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Exeter Times, 1916-5-11, Page 6There's a Subtle Charm, about. the delicious flavour of 11 ""You've been with me for. two years,( l and you're had the opportunity of P studying my business methods, aid, yet you fail to see that your adven- ture in the Seu-Morse will give a ' chance fora bit of real good adver- tising,. Trust me toe know how to; use it. I've written up the tale o:t -- - -" - ,-. --.-� `your heroism in my best style, antl� 1lr.czric kor the }3aa11. ithe newspapers of every= place \ve per -1 Verniers generallydo not begin to form at will print 1t' tis a sensation realize the amourt of power thew from real life. The poirultue will is stored tip in ne big, vigorous bull Ii 106 , flock to the circus just to see you, anti' writes Joseph A, G:t:rroll, of Massa,- we shall turn money away. You'll' (Mulct , in the F'aria Journal. We- '!"" have here at the Elm Hill Farms a ON THE FARM This flavour is unique and never found 'see!" smiled doubtfully. ordinary teas. Let � � `Suppose \�c leave that ou you a. sample. Ila�.tC � ,lt �i Green, gross lois cheap, � `' I ca"ulppose we l aveid. at a tart the Johanna son el' the great Galant he in Johanna 'Lad that we(e broke when he p a' was three years old (he is five now), s °at five hundred, net foata and he is as useful as any horse eve More Blouses, Lingerie and Skirts— more Table l...inen— more Skeels and Pillow Cases --- m o r e C tt r t a t n s ---• are starched with "Silver Gloss", -pttg CANADA STARCH than any other ' starch in Ge3. t i btu iTE IP ' Canada, Your grocer has it. MOa reerte. GAROINAL, F1RANTFOFiR, FORT 1,itiIaeteiv. Masters of "Crewe enzrnd" ana "l.r/y White" Coat S nes, and Hanson s Corn Starch. 133 tion period, If heifers are allowed to become too old before they are bred, PR.IGELESS PLATIN IJM. utdred, if t•ete utsnrale people pay have. He weighs a little better than there is a clanger of 'them not breed- More Than Four Times theValue of ,even far distant booming of guns, ye a fascinating spot and an eye opener to the magnitude of the great conflict, At the base there is every form of in- dustry, from the watchmaker, who looks after the timepieces of the army o the baker who,�mal.es the and the smith h d makes new iron heel plates for march _.-.:. ° tceatdulg to your estimate Then rf F I were to give you a cheque for £150,, r7511-4 I. "Oh, yes." CA��' ` } "Then I shall write my cheque 1'a that amount" �sLEMAN Montague burst out laughing. "And I shall cash it—whez'e?" h asked. "At the Bank of Friendship eh? Excellent! But my deal• young trit,< BY 4WEATHERBY CHESNEY e lady, 1 don't know in what city of this. prosaic world the paying counter of ME mug that bank is to be found," ,iitrui 1,700 pounds in working order. W e ing. Some men claim than by breed - plow with him, harrow, furrow out • n " 1K� •g f then^ rvoul U a nth n . e d e i�,l cultivate, „ „ to, run the weeder, horse rake and tedder. On the horse fork h is a wonder. We, have neer bee able to put a Load. on the fora: ye AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE CHAPTER XL—(Cont'd,) '; pleasure, if I could get hold of him "Dead: Your father is dead!" re- but I think you did very well." peated the girl, with a seared face. j "I might have prevented his tak "Of course 'I did not know. And I ling the Sea -Horse from her mooring have been saying all these things ; at all," said 1Vlona, about him, to you! Oh, what a brute' "Yes, if you'd shot him or thrown you must think mel" She came close; him overboard, I dare say you might,' to Elsa and tried to put her arm about, said Montague with a laugh. "Short her, saying softly: "I am so sorry, I of that, I don't see how, you could." would give anything to be able to `Still," Mona insisted; `•I might. I unsay all I have said in the last , haven't told you that when he came few minutes. But I did not know.1 aboard and gave the order to heave You believe rte, don't you? You don't short, the deck -hands hesitated, and think I could be so utterly heart-. Samba came and told me what was be - less ?" • ing done.' Elsa drew back from her touch. Montague gave her a sharp look. "I think," she said, coldly,"that; '""No," he said quietly. "You haven't you are a finished actress." told me that. What did you do?" Mona shuddered, and her brown eyes were wide with a real distress. I =Nothing," said Mona. "You don't believe that I am sorry.I :Frightened?" that itened. that I would not have said a word of Not in the least. I was in a bad all this to you if I had known," she temper." + cried passionately; and then, as she . And wanted ?a" short cruise to put noted the fixed look of scorn on. Elsa's you right again?" face, she added: "You think that I "I thought you needed a lesson, and did know! You- think that!" i that a scare }vould do you good; and "I do not believe anything that you I thought that when the lesson had have said," was Elsa's answer. gone far enough, Sambo and the A voice from above shouted down others would obey me and bring the the companion. schooner l asks I got marc than I bar - "Missy Mona, the boat am launched, gained for myself in the educational line, but I went into the experiment and the stars am :lining. I tink there is a breeze coming." with my eyes open." `"So? - said Montague, and was CHAPTER XII, silent ' Mona waited for a minute. "It is only by the special favor of ""Suppose you tell me a few home the elements," said Val B. Montague truths," she said presently. "Tell me • impressively, "that we have been able; what you think of me. I'll take it to do it. I am told that a whole week meekly, because—well, because I de - without a westerly gale is almost un- serve j,t." precedented at this time of the year." Val B. Montague looked up with a Mona helped herself to salad. She 1 male. and Montague were lunching together ! "Very well," he said, "I'll start in in the Cafe Marquez de Pombal, the' straight! I'll tell you that so far from dining -room of which overlooked the blaming you for your fit of temper, port or Ponta Delgada. The Sea- Val B. Montague has the sense to see Horse had been brought safely into that he is to blame there too. I was harbor that morning. rude to you in the morning, and it ^ , Is the damage very serious?"she served me properly to be taught a les- a�aCu. son. Verney gave me some straight Hex forefoot is crumpled up,"said talk about that, ,„the impudent scoun- Montague; "but the diver reports that drel! But of course he was right, and it will not take more than a fortnight so were you. Shall we cry quits, cut to put her all right again for the sea. the Loss, and start afresh?" - Still a delay of a fortnight is some- He held out his hand and the girl what embarrassing, because Val B. took it. Montague's Aimrican Circus Combing- ""You're a good sort, Val." she said. tion is billed to appear in Funchal!, "I'm a Yankee circus man with an Maderia, exactly a fortnight from to- uncommonly hot temper," said Mon - morrow. But I don't repine—you bague laughing. "But I once put in understand clearly, I hope, that Val ' B. Montague does not repine?" a erer or two in aBxtra academyma "I recognize that you've where they charged extra for man - "I youve been a ners; and if I do sometimes so far for -1 brick," said Mona warmly. "I have very nearly ruined and get myself, under provocation, as to you, you be rude to a lady, I flatter myself I haven't even scolded me. If the wes- know what's the right thing to do terly gale had come, and the Sea- afterwards. Is it peace?" Horse had broken up on the Ring Rock ="`Of course it's peace," said Mona and gone to the bottom, it would have with a smile. "Now tell me what you reckon that your loss will amount to." meant ruin to you, wouldn't it?" "Yes," said Montague. "This ven- Val B. Monts ture represents my capital and a bit Montague followed her lead , with alacrity. He had apologized over, and I was fool enough to com- promise on in-urance. If the Sea-' handsomely, but it did not amuse him to labor the Apology mare than Horse had gone to the bottom, Val B. Montague would have had to begin; was necessary. life over again—from the bottom." "Counting repairs, Io; s of profits on ""I am glad that the westerly gale performances, wages to the members did not come," said Mona. of the Combination during enforced idle "So am I, uncommonly glad. But idle • ness—say five hnudred pounds. Not so had as it might have been see here—beeore we go farther, there "Is the Sea -Horse entirely uninsur is one thing I want to straighten out.' ed?" You think I blame you for what has "Lord no! I'm a fool but not happened?" ' ' "I don't. I blame myself." 4 quite a madman. She's insured up "Then you'll oblige me by taking to about half her value. I daresay 1 shall get a hundred out of the Coin - ping itat dolneta off min�e.r I know wellack and ren-;- panes. Then there's the advertise - in who's to blame. In the first !Tient. That should be worth a lot." place, Val B. Montague, for not know-! What advertisement? ing enough to ;'aek a sulky half -bred' ontagtie looked pained. ringmaster, without going out of his } I m disappointed in you he sorsa i way to rile the brute by telling him teeeeese wholesome and unnecessary truths— , in the second place the said ringmas- ter for stealing the SeaeHorse, kid-` napping the lady 1 am speaking to, and I then bolting to a Yankee orange -ship when the fog gave him the chance—in ° the third place, Val 13. Montague', again, for being such a downy, un- •fledged fool as to allow a man who threatened revenge to steal a march an hire. There. I've located th 'Warne! exactly. The thing stands just so. You're not an in this scene." "I piled your :;hip up," said Mona, ! "Of course you slid! But not till that scoundrel-- frightened et the pro- . bable consequences of his act of piracy, I dare say• -•had profited by the rllenee of having met an nr tnge," ship in the fog', and has deserted with my boat to her. He was the only .man ern board who knew anything about navigation, avid he left you to •;land ,your -way back . with tut pini. ,l'd wring his neck with "`Try Lloyd's in London," said Mona? quietly. "If' you send my cheque' through to them. I think you will find that it will be honored." Montague stared at her. She did not seem to be joking, "I can't figure this out," he said in, bewilderment. "Come into a fortune suddenly ?" "Something like that." The Yankee circusman pushed his chair back, and walked to the window His lips pursed themselves into the shap5 for whistling, but no sound came from them. He was plaintly disturbed. Presently he came back to the table and sat down. "Well ?" said Mona. "I don't like it; honestly, I don't," he said gravely. "What do you mean?" "Well, I mean—Jehashaphat! I don't know what I do mean! But. I don't like it." "I'll tell you what you mean," said Moria quietly. "You know that when I joined you I hadn't five pounds of my own, and you know that I had sworn to find a man who had robbed me of £20,000. I find him here, in this is- land of San Miguel, and I have a row with you one niorning because I I want leave of absence which you won't give pre. I take the absence without the leave and say it is be- cause I have private business to at- tend to. Next morning the man is found dead, and I admit, when I am asked, that I saw him and spoke to him. But I have refused to say what my private business was, or whether it was with hum at all. So far is that right?" "Why won't you tell Gold, ing the heifers when young and then c not breeding so soon the next time 'that better milkers are produced. That e. inay be, poesible, but it stands to rea- e son that if a young animal gives birth am to offspring and is expected to pro- duce milk before ?she is fairly well de- veloped, she will not make as good e a cow as she would have, had growth e been obtained before commencing t; - produce:—Farmer's Advocate, that would puzzle him in the least, an that is more than I can :gay for the horses. In hard going we put, high . in tai the lead of a pair of horses on th manure -spreader, ,and the o mbiiia tion ::payee a pretty rugged team We make frequent trips to town will him, with wood, produce, etc. W have drawn one cord of hardwood a a load from here to Milford, 'five miles and the bull came bane fresh as a daisy. For any, work around th place that 'requires:' only one horse. we use the bull, as he is just as handy an much stronger. We have a, registered Pereheeon stallion that we frequently hitch at • side of the bull to plow, and they make as good a plow team as a man could ask for. The`bull vas dehorn- ed when he was a year and a- half old. He can be driven with reins, but we use a whip mostly, and. drive as you would an ox. For harness we turn a horse collar and hames Upside down. We have a herd of grade cows which we breed to this bull and raise all the heifer calves. He has sired some good ones. About seventy per cent. of his calves are heifers. Before this bull was broken he was slow at service, but now at five years he is as quick and vigorous as a yearling, and a sure getter. He has never shown any signs of being cross, and a twelve- yeai•-old boy can drive him anywhere. We are going to buy an ox to work with him. If farmers who make a practice of keeping a bull would only buy a pure- bred one and break him to work, then keep him until he it; seven or eight years or older, and raise all the best heifer calves, they would find it a very profitable investment. A bull, worked either as a stag or with an ox for a mate, will do nearly as much work on a farm as a pair of horses. The time has come when we must raise more heifer calves; and any farmer who is a little bit wide will not raise one frons a scrub bull. Teach the bull to earn his keep in the yoke, and make him doubly profitable. How Old Should a Heifer be -When. She Freshens? With the prevailing high price of milk and its products, there is a stronp� temptation to start the heifer work- ing at as early an age as possible. Some dairymen make a practice of breeding the heifers when 15 to 18 months old, while others prefer to allow the. young animals to attain • Quick Milking Increases 4'ield. e "Quickness in milking is highly t desirable. There is not oily e saving of time, but there is also an increased yield," says an English ex - e change, The Farmer and Stockbreed- er. ;, Regent investigations carried out d what your bust ness was?" asged Montague excitedly. "Great Jehu! don't you see—?" "I won't tell," said Mona, "because that young Cable -man, Scarborough, tried to bully me into doing so. I clon'i enjoy being bullied, as you have frrund out. Now, let's go on. I tell you to -day I have come into a for- tune. It is known that Darrington had turned my money into diamonds. De, not think that I got them from him on that night, and that they are tete price of his life ?" "He died a natural death," said Montague hoarsely. "The Portuguese doctor said, that an aortic aneurism had burst, probably as the result of over-exertion." "Or of over -excitement," said Mona. "Yes, his'death was natural, in a sense. But the person who caused the over -excitement would be morally if not legally, responsible for, his death." "Well, that person wasn't you." "What evidence have you of that?" (To be continued.) i •: Utility. "Did your audience throw you bou- quets after your speech?' "No," replied the reckless orator, they brought only useful gifts, such as bricks and other building material." " First Class in English. Teacher—"Compose a sentence which will contain these three words, `Boys, bees, and bear.' Jimmy Burns—"Boys bees bare when th'ey go in swimmin'," Paradox. "There is only one way that people can live happily—that's together." "Yee, and there is only one way that people can live at peace --and that',, apart." growth before they are bred. It is! claimed that heifers bred 'too young will never develop into the big—framed caws that they would if allowed to obtain their growth before being forc- ed into the producing ranks. A stable was recntly visited where the cows appeared undersized for the breed. These cows had been bred to freshen when about twenty-six months old, butt it it not known whether or not this was the cause of the cows being un- dersized. Lack of proper feed and languor, acidity, heartburn, flatulence, brain fag, and biliousness; Itl attention during calf -hoed will have a tendency' to prevent, the proper de - 'a makes food nourish yo, and thus builds health on good 'digestion. velpoment'of the animal, so it would not be just to blame the early breed= ing for having been the entire cause of the undersized cows. However, there is a danger of checking develop- ment by too early breeding. In cer- tain herds the heifers were not bred until they were twenty-four or twenty- six months old, and they turned out to be big, strong -framed coves, while hei- fers of the same breed in the same herds, freshening at the age the form- i er heifera were bred, never grew to the proper size. Twenty-eight to thirty-two months is believed to be a satisfactory age to have heifers fresh-. en, and then keep thein milking near- ly a year, if possible, the first lacta at the Garforth Farm of Leeds Univ- ersity have shown that the increase may be as mucky as '10 per cent, z>#, the yield and from 30 to 40 per cent. in the butter fat. Slow milking re- sults, in a smaller yield, and the cows frequently get restless. There is no surer way of decreasing a cow's yield or to dry her off quickly than by slow milking, -which does. not remove all the milk in the udder. ,It is probable that the average number of cows milked per hour is about seven; but there are many milk- ers who will milk ten cows, per hour, and thereare probably others that could do so if they tried. The time taken to milk any one cow will, of course, vary with the quantity of milk and the ease with which the cow can' be milked. Mulching. There is far too Tittle mulching done.! Small fruits, trees and garden crops are given a most favorable -oppor- tunity for attaining the highest per- fection and development when their roots are covered with a thick neat of leaves, hay or other suitable material. A good mulch keeps down weedsj, and renders the soil loose, moist and porous at all times, and that, too, with little labor of cultivation. His Advice. "Would you advise a young man to marry before he has sown his wild oats?" "I'd go further than that; I'd ad- vise him to die before sowing them." .4J EVERY POSSIBLE THING SAVED ECONOMY AS PRACTICED IN THE WAR ZONE. Worn Out Shoes, as Well as Every thing Possible, Are Patched"Up, They fo.hlowing is from a Brit"h army base in France: A base is a peaceful spot, a place of industry rather than war, with not t The war in Europe Inc cut of the supply of platinum. In December this heaviest of metals reached the unprecedented price of one hundred dollars an ounce—four tinges the price in 1908, and more than four times the value of an ounce of gold. The warring' nations have forbidden their citizens to export platinum, because it is used in making munitions, and the. consequent shortage has greatly inconvenienced manufacturers of fine jewelry and of electrical, photogra- phic, dental and surgical supplies. In Germany • many manufacturers have already substituted where they can. an alloy of rhodium and palladium, i two other metals of the platinum family, instead of platinum wire, our own manufacturers of electrical sup- plies are using for the lead-in wires in electric lamps wire crude of nickel chromium, metallic tungsten or molyb- denum. For the ignition points of "spark pangs they are using tungsten and for the resistance wires of elec- tric furnaces, molybdenum. Most of the platinum comes from a compara- tively small area in Russia among the Ural Mountains where the metal oc- curs in deposits of alluvial gravel along the banks and beneath the beds of the rivers. THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. - Ambition breaks the ties of blood and forgets the obligations of inan- hood.—Sir' Walter Scott. It is often necessary and kind rath- er to write letters that amount to no- thing than not to write at all.— Goethe. Commercial relations between the countries of the world are among the most powerful factors for the pre- servation of peace.—Mr. W. T. Stubbs. Dante saw devils where I see none. I see good only. I have never known a very bad man who had not some- thing very good about him.—Wm. Blake. Life is but a light dream, which exon vanishes. To live is to suffer. The sincere man struggles incessant- ly to gain the victory over himself.— Napoleon.. Men's destiny is towards progress. He cannot progress if he does not cultivate his mind. That has to be watered and cared for just as a plant. —Peter Keary. Boys may be governed a great deal by kindness and gentle methods, and by appealing to: their better feelings. owe to Incorporate. But deeds must second words when needful or words will be laughed at. —Dr. Arnold. It is the aggressors who ought to make the first proposals for peace. Why ,should we make overtures to a country which has broken every con- vention said committed every atrocity? —Mr. Walsh, British Labor M. P. She—"I will have to be a little firm with you." He—"Fine. Let us make it a par- tnership!" Don't worry if your sins find you out; they'll be sure to call again. y0000..04m.®0®•4,...osoe•••b When digestion fails, whether from loss of tone, climatic changes, overwork, or errors of diet, nothing so soon restores tone and healthy activity to the digestive system as the root and herb extract -- Mother Seigel's Syrup. It tones and • regulates the liver and bowels, and clears the system of the decayed products of indigestion—the fruitful cause. of headaches, TAKE THE DIGESTIVE TONIC • T1ec new1.00size contains three time, as much as the trial size sold • at 50c per bottle. 5 6015• ►O®O+NA0e00600@m®A0•fc4,04,14d"r}0006+000.0®000A04604 4O( For, PINK L Cures `the sick and acts as , preventive for others. Liquid given on the tongue. Stife for brood mares and all others. Best kidney remedy. By the bottle, or dozen. Sold by all druggists and turf goods houses, or sent express paid, by the manufacturers. Booklet, "Distemper, Causes and Cure," free. $iii'OZ.tSY itril::oro.a.x, co., Chemists, Goshen, Ind., 13.p.A, , .,ate 13DISTEISPEE CA.TADtiiiAL PEVERS AND ADL NOSE ADE °Pig©As• DISEASES • C�? ese BLACK ° 'HIT °. TA /&E YOIJR S. of NEAT,1 i it() C 1'. le Dallas" Co: of Canada Ltd., Hamilton, Canada x? na 04 . q� .y 'it ,T•�„ err r {1 f. ie t>,�e mak • "'ki y ,l � ;<�w• ev a 1'44,4o ye Y' .�, •..'I ii14 ! , ' 1•,y; 11 t bread who repairs guns an ! ing boots. Every form of equipment l for man or beast can be found at a base; every repair that need be made can be done there, Tf a field 'piece comes in with a burst barrel it can be replaced at the base and quickly made ready for service at the front. The same with shoes, uniforms, rifles, ma- chine guns, bicycles and automobiles. And nearby is a hospital where men are repaired and Made fit for further service. Shoes Mended. There is one shop here where shoes are mended. It is a marvelous place, a great long building with hundreds of workmen, all English cobblers from home. A pair of work shoes is brought in at one end of the building, tattered and torn; and with remarkable celerity they are repaired and go out the other end almost as good as new. First they are thoroughly washed and disin- fected.. Then turned over to a master cobbled• who, by certain cabalistic marks, indicates what must be done to them. Then they are turned over to the cobbler who does the work, tearing them apart and putting them bogether again. A machine drives great hobnails in the soles, iron plates are nailed to the heels, and finally, the shoes are dipped in oil to make them waterproof. When dry they are shipped back to the front. The sav- ing of money on shoes and other articles which are repaired rather, than thrown away runs to hundreds of thousands of pounds a week. Uniforms Repaired. Nothing is wasted. Old uniforms are, brought in. If not too far gone they are repaired. If repair is im- possible they are turned over to the women, who cut off all the buttons and chevrons, rip out the linings and save the khaki cloth, which sells for $400 a ton. • Worn apd broken rifles come down from the 'front. They are carefully examined by an expert who, by glanc- ing through the barrels, can tell if further service is possible. If a rifle is completely worn out in the barrel as sooner or later happens to all rifles, the barrel is cast aside, but all other undamaged parts are saved. In this same place machine guns are re- paired. FINDS 173 DIAMONDS IN SEA. British Mine Sweeper Deckhand Picks Up. Floating Package. A story of a package of diamonds worth £100 ($500) found floating in the North Sea by one of the crew of a British mine sweeper was told in a London police station recently by a deckhand, Walter Gleeson, who had been arrested while trying to dispose of the gems. At the police station the deckhand confessed that while on a trawler which was engaged in the hazardous task of gathering up mines in the North Sea he saw a package floating in the water. He go it with a boat- hook and when he opened it he found ninety-eight polished and seventy-five unpolished gems. The deckhand at- tempted, in company with a friend, to sell the diamonds to a jeweller• at i Cardiff. There was nothing on the package to indicate the owner or how the diamonds came to be floating about in the mine strewn waters. of the North Sea. VAL's;ll: OF A CANE. Imparts a Sense of Confidence and Ease to the Carrier. A cane imparts as sense of confi- dence and ease to its carrier: Bee fore the age of boomerangs bows and arrows, firearms and steel, a cane (or cudgel) in the hand was often a matter IV life and death when a cit-" izen of the canyons war attacked" by an enemy. He who could ply his knotted stick with the best skill was probably the political boss of those - days. A certain remnant of this pri- mitive. instinct exists to -day. Some biologists trace the origin of the walking -stick back even farthef than.cavedam. In the arborial stage Certain animate .,were accustomed to the feel of wood and depelulend on trees for. suFlden ascension from dan- ger. The ape found it easier to walls' on his hind ,legs with a bowed stick in his front paws. Whether there is any connection between these facts and the Present use of the cane is, of course, highly theoretic• a]. All may, by the exertion of a lit - tie Fore -thought and a . little outlay, protect their families from want. - 13 i shop ant.13ishop Potter.