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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-02-25, Page 6Kereate spare me thet? Wouldn't you be•will-• . °? rel ?" .... _ ,. .. ing to take my inch , have the Tt1E CABLEMAN AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER II. I "Though I am never' to ell?" "Though probably ---you are never. to have the ell." "Elsa," he cried, almost fiercely, "you say things which I find it hard,to understand. You refuse me, and then qualify your refusal with a`prob- i ably'; you say that you feel a rush of ' ld,.shame when I call you by your 'fa- ther's name, and you ask to be only Elsa to me. What does it all mean?" "It means, Horace, that I want a, friend," she answered simply. "Are you in any trouble?" He thought of the cablegram, and added —"or danger?" "I am in trouble. I don't think I am in danger." He came to her and took her hand again. "Forgive me," he said gently. "I'm a brute to bully you. I will ask no more questions. Tell me as much or as little as you like, but let me help you if I can." A look of relief passed across her face, but immediately afterwards it vanished, and she shrank back from him. For a brief moment she seemed to struggle with herself. Then she looked into his eyes. "On my conditions?" she asked gravely. "On your conditions," he answered. She rose and went to the window. The night was dark, and she could see nothing, and the cold mist rolled in and made her shiver again. She eurned suddenly to the young man.' "Will you take me to -morrow to see the circus which, has come . to Ponta Delgada?" she asked. Scarborough thought again of the cablegram, and he feared for her -- feared for the danger which she could not tell him of, but which seemed, in spite of her denial, to threaten vague- ly but ominously. "Why do you want to go ?" he ask- ed. "You said you would ask no more questions," she reminded him. "I cannot tell you my reason." "I beg your pardon. I forgot. Yes, I will take you. I have already booked two seats." "Thank you," she said, and then added simply: "I must go back to father now. He is waiting for me." Scarborough accepted the dismissal. She went with him to the door, and stood watching him as he rode away. She has said that she must return to her father, but instead she stood look- curves of it were exquisitely propor- Two hours later. Scarborough set i toned. She had the daintiness of out for the Chinelas to play chess I carved ivory. Hers was not the kind with Mr, Page as hey had promised.of beauty which compels instant at - As he walked he again thought of : tention; but it was the kind which those two words in the cable Ineseage wears well. In old age she would still which had passed through his hands.' be beautiful, when the merely hand - Lovers are fanciful. Was it possible' some, or the merely pretty, would that they were not code words at all, , have faded to the merely common - but that the reference was to a real place. danger that was coming near to the t "Elsa," said Scarborough again. girl whom he loved? Scarborough 1 "I have not given you the right to framed the question in his mind, and' call me that," she said. then laughed out loud at the absurd -i "i came to -night to ask you to give ity of it. There could be no connec-, me the right." tion between Elsa Page and Val B.1 She covered her face again. Montague, with his troupe of quarrel- cried. some and probably tenth -rate stars.! "Don't,e came don't!"tsheo her, drew her Of course the message was onlY1 code! i hands away from her face and took one of them in his. But when he was shown into the "Elsa, I love you." drawing -room of the Chinelas, and "Don't," she cried again. Elsa Page came forward to greet him, "What's the use of saying 'don't,' he saw at once, with the quickness to when I do ?" he asked, smiling; for apprehension which love gives, that she had not drawn her hand away. she was in trouble. "I mean, don't say it!" "I would have sent to tell you not "Not when it is the truth? Elsa, to come," she said; "but I had no messenger." "Is anything wrong?" "Father's gout is very painful to- night, and he doesn't feel equal to chess. He asked me to make his ex- cuses for him." "I'm sorry," said Scarborough. "But there's something more, isn't there?" "Something more?" "You are in trouble? Something has happened?" Elsa looked at him for a moment will you be my wife?" The hand was drawn away now, slowly; but there was no hint of yielding in the voice, when she an- swered: "No, Horace." He let her hands fall, and stood for a moment without speaking. He did not plead with her. He knew that she was not one of the sort who say 'no,' because they want to be persuaded to say 'yes.' And even had there been the least likelihood that pleading would make her change her mind, without speaking, and a hint of dis- Horace Scarborough would not have tress showed itself in her eyes; but pleaded. He was not of the kind who she shook her head.plead. "No," she said steadily. "Nothing 1 "You call me by my Christian ha5 happened." ! name," he said presently. "You have Scarborough watched her as she never done that before. Why do you took up a piece of fancy -work and ,o it now?" fingered it aimlessly, and he knew'i "May I not? You called me Elsa." that she was not speaking the truth. I "I was asking for the right to do so Yesterday when he had left her she ; always. You will not give me the had been happy and natural, and to- right." »she said slowly. night he had meant to ask her to be ! "I will—Horace, his wife. But to -night she was differ- He made as though he would go to ,ing out into the night, and a great eat, There was a constraint in her her again, but checked himself. He longing came upon her to call this manner, there had been almost a cold -'did not understand her, but her refus- young mail back to her side, and bid nly Fine, Fiavoury Teas are used to produce the famous blends. Every leaf is fresh, fragrant full e! its natural deliciousness. Sold in sealed packets only. posed, so long as there was need for posing, as the innocent victim of an unscrupulous partner. Ile never de- nied that the bankruptcy was fraudu- lent, but he asserted that his hands were clean of the fraud. That the active management had been out of his hands, and in those of his senior partner, for the last two months be- fore the crash, was a point which told strongly in his favor. Many peo- ple therefore, whose commercial stand- ing made their opinion of value, be- lieved him, and considered him to be what he said he was, an innocent vic- tim. There were some, however, who de- claved that the truth was exactly the opposite. Elsa ,had known all this, and had waited, at first patiently, but latterly with a growing impatience, for the time when her father should have all the necessary proofs in his hands, and should return to face his accusers, and vindicate his innocence. That he no longer seemed anxioue to do so was a thing which she could not under- stand. But lately the conviction had been slowly forcing itself upon her that he never meant to go back; and for that weakness she almost be- gan to scorn him. She was thinking of these things now, as she stood at the door of her father's house in the Azores and look- ed out into the darkness of the night —a darkness no blacker than the de- spair that filled, her. She stretched out her hands, and cried aloud: "Horace, I love you! And even when you' tell me of your love, I have to lie to you, and play a part!" A great sob shook her. She turned, and went slowly to her room. Her father wanted her, and was waiting; •1 d been definite. She cess in her greeting, and he no long- al of his offer ra er felt his yesterday's confidence in must explain. the answer which she would give hint„ She came and put a hand upon his if he said the words he had come to r. shoulder, looking up into his eyes. say. Between to -night and yesterday i "I will not have you for my hus- omething had happened, though she band," she said, "but I want you for denied it. And that something had my friend. So I want to be allowed spoiled the understanding which had to call you Horace, and I want you been between them. to call me Elsa. Other people call nee . He came a little nearer to her. Miss Page; but I should like to feel "Elsa," he said gently. that to you I am Elsa—only Elsa—do She gave him a hurried look, almost you understand?" he thought, of fear; and then she' "Yes, I understand!" he said bitter - covered her face with her hands. ; ly. "You are giving nee one of the She was not erying, but a shiver privileges of a lover, and refusing all ,hook her, and then left her calm. other's. I understand all but your mo - She took her hands from her face, and tive. If you were a flirt, I could un- raiaed her eyes to his with a grave' derstand that too; but you are not. that the world was wrong. look of questioning. : You are not the girl who offers an She had landed in San Miguel, She was not one of those women inch, and means an ell to be taken. burning with a generous indignation whom men, at first meeting, called Why do you offer me the inch. at the injustice of men and full of hint tell his love again. For she loved him. But for one thing, she, too, might have avowed her love, and not been ashamed. But there was some- thing which he did not know of, a secret in her life, which made that im- possible; and her heart cried out with a great bitterness against the fate which denied her thus the right to love. Two years ago she had been a happy and careless child; then the cloud came suddenly, and darkened everything. She had come out to the islands with her father who was, so the world said, a fugitive from Eng- lish justice. But she believed then handsome. Amongst a group of other l She shivered slightly, for the re - girls, she might conceivably have been sentment in his voice hurt her. After overlooked or unnoticed; and yet she; a brief pause, she said: was, in her own dainty way, beautiful. j "Suppose it is because I hate to near There was no luxury of coloring, but the name Miss Page on your lips! the delicately -modelled features were Suppose that every time I hear it I perfect; her figure was slight, but the feel a rush of shame. Won't you ti ri K; vc Util Everybody— young and old —loves the rich, delicious flavor of K It is a daily treat—the perfect sweet. just what the children should have oir Bread—costs fax less than baiter or preserves. ])elicious with Ilot.73isctl.its, aid Batter Cakes. Gives a new delight to Baked Apples, Blanc -Mange and Puddings. Makes the best Candy you ever tasted ., c 1`1�" ie a p nre white Corn Syrup, not as pronounced LILY �Y 111 p p iltuvr as `raw11 rand . 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IIe had sunk, with seeming content, into the role of confirmed invalid, nursing his gout and spending his days in profitless study of the philo- sophy of Herbert Spencer—profitless, and even criminal; for meanwhile he did nothing to remove the stain which Ilay upon his name. It was this—the mental apathy which disguised itself in fruitless in - 13 107 On the Farm 144*, 4k40,46,it Social Conditions on the farm. .During the year 1915, the Commis sion of Conservation conducted ail j agricultural survey on 400 farms in Ontario. The survey included 100 farms in each of the Counties of Dun• j das, Waterloo, Northumberland and ' Carleton. Various phases of fermi life were investigated, and some in- teresting conditions presented. Social conditions, and other incen tives to keep the young people on the farms are to a great extent neg.', lected, as may be seen from the fol- lowing report of the survey. Ten per cent. of the farmers visit- ed have had boys leave and go to ; the city. Seven per cent. have sons • • married who are farming. Nineteen per cent. stated that they were fol- . lowing some form of book-keeping, but only one man was following a complete method. Sixty-seven per cent. take agricultural papers, seven- teen per cent. take story magazines, and seventy-seven per cent. take a daily paper. In 53 per cent. of the families visit- ed there were young people over 14 years of age while 31 per cent. had a horse and buggy or an automobile for the young people. Sixty-one per cent. of the farmers attended some kind of community event or events during the past year, chiefly church socials and picnics. Here it may be stated that the ru- ral churches have a great opportun- ity to develop the social side of their activities, to reach more of the young people in the country and interest them in clean amusements, sports and recreations. The local fairs also are prominent among the community events attended by the farmer. In Dundas and Carleton counties no or- ganized clubs for games were me with, while in Waterloo, 13 reported. a football club, and in Northumber- land, six reported baseball clubs.' Only one of the 400 farmers visited mentioned attending a literary so- ciety. Twenty-five per cent. of the' homes had no musical instrument of any kind; 39 per cent. had pianos.-- F.C.N. in Conservation. Systematic Farming. Poor health drove Morris H, Crock- ett from the city to a little five -acre fruit and poultry farm in, California. Previous to his removal to the coun- try, Mr. Crockett had been a success- ful business man. For the first three years he lost money. He had fancy and utility poultry, early and late apples, Logan berries, strawberries and rhubarb. Just why he was losing money, he `lid -not know. The fourth year ho decid- ed to apply to his business of :T'i'm- ing the same principles that he bad applied to the city business of which he had been manager. This involved a bookkeeping system, and during all of that year he kept accurate ac- counts for every department of his little farm. At the end of the year he did away with fancy poultry, plowed up his rhubarb and straw- , berries, and specialized on early ap- I pies and utility poultry. These his books revealed, were the money mak- ers. Since then, Mr. Crockett has done well. His accounts showed him how. Without them, he would long ere now have lost his farm. There is room for similar system- atic business accounting on every farm. The average farm of Canada is a mixed farm, with many sources of income. On almost every farm, we believe, one or more bran.deas are being run at an actual. loss and the income would be increased ly its elimination, Other branches are particularly profitable, and these should be enlarged, The only way to know which branches to eliminate and which to enlarge, however, is to keep books. There is no better time to start than the present Fat.m and Dairy. - - in the first year of the war illustrat- ed the value of an efficient Red Cross, Serbia triumphantly resisted the first Austrian invasion, but decimated by disease coupled with lack of Red Cross supplies, fell an easy prey to the next invasion. If the soldier remains days after his wound without medical attention, his chances of recovery are slight. The aim of the Red Cross is to get wounded, into its hospitals as soon as possible, bub to do this it requires an elaborate and expensive organ- ization as near the front as possible. The real proof therefore that the Red Cross is doing is to be found, not in terrible conditions of suffer- ing, but in a perfectly functioning system of relief work which reduces suffering to a minimum. It is the comfort, not the agony of the wound- ed which is the best teat of Red Cross value. Dr. Herbert Bruce the well known Toronto surgeon who has been on ac- tive service in France, has stated that our Canadian Red Cross is famous be- yond all other Red Cross Societies for its sympathetic treatment of its patients. So that even the English and French wounded express a wish to be taken to a Canadian hospital. This kind of Red Cross service for which Canada has won an en- viable reputation, is only possible with perfect equipment and with contin- ued generous contributions from our Canadian public. Would Obey Orders. The foreman swore at Cassidy for not fully loading up his hod. The hod, he said, would hold so many bricks, and Cassidy must take a full load up but she could not go to him to -night. theO ladder rrei every g ttrip. supply of bricks (To be continued.) ran out and Cassidy, after gathering RED CROSS PUBLICITY. every brick in sight, found he was still short of the proper number. He Goderich Red Cross Society has yelled up to a workman on the fifth shipped supplies to the value of $3,484. story. Saskatchewan Provincial Red Cross "What do you want?" asked the has a membership of 4,500, workman. A Co-operative Elevator Company "Throw me down wan brick," in Saskatchewan has given $1,000 to shouted Cassidy, "to make good me the Saskatoon Red Cross. A Red Cross worker in Wolfville, N S h tover 400 jars of fruit . ., as pu up for Red Cross hospitals. Grain Growers' Guide, a Western agricultural paper, has raised $659 for its Red Cross fund. Collingwood Red Cross has a membership of over 500 and has raised $3,686 in money and supplies. Manitoba Red Cross has a member- ship of 7,619 and collected the past year nearly $120,000. Barry Red Cross has ten auxiliaries in the surrounding country. Hamilton Steel Co., is making the Red Cross a donation for 1916, of $5,000 payable quarterly. Commodore of Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Victoria, has given to Red Cross a steam yacht valued at $10,- 000. Employees of Imperial Oil Co., Sar- nia, have given $1,000 to Red Cross 1 S oeieby. In Alberta 1,200 Red Cross "Mite" Boxes have been distributed to pre- vete homes. Newmarket Red Cross realized $3.50 by auctioning two turnips contributed by a farmer. - Wolfville citizens gave $355 to No. 7 Stationary Hospital being equipped by Nova Scotia. It is as difficult to estimate the true value of the Red Cross as it is to ape raise the value of any community praise of public hygiene and sanitation, Still, we know the terrible ravages of pin- i telleetual labor—which Elsa dui not ! goes and diseases in tames past and understand. It was this which n1111,104! n0 o• ne iS disposed to deny that the in spite of the loyalty ofleer love, t of public hygi cos -ene returns a valu- caused her to doubt. The facts, as sh( , had been told them, were tit=. se: The firm of stockbrokers in which her father was the junior partner had Tailed, and ,failed disastrously, for its operations had not been honest ' Its bankruptcy was fraudulent, and a criminal prosecution followed. The junior partner was out of the eoun- try at the time, touting in Portugal with his daughter. An attempt was • made to secure his return by extradi, tion, but the proceedings broke down upon a legal technicality. 'Ile waited M Lisbon until the clamor of the -courts at borne was over, and: then cht'ngeci''Iris name;. -and .went quietly to the Azoru's with hit daughter. Ile load." able profit in disease immunity. Similarly the value of the Red Cross consists fully as much in the stiffer -1 ing it prevents as in the misery it actually alleviates. •� C r Serbia c 'b C 11 n s of Sr terrible ..ir 4 The lgestlo and mou ness Indigestion, biliousness, head- aches, flatulence, pains after eating, constipatiou, are all cora- mon symptoms of stomach and liver troubles. And the more you neglect them the more you suffer. Take Mother Seigel's Syrup if your stomach, liver, or bowels are slightly deranged or • MOTHER brA Up have last tone. Mother Seigel's Syrup is male from the curative extracts of krtain roots, barks, and leases, which have a re- markabli tc.,iic and stren_;theu- iag effect on all the orgaus of digestion. 'rhe distressing symp- toms of indigestion or liver troubles soon disappear under its beneficial action. iiuy a. bottle to -day, but be sure you get the genuine Mother SelEel's Syrup, There are many finita - tions, but n.,)t one that ;ivee. the same health benefits. i015 is tie .(7W -U7.7, IN 'rWo ripav (:`1.1'. FULL C3.".k, Pt'3cai,00 MAL 9nii•, 1Ar36e&Qe '',4, imd'," that's what's the matter of 'eat. Stomach and Intestinal forms. Nearly as bad' as distemper. Cost you 1:001111101to ford 'em.. Look had--- are bad, Don't. physic, 'can- to dearth. Spoltn'a tloratnouttC will remove the worms, halafoVcc the((tt(I tone 'ern up ail round, and don't "Physic.- Acts on 1;lttnis and blood, Fall 111inw tons with, •eaehr bottle,' 10111 sr.l(1 by all .tit oggist'. ui?O1*7 icaproxcazt co., Chemists, ciesacrt; ±sari., 113'.0..s..- WORK. FOR .100,000 W0 iilfN. The London Daily News gives eosne details of the Government plans to organize a recruiting campeigu for women to till the soil. It is proposed to issue an armlet to women willing to undert?rc.: farm fvork, and that they will be to wear a special uniform. Every village will be canve.ene.t by woman's committees, and all who volunteer will be registerc.l and lr _ lu given. an armlet and uniform,uniform,�v ii E consists of a coat, stout boots, Alit and gaiters. These are to br.: ,s:•.ued at a low price. Already 250,000 mon have been withdrawn from the field of agricul- ture, and it is anticipated that a further. 100,000..will be lost to - this occupation, Practically only the sheep herders, ploughmen and othoi'sl who are indispensable will remein• . It is essential that an army, of at least 400,000 women be mobilized.