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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1930-06-19, Page 2arv,rv•{ K{y •�. die two rieA dl Elise ices 4%1 • „t „T fir black, s\ve>e ting•fat, sutLrto're.tch thein goo' then slleILt-' the: window . •:� .•.,n_ �--- •�n,.••-vigil at 'their i p a n The battering of the log"recommenced. bI Ben Lucien Burman The two defenders renewed their fire. APPENEl) ' made ori .the tend cu`tnfriends ',outside my coinlili , ' ,,._,-.o—,--•., Once more the battering•'ceased.. ly Alined, .r Perfecly planned. I ex- (To be•, contiliue.\i.i THIS HAS H. A.tteli,pts :have beenmade on - the We of .Elise. Marberry, murders have occurred near the little town of Porto Verde, Brazil, outside • of which Elise owns.. a plantation er c eusin•. and , pito cter, Vilak, believes lord Prentiss. is' 04i:einsible -that Gay for all 4he trouble. Word comess that the data at • Avilos has burst.'•H1ise; Vilak and Lincoln Nunnaily, an.aged • chenlist; ride to; warn. Prentiss They are .fired upon°'asthey near .Prentiss f azenda and Vilak learns that the, -flood' ,,r'apning is but.a,ruse on the part ;.ef the natives to': get t he ntiray iii tlas ey from his liom?, so.•tha t ur-, der him. The et:Lae .gain: c shelter , of Psrentiss'' house '. and Warn ee:him. of the true staa,gof atfa•ire, then. prepare to defend •'themselves' against air: •nt-' tack. During the attack by the natives Nanally is rounded. , NOW' BEGIN. THE STORY CHAPTER XXIX. • meats." ' He flicked the'ash from his cigaret. "If any of you have any ideas, they'll be .welcome."' Elise and the old man looked et'hini and ,shcok their heads:' Prentiss'.did riot turn.fronr his window, but- kept. his eyes fixed now .on`the gate, now on the h•ense. - Vilak stretched again, then returned. •to his. post, A, sound of chop- ping hop- ping''rose up flog! the:creek, followed soon after' by the -rumble. of a falling What 1V' York I's Wearing • • BY. ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON- rate . Thessiaaaking•• Lesson Fur ,illust ; d. isish,ed 'With''Evevy Patte?•ri ' tree. Elise glanced at Vilak questioningly.: �- "A 'battering rani; Probably,", he said "About time they thought.of it. They'll at' try `te=-b:i�ali dokvn;.the •gate And the loss of a few men they'll undoubt- edly do it, for most of ahem can keep in the shelter of the `wall." d tie A,few moments later they ,hear dull, muffled, booming of wood against iron • as' a log struck the gate. They fired. The muffled thunder continued,: in"short, regular intervals like the re ports of some distant. artillery regi- ment practicing •ori the range:- The , pile' of• cartridges grew smaller,. The old man, despite his wounded` °arm, had resu ped • firing. His. rifle jammed , .yilak' cleared' it. "Gate.• can't ;last much longer," he muttered. The spring iii the corner' gurgled softly,, the water rose an instant,; then trickled •noislly over the stone door sill'. A.. brilliant green caterpillar,..irritated by the acrid smoke of the glens, crawl -I ed. ,out of a crack:in the•'rocks and be-: ;gan climbing the wall. Some fright- ened, unseen nightbird dashed .• against the window;. a: jaguar;how:ed far 'off in the jungle... ' • Vilak•Jok betel. ' He became absorb- ed in contemplation; his ' finger be-. chanically, pressing the trigger. of his rifle; his eyes became, the dull, dream- °�- �liyf�'sre iilosoplier in-some.eti� Vilak ''turned his. blackened' face from: -his ' rifle for an instant, shot a lance at the: chemist, squeezed his shoulder affectionately °`.'Hard luck, Nanny," he said'cheerily. "Work for Nanny," you; Elise." g,to''hi rifle • lie swung his head bac f his. 'and began to• redouble the rate o already rapid fire.. Cheer' up, 'Nanny '• .. Needed another wouleclii d man to aeeep me compa?iy. You -with yourarm I with the wrist I got the other•night . will go around singing with a grind - organ after we get opt of this Make more that' way than you . do With chemistry." • • 1 • Elise 'had' . hastened forward to "exp amine, the wound. Nunnally tried to prevent her. "No• .... er .. No, he stammered "It isn't .. anything. . Just a scratch: ,. '... A splinter of Steel . . a .... er • Splinter. Fix N . it Myself .•....' Need - you •4'the ,win e,.;.••:.dow.'?----.- ,----.M,a.- -.,. .,®.�..b-:, - Elise did not heed him.. She looke i at the:fiobr,, now in places covered'with- an inch ,;or two of.water from the•. •sr zing. trickling ; in , the. corner., -She• found t • clear pool and. in one instant had. brought Water. from,it and *ash-. ed the wound; in the next had, for strip of cloth . from her' dress and tied it in a- tight bandage, 'checking the. :flow of blood.,`` The; gray silk appeared'like a grew butterfly which had settled, on .,his wispy arm.: A bell began to 'ring in some. far off part of the house..' The dog. hayed loudly.' Prentiss' cadaver, ous body ,writher, his.angular f he' contorted. with fear, his eyes were eyes of a trapped beast. - "`T nfy've go't- m ,=heft over . • blasting . ten in , • ." he pante .. "Gotten. in ...ifeve'ishly. • :Vilak'shook ''-ds head• "No.. Sure for wall.', His lace was flaming, "G.ot! they haven't. I can' see 'too plainly, a plan? Got a plan?" A bullet Must ..have cut one of:the �Vilale nodded' quickly: "Where is. electric wires' arouid . the 'Jock• A it. man's silhouette • appeared on the "Little shed ....few feet back barbed wire which overtopped the wall. here :. °'' Vilak fired. The silhouette toppled. .' "Let'e get. it." • Goo 1VIa,.. They crept out the door. keeping to lid s They wera`: n Trees often V strangle themselves with,• their own roots Fortunately, this takes twine; and°if it •is detected,' the offending • Parts may becut away. tsaving the tree's 11fe. ' • . Tree suicide, little known, and often• 'overlooked, 'is. described In Tree Talk ';(Stamford,.tonna;'by,k'. A. Bartlett, whowrites;. i • ""The practise .o' hail -kill, or coin- nutting suicide,; ia. ,far meet Qinman anlong-trees than is .genitally 3'co "Many a fiire specimen of jnaple,, pine, .oak,, or.,eim has..taken its life or own accord'• It has not been killed b'y,foreigf agents, such as insects, die ease, wind,• l glitiusrg, staiPvation, .,:or` unfav'oiable soil, but by the peinicionse 'habit °'of ` winding its roots -about its, steric:,- usuall +,,)ust 'below the surface;. a 11 but tilts. rad ., d Y. gl ourrd,' an g u ly 'sti•angling its own hfeFbloocl and' cutting away its circulation. • ' "Them seems to.'be a greater ten, deney on the part of I certain varieties of 'trees to'.resoyt to self;destr action. than en others.. The.:swamp maple is. particularly. ' prone , to `. such ,means, though th'e practise is in :no way con- fined to:this variety, and may occur, and often does, in nearly.all spe'cies, •including•the forest and orchard trees. 1' "Norway, maples', and ' particutlai. Y transplanted ones,. are .more apt to u - jure th•,mselves'than. trees growing°in their natural state.':A perfectly. nor- tnal.'tree has ,a well-rounded :trunk with buttressed roots. running radially in all directions'. As the' tree grows older, the' buttresses become more and: more pronounced. The yearly growth'. of annalar cells is much greater ; on the 'buttresses' than the a.nnuiar•ceils between'the buttresses'of great roots;. 'The writer' has observed an,ave:nue of Norway maple trees nearly one- halfhalf mile in length, the trees •averag- ing one- : inches in diameter, with More than one-half the trees in vari- ous.stages of root -strangulation; some ealready-tieact some-elyrng', : aadeniany weakened by self-infiIt tion.; • - "Fortunately for' the tree 'that , is suffering, and when the period,of self-' .infiiction'has not reached the. stage •of actual'decay,''there is a remedy; and that remedy is to eut away the' offend- ing member, 'Soniethhes severing the rooe will relieve: the pressure, but it is often necessary; to chisel away, chip, by chip; the girdling member, which Maybe deeply imbedded in the trunk, taking are not to break through the bareltet the-treet Careful. worke often - saves ,the tree. Indication' of root -gird- •ling, or self -strangulation,. is apparent by the dull -appearance, of the.bark of the tree on' the girdled side, .the' ab- sence of.large;.roots. or_ buttresses, and a general depressed area at the sur- face and 'along t ie trunk. 'In 'the transplanting of small trees 'care should be -exercised that roots• are •spread radially from • the tree anti 'net • twisted into' a small'hole,.•for who; ever des so is aiding and abetting the. tree to'self-destruction 'or suicide: i:n later years." Th•Ed 'event 'Igg • S•.�. 749 'the ardefs'; . _. • :h pro .� '.set. le � :. • bh �,Airplanes • , - Epi �n Parti O� • .. �trress• 1 won . wan ee:•�: ngiareeih; a'1 e, oeiu, ,t ui.,i-Y- l.amap . too s1i 1t a''. ,gs of • es'.in, theft* studies�-lo•',fesQ"the the hlm:w,ithin . hnbbl 7. time. • c1 io u. C t . u 0 ns tl the ne sure �, n a ' lr ue 'u 4 .t a t 0 o n � '' ', i, t ) 4 ' II tl to 'strength next' l n. '•Trayer, a' research •engiueei; speaking, The 1 before' the :futility confereirce of ,t ie slopes and c. U)riversity of< Wisconsreee engineering college here recently,' explained • boil,' the use.of thin soap rilin oxer special l. designed holes nablecl• scientists tond mapping topos;i appy. Y . compute stresses. n all rplane phi One of the :principaldifficul'ties in using the soap film method for ipves;ti; ' gating: torsional stresses, as de'scr'ibed 'by 'Mr. Trager, wa�s:that the ordinary.. ,soap bubble is a'•fragile, thing totally unsuited to standing the wear and tear ,of. a bard day's work.. Pet si ten•t ef: fort resulted in the pi'odnction.of'a soap film that will' last for adayunde .continuous measurements.•• • • • A hole of the size and Shape of the cross-section, ' of • the.. airplane • marts which :is tit be 'studied: •is• cut, metal plate.. Over this hole is Swept,a 'Slip• of soap' by• a sweep .of the type of brew. Then the' film is blown up slightly by a; cutgent or vere afr•.. Or- A !nautical blue and white pique ensemble of French origin that would make. any': wee modern happy. ing, eyT --The- brief ski' way .so._pretti:ly, tan 'lamasery; the.thin film like a With its all-around. box -plaits : The besleeveless, bodice is ' of plain white liiid`s, inner eyelid crept .slowly aver eyeballs again. ' • pique. • It is stitched ,to.the lskirt. the white ey Suddenly he'.put down. his• rifle. "A' Style 'No. 3430 coin's in itizes '2;; 4, 'perfect idiot," he flashed, as .he hur- 6' and 8 years- 'rigid to the other side.' of the tower and ' For' cool days, wool jersey in navy began surveying the low' plateau back bine with the 'bodice of vivid red jer- of,' Prentiss' house.:. "Complete'ly' los-,'sey offers a definite' change. . ing my 'imagination. ..Far the second' • •,.French blue linen with bodice ,of time in•a week I've ignored a means dress o'white linen with blue dots is of escape• when it was, rying. .to be adorable used Any' •powder, or dynamite here, Printed dimity' in pink and white Prentiss?" r 'dress With, Jacket of pink pique is very The other 'Whipped away from, the pretty outfit. window. The mark en hisforehead.HOW TO ORDER! PATTERNS . fwas `quivering. "Dynamite? . Not Write your name out.ours of the `bub,b e This iS tr delicate and tedious process 'similar to the work •which is ,done. ;by tl land surieyo•r in gathei•iug'.'lleld data'.: • lets ; :i • \\'lieu the step . is t;ompletef ?t.s vestigator•has data.from which he can compute the stresses that will be, pro diced , in th•e', airplane part by th:e. , loads • and twisting it will suffer' in ler vice. ' .The soap Min, is not ;loaded or•' twisted.; it so 'liap.pens that thele he'a envious anal• a,Y between the eon -t the bubble aid. the stresses 1nf t oui•s.of the airplane 'part r{�hoee ,cross•sectiort ' ft represent•5. ,and address plain- ly,muchwhispered crying 'number and size of_ suchpatterns a's you Went. Enclose 20c instamps or coin .(coin preferred; wrapit 'carefully) for each numbeie, andaddress your order to Wilsen PatternService, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.FiVe O'Cloalcs Eggs?' .. "Geed d idea that extra wire. • - of perceived them perfect targets. Don't think the tha wsThinw a moment ved they'll Try that" again even if ethey do�By e attackers; i h had ret rued to the `tower roma with :know • now that it isn't carrying high „ tyro pal ages wrapped iii dirty :news- voltage.", ' ' . The besiebers' firing became desult-papers. These. Vilak untied and, ex- cry: Vilak - took advantage of the. posing a number of"'stieks of dynamite, interval •of ina. tion to stretch • his examined' them closely "Still good all. cramped .museles and ' light. 'a cigaret. right. Not touched by 'dampness- He The match sputtered into the water shot a glance toward the old man and at his feet He gazed at is pitiloe the igrl. '`Fire as' fast as you can. sopiiically. "Hope none of you are.Delay them. Time's the important susceptible•to pnhumonia, with allthis thing ndw." boomedmonotonously water on the fldox. S ems • to • me 'I've The • log. te.. d He took monotonously piece been living in the liquid for' the past against the ga ' f twine in which o month,"one package had He splashed'over to t -1 -11 -15 -0x -of_- le_en wrapped and began- rubbing it cartridges, which' for security against' with the explusive-to--make a -fuse'-.`_ a stray bul,Net had been put behind a "What's your••plan'r What's your d h t Ire fingered the plan Prentiss anted. I"Not mine N�tu Whitby. -The fi'eaic egg champien- ship for this district is claimed on be- half of a Rhode Island Red pullet by its owner, William Maw, of Whitby. On the' shell of the egg recently' pro,. daced by the enterprising pullet, the face of a clock With the hands indicat- ing five o'clock, is plainly marked. It has been suggested that the pullet de 'termtned • to out -de' the Oshawa hen that laid the "Teddy Bear" egg, 4ever- al weeks ago. , heavy woo enc •.es . re +s, Should have. bullets thoughtfully. • "No Use losing our • heads, but the: thought of it at once; with, that sprint; cold .fact has Ito be admitted that we're Th water up in these in a pretty situatic•n, Our antmuni- tion's running Very low, our enemy is superior in .numbers, at least four • gurgling there and soaking our shoes s all the.. time. • The little • lakes on the high ground all around, you is doingits best to break through and come down on us. Well times ourselves, I shquld • say, judgiig't be it a little assistance. , by the rifle bullets. At the most, even just g4 with no change ottactics on their part He searched among the newspa�pecrs and with everything in our favor, we,fora detonator. "Blow up part n lipid them off only two hours or that retaining wall I noticed.daenrein 'Use Minard'r for Rheumat` m. • 'A strong minded woman and a weak- ly gentleman came on board a trans- -atlantic -liner.. _._The._pale gentleman retired, tt his cabin, .and the strong woman • tucked, him• up . with sham* Then she strode on deck and hailed 'the' captain. "We'll 'ma'am?" asked i. Parti- cularly' skipper. MY husband is par cap- tain," a - p . culaily',lla• t o sea -sickness, •tain, ` said tine • woman: The- skipper nodded.• "'l've ,heard o f the com- plaint before, ma'am;' he said. "Could you tell .him. what to do incase of an attack?" asked the ' burly .woman "'Tain't necessary, ma'am" •replied the, skipper. "He'll •do •it!" The'End «I Mrs Higgs -"I 'ave seen yer 'us - hand about lately, Mrs.iris, I 'ope: e's'quite well." . . Mrs. 'iggins-"Didn't you..'ear? .,'E got• hit by a car'•an' ' got 'conclusion, my dear." , - Mrs; Higgs -"You mean concussion;' Mrs. 'Iggina-`'I mean conclusion,i'e ^ TUflSoT • "MAGI NIi - "my dear?" ca so while it' will be morning before, that first fairly large a Sick if we Alutnnly--"I 'hope you were a good anyone learns that the report of the your house.. .Do it with a Pi 1 boy at the Party, and didn't 'ask for. a flood is false and• returns to Porto�liave ttti, but the dynamites quicker., Verde. So we can•, expect no help Out friends outside said there was a •second piece of cake?" 'fornmy-"1`'0, there. A beautiful'jcb this, Perfect- .flood.. We'll give them one. Nothing original. The Dutch did it all the fume when i country ut the dikes, if you -remember." mummy. I tapk two pieces the first time:' ' the teas invaded. He tiedthe sticks in'seriies of threes. "Not so safe here• Taking' Chances. j Long chances. A lot of water up there. Don't knoW exactly how much, And' we're only ten feet or so higher than the creek bed. Perfectly apt to get us •as well, as the others- ,,gut it's the . .41111"1".":-••••':' Only chance we've got." The booming of the log ceased, probe '. ably to aUow the attackers to •rent•', it Prentiss stared at Vilak,.helf fearful, half incredulous. "Going' to : • . let life tike geed gotfy-is made 'the Iakes •. ; • down on cis"•" • typ-af .rriatryr lithe thingsetch ( " 'es." ,• °flea which ie ps rhe score. - t -"- .. tis - aevav . _ r°ythin, . Better digestion -=steadier 1 away:'have.a less dangerous plan, ner'ves•-clearer brain, are all . ! 'if yo factors that count and are ' well be delighted to take it." gained,•fram the Prentiss shookhil; head sullenly. •'use of Wrigley's. (Yk y�� Vilak swiftly 'rebundled the ekpla- t ;rye in a newspaper and started to- ward the stool• Ile,torned to Prentihs. ; 'Any nay reale get through the wall? Don't WaiA1To clrmtl rsverunless I halm_ 1 te. 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