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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-01-31, Page 6and town," turned hough it, as" glance know 'r she ined -se up - u, Mr. it you Sand - it has by a licious . Sun- Ith a ciders, and n stop. to op- iu last iId be that— been at I— t say - Miss on of ldeied frank - lance, much good IA a 0 nlf ked one gaunt ons, and resented her- self. There was something apparently terrifying in this figure, because St. John found That the three other men slopped dead short in the middle of the avenue, and that Dorothy stopped with them. Meantime, the binocular had been laid aside and tho sash flung upwards. Across tho mild August air a voice that would not have disgraced a drill -ser- geant rang with a startling force: "Dorothy! what means this indecent display? Have you forgotten this is the sabbath?" She took no notice whatever of the stricken men. iter steady glare seemed to go right through them, as though they were not. This they all felt to be trying. " Why, no, Auii ie," said Dorothy meekly. "You sec we've all just cornu from church. It was there I met—" She paused, and by an eloquent ges- ture pointed out the trembling young men around her. "I shall countenance no such ungodly thing as callers on the Day of Rest," said Miss Aylmer, senior, In enormous capitals. "Whoever (hose persons may be, l refuse to receive them in my house. Go homer waving her mittened hand majestically. "Go (tome at oncel Quit my premises!" With this. and without more ado, she slammed down tho window:' -sash with a resounding hang, lowered the blind in- dignantly, and retired from view. Dead silence ensued. St. John, who was conscious of having groan exceed- ingly red, looked nervously at Dorothy to see how she was bearing up under this 'nest unfortunate contretemps. If he expected to find her writhing in the throes of shame and embarrassment ire was soon extraordinarily enlightened; was quite prepared to pity her, In her, so tar as lay in his power, out painful dilemma, but one glanee as : dent to dispel all thought r Such kindly Inlcr•en- bending alightly Por- n herself up a prey ntir. There grin eyes that her y 'm temper -proof. i illy. "lo rouse roe. you because you are with a little sapient r three young men. , and now nothing sur- ou can't imagine what is, when it conies to a such as took place just re all quite aware that there days when Auntie will not any price. This," with an - irrepressible laugh, "is ono Unfortunately, we never know e attack is canting on, or 1 have been able to worn you. I rry," with a pretty contrite :mile, t sho should have been 'taken lord; elty calls il, on this, your first day, believe me, you have gained some - ng by getting rid of her so easily. d now go away. do, all of you, or 1 11 get a lecture the length of all your ms put together." Obedient to her command, they dwindled away slowly one by one. St. Jelin remained to the last. He had a question to ask that he felt he could not take home with him unanswered. "You told me you would be my Men - ter," he said. "Instruct ole before I go in ono small mailer. I met Miss Row- ton to -day. Where. does she live now? Alone, at Ryelands?" "Miss Rowton?" Dorothy stared at him as if only half understanding. "There is no Miss newton now, and Ryelands is a thing of the past save for four gaunt walls." Then a light broke in upon her. "Cecil! you mean," sire said. "13u1 you are all wrong there. Shc is no longer Miss Anything. She is the lion. Mrs. Vereker!" ? 0 ked tion. doesn't and youth gether with - lents taking en." you!" said tier • CIiArerER III. Mrs. Mackenzie's roses were looking their loveliest on the splendid attenuant she had chosen to re -introduce to the country her new -old friend, as she in- sisted on calling St. John, who hardly cared for the appellation; she seemed, Indeed, to throw a touch of sarcasm into it. He was on the brink of thirty, and it was as though she would perpetu- ally remind him that youth would nr;l last for ever, and that ho was standing or. the borderland that divided it from middle age, from that slags of life when one becomes conscious that there Is a past! With youth there is naught but the present, except it be a mysterious, de: licious thought or two about an ideal future. With age all is past (in every sense of the word), and there is no- thing reliable, not even the future, which, even if obtained, holds out uo prospect of pleasure. Mrs. Mackenzie was a clever, per- haps a rather unpleasant old lady, but the certainly liked St. John, and be- lieved hint an acquisition to the rather mawkish society around, and deemed it high Ihne that ho should settle down amongst them. and marry, end have heirs, as all respectable people do. She had two nieces—"The Mackenzie girls" as they were universally called— who were glad enough to stay with her the greater port of every year, their lather's parsonage holding high rank amongst the uncomfortable places on the earth. They were what rude people called "terrible girls." 'Tall, ugly— plait, at all events (1 believe there is no such thing as an ugly woman now - a -days), with two of the most remark- able noses it could be your luckless fate 1 t see --sandy flair, and a Thin veneer et kIndliness and charity that was quite insuflicient for the concealment of the bitterness That lurked beneath. To one of (hese nieces It was Mrs. Mackenzies dream to see St. John wedded. 1f the laws of the country had permitted of his espousing both, she would have -e- gnrded Ilial wall even more loving eye. There was quite a goodly gathering el the Grange on This particular day. here was Colonel Scott, a continued bachelor, tiea►ntng away amongst girls, with n tare as red as a sun- , end a smile that stretched his ly mouth from car to ear. There Dobby Rlair. n friend and cousin John's, who had conic down with and who ran the colonel very Wilt' the girls, and, indeed, at the I, moment, was dislinguish!ng and utterly routing that fascia - ran by the extreme delicacy t he balanced himself on the he fminlnin, and thrummed dley" on a real rine origini:l V were a little depressed, wise he hadn't been able to face, but. so far as it went, was 11 great success. iris than surround - d through ries, and 1 the pri- I be seen, rally wits a beside them, 11 is courts 1110 - Ing fought, and ww• re teals that sugar ina%cs In to sun, in which other cups, 011(1. Ight desire wes Mackenzie jus- t ono of the h- • held a little court cf as independent of stray red to him softly, as side for a moment, that tt•ould not lose sight of a haughty spirit went be- nd o-nd try to keep humble. She too, that it behoved him to mspectly, and with his eyes und, as, in the present lack - stale of the laws in England, were not openly acknowledged. had laughed at her, und was quit are haat all her saucy whisperings ere only meant to bring that scowl to Farquhar's dank face; but to truth le. had hardly heard her. Just then he had seven s•uneone sitting over there Lrneaih the burLerry bushes, that were weighed down with their wealth of yellow bloom, and he had thought for nothing else. It was Mrs. Vereker. They had met once or twice since that first Sunday in the churchyard, and he had become aceusto:ned lo see her in many colors; but never until now without them. She was dresseJ in a plain white cambric gnwn, without n suspicion of blue or pink, or maize anywhere. It seemed the simplest of gowns, yet the experienced eye could see at a glance That it never was mado out of Paris, and that the few little scraps of loco that lay in it here and there were priceless. This charming costume was crowned by a i•ig white hat, rather of the coal -scuttle typo. ll struck St. John, as h.' moved near- er to her, that she was singularly pate to -day, paler even than was her wont. Her eyes looked larger, darker, and — though the idea seemed absurd to him frightened. The red lips, too, betrayed more openly that suspicion of nielan- choly that had suggested itself to hI!n nn first seeing her, and that had some- how fascinated him more Than all the radiance of her beauty. Ile was a •man, indce.I, strangely alive to impressions cf this sort—tender-hearted,- honest and ever ready to be touched by real dis- tress in roan or child or woman. Ile could hardly fail to see that she looked nervous, restless, and anticipa- tory. From time to lime she turned her head from right to left and back again, as though expecting, but not desiring, the approach of someone. St. John was Mill a good way from her when ho saw this expectancy die, end the dark, troubled eyes concentrate themselves upon some object that to Lnn as yet was unknown. Her pallor died too, and a hot and 11 - most cruel color 'Ironed into her face. It dyed cheek and throat and brow and gave hint the idea that for the moment she was suffocating. She seemed, too, to shrink• a little; and yet she bent de- liberately forward, and compelled her unwilling features to forst themselves Into a smile, the saddest St. John thought he had ever seen. What could it mean? Ile had paused somewhat in his easy stride towards her, and now locked in the direction her eyes had token. There he sew a man emerging from one of the tents, who, with a rather indifferent air, was walking direct towards Mrs. Vereker. That it might bo Mr. Vereker never for a moment suggested itself to St. John. It was stupid of hhn if you will, but 60 it Was. Ile was a middle-sized man, powerful- ly built, with a remartcably repulsive expression. ft W1IS mol so much the thick, roddened features that displeas- e,: you. or tho dark and hideous hair, that was fast d'sappearing from the bald, prominent forehead, or the cun- ning malice of the small light -blue eyes, but the air of insolent mastery that dis- tinguished the entire figure and shone most conspicuously in the slow walk, %nigh was obviously aggressive. tact now, added to all these other charms, a clash of sullenness was thrown in that heightened each. As he reached Mrs. Vereker, he paused and bent slightly over her, and muttered something to which she aparently made no answer. ile wearied a moment and then went on, much to St. John's unacknowledged relief. He was some disagreeable ac- quaintance no doubt, some fellow be- longing to the country, whom it was Impossible quite to ignore. ile was glad the stranger had seen the wisdom of mot continuing the conversation with Per, ns, if he had, he, St. John, would have kit it his duty to Interfere, con- sidering the very unpleasant condition in which it had serrated to him that the repulsive -looking guest decidedly was. (To be Continued.) f SPOTS WEi3E THERE. A women with an exceptionally clear complexion recently at for her photo- graph. On receiving the proof she stook 1t back to the artist and com- plained of a number of small spots on the ince which marred an otherwise !ierfect picture. The photographer was tat a less to necount for this, an exam - Mallon of the negative failing to give the slightest clue to the source of trouble. A fortnight later an eruption of spots broke out on the woman's face. Which proved In he the first outward symptoms of a very rever'o attack of smallpox. DANGER LESSENED. "Lock here! Ain't ye got any tetter sense than In be smoking whilst we're handling these 'ere kegs of powder?' exclaimed a son of Erin to a fellow countryman. "Don't you know that there was nn explosion yesterday, which blew up n dozen men?" "Faith, but that could never happen Isere 1' "\\'try not?" "Nesse there's only two of LS on Iti's job." •Q• TIlI' K \!SEIt e SERWA\ rS. The German Eai era• hes more ser- vants in his employ than any other monarch. :altogether they number over 0.000, about Iwo -thirds of them being woolen. f Nn Furl 14 really in the til she begins 10 get d one. • M4 ...i lThe arm 144 - DEVELOPING BREEDING SI IEEP. Truly sheep -raising is a branch of ;arming in which comparatively few farmers are engaged, writes Mr. \l. C. 'teener. Yet them are many good reasons why sheep should be raised on farms. In the first place, it is well known to all fanners that there aro ninny untillublc ;pots on the farm that form the seed- beds for the innumerable injurious weeds Om farmer has to contend with. As sheep aro iho best foragers of all farm animals, it is for the purpose of keeping down the weeds that wo raLsn sheep. Then, loo, there is also a revenue de- rived from the wool and mutton pro- duct. In starting to develop a flock of wool and mutton producers, the ewes need not be puro bred. They must, however, all be of the low set, compact, blocky type and of uniform quality. They should not bo bred until the second year, by which time they are strongly developed and will throw strung, healthy lambs. 1 prefer ewes of the Shropshire type, as the breed is unex- celled as a wool and mutton producer. They should also bo grade ewes, though not necessarily pure-bred, showing the characteristics of this breed. The selection of the ram Is the most important thing connected with sheep - raising. Ho is half the flock and on him rests its destiny. Under no consideration should a grade ram bo used. He must bo pure bred. The difference in price will bo money well invested. Ile should be typical of the breed ono wishes to de- velop and should hove the breed charac- teristics. Severely culling and breeding only to strong, healthy sires are the two essen- tials for developing a profitable (lock of breeding sheep. In culling a flock, all ewes not of the proper type should be disposed of, thus bringing the flock as near to a uniform type as possible. As the mating season approaches the ewes must be in good condition. Where il can bo conveniently done the ram should be separated from the ewes dur- ing the day time, letting him run with them only at night. By following this plan, he can be given the extra feed and care necessary to maintain his vigor and vitality. 1 generally breed the ewes not later than November. This insures the lambs getting weTI started before the flock is put to pasture in the spring. The management of the ewes from breeding time until lambing time is of considerable importance. They require proper shelter, food and care to keep in good condition and also bring strong, healthy iambs. A shed or outbuilding protected from the cold north winds will be sufllcient for shelter, provided It can be closed during stormy weather. (loots, either turnips or mnngels, clover hay and oats forst an excellent ration fur breeding ewes. These fed in judi- cious quantities will bring the flock suc- cessfully through the breeding and lambing season. Salt and water should be within easy access at all times of the year. The ewes require some attention at lambing time. They should be removed from the rest of the flock until the young lambs are strong enough to help them- selves. As soon as the flock is put to pasture, they require practically no outer feed. The lambs should be separated from the ewes early in the fall and fed grain of some kind to keep them grow- ing. The early fall rains are detrimental t a the young lambs, and they should, therefore, bo protected from them as much as possible. 'i ue chief aim during the first year Is to keep them in a healthy growing condition. LIVE STOCI( NOTES. Sound feet are the basis of a good horse. You cannot keep them in such a condition if you permit them to stand in a filthy btable. The work of agricultural colleges has definitely demonstrated that the most profltnhle ago to fatten cattle is while they are still young. The older Vie ani- mal the more food is required to pro- duce a given gain. Select ttto breed that is adnpled to your conditions, purposes and markets. You may be a natural lover of good pure-bred stock, then you will almost ct.rtainly stake a success, but 1f you Think only of the big prices sonic ant - mals sell ter somewhere and your de- sire for pure-bred animals ends with the expectation that the future progeny of your herd will bring similar figures, teen go slow. Don't whip n shying horse, for it will never induce it to approach the object it shies at. \Whipping a shying horse makes, matters worse, for. besides fear- ing the object, it becomes much excited mer the whipping, often resulting in fatal necidents. If your horse stiles, talk to it and coax it; if need bo, get out of the wagon and pet il. Lead it to the object it stiles at. and let it have n good look at it, let it smell and sniff the ob• je:t if it likes. The next time it meets the object it will pay no attention to it. FARM NOTES. Tats and observations have proved that wade tires are n benefit to country roads. while the narrow tires ore road destroyers. Wide tires act ns rollers, compacting the track, while narrow ones only cut up the roadway. Many fanners labor too hard end ton many hours a day. Conditions may scent to compel 11 often, but it is ques- tionable whether anything is ever gained by it. Farmers should think of these things. Each should investigate his own condilkms, surroundings, hab- its, rte., and discover where improve- ment cnn be made. Don't invest any money in gold mines. coffee plantations, copper works and the like. thousands of miles frons your hone. end mnnnged by men you have never seen. Ry Inking this advice you may poseibly miss the opportunity of getting enormously rich. but It is alto- _ gether likely that by heeding it you will save money. spinster class The harvests are all over: the crops angry when base been marketed or hew been got ready for say • rad 11 1s easier Dow to MINMIM reckon up the year's business than at any other time. Winter used to Le re- garded as a season of inactivity on tha farm—a fallow time not only for the land, but for man as well. 11 Ls not So now. 'The merchant in town dues not like a dull season. Ito wants to see busi- ness driving the entire twelve months. for that means greater profits. It is the same with the modern farmer. 'There is something doing every month in the year, though life is not so strenuous now as in June and July; but, with the dairy and the sheep and the advance prepara- tions for the spring campaign, none is idle. SEA GULLS OF SHETLAND. II:ow People Look After the Die Birds —Only Tree on the Island. Up a little 1x110 of 1.erwirl:'s one street There is a garden. At feast it is sun en- closed sleace. In the middle of this kpace is a tree. It is nut a very tall 'tree; you could, in fact, loss a biscuit over its branches, but still 1t is a tree —the only tree in Shetland. And Shet- land is proud of it. Children who sre t•rought for the first time to sec the keoldcrs of one st,ected Lerwick are shown this tree. This is not fiction. 11 is the only tree in Shetland, says l+te 1-cndoii Express. As there are no trees In Shcllmtd, there are no birds, except, of course, the seagulls, which you can nu ober by the thousand. The seagulls are lite sl or - tows of Lerwick, and as such they have h greater share in the town's life than have the sparrows of London. In the 'morning time you will note that a sea- gull bits on every chimney pot. Sea - 'gulls hover over every roof in the town. The air Ls full of their• strange, high, plaintive, haunting cries. Their sad, Shrill, long drawn cries are to Lerwick hs the chattering of sparrows or the 'cawing of rooks aro to us in England. livery house has its own familiar sea - and every street its own hand of seagulls. They never nix. The chit - Wen In each house have pet names for Their own particular seagulls and, hav- ing culled Them by those armies, they feed them every day. And each seagull knows what is meant for hint. No seagull attached to one house ever keeks to cat the food scattered from the house next door. IIo does not dare; the 'other gulls would kill hire. So all day long the seagulls hover and call over the roofs of Lerwick. The people of the town, if They come across a little pile of rice laid upon the roadway, step over it with care. They know that it is placed there for some seagull. And at night the seagulls leave (heir own ap- jtointed chimney pots and fly graceful- ly away to their resting places on the locks cf the isle of Noss. --4 • HOW TO READ CHARACTER. Tell -Tale Indications Whiclh are Easily Distlnenished. Teeth L'iat are long and not narrow de- note large, liberal views, strong pas- sions, and heroic virtues; if they are long and narrow a weak character is de - 'noted. Evenly growing teeth show a better disposition and better developed 'mind than those that crowd and over- lap. Long noses are cautious and prudent; short ones (Impulsive and joyous. Deep -colored eyes, with welt -arched tills, both upper and lower, show a truthful amt affectionate nature. An 'eyebrow slightly curling at the outer tdge indic•atee a jealous nature. There is a whole world of tell -tole In- dications in the apex of the car. 1t It lies clue to the head the owner pos- sesses a relined nature. But if the top starts away from the heed at a well-de- fined angle that person has nn uneven disposition and is not to be relied upon. It n girl's thumb lies flat or drops a little, mental submission to tine master lutist i; indicated. If the thumb has ra lendert•y to stand at right angles to he hand, the damsel owning it is head - Strong. A parson of weak chnrar_ttr has a pendent thumb; the strung character 'tans a string, erect thumb. Fingers which ha nil bed:wward mean 'powerful determination. If they are round, etrcnght, both physicist and men- ial, is indicated. Stubby fingers ore 'tiresping fingers. Finger -nails that are %sounded shcnv refinement; if long and tattier square at the top, firmness and 1nergy are denoted. PF.IIFUME (,t IISE. A Paris physician has started a clinic ter fn,hionnble patients. in which the treatment is entirely curried on with perfumes. Ile has discovered that cer- tain perfumes, If constantly used, have a 'nuked effect upon the constitution, enol more Umnl That, they have n strong lx,wer over the mental and ner•ons sys- tem. For Instance, the continual use of 'geranium gives audacity and self-con- fidence, niint gives the user a clear busi- ness head, opopanax brings on mad- ness, rrssia leather encourages indo- 'lence. verbena stimulates n sense for ',he fine nuts, and violet predisposes to tlevoUon. - --0 - STRIKING MATCH ST.\TISTiI;S. It is e-linialed that the !vatted Kin::- Uom manages to consume 5(0,000,($tO matches a day, which conies out al 'nl oiit twelve for every mon, wemnn, end child. Smokers probably necouni Nor the greater number, so That they 'will be interested to know that about siinely Ions of wood are used up in the Cain of malelies every day, or about 60.000 tons n year. If one days con- i~urnption of rnatehes were placed end to end. they woldd extend for n ohs. fence of about 15,010 miles. Sweden end Norway, where matches nre rnnde In enormous qunntittes, export over 25.- 000 tont of wooden matches every year. in Frnnce, where the tax on matches nverng;es eight cents per inhabitant, the consumption Is Comparatively small. ♦-••••••• F1NANr.I.\1.I.1' POPFI.:1R. "Why do yar suppose 'tint Hamlet, the most difficult of Shaheepcare's plays, is the r,ne most pepn!nr wool ac- tors?" "ilecnuse the ghost ways walks in i." A NEW RAGE OF PEOPLE THE MIEN AM) WOiII.N ARE. SMALL IN SI VIVRE. AreCe Natives Who /lave Never Seen M'hito Men — Condirieses Are Primitive. Mail despatches received at Queens- town from, \i:torta, B. C., contain an account of the discovery on Prince Al- bert Laud, in the Arctic Ocean, of a strange people who had newer seen while men, and who lived under most primitive conditions, and were armed with rude copper knives, bows and ar- rows. The discovery of these people was made by Captain Klinkinberg, of the stearal whaler Olga, while his vessel was wintering in the ice, and ho com- municated the nature of his find to the officers of the British revenue cutter 'Dhotis, who brought tate news to Brit- ish Columbia. Captain Klinkinberg, who has had a long experience in the command cf whalers in Arctic waters, and is a very staring man, declded to proceed on a hunting and exploration expedition in- land, and induced some Eskimos to ac- company hint. Tho party were armed With rifles, and when they had travel- led a distance of 250 miles in a north- westerly direction over the snow they discovered traces of people who fled at their approach. VILLAGE OF 600. Captain K'Inkinberg rucceedcd In overtaking them, and found that they numbered about 150. When they saw him and his party they came forward in a rather threatening manner. They were awned with roughly -made copper knives .and bows and arrows. Fearing an attack, the captain order- ed the rifles of his small party to be levelled at the natives. This had the effect of frightening them. One, who apparently was the chief of the natives, then advanced towards the captain and Lerg doing likewise. Thep became friendly, and subsequent- ly Captain Klinkinberg learned by signs frotn an old woman who came front Prince William Land that the natives had never seen white people before. IIe proceeded with the natives, and found n village with about 600 people in it. Tho sole ►neons of subsistence was by hunting and fishing. NOT UGLY PEOPLE. The dress of these strange people was not like those of other Eskimos, but was somewhat similar to that worn Ly the Greenland natives. 1l wns mado rf soft tanned skins sewed together with deer sinews. Their winter houses were of sod, with n lining of skins, and quite different to slinpe from those of other known tribes in the Arctic regions. Tha natives are nomadic. The utensils in the huts were of the most primitive description, in the main fashioned from bone, and some froin native copper. The only articles seem- ingly brought from civilization which Captain Klinkinberg could discover in the village was a piece of steel, with iho end of it beaten into a spearhead. This, he believed, had been found near the coast, and belonged to some ship. The men and women were small In stature and in features not ugly. Captaln Klin• kinberg considers them an Intelligent people. TRAMPS ENJOY THEMSELVES. Break Into (louse Whose Owners Had Gone on a Visit. From the secluded Hampshire Village c•f Idsworth, England, comes an amus- ing story of the escapade of two tramps. At Iliierden's Farm, Idsworth, 1!v4 G A. Brown and itis sister. On Sat. urday they closed up their house and went away for a week -end. Soon af- ter the rightful occupants of the farm- house had departed there came upon the scene two tromps, who, finding lila house empty and well provisioned, set- tled down for a comfortable week -end. They first of all raided the inrder and made a hearty meal. Then they went to bed, each selecting a comfortable room. Next morning the tramps rose, bathed, and shoved themselves. Then they dressed, choosing two of Mr. Brown's most slyttsh sulks, hanging:' u( their own lettered garments In the pince of those appropriated. The next proceeding was to ransack the house from top to bottom. They took over $1.0 In money, and, clearing up all that was entable and drinkable, the two self -invited guests left the farm- hcuso and slarted "on the road" again. Being smnrtly dressed and well sup- plied with money, they were looked up- on at the public houses They called at es Iwo well-to-do men, the more so as they invited every one to drink with therm. On arriving in Petersfield the couple went to nn ina. where they represented themselves to he sword and wvntch swallowers, who had heen performing In Portsmouth. Ry way of substantiat- ing this, one of tho;n swallowed a we - non's watch, which he hail stolen from the farmhouse, and also a watch lent to him by one of the company. Upon returning home on the Sunday night, Mr. Brown found that his house had hey n broken into. lie at once gnvo irforntntion to the police, who institut- ed a search. which resulted In the ova tramps, who were still wearing (heir borrowed plumes and passing ns wwell- (( 410 gentlemen, being erresled of Alder- shot. (loth niers ere now under rei;nnd in the police cells at Petersfield. of TOO SCIENTIFIC. "Why doesn't that scientific lecturer introduce home humor into his popular lesttire -?" "I suppose beenuse he has ton niwh respect for the attraction of gravity." Tommy : "Whet docs the paper mean by cnlling Mr. Sherpley nn eight be ten business man ?" '1'.'s f !her • '"one It Mean, he Is not 'sully www" - r