The Blyth Standard, 1902-09-04, Page 3Flo 01r4,1 fcaa, actwkiki,fo
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rnE PRICE THAT was rain
Gr
ti calmer, liunn:n IlttIRI-s•)
The night Bernard Munvel return-
ed from New York the mill hands
met him ret the 'station. Amts an
uproar of cheers two giants lifted
Manvel bodily on to their shoulders,
bearing him thus to an open vic-
toria, and In triumph Bernard was
escorted up the hill to Ise home.
Bur the troth of the matter was
that title Bernard Manvel had
twice saved the city, once from a
dreadful pestilenoe and now by the
settling of the etrlke. Tite strike
that had dragged Itself along by the
week and the month until a year had
passed, and everywhere in the Lit-
tle Clty misery stalked rampant.
Tho first few months were not no
bad. It was not until the summer
Dame, a Beason without parallel for
dryness and heat. 1
In the distress of their poverty
not a family was prepared to with-
stand the fearful ravager of fever.
Death galloped through the streets
unchecked in Its progress, reeletleee
in its demands.
For a little time Bernard Menvel
obeyed the shrill command's of ale
wife and stayed up there in las home
on the hill. at ono day when not
a leaf stirred and the heat burned
wickedly he took hie medicine box
In hie hand and headed toward the
Little Clty.
"I shall not come back until the
fever Is broken," he called to Nancy,
Ms wife.
"You are a fool," rhe screamed.
"What oan you do down there alone?
Who will thank you for your eacre.
Hoe? Who will pay you? You are
orasy to throw yourself away nee-
lesely Mien everyone gays you could
make a name for yourself and riches,
too. You have no thought for
Men
Bernard looked up into hitt wifee'
angry face. "What are riches In
oompartmon to a man's conscience?"
be asked, gently. r
"You will go?" she cried, sharply,
with a strange intonation.
"I mutt," he answered, elmply, and
passed on.
He went from house to honee, find-
ing everywhere tdoknese and death.
On tine fourth night, the ninetieth
hour of oo'aetnnt work, Idenvel, bend-
ing over the toren of a woman, eud-
denly felt hes nerves go. Something
in -him gave way. He straightened up,
false, daied, Wakening for Bleep. But
how could he rest! The Bound of
teem. was all about him. Every-
where he moved fevered hands
stretched out toward ltim. Even tun
their delirium, men cried for hie aid.
He oaadd not etop.
in One corner of his medicine box
lay a bottle of white tablet.; be -
Ode it was a ,tiny syringe, a pretty
Kittle affair. He looked at it for a
mom emt uncertain, then reaching for
a weneg�laes of water be dissolved one
tablet, felled the epriage with the
mixture and turned back the left
sleeve of hie coat, ,
The effect was alenalat instantane-
ous. Web a great sigh he stood up,
his shoulders thrown back, hie face
lightened. There was an uplifting of
BABY'S OWN TABLETS
Are Nature's Cure fur Chlidren'e
Ailments,
Medicines containing opiates should
never be given to children -little or
big. When you use Baby's Own Tab-
lets for your little ones you Items
a positive guarantee that they con-
tain t.elther opiate nor harmful drug.
They are good for all children tram
the smallest, weakest infant to the
well grown child. These Tablets
quickly relieve and positively cure
all stomach and bowel troubles, sim-
ple fawns, troubles while teething,
•to. They always do good, and oan
sewer do the slightest berm. For
very email Infante crush tete Tablets
to a powder. Mra. P. J. Latham,
Chatham, Qnt., says: "My baby took
Very Wok. Hie tongue was coated,
tie breath offensive and he could not
retain food on hie stomach. He also
had diarrhoea for four or five days
and grew very thin and pale, We
gave him medicine, but nothing help-
ed him until we gave him Baby's
Own Tablets, After giving him the
first dose he began to improve and
In three days he wart quite well. He
began to gain flesh and le now a
fat, healthy boy. I am more than.
pleased with the Tablets an I think
they saved my baby's life"
Baby's Own Tablets are sold by
all airline or will be seat by mall
pat pard at 25 cents a box by writ-
ing dlreoe to the Dr. Williams' Medi-
cine 0o. Brookville, Ont„ or Schen-
ectady, int Y.
his whose body. He war at work
again at once *lith no Woe of time,
full cd a new vigor and a new cour-
age.
It was lees them an hour afterward
that Gabrielle Laecelle came hunt-
ing for him. i'uriy in the evening her
father anal mother had been strick-
en with the peettlenee. Their one
cannot) for fife lay with him.
"1 need your help. Afterward I will
help you. Can you come now?"
Together the two left the house.
Site tall, straight, beautiful beyond
any woman tie had ever seen, with
passer In her (ace, and lose, too, and
a something elite beside that the
future would awaken, but as yet et
slumbered quietly. He as flne a man
are one would care to see, wall large
intelligent eyee, clear-cut features
and a 'big body that held the
strength of tut ox, though at moot
times that strength was hidden un-
der a womhnte gentleness.
And whether it was because n
'trait of pure French blood ran in
the opine of both Bernard and (lab-
rlelle that made tnem one is
thought and belief and purpose, or
whether it was their common (hu-
ger and ready sympathy for the
suffering inhabitants of the Little
City, no one could tell, but before
the night had gone one long,
strange look had passed between
them. A look that was more than
the meeting of their eyes.
it warm flush crept over teeman'e
face and stayed there. But she
turned pale no a ghost, and at the
same instant thero sprang into her
eyee a new expression, the abrupt
awakening of that something that
till now had elumbered im her eo
quietly. There were no wards, only'
the look, and It was enough.
For the next two week' these
two were never apart, save when
Bernard Insisted that she rest.
By that time the news of the Lit.
tie City'e terror and its need irtd
spread broadcast to the four cot•
nets of the land, Nurses and doc-
tore onme hurrying to the rescue.
But the real work wee done -done
by two persona, the man and the
woman.
"You will go "tomo • to -day ?" she
meted, wanting hien to rest, ,yet
coke with the dread of separation,
"Only for a little while," he an -
steered. Then suddenly he looked at
her. "God knowe 1 would rather
etny here."
Her heart throbbed In bar throat.
"You should have any wish granted
for the asking," she whispered.
"If that were so, do you know
whatt I would ask ? 011, Gabrielle,
Gabriele, how oan I go on ? How
oan I live up there now -now that
I know lova?" he cried, les voice
'honoree with emotion. "Every min-
ute here In the plague-strleken
olty has been happiness. Happiness
because I have Lad you -and -1
cannot regret that tt Its so."
He watt face to face with the wo-
man he loved. Face to face with
the woman Who loved him. Stretch-
ing out hie arms he caught her to ale
breast, knowing that lite, yet death,
too, lay in yielding to what rightly
he should have forced aside. She
gave one low cry, then lay still, her
head burled on his shoulder, her arms
about his neck. She knew, too, but
she wets waling to pay the price.
Se they stood for a long time, and
he did not know when he left her
or how. Me brain wee ►n a whirl, his
eye' dazed, and his soul In such a
torment of longing and pain that he
scarcely saw where he had come
until the sound of a voice emote ills
ears. Then he 'stopped short, giving
a little ehlrer, drawing la hie breath
like a gasp,
" Bernard -stop ! How can you be
sir careless? Do you mean to bring
Infection into the very air I breathe ?
!-our clothes most reek with pollu-
tion.";
It was his wife's welcome home. Her
greeting
of hand-to-hand encounters nights
death.
Early in the fall, while a delicious
warmth still lingered In the air, and
the memory of what he had done
was vivid in the allude of the people,
Bernard Hamel went away to the
great city on his second errand of
salvation. He said nothing to any-
one except Gabrielle.
What he said he never told -per -
hates he did not know, yet when be
linlehed ills plea the eyee of the one
whom will could make or end a strike
were red, and Manvel'e body was all
a-tremible.
There were a few questions, a raw
answers, and Bernard left the office
in a kind of trance, But th0 thing
was done. Safely In his pocket myy
the papers tint eettled the ronteet,
settled it at the strikers' price.
He could not wait to carry the
good news by trains that run only
too slowly, and he telegraphed to
Uabrielle. bo, when he arrived at
the little city, eke a hero In the
midst of enlltuelastn and praise, he
was glee for tla'tu; happy that he
hitt served her people, but in ids
heart lay a sutbtess-a eadneas that
never lilted day or night except when
he took from his pocket a tiny
syringe and tutted back the left
sleeve of his coat,
Gabrielle had not come wait the
crowd to welcome Bernard. She was
afraid lest some curious eyes might
see what site could not hide• But
early the next morning elle climbed
the hill buck of the little city and
Bernard tet the same time, although
there had been no arrangement be-
tween them, went through the woude
and up to meet her.
As the matt left the house his wife
glanced up. Front a glance her look
became a gaze. 0u her husband's
wtconseious face was an expression
very new to her ; sometteng that
made her wander She put down
her work anti took up a book. Then
she laid that motile and getting oiow-
ly to her feet elle left the house,
e rooeilg to the path that i11 had
followed, walking the way he had
gone.
Site climbed the long hill, her eyes
shifting neither to the right nor the
Mt, the thick carpeting of pine nee-
dles deadening her footsteps. Pre-
sently she reached the top, where
the whole valley spread out before
her, the little city gleaming In the
sunshine hie a white Jewel set In
green. Then her eyes lifted.
A act look came in her Lace. The
color fled and fled until she was
ashen white. Her hands clinched
of themselves. They stood before
her. The lovelight was shining in
their eyes ; their whole story was
told in their look on their faces. Even
at tlto eight of her they mule no
more.
Not a word was spoken. Not a
ore was heard, Mrs. Manvel stared
for a ntoneett, her face transformed
htto something dreadful. Not a
change for Borrow, but a change for
revenge. Ile should pay. But they
would argue it out together abate;
she and her husband.
And still In silence she turned and
left them, going back to bier house
that wale no longer a home.
It was nearly night when Ber-
me' came -straight to his wife. Hie
face worked with the stream of what
he felt, Itle siouidere were etrangely
bent with some suddenly, acquired
age,
"Nancy," he mild, "I have wronged
you -not by deed, Got is my witness
to that -but by thought mod by
word. I ant ready to make the
reparation you ask. Although I
cannot change my heart, yet never
again will I be untrue to you, either
with my eyes or my thoughts,'
He spoke so low the wools barely
came to her ears as he repented
these things that Gabrielle made him
promise he would say, for all day
she had pled with him. He of hie
own accord wanted to end his
wretched life with the woman whose
Infleenee upon him had always been
disturbing and u heavy burden end
give himself wholly where his heart
had turned. But Gabrielle con-
quered him
"I cannot forgive, but I will trj
and be patient. You can understand
that I have no heart to stay Isere
in the plane of my humiliation. It
has long been my desire to be rieh.
We will go away eomowhere that
you may accept one of the posillone
you have so steadily dec•tined. It
may be when you have won fame
and riches I will -forgot what you
have made me entree"
Bernard accepted Isle sentence si-
lently. As the months passed there
began to come rumors of Bernard
Manvel. He wag making a brilliant
record. Hie fame increased until
everywhere the world over Mantel
was lmown.
Hut worked like a slave. hufoney
poured Into hie pockets. Nancy's wish
was gratiiled. One look at the man
also was enough to show that the
wife's humiliation was revenged. He
wns still handsome, but the change
in his face was appalling. His hair
and beard are snowy white, les body
thin to emaciation, Ills eyee burned
with an uncanny fire. Occasionally
when he smiled those who caw It
sighed,
And now not only was the left arm
marked, but everywhere on his body
the flesh was scarred with the pun: -
Imre of the tiny syringe. Bernard
lived on the drug. It was all be had
In life tlutt made life endurable. Sune-
timee It made him dream, and that
was hie happinese, for the dream
was unfailingly of Gabrielle.
One evening a storm raged over
the Little City, and Gabrielle, sitting
close ay the fire, dewing and listen -
Ing to the roaring wind, thought of
tum no she always did. Ott the table
beside her lay his picture, a cut
clipped from a paper.
At an instant when her gate find
lingered longer than usual on the
picture she heard the door fly open.
There was n screech of wind, a whirl
of the enoty, and the woman sprang
up with a cry of alarm. Then she
stood still no marble, for before her
was Bernard. Bernard, yet not Ber-
nard. The man she loved, yet a very
different being too. lie leaned
against the door, weak, cold, trem-
bling, ecareoly able to stand, but the
words he spoke came firm enough,
"She's gone -dead -died a week ago.
I'm free. Free at Inst, thunk God.
My retribution Is ended. GabrlrIle,
Gabrielle 1"•
The cry came M,m a soul bur-
dened past endurance. Sae under-
stood and answered,
Through all the night she sat ,iia
hand in hers, hie head pillowed on
her lap. And bit by bit during those
long dark holm the story td lie
whole suffering enure to her. Every
little while he felt for the ayringe
and put It to ale skin -anywhere
that It eaten easiest.
Toward morning Ito fell Into a
little dose and lav to still and cold
that Gabrielle believed he had gone.
She leaned over him po a a mos ', TWO LETTERS.
Waning him full upon the Ilpe. Li
stonily hie ey es opened, looked Int„
hers, Flashing with the fire of youth
and love.
' The price I paid was dear, fia-
brlelle, but It was worth tt ail. One
kited woes worth it all -my Gabrielle
--one kine-"
$as voice tealied Into silence. Tito
tit,gere of its right hand unlo;k,•d
themselves and with a eharp rliek
the syringe rolled onto the flour.
llabrielle reached for It, then at
him. Her face was hardly Zees ghast-
ly than the (rico df the dead.
" After all -wiry not ? It'd all he
had -and now ell I have." She hulled
at Iter sleeve, her eyes still fixed on
the thing she hell.
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WiFE'S RiGHTS IN
HUSBAND'S POCKETS. 11,
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The name of JuJge Sldener, of the
First District Pollee Court of St.
Louis, deserves to be written in
lettere of silk and gold on every ,
Wot11au'11 Itcart, met especially on
the hearts of those women whose
husbands are curtuudgeone and
eklufllets. t St. Loutelun w'us
brought before Judge Sldenor
on the charge of abusing his, the
prisoner's wife. The wife whopper
pleaded In • justification that the
said wife had "gone through' bis •
pockets.' The wife answere.i that
her lord stayed himself with an
excess of flagons and threw away
Ise motley at times. To keep the
pot bolting elle had to visit hie
pockets and transfer household up-
propriatione therefrom. The Judge
held that her financial methods were
entirely justified, and he fined her
Irritated master $5 for disturbing
her peace.
More than once fluttering, anxi-
ous wives, full of doubt, and ecru-
pulous of conecienco, have alike;" the
Bun 1f it was right for the wife
of a closeflet or a 'ependtitrift to
levy upon ills pockets. We have had
no hesitation• in affirming the right
and duty of the consort of the
snore than infidel who provideth not
for his own household to take the
money that he refuses or neglects
to.give. T1te learned heads of dl -
velem and casuists In theology and
ethics may decide as to the strict
merits of such cases in the court
of cuuscience; but there can bo
nu doubt that eternal equity must
stretch out relieving hands and
countersign these order's on Ole
purse,
It le assumed that the irregular Mi-
pust is abeolutcly neee0rary. To ex-
act toll to be spent on extrava-
gances and snper11u111ne would be
brigandage. Tito .woman who reeorte
to ties legitimate pocket picking
must hztve clean pickers. She, is en-
titled to reasonable ullowunce and
wage. Her ,gowns and frills should
bo eueh as suit ler station and her
huebaitd's means ; and his uteanners
must not pique her tato taxing hhn
too high. There aro men, otherw Ise of
good principles and orderly lift, who
lutvo to be cuffed or bled uetore you
can get money out of theta. They
]Wirt with at as grudgingly as If It
wore a gear of life. What an excel-
lent meta reticent husband was Bar-
ker, the terrier, to Clara I'eggotty,
yet how he would writhe and groan
when lie had to produce a guinea
from hie tetroug box under the bel.
Lot us not be unjust to the "close."
Dt grandfathers ,and groat-grundfa-
tltrre, In (bachelor uncles and spinster
aunts, In all persons not immediately
responsible for your maintenance,
to whom ;it any coeur to leave you
somothhng In their wills, frugality
and penurdouencse aro to be encour-
aged. If ftlto'o severe are saving for
you, they are saving for a good
cause. Suet.,altruism Is to be praised.
The old boys and girls may teeny
themselves comforts If they choose.
The lase fun they have the more
there will be for you. Dn a general
way their thoughtful provision for
posterity, this sacrifice of the present
for the future is to bo approved and
applauded. It le sound from the rco-
nomie point of view and It le eatlefac-
tory to the young folks. Let Jacob
sweat and ewink for twenty hours a
stay. Benjamin will enjoy for him and
pour champagne into the silver cup.
Some must work and some must cut
coupone and a dash. So rune the
world away,
But a stingy bueband must be a
plague to hie wife, no matter how
useful and pleasant bit hoardings
may be to bre deocendante. We can't
believe tihat there are many much
husbands In the United Settee. The
Americans, as a class, keep open
puree for ?their wivee and are more
inclined to spend too meth than too
little. Still, there must be some
proportion • of griping niggards
nmong them. To that proportion
Judge Sfdener epeake. There Is the
larger cease of men who aro thought-
less or eeltl5lt in regard to the al-
lowance of their wives, "I am poor,"
says the saw, "Met all I have I
operas upon meself " There are wives
who struggle along on hope and car-
fare, wloile their misters live sump-
tuously in the matter of cocktails
and Harems. Sworn statements of
the minor expenses of any average
9msband and wife would be matter
for some etrango and entertaining
oomparlsans.
Meanwhile, troth the "near" and
the careless should remember that
a married woman possesses the right
of visitation and search of her Ime-
band's pockets. -N. Y. Sun. •
When a woman le obliged to suffer
In silence she suffers Just twice as
much.
It takes nn txtemporaneou,
speaker to talk fluently aboutt both,
Ing.
Happy le the man who sees things
no they should be lnetead of as they
are
Has Not Changed His Mind In
Seven Years.
Tile tbrreapeodenee Yetis More lIm•
pheticetty'I'hou I'ernaps Anything
Could, the fertect Permanency of
Cures 31ade by Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Gelort, Ont., Aug. 1'-(Spcdut,-
Mr. Samuel Kermthan. of tits 14210°,
1s a wonderful example et what
Dodd's Kidney Pills will do for sick
and suffering humanity.
Mr. Kerttahan had bu tt tern il, in-
deed, so 111 that the doctors hod
given him up e,9 incurable. 110 had
spent a great deal of money lit try-
ing to obtain a cure, but all nu titin,
until at last a friend surge.+ted
loss's K'dney P1116, Tito wonderful
t•cmedy 00011 made him a well man.
awn although this was nearly, sovt•n
yours ago, ho bus scarcely known
whirl Illness has Uorn since, and has
never haat a return of lila old trou-
bie. The foliowin; letters which he
has addressed to the proprietors of
Dodd's Kidner !'Ills, tell the story:
Getert, Ont., Oct. 1., 1893.
In December, 1598, 1 woe taken
eick and laid up, unable to work foe
14 months. I was confined to my
house and to my bel, I was attended
al tat':ous times burin„ these months
toy five different doctors. Three of
them decided that my ailment was
flouting kidney and incurable. The
other two said that it was spinal
disease, but all five of them pro-
nounced my Dasa absolutely and posi-
tively incurably. My money was
nearly all gone, for I was not a
etch run. Someone advised me to
try Dodd't Kidney Pills, and to a
het hope, I ltd so. After I had taken
three' boxes I was able to walk
about,(but I continued the treatment
until I had taken eighteen ilexes.
Now I tan any I am entirely eurtri
and able to do my work as well as
ever. damuel Kernohan.
Chert, April 24, 1902.
I am as sound as 1 ever was and
have not had the slightest return
of my oil trouble, glace Dodd's Kid-
ney Pills curet me away back in
'94, detmutl Kernohan.
Dodd's Kidney Pills cure to stay
cured.
1 BBNBFIIT TO FA&MBRR,
The benefits that will undoubtedly
result to farmers from the recent
incorporation of the International
Harvester Company winch took over
the bushtess of rho five leading bar.
tester manufacturers have probably
not been conefdered by a large por-
tion of the farming community.
The ecouumlcttl necessity of a con-
eolidutlot of the interests of manu-
facturers and (hose o: their farmer
customers must bo apparent to any
ono who understands ,the present
ti tea Lion.
The lncreasid and increasing cont
of material, manufacturing and sell -
lug -the litter In coatequene,t of ex -
trump and batter competition be-
tween manufacturers and their eev-
erni selling ageute-has mode the
tusinese unprofitable.
The two alternatives left for the
manufacturer- were either the in-
creasing of the prices of machines or
the reduction of tiro cost of manu-
facture and sales. The latter could
only be accontpaahel by concentrat-
ing the bushes In ono company.
Att can meetly be aeon, the form-
ing of the new company was not a
etock J.bblug operation, but a cen-
tering of mutual interests. There le
no watered stock; the capitalization
le conutrvati'c, and apresented by
actual and taugllle asset -i. There is
no stock offered to the public, it
having all been subscribed and paid
for by the manufacturers and their
aesoctates.
The management of the Interna-
tional Harvester Company is in the
]rands of well-known, experienced
men.
The officers are: President, C'yrud
H. McCormick; Chairman Executive
Committee, Charles Deering ; Chair-
man Finanre Committee, George W.
Perkins; Vice -Presidents, Harold F.
McCormick, James Deerlug, Wm. H.
Jones and John J. Glossier ; Secre-
tory and Treasurer, Rlchrd F. Howe.
The members of the Board of Dlrec-
tore are as follows: Cyrus Bentley,
William Deerlug, Charles Deering,
James Deering, Eldridge 111 Fowler,
E. H. Gary, John J. Glessner, Richard
F. Howe, Abram M. Byatt, William
H. Jones, Cyrus H. McCormick, Har-
old F. McCormick, George W. Perkins,
Norman B. Ream, Leello N. Ward,
Paul D. Cravnth.
The International Harvester Com-
pany owns five of the largest har-
vester plants in existence. The Cham-
pion, Deering, Idet'ormirk, Milwaukee
and Plano -pleats that have beets
producing near"; or quite 90 per cent.
01 the ltutre0sting machines of the
world.
It oleo Owns timber and coal lands,
bleat fureaoes awl a steel plant ; It
has a new factory it the procese of
construction in Canada.
It le believed that the coat of pro-
s deicing grain, gels, and corn harvest-
, ot,g machines will he et) reduced that
tho present low prices can be con -
and that consequently- the re.
etdte cannot be otherwise titan bene-
ficial to the farmer. To maintain the
present prices of these machines
tneang to continue and Inercase til•'
development of the ngrirulture of
the world, for no one cause has con-
tributed or can contribute more to
tide development than the oheapnees
of machines for harvesting grains.
He that wants should not be bash-
ful, -Italian proverb.
The world is round, and that's no
lie,
But, really, I declare,
That's hardly any reason why
We should not all be square. ,