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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-07-30, Page 7 (2)tht is m .r g then many pleseeires, the housa wherein the re born, or at any rate the *bode s which they paned the earlier yesrs of their nee*. The .qpirileing ride Qf rliiidlitiode-thn thsaPPoll4- thesoul-reeking terrors, rnello.wody -the gentle, toucb of puung re teem no *tins for on but pone,. nib!' 0 Oen, awe eon or aid . 0). oti • 011APTElt XX.' (Cent'd). We., wandered .on from room to room; There must, I think, have been quite thirty sleeping apart, sneak*, - este- eroonts1$0990411-furt- 1044" -ergbirmg-style,' that greenery -yellowy abomination • reisctilled art. "The next reins," explained my secretory, as we approached the oind of the corridor, "is Mrs. Ilea- -ton's boudoir. 1 -expect she's in there. I saw Dalton', her maid, en- - -ter ip-MOMent *go," ._"Oh, _for Ileerveleakve,11 r alone I" I said, turning at- 011Ce my heel. I had no wish to meet that awful _rejuveneted hag *gain. fano7,04e4ge. Smiled, but. if he, said he was very careful to hide his „amusement from me. He was, 'without doubt, is very well-trained ,• secretary. ls The thought • of Mabel Anson crossed my mind. All .the recollec- lionsof the _dinner on .the previous :tight, and the startling discover- ies 1 subsequently made recurred to nieat.that.rnonont, liderid-person coiii surely not 6 my wife, when I loved' /*label -Anson with all my soul Only _yes Iterdayl hadsatat her side at din- ner, and had felt the pressure of lier ?left, delicate hand upon mine. No; it could not ba that I was SO - -.Wally married. Such a thing was utterly impossible, for surely no man could go through the marriage ceremony without knowing some- thing about it. - Hickman's treachery angered me. Why, I wondered, had he enticed mi e to his rooms n order to make -that extraordinary attempt upon say life? The wound upon riv head was undoubtedly due to the blow he had dealt -me. 'The theory that I had accidentally knocked my head Against the marble statue and bro- ken it was, I felt assured,only one of that fool Britten's brilliant ideas . With Which he misled his too -con - Acting patients., ' If this were so, • —7-7--ther- n all the incidents' subsequen my recovery of consciousness were part of the conspiracy which had - commenced on the previous night with Histman's attempt We -descended the stairs, pase- ing footman Gill, who, with a bow, said - "I hope, sir, you feel better." "A little," I answered. "Bring zee a whiskey and sods to the li- brary.'" And the man at once disappeared to do my bidding. find that six nen of your life hadjently I had become &changed man, "I suppose he thinks Fin mad," vanished in a single night, and that bad entered business, had amassed I remarked. "This is a, very re- you were an entirety different per- a fortune -and had married. markable menage, to tay the son to that of twelve hours ago, 'Assuredly I reflected, I could least." what would you believe P' wipe in wOnder;. thin it sie the mod astounding thing ever heard of. Are you absolutely Cer- tiara of the date 2" "Cortabo f Why of couree."- year*. "Positive. It eighteen n six." "For how long, then,have You been my secretary 1" I inquired. "Needy five years." -"And bow tong -hast-I-tiveAin - this place I" thatwoman,„" _I demanded, breathiessly-"is she actually iny wife 1" . "Most certainly," he answered. I stood stupefied, stunned by this amazing statement. - "But," I protested, lost in won - that 1.Iia4 not Ili t thiscinee lkefQre Medeelare most distinctly Unit „I had' lived them; that tad enjoyed Ea second existence quite Apart and distinctfrom m own self. _ Incredible, ong1i.. itCuratia; -3rtfZUT, • gradual* impresiled upon .reVi't t .what this man °edge had told mswas the &dual, hideous truth, and that 1 had really lived and moved and prospered throughout those six -unknown year, while my senses had at the same time remained dor- man11, and I had .thus been utterly unconscloiriTro tio-ti-dtenee. tould-sruct-w-t lustAa - a prosaic man of the world I *ru- ed, as any one in his right mind would argue, that s-ich sibing was beyondetheeboaside of possibility. Nevertheless, be it how it might, der, "yesterday was years ago. Bow the_undisputedfact remained that do you account for that t Are you certain that you're not deceiving me I" "I've told you the absolute truth," he „responded. "On that 1 found myaoLf lying upon the floor stake nry honor." of' the drawing -room of what WAS I had lapsed into unconsciousness on that winter's night six years be- fore, and had known absolutely no- thing "of surroundings until I .9 tillitiO0shold b induced 'as without • allowing' light to -flow eskir th Miele at zglit. On very warm< ights open. shed will answer. ilAtm- niter am over ed for birds o lie littge breeds,. aimed* thole that are very fat are easily- overcoree with apoplexy and the poultryman can- not Afford to Imes his -hens when-pre- ventien would have .aaved.the Lice are the_greatest obstacles in _ *1-74--thir --welferti- of -lowlier -sviien-werin -weatite try hous•es that are, apparently free from lice are.oiierrun with thepests and they multiply with eitorushing rapidity. 0116 aragle day during the heated term will be sufficient to show the presence of these enemies of tbe birds insuch numbers that one will gaze in istoritshment at the number. Before the warm. days ar- rivethe houses niuet be thoroughly cleaned, sprayed with a lice exter- minator and every crack and -c 14 -4191L rev - hip!: beetL , ught us how to meld oil, and they never allow us to forget the issosn---"Sotemonewent the fields,„ of the slethful and by the vineyard of tlie.inan ,veiidesf under- standipg„. and lo 1 it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had noveredlholace-thereef." FARM NOTES. 'This is the season of the year that we hear of ottacks from 'perfectly torietm If it it thou -desir- able taletvtlita butt have the run of the pasture lot, see to it that' he hi given no opportunity to injure any - It cannot be disputed that it co less to put a pound on a small hog than it does on a lame one. When - -majces-24 - "r -! yiountt _ • house ic%crIi;tTadpounds, he mouthed, as though I gazed upon 1417* dice-. The flieli a the wiiila hens after they have the run Of the some object supernatural. My Rel.- changes considerably in that !sP4ce fields and_especialty-when_the-ctsys_ - ppeenuice had certainly -of-time. I found myself limit__ siatre hot„-for-mue.h-foodlis,conducsye changed, and that in itself-convinc--Ide which was so artificial and in- to upsetting their difiestive`organs, ed me that there must be some congruous to ray tastes as to as- and if any food is given it Mint not truth in this man Gedge's state- pear utterly unreal. Yet, as I ma e be of the fatting kind, green food 'neut. " I was older, a .trifle stout- further inquiry of this man Gerige being - 11 r bi . er than before I 'think, and my every moment that passed showed was the truth. ping the live fowls to market. Hun - One amens of great loss is in ship - red -brown beard seemed to give mymoplainly that what he had said Ile related to me the routine of dreds of coops arrive when the tem- face a remarkably grotesque ap- pearance. I had always hated beards, and considered them a re. my daily life, and I stood listening lie of .prehistorie barbarity. It was agape in wonder. He told me surprising that I should now have things of which I had no knowledge; grown one. of Ty private affairs, and of my "Then =cording to your account business profits; he took big lea - I must have event yesterday here ther-bound ledgers from the great green -painted safe, and showed me -actually in this house?" "Why, of course you did," he re- formidable SUMS entered therein, sporided. “Wedirlife'engaged the relating, he explained, to the trans - greeter Peet of the day ever Laf- actions at the office up in London. fan's affair. • Walter Halliburton, Some documents he showed me, the mining engineer, came down'tolarge official -looking sheets !with see you, , and we were together all stamps and seals' and signatures, the afternoon. He left for Lon- which he said were concessions: 'ob- tained from a certain foreign Gov - don at five." "And where did I dine?" ernment, and opened my private "Here. With Mrs. Heaton." letter -box, exhibiting letters I had "Don't speak .9f her as Mrs. Heaton V" I cried in anFer. "She's not my wife, and I will not have her regarded as such." He gave his shoulders a slight shrug. "Now, look here, Mr. Gedge," I said, speaking for the first time with confidence. "If you were in my place, awakening suddenly to actually written with my own hand, but without having any knowledge of having done so. • These revelations took away my breath. It could not be mere loss of me- mory from which I was suffering. I had actually lived a second and entirely different life to that I had once led in „Essex Street. Appar- never have been in my right senses In the great hall, as I walked to -Ile looked at me with:A somewhat to have married that angular per- i wards the library, was a long 'air- sympathetic expression upon his son with the powdered cheeks. That Tor, and in passing /, caught sight thin features. ' action, in itself; was tuflicient to of my own figure in it. I stopped, "Well, I don't know what I' convince me that my brain had been and with s loud cry of wonder and should 'think." - Then he added, unbalanced during those six lost dismay stood before it, glaring at "But surely such a thing can't be Years. own reflection. possible." • Alone I dorsi, without a WEEDS , single . . . . thi6 in. After Oda, b feeding as ususilly_practiced, the third teo_p_eunds costa.n.early three times what thelirst one does, and' not less than twice that of the sec- ond 100 pounds. This is a matter that every hog -feeder should care- fully zonsider. Our statements axe not made by guess or at random, but can be backed by the results of perature,is up to 90 and 100 with the caldrdeifnullYto these results a reasonable conducted experiments, fowls crowded so that they can 11"4" allowance for weather exposurc. wee'over . herer befor was but a deal, *rid existence, living only for this life, and without ho for the next world, now, after aly -Spirit has revealed -theelove Of the Saviour, who on 'the Cross made expiation for that sours trtis. Veisionst darkness is changed in- to light, hopelessness le o entity,- tion of eternal- ffforyt grun„ i• gloomy doubts into jubilant and triumphant elation. uomE, BWEETAtom.E. 011.011111M. Stay, svitay' at borne, my 'heart and `ne pied, For those that wander they knew not where, ruirel 'Osiblo and full ofeetree_e_ * • - Home -the name made dear by sacred associations, the plate where rem irii ly breathe,. let -alone Move around. And how many are void of water in the &pops? It is really astonishing to think that human being would send a live had to the market and not ilikolf6 a care for its comfort while on the way, Fowls have feel- ings and thould _net be allowed to suffer. There is always a loss from death when fowls are so shipped, not to mention 'the Use in' weight of those that survive.' Treat the fowls as -,if- thie-y were your friends, which they surety are, and you will find that it Win pay you in the long run, not only in dollar* and cents but in the satisfaction of Do not buy a poor tool because it is cheap. A steel rake in the hands of a good gardener will be subjected to the pull -and -thrust motion 'be- fore the season is through, many ten thoueand times -or, in other words, twenty, times in a, minute will be more than a thousand times in a home and, allowinfrfor many inter- ruptions, will be several ten -thou- sand times in a week. If it cuts and mellow's thessoil etts;ly, there will be more • comfort ire rising it than heavy, insu h dent implement The clumsy tool will tire the operator' much the soonest, and a great many knowing that you appreciated their days and dollars' worth of work efforts to help you earn your living will be the difference beliiiii-the first by making them comfortable- while of -August. ? they are working for you. A IEURRiCAisIE OF FLUE. , The 'Agricultural College exten- (By A Banker.) doll bulletin for May of the ColaState is & Of all the forces of nature, with , -bus , Ohio, perhapa the execeptiOn of severe vet"' tinielY treatise upon weeds by -earthquaikes, fire is unquestionablyVernon Ef. Dsvis, Asistant Profes- the most •devastating and alarming. sor of floitticulture. Weeds, he says, In sparsely populated countries injure the farmer chiefly two prairie and bush fires are describ- ways, first by offending his idea of e3 as beyond measure terrifying, the beautiful and second by the crop while, although less formidable. yet loss, the second being the loss that a severe heath fire is a bewildering receives the mere comnion estimate spectacle of awe and terror. - ee from the farmer. In the bulletin By 60M6 means or.other the hew weedslab Ilea% with in tbilje iela- th- is- ipited, and, - Jenne y a tion to soil moisture, V the crowd- strong wind, the confl . ration s big of.cultivated plants, to the_rolo-spreading. witirth • tr . billg tV0 sar of food elements fire. In II short time a gh curling required by other plants, to their billow of raging fire is. advancing • tendency towards harboring injuri- across a wide stretch Of heather, ous inseets and diseases and in that avireepinf over it like the bosom of they render certain products of the destruction, and metamorphosing farm unsaleable. A summary is give, an -expanse of lovely purple bloom en of some of the more important into a blackened, desolate wilder - artificial methods by which thei..dis. mess. Now the devouring eleraent tributiofi of weeds can be checked. bas reached a copse ef lofty fire, Succesful measures in destroying and in a few moments, with a,roar weeds are founded upon 4 know- as of a thousand furnaces, the ledge of the life of the weed and flames have enveloped the entire' the Milinnet of its propagation; to grove in & sheet of -fire, tongues avoid introducing or spreading and forks ,of cisme darting hither weeds is alwayp better than destroy- and thither or flashing upwards far ing them. It is to ho remembered, above the topmost branchei; and also, that while slum weeds may be now delightful dell, a very fairy completely eradicated, othere can glen, a garden of wild flowers, and only be -held in check and subdued. decorated by nature with banging In mansion'Mr. Davis states that wreaths of wild clematis, is in a weeds have to do with the conditions monient engulphed in the tety de - of agriculture existing in any Wert eviction; .• ° Birds arewheeling roe d -and round uttering discord- nt cries as they are driven *war tom their \nests of elmost helpless fledglings; rabbit e seettle to and lreq and even butterfaes and other insects fell victims to the ;ayes- , ing fires. And when ir t is aer, what a Melancholy sterie of desolation and deetruction is presented. • Where, in the morning, was a flor'er adorn, eti landocepe, here and there a lofty, silver birch, its pendent Ieafy !mulches trembling in the breeze; here and there * hertaltome fir or a eemmetrieal mountain Ash; or here and there, & batik of bracken, or a 40ky in IS wealth , of wild iloweis, tall spikes of purple fox. glove or of the shotry 'a few butterfly orelus or other Tar - it, with many another floret beauty, now in the evening &lilies 'toned desert, murky' and joelatc* lile etriieltdown and tontplered by dcaith, radiant beauty now ar It and unlovely waste, an byous 'Melody of the thoristere gave me & terribly invalid • appear- hap pee- to me. I tell you that, now this astoundin` g OP in Ini ance, but reflected by that glass I last night was six yes.re ago." life had been produced was Aliso-. ssw a sight which stfuck- me dumb He turnid from me„ as though he ,,life beyond explanation.. I tried with amazement. I' could not be- considered further argument un- to acciiunt for it, but the reader Have my eyes; the thing staggered seeeinte, . will readily understand that the belief. lty head reeled. What he had Problem was, to me, utterly inex. On the morning before ..1 had told me was utterly incredible.' It plicable. I, the 'victim of the trea- shaved as usual, but the glass show- seemed absolutely impossible that chery of that man' Hickman, had ' ed that I now wore a ., well -cut, sis. whole years should have passed fallen unconscious one night, ...and pointed, reddish -brown beard! without my knowledge; thst e had awakened to discover that -six My face seemed to have changed should have entered upon a bug. whole years had elapsed, and . that curiously, for / presented an older nets of which -I had previously I had developed into an entirely s pearance than on the day before. known nothing ; that I should have different perion„ It Was unaccount- hair seemed to have lost its rapidly amassed a fortune; and, able, miY, incredible. youthful lustre,and upon my brow, most Of sin, that I thould have, mar- „(To, he Continued.) were three distinct lines --the lines ried that powdered and painted . of care. women who Iliad presented herself I felt my board with eager hands. as my wife. Yet such were the un - Yes, there was no mistske. It was accountable facts , vrhich this man CHANGED HIS MIND: . there, but how it had grown Was fledge asked me to believe. r. A gentleman who once .rerved on inconceivable. He saw that I was extremely in Irish jure tells an se:milli* story Beyond, through the open door, dubi6us about the date, therefore of his experiences. When the hear:: I saw the brilliant eunfight, the he led me back to the library, ing was over and the jury retired Veen lawn, the bright flowers and where there hung upon the wall a to their room t� consider their ver, eool foliage_of the rustling trees- lerge---calendar-which---quieWcoli-dict-they-foundithat-tliel-stoertilev . It Ives lurnmer. ' Yet only ees. fenced me. . en, to one in for or an acquittal • • :tsrday was chill, dark winter, with Six \years 1 1*(11 'really -elapsed let the one happened to be i very \ throe niog snow. \ ,. i 4 4 ..,?Ite yesterday,. , \ tomprecent old gentleman, Who rest - 11 I been asleep, like Rip Vim In tliat vexing and petplexing ed els eeetre ee tee heed of i emek Wia in the legend ? ' "Tell me'! I Cried excitedly, twining to 60 Standing behind wits "what's tho day of the month today "The seventeenth of July." "July!" I echoed. And what ar is this" 'Why, eighteen hunched and rinety-six, of course." "Ninety-six !" I gasped,. stud - Ins elering at him in blank amaze - went. "Ninety-six "Certainly. ‘Vhy I" "Ain I really losing my sense r / cried, dismayed. "Yesterday was six years ego!" ClIATIErt XXI, Yeeterdey six years. *go!" Iva d, looking at in him* ht. ent, "What do you moult" an that if what o is lly the tratiii" an ever, hope to complete d his' farm ; weed's the easiii ii,S4 cheapest way to ieep thenin i Oeek is by method* of tillage that preset I reflected tipoir the puzA emeneee gene end 4nnounea deo.: intrease the productiventst of the , /ling pasf. Thet happy dinner with gutty that he . was reedy to e 1°i1 Inr— Mibel at The BOlterke, the anuge- theke 6S long as any of them, ,• A Ostem of "r-otititicti- 1' ' quent discoveries in, that drawing- The bouts dragged on. evening /iv 2, The growing' of hod crops room Where she had sat at the piano rived. and the old gentlethen pb. cots, potatoes, ete., nton the land calmly playing; her soft words of infested to the greates ' extent pot, stinately held cut. ' The other jurors time. tenderness, end . the subsequent weneey .Arranged themselves to 3. The growing of elovtx and .a1,.. treachery' of that dog.faeed man Ifickmas? all passealefore ine with I tthitnakeettenoithtgeunf tilteernallit4):ol.stlidul:oUlw- tfilitletsae werheeplvg:ctip14ttteicalL0111..whATilanZ extraordinary vividness.. Yet, in templatively suck the head 1.4 th. ,Trisiv be cut eeeeete times. * year truth, all had happened long ago., ,„,...,,,.. . A1as1 I was not like, other rem ,LciiTtlaily t�1-41ttsitctr'ttpti me faze 114478 4:4 t'11°Ir Sn'thering Pr°Per'' To thepractical, Ievel.beeded men . of affairs "To -day" mv, be guinei ;dropped heavily to the iioor. Thii 5. Veep. the land ' conetently at ent, till-engrotsing ; but to the vete! °1'0 'It'll* itY.1311."1 Picked it 14,P1 4(1 work growing some crop., Avoid fail found, to his sitivrise. that it wee 1lows. when one , crop comes, efe nearly full'of goed old hish whirky ttikrt anotber jounediattly, for you The thankful eleven peed the tanat may he sure if eou &vet start otias retind„ relieved it of it eeritentse mixture will. and then awakened its Slumbering 4, Stitt -elate the toil to a vigerone owrwr. Slowirhe lifted the cane rteluetion by meens of thormigh to his tuotaht Imkett irat:his tvetchi ultivAti011 end liberal use of fertil- sind then arose With, the annnmiC j.r. If the eultiveted plants arealce ent, "Boo, I'm afthee ebangia.' a4" gotona fr,;.:76,icitli, file* wili be lel and less chants for the weell• large majority -a 'majority which. believe, includes aloe many of the preeticel, the business of today admit* of conatant pleetant exeur, *hen* into the golden, mitts of "long 1404" and any happy iligItts to the rosy height* of "some day." Mott Of those who teed this titre story of my life *ill remember vas $ astrlotholy alfuttioxii with * poi is -their first faltering steps and infant minds receivisthar- first idea. There lessons of love and truth, of right and wrong., of fait le - and hope and purity are "reprinter( upein- the plastic heart,. and all the ilorrows and perplexities of after life are inefficient to !suite efface these first deep true impressions. Sweet home, where the mother's gentle hands prepare the little do- mestic comforts that a father's love -provides, and filial affection is "the silver link, the - silken tis," that binds the household band together. Triads inasr canto and clouds may lower, but in the sftlusion of honie remains, sweet healing for the wounds that brave and sensitive hearts hide' from a disdainful world. There these hurt* and dis- tresses may be confidently revealed 0 on �e verge of despair'; and in home the brightest dreams become more golden, the rarest pleasure more intense, the tenderest joys more serene. And if, in the vayy- ing degrees of fortune,. its loving shelter must be abandoned, how. the exile folds about his heart, as the traveller does his cloak, the memory of its lights And its loves and hopes and kinclnesses.i. There the noblest influences exist,' the holiest impulses find expres- sion and there have been born the chasite and lofty sentiments that have made a whole world better. METHOD OF PERSUASION. lbw a Determined Mother Obtained "Voluntary" 'Confession. t becomes evident 'from the fol; owing story, which lu-Tilii-from 4 North country town, that there -are widely varrug ideas in existence ss to what constitutes voluntary testi- mony on any subject, says London Tit -Bits. • ' I understand you to say that this lug voluntarily confessed his share in the mischief done to the schoolhouse?" asked the Maigiss. trate, addressing the determined looking female parent of a small and dirty boy charged with being eon. cerned in a-retent raid upon an un "-- 141rti13ty itr e wenien responded. "I just had to persuade him is little, and then he told me the') whole thing voluntarily." , "How did you persuade Moil" 'Well, shisfirAitstitgaveorshiptin; gttod licking;' -said the firm parent, "Old' then I put -him to bed yeithout sup. . per, and 1 took -his clothes away and told hint hied stye' in'bed fill he ton- feseed Whet he'd' dope, if 'twits the rest pf his days, and 1 should lick him again in the ictorning. And in it3s than half SW hour he told tee the whole story voluntarily The man who is, righteheaded • alit to be good-heerted. *here Is lots of fele in doingthings. you don't have to do. - Some men try to dotigie the sue when the lind what they are Took. in for. • i 1The2 You are tery a0p0411)01 didt't kite* iatt'$*ied MU for nr uncle." ne: wM the Means of keeping hire n *.eylitm the last year Of lvt-0641$ now hushed an Ole hn'c 11'7!) TO, and now tbeit he futa left rbit gtAve. •ell his money, l'ew.eiet to prole tbint t what a oontraot is soils. wu a 110104 al0101*" PckAtAt44* PA'S".#• - 1, t4t1, 3,44112 1144110SPOttallf.taVEST • ...we it .0;