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Exeter Times, 1912-11-14, Page 7114strated fouler sans,apon reemet, 30 16, Waterman ckienpienY. sAmtted, lel Notre Dame St.. W., Montreal cal or_for Or, A Dark Temptation oc; OHAP'J tett I. "I hate him and I won't do it -so there! I'll die first," The wrathful young voiee, ewoet and clear es a silver bell, broke out ehri ly over the -Crash and whirr of a hundred looms, penetrating to the very end of the v et Weaviug-room. Two young girls stood at their looms side by side. It was the younger and prettier of the, two who oried out so ve- heinontIy. ' Bash--sh, Gayneli!" whispered her cis - ter, warningly, laying a trembling hand on the shoulder of her impulsive young Aster, "don't talk soloud, it will be ye - Ported and we shall be discharged. They are only waiting for 'a real good exouse,. you know."" Gaynell Esterbrook's blazing black ewes !lathed,. fire, thecolor deepened n the pretty dimpled Cheeks; the dark head, running over with soft, brown. curls, was tossed defiantly. back, and she olinched ter little 'hexads. I don't -care that who hears me!" she cried, snapping her little white fingers and stamping a mite of a foot, 'u. etiok tie for my rights. No one shall run over mel I couldu't stand it to be a goody- goody erotism like you and be imposed en for it!" Hazel ltaterbrook turned anxiously to- ward hoe beautiful sister. "It's bread and butter, you know, dear," she said slowly, "and ice the dread of getting turned off' every Saturday night that 'keeps me in suoh fear." era like to sea 'em do it," blazed Little Gay. Thank Heaven there's a trades un- ion to protect 'us working -girls!" "Remember, my dear," said Hazel, '"our foreman who has always been so kind to us, is to be transferred to another mill to -day, and the new overseer may prove leas lenient you must be oareful not to offend him.' Gay laughed. "lie must be careful not to offend me," she said, toeing back her Curly head spir- itedly. I' only hope he will not fall in love with me as our .present foreman has done; then- there will be no cause for auoh Jealous spite as. Lydia Moore and some of the rest of the girls have against me,. "Why. I actually believe Lydia could have frilled me because Percy Granville, the handeomest of the:old mill•owner's nephews, asked who that pretty girl was, pointing to me, as he passed through the weaving room one day. Hazel smiled faintly. Her sister was. pf tty; yet that le a plain.«word for de- scribing such anexquisite little fairy as Genial Esterbrook, She had a fake like a Spanish gypsy in its dark,glorious beauty, framed in a mass of nutbrown curls; cheeks like the heart of a great orimson rose, a delightful little dimpled chin, and a mouth like a rich red pome- ;cranate blossom that seemedintended for love's sweet kiasea only, and dark eyes that "outrivaled the stars .la their glow- ing, dazzling splendor, Hazel's one earnest prayer to Heaven was that Little Gay's rare beauty would not prove a -curse to her, for no man ever looked twice at that saucy, roguish, irresistible face whose heart was not conquered by it.' She was only ' sixteen, yet she. Could count her admirers by the sore - Little, hoidenish, madcap Gay was a prime favorite with all the girls in the mill. There was no end ' to • the girlish pranks she played upon them; and as, for jokes right good ones, too -no ono•could tell them .with sugh zest as Little Gay could. She had but two enemies in the Passaic Cotton Mills -Lydia Moore, who bated her through sheer jealousy of her pretty fade, gonwo0 It's the CLEANEST, SIMPLEST, and BEST HOME DYE, one can buy --Why you, don't even hove to knowwhatKIND of Cloth your Goodsare made of.. -So Mistakes are Fermentable. Send for Free Color Card, Story Booklet, and Booklet giving restate of Dyeing over other colors,. The 7OB eSON-RICHARDSON CO., Limited, Monireal, Cnnnda. is s D A 11 0 N tee AXW(LtS. c IHAt�PIO D is the Washer for a Woman In the first place, Maxwell's "Champion" is the only washer that Can be worked with a crank handle at the aisle as well as with the top lever. Just `suit your own convenience. Another Maxwell feature—Lever and SainncoWbedlam to accurately sd)uetedsndworkn'psachtpeed Om the washer runs alone, wren *ben you hive 8tcpyfed no doupt *leverboa3 There's Maxwell's Champion 3• rI being easiest s t eA ..tr 'running k r was! er oh the market. trite for new liltest- ratedboeklet tfyourdeaier does not handle 1« frlitxweit's Chatnpf ons 'llfbsher NAM MAXWELL & SONS. If. litotes ant. 91s^ A s G and 1Taeold Tremain, the elder nephew of the old mill -owner. Percy Granville and Harold Tremain had been seat for by their wealthy old uncle and put into the milte to run thorn, with the exprese understanding that the oneone whom he liked•. best, uponproving Proper worth of each, should. at the ex- iliration of a year be made his heir. It was an open secret that every one devoutly hoped leis choice would fall up- on the younger, Percy Granville. Ile was a tall, handsome young fellow' of - five -and -twenty, with frank, laughing' blue eyes, and lips that alwayswore a good-natured smile beneath the fair, cur- ling mustache. Bis cousin, Earold Tsemaine, was short, thick -set and dark, attd as drafty and cunning. as he was emooth and polished. The latter's dislike to our sauoy little heroine dated several months back. Gayneil had gone boldly to the count- ing -room one day to explain why the web of Cloth that had just been sent in from her loom was sq ehookingly soiled. Some evil enemy had done itin order to get her docked half of her week's pay, the had vehemently declared. It happened that Tremain was quite alone in the counting -room with the an- gry little beauty, and he had aetuaily dared bo. intimate that "the whole af- fair was so trifling, it could easily be righted br a kiss," 'stepping toward her with an insolent smile as though he in- tended putting it into execution. Beautiful little Gay had turned on him like a Hash, fairly trembling with rage and the next instant a stinging blow fell with oruahing force upon his insolent, handsome face. And the storm that she raised in that counting -room he did not soon forget "I am a working -girl," she told ham, stamping- her foot, her ebony eyes flash- ing like stars, but that is no reason why I should be subject to insult. Dare to repeat those words ever again, and there will be a riot, I warn you, in the Passaic Cotton Mills!" Harold Tremaine's dark face turned fairly livid, his evil eyes glowed as he raised his white hand to hie smarting face. You have made an enemy for yourself to -day, Gayneil Esterbrook, he said harshly. "I shall remember this, never fear" "The enmity of a bad man doesn't count for much," :: retorted Gay, eoornfully, as she turned on her heel and quitted the counting-Toopnt, giving the door a deoided bang after her. He would have discharged the brave little spitfire on the spot had he dared, but he knew she would appeal to the trades union for protection, and when they inquired into the matter, it would be made exceedingly troublesome for bine. From that • day, however, he was tittle Gay's mortal enemy, and, as Hazel had expressed it,•was Only waiting fora good excuse to discharge both of the sisters from the cotton mill:. For the third time that weekword was sent to Little Gay that her work had reached the counting -room literally ruined; and in the white heat og the mo- ment Gay had openly declared that Har- old Tremaine bad purposely done it him- self, for it was certainly all right when it had passed out of her hands. Hazel had begged her to apologize to him, with tears in her eyes, telliug leer that "thosehasty words might coat them their places," And 'this brings us back to the angry rejoinder that opens our story. I hate him and I won't do it, so there! I'll die anti" Little Gay had barely ceased speaking, when the great factory bell commenced pealing the hour of noon. In a trice the huge wheels and looms were stilled; and the girls, were scamper- ing in all directions. Some brought their Iunch-baskets, but most of them patron- ized the little bakery around the ' cor- ner -the five -cent pies and the rolls were always so Pico anal. ,hot. • Gay took down her braided. jersey, and slipping the elastic of her hat over her earls, walked proudly out of the wear- ing -room. Let them discharge her at nightfall if they would, she would not let them see that she feared it. When she was quite out of sight of Hazel's watchful eyes all ' her fortitude seemed to give way at once. Passionate tears sprung to the lovely dark eyes, and great soba shook her slen- der girlishform like a leaf in the gale. ' It seemed such a relief to rebellious de- fiant Little- Gay to give way • to those hot, burning tears , just for one little minute'ewhen she was all alone by her- self. Alas, it was so hard, for a dainty, ten- der little ereature like Gay, to battle with the great, cold, cruel world for her daily bread. The passage was so dark and her eyes were se blinded by tears that she did not see the handsome young man advanc- ing rapidly toward her until she ran pelt -well into his arms. Helle!"' exclaimed Percy Granville, sur- prisedly, "in tears, Little Gaynell? why, what's the difficulty?" The kind, sympathetic voice made Gaye tears fall faster, though she tried as hard as she could to repress them. She gave him one swift, startled glance, sobbing out a few incoherent words which he: oould not catch -the next instant the slim 'figure bad darted away, and Percy Granville was standing motionless in the dark passage -way, gazing after her with a strange glow in his handsome blue eyes. He had •always laughed at the notion that love eduld sprint; inept oxisteace in a single instant at the touczft of a hand, or the ttlenee of an eye, But when those two lovely, dark,, appealing eyes were raised to his for one brief ineteht, his heart had received a sudden sbook-a strange thrill ran thrduglh It -and the .whole world seemed to change for him. Ile tried to shake off the feeling as he gazed vexedly after. her, calling himself a consummate fool. "She'sa bewitching, dark -eyed little fairy -abut the girl Can be nothing to e --the Fates forbid it, that's certain, he iche muttered. tenting on hie heel anti.walk- ing swiftly, up the dark paesage.way to the houiattn -r om i t in o tl to o whsl softly himself. ' 6 y All that long afternoon the flushed, re, b 1 ions gypsyish face haunted him -,-he Could not tell why. Slowly the sun sunk in the lurid west- ern. Sky, The breeze from over the nine hill" freshened iresagin g the .coining storm—which• soots Comntbnced to patter down open thewindow panes In great fitful drops.' It seemed "a,s thoti.gll the flood -gates of an angry heaven, wore to be flung open' wide to deluge the tremb- ling earth as this memorable night. The crashn . a d clatter of the looms drowned the voice bf bho gatleerieg tem. nest outside. Tho 'sae.,lets,. 'which had boon lighted half an hour' et more, shut out tile deEr'knesa, whiclt was: broken now ax 1d, then lit' viola flashes .of lightuing, ao- rsaanpanled by terrific zieais .of tin1nder that rahook the vast will to its very retie. dation. "It will be a terrible atone to tro home iri, " said Bazar, ner+oualy, ,glaliCttI down at her thiza warn elmeat.'Tor Pace I tlaa.nli we 11111,}' take the 'atr'eet ear, It's 'Gen cents -•-but thee. 1 think it will save oar o10thea that much." If we only had act ulnlarolla,"' replied Gay, dubiously; I'm afraid we"11 girt drenched, If mine will be of any assistance to you as fax as the street car, 1 shall be Pleased to have you accept it," said ii deep ai116ien1 voice close to her elbow, Ger wheeled around to. mei :herself face to face with handsome 1'ercy Granville, who stood smilingly beforeher, raising his straw hat from his fair, ehisteeing hair with one white hand, extending the coveted umbrella to her with the other, Ifazel shrunk back with painful ember•. riesement-•rattle Gay blushed to the very roots of her pretty curling hair. "Oh, I couldn't think of accoptiug yqure," she said demi rely, "Pray do, he urged politely, "I have another in the aloe"• Gay heeitatefd crimsoning still ' more water the fire of the magnetic blue eyes that were bent on her : so adnxiringly- receiving the silken umbrella at length with a coy Thank you, sir," A.nd again for the second time Haat der the blue' eyes and black ones suet, and the heart of eech pulsed faster than be- fore, a r h uefcto few mo eat later the l bell toled the liour o£ six, and in an in stant the clank, Crash and Clatter of the Aondrous iron wheels and the flying shut- tles and the looms were stilled. a The lights went out as if b y magi heavy iron doors swung back, and the chattering throng of girls rushed pen - melt out into the furious storm, Little Gay and• her sister were among the last to leave the .factory, As they leached the Cuter door, Gaynell paused, "Oh, how provoking it is, Hazel," she Dried. 'I've left the key on our room on. my loom.. I must go baek and get it; wait for me here," And away she flew uv, the dark sten- way again to the weaving -room 'above- grepin.g her way .between, the huge ma- chines to the very end of the now desert- ed room. She scoured her key and turned to grope her way back, thankful for the vivid flashes of lightning that illumined now and then' the inky darkness that en• veloped' her. Hark! what was it that she heard breaking out with a mighty rumbling roar over the terrible battling of the storm, mingled with hoarse shoutsand cries? Gay stood 'quite still an instant listen- ing intently, Then tile, full Horror of what haat trans- pired buret upon her with appalling ter- ror. She realized all in an instant -•the flood- gates of the dam which fed,the river be- low had given way, and the mighty tor- rent of water was rushing down upon the mill. It would he but a question of a few moments before the whole building would be entirely: submerged. Gay's lovely face paled, and she caught her little hands together with a wild sob, as she groped her way frantically to the stairs -leaping down them two steps at a time,cautohing tightly to the banister in the impenetrable darkness. A cry of the most intense horror' burst from her .paling' lips -she "found herself standing ankle-deep in the cold river water which had filled. the room below, and was half -way up the "stairs. It was pouring in through the doors and shattered windows below with ter- rible velocity,- rising steadily higher and higher with eaoh moment, Tb.e wild eries that fell from Gaye lips were lost in the wild warring of the storm and the splash and roar of the in. pouring water, Step by step;she was driven back into the weaving-room. was. only a question of a few mo- ments before the water would gain upon -her there and Cover her head. There is no • help for me -no escape!" sobbed Gay, wildly, as she made her way desperately to the window, and gazed out in horror upon the wild. sone the light- ningflashes revealed to her. "God help me!ehe wailed, wringing her little hands piteously together. "I am doomed to die this horrible death in the old mill. Oh, for the Iowa of Heaven— Help! help! help!" OHAPTER .II. As soon as the breathless throng who had but a few moments before quitted the mill discovered what had happened the moat intense thankfulness prevailed that all were safe. They had climbed the hill that led to the village beyond not a moment too soon. Suddenly a voice, shrill and. piercing, cleft the night air, strinking a coId chill to the hearts of all who heard it. It was Hazel Esterbrook, who stagger- ed among them with wild, incoherent cries. For a moment after the rushing waters had forced her back from the doorway and among her companions, she had stood there like a marble statue, dumb, mo- tionless, dazed. Where was Little Gay, her darling? Had they been separated is the Crowd and rniseed each other? "Gay!" she called. wildly, "Gay! Oh, God! where is my little sister Gay? She went back to the weaving -room, after her key. I—I—cannot find her!" A terrific peal of thunder and a vivid flash of lightning followed, and intuitive- ly all eyes were turned in the direction of the old mill in the valley below, and a cry of horror burst from every lip. In that brief flash of lightning they had plainly discerned the slender, girlish fig- ure at the` window. • Her lovely white arms were stretched out toward them in an agony of suppli- cation, terror and despair were written upon every feature of the beautiful face. They caw her lips move, and they knew it was a prayer for -help, . though they could not hear - her piteous voice. Allthis had transpired within a few brief minutes, and as is often the case in great emergeucies, the crowd stood by, petrified with horror, unable to act or move. Hazel Esterbrook's 'piercing cry rang out over the eeething, surging water, which was feet submerging the mill in the valley below. Heaven pity hot In that instantane- ous flash she saw and realized her dar- ling's peril. Oh, my God!" she shrieked, darting to. ward the dark, seething water, T meat save my Little Gay!" A strong hand drew her forcibly back and a hoarse voice oriel in her ear: Take heart; I will save your Little Gay or will perish with her!" lust as the toxohea which had been quickly improvised were lighted, Percy Granville -for it was he -tore off his coat, and leaping into the boiling, lashing waves, struck boldly out toward' the mill. Bs was a strong, athletic young fel, low, cool and daring; yet it was no light task to brave that swollen stream that had buret its narrow coniines and the freshet of roaring water, which was now a mighty cataract rzting higher and higher each moment. The undercurrent was swift and treacle Brous, too, for the rapids with the,huge rocks in its bed lay scarcely a dozen rods below, Row the breathless throng watched him! How ' the, cheered when they caw through the lightning flashes that he had gras d the broad window�Iedgo uponwhich poor, terrified Little Gay had crept! And their lusty hurrahs rang out as Gays Remus cry' floated bolt to them ae she realized that help was at hand. A moment more and the ledge itself was deluged, and they'were standing ankleth p in e dark Carling a with the water rising hi' her and higher. Five mintttee more and it would over their heads, The hope of clinging there unb1t a boat could be procured and sent to their res- cue would be madttegga; no boatcottltt t ve for an instant i'n these ie$r]e waves. Oli, we : are lost) we are lost," tobbed Gay, , Clinging to Percy Granvilleel ain sbyect torr aria •i or. ' "Oh, why did you come to save me, billy to loss your. Iife, tool'r (To be continued.) About twenty.iwo thousand peo- ple sere annually killed by snaakes in Italia,. 1 .PLANTS OR W01$4000 8.11 i91il 1 €ally Varieties of Growth Killed by. IatNNueva* of Tobacco, Prof., Molisch, the plant physielo- gist o the 'Uuivcxsity of Prague, has shown in some of his earlier work that large xiuxnbe>',a of nacre - organisms, ;plants as well as ani- mals, and the seedlings of higher plants are extremely sensitive to the influence of tobacco smoke, some being' even killed thereby. Many of the deleterious 'effects ea,perien"oed were formerly attributed to the small quantities of illuminating gees which frequently vitiates the atmos- phere of ,such rooms; but Molisch's experimeutin left tx room for doubt that it is really tobacco smoke that does the harm His pictures slam- ing the growth of pea and vetch seedlings i t the presexroe and in the absence of tobacco smoke are very striking. •t In his more recent experiments la used: older . I o various e ld amts f va to s - ciee, including species of spidar- wort, echeveria., eupatorium, selag- Melia and others, None of these plants showed any ill effects from the treatment, although exposed for a long time to an atmosphere filled with tobacco smioke. Other plants, however, responded in vary-. ons striking ways, Brehnaeria utilis and Splitgerbera biltba changed their manner of growth. When placed in a large bell • jar and a few puff.e of smoke from as cigar or oigerette were blown in, the leaves of these plants, ordinarily growing at right angles' to the stem—that is, in a horizontal position—began to turn on their stalks, in the Bourse of fromatwenty- £our to forty-eight hours, until they were in a vertical plane. In the ease of the brehmeria they Contin- ued' their rotations beyond this point, desoribieg a spiral. Similar disturbances were produced upon these two plants by illuminating gas. But other plants used in the experiments ehowed similar effects of tobacco smoke, but ctid not re- spond to the illuminating gas. Earlier experiments showed that various narcotics` provoke abnor- mal developments of the breathing holes on the shoot of the' potato. Experiments with tobacco.smoke on the potato and on other plants led to the same results, often with the accumulation .of masses of liquid under the swollen areas. In ,some plants of the bean fam- ily the tobacco smoke caused the leaves to drop off in a very short time. The sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) and the black locust (Ro- bina pseudocaeia) and others lost all or nearly all of their leaves in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours after being placed in an atmosphere containing tobacco smoke. To a smaller degree stoke from wood and paper and illuminat- ing gas produced similar results. The .fumes of nicotine .had very lit- tle inflttence.—Scientific American. 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Canada Content Colliiponi1, Lii"itlited, 503.554 hexad BfdA., *NaOt'et u rf�xxe ifs tiute tea fill t e silo ould bite exalxtinead and ltta if vvt la the hoops should 'be :tig'hteiraed lad the silo doorsnumbered so that each door will be properly in its place as soon. ars. the siilo is filled up that far; All of these things should. be attended to before the crew and machines • begin to work, for it an lies WI expensive delay to. stags all hands and do a little tinkering that could as well have been avoid- ed by a little work at some more favorable time. We figure that it oasts us about • $90 or $70 a iia whenwe are filling Pur adore, arta plan to make every man's`time count as ranch :as possible. We make a 'practice of starting one corn binder. the day before f41. ing time an then keep two binders cutting while the corn is being run into the silo. We do not like to get too much corn on the ground before we begin filling, owing to the e dweathanger er,of rains and unfavor- When the corn is convenient a s to the silo we employ four teams . m P haul the earn to the cutter and four extra men in the field to hand the bundles up to the drivers. Oats man is kept at the cutting machine to assist the feeder and ticasave the strings that are used to bind the. bundles. This we do as a matter :of precaution more than to save the strings, for there have been erous instances where cows' h been injured by eating the et rQ after they have been run into 0.4�. silo. Two or three men are kept inside the silo to keep the outside edges packed and to distribute the ensil- age over the surface properly. With. a good working crew of fourteen men besides the erew with the en- gine and cutter 7.00 to 120 tons a clay is a good day's work. Of course, this is Piot the exact cost, depend upon how everything works and how the men are arranged so: that they can do the most work in the easiest manner. None but good men should be sent into the field to hand bundles onto the load. I find that on figuring everything on a strictly cash basis it costa about 70 cents a ton to harvest the ensilage crop, that is, allowing each man $2 per day, the teams $4 per day, and the crew and machine $2 per hour, running time, says Mr. W. M. Kelly. Of course, this is not the exact eost for there are numeroes conditions that we can- not allow for, but taken one year. with another I believe that '70 cents a, ton is a fair average for the cost of cutting the corn and filling the silo. �4rhan it is possible we fill one silo on Saturday and allow it to settle over Sunday and fill the other on Monday and then place a woven wire fence around the one that is filled first and refill to the top of the fence so that when the ensilage settles it will be as near full as possible, and after this we refill the other one in the same way. For a few days we make a prae- tiee of keeping the edges packed down and lose but a small amount of ensilage. When it is possible for a man to exchange help the cash cost of filling may be greatly re- duced, but my figures are based. strictly on a cash basis, hiring ev- erything done by outside Iabor, Keep Milk Away From Odors. Milk absorbs odors very easily, and so it should not be placed in the same cupboard or .refrigeii'ator with onions, strawberries or other food having marked odors. Keep the refrigerator very clean and see that the drain pipe and the shelf which catches the drip from the ice are. kept free from slime, Milk that is kept covered absorbs odors less easily than that which. is not. Keep the cap on the milk bottle while it is in the ice box un- less the cap is torn or dirty, la which ease a tumbler or cup niay be inverted over the mouth of the bottle. Milk by the Yard. An Irishman passed a shop where a notice was displayed saying that everything. was sold by the yard. Thinking to play a joke on the shop - man, he entered and asked for a yard of milk. The shopman, not in the leash taken aback, dipped his finger in a bowl of milk and drew a line a yard long en the counter. Pat, not wishing to be caught iat his own trap, asked the price. "Sixpence," said the shopraa,n. "AD right, sor. Roll it up i I'll take it." 0.4 Out of every hundred of the po- pulation in England and Wales, seventy-eight per eent lige in towns. ' • Mks. Ba �teal andarO4 . Dd drT-earx different; an uaBes Trope 1N tii'h phonograph? Mrs. Ebert ---Wel setae) t, +xr; neighbor got. his I rano my httsba,zi xr s ars el langu:aga ID eat, before, never hoard his L s~. -