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The Wingham Times, 1898-07-01, Page 7!. ±' W LI U LL.A ..1TIM ES, JULY 1, 1898. 17 McMARCHMONT. • AUTHOR- o! P ow. 'Misert 1'toADLrx 5 510I1/11 'rale eery i eler AFtireai set 510411115E 'BY WHOSE NANC'Oa.a a Tri[ p1,.p MILL MYSTERY tcT ecT. ter.4. wa + • GOP YR/GMT ,Y ew Vie AUTHOR "Vint 'means I tine to ask Lola when we're a1 llP • hufs all," r etort ed Mrs. De Witt. "You'd far better tell the ^i coming was always' afraid of his > 6 bore," said Lola evasively. "You know I said at the time 1 did not want him asked. Ugh l He is loathsome and dun- gerous." "Never mind, sweetheUt. Pluele up courage. He 'won't trouble us any more," said Sir Jaffray in a Much lighter tone than he felt and wishing to cheer her up. "And if he doesn't t clear out from the neighborhood of his own free will after today's business I'll Orad away of making him; that's all." His mood of demonstrative affection had passed, and Lola, with tl sigh, let him go from her side. He got up and then lit a cigarette. "It'll bo a lesson to mo not to en- courage traveling fiddlers again. To i think that he should turn out such a brute! And I actually liked the fellow. By gad, but I'm glad I thrashed him, and I'm only sorry I didn't lay it on a little longer and a good deal harder." 330 paused and looked at Lola and then said very kindly: "Do you feel better now, sweetheart?" "Yes, Jaffray; I'm all right now. I'll run up to my room and get my hab- it off. It must be nearly lunchtime. Iias the exercise made you hungry?" And she smiled. Her spirits had risen for the moment tit having got out of the work of ex- planation so easily, and she thought it best to appear as if she had shaken off the worst effects of the morning's events. But as soon as she was in her own room and had locked the door and shut out the chance of being observed she looked the truth full in the face. . "Phe end had come. With Beryl Leycester in possession of the secret on the one hand and with Pierre pressing her from the other there was no hope, no chance, no possibility of escape. What to do she could not resolve yet. At the moment she had to goon playing the part that she had chosen, but what- ever the result a few days must settle everything, perhaps a few hours. If she were to avoid atter shipwreck, she must fee prepared with some definite course of action, and the sooner she could ' de- nide what that was to be the better. The very safety of the man she loved demanded this. She knew Pierre well 1 enough to feel quite confident that 'he I would now have a double incentive to do Jaffray harm. She had listened to j his devilish scheme in order to learn i what it was, so that having learned it 1 ebe might take measures to foil him. 1 But she knew also that he was quite capable of acting by himself from the 1 outside, and so long as there was a thought in his mind that not only i could he have revenge for the hcrse- whipping, but also be, es he hoped, a j gainer through Jaffray's death, tb. lat- ter was not safe for a day. "� She had reached .this point' thoughts when the luncheon gon II sounded and her maid knocked at the door. Lola let her in and then changed her dress and hurried down stairs. At luncheon Mrs. 1)e Witt's curiosity l lead to bo met and parried. After her passage at arms with Pierre '►,Parrian she had been for a long drive , alone, and this had not improved her temper. She had come back prepared to be very unpleasant to everybody and es- pecially to the Frenchman, and she was annoyed consequently when he was not at the table. "Where is your fiddler?" she asked of Vola. "Ho has had to go away, clear." ,rte r "Gene away?" exclaimed Mrs. De ' Vitt in a tone of great surprise. "Why, bo said nothing of it when I saw him this morning. It must have been very sudden." ""Yes, it was very sudden and very ' urgent," said Lola. i "Is he corning back?" "No," nate:posed the baronet. "The d a with him when I same lionlo and told ! him pretty bluntly that his visit had better cease. I'd rather ' his name were not mentioned." i •4""Oh, niy dear Magog, tha simply itmposslbleI" cried Mrs. De Witt. :'You • excite my Curiosity to the fever pitch and then say calmly you don't want me to mention his name. What's that but en incitement to go on mentioning it until my curiosity is satisfied? What ; bas he done? Ile hasn't stolen anything, has he? It isn't anything to do with 1 Beryl, is it? I saW them closeted to- t gether o-lgether once, but Fat's all, though be 1 is certeilily a meet original individual ;and I should think a very daring one." i .And she flushed slightly in discomfort It at the recollection of the scone at the f ;piano. "Ilt:t you must tell me why he's gone', "I J.• -,, told yon enough. Ile went bectee e 1 :en lied it. There is no more to he Cain." And the baronet spoke aharoly arad decidnalsl. She had done her utmost in the fight for happiness. She had striven hard to retain it in her grasp, but the fates were fighting against her, and there was !nothing lett but to own herself beaten and accept the defeat as best she could. It wee hard to give it all up—hardest of all to lose daffray's love and to feel Lola, threw herself en a /ono, low cam/ chatitruth at once, because I shall only think there's eolue horrible scandal, and so will everybody else. Is it anything to do with you, Lola?" Sir Jaffray looked at her and smiled. "It's no use, little woman," he said, "not a bit of use. You can't worm anything out in that sort of way. Be- l3ides there's nothing to worm out that can possibly concern you." "Thank you. I see you retain all the rudeness of old friendship While with- holding the old confidences." And Mrs. Do Witt sniffed angrily. "Just as you like," said Sir Jaffray, laughing, as he rose from the table. Soon afterward he went away, leav- ing the other two alone. "I warned you, Lola," said Mrs. De Witt as soon as they Were alone. "I told you there was mischief brewing, and that he was not hanging round you for nothing with that aist of possession of his. How did Magog find it out?" "There is really nothing to tell you," was the reply. "You are so ridiculous- ly far away from the truth and are making so much of so little that you are almost willfully misleading your- self. Jaffray and M. Turrian bad very high words, and, then, to my great pleasure, the latter went away. I never liked having him here at all." "No, possibly not," said Mrs. De Witt in a tong from which much might have been inferred, but Lola let it pass without a retort. "And now I ala going to ask you a favor," she said. "There are, as you know, a lot of people coining here in a couple of days, and I have no end of things to see to. Yet I am anxious to hear what is doing at Leycester Court with Mr. Leyccster. I wish you'd drive over there this afternoon and ask for me how he is and how Beryl is and when she can get back here." "You haven't the knack as yet, Lola, of making your house very attractive to your guests," said Mrs. Do Witt un- graciously. She was cross, as a gossip monger usually is atubeing robbed of what she deemed a toothsome morsel of scandal, "But I'll go over to the Court, and I'ltdrive through Walcote to sex if I can catch a glimpse of your French- man. I dare say he'll tell me the news." With no more than a smile at this shot Lola rang the bell and ordered the carriage for her companion. As soon as the latter had gone Lola went to her own sitting room to think out the rest of the problem. This bad been her reason for wishing to get rid of Mrs. De Witt. She felt that she must be alone. Sho had not been long in her room before a knock at the door disturbed her. She had looked it to prevent inter- ruption. It was her maid, who brought a Lot- ter on a salver. "This has just come by hand, my lady, with a message for it to be deliv- ered -immediately to you. I thought it right to bring it." Lola took it, and, going into her room, opened it. It was from Pierre Turrian, short, sharp and menacing: Yon must bo by the cottage at Ash Tree wood at the north end of the park at 0 o'clock tonight. . T. Lola stood for a moment staring help- lessly at tho open letter when the maid roused her. "Is there any answer, mum?", "No, none, " returned Lola hurriedly. The girl withdraw, and Lola looked the door again behind her, and, throw- ing herself into a long, low easy chaairr, • strove to fight her way through a of thought to a clear course of action. dile rout, and, wiping the tears hes- tily from her eyes, opened the door. "Ilere is a letter for you, Lola, from Beryl," ho said, giving to her a letter which Lola saw was fastened with n seal. Then, sexing by her face that she was troubled, he said very gently, that he would know her fora cheat and ""What is the matter, dearest?" And he a liar and worse. followed her iuto the room. "You have She ran back in thought over the been sitting hero alone,'x he added in a cheerier voice.. "I am—not—not very well," she said, her lips trembling and half refus- ing to frame any words at all, "Well, ,road your letter. Perhaps Beryl has some good news for you about her father. Read it and then lot me see whether I can't cheer you up a bit. You are so strong usually that you t startle lne when von are like his. [T.0 RN CONvIS11sD.j events of the time since hor arrival in England and smiled in self contempt as she saw One .iter mother the line of false steps she had taken. How paltry and unworthy seemed now the little ambitious which she had cherished then, how utterly weak and 'poor the objects for which she had striven! To be the wife of a rich manshe had schemed and plotted and intrigued. And what lead it proved to bo? The ono sacrifice that now caused her the least regret was that of her money and position. The one thing she dreaded to lose now was the one thing which she despised then—Jaffray'; love. She had traded on his love to win wealth and !honor for herself. The end was nothing but dishonor for him and a desolate, broken life for herself. Yet P her1 had loved her --lo•t d like Y ho the true, gallant lean he was. The thought cheered her, though it brought scalding tears to her eyes, which she let gather and blur all her sight and then fall unchecked. In all the years to come and whatever might befall hor or him he would never blot out from his memory the love he bad once bad for her, and she loved the thought of that. If only the truth could be kept from him for always! She would give her life, she thbught, if that could be. What would he think of her if she were to die? How would lie feel if he were to come into the room and • find her dead? ' Now she recalled some words that Pierre had spoken about drugs that told no tale and left no sign. What were they? How could they be obtained? How would it be to go to Pierre as he said in his letter, to seem to fall in with his plan to poison Jaffray, to get from him the drug for that purpose and thea herself take it? That would be easier than to find some poison by herself. Yet stay—there was no diffi- culty. It did not need any such elabo- rate preparation as that. She had but to feign a bad headache with sleeplessness and take a sleeping draft strong enough—for her to wake 110 more. No one would think of poison. Her life lay all before her, bright with a dazzling promise of happiness, thought the world. How little the world know 1 Two people would understand, however, and know the truth—the man who held her in his merciless power and Beryl, who bad guessed the secret. What would they think? Nay, what would they do? Would Beryl tell? She thought of the girl's cold, firm, deliberate nature and for a moment wavered how to answer the question. No; Beryl would not carry any feeling, however keen, be- yond the grave. She felt that. If she had. paid the penalty with her life, Beryl would be as silent as the grave in which she herself was to bury the secret. But what of Pierre? As she thought of him she was cold and sick. Sho knew too well what he would do. He would seek at once to trade un the shameful knowledge. He would tell the whole story to Jaffray, threaten him with ex- posure if he were not paid hush money, and• thus hold him in bondage by the knowledge of her shame till Jaffray should comp to hate her very name and curse •the day when he had grown to love her. The gates of denth were thus shut against her, and she felt that she must work out some other means of escape. Not once in all her misery did she thunk of telling Jaffray. Sho knew him so thoroughly and knew how lie would turn from her act and her shame that the mere thought of facing him at such a moment was more than she could en- dure. For this there was another reason, known only to herself, and the knowl- edge of it had sot up in her mind hun- dreds of confusing thoughts, fears, im- ed this ladder and held it steady while the man above mounted it t') the point where his work was to be done. He began, the work at once and all promised well till suddenly lie jostled the solder pot and the fiery stuff ran out and fell over the hands of the man who was holding the ladder. But the brave fellow did not move. With a presence of mind and a courage worthy of a monument he maintained a firm hold on the ladder until his companion could come down from his perilous perch. A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY. One of the angst profitable as well as most neglected of raral industries is the culture of poultry. In 1896 the sales of fowl in Ontario alone amounted to $1,000,- 000 ; but that this output, might be s ' shown largely increased isby the American statistics. 13y these it. appears that while the population of the States is only 33 times greater than that of Ontario, their sales of poultry were 125 times larger. The output of eggs in Ontarie we do not know ; but Yankee hens are com- pated to have laid last year, 14,400; 000,000 eggs, with a cash value of $165,000,000. Even in Ontario the sales of poultry amounted to one third the sales of horses and with the output included doubtless nearly equalled the horse traffic. An experienced poultry raiser, who • recently returned from Cali- fornia, with his pockets full !lf American dollars has opened a poultry. ranch near Pickering, and is already building up a profitable reporter of the Enterprise as follows : Huron are as follows. trade. The establishment of the -„During the last winter, owing I sup- I refrigerator car service, is opening 1 pose to overwook and impure blood, a wider summer market for fowl, I I became very much reduced in flesh, Clinton and there is no reason why Canadian Goderich and had severe pains in the muscles°,north farmers generally should nor enter all over my body. I felt tired all the weartsel.... into the competition and increase time, had no appetite, and often felt their incomes thereby. so low spirited that I wished myself The business however cannot be in another world. Some of the time, made to pay by the ordinary rule -of- necessity compelled me to undertake thumb process. The raising of a little work in my blacksmith shop, poultry like the raising of sheep or but I was not fit for it, and after cattle, i.s a science. Some breeds are doing the job, would have to lie down; l betterlayers than others. Other indeed I often felt Ha fainting. I breeds are better flesh producers. was advised to try Dr. Williams' The question of food, warmth and Pink Pills, and after using a couple cleanliness are also important ; and of boxes, I felt a decided relief. The serious study must be the prelude of pains began to abate, and I felt success. CAUSES OF INCREASED TUADE. I While the country is con.gl etulat- i ing itself upon an iucreafse, in exports i during the past 11 months, of over $26,000,000, it should. not forget that many exceptional influences have 1 been at work to cause that advance, The past year was -remarkable for its splendid pasturage, and rich llf rno .. crops, giving a vast output of butter, I aond rh.hT'p cheese, horses and tood animals.lor0a .”" Tial These clone upon the market atai°i �tia...... ..... tinge when a great and unusual de- meliitlop .... mans existed and the prices realized owing to light crops in Europe, the Spanish war, and the Lefi.er corner were abnormally high. It is to these influenees that the remarkable in crease in Canada's trade is chiefly Municipal Statistics. The following statistics are takers from the last report of the Bureau of Industries, and will be of interest tc those who like to study ,!sures ant. finanees : -•- Townships l Morris St4nley Stephen.. Tuckeran,ith Turnberry Usborno 1 n o B. Wuwrrnosh, L. Wawnnosh, W. Totals T'pm due whether or not the rate of ill- i GQliodoitnrlen h . . erbase can be maintained in future Scatorth .... is uncertain, but our producers wittkhunl.... should make every effort to maintain Total towns. and itnproye the quality of their ex- nayneld .... ports so that they may hold in com- ing years by merit, what they gained this year largely by chance. A BLACKSMITH'S STORY. HE 13EC4ME SO RUN DOWN THAT WORK. WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE — IHIS WHOLE BODY RACKED WITH PAIN. From the Bridgewater Buterprise. li1r. Austin Fancy is a well known blacksmith living at Baker Settle- ment, a hamlet about ten miles from Bridgewater, N. S. Mr. Fancy is well known in the locality in which he lives. He is another of the legion whose restoration to health adds to the popularity of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Fancy related his story of illness and renewed health to a P h J o 5' 'r ^4 `+3 3583 ti:4.t31),BL090 s sL'a5317-F 1 8402:, 04 Ol1 11183 8110 0 (ARA 3 n4,. 405 5i 202 16133)77' 9,'9 3 3 641 04 715 1727 4'.5 1133. 3 '4;44:4' 3 7111: t S. ri 2'0 ,1318410 190 83:1 7406 .4 -a 1 4 800 O7 015 2138, 210; 184143 3 178 2 813 53 473 1108100! 11871 4 f,"' 2 831 ;1583 1841 050 • 9 fi 1 14 2 831 53 101 1 11'31 3( 2 31`2 48 918) 1062 386 10 "a, 7 4 7'* 32 812 50 74`1 1 700 5011 139'21:i889 8 A 89 4 551'; .i 1 n 51 46 1 t J ..0 if 07..5 4 �7 .)33 0 0 337 ...at ta 33 rll 1 484661 2 387 42 637 18401,)0 9 532 893 1784 41 734 1167 860 6 . 7.3 :31114.4k 4 21 1840 416845 11•.3 84751 7 1081 05 233 700 483 20 290 8001103 7831 3 835 2 451 3 700 241 2 341 10 75 071 Blyth......... 083 Brussels .. 1 182 Exeter .....1 1702 W roxeter ....{1 400 Total vtl'es..1 0 043 000 503 400 11 831 4 to 1.000 1 038 540 23 131 0 OA' 500 0 5 4051 10 501 0 83 640! 528 220! 10 328 4 Ess 3 000 2 825 7451 63 081 5 84 . 1 7611 801111 1 176 1748: 440 200 613i 3 8871 414, 4.291 204 245. 0 12r; 51,0 10171 413 450, 7 115; 3 68 5091 100 700 1001, 341 4 la. 1 188 201 10 0301 3 0 $ The rate of taxation per head int the entire county, for 1896, waw $4.14 ; this was lower than ane previous year since 1892. In 1896, 212 stearal boilers were in use in the; townships and 103, in the towels o"_' the eountv. In 1896 the township in Huron spent $2,118 in law cost,. over 4,000 for the support of the poor and other charities, nearly $75,000 for schools and edueation. The as, - sets of the townships =mounted to $162,000 and the liabilities 1113,000.. Clinton spent $1717 on its streets; that year, being more than spent lay- any gany other town in Huron. The aa -- sets and liabilities of the towns in Assets Liabilitiew a 49870 $ 29 500 174 303 138 221 50 I 74.20 02 374 65 341 DIVISION COURT BUSINESS. The following particulars con- cerning the courts in Huron are taken from the report of the Division Court Inspector for 1897, just issued:— CHAPTER ssued:— CHAPTER XVII. MERIT. It 'was useless to fight any longer. That was the burden of Lola's thoughts as she sat with Pierre's short, The knock came again, firmer and neremptary note t'cina on lion inn. ' more impatient, and then a voice --Sir a >•ay.'sr•ealltd leen • again as though life was not all' Up a Church Steeple. dreariness. By the time I had used six boxes I was as well as ever, and Two riggers in a western city a able to do a hard day's work at the few years ago performed a feat that forge without fatigue, and those who for daring and steadiness of' nerve know anything about a blacksmith's equals anything on record. work, will know what this means. Repairs were necessary at the top Those who are not well, will make of a very high church steeple. There no mistake in looking for health was no way to reach the spot from through the medium of Dr. Williams' the inside, and the riggers procured Pink Pills. a number of light ladders and lashed Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by them, one above the other, to the going to the root of the disease. They outside of the steeple. The topmost renew and build up the blood, and ladder, however, was not high strengthen the nerves, thus driving enough to enable them to reach the diseasefrom the system. Avoid imita' desired spot, and as the upper part tions by insisting that every box of the steeple was too small to per- you purchase in enclosed in a mit the proper lashing to it of a wrapper bearing the full trade mark, lent waste• f r,Williams' Pink fills for Pale ladder, a daring exped' " D W sorted to. People." One of the nen carrying a pot of solder, climbed from one ladderA Strict Household. to - another until he bad reached the Few children are brought up on last one, and then bracing himself,such strictly virtuous lines as Miss be raised an extra ladder that thef other rigger had brought up in hisFrancesancea Willard was. Perhaps this and leaned it against the explains why the ordinary mortal hand.lads it so hard to be good. steeple. Then the man below grasp Miss Willard tells of a Christmas that fell on Sunday. In order that lets mi ht disturb the Pines Goderieh Seaforth Clinton Brussels ... • Exeter.. .. . Dungannon Bayfield Wingham .. Wroxeter.. pulses and emotions. There was the hope of a little life that was somo day to bo born, and, like a sword piercing the flesh and turning in the wound to prolong the agony, was the knowledge that the child—hers and Jaffray'$--' would be the child of shame. She knew too well what Jaffray would feel and think and say if once this knowledge were forced upon him,. and the fear, and the shame, and the love, and the misery all blended to drive the wretched girl to distraction. Gradually out of the blinding mist and sorrow an idea began to take shape. If she were to see Pierre and hire him on to delay any evil plans be might have formed by promising to work with him, something might happen to prevent his doing any harm. Or, better still, if she were to fly from the manor house and let him know that she had done go, he might be driven from his purpose altogether. She could see him that night at the time and place he had named, and then she fell to pondering all the points that occurred to her in this connection. In the midst of this she was roused by a knock at the doom She =ado 110 re- sponse, but folded up the letter from Pierre and put it in her pocket. Children Cry for TS `l+.RI fa �abfi' Love is the chief bond of human sympathy --riding a wheel is the next, A medical authority in Berlin de - Glares that not one of Germany spto- fessional wheeltnen has a sound heart. When a man begins with, I am about to say will be kindness," he means to make disagreeable. no secular neat g peace of the day of rest, the Christ- mas presents were given on Satur- day evening, and then with praise- worthy self-denial, laid aside until Monday. Fortunately for the other two young members of household—Oliv- er and Mary—their presents includ- ed a Sunday book for each, while instead of the book, Frances had a long desired but strictly week day slate. That slate was a treasure, but---to-morrow was Sunday, and it was a treasure unavailable for more than 24 hours. A happy idea final- ly came,into the longing little mind. Prances asked iher mother : "Might I have my new slate if I'll promise not to draw anything but meeting -houses?" The plea was so natural and so welt sustained that I+?raneis had the slate, her mother even drawing for her a pattern church. o� els o� "i" ,705 85 0,085 7a 0,641 13' 1,924 34 7,397 21' 2,001 01 1,533 47 1,012 34 2,612 32 722 57 1,191 00 338 41 1,003 40 51)6 501 5,001 46 2,476 37, 2,417 44 1,406 80' Zurich.. .. ... 2,170 61 964 54 Crediton .. .. 1,222 38 537 81; Blyth. 1,337 55 255 171 . � "What s .elf Nims ' Drug Store. A. 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