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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1909)
Race HAWLEY CHAPTER II. (Continued. 'Thanks ; but you have not told me yet "Whether you enjoyed your ball." "Yea, that I did; I got lota of danc ing, and I do like that, you know. But how about yourself, GrenT I don't think you quite did your duty." "Pretty fairly, I fancy. We can't be expected to consummate the amount of pirouetting that your sex delight in. I danced a good deal, and it was real pleas tire to me to see the little sensation you made. I like to see my pretty cousin appreciated as she should be, and taking her legitimate position In the county." "And what's that, pray?" "Why, as the belle of all Hampshire, of course. I wish, though, you hadn't 'danced with that fellow Pearman last night. I've a sort of presentiment ill will come of it." "You stupid Grenville; what can come of it? I am not likely to see him again for months perhaps never. At the worst, recognition of his existence on "Well, I suppose you are right, Maude : tut It is time I was off. Good-by." And Grenville's pulse tingled a little, as his lips touched the fair cheek so quietly yielded to him. "Kind regards to my un cle and aunt ; and drop me a line now and then." "Don't be afraid of that," laughed Miss Denison ; "don't I always write to you when I want anything? and am I not always wanting something? I think the past might testify in my favor. Good by ; don't be long before you come and see us again." Grenville Rose pondered moodily over his visit, as he drove to the station. lie had not quite mastered the fact that he was In love with his cousin, but he bad arrived at some close apprehensions on tdie subject. lie felt that be would have been a good deal better satisfied had his parting salute been much less easily ac corded. Maude, fresh as a rose,- after a turn round the garden, comes in just in time to greet her mother on her return to the diuing room. Petting her mother is one of the chief pleasures of Maude Denison's life. On this occasion she conducts her into the easychair next the fire, makes the tea, and then, drawing a stool near, seats herself at Mrs. Denison's feet, and with girlish delight recounts all her suc cesses of the previous night; to which the fond mother listens with quiet happi ness, as her hand plays with her daugh ter s silken tresses. That nobody could eclipse, tliat nobody could ever be wor thy of mating with her peerless Maude, was a thing that Mrs. Denison would have deemed absurd to argue. "And, mother, dear," said the girl, at last, "Grenville said, before he went away this morning, I was quite the belle of the ball. What do you think of your daugh ter now? Won't that satisfy papa, al though he did grumble so about the ex pense of the dress?" "Yes, love. He will be quite content ed when he hears how thoroughly you en joyed yourself. I am only so sorry that I was not strong enough to have been present myself at my darling's success." Harold Denison entered the room in his usual listless fashion. He kissed his daughter carelessly, asked if she had en joyed her ball, scarce listened to her af firmation, and then plunged at once into the letters and papers that lay piled alongside his plate. He was a tall, slight, handsome man, with a keen, cold eye and rather undecided mouth, verging on fifty years of age. The slightly grizzled eye brows knit as he skimmed his correspond ence. Duns, lawyers' letters anent mort gages and sundry other liabilities, form ed the staple of the daily missives that constituted the accompaniment to his breakfast. Can it be wondered that the man's temper was soured? that the whilom gay frolic squire of Glinn had become a cold, caustic and selfish man of the world? "Things seem to be gptting worse and worse, Eleanor," he observed, throwing down an epistle on the best superfine blue post, and sipping his tea moodily. "The old cry from Reynolds and Gibson that that interest on the mortgage will be due next month, and begging prompt settlement this time, as the fellow is get ting rather uneasy about the stability of the security, on account of the delay of last half-year. It will be hard to scrape the money together. Sheep, too, are down to nothing almost so Thompson tells me or" else I have a hundred to sell that I looked to to help me through vith this." Mrs. Denison sighed. She had gone through a good many such breakfasts In ber time, and felt as helpless as ever in suggesting expedients for the occasion. "It's very unfortunate," she said at length. "Mr. J?earman Is not pressing, at all events, I hope." "No; he has the grace to remember that two-thirds of the property have al ready fallen into his hands. He Is al ways tolerably lenient about his money. The fellow knows, moreover, that his is the first mortgage on the estate; and, I daresay, at times looks forward to being the eventual owner of .Glinn. , Shouldn't wonder if he was, too, some of these days," muttered Denison bitterly. "I used to grieve once, Nell,, that we hadn't a aon ; I begin to think now it wag all for the best. I should feel It more if I bad to think that my boy would never be for Wife SMART master here. Yet that la pretty well how the case would stand if we bad one." "Providence knows what Is best for us, Harold," returned his wife, .softly ; "It was a sore source of trouble to us once; but, as you say, It spares us some bitter thoughts now." She associated herself with him In his career of extravagance as if she had been equally to blame, though, as far as her gentle nature dared, she bad entered more than one meek remonstrance at his reckless career. But Mrs. Denison was not the woman to throw her husband's faults continually in bis teeth. It was all done now, past recall; still, as far as it lay within her power, the- wife was willing to bear her share of The burden Harold Denison's folly had entailed on his family. nd pray, Maude, did .Mr. Pearman honor Xminster with his presence last night?" inquired her father, sarcastically. "Young Mr. Pearman was there, but not the old man. He seemed to know a good many people there. Mr. Brisden " "Yes, It's the old story. The old county families are swept away by these spinners, brewers, solicitors, and such like. Another hundred years, and there won't be one of the old names left in the neighborhood." Breakfast is over. Maude flits away to her own little sanctum, with its piano, books, and budding camellias; Mrs. Den ison goes off for a conference with the old housekeeper; while the squire betakes himself to his study, to struggle with fig ures and hold gloomy converse with Thompson, his farm bailiff. The mother and daughter do not feel much mental perturbation about the difficulties that threaten them. For the last five years have they not heard Mr. Denison dis course in the same melancholy strain? Constant jeremiads lose their effect ; they thought little of the growling of the storm. But Harold Denison, as he sat puzzling his head in his room over that complication of figures, knew that things had pretty well reached their climax, and that it would be hard to predicate even how many months he should still remain Denison of Glinn. OJIAPTER III. In the very modern but extremely com fortable dining room of Mannersley, the l'earmnns, ' father and son, are sitting, The old man has turned seventy, and can hardly be said to look as if his money-grubbing career had agreed with him. He 'is shrunk and worn, with a stoop in his shoulders. Altogether, he wears the aspect of a man whose con stitution is beginning to break up. Wealth is not amassed without much wear and tear of mind and constitution, and your great turf speculators seldom attain & patriarchal age. He draws his cl.nir closer to the blazing grate. "I think I've got a bit of a cold, Sam," he remarked. "Better me than Coriander, though, isn't it?" "Well, father, I am sorry for you ; but I don't suppose it will be much harm in your case." "How did he go this morning?" "Well, I wasn't there; but Stephen tells me be did a good steady gallop. If lie keeps right, he'll about win the 'Two Thousand.'" , , "Yes," chuckled the old man. "I've been racing now getting on fifty years, and I don't think I ever saw my way into a much better thing than this looks like. We've got on, too, at a very pretty price, take it all around. It will be a hottish Monday for some of them." "I hope so; but there's one or two things I want to talk to you about. There's young Sheffington ; he's a crack brained young fool, and I've got him down in my book to the tune of a loser of twelve hundred if Coriander wins. Now, you have done business with him is he good for that amount?" "Yes, Sam yes. We'll get that from him in time; but I doubt there'll be a bit of waiting for it. Don't take long odds from him again. What else?" - "Well, Flashington stands to lose a thousand to us. He doesn't bear the character of a very good pay." "He's the biggest thief in England; but he'll pay me, though he don't every body." , "And why you, In particular?" inquired hjs son. "Because he made a mistake about his name in early life, Sam; and he is quite aware that I know it, and could rnke up evidence enough against him, if he irri tated me, to make things, to say the least of it, very unpleasant, as far as he is concerned." "Good! Then, with a little pressure, that'll be good money, if It's won, eh?" "Just so," nodded the fathe. "Now, we'll come to something else. Just listen to this. I've pretty well come to the conclusion that I had better get married." . t "I don't see any reason you should not ; on tihe contrary, I should like to see It Not going to make a fool of your self, I suppose?" and the old man look ed keenly at his son. ."Tell you more about It when It comes off; but certainly not, I think, In the de sign. We've made a good bit of money between us. I'm not going to say It isn't most of it yours; still, since I have been having a share In the concern, I've put some together myself. Now. what I want In marriage is connection, more than money." , "Yes yes, I think you are right; but there will be' difficulties difficulties, I fear." , "Of course there will, to a certain ex tent; there always is about getting any thing worth having in this world: but money is a key to most things nowadays. Tottering coronets must be propped by wealthy alliances. The parson or doctor marries the rich tallow chandler's widow. Marriage is a social contract in these times. A hundred thousand pounds from Manchester stands out for strawberry leaves in the coronet, while a fifth of the money from Birmingham is quite content to put up with an Honorable. Well, to return to what I was saying, you agree with me that I must look out more for connection than money, don't you?" "Yes, I think that's best; but it would do no harm if you could see your way into a trifle of property besides." "Exactly. I was at the Xminster ball last night, and the prettiest girl in the room was the daughter of old Denison of Glinn. I got introduced to her; danced with her, and did quite as well as anyone could expect to do in a first dance Just made her acquaintance, in fact. Now that's the lady I've marked down as my intended." "Yes," said the old man musingly, "that might do if we could bring it about 5 but he's a proud man, the father very." "We'll come to that presently. Just listen while I reckon up all the advan tages. First of all, I have taken a fancy to the girl. She's a real beauty, every inch of her. In the next place, Bhe's an only child. Consequently, it's only fair to suppose that Glinn and what's loft yrt it will evpntiifclly fn 11 to ber. We have got most of the old property now; and that would insure the whole thing being in our hands at last. "Yours, Sam, yours. It is not likely I'd last to see it. Harold Denison is full twenty years younger than I am, and his wife is younger again ; they'll see me out, boy." "Well, father, it's no use denying it may be so. Still, in days to come, I should be Pearman of Glinn ; and with a wife of their own class, it would be hard if I didn't take my place in the county." "Yes, you should manage it, though I have failed ; but you've had advantages I hadn't, Sam. You've a pull, you see, hi education ; I hadn't ' much. The art of making money I taught myself, and it didn't leave time for learning a deal of anything else. You start with a tidy lot made; and I think I have shown you enough to insure your not making ducks and drakes of it." "No, I don't think I shall hurt. I can take care of myself pretty well at most games on the board. I never dabble in anything I don't understand. Don't you make yourself uneasy about me, gov ernor. fow, Denison is a poor man, is he not?" "Yes ; he has well on to' three thou- saud a year nominal rental left still; but there's more than one mortgage on the property, let alone other charges." "Haven't you some money on the prop erty yourself.' "Ten thousand, Sam, and I'm first mortgagee; but I know there's a second mortgage of the same amount, and there may be more for all I know." "Well, these, you see, are all points in my favor. We could make this first mort gage quite easv for him, at all events." "It's a deal of money ten thousand pounds ; but of course it would be differ ent if the whole property looked like coming to you at last." "Well, then, we must take that sec ond mortgage also into our own haads, and let it stand at very easy interest. It will be only virtually allowing Denison so much ,a year during his lifetime, and in the long run will fall principally upon me. "Yes ; but I don't follow the meaning of all this, am. "That's just what I am about to ex plain to you. My chances of meeting Miss Denison are so extrpmely few, that it is quite impossible I can arrive at asking for her hand In that way. My only chance is your proposing it to her father, and asking him to accord me per mission to try if I can win his daugh ter's hand. Mind, that is the way you must put it ; but don't forget that you will have to bring your pecuniary hold over him into play also only, do it gently." "You may trust me ; I have pulled Uhe strings in so many ways in my time, that I've learnt to be pretty cute about doing it with a delicate touch. I'll help you all I can when I've made my mind quite up about it." (To be continued.! How to Grow Peanuts, rennuts only thrive In a wnrm cll ninte. The plant requires a limey, sandy loam, ami yields from two "bush els of pods planted an ncre to ns much us 40 or 50 bushels of pods nnd two tons of straw. ' The seed Is planted about one Inch deep In rows from 23 to 3(5 Inches apart, und from 12 to 10 Inches in the row. Bombarded, "Ah, my man," said the good old pat son, "you should always be' 'looking up.'" "Not me, parson," roRiwnded the farmer with much emphasis. "Not witb all thee here ehnps In airships and bal loons throwing over saud and cigar stubs." PlauKlble. "The trouble with this tooth," sola the dentist, probing It with a long slen der instrument, "Is that the nerve Is dying." "It seems to me, doctor," groaned the victim, "you ought to trent the diug with a littl" more respect" SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY Some of the moon's mountains are 3U.000 feet high. The Dutch throne has forty-one pos- smie claimants. Turkey exports goods to the value of about 1100,000,000 a year. Princess Albert of Belgium Is said to be the happiest wife in the courts of Europe. There are more doctors per capita in New York city than anywhere else In this country. "Trial Marriages" were discussed at th recent congress of Russian wom en at St Petersburg. It Is only within the last ten year that tropical fruits like bananas and pineapples have had large sale In Ger many. The foreign commerce of this coun try fell off about $500,000,000 last year. The greatest decline was noticed at the Atlantic ports. , Mrs. Keith Spalding, of Chicago, has given $18,000 and forty acres of land to be used In establishing a tuber culosis sanatorium at Napervllle, 111. The Australians eat an average of 120 pounds of sugar each year, the United States 89 pounds, Germany 80 pounds, France 32 pounds and Great Britain 81 pounds, but In the latter country the ratio Is going up. Owing to recent raids upon "blind tigers" by the police authorities, the city of Savannnh, Ga., is the possessor of about 20,000 gallons of whisky, be sides much beer, wine, champagne, etc. It can neither bo sold nor given away. . Figures Issued by Manchester Uni versity point to the fact that women graduates rarely marry. Out of 5G0 women who have taken degrees only sixty-four have married. Twelve of these married graduates of the same university. Mrs. Russell Sage Is said to pay the heaviest tax of any person in. the city of, New York. The tax books show that twenty New York women are as sessed for upward of $17,000,000, and more than a score of others are re quired to pay for $200,000 to $100, 000. Mrs. W. J. Beggs, now of Seattle, Is said to have produced the only rose absolutely without thorns. She was for several years a neighbor of Luther Burbank In California, where she studied his methods. The bloom of this thornless rose Is reported to be of unusual beauty. The Grand Duchess Serges of Rus sia Is to found an establishment In Moscow which is to supply district nurses for the poor. The grand duchess, whose husband wns killed by the terrorists, Is to live In one of the buildings devoted to the work, nnd other titled men nnd women will also dwell near her and help in the work. A bill has been prepared by Charles Francis Adams and Introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature to prpvlde that there shall be no alteration or change In the name of any public way, street, place or square, or of any pub lic park, where the name altered or changed has been In use for twenty-five years, without the consent of the High way Commission of the State. At a hearing on the measure representatives of many patriotic societies favored It. The women of Paris have discovered a new method of stimulation In the tea cigarette. To make one about as much tea Is required ns would ninke two strong oups of tea. As many Paris women are reported to be smoking on an average ten a day. It Is ensy to see why the doctors should be taking meas ures to -nip the faHhlon In the bud. They describe It ns a horribly ensy method of stimulation nnd sure to un dermine the strongest constitution In a few months. Cunton, China, at present Is full of robbers. It Is snld that in some pnrts the people are really nfrnld to go to rest at night, inasmuch as It Is certnln that thieves will enter nnd rob the place. Accordingly some one sits up, while others sleep. The following Is a queer criticism of China's policy by a correspondent: "We have a police force, whose work consists mostly In sleeping at post or helping the nearby shopkeeper to chop wood or a neigh boring blacksmith to blow his fire." The legal adage de minimis non curat lex was apparently reversed In the Glamorgan County Court, held at Cardiff, Wnles, recently, when a work- runii seriously sued his employers for compensation for Injuries sustained whllo putting In a shop front, the in juries being the result of a flea bite. The claimant's solicitor asked for an n.llfiiintwiinnf an Via anlrl Til a nllonf mns ' 111. The Judge grnuted ' the adjourn ment, but wns Informed Immediately that the claimant had been seen In the neighborhood of the court. Thereupon the Judge called the case again and gave Judgment for the defendants on the ground that the man might have been carrying the flea for half an hour before he went to work. iSil To Broil Meat Dry. Once more we have an Invention designed for those who pay more than passing attention to their meals and acceptable to all who care for food well cook ed. This time It is woman in California who has come to the rescue of gourmets by supplying them with 8 utensil that will broil meat dry. Only those who have partaken ol steaks dripping with grease can appreciate the value of this device. BROOKS. The apparatus Is a circular frame with a handle and Inside the frame is a net work of metal rings teel or silver. The meat Is placed on this utensil and then laid In the skillet close to the bottom. The butter cooks up through the rings and the meat Is done with, out being immersed in grense. Good Lemon Pie, One cup of sugar, 1 tnblespoon ot sifted flour. 1 nf butter tbo jiitoe find grated rind of 1 lemon, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 cup of milk.' Bake In one crust until when knife inserted In center of pie can be drawn out without having milk cling to It. Frost with the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, to which has been added three teaspoons of granulated sugar. After placing on pie, sprinkle lightly with sugar; place in oven and leave door slightly ajar. Since making frosting by this method I have always had, good suc cess. It never grows tough nor draws .way from edge of pie. Apple Cnalard. 1 Take half a dozen tart, mellow ap ples, pare and quarter them and take out the cores. Put them In a pan with a teacup of water; set them on a slow fire. When they begin to grow soft turn them into a pudding dish and sprinkle sugar on them. Beat eight eggs with rolled brown sugar, mix them with three pints of milk, grate In half a nutmeg and turn the whole over the apples. Bake the custard bctweeq twenty and thirty minutes. nice Pudding; Without Two quarts of milk, two-thirds of a cupful of rice, a cupful of sugar, a piece of butter ns large as a walnut, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, a little nut meg and a pinch of salt. Put into a deep pudding dish well buttered and set into a moderate oven. Stir it once or twice until It begins to ck. Let it remain in the oven about two hours (until it Is the consistency of cream). "Sat cold. Plain Chowder. Take one quart of clams and cut oft heads, fry thin slices of nice fat salt pork a little brown (cut up In bits whllo frying), tnke the water from the steamed clams nnd add more to make one quart, put In a kettle, slice In one good-sized onion, and let boll until ten der; then put in one quart milk, salt and pepper to timte, nnd boll nud serve nt once. A Delirious Salad. Cook lnrge oysters in their own Julc till the edges curl; drain und chill; cut each oyster In two, without cutting Into the soft part ; make an equal quan tity of diced celery nnd put on Ice to crisp; mix the two, lay on white let tuce leaves, nnd add n large spoonful of stiff mn.voniinl.se to each cup-shuped lenf filled with the mixture. Apple Coucounut Pie. Pare, slice, stew nnd sweeten ripe, Juicy apples; flavor with lemon peel; ninsh, smooth, fill crust nnd bake until Just done; strew over the top desic cated coconniit, then spread with a ' thick meringue, put In oven until mer ingue Is well set. Meringue can be left out and the eoconnut strewn on top of the apple, slightly browned In oven. Klnnea, Beat the whites of three eggs stiff on a platter, fold In one nnd one-fourth cupfuls of grniniluted sugar, one table spoonful of corn starch, one-fourth pound of eoconnut and flavoring. Drop on unbuffered tins, bake ifbout fifteen minutes nnd let cool before removing from tins. Cleaning; llnttlca. Bottles limy be denned by tearing liowspoper Into small bits, half flllln the bottles with them, and then pouring lu not, soapy wnter In which a piece of washing soda has been dissolved. Let the bottles stand an hour, then shake rell, empty, rinse and drain. Potato Fritter. Six medium-sized potatoes. Boll and mash well and bent up with a half cup of milk. Stir In one beaten egg and enough flour to make a stiff batter. Fry as pancakes, cooking thoroughly oq account of the flour. 1
