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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-06-21, Page 6ride's Name Or, The Adventures of Captain Fraser CHAPTER XXIV,—(Cont'd;) Thor felt a Little safer when a brougham dashed up to the house and carried off Fraser and his supporter, and safer still when his father Op - peered with Poppy Tyrell on his arm, blushing sweetly and throwing a glance in their direction, which was like to have led to a quarrel anti Tommy created a diversion by stating that it was intended for him. By the time Flower arrived the roe was clear, and the house had lapsed into its accustomed quiet. An old seafaring man, whose interest in wed dings had ceased three days after his own, indicated the house with the stem of his pipe. It was an old house with a broad step and a wide-open doe-, and on the step a small servant in a huge cap, with her hands clasped together stood gazing excitedly up the road. "Cap'n Fraser live hero?" inquired Flower, after a cautious glance at the windows, "Yes, sir," said the small servant; "he's getting married at this very in- stant." "You'll be married one of these days if you're a good girl," said Flower, who was in excellent humor, The small girl forgot her cap and gave her head a toss. Then she re- garded him thoughtfully, and after ad- justing her cap, smoothed down her apron and said, "she was in no hurry; she never took any notice of them," Flower looked round and pondered. He was anxious, if possible, to see Fraser, and catch the first train back. "Cap'n Fraser was in good spirits, I suppose?" ho said, cautiously. "Very good spirits," admitted the small servant, "but nervous." "And Miss Tipping?" suggested ding were her own, and that ye11ov, wrinkled old women should wilfully Certo to remind themselves of the r long -dead youth. )Iis whole world seemed suddenly desolate and ansa and it was only borne in upon him, slowly that there was no need now fo' his Journal,' to London in search of t Poppy, And that henceforth her move- ments could possess no interest for him. He ranged himself quietly with cl the bystanders, and, not without 0 cer- tain dignity, waited. It s temed a long time. The horses .. champed an,l rattled their harness. The bystanders got restless. Then there was a rnnvement He looked in the church again, and saw them coming down the aisle; Fraser smiling and erect, with Poppy's , little hand upon his arm She looked down at first, smiling shyly, but as they drew near the door gave her hus- band a glance such as Flower had never seen before. He caught his breath then, and stood up erect as the bridegroom himself, and as they reached the door they both saw him at the same instant. Poppy, with a startled cry of joy and surprise, half drew her arm from her husband's; Fraser gazed at him as on one risen from the dead. For a space they regarded each other without a word, then Fraser, with his wife on his arm, took a step towards him. Flower, still regarding them steadily, drew back a little, and, moved by a sudden impulse, and that new sense of dignity, snatched a handful of rice from the old woman's bag and threw it over them. Then he turned quickly and with rapid strides made his way track to the station. Flower. "Miss who?" inquired the small girl,. with a superior smile. "Miss Tyrell, you mean, don't you?" Flower stared at her in astonish rent. "No, Miss Tipping," he said sharply, "the bride. Is Miss Tyrel here too?" The small girl was astonished it her turn. "Miss Tyrell is the bride: she said, dwelling fondly on the las word. "Who's Miss Tipping?" "What's the bride's Christian name?" demanded Flower, catching her fiercely by the hand. He was certain of the reply before the now thoroughly frightened small girl could find bresth enough to utter it, and at the word "Poppy," he turned without a word and ran up the road. Then he stopped, and coming back hastily called out to her for the where- abouts of the church. "Straight up here and second turn- ing on the left," cried the small girl, her fear giving place to curiosity. "What's the matter?" But Flower was running doggedly up the road, thinking in a confused fashion as he ran. At first he thought that Joe had blundered; then, as he re- membered his manner and his appar- ent haste to get rid of him, amaze- ment and anger jostled each other in his mind. Out of breath, his pace slackened to a walk, and then broke in- to a run again as he turned the corner, and the church came into view, There was a small cluster of people in the porch, which was at once re- duced by two, and a couple of car- riages drawn tip against the kerb. He arrived breathless and peered in. A few spectators were in the seats, but the chancel was empty. "The,'ve gone into the vestry," whispered an aged but frivolous wo- man, who was grimly waiting with 'o huge bag of rice. Flower turned white. No efforts of his could avail now, and he smiled bitterly as he thought of his hardships of the past year. There was a lump in his throat, and a sense of unreality about the proceedings which was al- most dreamlike. Ile looked up the sunny road with its sleepy, old-time houses, and then at the group standing in the porch, wondering dimly that a I deformed girl on crutches should be smiling as gaily as though the wed - constitute bad taste or bad Judgment in another. "Doctor, my brother stepped into a hole and wrenched his knee, and now he limps. What would you do in a case like that?" "I'm afraid I should Has Nothing to Hide Now that the Government has absolutely prohibited the use of any artificial coloring matter in sugar, we tell you again that we have —never used Beets —never used Ultramarine Blue =never used Aniline Dyes —never used Vegetable Dyes in refuting any of our sugars. This means that every pound in the hands of your grocer is pure and uncolored. So—why take chances? Why not insist on having Lantic-- the Sugars that have always been pure, and cost no more than any other? Loafer the Red Ball Trade -merle on every Carton and Sack 124 (The end.) It is well to realize that disagree- ment with one's ideas does not always Major-General J. J. Pershing Who will lead the first American Ex- peditionary Force to be sent to France. Old Shop Disappears. An interesting trading link between the past and present centuries is pass- ing away in the disappearance of the old pastry -cook's shop in Rupert Street, Piccadilly, London, which has a history covering considerably more than a century. Over the dismantled shop there may still be seen an ancient signboard bearing the inscription: "Muffin and crumpet baker to Her late Majesty"—presumably the con- sort of King George III.—"and to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Estab- lished one hundred years." The his- tory of this ancient house, could it be unravelled in detail, would furnish in all probability one of the romances of nineteenth century London. People with a garden, and the neces- sary time, can greatly lessen the food cost by canning their own fruits and vegetables. Corn, always an important crop, was never so important as it is this year. With a prospective shortage in hay and coarse grains, the main- tenance of the live stock industry de- pends on King Corn. Preserving Strawberries. Strawberries are a favorite fruit, but must be given particular care in canning if they keep well. Wash and drain the fruit after hulling. While doing this, have cans and lids-. both heating in hot water. Measure the drained berries, and for each gaart of berries allow one cupful of white su- gar. Place the sugar in an alum- inum or granite kettle, and add a few spoonfuls of water to keep it from burning until it melts. When the sugar has boiled long enough to drive all air out of it, add the berries, As these boil up gently, stir them down. When they have boiled up the second time, lift off the fire and can, taking the cans from the warm water one at a time as you can; put on the lid be- fore filling the next can, tighten the lids, turn the can upside down, and leave in that position four or five days. The berries then, when turned, will re- sume their proper position in the cans. I never lose strawberries when I fol- low this recipe. For preserving I use only firm ber- ries, and prepare as for canning. I measure the berries, and for each quart of berries allow a full quart of white cugar. I place this sugar in the preserving kettle with enough water to keep it from burning until the su- gar melts and boils, I allow the su- gar to boil, stirring it until it strings from the spoon. I take the straw- berries gently from the vessel they have been drained in, and gently add them to the boiling sugar. This cools the sugar, but they soon boil up again, and I stir them down. When they have thoroughly boiled up again I consid- er them clone and put them in the cans, You see, I make but little dif- ference between preserving and can- ning, with the exception that I give more sugar to the preserves and al- low it to thicken before adding the berries, It is thg surest way of get - I ting them to keep safely that I know of, and to retain their shape and color. Too many housewives cook the straw- berries too long. Sun preserves of strawberries I make this way: After preparing the berries I measure berries and sugar to equal amounts, placing the dry au- gar on the berries, then set them on the back of the stove and let them cook gently until the sugar has slight- ly thickened, Then I spread on shal- low cliches set direct in the sun, and cover with mosquito netting on frames to keep off flies and birds. One day of hot sun should thicken the syrup, leaving the berries n bright red; but if it doesn't, set them back on the stove and. keep merely warm until the sun again shines. A Little Boy and His "Pal." Sometimes one wonders if, after all, these stories about the child who asks so many questions have not another side, The other day coming down in the Fifth avenue 'bus, says a New York writer, a little fellow about eight was asking his mother the usual str'ng of questions about everything under the sun. But to the surprise of the oth- er passengers the usual reply, "0h, my dear, don't ask so .many questions," was not forthcoming. In this case mother was right there. "Mother, why does a little automo- bile rattle more than a big one?" The passengers smiled, but mother replied promptly:— "Because the big car is heavier." "Mother, look at the lady soldier. 'Is she goin' to war?" "No, son; that is a Campfire Girl," Here followed a detailed account of the activities of that organization. "Look, mom, at the officer. Does he ride on horseback?" "No, dear; you can tell by the in- signia on his sleeve that he belongs to the artillery." By this time the passengers were gazing with much interest at the lady who could actually answer a little boy's questions. Then came a poser as the 'bus trundled past a downtown club where the flags of all the nations who are fighting with the Allies were fluttering, "Name 'em, mom," commanded the boy. And mom did—every one, from the flag of Cuba on through to England and France,. A gray haired man gazed thought- fully after the pair as they alighted at Thirty-second street, the youngster still chattering and gazing eagerly into his mother's serene face. "1 wish my kid had a pal like that," he said wistfully to a friend. Recipes Tried and True. Strawberry Shortcake: -4 teaspoon- fuls baking powder, 14 teaspoonful salt, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, ?:y cup butter, % cup milk, 2 cups flour, 1 quart strawberries. Mix flour, bak- ing powder, salt and sugar and sift twice. Work in butter with fingers. Add milk gradually, Put on board, divide into two parts, and roll out to fit the cake tin; using the least pos- sible flour to roll. Put one part on tin, spread lightly with melted butter, then place other part on top. Bake 15 minutes in hot oven. When baked, the two parts will separate easily without cutting. Mash berries slightly, sweeter and place between cakes. A dozen or so whole berries may be placed on top for a decoration. Lemon Sauce for Puddings:—Mix 1 cup sugar and 1 tablespoonful. flour, acid 1% cups boiling water, put on the flee and when it begins to boil add 1 heaping tablespoonful butter, Vs slic- ed lemon and pinch of salt. Cook until it has the consistency of. cream. Serve either hot or cold, Orange Sauce is made by substitut- ing one orange for the lemon. Chocolate sauce is made by adding 2 squares of Baker's unsweetened chocolate to the orange sauce. FARMING IN AUSTRIA. Tillers of the Soil Live in Central Vil- lages, Not in Elwin Houses, " In the egi'ai'ian districts pf Austria, folk do not live in.isolated farm houses but in some village central to .the farms about. Someone, usually; an aged nuttroir, is assigned to set the heuse to rights and prepare the mid- day meal. The others go out, gather the tools, hitch or yoke the sturdy oxen to some wagon for the day, and then ride out to the field, There, men, women and children till or sow or cultivate or reap, according to the season. At noon they stop long enough to dine; then once more the toil until Clark. With nightfall all clamber aboard the open cart, and the oxen, used perhaps to draw the plow, or to do other similar work during the day, are made to draw the laborers back to the village, Someone walks at the head of the oxen, though they know the way, as with steady, unbroken gait, for which the patient animals are noted, they soon cover the long stretch home. The Talmud enumerates rue among the kitchen herbs and regards it as free of tithe as being a plant not cul- tivated in gardens. The name rue occurs only in Luke xi:42. BUTTER PAPER Butter Makers, at our low prices on finest quality I3ilttei' Paper, liliIrisi-1( WHIG P1113. CO, KINGSTON, ONT. Waite for my Illustrated itooklot a'pont-- Fp --Yt'p ,'4'ree !. J. POTTS, 1710 Royal Beni< Oldo1 • TORONTO . flee gin* is they' ergs elle w1 1 s sis on , u Ly and who buys only the bet sugar—because ST. LAWRENCE RED DIAMOND GRAN LATED —admittedly without any superior—will never cause preserves to ferment— as it does not contains the organic, impurities which start fermentation. SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS. To Succeed with your preserves, buy good fruit -it must not be over -ripe: Buy Good Sugar— St. Lawrence Red DiamondGranulated. Sterilize your jars thoroughly. These precautions prevent the usual causes of failure. WE SUGGEST `that the 100 lb. bag of St. Lawrence Red Diamond Extra Gra- nulated, is the best for the Farmers' Home. It ensures full weight of the best sugar and avoids frequent trips to the store. Your dealer' can supply Red Diamond in Coarse Grain, or Medium, or Fine, as you may prefer. Good Fruit deserves Good Sugar—get the ST. LAWRENCE RED DIAMONDEXTRA cRANu TED Sold in many styles and sixes of Refinery Sealed packages. ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINERIES LIMITED, MONTREAL. 4-4-17 t TRAWLER DEFIED U-BOATS. Two Submarines Reported Sunk After Encounters. Stories not hitherto published of lively encounters between British trawlers and German submarines in the North Sea were told by Robert Lowry and others at the recent meet- ing of the Mission to National Sea- men. One trawler, Sir Robert said, became such a terror to U-boats that four of them lay in wait and eventu- ally destroyed it. On one occasion, this trawler armed with two light guns was attacked by a submarine. One shot went through the deck house, another smashed the wheel, "but the skipper went on steering with broken spokes." Another shot carried away the cook's galley, but the trawler's gunner hit the submarine, which then had enough of it and went under. Another unarmed trawler saw a submarine on the North Sea and made a dash for it with the result that the U-boat quickly submerged, "It went underneath," said Sir Robert,"because it could not imagine it possible that a trawler would have the courage to attack if it were not armed." Sir Robert related how they learned of the sinking of two submarines by the bodies of the crew Boating to the surface, although five or six days later a report was circulated from Germany that the boat had returned to port. BIRDS WARN SOLDIERS. They Are First to Distinguish Odor of Gas in the Trenches. One of the favorite characters in the folk -lore of all nations is the kindly -disposed fish, or bird or frog, or rabbit, who heaps benefits upon the hero, coming to his rescue in moments of peril at the very nick of time. This pretty fairy-tale is coming true at present for the heroes of the battle -front in places where trenches have been dug near a forest or or- chard. For the birds overhead give warning of the approach of the noxi- ous fumes ofasphyxiating gas before it is perceptible to the senses of the soldiers. Dr. Cabanes, writing in La Chroni- que Meclicale, says that the birds are aroused from their slumbers before the odor of the gas has been detected in .the trenches, and at once begin to make a confused clamor as they hast- ily take their flight to the rear, thus warning the men behind the guns to don their gas -masks and be ready for the deadly unseen foe. This circum- stance is in accord with the well- known use of a canary to detect foul air in mines, and it seems probable that the superior sensitiveness of birds in this respect is due $o the highly oxygenated condition • of their blood, causing them to suffer from the slightest lack of oxygen. Wood can be preserved from the ravages of insects by the injection of turpentine. • THE L W D- _ FIRE BOMBS WEAPON OF "FRIGHTFULNESS" IN MODERN WARFARE. No Instrument of Present .1 ditY 'More Horrible Than the Destructive incendiary Bomb. The wonders of chemistry have lent descriptive inspiration to, the pen of many a writer. But mankind, to get a notion of the horrors of chemistry, has had to wait for the present war. . The conflict now in progress is mainly, as one might say, a warfare of the chemists. Without their diabolical preclude, ranging all the way from high explosives to poison gasps, it would have few of the characteristicy of ultra -frightfulness that render it Unique in the history of international struggles, But of all the instruments of de- struction used in this war, there is none'mere horrifying than the so-call- ed "incendiary bomb," which sets in- stant fire to whatever it touches and which spreads flame in a manner so tel./111c that three or four such gnav- ity-projoctilss dropped the other day from an aeroplane (undoubtedly Ger- man) burned up the whole of a peace - fel Dutch village in a few minutes. Now, what is the fearsome stuff with which such bombs are loaded? A new chemical compound? Not at all. What they contain is eimply a mixture of two of the moat harmless things in the•world--oxide of iron (which is simply iron rust) and powdered alu- minum, An Infernal Compound. When these two innocent substances are mixed together the result is a com- pound truly infernal in its potentiali- ties for mischief. It is not an explo- sive, but if set on fire, it burns with an intensity that is positively appal- ling. Nothing will put it out; no quantity of water has any effect upon the raging flames it engenders. This is the material used for load- ing incendiary bombs. It is ignited in such projectiles by a mere n'y-fulmin- ate cap that sets off a fuse containing powdered] magnesium—the stuff pho- tographers employ for flashlights. These bombs are thin shells of steel or iron—mere containers for the mix- ture before described. They are so contrived that the_£use is instantly ignited.when they strike. Whereupon the shell is melted by the heat .gener- ated within it and a flood of fiercely burning metal is scattered in all direc- tions. All of this seems rather extraordin- ary, and it is worth explaining. Oxygen has an affinity for iron, readily combining with the latter — which is the reason why iron is liable to rust. This rust is a chemical com- pound of iron and oxygen; in other words, oxide of iron. But oxygen has a much greater af- finity for aluminum. And so, when the two metals are powdered and n'rtx- ed together and heat is applied the oxygen flies out of the iron rust and combines with the aluminum. "Fiery Dragon" of Middle Ages. The process is started in the bomb by the burning magnesium. And then the oxygen passes out of the iron and into the aluminum so rapidly that an enormously high temperature is de- veloped. It runs up to 8,500 or 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit—which means, of course, a tremendous combustion. The mixture of aluminum and iron burns like so much tinder—though such a way of putting it is absurdly feeble. The present war has been conspicu- ously marked by reversions to ancient methods of fighting. In this line the incendiary bomb offers an excellent il- lustration. Itis in effect merely an adaptation of an idea utilized by the Saracens—we should call them Turks nowadays—in their warfare with the Crusaders of the Middle Ages. The instrument of war most dread- ed by the Crusaders, as they found it in the hands of the Turks, v;.-= the in- cendiary bomb—a projectile that flew through the air "like a fiery dragon" as they described it and set fire to whatever it touched. Sometimes it was provided with iron barbs, by which it clung to buildings. This was one of the ways in which the Saracens employed the celebrated "Greek fire"—an inflammable com- pound that is enderstood to have been a mixture of petroleum, saltpeter and pitch. The chief horror of it, from the Crusaders' paint of view, was that it was unquenchable. Mere water had no effect upon it, Hence they were sure that it must be of diabolical ori- gin. It is easily seen that the up -to -elate incendiary bomb is a great improve- ment on its original of the Middle Ages. The modern contrivance is thoroughly scientific, and it does its destructive business with certainty arnd:.'1 dliapatcln:• •_ i :} A paint that is said to be both firekl and water. proof is made from the oil I of a bean grown in.Manchuritu. Plenty of water should be supplied for the calf from its birth, but water should never be mixed with the milk. 2 and 5 lb. Car ons - 10, 20, 50 and 100 lb, Poo From "Ye Olde Sugar Loafe" of grandmother's day, to the sparkling "Extra Granulated" in your own cut -glass bowl, Redpath Sugar has appeared three times daily, for over half a century, on thousands of Canadian tables. "Let %"'edpatlz Sweeten it." One of the great dykes of Ilollandis i 0 miles long, starting far up in the 1 ountry, hear the Yssei • River,; and J ontniuing across the • Hook of Rol- and t and to the sea: It was built in sec- ions, and for seven centuries has held leek the waters from the low -]yin Ir•lda It is forty feet •broad a he hese, 85 feet broad at the top, an �j to height varies from 25 to 85 feet. Mao in Ole grade -n1y the h ghc,; `t: A