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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-1-4, Page 26 describe. 1 -lis eyes are fixed miser- ver, and a glass, and, having filled the ably upon, his offended idol, and as he latter, presents it to him in due form. looks he can see that a slight agitation "Champagne, sir?" she says, de - shakes her slender freme. It may inurely. be grief; it may be anger; it may be. "How it recalls everythingl" ex- depers, leughter: who shall sa.y what it is? claims he. Then in a properly mat - feeling thoroughly un- ter -of -fact tone, taking the glass from Sir Hilary lapses into eloquent Sir Hilary, silence; all his radiancy has deserted happy, inclines toward the second be- her, he says, "Thank you, I will drink —if you will allow me to Pledge you." him, while in its place an expression lief• half sullen miserable, has set- "Gwendoline, you are angry with "Under what name?" --- smiling. tied epon his countenance. Lady Gwendoline has gone into rap- tures over her enowy bouquet. "How delicious!" she says, with a pleased smile. "I do so love white flowers! It was quite too good of Lord George to remember that; but he is very thoughtful. And how sweet they are, how fresh, like a little breath straight from the country! Are they 1 tp.i.101.,t111)60311., I cannot be mietaken. Is it re M1MA JANE . coo.diet Yen," "YoU aso peeitive I do riot dere "Belt how was it? It is the 1)10St TliE DEPUTY liOUSEMA1D, amazing thing! 'What induced you to take up Jt a part in real earneet.?" --- "Mind, I do not commit myself, but r will suppose a case for you. Per- eays Tremarne, un- " ‘ChamPagne, eir?' ogged y. ape Georgie wee despau, bee u e truthfully, and straightway banishes then, she inest have been"— she had people coming to dinner ad the. nt ss a4 hev headache from she was—a.---" her awn maid had deserted her; Pen - his thoughts. He is in radiant spirits, "Pai-lor-maid," return e he, With all haps she had a good friend given to omit looks it. lead George, he dis- the desperate cleterminetion of A Man private theatricals, who undertook to covers presentlY, is out of town; so who has made up his Mind to SaY his save her from social eittinction; pen - the morning is all leis owo. GWene worst And be done with it. haps the good friend helped a certain donne is in her sweetest limnerand "And you have dared to compare me gentleman to all she had of the best for, Bente time conversation flows with a parlor -meld!" says. Gwendoline; and"—arehly—'got cruelly stared at hrisklYi and then she turns her back upon him, for her pains! Ohl Sir Hilary, how Then ica change collies o'er the spirit and walking over to the window, badly you did behave!" of his dream," The doer open e and a leaves him standing on the hearth- Turning to a eide-table, she tikes footman adVances /wisely; he beers rug, in a frame of mind impoesible to up an open bottle of champagne sal - with him a marvel of a bouquet, com- posed of palest blossoms only, and preeents it to Lady Gwendoline. "With Lord George Millefieurs's compliments,'' he says, eolemnly, arid not so? See—" Stooping. foeward, she holds the obnoxious bouquet with a charming grace right under his nose. "Very," returns he, in a freezing tone, recoiling a little. "Don't you like flewers • 11* servant, or ' me," he says, speaking from a re- spectful distance, but with all his heart in his tones. grave, and somewhat pale and anxious. Touching the wine with his lips, he "Jemime. Tane, or Lady Gwenclolme Primrose?" "Neither." Ile had grown very nI am,"—faintly; '‘anci—you should 7 ciee 1s ,, When youpay the price of first quality sugar; why not be sure that you get ? There is one brand in Canada which has no second guality—that's the old reliable Redpath, "Let Redpath Sweeten it." de in one Ps' de o r—the highest! 2 and 5 lb. Cartons - 10,20, 50 and 10(.1 lb. Bags. -tas.rzt=vermrterms=2=2,22sezamroarrozarzer.vanc.,.w..")=0,4-95:5 automobile and the tractor: It will I take some time before the tractor will take the place of a good horse. The farmer can always prodnce his mo- tive power on his own 'farm by breed- ing good horses. I ani speaking of mixed farming in Ontario, and I do not want to be misunderstood, but tolffisoncteratraioin. Ty applies tei the Province The winter of the first year of the calf or colt's life is generally the hard- est one on it. Many farmers seem to thinle,that straw and roots is about all these young animals should re- ceive. This is a sad mistake, Cor at no :period of their life should they receive better care or better food. CHILDREN IN WARTIME. 1 Drawings by German Children Full of . Blood and Slaughter. 1 As illustrative of the •evil influence of the great war on the minds of even very young children, the Vienna Ar- beiter-Zeitung recently printed ex- cerpts frame a book called "Children and the War," by Floerke, and from Rothe's work, with a similar title. The following passages are from the ex- ercises of children between 8 and 18 years old attending elementary schools: "Should the Kaiser send me to the front, I would take a rifle and ham- mer the Russians to a pulp. I would kill many of them, and stab many." "Soldiers at the front must bear many privations, but all is forgotten when the order for storming comes. Cut them down! - Wherever Germans go, only blows. The French know this, and run like hares." "The Russians built mighty fort- resses, and then we fell on Mehl' wi hearty cannon thunder, which was o greeting." "In the west the French and the British grocers are in a desperate sit- uation, the remnants of the Belgian army have broken down, and in a short time German armies will be in England." A iseven-year-old girl wrote: "Shoot dead many wicked French for me." A nine-year-old boy wrote: "All we boys say it would be splendid if the French, English, Russians and Serbs came. We would giye them a dress- ing. I have a sword and helmet al- ready—all I want now is a rifle." A boy writes to Hindenburg: "Dear, good Hindenburg, knock the Russians hard and drive them again into the lakes. They will then yell and im- plore mercy. Drive them into the mud that the Czar may be miserable." A child from the Palatinate wrote: "0 dear Hindenburg, beat the.. Rus- sians until the bits fly and we get an- other holiday." - • Referring to the war drawings of German children, one of the authors •declares that the children know no limits in their goriness. The draw- ings, so to say, dripped blood. It is not battle they depict, but slaughter. One of the writers states, according to the London Chronicle's translation, that he visited a school where he no- ticecl a boy at a war picture. It was an obscure work, all lines and broken fragmentary things. --The author could make nothing of it, and asked the boy for an explanation. The an- swer was, "A Russian hacked to pieces." The author's comment is: "It is nonsense to say that the child who drew this did it with childish spontaneity. It had been suggested to him by the moral atmosphere in which he lived." D D cis - without premission: I am not a par- ,,, WMeineener•v°.11:e.e- mug." ,• lor-maid!" Tremaine! Gwendoline blushes generously and Paying for Milk and Cream on a /nee would intentionally injure the in- eluetry which means so much to them, but so long as good butter was manu- factured and a fair price paid for butter -fat, they did not concern them- selves particularly about the condi- tion the cream was in when it left their hands so long as it was accept - Canadian -----ched butter aee to be ed. When cream is bought on a says, "I here pledge the feture Lady not call me by my Christian name, This is a cruel stab. winces, but wisely refrains from Tremaine involuntarily moves a teev steps Quality IS. him; and yet, in spite of her evident still hovers Many phases of dairying have in - speech. emotion, a slight smile fl'0111 • —.is- ' creased by leaps and bounds during "She cannot have been like me, round her lips. the past few years, but none has been says Gwendoline, presently, still in a eAge you sure you know to whom more marked than the Mittel. industry. This growth is attended with new pro - "I can't,"—despairingly, but still attempt at her old insouciance, blerns which must be solved if true to his colors, for which She "Without this cap and apron I shall subdued voice. 'Do say she wasn't."you me peoposing " shesays ' secretly admires him. "I don't know cease to be the heroine of Ballykillrud- held i I t the future whether she was lea innocent surprise. 3 a dereen. Is it Mrs. Wyndham s maid a princess in disguise. only know "Some flowers,"—in a marlsed tone. you love, or indeed myself?" "Anything the matter with you,- Sir saw, and that you and she are so alike blended in my brain. For the future she was the loveliest woman I ever el-Iove can I tell? They are ,both so Hilary?" demands she, with touching I should not know one from the other. (for your sake), all parlor -maids shall concern. "Do you know you really do B t tl t you have led me to believe be precious in my sight." often noticed how fitful your spirits you have never been— e0h no, I hope not," says Gwenclo- are at times. A minute ago you seemed quite cheerful, and now-- Is it toothache? neuralgia? Do tell me " look very badly? Of late I have e "I do not care to be like—that sort line. Then, very softly, and .with a of person," interrupts she, hastily. charming smile. "Think how jealous, "If you had seen her, you would how wretched that would make me." forgive me,"—softly—"she was s° 'Then you accept me ?—you do, in - if I can help you in any way? if beautiful,—so •sweet,—so like yom- self 1" deed, love me?" exclaims he, eagerly, "You can," exclaims he, rising, " you will. I shall be cheerful again, slipping his arm round her, and Gwen- Gwendoline smiles. Turning to ' iloline, with a glance half shy, half • tender, lays her hand in his. [The End]. directly, if you will .only pitch those flowers out of the window!" "Throw- my lovely flowers to the London gamins! Dear Sir Hilary, why?" "Because,"—desperately, and get- s e ex e sa g • 'As she was so lovely, I pardon you," she says graciously, and Tre- maine, bending over the white fingers, presses upon them a grateful caress. Just before he takes his leave she ting as close to her as circumstances says,— will peemit, considering how she is hemmed in by a gypsy tableethe fend- "By the bye, are you going to the theatricals at Mrs. Gore--Pallisee'e next week?" "Are youl"—cautiously. "I am going to act. I have only got a minor part, but I should like you to come and give me some slight ap- plause." "I shall surely be there,"—with con- siderable warmth. "And, Sir Hilary," calling to him mischievously as he reaches the door, "you may bring a bouquet to throw at me; and remember how I adore white flowers!" When he is gone she raises her hands to her head, and falls into an attitude expressive of the deepest in- er, and the huge footstool on which her feet are resting--"because--I love you! And to see you accept flowers from any man except myself renders me absolutely wretched. Gwendoline," stretching out his hand, "let me dis- pose of them for you." "1 will,"—sweetly ignoring the first part of his speech altogether. "Bring me over that Venetian vase on the cabinet, and I will let you arrange them with me. No? you won't help me? How uncivil of you! Well, never mind, then. I shall do them myself, and, just to let you see I bear no malice, I shall give you one whole flower all for yourself!"—holding one out to him. 1 e ward research. "No, thank you,"—icily. I wonder," murmurs she, anxiously, "Not when I give it to you ?"—with 1 linen "where Hamper could have put that dress and that memorable cap . arched brows of astonishment. I and apronl" "No, thank you,"—with increased coldness. * e e K 4, 4- 4, t: "But indeed you must have it," says The curtain has risen; the guests is on the Beauty, her temper charmingly unruf- are all seated; every one fled; and, as she always gains the day, lookout for the first break -down. Mrs. he presently finds himself the richer by one detested sprig of stephanotis. "Now," exclaims she, a few minutes later, having arranged the flowers to apprehension lest the eldest Miss Gore her satisfaction, "sit down over there,1 woman -friends are in an agony lest shall forget her part. All Miss Gore's she shouldn't. She does not, however, and the cur- tain falls upon a very successful first Gore -Palliser, with her face wreathed in smiles, is secretly battling with a growing fear, and is in an agony, of and pet that ugly little frown in your pocket, and let us be pleasant. Tell me something more about that odd Irish village with the funny name, and your mysterious beauty." I act in a drawing -room comedy. Uni- versal applause foliows; though Sir Hilary's, who is disappointed at Gwen- doline's non-appearance, can scarcely be called animated. Five minutes pees away, ,The music, that fills up the interval, has ceased. Fans grow once more silent as the second act eommences. The "No,"—bitterly; "you were too much heroine (Miss Gore) is in her dressing - taken up with Millefleurs's offering." room, looking almost handsome in a "Then suppose you tell it to me priceless morning robe. A gentle "I told you something a few mo- ments ago which you take no heed," —reproachfully. ., "Did you?"—blushing faintly. "Are you sure? I though you had been singularly stupid—taciturn, I mean— since your entrance. Perhaps I was not attending." again now." • soliloquy follows; and then, from the "May I?"—eagerly. "Gwendoline, wing, a maid, dressed in a quiet linen told you I loved you." gown, a faultless cap, an irreproach- "Oh! Sir Hilary!" in tones of the able apron, glides slowly on the stage. liveliest reproach; "what is it you are Sir Hilary' e heart stops beating. Ile • saying? You! who have given every half rises from his seat: is it Mr. atom of heart you possess into the Wyndham's servant, or Lady Gwen - keeping of that perplexing Irish maid- en! No, it is no use your denying it; it is only too palpable." "Nonsense! I never spoke to her in my life!" "Not once ?" "No, At least nothing I can remem- ber." "Then she must have spoken to you, hich—forgive me—was surely a lit- leeforee-geel of' her,—the worst possi- ble ikestC-1 think. I do not believe she cietilarle%ve been a very nice girl. 'What did ste say?" "flew could she sneak to me, when tell you .1 did not speak to her?" e , doe, t prevaricate; that yon, and went hal mad because I dohne Prinnose He grows very pale,—his eyes meet hers,—and then all at once he knows'. When the act,. is over and the cur- tain falls, he leaves the room, and, go- ing through an outer apartment, pushes his.way -into the impromptu geeenroons. Gvrenc o me ele, with a slightly embaerasseci expreseion upon her usually riante fece, he draws her meresistingly into an adjoining 'room, end deliberately shuts the door, "ft was you, then, all through,"—his face white with agitation. "Yoe were in Ireland the last time I was there. Ohl,liosv perm -muted Wyndham about 'iir Hi • ' f .• is not ti etraieht-foeward ens rt could ' leant nothing! My Darling esticm len me what she said." "It stete nothing to signify." • 'But it does ,signify, and I insist on knowing"--awith adorable pout. "Driest I tell V' , "Yeti ,- $+ why dicl'you not tell me before?" "Tell you what ?"--withdrawieg her hand with a rather nervotia' laugh. "That I have been to Ireland in my' time? And pray,' Sir Hilary, who gave you perrniesion to call me your Winter i as they have been in the past. In , 1907 about 6,000,000 pciunds of ci.•eam- cry butter were manufactured in Weet- ern Ontario. The home market con- sumed the major portion of it, but in 11915 20,000,000 pounds were manufact- ' used and the home dernand was lessen- ed by the Western Provinces being able to supply their local trade. Ontario butter must cater to a foreign market in competition with butter from _oth- er countries, and these markets will be a little more exacting as to flavor, texture, etc., than our own'people. The other Provinces of the Domin- ion have led Ontario in the matter of cream grading. 1915, 96 per cent, of butter manufactured in Alberta was made from graded cream .and 59 per cent, graded specials, with only 7 per cent. seconds, which is a tribute to the hig•h-quality cream delivered by the producer. In Saskatchewan 98 per cent. was graded and in Manitoba 61 per cent. In Quebec cream grad - 1 ing is compulsory, and dairymen in the Maritime Provinces are strong supporters of the system. Ontario 'lags behind, and the effect was noticed by the failure to"win prizes with bet- ter when in competition with other Provinces-. However, the new Dairy Act which comes into force in 'March provides for the grading of all cream. Such legislation should be welcomed by producer and manufacturer alike. First -quality butter cannot be made from second-grade cream, floe can the best butter be made, from the mixture of a first and second-grade cream. The dairyman who through careless- ness in handling his cream, delivers a second quality, not only hurts his neighbor, who endeavors to keep his French Polio Ready for Cam- paign This typical "pone" as the French private is- known among his country- /nen, is' shown in full winter equip- ment. The photograph was made on the Verdun front where thousands and thousands of this type are bat- tling with the 'Germans despite the inclement weather. GIGANTIC ORDERS. - Russia Takes Eleven Hundred Miles of Khaki for Uniforms. Russia recently placed an order with the manufacturers of the West Riding for two million yards, or over eleven hundred miles, of khaki cloth for uniforms. The goods are to be de- livered next Spring, says London Tit - Bits. Russia is never niggardly+ in the way of Government orders. During her war with Japan she gave one Chi- cago firm a contract for six million pounds of beef. On another occasion, when there was a coal strike in this country, and Russia could not get her accustomed supplies of steam coal for her navy, she cabled to a firm in the United States an order for three mil- lion tons. This was the largest ex- port order ever received. COmpared with such mammoth de- mands as these, the Auetralian order of 1913 for three hundred and seven miles of cloth for military uniform seerne a small matter. Yet, consider- ing the comparative populations of the two countries, it was not so bad, After the South African War the British Gone-slime/it contracted for forty miles of ribbon for South Al- riean War Medale, These were issued to about 300,000 men, each getting a • ' stri I One wonders how Mane hundred miles -will be required for the Empire troops at the end of the present al)- , _se -me -mon, palling struggle. A Grouch. "He's a chronic grouch." "'",r t hen "—with a calrenees oe a Young man acidieted "Nothing suits Oh 1" , 'bbs said 'Champagne to par-----" "No, He's never ae well as he might " "Do not joet now," entreatingly e he, and his neighbors are never as tick <.1'1,1(1- —what ng slowly, "You were at Mrs, rnonarn s last as tney engirt to be, • graded basis, every dairyman will en- deavor to have hie product in the first grade.. It will pay him to care for the cream in the most approved man- ner. Fast -grade cream will make make first -grade butter, which will tend to change the verdict on the On- tario product from "good" to "extra good", thus keeping it in demand on the most exclusive markets.. It is anticipated that the producers do their part towards facilitating the working out of the grading systm in Ontario. It has proved a good thing for the other Provinces and will do likewise for Ontario dairymen. -- Quality at Cheese Factories. Evidence shows that the average quality of milk delivered at the cheese factories -has decreased rather than increased during the past twenty ' years. In the report of G. G. Pub - Low's work twenty years ago, ,as Chief Dairy Instructors for EaStern Ontario the average per cent. of fat contained in 6,800 samples of milk, gathered in • Several counties is given as 4.2. In 1914 the report from the same territory shows the average test to be 3.5 per cent., or a decrease of over .5 per cent. in twenty years. As the fat decreases in, the milk, the quantity of cheese per 100 pounds of milk becomes less. The system of "pooling" the milk, so commonly practiced, put a premium on poor milk,. or at least encouraged dairy- men to increase the quantity at the expense. of quality and is largely re- sponsible for the decrease. in quality. When payment is made on a .quailty basis, it will be an incentive to select. and breed the herd to improve the test, which in turn will -give more of a richer cheese from 100 pounds of cream in the most approved manner, mlik than is secured at preeent. but he tends to cripple the whole in- Grading of cream at creameries and dustry for the Province. On the paying for milk at cheese factories market one pound of low-grade but- aearding to quality would have been I f the t r die e 100 poem s o to the best interest of Ontario dairy- will quality. More free advertis- men years ago. The loss caused by ing, is given the poor stuff than the lack of these systems for so long a goodi It is the case with every- time can be partly retrieved, by every thing; consequently, as competition producer of dairy products aiding in becomes keener, more care must be their working out now that they are tobe adopted throughout the Pro- vince. There is no question but that the Dairy Act to be enforced this coming spring is to the best interests of the man behind the cow, as well as of the whole industry.—Farmer's Advocate. familiar with any other system. The -- high quality product manufactured Horses Will Be In Demand. has given them an enviable position. Speaking at one of the Winter Fair In, Ontario it has been different. For the luncheons Dominion Live Stock Come ye • havetaken missioner John Bright, had thegfol- cream whether it was of the best quality or not. It they clidn't take lowing to say regarding the future of taken to manufacture goods of the best quality. . Cream Grading. Cream grading was started when creameries were first established in the West, so that dairymen were not it th knew their nearby competitor the horse market: "Althoughhorse ey would; the dairyman also knew it, 'and was aware that the same price would be paid if it had a good flavor. Pasteurizing the cream at the cream- ery overcame much of the difficulty and gives a uniformity .of quality of butter, bet that qualitY cannot be so good as if made from only first -grade cream.' Besides, the careful dairy- man suffered by the careleseness of hie neighbor: The point has been reached where something has to be done to hold the best markets of On- tario butter. „enSeconeugrade cream is not worth as much as first -grade for butter making. To pay the eame price Puts a premium on carelesenese, and discourages the careful man. The Legislature has put an Act on the statute 'b`d'olsie, 1,v1iich comes into force in March, compelling cream grading'. Thie will offset the 'competition for cream regardless of quality and grearn. will be paid for on a quality basis, thus giving an incentive to dairymen to talee precautions to look after the cream properly, m It is in the dairymen's interests to aid In facilitating the working out of the new regulations. If a'elinl is grad - ea No., 2, there is a cause for it, arid the Cause Is usually to lee found 121 the handling of the cream from the thrie fi.t kayos the separator until it is de- livered at the creameryi Few dalry- question differs a. little from other lines of stock, yet it is relatively in the same position as far as future Prospects are concerned. Good horses are absolutely scarce in Canada to -day. I doubt whether real good 'draft horses were ever as scarce as they are now, "Horses differ from other lines of stock in that they cannot be convert- ed ‘into beef and they, therefore, do not find the same ready sale as beef cattle. Depend on it, gentlemen, that there is no live stock that you can keep on your farm with more pro- fit for the future market or that yon can breed to give better returns than a good horse. You Will not have to wait very long to find that out. 'Horses are going to be alarmingly in the near future, "We have a number oC horses in every proviece, and a very large num- ber in some provinces that are ill- bred and poorly fed. These horses are of no use for anything. They are not good enough fee the purposes of the war. We cannot blame the French and Britieh bnyers for not tak ing these horses. "The farmer is safe in breeding a good heavy carriage horse and a fair sited roadster, There will alwaYS be a sale In Canada for a good horse of that breed, ., notwithstanding the Work for Russian Army. The Department of Rural Economy and Statistics of the Russian Ministry • of Agriculture has compiled from - Zemstvo reports a statement of the activities of the kouetaii qt, peasant workers in the roaking i1 prodil'a3 for the use of the army. Thus there were made in the Government of Viatica alone 167,467 short fur coats, costing 1,568,890 rublee; 92,615 pairs of felt boots, at 428,684 rubles; 11,080 ' airs of stockings, at 5,294 rubies; knitted gloves, sock e and mittento the value of 1,952 rubles; 57,400 earth -carrying bags. Large quanti- ties of Material are being sent from all the Governments of the empire, and the nature of the Produce, varies evith the local industry. Thus in the eections Where shoes are manufactur- ed almost the entire output is -heiug devoted to military purpose9, hillebo1tor:you‘s‘ !Pt waCit ctol oil! a: IV." TIlhi aall;k17,ri -toC111°, sir; thank youl" pato,: `Tut 1 eten't In Searee