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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-03-28, Page 2THURSDAY, MARCH, 28th, 1910 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE mssssas. jag..i----------, ,;ssag; Blended For Quality “MARK 1702 by Eardley Beswick neat,” re- thoughtfully. see if there’s “Neat, exceedingly marked his companion “Come on, we’d better anything we can do.” They crossed the verge and scramb­ led across a ditch and through the torn gap between the elms, “Keep your finger on the trigger, Geoff, and fire at the first movement,” Cope said loudly as soon as they reached the field beyond, He wondered what on earth the fellow was talking about and uo one could possibly know that better than Johnny Cope. However, was too bewildered, too stirred the thought of what must lie front across some fifty yards crumbling plough, to remonstrate. The only effect of the instruction was perhaps to make him move a little more careful, to keep senses alert. Perhaps that what !Cope had intended. Within fifty yards they came on a bent and tangled mass of ■chanism that had once been a torch over it. Cur- was swathed with tarpaulin. “Driver Cope murmured. he by in of his was up- me- car. morning, and did it jolly well, too, for I heard every word of it. He was inclined to pull a gun a hit too readily - never ought to have been trusted with one really, too .quick in his reactions when he was fright­ ened — but he was no worse than the rest of his kind, I suppose. The car in front’d be Morganthau’s. 1 recognized it. That was what gave me the clue to the meaning of the initials M-0, ‘My lead,’ he said, That meant we were to follow him, but he added ‘Follow suit’ to make it clearer, ’When in doubt, bear right,’ indicates that he was fully in touch with the plans of the op­ position. I confess the meaning of that did not fully occur to me until it was almost too late. That’s the best of giving a leading car plenty of wake. If anything happens you have time to think before you’re in­ to him. Poor hadn't allowed which to think, ter of fifty yards eighty. And Morganthau’s sailing on, satisfied we’re safe, even if we did"stop to ascertain what the bather was about. I told you he'd do his damnedest to keep us out of harm, particularly when he was re­ assured that we were really bound foi’ Croydon en route for Geneva and the Poisson d’Or in the morn­ ing. Ah, well, I’m afraid we must make the excuse were to upset Pamphlett.” “But how did can understand ing .quick enough to take the bend, but I can’t figure out what happen­ ed to that fork road.” “There never was any fork road, my dear chap. There was just a bend with two largish elm trees about a road’s width apart, in the hedge at the start of it. Between the elms was a rick sheet that had been pulled up when our headlights were signalled. It draped the verge to the roadside and, being about the same colour as the road itself, looked, in headlights, and to any­ one travelling at our speed, exactly like another road going straight on between trees and dipping a mile away over a crest of a hill. I’ve known a haystack play the same trick, and many a car has run off the road at night because of some­ thing of the kind, or charged a stuccoed wall, been Cope flashed his iously enough it ragged pieces of thrown out,” “Come along.” About another fifty yards on they found a crumpled body. Cope bent over it and raised it gently. Above the almost fleshless face there was fair hair almost unruffled, the comb-marks still clear in its well- greased, rounded surface, and along one side an exquisitely perfect part­ ing. Cope, nevei* Illusion Explained “Pamphlett,” pronounced but his companion, who had seen the man in life, turned his face from the ghastly sight. He wanted for the moment nothing more than to vomit. He was roused by Cope saying re­ proachfully, “Here, give me a hand with him, Geoffery man. There’s isn’t much we can do and it won’t be healthy for us to stay here much longer. The poor devil’s nearly passed out anyway. All that possibly remains is to ease his passing.” So he nerved himself to kneel and support the faceless head whose hair was still so immaculate while Cope brought out his hypodermic set and proceeded to make a rapid injection in one of tlxe limp arms. The pale eyelashes flickered in the light of the torch, a breath like a sigh came from the ghastly mouth, and for a moment Mr. Phamphlett seemed to cringe a little as if grate­ fully towards Hendringham’s sup­ porting arms. “You can lay him down,” said Cope. “He’ll never feel pain again. We ought to be getting out of this.” They made their way back across the hard furrows and at the hedge Cope paused to shine his torch back. Almost as the limit of its illumina­ tion Hendringham saw what looked like two shadowy figures diverging from the light. “You look after the rear, Geoff. I’ll take care of everything in front,' Cope said loudly and added, “Be as quick as you like on the draw. You'll only be killing vermin.” He flashed his torch at the boles of the trees before he jumped the ditch. Hendringham followed him and was relieved to find the big car standing where they had left it, its headlight still making a blaze along the road that had bent to the right. Immediately Cope switched off all lights and in the darkness man­ oeuvred the long body about, A Shot rang out from the field behind them and whined harmlessly into the blackness beyond. There was an­ other shot equally ineffective and then they were once more running smoothly back along the road they had come. Presently Cope switch­ ed oh his headlights again and ac­ celerated to a comfortable forty- five. They* ran in silence for a mile! or two and then Cope began to talk j in a strangely subdued voice, for i him. l“That was poor little Pamphlett, j the fellow I told you about who im­ personated me to Miss Silvane this Chest Wheezing Means Bronchitis The principal symptom Of bron­ chitis is a dry, harsh, hacking cough accompanied with a tepid wheezing and. feeling of tightness across the Chest There is a rising of phlegm, espe­ cially in the morning. This phlegm is at first of a light color, but as the disease progresses becomes yel­ lowish or greenish, and is sometimes streaked With blood, You will find in Dr. Wood’s Nor­ way Pine Syrup a remedy to Stimu­ late the weakened bronchial ofgans, subdue the inflammation, soothe the irritated parts, loosen the phlegm find mucus, and help nature to easily dislodge the morbid accumulation, The T. MlibUtn Co., LU., Toronto, Ont little Pamphlett himself room in After all, a inat- is soon covered at gone by it that our nerves the accident to happen, really. I Pamphlett not be- and the accident regarded as inexplicable.” Cope said: “Midnight already, Time is slipping, as the poet puts it, underneath our feet. Better get you back on the job again as fast as possible." He once more took the narrow turning oxi the right and with an infallible memory retraced the windings that brought them back to Evans’ little workshop. “1 don’t much care for driving up here too often,” he remarked as they turned into the lane that ran uphill to the yard, “but it can’t b.e helped. We can’t hope to go unnoticed every time, and if they do trace us to the work shop we shall need the car for defensive purposes.” Hendringham left him in the yard to work out what he called a neat little problem in defence and, enter­ ing once 'more the shed where the two mechanics still bent eagerly over their machines, hastily got to to- his own job, feeling a little guilty at having been absent so long from what was him the real crux of the affair. However much the tubes might be declared to be of primary importance to their enemies, for him it was the provision of a finish­ ed sample that counted. In that he felt that his own reputation was bound up. It was his official job, the rest merely external circum­ stances for. overcoming which he anticipated no credit. It cheered him to realize that the job was well forward and his workmates con­ centrating with an ardour that ob­ viously increased with the advanc­ ing of the vision of handling a lump sum of twenty pounds before the morning was out. For an hour or two the three of them worked on silently, each man concentrating on ’getting the ut­ most out of his machine, while the night drew on, dwindling into those “small” hours, when vitality is at its lowest and the least of troubles seems an implacable menace. They were all three weary by now, and though he had the advantage in theory over the other two that he had spent the previous night in bed, Hendringham was beginning to real­ ize that a drugged sleep has none of the fortifying quality of natural slumber. His head ached, and his mind was tormented with a horrible insistence on the recollection of the smear that had been Pamphlett's face with it. It seen in the beam of a. torch the fair hair immaculate above CHAPTER X Bacl< To Work The run back to Shalbridge was entirely uneventful and Cope for once was silent until his companion half envious of the precision with which he made observations and deduced an explanation from the most puzzlingly unrelatable facts, remarked a bit humbly: "I suppose I ought to have arrived at all that from the sight of those bits of tar­ paulin about the wreckage.” “I don’t know. One is either built that way or one isn’t. I was lucky there in having previous experience to suggest the solution. I remem­ bered an occasion out in France be­ hind the base when a Brass Hat’s car went clean off the road at a bend one night and. plumb through”’ a marquee sort of thing they’d been rigging up for a concert. I remem­ ber the driver protesting that it looked as if the road went on straight ahead. There was a similar­ ity about the look of things after that smash that set my mind work­ ing 'and I confirmed the diagnosis as we came back by the fact that there were the ends of light ropes hanging from the trees. I’d have liked to have stopped a bit longer, but it obviously wasn’t going to be very healthy, job couldn’t have been away, and suggestion formation, were both arms, wasn’t likely to keep them off indefinitely,” “What do you think Pamphlett was following us for?” “Oh, just sticking to our trail like the perfect litle sleuth, poor devil. -He didn’t know whether we had the goods on us or not but he h.0 doubt believed we had, and he wasn't taking any chances letting us disappear with them.” Hendringham lit a ciparette and pushed it between the driver’s lips. Then he lit one for himself. “Died in the execution of his duty,” he commented. “Precisely, The verdict ought to be that but any jury would probably decide that he was driving without due care, Pamphlett, either way. A sad af­ fair, I’m afraid, but it has its ad­ vantages for us. We’Ve exploded- MOUCh’s master-trick and he’ll have to think hard to got another one as good ready for to-morrow night,” From the market square a clock was booming twelve times when they again ran into Shatbridge, Ghaps who did the very far the rather ingenuous I threw out for their in­ to the effect that we fairly bristling with fire- the en­ tile his as- must have been around two o’clock when Cope came in from yard. Hendringham had been viously picturing him asleep in car. but he now observed that hands were astonishingly dirty, tonishingly for Cope *usually cared for his hands as meticulously as a surgeon does. He 'made a strenuous effort at joviality, calling: “Hullo. What have’ you been up to?” but Cope took no notice, and- instead of re­ plying went up to Evans and asked if there was anything he could boil­ water- on. Evans raked out a small gas ring and a’’kettle. “Good man,” Cope told him. “Leave the rest to me." They worked on, forgetting Cope, who was fussing about with the kettle, but presently a delightful scent began to rouse them to an interest in his doings, and, sniffing gratefully, foregave him for the idleness they had presumed and en­ vied. “Blow up for coffee!” he called presently, and Crowder delightedly gave a passable imitation of a works footer. “And it is coffee, mind you,” they were informed by the provider with an insistence almost boastful­ ly dogmatic. “It really ought to have a splash of rose water rinsed around the cups before pouring. At least that was how old Mahommed el Nebi taught me at Houris, toum,” after a tion. “And right,” different from the stuff they out in the canteen.” “Keeps you awake properly, always a nasty feeling at this of night that I’m liable to fall asleep over the lathe,” confirmed Evans. The maker of real coffee glowed visibly. Refreshed they resumed their la­ bors, and for half an hour "worked on while Cope kept coming in and out, prowling as if his mind were uneasy. In the end he came to stand beside Hendringham and, cas­ ually, as if he were announcing only the hour of the niglit, remark­ ed: “It looks as if we’ve been smelled out already Geoff. ” Hendringham rah to the end of his cut and with one hand Chsed the belt on to the loose pulley be­ fore answering: :And what precise­ ly does that mean?” “Weil, it might mean A scrap ift which we should be outnumbered and outmunitioned, seeing we the by he sip (Sign of the Thousand the waterfront in Ba- told them reminiscently and a I reckon confirmed sniff of apprecia- he knew how all ■Crowder.“Bit dish I’ve time 5 I It's nil the same to cat All £ TF E haven’t so much as a gun between us, but I don’t think it Will come to that. I’ve been perfecting certain defences that ought to take care of things for us if the staff-work’s effi­ cient. I’ve just had a scout around and confirmed that there are some half dozen husky louts assemble^ at the far end of that field. They’re well-oranized too, nothing amateur­ ish q.bont them. I fancy Mr, Gros- smith is in command, and I should imagine it won’t be the first raid he’s engaged in.” Hendringham glanced at him. His knees showed patches of grass stain and the whole front of his elegant suit was fouled with dust and weed. “Looks as if this job was going to be worth something to your tailor," he remarked. “Ah, well,” was the philosophic reply. “All the best armies march on their bellies, you know. I want you to keep on steadily here, and tell the other chaps on no account to leave their jobs unless they hear the car hooter pip three times. As I’ve foreseen it you and I ought to be enough to repel the first attack. If it swings open slip out. Keep as low as you can—they’ve firearms remember—and work round to the right. There’s a line of heavy flex running up the fence at the far corner of this shed and you’ll find another line near it on the ground. When you hear me shout ‘switch!’ just make a temporary connection, by jamming them together on the ground and putting your foot on the joint. There’s the rubber mat of the car to insulate ’em on the earth. Mind you make your joint on the middle of that. Don’t keep the current on too long. Count three from the first contact and break it smartly. You may have to do it more th'an once and there’ll be a bit of sparking, but that won’t hurt' you, since there’s only twelve j volts behind the whole display, i It’s the moral effect I'm relying on j Don’t overdo it, I ay want some I J r op&ninq czumzrt: AfulL L40 CALUMET ORAHO DOUBLE-ACTING BAKING POWDER 7/W Months TO MARKET 4 Q^froMAaj^ • You can get those heavy, money­ making hogs to market quicker—and savet makin vk up to 400 pounds of grain per pig—by using >' Roe Wondergrow Hog Concentrate. See your Roe Feeds dealer and start your hogs on the short “Roe Road” to market today. Complete feeding directions in every bag. ROE WoudviqMMi HOG CONCENTRATE J. A. TRAQUAIR Exeter W. R. DAVIDSON Hensail HAROLD KELLERMAN, Dashwood juice left in the battery for the headlights. Got all that clear?” “O.K.,” said Hendringham and pushed his belt over again, prepar­ ed to resume work. Cope slipped out into the dark­ ness after a whispered “I’ve got a trip signal fixed down the field. I mustn’t be too far away or I shall miss that going off. If it does come to an assault there -are some useful piles of brickbats round the fence for ammunition, but don’t make use of them unless you have to. I’ll do all the artillery work that’s • needed if the scheme comes off as I expect” (To be Continued) ATTENDED FUNERAL in Mr. Erb late over died Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Erb, William Oesch and Mrs. Chris, attended the funeral of the John Bechler at Pigeon, Mich., the week-end, Mr. Bechler, who in his 52nd year was a son of the late Chris. Bechler, who was a form­ er Zurich district boy, being a brother of the late Menno and John Bechler. The late Mr. Bechler was unmarried at the time of his death, his wife having predeceased him.— Zurich Herald SUperstition is the greatest bar to advancing thought.. MAKE THEM This Year Hogarth Chicks HIGH QUALITY, BLOOD TESTED CHICKS AT REASONABLE PRICES Once You Try You Always Buy From Hogarth BARRED ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, WHITE LEGHORNS, NEW HAMPSHIRES, JERSEY BLACK GIANTS, COCKERELS, PULLETS AND STARTED CHICKS CUSTOM HATCHING HOGARTH CHICK HATCHERY EXETER, ONT* Phone 266 Tiny Sage’s Day at Cockshutt Plow «< it was a visit several the huge factory and found farm- Belmont, Embro, Lucan, St. Marys, ’The Exeter Times-Advocate Established 1873 and 1887 at Exeter, Ontario published every Thursday monaim! SUBSCRIPTION—$2.00 per year tn advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each insertion for first four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion, Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of six word*. Reading notices 10c. per line, Card of Thanks 50 c. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per line, If Memoriam, with one verse 50c. extra vefses 25c. each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Company Last week, March 15th, heigh-ho for Brantford and to the ’Cockshutt factory for farmers from the Exeter district, friends and customers of John Campbell, Cockshutt dealer for Ex­ eter. We arrived at about 11.45 a.m. ers from Alymer, Ingersoll, London, St. Thomas, Strathroy, Woodstock, Zurich and other gathered, Other every minute. To start things pictures taken in front -of the plant, Then specially trained guides took us in hand, by-groups and our tour commenced. We started out in the Shipping Department, from where thousands .of Cockshutt farm imple­ ments are shipped to all parts of the world. Next we came to the great warehouses. Here 250,000 square feet of floor space is set aside for storing new 'Cockshutt implements awaiting shipment. I never saw so much machinery in one spot. The drill assembly department was the next stop, and here we saw new drills being put together, run in by motors, then tested by hand for smooth, easy .operation. From here we went through the inspection de­ partment where we saw the chief in­ spector > and his men making sure there were no flaws in machinery going out to be sold. The paint! shop was the ■ 1st spot we visited before lunch. We saw different parts of implements dipped in huge vats of bright paint saw them dried in great baking ovens, then striped and stencilled with the trade mark and trade name. All this was done on a continuous assembly chain ac­ cording to the most up-to-date Me­ thods. We were entertained by the Com­ pany at a lunch to the number of 500. Following lunch the manager of the Ontario branch, Mr. Georgq E. Goodfellow, presiding at the speakers’ table spoke a word of welcome and introduced the speak­ ers. The general manager of the Cockshutt Plow Company (Limited and its subsidiary at iSmith Falls, Mr. W. J, Phillips, greeted us on behalf of the entire Cockshutt or­ ganization, lHe was followed by the general sales manager, Mr. G. G. Scott, and members of the Cockshutt Foremen’s Association. After inspecting and discussing the Cockshutt line for 1940, which was arranged in display along the sides of the long lunch room, we resumed our inspection trip. The afternoon tour was the most inter­ esting part of the visit, all agreed for it was at this time that we saw what a really intricate business it is to turn out the farm equipment we use. We saw how thorough was the work of the, highly-skilled machinists, some of whom had twenty to thirty-five years exper­ ience doing the same or similar jobs, behind them. The press and shear room took our breath away. There was one press capable of exercising 400 tons pressure, all of it controlled by a light touch on a foot treadle. We saw great shears which slice metal sheets as easily as you could cut cheese and a “Whole-hog” drill which bore seventeen holes with 100 per cent, accuracy and so fast you couldn’t believe your eyes. There were several huge machines for shaping plow beams — “Bull­ dozers” they called them — and they bend the tough steel beams as easily as you could bend a wax candle. Row upon row of electri­ cally-controlled, gas-heated furnaces heat different parts for “heat-treat­ ment” which puts toughness where it is needed in the finished machines One of the most impressive things we saw was the pouring of liquid iron at 2,300’ degrees Fahrenheit into carefully fashioned moulds. This moulding process drew many expressions of awe from all of us. It was a great trip and an exper­ ience most of us will never forget. It has given us some idea of the brains, the organization, the care and precision which goes into every piece of machinery we use. We go back to our farms with a new sense of the part Canadian manufacturing plays in the daily lives of farmers throughout the .Dominion. We farm­ ers who went to Brantford and saw the machinery we use made have returned with new conceptions of the value of that matchinery. A Cockshutt Customer districts already groups arrived Professional Cards GLADMAN & STANBURY (F. W. Gladiuiui) BARRISTER, SOLICITOR; &c Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vaults for use of our Clients without charge EXETER and HENSAIL CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS, LOANS, INVESTMENTS, INSURANCE Office; Carling Block, Mjain Stree*, EXETER, ONT. Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S,,D.D.S. DENTIST Office; Carling Block EXETER, ONT, Closed Wednesday Afternoons Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S.,D.DS. DENTAL SURGEON Office opposite the Post Office. Main Street, Exeter Office 36w Telephones Res. 33J Closed Wednesday Afternoons ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY PRICES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 57-18 Dashwood R. R. No. 1, DASHWOOD FRANK TAYLOR LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex , FARM .SALES A SPECIALTY Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed EXETER P. O. or RING 138 of USBORNE & HIBBERT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office, Exeter, Ont. President ........... JOHN HACKNEY Kirkton, R. R, 1 Vice-President .... JOHN McGRATH Dublin, Ont. DIRECTORS W.. H.. COATES ................. Exeter ANGUS SINCLAIR ... Mitchell, R. ‘1 WM. HAMILTON ... Cromarty, R. 1 T. BALLANTYNE ... Woodham, R. 1 AGENTS JOHN ESSERY ............... Centralia ALVIN L. HARRIS ...... Mitchell R. 1 THOS. SCOTT .........„...... Cromarty SECRETARY-TREASURER B. W. F. BEAVERS ...... Exeter GLADMAN & STANBURY Solicitors, Exeter Lumber Shingles Our Prices are the Lowest they have been for several years. If you are building it will pay you to call and get prices. Just think Matched Lumber at $35.00 per M. feet A. J. CLATWORTHY Phone 12 Granton We Deliver Pigs is Pigs Mr. George H. Leonhardt, of 13 th .concession of McKillo'p four sows which apparently are the has 1 out to do their bit to*win the war, Mrs. Pig No. 1 has a litter of fifteen young pigs, four weeks old; a year' and three months old, this is her second litter, the first consisting of nine, Mrs. Pig No, 2 has a family of 12, 3 weeks old, Mrs. has ten young pigs three ahd NO. 4 has nine four They are all Yorkshires, by Mr, Leonhardt’s soft, Mr. Russell Bolton’s stock, forth News. “Henry wants me to take a trip around the world,” said the bright young wife, “but I’ rather go some­ where else.” Pig No; 3 weeks did, weeks bld. purchased Fred from Sea- ♦ ♦ ♦ In the olden days, a young man proposed oft his knees - now the young lady proposes on his knees. ♦ * * The man who thinks in terms of nickels never makes it in bunches of thousands — to make millions, you have to think in terms of mil­ lions.