Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-05-30, Page 7„ • ,-eeese • ^: 00,000 CANADA cted. IT ( ent Rate urich eau be an investor in,. bearing a high rate of flee or worry. pie and secure that it everybody. rtion. of our earnings human nature. Yet glad if someone would tter away and save it d it difficult to save it do it by mans of War y to him: "I lvant you a of the money in my cask and buy me Thrift each $4.00 worth of e a War savings Stamp. ht each War Sayings envelope. Go on doing Ind is free. You will or that dollar which uandered trifles. e year you will have a Savings Stamps, each k, but 'which have (vats over U.00 each. • eem in 1024. gs Serve Yon and y -----invest Them in WEN AND BEAUTIFY THE SKIN _ eauty lotion cheaply for neck, arms and bands. of a smell jar of ordinary e can prepare a. full quer- he most wonderful lemon and complexion beautifier, the juice of two fresh lens. tle containing three ounces ate. Care should be taken juice through a fine cloth pulp geta m, then this lo - fresh for months. Every that lemon juice is used remove such blemishes as ewne-ss and tan and is n softener whitener and ' t! Get three ounces of iat any drug store and nt the grocer and make up of this sweetly fragrant nd reassage it daily into , arms and hands, It Is othen rough, red hands. 1 D COUCILP 'PUGHERS! INS OR MUSES OFF t! Lift any corn or. off with fingers 1.4 r tiny bott1eof lee a few cents at any. pply a few drops on the and "hard skin" on bote en lift them off. . le removes corns from the - from. the bottom of feet, h is left pink and healthy - e, fielder or irritated. F By WILLIAM MadfAitG ' and EDWIN BALMER : Thomas Allen, Publisher,- Toronto (Continued from last week.) - • The report made to Henry ended - here. Constance picked up the later messages received in response to ord- ers to transmit to Corvet, Sherrill, & Spearman copies of all signals con- cerning Number 25 which had been re- ceived or sent: She sorted out from them those dated after the hour she just had read: "4:40, Manitowoc is callittg 25, --No. 26 is putting north to you. Keep in touch.' "4:43, No. 26 is calling No. 25, 'What is your position?' "4:50, the Richardson is calling No. 25, 'We must be approaching you. Are you giving whistle signals?' "4:53, No. 25 is replying to Rich- ardson, 'Yes; will continue to signal. Do you hear us?' 4:59: Frankfurt is calling .No. 25; 'What is your condition?' - 7474.4.14.14iwomma.441. behind ler before moving 'closer to the names hira. She had not knoWn ,W:hat he ",2 ” t had been dotin# since 'ke had hetvd of . ' °The Benton?" , AIM'S telegram; leut.ehe had supPosecl " " . .. that he was fie ecene *ay ed4operating "Oh, I• understand!All from the with her father'eartictilarlY since Benton. I see!.. , ...tNo; neer- mind word -lett come of the disaster t� the their names. „How out No 25? ferry., . i ' /, Nothing more heard, from them?" '. • "Hew ',did. you happen to be here, Constanee had delight his shoulder ' Connie"- he !asked.. . i . while he was speaking and now clung . She made' nieereplY but gazed at to it. Release—yelease of strain wee bine, stedying him. ; The agitation going theough. him; She could feel it, • which lie. was trying to eonceal was and she heard it in 'his tones and saw .' not entirely Consequent- to. her . corn- it in his eyee. • , ing in upon -hint; it had= been ruling "The steamer Number 435 rammed ' hini before. ,It 2 had . ieulerlain the proves to have been the Benton," he loudness and abuse of his Words which told her, "The men. are all from her. .,.she had overheard. That was no ea- they had abandoned, her in the small pricious outburst of temper or irrita- boats, andethe Sohlierk picked them up , . tion; it .had come frofre, something before the ferry found her." Which had seized and held Min in sus- He was not asking her to congrat- poise, in divade-ein dread; there was ulate him upon. the relief he felt;he rio other way to deft . -e..down there.. .they won't give up to herielf. When she ' ...siiildlig...they. have cleared an- floor and come en, he other ear...sink..." Had it come as dread, as thotigh pre the best way for them 'both? for whatever she mightannounce Now —fear, she was 'beginning to under - "The Richardson is searching for that the door Outlh.m in alone, lie stand, that those on the ferry had boatel mother," Censtance 'returned approached her with arms offered. been saved.' She shrank a little away steadily, "and Number 26 must be She stepped back, instinctively avoid- from hien. Benjamin Corvet had not there too lry -now." , .' ing- his embrace; and lie stopped at been a friend of Henry's—they had Her mother looked to the storm, . once, but .he had come quite close to quarreled; Uncle Benny had caused Outside the windoer -which overlooked . her now. , trouble;but nothing which she had un - the lake two. hundred feet above the I . That . she had detected faintly the derstood could explain fear on Henry's street, the sleet -like snow was driving' smell of liquor about him was not the part lest Uncle Benny should be found ceaselessly; all over the -western basin ' whole reason- for her 1, drawing back. safe. Henry had not Welcomed Alan; of the great lakes, as Constance knew Be was not' dronk; he was quite him- 'but now Henry was hoping that Alan —over Huron, over. Michigan, - and , self so . far as any influence of tb.s.t I was dead. Henry's -words to her in Superior—the storm was established. : kind was concerned. Ilong ago, when rthe north, after Alan had seen: her Its continuance and severity had -claim- i he was a youn.g man on the boats, he I there, iterate/I themselves to her: "1 ed a front page column in the morning ! had drunk a good deal; he had con- I told that fellow Conrad not to keep papers. -Duluth that morning had re-. i fessed to her mime but he had not 1 stirring Up these matters about Ben ported ternparture of eighteen below I done fu) for years. :- Since she had; Corvet.... Conrad doesn't know what lit zero; and fierce snow; at Max- known him, he had . n. among- thel he'll turn up; I don't know either. But quette it was fifteen below zero; most careful of her Ali ndsi it was for lit's not going to be anything pleasant there was driving snow at ' the "efficiency" he had sai r The drink I " Only a few minutes ago she Was simply a part — _indeed only a I had still thought of these _words as spoken only for Alan's sake and for Thicle Benny's; now she could not think of them so. This fear of news from the north could not be for their sake; it was for Henry's own. Had all the warnings been for Henry's sake too? Horror and amazement flowed in up - On her with her realization of this in the man she had promi, sed to marry; and he seemed now td appreciate the effe,et he was producing/upon her. He tried obviously to pull. himself to- gether; he could not do that fully; yet he managed a manner assertive of his right over her, , "Connie," he cried to her, °Connie!" She drew back from him as he ap- proached her; she was not yet con- sciously denying his right. What was controlling him, what migh,t underlie his hope that they were dead, she could not guess; she could not think or reason about that now; what she felt was only overwbelining desire to be away from him where she could think connectedly; For an instant ste stared at him all her -body tense; then, as she turned and went out, he followed her again calling her name But, seeing the seamen in the larger office, he stopped, and she understood he was not willing to urge himself upon her in their presence. She crossed the office swiftly; in the corridor she stripped to compose herself before she met her mother. She heard Henry's voice spealdng to one of the clerks and flushed hotly' with horror. Could she be certain of anything about hirn now? Could she be certain .evelh. that news .which came through these employees of his would net be kept from, : her or only •so much, given her aiWilialdeeerve Henry's PtIrpose and enabL.,frint 'to, conceal. from her the reason or his fear? She pushed e the door open. "I'm willing to go home now mother " you. wish," she .said Steadily. 'Her mother. ,arose at once. "There is no gime nein, Const,ance?" a schooner has picked up the crew- of the ship the ferry rammed; that is all." She followed .her mother, but stop- ped in the anteroom. beside the desk of her father's private seretary. .. You are going to be here all day, Miss Bermet?" she asked. & "Yes, Miss Sherrill." "Will you. Please try to see person- ally all messages .which. come to Cor - vet, Sherrill and *Spearma,n, ,or to Mr. SPearman about the men from Number 2se51,f ?an,,d telephone them to me your - "Certainly, Miss Sherrill." When they had gone down. to the street and were in the car, Constance leaned back, closing her eyes; she feared her mother might wish to talk with her. The afternoon papers were already out with news of the loss of the ferry; Mrs. SherTill stopped the car and bought pne, but Constance looked at it only enough to make sure that tbe reporters had been able to discover nothing more than she 'al- ready knew; the newspaper reference to Henry was only as to the partner of the great Chicago ship owner Benjamin Corvet, who might be lost with the ship. She called Miss Benet as soon as she reached home; but nothing more had been received. Toward three o'- clock -Miss Bennet called her, but only to report that the office had heard a- gain from Mr. Sherrill. He had wired that he was going on from Manistique and would cross tile Straits from. St. Ignace; iriessages from him were to be addressed to Petoskey. He had given no suggestion, that he had news; and there was no other report except that vessels were still continuing the .search for survivors, because the In- dian Drum, which had been 'beating, was .beating "short," causing the su- perstitious to be certain that, though some of the men. from Number 25 were last, some yet survived. her impression had not so far forgotten himself as ,opened the, that. But it was plain to her that he d looked up in was congratulting himself; it ,had axing himself' been fear 'that he was feeling before Soo, at Mackinac, and at all ports "5:04,No, 25 is replying to Frank- along both shores. She pictured little fort, 'Holding bare headway; stern boats, at the last moment, getting a - very low.' 1 way from the ferry, deep -laden with "5:10, No. 26 is callinig No. 25, `Are injured and exhausted men; how long you throwing off cars?' might those men live in open boats in "5j14, Petoskey is calling Manitowoc a ,gale and with cold like that? The little clock upon her father's desk marked ten o'clock; they had been nearly five hours in the boats now, those nen. C(r:%nce knew that as soon as anything new was heard, it would be broUght to her; yet, with a word to her mother, she went from her father's room and down the corridor- into the general office; A hush of expectancy held this larger room; the clerks moved silently and spoke to one .an- other in low voices; she recognized in a little group of men gathered in a corner of the room some officers- of Corvet, Sherrill, and Spearman's ships. Others among them, whom she did not know, were plainly seamen too men who knew Ben Corvet and. who, on hearing he was on. the ferry, had come in to learn what more was known; the business men and clubmen, friends of Corvet's later life, had not heard it yet. There was a restrained, pro- feSsional , attentiveness among these seamen, as of those in the presence of an, event which any day might hap- pen to themselves. They were listen - in* to the clerk who had compiled the .report, who. was telephoning now, and Constance, waiting, listened too ' to learn what he might be hearing. But he put down the receiver as. he saw her. "Nothing mor; Miss Sherrill," he reported. "The Richarson has wire- lessed that she reached, the reported position of the sinking about half -past six o'clock. She is searching' but has' mained at key. Frani 5:25, to 5:48 - fc'und =thine • . • we received disconnected messages, as follows: 'Have cleared -another car ...they are sticking to it down there ...engine-roorn crew is also sticking hell on car deck: .. every thing smashed...they won't give up...sink- ing now...we're going...good-bye... stuck to end.. . all they could...know that...hand it to them.. :have clear- ed another car...sink...S. 0. Signals then entirely ceased There was no rnore than this. Con- stance let the papers fall back upon the desk and looked to her mother; Mrs. Sherrill loosened her fur collar and sat back, breathing more comfort- ably. Constance quickly shifted her gaze and, trembling and with head erect, she- walked to the window and looked out. The meaning of What she had read was quite clear; her mother was formulating it. "So they are both lost, Mr Corvet and his—son," Mrs. Sherrill said quiets ly. Constance did not reply, either to 'We are receiving $ 0. S. What is wrong?' Petoskey has not previously been" , in :communication with shore statins or ships. "5:17, No. 25 is signalling No. 26. 'Are throwing off cars; have cleared eighe; work very difficult. We are sinking.' "5,:20, No. 25 is calling the Rich- ardson, 'Watch for small boats. Posi- tion doubtful because a snow and changes of course; probaly due west N. Fox, twenty or thirty miles.' "5:24, No 26 is calling. No. 25, 'Are you abandoning ship ?' "5:27, No. 25 is replying to No. 26,'Second' boat just getting safely a- way with passengers; first boat was smashed. Six passengers in second boat, two injured of crew, cabin maid, boy and two men!, "5:30, Manitowoc and Frankfort are calling No. 25, 'Are you abandoning ship?' "5:34, No. 25 is replying to Mani- towoc, 'Still trying to clear cars;: everything is loose.below...' "5:40, Frankfort is calling Man- itowoc, 'Do you get anything now?' "5:45, IVIanitowoe callhig the Rich- ardson, `Do you get aftything? Sig- nals have stopped. here.' "5:48, The Richardson is calling Petoskey, We got nothing now. Do "6:30, Petoskey is calling Manitowoc 'Signals after becoming indistin0t, failed entirely about 5:45, probably by failure of ship's owner to supply cur- rent. Operator appears to have re - "She's keeping on searching, though," "Yes;- of course." "It's still snowing there?" • "Yes, Miss Sherrill. We've had a m.essage from- your father. He has gone on to 11.1anistique; it's more likely that wreckage or survivors will be, brought in there." - The telephone- switchboarb beside Constance suddenly buzzed,' and the operator, plugging in a connection, said: "YeA sir; at once," and through* the partitions. of the private office on the other side, a man's heavy tones came to Constance. That was Henry's office and, in timbre, the voice was his, but it was so strange in other char- acteristics of expression that she wait- ed an instant before saying to the clerk - "Mr. Spearman has come in?" . The clerk hesitated, but the con- tinnaiice of the tone from the other side of the partition made reply super- fluous. "Yes, Miss Sherrill." refuse or concur in the conclusion. "Did you tell him that mother and There was not anything. which was were here?" The clerk considered again before deciding to reply in the affirmative There evidently was some trOuble with the telephone number -which Henry had called; the girI at the switchboard was ,apologizang- in frightened panic, and Henry's voice, loud and abusi;ve, came more plainly through the partition. Constance started to give an instruc- tion to the clerk; then, as the. abuse burst out again, she changed her plan and went to Henry's door and rapped. Whether no one else rapped in that way or whether he realized that she might have came into the general office she did not know; but at once his voice was still. He made no answer and no move to open the door; so., af- ter waiting a moment, she turned the knob and went in. Henry was seated at his drsk, fac- ing her, his big hands Wire him; one of them held the telephone re- ceiver. . He lifted it slowly and put it. upon the hook beside the tranS- ratter as he watched her with steady, silent, aggressive scrutiny. His face was flushed a little—not much; his hair Was carefully brushed, and there was something' about his clean-shaven appearance and the set of his perfect- ly fitting coat, one vy-hich he did not ordinarily wear to business, which seemed studied. He did not rise; only after a moment he recollected that he had not done so and came tp his feet. "Good morning, Connie," he said. meant to be merciless in that con- clusion; her mother simply was cred- iting what probably had occurred. Constance could not in reason refuse to accept it too; yet she was refusing He had read some other significance it. She had not realized, until these in it, she thought, clr, from his greater understanding of , conditions in the reports of the wireless message told her that he was gone, what companion- storm, he had been able to hold no ship with Alan had come to mean to hope from what had been reported. her. She had accepted it as always That was the only way she could ex - to be existent, somehow—a companion- plain to herself as he replied to her; ship which might be interrupted often that the word meant to him that men but always to he formed . again. It were saved and that therefore. it was amazed her to -find how firm a place dismaying to him, could not come to he had found in her world of those her at once. • When it came now, it close to her with whom she must al- went over her first only „in the flash ways be intimately concerned. . of incredulous question. Her mother arose and came beside "Yes," he said' to her. "Yes," And her. "May it not be better, Con- he went out of the room to the -outer stancei, that it has happened this office. She turned. and watched him way?" and then followed to the door. He had "Better!" Constance cried She con- gone to the desk of the girl who had trolled herself, brought him the bulletin, and Con - 'It was only what Henry had said stance heard his !,voice, strained and queerly unnaturat 'Call Manitowoc to her monthi ago when Alan had on the long distance. Get the harbor left her in the north in the search which had resulted in the -finding of master. Get the names of the people that the Solwerk picked up." Uncle Bennv—"Might it not be better He stayed beside the girl while she for him not to find out?" Henry, who could hazard mo* accurately than any started the call. "Put them on ray wire when you get them," he com- Constance thrilled as she hear that. one else the nature of that strange man.ded and turned back to his office. She did not believe in the Drum; at secret which Nan now must have "Keep my wire 'clear for that." least she had never thought she had found out, had Believed it; her mother Constance retreated into the room really believed in. it; she had only 'who at least had lived longer in the world than she, also believed it. There as he approached, ' He did not want stirred to the idea of. its being true. her there now, she knew; for that rea- But if the Drum was beating, she was oame before Constance the vision of son—if she yet definitely understood glad it was beating short. It was Alan's defiance and refusal to accept the stigma suggested to her father's "Come in. What's the news?" no other—she Meant to remain. If serving, at least, to keep the lake Men , • There was something , strained and he asked her to go, she intended to more alert. She wondered What part recital to him of his relationship to - the report of the Drina might have almost menacing in his voice and in stay; but he did not ask her. He wish Mr. Corvet. There came to her sight of himas he had tried to keep her his manner which halted her, She in ed her to go aWay; in every word 'played in her father's 'movements. ' her presence at that which he spoke to her, in every move- None .probably; for he,„ of •course, did from entering Uncle Benny's house some way—or not. believe in the Drum. . His . move moment—appeared to -be definitely dis- ment of their silent waiting, was his when Luke was there, and then her waiting with him through the long,turbing him. It frightened him, she desire toseseapel her;but he dared not was plainly dictated by the fact that, hour and his dismissal of her, .his would have thought, except that the —dared not—go about that directly. • with the western gale, drift from the abnegation of their friendship. And idea was a contradiction. Henry . The feeling of that flashed over her ferry -would be toward the aStern at that time .his .disgrace was indefi_ frightened? But if he vvas not, what to her stupefaction. Henry and she I shore. were waiting for. word of the fate of A little later, as C.onstance stood at nite; -last night had he learned some- emotion now controlled him? thing worse than he had dreaded? The impulse which had brodght her Uncle Benny and Alan, and waiting the window, gazing. out at the snow The words of his telegram took for into his office went from her. She opposed! She was no longer doubt-- upon the lake, she drew back suddenly her more terrible significance for the had not seen or heard from Henry ing it as she watched. him; she was out of sightfrom the street, .0 t, asshef shoe moment. "Have some one who knew directly since before Alan's telegram. trying tip underStand: The telephone saw Henry's roadster app Mr. Carvet well enough to recognize had come late yesterday afternoon; buzzer tinder his desk sounded; she the storm and stop before the &mite. ii him even if greatly changed meet.." she had heard from her father only drew close as he took up his receiver. She had been apprehensively certain Were the broken, incoherent words of that he had informed Henry; ' that "Manitowoc ?'$, he said. "I want to hewmild;come to ter some time during the wireless the last that she should was all, know what you've heard from the Sol- the day; he had been too ,fully. aware , - hear of him, and of Uncle Benny, af- * "I've no news, Henry," she said. ,,w ......Y rt he e? The of the effeet he- madeuponher not to 1 ter that? "They are sticking to it "Have your She closed the 'door men the Solwerk picked up. You have attempt to remove that effect as. soon 2 2 , small part—of the sub and pettiliarity she m If he had been drinki she knew, no teinptatio le strangeness arked in him. ig now, it was, no capricious return to the old ap,petite, then it was for the effect—to bra4e himself. A - the thing for himself when gainst what? Agains which he had prepare she came upon him. As she stared at him, the clerk's voice came to ,her suddenly over the partition which separated the office from the larger room Where the clerk was receiving Some message over the telephone. Henry straightened, list- ened; as the Voice stopped, his great finely shaped head sank between his shoulders; he fumbled in his pocket for a cigar, and hi le big hands shook as he lighted it,witti her. A stra that he felt w ing and was her preserke. She heard (i.otstps in the larger room coming toward ,the office door. Henry was sus.penSe. A rap came at the dotir. Ile whitened and took the cigar from his mouth and wet his lips. - "Come in," he summoned. One of the office. I girls entered, bringing a white page of paper with, three or four lines Of purple type- writing upon it which Constance re- cognized mu be a I transcript of a message just. ceiveth • She starte forward at sight of it; forgetting everything else; but he took the paper as though he did not know she was there. ;, He -merely held it until the girl hull gone out; even then he stood folding and ainfoldieg ' it, and his ekes did mot' drop to the' sheet. The girl -had said- othing at all -but, having seen her, nstance was a - thrill;. the girl had ot been a bearer of bad news, thatwas sure; she brought some sort of good news! Constance, certain of at, moved nearer to 'Henry to read What he held. He looked down and re "What. is it, Hen His musmilar rea had drawn the shee he -recovered himse ly and gave,' the pa that instant; Consta "prepared." She m herself the instant letin must be somet out ward of excuse to re feeling came to her at he dreaded approach - longer conscious a d. .2, don, as he read, away from her; almost instant- er to her; but, in ace herself' was st have deceived efore! This bill- ing dismaying to what had remained of hope, "8:35. a.m., Maltwoc, Wis.," she read. "The schoon r Anna S Solwerk- hag been sighted making for this port. She is not close eneugb for communi- cation, but .two te her own, can be It is believed that s ecl up surviVors of no -wireless, so is unable to. report. Tugs are going out to her." "Two lifeboats!" Constance cried. "That coukt mean that they all are saved or nearly all; doesn't it Henry; doesn't it?" eboats, additional plainly made out. e must have pick - o. 25. She carries as he could. Aft he got out of the car, shaking the snowflakes front his great fur coat and from. his cap, looking up at the house before he came in and not knowing that' he ,was observed, she -saw something very like triumph in his manner. Her pulses stopped, then raceiV that;, triumph for him! That meant, if he brought news, it yeas good news for him; it must be then -bed news for her. She waited in the room where she . was. She heard him in the hall, tak- int off 4eis coat and speaking to the servant, and he appeared then at ..the door. The strain he was under had ' not lessened, she could see; or rather, if she could trust her feeling at sight • atF2 Doret Trust to Luck. When ordering Tea, but insist .on getting the reliable.. 4 of himit had lessened only slightly, • The Tea That Never Disappoints and at the same 'time his power to resist it had been lessening too: His " Black Green or Mixed on Sealed Packets Only* hands and even his body shook; but his head was thrust forward, and he stared at her aggressively, and, plain ly, he had determined in advance to additional reasons for making War upon Germany, and when Anirica declared herself on the side of our enemies Erzberger no longer con- sidered propaganda in favor of war worth while, and, with a rapid change of convictions, began to push propaganda against war. He defend- ed Wilson's plan for a league of na- tions, which he attempted to explain to the German -people in, a book." Regafting his failure as an armisr tire delegate the Berliner Neuest‘ Nachrichten continues: "No one had a better, chance of making good his stilted phrase: 'I wager that after I have sat for only half an hour at the table with Lloyd George and the others we will have an imnIediate pdace.' INTA?w- he has been sitting for months witJi the ne- gotiators of the Entente, and we are not only snot at peace, but he has agreed to the most humiliating terms .poesible for Germany." According to the Frankfurter Zeit- ung; "a well paid porter with a pla- card bearing the word 'We accept' enight just as well.bave been sent to Treves, instead of the nodding offt- cial,f' while the Hanover Courier reaches the conclusion that "where antique grandeur alone would have been fitting, thick-headed bour- geoisie had been sent." act toward her as though theie" rela- tionship had not been disturbed. , "I thought you'd want to know, I Connie," he said, "so I came 'straight 1 out. The Richardson's picked, up one of the boats from the ferry." "Uncle Beeny and Alan Conrad were , not in it," she returned; the trilunph ' she had seen in him had told her that. I "No. it was the first boat put off ' by the ferry, with the passengers and esabin maid and some injured men of the crew." "Were they—alive ?" her voice hush- ed tensely, "Yes; that is, they Nem able' to revive them all; but if- didn't seem possible to the Riehaedson'a officers , that any one could be revived who had been exposed much longer than that; se he Richardson's given up the search and some of the other ships that were searching have given up too, and gone - on their cpurse. "When did. you hear that, Henry? I was justispeaking with the office." "A few Minutes ago; a news wire got it befoise any este else; it didn't come through the °Mee "I see; how many were in the boats?" "Twelve, Connie." "Then all the vessels up there won't give up yet!" Why not ?" "I was just talking with Miss Ben- net, Henry; she's heard again from the other end of the lake. The peo- ple up there say the Drum is beat- ing-, but it's beating short still!" "Shoit!" She saw Henferattiffen. "Yes," she said swiftly: . They say. the Drum began sounding last night, and that at -first it sounded for only two lives; it's kept on beating, but is still beat- ing only for four. There were thirty- nine on the ferry—seven passengers and thirty-two crew. Twelve have been saved now; so until the Drum raises the beats to twenty-seven there is still a chance that some one will be saved." (Continued Next Week) 4.7446:4+44440.40.44.)44440.0344“ Germans Have Discovered That Mathias Erzberger Possesses No Principles '444•41... :t1•44444:404•430004+34444) R-sfiascoas .aarni16- . lice delegate the German press is bitter against Herr Erzberger. Rejoicing in the fact that he was not included among the peace delegates, George Bernhard says, in the V?ssische 'Zeltung: "It is a piece of good fortune that the German nation would have, been glad to enjoy long before this. For this inverted Northcliffe, who in spite of reckless expenditures of state money and shameless corruption of the press could not' make his pro- paganda successful, could have no, success witkt the Entente, as they have too complete a dossier regard- ing him. should never have been allowed out of Germany as a nego- tiator. The task of the German dele- gation in Paris will be more 'difficult because. of his Mismanagement of the armistice negotiations, and the Ger- man nation has him to thank for what is taking place in Posen to- daar..t, The Berliner Neueste Nachrichten. thinks a survey of his past career worth while and states a few of the blunders committed by the states- man: "His' extraordinary following as a parliamentarian led to the belief that he was supremely fitted to occupy the Punctuation Marks. Punctuation marks were first- em- ployed by AristoPhanes, the famous Greek dramatist, who lived centuries before Christ. The system devised by him did not become generally known, and soon fell into complete oblivion. It was nearly 1,000 years before any one made a similar attempt. In the time of Charles the Great two dis- tinguished Scholars, Aleuin and Warnefrid, again introduced punctu- ation marks„.but their signs also fell into disuse. The present system of punctuation, as used in all modern languages with insignificant varia- tions, was introduced in aft first half of the -sixteenth celilury by the Vene- tian printer,- Aldus Manutius. He is the real father of the punctuation marks — the period, comma, colon,. semircolon, exclamation and interro- gatiOn marks, aPOstrophe and invert- ed commas. Printers gradually • adopted the system, which finally be - LIFT OFF CORNS! Apply few drops filen lift sore, touchy corns off with fingers 4, Doesn't hurt a heti Drop .1t little freezone ,On an aching wrxt,. instaxttly. • that 'corn stops hurtingl then you lift it right out. Yes, magic! . A tiny bottle of Freezone costs hut 4 few cents at any drug store, but is suffi- cient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn:between tho toes, and the , calluses, without soreness or irritation.Freezone is the sensational discovery ofs.lc incinnati genius. It is wonderbst • came established throughout the con- • tinent of. Europe. CASTOR I A he Infanta and AMP= The lbs Always Bat* GI LS!' LEMON JUICE A .Wonderful Clock, IS A SKIN WHITENER San Diego Cal has.a wonderful clock with twenty dials, which tell simultaneously the time itt all parts .01 the woeld; also the' dos of 'the week and file date of the month. It Stands twenty-one feetehigiveandstour - of its dials are each four feet in dia- meter. The master clock is enclosed in plate glass, so that every action can. be seen, and the Whole is illum- inated at night. It is jeweled, with tourmaline, topaz, agate and jade,., and took fifteen months to build.•,The motive power is a 200 -pound weight, which winds itself automatically. Mercury. The world's annuelepreduction mercury is about 4,000 metric tone, of which. Spain tontributes about 1,400 tons s Italy neaely 1,000 tonti, Austria-liungs,ry .800 ltons Red the United filtatee about 760 torts. Great Firitainla pre-war consumptien was over 600 tans. How to make a creamy heittity leis* • - for a few cents. Tiijuie of two fre04. lemons strained -Info a15406 eentainfrig Weil:mite& o orchard white makes a whole quarte pint of the most remarkable bonen ski* beautifier at about ,the *set one xo. pay for a small jar of the ordinary Aim ereams. Care iliould be taken. to strait the lemon juice through- a fine -cloth ao no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotimg will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice isensed to bleach and remove such hien:tithes as freckles, sallowness and tan and is the ideal„ skin softener, -whitener and beautifier. Just try it! Get three 'GUMS Of 'orchard white at any drug store and two lemons from the grocer and make iati a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon. lotion and massage daily =tit the face, neck, arms and, hands. e N, "SMOOTHER THA• N VELVET" The finishing touch to a good meal—Silverwood's ice Cream. Its creamy taste and pure fruit flavors are a real delight. Many fine dishes can be seryed with ice cream, making dainty desserts for sperinl occasions. Silverwood's is pure pasteurized cream—homogenized. STLVERWOOD'S LIMITED, LONDON, ONT. — 44. 1.441.4.tr. Bricks in alt Flavors Look for ihe Silven000d's Sign MA'rHIAS EIVIBERGE11. position of chief of propaganda, while his willingness and zeal showed Itself hi t4e suia expended for this ends which was no less than 28,000,00. sliaas." On the other hand: "He' used his office lightly, ing himself only with those pagers whose corruptibility was no scant and whose significance had alma sunk t�, a- low level,. The discoing; et this fact, -gave Italy and Roma:lig osmar.+4 17 cleans closets drains — kJ 15 rat...) ice , bugs des roils