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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-08-13, Page 2• • •••• +0♦0+0I0+0♦0♦0♦0♦01-1,40+Ol40♦0♦0♦0+Oat)+0+4S+0+01 1 z 1 £+0+0+0+�4�+0+0+D+0+�+ +0+04-0+0+0+12+1:40 a0+ 0l+little CHAPTER X X II.—(Coned). "Yes, I think after luncheon I shall lie down for a little time. a The day was brilliant. It was have, however, some pressing let - July in Devonshire, that fairest of feta to write first." all counties— and July there is al- 'Lot Ledge attend to your car ware a superb month. The air, respondence for to -day, she urg- scent and balmy, andds laden with a co with that mock juvenility which and of teres at brokckle, rendered her so hideously ridicu- quietand the only sounds that broke tho lens. were tho songs of the birds p "No," I responded. "I have, and the soft rustling of the trees. I sat there trying to decide how unfortunately, to attend to several to act. pressing [natters personally. Af- For the first time it occurred to terwards I will rest." me that my position was one of a "No, there's a dear," she said. certain peril, for if I did not act I hit my lip. She nauseated mo with tact and caution, that woman when she used that affectionate who called herself my wife, aided term. The only woman I loved was by that idiot Brittonmight do- Mabel Anson, but whether she elate that I was mad, and cause me were still alive, or whether mar - to be placed beneath restraint. ried, I knew not. Tho very thought Therefor.;, to gain my freedom, it that I was bound in matrimony to was evidently necessary that I this woman sitting Li. the high - should act with discretion and keep backed chair of carved oak was els- my own counsel. gusting. I loathed her. I looked around upon the fair How I continued to oat the dish - panorama of nature spread before es Gill handed me I know not, nor me. The world was six years old- do I remember what conversation or than when I had known it. What passed between my pseudo wife and national events had, I wondered, myself as we sat there. Many wore happened in that time? Place your- the abrupt and painful silences self in my position, and picture to which fell between us. yourself thio feeling of bewilderment She struck me as an ascetic, that overcame me when I reflected strong-minded woman, who, before upon what might or might not have others, fawned upon me with an af- transpired. fected devotion which in one of her There crept over me a longing to age was ludicrous; yet when we escape from that place, the habita- were albite she was rigid and over - tion of that awful woman with the bearing, with the positive air of one powdered cheeks, and to return to who believed me far beneath her London. All my life and pleasure alike in social station and in intel- had been centered in the giant ca- lect. When Gill was absent she pita!, and to it I iutended now to spoke in a hard, patronizing tone, go hack and seek, if possible, the which so angered me that with broken thread of niy history, which great difficulty I retained my temper might lead me to an elucidation of Yet it was my policy, I knew, to the marvellous mystery. conceal my thoughts, and to lead The world around mo, the calm her to believe that the words I had blue sea, the cloudless sky, the uttered, and my failure to recognize green grass -lands, the soft whisper- her, were owing to the blow I acci- Ing of the foliage seemed so peace- dentally received, and that I was ful that I could scarce believe that now, just as I had been before, her so much evil, so much of human husband. malice, could exist. The tranquil- What a hollow sham that meal itv of my surroundings induced was! Now that I think of it I can - within me a quieter frame of mind, not refrain from smiling at my ex Ili Prance there is a hierarchy of and I set to plannnig carefully how traordinary position, and how I farmers. 1 might escape and return to Lon- showed her delicate attention in The great landowners w5 Hoed dcn. order to the more impress her of not consider. They aro not in their To endeavor so to do openly my solicitude for her welfare. fields. They are Idling, gaming, would, I saw, bo to draw upon me When at last she rose it was with talking politica in Paris. They num- the spies of my hideous wife. Was a hope that I would go to my room her their acres by the thousands. I not believed - by all to be insane? and rest. Take the French Rothschilds, for Then certainly I should not be al- I seized that opportunity. lowed to go at lars,o without some "1 shall," I answered. "Bet instance—they own 400,000 acres of land. Other barons of finance and one at my aide. don't let thein call ane for dinner. many gentlemen of ancient house I wanted to be alone. The prey- I will have something when I wake. are masters of similar estates, says once of a second person entertain- Britten has ordered perfect quiet." the Outing Afagazi la lug suspicions as to my sanity "Very well, _she answered. Then Such "farmers" as these are at would seriously hamper mo, and turning to (fill, she said, "You the head of the liiorarclry; the prevent me prosecuting the inquir- hoar. Mr. Heaton is nut to bo tanning baron, the gentleman faun is a I intended to institute regard- aroused nt dinner." cr. Their lands are exploited in ing my pact. No. To escape sue- Yes, madam," answered the the broad, businesslike way that cessfuily I should be compelled to man, bowing as we both passed out. rules the syndicate wheat forma of Cy to London, and once there alter At onco 1 walked along to the lib- the great Northwest. Let us go my appearance and assume another rary, shut the door, anti locked it. down the scale. ext in order Como name. Search would undoubtedly I had much to do to prepare for the farmer generals. They aro be made for mo, but onto in Lon- my flight. middlemen. They are the capital - don i felt confident in being able to Yes, as I had expected, there was it is who stand between the owner, brit any efforts of my wife's agents. an ordinance neap of the Toign from whom they rent a hundred Therefore I sat upon the stile and mouth district tacked to the wall • calmly matured my plans. and searching. I quickly found forma, and the tenants to whom ve The chiming of a clock, appar- 1 or nbury marked upon it, standing theveoyr turned a furrow.wof Tho fanthem ner ently in the turret upon my own , n the Exmouth road over the high general is an intermediary' parasite. stables at Doubury, full upon my Land, or Orcombe, half way be - At this point in the agricultural Pare. It struck one. Then the tween that place and Budleigh - hierarchy comes the man who cul - sharp ringing of it boll --the lunch- Salterton. The South -Western tisates his fields. The largest class eon-bell—followed. Railway ran, I saw, from Exmouth is Hondo up of those who rent their _._,..,�►_._ Ledge had told me that the place to London, by way of Exeter, and faiths—as in England—fromo some was near Budleigh Saltorton. Was n,y first impulse was to walk into rent Innduwncr; if the lease bSAVED. it near enough, I wondered, for Inc Exnrouth, and take train thence• great and the terms be good he tares to walk there, and was there a sta- The (act that I was probably known long Ho owns his stock and A young lawyer, not noted for in - a map in the library. I would be therefore I made up my mind to do. Ile employe a dozen tion 1 There aright. I reflected, ho at that station occurred to pie' implements. Usually ho is well to telligonce, succeeded in having a men, lab- client acquitted for murder. Meet compelled to trace it out and seek staid the terminus and join the orate, shepherds. Moro and more ing a friend a few days afterwards, my route, for I was absolutely 'n- train at Lyarpston, n small station he is becoming the typo of the the lawyer was greeted with warm natant of that corner of Devon- further towardsnpen I m French fanner, for the small own- congratulations. shire. Taking up my pen I made a rough er—he who ploughed his own acres "Yes," he said, mopping his brow, Yes, my beat policy, I decided, passed -plan of bey route, which --is giving way before the univer- "I got him off, but it was a narrow was to return to the house, act as passeLittlehnm church, then by sal tendency toward concentration; escape. indifferently as possible, and the left-hand road struck across el en so the little shopkeeper is he- "A narrow escape: How?" n.canwhile complete my plans for country, crossing the high road to ing destroyed by tt►e all absorbin "Ali, the tightest squeeze you ever 6 escape. Exmouth at right angles. continu-department store. saw. You know I examined the wit - 1 retraced my steps to the house ing through the village of Withy- In a great measure this man is Horses, and made the argument my- self, the path f had byaed, and c, Raleigh, and keeping independent. Twice a year he pays self, the plea being self-defence. upon the lawn was meett by the man strasigig ht on until it joined the mainlos rent; probably he rents his farm The fury was out two whole days. CJill, who announced— readniers to Exeter. At the commence on a lease of three, six and Wino 1-• nallv.. the judge called them bo - ''The luncheon•bell harp rung, wasent of the village of Lympston it years. Ile is master in his domain. (ore him, and asked what the sir. i hope you feel a little bet- necessary, I saw, to turn sharp He may sell, buy, sow and gamer trouble was. ter, sir.''to the left. and at the end of the as he will. 1'orh ops his greatest "'Only one thing, lord,' re- ' Oh, much beset," I answered road I should find the station, close difficulty is in procuring laborers, plied the foreman. 'Was my the prison - airily, and with an effort at self- i the river Fixe. for the young mon go to the cities, er's counsel retained by him or ape possession followed him into the In order to avoid mistaking the to the factories; so he works frompointed by the court 1' imitation old -oak dining room, toad and entering the town of Ex' dawn to dusk and with him in the p " ,No, gentlemen, the prisoner which Geeta had shown me during plan.mouth, I made a full and careful' field his women w•„rk. our tour of the place. plan, which, when completed, i Lower in the scale is the farmer is it man of means,' raid the judge, The woman with the powdered ,laced in my pocket. The distance, who works his land en re- `and engaged his own bearcounsd. cheeks was already seated at the I calculated roughly, was between ceiving one-half of the shares. r - "1 could not sae what bearing the head of the table, erect and stately, five and six miles over a road ra- pia fanningg is done under the di- question had on the evidence," con - which 111 became her. :1mong the books on the table i with an expression of hauteur they difficult to find without a map. rection of the owner or farmer-gen• firmed the lawyer, ''hut ten minutes eral. This is the method in vogue later in filed tho jury, and what do "I hope you feel better after your [toad a Bradshaw, t ith the page at Ferrieres, the great estate of the you think the verdict was?" walk." she said. as 1 seated myself. t,f local trains turned down. and Baron Rothschild in the Seine et "Why. 'not guilty,' on the ground "Oh. much better," 1 responded from it learned that a train with Marne. Usually but a small farm of insanity." in a :one of irony. "The pain has connection from London stopped at all„ted to the 'hall shares man —' practically t ''ed.” 1.}nrpston at 7.99 p.m., while the In reality he is the sort a'f the new ENTITLED TO SHOW. Vow should really rest." sh^ train in connection with the uP- regime, for financial fcudality has Man wants hut little here below, said, in that squeaky, artificial r..ail from Exeter stopped there at preserved many of the old send WI he gets a whole lot less tine which so Jarred upon my s 2'). The latter I decided upon trades of the soil. In fact, if ho hut gets a show r,er' "Do take the doctor's ad- taking. In the first place he may at anyNe has cause for thankfulness. vice • The fact that I had expressed my time be called away to work in the Is ass on the tip of my tongue desire to sleep would prevent dill owner's fields. Re must make all ` to make it further unwriteahle re- coming to call me at the dinner- iwpairs. Ho mutt dig trenches Landlady—"You mate an awful r•nrk regardingthe doctor. but 1 hour and by the time I was missed wherever the owner sees fit He noise with that flute " Weirder - teenaged to control myself and re 1 should be well on my way to Lon- must supply all the straw and hay "Well, I'm sorry to hear it." Land- PAY-- don. the owner requires and send to bis lady—"Bo's everybody else." A Ilousc of Mystcry OR, THE GIRL IN BLUE The quostic•a of money occurred/ kitchen eggs and butter and vege- to me. I had noticed some loose tables in season. He must allow all gold and a couple of five -pound c r an • of the owner's laborers to nutes in one of the drawers which cook their feed iu his kitchen whon- Gedge had opened, and having a ever such laborers are employed duplicate sot of keys in my pocket, near by. And lastly if the owner I transferred the whole—a little finds the work ill done he may hit -e under twelve pounds—to my pocket. outside laborers and send them in - Then I took out my cheque -Look. to the fields, for which the "half It was too large to bo carried in shares man" must pay. my pocket, therefore I tore out a couple of dozen or so, folded them, and placed them in an envelope. A CAUSE OF ('AIME. Prof. J. C. Kendall an American I recognized that I could draw -- dairy author'ty, has been making an Mr. l'hligmintbroe's View of the investigation of the garlic odor iu not know my whereabouts. If these Effect of Cold Plates on Mankind. milk and cream. Cows, when turn - money with them, yet the bank need ppose, call ed out to pasture in the spring, oat people, who would, I su themselves "my friends,' made ac- "I suppose" said Mr. Pliligtnia_ tiro leader young sl.routs ut flus tiro search to find the fugitive throe, "that when everything has plant with relish, and the result is "madman," they would certainly been counted up and reduced to the most disastrous to the milk and hut - obtain no clue from my bankers. final analysis it will be discovered for supply. The odor is closely as - In the same drawer as the cheque- that the one single, most prolific sociated with the butter -fat, while hook I found a black loather port- cause of crime is cold plates. bitter and other flavors, aro most folio, securely locked. "I wouldn't be understood as say- pronounced in the milk serum. Ile - The latter fact impressed me. ing that cold plates aro a direct in- moving the skint milk does not Everything else was open to my citment to murder, though it is not therefore accomplish the beneficial secretary, who possessed keys, both impossible that might bo so; but as effect that might, bo expected. to writing -table and safe. But an insidious, undermining cause, as Prof. Kendall has made a close this was locked, apparently because an influence tending perhaps indi- study of the influence of the weed therein were contained certain pri-redly, but still with no less ter- upon the flavor of milk and butter, vale papers that I had wished to tainty, to the committing of crime I and has tried different methods of keep from his eyes. have no doubt you would find cold ridding milk and cream of the No man, whoever he may be, re- plates leasing all the rest. flavor. While this flavor can be got poses absolute confidence in his "How often do we hear it said of rid of, to a certain extent, by pas - secretary. Every ono has some the fate of nations that it is tremb- teurization and quick cooling, those personal matter, the existence ofling in the balance, ready to be mor are not sufficiently effective to make which Ile desires to preserve secret od this way er that by the slightest butter made from milk with garlic to himself alone. touch? And if this can he true of flavor saleable. I drove forth the locked portfo- nations how much more may it be In an hour or two after the animal {iu, and placed it upon the blotting -true of individuals who ma be has eaten pad before me. It was an expan_ y garlic it is noticeable in sive wallet, of a kind such as I re- swayed, their fortunes for the time the milk. In a short time the entire membered having seen carried by settled, or their whole conduct of system is permeated by the pungent bankers' clerks in the City front life determined by the slightest cir- order. It will damage the sale of bank to bank, attached by chains cumstanco 1 the carcass of animals alanghtered, to tho belts around their waists. "Coming back now to cold plates. while on pasture infested by garlic. Sural}' upon my ring I must pas- You take a man who has worked Tho only effective way found to sess a key to it. I looked, and hard and been hurried ser day and overcome the effects of this odor was found a small brass key. who comes home at night tired and to turn the cows on the pasture for It, fitted, and a moment later I worried and whom a square meal not more than two hours immediate - bad unlocked the wallet and spread would brace up mightily and cause ly atter ranking, and keeps them my own private papers before me. him to take a new. view of life and from access to garlic until the fol - What secrets of my lost life, I to set his face in the right direction, lowing milking. Prof. Kendall wondered, might not those careful- and you give this man a good dinner found no trouble from it by follow- ly preserved letters and documents with hot plates and don't you see ing this plan. contain? that you head him up right and con- Some follow the plan of keeping In eager, anxious wonder I turn- firm in him his good impulses? You cows out of the pasture infected cd them over. a nail him, so to speak, you start him with garlic for a couple of hours be - Next instant a cry of dismay off rig:it, and you keep him going fore milking. But this was found broke involnntarily from my lips, as right; and there's a man saved. not to be effective. The only effec- "And now you take that same man tive plan is to see to it, that the cows within trembling fingers I held one of those papers- -a letter addressed and give him his dinner on cold have their feed containing garlic be- t^ me. plates; and that niay bo the last fore any considerable amount of straw that breaks the camel's back, milk has been elaborated. I could scarce believe my own eyes as I read it. Yet, tlio truth and he may get peevish over it, and The safe plan with this and other was plain—hideously plain. not enjoy his after dinner smoke, foods that flavor the milk, such as (To he Continued.) and get so wrought up that he turnips, is not to feed them at all to doesn't sleep well that night and milch cows. In the fall of the year + wakes up the next morning and goes many dairy sections in Canada are WORKING FRENCH FAiIMS. to business already tired out and troubled with turnip flavor in milk. not fit to do anything, so that he While this flavor may he got rid of From the Rich �Landow•ner to the loses his temper and is cross and by feeding turnips immediately af- llaif Share Man. irritable, and misses esery play he ter milking it is never a safe propo- sition to advocate it. The patron is makes and goes from bad to worse and winds up maybe by killing some- sure to take advantage of it, and body before the day is over. All {eed turnips when lie should not do this is absolutely attributable to so. There are other fonds for milch cold plates. cows just as good and cheap that do "So of major crimes such as mur- not flavor the milk. Then why feed der and that sort of thing; but when anything that will endanger the it comes to little things, such as quality of the product? plain sulkiness and kicking over chairs at home, and being cross to FARM NOTES.the children and making your wifo unhappy and causing gloom to settle The early generations simply on the household generally, why, plowed the ground and gathered the these cold plates have crimes to crops. We must manage very differ - answer for innumerable. anti to day. We have been selling "Tall oaks from little acorns grow, mill -dams break and spread from the farm elements of fertility which we must return in some way their devastating waters from leaks to the soil. that at first you couldn't put your It is pretty generally understood little finger through, and I have no at the present day that the feeding doubt that many disturbing, dos- of animals is moat economically per- trossing, harowing things hive been formed by the use of a ration in primarily duo to so small a thing as which the elements of nutrition bear cold plates, which indeed, as I have a definite ratio to each other. The said, I believe to bo the one most present state of agricultural science prolific cause of crime. would seem to indicate that plants "And taking this view, what a re too should be fed by properly pro- sponsibility rests upon those whose portioned rations or in such aroan- duty it is to see that the plates are nor as will secure n healthy and con - hot'. For the good of humanity, if tinuous development of tho plant not for our own comfort, well being until it fulfills the end of its exist - and happiness, give us hot plates . N -ea•+•♦+♦♦••♦♦•••♦♦•♦♦ ♦ • ♦ ♦ •♦ : About the Farm •4+ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ r-++♦♦♦♦♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦0♦♦+4 GARLIC FLAVOR IN MILK. LIVE STOCK NOTES. Weak legs in pigs show that the bone -making material in their diet is lacking and that they need to be given a chance to got out on this ground. In setting a hen late in the season, when the weather is warm, it is well either to make the twit on the ground, or to put it soireathe hot. tom of it, so that there may be some degree of coolness amid moisture. Sheep need looking atter every day nearly, but they du not have to be milked twice a day, like cows ; neither do they have to be driven to the barn ovc:•y day. They ought, however, to bo changed from one lot to another about every three weeks, and that is not much of a job if every time they are looked after r..►ey are given a few handfuls of some kind of grain that they like. They are only too willing to follow the dish on being called. Every farmer should at least keep hogs enough to consume the waste products of the farm, garden and dairy, and more, according to cir- cumstances. Tho market demand is of primary importance. Every farmer should keep his own brood sows. Select those of good, rapid growing power, that fatten readily at any age. A standard breed ,.4 preferable. Breed to a standard bred male of same type. Musket fall pigs in May or June, when they will usually bring a good price. They will weigh. nt this time, 200 to 300 pounds. if you don't want to sell before fall, keep them growing thriftly all summer, and get thein ready for an early market, as it is generally the best. Commence feed- ing g'adually and in a short time they may have all they will eat. once. If weeds are to be kept at bay tho portions of the farm once cleaned must be kept clean. Unless this is done it is quite impossible to clean a term at all. In order to do this effectively every farm must be gone over once or twice a year with spud in hand. Whether this work shall bo done once or twice wet deepnd first, on the nature of the weeds found growing; second, on the kinds of crop grown in certain fields, and third, on the extent of the au- tumn cultivation practised. it is 413- tonishing how efficacious this simple process proves. Where it is prac- tised from year to year it is quite imposr.ible for a farm once cleaned to got foul again, when the ordinary process of cultivation receives dile attention. Every form of weed lifo is thus nipped in the bud, and so never gets a foting. ;1 + • A FAVORABLE CLIMATE. Englishman (just arrived in New York)—"You say you have a farm in the West for sale. I think of go- tnf, West. Is your farm in a good, fertile climate ?" Westerner — "I should smile. Why, sir, whenever we have visi- tors, they just sit themselves right down, and don't, do a thing the whole day long but write poetry about feathered songsters, an' soughing winds, an' blushing posi- es, an' celestial--" "Yes, but is the climate adapted to fanning?" "Well, I'll tell you. We raised six hundred chickens this year, and when time came to get 'em to mar- ket we was in a fix. The dealers wouldn't tako 'em unless they were picked. Now you see what a job that would be. Six hundred chick- ens to scald and pick, and only mo and my wife to do it." "Yes, but the climate—" "That's it. Our alicautiful age cultural climate Alt. what saved • us. That very day along came a cyclone, picked up them chickens, give their necks a twist, stripped every feather cff, an' landed the hull lot in the next town right in front of the market -house." 4 ODDS -AND -ENDS. Most men of sense aro also mod- est. The fool who admits his folly is no longer a fool. A philosopher is he who doesn't'L. want what he can't have. It's easy for the man with a good income to be a philosopher. You may think yourself a super. lot being, but keep it to yourself. No girl treats a young man bet- ter than he seos her treat her mo- ther. Stupid people seldom realize their stupidity ; which is fortunate for them. Mind your own business, and let other people mismanage theirs it they want to. Girls who cheapen thsmselvet soon learn that most men aro not bargain -hunters. if some people only worked at hard as they worry, they'd have no time to worry. Doctor—"From now you may let your husband have a glass of beer every day—you understand 1" Wife—"Yes, doctor ; just one glass a day." Doctor (a week later) -- "Now. 1 hope you have kept strict. ly to that one glass j er day that I allowed your husband to take?" Wife—"Most decidedly, doctor — only he is four weeks in advance with his allowance`" Prevention is better than cure, but 1t does not get its niu► in tho papers so often. 1 Make Your Stomach Happy with SHREDDED WHEAT and fresh fruits. An Ideal summer food► wholesome, nourishing, delicious. CONTAINS MORI: REAL NUTNIftVST THAN MEAT OR 11O5 rog4 SOLI) RV ALL UROCI?R5 Off