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Exeter Times, 1916-5-4, Page 6anna • THE CABLEMAN AN EXCITING PRESENT.D.AY ROMANCE. BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER X.I. (Contd•) She heard the rumble of a wheel' and the sharp rattle of the resider chains. A shadowy form loomed out: of the vapors, and came slowly on towards the entrance, The next mom- ent the bowsprit of a large vessel passed between the roils "walls of the narrow opening; there was a grating noise, and a eharp jerk; the vessel heeled till her bulwark touched the. bassalt, shivered a moment, and, swung back again the other way; the bell on her foremast tolled with the violence of the oscillation, and then, balanced on the fulcrum of the grounded forefoot, she settled down with long slow swings, like some giant metronome or like the dead rolling of a direlict in the trough. There was a confusion and shouting on her deck, and Elsa thought that she saw a woman's form. The fog crept round again, and blotted out the view of the stranded vessel. She sculled nearer, as quietly as she could. It did not seem that there teas any immediate danger, the vessel apparently was not sinking, and as the sea outside was calm, her people would --easily make the shore in choir • boats. She did not wish to be seen, so she waited until they were gone. But meanwhile she must know wheth- er it was possible for her to get out at all. It was not possible. Under the light air the ship had taken ground slowly, but her weight had earried her well into the opening. There was not room on either side of her for a boat to pass out. Elsa was a pri- soner. She looked up at the name painted on the bows. It was almost dark now, but she could just make out the white letters. She nearly betray ed -hers elf by a cry of dismay. The vessel was the Sea -Horse, the circus people's schooner. She pushed back quickly, but a head appeared over the forward bul- warks, and a woman's voice hailing her told her that she had been seen. "Boat ahoy! We want help. I3ring your boat alongside." It was Mona de la Mar. Elsa drew back further into the fog, Her first impulse was to refuse help. Mona shouted again, and Elsa brought her boat alongside. "Do you need help?" rhe asked. "Yes." "Are you filling?" • "No. I don't think so. But we're hard aground. If it comes on to blow, we shall break up." "You had better take to your boats." "We haven't any boats, that's why we need yours. Can you come aboard if we let down a ladder?" "Yep•.„ A rope ladder was • thrown over the side. Elsa fastened the end of it to the painter of her boat, and then waiting till the pendulum swing of the schooner brought the bulwarks to their lowest point, put her feet in a rung and took a firm hold with her hands. There was an almost motion- less second between the down swing and the up, and then she was car- ried swiftly upwards. At the same time she was pressed hard against the schooner's side, and the cold iron took the skin off her knuckles. It was all she could do to hold on; she could not climb until once more the fall of the roll swung her outwards again. In the brief pause between the two movements she raised herself two rungs, but it was not until she had been hoisted and lowered eight times that she reached the bulwark level. Then two black arms grasped her and lifted her on the deck, and a soft voice murmured : "All right, missy; now yo's safe, You very brave lady." "I didn't think you would manage it," said Mona de la Mar, who was standing close by. "Sambo is right. You are a very brave girl. But I don't suppose you need us to tell you that, and time is precious. May we use your boat?" 14 Of Course You Need Ice Cream t .omes cut of tEo freezer tvith a velvety smoothness —and a ro•:r t,,,,t tsr•,acs—when it is mado With BENSON'S, And it is i•ratty 1:ati to ask for any- thing or d.:ilctout than a Chocolate Blanc Ma.‘,.:e or Cre.u:•, Custard with Fruit, made of t.:enson'e Cern Starch. Our ne.v pe-ipe Beek "Desserts and Candies tails hew, and hew much to use. Write tor a copy to our Montreal Office- And be sure to tad yutr osier to send BENSON'S, tha standttytn Canada for morethan half a century. P. THE CANADA STARCH !;0• LIMITED MONTEEAL. CAfiiINAL. 0RANTEDED, 216 PORT WILLIAM. .res �c5y "Yes," said Elsa. "I expect you wonder why we haven't one of our own. There's a simple explanation, but yyu can hear it by and by. Meanwhile I daresay you'll trust us. We're honest, you know. We have'nt stolen this ship," "You may use my boat if you: can get it out." ! "Get it out? What do you mean?" "You will have to get the boat out of the water, and launch it again over the stern. There is only one way into or out of the circle of the Ring -Rock, and your schooner is block- ing it," "Is this the Ring -Rock?" "Yes, Didn't you know?" "Hadn't a notion," said Mona light-' ly, "I saw it marked on the chart, but I thought we were a good five! miles from it. Val B. will say nasty, shouldn't I? I have been verya.nxi- things about my navigation when he hears. I'm bis pupil in that subject, nus to see him, you know, I knew he you see!" I was in San Miguel, and I meant to She laughed softly again, and then ee him; but I didn't count on having with a quick movement, came closer the luck to run up against him in the to Elsa, and peered into her face. 1 course of the very first bicycle ride I "Aren't you Elsa Carrington?" she took in the island. However, that asked in a low voice. was what happened." tares tr "Where did you meet him?" Elsa "Do you know who 1 am?", demanded. "You are Margaret Ryan."•"About a mile from the village of "I was, I'm Mona de la Mar now. Furnas. I had gone there to see the Come down to my cabin. Sambo, you famous geysers, you know. Romantic heard what the lady said about the district for a defrauded heiress and FOR YOUR -NERVES'. When they jump and throb, yoti can quiet and Booth them with 4 S. d� Trude Mark nal r, Petroleum Telly A, combination of the remedies your doctor prescribes and pure "Vaseline," Sold in clean, handy tin tubes at chemists and geuer.d stores everywhere, Refuse subs stitutes. Free booklet on request, tk CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO (Consolidated) 1880 Chabot Ave. Montreal .0010.11,01/0.0 "Of course I admit it. Why boat. Can you do it?" "Got to, Missy Mona," said Sambo cheerfully. "Can't stay here till the wind comes. Oh, yes, we'll do it all right." "Then be quick as you can. Let me know when you've done it. I shall be in my cabin." She led the way down below, and Elsa followed her. Ss she lit a lamp in the pretty little cabin she said with a smile: "It's a funny meeting between us the defaulting trustees to meet in, wasn't it?" Elsa decided at once that the girl was lying. Furnas is ten miles from the Caldeira de Morte, The tale was impossible. "I thought the defaulting trustee was looking very prosperous," Mona went on mockingly. "He has put on flesh since I last met him. But he didn't seem to be as glad to see me as he might have been, considering all that he owes to me. He spoke of too, isn't it? I wish I could have You, by the way, and actually had the shown you over my home under less( folly to appeal to what he called my wobbly conditions, but the circum -t finer feelings, ray generous heart, on stances are peculiar. Do you thinki'your behalf. That was a false move you can sit on the edge of that bunk, which I should not have expected from without being shot off when she' a man of his proved ability. Do rolls?" ! you know, Miss Carrington, that your "Why are you here?" said Elsa: f father is a very plausible imposter ?" ""Why am I here,—I, Mona de la1 Elsa answered her with a glance of Mar, late Margaret Ryan? Is that' what you mean? Or do you mean' why is the good ship Sea -Horse piled, on the Ring -Rock, and making its necessary for Sambo and the sailors to lift your boat out and rescue you( from a watery prison? Incidental -1 ly, of course, you rescue us from a, possible watery grave, which would be' even more unpleasant. So we are, grateful. But in which sense am I: to understand your question?—Me or, • the Sea -Horse?" "Both," said Elsa. Mona laughed again. "I'm here because—oh because of a! variety of reasons. It's a long story, though, and I think you know most of. it already. The Sea -Horse is here' because I didn't allow enough for, drift, and piled her up. There I've answered your question, haven't I ?" "Not in the sense in which I asked it." said Elsa. "No, I know that. But I shall have! to explain at great length to Val B.! Montague presently, and explanations' are fatiguing. I want to talk about you just now. I want to know you,' if I can. Do you wonder why ?" Elsa looked straight at the laughing face of her questioner, and after a brief. pause, said coldly: "No." "You understand why?" said Mona,' nodding.1 "I don't understand. It is merely, that the question does not interest, me." Mona clasped her fingers behind her, head, and leaned her back against the! contempt. "I recognize," she said, "that he made a mistake in crediting Margaret Ryan with finer feelings. Will you allow me to return to -the deck? You shall have the use of my boat." "But you would prefer not to have any more of my company than is ne- cessary," said Mona, laughing. "I ON THE FARM Prepare Good Seedbed. The promise of an early Spring will attract the attention of farmers to the approach of the grain -sowing sea- son. the first crop considered by the majority is oats, and the buying of seed ur preparing of the hoose -grown grain for seeding ehould be heoked af- ter at once. The best way to sow oats is with the grain drill, Drilling. gives a more even stand than broadcast, :ceding, for all the seed is cowered to about The ' rtue of the Natural Leaf is perfectly preserved in the sealed _. B 104 packet. Young tender leaves only, grown with utmost care and wits, flavour as the prime ti12j ct5 are used to produce the ramous Salada blends. HOLLAND'S FATE IF GERMANY WON WOULD OPEN DYKES OR BECOME VASSAL OF TEUTON. King Alfonso Ilas Done Much Work for •Relief of British Prisoners... The -Liverpool Daily Post possesses in its editor-in-chief, Sir Edward. Russell, one of the most capable and experieheed journalists its Great ..,-__ YY Britain, whose weekly article, entitled the same depth. In sowin broadcast — — -Y —....;._..._ "'irons a Club Window," it is not too p g (d) The plowing under in extreme! smokers. Anmong thein may be some of tLie seed may not be covered instances of green crops, such as buck -1 named "Carmen Sylva," the poetess:- . much to say provides a mine of red at all and Tome may be covered tow wheat, rye, clover, vetches, etc, Queen of Rumania; the Dowager formation for other less well informed deeply. Germination is better from (e) When commercial fertilizers) Czarina of Russia; the late Empress newspaper men. drilled seed and the gruwih is more -are largely depended upon, short rota-• of Austria; King Alfonso's ••mother, In his 'most recent contribution. it uniform throughout the season. In tions and the plowing under of greenformerly Queen Regent of Spain; the Edward Russell directs attention Ao numerous tests at the experiment sta- Crops are absolutely necessary. I fDowager Queen Margherita of Italy; two countries which he is convinced tions drilled oats have outyielded oats1 The humus supply may be cleplet- and ex -Queen Amelie of Portugal, must play an important part in the sown broadcast by several bushels to ed by the fallowing practices:— says Mr. G, L. Apperson in his book, immediate future of Europe. In Sir the acre. Better stands of grass and; (a) Selling hay and other products "The Social History of Smoking," It Edward's opinion, both Holland and clover can also be obtained in drilled: off the farm instead of feeding to is, of course, well known that Aus- Spain, in the next few months, may than in broadcast oats. ; live stock.become of immense national worth, trian and�Russian ladies generally are The best depth to sow oats varies] (b) Careless preserving of barn- fond of cigarette smoking. On Rus- and he gives the following reasons with the soil and the season. In any yard normo e. case they should be covered with half) (c) anure.ng too many successive an inch to an inch of moist soil. They crops of oats, etc. or roots or even should be sown deeper in sandy soils hay (the latter is the most common than in looms or clays. Deeper seed-' source of humus depletion in Nova ing is also necessary when the ground se e• „ is -dry than when it' is moist. On the( (d) The wrong use of commercial average the best depth is from one to fertilizers. one and a half inches. j In a light, open•soil, humus is rapid - Oats should be sown as early in the, ly decomposed and lost, and conse- Spring as it is possible to make a good; quently one must apply manure more seed bed. The exact date of course' frequently and follow a shorter rota- was Rossetti, whsle Carlyle, varies with the season and with the `tion in order to conserve the humus everyone knows, was a great? smoke): Except during the Boer War, the locality. This does not mean that supply= than on heavier soils. The story is familiar—it may be true Dutch have always exhibited most sian railways it is not unusual to find for his belief: a compartment labelled "For ladies "Holland has no doubt quite legiti- zvho do not smoke." mately made large suns out of the Among men of letters and artists war in its earlier stages by being the who ignored the social, prejudices in regard to smoking which Queen Vic- toria fostered was Sir John Millais. He is said to have smoked a clam_Dutch. Again, the recent outrages on pipe in his carriage during `ehe first Dutch vessels have more deeply stir - Jubilee procession of the Queen. Wil- liam Morris was a pipe smoker, so red the inhabitants of Holland against � Germany than the English realize. main emporium for Germany. But the fall of the mark, in spite of strenuous Teutonic machinations, has forcibly impressed the commercial the preparation of the land should be; , neglected in order to sow early. Bet- NO SMOKING ALLOWED. ter yields will be produced from seed. sown in a good seed bed than from' Famous People Who Detested Tobacco that sown a few days earlier in . ground too cold and wet for the seed to germinate. "A custom lothsome to the eye, In a good seed bed the best rate of I hateful: to the nose, harmefull to the seeding in the corn belt is about two braine, dangerous o the lungs, and and a half bushels to the acre. If the in the blacke, stinking fume thereof seed is sown broadcast, more is neces- nearest resembling the horrible sary. More seed is required in a poor Stigian smoke of the pit that is bot - seed bed than in a good one, as fewer seeds are likely to grow. A lower rate of seeding may be used for small-ker- neled varieties than for large-kerneled ones for there are many more of the former in a bushel. Allow the Winter protection provid- in Every Form. tolnelesse." So, on one occasion, wrote James I., who hated smoking more than he hated anything else; which recalls the fact that Swinburne, the poet, de- tested tobacco so much that he for- gave James I. for being a knave, ed the plants last Fall to remain upon tyrant and coward because he "slit the plants for some time to come. the throat of that blackguard It is during the alternate freezing and Raleigh who invented this filthy awing weather of late Winter and early Spring that the protection is most needed. smoking." Gladstone and William Penn hated tobacco like poison, while Wellington —that one evening he and Tennyson friendly feelings toward England, sat in solemn silence smoking for combined with the greatest distrust hours, one on each side of the fire- of Germany, The Queen of Holland's marriage was not very popular, be- cause it created fear of Teutonic in- fluence at court. What Holland Dreads. "Some six years ago, when the pre- sent writer was in Holland, the Dutch upper classes talked of the war be- tween England and Germany as be- ing inevitable. If England was de- feated, one heard on all sides, then Holland's only resource against an- nexation by Germany would be the opening of the dikes. That feeling has never changed during the present war, though Germany has lavished money galore on its small neighbors. It can be said with emphasis that never before has our Foreign Office been in such close relation to the Dutch Government. "Before the close of the summer some interesting developments are place, and that when the visitor rose to go, Carlyle, as he bade him good- night, said, "Man, Alfred, we hae had a graund nicht; come again soon." TRAINING 15,000,000 MEN.' Russia Can Put Huge Army in Field • Before 1918. Colonel Kousnetsof, who is now re- tired aitd whose activities are con- fined to army missions for the Rus- sian Government, has just returned to Petrograd from a tour of the em- pire, including Central Asia, and has ,told the correspondent of the Paris Figaro that 15,000,000 Russian sol- diers, of whom a certain part are al- ready trained, can easily be put in the field between 1916 and 1918, if ' the war lasts that long. j "They are all men of sound con- t]olt and of military age " he abominated smoking to sd h a de- says. "We will leave in peace at home quite possible in that` land of sturdy Reduce Fire Risks. gree, and was so annoyed by the in- the men of the older classes corres- men, hard thinkers and good livers. The average farm building is a crease of cigar -smoking among of-' ponding to the oldest classes of the Nowhere, not even in. Sweden, does fire trap from one end to the other. ficers of the army, that in the early ; German landsturm. Russia has one get better food or see larger in - It is full of readily inflammable ma- 'forties he issued a General Order . enough men of sound constitution and dividual consumers of it than in that terial. Once started, a farm fire is (No. 577) which contained a para- I fit for war to make a breach in the country of superlative cleanliness and suppose that's natural. But I've very seldom stopped. We will sug- graph which would have delighted something more to say. Your father• gest a few precautions which we take the heart of James I. It ran thus: made a ridiculous proposition to me. to reduce fire risks. "The Commander -in -Chief has been Will you tell him that it is declined, If a lantern is upset almost any- informed that the practice of smok- with Margaret Ryan's best love and where in the ordinary barn or stable, ing, by the use of pipes, cigars or thanks." • there is a litter of chaff around to .cheroots, has become prevalent "Let me go!" said Elsa fiercely,? take fire. The first precaution 'we among the officers of the army, "How dare you mock at him like would advise is to clean up the chaff which is not only in itself a species that? You know that he is dead!"; and litter and eliminate this danger. of intoxication occasioned by the Mona de la Mar started forward Another precaution is never to set a fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly lantern down where it can be 'knock- occasions drinking and tippling by heaving wall of the cabin. Her brown' eyes showed a sparkle of amusement,( and a smile played about her lips.! She was a girl who made a habit; of taking life with a laugh, and even! the fact that she had just piled her) employer's ship on a ledge of sharp; volcanic rock did not seem to have; made a break in the habit. Elsa re-; garded her with a cold disapproval,' but at the same time with a certain. admiration. There had been on ex-' amination of the extent of the dam-; age. For all that this laughing girl knew to the contrary, the Sea-! Horse might in a few minutes slips off the ledge and take her to the bot- tom. "I want to talk to you," said Mona' ---"to learn, if I can, what sort of girl you are; and though you are not inter- ested in my reason, I'm going to give it to you. It is because you are the daughter of the man who robbed me uf. twenty thousand pounds." ! Elsa sprang to her feet with quiver- ing lips. "That is not true." she said. "Oh, come! You don't deny the relationship!" said Mona mockingly. "And as for the robbery—" "My father did not rob you," said Elsa hotly. "Didn't he? I think the term. is, ac- curate. At any rate Richmond Car- rington accepted its substantial ac- curacy ail; a description of what he had done when I texed him•. with it yesterday.".;' "Yesterdayl" cried Elsa. "You saw him yesterday.? You ladtnit it?" with a cry. "Dead! Do you. say he is dead?" (ed over. Everywhere in our barns those who acquire the habit." "Do you say that you did not know, we have convenient hooks or wires Both Queen Victoria -and the Prince it?" running from one end cif the stable to •Consort detested smoking, so tobacco (To be Continued.) 1 the other on which the lantern may Was taboo wherever the court, was. se— {{ be suspended. "On the other hand, many royal CHILDREN AND DISCIPLINE. l Spontaneous combustion is tempos- ladies of Europe, contemporaries of ed to be the cause of many farm fires, Queen Victoria and her son, have had —' 1Is there such a thing? A United the reputation Qf being confirmed Make the Child Trust You, and Use No Threats. lines and destroy the Kaiser's geographical flatness. "Spain is becoming of increasing note because the strong pro -German feeling found in certain quarters at the outset of hostilities has sensibly abated in the last two months. The King of Spain has taken the place ear- lier occupied by President Wilson as the chief impartial onlooker upon hostilities. If Germany wants peace she will appeal for it through the in- tervention of Alfonso. He has kept aloof as far as possible, although the Roman Catholic influence of his court is probably pro -German. But he haS done immense and unacknowledged work for the relief of prisoners, an when English relatives now try to trace a missing warrior the most strenuous efforts are made to assist them by the Spaniards. Portugal's deelaratigii of war against Germany has made considerable stir in Madrid. Spain will not fight, but she may have much to gain commercially if she engineers peace. "Peace, or rather the cessation of hostilities in the autumn, is now be- coming a practical "matter of hypo- thetical discussion. It is because of this increasing potentiality that the coming budget is viewed with com- parative equanimity, fit is under- stood to be only a six months' budget. And after that? Well, we wait` and hope." strongest armies." The Whale's Little Joke. Tom—That saying. "It's hard to keep a good man down," is thousands of years old. j Dick -That so? t Tom—For a fact. That's what the whale told Jonah. I It pleases the average man more f to have a woman tell him that he is the first man she ever loved than to I have her tell him tie truth. j Lend a man a quarter to -day and he's apt to strike you for a dollar to- morrow. States professor who has examined into hundreds of cases, states his be- T , The following hints ep teacherslief that in 'almost all cases of so -call- AreHRa�fnEil oteagy n'tZtorc,T�iONre which appeared in the Educational' ed spontaneous combustion the heat- ood hearth? Do you4ow that good digestion Review will be equally useful for: ing of the forage was not sufficient u1° roan don of food hearth; Pnins ud ow parents. j to set the forage itself on fire, . but Prevention of wrongdoing is better'.that it set some smudge of oil or than punishment of the wrongdoer. j grease a -blazing. The dirty lantern Exercise great care in taking a; carried into the hay mow is a prolific stand that you may have no occasion ; disturbutor of oil dirt. • The best ve- to retreat. i pre - Fault -finding is not calculated to ventaaive is to throw down the hay cure a fault. l by daylight. A. lantern in which the Distrust in the parent breeds de-; burner is always kept clean, however, reit in the child. • is not so liable to distribute oil. A child properly employed gives no f We never let the tramps sleep in' trouble. our barns, no matter how solemnly Be firm. Be kind. they swear tbat they will not smoke Be atient. ! or throw matcher. around. They are Be self-contained. a prolific source of farm fires. We Be as perfect as you ask your chil-,restrain our own love for "the 'weed" dren to be. when we are around the buildings. And above all, make no threats. Farm • andI Fireside, compares a !smoking man to a walking stick of ENGLAND AGAIN AIDS ITALY. dynamite, and they are about right. -- There may be dozens of other methods Provides 70 Freighters to • Carry ` of reducing fire risks. These are a Wheat and Coal. few.—J. Fraser in Farm and Dairy. As a result of the mission of Baron Maintaining Humus in the Soil. - Mayor des Planches, formerly Italie}it Ambassador at Washington, to Los:- A valuable pamphlet has just been don, the British Government has issued by the Nova Scotia Department agreed to place at Italy's disposal sev- of Agriculture. It deals with soils, enty freight vessels of about 5,000 soil cultivation and crops in that pro- tons each to transport to Italy 350,000 vince, being e reprint of a series of tons of wheat at once and 50,000 tons articles appearing in the annual i'e- of coal a month for the State rail- port of the Secretary for Agriculture ways during the war. the for year 1915. The articles have The Italian Government undertaker to charter these ships at the sane been specially prepared by experts' rates paid by the British Admiralty and .contain a fund of valuable in - for ships requisitioned for the publje formation for farmers gene ally. In service. To expedite the discharge of an . article prepared by Mr. Culritaing cargoes in Italian ports the Italian appear 'the following valuable 'hints Government, will, when neeessav'y, militarize harbor laborers, Who will be, considered as soldiers anerbe bound to obey the paval authorities in every. thing connected with the hours of work and the amount of cargo unload- ed daily. • Obvious. O ou on humus: Humus may be maintained •or• even gradually increased by the following practices (a) L•ive.,stock. farming, with its attendant ilse:tel ha'rit raid 'inai:ture. (b) Reasonably shoi^t clto'tations in r s which clo • - Ill gel anti. w - 1a ..,ads are to !~ � p Father. 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