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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-7-27, Page 3++'++++++++++ !4•h+ -f+++++-14#•44 # ;+ QRIU�dE f VOA8 THE MA; OR, A LOOK INTO 11#4,P -4,F %Teepee„ ,oeeesefee..4.,a ,•e...0.4ease s. f•,o,++./14.aaseo"'ies A• .o,:l.',eeee ¢;ee..aele s. CtHAVIIER X III,-(C'ant'd) f " I prefer to -to remain here;" she said, as gently as site could, !wisliinq wildly that, she could reach the floor arzd rush fame his white, awful face and glaring eyes, "And Isay you're to sib hem!" shouted the man, striking' the top rail of the arm -chair he grasped: Don't you: understand I I shall have to treat you different I can see. I've' lob you have -your own Sew too mall, and this is what it's come to -that you, any wife, as I thought. was a respectable girl, You go creepeag out into the woods, my woods, and meet that stuck- up lover of yours on the sly! Oh; I know -I know. You're a quiet lot, you are, but Ws the quiet ones is the worst, .a•ftdr all;, hut there's going to be an end of it -an end, I say. I didn't make you niy wife for this sort of thing, I can tell you, as you'll pretty soon find out." Hie words had come in one think, hurried flow, sometimes so quickly as to be inaudible. Nancy sat quite still as he finished. What was she to do? How .could the argue with. bin in this condition? To attempt, to speak was but to bring down a flood of insult and abuse on her head. She pressed one hand to her throat and one to her beating heart, bewildered, alarmed almost beyond descrip- tion, Her silence was like fuel to the flame of mad anger in the man's infuriated brain. "Come here--•d'ye hear reel" he shrieked, rather than shorted. "What, you wen't come?" In one stride he was beside the girl, and had clenched her two wrists in an iron grip. elragging hor trembling, and in a fainting condition, to her feet. "I've got you now, Miss Nancy," he muttered, with a short, wild laugh. "Ah ! ah I you can't escape now. You've hated me, have you? You've treated me like dirt, leave you? You've been my wife, and let that man male love !All this had passed from her Mind as she lay sleeping in the frig ohau. Janet h'acl eoxne up" at dinner -bine: and had refrained ftwmr waking her, telling Fenton Ws mistress was not well, and eoukl not leave ,. her room, in a enrt way, that was not to bo gain - calci," and the eveninghours slip- ped by till' .the clock in the hall • below chimed eleven, and Nancy awoke. Awoke .with a shiver, to t'Znd her room prepared for the night, and the fire burning low on the hearth. It was menthe since she had slept so long together, and she felt dazed and nervous whentheopen- ed ler eyes. With trembling fin- gers she lit her candles andthrew- elf her cloak, then she loked at her watch. "Eleven o'clock. Janet, must have come in an hour ago. How good of her to trove so quietly." Then Nancy gave a hurried glance round the room and perceiv- ed a tray standing on a table near. "What is that -surae supper ? Oh, how kind of her! I shall thank her to,morrow," Tears rose to Nancy'e eyes at this unexpected kindness; she was not aoeustomecl to it now, sucl ib almost pained her. She sat down to eat, but, though it was hours since she had taken food, the was not hungry. A vague, uneasy sensation was upon hor; • she felt thab something was going to happen, and she did not know ,what. "I'am very silly," she said, nerv- ously, to herself. "It is because T have been aesleep so long," and so, with a strong effort and deter- mination to crush down this feel- ing, she began to unfasten her mas- ses of red..brown hair, trying to still her quivering fingers the while, but her eyes would go in a hunted way. round the room and hex heart was beating in a strange, heavy manner that almost choked to you? Well, now I'm going to aSuddoni she started and turned •pet all that right! 2on're mine! - round with hated breath, minel-amine 1 I ain't going to give Tier vague apprehensions had you up to no one, and they won't been only too well founded; some- •coin and help you this time. Ohl thing was going to happen, dear, no ; and why? because they're Stealthy footsteps sounded along' too frightened. They know I'm the passage, her door was touched, [rad!" His white face, with its the handle turned; with a wild burning eyes, bent lower and lower pang Nancy realized she had not to hers. "Yes, mad, and too strong looked it as usual before going to for the lot of. them. You didn't sleep; the next moment it was know, did you, Nancy -you didn't pushed open, and her • leu band geese I was so clever as to hide it stood ina the room. from you? .Ah ! ah 1 what a good gasp for breath Nancy re- joke. lou never thought as how treated suddenly; there was an in Thomas Moss would be even with definable horror pervading Craw- you, and. pay you out for all your Shaw at this moment --his face was pride; but he diel. He gob the bet- eurious'1y white and set, his eyes ter of yon, Nancy, and all by a were wild and glaring. trick 1"• .He came slowly across the big He laughed that wild, horrible room nearer and nearer to the laugh again, while she, gasping for shrinking girl till he reached the breath, was struggling in vain to big chair ; ho put his hand on it free herself from his iron grasp; to and steadied himself. "Sit down, Nancy, my girl, sib open her lips and force a era for down," he said, in thick, stow ac- help from ber parched throa. The .cents, "don't be frightened -1 want agony of the moment was awful; 4o talk to you -I shan't keepyou y t not ane ward escaped her. She long knew that every syllable he utter Nancy never stirred a lima,buted was true; it made her helpless, znrsermle position a thousand stood with a world of hewer in her oyes fixed upon her husband, an in- moos more me to her fortherewag articulate ere' for mercy and help o one toh Come aid-oo, ons filling her heart. to save her 'from the fury of this Teo that moment ale saw the maniac. Weakened gradually by her, vain efforts to release herself, whole of her danger -she was alone Nancy was forced backward till with a mad -pian -a man read with she found herself in the'aenu-chair drink 1 with her two wrists hold in that vice and that ghastly face bending over her. "It was a trick -yes, a good trick," muttered Crawshaw, his tones rising and rising till they were a shout. "You thought your uncle had done it all, you steal lowed the bait so easily -ah I ah l Oh 1 she was clever, was that fine lady mother, your lover's mother -- she put it into any mind. Clever I clever! clever !"-he wa-gged his head to and fro; "and we won, poorfool, we won, and now youero spine; those disinty; proud lips aro mine; this red hair, and those blue eyes -blue as the sly -are ming, I say, Coame, kiss zee, Nancy -wife l Mine at last I Kiss me!" With almost superhuman atrerigtli the girl forced herself fresu,the chair, arei wrenched her. -hands' from his. OHAPTER XXIV. . For one instant comprehension, sight, the sense of acute fear and loathing left Nancy; the next the. had recovered herself, ,and calling up every scrap of courage and nerve power, faced the horror of the moment. "1 can tired," she said hurriedly, and as eloarly no her nervousness would permit. "I -I will talk to you to -morrow. Please leave' me Crayshaw's eyes seemed to flash faro at her, "Sit dowse," ho reiterated quiet ly, but with w nasty tone in his yoico; "sib down, S say. I'm mas- ter here. I'm your master, Nancy, and I'll be obeyed, by God 1 I will," Nancy's proud spirit leaped at the /nettle implied in his words,but she had to..eeb this .feeling on one side ahcl temporize ---only let her get frim away and then she could :lock herself in ,end be sato for a time at least. With all the outward calmness she could assume, she moved an. ether ehair forward and sat down en at,. quivering ie every limb as she did so "Nob there---,Sere/1" Thomas Crawshaw conunan(led ; There where I ears see ,aur face," Her (roars coasned to stop beat. Statpcfied with drink, he stag- fgered back for a moment and reel- ed against eel-ed'against the wall; .but as she drew up her tr•enibling form and turned torush to the door, he had recovered himself., With a shriek of mad anger he was upon her, and bad .clasped her in his strong ,areas, while y hood of imprecations, =passionate tri- umph and exultation burst from his lips, • The -cloud et red -gold hair was swept across Nancy's fate, and fil- miest suffoeated her; her brain Used in Canada for Over half a century -•-used in every corner of the world where people suffer from Constipation Arid its resulting troubles— Diem o°see DWI n :+;fs stand higher in public estimation than any others, and their ever- increasing sales prove their merit. Physicians prescribe than. , a 25c. a box. reeled beneath. the full horror and alarm of the moment, "Oh, God help me ! Help me!" slip pried, in utter desperation. !She was like a poor, caged rat, 'with not one loophole of escape. &cic9enly Crawshaw ceased shouting;he stood very still. Nan- cy's heart was beating like a sledge hammer in her ears, ,She felt him brush the hair from her face and drag her on a few steps; the next moment she opened her eyes, to close them again with "a piercing shriek. Crawshawhad dragged her close to the table, on which stood her supper tray. His hand had closed round a knife, and had lifted it menacingly in the air. "Pm going to kill you, Nancy to lcill--kill-kill !" he whispered, in soft, thick tones, that chilled' her to the heart. "I'm going to see the red blood stream down your white skin! You are mine, and I shall Idll you if—" Nancy heard no more for a time -it seeaned an hour to her; it was only a moment. Her eyes shut. Dimly she had Belt something or some one jerk Crawshiew away from her, while she staggered back against the bed- post. Then all at once she awakened to the truth. A voice rang shrilly in her ears: "Run -run l=the passage ---quick! 1 will come -run !" She turned ]ler distraught eyes on a corner of the room, whe-e something was growling and strug- gling like a savage beast. In the ;same misty fashion she saw a, serene, tall figure, 'which seemed familiarly like Janet's, but whieh was strange, too, bending over this something. With her 'breath coming quick and fast, and limbs which gave way at every step, she crawled to the door. Run she could not, for her strength, her ootfrage, was gone; and out in the passage she stumb- led, and fell against the wall in a semi -swoon, ignorant that Fenton, followed by the gardener and one of the other servants, had ruehari past her into leer bedroom, with a blpnket and a stout rope in their hands. How 'long she lay like this she WRONG SOUP. Perhaps Plain Old Meat, Potatoes and Bread may Be Against Yon for zt Time. A'change to the right, kind of focd can lift one from a sick bed. A lady in Wolden, 111., says: "Last spring. I became bed -fast with severe stomach trouble ac- companied by sick headache. I got worse and worse until I becaane so low I could scarcely retain any food at all, although I tried about every kind. "I had become completely dis- couraged, and given up all hope and thought I was doomed to starve to death, until one day my husband, trying to find something I could retain, brought home some Grape -Nuts. "To my surprise the food agreed with ane, digested perfectly and without distress. I began to gain strength at once. My flesh (which had been flabby) .grew firmer, my health improved it every way and every day, and iu a very few weeks 1 gained 20 pounds in weight, liked Grape -Nuts so well that for four months I ate no other' food, and ahvays felt as well sat- isfied after eating as if I had sat down to a fine banquet. "I had no return of the miser-' able sick stomach nor of the head- aches, that 1 used to have w,hen I ate nth,er food. I am now a well woman, doing all my own work again, and feel thab life is worth living. 1"C4rape-Nu'ts food has been a God•-sencl to my family; it surely saved my life; and my two little boys , N have "thriveni, on ib wondr- fu ly ame given. by Posture Co., Rattle Creek, klieb. Reed the little book, "The Road tie 1Veidvillc," in pkgs. "There's a reason•" Ever rend aho ohovo !otter? a now ono appears from tt.iio to rims. May aro aonu. Ino, true, a,id furl of human lhteroxt. El). 5.-- Z'SS1.111.25-41 NEW GRAND TRUNK HOTEL AT OTTAWA -"CHATEAU LAURIER." WILL BE OPENED FOR BUSINESS IN THE FALL OF 1911. never knew. The next thing she was conscious of was the curious sensation of being carried rapidly through the cold, damp, night air; and when she opened her eyes it was to meet the kind, troubled gaze of Janet's honest eyes bend- ing anxiously over her, "She is not hurt, thank Hea- ven ;-not even " u scratch I" she heard some one says; and then with a broken ery of horror, as memory returned for one' moment, she clutched at Janet's strong hands, and then fell backward again in another merciful fainting fit more severe than the last T' `E FARM Useful Hints for the Tiller of Soil TSO PEOPLE TO ONE 9t i bIOW TUE ANIMALS CD;1 I1Ant WITH 111:1 MA'S. A.ustrelfa and the Argentine Lead' the li'nrld in Ulerees, ('unit+, and Sheep. The British War Office has just oonofudod its census of horses, and 000 fact is made clear -.that if all, the people in Great Britain wanted to go for a drive at once, there would not be horses enoug]z to go round, says London Answers. Including all kinds of horses of four years old and over --farm hor- -. ses, hunters,`polo ponies, every air imal that can. parry harness or sad- dle -there are only three millions in England. and Wales, or less than one to every ten persons; We are suppused ;to be the most horsy people in the world, but we are far behind many other coun- tries in regard to the number of horses per head of population, In this respect Australia loads the British Empire, there being forty- five horses 'to every Hundred peo- ple._ But even this record does not match that of the Argentine Re- public, The Argentine is the only country in the world where there are as many horses as people. At the other end of the scale comes Switzerland, with only three horses to every hundred inhabitants, MILES OF MUTTON. We have fairly exact records of all the livestock in every civilised 'country in the world, and, as a 'rule, you find that the fewerthe people the larger the head of sheep and cattle. ,j Australia and the Argentine 'lead the world, not only in horses, but in cattle and sheep also. Australia, has cows enough to give each man, woman and child in the island con // tinent three apiece; while the Ar- gentine can do even better. There. are five cattle to each inhabitant in the big South American Repub- lic. Of European countries, Denmark is by far the greatest cattle owner. There are eighty-five to each .hun- dred inhabitants. No wonder Dan- ish butter is known all over Eu- rope. In the United Kingdom we have about 'twelve million cattle, of which more than four millions- pasture in Ireland. The world's stock "of mutton is reckoned to be about 450 millions. Of these the United Kingdom owns thirty-three millions, while Aus- tralia possesses the colossal total of ninety-five millions of sheep. Australia and the Argentine be- tween them pasture one-third of all the sheep in the world. There ought not to be a bacon famine when one learns that there are 100 million pigs in the world, of which we own some four millions. But the United States is the land of pigs. She possesses over forty millions, and is said to waste no- thing of the porker but its squeal. PRQLIFIC POULTRY. There has been a deal of talk Iately about the lack of poultry in this country, and the gigantic num- ber of eggs which we import. Ib may come as a surprise to know that our head of poultry numbers thirty-seven millions, or roughly one hen to the acre_ The Board 'of Agriculture says that we ought to keep at least three times that number. At present the record in poultry production is held by the United States, with eighty-five millions of coelsa and haus, and a early egg output of 6,000 million. It may be interesting to learn hat. the biggest eggs come from Spain, where they run seven to the pound. Ours average eight to the ound, while German eggs are the smallest, running as low as ten to the pound. A DIPPING VAT FOlt SR1 EP. graded that all drippings return to A farmer owning as many as 25 the, vat. There are sewer connec- * * s. f: * sheep should have a good dipping tions with this outfit, the valve of •vat. These may be made of wood, which is located in the dry chem - Derrick Darnley heaved a short metal or concrete. For a smaller ber. The end of the sewer pipe in sigh of relief as he was bowled number of sheep than 25 the bar- the vat is provided with a grate along in a hansom swiftly through rel used to scald the pigs will do and trap 50 as to catch bits of the crowded London streets. wool and droppings which would if, the farmer feels that he cannot Here, in the very heart of Tea- afford to purchase or build a vat. otherwise clog the pipe. lien, and prosaic, everyday life, The dry chamber allows the at - his vague fears about Nancy,wero .A good galvanized vat ten. feet tendant Carefully to control the considerably and suddenly de- long and four feet deep madepur- dipping, break up thick scabs with creased. posely Inc dipping can be per- a brush and if necessaz her the "1 did right to come away. The chased for about $12. There are sheep up the incline and also go country, and especially the coma - purchased sizes than this that can be to the aid of a sheep nuickly if it try about Ripstune, is fearfully purchased for loss money. Con- shows signs of strangling, A vat dull and depressing in this wet crate vats can be built ab a nor- of this kind in a building shout be weather. Ib makes a fellow imag- mal cost, Three ur four farmers closed. This can bo done by plac- ine all sorts of horrors. If I had can club together and purchase one ing two -by -four -inch pieces into stayed there much longer I should of the galvanized tanks and haul the concrete six inches from the have done .something mad and fool- it to Choir respective farms as it is top of the floor and three feet from ish, which would have done, her wanted. A dipping vat for sheep the ends of the vat -allowance for more harm than good. Baines should be narrow enough to pre-thesepieces should bo made while spoke the truth," he mused on, vent the sheep turning around in the is being constructed. They gloomily, as he sat staring at the it, and deep enough to swim large should be, inserted loosely so that familiar landmarks; "she is his sheep. The length of the vat should they can be taken out at dipping wife, and until we have strong, depend upon the number of sheep time. A niche two inches wide and conclusive proof that he treats her a man keeps on his place, as the two inches deet demist be left at badly, we must �cont•ent ourselves' longer the vat tlre•greater the num- .the ends of the vat and dry them- es bent we mar ber of sheep which can be dipped; the Then by laying two-inch plank At his club Derry found a letter ±0 a. day. There is considerable T are_ on these overlays and on the niches in the ends the floor will be strong enough to hold heavy leads and be level with the floor of the building. This vat is inexpensive. If the sheep are badly afflieted with Scab, the thick scabs should 'be softened previous to the dipping of the sheep by pouring some of the dip" on these places and rubbing them with some smuoth instrument, or the scabs can be softened while the sheep are being clipped, by rubbing the thick scabs with a brash. Caro. should be taken, how -le ever, not to draw blood, as en coagulation it will protect the mite 't from the dip. ! Lambs do not need to he dipped! p from his mother : • "It is most aunoying"-sho wrote -"that Grey and Boulding must insist on seeing me about that Lincolnshire property at this time of the year, of all times! I am just comfortably= settled in my apartment; Nice is filling pleasant- ly. and I strongly object to travel in this weather. However, I must come, and so there is an end of the matter. 1 am glad you have re- turned to ietgland, and also to hear of Humphrey's steady im- provement. 1 want to have a long talk with you when 1 arrive, I on as to the tvzdth of vats fount on de::erent farms, and as a usual thing they are wider than neces- sary. Then, too, the narrower the rat the less the dip required to fill it. A cat twenty inches wide at the top and eight inches wide at the bottom is a fair average as re- gards width, although some very practical sheepmen construct their vats as narrow as sixteen inches at the top and six inches at the bot- tom when the vat is four feet deep. The size of sheep kept en a farm must, of course, be taken into con- sideration. •The dipping is best located in expect to be in town on the fif- the driveway of the hog house %tenth. Perhaps you can arrange and can be used for the dipping of to oonze and see,me ab once, as, sheep and young pigs. It is built entirely of concrete, the "walls of which are six inches in width with the exception of the partition be- tween the vat and dry chamber, which has a thickness of nine inch- es. The end of the s -at into which the hogs and sheep are plunged is perpendicular, while the opposite end is provided with an incline which is quite deeply creased so that the animal can walk out. The ))un't expect to land where you floor around the end of the vat expect when you jump at a con - from which the sheep emerge is so elusion. needless to say, I shall .not remain an hour longer than 1 fan possible- help. my health is far too impor- tant to mo to risk are English win- ter, "Your affectionate mother, ".A/NNE DARNLEY." (To be continued.) P1111 EYES OF r,1ZZETTE. (Cy Warman in July Canada Monthly,) The, eyes of Lizzette, were like miniature seas, With ripples that laugh and wil- lows that weep On the shore; where the low -bend- ing boughs of the trees Depen and soften the, shadows that creep At night, near the water -edge. Can. I forget The far -away, .ocean -like ayes of Lizze rte ? Dear eyes of Lizzette,I I shall see then no more, They are eau•tsined lis sleep --she is gone, she is gone, With her beautiful eyes to the svcireete ;Toro; Death winged leer wily 'twit;b the dusk and the dawn, There's a mound on Old mountain- side where we first met, And the 'columbine blows o'er the eyes of Litzotte, for so long e time as older sheep, as their wool is short. - They are also more delicate in. constitution, hence cannot stand the dipping as well as older sheep. Always water sheep before dip- ping, otherwise they may drink the clip ivhwh is sometimes Found in little puddles in the dripping pens. 1' WHEN PRESERVING pi USE EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR "THE SUGAR OE NEARLY 60 YEARS STANDING." Since 1854 this prince favorite has made the preserving ervin„ season a fruitful source of pleasure in thousands of Canadian homes. ORDER FRO li YOUR GROCER, -..c tone Till4 CANADA SW AR NEFININQ CD., WAITED, "Montreal Established in 185d by 1'ohIletipatia FOR THE HORSE BREEDER. Pure bred draft horses are always in big demand at good prices. Many pure bred stallion colts are sold at $1,000 as throe -year-olds, while pure bred mares bring from $300 to $500. A really good horse is never of a had color, hut some colors, such as perfectly dappled grays, pure blacks and blue roans command better prices than others. 11 English farmers can afford ±0 use pure bred draft horses that are worth $+500 for ordinary farming operations why Cannot our farmers afford them as well? Do not change the wort: horses from grain to grass too suddenly. In feet horses on heavy work every day should have very little grass, DEEP OR SHALLOW SEEDING. T)ig up ;rain plants and you will find that they form their roots at the same depth whether planted deep or shallow. V'hen sown too deep the plant sends up a :growth till withal about en inch of Ale surface and'there starts the real root system, It takes work to.send lip this growth,: so the more sled- 1,0W hal- 1 W vh4 acr;p'? end: 3 soy))ruin yet gene eteingtz so: it can gob moieture 'the better. A good seed bed should be fstirly compact, the more eons pact 11 is the noaner the, surfs('d 14,40 moisture eetnes.