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', A LONE HAND; The Capture of a German Pirate I CHAPTLU III.â€" (Cont'd.) sively on the hundlu of his heavy MiMriwhile ho WHtched with intense '-'^"Ke'"- . . , ,' intcrc.t the HCtion.s of the crew before Presently the torpero-crew finishc. him. They ateppe.l ir.to the positions '^eir work, the panels were shut, and . and prepared the tuhe for action with they filed out through the hatchway.^ the quu-knes. nnd cerUinty of long '-'â- Â«"« '">' thinking for an hour or pracice. The deadly missile was al- Boreas the ship settled into quiet. A ready in pi .tec ; he knew now when it Plan.w»s taking shape in his mind, â- was put thiTC. In a few minutes and he wished to work it out to the, for your nkrvks' sakp: When they jiiinu and throh, you call (|iiiet aou sootli tliein with Vaseline Tnul« Uirk Analgic PcfTOleum Jclli^ A combinition of the remedies your doctor prevrlbes vnd pure "Vaseline." Soil! in clean, han<ly tin tiibei at chrniists and general storei everywhere. liefuse sub- stitutM. Free booklet OD requeat. ON THE FARM The Virtue of the Natural Leaf is perfectly preserved in the scaled CHESEBROUGH MFa CO. (CoiMoU^Md) ISSO Chabot At«. Moiitr««l the lights *-^:re snapi>ed off. except a 'a*' <'f«"- ^V hen midnight came, he small bulb whch barely illu-ninat^d ^^'^"-'^ *'""'*^1! ""'' fl'm'-ed down to the -ghting mechanism. T'lc -. a the floor. The time for work had panel slid back, and a large porthole > *^'"''^- opened in the larboard bow. Crane could not see the doomed freighter,] CHAPTER IV. but lit- could see the reflection of her' His first act was to locate the mech- lights on the water. There were a anie^m that opened the concealed door. few low orders, a clicking of mach- He tried it; the panels parted easily. inery, and then u sudden hiss of e.s- He opened the door wide enough to slip caping air at. a long black shadwo through, found that he could operate shot through the open porthole. lie- 1 it from the inside, and closed it be- : gardla<s of danger. Crane leaped up hind him. Then he went carefully over he flitted back into place, puttying thi' and scrambled into his ventilator. I every detail of the giant tube and the cracks with a mixture of pawduFt and The night wa.s black, the sky over-' '*y-o"t "*" tho room. The ceiling baked bean , colored with scraped iron ca.>-t. Hardly a thousand yards away, hung low on heavybeams ; that was ru.st. These .shells were connected up ami slightly in advance, the British the cockpit of the gun overhead. He by his fine copper wires, concealed in vessel glided along, her bulk pricked was familiar with all the details of cracks in the planking, caulked with out by occasional lights. She seemed torpedo construction. He went back dust. The wires ran back below the not to ri-ali.se the Cocos''^ presence, to his den for his tools, then opened freight and up to his lookout station Everything was calm and quiet; his the breech of the tube. For two under thu ventilator. The free ends t;ensei refused to realise the mean- 1 hours he worked silently and rapidly; were fastened some three inches a- ing of that sinister black shape slip- then he closed the breech, arranged part, so that he could bridge thi? gap ping so silently through the black everything as he had foun<i it, and with his saw-blade. Then he brought water. A few moments thus, and then stood up with a sigh of relief. He in a lead from the electric-light wires, a red glare showed at the freighter's had disarranged the steering appar- and this plant was ready. A simple water-line and flamed upward, setting tus of the great steel fi.sh inside. In- touch of his switch would seal the out every detail of the scene like a stead of swimming straight ahead to fate of every man around the torpedo- ph;i(>grapher'.s flashlight. He saw 'ts mark, this one would curve rapid- tube and the frun above, the big freighter heel over; a quarter, •>' away and lose itself in the sea. , The thing that worried him most of her port-side disappeared, show-i S" he closed the bulkhead door and was the uncertainty as to conditions ing her interior structure like a house »"U({ht out one of the smaller iron- in the stern of the ship. He 'uspect- Btruck by a cyclone. The glare died bound boxes. This he opened, and ed that another gun was concealed down; then a second explosion came found, as he had anticipated, a num- there, but knew nothing of how it 8£ the water reached her boilers, and her of the twenty-pound shells. P'our was placed. However, he did not a .shower of ombers from her furnaces "f these he lugged into hin den, then dare to venture on deck, even at night, flew out and hi.s.se<l into the sea. A carefully hid the box away. Then he The slightest ij^spicion of his presence mufl'led roar tilled his ears, a sharp ""ce more retired to his den, where on board meant death, and, worse than blast of air struck his face, and the the sounds of his work were less like- death the failure of all his plans. He Cociis rocked and tos.sed in the waves, 'y to be detected. had r-eriously considered death; it was All wr/i dark now; only a black It was ticklish work opening the 30 easy to blot this ship instantly from bulk showed where the freighter layâ€" hig cartrdiges; but his plans called the face of the waters. A hammer a black bulk that settled slowly, slow f'"' 't. and open them he must. His swung on the nose of one of those ly lower. A jumble of minor sounds trusty bag yielded a small coil of torpedos, and the thing was done. He came across to him, small explosion.s,' waterproof fi»;e and some caps; and would go too, like scores of nameless Bcrcams, shouts, command.s. The when his daylight Iwjdtime arrived the heroes who have given up life gladly black bulk heaved once endwise, set- '""r shells had changed into excellent to accomplish les.ser things for the tied back gently, and disappeared. For hand-grenades, with five-second fuses. Motherland. The results were worth a few momen's there was silence. Meanwhile his chart showed that the the cost, but for one thing. He did Then, like the crack of a whip, the captain had changed his course, and not believe that the intelligence which Cocos's searchlight leaped across the *"** ""^ heading south-west. Evid- had conceived and directed this gria- waters and played upon the spot. A ently he had decided to look for vie- ly masquerade wai on thi« ship. If little wreckage floated- J.urprisingly !'•'"â- '' "'""K the sea-lane between Hon- one .such craft could operate, why not little. A few men clung to boxes or olulu and Australian ports. a dozen? Where there not others planks, and one small boat, with about' l^u'ing the next afternoon the Cooos now at liirge under various disguises?- u dozen occupants, rowed toward was again chased by a warship, a fast It was his duty to se that the in- them. The Cocos was nwinging in British destroyer this time, which put formation he had should reach the Ad- closer, ami Crane expected to see a "I* " determined race. But the miralty, that the ports and lanes of boat manned for the rescue. Then ^''"'"â- â€¢*''' Powerful engines settled to the .Seven Seas be watched for Mich he hi-ard a crisp order forward, and their task, and maintained a lead be- jjhouls. So he could take no un- saw the crew of the (juick-firer lea !>'"'"' 'he range of the destroyers's necessary chances with his life yet. to stations. The gun swung round; ''h"""'- The ccaptain did not seem For two days longer the Cocos cruis- thiee .sharp explo,,ions rent the air in. """'"U-"" to show his utmost speed; he ed north-ward through th« Indian Prepare f!oo<l,J<ecdbed The piumise of a/i early Spring will! attract the attention of farmers tO; the approach of the grain-sowing .sea-j son. The first crop considered by thej majority is oats, and the buying ofl seed or proparinj? of the home-grown j grain for seeding should be looked af- ter at once. The best way to sow oat.s is with the grain drill. Drilling gives a more even stand than broadcast .seeding, for all the seed is covered to about packet. Young tender leaves only, grown with utmost cajrc and with flavour as the prime object, arc used to produce the famous Salada blends. the same depth. In sowing broadcast into hundreds of cases, states his be- Queen of Rumania; the Dowager some of the seed may not be covered lief that in almost all cases of so-call- Czarina of Russia; the late Empress at all and : omc may be covered too'ed spontaneous combustion the heat- of Austria; King Alfonso's mother, deeply. Germination is better from ing of the forage was not sutficient forme"ly Queen Regent of Spain: Iha drilled seed and the growth i.s more' to set the forage itself on fire, but Dowager Queen Margherita qf Italy; uniform throughout the season. In' th"! it set some smudge of oil or and ex-Queen Amelie of Portugal, numerous tests at the experiment sta-' grease a-blazing. The dirty lantern says Mr. G. L. Apperson in his book, tions drilled oats have outyielded oats carried into the hay mow is a prolific "The Social History of Smoking." It sown broadcast by several bushels to disturbutor of oil dirt. The best pre- is, of course, well known that Aus- tho acre. Better stands of grass and: ventatave jg to throw down the hay trian and Russian ladies generally are clover can al.so be obtained in drilled by daylight. A lantern in which the fond of cigarette smoking. On Rus- than in broadcast oats. ; burner is always kept clean, however, sian railways it is not unusual to find The best depth to sow oafs varies i.^ not so liable to distribute oil. a compartment labelled "For ladies with the soil and the season. In any We never let the tramps sleep in who do not smoke." case they should be covered with half our barns, no matter how solemnly' Among men of letters and artists an inch to an inch of moist soil. They they swear that they will not smoke ' who ignored the social prejudices in should be sown deeper in sandy soils or throw matches around. They are ; regard to smoking which Queen Vic- than in loams or clays. Deeper seed- a prolific source of farm fires. Weltoria fostered was Sir .John Millais. ing i.s also necessary when the ground restrain our own love for "the weed" 1 He is said to have smoked a clap is dry than when it is moist. On the when we are around the buildings. ' pipe in his carriage during the first average the best depth is from one to Farm and Fireside, compares a Jubilee procession of the Queen. Wil- one and a half inches. | smoking man to a walking stick of liam Morris was a pipe smoker, so Oats should be sown as early in the dynamite, and they are about right, was Rossetti, while Carlyle, as Spring as it is posiible to make a good There may be dozens of other methods everyone knows, was a great" smoker, seed bed. The exact date of course of reducing fire risks. These are a The story is familiarâ€" it may be true varies with the season and with the few. â€" J. Fraser in Farm and Dairy, j â€" that one evening he and Tennyson locality. This does not mean that! + 'sat in solemn silence smoking for the preparation of the land should be NO SMOKING ALLOWED. i hours, one on each side of the fire- neglected in order to sow early. Bet- 1 â€" â€" I place, and that when the visitor rose ter yields will be produced from seed Famous People Who Detested Tobacco to go, Carlyle, as he bade him good- sown in a good seed bed than from i„ Every Form. night, said, "Man, Alfred, we hae had that .'own a few days earlier in ,a graund nicht; come again soon." ground too cold and wet for the seed I "^ custom lothsome to the eye, to germinate. | hateful t-o the nose, harmefull to the In a good seed bed the best rate of braine, dangerous to the lungs, and seeding in the corn belt is about two '" 'he blacke, stinking fume thereof and a half bushels to the acre. If the| nearest resembling the horrible seed is sown broadcast, more is neces-l ^tigian smoke of the pit that is bot- sary. More seed is required in a poor tomelesse." teed bed than in a good one, as fewer So, on one occasion, wrote James I., seeds are likely to grow. A lower rate who hated smoking more than he of seeding may be used for small-ker- hated anything else; which recalls _ neled varieties than for large-kerneled the fact that Swinburne, the poet, de- to Petrograd from a tour of the em ones for there are manv more of the tested tobacco so much that he for- P>re, including Central Asia, and has ones lor mere are many more 01 tne ,j ^^^ correspondent of the Pans former m a bushel. Iga^e James L for being •* knave p. jhat IsWoOO Ru.ssian sol- Allow the Winter protection provid- tyrant and coward because he ..li ^.^^^^ ^f ^.j,^^ ^ ^.^^j^j^ p^^j ^^^ ^,. ed the plants last Fall to remain upon the throat of that blackguard ^eady trained, can easily be put in the plants for some time to come. Ra'e'Kh who invented this filthy t^e field between I'JIG and 1918, if It is during the alternate freezing and smoking." thawing weather of late Winter and Gladstone and William Penn hated early Spring that the protection is tobacco like poison, while Wellington most needed. TRAINING 15,000,000 .MEN. Russia Can Put Huge .\rniy in Field Before 1918. Colonel Kousnetsof, who is now re- tired and whose activities are con- fined to army missions for the Rus- sian Government, has just returned abominated smoking to such a de^ gree, and was so annoyed by the in- Maintaining Humus in the Soil. ! crease of cigar-smoking among of- A valuable pamphlet has just been' 'â- â€¢^•"'"s °^ the army, that in the early issued by the Nova Scotia Department 'forties _he issued a General Order of Agriculture. It deals with soils, ^^°- ^"") which contained a para- German lines and destroy the Kaiser's tioil cultivation and crops in that pro- P'"»I'h which would have delighted ^ strongest armies." vince, being a reprint of a series of *'he heart of James I. It ran thus: 1 â-  the war lasts that long. "They are all men of sound con- stitution and of military age," he says. "We will leave in peace at home the men of the older classes corres- ponding to the oldest clas.ses of the German lands^turm. Russia has enough me** of sound constitution and fit for w.ir to make a breach in the rapid succession. Three more ex 1 plosions echoei' back as the .shells re.ichcd their mark, and the small laiat crumpled like an eggshell. Once more the searchlight swept the scene, then flickered out; the hum of the en- gines quickened, and the nose of the '"'^Pty w'aste ^'hip swung awuy to the west. I The ^^ame ruse had to be rcpeate simply kept his distance till night Ocean, while Crane grew restless and came on. Then ho dodged to and nervous from enforced confinement fro for a while with lights blanketed, iin<l inactivity. Then, in early morn- and presently left the Biiti.sh ship far ing, the lookout reported smoke a- »o the leeward, her inefl^ectual .search- head. Soon it apeareil that they were light playing back ami forth over the overhauling a fleet of three large pa /songer-steamers convoyed by a l)attlcship which was in the lead. Sick at heart, sick in min.l and body,' '"^"t ''"V thiri time for the benefit of When this was learned, the Cocos Crane crept down from the lookout, the Australian cruiser .Sydney. Crane uluekened speed and allowed the flotilla and lay almost listlessly watthing the Kathered over the 'phone that she was to draw away. At sundown the look- Gei man crew as they <ipened the near- "cting a.s convoy to a fleet of five out reported the .smoke barely visible, est box and fitted another torpecb) into merchant vessels. Then, too, certain The crisis was still po tponed. ! thi' tube. For the firs', lime he rea-j '^'"^^ messages, pieke.l up during the About eight o'clock, however, a mcs- lised the capabilities of the literal, Kci-,"'Kht by the wireless operator, seem-' sage passed over the 'phone that entific Teutonic mind. The men be- «'• to indicate that a small gray ship, hrought Crane up on the alert. Picked fore him did not look cruel or brutal, having given the slip to several war- up by the wireless operator, it identi-' They were simply currying out al ^'«»»ehi, was under .suspicion. The (ii.,1 the flotilla ahead as 11. M. Battle-' plan to its logical conclusion. Their ' ''"P'"'" evidently decided that these „hip Dauntless, convoying three tranvl operations could be carried on only waters were to well guarded, then he ports that carried five thousand Aus-' by ab.solute secrecy. They could would seek new postures; for he set a tralian tr(,ops, bound to the help of no' burden themselves with prisoners. â- *<"''h west course at a good speed ij„> Mother Country. The speed of They knew before they attacked that which led, through unfrequented seas, the Cocos increased, and her course the crew of the freightei must die. The towai.l the Dutch East Indies. ] Hwung slightly to port. Crane let destruction of the few miserable,' ^ week passed by (piietly, and the himself out of hin chamber and hur- helpless survivors was to them, not ^'<"''>'' was threading her way through ned to his lookout post. Soon the murder, but a simple ;nili'ary mea- the narrow seas of the Dutch archi â-  ,ieck lights flicked out, and the gun-' sure. They must not be left to be pelagoes. Not a ship had been sight ' ,.,.0^ came forward and began strip-, picked up and to spread their story, ed except two small traders , with pi„j; the piece. He realised that the II was no worse than dropping bombs which the Cocos exchanged signals, captain wi>uld try to sink one or more from aircraft on sleeping cities, or reporting herself as bound from the of these transports, an<l trust to the Hhelling towns filled with mm com- Marshall Croup for Borneo. Twice |,i„rjt„e8s and his great -peed to alip^ batants, both common events in the "he stopped at .small trading stations,' away from the guns of the battleship.' present war. Nevertheless his flesh h'ft a little freight, and took on small They represented great prizes to the crept iin.l his lingers cbised convul- quantities of .shell and copra, doubt captain, well worth the risk. Crane 'es" to strengthen her disguise in ,.eu|iaed that the crisis was al hand, ca-'-e of necessity. Certainly the m„i his courage and determination shell part of the cargo strengthened ,.ose to meet it. Everything hinged on her odour perceptibly. Sometimes hi- actions in a few short minutes, and men walked through the corridor within u few feet of ^Cranc, as he lay in his narrow cell; but his luck held. Then one dark night they ran the Strait of Sunda, between Sumatra and Java, and when the morning came were in the India Ocean, standing out in the track of shipping from Aus- ' tralia to the Suez Canal. I All this time ('rnne had been busily The Whale's Little Joke. Tomâ€" That saying. "It's hard to keep a good man down," is thousands of years old. Dickâ€" That so? Tomâ€" For a fact. That's what the whale told Jonah. articles appearing in the annual re- "^he Commander-in-Chief has been port of the Secretary for Agriculture informed that the practice of smok- for tWt year 1915. The articles have '"S. hy the use of pipes, cigars or been ."specially prepared by experts cheroots, has become prevalent and contain a fund of valuable in- among the officers of the army, formation for farmers generally. In which is not only in itself a species an article prepared by Mr. Cumming "^ intoxication occasioned by the appear the following valuable hints fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly on humus: occasions drinking and tippling by f~ ^t 1 Humus may be maintained or even t'hose who acquire the habit." ( r, .^ / ^.°"^" . ,,^ gradually increased by the following Both Queen Victoria and the Prince' Father (reprovingly)â€" Do you practices:â€" \ Consort detested smoking, so tobacco know what happens to liars when they (a) Live stock farming, with its was taboo wherever the court was. attendant use of barnyard manure. "On the other hand, many royal (b) Reasonably short dotations in l»'l><^s of Kurope, contemporaries of which clover and grass sods are plow- Queen Victoria and her son, have had ed under at not more than .3 to 6 the reputation of being confirmed years intervals. smokers. Among them may be (c) The uso of clover, always,' "amed "Carmen Sylva," the poetess- when seeding down. i die?" Johnny â€" "Yes, sir; they lie" still." It pleases the average man mora to have a woman tell him that he is the first man she ever loved than to have her tell him the truth. Of Course You Need J C.>, »vv« BENSONll lc« Crtam comM out of tli« frtatar with A velv«ly •moothneisâ€" anl t ne*v <]eltclouinoM-wh«n 11 Is iiuda wlih BEN.SOM'.S. And It It |r«ily lur^l to ask (or uiy- thtnK mora dtlmloua than «Ct)oroUt« Blanc Maiioor Cratm Cuaiar'twtth KruH, mad«o( Honaon'a Corn Starch. Our n*w Raclpa Book "DasMrll and Candlti" tails how and how niurh to u»a. V/rlta for a copy to our Moniraal Otflca -anti hasuia totall your Rrccar to sand BENSUN'S. tha standby In Canada for moi a tha:i half a canlury. TNE CtNtDt STtRCH CO. IIMITEO MONTKSAL, CARDINAL. 316 rORT WILLIAM. working at night anil lying hidden by day. His work wa.s laborious and :»low, by reason of his inadequate tools and the constant nccoiisity to work noiselessly and leave behind no visible tract' of his operations. This much he had Hccoinplished. Digging patiently, hour after hour, with hia small gimlet, saw, and chisel, he had j hollowed out two spaces in one of the thick ceiling-beann, anil had planted I two t>f '.he twenty-pound shells ilirect- ly und.-r the feet of the gun-crew t>n deck, and likewise just over the heads of the torpeilo-crew. To make sure, he hail planted two more shells in 111;' door just under the sliding-tloor lliinugli the forward bulkhead. The out sale sections of wood removed his brain cooled ami his muscles hard- ened to the task. (To be Continued.) 4. CHILDREN AND DLSCIPLINE. Make the Child Trust You, and Use No Threats. (d) The plowing under in extreme' instances of green crops, such as buck-, wheat, rye, clover, vetches, etc. | (e) When commercial fertilizers are largely depended upon, short rota- tions antl the plowing under of green crops are absolutely necessary. : The humus supply may be deplet-, ed by the following practices: â€" '. (a) Selling hay and other products off the farm instead of feeding to live stock. ) (b) Careless preserving of barn-i yard manure. \ (c) Growing too many successive crops of oats, etc. or root.; or even' hay (the latter is the most common source of humus depletion in Nova Scotia). (d) The wrong uso of commercial fertilizers. In a light, open soil, humus is rapid- ly decomposed and lost, and conse- tpiently one must apply manure more frequently and follow a shorter rota- tion in order to con;-erve the humus supply than on heavier soils. JHREB VITAL QUESTIONS jood h*«]Ui 7 Do you know that tfood di^ealioa tk« itfaudaliuo ol 400J heaUh; Paina aod op- AFTER MEALS TAKE nil prrttlon in stomach and cheit atter caiinl. with contttpition, hcudaclie tJiizineis« &re sure •Um of Indiieation. Mf^tliiv Stijd't Symp, the trttt herbal remedy and ttmic, will cure you. MOTH ER AND BANiSH STOMACH TaOOOLES At aU Dni^ilits, or dirrct on receipt of prke. 50c. anH $1.00. BBch at the imalkr. A. i. Whitr A Co, LiuiTcn. Ci aIi St The larji* hntile contain* three ttmai ai t West, Montreal. Catarrhal Fever Throe te st\ doseK cure. One Binull size bottle of SFOHKS guaranteed to eur« » case Safe for any mare, horse or ci'lt LargeHt Svlllnsr vetorltiHry .siiecifie over known. Uet It of druggists. harne.sH dealers or direct from manu-, fttctiirers. expresH jmld. BPOHK'8 Ih the beat preventive of all forms of dis- temper. BFOHIT KSSIOAI. CO., Chamlats and Baoterlologlats. Ooshen, Xnd., T7.B.A. The folldwint; hints to teachers which appeared in the Kducational Review will be etiually useful for parents. Prevention of wronRdoing i^ better than punishment of the wronj;doer. Exercise Rreat cnrc in taking a stand that you may have no occatiioii to retreat. Knult-flnilint; is not calculated to cure a fault. Distrust in the parent breeds »!'•- ceit in the child. A cliild properly employed (fives no trouble. He linn. Be kind. Pc patient. He self-containet'.. Be as perfect as you ask your chil- dren to bo. And above all, make no threats. Reduce Fire Risks. The average farm building is a' Arc trap from one end to the other.] It is full of readily inflammable ma- I terial. Once started, a farm fire is very seldom stopped. We will sug- gest a few precautions which we take to reduce fire risks. I If a lantern is upset almost any- ' where in the ordinary barn or stable, j there is a litter of chaflf around to take fire. The first precaution we j would advise is to clean up the chaff and litter and eliminate this danger. Another precaution is never to set a lantern down where it can bo knock- ed over. Everywhere in our barns wo have convenient hooks or wires running from one end of the stable to the other on which the lantern may be suspended. Spontaneous combustion is tiuppos- cd to bfl the cause of many farm fires. Is there such a thing? 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