Exeter Advocate, 1908-08-06, Page 6 (2)I had' so etnenedne that 1 klt
yea/ utter! .ireaTeb,le- of believe,
g anythieg. !fee Whole thing
seemed shadows awl. tuireal.
And yet the facts remained that
I was still alive etandil there in
that comforted4 teem,
006 of all mz facultiee,' both men
fa l and phesietel, ad entirely dif.
tercet peenott to my-41.,aelf, with
tift elenre of IV Pot logLisu ub"-.
:accountable, , •
Veyond ihtlrlawn thet, ow'
th0 -KtOt 'trtt*, bQ,104
vit:trumelori. r,ventloriih, dea
ftrtl lOn'alfee:sleretiredg"lhe' etneeet
LI *eU1eniielleakit•tefteig
tat ft -L1. 'Pikht.•vjbuI.
Oen O.tueng that 4traeine
d of-M.4he'1i't Vietetteniate, 1 beet
veil SO fiendly •and d;t,tQdly.
Sweet were the recolleetione that.
eame back to me. -Row" eharulind
she had seemed to me as we had
-
fingered. hand-in-hand on our Walks
across' the Perk and Kensington
-pa, Heusi -hew sole and =ideal her
ozweraAvLtar
bright dark eyes! How idyllic was
our love! She had surely read my
undeclared !, paaeion. She had
known the great secret in my heart.
Neverthelees, all had ehanged. In
a, woman's life half a dozen years
is a long time, for she may develop
from girleto matron in that pace.
The .worst aspect of the affair pre-
sented itself to Inc. I had, in all
probability, left her without utter
ing a word of farewell, and she—
oe her part—had, no doubt, ac-
ted Rome other euitox. What
ageut eft
XT,1311 'Alk.11)
E1911
t I
"
__WrEta-anterti:
dislike to the *place ! All my tastes
andaideaseduring there blatik-Years
had apparently become inverted. I
had lived and enjoyed a world ex-
actly opposite to my own- t Ile world
of sordid moneydiaaking end the
glaring display of riches. I hed, in
a word, aped the gentlema le
There was a small circular mir-
ror in the library, and before it I
stood, marking every bee upon my
face, the incredible impress of for-,
gotten years.
"It is -ainazing, 'incredible!" I
cried, heartsick with desire to pe-
netrate the veil of mystery that en-
shrouded that long period of ,un-
conseiousness. "All that you have
told me, Gedge, is absolutely be-
yond belief. There must be some
mistake. It is impossible that six
years can have passed without my
knowledge."
"1 thinlati he said, "that, after
all, Britten's „advice should -be fol-
lowed. You are evidently not your-
self to -day, and rest will probably
restore your mental power to its
proper calibre."
"Bah :" I shouted angrily. "You
still believe I'm mad. I tell you
I'm not. I'll prove to you that I'm
not."
"Well," he remarked quite calm-
ly, "no sane man could be utterly
ignorant of his own life. It doesn't
stand to reason that he could."
"I tell you I'm quite as sane ns
you are," I cried. "Yet I've been
1.
erg
thuak should 'have grorn,..e.on,
Mantle' tom:trete Gedge.were it not
that he 'eptoarently, treated me as
one whoett -mind was wandering,.
He believed, and perhaps justly so,
that my brain had been injured b
the eceidental blow. To o
cic.0 otirogoomar4iiiiirtMititeoft
I, his master, should know nothing
of net own affairs. The ludicrous..
.ness of the situation was to me en-
Web-, apparent, yet what could I
do to avert it?
"'By careful questions I endeavored'
to obtain from him some fact e nee-
garding my past.
- -You told me," I said, "that I
have many friends. Among them
care there any persons named An-
son 7"
'`Anson?"
41
name."
"Or Hickman 1"
Be ehook his head.
'"I lived once in Essex Street,
kltrand," I said. '`Have I been to
those chambers during the time—
the five years you have beermip mew
eereecerr
ratt len ge.
'Have I ever visited a house, fhe
Boltons in Kensington V'
"I think not," he responded.
"Curious! Very curious!" I ob-
served, thinking deeply of the
graceful, dark -eyed Mabel whom I
had loved six years before, and
who was now lost to me for ever.
"Among my friends is there a
man named Doyle?" I inquired, af-
ter a•pause.
"Doylel Donrou mean Mr. Rich-
ard Doyle-, the wax a correspondent a'
, "Certainly," I cried excitedly.
"Is he back?"
"He is one of your friends, and
has often visited here,)," Gedge re-
plied.
"What is his addresel I'll wire
• to him at Once."
“He's in Egypt. He left Lon-
don last March, and has_ not Yet,
returned."
I drew a long breath. Dick had
evidently recovered from fever in
India, and was still my best friend,
although I had no knowledge of it.
What, I wondered, had been my
actions in those six years Of uncon-
sciousness?. Mine were indeed
sti ange thoughts at that momeut.
Of all that had been told me .1 -was
unable to account for anything. I
stood stunned, confounded, petrh•
fiedt
r, r knowledge of -what had tran-
spired_ daring those intervening.
years, or of my ONVil career and
ne-
• tions during that period I had to,
utterly unconscious these six whole
rely upon the statements of others.
My mind during all that time, it years,"
appeared, had been a perfect blank, "Nobody will believe you."
incapable of receiving any impres-
"But I swear it to be true," I
sion whateoever.
protested. "Since the moment when
- Nevertheless when I came•
to consciousness left me in that housel
n hesea I ha•ve been as one
consider how had in so marvel-
lous a manner established a rcpu- dead."
o
teflon in the City, and had amassed Hlaughed increduously. The
slightly confidential tone in which
Ithr,reitettsum efinowthr 1CoI1d
bankers'
jj 1 had spoken heelaannarentlY in
accomplished' that without the en„ educed him to treat rne with indiff-
-
ereise of considerable tact and "ea"' This ar6used iny wrath -
mental capavity. I must, after all, was in no mood to argue whether
have retained hrewd
tut or not I was responsible for my am
esenses,
they had evidently been those of tions. •
my other self—the self who had 1
while sA the same time he
"A man surely can't be uncon-
lived and moved as husband of that
alitn,:htfd e
flieednfoe tenet,
"Efave1 often visited Ille.aton
my otan plaee ?" I inquired, turning
suddenly to °edge,
"Notmince your merriage; I be-
lieve," he anewered. "You have
Iw*-entertained eionnt -curious
ftletteactimetieeLepikettitesseketwertt
up there once to traneact some
business with your agent, and
thought it a nice, charming old
house."
"Aye, end so it is," I sighed, re-
membering the youthful days I had
rpent there long ago. All the year
round was *Auushine then, with the
most ravishing snow -drift e in win-
ter, and ice that sparkled in the
sun so brilliantly that it seemed al-
most as jolly and frolicsome as the
sunniest of sunlit streams, dancin
deteltfreeeneintetftlM,
all-trititegli. the cioudlese turinner:
Did it eller -rain in those old days
long ago? Why, yes; and what
splendid timee I used to have on
those occasions—toffee-making in the
schoolrooyn, or watching old Dixon,
the gamekeeper, cutting gunwads
0- harlIeffiEttit .
which bave peoved net to p.roduce
-geed haeon Find, feeding on fielm
the bacontaste s And smelle of it, a
conibleation of flexors not accept -
Ole. Second, the weete preducts of
hrewerieee though they seena to
nouriali the anintels, they profit)"
soft,. tvatere.hecen.
;Vieeeliy, the greet eita of, hie re
3. 41, grt,q. -01;744!
le4a mark0,talile po,rk,
It145.7i.t h:ng
•,rf):19
lute. nal:and!
k-kt11*
three or getierntiong tho, new
ppireediesepearEliodrizinote itritifaat pinite:ttv. eaecahnia_
not find out a method of feeding,'
something like that of -the lrielimaie
who fed his Pig well one day to make
10 and etarved it the next d
woman who called herself Mrs.
Heaton.
"Tell me," I said, addressing
Gedge enain, "has my married. life
been a happy oneV'
ne looked at me inquiringly.
"Tell me the truth," I urged.
.'"Doret conceal anything from nice
tea I intend to get at the bottom
of this mystery." '
"Well," he said, with consider-
able hesitation, "scarcely what one
might call 'happy, I think.'
nAle I understand," I said. • "I
finow from your ta'ne that you sym-
pathize with me, Gedge."
He nodded • without replying.
Strange that. I had 'never known
this man until an hour *to, and
..et 1 had geoanasmeenfldential with
im. He teetnelf tit be the only
erse who cotilef,pree nt t
th. -
Those pis lot years were utter -
puzzling. I was X9 ertn returned
from the grave to find histworld
ennished, and all things changed.
I tried to reflect, to see tome ray
of light through the darkness of
.that lost period, but to me it seem-
ed utterly inexietent. The years,
if I had really lived them, had melt-
ed away and left no trace behind.
iLe events of my life prior to that
evential rtight when 1 had dined at
Tivs Itelton3 had no affinity to those
the pr4!..:nt, 1 tie4d eeased to be
• sts old 4ielf. and by 'some inexplic-
able transition, mystorious and tni.
• heard ef, 1, lied, while retaining my
• rettr,1e. rtx'24_,,Le an entirely different,
1.1:-;A:. A 4. it* AM of g• el2m
vani a lin I
transacts hilliness arid lives as gai-
iy as you live," he laughed;
'Then you impute that ell I've
said is untrue, and is due merely
tc the fact that I'm a trifle dement-
ed, eh?"
"Britten' has ,said that you are.
suffering from a fit of temporary
derangement, and that you till re-
cover after perfect rest."
"Then, hy taking me around thie
home: showing roe those Imolai, ant-
expleining all to me you've nleret
been humoring me as you would st
harmless lunatic!" I cried. furi-
ously, "You don't believe what
fay, that I'm perfectly in my right
mind, therefore leave me., I have
no further use for your presence.
tut p,rekr. to, be ,alonci". I Adagi
iraht.
enseemted
tau ; "if roti 01 ,
gonin ,t,
"Yes, go ;' and don't return tin
I send for you. Understat4 that!
I'm in no humor to he fomeel, or
told that Itin lunatic."
Ile shrugged his shouldere. and
muttering some words I did tv,t
catch, turned and left the llbrary.
CHAPTER XXII.
a faint-hearted ereatnre
ndeed who, white struggling tItuag
ne dark lent ,of bite ciarrst. at
*otinti,rmittently, extract Sfonie'
fort to himself from tto thorglit,
tl;e, tven must come at last.-
t9V`Oh• presumahly,,, vo"6
°Iral out upon the welLitt
et- happy -c3ntent-
t X
.t e. ',le e „Mien.;
t +'
0401.4.0 Fg,
ted Seem, . 'aro to he fettetied es,
,therefare, -of Yast impertenee. ,
Coasideralele attention is now be-
ing given to the system of rearinz
but omelitter of Pigs, and then fat-
tening the, sows. One of the rea-
sons_given for this Flail tbateyoung
fattened, will- tale the
enMiftirtiffelift'etifsifiretriericitt34,
or spayed female, and thus would
realize more per pound than would
en aged BEM when fattened; also
that in certain districts the majority
of 'Pigs tire fattened within a mirtain
few nionths, and therefore it would
not pay to keep the older sews to
produce only one litter per year,
says W. R. mabert, of Alberta, Can-
ada, in the Prairie Farmer.
Either of these reasons is a good
one since it is generally aeknowledg-
ed that the most succeesfitlxig feed -
411"440 ifixt4
sIOU ld have married te " liugs"%cr6e
fat all
That thought held me rigid. seitsonii of the year, but par -
Again, as 1 strolled on beneath
the rustling elms which led ttraight
away in a wide old avenue towards
where a distant village church i
sten& aa prominent _ egu re in the
atd5cs',Tmq:V'tgrfFrrVlfrrP5t-PY.2:--fftt—rAt-
vid recollections of that last night
•'f ray old l nelf—of -the astounding
discovery I had made in the draw-
ing -room at The -Bottoms.
How was I to account for that.
I pm eed and glanced around up -
On the view. All NV1VS quiet and
peaceful there ;n the mid-day sun-
light. Behind me stood the great
white facade .of Denbury ; before
titularly to July and August, as the -
highest price is then generally ob-
tained for pork, while it has cost
less to produce a given quantitof
pork in warm than in cold weather.
Jnttf..Leeeltn„entekeimlwttemrlethat
iftdeltedrinnneettlrer 411eLlttati-0
mitriment containedaire the food is
required to -keep up the animal heat
of the pigs, so that no increase in
weight is made.
Again, a well matured sow will
rear at least 20 per cent. more pge
at less cost per head than will intst
young sows with their first littera
besides thie the proportion of wed •
a little to the right; lay a small ly igs will be smaller. .
lage with its white cottages—the Iaturally there exists a eonside;
village of Littleham, I afterwards able difference of opinion as to the
discovered—and to the left white type or style of pig most genei ally
cliffs and the blue stretch of the profitable. The first point coned,-Fttglisle Channel gleamed through ed is the market which the pig
the greenery. breeder proposes to supply.- In
From the .avenue I turned and London and other large citiee,
wandered down a be-pathao a stile, chief demand is for pigs some four
raunpdtetdhevireewI roefsttehde, oinpefnulsleua n. iDn tee erp-
about 60 pounds dead weight; for
to five months old and weighing
below was a cove—Littleham Cove, thie the Middle White Yorkshire is
it proved to be --and there, under kept, and often crossed by a Berk -
shelter of the cliffs, a couple ef shire boar.
yactits were riding gaily at anchor, ,The 4trizi antismight,_ of tee. fa
while far away upon the clear leo- i
pigs required n other districts
rizori a dark smoke -trail showed
the track of a steamer outward
bound.-- •
• (To be Contiretftiv
ANCIENT BABYLON.
..1••••111•••
Loudon is Seven Times Bigger
Than the Old City.
Another historical lie has been
nailed to the counter by the Ger-
man Oriental Society, which has
been engaged recently in uncover-
ing the ruins of ancient Babylon.
In their report they state that
practically the whole area of the
city has now been laid bare, and
the foundations of the inclosing
wall traced throughout its entire
The• speee occupied by the city
was barely one square mile—as
tompared with London's seventy—
and the buildings were plain,_ un-
pretentious structures of sun-dried
bricks. 'The famous wall -was about ,
thirty feet high by four miles long,
and was pierced by four gates.
Ilerodotus made this same wall
fifty miles long and a hundred feet
high, with one hundred gates. But
themthese old hietorians were prone
to exaggeration. They gave the
world to understand, for inetance,
that the . Colossus of ,Rhodes be-
etrode the harbor with - its feet so f
wide apart than an honi'e hard i
rowing was necessary in order to
pass from one to the other. _ Atis s
a matter of fact, the statue was not s
a striding one, and its height was e
te feet ottly, as compared with the e
180 feet of the Statue of Liberty
which dominates New York Harbor.
And as it is with this, sci it is with 0
most of tbe other %venders of the
ardent, world. Pompey's Pinata y
for examide, would be dwarfed If
umn.-The Albert Memorial,. erec.t-
varies from the so-called bacon
curers' pig of some 1e0 pounds dead
weight to the 250 -pound to 300 -
pound fat pig wanted north of Eng-
land. For this finer quality Large
White is the more general favorite,
while in some districts the Tam-
worth, both pare and crossed, and
the Large Black are preferred.
Consumers generally are much
more particular as to the quality of
the pork which they purchase so that
those pigs which furnish the great-
est proportion of the higher priced
points are the most popular to
breed and to fatten.
The term of life for the fat -pig is
so short that climate cannot ma-
terially affect its growth and thrift;
in fact the life of the pig should cen-
sist of only one part—the fattening
period—not, as is far too frequently
the case, a long slow period to be
followed -later -on -by-a- more-orie88-
long period of fattening; by this an
enormous loss is sustained, for after
three months the cost of producing
a poundofmeat increases, so that
4 lose results in a few" months.
In England, it always has been
and will _remain a moot point as to
whether it is more profitable to
breed pigs and then sell them when
they are eight or nine weeks old or
to keep them for six months and sell
at strong/toren,* or to. breed and
attn. thertre at present the last is
• greatest favor. Apart from in-
dividual gain this eysteth lends IV
elf to the improvement of the pig
tock of the country, as the bred l•
✓ and feeder is given strong in-
entive to 4breed his pigs that they
will grow more quickly and fatten
inore readily on II entailer quantity
ffTliclemi.managercient of 100W8 and
eung pigs varies with the district,
n many, if not in most instiCnees
he sew okay lee-lrept at °little- ex-,
.
during the three months af
,placed Ongtidn . the.: 110.1,sen. Col- t
rinee si)telikti
the tenTle-temb built by Queen
Arteinista- at..Halieartessus in hew-
er of her hasband Mansolas. A
pore of Nittivehs could he ((Milkillm
C 131 within the area of modern 1en-
dc,0 while the Palace of Cyrus,
which we wet, graely assured***
emented with gold, was quite an
raillery edifice by comparjSen
wit!say, the new War Office in
Parliament Street. Peareen'a
Weekly.
The Vicar ao sesten)---"
don't you see, that the seats in ti
church are dusted now and tht
TctntSsr Taint.* tthe sexton) —
do, sin the congregation &fa"
every Sunday morning, gr."
DEATH IN SCHOOL DRINKING
• C UPS.
The greatest achievement of sci-
ence in the opening decade of the
twentieth century is the awaken-
ing bf the people to the fact that
most human diseases are prevent.
able and a large proportion of early
deaths avoidable. At least 700,000
of the million and a half deaths oc-
curring annually in the United
tateleteenettheatentnetiteentiittedete
sitie plaa
nt-andeateirareltregaiied
cess to the body. Theseeinvisible
foes wage- a continual warfare
against both strong and weak, rich
and poor. Civic duty as well as
pelf preservation demands that
thew life -destroyers _should as far
man_ mte
e..-t.Mgdiliffeemttfeittettt7
The evidence condemning the use
°Ole common drinking vessel up
any occasion whether at school,
church or home is derived from
three sources: 1. The frequent pre-
sence of disease -producing, bacteria
in the mouth; 2. the detection of
pathogenic germs on the public
cups; and 3, the discovery that
where a nUmber of persons drank
from a, cup previously used by the
sick, some of ehem became ill.
A cup which had been in use nino
days in a school was a clear thin
glass. It was broken into a num-
:ter of piecea. and properly stained
for examination with a microscope
magnifying 1,000 dia,meters. The
human cells scraped from the lips
of the drinkers were so numerous One day a fashionabtydreeeed
on the upper third of the glass that woman, who had never seen kiwi
e
the head of a pin eoulti not be eerdned on his -wife -
placed anywhere without touching No one answered the hell, co she
several of tbese bits of skint Me walked out arming the ilowerebede,
A Traveller I* Africa Tenn .r s
Lively Experieucte
In African . forests the native*
find quantities of lieneg in lio
ed teeee. The honey. genettil
.44 010 nitinntih Of thectente, and
Men down the •tree, LL
antoke' 'ibcps.out o thkir
lama
then° enlieltiee coWelef ta
,q40111.."` .Ntr 41.4 , 0.4 'tls,f36
.••
d40, .
,stet
mey
.0 ee:kette it. iset, .
fiiio Uecs, and the meen had zcei
(41 a,"(piantity of honey.
'41t•e' were all gaily enjoying it,
with a plateful before me, and elle.'
my men equaeting round me, ,
ieg tiff huge chunks from the hone
eetelee.. Suddenle, an , 14=4 -
'
The men, 3,um
t fethiigkrili15-05 • -
significant buzz was fast approach.
ing, and behold! an army of bees
had descended quiekly upon us and
surrounded my camp-, etinging. tho
naked men all over. They held
their handa upon their faces and
stampeded in all directions, each/
one with a large contingent of bees
after him; -
My poor Somali, who, heal:- a'
strict Mussulman, never woelfl
touch anything that had been Vue
gered by unbelievers, was the only
the first one to dash away when
he first heard them. The reside,
was that he who had not touched
the honey at all had the greatest
number of bees after him. At one
.tiineethetennetleeteetennertenetentreee:
.60W- feetrittefiriViirarlifirif -Ifieraiim'a
were MS- yells and high the }cape
be made in the air.
Curiously enough, I, who had
still the plate of honey upon my
knees, and remained motionlesa.
like a statue, did not receive a.
single sting, although myriads of
bees kept buzzing round mit in a
most alarming manner.
.1.
SIGNED ON FOR LIFE.
An amusing stoey ia told of a re-
tired Lancashire manufacturer who
owns a beautiful house surrounded
by several acres, . and takes great
delight in donning shabby clothes
and working in the garden. -
saliva by 'running flown on. the in-
side of the glass had carried cells
and bacteria to the bottom. Here,
however, they were lees than one-
third as abundant as at the- brim. "A good man' -ears, madam,
, By counting the cells present on he replied.
fifty different areas on the glass as
"Do they pay you well 1"
seen under the microscope, it was
"About all I get out of it is my. ,
estimated that the cup contained clothes and keep."
over 20,000 human cells or bits of "Why, come and work _for me,"
dead ekin. As many as le° germs 'she , d inernloute
were seen clinging to a tingle tell, so much a month besides." Lt
and -very few. cellashowedless than thank you, madam," he re -
ten germs. Between the cells were 'flied bowing very low,..."bute
thousands orgerme left there by the ;igned on with Mrs. Johnson for
emears of saliva, deposited by the life."
drinkers. No less than a hundred "Why, no Duch contract is bind.
thousand bacteria were present on ing ; that is slavery."
eery square inch of the glass. — "Some may call it that, but I,
From "Death in School Drinking have always called ;t marriage.'
Cups," August Technical World,
where the millionaire was hoeing
gome geraniums. Ile bowed, and
she asked him how long he had
worked for the J neons. ,
i,
•••=mirer.•
EMPEROR PLAYED GYPSY. CAUSE FOR THANKS.
It -was at a social gathering of
Austrian Emperor Made IlImscIf one of the inuteal improvement so.'
• aa:amp.
Venni in -di etietiea 'tibia help to pass the siieff;- --
lug (or otherwise) hour in an -edi-
The aged Emperor of Aereitlanisreft'llft rnzmer.-• °
one of the simplest of men, and A tittle singing was to be indu1K-
aetclom mieses an opportunity of ed in by some of the members, and °
mixing, with his subjects on the about half -way down the Pra-
friendliest of terms.. A few years gramme the :mine of Miss yolernye
ago he had a novel experience Ifkown figured. Alas, however*
while out on a shooting expedition. when the time came for her to sp..
Re bad wandered a long way from pear, a messenger arrived to say'
the rest of the party, when he sud. that tliti lady was suffeeteghafrirliste
n
denly discovered that he had lost told and, therefore, t
les way. After walking about for had to excuee' her to the audience.
some time he fell in with a band "Ladies and gentlemen," Weald,
of Hungarian gypsies, wiio woirp "I have to announce that- X'
quite unaware of his identity. The Brown will he unable to Pit%
Emperor was tired out and was only announced, , and, therefore, Mre.
too glad to share a meal with his Green will ,!iye us ,IA Song of
new acquaintances. Thn gypsies Thanksgiving.
were strolling musicians and were
going to perform at a neighboring
illswhen at fenow has ra*. ore ,moni,
ege. Entering thoroughly into tnan brains . also has mom
the enjoyment of the thing, the Ent- friends than he knows what te.do
peror ,offered to accompany them -nnth,
and even went se far as to play a•
tune pn a violin himself, The chief
jpsy .b.e, all nr: ht to bow, ct`
.1,1k6 itt?C.1e4 %Akin* )41*-
jetty's. 'performance that hie but wc"
ted-h-inrwith-ersmalt-ectin, f
vie
ere
tilient ibeuig" near
c
bethe grass loses its
efuality, An addition of peas, beaus
or corn (soaked) is given, or roots,
of every kind ere given ravr.--pota-
tots only being steamed or boiled.
In regard to feeding, the Wiltshire
bacon is made from pigs largely fed
on barley meal, but there is no
denying .there is a thinttess about
the shape of the .hams. The cele-
brated York 'pigs are largely fed On
potatoes and ground oat, which
produee fine, well *heated meatwitb.
out being too fat. In Ireland the
general feed is corn meal and p6tit-
nett And at the Irish barns are juat
cerebrated it would seem that the
mixture is roc(' food. It is gout.
itsacettitiod among pig feeders that
and .varied diet is• the beet
i pip just as it is but foriumaa,
for breakfast with milk or am and a little fruit.
...It h* muscle.building food, easily digested b the most
delicatestornaelt. • •
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iteuo *it