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*sweet with the odor of lilacs, And a cool
'wind swept like a sigh through the
place.
Anne tiptoed to the bed and looked at
-the small, huddled figure, the hands ly
:ing palms upward on the counterpane,
•the face turned sideways, resting on the
:shoulder iu• the attitude of watching,
• whish bad become habitual. She brush-
ed a look o ''hair ]from the w•et. brow,
•placed the big fan which had fallen
..within reach of her ?ind and crept out,
•Olga's face haunting her: - • •
A few nights later a letter came to
_Aline by the last post. It was from Lon -
,don, and she recognized Olga's hand-
writing. It was the first she had ready-
, ed since her departure. She%carried it
"up to her own room, acid even after the
.•door was elclsed she hesitated with it in
her hand, fearing what was written
••within it.
When she drew it from its Dover, she
stead these words:
Aix Dzsm Asign-You've had very hard
thoughts of me, I know. You never wrote to
me youraelf, and in the brief notes received
• from father there was no message trona you.
However, I'rn going to ask you to let my hu-
miliation brush all these thoughts from your
mind, for I am humiliated, and it is bitter to
say it, I can tell you. I've failed. There's no
• use mincing words or beating around the bush.
l'vo failed, and Fm i11, very ill. Nobody seems
to know just what's the matter with me, and
;I don't much care. I'm probably dying, and
that doesn't matter either. But just now I've
got a longing to go home. I have heart enough
for that. I know mamma is all broken up, but
:.still. I keep thinking how pleaaant•it would be
to lie in my cool, green room and have her fuss
..around mo as she used to do when I had a cold
,or a headache. There's a comfort in this and
in feeling that no matter what I've done I do
belong to mamma and she'd never give me
the cold shoulder.
But then, as I said, I hear she's not as she
was, and perhaps no ono else would care to
rime enc at home. Do you think David would
take me back? I don't expect his forgiveness,
nor that he could the least bit regard moss be
used to do. But he may forgive mo enough to
let me go back to my home, which is his now.
I want to go home end rest, and this is all I
.caro about. Will you ask him, Anne, and write
;to me? I'm so tired of myself. You never can,
. know just how utterly sick and weary I am.
,lily face in the glass frightens ase, it is so lean
and bloodless. I long so to rest, to fall asleep
in a sato place and not think or care what the
end may be. You won't believe it maybe, but
.I'm not u bit pretty any more. I ve gone off
horribly. At drat I minded, but I don't now.
Nothing seems to matter. I've had my cake
• and eaten it. It disappointed me, and there's
.no one to blaute but myself. Cable me here at
Longhorn's, and if I may return I'll go horn*
at more. I wish now I'd never gone on the
stage. But what's the use of crying when the
harm's done? Do try and think kindly of me
and welcome mb back. OtgA.
Anne read the letter twice, and the
;picture her fancy conjured of Olga made
sa pain rise in her throat. Of course she
would speak to David as soon as he
, cacao in, and of course Olga would re -
:tarn. The pity in David's heart would
:let him receive buck this wasted, disap-
pointed woman and she would scarcely
•remind him of the splendid beauty who
:bad failed him when he needed her
• most, Soon Olga would be home, creep.
.lug like the ghost of herself through the
.familiar rooms. Her soft step would be
!heard on the stairs. She might be
,changed in aoul and heart, and in her
weakness and defeat be to David what
.lie had longed to make her. •
As Anne stood with the letter in ber
:hand she heard the street door close
softly. Without giving herself -time te
thick what she should say she went
•. down to the study. The full gaslight
poured on David as he stood by the te-
,ble, his chin lowered. His face was
snore than fatigued. It was pinched, and
Am could see a moisture on bis fore
.bead. He looked np, but did not greet
her or move.
"favid," she said uncertainly,
"don't be angry, but I must speak to
;you of Olga."
He drew in his breath and closed hie
<eyes.
"Alt, you know then, Yale know," he
smarm urod.
"I've a letter from her.'* And she held
it out to hint. "She's very ill and wants.
t to come home. Sho wants me to ask" --
He seized the hand that held the let-
eter and looked suffering, forbidding.
"You'll let her come home here,
•won't you? I•was acre you would. She
;seems to want nothing else, she doesn't
.expect or ask for forgiveness" --
"Oh, hualz I" he said Wildly and with
Nerves Exhausted
Body Emaciated
Tires* feelings and terrible
weakness—suffered dive years
and restored to hearth
bt Dr., Chase's Nerve '
Fobd.
Mas. Gsoitos COOK, Welland, Ont., states:
• ")c'or five years I Was troubled with nervous-
ness, tired feeling, head'
ache and a terrible weak.
nese. I was to miser -
Able that i could not et -
tend We my household
duties. During this time
I was a great sufferer and
• became much emacs,
rted.
I Walt treated by a
geed doctor With no
" y' , i; change for the better and
a friend advised the to
try Dr. Chase's Nerve
Feed which 1 dill and in
A short time Wali touch
JCS. 000E improved in health. Af
titer ming six bores of this precibui Inedieine I
avaas sound and Well. I shall always recommend
Dr. Chase's Newt Food for I believe it saved
sme years of mister"
Dr. Chases Nerve Pool, the (stat blood
betides std *terve rettnrative, 50 tents a her,
To protect you against italtationt the portrafk
omiti rms
„tees*t hof Dr. A. A t hes ohew., the f his
_ .ook ..- tether. MU teal
difficulty, opening bis other hand and
showing a crushed cablegram. "I can
never tell her now that I would have
pitied her, yes, even forgiven her the
wroug she did me, for sheathed, Anne.
You can read it there. Bile died today."
CHAPTER XXII.
It was a wild night, An ioy torrent
of rain was tossed by a wind which
seemed aent'to wail oyer the world.
The study where David Temple sat
Sivas as cheery as flxelight and shaded
lamplight could make it Ho was con-
scious ouly vaguely of the sputtering
coals sending tip fuchsia tinted sparks
and of the torrential rain shaking the
window cesiugg, while his thoughts
wandered into dreams of other places
and times.
Save for the servants be now lived
alone iu the old Waverly place house.
3t was strange to sit there on this Jan-
uary night and hear neither voioo nor
footstep, to dud himself lieteuing gladly
to the clock's light strokes, feeling de-
praseed when the last vibration .lead
whirred into rho silence.
Olga had been dead rix months. He
thought of ber grave in Greenwood, her
rnother'a but the reach of an arm from
her --the finale to a story in those two
mounds—of Dr. Ericsson, gone to spend
his leaf years in Sweden, in the hose
where he was born and which had Dome
to him a few months before through the
death of a brother; of Anne, but lately
returned. to ber old rooms, her MO me.
changed.
David rose and paced the root», a line
creeping down between his brows, The,
silence seemed speaking to him of Anne
tonight. She bad been the star of his
life., Ile freely acknowledged it. She:.
had drained much of the bitterness front{
his adversities. No man could have had;
a more satisfying companion, a better
friend. These blessings had been his,
though they were neither his right nor
his reward. •
Ile wanted,to tell her this and more.
She had been ill, the result 01 a heavy'
*old, and ma the morrow would leave for
a holiday in the south. Something tuvit
him not to lot her leave .New York with-
out expressing what she had no doubt
come to realize—hew much her going
from ander the same roof had taken trove
his life.
"Yes, I miss her," be said in con-
centrated accents aseito stood still and
listened with the sujetler inner hearing
to the vast silence wrapping the house.
He stepped into the hill. The gait was
burning brightly, but • the curve of the
high staircase was lost in shadow. Ile
thought of how offers Anne bad como
down, humming a song. But a few
nights before Dr. Ericsson's departure
ho remembered her coming back half
way to say good might to him, and bow
her long braid of hair becoming loosen-
ed bad swept his cheek like a silky lash,
It had been an incident for a laugh
then, but now the memory of ber tress'
touch, her hand, ber eyes, made him
resent his loneliness.
He went into the drawing room, but.
came out of it quickly. It was there
among the teacups and in the firelight
he had asked Olga to bs his wife, there
her' coffin had' stood. 'It was a hated
room. Ghosts were its tenantry.
Going balk to the study Ste, he lit a
cigar. The past unrolled itself before
him, and he tried to approxldiate the
• years to borne: The dednetions froth his
reasoning were as clear and strong as if
spoken by a bell -like voice beside him.
Loneliness was 'horrible. It turned a
man into an intellectual machine, warp-
ed hie nature, put him out of touch
with his kind. Once be had beenproud
to stand quite alone, absolute master of
every heart throb and every moment,
but be lied tasted rho joy of a sytnpa
thetio *Oman's daily companionship
and was unfitted forever for a self con-
tained life where the ego was supreme
and ambition the ruling passion.
If be' had learned this from the year
of life under one roof with Anne, how
mush deeper,the•lesson would be if she
had been his wife. If Anne had been
his wife! The words filled him with
passive regret as be lifted ber photo-
griith from the mantel and looked into
the ogee which seetned even there to
question and comfort him.
If he eould,have loved her, if he could
but Love her naws as asy team, the
greatest, anigbt be proud •to love heir:
His feeling 'for her Was very near -the
richest his nature could germinate.
Gentleness' abd sympathy Were ire It,
pride and reverent*. It 'but lacked pale
Atm, to, make it. perfect. This he .had
knoWn torr tone woman, a heady,. Unfelt:
sonlajt, int9xioatiftg love. withoutauto
stance or 'depth. Anne did not emote it
in him, he could not add it to the in-
veleed longings Which Made her betel-
nary to hits, very probably it would for-
ever eseitpe hint. '
Need this prevent him from asking
her 'to be his wife, from tnaking heir
happy'rhould she give herself to hint?
What be had to offer was better fats
than what be ?coked -4th, fever of pil-
lion which aonld thrive in the ?from
meager natot"es, the moat svanliaeeat,
the beast ingredient' of fill lie love.
Abee oould bi dear and nedetseary to hint
Without title lsiiidtie ilswhloh board tnevor
oowe again to him*. Without being in
Moe With her, lie loved her teitdetiy.
Woe there lit Ittttieb filetottinoe In the
snbtlerdif+feiiteeelliotoitlti6mitt .hate
postai
111* head will tool, kis heart eitarfing
sympathy. He desired nrgenbl sol 1s
much Atifte'a?CrestuisTiibr' 01P041.1.0.1114.:
not to giro mimg<sslf tato ber powee and
lope himself in her, hut to know tbo
happiness of her dependence, on him,
When' his oigir was finished, he went
back to the table And looked down at
the letter he bed commenced to ber,
"lily dear Anne." The stereotyped
words were so wholly inadequate they
irritated him, Hs crashed the paper in
his palm and dung it into the fixe. • lie
would go to her, As be took his over.
t
coot Aad 1?A teem the btxtld i>x tbeball,
he muttered impatiently:
"What shall I say to her? How can I
put it to heti"
In fir few moments he was on the
street, making his way against the wind
to her rooms on Washington place,
where some of the most contented hours
of his life bad been 'pent.
The dames let the;treat lamps danced
under his feet in the drenobed pare•
menta, the orotssod streets lay in stormy
"Almost better, aren't you*" he aafd,
Shadow, ioiolea on trees and palings
clinked in the nab of the freezing rain;
once the numbed face of a beggar looked
at him; once a stray dog pressed Ione -
ninety against him as be strode on:
The world seemed full of mist and pain,
but there was light in his soul and
when he saw the firelight on Anne's
windows be felt almost ashamed of the
sense of well being which came to him
while others in the world suffered.
Anne opened the door of the sitting
room herself. She was all in white, of
some thick, heavy falling material, and
behind her dark head the room swam in
rosy gloom. The air was heavy with
the perfume of roses. He seemed enter-
ing a garden with Anne by his gide,
pale from ber illness and with dovelike
eyes.
A soul wave of mutts? comprehen-
sion made Mm feel his corning had been
half expected and that -she was glad.
When he had made her sit again in the
low armchair and bad arranged the silk
pillow at a comfortable angle for bee
bead, be eat down beside-ber and looked
at her—earnestly
"Almost better, aren't you?" he said
gladly. "Your face is getting back its
rounded look, and soon you won't get a
aiogle bit of sympathy."
"Almost better," .Anne echoed, an
excited catch in her -voice. '"1 ensure
you,reposing on this•pillow in a sort of
Cleopatra attitude. I feel quite a fraud.
I'd like tobave gone for a tramp in this
wild rain: Listen to it: How it sighs
end sputters, and then with .what a
sweep it comes on!"
1 While the words left her lips she was
thinking that it was strange and trou-
bling to be there alone with David, the
firelight on his near face. while beyond
the close curtained windows the storm
called and called to them in vain. She
knew why be had come.
Her intuitive mind, heaping to cons
elusions, told her that words having no
kinship to farewell were faltering on
his lips, She felt a sudden nneasineise
and excitement.- The beating of her
heart was painful.
"You'll be gone a mouth?"
"At least a month, '' she nodded.
"I'm reveling in the.thought of getting
back to summer and for the first time
smelling a lily field in bloom. The word.
'Bermuda' bas an exotic sound to me.
Have you ever been there?"
"No," he said absently, and, leaning
nearer, said earnestly, "I'll miss you
so, Annie."
His fingers touched hers, and she met
his eyes. They were grave a:4 dome-
neut.
"And how I've missed you these last
five weeks!" he went on. "I find my-
self listening for your step, for mem-
oil plays me cruel tricks. But you are
gone, and I have to learn all over the
Sefton of philosophy. I've grown to bate
the place. Just to look at the corner of
the table where you used to pour coffee
for me makes mo bine."
As he spoke quietly and half confid-
ingly Anne became aware of a disap-
poinrraellt in herself. Ho was going to
say ..core. What bad been her dearest
dreatn was•going Os intensify itself into
a certainty tonight, and yet she was
aware that if some interruption had
Come and livid had been forced to
leave her with the words unsaid she
would have been relieved.
"Yea, I've misted yon, and I will:
miss you," he continued and lifted her
hand to his lips. "Does it matter that
you are very dear to tee, and I want
yon always? Will you be my wife,
Anne? Will you?""
A senile of coining triumph tilled Da-
vid en he smoke. Ho Was aware he had
not feared failure. During the last year
Aline had do lot herself bo lmitted with
hitt life it seemed only a natural eon -
elusion *bat he wag tut nedeseagy tee her
se she to hint. Beaidee, he had never
failed tot: anything; save hismarridge,
and Wilhotit egotienz lie dial'tiotgonad*
that this pale and- lonely woman whom
adeotion he had tasted could disappoint
him Ito*.
Ibit Anne drew away from biro, acid
white his hand atoll held hers a wave of
relief froth the deeps of het coni wait
over her. She *tented suddenly set fres
trent okiaina. David's manner, hie gett-
tie, realer *Ode, had. left her soler, Ere
teat oleer eyed, slblo; hdpp1, bet
taripetate end maker of hitneelf. She
Mt ado debre to "respond to his td ueb bis
gtttiilee. IneteMad there leaped into her
bailed s tegret this ideas must deny Alta
wi 2Wt it quite trealireing why.
1, l
*.oar now-.- Anne, coin you• -caul
love me? Will you merry me?"
She stood tap sad turned ber head
away. still feelia. g strange to her elf.
When she 'poke, she obeyed n new
knowledge, imperative, yet mystifying,
"David,"'he said seriously,"I don't
love yon thltt way."
He remained silent until, she forced
herself to look fully at hila. • •
"Ah," he said, as it it were the fire*
breath be bad taken since ehs had re.
Plied. "is it Of I had hoped—but no
matter now." -
Anne gazed ehrinkingiy at hie serious,
composed face and ?field out her hands.
lie look thein and looked tenderly at her.
"We'll forget this, Anne," be said.
Her eyes looked frankly and sorrow-
fully into his.
"I go away tomorrow." Her fingers
held his closely, "Say goedby, and say
it as if you forgave me,"
"For what? My dear Anne, you need
no forgiveness from me."
"I've given you some pain, David.
I've disappointed you. I'm sorry."
"You couldn't help it," he said,
"You don't love me. How aro you to
blame for that?"
Her Iniud grasped at thewordseager-
ly. It was true; She could not help it.
She was not to blame.
"Oood night, Aune. I hope your hol-
iday will do you good, and I know it
will," David said, quite in his usual
tone. "Don't fail to let me know when
you return."
Site let him go with another hand-
shake, and went back to the fire. For a
long time the crouched over the coals,
nor face sheltered by her hands. Nora',
entreaties about preparations for bed
were unheeded.
"I want to be alone," she said, push-
ing the girl away. "Come back by and
by."
She sat in the empty room, watching
the fire sink lower. She was groping in
the dark for au understanding of her
own heart and the reasons which had
made her refuse to be David Temple's
wife. She had loved hint the night he
had sat in this same room and told her
of Olga. She had continued to love bins
miserably, with passion, and bad strug-
gled to forgot him through conflicts of
regret, In the days when peace had
conte to her he had still seemed the moss
i..'uportant and dearest in the world.
She had many times thought of him se
during the year spent in the same house
with him.
Why, then, when ho clad spoken the
words she had believed would hold the
richest harmony in her life, hud they
meant none of these dear things? Why
had they not been acceptable?
She had outlived her Jove for David
Temple without having become aware
of the change in herself. She had not
even pitied 'him acutely, as women do
pity what they must hurt,
Was be hurt very much? He had been
verysure of ber. With fine,convincing
g
liltuitiou she bad felt the confidence un-
derlying his caressing words, had di-
vined it in his calm eyes. " He missed
her, that was true enough; needeadher
for the simplest and most sensible rea-
sons. He was fond of her. She bad his
eternization, confidence, respect. From
habit she had become necessary to Mm.
His Aleut house required a mistress, bis
life a companion. But the love whish
tomes to curse or bless a life and which
is all of life was not there. Even the
exaltation of the seines, misquoted love,
Olt, X t+ro+tder will yea ever love met will I
.i sr b..lile to tie to you acyl eui ysit ti
?find dire? what ysvr'va ?teen to .*caf h►
today se I stood wt►tebintt tba negro*. along
the moll,. abrin* I thought of the night fu the
Pines wham, We fat with our Mande cheeped in
the. blackflies* and I Ialked to you of toy
wretched self fie I'cI saver spoken to any Heins
being and the night whew doe 4Sttd mei I tried
to ton you 111 firer, a ss lir fay heart, Do. yon
remember It ♦s I do? I kirtsect your bels tbst
night, Xoq dldu't knew it. Afterwurd,.wh.aa
I you laid your cheek against rn7 srm, Vier
beautiful ;ace, ao white, and whispered, "I'A
remember, Donsid," I thought my beget would
buret with pain tend ley. Ob.,bow I wish I
could have my life to lira overngein and be
We moment the man trod lied uteant m. 1e
b.. not tull of hitter metitorb,a,etinhalf afraid
after fighting the Narita of putrid If ewer:
back in the poet when I was it lift?. ahsp I
oohoaI' 1 Inapt ,
love
uld you,ve neeknownd you ao,tht Itmwotte day little all that wasyoe
renewable would lave seernoal—gnIy a timed
darkness to be lived through somehow with
bapirinc. aw1ng m
Those are thousltghts wehichat1he hauntend? ate ell the
time, though I've little enough time to. think.
There's so much to do I've grown very prac-
tical. But it's ao quiet here tonight, and you
are so very far *way, and I do crave with
physical pain for one sight of you, and the
nigger's melody has fired ray blood, and a
queer bird outaidomy window utters now and
then a soft good night note as red as death.
Oh, to have you beside inc in this little room
iuet for a moment, to bless it for all the days
to come with the magic of your smile novo
your clearly, Anne; need you more.
1 suppose you are very much at home again
"iu your old rooms. I can faaey the year you
spent in Waverly place wee deadly dull, al-
though you wouldn't say ::o. ..0 way David
has bought the old manaton from the doctor
and regulsrly settled down there. 1 wonder
why he does this sullen he intend* to remain
a hermmrgain,
Do youit kornow arI tyoolasorry for David? Yeti
don't think it would please him to think any
ono felt pity for him. I used to think In the
dark daps before yon came to me it would be
the sweetest moment in my life to ace him in
some position where 1 could pity .him. Ha
used to untagonla9 and ettract me in the one
hour. But that's past anddone with. There's
not a tinge of envy in my feeling for him now.
Since hit wife's death he's written to me very
seldom. Do you think he loved ber very much?
Does be make you his confidant now as be
used to dor You and he were great charnel
once. 1 hated him then. And once—shall I .
tell your—1 thought that maybe he might love
you 504 win you. If he .had, I think I'd have
gone mad with grief. David's had everything
all his life and had it before my longing eyes.
But if you'd loved biro, Anne, L would have
suffered pangs too intolerable tothink of with-
out agony, I can lose you to another man and
hear toy disappointment Howell as I can. But
to David Temple—I can't bear to think of it.
It would seem too wretchedly consistent with
all that's gone before. But you're not going
to marry him, so P11 stop tormenting myself
this way.
Dow long will it be before I tee you? Oh, I
do want to see your I have succeeded moder-
ately, have paid David his loan and made some
hsopey halides. One year more of this and 1'il
be able to go home, Hornet One year! And
then/ Web, you know alk I drown of. You
are everything to me. Yon *sem near to me
some days. I wonder 1f your thoughts stray
to me now and,then•and I feel them. Oh, de
think.ot me and as tenderly as yon canl Do
you understand howl love your Doyourcnow
what you aro to eine! I cannot write. mora
Goodnight. - unease.
(To be c sinned.) • •
"I know --I know air nrtow! My dear, dear,
which he had felt for Olga, was absent.
There was no illusion, no pain, no ro-
mance in David's affection for her. It
was quiet, well balanced, wholesome.
She knew she was the passionless choice
of his calm, wise moments.
Nora came in, a muddy letter in her
hand
"Thefool of a postman, to save cool-
ing his feet, put this ander the mat in-
stead of rioging the bell. It's a sorry
looking letter it is now," and Nora
dried it on her apron before putting it
in Anne's outstretched band.
It was from Donald. Her eyes bright-
ened as she took it quickly and drove the
rustling pages from the envelope. She
need:
Dtr&nri T Arcitk--It's very quiet where I alt
tonight writing to you. The short twilight
has disappeared into et dark blue night, the
leathern arose is in the sky, and the few other
stars ere bigger and brighter than the many
at-home. How far away you are from me!
9omohow X never felt to alone In the wilder•
teen as I do tonight. A longing taste you ate„,
at sty heart. There is no voice in the world
as sweet as yours. I love your eyes, the way
your ?tile look when you laugh. Oh, Anne,
Anne, It I could eco you nowt
Thebe tenons ars wild, you will think may -
le. Oh, but I do love you sot ♦ niagcr coma
Where In the derkncee outelde 1. playing a pas.
atonate tuns on ,a tin flute, and the. ifbvage
' node go through me,"reckSng me'trItb' a into -
treble sort of happiness, they tare so like the
ache 1 feel to see you, to teach gout
I've worked Very faithfully, The sten I'm
thrown irllh, Arnittege end Itforghn, are hung
good fellows and, like tai, orb hoping Ind tcn-
tug for pebapetite under smother sky at the
reseeed. 1 like them both immensely, and I
think tiaey like inc pretty wen.
1 wish you Wald aced our two book*. You'd
hardly house tbebe, they are ao thumbed. I
almost knew theta by heart. There's* bright
future for y,bu, /,nae, dean Oh. X hope you'll
leave Nil- year *roans reedited, every *net auk
there'llbitterneet in the thought for rob. I see
Mote VIM Wore he* murk 11410: fit rte keinte
you. hew teed th'edroatn that taaayb.-. ,nut
ire's ser cis. Notbin( mat alter the feet tinct X
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A MOTHER'S PRECAUTION.
There is no telling when a medicine
may neededhomes • w be in h m here there
are young children, and the failure to
have a reliable medicine at hand may
mean muclesuffering, and: perhaps the
lose of a priceless life. Every mother
should always keep a box of Baby's Own
Tablets in the house. This medicine
acts promptly and speedily, cares such
ills as stomach and bowel troubles, teeth-
ing troubles, simple fevers, colds, worms,
and other little ills. And the mother
has a gnerantee that the Tablete contain
no opiate or harmful drug. 0 'e wise
mother, Mrs. Geo. Hardy, Fourche,
N.S., says: "I have used Baby's Own
Tablets and find them a blessing to child.
reu. I am not satisfied without a box
in the bouae at all times "• It your deal-
er does not keep these Tablets in stock
send 25 cents to The Dr. Williams' Medi-
cine Co., Brockville, Ont , and you will
get a box by mail post paid.
METAL OFFICE FURNITURE
Recent large conflagrations in the
busiuess sections of several large cilia•
have been the means of booming metal
office furniture. Sento desks and racks
of metal, which underwent a severe
exparieuee at the Baltimore fire, were
sound to be practically uninjnred after
the fiery visitation but also to have
preserved their contents. All the troub-
les with the wooden furniture are said
to raise from the warping and twisting
of the wood entering into its composi-
tim, It is this and nothing more that
puts a wooden desk out of service, the
joints parting and the drawers becoming
all awry. This cannot happen to the
metal furniture and therefore its life of
usefulness is said to be without end.
Desks and cabinets of metal are
claimed to take the place of the safe
to a very great degree. It is not
necessary for the bookkeeper to put
his books all in the safe every night but
simply to stow them away in his desk.
This is not only a convenience but a
saving in fhb matter of safes. The
simple lines of these pieces are very
pleasibg and are approved from the
sanitary standpoint. The artioles shape
for general office use, including the
desks of different abapes for virions
purposes and also cabinets at different
shapes for filing drawers.
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each new week will bring until Christ-
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Insanity in England.
The figures given for London show a
total t i nearly 24.000 lunatics on the
first day of the current year. This, com-
pared with the three previous years,
shows ah annual increase of 700 to nearly
1,000. In fourteen years, since 1890, the
number of lunatics has increased by the
enormous total of 7,500, which is ant of
all proportion to the increase in popula-
tion. Amon*; the causes of insanity iu
the patients admitted to London asylums
last year were the following: Intemp-
erance, 666; hereditary, 783; love affairs,
61; domestic worries, 282, and religious
excitement. 78. A wellknown specialist -
of mental diseases in discussing the re-
port said: "It will be observed that the
1.rgest proportion of lunacy cases is
among the laboring class. The reason is
obvious. The depressing inflaence of
the monotonone grind for existence is .
slum and underground dwellings endive
temperance are all direct causes of lun-
acy. The class which carnes next oaths
roll is that of clerks. Here much the
same causes are to be found, but in the,
main I think the appallingly bad feeds%
ing indulged in by .,this section of the
community has the most to do with the
Iarge increase of insanity. Harried and
iuefficient meals of starch foods and tea..,
iu the middle of the day, cheap minarets.,
and the general street of modern life tend
to the auhingincg of the mind.
For the best makes of Pianos, call and.
loon through D 13ell'e stock. Prices to
snit purchasers They are the best
money can procure Remember tits
stand, near Bell's factory.
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