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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-1-20, Page 6Safegtirilte name sr2o TM'S is the genuine 'tea of all teas' if y€Mi do not lase Salads, send us a post card For a Free sa.mplep stating the price you now pay and if youi use laiack, Green or Mixed Tea. Address Salada,Toronto ;tig n..radc By EUGENE JONES. CHAPTER IV. "Shut up supposing! Two lives against three hundred—I want a fire- man." The dispatcher mopped his face. "No use; none of 'em would go!" I turned about. There were a couple of firemen who wore off duty loung- ing along the rail. "Volunteers!, Will . ith.r of you fire for me?" But no voice answered. A sudden rage filled niy veins. "Look here!" I yelled, "You bunch of white -livered apologies for men, I want a fireman. Don't you under- stand"? Don't yon hear me? It's to save the Limits -3! It's to save the reputation of the division! Some- body's got to. We may pull through rn rigat, --" Only silence greeted rhe, sullen, shamefaced refusal. My eyer became blurred; the blood was pounding at my temples, my fists aching to strike out, to feel quivering flesh beneath them. Perhaps I was a little crazy. for a moment— Then a clear '+oice from the door cut through the tension, a woman's voice. We turned. Shirley Winston stood there, and she was speaking to me, ignoring the rest contemptuously: "Mr. O'Kelley, you get ready. Get the line cleared. I'll find you a fire - Mall in three minutes. Never fear! In; three minutes!" Before I could answer she was gone, Bashing off drown, the hall. Pop was already at the key, his assistants taking his orders on the jump. 1 elanced at my watch and waited. Wire talk, stuttering fierce, flew in every direction. Freights were ordered to sidings, passenger trains stgpp,. e . e keds and shunted, out of th`e'way. The nerve force of the en-: tire division trembled with sudden feverish energy—energy which must clear the line for a race against death. In precisely four minutes. I heard the shriek of my own loeomotive in { the yards, a warning whistle for me A hu ry. But • ti11 Pop delayed. "Just a moment," he begged. "Just a— There! Now go to it! Number ane hundred and thirty-five is elear at Biltmore. Go to it and—God bless you!„ How Shirley could be sure of find- ing a fireman ready to take such chances was beyond me. All 113;new was that the fate of three hundred people, the fate of Jim Duval, and the ppiness of a girl I -Loved as a daugh-` ter hung in. balance. Old ninety-nine, the biggest oil burner on the division, had been uliunied to the main line. In feet, as 1 flung myself at the cab steps the drivers turned. I Ieapt for the throt-' tie, shaving the fireman aside. "Give it to herr" I yelled. "All s'he'll takel" Then, as the yard lights slip - /Ad past, my eyes rested for a second en the figure in. jumpers bending over the oil valves. What the devil— "Shirley!" She turned a soot -begrimed: face to me. ' Yes," she said -calmly enough. "Why not? I tried to find a fireman. There wasn't anybody around.. To hunt them no would have taken time--" "But think, girl, the risk!" She clenched her hands. "Risk? 1 loos Jim Duval. Don't you understand? What's my life worth "without him? If we can't save him, we'll save his momory from disgrace —save those people on the Limited. You go on and drive your engine. For- get a girl's firing for you. Anybody can fire an oil burner. Just remember those poor souls on the Limited—if you care for me, for Jim!" Never before had an engineerman been placed in such a predicament. To stop and hunt up a fireman meant certain disaster on the mountain; by going on I might be carrying this wo- man to her death. It was her life and mine against the Limited, her love and bravery against the fate of Jim Duval, I turned my eyes back to the flowing darkness, and asked the L-ord to guard her, the wind whipping the words from my mouth . . , Shirley firing for me! Shirley sharing the perils of a lone locomotive chasing a runaway on the big grade! What a situation! When we passed Biltmore we were doing qty -five miles an hour. At Ardon I could only judge the speed bytherush of wind. Lighted houses leapt out of the void, swam by; freights in the clear echoed the crash of our passing; old ninety-nine sway- ed, trembling in every fibre, gathered herself in ever-increasingeffort and hurtled on, a blacker spot in a black night. While behind me, silhouetted against the glow of the furnace, stood the slim figure of the girl, watching the steam and oil gauges. 'Toward us spun the track out of the tunnel of brilliance cast by our headlight. The green of semaphore lamps were passing jewels; now and then I caught a picture of a white face pressed against a tower window. All the division knew! All the division were watching for us, praying for us! It was a race against time, a gamble like a speeding ghost out of -the dark - with the Fates controllingsthat run- ness, and I would reach for the whistle shut my lips away. If the Limed .should and jerked t'he be held , cord. We no longer could reckon time; up=l throttle !back the last notch'. we•ii the world became a dark place through were doing eighty miles an hour. The I which we. -thundered at a sickening engine rocked, screaming like a thing' speed, mindful only of whatlay ahead. on the curves, righting herself with' If a semaphore had .been set against dizzy plunges. us, we could not have stopped! The Even to me a veteran. that ride fate' of a division was riding that was the most hairbreadth •I had ever lught, and in the balance hung three undertaken. And the dangers were! hundred lives! real enough. Once a . tardy freight pulled into the clear with her caboose only three hundred feet in front of us. Splitting a switch meant instant death for both Shirley and myself, but delay meant an equally horrible end for the Limited on the mountain. As it was, the runaway had a tremendous start, yet I knew seven o -seven to be a slow engine. Therein lay our hope. Oval -burning, with a small tender ca.- pecity, neither her boiler nor her fire- box would long sustain any great 'Speed without a fireman to keep up steam. And there was another dan- ger, too -somewhere around a curve we might find her stalled, whereupon our chances of escaping alive would be about equal to the proverbial snow- ball. How much of this the girl compre- hended as she stood there over the oil jets, her slim young body braced, icer hair flying loose like living flame in the glare of the furnace door, $ had no means of telling. Yet surely she realized the odds against ust himself he would die. He continually Surely the same knowledge which en- raids the nests of weaker insects and abled her to hole the steam as steady brings them back as prisoners thus as a rock just under the two hundred mark must have whispered of fearful possibilities! Was Jim alive or dead? Was he helpless on the runaway, unable to reach the throttle, or was he lying somewhere behind us by the track? What had become of his fireman? A PARADISE FOR SKI- ' N• a •`eeeeV C'y e ere A Paradise for Ski -men. Preparations are already being made for the annual carnival to be held at Banff amidst the glories of the Cana- dian Pacific Rockies. Banff is ideally situated for winter sports and this season the dates have been fixed from January 29th to February 5tih India sive. The Secretary writes that the programme is to be considerably ex- tended. He says: "Our Ski Hill has now been com- pleted in accordance with the sugges- tions made by the world's champion, Anders Haugen, of Brooten, Minn., and we are confident that a new world's record will be established on our Hill this Carnival. We have decided to of- fer a substantial cash prize to the man who can beat the present world's re- cord and to supplement this cash prize with a further prize of e10.00 for every foot or portion of a foot by which the record is broken on our hill. We will also follow the same principle in con- nection with the amateur champion- ship only in. that case the inducement or reward will be in the shape of an especially attractive prize. We have at the present time four different jumps, so that we will be in a posi- tion to stage competitions in all class- es of this very spectacular and hair raising sport, "We expect that ladies hockey will be a very important factor in our sports this season. We have already,. bees advised that the ladies of Van- couver, under the leadership of Mr. Frank Patrick, of professional hockey fame, expect to compete. The Re- gents, the Champions of Western Such were the questions pounding in my brain, gouging to the roar ce the drivers. Trestles, cuts, fills, long stretches of glittering right of way whizzed past and were forgotten. Every moment or two the white - striped board of a crossing Leaped (Concluded in next issue.'). Ants That Keep Slaves. The ant is man's greatest rival. Ants have asocial life, a power of combined effort, and a marvellous variety of ac- tivities that enable them at times• to achieve something like an industrial cvilizatian; • Before man knew enough to take to agrculture some ants. of America were farming the soil. In. politics, also, ants - are advanced. They have tried every form of Government, including social- ism -and militarism! Their numbers 'are not so great an this country, nor are they particularly fleree, but in South Africa , ants are amazingly numerous and are a danger to man. The red ant is a typical soldier; he does nothing but fight. • He has 'very powerful jaws and is generally strong, yet he, cannot get on. without a slave to feed him! If he were left to feed Isrq MOP .Q i,"..•,ta�>.3C5':',k:t'vv� � � .,�� ^0lg, ._. @+.E..J °�,,;;•z. n.i":t%.^.:�i� �..� ,. Canada, of Calgary, the Patricias, also of Calgary, a team from Edme on, a team from Vulcan, .Alberta, and per- haps teams from. Winnipeg and Ottawa are all expected to be on hand and compete with Vancouver and Ottawa for the Championship of Canada. A very elaborate trophy, together with ten very attractive and costly prizes, will In. all probability be announced a little. later In conneotion with this event. "An ice palace will be constructed on a basis far more extensive than any- thing heretofore attempted and Vhs re- sident engineer of the Dominion Gov- ernment le now at work preparing the plans fox` same. We expect this pal- ace, when illuminated, will be a view that will long live in the memories of those who will be fortunate enough to visit us and see it. The palate will be stormed at different times during .the Carnival by representatives of all the Amaamemaleassmierseerenneatatas What is Ether? Of all the mysteries that have puz- zled science, none has seemed less easy of solution than that which con- cerns the etherof space. It has long been obvious to phytee ,elate that space must be filled with something of a material nature. 'It cannot be seen, or felt, or perceived by any of our senses; but it must exist arise how could energy be transmitted through it. We get light and heat from the sun. These are forms of energy, and so like- wise is eiectrioity. Energy must have a vehicle for its transmission. We. ;mew that waves( of light frond the sun leapinge upon the retina of the eye. They are called light wades, lint, 'of eonrsu , there is na light Without an erer There is a zebete.fiee that fills all 'eleeee. We ettenOt peh'eetee it ireceeee it:has tis moleouler structure. It don-- glue nrr atoms. But we, do know that it is elastic; it has waves of known - length and measured veracity. Thief substance, oiled the "heti- iifeateres ether," it 4brointolr •trans" ra the tact we inter .., f In jpttxent, as Y jlil,,,l�o that light conies thro9(h it to tib & n stare at tmtathomable di8talldee•, If' it Mere I$ %d' up of tnaisettlea, like ma- terial bodies, such transparency would be. inconceivable. It is called a "fluid," but it does not flow. Apparently it is stationary: 'The earth, travelling at a speed of eighteen miles a second in its journey aroiind the sun, does not disturb the ether in the slightest degree. If it did so;`' the light waves that come to us from the stars would be disturbed. r.. What, then, is this strange intefste1- lar substance that transmits the solar energy on which all terrestrial activity depends? Science believes that now, time, able . for the firm t , it is o t give an answer to the question. The ether is the substance out of 'which everything in creation is made. The rocks are made of it; the• plants are` made of it; you yourself are made of it. Materiat bodies of x11 kinds are coni - posed of molecules. These molecules. are inade up of atoms in various ar- raaigeinents. lJach atom contains a less or greater number of "e0;ecteone," which are ,revolving at enormous Speed. Molecules differ; atoms differ; but the elections are all exactly the same siibetance. They are tiny packages et ether. solving the servant problem and keep- ing himself well supplied with attend- ants. ' There is a species of ant in Aus- tralia called the bulldog ant, because of its extremepugnacity. It will light anything and everything. If one of. these ants le accidentally cut in half, one half will actually fight the other half to the death. That ants should be able to kill" a snake may seem incredible at first. When an enemy is sighted the alarm is given at once and the whole com- munity of ants arises in a body. They set upon the reptile, striking their snipers into it at thousands of points. The attack is. made with such splendid ooncentration and in such enormous numbers that the snake has no chance of escaping. When the snake is dead. the ants will tear off the flesh in small pieces, taking all away with them ex- cept the bones and the skin. In the forests `of Africa a dreaded' insect is the bull -ant. Every kind of beast or reptile will flee berfore .this peet, These lints march though the forests in >l column about tab !aches Wide and miles long. Any creature overtaken is at once attacked, Na - avert overtaken by them will seek re- fuge in the nearest river, Twelve officers • hold the rank of Heal -Marshal en the British Army, the only non -British holders being Max- shal Foch and the Emperor lape i. Poland, the recreated State, consists Of 120,000 square'milds, with' a poiaitle, titian of 21,000,000. MInard'8 Lininient Relieves Colds, etc" different sports indulged in, and it is expected that the fireworks display on these occasions will be most in- teresting. "Special attention will again be given to art and fancy skating, and competition in these items on our pro- gramme promise to be very interest- ing. The Connaught Skating Club of Vancouver, with a membership of 'al- most three hundred, has written say- ing that the Club will be well repre- sented, and if we could be assured of some entries from Eastern Canada and 'the States, together with the as- sured entries we will have from Win- nipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Saska- toon, this feature of our programme would be one of the biggest events ever attempted in Canada. Applica- tion will be made to the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada to have all these contests representative of the Canadian Championships." Before ;Mary Begins School. Give a ehild the idea of size with a nest of boxes, with a set of books graded by sizes, with blocks, with spools, with tin pans. Any set of ob- jects in series will be the materials for a group •of play lessons for which the words . "large" and "larger," "small" and "wiener" are the keys. Along with size come length and height. Following sizes conies shape, taught most easily by sorting out all the blocks of a kind or all the beads of a kind from -the usual boxes of blocks and wooden beads which are to be found among the playthings of most children. They all love to pick out shapes by touch, finding in a group of objects hidden under an apron in the mother's lapthe twin of an object they hold in their hands, then, when they have the .idea, ; doing the same from piles of -their own making. They are interested in likenesses and differ- ences. This interest is, indeed, at the bottom of most play suggestions for little children. Through it we start the child on the training of his sensi- bilities. In discovering differences and noting them ,and, in performing op- erations which. make ' note of them through touch or sight, the child is developing these powers which are at the momentawaiting development. Other plays with duplicate spools or blocks introduce the idea of matching things, selecting one and finding its twin. Them we •eome to sorting and here are opportunities for a variety of plays, Mieefrom the kitchen supply closet brown, white, and speckled beans;. provide three receptacles into which to sort them. 7Vlake a p'I'ay set from your button boat. Children's delicate finger—tiers, are quickly sus- ceptible to differences in texture. Go to your piece bag ' and cut •squares (patchwork size) of cotton, flannel, velvet, corduroy, burlap, chamois skin, leather and silk, to be sorted into pieces of each kind, first by touch and sight, then by touch 'alone. Color plays come in a natural sequence, em- ploying at fillet only the primary col- ors, red,' oran e, yellow, green,blue andviolet, ' The whole secret of home education for little children is tor, the mother to meet awakening instincts 'an rpowers with play suppl;s arut play sugge-- flows. To meet his needs she has only to get his viewpoint and. travel with him the road crf investigation and ale. predation of the 'intereeetuing world about him. for a ball, while the colored ones rep- resent the men. The object of the game, as in base- ball, is to get as many run as possible and to prevent the opponents from getting any. There may be several players on a side, but four is a good number. A player on the side that is at bat first takes the white counter, places it beside the home plate and snaips it across the table as far .on fair ground as possible. Then he takes a. colored counter, representing the runner, places it beside the home plate and snaps it to first base. The side in the field watches the white counter; -the player nearest to the place where it lands 'snaps it to first base se quickly as he can. It is a race to see whether he or the base runner will land" his countere in the first -'base cup soonest. If the white eounter is pocketed first the runner is out. If the runner lands his first, he is safe. He may then go .on snapping for the second cup, or he may wait. The game ,proceeds rafter the fashion el real baseball. When the second bat- ter is up he may bunt the ball by snapping the white counter only an ,eighth of an inch in front of the plate. While the other side •scrambles for it he snaps his colored counter on to- ward first, and the.ruiner at first base' hurries on to second. The white. coun- ter may eatch the runner who is.going to second and jump into the cup at the same"time. If it is a tie, the de- cision goes to the runner. Now the white counter is rushed back to first, which the other runner is still strug- gling to reach, The runner is put' out. Another player goes up to the bat. This time there is a -scramble to put the runner out at third; it fails, but he is caught a moment later at home plate. The next batter, we will say, is put out at first, then the other side has its inning. Tiddledywinks Baseball. Tiddledywinks ,baseball is amusing for a stormy afternoon or for an evening party. Tho dining -room table, covered with a silence cloth or a thlck shawl, is the diamond.• Small glass pups represent home 'plate; fiz'st,, sec- end and. third bases, Ow ' of tlie`sinall white tiddledywThkb counters 'nerves .The Empty Spool. Thread was at first sold in hanks, as knitting wool is now, and -ladies had to loosen the .skeins and wind • it into little :'balls. But a progressive thread manufacturer, James Clank, got a wood turner named Robert Paul to make ,. few wooden',spools in the early eighteen hundreds, and then James' Clark himself, to accommodate a fair cuebomer, • would sit' down at a weaver's pirnin his own shop, while she waited, and wind . the skein of thread ori it for her. He charged her half a cent for this eourfesy" When the spool was empty she brought it back to him wad he wound .it full with thread ,again. The fourth •generatiohn of Clarks are now making the cotton thread you use to -day. 'Clive the courtly old head - tees fellow, Seines Clark, a'Passing thought . when you *now away,. the s,; iiia) The -Latest . in:Knl tit She. COIIioelii. Wool. Yiook, entitled "ball aril winter Sports,. No. 1." is ohuol5 full of the niftiest androost up-to-date color illustrations and knitting directions for Winter wear. Cnpea, vests, roads, sweaters; stoolc- loge, toques, et5,'• • Send 16o in stamps for copy Belding -Cortical, Limited. Wellington Bldg., - Toronto, Ont: next empty spool. Ladies 'could not do that in 1812, There were plenty of other things they couldn't do and. wouldn't do in those •good old days. Thrift came na- turally and of necessity in a world where inventions were not looking to waste and comfort. Wooden spools were never thrown away; a thimble basted a lifetime, and ono needle was often all a household afforded. It was kept as carefully as 'such a treasure deserved to be. kept: One bonnet, one shawl, one dress did almost a lifetime, too, for material's were hard to obtain and dressmakers few in number. When women wove. their own clothes. -and the clothes of their families they did not encourage frequent Mange hi fashions. Nature Study ht Winter. ... Start the little folks in nature •study, Bey a bulb or two and start them in a glass bowl of warm water, with a sprinkle of sand and a few pebbles in the bottom. Have the children watch for signs of the first shoot, •and re- ward the sheep eyes which see it first. Let each one have a pot, of earth, an empty can with a few holes punched in the bottom will do, and give them , a few seeds to plant in their own can. Give each • child a different seed. Have them keep records of the planting, 'growth and development of their plant. A double lesson may be. taught, than of nature,tand the spiritual lesson of the resurrection. Get out 'doors every day, if only far five minutes on the porch. You need the fresh air. Bundle the kiddies up and send them. out, no matter what the weather: The crying lack of the average Canadian adult and ehild is fresh air.. The Fairest Thing. The fairest thing God ever made For human eye to view Is God'sdear sky by cloudlets strayed, White isles and sea of blue! Forever move without a sound Those floating hills of snow; But whence they come or whither bound Only the wind can know. The fancies of a myriad men Have mused upon the sight! And wondered as they gazed again And felt their hearts grow light; Something unnamed that pureness vast Doth filter through the soul To strengthen and to guide at last The spirit.to its goal. Thank God for what no man can know, What utters no replies. By meeting mystery we grow To be mare truly wise. Not darkness only bars our ways And 'wilders most our thought; The truth may come in such a blaze It dazzles, is. not caught. So daily, hourly, let me learn The worthiest• lore to win, The line where knowledge back must turn And faith her path. begin; Let us peruse the book of space Where time's a thing of naught, The fair blue sky that veils the Face By whom all things were wrought. • Minard's Liniment for Burns, etc. Highest Railway Stations in Canada. The highest railway stations, with their 'elevations,' in feet above sea- level, ealevel, in the respective provinces of Canada are as -follows: Nova Scotia, Folleigh, 612 feet; New Brunswick, Adams, 1,204 feet; Prince Edward Island, North Wilt- shire, 311 feet; Quebec, Boundary, 1,860 feet; Ontario, Dundalk, 1,705 feet; Manitoba, Erickson, 2,063 feet; Saskatchewan, Senate, 3,171 feet; Al- berta, Mountain Park, 5,820 feet; Bri- tish Columbia, Stephen; 5,332 feet; Yukon, Meadows, 2,924 feet, COARSE SALT-- LAND Ai. T --LAND SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SALT WORKS C. J. CUFF - TORONTO It takes a joint of beef to make a bottle of Bovril. OVRIL NEVER PROFITEERED Haig lint changed aince 1914 Same Price, Saone 'luaBty, SaxneiQuantity; CONTROL 0F' FORTS BY TRAINED MEN RECENT ACTION OF ON. TARIO GOVERNIVIENT. Places Administration of the Forests on Crown Lands Un- der Practical Foresters. The opportunity for the beginning of a new era in the forestry situation in Ontario was created by the recent announcement of the Proviucial Gov- ernment that henceteirtii the timber administration of Crown lands will be under the Provinaial Forestry Branch, instead of comprising a' separate or- ganization, in which no foresters were employed. This is the most important development which hasyet taken place in the forestry situation iu,On- tario. By this action, assuming that its logical consequences will follow, Oa- tario aligns herself with_the provinces of Quebec, British Columbia and. New Brunswick, - which had already recog- nized the necessity for taking thought for the future by making foresters re- sponsible for the teeir'nical adm.inistrae tion of Crown timber lands. A pertia' example had been set by the Dominion Government at a still earlier date, when the Dominion Forestry Branch was placed in charge of the timber administration on Dominion forest re- serves in the west, exclusive of the, licensed lands or timber limits. Nova Scotia has practically no Crown timber lands, her forests hav- ing ' passed . into private ownership many years ago. The need for a pro- vincial forest service there is based upon the opportunity for the develop- ment of better forestry practice on these privately -owned timber lands,. and upon the urgent need for a great- ly reatly intensified system of forest protec- tion, roteation, to Dover all the forested area et the province. Printe Edward Island is not a forest province, practically the whole of her land area being under cultivar- tian. Beginning of New Era. Ontario is then the last of the forest provinces to recognize the necessary and logical connection between forest- ry orestry and foresters. The recent action^ should, and no doubt will, mark the beginning of an era in which the full- est practicable consideration will be given to so regulating the methods of cutting on Crown lands as to leave them in a condition to produce an- other crop of valuable timber specie It has beep demonstrateel that log:ing operations in which cutting is. not re- gulatedwith an eye to future pro- ductivity are generally -destructive to the quality and quantity of the future growth. Each area requires to be care- fully studied in advance of cutting, that the method of treatment to be prescribed may be adaptive to local conditions and at the ,same time be pracicable from the operator's view- point, to say nothing of being reason- able from the viewpoint of additional cost involved. . Ontario Is to be congratulated upon the progressive action taken in thus far recognizing the need for techni- cal administration of Crown timber lands. The Provincial Forestry Branch has, a great responsibility and a great opportunity for public service in the prospective addition to its pre- vious work of forest protection, of the inauguration of forestry practice up- on the great areas of Crown lands which have now come under its juris- diction.. Progress will necessarily be slow; economic conditions must be fully recognized; and it will take time to develop the kind of organization re- quired far so large a task. Public sentiment is now undoubtedly fully ripe for the development of this situa- tion itustion along the moat modern lines. It must, however, make itself actively- felt, ctivelyfelt, in support of a really progressive forest policy. • Has the Earth a Tail? Opposite to the sun there is a very mysterious glowing patch, which is thought to be attached td the earth as a comet -like tail. The highest regiontr of ode phere consist: of very light gases, an the impression is that some of thea were driven' away by the sun or byl other means,•and that they stream off' freed the earth into space just as the light gases do froni the head of a large - comet. Naturally, such a theory has .aroused; much controversy, and has• led to all. sorts of ingenious suggestions. One, of these is that a swarm of lueteoru. (of the kind we know as shooting - eters) keeps us company through. space at a distance of aboht a million miles; or•four times the distance Of the. noon. But a tailed earth is an ideal. vehicle for lmaginatve flight. F ,.It might be argued that if our globe. has a tail wh' should not planets. laneta. Mercury and Venus, and/ even Mars, , have one. Well, perhaps they have, for all we, know to the .contrary: Our' earth's tail would be eeueh more easily • seen by usbecause of its nearness and.. brightness. Airplanes to Survey Africa. It le proposed to adapt the were - plane to further discoveries in 'Dark -- est Africa. .,O Ronne SOte:Srt'cet Refut. 0 'rhe refuse from rico streets of Roma, and other Italian citic o !s sold by curl',.• time eta I.