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The Wingham Times, 1903-10-29, Page 7THE IVINGlIAII TIMES, .00TOBER 29, 1903 +-+++++++ LJER SECOND LOVE A STORY OF L,OVI AND ADVENTURR. BERTHA CLAY Author of "Between Two Loves," Which Loved Him Best," •t A Fatal Wedding," " A Woman's Vengeance," "Between Two Sins," >00000000000{->0000000000= greatest pleasure life can give, when the hope of positive satisfaction is ..abandoned. I -fere was an exceptional nature,and .the circumstances in which she had been placed somewhat exceptional • from their great loneliness. A11 the feelings, which had never ]mown .father, mother, brother or sister, to p g ur themselves upon, had been -cent ad in ono person, and he had .failed her. Passion cannot last forever; that • was past and gone long ago. It was an inner dream, that recollection of her girlhood; a feeling entirely apart from her actual • life. We all love beauty, and the only time it had ever practically approached her was then ; she had not forgotten, but there was no sharp grief in the ro- •.collection, She did not love any one much, perhaps; for she had given all .,she had once, and now it was not .in her power to give it again. She had not many dispositions to .make concerning her worldly goods; 'only of some valuable ornaments of her mother's, she said— "My baby will never want them mow; you shall give them to Con - :stance Everett." "To whom?" they asked. "To—to—James Erskine's wife ;" .and so they gave them. When the funeral was over, and that last distribution of things which ..always goes on began, °Aunt Jane ,asked the simple nurse what she would like as a remembrance of her mistress. "She would like a book," she said; "the mistress was aye great reader, ..and I'm keen after books myself : I'd like just one of hers, poor 'body." Nurse's literary attainments were not great, and Aunt Jane judged it best to give her a Bible. She dis- • approved on principle of the lower -classes reading, but made an ortho- • dox exception in favor of the Bible. It was not the one which Georgy . generally used, but a purple book, • which Aunt Jane did not much ex- . amine. The nurse valued it exceed- ingly, and was generally unwilling that it should be too nt.uf?h rend "for fear it should take harm." There was writing in the beginning, "not they .utistress's name, but some one's that's dead, likely, too, for she prized that book always; and it's a good remembrance of her, poor wo- .n1an, she was a good body." 'Yes; all that that book was con- . netted wiCh was dead, past, and gone. She had expressed a wish to bo buried not near her home, but in the London church where her old aunt ' lay. Her husband religiously follow - :.ed our; that desire, and it was done. She had often yearned in thought af- -ter that resting -place. There, where her young fancy had attired all things in stfch gorgeous colors; there, where she had loved all, and em- braced a"1l in imagination; so near -to where her little happiness had been lived through; and where, .amongst many passing footsteps, :his must surely fall. Her thought was realized. Tlioy had been so ut- terly separated that he never knew •who was buried in that church he passed so often: so near to where •Constance was playing with his ..children. He never knew where .:she. lay. Did he still remember her? After a due time given to grief, Stephen chose another wife : 'a rosy, good-humored person, with a rather jealous disposition. She believed Stephen to be the first of men; and because of that perhaps, and because of the natural perversity of human •nature, it was long before he believ- s ed. her to be Georgy's equal. when, iu time, his house was gradually fil- ling with children, and her. jealousy `had developed itself, he reflected that it was perhaps well for Goorgy's child that she had gone With her mother. Once in Mr. Erskine's house, long after his marriage, a fair-haired lit- tle girl came running to her father to beg to go out with him, and to • show •what her mother had just brought out of her treasure -box and given her. It Was a. heart and cross of massed turquoise, and as he bent .down to see "the beautiful' thing," a Most Dreadful of Skin Diseases . A chronic case of Eczema of 30 years' stand- Ing cared by Dr. Chase's Ointment. That Dr. Chase's Ointment is a thorough ,,cure for the most aggravated forms of itching skin disease is proven in hundreds of cases similar to the one described in the following . letter. . MR. G. H. McOartaatt, engineer in Fleury's Foundry, Aurora, Ont., states: --"I believe that Dr. Chase's Ointment is worth its freight in gold, For about thirty years I was troubled with eczema, and could not obtain any cure. I was so unfortunate as to have blood poison, and this developed into eczema, • the most dreadful of skin diseases. "I was so bad that I would get up at night . and scratch myself until flesh was raw and • flaming. The torture I endured is almost beyond tidal/tion and now I cannot say anything too good for Dr. Chase's Ointment, rt has cured me, and 1 reeommend it because 1 know there is nothing se good for itching skin." Dr. Chase's Ointment, 6o tents a bot, at all dealers, or Edreartson, Bites end Co., Toronto. To protect yon against imitations the portrait and signature of Dr. the. famous receipt book Imhof, axe en vision came quickly across him of the room where he had given it, and of a wistful, loving face which looked up at him. It was a sad recollection and he took the child's hand,, and pressed her close to hint. to dispel it. He was not much changed in appearance;. only he. smiled seldomer, and his mariner was sometimes rather sarcastic, wliicli formerly it never was. He had re- membered her: more perhaps than than any one knew of. Many a time he had thought of her as she was that night, and oftener still as he had seen her as she was !that morn- ing. when he saw her for the last time, and she had turned quietly away; and her low tong, "Yes, Janies," came back to hini; he had never heard her voice again,but he remembered it well, Those who knew hien said that he had grown older in heart, of late years. He was a tender father, and Already was looking forward in thought to what his children might be to him. It was early, pei'liaps, for a man still young to be looking forward so directly to his children. "Here's mamma," said the child, ns a quick, clear voice called out." •'f:hildy, are you ready?" It was James Erskine's wife. She was still unchanged; time and the world had not fretted her, and as the bright winning lady came lightly ie•to the room, a sunshiny presence filled it. "Constance, where has this come from? Don't give It to Consy." "Why? Does a tale hang thereby?" she said, laughing; "it was amongst the things Mrs. Anstruther left me so strangely." "Mrs. Anstruther!" he :opetted to himself. "1)o you remember it?" "Yes; I gave it to her." "Alt ! James, -- poor fairs. An- struther! X often thought how it would have interested me to have rnet her again. Poor Georgyl it is not good to have such a nature," she said, drawing back as if the ex- change was offered to her, and look- ing musingly into the distance. "It may do in books, or for a great ar- tist, but for hard practice—" "Z 'alaresay s!Te was very 1C.tl1p, , he said, quickly; "how you do run on!" "No, she was not; I read her when I first saw her, and I know what a cold, strange woman those who saw her afterwar'ds thought her; and it was your doing," she laughed. "And so you gave her that; was it on the day when you picked me up at the station?" "Yes," he answered, laying his hand on her shoulder, and looking at her lovingly; she noticed neither the touch nor the look juste then. "Are you coming?" "No, I cannot." "To -night, then?" "No," and Ice wanted to take the cross. "Now, do let Consy have it; her heart is set upon it, unless yours is specially, too; and think over your own misdeeds, James, instead of over looking at mine." Constance and her child went laughing off together, and her hus- band heard her beautiful voice sing- ing snatches of a song, as she went down the staircase. Ife still kept the trinket, and his eye fell mechan- ically upon the church, where the woman who had loved him best was buried. Forgive her! you who are wiser and stronger: if she had loved him too much, she had suffered yet more before she found her rest. Ile had grown great, now—she had never from the moment when she had first seen him, doubted that he was 'to be so. Was he not great already, if the world cold only see it? And she had crowned hint with that halo of glory which a woman throws around the man which site rever- ences. Fie shall rise; but she ignores all the recognized means by which ho must make his way, amongst his fellows, and immediately dreams for hint a crown. Her certainty, was to be realized: only she who had gnown it was not there to watch the man of genius. There is a wondrous equality here, if we did but know it. Ho had gain- ed his desire, and she had lost hers, and there was no great difference be- tween then now. The sternest irony of fate may lie in the fulfilment of our wishes. M she stood there, worn and tired to the heart's core, his noble head bent down, and his eyes fixed upon the building, which he did not see, a stranger might have said, that, if any man could have af- forded a justification for the great passion with which be had been wor- shipped, Seines Erskine did; and it Is seldom that we can Iodic coldly upon another and see in him the excuse for such a lavish love. We are all revenged some day; and she, if she had ever wished for re- vel -Igo, had found hers now. THE END. British blast furnaces averaged an Oat - put of 22,840 tons last year, against 19;- 080 tons each ten years ago. X0 fewer than 203,413 'certificates of eonscientions objections to vaccination of children were )received last year by the vaccination officers in England and Wales. • Fret. Jacobi has bequeathed 10,:000 morias to the University of Berlin, with the ror'isio that th y The satisfaction of having the washing done early in the day, and welldone, belongs to every user of Sunlight Soap, IQs The Yew Gorman stumps. The issue of a now series of German stamps is announced for the begin- ning of the century. They will be ob- long in shape, like the American Co- lumbus stamps, and at the suggestion of the Emperor, they will illustrate the history of the Hohenzollern favi- fly. One of the designs represents the union of North. and South Ger- many. In the centre there are two warriors, a Prussian and a Ilan arian, grasping hands, with Germania hov- ering over them. The whole is en- circled by a landscape representing the Fatherland from the Alps in the south to tho Island of Itugen in the 'north. Other stamps represent the national monument to the late Em- peror William and the opening of the, first Reichstag of the present reign by Emperor 'William II. They will be issued front the Imperial Printing Of- fice. The Postmaster -General, being unable to find a native artist capable of designing the stamps, engaged the services of an Englishman, who stay- ed in Berlin for about six months and received a remuneration of 10,000 marks. Talking in the Clouds. Experiments are being made in Vi- enna, says Casinos, under the direc- tion of Professor Tume, aided by of- ficers of the garrison, on communica- tion between balloons by wireless telegraphy, and they have met with some ' success. A captive balloon takes the place of the tall mast used by Marconi, and a copper wire is stretched between it and the earth, where the transmitting apparatus Is placed. The second balloon, which ascends freely, carries the receiving instrument and is furnished with a wire 60 feet long, hanging down- ward from the basket. This balloon receives messages very well up to a distance of about ten kilometers .(six miles) and at, a height of 1,600 meters (about onmile). Unfortun- ately this is but half of the problem, for it has been found impossible at present to establish a transmitting station in a free balloon, both on ac- count of the weight of the necessary apparatus and because of the danger Of discharges from a powerful con- denser so near the inflammable gas of the balloon. Physics of Air and Sunshine. In the current number of the Tem- ple Bar the Rev. Mr. Bacon says that the best preventives of disease are cleanliness and the access of sun- light and fresh air as being the agents most powerful in the suppres- sion of bacteria. Large towns in Britain have each their true west and, for, the western and southwest winds being those that mostly pre- vail there, it follows that during a large portion of the year the smoke and fog drift tt,way to the east and northeast, leaving the west clearer and purer. The writer claims Brit- ish weather is at once the most cap- ricious and at the same time the best adapted to vigorous and healthful enjoyment of life. The Briton is a stranger to the long ordeal of un- varying southern skies, the breath of pestilential air and the stroke of sun or argue. Tho face and physique of the typical Britisher are the true weather marks of his climate. :Vindtnlrl Regulator. The speed of windmills is automa- tically regulated by a new governor, a wind shield being hinged to the side of the tower, to be blown out of a vertical position as the wind increases, with a lever adjusted by the shield to vary the length ortiar uiston stroke. WIND COLIC. "In my opinion," writes Mrs. Philip Collins, of Martindale, Que., "There is no medicine can equal Baby's Own Tab- lets. Before I began the use of the Tab- lets my baby cried all the time with wind colic and got little or no sleep, and I was nearly worn out myself. Soon after giving baby the Tablets the trouble disappeared, and sound natural sleep re- turned. I have also proved the 'Tablets a cure for hives, and a great relief when baby is teething. I would not feel that my children were safe if I did not have a box of the Tablets in the house." All mothers who have used Baby's Own Tablets speak just as highly of there as does Mrs. Collins. The Tablets cure all the little ills from which infants and young children suffer, and the mother has a solemn assurance that this medicine contains neither opiate nor any harmful drug. Sold by all rne- dleiue dealers or sent by mail at 25o a box by writing the Dr. Williams' Medi - eine Co., Brockville Ont. It is almost as dangerous to a man's morals to go into politics as to go rune Wall street. The only thing that keeps woinen front paying more for hats than they do is that more is not asked. A man gots sleepy very early when hie wife wants to spend the evening talking over their honeymoon. Srovss.--tali anti: see our assortment of stoves and get,our prices. We have a large steel on hand and will sell there. at a very low price. A. Yors ; do Sox. Dr. Bio�1n L, R. O. P., London, Eng- land, Graduate of London, 1`tew York and Chicago. Diseases of Eye, Ear, N oeat Ti rout, will, at � the GET TIlE "506" KEYS Speyer & Co, Now in Possession of the Properties. PROPIT,PRODUCINO PROFITS. Are Expected to Golnto operation Again As noon se. Poastirle, and Give a Largo (amber of Men Work — senator Awnd,trund'a English Syndicate I w,re Now Sixty bays to Pay Off the Mortgages. Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 20.—Tho contest over the possession of the plants of the Consolidated Lake Su- perior Go., which had hem in pro- gress in and out of court for weeks, carpe to an end yesterday at two o'clock when James Bicknell, repre- senting B. T. Fackenthal, the receiv- er, was given the keys of the office and all of •the subsidiary factory buildings. The peaceful surrender of the pro- perty to Speyer & Co., which the company had hitherto declined to, make, is the result of an agreement reached in New York last Friday, whereby all of the directors and offi- cials of all of the subsidiary com- panies resigned, and their places were filled by Speyer & Co., who selected Benjamin T. Fackenthal, the receiv- er, as the president of all the com- panies. Names of the other directors and officials are unknown here. In coir - sideration for this surrender of the property, Speyer & Co. have agreed to postpone the sale of the securities until Dec. 15, thus giving the stock- holders time to got funds ,to repay the loan and restore the big concern to its feet. It is expected that as soon as pos- sible all of tae plants of the com- pany that are profit -producing will be put into operation again by Mr. Fackenthal, These include the pulp mills, the saw mill and the veneer works, which would employ a large number of men. The' action at the Soo yesterday by which James Bicknell, IC.C., acting for Speyer & Co., took possession of the works of the Lake Superior Consolidated, is in accord with the plan by which Senator Dandurand and his English clients are to have sixty days in which to pay off the mortgage. This possession of Speyer & Co. includes all the industries but the Algoma Central Railroad, against which the injunction is not dissolv- ed. This leaves Mr. Bicknell in charge of all the subsidiary compan- ies except the railroad, and gives the English syndicate until Dec. 15 to secure the necessary funds to take charge of the property. DISSOLVED TUE INJUNCTION. Judge Johnson of Algoma Cannot Grant Order Nor Possession. Toronto, Oct. 20.—In the judge- ment handed out yesterday by Jus- tice Britton, the temporary injunc- tion restraining the Central Trust Co. from taking possession for Spey- er & Co. of the works at the Soo, was dissolved, as was also the in- junction restraining Judge Johnson of Algoma from granting an order for possession. The judgment says in part: "It is certainly contrary to the policy of the courts as law is now administer- ed to . permit an action for eject- ment and afterwards an action for sale. This suit is not for foreclosure or sale. It is for a declaration as to the plaintiff's rights, and if I am right in deciding that the action in the district court is only for recovery of land, and is within the jurisdic- tion of the court, I ought not to re- strain further proceedings there mere- ly because the plaintiffs could have their complete recovery in the pre- sent action. "The mere question of immediate possession cannot under the special and unfortunate circumstances, now existing, matter much to either party. The plaintiffs are mortgagee in fact and roust account for their dealings with the property if the de- fendants aro able to redeem; and the defendants in the present action have the right to attack the mortgage if open to valid legal objections." This decision does not, however, af- fect tate Algoma Central Railway. as, bythe temporary injunction granted, Messrs. Connreo and Bow- man, the Central Trust Co., Speyer & Co., and all others are prevented from taking possession of tho rail- tvay. The 'railway are, moreover, by a similar injunction restrained from delivering the property to Speyer & Co., or any other creditors. WERE 19 DAYS IN CROSSING. Great Suffering Eit,htred by Captain and !late of schooner. London, Oet. 20.—The Stiaefell, a 79 ton schooner, laden with codfish, reached Queenstown from Newfound- land Sunday night. She was navi- gated for the entire trip, which last- ed 19 days, by her captain and mate alone. The Aron suffered • terrible hardships. The sehooner encountered a succession of gales and cold weath- er, and fatigue caused the captain and mate extreme sutThrings. They never slept in their bunks from the time they started. For rive days the schooner was on her beans ends, and then the two then subsisted on bread and Water, as they Were unable to light it fire. tielt,g nuslneas New, Sturgeon Falls, Oct. 20.—The rm• poria! Paper Mills began operations on Oct. 15. Over $1,000,000 have been spent on thent. Four heli Knled YoUng'town, 0. ' et, tO.—'Pour CURIOUS FACTS The Danish flag is the oldest of nation- al flags. It has been in use since 1210. The cigars smoked in Euglanll weigh on an average 17 1.10 pounds per 1,000. A German mathematician estimates that the average man who lives to be seventy years: old commies '$10,000 worth of food in hie life. The earliest European paper mills were at Fairiauo, in Italy, in 1150. The Arabs first introduced the secret • of paper making into Europe, they themselves having learned it from Chin- ese prisoners of war. It has been calculated that every inch of railway lige in England has cost 42, audevery mile $195,000. It is also said that English raliways aro three times as costly to build as those in the United States. Aerial dinners are now the fashion in Paris. M. Santos -Dumont, recently^ gave one at which the table and chairs were suspended from the ceiling by wires, the waiters walked on shits, and the plates and dishes were raised oa lifts. The guests got into their scats by' nts.tns of stepladders. A baby giant wts re witty presented. to the Burlin medical family for exain• ination. He is the son of a baker at Drievers, an l altli lagh only eighteen mouths old stands 31i feet hig'i, mn.ts. ures 31 iu'shes around the ohest and weighs nearly 100 pounds. According to a Girmnu Intel'', the toughness and darabtlity of atuminan can be mach increased by the at tabu of phesphorons. Tate adlition of 7 to 15 per cent. makes the natal extrimily hard act:1 tough. a:rd wall a 1 tpsa 1 f,ir forgoiugs. Three per cent. pro laces a good horseshoe metal, and with a two per cent. addition it can be easily rolled. The superstitious collier is often laughed to scorn, but a miner iu North Wales is just thanking his lucky stars that he believes in omens. Ile was bor- ing under some coal and was startled by seeing a rat senttliug away. He walked away from the spot, and directly after- wards a largo fall of coal occurred just over the place where the man had been working. Mr. George Compere, the Government entomologist, of Western Australia, has just been round the world in quest of a parasite that will reduce the number of the voracious fruit fly. He was unsuc- cessful, but will shortly start for Iudia, and the Malay Archipelago to resume his search. Having found the parasite he will probably have to find another to keep the first one in order. The thermometer scale was really in- veuted by Sir Isaac Newton. Fahren- heit, finding that a more intense cold could be created by mixing ice and snow, took that as his zero and for convenience divided Sir Isaac's scale by four. The Kind Ton Have Alwrys Bought, and which Zeas been in use for over 30 years, bas borne the eignatnre or �f and has been trade under his per. l: / canal supervision siiiee its infancy. 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