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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-10-03, Page 2it C T r .r•-. kr;.:TR'BUTION By hrplSO01 MF1RVAU- a�uWM►.w ♦ , lµuSTRATED ay R•W.SATTER'FIest) BEGIN HERE TODAY Bess Qrilbert, Ned Carnet and the lat- . ter's fiancee, Lenore Harden worth. are shipwrecked. They take refuge on an island occupid by u Orutemamed Downs - wort and his Indian wife 'rhe muster • of the island taeks Ned and the two girls Prisoners and informs them tluit he means to make them slave for nim. Bess and Ned, with but ver iltIe help from Lenore, build a cabin and Dooms- cabingis�finished Besse stove, Neda ate sn ent on different routes to do the winter's trnppine• for their master, Bess and Ned, with but very Ville help the squaw with the housework. Ned Ails Into a deep crevice and Bess rosettes bine. The two make plans to escape from the Island. . NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVII. When food and warmth had brought complete recovery, Ned took up with Bess the problem of deliverance from the island. He found that for weeks she had been thinking along the same line, and like him, she has as yet fail- ed to hit upon any plan that offered the 'sett chance :or success. The sub- ject held them late into the night• carne, 'her defence was solely the'pres- They tool: different trails in the came ,of- Lenore the. squaw. 'dawn, following the long circle of their ...There .wasandparthe s warmth in trap lines. All the way they ponder- her meeting with Ned. Doomsclorf'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 thein 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 o,: Dooms- dorf gleaming under his shaggy brows; Lenore's beauty a thing to shore was, from his listeners, but cele �ustrt .1l. significant response at'trst to the evil suggestion that he made with suers3roc Broadcasters iniquitous fifes 'in his wild egos and such a strange, suppressed tone in bis - 1'oiee• Bess' a cpressioe did not change, How the Australian Abori, It had already revealed the uttermost depths.'of bread. 'Ned ' still 'held him- self, cold, now, as a serpent, waiting for his chance. But the squaw paused 'a single instant in her work. For one breath they failed 'to her the clatter of her pans. But seemingly indiffer- ent, she immediately went back tc her toil. Bess , shook- her hand in ,desperate appeal- "Wait .till morning," she pleaded. "I'm tired now-" .Ned saw by , the ,gxltherin g fury of puzzled to know how it was that their master's face that her, r'efus'al1 whepever they went, their arrival had would only bring on the crisis, so he been anticipated by the natives. The leaped swiftly into the breach. "Sure,r?'iddle remained unsolved until the Bess, let's go to. look/at `them,"; he white man realized that the ab ori - said. "I'm anxious to 's a "em,'too-" i gives • had a wonderful system of Doomsdorf whirled him,and his smoke signals, by which the doings of r ed to gaze was as a trial of fire to Necl.I the bush were broadcast for hundreds Yet the latter did not flinch. 'For a of miles. long second they regarded each other ' The study of these smoke signals i im leeable hatred,and. then Dooms-, opens' up a story of entrancing inter- n p l P dorf's sudden start told that he bad! est, one which involves the beginning been visited by inspiration. Hie leer -1 of the human race. The Australian ing look of contempt was almost alabor genal le often desribed as one of smile. "Sure, come along," he: said. the most uncivilized types of surviv- "I've got something to say to you, tool ing Humanity, No doubt there is a To spare Lenore's feelings -we'll go good deal of truth in this, for his is to the other cabin." probably the only race which has sur - Ned was not in the, least, deceived vivee, uncontaminated by contact by -this reference to Lenore. Dooms- with others, from prehistoric times. doff had further cause, other than It seems paradoxical that, although regard. for Lenore's sensib,lities, fur the aboriginal's mentality is of a bar - Surely the mighty strength vn, had set the powerful spring and the skill that covered up all traces of his work could 'succeed at last in freeing hint from slavery, ;., Bess had reached the she,`er first, and she was particularly relieved to see Ned's tall form swinging toward her along the shore. Doomsdorf wag in a particularly ominous mod. to- night. The curious glitter in his mag- 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 owardher was especially eager tonight, hor- rible to her as the cold touch of a rep- tile. Every time she glanced up she found him regarding her, and he fol- lowed her with his eyes when she moved. Yet she dared riot seek shel- ter in the new cabin, for the simple reason that she was afraid Doomsdorf would follow her there. Until Ned ed on this same problem, conceiving a plan only to reject it because of some unsurnountable obstacle to its suc- cess; dwelling upon the project every 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 days; but when he was less than a mile 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 condit'ons were favorable for trapping the 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 beat 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- hold the eyes; and Bess and horrified ments had dug out the great trap from and fearful at wha • the next moment its covering of snow. For a moment might bring. Hardly a word was ex - he actually doubted his power to set it. changed from the meal's beginning to It was of obsolete type, mighty- its end. Bess tried to talk, so as to springed, and its jawse,were of a divert Doonisdorf's sinister thoughts, 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 thein. This was not to be a bait set, so his success depended upon the skill with which be concealed the trap. First he carefully refilled the exca- vation he had 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 ttap, 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 had no wish for the cruel jaws to snap shut as he was working above thein. But his heart was in the ven- ture, for all his hatred of the cruelty ,.. and he covered it his o,. the device;p tracks with veteran's skill. Then he quietly withdrew; -retracting his steps and following the shore line toward the home cabin, Bines, 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 It was a strange pictu:•e. continuing their conversation in the other cabin. What it was Ned did not know, and he dared not think. And he had 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 Doomsdorf's right; when he saw her again she was fully ten If it were merely a mercer of send - feet distant, within a few feet of the jug up a column of smoke, the abor- cupEoards where the squaw kept many iginai's idea of signalling would be merely the obvious method of com- municating ommunicating his own whereabouts, or the approach of an enemy to 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 use thousands of years be- fore the very rae to which Morse be- longed was evolved. Signals Repeated barons 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, which are as clear in their meaning to him as a telegraphic message is to civilized man, of the food supplies,•"and now was busy With her parka of caribou skim She led the way out into. the' clear, icy night. I.t was one ofthose 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 depth., 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 this wonder that never grows old to the northern man, Doomsdorf halted them just without the 'cabin door. (To be continued.) Take Off Over -weight. Modern science says suriar supplies energy that lets You carry on with less food end safely' reduce weight, WRIGLEY'S iS pure Chicle, .sugar and flavor. `n,l ewini the chicle di shlIi s the sugar and re- leases the flavorors-erevreamtvw. :.. ill this pleasant way you get needed bode' fuel end reduce the pounds. er ii r 4S- ✓i' Welah Off. : % With'WRiGtErS ISSUE No. 29. -'29, but the words would not come 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 ler, a great hand rest - lug on her chair. "You're a pretty little hell -eat," he told her, in curiously muffled tones. "What makes you such a fighter?" She tried. to meet his eyes. "1 have. to be, In 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?" Iris hand reach- ed, closing gently upon her arm, and a shiver of repulsion passed over her. "That's a fine little muscle -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 hint brokenly. Her face, so white in the yellow lantern light, her trembling lips, most 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 pointwherein his self - centre], on which life itself depended, was jeopardized. Yet he must hold himself with at iron hand. He must wait to the last instant of need. Every- thing depended on that, in avoiding the crisis until ho had rade some ineasule of preparation. "Your little friend seems to be get- ting nervous," he remarked easily to Bess, "So not to disturb him fur- ther, let's you and I go to the new Cabin. I' taken some fine pelts late - I Cee Plroe s y tiny leaf is couse o k r store Tomah Erwin the gardens' 535 ment at that particular spot when the first fleet was sighted and the great Iamillaroy tribe sent up the first sig- nal notifying other tribes of the event, which, ir a few hours, could easily be repeated to the Queensland border, many thousands of miles north. This •ivas quite close to where Sydney stands to -day and wb.ere the first land- ing of the white men was made. At that time this district was thickly When an important smoke signal goes up, the limit of its significance, or trews value, is not coufined within the boundaries 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 A List that Expresses the Na- away where the senders are entirely unknown. tiorxal" View of Flleit4- ? The fact that these smoke signals ship, were well understood by all - An Eye To Business Patrick had decided to sell his re mainin ghorse as business was very bad. He took the animal to market and offered him to the first farmer he met. "Three pound! ' said the farmer, af- ter one quick look at the docile quad- ruped. "What!" exclaimed the Irishman - "Three pounds for a horse?" covered with bush, while to -day it is "Well, it's only got one eye." bricks and mortar, and the great "One eye, did ye say?" echoed the I amillaroy tribe that greeted the first otliel'. "'Be off wad ye, man! Can't fleet on that 'mnemorable occasion has ye see the intelligent craythur's gift - since been completely annihilated. ing me the wink not to accept your Cook Stove Made is proof that practically throughout the con "'rhe Chinese have an exalted idea tinent, a common code prevailed. of real friendship, and in spite of The coastal natives and those in - their aupposed antipathy to foreign -1i habiting hilly country, where timber ers, extend real friendship to people is ilentiful, make more frequent use of other races," writes Mr. 0. Wu1 of this method of distributing infor- fred Allan in the Methodist Magazitne. mation than do those of central Aus- "Some of the common proverbs are tralia and the open plains. In no part as follows:- of Australia are smoke signals more '• 'A well-known friend is a treas- ure.' reas l used than in the ranges on the east- ure. "'Friendship must rest on goodness ern coast of North Queensland. Away rather than gain: 1 inland on the Diamantina, when the ".'Unless your friend is your' sea.' country around that river was a hap- erior, you had ,better have Lone.' py hunting ground for the aboriginal, a common ground for righteous anger. " `When friendship is zeal, Hien talk) the passing of a traveller through the --- without reserve.' ' i "'-`rice would be signalled from one tame Dint to another offer?" Be. cheerful; whatever may hap• Rapid Trip pen, be nothing but cheerful, -Tree House of the Seven Gables. In the Lake. ;3t. John district,. of Quebec, 350 miles north of St. Fell-. cien, the manager of a new mine dis- covered to his horror that he had a fine camp but no cook stove to feed his hungry, new, crew of miners, 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. Pelletal' at 7.30 the next morning and the big 746 - pound range, in its crate, was swiftly transferred to a seaplane that lay waiting for its cargo. Two hours later, the seaplane • with the much-expecTod range landed on a lake, near the mine, 350 miles north of St. Felieien. It was promptly un- loaded from the plane, set up in the cook -house, and the hungry mining crew had their noonday meal cooked on this range. Eighteen hours from busy Montreal to the remotest part of the Quebec Ilinterland! This is perhaps one of the most in- teresting deliveries in the history of aviatirn and has caused a great deal of comment throu:fiout the North Country. Minard's Liniment --The King of Pain. Plain English Sydney Bulletin: If the Singapore - Base scheme survives the MacDonald Government, the Dawes Ambassador- ship and Britain's unemployment crisis it will deserve to rank amongst the immortals. It is in the unfortun- ate position of providing the two La- bour wings as well as the Liberals, by whose help the Ramsay MacDon- alds expect to hang on to office, with "'Mutual confidence is the prop of I van g - friencishipr• ' It is rattier uncanny to know that "'The best kind of acquaintance is, one's every movement is being watch - the acquaintance with each other's ed by unseen eyes, whose owners hearts.' l await an opportunity to become openly "Faithful friendship is referred to hostile. in the following.- The aboriginal employs different "'Without a good mirror, no lady methods of signalling for different oc- ean know her true appearance; with- casions; the most common is to build a fire of dry material, on which he heaps green houghs, creating a dense column of black smoke. If it is neces- sary to continue the message when 'A faithless friend is one who that has subsided he repeats the "stands on the dry shore," that is, operation. makes no attempt to save one from Another method, and one which re - drowning.' quired a good deal of skill, ancl, at the "There are, of course, spurious same 'time, displays much ingenuity, friendships. involves the selection of a hollow "When you have, and 1 have i,e., standing tree with a hole at the base. money) then we are friends: ' A fire is made in this hole, and when "'With wine and good feeding you , it,.is *ell under way, green leaves are Lei will have plenty of friends; but MI thrown on it. The draught created by trouble you will have none." I the fire sends the smoke up and.rac "We sometimes say, 'Birds of a fee -i ing through the hollow trunk at a ther flock together, but the Chinese, great height. express it negatively -'Tigers ancll When it is necessary to break'the deer do .not stroll together,' and 'The smoke column, a sheet of bark, or the crow doesn't roost with the phoenix.' 1 skin of a kangaroo, is thrown momen- ".To prevent trouble, 'Good friends over the fire and as rapidly re - "Thetheir accounts at once.' I moved, causing the smoke to issue "The friendships of those who mays out of the top in puffs, much as it may be separated by sea or land is boauti be seen coming out of the funnel of a fully described lir the following, 'The railway engino, By these means, and lotus root inay be broken bbu its�hy varying the length of the intervals silken fibres remain united,' and those. between the puffs, while has a special who have seen how the sticky filan- significance, intricate messages are reel-� ares refuse to fall apart will app sent... the simile:' The color also of the smoke has its meaning and the aboriginal is adept in producing the particular shade .he desires. The lighter tints are pro- duced by burning dry leaves and 1 wood, while the heavy black column 1 is caused by the combustion of green, resinous boughs. rrimitive people, the I Like most I people, Australian aboriginal n=ali:ns his wo- menfolk do the unpleasant lobs. 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