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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-9-7, Page 6Rif T1113 CABLEMAN .AN EXCITING PRESENT -DAV ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER XXVI.--(Cont'd). "What else should we quarrel about?" asked the widow, laughing again. "My husband's plan was very plain, after one knew the spot to which it referred; and Gillies showed great intelligence in guessing the meaning of those words, 'Blue . N. drip,' which I learned from you last night. Our difference of opinion oceured on the question as to who should have the custody of the stones, until the thirty per cent. commission could be paid. I stuck up for my rights in the matter, but he seems to have carriu 1 his point. He has dis- appeared, and he has taken his thirty per cent. with him." "And your seventy per cent. ?" ask- ed Scarborough. "Yes, that has gone, too. Disap- pointing, isn't it?" Scarborough turned to Scott. "Take Miss Carrington back to the Casa Davis," he said. "I shall go and join Phil by the boat. The man must not be allowed to get away." "11Ir. Scott can go with you," said Elsa. "But you can't ride back alone. It will be dark in an hour," Scarborough objected. "I shall stay here. I think my mo- ther is iIl." Mrs. Carrington looked at her daughter with a curious surprise. "Yoe are a strange child, Elsa," she said, "I have nob the slightest claim on your affection, or even on your ser- vices now; and I warn you that I don't propose, by any sudden repentance or reformation, to try to establish that claim. Still, I admit thab I shall be glad to have you. My head is buzz- ing badly, and I think I am feverish. At my years a woman can't finish an exciting day by tumbling into a lake and being left unconscious on the shore to drain, without suffering for it. Perhaps it is nothing worse than a chill, but if I hadn't felt really ill: you wouldn't have found me here. I should have been off in pursuit of my vanished seventy per cent.! Yoa will let her stay, Mr. Scarborough?" "Yes," said Scarborough. "And meanwhile I will try to recover the seventy per cent., and the thirty per cent. with it!" "Quite so. But not for me. You needn't smile, young man; I fully re- cognize that for the present I am de- feated. Elsa, if you will help me, I will go to bed, in the store -room of yams and maize, which is the best guest -chamber which this inn affords. What a handicap it is to be old, and a woman! Good -night, gentlemen. It may surprise you to learn that I wish you success. I grieve for the loss of my seventy per cent., but I should ;sieve more if I thought that Gillies rad got away safe with his thirty!" Two hours later Scarborough and gcott were standing on the sea -shore with Vareny, looking out over the wa- ter towards the Ring -Rock. Dark- aess .had fallen, but a bright moon sent long quivering flashes from the swell of the waters, 'and shone upon a curious white cloud which lay upon ;;he sea about half a mile out. "It is the new islet which Davis spoke of," said Varney. "That cloud Df steam has been rising continuously from it all the time that I have been here, and if you put your hand in the water, you will feel how warm it is." "There is something black out there beyond," said Scott. "Yes, it's a schooner. She has been there or thereabouts for the last three hours, but she doesn't show any lights. illies' boat is lying at the back of the headland there." "No, it isn't!" exclaimed Scarbor- tiugh, suddenly. "It has just put out to sea, and is making for the schoon- er! Come on!" They ran Elsa's boat into the water and jumped aboard. Scarborough and Varney took the oars, and Scott sterr- ed. There was no wind for sailing, and Gillies' boat had only a single oc- cupant. With two cars against his two sculls they should be able to catch him before he reached the orange schooner. Presently Scott shouted:— "He making straight for the cloud of steam, and the steamer is standing in towards him!" "Then follow him! He hopes to dodge us in the mist.' A minute later Scott stood up with a yell. "Hold her hard! For heaven's sake, stop her! He's done for!" There was a dull roar from the sea ahead. A cloud of steam shot hissing into the air, and a heavy wave rolled towards them. They held the nose of the boat to meet it as it came, and rode over it in safety. But the wa- ter which came overboard from the wave's crest was hot—hot enough to scald where it splashed upon them! Their boat rocked in the heavy broken swell, which falloweid, and a warm steam closed around them and. shut out the stars. "A submarine eruption!" said Scott, in an awed voice. "It rose right un- der him, He's gone!" CHAPTER XXVII. "It was a horrible sight, sir," said Val B. Montague, with a shudder. "You may, be thankful you were not there to see. The man had been boiled—absolutely and literally boiled! And his flesh—ugh!" "It was an awful death," said Scott. "I witnessed it, you know. Horace had promised that I should be in at the death, but we did not think that the words would be interpreted in so 'literal a sense." "I understand that your own escape was a narrow one." "A matter of a hundred yards, or less," said Scott. "As it was, the hot steam nearly finished us. Where was the boiy found?" "In the harbor of Ponta Delgada. The tide brought it to within a cable's length of the Sea -Horse. Sambo and Iwent out with 'a boat and secured it. If you remember that seven days have . elapsed, and that the flesh had been literally cooked by that eruption of boiling water—faugh! I can't des- cribe it! You will understand. The diamonds were found in a tin case in his pocket." I "So I heanL What is going to be done with them?" I "I believe they are going to be sent home." ! "To be made up ? For whom ?" "For nobody, sir. They will be sold, and the proceeds will be used to re- f lieve, as far as is possible, the distress 1 and unmerited suffering which the !failure of the firm of Carrington and j Varney caused in countless homes in !England. Thab this should be done is the wish of every person, except I one, who has any concern in the mat- ter at all. Scarborough says he I would sooner see the things cast into !the water from which the dead body of Gillies brought them. I honor him for that decision, sir, and I should un- hesitatingly say the same thing my- self." "Who is the one person who ob- jects?" "Who do you imagine ib is? There can only be one person." "Miss de la Mar," said Scott. After all, she has every right to object, since the things were bought with her money in the first instance.. Scar- STYLES car- STYLES IN these days of short skirts hosiery is a most important part l f one's costume. Itis be- bause they are so very im- portant that most people buy Penmans, for in so doiyig they know they are receiving maximum, value in every way. There is a line made by Penmans specially for you. Penmans Limited Paris Y borough is a good chap, and I've promised to be bis best man when the time comes, but it. seems to me he's talking nonsense when he spouts about throwing the diamonds into the sea rather than let his bride wear them. They're not his to throw, or his bride's either. They are Mora's, and I shall take the liberty of point- ing that out to him." Montague laughed. "Your indignation is generous," be . said, "and is Miss de la Mar's name I thank you for it. .But ib is not she ! who objects; it is Miss Carrington," ! "Oh," said Scott. "that doesn't mat- ter. I don't care a rap about her: But I don't see why thab poor girl should be defrauded of her inheritance just because you and Scarborough think it is a fine thing to do the noble gener- osity business with someone's else's diamonds. It's rot you know, Monta- gue!" Val B. Montague laughed again, but • tilt, not answer. Then he looked tip with a curious, half -bashful, half -ex- ultant expression on his face, and said: "I didn'b mean anyone to know yet, but I'll tell you. I said just now that Scarborough would object to his -bride wearing those stones, and thab I sym- pathized with his feeling. I sympa- thize with it so much that if my bride wanted to wear them, I should forbid her." "Vhat's that got to do with it? You haven't got a bride." "I hope to have ,shorbly." Scott jumped up with a shout: "You are going to marry Mona de la Mar! By Jove, I congratulate you heartily, Montague! But how and when did it happen?" "Sit donw and don't bellow like that in a public restaurant, and I'll tell you. .She overreached me in the negotia- tions for a partnership." "Overreached you? What d'you mean ?" (To be continued). GOOD COMPANY. When I sit by myself at the close of the day, And watch the blue twilight turn am- ber and grey, With fancies as twinkling and vague as the stars, And as distant as they, from this life's petty jars, I know not, I think not, where fortune may be, But I feel I'm in very good company. When I sit with a friend at the glow of the hearth, To fight some great battle of wisdom or mirth, And strike from our armor, the sparkles of wit That follow the shafts of our thoughts, when they hit. I ask not, I care not, where pleasure may be, But I know I'm in excellent company. When I sit with my darling, who loves me so well, And read in her eyes what no lan- guage can tell, Or trace on her lips free as cherubs from guile, The meanings and mysteries, hid in a smile, I heed not, I dream not, where Eden may be, But I feel I'm in heavenly company. . THE MAN WHO SAW RED. Minus Rifle, Scot Went at r Enemy • With Bare Hands. A wounded officer now in this country says that when his men at- tacked a number had their rifles shot or blown out of their hands, says the Edinburgh Scotsman. Yet they went through, and "to see those chaps of mine' tackling the Bosche .with their bare hands was worth living for —or dying for. It was meat and drink to me. They just tore their men down, and wrenched their own rifles from them. One big section com- mander of mine was just like a ter- rier with rats, except that he didn't wait for killing. He was 'too busy. He went for his men like a blooming lamplighter, smashed 'em down, grabbed 'em by the slack of the breeches and the neck, and chucked 'em back over the parapet, to roll into the remains of their own wire. 'Fall in there! Fall in!' he kept yell- ing, and goodness alone knows what he rlteant by it. But he put them out of business all right." Sickness is often a mask worn by lazy people. If a man loves a woman, he may give up cigars for her. But if she loves him, she will not ask it. LESS INSANITY DURING THE WAR WHAT AN IRISH ALIENIST HAS TO SAY; Presents Remarkable Picture of the Tonic Value of Great Conflict. An interesting sidelight on Presi- dent Wilson's remark about the world going mad is given in the an- nual report of Dr. William Graham, of Belfast, one of 'the most highly re- puted Irish alienists, Dr. Graham presents a remarkable picture of the tonic value of war. He says: "It has become common practice since August, 1914, to say the world is growing lead, and there is a wide- spread popular notion that the dis- tress and agony of a conflict so ter- rible as the' present one must end in a profound disturbance and alien- ation. Yet the fact is indisputable that insanity, like corns, has lessen- ed during the period of the war." Improve Health of Men. So far as the future is concerned, Dr. Graham is equally encouraging. He says: "There are solid grounds for the hope that, especially al- though exclusively among women, we shall find a great diminution in those neurotic disorders that form a part of the mental abnormality of thousands of men who have gone, or are preparing to go, to the front, who have all their life been sub- ject to the bondage of neurasthenic weakness and incapacity of • pay- chasthenic fears or hypochon- driac fancies. They have never known what it is to 'live, but at the country's call they have flung from off them the spell of ancient inhabit -1 ations and long established imprac- ticalities and have gone forth to face wounds and death. Only when summoned to possible surrender of I life have they learned how wonder- ful life really is. The physical re- gime under which these men are compelled to live can have nothing but the best effect on those subject to its discipline. Women Learn of Life. "Especially significant is the change coming over the lives of wo- men of the middle classes. These sheltered daughters of the merchant, of the reofessional man, victim .of mid-Victorian traditions of gentility, are now falling into line with their sisters of the higher and the hum - bier social ranks, and are discovering that life is something greater than the latest novel or a game of tennis, i or even the tepid gossip of the church sewing meeting. Idleness and ennui have lost their hold. Healthy and unselfish activity is now the prevail- ing fashion among war -enfranchised women. It has set them free from' the benumbing conventionalities that threatened to stifle their psychic energy, and so far it has contributed to the soundness of mind and nerve among the mighty sociological forces! which the present world conflict set in motion." LOSES EYE ON FIRST AIR TRIP. British Flier, Maimed, Shoots Foe, Lands, Cables Mother. An army medical officer back in Lon- don from the front reported the case of a Royal Flying Corps observer whose eye was shot out. A German airman got a shot at him on his first trip into the air over the German lines. "It sounded as if some one were playing a mandolin when the bullets came through the wires of our machine," he said. One missile gouged out his eye and embedded itself in the frontal bone. Despite the injury the observer let go with his machine gun and drove off the enemy. The pilot brought the machine back to the British lines and helped the ob- server to walk to the causuality station, where he cheerfully asked that his mother ,be informed that he was "slightly' injured." His Work. "He is one of oar mosb prominent citizens." "What does he do ?" "He gets up charity schemes , for other people to subscribe to." s. A close friend.is one who willloosen up occasionally. Still is something that no man is born with; it has to be acquired. The distributor 0 Runs Across the Sea. bread and meat cards—his wife and dog. 8Ul Let Him Help Himself To CROW,BRA CORN SYRUP IT or"sol domethingswet"ore than sf Itwillsupplhis y the food elements needed to buildup his little body and help him to gain In health and strength. "Crown Branding food—lec welloaslthe most delicious of table syrups. The xectpes in our new book, Desserts and ways Nr to for la cyopy Just Montreal Office n many novel. Dealers pound ttnss and 3 pound ghave lass jar ;and" to 2, 5, 10 and THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED MONTREAL, CARDINAL, BRANTFORD, FORT WILLIAM. ' Makers of 'Lt' v !Mile" Corn Syruk, Benson's Corn Starch and "Silver Gloss" Laundky Starch.. 222 • • 2®lliMIMIIII WT MI)mIINI➢[m Ill WARM ' Can Rust Be Prevented? There is no way of treating the seed or spraying the crop so as to pre- vent rust. It is impossible to con- trol rust entirely, but loss from rust may be reduced considerably by acting upon the following suggestions: 1. Destroy as far as possible the Common Barberry (Berberis vulgaris) and the Buckthorn (Rhamnus cath- artics) growing in Ontario. Rest may cause serious loss in districts where these shrubs are not found, but, when they are present, they do un- doubtedly tend to increase the amount. 2. See that fields on which grain is to be grown are well drained. Rusb is nearly always worse on poorly - drained land. Such land remains colder longer in the spring, and hence the germination and early growth of the grain are retarded, In wet sea- sons also grain ripens more slowly on poorly -drained land. This slow de- velopment of the crop and the exces- sive moisture provide the conditions most favorable for the development of rust. 3. Endeavor to have the crop mature as early as possible. This can be done to some extent by early seeding in a well-prepared seed bed. 4. Avoid those varieties of grain which give poor returns and are also badly injured by rust. See table at end of this article provided by Prof. Zavitz, of Guelph, showing the ex- tent to which different varieties are attacked by rust. 5. Do not mix varieties of seed grains, the following is th eresult o"f varieties of oats, but use only pure seed of one variety td secure uniform ripening. 6. Treat all seed grain to prevent smut, as plants infected with smut are very subject to rust, which may get started on them and then spread to healthy plants. 7. Sow only sound, plump grain. This can be secured by the careful use of the fanning mill. Shrivelled grain is very likely to have been produced by badly rusted plants. 8. On rich soils be cereal in the use of manures containing . large amounts of nitrogen, such as barn- yard manure and n'trates. Such manures on rich soil produce an exces- sively rank growth, which invites rust. 9. Rotation of crops, p.oper man- uring, thorough cultivation, freeing the fields from weeds, and all such farm practices which tend to promote healthy growth and bhe proper ma- turing of the grain lessen the chances of rust causing serioue loss. In connection with the rests of (rains, the following is the result of experiments conducted by Prof. Zav- itz at the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege in carefully testing different var- ieties of farm crops. The following table gieres the average of five years' results (1910-1914 inclusive) in num- ber of days in reaching ;naturity, in yield of grain per acre, and in per cent, of rust on the straw of each of I eight varieties of oats, three varieties of six -rowed barley, and ten varieties of winter wheat: use of a quick -act- ing fertilizer on the fields in the fall, 1 just as soon as general infestation be comes apparent, with the idea that the I fertilizer will so quicken the growth of bhe wheat plant that is shall ac- 1 quire powers of resistance and recup- eration which will enable it towith- stand the attacks of the fly, and which' also will send ib into the winter sea- son well prepared to withstand the I cold weather. The fertilizer which should be used for this purpose is one which shall have from 2 to 3 per cent, of am- monia, in order that a quick and vigorous growth of the plant may be assured. The result, is that the plant tillers more freely, and even after suffering some damage from the fly, I it will send up head-proriucing stems in the spring. There is nothing wonderful or mysterious behind this method; merely the baking advantage of the productive capacity of a fertile and enriched soil. In fact, it is so eminently commonsense thab it ought to make an,: appeal; to every farmer. The plan especially commends itself, best assurance of an increased yield of wheat, and that, after all, is what every farmer is working for.—Can- adian Farm. Feeding Fat into Milk. It is popularly supposed that the quality of milk depends on the feed- ing of the cows. This is not the case. So long as a cow is not fed in Such a way as to derange her general health, change of food has very little permanent effect on the quality of her milk. A sudden change may impair her milk slightly for afew days, but as soon as she is accustomed to her new diet her milk returns to the nor- mal. Very succulent grass does not produce inferior milk unless it de- ranges the health of the cow by caus- ing her to scour, and this is commonly avoided by giving the cow two pounds or three pounds per day of cotton seed meal. Professor Wood of Cambridge Uni- versity, England, writing in the Cam- bridge Chronicle says: "The following observations show that a boo watery diet is more likely to reduce the quantity of milk than to impair its quality. Aherd of cows feeding on watery grass in August were given two poands of cotton seed meal per heard per day, and their milk weighed and analyed. Some of the cows then had their cotton cake re- placed by 28 pounds of wet brewer's grains, a watery food reputed to pro- duce a pious flow of milk of infer- ior quality. As a matter of fact, the change was found to have decreased the flow of milk and to have increased the percentage of butter fat from 3.38 per cent. to 3.46 per cent." . The idea.thab water may be put into the milk by giving the cow a watery diet assumes that the cow is a mere machine, an assumption.which is en- tirely at Variance with all our know- ledge of..the physiology of the secre- tion of milk, and with all the results of carefully recorded experience. A cow is very much alive, animal; she makes or intends to make her milk for her calf and as a matter of fact she can be actually .starved of food for some time before the quality of her milk is seriously affected. The Fall Hogs. It pays to keep a sharp lookout for the fall litters. There is profit in the fall litters if they are properly -cared for; if neg- lected, they can be worse than a dead loss. Get the early pigs ready for the ear ly market. Utilize the fallen fruit with the grain ration to help make rapic growth. Every pours -i gained now, costs less than when colder weather. comes. The price of bacon and all pork pro- ducts should convince any one that it does not pay to neglect the pigs. Separate the pigs and put the larg- er, stronger ones together. Give bhe smaller ones extra care and watch them, catch up. The big 'ones rob the smaller ones and keep them back. Be sure the hogs have no lice on them. Pigs that have lice will not grow. use some gopd spray, regularly, until lice are all gone. A good scrubbing with soap and wa- ter will often start growth in a thrift- less pig. Whole oats scattered on a clean platform. will help to grow. strong bone. Sweep the hulls oflti the plat- form every day. Called. "My country calls me!" exclaimed the emotional patriot. "Ib shouldn't have been necessary. to call if you have any useful ser- vice to perform, You ought to have been on the job." The Lesser Evil. Old Grump Why doesn't Ethel marry that young idiob? I am getting blame tired of his coming here so much. for it promises not alone compare- Ills Wife—I believe I'd prefer. to tive immunity from Hessian Fly dam- have him, come here—if she marries age, but as well ib holds out the very him he will stay here. WHOLE NEW FLEET BEING BUILT GREAT ' bRI'I'AIN'S SHIPYARDS • ARE BUSY. • Greater Number of Ships Building Than Ninny Nations' Entire Navies. There is a certain small` section of British water front where more ships, are under construction to -day than the entire shipbuilding facilities of any other nation could undertake at one time, writes an Associated' Press correspondent from, London. They include every type of craft from-VON marines to battleships ; and from steam trawlers to Atlantic liners. Most governments lays down their battleships and cruisers singly, and the lesser craft perhaps in pairs; but hero battleships loom up as twins, light cruisers by the half dozen, de- it stroyers in rows of 10, with many braces of long submarines, and an occasional monitor. The war fleet under the .hammer and the paint brush here would rami in the naval list above the establish- ments of several modest maritime powers. It could. demolish . the two squadrons which fought the battle of Manila Bay with one volley, and then steam against the combined American and Spanish fleets off Santiago with confidence. And the merchant ships in the stocks are as many as the United States mercantile marine has • added to its register in several years.*tsi Last Word in Shipbuilding. "We have trained crews ready to step on board all these ships as soon as they are fitted," a naval officer re- marked. Under the tutelage of Hugh Law, Nationalist Member of Parliament for West Donegal, a party of correspond- ents spent a crowded day on land, on water and on ships in dock at this • base. The general stage setting for this swift review of the fighting and trad- ing vessels under construction con- sisted of several miles of water -front lines as thickly as could be crowded with skeletons and hulls. The stocks carried everything of the final type— until next year, or next week, for ' every naval campaign means new ideas, new devices, new lines of con- struction. Two years of active •ser-, vice .under war conditions have brought a great advance to the Brit- ish navy, already acknowledged to be the leader in most naval matters. Every ship and every detail of a ship is the last word in its class, accord:.I ing to the war -bought judgment of engineers and fighting officers. In. one noticeable detail at least British'`' naval architects appear to have been converted to the principle of one feat- ure of American warships. The monitors make an appeal to an I American because there is a suspi- cion that other navies were disposed to scoff at them for years. Yet here 1 they are, with all their superficial changes and embellishments, a tribute to what the brain of John L.e icsson conceived in the sixties. The moni- tors have been very useful to the British Navy in this war. They have been employed in the shallow waters off the Belgian coast and perhaps • more effectively at Gallipoli. • , Admiral Beatty's Squadron. There were several so-called de- stroyers certainly as long as many light cruisers of earlier times; 10 of them extended side by side in one row, and others elsewhere. Floating alongside a dock was a brand-new ' submarine, painted tend polished like a touring car fresh from. the shop. Her young commander stood alongside and proudly pointed out some of her attractions. From his transparent enthusiasm she, might have been a pleasure yacht instead of the vehicle . for the most dangerous form of adventure that fighting men undertake. He observed that this boat could submerge in 20 seconds. The trip included a view of Beatty's battleship squadron. There they were—and that is about all that can be said. They are prepared to steam far action at five minutes' notice, and they did not care to steam 'for action with a cargo of newspaper men and a Nationalist member of Parliament. These could not decently be thrown overboard and obviously were not worth a moment's delay. One ship carried into the 'Jutland battle an army officer on leave from France .. who was calling on a brother. on board. fie returned, fortunately, and published, as his mature and well - considered judgment, that he felt more ,at home in the trenches•:* KING DRINKS AFTER HORSE.. Interesting Anecdote Related About Albert of Belgium. The son of a leading manufacturer of Brussels, whose two brothers have been killed at the front, tells the fol- lowing anecdote, which dates from the first summer of the war "It had been a hot day and King Al- bert, who had not left the trenches for hours, was suffering from thirst. He asked for something to drink, but not a soldier had anything left. Back of the trench a man saw a horse drink- ing and went over and started to pull the bucket away. "Don't do that' said the King. 'Let the poor animal. drink ; perhaps it needs it more than I do.' "It was not until the horse had fin- ished drinking that the King took up the ht:lket and drank the few dropd that remained.