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The Exeter Advocate, 1918-3-28, Page 2i44,4 ▪ { fto'HPsk:.rkor' THE pes'trnan and expressman will bring Parker service right to your home, We pay carriage time way. Whatever: you send whether it•kae kao„tlsehold draperies or the most delicatefabric's--w11 be speedily returned to their Original freshness. When you think of Clea,rA�s tit rmn gr Dyeing think of PARKER'S. A most helpful booklet of suggestions will be mailed on request, Parker's Works,,i ted Cleaners and Dyers 791 I ONGE ST. TORONTO 4K kitr' 'f+ l assilase.. Ramsay'sFieFloor Paint is xnade to be 'walked upon, that is the Boor Paint you want. It is time tried for severe usage, There's a Ramsay dealer in your town; consult Tim, o Write us for booklet. 'A. RAM.SAY & SON COMPANY Matters of Paint' and Varnishes since 1842 TORONTO MONTREAL VANCOUVER sieenassas Maga 11111111111111111li taafi c Yeiae ll For Sale by all Dealers.. to etw .f ins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. "Yee," said Ronald .absthactedly, .' tether he was goingto sa more; WANTED for the shilling shockr had a sequel, She waited fora moment to see Sweet or Churning Cream, Highest way ? p cava, which likewise had found its ' into market rices pada, '4�o supply the papers, Tn a more or less delicately nay axpress Charges, anal remit daily, vd r. But Rn, thhvisibly Muua@ Creameryo. uneaseileyfo, said noththog.aldIt wougas. to her 743.8 Ktnal Dairy i St• West, TQoro.ntp that the initiative remained. Nor wpuld she let it- slip. Yet, deter- zrfined though she was to reach clear- tress, and innocent of difPedence on ordinary occasions, something at this moment made all indirect way of ape preaching the desired, subject :seen preferable to a direct one. Siniultazree ously such a way presented itself to her mind. The laugh she gave now, still shad- ing her face from the lamp, seemed the .continuation of some amused in- ner reflection. "Yes; Ardloch has been quite excit- ing lately. Events just tumbling over each other: Why, your humble' servant herself got mixed zap in them. You'll never guess what happened to me no Iater than the day before yes terdayl" She looked at him with a glance which plainly said:, "Don't you want to know?" --then without •waiting for a demand that was evidently not com- ing, rattled on - "I got a proposal of ntiaeriage. There now! And from a native, too, —that young man with the red hair, the minister's son, you know. Never was so taken aback in my life. He had been very useful all summer" (his failure in one of the uses he had been put to, that of stirring the present hearer's jealousy, was necessarily left unmentioned) --"and perhaps, I, had been, a little too imprudently grate- ful; but how was I to guess that he'd take it for anything but gratitude? When I: saw how cut up he was; I' felt dreadfully wicked,—really I did. For the future I mean to' be unapproach- Food Control Corner People who with to help in food conservation should consider potatoes as a partial substitute for wheat flour. Potatoes are the chief staple of the semi -perishable foods. Canadians do not eat ''`their fair share of potatoe i even in normal times. We 'have been largely- a wheat, beef'and pork cansuming-people. These staples are now required for overseas and it be- hooves 'us to substitute other foods for . thein whenever possible. We consume, Perhaps, two and ; one-half bushels of potatoes per capita ,per. year, or about one-third of a pound per day=equalto one fair-sized po- tato. In some European countries one pound per day per capita is con- sumed, and in some districts four pounds per day, and nearly twenty- five bushels per' year. Despite the increase "in price since the war,, potatoes are still 'among the cheapest of foods. One pound of roast beef costs ten times as much as a pound of potatoes, and twenty per cent, of beef is bone. Three and a third pounds- of potatoes supply 1,000 calories of energy, at a cost of less than 10 cents* while about 2,500 calories are required for full grown persons veorlsing indoors. That is to say, if all foods were as cheap as pots able to any person, under fifty. But, teen we could live . on -25- cents a day: all the same, it is rfeh,'isn't it? Thad Healthy men have lived and worked young man will go far yet." for months on a diet of nothing else Through Ronald's transparent phy- than potatoes, olontargarine and a siognomy something like 'the- sym- little fruit. Potatoes contain pro pithy of fellow -feeling was looking, tein of:the very -best kind. They also as though from a window. contain mineral Salts wliioh neutralize "By Jove, that's cheek! But, all 'harmful acid in.tlre body. The food the same—I'm sorry for. the fellow. "So am I. He's such a queer rill material in potatoes is 98 per cent. tore of sharpness and simplicity. digestible. - When Isalla •No, he- seemed to jump to Canadians have large supplies of the conclusion that it was his sister's potatoes, carrots, onions and turnips marriage that was putting - me off., and by consuthing these vegetables You have hea'r'd about that too., prob- freely, they can economize with bread. More than 300 ; -ways of cooking, potatoes are known.. They combine ably. It's the proper romantic end- ': ing to the boat story. Over the feathery edge of her fan 1 Mabel's eyes grew : keen with the well with many flavors. They can be words, superfluously keen, for the I used to economical advantage with growing agitation was writ large. meat and fish,- in stews, croquettes, "Yes -T -there was something in hash, chowders, meat pies, etc. One the •Scotsman about that too; -but I half a cup 9f mashed potatoes and tvao wasn't sure whether it wasn't just cups 'of flour' make -'a bread mixture talk." that helps the flour go farther. , "It's past the stage of talk,, by this Good cooks know the ways of, using v r I time, quite a properly attested fact; CHAPTER _ . none and she had several: things to I and it isn't nearlyso startlin • either potatoes',axe various=boiled, steam-. say io him. That was why she look- as it looks at first sight. The man ed, lyonnaised, baked, chipped, fried, Some two Duncan weeks or so after the day; ed so hard at the door, and also why ;is her own cousin after all; and hashed brown, creamed, escalloped, on which Duncan M Donnhad re-led had chosen the seat in the room though she wears,` more or less, fash- stufed, au gratin, and scores'of com- turned' asr red the dead, Mabel At_she P�ii Gy seemed togin byworkingkin te uaraih justebinations. terton, attired in a black and scarlet, ensure the inost� iondable frocks now,her father b q , Canada has plenty of potatoes and, Parisian creation, which admirably the same as his father di•d. Ina way •althou h the' z:•rce •is hi h com area'. set off her dark beauty, sat in a well -1 The door once opened, and his eye g p' g .p appointed lowland drawing -room, ex caught, itrequired no more than a the marriage is quite sortable; thong• 1 to` •normal times, •it •is not high in changing commonplaces with somet slight wave of - her feather -fan to in - another way it's of cour•se a bi„ half-dozen other maidens and ma- bring him to her side. At dinner al- come -down.. -Nobody seems pleased trolls, penin- the male invasion from, ready she had privately' noted that he except the minister,—and, yes,' to be the dining -room. I was not looking as cheerful as the! sure, mamma. You should see her Among the different pairs of eyes! prospect of to -morrow's slaughter! patting the; girl's head as approvingly coni -nisi! makes almost a meal in A- lmost it was Mabel's that turned I ought to have made him; and while he' as though she had just finished a most ersistentl ,< towardscrossed the' room towards her,thel dictation which needed no corrections. self. Put slices of cold mush. in ea persistently, the door, impression ! I've suspected for:. some time back 9aking dish, cover with a cupft1 of just as it was her ears which listened pression was strengthened. The ed in most attentively for the ascendang:'observation fixed her_ determination to' that: mamma's a' fraud. My young sliced onions that have been fir steps. Arrived baaei say what shehad to say.man seems to feel the thing a good ham of bacon; ail o vel these pour. two p y, in Gime for; deal.Ile would have felt it more,no the dressing -gong, she had been' First a Ecru airy :generalities, SO as I cupfuls of canne�,tomatoes and°'cover agreeably surprised to find. her eau - Ito, get under weigh, then, upon the,„doubt, if they had stayed in the court -I comparison with other foods in war time Polehta, an. Italian'tivay of serving try, but he asures me that tley :wont. bake l pie cheese' Going to `decamp to Canada or some bake ly'buntil ned„ is melted and Where. The old father who would•. 'all with: "a cupful of,grater cheese; tin, Ronald Macgilvray, figuring same tone: among the actors in telmorrow's ! "I'm fresh from Balladrochit, you drama, to which the fanned pheasant: know. You've heard of our latest coverts of Bashwood were to furnish the scene. But leisure for more than a passing greeting there had been -;i It is iirtefor cleac Sys the dairyman L H11111111111111111111.111tilfpl11ii1L 1I111II1t111'M n r"- l®� oW there 1$' just one LI tee WALKER HOUSE ": ": In ONE TOW where I E Vistay, , - A.' \" And, say, you ought to' '" MA see me rizi r. • `�- When my trip heads ,= that way.. The only other time 1 was so happy, ,:„ E Goodness knows, • Was when a kid Dad bought: me 't Red toppedboots with 'copper • toes. M When other travelers hit that •w LI town, ' • They, too, don't want to rosin, , • For they say, "At that WALKER HOUSE M It's just like staying !tome.,' a .E Where is the ONE TOWN where • that WAL ICER HOTJSE is ?'s Don't you know ? = Why, it's that good old burg spelled E T -0 -IP -O -N -T -O. • 'Theof Plenty .. Alick--'the gardener, you know -a fit „-te % e - ouae by ritallcing in In. the duck and da- minding a boat, I believe ho had to Toronto punch the man's head in order to con- vince him that he wasn't a ghost, And Geo, Wright & Co., Proprietors the rest, of course; was all teal's of• joy, end so one It's quite a. shilling ti1111iilllilislllllilllllPliXilll1l91TIlIf11111I'it shocker; don't you think Ho?" Ardloch sensation, have you not?". have been the difficulty, has only a Over the top of her'fan,lwith which little bit of tette to run, it 'seems.. she was pretending to shield herself They're., not quite sure whether it from the glare of a neigl boring lamp, was the shock of losing his son or the Mabel watched her cousin curiously. joy of getting him back which is kill - For ill -For; months past, she had puzzled her ing him, but anyway his days. are head as to how far exactly that flirta-I numbered.. I have all 'this •at first - tion in susnnier had gone, and to -day hand, from my red-haired swain, she meant to know. The startofpain gave, a he a e, 'pal- pable as pa pable as though the word "Ardloch" had been the point of a• sharp knife, could not escape her, nor halting of 'his voice as he said: 0 -"You mean. about .the missing boat- man and the search in the loch; and then his turningzup'eagain? I saw something about ate in Alis, Scotsman." "It was quite exciting, I assure you, —quite a story -book sort of affair. They were talking of nothing else when I got home. Nobody for a mo- ment believed they'd ever see him again; and if he hadn't happened to be an Al swimmer, they never would. who used it, mind you, as a means of persuasion. The workman -brother- in-law wasn't a real objection; he argued, since he was going to, vanish from the horizon. That he himself. might be the objection di of gj d n seem to have -occurred to the innocent youth." She paused and again waited, and this time it was clear that something was coming. One little. shove more and reserve would topple over. -"Have. you ever heard .of anything so preposterous?" she asked, with an insinuating trailing of her words. ",It wouldn't have been•preposterous if you had cared for"him," stammered 'Ronald, deep-rea in the face, and very Even• as it was, and though he did • intent upon' the toes of his -evening manage to fight his way to•land, het purePs•t one doesn't care for that sort; nearly smashed his skull in doing so, us "But being hurled straight on to the rocks, "One does, Mat sometimes. That's as helpless as a bunch • of see-weed,'I what happened to me. I don't know according to his own version: And if you guessed—" 1 like a bunch of sea -weed he lay there And then the flood -gates burst,and all night, as good as ,dead. It was g the storypf there that enmity of poachers ,found ` his rejected love poured unchecked, though brokenly, from his him at break of day the very same wretches. I do believe, who have beeninlips. With the' mere act of, speak: rew thinning out my grouse lately— lighters ill-treated monthsyounof tongue- sprawlingg heait lgsinall over a roek, with"his. iedbrooding, merely to put his griev- legs in the water. Between them,. they dragged him `off to their lair,—ante into words was to diminish it. Sunk among the sofa cushions, with some cave in the hills, I'm told, where weeks her fan now dropped to her lap, they have been housing for to the distraction of my %eepers• Mabel listened In a sort of consterna- past, tion. When they'd briught him: round with h.e had not guessed this. That whiskey, he naturally wanted • a Hies- he had been smitten, she knew, but sage sent to Ardloch; but the never in her wildest speculations had her surmises gone as amateur Samaritans quite as natural -far as an actual ly objected to the publicity .of ,the proposal- of marriage. Her natural proceeding. As he was too we'alseto rrogan e of her micnd sin forba e alike the so low, move immediately, and being; at any tas h ofthe minister's dauglttertno leap rate, on the,wrong side of the water, ing at the prize; At the most she there was, therefore, nothing for it had concluded that, aware of the but to lie low: bat's what he was entanglement, Ronald had .fled from doing that whole first day while they the sphere of danger. It seemed a were scouring the shore and plumbing sufficient,' explanation of his pi'ecipit Beadepths. Next day, when ;the ate retirement; and in her heart she search search .had, moved further down the had commended his prudence: loch, he managed to crawl forth;° but it took him the whole day to res,clt (To he contorted )• 1 the nearest house, that Is Balladrochit, �" •� for hie ankle, too, had been ill-treated With government encouragement, by the rocks, There he nearly gave ex;teneive experiments will he made` with a view to reviving the growing. of flex in Scotlend. Shall leftover' picees of linoleum; se often thrown away, can he usedsto, line a coalhoSs or toolbox, to stand saocepanr and flower, pots on. as A good way to treat an old 'moose back 'ot' a. pasture is to run a stout harrow over it, scatter some seed, arid go over it once more with a light spike -tooth harrow. If not too rough, the job may be nicely finished by put- ting the roller over the land after the last harrowing. SUN OF CANADA IN STRONG POSITION As will be seen' from the eseezrtdal features of 1y4 'year's' operations s'et forth elsewhere in this issue, Cana. da's largest fife assurance, company' has Just oioseid a highly satisfactory •year.:„Total assurances 1n force on the books of 'the Sun Life of,,Canada have now crossed the $311,000,000 nlark, assurances iesued and paid for In each during the.year totallingover $47,$00,• 000, the largest amount ever issued by a Canadian life company.' The Company's Head,Ofi'ice staff is now installed in the fine new Sun Life Building recently erected on Dominion Square, Montreal, where the adoption of the most up-to-date office equipment shouldresult to stall greater'e%llcienny. in the ad'min'istration of its largo "mei-. nese. ro Articles WantedIu-h. r -Gas QM Jewellery! rintet 0liver, nurses; $Rintaataren ,s'iotareR lUarodlearerk1.xateat 014 °nines Cut ensast Ornaaiu.zits: ratobawt Rine'pl Table ,sax's. s Wrlta ox sentiby Ezproatt to hsit. Z lCIZ , raisil.itg4 ag and ao Colleyfo Staaet, tCoxoato, *et. Mon}' in Maple Sugar. Maple sugar and syrup is .produced at the time of year when the farther, Is least busy, and it costs hirci little, any, more now than before the war. By tapping 100 trees, he can. sell 500 pounds or sugar or 100 gallons of syrup, netting from $100 to $150 in three weeks. This is more than .the soldiers right- ing in France gets in thrice the tbne and he offers in exchange his life. Will you who have maple trees riot offer so short a space of your time, „, to' help him and' to put money in your pocket as well? �E RUTE S Aar, lease:mats e Asti. teituOISSI Look at Che e Va4 $' In TYT s:--tervr tel•. frobizilt guava ittggeIn perfectorder,, om d2$ 00 to;8 ,0 , Save time money And troilism and .buy Typewrites fo% veer tyueinesss, professiigr., or for your home flee. I,tet sent tree on n, s lloetiou. Ch DADA TY1'E CV'Zx"d'E17 nzonaNcit Attie StIrPrele 90. Tel. Main 2202 02 St. 'Tames St, XYiontreel, P. Que. lovep "My overalls and vliirte are the best made, because -- they are rgozny and comfortable, I designed them with the'idea that you ,night want tb stretch yarms and leg9 ioccasionally.” our, , Insist on "Bob Long" brand: Ash your deaer for Big •11—the big grey. overalls—the 'clot!} wihhe.;test. u R. G. LONG & CO., LeMiTED : TORONTO «a `•CANADA' 07 Noammatr �HE r , for theyear1917 showa continuance result's of operations . of thenotable expansion :that has marked the career of the Su• n. Life Assurance Company. ' of Canada. In Assets Income, : Surplus, flew Business, and Total' Business In Fierce substantial increases are recorded over the corresponding figures for previous' years. RESULTS FOR 1917 ` A• ssets at December 31st, 1917, - ' , $90 qoi 74 Increase' 4;i7B,btl00 CCash.Irreemmeincrease : • e . r a; ; 19,2' $ 9c 0, ` New stsstifaftees issued anti 'Paidjfeeeitt.Cash' R d" a ' ;.a 4.7,6 1 f, i 0 lieSiesisd R Pqi ,ft7o:Uti'. `Assurr g ill, E�'oree at beeeuibes' 81st, 1 1Ti at ,, ` ` y bit., 415, fit lie ,0 5,15; Profit tlaaici''67 allotth4 ie rsili lsoiders ',.�" A a M . i,(i r .s Profits pact 61 til trod to 3' y''y��,,i4cyfioiyclets, its pee$ +3a years. •6,0411 OA -total t 2efI A `t ii olakthf lint'/' a • "' W , A r g gy84 /*640d. `Oh,64,6t omiva4,toli `a - dt,� 446 falV . isB1 2'rbmirnlia a ogarstor ro 02� t'lihian : t ilii6held ddi ti essz Pita t�}1t c ,ee A ,86s.ss4 Undivided strnSfitifsi i* g'Lit a •" aq'vet 1 lief/Owen itl.c1ut4itig jai it,tl , a< ..: ..r d $ tl .'• $$,550,761.00 f il,a Cr MpANiPs Ca W? 1. '4o iH681hd Ay@ilia bIT F S • O S .1S• � Q Y I I' If I 8. ,` g fHi t g8 .6 01 3 $ ,i8 : 411 t The Company takes this opportunity of titavtkins' its olic !!alders and the ublic1 p y PP Y 15 Y I .. P ,�. generally for the continued' confidence and goof wilt 6f "•whi4 the above ligul'ee give such strong evidence. at I-iE!�D OFFICE' MQNTRIEAL,>:: T. B. MACAI.JLAY, President