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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-8-9, Page 2OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR: CHAPTER IV.—(Cont'd,) "If he is to lose his eyesight, then surely death- would be the bettor of the two,," remarked Albert, in a tone that was not nearly so cruel as the words, "As to the eyes, the doctor can say nothing for at least a week,—thatis, supposing "Supposing there remains any ne- cessity for saying anything," finished Julia, with business -like ess 1ike dire tness. "Is he suffering much?" "He doesn't say so,but the doctor' does. I'm ,told a it's bout the worst sort of pain there is: and yet he man- ages not even to groan. He did groan just at first, but when he notic- ed how mad it made Duncan, he stop- ped himself, and now he pretends that he's feeling comfortable, with the skin off his face, mind, and his eyes swollen shut!,, "Are Duncan's hands very bad?" "Not so very. He'll be able to use them again quite soon, though for the moment. I believe, the pain is about as bad as his father's. But this also, I gather only front what the doctor says; Duncan doesn't talk about it; he talks only of bringing the Company and Mr. Berrell to their knees, for it's them he snakes responsible for the ac- l cident "He had better not tackle Mr. Ber- rell," put in Albert, with an audible sharpering of tone. "Can't you keep' him quiet, father ?" I T am preaching patience as hard as I can," said John with his faint smile; "but Duncan is no easy sub- ject to deal with. It's good-bye till Saturday, is it not, Bertie? Don't!, mind about keeping any luncheon for 1. me, Julia, I'll get a bit at Adam's.": While the talk went on Fenella had sat silent, her work dropped to her; lap, her eyes fixed wistfully upon her father's face. That half -remorseful feeling which had touched her last night as, standing there in all her gay finery, she had seen him go off, solitary, upon his errandof pain and. sorrow, had come over her again. His fingers were on the handle al- ready, when she started from her chair. "Father!" she cried impulsively. "Let zee go with you!" John looked back at his daughter in an astonishment .which verged on incomprehension. "Eh, my dear? With me? But I'm going to Adam's cottage." "Yes, I know. But couldn't I go too? Perbaps I might be of same use., They must be in such distress, and perhaps it might please poor Adam." "Please him? It would enchant him, But are you sure? It is 'a e very distressing sight; and—" "I'm not afraid of that," said Fenella quickly. "Arid perhaps/ if we are two of us, we won't be so much, distressed." "Fenella, you're mad!" eja.,ulated Julia, recovering from an astonish- ment which had kept her dumb, for the' idea was unprecedented: "After yes- terday—and without having had your proper night's rest. It's pr eposter- ous! Isn't it, Bertie ?" "Wha'-is there preposterous about paying a sick call?" argued Fenella, whose eagerness was growing at sight of the new radiance dawning in her father's eyes—an incredulous hope which she had never seen there before. "Don't people go into- -hospital wards every day? and usen't Mrs. Gordon to sit for hours beside the old women's beds?" "She certainly used to," admitted Albert, who, though quite as astonish- ed as Julia, was rarely in danger of Iosing his head. "If it was not for last night's fatigue, I should really see no objection to your accompany- ing father. And if you promise to be back for luncheon,-- and to lie down afterwards—" "Yes, yes; 1 promise," argeed Fenella, making a rather reckless heap of her ball -dress on the bed, before prqceeding to dash through her 'pre- parations . . "Well, I, suppose there's ro peaticu't-- ar harm i .it," was all that Julia could be got to concede. "Harm in it?" said Albert to her a few minutes later, having lingered ex- pressely to make the remark en tete- a-tete. "The harm' would have been to make a forbidden fruit of this new idea. Why shouldn't Fenella play at philanthropy if it ,amuses her? Sick calls are quite legitimate, you know., It's a pity it should just be Adam, on; account of the relationship; but that' can't be helped. I've a notion that, for all her docility, once Fenella be- gins to think for herself, she will re- quire careful handling; and to thwart tier in trifles is the way to make her thinkfor herself." � By which it will be seen that Al- bert's horizon was wider and his per-' eeptions keener than those of the mat-c't ter -of -fact Julia. out the fresh sprouts of the alder and hazel bushes, while down to the left it drew gleams from, the fields of sea- weed, freshly left, bare, and even from the wet grass beyond, washed by the high tides, and upon whose flattened and salt -encrusted tufts the cows were greedily feeding. Adams croft lay in the glen beyond the village, the historical glen in whose shadow the massacre which had shaped the future of the McDonnell clan had taken place, and at whose entrance a Celtic cross reared its tall, white neck in memory of the murder- ed chief. It was not until she had crossed the stone bridge spanning the river, whose green anct white waters; tumbled seawards, and were fairly inl the glen, teat r enella s too ed. "Don you think that Adam will die, father?" she timidly asked, John drew a breath which seemed to be a sigh. I still hope he may not. There is no vital injury, it seems. It is the shock to the heart which the doctor fears. FIe was thrown nearly ten yards, you know.'t "Was the, accident really his own fault?„ "It's difficult to say. Duncan says it was the fault of the iron tools. But it ispossible that Adam pushed the dresser harder than he should have done. The whistle had sounded, it seems, and he was in a hurry to get the powder in. The blast went oft in his face. It is a very painful sight. I hope thatyou—that you won't find it too much for you." (To be continued.) Given plenty of range turkeys find grasshoppers and other insects, green vegetation, weed seeds, waste grains, acorns and nuts of various kinds. The cost of raising them where they can have proper range is small and the profits are satisfactory. Grain and stock farms are particularly well adapted to turkey raising. 1 , "IVORY" NUTS.;: Maury Articles of "Ivory" Are Made Front South American Nuts. The present prpsperity of Esmer- aides, in South America, is entirely de- pendent pn nuts, which are as hard as bone and as il'hpossible to digest as a piece of chromium steel, These tagua nuts are called ivory nuts in America, and it is from them that most of the buttons and "ivory" we use are made. The ivory nut, when shelled, looks like a Brazil nut, except that it is larg- er, and when -it has been through the drying, process at the button factory it looks like ivory and is just as hard. Large articles cannot be made from the nuts, because they are too small, yet $1,500,000 worth of them was im- ported into the United 'States last,year• Imitation ivory in :larger er pieces is made from rubber that hos been treat- ed 'with chloroform.. . Still another substitute is made from milk, but this has not been pro- duced on a commercial scale. To distinguish vegetable ivory from the genuine material allow the doubt- ful article to soak for fifteen minutes in a little concentrated sulphuric acid. If it is: a product of the ivory nut it will become rose tinted, Real ivory is untouched by the acid. The tint can be washed off with water. Kinks in Negatives. Photographic defects, spots, stains, etc., are often due to inadequate washing. In the common method of washing negatives or'prints under the tap, in a dish, thewater is not chang- ed quiskly enough. If the negatives are placed film downward and sup- ported at the edges, the washing is quicker and more thorough. Films as well as glass negatives are in the same class in the matter of washing. Films should not stick'together,.c and. the sharp edges must not be permit- ted to cause scratches. The Opposite of Green Houses. Calcutta has a botanical garden in which plants of the temperate zone are kept alive in cold houses, much as tropical plans are preserved in hot- houses in this climate. CHAPTER V. Along the wide village street, strag-' gling with the line of the shore,' Fenella and her father walked almost ire silence. The situation was too new I to be accepted by either of them with- out , a flavor of embarrassment. With, only an occasional remark. exchanged, 1 they passed by many slate -roofed cot.' tages and .a few thatched ones, down' whosewhite walls the moisture lay in streaks as vividly green as though' the color had run out of the grass tufts flourishing Above, --by the little bay about which the sea -gulls were perpetually busy, -the old pier built of slate -refuse aiid marking the spot of the erstwhile ferry, now no more than the starting -point of the water- t side funerals, The sky was as blue' as a Highland April slcy knows how to be, the hills across the loch as clear as the remains of winter :Moisture. -- woven into wonderful filmy veils Centel permit. i'he incline rising steeply above the cottage row to the right—the "green hill, as it was call- ed, in contradistinction to its grimmer neighbors.—was barely beginning' to live up to its name. Only here and there the sunshine delicately picl*d DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT HOME Fifth Lesson.— Proteins are necessary for building and repairing of tissues. Carbohyd- rates, which consist of starches and sugar, are needed for heal and energy. Fats are needed" for energy, and lubri- cation. 'Mineral salts are necessary for regulating the body process4. Water is necessary for the blood stream and the elimination of the waste. The necessity for Gag. of these -food elements'.' in our daily diet will readily be seen when it is understood that if a person eats a large amount of the food containing an overabundance of protein the excess will not be retained in the body, but only the amount that is needed and actually necessary, for the body. The excess is eliminated, and frequently overtaxes the liver, and kidneys, whereas if too little protein is provided the body will lose weight and the person will become anemic. Carbohydrates, which are starches and sugars, come chiefly from vege- tables, and if they are supplied to the body in larger amount than the body requires for its daily use they are stored in the form of fat. Fats, while they furnish heat, en- ergy and lubrication, should be eaten very sparingly during the hot weather. Mineralsalts are necessary for the teeth and bone structure. For this rea- son they are provided for in the pro- per amounts in a well-balanced` diet. The necessary for water can best be understood by the - statement that it comprises nearly three-fifths of the weight of the body, it is an active NEW LIFE- AV�NG NOVELTIES DEVICES INVENTED Felt TILE SUBMARINE ZONE. Description of. Some of the New Life- boats and Preservers for the U.S. Transports. That German U-boats try their best to sink transports carrying troops to Europe, even at utmost risk to them- selves, goes without saying. It is marvellous that our Canadian troops have, up to the present time, been transported in safety. The United States, fully alive to the great peril, is introducing ;some new life-saving devices for the useof their troops. As a first precautionary measure, the United States War Department is getting ready to provide for each traesport a sufficient number of life- boats to hold all hands in the event of a sinking. The vessel will be con- voyed by warships, which, it is thought, can at least prevent the Huns from shelling. the boats The lifeboats will be of a new pat- tern, of steel and collapsible. That is to say the steel hull (remarkably flat) is supplemented by. a canvas "freeboard," or bulwark, that folds like an accordion. The arrangement does not make the craft any better, but it keeps out the waves. 1 These boats will be of different sizes, so as to fit conveniently in such DON'T think your home DON'T always be spared the danger of destructive flames. Lightning and elle straying spark show no.favore to fine buildings and love -abiding homes. Uxiless.your roof is of inflammable material, at any mement lightning or fire may envelop all you possess and on - clangor die lives ofthose the hearthstone cannot spare. Fulfill the duty of guardianship the home -folks have placed in you by peeing to it at once your loved ones, your property, are fully protected from the ever. present menace of firo. Pedlar's "Oshawa Shingles mean safety and pro- teetionin the most practical, most dependable form. Made of sheet metal, each shingle interlocks onALL FOU1 SI DES, formingnsinglosheut ofateclthatiaprueticaliyindestrvctibic. Re- taro their beautyy and service without repaire. es Icor asyourligmelasts. Writefor: 'The Right Roof" Booklet; W.W. TEE PEDLAR PEOPLE Limited Officess and(PC17uVA� tcltbolrlibd O1 8s6h 1a)w a, O nt. nrauclies. OnSeel Ott W, Toronto Tondou. win dreg places on board as happen to be most suitable for their stowage. The small- est, twenty-twofeet long will hold twenty persons; the largest, twenty- eight feet long, will hold fifty-four comfortably. `e Along the gunwales hang outboard a series of rope. loops (with cork floats attached) which may, in an emergency be grabbed and held on to by Tien who cannot be taken aboard a crowded boat. A lifeboat of this pattern cannot be sunk. Before the U.S.' War Depart- ment will accept one of them, it is e. tested by throwing it overboard from a ship and if it does not right itself It is the duty of every subject of the Allies to help win'the WAR, and they can best do it by preventing WASTE and storing up for the COMING WINTER all food products, especially those perishable foods.' such as fruits and vegetables. This can be accomplished easily by using one of the NATIONAL CANNING: OUTFITS. With the aid of one of these all kinds of fruits, corn, peas, tomatoes and beans can be cooked, which will keep ;indefinitely when properly prepared. No. JUNIOR NATIONAL for famuse hasil Our N. 1 TU Y a capacity of from 200 t6 400 cans daily or glass jarsof proportionate amount. These outfits can be put right on a cook stove. Price $25.00, f.o.b. Hamilton. We have larger sizes for -hotel use, and still larger sizes for commercial use. We have also Evaporators of various sizes for evaporating every kind of fruit, apples, peaches, pears, berries, potatoes, etc. Write for full particulars, giving size required, to The Brown; Boggs Co., Limited:Hamilton, Ont. J instantly in the water,' it is ;rejected: forty-eight hours with a '150 -pound Its hull, being of metal, may be bent sounding lead attached to it. more or less out of shape, but is not Acetylene Life Buoys. easily punctured or broken. The The transports will also carry acety- twenty-eight foot size costs $300. lene life buoys—a novel and most in - Life -rafts As Well. genions contrivance consisting of a A serious difficulty about lifeboats large hollow ring of copper with a small pipe:hinged on each of the two is heeled over of any kind to that if a sinking vessel opposite sides, each pipe terminating' port or starboard (as in a cylinder filled with calcium car - is likely to happen), the boats' on her! bide. Combustibles.; uplifted side cannot be lowered from Suppose that a man falls overboard participant in the blood stream and also regulates the temperature of the body. Age, condition and occupation play, a very important part in the• amounteof p food that must be supplied for com- bustion. The young and growing child will need the largest ° amount of food. Persons at heavy outdoor ,oc- cupations will need a greater amount of food than those people whose duties entail less physical iliertion. The middle-aged and elderly person re- quir. s less food than the people of the ab ove-mentionedpie. The average adult will require daily from 2500 to 3000 calories or heat units of food. A calorie is a "term used in food chemistry to designate the amount of heat neeessary to raise one pound of water four degrees Fahrenheit. One-tenth of the total amount of food required by the human body for daily consumption .should be protein. Food required by the body is burn- ed; i. e., united with oxygen. That this may be accomplished, the food,. by, the process of digestion, is render- ed entirely soluble. It is then, in this soluble form, absorbed by the intes- tines.' ntes-tines. The blood also carriesoxygen, which. we breathe from the air; this is car- ried by the blood to all: parts of the. body. That the processes of the body may be satisfactorily accomplished, it +is necessary that the adult drink three pints or six glasses of water each day: It is by this combustion and assimila- tion of food in the body that we live. How To Can : Corn. Select young, tender ears of Corn, husk and remove the silk from the ear' by brushing with a wisp -broom. Plunge into boiling water and cook for six minutes. Now dip into cold'; water at once. With a sharp knife cut the corn"from the 'cob. Using the back. of the knife, press the milk from the cob.' Pack at once into sterilised jars, have a fork to assist with the filling, Fill only to the neck of the jar with the corn. Care must be used so that the corn is not packed tightly in the jar. • Now fill it to overflowing with boil- ing salt water. Place the rubber and Iid in position and partly tighten; process in hot-water bath for three and a half hours after the boiling starts. Remember that peas; beans, corn and asparagus are vegetables that must be worked up very carefully, ow- ing to the fact that the proteins of these foods will turn sour and start fermenting under certain conditions., This causes the flat, sour taste that occurs frequently`' and is called lactic acid ferment. 1 So, to have success With canning corn, the work must be done in a quick I and thorough way, The kitchen should be kept as cool as possible. The corn, i should be stored in a place where it will not become heated while waiting Ter the canning process. When starting to' blanch, place the, corn in a piece of clean muslin er cheeseclothand plunge into boiling', water. Cook for six minutes after the boiling start, and then remove and plunge into cold. water. Cut the corn, front the cob at once. Pack into jars as. soon as ` a sufficient amount of earn is cut. Finish each jar separate- ly, placing, it at once into the prepared. water bath- Pint att;- Piisit jars are best for' corn, peas and beans. Usually' four ears will fill a pint jar if they are is goad site, so. that when branching lit tlifs: amount of corn .is placed in the cloth at one time, there need be no delay in filling the jars. After processing,, remove, themat once from the bath and fasten_ the lid securely, Invert to test for leaks, Remove the fors to a coniroom, free from draughts, to let them cool. Label and date them, then store; them in a cool, dry place. When canning vegetables,' success depends on speed and thoroughness. Keep the temperature of the room in which the preparing of the vegetables is done below 85 degrees Fahrenheit, and then promptly remove the jars from the water bath when the time limit expires. Do not use any pre- servatives as ,they are dangerous. Foods containing them cannot be sola: Do not stretch the jar rubbers. This will ruin them. When ready to use the rubbers, pour over them plenty of boiling'water to sterilise them. This also permits the rubber to slip' over the -jar without stretching;.. 'i the davits. But, to overcome this trouble, our transports will have tracks laid athwart their decks (or in some instancesoverhead trolleys), so that they can be' run across if neces- sary and dropped overboard on fhe opposite side. ' The U.S. War Department, however, is not content with providing life- boats. There will also be plenty of rafts, likewise of a new pattern; two hollow -steel „ cylinders serving as floats, with a wooden grating extend- ing between them on top and bottom. Thus either side (top or bottom) is right side up, no matter how the raft may chance to land upon the water when thrown overboard. Such a raft, eleven feet long, will carry twelve persons; a larger size, eighteen feet long, will accommodate twenty-three. On board a transport they take up little room, several be POWER FROM IRISH RIVERS. A Plan to Harness the Sheraton and Erne and Strangford Lough. Ireland, driven to act by war prices for coal, is figuring on cheaper power by developing the rivers of the island. -One plan proposed is to utilize the flow of the Rivers Shannon and Erne, A second is to harness the tidal move- ments of Strangford Lough. The rivers would each, it is believed, at night. One ofethese buoys is quick- furnish 50,000 horse power for eight months of the,year and 20,000 to 40,- 000 horse power for four months, and it would be a simple engineering 'mat- ter to transmit the powerr from the ly thrown into the sea. The ring of course floats horizontal on the waves. But the weight of the cylinders causes the pipes to stand vertical. Mean- while water has found its way 'into Shannon to Dublin and. Limerick, or the cylinders, causing the carbide to from Erne to Belfast and Derry-. The tidal scheme for Strangford Lough is a different matter. The lough. is an east coadt arm. of the sea with flame burning brilliantly at the top as area of about twenty square miles of the two pipes. He swims toward and a narrow inlet, varying from one - the buoy and gains it, clinging to it fourth to -one -Half mile in width for while the transport lowers: a boat;and four miles. This channel is swept by the latter, guided by the acetylene tides of from eleven and one-half to , give off acetylene gas, which takes fire of its owei accord. The drowning' man sees two jets of lights,: comes to his rescue. THE FLAG, THAT ALWAYS WAVES Clever "Electrical. Device To Impart a Waving Motion to Flag. One of the xnost talked of features ing stacked on top of another and at the recent electric railway conven- lashed securely. In case of emergency tion at Atlantic City, . N. J:, was a the lashing can be cut at a moment'slwaving flag which fluttered from a notice, and, even though the ship were twenty -seven -foot flagstaff in front of to sink before they could be thrown the General Electric Company's booth overboard, they would float free .,on inside the spacious convention hall: the surface.of the sea. Not a breathof air was stirring,. yet Life -Preserver Mattresses. - ( the flag stooa out on the pole as if -a thirty -mile gale was blowing. The flag pole was of ordinary dimen- sion and there was nothing visible to betray the,, source of the breeze. The base of the pole was surrounded with banked palms. The- whole device is really quite simple in construction and easily ex- plained, for the flagpole is a metal tube and an electric blower at the base, shoots a strong current of air through the flagstaff.' The air escapes through perforations in the top of the flagpole and imparts a waving motion to the But this is by no means all. Every mattress on each transport will be available for instant ' use as a life preserver, being filled„ with a peculiar kind of'vegetable fibre called`"kapok,". which, derived from a palm of the Philippines, serves ' the purpose of corkand much better. In calm water a man can stand on one of these mat- tresses without submerging it, or it will sustain three or four men cling - fig to it. Every soldier's and sailor's pillow on each transport will be. stuffed with "kapok" and will be utilizableas a life preserver. How excellent . for the purpose such a pillow is may be judg- ed from the fact that (as proved by experiment) one of them will float for There is only one chance in 17,000,- 000,00Q for a -mistake in finger prints, according to a' French scientist. i • fourteen and one-half feet rise, run- ning about six hours each way. With a storage system for slack hours 32, 000 horse power could be developed. The scheme calls for an expenditure of $6,000,000. 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