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The Exeter Times, 1919-3-13, Page 2T Prove Our Claims A Tea -Pot Test is better than a page of Advertisement. Is the Purest Si Fh est Flavored Tea your money can purchase. eszS For Our oys vcrscas By Christine Whiting. PART II. The girl looked anxiously at her eompaedon, who yawned and stretch- ed lazily as she laid aside her knitt- ing. "Why worry?" she smiled, showing remarkably pretty teeth and a dimple En one cheek. "It's not our fault if the train gets stuck in a blizzard. I guess that war relief rummage sale can exist without you—though I know you're dying to appear as a Red Cross nurse. The other girl colored; but the Varsity boy, seeing a heaven-sent op- portunity, grasped it. "Were you to assist at the war re- lief rummage at Havergall to -morrow morning?" he asked eagerly. "Per- haps you know my cousin, Dolly Jackson? She's going as a Red Cross nurse, too. She's crazy about her costume." "I know her!" exclaimed the girl with the knitting. "She had the room next thine last year. I know her as well as I do my own sister." "Well, now," said the commercial gentleman, smiling at them benign- antly, "ain't that please t? I tell my wife that if folks would quit bein' bashful and speak more friendly to- gether the world would be a lot pleasanter place to live in. I'm sorry you'll miss that rummage sale, young lady. You'd retake a right cute -look - in' nurse. But, say, what's to inter- fere with havin' a rummage sale of our own? There must he enough junk on these passengers to raise a good - size sum for the boys in the trenches." Tlie three young people stared at him a moment, and then the girl with the knitting exclaimed: "Why not? It would be a perfect; lark! We'll ,interview every passenger on the train, as well as the trainmen; and the paper boy. If everyone gives1 something and we get someone to; auction teem oft—" "That's the talk!" broke in thea! comfitercial gentleman eagerly.1 "That's the way I like to see an ideal took up and carried out! There's no: reason—" "Say," interrupted the Varsity boy! excitedly, "we'Il have to have a coni -1 mitte or something, won't we?" The dark-haired girl laughed, and' spoke directly to him for the. first; time: "I appoint you a committee of one; to interview that prosperous -looking old gentleman in the corner and see; what he'll do for us." "Not on your life!" answered the boy, ecstatic at being addressed by , his divinity. "Do you know who that! is? He lowered his voice and leaned; forward corfident;ally. "That's Henry V. Martin of Winnipeg—millionaire. Began at the bottom, you know, paper boy or something on the railroad and ended president of one of the biggest lines in the country. Has two sons. i Lost his wife and youngest boy on l torpedoed ship in mid-Atlantic. The eldest son, with the idea of avenging! his brother's death, enlisted as a ' private. Been in the trenches all , this time. They say the old' man! hasn't cracked a smile since. No, sires! I don't want to tackle Henry! B. Martin!" The dark-haired girl looked! thoughtfully at the old man staring out into the storm. "Let's not bother him," she said. gently. "He looks troubled; but per- haps if we hold the auction in this i ear he'll get interested in spite of himself, and forget things. Now tell I us," she turned to the commercial, traveler, "how shall we begin?" "Now, if I was to have my say," was the ready answer, "I'd rope in a ! few more helpers. There's a boy in khaki batik in the day coach. I left ttim tryin' on a sweater for an old lady who's hurryinto get it done. He's just said good-bye to his girl, an' feelin kind o' blue. It'll do him good to have somehin' to take up his mind. He an' 1'll tackle the coaches, an' you young ones can go through the Pull- mans. We'll meet here in half an hour an' compare notes. Now, get busy! If this engine should take it into its head to start goin' we'll be cheated out of a rummage sale." It was an excited group that met some three-cfuar•ters of an hour later. The boy in khaki was there; also the Toronto banker and the woman doc- tor. It took the drummer at least three minutes to call them to order. !"Suppose we begin," he suggested, i "an' each tell what we've got prom-' ised. I the fiat place, the old lady in the last day coach will give that • sweater. She's workin' like road to get it done. Then she got some odds ' Land ends she was carryin' to her daughter Lucy, an' a jar of straw- berry preserve. She'll put them in. She's terrible enthusiastic. The two young girls sitting in front of her nave scared up a hatpin and a tube o' tootheeeee „, v • ' woke a brother intim—an out of a sound sleep, and, instead of swearirl' at me; he gave me ra couple o' sets of first -quality gents' underwear. That's all I got out o' that car; but the . conducto ' took a air o' garters right off his legs, so fe 'speak, and the paper boy said he'd swipe three magazines and a box of Iif oeolate j e minfe. I ain't got. into the baggage car yet, but my hopes are high." Bravo!" exclaimed the Toronto hanker cordially. "I hereby pledge three parrs of new silk seeks, two !neckties, and three shirt studs, war - !ranted to be eighteen carat gold." "I've gone through my suitcase," said the fair-haired Havergall girl eagerly, "and all I could find was a pack of cards and a new crepe waist; I but a stout gentleman in the next car gave me a safety razor and six !toothbrushes. He says he's very apt to leave them in hotels and boarding I houses, so he buys them at whole- sale. And the two little boys who seem to have nobody with them in- sisted an my taking their hairbrush and an illustrated edition of "Kid- ; napped." I At this point the clergyman, who had been rummaging in his suitcase, edged his way into the group. "This is a most commendable idea," the said with a deep and churchly in- tonation. "At first I feared that I had nothing suitable to--ah—donate but in going through my things came upon a package given me by a former parishioner as a gift to my wife." ' His donation proved to be a dozen embroidered handkerchiefs. At this point the sour -looking little man came forward bearing three volumes of "Good Cheer for Every Day," bound in white and gold. He had, he explained, written his name within each book as an additional lure to the public, The discontented woman with the ! vanity bag at last whirled her chair about and cried angrily: "I'm sick and tired of war relief and French wounded, and people knit- ting. It's just a fad. I don't believe in war. anyway!" "Well, I don't know as I do either," responded the old lady placidly. "They's a good many, things I don't believe in that seem to keep happen - in' just the same; •an.' I s'pose, while they're gain' on, we might as well try and snake things easier for them that are sufferin' the most. ivlaybe you've got someone belongin' to you that's goin', ma'am?" The woman was opening and shut- ting her vanity case with nervous fingers. Suddenly she spoke out harshly: "My boy was drafted. My boy! Do you understand? He's going as a common private!" The old lady reached over and pat- ted the nervous hands.. "There, now," she began soothing- ly, "that's just how Lucy felt at first about Calvin. 'Look at him, Mother,' she says, 'they's no one in the regi- ment so straight an' tall. He ought to be a captain,' she says. But I told her: `Land, Ludy, someone's got to be the privates. Itfight's well be our Calvin as someone else's John; and so long as he's a good private, I don't see as it makes much difference.' After this auction's over, ma'am, I believe I'll start you on a muffler, It'll take up your mind an' I got an pair o' extra needles in my bag," As she moved away, the woman turned suddenly and tore a ring from her finger. "Here, take it!" she said savagely. "What matters a jewel more or less when they've got my boy?" "That's right, dearie," the old lady said cheerfully. "It'll make you feel better to give somethen', an' this is so pretty 'twouldn't surprise me a mite if it brought in as much as fif- teen dollars." (To be continued.) IIOHENZOLLERN'S GHOST A Plea for Mops and Brooms. I can remember the time when my broom and dustpan were always standing in my way in a corner of the kitchen, and the rest of my cleaning equipment, consisting of a wet mop a seritl* brush, two pars, and some unbeautiful cleaning cloths, disfigured my back porch, For years I did my cleaning with these primitive utensils —sweeping, scrubbing, polishing, without realizing that times had changed since my mother taught m the methods grandmother had taught her. The day that I woke up. to the idga of a cleaning closet filled with con- venient and effective implements was a red letter day. When I decided to have a cleaning closet and to fill it with up-to-date equipment, I had be- gun to realize that I was wasting hours of time, and no one knows how much strength, in toiling with that broom and mop. I now realize that I wasn't really cleaning my house as it should be cleaned. A good deal of the time I was simply stirring up dirt or • not affecting it at all. I had the closet built in a recess lin one corner of the kitchen. It is ' 9 feet high, 18 inches deep, and 8 I feet wide, and is painted white throughout. A shelf for bottles and l cans of cleaning material is built 5 1 feet 6 inches from the floor, and the cleat from which the mops and i brooms bang is 5 feet 3 inches from the floor, The dustpan •and some of the shorter brushes hang 3 feet from the floor. All are provided with I screw eyes fastened to the ends, for convnient hanging, and all cloths are ' hung up by means of tape loops. Everything that I use in cleaning is .in that closet. A supply of new I cloths is kept in a tin box on the floor, so that I never have to waste time in hunting something with which I to dust and polish. A small tin lard pail and an old enamel saucepan are on the shelf ready for cleaning pre- ; parations which must be mixed in them. A basket for carrying mater- ials and small brushes conveniently , hangs from the shelf; and a chamois for polishing metals and glass hangs in its place beside the oiled dust 1 cloths. A hand -power vacuum cleaner, with which I can clean walls and furniture as well as floors, is the most import- ant of my implements. I never knew what really cleaning a rug or floor meant until I White Lady of Bayreuth Still Causes Dread in Ex -Ruler's Life. Superstitious people who know the family history are attributing the sa.d death of Captain Angus .Mackintosh from pneumonia, in Washington, to the family curse. The young captain, who was a son-in-law of the Duke of Devonshiz'e„ belonged to the house of Moy, which was cursed many years ago by a girl, who prayed that: Never a son of a chief of Moy, Might live to protect his father's age; Or close in peace his dying eye, Or gather his gloomy heritage. To -day the Kaiser lives in dread of the eux'se of the t•Vhite Lady of Bayreuth, whole story is being re- called by one or two German papers, in view of the fall of the Hohenzol- lern dynasty. According to histor- ians, the White Lady of Bayreuth is the ghost of a certain German count- ess who murdered her two children and committed suicide because of her hopeless passion for a royal ;.;,trey who refused t;, legitimize their union. She cursed the Hohenzollerns and threatened to revisit them, bringing ruin and tragedy. Lately, it ,is said, the dreaded apparition, which has ap- peared at various intervals, notably before the death of the ex. -Kaiser's father and grandfather, has reappear- ed ---a precursor of death or disaster to the German •r'oyal f`arn91y, acquired my vacuum ing nervous and huwaying from one cleaner, and even at that it probably thing to another, when a fit of the II does not do the work as thoroughly blues seems imminent—I simply drop as a power cleaner would do it. everything and flee to my refuge to A carpet sweeper takes up surface read myself calm.—S. L. I used to dislike cleaning d,�y s thor- oughly. The strong soap and hot water made my hands red and rough, 1 breathed in dust, and the cap I wore ru was hot and disarranged my hair. New I go about it systematically. In a moment I can collect all the mat- erials I will need for cleaning. In the living room, I dust off pictures, bric-a-brac and furniture, and cover them or put them in another room. Then I clean the floor with the vacu- ume cleaner and dry mop. The kitchen is even easier, and altogether cleaning is one of the least stuenueus and most 1 satisfactory of my duties as house- ; keeper.—R. M. B. How I Cured i3lyself of the Worry 1 Habit. Speaking of how he broke off smoking, a friend said to me: "I made up my mind not to be mastered • by anything that couldn't talk," Later, when I was wrestling with the iworry habit, I remembered that. I had worried until I was under the i doctor's care. Then, one day, my husband and I were riding on a street car that was blocked in front of a store with large 'windows. Glancing toward the windows I saw the reflec- tion of a woman's face 'with the most distressed expression imaginable. I had looked for some time before I realized that the face belonged to my husband's wife. There was not a !thing to hurry for, and there I sat fuming and fretting. I laughed—and was more surprised at the difference the laugh made in my appearance. Then and there I resolved to be master of the thing that couldn't talk. First I joined a gymnasium, and it did wonders for me. I became happy and enthusiastic about it. And when- ever I found myself worrying or thinking unhappy thoughts, I sat down and read an !interesting article or an entertaining story or just a funny paragraph. If after this my mind switched back to gloom, I tried memorizing a short poem. The plan worked. It has given me so many pleasant things to think about that only rarely now do I have to hunt up something new. Then I established in my home a "refuge spot," which still is and al- ways will be a fixture there. It con- tains books—cheerful and happy ones. And when task follows task until it seems there will not be hours enough in the day for their accomp- lishment, when I find myself becom- dirt, crumbs, lint, and thread from in a hurry tc. when •, and do not want to use the vacuum cleaner. A good corn broom does Igood service, although it isn't in use a third as much as it used to be, and I a whisk broom is often handy. Two GIVE EZ -KAISER TASTE OF IT Group of French Soldiers Prescribe Punishment in Military Form. A little French weekly,: the Cri de good camel's-hair paint brushes of Paris, lately received from a group of different sizes help me in cleaning the French letters the following letter on !crevices in my good furniture, and thesubject of the ex -Raiser's punish- ! two small' vegetable brushes find a merit: -- hundred uses.: This is how we think the Kaiser I use a dry string mop, oiled, for ought to be punished: the bare floors in any dining room, • William II, shall wage war until living room, and bedrooms, and a wet death ensues. mop for kitchen and porches. A mop Every day he shall march 15 miles; wringer fastened to a pail saves me with full pack and equipment, carry- : the unpleasant task of wringing out ing a quick -firing rifle and a load of the mop with my hands, and saves hand -grenades. He shall wear a strength besides. I save old under- trench helmet and never be allowed clothing particularly for mop cloths, to take it off. because it is soft and absorbent andAt the end of his 15 -mile march not linty. I he shall be made to cross marshy A stiff scrub brush and two galvan-' ground with water up to his waist.' ized iron pails are also included Ina He shall be made to walk down the outfit. For dusters I use a soft sodden communication trenches in cloth that does not shed lint. I find which telephone wires shall have old silk clothing makes excellent dust- been artfully arranged '.so as to en- ers. To make these dustless I dil tangle him. them slightly, putting a little oil in : He shall spend every night in a one corner of the cloth, rolling it narrow trench," in which a few dozen tightly, and leaving it a few minutes rats shall be kept and near which for the oil to spread through. Too there will lie some decaying car - much oil is apt to give a streaky ap- cases. peararce or to darken woodwork. My! As soon as he begins to doze off dustpan is a long handled one that a few hand -grenades shall be eiyplod- has a trap which opens automatically ed, as well as a mine, which should when I set it in position on the floor, throw him bodily some ten yards and closes without losing a •scrap of away. dirt when I lift it up. ; Every night he shall be made to An ordinary dish mop with a wood- walk for two hours'in'the dark across en handle helps me to clean out dif- , broken ground, and to cross several ficult corners and small spaces, and a wire entanglements while carrying small stepladder enables me to reach cases of hand -grenades. the high places: When cleaning I ; As for hygiene and comfort, he wear heavy denim aprons and rubber shall change his underclothes only gloves, and these are kept in the on the first of each month, so as to closet also. Several tools which I am become a prey to vermin; he shall be constantly needing when I am clean- allowed to wash on that day only. ing I keep in a box with my cleaning ; For rations, he Shah be entitled to materials—a tack hammer, a screw one tiii of bully beef per day, with a driver, a tack' puller, and an assort- quarter of a loaf of bread, and, as an ment of nails, screws, and tacks. appetiser, some sardines in oil; he On the shelf aye n collection of the, shall drink either water or sour wine, cleaning ii'luide, washing powders, 'half a pint for etch meal. and polishing, ma`erials that I use in' This shall last for 8G5 days in the cleaning.- A supply of kerosene, am - d year. During the meal hours one mania, alcohol, nncl linseed oiI is kept might improve his mind by reading in pint jars plainly labeled. !aloud to him selected passages from Some of the other materials which . Boche philosophers, ,in lieu of the I find neeeeen y aro ,snap, finer was, ! customary reading of the cornmuni Washing soda, furniture peel:, bath' nue, brick, stove polish, and a good scour- Thus perhaps he might be made to ing preparation. realize the sufferings endured by Before putting mops and brushes' millions of men ,who, through his back in the clo.ct I see that they are fault, were sent to the slaughter. thoroughly clean. Most of them can I --- - �;• -�-^ he cleansed very well in soap and The island of Barbadoes is said water. My dry mop I wash occasion-. to be kept free fronl'malaria by the ally hi washing soda and water. My; tiny fish known as "Millions," which dusters go into the weekly wash as' devour the larvae in the early stages irei alar as the towels and table linen.; of its development. RSEA IS A VAST EDDY CANADIAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION REPORTS NO CURRENTS. Last of Stefansson's Party Lands Safely on Coast of Alaska After Years on Ice Floe.- The loe,The Department of the Naval Ser- vice at Ottawa has received from Yu- kon, Alaska, a despatch from Stoker Storkersen announcing the safe arri- val of his ice exploration party on November 7 last, on the north coast of Alaska. This .brings to alt' end the exploratory work of the Canadian Arc- tic Expedition. The work carried out- by Storkersen was planned by Mr. Stefansson, who intended to command the party per- sonally, but was prevented from do- ing so by typhoid, which overtook him about three weeks before the expect- ed start. Storkersen's party, when they left the north coast of Alaska at Cross Is- land. consisted of nine whites and four Eskimos. with sledges. They started March 15, 1918. After about two weeks of travel northward across the ice Storkensen sent back three of the sledges and four of the men. Two hundred miles from Alaska he sent back three more sledges and all but four of his companions. Their plan then was to camp on the ice, and drift with it. They carried practically no provisions, expecting to live on seals and polar bears. No Currents Westward. it had been the general belief of geographers and Polars that there was a current running westward and that Storkersen's party would be car- ried west parallel to the coast of Si- beria. Had the drift been to the west- ward, Storkersen would undoubtedly have remained on the ice all winter, but it appears from his despatch that no such westward drift was found, but that the ice cake on which they were camped was carried around in what may be considered a large eddy. T1zey commenced their drift about 73 north latitude and 146 west longtitude. The most north-westerly point reached by thein Storkersen reports to have been 74 north latitude and 152 ~vest longi- tude, while the most easterly point reached was 144+ west longitude. In addition to valuable deep-sea sound- ings, whiah were taken, although no report of them has been received, this exploration has shown the inaccuracy of the theory previously held as to currents in this part of the Polar Sea, and has given additional demonstra- tion of the safety and suitability for Polar exploration of the method of living on the country. for Storkersen reports that after seven months witli- out other provision than those secured by his rifle, his party landed all safe. The other four members of the party were: I3usta'v Masik,Lorne IKuight, Martin Kilian and C, G, Oil - mar. - Coining Heine to' England. Ever the shimmer of the English leaves, And a southern wind a -blowing; Ever a twitter 'of dawn at the eaves; And the distant kine a -lowing; Ever the glory of Autumn sheaves, And a dimpled brook a -flowing. „ • Ever the church at the foot of the hill; And the- tavern's sign a -swinging; Ever a voice at the window -sill, And the children a -tugging end clinging; Ever the clatter that comes from the mill; And a thrush at my heart a -singing. Gone is the dawn with its lurking fears On a night of tearless weeping; Gone is the ache of the crawling years, With horror and death in their keep- ing; 0, over the quiet of the coming years, And the loved ones around me sleep- ing. -- --0- -- A silver bell has been anonymous- ly presented to the town of Guild- ford, England; for use by the town - crier on the day peace is signed. r o q icris HISTORY �p FLoa I GREAT 8 S. J. DUNCA.N-CLARK. with Canada's Valorous Achievements By MAJOR W. S. WALLACE, M.A.con.) 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Reinforcements to Archangel Front Well Equipped With Suitable Food and Clothing. An arctic journey of probably the greatest magnitude since the famous Klondike gold rush has brought addi- Ilonal British troops to the Archangel front to reinforce the greatly outnum- bered troops fighting the i3olshevilci, says an Archangel despatch. Hun- dreds of sleds, driving in single file over frozen tundra and along roads cut through pine forests, completed the most difficult part of their 300 -mile trip in twelve clays. The trip was planned arid directed by members of Sir Ernest H. Shackle - ton's Antarctic expedition,- including Doctor Macklin, and was a signal suc- cess. Sir Ernest himself, although not participating in the journey to the front, arrived at Archangel on an ice- breaker with the first detachment of re -enforcing troops. The captain of this advance guard, who then had his hien comfortably billeted in a little village. decided the trip as being "quite cheery and cold." Most of the days saw the thermometer from 35 to 40 degrees below zero, bat of the first detachment of 130 men only five or six had been compelled to fall out for rest at a hospital en route. AI- tlzottgh he had been trained for several months to work in Arctic latitudes, the captain of the leading detachment be- longed to a 'West Indian regiment, Varied Travelling Devices. Here and there along the trail were found villages where there was an American Y.M.C.A, hut, Workers who had pushed out ahead to pave the way for the incoming troops brought cheer to the British soldiers with hot drinks along the trail. "We walked about half the time and rode, two in a sleigh, the other half," said the captain. "My detachment pioneered ahead and we were equipped with all sorts of devices, including dog- sleds and light hand -sleds. 0f course, there are skis and snowshoes for all," Light windproof jackets and trousers designed by those of long experience in the Arctic were worn over the sol- dier's unifornxs. The soldiers' diet was rich in fats and proteins, re -en• forced with a special Arctic ration, which tasted like thick palatable gravy and kept up their strength. One Lieu. tenant of Norwegian birth, who helped to outfit the expedition, bathed naked in the snow each clay. }Ie had no con. verts. SURGERY FOLLOWS "FLU" Epidemic Said to Have Left Evil Wake in England. The operating surgeon is now be- ing called in to assist with his knife .in clearing away some of the after effects of the influenza epidemic, the ravages of which appear to- have no end. Children are more serious suf- ferers than adults from those influ- enza complications which necessitate treatment on the operating table. "The epidemic which first kept the general practitioner so busy," said Dr. J. Howell Evans, a West End consulting surgeon, recently, "seems now to be passing into the surgeon's and specialist's hands. We are tre- mendously busy dealing with a var- iety of complications, all brought about by the 'flu' epidemic. 'We are handling daily child cases in which the septic pneumonia brought about by 'flu' has set up such virulent blood poisoning that germs have been carried by the 'blood to all parts of the body. And so we hind that even the bones of children are affected at their growing extremities. This means operations on the knee joints, at the back of the ears, and elsewhere, for the removal of resi- dues and infections. "Other troubles occasioned by `flu's. which are now being treated surgic- ally are abscesses of the tonsils, ulcers of the tonsils, swollen glands in the neck, abscesses in the ear and abscesses in the chest. "Such a list of complications may not be pleasant reading, but it should serve to warn the public as to what may happen if they treat the epi- demic lightly." - +------- Keeping Busy. • House Painter (who has just enter- ed,railway carriage discovers •among- st the other occupants an artist)--• "Fine day. I see you're a •brother: painter." Artist (sarcastically)—"Yes, I sup- pose I am. Do you go in chiefly •fo= figure or landscape Work?" "No. Architectural is mair in any line. I was ea in the country the day whitewashing a barn. Are ye busy yerscl'?" "Yes; I gave the first coat to r. castle, second coated s. little village, a fefirtre a i h a wes, hillside, and finis e a flash of lightning," • "Ma conscience! But yell be hav ing a big contract, shanty." Lady,:Barber—"How would you like., me. to cut it, sir?" The Major—"Av't --you line the hairs tip and nulnbe; them off from the .right. Odd nuxn- bers d,stand fast, but the two 'even numbers' want - about axi inch oil, • Drees smartly with a little brilliant- iile-•--and (Heroic !"