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The Exeter Advocate, 1920-1-8, Page 2ThE QRCIiID By DANA URNtET• aaati Zk\�t `'^:te<,�e ' K vA" It was er_oe 1, �i` x orchid of your family, midafternoon oi. a Vivid the ;nanous April day in -the year 1850. Along the l' i ,p wooded shore of the St. John's river ;44, "Yes," .irsv ei eel the colonel, and the sunlight, falling' through masses added lightly,. but with en undertone of brilliant green foiiige, east light ofs.e1ous conviction, "As long as this -upon a world voluptuously decked and flower blooine,'Sophi-i, no harm can blossomed; for this was in Florida, befall us!" where the spring eines swiftly, in a She laid her hand convulsively upon storm of eolor, end where April is his arm, "Do not go to town to -day, a child with fall breasts. Even the- Philip'dear Sop" mo a are you not distinctive Spanish mos: , which makes "My the landscape drip and gives to na- well?" Lure the quality of a dry -point etch-"Oh,B' es, Philip; ili ;id1od amere just new ing, had taken a softer tone of gray, well. and was like a -virgin's drapery, half I thought that --I thought that a concealing, half adorning the beauty , shadow had fallen upon us•• ----- now approaching the moment of its . Colonel Philip's black brows- eon - bridal adventure. traded in a frown. Upon the bank of the stream••-- "That is not unlikely, sire we are which the Indians called "strange,,, stain i`m s riot tai treew' of the tree, be.ause it flovvci north --stood, in a' Philip." r tentr'ing grove of live -oak trees, a "Conte, came, madam: How often • btately white OV:., ,rod house, whose reen must I request you not to Alex ane with awn part oral Ili. house, and rank a rocs your little superstitions-. What maul a bright extent of flower gareen, worthy of turned m�si Tel by permit r mows ne showed the Flare quarters, an extol- ved Sophia remained silent for an in-' ssive ora'.. two hi 11dredof ilil:acis,inor�€oull nted `taut, then said in a low voice, "For -1 their lot en unhappy one; for they give a t, hili ; I raw that it was were the property of a man who con- • ler f eelI with its quaint precii:ion sectored that harshness to an inferior of phrase and charxi, of accent fell i was as unbecoming the tenets of al. reassuringly upon the colonel's ears. gentleman as servility to an equal. He took his wife's hand in his and in the distance, a: for as the eye bowed low over it, sweeping off his ,could see, extended the peach aaaaar }eat as he slid so. Then he turned and; orange groves, the breed fields of sugar -cane, of indigo, of -cotton -iii landing -float, stepped into the waiting: belonging to Colonel Philip Gardiner, walked at a leisurely gait to the dugout and took his place in the sterns ex-eohlier of the Serainole wars and sheets. The canoe drifted out into, d toe' the lordliest planter in northern Flor- the stream. The colonel graspe ida, five thousand acres stretch tiller rose and leaned forward, ' r" i" he said +�etitly, an the, furniture, oil paintings, fires linen an length through the water. The six -'. .., '-- • Ruling the Roost—a Fable. i rare silver ietehed sroni England by ne$roar each wielding a twelve -feat' Plants Used . 1 former Gardiner:, and whose youthful ash oar arranged upon. a� whet outrigger,' The essential feature in tannin is ` A hen hustled for i lists and scratch-! Spairi.h wife was the inost beautiful fell easily into a loner stt}n>,ir.�,, i ed far worms the g: eater part of each woman in the country. One would stroke, :Meir half -naked black bodies the precipitation of gelatine by the; day in order that she might able have said that here was a elan doomed swaying hack and forth like so many chemical substaii.e to which the gen-i to lay eggs for the hebm might be. ole to a veritable monotan - of good for -i parts of a smoothly working machine;' eial terns "tamiin" •iq applied, as the at night her r th was disturbed by But tune; for there is no drama ,n mai*-; and as they rowed they sang: 'result of which liities bi.eor ie leati,er. l the lusty crowing of her lard and by weakness But Cod the hazard had a 1,"ter.eShe stood it fora lord and alien ts- weakness. le loved }Hazard of the ''Pat -rollers standin' by do coif -house. rence inntlieve vegetable kingdomide unit gaming table with the ardor of one in l do :J forsook him slid took up her roost, ,s. whose veins flowed the blood of adven- Long Mlle a nigger, en stub he toe, ,occur in almost all parts of the plant, turers and pioneers, , �'F her dot nigger now?" 1 but not always in sufficient quantity ill ia, s - ed for miles along the river -front; . Gare way!" g , d tl Whose se haute •was filled with =began Moat, at the 'word, leaped half its - Aa .sf.,nTwi.Y!!lvV.�M. easereekan HE,NEW VPinN1COUVe[ STATION 04' Via new ' a:weaver Station' built 14 Oanadidn National lt'allivaj's at a Bost. of a miliiva dollars, and which is ono of the bet equipped and up-to-date stations is the its chief attractiveness p constructed generally aliu ltsWWI; simplicity tty of atone desig .sinTt has ae and efrontage �if 0:22 feet white depth of 105., On the ground floor are situated the large general waiting room, adjacent and opening fromwhlch are separato waiting rooms for men and worsen, , eommercial 41 graand phs, halndecounter, barber baggsge,'general baggage„govet ernnrentmail,and exprceslawl sleeping, and ent ancesrdistinctmtroni the station proper,Rw t oors elevator service. he tthe he rl ear,aide the concouisen50ifeetlinow�idtb, running in entrauce, are Ilia 'whole length tofttthe building.i leading *la con- aU In all course aro ars exits to ithe vthhee station. platforms, t ofaveragelilength also eacb•aplatfo u, being're are about. �e 1.5 tracks icading'�int • 1.200 fret. :. y este ,`�':��t i •. 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On the afternoon mention^ in the sbadow of the dock that reach td from the lawn's edge to the clear water, floated the colonel's private dugout— a craft hewn from a single cypress log, some thirty-five feet long by three feet wide, Seated in the dugout and lolling on their oars were six gigantic negroes, three to a side, who laughed an conversed in Lazy, musi- cal voices, while keeping an .expectant watch upon the shore. One who had been chewing a piece .of seed=cane spat out the white pith, displaying a set of teeth whiter still, and in a deep, bass voice sang: and "Yalligator sunnin' in a cypress bog, l conies that ialte he soCmuclis fine ,ut Pon on lace. samea), containsl7 perficei tAt i 14 per Long come a nigger en fell off de Toa For days following he had ridden to cent., the bark of chestnut oak (Quer-. Whir dot nigger now?" I and fro beneath her window, and she 1 cus Prunus), white oak (Quercus alba), And the five others, in a doleful had looked down at him, slowly fan- and red oak (Quercus rubra) yields ning herself with a huge silver fan, chant, repeated the refrain: and apparently smiling. Eventually, 12 to 15 per cent,; the wood of Am- erican chestnut (Castanea dentate) "'PV}iar dot nigger now?" • he had sought an introduction toie her 8 to 10 per cent, of tannin, father, . a wealthy Spanish nobleman, yields Suddenly, however, the inquiry con- and thereupon had presented his suit while the stems and leaves -of different ferning the fate of the incautious nig-i in formal fashion. He had conducted species of sumac contain 16 to 24 ger ceased and decorum settled upon his courtshiip under prescribed diffi-i per cent. • the boat's crew. Down the -steps of cuities—wooing His lady in a cavern- The horse chestnut (Aesculus Hip - the house and across the lawn came, nous room filled with Sophia's relatives, pocastanum i although not a native of a 'tree. ""Why did you leave me?" he asked• c the next day, after he bad fooled her th lent known as. Canaigre (Rumex b h kiln and Charge the Enemy, Fear, "PerhR s he greatest obstacle to hat pulled down over is eyes, ai into zui,n ng o p t his course for the tower wharf, some; hymeilosega}us), which is really al acting as though he had found some-; success fs fear. b'Ifiny*:i young busi- six miles away, and gave himself up species of dock occurring in Texas, - l thin to eft-. • Less girl fears ridicrtle of hor asso- to various reflections. His thoughts is found in the root; in many trees jj ""Because I tai, not and will not be crates and the criticism of her.employ- were chiefly of his beautiful young, inch as hemlock it occurs in the bark; !kept awake all night by your foolish cr. She is overwhelmed by a thousand wife, of her charm and grace, of her in the Sumacs it is abundant in the crowing. !nameless terrors. Constant apprehen- exquisite breed,in ctuxeof ier she subtle- liad" made,i leaves' while ,n still other plants • it, aiVery�rwelI," replied the rooster. sign not only destroys her efficiency, tery. What a pi is found in the fruits oz 3n ceita standing there beneath the oak,,wiithi ''°Our position in society is maintained but creates an atmosphere that reacts „ } her face to the Sower. How the pathological growths known as l solely by my famous crowing, When to her detriment. When Ifind agirl- your acquaintance who do things, golden tint lifted the orchid had matched "galls," such as those on various1 11,ift up my voice an answer comes of reasonable ability held back for{.head committees, manage clubs and the. soft glow of her flesh! She, 'Tier- species of oak, 1 from all the roosts in: the neighbor- sclero unaccountable reason, ten j fairs and granges, and wondered how self, was like some rare plant magic- Among plants growing wild ' Cali ways works in `one or two ways, either Sa we grow timid and are afraid to von - tare, or we become perfectly satisfied with ourselves and when we are thrown with others we fail to grow be- s cause of the contact.. . If you're a victim of terrorism begin your fight-agailist it to -day, haven't you watched many men and warren of `• • in hood, and 1 wake up our master every chances to one investigation proves o cited perhaps, •could• never do rt It morning at seven o'clock. Since you that et has its root in groundless ap- is simply because they' have self -con- do not appreciate it, you may herafter''prehension," they could do it whet you, better edu ally growing in his home. Re had met her ,n Havana during: ads which contain tannin in consider- able quantities are the following that city in the previous autumn, he canadensis) yields nearly 14 per cent. had seen her standing tail and won- derful on a balcony in the Maleeon. of nin; the bark rktof white spruce —one of those marvelous gralied bal- (picea)' •AC hnt- the course of a business voyage to species: The bark of hemlock (Tsuga with his lady on ,alis arm, the lord of who sat facing one another in two Canada is fairly hardy at Ottawa, Its a reconciliation took place and the hen this terrestrial paradise. Tali, slender, , loner rows of chairs placed down the bark yields a considerable quantity of d and rooster .are again aceupying the same roost in contentment and aff ec- tion— Or, they kept up the fight, the hen striving to learn to crow, and the rooster straining every nerve and muscle to produce an egg. You mai* take your choice. do the crowing yourself. The hen tried and tried to crow, but a shrill cackle was all she could pro- duce. Being a bright hen slue quickly decided on a course to pursue. A day or so later, when she had come near enough to the rooster to be heard she said: "The corn and scratch feed are given to us solely because of women who are consumed withthe my ability to lay anre egg a day, but desire to "make .good." In fact; it since you don't appreciate it you may hereafter do the egg -laying yourself." seemed to me that it belonged more .The rooster tried with all his might to the farm boy and girl than to the ,„ young woman in business, for it has to get into the habit of laying an eggday roduce. been my experience that the people a After atten-day none oseparatihe en and deep most liable to underratithemselves in thinking for the same length of time, this world are the boys and girls who have been bred on the farms, kept through force sof, eircuinstances from rubbing up continually against their This remarkable statement by the Highest salaried woman executive in America, Miss Henrietta F: H. Reid, assistant to the president of the Bush Terminal Company, appeared in a re- cent issue of a woman's magazine, do an article addressed to girls. It seemed too good to confine to young business erect, with deep-set black eyes, long ,centre of the chamber and whti poure tip, ooE yng mustalies and a hooked t out interminable floods of Spanish tannin, while analysis of the leaves nose. Colonel Philip Gardiner was a' Sophia alone spoke English—mean- made in different months of the year figure typical of old Florida, a Irving while waving their fans in unison, as showed a percentage vary' from 2 Y g cxamglo of the gentleman planter of , though to brush the air of spent to 6?4. the fifties. He was clad in immaeu- Itite white linen—the colonel's suits ` words, While the barks collected in May ' I He had married Sophia upon her and June are said to contain the furnished exclusive •employment for, twentieth birthday he, himself, was largest amount of tannin, further m- ole stout negro laundress --ane wore twelve years older—vest,and had sailed' ation seems to be necessary be - s low, turn -over "collar with a black with her to Florida, thereto establish g stack. , At His side, and almost as tall as her as the mistress of his estates. She fore the point can be regarded as be, walked his wife, the beautiful had taken her -place in His life with finally settled, as the analyses that the dignity ^ of a queen assuming a have been made of some species do Sophia. She, too, was dressed in white, throne, and in all matters had arrang- not seem to bear out the above state - but had thrown over her head and ed her tastes to conform with his. Yet, melt. - - shoulders a black lace mantilla that at times, he felt that she -was still an Increased attention is being, devoted gave infinite grace to the movements utter stranger to him, an exotic and at present to the sumacs as a �f her lithe, willowy body. The soft unaccountable as the golden orchid of tanning materials in this frame of this mantilla accentuated next to Sophia golden , source ' 1 tuated herself, was the h group many and Austria by physic, ans and til that h it is not necessary to destroy the tree teachers in their Public schools inform, Pear of` making a mistake, of being ane pure oval of her face, with its ex- and not us cheapest tea with boiling water arid a as the leaves g , `the bestel p golden 11 't huge dark orchid had bloomed for ,goner t 't ' d 1 h I Child Mirth,. -- Mirth seems to be a result of .good feeding. The underfed gannot play. They have not the power of spontane- ous expression of happiness. Recent studies of children in 'Ger- fellows. Looking back to school, teaching days in the old country school, it to use water at a temperature below seems to me now -that the majority of I to boilingwpoint. m o matter how poor marks the boys and .:girls got .e. , were given them, not because they! choice the tea, if the water is not at didn't know the lesson, but because ;boiling temperature the jnipertant they were afraid to recite. I can recall' constituents of the leaf are not des - many a student x*hon r knew mast be solved; • Now that everybody is talk - able to answer every question 1 asked,: ,rig ec.oneniy it is a good time to call aitentionto the waste caused by using fidence, while you are fearful. Per- haps you have evengreater ability, and are simply afraid to -use it. We had a copy in school, usually once a month, which may help you: "We lose the good'we oft might win by failing to attempt." If you have been losing out through this failure, begin your reform to -day. Brewing Tea.. All that one -needs to make good tea is an earthenware pot, some tea and water that is boiling at the time it is poured on the leaves,- which should then be allowed to ,infuse for a - few . moments, when the liquor must be poured off. That sounds easy= and it is all there is to it; it is astonishing how seldom this simple formula is followed out iu actual practice. The housewife's most common mistake cis but who only dumbly shook his head, while some more self-confident class- mate arose and rattled the lesson off., There was nothing to do but put -down- a bad mark, though. water below the boiling point. To prove that one can waste in making • tea get two grades, one a very cheap tea and the other. a tea of the same. kind : but double the price. Draw the chief treasure of his existence. the bark are that as early as the severe Winter laughed at held these children back wimple with water belays visite ga en pa or, its This on; a i oom - _ ea lashes, nee! � f the rest oak used: There are. three Canadian spec-; of 1916 children were apto sit m o- in school. It will, probably hold t em the boi7�ing point. You may be sur, eyes fringed with h i'y' ed outh' tion upon ;the body o g sensitive nose and z of the Gardiner place. S9 ies whose leaves furnish 'fi,annin in; lentlY gazing in front of them, to be back throb li life uhless they make ataste will sliSelightly se ers. The at the foot as the only able uantities.. Dwar£ sumac . oused only ;by some strpltg sthmuhis ' effect drawn up at the corn far as was known, it -w consider q x. determined 'fight to overcome it, Those rased at the result but the convince you that boiling water` drawer efl`ect of this characteristic was to :orchid to grow in that section of (Rhus corallins) occurs in Southern', and soon relapsing into inattention. l "thousand nameless terrors, horn well off cheap tea makes a better drink :=e her the appearance of being con- Florida and was one rof the marvels Ontario, P .i tinually about to smile, an effect that thecountryside The story was , b extends from Nava Scotia o e is was at Once baffling' and agreeable. h first landing on o, white or smooth sumac (R:htis Dr, Hilda Clark wrote last June that. A t' bad been in Vienna four days be-, h t knows the ra u. this• . •_a: b1� child l d` a Y horn . lie sawP •ta ore s r Gardiner, hale s that e•A and British Columbia w g f the sensitive person knows. them. n than_ is 'possible to brew with water . no one hut the sensitive person•ep}ii'ch is not boiling even'when what untold bravery it takes to ever- tea itself is of good quality. come' them'. Going over the top re- Tea is often served in a china tea - quires no greater.courage than charg- .,pot containing the'`tea leaves and a ,rg the enemy -fear. Fear of ridicule, larger' pot supposedly filled with boil - Moreover, sae had a habit of looking shore after: many trials by an up from beneath the half -lowered eye- shore water, had looked r s see smiling lids that invested her with a certain w ton him- looked orchide and ing mysterious detachment, as though she upoe ted it theromptly as a goad omen. walked behind.. a lovely `mask. It ming a,Since that day the #lower had remain lie confessed'that she was something ed the inviolate talisman of the Garda - sumac an enigma 'ta her husband, who, lex heirs and visas considered 'goner= sumac (Rhus hirta) is : found from • Dr. A. • Thiele, of Dortmund, says Nova Scotia to o Ontario. •• that'though the nervous system re - The best time to gather the leaves : sasts deprivation of food well, the lack is during the months of July, August of certain important universal salts and September... The branch of .the soon produced in the childrefi a ten- current year should be cut or broken deny to rapid me tat fatigue, assoca leer a faultless wife, a mystic influence upon a as to leave a few buds ated with excitabtl. ty. Loss of energy though finding erne- ` ally to exert a y was nl in such a way b hostess and+a fascinating o it fortunes. There ordeal to continue the growth 'and initiative speedily followed; final - super the fan yL at the' base t to his home, had never ,been able that so long as the not ]leaves 'contain 'a 1 ' all desire for mirth and sport died ,nenlegendt next season. The T Y to assure himself that he possessed .bloomed undisturbed and was not] t f tannin 'than away,and coarse,primitive instincts the fealty of her soul. Sometimes be picked, so long the house of Gardiner much g Green sumac loses bb to began to doubted whether 'she had a soul; she would prosper. Colonel Philip, though was almost too beautiful to have one:: hot of a superstitious -ural of imnd, -mind Prof. Engel found .5,000 Near the river wedge and1iot of implicitly m s t , , Dor fear •of failure, fear of making. a -missjagwater:' :Tea made by pouitmg the. take, as Miss Reid puts it, keeps more sister into the small petthrough -the people back than any other thing, tea is often unsatisfactory because of :And +lie country bred person, I be the,clifficulty of keeping the' water up 'r lieve,:is more liable to those fears than to,'the bolhng,point, It may have e been the city -,bred. The boy in the gpty'is , boiling when poured, but the cold pot -eater amours o early aecustoiiied to medsuring him chilled it just enough to make it too. assert themselves. street is his -.goad cep o£aea, the stems: t 000,000n self by his fellows. The h cold to draw a b P per cent. of weight in •drying. Of.a total population -of i., la round, and while it. may :be un- "_W,asted tea leaves are just :as fear $O ( P yg I' desirable' from manv points of view, waste as: uneaten bread,: or fat•throvin es children between two and seven years atleast it affords...him aii opportunity' into the. garbage cane It isnot nec- of age who were unable to walk.,nd himself. He ;is inspired by the essay to •economize to `tl,e extent of World's Simplest Post Offico, London pre lets that to , y when i The Lancet (London) P t d rma of-h.i•s. braver fellows to try tee ins o�Xt your iter of tee e t ye world's simplest post office is' the of children in Vienne. will a The each fear -producing stunt and -earns !you t'ra�t it see that yc. _ � t Il the in South America. From a high, grow up with stunted bodies and ques- rock cliff overlookingdthe Strait of tions whether their mental life. will y Magellan is suspended by a long chain ever again.. overflow. into mirth and directly legend, and, `n couple as an ()b- out the path of the approaching P indeed, regarded °rabid stood a magnificent live -oak,. decked ect almost sacred. out - now in its new coat of green; a j (To be continued ) veritable monarch, whose vast limbs, _ ground at their ex- tr 'Weeping ie the , rkable• Telephone. txemettes were hung > with majestic ��. Rern•z stalactites of Spanish moss. As ,they, The Queen of Spain pos$esses what ` r able •inches of tis tost roma i passed beneath . the bt is claimed to be the n tree the colonel- paused abruptly :attd 1telephone in the world, It is of soleal pointinga id exclaimed: ld truiiismitter, acid is "Tire rchid, madam! It has bloom- ; silver with a go ,, i. supported by '.our bronze figures,' ed. languid', g is�bic1 a boy leaning aginst e e. raised her _ lovely, Tan„u l among ti,ophia. r _ >oouin �• above her.a I- ,�I,ari 'isli tics-oi'-a,}•ms �is conversing b;*4 eyes :and •seen de g_ I lir--with ' an, .: ter, �axr, orchid _ -same . t,;le ).acne• -a 'golden v,_ ., retnuticable flo � a illy- the Ticar- `,of • i i. -h lion. `-•The work' of art stands what larger than. gale old. Far some :i i P2aiecty's ,wi'lti'ng table; nand which was a 1 g on her interest P t was mere then curiosity. } moments she remained thus, lazing comae : t with the itoya.l nursery clay up i the straiit"a blossom with pan _ a rrrCi31.:, .1,r „,,eee n'1'etl finhl'iyi "is ,u�izz.axr� t ..,:Wait a'a Cares erne azT;c., a barred which receives mail, It has no postmaster, nor. is there. any regu- i Jar letter carrier or collector. Eveiyi ship 'that,: goes through the,. Strait stops and sends a boat to this curious little. post office, looks over the letters that are in it to see if there -are any., for the ,nen ori board that ,particular' ship, -uid plaecr;; therein letters for, searficn on board ships that .are known! to he heading for the Strait. I the e:uberaiice of :animal spirits. . Most Beautiful Women. • In" the 'opinion of many travelers, the•1nost beautiful•women in the Y.vozid are the; Indian women of the Tehuar1 tepee cli:Strict• of'itiiexira tfo•'we do net 'lcnow'what She Car- fare is to Tehuantepec. tAtuai d's >,.siisizen.t Ousee Ooids, 'Tutt, - u eget e a at one failure isn't gorn • to . there se hr the" leas es•- Ude 1n time that going �iftue i . wreck his life.' boiling water , and p•tactice, real' The farm shad hasn't .this oppor economy. tuiiity. He has only the short recess W: elchool-.to meet -his his ^a and noon . kiorzx•: at t< t'"'�` .' `•� playmates,• anis. thein i-ituries'home a' result he ;is apt to grovr illy anti'” distrustful of leis oval ability,' f'o b.:=` conie-a victim of apprehensions' which` .keep hien back from success. `The hest' cure for this is to keep him as ?mucin with other children as is possible. Isolation is bad for everyone. It al RNs Write • f c )f c.�,-t. Au serail es. l'ORO:NTO S.i,L.`i. `nisi'• dei, a.C- . vRl« i �''