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Stepbuu had done extraordinarily weTi 1 bad, of course, read In the Loudon paper of his four ships on Tuesday, but he had sunk no fewer than seven sin'*e, for many of those which should have come to the Thames had tried to make Southampton. Of the seveu.one was of ‘20.000 tons, a gralu ship from America; a second was a grain ship from the Black sea. and two others were great liners from South Africa. 1 congratulated Stepiian with all my heart upon his splendid achievement. Then, us w’e had been seen by a destroy er which was approaching at a great pace, we both dived, coming up again off tiie Needles, where we spent the night In company. We could not visit each other since we had no boat, but we lay so nearly alongside that we were able. Stephan and I, to talk from hatch to batch and so make our plans. He had shot away more than half C opyright, 1914, by P. F. C ollier Le Son his torpedoes, and so had 1. and yet we were very averse from returning to eur base so long as our oil held out. T h is r e m a r k a b le s t o r y w a s f i n i s h e d b y S ir A r t h u r C o n a n I told him of my experience with the Boston steamer, and we mutually D o y le la s t M a y j u s t b e f o r e h i s v is it to A m e r ic a . H e w r o te it agreed to sink the ships by gunfire in a s a la s t a n x io u s w a r n in g to E n g la n d b e fo r e s h e e m b a r k e d future so far as possible. 1 remember u p o n a n o th e r war. A n d t h e w ar c a m e s o o n e r th a n ev e n h e old Horll saying. "What use is a had fe a r e d . • gun aboard a submarine?" We were about to show. I read the Euglish pa ond page. The first one began some per to Stephan by the light of my elec SYN O PSIS. A European power fa ce s a d isastro u s thing like this: tric torch, aud we both agreed that war with England. C aptain Siriu s tells CAPTURE OF BLANKENBERG! his king o f a plan which will bring E n g few ships would now come up the land to h er knees He goes to th e B ritish channel. That sentence about divert D E S T R U C T IO N O F E N E M Y 'S F L E E T co ast with a subm arine ing commerce to safer routes could N ear th e mouth of th e T ham es he sin ks B U R N IN G O F TOW N. only mean that the ships would go a big s tea m e r loaded with m utton, and round the north of Irelaud aud unload sev eral o th e r food ships. An a v ia to r hurls T R A W L E R S D E S T R O Y M IN E F IE L D at Glasgow. Oh, for two more ships bombs at th e subm arin e w ithout success. L O SS O F T W O B A T T L E S H IP S . to stop that entrance! Heavens, what CHAPTER III. would England have done against a I S I T T H E EN D ? The Fall of Blankenberg. HE channel was covered with ¡ Of course what 1 liad foreseen had foe with thirty or forty submarines English torpedo boats, buzzing, | occurred. The town was actually oc since we only needed six instead of four to complete her destruction! whirling like a cloud of midges. After much talk we decided that the And they How t b t j thought they could cupied by the British. it was the end! We would best plan would be that 1 should dis hurt me 1 cannot iningiue, unless thought by patch a cipher telegram next morning see about that. accident 1 were to come up underneath On the round the corner page, at the from a French port to tell them to one of them. More dangerous were the aeroplanes, which circled here and j back of the glorious resonant letters, send the four second rate bouts to there was a little column which read cruise off the north of Ireland aud there west of Scotland. Then when I had The water being calm, 1 had several | like this: "Several of the enemy's submarines done this l should move dowu chan times to descend as deep as loo feet before 1 was sure that 1 was out of ¡ are at sea and have inflicted some up uel with Stephan and operate at the their sight. After 1 had blown up the preciable damage upon our merchant mouth, while the other two boats could three ships at Boulogne 1 saw two ships. Tiie danger spots upon Monday work iu the Irish sea. llaviug made aeroplanes hying down the channel, and the greater part of Tuesday ap these plans. I set off across the chan tind 1 knew that they would head off pear to have been the mouth of the nel in the early morning, reaching the any vessels which were coming up Thames und the western entrance to smull village of Etretat. in Brittany. There was one very large white steam the Solent. Uu Monday between the There 1 got off my telegram and then er lying off Havre, but she steamed Nore and Margate there were sunk laid my course for Falmouth, passing m west before 1 could reach her. I dare say Stephan or one of the others would get her before long. But those infernal aeroplanes spoiled our sport tor that day. Not another steamer did 1 see. save the never ending torpedo boats. 1 consoled myself with the reflection, however, that no food was passing me on its way to London. That was what I was there for after all. if 1 could do it without spending my torpedoes all the better. Hp to date i laid tired ten of them and sunk nine steamers, so 1 had not wasted my weapons That night I came back to the Keut coast und lay upon the bottom in shallow water near Duugeness. We were all trimmed and ready at the first break of day, for 1 expected to catch some ships which had tried to make the Thames In the darkness and had miscalculated their time. Sure enough, there was a great steamer coming up channel and tlying the American flag. It was nil the same to me what tiag she tlew so long as she was engaged In conveying contraband of war to the British isles. There were no torpedo boats about at the moment, so 1 ran out on the surface and tired a shot across her bows. She seemed inclined to go on, so I put a second one Just above her water line on her port bow. She stopped then and a very angry man began to gesticulate from the bridge. I ran the lota al most alongside. "Are you tlie cap tain?” I asked. "What th e "- 1 won't attempt to reproduce his Inn gunge. "You have foodstuffs on board?” 1 said. " it ’s an American ship, you blind beetle!” he cried. "Can't you see the flag? it is the Vermondin of Bos ton.” “Sorry, captain.” I answered. "1 have really no time for words. Those shots of mine will bring the torpedo boats, and 1 dare say at this very mo ment your wireless is making trouble for me. Get your people into the boats." I had to show him I was not bluffing, so I drew off and began putting shells into him just on the water line. When I had knocked six holes In Ills ship he was very busy on ills boats. I fired twenty shots altogether, and no tor pedo was needed, for she was lying over with a terrible list to port and presently came right on to her side There she lay for two or three minutes before she foundered. There were eight boats crammed with people ly ing round her when she went dowu. I believe everybody was saved, but I could not wait to inquire. Prom all quarters the poor old panting, useless war vessels were hurrying. I filled my tanks, ran our bows under and THE COUNTY FAIR By Petsr Radford Lecturer National F a rm e r*’ Union The farmer gets more out of the fair than anyone else. The fair to a city man is an entertainment; to a farmer It is education. Let us take a stroll through the fair grounds and linger a moment at a few of the points of greatest interest. We will first visit the mechanical department and hold communion with the world’s greatest thinkers. You are now attending a congress of the mental giants in mechanical sci ence of all ages. They are addressing you in tongues of iron and steel and in language mute and powerful tell an eloquent story of the w'orld’s progress. The inventive geniuses are the most valuable farm hand6 we have and they perform an enduring service to mankind. We can all help others for a brief period while we live, but it takes a master mind to tower into the realm of science and light a torch of progress that will illuminate the path way of civilization for future genera tions. The men who gave us the sickle, the binder, the cotton gin and hundreds of other valuable inventions work in every field on earth and will continue their labors as long as time Their bright intellects have conquered death and they will live and serve mankind on and on forever, without money aud without price. They have shown us how grand and noble it is to work for others; they have also taught us lessons In economy and effi ciency, how to make one hour do the work of two or more; have length ened our lives, multiplied our opportunities and taken toil off the back of humanity. They are the most practical men the world ever produced. Their in ventions have stood the acid test of utility and efficiency. Like all useful men, they do not seek publicity, yet millions of machines sing their praises from every harvest field on earth and as many plows turn the soil in mute applause of their marvelous achieve ments. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS *•J Reported for The Herald by the Title Guarantee and Abstract Co. 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Near Ventuor on the same day was sunk the Verulam, from Bombay. Uu Tuesday the S irglnia. | Caesar. King of the East and Bath- Under were destroyed between the I Foreland and Boulogne. The latter three were actually lying In French waters, and the most energetic repre sentations have been made by the gov | eminent of the republic. On the same day the Queen of Sheba, Oroutes. Di i ana and Atnluuta were destroyed near the Needles. Wireless messages have | stopped all ingoing cargo ships from coming up channel, but unfortunately there is evidence that at least two of the enemy s submarines are in the | west. Four cattle ships from Dublin to Liverpool were sunk yesterday even lug. while three Bristol bound steam ! era, the Hilda. Mercury and Maria Toser, were blown up In the neighbor hood of Lundy Island Commerce has so far as possible been diverted into safer channels, but in tiie meantime, however vexatious these Incidents may be and however grievous tiie loss both to the owners and to Lloyd's, we may console ourselves by tiie reflection that, since a submarine cannot keep tbe sea came up fifteen miles to the south. Of for more than ten days without refit course I knew there would be a big ting and since the base has neon cap row afterward as there was—but that tured. there must come a speedy end did not help the starving crowds round to these depredations." S«) much for the Courier’s account of the London bakers, who only saved their skins, fH»or devils, by explaining our proceedings. Another small para to the mob that they had nothing to graph was. however, more eloquent. "The price of wheat.” it said, "which bake. By this time I was becoming rather stood at 3ft shillings a week before tbe anxious, as you can imagine, to know declaration of war, was quoted yes wii.it was going on in the world and terday on tiie Baltic at 5‘2. Maize has what England was thinking about It gone from *21 to 37. barley from 19 to all. I ran alongside a fishing bont, 3ft, sugar (foreign granulated» from 11 therefore, and ordered them to give up shillings and threepence to 10 shillings their papers Unfortunately they had and sixpence ' "Good, -my lads!” said I when I read none except a rag of an evening paper, which was full of nothing but betting It to the crew. "1 can assure you that news. In a second attempt I came those few lines will prove to mean alongside a small yachting party from more than the whole page about the Eastbourne, who were frightened to fall of Blankenberg. Now let us get death at our sudden appearance out of down channel and send those prices the depths From them we were up a little higher.” All traffic had stopped for London- lucky enough to get the I.ondon Chron not so bad for the little Iota -and we icle of that very morning It was Interesting reading so inter did not see a steamer tbnt was worth esting that I had to announce it all to a torpedo between Duugeness and the the crew. Of course you know the Isle of Wight. There 1 called Stephan British style of headline, which gives up by wireless, and by 7 o'clock we you all the news at a glance It seem I were actually lying side by side In a ed to me that the whole paper was smooth, rolling sea Hengistbury head headlines, it was in such a state of ex bearing N. N. W. and about five miles citement. Hardly a word about me distant. The two crews clustered on and my flotilla. We were on the sec the whalebucks and shouted their Joy at seeing friendly faces once^ more. J under The keels of two British cruisers which w’ere searching for us. Halfway down channel we had trou ble with a snort circuit In our electric engines and w'ere compelled to run on the surface for several hours while we replaced one of the cam shafts and re newed some washers. It was a tick lish time, for had a torpedo boat come upon us we could not have dived. The perfect submarine of the future will surely have some alternative engines for such an emergency. However, by the skill of Engineer Mono we got things going once more. All the time we lay there I saw a hydroplane float ing between us and tiie British coast. I can understand how a mouse feels when It is in a tuft of grass and sees a hawk high up iu the heavens. How ever, all went well. The mouse be came a wuter rat; It wagged Its tall in derision at the poor blind old hawk, and It dived down into a nice, safe, green, quiet world, where there was nothing to injure it It was ou Wednesday night that the Iota crossed to Etretat. it was Friday afternoon before we had reached our new cruising ground. Only one large steamer did I see upon our way. Tbe terror we had caused bad cleared tiie channel. This big boat had a clever captain ou board. His tactics were excellent and took him In safety to the Thames He came zigzagging up channel at twenty-five knots, shooting off from his course at all sorts of un expected angles With our slow pace we could uot catch him. nor could we calculate his line so as to cut him off Of course he bad never seen us, but he Judged and Judged rightly that wher ever we were those were the tactics by which he bad the best chance or get ting past. He deserved his success. But. of course. It is ouly In a wide channel that such things can be done. Had I met him in the mouth of the Thames there would have been a dlf ft*rent story to tell. As I approached Falmouth I destroyed a 3.000 ton bont fmm Cork laden with butter and cheese. Ttailt night (Krt<ln.v. April llli 1 called up Stephan. but received no reply. As I win within a few miles of our ren j dezvous and as he would not be cruis j ing after dark. 1 was puzzled to ae- : couut for bis silence. I could only I in a glue (but Ills wireless » a s derang ed But, alas. I was soon to ttnd tbe j true reason from a copy of the West , ern Morning News, »bleb 1 obtained • from a Hrizham trawler •(To be continned next week) i The home is the greatest contribu tion of women to the world, and the hearthstone is her throne. Our so cial structure Is built around her, and social righteousness is in her charge. Her beautiful life lights the skies of hope and her refinement is the charm of twentieth century civilization. Her graces and her power are the cumu lative products of generations of queenly conquest, and her crown of exalted womanhood is jeweled with the wisdom of saintly mothers. She Ijas been a great factor in the glory of our country, and her noble achieve ments should not be marred or her hallowed influence blighted by the c( -ser duties of citizenship. Ameri can chivalry should never permit her to bear the burdens of defending and maintaining government, but should preserve her unsullied from the allied influences of politics, and protect her from the weighty responsibilities of the sordid affairs of life that will crush her ideals and lower her stand ards. The motherhood of the farm is our inspiration, she is the guardian of our domestic welfare and a guide to a higher life, but directihg the af fairs of government is not within wo man's sphere, and political gossip would cause her to neglect the home, forget to mend our clothes and burn the biscuits. P. L. 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