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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1921. The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. i berries, and cherries. It I find that by extending the can-1 get them put away in we 3 the Thames.' ninS season from summer to fall, and .if jelly is not made then. •rants, elder- has suffered. We regret deeply to announce the death of a very distinguished young officer, Captain Ronald Granet, a nephew of Sir Alfred Anselman. A bomb passed through the roof of his house in Sackville Street, completely shattering the apartment in which he was sitting. His servant perished with him. The other occupants of the building were,; ------ fortunately for them, away for the' Why Every Month Is Canning Sea night." I With Me. The paper slipped from Thomson -fingers. He looked through the dows of his room, across the Thames Exactly opposite to him a fallen chim-: then into winter, I make my house-: Believing many of you may ney and four blackened walls, still work easier. It's an excellent method to can grape juice and some of the ildering, were there to remind of distributing the tasks more evenlyj others from year to year, I am giving him of the great tragedy. He looked and 0f relieving pressure during the the directions which I follow: ■ down at the paper again. There was bus j.ot weatner I A small amount of water is no mutake. It was the judgment of j It'may gound amusing to you to to the fruit; this is brought to a be ness seemed to him to be now l^y^oFno^ some faint lightening in the sky. He. *u!£?»m ~ ^ f,i W and,. thtr* wer,e throngs surrounding few years ago. When I first told (Gopjgfeatod) CHAPTER XXXV.--(Cont'd.) ently from the falling cloud: It was all over in those few minutes unfamiliar and guttural^...... and Thomson found himself voices ; l weather i added heard the rumbling of carts : Is above 1' lne _ i.„„„ w---„i;„ the falling |each of the i road, the horses mostly being led by <* f huge Zeppelin. He felt himself; been dropped. Towards the Pall Mall their drivers. Here and there an odd f.l^^jfi ^..^Lf™!' ^rch th,e PeoP!e were standing taxicab which had escaped the poli With a crash which orders came along with one lamp lit!! fdto plit the air, the huge structure only to be stopped in a few yards and fel1: /he far endof it, all buckled up, escorted to the edge of the pavement, j "sted aZa™&t ^e back of th' All the way up Whitehall there was niiralty The other end was o one long line of taxicabs, unable to ply for hire or find their way to the ft the bottom of the ^ps leading up garages until daylight. The unusual-1int° p,a11 Ma"- A aoze" se,ar^n!«r ness of it all was almost stimulating.1 played upon it. Men suddenly appear-At the top of the broad thoroughfare, |ed «s though from underneath Some Thomson turned to the left through!of them stood for a moment and the Pall Mall Arch and passed into St.! sway?d llke drunken men, others be-James's Park. He strolled slowly ' fan to run Round the corner from along until he came to the thorough-1 the Admiralty Square a htte company fare to the left, leading down to the 1 of soldiers came with fixed bayonets. Admiralty. There he paused for a IThere was a shout. Two of thl moment, and, turning around, listened 'ran,,011 ■ , , ,, , > _ ■ intently. He was possessed of par-1 Thomson heard the crack of a rifle ticularly keen hearing and it seemed j and saw one of them leap into the an to him as though from afar off he ar-d collapse. The other one staggered could hear the sound of a thousand f»d fell on his knees A dozen of muffled hammers beating upon an them were there together with their anvil; of a strange, methodical dis- bands stretched to the skies Then turbance in the air. He grasped the J*10™?0" was conscious that one of railing with one hand and gazed up- the °}}-clad figures was coming in his ward with straining eyes. Just at that direction making for the steps, run-moment he saw distinctly what ap. nmg with swift, stealthy gait A flasli peared to be a flash of lightning in!of »Sht gleamed upon the fugitive the sky, followed by a report which j** a moment He wore a hat like a sounded like a sharp clap of thunder. | helmet; only his face, blackened with Then instinctively he covered his eyes \ £.rea?e> and hls staring eyes, were with his hands. From a dozen places | ™Me. He came straight for Thorn---one close at hand--a long, level, son'breathlng ^avily. stream of light seemed to shoot out \ "Hartds UP\ Thomson cried, towards the clouds. There was one1 The ™aD aimed a furious blow at of them which came from near the;him- Thomson, who quite Carlton Hotel, which lit up the whole sciously had drawn a revolv of the Pall Mall Arch with startling his pocket, shot him through the heart, distinctness, gave him a sudden vision 'watched him jump up and fall a of the Admiralty roof, and, as he fol-| senseless, shapeless heap upon the lowed it up, brought a cry to his lips.! bottom ol the steps, and, with a queer Far away, beyond even the limits of l™*™?* of bloodthirstmess ran down the quivering line of light, there was 1 the, .hn« of the .w.recked Zeppelin, something in the sky which seemed a seeking for more victims. The soldiers little blacker than the cloud. Even Iwere coming up in force now, how-while he looked at it, from the Admir-, ever- and detachments of them were alty roof came a lurid flash, the his. marching away their prisoners An-and screech of a shell as it dashed other company was stationed all upwards. And then the sleeping city' around the huge craft, keeping guard, seemed suddenly to awake and the '■ Thomson walked back once more tonight to become hideous. Not fifty! wards the Admiralty. The sky was yards away from him something fell - sti11 lurld wlth the reflection of many in the Park, and all around him lumps ! fires but the roar of the guns had of gravel and clods of earth fell in' diminished, and for several minutes a shower. A great elm tree fell no bomb had been thrown. Witn the crashing into the railings close by his revolver in his hand still smoking, he side. Then there was a deafening ex-'ran into a man wbora he knew shghtly plosion, the thunder of falling mason-jat the Admiralty ry, and a house by the side of the arch | !Tno,mso"> by God! the. broke suddenly into flames. A few claimed. What nents later, a queer sight amongst,tha^ ™™lVe,_J, these untoward and unexpected' thousands, trying to get wreck of the huge Zeppelin, which completely blocked all the traffic through St. James's Park. Thomson paused for a moment at the top of Trafalgar Square and looked around him. The words of the newspaper were indeed true. London had her scars, yet there was nothing in the faces of the people to show fear. If anything, there was an atmosphere all round of greater vitality, of greater intensity. The war had come a little nearer at last than the columns of the daily Press. It was the real thing with which even the every-day Londoner had rubbed shoulders. From Cockspur Street to Nelson's Monument the men were lined up i.a a long queue, making their way to the cruiting office. (To be concluded.) Trees. In the Garden of Eden, planted by God, There were goodly trees in the springtime sod-- i doing with happenings, a fire engine dashed tinder the arch, narrowly missing the broken fragments of brick and stone, swung around, and a dozen fire-hoses commenced to play upon the flaming building. The darkness was over now, and the silence. There were houses other side of the river ( scarcely a moment passed Thomson looked at it. "I don't know," he answered. "I've just shot one of those fellows from the Zeppelin. How are things going?" "There are six Zeppelins down in different parts, and a couple of dozen aeroplanes," the other replied. "Woolwich is safe, and the Houses of Parliament and Whitehall. Heaps of re-nc and Ports to come in but I don't believe ithout the they've done much damage." falling bomb. The air for! Thomson passed on. It was lighter a second or two was filled with piteous now and the streets were thronged shrieks drowned almost immediately with People. He turned once more by another tremendous explosion from towards the Strand and stood foi further north. Every now and then, \a moment in Trafalgar Square. One looking upwards in the line of the !w"ig of the National Gallery was gone long searchlights, Thomson could dis-! and the Golden Cross Hotel was in tinctly see the shape of one of the flames. Leaning against the Union circling airships. Once the light club was another fallen aeroplane, flashed downwards, and between him Men and women were rushing every-and Buckingham Palace he saw a where in wild excitement. He made great aeroplane coming head foremost hls way down to the War Office. It down, heard it strike the ground with seemed queer to find men at work a tremendous crash, heard the long still in their rooms. He sent Ambrose death-crv, a cry which was more like for an orderly and received a message a sob, of the men who perished with from headquarters, it. . . . | "Damage to public buildings and Every moment the uproar became property not yet estimated. All dock-more deafening. From all sorts of yards and arsenals safe, principal unsuspected places and buildings came public buildings untouched. Only the lightning quiver of the guns, fol- seventeen dead and forty injured re-lowed by the shrieking of the shells, ported up to five minutes ago. Great Right on to the tops of the houses be- damage done to enemy fleet; remaind-tween where he was standing and the er in full retreat, many badly dam-Carl ton, another aeroplane fell, a8'ed. Zeppelin just down in Essex, ishing the chimneys and the win- four aeroplanes between here and Romford," Trees to turn at the frosty call And carpet the ground for their Lord' footfall; Wood for the bo\ flail, The keel and the sail; Then, lest the soul should From the gift to the Giver of Paradise cloth into clean jars or bottles, which bombs had neighbor of "my desire to can food have been boiled in water fifteen min-r~" 1 in every season of the year, she smiled utes. These are placed on a fals bot---the kind one lets flicker across the torn in a large kettle and sufficient face when she is not solid on your, warm water is poured around th tin to ideas, i reach the shoulders of the jars "Who ever heard of canning in win-' " ter?" she asked. "Well," said I, "for instance, if ;1 is poor judgment to can pumpkin in early winter, when it is sweetest, f^r use in pies during late spring and summer; cranberries when they are in season; onions before they sprout, losing their desirable parsnips when their taste is richest, it is not. common sense to can peas, peaches, and plums in summer-time, when they are seasonable." I find that carrying out my around-the-year canning schedule is fun, as well as profitable. I always make a couple of glasses of jelly from canned fruit juices the day before Christmas, and carry them, while warm, in holly-decorated packages to my once doubting neighbor. One Dominion Day she and her family ate delicious pumpki pies--the pumpkin I had put up i December. Another year I sent her a can of cranberry juice to be utilized in making a water ice to serve with the season's first fried chicken. From month to month new reasons, justifying the wisdom of canning during late autumn and winter, are brought to my attention. And here are some of them: 1. Many vegetables and a few fruits are at their best during these winter months. Canning in cool weather is much I comfortable than in summer-time, when the mercury is climbing. otner - More time is available for the ^utes' and cold-dip immediate^ work. The children are off at school,! When I have sweet corn, I use four the young chicks have grown up, the ears °* cutting the kernels'from the garden needs little or no attention, | ear' after blanching them five minutes and with not so many men in the field j and .cold-dipping. The vegetables arc, ss cooking to do in small pieces, combined with the an economical use of cans, | tomatoes and placed in jars. They are ing throughout the year. ] sterilized forty-five minutes, with the Some of the jars filled in early spring, pressure from 10 to 15 Pounds, if the emptied, and these1P™88"™ cooker is u*ed, or one hour, huri may be used in canning the fall and I Wlth five Pounds pressure. In boiling ^ winter nroHnrr.s BABTSOWNS SOAP Boys Just love its smooth _fragrant la+her Oh. Captain! Young Lady--"Dear me, captain,' what do you find for the sailors to da when you are out at sea? Aren't tha men very idle?" Captain--"No, lady; I keeps them busy hoeing the sea weeds out of the and the e daring 3 Carm Imperishable France. Those who thought that France, "bled white," was doomed to perish, must marvel at the power of the nation to revive. Returning tourists who have had a good time there naturally see things in a favorable light, but official accounts also are cheerful. For example, Le Temps reports that there were 623,000 marriages in 1920, or twice as many as in the same period before the war; the births were 44,000 more than in 1913, and the deaths 56,000 fewer. That does not make for race extinction; neither does the 88,000,000 quintals of wheat harvested this year in spite of the drought; a crop that compares well ith that from a much larger ares fore the war. the necks of the bottles. If j; used, the lids are half sealed, while either a piece of cotton or a cork, which has been boiled, is inserted loosely in the bottles. This fruit juice is processed thirty minutes, the water around it being kept simmering all the time, the jars are removed, the lid tightened immedliately, while th' ton stoppers are removed fro i bottles and tightly fitting corks, which have been boiled, are put in. When the bottles are cold, the tops are dipped in melted paraffin. I use these juices not only for jelly-making, but also for puddings and sauces, ice cream, sherbet, gelatin dishes, and other desserts. If the pot of steaming and nutritious soup is to be served at the least cost in the winter, the vegetables for it are canned, not wasted, in the fall. Here is a combination of vegetables which are found on most farms, and, incidentally, it is one of my favorite canning recipes: 1 peck ripe tomatoes, 15 small car-: rots, 2 turnips, 1 medium-sized cab-' bage, 2 red peppers, 1 pound string | Scald the tomatoes by dipping -.hem 1 to boiling water for one and one-! half minutes, and plunge in cold water f I 1HE postman and expressman will mediately. Remove cores, stem j I bring Parser service right to your ends, and skins. Cut in quarters andj home We carriage place in a large kettle. Blanch the whatever you ,eml - whether getables separately for five SUCCESS Lota of fertile eggs. Healthy., chicks. Kvery dltion, by Booklet "Practical Pointers' shows the 7esl. °Write--°a PRATT FOOD CO. OP CANADA LIMITED TORONTO Cleaning water-seal outfit, at Fahrenheit, process one winter products. Moreover, the fuel I watf or,a »mme-made outfit and id serves a dual purpose, warming condensed steam, process -room and providing heat for canning. Instead of feeding and caring for the unprofitable hens during the win-to cull the flocks some time before cold weather sets in. The surplus of fowls may be canned to advantage. Likewise, butchering comes in cool weather, and no person j doubts the advisability of preserving »quar the meat which can not be used im-:(-'^ine you .send household draperies or the n cate fabrics--will be speedily retu to their original freshness. When think of cleaning or dyeing think of parker's. Parker's Dye Works Limited Cleaners and Dyers 791 Yonge St. Toronto. 93 deli- st Square Wraps. ttle shawls, to b s-piece frocks or carried entertainment or when calling cool evenings are made from large of Canton crepe or crepe de black or grey. They mediately. I luled with vivid colors such as orange, Calling the roll of the fall vege- Jade or tomato-red chiffon or geor-tables which may be kept in cans for £ette crepe. Very deep fringe finishes use in spring and summer is convinc-1 the edge. The fringe may be ing proof of the wisdom of canning j inS color or two-tone colors n,« used/ hanging there like a gi-iek bat. There was not a rherv near him. but by the flashes of light Thomson could see soldiers and hurrying people in the Admiralty Square, and along the Strand he could hear the patter ©f footsteps upon the pavement. But he himself remained alone, a silent, »pellbound, fascinated vvitness of this epic of slaughter and ruin. An Interesting Flight. ie of the most interesting flights ever made by man took place recently In Germany in the soaring and gliding competition for motorless flying machines. One of the aviators remained in the air thirteen minutes, "circling, turning and balancing like a soaring bird." He travelled six miles between start and finish and at one time was at a height estimated to be at least three hundred feet. Thomson threw down his revolver. "Well," he muttered to himself, "perhaps London will believe now that we are at war!" CHAPTER XXXVI. j Minard's Liniment for Garget in Cowt. "London, too, has its scars, and! Holland's Many Wheels. London is proud of them," a great: Two million bicycles are ridden in morning paper declared the next Holland, a country with a population - "The last and_gigantic sf-| of 6,0oo,000 persons. 3 suddenly conscious of current of air. He looked The shouting of voices, appar- sited 1 ' ISSUE No. 48- rnorning by _ _. of sixteen Zeppelins and forty aero ( planes. Seven of these former nion-' sters lie stranded and wrecked in var-: ious parts of the city, two are known to have collapsed in Essex, and an-j other is reported to have come to grief in Norfolk, Of the aeroplanes, nineteen were shot down, and of the rest so far no news has been heard. The damage to life and j operty,' great though it may seem, i- much less than was expected. Sue • losses as we have sustained we shi^l bear! with pride and fortitude. Wc stand; now more closely than ever in touch' with our gallant allies. We, too, bear! the marks of battle in the heart of our country." Thomson paused to finish his break-' fast, and abandoning the leading' article turned to a more particular! "The loss of life," the journal went' on to say, "although regrettable, is, so I far as accounts have reached us, not' large. There are thirty-one civilians' killed, a- hundred and two have beenj admitted into hospitals, and, curiously' enough, only one person bearing arms $15 lb. for Wool That's what you pay for It when you buy a suit. What do you get a pound for it when you sell the wool? Canadian wool has to be sent out of Canada to be prepared for the spinner. A pound of wool bought from the farmer is sold from one commission merchant to another, stored, shipped by train and boat, stored in England, sold and re-shipped until eventually it gets back to the mills In Canada at many times the price you got for it. There Is no place in Canada to prepare wool for the worsted spinner. Isn't it a shame? A mill is now under consideration, in Toronto, to convert raw wool for the spinner. When wool can be sent direct to the mill for combing and sold direct to the spinner, then the farmer will get the full price. If this Is of interest to you, Mr. Wool Grower, write Dominion Development Corporation. Limited, 709 Continental Life Bldg.. Toronto, and get the full plan. them. The queen of them all is the! tomato. Then com, string beans, and sweet peppers. Somewhat later cauliflower, cabbage, squash, pumpkin, carrots, parsnips, sauerkraut, and hominy are found on most farms, awaiting the canner. Then there are the meats which may be successfully canned, particularly when pressure canners are used. I know of no greater comfort than that which comes from knowing there are cans of delicious friend chicken, rabbit, roast beef, pork, and mutton in the pantry, ready for use when unexpected guests come, and for the day when there is illness and it is difficult to find time to prepare dinner for the After making jelly in the winter, tasting of the newly cooked product and discovering how easy it is to boil up two or three glasses at a time, I resolved to have fruit juices on hand, whenever possible, for this purpose. Of course, grapes are about the only fall fruit from which one cares to extract the juice for winter and spring ">ut in summer I always hurried-the juices of raspberries, black- They i handy < nearly all < Animals Have Sixth Sense. Animals have a weird sixth sense which few human beings possess. Ants, for illustration, will desert their hills, taking their babies and eggs with them, twenty-four hours before the outbreak of a forest fire, while rabbits will leave burrows made in low-lying land long before a flood occurs. They have some weird premonition which forces them to seek higher ground before the danger Is upon The First Sa The first British field, at Tottenham ings Bank. avings bank wae , Priscilla Wake-near London, in Vaseline Trade Mark WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY An application of "Vaseline' ' White Jelly brings grateful relief when applied to cuts, burns, chafed skin, etc. CHESIBROUGH MANUFACTURJNGJjOMPANY 188aChabot Ave.. Montreal. EUROPE AND SOUTH AMERICA TO HAVE ZEPPELIN PASSENGER SERVICE The project of i ■ pelin line. The other end of the 1 „„.ing the continent of Europe with j will be ,. , tr,____ ... is declared that weather and wind con- ing the continent of Europe w'th d^tions are vej.y fav0rable. South America by gigantic Zeppelin j He estimates that a Zeppelin with passenger ships is being worked out j 150,000 cubic metres gas capacity has in Germany. Doctor Hugo Ecker, one j a speed of 115 kilometres an hour, of the chief directors of the Zeppelin ! with forty passengers, can make the works, Germany's most famous pilot'trip from Spain to Buenos Aires in and for many years a co-worker of I ninety hours. One hundred hours will Count Zeppelin has just returned I be required for the trip to Europe on from a visit to Argentine and Spain.! account of less favoiable wind con-Dr. Ecker has spent several months | ditions. CORNS Lift Off with Fingers those countries studying landings and assisting in the organization of the company. He says that he found Southern Spain ideally lotted for a European air harbor and i a port for a trans-Atlantic Zep- As the peace treaty places almost insurmountable obstacles in the way of organizing and operating air ships from Germany, the organizations will be exclusively Spanish, with Germans in charge of all operations. Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a littlo "Freezone" on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottlv of "Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard ccrn, soft corn, cr corn between the toes, and the cal-ftttes, without soreness or irriUL^u.