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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-4-20, Page 6HE CABLE MAN A EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER IX,—(Cont'd). "He hurried on," said the pine -grow- er, "as though he thought I was chas- ing him. In a sense of course I was; but what I Mean is that I got the im- pression that - he, had some strong reason for avoiding me, so I turned back. It was then that I met the wo- men.' . Scarborough and Varney exchanged glances. The same thought had oc- curred to them both. was the wo- man, after all, Mona de la Mar?" "What was she like?" asked Scar- borough. "I don't know. She didn't give me a chance to see." 'What! Did she run away from you, too ?" exclaimed Varney, "Or bicycle?" said Scarborough. "Neither. She walked—pretty fast, too! But it wasn't her speed that prevented me from seeing what she was like. I met her face to face, as one might say, without bing able to get a glimpse of a feature. She was caressed in capote and capello." "What are they?" asked Varney. "The capeno is a long blue cloak, and the capote is a hood made of card- board and whalebone, and covered with cloth," explained Scarborough. "Some of then stick nut a yard in front of the face." "And the edges flap together, and hide everything, unless the wearer keeps them open with her hand," add- ed Davis. "Thie wearer didn't. She even took pa.•tieular care to keep them shut. I wondered at the time if ehe was troubled w•th excess of modesty; but in the light of our later knowledge I'm pretty sure it wasn't that. So you see, Muriel," he added, turning to his daughter, "I had some reason besides prejudice for saying that there was a woman in it." Muriel shook her head. "I don't see the reason." she said obstinately,"but I admit that you had more ground than usual for your usual fancy." "More grcr_nrd than usual! My usual fang-! Why, I saw her! Any- way I saw the capote and capello!" "And imagined all the rest. She was walking in the same direction as Mr. Page. What possible reason have you fo,• eunposing that she was pur- suing him?" Scarborough cut in quickly with a remark. "That," he said, "is what we shall have to inquire into. Ready, Phil?" "Yes," said Varney. "By Jove! we shall have to hurry if I am to be in time for the pe rformance!" Muriel opened her eyes rather wide. "You are going to the circus?" shy: aek'ed. She did not object to circuses; she would have like,.) to go herself; but—was this exactly a suitable time, when—? Her eyes plainly suggested a rebuke. "Oh." c ermined Varney, "I have to. I'm one of the performers, you know." "Oh?" .ai.l Mur'ei. Her tone this time suggested a su•iden and entire lack of intereet, and during the few minutes longer that the young men stayed, she said nothing more. "I say," said Varney, when he and Scarborough had put a mile between them and the Casa Davis, "I like that girl." Scarborough laughed. "Do you?" he said. "Then you shouldn't have told her that you were a circus man." "Why not?" Because she is very earnest, very young, and very bigoted. Didn't you see how she froze?" "She did rather!" "Quite so! She has notions about the whole duty of man, and I expect she thinks you've missed it by a good bit. Bet you five m'1 she's already told her father that you are on no ac- count to be asked to go and eee them." "That so?" said Varney. "Well, I mean to go." "You'll be snubbed." - "Can't help it! But isn't there a chance that she might like to convert me?" said Varney with a grin. "What's the father?" "Grows pineapples for Covent Gar- den. Was an Army crammer in Lon- don, doing pretty well. Lungs went wrong, so he came out here. Dong !pretty well here, too. He's smart, and II should call him the best read Eng- lishman in the island. Muriel's a nice '. girl, too, or will be when she lives down a few of her crochets. At pres- ent she is just a little bit of a prig." "Then I'll convert her," said Var. ney. "I thought the programme was that : she was to convert you," commented Scarborough in some amusement. "Oh, we'll make it mutual! It will be a fair exchange. By the way, you I didn't tell them that Page was Car- rington." "No. What was the use? They'll 'know soon enough. Meanwhile I've a notion that Elsa wouldn't care for the j news to be bruited about more than necessary. She still believes in her; father's innocence." i "I wonder," said Varney after a Short pause, "whether she really does." Scarborough did not reply. In his own mind the salve doubt had risen more than once, only to be steadily crushed- dote. - 1`t'seemed difficult to ' believe that Elsa's faith could have withstood unshaken the various shocks to which it had in these last two days been subjected; but appar- i eptly it had. He remembered, too, that she had said that there were proofs, and that the murderer had not I succeeded in destroying those. But what proofs could there be? He was quite unable to guess at what elle • meant; but he could not but think that if she was, as he feared, pinning her faith on documents that her father told her contained his vindication, there could only be iinother bitter dis- appointment in store for her. "Are you going to tell her about the pencilled stone?" asked Varney. "I don't think so." "Or about the hooded woman?" "No, not at present. What's your theory about the hooded woman?" "Haven't got one," said Varney. "unless it's that Miss Davis is right, and that her father is making a great deal out of nothing. By the way, I ' got the impression that he wasn't found of Carrington." "What made you think so?" 'Well, he didn't express any sort of grief at his death, and he seemed very ready to believe that he was running away from that woman. When a man fears a woman so much that he runs from her, the most usual theory is that the man has something to be as- hnmed of. It struck ore that that was the theory that had occurred to Davis." ! "Very likely," said Scarborough. "I believe he didn't like Carrington." "On'general grounds? Or did he know anything?" "I don't think so." Presently Scarborough returned again to the subject of the hooded woman, ancI Varney, said sharply: ' "I see what you're driving at, of course; but you're wrong. You think it was Mona." "I don't." "Well, anyway, you are prepared to, believe that it may have been. I tell you the idea is absured, but you don't seen, to be inclined to believe me." • "I want to hear what she has to say," Scarborough returned steadily. "Exactly! You suspect her. I promised to introduce you, and I'll do it; but I'm more than half sorry I promised, and I'm altogether sorry I . ever told you about that vow business. It's that that's sticking in your throat all the time. I know. You can't understand that it was all a piece of highfalutin' nonsense, which she has forgotten long ago. She's a rare good sort, and plucky; but you want to make her out a fool!" Varney spoke with some heat. He and this girl had been comrades for nearly two years, and he resented sus-' picion as an insult to her. "It was you who suggested," Scarborough reminded him, "that she refused to perform last night because she had business with Carrington." "Great Scott, yes! But things have happened since then that she can have had no hand in. Her business wasn't murder!" "I don't suggest that it was." "But you won't take it for granted ' that she had nothing to do with it— IT ALWAYS BRINGS RELIEF Skin irritations of all sorts yield to t ($1*' .retrotdtux $tits An unexcelled emollient for wounds, burns, sores and `ruts. Sold in glass bottles and handy tin tubes at chemists and gen- eral stores everywhere. Refuse substitutes. Illustrated book- let on request. CHESEBItOUGH MFG, CO. 1880 Chabot (Consolidated) Montreal could have nothing to do with it, being the girl I know her to be." • "No," said Scarborough. Varney laughed, but there was vex- ation in the laugh. • "Then," he said, "the only cure for you is to meet the girl herself. If you're not a hopeless fool, you'll see in five minutes that you've been in- sult'ng her. Burry up, and let's get there as soon as possible." Twenty minutes later they dis- mounted at the door of the circus building. Val B. Montague was standing looking out into the road. "Where's Miss Ryan?" asked Var- ' ney. ' Val B. Montague turned a straw, by a dexterous movement of his tongue, from one corner of his mouth to the other, and held out his hand to Scar- borough, saying: "I haven't the least idea. Mr. Scar - 1 borough, sir, I am pleased to meet you again, but you will no doubt share my regret that I do so under somewhat depressing circumstances. I had the honor to acquaint you yesterday with the fact that this show was gong to the devil; I have the honor to inform you to -day that it has gone. Will you let me have the pleasure of standing you a whiskey and soda?" "What's the matter now?" asked Varney. "The matter is, sir, that the lady you asked for just now has deserted. The name of Mona de la Mar will. henceforth not appear on the playbills of Val B. Montague's American Cir- cus Combination. In fact I doubt whether that world-famous troupe vel' : ever issue another playbill. Mr. Var- y ney, I include you in my invitation tc• ' drink whiskey and soda." Look here, Montague, stop talking nonsense, and tell us what you mean." , "I mean," said Montague, "exactly what I say; but if you ask me what that means, I can't tell you. It is n prcblem beyond my understanding. My schooner, the Sae -Horse, sailed from the harbor of Ponta Delgada thio morning, without my knowledge or permiss on. It has not returned, and I don't know where or why it has gone." Val B. Montague laughed as he gave the news d On the Farm illfre:•'4111,1110110,010. Apr ++IAI� Handling Manure on a Large Farm. There are various methods of handl- ing manure in practice in our locality. Quite frequently we see the manure drawn out and spread off the sleigh an top of a lot of snow, a very poor way unless, perhaps, on a real level field of sod. If put on plowed ground in this way it tends to leave the soil, if any way heavy, in a soggy con- dition. Another method followed by some, but gradually' becoming less popular, is to team the manure out in winter in small piles ready to spread in the early spring, but owing to the frost remaining in these heaps so long, they usually are not spread for' a long time, and lie exposed to sun rain and wind until very little but straw is left to be thrown about, and; the spots where the piles lay can be inoticed in several succeeding crops, ww rites Wm. J. Bald, in Farm and Dairy. Then we come to those who are more up-to-date and own a spreader. I do not wish to give the impression that I condemn this machine. It is all right in its place, and can be used ' to gr'e'at advantage, but for handling a big bulk of manure successfully and }rn the shortest possible time, unless [Yon can afford two spreaders, we: prefer our own method. We leave the manure all in the yard where it becomes tramped down tight, freezes quite hard, and very little is wasted. Right after the other spring seeding is done, we engage Mother ! extra man or two, and with two good 'teams and low truck wagons, if far to haul, we take a third, we manage to put a very heavy coat on all our corn ground, and probably some for hoe crop that hasn't been manured in the fall, in about three days. We then get the men at spreading which is not a bad job when done while fresh. If the field is one that has been plowed in the fall we give it a thorough cultivation before the plan -i ure goes on. Now, while the manure is being spread, two light twin; plows are going, being very careful not to turn the manure under and' deeper than that it is covered, and in' course of a week or less rur manure is out and under ground. I think in this way we have the least waste, and the soil gets all that is in the good old barnyard manure. When all the planting is clone we take the spreader, clean up all the manure that may have been left about the yard and put it on some nearby field of grain or meadow. A light top dressing on a field of oats, when up a few inches, works wonderfully. To prove that our plan works sue cessfully, we have a silo 12 x 36 which we filled last fall with less than six acres of corn, had four good men tramping continually, using the in- side pipes, and on account of rain were stopped one day and one night, which gave it a nice chance to settle. • existence in the herd xrt little I • -71 Let Him. Help Himself To C1OQJ,i BHP1\gsflo ITwill do more than satisfy els craving far•'cotnetlIngc^reet'—itwillsurpiy the fool elements 1, a :ded to !mild tip his little bsdy and help him to gain In heath and :Arem:tit. "Crown Ora..1 is a r sane, nourish- ing ourirh-i tr f,_ --ea welt as the n. -t delicious of table slrurs. Tie reit s in our new ,.), its and C^ ^ie. w,t lI Y' -t lint how to t 4 1' f^ t:a;,ry novel ways. ‘�'a rite fsraco.%t)Ctn. t Den1-13 e:•nry.vl%•ehave C ,-Jll .-."rand" is 2, 5. 10 and 2), tn1tins—an i3;sandF.i•aijar.., THE CANADA STARCH GO. LIMITED MONTREAL. CAC:O11$AL, an ACTI'OAD, FORT V tLLIAM. I;7xrr"ri,u!.1frw,'1 Vasa ..S'a,ck a,:d "...,drY•t.':,.s" /.,r,n„Iry trrr:r. '• Picking Out the Calves. From time to time, says one farm paper, some exponent of more live- stock rises to remark against the an sawv the look of conster- slaughter of the calves and not always • nation on the young men's face. Then is this without reason. -Te must with a sudden change of manner, he agree that very often calves which. collapsed, and said in a quavering should be kept in the herd for breed-, voice to Varney: ing purposes are turned away for veal, - "What does it mean, Phil ? Ruin to me, of court:;;! But what else ?" "Who was on board?" asked Var- ney. "The fou• deck -hands, the nigger mg purposes. However, there are j and the ring -master. I discharged large numbers of calves raised each. him last night, so he had no right to year which should go to the veal be there. Except these six, and Mona route, and many of those which are de la Mar, nobody." tilled while very young would be no Scarborough and Varney exchanged use if kept in the herd as breeders. a look. The good dairyman has a basis "By Jove!" said Varney, and Scar- upon which he works in selling or borough gave a short laugh. keeping his calves as the case may Neither of them felt much doubt be,..He -.ases first of all, a pure-bred about the identity of the hooded wo- sire w!9h mincing propensities well man now. Margaret Ryan had not marked in the blood of his, ancestors. forgotten her vow of vengeance when He keeps in his herd nothing but the she came to the islands of the Azores. best individual animals and heaviest She had tracked clown the man who milkers and he weighs the milk from had ruined her. She had brought each cow or heifer regularly and sys- him to bay in the valley of the Cald- tematically, and, if necessary, has the e'ra de Morte. The injured and the milk tested for fat,so he knows ex - injurer had met face to face. But actly what each of his cows is doing what had happened then?". and whetheror not calves from that The scene between them had been cow are likely to go on and male vas s from theGardenS of the finest Teawproduciing country the world. 11 "1" 11 web. 8 74 Sealed packets Only. Try it -it's delicious. BLACK GREEN or MIXED. The point is, to be able to pick out there is the particular scheme which calves which should remain in the has laid hold of the imagination of the herd, something must be, known about people, the home for totally disabled the producing ability of their dams soldiers which it is proposed to estab- and this cannot be estimated by the lish'in one of the beauty spots of Eng - ordinary guess -work method. The lands scales and the tests should be made Tn•a few months the old Star and just as important in determining the Garter Hotel at Richmond, rieh in} future individuals which shall coin-. memories of bygone festivities, will be! prise the herd as in determining which ready for the reception of a number cow now milking shall remain in the of men who have given their health herd. and strength, their all, for their coun- It is important also that no faulty t7' individual as to conformation and All Londoners have made acquain- type be kept in the herd. It is not en- tante with the beautiful scene which ough that the sire be from good .milk- one obtains from the summit of Rich- ing ancestry and the cow be a heavy mond Hill. The Star and' Garter! milker herself; They must have such Hotel, on whose site will rise the new conformation and prepotency that the hospital for totally disabled soldiers, calves show the desirable type of the has been the scene of much and varied milking breeds. ; gayety. Marshall Sault, Louis Pril- Faulty calves should be discarded 1 lips, King Victor Emmanuel and Na - even though their ancestry be right.. po'leon were among the many disti:n- livei This close selection will send thou- guished guests who have d n it; sands of calves to the block as veal the young guardsmen of the days of which would Otherwise be kept in the Waterloo took the air on its ample herd at a loss. It may be after all terraces, and the beaux who ruffled that there are not too many calves there in the early days of las., cen- slaughtered young, but that there.is tury are said to have paid as much as not enough system followed in deter -1$3 for the sight to look through its mining which shall pro and which shall' windows on the fair picture below. be kept. Undoubtedly, many are kep, I Since then gay weddings and count - which should go and equally true is it less merry excursions of humbler folk that many go which should be kept., have spread wide its name, but the The matter is in the hands of the ; coming of the automobile spelled dis- dairynian, and the sooner he makes all aster and ruin for the once so pros - his selections on conformation and perous hostel. Richmond was found type, backed by production, will it be to be too near the metropolis to be righted.—Prairie Farm and Home. j used as more than a temporary halt- ing place. Motorists stopped on the FAMOUS OLD HOTEL. I summit of the hill, gave an admiring !glances at the superb view and sped Permanent Home Near London for on their way. But the new guests are among those to whom speeding War Cripples. in any shape or form is no longer pos- Since the fateful daffy in August, sible. Their day for work or pleasure 1914, when it became known that is over, at least they can and must Great Britain was involved in the take life easily, wherefore it is fitting' great war, the men and women of that the nation should find for the! England—the latter more especially a place of perfect peace and restful- -have been sympathetically endeav- ness. The old, old song the ``Lass of oring to alleviate the lot of the vie- Richmond Hill" sang of the beauties tims of the great devastation. ; of nature, beauties which can never be Charities of every description have' more appreciated than they will be by been started, money has been poured . England's crippled heroes, out without stint in very direction. ! The great families have vied one with' Little Willie: "Dad, give nig five another in turning their town and cents, and I'll be a good boy." His country houses into hotels and hospi- Pa: "No, my boy, I want you to under_ tags for the wounded and sick. But : stand that a son of mine must be good in the welter of charitable endeavor I for nothing." • and their owner gets little profit from! them, and they are not permitted to do the good in the herd which they ' would have done if kept for breed -1 acted without witres ses. The curtain. uable animals to place in. his herd. If had gone down upon a tragedy. Be th : had the woman caused it ? e cow, mother of • the calf, cannot, - through jnilk production, justify her! ?;,;;air T'I1<at:i:�fut..Illii� wu,Is� iJi� .n t1,6V>tn;uiT,a,`ffrira' ";:fAI45;:i CHAPTER X. A Message From the Dead. Patchee of fog were creeping across the water, and as the evening drew down they thickened and grew wider. The setting sun flashed on water -mir- rors of ever diminishing area. In an- other hour it would be dark, but even sooner than that the fog curtain would be unbroken, for minute by minute the rents in it were closing. El':a'stood up in her boat, and mark- ed the ex -act direction of the rock for which she'wae, steer ing• Fortunately 'Au hahadhahadthe foresight to bring a compass. She had half a mile iu go yet. and the brcese was dying. She tis'ould : te' r by sight, so' long as the bee d`irl'not hidehidethe rock, if it diel elle wotilil haVe to trust to her compass. "I evonder what the cul I eni.is mused. "It is setting dead inshire-•- bsit hew much? • It I allow. half a point for driif', that: should take m rear enough to let ms steer' ! th- sotind of the su'” rf. 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For sale by any good druggist, harness dealer, or de- livered by SPORN MEDICAL CO., Chemists and Basteriologlsts, Goshen, Ind., U.S.A. reason why the calf from such a I• mother should be kept past veal age,' and it is far better that such a calf should go to the butcher early in lifer than to prove a hill of expense, in! fact, a robber, in the dairy herd. The Profitless Calf. i Thee, is little use of keeping an, inferior dairy calf to the • age of two or three years, because it rail ' ally cost more, especially when grain; is high in price, as it ie nog',' to put meat on the wedge-shaped deity, carcass than it is worth. It would be 1. folly then to keep all calves without discrimination, Only the best "should survive for In•eeding purposes, and the' only man who knows which are ',the beet is the roan who i., using a pre 1 per :.ire of a heavy' milkinn, s,tltien MUSKI'ATS We are now paying for SPRING Mt1SKRATS from Ontario. Quebec, and Eastern Canada the following guaranteed prices. 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(4) tion coil give g ou h to Pay a Eoza asst IA RAMSAY dr SON CO, (Establiehcl 1842) MONTREAL. Out. • color they ore unsurpasserl In economy. they arc unmatched. Courteous service feed red labor and leave a handeentey i BRANCHES AT Tonott .O AND VANCOUVER. F'O R SALE B Y ALA- DEALERS ra?: " lyes• +rr,; • profit: !ani des. From the Ocean Shore BITS OIs' NEWS FROM TU*' MARIAN$ PROVINCES. Items of Inter` Front PlseIO Lapped By Waves of the Atlantic Nova Scotia is enjoying an unusual season of prosperity. The new building of the St. Jo'hn's. N,13„ Post Omoe has just been corn - Rioted. Upwards of 40 steamers" were freighted in St, Johnr's Harbor during March. The result of the seal catch thus far, oV Newfoundland north, la 170,000 skins, Scores of. West Indians from their battalion, are in the hospital at Hali- fax suffering from frost bites. Three bodies of infants were found on three consecutive days reoentlY, one at Fadrville, N.B., and the otfr1 re in the vicinity. :A. St. John, N.B•, paper says that not since the St. John fire have sugar high prices been anywhere near the present mark. Snowfall for March in Fredericton was more than 18 inches—six times greater than the amount for the month last year s. ,John's Young Ladies Patriotic ISare actively seek- ing positions for women to release men for war service.: The new steel bridge on the LC.R. at Cross Creek has been put in place. It is 46 feet in length and rests on new concrete abutments.. • Several young ladies of Halifax have decided to fill positions now oc- cupied by men, in order that the- latter niay go to the front. A hero of Digby is Lance -Corporal Alexander Griswold Viets, who return- ed last week from England, having lost the sight of both eyes in action. The Ladies' Association of the Nat- ural History Society are offering a large number of valuable prizes to the school children of St. John for making bird houses. Of 52 silver -black fox skins sent to New York and Boston from P.E.I., 20 were sold at an average of $726; 10 of these brought an average of $946 each; 8 brought $1,00'0 each. The farm residence of Private John Watson, one of the returned heroes do- ing duty at the Provincial' Parliament Buildings, was burned to the ground At 'a winter picnic held near Fred- ericton, some of the picnickers went to the scene of the gathering on snow shoes. A supper was served by In- dian cooks and a huge bonfire was lighted. At Digby recently the highest prices on record have been obtained for large and medium-sized lobsters shipped alive to the 'U.S. markets. Stormy weather in March prevented the fisher- men from going out. At present there is no infectious dis- ease in the outports except at Port Rexton where a case of smallpox was reported last week. The recent out- break of diphtheria at Stephenville has been completely checked.. A few days ago the Natural History Museum at St. John, N.B., received a magnificent skin of a South American anaconda, the gift of a former resident of the city, Mr. Roy Harding. The snake skin measures 19 feet 8 inches without the head, The reptile was killed near Sao Paulo, Brazil. MODERN SURGERY. • Only Two Per Cent. of the French Wounded Die. Amidst the never -ceasing reports of the tremendous loss of life occasioned by the present European war there has been a growing curiosity to know just how many of the wounded who are brought back to the hospitals re- cover. In previous. wars where in- struments of death were less thorough it was known that the death rate in military hospitals was about 30 per cent. Dr. Jaques Bertillon, who is in charge of the medico -surgical stat- istics for the entire French army, has just stated that the mortality at pre- sent is only 2 per cent. 1 -lis figure i, made up and averaged from the re- ports from all French military hos- pital:, at least give an authtoitative answer to American queries. He says : "Out of every 100 patients at present being recieved and treated at our hospitals 98 are sent away in re- covery." Toward the first of the. war. the mortality was 4.5 per cent. he states, but since the improvement of the medical service and the diecovery of a remarkable number of new treatments the advantage of science has been materially increased. Hog Pastures. Pigs make the cheapeet gains :tfi pasture. Trials at the North Dakota Experiment Station indicate that' brood sows running on good ea,l u,• - and nursing litters will do as well when receiving one to one and a half pounds of grain per each 100 pounds live weight of sow, as sows 'n dry lot 'receiving Zee. pounds grain pc,' day per each 100 pounds live weight. Th:' pasture just about cuts the feed in two. The pasture alone does not furnish enough feed for either i brood sow with litter r for the weaned pigs., They should be fed some grain so as to make a rapid growth. In this way the spring pig can beready for market before real cold weather sets Alfalfa, clover, bronius and winter rye Make the earliest pasturos, When these have not been provided early spring seeding of such grains as oats, and barley or rape are the next best thing.