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Exeter Times, 1909-06-24, Page 6.., IP olueity leaden case back into its ,port you and allow you to spend former place, replaced the tray in- six hours of every day in schuoll to which she tossed the work she "But I certainly did expect, r ; Collfessioll; had begun, along with some other whin 1 carne to New York, that 1 i � �� �ni n things of rho nam g Cly down sue w have ie upE)ther y to pnr- ,V(U !l- Then she rnu li•hely down rho sue m stuJies," Lsthor firmly ro- hall to Mrs. Cusluuan's room and plied, "and 1 did not expect," she knocked upon her door. added, looking steadily into the "What is wanted t" questioned face of her companion, "that I was that lady, who had but just retired. to become the drudge that 1 have "' "It. is 1, Esther," said the girl; t'oeu made, and receive no renun- "1 came to tell you that 1 saw al oration for my services. 1 have fir, The Storyor Miss Percival's EarlyLife. strange man looking in at. my win- more than earned a year's school- dow a lifts . while ago. Ito '' ..t ing during the six months that 1 :have climbed up on the bacu nave served you. 1 have tried to �� porch." do faithfully whatever you have "Mercy!" exclaimed kers. Cuch- asked mo to do, and now 1 demand CHAPTER X. thinking, was observing her every man, in a voice of alarm. i'nen, it, as my right., that I be allowed movement, and must have seen the after thinking a mordent, she ad- to go on with my studios during The speaker sprang to dis feet, and darted around the rsck, thus and case containing the preci Jud: "Well, light the gus in the the coming year. coming face to fare with the start- ous ruby of which he was in search. hall, and let it burn all night. 1 Mrs. Cushman regarded her in led girl, who was deathly and What should she dot She knew will also burn :nine, and you can undisguised astonishment for a led girl, with ndeathrvous fear. pale, that she had betrayed her posses- keep your lamp going; burglars moment after she ceased speaking, "Who arew you, and what aro you sion--that the rogue would never will never attempt to cuter a house and while doing so site was also rest until ho had exhausted every where there aro so many lights. -f amazed to see how greatly she had doing here t" tho nam rudely do. tnandod. possible means to secure the trees- Esther recognized this as a improved in her personal appear- sureEsther did not attempt to reply, he so much desired. strong argument, and proceeded to once during the last few weeks, Iu spite of her fear, she dud not carry out her instructions. while the gentle dignity and self but turning to one side, was about think she had betrayed a knowledge She did not, however, obey the possossion with whichshespoke tee pass on, when he again placed of his presence, for, after that mo- order to keep her own lamp burn- were asharp contrast and repri- hiruself in Ler path, and regarded ulent.ar lance into theglass, her her with au insolent,threatening y g ing. She feared that by so doing mend ot her own rudeness and look. eyes had fallen again, and she had sho aright arouse the suspicions ot vulgarity. "Look here, girl," he curtly re- sat motionless. her masked visitor that she knew All this did not tend to smooth marked, "if you have beenplayingIle could not enter her room of his presence. She went into an her ruffled plumage. the epv upon us, you may s wellwithout forcibly raising hen win- adjoining room, that was not oc- "You impudent wench! take that, clues' which she had closed before cultism], drew down the shades, and and never presume to address are own up. yid you hear the story beginning her packing, to shut out lighted the gas in this style again!" 1 have been telling?" Rotors she could answer aim, the damp, chill air from the lake, Sho reasoned that. if tno man did "That" was a sound box upon the even had sho been so disposed, and she did not think Ito would not accomplish his object that night cheek and ear, which echoed sharp - Frank Cushman appeared in the attempt such a bold step while the lie would be sure to seek that lead- ly through the room, and left the hrounds above, and called in a (rouse was lighted and people mot:- en casket in her trunk at some Print of three fingers upon Esther's ead voice: ing about. Ho would probably wait .time in the future, +smooth check. "Esther ! Esther Wellington, until everything was quiet, and But once away from Lake (To bo continued.) mamma has Como home and wants their try to rob her of the priceless George, where ho had seen the case, you." ruby. unbroken in her hands, she felt With a gasp of terror at having These thoughts flashed through that she could defy him—she would HOLLAND'S FREE FARMERS. her mind with a rapidity of light- even dare to tell him that she had her name thus revealed to tho In Holland there are few able - rogue, who, for ten longyears,shogwaslufar from tfeeling,ing a ushe calmness removed it to a place of safety be -bodied paupers. There is a tract had been searching out the Wel- cause she knew his designs, and ho ofpublic land containing 5,000 liborately replaced the leaden cas- would probably think it was secure- g lington race, Esther bounded past ket at the bottom of her trunk, af- ly lodged.in some safety deposit, acres, which is divided into six madel thiart! the m and shouse.ed a the wind up to- ter which she proceeded with her She was very weary when she fin- the d to ono of these is sunt Tho man stood staringafter her peeking until she lied rearranged any retired, but site could not poorperson applying for pub- lic s in mute amazement fora minute, everything which :he had taken sleep, for her nerves wore in such till he learns aef. If griculture, voluntarily ©s is al- thea turning back to his com an- out. an excited state' lowed to root a small farm for him - ion, he gave utterance to anex-This done, she arose and moved Now and then she caught a short self, and eben what is called a free cited oath. tos a,rd her bureau, to empty the nap, but most of the night she lay farmer. Every pauper who is thus "Did you hear that, Bent?" he drawers of their contents, glanc- listening intently for steps and acclaimed to honest regular indus- ton lcried; "that And d rlousea namo is Welling- at gtheain areles s ow. to end 11o her in, house. ousNot until movements ldaya began out t to try is so much gain to tho State. erred elle lecke ? By how ey soufright- it h - tense relief, that the faro had dis- dawn faintly in the east did sho µhornhere tb beggars s also a land vagrantsorced labor arebelieve fate has put me on the right, appeared. gain anything like a sense of so- sent and made to do farm and other track at last. I'll bet she has ot She longed to spring forward curity ; then tired nature assert- work whether like it or not. that ruby, or at least knows where and draw down her curtain, but ci itself, and, falling into a sound t% it isl sho did not wish tho man to know sluuihor, she did not awaken un - gain ! Rand, you are lettingthat she had discovered his pros- tit after seven o'clock. ONIONOI.OGY. tvour imagination run away witencs, so sho quietly proceeded with The family left for New York on you," returned his comrade, with tier work until her trunk was fully ,iho midday train, and, although After eating onions a girl should a skeptical shrug of his shoulders; packed. Esther felt sure that, sooner or immediately sit down and peruse "you'll be a monomaniac Then sho removed her goose, of later, sho would again encounter:some work of fiction shut is enlcu yourself, ifhe you don't look out. It's a queer ter which she began to unbutton the seeker of the "twin ruby," shot laced W take her breath away. coincidence, though, that the girl's her dress, preparatory to retiring, gave utterance to n sigh of relief ---�- name should be Welti atton 1 But when she appeared to observe, for over the fact that she was g•,ing Sheep pastured where could sho have boon hid- the first time, that her curtain was back to the city where it wuutd be apt to be near-sighted ing 'I" still up. more difficult, to find her. They went around the rock, upon Very deliberately she walked to The following week. after the a tour of inspection, and thus tho window and drew it down, and CUShiltans were settled in their ele- found Esther's cozynook,after three minutes later lead extingu gent home for the winter, tete ishe'<l her light. ventured to again broach the sub - and they resumed Choir seats, Bttt sho had no unteut an of going g and remained in earnest converse K 13 jeer that lay so near to her heart. lion for some time. tc bed at- present, for the next mo- It happened thus: For several days after that Es- meat she was again upon her knees Mrs. Cushman came into the sew- 4her scarcely dared venture be- before her trunk, when, diving to ing room one morning with an gala youd tho cottage grounds, lest sho its depths, sho once more drew fol of towels, the friugs of which seforth the precious casket. was to bo overcast, and after sho should meet the ' raga who was "1\'hat shall I do with it'1" sho (tad concluded her instructions re - he should ng for "twin ruby," and whispered, tremblingly. "It will he should interview her upon theg garding them, Esther quietly ob- aubject. But she saw nothing of never do to let it remnin'here, for served: him, and gradually the fear wore that man certainly means to have "Mrs. Cushman, the schools be - away, while, as they were to re- it; he has seen the ease in my gin acct Monday, do they not 1" hands—he saw me put it at the bot- "Yes, and those blouses and col - fora to New York by tho end of another week, her mind was con- tom of the trunk. and if he should lars for Frank must be finished t,e- siderably exercised with thoughts break into the house and seek and fore that," the woman fiishd, too of going to school, mingled with not find it there, he would pro- intent, upon her own plans to think anxiety regarding how Mrs. Cush- bably torture me to learn what 1 for the moment toward what the man would respond to the request had done with it. question tended. She sat thinking deeply ler some "Well, then, I would like to go she purposed making to that ef- fect. time. to school during the coming Sear," The evening previous to their "I do not want to give it. to Mrs. ,E tlior continued, with a little Cushman, and tell her the secret stress departure from Lesko George, Es - of it," she went on at length. •'1 "youon t" the pronoun. they was kept busy until after ten do not trust her—she might take "yes." with lieck, assisting .Vas. Cushman it, from me sayingI have no busi- with her packing. "Well, you can't!" maned the \When she was finally released moss with anything so valuable in matron, sharpy. she went immediately to her own my possession. No-- Oh, I kuow "\Why, not, if you please?" room, where her own trunk had what I will do I" "Bemuse I recd your help at yet, to bo packed. She emptied it She sprang to 'her feet, seized home." of its contents, and then sat down her lamp, with sonic matches, from "1 will help yon all 1 can, night upon the floor to arrange Ivory- her bureau, and taking it into her and morning -1 will get up an hour closet, set it upon the floor in tho earlier every clay---" mann in an orderly and compact furthest corner. " manner. "It is out of the question, 10- \\'hilo thus engaged, she came Then, returning to her trunk, she reposed Mrs. Cushman, with tight - across tho leaden case, which het' took from it a skein of coarse, crim- ly compressed lips. "1'ou geld father had committed to her care son worsted, a crochet needle, and too," sho added, "that you had on the last night of his life. and a pair of shears. been through the grarninar school which had now Become like a 0,110- Going back to the closet, she shut and had spent one year in the high rain upon her heart. the door, when she relighted her j'ehoul. If that is so,you have "Oh, what a burden you are ' ' lamp, having taken all those pre- education enough for a girl in your she murmured, with a sigh, As she cautions so that the light should position." turned it over and over, in her hot be seen in her room, and thus "(Jut I may not always be in my hand-, observing where it had been Excite the suspicions of the prow- present position," Esther return - freshly soldered, and wondered if ler, if he should still be outside, ed, with some show of spirit, a she would ever know to whom it and on the watch. spot otbright scarlet burning up- bclonged. Then she began her operations• on each check. "Alt! if I could but have kept first with her shears she cut and ''Really: what exalted p,�sit ton still ono minute longer that day fried off one end of the leaden do you contemplate occupying in 1 might have learned the name of ease. although she was obliged to ,rho future, may d inquirer de- manded lord, and that would have work some time before accomplish- her companion, with sting - been something gained," she sigh- ing her object, ing sarcasm. cd, regretfully, as she recalled the Then, withdrawing the inner box, "I do nut know, of courses," re snapping of thetwig which had he- she removed iho wvonderful jewelplied tho girl, calmly ; it was char- trnyod het presence to the two men horn it. and folded the note ne• actcristic of her that as other peo- down by the lake. "Rut I was so companying it closely about it. pee became excited sae grew more frightened, when I heard my name This done, she nnknotted her quiet and self-possessed ; ''but 1 spoken, toy only thought was to skein of worsted, and began to wind do not intend always to be a nurse get away as soon as pessihle." it tightly around the package thus or charuherinaid." fill„ ,at thoughtfully reg'ti•ling trade, enntinuing her occultation ''Indeed! Possibly you think the ohjeut in her hands foer some until the whole was wound into a yourself so attractive that a lord nminutes longer, when, all at once, large ball. of high degree will come along some singular influence caused a f Tk ti, with her crtiehrt needle, some day and want to marry you," shiver to run 'home!' every fibro she began n piece of fancy work, sneered the haughty woman, ++ith of her (arms. ((lancing up involun- creeheting steadily for half an hour a coarse laugh. tarily, she saw, plaiirly reflected in 1 nr mere. Esther would not deign a reply the glass upon her dressing case, "There!" she nt length exclaim- to the rude taunt. a face. partially unasked. looking ed. with a deeply drawn shah, as She did not pause in her work, in nt the window on the opposite she one -Nile wrapped the strip she but there was a very determined side of the room. I had d •• ^ around the hell and ex.} ression nn her young face which A thrill of terror passed throe th ,lextened with her nenell' "1 her tesiemistress did not fail to her. causing her whale body to j(1on't I,e'ie‘e ins body would erer r'aserv'!', and which irritated her pr'ekl.. even to the tips of Ceti 417speet this ienocni.t looking hall beyond moasure fingers. She knew ii,ctinetively ;et f •rev,l i oetAit' l tech a fortune " "What has put this notiein into that one of the men, of whom !Ole I 1'xtinanishing her lia):t. Rhe went your head!" she demanded. •'\Who, had, at that eery mouleua, le cu I again to her trunk. thrust the do you imagine, is going to sup - hillsides are one eye. in +++tit+♦+t+♦++tits+4+t year, and little in evidence the C t t other, yet spraying was profitable TI1E GRE.ITEST [3REIVERY e T both years in the experiments at ♦ ♦ the Station, in business experiments ♦ in which farmers co-operated with + e arm Station, and in volunteer ex- t periments reported by other potato - the growers. The Station testa have been continued seven years, with +iiiiiiii++i♦Hit♦i♦++ an average gain, at Geneva, of 110 bushels to the acre from spraying YARDING FOWLS. every two weeks, and of 84 bushels It must bo remembered that, from spraying three times during yarded fowls are fowls actually in the season. On Long Island, the confinement. Hence the irnpor gains were 5.1 aid 2i)i . bushels, Lance of having the yards as large respectively. Six years of farmers' as possible. In truth, fifteen birds business experiments, covering al - should enjoy no less space than most a thousand acres, have given 1,300 square feet, and it would bo an average gain of 43.8 bushels to far better for them to have 1,500 the acre, raid an average net profit square feet. It little matters how of 817.04 an acre. On 1,700 mer: the yard is laid out, or constructed sprayed during five years by furies as lung as it, contains the requisito ers who have reported their results amount of room to keep its in- to the Station, the average gain has mates in perfect health, and able been 501/., bushels to the acre. Such tc produce plenty of eggs. At first results certainly prove spraying INTERESTING IROM.%NCE OF TUE H A SS F Herten, England, Borst+ the Larg� est Brewery Industry iu tate 11 odd.Au absorbing romance of the business world is recalled .el the recent death of Lord slur the head of the famous firm of I ass, of Burton, England. At the present time the yearly output of this brew- ery is close elicit a couple of million ferrets, which yield an annual turn- over of over 530,000,000 mat afford employment to over 3,000 men, says London 'Tit -]fits. A better idea of the huge business done by Bass and thought it seems as if poultry would potatoes a most profitable practice. fact is at 7 obtained perhaps, ofade tho du better to have free range as Those unfamiliar with the details of fact that 700 trucks are loaded in nature intended but if rightly • con- such work should scud to Geneva the works every day with barrels g y en for a free copy of the bulletin, beer, and the firm pay close up - fined and properly eared for this ison 810,000 every twenty-four hours not so. It is true that in roaming Presumably, a limited number of to the Government for boor duties life fowls can pick up andchoose copies would be available for Cans- alone. such food from the, fields and dian applicants. And yet this great concern was meadows as suits their fancy, but —' started in 1777by a carrier, the this on the other hand, requires so LIVE STOCK Ir'OI'FS. q great-grandfather of the Lord Bur - much ex :re'se tt-at it results in When pigeons have their liberty ton who has just. died. \That is eating to live rather than to pro- they gather considerable weed more curious still is the feet that duce any given quantity of eggs; seeds. In the crop or one bird kill- the prosperity of the firm was prae- their food, for the tnost part, is ed at nightfall were found nearly tically brought about by a ship - converted into bone and muscle, 4,t,,,0 tweed seeds, and -the crop was wreck. Mr. William Baas, the with just sufficient flesh added to only partly filled. founder, lived in the little village keep up general health and only Get rid of the flies in the stable of Burton. Oue day someone tart - in the favorable seasons of the year and eradicate their breeding cd a brewery in the village and are eggs plentifully laid. When places. The results of experiments made so much money out of it that yarded, however, it is possible by government surgeons, physicians Ilio carrier thought be might as well to supply just such kinds of food as and other medical experts effo•d try to do the same thing. Accord - are wanted and furthermore deter- ample backing to the statement itlgly, ho became a brewer, but for aline to a certainty how many eggs that of all summer dangers, the sly i iany years his trade was limited each coop lays as well as get till pest is the greatest, and against t,• foreign parts. He found it cheap - that are laid day by day. There is them the least precautions are er to send his beer to Russia and no opportunity for a single egg to faxen. 1ludic by water than by wagon to be lost in the grass nor for some The advantages of providing London. obstinate biddy to steal her nest in water for bees are, first, to pre- LIVERPOOL ASKED FOR MORK some out of the way corner. There- vent the disease known as thirst; fore while the labor in yarding second, when bees are allowed to fowls is doubled it being necessary forage away from the apiary, they for everything that they eat to bo obtain, oftentimes, water which is fed as they require and by hand impure and of so low a temperature the increase in the egg yield let as to be injurious to their delicate alone the satisfaction of knowing organisms, and they become chilled exactly where one's poultry is, is al- and can not return to the hive. most suro to be enough more to ['lace pure water in close proximity make it pay. to the colony ; keep the tempera- ture of the water right. Frequently, horses are watered while slot and fed while hot. They aro stuffed with hay and put to hard work while gorged with bulky food. Is it not a wonder that horses which are thus neglected do not break down much sooner than they do? Of course, the man who thus neglects his horses pleads the hurry of the season, and there is no objection, excopt upon humane grounds, to treating his horses as he may like, but docs it. pay? Is it profitable to wear out $2 worth of horses to do 81 worth of work? Does it pay to waste horseflesh in order to save in some other direc- tion? We do not believe that there is any profit in that sort of manage- ment. SPRAYING POTATOES. The potato -spraying experiments of the New York State Experiment Station (Geneva) for 1907 and 1908 are summarized in a single "popu- lar bulletin." No. 307.311, which is now being distributed. These two years were dry seasons, so that blight was almost wholly absent one The New DAIMLER 1909 CHASSIS PRICES Dollv3red C.I.F. Duty Paid to Montreal. 22 H.P. 38 11. P. l,'f It. l.heelba,e Chassis £620 Chassis £ 790 Phaeton Car 770' Phaeton Car 980 Limousine Car 840 Limousine Car 1050 Landaulette Car 8501 Landaulette Car 1095 38 H.P. 48 H.P. gi ft, WbeeibAse Chassis £725 1 Chassis £ 900 Phaeton Car 875 1 Phaeton Car 1085 Limousine Car 945 Llmousino Car 1155 Landaulette Car 960 Landaulette Car 1175 57 H.P. Sic Cylinder Chassis £1055 Limouf:Ine Car 1920 Phaeton Car 1225 ,Landaulette Car 131) For full particulars of any of the above write to The Daimler Motor Co., (1904) Ltd. COVENTRY, ENGLAND. LIONESS DEFENl15 HER ('t'fte, Fatally \Ynuutls Aral; Vi hu Sought to Steal 'Them. When her cubs have finished teething, the lioness leaves them a few hours each clay, while she ac- companies her lord and master on the prowl. Tho Arabs, on discov- ering a lair of cubs, watch for the departure of the lioness, and then rob her of the whelps. Posting themselves on a high cliff, or in a tree overhanging the lair, as soon as they see the lion and lioicss go down to the plain, they creep to the lair, wrap the cubs in the folds of their burnouses. in order to smo- ther their cries, and carry them to tho edge of the wood, where men are waiting with Horses. One day sixty Arabs surrounded the win• ity of a lair, and by shouts tat, d to rouse the lioness. She, however, remained in her biding -place, and, thinking she had gone without their noticing her, several of the men crept into the thicket and brought out the whelps. Pleased at their success, they were retiring to their tent, when suddenly the sheikh, who was on horseback, and a little behind his men, sae the lioness One day, however, a vessel which carried 300 hogsheads of the famous ale was wrecked in tho Irish Sea. Much of the ale was salved, and was afterwards sold in Liverpool. The Liverpool buyers liked it, and asked for more, and from this small be- ginning grew up a big trade in the North of England, which finally ex- tended throughout, the entire coun- try and ultimately all over tho world. As showing how a vast ie ustry like the famous Burton brews y af- fects other interests, it aright be mentioned that the land required for the supply of suicient'lfarley for Bass and Co. would exceed 80,- 000 acres, while 5,000 acres more would bo required to grow the hops. As a natter of fact, ttsetso tons of raw material arc useel:,h Bass and Co. every year, and ono of the features of tho storage build- ings are huge cold chambers which will hold 20,000 pockets of hops. A PRIVATE RAIL.\VAY. To facilitate operations in the gi- gantic premises at Burton the com- pany has a network of seventeen miles of full -gauge railway linos. The works traffic employs 120 rail- way trucks and eleven locomotives 1 in addition, there is a special sa- loon carriage, which is employed to convey passengers around the pro- mises. A largo quantity of Bass is not bottled, but an increasing quantity of bottled Bass is built, supplied for household use. 1•:veiN tear Bass and Co. send nut over 380,• 000.000 labels to its bottling custo- mers throughout the world. A SEL? -CONTAINED FIRM. In addition to brewing beer, prac- tically every article used by the firm is made on the premises, from rivets to the coppers, which cost 87,250 each, and from tin -cans to the wooden shovels, of which there are thousands in stock. One et' the most interesting departments :s the steam cooperage department. this wonderful building solid and hoop -iron nro fed in and a me out as finished casks. A large num- ber of casks aro required in the baldness; in fact, a stock of .11 1,- 000 ensks 1' kept, %bile th,eiisalAft are made to carry on the export t rade. BASS THE BOUNTII 11, rushing directly for hiin. He called The Bn-s's have nlw•as' hen a and his nephew Mecaoud and frierd fatnily of philanthropists, awl, as Alt ran to his aid. The lioness ae illustration t,f the generic ity and sprang at tho young nephew, who, kind-heartedness of the late Lr rd placing his gun to his shoulder, , l.urtoi towards his employees, it pulled the trigger when she canoe r.i';ht be mentioned that (1Very year within six or seven feet ; but. the it, ••. are given a free trip t" the sea - cap only exploded. The youth then ride, eneh pr: Fon receiving, in ad - threw the gun away and presr rated clition to full wages, a sum of n uuey his left arm tvrlpp.l in hip b► rn- rind a ticket for free ndmi,si•�u t, i Ouse. The lioness seized it and nit the exhibitions tied pra. i began (rushing the hones. The amusement in the town visit r young man. without a cry. drew 1iis pistol and fired at her 'breast. _- ,t—__ ___ She dropped the arm and bounded on Ali, who find a ball down her 1'O STOP A 11 \A eAY 1Ittit:.1•.. throat as she sprang at him. lie Policemen will tell you the hest was seized by the shoulder and method of stopping runaway 1.. r Pe. thrown down, but the iioness, be- ;on will notice that a 111(11! ur fore she could injure him greatly, never ►pproache the gAli,.pileg ani. expired on his prostrate body. The mal frein the opposite direction, nephew, however, died the next .rat right angles When he eeev a day. runaway horse corning to;arels him, he starts running in the -.t,re DID\'T WANT 11l'c;Ii direction as the horse, lookintr look now and thea as the rune• awa', +cr- oid Lady—"f want an umbrella `takes hi,u. Soon tho ani0:al 410-11••5 fsr about 50 cents, young man." , alongSSidee hirn, and, althe ngti ho l'lerk--"Yes, ma'am Ilave you !may cot ho travelling as fast as Iho any particular choice?'horse, he ie able to sheet oat las Old 1.ady '`Oh. i'n, ,,et partied• tads and grasp the reins, arid. spill oar just Rr► it bac n slik cover ted running gradtaily bungs the bees$ a solid silver handles," under eetstrol,