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By DAVID 11. TALMADGE.
PART IL
The night telegraph operator at the
station, the train having been duly,
reported out, began to sing to the
accompaniment of a guitar. He was
a stranger, the operator, and he was
lonely. They could hear -him quite
plainly, despite the heavy drip of the
rain from the station eaves..
"What are ye aimin' to do, Lily
May?"
"Go home, I suppose; T must go
somewhere. My lather will—I am •
afraid—I —"
She broke •into sudden tears, sob-
bing with her whole frail body.
"Wait, Lily May—don't—I can't
think with this rain runnin' down rite
back --sand I must think a bit."
ande sboeii iris Head, looking here
there in tyre darkness.
"We must git out of the storm."
Gently be took tiSe bundle from her
arms: "Come with me, Lily May."
He led the way across the tracks
to the hotel cowshed, the interior of
which was fitfully illuminated from
the station lights. There was clean
straw here. A cow at the further end
of the shed snorted and clambered
awkwardly to her feet, mnaking a clat-
ter of hoofs upon the board floor.
"Put some straw in the feed box,
Lily May; 'twill be a fine place for
the b'y."
She did as he directed and he put
the bundle carefully in the box. And
then, under the volition of a sudden
thought, he removed his hat and stood
with his head bowed low.
"Child," be half whispered, the
words laden with awee "do ye see
what we've done? 'Tis a manger he's
in l"
The girl sank limply upon a bale
of straw, her face in her. hands.
"Lily May?" Dan swung about.
"Yes?" Faintly.
"We must find a way out of this.
Ye've always been a good girl. Till
,ne, Lily May—who—who was the
mail?"
"Ronald Dean."
"Him!" Excitedly Dan put his
hand to the pocket of his coat but
withdrew it empty, "Do you know
where he is?"
She shook her head. "He went to
the war," she quavered. "We were to
be nzrried when he cans back. He
promised."
"He promised—yi:i, yis. Listen,
icily May—••hat! Rona:Id Dean any
folks? I know he drifted in here last
year with the biarvest crews and that
he answered the call of the draft from
here, but-----"
"He told me Ids lather and mother
were both dead."
"Yis? Thin there will be none to
make a row." Dan spoke in an under-
tone as if he were alone and talking
to himself. Then he was silent for a
space. his hand gently rabbing the
stubble on his chin. Presently he
leaned over and'patted the girl's head.
softly. "It will be all right, deary.
Ronald will diver deny tha; he made
the promise to ye."
She looked up into his face, her
hand clutching his coat. "Oh, I know
he will be true to ate, Mister Mc-
Carty."
"But what of the time, Lily May,
between now and the day whin-----?"
"When he comes back to me?"
"Yis, when—he comes back—to
ye "
Faintly to their hearing came the
wailing song of the lonely operator
et the station through the great sod-
den singing of the rain.
"Stand up, Lily May."
Dan, almost rough in the intensity
of his purpose, drew the girl to her
feet. She drew back, half frightened.
."Say it agin, with your eyes and
your heart in the manger before ye,
that 'ti, the solemn truth that he
promised ye,"
"OA knows it is true"
" Fwas a marriage thin, no lies,
and now ye are Mistriss Ronald Dean
by ivery law of right and justice. Do
ye understand? Take the name, Lily
May—it belongs to ye—and give it
to the b'y in the manger --it beloincgs
to him, end—and say nothin' ixeipt
that ye are Ronald's wife and stick to
that with all your soul. 'Tis one of
the fortunes of war in a way. Rernim-
ber now! Ye become his wife before
Ile wint to the war. Ye must be firm,
and, beyond this, ye must ;be silent.
And if it should be that any come
tryin' to destroy the good name that.
ye inunt cherish with care from now
on ---if there should, I say, but I've a
Th nsh that there won't be many in.
'iyei gin. e,o low -down as to do it—ye
will come very quietly and till me of
it, and with the Lord's . hilp I'll talk
to thim a bit and nebby give"thim a
good swift kick or two, 'I duan. Take
up the b'y, Lily May—he's whimp-
erin' for his mother—and we'll be
goin' home."
Little by little, as old Dan spoke,
the girl's shoulders straightened and
the expression- upon her worn faee
changed from the darkness of 'despair
to the light of new hope. As be fin-
ished and stood silently waiting, she
threw her arms about his grizzled
peek.
"1—I can stand it—now--whatever
happens," she sobbed. "God must
have—kept you—there in the rain
to-night—till I came."
Dan gently loosed her hands from
about his neck. "Conte, Lily May,"
he said in a voice that shook queerly;
"we'll go on our way, you and are,
dein' the bist we call."
They kassed out into the storm, the
girl holding the bundle tightly to her
breast. At the house of her father fully, too, during the war, especially
WAR MOW{
OF MERCOAA
AN EXAMPLE O F•.SKI
SEAMANSHIP.
Navigating • Uncharted Strait
With Enemy in Full'
Chase,
To, neost of us the sola is an advere
ture to which we gladly go and from
which we return with ,relief. Yet to
some of us it is romance, Vaguely en,:
tieing,• dimly alluring, always Main-
taining its distance, Until the last.
troubled years, for most Canadians,
the sea has had only a shadowy exist-
ence. Now it has been brought home,
toits that the sea is all one—the Navy
and merchant ships all one.
The complete history of what mer-
chant sailors of all nations did during
the War will never be written. It can'.t
be, for ships are solitary wayfarers
and you cannot record the adventures
of all. .
It was ` the merchant sailor who
saved the day fbr England during the
earlier stages of the war.
The average landsman is inclined to
regard the immaculately uniformed off
!icer of a passenger 'liner as a typical
example of a merchant ship eaiior.'
Yet compared with the rugged, blus-
terous boy of the tramp ship, a 'Pas-
senger liner's officer -. can almost be
classified as a fresh water navigator;
who does not know what trouble is
and probably never has been thrown
up against tough luck at sea during
his career. Yet among a liner's crew,
especially the black gang, will be.
found many a Tuan who has, done his
gruelling in a tramp ship.
Sailing an Uncharted Strait.
The immaculately uniformed liner
officers rose to the occasion wonder -
Dan left her, waiting to see the door
opened and closed again, and then
went to his own hone where his
daughter Mary, nodding before an
open fire, awaited him.
"You are late, father."
"Yis, darlin'; I had to cut a tunnel
in the rain." Dan tossed the day's
paper to the laughing girl and re-
moved his coat. Then, sitting before
the fire, he took off his shoes and
stretched out his feet to the warmth.
A silence followed, broken only by
the rustle of the paper in the girl's
hands, the snapping of a match as
Dan lighted his pipe, the muffled beat
of the storm upon the windows and
the roof.
Presently the. girl sighed. "Here's
another name we know in the casual-
ty list, father; Ronald Dean—died
from disease." '
"Yis," said old Dan looking hard
at the lire, "I noticed it,"
(The End.)
The Value of a Smile.
When it is not a palpable insinceri-
ty, a theatric artificiality, turned on
to create a fleeting impression of a
geniality that is not there, a smile is
an asset of business, a lubricant in
social life, the outward index of a wel-
come mood and a happy mind. It
clears the air, relieves a tension, pro=
claims a cheerful and serene philoso-
phy. Those who smile most work
best.
The man whose brow is cloud -hung,
whose mind is. fog -bound, whose pessi-
misin sees no rainbows and lives be-
yond the pale of hope and buoyant ex-
pectation, is a poor fellow workman
and an unpopular employer. In the
strife for higher wages let it be seen
and known that men work for more
than material rewards. They toil
faster and harder for one they like;
and the employer who wins devotion
and holds his men can see a joke an.
is a lover of clean fun, and wears in
his face the sign of high good humor.
The man who keeps on smiling --
not with the inane and constant grin
that never wears off, but with the
habitual expression of good nature
within—has won victories. •He has
had his share of trials and tempta-
tions. Life has not laid a lighter hand
on him than on his neighbor. hie en-
joyed no special privilege and Irate
did not accord him preferential treat-
ment, But the expression of his face
shows that he has come through tri-
bulation and not yielded to bitterness.
.A. light that shines there is the re-
flection of the refiner's lire if that
smile were the sign of a mirthful irre-
fiectiveness it would not mean so
much, The meaning of it is that he
who wears the look has toiled and suf-
fered, known the anxieties, been foil-
ed and frustrated, drunk the cup and
eateiithe bread of sorrow-•-a.nd still he
holds his head on, high, and the en-
thusiasm is unquenchable. This at.
titude of cheerfulness resolutely main-
tained bespeaks in him who -keeps it
an essential greatness. The man who
smiles has not lost hope and he still
keeps faith with his ideals. You can-
not take from him the fortune that
he carries in that brave, bright aspect
which invigorates us soon as it is seen.
ssiinard'e Liniment used by tE'•1tyslci0,31a.
as, unlike the tramp ship officer, they
had rarely been called upon to do the
unexpected. An example of this is
what Kinnier did with the big Ortega:
If he had been a tramp ship man the
trick would have been expected of
him, for tramp ships go to all sorts of
little traversed quarters of the world,
whereas liners ply on regular routes,•
almost laid out as plainly as the track
of a railroad.
With the German cruiser Dresden
shelling him, even though he was Wett
within the three-mile limit off the
Chilean coast, Capt. Kinnier, to pre-
vent his passengers from being shot
to pieces or face death in open. bate,
was' forced to enter Nelson• Strait, an
uncharted waterway in the vicinity of
Cape Horn. No vessel drawing twen-
ty-six feet, aa the Ortega was, had
even given its possibilities a thought,
Yet Kinnier had no other alternative
than to attempt it, for he knew the
German wouldn't dare to follow.
And right he was. Not only that,
but the.German wars so sure the Orte-:
ga would not survive that he sent out
a wireless to the effect that she had
gone down with all hands.
Possibly if the captain of the Dres-
den had been a merchant sailer he
would have appreciated the resource-
fulness in amen of that breed when
facing death. For that is whet all on
the Ortega faced, as Nelson Strait is
a hundred miles in length, bounded by
the wildest of the South Chilean is-
lands, with thickly showclad peaks
and mountains on either side.
An Unforgetable Experience.
And through this tortuous water-
way crept the Ortega at a snail's pace,
a rowboat preceding her taking sound -
tugs. As one passenger has written
about the trip:
The passage through those wild
fjords will never be forgotten by any
of us, The risk was terrible --the
scenery superb• li; was truly a mag-
niflcent sight to see -the sun rise ma-
jestically behind the high mountains
of snow with the black water of the
Strait at their base, for sheer moun-
tains rose precipitately on either side
of us, mountains of rock and snow.
It was fairyland! Frozen water-
falls, here and there a little rock peep-
ing up, the danger Capt. Khmer must
avoid. Not a vestige of human life
was to be seen. It was the awfullest �
form of desolate grandeur. So it con-
tinued as the crew worked willingly,
doggedly, patiently, hour by hour,
It took two days for the Ortega to
get through Nelson Strait. Event.al-
ly she readied Isthmus Bay, a water-
way which fs charted, yet -for the
navigation of a ship the size of the
Ortega it is almost as dangerous a
feat as going through Nelson Strait le
self. So rare is it for a vessel to visit
Isthmus 13ay that each ship records
the fact by nailing her visiting card
on the trees ashore, And before pick-
ing her way toward Terra del ruogo
the Ortega's visiting card and the rea-
son for her visit were duly posted.
What Capt. Kinner did was certain,
Ty a most notable feat of pluck and
skilful seamanship. Yet it can be in
no manner elevated above thousands
of other acts which the lack of proper
iiisial''protectioit forded •inereihent sell,
orris to`'p;erforne. • No one gives" more
-eredi't to • the merchant eitilora than
the regular navy r inan,•'tor he 'knows
their stamina and worth.
Assisting the British
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Tile Salvation Army, of .the British
Isles is, co-operating with the govern-
ment. in'helping women to emigrate to
those' colonies where` there are more
men -than women. There are approxi-
mately 460000 ' more • women •than
inen in the United Kingdom, which
means that many. more than a million
must. choosy between emigration and,
spinsterhood. The records of the Sal-
vation Army show that three fifths of
:the girls who emigrated several years
ago to countries where women were
in the minority wre married within
three years of their arrival; and op-
portunitles for work at good wages
attract many women who -would not
leave home merely to find a husband.
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The growth of the condensed -milk
and milk -powder industries during the
war period has been a most notable
feature of Canadian dairy production,
It is estimated that for1919 the total
output of dondensed and evaporated
milk was nearly 110,000,000 pounds,
valued at approximately $20,000,000.
The total quantity of milk powder pro-
duced during the war amounted to 5,-
323,537
;323,537 pounds, valued at $1,662,352.
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Amber is the result of a disease.
The first forest that exuded gum was
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oined, men now draw•the amber're-
maining in the sand. The most amber
is found on the coast of the Baltic.
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OCEAN :WAVES
A PROBLEM .'!'yvtlacti IS
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Tremendous Energy of the
Sea to be Harnessed:for ,. l
• Use of Mankind.
The -'wizard N3disan, on a . reoeet
voyage to Europe, watched, hour -alien
hour the Movements of the.'great,:
tra.nsaiiantic.lixter as. •sire teased tip
and down on the Billows:. It made'
him nervous to see .so much 9power
going to waste. "Some day," he said,'
'1 ant'gciing to try to harness this tre-
mendous energy. When that probe. ,
lens' is solved the millennium of elec-
tricity will have arrived." 71
Many inventors have already ,tack-
led this puzzle, but a practicai'atilus'
tion of it seems to -day as far ,riff as
ever. Nearest to a success was the'
experiment of a • San Francisco man,'
backed by Sutro, the engineer of Conn;-'
stock tunnel fame. -.The machine wast.
authored out in''ihe ocean, .xrot faro
from shore, and was used to ,ipur}ap
water to the top of a bluff 209 feed
high. Unfortunately, a storm carie`
'and destroyed the apparatus, so dig-'
couraging the promoters of the scheme
that they dropped it.
Wave motors usually depend upon
abets, which by one Means or another
drive engines. The contrivance of
one inventor employe afretlght floats,
lined with metal, and, in connection
with them, huge cylinder -ani -piston'
pumps, which force water Into the
tanks, thereby compressing the air In-
side them. The compressed air
causes, a wheel to revolve, which
operates a dynamo and generates
electricity.
The dynamo is connected by wires 1
with a station on sbore, and• it is
claimed that one machine of the kind
described will in average weather,
transmit 140 continuous horsepower,
working day and night. The .current•,'•
may be used for running any kind of ,
machinery or even to operate a trolley
along the beach, inasmuch as the
ocean is never entirely calm, we have
perpetual motion realized.
Such floating apparatus might be
anchored at intervals all along the
coast in suitable localities; and, sup-
posing them to work satisfactorily, •
factories might be transferred advan-;
tageously from cities to the marine
littoral, - .where they could obtain
.power • almost free of cost. When
storms threatened they could take re-
fuge in harbors and inlets.
- Utilize Vast Wasted Energy.
Another inventor has patented an
arrangement by which the rolling and
pitching of a ship is made to operate
a number of air -pumps that force air
into reservoirs. From the latter the -e
compressed air is conducted by pipes
to engines for propelling •the vessel
and to generate electricity for light-
ing and other purposes.
Yet another genius proposes to awing
'from the mast of a ship a 'gigantic '
pendulum, the oscillations of which '
are `expected to driye the propellor.
Some of these ideas may seem ab-
surd, but it should be temembered
that until very recently ridicule wane
the only tribute paid' to inventors of
flying machines. Yet navigation of
the air is at last an accomplished fait,
and it seems not unreasonable to sup-
pose that some clay the great power -1
house of the sea, whose' incalculable .
stores of energy now go wholly to
waste, will be drawn upon for the use
and benefit of mankind,
In a rough sea the waves may be
ten feet high; in a big storm they may,
reach fifty feet, which is about the
Unlit, They may run sixty miles ail,
'
hour, or even faster. A wave thirty
feet high contains many thousands of
tons of water, and the tremendous,
force it develops may be judged by,,,
the destruction it causes when it'
!dashes against structures that are not
of extraordinary strength. It may,
throw itself to a height of 100 feet or
more on the face of a cliff.
The notion that a wave is a body of
water moving along—a wave, that is
to say, on the surface of the ocean—
is incorrect. The billow we observe
at a distance and watch until it reach-
es and passes us is not the same bodn•,
of water in different places. A wave
is a motion, not a mass ea movement
of translation.
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Germans Out of India.
The repatriation, of Germans frons.
India is- steadily proceeding, and be-
fore long no German- will remain
India eXcept those who for very
special reasons are granted exernp•'
tions, says aLondon despatch. The
precise period during whieh Germans
will not be allowed to enter India has
not been finally decided, but it will
not be less than three years.
Before the war Germany nv`as utak,
ing strenuous efforts to capture In.
than trade and, did a large business
through German agents stationee'. In
India,