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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-12-03, Page 2ey 'EDEN ittULPO1 '5 :lees -CRATED Dy R.W. Scums Re tE1D CHAPTERI. TH1 num oe. Mark Brendon, at thirty-five, al- ready stood, high in the criminal in- vestigation department of the police. He was indeed about to receive an inspectorship. Mark was taking holiday on Dart- moor, devoting himself to his hobby of trout fishing and accepting the op- portunity to survey his own life groin a bird's-eye point of 'view, measure his achievement, and consider impar- tially his future, not only as a detec- tive but as a than. He found himself with five thousand pounds saved as a result of some spe- cial grants during the war and a large honorarium from the French Government. He was also in posses-' sion of a handsome salary and the prospect cf promotion., when a senior man retired at no distant date. Too intelligent to find all that life had to, offer in his work alone, he now began to think of culture, of human plea- sures, and those added interests and responsibilities that a wife and fam- ily would offer, He was somewhat overweary after a strenuous year; but to Dartmoor he; always came for health and rest when opportunity offered, and now he had returned fon• the third time to the Duchy Hotel at Princetown. Being a good talker he never failed of an audience there. But better still, he diked an hour sometimes with the prison wardens. For the convict prison that dominated that gray: smudge in the heart of the ntaors I known as Princetown held many in- teresting and famous criminals. Ile had found an unknown spot where some good trout dwelt and on an evening in mid-June he set forth to tempt them. He had discovered certain deep pools in a disused quarry fed by a streamlet. Foggintor Quarry, wherein lay these preserves, might be approached in two ways. Originally broken into the. granite bosom of the moor for stone to bnilcl the bygone war prison of Princetown, a road still extended to the deserted spot and joined the main thoroughfare half a mile distant. Brendon, however, came hither by a direct path over the moors. Leaving Princetown railway station upon his left hand he set his face west where the waste heaved out before him dark against a blaze of light from the sky. Again$ the western flame appear- ed a figure carrying a basket. Mark Brendan, with thoughts on the even- ing rise of the trout, lifted his face at a light footfall. Whereupon there passed by him the fairest woman he had ever known. She was slim and not very tall. She wore no hat and the auburn of her hair, piled high above her forehead, tangled the warm sunset beams and burned like a halo round her head. And she had blue eyes—blue as the gentian. Their size impressed Brendon. She walked quickly with a good stride and her slight, silvery skirts and rosy. si:ken jumper showed her figure clearly enough—her round hips and firm, girlish bosom. Her eyes met his for a moment with a frank, trustful expression, then she had passed. The vision made Mark pensive, as sudden beauty will, and he wondered about the girl. Tramping forward now, the detec- tive came to a great crater that gaped on the hillside and stood above the dead quarry workings of Foggintor. Underneath him opened a cavity with sides two hundred feet high. Mark proceeded to the extreme breadth of the quarry, fifty yards northerly, and stood above two wide, still pools in the midst. Trout moved and here and there circles of light widened out on the water and rippled to the cliff bevond. by the pools. Brendon suddenly per- ceived that it was no natural noise but arose from some human activity. It was, in fact, the musical note of a mason's trowel, and when presently it ceased, he was annoyed to hear heavy footsteps in the quarry. ' A big, broad man approached him,. clad in a Norfolk jacket and knitter-. bockel's and a red waistcoat with gaudy brass buttons. The stranger stopped as he saw Brendon, straddled his great legs took' a cigar from'• his mouth and spoke: Ah! You've found 'em, then?" "Found what?" asked the detective. "Found these trout. I come here for a swim sometimes. I've wondered why 1 never saw a rod in this hole. There are a dozen half pounders there and possibly some bigger• ones" It was Mark's instinctive way to study all fellow creatures with whom he came in contact. He saw a pair of broad shoulders and a thick neck over which hung a square, hard jaw and a determined chin. Then came a big mouth and the largest pair of moustaches Brendon remembered to have' observed on any countenance. They were of a foxy red, and beneath them flashed large, white teeth when the big man talked in rather grating tones. His hair was a fiery red, cut close, and of a hue yet more violent than his mous- taches. The big man appeared friendly, though Brendon heartily wished him away. "This belly place seems to bewitch people," said the, big man. The other laughed. "There is a magic here. It gets into your blood." "So it does. A man I know is build- ing himself a bungalow out here. He and his wife will be just as happy as a pair of wood pigeons -at least they think so." "I heard a trowel clinking." "Yes, I lend a hand sometimes when the workmen are gone. But think of it—to turn your back on civilization and make yourself a home in a desert!" "Might do worse—if you've got no ambitious." "Yes—ambition is not their strong point. They think love's enough— poor souls. Why don't you fish?" "Waiting for it to get a bit darker." "Well, so long. Take care you don't catch anything that'll pull you in." Laughing at his joke, the red man strode off througb the gap fifty yards THE STRANGER STOPPED AS 155 SA V BRENDON. distant. Then in the stillness Mark heard the purr of a machine. Ile had evidently departed upon a motor cycle to the main road half a mile distant. When he was gone Brendon rose and strolled down to the other en- trance of the quarry that he might see the bungalow of which the stran- ger had spoken. Mark set about his sport, yet felt The that a sort of unfamiliar division had fret , Lavinight and shadow died off andd come into his mind and, while he earth, leaving all vague and vast featureless. Brendon returned to his brought two tiny -eyed flies from a sport and found a small "coachman" box and fastened them to the hair-like fiy sufficient', destructive. The two leader he always used, there persisted , the thought of the auburn girl—her hook yielded a dozen trout, of which eyes blue as April—her swift, delicate he kept six and returned the rest to tread. the water. He began to fish as the light thick- Tramping back under the stars, his ened; but he only cast once or twice thoughts drifted to the auburn girl • and then decided to wait half an homeof the moat. day grew very dim and the He grounded his rod and brought a Four evenings after his first fishing brier pipe and a pouch of tobacco expedition to the quarries, Mark de - from his pocket. The things of day voted a morning to the lower waters were turning to slumber, but still of the Meavy River; at the end of there persisted a clinking sound utter- that day, not far short of midnight, ed monotonously from time to time, vvhen glasses were empty and pipes which the sportsman supposed to be knocked out, half a dozen men, just a bird. It came from behind the great about to retire, heard a sudden and acclivities that ran opposite his place evil report. Be cure this trade mark is on the cheese you ,buy. Our re - behind it. utation 13 There is only oro ',Kraft J s? ISSUE No. 49—'25. Will Blake, "Boots" at the Duchy Hotel, was waiting to extinguish the lights, and seeing Brendon he said: "There's something in your line happened, master, by the look of it. A pretty bobhery to -morrow." "A convict escaped, Will?" asked the detective, yawning and longing for bed. "That's about the only fun you get up here, isn't it? "Convict escaped? No—a man done in seemingly, Mr. Pendean's uncle -in- law have slaughtered Mr. Pendean by i the looks of it." "And who is Mr. Pendean?" "The gentleman what's building the bungalow down to Foggintor." II Mark started, The big 'red man: flashed to his mind complete in every: physical feature. Ile described hini, and Will Blake replied: "That's the chap • that's done it. That's the gentleman's uncle -in-law!" ;Brendon went to bed and slept no worse for the tragedy. Nor, when morning came and every maid and mrn desired to tell him all they knew, did he show the least interest. He was just slipping on a raincoat and about to leave the hotel when Will Blake appeared and handed him a letter. Ile felt curious and, not as- sociating the incident with the rumor- ed crime, set down his rod and creel, The Toronto Hosnital tar 1mmiteMv. In tOs 1ptlon with Bellevue and Allied' tiosnitals. Naw York Cay: 'c0era a Hiroo years' Course of Training I, Yount women, havin0 the Mildred eduo,tlun. and desirous of 500omin' nurses. This Hospital lite adopted the NOM - hour system. The ,pupils receive funiform, of the School, n• monthly allowance and travel/1N expense. to and from Now York. Fcr further Information apply to the SuperIntohdonL Y.'.a^f.•�'r: et_ -,red.,¢".`• opened the note, and read what was written: "3 Station Cottages, Princetown. "Dear Sir: The police have told me that you are in Princetown, and it seems as -though Providence had sent you.- I fear that I have no right to seek your services directly, bat if you can answer the prayer of a heart- broken woman and give her the bene- fit of your genius in this dark moment, she would be unsueakably thankful. "Faithfully yours, "Jenny Pendean." Mark Brendon murmured. "damn" gently under his breath. Then he turned to Will. "Where is Mrs, Pendean's house?" lie asked, "In Station Cottages, just before you come to the prison woods, sir." "Run aver then, and say I'll call in half an hour." (To be continued.) eY Dirigible Balloons. The first dirigible balloon was made by the Robert brothers, by direction of the Duke of Chartism, in France, in 1874, within a year after the first bal- loon in the world was sent into the air. The dirigible was fish -shaped,. That is about 911 that is known of it, except that it provided for propulsion by means of oars. In 1834 Count de Len- nox, another Frenchman, built one, which was to be propelled by oars driven by twenty men. The bell -eon was so heavy with ite crew that it could not rise from the ground and was smashed by the spec- tators. In 1850 anotber Frenchman conceived the idea of an airship with four balloons which were to support a platform 200 feet long and thirty feet wide but he could not design a power plan to work the screws that were to propel it. Henry Giffard, of Paris, built a diri- gible in 1852 and another in 1855. In 1883 'Renard and Krebs built one which was driven successfully by an .electric motor and screws. Ferdinand Zeppelin acquired his taste for bal- looning while fighting on the Union side in the American Civil War, Re- turning to Germany, be saw service in the war against Austria. In 1895 he began importuning the German war office to build a dirigible balloon, says the Indianapolis News, At this time he was regarded as something as a monomaniac, Iu 1900 he had finished his first dirigible. Thera was not a great deal of difference between Zep• pelin's first ah•sblp and those that fol- lowed, for he clung throughout to his basic idea which has -come to be ac- cepted, a series of separate gas con- tainers within a large cylindrical hull. Instead of rudders Zeppelin raised and lowered his early models by means of a sliding weight. His second air- ship wen built in 1900, Improvements in power plants Game gradually. In less than ten years after the Kaiser - had termed Zeppelin a visionary he was bailing hire as "the greatest Ger- man in the twentieth century." He was decorated with the order of the Sleek Eagle and made a knight in the Prussian Order of Merit. It was with dirigible aircraft that Germany bomb- ed England. A Poem Worth Knowing. "How Sleep the Brave." William Collins died in the year that Robert Burns, the Scottish Bard, first saw the light. During the last nine years of his life be was insane. In view of the fact that the seventh anniversary of the Armistice was cele- brated on November 11th, the follow- ing exquisite lines have a special in- terest: How sleep the Brave who elnk to rest, By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress• a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By falay hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there! Envy, Envious Beg — "Olt, shucks, why haven't I got a lot of arms >i0 I can be a great juggler like Mr. Spider." ,8 Modest Youth. I "Are yon marrying a sensible girl?" Tasked his uncle. "Of serves I am. 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Our designers originate their patterns in the heart of the style centres, and their creations are those of tested popularity, brought within the means of the average woman. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pattern Dept„ Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. Sunken Cities. An Arab .fisherman of Jerba, the "Isle of Lotus Easters," recently re- turned to the island with a strange tale. He said that bending over the side of his little boal, about five hun- dred yards from the shore, he had seen what looked like a city at the bottom o5 the sea. Mis story was at once in- vestigated by experts. They saw the city under the sea—they could even distinguish the streets It is believed that this submarine town is one of the ancient ports of the Phoenicians, and it is hoped that in- formation of the greatest value re- garding this people and their civflize- tiou will be gained as, a d'e•sult of fur- ther investigations, ;AA. preliminary survey is to be carried out by aero- planes, and after that 1t is probable that divers will explore the sunken city. Submarine cities exist, or are re- puted to exist, in other parts of the world. The Dutch will tell you that several ruined towns are sunk at the bottom of the Zulder Zee, and the legendary city of Vineta is said to lie of the -coast of Holstein. On quiet days, so the fishermen of the region will assure you; the tolling of the bells In the spires of 1ts sunken churchesuches may be heard at sea, The Emerald Isle can also,boast of its submarine towns. According to le- gend, the waters of Killarney and Lough Neagh cover two cities . that were famous in the golden age of an- cient Irish civilization. Yet anothersubmarine city famous is legend is said to have etood where the Bay of Douarnez, near Quimper, in Brittany, to now. This city was bullt below sea -level, and was renowned for its beauty and magnificence. But a certain Princess Dahut, being tired of life and wishing that her sepulchre might be truly royal, opened the sluice mace,ce, thus letting In the water, whichoverwhelmed both herself and the town, But the most fatuous of all straiten oittes are those et Atlait.is, that lost continent which is said to have stood, longcenturies, before beginning of the Christian era, between the Old World and the New, and whose splendors, at- cording to ono modern theory, are now hidden by the seaweed of the Sargasso Sea. - A Mill Underground.' On account of the intense cold in the Yukon, a CanadianCanadiancompany plans„ to erect an underground mill for dress- ing ,ore front; its gold ,mine... - Those -ho have used japan„ Young Iiyoon or Gunpowder Tea will appre- ciate the s u • ter iority of this delicious bleneL always so pure aid rich. Try it. CANADA TIMBER STOREHOUSE. Great Britain Looks to Dominion' for Empire Supply Afforestation Work in Old Country. The rapidity with which European tour of inspection, Ilo. Cameron saw countries `are. realizing that Canada's. thousands of acres of plantations 00v - forest resaurees are destined to play ered with Douglas lir and Sitko spruce an increasing part in supplying world grown front Canadian seed collected needs, and the growing attention be- for the British Government by the ing focused on our timber supplies, Forest Service of the Department of market-ing facilities, methods of con- the Interior. servation, and -appalling fire losses As Interesting perhaps as the pima - were brought out at recent forestry tatlons themselves Is the develop- conteeences held in France and Great meat of the "forest holidays" policy, of Britain. The mother :country, par- the British Forestry Commission, The .titularly, looks, to Canada as the great intimate correlation of forestry and storehouse of Empire timber. The Bti- agriculture is recognized in Great Bri- tish Assooiation for the Advancem•eut tain, and in the extensive afforestation f of Science, one of the largest and projects an opportunity is seen ores - most authoritative orgaulzatlons of tablishing permanent rural conimuni- selentists In the world, stressed for- ties dependent en both forestry and entry problems at its 1925 meeting at agriculture for their livelihood. Ac - Southampton, England. The special cordingly, the Forestry Commissioners forestry section, which was founded acquire agricultural lands adjoiniug at last years' meeting of the Assocla- the plautationsand lease them on easy tion in Toronto, Canada, was particu- terms. Tho lessees are guaranteed larly active and showed promise of not loss than 150 days wont pet _ -annum developing, in the near future, into from the Commission and have the 10 - one of the strongest constituents of . mender of the year to attend to their the Association. The Department of agricultural pursuits. In this way, not the Interior, Canada, was represented only is the farmer sure of a steady at the meetings of this section by Mr, cash income to supplement the pro - D. Roy Cameron, Assistant- Director duction of his farm, but the Commis - of Forestry, who during the pact sea- Bion also secures a reliable and 1n - son spent some weeks in Europe mak terested labor supply. Ing a study of forest conditions and The number of holdings is of course methods of conservation, determined by the labor requirements One of the most noteworthy papers of the plantation project. The rate of presented before the forestry section afforestation 1s so adjusted that plant - of the British Association was given ing will continue year by year until by Lord Lovat, Chairman of the BTI- such time as the earliest plantations tish Forestry Commission, describing will .produce marketable thinnings, the progress in post-war forestry de- The work required to thin these areas velopment in the British Isles, and will occupy the time of the men no the Commission's plans for the future. longer needed for planting. Thinning The Commission is conducting a very operations aro in turn adjusted to extensive afforestation program and last until the timber on older areas beginning this fall 30,009,000 trees will reaches maturity and the final erop be planted in Great Britain. By the can be harvested. Following harvest - spring these trees will occupy 23,000 ing each area will again be planted. acres of what would otherwise bo This forest holdings policy is con- chiefly waste land, Since it began its sidered by authorities to be one of the work five years ago the Commission soundest card most feasible "back -to - has planted 52,500 acres and assisted the -lams" movements yet advanced in local authorities and private owners to the British Isles, The supplementing plant another 50,000 acnes, resulting of farm work with forestry labor, paid in 184,000,000 new trees in England, in cash, enables the holder to bring Wales, and Scotland. The program under agriculture, lands formerly too spread over tea years provides for the poor to support a family in Great Bri- plantiug of 250,000 acres with 450,000,- tain, The basis of the wbolo is the 000 trees. treatment of tbe forest as a crop to he whilo accompanying Lord Lovat, bandied in perpetuity, rather than as Chairman of the Commission, on a a nine t,o be exploited and abandoned. Parks Wild Animals Losing Fear of Man. Each succeeding year's round of tourists bring new expressions of won- derment and surprise at the rapidity with which the wild animals . in the Canadian National parks are losing their fear of man. Parks' officials, who administer wild life protective measures; have watched this condition develop and to them it was to be ex- pected, but to the tottrist new to tbo Parks the holding up of one's car• on a park highway by a band of friendly Rocky Mounoin sheep is a novel ex- perience, Visitors to Rocky Mountains park in Alberta are always sure to have close- up views of mountain sheep and other wild animals at different point's on the highways, and bears are frequent visitors to the outskirts of most of the' towns in the parks,. In the past year or two elk, among the most wary of animals, have been reported, to have made their appearance on the golf links at Banff while play was in pro- gress. In the early part of October of this year about fifteen elk trotted out on the fairway of the 13th hole, on their way from the Bow river: to; the upland forests. These oxhibitions of animal friendliness are not confined to Rocky Mountains park. in Jasper park, on the occasion of. Sir Douglas Haig's visit in July of this year, two young black bears interrupted! the Field Marshall's game by their appear- ance, on the links. The growth in numbers of wild ant. ntals,-in the parks and the ease with which -they may be encountered and Photographed is year by year becom- ing a. greater 'attraction to tourists. When -hoarse use Mlnarc's Liniment. ®`To thine own self be true and it must follow, as night the day, thou can't be false to any man. Sant From Sea on Land. Studies In England contiune:l over a period of 26 years show that the sea deposits an average of 86.1 pounds of salt per acre on the lard. There is an/q one -Caapa,�7na'a I ,"lion Bala Maks bad conlpkexions gcod and goodcorpkaxions bei er caprin ugs Because Nothing Elso 8o Beautifies the Complexion. Sold by Druggists and Department Stores. BURN LESS FUEL (Coal, Coke or Wood.) 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OF lv.,ONTAl1i0Torgnl, 8 7,. f` r -ay' �r alt sex puts .SOLD. 7N BOTTLES ONLY. leen A A:,LI ...int- 4N #.1 1I' CANADA The most strilitug trait of Canadian life to new arrivals form Europe is the manner is which the Dominion, which they have considered es, a very now and therefore TRW and crude country, has brought into general; "everyday usage the most modern and up-to-date eon, venienoes and amenities which inven- tion bee given to the world, The reel. dent of Canada, for instance; does not appreciate his counlay'S prominent position in regard to the use of the telephone until he visits Europe,. where the inconvenience anti• irritat- ing lose of time arising from the lack of this means of communication drives it sldlkingly home. The approach of the ,semi -centennial of the invention' of the telephone makes it an appropri- ate time to briefly survey Canada's achievement in this connection and fix the liosition of: the Dominion among ether countries in this connection, 'In 11121 the Canadian census showed a population of '8,738,483, and at the end of 1924 there were over 1,009,208 telephones in operation throughout the Dominion, This works out at eleven telephones per 100 of popula- tion, or eleven per cent„ and in re- spect to this development Canada takes ,second place only to the United States, where the figure is 13.7 per cent., among the countries ofthe world. Furthermore, the gross earn- ings per telephone are lower in Can- ada than in any other country of which tilers is record. The gross yearning's 1'ci tetlep'hcno •for the fiscal ,oar 1023 ih the Netherlands 'were $61.17; in Great Britain 053.18; in the United Statcs $48.49; and in Can- ada 343.9'1. - Phones General on Farms. This development is by no means confined to the older, more developed and established sections of; the coun- try, but, on the contrary, is more pro- nounced in the newer Western Lard-, tory. For seine time, for instance), the city of Calgary 1n Alberta has led the entire world in regard to the number of telephones per capita Of population, with, at the present time, one tele- phone to every four and a fraction re- - sitients. Practically the same situa- tion is to be found throughout the other cities of Western Canada. And the telephone in Canada is not by any means confined to urban centres, but enters mast intimately In- to the life of the farm, both in a busi- nee sand social sense. It interesting to note that in the Province of Mani- toira, where the Population is des- cribed as rural to the extent of about - 60 per cent„ there fa a telephone to every eight residents, and that In the Province of Saskatchewan there are two rural telephone subscribers to every urban subscriber, a_ -situation which is equalled by only four states of. Union. This is a very gratifying state of at fairs and eloquent or Canada's marked progress in all directions along the most modern lines. The telephone has come to enter most lutinuttely In- to every phase of Canadian life and. more especially the agricultural. The line of .telephone poles follows rapidly in the wake or -agricultural settlement and the farmer given aflegnato touch with that world from which he is apart yet with which he transacts business. The extension of Iia phone through- out the remoter farming settlements of Canada is a situation of which the poorly supplied filer'opean can form no conception. Pipes Cause Forest Fires. 'The cigarette has been blamed for much, and the "good old 'thldeen" tae had many a oology; but experiments carried on in California by members of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, dealing with the possible causes of what are termed "smoker fires" bid fair to turn the tables upon the highly praised briar, clay or -cob, and to ilnd it the guiltiest member of the, smoker's trinity. In typical national forest aurround- ings, such as .are frequented all sums mer long by tourist and camper, 200 exporlments were recently mode of the relative importance of cigar, cigar ette, pipe heel, and lighted mateh as a cause of forest fres'. With the aid of a motor -driven fan, breezes 'and even gales of various in- tensi•thes were imitated to accelerate the forest Ares Produced on a minute scale. Forest, litter, bark, rotten woody - pine needles -all the ordinary forest fuels—were exposed to -ignition. The results showed fairly conalu- slvel.y.that the smouldering tobacco,. from pipea would start fires„ in almost every instance; whenever It fell on well air-dried material, and with very slight aid from, the wind. In this respect, pipe heels far out- did either cigar or cigarette, and in these tests was outdone only by the lighted match, which maintained a 110 per cent. record as a fire starter. The inference is that the pipe smoker can no' longer be ooneidered free from suspicion, as he has been, in eome In- stances, but should be subject to the sante restrictions as the tiler of the "Lailor-m•ade". cigarette anl'j,_the cigar, The foresters point out, however, that it is the degree of thoughtfulness and care that the smoker exercises in dies peeing of his matches, snipes, butts and pipe heels afaiher than what he smokes, that coneerne them most. Why is it easy to break into an old man's. house? Because his locks are few ,and his gait is broken.