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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-8-24, Page 2rTIii3 CA AN EXCITING PRESE1T.DAY ROMANCE E BY WEATN W3Y CHESNEY F� 11 se - CHAPTER XXIV.--(Cont'd), "Perhaps he did. ile didn't say so to me, though." "The uncle took over the, whole in- Merest when Mona's father retired. He tied three months ago; be was a bachelor, and Mona is his' heiress. She is a rich woman, richer than ever she was before my father took her inheritance.", Scarborough whistled. "Good old Mona!" he said, laughing "1'm glad, But I don't see why she blushed," "She loves Montague, and she wants. him to ask her to marry hire. He half did so once before, and took his words back because he found out that she had some money. She thinks that if he were to learn about this he would never ask her at all." "So we are to keep quiet about it?" said Scarborough, "All right, I won't give her away I think she is a splen- did girl, and Val IL, in spite of his eccentricities, is almost as good a fel- low as she thinks, him. But do you approve of the match?' "Of course I do," said Elsa, "She loves him What else matters?" Scarborough did not answer; but he stole a glance at the girl who had given that as her philosophy of love and marriage; and he remembered the words, in case he should have to quobe them presently against the speaker herself They rode the rest of the way in silence, giving all their attention to keeping up a good pace At the gate of the Casa Davis they were met by Muriel's father and Scotb, who had ridden over from Riberira Grande. Scott put a letter into Scarborough's hand without speaking, and Mr. Davis was waving a slip of shining paper in the air "Is that the photograph?" asked Scarborough eagerly. "Yes, Read its" The words which they already knew stood out white from the brown back- ground of the paper, but between thein there were now other words. faint, but still legible. "Diamond cache, Blue lake . . feet N. of .dripping well." "Where is the Blue Lake?" asked Varney. "At Sete Cidades," said Davis. "Anel that is the road that Monta- gue said those two had taken! By Jove!" said Varney excitedly. "Or as Val B., himself would say, Jumping Jehoshaphat, sir! We shall have to hurry!" CHAPTER XXV. "Now, Horace," said Varney, "dis- pose your forces. We all put our- selves under your orders. What are we to do ?" Scarborough turned to Scott. "Axe you free to join in?" he asked. "Yes,"' said Scott. "I've arranged for bath your duty and mine in the instrument room to be taken for us. Yoa promised, that I should be in at the death, you know, so I made Mason and the Pathriot volunteer to see our work through." "Good. Then Phil, will you go to the coast. I think Montague was right, and that if they find the dia- monds they'll try to get away at once. Find out where Gillies' boat is lying and keep an eye on her. If you see them trying to escape, stop them if you can; we shan't be far behind, I hope, and will come to your help. If you can't stop them, follow them in Miss Carringtan's boat, find out the name of the ship that picks them up, and we'll cable to the American ports, and have them stopped when they try ; to land. Scott and I will go to Sete i Citades." "What about us?" asked Elsa. "Muriel and I claim to be included in your arrangements." "Then I arrange that you shall both stay here," said Scarborough at once.! "Our work may not be of 'a kind that, you ought to share." Elsa's upper lip tightened with the line of obstinacy that Scarborough had seen more than once before. "I shall go with you and Mr, Scott to Sete Cidades, she said quietly, and he knew that it was useless to argue further. "Very well," he said. "And Miss Davis?" "Oh," Varney cut in, "Miss Davis. won't be available. She and I had a talk on our way back from Furnas, and as the subject was rather an im- portant one, she will stay and tell her father,' but Scarborough has ordered the proper arrangement, I know," he added, turning to Mr. Davis. "I ought to be the one to stay to 'talk to father,' but Scarborough has orderer otherwise." "My dear boy," said Mr. Davis heartily, "if what Muriel has to say to me is that she and you want my consent to an engagement—why are you blushing, Muriel ?—I shall be just as glad to hear the news from her lips as from yours. But," he added silly, "it can't be that of course. be- cause she doesn't approve of you." "She is going to try to conquer her aversion," said Varney, "Is she?" asked Mr. Davis, with a pretence at surprise. "Then I am afraid you will have to look forward to a very long engagement. Muriel's opinions about men are, as you know, the result of long and deep study on the subject of man's iniquities; con- sequently she is just a trifle obsti- nate in sticking to them. She is my daughter, so perhaps I oughtn't to say so; but no doubt you've noticed it yourself. She'll take a long time to learn to like you, I'm afraid." Muriel came and wound her arms round her father's neck and kissed him. "Don't be worried, dad," she said, "It won't take me long to learn to like Phil." "Sure?" asked her father, smiling. "You don't mean to tell me that my daughter is going bo abandon a cher- ished prejudice without a struggle? How do you know you will learn so easily to like him ?' "Because 1 lave him now." With flaming cheeks, and a laugh that was almost a sob, she ran from the room, and Elsa followed her. Mr. Davis turned to the three men. "Gentlemen," he said, and there was a slight quiver in his voice as he spoke, "if you had no more pressing business to attend to than the love affairs of my foolish little girl, I would ask you to stay to -night and drink bumpers to her future happ- iness; for I think that I have secured a capital fellow for my son-in-law, and that my daughter will have a good husband. Phil, my boy, I hope that you and she will be very happy together, and I think you will, Bat, if you will profit by her father's ex- perience, don't give way to her crot- chets too often. Stand up to her now and then, or she won't leave you in possession of a single opinion, that you can call your own. There, boy, off with you to your post! Where is his post, by the way, Scarborough?" omewhere along the coast oppo- site the "Ring -Rock," said Scarbor- ough. "All right, off you go. But Phil—I don't know what you young people have found out to -day, so I don't know whether your duty to -night involves 1 danger or nob—bat if the choice is offered to you between letting the diamonds go and risking your life to get them, think of my little girl and let them go. Mr. Scarborough, I ask you to back me up in this." t "I shall be all right," said Varney, before Scarborough could answer. "But how long am I to stick down there, Horace?" Mr. Davis laughed. "He wants to hasten back to his wooing!" he said: "I'll drive Muriel- over urielover to see you toemarrow, Phil, and you and she can have an hour to- gether without the necessity of aban- doning your duty to get it.' "But if there is danger—" Varney began, doubtfully. ' "I don't purpose to let my daughter share it, of course," said Mr. Davis, "You young people have been fax too busy. I suppose to have heti time to observe the fact that the island of San Miguel hen suffered to -day from art earthquake. I- hear that a new islet has been suddenly formed in the sea near the Ring -Rock, and as it pro- bably will d=sappear-'a€;'a=n in a few days, I want to see it. That"s why Muriel and I will be in the neighbor- hood of your ::entry -beat te-morow," Varney said no more, but sot off at once; and when he had gone, Davis said Fa Scarborough :--- "I have to thank you for giving me the chance of mak:nt, that yo.rng man's acquaintance. IIe possesses the excellent combination of high spirits and sound common-senee. He is- a fine fellow, and Ulla) him im- mensely. I shill give my daughter to him with perfect trust that he will make her happy, and that's a great thing for a father to be able to say now -a -days. Now won't you read your letter? Scott rode over with it from Bibeira Grande on the chance of meet- ing you here, and I gathered that he thought it was important. You need not grudge a minute or two. Miss Carrington won't be ready just yet, you know. The girls always have confidences to exchange on an occa- sion like this." Scarborough had forgotten ab out the letter, which he still held unopen- ed in his hams. He opened it now. It was from the uncle whom Scott had christened Croesus. "My Dear Horace," it began. "As from the letter of yours which, I re- ceived this morning, I gather that you still consider that niy opinion is of importance. I'll give it to you sbraight away. It's this—if you meet a good woman and love her, marry her, if she loves you in return. There's a lot of humbug preacher now -a -days about the folly of marrying, if you haven't this much or that much a year—the exact suin varies according to the so- cial position of the preacher—on which be keep the house going. That's nonsense. Marry on notling a year if that is your income, and if you are both young and healthy, and if yoga love each other, Then put your heads together and find a way of making the nothing into a sum of four figures. If you reverse the process, and wait for the wife until you have the four fig- ures to keep her on, the chances are that you will find that one of two things has happened; either a better and bolder man than you has stepped in and taken the prize from you, or you have outgrown the power of lov , ing. For love, Horace, the real thing, I the thing that poets sing of, conies to a man only when he is young; but if he gives it a proper welcome then, it will stay with him when he is old; I if he does not, it flies, and it never comes back. There is many a middle- aged man in London now prosper - I eus, contented, perhaps, and very like - married to a woman whom he pla- 1 cidly loves—and yet he missed the supreme joy of life, missed it irre- trievably, because he had not the grit to snatch it when it came. A man is apt to think that because he holds himself in hand, and will not ask a woman to share his early struggles, he is doing ssomothing noble; but the real truth is that he is merely doing something selfish. The joy is in the fight, the winning' battle against the world, for there are persons in the whole world whom you love best; but do you think that joy is an. exclusive- ly made prerogative? The woman, if she loves you, can fight as bravely, as joyously, as you. What right have you to deny her the chance of the battle? (To be continued), ON (bowing^ I•ec kwhe a a. 1 Buckwheat is the leant common of the grains. Pr:iba.bly, because of the fact that it ha, been overshadowed by ° other crops Ivor l universally grown, buckwheat has,. until recently, been given but litvle attention by experi- meet stations and consequently the crop has leen quite frequentlly grown in a very haphazard way. Buck- wheat has been called a "poor land" crop. It is true that buckwheat will frequently produce a profitable crop enland too poor to produce either oats or rye profitably, but it will do still better if given good treatment. In fact, the New York Experiment Sta- tion finds that "buckwheat when grown on poor land responds well to moderate dressings of even low grade fertilizer and many farmers who do not use fertilizer on other crops find -it profitable to purchase it for buck- wheat." Soil Requirements. Buckwheat is well suited to light well -drained soils, such as sandy and silt loams. It needs but little lime, growing well in acid soils without lime, where alfalfa and red clover could not succeed. The plant seems unusually active in taking plantfood from poor and rocky soils. It needs alarger proportion of phosphoric acid and potash than of nitrogen, since large growth of straw is not desired so much as profuse bloom and early filling of seeds. When to Plant. Under the most favorable condi- tions, buckwheat will mature in 10 weeks, but, the average time is about 12 weeks. It does best when seeded late, but is very sensitive to cold and is killed by the first heavy frost. The aim should be to bring the crop to maturity just before frost. In the latitude of southern New York this means that the crop should be plant- ed about the is week in July. Buckwheat should be sown on land prepared as for corn. It is an excel- lent crop to sow where corn has been planted, but where a stand has not been secured. Best results are ob- tained where the land is plowed early, but fairly good results can be obtain- ed by sowing immediately after plow- ing if the land is well prepared. Buckwheat is usually seeded at the rate of three to five pecks per acre. If a drill is used and the seed is of good vitality, as little as three pecks may be sufficient if the soil is fertile. It is best to use a grain drill, but good'results can be secured by broad- casting the seed and harrowing it in. Three varieties of buckwheat are commonly grown—Japanese, Silver Hull and Common Grey, the first two being the most generally used. Jap- anese has a dark -colored seed, while the Silver Hull has a smaller seed, glossy or silvery in appearance. These two varieties are of about equal value, when yields are considered. Because of its plantfood require-. ments and the exceedingly short sea- son of growth, manure has not been found satisfactory as a fertilizer for buckwheat. Fresh manure contains a larger percentage of nitrogen than it does of phosphoric acid, just tlfe reverse of what buckwheat needs. For most profitable results on stony and sandy soils under normal condi- tions about 200 to 300 pounds of a fertilizer containing one to tevo per- cent ammonia, ten to twelve percent phosphoric acid and two to four per- cent potash should be applied at time` of seeding. On loam or other soils rich in organic matter, use less am- monia. Buckwheat, unlike other grains never straightens up after it, once falls. Potash makes the stalks strong and prevents lodging. Under present abnormal conditions a fertili- zer analyzing about one percent of ammonia, eight percent phosphoric acid and one percent potash may be substituted or the potash may be omitted entirely in which -case the phosphoric acid should be increased somewhat. One grower says, "I like to raise buckwheat because it is the only grain for which I can buy fertilizer on a 90 -day note and pay for it out of the crop it makes.' Buckwheat blooms for three weeks or longer and the grain ripens as unevenly. This often causes quite a loss during a wet harvest season or from early frosts. Phosphoric acid causes grain to form and hastens ma- turity, hence an available supply of this plentfood hastens ripening, thus preventing loss from early frosts and exposure ordinarily caused during wet seasons while waiting for all the grain to• ripen. The farmer does not need expen- sive machinery far harveabing the buckwheat crop. An old-has}iioned cradle, although it requires hard la- bor, does the harvesting well. The drop reaper, however, is one of the most satisfactory machines for har- vesting. Cutting is begun as soon as the first blossoms have disappeared, or often just before the -first frost is expected. Buckwheat will mature its seed in a few days, if, after cut- ting, the crop is left in loose bundles where they are dropped from the cradle or reaper. It should then be set up hi small shocks and tied near the top with some strand's of the straw bent upward from the sides of the shocq. The cut buekwheat is usually left in the field in the shacks until threshing time, when it is drawn in and threshed either with the flail or by machinery. KE �..51-10E5 $EAT F+ F DAl.i.EY OG OF G'Af+]Fii3f)<, 1 -so„ HAMbLTOIl, CANADA GETS BIG FAMILY PRIZE, Paris Woman Raises 19 Children— Seven Boys at Front. Etienne Lamy, member of the French Academy, has recently given $100,000 to found prizes for the largest families among the peasants of France. He has suffered more criti- cism for limiting his prizes to Catholic families than praise for his generosity. As long ago as 1841, a philanthropist, M. de Reverdy, founded a prize, $600 every second year, to be given to the most deserving family in the city of Paris. This prize has just been awarded to Mme. Deviercy, a widow, aged 66, who has raised a family of fifteen (eight boys and seven girls) out of the nine- teen born to her. She has provided for their needs by selling vegetables from a pushcart. Mme. Deviercy was born in Paris and her husband, a mason, died soon after the birth of her nineteenth child. One of her boys is paralyzed, but the other seven are at the front, as are two of her sons-in-law. The youngest, belonging to the class of 1916, has just been invalided from Verdun. He has been at the front fourteen months and has been cited in the order of the day. Another son has also been cited and a third was wounded. The prize win- ner has already twenty-eight grand- children, ane of her sons having sup- plied fourteen. Of Course. "I am going to name my new store 'the Vortex.'' "Why that ?" "People will jusb naturally be drawn into it." Whipping doer not always separate a boy from his bad habits, A gentleman is one who does not discriminate inhis courtetsy, The average woman swallows flat- tery, just as a baby swallows buttons, regardless of the trouble that may follow. (IE:ID WAR ifSSD teil'WG) "Silver Gloss" has been doing perfect starching in Canadian .homes, for nearly 60 years, in one pound packages and six pound fancy enamelled tins. THE CANADA STARCH 00. LBIA1TEI) rrsarvTREAL. carraserat„ BRAN -mono, ler r wri s.euv .4;21 =1M , - r- Mr–; �-,y, I 1rch Makers qi "Crown Far clad" and "Lily Wae Coir Syrtg,s, and Bensons Corn Starch. 235 l »y 4 1. The fanner need generally have no possible. Do not turn the hose on fear of this crop being damaged by either insect eneciea or fungous dis- eases, as the buckwheat plant is but little effected by either, It is an ex- cellenb crop for destroying Weeds and for renovating and putting the soil in fine mellow condition, and when properly handled could be grown with profit on many more farms. Hot Weather Rules. 1. Load lightly, and drive slowly. 2. Shop in the shade if possible. 8. 'Water your horse as often as pos- sible. So long as a horse is working, water in small quantities will not hurt him. But let him drink only a few swallows if he is going to stand still. Do not fail to water him at night after he has eaten his hay. 4. When he comes in after work, sponge off the harness marks and sweat, his eyes, his nose and mouth, and the dock. Wash his feet but not 10. If the horse is off his feet, try his legs. him with two quarts of oats mixed 5. If the thermometer is 75 degrees with bran, and a little water; and add or higher, wipe him all over with a a little salt or sugar. Or give him damp sponge. Use vinegar water if oatmeal gruel or barley water to drink 0. Saturday night, give a bran mash, 'lukewarm; and add a table- spoonful of saltpeter. 7. Do not use a horse -hat, unless 'it is a canopy -top hat. The ordinary bell-shaped hat does more harm than good. 8. A sponge on top of the head, or even a cloth, is good if kept wet. If dry it is worse than nothing. 9. If the horse is overcome by heat, get him into the shade, remove har- ness'and birdie, wash out his mouth, sponge him all over, shower his legs, and give him two ounces of aromatic spirits of ammonia or two ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, in a pint of water; or give him a pint of coffee warm. Cool his head at once, us- ing cold water, or, if necessary, chop- ped ice, wrapped in a cloth. 1111011 Govcriindnt] oa Are Y ' 1 •i t rested 1,» Winning the r ' r ? ' If so --- Help the Government by investing a few thousand or a few hundred dollars in its new loan. Ask us for particulars. for our services. W 11. gess SMISEEee -cam. TrsAemns BnNir We make no charge el compel Blini23/NG y Let every good Canadian apply for every dollar he can afford. We will ;handle applications without any charge. $1.000 invested in these bonds will be repaid on maturity by the Russian Government with what will produce in Canadian money approximately $1,660, and a good half -yearly interest in the meantime. 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THE IMPERIAL OIL COMPANY Limited BR.A.NCIIIIIS IN ALL CITIES FZt BUTDON'T . ; ME Id HAY CITY PEOPLE SUFFER MOST FROM HAY FEVER, Caused Nearly Always From Rag- weed Pollen, Seldom From Goldenrod. Exhaustive investigation and re- search has convinced us that the hay Ifever victim has one thing to be thank- ful for --he never need be afraid to hit the hay. The only , ty 7i plant, weed, or vegetable which never has been con- victed of causing pollinosis, which is ..,,,; Greek for hay fever, is the hay itself, Anything else that grows in yon va- cant lot, from Rumex obtusifolius, or as it is called, dock, to Plantago lan- ceolate, which is a mean uppish way of saying plantain, may account far your particular case of "autumnal catarrh," or, if you prefer, "hyperaes- thetic rhinitis," but never, never timo- thy or clover hay, writes Dr. William Brady, in the New York Sun, About one per cent. of the popula- tion of cities have bay fever. Most of these cases come in August and Sep- tember, but some cases develop in early summer—the so-called " rose cold," which generally is not caused by rose pollen. Hay fever symptoms, in the milder cases, resemble those of ordinary coryza or "cold in the head," Indeed, the disease may be mistaken for a "cold." There is sneezing, block- ing of the nostrils from swelling of the mucous membrane, serious or watery running of the nose, itching of the inner corners of the eyes, and slight elevation of temperature at the onset and a tendency to subnor- mal temperature later. There usually is considerable general depression, due to the subnormal temperature and difficulty of breathing through the nose, :especially when Iying down. In some cases asthmatic trouble occom- panies the attack. The development of the epidemic when hay was harvested each year led to the suspicion that hay pollen was a cause. The fa'ct, is, however, that ragweed (ambrosia) is the cause in the majority of cases, and t1u more conspicuous golden rod is to blame fora very small proportion cf the cases. Ragweed to Blame. Ragweed will grow any old place, where nothing in particular is grown. It comes in two sizes --trial size and hospital size. The trial size or com- mon ragweed is a low, mean, ordinary - looking weed that infests the byways of civilization.- It has ragged, thin leaves and spikes of homely, green flowers at the ends of the branches. The weed loves to spring up in fields where a crop of wheat, rye, or oats recently has been cut, and usually grows two or three feet high. The pal - len of ragweed is as 'light as smoke and flies for a considerable distance on the wind. It' is so abundant during the ripening of the flowers that it will stain the clothing of a person walking through the field a yellow- color. That the ragweed pollen is the specific cause of hay fever may be demons- trated in any case by freeing same harvested pollen in the room with the patient. It will bring on the symp- toms at once at any time of year if it is truly the cause. Various other plants than ragweed may produce pollinosis in certain cases. A popular idea is that hay fever may be avoided by going to a high ele- vation, as in the mountains. This is only relatively true. Ragweed and other hay fever producing plants are uncommon above an altitude of 6,000 feet, but in mountain resorts of or- dinary elevation suck plants abound. and hay fever is frequent. City folks suffer more frequently than country folks. The explanation for this is unquestionably a matter of acquired or inherited immunity— the country resident being exposed from infancy and the city resident be- ing exposed only upon rare occasions. Hard to Cure. The pollen does not produce the characteristic irritation. The symp- toms of hay fever come on within a few moments after the patient has been exposed, as in driving past a field or walking along a street where rag- weed may be growing. The treatment of hay fever is a thing the profesion never boasts about. Cures are none too many. Op• orations an minor irregularities in the nose and throat are seldom, if ever, effective. Sprays, douches, saIves, powders, and internal remedies have their place and help to render the at- tack endurable, but do not cure. A sea voyage, of course, is an ideal remedy. Hypodermic doses of ragweed and goldenrod pollen have been used with good effect. A thorough cleansing of the nasal passages with simple normal salt so- lution (teaspoonful of salt in a pint of boiled water), or with baric acid solution (a tablespoonful of powdered boric acid dissolved in half a pint of boiled water), or with one of the various alkaline antiseptic solutions considerably diluted with warm water, is helpful. This must be done re- gularly night and morning. )'laving Fun With His Wife. "My wife gave a reception yester- day,' "Did you attend?" "'Yes. I played a practical joke on ! her, I got in lino when she was receiv- ing and before she knew it she was smiling and saying she was glad to see 111e." Proven. 14Iilly—Ninety-nine women hi a hundred are naturally generous Billy ---Yes, where one woreait will keep a secret ninety-nine will give it away. Thirty years ago a drought in Anse t' -glia destroyed ten million sheep.