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Zurich Herald, 1916-08-18, Page 6vi ,.4. THS A , Il ,-4 e/ they emigrate. Row do you suppose great a;3 they manage it? The Yankee orange ship helm em, sir. My g coon= try is always at hand to help the cause of reedom, corporate or indivie dual—at a profit! The would-be emi- grant goes out in a small boat in a fog, or on a dark night, if there isn't a Ifog; the orange ship, which has been hanging about for the express par AN EXCITING PRESENT -DM ROMANCE BYEATHBV CHESNEY �, pose, bakes him abroad, and carries him to the land of freedom, for money CHAPTER .X.XIV. Scarborough exclaimed. "Was teat down if he has any, and if not, fort e her bargain with value of his boat, which, ten to one, "There was a long interval .before ;before she'madehe has stolen. Since T began to make. c the answer came. We, the woman i him?" inle the matter I heard o and I, waited for it almost without 1 "It was after, sir,"said Montague, inquiries a skipper he mat up have many as e doowing a brerth. At length the man smiling.twenty straight in the eyes, and "What was the bargain?" Varney that sort in a single foggy night. of My ring plaster looked herasked, M answered: proposed seems to have known of that earlier "'Yes, Raeleel Carrington, I was.' " eThe same which he sper had prop + than I did. T used to wonder what his When Val B. Montague came to thecwhich dead e poitnted out trwas not black- idea was in running away with my +- point in his story at which the Scotch wship as he did; it seemed to me a r clerk had admitted that he was pre- mail, bat a fair commission earned bypointless bit of piracy,if titan �;, sent at the death of Richmond Car- eminent, and ass yell ue nrewarded ser- waited for him when hcameiprison k' rington, he paused, and looked round vices in the p '' the circle of his shearers. It was a hound said that his conscience allow- a , dramatic momexit, and both the ed that percentage, ram eage,but Jumpingbade him Jehosha- natural temperament a?,d professional to ask fo e, a poseu had made a him sm.id, there -'that Itwouldn t letit work conscience for less e, a poseur. He was tempted, Pis fore, to play the situation for what it , than cent. ped cent. on each transac- ►' was worth. But the expression which ; tion!" he saw on one face, the look of plead -1 "Did Mrs. Carrington agree to those I. ing distress which he saw in Elsa's terms ?" the meekness of an unshorn l eyes, made him change his mind har- 1 "With • riedly. He remembered that the dead ewe lamb! I have hopes from thatl e man was her father, and that he had I anticipate that when the day of divi- e been told how she loved him. He sion be comes, her onscience it wiwill have h her e hurried on with his tale. } b "P11 give you the rest as qu'ekiy as , that it cannot sanction the payment 0. le 1 can," he said. "The man had been , of blackmail ab all! It woulod please t ease I" presentt Richmond Carrington's me if that crawling thing 'g M badly left a ncend." e death, but had not caused it. rs' "Well," insthed Scarborough laughing e Carrington took his word for that, 1 and having done so, dismissed the sub- E "that's what we are going' to try to ke ke ject, and proceeded to strike a bargain : do. How did they get rid of you le' with him." "With a revolver." father died'" l "What? Whose?" came from Scar- 10 - asked "Did he say how my a borough and Varney simultaneously. asked Elsa in a low voice• le "Yes," admitted Montague telae- whilee Gillies changed thdow's. She e saddle from it over sue to BUSH FIRES IN ONTARIO. What he Canadian Foreatry Asspci.a- tion Says About Them. The frightful loss of life and pro- perty from forest fires in Northern Ontario need not be accepted by the ,people of the province as whilly due to unavoidable causes. Evidence' thus far received indicates that the huge conflagration had its ,beginning in "slash" fires started by settlers for the purpose of clearing their lands. For many years the menace of settlers' fires during excessively hot spells has been increasing, largely for the reason that no machinery of any sort existed whereby a settler's so-called "liberty" of burning down lives and property could be curtailed. Investigation shows that both hi Ontario and Quebec, esettler .and not the railways primarily, shoulder a very large part of the re- sponsibility for annual forest fires, with a considerable contribution also s of course he mush have known from campers, fishermen, prospectors, that it dict, barring the lucky fog -and I etc. the luchier orange boat. But I don't The laws of Quebec, British Colum - wonder now; I know. There was no bia and Nova Scotia place heavy pen - luck about it. He calculated on both aides of fine or imprisonment upon the fog and the orange boat; and any settler who starts a fire during mark my words, if you don't look out the season of danger, April to No - to prevent it, that's what Gillies will This do, too, See sense in: what I say?" "Yes," said Scarborough. "But we can't watch the whole coast." "No need to. Watch the place where Gillies keeps his boat—the one he went to the Ring -Rock in. Miss Carrington has a boat, too, hasn't she''? Have it handy, night and day, with a' couple of men in it who know. how to row. Now off with you!! I'm here "Th. w "Then tell me that first, please." ; his donkey on to mine, and I didn't 1 "He said that your father had writ- dare to move. She promised to put a h ten to him the day before, proposing bullet through my leg if I did, and I a place and time where they could `thought she probably would. After - Ile meet and come to terms. He kept wards she gave the revolver to Gillies this appointment, but Mr. Carrington to hold, while. she rode on ahead. I didn't. He waited for nearly three thought of making a dash then, in hours, and then decided to- go to the spite of the fact that Gillies had been Chinelas and find out why he had instructedton asto ng me ifoung astried; either ofd been tricked in this way. On the if I hadL road he caught sight of the man for you I should probably have done it, gaveIle because I didn't really think the worm whom andhe had• been waiting, thewould have the courage to pull the �- chase, caught him near hot r spring of the Caldeira de Morte." trigger. But, sir, I am forty-two, "What -was the object of the capote and I have lived in countries where and capello ?" asked Scarborough. revolvers do occasionally go off, and - {`Mr, Carrington had himself, sag- know that sometimes, a man pulls the gested that Gillies should wear .them I trigger, as you might say, thought - It seems that Miss Carrington knew fettle, without meaning it, and is sur - the clerk by sight, and her father was prised afterwards to find that there very anxious that she should not bp has been an accident. I sat where I i1 , / o pal q\ tdiit<a� / , .., For Preserving, Use LILY /KITE Cw' "� SYRUP One-third "Lily White" to two- thirds Sugar, by weight. "Lily White" Corn Syrup pre- vents re vents fermentation and mold— brings out the natural flavour of fruits and berries—and makes muoh more delicious Preserves, Jams and Jellies than you can make with all sugar. In 2, 5, l 0 and 20 pound tins —at all dealers. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED, MONTREAL. 276 di }`t JOFFRE HAS DO • WONDERFUL WORK "ember 15, without a written permit and would not support such a meas from a qualified forest ranger. ure as was proposed. Other members places no unreasonable hardship on of the Board took a more favorable the settler and, on the other hand, point of view, but no joint action was is a'necessary guarantee for the taken. safety of lives and immensely valu- From February to June, 1916, able timber in his neighborhood. through the representations of this What is the situation in Ontario? Association, twenty-two of the lead There is neither law nor regulation to ONE IDOL OF FRANCE ,AFTER TWO YEARS OF WARFARE. Politicians Have Given Up Trying to Have Any Influence On Him. It may seem that General Joffre is T10 longer a live news issue, writes Mr. Herbert Corey from Paris. Some millions of columns have been printed about him, most of which were wrong. The fact is that he is more of a news issue that he ever has been, ex- cept in the first days of the war. He has been tested by twenty-three months of fighting. He controls, not merely the army of France, but like- wise the army of Great Britain. He may not be a great strategist or a great tactician or a successful dip- lomat or any sort of a politician at all. But as the situation stands to- day he is the one big man of France. He is the man who commands. All others obey. "Joffre," said an officer who knows him well, "is a big, savage man, who knows his own mind." That might give a wrong impres- sion of Joffre, just as the nickname "Grandpere" the poilus have given him conveys in its turn ' a deceptive suggestion of softness and amiability: It is quite true that General Joffre likes roses and that he hopes to spend his declining days on a small farm from which he can occasionally go fishing, and that he sometimes gives tired soldiers a lift in his motor car, and that he is ordinarily good hu- mored and pleasant in the midst of his official family. But the grand- father part of General Joffre is only skin deep. He attends to his business in a brutally efficient way. He sees to it that others attend to their busi- ness. Believes in Winning. No doubt he makes mistakes. He is not infallible. On the one hand he has to deal with French politicians, all of whom are supremely patriotic, no doubt, and none of whom would for a moment place their personal de- sires, greediness, or enmities above the country's good; and on the other hand he has to handle the army. He has been able to do both by dint of keeping his eyes fixed on the single target. He proposes to win this war.. Nothing else matters. He is a sim- ple, single-minded man' with a mas- sive jaw. He does not disregard op- position. He smashes it. Observers say that neither de Cas- tlenau nor Petain could fill Joffre's shoes. He is not the master of stra- tegy the one is not the master of bat- tle that is the other. But he can drive the team. - "Look at him," said an officer. "Ob- serve his force." His cap is down over his eyes. One sees only a great square jaw thrust- ing out beneath the shadow. He walks with heavy, quick • steps, shouldering forward in a manner to betray the tremendous physics} force of the man. He is a little overweight in front, so that one could not imagine Joffre in a run. But every motion tells of thick, cable -like rolls of muscle and a dominating strength. Upon occasion the death of thousands means nothing to Joffre. In that he is such a general as was Napoleon. If a given end seems desirable he at- tains it at any cost. ing Boards of Trade of Ontario ask - prevent a settler letting loose confla- ed the Ontario Government to bring grations in any way and at any time legislation to control settlers' fires he may select. No ranger has author- and also to reorganize the entire for - fox the night; but if. I have recovered ity to advise or interfere with a set- est protection service of the province. sufficiently in the morning, I'll con tier in the employment of fire. The reply of the Minister of Lands trive to report to you somewhere, and Under a watchful and modern ford and Forests to these communications you can make use of me in any way est administration, the recent perio you like. Sorry I've been such a fool. of abnormal drought would have over the job you did give me to do." found every settler under a prohibi- Five minutes later the party had tion to set out fires of any sort. There started. Scarborough rode with Elsa, was no such prohibition. Settlers' Varney with Muriel Davis, as had fires were started at the heigh of the been arranged. The problem of how danger season. Hundreds blof lives, to dispose of Mona la Mar had been settled by that lady herself. She said that she would wait to see that Mon- tague was made comfortable by the Scotch landlady, and then would fol- low alone. Elsa gave Scarborough a hint of the possible reason for this. "I have found out why she said last night that she did not need the dia- clay. belt section, now so severely de - night now. Do you remember that yastated, has practically no real ran - she blushed when she told us that she ger patrol carries on no preventive had a reason for not saying at pre- campaign, and offers no opposition sent how it came about that she did I to the wholesale use of fire by set - any chance recognize him. Gillies wore the things to humor this whim, e- which he admits that he did nob under- ► stand; but afterwards when the meet- ing at the Caldeira de Morte had re- p suited in atragedy, he was glad for his own sake that he had worn them. He declares solemnly that he had no- thing to do with causing the -tragedy, but he did not know if he would be able to prove that if he were accused. He had the'effrontery to say to the r dead man's widow, in a canting e shuffling whine, that it was 'provid- ential' that he was disguised on that afternoon. He may be a clever scoundrel; I dare say he is; hut, Je- hoshaphat; he's a worm, too, sirs" "What happened at the Caldeira de Merle?" said Elsa. "And why was my father trying to avoid Gillies when Mr. Davis saw him?" "Because he had tricked him," said Montague; "as served the canting, blackmailing blackguard right! Dur- ing those three hours whilst the black- mailer was cooling his heels at the was. After the widow had got a quarter of a mile away Gillies follow- ed her, and his donkey soon caught hers up. I watched them till they were out of sight, and then I -walked on here. And as I am dead beat, here for the present I mean to shay. What are you going to do ?" "Which way did these two go ?" asked Varney. "They took the road which leads to Sete Cidades, but I don't know whe- ther they struck to it.' "Then we shall probably follow them there," said Scarborough. "But first we are going back to bhe Casa Davis." "What for? Shouldn't waste time, if I were you. Follow them now, sir!" Scarborough explained how Mr. Davis expected to get a better read- ing of the message on the scratched stone by photography, and Montague said:— "Good! If he succeeds you'll have a pull there. The widow knows only the words she heard when she was at the keyhole, and I don't think Gil- redezvous which your father had lies knows more. Like to hear a bit given, the latter was busy hiding the of advice from me? I've bungled my job, you will say, so I ought to be humble about advising. But as I think the advice is good I'll risk your snub, and give it you. Watch the coast.' 'What do you mean?" "This. If the widow and Gillies find the stones, they will be in a hurry to get away from the island of San Miguel, won't they?" "I thought of that, and I've made inquiries," said Scarborough. "There's no steamer out for the next five days. "I dare say not," said Montague, "but they won't wait for a steamer, My ring -master didn't, and they'll go by his road. See here. I'll improve your mind ber imparting some of the knowledge of local politics which I've learned lately myself. They've got conscription in these islands. Don't fidget man you'll see in a minute that I'xn talking strictly be the point -they've got conscription, and one consequence of that is that no young Azorean is allowed to emigrate till he has served his time in the army, or till be has paid a tax of some forty pdands to go to the cost of providing a substitute. Well, there are lots of young fellows who haven't got forty pounds in the world, and have no prospects of ever raising it, and yeb entire towns, and incalculable amountthe Canadian Forestry Association, of growing crops and timber growth the Commission of Conservation and have been swept away and the whole other bodies. Claybelt seriously set back in its de- 1. Remodelling of the ranger ser- Thevereala. vice so as to give real protection to and.the Governmentsbuss oforest rangersble the forest wealth of the province and responsible for supply a fair return in service ren - them, is to stop fires from starhernting. dered for the money spent thereon. Ontario, particularly in the Northern Ontario's system is recognized gener- ally as out-of-date and inefficient. was to the effect that the matter would be considered. But it is being considered too late. Ontario forest protection service stands urgently in need of three main reforms, which, year after year, have ben urged upon the Governments by diamonds. When he met the man at the Caldeira de Morte, he snapped his fingers in his face, laughed at him, and told him to do his worst. The stones were safe now. At that Gil- lies admits that he lost his temper, but your father did nothing but laugh, There was no actual quarrel, because your father refused to show anything but amusement at the other man's anger. Then Gillies, seeing that the game was up for the present, went away; but before he had gone a hun- dred yards he heard his name shouted in a tone of terror. He went back, Mr. Carrington was lying on the ground in what appeared to be a fit, and a minute later the end came. The man waited a minute until he was sure that he was dead, and then left without looking behind him." Mantague paused again, and for a short time no one spoke. Elsa was sobbing quietly, with her head on IM1ona's shoulder, and Mona's arm -en- circling her proteotingly, The Scarborough said:-- "A.nd the scratched stone?" "Gillies knew nothing of it. Mrs. Carrington, in my hearing, sir, chaff- ed him for having overlooked it. That woman is clever, sir, but I do not think she has a lieut." "She told him about the stone!" not want them?" "Yes,". said• Scarborough. "I wax dered why.' "So did I. To -day she told me. Phil Varney told you that her father made his money in cattle ranching; did he know that there was an, uncle in partnership?" (To be continued). Many a girl has given up an easy job at a good salary for the sake of working all the rest of her life for her board and clothes. +less for stripping their soil of tree In th Spring of this very year, the Canadian Forestry Association, through their Secretary, met the As- sociated Boards of Trade of the Te- miskaming District at a meeting in Haileybury and asked that joint ac- tion be taken to stop the extravagant and dangerous burning of the north- ern forest areas by settlers. Some of the members of the Associated Boards frankly opposed •any interfer- ence, asserting that many of the settlers favored free -running fires, 2. Employment of inspectors in the ratio of at least one inspector to ten rangers, so as to get the maxi- mum degree of actual forest protec- tion. Over an area of 10 million acres of timber lands under license, Ontario has just eight supervisors, each being required to manage, on an average, 36 men, an impossible task. 3. Sufficient rangers must be pro- vided to competently patrol the Clay - belt region, most of which is now un- der tree growth, and these rangers must have authority to control the burning operations of settlers so that. holocausts, such as that of recent date, shall have less opportunity to recur. Here's the Way to Succeed in rn, r Jelly Makings lo—Use ripe — but not over- ripe fruit. 2o—Buy St. Lawrence Red Diamond Extra Granulated Sugar. It is guaranteed pure Sugar Cane Sugar, and free from foreign substances which might prevent jellies from setting and later on cause preserves to ferment. 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Organizations were in re- treat. Some were cut off, so that they held their little "forties" in the midst. of the enemy. They held them until they died. The French resistance at this point was only possible because of the brilliant courage of the men. There are grim stories which I shall not repeat of the mannein in which certain organizations were held to their work. "They shall not pass," was the word of the day. That resistance cost thousands of lives, of course. But it saved Verdun, It 'may be that the officers had a shrewd idea of what General Joffre meant when he said that the "officer who gave up an inch should be court- martialled." At other times he has not bothered to court-martial men who failed. He dropped. them. There is a colony at Limoges of generals "invalided" there for the duration of thor they forgot, orthey hey did not thinwar. They k Joffre takes no excu. When the money market gets tight it ought to bake the gold cure.