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Exeter Times, 1916-4-27, Page 2h and ReRefreshing. is B76 composed of clean, whole young leaves. Picked ri ht lendcd alg,ht and packed sight. U, brings the fragrance o an ��,��• ad t�. garden :. your table.. .L'.`uaT .rosy i " "� wity� .. i-3.. @re f"R '�N.s..5i`.« Cti?� `�AtfYf�h �♦,J1.f4JY 1 E CABLE AN AN EXC T1I W PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY 2 "Good-bye, little girl. I think this lira Elsa, 1 any to you eolemnly, that it is 1 as strong now as ever it was. But hating said that, I ;Ant now going to ! add soniethini which you will, per -1 haps. not under: tand. It ie. this : I blind over the work to you, but I lay no charge upon you to t'onlplete it.. Nay, more, under t'ertain ciieum- etar;reee, I forbid you to complete it! I do not even make you the judge of i those eireumetaneee. That is •tit' Once which I leave, not to you, but, t:, your mother. "Your n1c>thaf is on her way to join us. She Wil: arrive on the 1' un- eh:'1 trent Lisbon en the tenth of the month. If on that date 1 ant unablet ie meet h"r, if my preserltiltlent•-^, after :111, 1 think it ie a 1 rewentinlent,I Eltae-has by that time conte. true, 1: wish you to recover tide package from the ,.ttts place in which you have be stowed it, and to give it into her! hands. When you do so, tell her alsol that my last message to her, spoken; by the 1 ipe of you, her daughter is that, she is to respect the wish I have; expresed in a letter t" her which the. packet contains. She will under -I stand; you will not. For the rest,, be guided by her. ie the longest letter I have twe+• writ -i ten to you. I have one thing more to 'CHAPTER _X.----(Cont'd. ) 'ilio islet for which she was steering lny a little more than two miles from the shore, with deep water close up to ia flanks. It was ring-shaped, like: r: Pacific atoll, but its formation was different. Not the Mow, quiet growth of vowel inlets had made it, but a eon-; eidsion of nature. It, was the sura-' mit of a deep -water vol:ano, 'whose critter ...sad a brim, a hundred yards' arms, oat of the sea. Thera was one place o': the Wrest, where for a few fest tine brim had been broken Hewn,; lcavirg a gat by which a boat might eater: and the water inside made an ainr" e circular lagoon. Laval trailhien said that it was bot-! amide. It was, a place where a ship might Leve rici:leu out in safety the heav- i • hu: riant that ever blew, if it Said been possible for any ship to en - But the opening in the circular, r••:t:: wee hardly more than ten feet: e,ee: ts. en,::znaerneath there was a' c+i . idi. which rose to within two f.....eree ef the surface. It was a :ax ge ore entrance, even tor a :mai_: reel when the wind blew from w ;t, :r_rpossible; but Elsa knew tet:i. and thought that she could ....;.:~ "- :t. even alone. S . ' a at expert and fearless ..at :et:tan, but she \vas not acetate .•:n:,. ta having to depend altogether' e a.haelf ir. her expeditions. The' present which her father giver. her a little more than a' go; but. with the present. he' yee 0:ete'. d a stipulation that she ehouid never go cut in it alone. The irregular coasts of San Miguel breed treaeht i eu e.0 er_ts, and wind squall' are sudden; but even had the water, ben as safe as the Solent, Elsa's ...at was too big for one girl to manage. This, eherefcra was the first ocen- o. on which she had been out in it alone; but to -day a companion was im- pos. ible. I ..r she had work to d v:hi h ne eye lila h£r own mist see. Did she etill believe in her father's .roe ? She was acting as though shs slid; and. for the rest. she tried t., _' roe herself not to think. She had not kept her faith witho;;t a struggle. Misgiving- had arien as-•• her mind, but idle had s_rangled them remorseles_ly at their birth, and by an effort of will macre herself believe that they had never been born. There was. however, one moment when the doubts had been too atrc'ng to bre :t fled thus; they had cried c'a_raporously, and heti refu:ed to be choked; and far half -an- bur she had taete:1 a misery more bitter even than that which had come when she first knew that her father wee dead. That moment was when she r •tented to Scarborough's tale of this ..mbczziem?trt of Margaret Ryan's :eh:rita::ce, and had told him passion- etely that since he believed,. it, he might gr•—for almost he thought she horsed him. She had thrc,wn herself en the cereal'', arse? Bobbed hysterically; fey nt that n1: zinc rt the knowledge was in h.r l:tra:t that what ha sake was true: Leah. Mei r,rn:r the reaction. She took un her faith again, the more un- reasenmh';,y beca. 9e reason had forced her t,a Ly it dvwr; and she despi :d bo ss a_f fr_' the n _nk les • in allowing the calumny to influence her even for a mem, nt. There we.; something: of r•I:•str'1< cy in this--- he obstinacy of a :stronre nature whish fights the mare t : naciouriy when fact; and common- sense alike are ag_onst it, and it knows quite well that it- is in the add to it. If you have begun to, wrong; and there was even more of the doubt me in some things, at any rate beautiful loyalty with which every you have never doubted that I love; true woman will always, at whatever you. In days to come your estimate; violence to her own judgment of right of your father may change; you will' and wrong, deiced those whom she hear things that will try your faith.t loves. :But never believe that he did not love It will be remembered that when you. It is for your sake that I ani! EVERYTHING NEW FRESH ----PURE RELIABLE Ask sous dealer or mile`i1E11N1t S — TORONTO e0 k'. RiOYTR[ar 1YtN,NIPEa VANCOUVER C:_- 4 I` n� –Sr Sea es :see s r•'• Clover—A Soil Renovator. food and favorable conditions for the Elsa :et out to go to the circus at trying danger to -dao; it is for youv Practically every variety of clover Ponta Delgada. her father's last V. sake that I hope for :.uccess, that I is considered by farmers to be a soil to her had been that if—unlikely as may return to you to be happy, for renovator. It does not require four such a chance seemed at the time-- a little while longer in your love. ; leaves in order to bring luck to the he was not at the Chant la:; :viten she "It is time now that I was starting. farmer growing it, but clover and returned, she would find In leis desk, I cannot write more. But again, dart- riches go hand in hand. This may in the second small drawer on the left, frig, good-bye" seem an absurd statement to make, a paper that would tell her resat st, Elsa read this letter with tears when the price of clover seed is con - was to do , streaming down her fact. Whatever siderecl, but, even at the present b=ah Thi: r cr w;ts marked, ' • To my !the mar may have been in life, only a price, a farmer would hardly be justi- pa p churl would deny that this message fled in curtailing tent daughter. Elsa, to be opened by her g t o any great extent to-morrow at poor., if by that time I from him in death was pathetic. If he the amount of clover seed to be sown Have not returned to destroy it." was a scoundrel, he had never been so per acre this spring. There is a con - Elsa opened it an hour after Scar tohis daughter; and in his skilful siderable variation in the amount of borough had left her. This was what discounting of the revelations that red clover seed sown per acre, some : must come after his death, there was farmers obtaining a good catch from it obtained ` : dear daughter,—I told you this a melancholy cleverness. He fought five or six pounds of seed, while others morning that when you returned for the continuance of her love, and it sow from eight to ten pounds per from Ponta Delgada you might pos- was plain that while he pleaded he acre in order to ensure a good stance. sibm find that I was not at home to feared. At present Elsa saw only The amount of seed to sow depends greet you, and to hear your report of the pleadings; it was not until later I somewhat on soil condition. prepara- \vhatt and whom you had seen. I days that she recognized, with a sox- i tion of seed -bed, and vitality of the might have told you that the pos- too ing pity, that the tear was there; seed. sibility was a certainty, but I did not l It has been noticed that, where clov- wish to alarm you. By the time you' There was much in the letter' that ers can be successfully grown, and a she did not understand. Her father; return I shall have succeeded or, liberal supply of seed is used each failed, in an enterprise, the :recess' plainly looked for death as the a ! of his effort; but what sort of death? year, the land is gradually increasing th? of which is so essential, that to en-., At the he o d f th h h , in fertility, and increased fertility— sure it. I am voluntarily putting my - self in some danger. 11bile you are why that reference to the hardships! er crops and consequently more money n s e enemy \v om was going to meet?—murder , Then other things being equal—means larg- doing your best at Ponta Delgada to of his youth, and the weak place they; in farming. Many farmers are mak- discover who the unknown enemy I shall be engaged um a simnel con-' lowed herself to hope that her father's age with clover,. each spring, than d had not been violent, after all. was formerly the-y"a.dtom, and it is be - est with an enemy who of late has en taken to using threats. Now, little is, had left? For the first time she al -ling a practice of sowing a large acre - Sudden it must have been, but per- 'lieved that the average amount of girl, between the known enemy and haps— !seed sown per acre is also increasing d the unknown, I run a double risk of Her love carried herat once to the during recent years. Where three or failure, and this is what you must' other extreme of speculation. Was' four Hounds of seed was considered help me to avoid. ' her father not a victim, but a hero? ' sufficient, a few years ago, six or The sealed packet which you will He had made a great effort, and he' seven pounds is now aimed at, and find with this to -ter contains doer said that he made it for her sake; she many farmers consider it profitable to mint; which must at all costs be did not understand that, but he had sow as' high as ten pounds along with kept out of the handy of people who written the words. Did he know :timothy and alsike. would use them to your and my injury. that the effort would cost him his life? ' Clover Roots Add Humus to Soil. I do not trust to my own ability to She canvassed this thought, and it safe -guard them, nor isit possible seemed to her that it was the truth.' The clover plant is valuable to the for me, watched as I believe I am, to She found a certain comfort in it, and farmer because of its ability to take put -hem into any place:' of safety. she took a dreary pleasure in carry- nitrogen from the atmosphere and That must be your task, Those who ing• out the task which he had laid store it in the soil in such a f are shadowing watch will not consider it upon her. The safest place she knew. that plants can utilize it. To pur- thenecessary , andyou also. Take That was surely the Ring -Rock, round chase this valuable plant food as a pia packet, put it in hehe safre- whose flanks she could now, through fertilizer, would come very expensive, plan that you know.nTi hen I re- the fog, hoar the water swirling. much more so than securing it through turn, ifIdo return, I shall not ask She had the packet with her, seal- 'buying clover seed, even at the pre - you where it is. ed in a great stone jar. It was' wailing price. Plowing under a three - thin am not a fanciful man, Elsa, but thin anti flat, and had rolled easily ton crop of green clover is claimed to I hove written those four words. 'I into a shape that would pass through return to the soil about 401bs. of nitro - development of bacteria; that the seed be given a good bed and not covered too deeply. On most farms these de- mands can be complied with. Soils may be tested for acidity by the use of litmus paper by placing a small strip of blue litmus paper in moist soil, and, if it turns the paper red, lime is required in the soil. Another method is to pour a few drops of acid on the soil, and, if it does not "fry" it is an Indication that the soil is acid. Clover does not do well with wet feet. If conditions are such that water re- mains on the surface of the ground for any length of time, after a heavy rain, few crops will pay for a system of underdrainage in a few years, be- sides assisting in giving the clover plant a chalice. In regard to plant food, it is necessary that the young seeding have easy access to available material to give it a start, after which it is able to look after itself, and re- turn more to the soil than it takes out. Where clover has been successfully grown, there is usually- sufficient bact- eria in the soil. These minute organ- isms which appear on the roots of the plant are essential to the growth of clovtr, as they are the means by .which nitrogen is absorbed and stored in the plant and soil. If there is rea- , son to believe that the soil is deficient in bacteria these may be supplied by treating the seed with nitro -culture just previous to sowing. A culture is prepared for the different clovers, and may be secured with full directions for using, from the Bacteriological De- partment, • Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, Guelph. The Method of Seeding. For the successful growing of clov- er, a good deal depends on the seed- ing operations. Clover seed is small, yet it must contain sufficient plant food in itself to develop the first roots and leaves. These leaves must reach ;the surface befor the tiny plant can commence drawing food from the soil or atmosphere. If the seed is buried too deeply, the tender growth never succeeds in reaching the surface and is lost. A rough seed bed is not con- ducive to giving the seed a good start, as it has a tendency to dry out more or less, and the small seed lying near the surface does riot secure sufficient moisture to start life. With a seed bed in fine tilth, less risk is involved. The method of seeding is also import- ant. Sowing -the clover and grass seed from a seed box, attached be- hind the drain drill, is the practice most in vogue, but some farmers are trying other methods which, while pro bably taking more time, are proving satisfactory. It is claimed that by sowing behind the drill, the small seeds fall in the furrow made by the drill, and, when a stroke of the harrow is given, the seeds are busied too deeply. This difficulty is believed to he partly overcome by turning the spouts -of the grass -seeder to sow be- fore the hoes of the drain drill, but are brought close to the surface again when the harrow is used. Even with time such an important factor as it is, possibly it would pay in the end, especially on soul farms, to prepare the seed bed, drill in the grain, give a stroke with the harrow, then sow the grass and clover seeds with a hand seeder, and follow with a smoothing harrow. The seed bed would be made finer by the extra stroke of the harrow, and the seed would have a shallow covering of soil; which is es- sential for small seeds. Any farmer who has difficulty in growing clovers, is more or less handl- capped, and every effort should be !made to find the cause of clover not Igrowing satisfactorily on his parti- cular farm. If possible, make thesoil cond:tions right, then prepare a fine seed bed in the spring, and sow plenty of good seed.—Farmers' Advocate. A' Ye Blind ? A large firm in Aberdten, says Pear - 1 son's ear-lson's Weekly, recently engaged as of- !flee f-!flee boy a raw country youth. It was part of his duties to attend to 'the telephone in his master's abse=nce. !When first called upon to answer the bell, in reply to the usual query, "Are you there?" he nodded assent. Again the question came, and still again, and each time the boy gave -an answer_ ing nod. When the question came for the fourth time, however, the boy, losng his tmper, roared through the telephone : "Man, a' ye blind ? I've been notl- din' me head off for the last half hour-" Not That Sort. Helen—Do you love me, dear ? Jack—Dearly, sweetheart. Helen—Would you die for me? Jack—No, my pet. Mine is an un- dying love. • do not r<tt 'n' deliberately. Of late Ithe jar's neck. gen, 8 lbs. of phosphoric acid, and 34 i _ have had a feeling—a fanciful man She took the boat in through the lbs, of potash per acre. Supposing; world say a presentiment—that my' operine, and made for a spot on the a crop of hay is harvested, the soil! end is not, far off. I have lived a life • , will• of varied a:•tivities, some useful, and nee -shaped fissure in the rock wall succeeding crops than if any crop, eta east of the circle. There was a fun-stillibe in a better condition for a ' 0 some perhaps not so useful, and the er op, of old efforts is beginning to here, which even at low tide contain-• er than a legume, had been grown. 0 tell upon me. In the early years of ed a fathom of black water. She had Clover roots add humus to the soil; in- my manhood I suffered great physical sounded it on the last occasion on crease the amount of nitrogen, make - which she had visited the Ring -Rock, the soil more friable, ant open it up, ew hardships, and they lent a weak place; and it was thio funnel shaped fissure thus allowing for a freer passage of before I left London my doctor warn- that she meant to use for her hid- air. Besides being a soil builder, ed inc that the weak place was becom- Mg -place. She had painted the jar clover, either as pasture or cured for ing weaker. The effort which I must black, so that it should not be visible hay, is valuable feed for all classes of make to-day—an effort, which for your against the bassalt, and she had tied live stock. If the aim is to increase ri vi, sake as well as mine. is inevitable— many loops of strong picture wire the fertility of the soil at least ex - is of the sort which I have been warn- about its neck so that she could re- pense, it is advisable to increase, rath- 0 ed to avoid, but I have no choice: 1 cover it by grcppling when her moth- er than decrease, the acreage devotigl - tell you this unwillingly, and for theer came. - : ed to clovers. • first tim • but it is rev •s -aro that you Ali` 1 boat 1 s t th 00(1400%0 Xr' 001 0\\11111114 \��uuu1 ilio/l//, THE BIND CURT OF A NATION WHAT PROF. MORGAN SAYS OF THE GERMANS. Entire People Seem Affected 'Neftel Some Kind of Moral Distemper. Professor Morgan was sent ' to Franco lash year by the British Home Secretary to investigate the alleged. outrages by German soldiers in the French towns and villages which they occupied before the battle of , the Marne, Professor Morgan famous jurist. He has an almost academic regard for the value of direct evidence. He has rejected everything that was only backed by hearsay, however widespread that hearsay might have been. He has now published the result of his enquiries including in the same volume a detailed examination of the German official apology for the outrages in. Belgium, The result is a document as terrible as the Bryce report. Professor Morgan has the courage to deduce the obvious moral from the fearsome story he has to tell. He is nob content to saddle responsibility for a series of un- speakable crimes on the shoulders of the Prussian militarists. Orgy of Blood. He boldly indicts a nation. He says: Ists It is the fondest of delusions to imagine that all the blood guiltiness is confined to the German Govern- ment and the general staff. The whole people is stained with it. The innumerable diaries of common sol- diers in the ranks which 1 have read betray a common sentiment of hate, rapine, and ferocious credulity. The progress of French, British, and Russian prisoners, civil as well as military, through Germany has been a veritable Calvary. The help- lessness which in others would ex- cite forbearance, if not pity, has in the German populace provoked only derision and insult. The old gentle- man with the grey beard and gold spectacles who broke his umbrella over the back of a Russian lady, the loafers who boarded a train and under the eyes of the indulgent sentries poked their fingers in the blind eyes of a wounded Irishman who had half his face shot away, the men and women who spat upon helpless pri- soners and threatened them with death, the guards who proddded them with bayonets, worried them with dogs, and despatched those who could not keep up—these were not a Prus- sian caste, but the German people. People to Blame. I have been told that there are still some individuals in England who cherish the idea that this very orgy of blood, lust, rapine, hate and pride is in some peculiar way merely the Bacchanalia of troops unused to the heavy bouquet of the wines of Cham- pagne, or, stranger still, that it is the mental aberration of a people se- duced by idle tales into these courses by its rulers. , . . If the reader is astonished, as well he may be, at the disgusting repeti- tion of stories of rape and . let him study the statistics of crime in Germany during the first decade jof this century, issued by the Imperial Government; he will find in them much to confirm the impression that the whole people is infected with ;some kind of moral distemper. FOOD FOR GERMAN ARMY. !FAKE Trader Sold Thousands of Tons to the Administration. ,^ Among the numerous cases of sales t of `fake" food wares to the German ! troops, which the Government is vigor- ; ously prosecuting, the following are two of the most flagrant violations: t Max Schmitges, described as a well - !known trader in Muenchen-Gladbach, ' proprietor of a delicabe'sen store and incidentally inspector of markets, sold thousands of tons of "Delikatess-Her- ring in Mayonnaise," the only trouble with which was that the herring was conspicuous for its absence. C His much advertised and widely sold product did, however, contain potatoes and carrots minced with other ingredi- ents, which mixture he packed in five - pound tins, selling then at a ridicu- lously low price, but withal aboub three times the actual worth. Schmitges was sentenced to nine months in prison and three years' loss c - of citizen rights. Thousands of • tons of his mixture had been : old to the ' i army administration. * Th,e second case is that of Frank laggKoch, a leather dealer in Nuernberg, who has been sentenced to five months in prison and 2,000 marks R ; (0500) and the closing of his business, for supplying boobs to the Bavarian Id troops, the footgear largely consisting l of a preparation of cardboard. Itt this Plik flourishing business Herr Koch had X ; been engaged for months, and had al- ready sold 215,000 pairs to the troopa when the fraud was discovered. Tied tip. hoard be ready. if 1 fail, to take up She broom z her oa c se o e True, there are difficulties in the rock well, and was feeling with a way of growing clover successfully ''he work where I leave it. boat -hook for the mouth of the fissure, year after year, but it is believed that; : M "Now you will ask—what is the when a sound from the outside struck many of the obstacles standing in work? My da ic.ht•_r, it is the re- her er.rs. habilitation o£ my name. I have the way of securing and retaining a She was not alone. Voices of men good catch, for one year at least, can thought lately that you were beginn- close at hand came to her through the int; to doubt whether my anxiety on ft be overcome. The clover plan,t de-. thi,- point was not becoming weaker.; • TO HC \\'hen your head is dell and heavy' your tongue furred, and you feel do �c-up and lt,.,d for nothing, without knowing what is really the matter with you, probably all that is needed to ru tore you to health and vigour is a few doees of a- reliable digestive tonic and stomachic rem- erly snch as Mother Sci;;e► s Syrup. Take it after each meal for a few - days 'tied nate liew beneficial is its action upon the etonlach,liver and bowels— how it -re:4ort•, to,nc iota healthy ae'ivity t:., obese important org:ins, and b:• So doing enables yeti to gain' new stores of vigour, vitality and :;saltie. momerR ren �•A � C'il i '� E Y FOR, TH OMACs- AND LIVER The new 1.00 sae contains three limes ,as much as the trial soler at 50e per beide. maids that certain soil conditions be! . granted, if it is to give maximum re - CHAPTER KI. turns. These conditions are: that the Elsa drew back her boat -hook from soil he sweet and properly underdrain- the fissure, and ;stood up in the boat, ed, either by natural or artificial listening with a strained intensity means; that there be available plant of conccntratien. She was quite sure -��___ __ that they were inen's voice: that she .__._.._ .= had heard; but were the men along way off or close to her? She knew how deceptive is the nature of sound in a fog on the water. Probably some boat was passing in the distance. • She heard the voices again, and this time they seemed quite close.. She could alrest distinguish the ac-: tual words, and -he could hear plainly' that the language was English. The' fog swept down upon her again in a thick blanket. She could nr,t see three yards ahead. The thickening of the gloom was sudden, and probably' only local. But while it lasted she was safe from observation. She must finish her work before it' lifted to betray her. ' She lowered the stone jar into the fissure, and pushed her boat quickly' away from the side. Hardly had she done so, when by some caprice of the ; air currents, the fog cleared away so completely, that from the middle of her little harbor, she 'could see the whole circle of the basalt walls. It, was only a local clearness; in the gathering dusk of the evening she could ace through the narrow entrance • that the heavy billowing mos es of whitencos were still twisting and heaving on the sea outside. She put an oar in the stern -notch, and began sculling, toward'; the en - .,trance. A \hire from close at hand rang sharply on her ear,. "Rocks dead ahead Stathoard: (To be Cr.ttu:ucd.)' Your cares in comfort- ) ing the aches and pains of the family from youth to old age, are lessened when you use this old and trust -worthy remedy -- Bruises Rheumatism Neuralgia Mothers : "Keep a bottle in your home" Price 25c., 50c. and 51.00 174 EB:iNa--40000)2Riarg 4.4 000)107400X Horse Sae DIste per 'You know that when you buy or sell through the -11eS has about one ehance in fifty to escape SALM sTABLE DISTEMPER. " SPOMAPS n la your tiro protection, your only oafeguard, for as tsuro as yen treat all your horsee With it, you wilt poen be rid of the disease. It acts as a sure preventive, no Mattel* how 1 or dozen bottles, bolt o � they are "exposed." By theat all druggists, horse goods houses' or delivered be the nt-nufrycture's. :.Panel MEDICAL CO., Cixeinistt# and 7. Yactariologista, Goshen, Zeit, 'ff•S.it,. "Why are you asking me for help? Ilaven't you any close relatives?" "Yes. That's the reason why I'm I appealing to you." Aiout The only d rlft.tte between an repartee and impudence is in the sire of the man who says it.