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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-12-15, Page 2t and e I o « n i t ’ .Oil WsB Search For HhMen B.C ................................. Spiritual Ruler of Tibet in Lxile*“ begin here Sir Charles. Abingdon engages Paul Harley, criminal investigator, to find <mt why Sir Charles is shadowed. Harley dines at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls from-, his chair in a dying state. The last words he utters are “Nicol Brinn” and Fire-Tongue.” Dr. McMurdoch pronounces death due to heart failure. Harley insists that Eir Charles was poisoned. Ik-.ul asks Nicol Brinn to explain the meaning, of “Fire-Tongue.” Brian j e*ure$ to enlighten him. Harley ques- ans .Polly Jones, parlormaid; Nicol >riir ’ ... - tai TODAY- I L 1> ( Famed Panchen Lama in China Pleading for Army to Restore His Rights Is Guest of War Lord* Peking.—Devoted followers of the Panchen Lama, who is supposed to be co-ruler with the Dalai Lama of Thibet, have at last revealed the fact that the Panchen Lama is a homeless wanderer <m- the, face of the earth, living on the, bounty of Chinese princes and warlords, and that he has been e.xiled from “the Roof of the World” forever because of political jealousies. Under the curious form of Tibetan Government the Panchen Lama, from his great lamaseries at Drashe Lhumbo, was supposed to rule oyer . all things spiritual in Tibet,, while the Jb Dalai Lama, at Lhasa, ranked as the4B^ temporal ruler, About two years ago the Pancsen .. Lama suddenly appeared in Szechuan '* Province, China, unannounced. His retinue was small and ill-equipped, but more men kept joining him as he proceeded. It was formally announced lows; the paid-up capital was £66,- that he was going to see modern 478,352; the number of sharesolders China and confer with the various 5AXRQHM Ex i&dTx ii** tfl&v m.uch uvcuj^ea cue v:kJ of thr fv room opened silently, reveaH.ng large shadowy apartment bey. Rama Dass stood up, cr v-r ‘ room, and standing just outei.’e open doors, beckoned to Nicol Hr to advance. “There is no fear,” he said, in a queer, chanting tone. “There Brinn. “There “There “There "There “Fire alone is eternal.” “Fire alone is eternal.” As he pronounced those words Nicol Brinn crossed the threshold of the jacket, he win dark room, and the double doors closed u» is no f tn 1 a 4 b the inn fear,” repeated Nicol in is summoned to the home of the I of the Fire-Tongue cult. Brinn s Naida, member of the cult. I »W GO ON WITH THE STORY. | CHAPTER "xki.—(ContU) e pointed with, a pen. which he was is is is is no no no no love.” love.” death.” death.” 1.. jus;.*. u«i4S. XVI,111, UllU VX113 I holding in the direction of a heavily silently behind him. carved chair which stood near the t-ihie. Nicol Brinn sat down, • regard ing tfie speaker with lack-lustre eyes, i “A query has arisen respecting your fraternal rights,” continued the Hindu. “Am I to understand that you claim tc belong to the Seventh Kama?” “Certainly,” replied Brinn in a tone less The Hindu drew his cuff back from a slend' r yellow, wrist, revealing a curious mark which appeared to be brandel upon the flesh. It was in the form of a torch or flambeau sumount- < I by a tongue of flame. He raised his black brows, significantly. N’e -1 Erinn stood up, removing his tight dinner jacket. Then, rolling lark his sleeve from a lean, sinuous fore rm, he extended the powerful n enber, having his fist tightly clench ed. i Ufon lhe inside of his arm, just aLo’-e ;h cibow, an identical mark had been branded! The Hindu stood- up and saluted Nicol Brinn in. a peculiar manner. That is to say, he touched the second finger of h’s right hand with the tip hewing de.-plv. ) Nicol Brinn repeated’the salutation has been allotted to you hitherto, and qnirtly nut his coat on. I This- shall be remedies.” “Wt- greet'you,” said;the Hindu. “I j , The introduction of Maskelyne illu- CHAPTER XXII. FIRE-TONGUE SPEAKS. Absolute darkness surrounded Nicol Brinn. Darkness, unpleasant heat, and a stifling odor of hyacinths. He had been well coached, and thus far his memory had served him admirably But now he knew not what to expect. Therefore inwardly on fire but out wardly composed, muscles taut and nerves strung highly, he waited the next development. It took the form, first, of the tink ling of a silver bell, and then of the coming of a dim light at the end of ■what was evidently a long apartment. The light grew brighter, assuming the form of a bluish flame burning in a little flambeau. Nicol Brinn watched it fascinatedly. Absolutely no sound was discern ible, until a voice began to speak, a musical voice cf curiously arresting quality. “You are welcome,” said the voice. “You are of the Bombay Lodge, al though a citizen of the United States. Because of some strange error, no ItoSaJgksJ Mwi ' lUerywomnn'aWe,lw>rk iMwWj w<wd, Ih . a Dass led the way to the door. Out into the dark hallway Nicol Brinn stepped, his muscles taut, his brain alert for instant option TU- ■ no one offered to molest him. A minute later he was seated again 1 in the shuttered limousme, and as it ’ moved off, and the lights leaped up above him, he lay back upon the cush- . ions and uttered a long sigh. Drawing' mi* a silk handkerchief from the br'--- ^ocket of his dinner d his face and fore head deliberately. Then, selecting a ! long black cigar from a case which I bore the monogram of the late Czar of Russia, he lighted it, dropped the ' match in the tray, and lolling back in a corner, closed his eyes wearily. Thus, almost unmoving, he remain ed throughout the drive. His only ac tions were, first, to assure himself that both doors were locked again, and then at intervals tidily to place a little cone of ash in the tray provided for the purpose. Finally, tho car drew up and a door was, unlocked^by the chauffeur. (To be continued.) But A Like the Eagle x; HP J V*ert minuter Will Undertake to Find Fortune -w Westminster, B.C.—Efforts to . ver a fortune in gold, rumored stem Cariboo mining days, to be b-d--' den in the vicinity of Leopold Place, will be undertaken by George Ander son, of New Westmln ?r. The gold? Which is said to exist in minted form, ?s said to have been hidden during the hectic mining days of IS CO to 1872 by an old Cariboo miner, D. L. Smith. Mr. Anderson made- an''application to the City Council for permission to s’nk a ho-leon Front street in tho vl-. cin'ty Of the Fraser River bridge. By • this means he hopes to locate a hid den tunnel leading to the source of1 gold. About a year ago an effoffrt was made to locale tba supposed fortune by sinking a shaft on a property on Columbia; street, this work being car-I vied on for several months without j London.—For many years Britain .success. has had the habit of listening care-The suggestion that a tunnel, now 43blocked, exists, is not upheld by W. H. f«By to any announcement concern- Keary, city clerk, who is aji authority ; ing the country’s trade- or financial on pioneer days of New Westminster. He thinks there was- likely an old water course through the vicinity of Leopold Place. Rumors of the hidden gold coins, minted An San Francisco from Cari boo gold, have existed for several de cades. / l/T ,ORANGEy \ PEKOE/ 1 rMK3» Tea . is tKe finest ‘Orange Pekoe* sold* British Bahker Shows Error In Socialistic Money Scheme Joint-Stock* Banks Not Owned by Great Moneyed Interests, But by Vast Number of Small Shareholders, Each Having a Few Shares ber of small shareholder©, the actual holding of each not exceeding a few hundred shares. The actual figures of the five big banks in 1925 were as fol- position made by the heads of the five great joint-stock banks. These insti-'was no less- than 275,414, giving an provincial authorities, tutions, which-with the Bank of Eng-, actual average holding of £219 5s.” land practically dominate the British! THE DEFLATION PERIOD. banking industry, are in a position to J .observe from the best possible posts-'wh^ J^^rthTdeflation^ affect trade. J five authorities do not al-. nm Rama Dass of the Bengal Lodge. into, an English country house Have yr.»7 * ......... x 1 "V/hcr? v-n-e you initiated?” “At Moon AH Lane.” “Ah!” exc'aimed the Hindu. “I see it al). In B-mbay ” “In Bombay.” !“When, and by whom, may, I ask?” proach to fear of which this steel- ii, November 23, 1913.”, nerved man was capable. - - - - “Temporarily,” the sweet voice con tinued, “you.will be affiliated with the London Lodge, to whom you will look for instructions. These will reach you almost immediately. There is great work to, be done in England. It has Hindustani?”must ordinarily <fcave touched his sense of humor, but knowing some thing of the invisible presence in which he stood in that darkened cham ber, thererwas no laughter in the heart of Nicol Brinn, but rather an un familiar coldness, the nearest ap- “By Rnhmani, xxwwxwer x^xo. , “Strange,” murmured Rama Dass.! “Brother Ruhmani died, in that year.; which accounts for our having lost touch with you. What is'your grade?” “The fifth.” “You have, not proceeded far, bro ther. How do you come to be un- acouninted with our presence in Eng land?” “I cannot say.” “What work has been alotted to you?” “None.” “Never?” “Never.’' “More and mere strange,” murmur ed the Hindu, wrtehing Nicol through the gold-rimmed spectacles which he wore. “I have <nly known one other case. Such cases are dangerous, bro ther.” “No blame attaches to me,” replied Nicol Brinn. “I have not said so,” returned Rama Pass. “But in tlv Seventh Kama all brothers must work. A thousand lives are as nothing so the Fire lives. V/e had thought our information perfect, but only by accident did we learn of your existence.” “Indeed,” murmured Nicol Brinn, coldly. “A document was found, and in this was recorded that you bore upon your arm the sigil of the Seventh Kama.” j “ ’Tis Fire that moves the grains of dust,” murmured Nicol Brinn, tone- lessly, “which one day make a moun tain for the gods.” Rama Dass stood up at once and repeated his strange gesture of. salu- , tation, which Nicol Brinn returned ceremoniously; and resumed his seat ' at the table.“You are advanced beyond your' grade, brother,” he saidf “You are worthy the next step. Do you wish to take it?”^ “Every little drop swells the ocean,” returned Nicol Brinn. “You speak well,” the Hindu said. “We have here your complete record. It shall not be consulted. To do so were unnecessary. We are satisfied. We regret only that one so happily circumstanced to promote the coming. “Fir© is life,” replied Nicol Brinn. been decided, however, that you shall be transferred as quickly as possible in our New York Lodge. You will await orders. Only Fire is eternal.” Again the voice ceased. But, Nicol Brinn remaining silent: “Your reply is awaited.” “Fire is life^” replied Nicol Brinn. The blue tongue of flame subsided lower and lower, and finally disappear ed, so that the apartment became en wrapped in absolute darkness. A faint I rustling sound suggested that a heavy curtain nad been lowered, and almost immediately the doors behind Nicol Brinn were opened again by Rama Dass, “We congratulate you, brother/’ he said, extending his hand. “Yet the ordeal was no light one, for all the force of the Fire was focused upon you.” Nicol Brinn re-entered the room w«, uux«x«a. where the shaded lamp stood upon of the Fire should have been lost fright”’ writing table. * of. Last night there were three motions and seve-ral rejections, wore expected.” “But I was not summond,” "No,” murmured Rama Dass, had learned of you as I have However, great honor results, will be received alone. Do you desire to advance?” “No. Give me time,” Rama Dass again performed tho strange salutation, and again Nicol Brinn returned “Wisdom is a potent wine,” said tbojatter, gravely. “Wo respect your decision/* The Hindu- rang a little silver belt upon hi» table, and t-'ho double doors >.pro- You “We said. You 186U£ No. 5Cte-’27 man who ought to have lived many years longer died in New York last winter at the age of fifty-five. The newspapers attributed his jleath to influenza, but my private "and un scientific opinion is that he had to die -to get slept up. “I am very tired,” he said to me once. “I have been out to dinner, or the theatre, or the ojjera, every night for seven weeks. I am going to Florida for a-rest.” But being popular and ambitious, he was invited out as regularly in Florida as in New York. When he returned, the circles under his eyes were still darker. Probably he never heard of the 30,- 000 picked’troops of France who once landed in Hayti to subdue Toussaint L'Ouverture. A few months later 5,000 of the 30,000 sailed away. What had happened to the other 25,000? Not death on the battlefield. The Negroes were too poorly equip ped to risk any engagement and had to resort to a subtler means of des truction. Each night when the French men were ready for bed, Toussaint threatened an attack. All night long a few of his men continued desultory firing, and all night long, the French men were kept awake. A few weeks were enough. Shat tered by enemies they had never seen, a pitiful remnant of the” proud army slipped away in tlfo night. They had conquered Europe, but they could not conquer a continuous loss of sleep. Sir Robert Lucy, in his fascinating memoirs of English political and social life, tells of a certain “Lady A./' an irrepressible old dowager whose vitality and youthful enthusiasm were the wonder of London. Ho says: "Among the stories told to account for her phenomenal vivacity is one to the effect that on a day of each week she remained through twenty-four hours in bed in a darkened room shut tered from noise. Here she renewed her youth like the eagle.” Never having owned an eagle I have often wondered just how it is that this wise bird "renews his youth.” Tl_‘_ note from Sir Robert Lucy suggests an explanation. Doubtless once a month or so he cancels all engage ments, leaves the telephone receiver off the hook, and spends twenty-four hours In bed. <y$A'°SC Wilson Publishing Company i 4679 I Months of traveling followed, and ___ ______________________ I the fact that various attendants and Mr. Pease turned to the controversy: of vantage any movement likely to England,“"where "the" Same Charges 5?caPe effect trade. Nevertheless, even these -were brought that the bankers had dia; some came by caravan over Mon- —■ — — — . o ubxvc, engineered- the- movement as. were as is clearly shown by the divergence brought against the American Federal Board In 1920. j “What was the alternative to our , policy of deflation?” he asked. “To ! follow the example of Germany and allow inflation to increase in such ever-growing proportions that all’citi zens hasten to get rid of their rapidly depreciating policy by converting it into goods? We all knew that such a process could not last. “The advocates of a.policy of man- Tibet by different routes did not Some came via In-£ They’re just tuning up the old lawn mowers south of the equator. I If the speaker with the strangely 1 arresting voice were indeed that Fire- Tongue whose mere name was synony mous with dread in certain parts of the East, then Fire-Tongue was an impostor. He who claimed to read the thoughts of all men had signally failed in the present instance, un less-——- Nicol Brinn stared dully into thos smiling face of Rama Dess. Not yet mus^ he Congratulate himself. Per haps the Hindu’s smile concealed as much as the mask worn by Nicol Brinn. “We congratulate ydu ” said Rama Dass. You are a worthy brother?’ He performed the secret salutation, which Nicol Urinn automatically acknowledged. Then, without another s-golia, while others journeyed down I the Yangtze. More than a year ago the Panchen , Lama reached Peking, and by ^that ( time his priests numbered more than I- 30-0. Marshal Chang Tso-Lin put a fine palace at the holy man’s disposal ! and also gave him a handsome month- , ly allowance. After a long stay in Peking, the Lama went to Mukden in a special train provided -by the Peking author ities. A long stay in Mukden has been followed- by trips to Kirin, Jehol, Charhar and to the. seats of Mon golian princes. It is now revealed that the purpose of these visits has been to- solicit arm ed aid in recovering the suzerainty of Tibet for the Panchen Lama. I-Ie is understood to have offered even to place Tibet in the category of a Chi- I nese province if the required help is 'forthcoming. All the Chinese warlords would Hite” to help him, for the Dalai I-ama at Lhasa persists in declaring that Tibet is politically independent of Chings But jus.t now Chinese warlords ha,-e no men nor resources to spare for such a campaign. The Panchen Lamp’s fo’flpwers nw reveal that their august master n-»d from his lamaseries at Drashe Lhu’-bo only when it was suddenly surround ed by the Dalai Lama’s troons. He escaped with only one servant pnl both were disguiseda^ rndbehants. TT's other followers made their-way to different borders afoot, and mnnv of them begged -their way to'Pektob*. It is charged that the wealthy Drashe Lhumbo lamaserie was y1 dered^by the Dalai’s troops ?n ’ treasures taken to Lhasa. The Panchen Lama charge virtue has fled from lama cirH-’ • Tibet and that vice and wine-h’’' prevail in all of the great mo ' ies of “the Closed"*Land.” He ■ ises purification of the religion tf’ ‘stored to his former place and p’-- Berlin.—An unexpected contribution himself to drive the Dalai Lama . to the recent war guilt discussion is in the shape of Prince Karl von Lich- nowsky’s book “On the Way to a 'Precipice,” just published, which is in utter contrast to the views voiced here generally on this matter, Prince ,von Lichnowsky was German Ambas sador In London beforo the war and therefore was in closest touch with , the events preceding the outbreak qf hostilities. 1 He is the first prominent German whose words carry any weight who does not agree with Germany’s asser tion of innocence, Germany approved fully Austria’s wish to destroy the Pan-Serbian movement he writes, and while England at first, sympathized with Austria, the English., changed their attitude when the Austrian plti- matum to Serbia was published. All tho world, he says, except Ber lin and Vienna, knew that a World War was threatened. But Serbia's re ply was more docile than could pos sibly have been expected. “If Russia _ .......... -and England wanted war,” Prince von 'discharged tinder the name of one, De Lichnowsky. declares, “ono word to ■ ’■ ----- Belgrade wotjld have been sufficient, and the scandulous note would have remained unanswered.” Sir Edward Grey then discussed the best way of settling the Austro-Serban dispute and mq,do practical suggestions through tho Prince to the Reich. They were of no avail, however. Just one gesture on tho part of Ber lin, he continues, would have sufficed to induce the Austrian Foheign Minis* tev to be satisfied with his diplomatic success. On tho contraryi pressure was exercised in favor of an Austro- Serblan war. Sir Edward Grey asked for German suggestions, but Prince von Lichnowsky ootfld not obtain any satisfactory reply from Berlin anti tho impression naturally grew that Ger many panted war, as sho did later, proving she was ready for it. of immediately undertaking a revision1 of the present Bank Act, which dates1 from 1844. A recent address of J. Beaumont Pease, the head of Lloyds Bank, de livered before the Economic League in London, will, however,4 doubtless have the warm support of every bank er in Britain and elsewhere. Mr. Pease undertook to point out what groups organized agitations against banking aged currency would' probably admit systems as now. conducted m. the-most that th would have done something progressive countries and to answer akin to the action Qf the Government all their major charges. (jn stopping inflation, but not in such A MEANS TO AN END. | a drastic fashion. The worst of any “Socialists desire the nationaliza- measure of- deflation is that it is sure tion of the. Bank of England and' to work with lightning speed, c-ther banks an a means to an end,” said Mr. Pease. “They desire it also because they have taken nationaliza tion generally as a main article of their creed, and obsessed by the sound' of the word, they clamor for it in any form without fully considering whe ther the result would be productive of any advantage. If they. wish, to con trol the Bank qf England and the banks, not because they believe they are badly run or would be better run _ z by the State, but because it would banker is the margin of difference be- make it easier for them to carry out tween his lending rate of interest and sometimes greater when the bank rate is high, it is not always s'o, and gen erally the two move up and down to gether.” The moment the red danger signal is shown the progress of trade stops at once. “The suggestion found in the post humous papers of Lord Milner that the interests of trade and banking are inimical seems to be due to the fact that a comparatively high bank rate usually brings more profit to bankers whilOidjjing to the burdens of industry. ^That is not always the case, be cause the real factor of profit to tlje their schemes, it explains a good deal, his deposit rate, and, although that ii “In regard te the joint-stock banks, let me remind you that they are not owned by what are called the great moneyed interests, but by a vast num- LOCK ’EM UP< Cooking Teacher: What is the best way to preserve cakes in per fect condition after they are baked? 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Regains Memonr After Ten Ye.’ f’s Officer, Reported Killed Un wittingly Changed His Identity UP~BY SHELL Sweden—The strange Swedish officer namid lost his memory when- BLOWN Stockholm, story of a Duner, who wounded while fighting under the- British flag, and collected a pension under another man’s! name, for 10' years, is related by the .Swedish press.. The story is that Duner was re ported killed after the blowing upM?f a mine a decade ago. Actually, he- was wounded and lefet his memory. A mistake in identity at a hospital caused the Swedish volunteer to #2 Montalt, a Canadian. Recently Duner’-s memory returned, and realizing his Swedish nationality, he came to Stockholm, where he broadcast his remarkable story. He got in contact with ’liis mother, widow of a Swedish professor, and she filled !in details that he had not been able to recall. Dimer is said to be on the way to London, where he has lived for the past decade. * British Settlers * Ottawa Citizen (Ind. Lib.): No ef fort should be spared to bring in more British settlers. "Rough work” has no terrors for the right kind of -tiri- tish laborer, under fair treatment. Im migrants from the Baltic countries might be encouraged, too. Conditions In Canada are similar In many* re- An.y guy can be gay flien he’s off for a day with a rod or a gun or ah auto; but tho fellows worth while are the chaps who can smile, when they don’t want to work but have got to. spects to conditions in Scandivavia^^ and other northern lands. But an flux of parts work” end. cheap labor from some other of Europe to do the “rough might proto too costly in th© */