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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-3-2, Page 2;fT 14 I[t 11111\11f OR, A LOOT( INTO THE PAST fs•�.,a.{.n'¢'s,�""j"e•."a'�,q,"O"h'}'e"�'n'�"f,.s.�•.e.+.e,�.e.+.a.4;.er•�.o+�,e.�.s,�w.�:.w CHAPTER VII,--(Cont'd) "There will be no one to com Derrick muttered something not flare with you, dear," Nancy, said softly. bcomutplithemenexntarytinstto ant the he lye'newcosmerex-, "Except you; and I am not Jeal f changing a warm handclasp with ons o you." Sir . Humphrey; wkile Nancy, Nancy's slipped her hand' from scarcely knowing what she said, Nancy s arm, and went to the win hurried away to coax some red ros• dOW' es from Mr. Murdock, -the autoc:a' There go Aunt Anne and Derry do head gardener of Ripstone Hall• I wonder if—if he will like ties "Well, Derry, my boy, and so dresses, Nancy? He is a great au your mother is comingdown to- thorny on dress, you know." There was a pretty tinge of pin day 1 God bless me, what years on Dorothy's 'cheeks, but Nan since I have seen Anne! We must had grown rosy red. make her as comfortable as we ean, She only dimly heard'Doroth yon know, but 1 ant afraid she will talking ; her mind was back in th it very quiet. rose garden. She saw those tw "Don't you worry about her, dark -gray eyes, drawing, as Miele Humphrey; rest assured ruY were, her very` soul through he mother will have the best of every-- own blue ones. iihe felt only th thing, wherever she may be." indescribable enthralment of hi Darnley spoke dryly, though not presence, his touch en her lips, Al unaffectionately; but had Sir Hum- else was forgotten -buried in thi phrey been more observant, be blissful ectasy. must have noticed that there was Dorothy's pathetic eagerness t an air of suppressed excitement please her cousin was complete! about his nephew, and that Mr. lost. She knew nothing, saw no Darnley's gray eyes were fixed 1.er- thing, heard nothing, but Derry sistently in one direction. Derry's love, his passionate, teede "What are you going to do --meet voice, murmuring bis words of lov m e k Nano he 0 It r e e 1 s 0 Y r e your mother? Oh! well, I suppose in her ear. I ought to go too. Yes—yes, my"There, now we are ready. Come boy, I must treat Aune with all due along, Nancy; we must go down. I respect, so we had better be off at have to introduce you to Aunt Anne 0nee ; not that r ay, this is the nearest to the stables." But Derrick Darnley, mutter- ing something about returning is a moment, rushed 'wawa a side path alter that slender, blue -robed fig- ure, leaving Sir Humphrey a little amazed, bet not ..s all enlighti,in ed. young al A few, st_x,�sa 'firou ht A g Y g ail up to Nancy's side; he had no chance of speaking to her private- ly, kr just in front of them stood the mighty Mr, Murdock himself. His back was, fortunately, turned to them, however, and, by a clever movement, Darnley got that red umbrella at a coneenfent angle. "Nancy," he said, in eager baste, "I must speak to you when I come back—I must, my darling! I—I cannot wait any Ionger ! Oh! you understand me, my dearest, do you not ? Yes, 1 read it in your eyes— those exquisite, maddening eyes ! I love you—I love you, Nanev, my own, my darling one !"—and, as the soft, eager words died away, he stooped and touched her half -part- ed lips. "Meet me by the lower lake this afternoon about seven. You can slip away from the crowd easily," he murmured, in low, ten - and everybody. I wanted you to meet her this morning, but I could not find you. What diel/ Tem m do with yourself, prav,-a 'demoiselle?" "I went ink she village. I want- ed to sr .' Mrs. Wortley." Nancy's voice was low and hur- ried; it sounded strange in her own ears. "Naughty girl! If I had only known it, what a scolding. you would have had! No wonder I thought you looking pale just now." "Oh, Dolly!" And Nancy belied that accusa- tion by blushing deeply again. And then she followed Dorothy downstairs, and, out on the lawn. "And who are these, pray?" 'in- quired Mrs. Darnley of her son, as she beheld the two dainty forms ap- proaching. "Don't you recognize Dorothy?" "Ala! so it is; but the other 1" Mrs. Darnley put up her gold eye- glasses and surveyed Nancy through them carefully. "Surely, that is not Gladys Leicester's girl, Derrick'!" "That is Miss Hamilton." Derry said it very hurriedly, but his voice would thrill. der tones. "My love—my darling "le ss Hamilton 1" Mrs. Darnley you will not fail me!" dropped her glass, "My dear Der - Once again his lips pressed hers, rick what a lamentable thing! I and then, before she realized that quite agree with Lady Merefleltl, it was no heavenly dream, he had Humphrey should be confined in a disappeared, and Mr. Murdock was lunatic asylum. Did any one ever at her elbow with the roses she re- quired, hear of such utter madness? And * * * * at It had been a freak of Dorothy's that she and Nancy should be dressed exactly alike at the tennis tournament; and, despite our hero- ine's expostulations and gentle re- sistance, this desire was earried out. The dresses chosen were both of Parisian make, being a delicate shade of pink silk, draped with the finest lawn, and teamed with Va- lenciennes lace; a large shady hat, with a bunch of the most naturaI- looking pink roses, was sent to be worn with each of these dresses, and the two girls also carried the most exquisite pink sunshades. The effect was indescribably charming, both to Dorothy's golden hair and fair loveliness, and Nancy's russet locks and cream -white skin. "Yes, it is very beautiful, dear, and :I must confess I look nice," Nancy said, as Dorothy led her to the long mirror in triumph, and showed her her own reflection; "but T don't feel happy in it. 1 am not you, dear, nor am I your sister. I have no right to this splen- dor. After all, 1 am only a bird in borrowed plunges, and same—" But bete Dorothy Leicester plac- ed her hand over her rebellious lips, and then silenced them with a kiss, "You dare to talk like that, Nancy ! You dare! My sister 1— ley dear, darling sister! I mean to let all the world know you as you really arc,'; She kissed the trembling lips again, "You love me, Nancy?" she asked. "Love ,you !" repeated Nanny, with depest enit,don. "Oh, my dearest! ]tow eat you ask me such a question 1 Loye you 1 There is no- thing an this earth I would nob do for you, Dorothy 1" "Then ,you will oblige me by re- training from balking in the £ut ore as you have talked this morning. Where"—'With. ;another 'kiss-4-4'11ow wo will never mention the subject again, Look at ourselves, Nancy. Dan'p *we look too Sweet for orde� A to carry it to this pitch! An un- known girl, coming from the gut- ter, to be decked out identically with Dorothy, as if she were, in very truth, her sister ! Oh, I must speak to Humphrey without delay!" "Do you think it womanly, or just, mother, to condemn an inno- cent girl in this harsh and unmerci- ful way?" Mrs. Darnley looked at her son's face with its drawn brows and hot flush of anger. "Humphrey is not the only mad- man, apparently," she observed, coldly, and with that she sailed ma- jestically away, just as Dorothy and Nancy were aeproaching her. "Where is Aunt Anne going! I want to introduce Nancy to her," Dorothy said, as they reached Mr. Darnley's side. "She has forgotten to greet Lady Merefield." he answered, quickly, feeling a desperate longing to crush Nancy in his arms, and so defy his mother and all the world. Dorothy frowned alightly. "Well, there is plenty of lime, Nancy," she observed. "Aunt Anne is going to stay here some time, so papa telt. me." There was not an excess of plea- sure about Miss Leicester as she remarked this, a fact which Darn- ley noticed at onee. Nancy. fortunately, saw nothing wrong. She was so enveloped in the wonderful, the delicious sensa- tions that bad lingered with her ever since the early morning, and now deepened as she stood in her lover's presence again, that her usually keen perception was dull to the fact that Mrs. Darnley had moved away purposely to avoid her, and treated her with a want of eonrtesy that was making Derry's blood boil ; but as Nancy did not darn lift her eyes to his face, his e ook d vexed T oanatracted brow n , were lost en het. "Nancy, we Trust separate," Dorothy tad, at earflap load after carriage load drove isp to the en- trattee and deposited groups of de- licately attired ladies on the lawn. "I must stcy here. Will you go to the teats? Rapti will prevent you to every ono you do nob know al- roady. Darnley, you will ata,' with Allo, won't yowl" lllr. Darnley had made half a Movement to accompany Nancy, but he was obliged to stop at Ilia cou- sin's request, "Here comes bferelleld, fully pro - pared to follow you about dike a dog all the day," he said, languid- ly. his eyes dwelling on the vanish- ing form that was, dearer to him than his life. - "You must be kind to him to -day, Dolly," "I am always kind to him," 'Dol- ly retorted; "but ho is such a bore.,, "Fewwomen consider it a bore to be loved," "It depends on who loves them," Dorothy replied, softly, a tiny blush -coming to her cheeks; then, very hurriedly, just as she went to meet her guests, "Derry, Aunt Anne means to be nasty about Nancy, and I won't stand it. I give you fair warning that I shall be very disagreeable if she is rude to Nancy—she is very dear to me." "And if she is dear to Dorothy, what is she to me?" communed Darnley with himself, as he stood for an instant alone. "My darling! there seems some marvellous fas- cination about her—she seems to have bewitched me. I feel as though I could fold her in nay arms now and carry her away from everybody. There is nothing I would not do for her; she will find me her knight as well as her lover. If any one dare to insult her, they must answer to me—even if it he lay own mother." His eyes went to that mother's form as she stood haughty, regal- ly tall and handsome; he knew that if Anna Darnley loved any one on earth she loved him; that if any human creature could strike a spark of womanly feeling jinn warmth £rats. - the cold, proud, worldly heart, he alone was that person ; yet his own heart failed him. He thought lis Nancy, and re- called his mother's hard, angry face as she discussed what she was pleased to term Sir Humphrey's madness about this girl. "There will be a fight," he said • to himself, with half a sigh—"there must be a fight ; but I shall conquer. And what if I do not? Why need I care? I have my darling -se -her love is all I ask; for with her by my! side I cam face the world, poverty,. hard work, I care nottwhat!" And then he roused himself to go among the chattering, laughing girls, all eager for the tennis af- fray, and paid his court to the dow- agers with all his usual grace of manner. The Misses Chester were in ex- uberant spirits, rushing abort, clad in scanty white flannel garments, ,with extraordinary caps on their heads, and useful, though by no means ornamental, shoes on their large feet. Lady Burton surveyed her pro geny with much maternal pride. "How devoted Lord Merefield is to my dear Ella! Do you observe them?" she remarked to Mrs. Darnley, totally blind to the fact o,oi'j�n►, W�.ww�wKta TIM TED SHARED, - Ted was cross; That very mnorn- ing,' when be found the ground all covered with snow, he !lad sat down to the breakfast -table feeling that it would not do him, any good, any- , way. "Fur • you see, papa, I haven't a sled, it just isn't any fun at all without one," he said, Papa laughed. "Well, Ted, wo must see about that. A snow -storm without a sled would be a good deal lilce a mince pie without any mince. How much will a sled cost me?" he asked. This was encouraging. "I can get a beauty for two dols lads!" cried Ted, eageoly. So after breakfast he started for town as fast as he could go,` with his shining silver dollars tightly squeezed in his hand. ` On the way he stopped in for his intimate friend, Ned, who lived in a small house with so many chil- dren in it that Ted used always to think of the old woman who lived in a shoe. But they were the hap- piest family you ever saw, which was fortunate, for if they had quar- reled, it would have been so much harder for the littlehouse tohold them. Young Folks "Have you a sled yet, Ned?" asked Ted, as they tramped down the road. "Not yet," answered Ned, cheer- fully. "I did earn a dollar to get one, but Mamie needed shoes just then." It did not -take long to buy, the sled, and then,' - see ;t was; Zkturday, *ear- •e ..:.e to the hill to try it. But seine way Ted did not enjoy it as he thought he would. And when he came home, he sat down before the !.grate fire and fell'. into a brown study. And it must be confessed, it was not a good-natured ane, ei- ther. "1Vhat is it Ted?" asked mother, after she had heard two or three long sighs. Ido wish everybody was rich. You see, Ned gave up his sled to buy shoes for Mamie, and I'm such an old stingy I never thought of buyisll'g him a dollar one and one for me, too. And it just took all the fun out of it when I -was riding to have Ned up there waiting for his turn, with his hands in his tight pockets—they're always too little. And now I've used the sled, I don't s'pose they'd take it back." "I think I could arrange that if you would really like to, dear," said mother. Another struggle went on in Ted's mind. "I think it would be nice for papa to give him two dollars for one, don't you?" he said, at last. "No, I don't, dear, I believe you will enjoy a cheaper sled better if you take it for Ned's sake," an- swered mother. "Well, I'll try ft," said Ted. So voiles Eh, wee* headcohq 0, SQ. mfnut o or lens.0 Abaolotely j,urmfoaq, PB eeptq i bq.y at eU drop,.,to', 1, $d estar.x4; rears J)RTIG es cuss asCAL Co OF S.'AMARA, Lss s ern, tau4 ebmld W. o» wart/nil ptjutau l{aieassoaati swaps b,eck; gqe,eweatbetaCo.,aisat lnbina MINN CATARRI INFT,.IIZZIA AL FEVER PINK E.ff. EPIZOOTIC DISTEMPER • CHRONIC EDITORS Booklet "Distemper; Cannes, Cure and Prevention," PENIS. Ail drug• gluts, harness dna tire. Si and 00e a bottle. 811 and 00 a dozen. Distrib- utorq—ALL wnoL users DRIIGCIsrs, SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Goshen., Indiana; 14 8. A. - HOTEL TRAYMORE ON THE OCEAN FRONT, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 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Downing street is with the governing power in the United..Kingdom, and it was named after a Yankee. True, George Downing - Sir George Downing they had to make him in the long run—didn't know he was a Harvard graduate. In his day there wasn't any Harvard so far as the name went. The present Uni- versity wasthe only public school of Massachusetts. But young Downing was graduated from it just the same, and his name is en- titled to a place with those of .other he took the sled and note from (dead -and -gone alumni. And it was that poor Lord Merefield was being mamma down -town ; and when he I he who built England's world-fam- towed about—there is no other word came in again his eyes were like sus Downing street, for it—by the energetic Ella, his stare. "You're right, mother" George Downing was born in face looking as sullen and cloudy as the proverbial thunderstorm. Mrs. Darnley smiled with a scarcely concealed sneer. "It is a pity," she said, laconi- cally, "that Merefield has nothing with which to support his proud old title. His father might have left flim at least a pretence of an ncmne ; as it is, he must marry one,!' But Lady Burton was impervious tent. bonds of the Dominiop Can - o the broad hint—money or no, he sere,, Limited, of Hamilton. This ossessed a coronet, and that was everything to her. "I suppose we shall see dear Mr. Crawshaw . here," she remarked next, sweeping the fast -swelling throng with her eyeglasses in search f the millionaire. Mrs. Darnley frowned. "Surely they do not admit the man here on such terms of inti- macy!" she protested. (To be continued.) i m t 11 0 he said. "She goes like a top. And Ned is as happy as I am." "So am I," whispered mother. Youth's Companion. ----- 3 • A PIECE OF A MORTGAGE. In another column is announced an opportunity to purchase 6 per �i WORTH THINKING ABOUT. Suppose you do have to spend $100 for tile to drain that big swale in one corner of the farm. It may be the means of bringing the worth- less land into a crop that will more than pay the expense the first year. Try it. If we don't thew our food well we have dyspepsia. Too many of us have bitten off more land than WS can fern well and the result is. soil indigestion and dyspepsia of, the pocketbook. If your neighbor casts a longing eye on your best brood mare be sure she is worth a's much to you as to him and hang on to her. The time to clean seed wheat is in the winter. We will have time to do a better job then than the day beforewe commence sowing in the spring. Going to raise 'a .third crop of corn on the same land next year'. Great mistake. i1ohCun flme u stopn ace Lee tittron aoi2da, *lir ,o throat adilltia�n e a . 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Charles II. sent him to the Hague as Ambasgador, and incidentally, being a thrifty as well as a merry monarch, took occasion to sell him the little lane along Which Henry VIII. had been wont to Orel' from Whitehall Palace to see cock- fights. Sir George afterwards be- came Secretary to the Treasury. FIRST BRICK HOUSES. Downing street is 100 yards long and 10 yards wide. In its confines Sir George built the first brick houses of importance ever put up in London, His children and grand- children owned the whole street un- til Baron Bothmar, then Danish Ambassador 'to England, bought No. 10 in 1734. About the only thing the Dane did worth chronic- ling was to die there, No. 10 re- verted to the Crowe, and George II., thrifty as the Merry Monarch, offered it to Sir Richard Walpole. Just what King George expected to get in return from his Minister is not known. 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The Bond tissue is $1,500;000, which is less than two-thirds the appraised value of combined pro- perties. The stet earnings for 1Ei0-1911 show OYER SIX TIMES' the amount required to pap interest oil the bonds, 'Pie company have declared and paid Preferred Stock dividend since organization. torrespondegce Solicited. Dominion0�� C py 1-1 lea l'T'E: p, Merahh t n s tank Bidg„ .. Montreal IloyalSank Oldg., • Toronto Citizen bldg„ Ottawa Mss'b►�#'4vv4'�"s'+!►'vs'+N'wiv►�1 ' On the Farm POULTRY AND FRUIT. Fruit culture and the production of poultry products can frequently be combined in a most satisfactory Menem:, . There are several rea- sons why fruit and poultry can be produced eeono'mically together. In the first place, fowls are very'de- sti'uctive to insect life, and if sufl - eiently large numbers are kept,' few of the larger insects, which may spend a portion of their time on ted ground among the dead -leaves and grass, will escape. The destruction of insects tends, .of course, to maks the, trees more : healthy and the fruit produced more perfect. The amount of fertility, too which may be added to the soil through the droppings of the fowls, is a matter of no small importance, when considered for a series„of years. Medium-sized . fowls, like the Leghorns, require about a bushel of grain per year, and larg- er fowls considerably more. , The greater part of the nitrogen, pot- ash and phosphoric acid present in this grain passes into the excre- ment, and when that is scattered uniformly over the surfwce of the soil- should' become more fertile from year to year, thus making the trees more thrifty, vigorous and productive. In these ways, then, will the fowls benefit the trees, while on the other hand the shade furnished by the orchard onthe sultry days of summer adds to the comfort and well-being of the fowls, and thus increases the profit which may be derived from them. In connection with orcharding, it is important to havo'the poultry work so arranged as to interfere as little as possible when the trees demand most attention, namely, in the spring, when it is necessary to spray, and in the autumn at har- vest time. Keeping fowls for egg production can be made to meet this requirement more nearly than any. other branchof the poultry uin b s ess. Colony -houses should be scatter- ed through the orchard. The shape or size of these houses is quite im- material, provided that the y.ns are not overcrowded, and that the houses are dry and comfortable. A house sixteen or eighteen feet wide and twenty feet long will ac- commodate about 75 fowls of the smaller breeds, and one house per acre would be sufficient..These houses should face the south or southeast, so as to receive as much sunshine as possible in winter. The back wall, on the north side of the house, should be double boarded, so as to be perfectly tight and warm, and the south side should be provided with an opening which can be closed in cold and stormy weather by a canvas or duck cur- tain. The perches should extend the entire length of the house ab the rear, and should be provided . with dropping boards, underneath which the nests may be located. The dry -mash system of feeding can be used. This reduces the cost of labor for feeding to a minimum. This system consists in keeping constantly available to the fowls a mixture of ground grains and beef scrap. A mixture which has been found to be very satisfactory con- sists .of equal parts, by weight, of cornmeal, ground oats and wheat bran. To this mixture is added about ten per cent. of beef scrap. to the dry mash, the fowls should bo fed at least once per day some whole grain, such as a mixture of corn, wheat and oats. In the winter time, when the fowls are confined to the houses, this should be scattered in the straw or litter, which should ou d cover the ikon the houses. In summer the whole grain may be scattered out- side. Laying hens the size of ileghorns require from 60 to 70 pounds of grain and beef scrap per heal year- ly At the present prices for grain, this would cost• about $1 per fowl each In year.addition Young fowta, when properly fed and cared for and given free range in an orchard, as outlined, will lay, at the very lowest estimate, : ten dozen eggs per year. At an aver- age price of 25 cents per dozen, these would be worth $2.50, or a profit, above the cost of feed, of $1.80 per hen per year. Every,. fall, a short time before the .layers begin to moult, they should be culled ove, and a few of tate best birds reserved for next year's breeders. The houses should • then be cleaned, disinfected and put in readiness for the reception of the pullets, which should be moved into their winter "quarters at the beginning of frosty weather. • 1ASY Fon MOTI1E11,. "Does your mother allow you to have two pieces of pie when you aro at home, iVillio 7" aslced Itis hos- teas. "No, ma'am," "Well, do . you think shewould like you to have two pieces here 7" "011, she woulstie/ Dare," said. Willie, con1;dentja i "this iaaq lila, pie." - yu t<m