Ross Gazette 14th May 1914 - Page 8
Ross Gazette 14th May 1914 - Page 8
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| Date | 14/05/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 14th May 1914 |
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The time would come , BY MADAME ALBANESI Author of " Busannah and One Other , " The Young Man from the Country , " " The Heart " " Capricious Caroline , " & c . ☐ Glad PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS : clinging to all those things which had part and parcel of her old life . She was so and very soon , when she would have to leave . her old home and go south to join John . Just because he was so kind , and had impressed on her his determination to protect her in every possible way , so Nesta shrank a little from the future . She knew that , his life must be a hard one ; many a time she had heard Mrs. Leith deplore the fact that her " boy " was kept shut up in an office working for such a hard taskmaster . The money he earned had always been so THE ROSS GAZETTE - THURSDAY , MAY 14 , 1914 . The other man was clever enough to or bad , only she reit , that it was somerning mood . very big , great change and once again the recognise that he must tune himself in accord humiliating realisation of her position rushed with John's character , and he eat late into upon her . the night talking and gradually impressing " Oh ! " she said to herself , half brokenly , apon his visitor the fact that the whole out- " It wasn't fair . it wasn't right - he should look of his life had changed . Jerome Arnold have been given a chance . " made no suggestion as to what the young man She felt suddenly hot with shame . It should do in the immediate future . He in- seemed to her so cruel that this young man ended to work John more subtly , but he should start out with the weight of a helpless talked about the great things that a rich man creature on his shoulders . The need of hay might accomplish and laughed to himself ing someone in whom she could confide de more than once he saw how eagerly John cided her to tell her whole story to Dr. Cuth - caught at this view of his case . To his sugges bert the next time they met . Miriam was no tion that he should be present at the inter use in such a trouble as this . The old servant view with the lawyers John ascented gladly . SOU BY SYLVIA neok - opening . If you prefer bit higher , you can easily cut it to the height you wish , and make an opening in the front down to the waist , which is drawn in by means of ribbon . As there are but two seams to this " nightie both narrow run - and - fell ones , and a hem at the lower edge - which should be quite two inches wide the making is so simple as to need na further remarks . The nightdress will require about 3 yards of 36 - inch cute somewhat to waste . 45 - inch nainsook or madapolam , as the usual Long , & mave come to you because you took notice of me , you honoured me i DRESSMAKING AT HOME . and lipped on over mead through & w your friendship , when I was nothing and no one . I shall never be able to tell you what you did for me , how you helped me ! They say that I am very rich no one of the richest men in England ! It it sounds like A Matron's Afternoon Blouse . fairy story , but I want you to know that my A hint has been conveyed to me that a design fortune and my money and my position do not for a blouse of more matronly type than those give me half the pleasure which you gave me when you let me come here and know you . I which have been illustrated in this article of be very much welcomed by the was so lonely - I wanted friends badly so late would badly . I shall never , never forget , never be readers who are no longer in their first youth . No. 1,784 I hope will suit this section of my able to tell you how grateful I am to you . " trembling . You hurt me , " she " Please , don't , " said Rachel her lips were correspondents , and , as it is quite a new and too , & design which lends itself to various modi Nothing ! " She smiled with an effort . " Per - fications , and if you do not care for the mitred haps you don't realise that you are the sort tab - like revers which are a feature of the pat of man whom most women would be glad to temn you can omit them , or alter the shape of have for a friend ; but now sit down and tell them in various ways , or you can make the she considered that it was a very wise move courage , and would help him to face a trying you speak like this . After all , what did I do their needs are sacrificed to smartness , that Our paper patterns are specially out for us from that Nesta should have married ; but Dr. Cuthbert would understand more than the practical side , and the girl felt that she must have someone to whom she could speak freely , and who could advise and comfort her . " I will wait just a few days longer , " she said to herself . " When Dr. Cuthbert comes back from Scotland ; then - then I will tell him all and ask him to help me to do what is right - right for both of us . " for Rachel . CHAPTER IX . The pleasure of the evening had been spoilt When the name of John Leith had been brought , and Arnold had hurried out to the other man , Rachel had got up , and with a sigh , she had moved restlessly about the room . She hated the idea of this con- spiracy against Leith ; the young man's loyal devotion to herself , his belief in her , his gratitude , had awakened in Rachel a real feeling of affection for him . He 60 honest , 60 was straightforward , clean , as it were , and so enthusiastic about those things which , apart from her love for Jerome , signified the meaning of life for Rachel . Then , again , the knowledge that her husband had such terrible need for money swept away from her the superficial happiness which had come to her at being with him again . The future looked very dark to Rachel in moment like this . She , too , was honest . In the old days it had been her fearlessness and proud honesty which had won for her her father's admiration . How low she had sunk How strange that love could drag a woman so low ! me everything . " " " I don't think I can sit still , " John an- and a difficult experience . When at last he was shown into the com- fortable little room which had been arranged for him , John went to bed but not to sleep . He was haunted all the time by the recollec tion that his father had lived and died with- out him ; that he had been brought up believ - swered , with a faint smile . " I - I am so ing that both his parents had died when he nervous , and it all seems so unreal . As yet I had been an infant ; that his childhood had don't know very much about myself , " he said . been blighted by mystery . He had no resent He was moving to and fro , pausing an instant ment in his thoughts for Reuben Leith or for by the fireplace , then walking to the window the old woman who had just gone to the and back again . " I shan't know why things grave , and yet there was resentment in his have been as they have been until I have gone heart , that feeling which any man must through some letters which my father has naturally entertain when he realises that he left . It seems that my name is not Leith - my has been an outcast creature denied his right- father was John Lessingham , a very rich man , ful place . He had to be told the story of his about whom the papers have been writing a youth , and be given the explanation of why good deal lately . " his father had never seen him , and somehow he dreaded hearing this story . " John Lessingham ! " repeated Rachel , a if she heard the name for the first time . " Is Towards the dawn he fell asleep , actually this really so ? And you are now John Les worn out with thinking , and it was very singham ? Oh , how wonderful - how wonder- nearly nine o'clock before he was roused by Oh , I congratulate you ! " Mr. Arnold's valet coming into the room . This was John's first actual experience of luxury ; the attention of servant , the com- fort , and elegance of his surroundings , the de- light of perfectly appointed bathroom all appealed to him , and these material things money , but it is a greater thing to do good went far to impress on him that his life was really changed . He was ready with an apology for his Inte appearance ; but Mr. Arnold was later than he , and laughingly declared that he never got IP any earlier than he need . They had a cosy breakfast , and about eleven o'clock started for the interview in Lincoln's Inn Fields . She had seated herself moodily , and was resting back in the chair with half - closed eyes when Jerome re - entered the room . His face was white , but his eyes were full of triumph . " It has come at last , " he said " at last . I can hardly believe it ! " He poured himself out a glass of champagne , and drank it at a gulp . Then he sat down opposite Rachel and looked at her . " He is like a man in a dream , " he said . " The thing has come so suddenly . " Then he laughed . " But he is always the same fool ! What do you think he has just said ? That he doesn't care that " - he snapped his fingers " for the money ; all he would have cared about would have been to have known his father . Sentimental ass ! " " Don't ! " said Rachel , sharply . She sat forward with a jerk . " Don't sneer , Jerome ; if there are some things that you don't un- sible to me . " It was a relief that morning that nothing was said in this interview about his childhood . The conversation turned wholly on money . The young man sat very still as he listened in bewildered fashion to a detailed account of his possessions . She had sat down , and she got up now and stretched out her hand to him as she spoke . John took it and held it for an instant , and then he said , simply : " Wait . It is a great thing to have lots of with that money . I've got to do good with this money , Mins Cohen . I've got to help so many people ! I've never thought about being rich - I only wanted to work and earn a little more . I hope I'm not going to make a fool of myself now that I have so much money . " " You will never do that , " said Rachel Cohen , softly- " you are not made of the stuff that does foolish or wrong things . " Once again she thanked him for coming to her . I shall always remember this , she said " always " Indeed , his sincerity , his faith in her , brought the tears to her eyes . The papers ( of which the " I want you to be my friend , " John an- letter had spoken ) were handed to him , to - swered her to help me as you have been There there is so much in gether with a box on which was written in helping me . clear bold characters , " To be given to my which you can help me , " he said , and then he son John when I am dead . " paused an instant ; the thought of Nesta had been with him so closely all the morning Jerome Arnold looked at him with his ready aneer hovering for an instant on his lips . " I - I may ask you to help me with someone " He is thinking far more of these things , " he else , " he was just about to say , when the said to himself , " than of all the investments . door opened and a man entered . man like this What an irony it is that a should get all this money ! " When finally they left the solicitor's office and went down into the street Jerome hailed & cab . JOHN LEITH , who , as John Lessingham , is heir small , and she had nothing to take with her derstand , they are - they are very comprehen- and have a bit of lunch . I'll take you to ope to great wealth . JEROME ARNOLD , a needy adventurer , secretly married to RACHEL COHEN , daughter of Morris Cohen , a wealthy Jew . RESTA GILMORE , a beautiful girl who has lost her sight . SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS : John Leith , a young man who has been brought up in the country , comes up to London on the death of his uncle . He enters the employ of Morris Cohen , a wealthy Jew , and is surprised ons day to receive an invitation to dine at his employer's house . Leith is heir to great wealth , but he is unaware of his good fortune . Jerome Arnold , a needy adventurer , knows all the eir- oumstances , and he and Rachel Cohen , to whom he is secretly married , conspires to get hold of John's riches . Rachel's charm of manner capti- vates the young man from the country . his John receives an urgent message from aunt . She is on her deathbed , and is being at- tended by Nesta Gilmore , B beautiful young girl . who has the misfortune to be both blind and friendless . The aunt works on John's sym- pathies , and suggests that he should marry Nesta , so as to give her a protector . As his aunt dies John promises that he will not fail her . John and Nesta fe married quietly in the village church , and after the ceremony he re- turns to London , leaving Nesta in the care of a woman . John approaches his employer for a rise of wages , and is immediately dismissed . Morris Cohen tells his daughter that she must not raise a finger to assist John Leith . Rachel writes John a letter of sympathy , and at the same time sends word to Jerome that it is now time to move . Arnold promptly offers John a post as private secretary to himself . He pretends that he is en- gaged on a very important political book , but the work is only & pretence . " John receives letter from a firm of solicitors informing him that he is the son of John Lessingham , the mil- lionaire , who has just died . He takes the letter to Arnold , who congratulates him on his good fortune . · CHAPTER VIII . was Up in that little north - country village the girl whom John Leith had married struggling back to health and strength almost against her will . For several days she had lain like one half - asleep in that spell of quietness and seeming unconsciousness which really veiled a very tumult of miserable and humiliating sensations . Now and again , it is true , the burden of these uncomfortable thoughts would be lifted a little as Nesta would remember the charm of the man to whom she now belonged in marriage . She had grown to know John so well by de- scription . In the long year which had just passed , when she and old Mrs. Leith had been thrown together , entirely dependent upon one another for sympathy and companionship , it seemed to Nesta as if their only subject of conversation had been John . Now and again the girl had conceived a strange idea . She had imagined that there was some little hesitation in her old friend's manner when John's boyhood had been dis- cussed . In truth , Nesta Gilmore had never really been told very much about John's father or mother ; all she knew was that when he had been a little boy - a mere child - he had passed into Mrs. Leith's care , and that he had been loved just as if he had been the real child of the dead woman . except what would be forthcoming from the sale of the house and ground . to see her in The only person who came these days was the doctor who had attended her at the time of her accident , and who was an old friend . He never ceased trying to im- press upon the girl that there would be s great chance for her if she would consent to undergo a certain drastic treatment and put herself into the hands of a leading oculist in London . It was through this friend , Dr. Cuthbert , that Nesta saw her chance of sell- ing her property . The farmer who had been in treaty for it had changed his mind . As a matter of fact , s certain relative had died and had left him some land in a Midland county , therefore he no longer wanted the Gilmore farm ; but Dr. Cuthbert happened to know of someone who did want it , and as he sat in Nesta's darkened room he advised the girl to let him take up the matter and see the sale through . he said . " You've got to be uprooted , " " You are much too clever to be boxed up here all your life ; and you're young too , child , " the old man added , half - tenderly . " I want to see you cut yourself adrift from all old associations . You have gone through a very hard time , Nesta , and now you want a little life - you want to see the world . " See ! " repeated Nesta , half - bitterly . But he patted her hand , and said the words again . " Yes , ' see . ' I have been in commu- nication with Pinsent , the oculist , and he is already very interested in your case . You must go south , and you must go under his care as quickly as it can be managed . " Nesta drew her hand away from her old friend's clasp . She felt wretched ; till she had talked the matter over with John she did not like to speak of her marriage , and yet she felt that she ought to let Dr. Cuthbert know that her future no longer belonged to herself , but that she was the wife of John Leith . After he had gone away that day she got up and sat by the fire . A curious yearning pos sessed her to send for John ; already he had inspired her with a sense of strength . It was cruel that they should have been thrust into one another's life in this abrupt fashion , for it might have been possible for them to have grown to know and to care . for one another so naturally had things been arranged differently ; While she sat there a telegram was brought her by the old servant , who had not yet out- grown her fear and nervousness at the sight of a telegraphic message . arrival of this one with a note of anxiety in her voice . She announced the " Give it to me , " said Nesta , and then she " Open it , Miriam , " she said , remembered . in a low voice , " and let me know what it says . " There were moments when her blindness , her helplessness , pressed upon Nesta in a way she could hardly bear . Miriam put on her spectacles and opened the envelope deliberately . " It is from Master Leith , " she said . She spelt it out slowly . " I am sending you this to tell you that something has happened to change my whole life . I don't think I shall be able to see you for a little while , will write fully as soon as I can . ' There now , " said old Miriam , " something has happened . Eh ! but I knew he'd get along , he is made to get on ! That's news that ought to cheer you ; least- somebody in the world thinking , about you . ways , it is something to feel that you've got Now you'll brisk up and get well , won't you , my dear ! I'll just go and get you a cup of tes ; and I'll thank you to eat something with " Oh ! it is a woman's privilege to be senti- mental , " answered Jerome , lightly ; " but I'm not going to quarrel with him whatever he is ; it is enough for me that he is Lessingham's son . Why , he'll have an income of something like seventy thousand a year - seventy thou sand a year ! Of course , it is just the way of life that all this money should go to a fool ! " He drank some more champagne , and then he got up . " I'm sorry , darling , " he said , " but I think you'll have to go now . I sent him back to get his traps , and he is coming to stay with me to - night . He can't be let loose , you know , anybody might get hold of him ; be- He is no end grate- sides , he wanted to come . ful to me . " Arnold walked up and down restlessly . " By Jove ! " he said , I shall feel another man when I've got some of this money in my hands . " Rachel stood by the table . She looked very beautiful at this moment . Her lips were trembling , but in her eyes there was a proud , hurt look . S " I want you to do me a favour , " she said . " What sort of favour ? " asked Arnold , a little sullenly . " Jerome , the woman said , " I - I want you to make a change in things . First of all , let us be honest ; let us tell the truth to my fathér ; let us be known as husband and wife . I don't suppose it is possible for you to realise what what all this secrecy has meant to me . I hate the thought of our having to use John Leith to get the position we want ; but I suppose there is no other way . Still , I want you to promise me that you will deal fairly with this boy . It seems so mean , " Rachel added , in a low voice , " to - to get hold of him by tricks , as we have done . " " Oh ! you can rely upon me , " said Jerome , lightly . He was in no mood for this kind of senti- mental talk ; all he wanted to do was to get Rachel out of the house before John Leith came back . To do this he had to play a part , so he went across the room to her and took her in his arms . " I wonder if you really do love me , " he said , " or if you are beginning to get tired ? " She answered him with her soul in her eyes and in her voice . " You know that I love you ; you know that I shall never tire ; you know that you are all the world to me . Oh ! Jerome , never doubt my love ! " She buried her face , and he held her very tightly to him , and as he kissed her hair he smiled . It was so easy to work her with just a few words of passion and tenderness . He pering all sorts of endearments in her ears , made good use of the next few minutes , whis- kissing her , and making her feel that she was which he cared - the only one creature who indeed the one thing in the world about could bring happiness to him . He took her out himself and put her into a cab , and then he gave a great sigh of relief when she had left him , and he went back and waited impatiently for Leith to come . He had been prepared for the young man to turn to him and ask his help , but matters pro- hoped for . mised to work out even better than he had . It was someone whom John had not seen before a short , thick - set man , with a hand- His eyes some , pronouncedly Jewish face .. were dark and full of passion . He looked at John with a sharp , searching glance . ( To be continued . ) PATTERN No. 1,784 . blouse fasten in the front and leave out the vest , whilst the sleeves can easily be made tight - fit- ting if you prefer these to the modified bishop affairs shown in the sketch . All these details can be arranged without interfering with the shape of the pattern . The blouse itself can be made either of silk , Batin , or the same material as the skirt , the vest being carried out in chiné ribbon , the kind which is used for millinery purposes , and is quite inexpensive , as this comes easier and cheaper than silk . In the diagrams which accompany this I have shown you in No. I - how to place the pattern on 42 - inch or 44 - inch material , as nearly all satins , and many makes of silks , now come in the wide width , and of this you will require 13 yard . No. II . shows the collar and cuffs placed on of a yard of narrow - width millinery velvet , whilst No. III . depicts the vest placed on 1 yard of din . or 6in . ribbon , or a yard of very wide ribbon velvet , folded in half lengthways . Having placed your pattern on the material , " Now , " he said , " I think we ought to go of my clubs . You'll have to belong to some clubs , you know , Lessingham . I'll stand social sponsor for you . " John thanked him in the subdued tone Horton's BENEDICT PILLS mark round very carefully and cut out , allow which characterised him in this moment , but as they got into the cab he said : " I should just like to take these things back to your rooms , and then I want to go on and see Miss Cohen . I feel , " he added , with a alight colour in his cheeks , " that I owe it to her to tell her what has happened to me . She has been so good to me . ' This suggestion met with Mr. Arnold's ready approval . " Oh ! all right , " he said . " I'll tell you what you'd better drop me at the club , then you can come back after you have seen Miss Cohen . I don't know if you will find her in at this time , but you can chance it . Anyhow " —he laughed— “ if you should meet old Cohen on the doorstep you have only to tell him who you are now , and he will kneel down and lick your boots . " John smiled only faintly . He was thinking of something else . The club to which they drove happened to be opposite to a post - office , and as John realised this he suddenly got out of the cab . " Wait for me , " he said to the driver , and then he gave a nod and a smile to Jerome Arnold . I - I've got to send a telegram , " he said ; " it is most important . I'll come back and meet you at lunch time . " Arnold stood a moment on the steps of his club and bit his lip . It was a little fact this great im- sending of a telegram , but it had portance to him , for it proved indubitably that there were some things in the young man's life about which he did not know , and it was so imperative that no other influence . should exist until things had been worked entirely as he wished them . Who was this person to whom Lessingham was telegraphing ? " I've got to find that out , " he said to him- self , between his teeth . " Yes , I must find it out before this day is over ! " He turned and went into the club with a frown on his face . The chance that had come in his way , was almost too good . Like all gamblers , Jerome Arnold was superstitious . Just because things were going so smoothly and so rapidly , he told himself , he must be prepared for something to happen . Possibly the solicitors might be officially interested in young Lessingham , or perhaps some one of his many enemies might try to do him a bad turn with John . These were things Arnold could meet and manipulate , but he dreaded some influence about which he knew nothing , and he sat waiting for John to come back to him with a feeling that was very like uneasiness . ence . Rachel Cohen was sharply touched by the knowledge that John had thought of her even in the very first moment of his changed exist- He found her at home ; she was sitting crouched over the fire , looking and feeling ill . When John was announced she started to her feet , and her pale face filled with colour . Just for an instant the young man paused , then he came forward with both his hands outstretched . " I have something very great to tell you , " he said . " I did not want you to hear it from anyone else . I felt I must come and Free to Ladies . In a few days correct all irregularities and emove all obstructions ; also oure Anemis , and ause no injury to the married or single are avaluable . From most chemists , or by post , ynder cover , 1/1 or 2/9 , from Horton & Co. , Uhemists ( Chief Dispenser from the late Birmingham Lying - in Hospital ) , Dept. 10 , Aston Manor , Birmingham . Bold over 50 years . All Ladies should send penny stamp for a free sample of Pills , also Improved Sanitary Towel , and in- teresting booklet post free . WISE AND OTHERWISE Sometimes a kiss is only a foretaste of lip- service . The earth being a ball , we must expect to find some bounce in the world . The man who has no secrets from his wife has either no secrets or no wife . " Can you tell me what a smile is ? " " Yes , sir ; it's the whisper of a laugh . " If you want to engrave your name on a girl's heart try what a diamond will do . Truth , it is said , lives at the bottom of a well . That's why many people let well alone . Some men who boast that they are their own bosses " find , after marriage , that they haven't a clear title . An egotist is a man who thinks that if he had not been born people would have wanted to know why . He said her hair was dyed , and when she indignantly exclaimed , " Tis false ! " he said he presumed so . The man who married for the fourth time the other day evidently believed in letting bygones be bygones . When you see a young woman feel her back hair , it is a sign she wants to make sure she has left nothing at home . There is nothing unhealthy about kissing , after all , said the doctor - except that it some- times causes heart trouble . Lecturer : " I am not talking of its several parts , but of Oxford as a whole , and , gentle- men , what a whole Oxford is . " Wife : " John ! John ! The ship's going down ! " John ( sick unto , indifference ) : " Well , never mind ; it isn't ours . " Diagram L. Selvedger Cut Edges 1 обро Sleeve Cages Cuff Selvedg Selvedges of Stilton Yest Fold Cut Edge Diagram II Selvedges Diagram III HOW TO OBTAIN PATTERNS . designs expressly prepared for this column , and the cost of each complete pattern is 6id , post free Address all letters , enclosing stamps for patterns to " Sylvia , " Whitefriars House , Carmelite street , London , E.C. Be sure and mention the number of the pattern required when order ing . Patterns will be despatched within thre days of the application being received . The lightest Bread , Cakes , Pastry , Sc . , BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER WORDS OF WISDOM . He that does what he can does what he ought , There is not a moment without some duty . -CICERO . The best things in life do not come to us ready - made . " The older I am , " said Habit , the longer I shall live . " To - day's best is worth more to - day than to morrow's better . Don't worry . Do the best you can , and let hope conquer care . The coward trusts in Fate , the wise man trusts in Providence . Of all work that produces results , nine- tenths must be drudgery . A man whose ideals are beneath him will soon be beneath his ideals . To have what we want is riches , but to be able to do without is power . There is nothing more troublesome to & good mind than to do nothing . Much dearer be the things that come through hard distress . - SPENSER . A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life .. Always remember that there is no possible making up of lost time . - MARY LYON . We cannot all be as wise Solomon , but we can all stop pretending that we are . A man never realises how little he knows till his smallest boy begins to ask questions . He who would have friends without per- forming the office of a friend is not honest . Sound common sense without eloquence is better than folly with a fine flow of language . What modern nations need at this time is not a new Gospel , but the practice of the old one . Sometimes a man's failures do more good to the world and his own cause than his best successes . The darkest shadows of life are those which a man makes himself when he stands in his own light . Virtue and morality may be said to be the Without great props of human happiness . them the nation cannot survive . True courage is not compatible with herv- ousness ; and heroism does not mean the ab- sence of fear but the conquest of it . Smiles are as indispensable to , true success As long in life as money , mind , and might . as a man can smile he is not beaten , Ponder the path of thy feet , and let all thy Turn not to the right ways be established . DIAGRAMS FOR PATTERN No. 1,784 . 17g ample turnings , and , when this is all done , face the tab , turning in the two edges to face , tack together , and stitch at the edge , after- wards pressing well . Then make the tucks on each side , which are of the scraped order . Make hand or the left ; remove thy foot from evil . and line the vest , turn in and stitch the edges , Make the buttonholes and sew on the buttons , though if the ribbon be thin - as it usually is it will be the character of thy mind ; for the soul Such as are thy habitual thoughts , such also will be better to sew on press studs or hooks is dyed by the thoughts . - MARCUS AURELIUS . and eyes , and keep the buttons for & decorative . finish only . When the vest is done , tack it to He who wishes to secure the good of others , the turned - in edges of the front , stitch to this , has already secured his own , Unselfishness is and neaten by binding inside . Turn ing ones of the sleeve to them , atitch , then join up Now turn up sleeve edges , tack the correspond- the most charming of all characteristics . Try it . the under - arm seams , neaten , and prese Before we can bring happiness to others , we back and fasten the tabs as in the sketch , and must first be happy ourselves ; nor will happi- neaten the lower edge . Next make the collar ness abide with us unless we confer it on others . and cuffs secure in their respective positions , and finish off neatly , being careful to make the . points of the collar meet and join evenly . A Pretty Nightdress . You never know how one good act of yours may cheer and encourage others , or how terrible an influence one single wrong may have ! If we were all a little more charitable when Some of you may be preparing for the great Back - change in a woman's life , viz . , marriage , and the wise girl will make as much of her trousseau we became involved in misunderstandings , we as she can , not only because of the economy would be able to clear up the trouble twice as thus effected , but because of the happy thoughts quickly . Waiter : " That seat's reserved . " woodsman : " Then what is it doing here ? Take it away , an ' gimme another . " Two ladies asked a polite Irishman which both look younger than each other . " Sure , " said he , " you he thought the elder . It is usually warmer in Spring than it is on the other hand , in Greenland ; but , Winter is frequently colder than Brasil . The first time a girl is engaged she is afraid that other men will try to flirt with her , but the second time she is afraid they will not . " Why do those pipers keep walking up and in this moment how much there was to like in down while they are playing the bagpipes ! " Rachel almost clung to his hands ; she felt " Because it makes them harder to hit . " him . He was so strong , so straightforward , director , " leaves much to be " Your voice , " said the captious musical desired . " so simple . That's why I get so many encores , " she replied . " It is very good of you , " she said , not very steadily . " I think I can guess - that what want to go to war . " " Well ? " " But every " Every time I see grandfather's sword I " Yes , it is good in a sense , " John time I notice grandfather's wooden leg I cool answered her : and vet there is sorrow in it down . " tell you myself . " As he was driven back swiftly in the motor . cab to his boarding - house to pack up his which had come to him . He was so wholly things John eat with his eyes closed , trying to grasp the full meaning of the wonderful news unprepared for anything of this sort - in sense , he had received a great shock . The entimental aspect of the situation , at which Jerome Arnold sneered so easily , came natu- rally to the younger man . The money ap She put the telegram into Nesta's hands , pealed to him only vaguely , He was devoid you are going to tell me is good . " and the girl , when she was alone , said over and over again to herself the words which this of all those aims and hopes which signified the meaning of life to a man like Arnold . He message had brought her . would have been satisfied with very little . It When Mrs. Leith had grown daily more feeble , and the doctor in the village had warned Nests that the end could not be far it , for you didn't make a dinner large enough off , the girl had found herself longing for young Leith to come , and she had been instru- mental in persuading her friend to send for the young man . The life they had lived had been very lonely ; it would have been sad only that they were so fond of one another ; and lying on- her pillows thinking over things , as she had again and again , it seemed to Nests that she mast have been so stupid not to have realised what must have been forming in Mrs. Leith's mind . If only she had spoken out to the girl ! If only she had shared her feelings and intimated her wishes the position in which Nesta and John Leith now stood to one another might have been made more conventional . As it was , de- spite his very kind and sensible attitude , it . was impossible for Nests to put away from her the feeling that she had been thrust upon John Leith , and that even if he had wanted to refuse his aunt's wishes it would have been very difficult for him to have done so . She was very grateful to him that he left her to herself ; for , really , in those first days after he had away she had gone condition been in a letter from him . who waited on even not & woman to receive Miriam , the old her and looked after the things in the house , had known Nesta all her life , therefore she was privileged to speak her mind ; and in her opinion it was the greatest mistake in the world that the mar riage should have been kept so secret . Things ought to have been arranged differ- ently , so Miriam declared . There should have been a quiet little wedding in the village church , and all those people who knew Nesta so well should have been asked to the cere- mony - not to have a wedding feast , but just that things should have been done in the right and proper way . Nesta let the servant talk ; she did not trouble to argue with her . She knew that the woman was fond of her . and she found herself for a bird . " all these years of his proper place , the con- " Something has happened to change my whole life . " She could not tell why , but in- was the knowledge that he had been deprived stead of feeling cheered , as Miriam suggested , sense of blight oppressed her . " Something viction that something had yet to be told him has happened to change my whole life . " He did not say whether that something was good Are you run down ? You're not in health if you feel worried and worn , tired and listless . You are getting run down . Your store of energy is being sadly over- drawn . Take steps to avoid disaster . Procure a supply of Iron - Ox Tablets . They will right the disorganised and over - strained system , the bowels will become regular , the eyes bright , and the colour will return to the cheeks . Iron - Ox Tablets will bring you sound , un- disturbed sleep , soon you will experience a feeling of delightful freshness on waking , and buoyant spirits throughout the day . Iron - Ox Tablets have been sold for many years and have been tried and approved by thousands . Every day we receive letters of appreciatioa from those who have benefited by taking Iron- Ox Tablets . What they have done fr others they will do for you . Of all chemists , price 50 tablets for 1- , 250 table's 4- , or from The Iron - Ox Remedy Co. , Ltd. , 20 , Cockspur Street , London , S.W. Iron Ox Tablets to explain why he had been brought up apart from his father , given another name , left ap- parently in the charge of two poor people , He had not realised which troubled him . until this moment how much personal pride he possessed , or how keenly he could suffer through that pride . The letter which he had received had been fairly explicit . He was requested to make an early appointment to meet his father's solicitors , who briefly informed him that he was the sole inheritor of the late Mr. Less- ingham's possessions , and that these solicitors had certain papers and small things which the dead man had desired should be given direct into his son's hands . SENSATIONAL HAIR GROWTH AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS ' BALDNESS . HOW SPECIALISTS EXPLAIN IT . The remarkable case of Mr. Kirkham , who in a recently published letter tells how he grew a fine head of hair after fifteen years of baldness by using Lavona Hair Tonic , aroused great interest on the part of their Bridegroom : " Didn't I look like a fool when I was at the altar - rail ? " Best Man : " No ; but anyone could see you were not yourself . " " My husband said when I married him that my every wish would be gratified . " " And wasn't it ? " " No. I wish I wasn't married . " Little beams of moonshine , Little hugs and kisses , Make a little maiden Change her name to Mrs. Instructor ( at night - school ) : " Give a sen Pupil : " On his way home , Mr. McAdam tence with the word ' metaphysician " in it . " metaphysician . " Customer : " Do you think long hair makes of the future which will accompany the work . But , even if not required for the " bottom Calumny hurts three persons - him who drawer , " every girl or woman has a weakness - utters it , him who hears it , and him of whom or should have for dainty " lingerie . " Here , it is spoken ; but the last , happily , not always , then , in No. 1,785 is a pretty design for a night- dress for either purpose that is , one of the new or not for a long time . PATTERN No. 1,785 . specialists , all of whom admit that no or- a man look intellectual ? " Barber : " Not dinary preparation could have produced such when his wife finds it on his cont ; it makes Empire models , carried out in fine nainsook , results . Leading specialists who were con - him look foolish . " sulted , have examined Lavona Hair Tonic , and agree that its remarkable hair growing power is doubtless due to the presence in John had turned instinctively to Jerome Arnold , for he had felt absolutely unable to cope with the extraordinary emotions which this letter had roused in him . The friendli - liberal quantities of Lavona de Composee , an ness and even brotherliness with which Mr. expensive vegetable extract ; generally admit- Arnold received him made a lasting impres- sion on the younger man . When Jerome suggested he should stay with him John accepted readily . It would have been impossible for him to have been alone that night , and yet when he was sitting by himself in the cab , with the keen wind blowing in from the windows as he was car . ried along so swiftly , he almost regretted that he had promised to go back . However , he effort to change plans only gathered together his few possessions , and was driven away again almost immediately . He found Arnold in the most sympathetic made no " Mother , " said the small boy at the piano , may I quit practising for a while ! " Why ? Are your hands tired ? " " No , my hands aren't ; but my ears are . " Lucille : " Karl , I want to ask you one ted to be the greatest known stimulate of for , sonny ? " Boy : " I'm trying to keep two Village Grocer : " What are you running hair growth . These same specialists also say fellows from fightin " . " Grocer : " Who are that it is because of the presence of this in the fellows ? " Boy : " Bill Perkins and me . " gredient that chemists all over the United Kingdom are able and willing to give their personally signed guarantee of satisfaction question . " Karl : " Why , what is it , sweet- or money returned with every bottle of heart ? " Lucille : " Karl , if you had never Lavons Hair Tonic sold . This guarantee of met me would you have loved me just the satisfaction , being peculiar to Lavona Hair Tonic alone , is one of the strongest reasons Mistress : " Didn't you tell the lady I was why you should go to Albert Porter , of 13 , out ? " Maid : " Yes , m'm . " Mistress : " Did High - street , to - day and get a bottle of she seem to have any doubts about it ? " Maid : " No , m'm . , Lavona Hair Tonio , " the kind that's guaran She said she knew you , teed to grow hair or money , back . " wasn't . " same ? " and trimmed with Irish crochet lace , which is the newest mode . Never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once . Some people bear three kinds - all they have had , all they have now , and all they expect to have . THE RELIGIOUS INSTINOT . The greatest number of people are never taught anything properly or accurately . They grow up by chance , they live and die by chance , and when they die they depart this life to go they know not where , and to be they know not what . In all of them the reli- gious instinct is innate . They feel they were not born for this short life alone . They are consolous that they were not meant to die like the beasts that perish . They look up . wards to the heavens , and wonder who and what they are . The meanest intelligences among them feel as much as this ; and how much more would they not feel and do were they but properly instructed and trained , as moral agents and responsible beings , to play their parts in time so as to be sure of win- ning their reward in eternity ? -J . FORBES WINSLOW , HOLDING ON .. Nothing pays so well as patience at middle life . It pays everywhere in life , but we more frequently meet decisive crises in middle life men fail to enter into the opportunities of life than earlier . Again and again we have seen for which they were especially fitted because As you see from the sketch , the model is of they lacked the capacity to wait . Few men the simplest cut , being cut on Magyar linea . reach their climax before forty years of age , and many are past fifty when they inherit the legitimate rewards of their work and pre- paration . This is true both in business life and in professional life . If we fail to develop the grace of patience before this crucial period , we will be pretty sure to discover some time that we lost the best that life had for us by insisting that it should appear a little earlier on the horizon . wents of " An excellent Food , admirably adapted in Sir Chas . Cameron , C.B.M.B Neaves Food Uanfal Booklet " Hiate about Baby free . Sample for 2 d . postage . Mention this paper . JOSEANNEAVE & CO . , Fordingbridge Printed and Published for the Ross GAZETTE LIMITED , by GODFREY M. MORTON , at . their Offices , High - street and Church- street , Ross , in the County of Hereford . THURSDAY , MAY 14 , 1914 . Purity , Freshness , & Price . THREE GOOD QUALITIES You may rely upon : - 1 - THE ABSOLUTE PURITY . 2 - THE PERFECT FRESHNESS , 3 - THE FAIRNESS IN PRICE , of all Drugs sold by J. BENJAMIN , M.P.S. , QUALIFIED & CERTIFIED DISPENSER , Tel . 33. BROAD - STREET , ROSS . VOL . XLVIII . No. 2 SALES BY AUCTION . COOPER AND PREECE , STOOK SALESMEN AND GENERAL AUCTIONEERS . PROBATE , ESTATE , & HOTEL VALUERS [ ESTABLISHED VER 70 YEARS . ] GENERAL INSURANCE AND SHIPPING AGENT TIMBER SURVEYORS , PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS ESTATES MANAGED ; RENTS , TITHES , AND DEBT COLLECTED . Bailiffs ( by appointment ) under the Agricu tural Holdings Act . Mr. Cooper , F.A.I. , & County Valuer under the Finance Act . ' AGENTS FOR THE County Fire Office ( Limited ) , Provident Life Railway Passengers , General Assurance Co. Commercial Union , Scottish Insurance C Guardian Plate Glass , Hailstorm , do . FURNITURE WAREHOUSED . ADVANCES MADE on Sales , if required . Mortgages Negotiated . ALBION CHAMBERS , MARKET - PLACE , ROSE SALE FIXTURES This Day , -Ross Stook Market . Substantial an attractive entries . Store Cattl at 11 ; Fat Cattle at 11.45 . This Day . - Sale of Brewers ' Drays , Trap . Gig & c . , in Ross Stock Maaket . See advt . May 28. - Important Sale of Freehold Busines Premises . Machinery , and Good will of Business , in Ross ( Sale i conjunction with Mesara . Fleet wood , Deakin , Hendriks and Co. Bee advt . May 28. - Two Cottages and Gardens at Goreley -See advt . Shortly . - Capital Investments in Freehold Land ed Property near Ross . Jane 4. Stock Market . Early Entries invite in order to insure publicity fo buyers and sellers . Farther Appointments respectfully solicited . SALE THIS DAY . ROSS STOCK MARKET . THURSDAY , the 21st MAY , 1914 . MESSRS . COOPER and PREEC will BELL by AUCTION , in the abov Market , a large Consignment of FAT & STORE CATTLE , CALVES SHEEP , and PIGS . Commencing with the Pigs at 10.30 sharp SALE THIS DAY . ROSS STOCK MARKET . THURSDAY , the 21st MAY , 1914 . To BREWERS , FARMERS , HAY and COA HAULIERS . ESSRS . COOPER and PREEC MB will SELL by AUCTION as above , T well - built BREWER'S DRAYS , in good orde Buitable for either of the above businesses ; al Two - Seated GIG , and a Two or Fonr - Seat TRAP , both suitable for a 14.2 Cob , the own having no further use for same . Sale at 11.15 a.m. promptly . GORSLEY , PARISH OF LINTON , Within easy distance of Newent and Rose . PREEC MESSRS . COOPER and are instructed to SELL by AUCTION , the KING'S HEAD HOTEL , Ross , On THURSDAY , the 28th day of MAY , 1914 , At 3 for 4 o'clock in the Afternoon , All those TWO FREEHOLD STONE - BUIL COTTAGES or Tenements , now known " IVY COTTAGE , " With a Piece or Parcel of Land or Garde Ground thereunto adjoining , and belonging containing by estimation , threequarters an Acre or thereabouts , situate on the road side at Gorsley , in the parish of Linton , i the County of Hereford , in the occupation d Mr. Joseph Taylor and his undertenant , the low yearly rent of £ 12 , free of rates . Th land is in an excellent state of cultivation and fully stocked with young Apple , Plun Cherry , and other Fruit Trees in full bea ing . There is also a substantial and near new block of two Pigstyes and Closet . The Cottages are near to the Schools ar places of Worship . For further particulars , apply to the au tioneers , at Albion Chambers , Ross ; or Messrs . Dauncey and Sons , Solicitors , Albic Chambers , Newport , Mon. B ROSS - ON - WYE , HEREFORDSHIR RE BLAKE BROS . LTD . IN LIQUIDATION . By Direction of the Liquidator , H. T. LEDSAM , Esq . Important SALE BY AUCTION of the VALUABLE FREEHOLD MANUFACTUR ING PREMISES , FOUNDRY , Fitting an Machine Shop , and the Paint Shop ar Stabling situated in " The Crofts , " Broa street , Ross . THE VALUABLE FREEHOLD SHOP PR PERTY situated at the corner of Statio street and Brookend - street , and THE FREEHOLD MARKET DEPOT a SHOW ROOM opposite the Stock Mark Ross : BLA Together with the valuable FIXED PLAN MACHINERY , and FIXTURES , the wh in the occupation of Messrs . Blake Bro Ltd. THE GOOD - WILL of OLD E the of TABLISHED BUSINESS BROS . , LTD .. Ir Ironmongers , founders , and Engineers , will be offer FOR SALE , the purchaser to take to Stock - in - Trade , Loose Plant and Tools , fair valuation . FLEETWOOD , DEAKIN , HENDRI and CO . ( in conjunction with COOPER PREECE ) will SELL by AUCTION , at KING'S HEAD HOTEL , Ross , On THURSDAY AFTERNOON , 28th MAY , 1914 , At 3 o'clock punctually , subject to Condition be then produced . Vendors ' Solicitors : Messrs . Hargre and Heaton , 37 , Waterloo - street , Birmi ham , and Messrs . Burt and Evans , Ross Wye . For orders to view , Schedules of the F Plant and Fixtures , which are to be inclu in the Sale of the Freeholds , further part lars as to Stock - in - Trade , Loose Plant Tools , Lithographed Plans and Particul apply H. T. Ledsam , Esq . , Chartered countant ; Messrs . Harrison , West , Led and Co. , Chartered Accountants , 16 , Wa loo - street , Birminghanı ; Messrs . Fleetw Deakin , Hendriks , and Co. , Auctioneers Temple Row West , Birmingham ; and Me Cooper and Preece , Auctioneers , Ross Wye . |