heads of the little chickens.
If the roosts are painted over once
a month throughout the fall and
winter, the (kiwis will be kept in
better condition and much labor
and loss will he avoided next 'grins
during nesting time. The dust bath
should, of course, be supplied, foe
it will also help to keep vermin in
subjection. :1s dust is quite cold it
should be placed where the sun will
warns it in the middle of the day.
It is considerable of a task to catch
every fowl in a large frock and dust
them with insect powder. The use
of the liquid on the roosts is a
much more simple operation, and
quite as efficient. Red mites can be
destroyed by carefully saturating
the perches, boards and cracks with
coal oil and crude carbolic acid.
1•+++•••••••• • • • • • • • +• ♦ !these soft eggs &reliable to cause
• • sone of the hens to beeowe egg
• • Ieaters.
About the Farm • lu7t out for the stretches. Thsheep • • Jsytnpluuta aro hnuwu b}' the sheep
•
(spreading its legs out and stretch-
• i ; ing itself. The cause is too touch
• • - dry feed. The remedy is a bran-
tIS ♦ • • • • • • • • • 1 • • • • • • • 1! i mash and an ounce of raw liuseed
luil. 1( the ,lock are fed routs, bran
PRODUCING MILK. and linseed meal, there is never
After a year's observation with arty clanger of coustipauon.
the herd at Cornell University ex- ' The skillful breeder has developed
periment station, H. H. Wing, pro- early maturity and tendency to fat-
fessur of dairy husbandry, reaches ten easily. Ile has done this by
the follow•i •un •tusious : taking from the pig for many gen-
p Pu e ! { not well
1 a{ is al t•f , Gerald-- 1 had ennui.
duel That individuals of the Panto a5 these hogs less arefully brut
their preservation."
(To be continued.)
BOBS'S HORSESHOES.
Max Mueller's Lucky fenny—flow
Parnell Stirred Coffee.
4th. That in general the best
yields of fat were obtained from
cows that gave ae least a fairly
large itow of milk.
bth. In general, the cows consum-
ing the most food produced both
milk and fat at the lowest rate.
nth. For the production of milk
and fat there is no food so cheap as
good pasture grass.
A man more absolutely governed Note particularly "oth." This
by pure reason than Lord Macaulay being the case does it not stand to
could not welt be found, but in his reason that the best results in win -
diary lie refers to an after dinner ter months roust come from feed -
talk about the feeling which John- • ing the nearest approach to green
son had—of thinking oneself bound • pasture grass? And is that not
to touch a particlar rail or post silage and properly cured alfalfa 1
and to tread in the middle of a
paving stone, ana he adds: "I cer-
tainly have this very strongly."
In one of his Hibbert lectures
Max Mueller said to the students:
"Many of you, I suspect, carry a
ha'penny A% WI a hole in it for luck.
I am net ashamed to own that I
have d••ne so myself for many
years."
Charles Dickens refused to lie
trous affection, and even though down unless his bed was placed due
she could not fail to believe herself north and south. He gave notite
a deserted wife, yet a lawful wife of the rule before arriving at a
she was, and she insisted that some friend's house or a hotel, but a
compass was always handy in his
baggage to make sure.
Mrs. Justin McCarthy has told
us Parnell gravely checked her
stirring coffee "the wrong way"
undue influence—some treachery
on the part of others, was what
had caused his unfaithfulness. Sho
commissioned me to have her house
Id d 1 was fortunate enough
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
The sheep that furnishes a cent,
both for himself and his master,
does not owe the latter anything for
his keep, and the better the keep
the better the coat.
Marry persons make the mistake of
cutting off the horse's mane. This
is detrimental to the horse's appear-
ance and weakens the neck. Even
the foretop should be left untouch-
ed as a protection to the pod, good
horsemen say.
During the laying season it is no
unusual matter for soft eggs to
sold, and
as ( make their appearance now and
to find a ready pug chaser, her ells- then. This is unsatisfactory, !m-
end insisted that she should take cause •n t only is it a sign that
appearance from the place where another cup. something is wrong with the sapid
she had always lived was thus ac -A gentleman of Portrush sent
counted for, and aroused no ad- that produces the shell -less egg, but
verse comment. Lord Roberts an old horseshoe
"Her baby was born a month or, when things Helsel ill in South
Afr•iea. Gratefully acknowledging
"Why cannot they have sufficient six weeks later, and then I begged' it, the General added that he would
resolution and mural courage to Miriam to let the seek her husband, keen this horseshoe in company
"Yes I believe that is true,"
said Gerald thoughtfully.
He understood now that her lady-
ship trust have been startled by
learning that the circumstances
attending tho union of his father
were so like the experience of her
cwn marriage to Sir Charles Brom-
ley : but ho could nut quite compre-
hend, in view of its happy outcome,
why she should be so exceedingly
bitter against the manner of it.
"Excuse me for interrupting
you," she eontinu,YI. smiling; "1
spoke almost before I realized what
1 was saying."
Herald turned to his letter and
resumed :
"So Miriam trusted him fully ; but
upon the very day of her hushand's
graduation, he received a letter
from his father, who was a weal-
thy banker of New York, summon-
ing him inunediately home- telling
hirn that his !nether, who at that,
time was in Paris—was on the point
.,i juicing a party to Norway. Swe-
don, and the North Cape, provided
she could have a proper escort. The
elder Brewster was unable to go
himself, but insisted that .\dam was
to start at once in his place. The
trip, he stated, would uecupy about
three months, and would be a plea-
sant change for the young man,
who for so lung bad been closely
confined to his studies. He also
said that he had already cabled
his mother that he would sail on
the next steamer, so there was no
time to lose. The young husband
rebelled outright against this arbi-
trary command. but more against
the prospective separation from his
wife; but She, ever generous &.rd
considerate of oth'rs. advised Lieu
to de as his father wished, rtay'ne,
that she would do well enough to •
the little while that he would be ab-
sent- three months would soon slip
away. and she would bo there in
the old home. to welcome him hack
upon hi. return. Adam Rresi ter
realized hut ton well that it would
be a very inopportune moment to
confess his marriage and plead that
he did not want to leave his wife:
he was entirely dependent upon his
father, and he felt that if he should
be thrown upon his own resources,
he would hay: a tough struegle for
existence. His plan, so lie said.
had been to get him to c--' ihli•h
Matti of her father, which had ov- him in some paying etiterpr.te,
of grief, she ruptured a blued -vel.
Fel, and I know that from that beer
her doom w18 sealed—that site
would go the maim" way her mot -her
had gone before her. She, also,
appeared to realize this, for as 80
as the bleeding was stopped she in-
sisted that I should pledge myself
" i can testify to the
great merits of your Emul-
sion, especially in all
diseases of a pulmonary
nature. It has saved many
lives that otherwise would
have yielded to consump-
tion . . . we keep Scott's
Emulsion in the house all
the time and all the family
use it."-- MR. C. J. BUD -
LONG, Box 158, \Vash-
ington, R. 1.
Scotts
Emulsion
does Al t. it docs by creating
flesh and strength so rapidly
that the progress of the
disease is retarded and (Pen
stopped. It is a w•cr.dcrtul
flesh builder and to easy to
digest that the younge.t child
and most delicate adult can
take it. If you are k,sing flesh
from consumption cr any
cther cause take Sam's
1• lVl SION. It will stop the
wasting and strengthen the
whole system.
Be sure to get SCOTT'S
AU. nLL'O::IST$
1.•t •• Wad r•• • •^tr oa !I,. 116411ea•'•
Iota*? .\M w• k resin IPca,•M•t..-aa•
or mop !stemmata - t,Mr•tan asserts• r•,•
r reenrN,os. .rcpt •••e us • *sill AI la
0-ai•s tit( nips,.
SCOTT & SOWN!
ile Waio.4 • St.. W. 1,•••r•
tet► _ - - 111111Mr
- 4e -
!II A RTI.1I, M USW.
Instances Which Testify 11'hat Sol-
diers Like Hest.
It is an understatement of deeds
of heroism which delights the
British soldier, declares bit Arthur
Conan Doyle in "'Through the
Magic Dour," Anything in the
least "highfaltin" would depress
a body of English troops; Gorman
troops can march to battle singing
Luther's hymn ; Frenchmen will
work themselves into a frenzy by a
song of glory ; but English poets
need not imagine that martial
song is what the British soldier
needs, as these instances testify.
Our sailors, working the heavy
guns in South Africa, satng "Here's
Another Lump of Sugar for the
Bird," 1 saw a regiment go into
battle to the refrain of '•A Little
Bit of the Top." The martial poet,
unless he had the genuis and in-
sight of a Kipling, would have w•ar(t-
ed a good deal of ink before he had
got down to sueh chants as there.
Thr• Russians are not unlike ns
in this respect. I remember read-
ing of some column ascending a
breach and singing lustily from
start to finish, until a few survivors
were left victorious upon the crest,
with the song !till going.
.1 spectator inquired what wend -
roue chant it was which had warm-
ed them up to such a deed of valor,
and he found that the exact mean-
,
ing of rhe words, endlessly repeated,
was "Ivan is in the Garden Pick-
ing Cabbages."
The fart is. I suppose, that a
mere monotonous sound may take
tee ,,lace of a tom-tom of savacce
t: irfare, and hypnotize the soldier
into salor.
WEALTH iN I'E.1T.
The promise held forth l.y a great
installation in northwest tacrniany,
for the utilization of the immense
peal heels that exist there, leads
to the suggestion in England that
the huge flog of Allen itr Ireland
may ,,ext become ;s great centre
of industry The German under-
takiiig contemplates the bringing of
s large part of the bogs under cul-
tivation, together .cith the cenver•
sion of the peat into fuel, to be em•
ployed in the development of elec-
trical energy for agricultural pur-
poses, as well aa for supplying light
and power to a number of towns
situated within a tadttsa 01 b0 miles.
"I wouldn't cry like that if I
were you," said a Indy to little
Aace. ",Yell," said Alice, between
her sobs, "you can cry anyway you
like, but this is my way.
The New DAIMLER
The roof) type Daimler is a petrol -engine
of rem.trkable efficiency, which for sim-
plicity of construction, economy, and
silence in running is incomparably superior
to any motor yet designed.
Its introduction has gilled forth letters
of appreciation from a number of leading
tlotorists who have tested it, and all whom
bear out the claim mad for it by the
Daimler Co.
A full illustrated description, together
with the above mentioned letters, repro-
duced in fac simile, will be s;nt post free
to all applicants to
The Daimler Motor Co., (1901) Ltd.
COVENTRY, ENGLAND.
In our next advertisement a full list of price'
will be included.