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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-03-22, Page 2Only teas grown 4,000 to 7,000 feet above sea level are used In “SALADA” Orange Pekoe Blend — the flavour Is therefore richer, more fragrant and much more delicious than other teas. Only 43c per i-Iba—Buy it at any grocery store. WCIay > n jg|i * dEanrBi 291 7 fl ACT yt-’yUMmrSomersJ^diei ! given me, for the one that Jay in | Daragon’s pocket. I' nodded farewell to him-—to more than him: to all the past that lay ■ behind me. And I kissed my hand to • the future- I was nothing within the laughed. Then, though having recog­ nized me, ihe would,detained me. I walked over to notable. What did I, who was about to die, have in com­ mon with such a person9 The thanks of himself, or of his pretty feminine.........- companion, would not do me any good, i law; I would be the greatest living I paid my waiter and walked to the! figure outside the law. I would make check-room. I will confess that I was'the supercriminal something more slightly embarrassed at my inability'than the figment of a. policeman’s to tip The coat-boy. But I need not .imagination. I would bring to my new have been; for Daragon, just donning profession the brain of a gentleman, his overcoat, saw me and seemed to' certainly fitted to cope with the intel­ regret his lack of courtesy. He handed ' lect of a detective. I would bring to —ria coin. . [my new art the culture of an aristo- much,” he said, • erat, I would raise it from the sordid did me a shabby’• level to which such people' as my fur- I collared friend repressed it, I cheerfully as I set out to dispose of; big reductions the diamond ring gained by my leger-; passed on to the public, demain BIG PRICE REDUCTION IN ROGERS BATTERYLESS RADIOS Canadian Company Leads Field In Production of Bfitteryless Sets LEGERDEMAIN BEGIN HERE TODAY. John Ainsley, a man of education and breeding, whose war wounds left him unfit for manual labor, pawns an ivory miniature of his mother in order to pay his landlady and to buy food.. A prosperous-looking bootlegger and; all-round crook, takes Ainsley to hisi home and attempts to enlist him as an I accomplice- -Insulted, Ainsley leaves; the room. j Ainsley is disgusted at the sight of ■ a gross-looking man in a restaurant. I ing, I imagined, awoke to full activity. Later he sees the prosperous-looking! Then, before he could attract the crook join the man and' the girl at attention of the head waiter and the’ | guests of the restaurant, an alterca- ' iion arranged, I suspected, for the sole ' purpose of affording time and oppor­ tunity for the robbery of the jeweler. He began to argue with the crook. His hand reached for his -waistcoat pocket, to produce the jewel.. But rhe girl had not had time to effect the sub­ stitution. She went dead white as Daragon leaped to his feet, overtum- Ainsxey is cnsgusreu ar rne signr oi^K kis chair as he did so. For his a pretty young girl in the company of suspicions, never more than slumber- a gross-looking man in a restaurant.I’ T ’ ’ 'r'11 Later he sees the prosperous-looking! 4-1’% w* 4-ls/h o 4- v lheir table. Ainsley finally recognizes “innager, Y rose from my "chair* and the gross man as Daragon a famous d .ftJ t their table. j- had/j jeweler and roue. Daragon draws out v ___.a little cardboard box and*hands it to no particular -ympathi for the gi the girl. and ^er crook companion. But I had xrz’svrr vt-T-T-Ti T'vxTr !even less for Daiagon. I*01 while INOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. watehed hhll> j; remembered some of I saw my acquaintance reach for ’ tbe 1Wp]eaSant tales that had been the box; though I could not see his!eurrent about him in the years before face, I knew that his eyes were' shin- ’ tbe war< The girl was a thief, but ing with ill-suppressed desire. And Daragon was a filthy beast- then, as I saw his right hand drop I I gained their table in three strides, into the pocket of his coat, I knew ’<»You dropped something on the floor,” what he planned to do, even before; j ga|d. j Spoke to Daragon, but look- I caught a glimpse of the• white objeec-ed squ.arely at the girL If she had that he drew from the pocket. He the kk of her kij j could save planned to substitute one box for the ker other. :I smiled with amusement. Also I* Sh\ha£ it; as I bent over groping appreciated his cunning. Unquestion-: be.neath ,rhf. tab e.’ ^r band touched ably he had made purchases from. mme and slippedjnto it a box. In her Daragon. Probably he had let her shaking fingers relax- jeweler understand that the purchases,^ of the second box. I got were gifts for his sweetheart- Tiien' that, loo, and w’ould have been at a he had permitted Daragon to meet his! J?ss ^ow Y Procee(i, but for the fact lady. The lady had smiled upon the i ^at’ ^mg over until her face was jeweler. Daragon Tad seen an oppor-, c^se sbe wi'/sPOi'ed frantic- tunity to combine business with plea- a’’y: “rst one> the first one. sure, the sort of pleasure that appeal- I slipped the second box swiftly into ed to him. And it was not unusual'my pocket, arose and handed Daragon that, in trying to close a bargain, he the first one. He took it from me, and should bring a jewel from his store, j immediately untied and opened it. .He And the girl had been waiting for him 'sighe$ with relief, alone; her seductions wrere to lull | “Much obliged,” he said. “For a Daragon’s suspicions, if any might be minute I thought—damn it, I didn’t aroused. ;think! I know that I put that box I saw- my friend’s head shake in'in my pocket, and it couldn’t have negation. Argument, presumably (fallen out-” — ever the price of the trinket, seemed I “I picked it from the floor,” I to arisen The girl pleaded with her .minded him. lover. Oh, it was all well staged- | “It didn’t fall there,” insisted * * * * ■ jeweler. Then decisively, my crook shook his J “Then how’ did it get there?” head.' He pushed the box across the manded the crook, table, as though the incident were • “I don't know’,” said Daragom closed. Daragon argued few min- I did, I’d call the police.” utes, seemed to make concessions! “What do you mean?’’ demanded which were nrt accepted, then slowly the crook. wrapped up the box and tied thei “I don't mean anything; I don’t string around it. He placed it in his.have to mean anything, do I But waistcoat pocket. I wondered how'that box didn’t walk out of my they planned to get it away from him, ■ pocket,” snarled the jeweler. . to substitute the box which, under-j “Are you insinuating—” began the neath the table, the crook held in his, crook. right hand. | Daragon interrupted him. “When Then I saw. My friend the crook.a fifty-thousand-dollar diamond ring turned in his seat and pointed toward j leaves my pocket, I can insinuate all the door. Daragon looked in that di-” ’ section. The girl’s hand shot out; deftly it flicked from his pocket the box which he had just placed there. No one but myself was placed so that the action could have been seen. I waited for the next move, which must re- the de- “If (I damn please. If you don’t like it, j lump it. I was a fool to bring it down ’ here anyway. My store is the place [for me to do business-” | “Better be careful,” warned the crook. “Don’t worry about me. You said be the substitution of the other box. you’d give me forty thousand; you But although the crook handed the said you’d bring the cash here. I said girl the other box, Daragon's atten- I wanted fifty.” “Weil, what about it?” demanded my host of the earlier evening. “This much .about it,” cried Dara­ gon. “I get suspicious, and you get sore. Well, if I’m wrong, I’ll apolo­ gize. Produce forty thousand in cash, and I’ll^give you the ring. You’ll prove your good faith, and I’ll prove my regret.” He waited a minute. I thought, considering the vast amount of cash that the other man had shown me earlier in the evening, that he might be able to produce forty thou­ sand. But if he cpuld, he evidently did not choose to do so- “I guess that will hold you,” sneered Daragon. “If I didn’t hate scandal, I’d call the police.”♦ * * ♦ He turned on his heel, gave me a grudging nod of thanks, and walked out of the restaurant. I stood a mo­ ment smiling at the crook. “You certainly do need me/’ I girl the other box, Daragon's atten­ tion was not held by the incident near the door, which was nothing more than an altercation between two j iWRiGLEYS Add to the joy of the open road—this pleasure* gia * a giving refreshment. A sugar-coated gum that affords double value* Pep­ permint flavor in the sugar coating and peppermint flavored gum inside* o Ectwe&l Smokes 1 * K B R f I I tissues Ku. if—-28 the coat-boy an extra coin. , “Let me do that "■—even though you turn-” I stared at him. mean?” I asked. We were at the cloak-room entrance now. Daragon jerked a fat thumb toward the dining-room. “Don’t you think I had that crook’s number It was the girl I wanted, I guessed their game, and played the come-on simply to get her where 1 wanted her.” “And where was that?” I asked. He grinned. “She's stuck on him. But I figured that if -I caught them with the goods, she’d forget how stuck she was on him if I didn’t prosecute. Get me?” “I do,” said I coldly. “I suppose she dropped it, and you saw it fall. If you hadn’t stepped in, “What do you I nodded farewell to him. I’d have had them dead to rights- Oh, well, a man can’t get everything he thinks he wants.” A sense of the monstrous injustice of life came to me. That injustice could be remedied by money. For in­ stance, that jewel in Daragon’s pocket could be turned into thousands of dol­ lars. Even I, a gentleman, had heard, in recent month of poverty, of “fences,” those men who buy the loot of thieves; I even knew where one or two of them resided. The skirts of poverty brush the feet of criminality. I was about to die, because I had neither productive nor constructive brains. But perhaps I had the third kind, a destructive brain. If my fur- collared friend could make a success of crime, despite the paucity of imag­ ination which his clumsy scheme for robbing Daragon had disclosed, what a tremendous success I could achieve! ' Honor? Adherence to' it led me to the gutter, was about to lead me to the river! 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There can be no doubt but that the inauguration of these new prices will stimulate radio sales, for it is now possible for anyone to own a Battery­ less Radio with all its advantages and economies at the price of an ordinary battery set. As a representative of the Q.R.S. Music Co., the Rogers distributors in Eastern Canada, expressed it: "Three years ago when the Rogers was first Introduced It was the only Batteryless Rndio on the market.” Not, only dues the Rogers eliminate all batteries, chargers, chemicals, at­ tachments and complicated wires, so that all you have to do is plugjt into your light socket and tuije in, but it takes care of variations in line volt­ ages in different localities and in the same locality during different times of the day, so* there is no danger of burning out tubes. See your Rogers dealers for demonstration. Leacock Flays f Movie History Too Much Americanism and Lack of Facts, He Claims WAR PICTURES ' * Declares Canada’s National. 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THE KEYSTONE RUBBER CORPORATION Queen and Ontario Sts., Toronto For ROOMS, BOARD OR FLATS Throughout Toronto Phone, wire, or writes The" Anthony Hall Bureau 319 BAY ST., TOEONTO 2, OBTT. ADelaide 0110 A Free Service— ’ —Satisfaction Guaranteed. Britain z3 Canada VOU can arrange for your relatives and friends this low ocean fare— greatly reduced rail rates,' children under 17 carried FREE. AsIc at once for details of the British NominationScheme from any office or agent of the .CANADIAN SERVICB.CANADIAN^ SERVICB Unused Epic The influence of the American mov­ ing picture on the historic sense and national patriotism of the children here was deplored by'Dr. Stephen Leacock during the course of a recent address-. "I am not censuring the Americans for it,” said l)r. Lpacock, "for they j have nothing to do- with it, nor am I ! blaming the moving picture people who are merely in the business, aa we all are in various businesses, to make all the money they can. "But the effect is deplorable. If our children aje allowed 'to go to- the pic­ tures, and if the effect is not counter­ acted elsewhere, they will grow up -to think of the United States as the land of heroes; the only place where bravo men are found*and brave deeds are done.” The Movie War ' "The great war appears, as it-has in three different pictures recently shown as the Great American War. It was occasioned, by a quarrel- between Wood­ row Wilson, whose only aim was to -do good to everybody everywhere-, found his efforts thwarted by a crowd of peo­ ple in Europe. Al last he declared war invoking the blessing of God, of Abraham Lincoln, the Southern Con­ federacy and the Middle West. "A vast American army invaded Europe. They first ‘ occupied France where the French people supplied a comic element by selling cigarettes-, waving flags and by talking French, a ridiculous language forming a joke in itself. Rushing through the woods, trenches, flames and trees,” he said with demonstrative gestures, "the Americans drove in front of them the Europeans." "Exacting nothing in return, they went back to the Middle West, where they were met on the porch' by their mother, the spirit of American demo­ cracy and the inserted shade of Lin­ coln. Better Material "The pltf of it is that even in the commercial sense we have better ma­ terial than they have. Our history, as told by a Francis Parkman, is up to the level of even the great Ameri­ can epic of the Civil War, and makes the history of the Middle West look as flat as mud. So far we have only sibown it in stilted pageants and his­ toric scenes. That sort of thing does not go with the crowd; it is only for the cultivated few,—mostly so culti­ vated that they won’t pay to see any­ thing anyway. What we need is a story—using our history as a back­ ground—a story with a hero and a heroine,’wito the personal element, and, bursting through it scenes of In­ dian war, and the battles of the Plains of Abraham, and the wonderful unused epic of our national history. That is the kind of thing that our children ought to be seeing. And if some pic­ ture director will step up from New York and arrange it for us we ought’ to make him a baronet, and a senator, ' and an LL.D., and bury him. aS'soon as ' he likes, in Westminster Abbey. { "But till then let us nail up the ; doors of the picture houses as far as the children are concerned. j "I am not saying anything against | the American pictures for Americans. 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It is hard to : grasp the mentality of a driver who, ' with precious lives In his charge, would take such appalling risks. “We still stand where we were.'*— W. C. Bridgeman, PiKt Lord of the Admiralty.