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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-09-08, Page 6• h, • PLAYING SA -*--y—* -- BY HENRY C. ROWLAND PART III. Then, watching his task, its method puzzled her, for instead of tapping continually on one point of the chain he now spread .it the length of the stone andp roceeded to hammer this segment fiat, "Why are you doing that?" she ask- ed. "Watch and learp," he answered. Satisfied presently with the result, he picked up the chain of which the iilllcs were now hammered so closely together that there was no play be- tween them, but remained stiff like a piece of wire.. Taking this between his hands, he began to bend it back and forth at the point which he had first eroded. The result was almost immediate, as the chain, no longer able to articulate, broke at the eroded part. "Easy enough when you happen to be an inventor," and glanced at Claire with a flashing smile which brought the color to her face. But this was not because of her deshabille. She was beginning to forget about that, or at least to disregard it. For a moment her gray eyes clung to his hazel ones, when for some mysterious reason both faces glowed with a crimson which was not entirely a reflection of the sunrise. Stephen rose to his feet, picked up the valise, and set it away from the edge of the roof, almost in the centre. Claire laughed. "Invention seems to be your first instinct, and playing safe the second," said' she. "How much have you actually got in that bag?" -He raised his eyebrows. "In rea money, none." - "What?" " "None. In fact, it would not even be negotiable to anybody who might steal it." "Well, upon my word," gasped Claire. "Then why do you invite at- tack by chaining y:aurselif to it?" "Because I am very absent-minded and I did not want to risk losing it. I am apt to get thinking about some- thing and go off and leave my things anywhere." "You didn't forget about me?" "Ah, that was . something of real value. The contents of the valise have Cdr tiseill to. prove. %heir., value" `When. pcill: that ben -"Where -the Irodr `str]l,es, - ^ Ste Beit P answered, and as he spoke an aston- ishing thing occurred. There came a buzzing from the inside of the valise, as If it imprisoned an enormous bee, and this was followed by the snuffled ringing of an alarm. clock. The effect upon Stephen was electri- fying. For a moment he stared at the bag with open mouth, thensprang to his feet; rushed to it, picked it up, and held it while the alarm continued merrily to ring. Claire, for her part, was petrified with amazement. I.t flashed suddenly across her mind that she must be adrift on that muddy- river uddyriver with a madman, for who else would think of winding up and set- ting an alarm clock, then placing it in a valise and chaining himself to it? Stephen's immediate manoeuvres appeared to confirm this startling con- viction. The alarm rang itself out and stopped. He set down the bag and stared from one side of the river to the other as if trying to take bear- ings. Then turning he glared at Claire with : a wild expression on Ms fate. "We're smack over it," said he. "Over what?" she asked faintly. "Over gold," he answered. "Quan- tities of gold, either in the bed of the river or on a sunken steamer or pri- vate treasure or something of the sort." Claire looked about fearsomely as if seeking some avenue of escape.? There being none in sight, she stead- ied her voice and asked, "How do you • know?" He flung out his arms in a sort of despair. "Smack over scads of gold and no way of getting an -accurate bearing or buoying the spot or any- thing thing' to locate it. Never mind. I know where it is in a general way and T can get a boat and come back here and paddle around until' I find it" Claire had no longer any doubt. Her rescuer was unquestionably mad, but with the madness of the inventor, some monomania or insistent idea whiels left enough him sane in other n ssuwi5192'zr d BEV[Ueq OVa0.,.OPGIfINO—nu DIRc Q5 1145,"Ow� E,W411-LETTyYLIMI E mo itEA '4'otibP•ITl9r CANAbA 3e J respects. She began to breathe more freely when his next words confound- ed her diagnosis of his case. "You see, Miss MacNostom" said he,now staring directly at her, but apparently unconscious of her near nudity, "that thing in the bag is an invention for locating precious non- magnetic metals, principally gold. 112r. Lothrop financed me while I was at work upon it. That's been since the end of the war. I've discovered an affinity for gold which acts in a way to liberate a certain force which makes an electric connection and rings a bell. This would only happen if the gold was in great quantity and di- rectly underneath, even .at a consider- able depth." Claire's face cleared when she re- fected for a moment. "Would it do it if the gold were in small quantity but very close," she asked. "Why, yes," he answered.. "I've test- ed it over a gold brick." "Then maybe it's in the bank," said Claire. He stared at her uncomprehending- ly, then frowned. "I'm not joking," said he. "Neither am I," said Claire. "We're sitting on the roof of a bank. Don't you remember the sign?" - He slapped his thigh. "By jiminy, I hadn't thought of that!" And then to Claire's dismay he strode across to where she was sit ting, poised himself `'on the edge of the roof and took a clean dive into the turbid waters. But Claire was no longer alarmed. Looking over the edge, she saw him rise and reach a window in a stroke or two. Then he turned his dripping face upward.. "Hand me down that stone," said he. Claire obeyed. Stephen smashed a pane of glass, reached inside, removed a window stick, then raised the sash and crawled ever the sill, which was just awash. Claire could 'hear a slosh- ing about beneath her. A few mo- ments later Stephen's head and shoul- ders reappeared. He held in his hand a canvas shotbag which appeared to be about half full, and, standing on the sill, he handed thij up to her. "They don't believe he safes down here," " said he. Thisa w s tucked away <up under- a roof beam. I set the valise dpwn, smack, over .iL. be a good inventor, but about most other things'Em a darn . fool. If it hadn't been 'for youI'd have come baok here and wasted weeks paddling •around in a scow." He slipped back into the muddy water swam around to the rear and xvs+tNeujifn ONTARIO SS?1;1L G ' OT AR C3 r,ongc Pork • ,Turarut , ?RAINING•PAINTeNC•S40eal te4G•DES;CN TIHeClREACERS COuesE• C • O eelseA. AT G•A•Rell) 1Z C•A, !•wines -,al 1 Session 1921-22 Openc Oct. 3. I Prospectus Sent on Application, read, and they told me. I fully in- tended n ed to regulate that score, But as it turns. out I seem to be asking in- stead, of giving." He raised her hand again to his lips, Claire, scarcely able to breathe, turned and stared at the distant shore. "There are some omen running down the jetty and getting into a boat," said she. "Never mind the then," said Ste- phen. "How about this partnership which I propose? Do you accept or do you refuse?" Claire turned slowly and looked at him, her face slanted upward and a stricken expression in her eyes. "What sort of partner?" she mur- mured. "There's only one sort. A gold ring on this pretty finger and a light, in- visible chain which nothing ean break eestened to that and to my heart. You're not going to refuse." Claire gave a little sobs "After all that's - happer, ed I don't see, how I could refuse. you •anythiisg. But—but, I haven't a thing in the world.," and added, with a gurgling laugh, "I haven't even any clothes." "You've got yourself," said Ste- phen. "You've got courage and sweet_. ness and beauty. TVs up to inc to supply the rest." ' He drew the hand toward him, and with it the arm and then the girl. His arms went round her and hers slipped up over Iris shoulders. Their faces were crushed together ecstatically, Then Claire freed herself and looked over his shoulder. "We neustn't," said she. "Here tames the boat." (The End.) Fancy That! One. ton of coal yields 10,000 ft. of gas. The Bible is printed in 528- different languages. The Polish alphabet contains forty- five letters. Mars has a day forty-one minutes longer than our own. A large nest of wasps will account for 24,000 flies in a day. - A single orange tree of average size,: .will ' bear'20000 oranges. An ounce of gold could be drawn in- to a wire fifty miles long. The King of Sweden has been wed- ded longest of any European crowned head. The family Bible of William Burns, e a er of, obert Burns. has been got aboard. Together they opened sold for $2 250 the sack and found it to contain $45 in twenty -dollar gold piece. "This darky banker was gettin • to loan a little money on,syth crop," said Stephen. "We'll find ou • him when we land :arid see tha • he gets it. Meanwhile we might net gotiate a little loan ourselves." They looked at each other and burst into a gust of laughter. "I begin to understand," said Claire, "why you kept it chained to you. It seems to me ,you've got a fortune in that bag." "I hope so," Stephen answered. "My object is to locate big gold ship- ments on vessels mined or torpedoed. The Government has been sufficiently interested to put a chaser at my dis- posal for the next three months. I doubt if my invention would work on land except in the case of buried treasure where the gold was in con- siderable volume and near the surface. A mere lode or vein would seemly get enough reaction." "All the sane, you ought to try," said Claire. "I intend to, of course. A rich sur- face vein• would ring the bell, I think. There's •a Iet of prospecting ahead and I've got a considerable grub stake, thanks to your godfather, but—I heed a partner." He turned Isis head slowly and his hazel eyes looked steadily into her gray ones, and again the wave of color spread over the faces of both. Thee. Stephen looked down at her left hand, which was devoid of any orna- ment. "Has anybody a prior claim?" he asked. Claire shook her head. Stephen pes- sensed himself of the unadorned hand and raised it to his lips. "Not long ago you practically acknowledged 'a claim an my part," said • he. "I don't intend to press that, because what I did was distinctly in the line of duty, so if you prefer I'll waive it. Do you?" Again Claire shook her head. She turned, and as he looked into her eyes Stephen wondered how he could ever have found them hard and hostile. "Two years ago.," said Stephen, "I begged a picture of you from Mr. Lothrop. It has been my shrine ever since. He knew of this, but I asked• him to keep it secret until I might have something to offer. He thorough- ly approved, and no doubt it was on that account he was so furious et learning of ynoue engagement," Claire's eyes widened, r- Y d. " You knew about that?" she asked. "Yes," said Stephen, still holding the unresisting hand. "I asked the 0The world's envelope of air has just been proved to extend for 300 miles ng above the earth. e Obstinate. bs mate. Jimmy (after discussion with hes governess on the subject of the Last,J. Judgment) : "Will everyone have to came out%f their graves when the Last Trump sounds?" "Of course, Jimmy." "Shall you, Miss Brown?" "Most certainty I shall." Jimmy — (after deep reflection): "Well, I sha'n't " 'Keep Minard's Liniment in the house. fY punting Out ed, white and, bine,' X11 out but you! Conks ` tuy rliyine be briefer, simpler o • marc Iiusely. Canadian? 'It seems, too tr ytal: a 'sank"), to qbe of interest, yet; it is only one more variation in'a long l>l.ne of childish' rhymes, and games that are deeply interesting to the studer t, since the more he studies them the 'mare ho sees that in their fundamental similarity they link na- tion with nation • and past with pre- sent. For children have always Play- ed games; and of course some one of them has aiways hadto be "it." g In the very beginning, it is now sup- posed, ail c•aunting-out rhy;nes were simply enumeration; and many of them are still so in part. Gradually for the salve of rhythm or rhyme or alliteration after ncaningless syllables or words' or sentences were inter- mingled. What Uanadi•an child has, not at some time followed eagerly the point- ing finger of a 'comrade chanting and Counting:,,,.'' One, two, three, four, five; six,yseven— All •good' children go to heaven. One, two,', three, four, five, six, seven, ° eight— All bad children have to wait! Or the equally familiar, if less edify- ing: Little man driving cattle, Don't you hear his money rattle? One, two three Out goes he (she) ! Of 'curse` all the "one -cry" forms fall into the Same group, and so probably (through distant foreign derivations) do our old friends the "eeny-meenies." A recent .writer in a richly varied col 1eetioh of counting -out rhymes • In- cludes 'several of ,,.the eeny-weenies, notably • that ancient and inelegant. favorite of both patrician and plebeian youth Eeny, weeny, miny, mo, • Catch a nigger by the toe; If he hollers let him go, Eeny, nleeny, miny, mo. It is probable that with the influx of children from many foreign countries the very games that in their likeness bring all children ,so happily together may take on' here and., there new and wider variations, which will interest and perhaps puzzle future students of folklore. Some of our students of French may like to translate for them- selves this little. counting -out rhyme Just as it comes tous from France: Petite fille de. Paris Prete-mai tes souliers grin Pouralter en-Paradis. • .;Nous• irons un' a un Dans. le cheinin des De' :. Sa ints; ta deux ur chemia des deux. The ran. By B -; and hill.. ale there is a trail Tbat leads my vagrant footsteps far; And %if .perchance my courage fail - There is the ever beckoning star. The beckoning star, the guiding sun, And Booth, why should. I ask for more? The pathways to oblivion Stretch'on and on before. Oblivion, or, the bourne of dreams, Serene within the afterglow, Where joy sits by the 'singing streams, And there is peace for friend and foe. - So, high of heart, I take the trail;. So, sure of soul, I,make the quest, But at the end, whate'er prevail, I needs must bow to what is best 'He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue: Spectacles for Russian Cows A good deal of surprise was created and any neglect to do this may lead to, when a long list of goods required by serious trouble. Russia was found to contain an order No amount of familiarity or usage for spectacles for cows, says an Eng- gives immunity, even to the people lish newspaper. whose• ancestors have lived amid the Surely this must be a joke, said the snows for centuries. The Eskimos business men, or someone skint have have long made snow spectacles in a blundered in writing the word cows, for spectacles could certainly not be needed for animals. But there was no mistake. Cows on the Russian steppes have 'long worn spectacles to -protect theireyes from the glare of the snow, which stretches. very crude form from driftwood. This is cut to the curvature of the face: j to a notch serves as a bridge for the � h Cooks Less—Smiles Mere, There was a vegetable soup for dinner that has required several hours of preparation and cooking; a deli - emus roast; :pet.ato'es that had bee mashed and creamed; cauliflower wi a cream dressing; lettuce salad kin apple that had been bought that morn Mg, sliced ancl, cut in cubes; nuts th had taken :a half 'hour for the crackin and picking; mayolsnai'se that h made e right erm ache with ;she sti ring and the beating; homemade jat hot biscuit; and hot apple pie" wi. whipped cream. "Do you wish any of the roast ?" the husband asked his wife as he carved. "I don't want any. I don't want any dinner at all. I'm too tired to eat." She never knew how long :she sat. there taking inventory of her so' ml but it was a long time and when, she re-• turned to the kitchen there was a n smile on her face, a smile that was th still there when the family name' e-! hoose. It dimpled ter cheeks when her husband praised the- extragood, atl meal, "Your cooking improves all the g time,"' he said with a look that re- ad fleeted the love in his wife's face. r -This time the smile swept away ii; every wrinkle. She knew that she to ( had never cooked less! She had mixed wisdom with her service. .A.' Successful Woman Farmer. Another name added` to the list of women who are su•eeessfully operating( faring' in Western Canada is that of - "Then why do you go to so memh trouble? The children and I woul ;satisfied with a much simpler mea you know." "I guess I know my duty to m family." Then : fol'lowed the silence tha marks the knowledge of a .futility o a:iguanent and the father and 'th children .ate a perfectly cooked meal without cornment or enjoyment. When Serena, the oldest daughter, repeated her employer's complimen some acceptable work she' had done that day, it was• her father wh gave her a smile of encoura•gemen The mother remembered, that she, too had worked that day and -sighed. When Tom, aged ten, relate- an amusing incident that. had happene in school, Mother was the only on that didn't laugh. The next evening, Serena was guest at the Whites, next door neigh- bors. It was warm. The open dining - room windows revealed the Whites and their five children and Serena sitting at the tulle. 'Across tae par- tition fence came sounds of repeated laughter. • "What," she asked of Serena a few hours later, in a reproachful tone, fo she remembered the 3ang,hing, "di you have to eat?" Serena was. not sure if she could remember. They had talked so much she .had not noticed what they were eating, except that the dinner was gpod. Soup? No, there wasn't any •soup.: Potatoes ? Yes, scalloped. Des- sert? Little cakes covered with cus- tard. She• remembered semb�ered that the cakes were cookies. Was it; good?,: Oh everything ' was , g good;"she"had never;enjoyed afiy`th'ih " so much in her life. But was not that a plain meal to' serve a guest? Serena did not think so. She could not have eaten more, everything was so good and Mrs. White was so happy and jolly. "I had more than that for our din- ner," said Mrs. Brown resentfully, "and there was' no one here but your father and brothers!' This with a sigh, the corners; of her mouth droop- ing. Serena looked at her thoughtfully. Mrs. Brown resented the look. "I cook so much for my family," she began defensively, "that I ani too tired to be what you call jolly. "I," growing mere antagonistic, though she could not explain why, "know` my duty to my family." "So does Mrs. White know hers," answered Serena sorrowfully. "She cooks less than you do but she— smiles more!" "Cooks less and smiles more!" The words rang through Mrs. Brown's brain the next morning when she beat batter for -muffins, whipped up an omelet, put potatoes in the oven to bake. and otherwise prepared break- fast She could not go to the school exhibition, she ,told Tom at break- fast, because she had a pudding to make that would require four hours steaming; she could not eat lunch with Serena and her father down town be- cause there was an.angel cake to' •be ade that would require at least an our to beat. Both refusals made with sigh. As she turned from the door after eeing the last. child start to school, he caught a glimpse of Mrs. White starting off to the school exhibition. with her children. "I wonder," she thought, feeling very self-righteous, what my family would think if I left any cooking for such' a trivial xcuse? They'd soon be tired of ick -ups." Perhaps she thought, when later in the day she caught a glimpse•of her ace in the mirror, Mrs. White was ight and .she was wrong. There were eep wrinkles in her forehead: Mrs. White had none. Her eyes were tired nci l,istlas•s. Mrs. White's were full f purpose and laughter. Her checks' vere white and hollow. She saw a 1,1' May V. Hazlett, an English girl who for four years has lived alone on a] homestead in the Touchwood Hills, in Saskatchewan, and made it pay. Her, y brother who homesteaded the land was killed in the Canadian forces ati t Vimy Ridge, and Miss Hazlett 'who. • was working as a stenographer, and tired of the. eternal pounding, deter mined to go contrary to the advice' to sell the farm, and thtiugh she had never lived in the country, decided) to operate it herself. Success has at o tended her -efforts and! ,she now owns t several head of horses, a fine bunch of cattle and has mare than one hun- dred acres under cultivation. She is again reversing the order of things, as tl having built . a Western home she is returning to England to marry her e fiance and bring hies out to the Sas-1 katchewan farm. She is an ardent a homesteads for women. advocate of An Entertainment Exchange. A contributor describes a novel plan for community entertainment that. an invalid originated and brought to practical use. In a brief letter, copies of which she or sent to a number of residents in her d town; she called attention to the fact that recreation is as necessary to the life of a. comnsunity as food and cloth- ing are; that its cost per capita am- ounts to a good deal in a year's• time; that to attend the usual places of amusesne.nt requires not miler money but tit3;•eand effort. She concluded by asking her neighbors to exchange with one another a of er their• ideas; on c nt ` o mun -ty recreation, as well as their actual en tertairen . g e t facilities ,-- satses o mabazmes, e es, ., Lhonograph records- books, 'games, puzzles; sheet music and soon. The plan haying been tried and hav- ing proyed useful,.its most valuable result was:felt to be ;that the persons. - concerned were convinced that it took only a little thought and • sn�erest to•. put in operation a scheme that kept children happy at home; entertained both old and young and created an undercurrent of good feeling in the. community. "And," said the happy invalid, "think what it has meant to me—. persons ,coming and going; thee -inter -1 est in exchanging opinions. I have even persuaded them to go.as step farther and to exchange their own special gifts. ' One who sings sings, occasionally for us all; another who is a trained readier sometimes reads aloud to us. Since the introduction of our entertainment exchange we have all been entertained more pleasantly, and mere wholesomely than we ever. were before."- nose. efore nose,:. and in each of the discs that cover 'the eyes, whore the wood is about two'. inches thick, a' marrow slit, about the width of a thin. saw cut, is made: • .Through the slits the light passes to the eyes sufficiently dimin- ished to prevent snow blindness. Nanseii. used these Eskimo snow spectacles in Greenland, and found them. very good, as the absence oi: glass' prevented the obscuring of • the sight by th�e'condensation of moisture en the epees.Captain Perry, an ear - a s s for hundreds of miles on all sides till late spring, and sets up a serious af- fection that may result in total blind. „ ness. Snow blindness is not a new coo- e plaint. There are many. instances of p it in history. The glare of the'sun shining on the snow causes a pricking h i pain; then there is a sensation of grit lier explorer; and hie men, also wore f under the eyelids; light of any kind native ,snow spectacles. .Ori one oc 'r becomes extremely painful and the rasion, when' a party of men set out d sight begins to go. If the matter is from` Parry's boat without this pro - not attended to, the eyelids swell and tection, every man was struck with a the vision may remain impaired for blindness, and no one was able to di- o •rect':the sledge. y Minard's Liniment used by Physicians. c.— Sea -Cow Seen. The Arctic sea -cow, thought to have, been extinct for forty years, has been seen again. Native fishermen of the Aleutian Islands declare that when fishing off the islands one or more of these crea- tures have been seen. In the hind- quarters they appeared to be true fish, abut in the head and neck they were ox -like. The, huge sea -cow often wenght ,'4,000 ib., and is 40 ft, long. Seaweed grown in miniature forests along the Aleution Islands, , and time sea -oohs :-'bnce pastured :there. They possessed a habit of herding together like cattle, (snorting and puffing, The hind legs were used as a single fin, but the front fins were, used as legs to support the animus, There were udders between the forelegs, and plates instead of teeth. The last time a sea -cow was seen by white men was`: forty years ago, over' a hundred years after its discovery. Pills imported into India are color- ed', to show their use; those tinted red contain poison. Hot wenther will frequently cause clock and watches long out of use to start working. The ;heat melts the olcl oil- which has hardened and clog, ged the bearings. On the vast steppes of Russia the Large bodies of inch have some- v cattle that graze during the• early times been affected by snow blindness.. spring, when the ground for hundreds In Peru a whole division of the army b of miles is glistening white, ,are marching from Cuzco to rano became ,s troubled with snow blindness; but blincl, and a hundred guides had to be several years ago an Englishman in- summoned to lead them to their des- h ision of Mrs. 'White's plump and pink. With her chin in her hands, she sat efore her mirror a long time. She bared ,earnestly into her own soul. She shuddered. She had worked so Wel for her family—so ouch harder than Mrs.. White worked for hers- and her family loved her less for it, Her children "aver trooped into the kitchen after school, as Mrs. White's did. There was a pie, a cake, or a pudding in the oven, and a step across the Ro•oi night make it fall. Her chil- dren never played around her when she cooked, for her cooking had al- ways been torso elaborated and complex for such interruptions as ehildisb needs and questione vented a special form of spectacles With brown glass, which could be fas• toned" round the horns of cattle with leather straps. Quite a thriving buslnossgrew up in the manufacture of these spectacles,. but the war put a stop to It, and the cattle suffered 'severely, Now Russia is amour to adapt the remedy again,. Mbti`litain climbers and Arctic ex- plorers have to wear blue or green lawyers why your naisie had not been glasses when in snow•olad regione, tination. Many of the afflicted men wandered away and fell over pre- cipic'es, In 1793, in the .Alps, bodies of P ednsontese • troops were sisnflarly fn.eapa•citateci: - But:the lesson has now been learned and :nfoddrn travellers in snowy re- gions ; invariably wear colored spec- taoitls; end, thanks to lihnglislt'enter- prise, which has done soenuelt to foe - ter' Mildness to aisimals, the lower: creatures are similarly protected. 300 The Used car dealer who chow s yon. how they run instead of talking :,bout what they are like. USED AUTOS idd ildteally in stook. Percy . r�eak402 v e: YONGS, r. � Tt51�bV�'T'o Mention imtlpslr