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Exeter Times, 1909-05-06, Page 2• 111 Ullexpeeted Confession; 1 have been ravenously hungry for +++♦++++o+++++s++++++s Don't guess at anythftg you do in house looked after, and all the FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND the hest lima." + the dairy line -know. This is the other odd jobs dune that nobody "Those are good symptoms," . only safe rule. Scales, a ther- wanted to do. This, you will ad _ _ Miss Percival remarked, "and no. Z ? mumeter, paper and pencil --these alit, han taken time, lots of time,, doubt �uu will gain rapidly from h� arm 2 BANES AND BRAES. aro things that every dairyman salt the time of niucteen twcntic•ths NOTES 01' 1NTi:iu: , FRO%1 I1EJ this time un." t hand all the , "\\'here ie your home, Miss Per - civet!" Donald Lancaster lnqulr- Sometimes by w..�,...,y .,.... -�. ived, some one says. And although I am the last to suggest cd, atter a brief pause. new milch cows to the dairy, we may turned out so beide, either for the What I9 Going on to the Iligtlautis A spam of pain contracted the •F♦+++++++++++++++++++$ shorten the process of churning a v:uman or for the race �}:e has - e man's brow at the question. But good deal in cold weather. reared, I must yet insist that, r -s Dud Lee lands GI Auld after an instant of hesitation she' POISONS IY SOILS. it some folks could only sec the a rule, it has been dull for the broth'. replied: A repetition of the same crops on butter that is carried out to their woruan. Or, The Story of Miss Percival s Early Life. "Wherever 1 happen to be. I've ordinary land is not considered to pig peas every day, there would be Tho Rosyth natal base statY s Leets a migratory sort of person for be good practice though the res a new leaf turned over in many _---_—es gradually on the increase. „ good many years. 1 was bound sons against it aro not very well places. A stamp -vendee; elle pie has for New York ellen I started onflow beau installed in elle Glasgow CliAP'l'Elt 1V.—(Cont'd) smiled and nodded a welcome to teat luckless journey five weeks understood. It is a matter of coin- Zcnd a sample of your milk to the GATHERING SEA FOWLS' EGGS (senora! 1'ustotlice, George Square. mon knowledge that an orchard experiment station now and then In naval ship -building circles Evidently the independent physi her. Come in and talk to mom. I am agoAnd so was I. I have lived tree planted in the place of one and see just 1►ow it stands. It is a Perilous Work of Cliff Climbers en there is evidently hope of a steadt- cian's last prescription produced lonely," he said, and she was gladlife,"which died after making a few sea -good thing sometimes to let the English Coast. er activity thou has Leen comu►un tho desired effect, for from that, y there all my said the young sons' growth rarely succeeds. The creamery Inns know that you have to sink into a chair that stood near, ntau. 'I have been visting an With the advent of spring the tar sumo years. hour the woman seemed like a dif-for she was trembling from a rush replanted tree usually makes an un- done this. P g Four horses died sud.!enly on the ferent person. r g uncle in Poraand, Oregon, and do- Yorkshire cliff climbers are making c _ old-time memories. ing some sightseeing on this side satisfactory growth and often dies �, preparations for gathering the eggs small farm of A.tchinbaird, near She demanded no more attention g Sauchic it was thought from puts - morning Esther. She arose every "I hear that you were a compan- l of the continent during the past even when fertilizers aro added. of the myriads of Fes fowl that , g i morning in season to breakfast with ion in the recent disaster which i sear. Now I am going back to New In greenhouse practice it is found THE LACK 1V WONF.S'f� LI1'F:S. build their nests in the dizzy pre- uuing. her at the table, instead of has- nearly cost me my life,"the inva ark, from where 1 expect to sail better to transplant seedlings sev c.pices of the northeastern coast, 'Three Kinross miners were each ing the meal brought to her in bed. lid continued. for Europe, about the first of April, oral times than to attempt to grow Fcw Uiyersions i'n s Sinal) Pillage says the Londuu Daily News. fined tslu ur 30 days' imprisonment "Yes, and I'm not sure but I owe ; to join toy parents, them continuously. and Lite is Dull. At Bemptun, a few miles from for saving matches in their pus - aboutalso began to do little thingssession in a collier about the house, and, though stul mine to you,"said Miss Percival, "Esther Wellington is also going There is not only a deleterious A writer in the Atlantic Dlomth Bridlington, the favorite resort of Y• abrupt and imperative in her with visible emotion. to New York to live," Miss Per- effect of a given plant upon its own Iagreesiwithnthe!antic opinion these egg hunters, the ct►alk cliffs James Matthew Barrie, M.A., speech, manifested an interest and "How sol" queried the young civil here volunteered. '-She kind, but, in certain cases, upon Y generaltow 'r 400 feet above the s: a. They I.L.D. (St. Andrews), the author man, in surprise. would doubtless have been there different plants. Such successions that the masculine half of mankind are the home of thousands of gulls, and dramatist, has received the dee oversight, regardinghousehot.i "They tell me thatyou .brought has considerablythe best of lite, matters, that were very helpful to Y g before this, but for the fact of has- are to be avoided in crop rotationsare the ho o.ftthousa and other adramatist, from Edinburgh d mo here, unconscious, in your ing lead us upon her hands. Dr• as much as the continuous growth but adds that the question, which t;c•a birds that have just begun to University. the careworn girl. arms," the spinster explained, ' Crawford wanted her to go, in of a single crop. It is known that of woman's alleged disadvanta build their rough nests in the chalky g About the fuddle of the tottrt}I certain crops do t thrive when against her 1 is ot,e► of u►dicidual planted on news cleared land has pursued this perilous calling which was originally covered with °pinion. fur many years, is known locally walnut or butternut trees. It has1'or myself, she writes, living as a` "the king of the egg hunters." been observed that rye grass and I have done in a village of small He is a bluff, weather scarred Ivan size and few diversions, the thing 1 of the sea, with as much nerve and tares seem to poison wheat. have resented must, has been, and Thistles are said to Dison oats and agility as is possessed by the most P is now, that it is not possible, that daring steeplejack. ouphurbias to kill flax. it never has been possible, for me Wilkinson wears an old helmet to It has been found that young to hie me with my men -folk to the protect his head from the pieces peach trees planted in largo pots village store, or to the shoemaker's of rock dislodged by the rope by in which oats were also planted, shop, or to the railing of the old which ho is suspended in midair. shed their leaves and matured creek bridge, every evening of my Around his body he buckles a kind of age, should say she must early. The foliage of those trees' life and talk. of leather hammock, in which he were never ns abundant as of the Take these men -folk of mine! In is able to sit. On his arms he twenty at least, the spinster re- others, and before falling it turned • the pauses of gossipand of yarns, plied, with a grim smile. I wears leather protectors. "Poor child! what a tall, gaunt, yellow. The trees grown in pots they have more or less thoroughly "Lower away, boys," he cries as 1 i !and I ill association with potatoes and ; exploited, take it the year round, he swings himself over the brink in t "iy g Prof. Hugh Galt,St. Mungo's has operated the most serivusiy crevices. William Wilkinson, who College, has been appointed patho- logist to Stephen Belli Memorial Laboratory at the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. The Caledonian Railway Com- pany have declared a dividend of three per cent., and the Glasgow and South -Western Railway Com- pany one of 3% per cent. Tho new chairman of the Fair- field Shipbuilding aid Engineering Company is Mr. Alexander Gracie, M.V.O., who for some years has acted as managing director. At Kilmarnock, John Gardner, dairyman, lteforrn street, Beith, was fined $15, with the alternatives of 30 days' imprisonment for hav- ing sold from a cart milk deficient in natural fat. A large congregation was atte t- el to Hathearn Parish Chwtrb re- cently by the novelty of a ;treble wedding, the three degehcers of Mr. John Tullington, seurchwar- den, being the brides. A Glasgow man who b oke his leg owing to his foot cathing ieya defective part of the footpath, has c:btained a verdict of $1,050 dam- ages, and expenses against the owners of the property. An Edinburgh headmaster recent- ly received the following executory communication :— "Please would you be so kind as to let Agnes away at 10.30 to go to the infirmary with her brother's arm?" The Glasgow Tcrritor'.al authori- ties have hit upon a nmol method 1 of securing recruits. Officers at- e tended the principal football matches and appealed to the spec- tators to join the ranks of the "Terriers." The Fife Coal Company have de- cided o- cided to make an experiment in the provision of bathit g accommo- dation for their workmen. The Aitken Pit, Kelty, where 1,100 niers find employment, has been select- ed. The grass parks pit Dumfries House belonging to the Marquis of Bute were let by public auction recently. There was a large at- tendance, and the bidding was brisk, and rents were up nearly 20 per cent. upon former rates. The removal of the torpedo fac- tory from Woolwich to Grceni' k is evidently not to take place as early as was expected, for the no- tice inviting employes to vulun!�eer for transfer by a certain date has been withdrawn. ou i ' flushing slightly. api;e of all, immediately after her weep upstairssthe ads Aronter, prothenounced young out "Ah! I believe I do begin to man was pronounced father died saying he would find of danger ; but he was still too remember something about it now, sojno one to look after us; but she weak, both mentally and physical- was the musing response. I have t.tterly refused to leave until sse ly, to pay much attention to what a dim recollection of seeing a wo- were able to resume our interrupt - was going on around him, and as man pitched from her seat upon the ed journey." yet even Dr. Crawford had held floor of the sleeper as it went over ..wee, I must say that Esther no conversation with hien that —of getting her up, stumbling out Wellington is a brave and consci- woud require an effort of memory.' into the darkness, up a muddy bank eatiuus little heroine," observed One day, while Esther was busy toward a light that streamed from young Lancaster, admiringly. ironing, her patient having fallen an open door; from that point all "Hove old is the girl!" quietly asleep after having par- is blank,"he concluded, with a "She says she is aixtern; but if taken of a generous supply of nour- s'h• - length of limb' as any indication inkling"Well, that is correct as far as inkling beef tea, Miss Percival, actu-, ated by a feeling of long restrained it goes; but you've neglected to curiosity regarding the hero, who, mention the thump and cut that despite his own injuries, had brave- cost you so dear,"said Miss Per - 13 rescued her from the wreck and •I borne her to her present refuge in e, state of unconsciousness, crept stealthily upstairs and looked in upon the sleeper through the half - open door of his room. His face was turned toward her. It was an ideal face, even though it was so wan and thin, its every feature clear-cut and perfect as if it had been chiseled from purest tuarblo. The bruise had entirely disap- peared from his brow, and the cut upon his head had nicely healed, although his hair, having been (haven around the spot, a red line upon the scalp could plainly be dis- cerned. One hand, white and delicate as a woman's, lay outside the counter- pane, and upon the third finger there was a peculiar ring—a fine cameo, set in a heavy baud of gold. The moment her eye fell upon this Bliss Percival gave a violent start, and her own face grew almost as colorless as that of the sleeper. civa . ungainly creature s re s "I didn't even know how I was think 1 never saw anyone so thin !" tomatoes were found to be next in ' every event of importance that has an almost horizontal position and hurt, until the doctor told me presses each foot firmlyagainst h about it this morning.He said I That is no wonder, when you order of injury, but the yellow occurred on the face of the east consider how she has had to work," color of the foliage was not as mark- i during their entire lives; and the chalk surface. Threof the was so much better I might begin said Miss Percival ; "and," she ad- ed as with the grains. Trees grown a echoes of the past and portents of inen seize the rope, and foot by to talk if I wished Were you done ded with a little snits, "she will with rape were also slightly check- i the future have not been lack•ing. foot the intrepid• climber is lower- ' f d their be- m• id up very badly!" never be hung for her beauty." ed in growth, whereas those grown t Here t ey ase ergs ed till his cheery voice is lostn "A couple of ribs broken ; but \'o," replied her cuuipanton, with beans and crimson clover were liefs, and here they have nerved the fluttering sounds of tho dis- t' oy've m: nd:d nicely. What's What s with a pityingsmile "her sallow not thus affected. themselves to action. No wonder turbed birds. Ho swings from your name, )'°ieager, I" ilin © complexion, lr hollow cheeks and In another case it was found im- . I have envied them! Nothing like nest to nest, putting each egg care - woman bent ang those dreadful crooked teeth, to possible to maintain a growth of it ever carpo into the life of any fully in a bag slung over his shoos look upon the white face opposite say nothing of her form, do not grass or clover in the vicinity of woman since the world began. der. As soon as his bag is full he her as she put the quest un. tend to make her attractive. Her oak, pine and other trees. Stable ( It couldn't, you know ; there has gives the "hoist up" signal on the "Why! don't you know 1"was only gmanure was thoroughly incor or -i not been time. Things at home had guide • repo and this mea haul him the surprised inquiry. redeeming features are her P to be looked after even if the men- up well shaped head and her magnifi ated •with the •soil and later •artificial Wilkinson makes several descents "No; we've all been in a tante- folk did become -- patriots and sizing state of suspense and nlys cent eyes; but even those great-, fertilizers were auded. The grass ; heroes. and at the end of the day shares black, velvety orbs give her a and clover row well for a time, tory throughout your sickness." weird and uncanny look. Yes, but were soon checked and, died in Tho babies had to born and rear- the spoil with his assistants, who "Well, that is a queer state of ed and fed; the food had to be pre- sell them for eating purposes to the things!" said the )Dung man, with tells), poor Esther is a perfect fright spite of good care. pared, the dishes washed, the inhabitants of the neighboring vil- an amused gleam in his eyes. it to look at, but she has the kindest,) clothes made and mended, the.lages. is strange that Dr. Crawford has tenderest and most faithful heart' DAIRY WISDOM. -- — — not asked me before : But, then, in all the world. Good heavens!' Every cow sod every calf should until yesterday and to -day, he has what was that?" not allowed me to talk or even try Donald Lancaster gave a violent have a full supply of water at least tc think of anything. Madam, my start as some crockery ware wont twice in twenty four hours, prc- crashing to the floor just outside ferably before feeding. name is Donald Lancaster — I beg pardon; did you speak?" the door of his room, whit') was It pays to provide water in every "No—no; a—a slight pain caught ajar. 1 Miss Percival sprang to her feet'troughs in the. If s is not yards hon d bo auffione, e She stole softly into the room mo in the side," faltered Miss Per- and hastened out into the hall, dent to give ample room, to avoid and beth down to examine the cis- clval, ns she stooped to recover where she found Esther—herself Diet more closely ; then her glance crowding and fighting. antlered back to the face upon her handkerchief from the floor leaning against the banister, white Neglect and starvation will ruin the pillow with an eager look of and to hide the angels.. which, for an a sheet, a great splash of some- the most promising heifer in the Y the moment, convulsed her taco. thing upon her apron and another world. scrub expression of agony leaped "You've been ill a long time—your ap on the floor, where a bowl and If a cold rain is falling, the cows into her eyes; her left hand went —your people must be anxious late layin fragments at her feet. { about you,' she added, more na- I g „ should be left out only a few up to her throat, clutching spas- What has happened 1 question- minutes and rubbed dry as soon as medically at the collar other dress, turally• ed the woman, with a guilty feeling they return to the amble. This may as if a feeling of strangulation had Fortunately, my father and mo- in her heart. I seem troublesome t au a but it is proftt- ther are both in Europe, and can- •`I—I spilled some of Mr. Lances- - able ter's beef tea on my hand, and it. was so hot I dropped the bowl— Allow no pipe or cigar about the "And you aro burned," inter-' stable. It is not only dangerous, posed Miss Percival, in a startled but, the milk is liable to be tainted ; tone as her glance fell upon the besides smoking is a bad habit. scalded hand which Esther was' trying to wrap in a napkin. "A—little; but—never mind --,r the girl began faintly, then swayed dizzily, the next moment slipping to the floor, insensible. (To bo continued.) WOMAN'S TRAVELS IN PERSIA. suddenly seized her. Her lips open not know anything about my ac- ed and framed a name, but no cident. They will have missed a sound issued from thein. ' few letters; but they are so on the "Yes, I am here,"'the sick man move, they will doubtless attribute observed, as if responding to some their non-appearance to that fact. call ; then his eyes unclosed and I must try to write to ft-ether, ho looked up, wonderingly, into though, as soon as 1 am able to the countenance of the woman guide a pencil," young Lancaster bending over hits. „ concluded, a slight shade of annoy - "Who aro you 1 You called me, aims sweeping over his face. he said, weakly. I Miss Percival eyed him sharply "No, I did not. I have not as he spoke of writing to his fa - spoken," Miss Percival tremulous- ther, rather than to his mother, 13 asserted ; "I would not have dis- and a faint sneer curled her thin turhed you for anything."lips. "itut I certainly heard some one "Ily the way," be went on, after - call 'Donald,' ' • the invalid persist- 'a moment of silence, "we've been Ten Days Ride at llnrd Gallop on a cd. "Perhaps, though, I may have hero an age, haven't wet—and that Gun Carriage. dreamed it. But who are you 1 poor little girl downstairs mast In times of peril in Persia the he asked again. have had a hand time of it. 1 ete, "I carne up to see if you need any- the darky, has told inc how she medical missions have proved to be thing—can I do somethingfortho safest places nut only for Euro - you 1" the woman esasively' relied, slavedr, then her father, and now this pians but also for the Persians while she nervouslymoistened her themselves. Dr. Emmeline Stuart, extra iustallulcnt of invalids ad niece of the veteran Bishop Stuart, dry lips and gazed fixedly at the ded to everything else, must have had a remarkable story to tell of camr'o upon her companion's band. been rather tough.' her own experience when preparing "Yes, I should like a drink of "Yes, Esther bas had a great deal to lease the country, says the Pall water. I am cry thirst•)," the tc do; but, of course, she expecte Mall Gazette. young man answe:ed. to be well paid for what she has i The only escort available through hedoubtless A1iss l Percival stepped to t dune, and the Drone) nill the disturbed country from !spell/in table and looked into the pitcher bo very acceptable to her, for she to Teheran was offered to her by the standing there. is poor as a church mouse," the military authorities, and she ac - "1 am afraid this is not good. I spinster observed, with her keen ' eepted it, to find that it entailed will get you some fresh," she said eyes reading her companion's face, travelling on a gun carriage bra- in a voice that was still unsteady. tc ace now ho would take this ref- � nessed six in haul and that for ten And. taking the receptacle, she erence to his obligations. lava double stages were effected at i.astily left the room. I "H --m! she does not act at all • a Lard scallop, wh.le the shelter of (Going below, she told Esther like a mercenary person,' tlw the carriage formed her canopy at that the young man upstairs want- young man thoughtfully rejoined;.night. cd a drink of water ; then she went ..she is the most denoted little at- 1)r. Stuart testified to the unfail- to h •r own room, shut and locked tendant I ever RAW She never ing courtesy and kindliness of the the door, and tell headlong upon seems to consider herself, hut will ; officers to the traveller placed in her bed, moaning brokenly : aiinost ran her feet eft,and watchtheir "Donald! Donald! No. no! bat her eyes out, if she thinks 1 needje(immitt ergs and reassured tho Donald's son, with Donald's eyes en}•thing, or am a trifle fer'rish : eafrty of as to Cho absohite and voice, and --that ring:" at night. Dr. Crawford slay, that. the missionaries during All day long the ,co:rau next to my wonderful consti,uti"t'' lay there,this period of unrest b: saying that the mission compound at isiiahan refusing to lease the room for ei- to her I owe the winning of tite bat was one cif the Parma places in the ther dinner or supper ; telling Es- tle of life." city. in tact members of the farn,i- ther, when she canis to call her, . "Humph! I reckon the doctor ' lies of officers of the Shah have in that she wanted to hate quiet and himself tomes it for a share of the the last few months resorted to it r. at. credit," curtly uhsersed M1iss er I &s an asylum. But the next morning she made rival, who, ever since her tiff with her appearan• e as usual. and be- the phvsician, had appeared to re- e. MARRYING WELL. stirred herself energetically 1u help speet flim a hurdr,dfold more. Esther, manifesting a e.e.atleness "Yes, f e!'eve he is very skill - toward and a c•unsidcrate..n for her fill." the invalid ad:uitted. "I "Did your daughter marry well 1" "I should say she did. She's got that finessed the girl. wonder,'' he continua d, muvang so much money and is putting on In the aft_•rnoon the made her icstle,s'y, "how touch longer 1 slie) style that her fat he r and I arc way again to Donald's nom, and shall hate tt' lie here? I begin to unenmfortahle all the time we're the young man, toeug awake, (eel i:! II 'tient to be up, : ud to day vi.iting her." "i can testify to the great merits of your Emul- sion, especially in all diseases of a pulmonary nature. It has saved many lives that otherwise would have yielded to consump- tion . . e we keep Scott's Emulsion in the house ail the time and all the family use it."—MR. C. J. BUD - LONG, Box 158, Wash- ington, R. I. 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"IV by, have you ever tried!" :asked Mr. Morse. •• 1 have," said Dennis gloomily. •'A fried lint ise the loan o' hili cin the lie was having ntooma. P "Tsvas tree weeks I had it. an' what wid practising night an' morning, I nicer gut so I could balance mesilf standing still, let alone riding on it." + SCRAPS. White horses, because they utak• good targets are not used in war- fare. In Siam the flies are a plague, and every private soldier in the army must daily catch 1,Ct10 ( f them. Russians do not eat pigeons cause the Scriptural dove is a holy bird. Spain's population is 18,000,0oe, yet in America 35,000,000 speak Spanish. A life insnrani'e policy al wt falls due in Germany of the insured persons loses both hands. Of coulees, the prear•.er'' sires wasn't accurate when the s'-tt'ion kit you.