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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1904-02-04, Page 70 T1IE WINGITAX TINES, FEBRUARY 4 1.9r4 -fr***K.01110WKOROK•IE•491W03***Ni+,3imiwimpomeyo • A LOST WIFE , ® 2'4 A NOVEL; • ' 0 1331 IVIRS. a LOVETT CA1VIERON, • • fact were not Worth consideration'. and then she soddenly stopped short and caught my hands. "Are you a happy wonum?" she /Asked me, wie I. a sudden •eagernees. "Not very, I fear," I answered, smiling a little at so strange and • unexpeeted a. question. "'Well, then, mover mind; you will be some doe . Doesn't it say in the I Bible that 'those who care um the friendless and the stranger are blees- ! ec•13' Well, you have cured for t he Stranger, and I to.' you Clod. wal make you happy sonic day. But us for that calaaan, lie will be cursed - rinsed !" she repeated feriousSy A little Sunlight Soap will clean cut glass, and other articles until they shine and sparkle. Sunlight !Author of "Worth Winning," Etc. Soap will wash other things than clothes. .043wwwwwwwwwwtt•Ni.micwwww.ww4i• ,,vou would 1., it wa.sn't for me," is Aunt Selina'a ungracious re- joinder. I sighed and walked wearily across the room towards the door. "Where are you off to now?" ask- ed my aunt, looking up sharply from her work. "I thought I would go out; I might go to that office again aria hear of something new," I answered listlessly, as I left the room; Aunt Selina launching forth more invec- tives against my "ingratitude" and my "obstinacy" after me as I sent. In ruth, I had no object in going out. at all, unless it was to got out of reueh of my aunt's revilings, and out of the sight of her well -furnish- ed, warm -carpeted house, where I felt choked and stifled, as though I had no business there. I was sick of governess offices and "Stop, stop! not so fast!" I cried, arms suddenly round his neck, and interrupting the category of his I gazed into the honest blue eyes that ( hopes and intentions; "wait one min- i were dimmed with tears, and put up • ute, Mr. Flower. 1f you know that I my face for his parting kiss, my engagement with Mr. Curtis is I "Good-bye," he said, huskily, turn - broken off, you do not perhaps know ing away suddenly to the door. "If ' that there is a dreadful slander about ever you want a friend, Freda, do me that---" not forget that you have one in me "Oh! yes, I do," .he interrupted, ; -and God bless you." • quickly: "don't say anything more Before I could answer he was gone, . about that. I have had a letter and with him seemed to go at once ' from Mrs. Featherstone, telling me all the sunshine and the light which the whole story at great length." his unexpected entrance had benne:Ia "She wrote to you?" I exclaimed, into my lonely and desolate life. in horror-struck tones. And yet I was happier for that "Yee -the she -fiend!" and Charley visit -happier to think that one Flower ground his teeth and his fists more honest heart in this desolate *together, as though he would like to world loved me, and was true to me, °murder her, than I had known of. "And in the face of her letter you Poor Charley Flower! It was not aro here asking Inc to marry you, so Very long afterwards that ho was Mr. Flower?" drowned in a dreadful collision be - "Do you suppose I believe one tweeze two ships in the Channel - word of what that woman says? It's bravely devoting his own life to say- agencies; I would go to them no all a tissue of lies from beginning.to ing those Of the perishing women and more; I would go into a shop or in - end. You don't suppose a woman like children about him. When I read of to a hospital and offer myself as a that could make me believe any harm his noble death in the papers -a hero housemaid, I thought -anything to of you, do you? And it is just be- in his last hours -I wept tears of escape from Aunt Selina s charity, cause of her , spiteful letter that I heartfelt sorrow over his sad yet end to eat the bread of dependence no more. have come to you now, so soon, glorious end, and felt proud to think without waiting any longer after that such a man had once loved I. wandered along aimlessly and miserably in the damp foggy air, until chance Lrought my wandering footsteps into Pall Mall. Here sud- denly my passage was arrested by a 'tongue, and how much you need ' Russell Square, on a foggy win- , small crowd collected on the pave - "I. shall t t 11 i meat which blocked the way. There °some one to silence all such calumny ter's morrying, is not a particularly . your poor father's death; just bo- Freda Clifford. cause I see how lonely and friend - 'less you must be, darling, to be at the mercy of that woman's evil CHAPTER XXI. clenched her lists; then seeing that 1. looked slightly shocked at the strength and bitterness of her male- diction, she added lightly: "Ah, I believe in my Bible, I do! You good people don't read it so much its 1 do, or you would anew Inciter; it al- ways comes true, the Bible does," ion.be puzzled by my strange. woman - We walked on again. 1 began to "Why were you crying?" I asked purse?" her. "'Was it because you lost your Purse? What does a purse mat- ter? Oh, no; it was only because I am foiled again, and the man frigh- tened line so, anti the crowd." "Why did you not let him drive you home, and pay hint then?" 1 usked. "What! for Barbara to find out that 1 had gone out ia a cab by my- self? No thank you! As it is, I expect she will guess I have been out, and shanat 1 be scolded! But I shan't say where I have been, and you will never tell of me, I know." "Who is Barbara?" I asked. "Oh, don't you know? She is my sister." "No; you forget I don't even know her name. Won't you tell it me?" She looked up at me slyly, al- most cunningly, and was silent a minute before she answered in these strange words: e you more than Barbarawould. After all, you arc were the usual ingredients -a tall po- -.against you, and to fight your bat- cheering spot, yet there it was that only a stranger, though I like you. ties for you." I stood, looking out of the drawing- liceman in the middle, a red-faced, My name? Oh, yes, my name is El- • "Oh! Charley, how good you are! room window of one 'of the houses noisyevoiced cabman haranguing and liner Pair.bank-LE' Dinor: that is whet How I wish I could love you as you on the north side of the square, one swearing, and a small, weeping wo- 1 We en hciaadlled deserve!" And then I burst into a 'day about two months after my man, whom the engine of the law , • reached by this time a flood of tears, father's death. was grasping firmly by the arm, quietu(i(street north of Oxford street. • In a minute the young fellow was Tile square was filled with opaque whilst a group of idlers, dirty men ,,‘: 1 ishe turned round to bid me "kneeling by my side, stroking my yellow fog, through Which the bare and lounging errand -boys, had hands and ray hair, and soothing me trees in the garden looked gaunt crowded close round, eager to hear 1,‘',(,)c- YY,e• 'by every fond and loving word, and weird; a fine drizzle was falling, what it was all about. Don t come any further; this is 1 But I pushed him back firmly but and a few passers-by hurried along "I tell ye I wants my money, and our street, where we have lodgings, °gently. under umbrellas. I stood leaning I will have it, or I'll know the reas- at least, for a week. Barbara, you "No, no, Chancy," I said through n I against the window frame, with on why!" shouted the cabma, hoolbred's shop - know, has gone to S ; some open letters in my hand, and Tudindishing his fist within six inches pang, or I could not have got out. I ray tears, "I must not let you waste eany more love upon me, my poor looked miserably and hopelessly out. boy. I don't know how I can ever My Aunt Selina came bustling into -thank you and bless you for all your the room, with her new black silk goodness and your love to me. If dress all' crisp and fresh, and her I cap -ribbons flying out behind' her. had not loved any one else I must : have loved you -out of slicer grati- She lookedrosy and comfortably itude. But alas! •I can give you back well-to-do. She stooped down and stirred the fire into a cheerful blaze. nothing but tears and blessings -for " I have no love to give you -it has Any news, Freda?" she said to me; all been given away long ago." but before I could answer lien, Uncle i w i He rose from his kneeling position - Carr, who was stone deaf, and never inter - times the length of the room and . at my side, and walked two or three heard ordinary conversation rupted her and claimed her attention. back before he answered me, and He was seated in a low arm -chair, then ho stopped suddenly in front of drawn well up to the fire, and had . me with a very white face, been awaiting her reappearance from the lower regions impatiently. "Will you tell Inc the truth about this, Freda?" he asked, gently. "What have you ordered for dinner, Selina?" Next to eating his dinner, X nodded. hearing about what he was going to MT-t of the woman's face. "But how can I pay you if I've lost my puyse?" sobbed the woman. "You had better come along with me. my dear," was the only solution suggested by the maker of peace. I don't know what irresistible im- pulse made me suddenly stop short and listen to what was going on. "She's drunk, that's what she is!" suggested a bystander; and indeed it did not look unlike it, for the wo- man, whose face was hidden in her handkerchief, was swaying herself backwards and forwards as if in a paroxysm of grief. This being a reasonable, if not an original, solution of the situation, appeared to find favor in the minds It is ark histlebyheman of the bystanders; there was a mur- 'who was at Eddington the night of eat, Uncle Carr's chief solace , tour of assent among the crowd, The the ball -whom you love, is it not?" during the twenty-four hours. : cabman, a rough and brutal -looking • F "Yes," I answered softly under my "Sole au gratin, mutton cutlets, specimen of his class, instantly took breath; whilst a hot blush coveved oyster patties, and roast pheasants," 1 up the popular cry. shouted Aunt Selina. 1 "Yes, that's what it is, she's my downcast face, at time thought of how much shame and how little "Eh?" and up went the ear trump- , drunk! She's led me a pretty dance pride there could be for me now in et. Aunt Selina repeated the menu up to Regent's Park Barracks" - the avowal of my love. down it. ' there was a grin at this -"than into There was a little pause, and then "No soup?" inquired her husband the City, then back again here, and Charley spoke again; this time cold- in an aggrieved voice. , , then tells me at the end she can't "Oh, yes; hare soup.' pay me 'cos she's lost her purse, and ly and sternly: I "Tell me the truth, then -has he "Have you got the port for it, my won't tell me her address neither, eare anddwhat sauce for the cut - behaved badly to you? Has he treat- •for me to take her there and get lets?" paid." -ed you like a blackguard? for by ' heaven if he has—* Being satisfied upon these two all- , I don't know why, but at this de- heaven "Oh, no, nol-a thousand times, important points, Uncle Carr subsid- scription of the circuitous route °no!" I cried, looking up at him ed into himself, nodding his head,ialong which the unhappy cabman 'suddenly, as he stood before me, an and giving vent to low ?liduick tirtgs _ had been dragged by his fare I A angry picture of avenging young of pleasure a, t intervals -indicative, s-tn ca toe, . pressed in closer, and looked and . probably, of the delights. ofanticlie- 'love. "What can make you think listened more attentively. I oh - such a thing? Ile has been every- tion which he was, experiencing. , served that we stood right in front I•Ier husband's curiosity being an - thing that is good to me always. He peased, Mars. Carr turned again to I is the noblest of men; but -but, alas! we can never be happy. Ho is no me. "Any news this morning, Freda?" way to blame; but---" she asked again. "I see you have ) And my voice faltered. "Hush, my darling; say no more. soMe letters." "No," I answered glancing down Do you suppose I want to cross - at the papers in my hand; "there is question you, or to wring your see- nothing now. The lady in Hemp - rets from you? It is enough that I shire is suited with a governess, and know that no ono has behaved badly the one in South Kensington has 'to my darling?' gone back to the music -teacher who And then he suddenly bent over me taught her little girls last year. -and took me in his arms. Everything falls through!" I added, "I will not bother you any long - with a sigh. or," he said somewhat brokenly, Aunt Selina gave a grunt expres- "tholigh I love you very' dearly, I sive of disapprobation. , will never trouble you again, only 'And to . think that you might tiVe me one kiss, before I go, from have been hying on ten thousand a - of the Army and Navy Club. Something in the slight weeping figure struck me as familiar. Surely I had seen her before. Suddenly she lifted her face, pale and tear -stained. "Man," she said, solemnly ad- dressing the cabman, "have you no heart at all? I would pay you if I could, but if I haven't the money, why can't you be charitable for once, and let me off? It won't hurt you in the next world to have done a kind action. And I tell you I am very unhappy and very unfortunate. I have lost my purse, and everything -everything!" she added, gloomily. Imagine what effect such a. tragical said, angrily, as she drew forth an typical London "cabby," defrauded appeal was likely to have on the .your sweet lips! year now, .if you had chosen!" she 1 Dear, noble -hearted Charley Flow - of hie fare! 'eer! I think that even Mark would enormous bundle of knitting -a court - have forgiven me that I granted him his last request; that I put up my terpene for a bazaar -and settled But help was at hand for her, for herself down to it, I had recognized her. The pale, sor- "And probably as miserable as I rowful-faced, dark -eyed little woman ant now!" I answered, with a very who had taken refuge at Slopperton sad smile, in a thunder -shower, and had given "I've no patience with such multi- the such a piteous insight into her Mental rubbish!" exclaimed my .,„,broken-hearted l'.1 It was she. Four Hospitals aunt. "And pray what do you think the policeman, "I know this lady: it IToo ,' I Cried out, addressing rutersaid he would never be nrell-Dr. Well,” I said, doubtfully, "there's is all right; I Will pay the cab- doing now?" the doettort did net enre himr•Ther „ 1- a Been in an advertisement in The Times for man.' Chase's Nerve Food a VrOnderral medicine. a bookkeeper in an hotel wanted." To an instant way was made for possible!" cried Aunt Selina ; Me; the policeman touched lien hat M. SIMON CLOUTIIIRt shoemaker, tro aim e.. gauchetiere St., Montreal, Que., states:- "pray remember that you have got civilly, and "cabby," seeing that his "For six years I was not Able to work, my relations Fi•etla L ant not tow ,. to hour for triumph was come, lust ant - sleep, and suffered With allow you to Lt.'s r m •'our f 1'1 Wh rth Ig l't° • am_ i y. y on oa t on . e ou sit down shooting pains in the ",f1 write to Mr. CurtIst." melt us he was lasyfully entitled to, ly ,d,emanded ten -and -six. It. was probably oeerly t Wit e as herve5 were all unstrung and my digestion.bad. II had severe attacks of headache, tould hot agag of my bid,. / Andask him to take me back, but I Was not inclined for further was in four hospitals • aunt? No, thank you! I think that Wrangling -a fact doubtless upon would he disgracing myself and my which he had counted. I paid hint but the doctors could not cure me. They family far more than if I were to without a word, and tucking the little treinbling woman's arm under said I would never be sWeep a crossing." well again. In spite of • "What nonsense you talk! You my own, I led her away rapidly out their decision I -began needn't put it in that way. if you of the crowd down a side street. the use of Dr. Chases were Just to say to him that yen We had walked a hundred yards or Nerve Food some could not get any occupation and more before either of us spoke; then months ago, and I am wore in Want. of money, he would suddenly she glanced shyly up into convinced that X owe write off by return post and propose lalY face. mylifetothismedicine. to yeti again -see if he wouldn't. X• "I lemelober :vow you are Miss Mr. Cloutier have new been at work for over two weeks, and believe that my health has been fully restored. It is a pleasure for me to add My testimony to the hosts of otherfrom persons who have been cured by his wonderful medicine." To 'protect yen itgitirast imitations the portrait dsigaietere of Dr. A, W. Chase, the famous cipt book author* ore on every tot of hit am sure you had Muth better hula.' Clifford, and I took shelter in your r s o eXcellences for pedigreed ani - 'I your pride a little than Starve." house in shower of rain about four " "I ant not starving, aunt -throatiest months ago." Mils the Priltedlles which 'Underlie mm - to you," I answered, smiling pleas. "Yes," I answered, "I remember it provement are recognized. The sttine aritly; for when one is eating a per. PerfectlYi that is Why I Mho for-' Wiwi/des that aye 'applied, in the improvement of animals are also ap- plied in the improvement of varieties off. farm crops. Ifereility• is the lever by which improveraents are made, and promised her I wouldn't move; if she is in she will scold me finely." She gave me her hand, and I wish- ed her good-bye; then suddenly she turned back, and running up to me, whispered in my ear: "You shall hear more of me soon -very soon." (To be continued) BABY'S DANCER The fact that so•called soothing medi- cines put ehileren to sleep is no sign that they are helpful. On the contrary they are dangerous and distinctly harmful - the little one has been merely drugged into temporary insensibility, the seat of the trouble has not been reached Never give a child an opiate except under the watchful eye of a competent physician, and remember that all "soothing" med- icines contain opiates. When your little one is not well, when it has any little stomach or bowel trouble, or any of the m'ner ailments of the 1 tele ones give it Baby's Own Tablets, and it will be safe. This medicine is sold under a guarantee that it contains no opiate or harmful drug. Ask any mother who has used this medicine and she will tell you how her little one has thrived audgrown well and strong after taking the tablets. Mr. T. B. Mitchell, the well known druggist, Oshawa, Ont., says: -"I can safely reecomencl Baby's Own Tablets from the splendid results they have given may customers and from having used them in our own home." Yon can get the Tablets from any druggiet or by mail from The Dr, Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., at 25 cents a box. THE BREEDING OF GRAIN. on which breeders of either rlants em' animals 4 Tend to fix desirable ehar- ecteristioe ; but the lew limb like be. gets like must be taken in. its brood sense, because it would pot be pos- sible to make improvement if it were not fey the teedeuee teward ver;•:t li redity and the tendeney towerd variation can be 'turned. to. amount in the improvement ot pfents equally as 1' as in the ImProvon utci en.ra but unfortunately few farmers make any attempt to systematically apply these princeples le tidi improvement of plants. Through heredity and variation improved varieties of :Ziel crops tend to revert to the wild types from which they evolved bat when Lase improvesorts are proviled with the environment best suited to the growth, and a continued selection of the most desirable specimens prac- tised, this natural tendcpcy toward reversion is overcome. Though it is highly important that the variety of grain be well suited to the localitewhere it is grown, too much faith has been pinned to the narne, of varieties without due atten- tion to the quality of the seed, itself. It is not always recognized that there may be as much difference between two strains of seed of the same vari- ety of grain as there is between two distinct varieties so far as capacity of the seed to give a large yield of grain of good quality is ponceraed. It is theref ore important to use seed of the best variety that has had kind- ly treatment arid .continued selection. for several years, In the production of good paying crops the cost of the sc'd is small but the influence or the wed is great. Plumpness ani free- dom from impurities is not sufficient proof that seed grain is capable of giving a good crop. Breeders of poul- try do not pay much attention to the size cel eggs for incubations; they want, first of all, to know something about the good qualities that the germ in the egg has inherited from the par- ents, and not only from the parents but from the majority of the. ances- tors. It is equally important that seed be token from a crop in which the individual plants have Thad an opportunity to obtain a maximum vigor and yield'per plant, and it is just as important to have definite in- formation about the crops, and how the work of selections was carried on for several preceding years as it it to have a knowledge Of the ancestors of breeding animals. In considera- tion of these principles Which underlie improvement in common grain crops, and in view of the limited supply and growing dentand for high class seed grain, an effort is being made by the Department of Agriculture at Otta- wa to form an association that wilt operate for the mutual benefit of seed producers and seed consumers. According to the provisional rules of the association, seed, grain that is pure, true to variety, and that had the benefit of a ystem of careful growing and continued selection for three consecutive years, is recognized as improved seed. The operations of members aro closely inspected and re- cords are kept of the amount and pedigree of the seed they produce. It is proposed to issue a b atalogue for ;genera 1 distribution each • year in wheel. nannies and dresses of mem- bers will be given, together with the binds and varieties of seed produced by them, the pedigree of the seed, the amount of seed for sale, and the price per bushel. It is also proposed to sup- ply members with certificate forms, having printed thereon the rules with which members are atiquired to com- ply in the production of seed. Pur- chasers Of pedigreed seed may obtain one of these certificates with seed bought from a member ; the signature of the member would, be a guarantee that the sited supplied had been pro - (laced in accordance with the rules. The purchaser would then have an op- portunity to verify the pedigree of the seed by having it registered. Good work has been done along var- ious lines by the Dominion pbpart- meat of Agriculture and. by soma of the Provincial Departments of Agri• culture, in Canada with'a view to en- courage the use, of high class seed of the best varieties, but there is yet rOOm for a considerable increase in the average yield of common field crops by the. use of better seed grain. The object of forming associations of seed growers 'may not be perfectly clear to all. (The idea may Ixa new in Canada but there are associations of seed growers in other countries, such as the Illinois Seed Corn Grow- eie Association, that are dieing good work. 'The, benefits derived front as- sociations of breeders of live stock are pretty well understood. The advant- ages to hi' derived train organized ef- forts on the part of seed growers are not dissimilar to those which breed- ers of pure 'bred live stock obtain through their associations, and the general operations of an organization Of seed growers 'are similar to those of live stock associations. Associations bf breeders of pure bred silt fix a standard whieli must ba attained before animals will be roe- ognized as pure bred. In fixing stand. son's bread, one feels bound to be as grateful as one can for the gift, however grudgingly it may be be- stowed. ward to -day to help you. I am glad I happened to be passing. Iloiv canto you to lose your purse?" 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