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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-03-16, Page 6.M Everywhere facts .Y�z prove the sn.enace of lightning. you realize that the danger of lightning Iles in ito concentrated action on a single spot in your roof, yoa will appreciate the safety sand protection of a Pedlarized roof. Pedlar's "George' Shingles Rock to:.sther on rill four sides, forming a single sheet of mesal from cave to ridge. Lightning cannot cancel - trate on any single spot, for Pedlar Slrineiee spread it *ver the whole surface of your took. When properly ,rounded, a Pecilarized roof is practically indestructible, This rummer Lnow the saving and pence of mind oi a ede, excel roof by Pod:arising cow with ' George Shingles. 'Write for the "Right Roof" Booklet No Ny- THE PEDLAR PEOPLE; LIMITED !' (Established 1661; �!ua8 �y4 Executh a Offices and Factories: Oshawa, Ont. Branches: Montreal, Ottawa; "f - -° Terceto, London, i :yar�ta, Winnlpea 1,,IAW ilii} 1111,11D1111 4tpt1. ° is 11):11 cilli a}, E 444 r l RIV[NS childr•en p:iefer the bread you make with. Five Roses Flour. Itis stored with the flavor, vitality and easily -digested sxourishrra;nt of prime Manitoba wheat. Nutritious . Wholesome Keeps Well eeleas i nj"y n ` l . a igwa'+ •(11f'i fif 5� 1 fit+€!! ll Eitllrtll ( 1 ides Na e Or, The Adventures of Captain Fraser 1 OSA ITER XVI I.-- •• (Cont'd l . 1 "I'm not going anywhere," said' Poppy, stopping suddenly and facing: him, • 'I've ;,got a new berth neat 1 going to see them to ask then, to em -1 ploy me at once." "And to -night?" suggested the other, "I shall go for a walk," said the girl. "Now that you know all about my concerns, will you please go?" "Walk?" repeated Fraser. "Walk? What, all night? You can't do it— you don't know what it's like. Will you let me lend you some money? You can repay me as soon as you like." No, thank you." "For my sake?" he suggested, Miss Tyrell raised her eyebrows. "I'm a bad walker," he explained. The reply trembling on Miss Tyrell s lips realised that it was utterly inade- quate to the occasion, and remained unspoken. She walked on in silence, apparently oblivious of the man by her side, and when he next spoke to her made no reply. He glanced at a clock in a baker's shop as they pass- ed, and saw that it was just seven. In this sociable fashion they walk- ed along the Commercial Road and on to Aldgate, and then, passing up Fenchurch Street, mingled with the crowd thronging homewards over Lon- don Bridge. They went as far as Bennington in this direction, and then the girl turned and walked back to the City. Fraser, glancing at the pale profile beside him, ventured to speak again. "Will you conte down to Wapping and take my cabin for the night?" he asked, anxiously. "The mate's away, and I can turn in for'ard—you can have it all to youreslf." Mics Tyrell, still looking straight in front of her, made no reply, but with another attempt to shake off this pertinacious young man of the sea quickened her pace again. Fraser fell back. "If I'm not fit to walk beside you I'll walk behind," he said, in a low voice; "you won't mind that?" In this way they walked through sires—e pectiy^"tertine rrgestree4b• rL" lTikaS' now dark, and most of the shops had closed. The elasticity had departed from Miss Tyrell's step, and she walk- ed aimlessly, noting with a sinking at the heart the slowly passing time. Once or twice she halted from sheer weariness, Fraser halting too, and watching her with a sympathy of which Flower would most certainly have disapproved if he had seen it. At length, in a quiet street beyond Stratford, she not only stopped, but turned and walked slowly back. Fraser turned too, and his heart beat as he fancied that she intended to overtake hire. He quickened his pace in time with the steps behind him until they slackened and faltered; then he looked round and saw heli standing in the centre of the path- way with her head bent. He walked back slowly until he stood beside her, and saw that she was crying softly. He placed his hand on her arm. "Go away," she said, in a low voice. "I shall not." "You walked away from me just now." "I was a brute," said Fraser vehemently. The arm beneath his hand trembled, and he drew it unresistingly through his own. In the faint light from the lamp opposite he saw her look at him. "I'm very tired," she said, and leaned on him trustfully. "Were you really going to leave me just now?" "You know I'was not," said Fraser, siinpiy. Miss Tyrell, walking very slowly, pondered. "I should never have for- given you if you had," she said, thoughtfully. "I'm so tired, I can hardly stand. You must take me to your ship." They walked slowly to the end of :may} circ siz 1 cY r+Ytfsr; Yrrairiirs x the road, but the brie seemed veryi short to Fraser. Aa far as he was concerned he would willingly have dis- pensed with is-pensed'with the tram which they met at the end and the antique four-wheel- er in which they completed their jour- ney to the river. They found a waterman's skiff at the stairs, and sat side by side in the stern, looking con- tentedly over the dark water, as the waterman pulled in the direction of the Swallow, which was moored in the tier, 'There was no response to their hail, and Fraser himself, clamllering over the side with the painter, assist- ed Miss Tyrell, who, as the daughter of one sailor and the ttest of another, managed to throw off'her fatigue suf- ficiently to admire the lines of the small steamer, Fraser Conducted her to the cabin, and motioning her to a seat on the locker, went forward to see about some supper. He struck a match in the forecastle, and scrutinised the sleepers, and corning to the conclusion that something which was lying doubled up in a bunk, with its head buried in the pillow, was the cook, shook it vigorously. • "Did you want cook, sir?"said a voice from another bunk. "Yes," said Fraser, sharply, as he punched the figure again and again. "Poor cookie ain't well, sir," said the seaman, sympathetically; "'e's been very delikit all this evenin';: that's the worst o' then teetotalers." "All right; that'll do," said the skip- per, sharply, as he struck another match, and gave the invalid a final disgusted punch. "Where's the boy?" .A small, dirty face with matted hair portruded from the bunk above the cook and eyed him sleepily. "Get some supper," said Fraser, "quick." "Supper, sir?" said the boy, with a surprised yawn "And be quick about it," said the skipper, "and wash your face and put a comb through yaur hair. Come, out you get." The small sleeper sighed discon- solately, and, first extending one slender leg, clambered out and began to dress, yawning pathetically as he did so. "And some coffee," said Fraser, as he lit the lamp and turned to depart. "Bill," said the small boy, indign- antly. "Wot d'ye want?" said the seaman. "'Elp me to wake that drunken pig up," said the youth, pointing a resent- ful finger at the cook. "I ain't goin' to do all the work." "You leave 'im alone," said Bill, ferociously. The cook had been very liberal that evening, and friendship is friendship, after all. "That's what a chap gets by keep- ing hisself sober," said the youthful philosopher, as he poured a little cold tea out of the kettle on to his hande. kerchief and washed himself. "Other, Feaese a woos 2, to .Tld + - He went grunibling up to the gal- ley, and, lighting some sticks, put the kettle on, -and then descended to the cabin, starting with genuine surprise as he saw the skipper sitting opposite a pretty girl, who was leaning back in, her seat fast aslee. "Cook'll be sorry 'e missed this," he murmured, as he brightened up and bega,. briskly to set the table, He ran up on deck again to see how his fire was progressing, and thrusting his head down the forecastle communicat- ed the exciting news to Bill. To Fraser, sitting watching tris sleeping guest, it seemed like a beau- tiful dream. That Poppy Tyrell should be sitting in his cabin and looking to him as her only friend seemed almost incredible. A sudden remembrance of Flower subdued at once the ardour of his gaze, and he sat wondering vaguely as to the whereabouts of that erratic marine until his meditations were broken by the entrance of the boy with the steaming coffee, followed by Bill bears ing a couple of teaspoons. "I nearly went to sleep," said Poppy, as Fraser roused her gently. So she took of her hat anrt jacket, and Fraser, taking them from her, laid them reverently in his bunk. Then Popply moved farther along the seat, and, taking some coffee, pro- nounced herself much refreshed. "I've been very rade to you," she said, softly; "bur, Mrs. Wheeler was very unkind, and said that of course I should go to you. That was why." "Mrs. Wheeler is—" began Fraser, and stopped suddenly. "Of course it was quite true," said Poppy, healthfully attacking her plate; "I did have to come to you." "It was rather an odd way of corn- ing," said Fraser; "my legs ache now." 2 and 5 lb. Cartons - 20, 20, 50 and 100 lb. 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Hach jniut ssouroly held with the Peerless loch, all parts heavily galvanized, the strougest, most serviceable farm fence made and fully guaranteed. SENO POR CATALOCC of sil kinds of fencing for farms, ranches, parks, reraotorlo,, 14W113, poultry Vat's. ornatnental tauten and We*. tiro tho iciness ]Ino at poor coca deaallorw. Agents wantod In open tarrlto,y. TILE BANWELI.-1UOXIE WIRE FENCE COMPANY, Ltd. Winnipeg, Manitoba Hamilton, Ontario The girl laughed softly, and con- tinued to laugh. Then her eyes mois- tened, and her face became troubled. Fraser, as the best thing to do, made an excuse and went up on deck, to the discomfort of Bill and the boy, who were not expecting him. Poppy was calm again by the time he returned, and thanked him again softly as he showed her her bunk and withdrew for the night, Bill and the, boy placed their berths at his dis- posal but he declined them in favor of a blanket in the gallery, where he sat up, and slept but ill all night, and was a source of great embarrassment to the cook next morning when he. 'wanted to enter to prepare breakfast. (To be continued) War -Time Thrift in Hunland. Many are the instances of German war -time thrift recorded in Herbert Bayard Swope's "Inside the German Empire." Nothing is permitted to be carried off the battlefields as souve- nirs, Mr. Swope says. The debris is carefully sorted over, and every ar- ticle that German ingenuity can bring into usefulness again is sent back to the Quartermaster's depot. Through- out the Empire there are collecting stations for all sorts of old things— old bottles, shoes, pieces of rubber, news and wrapping papers, brass, steel, copper, tin, string, kegs—noth- ing is thrown away. Once a month these articles are gathered up from every city and village and worked over. As to the paternalism of the Government, Mr. Swope says that it has reached the point where even the housewives are instructed at what time they can put up their preserves, and in what quantities, and at what prices they may buy their fruits. British Graves in France. A.s President of the. National Com- mittee for the upkeep of graves of British .Soldiers in France, the Prince of Wales, accompanied by British and French officers, recently visited sev- eral eweral.French cemeteries in the vicinity of Arras, Mount St. Eloi, anal Carency, His Royal Highness showed particu- lar eatisfaction at the delicate care with which British officers and men tend and decorate this graves of 'their French comrades, From Erin's Grua We NEWS BY IVIAIL FROM IRE. LAND'S S.HQRESI Happenings in the Emerald Isle oil Interest to Irish- men. The railway station slt Mazy borough and its contents has beoi completely destroyed by fire. Emily Clare Boyce, a 'writer of some distinction, died recently at her home, Bannon House, Wicklow. Lieut. W. P. Andrews, R.E.r.g grad- uate in engineering of University Col- lege, Cork, has been awarded the Military Cross. Major R. G. IKer'r has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry and devotion to duty. The Wexford Corporation have ask- ed the Government for a standard weight and price for bread and to re- strict the manufacture of confection- ery. The farmers of Leitrim and Ros- common, whose crops were injured by the flooding of the Shannon, have petitioned the Government to make good their loss. Lieut. William. Cox, of Bangor, is dead. He was a native of Belfast and had been in command of several steamers of the Straits Steamship Co., of Singapore. Mr. O'Connell, clerk of l.,istowel, has offered six acres of land to be let to the poor of the district free, providing the Urban Council plough the land free of cost. The death of two Irish centenarians was recently reported. , Mrs. Cornet, of Newry, aged 103 years, and Mrs. Dunn, of Ballybrittas, at the age of 106 years. Patrick Sheridan, of the Munster Royal Fusiliers, who lost his Sight in the war, has been presented with a pony and cart to enable him to earn a living for himself and wife, as a carter. CHILDREN AT WAR FRONT. They Are Apparently Care -free Amid Danger and Carnage. One wonders if Canadian acheol- children have any conception, f the lot of French boys and girls an the towns and villages along thee little.' frost, eveitee.A.P.AP01144 youngsters,'in some Places they their parents have' been obliged to live in the cellars of places under shell -fire. At one .Belgian Village Canadian ladies assisted in the care of such cellar waifs. Nowadays,' though villages in close proximity to the lines have been denuded of their inhabitants, civilians still dwell in towns which the Hun does not scruple to bombard on occasion. French boys and girls, during the past two and a half years of war, have grown accustomed to the rum- ble of cannon, and the crash of shells, The sight of ruined buildings in their native villages is a commonplace. At come towns along the Canadian front children after school hours take long walks into the fields, and on more than one occasion have had to be shooed away from the gun -pits. Forsooth, the guns were going into action! What memories of the war .will not these war zone kiddies have, living right on the edge of it—practically at the front with the troops! And yet, for all their acquaintance with war's dread realities, and the daily chalices of being "blotted" by a shell, these youngsters aro just care -free children after all, like' boys and girls of their.•own age in Canada. I saw some .of them, just out from school, singing at the tops of their voices, saw others feasting their eyes on the toy horses, trumpets, drums and other attractions which hung in festoons in the quaint market square booths, presided over by Frenchwomen in hoods of black knitted wool. It was some two hundred urchins just like these that Senator Mason of Toronto, visiting the front on Red Cross duty, helped to delight on Christmas Day when he and other Canadian officers presented gifts from a tree. The joy of those children un- der that shell -smitten roof within loud sound of the guns is an experience the Canadian donors will never forget. Facts vs. Fancy. , A good story is being told of a reply given by a student to a question set in an examination paper. "If 20 men reap a field in eight hours," ran the question, "hew long will it, take 15 men to reap the swine field?" The student thought long and-care- fully nd`care-fully before setting down his answer, and when he handed in his paper this is what the examiner rea.d.: 'The field having already been -reap- ed by the 20 men, could not be reap- ed by the 15." Women cabdrivers are stated to be a success in Glasgow, Scotland, One firm has about 40 women driedere cabs.