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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-5-12, Page 6I pees rutty' 11ConsteN under. llsterooni and Caeuelen Oeneral ensetrio ?Risme. 'nits, Is Canada's Wireless Year! Whether you are resteent In a largo olty or twe Or three htnIrea away. AMateur Wireless Equip- ment fur Awe ,yen with emelese Snetruoilve entertain, mord, \ e Pan etiaPlY Beceiving Ain:sweats wion w� pick tut 'signets ritari the big Wes,, Statiens and enehlo ;roe ee "listen for wireless telephone con- crete radieted le, the mitreoni Compams Secure e Transseittine Sot (oparatee elreotly off a lamp socket) awl f'onfanaleate with 'roar frionda a 'Paired mtles away!. Amateur Wirelesse arinea the great world to you, doo,, out out and mail this ed. to us with request for 14rice Lire sO" and eels us auything you would like to know etout Amateur Wireiess, run line of Oars:rand tech-. . Jlieei books alwere j steak. SCIENTIVIC EXPUBIMENTER, ee =PM STREET EAST, TORONTO 111111111M1.1iii.M.1.1.01011,1•Ma. The Secret of the Old Chateau taarm--a (CoParigh tea) S:vnopsts of 7,revious Chapters.CHAPTER VH. , Alias Baptiste Dartin. Vivian Renton had in his short but evil life played many and varied parts, and his nefarious 'schemes lied takeh him often to the ,eity which, being the huh of the ever -speeding Wheel of Plenaure, offeas a happy hunting ground to those who live.by their wits --and by the lack of them in others. In fact, Vivian knew Paris az he knew the palm of his hand, and his mastery of the language was no less perfect. Ordinarily his French posses- sed the eultured accent that one hears spoken so much in Brussels; brut, did he wish it, he could roll'out theadiom- atic jargon of Montmartre or the speech of the provinces with equal ease. • Ey DAVID WHITE14,AW Vivian Renton end Fiddle Heverton, modern soldiers of fortune, bay° been gambling wf,th Hubert Baxenter, .00 prosperous attorney, in his •London apartments. .• After their' dMoaatun late at night Renton returns ,to the house, nuirriers Baxentea and, bide* the body on th.e roof- While waiting for night to come again in oder to make Ifisl'escapeekve finds in ta desk a curious old yellowed dectunentatblling of q Mysteries:Is 'chest left in the eare •of one of 10 ester's ancestors by a French noblemen, the Marquis • de Dartigny, of the °bateau -Chauvin°, The Weed:hes lieen handed down from. one generation aof Baxenters - to an., other and,' carefdlly guarded -in the hope that some day Ws rightful owner will be found. Rentpn decides to poso ,the missiug 'heir .and claim the chest, - Ile goes to Franco to •make SO)11.0 needful incpairies about the Dar- _ tigay family. The story of the mystma !all doulA that these red years heel, to afl,latente.tind aurposea,wpd.them olit root Pa belt* But he deakbal TO I:ta0Y 10 visit of in- apectioa to the diettiot of Chauville. ,He oid etinly 'else the =Olives in ,the adjaeant toalin of Prieto, giving out 'as an, °woe 'that be was writing a idatOg of the Revolution and was studanig the aubject on the spot. It iyas niaPeasarY' that he should make himself aeauainted With :the lie of the iland,round the chateau which he in, tended adopting as his 'ancestral home. I Still, "Vivian tea himself that it would be feolish to burry matters. It would be as avell for the Baxenter family, to repover arom one affair be. foto another bolt Was Ian -nailed upoa them in the shape of a clannant for the de Daatigny Pest, Perhaps even the astute brain of the 'reigning Bax- entea might be inclined to aseoeiete the two events, earl the claimant had 'no wish to court more inqpiries than need be. It wait a bright Morning in early February when M. Baptiste Dalitineet out to walk the two Miles which sep- arated the little village of Massey from the ancient town of Blois. It was not usual.for the immaculate ViviatnRenton 'to take' up his -quarters anywhere ,bat within'a hundred yards of 'the Place de l'Opera, and his ous chest goes back to the troaalea friends Would, had they known, have days of the French Revolution and the expressed surprise that he had this sscaaie of the Marquis ,and little grand- daugater to England, where the eneat alai deem:lent Were given -to -01a Bag , - enters for safe keeping. Now, more than cne hundred years later, search Is made for the missing Hubert Bax - enter. CFIAPTER VL—Cont'd. Cantle crossed the tom and pulled hardy likely that he would meet any aside the curtains, the rings makine a of his acquaintances at the , Cafe du harth rattle against the brass pores, 13e unfastened the French windows and ausbei •them back; and the coot morning air seemed to leap past him iato the house. ITe stead for a mo- ment on the little baacony, then a cry from his comanaion sent Lim hurry- ing back into the IT.0111. The valet was standing at the fold- ing doors, his face a• mask of terror, gray and drawo, Ile was making movements with his throat and mouth as thriugh iie wished to endak, and he pointed with a crooked forefinger that simbk pitifully to the pile of luggage in .the corner of the berlthern. "Locale, Mr. Castle—I knew stime- thing had happenedaI felt it ---I pack- et these bags f oraann,Mr. Cantle-amy prejr 'inistea•nevea :left Landau" ,and Joweat .sank trembling on to k the time chosen an unpretentious resting place in the Quartier. The Cafe du Dome was situatedat the junctien of the Boulevard Raspail with the Mont- parnasse, and Vivian found it both comfortable and secluded, and emin- ently suited to the game he had on band. For it was a deep game and one which, for the present, he in- tended to play single-handed. It was Dome. • It is somewhat awkward when one is engaged in •Pangiag one's outward appearance to run ,against even the beet of friends. It calls for explana- tionsand Vivian did no-b.wish to ex- plain his presence in Paris, nor the reason that lie had altered the fashion and color bis hart; nor why he had decided that a pointed beard and waxed 'Moustaches suited him better than a clean -shaved chin and lip. And now it wcitild have to be a vela/ intimate friendandeed who would see in the little dapper Frenchman who, under -the name of M. Baptiste Dartin, Passed a placid existeinee at the Cafe du Dome, the erstwhile Vivian Renton. The metamorphosis fawn the Saxon to the Gaul had been as gradual as it . had been thorough. During the time hands' Chesterfield, his hie° iburied.' •• ins had he had, been in Paris ---and it was now mid-January—he :had net been The niyei ery of 'the situation was communicating itself rapidly to. heard to utter a single word of Eng - companion. 'Cantle touched the .little lish and he hall never been seen read- ing an English paper. It would per - man on theewett," he ,sheulder. - haps be useful, he toldihimself, in the "Conic, Jeat& athis affair itco—Mt. Robert must be future to feign -an ignorance of his s' told. Come; della teach si thing, This is a native tongue frt.atter for thpolice." True, he walked each morning to the e Silently the two men loelted un the 'little kiosk apposite the Gare Mont - windows and left the ghostly room. As pernasse and purchased the Paris edit, they did so the, old • clerk stooped And tion of the Daily Mail, but this was piblted up a smell piece- of folded quickly hidden in the folds of Le Matin and read only in the privacy of -his apartment, or 'perhaps some se- cluded seat in the Luxembourg Gar- dens. He devoured with avidity the de- tails of the affair at Regent'd Park and he noted with satisfaction how his connection with the *rime was not even hinted at. After, all, he 'did, not see how it could be otherwise unless he .hart left Some stupid elve behind paper, It was part of a sheet of let- ter paper; the'few'words on the frag- ment were unimportant, and were evi- dently part 'or a Score of some card garlic. • He 'slipped it into the pocket of his great -coat andelef t the house with Jewett • , . When. Cantleentered jIttobSet-BaXe enter's office , that gentleman Was l'ettling the ' telegram ". frons 'Paris which had just arrived. He was visib- le excited. - • - him. There was only one other man - "What does it all meery, Caanle—my who ' was at the cardaparty at the caticia it Mier reaebett 'the 'Maurice ?t. ,, solititor's house—and Eddie Haverton 'Plinow Chat, Mr: Robert," answer- was hardly the one, voluntarily, to eti toe old clerk quiebly—and told his ' I Tae ileteOtive'eent from the "Yard" ta inauire into the disanepeararice of sensational press. . Mr. Hubert Baxentee was rather a It was another case in which the Le.avy official, and file secret of Mor- police were entirely at fault. London tinier Terrace:might never have been had been searched for the parties who e'ecidated had not a sweep's broom at had been playing cards with the de - Ne, 8 become fixed, in the ki,beem ceased man. . But no one knew of his eitimney of that residence a fortnight acquaintance with Eddie and Vivian laten . and there was no shadow of a chic. The ainineY SWeeP, ,ascending He thee/gilt sometimes of the scrap throagh ' the ttap door.'of an attic' to of panda he had plated under the chair right matters, noticed a curious shape and 'which he did not remember hay - huddled baneath the coping of the nexting picked up again. But the few roof. Investigating further, he found words which were on it had no eon - that it was the body of a man—a neetion with the ease and certainly young noon in evening dross except for did not bear his name, A few notes a Norfolk jrielcet, and that the cause lie had taken on a game of cards— of death was not apparent.' that was all, .which could hardly be And then London roused end stook Iss -edame arid himself, . dent.11 . with iim. . H = itself and said nasty things.about the 'nevertheless, for his carelessness, and notice and. Scotland Yard, and gave hoped that this fainteelue had escaped themzelVes up' to the delights of this “clete4ti°n• The" was no mention of new sen,sation. The illustrated Morn-' it in the papers, and Vivian told him- ing PreF.$ three:, Itself inbethe mattee' self that had it been found it would lytaly and soul, and photographs rang. i.have, been photographed and publish- ing in interest teem .a picture of the ed in the hopes of Id-entification, late Mi-, Baxenter al; the age of twelve i The man in Peels had noticed the to !hit sweep's. entire family these accounts getting- .less and nvare picturatiqUely in a back gae„e„., Rept. meagrb, ' until iraiw, for a foatnight, public interest at feaer heat until a'with the exception of an . iaterview divorce ease of more than usual svrt.th .- I with e sweep's aged mother;they ing interest pushed the 'crime of ma' had eatirely eeased, and Vivian began inner Terrace, into .second place—and-I° kook into the task he had set Man- se by easy stages into A niche as an- 5911' ' . - •• casr of the undiscovered mysteries The preliminaries, as it were, being 'of the Groat City. now satisfactorily arranged and hi - • ' identity sunk,ht that. of Baptiste Dar - lin, Ile gave himself up, with the thor- oug.hnese which' .ehowed in -all his doings, to the matter in hantI--Whicii was fieless then to pierce the more:- thette•-a-centuryLeld• secret of the Wealth of i the Dartignyei . , He read. greedily every line of writ- ing he could procure from the arcilivee relating, t,o the history Mid records of the time of terror Which swept Freese° hi the Seventeen -nineties. His robm at the hotel vvaa a library of books dealing with the .perioraaand in Wal - on records he came fiergee What be Sought—a° mention of the death pf Gaspard 'de Dartigny. There wore other§ of the family mentioned by Wallah who had geria to the guillotirie in those fateful years of '93 and '94 —Gaston hi Inne, Pieria iii Angust, Sephie in, the same Month and Mar- gberite lit the following January. Truly the hand- Of the IthVOlutioa had &Ilea heaVily on the letda of Chat- -a ville. Vivien traced ' the origin and the hietorn of the &Moue family and ith Many brand:ma, and he put beyond • place himself In ,the searchlight publicity. His :ea:rier was quite no- torious enough without the aid of the Gile..ETT COMPANY LIMITED Tt"17610Ailatee 110504 ISSUE No. It had snowed heavil'y the night be- fore, but now the aky w,as blue and cloudless, and the sun shone with daz- zling brillianee on the white Web. mantled the plains and clotted the tops of the pine trees in the forests. A"thin edging of ice ringed the banks of the 'little marshy lakes, which, dot- ted here and there, reflected the glory of the morning sky. The towera and battlements of the town he had left behind him rose in graceful elustem above the snow-covered roofs. From the belfry of the ehurch the sound of bells stele across the plain, melodious in the still air. The traveller lunched at the eom- foetable inn whielt, together with the Ohatea-u de Chauvitle and some half- dozen cottages, made up the village of Massey. During the Meal, which he ordered to be served in the large front room, he entered into conversa- tion with the landlord, who (the dis- teict not attraeting visitors :in the winter months) was glad to join M. Dwain in a bottle of the excellent, claret the cellars of his inn afforded. Yes, the castles of the country round Blois were very beautiful—was monsieur going far ?—merely walked out from the town to lunch—yes— the snow had not been deep enough to make bad walking—no—iihl—but monsieur should stay the night—one clay—two days—a week—thete was so much to see -- The stranger interrupted the flow cl"tIa3kha. ve heard midi read of the Chauville estate, and I"— The excitable little landlord of the "Three Lilies" jumped up, and cross- ing to the door pointed with many gesticulations to where iNVO white towers with emical-shaped roofs rose above the trees. "Monsieur is fortunate. Monsieur de Barron is away—oh, no, not Dar- tigny--they are dead—the caretaker is a friend of mine, a fine fellow, he will show monsieur everything. You would, like to go to him?" Dartin was, anxious, but di/AP-laic. "Above all things—af tee I have had some of that delicious coftee which the good inad,am is preparing. It smells good, and—ah, a little drop of cognac." - (To be continued.) , The New Man. Take araloals at the new man," said the coast guardsman to. the-mlnister as he eaught the warm shelfer of the life-saving station. And indeed the nescv man was worth looking at—a quiet, clean -skinned giant, sitting with his bank to the wall. Outside, the wind, roaring savagely, .daehed the loose sand against the win- dows. On such nights, when the ther- morneter was ten degrees below zero, the minister reflected, these men pa- trol the beach and watch the sea for wrecks.. The new man, the 'minister knew, was equal to the work. A Hai later the minister was as- tonished to hear the giant say, "You see, cap'n, I have never been °nether ocean. What does a 'Oster look like?" That was an astonishing thing for hint to ask! But the old contain expressed no astontshment; he merely took a pencil and some paper and be- gan to draw while the new man watched him closely. "A lobster," said- the captain, "hee a body like this and long claws that run out here." What did- it mean? Going quickly into the boat room, the minister said to one et the guardsmen, 'What does this mean? The new man says he never has been on the ocean, and he has jest asked the captain what a lob- ster looks like." "Oh," said the guardsman, smiling, "he was transferred front the 'Great Lakes and got here just this after - n0011." The skill in saving life that the new guard had acquired on the inland sea he wasgoing to use on the. ocean. Even though he knew nothing about the small facts oil ocean Iffo, he could still do -his duty. • There is a lesson here, God calls on us as Christians te 1'0=10 men who are morally lost; but - freculently NVO say that we cannot become Christians because there is a passage in the Bible that we cannot tinderstaud. What if the life-saver should refuse to go out to dying men on a, vessel because he yet lacked knowledge of some simple thing abont the sea? When the gov- ernment ordered the new coast guards- maio to go to a seaport station lie had gone, What, he lutd Merited to do on the ocetib. Similarly, if a man can the Great Lakes he could" alio do en tail and plan for his life, he can also watch, pray and work far the kingdom of God. Wed in Bridegroom's Home. In 'Japanthe marriage coremopy takes Mace at the house of the bride- groom, tO which the bride is taken, aecompanied by het relatives. Her trousseau and the household goods, whiob Um bride brings with her, are .boree by. Men, who follow the Carriage of the bride, forming a processlan which elways meets with eheera froln the crowd as it passes through the streets. AUTO USED PARTS We carry a full line ot uSerl parts tor all makes of care, cleaned atta-free from •illrt M Eraings, complete engines, tires, • eta, Dighest prieee' geld for old ears. Write, wire or phone atmoraoitatz' trona) PnaTet doe leeo Dundee St. West, Toronto RABBIT FARMING IN THE DOMINION ONLY A SMALL. INITIAL OUTLAY REQUIRED, Flint Pthaeittion Was Held in Montreal Last March and Aroused Much Interest, The Canadian wilds are fast disap. pearing as Witis the rapidity ef apt, oultarall settlement the fernier in his northward trend yearly eneroaches to a greater extent upon them, ably must game and the num, ber of fur bearera dwincliet ape limiting tho s,ourcee of the Dominton'e meat and fur supply and restrieting'ats expmt trade—unleas store meaeures are takoaite protept them, Conservation. is the byword to -day. 8tope for the preservation and' multt plicatIon of valuable' game birds .and fur bearerare ceaselessly adveeeted and encouraged, end onis of the great- est aide, to this earl has, been the ex- tensive establishine.nt. ,oveet the Do- minion of domestic fur ranches, These have come now to Include not only foxes., hut inuskrate, beaver, skunlc, marten, and fisher. ' In the extreme north, future supplies of meat of an almost Illimitable extent are being nursed omd built up in maintain'ing the herds of caribou, muskox, and rein- deer both at the Mode of the govern- ment and private corporations,. There le, at the same time, one source af meat sund for production which to the present time has, been largely overlooked in' Canada and which offers possibilities, of exploita- tion on a commercial scale.. This is the cultivation of rabbite and hares. Xis the rearing of theses animate there' is a double yniurce of revenue, the m -eat andthe fur, At all large centres throu,ghout the Dominion the meat finds a ready saleat profitable figures., whilst at the 'Montreal fur sale last year, thousands of rabbit skins, which were shipped all the way from Aus- tralia, were placed upon the market and realized statisfattory prices., indi- cating the opportunity offered to local production. Canadian Animals Unsurpassed. The raising of rabbits and Belgian hares has never paned a really secure footing in Canada, probably en ac- count of a lack of appreciation of the profit to be derived from the pursuit, but also, unduhtedly, because the larger phases af agriculture have made a greater appeal, to the exclu- sion of the smaller branches offering stnaller but surer compensation. It is an old and profitable industry in Eng- land, and before the ar "Belgium was earning from ten to twelve million dollars it year from this source. Aus- tralia exports thousands et the little animals to England each year, where fur and meat are alike utilized and conesimed. Authorities. state that Bel- gian hares raised in Canada have no superiors in the world, and that the only genuine Itufne Red Belgians are, at the present time, raised in England and on the American continent:, There is a ,opeaing for the industry in Canada both as a side line or as a whole thne ptirsult, and an engage- ment in this necessitates neither ardu- ous labor nor an extensive devotion of time whilst ensuring a healthy TO - venue. Suburban dwellers cast follow it en a small scale with profit, whilst those devoting their entire time to It can secure teem five to ten awes ad- jacent to any of the larger centres which are the natural markets for their peoditct. There is not the long waiting for development consequent neon the initiation ot other branches of farming. An Economic Enterprise, One of the greatest inducements the industry holds out to those of small capital is the economic cost of Its- commencement and operation; the smallest of outlays only ling entail- ed. The expenditure on raising and feeding is low, theses being no expen- sive housing or apparatus, and the food being of the simplest. In the ease of animals ,beleg raised on, a small scale, it is possible to support them almost -entirely -on the refuse of the kitchen; far the small ranch the cost is not much' more• as the little creatures thrive on vegetable cuttings, carrots, beeta and cabbages. The. or - (Unary stithiner feed is carrots and clover with a little grain. There le a ready market In all parte of the Dominibn for both the meat and the skins, Rabbit meat is highly palatebio and nutritious, contaluing eighty-three per cent. nitrogen or more than either pork, mutton, beet' or chicken, and is coining Into ever greater favor on the continent. The Ito' -markets of the world dispose of millions of rabbit satins yearly to make their appearance later as electric seal or under some other name. Lett year, one Montreal company imported mole than.,600,000 rebbit skins froin Europe. bre first Canadian exhibition de- voted exclusively to rabbits was held in Montreal in March this yearamid the splendid speePhiene.enteaml, num- bering 250, and the 'visitors which ex- ceetled 2,500, augured a great itaerest In the industry. There was on excel- lent exhibit of raw anEt dressed skins by loud manufacturers, tbe most to- ticeable being a collection of "Sealius" (rnacle from rabbit skins) Lula Samples of slcins dyed and tanned, ifal):11,WAP.,64ri4:14/146 )0 Make Year Own Fireless Cooker, AA a labor-stiver, an odorleee c'eolcer and a pleasme-spender the fireless (molter can take first &CO alining our Modern boussehold devices. It 'le e labor oaver becaufie it "'MS ihe housewife the eonetnnt watching of the ,boillog pot., ft is an edonlese -cooker as none of the disagreeable odor e escape rand circulate through the house, .It le a pleauxeseePentiler be- ostuee milady housekeeper 'een leave her meal to cook, go off f or a few hours of pleasure, aetuaning to find that.clinuer is alt ready to ,be served. The first firelese cooker was a hey box in 'which the European ;peasants placed hot dishes with .the tato that when set in Una non -conducting ma- terial they 'would finish cooking while the woo -kers went about their work. ,I( was not long before it came over to this side of the water, The home - Made fireless cooker tan be inade quite easily and is very similar to that used by the thrifty Ettropean peasant. You cart take any strong wooden box with a hinged lid, Be sure that all cracks arefilled in so that when the lid is closed it -will be Airtight. Pill it with excelsior, asbestos wool, cruehed newspaper, straw, or any ' other non- conducting. 'material. . Then procure a cooking vessel, pre- ferably of aluminam with a tightly clamp -ed lid. These .oan be bought 'separately in the stores. Mike a hole in the excelsior the size tfor the vessel to fft in 'nicely, being sure that the top is firmly clamped. Cover over with more excelsior. Make a cushion of factory cotton the exact size to fit the top' part of the box and fill with excelsior or hay. Put this tushion over all arid close down the lid. This kind ef a home-made fire- less cooker will -keep food at an even temperature for 8 hours, when it will begin to cool. If One sleeps only for seven or eight hours, it is .an excellent and inexpensive device for cooking the breakfast. There is another kind of fireless cooker that canbe made at home, which will guarantee the cooking for an indefinite period. But it would be necessary to employ -a carpenter to make it. Just have a wooden box large enough for one, two or three contain- ers as you wish. Have it lined well with a sheet oa aluminum, tin or zinc, as well as the lid, which you must be sure will fit tightly. Then -enter the in- sulating material whieh can 'be ex- celsior, etc. For the nests have a metal lining, preferably ,alumin,uni. Inside .the nests the aluMinum con- tainers must lit—lout not tightly. At the bottom of the nest the soap stone or iron plate must be located, then the container on top of it. To fit over the top of the -containers the same pad can be used of factory cotton lined with excelsior, then the aluminum lined lid is closed on top of all, which makes a first mate home-made fireless cooker. In this instance it is also better to have the containers of alum- inum and to buy them specially. The tally drawback to a home-made cooker in comparison with a bought one is that the insulating material in a home-made one is apt to ,becoine 'soiled and of course would have to be constantly ehanged. In a bought one the insulating material is asbestos wool covered over with alumnium sheeting1. But these are expensivo. luxuries and few oan ,afford, them. In the case of long, slow cooking a cooker in indispensible, for You can bring any food to the boil, pop it into the cooker and let it finial its cooking there, While you go about some other task, and you can rest assured it will never burn. The food should always be given a d.efinite length of time to cook, for overcooking spoils it. In the case of roasting, the food should be taken out after a definite time for the first .cooking to allow the otoam to escape anti then pot back for brown- . ing, otherwise it will never brown, and will hold all the steam. Picadnly's Origin. "Tipperary," the marohing soma which had such it yoga° in MA, re- fers to Picadilly, London, England. Ciao Story is that the place was named after the Piccadilla Hall, whero 0 cer- tain kind of lace much in vogue dur- ing the reigu of Queen Elizabeth was made. The lace was called..plocadilly bemuse of its spear points, 00 diminu- tive of pica, a pike' or spear. Piecatlilly ivat 01100 tfillIng for US gambling houses, In elm of these, ran by Waldo., prime° regett's melt; Beau Biummel won a75,000 in tea minutes and tasisted -Pon giving one- half to Sheticlan. A farmer WAS originally one who ()fleeted taxes, Open Their Ears. Ears were 'intended to be useful as well as ornamental and Johnnie and Susie hear a lot ef things that were never intended for their, ears! Empty pitchers yawn to be filled so we must teach the children to hear interesting and helpful things. Where are there SO many interesting sounds as on a farm, from chantIclees, Who boasts loudly each morning, "Cock-a- doeclle-dol I'm up before you!' down to the musical chirp of the, criekets, and hhe "katydids,...s0 impolite, con- tradicting in the night?" Open the ears of the boy. Say to ,1i,00, "Liston, son! that is a quail call- -re.," as the old farm echoes with the shrill 'Bob white! Bob white!" Teach him to distinguish between the call of the yo!bow-ehafted flicker, the note of the robin, and the squell of the catbird—to know the birds by sounds as well as by eye, az lie knows the 'whistles and calls of his boy friends. Call the children's attention to the voice of the little Meek that dances down cheerily through the meadow: "By day Re voice is low and still— A charming, dancing little rill; But when the silent night is here, Its VOIOO is heard so loud -and clear And Yet so sweet, if often seerna As though the brook brought pleasant drearne.q Help unstop these yaring ears bbat they may learn to love and under- stand the voices of the birds and brooks, insects and animals; that they may not be deaf when the soft winds Whisper to thorn in the tree-tops—it may speak to them of God.., Da tot preach to the children; call their attention to God, as the seems of all that is beautiftil and good. Spealcing of actunde for young ears: is the sotlrid of Mother's voice and Father's voice musie or diseord to.the ears of the child? Atte the toneS harsh, impatient, nagging? Or are they patient, soft, musical? Long, Iteg Yeare fvom now the tones of yoar voice will echo and re-echo in the memory of that eitild of laeger gr-ewth, Will the melearleit 00 lIelitier and love- ly to them? , Champof Met- Siek children as well -48 sick adulta ato fanSifel elieut their food. "Title hnead tastes like a blanket," one little onvaleacent compl,ained te her nurse. "1 liana eat it" Instead of insieting on the bread, the nurse matle whet she eallecIscateneal ibiseaite, Three 'minces of fine oatmeal, theee ounces of flour, half teaspoonful Balt, one tableepoora fel shortening, Put oatmeal, flour aed salt in baking 'bowl, boll and etir well togrethera rub in shortening, and add cold water to mix paste. Bake trown. A favorite with children. • .; Capturing a Python. . Though capturing a thirty-two•tQat python isforthe animal collector, not apart but busiuess, it has even for many of the thrills of sport. A Malay, saya a traveller, came te my quarters in Palembalig and said he had found a snake that had swallowed a, plg, So we bullt st crate and, led by the naive, started into the jungle. There I was astonished to find the largest snake I ,liad ever seen. The python was asleep, digesting the pig. I coaled to the men and had them stake the .crate to the ground. Then, passiug a rope through it, I tied one end to a tree and in -the other end made a running noose to be slipped round the snake's head. I took two other ropes with which I Mantled •to tie its .iall and, winding one end of each of Glens round a tree on either side, laid the other near the snake. I put men at the trees and ehowed them how to pay out the ropes as we drew the snake toward. the crate. With bamboo polee.we prodded the snake's head and tall. Before it realized what was happerung we had the nooee over its head, but the In- stant the reptile .f.elt the rope tighten It was awake. The natives -who were to tie the toff became excited and succeeded in get- ting only one of the ropes round the snake.- All at once the python leaped forward, whipped the rope on its Mil out o,f the hands of the Men and knocked several of them flat; then with the lower part ot Its body it caught and wrapped one man who had not been able to get out of the waY while five or six feet of its tail. lashed Otto rope about. Suddenly the snake constricted and broke nearly- every bone in the man's body. I shouted to the men to pull the he.ad rope taut. Fortunately, we caught the rope attached to the tail just as the snake tried to lurch for- ward again. Allowing the reptile to move forward slowly, we drew its hoad toward the crate but held back 'the tall until we had it stretched out, But the noose round its neck, which had slipped down farther than I want- ed it, was giving the head too much play. Assurlug the men that (he snake could do no more harm, I per- suaded three of them to join me in seizing it by the neck. The python tossed us about, and we had several exciting minutes before we got the head into the orate. As we dragged the python forward, it coiled in the orate. We had captured a prize spool - MOO, Would Not Break Faith . With Kitchener. .Germany offered a bribe of 11100,- 000,000 to Cherles M. Schwab, steel manufacturer and Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (luring the war, to get back contracts his company had with Lord Kitchener; the British war chief. The statement was made by D. F. Kingsley, President ot the Chamber of Commerce ot New York, recently, at the luncheon given by the chamber lu token of Mr. Schwab's war services and presentation of a bronze. plaque. "Britain learned of this hundred million dollar offer," added Mr. Kings- ley, "and countered with an oiler of $150,000,000, Mr, Schwab laughed and said that Germany and Britain to- gether hadn't money enough to make him break Math With Kitchener, Th&e incidents make the story of Aladdin and ills wonderful lamp read like the rethinisceneeS a.a cheap promoler," Leaders 'in Gift world of finance and big business generally paid tribute to Mr. Schwab far his war services by their presence at the luncheon. That xn straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points is well understopd by those who make •aviation nurps. They have de- vised what are known as orthotiromic arcs: in ether weeds, lines that con- form to the turf -ace of the earth,- `If an aviator were to leave Paris for Peking, he would .save time by going northeast -toward Petrograd and later southeast across China, But the seal- ers knew it first, The aviators are sininly doing in the air what mariners call "great-eirele sailing" on the earth. loot4'u9711irve4LirCIFIV arle '''''"''''l tiftruP Used 4 Autos I:;;;;:a644:400 zrov: ..t. itIviva,n4,014i. p.„,,,,,zupv„,,,,,,.1,, :::::2:7::::"6:4::::: ,,:n.r.n. i..-4,, otte°°,,l'epror ,A, vk. 130e k , twet, sr Meirkee i Y Jarue aratatly, 0.,t4 Sievenson's IViipopent.Sunday. While Robert Louts Stevenson was itS Sweatt he once orgenised 50 paper 010..60 On horseback for a Sunday's auttleentent, Greatly to the indigna- tion and the diseentfort of the Samonn pastors, he eureareti noisily through the notiv4 villages at the hour of wor- Milp iu compeny with a imbiber of young officers from th.e men-of-war iu Otto harbor and the clerks awl others oonnectod with the German Manta - tion Compeny, I belteve, writes Mr. W. E. Clarke in the Yale Review, that be persuaded himself at the moment that he was acting rightly—that It was better for those young MEM to be so , employed than to be engaged in their 'usual Sabbath mama:atlas. A day or two later he sent an In- vitation to my Wife and me to dine at Vaillma, I declined, pleading that had ton much work, but really feeling too angry with hitni my wife, how- ' ver, went and exPlained that I had too ;nisch affection_ for him to quarrel, and that I was feeling too vexed to ignore the matter. "R,L.S." attempt -- ed to justify himself, but my wife would 2101 listen, "I have no doubt you can easily silence me in argument," said she, 'but .y-ou 'know quite well that you did wrong. What would Samoa be like without a Sabbath? And have you no thought of the effect of your -conduct upon the natives, who regard you as ' a Christian man and as our friends and do you, moreover, think you have set a dignified ex -ample to the young Englishmen and Germans here?" R.L.S. steed tugging at his mous- tache during this fusillade. After sev- eral minutes he turned round and, bolding out his hand, exclaimed, "Foe - give me, Mrs. Clarke; you are quite right, and I was altogether wrong! I regret it with all my 'heart." "Well," said my wife, loo -king Mg- nificantly at a group of. Germans on the verandah, "you must grew) your contrition." Advancing toward them, tLL.S. re- marked that Inc had just been express- ing his regret for the part they Moll in the paper chase on Sunday. "I an sure," he added. "that you feel with Inc that we were altogether wrong and setting an extremely bad example to the Beach." At that moment one of the young English naval officers rotle up, and my wife remarked, "There Is your second opportunity; you owe it to your owc countrymen." "Alt!" replied he. "Now you ask Me something much harder, but I'll do it." And, greeting the young officer, he went on to say with that charm of manner so entirely his oven, "I was just expressing to these gentlemen my coutrition and regret that we should have allowed ourselves to forget 0111 principles as we did last Sunday; we all. did wrong ,and I have been apolo- gizing to Mrs. Clarke for the pain we must have caused our missionary friends. I am sure that I express the Peen -lige et us all when I assure her we shall not so transgress again." To make midi an avowal in a place like Apia, where most of the white population- sys tematIcally disregarded the Sabbath, required plenty of moral couttige. News travels quickly along the "Beach." Before night it was known in every German household and in ,the word -room of. every gun- boat in the bay that R.L.S.,nad openly expressed his penitence for the mla Spent Sunday. Then and Now. A connoisseur recently returnee from England with a mannecript of Shelley's for which he paid L1,7-00! It is said that the total amount Shelley received in his lifetime front the publiehers 02 1112 poetry was about $200, As -One reads of the taetastic sums that change hands in the aucticn room to -clay far books, mannacrIpts, pic- tures and other works of art, 000 Is moved to moralize upon the differ - :1111:. eam small part of the price would have made to the artist in his We - Chatterton poisoned himself ore 110 NVeS eighteen to eacapo slow starva- tion, since. he was too proud le dis- close his utter penury; and 11053 a row words tram his hand would bring enough to support him for years! In tho last yestr of. 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