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The Seaforth News, 1919-07-31, Page 2THE FIGURE IN THE FOREGROUND The Captain's Other Self Is Invisible to All But One Man. To the Corporal It Brings a Crisis When Courage Demands Mutiny. By DOUGLAS DOLD, I. men into an annihilation as horribly It had come over Chesney again! silly as it was cataclysmically shock - Corporal John Itra•dison understood ing. in a flash what had happened. The As Chesney, his handsome gray o'ld, terrible menace, so long believed ayes glitto:lag, his whole a;ttsto- exorcised had sprung alit of oblivion, critic, dominant figure quivering with p g exaltation, shouted his wild purpose had again gripped Chesney—now Cap - at Madison, the small, stocky, pea ily tain Daniel Chesney of the engineer featured corporal instantly, vividly corps. �� "Somewhere France." knew .,the ono way out—even though It was Somewhere i `n he gllinpsed that toward them three. The sun flawed sweetly down on a of Chesney's men were running— brook which should have flashed back The one way out! its exquisite silver. But the once clear Not,for himself. Chesney had stream' was churned to yellow opaque ordered him i a message,Chesty instant andthe ochre was colored, here life-saving connnand that would carry and there, iby weaving currents of Madison himself into safety. But ugly red. meanwhile the men- The brook had formerly flowed joy- For them—the one weal out— ously over' white pebbles. Now bodies What it meant for Madison himself, of dead men choked it. Sometimes it court-martial, the stigma of shame, clambered over these. Sometimes it the climax of a traitor's death flashed wriggled under them. clearly, terribly before the corporal. Across it the shells whined and There was no lame for explanations, screeched. Far above it, in the blue no time for anything except that one air, the falcons of war pursued their way -alp the harder for `Madison to complex flights, or fought cloud duels take because the corporal was trained in which•the vanquished fell wrapped through ingrained discipline to respect in a blazing death, vividly, in any officer, the power of Everywhere the earth and sky martial authority. 1 echoed, in tortured eddies, to the hel- Not a damnatory circumstance fish sounds of war. would be Melting against Madison Bute` Corporal Madison heard no- himself these very soldiers—running thing of them consciously. His strain- toward them-•-Cbesney's hate of Medi- ci ears .were tensed on Captain Ches.- son— ney's frightful words, Chesney's II. serc•aming boast of the order he was Three astounded privates arrived about to give. just in time to see their brilliant, dis- That order! It meant success for tinguished captain go down under a the enemy. It meant horror and ruin smashing blow from the mutinous, for Chesney's own men. murderous fist of Corporal Madison. Staring with piercing, understand- As Private Gray said later: ing blue eyes at his captain, Madison "The devil himself couldn't have knew that Chesney was not Chesney acted any quicker! Down- goes the any longer; he was the marl man he captain like a stock -yard's steer under bad been years before in the private the axe! And while we were gapin', sanatorium where his father had Corporal Madison wheels like iightnin', secretly put him for cure. Out of it jump,: past us like a panther, puts the Chesney had come apparently men -1 neck of wood between him an' us— tally sound, and had rushed eagerly an' is clean gone!" into an army career. . ±. But Madison's run was a brief one;. He and Madison came from the it carried him to Lieutenant Henley, same small Ontario town. There ! where he saluted and reported briefly: Mad,:son was not in Chesney's set.: "Captain Chesney's down, sir. What The Chesneys were of an old, cynically, are your orders?" arrogant stock. Madison had morel Five minutes later the company was than once, when encountering Chesney making its terrible way, bent on the socially, fait his blood boil over the special detail, upon whose successful young aristocrat's supercilious toler-' completion depended the precarious since. At last the despised civilian safety of the whole salient. And suc- had been tried too far. There had cess, so bloodily toiled for, crowned ensued a fist fight in which Chesney their efforts. had been soundly "licked" by the so- When after nightfall a lull in the tial outsider. fighting followed, since even war must Naturally then, when Madison take grim breath, the Red Cross bear - found himself Corporal aison in ars broughtught in their dead and wounded. the world war, with Chesney as his Among these was a man neither superior officer, the victor in the by- dead nor wounded, though he was un - gone encounter was not an:Prised to conscious and breathing thickly the find himself keenly di ti'.:ed by the popular, diplomatic Daniel Chesney, captain. distinguished not only as a soldier, but Chesney never dreamed, however,known as a charming dinner guest, that the corporal knew every detail cosmopolitan and unusually well read. of Chesney's accredited cure at the On the heels of Ms arrival came a sanatorium. But one of the attend- lieutenant to General L's tent. With ants there had been a man who mar- the !lieutenant were three infuriated ried Madison's sister, and through this privates who idolized Captain Chez - brother -in-law, Madison knew every ney. For where his 'sense of superi- detail of Chesney's past madness, ority had never been offended, Chas - knew what the symptoms would be if ney had that idealistic sense of smil- it ever rushed on Chesney again—and ing good will apt to flower from a so realized now—now in the swift, wild descendant of feudalism toward those crisis of a terrible day, that Chesney,' under his authority. The three pri- overtasked, overintensified, shaken by votes, in deadly indignation, told their shell shock, was, for the hour at least, tale of Madison's mutiny. raving mad—and about to send his (To be continued.) CLOTHING FROM FOREST TREES Several Regions of tate Earth Yield Dress Material. One of the strangest of myths is that which concerns the "deadly upas tree" of Java, whose poisonous exhala- tions were formerly alleged to kill any man or animal that ventured into its neighborhood. Doubtless at had its origin in some traveler's tale, for the tree in question —rather widely distr5buted in south- ern and southeastern Asia— has no terrors for the natives of those coun- tries, who, on the contrary, find it extremely useful. It is the only kind of tree in the world that produces ready-made cloth- ing. The inner bark is a natural cloth, only requiring the removal of the soft cellular stuff from between the woven fibers in order to render it available fox use, A cylindrical section of it from a small branch will furnish a leg for a pair of trousers or an arm for a •coat, while from the bigger branch the body of the garment is obtained, In tropical South America the limner bark of another species of tree yields an excellent cloth, the fibers of which are interwoven much as if the fabric' came from a loom. All that is neves- wary is to wash and beat out the cella- lax stuff from the interstices and, when dried, it is hight, flexible and altogether suitable for making up into garments. The famous "taps" eloth of Poly- nesia is made from the Inner bark of the paper mulberry. When of the fin- est quality it is bleached to showy whiteness and fine as muslin, In tropical Africa the inner bark o; a leguminous tree is utilized in the will drink. Keep him- out-of-doors all day, if :•.possible. " Dress him .lightly and bathe flim -night and morning with water at about the temperature" of the air, To keep. fly,'paper from blowing off the table, or wherever it is placed, tack a, sheet of it to a small board about the same length as the paper. It willbefound-much easier tro,lrandle. Wilier your feat grow tired and ache, and it is not practicable to take off your, shoes, .lie -clown and raise,. your feet as high as your head and 'higher, The•blood' will ;flow at'ayfrom them and they will feel easier. . This is bhe plan sometiimes used by soldiers on a march. In the •season of thunder storms ib is wise to have ladders and buckets of fire thatZ �o y `fi xYs;� �a?." wf woteruld 'debuilld bun ildings s a anti stock ta+a.�tt would destroy g could be extinguished if instant means were taken, Chemical fire extinguisll- ers, not too heavy to be handled by a woman or child, that are ,simple in operation and non -explosive, are a great protection, and should be found in every home. - A broom will last longer if on each wash day, after the clothes are all boiled, it is clipped for a moment in the soapy suds. Then shake it as free from water as possible and hang up by the handle." Slip an old newspaper underneath: to 'catch the drippings. If there is a tendency to lop -sidedness, press the broom into shape while it is wet and pliable. „Use short cuts in your work; one short cut is :to punch holes in the bet - tom of a tin can and put it in your rinsing pan. When yeas wash the silver knives, forks and spoons put them upnight in it and pour hot water over them. Drain a moment, then set on ,bhe back of the. stove to dry. No wiping will be needed. A garnishing of shredded lettuce, watercress, parsley, nasturtium blos- soms, slices of lemon, or hard-boiled eggs,give to a dish of .cold meat a bowels there is little danger from more appetizing appearance and chills, even though the only other flavor. Le£tsover cooked peas, moist - garment is a loose romper or bloomers ened with a salad dressing, also inl- and waist. Sleeves from father's and prove the taste and looks of the meat. mother's wornout flannels, or a three- Blackberry pudding: Hall fill a bak- indh section cut from the leg make ing dish math berries; spackle well excellent bands as they will stretch with sugar and dot with butter; cover enough to permit their being drawn with a batter made by beating to - um into position and no pins are re- gether two eggs, two small cupfuls quired to hold them. of flour and enough sweet milk to In dog days give a light breakfast; make a batter as thick as rich cream, do not insist that little children eat Beat well, add two teaspoonfuls of what is set befhre them if to do so baking powder, a little salt; pour over means starting the day wdbh tears and t-bforty mine bickering. At ten o'clock a few dainty inhe a mberriesoderateand oven.ake for Blueberriesutcans sandwiches and a glass of lemonade be used in the same way. will make up for the lack of break- fast. HINTS FOR INVENTORS. Early in the morning. throw one — clowndtairs room open to the cool, Suggestions That Will Keep Their fresh air, and as aeon as the sun is Brains From Becoming Ossified. fairly up close it tightly, shutting out That "nothing is impossible" is one every possible degree of heat. Im- of the most popular of thoories, ac - people, ly after dinner tell the little cepted by nearly unanimous consent. peopple, and children are little people 'Anyone who would controvert it would from two years of age to twelve, that expose himself to the accusation that they may stay up latex in the evening he was behind the tines, an old fogy, if they will take a nice nap while it a person of narrow mentality, one who is too warm to Play. Make them prd- mtte the unli d 1 to comprehend failed p paredle in the coal, dark room pree mastery of inventive genius, pared for just this use early in the Naturally, we are reluctant to invite morning with heavy cotton comfort- such accusation. However, we deem it abler on the floor and cool pillows, to be not out of order to submit a par• and, using firmness if necessary, insist tial list of products of inventive gen- that they go to sleep. The average ius whose possibilitity, from time to child will sleep,: until three or four time declared, remains to be demons - intense axil the mostr' intense beat of trated by accomplishment. Those that the day will then be passed. just now occur to me Atter supper allow them to play Power for itldustrtalar e: purposes de - in the yard until dark, and give them rived from tidal Movements,a special bed -tame treat either of Storage of the sun's summer heat top shelf. To brace the whole frame kind of fruits fruit, ice cream, a cold glass of some for use in winter. a or any delicacy Extraction of gold, in paying quanta' there really should be a crass bar easily prepared. ties, from the waters of the ocean. under the top shelf in front and back, perpetual motion, and the same under the lower shelf, How To Do Things. Storage of winter atmosphere for also. The door is too simple to need description. Ice cream is a real food and nota use as a substitute for ice in the sum - The pan was made to order to fit delicacy. Families having their own mer, the top and cost $1.00 but you can freezers should serve ace -cream often A cheaper substitute for gasoline, use a bread baking pan that fits snag- for dessert. Its costF is no greater A devioe Yo}: supervision of the ly. Or thus can be tin, painted and than that of pie and cake and it furn- opeatton of the law of gravitation in then enameled to prevent rusting. iahes nourishment, case "of accident to aircraft. The whole frame should ''ba painted Those who go picnicking should boil Communiciation with the auhabi- to Ivheleep t from warping. A wire all drinking water and milk before teats of Mars, screen may be put `around the sides drinking. People who have been auto- The harnessing of atmospheric elec- and on the door if you wish to make mobi$ing or picnicking in an unfam- tricfty. it stouter and to exclude insects. iliar•neighborhood often bring home prevention of earthquakes. A cover of canton flannel', burlap, or I in their bodies typhoid -fever germs Production of rainfall when it is duck is shade to fit the frame. Put which develop later. needed. i Mint sauce can be made now for Accurate weather predictions. the smooth side out if canton flannel) is used. It will require about three winter use. Gather the leaves when Doubtless, in many minds there are yards of mat . This cover is but-, dry and clean; skies finely, put in a many other theoretical possibilities toned around the top_ of the frame' bottle and fill with vinegar; cork well. whose realisation would be of great and down the side on, which the door' When used pour out the quantity de- benefit to "mankhtd, To avert contra• is not hinged', using buggy hooks and 's'ared for flavoring, and add to at more versy, we shall not dispute the_ asser- tion that everything is possible, but lets worked e- bile material. On tack During shot weather give the :baby patiently await further practical de - front side arrange the hooks on the all the cool water—not ice water—be monstrations o¢ its truth. top of the door instead of on bhe frame and also fasten the cover down! the latch aide of tate door, allowing a wide hem of the material to overlap] ' the place where the door closes. The; door can then be opened without un -1 buttoning the cover. The bottom of the cover should extend down into the lower pan. Four double strips, whioh taper to 8 or 10 inches in width, are sewed to the upper part of the cover, These atrip.s form wicks that dip over into the upper pan. The legless refrigerator has the, as s vantage of not drying out. The cloth folded into the pan of water at the top acts the dame as the lamp wick which draws the kerosene up to the flame, The cloth around the refriger- ator draws the water just like a wick and the cloth .as kept wet all the way. down to the bottom. All you have to do is keep the pan filled with water, just as you must keep your lamp filled with oil. The iceiess• refrigerator should be pierced where the air is in motion. SOLDIER SETTLERS Ivl:eu who fought in the Great War 'breaking land rin Saskatchewan for next year's operations. Such scenes are -quite common in the central pro vetoes now. Make Your Iceless Refrigerator. back of John's bad temper or Mary's Do not let the food spoil! Here's sulkiness, family life would be a much a way to keep it cool for $3,17, and pleasrnter thing. If there is ever a it's nothingbut a wooden frame with time for being good-natured it 4e a cloth around it. Any smart girl when the mercury runs up to the can build one. nineties and every mother should real - The Iceless refrigerator is a fine real- ize. that upon her depends the good thin simple and cheap, Missionar- sprits of the iatruily. thing,p Babies are better if underdressed les in India discovered that if they than overdressed in hot weather. 11 were to live in the intense beat oft a band of flannel is kept around the that region they must stretch wet sheets across the doors and windows, and the, hot winds blowing through made the rooms comfortably cool. This is the simple prinoiple of the Iceless refrigerator. A wet cloth sur- rounding a frame will make the space on the inside cool enough to keep the milk sweet, the butter hard and the other foods in good condition, If you live where ice ,as hard to, get or if you have no ice house or cellar or even if you have a cold cellar, save steps with an iceless refrigerator. There are four corner posts, each 3 ft. 6 in. high, and made of 1x2 in. lumber. The shelves should be made of 1x12 in. lumber and the corners sawed out 1x2 in. to fit the corner posts. The shelves are 15 in. long. The middle shelves may be made of strips or of poultry netting so as to let the air through. An easy way to frame it,in your mind is to "play" you are going to build two ladders, one on each side. The steps of the ladder are the cross bars at sides of refrigerator. These are 835 in. each. The top bars should in from thetopf be 1 o o the oats. P They should fit between them, and the nails (8 -penny finish nails) should be driven through the posts into the end of the bars. • The second "step" should be 12 in. below the first and the third 12 in. below the second. This makes the fourth bar 15 in. below the third. Now when you have the two ladders or sides done, you can fit your lower shelf right on and nail it, then the next and the next and last of all the glows the "Trace -bark tree,° which yields a delicate tissue so like lace that many articles of feminine adorn- ment are made from it, Care. Peace and put off all care from thee. Endure a little and be strong. And lol this ever -rising sea, This mounting tide of misery, Shall sink, shall ebb, 'ere long. What though the years have brought to grief The days of warmth, the days of ease, The blossom odorous and brief, The bursting and ephemeral leaf; Good fruit shall follow these— Gifts, that whate'er the gods may send Shall lift us -high and bear us far, And these are Labor without end And Courage, which is man's last friend, And Honor, his one Star. Conclusive. "How did you get .ori?" The sweet maiden breathed the words into her lover's manly ear as she met him in the passage. Ile had been "seeing father," and she wanted to know the result. "Oh, your father Is Heartless!" said the young man indignantly. "I I told hays I could not live without you, and---•" "Yes, yes!" — impatiently. "What did he say?" "He merely offered to pay my tuner- al expenses!" 4 Lord Jellicoe was received at Port Lincoln, Australia, by "Black Fanny," the oldest of the district aboriginals, 0 00)' t, sy: Indeed, it is surprising towho, swathed .in a Union Jack, play- 's', r li-a widely tresbarks are em- fully tapped his Lordship on the t material for clothin7 the cheeks. u•.,. _-. i\.n;l in ',he heat ]lilieskiissard's 0.111noat cuing aanittaerie- W,• L, .ffici 1naen. Dean 8. Potter 'Viet r ' , ond9 Pall0O5 oM V1otO1y Bonds will Mid deaaitio • ;sicoa q+tuted' on the financial page of rho iuroatO t:tor.1U5 500505.. W. L. MCKINNON Sr_ CO2 Danlos in (ioSernmeni and =inbuilt.' ktVndD' Mcltinnon Maw., la i is infla St,..'Tnronto The Harvest.' Summer's smiiiu' and the oats Have put on their yallct conte, Noddin' 'heath the slays of. blue While the binders' song anew Fills the air with Inuomaa din, Singiug, "harvests here mega" ®' Bob o' link an' ead'ew lark Sweetly sing from :nom "till dark Nearr the brooks and iu the mood Lacy Cattle chew their end. In the barnyard mistress hen Braggs "I've laid au egg ag'ln. Yesterday while walking by Shocks of oats, I chanced to spy Sweetest vision of a maid, Resting in their 000lin' shade, Dyes o' blue and lips so red Must a been where cherries bled. So 1 paused a moment there Watched the soft. lights in her hair, Watched:her.lips, we asked the miss if they wasn't ripe to kiss, Now I'm gladest that I've been Harvest time is horoaag'in. _s 9Ginard's Liniment Oares Gareat In Cows Gold Production. The gold production of the British Empire was in 1916, the latest year In which complete figures are available, ,14;229,844 ounces, or 64 per cent of the world's total. According to statistics in the Canada Year Book, the Dominion comes fifth as a gold -producing coun- try. Australia is third. In silver pro- duction Canada takes second place in the world. The Comfortable Child. The uncomfortable child is always cross. If mothers would spend It little mere time in discovering the cause, Patience is the right bower of suc- cess. All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS 0. J. CLIFF TORONTO 0011101 wzmisztinalosignma (1*()o. a COV'i liNHEldT CUAUANTEED rencNinni HAKE C Ki C E!VSY INNF DE 5(j v Y t5(nnt���ji -TrFp" 1J1/. 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FIRST, USE The Original "Mee Stocking" -The Word "Teetotaller'; Was the Out- come of Stuttering Speech Once upon a 'tine, as 'else' Otory- tellers ' say, there Iived in •England. a theatre manager 01 the bogus type who was very dilatory in' the 'Matter of paying his salaries. Now in this company was a self-willed actor whose' strong part 'was the ':ghost in "•Hailrlet." If hie salary was not forthcoming on a Saturday morning he 'would exclaim: "Then the ghost won't weak to -night!" As he was an indispensable actor he wars al - Ways paid. Sometimes he received only`a portion cf hisrsalary, with the 4zomise of the remainder in the course Of • the performance, and he would even go 'so far as to hold up the play just before' the scene when he entered, until he was maid. When the Ghost' Walked. 01 course, the manager could not give his salary to one member of the company and overlook the •others, so they ell began to feel a keen interest in the walking- of the ghost as a barometer of the pay situation. About the time of "treasury" on a Saturday morning they would wait until they received word by a m bsenger that the ghost would walk. • To this day the expression that "the •ghost walks" is synonymous, with the paying of salaries not only in theatres, but in many offices, and actors assembling for their weekly !salaries in a not too reliable company put the question to each other; "Is the ghost walking?" while, if about to accept an engagement of a man. ager of whom they know nothing, they ask, "Does the ghost walk?" Another incident whicll occurred hs England and •gave rise to a popular expression relates to the warder of the Tower of London during the bine of the Plantagenets. He had .what the citizens of London considered an exaggerated belief in his own prer- ogative, and they took offence when he claimed the right of trapping fish for this own benefit outside the Trai- tors' Gate..' Ile placed in the river a basket or "kiddie" commonly need at that time, but the people, thinking he had no right to do so, systematical- ly made raids on his kiddies and de- stroyed them. When he found the damage done to his preserves, hel would exclaim, "A pretty kiddie of fish, indeed!" It is easy to sea how "]piddle would become "kettle" when the old style fishing basket went out of vogue and hots the original mean - in clungto the expression, «a pretty kettle of fish!" The Stuttering of a Prohibitionist. 11 was quite a different class of at the expression society t] t e ex on "blue ..si stocking" acquired rite present signifi- cance. At the famous club of literary ladies formed in England about the middle of the eighteenth century by Lady Mary Wortley- Montagu, Ben- jamin Stillintgfleet, who, habitually wore blue stockings, was a regular visitor. Blue stockings, therefore, be- came the recognized badge of member- ship and a blue stocking to this day brings to mind a certain type of intel- lectual and conservative person. It is a question whether Lady Mon- tagu and her carele knew that as far back :as 1400 there was a similar club of ladies and gentlemen at Venice which was called the Della Cslza from the color o£ the stockings worn. Another Englishman who has sur- vived in a popular term 'is Riebard Turner, whose convictions on prohi- bition were so strong that even his habit of stuttering slid not restrain ht?m from lecturing on it in public. One time. while speaking in Preston, England, in 1833, oh total abstinence, he concluded his address with the word's: "Nothing but tee -tee -tee -total abstinence will do—that or nowt!" It • is due to that stuttering conclusion and not to the fact of :substituting a tea for intoxicating liquors that a total abstainer is now known as a teetotaller.- AIR RAIDSECRETS' London Knew When a Zeppelin Was To Be Let Loose. Colonel H. 'De Wattevilie, of the Royal Engineers, has ha¢1 80m0 in- teresting things to say regarding i(rnegsrcahon tia raids overEngland dur- gldAliriiifasatis esbpelins were concern, Sratho. evviership tnlotatwgaontsboanthue" 1 shores," sand Cal, do Wattevalle, "you may he euro that there was an sock dent somewhere in Germany. Dur- ing the war no fewer than 120 of these enormous eirsbiips were btiile and yob there was never at any time more than 15 or 16 that were fit to take the air." - "Wirelesstelcgi•aphy played a very considerable pant in the navigation,' of these ships over the water. We discovered this in 1915, and made full use of it. "The actual apparatus had bettor , not .be descriaea, but I can asisiar+o you that some of us in London actin'. ally knew half an hour before a ship left the sheds in Germany that a raid' _awes coning to these shored!' •