HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-11-13, Page 2S di.a.
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Bovril used in the Kitchen cleans
Bank.
It makes nourishing hot crashes out of cold food which would
not otherwise b eaten, But see that you get the real thin.
If it is not in the Bovril bottle it is not I3ovrii. And tt
tri:ase be Bovril.
dollars saved in the
To cod" Grcosuiti
Discipline.
She burst into the living room, call-
ing, "Mother, where ,re you, mother?"
quite as if her parent had booker, the
habit of a lifetime and had deserted',
the mending, b t e n Thersda * after -e
after-
noon, Listen mother! I've got to''
get a new sweater. Can you let rte.
have five dollars? They're four -
ninety -five at Klein's—some bargain!"
She flung herself into the morris
chola. "Wow :bet I'm tired! I would-'
..� „.: - e ' n't stir one step if I wasn't afraid all
- the paete1 shie es would be snat;ped up
The Governor of Moorlands Pri.:on `•Ye.z'll Ott a'hellf ,Leet' for this all before I get there. What's the matter,;
sat bolt upr ig'lt in- his chair, his :ted ri rhe, ani it'll be a r: Eel due tune." ; nuann---ween a ghost ?"
bleak as the bare offiee table beeeure lire lPmith shivered. Leney's bully -.The mother had put down her darn -t
hint, and his ��teel blue eyes fixed upea ging lead tilken 111 rhe spirit out of him, in and was looking at a slender calf .
the long, :1 nrozn g form of the pals- All the mol n1) Greenmail 'a iel'ted
'ane%' who stood oppoeite, his shovel a'eeranieall , doing, just. 111 ell -rose s41k, c:\o, dear, but see
t'You again, Gre ri� uth!" '7e • L d, e 1 .:•„b wore: o .t old <inotl:c.t relitike. a } great deal of ter, and a hole 'that s
inn voice colder teen the. icy ought 'fie never kicked til) at the sky; he getting bigtrer every miniere. I warned,
which whistle, through the oven Itac:iy n,t'ee i the in ere inet let you tI -teel be no wear in that kin of`
window.- n' lit the lar the ge teL t g 01 tciel free. Doris."
He turned to the hard -tett red e tiloud over the domed 1_e...d "W het's elle use in harping on that
warder' who ate "l Elie a ramreii: in eL 3:i.'.• Tor. 1i vias not until a:lath ' make # i
when you v� cn" t 1r:a.tt, daddy r;i.se mY
Charge lei Greeff ;mi !t. par of i h „ i,e lit the ��;loeti , wee the allowance Doris sat til) very
weghet ie it this ei1'1e, Mr. Levee, . to ,t., e 1 nd .1 ciao iron, gine-s the. f i i t , -�,
he, asked.
?et', e?.: ; hr re,.Iize,1 a lse"vy storm st •a .,a., �t .t l.,.ow that I cal. t •bay;
."Hie cell wasn't n:: to he seen this was e the paint of breaking.
<l stocking that will lest two nli ltltesl
>rer l€t`A• r Tilos not cleaned. .end 1"t <� ¢`c; he"?ed ui^t 1 ef^i the
fe:• Ic,,.s than a dollar and a half --at
wee i 1 warned him, he gave rile p tries ecc:lLt be c.ii eete.€ th t' uu, the lei et. 13y the 7w•t y, there's a sale
cliee'e." evil.. and o!on rl canie hail in bezt.liz n t'= Italian silk ones this afternoon; if
The Governor ebruggel his sheu1 v ttrl e =1vee'a In an indent even- you make that five a ten, I can get
,.
needle ,in your se, v . of course I
like to be hugged, dear child, but not
when I'm. sewing. And it doesn't do
a bit of gond to coax and wheedle, for
I'm not going to give you another cent
for clothes until your allowance is
due." The mother straightened her
collnr. "You know what daddy said
when he heard what your new bathing
suit cost,, And I don't like--"
"Oh, plc .: e, mother, just this once!
Honestly, I won't ask for a single
ether thing, not even the stockings, if
you'll let me get the sweater. I need
one warst way, and it's a -crime not to
tale advantage of that sale." She
thrust an accusing elbow under her'
parent's none. "Pipe that thin place,
will you? It'll be a hole first thing
you know. You don't want to see me
in rags, do you?" She waited for a
sign of surrender. A full minute pas-
sed. Then the mother said uneer-
tainlye
"If I do let you get the sweater,
Doris, Please urlcler,t�3n;I that it's only
because the one you have on is. getting
:shabby, not because I approve of your
losing your head over bargain sales,
`t Now, will you premise me---"
1 The v. orktatdile wee overturned in
the mad rush of gratitude. "Muznsy,
"t" :ax have you to say. Green- iiig was blotted out. Greer: smith come bargains, That would be real a You're 0 -
"What
good old scone!" The despis-
1 1 t
.li7lth ?" <.
dens. tai
could ,madly see his neat neirelaitor, economy. Please, mother!"
! ed sweater hurtled through the air and
Cgreen mith glanced up, opened his lour chei•leel Your el.ance!" e: "Doris, don't! You:,early got that: lay in a crumpled pink heap. "Thank
lips its though about to speak, then voiee seemed to n'nisper in his oar, goodness I needn't n°ear thatold ruin
e ei ons* experience nee weight He deenee.1 hie spade anti 'p.unged hi> heat,, but at the arm's expense another minute! Where's your purse,
him
that
I" 1 p" e:WA:V.' IMO the white blinding gloom, The limy dropped useless to leis side. mother? I want to meet Irene at
i<int t?rat it tray nerfK th i:s - c to t, , „ The pain drove him mad. Dashing- Klein's at five, Why, what's the mat -
defer l himself. If 'he die, Leeee woeld f'r: ,slily ren one soca i?m tion C..r_
..
enl • make it hotter for him next time, tzinly no warder did, for not a voice
"Nothing. to say? Then you exdmit was rnieed cr shot fired. The roar of
the charge." • The Gore"nor pn'i=e1, the hail. the wind. and the th'inder
i;
c mi, r
net was W terrain, 1 -r
ti 1 rl
t the ;whine;
frowning. r
ern
•r z
Groensmitil." he went on. this ie of the lee so terrible. that the lac,
the third time you have been he'fere either firm' themee'te• flat en the
me this north I deepair of you. ground. or bolted for shelter.
V arnines are t ?es . I ririii try Lo': g lie°ole eheence was che-
wing rolle v'i'.'s do. thee nil: have three ta•'er,•i "No Cea'€" Greensmith was
days ani Number One diet, ni:.i ne't fieltle away. Before the storm was
time yea i1uu `"..,`t *k:e' yawn willget ever he was out an the epe'n moor;
er
a we'
7f reg p°ltru1t was e>rs;n?tire he was
Greensmith did lila c:•en lou,,. *.p hheien T. a deep cleft of the rocks,
'Escorted eiy his waxier. he s't, 1`f eed 110'*e the Arrow. where he lay, pant -
rig, stalking. shivering, vet with a
o`i" astauLerey, in a ties .engin of triumph in his heart.
I told yoa s
t.,rce of tra',1t::riv "Colic you've got. From his eyrie he hatched the chase
aril I hope yo z''1 like it." paes down the valley and return
Greeneenithei i,.peer lip lifted, sleet'- engirt' -handed. The day drnaiged I,y
reurd the table, he drove his right ter? What makes you look at me like
fist into M1leezan's ugly face, and saw that?"
the num double like a concertina and ,=Doris, where did you get that
fall against tins
t the wal
l.
waist?"
S '
0
s
Green..gavehim m, t}r hu 7 on }
then fell on he food like a -wolf.
olf. - "At the Florentine •Shoppe. Isn't it
Bread, bacon, and tea, Never had he a• peach V' She turned slowly round.
tilted anything so delicious. With "Did you ever see such handwork?
every mouthful strength came back Just look at the daisies on the yoke.
to hint. ' It cost nine dollars, reduced from
Satisfied at Iast, he examined his twelve -fifty. Where's your purse,
arm. It hurt abominably. A small mother? I've got to beat it"
bone seemed to be broken. A shirt 'iThat settles it, Doris;' the mother
hung against the wall. He ripped it,' said firmly. "i't, not going to en -
ed
made a rough bandage, and then turn-
ed his attention to his late enemies, courage you in any more exit ava-
who were both still stunned. It was ga . e. You had no business to -buy
a job to handle them with one arm, that expensive blouse; it's ridiculous
but they were not going to escape if
it s, I?ts teeth it a :,art of snare Bet rout as night eame. Greensmith bee= he could help it. The words of that
lie did not speak,for did a word pass to feel faint with hunger, filthy leaflet still stuck in his tiilaat.l
33,10 1.,.: tin hl• V."1$ behine the double Darkness fell; Greenamitli grew He managed at last to tie thein safely,
doors, in the half dark, titter silence xavennu. He felt that ;zt any cost he then rose to his feet, panting,
of a punishment Bell. Then he flung must have feed. Leaving hie cave, he There was a cot in one corner of
himself face downwards on the floor, .et out in a 'westerly direction, , the roam. He eyed it for a moment,
end lay eh'vering, shaking, muttering' Coon he was aehing in every bone,. then went and deliberately lay down.
s sound
fierce imprecations against Leney, the and ready to drop. It was only lois aGledp two was minutes
att alt nod by a n7elan-
( ]acinar, and everybody and every frantic craving for food that kept him choly groaning.
thing titereeeteil with the prison. going at all, "Shut your raw!" he ordered curtly,
Fon days later. -No Goo;," Green-! He ttall.c)1 routes and saw no sign of
smith wee Back with his gang on the life. He felt that he was completely and sat up to find the grey dawn
"Boge." There was a milieu. desperate lost. and was on the point of throwing creeping through the window, He
Eco'.. en his thin face, his back seemed himself down and giveng up when he got up, and, pang no attention
more 1, nt, and hes tingled worse caught a gleam of light in a hollow whatever to the shivering wretchesto n ever as he walked.lielov . Only the faintest glimmer, but on the floor, helped himself to some
`sit locks bad, Greeny," vyhispe ,:l{ it coned like magic. He began to rung breakfast. Then he went out.
a little n1g1ev, f e
Cockney
his ear pickpocket, atllmeal cuts d le a email anlater nous building of slipped eo e� of thsed e leafl
ets inside Ies ris
-And how would you look .f yoa' 1, ,c gil granite, which stood quite by shirt. Lena screamed after him, but
been three days in Number One?'h . 1t eii on the bare and lonely hillside. he paid no attention. Shutting the
groe* le,I back Greensmith, t The windows hed no glass; the door behind him, he turned in the
.:10o via: it—Leneyr a ._ked Ding- were shuttered. The light gleaned cline:t.'on of Moorlands Prison.
lere • through a crack in the rotten wood- The sun had just risen 'hen the
"Who &ye think', if it 'Wasn't him?' work. Greensmith put his eye to the warder on sentry at the gate of the
t'e nays the use of a bloke trying to crevice and saw a small, bare, dirty prison saw a mud -stained lag, with
rung straight? I tell 'you, Dingley, it's room in which a man sat, working a one arm in a -rough sling, limping
another sort of run I'll try next time." small hand -press. ;wearily towards him.
"Now. then—talking Ah, you, The man was fat, gross, and flabby, a "Heavens, it's Greensmith!" he
Greensifuth, of counsel"but he worked rapidly, turning out gasped. Then he shouted for assis
L. was Leney's, voice, harsh and leaflets one after another. If Green -'tante.
aagr;-. He thrust his thick. red face smith had thought at all, he might theevSeveral
warderseney's pale eyamong
es s gi
have considered it a verystrangeLeney.
almost .into Greensmith s. tered, and his heavyhand fell on
thing that a man should be middle Greensmith's shoulde.
work out here €moor. But t a ruin in e g middle. "So you've come back?" he jeered.
emptinethe slonely within him deadened hit • ing"Couldn't even do a •bunk after you
brain. All he wondered was whether had got away. My word, six months
the man was alone and where his food in frons --that's what this means! He
was. chuckled savagely.
As he watched a second man camel Greensmith drew himself up, and
through a door from the 'back room.' there was no fear in the look he turn -
He was tall and thin as the other was ed on Leney.
fat and short. i "You'll take me to the Governor,"-
"Supper's ready, Leech," said the, he said, sharply.
latter. Leney's jaw dropped, but he recov-
"All right, Meeson," replied the' ered himself quickly.
other without lookingi Oh, I11 take you to the Governor,
finished ap, "I've just
:' , right enough," he snarled. "I'll take
A minute later he got up and foie' you to him when I've done with you."
lowed the other through the door,, That is no way to- speak to a prise
which he pulled to behind him. otter came a cold voice at Leney's
Greensmith pushed the shutter soft- - shoulder, and the warder wheeled to
ly. It gave, and stealthy as a moor see Colonel Peyton regarding him
fax, he climbed over the sill and into sternly
the room. A rich odor of fried bacon, Before the dismayed Leney could
made him positively faint with hun- find words, Greensmith spoke.
ger. He looked round for a weapon. I came back of my own accord,
His wandering gaze fell on the pile sir," he seed tell you that. ql have something sentry say
can
of leaflets.
"TO to you,'•privately, sir."
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was the heading.
;the convict for a second or two, The
g change in the man's demeanor struck
Half -consciously he - ran his eyes hint as almost miraculous.
down the Thies of print. The pamphlet "Come!" he said, curtly,. and led the
was one long string of filthy abuse of .way' into his own house. •
Ithe King, the State, and the Army.; "Well, if this ain't a ruin go!" ob-
.It was an incitement to sedition, mute served one of the watching warders.
illy, and murder. In short, it was And lies word's accurately voiced the
Bolshevism! i opinion of the rest.
The blood rose to Greensmith's A quarter of an hour later, the
white face. For the moment even his sentry saw the prison doctor enter the
hunger was- forgeetlten. Something Governor's house, to come out in at
loner' dead rose in his crushed soul. few minutes in charge of Greensmith,
"The dirty hounds!" he muttered, whom he took straight acro: -s to the t
fiercely. t inflip^inary. A little later Principal.
He must have spoken louder than Warder M'Kea was seen to leave the
he knew. Next moment Leneh's bloat- prison with two assistant warders, and
ed face appeared at the inner door.' stoat :out "bleakly acrc•ss the Moor.
Greensmith was not a pretty figure.; /Later that day, the Governor. mak
-
Hes hideous convict kit was covered ing.leis usual rounds, came to the in-
with mud, his face and hands black firinary where Greensmith. lying coin -
with bog peat. Lench's jaw dropped; fereably between clean white sheets.
and he stood shaking. ; was happily engaged in readin ar old •
Before he could recover,. Greensmith,.. magazine.
rushed him. He caught his throat with' ,Colonel Peyton looked )i; him keen -
both hand, choked the cry he tried to lye Greensmith's' Byes did not ;fall.
utter and flung Min back through theta "You were in the Army, once, were
door with such force that he went you not?" asked the Colonel,
down with a crash on the floor of the. "I was, sir."
inner roar_. 'k. { "I don't »romise anything," said the
With a yell, Meeson, who was ,seat-, •Colonel, "bet I'm r,o'n' to
ed at the table, sprang up and, seizing can pet you bank.'
a frying pan, hurled ,it' with all his ` (The End.)
might at Greensmith's head. Green -
smith flung np his left arm and saved asbliara's 3,iniment_Cures Colds, sic,
for a se'hoolg7irl! No, don't coax me.(
My mind's made up," She bit off al
n edleful of black cattail, carefully•
avoiding her daughter's, eye.
Contrary to her expectation, there!
was no argument, merely a look that
overflowed with reproach, Doris went;
to the telephone, and presently the
mother heard:
"That you, Irene?. , . No, I can't
come. It's all off Yes, I know,
but she, says she won't give it to me..
Of course I need it worst way, but!.
;hat's the ase' Oh, cut it .out,!
Irene, it's all off, I tell your The click!
of the disconnected telephone chimed!
in with a d'!sconsotate sob,
suddenly and'
got ups
The mothery
Th
went over to the despised sweater. She`
picked it up and examined the worn'
elbow. `'L can mend that in two min-
utes, dear," slie, said, with a consoling
pat on the blonde head half buried int.
the sofa pillows. A sob answered her;'
then another. She sighed and laid the
sweater down again.
"Donis," she said, neatly, "you'll find
my purse in the lett-hand back corner.
of my top bureau drawer."
Are>r f
\lex�aaia� Expensive.
Here's a neat little cost -of -produc-
tion fact from the Animal' Husbandry
Division: Lice add a cent a pound to
the cost of producing pork; that is, it
costs c:{ more to produce a lousy 400 -
pound hog than to raise one of the
sane size free of these parasites. We
is the way they found it out:
They took 24 lousy hogs and divided
them nto two lets as nearly equal as
to quality of animals as possible, The
two lots were fed and cared for identi-
eally the same, except that one was
treated to prevent lice. At the end of
the fattening period it was found that!
the pork put on by the lousy animals,
cost a cent more for every pound than
that added by the pen free from,
"cooties." And keeping hogs free
from lice is not an expensive opera -
ear
sats
Vegetable fats rind natural flower
BABY'S 3 iv
give 33 OWN
extracts �.
SOAP it wonderfully softening and
aromatic letser. Sold everywhere.
Albert Soaps Limited,.1111 p„ lowed
tion, although vigorous and persistent
treatment s required to eradicate
them. Dipping in cresol compound
('ti:S.P.), two or more times, at inter-
vals of fifteen days, will free the ani
mals of lice,
For dipping, mix this compound in
the proportion of one gallon to 100
gallons of water.
eztuara'e aeiniment °area aneettlieria-
No persons need hope to be suee
ceesful unless they enjoy their work
more thain any recreation they can
fired. Ilecreatio:t is all right occasion-
ally, bat as a steady diet give us work
in which we are interested and in the
doing of which we are happy,''
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