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The Exeter Advocate, 1924-7-3, Page 6ns asse for pure, rich nava? GREEN TEA H470 LL superior to the finest jos ons, Yotang Elysons or Gunpowder. Try it today. FREE SAMPLE of GREW TEA UPON REQUEST. "SWIM." TORONTO ATCH BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD. PART III. "Thoreau lives on this creek," Bro- kaw said. "How much farther is it?" "Fifteen or sixteen miles," replied Billy. "You'll last just about five, Brokaw. I won't last that long unless you take these things off and give me the use of my arms." "To knock out my brains when I ain't looking," growled Brokaw. "I guess—before long—you'll be willing to tell where the Indian's shack is." ROACHES HAVE GYPSY NATURE.,, That roaches have a gypsy nature. is declared by R. L. Webster, ento- mologist. "In towns roaches may move from house to house," said Mr. Webster. "They have even been known to leave one house in large numbers and mi- grate to another. But whether • they enter in bands or singly they are a pest that is especially repulsive." They are probably the most an- noying of common insects, according to Mr. Webster, .and some time in the history :of nearly every „home they make their appearanceand cause the housewife no end of, trouble. Damp localities, such as the neigh- borhood of the kitchen sink, is their favorite habitat. They are night prowlers and usually remain hidden duringthe daytime. Roaches may be recognized by their brown or black 'If I say the word that'll save us now color and their size, which is usually work through. The simple fact was that their . sympathies were enlisted in a cause exclusively their own and they kept at work as diligently as if they expected to get rich by it. The boys' acre was sown to grain; for the pigeons' rations and the boys required little assistance in harvest -i ing it. At the age of six months, the pigeons began to pail: and the flock kept increasing. • Much more , important than the money they make is the fact that they are so well satisfied and so interested with something to do on their own home farm. They loved their home but were anxious to do something for themselves. It was not money they Were craving but mental interest.— Mrs. M. E. C. will you go back to headquarters an' a half inch or more in length. Their report me dead?" fiat bodies are well fitted for hiding For a full half minute 'their eyes away in cracks under baseboard& did not waver. Roaches reproduce -by means of eggs Then Brokaw said: and the young roach is similar in ap- "No." pearance to the mature forms, except - Billy dropped his hand. It was ing in size and in the absence of Brokaw's hand that fell on his arm wings that indicate the full grown now. insect. "I can't do that," he said. "In ten "Probably the most effective method years I ain't run out the white flag of controlling roaches is by the use of once. It's something that ain't known sodium fluoride," Mr. Webster ex- plained. "This is a white powder that may be purchased at almost any drug store. The powder should be dusted in liberal quantities into all locations in the house frequented by the insects, especially in pantries and under sinks. Sodium fluoride should never come in contact with any foodstuffs, however, since it is poisonous." "On the market there are a number of preparations for the control of cockroaches. Many of these contain borax or boric acid, which niay be purchased as such from the druggist and applied in the same manner as the sodium fluoride previously men- tioned." Any treatment for cockroaches must be continued for several weeks, if suc- cess is to be attained. Persistence is necessary, regardless of whatever measure is used against these trouble- some insects. Special care should be taken never to allow bread crumbs or other food of any description to re- main exposed about the house, since this encourages the insect. PIGEONS FOR THE BOYS. He kicked his way through a drift in the service. There ain't a coward of snow to the smoother surface of the in it, or a man who's afraid to die. stream. There was a breath of wind But I'll play you square. I'll wait in their faces, and Billy bowed his until we're both on our feet again and head to it. In the hours of his great- then I'll give you twenty-four hours. est loneliness and despair Billy had the start of me." kept up his fighting spirit by thinking Billy was smiling now. His hand of pleasant things, and now, as he reached out. Brokaw's met it, and followed in Brokaw's trail, he began the two joined in a grip that their to think of hone. It was not hard for numb fingers scarcely felt. him to bring up visions of the girl "Do you know," said Billy softly, wife who would probably never know "there's been somethin' runnin' in my how he had died. He forgot Brokaw. head ever since we left the burning He followed in the train mechanically, cabin. It's something my mother failing to notice that his captor's pace taught me: 'Do unto others as you'd was growing steadily slower, and that have others do unto you.' I'm a d— his own feet were dragging more and fool, ain't I? But I'm goin' to try more like leaden weights. He was the experiment, Brokaw, an' see what back among the old hills again, and comes of it. I could drop in a snow - the sun was shining, and he heard drift an' let you go on—to die. Then laughter and song. He saw Jeanne standing at the gate in front of the little white cottage, smiling at him, and waving Baby Jeanne's tiny hand at him as he looked back over his shoulder from the dusty road. His mind did not often travel as far as the mining camp, and he had com- pletely forgotten it now. He no longer felt the sting and pain of the intense eold. It was Brokaw who brought him back into the reality of things. The sergeant stumbled and fell in a drift and Billy fell over him. For a moment the two men sat half buried in the snow looking at each other without speaking. Brokaw mov- ed first. He rose to his feet with an effort. Billy made an effort to follow him. After three efforts he gave it up, and blinked up into Brokaw's face with a queer••laugh. The laugh was "Hold it—while I gatherr a pile of almost soundless. There had come a bark!" change in Brokaw's face. Its deter- He gave the match to Billy, and mination and confidence were gone. staggered through the snow to the At last the iron mask of the law was bank. Strip after strip of the loose broken, and there shone through it bark he tore from the tree. Then he something of the emotions and the gathered it in a heap in the shelter brotherhood of man. He was fumbling of a long -hanging spruce, and added in one of his pockets, and drew out dry sticks, and still more bark, to it. the key to the handcuffs. It was a• When it was ready he stood with his small key, and he held it between 1 hands in his pockets, and looked at stiffened fingers with difficulty. He Billy. knelt down beside Billy. The key- I "If we had a stone, an' a piece of hole was filled with snow. It took a paper—" he began. - Iong time—ten minutes—before the! Billy thrust a hand that felt like key fitted in and the lock clicked. He i lifeless lead inside his shirt and fumb- helped to tear off the cuffs. Billy felt, led in a pocket he had made there. no sensation as the bits of skin and Brokaw watched him with red, eager flesh came with them. Brokaw gave eyes. The hand reappeared and in it him a hand, and assisted him to rise. ! was the buckskin wrapped photograph For the first time he spoke. 1 he had seen the night before. Billy "Guess you've got me beat, Billy," took off the buckskin. About the pic- he said. "Where's the Indian's?" ture there was a bit of tissue paper. He drew his automatic Savage from He gave this and the match to Bro- ss, its holster and tossed it in the snow-! kaw. drift. The shadow of a smile passed "There's a little gun -file: in the pock- grimly over his face. Billy looked et the match came from," he said. "1 about him. They had stopped where! had it mending a trap -chain. You can the frozen path of a smaller stream scratch the match on that." joined the creek. He raised one of hisHe turned so that Brokaw could see how heartily they carried the stiffening arms and pointed to it. reach into the pocket, and the man "Follow the creek—four miles—and ,punter thrust u his hand. When he you'll come to Indian Joe's shack," he brought it forthhe held the file. There said. was a smile en Billy's frostbitten face "And a mile is just about our limit" as he held the picture for a moment "Just about—yours," replied Billy. under Brokaw's eyes. Billy's own "I can't make another half. If we had hands had ruffled up the girl's shining a fire—" curls an instant before the picture "If—" wheezed Brokaw. was taken, and she was laughing at If we had a fire, eed Billy, him when the camera clicked. "we could ' warm ` ourselves, , an' make It's all up to her, Brokaw," Billy the Indians shack easy, 'coildn t we? said gently. "I told you that last Brokaw, did not answer : He had night. It was she who woke me up turned toward the creek when one of the fire Billy's pulseless hands fell heavily on beforegot us. If you ever his arm. prayed—pray a little now. For she's "Look here, Brokaw." going to strike that match!" Brokaw turned. They looked into He still looked at the picture : as each other's ,eyes. Brokaw knelt beside the pile he had "1 guess inebby you're a man, Bro- made. He heard the scratch of the I could save myself. But I'm going to take your word -an' do the other thing. I've got a match." "A match!" "Just one. I remember dropping it in my pants pocket yesterday when I was out on the trail. It's in this pock- et. Your hand is in better shape than mine. Get it." Life had leaped into Brokaw's face. He thirst his hand into Billy's pocket, staring at him as he fumbled, as if fearing that he had lied. When he drew his hand out the match was be- tween his fingers, "Ah!" he whispered excitedly. "Don't get nervous," warned Billy. "It's the only one." Brokaw's eyes were searching the low timber 'along the shore. "There's a birch tree," he cried. A PRETTY FROCK FOR MANY OCCASIONS. About two years ago 1 was sur- prised to . overhear my oldest son, aged twelve, tell his younger brother that as soon as he was old enough he was going to the city. This set me thinking. I talked to him and tried to get his view on farm life. He soon made me realize that he was a eery ambitious child and that he did not consider the farm a good place to make money. I do not wonder at his attitude for no pains had been taken to encourage him in individual effort. We are the owners of a hundred -acre farm, yet neither of the children own- ed a plot of land or an animal. They had their regular work, allowance and hours for recreation but they had no hope of profit from any enterprise, ex- clusively their own. "Why," I said to myself, "should our boys be exclud- ed xcluded from share in enterprises which, when they are grown, will probably be their greatest impulse to success?" I therefore made up my mind that we well could afford our sons some constructive opportunity that would soon convince them that they could make money at home. I talked the subject over with xny husband and we decided on pigeons. We had none on the farm and we reasoned that some- thing new would be more interesting to the boys and we were right. When we presented them with six pairs of pigeons and an acre of land as their very own, their joy was too great for words. They went to work the next morn- ing making a pigeon house in an un- used shed and we were surprised to to extract the juicer Make a hard sauce of the butter and remaining, sugar and, when ready to serve,' stir the strawberries into it. Have the rice steaming hot and serve with it a generoushelping of the sauce. Rhubarb Conserve is delicious.' It requires three pounds of rhubarb cut into pieces, three oranges, three pounds of sugar, three-quarters of a cupful of water, one pound of raisins, one-half pound of shelled nuts (if de- sired). Wash and slice the oranges, including the rind, wash the raisins and seed, then chop the nuts. Mix the ingredients and boil slowly for about three-quarters of an hour. Pour hot into jars and seal at once. BASHFUL JACK'S SLING. Jack was unfortunate enough to break his arm, and being at the bash- ful age, refused to- stir out of the house with his unsightly white band- ages that shouted his injury loudly at every one he met. Finally, Jack's • mother thought of a remedy for his trouble. She made a dark -colored sling out of an old silk skirt The edges of the yard -square sling were neatly hemmed on the sewing machine. The sling was then folded into a triangle and was ready for use. The forearm was placed in the centre of the sling and the outer end of the sling was carried over the arm and at the back of the neck. The inner side of the triangle was carried up between the arm and the chest "and to the back of the neck, where it met the other end and was tied behind Jack's collar, first being adjusted as to length for it to be entirely eom- le. third point of` the sling was forTthabe then folded around the elbow in such a way that it gave support and kept the elbow from sagging and was pin- ned in place with safety pins. The pins were black to be as unobtrusive possible. With his dark sling partly conceal as ed by his coat, Jack went forth into the world again without fear of being noticeable and strange, a thing a boy never wishes to be. Great Men Live Longer Than Mediocre People. Great menlive much longer than mediocrities, according to Mr. A. 4746. For afternoon or evening wear this model is delightful. It is pretty in changeable taffeta, crepe de chine, chiffon or in the new printed voilles or figured silks. The puff sleeves may be omitted. The Pattern is cut in 3 sizes, 16, 18 and 20 years. An 18 -year size re- quires 53'a yards of material 32 inches wide. The width at the foot of the dress .is 23/4 yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15e hi silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Allow two weeks' for receipt of pattern. Send 15c in. silver for our up-to- date Spring and Summer. 1924 Book of Fashions. kaw," said Billy quietly. "You've done what you thought was your duty. You have kept your word to th' law, an' I believe you'll keep your word with me. CHOOSE Y='UR fy hi, writing --pin a dollar to a natural, 'of -hand sam;le e? writing, mail it, with sour name and addteie. for description of character, vocational an - Mules, appearance, and marriage and partnerehin vdai .tations. The Dollar Character Service; , Arthur Black Farmer, 750 Bathurst Street. Toronto, Can. 1.7i::ard'e ..'.=,;ment for Headache.. behold. He rose to his feet, swaying his hands clutched at his breast. "The match—went—out—" He staggered up to Billy, his eyes like a madman's. Billy swayed -dizzily. He laughed, even as he crumpled down in the snow. As if in a dream he saw Brokaw stagger off on the frozen trail. He saw him disappear into hopeless effort to reach the.. Indian's shack. And then a strange darkness closed him in, and in that darkness he heard still the sweet voice of his wife. It spoke his naive again and again,. and it urged him to wake i p—Wake up—wake up! It seemed a long time before he could respond to it But at last he opened his, eyes He'' dragged match on the file, hut his eyes did not himself to>.his knees, and looked first turn: The hying, breathing face of to find Brokaw. But the men hunter the most beautiful thing in the world had ;gone -forever. The ;picture was was speaking to him from out of that still in his hand. Less distinctly than picture. His mind was dazed. He beiorehe saw the girl smiling at him. swayed a little. He heard a voice, And then -at his back—he;,-heard a low and sweet, and so distant that it strange• and new sound. With an ef- came to him like the faintest whisper. fort he turned to discover what'it was. "I am coming -I am coming, Billy The match had hidden an unseen coming-coming—coming—'' A joy- spark from Brokaw's eyes. From out ous ery surged up from his soul, but of the pile of fuel."teas rising a pillar it died on his lips in a strange .gasp: of smoke and flame. A louder cry brought him to 'himself (The End) far a moment It was from Brokaw. The sergeant's face was terrible to Mlnard's Liniment for Aches and Pains ,After Every' Meal It's the 1' 'gest-fisting contectton you can buy -and Ws a hh ;1p, to di- gestion mad a remisefisi and e u iw-, ., wileey''s arceans e' asci benefit as well sus pleasure. Wyatt Tilby, the well-known authority on vital statistics. He tells us that the ordinary man who reaches maturity attains to an average age of sixty-two, but the aver- age verage age of five hundred more success- ful men works out at about sixty, seven and a half years; while in the ease of two hundred and sixty-four lives of very distinguished men the figure was sixty-nine. Statesmen, Popes, and Archbishops have an average age of seventy-nine, which compares- favorably with the "life -line" of artists, musicians, and. authors, who on the average reach only sixty-four. The average length of life of Speakers of the Hou Commons is eighty years, and Lord Chancellors seventy-nine, Poets, on an average, have shorter lives than prose writers, their length of life being fifty-four years, while scientists can boast of an average age of seventy years. Test -tubes and mathematics would thus seem to be more favorable to longevity than the. "fine frenzy" of the writer of verse. RELIABLE RECIPES. Cheese -Cake is seasonable. To make, add one egg to one cupful of fresh cottage -cheese, beat until smooth, then add one-half cupful of sugar and a piece of butter the size of a walnut, or one-half cupful of rich cream. Flavor with vanilla, or nutmeg. Line a pie plate with nice pie -crust, fill with the cheese mixture and bake without a top ,crust. Strawberry Delight is well named. Crush ripe strawberries . through a sieve, cut marshmallowsinto quarters and soak in the strawberry juice for one hour. When ready to serve mix lightly with very cold whipped cream, place in individual glasses, and gar- nish with a -whole strawberry. Serve with sponge cake. Strawberry Rice requires one-half cupful, of rice, one and one-quarter cupfuls of butter, two cupfuls of milk, one box strawberries, one-half tea- spoonful of salt. Wash rice end cook in the milk until soft, ' adding one- quarter cupful of sugar and the salt. Remove the cover and allow the mix- ture to thicken. 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