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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-10-7, Page 2-rows i,. Everybody— young and old —loves the rich, delicious flavor of Cro m. A- rand MORN SYRUP It is a daily treat—the perfect sweet. Just what the Children should have on Bread—costs far less than butter or preserves. Delicious with mot Biscuits, and Batter Cakes. Gives a new delight to Baked Apples, Blanc -Mange and Puddings. Makes the best Candy you ever tasted. Ian" is a pure white Corn Syrup, not es pronounced. s "Crown Brand". } i+sr Grocer has &lb Primes, srs a; , , zo and ;:o pound' tins or rents easily get then jrr yam Canada Starch Co. -4." The Green Seal By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc. yet young. I had no occasion to be T have taken pains to advertise, I re- suspicious, so I got my hat and coat called with a feeling of relief that I and went outside, where already a carried nothing referring in any way limousine car stood purring at the to the diamond, There was the key curb,. I could not see much of the to my safe-deposit box, to be sure, but chaffeur; Jeut as he seemed to be in a that would scarcely be of avail to desperate'hurry, the reason for haste anybody except myself. being apparent .enough, I did not The whispered discussion continued hesitate, for some time, and then it abruptly Somebody inside threw open the ended. Much • to my astonishment, I limousine door. I stepped in. Simul- all at once realized that my posses taneously the car started and the door signs were being returned to me, banked to. , . each item being methodically restor- Next instant I was in darkness and ed to the pocketfrom which it had struggling futilely in a grip that ren-, been taken. This accomplished there dered me powerless. was a sudden 'shifting of position. I WAS pushed forward; the cloth was CHAPTER'VII. drawn tighter about niy head; it was So wholly undreamed of 'had been' tiedbehind. Without w�irning the machine came any idea' of kidnapping, or whatever to a grinding stop_ I heard the door motive lay behind this outrageous as- open. Ii was just beginning to specu- sault, that I could not have been more late upon the nature of our destine - completely taken unawares. My first tion and their final disposition of me, efforts at resistance were instinctive, when I found myselfin a sitting posi- purposeless, and represented only so tion upon the ground, which was hard much wasted power. My wits, how- and unyielding and composed entirely ever, were quickened toan unwonted of projecting lumps with sharp points activity, and they spun almost an in- and jagged edges, stantaneous conception of my preclica-E I had been deliberately pitched out, , ` meat, l and with a spluttering roan the car The moment I bent to enter the lin had immediately dulled away. mousine, some sort of heavy cloth had (To be continued.) been thrown over my head and the ends quickly twisted, drawing the fabric tight; I could hardly breathe, . y let alone raise an outcry. At the From Erm s Green Isle same time, I had been violently jerked inside and against the soft seat cushions, where I was pinned by a vise -like grasp on either arm that :NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRELAND'S rendered hire completely helpless; the GREEN SHORTS door had slammed shut and the ma- chine darted away at high speed. The Whole thing bad happened in a sec- ond, and the next second doubtless Happenings in the Emerald Isle of saw us a square away from the San Interest to All True Irish- Gabriel Club, bound I knew not \either. I hadn't the remotest concep- men, tion of direction, MY belief in this respect being governed, through the Sir Hiram Shaw Wickinsan, Kt., subsequent lurching twists and turns, has been appointed a Deputy -Lieu- ty the way the machine had been tenant of the county of Londonderry. pointing when I entered it. all h! I soon stopped struggling and at- Lieut. -Colonel C. J. Burke, Royal l tempted to express my feelings vocal- Flying Corps, an Irish officer, has i ly; but this also was unsatisfactory had the honor of being received by .�#',r•. ;tom el and exceedingly discomforting by the Xing, who invested him with the ..,M.t.. .�--..- ,a•,�- reason of the smothering folds of insignia of a Companion of the Dis- t"II tI'TI;I: i'I, f,t'oni'ci1. ' at once uncomfortable and ill ' at cloth that enveloped nay head, and I tinguisbed Service Order, i soon grew quiet. I needed all the `�Mi Ferri.!" hc' said, Urea thleesly, ease, I o rs refined at observing• breath I could pump into my longs to -The }kiarchioness of �Yaterfoxd. "What in the world does it all mean" "Laadd:. here, Ferris," he blustered , keep from suffocating Moreover the presided at a large meeting held in I'm afraid of that man? Can the miss- at last, "yea take a tip from me and ' fact that my most furious efforts and Kilkenny Court House for the pur- in" ruin be James Strang. do you be- keep out of this thing. I'm saying protests elicited not the slightest re- pose of establishing a branch depot lieve ?" this for your own good. I can't tell , f; �; sponse, was in itself sufficient to ex- i in Kilkenny for making bandages, "Lord Mees clow,, I returned ties- You, how I got the information, but, cite apprehension. • c- 1'i lets dau. titer all ; r.aringly, `'I can :believe anything, right, ail4ri ht. l ?.tint that that fact After the first shock of surprise, yet 1'irr aoith of "nothing, I tion t, alone prejudices me against dreg, Y' a my derm. nn that ane of thingcould knowb what to thigh. wonderment e t a c On the one hand was her vanished . understand, but there are circum- have happened at all, and that I, a stances connected with the Suet, of correspondence, espondence, a situation in itself tier Lein Steve wean s's daugter self-respecting, dignified, peace -lov- strange enough in all conscience, and that m ice her as dangerous er 1 ing member of the bar, should have on the other wasthe inexplicable af- been singled out of a whole cityful fair of the diamond. Now it seemed (13 min rte to her friends. I rn no for such a melodramatically -staged more than possible that Strang anti' saying a 'Wonotion against your hlifel r sh oxse a o adWhatrdid m unseen captors mean the person who sent me the parcel ripping fine girl, and I can't express y e p were one and the same, iisrry I zgim for her; but—" This line of reasoning at once; suggested something else. Was it • Hie patronizing manner enraged not possible that Strang, being aware , me. 1 r of :Visa Fox's whereabouts, had. in-' "Yes, 'but,' I took him up when tended the diamond for her, and con- - he stopped; "that's a poor refuge for, signed it to me in escrow until the a candid, forthright, two-fisted man question of her identity was determin- to avail himself of. You'll either ed, meaning to send also a letter of explain what you mean, or let me' explanation? Then why had not that carry away the opinion that you are letter been sent to me? The combin a blackguard and a coward." ation of circumstances loomed °min- These were rough worde, but I ously. E meant them. I was mad clear through After Nome moments of reflection I' and Hardwick knew it. There was raid: ; one second during which a savage "1 am in a difficult position, Miss' personal assault hung over me as im Iib.. The truth is, I withheld inform- minently as my next heart-beat, but ation from that fellow because 1 had it didn't come. }Iardwiek owned a strong hunch that he is not the sort some gentlemanly instincts and at to be trusted with anything really ; least a modicum of common sense, vital, particularly if he should get the . else he could not have been the pro - idea that the confidence offered op-, sperous man of affairs that he was. portunities for gain. May be I am; Abruptly the first flush of red-hot altogether wrong. May be I'm eels- anger died in him, and he looked at judging him and doing him an injus- me queerly. tice. If so, if anything really has f "Ferris, you're right," he said in happened to Strang, and I should be a -troubled tone that took me by sur - instrumental in frustrating the po- prise. "It does seem to anybody riot lice's efforts to find him, I'll never for- knowing the facts a rotten way to give myself." i treat a decent girl, and Lois Fox is a At this juncture our tete-a-tete was I mighty sight more than that. But, broken in upon, and the day afforded 'Ferris, think what you will, here's all no further opportunity for discus -.I can tell you: I had it put to me to sing the matter. I get rid of a certain stenographer, or The development of what I had else see Kenton -Hardwick plunged come to regard as our mystery, I • into all sorts of difficulties—mebbe mied only by fits anht as well d starts,eas it were, ess- , wiped out into the devil knows what. The occurring as a series of interludes during days that were otherwise de- voted to the exacting demands of my profession, and I have purposely re- frained from mentioning business matters- because they unnecessarily Interrupt a chronicle of happenings that were quite irrelevant to them. Eat from the view -point of you who are reading these lines it is the busi- ness details that are immaterial and retarding, except as they directly af- fect my story. Therefore, on a prin- ciple similar to that with which the toper quiets his conscience, that "whiskey and business will not mix," we shall henceforth dispense with business. It was Thursday that witnessed the incidents last recounted. - Nothing more happened until the following Saturday evening, at which time mat- ters assumed a thrilling aspect that ill -accorded with my inadventurous habits of mind. - - After dinner. I encountered Meyer Hardwick at the club where I reside, end- of which he also is a member. I did not in the least mince matters in taxing him with his treatment of Miss $' x. He was at first not a little surpris-' ed, and next, when he., rea. lized, hove tench in earnest I was, he became all stenographer happened to be Miss Fox. I stared at him in speechless amaze- ment; but there was no questioning the man's sincerity. "Hardwick," I exclaimed at last, "do you realize what an utterly pre- posterous thing you are expecting me to believe ? What can there possibly be in common between a girl who has to drudge for her living and your big concern, that could place it in such jeopardy as you have described?. Nonsense!" He was writhing in an agony of em- barrassment. He twisted this way and that, and suddenly jerked out his handkerchief ' and violently mopped his face and forehead with it, though the lounge was cool and comfortable. "By heavens, Ferris!" he splutter- ed, "it's a fact. I—I can't say any- thing more. It's the very deuce, I know; but I can't explain." I surveyed him a second longer; then all at once the cause of his agi- tation burst upon me. "Hardwick," said I wonderingly, "you are in a panic of fright." He stared wildly at me a moment, then rushed away without another word. I ; dropped helplessly into a chair. What a muddle! Was a sane man ever before called upon to grapple with eventualities so completely de- ranged, so purposeless, beginning without cause and rushing to no de- finite end? Yet withal they were dangerous, like some intricate machin- ery running wild. My perplexed reflections were brok- en in upon by a page coming to my corner and notifying me that I was wanted atthe telephone. An unfam- iliar, nervous, masculine voice told me that one of my wealthiest• clients had been taken suddenly ill, that his 'eons din= was grave, and. that" he want- ed to see me forthwith. My inform- ant explained that he was thebutler, and added that en automobile already had been dispatched to fetch me. I glanced at my watch and saw that etc., for use in `oar hospitals. It has been announced in Dublin that by instructions of Major-General Friend, commanding the forces in Ireland, the police have served notice on Mr. Ernest Blythe, Mr. Liam Mellons and Mr. Pim (known as "A. Newman"), requesting them to leave Ireland immediately. When a fire engine was going to to do with me, that they were willing an outbreak of fire at Bloomfield Factory, Belfast, it knocked down a man named George Robinson, who was so seriously injured that he died shortly afterwards. The death is reported at Durham, Natal, of Mr. Samuel Joseph Gould- ing, son of the Iate Mr. Samuel Goulding, of Dublin. Mr. Goulding, Jun., rendered invaluable service to the local Defence Rifle Association. A disastrous fire occurred in Bel- fast, resulting in the destruction of the Dufferin Dock shed, sonic 60,000 bags of flour, the gift from Canada, and a large quantity of hay. The. damage is estimated at over $260,000. Second Lieutenant Bernard Con- vey, of Dublin, attached" 2nd Batta- lion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, has been killed -in action in Flanders. He was the son of a former Chief Clerk to the Maryborough District Asylum. For stating that he had met and drank with the commander and crew of a German submarine at Water- ville a man named Michael Farrell was sentenced to one month's hard labor at Berehaven, under the De- fence of the Realm Act. Sir Crawford McCullough, J.P., Lord Mayor of Belfast, has received a communication from the Minitter of Munitions stating- that arrange- ments have been made with the Board of Trade for continuing the work of enrolling war munition vol- unteers. to risk so reckless an undertaking? Were they whisking me away to seine convenient spot for the purpose of slitting mythroat without fear of in- terruption? Or was this simply an elaborate scheme for robbery? A minute or two must determine; but why should I be selected for robbery? And then the diamond flashed into my mind. I steadied at once; my mentality sprang keenly alert to meet the emergency, with the gem as the ba- sis of my speculations, I began to draw inferences from the few facts at hand. The enveloping folds of cloth serv- ed the double purpose of muffling any outcry I might attempt, and also of effectively blindfolding me; in the fraction of time between the opening of the limousine door and the obscur- ing of my vision, I had noticed that the windows were covered with cur- tains: thus I on the inside could be a witness to nothing that occurred, just as nobody in the street could glimpse what went on as the automo- bile sped by. The car held perhaps four persons besides myself. So far I had not been in the least hurt physically, the only force used having been to overcome resistance on my part, and now that I had ceased to struggle the hands holding me measurably relaxed their grip on arms and legs, though I was sensible of the fact that they remain- ed in instant readiness to check the first signs of renewed opposition on my part. The entire plot, manifestly, had been carefully planned, its every de- tail thought out and prepared for be- forehand, and I soon became con- vinced that submission for the pre- sent would be the better course for me to adopt. The ruse had been ab- surdly simple and easy of accomplish- ment. I realized that I must be watchful to let nothing escape me by. which afterwards I might identify my cap- tors: they must speak sooner or later, if not to :,die at least among themselves, and I would have one or more voices to remember; the cover- ing might accidentally be removed, enabling me to catch a glimpse of their features—almost any trifling in- cident, in short, might afford me an opportunity. But no opportunity presented it- self. I heard no voice; of those with me I saw nothing. There were whis- perings aplenty, but so slight as to suggest the speaker's lips held close to an attentive ear. Then all at once. I stiffened. A hand 'slipped into one of::my pockets. And as if taking this for a signal of renewed opposition, .the deterring grasp once more closed tightly upon my arms and legs. One of the ras- cals, indeed, must have been kneel- ing upon the car floor and hugging my' shins close to him. The •searching- hand moved swiftly but systematically; it left no part of my attire 'or "'person unexplored. Everything in my .peckete''was remov- ed—handkerchief, watch,: 'keys,' pen, pencil, penknife, bill -fold, memo,. rn0dum-book, and all letters and pa- lpes. I heard a rustling of paper and a' repetition of, the faint whispeiang, by which I' guessed they -were deliber- ately reading and discussing every scrap. of "-writing found. Mentally ' I conired over the contents of these vent, •ous letters and memoranda and while ALFONSO'S- READY SILENCER. An Amusing Story of a Visit the Spanish King Paid Few of those who recently read in the newspapers that King Alfonso of Spain had celebrated his twenty-ninth birthday •remembered that this young - monarch has reigned longer than any other European sovereign except the King of Montenegro and the Emperor of Austria. Alfonso was born a king,. and has reigned all the twenty-nine years of his life. Pearsn's Weekly tells an amusing story of .a visit he once paid, when he was little more than a boy, to a small Spanish town that is noted for a certain delicious kind of candy that is as sticky as it palatable. When the young king arrived, a de- putation of the' townsfolk waited on him and presented him with a huge box of the famous candy. At the same time a pompous man stepped forward with: a large roll of paper in his hand, which he began to open. It was a loyal address, and evidently a ,very long one. Now, King Alfonso loathes listening to addresses, so` as the big man ad- vanced;°he handedround the box of candy among the deputation and made the would-be reader 'fake a particular- ly large„ piece. " Of course etiquette forbade him to refuse. As he worked his jaws up and'down, his teeth stuck in the candy,. and he could no more have read the address than he could have flown into the air! Fresh from the Gardens of the fiAest Tea -product i g country In the world. IV i Sealed Packets Only. it—it's delicious., BLACK GREEN or MIXED. B 74 Requisites of a Good Horse.. The first requisites of a good driver are a cool head and a watchful eye, with ready fingers and the quick un- derstanding of the needs and require ments of his horse. Be must also be - ready to detect any object by the roadside which would be likely to annoy the horse and grasp at a glance the character of the road that lies ahead -of him, No quick-tempered, loud -voiced man can expect to have a. quiet, obedient horse; and the undue baste of the quick-tempered driver to correct what seems to him misbehavior, is one of the reasons why so many horses are dangerous to drive. Much of this abuse, however, to which the horse is subjected, arises more from sheer ignorance and carelessness than from wanton cruelty. Before starting on a long drive you should examine the horse, the harness and the vehicle—the bit should be as. easy a one as possible, the harness must be comfortable and well fitting Do not use a check rein if the road is long and hilly, but should one be necessary then loosen the head of the horse before ascending a hill, when going over muddy roads, and also whenever you stop, as it is natural for a horse to lower his head when he makes an extra exertion, and also to droop it when he is resting. A horse should not only be allowed to walk slowly along steep and muddy parts of the road, but also occasion- ally on level ground; the change from one set of muscles to another rests him. When your horse begins to feet fatigued he will strike one of. his hoofs against the ankle opposite, often bruising and cutting it. As it is generally one of the hind ankles, an ankle boot should be worn during a long drive, even if it is un- necessary on other occasions. Two other indispensable articles on a long drive are a wooden scraper for removing foam and a hoof -pick for dislodging stones. For one who is often on the road it is also useful to have a few pieces of rope and sonic brass wire, as with these in his pos- - session - anyone with ingenuity can quickly repair ordinary damages to the harness or carriage. Horses, when traveling, should have water given to them frequently in reasonable quantities—if you drive slowly for a while after watering your horse, no injurious results will fol• low, and they may be refreshed by a few mouthfuls of grain, hay or grass. Should yen donee to stop where there is a strong breeze blowing, put a light blanket on your or se, even if the weather is warm. Do not, at any part of a long trip yield to the temptation of racing with passing vehicles, for the quickening of a horse's steady road pace to a racing gait heats him unnecessarily, and if done frequently is very fatiguing. Remember always that your mood communicates itself to your horse. Be gentle, cheerful and patient in your :manner toward him and allow him to derive as much comfort as possible from the drive, as you yourself ex- pect. Nowadays farmers are beginning to awaken to the fact that it takes strong horses to do good work on the farm. The fact that almost any horse can be made to do something at farm Work. is no valid excuse for men who profess to have their own interests at heart to persist in breeding horses. that nobody wants, not even them- selves. In the fields abig .team makes haste by the widthof the furrow or swath they cut. Thereis pleasure and inspiration in the business of breeding and handling high class horses. Bear in mind in breeding horses that it is just as essential to breed good feet on to them as to get weight and blood in thort. The pure-bred mare is a good investment to the small farm- er, and if he will allow her to share the work of the place she will do near- ly as much work as a gelding, and raise a good colt besides. A well-bred mare to a stallion of the best type will bring a colt worth as much at weaning -time as a grade colt would bring at maturity, some- times a lot more. One Thing. Officer—So, Mrs. Casey, ye whit to the aviation meet. An' did ye on- dershtand the aeroplanes? Mrs. Casey—Shure, an' I did; but there was wan thing I didn't git through me head, sir, and that was what holds thim up! Nelson's last words in the cockpit of the- Victory were, "Thank God, I have done -my duty!" Willie Spoke. Sister—"Come, . Willie, and take your powder like a little man. You never hear me make any complaint about a trifle like that." Willie -- "Neither would I if I could daub it on my face like you do. It's swallowing the stuff that I don't like." 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