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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-04-28, Page 8TtiE CP.BLCMAR All EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE BY VWEATHERBY CHESN1 Y Library Iuspe or, T sE BLOOD GUILT OF ► NATION WHAT, PROF.' MORGAN SAYS OR THE GERMANS. CHAPTER X,—(Cont'd.) ' failed, in an enterprise, the success The islet for which she Was steering { of which is so essential, that to ea - lay a little more than two miles fro selfit, I am voluntarily putting are self in some danger; While you are the shore, with deep water close up to' doin your best' at Ponta Delgada to its flanks. It was ring-shaped, like discover who the unknown enemy is, a Pacific atoll, but its formation was i I shall be engaged in a sin3iIar .eon - different. Not the slow, quiet growth est with an enemy who of late has of coral insects had made it, but a con- taken to using threats. Now, little vulsion of nature. It was the sum- girl, between the known enemy and mit of a deep -water volcano, whose l the unknown, I run a double risk of crater raised a brim, a hundred yards? failure, and this is what you must across, out of the sea. There was onelhel me to avoid. place on the West, where for a few "Thep broken sealed packet which you will feel this zbrim hy been a boat nxoigh t find with this letter contains dace- ith enter: and the water inside made ani ments which must at all ;costs be al:r, ge circular lagoon. : kept out of the hands of people who Levaltraditionsaidthat`it was bot -‘would use them to your and my:injury. tentless. ; I do not trust to my own ability to It was a place where a ship might! safe -guard them, nor is' it possible ha—, e ridden out in eafety the heav- for me, watched as I believe I am, to put them into any place of safety. k *hurricane that aver blew, if it That must be your task. Those who hen been po sib1e for any ship to en-' are shadowing me will not consider it t., But the opening in the circular? necessary to watch you also. Take well was hardly more than ten feet the packet, and put it in the safest acres. and underneath there was a' ! k..c,. :all, whi h rose to within two't place that you t utnw. When I re- turn,• if I do return, I shall not ask fell: ;"is of the surface. It was a , , you where it is, r r<<<., pus entrance, even for a small' ole lend when the wind blew from I am not a fanciful man, Elsa, but the w est, impossible; but Elsa knew; I have written those four words. `I it ee h, and thought that ilxe could do not return' deliberately. Of late. I' re :acre it, even alone. shave had a feeling—a fanciful man le was an expert and fearless; would say a presentiment—that my !.;oatwoman, but slie was not accueel end is riot far off. 'I have lived a life toni+er; tr' having to depend altogether' of varied activities, some useful, and upot. herself in her expeditions. The; some perhaps not so useful, and the bee: was a present which her father ` strain of old efforts is beginning to hat' given her a little more than a tell upon me. In the early years of year ago; but with the present, he my manhood i suffered great physical had coupled a stipulation that she; hardships, andthey left a weak place; loins, never go out in it alone. Ther before I left London my doctor warn: gular enacts of San Miguel breed' ed me that the weak place was becom- treacherous currents, and wind' ing weaker. The effort which I must eeualis are sudden; but even had the: make to-day—an effort, which for your water.: been as safe as the Solent,' sake as well as mine, is inevitable Elea : boat nae too big for one girl; is of the sort which I have been warn- tv- manage. This; therefore, was the first ocea- sior. or, which she had been out in it ed to avoid, but I have no choice: I tell you this unwillingly, and for the first time; but it is necessary that you 'a:one; but to -clay a companion was im-should be ready, if I fail, to take up pus ible. For she had work to do' the work where I leave it. which no eye but her own must see. "Now you will ask—what is the D:d", she still believe in her father's work? My daughter, it is the re- innocerce?' She was acting as though habilitation of my name. I have she did; and, for the rest, she tried to thought lately that you were beginn- foice herself not to think. ing to -skull*. -whether my anxiety on She hanot kept herfaith without this point was not becoming weaker. struggle. Misgivings had arisen in Elsa, I say to you solemnly, that it is her mind, but she had strangled them. as strong now as ever it was. But remorselessly at their birth, and by an having said that, I am now going to effort of will made herself believe that add something which you will, per - they had never been born. There was, haps, not understand. It is this : I however, one moment when the doubts had been too strong to be stifled thus; they had cried clamorously, and had refused to be choked; and for half -an - hour she had tasted a misery more bitter even than that which had come when she . first knew that her father' office which I leave, not to you, but was dead. That moment was ' when to your mother.• she listened to Scarborough's tale of I "Your mother is on her way to the embezzlement of Margaret Ryan's' join us. She will arrive on the Fun- inheritance, and had told him passion- chal from Lisbon on the tenth of the ately that since he believed, it, he. month. If on that date I am unable might go --for almost she thought she. to meet her, if my presentiment— hated him. She had thrown herself; after all, I think it is a presentiment, on the couch, and sobbed hysterically; Elsa—has by that time come true, I for at that moment the knowledge, wish you to recover this package from was in her heart that what he said the safe place in which you have be - was true! '- stowed it, and to • give it into her Elsa drew back her boat -hook from Later had • come the reaction. She hands. When you do so, tell her also the fissure, and stood up in the, boat, took up her faith again, the more un- that my last message to her, spoken listening with a strained intensity reasonably because reason had forced by the lips of you, her daughter is of concentration. She was quite sure her to lay it down; and she despised, that, she is to respect the wish I have that they were men's voices that she herself for the weakness in allowing, expressed in a letter to her which the had heard; but were the hien along the calumny to influence her even for packet contains. She will under- way off or close to her? She knew a moment. There was something of stand; you will not. For the rest, how deceptive is the nature of sound obstinacy in this—the obstinacy of, a be guided by her. in a fog on the water. Probably strong nature which fights the more "Good-bye, little girl. I think this some boat was passing in the distance. tenaciously when facts and common-; is the longest letter I have over writ- She heard the voices again, and ' sense alike are against it, and it ten to you. I have one thing more to this time they seemed quite close. knows quite well that it is in the' add to it. If you have begun to She could almost distinguish the ac - wrong; and there was even more of the doubt me in some things, at any rate beautiful Loyalty with which every you have never doubted that I love true woman will always, at whatever you. In days to come your estimate violence to her own judgment of right' of your father may change; you will and wrong, defend those whom she hear things that will try your faith. loves. But never believe that he did not love It will be remembered that when' you. It is for your sake that I am Elsa set out to go to the circus at daring danger to -day; it is for your Ponta Delgada, her father's last words' sake that I hope for success, that I to her had been that if---enlikoly as may return to you to be happy, for such a chance seemed at the time—' a little while longer in your love. he was not at the Chinolas when she "It is time now that I was starting.. returned, she would find in his desk, I cannot write more. But again, dart- in the second small dravver on the loft, ing, good-bye" a paper that would tell 'her what she • Elea read this letter with tears was to do, ':streaming down her face. Whatever . This paper was marked, "To my the man may have been in life, only a daughter~, Elsa, to be overeat reg la. her churl would deny that this message to-morrovr at noon, if by that time I from him in death was pathetic. If he have not returned to destroy it." was a scoundrel, he !tad' never been so Ells, opened it an hour after Sear-' to hie, daughter, and in his skilful borough had left her. This was what discounting of the revelations that it obtained : ; must come after his death, there was "My dear daughter, --.1 told you this a melancholy cleverness: sHe fought morning that when you, returned for the continuance of horlove, and it fi•oui Ponta Delgada you might .pos-) was plain that while he pleaded he eibly find that I was not at home to , feared. At present Elsa saw only 'erect you, and to hear your report of , the pleadings; it was not until later what and whom you had seen, I; days that ells recognized, with a sor- nwr]it; have told you that the pas- rowing pity,: that the tear was there w erizfl;at;y was a certainty, but I did not too. IrishI ..to alarm you. By time you ' Thtro' was ,much in the Tetter that Don't keep a good movement on n I shall have succeeded or she did not understand. Her father hand; put it on foot at once. hand over the work to you, but I lay no charge upon you to complete it. Nay, more, under certain circum- stances,' I forbid you to complete it, I do not even make you the judge of those circumstances. That is an 13 76 t. ': )g )sed w,t clean, wT) ole young leaves® Picked right, Wended right and packed right. It brings the fragra c of an Easteen garden two your tubba Chief Librarian of the London,.' On tario, Public Library, who ha4 been appointed Provincial InspecW tot of Public Libraries. plainly looked for death as the issue of his effort; but what sort of death ? At the hands of the enemy whom he was going to meet? --murder? Then why that reference to the hardships of hisyouth, and the weak place they had left? For the first time she al- lowed herself to hope that her father's end had not been violent, after all. Sudden it must have been, but per haps— . Her love carried her aa once to the other extreme of spepulation. Wae her father not a victim, but a hero? He had made a great effort, and he said that he made it for her sake; she did` not understand that, but he had written the words. Did he know that the effort would cost him his life? She canvassed this thought, and - it seemed to her that it was the truth. She, found a certain comfort in it, and she took a dreary pleasure' in carry- ing out the task which he had laid' upon her. The, safest place she knew. That was surely the Ring -Rock, round whose flanks she could now, through the fog, hear the water swirling. She had the packet with her, seal- ed in a great stone jar. It was thin and flat, and had rolled easily into a shape that would pass through the jar's neck. She took the beat in through the opening, and made for a spot on the east of the circle. There was a fun- nel -shaped fissure in the, rock wall. here, which even at low tide contain- ed a fathom of black water. She had sounded it on the last occasion on which she had visited the Ring -Rock, and it was this funnel shaped fissure that she meant to use for her hid- ing -place. She had. painted the jar black, so that it should not be visible against the bassalt, and she had tied many loops of strong picture wire about its neck so that she could re- cover it by grappling when her moth- er came. She brought her boat close to the rock wall., and was feeling with a boat -hook for the mouth of the fissure, when a sound from the outside struck her ei rs. She we's not alone. Voices of men close at hand came to her through the fog. CHAPTER XL tualwords, and the could hear plainly that the language was English. The fog swept down upon her again in a thick blanket. She,could not see three yards ahead. Ththickening of the gloom' was sudden, and probably only local. But while it Tasted she was safe from. .observation. She must finish' her work before it lifted to betray her. She lowered the stone jar into the fiusure, and pushed her boat quickly away from the side. Hardly had she done so, when by some caprice of the air currents, the fog ,cleared away so completely, that from the middle of her little harbor, she could: see the whole` circle of the basalt walls. It was only a local clearness; in the gathering dusk of the evening she could see through the narrow entrance that the heavy billowing masr•es of whiteness were still twisting and heaving on the sea outside. • - She put an oar in the stern -notch, and began sculling towards the en- trance. A .voice from close at hand rang sharply on her ears. "Rocks dead ahead- Starboard!" (To: be Continued.) t WHEN WILL THIS CRUEJ . WAR; BE OVER? Chas. M. Bice, Denver; Colorado. It would require the prophetic vision of a Daniel or an Isaiah; to predict its end with certainty. Many have essayed to do so, but .41 too many instances the wish is "father to the thought." Mr. Hudson Maxim predicts it will end in five years, possibly in three, and he has history on his side. Perhaps the greatest conflict in liis tory, before the present struggle, was the American Civil War, 1861 to 1865, and in many respects the parallels are striking. The South was virtually in Germany's position to -day, in her economic conditihns, with her ports japan. defeated P.ussia,, 1895, and secured the independence' of Korea, in a little ,over a year; and. the U. S. whipped Spain in 1898, in one; year. Yet, it cannot with certainty be pre - dieted that this, the greatest of all wars, including on• opposite sides so, many of the great Powers of the world will; be of short duration. With the wonderful improvements in. arras, ex- plosives, and modern scientific appli- ances, the air crafts and submarines brought into requisition for the first time, infuse elements in the problem that render prediction of the end a hazardous. undertaking. These, it would seem, must decide the conflict very rapidly, but if not so decided, they are apt to become long drawn out affairs. Resources do not seem to play such all blockaded, arid like Germany she important parts inpresent day wars hoped for foreign interference. The as formerly, because the deprivation Mason -Slidell incident' was hailed by is made up hy•the aid of science in de - the South as a clever piece of work. wising new sources of sustenance. But the Confederacy failed to enlist Food, it seems; has become of least foreign recognition or help, and the importance in starving out a belliger- struggle assumed the shape of endur- ent; what counts angst is lack of ma- ance only. terial, money and loss of trade. Like Germany, the South was am- We all hope the enemy will col-• ply prepared for the conflict in the lapse soon, but we should be' prepared start, and held out for over 4 years for a bong drawn out struggle, against an overwhelmingly superior enemy in everything except brains.. The AT FORTY!" The English Civil War, which was characterized by such terrific battles An OId Saying That a Man is Just as as Marston, Edgehill, Moor and Nas- by, lasted 8 years. Old as He Feels. The war of the Spanish Succession The cry of "Too old at forty!" has— which staged such conflicts as Ramil- in one sense, at any rate—got its lies, Blenheim, and. Malpiaquet drew death blow during the present war. its devastating length along a period The older men have been called to of 13 years. fill the places of the youngsters who For 8 years the struggle that put have gone to the front, and they have Maria Theresa on the Austrian throne filled them well, says London An - ebbed and flowed over the same swers. ground, as we see in some of the The late Dr. Alfred •Russel Wal - most bitter battles of the present war. lace, O.M., issued one of his biggest The conflict that gave Prussia her and most learned books when he had 'tnilitary rank is known as the Seven passed his ninetieth year. Ile actual- Years' War. ly wrote four big books after he passed It took 8 years of hard fighting to his eightieth year! free the American Colonies, while the Tennyson was remarkable both for Napoleonic Wars continued for 15 the quantity and quality of the work years and produced Austerlitz, Maren- he did in old age. He wrote that go, Trafalgar, Jena, Leipsie and end- supreme lyric, "Crossing the Bar," ed in Waterloo. when past eighty. One of his most The Greek struggle for independence famous poems, "Locksley Hall," was lasted 7 years, from 1821 to 1828. written when he was a mere , boy of These are nearly all what might be two -and -twenty, and its sequel, every termed • modern wars; but the more bit as fine, sixty years after, as its ancient conflicts.lasted much longer, title shows. because the instruments of death Mr. Gladstone had reached his Were not so perfect as those of mod- eightieth year when he was called to ern times. undertake the Premiership of the France and England fought for a • greatest Empire in the world for the century, (1837 to 1437), while the fourth time. • Hussite war lasted nearly 30 years, There is much truth in the qi:d say and the French civil war, provoked by ing that a man is just as old as he the edict of Nantes, continued for a feels, and many a man feels as young long time. It required over 40 years at eighty as another does at thirty, to free the Netherlands from Spanish and the former is often a better man rule. The 30 Years' War secured re- than the latter, even if he can't lift ligious freedom for Germany. But there have been very short wars, as instanced by the defeat of Austria by Prussia in 1866, taking only 7 weeks. - The Russo-Turkish war of 1877 con- tinued only a few months, and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 was vir- tually ended in 6 weeks. as much. It's ideas that rule man- kind, not fists, "mailed" or otherwise. The Wretch. Mrs. Youngbride-Boo hoo ! Jack threw a cake at me. One that I made myself, too: Her Friend—The. monster! He might have killed you. When your head is dull and heavy, your tongue furred, and you feel clone -up and good for nothing, without knowing what is really the matter with you, probably all that is needed to restore you to health and vigour is a few doses of a reliable digestive tonic and stomachic rem- edy such as Mother Seigel's Syrup. Take it after each meal for a few, days and note how beneficial is its action uponthe stomach, liver and bowels--' how it restores tone and healthy activity to these important organs, and by so doing enables you to gain new stores of vigour, vitality and health, OTHER tea i ow 1.00 size conteins ihr'ee li»fps as nwch as the trier size • sold at 50c per bottle. Bois ST FOR T H E M C : AND LwER The .Horse Sale .Di to per 'Foix know that when you biry or sell throng the rates hes a.botit one °lattice in flttr to escape a.l [d'$' ."r'1&P1.13u. : rr OPOTKEPO 11 Is your true proteottorr, your only safeguard, for as sure as you treat all your horses with it, you win soon be rid of the disease It acts es a sure preventive, no matter bow they are "exported." 13y the bottle, or dozen bottles, at all drut,;;ists, horse goods houses or (Wagered by the �flariuiarfusers. SP0E:tt .MEDXCAL CO., alto:nista and, Baoteriologrlsts, t*ophan, Xnd., Entire People Seem Affected With Some Kind of Moral Distemper. Professor . Morgan was sent to France last year by the British Home Secretary toinvestigate the alleged outrages by German soldiers in . the French towns and villages which they occupied before the battle of the Marne. Professor Morgan is a famous. jurist. He has an almost academie regard. for the value of direct evidence. He has rejected everything that was only backed by hearsay, however widespread that hearsay might have been. He has now published the result of his enquiries including in the sante volume a detailed examination of the German official apology for the outrages in Belgium. The result is a document as terrible as the Bryce report. Professor Morgan has the courage to deduce the obvious moral from the fearsome story he has to tell. He is net _ content to saddle responsibility for a series of un- speakable crimes on the shoulders of the Prussian militarists. Orgy .of Blood. He boldly indicts a nation. He says: It is the fondest of delusions to imagine that all the blood guiltiness is confined to the German Govern- ment and the general stats. The whole people is stained with it. The innumerable diaries of comlixon sol- diers in the ranks which I have read betray a common sentiment of hate, rapine, and ferocious credulity. The progress of French, British, and Russian prisoners, civil as well as military, through Germany has been a veritable Calvary. The help- lessness which in others would ex- cite forbearance, if not pity, has in the German populace provoked only 'derision and insult. The old gentle- man with the grey beard and gold spectacles who broke his umbrella over the back of a Russian lady, the loafers who boarded a train and under the eyes of the indulgent sentries poked their fingers in the blindceyes of a wounded Irishman who had half his face shot away, the men aid women who spat upon helpless • pit soners and threatened them with death, the guards who proddded them with bayonets, worried them with dogs, and despatched those who could not keep up -these were not a Prus- sian caste, but the German people. People to Blame. I have been told that there are still some individuals in England who cherish the idea that this very orgy of blood, lust, rapine, hate and pride\ is in some peculiar way merely the Bacchanalia of troops unused to the heavy bouquet of the wines of Cham- pagne, or, stranger still,, that it is the mental aberration of -a people se- duced by idle tales into these courses by its rulers. . . . If the reader is astonished, as well he may be, at the disgusting' repeti- tion of stories of rape and . let him study the statistics of crime in Germany during the first decade of this century, issued by the Imperial Government; he will find in them much to confirm the impression that the whole people is infected with some kind of moral distemper. DANES FOR BRITISH FARMS. New Scheme for Importation of Alien Labor. A project for employing Danish labor on farms in England and Wales is announced by the British Board of Agriculture. Tho President has discussed the settlement) of dis- charged sailors and soldiers at a meeting at the Mansion House, Lon- don, but an official announcement is- sued subsequently by tho board, states that the Central Labor Exchange is prepared to obtain Danish labor for, farms outside prohibited areas pro- vided engagements for not less thah. twelve months can be guaranteed and that traveling expenss (about three -pounds) from Denmark will be ad; vaneed by the farmers, who may re- pay themselves out of the men's wages. The men would mainly be young single .men betwen 18 and 25' with practical dairy farming. They would need to be lodged and boarded under reasonably' comfortable condi- tions, and would have to be paid the current rate of wages. Responsibility. "Docs your wife lot you carry the latchkey'?" "She compels me to earry it," re- plied Mr. Meekton, "I have to be sitting on. the front steps waiting to, open the door for her,' when she gets home."