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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-7-9, Page 6e Wedclitig Or, Ma led to a Fairy. 1 Iteleea gide ebreete, M X geeined on him, lie, heaving my Damning feet eo asacce iaelsinci gavO L cry of Milner, WO)* that (nit me IA) OA heese, There withoet the seas.t .wamhing, the (Little figure leeped eer ee the essrepet, swayed emend, erre -would hers sprung ever bete !the dimes. 'Waters, oa rate eireher side lied I riot *aught hien in my teems audeleagged bem thw For au instaiet 40 truggled. violently; then, 'with a little sobbing soend that wee wholly feMerine end. rettlilte terry boy ill /114OTI'S :a711b,41e. arlaiTailehau.b1414ted :their A soft oep, m,y ensizes [too ierge, -was oraraMed dawn on the plentiful short ourls, and p,,arge weelen mutual- -was swathed oloee up to hie dem Teere wee no gee -lamp just at thee point, end the jog Wee denee; beet dimly ne I could se tare 1$13.1 ail white Dams and clew). eyes, un- expected, incxecli1J10 it mishit, seem, 1 yet knew, in 0 Midden Iles,h. of mingled horror end INionder, this this.; poor beret - ed thieg, disguieed in Trough, bey's clothe erg, whom I had eeved froni suicide, was nOrie other than—my lost Lilittht The .crowd was upon me by this time, bat, seeing that, I was supporting the lit. tie inanimate Agare their. victim, they held baek, with the exception -.of a few boys who -pushed forward offering to geit me a, cab. A/zoom, pov-nor? Want ter bike 'un to the orspital?" ain't 'urb, is 'e?" "Why WAG we la -chivying of 'am? 'e'd bin. and accused -us of stealing purse, and then some one said it wee a gel dreseed and. we chased for •a "Cowaeds, are we, and you'll give ns in charge? Not mush?", ' 'Ere's yer nsom, sir! zot it fer Yarr "Snare us a copper, air!" kb Inet we were *leth er of e, demon horde. delving through °Wet, Streets, my poor little &Alarmed bride end I. Before 4 respectable -looking hotel I stopped and brought out, earns laren.dy, A few erops of -which I conteived to pour dowu Lie ith's throat. She choked and sighed, then pushed the glees away with bee hand, end opened her blue eyes. "Where em IP" she e.sked, in a terri- fied'whisper, stewing about her. _ I got into the oab beside her, and !gip- ehd my arm around her. 'You are safe in a cab, dear, witb. me, Adrian Hervey." She fixed her troubled gaze upon me. "Why, I TAU aevah trom Bristol and m cae -up to London, .and dressed AG a boy, just to ,avoid you," she said. "Then I lost my way, and got my pocket picked, and then those dreadful creatures chased me, and I thought thywanted to murder Ine, and I tried to eerie into the river. Oh! It eves horrible, horrible!" Teembling in every linab .at the mere mecolleetion, she res.ted. her head again§t my ehouldee and wept bitterly. (To be continued.) ..., end to -night my feet had wiegs., gaelled "he on the lee, leaving the ewowd eelleng be. lend Me; he Meet, heves been neuetereble oiUy,er (Weed With, feigeiNte X deelded, keep by t,lee river ineteaet of &retitle O reee the Toed. np one of the badly let 9 CHAPTER XX.---(Oontinued). Weenshoev, -who 'wee euffielently wel trained to express no eurpirese at, MY en- expeeted return, had eweeedee Its to the studio, where lie lit the lamps. Thea ie ereeented me with teverite letters oat ;salver, One lueportantelooking legal envelope I took up, for it weein tbe hanclueitine of my late motater'IS ohcitr, and. 4 man of business, my trustee and very good friend, .Teenee Csanworth. 1 wee Minoru! to And whet he had to eaY to me in this official envelope. for we were stanch friends, he being i great lover of Paint- ing. Not -until I had begun to read the lebter did X resan the feet that Oamworth had also been the men of bueiness of the late Admizal Blakieton. "Just a little unofficial bini of some- thing greatly to your advantage, my dear Adrian," Oemworeli wrote. "Now that tee news of your g.o.d-fether 'mid, groat' imele, Admiral Bialtiston'e deetih-ewlitch •eetiched is two days .age—is oillcialiy e011- 1.1-Tme4e 1 may tell yen thet immedietelY before lea:vine England he made a fresh • will, by which you are benefited to the • tune of about two thousand. a 'seer, 'eh assist you, ea your uncle puts et, eirt the exeeution of anasterpieece of marine merit,- inge If the adraieel didn't alter nia will in the interval—he left Englen.d. three /Mahe age—I Shall soon have to beerbily oongratulate you on this nice little wind. fall, for which I know yesu are totally un - prep ared." . Oarnwea•th spoke truly. I had deemed it within the Tenants of possibility that 7xtY elderly relative might leave me a few hum, tired*, but such a sum as this exceeded my wildest expectations. Truth to tell, 1 had not speculated much about the mat- ter, and et this particuler moment of my We this •addition to my modest in - *omit appeared snob. a ;matey trifle when weighed. against the alleenDoetahe ;heti absorbing subject, of Lilitle and her deci- sion, that Oamwortees rime Zeiled to Pro- duce tete imprezeion he had inteneed. "You look thoughtful," observed Wray, %retelling me elosely over his pipe as I put the letter down and paused to con- sider its effeets. "Have you had bad news?" "I toseed him the letter, and he read it through and returned it, with a mutter- ed imprecation. "What greet luck some fellows have!" he exclaimed. "Now, I suppose, you'll ohm* venting altogether?" "What eould poesibly induce- you to think so?" . "Oh, I euppoee you'll settle down now, marry, and grow fat. By the way, how did youe wooing speed to -day? I suppose that libtle girl jumped at you?" "On the contrary, she refused me poirre blank," , "Refused you?" • Wray rose from his chair in evident, cn- terest, and leaned with folded arms ever • the table before which I was seated ecan fling my face eleeely. "Do I hear aright?" be eat:mired. "And Is it, really passible that, you were refueed by this little schoolgirl? Try ;her again, now that you have two thousand a year more, and see what her answer will be. "My money is nothing to her," I was beginning, when he cut me ehert -with a harsh laugh. "Money nothing- to her!" 'be cried. "Show me the human being to whom money ie nothing. Bxhibit her. for she will be the greatest wonder of the age! Money is better worth having than gene ne, or beauty, or venue:tor love—than any- thing. in e.hort, for money will buy every one of them thieigel With money eou ee• cant ,an „an eael, even an R.A., and, of couree, eir eree'ishew R.A..'s are geniuses --ergo, you can buy genius. As to love, if I had money enough. I would surround myself with a ha,rem of the most perfectly beautiful creatures in the world, ;end they would eat eweete, and weeks eigarettets, and quarrel like wildcate, and Ides and careee me, and love me very rauch indeed. Any woman will love a man who gives her plenty of money and sllOWS Ile doesn't care for her. "With your fortune and your marvelous luck in picture -selling. I should chuck London and foggy, dirty. narrow-minded Eagle -net altogether, and -spend heel the year in Venice and half in Beane or Paris. No more =ries skies, no more caviling remeeke, no more social laws, no more work! Nothing but ease .and sunshine, and the miles of comfortable, well-fed, well -raid beauty! There, Hervey! There's good counsel as to :how to enjoy yourself, from a man eight yeate older than you, and -who knows the world. You are wee • eome to it, and it is quite worth thie to- ha.c.co I" Pte wee stretching his hong arras and pointed white hands -above his head in one of hie characteristically picturesque attitudes, for the man ;was intensely vain, and perpetually posing. .Mentally, he eas •perpetually posing, ale°, and I knew him too well to take bis mouteinge serionislY, or to be ebeelme by their startlingly 14/3, - •conventional nature. "Your advice has fallen on stone' ground." I (mid; laughing. "I have not the elightest wish to poseees. a Inrern, and if I can (rely induce the one woman I love to marry me, I don't care if I i Ever look at another:4 "What an extraordinary hallucination!" • he muttered, as he marched up and doWn the room. Then, ,suddenly stopping im- mediately in front of me, he laeked, cure auely; . "Are you really so infatuated about th:Is little Saxep Wel; Hervey? So hard hit, / sneeze that you 'won't be hammy, till you get here like the ehild in the a.dvertise. mere?" "She le the one thought in ray mind," 1 aswered. "These is hardly anything I would not sacrifice to win her.' Ile looked me full iv the eyes for ee- weal see:retie in silente. Then he laugh- ed again. "Ireaven bele you in that ease!" he said. "And the •worst thing I can wish you is to marry her. But you needn't fret your- self. So soon as she hears of your extra income, she'll take you like a bird. I know women! Good night!' After Wray had xeraoved his jarring presence I -wrote to Leith, a long, pas- sionate, foolish loveree letter. In it I just mentioned the reported legaey, but I did not dwell upon it, for I knew sb.e oet no mere store by such thinge than I did, A114.1 (it Saturday night by the last poet oamo a little letter in that stiff and peen handwriting of here, the sight of whieh Sent my heart thumping like a steam. - vagina.. "Dear Mr. Hervey," Lilith 'wrote. "Since Thureday I have been thinking over Your Rind offer, slue although I feel my own deffelences in the matter of education • very strongly, I have (twitted to ask you o overlook them, and to becotut your wife, since you eo much wise et, and .sinee you bees; always been so kiner to me. saa. • lug to see you next Monday afternoon, I zeinain, eineeeely yours, ete '• eLiltte. Sexon," ()RAWER XXI. ; Monday, the day upon. which I -was to O go. wn ,ta innase1 so aloe ary affianced met% epee at Isere Tate meaming light} istreggled through • L'Iattl land fog, and apjost linr0aQnably 1 felt ageeleverl„ etereet, but emiesolee 13.17. ftuntir 'taken 0 te,A_%,,, / lf by in III , aie ,0,4 pane -Ina 0 neYinoole Welled, 0 ip4 y N. 4tt intor 1, itIATO to be alb , Xt, - Of oat:tree thief irle or do to o Irolio. mv-itain itho tam hady- have'111011painted, elti n X pnlig TRO Pe tiefo Ma/eh Patry, A Pang 1:a7 heart as I thought Of ;Age ta "of oen. orcreity," and kinelneee, h veagljt fratiathr and wise advice, Bete wae in 1me, so Mach in love that I sang Italian operable love -songs t tne top at my voice while dreeSed, and X was in t.lte middle -of an elaborate xsoulade upon "lc V AMA." when I heard the double RIIVOX that heatalds teleera.phia Meesage. In an Metat I vete in e fever of enx- iety. Was Pileth ill? Had anything hap- pened to delay my jOlirnOYF No exesSes would keen Ind from T3rist01 this time. I wee fully decided. 'anon that Point, and was tormenting IntrEAU with snrweea 111.3011 th,a possible eature of the meseege, when, Weenshav brought it to I tore it open 'with trembling lingerie. It Wae from "Kathprine Morland, Mole lend House, Olittou,' and Nen as fol- k:aver "Is Lana 'with you? Silo left Brietol secretly by the twelve -forty-five trails last night. Absence just discovered. Very enx, ices. Wire reply." For a few eeconde I seemed. etunned by the newe. Then I haetily scribbled ou the formt "I have seen nothing of Lilith. Greatly alarmed by your wire, Come UP ,a,t.calee." i Slipping this in nee pocket, I Billeted my t.oilet in a few .seconds, and derted from the- house to send off my answer. Rather more than an hour After -wend, in a. prodigious hurry, Nicholas Wray 'call- ed, end menutee two eteps at 4 time to the studio. - Bursting open the door, he thrust a telegram under my eyeei.• "For Heaven's. sake set detectiyes to find Lilith -Saeon, Give her •appearance et offiees. She ,must. have arerved at Paddington at four this morning.. Adrian Hervey wires thate he has not seen her. Soe him." "What in the world does 'this mean?" ;mime. Wray. "The dee-vetch is from my cousin, Kate Plerland. Hee she gone elf her head, do you think? What. should. I know of Lilith Saxon?" , "I have •already been to Pedeingbon Station," I eaid. "A passenger, a lady, huddled ins a shawl, which litcl her feat, wee. arrived alone in a third-class com- partment from Bristol by the twelve -forty- five train, and on leaving the station hailed. a passenger four -wheeler. 1 have already called at Menaces detective agency, and. have just hurried back here in case else :should have called in my ab- sence.' "But what can be the girl's motive for running away?" asked Weer, with knit, ted broee. "You were to go down to -day, ware you not, to ask her to marry you?' "She accepted me by letter last Sat- urday, and spoke of looking forward to seeln,g nee to -day." "Iss. she quite right in her heed, do you think?" "Lilith is as sane as you or I. / oan't bear tor have to tell you, Wray, but I cane wholly tease your eousin oe get rid of the idas that she is somehow at the bottom of ..all. this. She has been from the beRinneng very strongly against the match. • . "So -was I, you remember. But now that I see you're GO set upon it, I hope sin- eerely you'll pull it through. Depend up. on it, -this is some girlish freak. I ee- member now ehe 'followed you up to town a. year ago in just the came hare -brained manner. No doubt she wants to get, you alone, inetead of seeing you under Kate's surveillance. Kate was a tremendous flirt in her young days, and I dare say that makes her extra -etriet with her pupils. Take MU word for it, Hervey, if you wait, this little girl will find her ena,y- here. teee en all-night journey she May have takeeiheee4eme in .e hotel to rest hereelf, or ehe may evetreeeethemPing. You never know what a gerl like theteeeill, do." Despite his reaceueing talk, Wray look- ed pale and Ailltii0U,S, and I felt grate -fill to ham for his unexpected sympathy. Be. tween him and his usin, Katherine Mot: - land, who presently arrived upon, the scene, there appeared to exist some sort of strained feeling, for she barely' no- ticed him, a,md reeerved a.ll her eloquence for tee. „ She had been totally unprepared for this extraordinary conduct on the part of Lil- ith, she said The girl had retired to rest at her usual time, a,nd nothing was known of her Right until her non -appear-. ance at the breakfast -table led to the ex- amination of her ZOOM, which was found • to be empty, while her bed had riot been slept in. "I can't tell you the trouble that girl has given me from. first to lest," Mrs. Morland eempleined. "She is oo erratic, se irresponsible, and eo completely dead to all notions of conventional behavior and ordinary decorum that I am eeetein the care of her has shortened nee life." "But we eleall And her," I ventured to prophesy -soothingly. "She will come here te me; and when she is my wife she will have so much ebange that she will forget to be erratic." . "Leith's disappearance would be a blee,s- leg in disguise, deer Mr. Hervey," MTG. ?Harland aesurerl xne, "if you oould be in- duced to give up all thoughts of marry- ing her." "I have remonstrated with Mn, Hervey on that head, Kate," put in Nicholas Wray. "But his mind ie made ep. What we heve to de now is to And the girl." Throughout the long house of that most mieerably wet, end foggy autumn day we three eought tom Lilith, patrolling th.e streets in the neighborhood of Padding- ton and that of Chelsea, calling at sta- tions, hotels, cabetands, and detective of. floes, but all to no puermee. One of the three, we so arranged, re. emitted always at my studio, to welcome the wanderer ehould he And hes way thither. As the day paesed from evening into night, my anxiety, grew more .a.nd, moee intense. Ifilitb knew nothing of London, and was unused to streetis and crossings; might she not be knocked down end kill- ed by some passing. vehicle? At nine ohIock I was left alone at the studio in my turn of the duty of watch- ing and welting for the mitering girl. All day 'I had been rushing from pillar to P.00t, on foot or in cabs, and all day long I had fa,sted, being too anxious .end mieer- able to eat. Footsore, and with heavy, rain -soaked. elothes, I was in.seneibly merging iinto a doze ef utter fatigue, before the comforb. able blaze of the Bret fire of the eeason, when I sat, up 'with aestert, fully awake, and listeeine to si, voice whdelt seemed to bid me rise and hurry down to the Emb en kment. "The river! Go to the river! She will be there(seemenl to thunder in my care. So loud, oo insistent, was the bieldieg that / dared not disobey. As theure a spitet led itie •forth, I passed down -tains and out ef the home into the derknees fund rain of the street. Through the fog I made my way bY a squalid sheet 'out toward Moyne Walk.. And there, close by the parapet, which bordered the riven, the blurred rays ef .a ga,a lever ehowe.d me .a., mob of men and bolo shouting, struggling, laughing, and sweereng, all engaged in ,hounding down some ereature whom I ootild not ma. OHAPTDR XXII. Right in front al the rabble of men end here stisuggiing end shouting in the fog by the rivetaido, I *exile to a etandstili. it Wee ea though ray feet were glued to the ground land 1 eould net peer: on. gagguly tl.le ereeture, -whatever it was OY yerd ehasing, etrenree lo give them ‚tIIfr Olin ; I rive, whet looked like the slim g re of 0 lite dart from among them ape froui the, Thnbankrueut earwax,/ lx 4 0 out the roughs were on his t 'W,I1, trac., PO Ta,,n, 'Wee ran In adlY, a/though ,t an w no 3r enetreng woe a thing I head do, being light and wiry iii build, A NOTED BLACKFOOT SCOUT. Eddie Spring -in -the -Crowd Is a Strange Character. Wherever a North-West Mounted Police has patrol work on an In-: clian Reserve, he must have an in- clia,n scout to assist him. This offi- cer is employed by the Mounted Police, lives at the barracks and wears a, uniform provided for him by the department. Re must be able to understand and speak. Eng- lish, for he is the medium between the Red Man and the officer of the Law in the Indian territory. Usually the scout becomes a very important personage among the In- dians, and is not much loved by Eddie Spring-in-thd-Crowd. them. While they are not usually averse to police eontrol, yet they cannot overcome the old idea that the Medicine Man and chief of the tribe should be the only Indian au- thority ander which they mast bend. - ' , One of the most enlightened shouts in the employ of the force is Eddie Spring -in -the -Crowd, who, for abort, is ealled plain 1'Eddie.'' What his, father SEM at the time of his birth to suggest such an uncom- mon name for his child is not known, Eddie is orte of the few Indians of the Blood Reserve who gets mail 4,$ the local post-offieet For seine years Eddie has been a subscriber to a Canadian periodi- Cal, and while the police affirm that he-do.es not toad the literature, yet they believe the pleasure of having a, 'maga zirie c'eme addressedto him- self snore than offsets the small subseription he pays for it. Eddie ha e no aversion to sitting f "or hotoraphet The dee a p • One- panyitie photograph shows him ats tired in a new serge with bright brass buttons, Eddie also in- vested in 4 new ,pair of boot4. TUE BANNER PRBviNCE. Ontario Produces 40 Per Ceut. of Field Products of Caligula. $o mucill has been heard of Can- ada's grain -growing prairies that it is but natural the impression should be held abroad that the countrie's energies are devoted al- most entirely to farming, and that on the plains of the West. Ontario, with one-sixth of the Province's population of three million people, yearly produees forty per cent. of the total field products of Canada's nine provinees. It live, stock and, its dairy produets are fay in excess of those of the prairie and Pacific provinces. This Western country has built up such cities as Winni- peg, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver. Ilhe farm wealth of ()anoxia is great but the mines of Canada stand high in the list of sources of income. In Ontario are mines that, during 1913, were responsible for a, production of $85,000,000—over one- third of Canada's mineral output. The two sources of national wealth, mining and agriculture, which reach their greatest develop- ment in the province contigueus and contributory 'to Toronto, are reinforced by a third—timber. Last year's cut of timber in Ontario was one-fourth of Canada's total of $195,000,000. - • Great as these sources of wealth are, yet the, greatest instrument for , moneymaking, the greatest power toward national prosperity, is the 'machinery in the factories and mills of Canada. The table that follows may dissipate a popu- lar impression fostered by those who have endeavored to bring only the ,agricultural possibilities of Canada into prominence. Canada's Production, 1913. Manufactured goods..$1,600,000,000 Farm products (grain, Jive stock, dairy, and all other farm products) - Forests . ... . .. Mines ...... Fisheries . . . . . ' 853,000,000 195,000,000 144,000,000 33,000,000 $2,825, 000000 • These figures indicate that manu- facturing has a greater capital in- vested in it *than any other form of national energy; that it must employ many more people than agriculture ; that industrialism is the largest foree in the wellbeing and prosperity .of the country. The rwilways of Canada, in which $2,500,000,000 has been invested, propose no restriction to the ex-. pansiert demanded by the growing necessities of the country. • It is interesting to observe', that four billions of dollars have been invested in the capital of companies pataraetings , nrins nemanufa,cturing, financial' an -Ci tra.nsportationsiatara est of Canada, and that the aggre- gate export and iniport trade for the irear 1913 was $1,147,648,243. The trade balance against Canada, which. ha,s been freely commented ,upon, was materially reduced, the exports being $474,413,664, is coin- pa•red with $3'78,093,990 for the pre- vious year, the imports' being $673,- 234,578, as, against $645,547,512 the year before. To the year's, increase in Canadian -exports manufactured goods contributed a gain of 29 per cent. POPULATING TILE SEAS. Will soon Be ,40,000 Merchant Ships Afloat. Never since the world beganhave there' been so many merchant ships on the seas as now. There has been - in shipbuilding a tremendous boom, which, thougfi declining, still con- tinues. By the end of 1914 it is esti- mated that the total muniben Of merchant ships afloat 'upon the oceans of the world will exceed 40,- 000, and that their total tonnage will he more than 55,000,000. Three- fourths of these are Steamers, and the rest are sailing craft, The tonnage. of the latter, however, is only abeut One-seventh of the total. In the number and tonnage of its merchant -kips Great Britain is far ,whead of any other country. Nearly half the vessels afloat are British. According to the latest issue of Lloyd's Register the United States ranks text to Great :Britain with a total gross tonnage of nearly 6,- 000,000, distributed among more than 3,500 ships. Then comes Ger- many within 500,009 of the United States total. Norway outranks France and almost equals Ger- many in the number of her ships, but her boats are small in Size. Germany and France, however, are building vessela faster than the United States, With the opening of the gates of Panama five new ocean routes will be created, one to the West Coast of South Amer- icZeadl Zealand, cSndto ir third AustotthraliOPahainiitiNew ppines and Oceania, a fourth to the East Indies and Southern Asia, and the last of all to Ohina and Japan. Not even the most aetute of the great commercial Sea Lords who scan the horizon of trade. froxn their watch towers in London, New York, and Harobtirg, eat' .do more than haz- ard guesses as te the re-arrange- 4gar does make the' bread and batter taste good !" IT is when you spread it out on bread or • pancakes, fruit Or porridge, that you notice most the sweetness and perfect purity of REDPATH Extra Granulated Sugar. Buy it in the 2 and 5413. Sealed Cartons, or in the 10,20,50 or Cloth Bags,and you'll get the genuine AggX, absolutely clean, jut as it left the refinery. 83 CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, • MONTREAL. eieSeSI.1' 4-' eee,- RECENT OCEAN DISASTERS TEACH " MANY LESSONS IN SAFETY DEVICES. Steamship Companies Have Intro- duced Precautions' Formerly Thought Unnecessary. The sinking of the Titailie on April 15, 1912, resnited in an inter- national conference on safety of jif,e at sea, meeting in London in Decembe,r, 1913. ' • After drawing up a number of articles for improving' the standard regulations for safety of life at sea, the conference -terminated on Jan. 20, 1914, after the protocol had been signed by " the repr,esenta,tives 'of fourteen of the great maritime na- tions and sclied.uled to become law in July, 1915. These reCommendatiOnS, are now pending before the United States Senate in Washington, owing to the fight made by the steamship com- panies, both American and foreign, on the ground that some of the new rules contained in theprotocol sign- ed by the members of the confer- ence would be injurious to the ser- vices and in ,some.cases impossible to carry out. Following the loss of the Titanic there he.ve been two other great maritime disastzrs in which there has been serious loss of lifeasthe burning of he Uranium Line steam- er Volturno on Oct. 10, 1913, and the sinking of the Empress of Ire- land on Friday, May :29. Without waiting for the new regu- lations to come into force,the At- lantic steamship companies , have taken every precaution in their power to insure the safety of the lives of those who travel on their steamers, and in these they have been supported by the hearty co- operation of the Governments of the :United States and Great )3ri- tainh Te most important innovation so far has been the ice patrol estab- lisihed along the ratites taken by the bergs when they float down frooa the north toward the. steamship lanes. Timely warnings are given to captains of liners ,when they are approaching a dangerous zone. Two Ships Patrol. The two -vessels employed on this ice patrol, the Seneca and the Miami, from March 1 to the end of July, are equipped with wireless apparatus and send reports daily to the Ifyclrographic Bureau in New York of ice conditions. These re- ports are sent to the steamship companies. In addition, individual notices are sent to the different ships at Bea. _Another is.tep toward protectirtg life at sea has been made by build- . nag new ships with double bottoms divided into coinpartments by; transverse and longitudinal bulk- heads which carry right through to the main deck, so that in case a ship's hull is pierced by an iceberg like the Titanic was, She_ woulcl, not Wunder, at least for many hours, by which time her passengers and crew` eoul.c1 have been saved. in the boats. .Lewis N'ixon, who is an authority on shinbnikling in America., when asked if anything could be done in the future to a,voisl such another disaster as that of the Empress of Ireland, replied that it was impos- sible to build ships that could not be sunk in a collision if they were struck in a valnerable part. The only way was to change the interna- tional navigation laws to compel the commanders of vessels, navigating narrow waters, or on the open sea, merits of trade and the shifting of fleets that the opening and expan- sion of eoutmerce and old markets will bring about in the next five years. On only one point do they agree unanimously, that the world is on the threshold of & tremendous n01nth0l0lal boom, and that its stim- ulating cause is the opening of the great canal. The principal sufferer Twin the impending changes will probably be the Saes, Canal. in the tra,ck of ships, to slow clowis to steerage way, about three knot, during a fog. This precaution is observed by most captains to a. certain clegre41 but there has been a. rbendeney the part of the commanders of f liners to keep a, certain headway oSi the ship in a fog in order not to lose` time in making port. Next to the ice patrol in imposs tame for safety at sea, is the regd."; la,tion regarding Wireless apparatak4 made by the United StIttes Gover* merit, which came into force a, year ago. All vessels trading to that couns try, earrying fifty or more persona on board, must he equipped with, an apparatus ettpable of seridin$ messages at least 100 miles. 94 the larger passenger liners this d1 -- tame is increased to 200 miles, and „each liner must carry ,two opera- tors. Wireless Precautions. In order that there should be an opportunity for the operators te hear distress calls sent out without any interruption by commereial messages, the companies close down their wireless apparatus on their steamers for commercial purposes every night from 10 to 12 o'clock. A fire patrol with trained. fire- men, who go around at night isa all parts of the ship and make reports at certain points, as is done in big hotels, is a safeguard against the danger of a disaster by fire at sea. Inaddition, there are telephones to all parts of the -vessel, including the bridge, whore there are iiever less than two officers on duty, and hose leads along the corridors ready to he turned on at a second's notice. The raajority of the big liners now tarry a staff commander whose duty at is to look after the efficiency a,nd discipline of the ship at sea,. Two big liners hate been equip- ped with large motor lifeboats with wireless apparatus, which has a range of 100 miles. The searchlight soon will be adopted by all lines a,s a. precautionary measure to ax,oid running into ice, -which is a greater danger than running into another ship, because it often lies lOW and has no lights. Patent davits, too, have been in. stalled recently on liners of the Olympic Vaterland, and Aquitania, scla,which will lower boats over the side one after another without capsizing, it is claimed, even when the cleek of the ehip le listed over to a considerable angle on either side. NEW MILK STERILIZER. , German Invention Saki. to Abolish Pasteurization. From an investigation of the Snsiorisator," now used in certain German dairies, W. Freund has re- ported that the harmful germs of milk are completely destroyed, without the disadvantages of pas- teurization and other sterilization processes,. The milk undergoes no chemical or physical changes being still suit- able for making cheese; it keeps fresh much longer than untreated or pasteurized milk, and there is no loss from evaporation. The value of the new treatment seems to depend on rapidity of ac- tion, the sterilization being effected with very brief heating. The milk is subjected to a pressure of 'four atmospheres iu a suitable ohamber ; is then discharged as a fine spray into a large cylindrical vessel, being at the same time heated to 167 de- grees Fahrenheit, and is -finally led through a c,00ler, lowering the tetra perature quickly to about 50 de- grees, and is received in a bottling apparatus., The investigation and Deport were made for wholesale Milk dealers in Germany. 44 • Most men also possess the sense. of injustice. And it is easier to see trirough some people than it is to see- through a glasS eye. If a woman would cub out the milliner's expensive creations and pin a $10 bill in her hair she would attraet more attention,