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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1920-09-03, Page 7:MEMBER the sea or arts desperately, "What brings me?' ween friends? Why, I hay* elped in such matters. Parden akes and a better understand. good remedies." e between man andwomatt- d and wlfet" not the same remedies good?" s not respectful for me to ask ch questions. You will think ly silly. Good people do not tch love as-" She checked and did not speak until be ed her. could like to understand a bit -to help if I can," he urged, "You need not fear! I zany things. It is my duty to .if I am to help." drew a long breath. "Yes, be- ,friends --between husband and there can be hard words and _, looks --but afterwand a kiss or • of the hand, and all is welt I have seen. I know.." Then ly she burst out of her repreat "But there's something elsel ade up of dreams and wishes wings! It's all on fire, it snaps sera at all who say 'no' to s up everything, it is wonder- ! beautiful.,It's a heavenly light more than sunshine—and then s out and leaves everything What has gone? Can it ie brought back ?" In her ex - y, words for her passion had riven her! pondered. "I am finding it hard ever you, my daughter. I do tow much about that kind of I believe there has been much written about it. I, suppose then one finds it it is beautiful. say. Beautiful as sunshine, It But it would be dangerous to 1 on. storing one's supply of ne in a vessel. which could be spilled sunshine could not -be gathered up again." d so that kind of love cannot ought back?" she asked, rim ately. t you have called it a dream, aughter. You seem to have ! it well. All dreams . are soon Fd, dreamt deceive, dreams are' ',hinge, I think- o'ie should be • come back tc honest life, wak- e frtrin the dreg n." ,continued next week.) It off COrflS! c't hurt a bit and Freezon• asts only a few cents. your Anent You can lift at d corn, soft corn, or corn between- , etweus, said ties ]!yard akin calluses from of feet. y bottle of "Freezouc" coats litt3e drug store; apply a few drops ke tern •r callus.. Instantly Mt urting, then shortly you lift fiat me corn or callus right off, rose neat ose bit of pair or sore - l No kusabugl 30211814COUGHS READ .DIRECTIONS CAREttILLY AND / ' tis Fatipw THEM / EXACTLY f of all Fly :Killers tae Pack et at all f ruggistS, ere and General Stores :hildren err FOR nEntiffil s:.! A SEPTEMBER 3, 1920. BUTTER AT FAIRS S for Farmers' Wives With Dairy Exhibits. Viavor in meter of First Import- * --.- lli'irnnnees Also • Strong_ Point—How to Cure and Pack In Best Condition tor Showing. (Contributed by Qntar(o Usptirtnnent of Agriculture, Tot -brae.) 4 0 show or not to show," that is the question many a woman thinks over as the time draws near for the holding of the annual fall fair. There are some who would not miss the event, and make entries in many Masses; while others are rather timid about exhibiting, especially if they are doing it for the first time. Let us take the eIlibiting of but- ter. Sometimes „ wolltan goes home from the fair felt ing rather hurt be- cause some neighbor took more and higher prizes than she. did. She thought that her butter Was good,. but the other must have been eon- eidered better by the oike who was acting ass judge. There are times when a judge has to riiark very closer to place the prizes. Score eards are not used at all of our fairs, nor do all judges use the same score card, but the one proposed by the National Dairy Council reads as follows, as regards points awarded: Flavor 45 . Texture . 15 Incorporation of moisture. 10 Color . 10 Salting 10 Packing 10 Total 100 The flavor of the butter is a very- ini:portant point to consider. It should be clean and sweet without taint of any kind. An objectionable flavor, no matter how slight; would prevent one recely- ing a full score. Some defects in fla=vor are more serious than others, but many of these could be avoided by taking a lif tle more care.. The care in the stable and in the separator room is just as important as the churning or the holding of the butter afterwards. If a Judge should find two lata of butter with the same -total score he would give the higher place to the lot with the bhtter flavor. The texture of the butter is an- other point. that is taken into con- sideration. Butter should have good body—firm and waxy. You have cut butter that looked good and remained fired on the plate, but you have also seen just the oppo- site to this ----butter that had a greasy appearance, the drops of moisture large and milky, and it b-eatne soft wizen lett in the plate for a short time. The judge comes across just as t=reat cow r;u.t•ts ':,•leen going through the exit!! and he scores accord- - tingly. To secure good ?exture it is neces- sary to make use of suitable temper- atures and to work the Mutter in the right way. Cool 'the ,.ream immedi- ately after separating and churn it at a temperatu-,•e that .will bring the butter in nice firm granules in 20 to 30 minutes. (Too tiigh temperature means soft butter and greater loss in • tbe bu(teIniillt). The temperature of the wash water should be such that it will not make the butter too hard or too soft for working. Work the butter by press- ing it carefully and evenly. A sliding or,cutting motion will tend to make the butler greasy. Overworking should also b' avoided. Butter is worked to shake it compact and to distribute the Pali: and moisture even- ly. V'. h.,n butter is cut the surface shot 1(1 be eioee and the drops of moisture SILO ilU be clear and very minute. The color of the butter Should be c•veu and bright. If the butter is not worked enough the color will be un- even, although this is not noticeable .at (lie time of working. If the butter istoo soft, the salt should be mixed through it, and the butter piaceo where is will come to a proper firrnnc s before working. By doing thin it will score higher for Loth texture and color than it would if worked in the soft state. The salt i'i the butter should be evenly distri- buted and thoroughly dissolve ed. It ass, ff f; l' lawe [+t the h r Paa . ,a.:, very tgniiy t..an Lo nae it, over - The popular- butter ,at the e et eine fee; meld. clean flavor, eiose bogy and light ;;tilting. The finish or packing should also be considered. In fact, the judge will notice the: appearance of the exhibit before he ha had time to draw out a plug of butter on his trier. Let the prints; be well made — solid, even, with clear-cut corners and the papers wrapped neatly. Butter tubs and boxes require a lining of parchment paper, and crocks ::r,outd be in good condition, free from creel,; car Ort ak€< in the glazing. Thu top of a large package should he sinctothlr finished and covered Neatly with t°arca ;c=ent paper. Butter f;,,° < <:liibitioit should be made two cls. t•s or more before the lair to give it time to become set. It elic,elci be kept in a clean cool place on it:c' fail,., and be ilprought to the 1:.tir in :!;c• in -4;c possible condition. Butter merle and cared for in this way will .,cure higher than it would it -birdo the morning of the fair, as is enteetiaie,' the case. ppr, not feel discouraged if you do not r,ecure the prizes that you hoped to win. Try again, remembering the little thyme which says, "Good, better, best, never let it rest, Till yourgood'. I5 better, and your better, best." • ----Miss Belle Millar, 0. A. College, Guelph. Most of the tea that is raised. in Burma is pickled and eaten as a cor.dim.ent. he Rider of the iCing Log By IIOLMAN DAY . HARPER & BROTHERS . (Continued front last week.) "But we mustn't hurt the X. K., Donnie!" "Do you think I'm going to hand Marthorn a couple of men he can use to smash my prospects, the‘same as I'd step up to him and give him two clubs to use on. me? I'm not work- ing for the X. K. just now!\ I'm working for myself, and I needa lot of your • help.,I see you have a letter to write! , I won't bother you. I'll take a walk and do some thinking." The ink on the poised pen was dry. When Donald' slammed the door the old man dipped again and told Noel the Bear, through Lola Hebert, that Donald was down to Ste. Agathe. for a few days. : Abner Kezar urged the Indian to hurry. - `The Feast of the Maize was no mere curtailed festival; it was a hoii- oay season of .happy days and merry nights in, the settlement at the foot of /the. Nubble of - Telos. Men and women youths s and maidens, d ens, put off commonplace clothing and wore the beaded skins and the dyed feathers of the tribal costumes which were laid away in the cedar chests for the rest of • the *year. The old laws were takers from the leather bag and pro- mulgated anew. There were the dances and the plays -the play of -the hunt, ; of the wedding, of the war trail, and all the rest. • And there.was the - day when Lola Nicola Hebert stood above the heads of the people, in a niche in the hornblende cliff of Telos, and was proclaimed princess of the Mellicites. The regal head-dress which old Noel kept cached in a cave at the foot of Telos - was brought forth and set upon her dark hair;. she was given the staff and the sacred tokens; she swore the oath. Old Noel smiled when he saw the joys with which she, was received. ; He had reckoned on it. He was building for the future. Ile had faith that the tribal loyalty . which had been luke- warm under the rule of a centenarian would respond to the more romantic influence of a handsome girl. - But Lola sighed with relief when they took off thehead-dress and she was glad when she was permitted to wash from her forehead and her cheeks the delicate stripings and the scrolls which the . medicine -man had paintedthere''with narraw brush of moose -hair dipped in the juices of herbs and berries. It was all over! The festival was ended. They could, go back to the river—to the pathway her hopes glorified for her. On the trail a messenger met them, the son of Mitch Polysusep, bringing the letter from Abner Kezar. Lola read its few lines, the color flaming into her cheeks. "He is at Sainte Agathe!" she whispered when olcl Noel bent ear to her mouth at her signal. • •"It's from the grandfather. Re says to hurry," Thi chief turned from her radiant face and Iput hand to his breast, feel- ing the sacred wampum, the last few strings of the 'old heritage, hanging from his neck under his shirt. The bargain had been ratified; he was the debtor; he must pay. But there was somber sorrow in him; he had been thinking much, through the days and the nights of the festival. Was he buying for„her w'it'h--h-is sacred wam- pum the ,sorrow of 'an awakening? However, there was man's oath; there was woman's beauty. Might he not hope that they would prevail? It seemed to old. Noel, as he plodded on, that he had never seen the girl - ap- pear so lovely. How could a husband turn from her after she had put fa- ther and mother aside for his sake? "Hurry,” the letter had said. - Perhaps that meant that Donald had asked for that word in the let- ter. Was it not likely that the grandfather had mentioned the name of Noel in spite of a promise to keep -1 silent? White men were very care- less about keeping their word to In- dians! Noel, in his simplicity, strove. to make augury that would hearten him; he needed to be comforted. He would hurry. He would fulfil his promise to her; he had told her that they would ko to find her hus- band and had predicted that Donald would love her when his eyes saw her. So, in order to hurry, he asked them to -bring out the sachem -canoe at Olammun landing; it was a big canoe with -laces for four. ' He did not need to ask for volunteers to man the paddles of bow and stern; Dunos and Peter Francis, the brothers, distant kin of Lola through Noel, insisted and were preferred. Up the river - reaches went the WILI,ONS Kill them all, and the germs too. lOc a packet at Druggists Grocers and General Stores. TILE HURON EXPOSITOR sachem -canoe„ the paddles flashing, thele hurrying bow� bursting foam - bells. And at last they lifted ashore at Ste. Agathe—and on the sand of the narrow beachthe old Indian and the girl stood looking at each other. Their hesitation.: : confessed the pitiful inadequacy they felt; They shrank from the actual testing of their hopes. After a time he put out his band to her and led her away from the shore. "I'll go. Tell him you have come. Mebbe best," he suggested. "Yes, grandpere! That is best. It might trouble him to have me come upon him suddenly. You explain to him. I will do just as he tells me to do." She gazed arpund her, seeking some sort of sanctuary, a bit bewil- dered and plainly ill at ease -in the unwonted atmosphere of a village, with its squalling mills and its stores and its- strolling inhabitants. "I'll go to the porch of the church on the hill, grandpere. It seems quiet up there. And I can be saying a bit of a prayer while I'm waiting. ' I know he will come .to me when he hears that I haven't any home any more. Make -him understand that -I have conte to him because I had to come. I hope he won't be angry when you tell him." "Mott like be glad. Hope so. ,Yes, mebbe so!" declared old Noel, clinging as long as possible to his self-impos- ed illusions. Now that he was on the ground he dreaded to touch with . investigation a veil behind which might lurk truth which was ugly. The nearer he approached -to Donald Kezar the keen instinct of the savage in- formed Noel that he had undertaken the . impossible. He watched the girl till she was half -way up the hill and then he trudged to the Kavanagh office. There were men at the wicket and he waited till they had finished their business, with Abner Kezar and had gone out. Then he went and' pushed a string of wampum across the desk. "Owe it. Pay now!" "Sp you got, the letter all right. eh?"_ The chief had nerved himself to an ordeal and wanted to get it over with. "Just a word with me before you see 'Donald. I want to ask you where you got the hint that he is going to be married. Is it talked about quite a lot?" "Mebbe." Noel's composure was not disturbed. He had dropped his hint as to a wedding -gift in the way of grim jest. "You're no blab -mouth, Noel! I know you must have heard something pretty straight. Have you heard that Miss Kavanagh has said anything about Donald? r" The chief's jowls sagged and quiv- ered. "How Miss Kavanagh?" "Why, wasn't that what you meant when you spoke about giving the boy a present?" "Him marry Miss Kavanagh?" It was some time before Noel spoke and the words seemed to tear his throat. "Probably. That's the arrangement as far as it has, gone," said the grandfather resolved not to drop his air of assurance before this peering Indian. "Look here, if you can trace that hint back to Miss Kavanagh, I'll hand you ten dollars, Noel. Now how did you know anything about such a prospect, anyway?" '"Me tell him first. Then mebbe him tell you!" Abner. Kezar had been so often the victim of Donald's blustering moods that the Indian's caution appeared understandable. "I guess it's the best way, chief. He gets peppery if he thinks anybody is interfering with his business." - "Him where?" "In, the house. Go knock on the door," Noel walked between the rows of the garden's withered herbage and clacked bony knuckles on the door panel. The housekeeper admitted him. He walked in past the old wo- man while she was expostulating; she was explaining that Mr. Donald was very busy, getting ready -to go away. "Must see!" announced Noel, and he spoke so loudly .that his voice call- ed the young man into the hallway. "In here! Come in here! Pll see you," was the host's hasty invitation. And when he had closed the door he. urged, sullenly, yet . anxiously: ,"Now, no foolishness! Speak low. Just a minute! I suppose it's about 'Lola! Now I'll 'tend to all that very soon, Noel. Look there!" He pointed to a leather travelling -bag which lay open on the bed. "I'm starting for the city on important business. You go tell her. Say that I'll be back pretty soon and everything will be fixed up right. Understand?" The chief shook his head. "What do you mean?" asked Keiar with anger. "I've just give you plain words," "Iluh! Words! What more?" "That's enough—my word—till I can get back and straighten 'things out." "Word to me not enough! You go tell her." "Good blazes! I'm packing up! I'm taking the down train. I haven't any time to go to her: Tell her to rest easy." He tried to hide his anger and to affect sincerity, but he was not very successful. "Can see her quick. She's here!" Under the Indian's searching gaze the young man's looks betrayed his thoughts inore eloquently than words; it was certainly not the demeanor of an expectant lover or a delighted hus- band. "Here ? Where?" The window of the room command- ed a view of the church on the hill. Noel contented himself with pointing. It was a long way to the church, but in that little blur of bluff under the porch the old Indian evoked visible sign that he had spoken the truth. Kezar turned from the window with fury. t "How the hell does that girl dare c to come up here after what I- have s told her? You ght to have stopped her.". •t "She no bla e., Me brought her," stated Noel, avely, eager to assume t allthe burden. "You take her back. At once!" I D "After you go talk—mebbe!" c "I'm not going up there to talk. I d "She a me here to house, eh?" "Da ,ationl Of course not! What's the matter with you - two?" "Thenyou don't take her for your wife?" asked the Indian, bluntly, plunging straight at the dreaded truth. - I But Kezar, though. he opened his mouth to declare himself in regard (oto that marriage, managed to get his passion under partial control. He could not afford to dight the fuse of a dangerous bomb at that moment and leave it burning while he was absent from the Toban. "That's her business and mine, 'and she and I will. settle it at - the right time." Noel struck fists against his breast. "My business; now." "Looks . to me as if every Indian in ! this seetion is making it his bu-siness. Where do you fit in?" "Po nae you '''She " a "Let it 'go at that. She and I will look after the rest Of it."' Tocanant_d tell her."` I went --I haven't the i time." - "You see her there! No home. I Hes left it. You take her." "Left her home? Has run away? She must go back and`keep still, tell her. They'll take her back. I'll ex- - plain later to her. You must get her out of this village at once, Noel." "You call her your wife?" "I call her teothing—not now, till things are straightened out."' f "Then I say; 'My business!'" "It would be a fine thingin; this country if ministers who hahitched . up' folks went running around 'after- ward, butting in!" "Nat know about ministers. Not care. But to, me --the. chief, --you gave the Big Word." He put proud and solemn stress on his name for the Mellicite oath: "Man with squaw , _—it's bad! But man with mat," he pounded his breast, "you pay!' - Neither of them spoke for a long time after that declaration,. "You mean to say that you'll force me- to take that girl, here and now, and say she's my wife?" "No." "What are. you driving at, then?" The old - chief suddenly put away pride and stolidity. "Me poor man. , Have few words for saying, he con- fessed, stammering in his anxious earnestness. "But yourself in here," he laid scrawny hand across his'heart, - "don't it tell you ?" Donald gave the pleader only blank and discouraging -stare. "You . have tell me have tell her —how much you love. Not .any more, eh, in here?" "Oh, that's- another matter -that's all right," hedgd the young man. "You go tell her, eh, it's all right?" Donald shook his head and turned away; busying himself with his pack- ing. "Then it's not :all right. You have talk so much to me—to her! But now not walk few steps? eh, to make her want to keep' ori, living?" In his anguish he -burst the thralls- .of speech to - which his' poor knowledge of the white map's tongue usually confined him. He forced into his plea same of the image of the Mellicite tongue. "Up there is poor White Lily. You found White Lily all pure in little pool what was her home. You took sweet smell; you bruised and you crushed. And . now White Lily is pulled up from pool. She droops and she fades. You can save her . by putting her in your home. But do you break the stalk and throw White Lily away?" This out burst from the Indian astonish Kezar, who had but little knowledge of the poetry of thought - which the taciturnity -of the red man so often conceals. But he was not won over to decency. His face re- mained - hard and he went on stub- bornly with his packing. Many minutes old oel waited', trembling after his appeal, wiping tears from his wrinkled cheeks with the flat of his hand. A locomotive whistle hooted, warns ing that the down train would soon leave the station. "You hear that, Noel! It means that I've got to go. It's the last train down for the day!" "Now you go! But once, when. you follow her and beg, you not go!" "Tell her to be good and wait till I come back." -. "And then ?" - "I tell you it will be her business and mine. You keep out." Hewas locking the bag. The chief went to him and touched him on the arm, "Too much talk." "You're right. I've had enough of it." "So you come back and do what was your word to me. Me wait. Or mebbe she die. Then me take what you owe to Mellicite sachem." "I owe you what?" "The life what 1s then no good to her!" I.Te stepped back and folded his arms. It - was echo of what Sabatis had ; - threatened! But the threat of the young Indian had, somehow, lacked the baleful menace of the declaration of the solemn old chief who stood there, his head almost touching the low ceiling, a portentous statue of Fate.- The young man stared up at the seamed face and into the deep - sunken eyes, and -a quiver of dread shook him, This was an Indian who was obsessed by the fetishism of an oath given to him as chief of the ' tribe; it was an Indian who was so old that his span of years linked the . old savagery in vengeance with a new affront of the present. Here ' was danger. This old man with his single viewpoint could not be reason- - ed with nor bluffed. Kezar fell back on his coward's method of postponing reckonings. "I don't want any trouble with you, Noel. I" come back. I'll square things," r But the chief was not deceived, • 'You are lying. You do not speak ruth—but for words, no matter! You once back. You act truth. So you hall save yourself." "It will have to stand that way for he present, Noel. I'll fix things. Tell her I'm sorry I didn't have time o see her." "You go lie to poor White Lily. on't ask me to lie!" growled the hief. He peered through the win - ow at the blur of buff under tlle- hurch porch and choked. The situation had got beyond the; can't go. It won't do. It '11 start c all kinds of gossip." - • ee young man's control. He was afraid and he was desperate. He !grabbed his bag and started for the door, "I've alittle business at e office—I've e ih v U to catch that train. Be sensible nd tell Abear Keto z bear so,vas t000g." Noelstalked ne s slowly from the house; he knew it was useless to entreat ° any further, though he realized with misery that he had no comfort which he could carry up to the stricken girl, waiting and hoping g and weeping. He stood foz a timein, Abner's garden, looking down on the e dried haws, on the frost - killed flowers,tkon the few hardy blooms which still strove to live. 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