Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — Page 2
CRIPPS, THE CARRIER
BY R. D. BLACKMORE
Author of “LORNA DOON E,” “ALICE LORR AI N E,” ETC., ETC.
CHAPTER Xll.—(Continued.) “Yon ;ire light,” answered Ovei'shntp. "1 gave my horse to a boy to hold and followed the man into a warm? dry place, ■nd into his own corner. As 1 passed, •nd the people made way for me, I saw foat they were genuine gypsies, not mere English vagabonds. My gruff companion snised a screen, and showed me into his •nuggery. “It was dimly lit by a queer old lamp •f red earthenware, and of Roman shape. Conches of heather, and a few low stools •nd some vessels were the only furniture; but the place was beautifully clean ■nd fragrant with dry fern and herbs. In the furthest corner lay little Tom. with a woman bending over him. At the sound of our'entry she turned to meet us. and I saw Cinnaminta. Her Sair and eyes and graceful carriage were as grand as ever, and her forehead as •tear and noble: but her face had lost tiie bright puzzle of youth, and the flush •f damask beauty. In a word, that rich mysterious look, which used to thrill so many hearts, was changed into the glance of fear, ami the restless gaze of anxiety. “She knew me at once, and asked, with a very poor attempt at gaiety—- • Are yon come to have your fortune Aold. sir?’ “Before I could answer, her husband •poke some words in her own language, •nd the ‘Princess.’ as we used to call her. took my hand in both of hers, and kissed jt, and poured forth her thanks. She had Seen so engrossed with her poor sick <hihl that she had not known me on Borseback. Having done so little to deserve her thanks, I was quite surprised •t such gratitude: and it made me fear that she must be now unaccustomed to kind treatment. I asked how her grandmother was. w ho used to sit up so proud,Hjr at Cowley, as well as her sister, the Httle thing that used to run in and out •o. As 1 spoke of them, she shook her Bead and gazetj at some long distance. tell me that they were no more. I •ould not remember the rest of her peo-
AT THE SOUND OF OUR ENTRY SHE TURNED TO MEET US, AND I SAW CINNAMINTA.
>ie, except Uncle Kershoe, as fine a fellow as ever stole a horse. When I spoke •f him. she laughed as if he were going <»n as well as ever: and I hoped that it might be no son of his to whom I had trusted Cantehipe. But of course I knew that gypsy honor would hold him sacred lor the time. It really made me feel as if I never should laugh again almost, when I saw this tine, unselfish woman controlling herself, and commanding herself, in the depth of her misery about ier child. And when I thought how she slight have got on. if she only had liked education, and that: and to marry a fellow of Oriel. I really could not help feeling that poor Cinhamiuta had not made a jK>od tally with her husband. However, that was no concern of mine. She had mad<* her own choice, and must stick to it. But to think of it made me uncomfortable, and I could not speak then of what I wished to speak of. but took short leave and rode away. First, however. I got permission to come over again on the Friday—yesterday. 1 mean: end now I will tell you exactly what happened then.” The log had burned down, and the fire was low, when Russel thus ended his story. Cripps was indignant, because he Sad made up his mind for "summat of a settlement.” and Esther was full of noting womanly thoughts about Cinnawinta and her poor child. But even before they could consult one another, or wwM-exainine. a loud, sharp knock at Hie door was heard, and in ran Mary Hookham.
“Oh, if yon please, sir—oh, if yon please, sir!” she exclaimed with both tends up. “such a thing have turned up j never'. Them stockings! Oh. them ■Bk stockings, sir! Your worship—oh. Stem silk stockings, sir!” “Silk stockings, forsooth!” cried Master Cripps. being vexed at this break of 4te evening. “Why; my grandmother ted a whole pair of they! I belave I «*«rid jiud 'em now, I do! Silk'stoekto break up one's comfort for! Kat but what I be glad to see you." “Oh, Mr.- Cripps. you are so funny! Dk, I am so shocked to trouble you! sfteternl hair are so provoking, comparto what most people wears nowadays. Vat about what I come for —oh, your worship, stockings is not what I ought te speak of, except in the ear of fe•srtes.” “Stockings are a very good subject. ,W,rr; particularly if they are silk ones.” “Now, I never thought of that. To be «ve, that makes all the difference! Well, Mtete your worship must know all, and Master Cripps, and Miss Esther, too. It usuoteeth that Mrs. Fermitage. masjer s lCn sister, you know, sir, have never eonfortgbls in her mind about her l«a*vHor when the ’quest was held. Wsgs lay on her nerves at that time so, Mm off and on she hardly seemed to
know where she was. or how dooty lay to her. You could Hot expect her—could you now?—to go through it. as if she was a man: or rather, 1 should say, a gentleman?” •• ■■■, ~‘ "Of course we could not." answered Overshute: and the carrier began to think why “However, she did go through it.” said Mary, “as well as the very best mah could have done. She covered her feelings? Well, this very day, sir, in she come when I was doing of my morning doos, and she say to me, ‘Mary Hook-ham!’-and I says, ‘Yes. ma’am: at your service.’ And she ask me without any more to do, for to send at once, without troubling poor master, to fetch they stockings as was put by, to the period of the coroner’s ’quest. Poor master have never been allowed to see them, no more has none of us, sir; for fear of setting on foot some allowance of vulgar curiosity. So I acted according to mother's directions. And between us we got Master Kale to go all the way to Oxford. He carried a letter from Mrs. Fermitage. couched in the thirtieth person, to Mrs. Luke Sharp of Cross Duck House. Master's sister have felt below contempt towards her. And now she put it short and sharp, and word for word can I say of it: “‘Mrs. Fermitagb has the honor of presenting her compliments to . Mrs. Sharp, and begs to express her surprise at the strange retention by Mrs. S, of a pair of valuable silk stockings, which are the property of Mrs. F. If they are not in use, it is begged that they may be returned by the bearer.’ “And sure enough, back they come by Mr. Kale, about an hour after you left our house, sir. It seems that Mr. Luke Sharp” was gone to dine with the Corporation, or likely they never would have come at all. And they never would have come at all, because Mrs. Sharp could not have found them if it hadn't been that. Master Sharp, the boy they think such wonders of, just happened to come in from shooting. He found his mother
in the hystrikcs-of a heart too full for tears, as she expressed it bootifully to both cook and housemaid; and they pointed to the letter, and he read it; and he were that put out that Master Kale run away and got under the mangle. That wicked young man he kicked open the door and flung a parcel at hinv _ '■ ‘Tell your missus,’ he says, ‘that her rubbish is there! And add, without no compliments, that a lady of her birth should a' known better than to insult another lady so!’ “Well done. Kit Sharp!” exclaimed Overshute. “I rather admire him for that. I like a young fellow to get in a rage When he thinks that his mother is trampled on.” ‘‘Then you might a' been satisfied with him, sir. In a rage he were, and no mistake. So much so that orfr Mr. Kale made off by the quickest door. “Master Kale sent his parcel in by me. together with Mrs. Sharp's compliments; leaving the truth in the kitchen to strengthen. And so master's sister, she put out her hand all covered with rings, ami no shaking, and she hod to m<£ pleasantly, and take it. '.Mary, you may go,' she said; and f< r sure, I am not one of those who linger. "There happened, however, to be a new candle full of thieves and guttering. So back I turned by the corner of a screen, for to right it. I had no more idea, bless you. Master Cripps, of cooriosity, than might have happened to yourself, sir; but I pulled a pair of scissors out of my pocket, no snuffers being handy: and then I heer'd a most .sad groan. “To my heart it went, like a clap of thunder, having almost expected it, which made it worst*: and back I ran to do my dooty, if afforded rightly. And sure enough there was poor Mrs. Fermittige afell back well into the long-backed chair, with her legs out straight, and her hands to her forehead. and a pair of gray stockings laid naked on her lap! ‘ls it they things, ma'am? Is it they?' I asked, and she put up her chin to acknowledge it. By the way, they were lying upon her lap. I was sure that she was vexed with them. ‘Oh. Mary,' she cried out; ‘oh, Mary Hookham, 1 am both a foolish and a wicked woman, if everjin the world there was one!’ “So deeply was I shocked by this, master's own sister, and a mint of money, going the wrong way—that I give her both ends of the smelling bottle, open, and running on her velvet gown, as innocent ns possible. ‘Oh, you wicked, wicked girl!’ she says, coming round, before I could stop; ‘do you know what it cost a yard, you minx?’ ‘This gave me good hopes of her, being so natteral. Twice the price comes always into ladies’ minds, when damage is: if anybody cau be made to pay. But it did not become me to speak one word,
as you see. Mr. Russel, and Masttt Cripps. And there was my regard at once. “ ‘I must have a magistrate.’ she cries; ‘a independent justice of the peace. Not my poor brother—too much of him already. Where is that ‘boy Overshute?’ she says, saving, of course, your worship’s presence. ‘I heered he were gone to the carrier's. Mary, run and fetch him.’ ” CHAPTER XIII. , Mr. Overshute had always been on good terms with Mrs. I’ermitage. The lady desired no better suitor f<>r her_niece„ than Ru--sel Overshute. and had labored both by word and deed to afford him fair opportunity. Moreover, it was one of hM'.dgre;it delights, when time, wont heavily with her. to foster a cjuit't little fight between young Russel and his mother. Those two. though tilled with the deepest affection and admiration for each other, could scarcely sit half an hour together Without a warm argument rising. The late Mr. Overshute had been for years a knight of the shire, and for some few months a member of the Tory government; and this conferred on his widow, of course, authority paramount throughout the county upon every political question. How great, then, was her indignation to find subversive and radically erroneous principles coming up, where none but the best seed had been sown. Mrs. Fermitage sat well up, in a chair that had been newly stuffed. She was very uncomfortable; and it made her cross, because she was a good-sized woman. She kept on turning, but all for the worse; and her mind was uneasy at her brother’s house. The room was gone dark, and the lights going down, while Miss Mary Hookham was revelling in the mansion of the carrier. Nobody cared to hurry for the sake of anybody else, of course; and Mrs. Fermitage could not see what the good of all her money was. The lady was all the more vexed with others, because her own conscience was vexed with her; and as Overshute came with his quick, firm step, she spoke to him rather sharply. “Well, Russel Overshute, there was a time when you would not have left me to sit in this sad way by myself all the evening. But that was when I had pretty faces near me.” “My dear Mrs. Fermitage, I had no idea that you were even in the house. The good Squire sent me a very nice dinner; but you did not grace it with your presence.” “And for a very good reason, Russel. I have on my mind an anxiety, which precludes all idea of eating.” “Oh, Mrs. Fermitage. never say that. You have been brought up too delicately.” “Russel, I believe that is too true. The world has conspired to spoil me. I seem to be quite in a sad position, entirely forthe sake of others. ’ I fear that I have not quite acted for the best, entirely as I meant to do so. You remember that horrible state of things, nearly two months ago, and my great distress?!!. “At the time of that wretched inquest? Yes; you were timid, as well you might be.” “It was not only that. But the weather was so cold that 1 scarcely knew what I was doing at all. Hard weather is to me as it is to a plant, a delicate fern, or something. My circulation no longer is correct; even if it goes on at all. I scarcely can answer for what I am doing when .they put me into cold rooms, and bitter draughts.” “To be sure, to be sure!” answered Overshute, wondering what was next to come. “Yes, and that is the manner in which justice is now administered. The canal was frozen, and the people of the inn grudged a quarter of a hundredweight of coal. And the coroner sided with the price of copls, because he had three topcoats on. The jury, however, with their teeth all chattering, wanted only to be done and go. They were Only too glad, when any witness failed to answer when called upon; and having all made up their minds outside, they were shivering to declare them.” “You speak the bare truth, Mrs. Fermitage.’’ “ ‘What verdict does Missus desire?’ the coroner asked. And he made nil the rest go accordingly. Nobody knows what they might have sworn, without a’ clever man to guide them.” “Of course. What can you expect? But still, you have something new to tell me.” (To be continued.’
Could Not Be Settled Out of Court.
A good story is told concerning a certain magistrate, who always endeavors to smooth over any little differences which may be brought before him. On the occasion in question the warrant was one for technical assault, and it came out in the course of evidence that the parties were neighbors and had been on the best of terms for some years. “It is a great pity," said the judge, "that old friends like you seem to have been should appear before me in such a way. Surely this is a case wrich might be settled out of court.” “It can't be done,” answered the plaintiff, moodily. “I thought of that myself, but the cur won't fight.”
Royalty's Many Residences.
The Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany might, if they please, dispute with each other as to which of the two owns the greater number of palaces. Each might sleep in a different house every night for a month and not exhaust the number of his various dwelling places. The Czar Is said to own many country seats—which are kept up in every detail, furnished and furbished and crowded with servants T-into which he has never set foot. King Edward of England, while regularly occupying only four, has A dozen or more houses which are rieady for him at all times.
Fair but Deceitful.
Chlmmy—l told her I’d die if she refused me, an’ showed her de dime I’d saved fer carbolic acid. Johnny—Au' wot did she do? Chlmmy (groaning)—Do? She jollied me along till I blowed de dime on soda water, and den refused me.—Puck. Few men ever attain the popularity of a minister during the first five or six weeks he occupies a new pulpit
MISSOURI’S NEW SENATOR.
Major Wm. Warner, Who Wan Clioten ’Mid a Riotous Scene. Major William Warner of Kansas City was chosen United States Senator to sucFrancis Marion Cockrell after one cf the most stormy scenes ever witnessed in the General Assembly of Missouri. After having been in a deadlock since Jan. 18 the Legislature at 15 minutes before sine die adjournment elected Major Warner to fill the contested vacancy. Seven ballots in joint session were
MAJOR WILLIAM WARNER.
taken in effecting a decision, and the closing scenes of the Legislature have not been paralleled in the history of Missouri politics.. The time for sine die adjuorriment had been set for 3 o’clock by concurrent resolution, and as the hour approached the clock was smashed in the melee. Amid an uproar that almost baffled control at times the seventh ballot of the day was cast, resulting in the election of Warner. The vote stood: Warner 91, Cockrell 83, Niedringhaus 1. The total vote was 175, making 88 necessary to a choice.
FROM NORTH TO SOUTH.
Great Progress Made on Inter-Conti-nental Through Railway. Slowly but surely for a long time the iron bands that will make possible a journey by rail from Manitoba to Buenos Ayres are being lengthened out. Reports made at a recent meeting of the PanAmerican Railway committee, held in Washington, D. C., show that in the past year there has been unusual activity in railway construction in the Latin-Amer-ican countries, particularly in the way of addition;) 1 links in tlie iuter-conf i neutal trunk line. An official statement from the Mexican government announces that the line from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the border of Guatemala frontier is duly proceeding. In Central America several interoceanic lines are being completed so as to form through connection. The extension of the Argentina railway north into Bolivia is going forward. The Bolivian congress has dedicated the $lO.000.000 received from Brazil as territorial indemnity to railway construction. It is probable that these lines will be built by American capitalists, and United States engineers are now on the ground. In Chili the tunnel through the Andes, which will provide through railway communication from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, is under construction and the material goes from the Unite.l States. Peru is following the law of tho Peruvian congress last year, providing a railway guaranty fund. Tho government lias completed surveys for the lines, which will close several of the links between Lake Titcaca and the existing systems. In Ecuador work on the railway from Guayaquil to Quito is proceeding.
ONE EFFECT OF THE WAR
Many Cargoes Leaving Western Ports for Japan. One effect of the war in the Far East is to greatly stimulate exports from the northwestern ports of the United States to Japan. The Mikado’s success in forcing the Russian bear to take to the tall timber has led to the liberal purchase of supplies, not alone of necessities, but of construction material as well, the whole making many shiploads. In consequence large numbers of extra steamers are being chartered to rush across the Pacific supplies of many kinds. The big steamship Minnesota, four Japanese liners and the big freighters of the Boston Steamship Company running from Tacoma are insufficient to carry to Japan the immense shipments of barley, flour, meat products and other supplies now piling up at Puget Sound ports. One firm has chartered four large steamships to load at Tacoma during the next thirty days. At least six heavy cargoes for Japan will leave Tacoma this month, and as many more next. Their cargoes will include railroad supplies and equipment for a road that is being built across Korea. The steamships Shawmut and Tremont have already sailed, with an aggregate of 29,000 tons, chiefly for Japan.
CANADA'S PERIL.
To Re Invaded by 200,000 Russian Stundist Immigrants. Canada is to be invaded by a peacefid army of Russian Stmidist immigrants, according to a report which says that 200,000 of these people are preparing to emigrate this year and settle in the Canadian Northwest. There are leaders of public opinion in the Dominion Who, having the experience of the United States before them, regard with serious misgivings the steady annual increase of the foreign element in th population of Canada. But the present prospect of hundreds of thousands of European immigrants swarming like locusts over the choice western lands is now giving Canadians something to think about in pursuing the policy of populating the Dominion. During the early part of the winter the arrivals of Russian Jews in unusually large numbers gave the Canadian authorities very setions trouble. The invasion, therefore, by this new immigrant army of 200,000 persons can only inspire officials and others with feelings of apprehension, if not dismay.
Lawyer Shoots Himself.
Charles Erd of St. Louis, a lawyer, 3J years old, was found in his apartment* at the Hotel Imperial in New York suffering from a self-inflicted bullet wound *1 the left temple. Mr. Erd declared that te had not attempted to kill himself.
Time and Books.
The economy of saving time Is wise, but there.is an economy of spending time. In reading, especially, hurry is most wasteful. Reading is the making of thoughts, of ideas, of pictures in the brain. All young photographers know how little is to be made out of an “under-exposed plate,” but do they understand that there may be such a thing as an .under-exposed brain? It takes time to make impressions on the mind. If you read too fast, either aloud or to yourself, or skim over your reading, the mind receives poor impressions or none at all. —-St. Nicholas.
What the Dentist Says.
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Directly Opposite.
They say that opposites should wedj Too much alike, you'll clash. And so I’m looking for a girl Possessed of lots of cash. —Lippincott's Magazine.
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Cupid’s Preference.
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