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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-12-10, Page 6XIV 1)111LPOITI issuselltastale Sy taw. ti,AITtRTIlt‘Itt 'CHAPTER L` e T1-1$11W1W03-• Mark Brendon, at thirty-five, al- readY etteetti high in the criminal in- vestigation department a the police. Ile Was indeed abeut as, receive en inspeetorship. Mepak Was taking bolidey •on Darts.. moor, devoting himself to his hobby of trout fishing and accepting the op- leentunity to survey Ids own life from a bird's-eye point of view, measure his achievement, and consiclerimpar- tially his futile, eot only as a detec- tive but as a man. Ilit_foenci himself with five thousand Wands saved as a result of some spe- cial grants during the war and, a large honorarium from the French Government. He was also in posses- sion of a handsome salary and the prospect of promotion, when a senior men retired at no distant date. Too intelligent to find all that life had to offer in his work alone, he now began to think of culture, of human plea - aures, and these added interests and responsibilities that a wife and fam- ily would offer. He was somewhat overweary after a strenuous year; but to Dartmoor he always came for health and rest when opportunity offered, and aow he had returned for the third time to the Duchy Hotel at Princetown. Being a good talker he never failed of an audience there. But better still, he liked an hour sometimes with the prison wardens. For the convict prison that dominated that gray smudge in the heart of the moors known as Princetown held many in- teresting and famous crhninals. He had found an unknown spot where some good trout dwelt and on an evening in mid-June he set forth to tempt them. He had discovered certain deep pools in a disused quarry fed by a streamlet Foggintor Quarry, wherein lay these preserves, might be approached In two ways. Originally broken into the granite bosom of the moor for stone to build the bygone war prison of Princeto-wn, a road still extended to the deserted spot and Joined the main thoroughfare half a mile distant Brendon, however, carne hither by a direct path over the moors. Leaving Princetown railway station -upon his left hand he set his face west where the waste heaved out before him dark against a blaze of light from the sky. Against the western flame appear- ed a figure carrying a basket. Mark Brendon, with thoughts on the even- ing rise of the trout, lifted his face at a light footfall. Whereupon there paesed by him the fairest woman he had ever known. She was slim and not very tall. She wore no hat and the auburn of, her hair, pied high above her forehead, tangled the warm sunset beams and burned like a halo round her head. And she had blue eyes—blue as the gentian. Their size hnpressed Brendon. She walked quickly with a good stride and her slight, silvery skirts and rosy, el:ken jurnper showed her figure clear:y enough—her round hips and firm, girlish bosom. Her eyes met his for a moment with a frank, trustful expression, then she had passed. The vision made Mark pensive, as sudden beauty will, and he wondered about the girl. es, Tramping forward now, the detec- tive came to a great crater that gaped on the hillside and stood above the dead quarry workings of Foggintor. Underneath him opened a cavity with sides two hundred feet high. Mark proceeded to the extreme breadth of the quarry, fifty yards northerly, and stood above two wide, still pools in the midst. Trout moved and here and there circles of light widened out on the water and rippled to the cliff beyond. Mark set about his sport, yet felt that a sort of unfamiliar division had come into his mind and, while he brought two tiny -eyed flies from a box and fastened them to the hair-like leader he always used, there persisted the thoeght of the auburn girl—her eyes blue as April-11er swift, delicate tread. He began to fish as the light thick- ened; but he only cast once or twice and then decided to wait half an hour. He grounded his rod and brought a brier pipe and a pouch of tobacco from his pocket. The things of day were turning to slumber; but still there persisted a clinking sound utter- ed incmotonously from time tetime, which the sportsman supposed to, be a bird. It came from behind the great acclivities that ran opposite his place Be mire this trade mark is on the cheese you buy. Our re. . , putation sa , behind it ere is ifm)irfat CitoieS SallaaA No. 4-'h , ler the pools, Bread= eusidenly per- ceived that it Was no natural nom but arose from soiree leilrean activity. It was, in fact, the nnielcel note of a mason's trowel, and when presently it eeased, he was annoyed to hear heaVy fecasteps in the quarry. . .Abl, broad man approached hire, clad in a, Norfolk jacket and knickere backers and a red waistcoat with gaudy brass butteas. The stranger stopped as he saw Brendon, straddled his great legs, took a cigar from his mouth and spokei Uhl Yau've found 'eta, then?" "Found what?' e.eked the detective, "Found these trout. I come here for a swim sometimes. I've wondered why I never saw a rod in this hole. There are a dozen half pounders there and possibly some bigger ones." It was Ivlarit's instinctive way to study all fellew creatures with whom he came in conta•ct. He saw a pair of broad, shoulders and a thick neck over which hung a square, hard jaw and a determined chin. Then came a big mouth and the largest pair of moustaches Brendon remeenbered to have observed on any countenance. They were of a foxy reds and beneath them flashed large, white teeth when the big maa talked In rather grating tones. His hair was a fiery red, cut close, and of a hue yea more violent than his mous- taches. The big man appeared friendly, though Brendon heartily wished him away. "This belly place seems to bewitch people," said the big man. The other laughed. "There is a magic here. It gets into your blood. "So it does. A man I know is build- ing himself a bungalow out here. He and his wife will be just as happy•as a pair of wood pigeons—at least they think so." "I heard a trowel clinking." "Yes, I lend a hand sometienes when the workmen are gone. But think of it—to turn your back on civilization and make yourself a home in a desert!" "Might do worse—if you've got no ambitions." "Yes—ambition is not their strong point. They think love's enough— poor souls. Wehy delft you fish?" ' "Waiting for it to get a bit darker." "Well, so long. Take care you don't catch anything that'll pull you in." Laughing at his joke, the red man strode off through the gap fifty yards TIM snub:GER STOPPED At Eri SAW BRENDoN. distant Then in the stillness Mark heard the purr of a machine. Ile had evidently departed upon a motor cycle to the main road half a mile distant. When he was •gone Brendon rose and strolled down to the other en- trance of the quarry that he might se the bungalow of which the stran- ger had !spoken. film day grew very dim and the fret of light and shadow died off the earth, leaving all vague and vast and featureless. Brendon returned to his sport and found a small "coachman" flysufficiently destructive. The two pools yielded a dozen trout, of which he kept six and returned the rest to the water. Tramping back under the stars, his thoughts drifted to the auburn girl of the moor. Four evenings after his first fishing expedition to the quarries, Mark de- voted a morning to the lower waters of the Meavy River; at the end of that day, not far short of midnight, when glaeses were empty and pipes knocked out, half a dozen men, just about to retire, heard a sudden and evil report. Will Bake, "Boots" at the Duchy Hotel; was waiting to extinguish the lights, and seeing Brendon he said: "There's something in your line happened, master, by the look of it. A pretty bobbery to -morrow." "A coevict escaped, Will?" asked the detective, yawning and longing for bed. "That's about the only fun you get up here, isn't it?" ' "Convict escaped? lelo—a.rnan done in seerningy, Mr. Pendean's uncle -in- law have slauglitered Mr, Pendean by the looks of it" "And who is Mr. Pendeah?" "The gentleman what's building the burigalow down to Foggintor!" Mark started. The big red man fiaehed to his mind edmplete in every physieal feature. He described him, and Will Blake replied: "That's the allele that'e done it, That's the gentleman's uncle-in-lew I" Brendon went to bed and slept no worse for the tragedy. Nor, wheu mornibg came and every maid and men desired to tell him all they knee+, did he show the least interest Ile Was jest slipping on a reaneoat and about to leave the hotel When Will Blake appetited end handed him a letter. He felt tutees -is arid, not as- soelating the facideet With the runlet - ed erime, get down his rod and creole NURS hi li!tionte Httet ,ter thritNhtot,' ttlaettert hatiCaettewe mut Autod tteolt4.10, hit* toot env. torte e.,,thrte :rime coot**, el Ttethinis to )(the! wow& hemitit tht fretitt!ratu etluchaen. COO All 'RSA at ate -Willa* hur.. 114 Habitat441. et440t04 lb* Solo* , - blow eoteet, The huhu& rehehre uoteteet et. the soot, altaltianne ;PO #04104' eat:vises ha OTTO froila No* York;., 14.e cutlass. InletMelton Tit the SunerialteialivOt kisice etetneseeeeseelet opeeed the note, and read what was written; s • a Station Cottages, Prince -town. "Dear Sir: The mice have told nie tbat you are in Priecetown, and it seeme as though Provideeee had sent you. I fear diet I have no right te seek your services directly, but if you can aesw r the prayer of a heart- broken woman and give her the bee- f your genius in this dark moment, she would be unspeakably thaakfal. Faithfully yours, "Jenny Penclean." Mark 13renclon murrnired. 21222 gently under bis breath. Then he turned to Will. sesnithere is Mrs. Pendeidn's house?" he asked. "In Station Cottages, just before you come to the prison mods, sirs" "Run over then, and say I'll call in half an Neer." (To be continued,) Dirigible Balloons. aThe first dirigible balloon was made by the Rebert brotherst, by direction of the Duke or C,hartiere, in Prance, in 1874, within a year after the first bal- loon in •the world was sent into the air. The dirigible was fieh-shaped. That te about all that is known of it, except that it provided for propuleion by means °roars. In 1834 Count de Len- nox, another Frenchman, built one, which was to be propelled by oars driven. by twenty men. The eialloon was so hearY With ita crew that it could het elsa from the ground and was smashed by the SPeei- tatore. In 1850 another Frenchmen eonceived the idea of an airship with four balloons which were to oupport a' platform 200 feet long andethirty feet wide but he could not design a powee plan to work the sorews that were to propel It Henry Ger:feed, of Paris, built a dire gib& in 1852 and another in 1855. In 1883 Renard and Krebs built one ethich was driven successfully byau electric m•otor and screws. Ferdinand Zeppelin acquired his taste for bal- looning while fighting on the Union side in the American Civil War. Re- turning to Germany, he saw service in the war against Austria. In 18a5 ba began importuning the German war office to build a dirigible balloon, says the Indianapolis News. At this time he was regarded as something as a monomaniac. In. 1900 he had finished his tret dirigible. There was not a great deal of difference betwren Zep- pelin's first airship and those that fol- lowed, for he 'clung throughout to his --basic idea whioh has _come to be ac- cepted, a series of separate gas con- tainers within a large cylindrical bull. Instead of rudders Zeppelin raised and lowered his early models by means of a sliding weight. His second air- ship west built In 1906. Improvements in power plants came gradeally. Itt leas than ten years after the Kaiser had termed Zeppelin a visionary he was hailing him as "the greatest Ger- man in the twentieth century." He was decorated with the order of the Black Eagle and made a knighein the Prussian Order of Merit. It was with dirigible aircraft •that G-erniany .bomh- ed England. A Poem Worth KnOwing. "How Sleep the Brave." William Collins died in the year that Robert Burns, the Scottish Bard, first saw the light. During tile last nine. years of his life he -was insane. In view of the fact that the seventh anniversary of the Armistice was cele- brated on. November llth, the follow- ing exquisite lines have a special in- terest: How sleep the Brave who stink to rest, By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, -Returns to deck their ballOwed moulds She there shall drese a sweeter sod Than Fancy's, feet have ever trod. By fairy handtheir knell is rung, • By forms uneeen their dirge is ,sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their elay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwelf a weeping hernia there! elves eatsevee. Envy. •• Envions, Bug "Oh, elineks, why haven't I got a lot of arms 'to r can • be a great juggler like M. go:dere, etee, A Modeet Youth, "Are yon marrying a eeneiblo girl?" teased eie uecie. , "Of, course I am. Isn't she shoesin ehe is marrying me?" demanded, hes, egotietleal hephew. • • Minardes lefrilincnt fersstift &fusel 1081 A dinC, AND DISTINCTIVE STREET FROCK. Plaits are a popular way of ad- mitting fulness, and are frequently shown at the sides, stressing a prac- tical nate. This model embodies chic and youthfulness, with its bodice hav- ing a round neck'tnd kimono shoul- ders, to which ldng sleeves are joined. A narrow band. holds the sleeve ful- ness smigly to the wrist. Balbriggan, kasha or the new soft flannele would lend themselves to this pattern, whiah is cut all in Ole:piece go. 1081 is in sizes 16,•18 arid 20 years (34: 36 and 38 inches bust). Size 18 years (36 bust) requires 314 yards of 36 or 40 - inch material for theedress with long sleeves; or 2% yards for dress with short sleeves. rice20 cents.' Many styles of mail apparel may be found in our new Fashion Book. Our designers originate their patterns in the heart Of the style centres, and their creations are those of tested pbesularity, brought :within the 'means of the average woman. Price of the beak 10 cents the copy. • HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.• • Write your name and address plain - 1, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your orders -to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns 1-ent by return mail. Sunken Cities. An Arab fisherman of Jetta, the "Isle af Lotus Easters," recently re- turned to • the island with a strange tale. He said that bending over the side of his -little boat,. about five hun- dred yards from the -shore, he had seen what looked like esecitY at the bottom of the sea,. His story was at once in- vestigated by experts. 'They saw the city under the sea—they could even distinguish the streets.. - It is believed that this submarine towrt is one of the ancient ports Of the Phoenicians, and it is hoped that in- formation of the greatest -value re- garding this people and their civilizes' thie will be gained- as a result of fur- ther investigations. • A "arelimintaiy eurvey is lo be cerried out by aero- planes, and after that it"is probable that, divera will explore the sunken atty. Submarine ities exist, or are re- puted to exist, In 'other parts of the world, The Duteh will tell you that soveral ruined towns artitilt at tre bottom of the Zuider Zee, and the legendary city of Vineta is said to lie off the coast of Milstein. On quiet days, so the fishermen, of he region will assure you, the tolling of the bells In the spires of its sunken Churches may be heard at see._ The Emerald isle can alto boast of its submarine towne. AccOrding to Ies gend, the waters of 'Killarney and Lougheateagli cover two cities that were famous in the golden age of an - fent Irish civilization. , Yet another submarine city- famous in legend is said to, have stood where the Bar of Douaruez, near Quinxper,in Brittany„ is now. This city was built elo vs s ea -1 e vel, and' Was .reno wn e a for beauty- awl ,ktagnificenCe. "But a 'certain Princees Debut, being tired' ei life and wishing ' that ber sepulchre might be truly royal, ()inflect' the sluice gates, tbfla letting in the. waCer, whiah overwhelmed both aergelf and the • But the most Timone or ell sunken cities,. are those at Atlantis, that lost continent whioli its! &ant to have atood, long centuries befere begirding of the Christian era betesseen tbe*Ohe World and the New, aria whoze splaadors, ace •ooraieg to one modern theuey, are naw bidden by the seaweed of the Salsas's() Sea, A Miele Undeegreund, Ois account of the• intenee cold in the Yukon, a Cabeditui camparty plans •to ereet an undetgrouna infil for dress'- , . 'frig. mei fa:MI its gold Minis.- VfP Reno 'Mc/se who htave noeci Japan, Young 11*.son or Gunpovvder Tea. will appre. ciate the esuperrofity of this delicatous blend' alvva7s so pu're and rich. Tr r it. Great Britairetooks to Dominion for Empire Supply— Afforestation Work in Old Country. The rapidity With which European tour of inspeetion, Mr. Cameron saw thousands oe acres of plantations cov- ered with Douglas lir and Sitko spruce grown from Canadian 'seed collected for the British Government by the .Forest Service of the Depertment of the Interior. As interesting perhaps as the peen- tations themselves is the clefelop- ment of the "forest tiolidays" policy of the British ForestrYConunission, The intimate cotrelation of forestry- and The Most striaingerait of Canadian • 1 fe to,new arrisrales terratureae is the nienner'in Which the Deminien swhieb. 01,43)"` have eonsitlered aaa, very mea144 tlerefore rivw and -crude aamitjr*444 brought Mee general, everyday usage ; the mostemodern and up-to-dete eons yenienees told amenities which levee: - t, on has given to tlx sworld. The resi- dent of Canada, for instance, assess not appreciate his countere prominent petite:et in regard to the use of the telephone :anal he visetts Eurape, • where the inCenyenienCe and irritat- ing lose of time arising from the lack of this means .cif communication (trivets It ettrikingly hone). The approach of the semi -centennial of the inveetien of the telephone ana.kes it an appropre ate •time to briefly' siirVey Canada's achieveramet itt thia e,ganection and fix the position ba the Doininion among ether •cmintries in this connection. In 1921 the Canadian census eldowed a population •Of 8,788,483, and at the end of 1924 there were -over 1009,203 telephones in operation througho the Dominion. This works out eat 'eleven telephoneseper 100 of populae dare' or eleten peF'ceet, and in re- enact to „this desveleemeet Canada takes ,second plade only to the United States, where the figure is 13,7 •Per cent., - among theeountries. of the world. Furthermore, the gross earn- ings per telephone are lower in Can- ada thee in any other country oe which- . there is record. The gross. earnings- per telephone for the fiscal year 1923 in the. Netherlands were - $61.17; in Great Britain $58 . 18 ; in the United States $1e.49; and in Can- ada $43,14. - Phones General on Farms. This development is by no means connned to the older, more developed, and establisbed eections of the coun. try, but, on.the contrary, is more. pro. flounced itt the nested' Western teed. tory. For 'some time, for instarice, the city of Calgary in Alberta has lea the entire world in (regard to the number' of telephones per capita of populatiou, with, at- the preeent time, ene tele- phone to every four:and a fraction. re- sidents. Practically the same situa- tion is . to be found throughout the other cities of Western Canada And the telephone in Canada is not by any means ,Confined to urban centres, but enters Most intimately ins to the life of the farm, both in a buslee nes sand se'cial sense. It is interesting to note' that in the Province ef Mani- toba, where tae population is des- cribed as rare.' to the extent of about 60 per cent, there is a telephone to every eight residehts, and that in the Province of Saskatchewan there are two rural telephone -subscribers • tie every urban subscriber, a situat' which is eta -galled by only four stales of the Union. Vale ist a yery gratifying state of .af- faiess-and eloquent of Canada's marked progress in all directions. along the most modern lines. The telephone lie's, come to enteie most intimately in- to every phase of Cattedian life •and more especially- 'the agricultural. The line of telephone poles follows rapidly in the wake of agricultural settlement and the farmer given adequate toucti with that world from which he is apart yet with whicla he transacts business. The extenseon of the phone through- out the remoter farming settlements of' Canada is a situation of which the poorly supplied European can form no conception. countries are realizing that Canada's forest resources are destined to play an increasing part ine supplying world needs, and the growing attentien be- ing gocused on our timber supplies, marketing facilities., methods of cons servation, and appalling fire leases .Were brought out at recent forestry confeences held in France an Great Britain. The mother cciusatry, par- ticularly, looks, to Canada ea. the great storlhouse of Empire timber. The Bri- agriculture is recognized InsGreat Bri- tish Association for the Advancement tain, and in the extensive afforestation .projects an opportunity- is seen for es= tab/telling Permanent rural coinumni- ties. dependent an both foreatry and agricaltuee ;or the livelihood.. Ac- eordinglee the Forestry-Cominissioners aoguire agrieultural lands adjoining the plantations and leasethena on easy terms, The lessees are guaranteed not less than 150 daywork per annum from the Comrialesion and haveethe re- mainder of the year to attend to their -agricultural pursuits, In this' way, not only is the farmer Sure of a steady cash income to supplement the pro- duction of his farm, but the 0031112iii- Mondale° secures a reliable and in- terested labor supply. The number of holdings is of course determieed by the labor requerernents of the plantation project. The'rate of afforestation is so adjusted that plant- ing will continue year ley year until such time as the eatliest plantations. will produce marketable thinnings. 'Phe work requiaed to thin ,these areas will occupy the time of the inert eno louger needed for. planting. " Thinning - operation% are in turn adjusted to last until the timber on older areas reaches maturity and the final °roes can be harvested. Following harvest- ing eacharea will ,again be planted. acres of _what ecoula otherwise be This foreet holdiugs policy is cen- -chiefly waste lead.' Since it began its sidered by authorities to be one of the work five years ago the Commission soundestt and moal feasible "back -to - has planted 52,500 acme and, assisted the -land" movementa net advanced in local .authorities and private owners to the British Isles.. The supplementing plane another 50,000 acres, resulting of farm work with forestry labor, paid in 184,00.0,090 new trees la Englana, in peel), enables the holder to bring Wales, ,and Scotland. The .program eilider agriculture, lands formerly 'too poor to support a familysin Great Bri- tain. The baste of the whole is /the treatment of the forest as a -crop to be handled in perpetuity, rather than as a mine to be exploited and abandoned. of Science, one oi the largest and most authoritative organizations of scientists. In the world, stressed for- estry problems at its 1.925 meeting at Southanipten, England. The' special forestry section, which wase founded at last years' meeting of the Associa- tion in-Toasento, Canada, was particu- larly active and showed promise of developing, in the near future, into one of the strongest constituents of the Association. The DePartra-ant of the Interior, Canaaaewes represeated at the meetings of this seetion by Mr. D. Roy Cameron, Assistant Director of Forestry., who. during the -past riea- Ion spent sernesweeks In Europe mak- ing a- study of forest conditions and methode of conservation. One -of the most noteworthy, papers presented befdiee the forestry section of the British Association was given bfLord Lovat, Chairman of the Bre fieh Ferestey Commission, describing the progress in post-war forestry de- velopment in the British Isles, and the Commission's plans for the future. The Commission is conducting a very extensive afforestation program and 'beginning this fall 39,000,000 frees will be planted in Great Britain. BY the oaring these trees will oocupy 2e,000 spread over ten years provides fox the planting of 250,000 acres, with 450,000,- 000 trees. while, aceompanyieg -Lord Levet-, Chafrman of the Commission, on a - Parks Wild Animals Losing Salt From Sea on Land. ' Fear of Man. Studies in England contiuned ova, a - - period of 26 years show that the sea deposits an average of 3,6.1 pounds of salt per acre on the land. Each succeeding year's round of tourists bring new expressions of wen - demerit and surprise at the rapidity with which -the wild animals in the da.naclian National parks are hieing their fear of man. Parke' officials, who administer wild life. Protective measures, have watched this condition develop and to them it was to be est: pected, but te the tourist new to the _park% the holding up of one'e, ear on a park highway by a band :of friendly Rocky -Mounain sheep is a novel ex- perience. Visitors -to Rocky Mountains park in Alberta are always sure to have close- up views of mountain sheep and other wild animals at diffeeent points en the highways, and bearssare frequent visitors to the outskirts of meat of the towns in the parks. In the past year or. two elk, aiming the most wary of animals, have been reported to have mare their appearance ou the golf links at Banff whileplaywas in pro- gress. In the early. part of October of this year about fifteen elk trotted out on the fairway of the 13th hole, eon their way from the Bow river to the upland. forests. These exhibitions of anlinal friendliness are not confined to ROcky IVIouritains bark. In JasPer park, on the occasion of Sir Douglas., 'Haig's._ visit in July of this year, two young black bears interrupted tbe Ieield Marahaire game by their appear- ance on the links. The growth in numbers of Wild ani- mals- in the peeks and the ease with which they may be 'incountered and ',hate -graphed. is year by year becom- ing a"greateieettractiert to tourists. 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With the aid of a motor -driven fan, tbreezes and even gales of various in- tensities, were imitated to aocelerate the forest fires produced on a minute wale Forest litter, bark,gotten wood, pine needleff—all the ordinary forest fuels—Were expeeed to ignition. , The results showed, ealrly conclu- sively that the senouldeeing tobacco from pipes would start fires, in almost every instance, whenever it fell on Well aireleied material, and with very slight aid from, the winds In this retepect, pipe heels far out- did either cigar or cigarette, and In tbese teste Was outdone only by the 'se e, lighted matoke which maintained a riFic 110 per ceet. record as a lire starter. The inferer:ce is that the pipe smoker can no ,Ionger be considered free from suspicion, MS he ha's been in some in- stancess but eleould be eubjeot to the same restrictions as the user of the "lailorettade" eigarette and tbe cigar. The foresters point out, however, that- itt the degree of thoughttulnees aria, cave that the smoker exercises, in ells - Peeing of his niatcheS, snipes., butts and pipe heels, rather than what he emokes, that toncerne tbesn most. see. its, • Why is it easy to bre** into an old enan's house? Ilecanse eile locks are f eve and hie gait to bronco,.