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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-12-11, Page 2The March of the White Guar IL By SIR GIIJ3ERT PARKER, Hyde her letter, J•eif Hyde rubbed his Jas• par Hume sat down, handed the fingers before he touched the delicate 'Indian: a pipe and tobacco, and, with noel perfumed missive. Its delicacy harm folded, watched they Etre. Fel! deemed to bewilder" him. .He said in alf an hour the sat so, �" white man, a rough but kindly way, Hope to die Indian and dog. Then Jasper ar Hume if I don't," and passed it on to Gaspe P Tou ours who did not find it necessary rose, went.to a s,upboarci, took, out a , sane sealingwax and matches, and in to ePeak, His comrade had answered • moment melted wax was dropping ie for him, Late Carscallen held it in - upon : P lg u on the lock the box containing his quisitively for a moment, and then his Idea. He had just finished this as Saws opened and shut as if he were Sergeant Gosse knocked at the door, about to speak. But before he did so and immediately after entered thethe Sub -factor said, `It is a long jour- room. ney and a hard one. Those who go "Gose," said the sub-factar, "find may never come back. But this man Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, and Late was working for his country, and he Carscallen, and bring them here," has got a wife—a good wife!" He Sergeant immediately departed upon held up the letter. "Late Carscallen his errand. Jaspar Hume then turned wai ts to know who will lead you. to Cloud -in -the -'Sky, and said, "Cloud- Can't you trust me? I will give you a leader in -the -Secy, I want you to go a Lang ,that you will :follow to. the journey hereaway to the Barren Barren Grounds. To -morrow you will Grounds. Have twelve dogs ready by know who he is. Men, are you satis- nine o'clock to -morrow morning." fled? Will you do it?" Cloud -in -the -Sky shook his head The four rose, and Cloud -in -the -Sky thoughtfully, and then, after a pause, nodded approvingly many times. The said, "Strong -back go too?" ("Strong- Sub -factor held out his hand. Each back" was his name for Jaspar Hume). i man shook it, Jeff Hyde first, and he But the other did not or would not said, "Close up ranks for the H, B. C.!" hear. The Indian, however, appeared • (H. B. C. meaning, of course, Hudson satisfied, for he smoked harder after -!Bay Company.) ward, and grunted to himself many; With a good man to lead them they times. A few moments passed, and! would have stormed, alone, the then Sergeant Gosse entered, followed:Heights Heights of Balaclava. by Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, and, Once more Jaspar Hume spoke: "Go Late Carscallen. Late Carscallen had: to Gosse and get your outfits at nine got his name "Late" from having been' to -morrow morning. Cloud -in- the -sky, called "The Late Mr. Carscallen" by ; have your sleds at the store at eight the Chief Factor because of his slow-' o'clock, to be loaded. Then all meet mess. Slow as he was, however, the' me at 10.15 at the office of the Chief stout Scotsman had more than once t Factor. Good -night." proved himself sound and true ac As they passed out into the semi - cording to Jaspar Hume's ideas. He arctic night, Late Carscallen with an was, of course, the last to enter. i unreal obstinacy said, "'Slow march to The men grouped themselves about; the Barren Grounds—but who leads?" the fire, Late Carscallen getting the! Left alone the Sub -factor sat down coldest corner. Each man drew his to- to the pine table at one end of the bacco from his pocket, and cutting it,! room and after a short hesitation be - waited far Sub -factor Hume to speak. gin to write. For hours he sat there His eyes were debating as they rested rising ofil3: to put wood on the fire. on the four. Then he took out Rose The result was three letters: the larg- o ' 1 d ' I ht addressed to a famous s:xciety in epage s atter an , wit t t e group es a esse But, wile are the party?"' " Wipers, Jeff. Hyde, GaspeLate {larscallen and Gloud-inthe-Sky, "And who leads them, Hufne?" Who; leads?" "With your permission, sir, I do," "You, Hume! You! But, man, con- sider the danger. And then there is-- there is, your ;invention!" I have considered all, Here are three letters. If we do not come back in three months, you will please send this one, with the box in rri`y room, to the address on the envelope; this is for a solicitor in 11tontreal, which you will also forward as von as possible; this last one is for yourself; but you will not open it until the three months. have passed. Have I your permission to lead these men? They would not go without me:" "I know that, I know that, Hume. I hate to have you. go, but I can't say no. Go, and good luck go with you." Here the manly old Factor turned away his head. He knew that Jaspar Hume had done right? Ile knew the possible sacrifice this man was making of all his hopes, of his very life; and his sound Scotch heart appreciated the act to the full. But he did not know all. Ile did not know that Jaspar Hume was starting to look for the man who had robbed him of youth and hope and genius and home, Here is a letter that, the wife has written to her husband in the hope that he is alive. You will take it with you, Hume. And the other she wrote to me, shall I keep it?" He held out his hand, "No, sir, I will keep it,if you will allow me. It is my comtnision, you know," And the shadow of a smile hovered about Jaspar Humes lips. The Factor smiled kindly es he re- plied, "Alt, yes, your conitnission-- Captain Jaspar Hume of —of what, Hume?" Just then the door opened and there entered the four men whom we saw around the Sub -factor's fire the night oerore, lney were ares blanket costumes from held to foot, white woolen capotes covering the gray fur caps they wore. Jaspar Hume ran his eye over them and then answered the Factor's question: "Of the White Guard, sir." "Good," was the reply. "Mel, you! are going on a relief expedition --one looking at him now, he read it aloud, ; London, one to a solicitor in Montreal, """°" When it was finished Cloud -in -the -Sky and one to Mr. Field, the Chief Fac - gave a guttural assent and Gaspe Tou-: tor. They were all sealed carefully. jours, locking at Jeff Hyde, said, "It is Then Jaspar Hume rose, took out his cold in the Barren Grounds. We shall knife and went aver to the box as if need much tabic." These men could to break the red seal. He paused, how - read without difficulty Jaspar Hume's ever, sighed, and put the knife back reason for summoning them. To Gaspe again. As he did so he felt something Toujour's remark Jeff[ Hyde nodded touch his leg. It was the dog, Jaspar affirmatively and then all looked at Hume drew in a sharp breath and said, Late Carsealien. Ile opened his heavy "It was all ready, Jacques; and in an- iaws once or twice with an animal-: other three months I should have been kke sound, and then he said, in a in London with it. But it will go general kind of way: + whether I go or not, Jacques. The "To the Barren Grounds. But who; dog sprang up and put his head leads?" ! against his master's breast. Jaspar Hume was writing on a slip i "Good dog! good dog! it's all right, of paper, and did not reply. The faces Jacques; however it gees, •it's all of three of them showed just a, shade right!" of anxiety. They had their opinions, Then the dog lay down and watched but they were not sure. Cloud -in -the-, the man until he drew the blankets Sky, however, grunted at them, and to his chin, sleep drew oblivion over raised the bowl of his pipe toward the a fighting but masterly soul. Sub -factor. The anxiety then seemed At ten o'clock next morning, Jaspar to be dispelled. Hume presented himself at the Chief For ten minutes more they sat so, Factor's office. He bore with him the all silent. Then Jaspar Hume rose, letters he had written the night before. handed the slip of paper to Sergeant Gosse, and said, "Attend to that at once, Gosse. Examine the food and blankets closely." The five were left alone. Then Jaspar Hume spoke: "Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, Late Carscal- len, and Cloud-in-tireeSky, this man, alive or dead, is between here and the The Factor said, "Well, Hume, I am glad to see you. That, woman's letter was on my mind all night. Have you anything to propose? I suppose not," he added despairingly, as he looked closely into the face of the other. "Yes, Mr. Field, I propose this: that the expedition shall start at noon to- day." Barren Grounds. He must be found— "Shall—start—at—noon—to-day?" for his wife's sake." He handed Jeff "In two hours." Eng a d Wages War on Race Suicide England is waging a resolute war against race suicide and infant mor -1 tality. Unless she can educate her people in the expediency of increasing the British population by British; births and of conserving the lives and ; health of children already born she knows that Germany in twenty years will be able to wage against her a war' that Germany will win, then. Medical statistics confound the aver- , age Englishman, who has not been given until the present time to think- ing seriously of the death rate and the ; birth rate per se. A recent publica- tion of these medical statistics has given him food for diquieting thought. Between 1910 and 1919 a yearly average of 100,000 babies died at birth or were still -born. The yearly birth rate averaged 700,000, exclusive of ! those babies that had died within twenty-four hours of birth. But of the 700,000 given to the coun- try 90,000 died each year before they had attained their first twelvemonth's birthday. Those who survived display an alarming health condition. One in every four children in the working classes is mentally deficient, ten in one hundred suffer from malnutrition, thirty in each hundred have defective eyes, twenty-five have adenoids and eighty out of every hundred need the dentist badly. The poor baby, of course, suffers more than the infant whose parents are well to do. The death rate of children below one month In profes- Aional classes averages twenty -nee '~ one thousand, ' tit in the working classes 46,3 per thousand is the rate. Now, the large percentage of work• ing class children who grew into adults below par was not so appalling a circumstance before the war came to tngland. , I do not mean that thelr number was less then or that the eon• rtition was unknown. These statistics Cover a period of nine years. But be- fore the war England still had that population of healthy, wholesome young manhood now lying out in Flanders fields, and the status of the viorking class was such that their l ealtb did not constitute a grave ma- #,erial menace to the future of the Brit tire, Such a conte, tion applies even to the mentally deficient. Whoever ar- rived a traveller in England prior to August, 1914, and remembers the tat- tered touts who Bung about steam- boat piers and especially London rail- way terminals and ran panting miles after a cab for the sole purpose of unloading its bags and trunks for a penny or two will find no trouble in believing that the figures relative to mental deficiency among slum peoples there are not exaggerated. But it did not matter so signally while the working classes of England were content. Their women scrubbed and slaved as servants or underpaid factory hands; their men were quite frankly underdogs and the writer of- ten suspected that they were proud of being just that. An exceptional mem- ber of a lower class family rose above his station because he was not ham- pered by stupidity and bad health, and the others were never done marveling at him. To -day the great majority of these men and women/have made up their minds that they are, or must be, the exceptional members.• of the working class family. They would not accept a penny now for a service! They would not run a block after a cab for a pound sterling! They propose to rule in England, but If they are not uplifted, mentally and physically, they will wreck the British Empire. Farseeing [Englishmen know this and have accepted it, Became. of thaiglw>ms so fond of flowers, knowleeee <, The conversation narrowed down to —nee trier are urging politic the mother. Was she exactly honest? legislation and reform anent the un- She never went by a candy counter derdog of five years ago, without picking up one ar two pieces, Welfare centres, the firststep in all and fruit vendors knew .her afar off infant saving, are multiplying in -every and hastily covered their choice peach - English town and city. It is esti- es and plums when she approached. mated that $5 a year will save one Two or three books with telt-tale lib- baby's life at a British welfare centre. racy tags were on her book shelves Half this sum is furnished by the gov- and had been for months. And she ernment and half by voluntary contra- prided herself on seeing how many btttlan. At the present writing there times a week she could get the better are 235 British .towns that have these of the grocer or butcher iii making welfare houses. change. Her ergureent always was, The largest one in London had 700 that ihcy always aharg d her too mushI entries in the year ending June 30, and she had theeh/lit to get even, 1919. l+ifty babies and forty-two The .mother wouid not deliber;itcly mothers came there every day or go out and put her hand in someone's care and instruction. To its, this Is pocket iso rob then[, 13r` was she no great innovation, but it marks the lancet? Mei she taught the boy hor,eety? :• ? ed told hint itu isas in which there is, danger. You need a -food leader, You have one in Cap- tain .laspar Ilunee," Jeff Hyde shook his bead atiha others with a pleased T-told-you-so- exxpression; Cloud -in -the -Sky :grunted his deep approval; and Late Caeseal- len smacked his lips in a satisfied manner and robbed his leg with, a schoolboy sense of enjoyment, The Factor continued: "In the name of the Hudson Fur Company I will say that if you come back, having done your eiuty faithfully, you shall be well re- warded- And I believe you will come back, if it is in human power to do so." Here Jeff Hyde said, "It isn't re- ward we're doin' it, Mr.Field, but be- cause Captain .Hume wished it, because we believed she'd lead us; and for the lost fellow's wife. We wouldn't have said we'd do it, if it wasn't for h'im that's just called us the White puarcd." Under the bronze of the Sub -factor's face there spread a glow more red than brown, and he said simply, "Thank you, men"—for they had all nodded assent to Jeff Hyde's words -.- "Come with me to the store. We will start at noon." And at noon the White Guard stood in front of the store on which . the British flag was hoisted with another. beneath it bearing the magic letters, H. B. C.: magic, because they have opened to the world regions that seem- ed destined never to know the touch of civilization. The few inhabitants of the Fort had gathered; the dogs and loaded sleds were at the door, The White Guard were there too—all but their leader. It wanted but two min- utes to twelve when Jaspar Hume came from his house, dressed also'in the white blanket costumeand follow- ed by his dog, Jacques. In a moment more he had placed Jacques at the head of the first team of dogs. They were to have their leader, too; and they testified to the fact by a bark of approval. Punctually at noon, Jaspar Hume shook hands with, the Factor, said a quick good-bye to the rest, call- ed out a. friendly -"How!" to the In- dians standing near, and to the sound of a hearty cheer, heartier perhaps because none had a confident hope that the Ave would come back, the March of the White Guard began. (To be continued.) • r52inard'0 Liniment Cures Cones, &a "As the Twig is Bent." A sad case came to light in school last week. For tome time numerous things had been missed. A book, a half dozen pencils, a child's lunch, a cap, a pair of rubbers, apples, and numerous other small things. Ten days ago someone obtained the key to the teacher's desk, opted it and stole two dollars out of her purse. The teacher said nothing, but watched. A twelve -year-old boy from one `of the best homes, but who had never had spending money, suddenly began treating everyone in school. A little judicious questioning brought out the truth; this boy had taken not only the teacher's money but everything else I that had been missing. The entire neighborhood was upset by the incident. How could it be that this boy, the son of parents of ab- solute honesty, could be a thief ? He had 'been brought up in the Sunday School, told the difference between right and wrong, had all sorts of ad- vantages, and yet bad gone wrong. Now if it had been young Peterkins whose family hadn't much, and who probably never was taught anything at home, you could understand it. But this boy's mother was so good and the foul of honesty. It did seem queer to the ones who didn't go below the surface. But those who had watched the boy grow up rather felt that they could" explain it. Two or three mothers got together and exchanged confidences. There was the time when the boy was two and he carried home Jackie Smith's auto- mobile, Of course, it only came from the ten -cent store, but it was dear to Jaokie's heart. The lad's mother ex- plained that he was too young to know it was naughty, and it was -such a little thing and her son wanted it so badly, it seemed a amine • to make a fuss about it and have him return it, so she kept it. A year or go later it was a sack of pop corn he took away from ,,Jenny ,'ones. Jennie cried and told his mother, but it was silly to cry over a tittle sack of pop corn. She did give Jennie a niekle, however, to buy an- other. Ali sorts of incidents came up. One told of half a dozen fresh cookies disappearing off the table while the bay and his mother were calling; an- other had her early roses picked by the bay, -AO,-his mother explained', passing of .on old order in England. wrong to steal, but had she taught him that? Suppose when he took the auto, away back in ells baby days, she had explained to him the rights of others and made him return the toy. Would he have- deliberately stolen money when he was twelve years old? It seemed hardly probable to the, mothers who discussed the, case. No age is too young to begin to teach the property rights of others, they all de- cided. If you begin.with the littlest things and insist °on absolute honesty regardless of what the other fellow does, the big things will take care of themselves, Parents, Attention! The astounding discovery that ape proximately five hundred thousand school children in Canada to -day are under weight has naturally and pro- perly led to concerted action to the end that this appalling condition of affairs may be ,rectified as 5co#i.'as. possible. Draft statistics show that seventy per cent, of the Hien were re- jected for defects that could have been prevented or .cured bycare in child- hood, Weight and rate of gain form one of the best tests of health in children, Home Decoration, :Henry Van Dyke calls *e .piotures on his walls the windows of his home. Through them he gets glimpses of tete -beauty which les beyond the section of living space bounded by the, stone walls of his home. Through offe such window, he could see the ocean, and almost feel the cold spray and the 'strength of thesalt air. Another win- dow gave beim a view of the mountains, with all of the uplift of a daily climb, in thought, to their summits. The [influence of such silent teach- ers in the home can hardly be estimat- ed, but in nothing else is the average home so.. poorly furnished. Good taste may be displayed in the choice. of carpets and easy chairs, Wall paper may be selected in quiet restful tints, but the decorations may be family por- traits framed in .objectionable ornate mouldiriogs, cremes, representations of Indians in gaudy war paint, or so -calls ed oil paintings, purchased perhaps of Some itinerant vendor and suggestive of nothing in the heavens above or the earth beneath. Seasonable Recipes. Mock Bisque Soup.—Simmer one quart of tomatoes until they will go through the strainer, adding one fourth teaspoon of soda just before re- moving from the fire, Strain, and add to a white sauce made with one quart of milk, two tablespoons of butter and a half cup of flour. Season to suit with salt and pepper, and two table- spoons of •sugar. Pour in hat soup dashes and place one tablespoon of whipped cream on each service. Then sprinkle minced parsley on the eream. Pear and Cheese Salad.—Select halves of large canned Bartlet pears. Place ori lettuce leaf on serving plate, fill hoil•o v in pear with cottage cheese,' and cover with sweetened whipped' cream or bailed salad dressing. Sailor's Duff.—One egg, two table-; spoons of sugar, two tablespoons of butter, one-half cup of molasses, one teaspoon of soda dissolved in •one-half cup of hat water, one and one-half cups flour. Mix in order named and steam one hour in buttered - pudding dish. Burnt Cream Sauce:—Melt one-half , cup granulated sugar in 'enameled saucepan, 'add one pint of thin cream' and set over hot water until the 'sugar - melts again. Raspberry and Currant Ice.—Boil four cups of water and one and one -1 third cups of sugar twenty m,inutee. i Put two cups of canned raspberries and two of canneg currants through ricer and strain through double cheese -1 cloth to remove seeds. When the syrup is cool, ,add -fruit juice and freeze. Lenton Ice Cream..—Scald one pint! of rich milk and stir into it one level tablespoonful of cornstarch. Add one-' half cup of sugar and cook in double! boiler ten minutes, stirring frequently. Then add the yolks of two eggs, beaten with )inif, cup 4'f sugar, stir until well blended, aad one piut of cream. and strain. Wkian cold add one table- spoon of lemon attract and freeze, Hot Maple Sauce, ---•Boil two eups of maple syrup with a half 'eup of cream or better until it threads. While stilt hot, pour over the serving of ice cream. Creole Chit:ken,--Cut in pieces for serving, season with salt and pepper and brown in four tablespoons of but- ter melted, toe which has been added one-fourth cup of finely chopped onion. When the chicken is browned remove from' frying pen, thicken mixture in pan with four tablespoons of flour, add two cups of stock or boiling water, tw'b eups canned tomai:o, one finely chopped red pepper, one-half eup of chopped celery, and salt to taste. Iter place chicken and simmer mitil tender. 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Soaps Limited, Mfrs., Montreal 4815 ilq!moluuui ll�D • G OIL AT LE Your heat, light and power needs are best served with Imperial Royalite Coal Oil. Every drop is clean, powerful and absolutely uniform. Imperial Royalite gives yott the highest fuel satisfaction and costs no more than ordinary coal oil. Imperial Royalite Coal Oil meets every test of a perfect oil, allows you full power from tractor or stationary engine. Used in oil heaters and stoves, it burns clean—no smoke or soot—and it's best for oil lamps, too. You can get Royalite everywhere when you want it. Our unlimited means of distribution assures that. No coal oil is better than Imperial Royalite, so why pay higher prices? tgi Ote r • ,$t>iI'ttant • 'l 4D` aria COAL L OIi_ EVERYWH1RE Tb ee Billion of Gold. 1Three billion globes of gold the size . of our earth—that indeed Is a vision Iof wealth. "beyond the dreams of aver lee." Yet that is less than five ecu- times would have amounted to at com- f pound interest during the Christian Ere[, 1 Impossible? I It is M. Cetntile I+'aalnmarion, the ' mathematician and astronomer, who • makes the mind^steggering proposi- , 1 tion, Somebody in the press has credited him with: Baying that tete five milliards of fr<iltcs--ono billion doll liars—extorted from France by Zeo+- i many in 1871, was equal to the produce ' of five centimes placed at five per cent. ' compound interest at the birth -of Christ, M. Fiammarion corrects the quotation. What he did was to recall _ the remark of General l:"'oy on tee vot- ing of a milliard francs in 1825. for the relief of the French emigres, that 'tot yet had a milliard of minutes elapsed since the birth of Christ; which was quite true, that number of minutes not being attained until April 28, 1902, But the statement about what five centimes would have amounted to at compound interest iemarked with er- ror. It is a large error, says M. FIam- merlon. it is bigger than the whole ' earth, bigger than the sun, bigger than the whole solar system. Not one in- got of gold the size of the earth, nor two, nor three, nor a hundred, nor a thousand such ingots, would equal that product. ! The calculation is simple, though it might prove tedious to carry it out iu full. An amount placed at interest at five per cent., compounded annually, doubles hi fouiteen years and seventy- seven days, Very well. Rive centimes + placed at compound interest. in the year 1 would have become ten cen- times in the year 14; 20 centixnes in the year 28; 40 centimes in the year ! 42; 80 centimes in the year 56; 1 j franc 60 *centimes in. the year. 71; 3 francs 20 centimes in the year 85; ' I and so on. j Thus far the sum has . seemed to grow slowly. But the rate accele- rates, or seems so to do. At the end of the first century the sum is only 6 francs 40. But at the end of the second century it is 819 francs 20, ae+ the end of the third it is 104,551 francs 60. and at the end of the fourth century it is 13,421,772 francs, Al- ready we have reached millions, There soon follow milliards, or billions, as they are commonly Balled in Canada; then follow trillions, quadrillions, quin- tillion s, sextillions, septillions octil- lions, nonillions, decillions—numbers which no mind can grasp. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1503, the sum of the orig- t incl 'five centimes is 7.610 decillions,. and this sum, doubling- every fourteen years, in 187e, the year, of M. Flame merlon's first nicomputation, amounts to more than 243 undeeillions of francs. What means 243 undecillions? Or 243,516,800 nonillions? That is 243,- 516,800 followed by thirty ciphers. No human mind can grasp it. What would that sum of money mean, in gold? As one kilogramme of gold is worth 8,400 francs, our capital would weigh 71 decillions 622 nonillions 588 octil- lions of kilogrammes. Now, this earth weighs only 5,875 sextillions of, kilo- grammes. If it were of solid gold it would have to be multiplied by 3,430,- 100,000 to equal the tremendous quan- tity in question. In brief, five . centimes, or one cent, placed at five per cent. compound in- terest at the birth of Christ, would now equal 3,436,000,000 globes of solidi gold, each the size of the earth, —i+ Her Best Age. Women themselves probably are under the delusion that their best age is something under twenty-five and something over eighteen. At any rate,. they are supposed to resent all birth- days after thirty, and areoccasional- iy charged with working backwards and growing older in rooks and young- er in years. But no woman who knows how to put on her clothes, who reads and thinks, who develops all her best. qualities, need worry at passing into the thirties, for at forty a woman 1S at her very best, physically and men-. tally. She is at the zenith of her beauty, and if she has cultivated her intelligence, she is at the zenith of her mentality also. Very few men of any note find the same pleasure • in the society of a. young, undeveloped girl which they find in a mature woman of forty. At that age such a woman is an ideal cempanion, and her preference for the. society of a man is a real compliment. to his mental and. moral dualities. No, there ie no reason why' a woman,. unless she be merely a coquette, and has nothing to recommend bar but a. pretty face, should dread advancing years. a There is a charm' about` all ages, in. deed, and many a woman is more beautiful and attractive when her hair is streaked with grey than ever she. was before, Rope From Bark. An Australian , has discovered a method for using fibre obtained from trio bark or a large variety of eucalyp• tus trees in the manufacture of twine,, rope and bagging. To keep well, onions must be Ina -4. tare and trhorougltty dry. .[tore in crates it possible or ventilated barrels, as ;good ventilati'trtt is ,essential.