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Exeter Times, 1916-6-29, Page 6regnAN AN EXCITING PRESENVDAY ROMANCE BY WEA` HERBY C $JESNEY �Yt CHAPTER XVII,--(Cont'd.). "Yes he, too, znay have been Gil, lies," saicl Scarbortaugh. "I hope he Was; because if he was, he hasn't got the stones yet, and wemay get them first. We shall have to find taint where he ie, and wt :eh him. 'Unfortunately 1 can only de it between duty spells, but Pll get same of the other cable men to help. And of eourse---here's a man who has plenty of spare time— haven't inge---haven t you, Phil? Phil Varney had come into the room while Scarborough was speaking. He shock hanr.;i with Elsa and said: "I was riding back from the Casa Davis just now, Miss C:ari'1ngton, and I net your mother. She was driving home to the Chinelas in a hurry. She says she has been robbed of a vain:Able document," Scarborough jumped to his feet with an exclamation. "The letter from the stone jar!" he cried. Mona laughed. "Andrew Gillies, the hooded woman. the man in the small boat, or whom?" she said, txeitedly. "This is becoming interesting," CHAPTER XVIII, Phil Varney gave a quick glance round the group. His news that Mrs, Carrington had lost a document would appear to be momentous; for they Lvere all sliawing strong excitement. "I seen to have dropped a bombshell unawares," he said, with a laugh, "What plot are you people hatching„ ? Scarborough turned to Elsa, "Did you show your mo! -her the scratched stone?” he asked—"or tell her about it?" "Neither," said Elsa. "I probably should have done both, but her com- ments on my father's last letter to me —which I did show her—made 'me de- termine to tell her, for the future, no more than I had to." Scarborough Iooked relieved. "That may turn out to be a lucky determin- ation," he said. "It puts us more on a level with her." "How ?" asked the girl. "Well, if your father's last acct in life was to make those scratches on the stone, they are probably impor- tant. We know about them, and she doesn't. On the other hard, she know, What was in the stolen letter, and we don't; but perhaps the information that has been stolen from her wasn't complete. Don't you see? I'm in- clined to think that it wasn't, and that the scratched stone was meant to sup- ply what was lacking. Where, by the way, is the stone?" "In my desk at home," "Locked?" "Yes," said Elsa, and then added meaningly, "but it's a common little lock. Any key that—" "That an inquisitive person—shall we say Andrew Gillies ?—tried, would open it?" said Scarborough. "Or it might not be Andrew Gillies ?" "It might be my mother," said Elsa, "I think she is capable of it." "Quite so. Then will you rii:e back to the Chinelas at: once, and see that she doesn't?" "Yes," said Elsa. "May I go with you ?" asked Mona, suddenly. "We are not performing this week, you know.' Elsa hesitated, and then, seeing the almost pleading look of friendliness on the other girl's face, she said: "Yes, clime if you like. Your inter- est in the thing is as great as mine." I ,f . a1tY u aQ E A xtra ia": < ' � tr p Q �,, � 6rantnT�; rz,raarm9y �'�„t v: of ed til �� an �c I 2 and 54b. Cartons 10 and 204b. Bags Don't buy sugar by the" "dollar's worth or dollar's worth" when you can buy Y antic Su in these full weight original packages, con- tainingthe ,"fine "grand. lation every housewife likes. "The AWI.Purpose Sugar" It was not perhaps a very i" r acious response to tht overture otfrieudship," but apparently Mono meant to be sat- isfted with it, "I won't be a minute," she said, as I she hurried from the room, "I've.only gut to fetch my hat and gloves, and I pump up the front tire of my hireling, and then we can start." "What hat are you going to do?" Elsa askcal Scarborough. ItOh, Phil and I will see you safely off, and then we are going to the yenta where the apologetic Aberdonian spends his: time in studying centro- versial theology. 1 hope we shall find • him at home." "If you don't?" Elsa asked. "We shall look for some -clue to his whereabouts. He must be found."' Elsa nodded. "But if you do fiilli • him at home? she went on—"I don't think that you will—but if you do, ! what then?" Scarborough laughed, "Really, I can't tell you," he said gaily, "I fancy , it will depend a goad deal upon him. It he's in a theological mood, we may discuss John Knox; if he's combative, we may fight.. I'm not going to the li a Trade sau•k Cao ice Soothes and ;smooths. chapped hands and lips. Keeps the skin soft. Solei in metal boxes and tilt tubes at chemists and general' stores every4vhere,, Refuse substitutes. Free bookleton request, CHESESROUGII MFG. CO.. (Consolidated) 1880 Chabot Ave. Montreal i Scarborough lightly. rents with any formed and definit plan of action, partly because there' isn't time to make one, and partly be-, rots:°.e he would probably upset it in any case. Phil ant I are neither of us good schemers; but we've been in 1 scrapes together before, and worried • through all right. We must trust to the spur of the moment to jog our wits," Scarborough was in high spirits, 1 The misunderstanding between him; and the girl he loved was a tan end. The clays of inaction were over, andi there was something definite to be done; an adversary—two adversaries, i if one counted Mrs. Carrington—to be , fought. He had fretted sorely at his inability hitherto to do anything but spin theories, a task at which he knew he did not shine. Now, at length, he could act, and he gloried at the pros- pect. He would have liked to begin by telling -Elsa again that he loved her, and that he wanted her far his wife, but he had made up his mind that he would say nothing about that until he had read the letter that was coming from his uncle, whom Scott had christened Croesus. There was in this decision something of the pride which forbi .s a man to ask a girl to share his lot in life, and make a home for him, until he knows exactly what. he has to offer, and what sort of home it will be in his power to give her;but there was more of the prudtnce which comes from having already suffered one rebuff. He had meant once be- fore, on the night when the "Danger— Circus" cablgram passed through his I hands in the Ribiera Grande instru- I ment room, to ask her to marry him; I and she had not allowed him to say t the words. He did not think that she was yet ready to hear them. The return to understanding between them was a little bit too recent perhaps, and her mind was too full of other matters for the present. He had said nothing to her there- fore, on the ride from the Chinlas to Ponta Delgada, of the one thing about which he thought the most; and now he was ready to let her ride home without him, with his question still un- asked. But the question should be asked by and by, and meanwhile hope and the happier turn in his relations with her kept his spirits high. Also he was not a littlt pleased with his own wisdom in recognizing the diplomacy ofdelay. And a comforting self -appro- bation hal its usual joyous effect upon him as upon every healthy man of his years. Elsa saw, of course, that he was ex- cited, and happy; but she misunder- stood the cause. She knew that he was by nature energetic, and she. guessed how he had fretted at the in- activity which her own resentment had, by keeping him in ignorance of facts which she knew, partly been re- vp erble for forcing ,cin upon him... She . . n thought that, he was happy because at r - do,and inti he had somethingto last e Iperhaps, because that some- thingntal y, thing was to be done for her sake. Also she•^suspected that he was look- ing forward to the excitement of a possible fight with the Scotchman." "Be careful," she said anxiously. "He is dangerous." "He is five -foot -five" said Scarbor- ough lightly. "Phil and I should be able to manage him." But Elsa's nervousness was not to be calmed by a boast, "If he was, as you suggested just now, the man whom my father went to meet," she answered earnestly, "I think that he is to be feared, Fath- er's letter hints that he, as leas;;, fear- ed him. Be careful, Horace. if the man was dangerous then, when it was only a case of blackmail, he is likely to be more dangerou now;, if he thinks he is fighting for twenty thousand pounds. Besides, we don't know what it was that killed niy father," "You think that Andrew Gillies may have inuAtier en his conscience al- ready?" asked Scarborough, "If my father died in the midst of acontest with him at the Caldeira de Morte, he has," said Elsa; "even if he did net lift a finger against him in. actual voilence." "Well, I won't let him hurt me," said "Probably you overe timate the tenderness of his conscience. Don't be nervous about me, little girl." "I am. I 'Can't help it," said Elsa simply, and Scarborough's heart leapt at the thought of all that the-confes- sioii implied. A tender answer came to his lips; he wished Phil Varney anywhere but in the room listening to them; but before he had decided whe- ther to speak the words which were trembling on his tongue, Mona came in to say that she was ready, and the opportunity was lost. A few minutes later the two girls had started, and Scarborough and Varney were on their way to the yenta on the th "As: into appears road. that I am to be pressed into the service," said Varney. "I'd like to know what the services is. I've been rather out of things lately, you know, and I'm very much in thee dark." Scarborough gave him a brief out- line of the facts, and at the end Var- ney remarked: "I see. There are three parties it the field—Gillies, the Carrington wo- man, and you. Gillies and the Car- rington woman work alone, and you others seem to be a sort of syndicate. Like to know which Iwould bet on?" "Yes." "The Carrington woman. I knew her in the old days, and she has a pernicious habit of getting her own way." Scarborough laughed. "Are you free to help us in disappointing her?" he asked. "So far as professional engage- ments ngagements go, yes, until next week." "But you have other'engagements?" Scarborough hinted. "I'm trying to enter upon one " Varney coolly. "I expect you can guess where. She's a dear'Iittle girl, Horace, and a jolly sight too good for me. She doesn't in the least mind let- ting it be -seen that she knows it,t oo," he added ruefully. "I wish you could have heard some of the lectures she has treated me to!" "I have the pleasure of knowing Muriel Davis. rather well," said Scar- borough laughing, "so I can easily imagine them. I warned you she wouldn't approve of you, you remem- ber." emem-ber" ---- "So you did, old man. But she has taken infininte -trouble in pointing out the error of my ways, you see, and I'm rather hoping that in denouncing the sin, she may have grown more tol- erant of the sinner. She says I ought to give up the circus business _ and steele dawn to something serious. She's right, of course." "Does she suggest fruit -farming in the Azores?" asked Scarborough with a smile. "No, but Mr. Davis does." "What! You're got round the fath- er, Phil! Your gift of malting people like you is positively impudent! What right have you to hang up your hat in the Casa Davis? ' That's' what you're going to do, I suppose." "Well, something like that." "It's monstrous." (To be continued.) . n e The Neutral N y evsmog r. Who cheers us when we're in the blue e . With reassuring ying German news Of starving Berliners in queues? The Neutral. And then, soon after, tells us they Are feeding nicely all the day Just in the old familiar way? The Neutral. Who sees the Kaiser in Berlin Dejected, haggard, old as sin, And shaking in his hoary skin? The. Neutral, Then says he's quite a. Sunny Jim, That buoyant health and youthful vim Are sticking out all over him? The Neutral. Who tells us tales of Krupp's new guns Mtteh larger than the other ones, And endless trains chockful, of Huns? The Neutral. And then; when our last hope has fled, Deelaxes the Huns are either dead Or hopelee'�iy dispirited? The Neutral. In short, wl o seems to be a blend Of Balaam'93 Ass, the bore's godsend, And Mrs. Clamp's elusive friend? ' The Neutral. • :Puncl1, The t'nrnr home Grounds. Aurin# 1915, an agricultural survey was ccnducted bythe Commission of(`onsc • , iytatiozz on _00 fermi In Ontario. In answer to the question "Are th grounds amen" the houee neat?" it • was found that 53 per cent. of the replies were in the negative. In travelling over Canada one eunnot but be impressed by the general untidi- ness and the absence of plan or sy:-- tem ni .the planting and. caro. of the farm home grounds, Clean-up and Arbor Day campaigns.' conducted each spring in manyof our � g towns and cities, should be extended toerural communities. The first gates- tion the farmer asks is: "What will it cost?" feeling that he cannot of- ford it. It will cost a little time in planning and. work in planting, but these will be well repaid by the act:led attraction and consequently increased value of the farm, In many parts of Canada trees and shrubs: for planting can often be secured from the wild. Nothing is better for hone planting than the common trees from the sur- rounding urrounding woodland; no shrubs pur- chased from an agent are superior to ..those native 'to the district, and no purchased vines can surpass some of those growing wild, such as the Vir- ginia creeper, bitter sweet or the wild grape. Many of the choicest wild flowers, when transplanted to the flower bai,<ler, often flourish mare than in the wild. Yet in spite of the ease with which these attractions may be obtained, many faun home grounds are unplanted, untidy and unattractive Al. 1 that is neededto make them real- ly al- ly beautiful is a little planting and care. The Morning glories, used to beat itt'- I fy the cabin, were planted by the housewife. In fact, it is usually the woman who takes an interest; the; man is : too busy with the crops • to bother with such things.—F.C.N, in Conservation. l • gist in a smell town told a repres- ;'ent".tive of this paper before, seeding ' started that he had sold 200 pounds of formalin and expected to sell 75 i pounds more before the season Wan over, '.L'liis is significant, especially Where his sales of this material amounted to very little in 1015. There are farmers in the Province who have treated their seed for the past ten of fifteen years mutually, and' without fail, and the results have well repaid thein for their trouble, We have also known of fai'nier:s who have never treated for smut, and their grain has• ,become so. badly infested and their threshings so dirty that the neighbors refuse to assist them at threshing time Fruit growers are obliged to spray m order to produce a marketable commodity, and the time may come when farmers generally will be oblig- ed to treat their seed grain. in order to prevent severe loss. Anyway, it is a precaution that costs little ex- cept labor and trouble, and, not know- ing .what the season will be like, e it will probably pay to make it an an- nual practice just as is the seeding is - self.—. -Farmer's Advocate. Try Alfalfa .Again. Although it is now generally admit- ted that alfalfa is the one best feed- ing crop for live stock, and despite the fact that it has been proved suit- able to nearly every distriet in On- tario, many farmers refuse to give the plant a trial on their farm, w ile oth- ers give up trying to grow it after making' a very feeble effort for suc- cess. Those who wish to excuse them- selves for ,neglecting to even try al- falfa say that it interperes with their rotation, is hard to break up if once established, and is not suited•for pas- turing; while those who give up trying to grow the crop say that their land. is unsuited for it. The first reason given for not sow- ing alfalfa is perhaps the best, but it is not a very good reason at that. Alfalfa is known to improve with the length of time that it occupies a field, but even if the third or fourth year are sacrificed to maintaining a rota- tion the whole benefit of the crop is not lost;. and what cuttings are made in the first few years of its life are equal, if not superior, in value to cut- tings of any other crop in the sane period As for the trouble of breaking up a field of alfalfa, this only occurrs ; in very old fields; and the fault found by the plowman—that the roots run his plow out—is often. due to the oc- currence of an odd plant of 'alfalfa that comes as a surprise after the plow has been running through light or poor sod for some time. The third reason for objection to al- falfa cannot be very well maintained by many who make it, because the crop is so valuable as hay, and is cap- able of producting so many cuttings in a season that other ground than he alfalfa field may well be given over to pasture and the alfalfa crop used for soiling if the Summer feed is in- sufficient. The Contented Cow. There is a firm, ^m whose business s it is , cit to supply milk toy consumers, who make a specialtyof advertising that contented their milk i drawn from s cows. There is a lot in this for the farmer to consider. 1VIlik produc- tion bears close relationship to nerv- ous condition. An excited cow will not readily "let down" her milk, as every- body knows. Exciternent is an intim- ation that she may require her ener- gies for self-preservation, and the milk Making process *djourns its act- ivities to allow her to meet the appre- hended emergency. Annoyance in ,any form produces some degree of worry, irritability, and consequently excitement. Keep the cows contented, and functional activ- ity in milk secretion will be the more generous. Hence it is that dogs, unusual odors, I vitiated air, sudden chills or draughts of air, irregular feeding er watering, noise, roughness in handling, all help todeci`ease the milk yield. Keep the animal. 'quiet and contented, in well ventilate:., but quiet quarters, feed ie- gu1a51 r • andact in a kindly and gentle manner when about the cattle, The War on Smut. The prevalence of smut in. the On- tario grain crop last season induced many farmers to treat their seed be. fore !cowing this spring. One dreg -1 Harrow or• Roller? There is often a considerable dif-• ference of opinion as to whether a field of grain should be harrowed or rolled in the spring, and if it is to be both harrowed and rolled, whether the rolling or the harrowing should be performed first. The proper method, of procedure is really determined by the state of the soil. If the soil is lying• very light and open on the sur- face, then the rolling is the best, for it will consolidate the soil round the plants; but in nearly every case the rolling should be followed by a light haztrowing with a chain harrow or a set of very, light seed harrows, so that the top half inch or so shall be again broken ftp. When the soil is inclined to be solid, then rolling is generally a mistake, and 'should not be under- taken unless it is necessary to smooth the surface somewhat or press in the stones in anticipation of harvest. Roll- ing is very seldom really required, un- less the land is quite light on the sur- face. • Little Potato Disease. The Little Potato disease causes lit- tle potatoes as big as a pea or a little larger to form onthe potato stems, and no potatoes form on the roots. The reason is that this disease closes up the pores in the stem so the.,starch made in the leaves cannot go back to the roots to form potatoes. Potatoes. affected with this disease have small spots on the surface made up of germ masses,, that look like a little soil stuck on the surface. The difference comes out when one tries to remove the spots. They do not come off while soil will. This disease is also called' Russet Scab and Rhizoctonia. It is best not to use affected potatoes for seed. If they must be used first treat for two hours in a solution of 4 ounces= corrosive sublimate to 30 gallons of water. (Corrosive sublimate is now four dollars a pound.)—D. G. M., North Dakota Experiment Station. ,at!tc .r;77 t The Secret of OP flaky Pie Crust t InourRc: ok .tat its a lRd•R o—wit of of other recipes for mnldng good F'ics, But—we're going to toll you right here haw always to have the top crust fine and flaky -and how to have the under creat itt5tright, oven when using fresh fruh. Just use, part 1 1.4 rp CO. NSTART' instead of all wheat flour. Try It, and prove 11. Cot a package of BENSON'S at your grocer's, and write to our Montreal Office for copy of our new recipe book, "Desserts and Candles" that toile how. THE CANADA STA60II 00. LIMITED MONTREAL, CARDINAL, BRARTFORp, 218 FORM WILLIAM. THE PRINCE OF WALES, Is Unaggressive, But Will Not Stand • for Nonsense. When the Prince of Wales got short leaveto go to Buckingham Palace to "good-bye" good-bye� to his parents aiid brothers and sister before going to the front, Prince John asked him: "What are you going to do when you get there, David?" (David being the name by which he is called at home). "David" rubbed his chin and smil- ed. "I think I'll gi°ow a beardfor one thing," he answered.. Figuratively speaking, the Prince of Wales has "grown a beard" since the war began—that is to say, he has e c ased to be a b boy an has become a d man. The change is very apparent to all who come in contact with him. Always inclined to seriousnesa, he has taken his share in the war very seriously indeed. His staff work has included carrying despatches, acting as interpreter, superintending the making of trenches, and duty as as- sistant transport officer, and he has been in imminent danger of death scores of times. There is nothing aggressive about the personality of "P. W.," but he has a quiet way of standing no non. - sense. One day at the front he was on duty watching transport wagons be- ing filled -Packages were being thrown up to the man in the wagon, whose duty it was to count them out loudly, pausing as each fresh 25 pack- ages ackages were reached. The man in the wagon, "tried it on" with the Prince; to save himself trouble he stailted calling out "25" when he should have been saying "20." But it did not work. "Twenty-five already?" said the Prince blandly. "1 make it 20. One of us`$s wrong Just unload the whole wagon •and begin from the beginning again." 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Ail yet, on looking back ten years, and remembering the tern - per of the men and women of Eng- land toward one another, especi is :ly that of the wonting women of England • N toward the men in power; and remem- bering, also, it one reads Mars. Hump- hry Ward's recent account, the man- ner in which the English women of all classes, at the most crucial moments, helped the Government to save Eng- land by coming forward in hundreds of thousands to take the places ' in- „' factories of the striking met and of those at the front—who, then, can • • deny a silver lining to the cloud?•1,:. ; .1 The lives of heroic Englistimen' e' the second battle of Ypres were cruel- ly, uselessly sacrificed, because the ' munitions were not there. The men now might strike—the women had v come to threscue of the Government e and their own men at the front. The Invasion of Women. Indeed, the - women of England, the women of France, have come forward freely, without reserve. In England there are at least 250,000 so eraiploy- ed. In one factory visited 500. were engaged in.daugerous work. In the largest fuse shops. 1400 are at work. On the Clyde, the invasion of wo- men has been more startling to the men than anywhere else: Mrs. Ward was amazed at the magnitudeof the work done, but especially at the im- mense share of the women in it. And the whole of Englaind now is given over to the manufacture of munitions and war supplies. It was thought at first that, in the shrapnel shop foie heavy shell work, niers” must be furnishes to lift the metal in and out of the machiri'',eFi- But "the women thrust the men aside in five minutes," and Mrs. Ward adds that "war may be postponed for whole ee- generations, but England will never fail to be ready for it, as a necessary part pf the education of the race." Mrs. Ward visited a great centre with an official of the Ministry. She saw the superintendent, who, discuss- ing the women and their work, said: "As to the women"—he threw up his hands—"they are saving the coun- try. They don't mind what they do. Hours? They work ten and a half or, with overeime twelve hours a day, seven days a week: At least, that's • e what they'd like` to do. The Gov- ernment is insisting on one Sunday— or two Sunday's -a month off. I don't say they're not right. But the wo- Q` men resent it. `We're not tired!' they say. And you look at them!—they're not tired. They Laugh and Sing. "If I go down to the shed and say: `Girls there's a bit of work the •Gov ernment is pushing for—it sayer it must have -can_ you get it don7*" Why, they'll stay and get it done, and then pour est of the works laugh- ing and singing. I can tell you of a surgical dressing factory near here where for nearly a year the women never had a holiday.. They simply wouldn't take one.. 'And what'll our men at the front do if we go holiday- making ? they ask." And he told how the night before there had been a Zeppelin raid and he kept them in, fearing to let them go out. Of course, lights were put out. The women sat in the clerk, singing, "Keep the home fires burning".,,,.,and "Tipperary," and such wax songs; and s i hole the man "felt a bit c y,, he said. For he knewethey were thinking inking of their sweethearts and husbarn'.s over there. Yes, those women of England and France ' are passing through: a fiery L` • furnace, anal it would seem as though from the burning there remained no- thing but pure gold. ..How could the workingman strike, leaving those men at the front, who were fighting/U.47e- vent England's sharing the Late of Belgium, unprovided with ammunition,. when half a million women stood ready to do their duty? And the workingmen now/lire teach- ing the women their trades. The English women asked for equal- ity; it seems to me they have won it. Who can by to -"flay they have not? "The eternal feminine has mars one, more etartiing incursion upon the nor- mal web of things,", says Mrs. Ward. "w It Was on a Tray. During his sojourn at a certain Betel in the west of Ireland a tourist was I ru:nd •from: a sound sleep by a knocking on his door at about 3 o'clock in the morning. "What is it?" .., he ,•grouted.: "'Telegram for you, sir," " 1 et�Ti +l the: attendant on the other wide of the floor. "Will you open the door ?" "Can't you slip it under?" cried the teuriet, "Noy sir," was the 1t,.,penee, "etre, We 'on a tray!"