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The Wingham Times, 1912-02-15, Page 71 cit' The GIL By HAROLD, Ma,eGRATIJ Copyright, WO , by the Dobbs Merrill Company neffalile sadness. "lino t peen a great politician I should have succeeded. Ah, give this to my merit; self never en- tered into this dream. It waa all done for my child." 1•lildegarde did not trove, nor bad she moved since the revelation. "Hildegat'de," said the duke, `you shall become my daughter, and you shall dwell here till the end of your days. 1 will try to right the wrong that has been done to you," "No, your highness," she replied, "There is but one place for toe, and that is at my father's side." And res- olutely she walked to the chaneellor's left, and her baud stole dowu and met his firmly. "Ely lather, 1 forgive you," she said, with quiet dignity. "You forgive me?" The chancellor could not believe his ears, "Yes, tafher." Then, recalling all the child hunger in his arms and heart. he swept her to his breast convulsively. and the no - loosed tears dropped upon her bright bead, "And who am 1?" said Gretchen. "Breunnev, you say this little goose girt is my daughter?" "1 solemnly swear it, highness. Look into tier face again carefully." The duke did so, a hand on either cheek. He scrutinized every contour, the color of the eyes, the low, broad brow, the curve of the chin, Out of the past he conjured up the mother's face. Yes, beyond any doubt there was a haunting likeness, and be had lever noted it before. "But who will prove it to the world?" the cried hopelessly, still holding Gretchen's wondering face between his bands. "1 shall prove it," said the king. "You? And how?" "I shall marry Gretchen. 3. shall make her a queen. That will be proof .enough." "A fine stroke, nephew; a bold stroke!" Prince Ludwig laid his hand upon the king's shoulder with rare affection. "If you accept her without further proof 1, her father, can do no less." And the duke led her over to the king, gravely joining their hands. "Gretchen!" murmured the king. "1 do not know bow to net like a ,princess," "1 shall teach you." Gretchen laid her head on his breast. She was very tired and much bewil- •dered. The duke paced the length of the cabinet several times. No one inter- rupted bis meditation. Back and forth, one hand hanging. to the opposite shoulder, the other folding over his chin. • Then he paused with abrupt- ness. "Your majesty," said the grand duke, "I regret that your father is not alive to accept my apologies for so basely misjudging him. Arnsberg, nothing that I can do will restore these wasted years. But I offer you the portfolio." "I am only a broken man, your high- ness—too old." "It is my will." "As for you." said the duke to the gypsy, "go, and if you ever step this side of the frontier again you will be shot out of hand." He stopped again itt front of Grumbach. "I promised to BRONC1IITIS fWas So Choked Up She Could Hardly Breathe. Bronchitis is an acute isifiammation of the mucus membrane lining the air tubes if the lungs, and should never be ne- elected, for if it is very often the disease becomes chronic, and then it is only a Short step to consumption. , On the first sign of bronchitis Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup should be taken, and thus prevent it becoming Idltronle. Mr. John D. MacDonald, College Grant, N,S., writes:----"* little girl, Seven years old, caught a bad cold which developed into bronchitis. She was so 'choked up she could hardly breathe. ftead!ng About your wonderful medicine. fir. Woods Norway Pine Syrup, I decided to try a bottle, and with such good re. suite that I got another tvhiclt cotpletely cured her. I cannot say too mus i in its praise, and would not be withoutit in the_ house." Zr, Wood's Norway Pine Sytup is put up hi a yellow wrapper; three pine ees the trade nark. • rite, 25 cents. 1m Manufaeturcd only by The T. Mahar* 'Co., Iamited, Tomato, Ont. have you shot in the morning. That promise bolds. But n train leaves for Paris a little after midnight. My ad- vice is for you not to miss it," "And my father, your higtmuess?" said Hildegafde bravely, "Tlerbc'c'k, your estates are confis- cated; your name Is struck from the civic and military lists. Have you any ready funds?" "A little, your highuess." "Enough to take you forever out of this part of the world?" "Yes, your highness." "You do not ask to be forgiven, and 1 like that. You have, perhaps, three "GiUtTCHEN 1" ITURIEURED THE ZING. hours to get your things in order. To- morrow you will be judged and con- demned. But you, Hildegarde"— "No, your highness; we shall both take the train for Paris. Gretchen, you will be happy." Gretchen ran and flung herself into Hildegarde's arms, and the two of them wept. Hildegarde pushed Gretch- en away gently. "Come, father; we have so little time." And this was the sum of the duke's revenge. It never took Carmichael long to make up hie mind definitely. He found his old friend the cabman in the Plats, and they drove like mad to the con- sulate. An hour here sufficed to close his diplomatic career and seal it her- metically. The clerk, however, would go on like Tennyson's brook, forever and forever. Next he went to the res- idence of his banker in the Konig- strasse and got together all his avail- able funds. Eleven o'clock found Carmichael in his rooms at the Grand hotel, feverish- ly packing his truak and bag. Parisi Re would go also even if they passed on to the remote ends of the world. The train stood waiting in the gloomy Bahnhof. The guards patrolled the platform. Presently three men came out of the station door. Two were of- ficers. The third, Colonel ,on Wallen - stein, was in civilian dress. He was sullen and depressed. Said one of the officers: "And it id the express command of General Due-' witz that you will return here under the pain of death. Is that explicit?" "It is." The colonel got into his com- partment and slammed the door vi- ciously. y In the next compartment sat Grum- hach. He was smoking his faithful pipe. He wng...,witbai content. This was far rn6e satisfactory than stand. Ing up before the firing line, and, be- sides, he hhd•-made history in Ehren- steln that night. They would not for- get the name of Breunner right away. To America with a clean slate and a reposeful conscience—it was more than he had any reasonable right to expect, Tekla! He laughed sardoni- cally. She was no doubt sound asleep by this time, and the end of the chap- ter would never be -written for her. Whet fools these young men a -court - Ing were! War and famine and pesti- lence—did these not always follow at the heneis of women? As the station master's belt rang the door opened and a man jumped ie. He tossed his bag into the corner and plumped down in the seat. "Ca ptaia 1" "You, Dane?" "Yes. Where are you going?" "I ani weary of Dreiberg, so I An taking a little vacation." "For bow long?" suspiciously. "Gb, for ever so long!" evasively. Gans said nothing more. He was full of wisdom. He had alt idea. The fleeing chancellor and his daughter were on the train, and he WAS certain that his. friend Cartntehael knew Itr 13y the aid a certain small briberies ou the train and in Paris Carmichael gathered bit by bit that the destina- tion of the woman he loved was Amer- lca, Out never one did he set eyes upon her till she and her father mount- ed the gangplank to the vessel 1044 THE YYI GllAlil„ TIMES, FEBRUARY 15, was to Cirri them across the wide . lantic. The chenge in Herbeek wits pitiable, Hie face bad aged twenty' Years in these sixty odd hours. His I clothes, the same he had worn that ever memorable night, hung loosely about his gaunt frame, and there was a vacancy in his eyes which was elo- quent of mental collapse. Carmichael abided his times A French newspaper contained a full account of Herbeck's coup and his sub- sequent flight, It also recounted the excitement of the following day, the appearance of Gretchen on the steps of the palace and the great shouting of the people as they acclaimed her the queen of Jugendheit, The second day out Carmichael's first opportunity came, Ile discovered. Herbeck and his daughter leaning against the rail. He watched them uneasily, wondering how he might ap- proach without startling her. At last he keyed up his courage. "Good morning, your highness," he stammered, and inwardly cursed his stupidity. At the sound of Isis voice she turned, and there was no mistaking the glad- ness in her eyes. "Mr. Carmichael!" "Yes. I was surprised to learn that you were taking the same boat as myself." How clumsy he was, she thought. For she had known his every move since the train drew out of Dreiberg. "Father, here is our friend, Herr Carmichael." "Carmichael?" said Herbeck slowly. "Alm, yes. Good morning." And Carmichael instantly compre- hended that his name recalled nothing to the other man's remembrance. "You are returning to America?" she asked. "For good, perhaps. To tell the truth, I ran away, deserted my post, though technically I have already re- signed. But America has been calling the for some days. You have never been to sea before?" "No; it is all marvelous and strange to me." "Let us walk, my child," said Her - beck. "You will excuse me, Mr. Carmi- chael?" she said. Never more the rides in the fair mornings; never more the beautiful gardens, the music, the gal- loping of soldiers who drew their sa- bers whenever they passed her. Never more any of these things. "Can I be of any assistance?" he said in an undertone. "No," sadly. The days, more or less monotonous, went past, Sometimes he saw her alone on deck, but only for a little while. Her father was slowly improv- ing, but with this improvement came the natural desire for seclusion. So he came on deck only at night. The night on which the vessel bore into the moist, warm air of the gulf stream was full of moonshine, of smooth, phosphorescent billows. Her - beck bad gone below. The girl leaned over the rail, alone and lonely. And Carmichael, seeing her, could no longer still the desire in his heart. He came up to her. "See!" she exclaimed, pointing to the little eddies of foam speeding along the hull. "Do you know what they re- mind me of? Mermaids' fingers grasp- ing and clutching at the boat as if to drag it down below:' How beautiful she was with the frost of moonligbt on her hair! "You must not talk like that," he admonished. "I am very unhappy." "And when you say that you make me so too." "wily?" She had spoken the word at last.' "Do you remember the night you dropped your fan?" leaning so closely toward her that his arm pressed against hers. "I remember." "You put that word then. In honor I dared not answer. You were a prin- cessI I was only a soldier of fortune. But now that you are in trouble, now that you have need of me, Y may an- swer. I may tell yeti now why, why I have thrown ambition and future to the winds. why I am here at your Side tonight. Need 1 tell you? Do you not know, and have you not known? Am I cruel to speak of Love in the moment of your great afflic- tion? Well, I must cruel. I ".LaK MUT You wrr,r." love ou faith- fully and loyal- ly, now and here- after, through this sad day into happier beet. I ask nothing for this tone I offer. I ask only that I may use it In 'your service, in good times or bat." "Ask what you will," she whispered. "I am .happy nowt" Om Synopsis. Gretchen, a tsooee girl meets a mylterh ons mountaineer and Carmichael, Amen ioan consul in Drainers, kingdom of Bhrenatetn. Carmichael loves Princee`a 13lldegarde, Gretchen's lover Is Leo, a vintner. The prince regent of Jugendheit Benda Milds' garde an offer of Marriage from lChtg Frederick. the isrtncesa Was abducted to infancy and later 'restored to het' father, the grand duke. Gretchen and Leo are to wed after the vintage. flans Grumbach of America reaches Drdberg. Carmichael becomes fond of (irumbeoh, who adnrmmtits he was born In Dreiberg, Hildegarde's betrothal is annoullc6d. .»_.■».. i't..?IiAn1t susneets I1.a...e. .. Rho tater tells t';,rmiehriet his realname la lireututer. Ile nets .1 mr(•,ed Isanepoi1 t':;nq t i 1h l rel; rrrsr:,'s w marry lilU4s, 1•- (.'iter tides In 0 1, '(r from ti oyster', ons t 1 4 IVo•nah to 1itl:I'$i1•de. i'hla wont. "n sued 1' It NIL+.••••vde when she watt a:Hine:eat tier Leek )rove' t t ! :, at:, grand dune from drr'lr•rint; ('11 oh ,1:,•;e;ldh(lt (Jrutrtbacq 41IVIs 111 110'.. 0,•011 0(11 of the princess'. 1404401111.8• Leo, tete Vintner, escapes when the no, Ilse rata a Sot:111st Ineetln;. Uretchen heat's 1" is a apv Irnln Jogend11811. '1'ho- nmonta7hepr shadows him. Leo lava 110p tut ('arma.i Ipl. rhe n•ounuthlNe'r defends Gretchen from Insult 11 1 offers her :1 1 tla(e and Jeicela, she neer Ns. Arl uld 140e1i mender is rec- ogrlt;led by the mountaineer. Bela mnach meets fitide•garde and Is amazed by to 10eltel she earrles. The grand duce and Herbeck plan to arrest Leo and the rnountatneer, Car- mlc'beei is abducted by the mountaineer'( party, who thiol( he Is Leo. Carmichael tells Hildegarde he loves her. Grumbach studies Hildegarde with opera glasses. A gypsy Maims a reward offered by the clock mender. Grumbach tells Carmichael that he and a gypsy stole the princess, eirumbaeh sees a scar on Gretchen's arm and recognizes the gypsy. Grum- bach, the clock mender and the gypsy of- fer to right a great wrong. Carmichael recognizes Leo, the vintner, as King Frederick of Jugendheit. The mountaineer is his uncle, the prince re- gent. They are arrested. Gretchen finds she loves a king. Grumbach tells the grand duke that Gretchen, not Hildegarde, is his daugh- ter and the real princess, The grand dune suspects Herbeck as the arch plot- ter, Herbeck admits that he had the real princess, Gretchen, abducted and later substituted his own daughter, Hiidegarde, in her place. Icing Frederick offers to marry Gretchen. Hildegarde, her disgraced father and Carmichael sail for America. Carmnichael's love for Fliidegarde is returned, (The End) ORIENTAL RUGS. Their Worth Hangs on the Number of Knots to the Square Inch. For ages reaching far back into the mists of antiquity, weaving has been the work of women, though the mod- ern factory of the west bas brought about changes in this respect. "In the unchanging east weaving is, with few exceptions, women's work. In the interior of Asiatic Turkey and in Persia the patriarchal system still ex- ists and the sons bring their wives home to live. I have known as many as thirty-five persons to live in one dwelling," writes Mrs. Eliza Dunn in her book, "Rugs In Their Native Land." "The mother-in-law is queen of the household, and every morning assigns to each woman and girl her task for the day." Methods of work- ing as well as patterns are traditional:` according to the same author, and some designs are peculiar to special families or tribes and become so fa- miliar that the older workers produce them from memory. The art of tying in the yarn has to be learned very slowly, The young- er children are allowed to tie in only one solid color on the plain back- ground, but when a girl becomes fair- ly expert she is allowed to make a whole rug, and traces of individuality may be looked for in her weaving. The two classes of rug, Turkish and Persian. are distinguished by the kind of knot in which they are tied, the Ghtordes, or Turkish, the Senna, or Persian knot. The number of knots to the square inch is one of the tests of value of a modern rug, nud the fact that more 011 11 be tied to the square inch in a Persian than in a TurItish rug ac- counts for the greater fineness and consequently greater costliness of the former, COVERED DISHES. NOISE OF THUNDER, Theory as to the Cause of the Crackle, Roar and Rumble. It has usually been thought that the noise of thunder is caused by the cies- ing up of the vacuum created by the passage of the lightning, the air rush- ing in from all sides with u clap. But the intensity of the noise is rather dis- proportionate, and it is now sppposed thunder is due to time intense heating of gases, especially the gas of water vapor along the line of electric dis- charge and the consequent conversion of suspended moisture into steam at enormous pressure.. In this way the crackle with which a peal of thunder sometimes begins might be regarded as the sound of steam explosion on a small scale caus- ed by discharges before the main flash. The rumble would be the over- lapping steam explosions, and the final clap, which sounds loudest, would be the steam explosion nearest to the auditor. 1u the case of rumbling thunder the tightaing is passing from cloud to cloud. When the flash passes from the earth to the clouds the clap is loudest at the beginning. Trowbridge gave substance to these suppositions by causing electric flashes to pass from point to point through terminals clothed In soaked cotton wool, and he succeeded in magnifying the crack of the electric spark to a terrifying ex- tent.—Exchange. THE PHALANX. Its Formation In the Military Methods of Ancient Greece. A phalanx in the military affairs of Greece was 0 square battalion or body of soldiers formed in ranks and tiles compact and deep, with their shields joined and pikes crossing each other so as to render it almost impossible to break It. At Grst the phalanx consisted ior 4,000 men, but this number was aft ('•ward doubled by Philip of Macedon, i and the double phalanx is hence often celled the SIncedonlan phalanx. Polyb, jus describes it thus: "It was a square of pikemen, con, sisting of 10 in flank and 500 in front, The soldiers stood so close together that the pikes of the flfth yank extend- ed three feet beyond the front. The rest, whose pikes were not serviceable owing to their distance from the front, couched them upon the shoulders of 111050 who stood before them and, so locking them together in file, pressed forward to support and push on the former rank, by which means the as- sault was rendered more violent and irresistible," The spears of those be- hind also stopped the missiles of the enemy. Each man's pike was twenty- three feet long. The word phalanx is also used for nay combination of peo- ple distinguished for solidity and firm- ness, A grand phalanx consisted of 10,884 men. First Used in the Dark Ages to Guard Food From Poison. From the days when our ancestors took their food In their hands and ate it with as little ceremony as a dog gnaws a bone to the present time of elaborate dinners is a long step, but a gradual one. It was a number of cen• tufies before dishes of any kind were used, and knives and forks as adjuncts to eating are later stili. The fear of poison which haunted the mind of every person of quality during the mid- dle ages gave rise to certain curious customs and even to certain supersti- tions. When dishes are now served covered, it is understood that it is mere- ly for the purpose of keeping them warns. This was not, however, the principal reason why they were serv- ed covered during the dark ages. It was the fear that poison might be in• treduced into them surreptitiously be- tween the kitchen and the table where they were to be served to the kings or the lords or even to persons of infe- rior rank. The covets were not removed till the master of the house had taken his place. All dishes afterward served were brought on the table in the same manner. It was the custom originally when the dishes were uncovered for some of tile servants to first partake, or 'them, but this custom was after- ward in part replaced by the servants touching the food with 000 of several objects which were regarded as infalli- ble preservatives against poison. Cornered. "Yea must hove called me late this morning, Sylvena. It was 12 o'clock when I reached the Wilco. And I bad an important appointment for 10 o'clock, too." "Why, I called you at 7:30, John," "Was the clock right?" "Yes; I Set it last night when you crime home. You remember I called downstairs when you came in and asked you what time it was. And you said 10:30. The -clock in my room Bold 1:45, So 1 turned It back to agree with your watch, and, Of cottrse, I 1 called you by the correct time this amorning."--Buffalo mxprese. I Charlotte Corday. Charlotte Corday, the slayer of Ma - rat. was, according to the best au- thorities, of noble lineage. Unlike the '.Mid of Orleans, the most illustrious blood lowed in her veins. She was well educated, and not a whisper was ever heard against her moral charac- ter. It does not appear that she ever manifested the slightest signs of in- sanity or fanaticism. Her action in killing Marnt was attended by nothing like madness or hallucination. Taught to believe that the Paris butcher was Ilse 000 man who hindered the right- eous settlement of the strife that was destroyiug her country, she quietly went down to the great city and In a very unostentatious manner dispatched the man she believed to be her people's greatest enemy.—New York American. Some Famous Dunces. Literary history is crowded with stances of torpid and uninteresting boyhood. Gibbon was pronounced "dreadfully dull," and the utmost that was predicted of Hume in his youth was that "he might possibly become a steady merchant." Adam CIarke, after- ward so deeply skilled in oriental lan- guages and antiquities, was pronounc- ed by his father to be "a grievous dunce," and of Boileau, who became a model for Pope, it was said that he was a youth of little understanding. Dryden was "a great numskull," who went through a course of education at Westminster, but the "stimulating properties of Dr. Busby's classical ferrule were thrown away upon the drone who was to be known as 'Glori- ous John.' "—London Standard. Stated a Fact. A clergyman highly esteemed for ids many exceilent qualities, of which ora- tory is not one, has recently had placed in his church by his loving congrega- tion a new pulpit. It is a fine piece of work, ornate with carving and artistic embellishment. But the text inscribed on it, considering the effect of the good rector's sermons, might have been more uappiiy chosen, ed sleep," it runs. it The Way of Them. "Oh, yes; he's a very intollectnal man." "What makes you think that?" 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"t!r'' 1tr Barrett won some success with a piece called (consulting his notest t,ixhts of London.' I suppose it use, the work of some dramatic• George Situs sat facing him and nevem said a word. Then his lordship went drawling on: "1 nest find ou the list of Mr. Dar rott's successes something called "Tile Silver King.' Mere again I know nothing of the authorship. The names of those dramatic carpenters do not Interest me." At which Henry Arthur Jones glared and a dusk came into the face of poor blind Henry Herman. "Finally," said Lord Lytton, "Mr. Wilson Barrett has placed on his boards what he humorously calls a Boman tragedy. I refer to 'Claudian,' attributed to one W. G. Wills, of whom I have never heard." This was too much for the banqueters. All of them were personally acquainted with Iry- ing's pet poet, the modest Wills. So they howled derisively. And Earl Lytton's tragedy, produced n month later, was a dismal failure. About Your Initials, What do your initials spell? Some people have bad queer experiences. Names like Arthur S. Sullivan are un- fortunate. George (Henry) Augustus Sala preferred to make himself, like George Adam Smith, into GAS. Gil- bert A"Becket, of course, was just GAB. Whistler for awhile dropped his McNeill, fearing the possible ridi- cule of JAM Whistler.Henry Rider Haggard becomes very dignified as H. R. H.; (Henry) Austin Dobson re- fuses to be HAD, removing his first name, and Mme. de Novikoff, though no longer Olga iiireff, has become "O.K." forever.—London Chronicle. Cables of Human fit.ir. In north Japan is an enormous hea- then tetnple, the timbers of which were hauled from the mountains and put in place with ropes made from the hair of the women of the province. From these tresses, which were brought forth by an edict, two ropes were sande. one seventeen inches in circum- ference and 1,400 feet in length, while the other was eleven Inches in circum- ference and 2.(100 feet long. His Job. 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