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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-1-27, Page 6• in tite Cup• n equal - for quality and flavour. you have not tried Salada, send us a post card for a , free sample, stating the price yoti now pay and if you usually grows oldhe thinksit use Black, Green or Muted Teas Address Salada, Toronto Is dignified, He its back and lets the years do what they like with him." Ates Iris not so with this sturdy septuage- hiarian, who rieeS at 4.30 and dances Highland flings. He shares the spirit of Tennyson's "UlySees," who could not bear t� sit Idle amid his"isluad crags, or of Barrie's "Peter Pan," who refused to'grow up, or a him who, ac- cording to another poet, kept the im- mortal child _tarrying all his lifetime In his heart, We do not have to look long for monumental examples of great men who, like Oliver Wendell Holmes In his peens,' "The Boys," and in his per- sonal example, defied the calendar. To one such perennially young gentleman, namely, Dr. W. W. Keen, the com- munity that affectionately reveres him is even now preparing to do honor. The will to keep youthful in the spirit seems to be the biggest part of in- senescence. The thought of growing 014 is chief- ly oppressive to those who never grow anything else. Most of those who pro- duce, create', achie-ve; are too buay to study crow's feet in the, mirror or cal- culate percentages of lime in the bones or acid in the bleed. They,are n'ot forever in a lonely observatory on the outlook for new symptoms. They, are -up and doing, with a whetted,ap- petite for fresh a.dveutuae. There is "Labrador" Cabot, of Boston, who is forever starting out an a one-man ex- pedition among the Indians a the bar- rens not very far frota the desolate spat where the balloon 'ciame dawn' with Lieutenant Hinton and his com- rades. It is useless to tell him that he Is too old. You' might as well try to persuade "Oom John" Burroughs to quit exploring swamps and forests a.n.d playing with squirrels. Nature, they tell us, has no favorites,but she has a way of granting to the naturalists a special grace in growing "old." The life of Fabre, which began In 1823_ and did not end until 1915, might be cited, or that of Chevreul, 1786-1889. Many artists, moreover, are like, qt. Gaud: ens, and "do not count the mortal years it takes to mold memorial forms." "If I live to be 100," said the raodeet Hokusai, "perhaps I shell be able to draw a line." Sueli a nian knows what it means to live for many years and to remain forever young because forever acquisitive, inquisi- tive, aspiring. b -be married: he managed, looking a little scared end blissfully happy. "Married?" roared. Bowlson,, "Mar- ried without my joermissicu?" "No," said Duval inaliciausly, "with itr When Jim and I departed we left the little fat man sitting in his swivel chair and eeowling wrathfully. But deep clown under his sow face, which tolerated nothing even approaching a smile, we knew he would not have had it otherwise. (TheEnd.) "Old Age is a Pose." , 7 Sir jellies Cantle flatly challenges a current misconception in his state- ment: 'Old age is just a pose.. gtaal 11 ByEUGENE JONES. 6 CHAPTER V. my wits together, but I remember has - Minutes full of thundering sound ily the river of curious passengers went by, lengthening like hours of which streamed from the Limited, chaos. Shirley's glance never left the and flowed about the two engines, craning necks, asking ridiculous ques- tions and getting no answers at all beyond a curt order from the conduc- tor to "Clear out and give us a chance!" Some of the crew climbed aboard the runaway and brought down the body of Jim Duval—the same bcdty I had stumbled over on the tender. His gauges. Hendersonville, a white blur, flickeeed about us for an instant, was gone, lost in our exhaust smoke. At Hillsborough the girl spoke. "Will we make it?" she asked. I nodded, praying for the truth of that nod. Now ahead lay Spartan; I recog- nized the outlines of the water tank. face was haggard in the lantern, Beyond that was the beginning of the light, and a bloody spot on the back of grade which dropped off easily at one- his head told ,its own story, but he and -one-half per cent., gradually in- weke up ahnost as so en as he touch- creaeing further down to four. If .we ed the ground.' were to be of any lase we must catch "I'm all right," he muttered. "Let up with the runaway in the next ten minutes. No engineerman on earth me alone....Where's Pritchard?" could curb an eighty -mile speed on the Then my senses returned sufficient - big grade itself. ly for me to hurry back to old -ninety - More pulsing, roaring moments; nine and the girl who had handled the more shrieking curves; Shirley's tense throttle during those last reeling sec - face, the tunnel of white light—I shall' onds of the race. They were lifting' never forget it! Three minutes left— her from the cab as I got there. three short minutes! My eyes search- "Fainted," announced a flagman ed the unreeling track, seeking the shortly, "Should think she would! bulk of a locomotive. But there was Some nerve, I'll say!" nothing. Ninety-nine was doing her . _ "Nothing senious—" he began when beet, every plate a-quivert her dravess Jim Duval catapulted into the centre hardly touching the rails.. Twe 'mint of the group. Por an insthnehe didn't, eee who It was; then: , "Shirley, dearest!" His voice held an agony of fear. He knelt beside her, smoothing back her hair, taking her chilled little hands his. in ed. For an instant our eyes met, per - "Speak to me, dear. Please, please," haps for the last time. It was a deli- he whispered. cate trick—bringing two locomotives together at a seventy -mile. speed. The least error in judgement meant utter and instantaneous destruction, yet the girl -could never make the jump was, thenight.p last I saw of either of them • from one engine to the other. Right that then I thanked God 1 bad taught her e how „testliasedleeeetraint She took the throttle as I brushed past her with a word of encourage- ment and, -clinging to the hand rail, 1 made my way out along the boiler. Through the night came the shriek of a whistle --probably the Limited. utes!_. .One!.... It was -useless. I grabbed for the air— Then suddenly, out of the night, leaped another shape, growing rapid- ly. Shirley saw it too. "Give me the throttle!" she acre.ain- She opened her eyes, closed them again, but a smile remained. With the help of the Conductor Jim carried her to one of the Pullmans. And that , Onlythe neat morning, when I was Summoned to"Bowlson's office, did I learn precisely wlaat occurred,. As I entered, Jim Duval stepped forward. "O'Kelley," he began, "there's some things you +can't put into words. You understand how I feel, don't you? Every moment of my life—" ' Half unconscious from the rush of him'There, there!" I interrupted, giving wind, I hesitated more than once, tpowerful clap on the back. "Miss Shirley deserves the credit; take pressing myself. close to the hot plates and away from the void of flowing it out on her. Be good to her. young darkness reaching fax ine—aaeauessi,man, or you'll have to reckon with promiehig death should I make a mis- ime! step. The exhatisfrom the stack -- "Fate, coincidence, accident—what- ; deafened me, the roar of the drivers ever you've a mind to call it—is a made my head whirl; yet somehow funny thing, Jim. All Shirley's life must erawl down beneath the smoke- she's been hankering after railroad - box out on the forward truck, where ing; that's why the engineermen on God wilLing, I might cling to the coup-, this division taught her to 'handle a train. Who ever heard of a girl like ling block until the moment to leap arrived. her before! Who ever heard of a girl Behind me was Shirley, and in he, knowing enough about an Oil burner hands Tested the fate of seven -o -seven to fire it as good as a man on a night and the Limited. The lights of the run at an eighty -mile speed! Then runaway tender were nearer new. / the way she brought old ninety-nine p drew a long, choking breath full of uto that runaway!—four feet I jumped, no more. A trick for the einders and edged forward. There was second, when my chances of movies! A matter of cold nerve and ever reaching that coupling seein,d I WaS g0;i'llg to say "love" nil---as1 sening out from the boiler, 1 but thought better of it.) If it hadn't one, arm around the manea eau, the been for Shirley Winston you'd be other groping fax the supporting rod of the smokebox. Realities slipped away, phantom shadows reached fax mewere gone, eevealing nothing, When she couldn't find a fireman fax , leaving shrieking echoes—my hands me, she took his place without letting semi the coupling, and / orouched me know. Thank her; don't thank me. dead right now, with the Limited ditched on the big grade. Shirley learned your engine had run aWay. Slowly, ever so slowly, the gap be- tween the two engines closed to eight feet,--six—foue. Now was the time! In that gen spun dizzy rails. .The rear end of seven -o -seven's tender rocked frightfully. Somewhere ahead the Limited again whistled an unin- tentional warning....1 jumped. Fax a brief instant my hands found only air. I was failing! I clawed fax a hold, nalsaed, caught the rung of the iron ladder on the runaway's tender and dragged myself to safety. On top of the oal, rolling loosely with the motion of the engine, lay a body. But I crawled across it, slid down be- tween the chains and into the cab. In the distance glimmered to red stars— the tail lights of the Limited. Ninety- nine had already dropped several hun- • dred feet behind. As quickly as I • could reach the throttle I shut ofl' eteam and applie& the brakes. The mass of metal untlea. MO shuddered, farembled, yet pt seemed doubtful 'whether or not trach tremendous mo- pes -it -um iniglit be overcome In time. Nearer and nearer Itsbecl the last ma of the Llmitede-eaz if it were actually moving haekwaad. X sh-at niy eye,s... Number seeeere-o-seeen came to 4 full stop fifty feet from the flagman 'who had beam sent out frost thel train aleasdi He caught me as I stumbled down the ladder. "God in beaveni" be muttered. "Yes," I managed With a zieltly grin. "I reckon He Is, else that run- way would have gotten you." After a moment 1 heard kiln asking: "Who's drIvIng bbe OthiST 'Mother )4ffy voice soneided like a croak: "Shirley Winston." Re merely stared. Them, at, length! *Irraulc O'Kelley, youslre clean, Omit inadt" ft took me 6, little 'mins to gather Jim Bless her; don't bless me....I was jest. a doddering old fool ready to take a risk because nay time was up any- way. By the by, how is she this morn- ing?" "All right. She's suffering from nerve strain, nothing more." Here Bovalson, in his SWilVej chair and chewing on his cigar, butted in: "Well," he snapped, "how about telling, O'Kelley what happened to seven -la -seven? There's just a possi- bility he might be interested., you know." Jim turned to ene with a gerlin. "My fault," he said. "I didn't real- ize you had not heard. There isn't really much to tell. You and Mr: Bowlson were right in being afraid of Pritchard. He tried to kill me and wrecik the Limited.....When I started down to pick up seventeen I didn't pay much attention to who was firing for Me. Supposed, of cohrse, he was my regular partner. Directly we pass- ed Biltmore he jumped on me with a wreneh, Before he laid me out I saw it was Pritchard. That's all I rem- ember—his face above inc and— sparks I" Bowleon leaned forward. "Perhaps I can supplY the rest. Your regular fireman was found in the yards, knocked out. Feitchard did that first. But when he toppled you over and turned your engine into a -runaway he made one mistake: he Jumped at the .wrong instant—hit a milepost, as near az I can learn. Crew of a freight running extra picked up his dead body thie morning. 8erved him night!" The auperintendent hesitated glar- ed about fiercely, and rolled his cigar to a more agate angle. "I‘row,- one more thing: What's this I hear:,4bout you andMiss Shirley? eide-atermiegl" -ntql red. "We're iso:nz-; to , In Siam many women are employed in army workshops, in factories and on the railways and reads, where they are paid the ,same rates as men fax equal work. IVIInard's Liniment Relieves Colds, etc. lqy Flower Money. Deis high timel to make playte for the fast -approaching springtime. Let Me teLl you how I earned money wath InY flower ,garden. Through selling flowers I earned enovigh money to buY my own clothes, table linen, curtains for the parlor and a sewing machine, I had the dining room, hall and stair-, way lined and papered. My bank ac- eourxt slatieved a 'balance, of $300. It was twelve miles by water from our farm to the city. A tug left the village, haat' a mile away, every morn- ing and returned every evening. Many kinds of flowers bloomed in our old-fashioned garden but few of these were suitable fer sale. For one dollar, I purchased nine small but healthy- -violet plants which I earefully planted in a protected spot. These threw out imny Suckers. I kept the surrounding ground well cultivated, the suckers Gn tOok root and within two years I had large beds of fine, pale blue violet. A few violetsnwith a spray of fern sold readily for ten cents. , Another plot of ground was plowed and planted to ehrysenthernums. In Anguat and September I removed many of the small buds so that those which bloomed were of fairly good size. - I plantedmy roses in rows. After the spring bloom I trimmed them back, had them plowed and kept free from weeds. As a result I always had a ,fine fall bloom. From bulbs I raise double daffodils, large chisters of single joncaiils and graceful, pale yellow narcissus. Friends gave me bulbs and I bought same. The beds for ,the bulbs were under -drained and prepared according to the instructions given in my floral magazine. • I sold dozens of bunches of white, pheasant -eyed pinks: By starting with only one package of seed within a year I had 'three large beds of these frag- rant flowers. My firststep in selling my flowers was to secure a ticket at the Women's Ex -change in the city where flowers were in great demand.* One of the headlands -on the mail tug agreed to take the filled baskets to the Exchange and bring back the empty ones .for a specified SUM fOr each basket. I lined large stick baskets with oilcloth to keep in the moisture, fastened up- rights to each corner and ever these fitted a cover of 'strong homespun which tied underneath the basket. These covers _pgetected the flowers from the sun and thedusf. I 'wrapped the stems of each bunclein yet moss, packed the bunches in close together, sprinkled them with water arid tied the cover over. In thie way the,flow- ers reached the Exchange as fresh as if jhst picked. Afteis awhile myeflow- ers became so well known that people wee1d delay purchase till they arrived. I had my housework to do, dairying a-=tisee and the ,care of the ponitry, so only a part of my time was devoted to the flower work. It is having a system as well as willingness to work hard,thatenables one to "put over" an extra piece of work such as this. First, I had this plan of turning my floWer and plant friends into honer, in xny mind. There, I worked out the, plan and by orderly Methods and keeping everlastingly at it, feund it was not a great hardship and most cwtainly included mach pleasure as well as cash gain, Care of the Hands. A little care and a few toilet re- quisites etrill keep the hands in a pre- sentable condition, no matter what your household tasks may be. Leaen first to protect the hands, With the aid of a dish-rnop and a -wire dish- eloth, the bands need to be kept in the dish water but a small part of the tiine, while the dishes asm be washed quite as well and much nsore quickly than when a &eh -cloth only is used. White canvas gloves will afford the protection needed when working in the poultry Iseuse or about the fires. Old, loose gloves can be warn when sweep- ing and dusting, and a paper bag drawn ovet the hand before blacking the stove is taso protection. ,• Careful drying of the hands is of great importance, especially in cold weather. Exposure to the air when -the hands are but partially dry -causes the* sloin to chap and roughen, and no am- ount a care will counteract careless- ness on this noint. - While soap and water are goad -cleansing agents, the stains which fol- low the paring of potatoes, and eer- to:in fruits, require an acid fax re- moval; a piece of lemon, a slice of tomato, or a mixture of cernrneal and vinegar, will remove these stains. When grime has settled in the skin, rub the hands thoroughly with vase - line; rub as if using soap until the yaseline i worked into all the inter- stices of the skin, ethen 'wipe off with a soft cloth, which can be burned, and wash the hands with seam water and soap. To prevent discoloration under the fingernailsa or in Order to ;remove die - colorations, dra-w the nails over a piece of soap, so that the soap fills the space between the flesh and the nails. A soap containing sand is best fax this purpose. An excellent lotion to be applied to the hands combines equal parts of gly- cerine, spirits of camphor and boiled soft water. The healing effects of this lotion will be appreciated when applied to the 'cracks which sometimes occur on the ends of the fingers. Another good lotion calls fax twO parts each of boiled, soft water and vinegar, and one part of glycerine. When a glycerine prepaiation is found -to be too drying for the skin, use one of the greaseless or disappear - teee WH . derrup or ranon - P.A. winner of' 1920 Facsimile of Nipiitfora 'Froplipi competed tor 1413 nost-resiilents Nipiagoss waters,vritla rod ood Neil Ivis Dougal I °Cportrn-zans-' • P..eprerenta.tilve Orient -116:g and 3 qiecimertr o Broo-k. Trout - the` lower or which ir Mr: Jerrup'r which captured the "Fr-oph.q-----, •OOARSE SALT LAND SALT •• • pou...-casoia.:.:•,• TORONTO SALT WORK..• . .•: ToRONTo'. ing- creams. A creain. of this sort can be rubbed into the skin, leaving no trace on the surface, so that it can be used during the day, as well as at night before retiring. The cream is also absorbed into the roots of the nails, 'Counteracting the brittleness which causes the nails to break, and, ' Although Berlin lia,e changed rince Germ making them soft and pliable. The! 1914, the Ger,mind retnaiiis uie nails can be kept in 'shape by means changed. Neither the holocaust of of a flexible nail file rough or uneven sdieloaidnoate' rtniranyouterasf ho liof ,.tltr snoeisf_cloia: edges being easily _filed down. • Fre- ten quent cutting of the rents is said to thicken them; when cutting is neces- sary, a pair of eureed manicure scis- sors enables one to cut the nails with greater ease than when ordinary scis- sors are used. Pointed nails are not admired; the nails should be carefully rounded so they will conform with the ends of the fingers. " After filing the nails soak the finger- tips in warm, soapy water to soften the cuticle, then push this gently back with the flat end of an orange -wood stick, which can be bought fax the pur- pose. The half-moon which appears at the base of the nails is considered a mark of beauty and, if this is to show, the cuticle must be lifted by gently running the stick (which bus been previously dipped in oil) under the cuticle. The pointed end of the stick is used fax cleaning under the nails. Sharply pointed instruments scratch the nails and should not be used for this purpose. A bit of ab- sorbent cotton wrapped around the end of the stick and moistened.with perox- ide will remoVe stains from under the nails and around the edges of the flails. The nails should then be polished, placing a little polishing pewder on a buffer which is to be rubbed gently back and forth over -each nail. Avoid too much friction, as it heats the nails and produces the very high polish which is not.admired. Wash the hands orderro to remove the polishing pow- der, dry them thoroughly and rub the nails Of each hand with the palm of the other. It svill not be rieceisary to manicure the nails so thoroughly oftener than once in two weeks, but constant care in washing and drying the hands, the use of the file and orange -wood stick and the cream or lotion, are needed to keep them in good condition. WAR FAILS TO CUR GERMANY'S CO.CEIT DECLARES NEWSPAPr.R CORRESPONDENT. Briton, Long Resident in Ber- lirr,,Says Teuton Mind Still Unchanged. • A Fuel Economy. — When the housewife needs el -11y a siriall fire and but little heat, she should keep a deep, short fire in the firepot by filling most of the pot as full of ashe,s as she would of coal, but filling one-fourth, one-third or one- half the length of the firepot with good' coal. Every time she cleans out the fire portion and puts on more coal, she will need to put on more ashes in order to keep the ashes level with the coal. In this way she can have a good, liot, deep, lire fire all the time, on which she can heat a little water or do light cooking. She can also bank Such a fire and keep it low just as easily as if there were a full pot of coal. When a larger fire ie needed, she can push through the grate Such a portion of ashes as will make the desired space, fill this space with good coal and the adjoining fire will soon spread through the new coal. This method saves more tons of 'coal in a year than all other methods com- bined. - "The Land of Pretty Soon." I know a land where the streets are ' paved With the things we meant, to achieve. It is walled with the money we meant • to have saved, And the pleasures for which we grieve. ' The kind, words mie-ooken, the pre- • mises broken, And many a coveted boon, Are stowed away there in that land • sonrewhere— The land of "Pretty Soon." There are uncut jewels, of possible - fame, Lyingtabout in the dust, And Many •a noble And lofty aim Covered 'With mplicl and rust, And, -oh! this place, While it seems so - near, Is 'farther away than the moon; Though our purpose is fair, yet we never' get there -a, The land of "Pretty Soon." The read that leads to that nayetic land Is strewed with pitiful wrecks, And the 'ships that tage sailed fax Ito shining strand „Bear skeletons eas their decks. a Is it. farther- at nom than it is at .• dawn, Oh let us bearer° of that land down Farther at night than at noon; • th ere — The land of "Pretty Soon." , Licorice Oldest Gandy. Licorice in the oldest confection in the world, unless. scientistwho have been studying ancient, eivilizaton are ami -se. The beackea,ndy le Made from a shrub that flourishes, on the banke of the Tigris and tiltiphrate,s rivers, Where exited o'ne ef the oldest civill- aations known to man., The plant there* attains, at times a height of three feet, growing •in spots where its •.- goota can reach down Into the water • , of the historic rivers. Minard'is Liniment for En.trns, etc. ceit, according to What G. Valentine Williams, formerly 'correspondent of LRoenuteiiiymn 'spAaige7cyain 'Berlin, tells The ao The German mind," lie says, "does not seem to have altered. " "Albeit sadly puzzled to -account for the utter break -dawn of the entire German system, in his `qutlook on lite the German of 1920 -is to most intents and purposee the German of 1913, iu a world which to British eyes le strangely changed by five years of World War themental isolation of the German is absolute: To talk to hina makes you feel that the German of to- day is the loneliest creature on. God's earth. • "Yet with heavy deliberation he 'is communing with himself to ascertain the causes of his defeat. But he is not examining his conscience. ,i:d.Amy Berlin bookshop will show you the chaos prevailing' in the German mi --..,t`Professor Steinach's- rejevenation experiments, Einstein's theory of light, Mayarcl Keynes and Norman Angell .on :the Versailles Peace—both books in German. translations and prominent- ly displayed --treatises -on spiritual- ism, atheism, free love, and the like— works of this description Stand side by , side with a mass or frankly pornogra- phic literature. Here will you fini reasoned explanations fax the past, complicatedeschernes for the future, but nothing practical to deal with the problems of the present. And, above all, no contrition for Germany's crime against mankind. The German surveyed the world_ from his castle of militarism. Nov that it has collapsed he is „left floun- dering in a sea of doubts and fears. The Germane with whom I have spoken expect us to hold them guilt- less of the past because, they say, they have rid Germany of her mili- tary caste. • Willing to _Forgive! „ . "They have, it is true, expelled the bloody-minded blunderers surrounding. that emineet nonentity, William the e Secondgater, because they failed to keep their promise to establish Ger- man world -domination. But the Ger- „ man "people are governed by the hero instinct, and the expulsion of the Old. Gang in the circumstances of military defeat and home panic in which the Hahenzollerns were sent away re. - quire(' weightier evidence of a change, of heart than is forthcoming ie Ger- many to -day if it is to be accepted as a.. proof of the death of German mili- tariem. "'Palk to a Frenchman of any class, and you will, sooner or later, Come upon a well -banked but fiercely smoul- dering Republican ardor. Talk to a German about his government and you will find, at the best, lukewarm in- terest; at the worat, resentful ridicule towards the German Republic. "The average attitude is one of blank indifference. The German man in the -street ,never thought for him- self. ile does not Ito so to -day. The question of the future is, What party will emerge from the present chaos to- do his, thinking for_him ? "Tho Germans are perfectly willing to forgive us fax the war. They talk, glibly about tthie unhappy war with • the air of a man making perfunctory excuses fax some social lapse. In some, may be detected ia ad,dition a little air of coaddscension in speaking of the - late unpleasantness as though to draw attentiort to their magnanimity in ac- cepting the war as an inevitable catas- trophe, an act of God,' as the insur- ance policies .say: And even to -day L find that the great majority of Ger-• ma.us have no idea of the 'abhor -rem -se_ in which the very name German is. held in the Anglo-Saxon countries and. in. France and Belgium." A Trip of, InVestigation. "I want to marry your daughter,'`a., the young man ,said to. his, beloved'ss Lather. , "Does she love you?" the, did, man, asked. Tea air,. answered the youth. "And:. I love hell" "Well, that, of course, is the first,. necessary condition; but there are a, few More questions that 1 should like, . to Ask you." "Yes, sir." ;"Have Yee Marie any shopping tonne. with her lately?" "No, .air." "Ever been in a bi-g stere and asked,, the present price of women'e hate and clothes • 'No, sir." "Well, young man, just take a trip, of investigation... I don't know what your present .141COPO le, but after. You've learn for yourself just what - those clothes coet she is wearingare, casting nie, come back and see inc again. If then you can' promise to. -aupport.her in the stele lea which ehee hag been aceustomed,latedy, my conSent."