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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-9-16, Page 211!•,,,,,••••••••••,••••••••• rtt3s`�G,y 4� l ats.rYh MR ]i. «>: �yC.t .... � _ - _ :" ;c ;�s, : couxaging her to talk upon a subject , • so„grievous, and told her so, -duction of pork is perhaps of less int- That CHAPTER IV. l not many days, elapsed until, instead You might as well know every- portance to -da than. in the past. Tl}e That stirring Monday, I can not re -' of dictating the bulk of any corre- thing,” she returned listlessly, "It is leading swine -breeders have be un to (rein g fry n repeating,had demoral- inerel indicating b . a wordor two, become so used to contmplating the sh• � they sponednce I fell into the habit of, all strange and horrible,but I have recognize the fact that must iein , effect upon ane and ray affairs, y ;sickening truth that 1 eau do so now ape their favorite breeds to meet, When eae"stement breaks in roan ones gmarket demands, As a natural re- accustomed habits of alfa one is speed- : to her performance letter, „ with ameasilre of izardness--almost salt, the type of all the leading breeds ily keeyed up to anticipate yet more, it in appropriate language, as for theindifferently.”R, now conforms to a fixed standard that exeitement; one is u . ora .a i7&u vive of preparation of minor pleadings—de- ! No, no, 1 remonstrated, don. t expectancylike a boy with�a box of murrers, motions, and the like—I had say that; You've come to view the; meets the demands of the paelcing-� strange fare -works and when nothing only to call her attention to the of- : matter philosophically, perhaps, as a houses. Tlie hog that best meets the The 13yr CHARLES. EDMQNDS `i'A1.K Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc, !risen up to darken ' your life]' She w,e,�,` was so distressed that she wouldn't 0 wo yty ;try to talk about it, Anyhow, what ttthere to say? We were simply n c arm wo women over whose lives a dant shadow had fallen aped we were help- less to lift it." The hand holding the pencil was aeesateke eetesseesei arias raised to the desk and I saw that it trethh1ed. I was hanging upon her Common Sense in the Hog hot, narrative with eager intentness; but The question of which bxeed of. Vw: I did not want to harass her by en- swine to select'for the economic pro - else unusual ensues there follows a rice docket, Her work was a model of Sensible person should accept any, demand of the present tine is a well let-dotvn, a nervous relaxation, that ,exactness,, conciseness, clarity, and condition that can not be avoided; muscled hog, that will supply a fair neatness, but, hard --you? ?30, no Miss Fox; I` amount of lard and fat meat well leaves one uneasy and restless. - should hate to believe that," ' And so it was with ae, I . don't As she entered and closed the door. In iy excitement o believe 1 sprang upand . marbled with lean, and be ready 'for know what I expected. In the state behind her, I stalled her intently in: commenced Melena the floor. Miss . market at any desired age. of mind I had been worked up to, no- the light of my fresh idea, In a mo-: Fox spoke in a bitter tone, i Practical pig -owners, and feeders thing ranch short of death and de- ment I realized that my impoliteseru- i have produced any y «i c o ser her. , to deserve such a misfortune?—tel depth, length thin except a sense of . nti-cliinia c. "Conte in,"' I said, "Sit dawn' be weighted down --crushed under' uniformity of and width of term, tmid he My dreams were disturbed by the ter-' please. I did not call you for a dicta ,such load?n Y type,, regardless of the mark - Able figure of a ne'niatory Steve Wit- Bon, ifyou don't mind there's some-; ,• a Surely I am not so breed, color and eharaetexistie mark - lets brandishing pistols and,. in a fern- thing I ant to speak about." . wicked that i have earned a punish- ings, select ere it is essential that eaous nianuer, demanding the dia- I She sank wonderingly into her ac- `inept like this, It is horrible—cruel we select our breed' n animals fro d bl some well established breed, for pros.. in ? both. 1 scarcely tvo'ild Have , of my desk, facing aria, while all at ere was not the slightest use try- p been ] big to deceitie her with empty phrases niiseuaus mating of !wane of various Ga pri�ed if, at any moment, he once 1 discovered that I didn't know , and I knew it: Yet she needed eame- types has a tendency to. . had irrupted into t1aG> ' t of my -' • *� m Y destroy the struetion could tiny was fisc n `ins^ h , "But, Mr. Ferri; what have I done', oi' market hogs look for good quality, - unman urs. e, mend c*:• my life and derisively tak- sus#owed place on the apposite side: Th" •�- fees fo rme such violent fashion as saay. how t 1 o t el however -- II ever what 1 wanted to 1 thing to stimulate her out of her pre- types of all breeds employed in the that of nay dreams, or with Heaven Pardon m, 1lliss Foxe" I essayed, "sent lalaclr, enioattered mood, so 1 crosses and to throw away the result almy other dire intent, i ;'if 1 bring up a subject painful to you Baited beside her chair and spoke with, of years of systematic selecting and some sternness, rafting and perpetuate a certain fixed That I should have been in the least I have an excellent reason for deluge "Look h M- , regardful if Steve Ii filets i a, of so " i knowo very -riff- eco i?o, I dont ; type in the breed. This point has been course, riiliculoue; I knew it at the She was quick to anticipate that the at least o • y knowledge I" but 1 have illustrated by mating a half Poland time. Had it not been for Miss Fox burden of aur talk was to touch upon • and ets ame ]Aon l.dge of the world; China and half Chester W: I would not have given the scoundrel „ some phase of her unfortunate his- i s ways. And one an ith ways iii,of l y, hate sow a ser:on�3 thought. It was no more tory, and her e:. r ��`Y � , -that in one fashion or another a)� of' t ith a pure-bred Berkshire boar, The ry, p e , i e face in„teetly us have to suffer; it is the tempering, pigs resulting from the cross were than acoincidence that he happened pened to grew troubledand anxious. ous. the eti•*'n s• i. o �,trying-out process; ordeal, spotted, o ., y g the ordeal, tted be at large relit ata time when some • She asked apprehensively; Have p , a p , specicros and striped, perverse chance made me the die-' you heard anything?" every human being hais to go; shooing that the cross was lost, and h h• mond's custodian, 1j hat could he pas-. "Don't -worry," I admonished, try- t o prof either his tiworth er with it the improvements in calor and sibly know about the diamond? No- ing to be cheerful, "I was just sitting hisunfitness. t Sometimes we lase our; markings. The result was the return thing whatever. Miss Fox, poor girl, here thinking, not particularly of any- ^ fortitude; but those of us, that are of the offspring by the principle of afforded a wholly inadequate cause thing concerning you, but of last worth a pinch of salt recover it again; heredity to the original fig rile to be adding him to my vori-:Menday's events an general, when a and we assn Old Lady Fate bravely— Grub type, ass imaginary. sources of apprehen- question sudden] , into m . _nap our fi.. cis under liar naso. .. All of our swine, particularly the AM; and, aY if to make fun r+f niy mine}, one that suddenly popped you may an- I need not resort to platitudes or improved breeds, which are but a. ie :. things settled least into their saver, 1 all at once realized that your banalities to comfort you, because modified form of the original, will not normal h;amdrum condition and 1 was story left ,much to be filled in, and I you know in your heart that las long eiroduce themselves perfectly unless' as you yourself entertain only proper Y y not c:stui•herl--that t is to „ay, not for rrcnaieredm•Ha,ve I your perniissionto •d A p p guided b the hand of man. Whatever` is ee is selected should b 'k t I time, he personal?" I broke off to ask, ideals and try to follow thew, that rs' ! . d ` 3o- rl:a s seemed successfully tai have Her curiosity was around, but sale tang as you 't mak to what is right, ex- pod onl ] the s e er pure, e , ternals dont matter a darn. That's ; y c be t used for breeding. eau e newspapers -n pursuit. Days with by ; did a:ct reply at once, She Gat for the truth, anyway, whether you know The man who makes .a, e s bri. tled with sen_ e- come time thoughtful] putting one „ y a specialty of ion, ac.:o;alits the man -hunt, but of her encils throe 5 r' #' 1 of h hp gh a e sea of it or not, producing pork, should grasp every+ reeding bbetween the lines, it was easy slow somersaults upon the ser aped ; "But everybody inot as charitable; opportunity to improve his breeding to maim out that the crficeri were notebook in her lap, and I was !nee fase you, hSr. Ferris,"she said with, stock, the same as the man who is er:rng•l t' Iy at sea. That he had more impressed by her steadiness and feeling. "People can't, or won't* breeding registered swine, •lra::•ned in the bay; that he had slip- self-control. In a moment her lases s overlook the stain on my name. Such ?cd , card sc-file outgoing vessel ]sound clouded and she met my regard witiD things are infinitely harder for a wo-, Uniformity of type is an important; :torled the Chien;; that had made his a disturbed look. , roan to bear. At best so few ways,, thing in the successful management! way soathv:ard to Mexico or north= "Of course," she said, quietly,"you °are open to her; she has to be so care- of breeding -hags, especially near mar - ward to Alaska, rico art them- mayask meful not to invite criticism, always to ` ket time, for, a unlace:A hunch of hogs elves asla aline, likesuganything you like; I „ g , cgpromising avenues know you would not do so out of Ale move- circumspectly, that for her M will bring more money on any market of escape. Each in turn was peraever-. curiosity. What,,ia pit you: avant to wage-earning is indeed a struggle,! than a mixed lot. A pure-bred lot ingly followed up, but fruitlessly. know?" ,,.., --' But under normal conditions I would e of hogs are much more apt to mature Th iugli rine by one his four comport- aa,cue' 1pursued "I must confess not raise a word in complaint; I! together andplease t ions were gathered in fru - could• I would—be hadiscriminating Dove or at least,: different . >riefy that curiosity has a good deal to do content. buyers. Found of totht s, no ' .ice" at all was with it; but I am curious only bo- !'Think, though, of what 1 have to In selecting a breed we should give f' ve whom the law , cause 1 am interested in your welfare. face! EvenifI • was ",:'i' eager to recapture: In going over in mind our last Aron- could forget the tuoi particular attention to its adaptability t al stigma in the less worthy concern to the environments under which it is ,--- " ith the apprehending of his corn- day's conversation, I recalled that you ©f fighting for a living, nevertheless I, st panions it transpired that the quintet implied ignorance an your pari: of :, have to earn a iivin some way. And to be placed. Some are good rustlers, had imparted immediately, upon win- much of your family's history; in `]lo v 'n II•, g th; some are more quiet and better adapt - bang the shore of Contra Costa county: point of fact, you said Your aunt re- door closed against me—" somewhere near Sobrante, each going fused to tally, about it—about your "Stop," I said. "You know we've a difieeent way. This plan had been parents. Just how, then, did you 'settled that, don't you?" adopted, it appeared, not only to baf- come to know: that Steve Willets is fie pursuit, but also because Willets your father?" would have none of his associates. He She flushed and her lips tightened, left them and went on his way alone, and I knew that 1 had called up a The arch -criminal, however, had painful memory, She replied without vanished as utterly as if the waters pause, however. of the bay had in very truth closed "Do you know Mr. Meyer Hardwick, over his head for good and all. of the Kenton -Hardwick Company?" she asked, and when I nodded affirma- tively, proceeded: "When he discharg- ed me something like four months ago, he told me that because my fa - As for the diamond, it remained capon my person all of Monday night— a wretched period of mental distress. Bright and early Tuesday morning I might have been seen impatiently ther was a convict serving a life sen- tounting the minutes until the banks tence, his company could not keep me opened, and thereupon consigning it any longer." M any safe-deposit box with eagerness "Good gracious!" 1 interjected. that must have seemed to an onlooker, "No hint of anything of the kind had any been about, like spurning a had ever come to me before. At first thing accursed.. Not until then did 1 1 thought Mr. Hardwick must be draw a breath of relief. ° drunk or crazy; but my mind. was The gem, for all its resplendency auickiy disabused of that idea. I and inestimable \slue might have didn't know what to think. I had a oeen the very personification of mys good position; I knew I had been giv- tery which deepened and intensified ing satisfaction; I knew his first in - when the passing days brought me no definite reasons really were not the intelligence respecting it. This to me, true ones for getting rid of me. Na- st the time, was the most marvellous turally I insisted on knowing what his aspect of the entire episode, real reason was, and at last he was What extreme of emergency had obliged to tell me. driven the unknown sender to make "He declared the information had so mad a disposition of an object of come to him from a source so re...able such incalculable value? And then, that he could not doubt it, and while to neglect it; to remain silent,to say he sympathized with me personally, if the ieast, were of a nature to make the knowledge became generally. my lot an exceedingly unhappy one. known that I was Steve—was a con - I took no one into my confidence.' vice's daughter, it would be harmful I was afraid to, to put it candidly. I to his company." shrank from the very thought of any- "Inhuman ass!" I growled. body discovering that I even had "Well, as soon as I• overcame my knowledge of the thing, for I knew stupefaction I laughed at the absurd not what fresh dire complications I ity of the thing. Next I grew angry might be plunged into. 1 -when I realized he was dead in earn Yet puzzled cogitation over the. est and not to be moved by anything diamond did not occupy my mind to I might say or do; but the dismissal the exclusion of all things else. Per- { was final, and Mr. Hardwick was not haps because the circumstances fell disposed to waste much time over so closely together, and because' me." everything connected with both was "It is incredible," I marvelled, "that so unusual, the divulgence of Miss,a man of Hardwick's standing and ac - Fox's astounding, secret was more orcepted common sense could be guilty less mingled with it. And one day, as of a thing like that." I sat alone, a clear; luminous idea at I And do you know, she could find it last penetrated the haze of my, futile ] in her heart to put forward an ex- tenuation! "It was the firm's good name, I sup- pose," she 'exclaimed,, "that he was brooding, and on the spur of the mo- ment I pressed the *buzzer button twice—the signal . that Miss Fox's services were required. jealous of; reputable business houses • She appeared promptly, carrying her,can not afford to take chances. But notebook and a battery of pencils. that doesn't soften the •awful injus Jt was remarkable the ease with tice of the act to pie." which she Teed slipped into her new "Firm's good name -rubbish!" I position, becoming at once, as it were, again interrupted. "Hardwick's an a part of my office fixtures—but, no, 1 unfeeling idiot! Am I to understand I can not with accuracy say that. Ra- I that his•brutality' is the first inkling , the-, into the midst of a dullness that you ever had of .your parentage?" yeas, at times depressing even to I "No -o- o," .came the slow rel`yy; Stub's blithe nature she ` had brought i "but it Was the first inkling I ever had light and sunshine and cheer. Her: that anybody else knew about it. It coming had been more like a bright :was the first time I . ever had it spirit returning to and reentering brought home to me what being Steve its mortal shell after a temporary ab- Willets's daughter' meant. senee. 3day or two, the news—you straight to Aunt Lois with At ane- rate • within a know, it amounted to It was as if she had been with me al- that because the subject was taboo ways; and I> was beginning to realize between us, even. The effect upon that, regardless of the mystery sur- rounding her life, and its possible in- fluence over her, I had in truth ac- quired an extraordinarily competent aid. The degree of my 'confidence in her may be gauged by thedact that ed to small feed lots. The breeds that have proved best suited to our climate and conditions "Yes," she returned with suppress_ in the hands of farmers and feeders ed vehemence, "I suppose so. Every are the safest breeds to invest in. We added kindness of yours makes me all have our preferences, our likes and feel the more keenly that I am selfish . dislikes, our favorite color markings and disregarding; that I am impos- - and our hobbies but from the view- ing—" point. of dollars and cents there is no Once more 1 cut in. best breed. All breeds possess many (To be contimaed.) good qualities, and some less desir- - able ones, and the man who makes a That Uncomfortable Feeling. failure with one breed can hardly Halter—Do you think severe re- hope to succeed with another. Judi- ligious training really prevents a cions care will bring success with any person from wrongdoing? breed. Skelter—Well, it doesn't exactly prevent it, but it certainly detracts from the pleasure one gets from sin- ning. Blame, the Elephant. Customer (annoyed)—"I wish to return this paper cutter. It is not ivory, as represented." Clerk "Not ivory, madam? I can't understand that, unless the ele- phant had false teeth." About four million steel pens are consumed daily in the world. FrencCicmznander At the Dardanelles GENERAL BAILLOUD. was the Goneral second in command of the french Expeditionary Army sent to the Dardanelles under. Gem, Gouraud. On that officer; being her was so startling that for a while wouiilied; he succeeded to the I forgot my own trouble in solicitude command. Within three months for her. She looked like a woman three . French officers have, field the command as colleague to girt suddenly stricken. Ian Hamilton. the two form, , "Suddenly she burst out: `God help 1- were Gen. rl'Amade and Gcu. you, child, that this thing h^„!ii•we Gouraud. All practical hog -growers agree that crossing the breeds is a danger- ous practice, and that the best re- sults are attained by sticking to one • breed. Still, some men still cling to the idea that it is possible to incor- porate all the good qualities of the different breeds into a cross -bred ani- mal. It is a disastrous belief if put into practice. There may be certain instances when crossing willgive good results, as in the production of pig pork. The man who is experimenting with the various breeds and crosses, in search of something better than has yet been found, may have a mission,. but such line of investigation is not practical for the man who must de- pend upon the return from his swine - feeding for his farm profits. He is on safer ground if he confines his. taste and skill to improving one well established breed and leaves the ex- perimenting to the man of leisure and means. Oats make a fine ration for hogs but as a rule they are too expensive. Fed to. sows just after farrowing, oats cannot be surpassed for keeping them in good condition. A feeding • floor will save itself in feed and manure in a single year, provided it is made of waste material around the farm. A cement feeding floor is a joy to any lover of swine. It is rather ex- pensive to commence:, with, but its durability makes it a paying invest- ment in the long run. Brick makes a fairly good feeding floor, but to be ef- fective requires a deep foundation of. broken stone, sand and cinders, and this is expensive. A field • of rye sown in the early fall will help out the grain supply won- derfully in the late . spring. It is a prevalent notion that hogs cannot thrive except they have a mud hole ; in, which to wallow. Nonsense! Pigs, thrive better' on clean pasture, clean floors and clean water than' they'do in dirty surroundings. ' In the summer time the hog seeks the mud hole in order to cool himself and to. rid himself of the flies, not because he naturally likes mud better than clean„ water. Many people imagine that if they give the pigs plenty of skimmed milk they do not need water. Milk changes A Delight!ul Garden Freshness-- characterzes the Flavor of B32 Quality Unchallenged for ..T twntr th ee Tears. to solid food almost the moment it, COAST enters the pig's stomach and is, there FROM SUNSET fore, not a substitute for water, It costs nothing to soak hard grain in warm water, and when fed to pigs WHAT THEWESTERN1 PEOPLE its digestibility is increased. ARE DOING. There are scores of theories about watering animals, but our experience is that the best judge of the matter is the animal itself, If it can always Progress of the Great Fest Told reach water when it needs it, it will , take care of its awn wants. A STOREHOUSE OF WORK. Tremendous Labors of Sir James Mur- ray on New English Dictionary, Sir James A. H. Murray may be said to have reared his own monument in that prodigious achievement of the lexicographer's art, the New English Dletionary, the last volume of which was almost ready togata the press when he died. A task of vaster scope in all the long history of tlae cult of words was surely never undertaken, says The Boston Herald, Here wee a richly endowed scholar who gave 86 years of his life to the search for spellings, meanings, derivations and pronunciations that ran back to the beginnings of English literature. He hadhis volunteer assistants in every Anglo-Saxon country—several thou- sands of there—and 5,000 authors of all periods were consulted to supply him with, material. At the time his work had to be left for completion to others the stock of quotations accu- mulated numbered 6,000,000, all writ- ten on slips of paper that turned the scale at six tons. And out of this in- dustry and this scholarship comes a dictionary of about 300,000 words. How much of it will fit into every- day use? A good many of the 800,- 000 are long obsolete; even of those still in good standing how many do we really need ? Shakespeare cap- tured his world audience with about -15,000, and Milton wrote himself into fame with 8,000. ft is estimated that the average literary 'man of to -day uses 4,000, and the "man in the street" not over 2,000. The English country yokels of "slow, bovine gaze" whom George Eliot describes have probably 300 to their credit; the pea- sants in certain sections of continen- tal Europe are known to live the bu- colic life on a vocabulary of about 100 words by actual count. And yet the people who will nibble thus sparingly at Sir James Murray's great encyclopedia of our language are the very people who dictate dic- tionaries and supersede them by usage even while they are in the mak- ing. It is they who have rendered possible this priceless record of our Anglo-Saxon tongue; it is they, too, who in the years to come will call for fresh surveys of our everliving and everchanging speech. We shall need a New English Dictionary long be- fore Americans have begun to spell phonetically and dins themselves "Usonians." The word "brat," now a term of contempt, was once an ordinary ex- pression for a small child. In a Few Pointed P:eragraphe. Penticton apricot season ran to 7,000 crates shipped. Prospects are good for a fair honey crop in British Columbia, A big run of red fish is looked for on the Kaelo streams this season. Lumbermen at Cranbroolt decided to put up the price :a dollar a thousand. Over a thousand enemy aliens are internedin six camps in British Col- umbia, Thehigh-water h h zva attendance e at the g tel atte i c public schools of Vancouver in June was 4,819. South Vancouver wants only mar- ried residents employed on its new sewer work. The canning factory at Brilliant put up two tons of fruit daily at its topmost time. North Vancouver civic ferry for the first -six months of this year showed a deficit of over $8,000. The casaba, a cross between the watermelon and muskmelon, has be- come popular in Vancouver. Kamloops has rejected volunteers for war service wearing badges to show they offered their services. New Westminster decided it could not afford to send its fire chief to the Ottawa convention this year. For striking an interned alien a military guard at Fernie was fined $10 and dismissed from the ranks. After cutting Vancouver civic esti- mates over $250,000, a new cut inust be made if the tax rate is kept at 22 mills. Prohibition is looming larger in the mind of British Columbia now that sister provinces havo legalized liquor reform. New Westminster bakers were sur- prised to be summoned for selling loaves of bread less than a pound in weight. Premier McBride sent Col. Theodore Roosevelt a souvenir view book of; British Columbia to recall his recent, visit, Otto Becker sold his coffee factory in New Westminster and was getting, out of the country when caught as a, spy and interned. Some of the interned aliens at Brandon, Man.are now at a camp in Relelstoke Par,k, 'where views are said to be delightful. New Westminster Council, after much trouble, got a local engineering, plant ready for munition orders for, the war and never secured one. A man who refused his name, after doing two years for theft at New Westminster, got $500 cash back from the,police it was on him at the ar- rest. The current of the River Amazon is felt 150 miles out at sea, is the Sugar for Jams and Jellies. When you pay forgood fruit, and spend a lot of time over it, you naturally want to be sure that your jellies and preserves will turn out just right.You can be, if you use Aggift Sugar. 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