HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-06-21, Page 7by
THE EXETER TIMEJ5-ADV0CATE THURSDAY, JUNE 21st, 1928
............... .... . C7.
Arthur Somers Roche
fl'B3
And now the red returned. I
lost thrice in succession, shifted by
allegiance, 'and beheld black turn
up. In disgust I arose and walked
to another table. I arrived, in time
to see the Baronne d’Esterelle he*
ing paid off. She had backed se
venteen for the maximum in half a
dozen ways, and was receiving from
the admiring croupiers
solently solicitous for
forty thousand francs,
taele was disgusting,
seen a woman of rare
fering because her
lost a sixth of what this, profiteer’s
wife hud won, My sympathy is with
loveliness and charm, So 1 went
to another table.
always in-
tips, nearly
The spec-
I had just
beauty suf
husband had
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
flohn Ainsley, a man of education
and breeding, becomes a master
crook, preying upon other thieves.
At Monte Carlo he develops a de
sire to meet the clever thief who
stole a . pearl necklace from
the throat of the Baronne d’Es-
terelle in the crowded halls of the
Casino.
still
Glancing at my
ten
At the roulette tables Ainsley
watches a young Englishman and
his strikingly pretty American
bride lose all the money they
have. Behind them stands a tall,
black-bearded man, urging them
on. “Unless the Prince lends
the money, we have nothing,”
says the young husband, glancing
.at the black-bearded one. The
wife looks accusingly .at the
Prince. “.You encouraged Jack,”
she said.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
“Because I know that, his luck
must turn,” said the Russian. He
fejpiled. “You hesitate to borrow
me? It is nothing. In a little
While you will make some successful
coups; your husband will repay me;
we will order champagne and laugh
together at your moment of des
pair.”
' Icily contemptuous, she disdained
him. She laid a slimly beautiful
hand upon her husband’s shoulder.
“Come, Jack,” she said again.
Fortune eluded me. I sought her
at every table in the Cercle Prive,
and then I looked for her in the
public rooms outside. But
she escaped me.
watch, 1 found that it was
o’clock, and so decided to try my
luck at the Sporting Club, that
other establishment maintained by
the Casino authorities, where the
fashion and wealth of the world
assemble.' And if it be wondered
at that I had secured entree to this
place,
merely
known
world,
and is
It calls itself -exclusive,
temple of vice-
ous in its scrutiny of applicants for
admission.. After all, the ultimate
test of fashion, or society, is the
possession of money. With enough
money one can ruffle it with the
King of England. ,;With the ap
pearance of money one can ruffle it
with the King’s cousin at the tables
of the Sporting Club.
let wonderment cease, One
mention the name of a well
club, anywhere in the
claims membership therein,
elected to the Sporting Club,
but no,
•can be too rigor-
hand rested op her wrist. She
shuddered, but—-she stayed.
Well, once again it was no busi
ness of mine. I wandered into the
Salon de Rouette, and at the end
table began backing the first do
zen. For half an hour I had vary
ing luck, and then the young Eng
lishman came to my table. His face
was haggard. Evidently those suc
cessful coups which the Prince had
mentioned had not yet been made
by him. And within the next ten
minutes I saw him lose
thousand francs, rise
table, and with a curse,
room.
Here and There Declares War ■
friend!” cried the
as many
from the
leave the
Shortly thereafter, finding that I
had no cjgarette, and not seeing an
attendant at hand, I started for the
bar,
the
The Russian was speaking.
“I
have
haps,
cease
not with you.”
In the corridor I came upon
Englishman and the Prince.
am sorry, my friend, but I
no more money with me. Per-
too, it is as wqll that you
gambling tonight. 'Luck is
The youth’s face became
“But I
tested.
must play to-night,”
whiter,
he pro-
room, open my trunk and cash box,
take from the latter what you will,
and* raturn here. And if good for
tune does not come your way, re
serve enough to pay your hotel bill,
and capital with which to resume
play in the morning.”
“You are a
Englishman.
“Why not?” laughed the Russian,
I heard him slap the young man on
the back. “Go‘by the elevator and
the underground passage. My
apartment is Three-twenty-two. You
will be back here in ten minutes.
No, say no more. Thank me when
fortune has been good.”
I came through the doorway then
It was all I could do to restrain my
self fiom apologizing to the Rus
sian for my base suspicions of him.
I saw the young man turn down the
corridor toward the elevator. The
Russian went down the s.tairs, and
I followed behind him, reclaiming
my hat and coat from the vestiaire
where I had deposited them on ar
riving, and descended the outer
steps of the Club. I, too, had
rooms in the Hotel de Paris, but I
wished a breath of fresh air before
I turned in.
(58)
Completing her 28,000-mile cruise
around the world in the course of
which she visited 18 countries and
27 ports, Canadian Pacific flagship
Empress of Australia docked at
New York April 12, from which
port she sailed December 2 last,
She was carrying 320 passengers,
including prominent society and
banking leaders of Montreal, Tor
onto and other Canadian and United
States cities.
Winnipeg.—Over a thousand new
homesteads have been filed in the
four western provinces during the
month of January and February
this year, being 1,036 as compared
with 629 for the same two months’
period of last year. By provinces,
Manitoba reports 74 homestead en
tries as against 71 last year, Sas
katchewan 430 as against 336, Al
berta 502 as against 213, and Brit
ish Columbia 30 against 9.
1
Enemy
of Dyspepsia
ST. URSULE, QUE, —“For tea
years I could npt digest food.
Now I eat like a new man.
Fruit-a-tives relieved me com
pletely.” Jos. Martin.
Our way of living lays moat
of u« qpen to recurrent attacks
of dyspepsia and kindred ail
ments. To remedy this* the
regular use of Fruit-a-tives is
highly recommended.
The gentle, natural stimula
tion of the bowels and digestive
system by the fruit juice ex
tracts and tonics in Fruit-a-tlves
soon heals bothersome and pain
ful digestion, Try it. Sold by all
druggists—25c and50c per box.
1:
■
I -
!
■V
Now,
line of
mine.
in the
where it conflicts absol-
my profession, I am a
But I was strangely in-
the drama being unfold-
Tlie beauty of the
This time the young man obeyed
3ier. He rose, and they walked off
together. But I noticed that the
Russian accompanied them. I felt
a pang of pity for the Englishman
and his American bride. I could
guess it all so easily; a honeymoon
trip to Monte Carlo, the fascination
of//onlet.te; the unanticapated loss- eij the plunging to recoup, the sin
ister friend who encouraged them
to wager more than they could af-
ford. It is a story that has always
been told, and always will be told,
.when wealth craves youth and
beauty. Sometimes youth and
beauty escapes, but how frequent
are the other times.
So I descended in the elevator Lo
tlie^ underground passage that leads
from the Casino, through the Hotel
de Paris, to the Sporting Club, and
in another elevator rose to the
gambling rooms.
Duchess and demimondaine, mar
quis and munition-maker, princess
es, entrepreneurs, brewers, million
aires, royalties, actors, authors,
chorus girls and perhaps even such
others of my own profession as may
be found in any cosmopolitan ga
thering—they were all in the Sport
ing Club. ,
eavesdropping, save
business, is not a habit of
I trust that it is not necess
ary for me to repeat with frequency
that, save
utely with
gentleman,
terested in
ed before me.
American girl had won my heart.
So I stepped back into the rou
lette room. An Italian was mak
ing some sensational windings, and
no one else would leave the room
until his spectacular luck changed.
I could listen unnoticed.
“But why not to-morrow? "The
salles de jeux will be open to-mor
row,” smiled the Russian.
“The hotel, Prince,” he faltered.
“The bill was presented yesterday.
They asked me about it to-night. 1
dare not return—”
inviting tea-tables at which
tea. is drunk. I ordered a
milk. I find that the bev-
soothing to the nerves, and
one
small
“Then, perhaps Madame, your
wife, who has returned there, will
be subject to annoyance,” said the
Prince. “Then of course you must
win. And I have money in my room.
But I cannot go there just now.
There is a gentleman awaiting me
downstairs. It is a matter that has
to do with statecraft. You will
understand. You know the troubl
ous condition of Russia. And I
shall be engaged nearly all night.”
Bui, after all, it was none of my
wisinesS. I should have liked to
tyrop a word of warning in the
^oung man’s ear, but if his wife’s
caution was unheeded by him, of
what avail would be the word of 'a
stranger?
So I returned to t^ie game. The
little incident, had passed.Junoticed.
They are a sophisticated lot at
»Ionte; and everything, even death itself, is dismissed, with a shrug and
a smile..
I went first to? the cozy little bar,
with its
so little
glass of
erage is
nerves need soothing when
gambles, even though for
stakes. While I drank it, I survey
ed the little'room. And there in
the alcove I saw tile American girl,
her husband, and the big Russian
whom he ha°d called “The Prince.”
They were evidently ending a dis
cussion. For I saw the Russian
hand the young man a sheaf of
bank-notes, saw the girl’s express
ion of despondency, and noted the
grin of triumph on the Prince’s
face. ’The jaws of the wolf wfere
near, I felt, to the
the quarry. Then
leaped to his feet,
the roulette room,
have followed,
whispered to her.
white throat of
the young man
and rushed for
The girl would
but the Russian
His thick, hairy
His voice
though he were
with difficulty,
he was about to
grew uncertain, as
choosing his words
uncertain of what
say. ' •
with the overthrow“It has to do
of Bolshevism, this little meeting of
tonight,” he went on. “In fact,
I may not be back till morning. But
even so!” His voice grew sudden
ly assured. “Here are my keys,
monsieur. See, this is the key to
my apartment. This other is the
key to my trunk—that big trunk
that you will find behind the screen
in my bedroom. And this tiny key
will unlock a steel cashbox that you
will find in the top drawer of the
trunk. Go there, monsieur, to my
But lo my surprise, I saw mount
ing the hill toward the hoetl, hurry
ing at a great rate, the figure of the
Prince. Yet I had heard him say
that he was to meet, some one down
stairs in the Sporting Club. I was
surprised at seeing him now, Also
I was surprised to find that the
stars had disappeared, and that a
cold rain was proving the fact that
February is not May, even though
it counterfeits the gentler month
oceasionally here upon the Riciera.
So I gave up my plan o obtain
fresh air, and started for the hotel.
A belated cabman hailed me. It was
only a few hundred yards, but one
can be thoroughly wet, by a Riv
iera rain, in a few feet.
Raymond.—According to a cable
from London, England, discoveries
likely to be important for the Cana-.’
dian beet sugar industry have been’
made at Oxford, A means has been
found to dry the sugar beet and
thus allow the manufacture of
sugar to be continued throughout
the year, and it is even believed
that a method of treating the re
sulting effluent in such a way as
to free it from poison has also
come to light. The discoveries are
a 'result of four years' research
work.
Coositry
trade is
a®w City
trade
(To be continued)
LIKE AN ARABIAN
NIGHT’S DREAM
Vancouver.—I am satisfied with
the progress of Canadian products
in the Chinese trade fieid and pros
pects for the increase of trade are
extremely good,” Col. Moore Cos-m
grave, Canadian Government Trade
Commissioner to China, said here
on his arrival from the Orient.
“Canadian products of all kinds and
especially those from British Col
umbia are being very well received
in China now. There is no real
boycott against Canadian goods; the
Chinese merchant knows his prices
and knows where to place his or
ders.”
and
and
the
Announcement has been made
from Canadian ^Pacific Railway
headquarters that a "Remembrance
Tour” is being organized for the
coming summer for ex-soldiers,
their relations and friends to visit
the scenes of battles m France and
Flanders during the Great War.
The tour will leave Montreal July
13 next,fon board Canadian Pacific
liner “Duchess of Bedford”, one of
the new cabin class steamships
which will be placed by the com
pany on the St. Lawrence route
this year.
you pass through
of mighty Sorest-
Taste again the
beautiful Vancou-
Then take the
scenic
Have you ever wished to see with
your own eyes deep-caverned val
leys, snow-topped mountains, rugg
ed pathways that lead adventurous
souls from the heart of forest lands
up to rocky, misty heights? 1
All this is part of the magnificent
panorama of mountain, glacier
racing stream that you can see
enjoy as you traVel through to
Pacific Coast and to Alaska.
On the way there you can stop
off at Jasper National Park—see the
wonders of ’this greatest of Cana
dian playgrounds.
Then leave civilization behind for
a day or two as
range after range
clad mountains,
joy of city life at
ver and Victoria,
far-famed .trip through the
seas of the North Pacific Coast to
Alaska—the land of the Midnight
Sun.
Low tourists fares are now in ef
fect. The complete cost of the trip
is surprisingly low—well within
reach of the average person. This
way you really see the. West.
Ask any Canadian National Rail
ways Agent for full particulars and
literature on these tours. He will
be glad to assist you to plan your
itinerary.
A nineteen-year-old youth, Arthur
Cleland Lloyd, of Vancouver, was
the winner of the $1,000 prize for
orchestral suite composed for the
Musical Festival to be held at Que
bec May 24-28. Three other prizes
were rewarded and a further $1,000
for a cantata will be given later.
The prizes, which totalled $3,300,
were the gift of E. W. Beatty, chair
man and president of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. The contest was
open to all the world and composi
tions were received from Great
Britain, France, Hungary, Denmark
and the United States as well as
Canada.
Realize the immense change
in conditions—in just a few
years — that the telephone
has helped bring about. ’•
Call up our Manager and
ask him the rate to points
you are interested in.
And the cost of Long Dis
tance messages is small -—
is often quite a little less
than is generally supposed.
The store in the smaller
town now carides pretty
much the same up-to-date
styles as the big city store.
Thanks to Long Distance,
Manufacturers’ or Whole
salers’ warehouses are prac
tically at the storekeeper’s
elbow. The time required
to telephone an order by
Long Distance is now only
a few minutes; connections
are now often made at once,
without hanging up the
receiver.
THE LURE OF THE LAURENTIANS
l HTfl
can
Off for the day on the wings tof the cool breezes.
28,
the
Co.,
; Equity Building, Toron-
and at the Post Office,
and at the Builders’
Bay Street, Toron-
SEALED TENDERS addressed to
?• undersigned, and endorsed
“Tc-ndfers for North Pier reconstruc
tion, Goderich, Ont.”, will be re
ceived until .12 o’clock noon (day
light saving ), Thursday, June
1928, for the reconstuction of
North Pier, at Goderich, Huron
Ontario.
Plans and forms of contract
be seen and specifications and forms
of tender obtained at this Depart
ment. at the office of the District
Engineers, Customs Building, Lon
don. Ont.
to, Ont.,
Goderich, Ont., ;
Exchange, 1104
to, Ont,
Tenders will
unless1 made on
(I). A section of the North River at Piedmont,
joying the best sport of all.
'The Spring Floods in the Laurentians have in no
way,affected the fishing in that district, sports-
anen returning to Montreal have stated, adding that
the fish are biting better than previous years and that
the qatch has exceeded their past Records.
The Laurentians, so popular during the winter
for skiers, enjoy in reality a year round favour in
the eyes of holiday hunters, and have at every season
some particular attraction to offer. At present the
fishing is bringing many sportsmen up into the
mountains, and as usual this is proving to be of the
best.
The Mont Tremblant district is perhaps, the
most attractive and interesting in the Laurentians.
This mountain was known to the Indians as “ManitoU
Ewitchi-Saga” signifying, the “Mountain of the Dread
Manitou,” and the legendary dominating power of the
range, beneath whose wrath the whole district
“trembled. . ...__ -------------------------------------
There are beautiful lakes not far from Mont
Tremblant, Lake Gauthier and Lake Ouimet, where a
hotel and summer cottages have been built and good
fishing abounds. The district north of Mont Trem
blant is a pathless wilderness stretching as far north
as the Arctic Circle, with no settlements whatever.
The only human habitations are those of lumbermen
and hunters, who canoe up the Devil’s River and the
intervening lakes during the fall of the year, making
their permanent camp about one hundred miles north
of Mont Tremblant.
Access to this recreation land is provided by
the Canadian Pacific Railway from Montreal to such
places as Shawbridge, Piedmont, Ste. Marguerite,
Vai Morin, Ste. Agathe, Ivry, St. Faustin, Labqlle
and Mont Laurier, and the end of the line. The line
running north from Ottawa to Maniwaki is no less
liked and carries many anglers northwards from the
capital for a spring vacation with rod and line at this,
not be considered
printed forms sup
plied by the Department and in ac
cordance with conditions contained
therein.
Each tender must be accompanied
by an accepted cheque on a char
tered bank, payable to the order of
the Minister of Public Works, equal
to 10 per centum of the amount of
the tender. Bonds of the Dominion
of Canada or bonds of the Canadian
National Railway Company will also
be accepted? as security, or bonds
and a cheque if required to make
up an odd amount.
NOTE—Blue prints can be ob
tained at this Department by depos
ing an accepted cheque for the sum
of $20.00, payable to the order of
the Minister of Public Works, which
will be returned if the intendnig
bidder submit
By
a regular bid.
order,
S. E.
PublicDepartment of
Ottawa, June 6, 1928
O'BRtEN
Secretary
Works,
Ottawa may :conceivably be se
lected for a future’meeting of the
Council of the League of Nations
and Rt. Hon. W. L.‘Mackenzie King,
Prime Minister of Canada, should
attend the next assembly of the
League in appreciation of the honor
paid Canada by her election to the
council of the 14 leading powers of
the League of Nations, was the
statement of Sir Herbert Ames, for
seven years financial director of
the Secretariat of the League, when
interviewed on the Windsor street
C. P. R. station here recently.
Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Comp??.: t2(l
Master Fred, Messrs. Perkins, Eem-
bly and Alexander Elliott, :f Exe
ter, were Sunday visiters at the
home of J. H. R. and Mrs. SITott.
—Blyth Standard.
» . >.W..' .-..I? ■' • .
Boils Caused
Terrible Suffering
Miss M. E. PQllock, Elgin, N.B.,
writes:—"I suffered so terribly from.1
boils, on the back of my neck and on
• my arms, that often times I was
forced to leave my work. When D
would get some of them healed there
would be more break out in another'
place.
‘‘I was told that my blood needed,
purifying and to use
HHt
and I am very thankful I found such,
a helpful remedy as I am not troubled,
with them any more.”
Manufactured only by The T. Milburn.;
Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
FASTER ’
I o'BJ
S
«
a-
For Sale By
The Ross-Taylor Co.* Ltd.
A. Spencer & Son - -
Exeter, Ont*
« Hensail, Onti