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Exeter Times, 1909-03-18, Page 610+a+Ar+0+0+040145i0 en, 03+1)ItiaC1+1:41:4041:fttlf):I+1f+C UNCLE DICK; Or, The Pcsult of Diolomaey ani Tact. ♦s: to.s*+envoi afiOE+lAl+lit+)X+ri1 a+ 1♦it+Ja1oss1+i,+04.tf01a}il CIIAPTER XXXI coat being c!cr, n a Dick's e 7 storm -cloud burst. The Chan- trelles out for their walk, he imagined them to bo washing their domestic dirty linen; he took sho floor. Whistling a few bars of "Rule Britannia' by way of appropriate prelude, ho said suddenly -- "1 am expecting one or two im- portant letters, Mab. I wish di- rectly they come you would send them to the post, will you -redi- rected to my club ?" "Ro-directed-to-your-club !" "Yes. I have not quite glade up my mind where I shall put up, but I am bound to go into the club each day. You won't. forget, will you?" Ho made a pretendod movement in the direction of the door. "Dick I" "Hullo!" "What--do-you-moan ?" "What do I ino-. Surely I spoke plainly. I just want, you to re -direct,---" "Yes, yos, yes. But you aro here !" "Ah 1 Now. But I am going up to London by the afternoon train." "To -London 1" oyes!, Mabel's heart sank. "And at Christmas timo, too! Christmas! You will leave me hero alone ?" "Alone? Well -I like that! You have got your dear friends, tho Chanta•ellcs. 'There isn't much of a lonely look about you when Percy in around." "Dick!" "Hullo!" "Don't bo horrid I" "Why? Do you claim a mono- poly of the right to bo so?" "Dick l" Her eyes were flashing now ; her face had gone crimson -colored and ber iittle foot was tapping on the floor. "Don't ke p calling mo Dick like that," he said. "It's irritat- in•W"What's tho matter?" "With me ! Nothing !" "There is." "Very well, there is." "Dick!" She almost spat out his namo in her fierce empbasis. "You aro not, going -you shat not go to town to -day:" "All b3ing well," he replied calmly -white heat calm -"I shall oatcl! the throe -thirty-five up " Sho was white, too; with annoy- ance "What does this meant Tell me, Dick. Why are you going?" "Oh, I feel like *pending a merry Christmas. I am afraid Chore isn't enough merriment to go round' hero; not enough to satisfy a man with a large appetite for it." "Why nut 2" "Way it. is dished up, I suppose: Furroitdinga. I don't lice your friends--" "My friends? Who asked them here r' Dick shrugged his shoulders. " You positively insult me." 'Insult!" "1 think that's the correct word ; I can't find a more expressive one lying about." "Pray aho are the friends of mine that you don't, like'!" "Refrain from the obvious! You haven't fifty thousand of them staying in the house just now !" "The ('hantrelles, you' glean. I rep.. it, who invited them hero? Ali urr me!" She stamped her foot as she 1••t loose her shaft. "Look hors, Mab, you and I don't want to quarrel." Ht went on - "I have a friend ; a man who saved my life! :1 man who devoted himself to nio; but for whom I should bo now at the bottom of the sea." "Diet( !" e_ - L,ho hid her face in her hands. "Oh. it's true ! 1'tn not romanc- ing. When 1 said good-bye to you in that Lambeth bedroom. I meant it to be a good-bye. I trent un board that boat with the full in- tention of snaking a bolo in the water." "I►i.•k ! Dick ! Don't say it!" "I do say- it. I say it emphati- cally. Life didn't seem v.orth the ill i lx to me. Maters shared my cabin ; nurrod n,e ; tended me; made me see things differently. In fact, made a man of me. When I think of him, and all he did for me, i cry from my heart: God bless him! Gat bless hint! When I think of the debt I owe him a debt 1 would pi with my life cheerfully if it would help him, I-1- --I---" She interrupted him; was stand - la ,ng chase to hint again, white-faced, dry-eyed, breathing heavily. '•Dick! D."k t' •ll♦ gasped. "You don't know how you aro hurting me!" "And 1 bring hiin here," he spluttered, "to your home. Be- cause it was the only place I could bring him to; because I thought my my sister Loved me, that she would etret.ch Out a warns hand of wel- come to the man who saved me. What happens? What happens? She doesn't throw the plates and dishes at him, but, I wish she had I It would have been better than the cold, cutting, contemptuous na- ture of her insults!" Ho struggled to get free from her arms; they had found their way round his neck, and her head was on his bosom. "'You think nethieg of me, Dick! You ignore the things he has done; the way he has behaved to me!" "Yes," replied Dick grimly. "Perhaps it's just as well 1 do. Gracie tells me that in the dead of night he came, and sat up, and nursed her back to lifo! That's ono of the things he did for you, and the child you profess to love so flinch! He's good at nursing, it Prince Charlie, poor old chap! -I have had some. But it seems to have struck us in different lights; to have inrpired different feelings. Personally, I'd lay down my life for him! The grandest fel- low I ever met; God bless him!" "Dick! Dick! Dick!" "You don't see anything to bo grateful for in what he did for you. You coolly tell me I don't know the things he has done, and how he has behaved to you! 'Prince Charlie' -yes. Gracie was right in naming hon so. Tho child has more gratitude in her little finger than you—" She stopped him. Would not let him continuo. Placed a hand over his mouth as she crie:1- "Dick, you aro breaking my heart!" CHAPTER XX XII. brother's brutality. "Turn off the I tap, and talk cute reutly, if it i.a t too great a tix. 11'IIy did you want to annoy Blasters?" "He insul--sul--sul-ted Inc so.' Once more a look of amazement crept ou Dick's face as ho repeat ed- "He-ineulted-you-so t l'or many weeha past he had not Econ you; for many weeks past I have been his close companion. During ell that time he has spoken of you to me as if you were a gcxkdess, in- stead of being a little devil with a temper vile enough to provoke a saint. Ho insult you !" "IIe c -c -could not have thought nee -In -much of ine, or he would not have f -f -flirted with every girl on board." "Flirted! Prince Ch—" His laugh broke out again. "Why, he was t.!se most taciturn beggar on mho boat. to everyone but me! Flirt! That's good. Beyond a 'Good morning,' I never heard him address a woman. Flirt! This is really too rich!" The laughter rang out again. IIis Unger was all gone; his face was all sunshine. "Dick !" A misgiving was seizing her. "Isn't it true that he made vio- lent love to Amy directly she came on boardl" "To Amy! To Amy 1 If there was one woman ho avoided -posi- tively avoided -more than another, it was Amy. She was for over try- ing to poison my mind against him. But I know him, end I knew her. She preached to the winds!" Dick had to pause. "Make love to her!" ho repeated. "Good Hea- vens! Beyond 'Good morning' and 'Good night' I don't suppose 120 spoke a hundred words to her on the whole voyage home." "Then-I--I-havo been made, a fool—" "Rather an easy teek, I should, imagine," interjected Dick. "But who is responsible for the jobti, Whoever it was, couldn't havo been killed with tho hard work!" „Wait.,, ++1+++++0++++♦..1+110+ t F111e grin +6F+++++++++++44++++ • s - FARM NOTES. No stable is complete without a hammer to drive in loose nails and to knock out, the balls of enuw frena the horses' feet. Gather up all the worn-out plows and other farm utensils about your place, sell them for old iron, and use the money toward sone tool that, you need. To make an all-round good ferti- lizer niix 500 pound:; of nitrate of soda, 200 of good bone. 200 of acid phosphate, 100 of nutriato of pot- ash; apply at the rat. of 200 or 300 pounds per acre. This is Pro- fessor Voorhee's formula. A shelter belt is profitable to tho farmer, for while it may sap the fertility in the soil im-uediato- ly about it, it works a benefit to all the rest of the field. Most crops are injured more or less by sudden changes, and extremes of temperature. They arc also in- jured by dry winds. It is not necessary to sow any other seed kith orchard grass; it makes a permanent meadow, but two bushels of seed per acro should bo used. If anything is sown with it red clover, not the pea vine kind, would be best, then sow six pounds of clover with two bushels of the grass. If posts aro properly piled for seasoning after cutting, the time of the year at which they are cut will make little dilTeronco in their durability. Wood cut in the fall is more durable than that cut in sum- mer because the low temperature of winter prevents the attack of fungi and the wood is given a good chance to dry. It is getting mere and more to bo the practice of those who win - Sha ran out of the room to her ter bees outdoors to give their col - bedroom. Then returnedwith a onies full openings at the hives; letter in her hand -triumphant. provided, of course, that the col - "It is notaltogether correct form any is properly packed; the results for a woman to show a man an -.aro in every way satisfactory. other woman's letter, but read Strong colonies do not sem to suf- that." i fer, and there is the added advent - age that the entiancos do nut bo Dick read it. His face became' tomo stopped up with dead bens. worth watching as he did so. "Weill isn't it titre!" Tha advantage of grinding the "Tru.." He tossed the letter cob and corn together is not alto - back to her as he answered. "From gethor in tho nutriment of the ooh, beginning to end it is a tido of but because the cob, being coarser and spongy, gives bulk and divides deliberate lies." Sho heard rapturously. Tho mor - deliberate the find meal, so as to allow a free "Breaking your heart!" he tom- al worth of her friend Ainy and throughircul+ on tato massofhin the stomach mented contemptuously. "You gastrie juice the ultimate destination of Amy s Cornmeal, w hen wet into doug,t, have already broken his; but you soul, were matters for future com- i; eery slid, and not easily penc- will havo Percy to mend yours." miseration. They sank into insig- !rated Ly any liquid; and when "Percy How daro you suggest nificanco before the resuscitation pigs are fed wholly on cornmeal, such a thing! "Darn! Well—" "Lies! And I believed them!,stomach, because the meal lies "Percy! You know I hate, de- "That dooan't astonish me. ! Butthere too long undigested. test, despise, loathe him." thero's more than mere lies in that Farmers say they "can't get any - Her face was so very expressive letter." thing" for their butter. Now ono just then that there could be no, "What?" would infer that the markets in doubt she was saying what, she! "You can't see int A ---d you our cities and towns were glutted meant. Dick was quick to realize think yourself cute! Can't you read with butter, just as the markets that.. between the lines ? I of the world aro surfeited with cot - "Eh !" "What?" ton and hence tl.o low prices offered "You know it, Dick! Don't "I told Amy of Prince Charlie's stand there with t'hat. idiotic va- love for you; that started the ball. cant look on your face, as if you What does she herself to do? Poi - were surprised to hear it. I have son your ruind against hire. Why 1 told you se dozens, hundreds of Note the lie about Percy's turniee, times !" white when— You don't want Trust a woman if sho picks up spectacles for that? Your own figures to shed them with a lavish common sen.te will tell you -though handl The blank look on Dick's von certainly don't seem to have a face intensified. largo supply on hand." "Do I sleep!" Ho found voice "I --she wanted me -wanted her at. last; quoted: "Do I dream? Or brother to—" aro visions about!" "That's ill That accounts for "I felt mad when I got the lot- aro questioning me as to how you ter to say you insisted on the were left under the will ; whether Chantrelles coming here for Christ- the money was settled on you or inns. But I didn't like to disap- nut." point you, .Dick, the moment of "What a perfect pair of beasts!" your hone -coming, too." "Hear, hear :" "I insisted t" He was all .agar- "And you invited them hero 1 ness as ho blurted out the ques- How could you 1 They are not fit tion. "Who says I insisted 1" people to have in the house!" "Amy in her letter said so—" "I like that! Upon my word! ,The awful liar:'' ,, See how gone you were oa Percy "Nice way to talk of a lady.,at din—" i "Lady be ---I mean she's not a 'Dick l I( you ever dare to say-" lady if she set down such a thing "Well, I must see about packing' in !,lack and white. She so bail- up— i gored me on the boat with hints "Packing up! Don't let me think; sur an invitation, that at last, in you quite a complete idiot, Dick!" sheer desperation, I did ask thein "The train goes at three-thir-" to "Of course you did! And I wish"Vick 1" She stamped her to. t. they were a hundred thousand inake itrworse`f ydo you r me thanitncc•.t milds away!" "You-wish-they be by your stupidity. You per- i feet horror, you!"! "Yes. yes, yes. "Well, I'm Do -you -mean "Stupidity runs in the family, 1 -to--tell-me that you weren't suppose. You have been nigh t glad to see them 1 When during wise, haven't you? Um -you don't.want Inc to go then 1" the nnothi of thsinfirst dinner you "Anus leave me in this hopeless; did nothing. but simper and make eyes and laugh with Percy, till the muddle alone? It wouldn't bei veriest fool in Christendom could commonly human -to say nothing have seen you were head over ears u( brotherly 1" in love with hint" "Oh, well." He affeeteait re "I hate him ! I hate him! I signed air to hide his smiles. "i hate him !'' suppose I'll havo to stop if you put "Sly dear girl, take my advice; it like that. I'll just walk up 4,, you'd better send for tho quack! Prince Charlie's place and tell hint our mind's unhinged; that's I shan't be able to go up with ahat•'s the matter with you. It him." you hate him w by did you want, "To -go -up -with -him'?" to pretend to make love to him Dismay caused her to voice the for 1" question in instalments. "I d --did it -to annoy P -Prince "Yes. I'd like to say good-bye' ALL D v:.5t3ra Ch--Ch-Charlic." to the dear old chap. He'll pro - What there was left of the look bably go abroad and stop there. of astonishment quite left his face. Maybe I shall never see him "Well -I'm --hanged 1" again." Walking over to, he sat beside "Abroad! Never --see—" his sister, who was sobbing on the Then she atnpped dead in tho sofa. middle of what she was saying • "Just hold op the water supply, stood as one dumbfounded. old girl..".� spoke vitassill • sTo bo continued.) of her faith in Masters. „ they often suffer with fever in the and accepted. On inquiry among stealers, and by experience as a buyer for family use, it. will bo found that sach is not the case. Consumers in the city have more or less difficulty tl.o year round in getting butter of good quality. The market is often well supplied with poor butter. Indeed, touch of tho "I can testify to the great merits of your Emul- sion, especially in all diseases of a pulmonary nature. It has saved many lives that otherwise would have yielded to consump- tion ... we keep Scott's Emulsion in the house all the time and all the family use it." -MR. C. J. BUD - LONG, Ilox 153, Wash- ington, R. I. Scott's Era; 'lesion ct,, es .At.t. it doe., Ly creating flesh and strength so rapidly that the progress of the disease is retarded and often stopped. It is a wonderful flesh builder and so easy to digest that the youngest child and most delicate adult can take it. If you are losing flesh from consumption cr any other cause take SemVs EMULSION. It IN ill stop the wasting and atici gthen the whole system. 13c sure to ga SCOTT'S Let .....d To . torr of 11r. 13a.11o.r'. 1-1prr-.st, e■., 4 tutu, wonderful -40J .off. Ittortat.a-Iitert' are regi.rdlo:'er soortrti01 Jett and to . Cara me.- tkoi.; t:fL pcp.r. SCOTT a LOWNE 128 W.lHaton ,•t . W. Toronto } s� _r I t. Ncw i909 CIPSS PICES Ccllve.red C.I.F. Cute P.::d to Montreal. 22 H.P. 33 H.P. Loi .t. Wheelbase Chassis ,323 ; Chassia £ 793 Phaeton Car 770 Phaeton Car 980 Limousin° Car S43 ! Llm isino Car 1050 Lar.tLiuletb Car CLO; Landauletta Car 1C95 H.P. 48 H.P. Si it, %),11CriJASJ Cha_sls x,725 C:.a;sls 933 Phaoton Car 875 i':laottm Car 1035 Limousine Car 07.5 Lil.1<,u3,:o Gar 1155 Lant:..uihtt Car 980 Lantlaulett3 Car 1175 57P P. Chas:13 ;-1055 t.imusins Car 1320 Pitaaton Cir 1225 Landauletta Car 132) For lull particulars of ar.y of the above write to The Daimler Motor Co., (1901) Ltd. COVENTRY, 1:�OLA\'U. butter that comes to tho city is FteRI G very poor stuff. biros of several species can be kept around the farmyard all win- ter, such as chickadees, downy, hairy and red-headed woodpeckers, iedbirds, bluejays, etc., if food and shelter aro provtded for them. The food should includet nuts, which may be chopped or broken into small pieces; wheat, cracked corn, boef suet brcadcrurnhs and table scraps. They may be shy at first, but if these things aro put daily in rho same places they will be- and fasted for ten days. Upon his come tame. if you begin to feed return he solemnly approached the them and thus encourage them to river, took the first salmon of the stay with you, you ought to keep catch. ate some of it. and with the ie up without intermission, sinoo remainder lighted a sacritcial fire. they have counted on your charity. The same Indians laboriously climb - Any material that, gives the smell ed to the mountain -top after the of burnt feathers in combustion poles fer the spearing -booth, being contains nitrogen -the most costly, convinced that if they were gather - manurial element -and should bo given to the field rather than to the fire. If bones aro boiled for a few hours with twice their volume of fresh wood ashes and enough water to make the mixture semi- fluid, the bones will break down to a. fine mass in consequence of the solvent action of the carbonate of potash on the organic matter of the bones. If wood ashes can- not be obtained, one part of car- bonate of soda -common sal soda of the shops -and one part of quick limn may be boiled with five parts of bones, wits• sufficient water, till the bones break down completely. A very nice carbolic soap may be made for curing scratches in horses. foul in the foot in cattle. hoof rot in sheep, ole., by taking two pounds of bar soap; cut this up fine and mix with it one half kpound of cast•ile soap, which has een eat fine; when these are mix- ed well together, then mix into this soap one tenth part in bulk are all caught. of liquid carbolic acid. This will It is good luck to find mice nib- t,ot he more than one -twelfth part blink among the nets: a horseshoe of crystalized acid. 1% hen this is nailedto the mast will help, and a all well mixed. exclude the air from herring caught and salted down will it by putting it in a self-sealing produce wanders. fruit jar. The crude acid can ho In the Shetland Islands a eat used if any large amount in re must not f e mentioned before a man quired. When the cheap aced can be had, it is the best deodorizer for the stable. One thousandth !.art of the acid will deodorize a manure vault. A small amount sprinkled over a henhouse and its roost% will keep it sweet, destroy lice and prevent many diseases. SUPERSTITIONS. Carious Ways of Tempting 1'ish.to. Couto and be Caught. In British Columbia the Indians ceremoniously go out to meet the first salmon, and in flattering voices try to win their favor by calling them all chiefs. l:very spring in California the Karaks used to dance for salmon. Meanwhile ono of their number secluded himself in the mountains ed where the salmon were watching no fish would bo caught. In Japan, among the primitive race of the Ainos, even the women left at home are not allowed to talk, lest the fish alight hear and disap- prove, while tho first, fish is always brought in through a window in- stead of a door, so that other fish may not sco. Tho Eskimo women of Alaska never sew while the men are fish- ing. and should any mending be im- perative they do it shut up in little tents out of sight of the sen. Under no circumstances on the north-east coast of Scotland will a fisherman at sea mention certain objects on land. such as "minister," "kirk," "dog," „ swine," etc. and the line will surely be lost if a pig is seen while baiting it. As on the land chickens must not be counted until they are hatched. so at sea fish must not be counted until they baiting his line, ar.d among the Magyars a Hungary frghcrman will turn hack and wait over a tide if he meets a woman wearing a white apron. Every year the natives of the Duke of York Island decorate a canoe with flowers and fern, fill it with shell money, and east it adrift, "to compensate the fish for first Office -Boy --"I told the goy. their fellows caught and eaten." ernor to look at the dark circles Tte es always the custom of the under my eyes and sic if I dicle't fir, the primitive inhabitants need a half-day off." Scc••nd Office- , ' ' • 70 and. to put the first fish Boy -"What slid he say' ' first t'. 'c r n'cht hark into the er,a Office -Bey- "life said I ne.leet a ^ ere er that it might tempt hall -lar of soap." Luther fish to corns and be caught." ECONOMIES IN BUSINESS lel:::\ (•cilli:TiTION PRE- VENTS WASTE. 1.:::aeras. Meat -packing Factories in Uruguay l.itfiHuish the Oil of sh. A soap manufacturing company, � whose works are near London, found that at the eud of each year there were tuns of strips of waste Liu from the manufacture of rack- ing boxes. How best to utilise them -that was the question which the manager set himself to solve. The strips were large enough for making small boxes, but too small for any kind of soap -box. A bright idea occurred to him. Boot polish. Tho very thing! It could bo madq in the sante works as the soap, and packed in the little boxes. That boot polish put ut, in neat little outfits, with brush a -id polishing cloth complete, is to -day one of the two or three best-known articles of its kind in the kingdom. Its sales long ago far surpassed those of its parent soap, says Pearson's Week- ly. In those days of keen competi- tion no business, whether manu- faet.uring or selling, can afford to waste anything, and it is a fact that in thoroughness of economy some of the great British firms go one better than even the Yanked. Vat -Arius British companiets own great .ttle ranches in Uruguay. Tho largest of these is a great fac- tory on the banks of the River Uruguay where the moat is packed, and tongues and other of the do- licacies are canned. To cleanse the slaughter houses, a perfect torrent of water is pumped from the river, and, after douching the floors, runs back into the stream. The refuse scraps, which it carries back, at- tract ENORMOUS SHOALS OF FISH. The river is simply alive with them. Men with nets constantly sweep the river, and the fish which are not eaten fresh are made to produce oil. This oil is turned into gas, which lights the company's im- mense factories. The Chicago meat packing houses boast that they have reduced econ- omy to an exact science. The prin-, cipal packing business has its own' button factory, where the bone and horn of the slaughtered beeves is turned into half a million buttons a day. Even the dust from the but- ton turning is not wasted. Mixed with a special cement made of scoria and quicklime and other .seerr•t ingredients, the dust forms a in: serial resemblingivory, and from it billiard balls are turned. 'Rennet, isinglass, sandpaper, felt, bristles, glue, mattress stuffings, are only a few of the many things that are made in different branches of a Chicago meat -packing factory. There are businesses which would not pay at all but for economics, which a few years ago were un- known. The competition between iron works is so severe that pig iron is requcntly sold at a loss. But the clever manufacturer still suc- ceeds in making a profit, and this is how he does it. HER1i AItE ACTUAL FIGURES from the working of two furnaces for a week : Coal consumed, 1,030 tons; pig iron produced, 700 tons; pitch recovered, fifty tons, value Leo; oil recovered 10,000 gallons, value 260; sulphate of ammonia re covered, ton tons, value Lilo. 1I>� these economics a side profit o £230 a week is secured, while the iron just about pays for the coal consumed, and the labor. There are other means of economising, besides those of utilis- ing by-preducts. A firm of Aus- tralian fruit -growers have lately taken to packing their fruit for ex- port in asbestos, a mineral w high they can easily obtain near at hand. They thus kill two birds with ono stone. The fruit arrives in enccl- 1 • lent condition, and the asbestos rells at a profit which pays the car- riaee Loth on itself and the fruit. e ingenious time -saving econ- emy has been adopted by a large firm et chemists. Over the desk of .'..•n department manager are Four tiny electric lamps of different colors. When the individual is at his desk and at liberty to see tors or consider questions from the emnleyees. the white light burns. \Vhoii be is away from h's desk the green light is turned on. The blue means that he is engaged. the red that he in deeply occupied and must net be disturbed. Simple Si Is this little device, its success has been proved by the fact that several other firms are copying it. 41 •rcl A woman forgets all her troubles when she is wearing a, new hat fur the first time. Magistrate (t" burglar)- "Look here, my man, if you d„n't mend your ways you are stir^ to come to grief. What made you take to such a miserable business 2" F:;soner- - "The business is good enut:gh, only between your worship and the police it bas Isms. Cuinttd."