The Exeter Advocate, 1915-9-23, Page 2The 0.reen Seal
1Iy Cl-1AlteLES. ROMOI' DS WALK
Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby,?
"The Time !rock," etc..
`fix Tthe-way places. I have spent one va-; GERMANY TO BLAME,
n cation at San Diego and one in Sani
„rtti ' Francisco, beside:, having made sev- T
' oral trips to nearby towns; otherwise' Learned Bavarian Places Responsi.
my whole horizon is bounded by Los bility for War.
Angeles. Any woman placed as I
am would have answered that letter, Dr. Gruber, one of Barvaria's' most
lir, Ferris, and ,been on needles and learned professors, has been lecturing
pins till she got another," on "War, Peace and Biology," and.
"You see=n to have gotten several" comes to . some remarkable con-
-=-for she teas holding out another en- i • nt.
anegee
Petn—
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CHAPTER IV,—(Cont'd). ! cath all thed t' sof light and
"Enough of this. We are' getting', Clark and all the nuances of shading;
morbid and it's all beside the point that blended these different hues into
anyway, What information did your one. It was, I know, the most beauti- t
hunt Lois alive you?" ful hair in the world.
god and implored her to, but the very that elle had laid aside her notebook
thought we it seems so terrible to her e'-nd pencils. She was now carrying
elope, "Did anything come of it' c usmo
?', , , "This war, he declares, was =nevi-
al "Well, no," she said slowly.' «That's i table and unavoidable, It might have
another queer thing about it; the epi-• been postponed,- but it had to come
so a as no :en e ye , or, ra er, i sooner.or a er. is i e o e a a
c a gra aion d h t dd t• th t I t fit dl t db t
came to an abrupt end without getting who is most to blame for the out,.
anywhere. But read the rest of break of hostilities. As a matter of
hese astonishing, letters and you will feet Germany was to blame says the
I
at London and had -followed Miss moral sense. Germany is to blame be
-
"None, Since that day I have beg -As I remarked before, I observed;
"
that I ,grewafraid to insist, What- eeveral letters, and I recognized a
.; yellow Western Union envelope, She
ever horrors may remain unrevealed y i
now all that I know." ' " ,
The second letter was postmarked professor,; not blameeworthy in anyr
Fox's reply to the writer's first conn- cause sheehad stretched and used her
mumcation, It was no more definite power tot its utmost,, because- he 4
to me, it is perhaps best that I know moved quickly and gracefully to her
nothing of them," ; former place, and laid the envelopes
"Aluch trouble that might have been in a certain order upon the desk in
averted,") I commented ""has been front of her.
caused },l�iy a misguided policy of ":It is a strange story I have to
eilenee,? Nothing your aunt might tell tell, Mr. Ferris," she began with an
y'ou.- child be worse than this cruel apologetic smile. "If you have no
ge
unrelieved half -knowledge." ' other interest in listening, I believe
"But what's the use, . Ferris? A' its strangeness alone will pay you for
fact like this can't be relieved. Aunt the few minutes you are kind enough
Lois proposed that we go away some -'o to",give mec
-where where we were unknown; but I Of coure I'm interested,"I sane
refused. I couldn't agree to uch a dickens." "I'm as curious as the
faint-hearted course. After looking dee k ens well. I ho e what I have to
at the matter from every conceivable • relate v�.u'tl supply you with some clue
angle I determined to fight it out
right here. You can't alter the truth, uit, no, i - absurd to expect any -
by trying to run away from it. thing of the k
"And you did exactly right," I' She selected the first one of the
envelopes and continued:
.iP
sincerely assured her. ! "Here is a mighty queer letter for
A silent pause fell. We were busy!
with out thoughts, By and by I said: any girl to get; it came to me the see -
'Tow of last December—more than
l=ow did Hardwick learn about, four months ago. It speaks for it -
She hook her head. ""I cant m -
your father?"
o self, except that it is the first intima-
- tion I ever had that any such person.
agine. It's something Aunt Luis and existed. You see," she sadly added,
I supposed was secret between us, and , "how little I know about my past.
our habits of life have grown out of And what little I do know is hardly
an elaborate process of trying to for -t of a nature to encourage me to try
get., to learn more."
The detail som'how clung to me,
demanding consideration; but it She handed me the envelope across
prompted no definite, comprehensiblethe desk, bidding me read its con-
, tents,
:out lissom. I noted, first of all, that it bore an
It's strange,'" I said at last, "that, outlandish foreign stamp, for which
he shoal l have known it all, Besides, the postmark, after I had made it out,
what difference could it have made for accounted. The letter had been mail-
aim? It's not a notorious fact, and ed at Colombo, Ceylon, and was ad -
you are guiltless." I dressed to Miss Fox, in a ricketty
Another silent pause ensued, dur- hand that was suggestive of 1u -derail-
ing which ch she :earned to be revolving, iarity with the pen • I took out the
m.t in,,, in her mind. She looked at; enclosure and with some difficulty de
- ne presently. 1 ciphered the letter. It was not, to
"I've speculated about it a good; describe it charitably, an epistolary
ileal, of course," she said, "but to no i model; its grammar and orthography
purpose." After another moment of; alike left much to be desired, and it
:on:,ideration she pursued with a de-; will be unnecessary to transcribe it
liberate air: ( here
"Within the last few weeks some- After apologizing in an awkward
thing has happened that may or may? manner for addressing a young lady
not throw some light on the subject, I who was a stranger to the writer,
though I must confess that I can't the latter then said he was on a
see how. I hate to trouble you with, steamship en route from Singopore
private affairs, but I have been just;to Gibraltar, a long journey which
wild to ask—"( afforded him his first opportunity in
"Huh!" I grunted inelegantly, many years to write at length. It
"This is no time for nice observances would seem that in his case the art
of propriety and decorum, If I of letter -writing was an operation re-
thought you'd withhold anything now quiring time, patience, and persevere
I'd raise Old Ned, and he's been dead mice. He hoped to have the letter
an age of blue moons. So you'd bet-' finished by the time the -ship touched
ter be candid`with me.�� 4 at Colombo.
She flashed a bright smile at me Then the writer's purpose was re -
and got up from her chair. vealed in a declaration that if Lois
"I'll take you at your word," said Fox was the young lady he had. nu -
she. "The queerest thing that ever merous reasons for suspectin; her to
happened to a girl has happened to be,it would be to her great advent -
me only recently. I'll tell you about ae to communicate with him at once.
it when I get some letters and a tele- It had been only during the preceding
gram from my desk. It will take month (November), that he had heard
but a minute." of her existence together with suf-
I returned to my chair and waited ficient of her history to promet him
while she went to fetch them. to write at all, .and if she proved to
lie the right person the matter was of
CHAPTER V. enough importance for him to make
Meet Fox was absent only a few the long journey to Los Angeles ex
seconds, and when she reappeared I pressly to see her.
observed that she laid aside her note- He gave an address in London
book and all the pencils except one where a letter to him would be 'held
that was thrust through the heavy pending his arrival there.
bronze coil of her hair. After an attempt to allay whatever
That pencil must have been a doubts and misgivings his strange let -
badge of her profession; I never knew ter may have excited, he assured her
her to use that particular one, and I she need have no hesitation about re -
can not remember ever to have seen plying, as he was a man of sixty -odd,
her without it. After the first day and though unmarried it was because
she began to affect a plainer cos- he had always been too considerate
tome than the one I had first seen her of womankind ever to ask one' to
in: a plain, dark tailor-made skirt and' share his rough mode of life and ad -
white shirt waists with high collars,, venturesome career. "But," he added,
and noejewelry at all, not even a ,"don't get the idee , theres enny
ring; but no amount of bullying or brokin hartes laying round, because
coaxing could persuade her hair Ide run from a Woman quickeren i
to refrain from coquetting. It was would from a Gattlin Gun which last
constantly falling into curls and. ring- i no somethin about. I cant say the
lets and waves, each blessed one pos- same of wimmin."
aessing its own peculiar allurement; The name signed to this curious
and at some angle or other the sharp-
ened pencil ' invariably was thrust
through it.
I have said that her hair was brown,
and that it was bronze; the truth of
the matter is that it was of many
shades. Here there was a shining
lock, as golden as ripe wheat, trying
to lose itself in another that was
darker than a hazel -nut. And there
were other locks that were like bur-
nished copper, or were frankly red,
and as she moved her head one might
epistle was "James Strang."
Despite its illiterate composition,
there was a certain unmistakable ring
of sincerity about it, a rough sort of
courtesy, that prompted me to say:
"You answered it, of course?"
"Certainly," Miss Fox returned.
"Aside from its promise of benefit to
me, it excited my curiosity. I never
heard of anybody by the name of
Strang; and as for Singapore, Cey-
lon and the rest, why, I have no asso-
ciations whatever with such out -of-
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re imparting information than the years it had increased in population
other had been, except that it reiter- from 40 to 68 millions. The war was,
ated the former assurances That if therefore, aibiological necessity.
Miss Fox were theright person,some
g t The war says the professor, has be -
great advantage would accrue to her come a battle of ideas, caused by
through the writer's instrumentality. conceptions
As to the nature of the advantage no
varying p . ons of human .d. ouch
hint was given„ The reason ad- opinent and 'of human freedom.
tante fax reticence was a plausible n , d - I conclusion Professor. Gruber
tion: Miss Fox might prove not to lee mands for the future, One .of these
the person whom the writer was seek must be a strengthening of the na I
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one, namely; after a: fuller investigae mentioned certain "biological de
ing, in which event he did not want time by a large increase of the pope-
laden, and to such an extent that Ger-- Protect the Skunk.
th
to excite hopes and then be obliged to
'reappoint em many will be rendered invulnerable.
The missive then categoricallyulaid If the population of the Empire grows
down a number of questions, ail of P
which, with one important exception, at the rate of the first Ave years of
related to her infancy, a period of this century it will have reached 250, -
which she possessed only the haziest 000,000 in the year 2,000.
t. inconclusivesort and mos o.t of knowl-
edge, ;.- -,
Whether effected intentionally or ANAAIrA.N GOV>ItI�T1VtE1�T
otherwise, a peculiarity of these in- THE C
tei.•rogations was to be found in the OFFERS SUGGESTIOIrrS FOR
circumstance that they betrayed no -
I. e un.
The skunk stands among the most
important animals that choose for
their diet insects harmful to the farm-
er. It is the best-known enemy of army
worm, including the common army
worm, the wheat head army worm
and : the fall army miy worm,of which
h
are destructive to small grains, coni
and grasses, and cause heavy losses
Ievery year to farmers, according to
the United States department of agri-
culture's biologist,
Two kinds of tobacco worms, which
also attack tomato and potato plants
' are eaten by the skunk in large num-
'bars." These worms change their diet
from tobacco to tomatoes with such
FRUIT PRESERVING.
thing which our own limited conver- In an advice circulated throughout
sauce with the facts enabled us to Canada, the Fruit Branch Dept. at
consider as being of especial sig Ottawa suggests as being best . for
preserving purposes, certain brands
of peaches; St. johns, Elbertas, Craw-
fords and Smocks, and for plums
Bradshaws, Gages, Lombards, Reine
Claude.
The advice is timely and to it may
be added that many of the most sue-
cessful makers of preserves have for
years insisted on securing from their
again, in a manner not stetted, only grocers the St. Lawrence Extra Gran -
last November, ulated Sugar (Pure Cane).
There was one other thought which It is well known that the slightest
the character and tone of these let- organic impurity in sugar will start
fermentation in the jam, and St. Law-
rence Sugar which tests over 90%
pure has never failed the housewife.
lets s daughter—so the reflection Grocers everywhere can fill orders
shaped itself—was his reluctance to for this sugar. The best way to buy
be more communicative prompted by it is in the original refinery sealed
an inherent sense of delicacy in an
otherwise rough nature, an instinctive
desire not to wound or offend, or had
he at some time in the past -been an
associate of Willets's—a "pal" in
the fugitive bandit's earlier criminal
escapades —and was his secretiveness
to be attributed only to selfish .motives
of shielding himself? There was no
apparent way of determining.
Among the questions the exception
referred to in a previous paragraph
seemed to me to be one which should
determine the question of identity de-
finitely.
"Why, bless you!" I exclaimed when
it fell under my eye. "This ought to
settle it. Listen." And I read aloud
from the second letter, disregarding
the spelling; " `Have you anywhere on
your body a crazy -looking design tat-
tooed?" I looked sharply at her,
with kindling excitement.
"Have you?" I asked.
My bluntness, I realized too late,
'was embarassing to her, altogether
'too personal; but for the moment de-
vouring curiosity blunted my gentle-
manly instincts—to my discredit, be
it confessed, when compared with the
unpolished Mr. Strang's natural for-
bearance and restraint. I was unpar-
donably rude. When I noted a wave
of color mounting to Miss Fox's
cheeks, I found myself exceeding un-
comfortable.
. I began an awkward apology, add-
ing:
dding: "You need not answer, of course.
I can .only plead that this muddle
makes me forget myself. `You are
not moved from your balance, though;
I don't see how you take it so calmly."
She smiled forgiveness -indeed,
showed a disposition to;, ignore my
awkwardness and to discuss the mat-
ter frankly. Laying a hand upon her
bosom, she replied to my question:
"I have such a mark—right here.
But it is not a tattoo -mark; it is too
irregular and purposeless in design to.
be that. Besides, Aunt Lois has as-
sured me that it is a birthmark."
"Well," I commented at length, "it
is at least a curious coincidence that
such a thing exists. It sounds like
the identifying mole on the stolen
heiress of good old orthodox melo-
drama. How did you ereply to that
question?"
"I described it to Mr. Strang much
as I have to you:"
There were only two more letters:
a second written from London, de-
ploring the fact that Miss Fox could
give no more definite information.
about herself, but adding the encour-
aging statement that the little •: given.
almost: satisfied Strang that sire was
the person -he suspected her to be. It
concluded by saying that the writer
would sail for New York as soon as
certain business was disposed of, and
that she would without fail again hear
from him when he arrived in that
city.
The last letter was written at New
Yorks -and merely mentioned his safe
arrival and the train he was to take
for the West.
The telegram, which had been • sent
from Denver, read "Arrive Los An-
geles Saturday afternoon.. It bore
the date of April 17th.
"Why," observed I, "that was only
last Thursday! Did he show up Sat-
urday ?"
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has not showed up
o. He at all,
and I don't know what to think. There
has-been nothing since i;he^telegram.
(To be continued.)
Up to the Wrong Ears:`
Knicker—Is Jones up ° to his ears
in debt?
Boclzer—Worse;- it has come . to
other people's ears, too.
nificanee—excepting, as already point-
ed out, they were confined to a period
when she was scarcely more than a
baby,
The point of this conclusion was:
If Miss Fox was the girl James Strang
suspected her to be, she had dropped
out of his life some time during her
infancy, and he had heard of her
ters prompted in my mind, but which
I did not voice to Miss Fox. If the
writer believed her to be Steve Wile
,
adaptability that they have "spread
over wide axeasuin the United States.
The skunk's eagerness for the worm is
such that he will dig them out from
the ground in great numbers in the
late summer and destroy them.
The white grub is also dug for by
the skunk and consumed by him, and
the strawberry growers generally re-
gard this animal with favor, even
though in its eager search for the
grubs it .may uproot the plant or eat
a few berries. The skunk also eats
packages 2 or 5 lbs. cartons, 10, 20, many mature May beetles and June
bugs which hatch from the white
! grubs.
ISkunks also
o destroy the hop
grub, b.
,
grasshoppers,cut-worms,crickets,
sphinx moths, sweet potato
beetles,
Colorado potato bbeetles, field . mice
and rats, The animal is especially
useful in destroying the rats and mice
that commonly infest farm buildings.
If a skunk takes up his residence
near premises where these rats are
abundant,, it will remain there if not
disturbed until practically all of the
rodents are destroyed.
So useful,an animal should be fully
protected. With insects increasing
with wonderful rapidity, the farmer
and gardener is put to great expense
and labor in fighting them, and any
animal that will help the cultivators
of the soil to fight their insect battles
should be encouraged and protected.
Many farmers are shortsighted
enough to kill every skunk they can
25, and. 1.00 lbs. bags.
Identifying Dead Soldiers.
Bach of the armies in this great
war, says the Christian Herald, has a
system that enables it to identify the
dead. The Russian soldier wears a
numbered badge; the French= soldier
has an identification card stitched
into his tunic; the German soldier has
a little metal disk that bears his
name; the British soldier has an alu-
minum disk, with identification marks
and church affiliations; the Japanese
soldier has three disks, all alike, one
'round his neck, another in his Belt,
and another in his boot; and the Aus-
trian soldier has a gun-metal badge,
with bs name on a tiny parchment
leaf within. The Turk is the only .sol-
dier so lightly valued that he carries
no badge. Identification is evidently
regarded as unnecessary in his case.
The best way to get along with
some people is to get along without
them. ,
find, to obtain for the skin a price
that seems high, but is nothing as.
cornpared with the good it does,
Protect Stock From Flies.
Relief from attacks by flies may be
brought to live stock on the farm by
the use of sprays. The following
spray is suggested by F. L. Washburn,
entomologist of the Minnesota college
of agriculture.
Three parts of fish Oil and one part
kerosene, The spraying is best done
with a knapsack sprayer, and it takes
only two or three minutes to spray a
steer or horse. The spray appears to
keep off all flies for two days,
The Split Log Drag.
The split lag ,drag has 'contributed
more toward the economic mainten-
ance of public highways than any,
implement of modern usage. It does
not require special acts of the legis-
lature, bond issues or expensive educa-
tional campaigns to make it avail-
able as usually proceeds construction
work. A drag canbe built or pur-
chased far $20 and easily operated by
anyone who can drive a team,
Pruning Dent's.
Don't prune with an ax.
Don't cut off the lower limbs.
Don't cut off the short spurs.
Don't leave stubs.
Don't use dull tools.
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John .Redpath, who in
1 854 produced "Ye Olde
Sugar Loafe"— the first
sugar "made in Canada".
Redpath Sugar has been growing
_better and. more popular ever since.
When there " seemed no further room
for improvement in the sugar itself,
decided advance byintro•
we made a
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These completed a series of individual
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ti
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2
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g
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