The Lucknow Sentinel, 1930-09-18, Page 6It
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• goal the peas'
tined 'raptly 4n' hour before, dawn,! some Brit sh MP ,s
,tit another' grunt frau: Batalagoa, •he.I
ceased.
`"There's the story of the Man' who
walked through the •fire again," mur,
snared Vilak, who had b een listening
'to the old man's veiee rising shrilly
from the flans.dancing redness be-
neath him. • "Spread all over this sec=
tion of South America. • Undoubtedly
these fellows got that much at. least
from the lncas, directly or indirectly.,
And the•Incas brouglit it from the -
Orient, I'd take oath to that.
"I've heard that story too many
times in the Malay Islands and seen.
the shamans there walk through fire
too •often net to. - 'recognize • an old;
friend when I see it again. 'Wm—icier
whether the, halt .i the ceremonies
,has anything .to with M. If I
can't think of se ething pretty4 soon
by Ben
THIS HAS HAPPENED
Attempts have beat made on -`the•
life, of . Elise Marberry, owner of, con-
siderable property near Porto • Verde,
Brazil. Vilak, her cousin and protec-
tor, believes Gaylord Prentiss to be
responsible: -They, save Prentiss' life.
from' the, natives.•Next day' Tinky,
Elise's two-year-old orphaned nephew,
is. kidnapped. Prentiss has been seen
heading thro-.igh the - jung' with a
child.Elise, Vilak and LiolnNun-
nally, elderly .chemist, headoitpe-
dition and follow. Calamity ovees
' themand.when they emerg frnhe.
jungle -only. the three whites are left.
They are'captured and taken prisoner
on the outskirts of an ,old Inca city,
and discover they, are -in the plower of
Carlos D'Albentera, , whom,' they had
known as an engineer in Porto Verde.
T bl k le of the city dee de to
marry tedious, The
death.They to be for1
The. work w ,
,den Burin
found nothing; :the •walls and
were solid as a mountain side.
He tt.rned his attention to the stones
about the window. Here, too, he 'could
discover no weakness. While he was so
engaged he saw a shadow beneath his.
Window. He craned his.neck forwards
The shadow disappeared. He return-
ed to his groping investigation..
He came upon a tiny rock splinter,'
•hardly larger than, the joint of his
finger, wedged in a crevice. ;Carefully
he dislodged :it and_ examined it close-
lyIt was rounded
we'll be in., rathe a bad way., . I wish
to the devil I co Id,,get .at my cigarets
and have. a smoke"•" •
The four white -and -green -painted
priests' made ,a new -,obeisance to.the
fire,' once` more' droned a prayer.' Then
with a fileof warriors carrying torch-
es. behind ; them, they made'' their way
into the ruined •building where ' Vilak.
V�ho Fought Pirates
Some of British Legislator: "Have
Proved Themselves .Men in the
Hour of banger.
"A set'of plump, prosperous, middle-
class business men" was the rather
cruel comment of a hard-bitten young
Australian, sitter g ,for 'the -first time
in the Gallery os the Pother of Par-
liaments. He wou-1 not belie:/e. when
told that whole books of wild adven-
ture might be' written from' the life
records of some of these quiet -looking,
duiet-spoken men who carry on the'
business of, the• British Empire.• ,
Yet' it is true. True of the present
Par aititient and cf all past.Parliss
mints. Many. of these Men fought in
the Great War: Young Oliver-Zaldwin,
for instance, w.ie ended" up, ifter the
war, in a Bolshevik prison, where he
had a Very colt' and hungry time. ,
Mr: F. Shillaker, Member for Acton,
was once a member of • the French
Foreign Legion,. and can tell hair-
raising stories of battles '"kith savage
tribes in. the burning wastes. of the
and the old• man were confined. Sahara:
They reached the '.prisoners. Fov
of the soldiers put each upon a crude-
ly made litter of boughs and carried
them down the stone steps into the
fire -lit enclosure.. 'A low, excited mur-
mur 'ran through the crowd, as they
Th soldiers' deposited the
radiating out from 'the one-armed Yank. skipper. • The voyage i ••
thepriests p laced; them •.across the Pacific, ..nd: off the` Chinese Crows. Not Thieves
idol ad adjacent
yp P coast'. the ship was attacked, by junks •
upon 'adjacent stones, • secured their mimed by Chinese pirates, who were
SHANGHAIED IN 'FRI-SCO
Mr. James Sexton, who represents
St Helen's, began life as 'a sailor be-
fore the mast. Once, at San Fran-
cisco, in the old, bad days, he was
.doped and found himself shanghaied -
appeared:
The melt in your mouth. No one
ever says "No thank: yore , to such
a o, �sert as Christie's Water Ice
Waters. , :, Serve them to anyone- at
any time and you are sure to please.
Just tasty water ice sandwiched
between crisp 'pure'biscuit'wafers.
Delicious ; -... and dainty too.
Slic'S
AffFRiCE
AF.ERS
a on an American ship under a 'bucko"
litters near the seven .table -like' stones'' took him
ly . the moonlight. rias cut in the surface of
and. had-ito cutti;ngcd8es. -He,began,_Cords_to _g�
to rub.' it against the stone floor to' the: rock. Batalagos. looked on and
make it into a knife, holding it almost~ gave his usual silly' giggle of pleasure;
under. his body so that the sound ,D'Albentara smiled urbanely r
might be checked and'the,guards not ' There was a short ,ceremony. Tien
g - flan down upon he
The ac Tru r aroused.
mar Elise , and put Vilakand nn- as "slow,
Wally' to. ey are rock was hard as granite;. his position,
h feast f Raymi
a young deer was 8' dal es in' the quiet amusement.
largest stone, a sort -of • altar directly building brick wallst with me t
under the` arm of the idol, and killed ti'
own
with "a knife. The priest. examined bands.
the
only, beaten off after- a bloody -•-and.
violent battle. •By M. •Graester, in "The Humane;
`' There is perhaps no Member who Pleader."
Grossly Accused
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has had wilder adventures than'Mc. "Even when crows have been 'seen
Winston •Churchill; who nowadays in-
among the hills of sprouting • corn and
have' been shot on the spot. I have
always found the stomach contained
quite as large an amount of insect. re-
mains as of corn. the cut -worm 'form-
ing one of the crow's choicest articles
of diet. and the question arises as to
whether itis lotbetter to,let the -,crow
have a little corn and get rid ot the
cut -worm than to let the; cut worm take
off' a lot' of corn if we get rid of the
crow:'
This opinion is expressed'by Charles.
W. Nash, in Bulletin` 218 of the On-
tario Department of Agriculture. He
believes that crows are not so black
as they` are painted, and that though
their number should he reduced , it
would. • be a' mistake' to exterminate
them.
Scheleh. a German, investigator, says
that no less than 78 • per cent. of 375
crows eiamined, fed on. insects.: Es-
pecially noteworthy is the number•ot
injurious insects' and their larvae des-
troyed. "178 crows had devoured cut-
worms, 133 maggots, and 92 weevils
of ' various species, 'including some.
very injurious sorts. •.
Animal food is. of special value to
nesting crows. At that time they take
eggs and attack young. birds. But be-
cause this animal food includes a num
ber of insect pests Scheleh declares fan• Observer.
emphatically that the nesting crow is _S
of. special assistance to agriculture. It
"Thought without action is a dis-
ease:"—Dr. Will Durant.
tired at•t e: eas o m
NOW 'BEGIN THE ; STORY strained,' pneomfortable;`greatly, limit-`
ed his strength and / effectideness.
CHAPTER x1:ll. • 11 ' h h spent the 'entire night
CHA
That afternoon Vilak "saw a; pro='
cession :pass through the courtyard.
At. its head was Elise; carried, on a
litter borne by four men.
Her face was pale and drawn' her though. she had been eating little; her
black eyes had narrowed and darted'
:nervously, feverishly, about her at any
sound, any movement near her, as do
they eyes of a nervously. over -wrought
° 'invalid who has. not slept for days.
She :was 'still 'wearing the bunting
suit she. had donned in Porto Verde.
Following her waddled a fat halfbreed
woman' with -three golden rings• in each.
distended ear and an apron of painted
bark 'at her =waist; around her arms
were tatooed three scarlet lines,,.
Eight other, womencame in' two
files behind her, garbed'' in the same
fashion except that the rings in their
ears were fewer and their tattooing
and the decoration on their aprgna used; bribery. When the guards less brilliant.' The huge chief stoodrounds, ho told
en -
on a stone seat and watched, grinning.' tired on their morning . d
On a smaller seat sat D'Albentara.
Standing at'their .feet was the half-
breed with' the enormous nose.
' The procession entered the ruined
temple, remained half an Boar -while
the prisoners could hear' far-off voices
raised in a droning chant, then , re-
appeered and .crossed the court once
• more.
Elise's European. ' dress had now
/given way to a robe of brilliantly col-
ored wool. Her long; magnificent black
hair had been cut'very short and
twisted' into tiny ringlets which hung
grotesquely about her forehead.. Into
' these green birds' feathers had been
woven. Batalagos 'saw ber. He gig=
•gled in delight...The procession dis-
dppeared into one of the doors of the
chief's apartments from which it had.
come. -
Vilak chewed his lip. A' tiny spot.
of red had
on the pink atirface.
He had bitten .through': He, closed his
jaws stonily. •
After tete guards had .brought the
eustomaiy food and departed he re-
doubled his efforts to escape. He.rolls
ed over every stone on the.floor, ran
his fingers along every cranny in the
wall that his shackled hands could'
reach, tugging here;' thrusting there,
hoping to find some section of the Wail
which time"an decay had -weakened,
arid through which lie could perhaps
force his way into some other portion
of the building and there find means
' to free himself and his friends. He
the entrails; • the marriage and sacri� As, correspondent of "Morning
,five were set at `sunset of'the follow- Pest" in the South African War, he
Thong e ing day, the second day of'the'fest:= N'as captured by Boers and imprisoned
hem
managed
.. s._ .. „ , ..::.. �.._ .. .in, a. !ganger," from which__ _ - ....- $.
-working eaand i . fashion,
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when 'or cease tame and he was coin Suddenly the king spoke softly to to escape. He stowed himseif awn in
Felled tocease there' was nff more of an . open truck of a luggage train under
he had begun. >S'Albentara.' The Portuguese clapped '
an edge than when his hands. The.watching .multitude a tarpaulin, ati'd, after all sorts . of
The next' fright hei all his
fell to the ground . and lay there grov hardships, at last reached safety, very
the. task. Tuci g that.all his in while Batalagos waddled slowly nearly dead with hunger..,
efforts: only succeeded' in giving a high f forward _ i to the ruined ' emul' He CI SED BY N OSTRICH'
stone he was reluctantly din- .ensure of his
polish to theatone,
the dao and disappears Another little adwas
convinced that es was merely dissipate . reached
being held by the heels overt the par
ing his energies.. He replaced the side:
Five minutes' later dawn. began. to apet of the famous Blarney Castle so
ofound i in the crevice where he had
streak the horizon. A cry of joy went that he'might kill the Blarney. Stone.
' it. As he had•examined ten'
times• already, he again looked. at :he up from the black and tawny savage3; Mr. Churchill has also learned to pilot.
the :win- still rostrate A moment later :the an aeroplane -
edges of the stones forming _ ,chmf reappeared. The' worshippers . Speaking of Mr. Churchill's African
doors to see if there was.a single pscrambled to their feet and began to adventures calls, 'to mind the' experi-
fetters against r them
d could rub his.y move` -away. Soon the court was empty ecce near Ladysmith of the late Sir
fetters and wear them down until they except fora.si'ngl kinky haired Sol- ' Joseph Walton, formerly Member asnapped., There 'again he found no- dies: standing ward. Parliament for Barnsley. He had left
thing, only smooth rounded surfaces, (Tobe continued.) his horse towalkup the hill to an old'
which testified to the expert crafts -- camp, when ,he was tackled by • a big
mariship of the long dead builders. THE TONGUE cock -ostrich. It was the breeding sea-
anThe next day he determined. to trysavage. :
expedient he'had so far left •un The Proverbs of Many Lands Speak son, and anbolthe birdor was laager of Sir Jo.
About
"The boneless tongue, so .small and stones; and got on the wall.
weak, : : The bird followed, stiiking up at
Can crush and kill," declares the him viciously with itshuge claws, the
' Greek. ' blow of which is worse than the kick
"The tongue destroys a greater of a horse. Fortunately it was unable'
horde,' to reach him.
The Tark asserts, •"than does Ithe Sir Joseph hurled stones at thebird,
sword."
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The Persian proverb -wisely.saith,
"A lengthy tongue -=an early death!"
Orsometimes takes this form instead;
"Don't let your tongue cut .off;' your
head."
them in Guaranyr that he woul ; give,
diem many presents and charms if
they .would help him escape. • -.They
listened willingly and were impressed.
But Batalagos, they muttered, was
,very, very .wise; _instantly he would
know their treachery, instantly would
be kill them. And then what use
would be their presents?
In the afternoon signs of the ap-
proaching festival began to be notice-
ablein the courtyard. Numbers, of
Indiana began to walk to and fro
through it, learrying.gredt bundles of
moantain and forest flowers.. and a
sort of Indian corn which grew in the
region. These they hang in strands
upon the walls df the °buildings or
placed in great mounds at the foot
of the stone shafts and idols and upon
the flat, tablelike stones. • •
Ajew.of these Indians were lighter-
skinned than the others 'and seemed to
have more finely molded, more intelli-
ggeennt faces. As each passed the burn-
ing fire before the two idols, he care-
fully tossed a flower into it;and- made
a low obeisance.
Night came. .The workers didnot
depart. Instead they took seats upon
the ground around the' fire crackling
within a circle of small, triangular
stones: Other Indians began to file
in and take places beside them.
Soon the courtwas packed with a
mass of naked, silent savages. Then
through the throng strode four men
whose painted and feather -decorated
bodies pronounced them priests: ,They
were 'followed, )3y Batalagos, now
wearing a ...robe -of purple=dyed wool
fairly covered with gold ornaments.'
With him was D'Albentara, clad in
a siimilar'but somewhat less 'magnifi-.
cent mantle, and the. ugly -nosed ,In-
dian.
They assembled before the fire. The
chief stirred it with his ceremonial
wand. The fantastically garbed priests
danced and prayed that the,sun might
not be clouded during the three days
of the feast of Raymi, tate feast which
was to • do him honor. The priests
danced again. •
It cleanses teeth and throat, i An old man, with face Wrinkled like
sweetens mouth grid, breath, and I a nut, so weak from age that he could
strengthens tie gums.
EN
Fi
Nei other sweet last
so.long,coets sd litde or
does so much for yon.'
Promotes gond health wheel tried
regularly after•everyi meat.
"The.tongile can speak a word whose
speed,"
Say the Chinese, "outstrips the 'steed."
And Arab sages this inteart,
"Tis tongue's great storehouse is • the'
heart."
From Hebrew wit the maxlm'sprang.
"Though te+etshould slip, ne'er let the
tongue."
The' sacred writer crowns the whole,
"Whokeeps his tongue doth keep his
sold:" •
Tactful
Children's Feet
Need` Daily Carr
•.,During hot weather children should
wear sandals instead of boots or shoes.
Sandals allow the air to get about the.
feet, thus keeping then: cool, and free
from, perspiration. Care should ,.be
taken', that the sandals' are not .too
short, otherwise they 'will' squeeze the
feet and spoil the balanee of the body.
The nails of the .children's feet
should receive as . much care as the
nails:on their fingers. These should
be. carefully "pared-ab.least- once -every:.- -
week. Should any of them show an
ingrowing tendency, cut a..little V-
shaped nick in the middle. • This will
cause the nail to close up,:'.hus •remov=
ing.the growth from the skin.
Stockings made of wool or cashmere
are best.- Those made of cotton; or a
mixture of silk and cotton, are not to
be recommended, as they have a tend-'
ei,cy to draw the. feet.
The
feet should be washed every
evening: A little table salt niay be
added to the water. During summer
the temperature of the water should
be 'slightly cooler than blood heat:
Here are a few definitions given by
some school -children: "Etc; is a sign
used to make believe you know,more
than your do." , "The equator'. is a
menagerie lion .running around the
centre of the earth." "The zebra is
like a horse only striped acid used to
illustrate the letter Z." "The vacuum
is nothing shut up in a box."—Chris-
is a'' dangerous experimentto exter-
but only made it more frantic. At last urinate a bird or animal, for by doing
he managed to lure it round. to the
so We may disturb- the balance of na
far side of the laager. Then, bending sure.
double, he bolted across the enclosure ' Crows 'are regarded by many -.nater. _
and raced for his horse: alists as belonging to the. highest
Hevread.ed it just in -time, and .gal -
family ' of birds. They make mis
loped' away, vainly pursued by the
bird.. • '
A very short woman said to a mil-
liner* assistant who came forward to
serve her,. "I've. come in to bay a hat,
but I don't want Yon' to tell me that
any particular shape adds to my
height. I've had to listen to that so
many times that it, makes me feel as
if I were dumpy. And I'm not dumpy,
am I?"
"No, indeed," replied the assistant,
wha promised that. nq matter how
many hats the customer tried on, she
'Would say,nothing'about her size.
The woman tried on hat after hat,
and then at last she selected a shape
that suited the 'assistant, wins express-
ed honest admiration. '
"You wouldn't find anything • more
becoming. It suits the way' you wear
your hair and the quiil adds to Tour
--" She clapped •a hand over her
mouth. •
"Well?" asked the customer, indig-
nantly.
"Your literary appearance," 'finish-
ed .the tactful assistant..
not walk -"without two tawny-youtlrs-
Your health is aided he used like crutches • on either side,
while your pleat. 0`l\ '� ' came forward et the chief's grunted
ure,is served. %� command: Ile began to tell of the
feast of flztymi' of his farsdistant
childhood, then of the feasts of Raymi
greater than men's feasts, the first
,.feast of faytrii when the little gods
worshipped the mightiest god, their
master, the sun.'
Hour after hour he told the legends.
cue the moon, the- stars, the sacred
rainbow the legends of the monetarns
WHEN THE LION CHARGED
Another legislator, the • late .Mr.
Philip Glazebrook, was on a shooting
eupedition in Somaliland when a lion
sprang right into the camp' and seized
a donke '. One of the party fired and
hitthe great beast,' -which retreated.
Glazebrook and his companion,
followed. Itis no joke hunting a
wounded lion, and just when they least
expected it the brute charged. Mr.
Glazebrook fired, and the great beast
fell dead at his feet. ° His 'bullet had
smashed` its skulL'
• • Mr. John. Burns' early career was a
stormy one, and most of us know that
he has seen 'the inside of a prison.
Perhaps it is not so well known that,
on one occasion, he disguised himself
in old clothes and worked for long
days with the pea-pickere'on an Essex
,farm in oris: to find out the real con-
ditions under which they •. worked.—
'"Answers."
orked.'"Answers:
Alyn
1:451k No. .37—
NO RESULT •''.
--the . -Conversation _Was on t6e fas-
hionable topica It was about dieting.
"Yes,"' said Farmer. "I've eaten.
beef all my life."
"But do you think it hie'' done you
any good?"•she asked.
' "Good?" he, returned confidently. "I
feel as strong as an ox.".
chlevous but most . interesting and
amusing pets. They are so intelligent
and well able to take care of 'them=
selves that they are likely to survive
even it the .most stringent ,measures
are adopted against them.
"Calls the crow _rem the pine tree
top When April air it still," writes one
of our poets. If that ' cheerful caw
were .silenced something dearand fa-
milii! would be missing from the
countryside.
TRUST
One of the most beautiful' things in
the world is the trust that someone
places in us. Of course, there art vary -
Ing kinds of trust.
If we are trusted in our business af-
fairs, how w..•'thrill at the opportunity
of proving that the'trust is entirely
justified! P. haps there steals into
us, at some untoward moment, the
still, small, and cunning vole, of evil-
and we forget.' Then our world turn -1
hies around us. We have failed:.and •
tate iron'of disappointmei.. ease, = ini�r {
our Soul..
It happens,• too, sometimes, in e,,ir
--prosaic life_ ---Weare love" dearly, antU
with sacrifice. We feel the,: we shall I
never, fall before the specious- tempta-
tions that jostle us as we go a-wandear-
ing. Alas! it.is the pride in us that
lets down" the drawbridge for the
tempter to enter our castle. ' '
We .must watch our trust valiantly;
Although most of us know only two t
'vedettes of banana by sight, there are
numerous . others, the Philippine Is-
lands claiming fifty-seven; Malaya
thirteen, Spain ten, and Burma eight.
Minard's Linim;nt.a household friend:
1
No matterhow severe,
you can always have
immediate •relief:
Aspirin always 'sates 'Pain . quickly. It
does it without any ill effects. Harmless
to the heart;/ harmless to anybody:' But
it always brings relief. Why suffer?
ASPI
RIN
TRADEMARK NEL
"That's. strange," she, ventured. "I've t ave, i.nd ruthlessly, or ;' .' .
been eating_ fish for about three G.ILG. in Tit -Bits.
mon es. and 1 can't swim .a stroke.'' •
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A "How did ' you finis the weather :
t t Teacher --.1 seaters is a lay( a of •
and gods whileyou were away
it was
them who 'were sometimes surprised • went outsideand there anything. .Can goer Warne rru" `I ern.
the desert and the roaming.,
ti
.. _ �•my? 'T'ommy ,Yesni--A•, hen! --1
in their hunting nr their pleasures by, Humane I leader.
y Ailment*.
1 far.walxdertng; risen. Iiia hea •err din• Minard s Lrnrment far Foot
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bultI
be a sodal
lion this
wa��
w .,
, A faded, battered hat is hardly
respectable ... yet no worse
d than dull, gray -looking shoes i'
•... your morning toilet should 1t
always include:. a "Nugget" �'
shine—which wstte!roofa the
shoes as it polishes.
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