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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-08-27, Page 2♦♦+♦♦++t`o4V♦♦+4+44+44+444,994444 �++♦♦4♦94.4 • A Broken Vow + "A curious sort of revenge, Miss! PI ti►%•41+111104,41.0ig"11f• Varney. Why did you do that I" "At first, because I believed that it the girl knew he was rich, or thought he was rich, she would tura away from him. I succeeded in that; I parted the lovers. There was no mercy in my heart for therm, Mr. Blake." "Is there any mercy in your + heart for them now?" he asked. ♦ "I think so," she replied gently. ma difficult to understand, once had been so who had he Farm FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND N11'I is ()1' INTEREST FliOM HER BANKS AND BRAES. Hare's a Meal Summer Delight -- SHREDDED WHEAT with tnilk or cream anti fresh fruits I) :sears heavy !cols and try this natural diet. fur a time awl Ilot., how Votll• t)ilt)1'4,eS Will illez (. 43© till': `'(tilt' �t,l r its rel 'i ve, N• U 141111,16 11'11'11')1' C BEING 4401.0 til 111.1. 4:Rol• .44 `t 11 hat is Going on in the Highlands and l.oelands of .tuld GRAIN FOR YOUNG PIGS. �� 1el,tia. ► In feeding grain to young pips it n knowe but I who I is imposhible t., establist, any set The Gas Commissioners of l:din- + rules that will apply to all cues, burgh mule a profit last �(•E of strong had grown weak, 1 under all conditions. In a general 5121,595. 4 ♦++♦ ++++++♦.++++++++ ++++++++.+ ++++�'+ ♦4+++ a vow, and had meant to keep it, way. I advocate pigs, 80 its On Sunday recently a Penicuik found myself striving hard to tt- t„ finish them rushingwhthey are .'ca U1 �'• R • ii ,4 �._1 l: irk organ struck work owing to CHAPTER N XV.—(Cant's). It was my religion—my creed — I do the wrong I had done. Can't „sir, Unless good ,acture ib very the heat and want of water. know no other. 1 started frau: Ant -un - you sae how I was bltuated t If 1 young. g 1 .. An old Scottish Act of Parliament " said Martin Blake, always in b_ plentiful and grain expensive, I t rch of Than, a were with that thought had ono to them in my true col "give me ao,no address to which I my mind—the hatred that had been ors as Oliva Varney, I should have think theca is coati Money in feed allows a man to grow a p to l;nuw was a iuq the s►u vv lasts ily while she is `-';, , ' f + ;_ _:. Lubacc, for his own use.,, can writes you will like bred and burn in me and how this boyis getting on, I ant been their enemy ; I went as Aunt sucking her i' t. r. 'Chc� first three _ _ __ _ Barbara hasson, restaurateur, part of myself. Phipps --and they took mo over to, — ____ sure'." "An unnatural tiling for any wo- months of a pig's life is the time 1 eith, has been fiord S:5 for sell - looking much indeed " said Oliva, " he said stern- their hearts as a friend. That was when the foundation is laid. I have ing half water and half intik. yman to undertake, k►okiug at him in some surprise. ly "Were there no womanly in- my first mistake --my first real .fund that a large sow with trine or The surplus from the Scottish "But how eau you write to me stincts in you at all, Mills Varney':" blunder." when you do not even know my "None—at that time," she repli "I begin to understand," said grain to a name 1" It d tone t�, another a by u t is toad money in feeding her all 000. "I won't be rude enough again rhe sweetness ire—tile ish bath, ac µell plunge ori- I shouldn't be able to show you she will eat. Of tours©, corn alone sl p 1 The dredger Esk has commence d tc, ask," he said. "Since the o that. Think for a moment; there beauty of the first real levo story 1s not enough and unless it can he 11i►t.h can be done ibtllln the drudging llucklo Harbor, and one conai Aunt Phipps is dead, we may 1 ] to do in that had ever touched my hard life supplemented I certainly would ad- reassage c:uy recently took 200 tuns silt out toe continuo to penal! you by that parer. ] 1 feeding sea. Here is a and a sheet of paper ; f d I might ac af, std of what I shorts and persslb]y a lr K '1` tl l clic, t degree as a cotlductcd u P It is just ono hundred years ago give me some address to which 1 1' ! h t only • I lay awake at night, thinking ,,, I mix up a filop turn since the foundation stone of the can write if necessary —Airs. had t bl d to v tie a thing I was. 'I , pc►sed of fit a pat is shorts, fi e p k' i st pas � much deducted from t I Bell Rock Lighthouse, oft Arbroath, Phipps." 'd ft I wag had almost made my cur nmoal and one part tankage. ll 1 different t pro his passage tf Ire tt as laid. As he stood there with the pen Tho value of crabs landed this in his hand, smiling at her, she ,d j ] the back to see Lucy again Plenty of It is fed rho pigs well h ► cures his telephones, a 1 [� 1 season hetvveci, ( • t' and Lumbar laughed a little shyly, and sat down frttrl3 hustle right from the' Pt t ► rc�um a tennis ec►ort g if is son bet and increase of mbar again,t and took the pen and wrote. hf t h vel: as or I found dant laul,h at me, art' t aging sick who sllc!fllellolrcl. . ]all break down I found that I Ko hard and fast rules nerd be over last year. All that she wrote on the paper and left him buried loved the gill (lard down as to what kind of Rr.tln The Senegalese at the Edinburgh "AnnePhipps: ouldn t eau ►h at you now of fecal shall constitute tl l g Tn a mi�rd lot f h p best tion with the vvurld ata ExhibitionSare fast Edi rig theh were file the words Plt pp ] I for I w 6 letters • too bed u d enlyd h I d I had never seen—to the world said Martin Iiecanso ration. Where ono has an hand ld tl infer- I;U'T,'C', PROBLEM. Exhibit language, fand can sing tvv He stooped moment, she hesi- I t bidding. Can t you under- i believe in Sou , I sl pplti Of oats, inPte•td of rho inferior being nglisgs. tated for a moment, and snatched 1 k d s•ty And I humbly asb gi zing may be used to e�(ellent 1 e1n�d by the presence of the su The pi obletn of feeding these 3, Gifford is beconiing more popular travel th Adri Scottish year as a picnic rexot'ti,. and BETTER THAN REVENGE. over ot1... IIitnals► is that they i vier, which the law allows her to ►iv a return both in teat and ca,•ry •generallye - curcd when people think enough of to -take care of them. to sustain weight and quality of the fleece by steamship has elevators passengersfrom one c ec ► ' , ►asiuut a Turk- jella )lune and svcirnnling pool ; elect: is baths and and manicure rooms; arti- ficial ice machines, a restaurant I c, . d feu pigs will eat about as much wool The big sten„ p 1 k Children's League of Pity pageant dayas a cow, and there 11,r oft in sheep is a to carry passant, ,1, ' k is expected to amount to fully $b, - Martin, in an altered ' ed. "If I talked to you for ever, <<, , , t of the g was nothing else for me the world ; money had been saved --all won upon me ; I began to b . v.,,cate selling corn and having or me, in order thathad set out to do; little oil meal how _ comp ii; t that object, andthat'hen when I tankage, my father noteven troubled five arts up mind to I provide for mea or that.that tenderness brouFtlt an instrument only—to be used and go away, t allow this to soak half a day. ]f broken and thrown aside. , who _ or Iasi. ' bad never known what 11 t tenderness, saw my father le in a e ► „ ► , strange place, now for ►e pi a in a strange place; setouta the London believe every barley or corn these e u his i ins. - stand that, Mr. Bae ; can'tyou won you , that I felt boundto do it, e- ade a solemn prom- ise to a man who was dead—and that man my father ? "How did you escapeHow i you manage to cheat the world into cneraus and eco:u►„ .CZt n the European ])lap, U pay in the highest business, the sheep industry must where the passengers may have so contemplate making to nisi _ doesn't take his of siblc out ofa the i eren ducts. meals in the regular dining -rooms; photographic )hoc dark It is not the man who „ links and sheep so much as the one who pre -Wireless go telegraphy vents their pec • makes the most out of them. keeps the great shipin cornnlUnice- u sheep the all tunes. suffer by being so with the i THE FE ' I io, your pardon." - i advantage The ration given is perior. OGJ persons who cavo on o "Don't o that ; you simply o high tidy of ,,unlutcr t.raf- s she said )e compounded 4'- one. It takes 160 heard everything yet,"aloneto prepare and serve "When Carer backtothe COYIi I found t c n�tern,ttion t have something to supply flesh- • - — • the foodu the paper from her. As she start- t b every ed to her feet in surprise, he crossed *Cush I had m ] d h t haven't 1 • no of the many that might ! at,c in the g already this year many parties t'laiy e` toe room rapidly, and put his bank d d d 1 d 1 l d by any feeder in fid is a serious ted the district. to the door. Sho stopped, and • t,ickly. 11 hon 1 ser belt. The plain thing is t ► 1 ►t. persons p P Some Portobello or Leith dogs n t hull steadily,without say- d d CARGO OF �lf! l 1(j t� l�t.J fur the passengers and have gone in for sheep worrying on I eked a? ing a word." that the real Aunt Phipps had been t, m,►k,ufi material. A creep 91c c the Crate nonny gulf course, and "I know you now," he said, "and belief f th t r killed? brought t t the IluuSe to a weak he rmlaud fur the pig h tl ey aro 1 or a sang •p 1 several gentled are among the you should not go if you were a \I•'R C 1RIti' 1) A V �1 U ed 32 000 pound sults. :clan, and had twice the strength mo - bearing killed and t up the character—and fioon acryuiro the habit of K ' ]ankh pork rind vca•1, 7,50 p iJl,per �S►and farmers think the re- ef mo. You came from Antwerp , 1 n ?" ]] to appear merely as rho glop montionecl jot qa P prest;llt PaaS()n will be one of the but before canting you wrote alet,- y 13h what lave a untage in such a pen. i ho pr finest that has been experienced foe r ter to a young and innocent girl, friend in the world. A poor little µ•sq sir. $lake; she patched up the antomint of tankage, oil :ural c►r� many years, so far as crops are con - have ening what you would do. I shorts eta • bo slightly varied. It ••T 12 000 pounds of bread ; cernod. governess, whose name I never broken luxe -story. Iiut I —her y Iutcramiing i inis I:iyin stn idea of dozen ef„s; , have that ]atter—and rho writing knew, was killed, and happened at it;Ce bushed with a sudden pride-- iq possible to get tittle pigs so fat' thtt I:uorntity of a 1•'luat• five tons of assorted vegetables; For the first Brno in its history on it is as bull and strong as you the time to be holding my bag. Zhcy •�1 fetched Chris. I really brought They that they make slower growth lar- 1:,.000 quarts of beer and 2,000 tit© Cheshire Rifle Association has yourself are bold ails strong. The Savo the name attached to my pro- ing M q 1 g ' elected a lady president in the per - them together again." er. This should bas to ked t}lem .ouster of a,hiskey,l� gins and ruiu�and 500 daugh- vtciting in the diary of Aunt Phipps y c,yvu were indeed putt.in things should be fed fie P When the Adriatic anchared at son of �l iss Catherine Ktng, prrt3 ; no one claimed her and the g aliens of ice cream. 1 here arc al- ter of Colonel King. Ventirely different. dot, are Olive buried her as Olive Varney. I saw Varney, who came here in the ung m chance to come to London sec- 1 StratiRht condition Thev d d y 11 f sh At I3tlrnonel the six year-old son to smirch the life of this young y f sic] • and h fr ►m 1°,0 to 200 pounds at a of Donald Cameron fell in return- irl." retly; i saw that they would t},ink I L 1' touched. ing with a jug of milk. Part of the g "Olive Varney was killed," she that Olive Varney was dead, and I belteved, I,re,tthed ea d ] e no difficult in Lrin rn All sorts of PP broken u Severed his jugular y he „ that her threat was useless. A nd i b f tt I t take her Y t; K d 1 1 g` said faintly. "Let plc th re I came to London in that way—as a } plaCe in their lives than I w as. I them to 250 or 300 peon s 3 and ho bled to death. "h`ot till I k saw fiomet in mo „ full • determined to ut the rest of then: ashore in sat- : • A lite tortcose has be en picked in g stranger. +went to her, y time they aro nine or at least ten , C ing provided with the idea that in shout you," said Martin Blake "\ot uite as a stranger, Miss; lace in her hands what money I et, all hands frons the preside -it b • 3 P rp on the beach at Ilervrick. Inquir- ry p n►onths old. �� he n Brain is very y+ Casa of eget enc the entire shi 's • Iaernly. "There is seine trickery , „ „ . (,f the cOtn an down were thank- I ies in the ncistliborhuud have failed Varna said Martin. lou seem ,mild s are, and to beg her to go high and pasture plentiful the plan' P y cane )any may have to nt fed fur lin this that Iden t ey--or not •yet. 3 to then . and to tell them the whole c f growing the frame first and fat- f' l'hev had delivered to g1)od cotedi- Are yoie Oliva Varney --or not?" to forget that you vycrc first intro- to be there is a t t She looked all round about her, duced to the girl you meant to ruin story. I arrived to find her dying, toning the hogs after they are a tion the most veredblecargo that S tl ] h•te • a� a certain Aunt Phipps. In some and with her last breath she thank- year old might be more practicable. ever a all: took across theseasat s if seeking k way of esaape ; then h ] d known Dl farmers turn their fall shoats P ll I, fur Eu nted a llc Part tinddrnly sstnk down u>zain _in her 'hair. "Yes—I am," she whisper- fit 1 to cope with a clitii -ta possible allutttng reit cd ; and covered her face with her hands. n Lucy, oun o my .o . l' ' .1 ,uld I•new. le tri t ►cru is requir- RIC LI. - sof beef, mutton, ` ` 0 ounds ABLE L`J.tU. �lre and oultry ; 3,500 pounds the a io a you we c• , s w eu , rouge u bl►e, o is no doubt that someone rnent I allowed her to prevail upon thi•eo or four weeks old. They will usin it. your name was • me o keepmaybe fed to buried. How didthatlappa to allow her ►• "No one knew ale ; I hadonly one mn friend. o knew a '� loffresh fish ; 600 pounds of smoked fish ; 8,000 pounds of fruit ; . right, Miss Varney," said Martin, healthy and strong and in enc e, T. , with a smile. will Southampton, Lal;; ,, td, oast week gas 1,000 cases of condensed milk v and landed most ,►t icer passengers hoard, but 1,000 ga ons ofre "After that grew afraid weigh too, that the poor old six months, and if they do, there the officers of tile; 11 But bar lee milk aro used before this is • • star. lint wt,en she minor supplies are car- p() was rifer fitted o ace ) d h • the I went on to Cherbourg, France, an ried in great bulk, everything )e• - thirty days. EUROPEAN TRAVEL. t� find an owner, and how it came . mystery. The Secretary for Scotland ane This has been a big year- appointed mental Commit ropean travel, despite the rather tco to inquire into the methods of Eu - hard tunes. In 1905 88,367 first- breeding and keeping poultry in class passengers sailed for Europe the Highlands and Islands of Scot - from New York. In 906 the num- ]ails. Was- her was increased to 93,053. Last On opening a parcel f rctl C,l1as- year it was 100,280. This year's cavy containing a hat the other day figures cannot he made up omni the a Musselburgh man found inside season closes. Averaging ter entire £ThO in gold coins belonging to a year, more thin 2,000 persons sail banlc. Query—How did they get fat Europe curry week. In the rush there? weeks of summer there may be 7,- 000 persons traveling by the several lines. In the dead cold weeks of winter the number way drop to :,00, but all the ) ear around 100,- 000 persons take first• -class passage to Europe, to say nothing of the ad- ded hundreds of thousands who sail by the steerage route. +— Ei,E('TR1FIEI) WHEAT. ltihat Sir Oliver Lodge is Doing to extraordinary fashion you had man- ed God that they la neverany out to grass as early in the spri►lg $200,000,000 in American million - extraordinary to meet Aunt Phipps—"the truth, and that I—stronger them to get sires, representing $2,000,000,000 in "That was Fate—an accident. and more , ed investedcapital. Che come to break the Wows to her' cult.v than she had ever been—was their living from tete pasture dur- Each and every millionaire was nephew that his fortune was gone; :left in her place. She left me that ing the summer, and its soon as delivered ashore without s I came to the same house, seeking legitcy—left it to Olive who had new corn is ready in the fall grain save to his pocket,. Of cut damage , pas - for a way in without raising suspt-) conte into their lives but a short feeding is begat and continued un sage on the bigAdriatic costs real cion. She was glad of someone, time before with quite another le- til they go to market. The argil- money,and nut one of the rea- r. ho would carry a message for her, gacy. Now can you understand, curet is sometimes advanced ti►at, airesai ,ed for leas than r:�0, end I made a compact with her that; M r. Blake ?—now can you see the. good growth is made on grass and I a0 , to • ` she lie hidden in her poor lodging t I.l,sition in ,which I was placed? a strong, healthy f rarno produced 04 for the trip across .the while some paid from $1,000ponce. - at the cluckntaker's until I called Olive Varney was (lead --the real that readily takes on fat and that i , It an inspiring sight just be - thather. It was a mere impulse Atttlt Phipps was dead—I was left the gain thus made is cheap ing coin -1 foret was big sailed from New that took the into the house under d wrong the ono had don par sou with corn 1 her name ; I felt that it was the only way then." "You set about the business very carefully, Miss Varney—and Fate certainly pla3•ed into your hands. But for a mere chance, you might have remained Aunt Phipps until CHAPTER XXVI. "Olive Varney," said Martin Blake, in a low voice, as he looked at the shrinking woman. "Olive Varney, supposed to have died and to be safely buried ; Olive Varney, whose letter I hold here, threaten- ing what she would do. Oliva Var- ,ey, who has carried out her 'meat." "I have not ; indeed—indeed I &lave not," she cried, springing to her feet and facing l,un. "You won't know—you can't understand —how I have fought and struggled the end. I thank Heaven I have to undo what I began t de : you , found you out. You have done mis- don't know- how I have starved m3'- chief enough ; I'll see to it that you self, and had no thought for myself, do no more." or for what my future might be, inShe walked across to where he order that this girl might be pre:' stood, and looked him squarely in vides for. I swear to you that I the face. His one though then was start' here, penniless and friend- such a w ,ran less--„ that it wa8 a pity "Is not she penniless, at least?" should be mixed up n such a busi- asked Martin. "As for the rest—n('ss ; but he thought of Lucy. a''I I don't believe it. You have mas- steeled his heart against her wh^ queraded successfully all this time ; hail come to wrong the girl who only by the merest accident have had been his friend so long. I discovered who you really are. "Will ill you listen to m patiently Who knows how much mischief you for a minute?" she asked. ''1 know might have worked, but for that ac- yon base found the out ; don't you cidental discovery. I've found you understand a longthtime foagund myself out out: you can do nothing more."quite don'tquite under ;teak" be "You'll ii never understand, she Paid wearily. "That doesn't mat- snid eotdly. ter ; because I've done what I "When I first came here, Mr. recant to do. up to u print : it isn't Blake. it was with that mad thoneht try fault that I've failed to 1'o slatted mi}I mto ind kept ruin hehgfrl cur more." "I suppose not.." he said. nlisun_ all that my father had insisted 1 derstand her meaning. ''1'11 trace should do. \Mien I felt some tc'n- yctir career back a little. Miss derness--some pity stealing ever Olive Varney, in order to see ex- n'le---- actly where we stand, and what "lieu --with pity and tender - your purpose is." nese''' he exclaimed. "I have no purpose," she said. "Yes yes—I swear to you it's "I heel c+nc ''carrithank carried it died true!" she roars startingtowith heraeyes' Lc f• rl it was "We first heard of von from Ant- •' i told Chris he was poor ; and well). Miss Olive Varney," went that was the truth. I was glad to oe Martin mercilessly. "You sent tell flim that, because I felt that it a letter to a young girl who had could drive the lovers apart. That r.ev'er harmed you. and v. ht,se life was iv hat I had been taught, in my has been pare and '"►•et and good. hare] and narrow work:: and they You fling at her 8 f,�ul threat----" taught me something else, I saw "Mr. Blake!" that I was failing in what I had un - "I repeat it --a foul threat You dertaken ; more than that, I was ae- are going to rob and ruin and d`'- tually in that position that this grade her—because her fat',er cons- young man- •Christopher 1)ayne witted a wrong with whish she was was providing for tee ---paying for never concerned. You are to drag my lodging. and fiir what I ate. I Ler down, and spoil her life " was their enemy, and s -et they were "I was brought up. lir. Blake, saving ale from starving. I hated to believe that that was my duty ; diets for it." taught from the first to understand "A strange position indeed, Miss that that WAS my sole object in life. Verney." said Martin. 'Vet you C'an't you understand ---can't you found money somewhere when you pity int 1 At. a time when ether wanted it : how was that?" girls sere looking out upon life as ' •S(,meone--I won't tell you who something to be enjoyed --some- it was - -someone stole the money thing beautiful and vconderfttl — I that was mine when I was supposed to he dead. T was redo ed to stteh straits that. I stole it main. It was that money that «-ant to Chri+. to undo the a t -masa )or . ren, and to carry out the poor vague tc.o, many fanners have fed out all purpose of the other. That 9 why of the corn by spring, and are loth I failed; that's why you found mei to buy :more, so the shoats go to out.'►grass for the summer. There is "I'm sorry—I'm very sorry," said some truth in these arguments, but Martin. "I wish I had trusted n►y it, is net the best way to get the first estimate of you, Miss Varney ; most money out of hogs. In the Lecatise then I believed in you." 1 fast place shoats will make no par - "And now ?" She looked up at titular gain on grass alone. They him with a dawning smile on her: will ,limply make a natural growtn. face. ' Pasture land that is productive has "Now I believe in you more than a high value and should be used to ever. I do Pee that you have tried the best advantage. Then, too, the to do your best ; the failure is not hogs go to market in the fall when re(1 the hulk of file hog supply is mar your fault. This second hund pounds given to Chris, about which keted and the price is usually the he told me—was that your money? ' lowest of the year, because the sup - "Yes. Don't thinkof that. 1 1,13 is greater than the demand. beg," she said hurriedly. , 1 Again, heavy hogs are not so much not the point at all. I thought to I in demand as formerly and no lon- run away ; somewhere out in the; ger bring the top price. There i$ great, world there's work for me to nc' way in which a shoat can be do and I can live somehow. But made to gain so fast as by feeding was taught to curse my mother, red to breathe threats against the man who hssi terena••d my father. I must do something else first -- mustr--I must." She beat her hands together help - . and paced about the studin. ('opting to the table on which the rate and quickly puts the animal lamp stood, she paused there ir- in marketable condition. NI) one resolutely. while Martin Blake kind of feed is as good fed alone as watched her. Quite apart from his when combined with one or two natural contrition at having nits- others. Beth grass and corn are judged her. there was a growing natural and excellent hog feeds, but admiration in his mind for this fine neither is as good alone. Corn strong soul, caught in the meshes makes fat very fast when the system .,f a net she had not strung together is in a healthy, thrifty condition herself. and struggling hard to be and nothing equals grass as a con - flee, and to do the right thing. ditioner. (To be Continued.) corn or other grain to connection with grass. A little soaked corn fed daily while the shoats are on clover puts on weight at an astonishing HORSE SENSE REMINDERS. WHILE TUE 61,0%'E IS 1'P. Don't leave me hitched in nay stall York. The mann companionway was jammed with bank presidents, directors of railways, brokers, mer- chants, lawyers and others who have the interests of capital at heart. After the wealthy passen- gers were aboard they received mes- sages of importance until the word was passed aft to cast off. Custom house agents were around to see that all the laws were observed. Had the n►iili:maires aboard taken all their money with them the ship would not have been allowed to sail under the United Status registry laws. at night with a big cob right where Then No Man ('an he Arrested In I must lie down. I am tired and This English Town. can't select a smooth place. The gaint, custom of "proclaiming Don't compel me to eat more salt the fair" at Iionitun has just Leen than I want by mixing it with my observed. Tho town obtained the oats. I know better than any other grant of a fair from the lord of the anitnal how much I need. manor so long ago as 12;57, and the Don't think because 1 go free un- fair still retains some of the pie- der the whip I don't get tired. You turesque characteristics of bygone would move, too, if under the whip. (lays Don't. think because I am a horse Tho town crier, dressed in pictur- that weeds and briars won't hurt eFuo uniform and carrying a pole m} hair• Don't whip me when I get fright - mounted with gay ihuvrers an sur- tee`s along the road, or I will ex - mounted by a large gilt model of a glove hand, publicly annuunees the pect it next time and maybe make opening of the fair as follows: tr,uhle. Don't trot me uphill, for I have "Oyez ! Oyez : Oyez The fair's be- „carry you and buggy and my - be the glove is up. No man can self. inn. Try it vo►lrsclf some time. to arrested till the glove is taken doyen." Het veins are then thrown Run uphill with a big load. among the children. The pole and glove will remain displayed until the end of the fair. NOTHING TOO GOOD. Nearly all of the millionaires were accompanied by their fstiuilies, and they had the pick of the big ship's accommodations, which real- ly meant that they were the star hoarders in a floating hotel of the Waldorf -St. Regis -['laza class. In a word, there was nothing too good for thein. The crew, the food, the drink that is necessary for such an important cargo presents a latter-day prob- lem. To the layman it would be Stupendous. pus. Anil what sort of ships do people t:se w hu can pay the price in these twentieth century days Thi , of The .►dria.ic• is a typical ship the kind. She isn't built for speed, hut she gets there regularly, no matter what the weather. Imagine the W'itldorf -.1storia hotel at sea, and you have the Adriatic. She is 725 feet. 9 inches over all -- three blocks long. Her beam is 75 feet 6 inches, and her moulded depth about 50 feet, or about tho height of a city house of four storeys. She has 15,00o horse pow- er, and she can steam eighteen knots an hour without trouble. The C(,st was $3,700,001). ABEEP NOTES. Sheep have a double advantage Increase the Yield. Tho eminent scientist, Sir Oliver Lodge, has written an explanation of the statements which have been trade about his process of electri- f' ing wheat. A Swedish professor, thirty years ago, made some experi- ments trying to explain the Aurora Borealis by imitating its appear- ance. Ile produced high tension discharges and sent then: through vacuum tubes. Some of these ex- } eriments were conducted in a greenhouse and the professor not- ed incidentally that the plants seemed to thrive exceptionally tin- der the treatment. Lately two English gentleitcen wished to con- duct similar experiments with the idea of affecting the growth .)f plants and they asked the assist- ance of Sir Oliver Lodge. •IIis sys- tem has been to stretch over fields with crops to be treated a number of wires on poles, about fifteen feet high. The wires are supported on the poles by elaborate high-tension insulators and are connected with a generator which supplies positive electricity at a potentiality of some- thing like a hundred thousand volts. Leakage occurs immediate- ly and the charge fizz off the wires is sometimes with ,► spns which audible, and with a glow which: is visible in the dark. Anyone walk- ing underneath the wires can feel the effect on the hair as of a cob web on the face. As compared with a neighboring unelcetrifled plot, t he yield of red wheat is increased by 40 per cent. and white wheat by :10 per cent. The electrified wheat T.rodu(•es betterflour. is The straw4to in an clectrif;r'd from 8 inches ah('r. Similar results hihave been obtain*it with fruit and vegetahle9. Cententment is said to be better than riches, but it is only a mat- ter of hearsay with most people. Nothing makes a woman feel so A FLOATING HOTEL. This great fioatil,g hotel which carried the cargo of millionaires has 1)111e decks, and when she has her full complement of passengers and cre wshe has 3,000 persons on hoard three regiments --a whole brigade! To cross the Atlantic she burns 3,000 tons of coal. Her crew consists of 466 men. They work in shifts, and there is always a sufficient relay of men to stoke the boilers, mind the engines and caro for the great number of passctlgers, high and low, riob and E.iRI.l' MAitItI.1(:E CI'$,TOMS -- Wedding cling 'Used First to be Put on Thumb. The little customs that he come tc• he part of the marriage ceremony have been diverse and interesting origins. The ring has played an important part. With the coming in of Christianity it was no longer placed on the right fore finger, but u• the left third finger. The hepriest, first or in some cases the g i r Ia put it on the thumb, saying, the name of the Father" ; on the forefinger, adding, "In the name of the Son" ; on the second finger, continuing, "In the name of the Iloly Ghost" ; then on the third fin- ger with "Amen,"—and there it remained. The bridal veil originated in times and was worn until all the public ceremonies were over. in the Anglo-Saxon wedding ceremony a square piece of veiling was held c:v-er the head of the bride to con- ceal her embarrassirlent.. In the latter Bible days, during the period between the betrothal and the wedding, the bride remain- ed with her friends and could cl mttnicate with her :t1TaTvP(I only through "the friend of the bride- groom.,, Throwing shoes originated in the old Jewish custom of handing to the purchaser of land an old Shen as a token of surrender or renunci- ation. The bride's father gave a 81101• to the husband or threw it -af- ter hint to signify they surrendcredi to hint all authority over their daughter. Throwing rice symbolized ftr4 fttlm•ss and plenty. from its gener- al distribution over the world. + LINKING THE RIVERS. The British government in India 18 considering a project to link to- gether the ravers Indus, Jhclain, I2henah, Beas, Ravi and Suttej, in crder t,1 equalize the flow of water for irrigatiiinur poses. Thus when there is a flood iii one of the rivers a part of the water can be diverted to a point where it may he more needed In this way it is believed that the district of the Punjab, a name which means the a iittle as the refusal of a MOM to Five Rivers, can 1,c' "stir*4 a snttt- argue with her. clout water supply at All seas',mis.