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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-4-28, Page 6VILE DEED OE OLD LOVER A YOUNG WIU'li 1111)0 WED .Ni) Nr0 UNDEOi Convict Carne SienI it ['roar Pri- son to KM itivpl--Threats Made Goad. Two months ago a young laborer named William Henderson married Annie Finn, of Barnard Castle, near Gateshead -am -Tyne, 'England. The young couple were fitting up their little hone when Tom Craig, a rejected lover Of Annie's, came in, aecompanied by Henderson's mother, shut and killed the hus- band, and slightly wounded the young wife, At the inquest over, Henderson's remains the story of Craig's savage ]Going, was told. Craig often threatened injury to his sweetheart should she desert him. When under arroat for a serious crime Oraig•ex- tracted a promise from the girl to await his release, and when he re- ceived a seven-year sentence she repeated the prurnise,. While in prison Craig heard in- az n Appleton, which still belongs to directly of the engagement of his pp sweetheart to Henderson and the King and Queen of Norway, lies wrote her n rambling, ill -spelled about a mile off, and is really a letter full of dire threats. REVENGI'. AND DEATH. "It is only last August," the let- ter read, "you said 'Keep your heart up, Tom, till we meet.' 1t i lad when I read about TUE KING'S NEIGHBORS NEAR HIMTOOSE WHO LIVE NHIMIN THE COUNTRY.' The Neighborhood Round About Sandringham is Very Select, England has forty co -entice, and in only one has the King a country house at which he resides; for ex- cept on state occasions, Windsor Cantle is out of the reckoning, It is small wonder therefore that'Nor- ft'Ik people pride themselves on their importance, But where big estates are the rule the number of groat houses is apt ti: be limited, says the Gentlewo- nan ; so nu ono can pretend that there is a good neighborhood around Sanilringltam. Nearest at hand—in fact, in the garden stands York euttage, the abode of the Prince and the Prin- ecss of 'Wales. This is a small plain lot king house which has had many additions, "New baby, new room, ,. was the remark of a local octogen- glrrffied farmhouse, with a charm- ing garden designed on the lines of that of Mr. Austin, the poet lau- reate, at Swinford Manor, in Kent, CASTLE RISING. made meg One of the King's nearest neigh - you saying that I would like you— hers is Lord Farquhar, at Castle when I talked of your dress, as I Rising, which he and Lady Farqu- said I would like to see your dress , 'ma rent. Lord Farquhar is a man in green. as I uew it would track whom fortune seems to have taken outlier fellers' eyes, as I no you wc:uld look nice. "But uo one will have you. You will ace with sorrow when I come, as you will go ware your mother is. thee is. "You no that Shelly Shaw. Well, thenyou will be like her in a few under his special protection. He began life as a rich banker, and when plain Mr, Horace Farquhar had the unprecedented honor for a commoner of being best man at a royal wedding, that of the then Duke and Duchess of Fife. , lie is a man of parts, witty, a week's time -next month, as my clever talker and a good musician; flcsb and blood cannot stand this. h s is fond of early rising and of ex- ercises, and keeps a small organ in the library of his house in Grosve- nor Square, playing on it for an hem or so after dinner. The hall, Castle Rising, is a charming old house, and the village has a Nor- man church and the ruins of a Nor- man castle, also quaint almshouses where the inmates wear the long decks and high peaked hats of for - CLEAN MAD FOR LOVE. "I am not going -to live after I meet you, as I will be sure to meet you like death that meets us all. Your happiness will be a short one. "You find I am going to pull the eaasell down. I will brake up the little palace for you, as I will be buining when I see it. "I will be clean mad. I will be mer years. in a'frenzie. I will test my strength Not far from Castle Rising is against the chap who has robbed Hillington, the grand Gothic house me of my love and happiness. that belongs to Sir William and "fain not going to stand it. My Lady Ffolkes. This place has fine blood's too hot for that. shooting, and Sir William's pre- serves have often been shot over ani Mrs. Neumann, prion to which. it was tenanted for several years by Mrs. Lawson Johnstone, It her a well authentic/Awl ghost story. Ken hill, near King's Lynn, be- longs to Sir "Edward Green, who also has a place in Yorkshire, Hin- sten'ton Hall, on the sea eoast, lute been owned by the Las Strange family for countless centuries, it has a glorious. old' garden., with grase walks, elipped edges„ and herbaceous borders,, Its owners have always held a' plane in courtly circles, and Mss. Roland I,o. Strange is an aunt of the present Lord Hastings: Congltam House belongs to the Elwes family, who may also be reckoned among . our untitled •.nobility. • Many stories go the rounds which slow the kindly consideration' of the King and Queen for their neigh - hors near Sandringham, On one oc- casion when Queen Alexandra was driving past the house of a•family with whorn she had always been on cordial terms she noticed that the flag which usually flew from the Wryer was now at half mast. The Queen, fearing that this might betoken trouble, turned aside to make inquiries. On the way to the front door it struck her that if the family had had really bad news it would be better that she should not intrude upon their grief. Later on the mistress of the house was much astonished to hear that the Queen had called at a side entrance to inquire if all was wells ar d on being reassured had gone quietly away with neither word nor message, "My. hik is pale. My love for you shall never fail; No, it shall never fail. "Mine won't. You'll find that out. I'll come .like death itself. "Yours ever, and yours only in this world, Tom Craig.” BAD AS HIS WORDS. In spite of these awful threats Ar.uie Finn married Win. Render - son. When her husband was out she used to keep the door locked. F.oleaeed from prison, Craig came again to the neighborhood looking for her. With the story that he wa,i Annie's cousin, he induced her mother-in-law to guide him to the house. " asked his "You're Torn Craig old sweetheart. •-‘"Fns and you're Annie Finn," They saw a carriage approach and et,iC racy." conceived the idea of standing in "NoI'm Mrs. Henderson now,"' a row to stop it on its way. They .. - accordingly did so, and when it acid the li lianie held out his lured it near they saw to their horror to Craig, buTaatet no resputhov got `'Why did you«tivoty cyte Avera' that they had barred the passage y of no less august a personage than asked Craig.aHenderson hang a had th•3 late Queen Victoria, mounted on a chair to p ture. A shot was heard. He stag- Houghton Hall, which belongs to • 5ered off the chair, :rushed out on Lord Cholmondeley, the Lord Great the street and fell dead. ("nig fir- Chamberlain, is a splendid place, ed several more shots, slightly at present rented by Cora Lady wounding the girl, and then disap- peared in the maze of alloys along the Tyne. INO1tILN Hlilit'ING POULTRY. Craze of the Moment With Titled Ladies of England. Lady Salisbury's success with eggs and hens recalls to mind that poultry keeping is one of the crazes of the moment. Queeiz Alexandra shows the way and her Silkies have won many prizes at the poultry shows, says the Gentlewoman. Then Lady Derby owns some of the costliest birds in existence and a pair of her Black Orpingtons were sold for £100 at the Crystal Pal- ace. Lady Craven is another prom- inent exhibitor and her American Wyandottes are of much beauty and value. Lady Chesterfield is yet another fancier and so are Lady Aylesford, Lady Kathleen Pilkington, Lady Burton and Lacly Tichborne. And in the old days Evelyn Lady Aling- ton had the finest store of bantams in the world at Crichel in Dorset. In Scotland Lady Home has some good poultry, as also Lord Rose bery, who wins prizes with his Mi - by the Icing, the Prince of Wales norms, and the story goes that his and the German Emperor. Nater- cid poultry man once in a melting ally the owners are and have been mood admitted: "Those birds will on terms of friendship with royal make your Lordship's name famous personages. Congham Lodge, one of these days." which is about a mile away, also _ s belongs to the Ffolkes family, and NOBLE 'HOTEL :KEEPERS. late Dowager Lady I'fo}kcs used to make it her resideuce. QUEEN ALEXANDRA. Lords and Ladies in England Who Have Taken It Tp. often called on her and one day on Hotel keeping is a fancy of the arriving in a ponycart, she was moment. Be,.ides Lord Leitrim sev- asked by the butler- a new servant eral well known people have gone —"What name, please 1" 7'h° fnt:u business in this direction. Queen was, of course, immensely Lady Aberdeen is president of the amused at this naive question. Then Green Lady Hotel at Littlehamp- thc story goes that some years ago tun, Sussex. This is arranged for a party of young people from the tvorkez's, who are charged ten sill".. Hall, Castle Rising, were walking sings a weak for board and lodging, along the drive toward Hillington. says the Gentlewoman. Lady Burton has built and fitted one a splendid hotel at Aviemore, which commands a fine view of the Cairngorm ].range in Inverness- shire, and the widowed. Lady Au- gusta Orr -Ewing has started a first rate hotel with good golf links at Dnnekey, her home near Streamer Wigtewnshire. Lord Dunraven has built a hotel for gulfers close to Mare Manor, his place in Limerick, and Lord In- ehignin is the owner of a hotel at A mammon, Milltown Malbay, al- so in Ireland. Then Lord Claud Hamilton, who is chairman of the ("reat Eastern Railway, takes a keen interest in the Sandringham Hotel at Hunstantott in Norfolk, and Douglas Tollomache, groat uncle to Lord Tollemache, is much DEW AS DRINKINGI WATER. Method of Colleeting for Use of Soldiers at Gibraltar. Hitherto dewhas been u:;ed as a with a tragic death, so Mr. Martyn beverage only in poetry, by the •Konnard is her third husband. sun, flowers, and butteriliee, It had Houghton bears silent witness to recently been robbed of all itr, p'.e. tt•' character by being used for Elm refreshment of tuglish eeldieis The English adruiili;:4. ati ,ii 81 Gibraltar. where war:or i:g vcry smite, now outlasts clew Ito t 0 lr l- 1 s, otvin . very aintpte inethod : A large. pit is dug in the earth and covered with dry wood or straw, which in torn is covered either with earth or with sheet, iron. The etraw or wood serves aS a heat insulator' and effectually pre- venfe the Conduction of heat from the ground to the layer of earth or the shoot iron above, Consequent- ly this earth or iron cools after eun- set much ntnre rapidly than the grontrd, eo that its temperature icon falls below the dart point of the surrounding air, Hence dew is formed upon: the iron ' or the layer of earth in very large quantities. The water thus obtained is drained off into reaer- voire and ,after elarificatioit is used for drinking. • Strafford ain't her husband Mr. Kennard. She is a thrice married peeress. In the '90s she came over to London as Mrs. Colgate, a rich American widow, end was distingu- ished by always wearing a tall white aigrette in her hair in the even- ing and the most magnificent dia- monds. In 1898 she married Lord Strafford, who a year later met our old time gambling propensities.. There is a blank space when the central flight of hall door steps should be found. The place was once owned by a Lord Orford, and ono of his feats was to gamble away that spacial flight of steps. The winner carried them oil and they have .aver since been replaced. Another fine place is Itolkham, wbere Lord and Lady Leicester are to recoive royal guests during the shooting season. This is a VAST PALLADIAN' EDIFICE, which stands in a park as flat as a pancake. It has a white marble hull and staircase of much magni- ficence, some fine statuary and a vast library, which contains the most valuable private collection of manuscripts in the kingdom. Holk- hem is said to be the nearest point of land in England to the shores of Denmark. 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Felix Hotel, Felixstowe, which was But in the way of testimonials the, built after the design of B:elming- hanr Hall, Lord Tollemache's place in Suffolk, • one which I prize the most was re- ceived from a certain Bishop. He was famous for the infelicitous way he had of putting things. I wrote d+'""- — to tell him I was leaving the din - PLAIN FOOD FOR THE RICH, ceee and to thank him for his lcind- Plain, but trusty dishes are now to nese to inc. His reply was shortand, I trust, not to the point: be seen at luncheons in some of our "Dear sir: I am sorry you aro lean smartest houses, says alto Queen• ing my diocese, for I have never Of those are Scotch broth, Irish hoard anything against you. Yonrs stew, fresh hierring, Bales head, faithfully, ---." This et least was sheep's trotters, braised lain, rely -a uegatii'e It}red of testimonial which priy, paneakes, suet Pudding serve : might be useful to some of us. ed with treacle, and rico and sago My vicar was leaving at the same Puddings, Cheese in various forms time, and I was accompanying him is in high favor, and Welsh rabhit to his new pariah. He fared little often appears as a savory. Then better at his Bishop's hands, brcwn bread is eaten, also oatmeal ,,Well, ----, you and1 have not al- cakes and plain luncheon biscuits, ways seen eye to eye, hut I might and the dessert often consists of well get a worse man." se with it on in the pulpit and again remov- ing it at the end of the sermon. VW, little piece of ritual he duly performed, but its meaning was wholly lost on my congregation. A servant being asked on her return why the service had been so short said that the preacher was in a hurry to catch his train, as he had begun undressing before he left the pulpa. A woman in a parish where I lived used each day to prepare herself for the worst. I was compliment- ing her one day on the extreme tidiness of the house even in the early morning. • "'Yes," elle said, "I always likes to 'ave lay bedrooms done hearly, for, as I anus sex, lou never knows what may 'appall; 'ow soon one of the children may be brought 'cote. in a fit or with a bre-- ken re- ken leg, and, as I allus sea, it don't matter what'appens, so long as yon'vc got a bedroom to put 'em into." 'Whether alio would have taken. quite so calmly the actual at., rival of a child in a fit I cannot ally, for her rule of life was never 'put' to the test. 1 once attended a mayoral ban- quet in a provincial town ret which the vicar, who had newly arrived, was present. An Ald'.;rmau wits put up to propose Ida health and was very aatxious to pay a well de- served compliment:,io the - pears apples and oranges, Plain Ole episcopal blessing we m}grat• food is no doubt good for health is3 V) anatlusr diecesc.' and French chefs in Ma'fair can ;� SHORT SERVICE,' turn this farmhouse faro into most tempting iiomestibles. Not muck 1 . friend of urine carne j -ii prenc} alcohol itt drunk at luncheons, and for me at the, harvest !Satire], Th- Mtstelle, an unfermented wine, fuse" at hit eliuroh .was for the seems to be jp f f the moment. 1. e anoy o preacher to carry'lis/dtule, puttin NEW VICAR'S POPULARITY, anti thio w,YS bus ivanner of doing it: "Mr, Meyer, our new vicar ►lea not been long in making himself liked by all of us. As I was remark - bus the other day to some friends, it's a good thing our vicar has not grit tie facia ttf 1111 Adonis, or we :should have to look trot. Fur our %rives and daughters," It was well meant, but 'ono. felt of course, that the expression of the acrrtimrht could have been improved upon Wilting of humor reminds me of g,the lack of.it-•-tin unhappy eondi- tioa with which one tieitally. There were so ladies who lived in a large a certain parish. They were very much opposed to anything which to their mired savored of the world; the thought even of "patience" filled them with. horror. They hard, however, heard that the curate, to whom they were much attached was. a good conjuror. On one oc- casion when he was'lunching with theta they asked him to show i,benl some of his tricks. He readily con- sented, and in the extreme inno- cence of his heart; asked for a )fade of cards.,,' "We have never had a pack of,;'oards in the house for twenty ;'oars 1" his hostess exclaim- ed . aed then, feeling she bw°d her gime!, some.: reparation, asked him whether visiting cards would do as well l ,' 1: am sure that a : speaker, whe- ther he is preaching or making a political speech, never realizes how littdc his long words or rounded phr•atnes are really understood by some ill his audience. A clergy- man, at the close of same ennfirtna- tlon classes which he had beet giv- ing in a village of otte of our north- ern towns, proceeded to ask his candidates a few questions in order to find out how far he had nutde himself Clear. The ,answer to his first question; rather a:stonisht:d: hila-'' What • fs grace 2" Promptly the, reply came, "ALL MANNEII, OF .IAT." The answerer had had plenty of ex- perience of it as kitchcnmaid, and perhaps "grace' is not altogether tinlikt in sound to "grease." That reminds me of the story of an old woman who on being asked why she had such a rooted objection to t13e new recebr replied: Ow eculd I''elp 11, when 'o uses "But had words in the pulpit Bret what bad worda4" she was asked, "Suet think, was her reply,. ale meets ocCa- nte dear old honsean 4111111110014•O110 , often 'e says peradventure -and yeti knows what David says about such like—`if I shall say.peradr'en- ture, the darkness shall cover' - me.' „ The names proposed by parent for their unhappy children aro sometimes partioulat•ly weiitb --J was: called to privately baptize a was, de- 1' peace t a child the clay afte p elared at the close of the Boer ,war. 1,y request "Name this child" prodaccd a long speech from the mother: "Wo want to. cowmemor- ate the war and the peace, so we - want to mall him 'Roberto Pax.' ' Thu unfortunate child, whose sur- name was Smith., did not long. stir vive such a mune. Or1'one occasion a man gave his daughter's name as Venus. Rightly oe - wrongly, the clergyman vigorously protested against the carne as that of a lea then goddess, to which the tattle(' pertinently replied, "'What aborit your otvn Diann 1' gid.. SMOKING THROUGH Blinn. SiVIC 1NG x nth the Boer , ilio bol} URI; mill t d e -tltltu year h trouble pangs ilii had after hie r hole acted his t The Jaeger the heart the miler it tra y els tit narrow w . v • soy During the So African War, saps writer iu.Meech ,Strand $lagaziue, a :Ilio soldier,riarned 1' s nk Brown wast in tin. fore 1ivad with a ride et, Strangely • enough it did till hirer and after the war he sectu employment on 'one of the trans utiu etettn'.ers. When fully y had passed, be complained oft a in .his head, and ,after a thorough ' oxtuulhitior( the surgeon of thep decided that the bullet, which never been re- moved, nitist be extracted,.This was done, find ward ; for- the amusotnent - of friends, the wounded soldier placed a lighted cigarette }n the from which. the bullet was extr and drew the smoke through lose.