The Brussels Post, 1914-1-15, Page 7A Dark Shadow;
Or, A Coming Vengeance
OHA.PTEE SXV,--((outtnued),
Olive eyed her sternly, "Sere! What
are yarn doing herr?" he dcmauaed.
She 'slimmed again, I came in search
of the sahib, she said, "My mletrese
gave me a mote to send early tbie morn-
ing, and the weather being so line I talo
fie, rt mysolf. At the hetet they any the sa-
hib to out walktug. I come to lend the
sahib:
It Ho held nut ]tie hand for the note, and
ehe took it from the folds of her shawl.
It was a. lino or two from Lady Sttitlt eek.
Ing him to lunch at the Grange. He
thruet it In bis pocket. Haid gazed at the
dusky face moodily and in doubt whether
or not he should offer any explanation of
his meeting with Mina, in doubht ns to
'whether Sara had seen .him take limas
hand.
"Malik you, Sara," he said. "Will you
toll Lady Edith that I will be there?'
Yee, sahib," said Sara. She stood for
a moment or two, eyeing him with a
strange intontnoeo; then she salaamed
and wont on.
Olive meohanioally walked towards the
hotel. His brain wee in a whirl, It was
almost impossib'o for him to think, for
his emotions overwhelmed hie eapaoity for
reaeonin , If he hate over laid the flatter -
lug unction to his sou] that he had oeneed
to lore Mina,mein.with her, b
meeting h this
discovery that she huts. not received his
telegram and letter, and had fled Prom
Benson's Rants because she thought bind
faithless, undeceived him. He loved her
M.
Ivo
4't" t'l+
1.1
as devotedly, as passionately as over.
Lady Edith suddel y appeared in its true
light. When his brain grew clearer and
able to apt, he saw that in marrying her
he would do her a great, £4 cruel wrong.
Ho had hoped that in time he should be
gqbio to love her; but he knew now that
the hope was a futile, an impossible one.
Yoe, no must, at all costa to her' and
]timeeif, tall her the truth, the whole
truth, and save her from a.loveleso mar-
riage: But the coot woe so great that ho
naturally shrank from the ordeal through
which the must both pose. Ho evould
wait. until y the election was over, until
they had returned to town, and tho an-
nouncement of
tho rupture ofengage-
mentP the
could bo
made at a
time when 16
wotltid a
ttra t lea attention e e tion than
it would
do at the prominently
moment,rwhen his bl nam
was so pronntaontly boPore the public.
He made a pretence of a breakfast, an
plunged into work. He had to address
meeting in the forenoon and forced hi
self to concentrate hie mind on lite epeeeh
though ho felt that it mattered little wh
Cher he were returned for Brimfield o
not mattered little what became of hi
petition.) career. What he wanted, longe
for, was a quiet life away from the wor
-with Minae
He was late at the 1Pynthevee lunch
and his haggard face, though he en
deavored to force a chow of ehocrfulnne
of comnse attracted attention, and evoke
the sympathies of tho ladles.
Yon will want a long root after th
election, Mr. Harvey;' said Lade iPyn
thew. 'I used to think a faebtonablo doe
tor the hardest worked man In the world
but I'm inclined to alter my opinion, an
otvo the palm to a present-day politician
You muet take the kind of holiday m
doctor goes in for. Ile spends his for
night in bed. every year; and decl0Pee the.
it does him more good than the veaeid
or the Continent: What re eueeeeefiI con
•
cert Int might!" elle (vent on. '1 i'<tO e
sorry Per that .pretty ming girl who was
taken ill! I sent to inquire after her. this
morning: bat her party :hod just left the
hotel. Mere must be hard life--wbnt le
the new word for ILP -strenuous, lent t?"
I also emit," said Lord.('beeterlolgh,
"and wee too late. It seemed to rte that
she saw something, or some one in the
audience that startled her; didn't you
think so Olive?"
Clive looked up, but was fortunate)
segued
n
reply. for Lady Edith said, wit
a lough, before ho could answer:
"What a romantic explanation, father!
'A face in the crowed' kind of idea! lib;
I fancy elle lost her o e word'."
"In 'Homo, wee!, home!' " cried Lady
Wtvrllhaw. "My done"
It ie not so unlikely as it mumble' in
elated Lady Edith "I ltnow r of"*^^ -"r•
who happened to lose hie place while
was reading the service, tion
couldn't repeat repeat the Creed without th
book, though he muse have read it hue
drede of times]"
Tha contest continued with unnbat
ardor; and etho day of the poll arrived
The most frantic eiforte were being m
by the supporters of all three candidates
and Olive a friends were so excited a
absorbed in their endeavors that they d
not notice the lack of enthusinem which
he suddenly displayed.
On the night before the .election Mr
Broddy and Boehki addreesod a meetin
in the same part of the town as that in
which Olive speaking, and the desig-
nations Traitor,' "Fraud," "Sham
Friend of the People," were hurled with
redoubled vindiati1venese against 1tlr
Olive Harvey. olive ` passed the crowd
which Koehkl was addressing in the open
air, and paused. a moment to listen. "Cosh
k1, who was on hie logs at the moment,
caught eight of hint, and pointed a trom-
ulous, dirt finger ,at him.
"Yeah; Iy toll Mr. Harvey to his face
that hoieh a deoeivor. Once a fraud and
a traitor, my friendeb, always a fraud
and a traitor. Let his friendsh, the axis -
to -crate bovahr, or hell betray zero as he
haell betrayed twill"
There were groan, and bicee%, but Olive
milled -rather wearily -and passed on. It
was not until he had got ouof sound of
the raucous voice that Kosltki'e words
took to themselves a eiguifleance: was the
man not speaking the truth? Was not
he, Olive, "betrayinghie friends" -going
to 'dosort" Lady.dith? The thought
made his groan mentally,
The. following day Lady Edith, a000m.
Panted by as many other ladies as the.
oarriago would hold, drove from polling
etn.tion to polling station, and wee 're-
ooived everywhere with cheers, which
drweed the few ungallant. hisses. 011x0
was busy" too, trying to persuade him-.
stole that he was keen on te result, but
knewine all the while that he did not caro
whether Igo lost or won,
In a:omne of the wildeob•egoitement, in
nn uproar which was 00110 like old
'times," as Lord Oheeterlotgh said, the
Mayor stopped out on tho balcony of the
'town Holl, and amtoncced the 41>a11. Mr
file o Harvey had boot elected evi.tlt a ma
,{arty of nearly ave ittufdred, and woe
declared Member for Bi'isuaald, '
Amidst the eheoreotln yells, the o)irao0
o4 the : mob,. Olive crane forward to tiro.
poen the usual 0010 of thanks to tato Mevq.
or, Gordon geodndod it in a manly Nitro
,pooch; then Mr. Brotltly';voice was hoard
in -the midst of the MAU, whore he was
ellrround.ed by hie felelids. •
I lettere that the election. has been
won by trickery I" he eltonted huanaely.
Sesitt' Ceied Itoebltf, "Be'- 11es. anti
Itiekory.: But let Miebter Olive Harvey
look ottt for himself. Our ]tour 11}11 00m0
nml
5001102 Ulan It: thinitsl I, ICoehhl,
frient'of the working, num, tell ]tine --"
The rose wee dr0ivnod in the cheer' and
Wells 0f e the-viottrtous neety, who, whoa..
Olive ne meared at the door 04 tho hotel,
pr(eoeded es 1161101 to tarry' 31 hit, at the
arch of 131 life and limbs, 0n :their :hoot.
dire 1.0 Ma confmittoomoom.
Lndv Tdith and Lord 0lieeterleigh fol-
lowed In the carriage: lint it wee not an-
ti), they nl1'la t nt the Grange that she
mild whisper 1100' 11111(011 congratulntiont.
1 ant eo er0ttd, den.restl" eh< said, AS
sin leant against Ulu!. 'lent T knew y01t
would ,vin. ifs there anyihlug lit whiell
y n muht fail?
With o henvv, oeenNiug Leen, etc laid
hie hand cin Itet' heed: it wee woll that
Or ental not 00a $is'fete!
"T rove my meter+, 1n ental. Meaaure. tlf.
you, Mal," he
roome dreadful that a girl shunld bo rob-
1,o�i of her rank and her fat]1er'u wealth,
I don't, It, all etPonds upon the way in
whtoh you regard it. The girl is happy'
ha RR urged si Mordent telmcat impercepti•
b1y- rine has a eereer-e, Weber one, ac•
eoodpie to my notions, thin that of a
Deere daughter -she has never mtesod leer
father,
Olive rose with a gesture repudiating
the argument,
It Ur the right, the justice of the
thing!" he said
liom, yes, said
your point of view;
but oho ought to have some say in it. She
ought to decide. Well let hor do so, oh?"
'You know whore she 1e?" milted Olive,
is? Quilton looked at him curiously, Yes;
I discovered her whereaboutel her idone
liftable ono 0f tIto London districts, The e1ty, quite lately" he said '0f course
a•ho doesn t ear fiat fiddler's name is un.
two, IleigheelV man, can't you guess who
she is? W}iore have been our a esP"
0 testerloi > afollow h1 da or
gl a were to w ld y awarooP her ru.aDlonehlp, to Lord Uhestor-
Wbon he arrived at his roome, he found y y
a pressing letter from the man who Wee 4 Clive stared at him,
yet in the throes of hie oandidatoshile 1 1 don't understand;' he 'raid thickly.
and Olive, welaomin the ueocwsity for "I Ito not know her. Where is elle, who
further work in whish to absorb hirnse.f1, ie she?"
made an apology for a dinner, with a; Quilton slowly relit his pipe, willoh had
00L3
0)1, and set out for the piece of meeting. gone out, keepin_g his eves axed on Olive..
Bo had a hot time of it from friends and, She io Mina Burrell,' he egad quietly.
foes Mid, clecliuleg hie fellow-politiolan'o ! Clive dropped back in his chair in stony
invitation to ounpar, walked through the amazement.
warm andtuffy streets, we:telly and "Minae" he exclaimed at last,
sadly, brooding over the problem of hi' "Surprised?" oiled Quilton sardonically.
engagement. I "I'm eurprloed that you didn't see the sike-
IAnd yet it had almost ceased to be a nese' but I suppose It waen't eo strange.
0118 course open to him -the honest, wan young. Hold on a moment,
1 ntrai htiPorward one. He must toll Lad
' Edith the truth, , utas -minutes spent by Olive in attempt-
T1tt li eat 0 had boon in a hall in one Ing to grasp the stupendous fa'r't revealed
oi' the bank eGrcete of Che'sea, wadi Olive Uy <luittan-and returned rvith u miniar
e enough there you are. Look at that, and ad-
' that he should be drawn in the direction I mit That Lho. ]ikmnels to undeniable. The
ad -
problem; lem • for feltthath u one'
U h0 there woo 1• You did not .know her mother whet oho
g ' o y I He went out, and returned in a few rain -
found. himself at tete turning lead ng to turo.
B0neon'e Route. It wa natural Hou h • '
lof the spot whore he hod experienced the mother was once us beautiful as th
happiest moments of his life• and he Peed -
ed under the arohway. and walked to-
wards tbo house in wbich Mina had lived.
Ae he did so. he heard a stenbehlnd and
your alum neighbor -he saw that it vette
Q2illton.
him, it was king round -for he Lad 1ea1'nt
that 1t was a0 well to lee an e o On
p y
"Wh Qdilto 1" h id
Quit u Congratulations—
he
o do
101 nodded. u said.
`•atulations---"
he began; but Clive out him abort.
"What ars you doing here?" ho naked;. gground ingmllicO rrnengh suet rrltat10
then he checked himself with a .armee of I found the child in the street where the
calf-roproncll: he had quite forgotten the mother had left her. It's not a nice Artery;
woman Quilton had so. kindly offered to not the kind of. story, the kind of mother,
befriend.
i Quilton nodded again. "Yee," he geld.
I no if he had read Olive's mind. "Sho':
damgliter 1e."
Olive examined the miniature. "It is
Mina herself!" he said; "but uo, there is
a difference,"
"Yee; tbo difference between a girl with
n gentle, lovable from
geoe-a
her father, of oo gove and a woman with
a. passionate, ungovernable temper, I
haven't bored you with the details of the
desertion,. and hor adoption by.Ellehoe I
only discovered them by careful, under-
11
nder-
sant far ma.
I yo a i
" '1) go with u" a•d. Clive,
Quilton toped and gazed before him.
Better not,' be said,
"Why not? I shall not 'disturb hor." re.
ioinod Clive. "1 am`aehamed to say that
II had nearly forgotten the poor ereaturo.
Yes; Ill go with yon:'
Quilton's face grew like a mask, and
ho was silent for a moment; then he said
with an air of 1m eeeivo regi nation.
P o
well, al r in
we Tfo little tired andf >1
Very ] a9
lr
at Fate: it's a foolish game, a losing
dna.
d I don't know what you mean," eaid
e Clive.
,,,- Probably not; but you may presently.
Como one
e; T1>ey entered the house next the one
✓ in which the Burrells had lived; and Clive
followed Quilton up the etaire. Tho door
d of one of the r00m0 was opened to them
ld by a respectable, motherly old woman, to
wheal Quilton evoke a. word or two,
"She's about the same, Mr;'soid the wo.
man. I'm afraid sho's sinking fast. Will
you plenee to come in? She made me tend
d for you, sir,"
They went into the room, and Olere saw
s the woman propped up with cuehiono in a
chair She was much emaciated and look-
- eta, ns the woman in charge had said, an
if eke were dying. For a moment or two
tl the dark eyes gazed un at Quilton ae if
elle did net recognize him. but suddenly
7 e110 edict, in a weak, hollow voice:
e. 'You have come, Henry.. I -X wanted to
see you, to tell you I ant dying,"
e Quilton did not coniredlet her, but re-
sponded with a nod. She must have seen
a behind hie mask, however, for she said
aigh
"You've been rery good to me -bettor
than I deserve. -Who ie this?" she aetced,
turning her heavy eyes on Clive.
A friend:' said Quilton.
"Does he know?" elle risked, not eagerly,
but wearily, almost iudl1ornntly,
'Met yet,' amid Quilton. 'You'd better
tell hint."
Wby?" she asked with a aigh, "Vol:
mode nae premier to keen the secret."
Yee:" said Quilton, but I've changed
my hind, oo far es ho le eonoerned, Shall
I tell him, Juanita?"
She rands a gesture mi assent with her
limn andl' and,
d, ot'd on turned to ,Clave
without a wnady knit preparation, said.:
The is Lady Chceterleigh, Mr. :Gar -
(]five did not etort; ho scarcely felt sur -
he prised: why, be knew not. Isle teenived
111e information without a sign or a word,
o 'Lady Chesterleigh," egid Quilton. "She
to lila
Dist wife.'
Then the gbastly oigniflenno of the
ed Statement began to dawn on Olive; and
his face paled.
ado Quilton nodded us if again he had read
Clive's mind.
Yea. His first wife -this lady -was
id.' alive when he married the second time,"
he said. 'Of course, he was ignorant of
talo fact. She left him 1n a. moment of
1jealousy, quite unfounded and Unreaoon-
g able jealousy, and she contrived to have
a report of Iter death conyeyed to him.
Why? yon ask." He smiled grimly, and
ala>lced at the woman. "When jealousy
turns loye to hate—
"I never loved him!" broke from the
woman's white lips. "I minuted him for
all ho could give mo, rank, money."
And the surrendered these as well ae
her husband," sold Quilton, gravely, un.
emotionally. "Somebody gays jealousy is
as strong as death; anyhow it's stronger
than self-interest and oommonoenno." Ho
paused a moment, nod then added, as if
in explanation, "Lady Oheoterleigh is
Spanish You know now wily she wee at
Palace Sate 01d 111 0roovenor Square.
Why she did not publiely declare her rank
and publicly demand her rights ehe
knows better than I do."
T eves aehamedt times;' said the
woman. "At others -I-•-I wanted revenge•
but my courage always failed met and
now I know -he" -oho meant Quilton-
has made it airier -to me -that the fault
wee mine, and that 'I should be silent' to
the end. But for my ohild-but yen will
tette care of her, HonryP' oho broke off
listlessly.
Her oyes closed, and hor arms fell on
the arms of the chair; Quilton bout over
]ter, then turned to Olive.
"'hie le exhausted," toe said. "But there
Is no more to be said. We'd' better go.--
1'11 send the doctor in,"he added to the
woman who was adminietorin a redeem.
tive, "and 111 come back in 111e morning
coyly."
He had to touch Oliva before Clive could
rouse himself from tho :tuner into
which he had sunk• and he got up and
walked out with Quilton like a man in a,
dream. Both men were• silent until .they
reoohed Olive's rooms; then Olive' sacra
into a eliJi' and leant his head on his
hands, ,Quilton lit a pipe, eyeing the
haggard.facto absently.
',Strange story,' isn't it?" hepaid dryly.
"And, tttnttanger still, it's true. You're
wondering --or perhaps von haven't got
room to wonder -where 7 come ill? 1lov-
ed ]ler, See? I was going to marry her,
1>ut cite jilted 710 for my Lotd 011eeter-
leiglt, 01 . I dont boar• hue a grudga'e, It
WWI .a luoity oseape for me, no daunt.. I
suppose I've na10r quits got over my in-
fntuatlon-•I wee much younger than ehe
was -for I'm sorry for :fret,"
Olive broke in with ieroalt.
Ills first wife -and envoi Then -then,
the other marriage! Lady Edith -le -is
illegitimate!' The sweat.etood out on h1,
forehead, and he turned hie eyes away
from Quiltan'e pane,
arose " said Qt]i1tan; end tho small word
meant volumes.
'Deer me" said Olive. "What -whist le
Lo be done? She dons net know—?"
Quilton shrugged his ehculdeee, ";vet
vote It 110610 with you whether oho eltould
over • know;
"With me?" •
"Y‘e,' said Quilton in a matter•of-foot
tone. "Only three of us know the truth;
and there will be cult! two llro eptly. truth;
Yon t Ilk,
4.o deeltre it -Welt and geed. I
0111(1n You would have to prove it,
3,013 d find it rather ltltteultl' no Panned
a motn0nt ae if rofloett g "In foot, you'd
lied it lotmoet 1mp0e0!bJ6, Questlonti erf
identity ere Imre10 d olds-oeneelatiy
when the 1awyeee taxa a iwnd, in 1t.'
Olive passed ]tie hand over 13 brag
"lint -but, the teem: :po'10 o}ey0. ohfltz,"
be Wald hoarsely. 1n;e cihl J end -iia,
Lor 0ltostorlblall'0. 1,Loieltu nears,
(1 ,
pp n don't -don't en' o he'In tiatlo
fdIeneo 'tvg n a 110t31etilatet j e
"I en'nuo1(0 1(0 emit t e'toeded arnttenmindf t
CICA1r.drI1.:CCVI.
1'm' various r0a61ns best known to
tl,entae1ves, the cettdiilatao, whether Yl.e.
t0rioueg or yaittin cried, always' .bolt t e
day after the election Oram tato pinoo. in
WW1 they have been fighting; a>Id (' y
mina it neetesary to been,
lA ! ntodon on.
0
4ev Atter tin d)oit; lie.hemi prolnisetl to
8 oak for it •twtitleai Tt''Ani,, Wito'1(0 a'.titl'
any ono would like to introduce to the
public through the sensational nowepaner
reports, not the kind of story ono would
like. told In detail in the Law Courts,"
Clive had rieeu, and was pacing the
floor in 10011 se agitation.
But -the injustice of the concealment!"
he said.
Pe whom? What would Mina gain by
acquiring Lord Oltesterloigll for a father?
Ranke Of what use would It be to hor?
Money? She will earn, in the most de-
li htful way, more than oho will know
at to do with. w t
n v . l; rha t t would Lord
Ch
torloi h gain bythe revelation of the
truth? Adaugker
of wham be knows no-
thing; and, on the other hand, bo would
lose a daughter, Lady Edith, to wbom he
is devotedly attached. And think of her!"
"I nm thinking of her," said Olive
hoarsely.
Quite so. Of course, you, with your
correct and highly -toned mind='
"For goodness wake, don't mock me!"
groaned Olive.
Pardon. But you are thinking of the
ethical, the moral side of the question.
of course; the 'duty' of revealing the
truth. My dear fellow. de you imagine
this cave of Mina's is without parallel,
that it stands alone? What about the
Warsdale peerageP It le generally known
that tbo present real earl is out in the
backevoods of America,. What about the
Peueleigh baronetcy? The man who bears
the title is the cousin of the real man,
who for family reasons, keepe a store in
British Colombia. What about -oh, I
could recall several cages to your mems
ory. And°in this one, bear in mind, 1t le
not a question of suocessian. They are
both women; no title, excepting the mere
courtesy one, Lady; ie at stake, It to
Piet probable that Mina will marry a
title: she is beautiful, gifted enough
()atoll half the peerage. dud Lady Editkto
Ho paused, and Olive turned and
faced him with a white, drawn face.
(To be continued,)
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been chosen president of the Royal
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ENDLAIXD'S OLD NOBILITY
44444.44,444
MANY .FAMILIES FOI)NAED BY
- I tADESM1iL
Apprentices and Farmers -Figure
In Romance of the
Peerage.
Not to doughty deeds of arms;
though their ancestral halls are el
aerated with many a trophy of th
battle, but to the keen busine
acamen, commercial instinct, an
the ability of the forefathers t
strike a bargain, do many of En
land's "old nobility" 0316 the
(rank and riches. Apprentices, farm
en, drapers, grocers, brewers an
even v largeo owners rs fi re '
figure to the ro
g
mantes of the peerage and barone
ey, a mere accident sometimes lead
ing the way to a title, estates an
great privileges in the old days.
Since one Edward Osborne jump
ed from old London bridge to sal
his master's daughter from drown
ing, afterwards marrying her an
acquiring by the marriage a good]
estate,every a e ambitious a a ti
Y
rn
n
P
has been watching for a simile
chance, for Edward Osborne was
the founder of the Duke of Leeds
family, and it was his son who, b
court influence and intrigue, a
tained to the highest rank in th
peerage.
Earl of 'Dudley.
And it Was William 'Ward, an
outer London apprentice, wh
founded the family of the Earl
Dudley. He came up to Londe
when a lad, and was bound appre
tice to a city goldsmith. A lucky
chance laced him i
n possession P o
P
rare richefor or
s shortly after had
ad
Y
set up in business for himself in
Lombard Street a sailor who had
just landed from hie ship came in
and offered to so11 him what proved
to be a lot of rough diamonds
Ward bought them, at an -immense
advantage to himself, as well as se
emend whichthesailor ou h
lot br g
the next day, and it was this Iucky
stroke of fortune which enabled
Ward to become jeweler to the
court. But it was the bargain he
struck with the last of the Buttons,
Lord of Dudley, which enabled him
to enter the peerage. The Lord of
Dudley was hard up, and wanted a
£0,000 loan on ample security.
Ward replied that he might do bet-
ter than that. He himself had a
son, Humble by name, and his lord-
ship hada granddaughter. If his
lordship would marry the young
lady to his son, Humble Ward, ho
would be well satisfied with that
security. Tha bargain was struck,
and thus the Wards and Sutton
became united.
David Cecil, the first of the Salis-
bury was a middle class water
s
Y ,
'
' i 'd 11bequeath
ball ff au could onlyb his
n
daughter the moderate sum of 2'20
at his death; but his son Richard
was a page, and,afterwards groom
of the robes to Henry VIII., and
he made such good use of his op-
portunities that he was successful
in obtaining huge grants of and
a title for his son, William Cecil,
who became Lord Burghley,
And it was 110 northe fi baron
who founded the house of Bedford,
but one Henry Russell, who in the
fifteenth oentury made a modestliv-
ing out of the part ownership of a
barge at Weymouth.
Aucestoes Kept Sheep.
indebted for fortune and rank to
William Capel, a poor Suffolk boy,
who like William Craven, tramped
to London and found riches;''while
John Baring, the son of a parson,
"passing rich on 1040 a year," simi-
larly became the founder of foui.
noble houses, two of earls -Cromer
and Northbrook—and two of bar-
ons.
The Earl of Onslow hate for fore-
fan
ore-
fatlier ono Thomas Foot, who was
a groeor's assistant ire the days of
the first Stuart king, while among
a1- other- proud peers whose progeni-
a- tors served behind the oottnter are
e the Earls of Brownlow, Denbigh
a5 and Leicester,
d Perhaps one of the most remark -
o able romances of the baronetcy is
0- that provided by the history of the
1r Cummings, the representative of
• which, Sir Kenneth. William Cum -
el ming, has seen service in all parts
ofthe world. i
Sr Kenneth entered
re
d
t- the medical service of the army in
. 1802, and retired twenty years later
d after becoming honorable brigadier
surgeon. The first baron was ruin
l ed in the South ,sea Bubble, and
o sold the family estate in Aberdeen-
- shire, The eecond baronet emigrat-
d ed to Norte] America, where he was
y elected chief of the Cherokee In-
co diens, and it was his absence from
✓ Englandwhich l
g ed to the baronetcy
being deemed extinct. But it was
assumed in 1877 by Sir Kenneth
y Cumming.
t- The house which is now repre-
e rented by the Marquis of Lans-
downe and Lord Fitzrnanr;ee really
originated through William Petty,
son of a Hampshire clothier, while
the first Lord Eldon vas the son of
of a Newcastle coal merchant, who
commenced life by making a run-
e away match with the daughter of a
Newcastle banker. Ultimately he
f was called to the bar, and hie bril-
liant oa aoilitie
s led him ra. '
1d]
P to
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the woolsack.
A Radical Earl.
It is the fashion in certain circles
to twit Lord Carrington, one of the
• prime movers in the small holdings
movement, with his sympathies for
the workingman. The scoffers rare-
, ly get the best of the encounter,
however, for the radical earl, to a
good humor that is seldom ruffled,
adds a ready wit that is seldom at
fault. .
"Tut, tut," is his usual answer.
"I was one myself two• or three
generations ago." Which is quite
true, for the founder of his family
was one John Smith, a respectable
draper of Nottingham.
To these examples of peers who
have sprung from the people in by-
gone days could, of course, be ad-
ded quite a number of instaneee of
men who, during the last few years,
shave won peerages by reason of
their great business capabilities.
There is Lord Devonport, who
started life as the son of an Ux-
I
bridge eidrpenter, with very little
e When 21he
mon W went into busi-
ness
1
et on his own account. Keen,a-
n s r_ ,
solute and • devoted to work, he
forged ahead until lie became as
Hudson Kearley, the principal
partner in the great wholesale
house of Kearley & Tonga, the great
tea importers and merchants, be-'
ing made a baronet in 1908, and a'
baron two years later.
Then mention might be made of
the fact that Lord Bressey's fa-
ther was the humble son of a Che-
shire yeoman, who first achieved
wealth and fame by successfully
exploiting "navvies," navigators
as they were termed, in the con -
etiolation of railway tracks. Engi-1
nears in England, Europe and
America; sought his services and
so many were his undertakings
that he came to have an army of.
75,000 in his employ.
S•
Things—Big and Little.
What do you think of this for
smallness? It would take 250,000
years to count the atoms on a pin's
•head. We would hate to begin it
for fear we wouldn't end it. •But
wo must take the word of science
for it, But this is not half the
story., Now, if you take one of
those inconceivably small atoms
and explore the interior of it, you
will find a un1110150 filled with cir-
cling orbs, much like a solar sys-
tem, and every orb with a motion of
its own that is calculated down to
the .000000001 of a second and with
a course as exact as a planet's.
Sometimes we like to get onto suoh
facts and speculations, when we
think of how small we are in this
world of tears, and how inaigniix-
cant are human events generally.
They help: to make a fellow hold up
his head and feel that he is bigger
than It universe of atoms anyhow,
and yet it is no time for vanity,
"Hae yet hot water in.our
Y
house?" "Have I? Mydear boy, I
am never out of it," ,
Nearly 300 years ago there was a
piquant scene in the `House of
Lords, when the Earl of Arundel
taunted the Earl Spencer of those
days with the fact that a time when
certain groat events were happen-
ing Lord Spencer's ancestors were
keeping sheep.
"When illy ancestors were keep-
ing sheep, as you say," retorted
Lord Spender, "your ancestors
evere plotting treason."
It is an incident in the family his-
tory of the Spencers which recalls
the fact that they .sprang from
.farmers who bred their sheep and
cattle in the Warwickshire fields in
the fifteenth century, the founder
of the lino being John Spencer, a
grazier, who took to wife the
daughter of one William Gtraunt, a
husbandman.
The foneeer•of the house of An-
glesey was a William Puget, son of
one of the sergeants of the mace
in tide city, while about 500 years
ago, the Bathursts were trading : as
clothiers at Canterbury and Staple -
buret. Ultimately one Launcelot
Bathurst became a Loden alderman
and his grandson secured a title.
Reference to the Spenders re-
minds one that 250 ,years age the
hoed of the house of Cavendish, -of
which the Duke of Devonshire is
now chief, was . an obscure land-
owner in Suffolk, who had the good
luck to obtain an appointment as
1I1easut'sr of the chamber of the
]ting, and obtained grants of land
from which the Cavendisl]es derived
en mous wealth..
The Marquis of Ripon is lineally
Idamended from a line of tradesmen
at York, whose name he boars, and
it was behind the counter that the ,
foundat10ns of his ]]arise were laid;
while there would .be 11t> Earl of
Craven to- day, if William Craven, '
son of to Yerksllire lnrebau(lman in
Queen Elizabeth's time, had not
taken it into hie head to tl'a1t11) to
Lenders to dein a fathom,
Welt Valiant 1n d?
Peerage.
` lie Earls of 118863 are erfualiy
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Scraping Apple Trees.
Dr. J. B. Dandeno, Bowmanville,
On the question of scraping ap-
ple trees a difference of opinion
seems to exist as to the advisability
of scraping the coarse bark off old
apple trees. It is not the intention
helm to inflict the views of the writ-
er upon the orchardist; but rather
to give an explanation, with reas-
ons, relative to the effects upon
the trees which have been scraped.
The arguments offend in favor of
scraping are :—(1) It removes -scale
insects, and eggs or cocoons of
other insects; (2) it somehow or
other improves the growth of the
tree.
Tha arguments against it are :—
(1) It removes a coating of cork
which is a non-conductor of heat,
and therefore leaves the tree more
liable to frost injury and sun scald;
(2) if removed deeply—and it is al-
most impossible utoo
o
t to era t
Pn
doeph
—the •let -.lifters from dv•
ing out, of lues of mn ur '..6-!,h
may be con iderab'e during. e ld
clay weather; (8) if wennid=d rel t5ti.,
way dawn to the living layc o, fen
gus diseetes gain at foo: le'd; (-1)
it is a waste of time, and if the bark
so scraped off is not burned the in-
sects and eggs are still capable of
injury.
This outside cork layer is imper-
vious to water, and at the same
time et permits passage of gases,
that is to say, it supplies the tree
with a covering perfectly suitable
to its needs. And, as it is a non-
conductor of heat, it protects the
tree against sudden changes of
temperature.
It is stated that the chief insect
aimed at in scraping is the oystex
shell scale, or bark louse. This
can not beserious, i
very ea ons, for this
scale can not penetrate the bark
of the trunk and therefore can do
no damage there. It must crawl to
the twigs where the bark is thin,
However, oven if there were many
scales on the trunk, it would be so
ntwell easier to kill them with lime-
sulphum. One could spray ten trees
while he would scrape one, and de-
stroy the scale much more effectu-
ally. •
Mrs. Casey was proud of her
strong, =settler son, and still more
proud of him when he went into a
gymnasium and made himself local-
ly famous, says The Argonaut. Then
one day a rumor reached her oars
which she didn't like, and when
,Michael came home that night she
proceeded to take bim to task.
"Look here, Mike Casey, what's
this -I'm hearing about yer doln's at
the gymnasium? Don't ye know
it's poor we are, an' 'havin' no
money to pay for yer destructive
0arryin' on?" 'Why, what do
ye moan, mother?" asked the .as-
tonished Mike. "Ain't they sayln'
all over dawn that ye have broke
two of their 'best records down.
there 1" she Bowled. -
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DINNER WITII AN ESQIIIMAU;
1'I J1.rA7 i11vE Sa'11k'ANSSON1$
INTERBS'1'IIca ACC1OVNxa. 9
Meal Was of Tw* eterses; Thtt
First, Seal Moot; the Second,
Seal Blood Soup.
It is to be wondered whether
Vilhjalmrir Stofa}aseon really en•
joys Esquimau dinners, though he
undoubtedly tries to give the ima,
pression that he does. In his new,
book, Illy Life " With the Eequie
maux, one of the occasions on
which he partook of the hospitality,,
of some Dolphin and Union Straits .
Esquimaux is described es follows
M host1 in
Y
s was the seal hunter
whom we heel first approached ow
the ice. Hie house would, he said,; -
be a fitting one in which to offer me
my first meal among them, for his .
wife had been born farther west on
the mainland coast than anyone]
else in their village, and it was
even said that her ancestors had
not belongedoriginallyto their
people, were r6 rants i from
ram
g
the westward. She would, thorn -
fore, like to ask me questions.
A Motherly Woman.
t'It, turned out, however, that
his wife was -not a tallcautieee person,
but motherly, kingly and hospita-
ble, like all her countrywomen. Her
first queotions were not of the land
from which I came, but el my foot-
gear. Weren't my feet 1l,ust• a little
damp, and might she not p3111 my
boots off for me and dry £hem over
the lamp.? n t on a
Would I at tett
Pair of hor husband's
dry socks
slid was there no little hdlg in my
mittens or coat that she could menet
for eve? She had boiled some seat
meat for me, but she had net boiled
any fat, for the did not knee, whe-
ther I preferred the blubber
or raw. They always out it i:]
small pieces and ate it raw tli.i,
selves; but the pot was s'111 1,::ne•
over the lamp, and anythire,Alla
put in it .would he cooked Li a
moment. When I Mold her i' It n.7
tastes quite coincided with t1 -
ea, in fait, they did—she tee 4.:3 -
lighted.
"When we had entered the grouse
the boiled pieces- of seal, meat had
already been taken out of the pot
and lay steaming on a eidoboard.
On being assured that my tastes in
food were not likely to differ from
theirs, -my hostess picked out for
me the
•
Lower Joint of a Seal's ROreleg,
ovgneezcd it firmly between her
hands to make sure nothing should
later drip ,from it, mod -handed it
m
to me, aloe with1]er gownnP oa ar-
bladed knife; the next most desir-
ably piece was similarly squeezed
and'haaided to her husband, and
others in turn to the rest of the
Family. . During our meal
presents of food were also brought
us from other houses;- each house-
wife apparently knew exactly what
the others had punt in their, pots,
and whoever .had anything 16 offer
that was a little bit different would .
send some of that to the others, so
that every ininwte or two a small
girl messenger appeared - in our
door with a platter of something to
contribute to our meal. Some of
the gifts were especially designated
as for me—mother said that how-
ever they divided the rest of what'
she was sending, the boiled kidney
was for me; or mother had sent this
small piece of boiled seam -flipper to
me, with the message that if I
would take breakfast at their house
tomorrow I should 13ave a whole
flipper. -
Seal Blood Soup: '
"Our meal was of two courses; -
the first, meat; the seeond, soiip,
The soup is made by pouring cold
the g broth boilixl
seal brood into
immediately after the cooked meat
has been taken out of the pot, and
stirring briskly until the whole
comes nearly (but never quite) :to a
boil. This makes a soup of a thick-
ness oornparable to odu English pea
soups, but if the pot bo allowed to
come to a boil, the blood will coag-
ulate
oag-ulate and , settle to the bottom,
When the pot leeks a few devote;
of boiling, the lamp above, which is
swung, is extinguished and a, few
handfuls of snow arc starred into
the scup to bring it to a tempera-
ture ,atwhichit can be freely
drunk.- By means of a seinen dip-
per the Housewife then fills the
large musk-ox horn drinking cups
i nto each person, if
and assigl s one o
the mullion; 0f dope is short, two or
more persons may share the eons
tents one cup,ai' a 0n may be
- p 3
refilled when one 1s through with it
and passed to another. -
"After I lied eaten ray fall of
fresh seal wet and drunk two pint
Cupfuls of blood Bette), my host and
moved farther brick on the bed
platform, where we could sit mm-
forta.bly, propped up against the
bundles of soft caribou eking, while
we talked of various thingai,"
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The Struggling Y (p
pously)--'Anything unuautal • hailppen
tillilt O e Re Deftet
I was end? .Ilia y(at
some 1113 Inght)-•Yes1r, There wtrix
tl't any 4201 , colleete s e&lete •