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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-04-12, Page 2Will Serve Vancouver Island A GOLD YIELD EXPECTED Ask your Automobile Dealer to show you the now models or write lor list. Su’ly Brass Foundry Ltd. Toronto, Canada. ,The colour and exquisite flavour oi “SALADA” Green Tea are natural—Only the process of curing is different from Black Tea—Both are equally pure—"SALADA” Green Tea is sealed in air­ tight aluminum—fresh—dehesous™ satisfying— 38c per at aSI grocers^ Ask for this tea- GREEN TE “The Princess Elaine'’, newest member of the Canadian Pacific ^Railway’s Royal Family of steamships, now on her way to Victoria, V.I., via the Panama Canal, from tile shipyards on the Clyde, Scotland. The vessel will be used for service between Vancouver on the mainland and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island across the Straits of Georgia, a distance of about 40 miles, and is fur­ ther qualified to ply between Seattle on the south and Skagway on the north. She will have a speed of IS knots, is 2,000 tons gross1 register, will have accom­ modation for about 1,200 passengers, and is specially designed for the trans­ portation of automobiles, a turntable' being installed to reverse cars for dis­ embarkation. On her trial runs on the Clyde The Princess Elaine did over 19 knots. Running Boards. Sully Step Plates also iceep your clean and improv Its appearance. Hudson Bay Basin Rich in Resources Princes Didn’t Get “Promised’ Giraffe Timber and Mineral Wealth Described by Dr. R. B. Stewart ONE-EYED MEN Eagle! The thought of blackmail en­ tered my mind, but I dismissed it at once- If the White Eagle had been threatening the millionaire, the man- “To prey upon thieves; that shall be ner of each of them would have par- iiv ueciucs. r ur if u thief taken of strain. No, they had been is robbed, where may he look for re- talking business. What business? What possible Wlth business could exist between the A t“l, white-haired'Whit? “'J' Josiah ht” 3 the Higgins had had a son or daughter THE CLUB OF begin here TODAY. The war left John Ainsley, a man of education and breeding, unfit for work. He becomes a master crook. my career,” he decides. “For if a thief L dress ?” Ainsley. visits the Jardin l.„ Nymphes in Paris with two American acquaintances. A tuh, »vhh,c-h< * man is pointed out to him as White Eagle. r".............. taken of strain. No, they had been What business? What possible Britain Builds “Flying Bullet” Of Napier Type Construction of High Speed Seaplane Receives Formal Approval of Air Ministry An air program which has just re­ ceived the approval of the British Air Ministry and which calls for the con­ struction of a standard SupermarinfiJ^ Napier “S 5,” Great Britain’s high speed seaplane, has caused consider­ able discussion in aeronautical circles, as it Is hold to demonstratet one of the most rapid strides over made in airplane building, which will close the wide gap between pure racing planes and practical war craft.- Although the speed of practical air­ craft has been mounting by the tens j of miles an hour, year after year, the construction of fast military planes in -hr! past always has been at least tnree or four years behind racing chips. The new move brings the } standard seaplane fighting equipment, j In date of clerign, within a year and a half of the fiisiest racing ships pos­ sessed by Great ^Britain, Although the Supermariiio Napier will be equip­ ped for the actual requirements of navy air fighters, It will remain on the “experimental list* ’of the Air Minls- ttry during a period of testing. The first detailed description of this fastest of flouting airplanes to be re­ ceived in this country and published in the current issue of “Aero Digest,” says that the fuselage has less cross- seettipn area than any plane ever built—the basis of its design being the minimum cross section required to ac- j commodate a pilot. In the building - the British racers of this -type the cockpit literally was “tailored” to fit the individual pilots who were to fly the planes. "It is generally agreed,” says the “Aero Digest,” “that the Supermarine Napier represents the zenith in clean­ liness,of design. The recent develop­ ments in the design . of the racing Napier Lion engine have given the aircraft designer such perfect op­ portunity to obtain a good lead-in for the fuselage that no Increase in the cross-sectional area of the body was dictated by the consideration of powex* unit Installation.” In general construction the machine is a low-wing, semi-cantilever mono­ plane with twin float chassis. Secrecy ot construction of this "fly­ ing bullet” has been exceeded only by the secrecy with which the Air Minis­ try has surrounded the details of the “Lion” engine which powers it. It was a motor of this type which was in­ stalled In the Campbell racer, when It established a new world’s record for racing cars at Daytona Beach recentt- Iy- Nevertheless, a few interesting de- A tails regarding this mystery motor^ were given to the public last week by the Air Ministry. The engine has twelve cylinders, arranged in a broad arrow design of three converging blocks of four cylinders each. The bore is 5^ inches and the stroke 5 1/8 inches. It has the ex­ ceptionally high compression ratio of 10 to 1. The whole frontal area the engine is remarkably compact and therefore easily adaptable to the nar­ rowest of fuselage installation. But, despite the small space which it occupies, this power unit is capable of delivering 86 horsepower at 3,300 revolutions a minute. The total weight of the engine is only 835 tpounds, which is a fraction less than a pound for every horsepower de­ livered. Canadian Pools Pay Over $800,000,000 Winnipeg.—An interim payment on wheat and flax amounting to $28,- 000,000 is being received by members of Wheat pools of Manitoba, Sas­ katchewan and Alberta, and the Coarse Grain Pools of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. In making the an­ nouncement of this distribution, E. B. Ramsay, manager of the Central Sell­ ing Agency, said that the Canadian pools now have paid out more than $800,000,000 to their members since 1923, when the first pool was started in Alberta. The pools handled more than 185,- 000,000 bushels of wheat during tlio crop year 1927-28, Mr. Ramsay said. This is about 6,000,000 bushels mor© than was delivered by the three pro­ vincial pools of the Central Selling Agency during the previous crop year. Stuffed Dates Wash and stone 2 pounds of dates the day before the candy is‘ to be made, so that the dates will not be too sticky to work with. ’ The next day have ready walnut meats, marshmal­ low, peanut butter and fondant in small quantities if the dates are to be assorted or any one o fthe foul* fillings if they are to be plain. For really de­ licious stuffed dates, vary the filling. Use marshmallow and walffutts, fon­ dant and peanut butter, fondant and nutt. For 3 or 4 dates, use a nut meat and a small amount of filling. Mold the dates well after the filling has been added and the dates will not crack. Rojl the finished stuffed data In either granulated or powdered sugar. "Two Million Marks in Legs Arrive Here.” These legs are evidently well armed against adversity,.... . ..... Truth is the highest lKffig that nwoa may keep.—Geoffrey Cancer. Owner, in 1489, Refused to Give Animal to King’s Daughter Chicago.—The pining of a princess for a giraffe 400 years ago is pre­ served in a history of that elongated Additional Pulp and Paper animal published by the Field Mus- Mills Probable in Near earn of NaLural History. Lorenzo de P j Medici had a giraffe m his menagerieFuture Florence, which aroused the in­ picturing the future of the Hudson • terest of Anne de Beaujeu, daughter Bay Basin as a productive section of of Louis XI. of Fraffce. She han the Dominion, the Hou. Charles Me-1 dreams of owning a giraffe of her own Crea, Ontario Minister of Mines, spoke , and finally alleged Lorenzo had pro- briefly recently before the Canadian , mised her his. Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, • Finally she wrote him on April 14, Toronto Bmiicli ;1489« Her pies. of no fiVctll. Lor-* Mr. McCrea introduced Dr. R ».!«“„>“« .......... Stewart, chief medical adviser of the ‘ Hudson's Bay Company, who gave an illustrated lecture on “The Natural Resources of the Hudson Bay Basin.” Mr. McCrea referred to the railway builders pushing two different lines up to Hudson Bay and James Bay, as mo­ dern pioneers, following the example j set by Hudson, the explorer, in 1611. 1 Noting the immense area of the nT)Q AAA , ..........................................-rri Despite my resolutions, then, to think no more of Higgins and the White Eagle, they were both in my mind as, turning a corner into the Rue des Saints Peres, I collided with a group of people standing before a doorway. I muttered an apology, stepped back, and noted that the per­ son of the group with whom I had come into most violent contact—he had fallen to the ground—was blind in one eye. I bent over swiftly and helped him to his feet. My perfunctory apology • Seeing that he "was poorly dressed, I ventured to offer him a coin. He seized it greedily, and I would have passed on, only I noticed that the rest of the group were all blind in one eye. Other groups stood across the street, in the street, and farther down the narrow sidewalk on which I stood. And I noticed that every single one- of them suffered the same affliction: they were all lind in one eye. I suppose that my amazed horror was reflected in my face. For man to whom I had presented gratuity laughed at me. “Monsieur is amazed, yes? To so many of us is strange?” “Is this a hospital here?” I asked, pointing at the building before which we stood. He shook his head. “No, monsieur, it is the home of a patron of all af­ flicted such as we. Monsieur has not read this morning’s Cri de Paris?” I shook my head and he thrusbdnto my hand a copy of the paper' folded back to expose an advertisement. I read it lamely in my faltering French. Translated, it ran: “A gentleman whose son, having lost an eye for France, bore his wound proudly, despite his affliction, until his death by accident recently, wishes to honor the memory of that noble son by kindnesses to those sim­ ilarly afflicted- The gentleman will devote pa-rt of his large fortune to the founding and maintenance of a club for one-eyed men. It will not be limited only to those who lost their* sight in the war against the cursed Boche. All men who are without the sight of one eye are eligible to the privileges of the Club. Those inter­ ested are requested to apply to Num­ ber —, Rue des Saints Peres, between the hours of nine and twelve on Wed­ nesday.” l-v- I read this amazing advertisement, so typically French in sentiment, and my eyes filled with tears. It was a charity a trifle too bizarre for Amer­ ican taste, but its kindness would ap- White Eagle. The White Eagle, it who could have become _ entangled ml became profuse and sincere- appears, is a brilliant crook who never some underworld affair. I could t has fallen into the clutches of the law. understand that the White Eagle had The White Eagle is in the company. heen called upon for aid. But the of a gross, vulgar-seeming man and I couple were childless. ^man. Ainsley suspects that the} If Hio.gjns were* j.................... White Eagle is manipulating a swindle. He finds out the names of the man and woman—then leaves his friends and returns to his apartment. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY I find that one thinks better in bed than any other place. Undressed, then, with cigarets on-a stand beside me, I pondered the strange relation­ ship which I had seen evidenced to­ night. What was the basis of the acquain­ tance between the White Eagle, a no­ torious though unpunished criminal, and Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Higgins, of Cincinnati, Ohio? I wondered that I had not recogniz­ ed the Higginses at first glance. Still, the photographs of them, which had appeared in the American and Euro­ pean press, had evidently been re­ touched to a degree* And if I had not instantly recognized the faces, I paid proper tribute to the Higgins glory by immediately identifying their names. Who in the newspaper reading world had not heard of Josiah Hig­ gins, who had been a multimillionaire before the war, and who was now popularly reputed to be worth at least a billion? Statisticians had esti­ mated how many times his fortune, if reduced to dollar bills, would girdle the globe, how many times it would rebuild the Pyramids if reduced to silver coins. And other statisticians had solemnly affirmed that it cost thirty thousand dollars to dress Mrs. Higgins for breakfast, and at least a million and a quarter properly to clothe and ornament her for dinner. Their extravagance had become a matter of international}, awe. Also, the queer” parsimony that accompan­ ied their extravagance was known to all the world. Higgins proudly boast­ ed that he never gave a dollar to charity, and the he never lent money. They tipped outrageously, but Hig­ gins haggled with his workmen, and was probably the most cordially hated employer in America. They had assailed the gates of fa­ shion in New York, and their rebuffs had become historic. They had failed j to impress Mayfair and the Fau-| bourgs as well as Fifth Avenue, but; they did not lack for satellites. They] were in a fair way toward creating i a fashionable society of their own, if' fashion be judged, as it frequently is, by the amount of newspaper space ac-, corded it. j And this couple talked confidential-1 ly with such a person as the White! If Higgins were as foolish as he was unadmirable, I could have guess­ ed at a solution of the problem that puzzled me. I could have imagined that the White Eagle was surrepti­ tiously disposing of stolen goods to the milloinaire. But Higgins was tool sane to indulge in that sort of shady barter, if he were not too honest. I tossed upon the bed; I fumed and fretted and smoked a score of cigar- ets. Somewhere in this relation be­ tween the criminal and the milloinaire lay an opportunity for me, if only I had eyes wherewith to see it. For whatever the relation between Higgins and the White Eagle, it must be something underhanded, even They were all blind in one eye. though I could not guess why the mil­ lionaire should descends to such a mat­ ter. The White Eagle was a crook; a crook does only crooked business,a crook does only crooKea DUbinvaa, ican taste, but its kindness would ap- whether his partner be honest or I pea] f0 the generosity of any country. I otherwise- That is axiomatic. But j placed another coin in my inform- i Giraffes have been popular in regal circles since the time ptian kings. Julius 1 Rome its first giraffe procession in 4G B.C. Although it hardly i giraffes have gone up. i cost o£ remote Egy- Caesar showed in a triumphal seems possible, They used to between $1500 and $2000, but now run from $5000 to $7500. Always have the magic WRIGLEY package in your pocket. Soothes nerves, allays thirst, aids digestion ISSUE No. 14—’28 where in the axiom lay a profit for me?I awoke with a headache; I had slept little, and that little hatf been interrupted by dreams in which the White Eagle took a fortune from Jos­ iah Higgins, while I looked on, power­ less to abstract the fortune from the so-called supercrook. I tried to eat breakfast, but the com­ bination of too much wine and too little sleep had killed my appetite- I was nervous, restless, and so I went for a walk. I crossed to the Left Bank, wandering aimlessly, my mind intent-on the puzzle, solution of which j I felt meant profit to me, and finally found myself in the neighborhood of the Luxembourg. The walk had clear­ ed my head, and appetite had come to, me. I walked on to Foyot’s and ord- j ered breakfast. Food put me in a* more philosophical frame of mind. After all, I might be deluding myself; Higgins might have made the . ac­ quaintance of a notorious crook simp­ ly for the sake of the thrill that sorg# people gain from such an acquain­ tance. At any rate, it did not behoove me to wear out mf nerves in imagin­ ing problems that, having no exist­ ence, could have no solution. And yet I was ashamed of these re­ flections; for after all, they. were simply confessions of my own inabil­ ity to meet a situation and make It yield a profit. ant’s palm, and hurried away from the grotesque scene. But at the first corner I stopped, turned and stared after the man who had passed me. It was the White Eagle; and all my interest in him, which had evaporated while I read the strange advertisement, condensed and flowed back into my brain. And then interest became amaze­ ment, for he entered the house before i which the groups of blind men • Immediately upon his entrance a servant came to the door and beckon­ ed to the unfortunates. Five minutes later they ‘were all within the house- I waited outside, at a convenient corner. Somehow or other I could not believe that this grotesque adver­ tisement contained all that was of in­ terest. Of course, crooks are notor­ iously impulsive, given to streaks of extravagant generocity. Nevertheless I waited. One by one, the blind men began to emerge from the house. All of them seemed happy, as - though incredible good fortune had come to them. Fin­ ally the man whom I had tipped ap­ peared. I accosted him, and he beam­ ed upoii me. . “Ah, it is my generous American!” “Well, did you join the Club?” I asked., . ; ' . (To.be continued.) —--------Minard's Ufa I me nt for cuts add bruises A SMART DAYTIME FROCK This attractive frock is a practical and smart style for all d'aytime wear. 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Write your name and address plain­ ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want^ Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap ■ it carefully) for each number and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. -------------9------------ Undercover Work. Professor—"What did you about the salivary glands?” Girl—“I couldn’t find out a Professor.- They’re so darn live.” \ Hudson Bay Basin, rilore than 3,000,- 000 square miles, Dr. Stewart refer­ red to the vast range of itts climatic conditions extending from sub-Arctic to temperate. Geological Make-up. Referring to the geological make-up of the basin, the speaker tuoched up­ on the granite to be found along the northern rims of the bay, the lignite on the Salmon River which supplies the stoves of many of the northern stations of the company, the mica be­ ing produced in small quantities at Lake Harbor, the nickel deposits at Cape Smith, lead at Mayfair River, gypsum and china clay in’the Moose Factory section, and quantities of iron ore to be found in the Belcher Islands district, but noted that so far no gold deposits of any consequence have been located, although prospecting is being carried still further northward, and a fair probability exists of this precious metatl being found In paying quantities. v Furs, the product of the district for 250 years, are still being sent out in large quantities, Dr. Stew*art stated. Fish of Two Varieties. "Hudson Bay is not teeming fish, as some people Imagine,” Stewart said, referring to the scarcity of any variety except rock cod and white fish. In time, the fisheries of the basin may attain large production, but not for some years. Pulp and paper production is already going ahead, with prospect of additional mills in the near future. Black and white spruce, tamarac, balsam, poplar, white birch and balsom pine are among the principal species of timber.- found in the area. Fall wheat, grow- ’ ing at Moose Factory, had shown as high a yield as that iff the Western provinces, and a good future in agri­ culture was predicted by Dr. Stewart. “I believe the Hudson Bay area route will prove a boon to Western Canada for general commodities, but it will not be for some years—pos­ sibly never—that wheat will be ship­ ped to any great extents. 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