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The Herald, 1912-09-19, Page 21 "a'" CET BETT` R LIGHT From COAL OIL (Kerosene) Tests by Prof. McHersow, MoGlll 'University, Montreal, on leading oil -burn ing lamps show the Aladdin Mantle Lamp is the most econotpical and gives over twtots eta much Ught as the. fl o and other lamps tested. It is odor - lose, safe. clean, noiseless. Guaranteed. Better light than gas or electric. To introduce the Aladdin we'll send Esaint* p hence u on 10 Days Trial AGENTS WANTED necessary. Every Ask for Partloulart home needs this Iamp, One agent sold over 1000 on a y , Eveniguarantee, profitable. etAsl efor agents prices$a d trialoffer Intl MANTLE LAMP COMPANY 205 Aladdin Bldg. Montreal and Winnipeg, Coo, TIIE WHITE LADY; OR, WHAT THE THRUSH SAID. CHAPTER XVII,—(Continued). But when this furious bombardment slackened, when the magazines were get- ting depleted; when the guns were near red -het; when Sebastopol was tottering into ruins, its defences all rent and shak- en, its streets full of dead, its .hospitals. crammed with sink and wounded, its stores well-nigh consumed, and its armies decimated and exhausted, there were the grey coats and fiat caps on the walls,. there the sputtering fire of musketry from all its ports, there the eagle floating over its bastions, and no sign to us of sur- render visible. The allies brought up more cannon, an the siege went on. A week, a fortnigh three weeks more the fierce bombardme lasted, and then a feeling—hardly a r anor, just a feeling—permeated the Damp that the end was near. It was September—the 'tam of Septembe 1855. The siege had lasted nearly a year. Th day was cold and dull, and a shrewish wind was blowing from the sea. Joyce and I sat on a mound, the one .where I had seen the Zouave watching the enemy, and looked down on the darkening town. For an hour we sat there, smoking and listening to the clatter of the infernal tempest; then Joyce turned his face ane and said quietly, "This is the end o it, Willie—the end." "The end of what?" I asked. "The end of the siege,"he answered "Did you see the ammunition carts com ing into camp to -day? Did you notice the gallopers tearing about from poin to point?" "Yes, of course," I said, "and it looks as if something was coming." "-eh!" said Joyce, in a peculiar tone. "Something is coming. The end is com- ing. To -morrow we shall have another try at the Redan." I looked across at the unhappy fortress. It loomed up grey and shadowy through the mist and smoke. A bell was tolling in the streets, a flickering glow of dull red on the far side indicated that some building was in flames. At intervals a gun was fired from the walls. Away on our right the French infantry bugles were blowing a lively quick -step. A little be- low our mound a group of sailors were pitching quoits—the whistling dicks had ceased from troubling, and the howlers d t, nt u. tered, at the advancing foe, Our color - sergeant staggered out' of the swirling me- lee, his hand across his face, blood flow- ing from his breast and throat. A. Rus- sian ran at him, with butt upraised. The dead lay thick around me. . I stooped quickly, wrenched a rifle from a stiffened hand, struck at the Russian, and seemed. in the action to lose my balance and fall into a black abyss. I had fainted, When I recovered consciousness I was lying on the salient, with the mangled corpses of enemies and friends all round me. The sun was setting. The Russian works were silent, only our guns were booming, their shot crashing into the walls before me, For a while I lay still. Indeed, I felt incapable of motion. And when I tried to stir, the pain made me utter a groan s of anguish. Yet I must move. I must. Pain or r' pain, I must drink. My throat was o a fire. I had a water -bottle at my hip. tried my right hand, and found it st gripped the rifle. As I drew it slowly the butt end came in view, and on the heel -plate, shining in the red light of the setting sun, I read the number -66. No. 66. I had torn that weapon from the hand of a dead man. The number to was the number of Joyce's rine. Joyce • was dead. • Dead! I could not realize the fact. I seemed to have dreamed it. I seemed to have dreamed that I had hacked and stabbed; that I'was wounded; that somz- thing hurt me; that my throat was afire, t my brain all mist, and the plane and figures round me a picture of flame of green. CHAPTER XIX. I was wounded in five places, and that so seriously that it was three months ere I was well enough to be moved from Bala- clava to Scutari. During all that time, and throughout the subsequent three months spent in the general hospital, I remained almost apathetic, But as my physical wounds healed my mental wounds opened, and when at length I found myself aboard ship, invalided home, I had fully awakened to the mis- ery which had come upon me, It seemed to mo then, as I walked slowly about the deck., and watched the rolling leaguee of dull grey sea, as if some curse hung over me. I felt like a leper. Fight as I would against the feel- ing, I could not shake off the idea that my friendship brought death along with it. Of all the me with whom I had held cordial relations i our company not one remained alive i . hfort bad *lied under my feet in their darn, arringi-,n had, died'�b'y m1*..5100 rite Wars attntik, Downs and Anil Wl- n..sllof ,fxi `tile menthes; fiTxalr'� r, .ted i fab been of vsentry lti cavi . and Joyce iia. been shot through the. eat almost before the last smile he gave . me had faded from his face. Idany au hour did I drag thyself around and about the decks fretting over the loss of my old friend; asking over and over again the question why he was taken and not I. Many a time did I look over the side at the hurrying water and think how easy a release la .y there, and how hopeless and weary a life was before me. But I had a duty yet to fulfil, a promise to make good. Joyce's watch had been brought to me by one of the bearers, and I had given my word to take it to his sweetheart. How I dreaded this task I cannot tell. It lay on me all day like a shadow,- and haunted me at night 3.n my dreams. I felt that I could not bear to meet that poor girl, that I could not endure the sight of her grief. 'What shall I say to her? What shall I say to her?" The question ran in my mind continually, and found no answer. It was the most terrible task with which I had ever been confronted. We made a rapid passage. and by"the end of March had crossed the Bay of Bis- cay, passed Cherbourg, and were beating up the Channel. I fairly dreaded the first sight of the English coast. I went below to avoid the view of the southern hills; and when at Iast we cast anchor in Ports- mouth Harbor I was in a perfect fever of nervousness. We had many invalids and wounded men aboard, but no cripples. But on the day of our arrival another vessel, which 'had reached port the night before, began to land her cargo of victims, and I saw such sights as even I must feel. Here a blind man led ashore; here a poor wreck, deprived of both legs; here another de- prived of both arms; here a boy with, half his jaw shot away and one sleeve empty. It was a terrible procession, and on which0lwe hadzmarched othro the his very town, and how the bells had pealed and the people had cheered, and salvoes of artillery lead shook the air—for this, My own left arm was crippled, part of the elbow having been shot away, and I knew that I should be discharged. But when I saw these unfortunate comrades carried from the ship I wished I had been killed, and envied Joyce his placid sleep beneath the turf at Balaclava. There were no cheers now, no cannon roaring, no clashing of bells. The crowd stood Dent, looking sorrowfully lipon these bit- er evidenees of glorious war. England ad paid a. bitter blood -tax, and was sad enough at heart; but even death is not o horrible as mutilation. We did not go ashore until the next ay, and a week elapsed before I found yself at liberty to proceed on furlough —to see niy friends. And now the time had come for me to isoharge my painful duty, and T set out for the railway station resolved to start t once for Seaford, where Amy Dawson ved. There were two trains iu the station— ne for Brighton, the other for Exeter. A the last monient my courage failed and I jumped into the latter. I ought I would go to Dartmoor and see r. Liskard and Rachel. The sight of voi eslw faces cheer the therlquietfhills and ft Devonshire air would help ane to re - ver; for I was still very weak and: rvoua. So I put of? the evil hour and ade for rest and cheerfulness. It was a pleasant ride on a bright day early . spring, through the awakening ountry, where the meadow daisies were ening through the fresh grass, and the ung bads were bursting through their du envelopes, and all the birds were sy building; and it was doubly plea. nt when, having left the train at /bee- r, I drove in 'a small trap through the 11 evening. along the deep Devon lanes Dartmoor. Arrived within a mile of the little farm T left the. trap and the driver, oeeded on foot. Around 'ane stretch... plain of deep green heather,abov the vast dome of violet sky; for t+r time since Joyee. wee killed 1 felt, for the first time .in my .li the meaning of the word In a few moments I eh, the porch of an English f Meet friends. I should see with his hearty hand bel Pretty Rachel, shy and quickened my pace.'I fel ful. There were the tops, trees showing over the mo hear the blackbird piping 1 another fifty paces and I`,t slow of the 'house fire thx light. I Hurried ori -I alnz turned the mound, and saw— door shut fast, the windows b chimneys :snmokelees, and stare' over the fu h ' e sa e r fide b th board, en which in big blas t lette the . words, "To Lett' Per some time I stood 'staring v at this beard and at -the tin -tilled. and uneurtained windows; •then, sigh, I turned away. I might known it -'-I might have known' its; is a nurse upon me. Tho birds sang in the garden: the wheels of the trap grinding in the road, and the voice of tt admonishing his horse to "git' lazy." My .friends were gone • outcast and a stranger in the Wo before. I must go on to the bili carrying the burden of life aloe So I erushed down my misery an to meet the trap. The driver exp* much regret when he learned thata Dome to- see the Liskards. Ile caul Ask at Any Reliable Store To Try ni7s Fou en For Student and Faculty R One ink filling of a medium sized Waterman's Ideal Send will write about 20,000 words: Think' what a saving r i eoltfet of time that means. You can write conveniently, dnywl,ere, with this pen, that you carry safely in your pocket, Waterman's Ideal makes poor writing good and good writing better. Pile rubber holder is strong and finely finished, and the pen point is i4 -carat gold, With average care one Waterman's Ideal will last you for a lifetime. Avoid substitutes. Prices, $2.50 and upwards. Your local dealer will supply Waterman's Ideals or get them for you, E. Waterman Company, Limited, yogi Notre DameSt. W.. Montreal. fere was a little seat in the porch. I reflections dancing on 'the red forward, laid the packet on the water. The • lifted r cap; the "I wish you bluff looked like a cloud. Beyond, the d -night," turned p, a heel, wish strode Sea spread out under the pale crescent ay,moon like a gest shield of graven silver, t the gate the young yeoman. overtook they° t for a moment looking stupidly at linings, and then began to laugh. ed me my journey, he. said,if ,,I harp+ ' MMha is Philip Joyce?" he demanded. spoken. Old.Liskard had been dead some t•, A dead °soldier, I replied. I' looked time, and his widow and child heti-1eft.� i�`,,ek. Amy had sunk down upon the: seat the place, and.gone.away. into Cornwall.. and covered her face with her hand The driver was very sorry about 01 ,i-': • ,Coll ins, said theB' kard. He had been a good sort. Amid �h;as Philip JoyoeP' . yeoman again,''who he °reeked his whip, and we went oi.f •FAnd I answered sternly." brisk trot for Plymouth, 1 I tef man than you or I.He was a be Two days later I found myself w 'Wee +':Soldier," said the yeoman, "what does rapidly along the road which skir $> the'i his . mean? Was Joyce—?" no bay at Seaford, in Sussex. Again weir ; I turned my eyes 'again towards the evening, calm and quiet. The b1u,; tan ; porch, . Ask her, I said, and. left him. n the east side, with its tawny rook anti There was 'a little tavern on the beach. I verdant grass, and small thatched "cot. 1 went° inn there and called for brandy. l up tages, and low trees splashed .with Mien* had never drunk liquor in m Iff ing blossoms .was reflected,.y o before. - vividly. in the ,But I felt t�mat I must..' drink now, cool, still water. A few boats, with their i9 They' brought me a glass of cognac, and brown sails hanging limp, lay off the l I gulped . it down, ordered another, and shore. and round the tower of the .li tie !another, and gulped those down; then, church the daws were flying. Evory'°hit�f• .half --mad and half -dazed, I• set out to walk looked peaceful, and prosperous an { b Brighton, think you Can manage And yet; to whom was I going? z'i.} las I "passed the bend of the road I g unhappy woman, whose life ha, ¶, ri+°' ''oohed back once across th h him with the sum you were nearly all at rest. "Willie," said my friend, filling his pipe and smiling as he spoke, "the Re- dan is . our mark. It will be a warm task, and some of us will get our dis- charge. You remember, "I remember," I said, knowing very ,sell what he meant. rht," said Joyce, "and now let us camp.. TT ant te, ivr,ite, sae e` ..t4e ed cpf." .."p 'r yi-ng on the ground mean- while, and using his knapsack as a desk, and as he Wrote, uttering the gentle -thoughts of -a brave man to the woman he hived,. the cannon thundered on be- hind us, and the great shell rushed hiss- ing and roaring above our heads. CHAPTER XVIII. By ten o'clock next morning we were t standing in the advanced pare leis mass- ed in readiness for attack. Our work was to capture the Roden, the French were to go for the Malakoff. It was a muddled affair, and doomed to failure. Our force was much too small, and the strongest and freshest regiments were kept back in reserve. The attacks should have been simultaneous; it was madness for u$ to wait upon the success of the French assault. But on these points enough has been said. Never did Eng- land send into the field a finer army than that of the Crimea; never were Brit- ish, troops so neglected, misled, and mis- managed Just about noon the battle began, the French leaping over their parapets and rolling into the Malakoff like a tidal wave. They were in directly, and before a shot was fired. The Russians were tak- en by surprise; and the French trenches were but a few yards from the walls. We saw them, the agile, fierce little Zouaves, swarming over the works, dash- fns up the hill. We heard the fusilade break rut, caught the glinting of the bayonets, and the flashing of the rifles, and knew that now was our turn. I looked round at Joyce and nodded. Re smiled back at me. I heard a horse's hoofs thundering past our rear, a shrill voice crying, "Forward, forward !" and then we all sprang out of the trenches and went for the slope of the Redan at a run. At the same instant, from every loop- hole and embrasure, from every wall and a gabion- of the Russian works, burst forth a perfect stream of fire. The rush of round shot, canister, grape, and shell, and the rain of bullets was something tor - rifle. It cleft our ranks in all directions, mowing mon down in swathes. It tore up and and stones and turf, filling:the air with clouds of splinters that shrieked that hdeadly6lere ourgmeagge line Before to melt. The ground was thick with fallen comrades; nearly all the leading officers were killed or wounded, and ere we reached the walls of the Redan we s new that we, like the cavalry of Bala- t lava, were being hurled to inevitable h estruetion. It was soon over. Our regiment was s n the right attack. We ran up the ea- I fent, and rushed the embrasures of the d eft defences with the bayonet. I was m mongst the first to enter. We tumbled to the place, and were met by a with- in volley. Before me I saw a cloud of d oke. I plunged into it. I was wound- . The blood was running in a hot, oily a cam down my side; my left arm frit lm fire, I threw myself against a solid ss of Russians, was sent reeling back 0 a blow on the chest with a musket- t ek; went in again, crossed bayonets me tlx the desperate enemy, saw Jack th ehfort, close on my right, throw u his M ins'; felt bird under my feet, heard• the fr ziting, Swearing, shouting men of our bbingaand parryi g; wasnknockhacking, co d trampled over, but scrambled up ne ain and then felt myself borne of my .m t and parried backwards, as a wave, it I was again upon the' salient, and in grey -coated Russians came swarming e of. the embrasure, yelling, firing, strik- pe -mad, with rage and fury. 1 this, as it seemed to me, in a few di en:s. We were repulsed. I was bu ?tied. I seemed to heed from every sa I was choked with blood, and to 'rd with it. My head was spinning; eti w green, 1 laughed hysterioaliy, and to 1 my *ilial, which a bullet had shat What a mad, hateful world! And I had pitied the dead. And then I remembered the wild, miserable eyes of the e I had just left, and, laughing bitterly,aI turned my back upon Seaford. (To be continued.) ---- FINDING OUT. "Father, is it true that two can live as cheap as one?" "`That's an old saying, my dear." "Do you believe it?" �� think it can be done. "But if I marry George do- you to support now spend s e arbor. Lights " wrecked shall war. s Aivere twinkling in the houses .now, their on me every year f" "Wrist shall I gay to her?- What I say to her? I could not comma;** thoughts. Only I was resolved tt set m teeth y and walked firmly e,,,.ee had in ms heart a strange s .use guiltiness as though I were now totanswr ' for the death of my friend. But it mat'; be done. I climbed the little hill. I turned into the village. There was the' street- of de- tached cottages, with trim gardens be- fore them and behind the orchards' burst- ing into Bloom. The house was, number twenty. I counted them as I went along. It was too dark to see the figured on the doors. "Eighteen, nineteen." Now -now foe the pitiful duty. I turned into the garden of Amy Dawson's home, and etrode up the path with more fear in my heart than I had ever felt before the Rusaihn batteries. It was a pretty Cottage, with a deep porch, over which the. ivy wee thickly `trained. in this porch a man and a woman were standing. They held each ether by the hand, and were so engrossed in converse. tion that they did not notice my appro..ch until I was close upon them. Then ,f both turned round to faeemo, .the was a fine young fellow o£ a with' a frrink and w,,trti` n t} • pie i tare , d1e i '' +geared and' had crimson b"ow at her t,. •oart, and in her dark hair a silver star:, I stoppedwithin a couple of ,pates,.iof the porch, and said nervously: "I beg your pardon; I want to see Nosp- Dawson. Miss Amy Dawson. Is she in?" They both answered at onoe, "Yes and. then the girl said, rather haughtily;. •"I am Amy Dawson." There was a long and painful silence, The yeoman looked at me and ihe,'. at Amy in surprise. I made an effort and controlled myself. "I ani sorry to disturb you," I silfd "I have a message for you,".. t The girls eyes drooped. "Yes," she emd. in a whisper. 9� Canada's finest sugar at its best Your love of cleanliness and purity will be P Y gratified by this 5 - Pound Sealed Package of I took out the little packet in which was poor Phil's watch. "I have brought this," I said coldly, "from Philip Joyce." • The young yeoman stood perplexed and. silent. The girl blushed crimson, but ter. thor looked at me nor anered It's Canada's'finest sugar, fresh from the Refine , ry untouched by human hands. Each Package contains 5 full pounds of sugar Your Grocer can supply you. Canada Sugar Relining e , Company, Limited, Montreal. 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Not so very' long ago it seemed ra- ther important that "the man be- hind the cow" should be an athlete, at least able to do not only --one hard day's work, but; many of them. Sixty or seventy years ago, when our cities and railroads were young, as was also the dairy business, the principal surplusage of dairy pro- ducts came from where the greater part of the summer had to be spent in raising, harvesting and storing up feed for the long, cold winter; and the man who could swing a scythe from 4 to 11 a.m. enol wield' a fork from 1 to 9 p.m., or till the last load was safe in the barn, was u generally considered to be about :3f` the right sort of a man to make a success of a dairy farm. Feed must still be stored up for the winter and times of short pas- ture, but the many'machines now to be had to facilitate . this work have reduced the actual labor part of this work almost beyond compu- tation. Young men may hardly realize it, but there are a few yet alive who can remember what it was to lead a gang of mowers in heavy clover and herds -grass ; it was not called timothy then. It may not require any higher degree, of brain power to run these new machines than it did to rightly sharpen and hang a scythe, for this could not' be well done by anyone who was either mentally or physi- cally weak. Now the mowing ma,- chine, a; chine, tedder and rake are all equipped with easy spring seats, while the power -loader and horse - fork do the rest; and, weather par- mitting, the hay crop is easily se- cured on time and in good order. Then, if the dairyman has et silo, he can command succulent cow feed as goad or better than green grass for every day of the year, and he needs it, and by keep'ag an ac- count of each cow he nor -1 not sweat much for fear of the sheriff. . It has taken centuries of experi- mental breeding to make the dairy cow the wonderful animal that she now is; yet a few minutes' time and a very: small outlay for stamps 4vfl bring :from"the Department of'Ag- iculture and the experimental arm to "man behind the cow'' to - ay the records of these years; and how him just how he can find the eak spots in his own herd or me - hods of care and feeding, and im- rove them if he will. Izl shod;, it s up to him. 1 f d s w 11 1zrEPING THE CHURN CLEAN: Quite often the flavor of butter is spoiled on account of the churn not being in a good, clean and sweet: condition. This is especially true when a churn is used only once or twice perweek, as is often the case on the farm. Flavor is the quality which gives butter its value over other fats. A little carelessness in regard to keeping the churn clean and in a sweet condition will often spoil this desirable flavor in but- ter. After the buttermilk and 'butter have been removed from the chul'n, it should be scalded out with hot water, so as to remove all of the grease. If any particles of the butter are left in the churn, they are liable to become oily, and the churn also assumes a musty condi tion on the inside. • The heat from the scalding water causes the churn to dry out to some extent after the water has been removed. If the churn is fairly dry when put aside, it is not so liable to become musty. A musty churn should be thor- oughly renovated before it is used. If the churn has become musty from standing idle for a consider- able length of time, a good way to sweeten it, up is to slake a few. lumps of lime in it. The lime should be diluted with water to bring it' to a creamy consistency. This should then be churned while still hot, leaving the air vent open to allow the escape of the gas. The lime should be left in the churn for about an hour and should be churn- ed occasionally. The lime ` should be removed then and the churn. rinsed out with pure water. If the churn is extremely musty, this treatment should be repeated each day for several days in succession. Scalding the musty churn with hot water is quite effective, but in ex- treme cases lime should be used. The churn should be kept open sulciently when standing idle so as to allow a circulation of air. This. may be accomplished by raising the lid an inch or two on one side, 0 Perhaps girls kiss each othe merely tokeep in .practitte. Ci VV. . J'a Pc to be too , fr to rill P Si Ifo l� Cis ,Al 5 'TI in nl di e< Oi i>r n7 03 st d' Is ri 1r i1 a '�1 1 ( -t t.' a p r I h b a t 1 y 1 4