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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-02-01, Page 7dENwE BAXTER: JOURNALIST I BY ROBERT CARR, Ii,--,1Iig W! Qr In His Ma 1 IltLic, maewleht. loco, by Robert navel ''.Don't took dtt Ttfit map!" slbrleced the professor. 'want. There is a map of Vienna pinned against the wall yonder. Bring it to me." Jennie proceeded in the direction in- dicated. It was an ordinary map of the city of Vienna, and as Jennie took it down she noticed that across the south- ern part of the city a semicircular line in pencil had been drawn and, exam, fining it more closely. saw that the sta. tionary part of the compass had been placed on the spot where stood the building which contained the profess- or's studio. She paid closer attention to the pencil mark and observed that it passed through the treasury building. "Don't look at that map!" shrieked 'the professor, beating the air with his hands. "I asked you to bring it to me. Can't you do a simple action like that 'without spying about?" Jennie rapidly unfastened the paper from the wall and brought it to him. 'The scientist scrutinized it closely, ad- justing his glasses the better to see. Then he deliberately tore the map into fragments, numerous and minute. He rose, and this time Jennie made no pro- test, went to the window, opened it, flung the fluttering bits of paper out into the air, the strong wind carrying them far over the roofs of Vienna. Closing the casement, he came back to his chair. "Was—was any one hurt at this ex- plosion?" he asked presently. "Yes; four men were killed instant- ly; a dozen were seriously injured and are now in hospital." "Oh, my God --nay Godl" cried the old man, covering his face with his hands, swaying from side to side in his Chair like a man tortured with agony and remorse. At last he lifted a face that bad grown more pinched and yel- low within the last few minutes. "I can tell you nothing," he said, Moistening his parched lips. "You mean that you will tell me nothing, for 1 see plainly that you know everything." "I knew nothing of any explosion un- til you spoke of it. What have 1 to do with the treasury or the government?" "That is just what I .vont to know. " "It is absurd. I am no conspirator, but a scientist." "Then yon have nothing to fear, Herr Seigfried. If you are innocent, why are you so loath to give weeny as- sistance in this matter?" "It has nothing to do with me. I am a scientist --I am a scientist. ,All I wish is to be left alone with my studies. I have nothing to clo with governments or newspapers or anything belonging to them," Jennie sat tracing a pattern on the dusty floor with the point of her para- sol. She spoke very quietly: "The penciled line which yon drew on the neap of Vienna passed through the treasury 1>tiildling; the center of the circle was this garret. Why did you draw that :Ieuciled semicircle? Why aro you nnxious that I should not see you had done so? Why did you destroy the nnip?" • Professor Seigfried sat Liver Corn 'ain't LOOT{ out for these symptoms of torpid liver and biliousness: Coated tongue,. Bitter taste in the mouth, Attacks of headache! Fickle appetite and indigestion Feelings of weight and oppression about the stomach, • Pale, muddy complexion, Depressed spirits and irritable • temper, Constipation and looseness of the inhvels. The most satisfactory regulator of tite liver is Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Fills. This well-known medicine IaS a direct and Specific action on the liver, enlivening it in its work of filtering the blood and aiding digestion. Dr. Chases iidney-Liver pills, Otte pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all dealers, or Edniansott, Bates & Co, 'Toronto. :„ere looking at her with droppe4 qiw, but he made no reply. "If yoit, will excuse any saying so,” the girl went on, "you are acting very childishly. It is evident to me that you are no criminal, yet if the director of . police had been in my place he would have arrested you long ago, and that merely because of your own feolish ac - Um." "The map proved nothing," he said at last, haltingly, "and, besides, both you and the director will now have sane difficulty in finding it." "That is further proof of your folly. The director doesn't need to find it, 1 am here to testify that I saw the map, bow the curved line passing through the treasury and saw yon destroy what you thought was an incriminating piece of evidence. It would be much better If you would deal as frankly with me as I have done with you. Then I shall give you the best advice I can—if my advice will be of any assistance to you," "Yes, and publish it to all the world 1" "It will have to be published to all the world in any ease, for, if I leave here without full knowledge, I will simply go to the police office and there tell all I know!" "And if I do speak yon will still go to the director of the police and tell him what you have discuvered 1" "No; I give you my word that I will not!" "What guarantee have I of that?" asked the old man suspiciously. "No guarantee at all except my word!" "Will you promise not to print in your paper what I tell you?" "No; I cannot promise that)" "Still, the newspaper doesn't mat- ter," continued the scientist., "The story would be valueless to you, because no ono would believe it. There is no use in printing a story in a newspaper that will be laughed at, is there? How- ever, I think you are honest. Otherwise you would have promised not to print a line of what I tell you, and then I should have known you were lying. It was as easy to promise that as to say you world not tell the director of po- lice. I thought at first some scientist had sent yon ]fere to play the spy on me and learn what I was doing. I as- sure you I heard nothing about the ex- plosion you speak of, yet I was certain it had occurred somewhere along that tine which I drew on the map. I had hoped it was not serious and begun'to believe it was not. The anxiety of the last month has nearly driven me in- sane, and, as you say quite truly, my actions have been childish." The old man in his excitement had risen from his' chair and was now pac- ing up and down the room, running his fingers distractedly through his long, white hair and talking more to himself than to his auditor. Jennie had edged her chair nearer to the door and had made no protest against his rising, fearing to interrupt his flow of talk and again arouse his suspicions. "I have no wish to protect my inven- tions. I have never taken out a patent in my life. What I discover I give free- ly to the world, but T will not be robbed of my reputation as a scientist. I want my name to go down to posterity among those of the great discoverers. Yon talked just now of going to the police and telling them what you. knew. Foolish creature! You could no more have gone to the central police office without my permission, or against my will, than you could go to the window and whistle back those bits of paper I scattered to the winds. Before you reached the bottom of the stairs I could have laid Vienna in a mass of ruins. Yes, I could in all probability have blown up the entire empire of .Aus- tria. The truth is that I do not know the limit of my power, nor dare I test it," "Oh, this is a madman!" thought Jennie as site edged still nearer to the door. The old man paused in his walk and turned fiercely upon her. "You don't believe me?" lie said. "No, I do not," she answered, the color leaving her cheeks. The aged scientist gave utterance to a hideous chuckle. Ile took from one of his numerous shelves a hammer bead without the handle and for a moment Jennie thought he was going to attack her, but he merely handed the metal to her and said: "Break that in two. Place it between your palms and grind it to powder." "You know that is absurd; I cannot do it," "Why can't you do it?" "Because it is of steel." "That is no reason. Why can't you do it?" He glared at her fiercely over his glasses, and she saw in his wild eye all the enthusiasm of an instructor enlight- ening a pupil. "I'll tell you why you can't do it, because every minute particle of it is held together by an enormous force. It may be heated redact and beaten into this shape and that. but still the force hangs on as tenacionsly as the grip of a eiant. Now. summose I had some sub- stance, a drop of which, placed otl that piece of iron, Would release the force which holds the particles together. What •would happen?" "I don't know," replied Jennie. "Oh, yes, you dol" cried the profess- or impatiently. "But you are like ev- ery other woman---.yott won't take the trouble to think. What would happen would be this: The force that field the Particles together would be released, the hammer would fall to powder like that gold yon showed me, and there would be an explosion, canned by the sudden release of the power, which would probably wreck this room and extinguish both our lives. You under- stand that, do you not?" “Yes, I think Ido." “Well, here is something you 'won't understand and probably won't believe wlien yott hear it There is but ono THE WING -HAI TIMES. FEBRUARY 1 OO force in this world and but one particle of nwetter. There is only one element, which is the basis of everything. All the different shapes and conditions of things that we see are caused by a mere variation of that force in conjunction with numbers of that particle, Ain I getting beyond your depth?" "I am afraid you are, professor," "Of course, I know what feeble brains the average woman is possessed of. Still, try to keep that in your mind. Now, listen to thist I have dis- covered how to disunite that force and that particle. I can with a touch fling loose upon this earth a giant whose strength is irresistible and immeasur- able. " "Then why object to making your discovery public?" "In the first place, because there are still a thousand things and more to be learned along this line of investigation. The moment a man announces his dis- coveries he is first ridiculed; then, when the truth of what he affirms is proved, there rise in all parts of the world other men who say they knew all about it ten years ago and will prove it, too --at least, far enough to delude a gullible world; in the second place, be- cause I am a humane man I hesitate to spread broadcast a knowledge that would enable any fool to blow up the universe. Then there is a third rea- son, There is another who, I believe, has discovered how to make this force loosen its grip on the particle—that is Keely of Philadelphia, in the United States"-- "Whatl You don't mean the Keely motor man?" cried Jennie, Iaughing. "That arrant humbug! Why, all the papers in the world have exposed his ridiculous pretensions. He has done nothing but spend other people's mon- ey." "Yes, the newspapers have ridiculed him, Human beings have, since the be- ginning of the world, stoned their prophets. Nevertheless, he has liberated a force that no gauge made by man can measure. He has been boastful, if yon like, and has said that with a teacupful of water he would drive a steamship over the ocean. I have been silent, working away with my eye on him, and he has been working away with his eye on me, for each knows what the other is doing. If either of us discovers how to control this force, then that man's name will go down to posterity forever. He has not yet been able to do it; neither have I, There is still another difference between us—he appears to be able to loosen that force in his own presence; I can only do it at a distance. All my experiments lately have been in the direction of making modifications with this machine, so as to liberate the force within the the *compass, say, of this room; but the problem has baffled me. The invisible rays which this ma- cbine sends out and which will pene- trate stone, iron, wood or any other substance must unite at a focus, and have not been able to bring that focus nearer nee than something over half a mile. "Last summe1 I went to an uninhab- ited part of Switzerland and there con- tinued my experiments. I blew up at will rocks and bowiders on the moun- tain sides, the distances varying from a mile to half a mile. I examined the results of the disintegration, and when you came in and showed me the gold I recognized at once that some one had discovered the secret I have been trying to fathom for the last ten years. I thought that perhaps you had come from Keely. I am now, convinced that the explosion you speak of in the treas- ury was caused by myself. This ma- chine, which you so recklessly threaten- ed to throw out of the window, acci- dentally slipped from its support when I was working here some time after midnight on the 17tb. I placed it im- mediately as you see it now, where it throws its rays into midair and is con- segnently harmless, but I knew an ex- plosion must havo taken place in Vien- na somewhere within the radius of hall a mile. I drew the pencil seeoicircle that you .saw on the trap of Vienna, for in my excitement in placing the macbine 'upright I had not noticed ex- actly where it had pointed, but I knew I along the Iine I had drawn an explosion i must have occurred and could only hope that it had not been a serious one. ' which it seems it was. I waited and waited, hardly daring to leave my attic, but hearing no news of any disaster I t,etween the anxiety that c ti*. •`'raY,y �I.t�1 ";:antegetaatIam. Pacheeol at the Oven's Mouth We do things right at the Mooney bakery. Crackers are packed piping hot from the ovens. 'The moisture proof paper and air -tight tins retain all the freshness and arispriest, as "Worn Out" People a -Don't neglect the first syrup - toms. Oftentimes the irritating cough, the insipid cold, the listless and languid feeling, are due to a wear: state of the system, It is a sure sign of breakdown, Nothing else will putyourightso quicklyand effectively as ,"PsYcniee." If you feel "worn out," it is time far a tonic, a real tonic There is only one really good tonic. It is ""Psvcrnem." Keepa, bottle handy —never be without it. It tones up the system and restores your old time vitality. Ask your• druggist about it, GREATEST OF ALL. 'CONICS (RQNQW CED seMK_EEN) fiLL DRUCCISTS—ONE DOLLAR—FREE TRIAL Dir T. A. $LOCUM, Limited 178 icing 8t. W. Toronto, Canada would naturally 1,11111' tO 141,,• .,auae man in toy ;umttien--• vho did Gut wish to destroy life—lied tae fear tact. if nothing had ocer.rrea. 1 bad ant nc• tunny made t?te discovery 1 thought I bac! made. Yon 'pure of my actions be. ing childish, but when 1 realiztel that I had myself been the cense of the explo- sion a tear of criminal proseertion cause over me. Not that 1 shunld eb- jest to imprisonment if they would al- low me to continue my experiments, but that doubtless they would not do, for the authorities know nothing of sci- ence and care less." In spite of her initial skepticism, Jennie found herself gradually coming to believe in the efficiency of the harm- less looking mechanism of glass and iron that she saw on the table before her, and a sensation of horror held her spellbound as she gazed at it. Its awful possibilities began slowly to develop in her mind, and she asked breathlessly: "What would happen if yon were to turn that machine and point it toward the center of the earth?" "I told you what would happen. Vi- enna would lie in ruins, and possibly the whole Austrian empire and perhaps some adjoining countries would become a mass of impalpable dust, It may be that the world itself would dissolve. I cannot tell what the magnitude of the result might be, for I have not dared to risk the experiment." "Oh, this is too frightful to think about!" she cried. "You must destroy the machine, professor, and you must never make another." "What! And give up the hope that my name will descend to posterity?" "Professor Seigfried, when once this machine becomes known to the world there will be no posterity for your name to descend to. With the present hatred of nation ngainst nation, with different countries full of those nnimprisoned maniacs whom we call jingoes—men preaching the hatred of one people against another—how long do you think the world will last when once such knowledge is alsroad in it?" The professor looked longingly at the machine he had so slowly and painfully constructed. "It would be of much use to human- ity if it were but benevolently em- ployed. With the coalfields everywhere diminishing, it would supply a motive force for the universe that would last through the ages." "Professor Seigfried," exclaimed Jennie earnestly, "when the Lord per- mits a knowleclge of that machine to become common property it is his will that the end of the world shall come." The professor said nothing, but stood with deeply wrinkled brow, gazing earnestly at the mechanism. In his hand was the hammer head which he had previously given to the girl. His arum went np and down as if he were estimating its weight. Then suddenly, without a word of warning, be raised it and sent it crashing through the nm - chine, •whose splintering glass fell with a musical tinkle on the floor. Jennie gave a startled cry. and with ▪ tow moan tae nreteeeor srameenee v3 Matter where or when you buy them. They come to your ta- ble lust as inviting and de- licious as though you ate thein at the ovens in the bakery. At alt grocers in I and 1 lb. packages. Fatea etttlrenty.1�E raised it ends sent U craahfna throne/ tits mochtet& his chair ind feirrathrr than sat down in it, A ghastly pallor overspread bis face, and the girl in alarm ran again to the cupboard, poured out same brandy and offered it to him, then tried topour it down his throat, but his tightly set teeth resisted her *aorta. She chafed Itis rigid hands, and once he opened his eyes and slowly shook his head. "Try to sip this brandy," she said, seeing his jaws relax, "It is useless," he murmured with difficulty, "illy life was in the in- strument, as brittle as the glass. I have"— could say no more, Jennie went swiftly down stairs to the office of a physician, on the first floor, which she had noticed as she came up. The medical man, who knew of the scientist, but was not personally ac- quainted with him, for the professor had few friends, went up the steps three at a time, and Jennie followed him more slowly. He met the girl at tate door of the attic. "It is useless," be said. "Professor Seigfried is dead, and it is niy belief that in his taking away Austria has lost her greatest scientist." "I ant snra of it," answered the girl, with trembling voice; "but perhaps after all it is for the best." "1 doubt that," said the doctor. "I never feel so like quarreling with Prov- idence as when some noted man is re - (To be continued,) Woman and the Ballot. The Presbsteriau In spite of the eloquent, appeals of ladies of advanced views fur the granting of the rights of the franchise to women we have always had an unoan2ss ed con- viction the great mass of oar Canadian women are not elm -tiering for admission into the political arena and that they be. lieve their greater sphere of intlaence is along other lines. We have always con- tended of course in the most ohivalrous way for the abstract right of women to vote and will always do so But looking at the very small number of women who exercised their franchise in the Toronto municipal elections we aro disposed to believe that as a class women are not as eager to vote as they have been repre- sented. It might naturally he supported that they would be deeply interested in the selection of those who are entrusted with the edaaatienal interests of the city and in a question so essentially moral in its bearings and so closely touching the interests of their homes as the reduction of liquor licenses, but scarcely one in fee took the trouble to put themselves on record at the polls. The average woman feels that the sphere of her most potent inflaence is the home. Marshall Field to Young Men. The trouble with most young men is thrt they do not learn anything thorough. ly and are apt to do the work oommitted to them in a careless manner, forgetting that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, they became mere drones and rely upon chance to bring them sac - cess The young man possessing a conscience that cannot brook the slightest suspicion owrongdoing, and which insists ou steadfast undeviating truthfulness, sturdy honesty, and strict devotion to duty under all circumstances, has a fort- une to begin with, Economy is one of the most essential elements of success, yet most wretched- ly disregarded. The old adage, "Wilful waste makes woeful want," was never more fully exemplified than in these days, when much of the want that now prevails would not exist had care been taken in time of prosperity to lay up something for a"rainy day." What is needed to day more than any- thing else is to instil in the minds of our young men the desire above all to build up a character that will win the respect of all with whom they come in contact, and which is vastly more importaut than a great fortune.—Marshall Field in a letter written to Dr. Newll Dwight Hillis two years ago, Canada's Soldiers. The Dominion militia authorities will train about 45.000 men dariug the pre- sent year. The establishment will con- sist of 29,024 infantry of all ranks, 6,325 cavalry, 5,850 artillery, 5,780 engineers, 185 guides, 1,186 army eorps and 90 signalers. This snakes a total of 44,801 of the volunteer militia, which wilt constitute the training establishment for all the provinces of Canada. The number is slightly below what the force was a year ago on paper, though it is better balanced and more effective. The reduction is doe to placing on the reserve the supernumerary offices and non•eomtnissioned officers who constit- uted what Lord Dundonald called the second line, It was found that a double Set of officers for the various arms of the Service did not give good results, so the Officers and then have been fixed at pro- per relative proportions The increase effectiveness of the militia as a whole is shown by the fact that while the iaunlbet is slightly less owing to the rednction in the number of of• Seers, the number of units is greater by rex butteries of infantry, two regiments of infantry and two of cavalry. There is an increase in the permanent force from 1,000 to 4,078, This is for thepurspose of providing garrisons for Rabe: raid Iksglmalt. 1 The Rind. Yon have .!i%vays ]Bou, lat, and which has been in use for over :I0 years, has borne the signature of /ja9.1/""-..".. and has been made under his rnct- i�uG�rc�A. ssonal superr� i sion since its infancy. 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Cold objects bedding included, when exposed to sad- den heat; condense the moisture in the air, and consequently such beds are al- ways damp and cold and aro the moat anhealthee and should be avoided even by guests. Better go to an up t.n-date hotel or walk home any cumber of utiles thau to sleep in such a bed. Second; All your clothing worn in the day time, footware included, open out and hang over chairs, or on hooks near the stove or register to dry and air during the night. If you negleot this simple sani- tary measure your clothing will feel damp And cool in the moraing, because it still contaihe the evaporations from your body during the previous day and after to while your clothing will have an unpleasant odor from these evaporations. )Drying and airing your footwear daring the night will keep your feet from sweat- ing, coldness and bad odors. Third: Your bed and room warm and dry, have plenty of lightweight bedding. 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