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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-02-09, Page 2BEGIN HERE TODAY, Sir Charles Abingdon engages Paul Harley, criminal investigator, to solve for h’m the mystery of constant sur­ veillance of (Sir Charles. Sir Charles asks Paul to dine with him at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls from his chair in a dying state. His last words are "Nicol Brinn" and "Fire Tongue." Paul asks Nicol Brinn to explain to him the meaning of "Fire Tongue." Brinn refuses to divulge his secret. Harley and Phil Abingdon, daugh­ ter of Sir Charles, are made prisoners in the home of Ormuz Khan, an Ori­ ental. Nicol Brinn rescues them and gees to tell the story of Fire-Tongue to the police. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. “Orange Pekoe" Is ©nly the name given to a size ef le^f—Sowje good, many peer, Orange Pekoes isre soid The ttwsf economical and yet the finest flavoured is “SALAOA” Orange Pekoe—Sealed in metal—pure—fresh—delicious—43c per J-ib. Td make beef’s heart piune pie; trim off the fat and arteries from the I heart, leaving no blood clots, ‘and j brown all over in- bacon fat. Blaee | to . txew kettle, cover with hot water and simmer two or three hours, ac­ cording to size. Have ready a cup of prunes soaked and pitted. Cut the heart crosswise, put in a deep dish, i add a point of brown gravy made with the liquor and tf <e prunes,1 cover with a crust and bake about • forty minutes. Serves eight. Tamale Pie j Make a mush by stirring two cups j of cornmeal mixed xvitli one and one- half teaspoons of salt, into six cups of boiling water; eo^k forty-five min­ utes. Brown a sliced onion in a ■tablespoon of fat; add one pound of hamburg steak and stir until red color disappears; add salt, pepper, two CUPS of tomatoes and a minced sweet pepper. Grease a baking dish, put in a layer of cornmeal mush, add sea­ soned meat and cover with mush. Bake for half an hour, Serves^-six. Pork-Apple Pie ■ i was airuiu li> mwe wu xar nvm, , Have the bones removed from the imik, then two tablespoons of butter, the mouth of tho tunnel, but neverthe-upon a brief period of my life at once a^k end of a loin of .pork weighing ^alf a teaspoon of salt, and a quarter ' ’ ’ ■ ' ’ “ '--------- -----" ------ ' flJ “---------- ®^nds; cut the meat into of ,a leasi)00n of pepper. pour 0VQr thin slices season with salt and pep- the above mixture, cover with a thin per and fill a pastry lined dish with crust anci balce> Seinrea slx or seven4 alternate layers of the meat and. 0 » * * » *slices of tart apples. Sprinkle light-1 Potato Patty Pies ly with brown sugar, letting the last J*eclDQ that makes the same olid layer be meat. Sprinkle lightly with taste better and look pretty, nutmeg; add two-thirds of a cup of individual casserole dishes one- brown stock and a tablespoon of melt- fbfrd full of cold roast beef cut i^to I found myself standing in deep undergrowth, and pressing this gently aside, I saw a wonderful spectacle. Away to my left was a great white marble building, which I judged to be a temple; and forming a crescent be­ fore it was a miniature town, each white-walled house surrounded by a garden. It was Damascus reduced to fairy dimensions, a spectacle quite unforgettable. "The fact which made the whole thing awesome and unreal was the presence, along the top of the temple (which, like that of Hatshepsu at Deir el-Bahari, seemed to be hewn out of the living rock but was faced with white marble) of seven giant flam­ beaux, each surmounted by a darting tongue of blue flame! "I was afraid to move too far from ORANGE PEKOE into slices. Bake without a top crust an : serve cold, garnished with tomato aspic and minced green peppers, ; Serves four. Maryland Oyster Pio Grease a baking dish and lay in a layer of cooked hominy, then a layer of oysters, alternate until a cup and a . half of homfny and three dozen oys-: ; ters have been used. Add the liquid ‘ from the oysters to half a cup of Wilson Publishing Company CHAPTER XXXIII,—(Cont’d*) "A strango greenish light prevailed here and directly before me I saw a flight of stone steps leading upward through a tunnel in the rock. By the light of a pocket torch which I had provided myself, I began to ascend the steps. "I had ascended more than five hun­ dred steps, and felt that a rest would' shortly be necessary, when I reached ‘ a sort of cave, or interior platform, fi •on*, which seven corridors branched out- like the spokes of a wheel. "To the damp coolness of the lower fita:rs an oppressive heat had now succeeded, and I became aware of a continuous roaring sound, which I found myself unable to explain. "Attached to a belt beneath my na­ tive dress I carried a Colt revolver; and therefore, leaving my rifle and bundle in a corner of the cavern, I selected one of these corridors more or less at random, and set out to ex­ plore. This corridor proved to slope very gently upward from the plat­ form. and I could not fail to notice that at every step the heat grew greater and greater. It became pos­ sible to discern the walls of the cor­ ridor ahead because of a sort of eerie bluish light which had now become visible. “At a point where the heat and a sulphurous smell were almost unen­ durable the corridor was blocked by massive iron bars beyond which thej reflection e-f some gigantic fire danced! upon the walls of a vast cavern. “A hundred feet beneath me was a lake fire! That is the only way I ran -k-scribe it: a seething, bubbling Jake of fire. And above, where the r<-of of the cavern formed a natural cone, was a square section formed of e ■■tome blocks, and quite ob- vir «<y the mandlwork of man. The tars w-re too hot to touch, and the h.-nt was l:ke that of a furnace, but v bile I st n>d. pering first upward ahd thcr downward, a thing happened which I almost hesitate to describe, ft - it sou” is like an incident from a niyhin are. ' He raided by a rumbling sound was perceptible above the roar! o’" *be fi-e h!»'owt the centre block in th? ro*f slid onen. "A« U conjured up by magic, a Tnonstrons colurrn of blue flame arose, swept up scorehingly, and licked like the tongue cf a hungry dragon upon the mof of th'1 cavern. Instantly the trap was closed again; the tongue of fire cirnpred back into the lake from which it had arisen in the draught of air. "/.rd ri,-h» past me where I stood, rigid with horror, looking through those ba* s, fell a white-robed figure— whether man or woman I could not dctenninc! Down, down into the fiery pit, & huj dred feet below! "One long-drawn, dying shriek reached my ears. "Of my return to the place at which I had left my bundle and rifle I re­ tain absolutely not one recollection. I was a’-o'^sed from a sort of stupor of I . horror by the sight of a faint light! Presence secret .from those who would moving across the platform ahead ofiha7e ^ealt me summary fa­ me, as T was about to emerge from i s^ion, and, indeed, who were actually less was anxious to obtain a good view more sweet and more bitter than any of the little city at my feet. Gingerly. I had known. Next to that strange, I moved farther forward1, ever cran- > invisible prophet whose name was ing out for a glimpse of the buildings Fire-Tongue, Naida held/ unquestioned more immediately below me, forgetful s X1"~ x ""■L" TT 1 of the fact that I walked upon the ’ brink of a recipice, "Suddenly my outstretched foot failed to touch ground. I clutched wildly at the bushes around me. Their roots were not firm in the shallow soil, and, enveloped like some pagan god in a mass of foliage, I toppled1 over the cliff and fell!" CHAPTER XXXIII. STORY OF THE CITY OF FIRE (CONT’D.) "My awakening was as strange as anything which had befallen me.. I lay upon a silken bed in a pavilion which was furnished with exquisite, if somewhat barbaric, taste. "I was lying there, in a curious and apathetic ’state; when the curtains shriek I One long-drawn reached my ears. draped in the doorway were pulled t ■ more widely aside and a woman came I "Gentlemen, I will not endeavor to t describe her, except to say that she ’ wasxso darkly lovely that I doubted ; the evidence of my senses; tall and lithe, with the grace of some beautiful . jurglc creature. • "When she saw that I was awake, she paused and lowered her head in confusion. She wore a gossamer robe of sheeny golden silk, and, standing there with the light of the dawn be­ hind her, she made a picture that I think would have driven a painter crazy. ‘ This is not tho time nor the place for personal reminescenees. I am here for another purpose. One of those accidents which are really due to the hr.nd of fate had' precipitated me into the garden of the house of Naida, and she in her great compassion had tend- Jed me and sheltered me, keeping my sway in this secret city. Her house was separated from the others, and she traveled to and from tihe temple in a covered litter, To look upon her, ! as upon Fire-Tongue himself, was death. I Lj___1, -_„ ible for admission to this ordier, and these were initiated by Naida. "As the days of my strange but delightful captivity wore on, I learned more and more of the weird people who, unseen, surrounded me. There were lodges of the Cult of Fire all over the East, all having power to make initiates and some to pass dis-J cipies into the higher grades. Those who aspired; to the highest rank in the ordfer, however, were compelled to visit this secret city in the Indian hills. "Then at last I learned a secret which Naida had for long kept back from me. These followers of the new. Zoroaster were polygamists, and she was the first or chief wife of the mys-1 terious personage known as Fire-» Tongue. I gathered that others had superseded her, and her lord and master rarely visited this marble house set amid its extensive gardens. "Her dignities remained, however, and no one had aspired to dethrone her as high priestess of the temple. She evidently lmew 'all the secrets of the organization, and I gathered that she was indispensable to the group who controlled it. "Respecting Fire-Tongue himself, his origin, his appearance, she was re­ solutely silent, a second Acte, faithful to the last. That the ends of this cult were not only religious but political, did not deny, but upon this point was very reticent." (To be continued,), ............■ The Outsider have looked on at life so long, so long! The lesser loves and hates have passed me by As I -were not The shudder and^the sigh, The whispering and the laughter, ever throng About me, and avoid. They call me strong Who never pause the weakness to descry Which else I had not hidden; they defy The thing I am not, passionless, and wi-ong . My half-formed Ideals till they shrink and fade have been standing by the outer gate Until the very song Has terrors for me, To enter. I have too late; I have looked on at life too long, too long. I IX X 'X-X V Vll’U UtJ XXXXXX»VX4.| YlCW ’ ** XVXAVA V*- **AVJ*V /Women, I learned, were ©lteJ cd butter; cover with a top crust with snmli pieces; add some minced onion - * . ... . ’ . -i____v____ «... . . - « ■> « «T»zl r> CiYndi*»lrlj-st* 'CHIm-a’’holes in the center and bake. Serves an^ a sprinkle of salt. Slice over ’ this cooked carrots cut very thin. Add i meat gravy (a tablespoon is usually j enough for tho average ramekin), and ! six to eight. California Rabbit Pie Brown a cut up rabbit in two table-' round off the top with mashed pototo. j Becor.ate with strips of cheese cut i thin and narrow, and pepper and until brown. Steak Pie ’ A popular pie a pound and a half of round steak, cut into cubes; cover this with a , x , -, „ - , • • quart of boiling water’ and cook for aed ten minutes then drained), a quar- few mm^ites, then add half a bay leaf, spoons of bacon fat and two table- s-poonp of minced onion. Put the rab- jmit In a baking dish; add three cups j of stock to the frying pan mixture and Jheat it well, tihen put over the rab­ bit, together with a bit of mace, a bay leaf and a dozen of small "onions. Cook until the rabbit is tender. Then add two cups of diced potatoes (cook- Sprinkle with salt bake in a hot oven With Almonds in Canada calls for ter of a pound of diced cooked ham and a dozen ripe olives. Cover with crust and bake until the latter Is a light brown. Serves* six or se-ven. Veal Pie De Luxe Cut about two pounds- of veal into pieces and season with salt, pepper- and a dash of nutmeg. 1________ about twenty plumped and pitted . ,prunes, put them in a baking dish,' to? and bake until the crust is one sliced onion,/a teaspoon of salt, a dash of paprika, and simmer until the meat is tender. Remove the meat into a baking dish, thicken the stock with flour and buter blended, add ball? a cup of chopped almonds, .half a*' _ .dozen chopped ripe olives, one green Have^ready ■ chili 'PePiP®r an(I half a cap of toma* ■ - toes. Put this over the meat, add a a nice brown. Or, to matter in figures or curve is obtained that, the resistance of a to death from periton- day by dav, from the sweetness of a and I am afraid found this truth Ethel Davies. the tunrel. "It was the light of a lantern, car­ ried by a man who might have been the double of that yellow-robed men­ dicant who had fir.-t unconsciously led me to this accursed place. "As the light of the lantern was fcwallowed up in the pateage, I found my bundle and rifle and set out to fol­ low the man. Four paces brought me to the foot of more steps. I walked barefooted, frequently pausing to lis­ ten, There were m$rty carvings upon the wallsj but I had no leisure to examine them. "Contrary to my anticipations, however, there were no branches in this zigzag staircase, which communi­ cated directly with the top of the lofty StatWL When presently 1 felt the fresh mountain air upon my face, I wondered why I could perceive no light ahead of me. Yet the reason was simple enough. "Since I had passed through that atrange water-gate to the City of Eire, the day had ended: it was night. Ana when, finding no further step® ahead of me, I passed along a level, narrow corridor for some ten paces and, look- ing upward, Saw tho stars, I was astounded. "Tho yellow-rob^d man had disap­ peared and I stood aloA*, looking down upon toat secret city which I had come ko far to see. on the look-out for my arrival, "Yes, so Naida informed me. To my great surprise she spoke almost perfect English, and- that soi*t of understanding sprang up between us immediately which, in the .case of a man and a beautiful woman thrown together as we were, can only termi­ nate in one way. "She was some Sort of priestess of the temple which I had seen from the top of the cliff. What else she was I very shortly learned. "In accordance with one of the many strange customs of the City of Fire, her personal servants, or rather slaves, were blind mutes! "Naida, for such was her name, told me that the Brahmin, Vadi, who had acted as my -guide, was one of the followers of the Prophet of Rjre, to whom had been given the duty of intercepting me. 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Serves six. cooked Season and a Cover five or Beefsteak Pie two pounds of round steak into cubes and place in an unlined Make a gravy with a Cut small baking dish, cup and a half of hot water, half a cup of tomatoes, two tablespoons- of butter and one of flour, half a bay leaf, half a cupful of chopped almonds, one sliced onion, one green chili pep­ per, six chopped ripe olives, a tea­ soon of salt and a dash of paprika. Cover with a top crust and bake. Serves six to eight. Southern Lamb Pie Take a quart of cooked lamb, cut in small pieces, add two cups of boil­ ed potatoes, diced, and a cup and a half of chopped pe^on "meats; season; with salt, pepper ai “ * ‘ ’ Put Into a baking dish, add thvee cups of cream sauce, place a puff paste on top and bake until a nice brown, Roasf-Beef Pie Line a deep baking dish try, place in the bottom a sliced sweet potatoes and lima beans, then the beef. 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L.rrz Announced ♦ ‘-AW#-. * German .Surgeon Says He Has Proved That 15 is Age of Greatest Fie* sistance Jo Disease Professor Kirschner, formerly direc­ tor of the Surgical University CHnlc in Konigsberg, Prussia, and occupy­ ing, of late, a similar position in Tu­ bingen as the successor of the late Professor Perthes, lias recently pub­ lished observations in which he en­ deavors to prove that resistance to peritonitis depends to a great extent on he age of the subject, according to the Berlin correspondent of The Journal of the American Medical As­ sociation who writes: "According to his results, children and aged persons present the highest mortality, the lowest mortality being found in the 11-15 age group, express tho graphically, a indicates that .human being ltis increases, moment of birth up to about tne age of 15, from which time on it again declines steadily. YiKirschner investigated toon,. on the basis o,f comprehensive, unequiv­ ocal statistical material from his clinic and from the medical literature In general, the queston whether peri­ tonitis constituted an exception or whether from the curve of peritonitis any general ‘law’ could he deduced. He found that everywhere, in deaths from intestinal disorders, pneumonia and during epidemics (for instance, the epidemic of cholera in Hamburg in 1892), there is a distinct lino run­ ning through that agrees essentially with the relations between age and resistance in peritonitis. “He established further that tho re­ sistance curve shows this course with the peak at age of 15) not only for diseases but also for all injuries that befall mankind during life. "Tho proof for this statement can be definitely furnished from'fee gen­ eral mortality statistics of the Gor­ man Reich. It appears, according to Kirschner, that there is a regular and definite change taking place in mankind as conditioned by ago, which can bo expressed in figure. There is a general biologic law in operation, which influences the prog­ nosis of every disorder, and every form of injury to which man is sub­ ject. “As man is a part of the manifesta­ tions of lite on earth ami is subject to the same great biologic law's as all other living creatures, Kirschner thinks it probable that this law ex pressing a parallelism between resis­ tance. and age is not confined to hu­ man beings, but that it is a now biologic law that can be universally-.J applied to ail living nature, including man, animals and plants. ‘Tn-collaboration with an assistant, Kirschner subjected various animals and plants to diverse injuries In order to establish more definite fig­ ures covering tho relations between resistance and age. The application of this biologic law to all nature ia probable, and with reference to num Kirschner regards it as definitely proved.” --------------------- - SPAIN CLINGS TO OLD ROYAL COACHES AND PURE-BRED HORSES the splendor of i.s and, in spite of the of these have beni at royal weddings, Madrid—Cinderella, if she came to Madrid in search of a coach, would be dazzled by the choice presented to ■her in the royal coach houses next to the King’s palace. The court of Spain always has been distinguished by horsed equipages automobile, many retained for use visits of foreign sovereigns, the open­ ing of Parliamentand funerals at which the King is represented., Am­ bassadors from foreign countries are supplied, too, with- a gorgeous train of carriages, drawn by blooded horses, when they present their credentials at the palace. Until a very ew years ago the royal stables contained about 400 pure-bred hackneys, but the number has been re­ duced to about ninety. The automo­ bile has supplanted the rest. The coach houses now form a sort of mu­ seum, visited by tourists , in consider­ able numbers. There are to be found coached in which many monarchs have rffiden and these are maintain­ ed in such a state of perfection that they could bo sent out on the strode at a moment's notice, In glass-fronted cabinets are kept pompous liveries, periwigs for foot­ men, brakes, bridles and whips, all beautifully ornamented. Thon there arg the saddles of all the twenty-nine cavalry regiments of which the King is an active or honorary officer, whli other saddles of wonderful con'd ruc­ tion and ornamentation presented to the kings by sultans of Morocco, Robert—"I’ll never lake that girl out again. She insulted me." Begin* aW—"What did she say?" "She asked me if I could dance.” "But there's nothing Insulting in that." "But she asked mo while I was dancing with her." that patent medicine cure your aunt?" "Mercy/ "Did bought ___ ____ no! On reading the ch'ctrtar that was wrapped around the battle she got two more disease^**