The Exeter Times, 1921-8-25, Page 6BY HENRY C.
PART L
I elelnel nothing elee to to, Cie, ie
MaeNert.on went down to the station
early, then fretted about, calm put-
watelly, but raging within, until the
gates opened and elle was Permitted
to take'hex' seat in the sleeper.
Traffic was heavy at the moment,
and having suddenly decided to leave,
she had been able to secure oely an
upper, which was well in the middle
of the car. This, if possible, added
to her fury,which -was of a particu-
larly upsetting sort, being mingled
with a really sincere grief and a tre-
mendone disappointment.
It is always grievous to find one's
self left out of an expected large
inheritance, especially where this had
been verbally paaamised. But when
added to this, there is in honest
mourning for the deceased 'because of
past ties of love and gratitude, the
conflicting emotions are disturbing in
the extreme. The mind is angry, the
heart is hurt, pride is humiliated and
confidence in hernial nature crippled.
Claire had traveled two days and
nights by rail to reach the bedside of
her dying godfather, a millionaire and
a past benefactor of many acts of
kindness and generosity, She had
hoped to arrive in time to minister
comfort to his last moments, but had
reached her destination too late, and ,
ehe had remained to hear the reading
of the will. Expecting with just cause
to ineareit richly, she had managed to
se -cure the proper mourning, includ-
ing a veil which, •as one very close
to the deceased, she had not raised.
And now she was glad that she had
not done se.
Later the lawyers had explained the
reason of her omission as a legatee.
"When our late client learned of
your engagement to marry Mr. Van
Sehaick he was furious," the dry little
councilor had said. "It appears that
Mr. Nan Se -hi -tick's father was not only
a business but a personal enemy and
then stood staring with perplexity at
the flue steei chain that was attached
at one end to the valise and at the
other to the valet of the passenger
"NeVer mind that, George," said the
young man, crisply, "Just a little
White IVIule. We have to ride close
herd on it nowadays."
The porter gave an explosive Negro
laugh. ieerassir," said he, "but I never
hefted no White Mule weigh lak that."
A knowing look spread over his face
as he turned and went about his du -
Claire had missed no part of this.
she could easily guess that "White
Mule" was a term for the. country's
forbidden fruit, but she knew that no
spirita could so 'b.allast the little,valise,
which was not more than the size of
.two shoe- boxes. A solution of the
problem. flashed, immediately ,across
her quick mind. Here apparently was
a fore -handed young mane who was
taking no chances on the prompt cus-
tody of his inheritance. He had eve-
dently by some especial favor 'secured
his legacy in gold and pet it in the
baby suitcase, which he h secured
to his person .by a chain, The roll of
rugs suggested a sea voyage in im-
mediate peospective. She thought it
probable that he was leaving the
country, and wondered by what right
he could expect to take with him -what
must be a -considerable fortune' in
gold.
"Here," thought Clare bitterly, "is
a man already well provided. for who
is making off with a god part of
what should be my inheritance." She
glanced at the end of his suitcase
•inder the seat and saw the label of
a Washington notel, also the remains
of one of the French Line. This sug-
gested that he might be in spine
ranch of Government service, a naval
fficer, perhaps; about to be ordered
to European waters.
A dining -car steward .announeed the
first eall for dinner. The young man
ppesite laid down his magazine and
ose, when for the •first time he ap-
eared to take an active interest in
er presence. His features relaxed in
friendly Sxpression and he 'spoke
o her in the pleasant, inoffensive
-ay of one accustomed- not only to
-avel and its exigencies, but cour-
eously offering to render service to
is fellow travelers.
"Perhaps you'd rather have the
wer berth," said he. "It's rather
vkwarcl for a lady to scramble up
el down the ladder, and I am quite
ecustomed to it."
"Thank you," said Claire. "If you're
re you don't mind."
"Not in the least. The up -per is
ally better on a ,sultry night like this,
ore free air, and I'm used to that,
o." He glanced through the window,
ooks as if we were going to catch
cyclone or cloudburst or something.
pe it deosn t blow the train off the
track"—he glanced at his valise and
smiled—"just when I've got all my
eggs in one basket. I believe I saw
you at the funeral. of Mr. Lothrop,"
"Yes," answered Claire, surprised.
that he should have recognized her
heavila- veiled. "My Lothrop was my
godfather."
His eyes flashed at her a look of
sudden interest. He reseated himself.
"Then you must be Miss 1VIacNorton.
Mr, Lothrop often talked to me about
you. I arn Stephen Goddard."
Claires gray- eyes hardened. Her
godfather had ale° spoken frequently
to her of Stephen Goddard, whom she
knew to have been a sort of protege
for whose ecientific education he had
paid.
"Yes," she answered, "I've heard
him mention you."
"I owe him everything," said Ste-
phen. "I have delayed the sailing f
overnment vessel to go to his fun -
a roan by whom he considered himself
to have been defrauded and vilified. o
He swore that the son should never
profit by a penny of his, and he there-
fore caused your name to be stricken
immediately from the will."
"But I had just written him to say,lo
that I had broken the engagemenne r
Claire protested, in a choking voice. p
"I learned a few things about Reggie li
Van 'Schick which made all idea of
marrying him revolting."
"Ales! my dear young lady," said; t
the lawyer, "your letter must be
among those which arrived after thelti
stroke. Let me see." He summone-d t
a clerk, who brought a heap of cor-lh
respondence, and from this he select-
ed and handed to Claire the letter 10
which, by its retarded delivery, hadei
cost her perhaps a quarter of a million I
dollars.
SinCE the death -of her parents her a
home had been made with a rather
tyrannical widowed aunt, svhorn she se
suspected of being by no means averse
to a second marriage, and Claire had re
reason to believe that her entertain -1 in
ment was largely due to her useful-. to
n.e.ss as a decoy. There -was nothing
of the flapper to her. She had justi
turned twenty-five, was possessed of a
sense and character, alluring of face
and with. a ripeness of physical
charms rather unusual for her age.
Moreover, she was steady of head,
cultured, and she regarded social
problems squarely.
But underneath was a burning rage,
this directed not against her kindly
godfather, but the vultures who had
profited by his bequests. She was con-
vinced that a swarm of these had
profited by her own fall; so that when
presently the porter conducted to the
seat facing bees a lean but squarely
built young man, whom she reeagniz-
ed instantly as having seen at the
reading of the will, Claire's emotion
was for the instant homicidal.
, The young Mall Who was to occupy
the lower berth of the section ap-
peared, ineumbered with a good deal
of hand luggage, which the red cap
had set down in -discriminately, and
the Pullman porter, observing thie as
he passed, proceeded to stow these
pieces in more orderly fashion. A
suitcase went under one seat, a sol-
ier s seabag was stuffed under the a G
era
wel
li
I qu
wris
tech
min
(eller, while a roll of steamer rugs
with the corner of a Navajo blanket
protruding was hung from a hook over-
head. The porter then stooped to pick
up a small square black valise which
the young man had set down in suck
a manner as to incommode his feet.
But this inconspicuous bit of luggage
did not come up. The porter had
reached for it negligently with one
finger, and the expression of his sable
face was that. of one who might lay
hold of the eiepty bunk left by an
indigent boarder and finds it nailed
to the floor.
"Lan' sakes!'" said he, and tried
again, this time with success, thaugh
at the cost of some considerable effort.
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Your duty appears to have been
I rewarded,' said Claire.
e looked surprised. "I don't think
ite get you."
laire glanced significantly -at his
t to which the light chain was at -
ed. He caught the trend of her
d and smiled, then frowned.
"If you'll pardon me for saying so,
I was intensely surprised at not hear-
ing your name mentioned in the will."
"So was I," said Claire, bitterly;
"but that is a matter which I prefer
not to discuss."
She turned to look out of the win-
dow with the manner of one who de-
sires a conversation discontinued.
Stephen appeared to hesitate for a
moment, then picked up his valise
and walked down the aisle toward the
head of the train, indifferent to the
curious eyes of such of the passengers
as happened to observe his manner of
safeguarding the small piece of lug-
gage. c,
Claire continued to stare out at the
dull, monotonous country with eyes as
hot and brooding and sullen ae the
lurid eky, now thickening into a dark
opacity as the daylight waned.
She was angry with 'herself for
having accepted, the offer of this com-
placent yonng stranger' whom she felt
had peofited at her cose "Playing
etefe," said Clare to herself, and her
full lip curled scornfully, "Thane, tbe
way to get -what you want in this
world, Play safe. If I'd bad the
zenee to play safe I'd be safe now in -
NURSES
The Toronto 1,1"oeptta1 for Incur-
eblee, n afanatioa -with Bellevue and
AUied liospitalee Now- Tare 0, Its,
offeea a cliree Yc',84.0' aourso oC 'Train-
ing to yoeng women, havieg, the re-
quirea education, and deeirrecie of he -
coming nuraes. -This ileepital has
adopted the eikeet-hour'systeln. The
pupils receive unifornsa of 'the School,
monthly allewanoe and traveIllme
expenses to and from New 'eerie ,For
further information apply to the
Supeitatendent. .
:tart', of a beggar and Prospectiee oute
For it was borne in upon ho mind
that the reception Of her aunt 'and
hoste'ssewas apt to be affected by the
knowledge of her ^disinheritance.
hL, sent the porter for a sandwich
and a _glass of milk, then waited in
another seat for him to make up her
berth. Inside it with the curtains
drawn she felt as though buried alive
in a misfit coffin not far removed from
the infernal regions. Nervous depres-
sion added to the intensity of her
bodily discomfort. The perepiretion
ran from her in little rills, but with-
out the agreeable "sense .of depletion
to be found in a Turkish bath.
She woke suddenly and flung up her
hands. They struck a ...lard, smooth
surface, which slanted down across
her and completely 'blocked her exit
from the berth. The car was keeled
over at a slight angle to the other
side and the air was, filled with muf-
fled shrieks and shouting and the roar
of waters. Terror etricken Claire
reached for her light, only to find it
extinct. She thrust up the curtain of
her window, but the darkness without
was impenetrable, and there seemed
to be a flood pouring clown the glass. s
She was imprisoned in a triangular
spate, and immediately guessed that e
the chains supporting the upper berth
had parted, and that it had fallen, to
leave an aperture of net more than
six inches on the aisle of the car.
Through this she shrieked wildly for
help.
"One minute!" shouted a vibrant
A Village Of Chess Players.
If a visitor to the ancient 'village of
Stroebecle near Halberstadt, in Sax
onY, ehoulcl Walla or through tee
streets ,just after Ineeticfaet, hie ,would
meet little troops of boee and girls oil
their way to school carrying., verY
strange school renege. Every one of
them Would be burdeeedswith a full
•et of cheas-men.
According to a writer in Blanco .y•
Negro, Stroebeek is a veritable rook-
ery of chess players. From the child-
renin pd./teller grades, to the dodder-
ing ancients in the chimney cornere
all the' inhabitants devote,the greater
part of Viet? leisure to" acquiring prol
ficiency in the fascinating game, Dur-
ing on& of the frequent wars between
the Poles and the Gernians in the Mid. -
die Ages a F'olish prince, the, story
goes, felt. into the hands of the Ger-
man artnY near Stroebeck, and for his
own safety they shut him up in the
castle that still, dominates the village.
To while away the tedious hours the
prInce,„ who like many of his country-
men was an accoinplished chess play-
er, taught the game to his jailers.
They became infatuated, withit, and
the passion spread until every man.,
woman and child in the village was,
neglecting his affairs In order to check-
mate his neighbor. The devotion to
the game' was transmitted from
gene-
ration to generation; -even to -day noth-
ing seems to dampen the ardor with
-which the Stroebeckian pursues the in-
tricate 1111WeS of his beloved game.
It is one of the prescribed subjects'
taught in what we should call the
grammar schools. Nor do the pupils,
as soon as they leave school, try to
forget what they have learned. It is
their lifelong pursuit. In offices, in.
tores, everywhere about the village,
the traveller Will encounter couples
vho have dropped, their work to en-
gage in a contest. Even. the village
lacksmitli, placing his board on 'his
an.vil, plays with the neighbor who has
rought his horse to be shod. No bete
re made, no prizez offered; the sole
mbition. of the 'players is to win. If
efeated they eonsole themselves with
he reflection that they have learned
°teething that may help them to win
he next game. Everywhere in the
town are evidences of the cult. The
mouldings of the schoolhouse door are
ornamented with magnified figures of
chessmen, in the public readifig room
are all the periodicals that treat of
the game, and in the public buildings
are portraits of many famous players.
a
a
voice. I'll get you out." t
The cries and screams eeemed grow- s
ing fainter, and from a little distance t
came a smashing., splintering sound.
She heard the man beside her roaring
for help to raise the berth, which had
Jammed, but there was no response.
Then, presently, as he struggled, it
seemed to yield.
"Lie on your back and shove
straight up with your arms when
count three," he said. Claire obeyed,
and they seemed to gain two or three
inches.
"It's jammed against the partition,"
he panted. "Dcan't be frightened. I'll
get you out."
(To be continued.)
Somewhere.
Haw can. I cease to pray for thee?
Somewhere in God's great universe
thou art to -day;
Can He not reach thee with His ten-
der care?
Can. He not hear me when for thee
I pray? •
What matters it to Him who holds
within •
The lacillow of His hand all worlds,
all space,
That thou art done with earthly pain
and sin?
Somewhere within His ken thou
hast a place.
Somewhere thmi livest and hest need
of Him;
Somewhere thy soul sees higher
heights, to climb: •
And, somewhere still there may' be
valleys dim,
That thou must pass to reach the
hills- sublime.
Then all the more, because thou canst
not hear,
Poor, human words of lalessing, will
I pray,
Oh! true, brave heart, God bless thee,
wheresoe'r
In His great universe thou art to-
day.
Nancy Knew.
Little Nancy—"Mother, I know what
drawing is." ,
lVfother--"Wele my dear,, what is
"Drawing is thinking, and thendraw-
ing round the think."
•
Minard's Liniment ,for Dandruff.
Stopping a Grizzly..
Everything about the little power
plant was running se smoothly that
Edwin Green took out a book, and sat
down by an open window. It was the
first warm day after a hard winter in
the Rockies, and Green became so
deeply interested in his book that he
did, net notice the sound of a slow,
heairy breathing- oirtlide.
When he looked up''Inc saw a huge
grizzly bear standing at the windoW.
Fortunately, the window was barred
and the door closed, but Green was so
surprised that it took him several
minutes to realize that lie was not in
immediate danger. •
The affair soon took on the aspect
of a siege. The bear seemed greatly
infuriated when Green tried to fright-
en him away by throwing things at
him or by making a noise. At the end
of an hour Green began -to be worried.
His 'friend Egerton would return
soon, and Egerton carried no gun.
Moreover, he would come from behind
the power house and Would not see the
bear until Inc was right on it. Green
could not warn him, since there was
no opening of any kind:in the back of
the building.
Finally, he hit on. a plan. Although
the house was built of brick and con-
crete, the bars of the windows weee
entirely embedded in wood. That
would serve as an insulator.- One of
the electric wires leading from a ter-
minal of one of the transformers he
connected with the bars of the win-
dow; the other wire he grounded.
The next time the bear appeared at
the window Greene- seized a bamboo
fishing-pole,and began to poke him with
It, The animal let out a roar and, ris-
ing on his hind lege, brought both of
his front feet down on the iron bars.
There was not a sound, not a whim-
per. For the fraction of a second
every muscle in the bear's body was
tense. Then his muscles relaxed, and
he fell limp to the ground. Such a cur-
rent would have been too much for
any grizzly.
The World's Most Wonderful Gardens
rm. eighty years Kew Gardens, in
London, have been the Mecca not only
of the world's horticulturists but of
rnillions of admiring visitors.
Kew Gardens do not exist solely or
even primarily for the purpose of pro-
viding relaxation for jaded Londoners
or wondering visitors from every land.
Their chief object is the advancement
of the study of plant life, combined
with the introduction into Britain of
new and rare foreign plants.
TheGardens, which cover 288 acres',
contain 2‘,000 different varieties of
plants, arranged systematically in hot-
bousee end in the open. ' Palle
IIOuse, which attracts more visitors
than any other building, is 362 ft, long
and 66 It. high, It is warmed by huge
ovene, the .licat being Conveyed
throligh 17,500 ft, of pipet.
One of the treeseree of the Gardens
is the Victoria Beebe the queen of
Watesliliee and the biggest flower
known, Its leaven are so bread that'
they ase cepable of eupperting the
weight c'S child of five This sven'•
derfel plant, which has a house to It-
self, was discovered in 1801 by a Span-
ish monk, who described in a report to
his Government his astonisiunent at
firat seeing the glorioue blooms.
. Thirty years later an Engllsh betels,'
ist found the plant floating on the Der- re
bice River in British. Guinanee and his reatlY
description created tremeradous, in- as the
terest, Soon afterwards it made its Cor
appearanee at Kew, where the wonderiso°n-
plant has received the homa,ge of hen- j perts
drede of thousands of visitere. gliTr
, ,
Another source of attraction are thel t.
pitcher plants. The Flytrap variety stage;
Is armost unee,nny. No sooner does an r on 'co
Are You Keeping Up?
What 'Would you thenk of a d
a lawyer, a preaeher„ oe a teeehei.
laid. aside all his bevies when Jae
school and announced' to the.
that he was through studying?
Say flight away, "Here's a party
is headed straight for failure. I'l
him two years to keep his fix..st
and in five years he'll be a day 1
er. Why doesn't he know the
moves? These are stirring times
if he lisn't going to read and s
haw does -he expect to keep up
the timea?"
Yet how many housekeepers a
the attitude they condemn in
professional folks? How many bo
keepers make it a business to s
and keep in step with the pro,g
that is being made in their pro
sion ? Did you even know that he
work is 110W dignified by diet na
In no science have greater st
been made in the past decade the
the .ecience of nutrition. Just the
ter of eabing vegetables alone.
years ago we thought vegetables
fruits were the cause of bowel
turbances in summer time. We
told not to .give green vegetable
children under three years of
Now we cut tele-arab:nal foods in c
of "cholera nimbus," and we cal
feed the three-monthesold baby s
ach and other vegetables. We'd h
had a fit if anyone had, eugge
tomato juice for ten-year-ald J.
when1 a a y, but we give
his slix-months-old. sister if
oranges are not handy.'
octor tutePsezasplustoguold ibeen bts,0170;11.1desd,, haVnemiba
ce ed two anqote-half hours if fresh
Tote If net strieelY' fresh
You'd
dd wihirtehel'i'hont'uwitrsitrTi.t,th-ne,denniitsepaale;:otilbfuei filled
ieeeee feSsuu.cgeoarte' d
dunge who
job, i ec'rn ,and 'out' frorn cab as. if for cane-
ning separately. Mix with equa.
1
wood measure of shelled lima beans w•hich
, arta need not he blanciletl, and Process for
tudy 'thrPeeeppehorsursa'witi re much Prized fOr winter
use by housewives looking for a
dopt change in diet. Sweet green, or bull -
ether nose Penner& are best. Cut in 'halves
use_ and remove seeds; pack in jars; cover
tudy with boiling water; add two teaspoons
ress of salt and Process two hours. They
fes- need not be blanched and, A
tghevrolvinZnitinbutilliestikinnadwviisbles cboamkiengoiffn
rides easily,,paeleing in jars end processing
n in one and half hours,
mat -
Ten ' - Reinoving Mildew.
and - Chloride of lime used intelligently
sells- will remove mildew.. Do not use too
were nnich. A teaspoonful to a small tub
e to or pail full of Water is plenty. Be
age. sure lime is thoroughly dissolved., or
aeses better still, it up in a stout piece
mly of cloth and run water en to it, press-
ing cloth with a. stick; then allow to
aye, float in tub. Immerse article to be
sted cleansed and allow to stand several
ohn hours. Remove and. rinse thoreughly
t to in several waters, Repeat if neces-
the sary, but do not increase quantity of
lime, as it will eat the matellial.
St.
This is only one instance of the
many changes which have taken place;
in our ideas'abott.feeding the humanl
family m the light of the experime
of the past ten years. Do you ki
about them? Don't you think
should? Certainly if you want to k
your family in trim the only way
de it is by feeding them right.
• Don't say you have no time to r
and 'study. Take it. Take lift
minutes right after the folks get
in the morning. Or in the middle
the day when you are tired to
point of dropping, why just drop a
spend a quarter of an hour stutlyi
up in your profession. It is the m
important thing you can do; far inc.
so than pulling' threads out of a pi
of muslin -and sewing up the -holes, or.
crochetting miles of ,edging for the
parlor curtains. It means healeh for
your family.
nts 'Bury nie," the bishop said,
ioee! "Close to my geranium bed;
• Lay me near my gentIe birch.
• It is lonely in the church,
eep
I House me in the friendly grass!
Anci
to its vault's are detain and chill!
Noble men sleep there, but stile!
ead, Let thennets sing my mase'!
een
And for censors bid the breeze
tien
oolui Waft me its. p_erfunieries!!'
, Dying within had whim,
And the greenaod covered him.
ng
°st. Then what holy celebrations
c,e, Arid- what rapturous ad,orations,
Some Canning Suggestions.
Devotees of the cold pack. method
of canning are firmly convinced that
this is the only successful method of
preserving, fruit and vegetables. But
housekeepers who for ' years have
canned by the open kettle method and
had their fruit keep without spoilage
are 'hard to .convince. From my own
experience, I must say I eicie with the
housekeepers. During the war when
we all did everything as suggested
with the idea that we'd help win the
fight that way, I tried the calcl pack
method, but with no better success
with fruit, -so far as keeping proper-
ties was concerned than when I fo
lowed the old-fashioned method o
canning. For vegetables, however, I
am firmly convinced . the cold pack
method is the best and only reliable
way.
Thegeneral directions for cold pack
canning. are simple. 'Cans, tops and
rubbers must be sterilized, that is,
boiled, at -least five minutes. Put in
cold water and bring to boil; keep in
the hot water on back of.range until
used. Vegetables should be blanched
—parboiled—then dipped in cold
water, then peeked in the sterilized
cans, until they just touch the rub-
bers, and the can plunged into a boiler
of water as hot as the product in the
can, and deep enough to come over
the top two inches. Water in the
boiler must be kept -boiling the length
of time given ,fer each vegetable or
fruit. If vegetables are to be canned,
het, water and salt " are poured in to
fill the can to within one-half inch of
top; if fruit is useci hot spew is put
in, though it can be canned with hot
s and sugar added when opened,
ter boiling, the technical word is
ssing, the required time; remove
water and tighten tops, invert to
hey do not leak, and when 'coal
in b, dark place, For blalitthing
ablee a square of cheesecloth or
e basket is a necessity, Place the
able in the cheesecloth, twist .the
i`Odoofthernoers together,,dauwhndlaioyh youover
o anch. You then have them
to pick the product out as soon
blanching is finished. •
n.—Corn should be canned' as
as at is. picked. Government ex-
claim that corn loses half df its
if alloWed. te etalid onlY oVaeri
Select between milk and dough
remove 'husks and eilk; blanch
b five minutes.; plunge in 'cold
ten seconds; cut from cob, pack
eriiized, jars to within orie inch.
watei
Af
proce
from
see t
store
veget
a wir
veget
four
the s
inset elight on ihe 'n of lE ""--1w4ter
than' the lid shuts down tightly, re. into sit
1. sa , s cup
ng c c,sed until the prisoner ,has
been aompletely digested by ;the, plant.
13nt. to, ,catalogue tlrc pleat enervele
01 sew would be to essay a.gigantic
ta,ele, jest as to inspect tee cettents,df.
the ,..fee'lftene theiroiagely wouldeecepy
tt.lyy riay,,e. E'er the visite? who is lit-
tere,tec't in efairtre and e'ho liae an eye ;
ter beauty, the pc,ssibilities of Hew are
. 1
Joy no worldly pen may paint—
Swithin had been made a saint!
Yet the monks forgot that he
Craved for blossom, bird and bee,
And, communing round his tomb,
VO wed its. narrow earthen room
Was unworthy one .whose star
Blazed in Peter's calendar.
"Who," they asked, "when we are
gone
'Will protect this sacred lawn?
What it time irreverent gust,
Should dispeese his holy dust?"
Troubled by a blaekeird's
Vexed by an invading thistle,
They resolved to move his bones
To the chaste cathedral stones.
But the clouds grew black and thick
When they lifted spade and pick,
INVADING HOSTS OF
DREADED LOCUST
AMAZING FACTS AWUT
DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS(
Grasshoppers Rank Among
the Worle
3 rea e ests
—Helped Allied Cause.
Though the locusts found near
Lon. -
don recently caused some alarm they
are by no means the ,fIrst aeen in Eng-
,
land, and French scientists, who pre -
dieted not long ago that one of the
Plagues of Egypt would be added to
Britain's' other post-war troubles, aro
not likely to be able to say, "We told
you, so."
In semi -tropical Countries, and even
In parts of Europe, the appearance or
a couple of locusts may be of much
graver import, sin6e they maY Proyti
to be the advance guard of anearmy of
countless, millions.
Ae pair „of the paste were fpund at
Port -St. Louis, near Marseilles', en
1817. Three years later the whole dis-
trict was invaded by the vorociou,s in-
sec,ts, and the inhabitants of mall(
than twenty communes abancloneth
their farms, which had been stripped
bare. Trees, vegetables,, grass—all
had gone. Usually, however, locusts
come like thieves in the night, and it
would be thus that they would descend
upon us if they paid us a visit at all.
Locomotives Field Up.
A tong, dark cloud is seen low on
the horizoe. Nearer and nearer it
comes, and louder and louclee grows
an ominous, sound—a sound which the
Wise Man of the Bible compared tb
that of "chariots of many horses run-
ning into battle." Soon the cloud is
.overhead, and. a moment later the air
is alive with buzzing, NvIiirring insects,
which dash into people's faces, fill
their houses, perish by myriads i11
water. troughs, and settle on every-
,
thing.
13ircls by the thousand dart among
them, for they have been followed
from afar by flocks of bee -eaters and
locust -eaters, which in turn have been
pursued by hawks, kites, and falcons.
But their natural enemies do hot ag-
pear to diminish their numbere.
The invading host may cover mile
a comparatively small area; but in
South Africa the pestshave descended
at once on nearly. two thousand square.
miles of territory, and formed so enor-
mous a. mass eliat whee '. they were .
driven to -the sea theie bedies made a
three-foot bank aleng the .shcro f
fifty miles.
Against such an army even locomo-
tives are powerless for hours at a
streteh. Near the Vaal River, in. South.
Africa, locusts once swarmed cn to
the railway in such hosts that an en-
gine could not make its way through
them, and clUring the prague from
which parts of Europe are wee suffer -
Mg, a train has been stopped at Sara-
gossa, the wheels skidding on millicins
of the pests. '
But the devastating effect on vegeta-
on is always the same. In a few
ours the ground on which locusts,
ttle is cleared of every- green things
rees are stripped of leaves and bark,
id if there is may fruit, cm theni only
e stones 'and stalksremain,
ti
se
ar,
And they feared that they had bum- th
dered
By the way it.pourecl and thUndered..
Quoth the abbot: "Thus I deem
Swithin shows. us we blaspheme!
He was fond of wind and rain;
Let himi in their clasp remain!"
Forty days the heavens, wept,
But St. Swithin.smiled and slept.
—Daniel. Henderson.
•
Minard's Liniment for Burns, etc.
Marconi Develops New Radio
Receiver.
William Marconi has retired to his
yacht Electra, where he is making ex-
periments 'with a new receiving appar-
atus which he says, 'when perfected,
will revolutionize wireless telegraphy,
says a London despatch. He is com-
municating with the powerful ` Fish -
guard station, and is arranging long
distance signals with American sta-
tions, testing the elimination of atmos-
pherie disturbances. He is taking ad-
vantage of a long dry spell because he
says that the atmospheric condition
aid him now.
His' new .device is calculated to in-'
se he range of the ,Wireless con- ber
eiderably, and it is hoped that it will isti
also be applicable both to the tele- pos
graph .and telephone. The secrets of are
the' new device are being closely the
guarded, and it will probably be sever- wer
al months before it will be covered by A
patents enabling it to be applied to tot,je
commercial uses. ger
e 19'7,
Little' Willie went with his mother own
to visit his sister who was teaching in T
of t
tiff
T
land
to G
I3rita
user
the
ratio
tio
Regiment Saved from. Disaster.
In Canada they often • work great
voc among the craps. For thi.s rea-
n grasshoppers rank Among tlie
orld's greatest pests. Yet often they
ve been of great assistance to Bri-
h arms, which they have helped
aterially to victory.
During the Smith, African War they
did Beitain several good turn,s, 'notably
by savihg the Househoild Cavalry Com-
posite Regiment from disaster. While
this unit was out one day it met an
overwhelming force of Boers; but just
at the right moment a cloud of locusts
appeared, and formed a'screenbehind _
which our troops were able to make
their escape.
ha
50
w,
ha
tis
Visiting Palestine and Syria in the
early part of 1915, they devastated
the country; and hampered the 'move -
meats of Turkish, forces on the Egyp-
tian front so greatly that they were
worth at least a couple of army corps
to the Allied- cause.
Census of Motor Cars..
Dealing 'with the motor industry in
1920, the National Automobile Cham.
of Commerce has publiehed stat-
es showing that the United States
sessed 9,211,295 motor vehicles.' In
at Britain, by the la.test return of
Ministry of Transport, 554,000
bo oiunt u3s,0e0011,100t0haotf Ytehaer:United States
I Were In use on farms. In passen-
cars the number in use was 8,221,-
01 these about 33 per cent. were
heed telygufloersinsehrso.w
that 83, per cent
he World's motor carp are in the
oedcoSnttaitnetise. the list: Canada with
car. to every 21 persons, New Zea -
with one to 41, Australia 1,e1S-12, one
4, Cuba With One to 9.4 and Groat
in, with one to 110 are the iargest
s of motor cars hi proportion to
population, while Liberia, With a
of one car to 250,000 of the pope.
0, is at, the bOttO/Y1,
a neighboring town. He sat for 'awhile
quietly listening tg his sister as she
talked to' the pupils, then in a high,
'ehrili'voice he called out: "Jennie, you
talk too taloa,
of'top; add one teaspoon of .salt and
one of sugai7;-Sercw; on top, and pro-
cess four hours, Cats meet be pet
a1:111160eVe
tniade''I'rtY6 et60:'itthlei
svhen'plainged into the hot water, Cern
on the .c'eb is clon,e in the aaino way,
packing the 1)alancecl, cars itt xvidie-,
mouthed ,cans instead of cutting fronil
.fite wit
Tha meed ear dealer who s
how they run ' fnotead of 't °Ivri 37°1-0
evhat t.1 e alltin.k about
y re co. 8alic
',",p.Collar Once Li:feet-1h
i USED AUTO8
The blueJeelctilie ecillar is a sati.WRI711 •
i 1.00 actuanie ill stook. • of the tlays When aaileas Wore
pig
k.gerce, Bua 4f)2sy, taile. 9lie collar was tar thelr .
T
me, lion (m18 00003., e the pigtaile NvCre "segeeetl„