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Zurich Herald, 1916-05-05, Page 61 �Ml THE CA 1•t' ;6,1 f age. For all that this laughing • ''la'} ; girl knew to the contrary, the Sea- 5/Si Horse might in a few minutes slip off the ledge and take her to the' bot- tom. "I want to talk to you," said Mona —"to learn, if I can, what sort of girl you are; and though you are not inter- ested in zny reasonaI'm going to give it to you. It is because you are the „ale,. daughter of the man who robbed me Mi,r2g of twenty thousand pounds." Elsa sprang to her feet with quiver- ing lips. "That is not true." she said. "Oh, come! You don't deny the relationship!" said Mona mockingly. "And as for the robbery" "My father did not rob you," said Elsa hotly. ".Didn't he? I think the term' is, ac- 1 curate. At any rate Richmond Car - rington accepted its substantial ac- curacy as a description of what he had done when I taxed him with it yesterday." "Yesterday!" cried Elsa. "You saw him yesterday? You admit it?" "Of course I admit it. Why shouldn't I? I have been very anxi- ous to see him, you know. I knew he was in San Miguel, and I meant to see him; but I didn't count on having the luck to run up against him in the course of the very first bicycle ride I took in the island. However, that was what happened." "Where did you meet him?" Elsa demanded. "About a mile from the village of Furnas. I had gone there to see the famous geysers, you know. Romantic district for a defrauded heiress and the ,defaulting trtistees` t'to' meet in, wa^n't it?" Elsa decided at once that the' girl was lying. Furnas is ten miles from the Caldeira de Morte. The tale was impossible. "I thought the defaulting trustee was looking very prosperous," Mona went. on mockingly. "He has put on flesh since I last met him. But he didn't teem to be as glad to see me as he might have been, considering all that he owes to me. He spoke of you, by the way, and actually had the folly to appeal to what he called my finer feelings, my generous heart, on your behalf. That was a false move which I should not have expected from a pian of his proved ability. Do you know, Miss Carrington, that your father is a very plausible imposter?" Elsa answered her 'with a glance of contempt. "I recognize," she said, "that he made a mistake in crediting Margaret Ryan with finer feelings. Will you allow me to return to the deck ? You shall have the use of my boat." "But you would prefer not to have any more of my company than is ne cessary," said Mona, laughing. "I suppose that's natural. But I've something more to say. Your father made a ridiculous proposition to me. Will you tell him that it is declined, with Margaret Ryan's best love and thanks." "Let me gol" said Elsa fiercely, "How dare you mock at him like that? You know that he is dead!" Mona de la Mar started forward with a cry. "Dead! Do you say he is dead?" "Do you say that you did not know it?" AN EXCITING PRE.sEF T-D1Y ROMANCE BY WEATt-IERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER XI..--(Cont'd.) She heard the rumble of tt whee and the. sharp rattle of the rutldei chains, A shadowy form loomed out af.' tbe. spotea and rano slowly o towards the entrance. Che neat mom- ent the bowsprit of a large vessel passed between the tack walls of the n i' raw opening.; there was a grating .noise, and a sharp jerk; the vessel heeled till her bulwark touched the bassalt, shivered a zr1•tmcnt, and swung back again the other way; the bell on her foremast tolled with the violence of the oscillation, and then, balanced on the fulcrum of the !grounded forefoot, she settled down with long slow swings, like some giant metronome or like the dead rolling of a direlict in the trough. There was a confusion and shouting on her deck, and Eisa thought that she, saw a woman's form. The fog crept round again, and blotted out the view of the stranded vessel. She sculled nearer, as quietly as she ctould. It did not seemi that there wile any immediate danger, the vessel apparently was not sinking, and as the sea outside was calm, her people would easily make the shore in their boats. She did not wish to be seen, so she waited until they were gone. Fut meanwhile she must know wheth-- er it was possible for her to get out at all. - It was not possible. Under the light air the ship had taken ground :slowly, but -her weight had carried her well into the opening. There was not room on either side of her for a boat to pass out. Elsa was a pri- soner. She looked up at the name painted on the bows. It was almost dark now, but she could just make out the white letters. She nearly betray ed herself by a cry of dismay. The vessel was the Sea -Horse, the circus people's schooner. She pushed back quickly, but a head appeared over the forward bul- warks, and a woman's voice hailing her told her that. she had been seen. eseag.'Reat ahoy! We want help. Bring ,Your boat alongside." It was Mona de la Mar. Elsa drew back furthrr into the fog. Her first impulse was to refuse help. Mona shouted again, and Elsa brought her boat alongside. -Do you need help?" she asked. "Yes," "Are you filling?" "No. I don't think so. But we're hard aground.• If it comes on to blow,' we shall break up." "You had better take to your. beats. ;WE haven't any boats, that's why we need yours. Can you come aboard if we let down a ladder ?" A rope ladder was thrown over the -side, Elsa fastened the end of it to 1 the painter of her boat, and then waiting till the pendulum swing of the schooner brought the bulwarks; tc their lowest point, put her feet in a rung and took a firm•hold with her stands There was an almost motion- Iess. second between the down swing ane the up, and then she was car- ried swiftly upwards. At the same tune she was pressed hard against the schooner's side, and the cold iron! took the: skin off her knuckles. It waf. all She could do to hold on; she.' Could not climb until once more the - fat: of the roll swung her outwards agaii;. In the brief .pause between the two movements she raised herself tort' rungs, but it was not until she had been hoisted and lowered eight ' times that she reached the bulwark level. Then two black arms grasped her and lifted her an the deck, and n a soft voice murmured : ' "All right, missy; now yo's safe You very brave lady." • "I didn't think you would manag it," said Mona de la Mar, who was standing close by. "Sambo is right. You are a very brave girl. But I don't suppose you need us to tell you that, and time is, precious. May we use your boat?" "Yes," said Elsa. "I expect you wonder why we haven't one of our own. There's a simple explanation, but you can hear it by and by. Meanwhile I daresay you'll trust us. We're honest, you know. We have'nt stolen this ship." "You may use niy boat if you can get it out." "Get it out? What do you mean?" "You will have to get the boat out of the water, and launch it again over the stern. There is only one way into or out of the circle of the Ring -Rock, and your schooner is block- ing it." "Is this the Ring -Reck?" "Yes.'^ Didn't you know?" "Hadn't a notion," said Mona light- ly. "I saw it marked on the ehart, but I thought we were a good five nti1ee from it. Val B. will say nasty things about my navigation. When he hears. I'ni his pupil in that subject, you see!" She laughed softly again, and then with a quick movement, came closer to Elsa, and peered into her face. "Aren't you Elsa Carrington?" she asked in a low voice. "Yes." "Do you know who I am?" "You are e Margaret Ryan." "I was. I'm Mona de la Mar now. Come down to niy cabin. Sambo, you heard what the lady said about the boat. Can you do it?" I"Got to, Missy Mona," said Samba cheerfully. "Can't stay here till the wind comes. Oh, yes, we'll do it all right." 1 me know when you've done it. I shall "Then be quick as you can. Let !be in my cabin." She led the way down below, and Elsa followed her. Ss she lit a lamp in the pretty little cabin she said with a smile: "It's a funny meeting between us too, isn't it? I wish I could have shown you over my hone under less wobbly conditions, but the circum- stances are peculiar. Do you think you can sit on the edge of that bunk without being shot off when she rolls?" I "Why are you here?" said Elsa. ' "Why am I here,—I, Mona de la Mar, late Margaret Ryan . Is that what you mean? Or do you mean why is the good ship Sea -Horse piled, e Of Course You Need 4 • Crean cornea out of the freezer with e velvety st all nese a -d r r ii, lou.,nets siren It i., made telth BENSON'S. sk . it r, pretty hard to cnk for any.. fere della:Am than a Cl.oce:ato r t <• l" go or Cream C:cat,trd wl:h al troll, ; e.l of 5enaon'sCern Starch. r: loci,^.c Seek "Desaerte and + ,rr - tells !tow -and how much to vn. Write kr n t•c •. � tonMontrealC..:N e- and Ee m r.'tateil your grccer tt:t7d'GIS.,ON the ct:e,byin (:'z. far more ti .. half a century, :!.. CANADA SIAM' CO. WAITED " AOTCORD, 216 rota N!tt.LUA.m• atiatie— on the Ring -Rock, and making it necessary for Sambo and the sailors to lift your boat out and rescue you from a watery prison? Incidental- ly, of course, you rescue us from a possible watery grave, which would be even more unpleasant. So we are grateful. But in which sense am I to understand your question ?—Me or the Sea -Horse?" "Both," said Elsa. Mona laughed again. "I'ni here because—oh because of a variety of reasons. It's a long story though, and I think you know most of it already. The Sea -Horse is here because I didn't allow enough for drift, and piled her up. There I've answered your question, haven't I ?" "Not in the sense in which I asked it." said Eisa. "No, I know that. But I shall have, to explain at great length to Val B.1 Montague presently, 'and explanations are fatiguing. I want to talk about you just now: I want to know you, if I can. Do you wonder why?" Elsa looked straight at the laughing face of her questioner, and after al brief pause, said coldly: "No." "You understand why?" said Mona, nodding: "I don't understand. It is merely! that the question does not interest! me." Mona clasped her fingers behind her head, and leaned her back against the heaving wall of the cabin. Her brown l ' eyes showed a sparkle of amusement, ! and a smile played about her lips. She was a girl who made a habit of taking life with a laugh, and even the fact that etre had just piled her employer's ship on a ledge of sharp volcanic rock did not seem to have! made a break in the habit. Elsa re- i garded her with a cold disapproval, 1 t but at the sane time with a certain admiration. There had been on ex- amination of the extent of the dant- '. (To be Continued.) Reduce Fire Risks. The average farm building is' a fire trap from one end to the other. It is full of readily inflammable ma- terial. Once started, a farm fire is very seldom stopped. We will sug- gest a few precautions which we take to reduce fire risks. If a lantern is upset almost any- where in the ordinary barn or stable, there is a litter of chaff around to take fire. The first precaution we would advise is to clean up the chaff; and litter and eliminate this' danger.' Another precaution is never to set a lantern down where it can be knock- ed over. Everywhere in our barns we have convenient ,hooks or wires running from one end of the stable to the other on which the lantern may be suspended. Spontaneous combustion is suppos- ed to be the cause of many farm fires, Is there such a thing? A United States professor who has examined into hundreds of cases, states his be- lief that in almost all cases of so-call- ed spontaneous combustion the heat- ing of the forage was not sufficient' to set the forage itself on fire, but. that it ret some smudge of oil or grease a -blazing: The dirty lantern! carried into the hay mow is a prolific l disturbutor of oil dirt, The best'pre- ventatlive is to throw down the hay by daylight. A lantern in which the burner is always kept clean, however, is not so liable to distribute oil. We never let the tramps sleep in our barns, no matter how solemnly they swear rtn tt they will not smoke lor throw matcheraround. They are a prolific source of farm fires. We restrain our own love for "the weed"' when we are around that buildings. Farm,and Fireside, compares c smokig man to a walking stick 'of dynamite, and they are about right. he Virtue of the Natural Leaf is perfectly preserved in Me sealed 1104 packet. Young tender p leaves grown with tam st, .care and with flavour as the prime object, are used to pre .duce the Wamous S gads blend&. N THE FARM Prepare Good Seedbed: The promise of an early Spring will attract the attention of farmers to ethe approach of the grain -sowing sea- son. The first crop considered by the majority is oats, and the buying of seed or preparing of the hone -grown grain for seeding should be looked af- ter at once. The best way to sow oats is with the grain drill. Drilling gives a more even stand than broadcast seeding, for all the seed is "covered to about the same depth. In sowing broadcast' shine of the seed may not be covered at all' and some may be covered too deeply. Germination is better from drilled seed and the growth is more uniform throughout the season. In numerous tests at the experiment sta- tions drilled oats have outyielded oats sown broadcast by several bushels to the acre. Better stands of grass and clover can also be obtained in drilled. than in broadcast oats. The best depth to sow oats varies with the soil and the season. In any case they should be covered with half an inch to an inch of moist soil. They should be sown deeper in sandy soils than in loams or clays. Deeper seed- ing is also necessary when the ground' is dry than when it is moist. On the average the hest depth is from one to one and a half inches. Oat 1 neled varieties than for large-kerneled ones for there are many more of the former in a bushel, Allow the Winter protection provid- ed the plants last Fall to remain upon the plants for some time to come. It is during the alternate freezing and 1 thawing weather of late Winter and early Spring that the protection is most needed. I Maintaining Humus in the Soil. ! A valuable pamphlet has just been ' issued by the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture. It deals with soils, soil cultivation and crops in that pro- vince, being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the annual re- ' port of the Secretary for Agriculture for the year 1915, The articles have been specially prepared by experts and.,.contain a fund, of valuable in- formation for :farmers generally. In an article -prepared by Mr. Cumming appear the following Valuable hints on humus: Humus may be maintained or even gradually increased by the following practices:— (a) Live stock farming, with its attendant use of barnyard manure. (b) Reasonably short dotations in which clover and grass sods are plow- ed under at not more than 3 to 5 years intervals. (c) The use of clover, always, when seeding clown. (d) The plowing under in extreme instances of green crops, such as buck- wheat, rye, clover, vetches, etc. (e) When commercial fertilizers are largely depended upon, short rota- tions and the plowing under of green crops are absolutely necessary. The humus supply may be deplet- ed by the following practices:— (a) Selling hay and other products off the farm instead of feeding to live stock. (b) Careless preserving of barn- yard manure. (c) Growing too many successive crops of oats, etc. or roots or even hay (the latter is the most common source of humus depletion in Nova Scotia). (d) The wrong use of commercial fertilizers. In a light, open soil, humus is rapid- ly decomposed and lost, and conse- quently one must apply manure more frequently and follow a shorter rota- tion in order to conserve the humus supply than on heavier soils. s s could be sown as early in the' Spring as it is possible to make a good; seed bed. The exact date of course varies with the season and with the: locality. This does not mean that the preparation of the land should be - neglected in order to sow early. 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(Ezteblislied 18421 MONTREALQue. L1i:i',1i.t3'CI.. 1S 11.1" Tons :aro AIW 'v.6.1-COVCTE . FOR ALIT lea ALL DMALIEFS HOLLAND'S FATE IF GERMANY WON WOULD OPEN DYKES OR BECOME VASSAL OF TEUTON. King Alfonso Has Doite Mueh Work for Relief of British Prisoners, The Liverpool Daily Post possesses in its editor-in-chief, Sir Edward Russell, one of the most capable and experienced journalists in Great Britain, whose weekly article, entitled "From a Club Window," it is not too much to say provides a mine of in- formation for other less well informed newspaper men, In his most recent contribution Sir Edward Russell directs attention to two countries which he is convinced must play an important part, in the ! immediate future of Europe. In Sir Edward's opinion, both Holland and Spain, in the next few months, may become of immense national worth, and he gives the following reasons for his belief; "Holland has no doubt quite legiti- mately made large sums out of the war in its earlier stages by being the main emporium for Germany: But the fall of the mark, in spite of strenuous Teutonic machinations, has forcibly impressed the commercial Dutch. - Again, the recent outrages on Dutch Vessels have more deeply stir- red the inhabitants of Holland against Germany than the English realize. Except during the Boer War, the Dutch have always exhibited most friendly feelings toward England, combined with the greatest distrust of Germany. The Queen of Holland's marriage was not very popular, be- cause it created fear of Teutonic in- fluence at court. What Holland Dreads. "Some six years ago, when the pre- sent writer was in Holland, the Dutch upper classes talked of the war be- tween England and Germany as be- ing inevitable. If England was de- feated, one heard on all sides, then Holland's only resource against an- nexation by Germany would be the opening of the dikes. That feeling has never changed during bhe present war, though Germany has lavished money galore on its small neighbors. It can be said with emphasis that never before has our Foreign Office been in such close relation to the Dutch 'Government. "Before the close of the summer some interesting developments are quite possible in that land of sturdy men, hard thinkers artd good liyers. Nowhere, not even in Sweden, does one get better food or see larger in- dividual consumers of it than in that country of superlative cleanliness and geographical flatness. "Spain .is becoming of increasing note because the strong pro -German feeling found in certain quarbers at the outset of hostilities has sensibly abated in the last two months. The King of Spain has taken the place ear- lier occupied by .President Wilson as the chief impartial onlooker upon hostilities. If Germany wants peace she will appeal for it through the in- tervention of Alfonso. He has,kept aloof as far as possible, although the Roman Catholic influence of his court is probably pro -German. But he has done immense and unacknowledged work for the relief of prisoners, and when English relatives now try to trace a missing warrior bhe most strenuous efforts are made to assist them by the Spaniards. Portui al'e declaration of war against Germany has made considerable stir in Madrid. Spain will. not fight, but she may have much to gain commercially if she engineers peace. "Peace, or rather the sessation of hostilities in the autumn, is now be- coming a practical matter of hypo- thetical discussion. It is because of this increasing potentiality that the coming budget is viewed with com- parative equanimity, for it is under- stood to be only a six months' budget. And after that? Well, we wait and hope." PREDICTS WAR'S END. Londoners Relieve Prophet Who Fore- told a Man's Death. The Manchester Guardian is respon- sible for a curious story. It is that, man who had a reputation as a props het and fortune teller, whether a tee- ing prophet or a crystal gazer is of recorded, said to Someone (unnamed) : "I toll you that the war will be ovOr on July 27, and you'll see it'll be as true as that man there will die op Saturday." The story runs that "that man there," although strong heal- thy n1 and ea - thy at the time, did die on Saturday', The war therefore will end on July 27, It looke as though this conflict of nations, which resembles in so many terrible ways the wars of antiquity, resembles them also is the strange growth of popular si+,n,t end fabler.