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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-10-3, Page 2r H WHITE LADY; OR, WHAT THE THRUSH SAID, 011Ai'T17/1 XIII, At six o'clock that evening I sat down to tea in the new . lodgings, with Carrie opposite to me, and little Nan, a girl of tau, tucked up cosily in bed with a basin Of sherry sago on a tray before her. It was a delicious party. Carry had provided a: banquet of shrimps, water- cress, and trotters, with raspberry aitim to follow, and to listen to her queiut prattle; and watch her make havoc amongst the iedigesaible was the great- est treat I land ever enjoyed. When the shrimps were shells, and the presses were stalks, and the trotters bones, end the teapot empty, .and the loaf a worse wreek than any house in Sebasto- pol after the siege, we moved our chairs to the window and began to talk, Carrie asked and a Hundred questions,, and I answered them all, I told her all my sad story of the Crimea and the death of Joyce, and the heartlessness of Amy, and how I had gone to Dartmoor and found my old friend dead, and how I had come to London, and whir 1 hied not beat - an the Jew until that day. "And why did you beat him now?" asked Carrie. Because Tae insulted you," I said. Carrie blushed, but looked immensely pleased, and Nan staid faintly, from the bed, You did right. Did he howl? I told her ho had howled like a bull, noThen," Bald Nan, '"I shall get better And so we talked on till after nine o'clon1; when I rose and said I must go.' Carrie and Nan exchanged glances. "You'll come baok again?" said Carrie - "I •will," "Honor bright?" "Honor bright," I went to the bedside and took the child's viand in mine. Are you be,ter, Nan?" "Yes; better now. You'll come back?" tis You will see me in the morning, , I ; t said, stroking her hair. She looked at ! 1 me steadily with her grave, young eyes, gave a little sigh, and said, "Good -night. Come scorn." You will come soon?'" Carrie added. "T; "And you'll tell as about the soldiers," said Nan, Yes of course." ""And about the fields and the ships. I never seen a field," said Nan. "You shall sea a field, mir dear." ,. "A real one?" ""Yes, with flowers in it, only get better Boon. Good-night."I bent down and kissed her; and she clung to my neck a moment with one hand, answering. "Good -night, Willie, come real soon." And so I left her; and Carrie saw me to the door, "'Chummy," she said, with a searching look, "you won't Ieave mo this time?' "I will not leave you, Carrie." She seised my hands and peered eager- ly in my face. "Chummy, if you do, Nan'il die; and I—" "My dear," I said, hutting my arm around her, "I will never leave you again." "Never? Honor bright? Never?" "Never, Carrie."• She clung close to me, rubbing her thin cheek against my rough coat, and I kissed in her hands and forehead, and bidding her return to her sister, set off to find fresh lodgings for myself; Leave her! Leave her and be a lonely f Then," said I, malting a Saab. for it, "'schen shall we get married?" " terriedr "Yes; dear.'you will marry me?" "Marra? Do you mean to marry me? Really? ' "Carrie, Carrie," I said, perfectly start- led; "what did you think I meant? What do you think I am?" But Carrie did not answer my- question. She knelt upon the floor, hid her face against my knee, and erippiug my hand in hers,began to cry. ""Carre!" I said, for I was alarmed by this strange conduct, "what is et? What doyou mean?" The girl clung to zee, sobbing and laugh• ine' wildly, 'Marry me Marry me? 0h, Willie. Oh, ehummie. Shall I be your wife?" I began to understand her now. I drew her into my arms and kissed her, "kty dear," I said, `you are too good for me, But I love you and I will take care of you. Will you promise?" Bat at that moment Nan awoke, and starting up in bed called out, "Carrie, what's the matter? He isn't going to leave us? Carrie, don't! You frighten me." Poor Carrie eau to her sister, langbing and crying, took her in her arms, hugged her kissed her, and repeated a dozen times, "Nan, Nan, Nannie! We are go- ing to get married! We are going to live with 'Willie. You shall be his sister and me his wife." I was so much affected by thls that I had a great mind to cry myself, but I controlled myself and drew Carrie away from her sister. "My dear," I said, "you will make Nan ill. Sit down and be quiet," Carrie threw herself into a chair and laughed hysterically.. Nan shook her hair cub of her eyes, regarded us in a veneering way for a few moments, and hen said gravely, "My sister, Mrs. Wil- iam Heiner -ain't that prime?" I turned to Carrie, "Come, " I said, and teld out my ars. She came to me at once. "Say yes,"I urged, "say yes." "Yes, yes, yes," she answered, nestling against me. "Oh, now I never want to die! Never, never." And then Nan burst into tears, and that was my wooing. The next day ,Mrs. Armitage came to London and went with me to see my two poor little friends. Nan ws Meed by the apparition of "the lady,"and could scarcely be got to speak, but Carrie re- ceived her with a modest frankness which was very charming. As for Mrs. Armitage, she was kindness itself, and took the two friendless girds to her heart at once; indeed, she begged very hard that Nan should stay with her as her adopted child, but Nan clung to her sister, and would say nothing but No, thank ou," and "Phew I want Car- rie, and Carrie wants me." So it was very soon agreed that we three waifs should go together to Canada, and try to begin life afresh. "It will be better, 'William," said the good lady; "I quite see with you that it will be better to make a new beginning a new plica, and I hope and believe Y loveless man again. ''I laughed as strode away. No; I had something to live for now, and I would live. Besides, I had paid Solomon Solomon a little of what I owed hien, and my heart was light, Merrie Islington was Merrier. "I could not be happier," I said to myself, "if I had had a fortune left." I went to a decent coffee-house, engag- ed a bed, and sat down to write to Mrs. Armitage, of Fern Lodge, Bedford, the lady with whom my sister Alice had been in service. She, I felt sure, would help these poor girls. If not. I must will be happy." I will try very hard," I said. "I feel uite proud and confident since I have "Carrie will make you a good wife, I'm sure," said Mrs. Armitage. "Rather!" aaid Nann, suddenly break- ing through her shyness. "Carrie's good enough for anybody. She's as good as - as -anything." Carrie only smiled, but what a smile' hers was. William," Mrs. Armitage eked me, as we walked towards her hotel, "where did you meet this young woman?" "On London Bridge, ma'am." "Do you know much of herr' "I know that I like her, and that she likes me, and that she is good" emphatically, for which I thanked her very warmly. Yes, for it delighted me to hear poor Carrie praised. I was in love with her already. And so we were married; and Mrs. Ar- mitage paid our passage to Quebec, lent us a hundred pounds out to make a fresh start in a fresh Ian That was Bight -and -thirty years ago. Now I am getting old, and Carrie's hair is white, and we have a little farm of our own, and children and grand -children around us. And Nan, our little Nan, is a handsome matron and very proud of her husband, the judge, and her son, the doctor, and her grandson, the midship- mite, And Mrs. Armitage's hopes have been fulfilled, and we Nave been, and are very, very sappy, for Carrie is .better than gold. Ali, dear wife. How good she has been; how patient, cheerful, gentle; how grate- ful for every little kindness shown to her; how tenderly, absurdly proud of the poor CHAPTER XVIII. "She is as good as sold;' said the lady' Nan was perfectly gay and bright when I called on the morning after the instal- lation of the sisters in their new home. Carrie had "done her hair," mended her frock, put on a clean collar, and looked almost pretty, and quite -nice. I sat down by Nazi's bedside and talked to her. I told her how Sebastopol was taken, and how our men stood on the Cathcart Hill and watched the Russians retreat across their bridge of boats; and what I thought when I saw the No. 66 on the ride. Did you cry?" asked Nan. I shook my head. "I was too weak and tob much confused," I said; " I fainted." •I fainted twice, last week," said Nan. "Alt! its horrid. So giddy, and hot, and feels if you'd fell down a deep, deep hole. But p'raps you didn't feel like that; cause you was wounded, and its different. I was hungry. Tell us about those funny Russians." I related how the Russians were said to eat tallow'and black bread, which ora why they had white teeth; and how t prisoners would sit on the floor and sho those white teeth in kindly smiles an say "humph hum," and ''yah;' and ea us "Yonny;' and want to shake hands. "Nasty things," quoth Nan, "when they had been trying to kill you." "And we them,' I hinted. "Of course," said Nan; "but that's dif- ferent. They're foreigners, and you were fighding for your country." And they for theirs," I suggested. "HMI If they had won would they have Dome here and -and killed people?" "Perhaps; if they could." "Then I'm glad you took them prisoners. Do they really eat candles? Horrid crea- tures. That's worse than fat pork. I hate fat. Tell me some more. Tell me about the fields." I descanted upon the beauties of th country. Nan was deeply interested. "Olt!" she said, in a dreamy way, "re flowers? big ones? and real skylarks, not in cages? Ioose, and flying about? Biggs' the chimbley-sweep, had a la b, down Potter's Court; bat it didn't sing muob' 'cease it had the gripes, as Biggs said was owin' to eatin' too much 'enip seed. Ie it far to the fields? Carrie seen some fields. Carrie's been in 'Ide Park. Carrie's been to Ammersmith an' , Gr-enwich, Ain't you, Carrie?" "Yes," said Carrie; "and now you go to sleep, and stop chttte ing.,, Nan shrueeed her shoulders, and put ting her thin hand into urine, turned rouud and closed her eyes. T left be” ',pen, and sat dowe in the armchair. Carrie came and a -t on a,- stool at my feet. I began to talk bur` 0055. Car; I said, "how old. are you?" She swilled softly, and rubbed her chin with her thimble thoughtfully, "About eighteen," she said, "I think.', Would you*" said I, very txiifidently. "Don't you want me to go away?" "God forbid,' -she exelaimed, looki'up with pained anxiety. "Have you no friends?' "Not a soul in the world but Nan and «ou, chi/melte," "Would you—like to live with me?"She looked at me with quiet, serious directness, and nodded, "Always?" ""Byer and ever, amen!" She showed her white teeth in a smile, She smiled' .-as frankly., and sweetly as a child, "Would you like to' go eo America?" "With youI'" "Certainly." ,"yes. "I'm. vry poor, Carrie?" "Wall?" "We aright have hard tunes?" "Of course: "You expect that, then. But: yet yon'd come f" Carrie glanced at the bed, "Nan hold ryut, her hand, "1'11 conte," aid sirs s. '''ell, Carrfe," I centinucd, "you ar sue and I am alone. And you want a Vd, and I cannot spare yon. So we y iso our chance together. If I can F ,;fie' money we will emigrate. If not .e'wffl fight it out in England," ( aerie' noded and smiled, Anywhere,'she said; "what doer it matter to counts?" and saw us set d s devil of a soldier who so "generously" he made his own sad life happy by marry - w ing her-tbirty-eight years ago- g 11 Carrie, brave. heart tree heart;i whatrdo I not owe; and now, my dear, "I shall never want to die -never, never:" THE END. STRANGE CUSTOMS Ole INDIA, Superstition Has a Good }'Hold on the Natives. Parrots are taught in India to spend a- large portion of their time e in repeating the names of gods, and such a spokesman brings a great d price, especially among business men, who imagine that by owning such a parrot their spiritual trea- sures are accumulating while they attend to their usual oocupatio•ns. Many of the dancing girls in In; dia, belonging to the temples,dire called the wives of the gods. At an early age they are united in wedlock to the images worshipped in the temples„ This strange matri- monial con.neetian is formed in com- pliance with the wishes of the par- ents, who believe it to be a highly meritorious act to present a beauti- ful daughter in marriage toa sense- less idol. The only foreigner who ever saw the inside of the great Temple of Juggernaut was an English officer, who succeeded in gaining admis- sion by painting and dressing him- self Iike a native, When the Prahrnine discovered that their holy place had been thus defiled they became so enraged that all the Ennlish residing at the station were obliged to flee for their lives, Suspecting. "their pursuers to be more desirous of gratifying their avarice than their revenge, they strewed silver money by the wey, and while, the natives stopped to piek it up they gained time, and succeeded in reaching a place of safety.• Off and on Clothes. Getting pointeBnyin a a- per of pins. g p eeaay 'Kee eat, ese t4 'tAN AUTUMN FROCK. The little French trotting frock illustrated above shows the pannier overskirt, which is really only a section of drapery turned .in and upward all round. The lavish use of buttons and the huge size of the big black velvet osprey -trimmed hat are also features of the season's fancy. 4 —^wa �rghbl� in�.2-0 Y�,RA Cd on the Far WHEN TO' SELL HOGS. I write only frare my own experi- ence of over twenty agars in ris- ing hogs for the market; writeser. W. C, Holstnd. Different localities \and different feeds make a great deal more or less profit in the keep of the hog: Some feed too . long and consume rt' ofthe profit, while others feed not long enough or liberally enough to make what they ought to make, I run all my -hogs on alfafa from birth until sold, either for breeders or for the packer, and as soon es they weigh 200pounds each, or about that, I sell or kill them. If you are feeding pure-blooded hogs (especially if the bldod is 'red) they will weigh from 175 to 225 pounds each at six to eight months of age. I think seven months old is the best age, and the most profit -able hog we can sell. The younger yousell, the less risk of disease, the less trouble, time and feed it takes. The sooner you sell, the more room and the better care for the next litter. The cheapest gain is made while the pig is small. A pig weighs about three pounds at birth. Withreasonable care it will gain on-anaverage one-fourth pound a day fr the' first ten to twenty days. So you •see it doubles its weight n twelve days, and at G5 cents per bushel for corn, and $1.50 for 100 pounds for shorts the first three pounds of gain cost about 3% cents per pound, allowing eight pigs to e litter for each sow. I figure on she rule /that it takes my a sma11 amount of fire to heat haling wire, but it would take a of of fire to heat a 300 pound rod o f iron. So I say it takes a little to make pig gain a pound per day, But it akes about eight to ten ears of corn per day and some slop to make pig hold its own. Some men -say, if the market is ow, fed longer. (even though feed high), prices may go up. Others. yill' say, "Feed is high, I will sll while they are not fat) ; prices may gel daimon" Don't try to get the market ready or our hogs,. but get ydur hogs e y for the market. Sell them hen they are fat and not before. eep the kind that top the market red you will make money if feed is hih. R stpeed hos sin faster rarere�money for the breeder bandake more pounds of meat out of he grain fed them khan any othernimal on earth, RECLBARING OLD FIELDS. There are many old fields that ave been thrown out years agond ae •so grown up wth scrubtimber, reen briars and other filth that it ooks to be almost an impossible ndertaking to reclear them, says r. A. 3. Legg. If, it be undraken to kill them•y grubbing out elle briers and rush it is indeed a hard job, and e briers will sproutfor years, but the brush is haokcddown nl la � et ry, then bured 'over, the land can th O a 1 a t a 1 is i r K a m ? t h 6 u M b th if d be efiectua,lly cleared by pasturing it with cattle and sheep. A few years ago I:hnd a field. overgrown with greenbriers and iznr , Thor e were patches of green- briers se dense that it was impossi- ble to get through them, let alone grub thein out, These thickest patches were burn- ed through. The fine killed other briers, then in a few months they to would burn, so I made it a rule. that whenever I found a patch of greenbrier dry enough to burn I would set fire to. it, The pines were all out down, and when they got dry, they too were burned, The briers were kept down b the stookpia ,azi ,y n„ over them. 'Whenever a young brier appeared it Was rip- ped up. By the "end of the third year the brier roots were all rotted and the, pine stumps were pretty well rotted, so that the land could be plowed: SIIN FEAST AT STONEHENGE.. Africa and Orient Send Worshipe pers to England Annually. y A sun feast in England, the land of fog, seems :strangeryet it is a wonderful fete, rare and •striking evocation of. a peat that is old as history. Persians, Aryans, Hindoos and Arabians, all European delegates of the principal Asiatic races united by the ties • of a common religion, meet in the ancient druidical ruins of Stonehenge, near Salisbury, and there with full rites offer their im- pressive annual reverence to the suzi,. Upon the appointed date, at one hour before dawn, in silence and draped in white, gold and pur- ple robes,, more than, a hundred sun -worshippers enter Stonehenge and prostrate themselves upon the earth, while five officiating priests chariot their solemn invocation to the sun. And when from out the pale English sky the first beams of the sun lap izz the east, the bowed heads aro raised and frown every throat comes opening notes of a hymn of praise. An harmonious recitative at foist, with long, high notes that seemed to tell of grand quid awful' -things; a hymn, which thrills the listener. Then with a florid running passage it becomes a national song with the theme franticwith war and fighting. and revenge; with all primitive man's wild passion of hate and love and of spiritual longing that ignor- ance held captive. It ends as it had begun upon a sad, prolonged and piercing note. Then, each in order, the pilgrims res their vows of faith in Allah, in his universal majesty, virtue and infinite love. Before the solemn dignity of these dark skinned men, .robed in the garments ofgorgeous antiquity and 111 the isolated plain where huge blocks of rough-hewn granite seem- ed thie grim guardians 'eaf this strange religion, even the idlest spectator was awed into silence. For this revival of man's earliest "fetish" evoked in surroundings that lent it added grandeur, seemed more like sonic well -staged theatri-' cal scene than an incident in real life. ' With a fervor entirely oriental the Sun -Worshippers remained _ in prayer until noon, when they .slow- ly dispersed and prepared to pass from ten centuries before Christ to the workaday world of this year -of grace, 1912. et A designing man—The architect. BUSY SPOT'S. Places 'Which See RundT'e+l,s' of Ehousatnds of Persons Daily. The most crowded >apot in th world for five and a half days in th week is that email t'aro't of territory covering one aero, bounded by th Royal Exchatge the, Bank and the Mansion House in the City of Lon- don, says the Strand.Magazine, It is a veritable human ganglion. If you were te, stretch an invisible thread north and , eouth across, this space you would find that in the course of each day no fewer than 500,000 pensonis passed and repass- ed,' epass-ed,' with 59,000 vehicles, And the busies* corner of all in ithis bixay aerie is immediately outside the Mansion House, for rather more than half the 'grade cross eg• our imaginary boundaries passes: that way.' The results of a traffic census taken by the city police show .elite on, an average day some 30,000 vehi- cles, pass this particular corner,. while the pedestrian traffic is well -over 250,000, and -these figures are constantly increasing. e z. e But it is to,America :that one iiaa trally turns for big figures to rival those of London. Chicago boasts a thu.mair ganglion in State Street, where nearly 400,000 people pass and repass on foot during the day. In New ,York the figures approach those of Landon, and largely exceed it if we oount the actual number of persons on foot and in vehicles alike. For in 'Broadwa,y, at the juncture with Herald Square, it is stated that 700,000 pass daily. But this inoludees idle , passengers' by tram. ear, the foot passengers alone being well under 500, 000. One of the most densely peopled , spots in the world is O-dori Street, Tokio. The ' long thoroughfare known as Ginza, which 'runs from near the Shimbashi railway station to Spectacles bridge,' is made up of several streets' with different names, some wide and modern, some old-fashioned and narrow,-• and if the earth were suddex, ly to gape 'open wide in thatportion known es O-dori Street, at any hour o11 he day, there is no other thor- oughfare . in the JJapenese city Z06, ?Zed 44/260,4 Me coed dell' cemaefaai Atfall y0 ie It'. the CLEANEST, SIMPLEST, end BEST epee DYE, one can� buy-,`lvhyyou don't even have too- koow•what' KIND. of Cloth your Pooch, are made of. -5o Mistakes are impossible, Send for Free Color Card, Story Booklet, and Booklet giving results of Dyeing over other colors;: The JOHNSON-ittQKAxtpsQN CO., Limited, Montt cal.. Crinsda, where the results to human life. would be, more fatal. Foe here the tide of human life rune the highest. 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When Oying Cement, be sure to get "Canada Cement;" See Mist emery Lag and barrel bears this label. Then you will be sure of satisfaction. We.: have a free Information Department that will answer all your 'questions relating to Cement, tivithout cost or obligation. THE JOKES OF 50M JURIES, A.bf1USING PLEASANTRIES BY "GOOD KEN AND TRUE. Prowl' anti English Juries Aro Not Witilont a Sense of Uumor. A stag twitted through the fore of Fontainebleau it io�k� refuge in the garden of a certain TMttdame Brouil. lot, The lady's son refused to give the animal up unless paid the sum of five pounds •tomensatian for the 'p darnage it had done; but • his request was inelignazitly refused by 1V , Le- bandy, the, master of the bounds, who declined to accept any resposi- bility. "Very well," ,said the yong man coolly; "then we • will kpe� the stag." p thisI•ee didmsl. o ` and they,killed and ate ania The master of the hounds brought an action 'for heavy damages. Ma,-. Ma- dame Bro•uillot counterclaimed, '.fihe jury, with perfect gravity and due •solemnity, ordered each side to pay the other four pounds dam - So much for a French jury. The: French are rlotoria'usly a lighter - than our ` ` hearted peopleourselves, but it need not.be imagined that Brig tisk juries are without a sense of humor, says London Answers. "MANGLING DONE HERE." Three years a o a rathe>R famoms case was heard at the Qld Bailey concerning a certain coupon. • eb z- petition, alleged to have been run in an unfair manner, Wiale the defendant gave evidence,, the jury hung the following notice over the side of their box: "Have you no home to go too" Later, when a lady was in the witness -box,' this notice was Sage played "Cheer up, pretty -lady. Your time will come, Another witness was greeted with dre:" Whi.anglingal th e e cera he ppone rete of a fourth caused a change to: ''Houe Rill:" Sometimes a verdict is returned eo utterly at variance .with the evi- dence that ogee can only suppose that the twelve good men and true were' actuated by some sxbtbe idea of humor by -no .means unconscious. A clerk who acted as aeeountanb to a ,London. 'firm wascharged by the head of the.firni with embezzle- ment. He 'admitted his guilt, and went home and . OUT FIIS THROAT. The wound was not 'immediately.: fatal, but caused an abscess, from which he died afterwards in hoepi- tal. The jury'summoned to the in- quest, returned the amazing ver - diet of "Death from natural eauses." Great amusement is eoinotimes - caused by the quaint excuses given' by people who are suipmioned to sit on juries for not serving. • An actor was am lig .,bhoee called to serge on :a grand' jury at the Lon ,don Assions. "I am not qualified, my lord," ha_ saidW, "hy 71ot 2" 1 "Under an old Act of Parliament an actor is a . rogue and a vaga- bond," was the startling reply. Amici Ioud laughter, he was ex- cured. In out-of-the-way parts • of the country ;the verdicts: returned by men who have probably never be- fore sat ,upon a jury are sometimes very amusing. "Death by small -pox, • accelerated by neglect of vaccination," came from a West -country'. coroner's jury, and caused a grill all round. But it was not so funny as the rider to another verdict given by a Suf- folk jury in a case of.acidental pqa- soning by carbolio acid. The fore- man emdie`,Th( jury isgravof opinion ` thatarked iahet publit� -should be warned of the dangerous natureof-this diabolic aoia." GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY? The foreman of a Limerick jury, which was txying a prisoner for a murderous assault, came out and ' told the court that the jury was "unanimous—nl'ne to three, ` in finding the prisoner not guilty." He was deeply hurt when the unani- mous party were ordered to retire again. At Cardigan m i,_. g an was tried for uttering a forged note.: The jury's verdict' in this case ,deserves to be. pat on record "We find theprisoner guilty -of telling stories :about the note, anel' think he ought to pay back the money, ,and have • three months ,for 44 WHO GOT PUNISHED). A little girl about three years old was sent upstairs and told' to sit on a certain ehair that was in the cor- net'' of her robin, as a punishmenrt:. for .something she had done but e, fr.w :irrirettes before, So•ori. the -silence wasbroken by the little ne' s quesac n : "Mother,. may I conte down now 1" `No,' you sit right where` you axe, "All right, 'cause I'" sittin' y0111" bast hat."