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The Exeter Times, 1922-10-26, Page 6fi BY KATHA;RINE SIUSA NAH P ICHA C Cepyright by Hodder and Stoughton. ITT;-tPTER XVIII—(Oont'd.)• It was the dusappearanco of a young farmer from the West Hills after a Tnigh`'i at idle Black` Bull that mad .a,aneld Capieiri rn decide to take net on Ile, bricked by other farmers and well to-do hill settlers, made 'i:•epresent netts to the Port authorities as to tit lawless ch4aa, ;eten and ' conduct 1Vlrreefoz'ci township. troo�p•er who"rode into it e few days' later eats pelted with stozies, e,rre•ci and feathered, and sent bac to Port Southern, Then a building was run up on the outskriits of the township a ram_ sdeackle house, built of overlapping sniootdi, pine shingles. It was white- tivashecis so that it stood out on the darkest nights to remind "roisterers that law and order were in :their midst: And as soon as it: was finished John M'Laughlin, •i potiaee-sergeant from the Post, took up his residence in it He mitigated the impression that undue severity would be'meted out to e nil -doers, from the'` new police head -quarters, by' genially ''brawling With most: of his neighbors it McNab's ae soon as he arrived, very success- fully intimating drat :he was far too long-sighted, easy-going and convivial a soul to interfere with the Wirree's Kittle way of doing things: DanaId Cameron was well known in Wirreeford when it began to be a cattle market of importance. So,was Davey—Young Davey --gas he was called when he began; to go regularly to the sales in'the >years that followed the fires. Cameron worked all day in the sale - yards with his• men, He drove in his own beiasts in the morning, threw off his coat for ` the drafting and, when th se legis were over, went out of the township,. a stolid, stooping figure, on his Heavy bay cob. Altahougii he sorne- .imes made close on a' thousand pounds on a day's, sales, he went' out of the township; as often as not, with- out ap,siiding a penny. It was said that he was the wealth est pian in the countryside and as mean as they make 'ern." Yet his disinclination to spend money was made swbservient to his sense of jus- tice; and a spirit of matter-of-fact integrity that he carried round. witlh him made the Wirree people regard hint with suspicious awe. The iron quality of his wild, the hard, straight gaze of his eyes, were difficult things for men with uneasy consciences to encounter. Heoause he'was the first man in the 'country, it was reckoned a matter of prestige to have the patronage of Donald Cameron of Ayr, mwir, whether for a meal, store order, or any jobs whatever.. In jest, half earnest, he was called the" Laird of Ayrmuar. Wirree men said that Thad McNab loathed Donald Cameron "as the devil loathe hely ,water." MeNab was not the devil in their eyes, nor Donald Cameron holy water,; • but the saying' perhaps suggested to them the eoiiirp+asite forces of the t-uo e men. Thad, with his twisted mind, his cruel eyes, his treacherous underhand a ways, stood to them far something in b the nature of the power of - evil. Don - old: Cameron, with his harsh intergity, i his unbending' virtue, his parsimony, to and sober respectability, stood for • something in the nature of abstract; a good. They had the 'respect for bun i tI that people sometimes have fora u standard which has been Meng 'before their eyes, and which they have not been able ` to, live up to. But Thad was their aider' and abettor. ,r Thad; .for all his tyrannies, blank mail, petulances, made life easier a them. They stood by him and hies him, cursing Donald. Cameron and e sort, who would have sent them b° to the prisoii cells and t r ure� of - 'Island. It was not from. motives a sheer kindness that McNab stood e them, they know, but because it p of him. Nevertheless, the thing Ivor out' in the same way. Donald Ca eron was more their enemy tli Thad. Tha,d's feud vv bh him amu k them as, much as a cock fight; th money was on,their own bird, and;th barracked for him, idly, Lig - hearteddy, scoffing at his enemy. Alnios'.t every man in the Wir was in McNab's debt. He knew m about their lives and antecedents th was to their soul's comfort. Tliey s petted that more than one of the m who lead been taken back to the Isla had been put away by•McNa°p, a that those lean, crooked lands of had fingered Government money wards for the capture of escaped c wets. But sa long as they were with Thad McNab, W Virreef and m with pasts that would not bear' looki into thought they were all right. though there were rumors of trey erou:s dealings ons his part, with chi like simplicity, with the faith of desperate, they trusted MeNab, lieving that he stood ,between the and the prisons of Port Arthur. Th. believed that if they were "in v. -i Thad," they need not wake, sweatin out of their sleep at the thought the "cat," or worry if, forgetful consequences, they gave that telil- start at the clank and rattle of ire It was pretty well und•ers,bood th Thad MeNab and Sergeant M'Laug lin "worked" together. Thad had be hand -in -glove with him since he came to the Wirree River. The fact some- times stood unruly spii.�its in good stead: when there was a merry night at the Black Bull.. But when there was an inconvenient accident over the cards once or twice, and when there was a hold-up 011 the Raine road just outside the township, too, it was con- ceded -that M'Lau.g!hlin ha.c1 earned itis screw. 'Thad saw to it that occasion- ally he made an appearance of doing his duty. If it had been imagined at head=quarters that Sergeant'M'Laugh- lin winked at irregularities in:the ap- plication of the law at Wirreeford, he Haight have been moved on, and that would not have suited the landlord of the Ble•cic Bull, who would then have had another man to deal with, or have found! that another man was dealing v'it(iz . Donld Cameron. made no secret of Iris attitude to McNab. - After M' - Laughlin had been several months in the township, and there was no out- w'ard' or visible sight of his having mended' its ways', Mr. Cameron made representation to the authorities at Port Southern, and through them to the powers that had their official resi 'ence in Melbourne, in respect to Thad•eus I41cNab's position and 'breach - s of the law in,,Wirreeford.. He was clear in his °ire mind- that there was case agsinst McNab; first, for har- oring convicts escaped from Van Dieni,an's Land; and secondly, for he - ng the possessor of a still, and for ruing it to account in sly grog mak- ng.iJohn Ross, Mathew `Morrison, nd the rest of the hill folk and set- ters at the farther end of the plains, pheld him in this effort' to rid the district of McNah; but although. an inquiry was .made, nothing came of it. Dona%d Carina -on gained no extra popularity in the 'Wirree on the first of his counts. Thad.!'s• position was, if ything, strengthened by Cameron's stili; ty. Every man in the _township new that he had, ta• stand by McNab, McNab would not stand'by him; erefore when an officer' from the ,ort mane to investigate conditions in irreeford, he found, nothing, to take exertion to. Ice reported that the earl police officer was .efficient, and complaints of the hill settlers ere due to a personal rancour exist - g between Donald Cameron and the andlord of the Black Bull. '• Thad flonzrished like a green bay e after 'this failure to move, hire, d forged the weapon of a very rvirceable hate agairat Donald Gam - n. He kept it very carefully seab- ed, lout occasionally it leapt forth, its,, metal was visible to old and ndry. Ordinarily, Thad kept a ked brain.; in;; it was only in rare sports of rage that he revealed amythang of its tniooked workings. then those who:, Saw them looked their o'tivn behavior, and were care - to do nothing that would bring the into its toils. rolbably nobodry but Cameron him- f thought McNab had swallowed at little ,business of the inquiry , a few months later, he was ing round him; telling hien that din were to be served at the Id" on 'sale dhay. , and that his pat - age would be an esteemed favor. se who ;heard him say; "Things not been es they might have been, ways, at the Black Bulli Mr. Cama n ---you have' had reason to :amn- ia in the'past—but ew'erytbung is ' to be different for the future," d�not ' ;believe their ears,. It was for sed his uck the of by aid ked Ca sed eir ey ree ore an us en nd nd his —re- on- in en Al -.ng • ch- ld-- the be:- ey th cee of of tale ns. at �h- en 1:11 teg RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS BE FREE FROM PAIN ogrf Ire Ltal Has giveza prompt Relief for over 25 years to Sufferers of Rheumatism, „Sciatica, Neural- gia, Neurites, Lumbago and Gout. No claim made which has not been proven. Thousands 'of grateful testimonials; In Use for 25 Years. One bottles for One Dollar. Six bottles for Five Dollars, at your Druggist or mailed direct. it 74 wog 1afdt, at, Toronto 0060 an h�a k or th I) W 10 khat w l ;bre an Be e�r'a bard and; su loc traAnd rl P sell th unhryn, fawn di. "Bu ren no ha8, alw cila! coal igeln fie Combination SSuits, for Honi,e and School. 'These little ;combinations. are eo venient and'eoziifortable, Daught, likes them because they button low the front so the can button hers up, and 'because being all in one pec it only takes a minute to dress. Moth likes thein because she does not hav to stop her work to. button up littl -Linderwa ets and, petticoats. They can be made of any fine ma 'Lelia) for the hest suit` but for ever day and even common school wear have found tluat�`sugar -sacks do ver. well, Using this material 'uid same coarse erechet Lace I made dainty little suits forless than thirty cents; o course, not counting the labor, Two sugar sticks, two spools of No. 40 crochet thread, some Buttons and a little searing machine thread are the materiala needed. First cut, a band or strip twelve inches wide and long enough to go around the child's body comfortably and lap over enough to make an i g veli �1- er 11 Try these and see how: will like then;, Keeping a• Diary.. elf Every child, as soon as he is.able to e write legibly, ;should be eaeouxag'ed to er keep;a diary, The' material 'benefits e that result from the practice are o. many; and as time goes oii, reviewing what, if properly done, zv lI bo -a a miniature history of his life will give more and nior:e pleasure to him:who lceep,sa diary. For the beginner, one of the smaller sizes of regular diaries that provide half a' dozen lines each day will do. f One of the first tlring;s to consider in beginning a diary is persistence. Mentally pledge yourself 'to write something every day. All else fail- ing, there still remains the weather. You can at least jot down "Fair,' "Focal," "Cold," "Thundershowers" nor "Windy," as the ease may be. How- ever, you will rarely find yourself so hard put to it. Something in same ell sister y 1 Y hent at each end. For my seven-year- old daughter this strip was twenty- seven inches long. Make an inch hem in the top of this and a narrow one in the bottom. Also an inch hens in each end. Cut two pieces for the bloomers from your regular bloomer pattern, Do not sew all the°way up; the front of the 'bloomers but finish about three inches of top for centre front closing. Make four -inch slashes at centre top for seat opening. Sew up back of bloomers. Join under parts of the legs and put on bands long enough to go around leg well above the knee SO they wild not be too tight if crowded up when playing. Place a band at top of back for top of seat. For average. size this will be about twelve inches long and three inches wide before finishing: Sew the bloomers to bot- tom of underwaist on each side of front and about one. inch up on the underwai;st. Make a skirt of the required depth! and sew onto waist at a point about one indh above the bloomers. This) one was twelve inches deep and had i three-inch lace, making fifteen inches" in all, but it is deeper. than you will, want if you wish to e'cpose the bare 1 knee. Sew on lace yoke and you are; ready for the buttons and 'buttonholes. This requi1es about four down the front and three for the back. The crochet lace used was'an easy pattern and quickly made but any kind may be used tar it may be finished with two plain hands over the shoul d,ers and a. hem on the bottom of the skirt, Cringing the cost down to about fifteen cents. One suit was made from the bottom' of a lace trimmed pillowslip which was eiorn in the centre. Another was from sister's worn petti:co,at. One for best was made of fine white linen.and trimmed with a fine crochet Iace. The coarse lace usually sold for pillow-•, slips makes a satisfactory substitute t or the crocheting if one has no time degree noteworthyjhappens every day and, although incidents may seem trifling. when they :occur,: many of them will be :Bound in later years to have had an important bearing on your subsequent life. De m,ethorclic<zl. Give the first line of every entry a half-inch margin and, at least an the case of the more im- portant ,sulbjects to wdiich you ere likely to refer in the future,' begin the entry with a- word` that will most read- ily suggest the matter recorded. For example, "Freshet -Swift River sweeps away dans, mill, other build- ings"; or, "Fire -Smith's garage burned; Park Hotel damaged:" By following that method you make it possible, when you desire to find a particular entiy, •Simply to run your eye down the left-hand.side of the pages until you find'the index word. You should keep carefully a reoard of births, deaths and marriages in the family and among intimate friends, for you` are likely to have to refer` to them to' verify dates or other cir- cumstances. 01 course the regular entries in a small diary must be brief; but if you wish to male a more elaborate ac- count of any particular event, you can write it in the space devoted ` to "Memoranda" that;appears in the back of all standard diaries, Append the note, "See' Mein;," to the regular .�, s ..r ,.. ,- a. -t , entry. As you gain experience you will no doubt' outgrow the small diary and make your daily •entries in au ample blank book, which will enable you to gibe more important matters the 'comi- com- prehensive treatment to which their special interest entitles them. The" other departments included in the back' pai;t of commercial diaries, Bills Payable;" "Bills Receivable," "Cash Account," "Addresses," can bel utilized for jotting drown ;natters of ` transitory interest. But . a boy or a girl wild nialce no mistake in 'calming' o .keep a careful account of all money received and expended: An occasion -1 al review of such a record 'serves a AT a box of ,little raisins when j a you feel' hungry, oozy, tired • or faint. In about 9%'seconds a hundred calories or "marc of gener"gizing nutri- ment 6 � will-put you on your toes again. For Little Sun -Maids are '75 % fruit sugar in practically predigested form--levulose, the scientists call it. And levulose is real body fuel. Needing practically no digestion, it gets to work and revives you:quick. Full of energy and good and good for you. Just try a box. "Between -: e _ "9 Raisins 5c •Ever whet I -lad Your Iran Today? to make trimming. ,as a ence, that_McNaib had asked "the laird" to help him to improve the tone of the place by occasionally having a ineal in it. - D:onald Cameron had been in the habit of taking his meat -pasty, or bread and cheese sandwich -to the sale yards in his packet. He ate his Lunch there at midday when most of the men made tracks for tihe bar opposite. But'` after a while, he took his meals at the Black. Bull, lowering net a whit of his dignity in the doing of it, and, treating McNeb as curtly in his own establishment as he:did anywhere else: When he was ,down with iheu-' matins in the early spring, the place had open doors to Davey. He was served like a duke in it. Young Davey promised to be a chip of the old hibek, the Wirree said. He worked as insatiably as the old man, I' and was no more than roadanender by the look of him. His grey trouscrs had many a patch on them and his hat was as weathered a bit of felt' as was seen an the yards. He walked with the slouch of the cattlemen --men who have spent most of their days in th,e saddle. Whenshe flung off his hat, it was seen he was ,goodallooking enough concessions for the sake -of the youn er generation. Although cards were shuffled and dice were 'thrown at the Black Bull,, when the rush -lights flickered in - the windows after the sales, and the. littl fires of cow-dung—lighted before th doors of the houses to keep away th sandflies and mosquitoes=glowed i, the' dusk, sending up faint wreaths o blue smoke, Mrs. Mary Ann Hegart threw open her parlor,;and there was dancing in it until the small hours, j The hill people lent the countenance of their presence to days of out-d'oo g - 5. sports, and to the dancing at Mrs.' Hega,rty-S• on Christmas and New' Year's day. The Ross boys dane,ecl: with bpight-eyed Wirree girls. Mor -i girls from the hills learnt the rsels aisaras Kitty and soine of the otheri Hair --Ends Dancirtifr! Delightful Tonic valuable Iesson in handling your, fin- ances properly. Do not enter upon the work lightly and waste time and space ill careless and irregular entries of nonsensical paragraphs, but rather take it up with the serious aim to make the. most com- prehensive and worth -while record' possible in the space that you have. Above all, write plainly. On com- pleting each vale -me marl. tli�e year on the binding and place it on file. Get a new book well in adrvance, so as to be sure to be ,ready on the first. day of the new - year. Filling in front memory: is an untrustworthy method: to be, avoided, at all' times. and jigs that their p,arents h,ad dams d in the country beyond the seas, they were always talking of. The old peo- ple olanced,, too. There were 'nights of wholesome, heart-warming merelment and the singing of old snags. Only Donald Cameron and his wife old aloof from these festivities. Pelt efore long it- was observed that, oung Davey was going to the month - y dancing with the Bosses. He rode own from the hills with the boys and ess. They made the Wirree streets theyr galloped to Hegarty's with an mr .of breed about him, a d something the Wirree did not quite J. get. There was a great deal af his r and their lauigh,ter strceled out on the wind behind them, as they went home in, the- early hours of the morning, When even the roisterers at the Black all had fallen asleep gn uneasy tvt- (To be continued.) Women Can Dye Old Faded Things New in Diamond Dyes Bach, package of, "Diamond Dyes" ontains directions ..se simple any omen 0EL/1 dY0 or tint her worn, shabby dresses, skirts, waists, goats, stockings, sweaters, coeerings, dra- peries, hangings, severything, even if She has never dyed belare. Buy "'Diamond Dyes"—no other kind -- rid the Morrison boys,, whe occasion- th mother in the cast of Ins features, and his eyes were grey and green like hers, but his mouth was Donald Cameron's set in a boy's face. DaveY was a silly awkward fellow and s(pake as little B as the old_ man, though it was aek- noveledged that if his hand Was as rarely in his breeches' packets as his father's, it was because there was no- thing in them. It was well known that Don,ald Cameron worked lis son Iike convict and kept him on short common's, giving (him neither WageS nor packet -money, so that he bleehed when a down-andl-out blackguard ask- ed' ham for the price of a drink and c he had not got it to give, w He fe,c1 with the bid man, this young Davey Cameron, andewas never seen in the bars. Few of the men who (altered the shanties could say that they had had much to do with Cam- eron and his sore except John -Roes a ally drop,pecl, into McNab'e. Bet th,ey °a were of the same sort—hard-working, no thrifty; God-fearing, respectable, ye homely- -people of the hills, whe de- yo spisedathe Wirree River township, its w antecedents, dciseendiantis, and a8S0- go eia,tions, and did ibusiness with it oaly ecause business was better done there than anywhere else. e The ,Sehoolna,ster and Deirdre had been. gone from the halts for over a ear When WirtTeXard began to make en, Perfect hoine dyeing,'Is cure be - use, :Diamond Dyes are guaranteed t to spot, fade, sti•ea,k., or run. Tell u tvial). to dye is wool or Silk, hethor it is linen, cotton or Mixed „ Remedy ior Scorched r'abrio. NT! TO E have,been ru,bbe„cl on it without break- ' ing the fibres of the cloth, The so.orched. sleeve was dipped into cold water, hung dripping -on the line in the hot sianshine. ,As soon as the ; water had dried it was dipped again,i ' and, the prii,cess repeated' over and over. It took two day -s and one night s exposure otit of doors to bring the cloth to whiteness, but it came so perfectly that one would not know which had been the sleeve browned by the iron. Just cold water,'" hot sun- light and persistence wo•rked the cure.' sleeve has been worn months sin,ce then and shows no in,dication of Keep filinard's Liniment in the house. emszramoranmamnisircismase HE postman or express manwill .bring Parker service right- to, your' home. • Suits, •dresses, ulsters and all weaiing apparel can be succeeSfully dyed. Curtains, , draperies, carpets and all household articles can be dyedand • restored to them original Only fools' let hair fall out and dan- druff stay. 'Neglect means a bald Spot save your hair. This delightful' tonio. cleanS the scalp of every' particle of 'dandruff, tightens the boar -root pores, se the hair sloes coming out/and ao the vitalizing oils, Which are the, very lite and strength of the 11811', not ea.sier for somebody elee, Minard's Liniment For ,ColdS, ate. 1 Dandorine is net stit ''..fy or greasy, ft has in],de, Weak sick negle Cod hair' strong and, healthy for n111110311 of men and get a bottle now, D'on',t.rialtt We pay carriage one way on all orders. Write for full particulars. Parker'§ Dye Cleaners and Dyers 791 Yonge St. Toronto 211 00 THE REGENT A, is armounced,---and the news is 'probably truce -that the Ilolshevists, their wit's end, have nrepared to sell the Russian crown jewels, It is said the gams is the Orloff diamond, ac- quired by the Tsarina Catherine Wliat cons,titutes the value of this dia.", niond is its size as well as its puritY; but if it is sald the jeweler Whe am - quires, it can make the greatest proilt by breaking it up into &Mall pieces', z'rtitc,h would be the cause of great re-, Such, an aecident almost happened to an oven. more famous diamond, the. Regent or Pitt dianiond, which hae be- come French national Property. The histo:ry of this diamond is ,very curi- ous, Its discovery in 2717 has been related by one .of those who contri- buted most to its being lionglit by Prance, the ljuke of Saint -Sin -ion. '13y an extremely rare event an employee - in the dianiond.•rnin,es of the Great Mo- gul concealed the great gem not upon lids person but. actually within his• bo,cly,, and embqked without detection-, To crown hiW'happiness, he arrived in Europe witli his diamond. He carried it to England, where the King admired` it without being .able to make up his, mind to buy it. Prom England the. man and diamonc.1 were directed , to, • ,Todin LaW, who proposed to the regent its purchase for the King. But the, price was too great for the Regebt,. who refused to take it, Several million francs Were asked - for it, and despite the sucess then ob-• taMed by Law and lids tonic:Ms_ Sp0C11— not suflifliciently good state for such an expenditure. _However, Law spoke, about it to the Duke of SOnt-Simon, wha succeeded in persua-ding the re- gent, and the purchase was made, but after long bargaining, so that its price, was brought down to two Iranian. francs. Contrary, to what was feared, - tire public, far from condemning this 'purchase, approved it, and the dia- mond, .called the Regent, became the finest piece of the crown jewels. Sixty years later this magnificent. dianaond was in extreme peril. For a. 1792, thieves, taking advantage of the then prevailing disorder 111 France, pil- laged crowrt *furniture repository and the Regent diamond disappeared.. Several thieves were found and guillo- tined, but the RegenCwas not found,' It was- not until December 10, 1793, tha.t the diamond was returned, though. very mysteriously. All .that became - known was that it had been hidden in ashole one and a, half inches in diam- eter which had been bored in a piece of the framew.ork of a granary. " e important thting is that t11.4 - French, State has come again into pos-1- session of this inestimable jewel. It o -v, exit' ited in the Louvre, in the Apollo Gallery, under a -glass case, which by night is put irt a secret safe. And everybody can see and achuire it for 25•suos. Tribute -to the Cow., Little'do we realize ale debt we owe the cow. During th'e dark ages of savagery and barbarism we find her early ancestors natives of the wild forests of the old world. As the bright rays of civilization penetrated the darkness af that early period, and man called upon the cow, she ,,aine forth from her seclusion to share in the elfor.ts that gave us a greater na- tion arid more enlightened peoPlet. For twrenty thousand years she has shown her allegiance to Man, Slhaillg alike in his prosperity ,and adversity, responding nobly to all that was done for her, until through her development she` became an idol of the people of her native country.' .Her Sons helped till the soil for our ancestors Hid slowlY moved the pro- ducts of the farm to, maKket, They went with Irian to the dense...forests of the new wdrld, helped clear them for homes and made cultivation possible ✓ the coming generation, and when e tide of emigration turned west- ard they hauled the belongingS of e pioneer across the sun-ecorched mountain ranges- to new homes' be-' Truly, the' cow is man's greatest ods inay come, destroy our Crops. d banish our hopes, but from what left the cow manufactures into the St nourishdng and life-suatainergt- ds, and 18 she noa,loster mother fo yo be do an • - •uszammieeet-aajastaaaanassom slid life itself to countless thousands • - of little children' all over this world of ours? We love her for her docility sther beautY, and should misfortune overtafe us 'as we become bowed ' tali blood circulating Sloan's (draws new fresh blood to Me aching part -- scatters con- 1.;ostion arid thus rod ioves tlic pain. Stop suffcring, apply, Sloan' sl lietros aching ,backs, Stops neuralgia, chocks colds in chest. Good wherrorer congestion causes pain. Keep it handy, A/ride Carted,: dowet with the weight of years, we know. that in the cow we have a frieetl. that was never knolvia to falter. She paYs the debt. She saves the•hon;s, Gad bless the cowa-little do -we rerilize tile debt .we owe liar. Couldn't Fool Him. Tired was helping the gardener, and, observing a shallaw stone basin containing water, lie asked what it was for, "Thc:t," said the gardener, "is a bird "Don't you fool me," grinned Tim, "A 1)ird bath, I telt you. Why do you doubt it?" bird. alive that can tell a S,aturalay night from aray other." It matters Lot how, w,g dive I) 4