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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-09-09, Page 7September 9th, 1915 THE WINGHAM TIMES ternai over Edgar Rice Burroughs copyright. 1914, by W. o. Chapman 1 The Story by Chapters .-.-11-11-- Chapter 1,--A Hundred Thou - send Years. Chapter 11.—Today. .Chapter 111. ---The Young Hunter. Chapter IV. ---The Dream Mate. Chapter V.—The Zebra Killer, Chapter VI.—The Ancient Trail. Chapter VII, --The Lonely Man. Chapter VIII. --A Pi -leaner. Chapter IX.—The Hunt. Chapter Xe—The Death Dance. Chapter Xis --Happiness? ' _ _,.11._.11_ SYNOPSIS theson otNu, is shut up in a cave +"ti.' an earthquake 100,000 years ago. He )bus e. sweetheart. Nat -UI.. (Chapter II, Continued) -I this juncture they were joined bg -ice se members of the party, so that further reference to the subject wag ' Mae by either. At the Clayton' they toad that ex 'edition had been made to the number •-m guests by the 'unheralded advent o! •Isro khaki clad young men, one of *Isom rose and came forward to meet .the returning hunters while thby Were yet a hundred yards away. was a tall, athletic appearing As Victoria Custer recognize! Ills features she did not know whether bo be pleased or tingry. Here was tti see man she had ever met who came I barest to the sealizattoi ot ber drew win, and this ono of all the others bad ."tttsewer spoken a word of have be hen. Ins companion, who had new rti011i te0131 the cool shade of the low seem.' .i, was also coming forward, but most ••lowly, the set of his shoulders andithe • $wing of his stride betokening his min Arley vocation. 1 "Mr. Curtiss!' exclaimed Victoria -rM looking past him. "And Lleuten- :ant Butzowt Where in the w.irld did 'you come from?" "The world left uo." replied the odi- •eer, smiling. "and we have followed ,ber to the wilds of equatorial Africa" "We found Nebrnslta a very tame place after you and Barney left." er- $piained Mr. Curtiss, "and when t dis- covered that Butzow would ncc•um- pany me we lost ho time in following you, and here we are throwing: unr- •setees upon the mercy and hospitality of Lady Greystoke." '`I have been trying to <•onrin"o them," said that Indy, who bad now joined the party at the foot of the veranda steps. "that the obligation is all upon our side. It taxes tier ini:--- nuity and the generosity of our frieucis to keep the house eveu half°full of .congenial companions." It was not until after dinner that night that Mr. William Curtiss. had an .opportunity to drew Miss Victoria .Custer away from the others upon come more or less Hazy pretext that he might explain for her ears eloui4 just why he had suddenly found Bea- trice. Neb.. such a desolate pure and had realized that it was impera- tive to the salvation of his life and happiness thai he travel halfway round the world in search of a certain sleu- ,der bit of femininity. This usually self possessed young :than stammered and hesitated like a 'bashful $P1100lboy speaking his Friday afternoon piece. but finally he nen, .aged to expel frohm his system more 1. less coherently the feet tint he wits w ry much in love with Vfa•ioria• a•ns. tc and that he should never neain eat •Or sleep until she had protnisist to be hi' wife- For 7 Years 'Was Troubled With Her Liver. 4• iibuirn's taxa -Liver pills CV12ER HER Mrs. E.L. Hurst, 61 Symington Ave., "Toronto, Ont., writes: "I have been 'troubled with my stomach and liver :for the past seven years; also liave.had .constipation, causing ]headache, back- ache and dizzy spells, and I would almost fall down. I tried all kinds of remedies ivithout obtaining any relief. I com- menced using 112ilburn's Laxa-Liver Pills, :and they have cured me. I have rccoir- mended them to many of my friends, ar,d they art all very much pleased with the results they have obtained from their ,use." Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are the ,original so be sure and get "Mill:thru's" when you ask for them. Price, 25e, a vial or Ti for t'1.110, at :1l dealers or mailed direct on receii:t c f price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, 'Toronto, Ont, youth--itnd- beauty` becanpe"startltfgry apparent. lie looked about bins upon the ground, and not finding that which he teeugft, turned his eyes upward toward the Mountain until they fell upon the cave mouth be had just quitted so pre- cipitately. quickly he clambered back to the caverns his. stone hatchet and imife beating egotist his bare hips as he climbed. For a moment be was lost to view within the cave, but presently he "Merged, in one hand a stone tipped spear, which seemed recently to have been broken and roughly spliced with taw tendons; and in the other the sev- ered head of an enormous beast, wbteh Moire nearly resembled the ,rey al tiger d Asia than it did any other beast, tbongb that resemblance was little closer than is the resemblance of the royal Bengal to a house kitten. The young man wax Nu, the son of Nn. P'or a hundred. thousand years he had lain hermetically sealed in his rocky tomb, as toads remain in stts- pended animation for similar periods of time. The earthquake had unseal- ed his sepulcher. and the rough tumble down the mountain aide bad induced reapint non. Elia heart pumping of There was a strong appeal to the girl in tine masterful thing the man bad done In searching her out in the wilds of Africa to tell her of his love, for it seemed that be and Butzow bad forced their way with but a handful of car- riers through a" very savage section of the jungle because it was the shortest route from the coast to the Greystoke ranch. Then there was that about him ,whleb appealed to the sante attribute of her nature to welch the young giant of her dreams appealed—a primitive strength and masterfulness that left her both frightened and happily help- less in the presence of both these strong loves, for the love of her dream man was to Victoria Custer a real and living love. Curtiss saw assent in the silence which followed his outbreak, and, tak- ing advantage of this tacit encourage• runt, he seized her hands in his and drew her toward him. ' • "Oh, Victoria," he whispered, "tell me that thing I wish to hear from your dear lips! Tell me that even a tenth part of my love is returned and I shall be happy!" She looked up into his eyes, shining down upon her in the moonlight, and on her lips trembled an avowal of the love she honestly believed she could at last bestow upon the man of her choice. • In the past few moments she had thrashed out the question of that other unreal and intangible love that had held her chained to a dream for years, and in the cold light of twentieth cen- tury American rationality she had found it possible to put her hallucina- tions from her and find happiness in .the. love of this very real and very !earnest young man. "Billy, she said. "I"-- Bat she got no further. i l even as the words that would have bound ber to him were foraging upon liar toots* there can a low, sullen rumbling from the bowels Of the earth —the ground rose and fell beneath then u the swell of the sea rises and ta11x. Then there came a violent trembling and shaking and a final deafening eras& in the distance that might have accompanied the . birth of mountain itanges. ! With a little moan of terror the girl alrew away from Curtiss, and then, before he could restrain ber, she bad turned and lied toward the bungalow. At the veranda steps she was met by the other members of the house party and by the Greystokes and nu- merous servants, who bad rushed out at the trat premonition of the coming shock. Barney Custer saw his sister running toward the house and, knowing ber terror of finch phenomena, ran to meet ben (lose behind her came Curtiss, just in time be see the girl swoon in her •brother'a arms, Barney carried her to her room, ;where Lady Greystoke. abandoning the youthful Jack to his black mammy, Blemeralda. ministered to her. CHAPTER i11. The Young Hunter. HE 'shock that bad been felt so plainly in the valley had been much more severe in the maintains to the south. In lone place an overhanging cliff had split and failed away from the face of the mountain, tumbling with a mighty roar into the valley below. As it hurtled down the mountain aide the moonlight, shining upon the fresh scar that it had left behind it upon the hill's face, revealed the mouth of a gloomy cave, from which there tum- bled the inert figure of an anitrlal, ,which rolled down the steep declivity In the wake of the masa of rock that had preceded it, the tearing away of •ovhieh had opened up the cavern in which It had labs For a hundred feet perhape the body relied, coming to a stop upon a broad ledge. For some time it lay perfectly motionless, but at last a feeble move- ment of the limbs Was diseernible. Then for another Reg period it Ovral titiiet. Minutes dragged Into hours, and still the lonely thing lay upon the lonely Mountain side, while upon the plain be- low it hungry Ilona moaned and roared, and all the teeming life of the savage Wilds took up their search for fetid, their sleeping and their love making vtbere they had dropped them in the Might of the earthqutike At lest the stars paled, and the east- ern horizon glowed to a new day, and then the thing upon the ledge sat up. it Was a man. Stitt partly da#ed, be drew his hand acrose his eyes and Wired itbout him in bewilderment; then, etaggertng a little, he rotes to his feet, and ars be come erect, the new sun shining on his bronzed limbs Mud Isis shock Of black hair, toughly crop- erd, between anereanei stonee, .,¢1 bad responded to the his lunge, and simul- taneoual,, the other organs of his body bad resumed their various functions. • An he stood upon the threshold of the cave of teo. the man hunter, the look of bewilderment grew upon his -features ax his eyes roved over the panorama of the unfamiliar world which lay spread below him. There was scarce an object to remind him of the world that bad been but a brief Instant before; for Nu could not know that ages had rolled by since he took hasty refuge in the lair of the great beast be bad slain. He thought that be might be dream- ing, and so he rubbed his eyes and 'looked again; but still he saw the un- familiar trees and bushes about him and, farther down in the valley, the odd appearing vegetation of the jungle. Nu could not fathom the myatery of it. Slowly he stepped from the cave and began the descent toward the valley, for be was very thirsty and very hun- gry. Below bim he saw animals gran• Jag upon the broad plain, but even at that distance he realized that they were such as no mortal eye had ever before rested upon. Warily he advanced, every sense alert against whatever new form of danger might Lurk in this strange new world. Had be had any conception of Her scares Were So Bad Thought She World Go Out of tiler Mind. 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Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont, Slowly He Stepped From the Cave and Began the Descent Toward the Valle a. a life after death he would doubtless* have felt assured that the earthquake had killed him and that he was now wandering through the heavenly vale. But men of Nu's age bad not yet con- ceived any sort of religion other than a vague fear of certain natural pbe- nbmena, such as storms and earth- quakes, the movements of the sun and moon and those familiar happenings which first awake the questionings of the primitive. Ile saw the tun, but to him It was e different sun from the great, *swollen orb that glad shone through the thiek. humid ntimospheie of the Neocene From Oo's lair only the day before be had been able to see in the distance the shimmering surface of the restless sea, but now fie far as eye could reach there stretched an interminable jungle of gently waving tree tops, except for the toIlingg plain. at his feet, where yester- day the black jungle of the ape people had reared ita torte fronds. Nu shook his bead. It was all quite beyond him, but there were certain things which 'he could comprehend: and so, after the manner of the self reliant, he Set about to wrest his live- lihood from nature under the new con- ditiOns which bttd been ithposed upon him *bile he slept. First of ail, his spear mast be at- tended ttended to. It would hover do to trust to that cr'nde patch longer their it would take him to and and fit a new haft Ws meat frust 'watt until that thing was accomplished. In the meantime he might pick up What trait was available in the forest toward which he Wag bending hitt steps in search of a long, straight shoot of the bard Wood' 'bIch alone Wald meet hitt rc9o1Lein'ef - In the days tiiitt had been Nu's there had grown in isolated patches a few Ione clumps of very straight hardwood trees. The smaller of these the men of the tribe would cut down and split lengthwise withstone wedges until from a single tree they might have produced material for a score or more spear shafts, but now Nu mnst seek the very smallest of saplings, for he had no time to waste in splitting a lar- ger tree. even had be had the necessary wedges and hammers. Into the forest the youth crept, for, though 100,000 years bad elapsed since bis birth, be was still to all intent and purpose a youth. Upon all sides he saw strange and wonderful trees, the like of which had never been in the forests of yesterday. The growths were not so luxuriant or prodigious, but for the most part the trees offered suggestions of alluring possibilities to the semiarboreal Nu, for the branches were much heavier and more solid than those of the great tree ferns of his own epoch and commenced much nearer the ground. Catlike he leaped into the lower branches of them, reveling 'in the ease with which he could "travel from tree to tree. Gay colored birds of strange appear- ance screamed and scolded at him. Lit tie monkeys hurried, chattering, from his path. Nu laughed. What a quaint, diminutive world it was indeed" blot where had be yet seen a tree or crea- ture that might compare in size to the monsters among which be had traveled the preceding day. The fruits, too, were small and strange. He scarcely dared venture to eat of them lest they be poisonous. If the lesser ape folk would only let him come close •enough to speak with them he might ascertain from them which were safe, but for some unac- countable reason they seemed to fear and mistrust him. This, above all other considerations, argued to Nu that be bad come in some mysterious way into another world. Presently the troglodyte discovered a slender, straight young sapling. He came to the ground and tested its strength by bending it back and forth. Apparently it met the requirements of a new shaft With his stone hatchet he hewed it foil close to the ground, stripped it of branches, and climbing to the safety of the trees again, where he need fear no interruption from the huge mon- sters of the world he knew, set to work with his stone knife to remove the bark and shape the end to receive his spearhead. First he split it down the center for four or five inches, and then be cut notches in the surface upon etther side of the split -portion. Now he carefully unwrapped the rawhide that binds the spearhead into his old haft, and for want of water to moisten It crammed the whole unfragrant mass into bis mouth that It might be softened by warmth and saliva. For several minutes be busied Mae self in shaping the point of the new shaft that It might exactly fit the bo iuentiils ie-_tiie_shAIllr .Qf"_tA_e_Stpffir- duwimibmisitimdmwdmimwm The Army of Constipation Is Growing Smaller Every Day. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS ate responsible—they not only give relief --- they permanently cure Constipa. Om Mil. liono use them for ff:fioat. a o; ness, Indigestion, Sick Headrick, Sallow Skin. Small Pill, Small Dose, Smell Price. Genuine must bear Signature Pag **Mi. BY "Che' enet:61 eras otWlbe rawhide bad been sufiicientiy molt', toned to permit biro tD wind it tightly abont the new shaft into which be had ret the spearhead Ap he worked be beard the noteea of the jungle *bout him. There were rrtallts y fatuilier voices, but more strange ens. Not once had the cave bear 'yokels; "nor Zor, the mighty, lion of the Neocene; Por 00, the saber toothed tiger. Fle missed the bellowing of the bull bog andthe blasting and whistling of monster saurian and amphibian. To Nu It seemed it silent , world. l'roPPed up against the bole Of the tree before him grinned the hideous head of the man hunter, the only fa - miller object in all the world about Presently be became aware that the lesser apes were creeping warily closer to have a better look at bind. He wait- ed silently until from the tail of his eye he glimpsed one quite near, and then in a low voice he spoke in the language that his Milne of yesterdny bad understood; and though ages had elapsed since that long gone day, the little monkey above him understood, for the language of the apes can never change. "Why do you fear Nu, the son Of Nu?" asked the man. "When has he ever harmed the ape people?" "The hairless ones kill us with sharp sticks that fly through the air," replied the monkey, "or with little sticks that make a great noise that kill us from afar. But you seem not to be of these. We have never seen one like you until now. Do you not wish to kill us?" "Why should I?" replied Nu. "It is better that we be friends. All that 1 wish of you is that you tell me which of the fruits that grow here be safe for me to eat and then direct me to the sea beside which dwell the tribe of Nu, my father." The monkeys bad gathered in force by this time. seeing that the strange white ape offered no harm to their fel- low, and when they learned his wants they scampered about in all directions to gather nuts and fruits and berries for him, It is true that some of them forgot what they had intended doing before the task was half completed, and end- ed by pulling one another's tails and frolicking among the higher brunches, or eise ate the fruit they had gone to gather for their new friend, but a few there were with grouter powers of concentration than their fellows, who returned with fruit and berries and caterpillars, all of which Nu devoured with the avidity of the half famished. Of the whereabouts of the tribe of his father they could tell him nothing, for they had never beard of such a people, or of the great sea beside which he told them that his people dwelled. His breakfast finished and his spear repaired, Nu set out toward the plain • to bring down one of the beasts be had seen grazing there, for his stem, ach called aloud for flesh. Fruit and bugs might be all right for children and ape people. but a full grown man must have meat, warns and red and dripping. Closest to Mm as he emerged from the jungle browsed a small herd of zebra. They were directly up wind. and between him and them *ere patches of tall grass and clumps of trees scattered about the surface of the plain. Nu wondered at tiie strange beasts, admiring their gaudy markings as he came closer to them. Upon the edge of the herr" nearest him a plump stal- lion stood switching his tail against the annoying flies„occasionatlly raising his head from his feeding to search the horizon for signs of danger, sniff- ing the air for the telltale scent of nn enemy. It was he that Nu selected for his prey. Stealthily the cave man crept through -the tall grass. scarce a blade moving to the sinuous advance of his sleek body. Within fifty feet of the zebra Nu stopped. for the stallion was giving evidence of restlessness. as though sensing intuitively the near ap [roach of a foe be could neither see nor hear nor smell. The man, still prone upon bis bell%% drew his spear into the throwing grasp. With the utmost caution he wormed his legs beneath him, and then, like lightning, and all with a single inovement, he leaped to his feet and cast the stone tipped weapon at his quarry. With a snort of terror the stallion reared to plunge away, but the spear had found the point behind his shoul- der even as he saw the figure of the man rise from the tali grass. As the ba lance of the herd galloped madly off. their leader pitched headlong to the en ail. f u ran forward with ready knife. but the annual was dead before tie reached its side. The great spear had passed through its heart and was pro- truding upon the opposite side of the body. The nota removed the weapon. and with id$ knife cut several long strips of meat from the plump hatunehes. Ever and anon he raised his head to scan the plain and jungle for evidences of danger, sultling the breeze just as had the stallion he had killed. His work was but partially tom- pleted when he eaught the scent of ' man yet a long way off. Ile knew that he could not be mistaken, yet never had be sensed so Strange an odor. There were men coming, he knew, but of” the other odors that ae- eompanied them he could make noth- ing, for kbatki aid one and sweaty saddle blaikets nod the odor of tanned leather were to Nu'a nostrils es would Greek have been to his ears. 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Straight across the plain should be the direction of it, for from that direc- tion had he come to find the lair of Oo. But now all was changed. There was no single familiar land- mark to guide him, Not even the ape people knew of any sea nearby, and be himself had no conception as to wheth- er he was in the same world that he bad traversed when last the sun shone upon him. (To be Continued) Seeing Both Sides at Once. Fishes and birds have an advantage over human beings in their ability to see ou both sides of thein. Their eyes are set not for looking straight ahead, but for looking out on each side. That As because they balance their bodies to right or to left. while we balance for- ward and backward. A bird can watch the tips' of both wings at once. The pilot of an aeroplane has to turn his head from side to side to see his wing tips.—New York World. The Palace of Thoughts. To get peace, if ,you do want it, make for yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet knows, for none o1' us has been taught in early youth. what palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts—proof against all adversity. John Ruskin. Confident Prediction. "So you Honestly think you have the smartest boy ou earth." "1Ltybe he isn't yet. but be will be if he keeps on marking me answer all the questions he can think up."--Wash- ingtoht Starr. An tmpeacticaf Suggestion. "Why don't you tell your troubles to n policeman?" I don't dare," replied the gloomy person. "He'd probably arrest me," -- Washington Stat. Meaning "of Cemetery.-- It emetery."-"It is not correct to say that "eemb tory" means the "city of the dead.' The word is from the Greek "koime terion," meaning sleeping place, not the place Of the dead. There is noth ing in the etymology of the word tt warrant us in thinking that it we.. ori;;iu:t,ly intended to convey the ides that the departed were really dead any more than there is in the old Hebrew term for cemetery, "bethaint,'' th0 house of the living. -I xchangb. Children. Cry FOR FLETCHER'S cA►,S1 ORIA MiSFIT MARRIAGES. A Humorist's Flippant View of Matri- monial Alliances. I would like to make a few useless remarks abovt married life. I not only would like to, but I ata going to. If you are a tall, sallow, nerveless, easy going man with a liliputian in- come, enormous feet and hands and have an Adam's apple that looks like somebody trying to poke hes list through your neck you will marry a tiny binek haired woman who has all seeing. lash - less eyes, a mouth like a knife exit in a dish of cornstarch pudding and a love of jewelry and ancient black and tan dogs with rotten dispositions and hair- pin legs. You noway say your won't• but you will. • If you are a red headed gentleman you will marry a beautiful girl. 1 don't know why this is. but you think over the red headed men yon know and see if they haven't copped peaches. If you are a little runt addicted to morning coats and gardenias, n large. vital, auburn haired lady will get you yet. She will want all there is in life: Anil don't sit down calmly after you're. married, with a panetelu in the corner of your mouth, and imagine you are that all. If you are a home loving man• a man who likes to loll about in an old suit, a man who gets slightly seasick by mere- ly glancing over a passenger list of an ocean liner, then, by the gods. you will wed a female globe trotter. If you are a jealous person it is writ- ten that you shall marry a girl who will give you every excuse to harbor that ridiculous passion. And by the same token it wouldn't matter whether she did or not—it would seem so to you. 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