Daily British Whig (1850), 7 Dec 1923, p. 4

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Lemmon & Sons ha aA) a Jolt | When Ed Got | { get her." -- | to do without her till you can go and { | Fof 4 second Ed was speechless. | He looked wistfully at the big leather | i chair, now holding its owner so com- {fortably in its embrace--at the va- | cant spot on the rug where Sarah ' had sat only the night before, and & {It was all so sudden, so brutally | By CORONA REMINGTON. { | unexpected. 1 at last. Ed Vance watched the girl as she Sarah." sat on the rug at his feet holding a Mrs. Wade lowered her slice of bread before the cheery fire. hide the glint of triumph in them. As she drew it back and turned it on | Teeling of IONSiiness SWept over nim. "But--I must have her," he sald | "1 can't do without my little | eyes to! "l know, Ed," she sald, all moth- | the fork the crispy brown odor came erly sympathy, "but we all have to | up to him. "You're a regular You'll enjoy it stand some things and I reckon you'll | little hom® have to wait until you can afford to | crunched into the buttered toast and all the more when it comes. It'll be | | | maker," he said, admiringly, as he start housekeeping. sipped the hot chocolate she had grand having a little house all your placed at his side. own with Sarah to greet you when | Sarah Scott flushed with pleasure you come home from work and a | and gratitude and passed him anoth- nice hot meal setting on the table. | er plece. : My, my, [ don't blame you for being | "But I think Mrs. Wade is the dear impatient the way you must a banged | to let us do this in her parlor--not from bad boardin' houses to worse." { many people would," she told her | fiance. ! he admitted, "but then she looks on ward the door. "I'm going to" get | you as her own child." Sarah right now. In the morning you ! "Yes, she's just about been a can "phone my boss my mother's mother to me since I came to towa sick, too," he said, turning back. | to work. This feels almost as much Mrs. Wade looked up, her mild i like home to me ass my real, sure- gray eyes meeting his. | enough one does now." . "My my, you're such a hasty young | "Huh, it feels more like home tc man!" she remarked innocently. me than anything I've had since I was a little boy. When I'm here with pROULIAR FLAVOR OF PEKOE. | you, like this, why I don't want any- | thing better--ever. It's perfect! All | the bliss of a home of your own with- ( out the responsibilities," he said, Give It Distinctive Taste, | laughing lightly, The tiny, silvery hairs in your | A tiny little frown appeared oa. orange pekoe tea and the small white | Sarah's face. He was joking, of pleces which look like stems are not | course, but somehow the words jar- something which should not be there, | red. They sounded so shiftless, so but are really these things which give weak-backed. orange pekoe its delicious flavor. The me rest of the evening fell flat tea plant constantly throws out new for ucr--sne sat beside him in.front Shoots at the end of each twig and | the leafbud which is just unfolding, of the fire, as was her custom--he together with the small leaf next to | in the big armchair, she on the rug 4 at his feet. Occasionally he would It produces the finest quality of tea; ! put out a hand and draw her head the leaf at the end of the small | against his knee, usually blissful mo- branch being the best of all and qual- ments of happy silence while the two ity of the leaves cf the lower twigs | stared into the firs and dreimed and ©f the branch becoming poorer in | rested, rested from a hard day's Proportion to their proximity to the | work, But to-night!--she felt al- trunk, says Consul €. L. Hoover, Ba- most irritated by his touch; she want- ed to jerk her head away, to jump ©f Commerce. { up and run hway upstairs and leave These first two leaves are covered him pussling over her strange be- With hairs, which, when the leaf is havior. ~ dried, give a silvery appearance to The evening wore away somehow, Lhe tea and from this comes the trade and at last Ed took his departure, tame, "Pekoe," the Chinese words perfectly happy and totally ignorant . Pak ho" meaning 'white hairs." of his flance's disturbed condition-- s tea produces an orange-colored dense male that he was. beverage, hence the name "orange "Well, he's gone," Sarah said a Pekoe." The small white pieces which second later, as she walked into the 100k like stems are not stems at all, little dining-room where Mrs. Wade" Dut the very finest part of the leaf, sat rocking and piecing quilt scraps.. Abe tip, and tea made from them is The latter glanced up from her work ry strong and has the most deli- at the young girl standing there be- [Saje atoma. The dried tea leaves are fore her. graded by women who screen the tea "Well, child, you said it as if he bY placing it in a flat tray made of | was a book agent or a collector or Woven bamboo, and throwing it into | some other human varmint." Sarah tried to laugh, but it wag are on the top. | rather a failure. the last to come down and after care- "Oh, no, he's lovely, but somehow fully working the tray load to the | I'm 'boint "where. all thé leaves of the | I felt all out of sort to-night. 1 blue'and can't tell exactly why it is."" S3ame quality-aye on top, the tray is | "Don't tell me anything's gone Quickly withdrawn from beneath the | wrong between you and Ed," said light leaves, which fall Juto another | Mrs. Wade, taking off her spectacles tray at the feet the woman who is | and looking more ciosely at Sarah. doing fann | "No, nothing that I can put my fig. 1s then tossed | ger on," | Mrs. Wade, with sixty years': knowl - edge of human nature, knew that something was forthcoming, so wait- ° Some od patiently for the girl to speak. revealed in the first report of the {| "It's funny, Mrs. Wade, but Ed Committee of Public Accounts in hasn't said anything about getting England. A clerk at Trinity House married for nearly three -months-- was found guilty of- embesaling . now," Baral said after a while, lighthouse funds, dismissed, and sent i "Been engaged nearly a year-- to prison. The Board of Trade, gra- clously awarded him a pension of The girl nodded silently. $1,260 a year and a gratuity. Every "Toe long. Time you got married. State Department has its little Trouble is Ed's too comfortable sit- money-wasting episode. The Office of ting in my parior chairs and warming Works hired premises at Pontypridd himself by my fire." for $125 a year in 1888. The pre- With a start Sarah remembered mises were not required after 1904, what Ed had said that very evening, but no one thought of terminating and she flashed a glance of wonder at the tenancy, and the rent was paid motherly Mrs. Wade. regularly until Christmas 1915. A "I've been thinking about this tug was hired in Mesopotamia in right along," she said, almost as if September, 1916, at $300 a week. she had read the girl's thoughts, The owner offered to sell it for $465,~ "and I want to tell you something; 000, but his offer was not accepted. Ed's a Bae boy, but he needs a joit-- The $300 a week was paid until Aug- s big hard one, Now I got a ust, 1931---a total payment of $75,- Wasted Money. bavea't you?" tell yau about it at $30,000, and as it was no longer re- says the rheymatism's settied in her knees mighty bad and she has a hard doing the work. She didu"t want a farmer, promised to instal him in me to tell you, because she thought & neighboring farm at an. estimated you wers happier down here tham cost of $5,000. The installation in- you were in the country--more op- volved rebuilding which in the 'end portunity and such---and she didn't cost more than $45,000. These inci- want you to lose your job, but i deats are only a few instances of the years for nothing and I know when that have been investigated. she grumps, she's got something ta grump about. So if I were you I'd Cebu Founded In 1565. throw up that good-for-nothing Job The oldest European settlement in and go home, and 1 woulda't be wrile the Ori ing to Bd a e Orient is the city of Cebu, Cebu "Oh, oh, por other! I'd never e forgiven you if you hadn't told I'll go home to-morrow." Sarah's was quite white wi from the top of a moving box favia, in a report to the Department the air until all the lightest leaves | The lighter tea Is | The heavy tea | the tray of the | next woman, who submits it to still | Safi was silent for a moment and further manipulation--N. Y. Times. remarkable gratuities are! from your mother this morn+ 000. The tug was then bought for ! ing--aimed to supper, but didn't get time--and she quired, it was put on the disposals | list for sale at anyp rice. The Air | Ministry finding it necessary to evict | didp't live near Myra Scott thirty muddling of Government departments . "I can't wait and, what's more, I | won't!" 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Because of "His Master's Voice" -- Victor records you can make your Christmas gift countless evenings of such joy and pleasure -- you can send into the homes of your friends the genius of the world's greatest artists -- just as if you were presenting them body and soul -- for their genius could not be more living even_though 'they were actually present to do your bidding.) Arranged in handsome,™ dignified gift" boxes, "His Master's Voice" dealers have many record binations for you to chiggee from. . - HIS MASTER'S VOICE, LIMITED com-' PP IEW Aboxof : "His 4 Victor will bring anyone... Sonius His Master's Voice" of these, the world's smh dealers can the offer you the living Last Night on the Back Porch--Fox Trot If I Can't Have the Sweetie I Want--Fey Trot' Way Down Yonder in New Orleans--Fox Trot ox Trot, Dearest--F Fate--Fox Trot Lady of the Evening-- Fos Trot Underneath. the 'Wonderful - i | STILL MAKING CHEESE. The Factory at Findley Station Still Open, Findley Station, Dec. 4.--A num- ber from here expect to attend the | poultry fair at Lyndhurst. Mr, Walk- er is making cheese yet, James Wil- son visited his sister, Mrs. Bruce David, Brighton, recently. Mrs. W. Simpson and baby spent a few days at Seeley's Bay. Francis. and Elmer Donaldson are attending the agri- culture course in Kingston. Mrs. Brennen who has been ill is improv. ing. On Wednesday evening, Nov. 28th, the marriage of Miss Jewel Keeler and William Grice took place at the. family residence, Rev. Mr. wee (visited over the week-end with her a8 when too taken into the stomach it is liable and become anything you like and not have heart- burn any more.' . Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25c. | His Ma Victor Dance Hits } No. 19139 } No. 19020 } No. 19016 { No.19919 Orchestra. aste ~ Doggett officiating. They will reside in Belleville. Mr. dnd Mrs. Fred Thompson and Miss Maude, King- ston, visited at Lorne Thompson's recently. Miss Myrtle A. Sidley, Kingston, spent the week-end at her uncle's, M. J. Muyllen's. A NurseinTraining IL Lavant Station, Dec. 4.--The 'many friend of Miss Myrtle Bing- ley, Smith's Falls, are sorry to hear of her serious illness with scarlet fever and hope for a speedy recov- ery. "Mr. and Mrs, William = Me- Kinnon, and family, Nemaks, Alta, are visiting the former's parents. Mr. and Mrs, J. McKinnon. Miss Irene Lashley, Watson's Corners, sister, Mrs. J. E, Lee. Mrs. John Paul, Lavant, is spending some. time with her daughter Mrs, Wil liam Browning. Mr. and Mrs. 'Peter Barr and Misses Enid and Muriel Paul, Poland, spent the week-end at the home or Mrs, Knew The Asccdote: The Benson Orchestra of Chicago, 8.8. aa LS orchestras. Ten, Voice: ot Ay wentioned with enthusiam a picture which represented Adam and love and the serpent in the Garden of Eden, in connection with the eating of "the forbidden fruit. 'The wife also waxed. enthusiastic snd interjec. ted fhe remark: "Yes, we found the picture most interesting, » you see, we know 'the = r------} od. On a charge of iaving, r 18 an illegal place, second 2 Ralph Barker was sentenced to two months in the counties jail by Mag- istrate Page, Brockville, and a fu ther term of three months, in default of a fine of $200 and costs, $3. * We should gais more by letting ourselves Be seen such as we are, than by attempting to appear what we are not. d dd A tourist 7 and his wife, atfer theif |

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