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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-5-4, Page 2Vresh and Refreshing iS 76 is comp sed of clean, whole young leaves. Picked right, blended right and packed right. Kt brings the fragrance of an Eastern garden to your table. mur.....aLcurgc, MsolEXXCm cam Cis t, +'' 1 a. LINE HAN Or The Capture of a German Pirate CHAPTER II.—(Cont'd.) About an hour later there was an other call: 'Officer of the watch: Look out station, sir. I have to repos smoke south-south-east,' 'Very well, Report again in fif teen minutes,' A bell clanged in the engine -room and the ship slowed down to half speed. Soon the look -out reporte again : Steamer south-southeeast hull duwn an yet; seems to be bearing north-east to cut across our wake, The speed of the Cocos dropped to bare steerage -way, and her course changed to due south-west. Crane detei mined to have a look outside and hurried to his ventilator. It was now full daylight, just on the brink of sunrise. The deckhou^e cut off his view to the south-east, and he could not seen the strange steam- er. There were, however, two new developments in sight. A telescopic steel wireless mast had risen from the deck, and flaunted its aerials high above the smoke -stacks; and in the bow a crew of men were stripping the false deck planking from above a sort of cockpit, in which was mounted a twenty -pounder rapid-fire gun. Some activity of the same sort seem - •.o be going on in the stern of the vessel, but he could not see clearly. Probably another gun was mounted there, Three officer:, stood on the bridge with glasses levelled. Soon one of them climbed the ladder on one of the' smoke -stacks, carrying a telescope and a small megaphone. Presently he called down to the bridge. 'The ship is a battle -cruiser, color dark blue, three funnels and two fighting - tops, forward turrets very high. Looks like the Japanese cruiser In-' dumo," Then, 'She has sighted us, and is heading this way. The captain seized a bell -cord, and immediately the ship gathered head- way and slipped into full speed. Crane thought it expedient to get back to his chamber before any one entered the hold. He just reached his telephone in time to hear a message which the wireless operator was reading to the captain, in which the commander of the Indumo ordered hits to heave -to at once, "Ask him by what authority he would halt a neutral vessel on the high seas, engaged in its own busi- ness," said the captain. "Take all the time you can, while we increase the range." The engine -room bell jangled again, and the hum of the engines. rose to a still higher note. A few minutes later came the mes- sage, "Heave to instantly, or we will fire on you." "Very good; no reply," said the f captain of the Cocos. Soon a deep, faint detonation reach- h ed Crane, and the voice of the look- u out over the 'phone, "A large shell t has burst about half a mile astern. o The range seems• to be ten or eleven miles.' is Another shot followed, then another,' a and the lookout reported them as fall- P ing about the same place. "We are out of range of her heay. t fest gun:," thought Crane and in h spite of himself, it was with a certain' o feeling of relief. Then he logged the h speed of the vessel, counting the vie- a rations of the racing screws with diffi- li eulty, and was amazed to discover 13 that she was rushing through the 1 water at the rate of some thirty- i three knots, or nearly forty miles an ti • 4, fall where they may,' that heel got him late tz'otlbie Several imeo during Me life, bat had straightway got him out again, For the present, at least he put personal considerations ltskle; hls whole business was to 'do his durnedest' as the cowboys have it, and wateit the future with a steady nerve and a clear mind, Ills greatest interest was centred on seeing the ship that was to use these torpedoes. He was destined to sea her sooner than he expected, About five o'clock that afternoon, as he lay lietening to tate routine calls over the 'phone, the voice of the look- out sounded, calling to the officer on the bridge. "Smoke over the star- board bow," he reported. The speed 1of the veseei slackened. At short intervals the lookout reported, and . Crane gleaned the information that a large freighter of about five thousand tone burden, with two funnels, buff in color, and flying the British flag, was crossing the bows some four miles ahead. The Cocos kept to her course; the British freighter ploughed on into the south-west, bound probably from San Francisco to Sydney by the • Samoan route. Darkness eeme on, and Crane awoke from a doze --for his re -t had been broken by the war- ship's chase—to note that his com- pass was acting strangely. The ship was evidently circling south -ward again; soon she straightened out on h T �v a due south course at increased speed. Nothing cam, over the 'phone save �! routine orders for running t' ship •'f+ h i hour. He realised that the Cocos was beating the cruiser by at least _ eight miles an hour, and would soon. t be lost to sight. The 'phone was nosy' useless, for the sharp, whip -like crack of the wireless came from aloft con tinuously, and Crane guessed that the Cocos's captain had ordered his oper- ator to "break up communication" b d sending out into spare a meaningles , jumble of dote and dashes to proven the warship from calling possibi consorts to her help. No more shots were heard, an Crane napped while the ship sped on Into the south-west. He awoke in mid-afternoon, to find that the Cocos was swinging a wide circle to the ' south-east, doubling on her course and crossing, her former track near where the war -vessel had first been sighted, and by three o'clock she had taken up her course northwest again, while the Indumo presumably pursued her to the southward of the Ilawaiian • Islands. CHAPTER III. As Crane wttendeI to his rough chart, and snatched a bite of food, his mind was running on a matter that had been present as an under- current in his thoughts even since he came aboard, but which the pressure of events had hitherto kept in the background. The sight of that twenty -pounder rapid-fire gun had brought it to the fore. This was the question of the contents of these long ironstrapped boxes. In looking over the freight he had noted a pile of small square ca.'es near his chamber that were bound with similar iron bands, but had not had time to look' into them. He did not dare to work outside just now; but the long boxes were near at hand; they formed the' roof over his head, though three of them were piled in the outside tier of freight forward. Getting out his! tool -kit, he began to investigate the' box just over his head. First he bored four holes in a square, earns eight inches apart; then with a nar-i row saw, and with little more noise than the gnawing of a rat, he be -i gan to cut out the section of board. The tough wood took time and pati ence, but it yielded at last, and the little square dropped out. He pulled away a thick layer of packing until he reached a. hard surface. His ex-! pairing fingers told him that this wast a smooth sylinder, about a foot diameter, like a column. but not terra-cotta. The light of his lant- ern fia bed into the opening. Th cylinder was made of steel, and his i mind flashed as quickly to the prob- able explanation of sending to the bot- tom tom the heaviest battleship afloat. The smaller boxes must contain shells or quick -firing guns. The propose; t F this voyage to Salina Cruz mu::t: ave been to receive this consignment $ f ammunition, and to transport it to! a he war -vessel that had been preying n the shipping of the Allies in these- N She might be a powerful's ea -going submarine, making her bassi a t :ome unfrequented island in mid-' aciflc. s It was with the livelfe .t emotion i • hat Crane realised that be had made b is home in the heart of a magazine' s f high explosive,, which, should it e, appen to be set off by accident or by h hostile Shot, would scatter the ship ke scum over the face of the water. t• ut this thought did not occupy John t one:. There was a fatalistic ::treat n his makeup, a bulldog determine - on to 'hew to the line, let the chips o y s Goitre. Practically every variety of clo tl He looked out on a deck that was is considered by farmers to be a e almost dark. Two' shaded lights were renovator. It does not .require f dl directed on the rapid-fire gun in the, leaves in order to bring luck to bow, which a crew of men were busily farmer growing it, but clover preparing for action. He was cer- riches go hand in hand. This m tain that the Cocos was following the seem an absurd statement to ma British freighter; but what for? when the price of clover seed sem: s c Surely she did not intend to attack sidered, but, even at the present h that massive vessel with this little Price, a farmer would hardly be ju gun and her small crew. Many fled Price., curtailing to any great ext merchant -vessels themselves mounted the amount of clover seed to be so a light gun of two in these troublous Per acre this spring. There is a c times. Such an attack might succeed; siderable variation in the amount but it would be a desperate hazard,: red clover seed sown per acre, so !and did not harmonise ;with the meth-' farmers obtaining a good catch fr i odicat and seinetific methods of the five or six pounds of seed, while oth men he was watching. 1 sow front eight to ten pounds p Suddenly he felt the Cocos make' acre in order to ensure a good eta an abrupt change in her course, and! The amount of seed to sow depends the lights of the freighter hove in: somewhat on soil condition, prepara- sight over the larboard bow. Run -i tion of Geed -bed,• and vitality of the ning taro knots to her one, the Cocos seed. overhouled her rapidly and silently. It has been noticed that, where clo A file of men came across the deck, I ers can be successfully grown and raised the hatch -cover, and dropped liberal supply of, seed is used ea into the hold. Crane dropped asl year, the land is gradually increasi quickly from his ventilator, but there in fertility, and increased fertility was no time to regain his enclosed other things being equal—means lar chamber. He had perforce to re -f er crops and consequently more mon main in his original hiding -place on; to farming. Many farmers are m top of the freight. He had taken the ing a practice of sowing 'a large aer precaution to 'pl'ace some boxes so as' age w'th clover, each spring, tha to screen him from obseth'etion by, was formerly the custom, and it is b any one forward; also he had carefully lieved that the average amount broken the filament In the nears: seed sown per acre is also increasin electric -light globe, This had no 1 during recent years. Where three been noticed and it left the corner, four pounds of seed was eonsiderc qui a oom a was t ter o EVERYTHING NEW FRESH—PURE' RELIABLE Ask your dealer pr write lr£NNI£'S — TORONTO AL80 hl0NTHER.. WSPJNIPEO VANCOUVER er an our or so se decruect to slip Clover --A Soil Renovator. up to his lookout station -and recon y''1 • 'seeding have easy access to available ver material to give it a start, after which soil it is able to look after itself, and re - 0u0 j turn more to the soil than it takes out. the Where clover has been successfully nuc} grown, there is usually sufficient bact- ay eria in the soil. These minute organ- ke, I isms which appear on the roots of the militant are essential to the growth of tgh ? elovtr, as they are the means by sti- which nitrogen is absorbed and stored ent•in the plant and soil. If there is rea- wn 1 son to believe that the soil is deficient 00.+in bacteria these may be supplied by 0e treating the seed with nitro -culture me just previous to solving• A culture is oro ; Prepared for the different• clovers, and erre may be secured with full directions for er using, from the Bacteriological De- nd. partment,, Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, Guelph. The Method of Seeding., For the successful growing of clov- v_,er, a good deal depends on the seed= a ing operations, Clover seed is small, ch Yet it must contain sufficient plant the first roots tgand leaves. These food in itself to vleaves must reach the surface befor the tiny plant can ey commence drawing food from the soil, ma or atmosphere, If tclre seed is buried e_, too deeply, the tender .growth never n !succeeds in reaching the surface and is Lee lost. A rough seed bed is not con- es ducive to giving the seed a good start, g as it has a tendency to dry out more nr or less, and the small seed lying near d the surface does not secure sufficient t g] y H 1 • of lefreo sufficient, a few years ago, six or moisture to start life. With a seed to move about in comparative safety.; seven pounds is 00W aimed at, and bed in Ane titch, less risk is involved. Through a small crevice he con many farmers consider it profitable to The method of seeding is also import - mended a view of the open apace for-' sow as high as ten pounds along with ant. Sowing the clover and grass ward and the hatchway ladder, as the timothy and alsilce. ) seed from a seed box, attached .be - men filed down, One of them stepped Clover Roots Add Humus to Soil. ' hind the drain drill, is the practice to a corner, lifted a board in th efloor,t most in vogue, but some farmers are seized a long lever, and raised it up -1 The clover plant is valuable to the trying other methods which, while pro ward. Instantly two of. the large farmer because of its ability to take bably taking more tame, are proving r steel plates on the forward bulkhead nitrogen from the atmosphere and satisfactory. It is claimed that by separated, rolled apart, and left a store it in the soil in such a i'n' i sowing behind the drill, the small t wide-open doorway. Through this. that plants can utilize it. To pus_' seeds fall in the furrow made by the could be seen a triangular froom, chase this valuable plant fond as a' drill, and, when a stroke of the harrot# time such an important factor as it is, possibly it would pay in the end, especially on some forme, to prepare the seed bed, drill in the grain, give a stroke with the harrow, then - sow the grass and clover seeds with a hand seeder,' and follow with a smoothing harrow. - The seed bed would be made finer by the extra stroke of the harrow, and the seed vvopld have a shallow covering of soil, which is es- sential for small seeds. Any farmer who has difficulty in growing clovers, is more or less handi- capped, and every effort should be made to find the cause of clover not growing satisfactorily on his parti- cular farm. If possible, make the soil conditions right, then prepare a fine seed bed in the spring, and sow plenty of good seed.—Farmers' Advocate. A' Ye Blind ? A large firm in Aberdten, says Pear - son's Weekly, recently' engaged as of- fice , boy a raw country youth. It was part of his duties to attend to the telephone in his master's absence. When first called upon' to answer the bell, in reply to the usual query, "Are you there?" he nodded assent. Again the question came, and still again, and each time the boy gave an answer: ing nod. When the question came for the fourth time, however, the boy, losing his tmper, roared through the telephone : "Man, a' ye blind ? I've been nod - din' nie head off for the last half hour-"' Not That Sort. Helen—Do you love me, dear? Jack—Dearly, sweetheart. Helen—Would ,you die for me? Jack—No, my pet. Mine is an un- dying love. At the Chemistry Examination. Professor—Can you tell me what will happen to gold when it is left un- covered in the air? Student—It will be stolen. "What was the idea of putting that old bore, Blokely, on the list of speak- ers at the banquet?" "Oh, that's all lght. We put him last on the hast. We want the party to break ftp some ima, don't we?" •�<,.., ; g' • forward mo the prow, and fertilizer, would comeevery expensive,; is given, the seeds are buried too brilliantly lighted. In the centre of much more so than securing it through deeply. Th!s difficulty is believed to the room sat a glittering steel buying clover seed, evn at the pre -1 be partly overcome by turning the monster like a huge gun. Crane re- veiling price. Plowing under ttthree- !spouts of the grass -seeder to sow be- u cognised it instantly as a torpedot''ton crop of green clover is claimed to'fore the, (toes of the drain drill, but n practical people, that you cannot "Now , Johnny', 'asked the gentle- man who had consented to 'take the class, "what does this fascinating story of Jonah' and the, whale teach s?" "It teaches us," said Johnny, W tube of the latest type, not fixed in return to the soil about 401bs. of nitro- f are brought close to the surface again 0 ng on a semicircular track, and cap_. lbs. of potash per acre. Supposing hose father reads' practical articles th ome kind of moral distemper. THE BLOOD GUILT OF A NATION WHAT PROF, MORGAN SAYS OP THE GERMANS, Entire People Seem Affected With Some Kind of Moral Distemper.... Professor Morgan was sent to France lase year by the British Ilom Secretary to investigate the allege outrages by German soldiers in th French towns and villages which th occupied before the battle of ti Marne. Professor Morgan is famous jurist). He has an almost,' academie regard for the value oa direct evidence. Ile has rejects_ everything that was only backed by hearsay, however widespread that; hearsay might have been. He has now published the resula of his enquiries including in t,ltpp. same volume a detailet" examinatloii of the German official apology fo the outrages in Belgium. The resul is a document as terrible as the Brye report. Professor Morgan has th Courage to deduce the obvious more from the fearsome story he has t1 tell. He is nob content to saddles responsibility for a series of un- speakable crimes" on the shoulders of the Prussian militarists. Orgy of Blood. ile boldly indicts a- nation. He says: It is the fondest of delusions to imagine that all the blood guiltiness is 'confined to the German Governe ment and the general staff. The whole people is stained with it. Th8 innumerable diaries of common soli, diers in the ranks which I have read betray a common sentiment of hate, rapine, and ferocious credulity. The progress of French, British, and Russian prisoners, civil as well as military, through Germany has been a veritable Calvary. The help= lessness which in others would cit;; cite forbearance, if not pity, has ii? the German populace provoked only derision and insult. The old genblds man with the grey beard and got spectacles who broke his umbrell over •the back of a Russian lady, the loafers who boarded a train and under the eyes of the indulgent sentries • poked their fingers in the blind eyes of a wounded Irishman who had half his face shot away, the men and women who spat upon helpless pri- soners and threatened them with death, the guards who proddded them with bayonets, worried them with dogs, and despatched those who could not keep up—these were not a Prus- sian caste, but the German people. People to Blame. I have been told that there are still some individuals in England who cherish the idea that this very orgy of blood, lust, rapine, hate and pride is in some peculiar way merely the Bacchanalia of troops unused to the heavy bouquetofthe wines of Cham- pagne, or, stranger still, that it le the mental aberration of a people se- duced by idle tales into these courses by its rulers. . . . If the reader is astonished, as well he may be, at the disgusting repeti- tion of stories of rape and . let him study the statistics of crime 'n Germany during the first decade of this century, issued by the Imperial Government; he will find in them much to confirm the impression that e whole people is infected with er 'u es, a wor -, en, s, o p torp otic acid, and 39 when the harrow is used. Even with' keep a good man down." position like the old t b b t •k g 8 lb f 1 h able of direction like a coast, -defence a crop of hay is harvested, the soil F 1 54 n l 1 /Et S®fz�9� 74Xing�f11RE z .._. \\\\\\ \lI UhIII////// �\ ne a the hideous deVthfi h from the, thus allowing fora freer passage of �� \� ��\\\\�����I� i�i�/////�� //� i $ x o ong boxes. Suddenly, without air. Besides Using a soil builder, x. • nortar. He at once realised the , will still be in a better conditkon for a meaning of the whole manoeuvre, succeeding crops than if any crop, oth- m These fiends meant to slip up beside er than a legume, had been grown. 04 he hugs :freighter ploughing her Clover rootsame dd humus to the soil, in - peaceful way southward with her' crease the ount of nitrogen, melte leeping crew, and let loose upon he, soil more friable, and o o P Pen it up, b \\ 1 warning,all these in ff t clover, ither t,er��� �� �� o et hive, urs, , e as pasture or cured for us/meting fellows would be hurled to hay, is valuable feed for all classes of pq y vu k horrible death through no fault of live stock. If the aim is to increase — 4 1K P their own. His blood ran cold; then the fertility of the soil at least ex _ in t boiled up, and a red mist sprang Pense, it is advisable to increase, rath- Uefore his eyes. He gemmed tbeC1 than decrease, the acreage devot- / rt, andle of his revolver, and his muscles, ed to clovers, /'� trained for a leap to the flour. He! True, there are d'fficulties in the w oulci get some of these devils, any-� way of growing clover successfully c ow. year after year, but it is believed that But just in time the cold hand of many of the obstacles standing in ea:.on touched his brow, and chilled the way of securing and retaining a he unruly surge of passion. oe what good catch, for one year at least,. can avail would be the sacrifice? He be overcome. The clover plant de - might kill two or three, possibly four 1 monde that certain soil conditions be AKE FOOD FOR GERMAN ARMY. Trader Sold Thousands of Tons to the Administration. Among the numerous cases of sales f `fake" food wares to the German troops, which the Government is vigor-. usly prosecuting, the following are two of the most flagrant violations: Max Schmitges, described as a well• nown trader in Muenchen-Gladbach, roprietor of a delicatessen store and cidentally inspector of markets, sold thousands of tons of "Delikatess-Her. ug in Mayonnaise," the only trouble ith which was that the herring was onspicuous for its .absence. His much advertised and widely sold product did, however, contain potatoes and carrots minced with other ingredi. ents, which mixture he packed in five - pound tins, selling them at a riclieta lously low price, but withal aboub three times the actual worth, Schmitges was sentenced to nine months in prison and three years' 1085 of citizen rights. Thousands of bons • of his 'mixture had been sold to the army administration. The second case is that ,of Frank Koch, a leather (loftier in Nuernberg, la who has been sentenced io five months in 'Mann and 2,000 inarlce ($500) and the cloying of his business, for supplying boots to the Bavarian troops, the footgear largely consisting of a prcuaratioe of cardboard, In this flourishing business herr Koch had been engaged for months, and had ak ready sold 21.6,000 pales to the troops when the fraud was discovered. f the crew below. The rest would grantedif it is to give maximum re - ,I him, then calmly step over the; turns, Those conditions are: that the fes and complete their task. He soil be sweet and properly underdrain- 1d not save the British ship now; ed, either by natural or artificial with his present !knowledge he; means; that there be available plant get. wove many others by keeping. food and favorable conditions for the head and watching hr» opportunity, f development of bacteria; that the seed e Coeds, with her tremendous «peed, i be given a good bed and not covered 1d laugh at the combined navies of, too deeply. On most farms these de - gland and ,lapan, and, se long as mends can be complied with. Soils was not known to be the perpetrr I may be tested for acidity by the use of these outrages, could operate • of litmus paper by placing a small indefinitely, His plain duty was in: strip of blue litmus paper in moist the higher sphere—.to withhold action • soil, and, if it turns the paper rod, lame kil bed coil but mi his Th eau F1 1 for A-�` IDEAL IC When your head le cell :nd- heavy, your longue furry -d, end you feel clone -up and good for nothing,* without knowing what is really the Metter with you, probably all tb d u urwelcrl to r' -lore yon to health and !9°2 i�5 vigour is a few doses of a reliable die , i Je tonic and stomachic rem - STOMACH A'ID > IV a , dy icll a. Mother Seigel's Syrup, '!' k,- it after tach nest for a few, days and note Itoiv beneficial is its act inn open tie! stomach diver ;led bowels--• ; how it reetr , t.,ne and healthy c it sty t%, thew important organs, and by. so doing; enables you to gain new :totes of vigour, vitality and health. OTHER Ft: �4 Tee, flew 1.00 eine ar::ins pure, frocks r10 truuh as the trial oil at ffc per teethe now, and devote his whole energy, andf,is required in the soil. A.nothcr his life if need lie, to some plan to method is to pour a four drops of acrd !end the career of this destructive mss. I on the soil, and, if it does not "fry" it qucruder, is an indication that the Roil is acid. (To be Continued.) - ! Clover sloes not do well with wet feet. _ Iii conditions aro such that water re - 1 mains on the surface of the ground for any length of time, after ahoavy. I rain, few crops will pay for a system of underdrainage in a few years, be. sides assisting In giving the clover plant h tt t chance. To regard toplant 11X ar P food, it is necessary that the yatmg "Willie., that lit tic hey yetr'ee herni , playing w'51, n b: ,l tJo,rl,, I don't want you to play with 5i01 any more." 1 t AI ,t C melee', 1 woe' l. ttr rl. 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