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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-05-26, Page 6TUI3 CABLI9MA AN N EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY. kt. CHAPTER XIII.—(Cont'd.) "You have quarrelled? I'm sorry; because I like you, and I like Elsa Carrington, She treated me with a fair amount of scorn on the night when she rescued me from the Ring Rock, and I suppose I ought to hate her; but I don't, because she was de - feuding her father. Is he the theme on which you and she have quarrelled, too?" "We haven't quarrelled," said Scar- borough, "But your idyll isn't working itself out smoothly? There is a jarring note?" "Yes." "Then' I'll help you if I can. Mrs. Carrington is a thorough bad lot. I don't know her well, but I know that. Your future wife didn't make a lucky choice of parents." "Can you give me details?" said Scarborough quietly. Mona de la Mar shot a quick•glance at him. His face looked almost hag- gard. He was ouffering. She did not know how it would help him to hear what she could tell; but he said it would. So she told him what she knew. "She is a woman of the world, in the worst sense of the word—heart- less, extravagant, selfish. When I knew her, she was. a woman of fas- hion, too., and probably the biggest pill in all the dose she was made to swallow two years ago, was, to her, the necessity of sea.>ing to play that part. If Elsa • Carringtcnt's father was a thief I don't know whether you consider that doubtful—I think it was because he had an expensive and worthless wife. He was a criminal, a clever criminal; but it was she who drove him to crime. Her craving for di -play ruined him, because he tried to satisfy it. I believe he lov- ed her. At any rate he stole for her. His character was weaker than hers; for hers, though shallow, is forceful— strong in its very defects of glittering hardness and utter selfishness. There, that is the portrait of your future mother-in-law, as I saw her ! How do you like it?" Scarborough did not answer. "There is one thing more," said Mona. "She was wonderfully beauti- ful. That is one quality which her daughter seems to have inherited from her." Still Scarborough was silent. Mona leaned forward and put her hand on his arm. "I don't know whether I am right in telling you all this," she said. I don't believe in the doctrine of heredity much myself; but perhaps you do. Are you afraid?" "Afraid?" he asked. "Afraid that the daughter may have inherited more from her mother than beauty? I don't think you need be, and I believe I am rather a good judge of• character." "If you think that Elsa Carrington is the sweetest girl that ever lived, you are," said Scarborough gravely. eb x o and. 0 10 Indigestion, biliousness, head- aches, fiatulence, pains after eating, constipation, are all com- 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 SYRUP have lost tone. Mother Seigel's Syrup is made from the curative esaraets of certain roots, barks, and leaves, which have a re- markable tonic and strengthen- ing effect on all the organs of digestion. The distressing synlp- toms of indigestion or liver troubles soon disappear under its; beneficial action. Buy a bottle to -day, but be sure yott get the genuine Mother Seigel's Syrup, There are many image Coes, bet not one that ejects the salol h ui h -benefits. 1015 e as the Stn L L Ci.r TN Iwo ( est,: care. •�.'sC:lY.tlo-t' llx.SI2C,Price50o 1117.177.. "..:01Mcalbatte "If you don't think so, I shall take the liberty of calling you, not a good judge, but the poorest." "Ah, good! You are ..right," said Mona with a smile of relief, "And the jarring note in your idyll ,will tune it- self into harmony, presently. Now tell me why you wanted to know all this?" Scarborough pointed to the harbor. A small steamer was coming in under a cloud of black smoke. • "That is the Funchal, from Lisbon," he said, "and Mrs. Carrington is on board. I wanted to know whether I should find in her a friend or an en- emy. You have told me." Mona laughed. ' "I'll tell you another thing," she said. "If my twenty thousand pounds !were, as we suppose, converted into diamonds, and if Richmond earring - ' ton was robbed of them, and perhaps 1 lost his life in defending them; I don't think the thief will succeed in getting 'away from San Miguel with them I now." "Who will?" Scarborough asked quickly. "You, their owner•?" 1 "No. The woman who is advancing I towards us under that pall of black Ismoke—Rachel Carrington." CHAPTER XIV. I " I"I think, said Mrs. Carrington, "that you have been very imprudent. I don't in the least expect to find that jar in the place in which you say you put it. What induced you to choose such a ridiculous hiding -place?" "Father said, 'The safest place you know.' That was the fissure in the Ring -Rock," said Elsa. "Absurd!" said Mrs. Carrington. "Your father was a fool to trust you." Elsa bit her lip and did not answer. Her mother had been in the island of San Miguel twenty-four hours, and al- ready Elsa had grown tired of the useless endeavor to defend the dead against her sneers. A dull rage against this handsome, grumbling wo- man was burning in her heart, and it was only by an effort that she kept back her tears. Mrs. Carrington had landed on the quay at Ponta Delgada with a grum- ble. Why was her husband not there to meet her? Elsa, in the mistaken idea that the truth might be too great a shock, had told her first that he was ill, and had marvelled to see the an- nouncement met with a shrug and a sneer. When at length she did sum- mon up courage to say that he was dead, Mrs. Carrington had stared at her for a moment and then had brok- en into a hard laugh, saying: "Why didn't you tell me that at first? Did you think I should faint,or scream, or cause a ecene in the cus- tom -house? Do you think, child, that I care? 1 don't. He was. a fool." "He was my father," said Elsa. "I don't see that that fact disproves my assertion," Mrs. Carrington had answered. "I expect you axe a fool, too." "He was your husband." • "And thereby he made me the wife of a notorious criminal. Do you know that my portrait, or what was said to be my portrait, was published in the Police News ? Yes, he was my hus- band; do you think I have anything to thank him for in that?" Those few sentences struck the key -note, and the motive never varied. The woman was =elfish, callous, quer- ulous; she thought herself ill-used and was shameless in self -revelation. Elsa had never expected sympathy from her, had looked forward with no pleasure to the day of her mother's arrival in San Miguel; but she had looked for the news of a husband's death being received with sorrow. Instead it was received with a whine, a sneer, a grumble. There was not even the decency of pretence. The woman plainly did not care, and in the hearing of her daughter at least, did not think it worth while to seem to care Was it the tragedy of two years ago ' that had worked this change? For Elsa remembered her mother as a very different person from this, She remembered a gay, laughing woman, handsome in a hard glittering way, always faultlessly dressed, always busy in a whirl of social duties, some- times fitfully indulgent to her 'daugh- ter, petting her when the white took her; but more often' letting whole weeks pass without a word of tender- ness, hardly with a glance of notice, The tenderness, what little of it there had been, was never, in truth, more than a tenderness of words; there was no tenderness of thought, and :Elisa knew that she had never held a Awe in her mother's heart. In Rachel Carrington's busy, pleasure -hunting Iife there had been no room fel,' affeee tion; the glitter of her social success was a hard glitter, out of keeping with the softer feolingS o i , Mather, and likely to be dulled bye any darts gerous: indul encu In thee% Not, int+ deed, that she ever felt any tempt*, tion so to indulge; her ,ahallovir nature had xom but tor Ma .great passion, and the passion that filled it wale the ambition of social success. She works ed with single-minded, purpose to win her place in the whirl; and when she lost that place, she lost all,. There was tragedy in this, and. those lines of discontent about her mouth had their pathos; for the puree ishment'of folly is tragic, and the sof- ferings of the wholly worthless az•e no less poignant because they are, de- served.. But the 'generous heart of youth cannot know this. In witnessinga sorrow that is wholly centred in self, it notes and condemns the selfishness, and, in its horror of that, is apt o. overlook the sorrow. Elea did t sympathize with her mother, hat e thought she understood her, and a knew that she despised her. And after a few hours of her company she came very near to hating her. But as yet her anger had not blaz- ed i - ed out into open defiance, her •father's letter had bidden her be guided by r mother, and so long as it was possible, she would obey; but she had an in- stinctive feeling that soon it would not be possible. ut elf ass t no sh sh fte am az her bre ul Mrs. Carrington had demanded t be taken to the Ring -rock at once, i order that c he might get into he hands as soon as possible the packet which Elsa had hidden. there. Els would have liked to have believed their this eagerness was prompted by a iety to read the evidence which h husband had got together to prove his innocence; but she knew that it was not ro. Her mother plainly expected to find something more than mere documents; and Elsa, thinking agaii the story of the diamonds, dared not ask the question which rose to her lips. But when she saw the gleam of greed in her mother's eyes, her faith died; the faith iii her father —for which she had fought, against evidence, against her own judgment, even against her own love—was killed in the end by her mother. Rachel Carrington did not know that. Had she known it, she would have laughed, perhaps even pitied, in a sneering scorn, a girl who could be such a cred- ulous fool; but assuredly she would not have cared. As Elsa's boat brought them nearer to the Ring -Rock, the girl's heart sank. She had looked forward to putting that packet into her mother's hand, in the belief that she would be taidn the first step in the prom- ised vindication; but she realized now in the last few hours: that hope was dead. Mrs. Carrington, on the other hand, grew more eager every moment, and by a somewhat natural mental pro- cess, more ready to discount as pos- sible disappointment by blaming Elsa for what she had done. "I tell you that I don't expect that jar will be there," she replied. "The place has been like a dockyard for the last week. Do you suppose that the people who refloated that schooner won't have explored every inch ?" "I don't see why they should," said Elsa, wearily. "They had their work." "Well, if they haven't, someone else probably has." "Who?" ""I don't know who," Mrs.. Carring- ton answered irritably. "But I do know that your foolishness went the very best way about to excite suspi- cion. You couldn't help the Sea - Horse being wrecked I daresay, but you might have avoided letting your- self be seen. Anyone with a grain of intelligence would know at once that you had not gone there alone, on the day after your father's death, for no- thing. The obvious inference would be that you were hiding something. The jar won't 1 there," Elsa did not reply, but began to make ready to lower her sail. The entrance to the Ring -Rock was only a hundred yeards away now. Suddenly Mrs. Carrington gave a short cry, and pointed forward. "Who is that?" A boat shot out from the opening in the circle of the Ring -Rock --a small boat with one man in it. and the man was rowing as though he were in a hurry. "Keep your sail up, Elsa! We can catch him!" "Why should we try?" asked Elsa. "Besides, I don't think we can." The man had stopped rowing, and was running up a sail. "This boat is a heavy sailor," Elsa went on. "I doubt if we shall gain on him now, Do you want me to try?" (To be continued. +,Cj: eessi ;l'' Toa* Vis. z spoon fi • ._ ful of "SALADA" for every two cups—boiling water—and five minutes' infusion will produce a most delicious and invigorating beverage, arca SEND FOR TRIAL. PACKET Mali us a postal saying much you - now pay for ordinary tea, and the blend you prefer—Black, Mixed or Green. ' SALADA," TORONTOt ON THE FARM This Experiment Favors Pasture. The problem that many farmers 1 are endeavoring to solve is the proper O relationship between number of acres n and number of cows. Venerally 1 ✓ would say that it does not pay to put a large herd of cows on a farm a too 'mall >o alroro pasturage for t them. Our results at the Ontario x- Agricultural College go to show that he • as cheap milk cannot I% produced in 1 the .stable in summer as can be produc- ed on pasture. At Guelph we pastured i 32 caws, which produced in four i ' month: 81,050 lbs. of milk at a cost a of $36828 This figures out to a ; r production co• t of 45 cents a cwt. of I milk, and 11 cents a pound butter fat. t In the stable we fed 15 mature cows. 'They were better individuals than the t cows on pasture. In the same four months they produced 56,290 lbs. of f Milk at a cost of $426,21, which figures i out to 86 cent' a cwt, of milk and 22 cents a pound butter fat, or very s nearly double the cost of milk pro- a dur_ed on pasture. One of the causes of high costing milk in the summer may be too much b poor pasture. The natural grasses in Ontario do not produce pasture for r the cows for more than one-half of 1 the summer, and there is no part of o the farm where manure and seed can B be more profitably expended than in t the production of an annual pasture a crop. The seeding mixture that I g would recommend for this purpose is one bushel of spring wheat, one bushel of oats, one bushel of barley in and five to seven pounds of red clover. One acre of this. annual pasture will th produce more feed than three acres of natural grass pasture. An experi- in ment conducted at Guelph last sum- lm mer illustrates this fully, y In one field we had 28 acres of ar- , The present is an opportune time for putting the live steels industry on a more business -like basis, says E. S. Archibald, B.A., B.S.A., Ottawa, in an address. I do not think that any one would deny that there is room for great gimprovement along this line. Even on the best of our farms there s a constant waste.; Our endeavor hould be to plug the leaks. The only secret of improvement in this egard is the application of more bus- ness-like methods. The present ime, when the demands upon our farmers are so great, seems to me o be a very opportune one for im- rovement in farm management and or introducing more efficient methods nto our farm practice. The fixed charges on a farm are the ame whether it is run at a profit or loss. The interest on the capital nvested in farm, buildings and equip- ent is a constant charge against the usiness. These overhead or fixed barges cannot be cut down, but their elative amount can be very material - y lowered by increasing the volume f business and cutting down losses. y keeping better cows and feeding hem better, and by growing more nd better feedstuffs from the same round, the volume of the business an be increased. Reasonable co- peration in buying and selling and. general community work in breed in But He Geta it. irpz. Blank frequentlyaccepts fees front hie patients. ' 'Iola don't any ab ""Ie settles with the heirs," Whorl, ft i&V ikk &1'lvin + as).:autc,- iraa'faiTe,. Lilt n1.6,t e! flu ' t e.4bezto i het' til "'•P" 110 1 any season they would more than justify this method of feeding. Na- tnral grass pasture requires two acres to an animal, or $5 a cow, rent or intere-t• on moderately priced land. Then there would be another $5 for the supplementary feeding necessary, or $10 a cow. Our pasture carried 75 head at a total cost of $548, or $7.50 a cow.—E. S. Leithch, in Farm and Dairy, O. A. C. Business Methods in Farming. will greatly increase the income of e individual farmer without increas- g the overhead charges he has to eet. This increased income direct - tends, therefore, to increase the rofits on his business. able land, four acres in natural grass pasture, and four acre_ in rough land and woods. The mixture mention- ' ed was sown on April 30, with an ad- a clition of two and one-half pounds b Canadian blue grass; two and one- to half pounds meadow fescue, these g grasses being added to provide pas- bu tore for: the next year. On June 8 o we turned into this field 14 mature lb beef cows, six beef heifers one to two ry years old,; 17 dairy heifers one to two p and one-half years old, four dry dairy b cows and 32 milking dairy cows. on Altogether we pastured on the field 75 ro head of cattle from June 8 to August 1�/-, 21. Then the 32 cows were taken off 2 to second growth clover, and on Sept- eq ember 8th the 14 beef cows were re- m moved. lb There was not time during the sea- lb son when that pasture could not have ro carried more cattle. I will admit 12 that last season, with its extreme 50 humidity, was unusually favorable to ra such an experiment as this. The lin only supplementary feeding was to to some cows running in Record of Pers bu formance. In an ordinary season the 50 results might not be so good, but in 50 How Much Seed Per Acre ? Amount of seed to sow per acre is s follows.: Alfalfa, 15 to 25 lbs., roadcast or drill; barley, eight to n pecks; blue grass, 25 lbs.; brome rass, 12 to 20 lbs.; buekwheat, 1 shel; clover, 16 lbs.; corn, 10 quarts; ats, 2 to 3 bushels; orchard grass, 30 s.; peas, 2 bushels; red top, 10 lbs.; e, 3 to 6 pecks; wheat, 6 to 9 ecks; asparagus, 5 lbs.; beans, 11;2 ushels; beets, 6 lbs.; cabbage, '/4 Ib., e ounce equals 2,000 plants, car- t, 4 lbs.; cauilflower, 2/� lb.; celery, lb.; cow peas, 1 bushel; cucumber, lbs.; kale, 41bs.; lettuce, 11b., ualling 1-3 ounce to 50 feet of row; elan, musk, 31bs.; melon, water, 4 s.; millet, 1 to 3 pecks; onions, 5 s., equalling I4 ounce to 50 feet of w; parsnips, 6 lbs.; potatoes, 8 to bushels, equalling 25 tubers per feet of row; pumpkins, 5 lbs.; dish, .10 lbs.; spinach, 12 lbs., equal - g '1a oz. to 50 feet; ;quash, 4 lbs. 6 lbs.; sweet potato, 111 to 4 shels; tomato, 1/4 lb, or 33 plants in feet; turnips, 11b, or ne ounce to feet of row. to liver 1 s 99 Canada's fines' Three generations of Canadian housewives have used "Silver Gloss" for all their home laundry work. They know that "Silver Gloss" always gives the best results. At your grocer's. Th1E CANADA STARCH CO. Li Rd rrED Montreal, Cardinal, Brantford, Wiesen )raker q/ "Prose* ]fraud" and "Lily White' Corn Syrups, and &neon's Corn Starch, Starch vravftzalzimm,. 234 : SMITING FEVER Influenza, Pink - Eye, Epizootic, Distemper and s3cj� nose and and an others, no matter how "exposed," kept cured, havingat7of those • s with 81POnn>0 lorssrlM, anyof those disease Throe to six doses often cure a ease, One small stele 'bottle guaranteed to do so, hest thing for brood merest acts on the blood, manlier tp sold try all druggists and harness shops or fanutao. Curers, Agents Wanted, Penn' n' ME WAY. SYO,, Choatiats, dashes, real., IX.$.4, HEALTI Rest Cure. When Dr, Weir Mitchell introduced his "rest -cure" treatment, he used to say that he feared lest it should be over -used or wrongly used rather than not used enough. It is vary easy to prescribe rest, and so, when a cane shows itself obstinate to other methods of treatment, the physician is tempted to try the rest cure—and sometimes to let it go on too long Without giv- ing sufficient thought to the subtle psychological effects that may be in- volved. First of all, in presenting the rest treatment, the physician must under- stand his patient's disposition and character as well as his physical symptoms. If the patient is a lazy and sluggish person, most of whose symptoms can be traced to a slothful body and an inactive brain, the best prescription is a five -mile walk every day, with less food and more fresh air. A rest cure has often resulted in turning such a patient into a bed- ridden or a house -bound invalid. There are persons who are constant- ly talking of their need of a rest Gluge. As a rule, they are not the ones who do need it; the poor creatures who really ought to take a rest cure are too hard at work to talk or even to think much about it. Some ,people there are who work altogether too hard, and some there are Who do not work hard enough to keep well. It is the first clasp who benefit by a pro- perly conducted rest cure. It is a mistake to think that they get it only in a sanatorium, under ex- pensive conditions. Two sensible members of the same household are all that is needed, one to take the treatment and one to superintend it and keep the patient quiet and undis- • turbed. The patient should have the most cheerful and best -ventilated room in the house. •A very simple but palatable diet list must be decided on, and friends must be warned to stay away. In ordinary cases, if you begin with a complete rest cure, in which tho patient sees no callers and does not even read or write, you can gradually modify the rules as improvement ap- pears, until the patient may see oc- casional visitors, and enjoy books and music in moderation, A real rest cure should always in- clude some form of mas-:age, because that takes the place of exercise, breaks the long hours of inactivity and keeps the blood in circulation. If professional massage is out of the question on account of the expense, an occasional amateur rubbing is bet- ter than none. Youth's Companion. A Bad Breath. Unless there is a catarrhal affec- tion within the nose, or the teeth are decayed, there is no reason for a bad breath, except from indigestion and constipation. Gas in the stomach and a sour taste in the mouth are sure indications that one needs a lax- ative. For this purpose an inexpen- sive and sufficient preparation is the phosphate of sodium. The correct dosage is a heaping teasltonful in a tumberful of hot water half an hour before breakfast. In severe bilious attacks, where there is. hs 1aehe and vomiting, a half teaspoonft'l in a half teacup of hot water may be taken every half hour until four doses are taken. There is no better household remedy for indigestion, 'headache and constipation than the plain phosphate of sodium. CANADA'S FIRE WASTE. Spring Is the Time to Remedy Dan- gerous Conditions. Canada continues her enormous fire losses, notwithstanding the efforts of many interests to reduce thin drain upon her resources. Dozens; Marclt approximately $1,406,500 worth of created resources was cen 1.mM. The usual causes, namely, overheated and defective stoves, furnaces, pipes and chimneys, defective wiring, dropped cigars and cigarettes, and children with matches, were respon=sible for a large share of the loss. The use of stoves and furnaces for heating will soon be dissontinued. These should then be careeilly ex- amined for defects. Chi.:: asyi and stove pipes should be thoeoughly cleaned. Stovepipes found corroded and dangerous should be te o cc re- placed. Too much care cannot be taken to guard against lire. It de- stroys both life and pro--. i'ty.. Last year 141 persons lost thole lives -in Canada by fire. Ordin ry care only Is required to prevent this o se and it is hard to realize that Cass :'inns are so blind to their own interest:- as not to appreciate this condit o ' veil give more attention to lite prevention. As Advertlzied. Custornor.-•-'Why -do yell sidvurtiso these goods as "tramp cloth"? Salesresine-Wo must be h ee.,st, ma- dam. It. won't wash.