Exeter Advocate, 1913-4-17, Page 2f
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ic of the Garrison
Or, A rlystet iaus
Affair.
CHAPTER IIL--(Cont'd) imaginable potted meat and vege-
As I passed up the High street table.
Mr. MoNei1 ran out from his office It may be imagined that all these
end beckon d to: me to ste eOur incidents were not allowed to pass
ep :: without comment. Over the whole
new tenants have gone out> he
said: "Theydrove over this mare- country: -side there was nothing but
morn-
ing." gossip about the new tenants . of
"I met them on the way," ran-
Cloomber Hall and the masons.
swered As I looked down at the which had led them to come among
little factor 1' could see that his face us. The only hypotheses, however,
wee flushed .and that he bore every which the bttcolie mind could evolve
appearance of having had an extra, was that 'which had already occur
glass, red to Mr.McNeil, the factor'
"Give me a real gentleman to do namely, that the old general and
baseness with,:" he said,. with a his family were one and all afflict-
burst of laughter. "Theyunder- ed with madness, or, as an alterna-
tivestands me and I understads them. conclusion, that he had con
'Wbat shall I fill it up'for.?' says matted some heinous offense and
'the' 'general, taking a blank cheek was endeavoring to escape the con-
the
• o' his pouch and laying it on sequences of his misdeed.s. These
the table. 'Two hundred,' says X, 'were both natural suppositions un
-
the
leaving a bit o' a margin for my der the circumstances; but neither
own time and trouble," of them appeared to comMend itself
"I thought that the landlord paid asf the facts.
It isz true tue hat aGe Gtion eneral Heather -
you for that,:: I remarked.
"`Aye, aye, but it's well to have stone's behavior an 'the oecasion of
a bit margin, He filled it tip and our first interview was such as to
threw it over to me as it it had 'Suggest some suspicion of mental
been an auld postage stamp. That's disease; but no man could have
the way business should be done been more reasonable or more
coubetween honest men -though .it shown rts himus self to be.n he li had
afterwardacin
takeng.' do if one was inclined to his, wife and children led the same.
take anradvantage, Will a not secluded life that he did.himself;
come in, Mx, West, and have a taste so that the reason eould not be one
o'my whiskey?
"`No thank you," said I, "I have peculiar to his own health. As, to
business to do." the possibility of his being; a fugi-
"Well, well business is the chief tine from justice, that theory was
thing. It's well not to drink in the even more untenable, Wigtown -
morning, too, For my own part, shire was bleak and lonely, but it
except a drop before breakfast to was not sitch an obscure corner" of
give me an appetite, and maybe theworld
thatd hope ao well-known
conceal n hsoldier
ldier
a glass, or even two, afterwards to.
self
promote digestion, I never touch there; nor would a man who feared
spirits before noon. It may be that Publicity set every one's tongue
I'm over particular, but it's as well
wagging as the general had done.
to be on the safe side. What a'ye On the whole, I was inclined to be-
think o' the general,. Mr. West ?" lieve that the true solution of the
"Why I have hardly had . an op- enigma lay in -his own allusion to
portunity of judging," I answered, the love of quiet, and that they had
Mr. McNeil tapped his forehead taken shelter here with an almost
with his forefinger. 'That's what I morbid craving for solitude and re-
think o' him," he said, in a eene- pose. W e very soon had an instance
dential whisper. "He's gone, sir, of the great lengths. to which this
in my estimation. Now what would desire for isolation would carry
you consider to be a proof o'. mad -"hie' father had come down one
Hess. Mr. West?"
"Why, offering a blank cheek to morning with the weight of a great
a Wigtown house -agent," said I. determination upon his brow.. "You
"Ah, you're' aye at your jokes. must put on your pink frock to -
But between oorsels-now, if a man day. Esther," said he; "and you,
asked ye how many miles it was John, you must make yourself
free a seaport, and whether ships smart, for I have determined that
come there from the East, and whe- the three of us shall drive round
they there were tramps on the this afternoon and pay our respects
road, and whether it was against to Mrs. Heatherstone and the gen-
the lease for him to build a hill. eras.
wall round the grounds, what would 'CA visit to Cloomber :" cried Es -
ye make of it, eh?" ther, clapping her hands.
I should certainly think him ec-
"Yam. here," said my father, with
centric;" said I. y dignity, "not only as the laird's
""If every man had his due, he agent, but also as his kinsman. In
Id d h' 1' ' h h that cane -city
I am convinced that
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occasion to pass that way and stop-
ped to have another look at the ob
noxious placard.: I was standing
staring up at it and wondering g what
could have induced our neighbor to
take such an outrageous step,"when
I became suddenly aware of'a sweet
girlish face which peeped out at me
from between the bars of the gate,
and of a white hand which eagerly
beckoned me to approach.- As 1 ad-
vanced to her I saw • that it was the
same young lady whom I had'seen
in the carriage.
"'Mr. West," she said, in a. quick
whisper, glancing from side to side,
as she spoke " in a. nervous, - hasty
manner, "1 wish to apologize to you
for the indignity to which you and
your family were subjected yester-
day. My brother was in the avenue
and saw it all, but he is powerless
to interfere. I ,assure you, Mr.
West, that if that hateful thing,
pointing up at the placard, "has.
given you any annoyance, it .has
given my brother and myself far
more."
"Why, Miss Heatheratone?" :said
1, putting the matter off with .a
laugh. "Britain is a free . country,
and if a man chooses to warn off
visitors from his premises there is,
no reason why he should not."
"It is nothing less than brutal,"
she broke out, with a petulant
stamp of her foot. "To think that
your sister., too, should have such
an unprovoked insult offered to her 1
I am ready to sink with shame at
the very thought."
"Pray do not give yourself one
moment's uneasiness upon the -sub-
ject," said I, earnestly, for I was
grieved at her evident distress. "`I
am sure that your father has some'
reason unknown to us for taking
this step."
"God knows he has 1" she an-
swered, with. ineffable sadness in
her voice, "and yet I think.it would
be more manly to face a danger
than to fly from it. However, ha a
knows best, and it is impossible for
us to judge. But who is thisl" she
exclaimed, anxiously peering up the
dark avenue. "Oh, it is my bro-
won fin arose in a house with a trier, Mordaunt. Mordaunt;" she
high wall round the grounds, and. he would wish me to call upon these said," as the young man approached
that without costing him a Earth- newcomers and offer them any po- us, I have been apologizing to Mr.
ing," said the agent. liteness which is in our power. At West for what happened yesterday
"Where then?" I asked. present they must feel lonely and in your name as well as my own..
"'Why, in the Wigtown County friendless. What says the great "I am very glad to have the op-
Lunatie Asylum," cried the little Firdousi? The choicest ornaments portunity of doing it in person,"
man with a buble of laughter in to a man's house are his friends..' " said he courteously. I only wish
the midst of which I rode on Amy My sister and I knew by experi-
way, leaving him still chuckling over enee that when the old man began
his own facetiousness. to justify his resolution by quota
The arrival of the new family at tions from the Persian poets there
•
I could see your sister and your fa-
ther as well as yourself, to tell them
how sorry I am. I think you had
better run up to the house, little
Cloomber Hall had no perceptible was no chance of shaking it. Sure one, for it's getting near tiffin time.
effect in relieving the monotony' of enough that afternoon saw the phae- NoLdon't you go, Mr. West. I
our secluded district, for instead of ton at the door, with my father want to have a word with .you."
entering into such simple pleasures perched -upon tale seat, with his sec-
as the country had to offer, or in ond-best coat on and a pair of new
teresting themselves as we had driving -gloves.
hoped, in our attempts to improve "Jump in, my dears," he cried,
the lot of our poor crofters and cracking his whip briskly, "we shall.
fisher -folk, they seemed to shun all show the general that he has no
observation, and hardly ever to .cause to be ashamed of his neigh -
venture beyond the avenue gates. bora.o
We soon found,too, that the fac- Alas, pride always goes before a
tor's words as to the inelosing of falit• Our well-fed ponies and shin-
ing harness were not destined that
day to impress the tenants of Cloom-
ber with a sense of our importance.
We had reached the avenue gate,
and I was about to get out and
the grounds were founded upon
fact, for gangs of workmen were
kept hard at work from early in
the morning until late at night in
erecting a high wooden fence round
the whole estate. When this was open it, when our attention was ar- lormaid (whose mistress is a well -
the
finished and topped with spikes' rested by a very large wooden pea- known suffragette) :Yes, she's iu°� g the
solution membs isf also
for two months again. l easier applied in the shed than any -
(To be continued.)
Lucky.
Hobo—"I've eaten nothing but
snow balls for three days_"
Lady -"You poor man 1 What
would you have done had it been
summer time I"
It makes a man feel good when
he. is pretty certain he is going to
miss a train and doesn't.
Caller—Is yourmistress in? Par -
SURPRISED LADY ABERDEEN.
.
A millionaire: whose "mind-read-
ing" once astonished Lady Aber-
deen is Warren Y. Soper, vice-pre-
sident of the Ottawa Electrio Com-
pany and director of almost a score
of others.
In his earlier days Mr, Soper was
a telegraph operator, and a good
one, so good,. in fact, that his expert
feats with the Morse code once led
him to give an exhibition, Their
Excellencies Lord and Ladly.Aber-
Aber-
deen—for it was during their stay
in (Canada` --were present.
I On the stage, ° blind -folded, sat a
gentleman, while Mr. Soper, pass-
ing through the, audience, was hand-
,ed
and-,ed a number of articles. Each he
scrutinized, but he neither spoke
nor made any sign, In every case
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out an accurate description of the during the, winter, months, `being al -
article. so ideal places in which the same
Then Lady Aberdeen supplied the Pests deposit,their eggs for season's
supreme test. Writing upon her hatching, and by shaking off all the.
apples that are still'' clinging to the
branches of the trees and picking
up all that are under them, next
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be considerably out down.
Do Not Feed Moldy Corn.
Warren Y., Sober.
programme a sentence,' she handed
it to Mr. Soper, requesting that he
transmit it mentally to'the man on
the stage. "I see aesentence of five
words" called out the "subject" a
few seconds later, and he repeated
the exact words. The astonishment
was profound.
But .when the excitement had died
down Mr. Soper simply said : "Not
telepathy, but telegraphy." And
from his pocket he took a small coil
of wire, the other end of which, en-
closed under a. carpet, was in the
pocket of'the "subject." The mes-
sages had simply been transmitted.
by his expert touch system.
The family remedy for "Coughs and Colds.
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The. Value of the' !ilk Shed. .
Every farmer .should build a small
shed or compartment of some kind
in which to stand the cows at milk-
ing time. The nearer the barn the
better.
It should be well ventilated in the
summer and made warm during the
winter months by setting up fodder
az-mind it .or lining it with building
paper or roofing material.
The shed may be of any size de-
sired, but ample room for one cow_
is all that is necessary. Have nails
arranged on the wall for hanging
milk pails in places of safety while
the cows ale being led to and -from
the shed. -
If there are any sore teats, caked.
udders or otherailments to be
treated, the milk shedt offers a safe
place in which to do it quick and
any trouble with the animals in
hand' will cause no . disturbance
On
Cloomber Park became impregnable
to any one but an exceptionally
daring climber. It was as if the
old soldier had been so imbued with
military ideas that, like my Uncle board was printed in big black let -
Toby, he could not refrain even in ters the following hospitable in-
scription
card, which was attached to one of
the trees in such a manner that no.
one could possibly pass without see-
ing it. On the white surface of this
times of peace from standing upon
the defensive. Stranger still, he
had victualed the house as if for a
siege, for Begbie, the chief grocer
of Wigtown, told me himself that
the general had sent him an order
for hundreds d dozens of every
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We all sat gazing at this an-
nouncement for some moments in
silent astonishment. Then Esther
and I, tickled by the absurdity of
the thing, burst out laughing, but
my father 'pulled the ponies' heads
round, and drove home with earn -
pressed lips and the cloud of much
wrath upon his brow. T have never
seen the good man so thoroughly
moved,; and I am convinced that his
anger did not arise from any petty
feeling of injured vanity upon his
part,. but from the thought that a
slight had been offered to the Laird
of Iiranksone, whose dignity he
represented,,
CHAPTER. IV.
If I had any personal soreness an
account of this family snub, it was
a very passing emotion, and one
which was soon effaced from nay
mind, It chanced that on the very
next day after the 'episode I had
a culled man was where else.
Mr. Baggy—IfWhore one feeds the dews at milk
-
to call ye' a ]rah, sale v Eat would ing time the milk shed removes the
vee do Mr. Slaele-What size cul- difficulty of feeding the cow that is
:lid man, sohl being milked in sight of the other
animals. Some cows will fret and
worry away a large portion of their
milk if another cow is being fed in
sight or hearing of them. Then,
feeding the cow in the milk shed
makes it unneccssary to use so_inany
feed troughs.; 1
By keeping it well cleaned out 1.
and properly- drained the milk' shed
is always ready to lead the cow into'
and milk under agreeable and.sani-
tary conditions. If it be in the:suni
mer time the shed may be darkened
and the pesky flies thus got rid of,
which plans a lot of gelid comfort.
to both the cow and the milker, as
'well as a greater amount of milk,'
With proper ventilation such a shed
is also much cooler than the swel-
tering dairy barn where tho ani-
mals' breath combined with the
heat of their bodies contribute lib-
erally toward the maintenance of a
high temperature,
A. bite of this and a tasteof that, all day
long, dulls the appetite and weakens the
digestion. _ •
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Danger from Rotten Apples.
One of the first things; to he done
is to piek up and burn or bury all
refuse fruit in the orchard which
et decaying or entirely rotten. Time
forma a veritable hotbed for the num-
Miers Corbett is a keen suffragists
and a number of people interested
in the movement were present
the wedding. It was held at t .Iles
sted Keynes, where her father lives;
and the place was the Congrega-
tional Hall of the village.
At one end of the hall.was a plata
form with four chairs upon it, and
to this platform advanced' the bridal'
her farther, the bridegroom.; and the'
best man, while a march was played
Moldy corn will produce blind upon the organ. Then entered the'
staggers in horses, and it should registrar, and the bride and bride
never be fed' to them." Every year groom made the legal deolarati'otts;i
there is considerable trouble with which were supplemented by the
exchange of wedding rings.
The registrar :then retired, and
after a' solo had been sung Hugh'
Chapman of the Savoy, whose sym.J
pathies with the suggestion for the.
omission of the' ``obey" eentence
from .the service are already well'
known, gave a shoat and eloquent'
address. It should be said that by,
this 'time the bridegroom hadex-t
changed places with the bride4
father, so' -that the bride and the:
bridegroom sat together on one sidei
of the platform and the best in:ant
and the bride's father on the other,1
this disease in the West, and in al-
most every case the cause,is moldy
corn. If this corn does not produce
blind staggers, it will tend .to in-
jure the. physical condition of the
animals ' So don't feed it, and be'
careful about pasturing the horses
in stalk fields where there is moldy
corn.
Good Poultry Rules.
It is urged that all farmers and
poultrymen adhere strictly to the
following' rules in handling their
poultry and eggs:
First—Keep the nests clean; pro-
vide one nest for every four hens.
Second -Gather the eggs twice
daily. .
Third -Keep the eggs in, a cool,
dry room or cellar.
Fourth—Market the eggs at least
twice a week.'
Fifth—Sell, kill or confine all
male birds as soon as the hatching
season is over. -
"OBEY" LEFT OUT OF SERVICE
M.P.'s Daughter Who Married Ath-
lete Is a . Suffragette. ,
The recent wedding of Miss Cicely
Corbett, the daughter of C. J. Cor-
bett, the late English Member of
Parliament for one of the Sussex
divisions, had a special interest, as
the ceremony - was arranged so as
to . avoid •.those parts of the Church
,service which include the . wife's.
promise to "obey." •
The bridegroom was C. D. Fish-
er, who was a three-quarter baok
in the Oxford Rugby team of 190;3.
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