HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-6-24, Page 6iI THE. FATE OF AZUMA;
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:' Or, The ,South African Millionaire.
CHAPTER XV.--•(Cont'd'.)
"See, see Baas, look."
e entreated him like a child..
"There is war, a great war," she
muttered,, "and blood . blood."
"War."
Was this woman then really a l
The first he had not found to ?bring
with it all the elation the intoiica-RENCH INVENT GRENAO
second, oh, that was wiped out now,
gone, forgotten almost, That had
been seven years ago and since then
the Jameson Raid had convulsed Eng-
land, dazed it, blinded it, sent it mad,
and its madness had taken the shape
cif the Boer war and restored its san-
ity, There had been a moment when
Galling and Lieb had both trembled
for the welfare the continuance to
tion even he had expected; and the
exist even; of taeir urines, and there
:had been the sudden resurrection
servance of the character of the few which had brought millions, and all
men and women she .came across, of
Sh 1 s country in which t in i wo d
that remained now was outwardly a
ALSO GOOD RO FiR THROWERS
AT .SNAIL EXPENSE.
Poises From These Missies Which.
are Charged With Ohernleals
Have Overpowering >E ffeet.
The widespread use of trenches in
n . ereill •e present war writes a torr
the condition of the great historic secret o •e th
she had been born, of the actions of
the white and the black races, and
amongst those, of the diversity of
actions of different whites, the Ger-
mans, the English, and the Boer, in
the dark races, the Zulu, the Kaffir,
witch, or holy was it that she uttered
es -
than the Dreyfus mystery, because it pondent with the J reach ainii,
existed amongst Englishmen, who has brought then opposing armies
are supposed to be neither mysterious into closer proximity thea c•i er
nor untruthful, above all because it had been considered possa e ealee
savored a little of those historical ro-
mthe devclo me anees which so iimay° laugh at, and p nt of firearms, and
the word which had wrung in his the African, the Matabele. And she which resemble tales of the day oe the result has been that new meth -
ears ever since Dolling had departed, was a woman of silence, given to in- the first Bonaparte, without the ods have had to be devised to deal
but which had rung in his ears ever stinetively developing that utmost graceful heroine who throws roses with unexpected conditions.
but which neither had ventured so which lies within us all, but which'so or smiles from some turret window; "At fiivst,'? says tile. correspond_
. an
mad
n ofe v d that be
muchus l a dorman ti th abetween Gelling
u as ye or ai ll� G Il n n
to breathe e dand ,
ea e. openly to eachyg fat, "the Germans were probably
other? of death. If she saw a thing of any Lleb,. it had left rile relnembrailce4 on better prepared
He was kind she wanted to know all about it..
the one side of a great treachery, a A pa ed for this kind of
growing interested, and It had been so with household things great injury suggested, and on the warfare- Their 'ininenwerferi' are
because he told her everything al- that Adolphe had bought at Cape other the sense of having been dis- excellently made and well design -
ways. because she was the only con- Town, or had sent from Germany and; covered in` an unworthy and"aborain- ed, as I have bee ale g
Ge ilii he a had,
he told her all that Paris. When she had found out how able act, For Adolphe, through the' eelf b . beep b assure
Id him in detail, they worked she tried ex eriments intermediary of a o the examinationeon
of some
“It n. not true,'• she said, "'if he till she had' B to i powerful man ed of rhos+ captured on the Cham -
want, them to came, then wily does furthestpushed them to their (an i ted ie the mines, had authorities
t pa.gne front. There i • no
he not send them himself?" use, nterview with the authorities in s i su�ges-
s Downing Street and at the War 'Of tion of improvisation about 'theme,
-But don't you see, Azuma, that it i •Sauch minds as these are often born" On the contras the • _-
ntusi ma go on lige this, the Boers, in • obscurity and amidst surroundingbeen assured that nada ngy, y are, any
eou hat, the Boers, don't youae?" which do not permit of their develop known about the scheme, that tiling, over -complicated. Expeti-
The gleam which shot across her meat: and becoming warped or stultt it would not for a moment be Mere enee has damn that they are far
eyes, vvhfeh he could feel was there ted in one direction, find thein vent ` ted, With his unusual loyalty, he too heavy.The largest of them,
ever: more than he could see it, told subtle crme or criminal cunning, would not gine the mine of the pair indeed, are teaseled into the
in son who had suggested to hila that
him that she had given her answer but in Azuma it seemed as if a na-. ce #rencires, so that they cannot be
on that score, aural sweetness and meekness had this would be acceptable to the Brit- remc,vcd a
• Well, soon they will have the restrained all evil influences, vhile', ish government, and Galling, when he ,and none of therri is near-
whop country under their control her devotion to Adolphe had seemed could do so without fear of its get-ly so effective as the simple wcap-
they pay m attention to the nanol, to concentrate her every thought ea ting back to Lieb, would hint that it ons that the proverbial ingenuity
L'b of h
cont t r And 1 t consciously gave to the government
tisk; they oppress the natives, even the endeavor to guide him to ,power,' was what ie wanted to do, That the French has invented under
now they treat the lrrtlander with anti endeavor
at to him from evil, was the impression Lieb, quite un-; the pressure of circunl4-tances,
emp . Now listen, and I will tell A n t hose little pebbles were but' also which did not"Th$ Ge rltiaAg rase heiarr c Corin '
you what the scheme is. the instruments of her visionaryow- add to his fieneral g i
P good repute, while Lieb congratulat- t" a certain extent by the use of
She squatted down and listened till er. She was not in any sense a for- ed himself that he had listened to asphyxiating bombs in utter de-
ed end while he, fired with the new tune teller; the art had been taught Azuma's warnings, and to the insist -Nance of the obligations they
Wei, Gulling had inspired, told her her as a child, but she had but scantThe h y had .
Con -
with all the excitement of a newly belief in it on the lines on which she ease of the passion for justice which accepted under Hague been ardor of enthusiasm, the way had been taught to use it they only? lies at the heart of every Jew, grin to ntican. The French have not hese ¢ s
1 loony because he gets so little of long en finding a reply to these
from the trenches when the enemy
is attacking. For offensive- work a
lighter and more handy bomb is
required. This grenade contains
ii bout half a pound of explosives,
and a soldier can easily carry half
a dozen of them in aa, bag when •he
leaves his trench for ithe charge.
"When the trenches are 250 . to
.QQ yards apart the range is too
great for hand grenades. For this
work a, bomb throiver called the 1
• `'crapauillat' has been devised. Its
name is derived from the erapand,
a toad. It is a igat, toadlike
thing, }minted gray and consisting
of a wooden stand mounted on it,
The German shrapnel cases have
only to be shortened and to have a
t di ch bo e^ k Y,=d in them.. A e4uarge
"a% powder is placed in therm, .and
above it a bomb -containing three
pounds of explosives.
Inexpensive Bomb. Throwers..
"Two salvoes of six "crapalail-
lots' were fired in one thour. Six
sausage -like bombs were thrown
into the air and expled. ed with tre-
mendous violence when they reach
ed the ground 20Q yards away
hurling niitraille in . every dire
tion. A piece of initraille, like
heavy, roughly made nail, earn
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hurtling through the branches of, WIT AND WISDOM.
the tree behind which I was shel
tering and fell at ray feet, whil
piece was driven deep into
rink of the same tree. On
nib fell'into a stream and three
a column of water some fifteen
feet into the air. The Germans
when they capture a, trench, hay
n ingenious wtiy of describing
these bomb -throwers, which cos
abouf; a dollar _each, as �uns, to
'mpress the readers of their com-
muniques.
`tie also witnessed the test o
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smoke bombs from these en-
gines. They produced a curtain of
moke which was quite sufficientto
mask an advance, and their a"ue-
eens was the more remarkable as
here was a strong wind blowing.
The output of these bombs and
tomb -throwers is practically un,
hafted. The energy and method
ith which the men, who, of course,
re mobilized under military law,
were working was quite remark-
able. The factory'has been -cola-
tnandeered by the Stag. which
ays a rent for its use to its pro.
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Rankin: ""Have you ever been to
e ' the Trosaehs?" Phyla: "Yes; but I
✓ want to go again some day and see
the scenery. The first time I went
• I was on my honeymoon."
e Hubby: "My dear, if all that I hear
about you is true----" Wife: "I es-
t ! sure you it is, I started the scandal
myself`. You don't suppose I went
into society to be buried alive, do
f you?"
Madge (reading letter from bro-
ther at the Front): "John says a
bullet went right through his hat
without touching him." Old Auntie;
"What a blessing he had his hat on,
dear,"
d A clumsy carver once sent a goose
onto a lady's lap, His apology was
Vetter than his carving. ""Ah, ma-
dam, how patent your charms arc;
they attract not only the living but
also the dead."
Mrs. Ryan: "They do be tattier
sayin' that old man Kelly has got
loe
mother ataxy." tax' Mrs. Murphy:
"Weil, 1 he's s
got the
money c to
y run
wan av thim if he wants ter, but I'd
rayther have a good horse any day."
Two Irishmen were philosophizing:
Said. Pat to Mike: 'Did you ever stop
to think that wan half of the world
don't know how the other half gets
along?" "You're right," says Mike;
"and neither does the other half?'
"Many a damsel 'who is a kitten
with men is a cat with women," says
Mr. Gelett Burgess. "The custody of
the child used to keep discordant
married couples together, but now,"
says a cynic, "it is the automobile."
Agent: ""1 came to deliver your,
book on 'How to Play the Piano.,,,
Lady: "But I didn't order any."
Agent: "Haven't you a next door
neighbor named Brown?" Lady:
"Why, yes; is it for her?" Agent:
"No, she ordered it for you."
"I don't think I'll go to school to.
day, mother." "Why, Eddie! I
thought you liked to go to school."
"I do, mother; but, you see, some of
the boys in my class are not so fax
adavnced as I am, and T thought it
would be kind of nice if I stayed
away and gave them a chance to
catch up."
liruger kept the country back from assisted her thought, and she h
"•lvilization in order to make money, learned to reckon on the shapes :a
enc, because he telt instinctively that forms the pebbles took upon them
tor all his cunning, a civilized coup the answers only, to her prophet
try would not tolerate him, that he meditations,
could no longer control it. And Lieb When Adolphe bad settled down
told her, almost as if it were a fairy his new home he had some diff icu
tale of wonder, what would happen if in persuading the Boers with wh
the British possessed it, how bridges she lived to let her go, they prefer
and railways would be built, and to beat the devil out of her with 1
schoole and Churches, and how in ther thongs, to banding her over
time even her race would fare better the devil in the shape of Adolph
andgrow rich,", Lieb, and they naturally misint
though she listened with won-' preted his desire that she she
ad weapons. If the Germans mean to.
nd But he had had none of the wear
is and tear of life, even as a, young use polsCanLiiis gases in warfare, the t
roan. Home life, his good old father I'renehh are ready to retaliate with
and mother, had had their restrain- a weapon that shcu'd prove very 1
in ing influence, and since the develop. effective, though it in no way eon-
om, neat of the mines he had been given travenes the regulations accepted red' over entirely to business occupied by all civilized nations except Ger-' a
ea- himself with matters which generally man}•. a
fall to the share of older men, tray -,.'fait weapon
to„ lied backwards and forwards be-" consists of a hand
e tween Germany and Paris and Lon-; grenade filled with certain Chemie -i
er-,i don, forming companies, engaged on ale which when released produce uid . gas no ca • effects ut� P
'as loans for vast undertakings, y
g always '
't
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h
der and amazement, for all that, at come to his house. Of this he l
the end,
she shook her it
ad. u e aware, it q beenada.
sense
All that," she said, "if the British Justice, a means of rewarding
conquer, but if not, if the Boer wins ` since he could not give her a sit
the- battle, what then? ' in the mine, which had led him,
Yes, he had thought of that, and as, though slavery was not supposed
the T
r Steck Exchange, h e
an making huge g aR
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d 1
d it
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of under the guiding rognostications quite powerful several
i to pars-
er,; of Azuma. Then had come }ars fa -
are lyse s man for several minute,. As,
li ther's death, and six months spent ai exl1erinlent tw"o of the iCx greri"
h
looking afterh a< es v tP
she '.,id the ovoids, this wonderful in-' be countenanced, to compromise withsisters, journeys to South Africa, the y tae to rc>i•e,eni a
tel]i„ent being, he laughed. i the Boer farmer for a large sum of stay prolonged each year longer and trench. When the gases had been
"The Boers beat the British!" The move longer, as he built and embellished released a tom a
iueu was absurd. Since then Azuma had been looked'; his House and finals b ca a obses- P ny of infantry was: And Azunia swept her hand back- upon with mingled awe and scorn'. sed with 'th VeldtY e m ordered to advance up the lane, , L
itards and forwards showing him the by the few Boers round about.anal left it except osho itself
and rarely
his and I accompanied thein.
Veldt, the great tracts of land which as a wonderful and supernatural be home, And on these occasions Azu-: '"\l lien the first ranks a
the Boers knew so well, but which ing by the Kaffirs, a sentiment whichcams with- e
neither the British soldiers, nor even had gone far '. ma had said nothing when he came in the zone of the fumes they -
g o enhance Adolphe's or went. He had been twenty-five ped +suddenly and beat a, hasty �#te t
the Highland troops had ay idea of: popularity amongst them, and had when through i h C
"They do not know this country, woven a spell of safety around him! . he first went to stay with the treat, fighting their way throe 11 `
she said, u'aetly, "they do not know of which hew himself All! Collings, now he was thirty-five, ten the men behind; absolut�el • blinded f
years older than .Judith, who was y
MORE WARS TO FOLLOW.
millet.). of Vast Series of Struggles
gS
For Existence.
Professor Ridgeway, speaking at a
meeting of the Eugenic Society in
ix;on on, said that the nation had been
into the present struggle by
combination of millionaires who
vere frequently alien. in origin, and
heir dupes the masses, while the
ea,
' oo ing is mother, his pro vera gown into a. narrow
3 petty and his younger brothers and lane between two walls that mighty
fairl • be tali i
, as lase unaware. AI
the Boer, t e Boer knows every kopje, attempts to find out something about
el cry kloott, every road; they will her had failed. That she was not .a
crouch in the valleys, and every man Kaffir he was sure, her limbs and the
and woman and child," she held her shape of her head were cast in finer
hand out low to show how small a mould, yet the rich blackness of her,
child she meant, "will carry a gun, skin forbade the idea that she had
and they will shoot from behind, theyany white blood, and the Kaffirs told
will shoot when your troops have different tales. Some that she had
turned their backs " come in a caravan of slaves from the
How had she thought of all this, Soudan, that her parents had been.
this woman? And she went on. "And killed by the Boers, others that she
they will say, 'We came here first, was the daughter of a great chief,
what right have you?" 1 who had been taken prisoner and
Yes, Azuma was right, what right died in prison.
had they, the British or the Germans, When he ever thought about it all,
to come and take their country? Adolphe Lieb inclined to the latter
Their wealth, that was another thing,! opinion, on account of the quiet dig -
they had never developed anything, ! nity of her bearing, and her easy corn
been too afraid to spend money, too, command over the other servants of
bestial to care for improving the ' his household.
country, or the welfare of their bre- { As a matter of fact it didn't much
thren, but their country! Imatter what she had been for to mis-
Yet as one who cannot at once re-, apply a proverb if at night all cats
Iinquish a new and deep, and power-' are grey, all black women are in a
ful thought, he went on. ;sense alike. And Azuma understood
"But if we win, Azuma, what then that he wanted to be alone, and crept
a away, crept away to wander forth
"You will not win, now, with a herself an hour later into the same
handful of men. There will be blood, garden to listen under his window to
everywhere, and the mines they will t the strains of Adolphe Lieb's violin,
go, you will be poor.' f to the exquisite music in which he
She spoke now in low tones, her; strove to chase away the suggesting
eyes seeing once more the strange demons which flaunted power, and
numbers and signs into which the danced before his eyes in winge
sand had fallen between the pebbles, words, the words of Galling:
talking like one in a dream, prophe- "The British government will b
lyng: very grateful, they will recognize it
"With a few men you will lose, you even if they cannot absolutely su
English, and the Boers will take the gest it."
nines. I And he was hardly aware that th
'o one but one of her own race .music had a singing mysterious voice
could know how they dreaded the' a singing mysterious voice which had
fuller power that might come to the' put words to his music and turned it
Boers if they conquered, and they to a song, the words of Azuma, the
would conquer, unless the English African Maiden. "They will say to
brought such thousands as she, in her you. 'We came here first, what right
Ignorance, could not imagine any have you?' "
:ountry possessed. Then presently And a few days later because he
she looked un. wanted to find out the truth, because
"And if they lose they will say it something made him distrust Got -
was you, they will kill you, the Boers, ling, he started for London, and
or perhaps the English, because you Azuma said:. '
did not win." "If you do not take me you will
And without . answering her • have no luck,"and he had laughed
Adolphe had gone'out into the gar- and said,
den. He wanted to be alone with "But I will soon come back."
his thoughts, with those former ones But it was because she had thrown
which still clung, with these new herself at his feet in a passion of
ones this strange woman hard evoked, grief, because she had said:
this strange woman who had come "If you do not take Azuma she
into his life seemingly so quietly, so will die," that. he had taken her with
unsought, and yet who had brought him to London.
him wealth beyond that of almost any t
man.
To him she had seemed Pike a su- CHAPTER XVI,
pernatural being, but as a matter of It was' perhaps just as well that a
fact hers was simply an illuminated mood of sweeter content had come to
mind. In all' centuries, in all ages, Lady Judith at the time she met
In every country, now and then there Adolphe Lieb for the first time, just
is born a type like Azuma's. Who as well that she met him in surround
can tell by what chain of= heredity ings which made for well-being and
they are produced, what union of restfulness and'that she was amongst
womplex intelligence, the right ap- those -who admired her and liked her
posites," the right contrasts lived over and thought well;of her, and that the.
again and again, produce them, those new interest;of "running these Af-
who seem to have the gift of seeingricans," as Lady Glaucourt put it,
Dilly because they have the combined had brought some vivacity back, some
gift of close:observation coupled with vivacity and vitality which respond -
a mind given to thinking things out, ed to the unused in him. For there
,eo solving problems. I.! she bad ben was a good deal of the unused in him.
born in -Germany, a Man,, she would He had not yet grown weary of life,
have been a great scientist perhaps, nor even met many of its strangeif
or a great astronomer; a Napoleon in emotions. The emotion of great and
France, a 'Richelieu, a Clearlemange; ever increasing wealth had: been his,
in Italy a Macchiavelli, but instead, and in experience of treachery he
born a Kaffir and a woman, her illu-had knocked against Golling's das-
nination was limited to a close ob- tardly and unpardonable'suggestion.
twenty-five "well rung out," and he
I possessedoth, some
e freshness of
itsvigor. almost,
It was the day he met Judith, that
he told himself 'that life had really
begun,
(To be continued.)
1.
GOLDEN SENTENCES.
The only way to live in this age an
get any pleasure out of life is alway
to take more time than you need fo
every job you tackle.
You'll see strength enough in th
people some day.
The trouble with all your big m
at the top is that they're trying to d
for the crowd what the crowd want
to do for itself.
The age we live in is changing so
much faster than any age before i
that a man, if he's to be vital at all
must give up the idea of any fixe
creed, in his office, his church or hi
home. If he holds himself open t
change, and vows that change is his
very life, then he can get a serenit
which is as much better than that of
the monk as living is better than dy-
e ing.
Were we sent by our rulers to die
g- only in order that they in their scram-
ble might take more of the earth for
themselves?
by the tears running drawn 'their vva
cheeks. The smell of the fumes is e
not unpleasant. It is suggestive of , b
pear drops combined with very s
strew ammonia, and it produces k
such violent smarting of the eyes w
and nose that it would be hopeless s
to try and use a weapon while un- ki
der its influence. These bombs o
have not yet been used, and will n
a"
Far from this being the last war,
he hard facts pointed rather to its
eing the first of a vast series of
truggles different from those yet
nown. The earth's waste spaces
ere now getting filled up and the
truggle for existence, not merely
ngly ambitions, was the great stake
r which Germans and British were
no
forces were exercising a bane -
1 influence on the prosecution of the
only be •employed if the Germans n
at
d make any further use as asphyx-
s dating gas
French Rand Grenades.
e "Besides the newly invented gas
bomb the French have various
en forms of bombs and bomb throwers
o for use in the trenohes, The hand
s grenades are of two kinds. The
larger kind, which looks like a,
rocket with a stick sawn off short
t and a very large head, contains
more than a pound of explosives.
d These explosives are.contained . in
s a, black steel case closed by a wood -
o en cap, with a fuse at the bottom
end. The man who is to throw
ty the grenade breaks off the seal
which covers this fuse and sets light
to it with .a match or cigarette.
When the fuse begins to splutter
he has five seconds before the ex-
plosion, and with a good swing can
throw it twenty-five to thirty yards.
Men of all arms are being trained
to use this weapon, and the experi-
ments which I have been permit-
ted to witness were carried out by
a number of infantrymen just back
from the front. Its effects are
`very deadly, as it will sweep an
area of fifteen yards, and though
we were fifty yards away from the
point where one of them exploded
it was advisable to take cover be-
hind a tree, as several splinters
reached us.
"This large grenade is used for
defensive purposes It i th
The head, like the stomach, is
most easily affected by poison when
it is empty.
Woolwich Arsenal possesses the
largest steamhammer in the world. It
is capable of striking a blow of near-
ly a thousand tons; and yet it so
carefully adjusted and accurately
timed that it is possible to place a nut
under the huge hammer and to crack
the shell without- injuring the kernel.
flowing the Sands; or;.flate's Labor Lost.
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