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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-08-15, Page 6oni will derive far store satisfaction front SALAOA has you will frosts cheap tea ALAD T E A 'Fresh from the gay eta' BEGIN HERE TODAY. Ned Cornet, his fiancee, Lenore, and Bess; a seamstress, aro survivors of a shipwreck. They land on an island inhabited only by a man named Doonsdorf and his Indian wife, Doomsworf tells them he hes named the island "Hell," and warns Ned and the girls that he is master of the island and that they mast be his will- ing slaves. Ned defies Doomsdorf and the two fight. Neel, however, is no match for the big man's strength and is badly beaten. Second in command is the squaw, and she proves herself a faith- ful watchdog for her master. Bess L the stronger of the two girls. She makes up her mind to be ready for any opportunity to escape. Lenore seems helpless to cope with the situa- tion, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XV.— (Cont'd.) "But I really must get down to es- sentials. It's so long since I've talked to the L atside world that I can't help being garrulous. To begin with—I cane here some years ago, not entire- ly by my own choice. Of course, not even the devil comes to such a hell as this from his own choice. There's always preseare from above." . He paused again, hardly aware of the horrified gaze with which his hear- ers regarded him. A startling change Lad come over him when he spoke again. His eyes locked red as a weasel's in the shadowed room; the tones of his voice were more subdued, yet throbbing with passion. "I remember gray walls, long ago, in Si .eria," he went on slowly and gravely. "I was not much more than a boy, e. student at a great university —and then there were gray walls in a gray, snow -swept land, and gray cells with barred doors, and men standing ever on watch with loaded rifles, and thousands of human cattle in prison garb. It was almost straight west of here, far beyond Bering Sea; and sometimes inspectors would come, styl- ish people like yourselves, except that they were bearded men of Petrograd, and look at us through the bars as at animals in a zoo, but they never interfered with the way things were run! I was an encmy of society, they said—so I became an enemy of so- ciety in reality. Right then I learned a hate for society and a desire to burn out the heart of such weak things as you!" He turned to them, snarling like n Mast. "One day the elinnce carne to escape. While more cowardly men would have hesitated, I pushed through and out. On the way I learned a little lesson —that none of the larger creatures of the wild die as easily as men. I found out that there is nothing more to kill- ing a man that is in your way than killing h caribou I want to eat. I didn't feel any worse about it after- ward. "I had to come across here. I Couldn't forever escaye the hue and Cry that was raised. UItinnately I landed on this island—with Sindy and h few steel traps. "In this climate we can trap almost -they call him "The ?man you can't rattle' Many successful business men regularly use Wrigley's. The act of chewing has a soothing effect. The healthful cleansing action of ',Wrigley's refreshes tete mento-' &ntly stimulates the flow of tine haturaljuices-.steadies the nerves; aids digestion, i , g 111GLE elpgacks 1a 011, ISSUE No. 31—'29 the whole year round. We can start putting them out in a few days more —keep them out clear till June. Every year a ship—the Intrepid, that you've likely heard of—touches here to buy my furs—just one trip a year—and it leaves here supplies of all kinds in exchange. Brut don't take hope from that, Hope is one thing you want to get out of your systems. The captain of the Intrepid and the Japanese crew are the only human beings that know I live here, except yourself—that know there's a human oedupaim on this island. On their yearly visit I'll see to it that none of them get a sight of you. "Once I was used to working all day from dawn to dark with an armed master on guard over me, • It isn't .going to be that way from now on. l'm going to be the armed master. The next few days you're going to spend building yourselves a shack and cutting winter fuel. Then e,,cb of you will have a trap line—a good stiff one, too. Every day ;cull go out and fol- low your line of traps—baiting, skin- ning and fleshing, drying the skins when you get to the cabins. You'll know what it really is to be cold, then; you'll know what work means, too. With you three I expect to triple niy usual season's catch, building • p three times as fast the fortune I need. "All my life I've looked forward tc a chance to give society the same kind of treatment it gave me—and 'Glad to see you're bucking up," he commented, when that fortune is large enough to work with there will be a new dynasty arise in Russia. "When I said to abandon hope I meant it. You have no boat, and I'll give you no chance to make one. The distant, is too great across the ice ever to make it through; besides, you won't be given a chance to try, "Even if your doting fathers should send out a search party, they will overlook this little island. It was just a freak of the current., that ycu land- ed here—I don't see yet why yon weren't blown to Tzar Island, imme- diately east of here. When they find you aren't there, and pick up any other lifeboats from your ship that in all probability landed there, they'll be glad eneugh to turn around and go back. Especially if they tee your lifeboat floating bottom upward in the water]" He paused, seanning their pale, drawn faces. He turned to Ned first, but the latter was too immersed in his own despair ever to return his stare. Lenore didn't raise hes golden head to meet his eyes. Bu: before his gaze over got to her, Bess was on her feet, "Don't be too sure of yourself," she cautioned quickly. He looked with sudden amazement into her kindling eyes. "Men like you have gone in the face of society before. You're not so far up here that the arm of the law MI reach yon." The blotil(1 man smiled into her earn- est fate. "Go on, my dear" he urged. earn- est, got you once, and it'll get you again. And I warn you that if you put one indignity on us, clo one thing you've said—yo,'11 pay For it in the end—just es yos'11 pay for that fiend- ish crime that you committed today," As her eyes met his, straight and unfaltering, the cxprea ,rof con- temptuous amazement died in his face, Presently his interest seemed to Tquicken. It was as if he had seen her for the fir t time, searching eyes testing first on hers, then on her lips, dropping down over her athletic form, and again into her :lye, Ile seemed lost in sinister speculations. CHAPTER XVI, Doomsdorf hn-<1: sellaingly achieved Ms purpose, and his prisoners lay crushed in his hands. A fear iiifieite- ly worse than that of toil or 1 ardship heel evidently killed the fighting spirit in Begs; Lenore had been broken i.y lloomsworf's first words, And now all the structure of Ned's life had Seem- ingly toppled _:bout him, • For in this eminent of unspeakable remorse, he found he could blalne no one' but himself for the disaster. 'Every year mien traversed these deso- late waters to buy furs from the In- dians; he had been in a stauneliboat, and with a little care, a little fore- sight, the joureee could have been made in pereeet safety. It was a man's venture, surely; but he could have carried through if he had met it like a man instead of a weakling. In spite of his own despair, his own bitter hopelessness, he must do what he could to seep hope alive in Lenore and Bess. It was the only chance he had to pay, even in the mast pitiful, slight degree for what he had done to them, He must always try to nialce their lot easier, doing their work when he could, maintaining an atti- tude of cheer, living the lie of hope when hope seemed dead in his 'breast. And that is why, when Doomsdorf looked at hire again, he found him in some way straightened, his eyes more steadfast, his lips in a firme`, stronger line, "Glad to see you're bucking up," he commented lightly. Ned turned soberly. "I am buck- ing up," he answered. "I see now that yo.'ve gone into something you can't get away with. Miss Gilbert was right; in the end you'll find •yourself laid out by the heels." "You think so, eh?" Doomsdorf yawned and stretched his arms. "Just try something—that's all, And since you're feeling so good, I don't see why you shouldn't get to wort, Yon can still put in a fairly good morning. And you"—he turned, with a catlike swiftness that marked so many of his movements toward Bess—"what's your name?" Bess, in her misery, looked at him with dread. "Bess Gilbert," she an- swered quietly. "Bess it will be. Lenore, I think oe can the 'her—and Ned. Good thing to know your first names, since we've got an uncrtain number of years before us. Well, I suggest that all three of you go out and see what you can do abort wood. You'll have to cut some and split it. I've been lazy about laying in a winter store." Much to his amazement, Ned stood erect, pulled down his cap over his brown curls, and buttoned his coat. "P/1 see. what we can do," he answer- ed straightforwardly. "1 have, though, one thing to ask." "Wha% is it—" "That you let the two girls take it easy today—and get warmed throu,;h. If you sent them out now, weakened as they are, it might very easily mean pneumonia and death. It's to your interest to kecp them alive." "It's to my interest, surely but don't rely on that to the extent of showing too much independence. The human body can stand a lot before it gives up the ghost. The human voice can do a lot of screaming. I know, because I've seen. I don't mind run- ning a little risk with human life to get my way, and I know several things, short of actual killing, that go toward enforcing obedience and quell- ing mutiny." Lenore, staring wildly at him, caught her breath in a sob. "You don't mean—" Doomsdorf did not sok at her. He still smiled down at Ned. "You've. never felt a knout, have you, on the naked back?" he asked sweetly. "I found out what they were like in Si'. beria, and with the hope of showing some one else, I took one out in any boot. It's half -killed many n man— but I only know one man that it's completely killed. He was a guard— and I found out just how many blows it takes." The man yawned again. "But your request is granted—so far as Lenore is concerned. 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Now add the macaroni, cheese, mustard, a liberal seasoning of salt and pepper, and mix all well to- gether, Have ready a well -greased fireproof dish, turn the mixture into it, sprinkle the surface with brown breadcrumbs and grated cheese, place a few small pieces of butter on the top, and bake in a quick oven until nicely Crowned. If preferred, the mix- ture may cooked in scallop shells or ramekin cases. Time—About 3/g, of an hour. Sufficient for 1 dish. YORKSHIRE GINGER CAKE Ingredients -1 large or 2 small eggs, 14 pint of cream or less of milk, 1l lb. of butter, 1/4 lb. of castor sugar, 1141 oz. of ground ginger, 1 lb. of flour, salt, Method—Whisl. the egg thor- oughly, add the cream, and beat these together.' Put the mixture into a saucepan, stirring till warm; add the butter, sugar, and ginger, carefully stirring over a very moderate fire. When the butter has melted, stir in the flour, adding salt, and make into a paste (the flour must be fine). 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Qt means quick, complete relief to millions of men and women who use it every year. And it does not 'depress the heart. SPIRIN Appitln 1s a Treaeivark neg!Slered;la 00000e Who is a Doctor? ' In your hands we place our 'seelah and individual health. You, and you alone may use the .ballpwed title, "Doctor of Medicine", and by virtue, of that title, heal the sick and pre. serve the well, Perhaps the best answer to that question, is this, imagine, if. you none the condition that would exist if the• medical profession were not so re cognized, Suppose that any man, who had the laudable ambition to heal his fellow -men of 'their ills --could without any supervision nail himself' "Bettor" and begin Cutting people. up and, dosing then with potations of his own concoction. What an epid-• eniic of horrible deaths there, would be. How quickly the public's present, profound respect for the title "Doc- tor," would be changed to the deepest distrust! To beeome a medical student, one. mn'rst first pass his honor matricula- tion. That takes five years. After that, he must, spend another six years at a, recognized medical school. It is hard to adequately suggest, in. a sketchy article of this nature, the vast scope of a modern medical cur - Montero. Tho .neophyte must learn physics,, chemistry, biology, physio- logy, pharmacology, anatomy, his- tology (involving a nunderstaiding• of the microscopic structure Of the, body.) F'roni these basic studies, ail of which, where they touch the human ebing, deal merely with the nomas],. the student then proceeds to patho- logy, the study of sickness, in its dif- ferent aspects, pathological chemis- try, bacteriology and immunology, medioine and surgery in all their branches, preventive medicine hygi- ene. It is still harder, for the reader 'to• appreciate the vast historical back-: ground, the great wealth and n'ice- ness of meaning of all of those, terms; of the tremendous accumulation of' knowledge that a wouic1 be doctor must. painstakingly "acquh'e. And'. when he has spent six long years ac- quiring it, it is then customary for him to a.pend one or..nore often two. years as an interne in a hospital. So. that a youth of nineteen who finishes• his honor metric and starts to "go. through for a doctor" knows that he' will be about 28 before he starts earning anything, And even then, it will take bin another five years be- fore lie begins to ,earn more than- enough hanenough for the ordinary necessities. of of life. Which means that a doctor doesn't. begin to earn anything to speak of,, as a rule, till he is 'thirty -three - In the meantime, he has spent from, six to eight years learning his pro- fession, be has had to master all the, old, as well as all the new branches of medicine, be has passed a number of stiff examinations—made extra. stiff in order to keep an already crowded profession from becoming over -crowded. (And from this extra- ordinary severity of examination, the, general publib is. obviously the great- est gainer, since only the more in- telligent, reliable students succeed in•. passing) He has spent an absolute minimum. 02 31,000 a year for see years, includ- ing 4150 for tuition, $100 for books. and equipment, which loaves very ltt- tle:for room, board, clothing and ino cidentals, to say nothing of amuse- ments. But in passing through those years• of test and trial and hard work, Ire• has become legitimate heir to all .the tested medical knowledge that man- kind has ever acquired and saved. The wisdom of long -dead leeches has. been poured into him, and he has: become greater than . any of them-- greater hem—greater by virtue of he's greater know]- edge, a scientist,' able to work by de- grees from the known to the unknown And for the privileges that society accords the physician it expects, and is almost invariably accorded, a ten- fold return . There is no other divi- sion of mankind, with the possible ex- ception of clergymen, that gives: away, gratis, more of its time, energy and knowledge than do the doctors. A doctor does an enormous amount of work for which he is not paid. Common humanity demands that he answer any serious Call . made upon him, at any hour of the day or night, even if he knows that the patient cannot pay. In a way this is unjust. No one expects the keeper of a gro- cery store to give away his goods, even though there may be people• starving for lack of them. Yet a doc- tor is expeoted to •do just that -and in most cases he roes. In making this concession to the race generally, the doctor becomes the greatest giver of charity in the community. "Noblesse -oblige" is to him no idle elegan tphrase and it is indisputable that the profession bears, collectively, a great burden of heal- ing the indigent, which belongs' right- ly to the state, lust, as the feeding of the starving is beeonin recogniz- ed as a state responsibility. And so, within the limitations of this short article, I nave endeavored to establish the following facts: that every doctor belongs to a profession whose object above all other things is to heal the sick and to prevent sick- ness; a profession tb,at lee constant- ly Improving itself, a profession that has produced men like Koch, Jenner, and aeteur, whose discoveries have saved the lives of hundreds of thongs+ ands, and will save unomn himndreds Of minions, a profession whose pride is in efficiency, and whose recon] is one of service that has been to • larger degree unselfish than that of any other mundane calling.