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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-12-04, Page 2c4vo dSubstitutts. Made in Canada. A Beautiful and Useful Gift li= or Christmas.��/1' i/ Sold at the Best Stores Boolelet Rayuest. E. Waterman Company, Limited, Montreal Or, the Belle of the Season. "Five thousand, fifty thousand, my C$APTno ; was it a(Continued). dear!" he responded, promptly, and with "I dant know; was it rabbit?" no little pride and satisfaction. "afar" responded Mr. vii ordley, with sip- "Five hundred will do -for the present," pressed excitement, ' It was the top of a sheterid*iall let little nrnervously.raw out." the tin box-" Still puzzled, Mr. Wordley went into the "' L tin box?" echoed Ida. porter's box and took out his cheque- "Yes" he said, with an emphatic nod• t book "I called Jason to, bring a spade; but I "Makeit payable to the hospital -and could scarcely wait, and I found myself give it to e, please," said Ida, in a low clawing like -like one posed; but slie`tlttered a little cry and neaely broke down when heetsriage stop- ped at the familiar gate, and` Jessie, who was standing there, 'with her, bar blown ofldtheir 10 iiwind,, tang catclhinge1 split eo loved young rai:stresa to her bosom, droop• ed and sobbed over her, Jason ;stood just behind, balancing hire. self first en one foot, and then ea the other, in his efforts fb get a glimpse o° Idq and else stretched .out her aria over Jeesre's Shoulder and shook -the e honest haand which had growls; hard and, horny:. ! It trees into the Ball, where' a hug fire was burning and threw a'. red and cheerful glow over the fading gilding 'Etna grey - toned hangings. "Oh, Miss, how thin you be!" iehe said at last. as, with clasped hands, elle sur- veyed Ida from top to too anxiously and greedily. "Wherever have yen beau to look like that? But, never mind,- Miss Ida; you're back, and that's everything! And ,we'll very soon get some flesh on your Immo and drive the sad look oat of thee eyes." In moments of emotion and ex- citement .eseic forgot the schooling Ida had given her, and lap.ed into eosin -West- morland. "You've ve mi•seed the auoorland air, dearie, and the cream and the milk - I've 'eard it's all chalk' and water in Lon- don -and I suppose there wasn't room to ride in them crowded streets; and the food, too, I'm told it alu't fit for ordinary humans, leave alone a dainty maid like my sweet mistress." Yes, you shall fatten me to your heart's desire, Jessie " said Ida. "1 supposeI i don't look of much account; I've been 11. But I shah soon get well. I felt, as we drove along the moor, with the wind blow- ing on my cheek, ne if I had not breathed since the hour I left. And now tell me • everything -all -at once!. Rupert? There's ' no need to ask about the dogs." Donald and Bess had not yet ceased to tear at her in frantic efforts to express their delight. "Are you glad I've come back, Donald?" she asked in a low voice ae ehe knelt and put her arms round his neck and nestled her face against his, and let him lick her with his great, soft tongue. "Ali, if you are only half as glad as I, am. doggie, your heart must be half breaking with the joy of ie And if I'm Sean, yea are disgracefully fat. Bess. Don't tell mo you've missed me, for I don't beL:'ve it." It was some time before Jessie could drag her 'upstairs; and the sight of her old room, as cheerful as the hall, with the huge fire, almest unnerved her, and when she was alone she sank upon her knees beside the bed in a thaneegiving which was none the less deep and fervent for its muteness. When she came down the dinner was ready and Mr. Wordley was standing in front of the fire awaiting her. She was glad that Jason had not had time to pro- eure a new livery. wee glad of the old shabbiness of the room, that its aspect was not yet changed, and that it greeted her with all its old familiarity.Mr. Word - ley would not let her talk until the had made, at any rate, a pretence of eating; but when they bad gone into the drawing• room, he drew a chair to the fire for her, and said: "Now, my dear, I ant afraid. I shall have u to t t be too buoy to talk bus .dear, Tatar y come over to -morrow." Ile laughed. "You see 3'•have left all any other clients' at- sfairee to come after wy-stray lanib; I ex- pect I shall find them in a pretty mud- dle. Now, my dear, before i go, 1 ,+should like you to tell me exactly what you would like to do. lent I have explained to yam, you are now the mistress of a very large for with which you can. do ab eiletely tone t what you like. Would you like to live here, or would you like to take a hones in. London, er go abroad?" Ida looked up a little piteouey. "Oh, not go to London or abroad!" "Oh, not go to London or abroad!" she said. "Can I not live here? If you knew how I feet --how the eight of the pi: ce, the thought that. I am under the still roof again•---" She looked 'rounds the tu,Ied, e'tatoly room lovingly, 'wietfnlly, and Mr. Word - ley nodded sympatltetit'ally, "Of ,course you ean, any dear," he said. "But equally of course, you will now want to restore the old) place, There is a great deal to be done, and I thought that perhaps you would like to go away while the work was being carried out." Ida shook her head. "No, I would like to stay, even if I have to live in the kitchen or one of the gar- rets. It. will be a delight to mo to watch the men at work; I should never • grow tired of it." "I quite understand. any dear," he said. "I hot or you for that feeling. Well, then, I shah engage an arohitect of repute, the Rist in his profession" -he rubbed his handed with an air of enjoyment -"and he shall restore tho old place, with all re- spect and reverence. I think 1 know the man to employ; and eve will start at once, so that no time may be lost, I want to see you settled in your proper position here, Tlto thought of it groes pie a new lease of life! Of course, you will want a proper establishment; more servants both in the house and out of it; you will want carriages and horses: both the lodges must be rebuilt, and the oldr avenue open- ed out and put in order. Heron Ball was one of the finest places in the county and it shall be so again." "And Jessie •shall be ehe Housekeeper and Jat••on the butler," said Ida, with a laugh of almost child -like enjoyment. "Oh, it all seems like a dream; and I feel that et any moment 1 may wake and find anyeelf at Laburnum Villa, And, oh, Mr. Wordley, 1 flail want some more 'money at once. I want to mond the Herons a 'present, a really nice present' that will help them, I hope, to forget the trouble I caused them. Poor :people. it seae not their fault: they did not understand." air. Wordley snorted. '"There is one topie of conversation. any dear Dtiss Ida, I shall bo compelled to bar," he said. "I never want to hear Mr. John Heron's name again. As to mending them a present, you can, of ro'u'se, send them anything yetilike, to the half 9f ittesrvgl3ryou ask noveher hydeeeit ' of the dogs, my dear. Jaron came and we had that box vowe "Of course, of eenu•sel God bless you, my ,dear, I might have known what was in that good, grateful heart of yours. bee here, I've made it out for a thousand pounds. That's five hundred for you and five hundred for me --and don't you say a word to stop, me; for I'm only too grate - It will cool me drown; ng m' . The old man's face creased, and lie, nod - 1 T opened it, And 'what do you ded. think I found?"' Ida shook her head gently; then she started. slightly, as she remembered the night Stafford and he had watched her father coming. in hiss sleep, from the ruin- ed ehapel. -Something of my father.a?" Mr. Wordley nodded impressively.fur "Yee, it was something of your fa.ther'a. and upon my word, I feel so excited, so It eves a large box, my dear, and 11 con- above and beyond myself that I want some tamed -what do you think?" safety -valve like this, or 1 ethould fall to "Papers?" ventured Ida.dancing in the hall and so disgrace mY- "Seearitice, my clear Aries Ida, eecuri- eelf and the relate profession to 'which I The bee ' 71t n ,' ties; for a were large amount! be 1 p g was full of them; and a little farther oil: With a folded cheque in her hand Ida we found another tin case quite as full. to'sk lint up the many etoue stella to the Tentre-eyed easter, some of the best Alexandra 'ward. 1`hd, g and wereustsecompsrities in o *be had parted from her so reluctantly, and soundest eons tea es, and they are worth an enormous cram of money!" was naturally surprised to hoe her return Ida etared at him, as if she did not real- so soon. and accompanied by a. fatherly ize the e(gnlftcanee of hie verde. and prosperous; old gentleman, who kept "An enormous sum of money,; be re. <ewe to her as if be were afraid elle might prated. "All the while --God forgive mei- be epiritcd from him. I was under the impression that your fa- "1 have dome hack to -to say goon -bye ther •was letting things slide, and was again, sister," said Ida, her vpice faiter- doing nothing to save the ceta•te and to ing n 'little, but, her eyes beaming as thee, pr*iv,ds for you, he was epecul.atieg and held not beamed for many 0 day; "and I stn' m •samethfug s inventing; and doing it with a ,skill ie a ehrewdness which could not have been surpassed by the most astute and bus" Hess -like of men. B:is judgment was al' most infallible; he seems 'scarcely ever to have made a mistake. It was one of those extreorcrinarYY eases in which everything a man touches turns to gold. There are mining shares there Which I would not have bought at a farthing a piece; but your father bought diem, and they've everyone of them, or nearly everyone of them, turned up trumps. Some of them 'which he bought for a few shillings' gold and diamond •shares --are worth laundrette of pounds; Iiundreds? thousands) 'try clear," he took her hand and patted It as if he were trying to break the shock to Iter; "your poor father whom 'we all re- garded ae an insolvent bookworm, actu- ally died by far and away the richest man in the county!" Ida looked at him as if sato did not even yet quite understand. She passed her titin hand over her brow and drew a long breath. "Do you mean -do you mean that I am no longer poor, Mr. Wortley?" else asked. Mr. Wordley laughed so suddenly and loudly that he quite Startled the hall por- ter in his little glass box. ''Aly dear child," he •said, slowly and int- presetvely, "you ase rich, not poor; im- mensely rich! I do not myself yet quite know )tow much you are worth; but you may take it from me that it is a very large sum indeed. Now, you are not go- in the after years, she felt herself tremb• Ing to faint, my dear!" For Ida's eyee had ling and quivering with the :memory of it. closed and her nde had cleaved caul turn elle had dtsat in the eis,re iage, and the other o spasmodically. hat "No, no," she said in a low casco, "But she -wee' indeed going home -hornet -she it is seta sudden, so unexpeetedi, that I can- did not know what it had cost bei to leave not realize it. It seems to me as if I were Hei'ondale, hew much she had suffered at lying in the cot upstairs and dreaming. Laburnum Villa, how deep the iron of de - No, I cannot realize that I can go back to pender.ee had entered her > onl, she was iierondale: I suppose I can go back?" she alt of a quiver 'with delight, with pro. asked, with a sudden piteoueneee, that found gratitude to the Providenee which very nearly brought the tears to Mr. w s re toriegher the bitooavt g etre ou e, the i0ordley's eyes. "Go hack, my dear!" be exela.imed. vied* este knew pony were dearer to her than. life course, you can go baekl The place be- itself. longe to you. Why, I've already given no- Mr. Wordley understood, and was full of rice that I am going to pay off the ntort- empathy with her mood. Ile bought gages. You will get every inch of the nen Ipaperd said magazines, and he let.her land back; you will be the richest lady to alone and pretended to read; hut every the county-yecr, in the whole county! The now and then ,site met hie smiling glance old glories of the dear old house can he and knee'- by his nod of the bead that he revived; you ean queen it there as the Ile- W115 reads wg`cwi with d airriage and pair sons of old used to queen it. And even', body will be proud and delighted to see to meet them at ilryndlermeet anal 'Ida you :doing itl As for ane, I am ashamed leant back and tried to be patient tried to say that I here almost lost my ]peat to look atudond•ttrned anti team end coin. over the business, and have behaved like a -well, anything but like a staid and eta ber old solicitor. anything, He roughed, and blew his nose, and nod- ded with en snore a than othiu wonderful f neew had done. liow can 1 thank you for all your I goodness to me, ;•she murmured, a little brokenly, want to give yousome !ng for the hospital -it is from my dear friend here. Mr. Wadley, who has just found me. And I want you not to open it until eve have gone -say, for half an hour. And I am going to write to •you as I promised; and you can write to ane it you will be so kind; for I can give you tlhe address now. It is on the back of the cheque. She bad written it in the porter's Sax. "I alp going -:bonne. Something has hap- pened. But I will write and tell you; now I can only sty" --her voice broke and trembled--"•good-bYe, again, and thank you with all ley, heart," $lie drew the sister to her and kissed her; and itr. Wordley 'shook the dieter's hand, and blew his nose ed loudly that the patients, olio had been watching them eagerly, nodded to each other and ex- changed significant glances, and there was a sunpreeeed excitement in the ward which found adequate expression when, half an hour afterwards, the sister with flushed eheek and quavering void:e, made them acquainted with Idas gift. "And now,'" said 'Dir. Wordley, after be had shaken hands with several of the of- fleiale, including the porter, "and new, my dear Mies Ida, for ilerondele and -Home! Ili, cab!" CIIAPTEII XXXVIII. The ,tourney down to Iierondale cannot be tleetribed; whenever Ida thought of it "Thank Inc! Don't yon attempt io� �,,RIZZEMIEZEMaangagaNSENZtiffEMEMEMEINESEMIl thank the or I shall break down alto- j r Ci ` em www °: i� ' gather; for I've been most wooden -headed idiot that ever lis- !n these strenuous days do not send our money 10 h r father's still t r Con of mtser'liness and eltullerenee. Any smelted, railed, galvanised and corrugated ndshould ,YOU. O mlthirty- ear leputationffor squareddealingtis behind tevelyvone of the famous 1 ] tob ,thin erre Empire, ei gar does, iii aka the bread and butter taste good !" IT is when you spread it out on bread or pancakes, fruit or porridge, that you notice most the sweetness and perfect purity of REDPATH Extra Granulated Sugar. Buy it in the 2 and 5-1b. Sealed Cartons, or in the 10, 20, 50 or 1.00-1b. Cloth Bags, and you'll get the genuine ii , absolutely clean, jugt as it left the refinery. 83 CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., UMITED, MONTREAL. 'is ate, INFLUENZA Catarrhal Fever Pink Eye, Shipping Fever, Epizootic And all diseases of the horse iiffecting his throat, eneedily cured• colts and horses in the same stable kept from having them Eby using Spohn's Distemper and Cough Compound, 3 to G doses often cures; one bottle guaranteed to cure one case. cafe for brood mares, baby colts, stallions, all ages and eon- dritions. Most skillful scientific compound. Any drugg'st. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Coshen, Ind. U.S.A. "I didn't ask you," said Ida, laugh, puttine eller hand on his we all got our deserts, how sad be for everyone of us." Mr. Wordley grunted. "To -morrow I shall pay a sum of money into the bank for you, and you will have to drive over and get a chequebook; and sou can amuse one again: by drawing He lingered as longas he could, and kept the carriage waiting some time; but , at last he went and Ida was left alone to , face. the ;strange change in her fortune.: She sat before the fire dreaming for a few minutes, then she wandered over the old house from room to room; and every ; room had res memories and associations • for her. In the library ,she could almoet Laney that her father was sitting in the highbackedr chair which wasrdtill drawn up in its place to the table; and she •went . and sat in it anti touched with reverent, loving hand the books and papers over which he had been wont to bend. She stood before his portra.lt and gazed at it with tear -rimmed eyes, and only y the con- sciousness of the love she had borne him enabled her to bear his absence. An she 1 named through theng , hall the newly risen the tell . wiindow, -wee n d,srrfollowed by through onald and Bess, who 'bad not left her for a moment, she opened the great hall door and 'went on to the terraeo, and walking to the end, stood and looked towards the ruined . chapel in which her father had buried his treasure, 'Up to this moment she had been buoyed up by excitement and the joy and plead urs of her return to the old house; but suddenly there fell .a cloud -lilac &prermien upon her; she was conscious of an ach- ing void, a lack of something which rob- - bed her heart of all its joy. She had uo need to ask herself what it woe: site knew • too well. Iter old home had Como book to her, she was tike mistress of a largo for- tune, he stood, as it were, bathed in the sunshine of prosperity; but her heart felt cold and dead, and the sunshine, bright as it was, well-nigh dazzling, indeed, had no evarmth in it. She was a great 1eireee now; would no doubt soon be surrounded by friends. She had been poor and vela nigh friendless that day Stafford had taken her in his arms and kissed her for the hist time; but, eh, how happy clic had been! Was it possible, eonld Fate be so cruel as 10 deeree that site ,should never be hap- py again, never lose tine aching pain • which racked her heart at every thought • of him? She put the fear from her with a feeling of shame and ihelpleesnese. She would -forget the man who had left her for another woman, would not let thought of him cast -a shadow over iter life and dominate it. No doubt by this time he had quite forgotten her, or, of he remembered her, recalled the past with a feeling of annoyance with which a ;man regards a •passing flirtation, pleasant enough 'awhile it lasted, but of whidh he did well to be a little ashamed. (To be continued.) with r arm. ' sf it would Butcher—Nell, yer know, 7num, meat's very clear to -day. Mrs. Gob- bins—Ho ! Then gimme a pound o' yesterday's steak, please. ,He—"You'll be sorry you didn't marry me." She—"Well, I'd l;aither not be married and be sorry I wasn't married than be married and be ,sorry I was married," I0,G1".CTy!¢f'!>'17 f1OSZe.cs " ......_ .�_ � .� .. ..r _. - . ....__ ''k'a� ate s,"'Cileke le.. Setae. W'',�ri�allt ....'oh' uy illl0f!jOI� jUI{{1ilU1I111111pglliUjlllllliiill►Ii�III ill. i@ teeleseteettaelateatteaPealealtallieseaste Fai tZrAort. ....te t8a. etas P• Cream Tests. There are many causes fo variations tsometimes foun cream tests, Frequently wo u a better word to use than some 1 t '� in ,connection with this at Stec. variations in thatests ,may a? be looked for. A few of the e' are here given. If the milk. of a herd of whose average test is four per is -separated so that the cream 40 per cent. and -the milk sudd drops to 3.5 per cent. of fat, a often occur, the •cream will then only 85 per cent. The amount fat lost in t'he• skim iinilk is not fected to any appreciable exten the richness of the milk separa One of the most common cause variation in the test of cream f the farm -separator is a variatio the amount of water of skim r used for flushing out the Crean the end of the run. It is appal that especially where a ,small ql tity of cream is separated, a mar difference in the richness of cream may be made by -a Chang the amount of water or skim I added, It is an easy- matter to v a pint or more in the water or sl milk used, and this alone may ily change the per cent. of fat in Cream from two to five per ce rile per cent. of fat in the cre nay be readily changed, as is known, any adjusting the er screw. The cream screw, however, is changed very frequently and it not the common cause in the va tions in the test which cousta occur and which causes so r. friction between the 'buyer and ler of cream. It seems reasonable to expect the richness of milk could be fluenced by the. character of i' Hd7�i 11 animals. feed given tot e it has been thoroughly proved for all practical purposes it is possible, The richness of the c milk depends upon inheritance can no more be chanted pe.rma ly by the feed than can the cold her hair. If the milk cannot changed in the richness by the it is clearly impossible for crea 1 be influenced in this way. - - Poultry house. Ventilation. Fresh air keeps the house and dry. Nothing will :cause ease more readily than a d house or one which has a foul o There are several ways to sit.; ventilation, but the -simplest least expensive is tel have an t ,>r muslin covered front. T open fronts on the house should protected in some way to pre' elle rains and 'snows from b blown into the interior. It- i tr.-o•od plan to attach -an awning n. f wood or some other light m sal, arranged in such a manner it can he lowered or raised. Muslin will keep out the cold fain to a certain extent, but n it gets wet the cloth loses some its merit as a- ventilator', as d :muslin will not ner'mit a free p age of air. By protecting the r !in with .an awning it will not affected in that way, The m1 'could be put on a frame so th can be removed on -a pleasant allowing fresh air to circa through the house on such day V Lessons Come Easier TF the child has a big, generous light to study by. The lamp saves eye strain. It is kero- sene light at its best — clear, mellow, and. unflickering. The RAYO does not smoke or smell. It is easy to light, easy to clean, and easy to re - wick. The RA -YO costs little, but you cannot get a better lamp at any price. 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"Yat, I would like to go hark to Iterondale-alt, tosseeecomesono passible. ef ei I go -the sister,ithe Aurae, itho have poen so good. to me, You aro sura" -she paused and went on shyly. "you. Etre Sure there 1s no anistake, that I Ilitvu s�viu%s + lunf�y, sem. rich?" "girth as ()scalene, Inv dear chiral." he re- sponded, with a laugh, She }awaits d still more deeply. "ulnen, have ya]3-lave you any 1n0iaey with you. Mr, VTorclley? I mean . quite a large brim of money?" "Noe a very large sum, my dear," he replied rather puzzled. '.about twenty or thirty poundsv, perhrapsa" Ida's face toil. she ' Oh that is not nearly . enough," 'Fh ' e asked. OR�tER . A m ur rice 5LL T ►a ay b re •a • 0 square feet 1 square .;feet DE NOW The One Crop System. Only in rare instances is it a • able or even safe, for the farm depend wholly en one kind of for revenue. The oue'orop sy is indeed risky; ,some years it • ''"-" come out all right," while in o ,stmemieg it will prove .a total failure; that se , unless the farmer good bank account, he is, in shape ; hence, for the common er it is best to diversify his practising a rotation and ap Ragci all the manure made by the animals or commercial mann as to keep up the fertility. soil. and improve it if p•ossibl Both 'Were Sold. "Gentlemen, I can't lie ab horse; he is !blind in one -eye, the auctioneer. The horse wa knocked down to a, :citizen, s� been. greatly 'struck by the at car's honesty, and after payi the horse he said—"You wer est enough to tell me bhat th. n'lal was blind in one eye. I any other defect i" "Yes, sir is, He is also blind in 'the eye," was the prompt reply. Freight, prepaid to any station in Old Ontario. Terms: esisis with the order'. Speeiul prices to other sections of Canada on >3 p application We can also supply Corrugated Midge Cap, oto., tolit our sheets, You save money and gait a vtstdl orb©r t�ietallie�'�Si�ng tuy +k Re „ Redcliffe Corrugated Iron to -clay at our special crit prices, tier} special reducdices are also and durable. eCa'resnairdence invited. (hock or Brick -face patterns) and "1Vletalhe Steel Ceiling and Wall Plates—beautiful We will gladly help you with your•barn plans, Let us hear from you about your requirements. murmured. Manufacturers Cor. ? l "But I've gat env eGy••r�uo rr,��s "'{ ,T �• ° , S r ebequeboulc with me. Ilow much deo You � a 1 E 8 ALLE C „ 6i o � � i�: ojj icing ane! L7uffierin Ste., want? A» d, fa: give me, my dear Duets Ida, but may I wilt what you want it for?" Iea.. a'�plA':.., + ,a >w,:.sd h.c .n' h"c�a3Ltrv3`"sa ran I have a cheque far five hundred. • svt•.. i + ., . ,, a rw ,,, , ".•a a pounds'?" Ida stilted, timidly, mite ' oil ' .?W, .,m ?„ Galvanised "East- lake" Steel Shingles and "itedeliffe" Bri- tish -made Corrugat- ed Iron drake a staunch, time•proGf barn. The Helpmeet. Mr. Newlywed --Did you is button on my coat, darling? Mrs, Newlywed No, - 1 couldn't find the button, at, tush sewer) up the Ibuttonhol lied ial t d po ,r e : d to d an lily at tl what ust t int the i ut in A to Wes p to s the is pe; cam stew toes es pl y frc ake - ay 1 y p0 •ecled, yra 0:111 nd by the and ut o oven 1me Servs k ma ndac n a ay b 'deco iset' the tt•e tha d m irl e tha d;t be t t'h tat( be tatt ro cd 11 r, nd itl n c nd 0