Daily British Whig (1850), 26 Feb 1914, p. 12

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"ed. with all the money he needed, ~~ The Story of J. Hartley Manners' Remarkable Comedy, Which Is to Be Presented Here by Oliver Morosco's Metropolitan Company, Told In Narrative Form by the Author. N June 1, 1912, Mrs. Chichester sat in Ber morning room in Régal villa, Searboro, Eug- " lad, facing the supreme crisis of ber life, In her hand lay an open letter; be- side her stood her son and daughter, panic stricken, o The bank containing every penny her dead husband had left ber had closed fts doors. They were beggars. She must live on charity the rest of her life with relatives she disliked and who disliked ber. Tears were stream- mg down her face. Her daughter, Ethel, took amity calmiy., She would teach children--anything. Algric, ber son, was indignant. What right had auy bank to close its doors | --especlally that particular one? It onght to Le wade fo open then again and at least pay them what they in- trusted to them. They shonld do tins even if they did not pay any one else. Alaric could not understand any one causing him a moment's discomfort That was the fault of his mother's training. At school and at college he had done just as he pleased. Provid- the work ca | was at the cross roads, Ethel tells him, too, she is at the cross roads. They are ruined. In a sudden passionate abandonment he begs her to let him take her away out of her froubles. Go with him, and when his wife sets him free he will uwiiry her. For a moment Ethel shows she feels the temptation. Poverty to her is horrible. She almost yields, Then another mood follows, and she refuses. He pleads. "No, Chris; not just now," she says. "Some tiwe, perhaps iu the dead of night, something will snap In mé--the slack, selfish, luxurious me--that hates to be roused into action, and the erav- Ing for adventure will come. Then I'tl send for you." "And you'll go with me?' "I suppose so. Then heaven help vou." Just as he is about to press his cause Alarie burst into the room with a very dignified elderly gentleman whom he had found in the garden inquiring for ¥ brought up with the idea that he would never have to do anvthing for his livelihood, be came down from his Guiversity with a slight knowledge of grammar and a tenuis racket he had Won as runnerup in a tournament, These were his bnly asséts in life. To be suddenly confronted with beg- gars gave him a thrill of disvomfort he never thought he could have been made to feel. Taking courage from hig sister's resolve, he decides to work, 100, to preserve the family fortunes. Into the pathetic family scene came Mr. Christian Brent, a man of dis- tinction, of breeding and of wealth. Left alone with Ethel, he tells her that the previous night he had had the final his mother, He introduces Mr. Hawkes, a London solicitor, » Jrent leaves them. Mrs, Chichester is brought down from her roow, and} for the second time that'morning she finds herself face to face with a crisis. The solicitor tells ber that her broth: er, Nathaniel Kingsnorth. has recently | > died. In consequence of his bitterness toward his relations no one was to be informed of his death, nor was any one | to to wear' mourning for him should they |¢ hear of it. "They wouldn't feel 'any ft sorrow, so why lie about it?" he had said. In his will he had not left a peany to any of his near relations. But on his bed of sickness, knowing the expiration of one year, then she chester with the second shock she ex- perienced that unlucky, fatal day. the first lady to be approached on the matter of training Mrs. Chichester. Just before she died she wrote to Nuthamiel Kingsnorth for the first time and asked him to belp them. He replied; "You have made your bed---lie in it!" The remembrance hgunts the dying man. He wants to make some atone- ment. If that child is still alive he wishes to sce her before be dies.» They make inquiries and fimd the child, now grown to young woman- hood, is living in very peor circum- stances in the city of New York. He sends money for her passage to England with a request to her father to let her visit him. , The father consents.® Before the girl reaches England, how. ever, Nathaniel Kingsnorth dies. Now, In his will. heidirects that the sum of £1,000 a year be paid to anv lady of breeding and refinement who will undertake the training of the giv in the best traditions of the Kings- north. family. He also directs that the training should continue to the age of tweaty- one if she showed any desire to acquire the education necessary for her posi- tion, and when she reached that age she should inberit the sum of £5.000 n year. If, in the judgment of his executor, she was not worthy of interest at must be returned to her father and thé sum of £250 a year paid her to provide her with the necessaries of life, Mr. Hawkes then faced Mrs. Chi: It was Mr. Kingsnorth"s wish that No insult could sep- arate girl and pathet- the girl sho] be She is aghast. Ethel is indignant. Alaric is contemplative. "1 never heard of such a thing." "Ridiculous." "Tush and nonsense." other one of the most. pathetic, dis-| reputable Trish terriers it had ever been the distinguished Chichester fam. ily's misfortune to lay eves on. And this was ber niece. This was the creature Nathaniel de- sired her to train. But for the prospect of abject misery she would have turned tle little girl out of her house. The thought of the thousmnd pounds a yedr restrained her. "What is your name?" "Peg. ma'am," replied the little red headed girl, Mrs, Chichester sent for the servant. "Take away those parcels aud that dog." she said. : Peg clutched the little animal to her. "No. not Michael," she said. "You viustn't take Michael away from we. ide was given to me by my father." And so began Peg's career in Lon- don, It was a month of conflict. She had only one bright little spot in the history of that wretched month -a friendship for an old friend of the family whom she only knows as| "Jerr "Jerry" brought her home one night from a dance. The house was fast | asleep. Just as he was taking his leave of her he heard a footstep on the path. Warning her te hide he turned to the window and found Christian Brent coming up the step. "Hello, Brent!" said coming from the dunce? you there." "No," replied Brent. "1 was rest- less and just strolled here." He tried to pass Jerry and enter the house, but Jerry intercepted him. "Cone with me to the read," he said couvliy; "the house is asleep." They walked to the road, where Jerry saw Brent's Mercedes car wait: | ing at the bend. g Jerry watched him go away, then walked up and down the road, watch- ing the Chichester windows as if won- dering if Peg were all safe. | Méanwhile Peg, the moment Jerry | had taken Brent away, crept quietly | upstairs. Just as she got to 'the top | Jerry. "Just I didn't see Ethel appeared fully dressed and carry. ing a small traveling bag. i She ordered Peg down into the room | was a and demanded what she there. Peg, divining why Ethel was there, asked her interloctor what she was | doing fully dressed at that time of | night. | "Were ye going away with that man? He was here a minute mgo and Mr. | Jerry took him away." them: théir sak task of training her niece. "Then ¥ take it you refuse?" "Absoluteiy." The lawyer gathered up his papers The family. looked at each iter, and the same thought struck bem simultaneously. A thousand pounds a year would save Mrs. Chichester decided for all she would undertake the 20, Mr. Hawkes sent for the girl, and "Mr. Brent. with him?" Ethel burst with tears and poured out her own wretchea story. first time the two girls opened their hearts to each other and, mingled their | tears. | Roused by a' falling receptacle, Mrs. | the chief executor Chichester and Alaric came down into | Kingsnorth « the room and found the two girls. "Who was here?' Were you going away | The footman showed in a poorly clad little girl, barely eighteen, with bright red curls po gleaming from under a cheap hat--7/h7s was her niece; 7h7s was the creature Nathan. 2 ate iel desired her to train! ' | Jerry introduced himself to her asycame into the house they did not have of the late Mr.(a penny had literally fed dnd and made her ac- jhioused them for the past month the Then Jerry told the Chichesters that One by one they took their depar- ture, leaving Peg alone with Jerry. Jerry, realizing that Peg was about She will with conditions of ) ' | quainted, th dg fo pass out of his life, took the fate quarrel with his wife® They had not {the end was approaching, he spokejonce again the unfortunate family are! Peg made up her mind instantly to {will "fies of travel. a thought in common. There was not an action of his she did not misunder: stand. 8h¢ had heard gossip about worst construction on it. There was | only one thing to do-separate. A STORY OF HEROISM IN ICE MOUNTAINS OF MOUNT- ED PATROL How Patrol of North-West Police Teacked Trapper and His Girl Victim--Report to Authorities De- scribes Extraordinary Privations. Ottawa, Feb, 25.--A story of her- oic devotion to duty, .of indomitable perseverance in the face of extraor- dinary hardship and privation, is told in'a report just received at the offices of the Royal North-West Mounted ' Police. - This report con- stitutes one of the most remarkable of the many hundred remarkable documents in the records of the mounted police, and breathes the spirit that bas made 'this force fear: ed and respected 'all over Western Canada from the 49th parallel to the Arctit sea. It is the statement of Sergeant C S. Harper( who was in charge of a patrol sent from Lake Saskatoon the early part of November to effect the arrest of Asa Hunting, a trapper, charged with the abduction of a 15- year-old girl named Mildred Shaw. Hunting thad fled with the girl in the direction of the mountains, through an almost trackless wilder- ness, covered with deep snow and intersected by half-frozen streams. Sergeant Harper started in pursuit oy Nov. 4, taking with him Con- "stable Stev mand a packer, Rich- ard Harringtop. They had a pack train and three saddle horses and a menth's provisions. After traveling for a week .they found it decessary to cache most of the provisions owing to the diflicul- Hal€ the pack train was left behind at this point, and the party began the ascent of Nose mcvntain, "which is about 2,000 feet hirh" and "is'very steep and difficult owing to smow, especially the last 560 feet. . One of, the k/ horses lost its footing apd ro down about 50 feet until caught by a tree." Week to Climb Mountain The ascent of" this mountain took over the encountering a on On 'the Savas walst- constantly who married years before an improvis jt dent Irish agitator, was cut off by her|l his attentions to Ethel and put the | fuinily, and, after going through many | red curls. gleaming from under a cheap onditions of misery, died three months | hat, a grip and a. parcel under one arm and clutched tightly under the NU ------ He lg of a dead sister, Angela, ifter giving birth to alittle girl, subjécted to another shock. The foot- sd nan shows In a poorly clad little girl rarely eighteen years old, wih bright patrol' rested for two days te rest the horses, 'which were nearly all in.' On Dec. 3rd the party eame to one of the fugitive's hay camps and learned that Hunting hal gone on twe months before. Four days lat- the man's tracks were found, ding over the mountain to Grand Cuche, a trading post in the main range of the Rockies and difficult 0% access. Horses could not follow this trail, 80 the party turned back "to the Porcupine flats and hit into the Smoky river over the Jaspar trail, which went over Porcupine moun- tain." Following this trail the pa- trol lost a pack horse "that tumbled off a cut bank in the mountains." They packed their saddle horses and walked. Pwo days later they ran out of all food except tea and sugar. They "had picked up a half-breed, who told of having a cacite of moose meat on the Porcupine. a How to Make Better Cough Syrup than You Can Buy A Family Supply, Saving #2 and Fully Guaranteed. Sixteen ounces of cough muck as you could buy for $2.56--ecan easily be made at home. You will find nothing that takes hold of an obstinate cough more quickly, usually ending 1t inside of 2¢{ hours. Excellent, tgo, for. croup, whooping cough, sore lungs, as. thma, hoarseness and other throat trou bles. Mix two cups of granulated sugar with one cup of warm water, and sur for two minut Put 21% ounces of Pinex (fifty cents' Worth) in a iS-ounce bottie, then ada the Sugar Syrup. It keeps perfeets ly. Take a teaspvonful ¢very one, two or three hours, . This is just laxative cnough to cure a cough. Also stimulates the appes tite, which is usvaily. upset Ly a cough. The taste is pleasant. The effect of pint and sugar syrup on the inflamed membraves is well known. Pinex is the most valuable concentrated compound of Norway white pine extract. rich in guaiacol and all the natura healing pine elements. Other prepara- tions will not work in this formula. The Pinex and Sugar Syrup recipé is now used by thousands of housewives thropghont the United States and Cen- adn. The plan bas been imitated, but the old successful forfuula has never Been sqonied, 7 on Syrup -- as heip or istaction with "I-sent him on to get it," says Harper, "and he returned with a suckiful. This i$ what we lived on till Dec. 12. The more you boil it the harder it seems to get." On the 12th the party reached an encamp- ment of Indians, who were living on lynx and rabbits." There was feed for the exhausted horses here, and Helper decided to leave them behind with Constable Stevenson. Going on for two more dys, the officer and packer crossed the Smoky river three times oh foot and reached Grand (Cache. 'The water took as about the waist, and then froze our clothes, and we 'were all in when we got there." Here there was fresh news of the fugitive. Con- stable Stevenson was sent for, and the party pushed on for the Muddy river on foot. - Found Girl Cooking Then they sighted the smoke -of Hunting's camp-fire. © Harper ap- proached through the bush and found 'the girl cooking in a tepee built of poles and spruce boughs. Hunting was visiting his traps. He was arrested on his return, and thed lung return journey began. Hunt- ing and the girl had lived on rabbits caught by the girl in snares. Traveling back to Nose Mountain, the party again ran out of feed for the horses and almost out of food for themselves. The horses were dlmost exhausted. "We camped in the open," says the report, "making wind-breaks of the tent and Hunf- ing's.canvas and spruce boughs, the girl having one for herself." One of the police bad to keep awake all night to keep the fires going and watch' the prisoner. At the foot of the © mountain the party lived on "dead lynx, tea, and two. cupfuls of tapfoca per diem'. After three days of this they arrived at their cache and met a party sent in search of theny which had arrived only a few minutes before. 'Harper says in - his report: "I should like to note the loyal support given me by Constables Stevenson and Harrington, as there were times on the trip when things looked black." "He adds: "T am very sorry for all the anxiety I have put every- body to owing to our continued ab- gence, but T eeuld not send word before I did, and it was no good contiug "back: while- the man was In '*Another Led had taken Ethel's hat and cleak and bag to the dance with Mr. Jerry. Mrs. Chichester was furious. ; Later Peg was confronted by Jerry |* They all Hegged her (o stay, until af and the family. last Ethel told bs that the day ve Ethel. She declared that she PO ---- struck us, as thc people 1 met sts ed that they were very poorly clad and bad very little food, which was true. Our opinion is that they would have been frozen to death if we had not gone for them." Harper and his prisoner reached Lake Saskatoon on December 20. Constable Connelius, who led the relief party in search of the Harper patrol, has made ' a report which contains this significant statement of the meeting of the two patrols: "I went up to meet the party, but did not recognize Sergeant Harper at all, for he had fallen away so much." ~-- MINISTER PRAISES ZAM-BUK Tells How it Cured His Wife's Bad Sore When Everything Else Had Failed Rev, Henry J. Munton, of Black- falds, Alta., writes: "My wife had a very bad sore loot, which it seemed impossible to get anything to heal. The sofe would heal to a certain point and 'then fester again, and so on. 1 procured a box' of Zam- Bu's, and after persevering with this herbal balm for some time the sore was completely healed. "We were so grateful for this cure, sad Zam-Buk scted so difierentlv to any other of the numerous remedies we had tried that I thought you ought to know of this Shae 1 have since recommended' Zam- to sev- eral of my parishioners, and it al ways. gives satisfaction." "Another imstance In which Zam. Buk proved of umequalled value 1s told by N. L. Gerry, of Brandon, Man," He says: "I had my left foot run over & waggon loaded with wheat. foot was very bad- ly crushed, and ttle Yoo and the next toe were laid open. I applied Zam-Duk, afd only had to miss work for two days. Zanr-Buk healed the wound so quickly that on the third day I was able to put on my boot aud walk to my work. In a very short time my toes were quite heal- ed, and the foot is mow as sound as ever, thanks to Zam-Buk." Just as good for chronic sores, ulcers, piles, blood poison, burns, scalds, eruptions, eczema, and all skin injurfes and diseases. 80c. box at or Zam-Buk Peg wasdndigunant when she learned that Nims sand s0 shamed) paid @ thou Bhester wu i treating her p Jor na BALWAY LEGISLATION In British Columbia Explained Premier MoBride Vancouver, Feb. 26 Quite an ex tensive program new railway legislation was explained in the legislature by the premier," Sir Rich ard MeBride. The first bid of which he moved the second reading, is to give an additional guaraniee of principal and interest on bonds of the Canadian Northern main line in British Columbia of ten thousand doMars a mile. This means an ad- ditional guarantee of $5,110,000, the former' guarantee of 51 being Taised from $35,000 to $45.- 000 per mile. The premier explain- ed that when the original deal was made Mackenzie & Maun agreed to build' a line equal to the prairie sec- tion. Plans, however, had been changed to meet competition by the C.P.R double-tracking, ete., and the bast line in the west has been construct- el. Steel bridges were substituted for wood of the first plaus, heavier rails were laid, grades cut down, etc, making the line much more costly Another bill gives an additioual $7,000 per mile by way of consiruc- tion between Vancouver and Wart George. This line got a: $36,000 per mile' guarantee originally, and the increase will total about $3,000,000 per mile for the extension of the Pacific Great Eastern 250 miles be- yond Fort George into the. ' Peace River coubtry Messrs. ~~ Foley, Welch & Stewart 'ave undertaking 10 finish this line within 'two years hy of miles were from the time of the final pagsage of the legislation. It will be a com- paratively easy line fo build. tip The Call of the Church London, Feb, 26.--To awmesl the dearth of ministers, a commission hat been appointed by the general assembly of the Church of Scotland to visit the Scotch universities and urge 'the "elaimd of the "hurch as a field of life 'endeavor on aris stu- dents. They have been visiting Edinburgh this weex. : ONLY ONE "Bromo Quinine," that 1s { he happened to be also a divector of [in his hands. | their bank' and that it would shortly | for her and that he couldn't bear the | reopen its doors and every depositor | thought of tosing her. {would be paid in full. | The family were immensely relieved " Now there was no occasion to hon e | she | Peg any longer FREE GIFT TO NATION Old Palace at Richmond Offercd by Mr. Middleton London, Feb. 26.--J, L.. Middleton has offered the Old Palace at Rich mond as. a free gift to the nation provided that a few technical diffi- culties are surmounted. Mr. Mid- dleton obtained a lease of the build- Ng seven years ago with the inten- tien of carrying out repairs before making his offer. He sayd he re- ceived several tempting offers to purchase the palace from Americans but his ambition has always been to restore it and transfer it to the Eng lish nation. It was in the Old Falace (hat Queen Elizabeth was seizod with the "distemper" which cast her into =o deep a melancholy that she died there in 1603, There, too, Anne of Cleves learned that parliament , ad confirmed the petition for di- vore¢e sought by Henry Viil She received the palace as a residence, and after the divorce Henry, it is recorded, was "so delighted by her pivasant and respectful re€eption tiiat he supped with her right mer- rily aud went often to see her." His vieits created scandal in the neigh- borhood, and to stop idle chatter he found it necessary to have two of the gosgips executed. Trade in Ix Teeth: London, Fel: 26.-+0t was stated in city of London court during the hear- ing of a claim for £31 11s..3d. for 5,000 tearing dogs' teeth that a trade had recently sprung up ih the Pacific fer tearing ond cokner teoth number- ing six in each dog's mouth), The steelth were used as eurregies 'and as ornaments. The defendants, the British and Foreign Trahsport Agen- cies, entered into a eonfract for 40, 000 teeth at 128 fl a hyndred. The defence was that the teeth' not paid for were not up to samples, but for the plaintiff it was deciared that the sampie couvsisted of two hollow teeth and two sound ones. Sound teeth would fetch a guinensa hun dred. Judgment was given for the plaintiff, - Columbus Smith, a Kidder minister tanner. who buys dog's ear' causes for' tanning pu ; : Shite ri eo A bald-headédl man should not be found with "Will you marry me? "1 do. "Sure, and 1 Jove you too He told her of his love 1 love you." Do ve?" -- ------------------------ FAMINE RAVAGES JAPAN Appeal for Funds to Relieve 'Lers rible Condition. Washington, Feb, 26.--<The state des partment has received an appeal from the Famine Relief Society, composed of religious workers 'at Haehinohe, Amori-Ken, Japan, asking that pub. icity be given to the eritieal coundi- tion existing in" North-Eastern Japan. "This year's unseasonable weather," said the society's appeal, made public to.day, sed the failure of the rice crop, and as a result many-people are without foc money, and the means of making a hivingy" 3 Ihe Red Cross has ° alfeady sent 810,000 to famine and earthquake suf- ferers in Japan to be expended through a special Japanese committes organized to carry on relief work among the vietims of both calamities, Eat after your 'own fashion, but dress as other folks do, or you'll be talked about. Every cook's in love with her own Nerves Are Sore and Painful Neuritis, or inflammation of the nerves, is' the most palnful of nerv~ ous ailments, You may feel the soreness or tenderness throughout the body, or it may bo cenfined to certain. nerves. In the head it is called neuralgia; in the hips and * legs, sciatica; in the face, ticdolors eux, and in tho chest, intercostal neuralgia. The application of dry Jy relief from the lance-like exhausted nervous system persistent use of such a as Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. ' You have other symptoms to warn you of the depleted Sundition of : nervous system, and this is your of portunity to réstore to the body the energy and vigor of health. While this great food cure is instilling new vitality into the starved nerve cells it is also forming new, firm flesh and tissue, and, by noting your increase prove {in weight, you can it may cal doubt the benefit being its use. This is nature's

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