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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-3-1, Page 7i$ rery eaf '42E1TaVatSJUSel 1122,CallaSSanaaat.10649PYN I{Y2S1a311 piAMR,Jy✓ G: •e.wv9afS,ROrA Sealed to ke h Only. ti :c:k% Mixed or Green. ffs�.ie uaie.,oruursc.. sma,u�.vx Never .n c.3.lk. E 217 en C.usins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. PAItT I,CHAPTER I. Afternoon in the slate -quarries. As John 114'Donnell stood up, in his ,hand the "jumper" with which he had been at work upon a blasting -hole, he looked round at a scene familiar to his.eyes since life itself wap familiar. A small world of its own, this amphitheatre of dark -grey rock, clos- ing almost to a circle. Once across the threshold of the wooden entrance - Thorough mixing i what makes cake delicate and tender as makestbebest cakebe- eauseil: creams quickly and thoroughly with the butter which is the hardes t p art ofthe mix- ing. Its purity and extra ."'fine" granula- tion make it dissolve at once. 2 and 5-1b. Cartons 10 and 20 -lb. Bags 4 rr The ill -Pati pose ugar' ttemwman. l x r1k , ., ( l? a Sinai =la'i'c, gate, everything that was not slate lost infallibly in significance, At first. sight, and despite the smoking chim- ney of the engine -house, despite a crawling'. line of trucks upon the rails the place looks so little alive that the clattering and chipping sound, which fills the air calls for explanation. It requires an expert eye instantly to pick out the grey figures against the face of the grey cliff—at trines hang= ing from ropes, at other times astride upon iron pegs, orseemingly glued to inaccessible ledges. The place is, in fact, a human ant -hill, and that mo- notonous "chip, chip" the only audible voice of those creeping, sprawling dangling creatures, John M`Donnell had no need to strain his eyes after those figures on .the cliff; nor would his head have swum at the 'end of any of those dangling ropes, or- on the extreme edge of the abyss, into which the heart of the amphitheatre abruptly descend- ed, and in the depths of which a min- iature lake of dark -green water mark - spirt of a, degenerate age, must be y psEs �rE sait'�ht�g , It Was. Tome close at hand, • Cows Wel:0 no longer to be had 'for the taking,. but slates were available -- for for the cutting. Instead of sitting• Pupil Nurses wanted ,Lor the Trani down to lament their .fallen fortunes, thg School, Hospital for the Insane, the IV`L)onnelle, born lnbilosonhers as Toronto, Teres yoars, Course';: $13 they were, "set about their new bull - Imes with all the steady energy they Per month, with board and uniterin. had devoted to the 'old, APPlY lake I?. West, John 111`Bonnell had, like every lad 999 ,Queen SL West, COI' .a couple of miles around, been ; Toronto. almost literally brought up upon. slates. Before lie was fifteen, he lied been earning a pound a week by picking bits out of the rubbish trucks on the bank; and before he Was eigh- teen the proud moment of inelosion all. a "crew" had lifted him to the level of a quarryman. • Looking round now at the scene of past labors, his mild brown eyes vis - swung the hammer above his head. there was as little want of keenness in them as in those of his companio on the ground, closely watching thh' borer. Adam, too, was red-haired, though in a more aggressive, almost carroty fashion, but bore otb.erwise no family ably yearned, Over the rock they likeness to his cousin John, being passed—the grey rock, stained with broader, heavier,, duller, and altogeth- er more everyday -looking. "How many more minutes to the whistle? "inquired John, between the strokes, breathing equally but deeply. "About ten, I reckon. We'll be the grimy smithy—objects not beauti-Iready for the blast." ful in themselves, hut each with al A little old man, with a face almost tongue for his ear,—further out yet, as white and woolly as a lambs, look - through the rickety gates to where ed up from the blocks he was busy beautyindeed layeven on this damp with. "Arm , ?'' inquired, with and heavy October day; iii the grey,A2zn aclzgng, eh. he logs x , ti gleam of the salt -water lock alive a defective grin. "Supposing you with the ever -restless sea -birds, and Pass on the cup, or let it be—hammer, so like in feature to an inland lake hi, hi !" and he stretched e hairy paw that the border of seaweed at low tide in John's direction. came almost as a surprise in the 'But a freckled lad, angular and background of mountain and cloud, solemn, came between. 1f the ham - intimately interwoven, anclso near >p?er were to• change hands, it was into akin in their misty tints as to leave his it must go, be declared. He had the eye hesitating between rock and not had his turn to -clay. In the o4' anxiety. One of man - P g ^va our --and against that background ner;of both last speakers there' piers the firs of; the Burial Island on which ed a suggestion slept his' fathers, longing like some them was aware of being thereon suf- thing not quite real. Upon all these ferance, the other of being' there on John M`Donnell look -with' trial. This was Willie Robson's first things did eyes in which a farewell stood plainly' inclusion in a "Grew," and presumably Tim M`Laren s` last, since workers, written. ' however experienced, 'whose ,hands After a moment he turned back to the yellow of iron, speckled with the white of quartz—aver a solitary dog- rose bush, which, laden with scarlet hips, stooped ,over the abyss,—past that to the smoking engine -house, to his companions. "The hammer," he said, and the Gaelic sat softly upon his tongue "Let have begun to tremble, are no longer sought after as partners. Hence the burning anxiety of the .one to prove me have a -turn at the hammer, Adam. himself up to his work, and the equal I've handled all the tools but it to anxiety of the other to show himself day, and I've a mind for feeling it not beyond it. Hence, also, the f •, ostentatious jocularity and the anti - ed the base of the oldest working in onceTmoreking the wta,, per" in exchange med fide' solemnity. • The trustworthi- known itallfoMclose an lupon a quarterd boy, h he r •Lo - the hammer, Adam sat down in rai ssin apof pearance; e was the the e ladeai n fore of a century; just as his fathers be- fellow-workers e- front of the half -bored hole. Be- edness—and, byimplication, lthe ro- s of him John M Donnell swung -the_ fellowlworlc is 1adand the tknown it for athers of all xa ponderous instrument high ,iabove his bu tness—of youthowas what Thetime e old _ head,er bringing it down with clock p ssince a certainace "of memorable and s {bl bloody work pre isiOn upon the'top of the onfo thebank �(whence ck to theWillie hdlarubbish-heaps Half -amine. to the day in the annals of the M D'oput a , right or to the left would inevitably ly come) might by such means be which, with one fell swoon, had put an staved off a little longer; for on that end to the original industry of an en- terprising clan. The name of that industry? Superfluous question, surely ! In view of those trackless hillsides, of those yawning- chasms— natural fortresses inaccessible to all but the initiated, and requiring no more than a stout tree -trunk to bar out an army—in view of women hun- gering for bread, and Hien thirsting for adventure, what else could that in- dustry be but the ' picturesque and time-honored one of 'cattle—lifting"? The neighbors had borne much; yet. there dawned the day when they would bear no more; and upon that day the wrongs of several generations had been washed in the' -blood 'of the M`Donnells-but not washed clean- since in .what is sufficiently described as "The Massacre," pure and simple, treachery grinned broadly behind the political mask donned for the occasion. It was that memorable moment which gave birth to the Ardlock slate - quarries. 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V9itorn & de i..iatueeo, Grid1 f/trat&t rOPt STOMACH ANOMVER TROUBI E e&bntlt est roe dimes t3 j' D34ptre!rih result in maimed fingers of a split skull; but neither the man who wield- ed., the hammer, nor the one who held the juniper, moving it about delicately between the strokes in/ order to re- gulate the shape of the hole, seemed even to glance at such a contingency. Drawn thus to his full stature, and despite his dirty white cluck trousers and much -worn corduroy waistcoat, John M`Donnell was a 'picture. His shoulders, indeed, were not broad en- ough for his height,` and his dark -red head might be disproportionately small for both height and breadth, but the straightness of the features, the fairness- of that particular grain of skin which never tans, and, above all, the luminous .brown of the eye, made of that head alone a small and strilc- ing masterpiece. Outside the quarry his eyes had that peculiarly indefinite gaze which makes even -the person on whom they are fixed wonder whether he is being looked, at or ' only looked through; but let his hand but touch an instrument and the dove -like eyes became -those of , an eagle. As he bank both infantile and palsied hands worked side by side. The rubbish - bank was at once a schoolroom and a nursery for second childhood. To re-: turn to it—sometimes after an inter- val of fifty years -was equivalent to being laid on the shelf. John M`Donnell shook his head smil- ingly at both candidates, and continu- ed; his clockwork strokes. When the steam whistle sounded, all was ready. John, having- put the match to the Iong twist of saltpetre - impregnated paper which was to fire the blast, was the last to gain the shelter of the rough bothy, piled to- gether of slate refuse. Close 'to the entrance he. crouched down, where he could •watch the face of the cliff op- posite, yet acutely aware of the other three pairs of eyes beside him. the "working" there had been no leisure for desultory conversation; but here was an enforced pause. and from the personal remarks impending, he knew there was no escape. (To be continued). Trot Cakes For Tea. Ove Scones—Two pounds flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, three ounces shortening, two ounces sugar, two ounces currants, one egg, one pint sour milk, pinch of salt. Rub the shortening into the flour and bak- ing powder, which have been sifted to- gether; then acicf the salt, sugar, cur - ants, well -beaten egg and milk. Stir into. a soft dough that will not stick to the hands and divide into four pieces. Roll each into a ball, then flatten out into a round cake about an inch thick. Cut across into four triangles, thus making sixteen scones. When.risen in the -oven and partly baked brush over with beaten egg, or water, dust with powdered or granulated sugar and finish the baking. These take a lit- tle more than' half an hour to cook as a rule and should be split while hot and buttered. Serve at once. They can, however, be reheated or eaten cold . Cream Scones. ---Sift together two level cups of flour, three level tea- spoons of baking powder and half level teaspoon of salt. Add 4� clip of butter and work into the fldur thoroughly with the finger tips, or 'cut in ,with tuvo knives. :Beat two eggs well, add t/g cup of 'cream, and add slowly to the flour, mixing with • a knife to a dough. Lightly roll the dough out to about Va: inch in thick- ness, cut into diamond Or triangular shapes, and bake in a hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes, Soda Scones.—One pound flour, one teaspoonful soda, one-half teaspoon- ful cream of tartar, pinch of salt, one, - half pint of buttermilk or sour milk. Mix the ingredients to a. soft dough, roll out to a half inch thick and cut into, rounds with'a cookie cutter, Haat the griddle, grease a little and cook the scones. 'When one side is brown turn the other until both are a good even color, then split open, butter, and serve at once. Buttermilk Scones, — Take One pound of,flour, one teaspoonful of salt, about half' a. part of buttermilk or milk, one small teaspoonful of soda, one small teaspoonful of cream of tar- tar. ' Mix all the dry ingredients to- gether and add enough butermilk to make 'a light dough, which should be turned on to a floured' board and quickly kneaded until it is smooth. Press the dough into a round cake and divide crosswise into scones, which should not be much more than a quar- ter of an inchxin...thickness. Bake the scones in a quick oven, then split them open, butter and serve. The scones may be cooked on a griddle, and if this is done they should be turned once. Soda. Muteins.—Two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, half pint of warm milk, one tablespoonful of oil- ed butter, one tablespoonful of sugar, pinch of salt, one egg. Beat the egg lightly, yolk and white separately, add the warm milk, salt, sugar and oiled butter. Take the flour and mix into - it the cream of tartar, soda and the other ingredients; stir into a smooth, soft dough. Bake in the oven in small round tins, web greased, or in sponge - cake tins; cook from twenty to thirty minutes. Split open and butter hot. Plain Tea Cakes. --When bread is baked at home it is a good plan to take a pound . or more of the dough after it has risen and rub into it two ounces 'of butter, lard, or even drip- ping, and perhaps a beaten egg; then leave it to rise again. Then bake in shallow round tins, and butter hot as soon as` it coiner from the oven, or keep fel, another day, toast brown and butter. Apple Cake.--One-pound of flour, six ounces of lard, one teaspoonful three ouncesof brown i powder, baking p , 'r e sugar and six apples. Rub the lard into the flour and baking powder, add the sugar and the apples, peeled, cored and chopped the size of currants. Mix into a rather dry paste. With a beaten egg andm ilk, er water is more convenient, and bake in a greased tin to the depth of one and a half inches, till nicely browned on top—about half an hour. Cut in strips and serve hot with or without butter. , Important Notice To Knitters. Having heard that one soldiers; have suffered blood -poisoning,, caused by tho dye from theirsocks, it is im- peratively necessary that all wool should be thoroughly cleansed, The shrinkage of the wool,, which is also necessary, can be done at the same time. The best way to do this is; Tie the skeins together so that they will not snarl, then put in basin and eover with boiling water; U no dye Gomes out, let the wool remain.lintil the water is cold, then hang up and let drip until dry. Of course, if the dye comes out, keep changing the hot water instil it becomes colorless. • Vegetable Water Soap. The basis was water in which a small' cauliflower had been boiled, and which contained some of the best pro- perties of the vegetable, a scrap .of the cauliflower, a dash of pepper, a thought of prepared spice, a spoonful ,or so of dried celery tops, about a table spoonful of left -over gravy ancl. a scrap of fried onion. The whole was thickened with ground bread crumbs from a gena jar, which is con- stantly o i-stantly replenished" with all left -over crusts and crumbs. The water in upivmra TRIG tittY iuAl?ir.l to CAM EPARATOR AsOL11) PROPOSITION to sold minneropnloetoktiaparatofr . only 116.95. 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