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The Exeter Advocate, 1924-9-11, Page 2The Delicious Flavor c� drawn from the leaves v'es of GREEN TEA H469 has won It millions of user Sold by ,x.,11 grocers. Buy EA ack ge today. FREE SAMPLE of GREEN TEA UPON REQUEST. "SALM." TORONTO SELLING OLD ROOSTERS. If you have a steam pressure cooker; try using the old roosters at homed About an hour at fifteen pounds pres-; sure will make an old rooster, in our cooker, become about as tender as a; springer. The meat drops from the; bones and isfine for chicken pies and1 pressed chicken. When you sell old, roosters to private customers without" steam pressure cookers they may: half cook the birds -and claim they were tough, which is the case. A few meals' of tough chicken sicken them of poul-} try and soon the beef steak market is' benefitting while the poultry market loses a customer. Unless old male birds are unusual, breeding value I think it is best to kill them, as this reduces the summer and fall feed bill. Of course they must be replaced by cockerels, which also take feed, but I find that well developed; cockerels are more apt to produce a! larger per cent. of fertile eggs than older male birds. When selling old cock birds to city dealers I find they! do not often like them at any price' but will buy them at the rate of about. 2 males to 20 hens. Some dealers will buy them all at the same price per, pound and then deduct one pound for; each cock bird in the crate. This saves using a separate crate for the male birds and saves some time in weighing' in the consignment at the market. It often pays to trade with the deal- ers to whom you wish to sell poultry meat. After buying a pound of sir -; loin and half a dozen -pork chops, the dealer smiles and asks if there is anye. thing else. Then you say, "Yes, sir. Would you be able to use four old roosters and forty hens next Thursday morning? They are fine plump birds and we will deliver them at the back door at exactly the hour your man wants to dress them." This often re- sults in obtaining an order slip to bring the birds and fair payment. Some dealers seem to like to keep a farmer standing on one foot while they visit with salesmen, kid the clerks and do almost anything but write out a cheque. This can also be avoided by buying a few necessities of them after they have bought of you. Have them take the pay from your cheque and it may speed up the whole transaction. And then such dealers soon find out if a producer is anxious to give them first-class goods and be friendly and soon they become more friendly which adds satisfaction to the job. --,K. PESTS. A farm woman needs to know a lot about getting rid of pests. It is a matter of history that mice pick on the farmer's wife—witness the nursery rhyme to that effect. How- ever, she needn't bother to cut off their tails with a butcher knife. If mint leaves are spread wherever mice are to be found, the pests will leave for good. They have a distinct aversion to the smell. Essence of mint will answer the purpose if leaves are not to be procured. There are hundreds of methods for getting rid of flies. I have two favor- ,'$tes : When the season makes it possible, I distribute sweet clover about the rooms and the flies keep out. Again it Is the odor that is distasteful. .After every meal i / pheasant and agreeable sweet and z� F, -a -s -g -l -r>8-93 beneRli8 as well. Good. Rerr Seeik, breath and diglealle s. Makes She next zA; ns' ta,ale better. . re R24 peRe 61 IrisUE No. 36---'24. If, however, the flies have got into the house, the best method is exterm- ination. For years I have concocted an unfailing fly poison that is abso-, lutely harmless to humans: One tea- spoonful of black pepper, two tea- spoonfuls of sugar and four table- spoonfuls of cream. Mix in a flat dish and set wherever the flies are most abundant. Mosquitoes cannot be killed readily but they can be driven away. Penny- royaI is effective, So is spirits of lavender. For cockroaches there is nothing better than powdered borax. If you have a rug that is infested with moths, spread a damp cloth on the rug and iron it dry with a hot iron. The steam acts as an effective destroyer. A few drops of carbolic acid in the suds used to wash out closets is a good moth preventive. THE PATH TO MARY'S. It was six months since Mary Col- lins had died. She had been a quiet woman and was never in the forefront of anything; but after she had gone people were amazed to find how closely she had been interwoven with all the village life. She had not indeed been in the forefront, but she had been at the warm, beating heart of it all. Even now, after half a year, no event hap- pened in the village that some one did not say wistfully, "It seems as if Mary Collins might conte in any minute!" Martha Brooks, who had been spend- ing the afternoon with Mrs. Thayer, had been talking of Mary for some time; Mrs. Thayer had been Mary's closest neighbor. Presently a silence fell between the two women, a tender silence full of memories. Martha Brooks broke it. She had been looking absently out the window, and suddenly something unusual caught her attention. "Why, Ada, you've moved your dahlia bed l" she exclaimed. Mrs. Thayer smiled. "I was waiting for you to notice that," she said. "Look along the path,—no, the other way,— the path to Mary's." Mrs. Brooks turned. The path to Mary's led along the fence and then through an orchard; and all the way to the orchard the dahlias stood glow-, ing and splendid in the September sun.' "Why,—what,—"'Mrs. Brooks gasped. "It was Betty's idea. She had been learning in school about the Lincoln Highway, and she proposed making a memorial path over to Mary's with my dahlias and hers." "lint it isn't nearly so good a glace for them, is it?" Mrs. Brooks asked. Mrs. Thayer caught her breath. "As if one could think of that when it was Mary!" she cried. She was silent for a while; then, "I, think of this so often, Martha. Betty, isn't going to stay at home always. She will go away to college and then to her, own place in life. And it may be in' a city,—most of our girls do go to cities these days,—and neighbors are not so common in cities. I want Bet-' ty's little path of. remembrance to be something she never can forget. She has every one of the dahlias named for some lovely gift or s:•rvice. That long line of scarlet ones is for the weeks when she had scarlet fever and Mary came over every night to relieve me; the variegated one is for the bits of silk and ribbons Mary used to save' for Betty's dolls—and so on. Some of By Process of Exclusion BY REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN. PART L One of the pet theories of Frances Baird, detective,was involved in what she called the Law of Logical Exclu- sion. When she worked on a case thepart of anysnob error,. The under that rule, she concerned herself p not at all with questions as to the per- two brothers, though of such divergent tastes, had always got along plc sant- ly; Miss Packer, a good-looIdn . wo- man of twenty-five, was highly esteem- ed in the community as a pious person and a, zealous worker in the chureh; the coachman had never possessed a key to the premises, and the maid, of course, had a complete alibi in the per- son of her sister in East Orange, whose room she had shared on the though it seemed that the murder must have been committed by some one within the house—or, at any rate, by some one with a lcey to it—there was absolutely no motive discoverable on sonality or motive of the guility man. She simply went down the list of all the persons in any way connected with the affair, checking off each one as soon as she encountered a fact which made it impossible for that one to have been guilty, and then, when but one remained uninvestigated, promptly ac- cused that one without bothering to investigate hum at all. In other words, l fatal eight. In short the affair was obscureso her process worked in exactly the op- that three of the best de- posite direction from that of the law; I so er in New York had been sent she considered every man guilty until for, and George Pardoe had offered a he was proved innocent, and the last! reward of $10,000 for the arrest of man, as I often laughingly told her, the murderer. "guilty whether he was proved inno- The mystery was too much for me cent or not" to stand; I flung ray vacation to the "Nonsense," she used to reply. We winds at once and wired the office: have, say, only ten persons who, con- ceivably, could have committed a cer- Fealy, Globe -Express, Philadelphia. tain breach of the law: One by one, I Can leave in thirty minutes and we find that nine of them could not reach Mount Hebron by evening to have committed it. Obviously, the cover Pardoe case. Shall I go? Burton. tenth one must have committed it— so where's the use of investigating him at all? There are some cases so deli- cate that you have to put yourself in the place of the murderer and work them would sound funny to you or me, but my little girl never will forget whae means to be a neighbor." I t1a queer notion, but I guess I Iike it," Mrs. Brooks replied. And after twenty minutes—which I devoted to the packing of my suitcase —I received one of those answers so forward. There are others so myster- eloquent of the newspaperman's dis- regardhous that you have to start with the for length when the company personality of the victim and work pays the tolls: backward. In both sorts of eases,' Samuel Burton you'll have, of course, to get at the 113 South Second St., Columbia, Pa.. motive before you can start moving. Your good friend Ledyard .was sent But in the ordinary rough-and-tumble out on the Pardoe case last night, and case, what's the use of bothering seems to me to have scored heavily about why a crime was committed? with his story in to -day's paper. How - The real question is, who did it? And ever, he's just sent word that they'll if you've any curiosity left after dis-'probably pinch the woman, so there'll covering that, you'll get at the whys be the sympathy game to play, and ah and the wherefores easily enough. Any,that's not Ledyard's long suit, you can other method only befogs your visiongo and help him out if you want to. and impedes your action. The more Fealy. obscure the motive, the less you want to look for it!" So Ledyard was on the scent. What Although she demonstrated the luck! value of this practical advice in at That settled me. In ten minutes I least a score of cases with which I, too, had put my needed vacation behind was corrected in a more or less pro- me, and by evening I was standing fessional capacity, its bold contradic- before the Pardoe house just outside tion of all the method's advanced by the little town of Mount Hebron. the mere writers upon such subjects— "Hello, Sam!" its flat denial of all the systems pro- It was Ledyard himself who greeted pagated by the plausible detectives of me, coming forward from among a fiction—was, to my mind, never so group of other reporters from New conclusive as during the month of York and Philadelphia, who were July, 1904. lounging under the trees before the I refer to the curious affair at gate of the long driveway. Mount Hebron, N.J.—the murder of "What news?" I asked—the news - Emerson Pardoe. I paperman's greeting the world over. I was at that time employed upon! "Why, it's about all over but the the Philadelphia Globe Express—the shouting. Hallam has come over same paper, in fact, for which I Ind with two of his men from the New been working when Miss Baird ren -York force, and they're going to pinch dered me such valuable aid in the' the housekeeper. The only thing that's affair of Mail -Pouch No. 27 -and had worrying me is whether I can get 'em been three days in my native town in; to do it in time for us, instead of hold- Pennsylvania, enjoying the start of a ing over till to -morrow morning and sorely needed vacation, when I picked • giving the evening paper men the first up my paper one morning and read of; chance at the news. We're asking 'em the crime. Stripped to its barest de- to act at once so as to give us a show, tails, the affair, as reported by a none - too -competent man was as follows: Emerson Pardoe was a man of wealth, a bachelor, aged about forty, for, so far, its been an evening paper story all along. "But have they got the evidence to arrest Miss Packer?" Oddities in the News. The startling theory that every human .being is a veritable wireless station, sending out waves -of varying length that aid 'Nan in his daily work, is advanced by the famous inventor, Lakhovsky. lie .calls these waves 'Inman waves." Lakhdvsky believes that eventually it will be possible to eliminate maladies by overcoming radiations of microbes, and that some day men may converse at: a distance by directing their own waxes. Miniature traffic towers .are being used on after-dinner speakers' tables in New York to curb the flow of ora- tory. Amber and green lights warn the speakers thattheir time is about to expire, while a red light is signal for a full stop. Skin from a patient's arni was used to make hint new eyelids in an unus- ual operation reently performed at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Five prehistoric human skeletons, standing upright in undisturbed strata at Los Angeles, have been discovered. Scientists believe the skeletons date to the last Ice Age, 125,000 years ago. At a recent meeting of the British Astronomical Association, some photo- graphs of the moon in natural colors were shown. The general tint of the lunar surface resembles weathered stone, concrete, or dried mud. These photographs promise to increase our knowledge of the nature of the lunar surface. It is hoped to take similar pictures of some of the planets.. Five tons of fish, preserved by car- bon dioxide, in place of ice, reached Montreal from Nova Scotia after a three -days' train journey as fresh as when taken from the water. and living, at the tune of his death, "Sure. It's a cinch. I'd tell you, and for all his 'life preceding it, in the only I've promised Hallam not to say old Pardoe house just outside the lira- a word before I write my stuff. Oh, its of Mount Hebron, one of the pleas- you needn't worry: I've got the whole ant New Jersey suburbs of New York. stuff!' With him dwelt only his younger bro-! Ledyard generally thought he had ther, George, aged thirty, and three the whole story, and his attitude of servants—one woman, who acted also, "run along and play, little boy," would as a sort of housekeeper; another who not ordinarily have bothered me, bat was both cook and maid, and a man in this case it really, did seem that I j who combined the duties of butler with was an eleventh -hour man without the! those of coachman. The elder Pardoe ghost of a show at t'-?-' eleventh -hour; had never engaged in active business, man's proverbial rev: rd. However, I . having, it seemed, been content to resolved to e -•': -: •ht ahead on my spend the interest of the fortune he own hook. and ao I said: had inherited in a quiet life devoted "Wee:, 1 guess about the only thing to the pleasures of good books and bet- for inc to do is to run up and take a ter pictures, whereas George, being of look at tl•e. ti•^a'nntio personae." a more energetic disposition, was de- I sty 0 4 ,Tr, i h: w.:k, convinced the votedly interested in a company for Doubting Thomas of a policeman the manufacture of glassware at New- who stool b: fore the door on the big ark, which he had founded himself, verand• h that I was a bona -fide and whither he went every day. • newspaper man, and rang the bell. On the wet and stormy evening of (To be continued.) the 6th of July the household went----ie.-- about its accustomed way, though the The First Envelopes. maid was spending the night with a; - sister in East Orange. The butler -1 The first envelopes of which there coachman retired -to his quarters] at- le any knowledge inclosed a letter. tached-to the stable in the rear of the sent 226 years ago by Sir 'William house, at 10 o'clock. The housekeeper Turnbull. to Sir James Ogilvie. The repaired to her room on the fourth epistle dealt with English affairs of floor an hour later. George, as was state, and, with its covering, is care - his custom, had turned in at 10.30,' fully preserved in the British Museum. his bedroom being in the rear exten-1 At that period, and long afterward, it sion on the second floor at the end of was the general custom to fold letters a long hall from the first landing of and seal them with wafers of wax. the main staircase. Each one of the1 Early in the last century envelopes trio had last seen Emerson Pardoe, began to •come Into more general use, seated in the library at the front of and stamped adhesive envelopes the house reading, as he nightly did,i achieved wide popularity in England beside a student's lamp on a table in i shortly after the establishment of the !penny posts in 1840, and by 1850 were back to the door. ( largely used an this side of the At - the centre of the apartment with his IRONING PONGEE. At precisely 6 o'clock in the morning. lento. G d b loud. f l The first machine for the manufac- The popular craze for eoige was arouse you cries from p p pongee for the library. He jumped into his clothes' tore of envelopes was patented in women's wear and children's dresses, 1 1844 by George Wilson, an English - not to mention the boys' and men's and ran downstairs, to find the house- man and improvements were made suits, brings up the question of its keeper, Miss Packer, in hysterics, and: ' .,, •,„ i the following year by Warren De La proper. ironing. Pongee canio't be Emerson dead an the floor wi laundered in the usual way and look throat cut. right. Inthe first place, the material Miss Packer declared that she had should be allowed to dry and n.e-er be come down to open up the house -the sprinkled `or dampened at all. A me maid being absent—at the accustomed hour, when she came upon the body, man, sitting at the ` door of a small, dime hot iron will . give a beautiful • finish on the dry pongee, and I find which, George 'was• certain, was colddingy cottage. thee h get even better results by iron when he got there. About the place ing it on the wrong side first. ' I there was every sign that a severe Really, when one knows how' it is struggle had taken place, but, though much nr.sier to "do up" a pongee dress a desk in the library, had been rifled, else ' was missing, and all the than try other kind for" there is no' nothinghout the starching and dadoors and windows throb mpening to do. The,g... person e -bo irons a pongee dress while hoose were found it) have been proper - til' .=vet raekes a. lot of work- that is,. ly secured, just as they had been.. left, l rig .e rs.sary and p'oduces a very un- when the storm came up at 10.15 on satisfactory result. the previous evening. Rue and E. Hill. Why He Was Poor. Once, while walking through the land of imagination, T saw a dull -eyed The local :polices the correspondent Niinsa•d's Liniment :Ocala Cuts. • added, were utterly at eea because, "Why are you so poor?" I asked. not poor," he answered indg- uantly. "There is coal underneath my garden—one hundred thousand tonsof ✓"Then why don't you dig it up?" i asked. "Well," , he admitted, "at present I have no spade. and Idon't like digging, —Herbert N. Casson. For Sore Feet—Minard's Liniment. Solitude. Have you breathed the faith of fir trees, by the lure of camp -fire light? Watched the wistful shadows creeping towards the restful lap of night? Have you sent your thoughts a -hom- ing to the source of space and time? Felt the pulse of soul communion full and firm with the divine? Sensed the wonders of creation? Crip- ped the purpose of the whole? Then you know the mystic sweetness that comes stealing o'er the soul, As on balsam boughs spread thickly on the mossy mountain sod One with questioning eyes looks up- ward to the very heart of God. —M. D. Geddes. --. A SERVING HINT. We ail know the difficulties we have in eating head lettuce when we are not provided with a salad fork. 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