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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1893-10-20, Page 3THE CLINTON NEW ERA Nordexfs Resolve JA)r $44nV•E. MOFP"AV. A nois cascade n gleaming Y a$ de, fin- g i� g ea►ning silver down from Pock to rock of .a precipitous descent. On 'either side, upon plateaus of nature's forming grape gardens had been planted, EVen now the vines were laden with heavy gg rrapiidly despoiled hut htt a were et the great house of .the neighborhood was to -night to give a fete to celebrate his only son's coming of age. „h Ayoung man, with his alpenstock i hand, evidently fresh from the de- scent of the mountain, made his ap- pearance on the opposite side of the brawlingstream, Catchingsight of the figure standing before g thevines, he called across, cheerily; ",gave a cluster forme, ood Katrina. I will, aeon be beside you:" Suiting his action to his words, he stepped lightly from, stone to stone, and soon reached the spot. What 'was his surprise to find himself face to face with a young girl instead of old Eatrina. He hastily doffed his stud- ent's cap, and stood, his fair curly head bared to the breeze, and with a look of such admiration in his frank blue eyes, that the girl's drooped before them in sudden confusion. i'I beg your _pardon," he said, ""I thought it was Katrina. And you— ma I ask who you are?" Tile girl's cheeks flushed as she rais- ed her clear, dark -fringed eyes to his face. Then she dropped a rustic cour- tesy._ little Hilda of the glen, whom my mother used to have up at the castle so often the winter before • she died? Why you are as tall as—as nay shoulder, and you were then the least mite of a thing." "True," said Hilda, raising one tiny brown hand a short distance from the g'rounrl, "and you were so high." Norden Friedholf laughed a merry, boyish laugh. "Yes, I forgot. Time brings changes alike to all. Well, give me the nicest cluster in your basket as a token that you forgive nae for forgetting you." And Norden threw himself upon a bank of velvety grass and held out his hand with an air of lazy good -nature. With as much seriousness as though it were an affair of great importance, Hilda searched until she found a lus- cious, dewy -purple bunch. As ' she gave them to him she said: "You will please excuse me for going on with my work, young master; for these must be all picked and sent to the house for your Harty to -night." "Say rather my father's party; for if there is anything I hate its to have to play the agreeable to lots of people I don't care for as much as—as that stone!"with a careless fillip of a pebble into the water; then, as a thought struck him, he said: "If you will bring the grapes up yourself, 1 will give you a present with nay own hands for your service, and will promise you the first dance at the ball which is to be given to -morrow to my father's tenants," Hilda's face grew grave, and her in- nocent child -eyes clouded as she an- swered: "Katrina sends me not to the castle. She says it is not well for me to go. I Ttn6wriot-why7"_____.. ._ ___-._ As Norden looked at her, he noted the refined, delicate beauty of her fea- tures—the wide, level brewed forehead, the short, arching upper lip, its mate full, pouting, and red, but finely cut; the straight nose with its transparent, tremulous nostrils; the full but grace- ful figure, all crowned with a golden gloty of curling silken hair—it came to him that the old aunt was right. Such a dower of loveliness might bring the child into danger should she not be' carefully guarded s.nd shielded from notice of the gay gallants who visited at his father's—Count Friedholf's home. "Ah, I see," he said. "You are a Little Red Riding Hood, and Katrina is a wise old grandmother. She's on the watch to keep the wolf away. Well,erhaps it is best." Replacing his cap on his curly head, he waved an adieu, and was soon out of sight. Hilda watched until she could see no longer then she turned to her work again, murmuring through her smiling lips: "Ah, but he is beautiful! So tall and broad -shouldered, with such bright eyes and white teeth, and such pleasant ways. Happy will be the girl he loves." And all day long, and indeed for many succeeding ones, the girl's mind was haunted by the memory df that handsome animated face. Norden, too, found himself irresistib- ly drawn to the spot rendered so unac- countably attractive -by Hilda's pre- sence. At first he deceived even him- self, and really thought he had no ses- sions intention in seeking her society beyond a wish to pass a few fleeting moments pleasantly; but he soon learn- ed that love was the magnet which had so completely transformed his careless, fun -loving nature into one filled with hopes and aspirations of youthful man- hood. Slowly he came to the conclu- sion to brave all the prejudices of his rank and caste, and to win the peerless peasant girl for his wife. It opened up a vista of intense and wonderful happiness to Hilda when he first told her of his love, and for a few moments she realized nothing but that, like the prince in the fairy tale, her lover had come to her a maiden of low degree— and laid his gifts of fortune at her feet • as humbly as though she had been a high-born lady. Then came the thought of his family, but Norden re- assuied her by his own high courage, and confidence in his ability to win his father's forgiveness—once they were married. At last, in spite of her bet- ter judgment, she consented to a clandestine marriage. The parish preacher would have refused to marry the young heir without Count Fried- holf's sanction. This Norden knew full well. So his fertile brain hit upon an e>rpedient, He dressed himself so completely like an unsophisticated countryman that Hilda herself failed to recognize him. He kept up his as - 'burned .character until the last words of the ceremony had been said, and they Were pronounced lean and wife. Then he threw off his flaxen wig, Straightened his stooping figure, and With aa laugh at the clergyman's astounded face, took the pen and signed his natne—Norden Friedholf--in bold, legible characters upon the parish 3N,egistet'. "phank ybi711 fol" Wig . morningg's work," he said, j'I,ode kiss again laugh» ed at all obstacles." ".Sut this is no laughing matter," the minister said, indignantly, t�Yotir falher, the.cont, will never forgive Me, Qb, my; dear Young Master, what have you 4911e?;' ::• "I have done 'ngthing..I' UR either . ashamed of, or sorry 'fort" ' and , the youngheir drew Iiilda's trembling, forth close to his side. - r I love Hilda beater than: my own life, 'and ngvr no- thing can'take her from me," but tire• poor brine's heart, was filtod with sud- den fear and sorrow. V'ever before had the good minister lotked.'athere withoutaldedly smile upon his face, now he frowned so sternly, "Oh, sir,?" she :said, _ clasping her hands, and sinking down at his feet her eyes brimming over with tears as she looked up at him piteously, 'his it so? Will I never be forgiven? Then Norden is ruined, and through his love for me?" "Nonsense, Hilda!" said Norden, cheerily. "Myfather never refused me anything in his life, Think you, then, he would say nay to my first plea for forgiveness?" The good old man stood looking from one to the other—a mingling of emo- tions upon his face: Pity for Hilda— vexation at Norden—and dismay at his own position in the matter—all contending for the mastery. At last he said gravely: "What is done cannot now be un- done, and the young master must go at once to his father and make a clean breast of it." Moved by a sudden jnpulse Hilda knelt before him. "VIM you give me your blessing and tell me you forgive me? I did not mean to do wrong." The old man's eyes were moist as he laid his wrinkled hands upon her bow- ed head and said, solemnly: "May God bless you, and give you a happy Iife." Hilda pressed her soft lips to his hand. "Thank you," she said. "Whatever comes, I shall be better able to be ar it." The next scene is at the castle. The count is seated in his library. Ela- borately dressed, leaning back in his easy chair, , he looks as though he might have stepped out from the mas- sive frame of the portrait of Count Friedrich Friedholf—the founder of the family. " His face softens as his young daugh- ter Irmengarde, a girl of fifteen, comes into the room, and stealing to his side, touches her red lips lightly to his fore- head. "Well, Irmengarde?" he says, ques- tioningly: for at this time of day it is rare for her to interrupt him. "Norden is here," she says gently, and even as she speakes the youn man comes fcrward, holding Hilda's hand. "Father," he says, in a voice he in vain tries to render steady, "I have brought you a present—a new daugh- ter." The count glances in speechless sur- prise from his son to this girl in peas ant's garb thus strangely introduced nto his presence. Has Norden gone mad? "What do you mean?" he says at last, hoarsely. "If you are jesting, it is but a sorry trick. If not, you are no conger my son." Norden's eyes quailed before his -father's" fiery"glance.--For__the•_first. time his gay self-confidence failed him. "It is true. Oh, father, will you not forgive us?" And the youth sank down upon his knees and drew Hilda down beside him. "Forgive you! Never! You can go and take your—your wife with you. Go! Do you hear?" "Oh, father," said Irmengarde, plead- ingly, "look at her/ She has the face of an angel. No wonder Norden loves her." "No, I will not look at her—the low born, the presuming." But Irmengarde desisted not in her endeavor to make peace. "Think of our mother," still continu- ed the soft voice. "Even as you loved her, my brother—" "Mention not your sainted mother in such a connection." And as he spoke, the count pointed to the door, and, turning to Norden, said slowly and sternly: "Go. Do not let me see your face again." , Norden grew pale to the lips. He had, indeed, offended beyond forgive- ness. He put his arra about Hilda. "Come," he said. "We are not the first who have perilled all for love and have lost. Remember, though," turn- ing again to his father, "the fault is wholly mine, not hers. I was deceived myself, and so misled her. I felt so sure of your love and forgiveness for any act short of a dishonest one." "If your idea of honor is to mingle base blood in a pure unsullied stream, it does not accord with mine, sir." And the Count curled his lip in un- mitigated scorn. And I advise you to make new acquaintance with the code." "I will, sir, answered Norden, proud- ly, stung by his father's contempt; "and you shall not be troubled with a sight of my face again until I have proved my right to claim the know- ledge." He kept his word. Before another month he had taken passage for him- self and Hilda in a sailing vessel—the Odin—bound for America. Then news came that she had gone down with all on board. Alas for pride and anger! when the Death angel lays his cold hand upon the heart of one we have loved even though estran- ged, to all appearance forever. When the Count heard of his son's death, it seemed to smite a blow at the springs of his own life. He fell, as though stricken by a heavy hand, moaning: "My son! My sone Oh, cruel father, to slay his own flesh and blood." lrmengarde ministered to him tend- erly in this hour of anguish, and when; after a weary, lingering illness, he once more rose from his bed, he was a changed man. Months rolled on, Sad and interminable, all seasons seeming alike to the mourning father and sis- ter. Then came a morning when the cloud was lifted in a burst of gladness. A cable telegram in the morning pa- pers announced that a few survivors of the Odin had reached Ameriea— picked up by a passing vessel—and that Norden and Bromhilda Friedholf were among the names of the saved, The next mail carried Ietters to the emigrants asking them to return, and conveying messages of Iove and for- g,iven s; but in the near presence of death Norden's boyish, impulsive na- ture had undergone a, ohttinge, acid he realized that he had failed in dirty do hit father, and that he must hake rel; pitratign by doing something to atone to him for the sorrow and anxiety he in his. thoughtless willfulness, 'had, Caused ' liim to finger. $p he wrote home an earnest,, manly, letter, err tulle 1 o bibs his pr for thenloving teal, but saying that he must fulfill his reg solve to win a reputation that would acid new. lustre to his tune -honored name; then he would return and lay his laurels at his feet, thus earning Ins forgiveness. Ten years later, At the exhibition of machinery in the Centenial Exposition one remark- able invention challenged a continual interest and admiration. It combined the application of a principle which, though often tried, had never before succeeded. One morning a distinguish- ed looking foreigner paused among the crowd of spectators standing before it. On his arm leaned a beautiful girl, evidently his daughter. As it happen - es& a group of gentlemen were discus- sing its pecuiar excellencies, and their remarks, being in their own native tongue, attracted their attention. "These Americans," cried one, ''carry off the palm everywhere for mechani- cal ingenuity." "But,"said another,"this nterne is not an American one, 1 see not why it should be in this particular depart- ment." "It has a right here," was the an- swer, "for Mr Friedholf's talentre ceived its first impetus in this his adopted country, of which he has be- come a naturalized citizen." Irmengarde—for it was indeed Nor - den's sister—gave a sudden start. "Father," she whispered, "did you hear? Can it be Norden?" Just then the crowd parted, and a splendid looking man, in the prime of life, came toward then. One look was enough. "Father!" my son!" burst simultan- eously from their lips. It swas indeed Norden Friedholf who had won this proud triumph, who had distanced all competitors. "I was waiting," he said, after the first greetings were over, "to see what tragnient should be meted out to this child of my brain. Then, if successful, I was coming home to you and Irmen- garde, and to the dear old place." Another hour found them at Nor - den's home. In the beautiful, dignified woman who came forward to receive them, it would have been hard to recognize the startled girl in her peasant, dress, wham Norden had introduced to them so suddenly as his wife on the never -to - be forgotten morning, long ago. Hilda had come to the New World with an idea to attain to, as well as Norden. It was to render herself wor- thy of him, and of the proud old name he had bestowed upon her, and she had spared no pains to accomplish herself. Now she was richly rewarded; for in parting the nobleman kissed her first upon one cheek and then the other saying in his courtly way: "Good -night, my daughter. I hope it will not belong before Norden brings you to your rightful place as mistress of Dorn Castle. My Irmengarde here only waits for you to take the keys as lady chatelaine, to leave her old father. She is betrothed and will soon be mar- ried." - 134WABM Uri T,illa..SOCIAII 01410$ aPV. DIIr ' 47n00. have looked ppm the deselation caused thereby, sitting Under my min- istry there are people in awful -peril trona strong rirink, and, jugging fropa ordinal y errentnstances, there is not one chance int five thousand that they will get clear of it. I see men in this congregation of whom I must make the I'emai that, if they de not change their course within ten years theywill, as to their bodies, lie down in drank - arils graves; and as to their souls, lie down in a drunkard's perdition. I know that it it, air awful thing to say, but I can't help saying it, Oh, beware! You have not Yet been captured ! Be- ware I As you open the door of your wine closet to -day, snaE that decanter flash out upon you, Beware 1 And when you pour the beverage into the glass, on the foam at the tap, in white letters, let there be spelled out to your soul, "Beware!" When the books, of judgment are opened and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that I to- day, in the fear of God, and in the love of your soul, told you with all affection, and with all kindness, to beware of that which has already exerted its in- fluence upon your family, blowing out some of its lights. 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No better evidence need be advanced than the following list of places where students Dame from who registered during the 15 days immediately preceding the writing of this ad. North Adams, Mass.; Washington, Mich.; Lethbridge, Alta.; Berlin; London ; Toronto • Huntsville, Muskoka; Kincardine; Ruthven; Coatsworth; Aldbore; Brampton; Rodneyy;Clin- ton; Stralsroy; Napier; Hampden, Co.; Grey; Auburn, Co.Huron; Seaforth; Bothwell,Wlndsor; Strang- fleld; Ridgetown; Wooslee; Fletcher; Camp Palmer, Essex Co.; Glen Rae; Highgate; Aldboro; Alvin- ston; Glencoe; Campbelton; Cedar Springs; Chatham and many points in the vicinity.. IT PAYS TO ATTEND THE BEST. Two:or America's best penmen among the members of our staff; means a great deal to our pupil NOTICE. ' .. , ' We -Pay -Railway Fare-inCloming to Chatham: - - ' Good board/or Ladies at $2 Gentlemen 82.50. We secureboard at theseflwith t oar gores very re Notice is hereby given that a Court will be held, pursuant to the Ontario Voters' List Act, 18'49, by His Honor, the Judge of the ConntyCourt of the County of Huron at the Town Hall, Bay- field, on SATURDAY, October 21st., 1899, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to hear and determine the several complaints of errors and omissions in the Voters' List of the municipality of Bayfield, for 189a, All persons having business at the Court are required to attend at the said time,and plane. JOHN DAY, Clerk o1 Bayfield. Dated Sept 25th, 1893. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the matter of the estate of Frances Up81all late of the Town of Clinton, married woman deceased. Pur talc Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1887, Chap. 110, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims or demands against the estate of Frances Upshall, late of the Town of Clinton,wbo died on the 7th of August, 1893. are required to send or deliver to the undersigned, Solicitors for Harry T. Rance, the administrator of the estate of the said deceased, on or before the 81st of Oo- tober 1893, their names in full and addresses, with full particulars of their respective claims. And take notice, that after the said 31st day of October, 1893, the said Administrator will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased among the persons entitled thereto, having re- gard only to the Claims of which notice shall have beeniven. and the said administrator will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof so distributed, to any person of whose claim notice shall not have been received at the time of such distribution., MANNING & SCOTT, Solicitors for the said Administrator ,eDated Sept. 21st, 1893. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. • In the matter of the Estate of James Woods, late ofthe'Town- ship of West Wawanosh, in the County of Huron, Deceased. Notice is hereby given pursuant to the Revised Statutes of Ontario, Chap. 110, that all creditors and other persons having claims against the es• tate of James Woods, late of the Township of West Wawanosh, in the County pf Huron, yeoman. de- ceased, who died on or about the twenty-fifth day of July,1898, are hereby required to deliver or send bmail to Messrs Garrow & Prbudfoot, Goderieh, Solicitors for Wm. Harrison and Robt. Ramsey, the Executors of the said deceased on or before the 91st day of October, 1893, their names and addresses and full particulars of their claims, also a statement of the securities, (if any) held by them. And further take notice that af- ter the said 81st day of October, 1893, the execu- tors will proceed to distribute the said estate having regard only to such claims as they shall then have notice of. GARROW & PROUDFOOT Solicitors for Executors. 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