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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-11-08, Page 7•• 0•.•••.000.0.0•••00••• l00•00000..••0,.0•.••••.•!• e11"1 0 ..he Gentleman'.:.; 3• I • From iana _. ..• 14 0 ,t.. ... ;r0By ?300TH TARKJATGToN 3,• �; • Capyriiihs 1899. by Doubleday al McClptr. Co. +• Copyrl!hy, 1902, by McClure. l'hililps ea Co. ._• .44++++44+++++++++++++++++++++++.4÷:;+; 'r3444+++++ r• +r••0.0••••••••••••..•0..•••••0••0•• O9eeeetao•••••m•etta teentetant+ntea.I;l t dsaatatetot+d+.f"1..t.+k.3..Lnnatateti tante nnastri...A.:.+•..a nr'4r=N'. anne ,e • • 'help him to understand how things Were afterward. On the second hallot— Xvhy, we nominate. Of course it con .be helped that Holloway has to be kept In the dark, too, but he's got to be." "There's one danger," said Warren 1 Smith. "Kedge Halloway is honest, but I believe he's selfish enough to disturb his best friend's deathbed for his own •ends. It's not unlikely that he will get , nervous toward the last and be tele- graphing Harkless to have himself car- ried on a cot to the convention to save bim. Tbat wouldn't do at all, of course. And Miss Sherwood thinks maybe there'd be less danger if we set the convention a little ahead of the day appointed. It's dangerous, because it shortens our time, but we can fix it for three days before the day we'd settled on, and that will bring it to Sept. 7." "It's a great plan," said Mr. Bence, • who was an oratorical gentleman. He thrust one hand in his breast, raised the other toward heaven and contin- ued, "For the name of Harkless span"— "Wait a minute," said Keating. "I'd like to hear from the Herald about its policy, if Miss Sherwood will tell us." "Yes, indeed," she answered. "It will :be very simple. Don't you think there "Here's to our candtdatc P" 'is only one course to pursue? We will .advocate no one very energetically, but we will print as much of the truth about Mr. McCune as we can, with del- icacy and honor, in this case; but as I understand it the work is almost all to be done among the delegates. We shall not mention our plan at all, and we will Contrive that Mr. Harkless shall ,not receive his copy of the paper con- taining the notice of the change of jdate, and I think the chance of his see- p it in any Rouen paper may be avoided. That is all, I think." t "Thank you," said Keating. "That is -certainly the course to follow." Every one nodded or acquiesced in words, and Keating and Bence came over to Helen and engaged her in con- ,�versation. The others began to look (about for their bats, vaguely preparing to leave. "`Wait a minute," said the judge. "There's no train due just now." And Minnie appeared in the doorway with a big pitcher of crab apple cider, rich and amber hued, sparkling, cold and redolent of the sweet smelling orchard where it was born. Behind Miss Bris- coe came Mildy Upton with glasses and v. fat, shaking, four storied jelly cake •on a second tray. The judge passed tris cigars around, and the gentlemen took them blithely, then hestitatingly held them in their fingers and glanced at the ladies, uncertain of permission. • "Let me get you some matches," Helen said quickly, and found a box en the table and handed them to Keat- ing. Every one sat beaming, and fra- grant vbils of smoke soon draped the room. "Why do you call her 'Miss Sher - Wood'?" Boswell whispered in Beat- ing's ear. Diseases of the Nerves "The%s her name." "Ain't she the daughter of that old fellow over there by the window? Ain't her name Fisbee?" "No; she's bis daughter, but her legal name's Sherwood. She's an adop"— "Great Scott! I know all about that. I'd like to know if there's a man, wo- man or child in this part of the coun- try that doesn't. I guess it won't be Fisbee or Sherwood either very long. She can easy get a new name, that lady. And if she took a fancy to Bos- well, why, I'm a bath"— "I expect sbe won't take a fancy to Boswell very early," said Keating. "Go way," returned Mr. Boswell. "What do you want to say that for? Can't you bear for anybody to be hap py a minute or two now and then?" Warren Smith approached Helen and inquired if it would be asking too much if they petitioned her for some music, and she went to the piano and sang some darky songs for them, with a h dialect. Two quaint suggestion of the a sets or three old fashioned negro •melodies of Foster, followed by seine rollicking modern imitations, with the movement and spirit of a tin shop falling down a flight of stairs. Her audience listened in delight from the first. But the latter songs quite overcame them with pleas- ure and admiration, and before she fin- ished every head in the room was jog- ging from side to side and forward and back in time to the music, while every foot shuffled the measures on the carpet. When the gentlemen from out of town discovered that it was time to leave if they meant to catch their train Helen called to them to wait, and they gathered around her. "Just one second," .she said. And she THE rENGJIAAM (TIMES, NOVEMBER 8 1,tltfi the lady to whose voice be wan now Ilatenten in sllence, which shows how great the enthralling of her voice was, he caul, "When you saw iter or heard her or managed to be around anywhere she was, why, if you couldn't git up no hope of marryln' her you wanted to marry somebody," Mr. Lige 'Willetts, riding idly by, drew rein in front of the lighted win- dows and listened with the others. Presently he leaned from his horse and whispered to a man near ltim, "I know that song." "Do you?" whispered the other. "Yes. He and I heard her sing it the night he was shot. We stood outside Briscoe's and listened." "So!" "'It's a seraphic song,' be said," con - Untied Lige, "No!" exclaimed his friend. Then, shaking his head, he sighed, "Well, it's mighty sweet" The song was suddenly woven Into laughter in the unseen chamber, and the lights'in the windows went out, and a small lady and a tall lady and a thin old man, all three laughing and talking happily, came down and drove err in tile Briscoe buckboard. William Todd took his courage between his 'teeth and, the song ringing in bis cars, trade a desperate resolve to call upon s Miss Bardlock that evening in spite of its being a week day, and Caleb Parker gently and stammeringly asked Cyn- thia if she would wait till he shut up • the shop and let him walk home with her and Bud. Soon the square was quiet :as before, and there was naught but peace under the big stars of July. That day the news bad come that Harkless, after weeks of alternate im- provement and relapse, hazardously lingering in the borderland of shadows, had passed the crucial point and was convalescent. His recovery was as- sured. But from their first word of bim, from the message that lie was found and was alive, oboe of the peo- ple of Carlow heti really doubted. They are simple country people, and they know that God is good. CHAPTER SII. neenneen N Indiana town may lie asleep a long while, but it always wakes up some time, and Plattville woke up in August, when the herald became a daily. It poured all the glasses full to the brim. I was then th:lt history began to be I ::anis. The herald printed news. It ,eel made a connection With the Asso• 1 shied Press, and it was sold every home grown Indiana cider that leaves ; `'eminn at stands in every town in our heads clear and our arms strong) 1''••t-<:c�ctgn.nf•tbe_>ti�tc.___Its_d cul:• If you will—then'— She began to ,tion tripled. Two new men were blush furiously, and her voice trem•• ;brought from Rouen for the editorial bled, but she lifted the glass high over and reportorial staff, and Parker talked her head and cried bravely, "Here's to of new presses. During the first weep our candidate!" I of the daily venture Eph Watts struck The big men, towering over her, oil, and the Herald boomed the field. threw back their heads and quaffed People swarmed into town; the hotel tris gentle liquor to the last drop. Then was crowded; strangers. became no gen- they sent up the first shout of the sation whatever. A. capitalist bought campaign and cheered till the rafters the whole north aide of the square to rang. erect new stores, and the Carlow bank "My friends," said Mr. Seating as he began the construction of a new bank and Boswell and the men from Gainer buildingsthef Herald.rd stone it wasthe corner drove away from the brick house—"my opposite Herthen streetwhist friends, here is where I begin the pored, next asphalted. affirmed, that as theain warmest hustling I ever did. Now, 1 was"olde days" of That was end guess we all think this is a great of the of hadPla!aide. But the man who had laid the foun- plan"— dation upon which the new Plattville "It is a glorious idea," said Mr. was to be built, he who through the Bence. "The name of Harkless"— quiet labor of years had stamped his Keating drowned the oratory: "But spirit on the people, lay sick in his that isn't all. That little girl wants it friend's house and did not care. to succeed, and that settles it. Ile Tom Meredith had taken him from goes." the hospital to his own home on a That night Mr. Parker, at work in quiet street in Rouen, and John was the printing office, perceived the figure well enough of his hurts to be taken of Mr. Tipworthy beckoning hint mys- abroad sometimes in a victoria, where teriously from the pavement. he reclined, gray and thin, seemingly, What's the matter, Boddie?" no more than a long afternoon shad - "Listen. She's singln' over her work." ow. But for days he would lie in a Parker stepped outside. On the pave- lethargy that made Tom despair. The ment people had stopped to listen, soul of the country editor was sick in - They stood in the shadow, looking up side of hint; he was weary• and worn, with parted lips at the open, lighted and pain had left him dulled, except windows whence came a clear, soft, when ho thought of returning to Platt - reaching voice, lifted ineffably in song. ville; then he felt physical horror. The Now it swelled louder unconsciously; place did not need him, nor he the now its volume was more slender, and place. Fisbee had found a young rela- it melted liquidly into the night; again tive to run the Herald, who signed his it trembled and rose and dwelt in the typewritten business letters "H. Iris - ear, strong and pure, and hearing it bee" in a strappin,� hand that suggest - non sighed with unknown longings. It ed six feet of muscle spattering ink on was the "Angels' Serenade." its shirt sleeves. Bud Tipworthy's sister, Cynthia, was John wondered idly where old Fie - with him, and Parker saw that she bee had raked up a relative, and he turned from the window and that she thought it probable that H. Fisbee was was crying quietly. She put her hand a Yankee cousin of the old man, but on the boy's shoulder and patted it he did not care much for that or for with a forlorn gesture which to the anything except to keep away from •foreman's eye was as graceful as it Carlow for the rest. of his life, since was sad. He moved closer to Bud, and bis big hand fell on Cynthia's brother's other shoulder as he realized that red i hair could lock pretty sometimes, and ' Then, as she stood in the center of the circle they made around ber, she said: "Before you go shan't we pledge each other to our success in this good he wondered why the editor's singing j made Cynthia cry, and at the same i BECAUSE there is not usually much pain associated with de- rangements of the nerves people fail to realize their danger. They forget that sleeplessness, irritability, loss of memory, lack of energy and vitality, spells of weakness and dizziness, tired d feelin sr dis •couragernent and despondency are symptoms more to be dreaded than great pain, because the mind as well as the body is threatened. There is no more satisfactory means of fortning new blood find creating new nerve force than by the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. This great food cure acting through the medium of the blood and nerves instils new vigor and vitality into every part and organ of the body. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 50 cents a box, 6 boxes for $2,50at all dealers, or Edmanaon, Dates' & Company, Toronto. time he decided to be mighty good to Bud henceforth. The spell of night and song was on him; that and something more, for it is a strange, inexplicable fact that the most practical chief ever known to the Herald had a singularly sentimental influence over her subordi- nates from the moment of her arrival. 'Under Harkless' domination there had been no more steadfast bachelors in Carlow than Ross Schofield and Caleb Parker, and, like timorous youths in a graveyard, daring and mocking the hosts in order to assuage their own g and at t id furs theyhad sa bed a a g jeered the married state that there was talk of urging the minister to preach at them, but now let it be recorded that at the moment Caleb laid his hand on Bud's other shontder bis associate, Mr. Schofield, was enjoying a walk in the far end of town with a widow, and it is h ,, rt e not u t that 11ir.'.C'i wa n to be da b ed 5 p heart also Was no longer in his posses- sion, though, as it was after 8 o'clock, the damsel of ids desire had probably long since retired to her conch. For a faint light on the eause of these vele we must turn to a Com- ment roads by the invaluable Mr, !►frit-- tin twine time afterward. Uteferring.to Dr0 Wood's Norway Pine Syrup Cures Coughs, hsr Colds, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Croup, Asthma, Pain or Tightness in the Chest, Eto. it stops that tiekling in the throat, is pleasant to take and soothing and heal, rag to the lungs. Mr. B. Bishop Brand, the well-known Galt gardener, writes:. - I had a very severe attack of sore throat ani tightness in the ehest. Some times when I wanted to cough and could not I would almost choke to death, My wife got me.a bottle of DR. WOOD'S NORWAY PINE SYRUP, acid to my sur- prise I found speedy relief. t< Mould not be without it if it cost $1.80 a bot- tle, and I can recommend it to everyone bothortd wit Pr% £6 Ceara d` CURED HER BOY OF PNEUMONIA Newmarket. Mother is loud In her Praises of the Great Con- sumption Preventative "My on Laurence was taken down with Pneumonia," Gays Mrs. A, O. Fisher, of Newmarket, Ont. "Two doctors at- tended him. He lay for three months almost like a dead child, His lungs became so swollen, his heart was pressed over to the right side. Altogether I think we paid $zero to the doctors, and all the time he was getting worse. Then we commenced the Dr. Slocum treatment. The effect was wonderful. We saw a difference In two days. Our boy was soon strong and well." Here is a positive proof that Psyohine will cure Pneumonia. But why wait till Pneumonia comes. It always starts with a Cold. - Cure the Cold and the Cold will never develop into Pneumonia, nor the Pneumonia into Consumption. The one sure way to clear out Cold, root and branch, and to build up the body so that the Cold won't come back is to use PSYCHIN (Pronounced Si -keen) 50c. Per Bottle Larger •Iz•a g 1 and 32 --all druggists. DR. Te A. SLOCUM, Limited, Toronto. he was to live. And there was no ten - ger need to go there. He was glad to know that. H. Fisbee had written him before the oil bubbled in Eph's wells that to buy stock in Mr. Watts' com- pany might be profitable, especially as the stock was then so low that it was almost imperceptible, and Harkless had a little money lie had saved. He let Meredith arrange it for him, and a few days later the stock leaped cloudward. However, his modest riches interest- ed him as little as did everything else. He left his bed less and less, took no more drives, and his lethargy deep- ened. The only tbing in which he showed interest was the congressional cam- paign of the district. It was far ad- vanced before the herald spoke of it at all, and Harkless saw that McCune bad lifted his head. One day Tom came in and found him writing on a pad on his knee. Rouen, Sept. 2, —. Dear Mr. Fisbee—Yours of tee loot to hand. I entirely approve all arrangement$ you have made. I think you und•rsjand that I wish you to regard evezyelling as in your own hands. You are the editor of the Herald and have the solo respons ta- tty for everything, including policy, until, after proper warning, I relieve you in person, if that ever happens, but until that time regard me as a mere spectator. I do not fear that you will make any mis- takes. You have done very much better in alt matters than I could have done myself. .At present I have only one suggestion: I observe that your editorials concerning Halloway's renomination aro something lukewarm. It is very important that he be renominated, not so much on account of assuring his return to Washington (for he is no Madison, I fear), but the fellow McCune must bo beaten if we have to send him to the penitentiary on an old Issue to do it. The man is corrupt to the bone. He has been bought and sold, and I am glad the proofs of it are in your hands, as you tell me you found them, as directed, in my desk. The papers you hold drove him out of politics once by the mere threat of publication. You should have printed them last week, as I sug- gested, Do so at once; tho time is short. The Herald is a little paper (not so little nowadays, after all, thanks to you), but it is an honest one, and it isn't afraid of Rod McCune and his friends. Please 'let mo see as hearty a word as you can say for Holloway also. You can write with ginger. Please let us have come in this matter. I am, very truly yours, JOHN HARMLESS. When the letter was concluded, he banded it to Meredith. "Please ad- dress that, put a 'special' on it and send it, Tom. It should go at once, so as to reach him tonight." "H. Fisbee?" 1 " "Yes—H. Fisbee." .' • tt "I believe it does yon good to write, boy," said the other as he bent over him. "You look more chirrupy than you have for several days." "It's tbat beast McCune. This young Fisbee is rather queer abor : It. I felt stirred up as I went along." But even before the sentence wan 1' :!shed the favor of age and utter wuu•tness re- turned, and the dark lids closed over his eyes. They opened again slowly, and he took the other's hand and looked up at him mournfully; but, as it were, his soul shone forth in dumb and elo- quent thanks. "I—I'm giving you a jolly summer, Tom," he said, with a quivering effort to senile. "Don't you think I am? I don't—I don't know what I should have —done"— "You old Indian!" said Meredith ten- derly. Three days tater Tom was rejoiced by symptoms of invigoration in his pa- tient. A telegram game for Harkless, and Meredith, bringing it htto the sink room was surprised ed to find the o ceu- pant sitting straight up on his couch without the prop of pillows. He was reading the day's copy of the Herald, and his face was flushed and his brow stern. "What's the matter, bay?" "Mismanagement, I hope," Said the ether in a strange voles; "worse, per - baps. It's this young 1i'lsbee. I can't think what's come over the fellow. I thought he was a treasure beyond dreams, and he's turning out bad. I'll fSWea.r it looks like they'd been --welt, 1 rlett't Key toot yet, but ile hasn't print• • thin IdeCune business 1 told you of, 'ti had iw . da There ill lets 't't iia o a. �.. .. 000 �.. than a week before the convention, and"-- He broke off, seeing the yellow envelope in Meredith's band, "Ii tbat. a telegram for me?" Ilia companion. gene it to him. Ire tore it open And read the contents. They were brief and unhappy, Can't you do something? Can't you tome down? It begins to look the ether way. X. H. "Tom, gire me that pad and pencil," said the sick man. He rapidly dashed off a note to 11. Fisbee. Sept, 5, —. H. F'lsbee, Editor Carlow Herald: Dear Sir—You have not acknowledged my letter of the 2d of September by a note (which should have reached in. the fol- lowing morning) or by the alteration in the tenor of my columns which I re- quested, or by the publication of •the Mc- Cune papers which I directed, In this I hold you grossly at fault. If you have a conscientious reason for refusing to carry out my roqueet it should have been corn. municated to me at once, as shoull the fact—ft such be the case—that you are a personal (or impersonal, if you like) friend of Mr. Rodney McCune. Whatever the mo- tive which prevents you from operating my paper as I direct, I should have been In. formed of it, Thls is a matter vital to the Interests of our community, and you have hitherto shown yourself too alert in ae- cepting my slightest suggestion for me to construe this failure as negligence. You will receive this letter by 1 thin evening by special delivery. You will print the facts concerning McCune in to- morrow morning's paper. 0 W g s pP I am well aware of the obligations un- der which your extreme efficiency and your thoughtfulness in many matters have placed me. It is to you I owe my unearned profits from the transaction In oil, and it is to you I owe the Herald's extraordinary present circulation, growth of power and Influence. That power 1s still under my direction and is an added responsibility which shall not be misap- plied. Are you sorry for McCune? I warned him long ago that the papers you hold would bo published if he ever tried to re- turn to political life, and he is deliberately counting on my physical weakness and absence. Let him rely upon it—I am not so weak as he thinks. I am sorry for him from the bottom of my heart, but the Herald is not. You need not reply by letter. Tomor- row's issue answers for you. Until I have received a copy I withhold my judgment. JOHN HARMLESS. Tomorrow's issue—that fateful print on which depended John Harkless' opinion of H. Fisbee's integrity—con- tained an editorial addressed to the delegates of the convention, warning them to act for the vital interest of the community and declaring that the op- portunity to be given them in the pres- ent convention was a rare one, a sin- gular piece of good fortune indeed. They were to have a chance to vote for a man who had won the love and re- spect of every person in the district— one istrictone who had suffered for his champion- ship of righteousness; one whom even his few political enemies confessed they held in personal affection and es- teem; one who bad been the inspiration of a new era; one whose life had been helpfulness, whose hand had reached out to every struggler and unfortunate; a man who had met and faced danger for the sake of others; one who lived under a threat for years, and 'who had been almost overborne in the fulfillment of that threat, but who would live to see the sun shine on his triumph, the tribute the convention would bring him as a gift from a community that loved him. His name needed not to be told. It was on every lip that morning and in every heart. Tom was eagerly watching his com- panion as he read. Harkless fell back on the pillows with a drawn face, and for a moment he Laid his thin hand over his eyes in a gesture of intense pain. "What is it?" Meredith said quickly. "Give me the pad, please." "What is it, boy?' The other's teeth snapped together. "What is it?" he cried. "What is it? It's treachery, and the worst I ever knew. Not a word of the accusation I demanded—lying praises instead! Read that editorial—there, there!" He struck the page with the back of his hand and threw the paper to Meredith. "Read that miserable lie! 'One who has won the love and respect of every person in the district!' 'One who has suffered for his championship of righteousness!' Righteousness! Save the markl" "What does it mean?" "Mean! It means McCune, Rod Mc- Cune, 'who has lived under a threat for years'—mw threat. I swore i would (Co e co 'in't• +),) 'Twenty Minutes Tine Enough? ? To Cure the Worst headache From Any Cause—New Reduction Method. 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NGELirtIE BOOTH The Salvation Army's American Leader. The Salvation Army, one of the most remarkable religious movements in the n,,ml I, is a great organized body going out into the highways and byways of hu - :t nanny. It seeks to bring the church to the people rather than merely to urge the people to the church. It has made religion a warns, inspiring reality to thou - S.1:113; it has been practical, kr it has carried the divine word to the poor, the sin- ning, the sorrowing and the suffering, and with it has ever extended the hand of human helpfulness, love and brotherhood. Its methods need no vindication; the transformedlives due to its influence arc its iiV'in3 t'.Ul1UIIlentii. 'rhe new leader of the, Army in rite United States is a '•onus; woman, Eva Booth, the daughter of the venerable General Booth, founder of the organization. 'call, slen•i'r, energetic, alert, with a sweet, mellow, far-reaching voice, she strikingly 'ennobles her father, and went to America after her triumphant erp: aces in Canada with the reputation of being one of the best women orators in the world. She has a. r s`r, n.,tti, sincerity and sp:ri"nal fervor that carry her ..ut..,r.ec.. with her and sweep thein on waves of religious fervor to higher spirituality. As a child, with her sweet face and her little jingling tambourine, she ven- tured intothe slams of Darkest London atxt fired without a tremor, degradation +a h. could not understand; but whichthesunshine of thelove she radiated was ate s, o last to penetrate and soften. For ti, time she was compelled to go disguised as 11. Bower -girl, but after suffering personal violence more than a hundred 11111(:1 anti bravely leading her people where the police rarely: entered and were always needed, she finally triumphed, and to -day the name of`I�,va Booth is held in reverence in even the worst sections of London. Through her personal intiucnee obnoxious laws regarding public religious mentions in the streets of England have been repealed, :end under her leadership the Army in England calmed the temper of street mobs and v;mr1ni::hed their v>p- position. She went to Cornwall, and talked to •tvorki :s in the tin miles; undaunted sh went into the mines under the sea, with the surf roaring overhaul, to visit the, sick and dying; she carried her mn('ssttee to the weavel;e of the Mini:cda. and braved li'r way through all ililliculties to fight the battle of tcn.peranee and better li'tinA. has held practically every rani; in the Artily, find in Canada, where she was in et. fitmpands often traveled bravely through the rrovineo:r on snowshoes, :reaehintc to men inthe lumber camps. To -day she is the ruler of nearly 4.001) paid otHear> t,;'cl more than 123,(H)() of at organized Torre that ministers dry and night, Uneaten at (i,•, to the temporal and spiritual meds of three Million people. r ar p..aori:ngto zit of the ratla,ru,t of t';.tale, in the ye,r ESA W. (''.Me,k,et t1 1 i'rtuttmer• orA.ttl.ass.