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The Exeter Advocate, 1915-11-4, Page 6The Syrup o/ tin .reg Uses Of course, "Crown Brand" is your favorite Table Syrup. Of course,. you enjoy its delicious, appetizing flavor with .Bread', Pancakes and .Plot Biscuits. But what about "Crown Brand" in the kitchen ? Do you use EDWARDS :JRO for Gingerbread, Cookies, Cakes, Pies and Sweet Sauces for all kinds of Puddings ? Do you alway t use it for L andy-maria, Try it in all there ways. You'll find "Crown Brand" Corn Syrup handy, convenient, econo- mical, dependable, good. "!,ALV WHIT" is just what its name implies—a dear cern syrup -.,;more dehcatein flavor than "Crown Brand", that is eelu dly good for the table and for candy uraTc xng. ASK YOUR ORQ&1*R--11N 2, 000 ARO. 20 POUND TINS. Canada. Starch. Co. Limited, MMi;ontreal. 11 Th B e rood Mare on the Far When the active working season on the farm will have a little let-up, the farmer can have a moment to spare to ascertain of what value his brood snare. have been. He will remember, in the first place that they have each given birth this season and have raised to weaning age a nice premising colt that bids fair to develop into a good saleable horse later on. These youngsters are increasing in value and as they are yearlings now will help to make their living next season as two year olds. The brood mares have also done much farm and road work. Probably I make a mistake in cred- iting each mare with a colt every year; so it is safer to say that count- ing for accidents a mare should aver- age two colts every three years. It would be rather a hard matter to say just what product she will give her owner each year of her work- ing and breeding Iife. So much de- pends on her quality and especially upon her capacity as a sure breeder and likewise as a goad mother. Mares, like cows, differ greatly in their flow of milk and many times a medium-sized animal with heavy milk - flow capacity will raise a bigger and better colt than a much larger ani- mal whose milk flow is insufficient, The practical horse breeder and the farmer of experience is well aware of these facts and one wilt often be sur- prised to see farmers keep breeding mares that to the uninitiated appear to be indifferent specimens. Say that a farmer has bought a mare in January for $150. She is five years old and he breeds her in March. The stud fee is $25, but the money is not due unless the mare proves to be in foal. The colt has cost $25 at birth and at weaning time, four months later, he should be worth, if a good indi- vidual and a good grade, say $40, By next spring he should be worth $75 and at two years old should bring $100 to $125. Now he can be put to work. .From then until he is four years old he should earn his feed—say $75 a year—and give a profit of $25 per year, although $50 would be nearer the mark. At four years of age he should be worth $200, judging from the way well-bred, well -broken and well -kept horses are now selling. We will say that a breeder is lucky enough to Have raised a pair of four - years -olds, sound, good lookers, FREE "Edaila,rt'a croppers Culda" English or french ages tells how and a4,etoto 9i ptrap and other valuable infornu"• tt n for the trapper 'Raw Fur Pike Vat" "For Stylo Book" of beautiful fur sets and gar• menta, also "Trappers and Sportsmen's Surp'y Catalog" Guns, Traps, Aminal 13040,3710a Nets, eto. at lowest Ow -b os,, all iilustrateddHALLAM 671 . Soot rime. - Address, JOHN LINM'T2,54 E ,TORONllam TO `elan ' r:n• The Green Seal By CIiAI,LES EDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc. Jaltkl 1-4 Mire CHAPTER X1, E pease ,•• but when the enormous dia- The remainder of that ride was i mond was at last disclosed in all is glor'fied, and it ended all too soon.; brilliant splendor a slow intaking of Mentally I a nathemized Struber end I breath was distinctly audible among the engagement that was dragging me: the little group, and nett instant it to him so sorely against my will, But 'i was as if each spectator were hypno-, there was no help for it now. tined, 4;, e paused lung enough at.a Sprinn # a Aartsen broke the enchantment. He Street jeweller's for me to see one ., growled an unintelligible Dutch oath and snatched up the gem from the of the witnesses I had in mind, and it being only a few steps to the Citrus ; table. Exelrange Bank, I dismissed the taxi. For a moment his hands trembled frith excitement; but Ire quickly eon- Struber was waiting for me in front trolled himself, Then turning it of the bank, He observed Miss Fox's ; slowly over and over, and subjecting p esence with some surprise, and toss- each separate facet to a long, intent t ed a remnant of frowsy cigar into thescrutiny, he examined the diamond gutter. I vouchsafed no explanation, ileisurely. As it revolved in his fin- merely remarking, "One of my wit- ers it learned a ss , , .h• g i? and glittered and ne_.es, w ich, I could see, caused p shot rainbow flashes, like a fragment 'Miss Fox to wonder in turn, for : of concentrated sunlight breaking up neither had I confided to her anything , into its primary colors, the • calors concerning our errand,. r blending and changing, running to - “We might as well go inside and sti gether and se ar ' see ']r. Hail,” I added, naming the' P forming every conceivable 'hueng again and ail ' bank's president. ""I am expecting with a swiftness that dazzled and con- i,' someone else along presently; we'll : fused, have t1, wait . while." G Struber offered the first comment. t' b ""nk1rngMr. Hall," Struber mused,' ""Phoney?" he asked in a matter- We walked silent through the roar- to go home to receive the address of wrinkling las twisted nose, He glance `AF -fact lane, ing wind and the dark, slow_streets felicitations of its neighbors and the ed again at Miss Fox, then winked Aartsen glared at him. and snorted until we e..freers g i solemnly at M. "When it comes to his disgust, not deigning game to his house, Be led present bought for him by popular g g ng a reply, But the way to a room at the rear, a subscriptions. The General=in-Chief picking witnesses," he commented, Struber was lir nowise abashed. He room I had nefer before seen; and is for the moment blacklisted' and dyou'rc sure some picket:" 'added: • though' at waspastmidnight, Mr. Hall stared inquiringly at the ,"Must„ midnawo there will have to exercise some of his finest etective, whom he seemed to know;bbe theed real thing, five sat his brother Jal;ob and two foreign. strafe ; but nevertheless he I Nobody heeded the detective now, looking young men English, I alty a� istnegt et war to lift the pen - however, greeted us af- Aartsen was once more thought, though I knew little enough ' ” fably and conducted us inside ulie staring at the diamond, weighing it English then, One stared at me fiercely The ill -humor of Rivesaltes is ag- railing surrounding his private desk, in his Band, cupping the other hand and said nothing; the other, a big, gravated by a total lack of "sous" • Before I could offerfa word to ac- around it and rocking it to and fro good-natured fellow, laughed much n a big deficit in ~vine, The ab - count for our intrusion, the gentle-; while he inspected it from every poseand joked with Jakob who knew some sence of small change is attributed to 1 man for whom I was waiting arrived,' Bible angle, English. the German raid on all forms of cop- He was a Mr. Johannes Aartsen, dig- ^ "B Jove!" ""These two young men brought per,and this,too,falls on J. ffre o , who to this diamond, uncut. I remember how ought to have been able to prevent my jaw dropped when the fierce -eyed, it. For the shortage of the inta fe sunnt young feliole ivory it out of a , of 1915 there is the more logical reg- funny.-laad;f tittle ivory box ants a ; velvet pad; for I had nefer seen such ; son of mildew. a diamond, There is less song and laughter ii. ""I was given instructions to weigh all the towns of the south, for the and measure and cut the stone so ns1 There's a Subtle Charm about the delicious flavour cf B106 This flavour is unique and nevi ound incheap, ordinary teas. Let us mail you a sample. Mack, Mixed or Green, "Besides, something has been in JOFFRE'S PEOPLE AGGRIEVED. the bapers of late that set me to go- i ing back into the past—back to when Native Village Thinks Comunandei I was a very young man in Amster- - darn, envied by my confreres because Has Deserted. Them. I was accounted the most skilled" Rivesaltes, France,the town that workman in the employ of Jakob and Everard Opzoomer; which is the gave birth to the Commander -in -Chief sameassaying my workmanship was] o blinds French armies, is pouting. The approved by the foremost lapidaries 1 nds of Joffre's house have been in the world. closed more than a year and the pa - By and by I remembered, Everard Opzoomer himself game to my room late one wild, stormy night, and woke me up. 'God up and dress and game with are, he said. Nothing like that had efer happened before. I asked no gues ions; Iobeyed, tient woodpecker has had to pierce them in so many places they look as if a a machine-gun had been operat. ing there. The villagers no longer point the place out to visitors. All because Joffre has not taken. the time y he said at last, scowl- ngnd you mean say had called on the way, an authority this game to you through the mail?" on all sorts of precious stones, and R I had already produced the brown regarded as one of the foremost dig- paper wrapping, to which still ad- mond experts in the United States, ` hered the stamps and the portion of He was a short, stout, elderly Hol- my business card that had served as !ander, with a scrub of grizzled mus- the address, Struber was examining tache and wearing glasses whose this as closely as Aartsen had the lenses minified hiseyes to half their diamond. mond buyer for the jewellers where I iat me A hearty, with snap and style, weighing from 1;2200 to 1,400 pounds each, for the pair ;:400 can easily be had in'any of the big markets. These are not fanciful figures, but are based upon actual experience of every -day farmers of breeding, rais- ing and selling colts. Every farmer should, if possible, keep one or more good brood mares; net broken winded, worn out, city hacks, but sound, well -shaped, well- bred animals that possess individual merit, and whose progeny will sell readily when the dealer comes along. Any breeder of experience knows well that almost as much depends on the brood -mare as on the stallion in the raising of any breed of good horses. Many colts take their conformation from their mother, especially from their shoulders back. For instance, if a mare has wide, ragged hips, her colts are most liable to inherit this tendency. Many colts also inherit their dispositions from their dams. Brood -mares should be sound, of quiet disposition, strongly built, and they should be well cared for. It is a severe loss to the farmer who pays $25 stud fee, loses two or three months' work of his mare, and then loses a colt at birth or afterward, and all from neglect of some sort. The mare can be worked up to a week or two before the colt is drop- ped. In fact, she is better off for the regular exercise, but she should be handled by a careful man, who will not excite her, and she should have a roomy box stall for her sleeping quar- ters. Although many may disagree with me, I am firmly convinced from near- ly 30 years' experience on breeding farms, that it is a risky business pur- chasing aged mares, who have spent the best years of their life doing work in the cities, .and trying to make brood mares of them. Even if they are only eight or ten years old, it is an expensive experi- ment. The reason is obvious. In the first place when a mare has arrived at that age, and has never had a colt, her chances of getting in foal e lessened each year. Furthermore, it is safe to say that a reasonable proportion of these mares have Clunked their colts, and for this reason they have been sent from the farms and sold in the cities, where they can do excellent work. In choosing brood -mares, always buy young ones; say from three to five years old, then you should be able to count on all of them getting in foal or certainly nearly every one, when, if you pick up a lot of second hand mares, of uncertain age, your percentage of colts will be extremely uncertain. - One good, sound young • mare, bought from some reliable farmer or breeder, is worth more for breeding purposes than half a dozen so-called bargains picked up in the city.— C.M.S. What It Was. - WiIlis—The last time I was here you were puzzled over a peculiar mark which you found on the wall. Did you solve it? Gillis—Yes. It is evidently the place where the rain coming in from the 'roof meets the water leaking up from the cellar. Indemnity for One Crime. An indemnity of $60,000 has- been paid by the German Government, through its ambassador in Madrid, for the seven Spaniards shot at Liege in August, 1914, says the Paris Pig- aro's correspondent at Hendaye, on the Spanish- frontier, true size. After introductions were I "Yes," I told bin, "And I neglect- made I addressed the banker, . ed to state that it was not even re "Now then, Mr. Hall, I want first gistered. The cancelling mark, you to get a package from my safe-deposit can see for yourselves, is too smear - box, then if it is convenient I would ed to give us any information. Were to get the most perfect finished gem possible. It took many weeks, that job. And one or the other of the two young fellows was always pre- sent, watching, until it was returned l to them, :nidi has found something in the war that it is bound to take seriously, All Perpignan salutes gravely when the Belgian band, recruited from the re- fugees of Flanders, marches by play- ing the "Brabanconne," but the bois- lake for all of us to retire to the di-. it not for the fact that the border "It was so. Turn and turn :about,torous cheers of other days arca e rectors' room. I shall not detain you trimmed from my card—the label on they kept guard over their wonderful sent. Every day the Place de la Log© long; but the reason for summoning the wrapping—had been found in the diamond, And when I was through is crowded in front of the bulletin this gathering involves a matter of city, it would be impossible to deter- the big, jolly fellow gave me five gold board of the Sporting Club, where is considerable consequence! one that I mine where the parcel was mailed," ten -form pieces for myself. Theyposted the latest news from the chain- would like to keep as private as pos-, ""Incredible!" exclaimed Mr, Hall, paid Jakob Opzoomer, took their prpion football players of France, with sible. I desire each of you to bear : whose every business instinct patently eious diamond from him, and went friends anxious to see what name has witness to a statement I shall make,' was outraged. "You say there has away to wberefer it was they game and to something I have to show, been no letter of .•advice?" been added to the already long list of E you." "No sir," I assured him; "nothing t those tvho 'had fallen on the field of There were no objections to my pro- whatever." That is all I efer knew ---c co t battle. posal; in fact, all were pretty curious i Once more I addressed myself to the name of the fierce -eyed fellow,Toulouse is quite as grave as Per - by this timrs e, and whilehe Mr. Hall led the expert: "There seems to be no who wasn't fierce by nature, It wapignan, though more busy making I made question of the gem's , genuineness, that name in the newsbapers that set powder, cartridges and bombs, haste to secure the diamond and re- . Mn Aartsen,• perhaps you can give me to remembering, till by and by it Toulouse is interesting also for the join them in the directors' room, a us an estimate of its probable value, all game back, mystery that surrounds one of the ald When I Iain the crumpled ball of I don't ask you to be exact; simply a "Whatefer begame of them or their brick mansions whore Bachelier yellow tissue -paper upon the polish-' rough appraisal will suffice, enough diamond I nefer heard, either. I often carved coats of arms in 1535, With ed table top, of those present Mr. to impress upon us the importance of tion ere Aartsen alone, I fancied, guessed the this matter " from--nopody efer heard where i was. e r. d. I know I nefer before or fixed bayonets, night and day, the since did more careful work—" Territorials defend the entrance to Struber sharply interrupted. The this house. The rumor was current instant it became apparent that it was in the early fall last year that the a name recently seen in the news- papers that had refreshed Aartsen's Bank of France had transferred its memory, the detective had become gold reserves there. When the bank nature of its contents As Mr Ball Before I it d finished , we seated ourselves in five of the noises and waving a hand in angry directors' chairs, I caught a gleam of : protest. comprehension behind the Dutchman's "Value!" he growled, puffing thick -lensed glasses. He said noth-' through his wiry mustache closed and made fast the door and a ore a ingshed the Dutch- man was uttering queer guttural i mg, however. i Tell alert, watching for a chance to break returned to Paris, however,. the•Ter- i me, how can anybody value a� peauti- in. Now he could contain himself no ritorials continued their guard, Their "A week ago to -day, the seven- Sul diamond like tit' ' d 11 ,s in oars and teentli," I began, "a small parcel came' cents! It is foolishness—nonsense. i to me through the mail, delivered at , If I say one hundred thousand dol- my office on the first afternoon de- i tars—a hundred and fifty thousand— livery, by the postman on his regular , maybe the first gustomer offer round pec iyou ng any sue i two hundred thousand—maybe more, s authority to ash q i parcel There was nothing either in- before somebody else ged it, It is of albeit with a show of spleen. ers, is in safekeeping there in an in- ' or outside of it to afford me the , little gonsequence. Not many men "The same as that scoundrel's you violable steel case.. least hint or cIue pointing to the' can buy a diamond like this." bolice couldn't catch," he said, thump - ' identity, or why such ,an obi His next words fairly Iifted us out ing the table—Willets!" ' ject should have been entrusted to of our chairs. Even Struber jerked (To be continued.) me. :There was nothing, in short, to up his head in amazement and bent onger mission is still a mystery to the pub- demanded"What was the fella's name?" he lie in general, but the initiated assert impetuously. confidentially that Leonard de Vinci's It was clear that the Dutchman did "Monna Lisa," removed from the Wiz approve of Struber, but he sti o s, Louvre when danger threatened Pa- uestions, account for it; there is nothingwithin ie upon the speaker a look that was my knowledge at this moment upon breathless in its intentness. Her Achievement. which I can build a theory as to I "What is of gonsequence—I know why it shouldhave been sent at all; this diamond. Eighteen twenty and though I'have been hoping that! years ago—I have the regord some - the past week would produce some en- where it was cut under my super- lightenment, right now I am as much 1 vision in Amsterdam."° in the dark respecting the sender's We stared at him, dumfounded. identity, or his motive, as I was at the moment of receiving the parcel. I can not declare with assurance that the sensational burglary of my office, with its attendant fatality, is to be Presently I found voice to cry: - "Man, how can you be -so positive?" Aartsen shrugged his shoulders. "It is my pisiness to know—to be positif. I could identify all the world's ascribed to my possession of what famous diamonds, if you pring them this small pocket contains; at best I to me one at a time; ; I know them all can only surmise" I just like you knowyour law books." By this time all eyes were focussed 1 He contemplated the brilliant fond - upon the ball -of paper. Miss Fox's .13r as he pursued: eyes were shining and I could glimpse' "But this diamond it is different leer white, even teeth between her Its history is hidden from the world. slightly parted lips. She caught my i It has no name. Nopody knows where regard, and smiled. - - I it game from. From the day is last Only Struber and Aartsen remain- , touched the felt -wheel until now no - ed unmoved. • Mr. Hall made no pre- pody—I mean people like myself who tence of concealing his impatience, keep track of such things—nopody and he now -asked: - ' knows where it has been. It disc "Is it something of great: value?" F peared. It is a mystery." disap- "Is Aartsen shall determine t Whether or not Aartsen was other - that," I replied; ."after which I trust , wise mistaken about the gem, he cer- you shall approve the wisdom of my tai n1y spoke only the truth when he course in thus trespassing upon the characterized it a mystery. But there time of you gentlemen. i ", t was no valid reason for doubting his. .A responsibility has been . thrust assertion, however it might, strain upon me, the nature of which makes one's incredulity to accept the state- ment that he was able to identify the ing someone to share it. I shall be stone as one he himself had cut a in a better position to meet whatever score or so of years previously. - complications may arise in the future, Looking back upon the •scenelater, should there be any question of own- it occurred to me that Aartsen had ership; and if a proposal that I shall far more cause to be overwhelmed presently make meets with your ap- with astonishment than had any of the proval the trust can be more effect- rest of us. That he should have this effect- ively safeguarded against possible particular diamond of all others fraudulent claims. shown him so unexpectedly, amid sur - Then I repeated, for I wanted to roundings arid conditions so impos- emphasize the fact: sible to anticipate in. imagination, "Once more let me assure you, oneconstituted such an experience as set - and all, that I haven't the faintest dom comes to 'any man in a lifetime. idea who sent me this, or why it Yet he bore himself with more re - should have been sent to me at all, straint than I did: s"I may add, however, that perhaps "Can you tell us," I asked at length, Mr. Struber has some such idea. There "the circumstances under which it are reasons for suspecting that the was entrusted to you for cutting." matter is in line with certain investi- gations he is pursuing, but which I am not at liberty to go into." I took up the package, and slipping off the criss-crossed rubberband be- gan'to unfold the numerous layers of thin paper. The operation was fol- lowed with varying degrees of sus- like fleas on a dog, Mr. Ferris, "Something, yes," he confessed. "One doesn't forget a thing like that. Maybe one lapidary in a thousand 'will get to cut a diamond' like thi<rdiamond; hundreds work all their lives and see such diamonds only ii collections; they are not blentiful, Cats for Food in Hungary. The Paris Figaro quotes the Buda- pest correspondent of the Frankfur- "Now you've achieved something!" ter Zeitung as follows: "The official he exclaimed enthusiastically. "These extent of land devoted to the cultiva- are exactly Iike the cakes mother organ of the central Hungarian used to make. How did you do it?" slaughter houses, states that in the "I'll give you the recipe," replied Biharkenszteser district, where all the wife coldly. "I used margarine the Italian residents of Hungary are instead of butter, eggs a week old, I. interned, a great number of cats are put alum in the flour, and added ' killed and dressed daily. The demand plenty of water to the milk." An Eye to Business. The Insolvent—Tell me, is it a crime to be poor? The Lawyer—Not in this state, sir. The charge for my opinion on the subject is five dollars. Pay my clerk and go out quietly. Opposites. has been suck that the price of cats rose to a prohibitive figure, hence the local authorities stepped in and fixed the maximum price at three crowns the kilo." (About 25 cents a pound). . The Safety -First Critic. "Brown is a very careful critic, isn't he?" "In what way?" Madge—"So "He always manages to take the g you consider it an sting out of his unfavorable corn - ideal match?" - meat." - Marjorie—"Yes he has money "For instance?" and she knows how to spend it." "His bride made him a shortcake the other day, and when she asked In favorable circumstances Zeppe- him how he liked it he replied: 'It lips have flown a distance of 1,000 isn't as good as your mother used to miles. - make.' " When your head is dull and heavy, your tongue furred, and you feel: done -up and good for nothing, without knowing _ what is really the matter with you, probably all that is needed to restore you to health and vigour is a few doses of a reliable FOR THE digestive tonic and stomachic rem- STOMACH AND LIVER - edy such as Mother-Seigel's Syrup. Take; it after each meal for a few days and note how beneficial is its action upon the stomach, liver and bowels— how it restores tone and healthy activity to these important organs, and by so doing enables yon to gain now stores of vigour, vitality and health. MOTHER The new 1.00 size contains three tines as much as the trail size sold at 50c . per bottle.