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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-10-10, Page 6RIWTON, EDISON iNchltvsiALt� ostasvess ate, R,Wtt, 'SWAM 8%. D8) BEGIN klldikl TODAY Bess Gilbert, Ned "Cornet and iho iat- ten's fiancee, Lenore, klardenwprth, are shipwrecked, They take refuge on an island 000uptd by a brute named Dooms - Weil and his Indian wife The mentor of the Island taelfs Ned and the two girls prisoners and informs • them that he moans 3o make themslave for him. "'NMI and Ned, with but ver time help from Lenore, builda cabin and Doomq- der,. gives them an old stove Wbeu the cabin In 'finished Hese and Noci are soil, on different routes to ado the winter's trnppine', for' their master, • Boss and Ned, With but .very little bele tho squaw .with the housework. Ned ells. Into A dee;r'ureviee and .ideas rescues him. The two •make plans to OsoaPe Trom the island. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVII, When food and warmth had brought complete recovery, Ned tools up with 'Bess no problem of deliverance from the island. He found that for weeks she had been thinking along the sante: line, and like him, she tins as yet fail- ed to hit upon any plan that offered the least chance for success. The sub- ject held them late into the night, They took different trails in the dawn, following the long circle of their trap lines, All the way they ponder- ed on this same problem, conceiving a plan only to reject it because of some unsurmountable obstacle to its suc- cess; dwelling upon the projectevery hour and dreaming about it at night, But Ned was far as ever from a con- clusion when, three days later, he fol- lowed the beach on the way to the hone cabin. He had watched with deadened in- terest the drama of the wild things about him these last clays; but when he was less than a agile from home he had cause to remember it again. To his great amazement he found at the edge of the ice the fresh track 'of one of the large island bears, The sight of the great imprint was a welcome one to Ned, not alone •be- cause the wakening forecasted, per- haps, an early spring, but because he was in immediate need of bear fur. His awn coat was worn; besides, he was planning a suit of clod -proof gar- ments for Lenore, to be used perhaps in their final flight across the ice. And he saw at once that conditions were favorable for trapping •she great creature, Scarcely a quarter of a mile ahead, in a little pass that led through the shore crags down to the beach, Dooms- dorf had left one of his most power- ful bear traps. Ned had seen it many times as he had clambered through on a short cut to the cabin. Because it lay in a natural runway for game— one of the few spots where the shore crags could be easily surmounted—it was at least possible that the huge bear might fall into it, on his return to his lair in the hills. Ned hurried on, and in a few mo- ments had dug out the great trap from its covering of snow, For a moment he actually doubted his power to set it. It was of obsolete type, mighty- springed, and its jaws were of a width forbidden by all laws of trap- ping in civilized lands, yet Ned did not doubt its efficiency. Its mighty irons had rusted; but not even a bear's incalculable might could shat- ter them. This was not to be a bait set, so his success depended upon the skill with which he concealed the trap. First he carefully refilled the exca- vation he hail made in digging out the trap; then he dui, a shallow hole in the snow in the narrowest part of the pass Here he set the trap, util- izing all the power of his mighty muscles, and spread a light covering of snow above. It was a delicate piece of work. Ned hacl no wish for the cruel jaws to snap shut as he wa.s working above them. But his heart was in the ven- ture, for all his hatred of the cruelty of the device; and he covered up his tracks with 'veteran's skill. Then lie quietly withdrew, retracting his steps and following the shore line toward the home cabin, Take Over-weight Modern science says sugar (supplies energy that lets you carry on with less food and safely reduce Weight, ' Wili*LEY'S is Pure chicle, Guitar and ,flavor. Chewing the chicle dis- solves the sugar and re. leases the tlavort in this Pleasant yoy You get needed body fuel and reduce the pount,., vyjP art M1Prf t°?r p OhWiilh04ES'S C;i45 IS UB No. Surely the mighty strength bth that had sot the powerful spring and the akill that covered 'up all traces of his work could succeed at last in freeing him from slavery. Bess had reached the shelter first, and she was particularly relieved' to see Ned's tall form swinging toward her along the shore. Doomsdorf was in a particularly ominous mood to- night. The curious glitter in his sang- netic eyes was more pronounced than she, had ever seen it—catlike in the shadows, steely in the lantern light; and his cruel savagery was just at the surface, ready to be wakened. Worst of all, the gaze he bent toward her was especially eager tonight,,hor- rible to her ass the cold touch of" a rep- tile. Every time she glanced up she found hint regarding her, and he fol- lowed her with his eyes when she moved, Yet she dared not seek shel- ter in the new cabin, for the simple reason that she was afraid Doomsdorf would follow her there. Until Ned came, her defence was solely the pres- ence of Lenore and the squaw. There was no particular warmth in her meeting with Ned. Doomsdorf's eyes were still upon her, and she was careful to keep any hint of the new understanding out of her face and eyes. Ned's weather-beaten counten- ance was as expressionless as Sindy's own. The four of them gathered about the little, rough table, and again the squaw served them, from the shadows. It was a strange picture, there in the lantern light—the imperturbable face of the squaw, always half in shadow; the lurid wild -beast eyes oi- Dooms- dorf gleaming under. his shaggy brows; Lenore's beauty a thing to It was a strange picture. there was, trent hie listeners, but one r' -significant response at first to the evil' t*stl"a�l<.aan. suggestion that he madewith- such inl(1uitp:ls fires in his wild eyes and Stith a strange, suppressed tene in hie voles, fess' expression did not change. It had .already revealed the uttermost depths of dread. Ned still held him- self, cold, now, as a serpent, waiting for his chance. But the squaw paused a sing10 instant in her work, For one breath they failed to her the clatter of her pans. Bet seeminglyyasg'ntliffer- ent, she inmrediately went'fiaiek to her tell, Bess shook her head in desperate appeal, "Wait till morning," she pleaded, . "I'm tired now—" Ned saw by the gathering fury of. their master's face that her refusal would only bring on the crisis, so he leapedswiftly into the breach. "Sure, Bess, let's go to look at them," he said. "I'm anxioua to see 'ein, too-" Doomsdorf whirled to him, and his gaze was as a trial of fire to Ned, Yet the latter did not flinch, For a long second they regarded each other in implacable hatred, and, then Doosnc- dorf s sudden start told that he had Broadcasters How the Australian Ahori, gives, Although Entirely Uncivilized, Have Develop,. ed a Highly Technical and Complicated Method of Communication Through. the. Use of a Remarkable System of Smoke Signals.• In the early days of Australian ex. ploration the Pioneers were greatlY puzzled to know how it was that wherever they went, their arrival had been anticipated by the natives, The riddle remained unsplved until the whito man realized that the abort- gives had a wonderful system of smoke signalof' y which the doings • of the bush were broadcast for hundreds of miles. The study of these smoke signals opens up a story of entrancing inter- est, one which involves the beginning been visited by •inspiration. His leer -.of the •huanan race, The- Australian ing look, of. contempt was almost a' aboriginal is often desribed as one of smile. "'Sure, bone along," he said. "I've got something to say to you, too, To spare Lenore's feelings—we'll go to the other cabin." • Ned was not in the least deceived by this referenec to Lenore. Dooms- dorf had further cause, other than regard for Lenore's sensibilities, for continuing their conversation in the other cabin. What it was Ned did not know, and he dared not think, And he hacl a vague impression that while he and Doomsdorf had waged their battle of eyes, Bess had mysteriously moved from her position. He had left her just at Doonlsdorf's right; when he saw her again she was fully ten feet distant, within a few feet of the cupboards where the squaw kept many of the food supplies, and now was busy with her parka of caribou skin. She led the way out into the clear, icy night. It was one of those still, clear late winter evenings, not so cold as it had been, when the frozen, snow - swept world gave no image of reality to the senses. The snow wastes and the velvet depths of the sky were lurid, flashing with a thousand ever-chang- ing hues from the giant kaleidoscope of the Northern Lights. Moved and held by ibis wonder that never grows MCI to the northern man, Doonsclorf halted them jest without the cabin doors (To be continued.) hold the eyes; and Bess and horrified and fearful at wha. the next moment might bring. Hardly a word was ex- changed from the meal's beginning to its end. Bess tried to talk, so as to divert Doonlsdorf's sinister thoughts, but the words would not cone to her lips. The man seemed eager to finish the meal. As soon as they had moved from to table toward the little stove, and the squaw had begun the work of clearing away the dishes, Doomsdorf halted at Bess' side. For a moment he gazed down at her, a great hand rest- ing on her chair. "You're a pretty little hell -cat," he told her, in curiously muffled tones. "What makes you such a fighter?" She tried to meet his eyes, "I have to be, :n this climate," she answered. "Where would you get your furs—" He uttered one great hoarse syl- lable, as if in the beginning of laugh- ter. "That's not what I mean, and you know it. You'd sooner walk ten miles through the snow than give an inch, wouldn't you?" His hand reach- ed, closing gently upon her arm, and a shiver of repulsion passed over her. "That's a fine little musele—but you don't want to work it off. Why don't you show a little friendship?": The girl looked with difficulty into his great, drawn face. Ned stiffened, wondering if the moment of crisis were at hand at last. Lenore watched appalled, but the native went on about her tasks as if she hadn't heard, "You can't expect—much friend- ship—from a prisoner," Bess told him brokenly. Her face, so white in the yellow lantern light, her trembling lips, moet of all the appeal for mercy in her child's eyes—raised to this beast compared with whom even the North was merciful—wakened surg- ing, desperate anger in Ned. The room turned red before his eyes, his muscles quivered, and he was rapidly reaching that point wherein his self- ccntrol, on which life itself depended, vas jeopardized, 'Yet he must hold Ihimself with an iron hand. He must wait to the last instant of need, Every- -thing ening depended on that, in avoiding the crisis until he had made seine measure of preparation. "Your little friend seems to be get- ting nervous," he remarked easily to Bess, "So tot to disturb him fur- ther, let's you and I go to the new cabin, I've taken soma fine pelts late- ly --I want you to see them. You need a new coat," He seemedto be aware of the gathering suspense,and it thrilled his diseased nerves with exultation. But Chinese Problems A List that Expresses the Na- tional View of Friend- ship "The Chinese have an exalted idea of real friendship, and in spite of their supposed antipathy to foreign- ea5, extend real friendship to people of other races," writes Mr. C. Wil- fred Allan in the Methodist Magazine. "Some of the common proverbs are as follows:— "'A well-known friend is a treas- ure.' 'Friendship must rest on goodness rather than gain.' ".'Unless your friend is your sup- erior, you hall better have none.' "'When friendship is real, men talk without reserve.' "'Mutual confidence is the prop of friendship: 'The best kind of acquaintance is the acquaintance with each other's hearts.' "Faithful friendship is referred to in the following.— "'Without a good 1810000, no lady can know her true appearance; with- out a true friend no gentleman can know his own errors of conduct.' "'Friends are at fault when a man 1s allowed to wear his dress awry.' "'A faithless friend is one who "stands on the dry . shore," that is, makes no attempt to save one from drowning,' - "There are, of course, spurious friendships. "'When you have, and I have Lee money) then we are friends.' "'With wine and good feeding you will have plenty of friends; but in trouble you will have none." - "We sometimes say, 'Birds of a fea- ther flock together,' but the Chinese express it negatively—'Tigers and doer do not stroll together,' and 'The crow doesn't roost with the phoenix.' "To prevent trouble, 'Good friends settle tier accounts at once.' "The friendships of those who may be separated by sea or land is beauti- fully described in tire following, 'The lotus root may be broken bbu its silken fibres remain united,' and those who have seen how the sticky filam- is refuse to fall apart will appreci- ate the simile." the most uncivilized types of surviv- ing humanity, No doubt there is a good deal of truth in this, for his is probably the only race which has sur- vived, uncontaminated by contact with others, from prehistoric tinges, It seems paradoxical that, although the aboriginal's mentality is of a bar- barous order, he should yet have been capable of evolving a thoroughly ef- ficient system of conveying..messages over vast distances by means of smoke signals, whidh are as clear in their meaning to him as a telegraphic =gage is to civilized man, If it were merely a meteor of send- ing up a column of smoke, the abor- iginal's idea of signalling would be merely the obvious method of com- municating his own whereabouts, or the approach of an enemy to o the camp, But his system is much more comprehensive. By its means he can make known almost anything he de- sires, for in reality, it is a crude form of Morse code, and must have been in common the thousands at years be- fore the very rae to which Morse be- longed was evolved. Signals Repeated When an important smoke signal goes up, the limit of its significance, or news value, is not confined within the bounclaries of the territory con- trolled by the tribes sending it, but is repeated by tribes who may have been at constant war with the original senders. Thus it travels on till it reaches districts hundreds of miles away where the senders are entirely unknown, The fact that these smoke signals were well understood by all is .proof that `practically throughout the con- tinent, a common code prevailed, The coastal natives and those in- habiting hilly country, where timber is alentiful, make more frequent use of this method of distributing infor- mation. than do those of central Aus- tralia and the open plains. In no part of Australia are smoke signals more used than in the ranges on the east- ern coast of North Queensland, Away inland on the Diamantina, when the country around that river was a hap- py hunting ground for the aboriginal, the passing of a traveller through the district would be signalled from one vantage I oint to another. It is rather uncanny to know that one's every movement is being watch- ed by unseen eyes, whose owners await an opportunity to become openly hostile. The aboriginal employs different methods of signalling for different oc- casions; the most common is to build a fire of dry material, on which he heaps green boughs, creating a dense column 02 black smoke. If it is neces- sary to continue the message when that has subsided he repeats the operation, Another method, and one which re- quired a good deal of skill, and, at -the same time, displays much ingenuity, involves the selection of a hollow standing tree with a hole at the base, A fire is made in this hole, and when it is well under way, green leaves are thrown on it. The draught created by the lire sends the smoke up and rac- ing through the hollow trunk at a great height. When it is necessary to break the smoke column,ra sheet of bark, or the sldn of a kangaroo, Is thrown momen- tarily over the fire' and as rapidly re- moved, causing the smoke to issue out of the top in puffs, much as it may be seen coming out of the funnel of a railway engine. By these means, and by varying the length of the intervals between the puffs, whip has a special significance, intricate messages are sent. The color also of the smoke bas its meaning and the aboriginal is adept in producing the particular shade he desires, The lighter tints are pro- , J _ ; X11 duced by burning dry leaves and wood, while the heavy black column 18 caused by the combustion of green, resinous boughs, • Like most primitive people, the Australian aboriginal makes his wo- menfolk do the unpleasant jobs. Only when he goes out to battle does he leave his wife behind. When hunting she is the "beast" of burden of her "lord" husband, Also as for smoke signalling, it is she who collects the - material and does all the real work "That's a hot miltyou have 00, connected with it, Sometimes the bog." 1 men do the actual signalling, but they "Yea, got it at a fire sale, y' know,' ' usually leave it to the women, wbo i are equally expert. M!nard's Liniment—Used for 60 years There were wild scenes of excite. 111 1111 Every tiny leaf is storehouse of flavotir 11, °Fre th from the gardens'; 596 anent at., that Particular' spot when the first fleet was sighted and the great Kamilleroy tribe sent up t110 lirst sig- nal notifying other tribes of the event,. which, it a few hours, could easily be repeated to the Queensland border, many thousands of miles north, This was quite close to where Sydney stands to -clay and where the first land- ing of the white men was made. At that time this district was thickly covered with bush, while to -day it is bricks and mortar, anti the great Kamillaroy tribe -that greeted the first fleet on that memorable occasion has since been completely annihilated. Cook St;,;ve Made Rapid Trip In the Lake Jt. Jelin district, of Quebec, 350 'miles north of St, Fell- cien, the manager of u new nine dis- covered to his horror that he had a fine camp but no Book stove to feecl his hungry, new,, crew of refiners, An urgent telephone call was put through to Montreal, and a sturdy camp cook stove was promptly packed and rush- ed to the Canadian National train, which left Montreal at 6,15 p.m, the same night. The train reached. St, Felicien at 7,30 the next morning and the big 746 pound range, in`its orate, was swiftly transferred to a seaplane that lay waltin,g for its cargo. Two hours later, the seaplane with the much -expected range lande on a lake, near the thine, 350 miles north of St, Felicien. It was promptly un- loaded from the plane, set up in the cook -house, and the hungry mining crew had their noonday tueal cooked on tbis range. Eighteen hours from busy Montreal to the remotest part of the Quebec Hinterland! 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SIDS PrOa BAST TO liSE -BETTER RESULTS ,"We've Got The, Shbs And We Still Build More New: Ones Than AD Our Rivals Put Together Wlien the Bremen matte her famous voyago and succeeded in beating all. previous records for the Atlantic crossing, there were people who drools tlletr hoods unci tall cell clerkly: about: iho: bogtnniagg of the and" for British shipping, Then an amazing thing -happened. The veteran Mauretania, which had held' the Atlantic record for, over' twenty years, beat her own previous best by nearly five Hours. Trite, She was ,still four hours behind the Bre- Melt; but the latter, a brand -clew boat, had crossed in ideal weather condi- tions, while the Mauretania had the, weather against her. In these circumstances the Maure- tania's feat is one of the best adver- tisements that British' ship -building could wish for, There has boen ne pre-• vious case of a steamer attaining her highest speed after twenty-two years of work on the high seas, and the fact that the great Onnarder has accom- plished this shows how well and truly her builders dill their job, Lesson That Won't Be Lost The lesson is one that will not be lost on tied shipping world. Indeed, even before' this feat of the Mango tania's, the tonnage of merchant ships under construction in Great. Britain. and Ireland was showing an upward 'trend, At the end of June there }Vere 365 vessels of 100 tons and upwards• underconstruction in British yards, the tonnage being 1,463,906, This was an increase of 37 vessels and 96,631 tons as compared with March and of 93 vessels and 251,286 tons as com- pared with June, 1928. More important still, we are now building just over halo,,, of the' total. tonnage that is under construction in the world's shipbuilding yards. At the end of June the proportion was 51.2 per cent. for Britain and Ireland,. and 48.8 per cent. tor all other coun- tries eombiued. These are encouraging figures for• British shipbuilders, especially in view, of the fact that foreign competi- tion has never been keener or more formidable. But there is no room for pessimism concerning an industry which is doing more business than all its rivals put together. Our Up-to-date Fleet True, we are not yet back to our pre-war position, In the twelve months before the War our share et the world's shipbuilding was 57.2 per cent, of the total tonnage under con- struction. But we are regaining lost ground, and the tonnage we are now building is considerably more than what we had on the slips twenty, years ago, in 1909, when we had noth- ing like the present competition to face, So far as shipping is concerned thin country also maintains her old pre- eminence. The gross tonnage of steamers and motor -ships owned by Great Britain and Ireland at the end of June last was 20,046,000. The only, other country which anything like ap- proached this figure was the United States, with 11,036,000 of sea -going. tonnage. The world's total tonnage was 66,408,000. Of our tonnage 221/2 per cent is less than five years old, as against 31 per cent. in the -United States. We can also claim that 83% per cent. of our tonnage is under twenty years old, as against 71 i er cent, in the case of ves- sels owned abroad. Speed King Coming Along We also seem to own most of the big ships. There are in the world 425 steamers and motor -ships of 10,000 tons and over, and of these -we own no fewer than 287. We can also claim that we own 56.4 per cent, of the big liner tonnage of the world, counting in liners of 15,000 tons and upwards. So, even apart from the fact that the Oceanic, to be built at Belfast for the White Star Line, should meet the, challenge of the Bremen and regain for us the blue Abend of the'Atlantic, we are holding our own, both in ship. building and shipping, But when the Oceanic is completed, it should astonish the world. For much experience has been gained -and immense progress has been made since the Mauretania was designed. And if, in those days, we could turn out a ship capable of so wonderful an effort after the lapse of twenty-two years, what can we do to -day? Saskatoon Star -Phoenix (Lib.): T1iis. country cannot afford to be accused of giving official sanction to the illicit sy traflie in liquor across the boundary, Our national reputation is not im- proved and our friendship with the neighboring country is not strength- ened when Canada is attacked as the ally of law -breakers. The Dominion must bo freed of any suelr imputation. It may be true that the supply of strong drink available in the United States will be scarcely affected by any action this ountry will take. That ie. not Canada's business. Canada's busi- ness is to keep clear of anything like af tacit allian,ce with the rum running fraternity Excited gent, in stand, looking through glasses: ''!They're 0321" -film- barrassed friend; "Don't be .silly, Blot man; the race is won," . Excited gent: "I'm talking' of the heokiee."