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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-3-3, Page 3dltieie4e44(44EiltisE/4•t•e4Ife.eiiEfsf‹<4•1(i4s1040444Cse ileeilie42. 1v g- A W AN'S LOVE . A A A 41° *'OR A BROTHER'S PROCUSE A _w„ ,_ t w,....,,,,,,E,?›,),IbT,P.›.)i.,*>•>,,>.r..0o,,),+So.t04fr?),Z).>*VI CHAPTER X. There are times ween it is impos- sible for lattelligence Officers -to main- tain their bereilitary, and always carefelly preserved, attitude of itidii- ference towards eventand hapOen- inge. "Intelligence" is thrust upon them, and unless they posses mestal skin like a turnip's it pricks its way through, Major Don Pedro Santiago di Borja y Montanar— deecendant of the noble house that gave to the Church of Roine lie most infamous Pope, to tyrant and libeitine-ridden Italy its most flag - rent Caesar, to a. gasping world its inost heautiful Lucia --was General Stampa's chief Intent- gerice 011icer, and he was worthy of his class, But when. Don Pedro ewolce from reams of vingtaitans and oleaginous liqueurs, to dud Palm City more thax& half deserted, and the flag of k3ispeniola limp meter thleat of im- mediate furling, even he was moved to do something : filets make acro- bats of the most 'drowsy. 1.t was all a confounded nuisa.nce since it meant the postponement of that piceic with Senorita, Lola Montle,i&amid queen of Palm City i•dentienlonicluiDee. ln her villa at IRMa the bigh-priestess of that 'doubtful hierarchy was con- soling the Genera) ikz his martyrdom of $fecluestratiou from. Senora Stain - pit and her cherubs M the Sienaa A pigeon -takes but ten minutes to wing flout Palm City to Isleta :as the tarta,nero eig-eases by the road, two hours an a half Is not coesid- ered exorbitant. Yet, although th Berle, started at eleven, and tf,a taittinero rivalle the saints for reheacles, it was a quarter past one when Starepa was roused from his pre-siesea coffee and cigarillo to hear the news. He leergbed at di Borjaes panic, and °rimed bini sweet cham- pagne : yet, by -and -be, by some pro- cess of mental endosmosis, the no- tion that "Hispaniola was"in danger soa1 ed. into his brain. The slumber- ing tiger awoke, contemptuous and cruel. "Sweril and fire !" he snarled, 'fire and sword.! Aruba knows me; Palmetto' shall. A week of my sys- tem, and they shall have as teateli freedom as they like—freedom to die, freedom to be buried, freedom to kill me if they are able. As for that English jackanapes, he shall hang higher tram Heenan—bang in his Engle li tourist clothes 1 Pepita, iota querida, you shall see how your gentle genertilisciano deals with those he does not like r Sword and fire, fire and sword ! I am hungry for work. / have been idle too long. I tush to the fray. DI Damao!" "I await your eeders, General," "Get back to Palm City at once. -Have the troops miler arias within the hour, prepared to march to the hills. Fifty rounds of aranaunition Per man will 'be sufficient—fortyanine of the fifty will be useless—but let fifty be taken. They will be ueeful for the prisoners. I can trust you to see to this ?" "Abseil utely." "I shall come in niyself to -mor - •row." "To -morrow 1" Di Borja could not !suppress the ejaculatior. said to -morrow," snapped Stampai "and I meant to -morrow. Have you any objection to the word ?" n "No, no, General; o 1" with much 'emphasis. "Then do not echo lee as if you were a parrot. I come myself to- morrow when all is ready. Now—I take my siesta. A.dios I" "Adios 1" The hour of revolt was well chos- en.- Hispaniola was grar piing with the Free Statesu of Soth America'', and tilem cobat promised to bo mor- tal- ;Her credit was 'depreciated, her treasury was bare; while the Free States, rejoichig in plethoric ex- chequers, bought battleships rind cruisers, torpellogiestroyers and quierefiring .genS, by tbe pounds a, flay, • , For them Arm- stronge3 and Cammell's hammered and clanged the round of the clock; and the pacific • British shareholder, foreseeing swelled dividenela dropped a eixPenny instead of a threepenny piece in the orMrtory 0' Sundays. Hispaniola tried to raise inoney, and was refused on every Bourse in Eur - she pleaded, she grovelled—ehe Was spurned. .t the moment when her ships Mould have been describing • search-circlesie the Atlantic:, hee dock -yard, coal -yard anil arsenal la- borers were amis'ing themseltes on, strike pay : • tiniceibig of leaky boil- ers, bunkering of rubble, manufeeture of non -explosive seeds ceased. The sole kign• of activity in Hisp•aniola was on therinri. of the Weeping Min - ;teed s, who wrinig hank's, shrugged se -welders and called. on their great god Manaim. But at last, by pledg- ing Import Duties for tee titian., money was raised, and the Hiepitn- iolan equivalent of work was I mune ea. . The fleet cleared to sea, ettuela. ea at Palmetto on its westweed course.and was gone to Its fete four 'dti,ys before Maddalena came liome. The turmoil of unrest that trouble ed. a/Wastes, at Madura had spread to s "elliepattio !an representatives abroad: • The envojt• to the Court of •St. 'ilitnests had bis hands full : he. poor man Melted ielsmie,,evea , • for thelitre-golitglie was a patron Pf the lighter drama—and he almost for get •that he rented a box at .the Alhambra. Each day there were hundreds of calle s at the E.mbassy, hut the First Secretary exercised a masterly iliserimination : the am- bassador could see no one—aillalts of. :moment engaged him. . He was lemming the intricacies of bridge. When news trickled through lent the • Iiispateolan fleet had forsaken touch with cieilizatione-had, 'indeed, signalled brave boasts from the hor- izon to Stampa in Palm City—the ambassador bethought bire (eseetials ly as he Mend briageelnineirig pensive) that a little relaxation might not be penis's. In one day lie easy three visitors. The last of them stayed for an hour and a half. When she departed she wee the richer by a piece of blue paper, bear- ing a "promise to pay" two: hundred aria ift.yr..ounds on certain con- ditions; and the Marquis di Guada- eriara set the wires to Madura thrill- ing with disquieting news. Maduro laughed; it had beaed talk of 'revolu- tions in Palmetto before, and be - {des, Was not Starnpa the ? The Chancellor sent di Guilds/nem a single werd, which may not be set down here, and Judith Frere's bit of blue paper looked valueless. In imagination Judith Frere spent her prospective fortune three times over. Her little room,in a Sloane Street hive of women-workess—the Home for Irreconcilables, a wag call- ed' it—saw her build afresh youthful dreams of comfort, small luxuries, pretty frocks, decent food and drink, dreams that etern reality had trans- formed into the grim facts of soedid existence. 13er hungry heart was empty of warm blood, the cheerifel blue of youth was smudged over with chil, grey. Years of struggle and rough el- bowing had brought Judith Frere to the desperate •pass where choice has to be made between right with pov- erty and wrong with comparative comfort. The moral support of •ci: shapeless tailor-made, heelless shoes and closeecropsted hair is not always •te iable—as jeclith found. The temptation came aubtly. Out of the goodness of her heart—when the great events was accomplished Judith woul•d have columns of value, able Corer—Hector took .hois to . the house in Bloomsbury : Maddalena, all trust- and tenderness, received her graciously, and after Erector had de- parted, •continued to receive -her and speak freely before ter of. this and of that. The tempter used the pinch of poverty ,unmercifully. ``You know so mach," said he, "that His- paniola will pay for. •Wht, don't yon 'sell ? it won't matter - •to Maddalena : it mewls a great deal to you. She is young and deli : you are growing old and you have been poor all these years. Why sboule the young have all the good tbings? This is so easy, and •who would She met the terupter with hollow Scruples. It ivould be so despicable: It would be so Mean; honor, she lik- ug ith tit bixtoon Years of Croat DietresS From Indigestion and Liver Trouble —Doctors Faded --Cure Effected by r. Chase's Kidney Liver Pills In most eases of chronic indiges- . tion tee. flyer and kidneys am at faalt as well as the ,stomach, and be- calm° of their combinedeation oe tease weans. De, Chase's' Kidney - Levee Pills cure wl,en oSdinary means faa, +Oho tase of Mrs, Husband is not uelike eeores and hundreds whieh are weeded to us. There can be no better 'evilleece as to the thorough- neal and effectiveness of Dr,. Cheat's 'ft elneteLiver alrn h Iluebasel, Moore street, sf.„ CatnarineS, Ont., stateS :--"I waS serioesly afflicted with indigos - ton and stomach ti ou}A for eix• teen years. Finally- I became -se bad that I Stiehl senecely eta nn SIL1i0OL pmfroriDg terrible die - tress. Oredually.3 grew weaker and more emeciated, and though treated by three doctors and a Specialist 1 received no bole:fit. "After a thee e pain began in 171y right side, which medical. men said Wee liver trouble. I neva' got relief until begite the ese of Dr. Cliaseai laidisey-Liver Pillq and they helped 010 at once. lly using tibout 0. dozen boxes I was eetir.ely retired. I owe' My, oure entirely tee -this treatment, and make this statement with thO hopthat t40mo poor set:toter may benefit- by n-iy expertence. : Die Chase's gidneyslaiver Pills„ one pill a dose, 25i.: bex, at eel "dealers, or letheanson, Bates a Co., Toeonto, e'o peoteet you agoinet Imitations, 1, the portrait and signatere of Dr. A. , W. Ohara, the Somalis: receipt book ' author, are every hoes ea to think. Ives more than a Mere mune, to her. Bat all tee berriere tele threw up were swept away bee •fere the remorseless etreanatide Of eitcalltete,eeee, SIle sought the His- pautolan EillbaSsY. Di Queelantara was &table tied (acidulous, and Ju- dith wits breatalese to handle gelid,. All that she ).mew was told—nothing was hidden, Fortunately for Pal- metto, Miuiseers at Madura, welei more than orslinarile- erase. "Staine said they, "is at Paha .0ity: his frown will terrify them." Dut they had forgotten what a power can be a people roussed by years of the goad, arid sticauli.tted by tee (roost goddei•ei of revolution, a beau - tied and forlorn yoang woman. :What of Joan of Arc? what of Mary queen of Sets? Could they have • seen tlie thousands that filled the cup tif the toady to be poured out in a bitter draught of death for Hispaniola, Ministers might not have relied so much on Stampa. Yes,. Caldera was alive with men. Maddalena had been seen of every man, and not a heart but had gone ,out to her. Hector and Don Augus- tin were ever with her, one on this head, one ofi'that. The older man, with rare eelf-eacrifice, gave way to the- younger, and not onig gave way, but insisted on thrusting JIM forward on every /medial occasion. Now that the hour of fightilig came, Hector was tbe man of action: dreaming was te-thing of the eight, the day WeS come his soul had long craved. 'eller° •was no man in Mad- tialena',s fume whose heart • rose loudlier In aim than did Ifector's Whezt the drums soioded at the dawn : at the sombre semi -ion% re- verberating from side to side of the cauldron of Caldera, his fingers itca- ed for steel, a warm tingle ran through his veins, a certain savage oldness (not the chill of feae) hous- ed in his heart, his eye glowed with expectancy, and to his step came the soring of eighteen. ale was a goodly sight to see as he lifted his plumes to call for a last shout of devotion to Maddalena, ere the re- giments should file through the gorges to achieve vistory of meet death. M• addalena's own heart, as she looked. upon him and her bravo thousands, and as she heard that fierce cry of dedication over the Toll of the drums, stood still in exalta- tion of pride : tears filled her eyes. But she was queen, and the daugh- ter of kings: and her lip was firm when to the regimental commanders she gave her last word : "God bless yon all, my brothers, and God send you victory 1" The Hispa.niolans had crept to within a couple of miles of Caldera during the night. Scouts had brought in such alarming intelli- gence that di Borja was driven • to stir Stanipa, again. I -lis excellency refused to forsake the table, but he On far ielaxod as to issue orders for a midnight march. "Bring your prisoners to tee Gov- ernor's Palace at ten to -morrow Morning. I shall slioot them on the Mole—it will Save us digging graves. Now go; and don't woiry me again to -night. And remember, your own life or that Englishman's. Him 1 must have. Don't let me see you un- less you catch him." . Di Borja knew his master well, and he understood that unless he could lay hands on or remove -Hector Grant, his military career was at an end, for Stallion, as a power at Ma- dura, and from Madura, came all pre- ferment. As a matter of fact.: Stam - pa did not see di Borja again for several weeks. but that was be- cause the Intelligence Officer was a prisoner : and when Stampa did see him—alas 2 and alas ! The first encounter was but a mere shirmiela in width matters were fatly. evenly balanced : indeed, it was more aof a reeonnaissance 11) force than anything else. But the Palmettos took some seventy prison- •ers, among whom was di. Ilorja, and the Prispaniolans made captive efteen wounded Palmettos, who were ear - 1 ied before Stampa with every cir- cumstance of triumph. , The court-martial itt which they were tried for their lives was a wild moekery of military justice, and the presideat, our gentle generaliR,11110, outaleffreysed Jeffrey's for • trucu- lence. His passiug of the sentence of death was unique. "The Messed Virgin," lie eait1, "has' again honored the arms cf Hispaniola. The cause of right and justice bas won, and you dogs of rebels, who dared to set: yourselves up against the majesty of Hispanio- la, have been *deliveied .aliee into our hands. The courtesies of civil- ized welfare would be lost upon such swine as you, rebels and traitors. S-s-so—at one o'clock to -day you will 13e shot. lt will be a brief cer- ement,. Take them. away." At one o'clock the unforturiates were ranged on the Mole, the more giievouely wounded leanirg for sup- port on their abler brethren, • their haefte to the sea, their 'eDbandaged eyes looking down the bleak barrels of Hispanielan Mausers, fearless and unconquered. A hoarse order, a scorching crackle, ankl the wall of wounded broke, topple'cl and fell into the blue waters. (To be Continued.) STARS WE CAN'T SEE. Professor Huseeti, of the Lick Ob- seevatory, of California, who for weeks past has been camping at Canoblas, near Orange, New Soeth Wale, is reported to have 'discover- ed tea new double :stars. Tiut Profes- sor, who is visiting Australia in pine silence of the scheme to establieli chain of n,stroncanical statioes round the world, has removed his camp to the Blue Mountains for the purpose of Making further obstivations. The intaiber of stars visible to the naked eye is fewer t1icn 6,000. The num- bet' of stars visible through 1130 largest telescoee is probably not fewer than 160,000,000. hover carry iny Watch Winit'i I go out," she said, artlessly. ' I ein go careless tliCit it wouldn't be Safe. Why, a perS011 could, Steql any - thirty; right Srom imiier my nose, Mel woulan't miss it." 'nein the yoimg man be 1101' Bide etole e, hie% arid sac iieem IWO Mies it. FARMERS OR er' . Seatoitehle end Profiteble 1 11 , Hints for the posy Tillers ;I- s Of the 80. 'ir'fii^64kfefitftsi:,tl•aidltiseltas-WiffieW-14X444411 FUNGOUS' DISEASES. Most of the rots, rusts, smuts, mil- dews, moldand blights affecting cul- tivated pleats are fungous diseases: thn4 is, they are gauped, by parasitic fungi. Fungi belong to the vegetable kingdom, and, consequently, are plains just as truly as corn, beans and potatoes are plants. However, they aro very different trout ordinary plants. 'Upward of 60,000 different eincis of fungi are known to science, They vary greatly in size, form aad manner of growth. Most of them aro so small that they can scarcely be seen with the unaided eye, except when large numbelis of individuals are growing together, The puffballs and toadstools are among, the largest of the fungi. Other familiar examples ia co -Imo tnhoencobilierilinto,maPPfleouslcidabQtndhsttal: bread, rotten apples, et. With reference to the substances up- on which they feed, fungi aro either saprophytic or parasitic. The former feed upon decaying metter while the le.fiter attack living plants and draw nourishment from them Many fungi are parasitic during a part of their life and saprophytic at otner times. For example, the apple scab fungus altaas.the living fruit and leaves during. summer and grows upon tbe fallen leaves during wintme Of course, it is the parasitic fungi which are, of interest to farmers and fruit grow- ers," because they are the ones that cause disease in plants. FUNGI HAVE NO LEAVES and contain neither starch nor green coloring matter. They are also with- out true roots, although most of them have delicate feeding theciads which traverse the tissues of the plant attacked and take up nourish- ment much as roots take plant food from the soil. Most fungi firopagate by' means of spores; that is, spores are to fungi what seeds are to ordin- ary plents. When a spore of the po- tato blight fungus falls upon a pota- to leaf and there comes the dew or rain upon it, thii spore germinates within a few hours, and delicate feed- ing threads penetrate the leaf. Once inside the leaf, the threads grow rap- idly, and run in all directions among the cells, feeding upon their contents. The cells turn grown and die, and by the second or third day a brown rotten spot appears on the leaf. About a day later this spot is cov- ered on the under surface with a deli- cate frost -like mildew which upon microscopic examination is found to be composed of numerous slender branched stalks with egg-shaped spores borne on the tips of the branches. By means of rain, wind and animals these new spores become scattered over other potato leaves and attack them. These in turn spread the disease still further. Some of the spores, falling upon the ground are washed by ram down to the tub- ers, and cause them to rot. Each kind of fungus has its own peculiari- ties of growth, but, in a general way, the life cycle of many parasitic fun- gi is similar to that of the potato blight fungus FEED FOR A POUND OF GRAIN. This is a question which comes up' for discussion every season, and is a very important one for those engaged in feeding operation'sd as uponit de- pends their success or failure. The expeilinent Stations have devoted a good deal of work to the study of this question, mid their conclusioee, speakiept broadly, ere that ie fatten- ing eter si under normal conditions, it requiree from 400 to 1,000 pounds of grain to produce 100 poencis ot grain, or to strike a medium esti- mate, it Will take 1,000 pounds of grain to make 300 pound e of grebe lotting in ehis connectioe 600 pounds Of roughDess. Laws and Gilbert in their experiments in Rothanastead, England, found that it took from twelve to thirteen pouuds of dry lima - ter to make a pound of increase with fattening ethers, pr thirteen to fifteen pound's of corn 00 'usually fed. Thorne, of the Ohio Experiment Sta- tion, reports tbe results of feecling trials with fattening steers at eight different stations, where 132 animals Were fed, bie seinutary showing that it required 1,02a pounds of dry mat- ter for each 100 pounds of gain, Pro- fessor W. A. Henry, of tbe Wisconsin Station, found from a compilatioa of experiments made at various stations that with pigs weigbitig 3E1 poonds, 203 pounds of feed made 100 pounds of gain, When the pigs weighed 78 pounds they require.d 400 pounds of feed, a.ncl at the weight of 820 pounds 585 pounds of grain was reciaired to make 100 pounds of gain. It is apparent from these figures that the age of the animals has a material influencc in the amount of gain made from a stated amount of grain. The character of the rough- age fed will (deo influeuce the gain, as well as the shelter and surround- inp:s. • It would appear, therefore, that in each case there will be more or less divergence from the usually accepted figures, and that the amount of gain from a bushel' of corn will average froin eight to twelve pounds, depending. upon the age of the ani- mals, their surroundings, and the character of the sapplesuental feecle used. HANDLING BREEDING HOGS. It is well to look over all the breeding sows wadable, while tarry- ing their young. Perhaps they may all be good ones, but there will be a choice. See them oat. The one that 210008 the swill over in the hope of finding something- better, is liable to produce some pigs of the same tendency. « Dainty feeders are poor fatteners, Good, length of body indicates good weight at killing time. 'Probably the anoe.stry of most of these .animals cannot be traced Mr, so the selection Of young pigs for breeders must be done very much on the strength of the good qualities of .the ham as they appear to us. If in winter the quarters should be heated up to SO degrees wbile the young are coming. After they have all sucked, the temperature can be lowere& geep aeray from the sow while she is farrowing arid have ev- erything quiet about her. Have the corners of the pen especi- ally well fixed with bedding so the youngsters will have no chance to get chilled. Do not feed the sow un- til the pigs are 21 hours old and then very lightly. A little warm drink of water and milk will do -no harme at any time. Incidentally it inight be noted that the pig business and dairy should go together. Feed very lightly on Indic slop, throw in a bit of green clover, a stalk of sweet corn with the ear on, if in summer; if in winter a handful of nice clover and a sugar heet. Keep the pen sweet and clean. Should the pigs he a little loose in the bowels, give the sow a little charcoal. Furnish a little side trough for the pigs when they begin to smell about the trough. Each .neast must be his own judge ao to what he cast afford, but it Oliotild • be borne in, mind 'diet °eel pensive built-110gs do not always pro -1 duce tbe Beast stock by any means.' A uhaek niatle of fence rails will shelter a thousand stellar sow sei satiefactery ine.nner as a building costing $3.f/;000, Safe, eom- forteble, dry, sanitary quarters with an abundanco of sunlight is all that is required, HOW MANY MEALS A DAY t Multiplicity as to XIow Often WO Should. at. Hare efou ever taken time to rock - op, the multiplicity of the theories nowadays with regard to tbe num- ber of meals that sbould till out the day's fere and the hours at which they should be eaten? If you lia.ve done :this the probability is that you emerged front the study » arith- metic convinced what a man is do- ing as long as he is possessed of a sufficient amount of faith in the line he is following. For you can ea,sily call to nand half a. 'dozen of your acquaintances who say that their health has improved 100 per cent since they eanceled their breakfasts, and took to eating a rather hearty , luncheon. And within sound of your voice are as many other persons who declare they never knew what per - feet health meaet till they cut out the midday meal altogether, allow- ing a satisfying brealcfast and a. not too late dinner to cover the amount of food consumed through the day. Then come to your mind the lusty eiponents of the theory that five meals a day are none too many to keep the body in fuel, and another set who gloat over tee robust coa- dition they have wooed and won through clinging to a iegiment that allows but otte square meal a day. And if you eal inclined ito take a firm stand for or against any one article of food or drink and are look- ing for examples to help you to a decision, you get quite as much con- fused lin any attempt to find who has tbe rights of the case with him. One will tell you he cannot drink coffee because it affects hint in such and such a way, while another will tell you that he never could get through his ilay's work without its gently stimulating influence, and idat he knows it benefits him because he al- ways sleeps like a baby after drink- ing it late at night. Going through. the list of things that itien eat and drink you will find the same pros and cons apply, and it becomes fear- fully bewildering before you get half through the list. So ,if you care to search the records of food causes that medical journals have championed, say for the last Century, you will ,find that what was blest in one decade was decried in the next. And then you know you aren't the oDly one who bas been al- most swamped by contradictory evi- dence in the case of the oeople ver- sus food. When, liovtever, you get where you are convinced that some great occult moral principle underlies these differences, which are, after all, only superficial, and the undertake to study this principle and its ram- ifrcalions, you are bound to have vier first real satisfa,ction from the problem, though you probably will not be n.ble to get. off the fence in your cogitations on this aspect, of itd "I don't doubt that, the readin' of it's all right," said the 'eustorner, "but it ain't the book I'M looking for—the cover don't suit me." 'etas dear sir," said the bookseller, 'will you Mildly describe just the booe you're after?" "Well, to be plain with you, I want 'a book that will do to put in a handsome new housed'. 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