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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-08-20, Page 2 (2)1! , • „ 4^ e into 7 Aire Vhat int certa4; thing8 eh . su •quently happened to me were esvrt still stringer. I held that *toundm lefter La The vroeds writte,n there wer puzzling indeed. A dozen times read theni throng), agape wit 'wonder. The communication, uP011 notepaper of the Bath. Hotel a Bournemouth, was dated June 0 yeax.a.heforgs-sand.ran_is follows :,— ,,s.r;ssssmtkg.wssslrazs)s.yozsAkz=r,s2cw•tssgsso-'3' Ifenton, I very much regret that yo 15/101114 have -thus misunderctoc _rue. I thought when we met a ..00.....-14itsmestrgatiwyrower-quite of in opinion. Yu, however, appear to have grown tired after the five months of our engagement, and your love for me has suddenly -ceoled; thereforo our paths in life ,„ L-InEsist ,=- -osso-sit,leas I 6- estry and straightforwardly. I. course, believed that your de. clarations were true, and that you really loved me truly, but alas! it is evidently not so., I can only suf- fer in silence., Good-bye forever We shall never,, never meet *gain. But I tell you, Wilford,. that I bear sou no malice, and that my. pray- ers will ever be for your welfare and your happiness. Perhaps, sometimes you will give a passing thought to the sorrowful, heart- broken woman who 'till loves You. "MABEL ANSON." What could this mean? It spoke of our engagement for five months! I had ne knowledge whatever of ever having declared the secret of niy love, much less becoming .her affianced husband. Was it possible that in the first few months of my Ilile03SCi0115 life- rluorniet her and told her- of my affection, of how , 1 worshipped -her with all the -strength of my being? As I at there with the carefully preserved letter in my hand there arose before me a vision of her calor ,fair face, bending over the piano, her hands.onie profile il- lumined bl• the candles on .either side, the single dia. mond susgended 4 its invisible "chain gleanung at her threat- like eye.„ The impression I had obtained, of her en that night at The Boltows still remained indelibly with me. Yes, • her beauty was !superb, her sweet- ness unsurpassed, by that of an other woman had ever met. Among the other private papers preserved within the wallet were four seraps of notepaper with type- writing upon them. All bore the same signature—that of the strange name "Avel," All Of them made - appointments. One asked me to meet the writer in the writing -room ipf the Hoterliletisii nnother made an appointment to aneet me ”on the Promenade at • EaFtbour.ne opposite the Wish Tow- er, ." a third suggested my office. at Winchester House as a ;netting - plate, and the fourth gave a ren- dezvous on the departure platform at King's.Cross Station. I fell to wondering vilether I had kept any of these engapments. Th -e" most recent of these letter,* was dat- ed nearly two years ago. '- But- the afternoon was wearing on, therefore I 'laced the uzzlin s.° aimmunications' in my sioOtet an ascended to my room in order to • f6,3t, .and, thus carry out the feint of attending to old •Britteres direc- tions. The dressing -bell aiialretied Me, but, 'confident in the knowledge that t should remain nittlisturbed, 1 re. moved the bandage* from Itty.htisd bathed the -wound, and aped* some plaster in the plete of,t 1njnry wee tenet* aun was\ declining :ed to slip tett of Abeboue u obter et forth (Iwo h avenue to 4ittearn *ilia quaint PoId placesow; •delightIt the evening tetra, but, heedless of everything, 1 hurried forward eloiv the hill to Witkycentbe Raleigh, and thence straight across the open country to lolraptiton station), where I took a third-class ticket for Eire - ter. At a; wayside station * pas tiger for London is always re. the,.refore I only booked 4* far s the junction with .the main At Iteter I 'found that the op. ail was Jeot due for teL 'minutes, ore I. telegraphed tI,ontlon rn*i• at the 0;104 Thtl, and ards ht-sonteseit4tpers hkb 4e bile *way the ur- te'd !••• Seel ••re flvl ; it al at dimly ai six year* of MY') The only other occupant of-th compartment beeides myeelf w;ni Ought ali.,•0 u failing to was 'compelled accept r travelling companion. She w** youngish, writ:Apo thirty.five, and neatly dressed, but her fate, as for as I you'd distinguieh it through her spotted veil, was that of wo- wan melanehoty and bowed down 10 trouble. In Iser dark hair were remeture threads --Of trangely at me, were the eyes of a woman rendered desperate, 1 did not like the look of her."In travelling one is quick to entertain an iustirketive dislike to one's COM- Parion, and it was to in my ca2e. I found myself regretting that I had not 'entered. a smoking-earri- ge. But I soon became absorbed ; ray papers and forfeit her pre. ' * • by by,, this tem* you vista," she sfsed 0 .Citol 1::ratells 'Now,Itit!till" and tn..r entsury to.meerow after •;41.91t0 " , i r,.* 1 ene PI A *V37i *UM 10n. they,. Ol]i ed to show how utterly lgnoran pa.st. But why did dieclosee you ideLondon auburhs when t ritit ing the ISO felt eertain that you didn't recognize nee." Jibe laugh- ed; "and I had on wish to spy UP - en you, knowing knowing 48 I di) that your life the reverse Of tolppy." ,‘4Then you pity. me, elir "I seemly think that is the wotml hat one of my position tresattalsov.tellstoo,, ought to 'dation. "Your life bee, since your marriage, not been of the hap - pied, that's certain." "Ana 80 you have no intention of tdling any one where I've goner asked eagerly. "None in the leaft, sir. Rest as- sured that I shell say nothing not a eingle-word." ”I thank " said, at eviee-unti I Iy 416776Wkliiii- 8 7 high-pitched one, that made me start. She inquired if I minded her closing the window because of the draught, and I at once closed it, responding -rather frigidly, I Co- lieve. But the was in no humor to alloys the conversation to drop, and com- menced to chat with a familiarity that surprised me. She noticed how - puzzled I be- came, and at length remarked with a laugh— "170.0 apparently don't recognize me, Mr. Heaton." "No, madam," I answered, taken aback. "Yon have certainly the advantage of me." This recognition was startling; for vas not flying to London to OS - cape my friends? This woman who- ever she was, mould withoot'dou recount heJ.,_nieeting with_me- "It is really' very droll," she laughed. "I felt- sure from the first, when you entered the compartment, •that you didn't know me." • "I certainly „don't know you,!" sponded coldly. She smiled. "Ali I I` expect it's iny veil," the said. "But it's real- ly remarkable that you should not recognizejoliott Your wife's maid." "You! ,A.fy: wife's maid!" gasp- ed, recognizing in an instant how cleverly I had been run to earth. "Yes, " she replied. "Surely you recognize me ir and she raised her veil,. displaying rather unprepos- sessing face, dark and tragic, as though full of seine hidden sorrow. I had never seen the woman be- fore in my life but instantly I iiiilved to display no surprise and act. with caution. "Alr, eourse said lamely. "The light here is so .-bad, you know. that I didn't recognize you. And...where-aro Ton- goinfer „ zvo Loudon—to the dressmik- "Mrs. Heaton has sent you on some commission, I tuppose I" "Yes sir." "Yen' joined this ft:sin at Exeter, - then - tit came from Eiunouth to Exe- ter' *4 changed," she explajnetl, "I'saw you get in at Lympston." My, heart sank ,within me. It wae evident that this woman had been sent by my aelteityled wife to keep watth upon my movements. If I intended to esespe I should be compelled to -make terms with her. -Those sharp dark oyes, with curious light in them—eyes that !seemed istrarigely staring and va- cant, at time/ie.-were fixed upon me,' iefele the smile about her thin lips was dearly, One of 'triumph, as though she had caught zne in the act of eying from my home. reflected, httb deXt 'moment r silrecl *0 take her into tri n fu 1.. tier, -for -he msn eccentric ad\ °tie, her, sheras.. realty mai gular woman who Cage Lcrsetf no, Itieverthelessy otil o nauglkt 'else .thaii make with her. I said at last, lifter zones • torisTrsatien, "I want 'to geestior, to you.. Do yeu. tgeve you s ten -pound could forget having met ghtt Dok yon think that d forget having seen rat at 1' ro t don't understand. 4aliftel o put it plainly, I'm go tt, Lsiulott. and I htsve,no de - re that anyboel should know that there," I explainea. "VVhert ant fotIrti. to be mi'ssing front Den* ury„ Mrs. Ileat411 will 44 $11 in er r cover to, distaver Ytt re the'ronly person who knows that ve non,. 1,) 'Landon aid r trant a. to ha4 /M;ir tqvialut.'" d .•*; r 44,, •7•11. parted, -she again r her intention to keep congratulated mysell u -eery narrow escape, and, taking cab, drove straight to Trafalgar Square. As I crossed Waterloo Bridge tlie-totriflimi of lightson-the .timbankinent ',presented the Same Picture as they had ever done. Though Six years had passed since I had last had knowledge of Lon- don, nothing had apparently Owns - ed. The red night -glare in the leadeirsky was still the sante; the same unceasing traffie; .the same flashing of bright dresses and gilt - tering jewels as hansoms passed and repassed- in the Strand—just as had known London by night during all my We. The gold -braided porter at the Grand handed me out of the cab, and I ascended by the lift to the room allotted to -me Ifise-is,--ixian rn a dream. it-hsallly-seemed-'pos- sible that I :could have been absent in mind from that whirling: fevered world, of London for six whole years. I had given a false name in the reception bureau, fearing that those people who tailed themselves' my friends Heaven save tho mark make inquiries and 441160 My arrest 43 47-wautlering 114 - natio. I had no baggage, and I saw that the hotel -clerk looked up - oil me with sone suspicion.. 10 - deed, I threw down a couple of seyereigns, well knowing the rules that no person without luggage was taken unless he paid a deposit beforehand, - I laughed bitterly within myself. Ilow strange it ve a's Next morning I went forth snd wandered down the Strand the dear old Strand that I had_once loved So well. No; it had in no wise changed, except, perlitps, 014 two or three monster buildings had sprung up; node that the theatres announced pieces- Oita- Unknown to me. A sudden desire seized me to see what kind of piage, was my own office. , If, hoWever, I went -near there I might, I reflected, be recog- nized bysome one ,who knew mr. Therefore 1 turned into a barber's and hid my beard cut off, then, fur- ther on, bought * new dust -coat. combs in the brood 'chamber it 4s often quite.‘difficult to get the bees tatted to work. above. Italians are min+ more troublesome in re - rd to this point than hybrids. aek bees ado ,esp their honey whiter' and smoother, which'sites it a ace appearance. egeiful men is."merciful to is, heed," we are told. If so, what is to be said of those who use ,cr snowed to be used on 'their horses, the overhead check reintru Mi aur nstatices it is, doubtleu,' used thou/141084y beetle* it nuikes driving euter, but it, is * distress - mg sight to witness is borne rest- ItsSlrtotsiiikA*4 its tsisolikwa •Or tolit in to tory its befixl and nock i itUeli an 61110340tOria position. You y sometimes nee * (hones over - Iced, until his lea,4 is ishi,i6st alba Writs back: - In order, to succeed in bre'edix it is necessary to hare wat width the loreedin's stoek cai Without this the yo ill never be, Strong orhealthy d it is not dillealt to k k nd, if there be sku, insuffltie upplvof **ter euiturstlys_ -The an siso be. „It° 4043004 1014 thzi Iiscks which Use $0041 .P0431 early so much to keep 10 thow' who have iota, bitlititeptriiron. lep' This elm be whkh deka spen4 in rtess the, P they r hit- stural Aver - thin ih 14 ,9 t ° • t +++A • , the s t! 0 t question, I would say, yes. o i may tie. (fork' **Sold require rot - her lerigthS, paper. There are many ciieulitione when it is an °mobility., The firtit requirement „ ilt,A*001tAlkabgirikVeciOlm - bad odors or Wilts, a snu;11 (Mu- titY of good commercial starter — say 14 per cent—added to the milk, and then set sufficiently- ;tweet or rather with the right development of acid to insure itetaufficient time for a good cook. Raise the temperate biro to the cooking point in one hour and forty minutee-or ',there- lieo*ItterFAMPlitelititi about right. ithe curd should be ready to remove whey in eX to .3 hours. A string of .34; inch on the hot iron, or about ,te per cent. ac- idity, will be plenty,at this stage. Although not necessary, I* curd sink and racks- are -s; real benefit. and help in securing desired re- sults. With the above acidity tacklY-get---the curd on the reeks ting ntil tho er4attinaac -, and --qulies dry 'feeling. will require; little Pressure to ex- pel any moisture if the curd is in proper Condition. This may require dren and settlers. In Omaha a. four or five times stirring throughlseho.ol teacher named* Miss Free - with short intervals for draining., man lost her four -limbs just •48 but it tiitot a dilficalt-matter if did. When the --1—'06F-Vt8,8 bluwn well cooked and the proper aniounV from over the heads of the children a acid at dipping. Pile curd 6 or huddled inside the school -house she 7 inches deep evenly over sink and had the presence of mind to tie the when well • wetted—probably 29 Vitildren together instead of turn- minutes—cut into strips of 6 inches ing them out to seek their homes wide and turn, leaving inch, or separately. That would have been more between each piece. sure death. - "In a- short time, or as aeon as "After fastening them in pairs the underside of curd has faced up she connected all with strips torn so 43 to pick up all loose particles, turn again. It may be left single or *1 real firm and dry two deep will be all right. Turn at intervals un- til ready. to. mill. Two, deep will be sufficient. MIR with eCto 2 • ...W. • • 1•4•••• N II SAS IIAIVISS Olt VE1411'.. MA to Undergo Ainputatln of 0414he eats, and drinks with ease and dresses without 4881.8t, Abe** Arthur J. Murray, of Port- land,. Oregon, loss neither bards nor feet. The wen:there had been frozen in a Canadian blizzard and their amputation could net • bo avpitleerdos'y is, one - - nien on cere. Ife„ is glad he does not have limbs that are racked with rheum- tism. To the man glum with brood- ing over ill fate; Murray'S magnetic uplifting conversation , always puts things in a more cheerful light. STORY OF BLIZZARD. "Like every one elee, „I learned the benefit of my blessing$ only at. tli*,rce-*-srae's.pirth ern States and Manitoba on Jan. 12, 189.8, there were many pitiful deaths among teachers, schoel,thg- from her underekirts and started the line; with the oldest in the lead, to the nearest home, a half mile distant. She brought up the rear and picked u some that fell. A Dakota, schoolmaster sent his pupils inches et acidonhot iron or about, to their death in the storm and ro- per cent, add. ICeek striv,imailicathoseinxy fire, keeping comfortably warm burning seats and flooring." Recently this man started giving lectures in small towns. He ap- 1;0; "and at a depth of Q or inches. If curd is rather too ,stiff and firm a.trille higher piling will not hurt, but is not usual necessary. if con- ditions are favorable and the curdp pears in tights showing the arnis 11113 been properly handled. A eurdi extending just below the elbows of this kind will get ready to said and the legs just below the knees quit it quickly, and have had the& then proceeds to dress after apply- ing his artiletal meMbers, Fully attired, he can run and even dance a bit, and **tugs along_ the street with careless grace. Knives, forks, spoons matches, hooks,- pens or the ae, are easily. slipped into openings provided in the wrists, which practice has enabled rate govern accurately. The hooks, handy in dressing, are used more than any of the other attach- ments. Murray says that in the forty- one years of his life he has never taken a drink, but he. chews plug tobacco incessantly. He aelelom smokes; disliking to handle fire. He tells an interestieg story of Ilia when noeincneture-would- drip from vat or sink until salt was added., • "The finest cheese I ever made were made in the way I have- Plat described, Perfect as to texture and closeness and ready . for the market in the -same length of time as curds worked in the more moist and more, general Style. These firm malls, of course, require light- er setting. I do not say that -one can keep from having white whey day alter day, as common condi- tions will not permit it:I:hider pro- per conditions it is not only pos. ale/ but the finest results can be obtained," * hoot" tittles his nose in it is becomes; he Likes it and ecause it is good for latnt.---* treaties- and invigorates' him on' $ hot dey. %Viten there are•one or two empty and another hat. In that disguise; took' ti hens** to 'Old Broad Street. . • I was not long ii; finding. the bit'. sincss headquarters .of my otbei sett. Ore curious it all was! My tame was Marked—tipon a !huge braes plate in the entrance hall of thertotossal block of °faces, ,and I ascended to the first ,floor,to fin name insbribed• upon the door or one of the lergest of the suites stod# in the corridor. 'carelessly :reading Papev and while doles 6, witnessed many. persortsj aeveaI of them smart -looking City' Into, leave.. Alt though but*** wsoi' being- conaudett witldi crol \poi:din:fled.), r I here lively won't all in.'" .Poorptiy tortoni). cftit, now, old don't be superstitious aboutmaking the t 'teenth tali; nothing 1 ittp Assure you." 40000.000000 EWING DAC*: &T HIM. (peev;thly)-Pliere, and be wssh y binds of the *bola affair. 'Of (calmly}- don't forgi rut fate and neek itt the laundry act"' 414.00000•00t ° 4 NI bet thet enjoy the first kiss she gets unit man utitzsik. pt e A •.'11; • t ir c'eke' • 0000.000.0000,000,0„...000 • Azorsp GAMING PASSION. , twang 'Weise* hi tendon Entail lei in Citra Oehts. trader the title' of "Society Sharks," Olive Christian Ifalvery teen* contributed a rather etrike ing artiele to the Christian Globe. Concerning -the bridge victim," the writer 'toss— ‘‘Citn anything be more horrible than for a'Wentilt; Of 4044'4404 it° !Ott- to, her house young with the express purpose 45 Ancour- -as---thein to gamble, sindjleecing em of'their money IThe history of ont of these girls',Who bit into the *nitre laid for her might be told itt as few brief words. ‘‘Iler mother was a widow/ and they, poameued * small income but iv one t was sufilcient for their peed.* and that allowed' 44 'their fort., The girtby some t aitrodueed Lo o tbesc smrt itiSinen it% London, anl n into * vortex of *Ls She was esoinraged t Pio srda for =env, uetik,the-gembliiig pas - *ion in, bet' was thoroughly roused, ° 444 two Months After her intro- duetion to „the woman who ruined ber she hsd gambled *way,* thou. *end pounds and MeOd heavily ir debt.. :••A terrible time ensued, and ibe livOlitt; in WhOilft hototo she had loat most of her, money., tiepin which in reality nmoutzteil *Aid sense came to her aid, and in her desperation nite placed her whole coi7,14'!ecother 'el:a3ir tai:kerlaHls!nwiitinhLue: deem- . zon. "Phe went herself to her dam temptress,and two women f the world net face to 'face --;one good one and one evil. Unfortu- niktely in such cages the balance of triumph is generally on the part of -the sharloq-butlerwthte --- ,pittUie—te,esteCt-tooe,411421tv-,filr. to rsk a public scandal,' and she agreed to forget that she had ever ' met the girl. Those debts that were made with strangers were paid, but the 'arum herself was obliged to forego her ill-gotten gains," Glasgow Herald. 0 IN TENEBRIS LUX. , One of the strangest phenomen«. which have occurred for many years —strange, becauee altogether un- intelligible, and, so far, not satis- factorily explained by scientists_ was the remarkable and unitecoun prelongaUon of — the ow of twilight, with the complete absence cf darkness during the whole of the night, which recently so startled north-western Europe. • A: beauti- ful sunset hue pervaded the north- ern heavens, as though, the axis of the earth suddenly changing, the sun had not sunk so fax beneath the horizon as usual, and the posi- !tion of the pole had altered five and twenty or more degrees, the arctic circle therefore moving downwards. The .phertomenon was entirely dif- ferent to aurora borealis, and the cause remains an absolute mystery. It was sin though a 4.1-021/11,1411110-10,41-41*W1- n-anded the , sun to -stand- still ` - order to prolong the length of the day. But. however beautiful and strange, this phenomenon could not Atone° with the stare display of compare in' splendourcd magni- aurora lo realis which to •place in England ;n 7.859. As the twilight disappeared strange coruscationtiof colored lighb were observed in the northern heavens,, gradually taking the form of a gigantic luminous troll of many colored fires. Depend- ing from the arch were geometri- cal columns, of earying length* of quivering, inany-huNI wildfiret, some a, brilliant amethyst, 8010.4 , deeper purple, or some a vivid car- mine or emerald. Now 4 throbbing passes over the entire glowing are, and it flashes in. gold or orange, azure or vermilion, mauve or violet; now for a moment partially fading away, again sud- denly, with a, quavering tremor, 'scintillating and flashing as biight- ly as before. The spectacle is now beyonctexpresaion sublime *nit in*- jestie„ and those who had the goiid fortune to -witness it. were alto gether overwhelmed at this motor - icent andsumptuousdisplay of the mighty fortes of Nature. On another occasion, instead. of * prolongation of daylight, for. space of throe hours,: tomniencing at*.noonday, -* supernatural' dark- nes* overspread the land, a, dark - nem in which, it is believed, the ntire earth was plunged, for Na tAr0 WAS then veiling. her tato, flecked it the dread tragedy' schieh. 4as taking Place: On Golgotha, svhere the pure and holy Hon of God ashearing-the shameful, toad -of-- lir *int, Ilimself on behalf of. .who but *owe to Rim, ,en uring the punishment due by the EfArrial Itistiet. 4,1,1, 'well people -4: 6 4 tet, trught Nature then, aghsat at earteretieli eufferinfts of he Lord, .shrott emir 31) '441Irk. •nd.sereen tht rib of Ilk_ lia des,tft aur life, Him an1 ur passport to the..g rest jOys of i'bessenl;111 'thorns Our title to' re ttiry. T LOCAL. tormew. staveyea 4ho. 00,04 frown "It'll *tire hi diet'!" it ,anuournsed, mikes yo* ; ' friend. mid Mr. of e *cities, that whi rain *V all, t aii". nobody leech! 4* Wid Art lzk� rt 'skies thq.. tor* ' b. toed this girl not, to tell notherof her debts, but Intro. to people who *be *add would proe good friends. So the ctils ware woatoui loser **4 Avner, until the choke lay between tont, et* *strike of hmsor or an ex ppoire ,sin4 being probably ostr cited !own orstiety nItogether,--f the.* thins are not done inopen sh;ligt. at sw,cretlylt; fortnn &wilt tome e :1414-4, t$ 1 Y4 rty, • t 1 • 0. • - 9 ...,00.1.1.......R0.00.6.0aik 41.410.0.4.2410iiiii~imitirifieSPIMAIIIIMINInsaiatesor e