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The Exeter Times, 1922-10-5, Page 2r TPARINE S JSANNAH PRICUA Copyrtght by Hod Synopsis of receding Chapter* 'Donald and Mary Cameron are carv- ing a home out of the Australian wilds. When little David was four months ehl hie father set off to Port Southern for fresh supplies. On the fourth day two gaunt and ragged men, one of them wounded, entered the butMari . them unstinted hospitality and heard the story of their easape free- the Island prison and the treaellery of MeNals who had premised to befriend then—at a price. Clothed and provided with food, they departed, the tall one hoping to repay the debt. Mart" refused to aid her husband in putting the police on their track Ten Years of industry have brought pros- perity to the Cam,erons, While mak- mg a /our of the neighborhood ad - vacating the establishment a a school, Mary. meets again 'one of the rafugees a Fong ago e Daniel Farrel, who is ap- Pointed schoolmaster. Three years later he brings his motherless daugh- ter Deirdre, Davey's playmate, to Mrs. Carneron for housewifely instruction. The summer that Davey left school lush fires threatened the settlement. CHAPTER XIV, When Deirdre returned from the poel, where sha had left Lass, the et -ate of fowls, and the ea -we with the, old dog standing guard over them,' Mrs. Cameron was' already beating an arrow of flame that hard struck the packieck on the hill -top, and Jenny on the, other edge of the fences was also heating. Darkness had fallen. The glare of the fire was visible above the thie.,k standing -wall of haze. Deirdre saw a glittering line break! through the grass art a little distance from MTG. Cameron, and seizing Gne of the green branches Jenny hadj thrown clown in the centre of the, paddock, beat the fire until it went; aut. Other- threads of fire apnea/v;(11 near her, and she -followed them along: thefence, slashing with the bran -chi until they died down, leaving blacken -I der and Stoughton. htim dlewn the traelt in front of the house, They were htalf way aeamoss the clearing When Mrs. Camerae eame to a standstill. Flinne,s had eaten their •way up the eadelock and lay aeress the track. "We're eut oft," she 'attic'. "What ean we do " Deirdre asked. "There's no time to lose," Jenny screamed, dancing up arid down, beside herself with terror arid eseiternent: "We're cut off! Cut off!" Site dropped on of the vases she was carrying- and it broke in a thou- sand pieces. "I don't knew," Mrs, Cameren said elowly, Her eyes wandered to the broken pieces of the vase. For a moment Deirdre's brain was paralyzed too. She stood sta-ring down the track. All the terrible stor- ies ,cif the fires, of people who had been burnt to death, flashed into her rain& A shout was raised behind them. "It's father!" she cried. The Schoolmaster dashed round the corner et the house. His face was blackened and had angry weals where the fire had lashed it. His eyebrows arid heard were singed close to his head. At a glance he took in the situation. His horse with head hung was blewing like a bektows. "Daveylis just behind me!" he gasp- ed, looking at Mrs. Cameron. "Mr. Oanieron and he didn't know the fires were making this way • till I told them; then he sent Davey. I came . . to give him a hand. Never thought we'd get here--milles of fire acroists the road. Get a couple of blankets, Deirdre, and we'll make a dash for the, creek," Ionly Iv the eoltimins r (3,,ezt,i burning to cnnise'r, The eight seemed endless. When the firet wavering- gleam, eame in the eastern sky it revealed the bleed/need feinge a the trees, their green wav- ing draperies setae:lied and. lire -eaten, where the, tire, like A ravening mon•- Sto", had' 'half-eonstrined them and passed an. Ile wind had •swept the haze and the smoke before it. The bosom ef the earbis lay bare ef the light, dry, wanly-gioldien grass that had covered it; and from the paddieek$ and bluek.- ened forest thin spirals and breaths of Welsh temiolte rose and drifted, The peaceful space of trees and the SIM- Mer-cisle.(1 grasses about the Ayr's -nix homestead were gone. Charred out- lines er sheds and What of the house was still left, stood' on the brow of the hitl, .. . In the wan lig,-.11-t, the pool mirrored the desolation and the haggard and weary men ands women who steoti in it, Chilled end cramped from beteg in the water SO long, exhausted with the anxietiee of the night, the3r e'en.- tured warily back to the still. het earth. Mrs. Cameron's eyes turned. first.to her son. His face was grimed with sentike and leaf smuts,. There were wigry red flu,shee on it where serape of burning foliage had struek him. Deirdre's aneJenny's clothes hung to them, seorched and drippirug; there were burnt holes in Mns. Cameron's own dress. Farrel and Davey were drenched to the skin. The Schoolmaster had tied a hand- • kerchief ov his face severing ene eye, dreIneXtletifieredt is'letkiiiileitX11()'srhet'lla(1,1N"Tt "Father," she tined, "you're hert.." "Im all tei:handlere'bkf,ansi :flrlie:niflritocePa'itl'TeelihihIA:ialiisitt.i:y!iiiii% :11:11i:y:f:iigte:\III:vvilit:lt':11: pain and blasieshed, beneath, the tan 'id on "Hold your' tongue, Deirdre," he muttered. "les only 0 bit of a turn." x.ItMiillts-,e,ofehaeinrerhoorani ewe. s gazing at the ylltelcs: voice,Vel 1 4 11 :s° ;a\ Y:a:Sd" She -went towards Min, distress in her eyes. Its northing at an; ff doesn't mat- ter!' 1{e edged away from her so that she ehould not see. "When you and Davey are fixed up, Mrs. Cam- erae, Deirdre end I must get along faanrneds.,e,e how Steve and the sehool titir ':1,3ileyi:nitoshtfoeonnue.il found Da rsasovtne4yent ofinegurit, hibe nza of milked the el'ow6. Mrs. Cameron and Jenny Isuilt a fire in the yard and when they had all brealdaste,d on the searched bread and some tea Mrs Cameron wanted to • put flour on the Schoahnaster's burn. But he said that it „was not worth bothering about and would have no- thing done for it. (To be continued.) Minard's Liniment For Colds, Etc, b ut the •House Whereabouts of the Kitchen Sink. Certain it is that the sink is one of the biggest savers of time, Deirdre ran back, to the house, tore strength, and labor in the home— the blanksets from the beds inside and when -ProPerlY located—and one of threw them on to the verandah. He the greatest burdens when missing_ ar dipped three of them in a bucket of at the wrong type. water that stood by the kitchen clear, Strange as it may seem, thausands wrapped her in one, a-nd MTS. Cameron of women are struggling atong with antd Jenny in the others,. . no ,,sink at an or, at best, a very poor Davey swung into the yard on an and badly planed one "Keep her goring, Davey," the The isize 'et the family and of the all but spent horse. Sehoolinaster <fried, "and g -et down to idtehen determines the size' of the earth and breaths of virulent blue the waterI'li look after your mother. smoke. Deirdre, you take Jenny up behind • "Stay near the top of the hill, you. Fly along and let down the slip Deirdre," Mrs. Cameron called, "and panel. Screks'll stand the grass fire watch to see if there's si break on the if you keep him at it." front clearing, OT tale pool side, or Davey an.d Deirdre dasthe.d across near the sheds!" the smouldering ansi smoking paddock, Then the fire began to show in a putting their horses blindly towards dozen places at once, wriggling lizard- the cornea- of the fene.e where the slip - like through the dry, palely -gleaming rails were already donne grass. Beating became automatic, an Trees on the edge of the clearing unflagging lashing and thrashing, and behind the liar/5e were already roar - watch had to be kept the.t the enemy ins-, wrapped in the smoke and flam- was not abtackintg in another part of ing mantle ef the fire. A sho-wer of the clearing. The blackened earth sparks thrown up by a falling tree smoked under a dead flame one rrio- scattered over the stable and barns. anent, the next a spark kindled and A hoarse yelping the cackling of wispish fire was ruainin.g threug-h the fowls and the wild fierrified luwin'g of grass again. Farr down the hillside, the cows, came from the pool. Davey through the smoke- mists, to Deirdre rode into it, hustled the cows into the on the top, Miss. Cameron and Jenny centre, and took the old sheep -deg leaked wrairth-like in their white cot- up ',on his -saddle. Socks, with Deirdre and Jenny on his back, splashed -in. The fire in the trees, of Whieh these after him. The Schoolmaster and swift, silent runners in the grass were fore -warners, was still some disrbance off. But they could- hear the crash of falling trees, the rush and roar of the flame.s in the •tangled leafage, shirill cries7 of the wild creatures of bhe bush, the blare and bellowing screams of. cattle. , The fire did not reach the trees no c an..,e or e woo to a SG1 Mrs, owner -iron's tight skirt caught above the pool till it had srwept the fire. Jenny beat it ant with her hands. orchards, sheds, and house on the ra°istilre- Another plan is to ha-ve a She and Mrs. Cameron fell back a marnent. The glare lighted the whole of the clearing. In the valley flashing shafts of flame could be seen. They leapt athwart clouds of smoke which drove, billowing, across the sky, sprayed by she -were, of sparks. "IsIrs. Ga.•merrin!" Deirdretameamed -warningly as a fire -maddened steer leapt into the pad!cleek and careered across it into thte darkness on the be •considered, would be to have an The thought sent a stab of fear to her tan dresses. right to deft as they pass from dish- pan to rinsing pan, and from rinsing pan to drainer and tray. This should be kept in mind and provision madle for soiled cliches at right and for a drain hoard at the left of the sink. Make Your Own Candied Fruit. Fruit which is to be candied should be washed, peeled or pared if n.ec- eissary, and then cut or sliced. Drop fruit into boiling water for two or tidn-tee minutes, drain weld and cover ,sink, but a short sink with ample with a syrup matte by boiling together table and shelf room near it may be more convenient than a long- sink. -Twto smaller sinks, one for the table one pound of suga.r for each poiund of fruit, with one e -up at water. Boil the fruit rapidly in bhis syrup for fifteen -minutes. Remove from the fire dishes nieiar the dining room and the ether for general use in the kitchen, a.nd allow to stand over night. The are very convenient. next morning boil for ten or fifteen_ The material ,should be the best minutes a,gain. "Repeat the heating available, non-absorbent of grease as and emling f°1" to 'six days' ac - well as ef moisture, and,there should cording to how rapidly the water is absorbed. be no cracks or square corners to in- drawn eat and the sYrufr crease the, work of keeping it clean. ,Whedi it is transparent and A wooden sink, even when it receives bright from the syrup and dry an annual coat of ptaiint, abeomb in the SlITI or inia cool oven. moisture and grease which attracts truseetsT and is likely rbe be swarming The Off Day. with bacteria .aud to ‘,.s.our” „and have It had been one totf the days, known an unpileasant odor. Even dirainboardis to all teachers, when a spirit of re'st- wootd are not best, undtesie they have lessness and stupidity seems to sweep a wale -proof finish of varnish, oil or the schoolroom. Of, "eourse, Miss paint. 'If a, Woodetn necessary, Bailey isaid to herself, no, human being Mils. Cameron followed a few moments it is better to • have it metal eould be expected to teach Emily Hal:- provicled the s,heets t • h is row decimal fractions But for 'Ray wheel and she was clutching her ly tin, zinc, galvanmi:ecla Farrel -and Julie tShallOp to fail when later. He had caught up her spinning usuait per or lead, are soldiered where they both of thein were as keen as razors! bundde and the other brine vase. are joined and all parts of the' sink And for the whole class to be in- , CHAPTER XV. including the tops of the sidles are different through history and geo- covere.ci with the metal, So that there graPhYl ' It was of no use to keep the special offenders in; if she kept them in she would have to keep the whole room, and she did not feel like doing • that Her only hope was that the morrow -would: be a !better clay. They were all gone at last. With a quivering sigh of weariness Mists Bailey dropped down at her desk. She wanted to think things out, Was there really a difference in the 'children? Or was she getting old -and' "stale"? brow et the cement sink built into a wooden frame Mrs. Cameron cratched it devouring 'and lined with sheet copper or tin thecm. Every line of the sheds and to make a smooth surface. barns, the eaves and corners of the •Enameled-tiron sinks are smooth, home that Donald and she had made, liast well with careful uge and may Was struck against the glarre. be easily kept clea- n but the& ase more The stables fell with a crash. ' expensive than iron. Porcelahi sinks Flames went up „from the new weather-boarth corner of die house. are similar to the enameled ones, but "It's like watching someone you their price is almost prohibitive. Per - love die slowly," she caned. haps the ideal plan, if cost is not to A breath ef wind brought a shower of blackened and burning leaves. By ether side. enameled er porcelain sink for the heart. Butt her s1-113erv15,°r had given The heat was suffocating. The , a flank movement the fire was sweep- tableware in the kitchen or pantry •her'special commendation only last o e n e r ngs g • ' n sP" ng near the dining room and an iron sink month. She eouldn't have changed in Or soapstone sink for the heavier kit- a month, chen ware. • The opening of the door to the The double sinks wish one basin for schoolroom made her turn. And then , . washing rand anotch,er for draining a terrible sinking teen/1g swept dishes, are very convenient, hut un- through her. It was just 'what anyone fortunately they are relatively ex_ I might expect‘of a day like •that; Eirrify Pensive. A small _sink" with a rubber! Haralow's mother was corning to take stopper for its escape pipe may he her to task! , 1 nt house, MTS. Cameron. caught up her restive an,d used ne a dish paMiss Bailey rose automatically. The mettlesome of the horses, ' 't I k d t 1 'half ch I. hall If possibede there sih,ouilcl be a wide vim' Or *()0 e a ler.'s 'Y Yi' . huntdde, Jenny the blue vases end the i started and whinnied as burning , an,Deirdre, ng 1 eaves ec ni.Deirdre threw her shelf cr drain board on . eseh side of eagerly. "Miss .Bailey, I am Emily spinning whl. d tA-i I Ai- k hi Seeks from the stable in which he was l wet blanket over him anct cowered I the sink on the level • with the rim of Ill'al Taw's mother. I have been mean - beginning to whinny with fear, led.' t to him cl - it murmuring the latter, b , nex en et one o ad dt hes rece ve so 1 s i ling to come to see you for weeke but bay! Steady, my PrettY!"keepers have these covered with zin.c. 1 You—Mr. Harrow and I both do—for The Schoolmaster held his own As in alif other places where it is all you have done for EnlibT•" horse and LaISS, startled out of her used, the metal must be neatly fitted "11" miss BaileY gaisPed- peaceful phlegm by th,e terrifying t E si ,, m ther il I I • I' made then- heads reel. Deirdre was mg un gave ut zest; it sprang in long fig-hting a brilliant patch of flames! brilliant leaps aver the quivering tops halt -way aerates the ea.clock when Mrs.' of the trees. Davey and the Sehool- Cameron called to her. I master dropped from their horses. "It's no good, child!" she staid. Her I Mrs. Cameron,, Deirdre and Jenny face was dim with sniroke, hier hands I crouched in the water till the fury burnt a,redi blaeleened. "It's no good; of the flames hacil passed over threir trYing to do any more, we must go I heads. Davey had his hands full to now." keep the cows from breaking away, They ran from the hill -top to tare mad with tetrad% Socks, the most arm, , The temperature of the air hi contact with the ski, a, plates the temperature of the bo4 ,Stan e d;s U shrin abre thielpes'APTI t et10,441-0'" 14S)4.:pas(Earii-16verhe;. i a sliavery streets, .over-e*ertion Sequen, chillirk eXp‘su),,e -t)) and bitinetiind ...."'.. v 1 i t - The soft, pure woolk of Stall fl'eld.'6. 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Steady, old and the other clean ones. Some house- •.we've had Illness. I wanted to thank rear end heat. _ and closely fastened clown, so as not S sm ec a c ear cou Even when. the flames had raeed On ageous smile. "'You've beeri so Pa - to leave any chance for loose, rough. over the tree -tops it was not safe to edges, or to peovide breeding places bient- You 5'e'el We' k11°W .billat Emily , leave the pool. The men and women l'or insetcts OT a lodging place for Will always have a 'hard. time with in it stood in waterr to their waists for grease an& dirt. many studies. And there' have 'been hours, a red haze envelopingthem. If there is no pre,re for 1,,eteienent teachers who -have hurt herneo.' .She The blankets dried, in' a few minutes-. dram n innards, niedeng tn. hinge,d'shei„,„et int dull in other things., only in The bush behind them thrioug-h which may he tasied.. A rig -ht -handed perste/1 hP°4cs• She is really a wonderful little the fire had passecrshowed, trees str.IP- er, to say nothing of being ped at their greenery and outlined ii'').'""Y I ' '" holds the dish in the left hand IleniseheelP tvhille "Wasehing or wiping it, 'and the the dearest little dang-hter in the with' glowing embers. Some of the dead trees besid,ethe peel burned dishcloth, dish IN' mop, or towel, in the arid. That's why we think of her dully, and fluttering red a/elblack- rigiht hand. It is converiient, there- t'eaeheT. as one °± our especialfriends• ened leaves drafted from the saplings. fore, to -have the dishes Move front C°4140 you come to dinner Friday Once Jenny had to dip to her neck night?" Mrs. Harrow went out iit a 1 ew "Look out, Mrs. Carter -on!" Deirdre etas. The teacher's diseoturaged as a 'spark of fire caught her dress,. Dye Skirt Dress cried eharply, hearing a creek and or Faded Draperies niess was gone, It was a, beautiful seeing a glowing bough wlaVer over j Diamond Dyes world with, real lathers and matters Dave's 'mother. .. . __' .in itAnd . , to -morrow weuld be a bet - The Sehroialmastar brushed Mrs. , Each package of il`Diairiend Dyes" 'ter day: i, °arner°11 a'sthded, and 'bile. bough Stru°1' contains directions so Simple that any , „ - his face. Deirdre uttered a low- cry. • . Da.v.ery, too, had fteesi, nee sdb0,0,1_ watian Can dye or tint faded, shabby How Children Can He Trained to Love master's rntovanareet "Are you hurt, Mr. Ferrol?" he asked arenellisaY. "No, it isn't anything at all!" the SehOolimarster replied brusquely, with a half laugh, Mrs, Canteroneherself did not real.. ize what had happened. To the glare ef the fire and the hot reel mists, a few ho•urs before dawn, euceeeded a heavy darkeess, lit skirts, d'resses, waistst 'coats, sweaters, 'stodkings, haeging8, draperieS, every-, thing AIM new, Buy "Diamond Dyes" --no other kind--theif perfect home Music. The educational po.ssibildties. of the Phonograph are coming to be realized rOCere -and' mare,. particularly. In the dyeing is gaaranteed, even if you have kindergarten iand peel:to • sehiaols. never dyed before. Tell your druggist Nees'aclays a phon.ogirripli is part, ,of , whether the niaterial you nei.sh to dye the equiperent of reest up-to-clate is Wool or silk, or whether it ie linen, 'wheels and mere or lieSsz organied cotton, O:s mixed goods, .Dialneltd ea itestee inneastie aPPriseiatton ,enie, inDyes never streak, spot, fade, or min, chided iri the training. But a 'Mono- _ A Reproof That Missed Fire. 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The work of the Harvard TiniveroitY )Ocetdn ,Slus earn of Fine- Arts- expedi-' tion to Ethiopia, which hae event 16 years in Egyptian archaeOlogical ez» ploi.ation•r and is still working there+, Is an example of how Buell explore. tions are carried out, Its search be resulted in the discovery, in an ob. satire village beyond the borders of Egypt, on the banks of the Nile River, of a great number of tombs which were'found to contain the Ihdstory of' 26 generations. of Ethiopian kliigs who ruled. over Egypt, and the recovery - from beneath the deeply drifted sands of material buried and lost to human knowledge for thousands of yearb, re, yealing the arts and crafts of this lost The explorer 'acmes upon a mound, or series of mounds, 'of drifted sand In, the desert in a region known to have been inhabited by ancient races, He sets his trained workmen to clearing' away the sand, after first having made photographs of the undisturbed. site. A,s' soon as -a tomb or pyramid is un. cavered, the stairway leading into the tomb is the first to be cleared. This had, been. filled in after the fliVeraf with the clean debris left after the ex- cavation of the rock -cut chambers and the building -of the pyramid. Then the plunderers came, at some time or. other, and dug a hole in the clean fill- ing of eaeh stairway, this hole after- ward becoming stopped up partly with the things that the grave robbers, threw away as 'valueless, and partly - with drift sand. The robbers were na- turally after the gold and jewels they knew had been buried in the ' royar tombs. It is easy to distinguish betwoen the original filling and the debris of the thieves' tunnel. The objects found the latter usually came from the royal burial chamber and, in the records of' expeditions, have. to be carefully dis- tinguished from other objects. When the doorway at the foot of the stairs!. has been reached, the workmen begin to clear the pyramid above, or another stairway, until the record of the block- ings and measurements of the stairs have been made. After that, the sand is removed, leaving only about 8 inch- es of the floor debris intact. What- ever is foun-cl in the sand ---and it is usually little enough—is considered as having washed in froni the thieves" tunnel outside. When the sand is out, then the serious and difficult work of examining the floor debris and remov- ing it bit by bit begins, and for only the most skilled Egyptian' work- ers areemployed, under the super- vision of a member of the expedition - This floor dirt is to the Egyptologist what pay dirt is to th) gold miner. Miracle Viater in England Works Wonderful Cures. "Miracle" water, said to contain the elixir of life, has been discovered, in. an old well in the little Essex village of Vange. Stories of wonderful cures effected by the water have caused pilgrimages from many parts of the country, people arriving on foot, with teams and in luxurious motor cars. A titled woman who drank less than two glasses said that it made her feel better. A millionaire who drank from the well took a jug of the water away and told the humble owner of the well that if the water (lid *hat was. claimed it would do the man would -never have to do another day's work. An average of more than 500 visit- ors daily have been visiting the well carrying every conceivable sort of rap ceptacle and all ara served free. The "raira.ole" water was teeth:wen. - ed during a drought by an eighty-year- old farmer named George Murrell. He had recourse to a puddle which never seemed to dry up arid used the -water for making tea. It has a curious taste, but a few hours after drinking it Mur- rell felt a strange new vigor within him. '1'he next day he drank more and said. 'I felt better than I ha.d -In twenty years." Murrell told about his discovery to a iseventy-yeait-old neighbor named Charles Cash, wile fourid that the water came from a well. He drank same of it and experienced the same sensation Murrell, On tile adVice of a doctor a sample was sent to rt public analyst in Lon- don, who discovered an amazing cam- , lenation of med i cal properties which, he says, are not equaled even by the tainous springs in 'Bohemia. Then the Piigrinleges began. People suffering from olieumadisin, dygpopsia, gout and skin diseases drank the water land claimed that they were cured. There were many ex -service -men among them. The farmers have been urged tee to make a charge, but they 'will not do So as they think the.spring was Sent by God.' .. Meanwhile the 'village is crowded and tents have been ordered to ac- COMmodate, the visitors. .- 1 Worry and fear d6stroy rn emery, and 'disintegrate lamest all the men- tal faculties. .Faibh, hope, courage, , determination, are positive qualitieS without Which the mincl is a chaos of unwilling impulses. "Sternly weather mail:ea me tired," complained the "Enednr time, it rains I am used ' ,