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The Herald, 1906-03-30, Page 3Its Purity its Flavor its Fragrance Qts ite8iabigity Are all responsible for its enor- mous sale of 14,000,Oco packets annually. is i 4 e . Rea' ne ti=, tl «it -r x,44. THE PRINCE OF TEAS. Sealed Lead Packets only. 40c, 50c and 60c per lb. At nail Grocers. HIGHEST AWARD 51'. LOUIS, 1904 "Couldn't you manage to call me Les- lie?" he said, entreatingly. "If you knew how 1 long to hear my name from your lips! and to call you Mona. It's not a happy enough naive for you, but 1 love it all the same. I can't call you Mona, if you say Mr. Waring." ,at seems so strange," murmured Mona. "Well, never mind to -day; may I go to Sir Robert?" "You may," said. Ilona, with white lips. "Thank you!" cried Waring, his eyes 'sighting up, his whole face radiant, and so far carried away with the joy that he took and hissed her hand, letting it drop directly. "I suppose I ought to go away now?' ht said, humbly, "but I should like to stay. It is almost impos- sible to believe that you have really pro- mised to marry me, that I may stay and talk to you, and will not have to give up my place to any one! That fellow Lisle always came and turned me out. when we were at Harrowby Chase; but he isn't half bad. Do you know, it was he that advised me to try my chance with you?" "Did you want advising?" said Mona, in an unsteady voice. "No, not advising, only heartening up! Tell me—would you like to travel on the continent? I haven't been much abroad myself. Of course I always go to Paris for, the Grand. Prix, and to the Baden races—but you?" "Everything must depend on any grand- mother's condition," interrupted Mona. "And, Mr. Waring—if you do not think it very rude—I must go to her now." "You are looking very white," he said, tenderly, "so I will leave you; but I hope you are not unhappy, and if there is anything more you wish me to do, you will say so? Poor Mona longed to cry. "I only wish you to go away!' she said, pressing her hand to her heart. "I am a good deal shaken and upset—to- morrow— "Oh, yes! I may come to -morrow! 'And Mona (I may call you Mona, mayn't I?), when you are talking to Mrs. New- burgh, just say to her from me that it would be so much better if we—if, that is, if the marriage was to take place soon—quite soon! I should be so much better able to be of use. You'll not think me a. bore for insisting on this? but it would really be better, putting my feelings quite out of the qudstion." "I shall be guided by what you and Sir Robert and gr•andnra think best," faltered Mona. "1 am afraid I must go now." "When may 1 come to -morrow?" asked Waring, lingering. "Oh! at two or three!" "Well, I see you are tired, and you'll think kindly of me! You know I would do anything for you, anything!" "Oh, yes, I will! And now good-bye," Waring caught her hand and looked eagerly at her. For one dread moment her heart. fainted. within her. Was he going to ask .for a kiss? If he had as- pire& to such a favor, he wisely post- poned the demand, and again pressing her long, slight fingers to his lips, he left the room. Mona ascended the stairs very slowly and deliberately, painfully conscious that she had fully committed herself. It now remained to complete the sacrifice by assuming a cheerful aspect before her grandmother. Then, when she had. satis- fied her, she might escape to regale her own thoughts, to face the situation she had. accepted. "Well, Mona?" said lvtrs. Newburgh, looking eagerly with her pitiful. eyes inter her granddaughter's face as she approached, while her thin, tremulous hands grasped the arms of her chair nervously. "Well, dear grannie," sitting down by her and taking one of her hands in both her own, "I have heard all Mr" 'Waring had to say, and I have promised to marry hint." Mrs. Newburgh did not reply. She pressed Mona's hand, and, leaning back her chair, the tension of her muscles relaxed, and a peaceful expression stole over her Ince. "You have done well, Mona," she said, after a minute's silence. "You will yet thank nee for urging you to this. Yet I did not urge. 1 only recommended you." "That is all. Mr. Waring and I have been making our confessions. I told him that I was not in love with him, and that had we not met with such a re- verse of fortune, I should probably have refused biro; and he told me that he:had not been too steady, and was addicted to ggambling.,, "Yon were imprudent, Mona. It is not wise to •1 too frank with the man you he will remind you that you diel . not care for him." "I think 14 Ir. Waring is a man would forgive everything except de- ceit; and as I have nothing to lade, 1 shall try ,to be absolutely truthful with him." "Yes, it is hest; but, _Mona, be truth- ful with ale. Are you quite'free from any fancy for—anyone else?" "Perfectly free, dear grannie," this very steadily. "Thank Cod!" ejaculated Mrs. New- burgh. `•You have always been a sen- sible, cool-headed girl, and I firmly be- lieve you will be a prosperous, happy woman. Your conduct in this matter has repaid me for all I have done." "It is very sweet to hear you say so," said Mona, gently. "Tell me," resumed Mrs. Newburgh, "is Mr. Waring anxious that his marriage should take place soon?" "Ile is. He begged me to say so when speaking to you. He left me to see Sir Robert Everard, and consult with him." "That is well. He is our nearest of kin in town. Do not oppose this excel- lent young man's desire for a speedy union, Mona. `There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.' " "Young!" repeated Mona, dreamily. "Be is almost too young for me." "Nonsense!" cried Mrs. Newburgh, with something of her former briskness. "He must be sexen or eight years older than you are. What more would you want?" "He seems a kind of over -grown school boy—so unfinished and undecided. I feel quite an old woman of the world near him." "So nue]i the' letter. Thie superior'" ripeness of your nature will give you influence over him. But I do not think he is so much a boy as you fancy. I know he is a favorite among men, and that. is always a good sign." And so on for ]rah£ an hour and more. Mrs. Newburgh was quite talkative; she arranged her granddaughter's future household, greatly to her own satisfac- tion, and settled the amount of pin - money she ought to have. At last Mona was set free to commune with her own heart in her chamber, where she sat very still, reviewing her brief past, and trying to sketch the prob- able future. The immediate past was too delightful to be dwelt upon, yet it had been a delu- sion. She had grown to believe that she was an object of tender interest, of ad- miration bordering on adoration, to a man of wide experience, of acknowledged taste, and behold, his mode of showing sympathy with her in her sudden eclipse was to pass her on to another. She liatl been but a moment's amusement to this man, and she—it shocked and frightened her to perceive how dear he had become. No doubt, in her inexperience, she had exaggerated much, and accepted many things as meaning more than he intend- ed, She was too proud to complain of him even to herself; all she eared for was to hide the depth of the impression he bad stamped upon her heart—to make him believe that she, too, had but amus- ed herself, and that she was quite ready to seine an advantageous opportunity. She was not revengeful or resentful, only ground to the dust of self-abasement, and ready to adopt any expedient to hide her gaping, bleeding 'wounds. Then, as to the future, was it right or high -prin- cipled to seize upon the fionest, gener- ous affection of Leslie Waring, and turn it into a shield behind which to hide her total rout? She thought she could near everything, if only this ingredient eould be eliminated from the witches' cauldron of mischief which had been out- poured on her unoffending head. He was an honest gentleman; she could have liked him well as a friend or brother— but as a husband- The idea was almost intolerable! How could she honor and obey a mere boy, to whom she felt in- finitely superior in tact and knowledge? \Vh.at support or guidance could he af- ford her? But she was pledged to him; she must not fail him; she was still more profoundly pledged to her kind grandmother. Like a Roman who was unable to pay his debts, she could but sell herself into slavery. Not that poor Leslie Waring would. make a slave of her; he only asked to enslave himself. How was she to live through the weary interval of her engagement? How could she brace herself to affect an interest in life? And then the recollection of his appealing look at parting made her cheek grow pale and her heart beat. Could she again refuse him the kiss he would certainly ask?—the man she had promised to marry, to love and cherish till death "did them part"? She shod, dere& and turned from the thought, leaving the future—its sufferings, its ob- are going to marry. IIe, no doubt, well overlook everything now; but wait till ligations—to the chapter of accidents, the first cloud tomes between you, and as pool-, puzzled mortals so often must. hoferfSd ta.ussJoesdan• thlLzelieC', 1 nAoiloblutlv1ltioRrnlsa, viy gelivee<rr+T,iirirclmoblmtieoee- bfocrae.c vIIhisstdaetteotainondxerally on married womt It. as caner, see �, en( more amus- ing. Hitherto his la hist been from 1ii.s lite a thus, "ehtt:eedilt;ly apart." Mona's-oi'ilinaiy rc:rei�, brolten by oc�a- sional gleams nf, �:," ixtttisiRrsut and eazuestncss, interests& kine, by the eons(stn•t suggestion .bt` ; diaeovcries yet to make; t e her styc or face and figure nvirlcre dengirtful to his eye. In short, iter itttraetton was ir- resistible; n1'y with hims for yieldinghe to it was a halrd '»for niarriaelfg even the most brilliant' marriage, would not suit his views ami Jahns for years to come. Still, it gree ;more; and more de - lightful to be with Mona, to watch for the slight, reluctantly granted indica- tions of preference which lie from time to time won from her; nothing ever flat- tered 'him so dehieiou9lv;.ass the first drooping of her white eyelids over the proud, steady eyes that had for months met his gaze so calmly; the slight them - le of her hand as it lay in his; the sweet composure which veiled what he perceived from all the.,world. IIe was absurdly occupied, with this quiet inex- perienced girl, .who was so womanly, though so young. She net him some uncomfortable moments too; still ho ne- ver lost his Woad as to think seriously of marriage. Years hence, when he had attained a high position; and wanted a dignified, well regulated home, he might look out for a richly cil�:"a•!led, highly con- nected wife. Now Monle, though well born on one side at least, was for all purposes of advancement the merest no- body; yet what a disturbing influence she exercised on his heart or circulation or whatever it was that throbbed in his pulses, and tempted ]tint to unpleasant spasms of imprudence. 8111 this irritation had reached its highest pitch during his visit to Harroby Chase; and so soften- ed was the cool headed an of the world that when the blow fenon Mrs. New- burgh, which he knew ineant life-long poverty for Mona were •she not soon rescued, he really thought how he could best serve her, after • he had considered how he could disentangle himself from the meshes which lie. felt were weaving themselves around him in'•the pleasant, free intercoure of country -house life. He therefore caught eagerly at Les- lie Waring's proposition, and resolved calculate time accurately, and Mona was that no illusions about himself should y interfere to prevent Minta acecpting the talking with a lady when he was an deliverance offered to her. pounced. A dark -eyed, well-dressed lady, Resolute as he was, bath by nature m black cashmere, and bugles with many and cultivation, he half dreaded the in touches of yellow in tufts of ribbon, and terview he bad planned so cunningly. chrysanthemums in her bonnet, enliven - "Oh, l he Best: e pie Make mistakes unintentionally. But no one ever made a mistake in buying The tea that is used as eve@ as tanked about. ONLY ONE BEST TEA—BLUE RIBBON. well. Leslie Waring has proposed to Bliss :.s,.s. ese�.�a,eh e,e s„,;..� Ya.,,,;,.f,.e. ,n, ne ee ,toscolyn, is accepted, and I can tell you a s, • ']taste. to the :Wedding' is the tune now s geniis, ha! --most lucky.Capital fellow. i I Waring, going to do she tiling ]lane] Il ?� � Crops timely: but ne and the grendmother are4. �I A in such a deuce of a hurry ]Ant he has de- I x. (ided on a post -nuptial settlement, 80 I ,r"s'+Sr.y,e.,�,.la a„ 4 Y,, s„ ,,r�, e/este .�,�, Experience fancy the marriage will come off in a week or so—no grass growing allowed." "Very glad to hear it. nMiss Josselyn is far too charming a person to be sub- jected to the revolting ills of poverty. \raring~ is a lucky fellow to be able to seize Nvhat is no doubt a fortunate op r loader crops, mets, grains, grasses, cIo- portunily" vers, and fertilizers. Upwards of 1,600 "Ay. the fair lady might have given varieties of farm claps have been test- a different answer. had this crash not ed in the E erinentnl De artment of come. No matter, .Mona was always a the Ontario .g ieultura! College, Guelph, good, quiet girl—one of the demestica.t- for, at least five years in succession. ed sort. that.will stick to her house and These consist of nearly all the Canad- ian sorts and several hundred new var- "A somewhat catlike character," said reties, some of which have done exweed- Lisle, laughing. "'l'o me, Mies Joseelyn ing] well in the carefully conducted os- is en ideal woman." peril tents at the College and are now be - "I suspect a little ideal goys a long ing distributed free or charge for co - way with you." operative experiments throughout On - than yeas think. I must call and offer ratio. The following is the list of co-op- my congratulations." ertttive experiinents in agriculture for "Well, you had better look in for tea. Mrs. Newburgh crimes down when the 190G: house is shut up, and the lights are .,„0. �0 Experiments. Plots. lighted—tt:en you won't interrupt the Oreo varieties of oats.. 3 • billing and cooing, ha, ha, ha! Good- (a) Three varieties of xis -rowed bye Parley • 3 y.. "Well-meaning olcl idiot," muttered 3 (b) Two varieties of Hulless bar - Lisle as he went on his way with knit ley...... ... ... 2 brows. "'The billing and ceoing'—how 4.Two varieties of spring wheat.. 2 iufernally suggestive. I will just drop 5. Two varieties of buckwheat.. 2 in at that particular period, and see if 0. Two varieties of field peas .... 2 1 can interpret the indications aright." 7. Emmer and Spelt..... .. .. .. 2 Lisle was, however, too impatient to 8. Two varieties of Soy, Soja, or Japanese beans 2 9. Three varieties of husking corn 3 10 Two varieties of mangolds 3 11. Three varieties of sugar beets for feeding purposes .. .. 2 12. Three varieties of Swedish tur- nips • 3 13. Kohl Rabi and two varieties of fall turnips 3 14. Parsnips and two varieties of carrots • 3 15. Three varieties of fodder or sin . age corn...... .. 3 16. Three varieties of millet 3 ' 17. three varieties of sorghum..-3 1$ Grass peas and two varieties of vetches ... .. 3 19. Two varieties ofrape.. .. .... 2 20. Three varieties of Glover .. .. 3 21. Sainfoin, Lucerne, and Burnet 3 • 22. Seven varieties of grasses 7 23. Three varieties of field beans.. 3 24. Three varieties of sweet corn.. 3 25. Fertilizers with corn ........6 26. Fertilizers with Swedish turnips 6 27. Sowing mangels on the level and in drilla 2 2S. 7'wo varieties of early, medium, or late potatoes .. .. .. 2 29. Three grain mixtures for grain production ..........3 30. Three mixtures of grasses and clover for hay . .. .. .... 3 The size of each plot in each of the first twenty-seven experiments and in± Nos. 29 and 30 is to be two rods long The members of the Ontario .Agricul- tural and Experimental Union are pleas- ed to state that for 1006 they are pre- pared. to distribute into every Township of 'Ontario materia! for experiments with He expected tears, agithtion, despair, ing re,w o e. Mone had a slight color, and looked however she might seek to hide their remarkably well. She received Lisle with real source: He even anticipated some de- quiet civility. and immediately intro- lightful moments. When sympathizing cluced him to "Madame Debrisay." Lisle in her distress, and •deploring the exig- bowed. low, while he mentally consigned envy of his own narrow circumstances, the objectionable third party to the in - he might offer donsol,ation in it tender fernal regions. Mme. Debrisay looked embrace, and a felt 'r `rsy ' a. good very keenly at him, and closed her lips tinny passio}ixtr: y < � .whir unusual tightness. Iter` .moire o... • seen ; ' this: communt- mimes iagY rerV tenderlpi for 'Mrs.. cation amazed. liiin Il did •not know Newburgh, Lisle said, in a soft tone: what to think. Be felt almostl sure that "I presume, from what Sir Robert Ev- she loved him, and even morn sure that erard told me, 1 may venture to offer my at the present etage 'of laer existence very sincere congratulations on your ap- she was .unworldly and remarkably in- proaohing marriage with my good friend different to rank and riches. He could Lcelie" not understand how it was that she "Thank you very much," returned fell in so readily with his suggestion, Mona, with sweet gravity. and was in truth, mortified in no small There was a pause ---mercifully broken degree when he found that the elaborate by Mme. Debrisay, who, with a marked scheme of soothing caresses and ingen- French accent, observes]: ions reasoning he had prepared, was "He is most amiable, the young gentle - so much trouble wasted. If she had man, and deserves the good fortune cared for him, she could not be so good which has befallen hint.'' humoredly composed -some st' good "Those concerned in affairs of this b kind are usual' i considered angels all words would have escaped her lips, some around," said 1.]sle, cynically. ` In this indication of the rade and pain that case, 1 only feel inclined to- believe in must be gnawing her heart would have been visible. He was absuredly anxious to see her again— to ascertain if she still kept up the sane friendly ease which had baffled him. Meantime he waited in London, while his uncle was engaged in arranging with the military big-'l4igs the details ot his new command. It would be much bet- ter to go out to India free and unfet- tered, to know Mona was unable to re- proach him. Still, an odd soreness sur- rounded her image which was so deep- ly stamped upon his mind. He was de- terminde to see her again. A few days after Having called in vain at Mrs. Newbu`rgh's, Lisle had been breakfasting wit i General Stafford, and had remained for some time discuss- ing to own Piccadilly Walking � P ing plans. y his club, he found himself face to face with Sir Robert Everird. "Ha., Lisle, did not know you were in town,' cried the busiest. "And I did not ex not to see you at this season, too." t "I was obliged to come ug un ac- count of Mrs. Newbtrg's business. They won't leave the old Woman a rap. First can made yesterdayt-fifty pounds a share. That will pr'•tty well clear her out. Very foolish to have gone go deep as she did. However' alfa wen that ends THE CARE 0 CHILDREN. Nowadays wise rethers do not dose their children with harsh, griping cas- tor oil or purgative,;' nor do they girt them -poisonous on tee in the farm of so-called soothing alie]nes. Baby's Own Tablets take tho p ace of these harsh and dangerous medicines, and the moth- er bas the word ole nee -eminent analyst that the Tablets ate absolutely safe. Baby's Own Tabiets ure indigestion, eon- stipation ,colic, tee ing troubles, diar- rhoea, sim l, feer end other little ills of c}oildhoodt :An occasional deem will keep childrtrc :Well. Mrs. R. E. Long, Peachland,B • C., says: "I have found Baby's Oan Tablets unsurpassed for teething trouilea breaking up colds, reducing fevers, aid other ills, and they make a child seep naturally. r now always keep then in the house,' Ask for the Tablets a your d'ruggist's or you can get them bymail hem 'Ilse Dr. Wil• litems' Medicine Company, Brockville, .Ont., at 25 cent' a box. the angelic qualities of one. May I hope to have the pleasure of seeing Mrs. New- burgh?" sqcare.bywide; , one rod and in No. 2$ one rod "elle rarely comes down till past three. T. will let her know you are here; you were always a favorite of hers." Mona rang, and sent a message to Mrs. Newburgh to that effect; then Mme. De- brisay began to make her adieu. "I ought not to take up any more of your time, Omen." "Pray do not go away yet," cried Mona, with suspicious eagerness. "She does not want to be alone with rne," thought Lisle. "Why does not that horrid woman go? She must know she is in the way." "Indeed, dear, I have one or two things to deo before I go home,for next week I shall be in harness again; but I will be with you by tern o'clock to -morrow. No- thing like the early hours for shopping; and make my compliments toe*" "Mr. Waring," announced Weimer, and Waring entered, with an eager, not to say anxious expression, as if not too certain how he would be received. Mme. Debrisay, who was near the door, made him a respectful courtesy, and he greeted her first. A SPRING TONIC. Dr. Williams Pink Pills Make Rich • !Iced, Health -giving Blood. Cold winter months, enforcing close confinement in over -heated, badly ven- ; tilated rooms --- in the home, in; the shop, and in the school --- sap the vitality of even the strongest. The • blood becomes clogged with impurities, the liver sluggish, the kidneys weakened, ' sleep is not restful—you awake just as . tired as when you went to bed; you are low spirited, perhaps have headache and blotchy skin ---that is the condition of thousands of people every spring. It comes to all unless the l,loocl is forfeited, by au good tonic—by Dr. Williams' Pink - 'Pills. These pills not only banish this feeling but they guard against the more serious ailments which usually follow —rheumatism, nervous debility, anaemia, "How do you do, madame? Not going, indigestion and kidney trouble. Dr. Win I hope, because I have come in?" limns' Pink Pills are an ideal spring me- Iler•e be paused, for Mona turned to dicine. 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