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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1902-5-22, Page 3it The Fatal Dower • TXE DESTRUCTION OF It PROUD SPIRIT. 41 :o6.00•0000o0o•osoileeo•o•oshossootto•e•oeoestos SYNOPSIS Olt Plth.`,CEDING ,CHAPTERS.—Margaret Howard, uu the eve of departure to join her See tretlY Married husband, leaves her child with Susan Rivers and is drowned . at sea. Susan rears the child, Daisy, as her ewe, and dies. lifer daughter, Margaret, alone knowli mash's secret. Lord Lisle seeks his child, and Margaret, taking Daisy's birthright, announces herself his daughter. •She falls in, love with his nephew, Philip. Daisy, Lord Lisle's true daughter. feints her foster -sis- ter, and captivateaPhillp, who Lord Lisle, on his deeth-betl, makes Pro- mise to marry Rita. Philip ecomes Lord Lisle ; asks her to marry him. Ralph Ashton, to whom she is en- gaged, writes •asking her to be true to her premise. CHAPTER XXI, The wedding day was •fixed for the 18th of August, and it Was now the hecond. Lard Lisle wrote to. say that if .11ita fele-quite recovered and Mrs. Wyeethe would receive him, he should like to epende a few days at Sunhat'', • . • • - She could not allege any "eXcusc, neither did she Wiesh'to do eq. Her Marriage . Woled 'giye her the title and ptheitiOn she had Icinged for; but she valued, even above that, the love of the man she was going to marry. Shp wrote a few lines to Lord Lisle —a few loving words, such as she never used to him- before— saying how pleased She tweed be to see •him. Years afterward, •Lord Lisle read these words , and Wondered at the love of that .ambitious heart for him. When he arrived at Sunba.y, Mrs. Wyverne was in . the house alone. Rita and Daisy had gone for a ram- • ble on the cliffs, she said, edd . he had better join them. "PhiliP," said considerate Mrs. Wyverne, "will you tell Daesy I want her to write some little notes for me, if he Will return home at once." Lord Lisle promised .to deliver ,the meseege. In the hue distance he sa.tv two girls sitting on. the height of a tall white cliff. Lord Lisle never for- got the picture. The two faces—so beautiful, yet so unlike—standing out in bold relief against the clear blue sky, the purple heather spreading around than, and the waves breaking at their feet. He was true. Even then be would not look at the fair, spiritual face and the golden head that drooped sadly as Daisy caught sight of him. He onlylooked at," Rita, whose beau- ty - was heightened :by the bright blush that welcomed.him. After a few words of greeting Lord Lisle delivered hie message, and Daisy turned :away with a smile. As the house wa.s almost in sight he did not offer to accompany her, but sat down in the purple heather at Rita's gide. - "I need not ask if you are better," he said, gallantly; "you never looked se well. I imagine your illness was -a complete overdose of pleasure, Beta. I am amazed when I think of all the toil You fashionable ladies undergo." , • She inside some laughing reply and then they sat for some minutes in silence:. the smiling, sunny sea breaking with a musical murmur at, their feet. . The measure of her content was full. She was safe, and the man she loved better than all the. world sat .at her side. 'When Lord Lisle eilh spoke againehis voice had changed— there was deep :emotion in 'every. toile. "Rita," he said, producing a. small inerocco case, "there was one strange omission at the time ,of our betroth- al. 1 gave yOu no ring; I have brought you ono now; may I place it ' upon eerier finger., and will you promise me never to reinove• it?" ' He never forgot thelove that shone in her dark eyes as she raised them to his face. . "I will, never remove it, Philipht she said gently, "While you live in my heart, that ring shall remain up- on my hand." She gave a cry of pleasure and surprise when he cniened the case, and took froni it one of the prettiest and mest costly rings she had ever seen. It was of puke pale gold; one large diamond Of the first water was - surrounded by small but magnincent rubies, "Do you like it?" he askede gently. "More than any jewel I have," she replied. He took the firm white hand in his own, and placed the ring on her finger. . "You will never part with it?" he said. "Never; neither in life nor in death," she ansWered. He kissed the jewelled.'hand, "Suppose 'I • Om very • presump- tuous," he said, hand • ask for a reward; shall you be very angry?" For the first time in her. life she raised her face to his, and be toucheh the lovely, blushing cheek With hie. lips. . ".Neither in life nor in death!" he heard her murmur; but he had no clew to her thotights. .. So • they sat through the long, tight Sommer hours, talking hap- ily of the future that lay unruf- fled as the summer spa, before them. Lord Lisle saw that Rita's eyes never once quitted the ring. ' She watched the dim:Mond sparkling and &ming in the sun. He was totieh- ed more than he Cared to Coen by, that expression on her face. Suddenly he looked at his Watch. "I meet Write to London," he fitted, "1 proinised not to forget. Will :yoil return to the house, Rita, or shall I come ha& her you—which would you twofer?" • til have say boot, With me," she et.""eee.. replied. "The cliff is tits Mere pleas- ant:than the house this warea day,. When you have finished your • letter eeme: hack for me, if .you will." Her eyes followed him until he passed outof eieht; then they want deeed to the ring. - She 'opened her 'book, but never read one weed. "Uow kind he is,". she said to her - Self; "how noble, how.unlike all -oth- er .men Ah, 1 wish—how X wish I could hove Won -him and hone won all that is now •mino without evil or wrong.. 1. detegh wrong when 1 look at • • A"strong head • WAS laid - upon ,her shoulder; a hot, .fierce grasp -upon her heeds. • • • "I have found you!" hissed a. Joys voice intosher ear. " There is no spot upon- earth whereyou could bide from inet" .. • -She' started to her feet, with e, cry. of onorci than mortalagony, and etriod confronting •Ralph Ashton. •"I have found you!". he said again, With a sneerieg- laugh ''Yon weak, pitiful coward, do You think you that ever deceive ine?" • Ah Me! thewild anguish of that .facct •. • ' • heeatph!" she.said, at length, in a loss. - hoarse.. ',voice,. '"have yon no no pity?" . • "No," he replied, "none. 1 have conic to claim my wife, and will have her!" "But," she interrupted faintly, "all that is changed now. Were I still Margaret Rivets., such a thing might be possible. You can see as well as myself the impassable distance be- tween you and Miss Lisle." "There is no distance between us," he said, with. a mocking laugh. "Rita," he continued, passionately, "how can you think circumstances cau change such rove as mine?, • Had fortune come to rae instead of you should have laid it at your feet— 'crowned you .withr it—not spurned and deepleed you. RI1 words are useless. I am here to claim your promise. Will you be my wife?" Face to • face with. danger she had so long dreaded, her courage rose. "No; ' she said, "never! Ralph, I do net Want to quarrel with you,. butyou must tee yourself that 'I could never be your wife 17' ."le that fair-haired aristocrat who sat here your lover?" he asked fierce-' "Yes," she replied, "he is my lov- er—Lord Lisle -send I have promised to .marry him. There is some one to take any part, and punish you if you persecute me." • He recoiled from her words. "Good heavens!" hol tried; "how heartless women are! Three years ago you said you loved me—you gave rnesweet words,. sweet kisses—your head , was pillowed on my breast— you swore you would be my wife! You 'took -my heart from me and held it in your hands! Now " you fling it bath to me, and talk of eitinishiegh for that Very love you once. returned!" "Hush?" she said, with a gesture of queenly dignity. "Do not remind me of my past' folly—I regret it!" "Folly1" he cried. "Oh, Rita! is it for this I have tbiled all these years; is this the welcome you give me? Do you remember that night before I left you in the garden at Queents Lynne?'" "Hush!" she said again,' imper- iously. "I will not be reminded of those times; they are nothing to me. Surely Ralph," she continued, more gently, "you must see everything is .changed. I should lose all my friends my forteme,_ any position. everything I value most, if I became your. wife. "So your new name, your new friends, your wealth and • grandeur; are the real barriers .between u$? I can reneove them, .Rita!" he said, dogged ly • . . • 'A leek of 'startled fear broke the proud chIM of her face. "Once, and for the last time," be said, "will you keep your promise to me, and be my wife? Answer inc." "Never," she replied; "come what may." Ills face grew livid with anger. . "Without doubt," he said, "you love the fair-haieed stripling .who has supplanted -me?" "'You may as well know the truth," she said, recklessly; "I de love' him!" • "Then go to him," he said hoarse - 'go mid tell him yeti are a living lie—O false, . mean traitress! Tell him you have stolen a name and a. birthright—that you are Margaret Rivers, and no more Lord Lisle's daughter than T am! Tell him that, 'and in his turn he will spurn you I" He stopped in the midst of his burningtorrent of words,, frightened at the white despair that Olen iato er . face. • , —What do you mean?" she asked. .."Whet, can yoe..ksew of mer' 'I' know alt your:I-tacitly' ,plot from beginning t0. cite," lie retorted; "and I ;should never have spoiled: tt if you had been -true to me.' Even- now. .will keep .yoer secret if' you. Sze iny wife." • She waved him front her with a .Seperli disdain that infuriated, him, "Ten me," she said, "what do you mean?" IIts mined to take a pleasure in looking upon her agonized fahe.• . • hI sliall bo obliged—much against my Will—to revert to those pest times that mo longer belong to: you," heneaid mockingly; "to that very evening, indeed, When I bado „you farewell, and • you .took the oath that has so easily been broken." "Go 'on," she said hoarsely, as he paused, hI asked you for a, keepsake, and you 'gave mo anold book. Neither yins nor I knew -what was • 'fastened in it." • "What!" she gasped. "Do nOt torture me, lealphi" • "r share YOU as I have been Sear- ed," he, retorted. "I will toll Yoe what was in it: proof of the lie you have told and, ateted—proofs that the golden -liaised girl you have cheated and, betrayed is the rightful daughter of Lord Lielet" ' Rer face could grow no whiter; its pallor was . dreadful to witness. :Hie quivering lips could utter no words, "I will show you," Ile eontinued. "Stand where yea are, I would rather trust to a tiger than to a, fatee Woman. See! Do ',you remem- ber the book?" • He took from his pocket the vol- ume she had so cerelessly given Win that fatal evening. Ho opened it, and showed her some folded papers lying betwees the leave. "I did not find these' till I was far from England," he said—"far out on the deep seas. 1 little thought then what I held in essi hands. Dram - nearer that you may see." The unhappy girl made one sten towards him, her eyes, riveted. op the papers be held. • "See!" oiled Ralph Ashton, Mock - "this is the aret proof of your )ie!'' . • He held towards her a portrait, the pictured face of a little child -ea sweet, spiritual face, with tender eyes and sensitive lips; golden curls ran Over the little head. Underneath the portrait was written, in a elope*, ieglbie hund, somewhat faded: • "The portrait of my dear Daisy, given to Susan Rivers by her sin- cere and grateful friend, Margaret." . "There can be no doubt about this, I .suppose?" said Ralph, sneer- ingly. . "This face of the child Daisy here is, as any ono can see, the face of the young girl you cell Susan • Rivers' daughter, You donot re- semble this Portrait; your hair never wee golden,' your eyes never blue. You are perhaps, more beautiful, but you never looked true and guileless as this child does. I have yet anoth- er proof. 'Tete is a letter written by Lord Lisle's wife just before she set sail, it seems, for India. • Listen. She spays: "I send my darling's portrait; it is just like her. May she grow up fair and innocent as she is -sow. Call her Daisy, nurse, to distinguish her from your own little Ilita—the pretty, dark-haired child, who will be a sis- ter to my darling. Do not let her forget me. When you take her in your arms tell her how I loved her— how I used to kiss her golden curls. I have one with me." "There is more of it," continued Ralph, "but you have heard enough. The fair-haired, fair -faced child call- ed Daisy, whose portrait I hold here, is Lord Lisle's daughter. You can sooner deny the sun that shines in the heavens, or the sea that rolls at your feet, than that." "I do deny it," she said, boldly. '"You may do your worst. I deny it "You are clever at plots and plans," he said; "others are as skilled as you. You roused a demon when you insulted me. I have been to Deepda,le. did not betray you; Rita; but there are those living there who still ' remember the beautiful, dark -eyed child oi Susan Rivers—who remember the strange hidet coining and bringing the little Daisy with her. There are plenty who would swear- to your -identity— and to hers." She ,clasped her hands' With a low cry, and he continued: "You may brave me and defy me; but re- member, surely as you court in- quiry, so surely is your cause lost. The evidence I hold here is too strong, the evidence that can be obtained in Deepdale is stronger still. Yoa will have no chance. Yon will lose the name, the rank, the position, the fortune you have won— ah! and you will lose that foie lever of yours! Men of that stamp do not wed cheats and liars. How long would his love survive the knowledge of What you have done?" Not one moment—she knew it; and the 'truth of his words struck her like a sharp sword. The ring he had given her gleamed and glis- tened in the sun. She laid her lips ppm it with a passionate cry. To be Continued. Piles To prove to you that Dr. chase's Ointment la a certain and absalute ewe for each and every form of itching, bleedingandpintruelee peek the manufacturers have guaranteed it. see tes. timoniels in the daily press and ask your neigh. bore what they think twit. Yon can use it and .getemir money back if not cured. Mc a box. at all dealers or EDMANEION,BATES & Co.,Toronto, Dr, Chase's Ointment c4R4INS oF GOLD. Men in double tell the truth.— Semuel Clemens. What makes life dreary ;s want of motive.—George Eliot. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.—Charles Larnb Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry ineeting.—Irving. Ile is a, wise man who Wastes no energy on persuits for which he is not fitted.—Gladstone. If you will be cherished when you tut old; lie ccithaeous when you are young. ---john Lyly. If you would hit the target, aim .a little above it, Every arrow that flies feels the el:traction el earth.— Longfellow. There is nothing so powerful as example. We put others straight by walking o urselves esMadame Swet- chine. Hate a, parpose inelife, mut having it, throw your strength ef mind and muscle into your work as God has givee Formerly we were guided eley the wisdom of our ancestors; now we are hurried aloes by tbe wiedom of our descen don ts.—Vorne. •Thou host but (MO' inalienable right, and that is the sublime one of doing thy duty at all times, en- der all eircemstauces and in- all places,—V. T. Marein. A.E.Y.W.111*.004E4*****IiK4***111*(f 34, ^ ' • Seasonable and Prefltable Hints for tho Busy Tiljers • hf the Soil. ?Ti ..e.heeeetehtesetelettseeeteeteehteeNeeysiseW SIM/MILK CALVES. Skinunilk calvescan be raised at a greater profit than nine -tenths of the .farreere ,imagine, but most of them • are not so raised. It is not a differ- ence between theory and practice, but a difference between methode. Fine eltinunilk calves six months old frequently bring good prices, and are, very profitable if the cost of raising them has been kept within. reason. able limits. , There Is some risk in the work un- til one has become expert at it. Then it is simple and sure. The calf • must be taken from the mother ear- ly. Some- do it when it is a few hours old, and it is fed by hand without knowing anything about sucking. Five quarts a day divided into three meals.. should be all that the 'calf should be fed at first, and Ibis quantity is gradually increased up to about six quarts. The largest meals - should be given night and morning and half as much at noon. The milk should be as near the tem- peralure of the milk trom the cow as possible. All calf milk should be fed Warm and sweet. Later sour mills can, be fed, but in that event it must be- fed sour. all the time To change from sweet to sour will cause trouble. • When two or Halle weeks old skinunilk can take • the • place of the sweet, full cream milk. . but the change SHOULD BE MADE GRADUAL • This is necessary because the quan- tity; must be increased. It takes nearly twice' as much skimmilk as cream milk to produce a pound of flesh or fat. When the change le copplete the delves can be fed near ly all the skimmilk they 'will eat, but a little meal and ground grain can be added about this time to give them more strength and growth. At first put a little moistened meal in their mouths after 'drinking, and they will soon acquire a taste for grain. Within a week they will learn to take the meal themselves from the pail. Four -week-old calves will eat near- ly three-gparters of a pound ef meal a day; and in eight weeks about double this: 'amount. The feeding must all be done with care, and the food should be given after this in large proportion. Hay can be fed to them when eight weeks old, and they will enjoy nibbling at it. Noth- ing but, clean, bright hay or grain should be given, No more hay or grain should be given than .they will eat up clean at one tirne. The calves need plenty of sunshine. clean quarters. fresh air. but warm sleeping places, and/ regular kindly treatment which will make them grow and fatten rapidly. Good thrifty calves will then net their owner. more profit than most other animals Shes--"Oh, see •that scarecrow out there in the field," Ho—"That isn't a, scarecrow," "ft smst be, See how motionless it, is." "That's a Man working by the days" SOIL NEEDS FEEDING. Fertility depends Upon a number of eonditions. Before the roots can take/ the needed substance, there must be sufficient moisture M the soil. This moisture must circulate to bring it in contact with the roots, and physical character of the soil has much to do with this. 11 mast, not be too open nor too COM. • pact. If too open water cannot rise: if too compact it evaporates too rapidly from the surface. A soil that settles down like brick dust after a heavy rain cannot for several rea- sons produce well. Nature has a remedy for these conlitions, and tc succeed we must at -least imitate her. Nature by the decomposition ol organic materials in the soil, Wro• duces what is known as humus, which tendst to correct the above ev- ils. It makes the soil light and fiat ulent, prevents packing from heed rains and facilitates circulation. of both air and water in the soil as is best suited to ...the needs of vegeta- tion. No soil can be highly fertile without humus. Barnyard manure owes much', of its value to the humus produced by the rotting of organic matter. Green manuring is a. com- mon method of producing humus The farmer• should at propel; seasons turn under all the vegetable material at hand, provided it has no great marleet value. In this way he returns the contained nitrogen to the soil which otherwise is lost, and enlivens his soil by increasing the humus. Do_ not, however, turn under valua- ble crops. Sell them and) plow un- der something cheaper. When con- ditions ere favorable, the most prof- itable method of utilizing such a crop is by pasturing or feeding and re- turning the excrements to the land. In this way you get the value of your crop and yet return almost all the plant food to the soil. THE PIG PEN. . The pig utilizes the greatest p centage of ..the food consumed of any of our farM.stock. • It Costs lese to ProdiMe a Pound of Pork then -to pro- duee a pollen!, of beef.. The pgotil- 1MS tweety per Pent, of the food consult -tech while the ox utilizes' but eight per cent. The pig is one of the• beet sources of ready revenue an the .farzre A large digestive capacity ie of prime importance 111 meat -producing animals, and in this partieular the. hog stands pre-eminent among our farm stock. , Early maturity being of great Un- portance in our pigs,, we might he inelined to select a, short, thick sow, •tending to fatten eahly, with the: hope of getting this quality' in 'the pigs, But such a sow will not be a good milker or giye large litters. hence these characteristics must be reached .through the sire. The good breeding sow should be rather long and roomy, with well sprung ribs, broad loin, deep sides, and some length of neek. Let the sire be shorter, more compact and with finer bone, whith type iedicates early maturity. Equal parts of wheat Middlings. ground oats and corn -meal are a good ration for growing, pigs. What we must have with our pig!' is unreraitted growth from birth te the/ block, and no waste of feed for needless maintenance. .The pig should gain the same dur ing the winter as in the summer if he is given proper and sufficient food, the only drawbath being/ thet it takes more food in winter for a given -grain unless the pens are warm, as the animal heat must be sustain- ed by the food consumed. • 4 PUTTING HER. FOOT IN IT. We have all met people whose pride in their own possessions is so great that they can .soe no charms in those of others. A young botanist was showing a party of ladies and gentlemen through a conservatory, and ex- plaining to them the properties of some of the choicest plants. Anseng the visitors was a would-be young -looking, middle-aged lady who, at every description, volunteer- ed the statement that the plants and flowers she had at home were quite equal to anything exhibited here or, indeed,:anywhere. Just as they were passing a giant cactus she was. heard to exclaim:— "Well, this is nothing extraordin- ary. I have a cactus at home that is still larger. I planted and reared it myself." "Reared it yourself?" the professor gently observed. "How remarkable! This specimen is sixty-three years old and if yours is still larger—" The lady did not stay to hear any more, but executed a strategic movement to the rear. THE NOTEETED INFINTRI UNCERTAIITIN JF-LIM THEIR srxxxrart CONDUCT IN soma Aritic4., Xen W4INI0°w°AltQuiudyled:Zo:erW.S11 e;a4 H"" • letter reeetved from Reuter's special Correspondent at Klerkedorp, who •accompanied Col, Rawlinson's 'Co/limn in the haet great "drive" in the Western Transvaal, refere lit high terzns to the splendid conduct sf the men •engaged and especially of the Regular 'Mounted Infantry. It says: "The great feature of the 'drive was the magnificent spirit and endurance of the men. it is a most pleasing trait in the character of our soldiers that the bigger the call that le made upon theta the readier is the response. Take them an ordinary 20 miles march with no fighting and they will grumble. GiVe them A heavy light or ask them to beat a record and they are as cheery as schoolboys, It is a wonderful thing to me to see the same men whom I saw at Orange River in February, 1900, unable even to -mount their horses, now galloping freely over a treacherous veldt, keen - eyed, alert, the model soldier and the'best fighter in the world. Lord Kitchener called on the columns who took part in the 'drive' to 'perform a task, which, 1 venture to say, no general has ever asked of his troops before, The. thing was done -with a willingness and an eagerness which proved that the commandersin-thief knew his men. Not a single column marched. less than 70 miles, • and there was 'no halt. or off -saddle. Many marched 80, and. some , com- panies and squadrons 'nearly- 96 miles. It forms a record for march- ing in South Africa, and, I venture to assert, anywhere else. From 6 o'clock one evening until 8 the next is a weary time for a man to be in the saddle, but it was passed cheer- fully by all the columns, and the last 'drive' deserves to rank as one of the finest performances of the British army. THE MOUNTED INFANTRY. "It is difficult to leave the subject without a reference to the work .of the Regular Mounted Infantry. There 'seeras to be an idea abroad that the army is composed of small units of infantry thrown into a lump to- gether with a horse and a bandolier and dubbed a mounted infantry bat- talion. There may have been a time when this was partly true, but it no longer holds good. We have now iri the field battalions of mounted infantry which have made for them- selves a tradition, and possess an esprit do corps unsurpassed by any of our crack regiments. If you ask a mounted • infantile spldier now what he belongs to, he no longer gives the name of his regiment, but that of his mounted infantry bat- talion. Officers carry on their shoulder the number of the mounted infantry battalion to which they be- long, and not, as ,formerly, the name of their regiment. They have -Ione -through a hard mill, but they have come out of it magnificent specimens of soldiers. Who would have dreamed two years ago that he would see soldiers who at that time fell off their horses on the least Provotation, galloping at Boers and firing from their horses at the gal- lop ? And yet it is not an uncom- mon sight. Every trick of the Boer is now known by our men. They have the dash of the old Peninsular cavalry, with the cunning of their present enemy. They are proud to a degree of their mounted infantry badge, and can never return to the sameness of -infantry work. There is a great feeling among both the men and the officers that at least the first eight original battalions should become permanent. A great percent- age of the men are willing to serve for 12 years if they can remain mounted, • but they will leave the army. the moment the war is over if their time is up and they are ex- pected to return to • their regiment. These battalions have made for themselves a name, and to disband them bath to tbeir different infantry regiments Would be a loss to the. army which only those who have served out here caneproperltr ap- preciate." LAND OF FIRE AND ICE, A new geological map ot Iceland by Dr. Thoroddsen, who has spent many years on the work, gives much fresh information about ,one of the world's most wonderful island which few visitors ever see. An ex- ample of the strangeness of Iceland is furnished by the volcano ICatla. This is buried under immense snow - fields, but from time to tiine its fires burst forth through the glitter- ing blanket, •and thea.such floods are poured from the melting. ice that a great stretch of country between the volcano and the sea is inundated, and huge masses of ice are carried out into the ocean. It is unsafe even to cross the territory lying between Katla and the sea, so suddenly come the floods. +— V I. ANYBODY COULD SEE THEM. "Do you see specks before your eyes 9" inquired the oculist. "Why, I wear 'em right along, you chump !" answered Uncle Nehemiah, with some vexation. "Can't you see 'em ?" POINTED PARAGRAPHS. A diplomat is a man who knows how to hold his job. Wise is the man who knows when to make a long story short. When a fool gets angry he opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. Many men. believe that honesty in moderation is the best policy. Love doesn't laugh at the lock- smith often enough to enable hint to pose as a professional humorist. 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I consider Dr, Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills an excellent Medicine for old people." . . • There.are. people hi nearly every • town, village, aridcountry tide road Who' have proven the melte Of late Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. Ask your friends or neighbors about tilhook ihie pill a. dose 25 tent, It bete At. all 'dealers, Or Edmaeson. Batas and Cen Toreatee SOMA SllANGE E..940,41.P.E0 Mtn STRANGER DEATHS. Stories front the New of tlxo Weetsi Showing the Two Ex- tremes, No elle will question for an instant the truth of the old aphorism that Jife hangs by a slender thread, yet la would be difficult indeed to 414re mine the strength of thiS thread foe each specific life that finds a place •the world. Sometimee it wine SW frail, the wonder is that it did net seal) in two at the cradle, while la 'other instamees it withsta.nds the perils of dauger with the resistance of a might -et Viewing* the • causes of death lei soine cases and the miraculous ese capes from it in others, a good deall of color is lent to the creed (if fatale ists by the discoveries that are made. Soerie lives are Whisked out of tho world by the. • Inere scratch of ie pin, the pinch of a shoe, or the ulcer.. ation of a tooth, while others with,. stand collisions with railway trainee strokes of lightning, and all sorts oir peculiar mishaps With 0011401Y .1 evil consequences. An accident Mute proves fatal to one pereon uusy ra« stilt in nothieg more serious than atf attack of fright and some ineonten- ience to another. • EXTREMES OF DEATH'S V.A•are ARIES. We: Kate Agnew is :dying • at lies home in Norwood, 'Pa:, from gape grene. brought on by wearing a tighel shoe that, pinched her foot, .whilt Louise Diehiner, a 10syear-o14 Oht. dago girl, recently had -a shoe -button, - removed from her lungs without eufe tering serious consequence. Theelt are the two extremes that illustrate: in a forcible rammer how frail anti. uncertain -a thing life is in some cases and how tenaciously it hangd on in others. ,Mrs. Agnew bought a pair of shoe a short time ago. They were the/ sante size she had lieen wearing, but the shape was not adapted to her/ feet, and after wearing them a daw she discovered a slight abrasion the skin. The next day her foot wale considerably swollen, and a lows dayel later gangrene developed. The shod button removed from Louise Dishin. er's lungs had been imbedded there for three years and was 'removed bee means of an incision through the chest wall. Elizabeth Kaighn, 16 years old and! living in Philadelphia., had life that hung by an 'exceedingly slender: thread. One day she discovered small pimple on her lip and thought- lessly picked it with her finger railo She thought nothing more of. the bee cident for several days, when blow), poisoning developed, and in se short' time she was dead. At Atloona, Pea Mildred Burger, 4 years old, swallow; ed a prize package pin ihile eatin peanuts, and lived for three wee The pin lodged in her throat an physicians being unable to remove it pushed it on down into the steme ach. Her death after MANY DAYS OF SUFFERING was the result. Lee D. Hitchcock, ze farmer living near Norwich, N. Y.4 died recently from blood -poisoning produced by a scratch from his pelt cat, and Anton Wallace, after suf* Serino* untold agony, passed away in La °Crosse, Wis., front the same cause, but in his case tit was brought on by an ulcerated tooth. Death is withal an exceedingly ime possible condition to understands Take for instance the case of Ida; Hennessey, a 15 -year-old girt reside ing in Oswego, N.Y. She simply, went to sleep, and although physi4 clans worked over her for 175 hours administering cold baths and applye ing electrical devices, they could not awaken her. Twice she opened her eyes, but only for an instant. The last thee she closed them forevere During all the time the girl ehoweed absolutely no -sign of illness. .14 Hennessey slept her, life away, but death came to Gretchen Hensel 'of La Crosse, Wis., hinder directly °pet:* site conditions. She "jumped the rope" 100 times, was taken ill tin - mediately afterwards, and died withe ina- soSfl'enit nfelearkably narrow that it seem* fewminutes. escapesmiinutfrom death ar esie Providence exercises a wonderful hand in the direction of fatalities., Here is one instance of this charace ter. Henry Thornberg and Autofir Rye were driving near. Burns Valley, Wis., when a seduce.- thunderstorm( came up and their buggy was street( by lightning. Thornberg and the twaz horses were instantly killed; while Rye, who was sitting alongside Thornberg. escaped without az scratch. SAVED BY A FEA.T1IER 130A. Mrs. ITenry ,T. Villas of Pasadenes ONVCS het* life to a feather boa. She was driving when a stray 22e calibrebullet struck her in the necks! The missile passed through the Oa trich feathers of the boa' aud tj force was lessened until only aestight wound resulted. It is believed if lb had not been for the boa she Wou10 • Va.) young man named Joseph Jackson lived to tell the story of having a broom handle , knocked through his jaw. He is a tool -dresser and was sweeping out the engine -room in the factory where, he is einployed while the machinery, , Was in operation. In some way the broom caught, in the fist -wheel of the engine a,nd was .forced upwards, the handle penetrating his lower jaw and extending almost to tho beim of the broin. Oecasionally some reautrkable feats of surgery are resorted to ht an ef- fort to SUStain the thread that holds life fast, 'Tore is one: john Olberg of Kenton, Mich., recently was sub-, jectecl to' the hovel experiment of having a piece of dog's skull grafted upoi-t hie head, Olberg's skull hal been fractured for four yore's, and over the Opening, 'which Was an incid and a half ill diameter, a roveiga growth had formed. This pressed_ 1111 the brala and catmed eonveleions. Olberg rallied quickly, frotn the ope eratien and completely teetettered.