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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-7-27, Page 2111 TH13 CABLEMA AN EXCITING PRE$E @T.DAY ROMANCE 8Y WA H RBY CH ESN EY s CHAPTER XXL—(Cont'd). Mona became suddenly grave, and the moonlight flashekl in her egos, "Yes," she said simply. "I mean," said Searhoraugh, `would it be safe to bell him, net what yuu suggest, but the simple tzuh? Can we make him one of us ilt this met - ter ?" `It's safe to tract Val P Montague in anything," said Menta. She rrew herself up, and it seemed almo_t that she said it proudly."Hsi eccentric, •ir , perhaps, but he is the truest hearted gentleman I have ever met." "Then I think I prefer to tell him the truth." iilona hesitated, and thea held out her hand. "You are right," she said with a straight look from her hazel eyes. "I am sorry I suggested that you should play upon one of his weak- nesses. From me he • doe sn't deserve that. Elsa, shall we go back now. "You will come back for us et half - past five, Horace," said Elsa, The girls event back, and Scarbor- ough rode on to the Cable Station,. He found Montague in the billiard room, playing snooker -pool with Scott and another man. The Yankee circus - man welcomed him characteristical- ly. "Mr. Scarborough, sir," said he, "I would say I was glad to meet you if I dared. I told you I was not a sup- erstitious man. but what is the crisis in my affairs this time ? Yeu and I never meet except when fate has been shaking something, into my lap out of her bag of worries. What is it, sir, this time? Any misfortun- ate happened to my schooner, or to any children of Val 13. Montague's Combination? Or does your appear- ance merely pertend that I am about to miss this easy shot that snooker?" "Try the shot and see," said Scar- borough. "Is your game nearly over?" Scarborough asked Scott. Yea Vanttosoanan. "No, thanks; but will you bring Montague to my room when you've finished? There's something I want to tell you both." Val. 13. Montagne looked up quickly. "There is a crisis!" he said. "I was sure of it." "Yes," said Scarborough, "there is a crisis. But not in your affairs this time, MeleIntague. I'm going to ask for your help, that's all; and Miss de 1a Mar told vie I should find you would give it. But finish your game first." Montague had thrown down his cue. "No," he said "If Miss :.e la Mar promised that I should help you, I opine that she did not calculate that I should let a game of snooker delay me. Lead the way to your room, sir! Mr. Scott and I will follow." "V e1 y well, if yo:i prefer it." "I do, sir." Scarborough kept nothing back in what he told these two; he gave them the whole tale simply, and did not fear that he was violating confidences in so doing. He guessed that he prob- ably had a clever adversary in Gillies, and he was quite sure thab he had an extremely clever one in. Mrs. Carring- ton; and he judged with a cool pru- dence that was characteristic, that the heavier the battalions which he could bring to bear against them. the more likely was he to win in the end. He would have liked, of course, to win without the heavy battalions, but it was safer if less glorious, to be as strong as possible. The best general is not he who brings off forlorn hopes by gallant fighting, but he who con- centrates all available forces, leaves the leading of forlorn hopes to the enemy, and never requires to lead one himself. Scarborough did not despise the glory which is won by making a gallant fight against odds, but he was a goad enough general to prefer safe- ty to glory. Had he been fighting for his own hand, he would probably have reasoned differently; bat just now he was fighting for Elsa. These two, then, would be staunch recruits. Scott he could vouch for himself, and Mona had *: ouehed for Montague. It was all right. When he had finished 'Montague said: "That's all right, sonny. Of course we'll chip in and help you to beat the widow. You're boss in this show. Just tell us what you want- us to do, and we'll do it. Is that right, Mr. Scott?" "Oh, yes," said Scott, laughing. "But I see the part I'm cast for with- out being told. Extra spells in front of the siphon -recorder, while Scarbor- ough goes treasure -hunting. That's the form of excitement I'm billed for, isn't it, -Horace?" "I da want you to relieve me to- morrow morning at five, if you will," said Scarborough. "I'm afraid it's a deadly slow part for you, old man." "Never mind, I'Il do it. I've just laid in a fresh stock of modern French fie- I't`ton in paper -backs, so I'll yawn hrough an extra spell all right with their help. Give me a chance of being I fl at the death, as a reivar'd if you real zeal fighting. "Now, Mr. Scarborough, your ord. errs to mall" said Montague. "X gath- er that I'ni to loot: after the widow. Any particular way of doing it?" "The most effective you can think of, please," said Scarborough. "I leave it to you to decide. Better wait till you see ba -morrow what she means to do." "Nse sir," said the circus -man. r' 'Mat's nut my way of doing business. It 1 put my tintrer into this pie, it's g ging; to be my pie. I shall arrange the programme, not the Widow Car- rington. You give me a free hand?" "Oh, nal violence. ) yes;short of act t_ iii e may eome to that in the enol, but ; I don't want our side to begin it." "Then get up and go to that writing ; table, and write me a letter of intro - auction to her." "What's the good of that?" asked Scarborough laughing. "She will laugh at you." I Maybe she will, but that's the way I I'm going- to do it. You said I could I have a free hand, and I said it was going to be my pie. Don't know how to word it, don't you? I'll dictate. 'Dear Madam, ---During my unavoid- able absence an a picnic with your daughter and Mademoiselle Mona de la Mar, our Mr. Val. 13, Montague. of Val B. Montague's American Circus Combination, is fully empowered to !represent me, and to make any ar- rangements that may be necessary for your comfort. He is a man in whose ability I have perfect confidence, end 11 have given him a free hand in the matter. He requests me to inform you that this is his pie, and though the metaphor is not very clear to me, he promises that you shall understand it before the day is over. Horace Scarborough, Cable Station, Ribiera Grande.'—Sign it!" 0. Scarborough threw dawn his pen, and hear Scott burst into a roar of laughter. Val B. Montague gravely l picked up the paper, blotted it, and put it into his pocket -be 'k. "Now tell us what you really mean to do," said Scott. Montague turned to him solemnly. "Mr. Scotts" he said, 'you don't show the intelligence which I have gathered, frem your conversation on other subjects, that you possess. I am going to call at the Chinelas to - I morrow morning early, and present I this admirably wo.sed letter of in troduetion to the widow of the late Richmond Carrington." "Oh, nonsense, man!'•" •`I am sir. And I anticipate that ' as a result I shall enjoy a very pleas- art day. It may be a somewhat strenuous one, thought, so I will wish• you good -night. My room is two doors away, I think." "By jove!" said Scott, when Monte- , gue had bowed himself out of the room, 'he really means it!! I don't think all the fen will be at Furna to- morrow, Horace!" CHAPTER :XII. Phil Varney, Lying on his back un- der a golden roof formed by toldas of maize cobs, found the morning very pleasant. The dying maize, strung in bundles on three poles stacked in a tripod, whispered sofely as the breeze crept through the air -spaces between !the cobs. e sun was not yet hot enough to b.:77 'pleasant, and bhe view in front of him was perhaps the most beautiful in all the inland. He found nature's morning mood restful, his pipe was drawing well, and Muriel Davis had promised last right that she would ride over the course of the day. Everything, therefore, was peace; he indulged himself in dreams, and sentry though he was, he show- ed unmistakeable signs of a tendency to ;sleep at his post. Beneath him in the valley lay the lake of Las Furnas, three miles in circumference; and the roofs of the long straggling village, half hidden by the trees which grew everywhere . on the lower ground, made dohs of darker color on the landscape. The village is situated in the bottom of a I vast crater, and the steep pointed hills once active volcanoes, but clother now with a dense garment of pines, form a complete ring roun'1 it. Down the flanks of the great Peak of the Ced- ars, and its twin mountain the Peak of the Locust, waterfalls flashed in white spray; and the Ribeira Quente, ' the "Het River," wound through the valley, changing "color continually as it received the tinted waters of the many vocanic springs by which it is fed. Nature was beautiful, but somno- lent; and Phil. Varney, feeling quite contented with his lot just now, was inclind t to be somnelent too. A. voice hailing him from the lower level broke the reverie into which he was drifting. He raised himself on his elbow and saw Scarborough push- ing a bicycle up the rough ground of the hillside. "Any sign of Gillies yet?" asked Scarborough, when he reached the maize stack. "No, Where is Muriel? She said she would ride over with you." `She and the other two girls are the Casa Davis, „d, X left them at ac In t luncheon baskets, and, came on a' "The other two girls querried Vaimay. "Mona and Mise Carring', WWI They coming too? You've turn - ! ed into a regular picnic!" ;‘That is the idea," said Scarbor- oug11. "And Airs. Carrington and Val E. will join us later, I fancy" "Here, hold handl" Varne yexclaim- ed.. "I don't understand. this. What's Mrs. Carrington coming for? Explain, please!" "An right, but give me some break- fast first. Got anything?" "Frogs' legs," said Varney with a grin; "I'll heat you a panful in no time. Ever tasted them?" "No," said Scarborough, awl added doubtfully; "Nob sure that I want to now." "Oh, they're capital! Wait till you taste! It was Davis who put me up to the idea. The place swarms with them, nnil they're the real edible kind, though the natives haven't found that out. Davis is thinking of starting a ;pickle factory and Exporting than to Paris. Iry the vaY. c tdYot show him the seratc-hed stone?' "Yes." "Well? What's his idea ?" "He fancies that he can make some more of it legible. He's going to dust lycopodium powder over it, and then photograph it, and he thinks the powder may show up in the photo- graph where the pencil marks were. He's working at it now.' (To be continued). NATURE GUARDS SECRETS. Centuries of Study Yield Little to Moon. Greenwich, England, observatory was founded by Charles II. mainly for the purpose of investigating the move- ments of the moon in the interests of navigation, but thoaigh generations of : astronomers have in the intervening two and a half centuries been working at the problem, the moon has not yet been ameatable to their mathematics. The astronomer royal, in his report of the work at Greenwich during the last year, Balls attention to the increasing- ly big deviation between the ealculated position of the moon in the sky and its real position as shown by the Greenwich observations. This deviation has lately been in- creasing in a serious manner, the er- ror last year being more than 12 times as large as it was 20 years ago, the average annual increase amounting in the two decades to half a second of arc in longitude. The cause of the failure of astronomers to make the moon amenable to their exact mathe- matics, based on the dynamical laws of gravitation, is believed to be some attractive force of which we are at present ignorant, though in all prob- ability one factor is the true shape of the earth, which still awaits accu- rate determination. Fortunately the ; chronometer and wireless telegraph , have made seamen virtually independ-1 ent of lunar observations in ascer-I taining their position in the trackless oceans. A Happy Thought. A member of a fashionable church had gone to her pastor with the cog, - plaint that she was greatly disturbed by one of her neighbors. "Do you know," she said, "that the man in the pew behind ours destroys all my devotional feelings when he. tries to sing? Couldn't you ask him to change his pew?' "Well," answered the pastor, re- flectively, "I feel a little delicacy on that score, especially as I should have to give a reason. But I tell you what I might do—I might ask him to join the choir!' • The Cream Separator. Ib in wonderful to reflect upon the progress that the cream. separator has made during the last few years. There are now very few farms where dairy- ing is carried on that have not their separator, even though the people running them may be antiquated in regard to their methods in other re- spects. It requires very little demonstrating to convince anyone that a cream se- parator is a great saving over the old pan method of seck1ring cream. A se, parator takes up much less room in tete dairy than the setting citing pans, and it obtains a greater yield of butter from the milk used. Moreover, the cream from the separator is quite sweet, and therefore the ripening of it is more easily Controlled than where pans are In order bo secure the best results the separator must be worked at the correct speed, which must be main- tained at a uniform speed until all the sank is separated.. Cows Need Mineral Matter. That pigs require a considerable amount of mineral matter in their fool is pretty well known but that cows will sometimes suffer from want. of it is not so well known. Salt, of course, is always fed to the, stock by careful feeders all the year round. The late Herr Kellner estimated that a cow giving twenty pounds of milk per day should receive about three and a half ounces of lime per day, Many cases have been observed where cow's had abnormal appetities employed, which develop a certain and developed the habit of eating amount of acidity or other ferments wood, etc., that when a sufficient due to bacterial activiby while the amount of lime was fed the desire to gnaw wool and eat filth stopped. In sections where the water is soft cream is rising. When the cream separator • is care- fully managed the skim milk should many good dairymen put lime in the. not contain more than 0.1 per cent. of water trough so as to make sure that butter fat, and thus the butter yield is the animals will get enough of this increased by 10 to 1?, per cent. as com- pared with the old pan setting system. This makes a considerable difference in the course of a year where good value of the lime, and it is a well dairy cows are employed, and would known fact that the Digest boned and soon pay for the separator. thriftiest cattle are raised where the With care a separator will last for soil has an abundance of lime, many years anti it is generally Writing, in Wallace's Farmer some through carelessness or ignorance time ago, Mr. C. H. Ecicles, of the that it breaks down. It is import- University of Missouri, wrote: "The ant that the separator bearings be well. oiled in order to avoid friction and wearing out of parts. Before starting to separate all the sight feed Iubricators should be full, and tested to see that the yare in working order. The separated should always be start- ed very slowly, and the speed work- ed up gradually, and no milk let into the bowl until it is running at full speed. The milk should be separated as soon as it leaves the cow, as fat is lost in the skim milk when the milk is skimmed below a temperature of 86 deg. F. If cold milk has to be dealt very important food constituent. The old saying that "a limestone country is a rich country" emphasizes the use of clover, alfalfa, or cowpea hay, in the ration will make certain that this trouble (lack of lime in the feed) will not occur. These foods are the highest in lime content of any which we ordinarily feed. Corn, on the other hand, is the most deficient in line of all grains ordinarily fed. A pounjl of alfalfa hay contains practi- cally the same amount of lime as 100 pounds of corn. "We found a herd of dairy catble in this state suffering from a lack of lime—and on investigation it was dis- covered that the caws, which were producing 35 pounds of milk a day, with it should be warmed up to from were actually giving off mare lime in 100 to 120 deg. F. just before beingtheir feed. Probably no trouble separated. The separator should be would have resulted except for the washed immediately after using. If fact that the preceding summer had left for some time, as is often done, it been dry and the grass short, making gives the slime a chance to dry on the it impossible for the cows to accumu- interior of the bowl, and then more late a reserve supply of lime." time and trouble are required to re- move it than if the cleaning were ef- fected as soon as the milk has passed through the machine. Immediately after use all the parts with which the milk comes into con- he belongs to my son in the field, yon - der. You'll have to bargain with tact should be taken apart and washed with lukewarm water. Hot water hmm,°' said the farmer, motioning to should not be used, as it causes part the boy. "He'll be here presently of erre mills to cake on, and form a re- and you can talk to him." fuge for germs which taint milk. "That boy!" ejaculated the strange After this the parts should be wash- er. eel in fairly hot water contaniing a "Yes, George is seventeen and a little soda, and then be dipped in smarter boy never was raised on any scalding water. farm—if I do say it. You ought so The creamy matter left in the bowl hear him in debate. He can hold may be put in the pig tub, and care I his end with the best of 'em. He A raised that colt and the sale money saving for a course in an agricultural college, then I'll step down and out he'll run the old farm. Here George, this man is looking at your two-year-old." The bargain was soon concluded, but not before the buyer had learned that the seventeen -year-old boy was a keen judge 7of horse flesh end knew the worth of his colt. Two men were leaning over the pas- ture bars. "Yes, sir, them steers are as good as ever was raised in this town. That boy over there calls 'ern his, and has fussed with 'em ever since they were calves. Hey ? Oh, that makes no difference when it comes to selling. They were fed from my mow, and I reckon the cash goes into my pocket. Boys are ungrateful nowadays. He keeps talking of quitting and I can't keep him longer than he is twenty- one. He might take the old farm and let me'have a rest, but he will not listen to that. Well—it can't be helped as I see. You don't offer quite what I consider the steers worth, but there's no use in feeding 'em any longer. They're yours." Which boy made a successful, con- tented farmer, and why ?—Western Farmer. HUNS ARE GLUTTONS. Which of These is the Better ? Two men were leaning over the pas- ture bars. "Yes, sir, that colt is for sale, bub must be Laken to thoroughly clean the bowl of all the slime present after se- parating. The amount of slime in the bowl is a good indication as to whether the milk has been obtained in a cleanly manner or not.. The dirtier the milk the more slime there will be present in the bowl. gliPiseefe /.s":..ti vtMi�" bAUGHTER OF LATE PRESIDENT CLEVELAND NOW A NURSE IF� EUROPE. MIes3 P' 'her (1evela i1 left n (left). a daughter a ghtel• of the late Grover Cleveland, on time }?resident of the i'nite,l States, asshe appear' in the uniform of a aura in the I.uropean war zono, On the right Is Sister Pat, a nurse who has been decorateclfor hrawry on the allied front. ee'eess :sada log • J Eat Far More Than Other People, When Possible. Though the Huns are beginning to complain that they are being starved, yet what is starvation to them is plenty to most nations, says London Answers. Before the war the Germans, both men and women, were the biggest eat- ers of any one the Continent. The average German begins with coffee and milk between seven and eight in the morning. About ten there is a meatbreakfast, at ane o'clock a really y hen as a rule about twice as much as an English lunch, with beer oewine, or both. At tea, cakes, cho- colates and rearzipans are invariably eaten. At8m comes omes supper, almost as heavy as the midday dinner, and con Fisting of cold ham, mutton, beef or *ea' with wine. Ice Cream comes out of the freezer with a velvety smoothness—and a ricewith deBENSON'Sltctousness—.whoa it Is made And It Is pretty hard to ask for any- thing more delicious than s Chocolate Slane Mange or Cream Custard with Fruit, made of Benson's Corn Starch. ;a Our now Recipe Book "Desserts and Candles" tolls how and how much to use. Wrlto for a copy to our Montreal 0fflco—and be sure to tell your grocer to sand BENSON S, the standby v in Canada for more than half a century. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED . MONTRCAL, CARDINAL, ORANTFORD, 216 FORT WILLIAM. atikEla 1. AVEMITVIMITail PUT IN LAYER OF MAGGOTS. German Baker Also Mixed Ants and Bugs in His Cakes. The Berlin Vorwaerts says;—The unscrupulous manner in which the preparation of various articles of food is being carried on has again - been strikingly exemplified in Leipzig. A master baker, C. A. Rabitz, the owner of one of the foremost fashion- able establishments in Leipzig, has been found guilty of the most shame- less transgression of all existing laws and regulations. His worst practice of all was to bake live maggots in his cakes. On an assistant showing him that the dough was full of these vermin, Rabitz contented himself with cover- ing them up beneath a layer of dough. "No need to remove the maggots," he observed, "people will eat the cakes all the same." The maggot paste was thereupon duly baked into cakes. Rabitz had also prepared another kind of confection, styled "dessert cake," from ground wood and potato flour, in which quantities of ants and even bugs were present, This infamous specimen of the baker tribe received five months' im- prisonment besides being condemned to pay a fine of £31. Kitchener Predicted Death. When Lord Kitchener was in France some three months ago, visiting the British front, he met his friend the naval Capt. Testu de Balincourt, then on service at Dunkirk, whom Lord Kitchener asked to be his special aid if he should need one later; during the war. Lord Kitchener bold his friend how a heavy shell had burst close to him while on this visit, but added, "that did not disturb me, for I know thab I shall die at sea." Chickens Now $4 Apiece. The London Times Berne corres- pondent quotes an American from Brussels as saying that the conclusion of that city is outwardly little chang- ed; that the chief privation is the ab- sence of news. Food commands ex- travagant prices, bread being thirteen cents and meat of all kinds a dollar a pound. Chickens are from $2 to $4 apiece. Butter is a dollar a pound. There is mach distress and even star- vation in the surrounding country. Madge (reading letter from brother at the front)—" John says a bullet went right through his hat without touching him." Old Auntie—" What a blessing he had his hat on, dear." Preserved Raspberries will keep their natural color if you use the pure cane sugar which dissolves at once. Order by name in original packages. 2. an d 5 -lb cartons 10 and 20 -ib bags PRESERVING LABELS FREE Send red ball trade•mnrk cutfrom a hag or carton to Atlantic Sugar Refineries Ltd. Dower flkig., Montreal 43 HISTORIC BATTL 4 S FOUGHT IN PIC ` + DY THE BRITISH. WON TWO GREA' . VICTORIES, Ancient French Province Produced Many Noted Names of Chivalry. If historical associations inspire to brave deeds, the British forces in their offensive against the Germane along the Somme Myer should be heartened to extraordinary acts of valor by the thought that they are fighting in Picardy, says a war gee- graphy bulletin of the National Geo- �"I graphic. Society. This ancient province of France; now divided into four clopartmenk— the Somme, Oise, pas -de -Calais., and Aisne—has two battlefields whose very names quicken the pulse of Eng-. lishmen, for it was at Crecy that the Black Prince won his spurs, and' Agincourt that Henry V., commanding his yeomen with their cloth -yard bows, utterly overthrew the flower of French chivalry. Valiant French Soldiers. Picardy is a treasured name in ro- mantic literature and in French his- tory, It had a literature of its own in the twelfth century and its soldiers were among the most valiant in France, being known as the Gaseous of the North. The province was a natural battle -e ground for the French and English during the Hundred Years' War, for its shares extend along the North Sea and the English Channel, from the River As, above Calais, to a point be- low Dieppe. Fifteen miles north of Abbeville, ono of the principal cities of Picardy, is Crecy, where, until late in the nineteenth century, there still stood the old windmill from which Edward III. of England in 1346 watched his beloved son, the first • Prince of Wales, at that time only 16 years of age, briumph over Philip of Valois. On this occasion the English were outnumbered four to one, and they wrought terrible havoe among the enemy, the losses of the vanquish- ed being variously estimated at from 10,000 to 30,000. One of those who fell in this fight was the chivalrous John, King of Bohemia, who, although blind, led. a heroic charge for his French ally. Some historians trace the Prince of Wales' crest of three os- trich feathers and the motto "Ich dien" (I serve), to this battle, the Black Prince adopting them from the fallen John in memory of the event. Henry Fifth's Great Battle. Less than 20 miles north-east o3 Crecy is Agincourt, where English archers, nearly 70 years later, after letting fly their clouds of arrows against the heavily armored nobles, attacked them with hatches as they floundered helplessly in mud. Five thousand Frenchmen of noble births, including their commander, d'Albert, constable of France, fell in this bat- tle, while the estimate of English losses was astonishingly low, some chroniclers giving only 13 men at arms and 100 foot soldiers. Several towns of Picardy—Amiens, Soissons, and Beauvais—owe their names to the ancient tribes which in- habited this section, known as Belgica Secunda; when the Romans maintain- ed armed camps along the valley of the Somme. In the third century Chrisbianity was introduced, and St. Quentin, from whom the important town 20 miles east of Peronne gets its name, was martyred at that time. Picardy was the heart of Merovingi- an France in the fifth century, far Clovis named Soissons as his capital. while Charlemagne designated. Noyon as his principal city, and the lesser Carolingians in turn similarly honored Loon. By the treaty of Arras in 1435 the royal towns of the Somme Valley were ceded to Burgundy, but 42 years later, after the death of Charles the Bold, Louis XI regained them. During its brief eras of peace the province thriv- ed as a centre of bhe weaving industry Flemish immigrants having introduc- ed the art. He Was Wise. IIe had been calling on her twice a week for six months, but had not pro- posed. He was a wise young man. and didn't thick it necessary. "Ethel," he said, as they were bak- ing a stroll one evening, "I—er—am going to aslc you an important ques- tion." "Oh, George," she exclaimed, "this is so sudden. Why, I---' "What I want to ask is this," he interrupted "What date have you arra your mother decided upon for our wedding ?" German' Btatclier I riled $5,000. A Cologz7c butcher named Sommer has been centencecl to jail for two years and fined. 20,000 marks. ($5,000) for withholding from sale a large amount of meat and also for secret- ly selling meat assigned for sale in Cologne ba Dresden dealers at a great profit. This is the heaviest sentence yet reported for violation of the food distribution laws, Proving it---" I gave you a penny yesterday to be gand s and d to- da y you are just ne bad as can be." Willie— " Yes ; I'm trying to show that you got your money's worth yesterday."