The Brussels Post, 1914-8-6, Page 2The WecIiiing Eve;
Or, Married to a Fairy.
CHAPTKR XXVIII.-(Coutinued).
I broke into mY callital and tlaid 011
evetry , farthing. I sold me Ytteht, anY
Anima, my furniture, anti dismieeed the
aervents with wagee instead of notiee. Not,
a soul would I eee, and I felt deePlY grate'
fill to Mudge for le:Leine; me alone in any
bitter dasgrace awl shame. All the world
of art'ela and journaliete were babbling
over the •muaelettp :a Adrian lierveee.
Uooimetty little wife Imo ruined him, and
bolted abroad with some other Meow."
No rioubt our wreteued story fanned the
basis of ,ttoffie highly amusing and unvera.
aloes clulastorate. But I heard none of
theee things, ler I admitted no human
being into my pre:enee but my Man of
business and Wrenehaw, and neither of
them ever mentioned my wife'e name.
.111 through thie time Of tension, of
sleepless
night, of heartache, and fast-
ing, of days el vain looking and bitter re-
gret. of drudgery over figures and no•
splints and cruel humiliation, the refrain
of a song beat through any throbbing
heed:
"My heart. in need of reet,
No longer hopets nor gathers;
Without will, ivithout power.
Farther to go or fly;
Take me 'home to thy breaet,
011, valley of my fathers,
Per one lemur a eepose
--a „Before lonely I die."
When all was/ ovee, and with honor tar-
nished and name diegraced, crippled 10
fortune and stricken in heart, I found my-
self 8101/8 with Wrenehaw, I turned to the
faithful old servant and. told him my
alans.
must leave Londou and all these sec.
plea I ea:d, "anti go eomewhere where no
ono knows me er I elistli go mad. I can't
010.1110 10 may be that I &all never paint
100410. .3/13' day as over. But if you'll have
the eatienve to mit up with me, I know
a lonely tett heuee balfevey up a hill that
riees from the meshes which ctretch
the sea. Thole, 10
7030 and I, Wrenshaw, can
live in quiet fer a. tinae at least, untilathe
arouude are a little lese raw. Will you
come?"
"Anywhere with you. sir."
And so, on a. bleak Noveinber day,
Wrenshaw end 1 beeame inmatee of the
old French Howe, LYthinge, on the
Steep eleuine moorland abeve .the raarshee
and the sea.
CHAPTER XXII.
All through that, bitter -winter Wren -
01103 and I lived our hermit life under the
vast red -tiled roof, colored gold with lich-
en, and hung about withatyy, of the old
house above the marshes.
About our little garden onelosure, wall-
ed in by fragments of what was once u,
Roman .stronghold, the Kentish sheep
strayed, bleating in the driving snow, and
huddled together for warmth against the
messive fragments of the ancient stone-
work.
Down below us in the mansh villages,
lights twinkled out at night, and high
theca. on the crest of the cliff, the wm.
dews of the equare-towered churoh gleam-
ed red, on Sunday eveninga Our supplies
of food were brought by hand, for there
was no road 807004 the strip of rugged
moorland to where the ancient, hall -tim-
bered house stood in complete solitude,
and far from ally other alwellineeplace. I
had taken the houee for a year at an ex-
reedingly low rental, ea the owner was
may too glad to have it occupied 81 any
11100 of the year but tiae summer.
All day Jong, whatever tem weather
might be, I took long walks by the eea.
cauld not. naint. The light wee bad
through an exceptionally severe winter.
But had the skies heel azure, and the eun-
ehine that of Italy, it would have been the
same 1 could not paint. I had lost, all
00000 re to 'work. Money was of no value
to me, and do for fame -the eooner my
name was forgotten the better I should
be »leased.
The "Bose arid Crown" had changed
hands, the Nolteees having failed to make
it Pay. Consocatently I ran no risk of
meeting any 0210 WhO would recognize me
and remember Lilith. I took the house in
the name of "Mr, Wrenahaw," a,n.d, apart
from this precaution, it as improbable
that any orte would have kuown me, for,
during the days that ele,peed after I firet
learred that With bad left •me, my hair
heti =town as gray at3 that of a man of
fifty.
In the evening. I would come in "dog-
tireda and would eit in front of the wide,
old-Pahloned fireplatte, watching the burn.
ing lo, g3, and brooding over my loot 1011-
1th, who had vantehed from my life like
the anarsb fairy I had called her.
Wrensbaw •enjoyed the eolitudelie mis-
trusted hat own sex, and hated nearly all
women. Madge was his one weak spot, and
I soon discovered that ho occasionally
wroto to her. About me. of course. She
bad had too much delicacy to write to me
direstbut 0 knew that eles would earra-
nathize. Only t did not want to hear of
hir empathy, I wanted to wear my sor-
row alone.
Winter broke at last into a dummy
amens. and a furious March came in,
swathed In drivieg snow. One bitterly
rebid dal I had ument searching with the
ahepherde for kat lambs among the 1100100i
' and had cattle home late, tired out, and
numb with <old, to eat a little feed, and
then sit find doze and dream laranre the
five.
Wrenshaw had gone to bee -ha kept mili-
tary 1,011101 but late into the night I eat,
tempted by tho warmth and too drowey
'after a long and fatiguing day in the M-
ine cold to rouse .myeeii add go to bed,
In the comatos.e etate into which I had
fallen. I Jived again through the manta
1 had that day witneeeed, and searched
again with the dhepherde by :murky 110.7
-
11110111 under a leaden sky, and afterwarde
by lamplight, which oast a red stain over
the gleaming snow. for the miesing sheep,
beeesth the feathery downfall that prick-
ed our fttCeS.
Blot in my•cOnfilliCii Panel -as it seemed to
rae theta it was Tenth foe whore ave were
seekingand an a.gonv of appre.henetion
poaaeased 1000 ats I behead the deen drifts
be the wayekle.
The night wore on .and etill the eame
idene Pursued me. Lilith was loot-Lit-
ith 'was al1lng ane, The hallucination
grew eo strong that, I seemed actually to
htrar her plaintive votee above the snoW
and gigot on the window-panee:
"Dick ! 7Mck 1"
Ouve eVert serene up in my chair, and
throw epee the lattice -paned window. A.
.of enowflakes was driven into the
1100128 and the cold Air seemed to clear any
brain anal eonvinee me of my,folly, Never
before had 7 eo atrongly rettlieed nay utter
lone -liners. My very soul seemed to era'
oet for DIY wife le forgiveness and in pity
for with ,the 110 0111(00 of love I knew that
,00110 was in teouble, and that she needed
nes 11 31
11, themoaning en 0 deeided, T would go
„bankto town, ,and leave no etono unturn.
ed 20 findher. So lime as ‘the Wee 'haPPY
311011'1110 "alto she heel preferred to me,
sdlong would she forgot my very 00130-
03000, But eliould tomer or ill,henith
come woon her, I felt, stme she would creep
Mee; 00 me to tell me her t...roublen, Just as
eltelfeed 111 clo vrhen I first met her hero
ne Lathing° nbarlat four years ago,
But 1,1 the Meriting it Wwh
O Lilith o
00.3110. to me, r found her lying ,huddled
vvithin the peret over mv cloor.rsteb, like
the lost lannik oti the itilleide, half dead
WIN euld and expceure, wrapped in a
woolote ehawl, 'with, iti Iler' YelloW
My, hpart snapped, in two with
pity he 1' Weed her and carried her into
the warm dlnabgearenia, :dna a WoUnd hot
blapkets about her frozen limbo, outl kiss-
ed lice poor blue Ilps, and ehafed her GUS.
felled fingere. Wrentham, holoed me loyal.
13' 111(1103(000 word, and I believe ho was
telmost as glad ae I when, after heats of
oare and watchieg and fighting with
death, 1 Mt her quiver 111 my fame, and
eaw her eyes open and fix themselves Won
my twee, vacantly at flret, but presently
with the ettddest little half centle of re-
cognition flickering in them
"I knew you would Im here at the
Preach House," 410 whispered feebly.
"And I knew you would lm kind to sue,
whatever anybody said. eand I wouldn't
have bothered you. Dielty dear, but I've
come home to
•
CHAPTER XXX.
"I can't die yet. I have so much to tell
you."
Lilith eatd Otis ae, she lay that night
propped up by -allows on the couck by the
flre.
A doctor hail been sent for from Crate
ling -for I could not beer that, the wise
old doctor from Sandhythe should eoo the
tragedy lie had sought to avert -and had
Pronounced the patient to be daring from
the results of overetrain, shoek, and ex-
Aosure acting on a delicate conet.itution.
Heart and nervee had broken deem, the
lungs Were seriously affected, and the doe -
tor held out no hope of recOvery.
I want34 no seCOnd 'Physician's opinion.
Death wee written in Lilitha face'in her
hollow eyes and sunken mouth, in the yel-
lewitsh. waecon. tint of her elan, and the
terrible emaciation of her form.
"I haeen't had enough to eat east late-
ly, and I have been so cold sometimes
without a fire." she said. "I haven't had
Yall to look after rae, Dicky. But it has -
n t been the cold or bungee, though they
were hard enough to bear --It's been here,'
and she pressed her thin little hands
aeainet her heart -"that's whore the 3711-
1g has been, and that'e what has killed
me. Oh, I know I am dying -I knew it
two days ago, an.d I was dreadfully fright.
caned .at Bast. Ind .theat 0 thought if I
could only come to you, and beg your
pardon, and 0100 7030 to forgive me, I might,
get forgiven-tomewhere else."
Her head fell beek on nay arm, and ehe
etared for a moment wistfully into the
fire.
"Yoe must not talk of forgiveuese," I
wnispered; "I have nothing but •love for
3011 in my heert-there is 00 1011111 there
for any other feeling. Lie still and ret,
dear; don't try to tell me •anething. You
have come back to me-th.art, is all I want
to know."
She put up her hanti to my face, and
stroked it with a little caressing gesture
I remembered well -remembered with a.
&tab of infinite pain.
"It is very good of you, Dicky, to be so
nice to me and to ask no questione. But
I must tell you some things, so that you
may underetand."
Her voice was very thin and. weak, Con
stantly I had to make hter stop in her
rapid, whispeeing •talk to take some re-
. •and 10 gof.11i' 011318 ber daonp
forehead and to nit from off it the clue -
tering hair whieh looked, in Ito glossy
abundance, nathetically full of life and
vigor against her wasted cheeks.
"I know I haee been very wicked," oho
began again after a. pause, "and I have
treated you ,dreadfully. But somehow
things have been all wrong from the be.
ginning. When you determined to make
a lady of me, and sent me to Morland
House, I was miserable. .You see, the girls
Quizzed me and stared at me, and I wee-
n t used to thair floie-lady eayeAn
couldn't bear being shut in and kept a
Prisoner. And then 1 was very, very fond
of you; 7011 don't quite know how fond I
was, I think. It would have been all right
and I'd have been cruite good, If you'd pre-
mised to mttrry me when I came mit of
ecbool, But wheat I know you were going
to marry Lady Madge, I felt sort of de-
sperate to think I'd have to put up with
two years of that school, and then perhaps
end in being 11 nursemaid or a governess,
after all. And then -I met him!"
$.110 pause4 and turn34 her eyes from
me to the are again. A. faint bluerh orept
slowly over her pale cheeks, and deepened
ae she went on speaking:
"Ile fell in love with me as eoon as he
saw me, 1m said. Not in year romantic,
adoring was, but i11 the way girls like me
like. He'd melte me slip out and meet, hin
and he'd snatch me up in his arms and
kiwi me so that he hurt ma, and swear
and go on, saying he'd kill lumeelf or me
if I didn't 111111 awayrwith him.. And -and
I was dull and miserable and you never
eame--and three months after I'd gone
to Morland H01130 I etole off and married
him."
"You married 'him 1"
'Yes. I have my lines -I have never
parted from them. Often, after I wae
with you, Id take theau out on the 047,
and look at them, and tell myself 0 be.
longed really to Jahn, only he didn't want
me any more. And then I'd ery my eyes
out nearly, and you would and me anti
wonder what had upset me, and be very
kind, and make me forget him. And lie
did love me juet al, iiist, •and he hated
You. beetrage I 'Wee go fond of you and
avould tell me how well you were enjoying
Yourself among your grand relations, and
making Lady Margaret laugh at me. Ile
was so handsome and so anasterful-and
he timid if I didn't go away with him, you
would eot married end get tired of keep-
ing rae, and I ahould have to become a,
servant after all. I Wad earead 01 01210 at
firet, but then -then 0 got to love him, and
one mernine I ran away from school and
wo.s married to him in St. Peter's (Mulch
at Relate'. And tast firat I woe very happy.
Afterward, when you. eot rah, and he
wanted to get rid *1 nte and to get hold
of your money throug11 me, he swore it
133114Mt a real Marriage, and that he had
O wife already. I don't know if .that's
true, After he and I were married, he
went and eaw Mrs. Morland, and she wag
dreadfully angry at fleet, until they 111,
rangeti between them that while he and
I lived together about the country, you
ahould be decetved, go that you might send
the money for my education all the same.
Mes. Berland had half, and we ha4 the
other hundred. She wae dreadfully in
debt, and we had no money at all but
what I made by, dancing,"
"I3y dancing?"
"Oli, yest 0 worked awfully hard, and
for three montlis we ;kilned a little 11t -up
theatrical 000100107 of eingere and <lane.
ere. And in Lymhurst, at, a hall where I
was 'dancing, Lady Margaret. 1301r me and
told me afterward how beautiful I danced.
And she sava hueband, too,"
"Yoltr husband!"
"Yes, yes!" she answered fretfully, turn.
her head from aide to side. "Lady Mar-
garetat got, Guth sharp eyes, and ehe
eanght a, gltmese of hint somehow. She
knew 1710 again In 03. ninu.te when elle
came to isee no in Kensington. I can't un-
derstand why eke didn't let on to you -
but I 81100080 elle thought I wasn't really
married before, and that whet was done
couldn't, be undone. alt, Dicay, Why did.
nrt you marry her and eave ell this dtead.
ful worrY?"
"Pon% toll mo any morol 0 groaned,
"You are breaking 2117 heart, Lilith, now
could 0 know? Why did you not me
the truth? You loved me as; a child, and
tholight TOU Mast grow to love tne
aettin."
ehook her head.
"Not na you want me 1 0," she said. "If
you had been the brat -but bY the 1/111121
met, you again that day in Regent Street,
he bad made nie so fond of hint and 1+0
afraid ot him 7 ,hatl no feeling left for any
(me e)se, We WC dreadIWY poor then,
O hod boon dancing at a 1111.11 (0181 outside
London, and 7 had Conte UP 40 trY and get
O Weet land engagement, That night, af-
ter yon'd left sate af Mt's,' .710103011'o. T
crept out to bit htm know what had hate
Dewed - -
"You told me yen dreve to the much°
"Hie studio," ehe whispered; "one a
friend .had lent hFie. Thin be told tile
might go out with yen brright him
thirty nounds Um next day —
"What an infernal villain: Lfiith, ;feu
must toll me his IMMO,"
,She tint tip on the eonebatd fo
rae, toUghitig and 00104.
,
"It it...milady you Ileoe 011 over heard
oil" elle proteated again and again, "lie
00ee all artiat at Briatol. end toitY ott
walking with the mama Ile .iswander.
fully clover, but he doesn't like 'meriting.
And he's very welleelueuted, and was
Were telling .= how ignoettnt I wata Anal
s,,,nletimee, when he'd Iteen drinking a
Mae 200 1111108 1111 11 ou1d fatale, nut and
even knock me down. But I loved him al.
wave, 03511 after I 141113 he get, area of me,
And," elm inuatuttrea 131311 11 112111.1 Ilea,
love ltini now!"
She stared into the Are and Vila 1110118
I had Passed beyond selletuRering /11 0110
intensity of 1113' ritY for her. Otherwiee,
it would have cut me to the heart that
now, fal 8110 lay dving, all her thoughts,
all her regrets, were for the cowardly and
eoutemptible ruffian who had brutally in -
treated, her and had sold her to another
man.
"I couldn't bear marrying you," alio
went on, suddenly rowing hereelf. "300
}MOW 1. a0U1d11%. I begged and prayed le nt.
to let me off, and van away to London, us
31011 know. And Mira elealtand 'thought It
WU dreadful, even ,though 110 attid our
marriage was not 0 real owe Afterward,
I was always teasing him to take nte book,
for, although you were eo ,kinti to me, I
felt he WItti my husband, and not you. But
he would hardly ever ems Ine, and names
wanted money, money, nothing but money.
Then at last I heard that he had eaten
in love with some ono Mee, and was go-
ing to marry her. And I felt quite mad -
M110, end that I must, go back to him,
wkatever happened.
"So I left you and went to him. But no
would not see me, And the -woman he
was with took away nnr jewele and mono',
which I oifered her to get to seo
IMUghed ane, and told me that now I
had lett you and <multi send no more
mOneY, he hated um es much sus he loved
her. Aud then I got very, very ill. And
they eent tee back to London. And I tried
to find you, but you aveze gone and the
Imam was gold. And I went back to the
old (heap lodgings 115 and I used to have,
and persuaded. the landlady to take Inc
in. I think site meant to be kind, and ehe
gave o little food 11010 and 10.011. And I
lived 11113 room by myself until I felt awe
I ume .dying. Then suddenly 0 thought
of whet you stad one day -that if a man
-wanted to hide /rem the world. he would
come to the French Nouse at, Lythinge. So
I mune bore. But I tiered not knock at
the door lest you might be too angry. And
I wee weak end faint and eo tired, and.I
grew sleepy with cold outside your door,
Theis at last you found .1110 in the morn-
ing. But it was silly of me not to knook,
for I might have known you -would be
• "
ehe died in sny arree at daybreak, fall-
ing asleep with a little eign like a child
tired out-thie woman who had never lov-
ed me, and who had never even been niy
Wife.
And I burled my heart and my youth
and .all my hopes in Mile tverld with her
in the ehurchyard on the cliff over the
merehee, just where she had told me ahe
wanted to lle, years ago.
In her puree we 1011111/ a sealed envelope
in which was the certifleate of marriage
batemen "Lilith Saxon, ,aged eixteen, anti
Nicholas Wray, aged thiety-five."
-Every fatalist knows that 00001110
man's life is the 1,030 11007 to 5.11711 11100 into
a dangerous enemy.
Wray'a words, uttered on the day when
1. came bIltireell him and gtarvation or
euicide, Tang in my sena during the ICUT•
my I undertook, intent upon taking the
0 0 1134ve .
Killing him was too good for him, but
he had anuedered Lilith, and I could not
let him live.
In Venice 0 met the man face to ewe at
last. In the Patit dininghall of a dilapi-
dated palace, he and tlm black -haired wo-
man were 'presiding at a boisteroue
Per -party. Handsome, loose.lipped women,
silly youths, anti older men with sinieter
fee, drank .and gang and taiouted-and
in the midet of them Wray lifted hie eyes
and saw rae in the doorway, waiting for
ham
O was glad to take him thuS. While he
was enjoying life after kis fashion, and
I waited Quietly while, with his old trick
of nosing, he drew his tall agere to (to
full height and drank tct my health, "the
health of all old friend I have been ex-
pecting for eozne time," before exoesing
himselt to hie gueste and joining am at
the door.
Not a word did we exchange until I had
followed him into his room on the floor
above, and locked the door that we might
be secure frotn intereuption.
Then I took a ease of pistols from the
wicket of nay overcoat, and laid them on
the table.,
"I know everything," I said. "For your
Miuries against me I do not *are You
are such a pitiful hound as te be beneath
my personal vengeance. But for the in-
famous wickedness of your treatment of
Lilith, whose death lies at your door, t
will kin you if I can."
You are right from your point of view,"
he said, fingering the pistols, "and as I
don't mean to kill you, you will probably
kill atm. You have allV11333 had the devil's
own luck! The odd part of it is, .though
I envy 7011, I can't dislike eou. I am near.
Iv forty -old before my time, and heartily
sick of everything -you have taken care
of yourself and been a good boy; yet you
look es though the gilt was off lithe gin.
trerbread for you. too. But we are both
of us, saint and sinner, much too geed to
quarrel over a woman. Hervey, 1,107 1,0
not worth it. Harpies or druges, hand -
001110 tigercats, like that woman down.
stairs, or little ,aoulless toys, like Idlith--"
"If you speak her name I will shoot you
betore you mei defend youree it
Ile shrugged hie shoulders.
-A0 you pleme. Life 1130 no more charm
for me As an ertist. I have lost all in-
spiration, and now that funds, are no 1011g-
00 (meting in, the game ion% (0,1111 relay-
ing. But whether you shoot 100e Or 1108 I
muet remind you that 0 warned you from
the beginning whet the end would be.
When I took that girl you didn't wont hear,
and she wag miserable avbeee she wae. By
the time rhad got tired of her you were
mad about her, and after all you married
the woman you wanted, which la [tome -
thing eurely. Once YOot had got her, I
nevelt encouraged her to come after me.
The mistake Wee taking that type of girl
aeriensly,"
"I will not lleten while you indult the
dead, I eau), "I will tenant up to six and
then-flre."
'0.0 0000. please!"
Bat on the third count Wray turned hie
Motel against himself, and so saved nut
the Wok of ridding the world of a villain.
All this happened nearly two years ago,
and the "long, long gran to keep one
Warm in wintea and cool in summer" is
waving Over Lllith'e grave in Lythinge
ch urebyaad.
7011 fifteen menthe 0 watched the chang-
ing seasone over the marshes, hugging my
corrow and living upon memories, Then
I fell imaceountably ill, and the ease -
twee of Lythinge [told it waa inatash-fever
and ague, the two local maladies -lb artne
all 0110 to me What they called it, for Iliad
no wieb to live.
But, Wavelehaw, whose devotion was only
equaled by ,hts obetinacy, telegraphed te
town one dos, unknown to me, .rtnd thet
same night I was carded off, wilivedlly,
across the patch of moorland to a 00111
4' waiting in .the cart -track, and so
turned by baca unon the Freneh Itouee
and its memories forever.
At the eteuthing inn 10 tho croserottds,
where I had etayed on my first visit, to
Lvthinge, Madge had loft her mother and
suite installed, the Weiland 4treen, in •the
worst of tempers, audibly worttlering what
her daaghter could see in "that lantern,
.lawed female of hers," and why he
"enuldn't he left to die if Ito wanted to"?
She avondere thus still, and indeed I won.
der too, 0 wonder at Matige's tenderness,
her tam, her infinite patience, ,and, I won,
dor most or all 42o my own cold-hearted,
new, and atthe 01)000100 from my heart of
anr Mee of the oneelonate .devetion .such
a woman deserves.
She urges Ine to naint, and takes her
old interest in my work; but my hand
aeems to hare lost ite cunning,
Only today 1 owned rtat much to her.
"1 ilia a (albite. dear," I said, ars 111107'
haired failtirel Yell Vert alwaye (mune
tint ef failuree- Years ego, You urged
me to make 0. name that you might be
known as a great .artiet'e wite, slur not 1
as 'the rieh Lady Margaret's litieband.' A
hteken eateee, ft, 'broken life, ie all I have
left to offer you,"
ghe slIpped down en her Imes beside Me
where 1 est ni, ply easel, and laid her
hands Upon my ehoulderet Tomas etream.
v4 from her eyee, but a lovely light wne
ethining in them.
"Why, you will be marteriine 1111 old
Mold, aim cried, "who wet ed. until she
1011 nearly thirty beennee she could not
eet the new she wanted, the man she had
waited for end loved for fifteen yeera, Oh,
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DANIEL G UG ti EN BEI al
.4. 'Business Man Says Bis Word Is
Better Than His Bond.
Daniel Guggenheim, the head
of the great American exploration
'and development urga.nization,
whose operations stretch from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, from Alas-
ka to Chili, and into the heart of
the African Congo, is a man with
a kindly smile and a gentle manner
who deals with millions as ind'st men
venture with (loiters. The story of
the Guggenheim fa.mily has been
told elsewhere, and it reads like one
of the fanciee of the Arabian Nights.
Daniel Guggenheim, for all his
kindly, hunian demeanor, for all his
courtesy and gentleness, is a strong
man. Much of his power lies in his
vivid imagination and in his broad
sympathy for humanity. He is the
type that will lead men, but never
drive them. There is no trouble
with labor in any Guggenheim pro-
perty in any portion of the land.
Daniel Guggenheim says:
"The business ethios are those of
the community in which the business
exists," he says. "The stream rises
no higher than its source unless it
is forced higher, American business
is far better than it was it, few years
ago, and yet there is room for vast
improvement. It is not 11004 on the
plane where individual greed is the
some actuating factor."
This is what happened in the Gag-
genheim offices wheal 'rebates of
freight charges became abhorrent
and were declared illegal. Tbe first
blow was struck by the interstate
Danie Guogenheint.
Commission of that gine. Rebates
became anathema, Daniel Guggen-
heim ord.ered that every effort
should be made to carry out the
spirit of the thing. There must he
no single rebate. Then Im found
that interstate rebating had stop-
ped, but ;that within the State is
continued; he found that he was
taking rebates in Colorado of $1.50
a ton on ore shipments.
"See the railroads .and insist en
DX equal rate," he said to Ks repre-
sentative. Two weeks later his
traffic department reported that the
road refused to make art equal rate.
The rate froni mine to smelter must
remain at $3 a ton. To change it
would breed trouble.
"It costa less to haul a ton of ore
than a ton of general merchandise,"
averred, the roads. "We have to
cherge the merchandise, $3, but
there is profit in ore et $1.50. ]3_
aides the people expect to be charg-
ed $3."
"Fix an even rate or we'll adopt
other measures," replied Daniel
Guggenheim. I have the feels. If
rebating is wrong between States
ib M wrong in States. Our SMelters
are not anchored in ono spot for
eternity. They are movable,
The rate changed without great
delay.
"Perhaps such wrongful' p.ractices
as ke ibrought the muck ranto our
national life were phases of our
commercial development," saye Mr.
Guggenheim. "I don't know. If
they were phaees they were aseitred-
ly bad ones .and we want no more of
them." And then was broached the
matter of government or publie re-
gulation,
"Inevitable, and justly so," says
he,
"And why should anyone ob-
is& if the w.orlt is properly donor
A mom of affairs—of very big af-
fairs—said some time ago in reply
to a question :—
"Dan Guggenheim 1 I'd sooner
have his word than his bond. I
might Ise the bond, but 1 coaldn't
lose my knowledge of the man's high
Charaotar."
Taking no Chances.
"Do you know his wife wellr
"Not at all."
"Would you like to be introduo-
ed to her 1"
"I don't think it would be safe,
I'm the friend ha always blames
Lar keeping him out late."
The Retort Unexpooted—"Yon
looked very foolish when poll pro-
posed to me," said the wife. "Well,
Itenrietta,'' replied the meek hus-
band, umaybe I Woo."
11
CRUEL WAR IS PREDICTED
a1A(0Ve.831A8/11,,-, ce.,p,..ct.,t,„ 11
Oil the Farm
ill•lbArlegaasseateezessesaceseaaas-aada
Profit hi Good Draft Horses.
It costs but very little more to
raise good draft borses than the
ordinary scrub end the drafter will
sell.for three or four times the sum.
A well-bred draft horse is almost
ao good as eash in the bank, because
lie sells on sight and brings a good
price, A. farmer who breeds good
drafters, using first-class stallions,
can in a few years make a repeta-
lion which will add from tea to 25
per cent. to the price *1 1101 animals
over the prices of others equally
good bred by men without repute,
tion.
There is always good money to
be made in raising horses of this
class, although many farmers seem
to think that it does nob pay. Most
of them are right about this as far
as their own experiences go beeause
they do nob raise the right kind,
It is true that horses of a nonde-
script character, lacking proper
form, weight.or style for any par-
ticular purpose, never bring high
prices and are, therefore, not pro-
fitable to 'raise. The average farm-
er has no business th attempt th
raise fancy carriage or saddle
horses because they require special
knowledge of breeding and training
and are profitable only to men who
thoroughly understand the business
of preparing them for market.
The draft horse, however, is the
animal that does the hard work
not only on the farm, but in the big
cities anti he is always in demand.
The reason there have been so few
geed drafters raised in the last
few years is because too many farm-
ers took up trying to produce road-
sters by breeding their mares to
light stallions and as most of them
were not willing to pay for the ser-
vice of a first-class animal, the re-
sult is that the country is filled with
second 0414 third-rate horses of no
particular use and which bring low
prices.
It is gratifying to note, however,
that farmers are coming to their
senses and are now breeding more
drafters than ever before. Using
stallions on mares of the same type
with proper weight, he tan produce
a type of animal that will turn out
a profit at three years.
Draft mares will do practically
as much work on the farm as horses
and mares will prove the best
breeders.
GiVe the Trees Boom.
The question of bow much space
to leave between the trees is one
that occasions much argument.
This should be regarded largely by
circumstances. If trees are to be
kept well pruned back they ma.y be
as near as four yards apart, While
those which are to be allowed more
free growth in the tops should be
at least twenty feet apart. The
question of distance depends en-
tirely upon the system of training
and richness of the soil,
The common system of keeping
the orchard in sod practiced by
many apple growers, and except in
very rare eases, among small grow-
ers, is practically unknown. Thor-
ough cultivation is necessary to
develoe the peach crop as the tree
during the time of .bearing requires
extremely large amounts of mois-
ture and plant food.
Growers differ widely upon the
system of cultivation, but all are
agreed that plowing .as early as poe-
sible in the spring, thorough culti-
vation during tlm first half of the
summer season and the growth of
a cover crop of some kind during
the fall and winter 0.10 essential to
the proper care of the peach 07-
chard, aid'
Thedise or epading harrow is bet-
ter than the plow in most cases, as
the side extensions enable much
closer work without injuring the
trees. In the case of gravelly or
hard, heavy soil the disc or spring -
tooth harrow is' necessary during
summer eultivation, while the light
smoothing harrow ig required 011
soils that are 111 a fine elate ot tilth.
Malting Split -Log Ong.
The halves of tho drag should bo
framed together by wooden braces
so that the split surfaces of the log
0101011 be in front. The face of the
drag should lie ah an angle of 45
degrees with the lines of the road,
thus drawing the earth 'toward the
centre. The rear log.abould follow
in the track of the first. Drags
Should be used after rains, or con-
tinued web 'weather to smooth the
earth's surface and prevent ruts
from forming to hold water. The
drag not only smooths the road, but
crowns it atid puddles the mud so
that it is hard when dry,
These drags have been used with
great tuccess on clay or water.
holding soils. Many stretches of
black gumbo roads in the west are
maintained by the use of this imple-
ment alone.
Every farmer should own one,
and after a rain he should spend a
few hours on the road adjacent to
his farm. IS there are many de-
pressions th fill, the drag should be
used when the road is wet.
After it has been used long
enough to make the road fairly
smooth, the drag gives the best re-
sults if used when the earth begins
th dry.
8;000 AT WEDDING PEA ST.
Festivities Extend Over Eight Days
On Big Seale.
A wedding whose guests uumber-
ed over 8,000 persons and whose
feasting continued for eight, days
was celebratea recently ab Sada-
goro 1111 Bukowana,, one of those
remote country districts of Austria-
Hungary, where mammoth wedding
festivities on a scale unknown in
America or Western Europe are
the rule.
The affair at Sadagora exceeded
in magnificence and lavish hospital-
ity any function on record in that
district, however. It was a Hebrew
wedding. Sadagora enjoys a cer-
tain fame in Eastern Europe as the
seat of the renowned Babbinical
dynasty known as the Miracle Rab-
bis. The bride was the daughter of
the Grand Rabbi of -Hue line, Aron
Friedman, and the groom, Sala -
mon Friedman, belongs to a branch
of the same Rabbinical dynasty at
Czortkow. The marriage was ar-
ranged by the ehiefs of the two
families, entirely without the know-
ledge of the young people. In fact
they met for the first time only the
evening before the wedding at a
preliminary feast, when they danc-
ed together as a sign of their wit:
lirtgness to marry.
The chiefs had taken it for grant-
er that there would be no hitch in
their plans, and had invited the
Rabbinical families of all the Or-
thodox Jews in Russia, Poland,
Roumania, and Hungary. They
came down on. Sadagore in thou.
sands. Many of imposing stature
and patriarchiel dignity. They
wore black silk caftans, low shoes
and 'white stockings, while their
ladies were attired in a sort of crin-
oline and adorned with rich jewels.
There were some dressed in the
latest modes of Paris and Vienna,
The ceremony took place in the
gardens of the Grand Rabbi's pal-
ace, guarded by mounted troops.
Thousands were unable to heair or
see what was goine'on, so dense
wes the throng, but all had a hand
in the feasting which followed. Dur-
ing the eight days the commissary's
books .accounted for 200 pounds of
fish, 500 head of poultry, 250 pounds
of beef, 5,000 pounds a bread and
many casks of wine. The Grand
Rabbi was out of pocket to the ex-
tent of at least $40,000.
In .addition to this he presented
the bridal couple with a palace in
Sadagora, completely furnithed and
equipped with a staff of servants.
He will meet the entire cost of the
household for a period of six yeara,
when it is pureed that the young
bridegroom will have attained a
position where he cam support his
family himself.
Remorse is memory that has sour-
ed.
is put
10 Pound,
20 Pound,
50 Pound
and
100 Pound
Cloth Bags,
and in
2 Pound
and 5 Pound '
Sealed Cartons
te gar
up at the Refinery in
When you buy egg&_ar,
Extra Granulated Sugar in any
of these original packages you
are sure of getting the genuine
CAnasla'a finest
sugar, pure and clean as when
it left the Refinery.
in worth while to insist on
the Original Packages.
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CANADA StIO,Alt REFINING CO., MUTED, . MON'rftEAL,
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GERMAN RACE WILL COME OUT
ON TOP.
The Vaterland Will Get a Share of
Great Britain's
Colonies.
If the whole world is not shocked
and horified by Etwopean war in the
couree of the next tew years, it will
not be the fault of a certain &cum-
ecribed disgruntled section of the Ger-
1131111 community. This insidlouo cam-
paign is bolstered up by men who dis-
guise their patriotism under a strange
cloak, writes it Berlin correspondent.
At the moment the campaign takes
the line of "creating an atmosphere"
favorable to a greater navy, and if
the object is achieved it 10. certain
that a huge navy would require 801110
outlet for its warlike activities.
Throughout Bavaria, Baden, Wurt-
temburg, and Saxony, lectures and
cinematograph shows are in full swing,
showing the deluded peoele how a
greater navy Is essential for the future
of the German race.
Predicts British Defeat,
Recently Admiral Breusing has been
telling spellbound Stuttgart audience
that not only is the German navy in.
adequate to rotect German interests,
but he is looking forward to the time
when the German navy will sweep
Great Britain from the peas.
"When the war comes," said the
admiral, "our position will be most
favorable. Our destroyer and Wipe.
do craft cannot fail to cause tremen-
dous damage to the British ships, for
we are used to night attacks. Further,
the enemy will have great dilnculties
to provide themselves with ammuni-
tion, while we shall have ears on
land.
The moment will then come when,
many British ships being destroyed by
our guns, many others detained in far
distant seas for the protection of Brit-
ish trade, the two fleets will be equal
in numbers. From that moment I can
confidently say the advantage will be
on ottr side.
"Our torpedo boats, our guns, our
shooting, all are far superior to what
Is done in England at present. Our
guns can do terrific harm at ten miles
distance, and the British fleet will be
disabled before even they have 'been
able to attempt to lig: t us."
Accepted as Gospel.
This rosy picture, drawn by a man
who has been an sdmiral of the Ger.
man fleet and still has a name as a
naval expert, WELS naturally taken for
gospel truth by those present at the
meeting, who cheered him wildly.
The admiral then prophesied that
two nations—Italy and Japan—would
In the future war play a part which
nobody, except Admiral Breusing, of
course, had ever dreamt of.
"Italy will have a double task," he
said. "Her fleet will neutralize the
French fleet in the Mediterranean, and
her army will invade Eleypt. The
Italian fleet will be able to keep ont
the assistance of the new Austrian
dreadnoughts. As to her army, she
has some 100,000 men in Tripoli, which
she can easily send into Egypt to ex-
terminate the weak English garrison
--some 15,000 men—stationed there.
Japan Tired of England,
"Then Japan is only a make-believe
friend and ally of England, The Milt.
ado's government is 'tired' of Eng-
land's proceedings, and only too anx•
ions to shake off the British yoke.
There is no doubt that in ease of a
European war the Japanese fleet will
sail to A.ustralia and seize both the
commonwealth and New 'Zealand,"
A great shuffle of colonies follows,
"and," said the admiral, "some er
these we shall get. We shall not re-
new the shameful and scandalous re-
treat of Agadir, where we Germans
renounced Morocco only on account of
Great Britain's threate.
"In the future," he cohtinued, "we
shall contemptuously disregard Eng-
lish threats. We must increase and
even double our fleet in order to con-
quer and defend the overseas colonies
which we need. No sacrifice Is toe
heavy for Germans with such an end
in view:"
Such is Lite character of the lectures
which are being delivered In uncount-
able German towns and reprodund in
provincial neWenallers, under the di.
motion of the Nevy League, the mem
bership of which now approaches L.
600,000, with 4,000 local branches
BIRDS AND LI ft 11T110 U SE S.
Every night during. migration,
thousands of birds attracted by the
powerful glare of lighthouses, after
circling for hours about the light.
fall exhausted, and cIM. It is saki
that as many as 1,800 woodcock per.
ished in one night .ab a single lin'
glMh lighthouse. Prof. 4. P. Tii;jus
Lound that if a lighthouse is fitted
with proper perches near thc
the bird.s will rest upon them, a.nd
few will lose their lives. The
ligit-
hou'o abo Terschelling, in Holland,
has been thus equipped for the last
three years. At this lighthoute,
which stands directly in n, path of
migration, ill til tituds 01 birds form1
erly died every night; now the
deaths do not exceed it hundred
thronghout the season of migration.
Perches have recently been fitted to.
two English lighthoeee8, The Cas.
kets, in the English Channel, and
St. Catherine'a, on the Isle of Wight
the latter of which is shown in the
accompanying illustration -from the
Sphere. The birds -fly to the light-
houses only on dark nights.
Cycle Riding.
Mrs. Walker 1 "I don't sec why
the doctors recommend bicycle tid-
ing. 11 11 makes people healthier
a is a loss to the doctors." Mr.
Walker: "I -know ; but !hey cal-
culate that one sound healthy rider
will disable al least Ove pedestri.
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