Ross Gazette 19th November 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 19th November 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 19/11/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 19th November 1914 |
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Enlargements . To Amateur Photographers . Look through your Negatives . You have some that would make fine Enlargements . An Enlargement made from your own Negative makes a charming , inex- pensive CHRISTMAS PRESENT , having just that personal touch . DO IT NOW , before the Christmas rush , while we can give every order individual attention . If unable to decide from several negatives , bring them in ; we shall be pleased to show them to you just the size you wish on the screen FREE . Enlargements from any Negative from 1/6 up , Mounted complete . COLMAN DEBENHAM PICTURE FRAMER , ARTISTS ' COLOURMAN , ART DEALER , Gloucester - road ( opposite G.P.O. ) , Ross - on - Wye . [ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED . ] THE WAR THE ROSS WASHINGTON STILL SILENT . WHAT WILL PARIS DO ? THE PANIC ON THE BOURSE . THE KING'S GARDEN PARTY TO THE MASKED TWAREGS . BUTTERIDGE MAKES AN OFFER LATEST BETTING FROM TEHERAN . MR . or this : WILL AMERICA FIGHT ! ANTI - GERMAN RIOT IN BAGDAD . THE MUNICIPAL SCANDALS AT DAMASCUS . MR . BUTTERIDGE'S INVENTION FOR AMERICA . GAZETTE THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 19 , 1916 . -Bert stared at these over the card of pump clips in the pane in the door with unseeing eyes . He wore a blackened flannel shirt , and the jacketless ruins of the holiday suit o yesterday . succeed . a wonderful minute he seemed to But he scattered burning pools of petrol on IN THE AIR . the road , and others , fired by his enthusiasm , BY H. G. WELLS Author of " Kipps , " " The Time Machine , " " The War of the Worlds , " " The Invisible Man , " " In the Days of the Comet , " & c . SYNOPSIS OF OPENING CHAPTERS : Bert Smallways , of Bun Hill . is a partner in the firm of Grubb and Smallways , cycle dealers in a very small way in a London suburb . The first great boon in aeronautics is beginning . Every- body is talking of flying , and Bert and his part- Then ner experiment with indifferent success . en the world is startled one day to learn that Mr. Alfred Butteridge has completed the journey from the Crystal Palace to Glasgow and back on Mr. But- a small businesslike Bving machine . teridge is reported to be quite willing to sell his secret to the British Government ; but the nego tiations are on the point of falling through , and it seems that the secret of the only practi- cable aeroplane in existence is to pass out of the country . There are rumours that Germany is not pleased with America over the Monroe doc- trine , and the papers comment on the ambigu- ous attitude of Japan , and at the same time ask , " What will Britain do ? " course . CHAPTER V. This sort of thing was always going on , and on holidays one disregarded it as a matter of Week - days , in the slack time after the midday meal , then perhaps one might worry about the Empire and international polifies ; but not on a sunny Sunday , with a pretty girl trailing behind one , and envious Nor did our cyclists trying to race you young people attach any great importance to the fitting suggestions of military activity they glimpsed ever and again . Near Maid- stone they came on a string of eleven motor- guns of peculiar construction halted by the roadside , with a number of business - like en- gineers grouped about them watching through Beld - glasses some sort of entrenchment that was going on near the crest of the downs . It signified nothing to Bert . What's up ? said Edna . " Oh - manoeuvres , " said Bert . " Oh ! I thought they did them at Easter , " said Edna , and troubled no more . Our four young people pienicked cheer- fully , and were happy in the manner of a happiness that was an ancient mode in Ninevehi . Eyes were bright , Grubb was funny and almost witty , and Bert achieved epi- grams ; the hedges were full of honeysuckle and dog - roses ; in the woods the distant toot- toot - toot of the traffic on the dust - hazy high road might have been no more than the horns of elf - land . the party In the evening , about seven , turned Homeward , expecting no disaster , and it was only on the crest of the downs , be- tween Wrotham and Kingsdown , that dis aster came . imitated his action . Bert caught up a trailer- cushion and began to beat ; there was another cushion and a table - cloth , and these were also seized . A young hero pulled off his jacket For a moment there and joined the beating . was less talking than hard breathing , and a tremendous flapping . Flossie , arriving on the outskirts of the crowd , cried " O Heaven ! " " Help ! " she and burst loudly into tears . said , and " Fire ! " consternation . A lame , motor - car arrived , and stopped in A tall , goggled , grey - haired man who was driving inquired with an Ox- ford intonation and a clear , careful enuncia- tion , " Can we help at all ? " It became manifest that the rug , the table- cloth , the cushions , the jacket , were getting The soul smeared with petrol and burning . seemed to go out of the cushion Bert was swaying , and the air was full of feathers , like & snowstorm in the still twilight . Bert had got very dusty and sweaty and It seemed to him his wespon had strenuous . been wrested from him at the moment of vic- tory . The fire lay like a dying thing , close to the ground and wicked , it gave a leap of an- guish at every whack of the beaters . But now Grubb had gone off to stamp out the burning blanket ; the others were stacking just at the moment of victory . One was running to the motor - car . " Ere ! " cried Bert ; " keep ' on ! " He flung the deflated burning rags of cushion aside , whipped off his jacket , and sprang at the flames with a shout . He stamped into the ruin until flames ran up his boots . Edna saw him , a red - lit hero , and thought it was good to be a man . A bystander was hit by a hot halfpenny fly- Then Bert thought of the ing out of the air . papers in his pockets , and staggered back , trying to extinguish his burning jacket- checked , repulsed , dismayed . The " Save the trailer ! " cried someone , and that was the last round in the battle . But the trailer could not be dotached ; its wicker work had caught , and it was the last thing to burn A sort of hash fell upon the gathering . petrol burnt low , the wicker - work trailer banged and crackled . The crowd divided it- self into an outer circle of critics , advisers , and secondary characters , who had played undistinguished parts or no parts at all in the affair , and a central group of heated and dis- tressed principals . + " Nothing I can do for you ? " said the gen . tleman of the motor - car . Bert was roused to action . " Look here , " he said . " There's my young lady . If she ain't ' ome by ten they lock her out . Beet Well , all my money was in my jacket pocket , and it's all mixed up with the burnt stuff and that's too ' ot to touch . Is Clapham ou of your way ! " " All in the day's work , " said the gentle- man with the motor - car , and turned to Edns . " Very pleased indeed , " he said , " if you'll We're late for dinner as it is , Some dust had penetrated Bert's horn , and come with us . the result was a curious , amusing , wheezing so it won't make much difference for us to go sound had got into his " honk , honk . " For the home by way of Clapham . We've got to get I'm afraid you'll find sake of merriment and glory he was making to Surbiton , anyhow . us a little slow . this sound as much as possible , and Edna was in fits of laughter in the trailer . They made a sort of rushing cheerfulness along the road that affected their fellow travellers variously , according to their temperaments . She did notice a good lot of bluish , evil- smelling smoke coming from about the bear- ings between his feet , but she thought this was one of the natural concomitants of motor- traction , and troubled no more about it , until abruptly it burst into a little yellow - tipped flame . " Bert ! " she screamed . But Bert had put on the brakes with such Buddenness that she found herself involved with his leg as he dismounted . She got to " But what's Bert going to do ? " said Edna . " I don't know that we can accommodate Bert , " said the motor - car gentleman , " though we're tremendously anxious to oblige . " " " You couldn't take the whole lot ? " said Bert , waving his hand at the deboshed and blackened ruins on the ground . " I'm awfully afraid I can't , " said the Ox " Awfully sorry , you know . " ford man .. Then I'll have to stick ere for a bit , " said Bert . " I got to see the thing through . You go on , Edna . " " Don't like leavin ' you , Bert . " " You can't help it , Edna . " the side of the road and hastily readjusted in charred and blackened shirt - sleeves , stand- her hat , which had suffered . " Gaw ! " said Bert . He stood for some fatal seconds watching the flame , the petrol drip and catch , and which was now beginning to smell of enamel His chief as well as oil , spread and grew . idea was the sorrowful one that he had not . sold the machine second - hand a year ago , and that he ought to have done so - a good idea . in its way , but not immediately helpful . turned upon Edna sharply . Get a lot of wet sand , " he said . Then he wheeled the He The last Edna saw of Bert was his figure , He was musing deeply by ing in the dusk . the mixed ironwork and ashes of his vanished & melancholy figure . His motor - bicycle , retinue of spectators had shrunk now to hall a dozen figures . Flossie and Grubb were pre paring to follow her desertion . " Cheer up , old Bert , " cried Edna , with " So long . " artificial cheerfulness . " So long , Edna , " said Bert . " See you to - morrer . " " See you to - morrer , " said Bert , though he was destined , as a matter of fact , to see much machine à little towards the side of the road of the habitable globe before he saw her way and laid it down and looked about for a supply of wet sand . The flames received this as a helpful attention , and made the most of it . They seemed to brighten and the twilight to deepen about them . The road was a finty again . CHAPTER VI . " Grubb , O ' man , " he said , distilling , the quintessence , " I'm fair sick of this shop . " " So'm I , " said Grubb . " I'm out of conceit with it . I don't seem to care ever to speak to a customer again . " " There's that trailer , " said Grubb , after pause . " Blow the trailer ! " said Bert . " Anyhow , didn't leave a deposit on it , I didn't do that Still " Look He turned round on his friend . ' ere , " he said , " we aren't gettin ' on here . We got We been losing money hand over fist . things tied up in fifty knots . " " What can we do ? " said Grubb . " Clear out . Sell what we can for what it will fetch , and quit . See ? It's no good ang ing on to a losing concern . No sort of good . Jest foolishness . " " That's all right , " said Grubb " that's all right ; but it ain't your capital been sunk in it . " " No need for us to sink after our capital , " said Bert , ignoring the point . " I'm not going to be held responsible for that trailer , anyhow . That ain't my affair . " " Nobody arst you to make it your affair . If you like to stick on here , well and good . I'm quitting . I'll see Bank Holiday through , Seet " and then I'm O.R.P.H. " Leavin ' me ? " " Leavin ' you . If you must be left . " " Where d'you Grubb asked . pleasure boats went to and fro ; the common plunge into the sea . Bert bawled out half abundant life of the time , unsuspicious of all angry , half rueful , " You might have said you the dangers that gathered darkly against it , were going to tip the basket . Then he stood flowed on ita cheerful aimless way . In the cities men fussed about their businesses and and clutched the ropes of the car conval- sively . engagements . The newspaper placards that Below him , far below him , shining blue , had cried " wolf ! " so often , eried " wolf " were the waters of the English Channel . Far now in vain . off , a little thing in the sunshine , and rush- ing down BO If someone was bending it hollow , was the beach and the irregular constituted Dym- CHAPTER VIL Now as Bert and Grubb bawled their cluster of houses that chorus for the third time , they became aware church . He could see the little crowd of of a very big , golden - brown balloon low in people he had so abruptly left . Grubb , in the sky to the north - west , and coming the white wrapper of a Desert Dervish , wAS rapidly towards them . " Jest as we're get - running along the edge of the sea . Mr. But tin hold of ' em , " muttered Grubb , apteridge was knee - deep in the water , bawling condes a counter - attraction . Go it , Bert ! " Ting - a - ling - a - ting - a - ling - a - ting - a - ling - a - tang . What Price Hairpins Now ? The balloon rose and fell , went out of sight - landed , thank goodness , " said Grubb reappeared with a leap . " Eng ! " said Grabb . Step it , Bert , or they'll see it ! " They finished their dance , and then stood frankly staring . There's something wrong with that bal- loon , " said Bert . Everybody now was looking at the balloon drawing rapidly nearer before a brisk north- westerly breeze . The song and dance were s " dead frost . " Nobody thought any more about it . Even Bert and Grubb forgot it , and ignored the next item on the programme altogether . The balloon , was bumping as though its occupants were trying to land ; it would approach , sinking slowly , touch the ground , and instantly jump fifty feet or so in the air and immediately begin to fall again . Its car touched a clump of trees , and the black figure that had been struggling in the ropes fell back , or jumped back , into the car . In another moment it was quite close . It seemed a huge affair , as big as a house , and it floated down swiftly towards the sands ; a long rope trailed behind it , and enormous shouts came from the man in the car . Ie seemed to be taking off his clothes , then his head came over the side of the car . hold of the rope ! " they heard , quite plain . " Salvage , Bert ! " cried Grubb , and started to head off the rope . " Catch immensely . The lady was sitting up with her floriferous hat in her lap , shockingly neg lected . The beach , east and west , was dotted with little people they seemed all heads and feet looking up . And the balloon , released from the twenty - five stone or so of Mr. But- teridge and his lady , was rushing up into the sky at the pace of a racing motor - car , " MJ . arikey " said Bert , " here's a gol To be continued . NO ADVANOK IN PRIOR BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER . THE WEEK'S GARDENING . THE FLOWER GARDEN . The African sorts of tuberoses may be planted now . The same treatment as for pot . grown hyacinths suite them , or , if they are available , 12in . pots may be used , setting eight or ten bulbs in each . They bear fore- ing as well as any plant , and by introducing a few at a time into tropical heat a succession of flowers may be kept up for months . Bert followed him , and collided , without upsetting , with a fisherman bent upon a similar errand . A woman carrying a baby in her arms , two small boys with toy spades , and a stout gentleman in flannels all got to Floriste do not trouble to pot the tuberose the trailing rope at about the same time , and began to dance over it in their attempts to bulbs , but set them close together in shallow borders of soil in a secure it . warm house , and keep Bert came up to this wriggling them going with frequent supplies of water , elusive serpent and got his foot on it , went adding a stimulant when the flower spikes are down on all fours and achieved a grip . In half a dozen seconds the whole diffused popu - forming . The flowers develop best under the lation of the beach had , as it were , crystal - influence of bright sunlight , but as soon as think of going , Bert ! " lised on the rope , and was pulling against they are open the spikes should be cut and the balloon under the vehement and stimulat placed in water in a cool , shaded place . " ing directions of the man in the car . " Pull , Bert turned round and regarded him . thought it out as I was walking ' ome , and bed . I couldn't sleep a wink . " What did you think out ? ' " Plans . " " What plans ! " " Oh ! You're for sticking here . " " Not if anything better was to offer , " It's only an ideer , " said Bert . " Let's ' ear it . " " You made the girls laugh yestiday , song you sang . " . in I tell you , " said the man in the car - Pull A large - flowered Michaelmas daisy which that " Seems a long time ago now , " said Grubb . " And old Edna nearly cried - over that bil For a second or so the balloon obeyed its grows about six feet in height with freely momentum and the wind and tugged its branched stems , and large light blue flowers human anchor seaward . It dropped , touched with rich golden centres , is the aster climax . the water , and made a flat , silvery splash , It is splendid for cutting to fill large vases , and and recoiled as one's finger recoils when one one of the best back row sorte for the flower touches anything hot . " Pull her in , " said the border . The plants make vigorous growth in man in the car . " She's fainted ! " deeply cultivated ground . Increase is by It is worth division at the present time . while doing this every year as the clumps increase in size so rapidly . Thinning the shoots in April is desirable when the young growths are pushing up . A few young shoots as cuttings make splendid plants for late autumn flowering . iin . He occupied himself with some unseen ob- ject while the people on the rope pulled him Bert was nearest the balloon , and much excited and interested . He kept stumbling over the tail of the Dervish costume in his of mine . " zeal . He had never imagined before what a " She got a fly in her eye , " said Grubb ; big , light , wallowing thing a balloon was , " I saw it . But what's this got to do with The car was of brown coarse wicker - work , your plan ? ' ' No end , " said Bert . " ' Ow ! " " " Don't you see ? " " Not singing in the streets ? " " Streets ! No fear ! and comparatively small . The rope he tugged at was fastened to a stout - looking ring , four or five feet above the car . At such tung me up . All coarse weeds , like dandelions , plan- 61 casts • numerous Before making a new lawn with turves the site must be properly dug over and levelled drew in a yard or so of rope , and the wagg tains , docks , nettles , couch grass , & c . , must be ling wicker - work , was drawn so much nearer . picked out or they will push their way through But ' ow about the Out of the car came wrathful bellowings : the turf when spring growth begins again . Tour of the Waterin ' Places of England , " Fainted , she has ! " and then : " It's her The turves may then be laid , using plenty of Grubb ? Singing ! Young men of family do heart - broken with all she's had to ge fine soil to fill up irregularities and cracks . ing it for a lark ? You ain't got a bad voice , through . " Finish off with beater and roller until every you know , and mine's all right . I never see The balloon ceased to struggle , and sank part is made solid and good . a chap , singing on the beach yet that I downward . Bert dropped the rope , and ran couldn't ' ave sung into a cocked hat . And forward to catch it in a new place . In Earth worms are sometimes so we both know how to put on the toff a bit . another moment he had his hand on the car . that they certainly do harm to lawns by Eh ? Well , that's my ideer . Me and you , " Lay hold of it , " said the man in the car , throwing up their and unduly dis- Grubb , with a refined song and a breakdown . and his face appeared close to Bert's - sturbing the surface of the turf . On the other Like we was doing for foolery yestiday . That strangely familiar face , fierce eyebrows , a hand , worms in moderation do good by was what put it into my ' ead . Easy make flattish nose , a huge black moustache . He tunnelling the soil , and thus allowing water up a programme - easy . Six choice items , had discarded coat and waistcoat - perhaps or rain to descend , and so drain the surface and one or two for encores and patter . I'm with some idea of presently having to swim from superfluous moisture . for his life - and his black hair was extra- all right for the patter - anyhow . " Grubb remained regarding his darkened ordinarily disordered . " Will all you people It should be remembered that the " casts and disheartening shop ; he thought of his get hold round the car , " he said . " There's thrown up are composed chiefly of decayed former landlord and his present landlord , lady here fainted - or got failure of the matter , and if these are distributed by and of the general disgustingness of business . heart , Heaven alone knows which ! " I'm on , Bert , " he said . My frequently sweeping with name is Butteridge . Butteridge , my name is then rolling , they act as a fertiliser to the in a balloon . Now , please , all on to the edge . This is the last time I trust myself to one of excessive numbers apply one of the " worm If it becomes necessary to reduce grass . these paleolithic contrivances . The ripping destroyers " sold by dealers . cord failed , and the valve wouldn't act . " ever I meet the scoundrel who ought to have seen " Right O ! " said Bert , and , " Now we shan't be long . " ' em . • " birch broom , and . THE BACK WARNS YOU . very Picture tells a Story . " Any Stubborn Pain in the Small of the is good cause to suspect your Kidneys , for that is where the Kidneys are . Back Do you suffer from shooting or continuous poisoning , gravel , dropsy , rheumatism , or pains in the back ? Bright's disease . Or from a heavy , tired feeling on rising in the morning ? A kidney and bladder medicine is needed to help the kidneys throw off this poisonous Heavy , throbbing backaches , and sharp waste . That is what Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are for . They are solely for the kidneys twinges when you stoop , bend or give your and ' tired . back a sudden twist , tell you of swollen , and urinary system . They do one thing only , inflamed kidneys , kidneys sore , overworked but they do that one thing well . They regulate the kidneys and bladder like ordinary medicines regulate the bowels . They are guaranteed to The kidneys have enough to do when you contain no poisonous ingredients or injurious are in good health , to filter the blood free drugs whatever , and they have no bad af er of urie poisons . Colds , fevers , overwork , or effects . excesses of any sort , congest and overwork the kidneys . The kidneys weaken , and unless In 20 boxes only , siz boxes 13/9 . Never sold forse . Of promptly relieved , what was at first a simple all chemists and stores , or from Foster - Mettellano , 8 , Wells - street , Oxford - Street , London , Refuse inflammation , will turn , in time , to urio substitutes W DOAN'S Backache Kidney Pills " We needn't start without capital neither , " said Grubb . " If we take the best of these machines up to the Bicycle Mart in Finsbury we'd raise six or seven pounds on We could easy do that to - morrow be- fore anybody much was about .. Before the day was out the whole enter prise was planned . They conceived the notion of selecting the two worst machines from the hiring - stock , painting them over with crim- son enamel paint , replacing the bells by the donment , was a large , blonde lady , wearing loudest sort of motor - horn , and doing a ride fur coat and a big floriferous hat . Her head do not place them in heat - keep them cool . about to begin and end the entertainment ; lolled back against the padded corner of the The rest of the cuttings will , of course , be and they decided their costumes should be car , and her eyes were shut and her mouth taken in the spring . To avoid confusion of brown stockings and sandals , and cheap un- open . " Me dear ! " said Mr. Butteridge , in a varieties , the label of each sort is best tied bleached sheets with a hole cut in the middle , common loud voice , " we're safe ! " to the woody stem which is retained . and wigs and beards of tow . The rest their She gave no sign . normal selves ! " The Desert Dervishes " Chrysanthemums have to be cut down as He stuck his head out between the ropes they go out of bloom , and then it is best to abruptly , and said , in a note of earnest ex- turn them out into a cool house or pit , or a to set the piante may have plenty of rhubarb postulation : " Get some brandy - some neal sheltered corner will do if the weather is not brandy ! " Someone went up the beach for it too cold , provided that plenty of soil is placed in winter if they will take , the trouble to put a In the ear , sprawling upon a sort of bed - round the roots , so that they can be kept few roots into large pots or boxes , with some they would call themselves , and their chief songs would be those popular ditties . " In my Trailer , " and " What Price Hairpins Now ! " They decided to begin with small seaside places , and gradually , as they gained con- fidence , attack larger centres . To begin with they selected Littlestone in Kent , chiefly be cause of its unassuming name . So they planned , and it seemed a small and unimportant thing to them that as they chat- tered the governments of half the world and The next morning found the firm of Grabb more were drifting into war . they became aware of the first of the evening About midday It seemed & small matter te paper placards shouting to them across the them that the newspaper and cigarette shop street : opposite displayed such placards as this : road in the chalk country , and ill - provided and Smallways in a state of profound de Edna accosted a short , fat cyclist . " We spondency . with sand . want wet sand , " she said , and added , " our motor's on fire . " The short , fat cyclist stared blankly for a moment , then with a helpful cry began to scrabble in the road - grit . Whereupon Bert and Edna also scrabbled in the road - grit . Other cyclists arrived , dis- mounted and stood about , and their flame - lit faces expressed satisfaction , interest , osity . Wet sand , " said the short , fat man , One joined scrabbling terribly- " wet sand . " . They threw hard - earned handfuls of road - grit upon the flames , which accepted them with enthusiasm . him . curi- Grubb arrived , panting hard . He was shouting something . He sprang off and threw REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM . BRITAIN MUST FIGHT . OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REFUSES TO LISTEN TO MR . BUTTERIDGE . GREAT MONO - RAIL DISASTER AT TIMBUCTO0 . his bicycle into the hedge . " Don't throw water on it ! " he said " don't throw water or this : on it ! " He displayed commanding presence of mind . He became captain of the occasion . Others were glad to repeat the things he said and imitate his actions . " Don't throw water on it ! " they cried . Also there was no water . " Beat it ont , you fools ! " he said . He seized a rug from the trailer ( it was an Austrian blanket , and Bert's winter coverlet ) WAR A QUESTION OF HOURS . NEW YORK CALM . EXCITEMENT IN BERLIN . and began to beat at the burning petrol . For or again : FOREIGN MATCHES More than half the matches used in England are made in Germany , Austria , and other Foreign Countries . ENGLAND'S GLORY MATCHES ENGLAND Every box you buy means MORE WORK FOR BRITISH WORKERS . 1 MORELAND , GLOUCESTER . THE WAR - CLOUD DARKENS . Nothing else but that . " Always rottin ' about war now , ' said bench , in an attitude of elaborate self - aban- varieties may be inserted now , if ready , but situation . moderately dry . A few cuttings of choice soil , and store them in any such convenient " Me dear ! " said Mr. Butteridge , in a greatly intensified loud voice , " we're safe ! " reatly intensifed loud voice , we're saf Late planting of bulbs is inadvisable , as if growth commences before the bulbs are got in they are greatly weakened . The present is Then Mr. Butteridge shewed the fiery core still a suitable time for planting , and the of his soul . " If she is dead , " he said , slowly sooner the work is completed the better . It lifting a fist towards the balloon above him , takes longer , of course , but planting is best and speaking in an immense tremulous bellow done with a trowel . As to depth , the size of if he is dead , I will r - r - rend the heavens the bulbs should prove a reliable guide , as like garment ! I must get her out , " he they should mostly be planted twice their cried , his nostrils dilated with emotion - own depth . " I must get her out . I cannot have her die in a wicker - work basket nine feet square - she Blooms of the Christmas rose are very of this car ! Is there strong man among ye be protected by a frame or handlight . They who was made for kings ' palaces ! Keep holt welcome at Christmas time , and to ensure them any plants growing in the open should to take her if I hand her out ! " He swept the lady together by a powerful will be further assisted if , at the same time , & they receive good mulch of well - rotted movement of his arms , and lifted her . " Keep the car from jumping , " he said to those who manure , as they revel in a rich and rather clustered about him . " Keep your weight on when cut , it is a good plan to slit the stem heavy sold . To prolong the life of the flowers it . She is no light woman , and when she is out of it - it will be relieved . " for an inch or two before placing them in The water should not be quite cold water . Bert leaped lightly into a sitting position on the edge of the car . The others took a firmer when put into the vases , and should be changed from day to day . " Are you ready ? " said Mr. They'll get it in the neck in real grip upon the ropes and ring Butteridge . Bert earnest one of these days , if they ain's precious careful . " and so its spacious sands were still , at the the grasses , as well as making a useful supply of charred earth to mix with that which still remains to be broken up . Dig at least 18in . deep , leaving as rough as possible during the winter months . He stood upon the bed - bench and lifted the VEGETABLES AND FRUIT . lady carefully . Then he sat down on the If making a new vegetable garden from So you will understand the sudden appari wicker edge opposite to Bert , and put one land previously under grass , pare off a thin tion that surprised rather than delighted the leg over to dangle outside . A rope or so strip of the turf and burn it as a means to quiet informality of Dymchurch sands . Dym- seemed to incommode him . " Will someone church was one of the last places on the coast assist met " he said . " If they would take rid of insect pests lurking in the roots of of England to be reached by the mono - rail , this lady ? It was just at this moment , with Mr. But time of this story , the secret and delight of teridge and the lady balanced finely on the quite a limited number of people . They went basket brim , that she came to . She came to there to flee vulgarity and extravagances , and suddenly and violently with a loud , heart to bathe and sit and talk and play with their rending cry of " Alfred ! Bave me ! " And children in peace , and the Desert Dervishes she waved her arms searchingly , and then did not please them at all . The two white figures on scarlet wheela clasped Mr. Butteridge about . It seemed to Bert that the car swayed for same upon them out of the infinite along the moment and then buck - jumped and kicked vands from Littlestone , grow nearer and him . Also he saw the boots of the lady and larger and more audible , honk - honking and the right leg of the gentleman describing emitting weird cries , and generally threaten- arcs through the air , preparatory to vanish sifted leaf - mould on which to lay the roots . ing liveliness of the most aggressive type . ing over the side of the car . His impressions Cover the roots over with a thin layer of fine " Good Heavens ! " said Dymchurch . " What's were complex , but they also comprehended soil ; then water the whole with lukewarm water . When growth commences , a covering The few scattered groups upon the beach the fact that he had lost his balance , and was this ? If so desired a continuous supply of aspar agus may be kept up by placing roots in a forcing - pit at fortnightly intervals . A moder ately warm hot - bed is necessary , on which a layer of well - rotted manure should be placed . This , again , should be lightly covered with regarded them with horror for the most part , going to stand on his head inside this creak of sifted leaf - mould must be placed over the ing basket . He spread out clutching arms . but some of the children and young people He did , stand on his head , more or less , his roots to the depth of 6in , were interested and drew nearer . There His ain't a bob on the beach , " said Grubb in an his cheek slid along against padding .. tow - beard came off and got in his mouth , and undertone , and the Desert Dervishes piled nose buried itself in a bag of sand . The car their bicycles with comic " business , " that got A laugh from one very unsophisticated little gave violent lurch , and became still . " Confound it ! " he said . The roots of fig trees are best confined in comparatively small space by means of brick walls ; if not , it is difficult to keep them in a fruitful state . Trees that have made an abun- boy . Then they took deep breath and He had an impression he must be stunned , dance of growth usually produce a very poor struck into the cheerful strain of " What because of a surging in his ears , and because orop of fruit . Open a trench round the tree Price Hairpins Now ? " Grubb sang the song , all the voices of the people about him had be- and as close to the trunk as can be done with Bert did his best to make the chorus ardus- come small and remote . ing one , and at the end of each verse they like elves inside a hill . danced certain steps , skirts in hand , that they had carefully rehearsed . Ting - a - ling - a - ting - a - ling - a - ting - a - ling - a - tang . What Price Hair - pins Now ! So they chanted and danced their steps in the sunshine on Dymchurch bench , and the children drew near these foolish young men , marvelling that they should behave in this way , and the older people looked cold and un- friendly . All round the coasts of Europe that morn- ing banjos were ringing , voices were bawling and singing , children were playing in the sun , They were shouting safety . Fork out the soil from underneath , outting back all strong roots going down- trimming He found it a little difficult to get on his wards and any that may be feet . His limbs were mixed up with the gar- damaged . Before proceeding to fill in the ments Mr. Butteridge had discarded when trench , ram some lime rubble or broken that gentleman had thought he must needs bricks underneath the ball to encourage sur- THE Do not let Grey Haire appear Restores Grey of where the glands are not des the Hair from coming out . Ra NOT A DYL MEXICAN White Hair to its original colour , HAIR royed . Prevents Dandruff , and RENEWER.res and Strengthens the Hals . face rooting . In filling in the trench , use good loam and lime rubble , but no manure . Rhubarb will grow anywhere that is not subject to extreme cold .. and it is able to sur- vive a good deal of neglect Forcing it to produce early crops is , therefore , not a very difficult matter , and may well be attempted . All who possess a warm , dark place in which It is better to take up the roots now than later in the season , because the soil will have some time to settle about them and new fibres . issue before pushing the growth along . Ittle light 18 required or necessary for more tender and rhubarb , as the stalks are less acid when grown in darkness . Very When it is possible to force rhubarb under glase there is the advantage of being able to resist sudden weather changes , which often lower the temperature of the heating mate- rials employed in forcing out of doors , thus disappointing the expectation of an early gathering . For obtaining dishes about Christ- mas , good roots of early sorts may be put into a forcing house at once , maintaining the must be given liberally to assist growth . night temperature at from 55deg . to 60deg . As soon as the crowns have started water THE WEEK'S WORK . Plant roses . Examine violets in frames and ventilate freely . Lift , divide , and replant perennials . Make lawns with turves on prepared sites . Protect pampas grass with sifted ashes . Sprout potato seed . Make up hot - beds for mushrooms . Start forcing rhubarb , seakale , and as- paragus . Trench vacant ground . Plant fruit - trees . The Ross Gazette , Ltd. , PRINTERS , PUBLISHERS , STATIONERS , BOOKSELLERS , ACCOUNT - BOOK MAKERS , & o . 44. High - street , Ross . MANUFACTURIN TO H.M. KING GEORGE V SANITAS FLUID THE NON - POISONOUS DISINFECTANT AND AIR PURIFIER Immediate Cash Advances . 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A bilious headache , a tendency to constipa- tion , a feeling of discomfort after eating , impaired appetite : these are all symptoms that two of the most important organs in the body - the stomach and the liver - are not working satisfactorily . The right remedy to TAKE whenever there is the slightest suspicion that all is not well with the organs of digestion is Beecham's Pills . Those who have tried this remedy , and they now number a great multitude , are entirely satisfied that , for correct- ing ailments of the stomach and the liver , there is nothing to surpass BEECHAM'S PILLS . Sold everywhere in boxes , price 1/13 ( 56 pills ) & 2/9 ( 168 pills ) . Printed and Published for the Rose GAZETTE LIMITED , by GODFREY M. MORTON , st their Offices , High - street and Church- street , Ross , in the County of Hereford THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 19 , 1914 . Dr. Carter's Liver Salt THE Admirable Remedy in all Stomach troubles such as Indiges- tion , Heartburn , Sick Headache , & c In tins , at 4d . and 8d . SOLE AGENT- BENJAMIN , Cash Chemist VOL . XLVIII . No. 2 SALES BY AUCTION . COOPER AND PREECE , STOOK SALESMEN AND GENERAL AUCTIONEERS . PROBATE , ESTATE , & HOTEL VALUERS [ ESTABLISHED OVER 70 YEARS . ] GENERAL INSURANCE AND SHIPPING AGENTS . TIMBER SURVEYORS , PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS . ESTATES MANAGED , RENTS , TITHES , AND DEBT COLLECTED . Bailiffs ( by appointment ) under the Agricul tural Holdings Act . Mr. Cooper , F.A.I , a County Valuer under the Finance Act . AGENTS FOR THE County Fire Office ( Limited ) . Provident Life Railway Passengers , General Assurance Co. Commercial Union , Scottish Insurance Co. Guardian Plate Glass , Hailstorm , etc. FURNITURE WAREHOUSED . ADVANCES MADE on Sales , if required . Mortgages Negotiated . ALBION CHAMBERS , SALE MARKET - PLACE , ROSS FIXTURES December 1 , -Sale of valuable Farming Stock at Courtfield Farm . Welsh Bicknor for Col. F. B. Vaughan , who has let the farm . - See advt . December 3. - Ross Stock Market . Early Entries invited in order to insure publicity for buyers and sellers . December FAT 10. - ROSS CHRISTMAS STOCK SHOW and SALE . Further entries solicited . Prize awarded . See advt . December 17. - Ross Stock Market ... Further Appointments respectfully solicited . ROSS STOOK MARKET . THURSDAY , the 3rd DECEMBER , 1914 . EBBRS . COOPER and PREECE MBBELL BY AUCTION , In the abov Market , a large Consignment of FAT & STORE CATTLE , CALVES , SHEEP , and PIGS . Commencing with the Pigs at 10.30 sharp SALE on TUESDAY NEXT . COURTFIELD FARM , WELSH BICKNOR , Five Miles from Ross and One Mile from Kern Bridge Station . MESSRS . COOPER and PREEC are favoured with instructions from Co F. B. VAUGHAN ( who has let the Farm ) , to SEL by AUCTION , as above , On TUESDAY , the 1st day of DECEMBER , 1914 , The whole of his valuable LIVE and DEA FARMING STOCK , CONSISTING OF 122 BLACK - FACED SHEEP , viz . , 6 Ewes in yean , 52 Store Lambs , and Hampshire Down Rams ; 16 WELL - BRED CATTLE , viz . , Dairy Cows in milk and in calf , 2 F Heifers , 3 Fat Cows , and 6 Cross - bre Two.year - old Store Bullocks ; - 6 CART and NAG HORSES and Colts And a Collection of AGRICULTURAL IN PLEMENTS , consisting of Broad and Na row - wheel Waggons and Carts ; Long , Sho and G.O. Gears ; Set Brown Coh Harness , Mowing Machines ( by Bamford , Samuelson and McCormick ) , Self - Binder ( by McCo mick ) , new Side Rake ( by Bamford ) . Swat Turner ( hy Bamford ) , Taunton Hay Make Iron Horse Rake ( by Kell ) : Potato Digg ( by A. Jack and Sons ) , as new : Thirtee coulter Economical " Drill ( hy Kell ) , Nin coulter Corn Drill , Bouting Drill . Cambridg and Flat Rolls , Horse Hoes : Digger , Bou ing , and other Ploughs ; Heavy and Lig Harrows , Extrawide Spag Harrows . Ba terkins , The Giant Cultivator , 11 G vanized Cattle Cribs , Sheep Troughs a Racks . Sheep Netting , Iron Hurdles , Por able Sheep Dip on Wheels , Bushel Measur Winnowers , Sack Carts . Platform Scales ar Weights , a Two - knife Chaff Machine , Pulpe Corn Grittler , Ladders , Tools , and num ous other Effects . Luncheon at 11.30 . Sale at 12.30 prompt The Sale of Live Stock will commen punctually at 2 p.m. , Albion Chambers , Ross . Ross Christmas Marke Fat Stock Show and Sal DECEMBER 10th , 1914 . MESSRS . COOPER and PREE beg to announce that they have a GRA ENTRY of SPECIALLY FED STOCK , fr the best Feeders in the District , for the ab Market , including about 219 GRAND STALL - FED OXE MAIDEN HEIFERS , heavy CO and BULLS . , 431 FAT SHEEP , PÍGS , CALVES . Usual List of Prizes next week . EVERAL SUMS of from £ 100 to TO LEND on good Freehold Secur at from 4 per cent . to 5 per cent . - Appl COOPER and PREECE , Ross - on - Wye . 1 , ERDINGTON VILLA , NLET , immediate possession . Four and two reception rooms ; small orchard , garden . Rent , £ 24. - CoоPER and PREкCE , E SESSIONS & SONS ( LIMITED ) , TIMBER AND SLATE MEROHA GLOUCESTER , AND CARDIFF . Depots and Factories for TIMBER , JOINERY , MOULDING SLATES TILES , LATHS , BRICK GOODS , and PIPES , WHITE'S CEMENT and WHITING , GRATES , RANGES STOVES CHIMNEY - PIECES FENDERS , HEA BATHS , SANITARY WARE , STONE , MARBLE , SLATE , and EVERY REQUISITE FOR BUILDIN |