The Exeter Times, 1922-10-12, Page 6•••••»1
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BY ICATI-IARINE SU ANNAN PRICHARD
Copyright by Iothe Ted Stoughton
Synopsis of neeceding Chapters. The men, restless and eager to re-
Donald mid. Mary Cameroa are car
hag a home out ox the A,ustralian wild
When little David was four inonthe 01
ele at eer seb off to Part Southern to
fresh supplies. On the fourth da
two gelid and ragged men, one
them wounded, entered tire hut. Mar
ofrored them uestinted hesPitaiit
mud heard the story of their escaP
fro. the Island prison and th
treachery of McNair who had promiee
to befriend them—at a price. Clothe
and provided with food, they depa.rte
she tall one hoping to repay the deb
Mary refused to aid her h,usbancl i
pubting the police on their track. Te
Year e 4f industry have brought pros
eeritY to the Camerons. While mak
nig a 'our of the neighborhood 'ad
vocatillg the establishment of a school,
May ileets again (see of the refugee
of long ago, Daniel Farrel, who is aP
pointe ti echoohnaster. Three year
later h? brings his motherless daugh
ter Deir Davey's playmate, to Mrs
Cerneron \for lionsearifely instruction
The suminer that Davey left s-cheo
basth fires threatened the settlerne,nt
The summer.. that Daere-y left school
bush fires swept the settlement, de-
stroying Ayrmuir. The Schoolmaster.
sustained injary to his left eye i
sav . ,
ing Mrs Camenon
v. pair the dernage that had teen done,
s, !were
off at dawn; the women and chil-
d !dean followed a few hours later, in
r I kuniberien• carte and career ell- Some
y ;of them were going be make a lean-to
of ,of bengies and bagging, er of oiliel:ins
y ;before night, aterd some were, going
y /for stores te the Port, or to the new
e Slauserneli6p th,at was sipringing up about
e 'isle Wirree river- There was bound
d Ito be plenty a- work 1.(yr every pair
d !of hands or menthe to come.
d, I While evs-rybocity, was busy, felling,
t• feneing, spititt.ing, and running up new
n buildings, it -was rumored that the
n Schoolmaster arid Deirdre were going
- to lenye the halls,
CHAPTER XVII.
Davey had- said good-bye to the
s ,
_ Schto,olmateter.•-
s, "Well, Pk be going now," he said,
_ moving away clumsily.
He htad said all he could, though
; there was not much of that. Most of
1 what he wanted to say remained deep
. within him. He could not dig it up.
e The words to expre-ss his feeling
would not come. He 'had mut-tetred
- s,omething about "passing that way"
a ' and having damte in "to say good-bye,"
when he entered the big, hare room at
iSteve's.
He had not /seen Dehslre, no th
Sehoolniaster, since th,e night of -the
fires. His father ha -d kept h,ine busy
'and with all the work of the ne \
us dings going up at Ayrneuir there
was plenty to do. He talked of it fe
a, while in a strained, uninterested
fashion.
1 "Deirdre told me mother put up
great fight for the 'house," he said
"but of course the old/ man &eels'
give her credit for that—thinks he
could have saved it, if he had been
on the siptat in time. I wish he had
CHAPTER XVI.
For niontlis after the fires every
set•eler in the hills was felling and
careing timber. New homes were
built on the debris of the old. Scarce-
ly a house in the district had escaped
the hunger of the ilames. A burnt-
out family lived in a tent, in a• lean-to
of bagging and bark or in what was
left of the walls, roofs and doors of
houses, jammed together to form some
sort of shelter agatinstt the weather.
Every pair of hands were busy lay-
ing to get the new ho,rnes up ib-dore
e autumn rains; and mon•ey was
s,carce. Most of the settlers hacl lost
cattle and horses as well as then
homesteads, sheds and crops.
The wind that had driven the smoke
and, flames billowing before it brought
a down -pew which quenched the fire
the morning after it had swept the
southern elopes of the hills. For days
it rained steadday. Light vertical
showers soaked into the blackened
earth. There was every prospeot of
a good season to make up far the dam-
age done by the fires. Rain on fired
earth niakes for fertility, good grain,
fat stock and an abundant harvest.
The settlers worked like beavers to be
ready for it, the prospect of a good
season heartening their labors and
leavening th,etia• distapp-ointment
having again to do all the building
and fel-tieing tha't had been done only
a few years before. -
The only places in the district that
remained a charred monument to the
fires were the school and thte school-
master's oottag-e.
The Solloolmaster and Deirdre were
living at Steve's again. By a_miracle
the shanty had e,soaped the fie -es; It
remained standing when scarcely an-
other house in the eountryside did.
Steve and two tearnstea-s who had been
hung-up on the- roads had sp,ent the
night watohin.g that flying sparks did
not catch its splintery grey shin.gles.
A corrugated iron roof 'had ea,ved it,
they said, although there was a geed
clearing-, on either side of the shanty.
• For the first few days after the
fires, while the rain lasted, Steve's
had been stretched to the lirnit of its
capacity to shelter homeless men,, wo-
men and children. The men campe,d
as best they might in the bar, in the
kitchen and on the verandahs. Mrs.
Ross, ..TOS19, Deirdre, and Mrs. Mackay,
her baby, and three small boys, slept
in me room. An,d- -when Steve heard
that Mrs. Morais-on and Kitty, who
had wrapped themselves, in wet Nara
kets and erept into a corrugated: iron
tank w-htile the fires were raging
around' them, head no shelter but the
tank during the rain. the Stelseeee
master went to bring them into the
shanty, and Steve and the Ross boys
rigged a wind and rain screen of 1
boughs and- bagging around the ver-
andah to melee another room for
them.
Deirdre took charge of the dorn.estic
arrangemente, though everybody le•nrb
a hand, Notwithstanding the terrible
experiences every inember of the
house party had pa,stseds through, there f
Was rnuch more laughing than sigh- _
in,g, much more finding of humor in
ev•esy phase of awkward predicaments
time dilating on dangers and diffi-
-air/ties\ teems' Were discussed as the
women helped Deirdre to make big
savoury stews and, put bumper loaves
on the -aelres of Steve's- hearth, but it
was alevays with concluding exclama-
tions ef gratitude that "things were
no worse.' At Dale, order a few miles
ore the other side of elle ranges', three
mothers were /creeping for little ones
caught in the flames and burnt to
death en their way liteme from school.
No lives had bean loot on tire ,eouthern
slope of the hills.
All day the men were out riding in
the rain, trying to get a better idea
of the dainage done. They ran up
fences, mustered stray cattle, and in
the evening brought back pitiful ac-
counts of beasts 'burned ta death in
the gullies and dry creek-becls. When
they sat with the eeomen round the
fire in Steve's kitchen, their great,
green -hide boots stetarrang befare it,
breathless stories of fights with the
fires vsege told, Most ,or the men bad
bee.n away taking cattle to water
when the homesteads were -attacked,
The flames had leapt the crest of the
range and circled the clearings with
incredible speed. The- women had to
de the 'best they meuld to eave the
, children., the animals left on the farms
and the buildings, and many a good
fight had lbe'en waged tbefore thee
sought s a fety them s elvee. ,
It rained steadily for three days;
;hen the srunshine glearried sant Sieve's
'A/greed/arty -4.-iesl'e
etliee, thing •tal'illee to eav, Dcv, yo
Cao..ilev'aye• b ur cfeiendle
world,. If you . 'get ' into a ,stcrape,
atiy• sine- oC LZ le) will yea Temeraire
that?" •
They gripped hands, .
"Thank you, Mr. Ferrel," Davey
Innttered, "1,3eit I wish you weren't
gaingehe ed-ded, desperately. •
"I' wish we eore' e to -o.„" arrel see
with, a sigh, '''beit '1,/,12e21 YOU see peepl
•—•
d
'Pleklins end Preserv
don't want' te• build- the echool • agair
'they acerb think there's the •s-ame Ileac
- Tomaeeerves '
to nsPeel 'tut into -
1 `•- • •
for elle now. Most of the geris i'v
e Pi•cees, end remove 'specie fe ant
been teaciring foe the hest few year
s twelve, cupfuls of ripe tamatoe-s„ add
1 eight f , • th idea
can teach the children coming wel.
enough. And besides, tihere's a
Government 8cl-tools being set ut
everywhere."
Yes."
Davey's., • -coeuteria
settled gloom.
"Good-bye."
The Scho-canrester wrung; his hand,
Davey found himself lifting his rein
fi-oru the docked sapling' in the shanty
yard.
TWO other horses, with reins hung
over the poet, stood before Steve's
•; a couple of cattle dogs lay a
their heels nosing the duet. The fowls
scratching in the stable -yard spread
their wings and cackled as he turned
out of the yandeto the road.
"So -long, ,Davey," the •Schoolmastex
called from the 'verandah.
"S' -long," Davey replied. "
The loose gravel rolled under his
mare's feet as ehe sl,ipped and slid
de -WA the hill the reins hanging loose
on her neck. He looked- straight be-
fore him, trying to understand the
state of his mind'. He had not ex-
pected, -to be so disturbed at taking
leave of the Schoelmaster. then he
remembered tfhat he had not seen
Deirdre—to say goodebye to • her, he
thought.
For the first time he realized that
e she was going away—going out of
his life. Perhaps that realization had-
; "been at the bottom of his thought all
✓ h , u struck suddenilen
viciously, noive.-
✓ He was looking into the dista•nce,
dazed by the tumult within him.
when a blithe voice called him, and
a glancing up he saw Deirdre standing
••on the bank by the roadside.
"There you are, Davey!" she cried.
"Going away without slaying a word
to me! I'd a- geed mind to let you
go!,
, ear_ u s of sugar, am e
1.. and ;Talted reed of three' oranges',
P Cool: ell together until es' thick as
leny. Put in sterilized jars' and seal,
with paraffin -
Chutney -is n ade thus, Chop to-
gether two dozen ripe tomatoes
. (medium size), ,t -ix onions, 'tierce red
peepers (real - the seeds) one
dozen tart apples arid one euPful
1 finely cut cetlery. Add one pound
• see -die -se raisin, two quarts of vinege
t three eupt'uls of sugar, ,and salt
taste. Combine Lhe ingredients, a
cool: until chutney is •thick -and elea
then -pour it into hat -sterilized jai
1 and seal.
; Excellent ,pepper relish is made
1 one peek Of green toniatoeis, four r
ee was one
pI
ere
-wife has wea•Ised oat- a:system wheels
suits her; Yen SileY illad oatisfactore
also, She, keeps -a large Sheet of white
paper,- .neatly -ruled', betli letrizoptally
and verticall tecl-ed p le 'finer
side rof .thie. !sheet ir'te- of reime WINO.141•10.,....Mget
side •of 'the pantry. dope-. On the lei
ItA
RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS
Are Relieved frorn Pain
by
bilalt
of'Inc -vegetables aril fruit which she
has -calmed, and after each, name thee
aro numerous little black m I -
of them crossed elf.
tin!: iss wrt„,,,e exf la ine 'later system
s. very time put- up a jar of
of anyt iing,, put clovrn a mark to rep-
tyf resent that jar. The figure 1 repree
sents a quart jar, the figure 0 repro-
tt; sents a pint, During the winter, when
nd I use a jarr of canned goods, I cross
off OW of these marks. It is really
n,
very simple.
• •s,
"I pat five entarlss in a column to`
of facilita.te counting. It is tastier and
exf quicker to count by fives than by`lones.
+
peppers and, four green Peppers%
• (omitting the se.eds), two -cupfuls of
esterY, teeee cupfuls oe sliced onions,
one -halt -cupful ,of sodt, six cupftds
vinegar, one-half cupful of mustard -
seed andi two upfuls of brown sugar.
Slic-e the vegetables and run them
through a food -chopper. • Ad,d the salt
and allow to stand all night. Next
morning drain off the liquid add the
I ether ingredients and caok veige-
been there. I'd like to 've seen if he
could 'ye beaten a fire --with that
win,c1 against him. I might 've been
with . .
er a ear lea andt been
'able to help her, if I'td ha -a a decent
nag ---and th,at'e, what I told' him—but
I'm not likely to get one. The expense
of the new buildings has got him
'down, and he's m,ad because Nat left
a couple of hundred yearling,s in one
, of the back padtdocks. We ran in
; about a hundred of 'em last weels—
•
found some burnt to cinders—the
ahem 've got away."
Awkwardly, uncertainly, he shifted
his feet. He did not want to go, to
say the final words, and yet he did
net know h -ow to stay. F-arrel under -
toed that and kept him talking
longer. He was still -wearing a band-
age over his left eye.
"Your eye's all right, isn't it?"
Davey askedt. "IL isn't seriously hurt?
Mother was asking me the other day
if it was b-etter. She doesn't knew
how it happened, Mr. Farrel."
"Haw What happened?" Farrel
A spasm of, pain twitched his lean,
sun -burnt features. He was sitting
with his back, to the light on a low
bench under -the window.
"How you got that burn about your
eees," said Davey. "But I saw. If
sem hadn't tried- to pre -gent the branch
falling on mother, the way she was
standing, evoulcl have come down on
h • ."
"It might have fallen on any of us."
The Schoolmaster spe-ke sharply.
"I hope you're not going to 'have
any trouble -with it," Davey said.
"Nor, of course not."
Dam rose from his seat under the
window.
"Yo,u'll be wanting to say good-bye
to Deirdre, too, won't you, Davey'?"
He wen -t across ta the doer and
called into the next room:
"Davey',s going, Deirdre!"
But though a muffled sound of
someone moving came from it, there
was no a,newer.
He called again; but still there was
no reply.
"She must have gone to bring in
the 00WS for Steve," the Schoolmaster
staid'. "Never mind-, tell her you
eft a message Inc
"Yes," said the boy, folding and m-
olding his hat.
But it did not seem the s,ame thing
as s,eein,g Deirdre and saying 'good -
ye to her hims-elf.
"Mind, if there -'s any books you7re
wanting, or ,a,ny way I can help you,
f you , want to study more, you can
lways let me know, and I'll be g•lad
o do anything I can Inc you " th-e
Scho-olmas,ter said. `Steve will pa -ss
a letter on to me. I don't know wh,ere
we'll settle at first, or just what we're
going to do, butt he'll generally know
-our wherealbouts. And there's one
ts 1 oregingeentoot, and when ne-arly- done
. (To be continued.) -`
add one thinly sliced lemon- to- each
Dye Faded Sweater
' 1 thrt7 Pctunds ruf citron. Cook skiwiT
in Diamond Dyes
tables are sett. Bottle and cork
tightly. •• „
I Preserved citron: The commercial
product saldt at grocery sthres is the
\candled rind of a certain citrus fruit,
not -generally grown. *neon preserves
are made- of the -esteem melon thus:
Wash the citron, cut in halves, re-
move seed's, cut in strips and peel.
A.del one pound of sugar to each Pound
of citron and allow to stand. over
night in a large bowl. Ntext meaning
place -over the fire, add a small piece
Skirt, Draperies
Every "Diamond Dyes" package
tells how to dye or tint any worn,
faded garment or elraperY a new rich
color that will not streak, spot, fade,
or run, Perfect 'home dyeing is guar-
anteed. with Diamond Dyes even if you
have never dyed before. Just tell your
druggist whether the material you
wish to dye is wool or silk, or whether
it is linen, cotton, or mixed goods. For
fifty-one years millions of women have
been using "Diamond Dyes" to adcl
years of wear to their ord, shabby
waists, skirts, dresses, coats, sweaters,
stockings, draperies, hangings; every-
thing!
FI.00dS, Of Pcli.Porin
-
Floods, are common on most .rivers,
but a flood which brings down poison-
ed waters, sufficient to kill everything
in its vicinity is, fortunately, not so
frequent. Such a flood has- been known
to occor in South America, where the
Aimee, the largest tributary of the
Orin,oco, once swept down, and pre-
sently the startled settlers on the
plains bordering its banks saw that
hundreds of dead crocodiles were float-
ing down with the -refuse.
Soon every crocodile in the river
was (loomed. As the flood reached
theria they crept nut of the water
coughing horribly, and fell and died.
Not only the crocodiles, but -the fish,
too, were poisoned. Acres upon acres
of the wide river were literally, cover-
ed with- the putrefying bodies of its
finny inhabitants.
Worse was to co -me.-- The swamp r
animals, the win" hogs, capybaras, and s
the like became afflicted widli a sort of B
paralysis, and died by tho theusand. p
Themonkeys were the next victims, p
and then the horses. ' B
Lastly, it fell upon the people, too,
and very nearly exterminated them. li
Great grassy plains lie silent and dem- ,s
late, deserted alike by man and beast. s
Practically all ife has been ester- 't
minated by the poison se -sent down out M
of those terrible swamps at ,the source
of the Apare.
Aids Deaf to Hear.
A new device that aids deaf persons
to hear clos-ely resembles a 'walking
stick with a slightly enlarged head.
Minard's L.iniment For Colds, Etc.
unt the fruit is transparent and, the
syrup thick, then pack in jars and
seaPilain cucumber pickles:. When but a
few pigkles can -he made at a time, the
following recipe is invaluable: As the
cueumberi ripen place in a• j,ar and
cover :with -cold water to find out how
Much vinegar will be need -ed. 'Then
make a brine strong enough to 'hear
an egg, heat the brine and pour over
the cucumbers. Let stand- 'over night,
thenpaer off, make a neW brine, heat
and pour over the cucumbers, allow
to stand ovennig,ht land next dasere-
heat this brine end/ allow to stand
over night again. The next day re-
move ,eu-cumbere -from the brine, wash
in (acid water and peek in quart jeers
Place a em,all piece of hors,eradish and
a piece -of red. peppeseta'-eaoh jar. Boil
the required as/taunt of vinegar vvith
s-inceis to taste. Filb-up jars with the
hot vineg,ar -and, seal tightly. Nastur-
tium seed's may be 'add,ect if desired,
and -sweet pickles can be made by
adding 'brown sugar to t`h-e vine -gar.
A recipe for piccalilli which -is high:
Ly Praised requires One-half gallon of
best cider vinegar, seven `ounces of
ground-, yellow mustard, two ta-ble-
spoonfuls gf salt, one and one-half
pounds of 'sugar, ane -fourth pound of
mustar,deseed, four green arid two red
peppers (remove stee-d1s), one pint of
smell onions, one pint of carrots
(slieed, bailed and cut into small
pieces-)., one pintt of lirna -beans one
,pint of corn (cut from the -cob after
boiling three minutes) onelarge head
ef cauliflower and twa level- table-
. ,
spoonfuls of turner -me Boil the car-
ats- beans and cauliflower in slightly
al -Ind water until tender, 'but no -t soft.
reek the caulificieree into small
ieces. Chop the .pePpers into small
ieces, peel. ,ancl staald the onions.
ring the vinegar - Cd- point,
nix the mustard end tumeric with a
ttle cold vinegar arid add with the
alt and sugar to the boiling vinegar,
tirring constantly. Alloe-y to cool,
hen add the remaining ingredients,
ix well, bottle and -cork tightly.
For the same reasdn, to• .facilitate
counting, -1 begin -at-the right ire mark
Off my -used jars. 1)o you under-
• e
stand? •
Large Pores .and Wrinkles.
When the word astringent is used
hi connection with cesrnetice, it means
something which clines the large
pores of ,the 'skin, or tightens the lax
muscles of -the fade. An astringent of
som,e sort ehould beekept on hand at
all times, 'for even the young a.nd
fresh -faced wornan need -a- one occa-
sionally. For orclinatry purposes- a
little tincture ef. benzain is 'Very guod,
This „can be poured into the rinse
water—which, of course, should be
coldn--and -the face bathed: with this
mixture. Hall a dozen drops a the
benzoin Will be enough Inc /the ;Ordi-
nary sized 'washbasin.
Us,ed. thus,• benzoin cleie the
pares. IT the pores of the face -axe
enlarged, use tWice as much, or better
yet, mix half an ounce icif simple tinc-
ture of benzoin with six :mimes of
•e,ee-water and keep in a b-ottle. After
insintg the face in eald water, shake
he battle to be sure the contents are
well mixed and pat a little of this
over the skin, letting it remain on to
edoryitt.on..A.rpply with a bit of absorbent
This treatment- will help prevent
ev,rinkles and sagging muscles, because
it ie good for the skin and' because all
good care wards off the fatal day
when middle, age shows in the lines
of the face. But if you already have
wrinkles and lax mus-cles 'and want
something stronger, try ice as e mas-
sage. . Inc is a powerful astringent.
It tbrings the blood to the skin, in-
ducing a better color, 'dm -we up the
. muscles, and ,smeoths the' wrinkles.
Of course, as ice is very drying, it
should, senTy be ulied after-, a h -et wash
and/ -a coldecream massage. •
There le a,notlier ,astringent, a paste
sometimes called' a "pack" and vari-
ously useci lay facial -specialists. There
are a hundred ways to make this, the
simpleet_ form being as follows: Beat
up an egg, using the white ,onlY, if
you want this for wrinkles-. -If you
want it to help -cure pinip-tes and for a
bleach as well, beat the yolk in at
the same time. Mix ire half a tea -
of powdered- athim—this will
curdle, but that doesn't matte -r. Acild
enough white wine vinegar—cider
vin,egar if you can't get the other—
te make a thin paste: Or usercumember
juice and vinegar, half /and half. This
amount will last forte long time.
Clean the* ekin with a eleansdng
crearn. Rub in a lettle of the p este,
lie down (this is important) and re.st
for twenty minutes while the paste
dries: The rest will relax your
• musele,s and,, give the astringent a
better chance to aot erpc,n the lin-es in
the face and- the tiny lax muscles of
the skin. Wash MT with very warm
1
Keeping Account of Your Canned
Goods.
.
"Do you keep a -rebored of your can--
ning ectivitieo? It is well to knowjusthow tench food`has been prepared
-for feather use, and tO know .also how
rapidly it is being nsed. One hauee,
THE postman or express man will 1
bring Parker service right- 10,1• your , home. -Snits, dresses, ;
nulsters and all wearing apparel can
be successfully dyed. '
_
,
bnrtains, draperies, carpets and
all household articles,erm be dyed and -
- metered. to their original
freshness.
We ,pay carriage one
way on all orders.
'Write for full partienlaia
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791 lenge St.
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lerin. Dixon, Tararato, -writes:
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• as a-ig•h as my shoulders,' Al-
ter using the- first. nettle of
Dobson's New Life Remedy
I was free' from' pain. Nov,
after using tile fifth bottle, my
general health is as good as
it ever -was. Thanking you •
sincerely for vvliat DobSores
New Life has done for me arid
nrusting every saffea•er may
-learn •af- your wonderful medi-
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-for F-ive.•Dollars, from your nearest
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water, massage with a good cold
cream, and encl.:with an ice-cold rinse.
While cucumbers are in season,
in,ake this -cucumber eneaan; you will
find it excellent for the skin: Put into
a double b,criler tour ounces of almond -
oil `and two ounces of cucumbeass,
washed but ,not peeled, and chopped
into smala pieces. Allow the oil and
the • cucumbers to simmer for -two
lagers, them. strain. Add one ounce
white wax, one -ounce stheemaceti, and
beat the mixture until it is creamy.
POUT into jars -and seal tightly.
one ounee orange -flower water, and
Keep Minard's Liniment In the house.
,The li/luskrat Kneevs.
A fnrrier was ,trying,to sell. a musk-
rat coat to a woman customer. "Yes,
madame; he said, "I guarantee that
this muskrat coat will weae for years."
"But suppose I get it wet in the
ram," asked the woman. "What ef-
fect will the water have on it? What
will happen to it then? 'Won't it
spoil?" '
"Madam," answered he dealer, "I
have only one answer. Did you ever
hear of a muskrat carrying an umbrel-
la?" •
Babies a.nd ,grievances grow larger
by nue-sing.
A SIN TO LET
HAIR FALL OUT
35,c "Danglerine" Saves Your
Hair—Ends Dandruff 1
Delightful Tonic
I-Iurry! leas your ditty! . leach' day
YOU see a little 'nor° hair falling oirt
- encl. yonare making no effort to avoid
, -baldness, What a pity. Failing hair
ineerse 1
means you,r heir is .weak, s-ielc,—pos-
Bleach sibly, dandruff' is 'strangling it, pa: -the
visgite hair root pores In the scalp are. not
fl17111 and -tight, tiles was -ting the heir -
'Cadges -al
growing • -
Danderine alario,ste instantly ,stops
falling hair of rnen or evornen and
cleans every particle of ,claildruff away,
then the heir takes on new life, vigor
aeci strength to .groad-Strong, th-ick,
and long, , •••
13 an d or i n e i -s d el ightful—not sticl:y
or grease: go te any depg store now
and get 'a bottle.: Use it. , Inade
heal tin-, heavy, b e'ata ti 1 „hair and
of it.
1
,SCRlaWS arid rit-poozes'at,
rao 'jai was i>pered "at Wilitierrnereariti.,5
whOh the David rrherripeen Me—
AIR FOR SAM
',Free as the, air" id a saYlng as old
es the hills, and we talk abent empty
air as though -there were nothing of
value mashie our earth and water,.
'Yet the outstanding' discevery of the
present centum- is the fact that the afsd
s -valuable for many puepoSes besela
breathing. In another quarter of a cen-
nry we may have begee to know what
tee cusbion 'of atmosehere which sur-
rounds the earth is eeally wertbe
Already it is realized that the air
can no longer remake. a No Man'
Land, governed by no laws, aud free
for anybody to use or missuse at will,
For the present, while we breathe the
air, we must also regaa-d it as:
(a) Time pathway -for airships and
aeroplanes, which are -to be theworld's
chief means of transport and communi-
cation in a future by no Means' dis-
tant. -
(b) The medium through which
wireless messages are transmitted.
(c) The `s,torehouse, apparently ha
exhaustible, of gases, of a commereial
value equal to that of the coal and oil
of the earth itself.
Possibilities and Problems.
So every country possesses„ in the
air -above it, a most valuable right of
Way', a telegraphic sy•stern, the poest-
bflities of which, are only dimly under.
stood, and a storehouse' of chemical -
wealth. .No lavss govern it as pet; but
it is impossible that -the, air should re-
main free much longer, because it is
too valuable.
One day we shall'have definite air
routes, and they- will not carry Inc
jruonaibsie of traffic at Present seen on our
d
One lane far slow and heavy vehic-
les, another for light pleasure craft,
ana at least a third for spee.d maniacs
will
ihseuywill illberetghiedrrepolicing, weatheruieO‘
reports, and a dozen other services' ap-
par-ent to any ordinary imagination.
The countries 'over which they pass
will be reepensiblee and will cllect
dues andprovide serviceS. Like the
Suez Collator any .big railway, an air
route will be worth something coneid-
erLabeltu
e.
s cenOider the question of wire-
less next. One of the mdst fascinating
features is • the my.steries upon which
wifeless, operators are continuallyt
st.,1„iintbIleilaigst. two areas
havd, been dis,
dovered which are described as 'dead."
,Wireless messages sent across those
areas are subject to such iederference •
that results carmot be obtalaed.
Just Fancy That!
Elsewhere it is found that the range
over which messages can be sent
-varies enormously with the condition
of the air, These things are not yet
understood -,but their mystery -will One
day be solved.-- ••
The result may easily be a s'etefof
laws entirely different from those ap-
plicable to aerial navigation. In -the
last war the use of wireless was for-
bidden; in the next we may thave to
protect our air from being tampered
with.
In
thelast
war, too, Germany proved
the commercial value of the air. The
blockade having cut off the supply of
nitrate required to fertilize German
fields, the chemists of the country
drew upon the nitrogen in the air to
'apply the deficiency. With cheap
ewer, cheap fertilized can be made
i•om the air, and more is now being
rKithieece
cice,d every
eeyrecarl
O'gases derived
rom the air are oxygen, -argon, aed
The process of making oxy-
en from air is getting chea.per as
Imo gaps on; when it reaches an easy-
tage -of ,cheapness an enormous de-
emed will arise. Just as oxygen is
ow used for welding and other pun
oses in which great- heat is desired,
ot gradually but Very speedily, -so it
Ili be required for smelting and a
undred other purposes. ,
The Age of Miracles.
Argon, a mach rarer gas, is used to
1111 incandescent brills. Formerly they
were filled with nothing at all, but the
substitution of this gas ensures a
brighter light and a very much longer
period of usefulness.
Helium, taken frorn the air, is used
to inflate dirigibles ansi observation
balloons. It is not cheap at present,
but it is safe as well as light,
It is likely that these things only
begin to indicate what the air is worth.
-Among 'its secrets, still withheld, are
the mystery of rainmaking, and of hot -
thing sunshine, estimated by. our scep-
tical fathers as impossibilities equal to
that of flying.
These posslbilities.are ,not (60 vague
• as may be supposed. Inarcihea.ded
farmers already pay rainmakers by
results-, and the harnessing of the ,sun
_hae begun-.
, Air is obviously too valuable to be --
adulterated by smoke and other noxi-
ous poisons. A charge for breathing
sounds an absurdi-ty; yet there are big
hotels where the air is purifieti and
heated or cooled according to the seal4r.
son, and the cost appears ha the blil,
So there yea are, the air is no longer
free.
A Waste -of Good English.
"Dobby," said his mother, "why 'do
you keep telling Rover to `Set up,'
when you know 'sit' up' is what you
ahonld say?'
mother,,said 13olky"of
, •
course I know lots of gramnier, but'
I clonet like to waste it on- Rover vshen,
lie doesn't know the cliffsrence, being
a -cilloig.}:'Ieltland there are fziit) miles of
ennaiA.
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