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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-09-24, Page 7September 24.11It 194 THE WINGH VM TIMES 0 ElliggEOMMEEV Uhe RETURN TAR.ZAN By Edgar Rice Biirroughs 'MEEK?. setsenseesel qS'qS este e/ I -of the heart pressed so close against his own he would not have known that Ake, :she was alive, so white and drawn was theemor, tired face. .And thus ;hey- came to the flat top. ped mountain and the barrier cliffs. During the last mile Tarzan had let himself out, running like a deer that he might have ample time to descend the face o tbe cliffs before the °pad- -ante could reach the summit and hurl rocks`down upon them, And so it was that he was half a "mile down the mountainside ere the fierce little men • came panting to theLedge. With cries of rage and diseppoint- xnent they ranged along :the cliff top, shaking their cudgels and dancing up and down in a perfect passion of an- ger. But this time they did not pur- sue beyond the boundary of their own .country. Whether it was because they, recalled the futility of their former Jong and irksome search or after wit- nessing the ease with which the ape- man swung along before them and the last burst of speed they realized the utter hopelessness of further pursuit • is difficult to say, but as Tarzan ,reached the woods that began at the •base of the foothills which skirted the -barrier cliffes they turned their faces -once more toward Opar. Just within the forest's edge, where .he could yet watch the cliff topse Tar- 'e_an laid his burden upon the grass and, going to the nearby rivulet, brought water with which he bathed —her face and hands, but even this did not revive her, and, greatly worried, he gathered the girl into his strong .arnas once more and hurried on toward :the west Late in the afternoon Jane Porter ..regained consciousness. She did not -open her eyes at once. She was trying :to 'recall the scene§ that She bad last • witnessed. Alai She remembered now. • The altar, the terrible priestess, the de- seendIng knife. She gave a little 'elud- e e , for she thought that either this was death or that the knife had burled itself in her heart and she was expe- riencing the brief delirium preceding .death. And when finally she mustered cour- ,age to open her eyes the sight that met ;them confirmed her fears, for she saw rthat she was being borne through a :leafy paradise in the arm of her dead :love. "If this be death," she murmur- -ed, "thank God that 1 am dead!" "You •spoke, Jane!" cried Tarzan. "You are regaining consciousness!" ' "Yes, Tarzan of the Apes," she re- plied. And for the first time in menthe : a smile of peace and happiness lighted Sher face. "Thank God!" cried the apeenan, .coming to the ground in a little grassy ,clearing beside the stream. "I was in :time after all." "In time? What do you mean?" she .questioned. "In time to save you from death -upon the altar, dear," he replied. "Do :you not remember?" ' "Save me from death!" she asked in at puzzled tone. "Are we not both sdead, my Tarzan?" , Efe had placed her upon the grass by now, her back resting against the stem -of a huge tree. At her que§tion he :stepped back where he could the bet- ter see her face. "Dead!" be repeated, and then he :laughed. "You are tot, Jane, ,and if ,you will return to the city of Opar and :ask them who dwell there they will tell you that I was not dead a few effiort hours ago. No, dear; we are Apcboth very much allre." 'But both Hazel and M. Thuren told me that you lind fallen inte the ocean :a hundred miles from land" she urged as though trying to convince him that be must indeed be dead/ "They said that there waS no question but that it anust have been yoa and less that you •eould have survived or been picked "How can I convince eou that I ant no spirit?" he asked, with a that, _A, slit was I whom the delightful M. l'huran pushed overboard, but 1 did not drown— I Nvill tell you all about It after awhile—and here I am. very, Seaueh the seine wild man you first knew, Jame Porter." The girl rose &only to her feet and reatne toward hire. "X cannot even yet belleee It," she murmured. "It cannot be that Mach happiness can be trite after all the hideous things that 1 have passed thrOugh these awful months since the • Indy Aliett went down." She came chMe to him and laid tt band, soft and tronabiing, OPen etrm, "It most be that am dreaming, and that 1 shall awaken We moment to eee that aWful knife deeeendIng toward lily heart. Eiss me, dear, jest Once before I lose tny &earn ferever," Taman o' the Apes heeded no Odeend invitatiOte Ile took the girl he loved in his strong arbas and kissed her net eeseersotts Fie Took the Girl He Loved In His Strong Arms and Kissed Her. once, but a hundred times, until shei lay there panting for breath. Yet when he stopped she put her arms about his neck and drew his lips down to hers once more. "Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?" he asked. "If you are not alive, my man," she answered, "I pray that I may die thus before I awaken to the terrible reali- ties of my last waking moments." For awhile, both were silent, gazing into each others' eyes as though each still questioned the reality of the won- derful happiness that had come to them. The past, with all its hideous disappointments and horrors, was for- gotten, the future did not belong to them, but the present—ah, that was theirs. None could take that from them. It was the girl who first broke the sweet silence. "Where are we going, dear?" be asked. "What are we going to do?" "Where would you like best to go?" he asked. "What would you like best to do?" "To go where you go, my man; to do whatever seems best to you," she an- swered. "But Clayton?" he asked. For a ma ment be bad forgotten that there ex- isted upon the earth other than they two. "We have forgotten your hus- band." "I am not married, Tarzan of the Apes!" she cried. "Nor am I longer Promised in marriage. The day before those awful creatures captured me I spoke to Mr. Clayton of my love for you, and he understood then that I could not keep the wicked promise that I had. made. It was after we had been miraculously saved teem an attacking lion." She paused suddenly wed looked tip at him, a questioning light in her eyes. "Tarzan of the Apes," she cried, "it was you who did that thing! It could have been no other." He dropped his eyes, for he was ashamed. "How' could you have gone away and left me?" she cried reproachfully. . "Don't, Jane!" he pleaded. "Please don't! You cannot know how I have suffered since for the cruelty of that act or how I suffered them first In jealous rage and then in bitter re- sentment against the fate that I had not deserved. I went back to the apes after that, lute, intending never again to see a humat being." He told her then of his life since he had returned to the jungle—of bow he had dropped like a ptummet from a eivilized Parisian to a savage Wttzlri warrior and from there back to the brute that he had been raised. She nslted him ma* questions, and be tar - rated every detail of his civilized life to her, omitting nothing, for be felt no shame since his heart always had been true to her. When he had finished he sat looking at her as though waiting for her judgment and his sentehce. "I knew that he was not speaking the teeth," she said. "Oh, what ti hor- rible creattre he is!" "Yon are not angry with me then?" he melted And her reply, though apparettir rooSt irrelevant, was truly fetainine. "Is Olga de Conde very beautiful?" ahe asked. And Tarmn laughed and kissed het nein, "Net one-tenth so beautiful as you, deer," he said. She gave a contented little sigh and let her heed rest against his shortlder. Ile knew that he Was forgiVen. CHAPTER XXX. The Passing of the Api-Maro. T. HAT nigbt Tarzan built a (snug little bower high among the swaying branches of a giant tree, and there the tired girl elept, while in a crotch beneath her the apeenan curled, ready, even in Weep, to protect bei'. It took them nut* days to wake the long journey to the coast. Where the way wee easy they walked band in band beuetttb the archiug bows of the [nighty forest, as might in a far gone past have walked their primeval for- bears. Where the underbrush was tangled he look her in his great arms und bore her liglely through the trees. am( the days were all too short. for they were very happy. Had it not been for their :anxiety to reach and stmeor Clayton they would have drawn out the sweet pleasure of that wonder- ful journey indefinitely. On tbe last day before they reached the must Tarzan caught the scent of melt ahead of them—the scent or black men, tie told the girl end eautioned her to maintaiu silence. "There are few friends in the jungle," he remark- ed dryly. In half an hour they came stealthily tete') at small party of black warriors tiling toward the west. As Tarzan saw them he gave a cry of delight. It was a baud of his owu Wazirl. Busull was there and others who had accom- panied him to Opar. At sight of him they danced and cried out in exuberant joy. For weeks they had'been search- ing for him, tbey told him. The blacks exhibited considerable wonderment at the presence of The white girl with him, and when they found that she was to be his woman they vied with ono anotber to do ber homes With the happy Waziri laugh - lug and dancing about -them, they came to the rude shelter by the shore. - There was no sigu of life aud no re- sponse to their calls. Taman clam- beredemickly to the interior of the lit- tle tree hut, only to emerge a moment Inter with an empty tin. Tbowing it down to Busuli, be told him to fetch water and then he beckoned Jane Por- ter to come 111). Together they leaned over the ema- cinted tbing that once had been an English nobleman. Tears came to the girl's eyes as she saw the poor, sunken cheeks and hollow eyes and the lines of suffering upon the once young and handsome race. "He still lives," said Tarzan. "We . will do all that can be done for him, but I fear thateve are too late." What Busuli had brought the water Tarzan forced a few drops between the cracked and swollen lips. He wetted the hot forehend and bathed the piti- ful limbs. - Presently Clayton opened his eyes. A faint, shadowy smile lighted his countenance rts he saw the girl leaning over him. At sight of Tarzan the ex- pression changed to one or wonder- ment. "It's all right, old fellow," said the ape -man. "We've found you in time. Everything will be all right now, and we'll have you on your feet again be- fore you know it." - The Englishman shook his bead weakly. "It's too late," he whispered. "But it's just as well. I'd. rather die." "Where. is M. Thuran?" asked the girl_ (To be Concluded) FEATS WITH THE CAffiie Difficult to Snap, Fast nelovir, at a Given Pont, Only an expert. a itti he .1,1 e much practice, can twee n ea:ewe:go: of a rapidly moving determined point—foi ex:ingots s ex press train W 1 It: : —.1 .1e iqiweilie11,1 at a white etialh mark ire a baseball atteI e inalent the se: strikes it The retteon for this Is woroie: reae there is a certain aperetia hie thee is• tNveen the mental derisinti Iti thing and the :lethal doing of it; am. ond, it takes a vermin newer -in lee time for the impulse given by pressing tee button or squeezing the Indb of a camera to travel to the shutter and open it. The latter mu in it very tine camera be only one -fiftieth of a see• ond, but even the fiftieth of a second in a train goifig 100 feet a second' would mean a difference of two feet. C. 11 Claudy, in an article in the Crimera says thet not more than once In four nttempts will even an expert catch the precise instant he is seeking. The average man paps his camera at the moment the ball is striking the club or racquet, and by the time hls shutter has worked the ball has gone. A tennis ball travels nearly a mile a minute when struck hard. That is ninety -de feet a second, so in a lag ot one-tenth of a second between the pressing of the button and the opening of the shutter Oat: ball will move near- ly ten feet, and Ordinary cameras work no fester than this. So one need not wonder If even experts fail, CLOUD FORMATIONS. What We Know About Them Seems to Be Mainly Guesswork. Many scientists have told us how clouds are Made. Most of the torte books on physical geography tell all about them, but it is all guesswork. Clouds are a mystery. It is tree theY are cOmpoeed Of moisture fleeting in the air, but how did the MOIsture get there? It is held that particles of moisture are evaporated from the ettethl our - face by the beat of the sun. This moistufe does not form IMO elOuds im- ztediate1'. Indeed, the paoilitao Of the IneistUre freln the earth to the uppet air is (Mite invisible. It Watt fOrMarlY supposed that this tneistare Was eine- deleed by the cold ot nao...tansit ait C ON FIDENCE Merchants Spend Money to Gain Jt and Hold By HOLLAND. VOUR confidence is an as- set tha,t every manufac- turer oe reputable goods seees. He spends money to gain it and will take all nec- essary pains to retain it. Your Confidence in the integrity of a manufacturer, your belief that goods bearing a certain brand are always up to stand- ard, is one of the intangible assets known as "good will" and which is regarded by a, business man as essential to bis success. Manufacturers spend mil- lions telling you about their goods. They cannot hope to get this money back by the first transactions. They must make you a customer and keep you a customer. To do this they must make honest goods at an honest price. This accounts for the fact that advertised goods are al- Ways"of high class. It would not pay to advertise goods that will not bear rigid test. The . ADVERTISING CREATES a CONFIDENCE. Then the manufacturer de- pends on the quality of his product fo still further adver- tise it and still further in- crease tbe customer's confi- dence. 4•1111..MIN61, - -- • - tutonin droplet§, which forinnd tfie clouds. - But scientists hold tbat the tiny par- ticles must have something to con- dense upon. They used to tell us that the moisture collected upon dust par- ticles to form into rain drops. Now they are practically agreed that it is something else, but they don't know what. Anyway, when these drops get large enough they accumulate into vapor, forming clouds. 1Vben the droplets get too large and heavy to float in the air they fall to the earth in the form of rain, and this is about all we actu- ally know about clonds.—War Cry. • When Seals Were Food. The gray seal used to serve Cornish- men as an article of diet. Stephen Hawker tells how he and a brother clergyman, having asked a landlady at Boscastle what she could give them for dinner, were told "Meat and taties." They tried t� get her to particularize the meat, but "Meat, nice, wholesome meat, and tatles" was the full extent of her information. When the meat was served it tasted like veal, but was unaccompanied by any vestige of bone that might have enabled the diners to infer its origin. Years afterward Haw- ker lighted on the nature of the "meat" when be read in an old history of Corn- wall that "the people of Boscastle do catch divers young soyles, which, doubtful if they be fish or flesli, conynge housewives will nevertheless roast and do make thereof savory meat."—London Graphic. Twenty Years of Pleasure. St Michael's s church, Macclesfield, England, is noted for its beauty. In "The Manchester and Glasgow Road" Charles G. Harper tells of a curious epitaph. In the churchyard upon one Mary Broomfield, who died in 1755, aged eighty. It reads as follows: "The htef con_earpsef het Itfeefor thee Little Boy Was Not Expected to Live Was taken Sick with Diarrhoea They Were 30 Miles From a Doctor SO GOT DR. FOWLER'S Extract ot WILD STRAWBERRY, Which Cured Him Mrs. Bred Schopff, Pennant, Sask., writes:—"i used ]Jr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry when my little boy was not expected to live. We were thirty miles from a doctor, when the little fellow took sick with Diarrhoea. He at first would sleep nearly all clay, and at night would be in pain, and would have a passaga every five or ten minutes. This went me day end night until he began to pass blood. I gave him "Dr. Fowler's," but without any good effect at first, so I began to give him a larger dose, and soon he began to get relief. It was the only medicine 1 hal in the house at the tune, and 1 always keep it now for inside of three days my bey was out play- ing, and was as well as ever." This grand remedy has been on the Canadian market for nearly seventy years, and is without a doubt, the best known remedy for all Dowel Complaints. Refuse to take any other preparation when you ask for "Dr. rowler's." There is nothing elic that cati be "JUST AS 000D." Price, :hi cents. Sec that the tame- of The Milbure Co., Limited, appears ort the wrapper. Pag:3 _ last twenty years was to Order and provide for her funeral. Her great- est pleasure was to thiak and talk about it. Sbe lived many years; on a pension of ninePence n week and yet saved £5, which at her request was laid out at her burial," Comfortable Disappointments, Next to having the dentist postpone an appointMent to tinker with your teeth what is the most comfortable Ms - appointment you ever experienced? Ours is having only n to lend to the man who drops in to borrow $10.—De- trolt Free Press. Deduction. "Tell tee what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," boasted an amateur sage. "Well, I ate a welsh rabbit and e lemon pie last night" "You're a fool."-eleansas City Jour- nal. Knew Her Weakness. Mrs. Cross—Are you a man or a mouse? Mr. C.—Tbe question is super- fluous, my dear. If I were et mouse you'd be on a chair.screaming.—Phil- adelphie Ledger. Dry. "Why do you associate with all those university professors?" "My doctor says I must live in a dry atinosoherel"—London Telegraph. Would Have Made No Difference. Sir Edward Cook in his "Life of Florence Nightingale" tells a story of a wounded soldier who picked up an- other wounded soldier and stumbled back into. camp with him. The rescued man turned out to be a general, no less, aud when he weft to see his rescuer in bospital tbe latter exclaimed: "I'm glad I didn't know it was your honor. But if I'd known it was you I'd have saved you all the samel" SIBILANTS AND SONG. A Combination That Does Not Produce Satisfactory Results. "Writing verses for the printed page and writing 'words' to be set to music and sung," remarked a gentleman who has won laurels in both departments of industry, "are two very different matters. You can take liberties in the flret case which you cannot in the case of 'lyrics,' as with these you have to consider the isingableneses of the words used. "To avoid sibilants like a pestilence and to use open vowels such as A and 0 wherever possible are the two gold- en rules. English has been called an unsingable language, and certainly Italian and French are more liquid and easier to vocalize in. Open vow- els are very important. Compare, for instance, the sword 'thee,' which is breathed out between the teeth, with its plural 'you,' which enables the singer to opet the mouth widely. The relative singableness is apparent at once. "An excessive use of sibilants pro- duces a ludicrous 'liming sound. (Read the last sentence aloud, and note the effect.) Nevertheless a well known dramatist was once careless enough to give an actor a speech in which he described 'Dick sitting still as a stone and steering the horte splendidly.' — London Answers. BIRDS AND BRAINS. The Canary Web Supplied, While the Poor Hen is Sadly Lacking. Naturalists have arrived at the con- clusion that the brain in birds is large in proportion to the body. If It is ad- mitted that intelligence depends upon the weight of the brain then the gold- finch must be placed at the top of the list of birds. The brain weighs one- fourteeuth of its whole body. It must be remembered, however. that attempts to draw conclusions as to the intelligence of certain birds from a comparison of the weight of the brain with that of the body have been considered futile. In man the brain forms from one - twenty -second to one-thirty-tlaird of the whole body; in the canary, one -four- teenth; the sparrow, one -twenty-fifth; the chaffinch, one -twenty-seventh; the redbreast, one -thirty-second; the black- bird, one -sixty-eighth; the duck, one- two-hundred-and-fifty-soventh; the ea- gle, one -two -hundred -and -sixtieth; the goose, one-three-huudred-and-sixtieth; the domestic hen, one -four -hundred - and -twelfth. By some the preternaturally cunning raven is supposed to be the most high- ly developed of birds. His courage is so great that the eagle respects it, and his intelligence prevents him from gee ting Into unseen though suspected dam gers.—London Spectator. The Industrious Chinaman. Of ail oriental workmen the Chinese are undoubtedly the best, though there may be some with experience of both races who may be disposed to give the palm to the Japanese. A European who thoroughly understands his !easi- ness, and who Is Male to ltnpart his knowledge and his InetructIons in a clear Manner to his Clilnese subordi- nate, and who moreover Is blessed with ti little patience and tact, Nvill find little difficelty in the management and con- trol of Chinese labor Or whatever kind. 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MONTREAL&NEWYORK f"�M1ts 1d, -Vosx:,5,.._35 was Exact Copy of Wrapper. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That' Genuine Castoria Y Always Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA FATHER STUMPED THEM. A Test In Mental Arithmetic That Worried the Students. They had a schoolboy and schoolgirl party at a Brooklyn man's house the other night. Pather and mother were permitted to mingle with the young folks for awhile after the edge of the ; first fun had worn oft. There were games that the elder folks knew noth- ing about, and they sat like walltiow- 1 ers. I Finally a game of arithmetic was started by a boy who is considered the , best cipherer of his class in the hige school. After several problems bad been given of an odd nature, over which there were much laughing and puzzling, father dared to speak up. Said he: "Boys and girls, they used to give us this example in mental arithmetic when I went to school. I suppose It will be easy for you, but it's the best I can suggest to take part in the game." And he recited this couplet: It a third of Mx were three What would a fourth of twenty be? The score of boys and girls present went at it. They wrinkled their brows, and they pursed their lips. The use of pencil and paper was not permitted. The mathematician bad not been among the first to fry an answer. He was plainly a little perplexed. He asked to have the problem repeated and wanted father to reassure him that it was a mental arithmetic exam- ple. Finally he, too, gave an answer. But father shook his head. "Well, then, papa, for goodness' sake tell us what it can be," said his &nigh. ters. "The answer is seven and a half, and I'm surprised to see that I'm able to stump all you high school stars," grin- ned father. "Cotne, mother, we may as well depart. They don't play the same arithmetic games that we did." The high school mathematician at first declared that father was in error. But next day he admitted that the an- swer was dorrect and that all had been stumped. AN OLD TALE OF TWO CITIES. Travel From New York to Philadelphia In Stage Wagon Days. In the New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy of May 9, 1768, appeared this notice: To the Public - That the Had Sum Stomach Troul)le and Sick Headache Could Not Eat Anything Without Agonizing Pain My health is better now than it has been for years, and X owe it to Mils burn's Laxa-Liver Pills:—writes Miss Rose Doyle, Connaught, Ont., "I was for several years troubled with severe stomach trouble and eick headache, Could not eat anything without o.goniz- ing pain. My sick headaches were most violent, and I could not rest night or day. 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