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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1912-6-20, Page 2CHAPTER VI" more force than in the quiet patio On the stairs Frithjof as'l aylaid by the' Serpentine. For the first time he felt keenly that he was in by.34 n- Morgan; it was, with a sort ' an, unknown city, and there came of surprise that he heard his own over hila a sick longing for Norway, calix replies to the Englishman's for, dear old, Bergen, for the fern 1- polite $Peee'lies, and regrets, otic = loan mountains, the familiarfaces, inquiries as to 1,vhee he returned to the friendly° greetiiags of passers-by. Norway, for all the time his head For a few minutes he stood still, un was swimming, and it was astonish- certain which road to take, wort- ing that he could frame .a correct'derieg how ie. the world he, should ase. eet I"ngish is His heap tiwas so utterly dead that soltary ieveT ng.i�e(loseary obys him Of a a hetoould not even think of his home; j•ou:zg man stood talking to the OC - neither his father nor Sigrid rose eepants of a brougham vvhieh had before hint, as ho 14roked down that drawn up by the pavement; he long, dreary vista of life that lay heaxd a. word or two of their talk beyond. He eortld see stair,* that d,ml almost, uncalisc ..,„nny, Blenche was no longer B aeehe he had loved arae racketeer in had never really existed ; that he had been utterly deceived, defratnd- ed; and that seinething had been from Cohen fro hien whit'; eeuid Dever f.azrn will trot live a day Ietlge�r; said ro himself ' `pelt all hoir r And in the'relief of havinf some xatitainable thin to desire n:r it caaaly' dean and. anni tied bis pace and of energy and urging hien on he:ldilrg before ` hint the pee 'aili which he thoaleht was Berth Suing. He was .lone araasn, anti light for which be had 1 fast closing in open ie li ize fit'emed' ,athering oiler iltt .was cortia.A.l? on, 'What t",A s hble DPW struggle v hieh benie a Lim 1.,, au d be net at lea .°, d+1 wh; his own lip, ' Where ing that which nd i•rainealp legitimate Ins. Cha the `.•Is'the result of the trial known 'Yes. five years' leeaal servitude, act no more than he 'deserves,'" The poor eh;,ld'etl: what will of uveal ,r' Shall you be home by ten t"t hinder you, then." cite by ten. Tell fattier that tan;. is free for the night he ed hint; I met him just now, l -bye," Then to the coachman, foxne The word startled Frithiof back o the recolleetion of his own a:f- airs; he had utterly= lost his bear- ings and must ask for direction, Re wouhl accost this man who seemed a little less in a• hurry than the rest of the world. "`Will you kindly tell me, the way to the .wader Retell" he asked, The young man turned at the lid of his vveice, looked keenly ria for an iris#arit, then nerd Out and in c rdiaal. iveleonie, are you i" he exclaimed. lucky chatieet that we should have run across eachother', in the stark like this! Have you been loan, in England?" Fritltit,r, at the first word of hear - greeting, looked up with start ees and ,in the an gas -light he honest English face and. y eyes of Roy Boniface. rt* twits h 'Cas neat e¢iae cele a cndin='�'3:: A voice' withal hint question plainly: ' `To the nran. brain -•.the malt who doesn't what he is about -it is no u entl than to die in bed of a fel apace a' ti But to you—you who aro afraid o the suffering of :life, M e ra who know quite well what yeti are doing --4o you it as sin." Fight against it as he would, he could net stifle this. new conseioats mss 'which bad ,arisen within him, Only -women or ehildreu could hold such a creed; only those who led sheltered innocent, ignorant lives. Looking back afterward on the frightful struggle, it seemed to him that for ages he had tossed to and fro in that horrible hesitation. In reality all must have been over within: a quarter of an hour. There rote before him the recollection of his father as he had"last son him standing on the deck of the steamer, and he remembered the tone of his voice as her,hadd said ; ""I look to you, Frithiof, to carry:' out the aims in' which I :myself have failed, to live the life that I could wish to have lived." Be saw once ; again the wistful look in his father's eyes, the ming- led in -led love, pride, and anxiety with which he had turned to him, loath to let him go, and yet eager to speed him on his way. Shon.ld he now disappoint all his hoped Should he; deliberately and in the full pos- session of all his faculties, take a step which must bring terrible suf- fering to his home people 3 And then he remembered for the first' time that already trouble and vexa- tion and loss had overtaken his fa- ther; he knew well how greatly he would ^ regret the connection: with the English firm, and he pictured to l imcelf the familiar house in Iialve- dalen with a new and unfamiliar clone upon it, = t:d instead of tee longing for death there carne to hire a nobler longing -a longing to go buck and help, a, longing to make up to his father for the loss and vexation and the slight whasa, had been put upon him. He began to feel ashamed of the other wish, he began to realize that there was still something to be lived for, though indeed life looked to him as dim and uninviting as the twilight park with its - wreaths of gray mist, and its unpeopled solitude. Emerging once more into the busy world of traffic at Hyde Park Cor- ner, the perception of his forlorn desolateness carne to him'with far Because they act so : gently (no purging or griping) yet so thoroughly tai CHAPTEIL li'Ienntinto the brengha bowled swiftly'awayand its. eupants bad settled themselves down eornfortably as though they were preparing for a long drive. "`Are you warm enough, my child t Better let me have this win- dow down, and you put yours up," said Mrs. Benifaee,' glancing with motherly' anxiety at the fair face beside her. "`You spoil me, mother, dear," said Cecil. "And indeed T do want yell not to worry about nae. I am quite strong, if you. would only be- lieve it." "Well., well, I hope you are," said ; Mrs. Boniface; with'a sigh. "But any way it's more than you look, cltilcl." And the mother thought 'wistful ly of two graves in a distant eeme- tery where 'Cecil's s'sters la;y ; and she remembered with a cruel pang that only a few days ago some friend bad remarked to her, with the thoughtless frankness of a, rapid talker, about Cecil's dfelicate ap- pearance. "`I am glad we have seen Doctor Royson," said Cecil, "because now. we shall feel quite comfortable, and you won't be anxious any more., mo- ther. It would be dreadful, I think, to have to be a sort of semi -invalid all one's life, though I suppose some people must enjoy it; since Doctor Royston said that half the girls in London were invalided just for want of sensible work. I rather believe, mother, that is what has been the matter -with me," and she laughed. "You, my dear I" said Mrs. Boni- face ; "I am sure you are not at all idle at home: No one could say such. a thing o_ f you." ""But I am always having to in- vent things to do to keep myself busy," said Cecil. "Mother, I have got a plan in my head now that. would settle my -work for five whole years, and I do so want you to say 'yes' to it," EEIt isn't that you want.to' go• into some sisterhood?" asked Mrs. Boni- face, her gentle gray eyes filling with tears. "Oh,: no, no," said Cecil, empha- tically. "Why,• how could I `ever go away from home and leave you, darling, just as I' am getting old enough' to be of use- to • you'? It's nothing of that kind, and the worst of it is that it would mean a good deal of , expense to father, which seems hardly fair." "He won't grudge that/' said Mrs. ;Boniface. ' "Your father would do anything to picric you, dear. -What is this plan l Let me hear �; "Fell the other night v''hen I wag '.•:easing all shut those poor Grant - vs opposite :0 us low the; mother d left her husband and children and gone of no one knows where, and then how the father had forged iat'check and would certainly be had promotes appetite. assists digestion and builds up sonny health, For a e years we have recommended Bovril for these reasons ° and they have now been establishedby strict physiological tests made by W. I. Thoma son, M. 0., D. Sc., of Trinity College. Dublin. imprisoned, I began to wonder what sort of a chance the children had in the world. And no one seemed to know or to care what would become of thein, except father, and he said we must try to get them into some asvlurat or school.•" "It isn't many asylums that would eare to tale them, I expect," said Mrs. Bontf: we, "Poorlittle things, there'e a hard fight. before then,'. lout what was your plan':., 'Why, mother, it was just to per- vade father to let'them eore to us for the five years. Of course it would be an expense to him, but I would teach them, and help to take care of them; and oh, it would be so nice to have children about the Inou e. One can Dever bed/all where there are children," I knew shet was dull at home," thought the mother to herself, "It was too much of a change for her to come back front school, from SO mans; educated people and young friends, to an ignerant *hi weaala'an like sue and a silent house. Not that the child would ever allow it," "Bart of course, darliug," said are 'nest for the c,. tete: zs ;✓ell as the grown-ups. �`25c. ' a eo at ff your druggist's. 5,sioratlagsade.Iter.,jcaiIs a C `las;Llrifel 16 On the Farm MORE AND BETTER POTATOES, It is eonmon belief that if we purehase a variety of potatoes from a' seedsman that we have secured just one variety. This is true in a measure. If the sevclsman is reli- able, he will send potatoes that are uniform in eolor, depot, of eyes, earliness of maturing, and other qualities. But unless these Parti- solar potatoes have been pedigreed, then we have not received one thing, but many, writes Professor Waldron. The farmer can demonstrate this fact to his own satisfaction. At dig- ging time let him lay off a portion of a row containing 100 hills. In order to show this each hill must have come from only one piece of 1, seed. The 100 hills are dug and the tubers of each hill are kept by themselves on top of the hill. The prcducte of the 100 lolls are now ready to be studied. At first glance the hills may ap- pear to run very uniformly. .t'i lit- tle closerview will reveal the fact: that about the only thing that is uniform is that they are all pota- toes, The first hill has one large one, two medium-sized ones and half -a -dozen small ones, The neat hill has one medium-sized one aud' several small ones, Perhaps the Peat hill has three or four good. sized ones, .&eother hill Las aI sol - taal'y tuber, but of gQ4d'; gee, Pen haps another hill has nothing but little runts: Thus it goes through the 100 hills, The ordinary farmer will pick up the tubers from a411 of ac end Pa.��ae very ound Extra Granulated Sugar contains pounds fuflwei t ofCanada's finest sugar, at its best. Ask your grocer foa4. the `�'. ".. •,,. 5—Pound Package. CANADA SUGAR REFINING Co,, naaitecl? Mont}.eal., has the runt ebaracter as a habit. It willtbe sufficient to plant quite a is going to persist for years, and piece of ground, perhaps as moll everytme welent seed'of that as the fernier desires. wi pn r iu • ff the farmer wants to follow a a;;tr"zan we ill know to septal. Gy� that we will harvest little potatoes, method even better and more ac- ne hill that produced lir or two garde than this, ho should plant large and several small ones,is 4 eseh of the ten hills in a little plot g byitself. oilmen featare of potato fields. This ,., will The hill that bore three or four.' This requires that each hill 'ill tubers s is e one to fast- he sacked separately at planting good-sized i bet th the Bills and put Chain all together, o * e es ou, That is the hill that ttmcs, If title ten plata slioiv up He c does this conn slathers � and with. n ui it of anout equal value. >wnd all good; liars alrzlity and. t11a ,one that iwe f ., satisfaction, His fathers did it bei- it 18 aaot necessary to keep than . g t not to. fore him and all of hips ilei hbare should .e longer separate, but the product o : We will assume that we have s p do at. �i by ,should not lie 4i that the ten ,plats man'be sacked to- thxets tubers to eery bill attc1. IIs to - Late in. wan#ter, when. he begin i ge�their^ and. saved to plant the main g the total weight of tlae'three:tur .t: , to read the seed catalogues, he i�, patch the year fallowng, • th" ONTARIO!8 PRIZE FAT BABY. This youngster Is only two months past two yeara old. 14e weighs 127' pounds, His name lo John Bins, and he tivoo 18 miles from Ottawa, Cecil, "I won't say a word more about it if you think it would trou- ble you or znatke the house too noisy." "There is plenty of room for them, poor little mites," said Mrs. Boniface. "And the plan is just like you, dear. There's only one objection I have to it. I don't like your binding yourself to work for so many years—not just now while you are so young. I should have liked you to marry, dear." "But I don't think that is likely," said CeeiI "And it does seem so stupid to let the time pass on and do nothing for years and years just because there is a chance that some man whom you could accept may propose to you. The chances': are quite equal that it may not be so, and then you have wasted a great part of your life." "I wish you could have fancied Herbert White," said Mrs. Boni- face, wistfully. "He would have made such a good. husband." "I hope he will to some else. But that would have been impos Bible, mother, quite, quite impos sible." "Cecil, dearie, is there—is there any one else '" "No one, mother, said Cecil, quietly, and the color in her cheeks did not deepen, and Mrs. Boniface felt satisfied. Yet, nevertheless, at that very moment there flashed into Cecil's mind the perception of the real reason which had made it im- possible for her to accept the offer of marriage that a week or two ago she had refused. She saw that Fri- thiof Falek would always be to her a sort of standard by which to measure the rest of mankind, andshe ::faced the thought quietly, for there had never been any question•: of love between them; he would pro- bably marry the pretty Miss Mor- gan, and it.was very unlikely that she should ever meet him again. "'Tie man whom I could accept. must be that sort of'•,man," she thou ltt to ?;erself. ``Andth,e,rp is son.ething degrading in the idea of standing and waiting for the doubt fill mance that such a one maysome day appear. Surely we, girls were not born into the world just to stand in rows waiting to; get ma,rrieadl" (To' be continued.)' wonders why, on earth, or wader it, he cannot raise such splendid crops of potatoes as he sees, pictured. Now, that is the paint I ani getting at; our variety is not a unit. In our 100 hills that we have dug, close study might reveal the pres- enee of at leastten strains or varie- ties, instead of the one that we thought we had. The hill that bore the little runts as, 1�2 lames.. There; is no dna It two or three the teal plats of absurd an this for often an inch vidual tuber will weigh more. -are ell* these should be discarded We will further assume that our caws are 3% feet apart and that our bills are two feet apart in the row. open planting, probably' epsn than as commonly Nem - las , ,c -lased. At this rate of planting the will bo 0,200 hills per acre, assuming nearly a perfect stand. With 1% pounds per bill, we would hire a yield of 155 bushels per acre, a j yield worth striving for by the ma-' jority of farmers. Now it may be that the hill ;with the three or four good tubers will °'t breed true, but the chances are lAat it will. The offspring of the hill is almost certain to produce a certain percentage of small tubers, but we may count upon it that it will produce a`lesser percentage of small tubers than the average hill. 1,\That a fanner should do at po- tato -digging time is to dig a fair- sized patch, leaving each hill by it self. .After the patch is dug ho should carefully go over the patch and select out those hills that have few tubers of good size. The. tubers from those hills should be sacked by themselvos and laid away for seed for the year fol- lowing. If he is particular he may not be able to find more than ten hills to his liking. In the springtime these should be treated by themselves and planted in a separate ; patch. '' The second year's product from the ten hills and the goodplats saved. If an occasional fanner follows the method here laid out, he will soon find that his neighbors will be after him for seed and they will bo willing to pay him a. bonus for them.. OFF TUB SAME PIG. .A. young wife recently went into at provision shop and addressed the shopman thus: "I bought three or four hams trete a month or so a`go, and they were fine. Have you any more of them 1" "Yes,' ma'am," replied the man. "There are ten of those harts hang- ing up there noir." °'Well, if you're sure they're oft the same pig, I'll take three of them," replied the young ;wife, meekly. SHE ADORED THE RING. Maud—When you broke the en- gagement, of course you returned the diamond ring he gave you, Ethel --Certainty notl I don't ears for Jack any more, but any feelings have not changed towards the ring. Weary William—"You eondemn us . tramps, but there's oue thing we must get credit . for." Mrs. Stingey—`' SVhat's that'? Weary Wiilia.nl "You don't ,hear us in- dulgin' in labor disputes." \�Ct+a-tilt y JheP" sty 1� r*=� - ;—�s'�f - .., - i sem.--_ ,--i--- 5 , cel • .,F- +. = ' -t`,77 .........--_,..:.•,—-„,„-...--,,,,----;.- 1, 'A--s—,„...,_,..0_„„�-._-.- - ? �•.- s'-' nl` ' ,.:� .' mss=.. T dces�'-drresidene Taft and Col.:Roosevelt are through with their mud slip zngp they must clean V. °s2 an i" ,shoe Polish is the very best thing; for their boots as all good Canadians and ,ericaR realize„ AT ALL DEALMS j V1� nest by test. Will not &loll the daintiest gar-' ments, Quick brilliant, lasting. No strap: even 1ia1i as good. sc