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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-10-01, Page 7 (2), etrove devise 60.11110 plen where- - 4 -could obtain glance at the a dresses. The box„ however, was only at the foot of the stake, there- fore ere I mild resolve oPon wig plan the eKirl had dropped them into ts arid I, heard her linen ilounes beating along *the corridor again. Those lettere Were in the post, and beyond my reach. " • he heel written ,tleeee' two ntisf Ayes dorino We. and after be :d4apattnee her VAsiOrsT'They ad; no doubt, time. vonneetiOA With the matte, which 'the. ttio -earnestly diSenitsed e,nethat' elieing, foreign. tongee. • , Ii heeitiney *I eieritabled,sorde tle Woe, then •a, midden thoniebt, °e- vened to _nee. , seideeleeed 011•01' delitretereethtgfilli494""d4 club", encloiting eheet paper, and then descending, -post- -tetieitee-The boxeem placed outside the bureau; and the instant I had dropped the letter in I turned, as though in anger with myself, and, entering the bureau, said to the clerk - "I've unfortunately limited a let-. ter without a stamp. Have you the key of the box?" • "The! box belongs to the Post Office, ilir," he answered. "But we have a key to it." "Then I should esteem it htTavor ifseyetueeeeel&Wevet Atexe/etter ktIr me. It is raoet Important that tile' addressee should not be charged for its postage. I regret that my ab- sent-mindedness should give you this trouble." The clerk took the key from a drawer at the end of the bureau, and opening the box, took out the half-dozen or so letters which ..it contained, and 'spread them upon e_Anzeneg them -were tw Tali:Sfue*Wierrfir • — 1` tea my own letter anti:Axed it stem* I glanced eagerly at the ad- drestes ofshotle One bore the superscription : "Mr. P. Gechkuloff, 98 King Hen- ry's Road, Hampstead, N.W." Upen the other were the words, which caused my heart to leap joy- fully within me. They were - "Miss Mabel Anson, leengham Hotel, London." I posted my letter, hurried up- stairs, and paid my bill. Edna had already packed her trunk, but had changed her mind, and did not intend leaving Hull that day. I heard her inform the chambermaid of her intention of re- maining, then I left the hotel, and caught the ten forty-five express for London. (To be Continued.) +0-***tirk4tt+tift;t4,040,* +3X+ +A =AA. 1017,ne-fisAttWeesIttr intgllfs K ,isf.X.MIR7 tto.Ike . -. 7, ,, 00 . 0 ,..: . 0 0 0 AY, "Te talk like that is useless," she H, erunted dubiously. • responded. "Itemereber that he ee, b" ee ...eitteen-ehesomethieig." - - 44'" °W -Wiat Yirr-""think"Marritor. . 1 tunes have schanned N1102 -4191110M- ' 'Something, etes. Bettetvhati" • h t' - plate deserting us, eh?" he snap - "He knows more than we think." ped. "A single word to the Prince "Where is he now I"' and you would conclude your ca - "Nobody can discover. I saw Feet rather -abruptly, I'm think - lam once, but he has disappeared.; inf•" . They say he's a wandering lunatic. I 'Is that intended as a threat'?" Ile left Denbury suddenly after, she inquired in a calm voice. - ,showing signs of madness, and al -i "Take it as such if you wish," the though that terror of a WOM311, his man responded angrily. "Through, wifes strove to .trace him, she was yemr . confounded bungling "yell reasuccessful. His ineanity, coupled brought exposure upon teas iireeltave with the..ktt,... .ti,iit „fill*Ftcol,...sts,,,,,woniTif2,10„thamik .!9,17,3,0,,,.Y911. k30 overtookhim st-iad-erily- - apparently ma' tletuttirl‘elr"eAlign to brii"444 rrhyed upon her mind. She fell ill, that when I make threats they are and according to a letter I received never idle ones." - from Getige 4 few days ago, she "And you are sufficiently well act -died sudenIy of an aneurism, and quainted with me to know that I was buried last Thursday at Bud- leigh Salterton. The announce- ment of her death was in yester- day's papets." I listened to those words open- never run unnecessary risks." "I know you to be a devilishly clever woman," he said. "But in your dealings with that map Hea- ton you showed weakness -a cow- rileuthed- MY wife was dead! Then c.rd's weakness. All that he knows .eta---.sseeresesseeestee-esseessessesese Whet-.elealezea, ear' jos° ee, the attempted to mislead Mm by your - thin wood of the door I stood -actions and letters, but he has, it :breathless, fearing that they -might seems, bevneaelittle too -shrewd -for distinguish the rapid heating of my; ycu." • heart. "And if he does know the truth - "Your ingenuity has always beenI even, indeed, if he dared to inform extraordinary, madame," he said, the police -what direct evidence tollectively, "hut in this last affair can he give, pray ?" she queried. you have --not shown your _usual.- "He was blind, and _therefore saw nothing. He is now mad, and no - "In what manner ?" I body will believe him." "His Highness places confidence "Eiren though he may be an idiot Th you, yet you sit idly here, and this mouth is better closed," her profess yourself unable to assist coinpanion growled. hine." . -1 His words startled me. This un - A warrant' is out against you ; seen mares intention was apparent - it elevertheless, you still consider the ly to make a further attempt upon - ' Ptince your friend. That is .,curi- my fife. . But I chuckled within m3- . eith!" she remarked, with a touch self. Forewarned is forearmed. of ke,reasra. ;ust at that inoment I heard the ‘ "Most certainly. It was Oustro- waiter tap at the door, and open- rooff's doings, Efts Highness is ing it, announce the arrival of an - _powerless to control the Ministry' other visitor -a Mr. Boesch, ef Police.'" 1 "Why, I wonder, has he sought "And you that You will he you here?" exclaimed the man when safe an England T" she inquired du- the waiter had gone. "He must - . -blously. - . - I have some inrpertaut -news!" '‘I believe so, providing that I. Next moment the door was. again hhettercise care, • he responded. Af-, thrown open, and the new arrival k ier to -night i best that we should entered. reinain strati ers - you under- All three spoke quickly together IRELAND NEEDS FORESTS. The Green isle is -Late in Waking Up to Her Sins., Ireland has awakened to the na- tional value of her fdrests, but so in a foreign tongue. The man late that radical measures will now "Of course." Rosch then made a brief statement be necessary to make up for past "And Mrs. Anson and her charge? which apparently held his two com_ neglect. A commission appointed Are they at a safe distance?" panions for some moments -speech_ by. the Crown to investigate the "Tee. When I met Heaton he in- less in alarm. Then again they all cendition of Ireland's forests and <mired sifter them. He particularly commenced talking in low confiden. to suggest measures for betterieg it wished to discover them, and of tial tones in that strange language has just made public its report. ------ ----hhcimrse I aehisted. hims",-- --Slav I believe_ it eras.. The commission outlines and vig- They both laughed in chorus. Whatever it might have been, orously urges the adoption of a : But lier words in themselves were- and although I understood no word large scheme for the State to plant about 700,000 acres with ferest zefficient proof that she feared the ef it, it brought back vividly to my trees. This, with the MAO acres result of Our re -union. They im- memory the indelible recollection of -prosed. upon me the truth of m theeeight ofet.lif-ilieigedy et, The Bol_ cf existing forest, would give Ire - suspicion, namely, that Mabel held tons. lead 1,000,000 acres of foreet land,' an area which the cemmission con - the key to the enigma. I listened attentively. Yes, there "What does he know ?" asked the was no mistake -those tone e were eiders essential for the agricultural and industrial requirements of the . Man, evidently referring to me. familiar. That trio of voices were country. "He is aware of the spot where the same that with my sharpened the affair took- place," she answer- ears I had overheard conversing iu About 20,000 acres of this would wd bee purchased hy the- -Statehin the inner room -immediately befos “What 1" gasped her companion the commission of the crime. . mountainous and rough regions an in alarm. "That can't be. He was I -have said that my nerve e were naanaged as State 'forest, says Har - per's Weekly, while 500,000 acres, stone blind, you said !" shattered. All the past was a tor - "Certainly he was. But by some turing memory to me, but the chiefly in. small blocks, would be means -how, 1 can't say -he ascer- quintessence of that torture was my planted by the State, but managed by private owners .. or by county r4,ined at least one fact." • failure to dipeover. my love. I be by he ma' ke any remark to lieved that she alone emild supply councils. . , • The facts that under the land pur- you 1" the solution of the enigma,- and "Of course he did. He gave me what truth' there was in that su- chase acts much woodland. former - to understand that he was acquaint: spicion you shall duly tee. le held in large blocks is being sold etewith the details of the whole at- The three voices continued to ie small parcels and lumbered and fair." - speak in that foreign tongue for that there is now opportunity for A long silence fell between them. perhaps half an hour, during which the Government te acquire vsoods The mention- of Mrs. Anson and period I was unable to form any and land suitable for forests made her charge held nie breathless.. The idea of the trend of the noweemer's it specially urgent for the State to "ehargelt refereed to eraieevidently announcement. take immediate action, - , Mabel. I only hoped that from this Then I heard the hieitors taking To show that such a scheme of eionversation 1 might 'obtain 'some their leahe, • apparently with many land acquisition and planting is not clue,to the whereabouts of my dar- of those gesticulated . reassurances impracticable the' commission cites' ling. , . . rf respeet which, mark the shallow the case of Denmark, an ,agricul, ' •"I stonder how' smelt Heaton, foreigner. I extinguished my light tural country half the size of Tr& really does know ?" observed her and opened ney doer, cautiously. As land; which, since 1881 has inereas- visitor reflectively at last. - ' ' they passed on their way down tize r,e4 her forests by, 175,000 acres. "To midi? 1 fear,'.' she -answer- corridor 1 sucepeded in obtaining a eel. No doubt/. she recollected liow why gopit ,vietv of the interesting itNAL CAINE. / , I had expressed my determination pair. They 'were ' talking together, r andi distinguished the i main Mot , to go to Scotland. Yard. , , AAinte-there was a , prolonged eljkad first Oiled upon Edina by hiit / _A /,` 'dieep voice. He was a short thicle-, elloteeche bas \arrived in London. set; bliaek-b4rded man of for0, I must ‘ see hina,"4 exclaimed the well dressed in black, with a heavy man. gold alhert across his ample vdst. , "In Loudon 11 I thought he was His companirm, whose name was Mali at his pot • in the Ministry at apparently Roeseb, was consider- ' Saila," ahe said in a tone of sur- older, about U0 -five or so, of spare price build, ereet, thin -faced. with tong 'ilie r..4,8 fortunate enough to oh- gtey whiskers deseending from ei- tein early intimation of , thietrom- ther cheek and shaven chin. * He 011,:s intentions, and after warning wore a froek-coat and silk hat, and roe, ecvapod the same eveeing: Ile was of a type altogether superior to -ok eteateer, I heard, from Trieste te his companion. . " to lehiclon." , The woman -Grainger's eoffee it'StS ' "Why associate e-cturself further 1 brought to her as usual in the` morn - * all Viet Man r she timed. "Sure- ing, but about ten o'clock she rang Ty it will only add to the danger." again, and when the chambermaid !''What etenceres • myeelf likewiee responded, said-- ee VAS hillit" he apsweied rather effere are two letters. Post Ur wusly. theM for me in the box in the ie apparently of late.be- r bureau, and tell them to send my ...er frrendee For what ott. bin at one, 1 leave at ten forty- five." -` • 4 4 4. al 2, 4- 4 mout-the-fant 14:++++++44o+70.* +++ +. il,,As'numinsro:sOst „ , fl...XlIereiteteeed deirienene who NO leeited into dairy p4,046s, 'PenuAnrk• ,stge .that they. *ttei ;etele'L .444n eiome?,inatanees. eteee not etsfe;tteehite those -fofloeeed 1. other ,daery 'e4eutties. TA**0. tbOree,'‘ntetiails seed in40i0erY, actilied,eW dairymeitek'i,e Awitta.*: me -mato States and tanadecyeare 4eetete being date, aii)11'' still' uze byIhe.Dattese And yet, the exetjgUL- lortra40-1411t1 good quality of their '"°thrl•Aill*).14g.q.1,P:s4114/sa 4447 Products. This -is especial- ly true in butter -making. Damian butter in Great Britain is the sten- dard by which all other butter is judged. The butter from other countries ranks second to Danish rarely equal to or ahead of it. What is the score,- of the Dane's success? It is pasteurizing. What - freer defects there may be in their systetn-of making butter they cling tepee -lenity to pasteurizing. The PAP•es, W9414 no more think of peek: iit'g.lietterWitheut pastenrizingt Icream, or milk than of growing /grain on the. sands of the sea. It ie an essential part of their butter - making system. Every creamery and every butter -maker practises it. They look upon it as just as necessary in butter -making as rip- ening the cream. Pasteurizing inore than any other thing is responsible for Denmark's; • le_standin UMW:wit rel7S--":-e been before the diarymen of this continent fdr many years. --Every dairy authority re- conmends' *it* and advocates Re adoption. And yet how few cream- +Nies practice pasteurizing the milk oi cream in butterenaking. In Can- ada we are constantly agitating for better care of the cream and milk, a very necessary thing in mak- ing fine butter. But we fail in adopting a practice that would help to overcome the effects of bad cream. We do not mean by this, that less attention be given to the care of the cream. Every patron should be urged at all times to give ,the best of care to the, cream he ordinary acceptation of the term supplies -his creamery with. Cream, "teaching." His motto is .that ' did but we will adapt his prism - however, received from a hundred ochildren should be taught little pies to our surroundings. Our -different persons giving in the bee and sliould learn much." JIB class gardens and fields will be welt y an practice are a no supplied with large blackboards at ol care cannot but vary greatly in! theory d'th t • quality. Pasteurizing will make it child should be asked to undertake which the teacher can stop io les more uniform in quality of butter, formal lessons until it is nine or walk to ten- yearst_hild,_ and that until it, reaches that age it should be allow- ed tit run7prattically wird and - as- similate knowledge as a tower ga- thers its sweetness from the sun- shine. , Mr. Collins has been at vtar wih the 'education authorities over the education of his own eight chil- is one of. the worst misfortunes , dren. The law of England says that can befall a poultry -keeper, ' meaning thereby that it is much better, from the dollar-andscents standpoint, for the poultryman to kill fowls as soon as they exhibit semptome of disease than it is to potter about and endeavor to treat the infected birds. As a general rule, this advice; fore the magistrate, and if he can bolds good. Unless a man can de- tect the trouble, diagnose the dis- ease, and apply treatment, in the early stages of sickness, it is sel- dcm that doctoring is of tnuell avail. If he manages once or twice jij be eureceseful checkingsahmiich epidemic, or curing an individual 1 ''tallifill'a"Aen1111°"1-411Y- tith64' ease here Or there, he gets itito the for nee sending his four .elder chil habit of Noting about his fowls, dren to school. The British magis- trate is impatient of new ideas, and dosing them up when they get sick, when he learned that Mr. Collins's and usually ends up by getting his idea of education was to allow his place stocked up total a lot of birds children to grow up as plants and of enfeebled constitutions, predis- flowers grow he became impatient posed to disease. A little know - and refused to listen to more. Col- iltdge of the different fowl diseases is essential to success in poultry- lins insisted, however, and he has U0- jeeitt succeeded in forcing the un - raising, but more is a means of willing admiseion from. the mem% tecting disorders in the early ea than for applying remedies to trate that his children were far ie cure the trouble. The one fact that advance of the public -school chi a poultryman wents to be awe to dren of the same age. The sequel grasp firmly is that, when once .fie- te this decision is, the opening_ f ease beconies established in his Collins's • school, „where he win teach other children. on the same neck, the best thing he can do is lines that he has taught his own. to use a good sharp hatchet pretty Collins is a graduate of the .11.akes Vigorously. In the long 'run it will versity. of London, of the Sorbonne ptove more profitable than all the ist Paris and Of Heidelberg Univ - drugs in the world. sity in Germany. He has been a tutor ip high-class educatienal oioughlyeenloy1200 .ir.,•suppty of it,heiO,W41,04",• Try it tttritictalaty Sur, „ appetigink t with greater ease than a erough and inexperienced person, but will do so With far. more comfort to the OW, who will stand pleased and quiet, .plaridly chewing the cud and testifying by her manner and atti- tude that 'she experiences pleasure rather than annoyance from the op- eration. Cows will not yield their milk to a person they dislilce or read. ' ITIATERIOTASTE LAD PICKED UP READING IN A WEEK. An Engliehman Proves That His elk44--4-Fsguese*W4sh._, the Meath- - There is a man in London, Eng - laud, who has beaten the London county council education commit- tee after a fight lasting several years. Ile has compelled the courts to admit that his system of educa- tion, which the education authori- ties --eay is all herolig, is all right, and in a few weeks he is going to open a school within 30 miles of London where Ins theories will hs put into practice, writes a Londoa correspondent. The man is Edwin Collins, a univereity man, a writer and a teacher who does not believe in teaching at alt -that is, in the -was examined by the* megistrate and it was his proficiency that forc- ed the London magistrate to decide favor of Collins's system. Ile is now fourteen years old and his upbringing is evident both m his physical and mental equipment. He is as tall and sturdy as an ordinary raiglish lad of seventeen kind he can converse intelligently on most sub- -jectstevaz ilim_w_oulci do credit to many grown` mon.- Be. tare writ- ten articles on the current politi- teet aud.-eodueateensleeeproblemse which have beee accepted on their merits by leading English news- papers and magazines, and he has also written verses which display coneiderable merit. Collins explained that he had been asked to open a school in the ccuntry by persons who 'wished hint th undertake the education of their thehrhaeil hesteht atie_ cial success of the undertaking. "We will have children from iv t to fifteen years old," he said, "and practically all our teaching will oe done out of doors and by the peri patetic method. No class will have more than ten children, for no tea- cher can give individual attentioe to more. We will have our, classee in the gardens and fields which su - round the fine old country -house that have taken, and we will adopt the kindergarten method as much as possible. I do not meae he this the formal kindergarten school, which would shock Froebel almost as much as the old system and thus enable the butter -maker t -Make a more uniforra quality of trattme' DOCTORING FOWLS. A prominent authority on poultry states that, "To succeed in doctor- ing a stubborn case of sickness of a persistent epidemic in his flock, that every child must go to school. P child does not attend the public schools the school attendance- 01 ccr calls to find out why, and if the. parent can satisty him that the child is being 'efficiently educated elsewhere all is well.. If not, 1,1 e parent is summoned to appear be - not satisfy the magistrate he is fined, and if ther offense continue.; be is fined again as &ten as the at- tendance officer finds time to sum- mon him. PROVES HIS CASE. LIVE STO9It NOTES. stitutionp for years and lie has p -e ILLUSTRATE MS TillsK "The children will be encou .e.ged to ask questions. 1 want to cecout- age the natural development of ideas. For instance, if we are hav- ing a history lessee and someone suggests a geographical question growing naturally -out of the hiq tery, there is no reason why we should not drop the history aryl follow that line of thought Geo= graphy may lead into mathematics, and so on. The reason for this is that the children should realize the i essential relation of all branches of' knowledge to 'real life. In the old-fashioned school each subject is taught by rote, and the children -seldom realize that one has any re- lation to another. e "For the same reason I have al- ways taught my children both arith- metic and geometry by means of matches or little sticks. Th,ny learn by laying two- sticks beside two other sticks- tha.tetwo-andetwesmake four,, and that simple addition and multiplication have some reference te roal things. The geometrical forms and their relation to realities can be taught in the same way. Af- ter they have mastered the princi- ples in this way the formal learning comes cagily to them. It is simply. teaching thlon to express in words what they already fully understand. "The religious teaching le my school will be very, broad. I -believe in giving each child the essentials ef religion, and letting the pareets themselves fill in the details of meteiter creed they believe in. My principle assistant will be a clergy- man en- hdly orders, .but, I will not object to Non -conformist or Roman Catholic clergymen visiting the ail- dren of their faith under my charge." MAKING A 30 Tbest way to enre ecratehes is pared students for university exam- he , And mations. From this it •will be eie ,n Pat,'who bad a weakness for HO Sfrv. Brown tsuspicioasly)---rft,ou ro prevent them altogether. • i i,are clean thatrhe has no prejeakce against file Moe of thef country, once 'did a eyes are' watery and terrible in iht best Peeventivee . " ''' e. 'stables and thorougb are 'of 'the PirdlVilY ikarninf• WY thld he mkt 41°Y*8 `AO'rk ha* the vill4getWiestw . 1 tends is thae the ave/rage thild is /seek labisi-ed so nobly that *hen he' i Ila, d. . Brown (*ith anY ininred air) hprse whet] it comee in frian a mud - stunted and wettkned.' by being " begishd for aldrink at the end (d it -Well, next time you give me 8, g di., wet delve. The legwand bell and ecanpelled to tax its brain and body the kind man had not tile heart to Bible for a birthday present,, don't should be cleansed of mud by beginning its formal eduesaion refuse. select one with such fine priet. rubbed until dr. " 'Tis a nail in your eoffii,r1 all the Ceobtneal will 'be. perkctly safe to t" early. "I do not belieie in beginning to same, Pat," said he, Mhe peured A physician recei, ved late one ev- fweietdi I tsio sittIOarjr paanrtdione0.1t0S1 if u tm i .,h, caeytl. learn the formal things too earle;," out a couple of fingers. ,) ening a note from three of his fel- fetid MrCollins. ' "Children should ."It is that, your riverence," said low practitioners: 'aPleate step Col:meal .is not as° dangerous to he encouraged to ask questions,.to Pat, as he draned the glass; "but over to the club, and join us' at a feed to a horse alone *scorn ground learn rather than to be taught. My TkOW that ye've the hammer in your rubber of whist.". "Emile, dear," without the eob, because the cob.' increases the bulk of the meal and olit,„ st boy could not read a line un- hand, ye moight as well'' dhroive, in ' ire said to his wife, "here, I amtherebyrenders it less harmful'. til he was nine yea.rs old. Then he another" called away again. ,It iiPpears to , The reason why shelled corn is sat- learned the alphabet in a week, be a ditEcult ease -there are three er to feed to a horse alone tliiii and he learned it without any dif- BRINGING IT TO'A CLIM asX. fieulty. Ile just asked his mother other doctors on the spot already." cornmeal, is because the horst in .....—. or ine what the letters were, and "I know what's ,paSsing in von tnaStieating the corn only it, mind," suddenly said the maiden "What would you do, dear, if I in a week be was reading ,. sind it cannot go into the' stomaeh were to die 1" asked Mrs. Dark , FOR HIS OWN PLEASME. as the habitually silent ealler fondly. "I don't know," re II d meal does.. it such SI, pasty condition as corn - Before that, Of course # we had read. ed at her. , Daley, thou htfully. "%hh Is If every drop et milk in the cow'a tie him roe. try, SInkkettpesire's pho4s '"1 'know,„ to Why yon Are cellieg your thoiee Willi or eienution ' udder be not, tarefully, reMeVed $ and manyother things Which 'were here t'..night after mght, appropri. esch milking, the secretion "will i suitable to his undertandmg Since 4 4 I ., e time rsolf iinft kNil , OF IT. ed, were those Within my nand' "us Collins,