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••FOURTEENTH EPISODE
The Sky Monsters
The mounted patrol, guarding the
ou cents of the city in its thinly popu-
lated sections,
opu-lated,sections, had begun their nightly
vigil wthout prospect of unusual acl-
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nor's islands had ordered the power
company to shut off every electric
light, from Columbue Circle to the
Battery well. In a twinkling the or-
der had been obeyed.
The hours of terror that foul red
r
bite
o t
the blinking out of New Y rl gr° w
lights." will be a topic of onversa-
tion and sensational comment as long.
as one soul shall live, who experienced
the unprecedented sensation and eon-
ditioris,
While the .panic-stricken crowds h
the street watched the sky for the
•threatened peril that might come, Pa-
tricia Montes, in her biplane, was
speeding .toward New York from the
aviation field' on Long Island.
As the airship, freighted with de-
structive bombs sailed down toward
the bay, piercing the sky above the
center of Manhattan island, the watch-
ers found relief in the fact that no-
thing any more serious than giving
fright to the multitudes had marked
the journey of the air -raiders thus
far, But the satisfaction that came
to the crowds in the theatre district
was not shared by men who owned
property further downtown.
When the crowds in Union square
saw the great airship appoaching
from the north, there was a cry of
alarm when someone discovered still
It w^.s a warm summer evening, another nipmonster heading toward
with very little moonlight. Far to the New York from Long Island. One
south. the busy night life of New brilliant light flashed from Pat's bi-
y the anarchists' airship was
York. was moving in joyous streams plane;
under the bright lights of the theat- tibiae ,with rolvs,of glaring shafts.
tical district. Usually. O'Donovan, Pat directed file passage of eller bi-
the mounted policeman, who. had pe- plane, so that she kept far, above the
troled the same sections for years, anarchists' craft as it moved down the
• might as well have been riding island, Coming close to the financial
through the open country for all the district, Pat had maneuvered her plane
excitement that came his way, so that she was directly abova the air -
But to -night the Irishman searched ship—and then she decided to act,
the sky, trying to discover the cause of Very deliberately she hoisted an ex -
the strange eptrusion upon the custom- plosive bomb .over the side of her bi-
ary stillness of the night. Suddenly •plane, having guided her craft until it
there appeared a string of lights, high eyes directly above the airship. When
in the heavens, at first faintly discern- she dropped the ,.)omb she scored a hit,
ihle but growing rapidly brighter. first off.
Then came a louder "hum," increas The airship lurched and swung from
ing in volumn, until, as it approached its course. Another bomb dropped
high above the ground, the policeman from Pat's biplane, likewise register -
at last concluded that some strange ed, and with joee the girl observed the
ship of the air was cruising south, in giant aircraft change its course and
the quiet night, bound for the city still head for the Brooklyn side of East
several miles away. - river.
O'Donovan forgot the sweetness of Too busy in saving their own bacon,
his pipe, as he suddenly wheeled his the anarchists had not even attem ted
horse and dashed away for the near- to bomb the city below them. They
est patrol box. The airship was now were just arriving at the point in their
directly overhead, humming along to- flight when they expected to begin
ward New -York at an even speed that destructive work, but Pate attack
might send it to the heart' of 'town completely upset their plans.
within an hour. With .their own lives at stake, the
"It's O'Donovan," said the 'patrol-' anarchists centered all their efforts in
man over the police phone. "'Look. the hope of making a safe landing.
above you at the airship. It's a ling. From its great height the airship be -
one, going south." � gan to descend in zig-zag fashion, sail -
The desk• sergeant in O'Donovan's,ing over Brooklyn, toward the open
Precinct sent an officer to watch for fields in the suburbs.
the dirigible, and passed the word As Pat's was skimming above Wil -
along to the other station houses far- liamsburg, on her way back to the
they south. In this way the approach hanger whence she had started, she
of the airship, manned by anarchists had the satisfaction of watching the
and bent on a mission of destruction, anarchists' airship as it slowly de -
was made known to every police sta- scended. When., •, the helpless craft
tion in the city. neared the ><rolend, Pat observed the
And as a precautionary measure the wreck, as it hung momentarily in
department headquarters had called flames, and then crumpled up—falling
up Governor's island and the forts in a burning mass to the ground,
down• the bay, warning the .officers in •' Satisfied in having accomplished her
command that:New .Yotle was having purpose in saving the city from an at-
a vieitor"'in the sky, who' looked sus- tack, Pat sped through the air to the
picious, but not, of necessity, danger- aviation field and safely descended.
ous to the welfare of the city. Her adventure had taken her less than
With the speed that generally at- an hour, and her mission had been ful-
tends the spread of sensational news, filled with marvelous success.
the approaching dirigible was herald- In great "scare -heads" she read in
ed by means of the mouth-to-mouth the papers, next morning, ofher ex -
telegraph, Citizens began thronging ploits. The sensational events that
the public squares and thoroughfares followed the airship's passage down
long before the airship arrived at a the length of Manhattan island, occu-
point in the sky above the center of pied the front pages of the papers—
the city. but it had been found impossible, by
The cafes and restaurants were a- the newspaper men, to identify the
fame with excitement. pilot of the attacking aircraft, .
Eagerly, the crowds waited and Later issues of the afternoon papers
watched, as thousands of eyes scanned carried stories of the biplane thatched
the sky while becks grew distressing- left the aviation field on Lond Island
ly stiff from the unaccustomed strain at about the time to account for the
of bending backward. Wild rumors attack, but the strictest investigation
flashed through the streets, passing had not uncovered the name of the
from man tri man, growing in circum- pilot. There was only one item that
stantial detail with every repetition, led to the slightest hope of identify -
As the giant skysluip passed over ing the aeronaut—a purple mask had
block after block of the northern dis- been found tied to the framehvork of
triet of New York, without.creatingthe. biplane that had been used at the
anything more than intense excite- time.
anent, the residents whro felt that they To Phil Kelly the identity of the
had joyous eseeped
celebrating dire thalrmity,le
grew
pilot was clear. She had "put .one
Lone. over"r- on him again, and the great de -
even
The "Great White Way" had never ihotgli helrejoiced n thersuccess that
experienced such thrills. had attended the daring girl's adven-
Just as excitement in the heart of taro
the city was at its most intense pitch, •"She's a wonder, for sure," Kelly
and thousands stood in terror of some said to his assistant, when he had
unaccountable disaster, an unprece- finished reading the newspaper ac -
dented thing happened—every light in
street or buildieg *as snuffed out.
The "Tenderloin,' for the first time
in the history of New York, was in
utter darkniees.
Police headquarters, acting upon ad-
vice from the commandant at Gover-
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count of New York's evening ofterror,
Very naturally the sensational af-
fair attracted the attention of govern-
ment officials and orders came from
Washington that the matter must be
thoioughly investigated, When Kelly
heard that the subject of the air raid
had been taken up'through secret
Ofrvice ageneies,'he hastened to the
headquarters and volunteered what
little information he had on the sub-
joek IV felt ill duty bound to do so,
His information amounted to nettle,
ingmore than suspicion! but when his
report had been transmitted to Wash-,
ington the orders came back that the,
Purple Mask, must be apprehended,
at all hazards. The authorities, of;
course, had not understood pat's ex-
ploits in foiling the anarchists, and'
what Kelly had 'told them simply
eorved to center their suspicious of
roan the Queen 0
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UndorWorl d,
Several of the best secret service op-
eratives directed by the 'Sphinx, began
shadowing The House of Mystery, at
thee, Their pnresence on the ground
was immediately transmitted to Pat,
and her craving for adventure led her
into it daring oxparienent.
Before the seoret service men had
beefs on the jolt' an hour, Pat ventured
forth in hop Apache costume for the
gnrpose of testing for• leeesolf, their
abilities, When e appeared ainang
the trees her presence was obsorved
by the government operative , and
they at once begun to surround her,
lit" 4 i eleee4 upon the
rift o Ask • until the tilted et
yee liteen 00 Wader Finally`, the
r16 b the seei$t sevoe boned plao
. iratki open g s;ionidor, as izho
tet~Ked .from the slifl'bbery'andSAW :
N,,,
r bio ar gly'prisoner,'Purple Meek,
SV`e i*W'e hceen sent'. tohest yoo f9b'
ldantipyaztsl : the Byes o' .thou,.and ,in
the abra do Now Yoe e"
Pact' too het West gep6 naturedly'
enough, serifingg'iyremda}'tciregf
"I came out for a stroll just to make
your job osier t"
"Much oblige& for your thoughtful,.
sees," said the officer, "but we would
elves eeabbod you enyluove, sooner or
While Tho affieors and their prisoner
ware exchanging this badinage, they
had been walking, among the tveet to-
ward the path that led out of the
grounds of the House of l4lyete.•y, into
the ttreet,
Suddenly, from behind a dense
growth of ehiiiibbery, a half dozen of
Pelle men pounced upon the officers
and engaged them in a vicious fight,
In the first rush Deb slipped out of her
cape, leaving it in the hands of her
would-be captor and fled epooclily
from the scene.
(To be continued,) ,a1
NEW HART HOUSE
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Organized to Keep the Crippled Tom -
!toles Working at the "Cure -
Machines."
A Voluntary Workers Corps, made
up of young Toronto women who wish
to do their bit in aiding the recovery
of the boys who have been disabled
in service overseas, has been formed
by Dr. E, A. Bott, head of the Pune-,
tional re-education work being carried
on by the Military Hospitals' Commis -1
sion at Hart House, Toronto,
These young women will be 'taught'
the use of special corrective machines,I
and when they have been trained, will
be given the charge of patients who'
must be encouraged to keep at the'
apparatus work as part of their tree - -
ment,
There are numerous machines at
Hart House, scientific wonder -workers
in performance, but so simple in ap-
pearance as to deceive the man who
associates scientific apparatus with
finely polished steel and, delicate
springs.
Slow But Sure.
Men who have been discharged by
the surgeons are sent here to limber
up stiffened joints, to restore muscles
and put their limbs back into work-
ing shape when surgery has done all
that it .can to restore them.
Long practice at these machines is
required and the patient's interest is
apt to lag and his courage fail before
recovery is complete unless someone
works with him. It is to do this sort
of work than the voluntary workers
have been enlisted.
Cheerfulness All Important.
The therapeutic yahoo of a cheerful
spirit is recognized in every hospital,
but nowhere is •it made to count more
than in the curative workshop at Hart
House where a man's own endeavors
are vitally important to his recovery.
There are at present over sixty
men "receiving treatment at the insti-
tution. The personnel of the enroll-
ment is constantly changing, of course,
as cured cases are dismissed and new
men come for treatment.
The work is largely individual in
the apparatus room, but in the gym-
nasium where the cases of flat foot,
etc., are treated, there are curative
games, and class work for men with
afflictions in common.
Special Game Rooms.
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A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD.' HOLD.' SC?:ENCE COMPLETE 1N
TWENTY-IlIVV. LESSONS.
Lessen XVI, hildren'e Food,
?Pheaby who must dep
end uPon hers have no place In the email child's
the bottle to eupply nutriment too1,{,,,
maintain life needs good care and et- Good home-made bread and pure
tonna., milk contain the neoeseury o1emeni:s FEEDING
�[j"i GE NY
`Pkat this boby may thrive, the that are of vital importanoo for the . I( Lyhhj� P Tf
mother should kava the physician successful growth during childhood,
Prescribe 41 formula that will agree That the bread contain al the neons-
with the child, Cleanliness is a bIg story elements of the wheat ii; should BY CARD
footer. It is impossible to iteop at- be made from whole whew meal or
tlo bodies clothing and the utensils flour, This gives the child the value -
In' which hood is made, too clean. Re j?blo vltaminos that are contained to
member that surgical cleanliness is the the wheat, The outer covering of the
price of freedom from much of baby gram contains valuable mateelai for
illnesses, (bone and teeth structure.
Flies, dirt impure milk and in- Know the source of your milk sup -
/5=1411,y conditions are rho enemies of under
which it le cared for befoalso the re its reaches
you. Upon receiving milk, if it Is
not already pasteurized, then paste-
urize it at once, then cool and, store
in a place whore it will be free from
all contamination. Remember that
milk will spoil veryuickly if it is
cl
kept in acaroless or
dirty manner,
or
if it is permitted to stand in a heel-
ed kitchen. Physicans well tell you
that thousands of babies die each year
because of the careless manner in
which milk fed to them is handled.
Always wash if possible, under
running water, .the top of the milk
bottle or jar, before opening it. When
once the bottle is open turn a jelly
glass down upon the top of the bot-;
tie. This -forms a sanitary covering'
that can quickly be removed
Do not give small children candy.
Large quantities of sugar overheat.
the blood stream and upset the diges-'
tion. It is possitively criminal to'
give pennies to the children and allow
them to buy cheap candies of unknown
origin. If candy is necessary, make
it at home and be assured of its
purity,
Plenty of cool drinking water
should be given to •the children, even
the smallest baby may be given a'tea-
spoonful oa water three or four times
during the day, Do not give small chil-
dren ice water; for safety's sake the
water should be boiled and cooled.
childhood.
The baby approaching ono year old
must begin to oat solid foods. It is
at this period that the mother must
use care and fore -thought. The de-
licate digestive organs• are easily dis-
turbed. It must be realized that the
child should be furnished with =sods
that will provide growth of bone, mus -
clot and tissues and also furnish it
with sufficient energy to exercise its
body. ,
For growth protein iso necessary.
This is found in milk, eggs and cereals
forthe small child; and in meat, fish,
peas, beans and lentils, in addition to
the above montioued foods, for older
children. Baby receives his energy
from cereals bread and butter and
milk. The fiats in the milk, butter
and yolk of egg also act as energy-
giving foods. The juice of an orange
may be given in small amounts to the
child ' under one year of age, with
beneficial results, The value of
orange juice in the child's diet is of
a laxative nature. The small child
from one to three years may have the
pulp of a baked apple and prunes in
additio., to the orange juice.
Children from three to six years of
age may have cereals, milk, eggs, fine-
ly chopped meats, fish boiled and bak-
ed, fresh vegetables and fruits. Corn,
beans, tomatoes, cabbage and cucum-
Such games as squash racquets, bas-
ket ball, tether tennis, and ping pong
have a distinct therapeutic value for
the treatment of arm and leg cases,
and special rooms are provided for
each. In these several men work to-
gether and competition keeps alive the
enthusiasm for which a man working
alone needs the stimulating interest
from an assistant.
A delightful friendship is that which
exists between the Royal House of
Britainand the ill-starred Empress
Eugenie. Queen Victoria was very
fond of the Empress, and very recent-
ly the King and Princess Mary paid
her an intimate little visit.
COUNTERFEITS IN NATURE.
Queer Imitations Found in Plants and
Animals. ,
The seed pods of the common snap-
dragon, according to Doctor Rashford
Dean, bear a most curious resemb-
lance to mummied human heads in
miniature. As they arrange themselves
on the stalks of the plant they look
like the "poles of skulls" which in
countries where head-hunting is a
popular field sport are set up in front
of houses as trophy memorials,
Not only is the color of the seed
pods like thatpf mummied heads, but
the faces are imitated, oven (to the
imaginative eye) including such de-
tails as dried portions of the scalp,
eyelids and lips.
Another odd imitation in nature is
exhibited by the sphenoid bone at the
base of a rabbit's skull. It is shaped
exactly like the head of a fox—the
rabbit's own arch enemy. Fox hunt-
ers in England commonly have this
little bone mounted on a scarfpin as
an emblem of their favarite sport.
Squash seeds, when dried (says Doc-
tor Bean), contract in such a way as
to present odd-looking surface mark-
ings that resemble oriental. characters.
Absurd though it may seam, many
learned orientalists have made earnest
endeavors to read them in the hope
that they might reveal some hidden
secret of nature.
AGELESS MIND.
Call him not old, whose visionary
brain
Holds o'er the past its undivided
reign,
For him in vain the envious seasons
roll,
Who bears eternal Summer in his
soul;
If yet the minstrel's song, the poet's
lay,
Spring with her birds, or children
with their play,
Or maiden's smile, or heavenly dream
of art,
Stir the few life -drops creeping round
his heart,
Turn to the record when his years are
told,
Count his gray hairs—they cannot
make him old!
—0. Wendell Holmes.
Music Asa Qaulification,
A musical friend is a friend indeed.
One sofrequently hears it said that
some young woman has a host of
friends because of her music or that a
certain young man is tremendously
popular on account of his ability to
play the piano well. It is obvious
that music helps you Make friends.
It is also true that you appreciate
having friends who are musical,
Not long since, a mother who had
always been careful about her chil-
dren's choice of companions, was plan-
ning in a judicious way to encourage
her son in becoming intimate with
some other young folks because they
were musical. Going farther and
into a more serious' realm, when a
young man reaches the stage when he
feels he can assume the responsibili-
ties of taking unto himself a wife, he
would do well not to be forgetful of
the fact that Arcady is tweeter if the
woman of his choice has had the ad-
vantages of at least some musical
education, And the other way around,
when a young woman is about to say
"Yes" to the man of her choice, that
choice Will Mean all ho more to their
enjoynient of life if ho is musical,
Young people, who have musical.
parents will, in their years of mature
judgment, never cease to thank Provi-
dence for that fact, An employer of
a fairly large office staff is noted for.
asking evory male applicant fel' a
position two questions—one is a linen••
cial one, the other—are you fond of
music?
One Lesson a Week Habit.
It is no exaggeration to say that
most of the failures in musical edu-
cation aro traceable to two causes:
Incompetent instructors and the per-
nicious Canadian habit of one lesson a
week. As a rule the pupil taking
one le550p a week makes the same
advancement in a year as the one
taking two lessons will make in a
term, and in the course of four years
it is discouraging to find that he has
accomplished only what Wright have
been done, in one.
When lesson days come but once a
week, say on Thursday, pupils tut
too apt to neglect practising mobil the
following Tuesday, but when there
are two lessons to got, there is no time
to play pookey, Arid the pupil en•
joys the two lessons, after getting
usecl to it, because there is more fre-
quent change' and the interest is kepb
up. Imagine what slow progress a
school boy or girl would snake in
arithmetic or reading who attended
school but once a week!
There is every reason, toe a platter
of economy of both time and money
(and I might add, of energy and pa-
tience on the part of both teacher and
pupil), to banish from this soil the
baneful, deadly, ono lesson a week,
and thus, ho a largo measure givo
Canadian pupils an equal opportunity
with those in Europe. "The adven-
tages of European studei" consists
chiefly in thug :frequency of inspira-
tion, as exhibited and radiated to the
pupil by the gonias of the teacher,
GAVE LIFE FOR TEN OTHERS.
Victoria Cross Awarded to Soldier
Who Nursed Exploding Bomb.
.A thrilling story of self-sacrifice is
recorded in the London Gazette an-
nouncement' of the award of the Al-
bert Medal of the First Class to
Lance -Corp, Charles Henry Ander-
son, late of the 114th Battalion of
the London Regiment, who lost his
life in France in November last. The
official narrative is as follows:
On Nov. 28, 1916, Lance -Corp. An-
derson was in a hut in France with
eleven other men, when, accidentally,
the safety pin Was withdrawn from a
bomb. In the semi -darkness he shout-
ed a warning to the men, rushed to the
door, and endeavored to open it so as
to throw the bomb into a field.
Failing to do this, when he judged
that the five seconds during which
the fuse was tinted to burn had
elapsed, he held the bomb as close to
his body as possible with both hands
in order to screen the other men in
the hut.
Anderson' himself and 'one other
man were mortally wounded by the
explosion, and, five men were injured.
The remaining five escaped unhurt.
Anderson sacrificed his life 'to save
his comrades
AMERICAN OBSERVER TELLS OF
CONDITIONS.
Workman Still Goes to' Iris Bench
With a Full Dinner Pail But
e Children' Are' Suffering.
Leather is so expensive in Germany
that only the upper class burger will
•
l
real eath u
a
shoes this
bio to have be a
winter and starch is twenty marks a
pound. But in spite of all this no
German will go to work with an empty
dinner pail.
The German Food Commission is
the most uncanny thing in all the
world. Like magic it produces a sub-
stitute for any article that is scarce,
says an American newspaper woman
who returned from Germany three
months ago. The commission has it
figured so that the nourishment shall
be divided proportionately each week,
and it also has figured out just what
each person shall receive, for every-
body does not receive the same amount
of food. For instance, a man or wo-
man that does manual labor gets more
bread than a man or woman the -0
works in an office, Persons more than
sixty years get more cereals, and the'
ill get more butter and eggs. These'
persons get what they call "Zusats"
cards, besides their regular cards.
Every one in Germany is getting
thin, but still the German dieting sys-
tem proves that much wornout state-
ment that "we eat too much," for nine
out of every ten Germans have never
been so well in their lives as they have
been since the cards have been intro-
duced, You feel spry, active and
energetic and jhe annoyance rs ment-
al rather than physical, for one is
constantly thinking of things to eat.
Growing Children Are Suffering.
The ones that are really hurt by the
blockade are the growing children and
the thing that they lack and long for
is sweets. Before the war one never
realized what an important role candy
played in the game of life. The Food
Commission recognizes this and very
often chocolate and puddings are pro-
vided for on the cards of children un-
der sixteen years of age.
While the food prices have been
soaring ail over the world the prices
in Germany are almost down to nor-
mal level, for everything that you buy
on the cards is extremely cheap and
everything that'ia any good is sold on
the cards. Everything that is sold
"ohne Karts," or without a card, is
either no good or so expensive that
the ordinary person cannot afford to
buy.
The food situation is not the same
all over Germany. In Berlin, Dres-
den, Hamburg and Leipzig they have
loos than in othee pieces. Bavaria,
the Rhino country and East Prussia
are far better off, and in some of the
s;Wall villages they .do not even have
a bread card.
The police see that every one gets.
his share of food. If a woman holds
a servant girl's rations from her the
girl can report it to the epoliee, and the
woman is fined. In a boarding house
when the potatoes are passed around
the.landlady tells you whether you can
take two or three potatoes, or one big
potato and one small one. The food
conditione are not alwayrt comfortable,
but the food 'commission believes it
d off
tlih s divided so
has the h 1 they
g
w y
ill last for ears.
MILLIONS STILL BURNING UP.
Total Losses From Preventable Fires
Is Appalling.
Even the fire losses for the ' first
eight months of 1917 in Canada and
the United States tell 'a story of the,
war, since the total of 8180,800,000,
as compared with $111,600,000 in 1915,
represents the losses in oil and muni-
tion works, here and in the United
States, not necessarily of an 000 -
dental character, At the same time
the total figures aro appalling and
the amount in round figures repre-
sents a property waste beyond all
reason. It is almost criminal for Au-
gust, 1917, to show losses of $21,-
750,000, as compared with 810,760,000
for the same month 1916, since, as
all know, oven allowing for war plots,
moat of these losses are clue to pre-
ventable causes. We pay this enorm-
ous amount every year as a tribute to
the ,national slouchiness in building
construction and to a gross careless-
ness in the handling_ of properties,
• which is one of our besetting sins, in
which we can take no pride, Now
that national slouchiness is being uni-
versally condemned, •it is about tiros
that all forces joined together to re-
move the stigma of this criminal care-
lessness, which burns up its millions
every year, raises insurance risks and
rates and forces on all Berta of sec-
ondary losses without rhyme or rea-
son.
Napoleon's Mistake.
1 Napoleon was a master of flaming
sentences. as well as of the science of
war, This sentiment, uttered at St.
Helena, and quoted by James M,
� Beck in an article on the war, inight
bd emphatically echoed by the allies ��_
• to -day: "I made the mistake of -my ^---
• career, when I load the opportunity,
that I did riot remove the Hohenzol-
lerns from the throne of Prussia. As
long as this house reigns and until the
red cap of liberty is erected in Ger-
many, there will be no peace in En -
rope."
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