Zurich Herald, 1915-03-12, Page 2'Al LEY PARM;
Or, Felicity's Inheritance.
CHAPTER' Ix -(Continued),
D:er thoughts' t uo, further, for h
entered at that moment, shutting •' th
door behind hien; and at the eight of th
h eadeonie, well loved face, the broa
iebouldexs and erect Form, all her don
nand questionings took flight, and sh
gave herself up to the joy of loving as
being laved like a true woman, to th
blies of being caressed, to the rapture
kieeee that were -
"Sweeter sweeter
Than anything on earth,"
Chris Carleton presently drew her dow
beside him on the sofa, and then held he
at arm's length.
"My white rose brie vanished," he sae
fondly: • I shall have to christen yo
afreeh. Are adi these lovely blushee fo
me? Why, you will make me the vainer
;man on earth. Fancy a crammonplace f.
low like nee marrying such a radiant lit
Ile beauty!"
' O,h, 1 am not a beauty, and you lcno.w
it! I am a pale; insignificant girl -I al-
; aye have lateen. It's only that S am so
• appy .now.' She put' her hands up to
her hat cheeks. 'When it lore worts off I
am afraid you will be disappointed."
What is going to Iina: off, darling?
The roves or the happiness? loutli keep
both if I can manage it. I don't. think
You had either when I fol! in love with
you -such a grave, wistful little face it
wast"
When was that ?"-in a low voice.
"The first time we met -'when I came
'through the gate and saw you sitting um
der the liorse-eheatnut. You were wear-
ing a dreee the color of lilac, and you
looked at mer with such disapproving
eyes; but I loved you on the spat, and I
said to myself -'There's my wife if ever
I have one
1' "
"1 pant believe it " she whispered.
"You must, for it is true. I didn't be-
lieve in it myself till that moment, or, ra-
ther, I had never thought about it --but
.m; heart gave a big throb and then flew
right away from me. 1 haven't had a
heart since -till you gave me yours. Say
you believe it?"
Oh, I do,' 1 do! Because it was just
the same--"
But here she stopped, covered with con-
fueion, and not all his coaxing could.
snake her eonfees what she was going to
say,
Presently they fell into more serious
talk, for she had many question's to ask,
and nthere was much he wanted to ex -
"Did, yotr come that morning with the
intention of pretending to bo Hobert
Stone and taking up his work?" Joyce
asked.
Not 1. Never thought of each a thing.
Bat when Felicity took it for granted, it
flashed into my head that it wouldn't be
a bad idea. You see my heart had duet
sierformed that remarkable feat, and 1
hoped it would give me a chance of see-
ing more of you. There was another reas-
on, too. dear. I came really to explain
about Robert Stone, and to see if I could
do anything to make Felicity's visit a
success, It was I who pereuaded uncle
George rg to make '& new will in her 'favor,
but I couldn't get him to leave out that
abatird condition. lie was an obstivate
all man. and he would not,. leave his lac-
loyed 1�ittle, ttla'ee'to any' one who' "would.
r4S Vheore .i$ know site; tee alono in
e leered:>zl'id"eibt tiro well off, and I
hoped devoutly she would get fond of the
loam. T did my beet to make her like it,
but—" 1Ie shrugged hie sheuetlere with
at %comical ,:ece.
"Se that was why you flirted with her
eo shamefully" Joyce said seferely.
"Aid I flirt? 1 wasn't aware of it. I
was under the impression the boat was on
the other foot -if you -will forgive ouch a
vulgar speech, 1 am sure I behaved beau-
tifully. I know I thought more than
once of that saying about 'suffering fools
gladly,' but don't tell Felicity I said so.'
"Didn't you really care for her?" the
reire asked, a .little wietafully. "She's so
beautiful so charming. I don't see how
you could help it."
"Don't you 2 Yon ' little goose-" Rio
eyes twinkled. ' I could give you a good
many reasons -'that I never have admired
golden -haired girls; that 1 hate a chat-
tering woman; that no man worthy the
naane cares to be run after all day and
evory.,day; but they Sound so rude to
Felicity that I shouldn't care to mention
'em. And. after all; they were not the real
reason, and that was that I had eyes only
for one tiresome little person who seem-
ed to be a kind of vanishing lady. Where
did you hide yourself all the time, you
troublesome childe" -
'I didn't hide, ' I didn't know you want-
ed to. sea me. Oh, I must ask you one
more querltbon, and then I will try never
to be jealous again. The day you quarel-
led--do you remember? -she made me be-
lieve afterwards-anade me think -,that
everything hard come right between you.
I telt quite,`ouete sure that you had ask-
ed her to marry you and had -had kis--
ed here"
;hris burst out laughing.
Was that why you ran away? I felt
like retuning too. No, sweetheart, 'no-
thing so romantic es that took place. I'll
own at flret I tried to' comfort her; 1 even
wiped her eyes I hate to see a woman
cry t -••,•but it only made her worse, and
then I'm afraid I lost my temper. 1 told
her I should smack her or shake he if
she didn't leave off. 1 think' she rater
liked et, •and then -and then—" He stop-
ped and grew very red. ""S didn't kiss
her, darting; but I don't mind admitting
she very nearly kissed mel Of course I
couldn't stand 'that -I felt such a foal-
eo.I bolted!"
Joyce could not help laughing a little -a
e partly at his rueful face, partly from
e sheer lighinese of heart.
e , I wonder why she tried to make me
d. believe --that,,'
Oto I'm not particularly smart, but I think
e I can guess. elle wanted to show you it
id 'war no ben your setting your affeetione
e on me, becauee I belonged to her• -see? 1
of hate to say it --it rounds so conceited -
but I enu''t see env other reaeon."
Poor Felicity! Joyce could not help bo-
ing sorry for her. She had lost all along.
I think you were very good to her --
letting 1,,, worry you with questions and
n order you about; and all beceuee you
✓ wanted her to have a good impression of
country life,
d "I had to do it Toyce." He put hie
u hand under lier chin and raised her face
✓ so that he could look down into the dark
t eyes. 'To you. know who that farm comae
e1. 1 to if she won'•t Lave it?"
- "No; and she doesn't either --she said
so,
"It comes to me 5o you Fee, 1 was in
honor bound to do my beet to make her
have it. But I drew the line at being
married --or kissed," he added, gaily.
But Joyce could not smile. How noble
he was this lover of here•! She would
never be worthy of bine--never! Sho
fondled his big hand, and had much ado
to keep the tears bacle.
"You worked so harci," she said, very
low. "Sometime; you looked quite done
up -hired out. I often noticed it."
It wasn't the work," he rejoined quick
ly. "It was the sitting up at nights with
Robert Stone. I got a ,man now and then
to help me, but I was the only one that
could manage him. I couldn't let his poor
wife do too much -she had him all day
as It was."
"Why wasn't he seat to en aeylum tf
be was mad?"
'It wasn't ordinary matinees, dear. It
was delirium tremone-i£ you know what
that ie. We got him through a very bad
attack, and 1 believe he would have pull -
el round and been able to go away soon;
but the day before yesterday he bribed a
friend of his tobring him some bottles
of brandy, r nd it undid the work of
weeks. I had a dreadful night with him.
It wee the day of the thunderstorm, and
I'think that affected him too, I never
closed my eyes all night. That was why
1 (lent so heavily last night --I was worn
oat. Ile was very cunning. and he got
away. 1 soon mined him, and was after
liim like a ebot, for I guessed whore ho
had gone, but I was only just in time.
.JTyre felt a shiver run through him,
and hie arm closed more tightly round
her.
Do you think he would have hurt me?"
she asked.
I ca'n't say. dear. Of course, you
know what idea he had got in his poor
crazes' mind? He meant to kill uncle
George. He was always raving about it.
It was dreadful to listen to him when he
was at his worst. But we won't 'talk
a)ont him, dear you are looking quite
pule.
"
But I want to know. ,,Tell me about
him: and his poor wife, and then I won't
bother you any morn. I atm more inter-
ested than you think; and I can't rest
till I know all."
And then she told him about her walk
in the stoma and of what :she hadween:
through the leitehau window.
Aa Chris listened, he felt' it would be a
long time before he could forgive Felicity
tray Raving tried to poison hie mind.
against Joyce, she had .sent her for :a
long tiring walk with, the deliberate in-
tention of preventing a meeting between
them, just as later she had laid her plans
to get her quietly away so that he might
have no chance of finding out bow she
had lied to Lim.
"How is Robert Stone now?" Joyce ask-
ed. "I suppose you fetched life wife when
you -hent to Gassy Lane in the uight.".
"Yes. He has done for himeelf, poor
chap! The doctor says it is only a quo -
tion of days. How he found the strength
for that last awful effort I can't think -
he was nothing but a wreck. The doctor
says It was a. maniacal outbreak, and hie
strength for the time being was that of
a madman. -
"Ie Is hie poor wife very much upset?"
Joyce asked pitifully
"Yee. But it is the best thing that
could happen and she will see it socae
defy. Re would never reform -he would
never be anything but a nurse to her. 2
will take you to see her when -when it's
over. You will be able to comfort her:
She is not common person -she ie a re-
fined and educated girl. That was •why
uncle George was so hard on him."
"Tell me about it, please!"
"1 don't want to," he objected. "I want
o talk about you and me. I want to tell
ou you've got, the prettiest little ears I
ver saw; and that your hair ie as soft
as silk; and that you are the sweetest
ittle morsel that ever a man coveted for
fmHelf. And here you keep dragging me
eck to this gruesome talel"
But Joyce was firm.
You will have plenty of time to tell
e Chose silly things after," she obeery
d, "so please go on with Robert Stone's
tory. You. forget I know nothing but a
env vague accounts of hie misdeeds -all
f which I put down to you."
"Well 1'11 begin• at the beginning and
et it over. Ae you have heard, uncle
eorge %trusted him implicitly and
hougtt the world of him. He was like
good many other rogues he had a
ever tongue and a charming way with'
m, and he was a capital worker -I will
ay that of him, It was only this last
inter that uncle George began to find
ira out and in a way that touched him
n his most sensitive spot. Old .&tr. Carle -
on was not a popular man, and he had
of many friends, but he had always
prided himself on his honorable name;
ad always• fancied he was highly re-
eclted. For a long time he had noticed
e'was shunned at the markets and lairs
he couldn't make out, •adaat had come to
fle people. Then a friend told him. .It
urned out that all Robert S•tone's grasp-
tn bargains and mean dishonorable
'ales had been, had by b:i•rn at his note -
Ws door. The man had benefited while
e employee 'got the blame. It was a
oiw to the old man's pride. Then, when
tones' 'wiife ,turned up one day, that was
e last straw. Re had a great,reverence
✓ women, and 'though See was an old
acehelor, he had the .most ehlvalrous Lute
'Did he know Robert Stone was mar -
'No. T'he beggar always posed as a
iigle man. Its rnad ehte wife live in
center -pretended he' should ' lose hie
tuation if Mr. Carleton knew of her ex.
cnre. Ile need to go and. see her now
d then, but he kept Etter so short of.
raloney-she has live. little, children, you'
w -•,that at beet In deepalr she went
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everything at his death -=uncle Georg4
had Xiraes;lcally promised 11 'him -- and
lie went front bad to wonne. 1 tinink the
old man was getting amid of !lime -that
10 why he sent dor me."
"What have they been living bre sire
hi"q death?""
0,u, X font on paying his wage 1-
�oouldn''t Hoe 'the kiddies want, you now
--they are nice little 'laa•lnmi ,iso ,i ain't.
like taking et -she ie pi;0ud, yo155 Noreen;
but lately it tae been eaefeef, 1nn a;de t.
X Wats doing, ,S'tone's work, and .+e were i+
as well /We the money for met, beanie'
Ile laughed Ocie merry infeotiorts lean,
The funny thing :about it is *hate% mace,
never had nee pound a week' +
"Didnt Felicity pay you?" auk d ?Jaycle
in astonishment.
'No, not a coni -no =lore than she paid'.
the fare ;she 'promisee yell. There is some.
feline. very wrong, with hter,.mtemory,, 1 am,
afraid" -shaking hie head en mock eon,
earn -"perhaps it wants operating Ott tee
make it work."
I dont k now how you. can laugh ab f
It a out.
It. I was dreadful of .her,.- Now elle'
do i:t P What will poor Mrs, Stone dre
now?"
"She will be all right, I am''tha,nkfi.11 to
say -better off than she has been for
years. Her father is a eve11-to-do trades-
man, and he will bane her and rho ehii-
dren to live with him-ouly 'be too. glad. '
She is an only daughter you see. He
would have had her long ago if r,he would
have consented to, leave her scamp of a
husband; but elm -wouldn't do 'that, and
she .never let them know at home what
she suffered."
After that %they talked about themselves,
to Chris's great con+tent, Joyce let :hi,n
say all 'the silly, tender things he wanted;
and even found a 'Pew foolish.speechee on
her own aoccunt; and they were 'both
greatly surprised when Mrs. Vorinder ap-
peared and announced that it was time
for tea. Sho 'held a hand of each, and
congratulatedthem with anal a sweet
mother -look in her eyes that (,untie ine-
pulsieely bent his tall heart and kissed
her -because something. In hie throat
prevented him from speaking.
Before he went away that evening ho
laid Itis 1)18.110 before her and th Vicar-
acres, are the finest the earth maternal from rant 150,000 to 200,000
knows immigrants ,
g s crossing the seas every -
Canada's interest lies in particu- year. But the dual es empire iex-
lar with the export trade of Ger- ceedi'ngly rich in mineral's, and
many, much cif which this country Hungary is one of the - principal
has the right and expectation to grain -growing• region's of Europe,
secure. In 1913, we learn from the the average produce being 145,000, -
War Book, Germany imported' 000 bushels of wheat, 46,500,000
bushels of rye, 53,500,000 bushels of
barley, 65,000,000 bushels of oats
and 118',000,000 bushels of corn.
Hungary, too, is rich in live stook;
having in 1914, 2,300,000 horses
7,300,000 cattle, 8,500,000 - sheep,
and 7,500,000 swine. From these
figures it would seem that it will be
a tougher job to starve Germany
than reports would make it appear.
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Plane 'so audacious that ,they took Joyces'
breath away, plane that he had been art-
ful enough only to mention to her in the
vaguest fashion, but which appeared'to
be remarkably well formed "'in his ,own
mind.
(To be continued.)
•
SHE AND 1.
She and I in younger days, nearly one-eighth of all the world
Saw in each other, the kinder ways; has to. sell and exported more than
Shea lassie and I a lad, one -ninth of all the world wanted.
And nothing, from nothing, .was all to buy, Her yearly output of
we had. manufactured goods ran up to be-
tween twelve and fifteen billion
dollars, of which one-sixth at least
found its way to foreign markets
that are now closed to her, and in
many cases will never be renewed.
"Made in Germany" and "Made in
Austria", with which we had most
of us become familiar, will, it is
to be hoped, be largely replaced' by
"Made in Canada."
But we called the bluff; on poverty's
ban—
And we hitched ourselves and made
a span—
Health and youth, and never say die,
Were the bridal gifts ,to She; and I,
Love and labor, went hand in hand,
And we gathered a home, but it wasn't
grand,
Nor filled with riches and costly ware,
That wealth could gather from every-
where.
Homely fittings, and meager worth
Cast a halo of love about the hearth,
And a babe to us, with his welcome
cry;
Was heavenly music to She and I. -
What is of special interest is the
fact that Germaety in 1913 produced
2,720,000 tons of refined sugar from
beets, mined 260,000,000 tons of
coal and lignite, 29,879,000 tons of
iron ore, and that while using in
that year of peace 225,800 tons of
So we toiled and struggled from day copper, she could only unearth 23,-
to day, 000 tons of her own accord. Ger
Rich in love of his childish play; many normally imports one-sixth
PerfeGod t
o theibody and health over kind,of the cereals she consumes, but
Thought in and and mind. exports enormous quantities • of
often we passed beneath the.;
rod, potatoes. Without doubt the aur-
the latter f: tteli
Its o
We ,knelt Snow n stock .
W eels in �to 2>. 1s
our prayor, and thlamirced p
our God:
For .the staff on which we could rely
When age had settled an She and L
Tears came on and he grew to be
Tall and strong, and fair to see:
True to the blood of parent's youth,
Labor and love had borne the truth ---
And cur hearts grew rich with parent-
al pride
When we looked at his manly walk
and stride,
And often our thanks to God on high .
Were tendered anew by She and•I.
And the woe and want of feebler days
Seemed banished from us, in his
thoughtful ways,
And the twilight hour, with rosy gleam
To -She and 1 was a pleasant dream.
Till the god of war across the sea
Claimed royalty's wish, was a thing
to be—
Ah—and the years of toll, the hope—
and then
We saw in the papers a call for men.
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WHEN EUROPE IS AT WAR..•
'!low the ,Va.rions Countries In-
rol.vetl Are Affected.
Will Leonhard.
The early pages of the Agricul-
tural War Book published by the
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa,
are devoted to brief essays princi-
pally on agricultural matters, but
also on the duty of us all, by the
Prime Minister, by the Finance Min-
sterof the country, by the various
I
inisters of Agriculture of the pr•o-
vi,nces and by the learned profes-
ors of .agricultural colleges and
cperiniental farms. Following are
gl
ven industrial and agricultural
details in brief of each European
ountry engaged in the war or af-
ected by the war, and of the Bri-
ish posaesstiosls. From this is
• arned that prior to the outbreak
f Hostilities, Belgium was not only
le most thickly populated country
the worlid, but also about the
nose industrious. In the first 82
ays of the war, which has now last -
1 upwards of 200 days, damage to.
e extent' of $1,059,886,000 had
den done, out of whiclh $283,614,000
attributed to agricultural injury.
Northern .France has suffered pro-
ortnonately to an equal extent,
ussia• while pre-eminently an
gricul�tural country, producing
early one-fourth Of the. world's
heat, fully a fourth of its oats, 'a
ird of its barley and a half of its
e, still possesses immense mann-
turing industries, It also
ounds in minerals,' and its for-
ts, of which there are 000 million
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:being used for flour. Germany
bought between seven •a=ndeight
million geese 'from Russia annually
and sold Great Britain between
eleven and twelve million bushels
of oats. She also in 1913 imported
160,000 tonsee nark • it, tons—,of
eggs. These statements will suffi-
ciently indicate the vast disturbance
that has taken place in German
trade.
Austria, -Hungary exported in bulk
as many men and horses as it did of
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cause. a cow kept otherwise can
never do her best, writes Mr. W.
M Kelly.
'She must leave a comfortable
place to lie down,- stand up, move
and stretch her linllbe and lick' het-'
self all over the 'body. She must
have sunshine and plenty of ligiht.
She must have purse air to breathe,
and this means' that the stable
must be provided with some sy:s- .
teem of ventilation 'to give a fre-
quent change of air.
This need not be expensive, 'only
a 'little forethought and a few dol-
lars' worth of material and labor.
She must have good pure Witter at
least twice a day, or better still,
have an automatic water basin at
her side.
The stable should be cleaned
daily, and be thoroughly clisinfa•et-
ed. The ceiling, floor and sdes
should be ,all sino'oth, and of con-
crete construction, and the fixtures
largely iron. It is not expensive,
and they are sanitary and perman-
ent.
Large, smooth, concrete man-
gers for feeding are about the best
we know of to -day. Judgment and
common sense must be exercised in
the methods of ,feeding and hand-
ling the cows. Fixed rules in feed-
ing are not practical.
Overfeeding is wasteful; under-
feeding is unprofitable. The cows
must be well nourished at all times
but if given more than they need
for maintenance and production,
they waste it, as a 'rule
The quality of milk—that is, the
amount of milk and fat that it eon-
tains—is controlledmore by the
constitut'ion'al characteristic of the
cove than 'by the feed.
Never stir up dust or foul odors
at milking time. If you do, a lot
of it is sure 'to get into the milk.
Whether to feedd the cows just
e -
fore ' milking is a much „debated
question. :'It is not at all danger -
our to feed, •thean a little grain, pro-
vided you stir'up no dust' or dis-
ageeealb!l:e odors.
As •a rule, the cows will give down
'their milk more freely when they
have contented minds, and a little
of the right kind of feed goes a long
way toward bringing about this
contented state of mind. Never
clean the stables just before milk-
ing, for it will stir up a tenfold
worse odor titan any feed the crows
will
eat,
If there is any question be-
fore the farmers of. this country
of more importance than that .,f
conserving the so'il's fertility, I aol
not cognizant of it.
The most important business of
dairy farmers is to increase the
quantity of manurial substances
and apply it where it is most need-
ed.
All of the manure, both liquid
and solid, should 'be saved and ap-
plied to the rand. I (believe it is
the best to haul it from the stable
to the field and apply it as fast as
made.
Wain all .the liquids have been
saved by the use of absorbents,
large amounts of manure• may bo
made, and, if it is hauled to the
fields direct from the stable, these
liquids will drain into the soil to
the depth of the furrow slice, and
there will be little .loss from and
'ex-
posure.
In addition,. the cows will not be
waddling knee deep in the mire and
filth every time they are turned out
in the ,yard's for water and exer-
cise. Most of the work eomes at a
time when other farm upera;tions
are slack, and the soil, besides be-
ing enriched, plows easier and
works up better during the whole
of the next season, on account of
being evade porous by being cover-
ed with manure during the winter.
When hauling the manure from
the stable to the field we plan to
haul bo the farther fields while the
ground is frozen and close to the
barn while soft -and muddy.
There is no reasonable ' excuse
for a dairy farmer to allow more
than one-third of his ananuriol fer-
tility to wash away in a dirty, filthy
barnyard, and spend one or biro
weeks during the busy season, in
the spring to haul it across the
muddy fields to get it on his land. -
tC'leaniine'ss can 'best be secured
in it. stable of plain, smooth, con-
structbiiort inside, The' walls, ceil-
ings, stalls, e'ttc., should be smooth
and tight, and' if poasi,ble, wash-
able, • The relation of cleanliness to
a whole's'ome ,product and to the
hea+ltth' of ,the olow:s is vita