The Huron Expositor, 1919-05-23, Page 7919
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AMY THE SKIN
n shoal/hi ft,
and hands4
rninare
quer-
east wcoulerful lemou
`ort beautifier,
wo fresh km.
utainng three ounces
.ould be taken
ugh a Atte cloth
gt i, then this 10-
111 for month ie Every
hunon juift in used ,
lave such bleadishes sks
kss and ten and is
iftener whitener end
MAY 23, 1919
Get three OtAlleeS. of
any drug store end
he grocer and make up
thisweetly fragrant
massiage it daily into
Ives aret hands. It is
Men rough, red hands;
41/1/10_
to
s splendid tribute te
rmy will be warmly
T.'iadiark.s. Along with
the men from. Aare -
eminent part in the
ampaign" beginning
Ling on November 11.
ys that from "Mart
distinguished them-
ualities of endurance
By their initiative,
Ira, their magnificent
rid themselves to be
the first order. In
of 1918, with their
in and French cont -
led the enemy rush.
broke it, and at the
drove it far back."
nary of the Austra-
mompiishments last
'Canadians a better
rshel Foch Is so en -
praise. As corn-
etralian Minister of
larch, tali, to Otto-
tralians—who never
than 100,000—took
k. 33 guns, thousands
a vehicles, and mil -
of ammunition, They
towns and villages
fied farms, mills and
ksed 251 square miles
tiL
enrinsh.
ire close to the
eggs and guard
F. Bigelow in "On
ui BoysLife. "This
c. They begin im the
of our country in.
be found farther
liner, preparing a elr-
le sand by removing
ants and debris from
out as large as one's
y, swaying her body
mraoves the sand arid
th af from three to
actly how is this dig-
ome of the sand and
a the fish's mouth?
em for our good Boy
It is interesting to
r places these nets
spots are sometimes
louses as the aquatic
:lose together at the
y well imagine them
ws for sun parlors.
ag are hatched, the
he bullhead, guards
; all intruders."
of Volcanoes.
he Monthly Weather
k N. Cole sets forth
knth to prove that the
: swept erre', the city
iring the eruption of
well as similar blasts
Frith the eruption of
estroyed Porsipeli and
he eruption of Thal,
c., derived it heat
n compression of the
the volcano, and not
in the -volcano *itself.
it was not, accord --
Pot -heels, an outpour -
r gases that caused
bet the dynamic
dr attending the see-
- oacalesiome eneve.
Aomori* *isms - *NAN IN II Nib
1
By
WILLIAM IlatitlIRG
and
i EDWIN BALMER
Thomas Allen, Publishem Torento
,•11•1•11,
(Continued tram last week.)
The mate was at the wheel. Ile
shouted to the captain about following
the ether ship; neither of them had
seen sign of any one aboard it. "Der-
elict!" the skipper thonght. The mate
wile swinging Ninnber 25 about to fol-
low and look at the -ship again; and
the searchlight beam swept back and
forth through the snow; the blastW'of came again. Alan, feelmg j erk-
the steam whistle, Which had ceased , oe regain sensation. Some one stumb- and the
for the
ed up Mid stamped and beat his •arms Alan t
after the. collisien, burst out again.
As before no response came from be- I led toward him from the cabins now, vet's c
hind. the snow. The searchlight picked a short figure in -a great coat. ,It was the cars
a women, he saw as she hailed him--
THE TIUR(
, . ......—........_
—
the men ow o 'had followed him be- agairin, Ills
fore leaped at his yells. The lurch shook Wit il .
Which. had I cleared the two cars to- . new physlcd1
getlier had ijumped others away from of the -ere; .0
the railsthey hurtled from side to till he lo‘voro.', I v
side, splin ring against the stanchions ent; and now ha
-which sta. ed them flame crashing a- or seem ev 11 tO -}Ni 4L
cross the 4entre line of the ship; re- "Dear little Cermien • e 6
bounding, they battered against the "Dear little Ciemiel nee
ears on th outer tracks and crushed marry him -I -not h
them ag nst the side of the ship, seen to. What Shallal 0,
The wedg s, blocks,. and chains which 1 do?"
had secured them banged about on the ; Alan worked nearer him
deck, usel ss; the men who tried to mustn't she marry him'? ' h
control t ese cars, dodging as they Corvet. "Why? Ben Corm.
charged, io longermade attempt to me! Tell me why!"
secure th wheels. Corvet called to From above him thr -ugh ili
them to throw ropes and chains to gor of the cars came the nite astsart
bind the loads which were letting go; of the steam whistle The h ffer-
the .heavier leads—steal beams, cast- ence with -which Alan had heal: ethen ,( 25
ings, machinery-esnapped. their lash- a 'few minutes before had Aged
ings, tip d from their flat cars. and now to a twinge of terror.-Wl men ica,tion until -about four o'clock; Frank -
u one
message
which tipped f /thee te others attempts to save the ' hip it he mem- shortly after four, and same message
the !emend A:dicer; so the thin
, rn over; o s , ,
.eiction• that
on the ferry
r, as the clerk
gh the papere
tier,
her mother
11 rself together,
...i Number 25,"
eney made out
41ington, Man-
.., ei about four
s.e hours a-
-ie eignals were
er Richardson
signals Number
in her course
as in commun-
thunclred down the deek. The cars had been dying about him, their fort station pickedp o
masnapnening below—the thing whicn balanced back. it was Upon their . ed a small thing for him to h crush- was also recorded by Carferry Man -
was sending strange, violent wanton
eneueVeto call the skipper below, to
. . wheels that they charged forward, ;
half rid* g one another, crashing end ed or to drown with them an with itouline in southern end of lake; sub -
There is no telling where the con. -
(Continued
exemple wou,. be lnentikkoe.
•
deniolish Benjamin Corvet, whom he had 'mini sequently all efforts to call Number
tremare through the shIP—was serious
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make him .abandon the bridge at this Was th • trurk that they tot f 11, ti • in Corvet the
apo. their so her was s rring Recol iction
ng, as the ferry pitched; it . at last. But Constance!
from " the steady' tremble of the en-
timel 7--vne tremors, quite distinct tered and battered from side to side ' torture of will to live; in Alan—lie
eines and the thudding. of the as the eek swayed. Now the stern struggled and tried to frte
lnimPs, again descended; aeline of cars swept • As well as he could tell by feelire, the
antail Corvet's cry came to • weight above him confined but Was
water,
25 failed of response until 4.35 when
a message was picked up at once by
Manitowoc, Frankfort, and the, Rich-
,ardson. Information, therefore, re-
garding the fate of the ferry up to
. that hour received at this office- (Cor -
clangor of destruction. Cor- not cruehing 'him; yet what gam for vet Sherrill and Spearman) eonsists
ceigh the screaming of steel ,
sent men with tia_rs beside her if he only saved Ininself andnot of the following. "
ed back tr Oer- Constance stopped -reading aloud
.. /
upthe ship again; it hack settled deeper as the fantail dapped intothe
orvet, again leading his crew
now by the bow, .Alan saw; the lalow iiitni taking hone placer
the cabin maid. • ' cleared the leader of those madly
frem No. 25 hadrobbedit of its last she shout- charging cars and ran it over the stern.
buoyancy; it was knking. It dove, then ed to Alan. "You're wanted—every The fore trucks fell and, before
one's Wanted on the car deck! The the rear trucks reached the edge, the
rose a little—soimds came from it -now ear'—" The gale • and her fright stern lifted and Caught the car in
—now—sudden, explosive sounds, air
pressure within hurled up , a hatch;
the tops of the cabins blew off, and
the stem of the ship slipped down deep
again, stopped, then {love without halt ,
or recovery this time, and the stern,
upraised with the screw motionless,
met the high wash of a wave, and
went down with it and disappeared.
No man had shown himself, no shout
stopped her voice as she struggled the mi dle; it balanced, half over the
for speech, "The ears --the cars are water, Lf over the &kick. Corvet
loose!"` • crouch under the car with a crowbar
Alan and two others went with him;
they wurked the car on until the
-CHAPTER XVII weight of the end over the water tip-
ped it dowp; the balancebroke, and
"Ile Killed Your - Father 1 the ca h tumbled and dived. dorvet
Alan ran aft along the starboard having cleared another hundred tons
1 a ed bacic, calling to the crew. , g i
had been heard, no tittle boat was side, catching at the rail` as the deck
seen or signallei tilted; •the sounds within the hull and They', followed him again, unguent -
The second officer, who had gone the tremors following each sound came tioning obedient. • Mae followed close
below te ascertain the damage done to him more distinctly as he advanced. t° ilinii It weas not pity which stirred
to the f rry, Came up t� report. Two. him now for Benjamin. Corvet; nor
Taking the shorteet way to the car was itIbitterness; but it certainly was
of the compartments, those which had deck, he turried into the cabins to
taken the crush of the collision, had reach the passengers' companionway. not centempt. Of all .the , ways hi
flooded instantly; the bulkhead.s were The -noises fram the car deck, no , which he had fancied finding Benja-
holdihg—only leakin,g a littla, the longer muffled by the cabins , clanged min Co; rvet, he had never thought of
officer declared. Water was coming and reecenume interrible tumult; with, seeing him like S.
into a third compartment, that at the the clang and rumble of metal, rose It '1, an probably, only for a flash;
stern; the pumps were fighting this shouts and roars of men . but tie great quality of kadership
water. The shock had sprang seams To liberate and throw overlxiard which he once had possessed, which
elsewhere; but if the after compart- loaded ears front . au endangered ship , Sherrill had described to Alan and
ment did not fill, the pumps might -
was so desperate an undertaldng and which had been destroyed by the thinat
handle the rest. so certain to cost life that. -men at- over I him, had returned to him in
Soddenness already was coming into tempted it only in final extermities, this desperate emergency which he
the response of Number 26 to the lift when the shdp must be lightened at had greeted. How much or how little
of the waves; the. ferry rolled less to any cost. Alan had never seen the of his awn condition Corvet under -
the right as she came about, beam to effect of such an attempt, but he had &tooth Alan could not tell; it was plain
the waves, and she aropped away heard of it as the fear which at only that he comprehended that he had
more dully and deeply to the left; the always on the hearts of the men who beerh the cause of the catasrophe, and
ship was listing to port and the lift k navigate the ferries—the cars loose on in his fierce will to repair ,it he not
of the ice -heaped bow told of settl- i a rolling, lurching ship! He Was go- o-nlie disregarded all risk to himself;
ing by the stern. Slowln Number 25 : ing to that now. Two figures appear -
circled about, her engines holding bare : ed before him, one half supporting,
headway; the radio, Alan heara vtraS I -half dragging the other Alan sprang
sending to the Richardson and Co the and Offered aid; but the injured man
shore stations word of the finding and called to him to go On; others needed
done to Number 25; whether that the steps to the car deck, Half -way
sinidng of the ship and of the damage I him. Alan went past them and down
damage yet was described in the dis- downethe priest whom he had noticed
patches as disaster,. Alan did net know. among the passengers stood staring
The steam whistle, which continued to aft, it tense, black figure; beside him
roar, maintained the single separated ` othenipassengers were clinging to the
blasts of a ship am seaworthy and handrail and.. staring down in awe-
arice. Alan was at the, bow again on
able to steer and even to give .assist- I etre& fascination. The lowest steps
had been crushed back and half up-
link -Trout atity, ordered to -listen alla tca htetii?someenonstreus, inaelma thing
look for the little boats. was battering about below; but the
He gave to that , duty all his eon- space at the foot of the at ps was
scious attention; • but through his clear at that moment. Alan leaped
thought, whether he willed it or not, over' the ruin of the steps and &inn
ran a riotous ex-ultation. As he paced -upon the car deck.
from side to nide and haile:; and Anniant iron casting six- feet high
answered hails froin the bridge and and yards aerbss and tons in weight,
while he strained for sight and hear- I tumbled and ground before him; it
ing through the gale -swept snow the ! was this which had swept away the
leaping pulse Within repeated, "I've 1 steps; he had seen it, with two others
found him! I've found him!" Alan I like it, upon a at car which had been
held no longer possibility of doubt of. shunted upon one of the tracksenthe
old Burr's identity with Benjamin CCM- 1 starboard si•de of the ferry, one of
vet, since the olt1 man had made plain the :tracks on his left now as he
to him that he wag haunted by the i faced. the stern. He leaped upon and
Miwaka. Since that night in the house , over the greet casting, which turned
on Astor Street, when Speatanan , and spun with the matiori of the ship
shouted to Alan that name, every- ' as he vaulted it. . The' ear deck was a
thing having to d,c), with the secret pitching, swaying, slope, the cars
of Benjamin Corvet's life had led, so , nearest him were still upon . their
far as Alan coeld fallow it, to the 1 tracks, but they tilted and ,swayed
Miwaka; all the. change, which Sher- iuglily from side to side; the jacks.
rill described but could not amount were gone from under them; the next
for Alan had laid. to that. Corvet cars already were hurled from the
only could have been so haunted by . mile, their wheels screaming. on the
that ghastly ship, and there had been ; steel deck, clanging and thudding to -
guilt ef seine awful sort in the old gether in their couplings.
man's cry Alan had found the man Alan ran aft between them. All
who had sent him away to Kansas the crew who could be 'called. from
whin he was a child, who had support- deck and engine room and firehold
ed him there and then, at last, sent were struggling at the fantail, under
for him; who had disappeared at his the l direction of the captain, to throw
corning and left him all his possessions off the cars. The mate was working
and his heritage on.disgrace, who had as lane Of the then, and with laim was
paid blackniail to Luke; and who had Bernamin Corvet. The crew already
sent, last, Captain Stafford's- watch mut have loosened and thrown over
and. the ring whieli came with it— the. stein three cars from two tracks
the wedding ring. on ';the port side; for there was, a
Alan -pulled his hand from his glove spage vacant; and as the train eharg-
and felt in his pocket for the little er into that space and the men threw
band of gold. What would that mean themselvee upon it, Alan leaped with
to him new; what of that was he to them
learn? And, as he thought of that, - The leading car—a box car, heavily
coast -ince Sherrill -came more insist- laden—strayed and. shrieked with the
en-ny before him. 'What was he to pitching of the ship. Corvet sprang
learn for her, for his friend and Ben- between it and the car coupled behind;
jarnin Caret's friend, whom he, Uncle he drew out the pin from the coupl-
Benny, had warned not to care for in-, and the men with pinch -bars
Henry Spearman, and then had gone attacked the car to isolate it and
away to leave her to marry him? For force it aft along the track. It
she was to marry him, Alan had read. roved slowly at first; then leaped
It was with this that cold terror ite length; sharply with the lift of
suddenly closed over him. Would he the deck, it stopped, toppled towayd
learn anything now from Benjamin the men who, yelling to, one another,
Cornet, though he had found him? scrambled eway. The hundred -ton
Only fief an instant—a fleeting instant mass swung from side to side, the ship
—had Benjamin Corvet's brain be- •dropped swifty to starboard, and the
.
so had stunmoned up from within
and was spending the last
gth of his spirit. But he was
ding it in a losing fight.
e got off two more cars; Yet the
he al
him
stre
5p
deck only dipped lower, and water
wasihed farther and farthem up over
the fantail. New avalanchen of iron
des ended as box cars above beret o-
pen; monstrous dynamo drums, broach -
banded steel wheels and splintered
crates of machinery batt,erecl about.
Men leaping from before the charg-
.,
ing cars got caught in the -murderous
ine
me
ser
era
fel
sa
the
an
to
of
Carvet tee? Ile
yen ,
"She's going to
and looked rapidly down the sheet and
rry - him Ben then over • the next. What she was
Corvet!" he called., "They're be- reading was the carbon of the report
trothed; and they're geing to 1)e mar- prepared that Morning and sent, at his
ried, she and Henry Spearman! , rooms, to Henry,wh.o, was not yet
"Who are you?" Corvet seemed onlv down. It did:. not contain therefore
'with an effort to becoine conscious Of the Tat that was known; and she
• read only enough of it to be sure of
Alan's presehce.
"Pm. Alan Conrad, whom you used that.
to take care of. I'm from Blue Rap- "After 4:10, to; repeated signals to
id. You. know about me;' are you Number 25 from Richardson and
my father, Ben Corvet? Are pin' my shore stations—'Are you in danger?'
father or what—what are you to lee?" !Shall we send help ?"Are you jet -
"Your father?" Corvet repeated. tisoning. cars ?"What is your pesi-
"Did he tell you that? He killed tion?'—no replies were received. The
Richardson continued therefore to sig -
your father,"
"Killed him? Killed' him how?" nal, 'RePort your position and course;
"Of comae. He killed them ell— we will stand by,' at the same- tirne
alt. But your father—he shot him; he malcing full speed toward last position
given, by Number 25. At 4:35, no
shot him through the head!"
Alan twinged. Sight of Spearman other message having been obtained
came before him as he had first seen from Number 25 in the inea.ntime,
Spearman, cowering in Corvet's Manitowoc and. Frankfort both pick-
brary in terror at an apparition. "And ed up the. following: 'S.O.S. Are
the bullet hole above 'the eye!" So taking water fast. S.O.S. Position
that was the hole made by, the shot probably twenty miles west N. Fox.
Spearman 'fired Which had killed S.O.S.' The S O.S. has been repeated,
Alan's father---whicK shot him through but without further information
the head! Alan peered at Corvet and since."
called to him.
"Father Benitot!" Corvet called in
response, not directly in reply to
Alan's question, rather in response to
witolitalt”those questions stirred.' 'Father
Benitot!" he ammaled. "Father Ben -
Some one, drawn by the cry, was
moving wreckage near them, A hand •
and arm with a torn sleeve showed; Faces a Difficult Choice
'Alan could not see' the rest of the , •
figure, but by the sleeve he reccog- °*:":`,*:ll1":":":':":":":4•"':":444**4"4419.44
HE marriage of Princess
, Patricia of Corinaught to a
commoner, the Hon-. Alex -
come clear as to the cause of his
hallucination; consternation had over-,
whelmed him then, and he struggled
stern went down; the car charged,
and its aftermost wheels left the deck;
it swung about, slewed, and jammed
of iron „awl steel and. wheels,
's shrill cries came. amid the
am, of metal, Alan, tugging at a
Le which had struck down a man,
aid beside him and, turning, he
the priest whom he had pe.ssed on
stairs. The priest was bruised
bloody; this was not his first effort
aid. Together they lifted an end
he crate; they bent—Alan stepped
nack and the priest knelt ahme his
HIM repeating the prayer for absolu-
tion. Screams of men came from be-
id; and the priest rose and turned.
H saw men caught between two
eniecks of ears crushing together;
there was no moment to reach them;
he stood and raised his arms to them,
hi head thrown back, his voice call-
in to them, as they died, the words
of absolution.
(Continued Next Week)
Royal Wives Very Scarce.
Present Prince of Wales
Three•more cars at the cost of two
more lives the crew cleared, while the
sheathing of ice spread over the steel
hiboard, and dissolution of all the car-
gh became complete. Cut stone and
otor parts, chasses and castings,
furniture and beams, swept back and
f rth, while the cars, burst and splint-
ed, became monstrous missiles
hurtling forward, sidewise, aslant, re -
Coiling. Yet men, though mattered
ingly, tried to stay them by ropes and
hains while the water washed high-
er 'mud higher. Dimly, far away,
deafened out by the clangor, the
tearrenrhistle of Number 25 was blow -
ng the four long blasts of distress;
lan heard the sound now and then
-th indifferent wonder. All destruc-
tion hadlco.me for him to be contained
within this ear deck; here the ship
loosed on itself all elements of annihil-
ation; who. could aid it froth without?
Alan caught the end of a chain which
Corvet flung him and, though he knew
it ,:was uselees, he carried it -across
from one stanchion tn the next. Some-
thing, sweeping, across the deck,
caught him and carried him With it;
it brought hica before the coupled
line of tracks which' hurtled back and
forth where the rails of track three
had been. He was hurled before them
and rolled over; something cold and
heavy pinned him down; and upon
him, the car trucks cense.
But before therm something warm.
and living—a. hand and bare arm
catching him quickly and pulling at
him, tugged him a little farther on.
free to attempt to mend the damage :gross both port tracks. The men Alan, looking up, saw Corvet beside
he had done. attacked it with dismay; Corvet's him; Corvet, unable to move him far -
More serious damage than first re- shout called them away and rallied 'then was crouching down there with
ported! The pumps certainly must be them farther back; they ran with him. Alan yelled to him. to leap, to
losing their fight with the water in him to the car from which he had twist aside and get out of the way;
the port compartment aft; for the bow uncoupled it. but Corvet o•nly crouched closer and
.1 -Wily -ivas lifting the stern sink- a was a fiat car laden with steel put his arms over Alan; then the
nized that it was the mate.
"Who's caught here?" he called '.
down,
"Benjamin Corvet of. Corvet, Sher-'
rill and Spearman, ship owners of ander Ramsay, has awaken -
Chicago," Corvet's voice replied .deep- ed Mee more in England the Intere.st
and wonder too ---the wonder of 'a man In the marriage prospects - of the
ly, billy; there was authority in it
finding himself in e situatioa which Prince of Wales. The war having
his recollection cannot explain. elitninated the awry royal families of
,
'"Ben Corvet!" the mate sheeted hi Russia and Germany from. the mar-
,
surprise,• he cried it to .the inhere, riage field, the London Daily Ex-
4thbeyoSeedsIstrao .,hdaurin. d full,!inVect Ceriebidomot ait ,,,_,,,...t., , .
. 4 Drees considers that the prinee's
had not known. Witie .The mate tried -"un-'•***"'' aarr°wed t° Engiand- and
to 13u11 the Wreckage, anide and make ' America, and it thinks an American
his Way to Corvet; but the old Man wile for the Prinee of Wales vrould
stopped him. "The priest, Father be tremendously popular. The Rx-
Benitot! Send him to me. I shall, press say
11(7 lea
ve here; send Father Beni- • •
"There are still marriageable prin-
.The Word was passed without the cesses in other European cotuarles.
mate moving away. The mate, after • The name 'of Princess Yolanda of
a minute, made no further attempt to Italy has been particolerly memtion-
free Corvet; that indeed was useless ed. during the prince's visits to that
sacrament -from the priest who. came country; but Princess Yolanda is a*
and Corvet demanded his right of
and crouched under the wreckage be- Roman Catholic. Marriage with a
Roman Catholic , would. invol•ee the
sid"eFillatmhe.r Benitot!" k _. forfeiture of the right of succession,
mar:nett by. a special act of Perna -
"I am not Father.. Benitot. I •ain
Father Perron. of L'Anse." ' "Princees Helena of Greece is no
' "It was to Father Bennet of St:
Ignace I should have gone, Father!"
The priest got a little closer as
Corvet spoke, and. Alan heard only
voices now and _ then through the
sounds of clanging metal and the drum
of ice against the hull. The mate and
his helpers were working- to get him
free. They had abandoned all efforts
to save the ship; it was settling And
with the settling, the movement of
the wreckate imprisoning Alan was
increasing. This movement made use-
less the efforts of the mate; it would
free Alan of itself in a moment, if it
did not kill him; it -would. free or finish
Cornet too. But he, as Alan saw him,
was wholly oblivious of that now. Ills
lips moved quietly, firmly; and his
eyes -Were fixed steadily on the eyes .
of the priest. .
1
1
ing. The starboard -rail too was rats- beams. At Carvet's command, the
ed, and the list had become so sharp I crew ranged themselves beside it with
that water washed the deck abaft the bare. • The bow of tim ferry rose to
wreckage came upon them, driving
then -i. apart. As the movement stop-
ped Alan still could see Corvet dimly
g e have lust got the 'names
painted stawight into the, gale now;
forecastle to port. And the ferry was some great wave 'and, with a cry to by the glow of the incandescent lamps
the men, Moreet pulled the pin. The overhead; the truck separated them. "Yheci NV -
long ago she had ceased to circle and. others thrustewith their bars, and the It bore dowrk. upon Alan, hohling him of t e erew." „
steam slowly in search far boats; she car slid dawn the sloping track; and motionless and, on the other side, it I He took another copied sheet from.
struggled with all her power against Cornet, caught by some lashing of crushed upon Corvet's legs. . I among the pages and handed it to
the wind and the gees, a desperate the bearen came awith it. Tile car He turned over, as far as he could, her, and she looked swiftly dovai the
i.
insistence throhbinein the thrusts of crashed into the box car, splintered and spoke to Alan. "You hane bee -n list of mames until she found that of
the engines; for Number 25 was flee- it, turned it, sheved it, and thrust it saving me, so now I tried te save Alan Conrad.
ing—fleeing far the western shore. ever tb.e -fantail into the water; the you," he said simply. "What reason 1 Her eyes filled, blinding her, as she
She dared not turn to the nearer fiat car. telescoped into it, was dran- did you have for doing that? Why I put the paper down, and began to
eastern shore to expoee that shattered ged afte" r Alan leaped upon it and have you been keeping by me?" take' off her things. She had been
stern to the seas. catching at Corvet, freed him and I'm Alan Conran of Blue Relaids, clinging determinedly in her thought
Four bells heated behind Alan; it flung bine down to the deck, and drop- Kansas," Alan cried to him. "And to the belief that Alan. inight not have
was two o'clock. Relief should. have ped with him. A cheer rose as the you're Benjamin Corvet! You know been alaoard the ferry: Alan'ii rness-
come long before; hmt no one came. c.ar cleared. the fantail, tlove, and me; you sent for me! Why did you age, which ..had sent her father north
lie was numbed new; ice from the disappeared. , do- that?" to meet the ship, had -implied plainly
spray crackled upon bis Clothing when l Alan clamh.ered. to his feet. Cor- Corvet rnade-no reply to *age Alen that some one whom. Alan. believed
he moved and it fell on. the deck. The net already was back among the cars peering at him underneath the truek, might be Uncle Benny was on Number
stark figure on the liffidge 'was that of again, shonting ordere; the mate and could see that hie hands Were pressed 25; sh.e had been fighting, these last
CHAPTER XVM
Mr. Spearman Goes North
The message, in blurred lettering
and upon the flimsy tiseee paper of
a carbon copy—that message which
had brought tension to the offices of ,
Cornet, Sherrill, and Spearman and
had called Constance Sherrill and her
mother downtown where further in-,
formation could be more quickly ob-
tained—was handed to Constance by
a clerk as semi • as she entered licr
.father's office. She re -read it; it al- ;
ready had. been repeated to her over
the telephone.
"4.05 am. Frankfort Wireless sta-
tion has received following message
from Number 25: 'We have Benjam-
Corvet, of Chicago, on board.' "
- "Yeu've received, nothing later than
this?" She asked.
"Nothing regatding Mr, Corvet,
Miss Sherrill," the clerk replied.
"Or regarding—Have you. obtained
a passenger list?"
"No passenger list was kept, Miss
Sh"Thecll."rew?"
quence would end,
"There is nothing to prevent an
unmark•ied sovereign of .this country
marrying whom he or she chooses,
providiAg the proposed consort is not
a Roman Catholic. For' all other de-
scendants the consent of the sove,
reign alone is necessary, though this
consent is required to be a formal
act, and is conveyed by letters pa-
tent under the Gecat Seal."
France and Russia.
The old regime in Russia, just as
in France in the eighteenth century,
slowly tmdermined the government
and the administration, teaching the
people to despise the law and order,
as something created by autocracy
and for the mere purpose of sup-
porting a small, egotistical ruling
class, writes Baron S. A. 1h6rff in the,
Yale Review. Even among enlight-
ened Russians the methods of autoc-
ra.cy engendered a certain pride in
not obeying governmental authority.
Misgovernment for a whole gener-
ation had created among the 'people
such hatred of whatever bore the
name of government that it was not
astonishing that, when the chance
came, Tsardom was upset with
pleasure and ruthlessness. Indeed,
the destructipu went much further
than was originally intended or even
thought possible. Again the simi-
larity in the positions of the royal
ferallies in France and Russia at the
outbreak of the revolution is quite
extraordinary. Marie Antoinette and
the Empress Alexandra were both
princesses of foreign birth from an
enemy couralw. Both were hated by
the people at large and both were
accused of having had during the
ware intercouree with the enemy.
Russla also had a Caglioetro in the
person of Rasputin—in fact all but
the necklace. The characters of the
two reigning monarchs, however, dif-
fered widely, and the comparison was
certainly in favor of Louis.
LIFT CORNS OR
CALLUSES OFF
" Texans.
Nearly all of our military terms
and desige.ations are derived from
the Normans. These, designations are
marilial, general, colonel, major, cap-
tain, adjutant, cornet, lieutenant, en-
sign, ofricer, sergeant, eerporel- and
-soldier. The military, terms_ are
siege; manoeuvre, treuch, 'tactics,
marein invasion, assault eanalade,
encampment, cortunit,„„ battery:, fOrti-
` ficatioirr•hattintene-he ti-reet-
contionnance, enfilade amity, regi-
ment, eompany, inilitary, artillery,
militia, cavalry, infantry, volunteer,
etc. These are in strong oontrast to
the sea terms, nearly all of which axe
pure Anglo-Saxon.
A Dainty Dish.,
What has been considered by
oriental epicures as the daintiest dish,
in China, the birds' nest, is the pro-
duct of the sea swallow, which con-
structs his nest of a gelatinous sub-
stance taken • from sea moss. The
Chinese method of preparing the
nests for the table is to soak them
and boil, them itt milk until they are
very tender. Then they are placed
In clear soup and are ready -for use.
On his trip to China, Gen. Grant was
much feted, and one of the dishes
set before him was the birds' nest,
PRINCE OF WAisES.
longer talked of as a future queen..
Princess Marie of Roumania, Prin-
cess lillizaboth of Roumania, or Prin-
cess Margaret of Detunark might be.
chosen, but the -prospeet would
arouse little linth.uslasni.
"The fact is. that there is a keea
desire that the prince shall be al-
lowed to choose for himself a British
wffe—ff not an American! Ins mar-
riage with a British bride would be
exceedingly- popular. If he should
choose an American bride the enthus-
iasm on both sfdes of the Atlantic,
would be -unbounded, and dramatic,
possibilities would be opened up.
AVOUrCOUGHtr
and COUGliElai
Cougtuag
epreeds
Disease' stog
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MU TftLT TORVIODRIX
11/SWIlbafazfr....
Doesn't hurt! Lift any con) or
callus off with fingers
Don't • suffer! 'A tiny bottle kof
Freezone costs but a few cents at ann
drug store. Apply a few drops Oil, the
-
corns, calluses and "hard skies! on bot-
tom of feet, then lift them off.
When Freezone removes corns
foes or calluses from the bottom of feet,
the skin beneath is left pink and healthy;
and never sore, tender or, ieritatede
ASTOR I A
Per Wads and dren.
MN Yu Ibnivays WM'
Sam the,
saustmeat
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GIR
SI LEMON JUICE
IS A SKIN WHITENER
*
ow to make a creamy beauty, lotion
for
The juice of two fresh lemons strained.
Into a bottle containing -three ounces of
orchard white makes a, whole quartee.
pint of the most remarkable lemon skia
beautifier at about the wet one muse
pay for a Small jar of the ordinary cold
creams. Care should be taken to strain
the lemon juice through a• fine elotb sc.
no lemon pulp gets in, then this 'lotion
will keep fresh for raontlis. Every
woman knows that lemon juice Is used
to bleach and. remove such blemishes as
freckles, sallowness and tan Ann is
the ideal skirt softener, whitenee and
beautifier-. .
'Just' -try it! Get three ounces a
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and make mi
a 'quarter pint of this sweetly frsgesnif
ninon lotion and massage it daily lute
the face, neck, anus and. hands.
"SMOOTHER THAN VELVET"
Let the children name their favorite dessert.
It will be ice cream every time.
It LI poplar with old and young alike.
If its Silverwood's, it is pure—pure pasteurized CI-earn.--
homogenized—pure flavor -giving extracts, andcstne sugar..
There is a distinctiveness about our bricks that you will
like. Among our many flavors you will find your favorite.
SILVERWOOD'S LIMLTED, LONDON, ONT.
What COMFORT LYE
Comfort Lye is a -eery powerful
cleanser. it is used for cleaning up
the oldest and hardest dirt, grease, etc.
Comfort Lye is fine for making sinks,
drains and closets sweet and clean.
Comfort Lye Rills rats, mice, roaches
sad insect pests.
. Comfort Lye will do the hardest
spring ok.sn'ing yoeve got.
Comfort Lye is good for snakied sop..
posrdered,perfunted sod 10%pux�.
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