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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-12-7, Page 6Tea is an Every -day Luxury STEADFASTLY REFUSE SUBSTITUTES Black, Mixed Jr Natural Green. Ei 20.5. The Bride's Name ; Or, The Adventures of Captain Fraser CH.P,fPTER VIII.—(Cont'd) . "The next thing is to slip ashore at Wapping;wJack," he said, after he had finished his meal; "the wharf '11 be closed by the time we get there."; "The watchman's nearly sure to be asleep," said Fraser, "and you can easily climb the gate, If he's not, I must try and get him out of the way somehow." The skipper's forebodings proved to be correct. It was past twelve by the time they reached Wapping, but the watchman was wide awake and, with much bustle, helped them to berth their craft. He received the news of the skipper's untimely end with well- bred sorrow, and at once excited the wrath. of the sensitive Joe by saying that he was not surprised, "I 'ad a warning," he said, solemnly, in reply to the indignant seaman. "Larst night exactly as Big Ben struck ten o'clock the gate -bell was pulled three times." "I"ve pulled it fifty tithes myself before now," said Joe, scathingly, 'and then had to climb over the gate and wake you up.' ' "I went to the gate at once," con- tinued George, addressing himself to the cook; "sometimes when I'm shift- ing a barge, or doing any little job 0' that sort, Ido 'ave to keep a man wait- ing, and, if he's drunk, two minutes seems like ages to 'im." "You ought to know wot it seems like,." muttered. Joe.. "When I got to the gate an' opened it there was nobody there," continued the watchman, impressively, "and while I was standing there I saw the bell -pull go up an' down without 'ands and the bell rung again three tines." i The cook shivered. "Wasn't you frightened, George?" he asked, sym- pathetically. "I knew it was a warning," continu- ed the veracious George. "W'y 'e should come to me I don't know. One I NS WANTED FOR THE L NAVY Two thousand Canadians are wanted for the Royal Naval Can. adian Volunteer Reserve towards spanning the new ships of the Imperial Royal Navy. Immediate overseas service. Only wen of good character and good physique accepted.. Pay $1.10 Minimum per day—Free Kit $20.00 per Month Separation Allowance Apply to the nearest Naval Recruit- ing Station, or to the Dept. of the Naval Service OTTAWA Use Rubber To Save Leather —It Is Needed In The War!. Rubber Supply Is Ample--. Leather Is Scarce and Very High Leather is being worn out faster today than ever before in the history of the world, while production is considerably less than a few years ago. While the consequent shortage is keenly felt by the civilian who has to pay half as much again for his own a. d his family's shoes, it is even more serious for the Government, which must supply hundreds of thou- sands of soldiers. Rubber, too, is being used in enormous quanti- ties on account of the war—one British manufacturer, for instance, is working on a rubber boot order for the army which will take 14,000,000 pounds of rubber, fabric and chemicals. But the supply, thanks to the great rubber plantations in Britain's tropical Dom- inions, is easily keeping up with the demands, and raw rubber, despite a war tax of 7/%%, is actually cheaper today than before the war. So, though the fabric and. chemicals used cost nearly double, rubber footwear has not gone up very much in price. These conditions naturally are leading thoughtful, thrifty, patriotic Canadians to save leather just as much as possible by wearing rubbers, overshoes, high rubber boots and heavy farm rubbers. In addition to the. very substantial saving in cost, rubber .foot- wear has decided advantages for wet or cold weather around . the farm or in the woods. The men like its warm, dry comfort under all conditions, and the women like the way it sheds the dirt instead of bring- ing it in to melt and track around the house. For the children, too, particularly if they are walking a long way to school, rubbers and overshoes mean a great deal in warmth, comfort and protection against colds. " Do'ing Without" Rubbers .or Overshoes Is Simply ' Thoughtless Extravagance 18 thing is I think 'e BIways 'ad a bit of a fancy' for mesa • "He 'ad," said Joe; "everybody wot sees you loves you, Gorge. They ean't help theirselves." "And 1 'ave 'ad thein two ladies down again asking for Mir. Robinson, and also for poor Cap'n Flower," said the watchman; "they asked me some questions about 'im, and I told 'em the lies Sot you told me to tell 'epi, Joe; Weeps that's w'y 1 'ad the warning,'.' Joe turned awaywith a growl and went below, and Tim and the cook, after greedily waiting for some time to give the watchman's imagination a further chance, followed his example. George, left to himself, took his old seat on the post at the end of the jetty, being, if the truth must be told, some- what alarmed by his own fertile inven- tions . Three times did the mate, in re- sponse to the frenzied commands of the skipper, come stealthily up the companion -way and look at him. Time was passing and action of some kind was imperative. "George," he .whispered, suddenly. "Sir," said the watchman. "I want to speak to you," said Fraser,, m3eteriously; "come down here." George rose carefully from his seat, and lowering himself gingerly on board, crept on tiptoe to the gallery after the mate. "Wait in here till I come back," said the latter, in a thrilling whisper; "I''ve got something to show you. Don't move, whatever happens." His tones were so fearful, and he put so much emphasis on the last sentence, that the watchman burst hurriedly out of the galley. "I don't like these mysteries," he said, plainly. "There's no mystery," said the mate, pushing him back again; "something I don't want the crew to see, that's all. You're the only man I can trust." He closed the door and coughed, and a figure, which had been lurking on the companion -ladder, slipped hastily on deck and clambered noiselessly on to the jetty. The mate clambered up beside it, and hurrying with it to the gate helped it over, and with much satisfaction heard it alight on the oth-' er side. "Good -night, Jack," said Flower. "Don't forget to look after Poppy,,".' "Good -night." c.- 1-11e,.rate.'"Write ag sobn as you're fixed." He walked back leisurely to the schooner and stood in some perplexity, eyeing the galley which contained the devoted George. He stood for so long that his victim lost all patience, and, sliding back the door, peered out and discovered him. "Have you got it?" he asked, soft- ly. "No," oftly"No," replied Fraser; "there isn't anything. I was only making a fool of you, George. Good-nightl" He walked aft, and stood at the companion watching the outraged George as he came slowly out of the galley and stared about him. "Good -night, George," he repeated. The watchman made no reply to the greeting, but, breathing heavily, resumed his old seat on the post and, folding his arms across his panting bosom, looked down with majestic scorn upon the schooner and all its contents. Long after the satisfied mate had for- gotten the incident in sleep, he sat there striving to digest the insult of which he had been the victim, and to consider a painful and fitting retri- bution. CHAPTER IK. The nate awoke next morning to a full sense of the unpleasant task be- fore him, and, after irritably giving orders for the removal of the tarpaulin from the skylight a substitution of the. ingenious cook's for the drawn blinds ashore, sat down to a solitary break-! fast and the composition of a telegram to Captain Barber. The first, a; beautiful piece of prose, of which the' key -note was resignation, contained two shillings' worth of sympathy and! fourpence-halfpenny worth of religion.' i It was too expensive as it stood, and boiled down, he was surprised -to find that it became unfeeling to the verge of flippancy. Ultimately he em-' bodied it in a letter, which he pre- ceded by a telegram, breaking the sad news in as gentle a form as could be managed for one -and -three. young man of unpleasant appearance, who was making a,late tea, introduced him as her son Bob. "Ts Miss Tyrell in?" inquired Fra- ser, shaking his head as Mr. Wheeler dusted a small Wheeler off . a chair and offered it to him. "She's upstairs," said Emma Wheel- er; "shall I go upand fetch her?" "No, 111 go up to her," said the mate, quietly "I think I'd better see her alone. I've got rather bad news for her." a "About the captain?" inquired Mrs. Wheeler, sharply. "Yes," said Fraser, turning some- what red. "Very bad news." He fixed his eyes on the ground, and, in a spasmodic fasTlion, made per- fect by practice, recited the disaster. "Pore feller," said Mrs. Wheeler, when he had finished' "Pore feller,. and cut Gown suddenly like that. I ='pose he 'adn't made any prepare - "Notit?" "Not a bit," said the mate, start ing, "quite unprepared." "You didn't jump over after him?" suggested Miss Wheeler, softly. "I ` did not," said the mate, firmly; whereupon Miss Wheeler, who wa of penny romancism, sighed and shook her head. "There's that pore gal upstairs, said Mrs. Wheeler, sorrowfully, "al innocent and happy, probably expect ing him to come to -night and take he out, Emuia'd better go up and breal it to 'et " "I will," said Fraser, shortly. "Better to let a woman do it," said Mrs. Wheeler. "When our little Jemmy smashed his finger we sent IEmma down to break it to his father and bring 'im 'ome . It was ever ` so long before site let you' know the truth, wasn't it, father?" "Made me think all sorts of things. with her mysteries," said the dutiful Mr. Wheeler, in triumphant corrobora- tion. "First of all she made me think you was dead; then I thought you was all dead—give me such a turn they 'ad to give hie brandy to bring me round. When I found out it was only Jemmy's finger, I was nearly off my 'ed with joy." "I'll go and tell her," interrupted Mr. Eob Wheeler, delicately, using the inside edge of the table -cloth as a serviette. 'I can do it better than Emma can. What she wants is com- forting; om- forting;'Eiiima would go and snivel all over her." Mrs. Wheeler, raising her head from the sofa, regarded the speaker with looks of tender admiration, and the young man, after a lengthy glance in the small pier -glass ornamented with colored paper, which stood on the mantelpiece, walked to the door. "You needn't trouble," said Fraser, slowly; "I'm going to tell her." Mrs. Wheeler's dull eyes snapped sharply. "She's our lodger," she said, aggressively. "Yes, but I'm going to tell her," re- joined the mate; "the skirper told me to." A startled silence was broken by Mr. Wheeler's chair, which fell noisily. "I mean," stammered Fraser meet- ing the perturbed gaze of the dock - foreman, "that he told me once if any- thing happened to him that I was to break the news to Miss Tyrell. It's been such a shock to me I hardly know what I'm saying." "Yes, you'll go and frighten her," said Bob Wheeler, endeavoring to push past him. The mate blocked the doorway. "Are you going to try to prevent me going out of a room in my own house?" blustered the young man. "Of course not,' said Fraser, and, giving way, ascended the stairs be- fore him. Mr. Wheeler, junior, after a moment's hesitation, turned back and, muttering threats under his breath, returned to the parlor. Miss Tyrell, who was sitting by: the window reading, rose upon the mate's entrance, and, observing that he was alone, evinced a little surprise as she shook hands with him. It was the one thing necessary to complete his discomfiture, and he stood before her n a state of guilty confusion. "Cap'n Flower couldn't come," he stammered. The girl said nothing, but with her dark eyes fixed upon his flushed face waited for him to continue. "It's his misfortune that he couldn't come," continued Fraser, jerkily. "Business, I suppose ?" said the girl, after another wait. "Won't you sit down?" "Bad business," replied. Fraser. He , at down, and fancied he saw the way lear before him. "You've left him on the Foam, I uppose?" said Poppy, seeing that she vas expected; to speak. "No; farther back that that," was he response. "Seabridge ?" queried the girl, with an air of indifference. Fraser regarded her with an ex- ression of studied sadness. "Not so far. back as that," he said, softly. Miss Tyrell manifested a slight rest- essness. "Is it a sort of riddle?" he demanded. "No, it's a tale," replied Fraser, not vfthout a secret admiration of his un- uspected powers of breaking bad ews "a tale with a bad ending" 'the girl misunderstood him. "If you man that Captain Flower doesn't want to come here, and sent you to say o- )' :he began, with dignity. (To be continued) . Turning way Wrath. 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It reminded one skipper, who invariably took to drink! t when his feelings were touched, of the death of a little nephew from" whoop- ing -cough, and he was so moved over a picture he drew of the meeting oft p the two, that it took four men to gets him off the schooner without violence. The mate sat for some time after I tea striving to summon up sufficient courage for his journey to Poplar,' s and wondering whether it wouldn't.! perhaps he better to communicate the' y. news by letter. He even went so far 111 as to get the writing' materials ready, and then, remembering his promise to the skipper, put them away again and prepared for his visit. The crew, „ who were on deck, eyed him stolidly ns he departed, and Joe made a remark to the enylk, which that worthy drowned in a loud and troublesome "cough. The Wheeler family were at home when be arrived, and recieved hint with some :surprise. 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Cribs used for storing seed ears should be raised several feet off the ground and made as open as possible. ' ;,...) To secure best results they should be linedwith wire screening to exclude minee and rats, and should in no case exceed four feet in width at the bot- tom and five feet at the top if flint varieties are to be stored. As dent cormspack less closely, the .cribs for storing dent varieties may safely be made five feet at the bottom and seven at the top. While this. system is not to be recommended, this hint, to those who follow it may not he out of place. In case the corn is.. not thoroughly dried when damaging frosts come, do not expect to find' the most vital corn in the centre of the crib. From what has been said pre- viously regarding the necessity of ade- quate ventilation the reason for this will be evident. A convenient and satisfactory meth- od is the rack method. These racks are strong, light and inexpensive and; make it easily possible to make a care-:. ful study of the corn at any time. The corn rests on inch slats so as to ,admit air freely from below. Best results will be secured by placing but one row of corn at a time, as other- wise too many ears would be together, and moulding and possiblygermina- tion would result. Some growers husk and store sweet corn as soon as ripe. On a bright drying morning they husk it and leave it in the field in small pies until the middle of the afternoon, when they haul it to the seedhouse and store it the same as dent corn. Artificial heat is rarely used in curing sweet corn, as the cob is very liable to mould be- fore it becomes dry. When fermenta- tion sets in the grain is quickly dis- colored, and its germinating power is seriously impaired. Sweet corn, if left for some time in the shock before husking, is rarely good enough for planting, and if left untouched to ma- ture on the stalk will rarely give sat- isfactory results. Mr. T. S. Hunt, of Ames, Iowa, af- ter making a thorough comparative test of the most common methods of storing seed corn as practiced by far - niers, in which he tested mature, me- dium and immature corn, stored in fourteen different ways, and continued his investigations the following Spring by conducting germination tests in the greenhouse, and in the field, con- cluded: "When corn is mature the problem of storing it is comparatively easy. "All places of storing which bad a lack of ventilation show it distinctly in the results. "In immature and medium mature corn the dryness of the sample bears a close relation to the percentage ger- mination. "Immature corn cannot be made to give a high enough test for planting under any of the methods tried. "Frost will not injure perfectly dry corn, but it will tend to decrease the vitality from the time the seed begins to absorb moisture. "The first essential in successfully storing seed corn is thorough ventila- tion."—From entila-tion."—From lecture by Prof. L. S. Klinck, McDonald College, Que. Trees Increase Crops. Trees will actually increase the yields of crop. This was determined by an investigation in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. It was found that 1-5 of the farm, could be in trees without reducingthe yield. That is, trees in protecting the crops increased the crops enough to make up for the space occupied by the trees. From this it is plain that the result- ing trees would not cost anything Jr sept the cost of the planting and &, ' This same thing has been found to be the case in Europe. As a rep the. general plan there is to have 1-` adie land area in trees. And the reason is that this is the way that the greatest returns are secured. 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