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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-8-7, Page 2THE FIGURE IN 111E FOREGR e•••••••1",..1 • UND The Captain's Other Self Is Invisible to. All But One Man. To the Corporal It Brings, a Crisis When Courage Demands Mutiny. By DOUGLAS DOLD. I. It had come over Chesney again! Corporal John Madison understood in a flash what had happened. The old,terrible menace, so Peng believed exorcised, had sprung out of oblivion, had again gripped Chesney—now Cap- tain Daniel Chesney of the engineer corps, "It was "Somewhere in France." The sun flowed sweetly down on a brook which should have flashed back its exquisite silver. But the once clear stream was churned to yellow opaque- ness, and the ochre was colored, here, and there, by weaving currents of ugly red. The brook had formerly flowed joy -1 ously over white pebbles. Now bodies of dead men choked it. Sometimes it! clambered over these. Sometimes It wriggled under them. Across it the shells whined and screeched. Far above it, in the blue air, the falcons of war pursued their complex flights, or fought cloud duels in which the vanquished fell wrapped in a blazing death. Everywhere the earth and sky echoed, in tortured eddies, to the hel- lish sounds of war. But Corporal Madison heard no- thing of them conscicasly. His strain- ed ears were tensed on Captain Ches- ney's frightful words, Chesney's screaming boast of the order he was I about to give. That order! It meant success foro the enemy. It meant horror and ruin for Chesney's own men. Staring with piercing, understand- ing blue eyes at his captain, Madison1 knew that Chesney was not Chesney any longer; he was the mad man he had been years before in the private sanatorium where his father had secretly put him for cure. Out of it Chesney had come apparently men- tally sound, and had rushed eagerly into an army career. He and Madison came from the: same small Ontario town. There Madison was not in Chesney's set. The Chesneys were of an old, cynically arrogant stock. Madison had more than once, when encountering Chesney I socially, felt his blood boil over the young aristocrat's supercilious toler- ance. At last the despised civilian; had been tried too far. There had1 ensued a fist fight in which Chesney had been soundly "licked" by the so -1 cial outsider. Naturally then, when Madison. found himself Corporal Madison in the world war, with Chesney as his superior officer, the victor in the by -1 gone encounter was not surprised to find himself keenly disliked by the captain. Chesney never dreamed, however, that the corporal knew every detail of Chesney's eaccredited cure at the sanatorium. But one of the attend- ants there had been a man who mar- ried Madison's sisternand through this brother-in-law, Madison knew every detail of Chesney's past madness, knew what the symptoms would be if it ever rushed on Chesney again—and so realized now—now in the swift, wild crisis of a terrible day, that Chesrey, overtasked, overintensified, shaken by shell shock, was, for the hour at least, raving mad—and about to send his . , • • 'y•••••14,•?:,!?: • clsY.V4 ske men into en annihilation as horribly silly as it was cataclysmically shock- ing. As Cheaney, hi:. handsome gray eyes glittetneg, his whole ee.tisto- °retie, dominant figure quivering with exaltation, shouted his wild purpose at Madison, the small, stocky, heavily featured corporal instantly, vividly knew the one way out—even though he glimpsed that toward them three of Chesney's men were running— The one way out! Not for himself. Chesney had ordered him on a message, an instant life-saving command that would carry Madison himself into safety. But meanwhile the men— For them—the one way out— What it meat for Madison himself, court-martial, the stigma of shame, the climax of a traitor's death flashed clearly, terribly before the corporal. There was no time for explanations, no time for anything except that one way—all the harder , for Madison to take because the corporal was trained through ingrained discipline to respect vividly, in any officer, the power of martial authority. Not a damnatory circumstance would be lacking against Madison himself—these very soldiers—running toward them—Chesney's hate of Madi- son— II. Three astounded privates arrived just in time to see their brilliant, dis- tinguished captain go down under a smashing blow from -ethe mutinous, murderous fist of Corporal Madison. As Private Gray said later: "The devil himself couldn't 'have acted any quicker! Down goes the captain like a stock -yard's steer under the axe! And while we were gapin', Corporal Madison wheels like lightnin', jumps past us like a panther, puts the neck of wood between h,ine an' us— an' is clean gone!" But Madison's run was a brief one; it carried him to Lieutenant Henley, where he saluted and reported briefly: "Captain Chesney's down, sir. What are your orders?" Five minutes later the company was making its terrible way, bent on the special detail, upon whose successful completion depended the precarious safety of the whole salient. And suc- cess, so bloodily toiled for, crowned their efforts. When after nightfall a lull in the fighting followed, since even watmust take grim breath, the Red Cross bear- ers brought in their dead and wounded. Among these was a man neither dead nor wounded, though he was un- conscious and breathing thickly—the popular, diplomatic Daniel Chesney, distinguished not only as a soldier, but known as a charming dinner guest, cosmopolitan and unusually well read. On the heels of his 'arrival came a lieutenant to General L's tent. With the lieutenant were three infuriated privates who idolized Captain Ches- ney. •For where his sense of superi- ority had never been offended, Ches- ney had that idealistic sense of smil- ing good will apt to flower from a descendant of feudalism toward those under his authority. The three pri- vates, in deadly indignation, told their tale of Madison's mutiny. (To be continued.) CLOTHING FROM FOREST TREES Several. Regions of the Earth Yield Dress Material.' One of the strangest of myths is that which .concerns the "deadly upas (gee" of Java, whose poisonous exhala- tions were formerly alleged to .kill any man or animal that ventured into its neighborhood. Doubtless at had its origin in some traveler's tale, for the tree in question —rather widely distributed in south- ern and southeastern Asia— has no terrors for the natives of those coun- tries, who, on the contrary, find it extremely useful. It is the only kind of tree in the world that produces ready-made cloth- ing. The inner bark is a natural cloth, only requiring the removal of the soft cellular stuff from between,the woven fibers in order to render it available for use, A. 'cylindrical section of it from a small branch will furnish a leg for a pair of trousers or an arm for a coat, while from the bigger branch the body of the garment is obtained. In tropical South America the 'inner bark of another species of tree yields an excellent cloth, the fibers of which are ioterwoveo much as if the fabric came from a loom. All that is neces- eery is to wash and beat out the cell -- law stuff from the interstices and, when dried, it is light, flexible and altogether suitable for making up Into garments. The famous "tape," cloth of Poly- nesia is made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. When of the fin- est quality it is bleached to snowy whiteness and fine as muslin. tropicel Africa the inner bark or 'a legeeninous tree is utilized in the verve v. ay; Ieneed, it is eurprieing to' Ino•e new 'widen,' trerteeks are em- - ro,, clothing th ..edi s ill in the West. Inde grows the "lace -bark tree," which eields a delicate tissue so like lace that many articles of feminine adorn- ment are made from it. Care. Peace and put off all care from thee. Endure a little and be strong. And lo! this ever -rising sea, This mounting tide of misery, Shall sink, shall ebb, 'ere long. What though the years have brought to grief The days of warmth, the days of ease, The blossom odorous and brief, The bursting and ephemeral leaf; Good fruit shall follow these— Gifts, that whate'er the gods may send Shall lift us high and bear us far, And these are Labor witheut end And Courage, which is man's last friend, And Honor, his one Star. Conclusive. "How did you get on?" The sweet maiden breathed the words into her lover's manly ear as she met him in the passage. He had been "seeing father," and she wanted to know the result. "Oh, your father is teartless!" said the young man indignantly. "I—I told him I could not live without you, and*" "Yes, yes t" — impatiently. "What did he say?" "He merely offered to pay my funer- al expenses !" Lord Jellicoe was received at Port Lincoln, Australia, by "Bleck Fanny," the oldest of the district aboriginals, who, ewathel in a Union Jack, play - felly teemed his Lordship on the c eelee. , reea.sea megoent 0»,',i, 4 macn SOLDIER SETTLERS Men who fought in the Great War breaking land in Saskatchewan for next year's operations. Such scenes are quite common in the central nro- vinces now. Make Your Iceless Refrigerator. Do not let the food spoil! Here's a way t6 keep it cool for $3.17, and it's nothing but a wooden frame with a cloth around it. Any smart girl can build one. The iceless refrigerator is a fine thing, simple and cheap. Missionar- ies in India discovered that if they were to live in the intense heat of that regidn they must stretch wet sheets across the doors and windows, and the hot winds blowing through made the rooms comfortably cool. This is the simple principle of the iceless refrigerator. A wet cloth sur- rounding a frame will make the space on the inside cool enough to keep the milk sweet, the butter hard and the other foods in good condition. If' you live where ice is hard to get or if you have no ice house or cellar or even if you have a cold cellar, save steps with an iceless refrigerator. There are four corner posts, each 3 ft. 6 in. high, and made of 1x2 in. lumber. The shelves should be made of 1x12 in. lumber and the corners sawed out 1x2 in. to fit the corner posts. The shelves are 15 in. long. The middle shelves may be made of ;trips or of poultry nettling so as to let the air through. An easy way to frame it in your mind is to "play" you are going to build two ladders, one on each side. The steps of the ladder are the cross bars at sides of refrigerator. These are 84 in. each. The top bars should be 1 in. from the top of the posts. They should fit 'between them, and the nails (8 -penny finish nails) should be driven through the posts into the end of the bars. The second "step'l should be 12 in. below the first and the third 12 in. below the second. This makes the fourth bar 15 in. below the third. Now when you have the two ladders or sides done, you can fit your lower - shelf right on and nail it, then the next and the next and last of all the top shelf. To brace the whole frame there really should be a cross bar under the top shelf in front and back, and the same under the lower shelf, also. The door is too simple to need description. The pan was made to order to fit the top and cost $1.00 but you can use a bread baking pan that fits snug- ly. Or this can be tin, painted and then enameled to prevent rusting. The whole frame should be painted to keep it from warping. A wire screen may be put around the sides and on the door if you wish to make it stouter and to exclude insects. A cover of canton flannel, burlap, or duck is made to fit the frame. Put the smooth side out if canton flannel is used. It will require about three yards of material. This cover is but- toned around the top. of the frame and down the side on which the door is not hinged, using buggy hooks and eyes or large -headed tacks and eye.; lets worked in the material. , On the' front side arrange the hooks on the top of the door instead of on the frame and also fasten the cover down' the latch side of the door, allowing a, wide hem of the material to overlap, the place where the door closes. The, door can then be opened without un- buttoning the cover. The bottom of; the cover should extend down into the lower pan, Four double strips, which taper to 8 or 10 incheein width, are' sewed to the upper part of the coven! These strips form wicks that dip over' into the tipper pan. The iceless refrigerator has the ad- vantage of not drying out. . The cloth. folded into the pan of water at the top ode the same as the lamp wick' which draws the kerosene up to the flame. The cloth around the refriger- ator draw e the water just like a wick and the cloth is kept wet all the way down to the bottom. All you have to do is keep the pan filled with water,! just as you must keep your lamp filled; with cell, The iceleee refrieerator should bo placed where the air is in motion. The Crn fort.? tie Child. The rn or le '"0 1:"NYON'S t ^ , ' • • • 111:: :' • .r back of John's bad temper or Mary's sueleiness, family life would be a much pleaeta der thing. If there is ever a time for beirg good-natured it ..e when the mercury runs up ,to toe nineties and every mother shouni real- ize that upon her depends the good spirits of the family. Babies are better if underdressed than overdressed in hot weather. If a band of flannel is kept around the, bowels there is little danger from, chills, even though the only other garment is a loos, romper or bloomers and waist. Sle4ves from father's and mother's wornout flannels, or a three- inch section cut from the leg Make I excellent bands as they will stretch ; enough to permit their being drawn I up into position and no pins are re- quired to hold them. In dog days give a light breakfast; do not insist that little children eat what is set ,before them if to do so means starting the day with tears and bickering. At ten o'clock a few dainty sandwiches and a glass of lemonade Will make up for the -lack of break- fast. Early in the mei-ning throw one downstairs room open to the cool, fresh air, and as- soon as the sun is fairly up close it tightly, shutting out every possible degree of heat. Im- mediately after dinner tell the little people, and, children are little people from two years of agate twelve, that they may stay up later in the evening if they will take a nice nap while it is too warm to play. Make them com- fortable in the cool, dark room pre- pared for just this use early in the morning with heavy cotton comfort- ables on the floor and cool pillows, and, using firmness if necessary, insist that they go to sleep. The average child will sleep until three or four o'clock and the most intense heat of the day will then be passed. After supper allow' them to play in the yard until dark, and give them a special becletitne treat either of fruit, ice cream, a cold glass' of some kind of fruitage, or any delicacy easily prepared. will drink. Keep him out-of-doors all day, if peseible. Dregie hien lightly and bathe him night and morningwith water at about the temperature the air. To keep fly -paper .from Mewing off the table, or, wherever it is placed, tack a sheet of it to a small :board about the same length as the paper. It will be found much easier to handle. When your feet groW tired and ache, and it is not practicable to take off your shoes, lie down .and. raise your feet as high as yoor head and higher. The blood will flow away from them and they will feel easier. This •i$ the plan sometimes used by soldiers on a march. In the season of thunder storms it is wise to have ladder& and buckets ofo water at ' hand. Often a fire that would destroy buildings and stock could be extinguished if instant means were taken'. Chemical fire extinguish- ers, not too heavy to be handled by a woman or child, that are simple in operation and non -explosive, are a great protection, and should be found in every home. A broom will last longer if on each wash day, after the clothes are all boiled, it is dipped for a moment in the soapy suds. Then shake it as free from water as possible and hang up by the handle. Slip an old newspapei underneath to catch the drippings. If there is a tendency to lop -sidedness, press the broom into shape while it is wet and pliable. Use short cuts in your work; one short -cut is to punch holes in the bot- tom of a tin can and put it in your rinsing' pan. When you wash the silver knives, forks and spoons put them upright in it and pour hot water over them.. Drain a moment, then set on the back of the stove to dry. No wiping will be needed. A garnishing of shredded lettuce, watercress, parsley, nasturtium blos- , , soms, slices of lemon; or hard-boiled eggs, give to a dish of cold meat a more appetizing appearance and flavor. Left -over cooked peas, moist- ened with a salad dressing, also im- prove the taste and looks of the meat. Blackberry pudding: Half fill a bak- ing -dish with berries; sprinkle well with sugar and dot with butter; cover with a batter made by beating to- gether two eggs, two small cupfuls of flour and enough sweet milk to make a batter "as thick as rini cream. Beat well, add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a little salt, pour over the berries and bake for forty minutes in a moderate oven. Blueberries can be used in the same way. HINTS FOR INVENTORS. Suggestions That Will Keep Their Brains From Becoming Ossified. That "nothing is impossible" is one of the most popular of theories, ac- cepted by nearly unanimous consent. Anyone who would controvert it would expose himself. to the accusation that he was behind the times, an old fogy, a person of narrow mentality, one who failed to comprehend the unlimited mastery of inventive genius. Naturally, we are reluctant to invite such accusation. However,"we deem it to be not out of order to submit a par- tial list 01 products of inventive gen- ius whose possibilitity, from time to time declared, remains to be demons- trated by accomplishment. Those that just now occur to me are: Power for industrial purposes de- rived from tidal movements. Storage of the sun's summer heat for aise'in winter. Extraction of gold, in paying quanti- ties, from the waters of the ocean. Perpetual motion. • Storage of winter atmosphere for use as a substitute for ice in the sum- mer. A cheaper substitute for gasoline. A device for supervision of the opeation of the law of gravitation in case of accident to aircraft. Communiciation with the inhabi- tants of Mars. The harnessing of atmospheric elec- tricity. Prevention of earthquakes. Production of rainfall when it is needed. Accurate weather predictions. Doubtless, in many minds there are many other theoretical possibilities whose realization would he of great benefit to mankind. To avert contro- versy, we shall not'dispute the asser- tion that everything is ,possible, but patiently await further practical de- monstrations of its truth. W. L. 14oZiamon POW% 21, ?WOO Vbctor Bonds Sellore of victory ;Scuds will Ana aettnits pAceo enOtoti on the antmolal oago of the tiecuto pier:111w vitro. W. L, DicKiNNON 8z CO, Decline in CI-ova:m*4,4)lb end 'Municipal Londe Moltior..Lon meg., 10 Wfollnea, Sb., Toronto The Harvest. How To Do Things. Ice cream is a real food and not a delicacy. Families having their own freezers should serve ice-cream often for dessert. Its cost is no greater than that of pie and cake and it furn- ishes nourishment. Those who go picnicking should boil all drinking water and milk before drinking. People who have been auto- mobiling or picnicking in an. unfam- iliar neighborhood often bring home in their bodies typhoid -fever germs which develop later. Mint sauce can be made now for winter use. Gather the' leaves When dry and clean; chop finely, put in a bottle and fill with vinegar; cork well. When used pour out the quantity de - aired for flavoring, and add to it more vinegar and sugar to taste. During 'hot weather give the baby all the cool water—not ice water—he Summer's- smilin' and the oats Have put on their yeller ceato. Noddio"neath ehe enys of blue While thobinders' sone anew Fills the air with wataitie d1n, , Singing, "harvest's hero ag'in." Bob o' link an' nivadow lark Sweetly sing from atarn hill dark I, Near the brook's and in the wood Lazy Cattle chew their cud: In, the barnyard mistress hen 113raggs "I've laid an egg ag'in. Yesterday while walking by Shocks of oats, I chanced to spy Sweetest vision of a maid, Resting in their eoolin' shade, Eyes o' blue and lips so red hlust a been where cherries bled. So I paused a moment there Watched the soft lights in her hair, Watched her lips, we asked the miss If they wasn't ripe to kiss. Now I'm gladest that I've been Harvest time is here ag'in. Minard,a Liniment Cores *argot in Cows Gold production. The gold production of the British Empire was in 1916, the latest year in which complete figures are available, 14,229,844 ounces, or 64 per cent of the world's total. According to statistics in the Canada Year Book, the Dominion comes fifth as a gold -producing coun- try. Australia is third. In silver pro- duction Canada takes second place in the world. Patience is the right bower of suc- cess. All grades. Write, for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. 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ORIGIN 'OF • •• • ODD EXPRESSIONS INTERESTING FACTS RESPECT-- - ING THEM FIRST USE The Original "Blue Stocking"—The. Word "Teetotaller" Was the Out- ' come -of Stuttering Speech Once upon a time, as the story- telleii say, there lived in England a theatre 'manager of the bogus type - who was veryedilatory in the matter of paying his salaries. Now in company was was a self-willed actor, whose strong part was the ghost in "Hamlet." If his salary was not. forthcoming on a Saturday morning' he would exclaim: "Then Ataheheghwoasta: • won't walk to-nig,ht!" an indispensable actor, he was al- ways paid. Sometimes he received only a portion of his salary, with the - promise of the remainder in the coarse of the performance, and he would even go so far as to hold up the play just before the scene when -ha entered, until he was paid. When the Ghost Walked. Of course, the manager could not give his -salary to one member of the- -company and overlook the others, so they all 'began to feel a keen interest in the walking of the ghost as a. barometer of the pay situation. About the time of "treasury" on a Saturday morning they would wait until they received word by a messenger that the ghost would walk. To this day the expression that. "the ghost walks" is sernonymqus with the paying of salaries not only in theatres, but in many offices, and actors assembling for their weekly' 'salaries in a not too reliable company - put the, question to each other, "Is. the ghost walking?" while, if about - to accept an engagement of a :man- ager of whom they know nothing, they ask, "Does the ghost walk?" Another incident which occurred in England and gave rise to a popular expression relates to the warder oi the Tower of London during the time of the Plantagenets. He had what the citizens of London considered ariai, exaggerated belief in his own prer- ogative, and they took offence when. he claimed the right of trapping fish for hes own benefit outside the Trai- tors' Gate. , He placed in the river a basket, or "kiddie" commonly used at that time, but the peoplenthinking he had no right to do so, systematical- ly made raids on his kiddies and de- stroyed them. When he found the damage done -to his preserves, he. would exclaim, "A pretty kiddie of fish, ,indeed!" It is easy to see how "kiddie" would become "kettle" when the old style fishing basket went out - of vogue and how the original mean- ing clung to the expression, "a pretty' kettle of fish!" , The Stuttering of a Prohibitionist. It was quite a different &gee of' es.ociety that the expression "blue stocking" acquired its present signifi- cance.' At the famous club of literary ladies formed in England about the middle of the eighteenth century by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Ben- jamin Stillingfleete who habitually wore blue stockings, was a regular visitor. Blue stockings, therefore, be- came the recognized badge of member- ship and a blue 'stocking to this' day brings to mind a certain type of intel- lectual and conservative person. It is a question whether Lady Mon- tagu and her circle knew that as far back as 1400 there was a similar club of ladies and gentlemen at Venice which was /called the Della Calza from the color of the stockings worn. Another Englishman who, has sur- vived ell. a popular term is Richard Turner, whose conviction's on prohi- bition were so strong that even his habit of stuttering did not restrain le'm from lecturing on it in public. One time while speaking in Preston, England, in 1883, on total abstinence, he concluded his -address with the word's: "Nothing 'but tee -tee -tee -total abstinence will do—that or nowt!" It is due to that Stutthring conclusionn 'and not to the fact of substituting -0i. tea for intoxicating liquors that a total abstainer is now known as a teetotaller. AIR RAID SECRETS London Knew When a .Zeppelin Was To Be Let Loose. Colonel H. De Watteville, of the Royal Engineers, has had some in- teresting -things to say regarding German air raids over England clue- ing the war. As far as Zeppelins were concern - or, these success. "For no means an un- qualified"For every ship that got to these shores," said Con de Watteville, "you may be sure that there was an acci- dent somewhere hi Germ -any. Dur- ing the war no fewer than 120 of these entyronous airships were built, and yet there was never .at any time more than 15 or 16 that were fit to take the • air." "Wireless telegraphy played a very considerable part in the navigation 'of these ships over the water. We disfcovered useiscoveofit redhi this 1915, and made l "The actual apparatus had better not Le described, 'but I can assure you that semof ub in LeliesM ado- .• Inter h:. c• bmr:boloN a ship tie n German,/ than a raid Lu lios. Ahree