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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. 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