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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-12-9, Page 3IlllfllldulIIIIIIIIt,11lI111111111111IIIIIIIIIIltt111111I11111i1111! !!i e, ARes ij � G WITITis" Si a pure whit* corn Syn;p-..more deli. tato la favor titan "Crown Brand". Perhaps you Mould prefer it, Delicious with Blanc Mange Have you *never tried "Crown Brand" with Blanc Mange and other Corn Starch Braidings?' They seem to blend perfeetly—each improves the other together, they make simple, in- expensive desserts, that everyone says are "eimply delicious". EDWARDSBURG "CROWN BRAND >, CORN SYRUP is ready to serve over all kinds of Puddings— makes a new and attractive dish of spelt an old favorite as Baked Apples—is far cheaper than butter or preserves When spre^.d on bread—and is best for Candy uiakiug. ASK Yot1R GROCER -In 2. 6, 10 Ass0 20 Le. Tins. THF., CANADA STAnce1 G4., tJMITED Head Office • Montreal 30 pt. ji The Green Seal ay Cale ',,.1~$ EDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock;" etc. R417— '. IIAI'TER XVI.—(Cont'd), ' regollect whether There now could be no doubting first names." that the two unrecognizable passeng- Alll at once eAartsen's oft -repeated ers were determined not to lose any . phrase,big, jolly fellow,, toolte of my movements. The circumstance on a new and suggestive meaning. My had ceased to be merely curious; it father had been a large man, of gen- was becoming positively disquieting. iul disposition, fond of his Joke, and. "Don't worry," my companion ns h.mar as it went the phrase fitted counail ithe guys dust leave it to ane, Ill "Describe the man more partial - , lady, Aartsen," I eagerly requested. He broke off with an exclamation - And the details which came back over of r'urprise. He was staring back- the wire tended more and more to ward.. then all at once he slowed establish the astonishing ossibilit ro nil and curtly commanded our , But, after all, why should the dr - chauffeur to stop, which he did so cumetance be so improbable, though it promptly that I was pitched for- remain astonishing beyond the power ware, of words to describe—that one of the "What y uh make a' that?" he ask- men with the diamond was my father? me under his breath. r At any rate, the idea immediately Me companion's manner already set my brain to a piecing together of had impelled me to look backward some of the loose ends, and for a few to». We had just crossed Alameda seconds after I had hung up I sat at Street. The gray car was drawing iii my desk in a state of high excitement, to the curb where a man was ad- while my thoughts fairly flew. wanting rapidly from the sidewalk There were my father's long years to meet it. Obviously he had signalled i in China and. his familiarity with the it to stop. country and language; I knew little The tonneau door swung open, the enough of the history of that period movements of all three being now of his life, and almost anything might marked by nervous haste, and the be possible. neweomer was climbing in when Stru- y I considered that everything that ber wigs Mang to action. He sudden- :had happened possessed a Chinese, or ly turned to our chauffeur with a at least an Oriental flavor. First of •liar,, command that made that all, the ring and its ivory receptacle, yt•ungs man obey on the instant. !which had been my father's, were un - "Here, you! Swing this machine questionably of Chinese workmanship, round and rush that gray auto like Next came the diamond in a box that you meant to knock it off the street.: was a duplicate of the ring box, and :iIuve! Hurry:" • on top of that was Lois's box—Lois One tar circled anti speeded up. Al- Fox, the daughter of Steve Willets. reedy itiy the other machine was itself Then Willets himself is discovered gathering headway, coming toward us masquerading as a Chinese: what was manifestly with the intention of turn- his connection with the mystery? rug into Alameda Street before we He must have been led to my office could qet close to it. Struber was safe by either the ring or the die- fidg etieg• with impatience. He stormed mond, which latter possibility at once at our driver: suggested .that he bad been in touch "Beat it, you boob! Beat it! It's a with the person who had mailed it to. cinch you'll never get pinehed for fast me. driving." Then, going back to Miss Fox again The =;•lay car skidded into•Alameda there was her mysterious correspond - Street, and darted away with its ent hailing from the Far East and the muffler. open. An instant later we surmise that he and the anonymous crossed behind them, and I barely sender of the diamond were the same: glimpsed one of the figures in the right here, it seemed to me, one link tonneauderisively waving a hand at anyhow ought to be found. us. ; Advancing a step farther, James It was plain that our slower ma- Strang had failed to appear at a stip- chine could never hope to overtake ulated time; apparently he had van - the gray racer, and Struber once ished in thin air. Then, on the day more drew us to a halt. He seemed he was expected, at almost the hour, not in the Ieast disappointed or put a man calling himself "S. Willets" peered at the Republic Hotel, gave out, however, by our failure. "Well," said I, "you missed them, his place of residence as Johore, and And now they know that I know then in turn disappeared. they've been following me." I That my father, in some unaccount- The detective produced a soiled and able way, should be involved was a tattered envelope and a stub of pen- startling suggestion, and before I cit. He jotted something down as he called the next number I was sensible laconically returned: of a strong premonition that matters "But I tamped the number. That's , were approaching a crisis. all. I wanted." 1. Only one other of the calls has I dismissed the taxi and we sopa- any bearing upon my story. It prove rated at the entrance to the building ed to be a brother lawyer who had where my office was situated. Two been moved purely out of curiosity to or three clients were impatiently question me about something of waiting my return, and Stub handed which, until he brought it to my at - me a slip of paper bearing several tention,��I was ignorant. telephone numbers that I was expect- ' Say, he shouted at me, "don't you eek to call up on my arrival. i ever read the Times personal col- For the next half-hour I was ab- `In `No"„ was sorbed in business. As soon as the , , my reply. "What's on last caller was gotten rid of I called Your mind?" 'the first of the numbers, which prow- i „ PPell, my friend bluntly advised, ed to be the Spring Street jewelers one addressed to you appeared all where Aarsten was employed. Within lest week. This morning it is word - where second or two after I had announced ed differently. Better look 'em up." my name I recognized the Dutchman's ( That morning's issue• of the Times voice, i still lay upon my desk; I sent Stub "What you t'ink, Mr. Ferris. I ; out for that of the day before. Al - found the regord of your diamond,,, though I immediately 'turned to the he said. "You'd refer guess who the • second advertisement (the one al • other fellow was that brought the ready at_hand), I give them here in t uncut stone to Opzoomer Brothers — the order of their appearance. the bigr;, jolly fellow, I mean." I` may add that I read diem with a I assured him that I -was not good at guesiing. `Ferris," came the surprising in, formation. "What!" I . yelled. "Do you mean m'Y father?" • "Ala!, That, now, I can't tall' you.: I just wrote down the last names -- ,Willets—Ferris—like that. I don't I efer heard the peared several times—on five sue- try any of my unsurpassed pre'ra- cessive days, I afterwards aseerta:n- tions," she glibly pursued, "I can ed. The one of that morning was anyway give you an opportunity to 1 similarly addressed, but it seemed to-helpsome friend—perhaps, eh, my indicate a conflitt of purposes some- dear ? I pos'tively remove all dis- i where. It was worded thus: - figurements, such as birthmarks, l >zcz'�sc��rAx,-erica renis, attorney. may warts, wens, moles, tattoo -marks and every sort of blemish, restoringthe no attention to advertisement about raj- stable mail parcel. :Only persons inter- skin to its original perfection. ested now know itl is safe. James Stranll. • "D'ye know of anybody disfigured, say,by a hideous tattoo -mark, dearie? CHAPTER XVII. `Just tell 'em Madame Carcassi can remove it—wipe it out like you'd erase a chalk mark on a blackboard. and all without pain or inconvenience or interference with engagements." Lois had drawn back and was star- ing at her with a sort of fascination. The woman happened to glance around and became aware of my presence. Doubtless I was eyeing her with extreme distaste and for a sec- ond she was disconcerted; but only for a second, for at once she leered at inc in a way meant to be ingratiating and came and gave me one of her cards also. (To be continued.) 'ARMY DESERTIONS IN JAPAN. Many Caminit Suicide Rather Than Face Courtmartial. The frequency of army desertion, as well as suicide of some of the de- serters, is causing some concern among the Japanese military authori- ties. Statistics show that during last year there were SSti cases of de- sertion, of which SS per cent. were common soldiers. Tokio leads other cities with 184 cases, while there were 112 cases at Osaka. Out of the total, 258 soldiers were brought before the military court and punished, while Gt►8 deserters voluntarily surrendered be- fore the three days' grace had ex- pired. The increase of suicide among de- serters is believed to be due to the re-' chine. Know him?" duction of days of grace during the I stared my bewilderment, "Meyer war from six to three days, the de- Hardwick's machine! "Why on earth sorter sometimes preferring to kill should he be so interested in eny himself than face the shame of court - movements?" martial. Deserters who su r ender be- Struber shrugged his shoulders. fore the three days expire are rester - "'T is kinda funny, ain't it? But it p wasn't Hardwick that was shadowin' ed to the service with a light admen'. you. A pair o private bulls from tion. If they delay their return they! Frisco was a-usin his auto; I haven't become fugitives and are peremptor-', learned yet what their drag with him ily punished on their arrest by the is. It's a sure thing he ain't runnin' military court, any taxi livery. These two sleuths has blew across the Mojave to where they come from, and Hardwick has r7er,ylZlZ??, been out o' town a couple o' days—Officer, up in the mountains fishin', they say a T `'Ui' Id.bi? bomber at the company's office. Now what On the day of the attack upon Mrs. Fox there were two more happenings that demand some attention, and then this narrative takes a stride forward to the first week in May. The interim is thus casually dismissed because nothing of importance fell; it was as if everything had come a standstill as if the mystery were not to offer another single development. I saw Struber almost every day during the period, He was always busy, seemingly accomplishing noth- ing, yet never was downcast or dis- couraged. He grew unaccountably re- ticent, merely hinting at strange and unimaginable surprises that were in store for all of us. I assumed that this attitude was a pose behind which he hid a consciousness of defeat and failure. Late in the afternoon of the day an question, however, the detective sauntered into my office with an af- fectation of careless indifference' that quickened my curiosity more than if he had been excited and eager. I surveyed him expectantly, and somewhat testily told him to throw away the cigar he was smoking. Ile did so, cheerfully, and wrinkled his nose at me when I handed him a cigar that was .at least endurable. "I've nailed the owner o' the gray auto," he announced without pre- amble. Doubtless it is apparent by this time that a marked characteris- tic of Struber's was his unexpected, ness. I waited, and in a moment he added: "It's Mr. Meyer Hardwick's ma - do yuh make o' that?" I could make nothing of it. I re- membered Hardwick's surprising; show of feeling when I took him to task for his treatment of Lois Fox. And then I remembered the two per- sonals. I rallied Struber for having failed to see them. For the barest fraction of a second be looked crestfallen, but immediately his jaunty self-assurance returned. "Yep, I missed 'em," he confessed, "The L. A, papers don't carry person- als every day, like as if this was New York: or Chi,, so it ain't a regular thing for us to tag 'cin. One on me. But, say. Mr. Ferris, I'm beginning to see a lot I didn't see before... , Adios." -He was moving briskly toward the door when I halted him. "Here, you tell me what you have in mind before you go. I'm suf-, ficiently in the dark as it is," He paused and considered, inspect. ing the inside of his hat. "!Nope," be decided at last, "I won't tell you nothing now. I may he dead wrong about what's stirring in my skull, and till I know better I can al- ways look wise." And so he left me. The second happening does not have to be treated at length, yet it can not be lightly dismissed. During the night tient, Robert Pay, German Army, who confessed he was in America to attempt to destroy Allied muni- tion ships. • of the day on which Mrs. Fox was ; To the Man Higher Up. attacked, she died. The anaesthetic, Do you ever stop to think it would seem, searched out an unsus- , As your pen dips in the ink petted weakness or the heart, and 'Which will separate some fellow next morning Lois 4 covered that her { from his job, aunt was dead. -- A tenant was found What an awful thing 'twill be for the cottage; Miss Fox moved to a When your letter he shall see down -town rooming -house; and on the Howhis anxious heart will palpi- third day she was back at the office—tate and throb? a trifle paler, a trifle more subdued, her eyes tender with a light of added suffering. My heart bled for her." How about the little tot— An immediate effect of Mrs. Fox's Do you think of it or not? death was to transform the police's And the wife depending on him for lukewarm search for a burglar into her bread; dangerous assassin. a . determined effort to run down a And does something seem to say Nothing of note, however, occurred That they need his little pay? Does such. a thought e'er travel until the first week in May; and then, through your head? one morning, came the incident which now I regard as the first careless act of our unknown opponents for want Do you think of him I wonder— of a better designation I call them Of the man who's serving under, such. Whose destiny you 'hold in your T was engaged in my private • room right hand ? when I was attracted by ,a strange Is your thought upon him then, feminine voice. It wasn't a pleasant As you dip in ink your pen voice; it rasped and jarred and seem- ed somehow out of place. I went to the connecting door and beheld a stout Which will cast him out upon this frigid land? woman in a shabby, cheap velvet dress. She was perhaps fifty, but her Is he old and grey and bent? Could he never save a cent That would help to keep his little family now? Was he lucky, just like you? Is he honest, brave and true? coarseness of feature and bold man- ner erased any veneration which her sex and years might otherwise have commanded. She had opened a sample -case upon he end of one of the tables nearest And did you take the word of So - Miss Fox's typewriter desk and was and -So? displaying an assortment of worth- ess perfumes, toilet soaps and cos- pedes in gaudy wrappers, and de - pita Stub's tart reminders that can., vassing was not allowed in the build- ing, and Miss Fox's undisguised re- ugnance of the woman, she was ex - kiting their questionable virtues with a rude, familiar loquacity that uggested liquor. Miss Fox's attitude, naturally enough, was anything but encourag- ng, and I was on the point of inter - ening and relieving her of the em- arrassment of the unpleasant wo- man's persistence, when the situation ook a turn that made me pause and prick up my ears. Without warning, and without the east , cessation of her leering •talk xtolling her wares, she suddenly wept everything back into the case ad snapped it shut. Then.she laid a distinct shock of amazement, and 1 straightway started off on another i s frenzied but fultile excursion of spec- ulation. Here is the first one: PERSONAL Brice Ferris, attorney: p Please acknowledge immediately through this. column receipt of valuable mail -- Parcel. This was the personal that had ap- s --GOOD DIGESTION'--- ;When your digestion is faulty, weakness and J pain aro certain and disease le invited. Mother Sahara Syrup corrects and stimulates the digestive organs, and banishes the many ailments which arise from indigestion. 4OYEARS THE STANDARD REMEDY STOMACH AND LIVED TIOIJBLE A. cttl ru Dggists, er direct on receipt of price, 50c and $1.00. The large Bottle contains three times as much as tho smaller, A. J. WHn'ra & Co. LIMITED, Graig Street West Montreal. f b t 1 e a card upon Miss Fox's desk. ' ple of all nationalities in German col "If I can't persuade you, dearie, to onies only numbered about 25,000. Does it ever seem to you, • That just what he's going through May be meted out to you some day in kind? • , Is .your love for self alone `1 Is your heart as hard as stone,? ,Do you ever have your fellow -man in mind? Do you ever, in despair, Kneel down and say a prayer? On, do you never, never think of God at all? He has prospered you, old boy, Gave you health and wealth and joy; So be careful when the axe you must let fall. • When war was declared, white peo- Of course, you can buy cheaper teas, but is undoubtedly the most economical and what extravagant in use. The fresh young leaves bf "Salada" will yield you generous value for your money. sits appears to be 'cheap' in price will prove to be Calf Diphtheria. Calf diphtheria is due to a speeifl infection, and is always a serious mat ter. The trouble may appear with calves from three to five days old Such calves refuse to drink milk o suck. They show more or less dis charge of saliva from the mouth These patches gradually develop into ulcers covered with a dead, granula' or cheesy mass, which does not pee easily from the raw surface under neath. There is considerable rise of temperature and an offensive odor from the mouth. The trouble may easily extend to neighboring parts, to the lining membrane�of the nose, and then there appears a yellowish dis- charge. In some cases the lining membrane of the digestive tract ss similarly affected and then there is tendency to diarrhoea. Little pigs show similar symptoms. So far as now known the germ is a normal inhabitant of the intestines of healthy hog: and cattle and proba- bly always virulent. When the dis- ease is prevalent, the virus is, of course, scattered everywhere. Very young animals are most easily and most seriously affected, but eases have been reported in calves and pigs Six or eight months old, and even oc- casionally in adult cattle and adult hogs. The sores may be cleaned with two per cent. creolin in warm water, and then treated with Lugol's solution, ap- plied twice a day to the ulcers. Per- manganate of potash may also be used, two ounces to each gallon of water; made up fresh each time, as the mixture cannot be kept from day to day. Either treatment should be given to valuable animals about twice a day for from four to six days. Frequent and thorough disinfection of calf -pens and calf -yards is one of the first essentials in management. Unsafe Lanterns. around the trees. The old maxim is c "Bring your chickens to your tree, • keep thein there, and they will destroy more insects than in any other way." • The suggestion is a good one if not in- flieting extra expense for fencing. - ` but it is possible that some Rind of • movable fence should answer the pun - pose, as the fowls need not be con- fined except early in the season. Pride in the Country. We hear the term "civic pride's in the city. It applies just as much to the country resident, It mea. ns the pride that causes you to keep your premises clean and sightly and pre- sentable to the stranger or passerby. And then you yourself might get some pleasure out of *•well -kept farm. Measured by the common standard, keeping your farm tidy actually adds dollars to its value and to the value of the products you have for sale. Let's clean up and stop breeding trouble or our farms. The inhabitants of the United Hinge dom receive, on an average, about seventy-five letters each a year. The season of shortened daylight brings its own peculiar fire dangers, One of these is the use of the Iantern about farm buildings. Of recent years, owing to competition, a low-priced lantern, which is a serious fire men- ace, has been placed upon the market. Instead of being securely screwed an the oil reservoir, the burner is simply slipped on, with the result that if the lantern is upset, the burner conies off and the oil is allowed to run out upon the lighted wick. The result is either an explosion or a serious blaze and unless speedily checked, damage to life and property. Poultry and Fruit", If the hens have the run of an or- chard they will not render as good service in protecting the trees from injurious insects as they will if con- fined in yards around the trees. 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