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Milverton Sun, 21 Oct 1909, p. 3

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are aay Dieser listened ae low- ened hide and tightly-se and do you Gece he will diet" cue asked hoarsely, eae! word leavin ther white lips as if t hurt her. poaula shook his head. “He's sort hurt,’ he said, grim- ate RES had received a direct ing.’ Lady Blanche put ‘her ‘hand to her heart as if she had reccived 2 eee tes 2 dagger thrust; ‘then she looked _al you gt « the-old man’s rugged. face a The hoe et nat th are iikerent “ fixed determination. from those of er animal, mee “Donald,” she said, ‘a doctor— [Straight as wnnar, excellently CHAPTER XXI.—(Cont’d) y tried to smile Dr. Sie is going ate ade out to | adapted ie: support its qonths and j tee a w % ‘Wleuche.altudd z A T had your nerves, |Bcarfross at once. rriage oni “Pad Lae seean Deak ead Blanche,” one said, almost spite-|is to follow, Will ee see about D niko biaets | fully the horses? And, Donald. will you Tatas * sasngs ane. good “Tt isn’t a question © a Bares, sce that a lady’s saddle is put up- 4 ete = hut of common sens rted {on one. proverts and she felt as if she had Lady Blanche, coldly. *W ae pee what for?’ he demanded, Drawing her, shawl around her | have happened she went into the ‘house, an ST don't know poe (pete Hig answered ady etty, ous over the fire, gee hands clasp- ed, her brows kni! She looked Be “ Lady Bianche Phe man Lee fearfully hard, and into the road leading they saw that ne. and mee oy ered with foam ia 1 their shape, was doubtless their limbs. he Pahevess STORIES OF ELEPHANTS SYMBOL OF POWER AND PRO- WESS IN BATTLE, Do They Eyer Lie Down ?—Engines ar and Nurses for Children. coup: that elephants so seldom lie See. res] Tt is still doubted whether they night, but the young and the cows, remained ee Se fate doubts whether even entered, and +t to smile, but) the oe Bre were traces of tears i her and nearly exhaonted sla» mere cides amet) Thiet cruel _frhumph One or two orke s, attracted oe ee Lose koe isa Soran oe Nd Hales filled Eady “Blanche! s hea: alarmed by the sight of the ho can go! The night ras not dark, 0 ulls lie bubba? te caine 22 eG “thought (h Rs ad joined them on 2 Biee 18 #3 lying et bee without A % “triumphed over me a sh the man rode up and flung} ® oe 1 “i Sea Enc ianoree igo: Bhe helped Flotis Carli pares Jotidites paid ttle rob me of my lov: ow it is my |t! i deans hour of triumph are parted forever, and | shall wie him back.’ With this an of unholy peor: tion within her bosom, she hvent t ep of an ae imple reason that the awful excitement she ha undergone had resulted in. com- ie exhaustio reaching ther room - threw rseli on her} enees eae the ae and hid her tive it to me!’’ exclaimed Lady tching ibe is y from her, all |it? It was tor this that 8 ae all ate who, remained | Plotted and schemed, che loved should be dying, dying but Li aE came, and Lady Blane es relided down to the break-| where she- stood at her side He “ fast-r. a | but wilderness, ive! ie ees were half a dozen pervons |. ¢ he should die be- ~ mm the table, and Lady Betty ch him, before she among ace, touch his hand them Bhe. looked hic Sek Goa ona Pa ‘ BA eoe and worried, but she flushed as} Lady Blanche, without the slight-|, With a cry of despair she rose and Bide etanciis ‘carne uo ia her and lan hestation, took the letter from Peeno Hah as 00 Suse heel eowieh greeted her with a sweet, sympa- tier hand and re feverish ha eee smile. id not saeuer as ae Bet-|. She had seareely got it on than there came a knock at the door, ed her and Lady Betty aie oA the room without Cae She was the journey aus was still ee with agita- ve you eit from Miss Car-| t; lise? * she asked = Lady Betty shouk her head. scemed as if she could scarcely find No. It} tu white, awful to see and remember. moment she stood as if ; ‘or a@ Lady oad to stone, her eyes distended | % Sea icacron: vacates: | a “Baye you ordered the carriage, elutehing the scrap of paper. Blanche: she said, then she stop- No, it is no eat. all! Zor a moment only ten’ shel Pee yand Sti at her. ‘Why have pot Lady Betty, “1 did not} looked around and in a low, hard | You got habit on? Where are expect to hear until to-night. She| voice, so unlike her Be smooth | 30" going?” : —she may not have had time to} tones, s - “Tam going to Scarfross,’’ said write yt.” Lord Norman has met with an|Lady Blanche, coldly “J ‘should have thought she] accident; the is in great danger!” ‘To riross?. v demand- ould inve’sent & posteatd,? sug-|. There was a murmur of alarm and [ed Lady Betty. “(Why should you gested Lady Blanche, smoothly.’ sympathy as the group gatnered) 8° * “We all are very curious and anxi- {around Lady Blanche. ‘Because it pleases = ous, ‘but eet so soir as you, [| With a piteous cry Lady Betty turned Lady Blanche, facahtly, dare say, my dea: held out her han: bu ub with a dangerous gleam in her “No,” retorted “Lady Betty; “I) ‘Give me the letter! Oh! what] eve dare say not shall I do? Poor Bruce! Poor faaly Betty looked at her jeal-|¢ A few minutes afterward she! Bruce! I can’t read it!’ she sob-|OUSly. arose and went to ‘her room. bed, ‘‘Will some one- at “There is no occasion oe you to ovine was Aaeuitig with an open| One of the gentlemen took it|80,. she m goi ae in her band, and wiping her on oe trembling hand and tead What is that to me!” eae Lady it ta iche, ie on her suddenly, ~ Wy hat’s the matter now?’’ asked sr Nysieah: had written a iy with white face and flashing eyes Lady Betty, irritably. lines only, saying that Lord Nor-| ‘What is it to me whet miladi, | have had bad|man had met with a serious acci-/ going or : My only brother, miladi! “Bub you cannot. have not seen him for night !”? said daar Belly, years!” | not come in the “Oh! said Lady Betty. “And } 1 “Th carriage” “scornful of course you want to go at once, “Do you know jong it will a» that it?” wy Do you think T should keep Josine looked hurt and wound- ‘while it dragged its way As 1 were read out, No, I am going to ride. 1 wo Lady Betty groaned and put her hands before her face. w “Ob! what is to be done?” 3 “Do you think he is kill- who else is she am | neareat hie leave you so suddenly. ten to oe them to let me know if} wailed. filled. se, Ji he doesn’ Aes ed not killed or ey, would joris, Blanche,’” no teat to go, but if he ’—| not s loctor! Where is|sh and she s Al. Dr. Greene?” saaniaNe winced as if she had “Very well,” sae Lady Betty, > Some one set off to find ere been siruck, thei her face: crifisolie hope for your sake as well as mine|doctor, who was play ten- ae eis lips parted as if for sud- that he will et better.” ‘is, and came bounding tee tden-t Josine dropved a ee vrace alert and ready witted. "Blo s joris- Carlisle!’ she ask what news| ‘What is to be done?” panted | said, with aires a, ane tre m Mademoiselle} Lady Betty, who like most of her|vehemence. ‘Yes! sh a ay be "Pardon, salaats if I pre-|class, was thrown into a complete} nearer to him than I a You uc! state of helpless despair. taunt me with that, do aan : Where It is be essary to say| Suddenly a shiver ran through n? Why is she not here? that she had very Poagetally exam-| Lady Blanche’s frame, d, erhaps you do not know—but, yes he had recovered from s well as I! oe has ve ve is no news,” said Lady;stupor, she turned to Dr im. And iI i e loved him all Betty, With a sig! anus held up. ray hands with an sion of dismay and shrug- will go to him now ! And Seas what could she say? Lady Betty crept crying from the room. (fo said, in a low, hard voice. sou: start at once, Dr. Greene? will see that a conveyance follows you with ‘pricing you may order.” He glanced Elaher whiter ver lacs approvingly ly. L will write a list of what I shall re ives? he said. ‘Then, turned and. looked around. ‘This tl tross is. mens shut, quite © ill ‘0 be continued.) bad!’ she mut- th. tee! long tongue!’ elaimed Lady Betty, peremptorily, orn. LONDGN’S By BET TOOTH. Sear: soli Great sae in the Consumption |” played teunis or wan: in the not?—I mean there the grounds, but on al! there seem-| js no ole ft Candies. cd to Fest a cloud ah ol sapestven who euiild mess "| Apropos of the fondness of Eski- and disquietude, and bo “Tt is simply a rough, hat-like mies for gumdrops and the sustain- looked forward a doa return of the places in a perfect wilderness BP Se of sugar, of which hunting expedit e quickly answered. a nibstantial ration’ is now supplied caiwel’, then, oer sai te “some one you can rely upon had etter ‘come on after me m the carriage,” he said, and ra regularly to soldiers in aS German army, there seeius to he a distinct | the SouMTnBUION of} Nn} candies of all sorts in England o envy meiebt “in upon Lady Betty's spirits, and she seemed to count the hot ia oe mit elapse hefore she mu: tell him of Bloris’ “disappear- ¢ ncheon came and went, and jidden S Lady Blanche stood for a nioment at if collecting all her mental and physical strength; then she went ood | dawn the terrace and Ste ir stables miticie che grooms wiping down Donald's poor }j,, mer ig sweetmeat sell- City of London one sees an in the number of hacen: eh found ‘a couple of | Sellers and other eurhstone candy dusk, and Lady Betty was standing who are all doing a good on the terrace looking toward the y| Later s slumber tal erage about eweney: four. elephants for t is ther in the Testament is the clephant direct- in ly mentioned books of the references to rau that he « when yoo in ‘their ot his fightin which eer emy, and t ges’” so sho Rare of ‘the H ons handled. cae is that when the elepha: shock of battle road that wound through the park when she saw a horseman appear horse, and trying to make is cee Ih ae fortable; aud sie onan upturn- sandy supplying ure | poate in the dist pimself. eit tin ¢ to be refilled oftener they were as tiding very. hard and evi- the “ar Ae savkimanen may be sce tre: hese “dently urging hhis tited horse a its! lady"? in their ‘midst taster the ware bieine a worth, of ep inaet weer toon somewhat et up to WUeMtstaft and eating ft as they go Her eae misgave her, she knew | Donaid quickly This prohahies affects the rolnecs! most women of} “Will you tell me how the -ae- | trade adversely ident Sennen » she asked Lhe fia quarters 0 Donald took off his glengarry, | jacconists. are complaining while nt, a’ and to! nd hy erin hi tough, guttu pemecte rejoice, been watching—as indeed she had eed iH the vindow and stood by hi eeWho i is that coming iy ad ray 229 = an agitated voice. ‘some messenger,’’ she ine ey. See taappened | OF eotead te broken Englis “tTt was all fer the lad's sake, me eddie ; he gave his life—if so be the Jaira dies—for the young boy ! Poor » he's almost daft over it, and ee hearted! Tt v erance sae also wel- come pie signs of ‘increased con- sone of Bee ee the orking classes, — as tends to ect wat the desire’ toe intoxi- ———* Parke—‘‘You ree joint bank- ing account ney ur wife, don’t you?’ Lan Vell; yes; I'de- Pest the mandy and she draws it lady late Bice smiled contemptu- a “stra nusly., iat Tend Unite wan mkarning she oi should you think 50?” sl He gable” retialoul ck here: Strange that were, now !”? and Donald shook his head Beavelts footing: oes ut to put off the dinner for an hour. tis all,” It’s the custom of advertising| uy, Se customers, — fps it towering The phant move ank, ‘three 4: ned remain and ne mahout’s little ero of that on Oe beside | Kk: wood Kipling estimates the period $s ponsible for the eld belief that they could not bend | jj, battle harness clanging alt each aieely stride oe Henly along road behind the. So, salaam, sees No mere human being will ever quite under- stand the workings of your mind or the contradictions of that charac- ter w ae is compact of paradoxes, ev you yourself are an anach- yonism, age in come oe 's history, in h there were ts. With aa “our stehneth and bulk as Shay with the fac! you—corruptio” optimi have ad- cunning 3 fr eine: the shock of battle t : ient to children and aed ahead ot Helle are ver lie down in a wild state. Gor- : : clogs; earth-shaking, y nV. dune Citing: hOuahe iar Weel SME Neen eran ee found evidence in marks upon the| softer footfalls j| ground that the adult: bulls did |°No'man ean” measure all your stretch themselves out full length| ways any : fol a Tew Hours vert aMibat WL te ee man ean tell what happens to dead wild elephants, which, maki a eegeate for their oie i always on jong to f India ex- yee be sown, Bays, We [plain it the wild ephant ne So, sala ving. and reeding again, Noble ae Dord of Udewal bered Days y-four hours. a sere TORNADO, 3S. Writer Gives a Graphic Picture of Its Terrors. The Tornado of re is re~ 23 the same hat Sees than en standing up to four hours in the EReneeae in he Sonne Tt Aristotle said that on the land what Be typhoon is in Eastern waters. The storm LIVED FOR 200 YE and he may not have exaggerated there seems to record of one living to be of Paci perhaps curious that nei-|, Parte of the nei, nor in the New! Umse a@ peripal perienced one such ivor enough from the time of Solomon among. the armies, ee heads ; and, besides east en te of the best And upon the beasts were there girt fast to them wth devi es; there were also upon every one thirty strong men that fought up- tl “Thirty. two men on one elephant hi Indian ae ruled him,” in ‘the same book we Row. Higaiir, the son of Mattath’as, earned the surname Saravan. ‘crept under an elephant pee jthrust him under ‘The elephant then was primarily || and in Ori tle, but it has ae comrade in. arms to ae Tiered it was not only at the siege of Arcot, THE BRITISH BULLETS threw the elephants into a pan smd drove them back to “easile bearing eleph: more dangerous to his friends than fig Torte tely been iplormed that riven against the en- e ‘“‘jarrynge of ye pig- of the nerves of the be- hemoths that they fled incontinent- dent that they will be safe and ten- f all elephant : eae surely the et Tea hy aiackeseek te The gulianced caluecit thal Portes wan apeens ot great victory for i “Pat, when are you going to} At the moment Blake your whiskers on the Rese: t had: been ee List to halt its tne was killed el their turn drove the emy ecw and till the tide swept past the rooted elephan't and left colossal ght was over and oak ie then ay would have had t! ‘om the: tetlenslds hae it waited still for THE DEAD MAN’S VOICE. es ne ina been told to ould ae i cy they sent to the the son, Hsping Wie aid thie ap 1oRe Che vietorious thenbering how its master had of- ten in brief absénce delegat thority to the child, ‘confessed wind and rain is pr RS, a unnatural stillness and silence of the elem Sensitive persons authentic 130. and a are a he ap: ee is animals are aware of of the ap oaching storm. he was at the house of a f ei in the northern part of Australia, very His ac the canonical iptures, though | 7° ry are frequent. By and by there came a onward. e Apocrypha, hb : : comand: tn the Angersehe, ton [night air a distant roaring g noise Suoun.* Ina were tak Ak Mas re Sey dabeos we hava details of the army |Mours was broken. Something ter: of Antioshus » Eupator, which in-| ‘ible was at hand, as had beep fore eluded “wo aod. thirty elephants told by the clerk of the weather. Reise ere The ae j benee ie Se # whistle, then to bellow; the 1 Moreover, they divided © jor beat | Ne dene ee cea: rai and thunder crashed and boomed. All the household was busy hold- ing on to goods and peehine things ciutgeal goo 8 they were hurled off by the vio : lence 6 the beet es ripped up ae as Shut- : o/)eaek geet aioe Spellicand-tuseabare iy wah oa they went, and people raced after them to the rescue. All were work, myself included two and | had ‘s bad leg coming on, and 4 considering the b e most ne een: et Vainable article in tee of the house, L right manfully lay in iy and so held it down. the ation, but| (onfortabls bed L watched the roof “off, piece by piece. From it 1 saw the slabs and boards go—I saw everything go until there was no- but me and my noble and slew], Logether we eatiered ‘the storm bravely; together we remained in e torrents of rain and in the blinding lightning, littered with broken timber, hornets’ nests, or- bits of furniture from the next room, pomeloes and guavas. boughs of trees and sundry other fame & neyer before witnessed a ie ow was seen splendid- read ha- oreover, as you do not always own ranks, that be quire a roof over your head in ant’ has been! that country, it was a mere trifle eine without one on a nightolike the storm ceased and day: “in a measure ay hen & ihe up spreading its sae waters over the plain which we had traversed only the day betas: right wp to the foot of the mouncain ees a of every three were blown WEGE 0 leaves were left on any. W ‘ater was running everywhere; an the br Heys Aeccat scene of afraid e castelles ¢| dull gray and rneiasele Sepstion’ hy PATS RETORT COURTEOUS Que. recently a war' Se. found it few hours a full bearded Irish tells how the street a couple of hours later, said : “Athen you place y your tongue «8 the Civil List,’ ‘was the Trish s.- jor’s reply. osed around a Never strive wie an inside view ola overcome, a the among s it re- tbe ner threat day, te au “What do you mean by making pair of trousers with only one allegiance and oa the shat, sy = In May, es ©| Baron de Bra .|stroyed and burnt, near Stu utte: 1s lossal disas rughed and hissed, lightning blazed | *™ thing left at my fae “ss the house ‘ e of | ne $ Knglish ahs and Which is attached a rete with a aes TRAGIC TRIAL VOYAGES FIRST ATTEMPTS AT AERIAL NAVIGATION. Disaster Has Attended Several At- tempts at the Conquest of the Air. M, Severo, having completed’a y airshi , determin: ed to make a iret voyage: a engineer, Sachet, inflated. the’ alloonets, and ‘started the petrol across the outskirts of Paris, when a frightful explosion took place. The next moment there dropped in- to the street Boia Ws yet steel and c gly mined bold experimenter panion. Two years later, the Severo tra- gedy was alma duplioptea, when w flying ma- chine made 5 firs' . ees: ligt breeze blew a puff of misty cloud hehe the spectators and pee of the too- and his com- Ee “The car a motor detached from the silk envelope, and in a field by the roadside lay A TANGLED MASS tubing, wickerwork, ire, parti Te broken ‘bean: of the baron and lus companio: = aber £60,000 people, Count Zeppelin’s airship was de- art, it is curious that the Pane i u ee eestroyed b Cal ship Ariel r teen passengers: and reach- ae a mats of 300 feet. As the ship 3s gathered momentum the three for- ward engines stopped working, and instantly te huge machine tilted her nose high in the air The passengers could she aesn clinging wildly to the rails, to pre- vent _thenselves being busied to certain death. Slowly the rear ‘| driving pre pilens set the ship on end. Then, with a crack like a gun- act: the balloon “envelope wars: the immense haere dro) pped cardhwards.. For, the first two hun- dred feet she fell slowly, but as the last of the as gave ‘out the speed increased, dd, with A TRIGHIFOL ORASH, the ruins of the unwieldly monster reached the ground. ‘Three crew were killed, and not one of th cident even ‘witnessed at Mr. Charles Oliver Jones was try- ing his new giant Ride Boom- 5,000 per- yelope of the balloon. a crashing explosion, and, as the envelope withered in a fierce blast of flame, the car dropped ground- wards like a stone. lerman aeronaut, Captain Abercorn and three companions had is, perhaps, the like a stone. PEOPLE BELOW FLED, horror-stricken, Then a mon agieh thing happened. The burst balloo spread out like a parachute, aN slower and slower, till at dropped lightly. sats some trees. Beyo pants were . eis for their peri- lous adventure. ioe and Queen of Italy wit- nes rrible ster when Captain *Ulivell was to try a new dirgible war balloon at the Far- _Disress an ede ascent a eae sheet of flame Mee inate the balloon, and aeronaut and wreck- Os car. dro) Ulivelli beck and died later in the day. Sy FLOATING POST GFFICES. Tin Rox, They Consist of a Raft, a Flag and a Fee. Vessels at sea have their way of posting letters in old’ Neptune's are. Aokbing post offices is given in th trand by the he terlieht tin contains the! lager renter ‘nation finder, secured to a raft and topped 6 board, care being taken to drop the raft flat on the water so as to keep the flag flying in order to attract attention. haye posted letters in this way several times eee passing Tenerii or a were ninety letters posted to vari- ous parte of the world in our last floating post 0 i be used except in case of fire pe those college boys stole oo e. corridor. Manager raWhere Clerk ‘y F it over os coulin three minutes | m ally covering |] ‘of her | 4) up into small lengths, as this great- /and leaves the manure in ; ; . her Your occu | weather became | iy) Sartaneeten tees About the Farm pieketecles ee CARE OF FARM MANURES. Ht is desirable to consider the sources of loss and means for pre- — | Yonting loss, for, it is estimated - that from 75 to 85. per cent. of the." fertility'removed by the erop.may Lo retur in ‘ioperly eared for < manure, © One ‘source of loss is leaching: H+terttts Bere seeeees are washed o1 drainage ict e may lose most of its fecatinaes value in this way, Another source of loss is the heat- The sea of nure a i nay be largely controlled fob fermentation of manure is produc- isms (bacteria) which require a lib: eral supply of air for their activity. manure is compacted so as to exclude the air, fermentation can- not take place very rapi the decomposition with little or no loss of y nure should be compacted while fe ot as hot fermentation may set u ours, “The main reason why hors nure heats more rapidly than aM manure 1 is more porous, thus admitting of a freer circula- tion of atmosphere. Cow manure contains more rer, which also faery the temperature down, it is being formed. Acid p a nit are Rinciiies. u this ae these the animals, so used in the sls manure hea The greatest loss is in letting the liquid manure go to w liquid manure contai a more fertility than, the soli ure and it is more available. few farmers make any effort to gave it The most economical plan for Nenslane manure on the average rm is to use plenty of bedding to ahah the any manure, and to allow the liquid to accumulate un- He there is eae to justify haul- ng, when it id be taken direct- i to the field where it is to be used and fetter red, A manure spread- od investment. If straw as Read for bedding it should be cut, materials injure the hoofs of ould not be ae only iniie little ly increases its absorptive power, \eondition for Piel and rapid decay in the soil When large applications of ma- ~ nure must be used, as in the case of sardeners, it is necessary to let the manure rot before using, This is hest done under cover x; observ- the precautions to. prevent heating. Ww hare large numbers of cathe are fed-in open sheds, the manure may bc allowed to accumulate alt win- ter without any veer damage. It has long bee that manure is fepatciel fant of all pro- sipriian ti plant food contained. tk the humus iit aoae to the soil and nure Ssodgen in enorm It is a good paves nat be- fore turning under green crops, te wy ete the green cro} Fertilizers containing nitrate of jd not be applied with ~ M ATDER FOR P GRATITUDE, Of two ce'ebrated barristers, Bal- rskine, this rat is told, hould be was very vetiooeey while ‘A description of one of these guile was bat an oflicer of the!wd Ers —_——__A—. Hotel Clerk—I toiled the Not aa crisp and weno noticed tl day Erskise t Balfour's ged. “Why whet: 8 the matter !’” ask- acl vot replying, “T fell from our answered in these sing a romantic sane garden, an ate I diseovered | that pby x contact with the first: bar ni it the spiders of my leg. which has caused a sli ight cxtayiee ation of the blood.” ou may thank your Incky stars,” lied skine, ‘‘that your brother's gate was not as ek as your style, or you would have. broken your neck {’”

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