HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-10-03, Page 6Rainbow Gold
by
E. C. BULEY
SYNOPSIS
Dan Prescott and Gordon Westerby
find gold in the arid bush of Australia.
They stake their claim and start the
long journey to the coast.
Westerby has a fiancee, Gladys Clem
ents in England, but when they arrive
in Sydney he marries a pretty blonde.
Gordon forwards a photo of Dan to
former fiancee, Gladys Clements, in
London and when Dan arrives she be
lieves he is Gordon. Eve Gilchrist, a
typist, obtains work in Medlicott s of
fice, the broker who is floating the
mine* * * *
"At a rough guess there might be
£5,000 or more,” Dan said. I didn’t
strip any more of the lode than I
could help.”
‘‘Afraid you might come to the
end of the golden stone, I suppose?”
Medlicott suggested. "You preferred
to pass the buck t0 somebody else,
eh?”
"You had the deposit inspected by
an expert before you purchased the
mine,” Dau reminded him. "He may
have proved it more extensively than
I did. I was not present at the in
spection.”
‘‘That’s all right,” Medlicott an
swered easily. ‘‘Slade knows his busi
ness. Now, what’s the first work that
must be done on the spot?”
‘‘Put down a water bore,” Dan said
readily. "There’s underground water
there for sure; but it only flows above
ground when the pressure of the wet
season rains swells the reservoir. A
bo’-e and an oil pump ought to set
tle the water difficulty.”
‘‘And the men who do the boring;
how d0 they drink?” Medlicott ask
ed. "I mean, until the water is flow
ing?”
"Water will have to be carried
two hundred miles, in tanks, on cam
el back,” Dan told him.
“Why camels? Why not motor
traction?”
‘‘Camels for a start,” Dan insisted.
‘‘They’ll make a track over the sand.
Their feet beat it hard in time; hard
enough for cars to go over it, if the
tyres are not too tightly blown. Ma
chinery can go up by camels, and so
can stores; and later, building ma
terial.” . ; •;
"It strikes me,” Medlicott media
ted, "that operating a mine two hun
dred miles from anywhere is likely
to be a costly business.”
"Certain sure,” Dan agreed. “That’s
why we had to sell. It wasn’t because
I doubted that the golden stone was
an extensive deposit. It was just
that the proposition was too big for
two prospectors to handle.”
"Well, I’m interesting some wealthy
people in the venture,” Medlicott
said, "And they’ll want to meet you
and hear about it first hand. Show
them the rich stone, and give them
some idea of the adventure of find
ing it. That means a bit of visiting
about and dining out for you, Pres
cott.”
"I’m no good at that sort of thing,”
Dan said uneasily.
"I think you are,” Medlicott smil
ed. "Now, I’ giving you a secretary;
a smart girl named Miss Gilchrist.
She’s writing a sort of pamphlet
about Central Australia, and so on.
And she’ll see you right on the so
cial side.”
A girl!” Dan said in dismay, mar
veling that his life, formerly devoid
of feminine interest, now seemed to
consist of one gh’l after another.
"Yes, a girl,” Medlicott isaid. "1
think a lot of her, Prescott; I mean
as a business associate. I’d like to tell
you how I discovered her.”
He told the story of the smash-and-
grab raid well; and to a good lis
tener.
"What I particularly liked,” he con
cluded, “was the way she kept out of
the limelight, and let the police take
all the credit for the arrest.”
"Dodged the bouquets,” Dan said
approvingly. "That was nice work.”
When the two ment returned to the
office Medlicott took Dan to Eve Gil
christ.
"You’ve got to make Mr. Prescott
talk, Miss Gilchrist,” he laughed.
"And I want you to look after him
generally, if you can. Tell him the
good shows to see, and so'on. He
doesn’t know a soul in London ex
cept myself.”
Dan found a tall girl, very neat in
severe tweeds, looking at him calm
ly out of a pair of clear grey eyes.
He had hardly dared to touch her
proferred hand; but felt his own
grasped by slim, cool fingers, which
were in iio haste to relax their pres
sure.
As a matter of fact it had occurred
to Eve to d0 a little detective work.
The arrival of the Australian had eli
cited more innuendo from the social
contact department, which openly
doubted whether the stranger had
ever done a day’s mining in his life.
Eve was exploring for a soft palm
of an impostor, and found instead
the callosites and hard bone of a
manual worker.
Then she realized that she -was al
most holding hands with this brown
faced and timid stranger. Eve was
one of the women to whose protective
instinct a shy and modest man in
stantly appeals. Shame at her unjust
suspicion further prompted the offer
ishe made, as she relinquished Dan’s
hand.
"I might take Mr. Prescott about
a bit at first myself,” she remarked
with a -winning smile. “That is, if he
doesn’t mind being seen w’ith a Girl
Guide.”
She saw a dark flush come into
Dan’s face, and noticed a look in his
eyes that could not -well be miscon
strued. If no verbal reply was elici
ted by her handsome offer, it was
clear that the recipient of it was ov
ercome by its generosity.
As for Dan, he knew in that mo
ment that Gladys Clements had ceas
ed to exist for him. He loathed him
self for enduring her sticky endear
ments, and raged at the idiocy of his
recent conduct.
This clear-eyed, wholesC-me girl had
made him a sort of offer of friend
ship, out of the splendid gracious
ness that was hers. He might never
be more than her humble friend and
silent adorer; but that, he knew, he
was fated to be for the remainder of
his life.
INSTALMENT FOUR
"I suppose you smoke a pipe,” Eve
remarked, as she selected a cigarette
from a little box. “Will you put your
pipe on, please? You are to do the
talking, you know, Mr. Prescott. And
smoking is a wonderful help, I always
think.”
She lit up herself, and blew a
smoke wreath, inspecting some pap
ers without a glance at Dan. He
knew she was giving him time to col
lect his thoughts, but for the life of
him he could not think of any "way
to begin.
“Tell me why you and your part
ner looked for gold in this particu
lar spot,” Eve suggested, still busy
with her notes.
"That’s a bit of a long yarn,” Dan
answered.
Silence. Finally Eve looked up at
him reproachfully, elevating her
eyebrows in surprise at his failure
to supply the information required.
Dan cleared his throat an dmade a
plunge into speech.
‘‘It began with a bloke I know—a
friend of mine, I mean — who had a
good win at the races. So he bought
himself an old third-hand aeroplane.”
“What for?” Eve asked, for it did
not seem to her that the purchase
followed so naturally as Dan im
plied.
"To see Australia,” Dan said simp
ly. “He learned to fly it, and he saw
a lot, while the money lasted. He
just flew hither and about, having a
look-see over the empty places on
the map. On the flight he spotted this
hill, and the mile of creek bed stuck
out there in the dry desert. A water
course, with nothing to account for
the beginning or the end of it, you
see.”
(To Be Continued)
Brisk Walking Keeps
Nonagenarian Fit
"GOLDEN VIRGINIA"
and enjoy a really
good smoke!
also maCTup in cigarette tobacco
Issue No. 39 — ’35
27
Though she is more than 90 years
old Mrs. H. O. Ness of Dawson, Minn.,
who is paying a visit to her son,
Oscar Ness, in Winnipeg, is still as
spry and cheery as most people half
her age.
She rises at 6 a.m. every day. She
does an enormous amount of work,
keeping her home and managing her
own business affairs and is incident
ally a great church worker and act
ive in all community projects. Every
evening, with very few exceptions,
she takes a brisk -walk. It is this
exercise, she says, that keeps her
body so remarkably supple and
straight.
She was born in Bergen, Norway.
She is an inveterate traveller. In
the 500-mile motor trip with her son
frim Dawson to Winnipeg, she
would not let him break the trip for
an overnight stop, and when they
arrived in Winnipeg, ahe almost in
sisted on helping to intie the lug
gage from the car. I
Gable and Young
One of Jack London s
known books, "The Call of the
Wild”, now comes to the screen
and has every known element to
appeal to every movie fan. Clark
Gable and Loretta Young are per
fectly cast and Buck, the dog,
will win everyone.
THE WORLD’S SIXTH
POULTRY CONGRESS
The preliminary announcement of
the World's Poultry Congress which
meets in Berlin next year has just
Ebeen published. Congress sessions
will be held in the "Opera Kroll” and
will be officially opened on July 24th
by Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
During the Congress the afternoons
will be devoted to excursions to places
of interest within the city of Berlin
and outside. At the close of the Con
gress the delegates will attend the
opening ceremonies of the Olympic
Games and then take a week’s tour
through rural Germany, including a
trip down the Rhine. A six weeks’
trip is being arranged for Canadians
when France, Switzerland and Bel
gium also will be visited on the Con
tinent, and a few days in England
on the way home.
So far the following countries have
definitely decided to participate;
Canada, Argentina, Australia, China,
Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Ecu
ador, Esthonia, Haiti, Holland, Hun
gary, Italy, Mexico, Norway,
ern
and
South-
tAodesia, Sweden, Switzerland
the United States.
Improving Poor
Pasture Fields
of phosphorus,
the droppings
are returned to the pasture
a net loss of phosphorus in
of live s.ock and
This continued re-
never very
soil, soon becomes
in the growth of
crops,
failure
white
Even if
of grazing
A treat for green tea drinkers
particularly
of legumes,
clover, due
contribu;es
Application of 300 to
20 percent, superphos-
or its equivalent is
and should last from
Both grass and soil from pastures
that have been grazed for a number
of years without manure or phos
phate applications will show a de
ficiency
most of
animals
there is
the production
their products,
moval of phosphorus,
abundant in the
a limiting factor
desirable pasture
the legumes. The
and particularly
to phosphorus deficiency,
further to the thinning of the grass
es dependent upon the legumes for
nitrogen.
Superphospate (acid Phosphate)
is the first fertilizer material to use
and the one most likely to pay
through stimulation of both legumes
and grasses.
500 pounds of
pate per acre
recommended
three to five years.
Commercial nitrogen in addition
to superphosphate, applied at the
rate of 150 to 200 pounds per acre
as .soon as growth starts in the
Spring, will advance grazing from
one to two weeks. To avoid burn
ing the tender leaves, apply when
the pasture is dry.
Under conditions where very tew
desirable pasture plants remain it
may be better to plow’, fertilize, and
reseed the land with an adapted
pasture mixture than to depend upon
fertilizers alone for rejuvenation.
APPLE COLOUR CHART
There has been a steady demand
for the apple colour chart prepared
recently by the Horticultural Divi
sion, Central Experimental Farm, Ot
tawa, to assist in the harvesting of
McIntosh and Fameuse apples at the
proper stage of maturity. This chart
may be obtained free on application
to the Publicity and Extension
Branch, Dominion Department of Ag
riculture, Ottawa.
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This story of Mark Twain and
the old lady in the Pullman should
not be let die—says Cyril Clemens
(in “Mark Twain Wit and Wisdom,”
a splendid collection of 154 stories
and anecdotes about the famous
humorist who was born one hundred
years ago, come November 30 next):
Exhausted to the point of ex
tinction by a very full day in Chi
cago, Mark boarded the night train
for New York and retired
berth at once for (as he
thought) a long night of
repose; but just as he was
over the border-line between wak
ing and sleeping he ' heard an old
lady’s voice wistfully soliloquizing
and telling herself how thirsty she
was, with the regularity and per
sistence of the ticking of a clock.
Oh, I am so thirsty!”* * *
At last, unable to bear the nuis
ance any longer, Mark got up in his
nightclothes and groped his way the
length of the cold, dark car to where
the drinking water was kept. Filling
a glass, he carried it back to the
elderly victim of loquacity and
thirst. This good deed done and a
payment in heart-felt thanks from
the old lady duly pocketed, Mark got
back into his berth and pulling the
blankets up over his head with a
deep sigh of relief and content
snuggled down to sleep. But just as
the sandman was bending over him
a now all-too-familiar and accursed
voice began to exclaim and kept it
up at minute intervals the rest of
the night:
“Oh, I was so thirsty!”* * *
And here is Irvin S. Cobb’s con
tribution to Mr. Clemens’ collection:
| A young reporter called one morn-
I ing as the great humorist lay read
ing and smoking in bed, and an
nounced that he would like his life
story for his newspaper: Mark Twain
took a draw on his pipe and com-’
menced:
“Well, in the days of King George
the Third when I was a young
man I used to . . .”
“Pardon me, right there,” inter
rupted the reporter. “I know that
you are not a spring chicken,
how could you possibly have been
living during the time of George
the Third?”
“Fine, young man,” retorted
Mark, smilingly offering the young
man a cigar, “I heartily congratu
late you. You are the first and only
reporter I ha.V6. evpr met ill my
whole life who corrected a mistake
before it appeared in print.”
By the way, Cyril Clemens is
president of the International Mark
Twain Society and a relative of the
beloved humorist whose real name
was, of course, Samuel L. Clemens.* *, *
Although John Philip Sousa
earned a lot of money from his
musical compositions, he sold the
publication rights of the famous
“Washington Post” march—of whicn
millions of copies have been
for a mere $35.
“I had no adequate idea
value of my composition,”
plained, “and sold the ‘Washington
Post’ and several others for $35
apiece, and I was also to furnish
three arrangements, one for piano,
one for orchestra, and one for band!”* * *
Sousa once had an amusing ex
perience during a visit to Venice
with his wife, where they had the
delight of hearing Castiglioni’s band
play “The Washington Post.” He
relates it in this memoirs, “March
ing Along.” At the close of the piece
Mr. and Mrs. Sousa entered a music
store near the bandstand and inquir
ed for “the piece the band had just
played.” A clerk went over to the
bandstand and on his return hand
ed out an Italian edition of “The
Washington Post, by Giovanni
Filipo Sousa.”♦ * ♦
Sousa was much impressed,
after examining it, said
clerk:
“Who is this Giovanni
Sousa?”
“Oh, he is one of our most
Italian composers.”
“Indeed! I am very interested to
hear it. Is he as famous as Verdi?”
“Well, perhaps not quite as fam
ous as Verdi; he is young yet,
see.”
“Have you ever seen him?”
do not remember, Signor.”* * *
that point Sousa turned to
and said to the clerk:
but
sold —
of the
he ex-
and
to the
Filipo
famous
you
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SALADA
<JAPARTEA>”
Your Handwriting Tells Your Real
Character!
By GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR
(Graphologist)
All Rights Reserved.
Recently I seem to have been re
ceiving more letters than usual ask
ing whether I can tell just w’hen mar
riage might be expected. I w’ould like
to be able to answer questions of
this kind, but it is quite outside the
scope of my work. Questions having
to do with fortune-telling are entire
ly beyond my sphere of influence or
advice.
If you ask me to tell you what kind
of disposition you have, or your boy
friend or girl friend — then I can
help you there. Graphology also shows
whether a writer is reserved and
sensitive, or spontaneous and ardent;
greedy and selfish or kindhearted
and generous; broadminded and tol
erant or narrow’-minded and partial;
refined and cultured or purely physi
cal-minded and material, and in fact
it will reveal the characteristics that
go to make up what you are and
cause you t0 act in the way that you
do.
Graphology, allied to psychology,
plus a smattering of common sense
and some knowledge of human na
ture, will help you immensely in solv
ing the problems that daily confront
so many of us.
But it will NOT tell your fortune,
nor is it able to pierce the veil that
hides Tomorrow’ from Today. It is
based on scientific foundations, and
whilst we do not claim infallibility
for it, no do I myself claim that all
the delineations I make are entirely
beyond criticism, at the same time
there can be no doubt that it is a
tremendous power for good, and a
powrer, moreover, that
cannot afford to ignore, if they are
anxious to make the most of them
selves. I have evidence in the form
letters that express
the writers for help
guidance. And what
many others, has, 1
of hundreds of
the gratitude of
ful advice and
has helped so
suggest, a message for you, too, if
you see it in the right way.
This might also be an opportune
time for me to reiterate once more
that the advice I give in cases of per
sonal problems is not necessarily
final and arbitary. I often have letters
from readers of my articles or lis-
teners-in to my radio broadcasts,
telling me definitely that they will do
whatever I advise. In some cases this
has to do w’ith a choice between two
men for
girl who
mendous
shoulder.
vice when it is asked for or appears
to me necessary, but I would like to
say that any advice I give is render
ed with a view to giving you a new
point of view on your problems. If
you ponder over it and use it as a
basis for finding out the truth for
yourself, then the advice will
served its true purpose.
a suitable husband for a
writes me, and it is a tre-
responsibility to have to
I am not afraid to give ad-
have
most people
Can Mr. St .Clair give you a
slant on your own character?
haps he can reveal some unusual
angles about your friends, too. Send
speciments of the writing you would
like analysed, stating age in each
case. Enclose 10c coin for each speci
men, and send with 3c stamped ad
dressed envelope, to: Geoffrey St.
Clair, Room 421, 73 Adelaide Street
West, Toronto, Ont. Your letter will
be replied to as quickly as is pos
sible in view of the volume of mail
that is continually arriving. And your
letter will be strictly confidential.
new
Per
FARM ACREAGE
IN GREAT BRITAIN
Occupied Agricultural Land
In England and Wales 3Or
370,000 Acres.
The Love of Nature
You
Of
You
At
wife
“Then let me introduce you to
wife: This is Signora Sousa!”
And Mrs. Sousa, in turn, observ
ed:
“Permit me to introduce my hus
band, Signor Giovanni Filipo Sousa
the composer of ‘The Washington
Post’ ”
There was much explanation and
laughter and then the clerk nobly
offered to charge Sousa only the
wholesale price for a pirated copy
of his own march!
his
The total area of agricultural land
occupied in England and Wales in
June, 1935, was 30,359,000 acres, com
pared W’ith 30,454,000 acres in 1934,
a reduction of 84,000 acres or 0.3 per
cent, according to a report just is
sued by the British Ministry of Agri
culture. The area returned as under
crops and grass was 24,984,000 acres,
a decrease of 82,000 acres or 0.3 per
cent. Contrary to the general trend
in recent years, the total area of
rough grazings at 5,422,000 acres
show’ed a small decrease of 2,000
acres compared with the previous
year. For the first time since 1918
the steady decline in the arable area
has been arrested and there was an
increase upon the area in 1934 oi
144,000 acres (1.6 per cent.) to 9,-
394,000 acres; the total arable area
is now rather larger than 1932. This
increase wras due almost entirely to
the expansion in the area under
clover and rotation grasses. On the
other hand the area actually under
crops, excluding clover and rotation
grasses, at 6,775,000 acres showed a
decline of 62,000 acres or 0.9 per
cent, on 1934. A further 'substantial
reduction of 15.9 per cent, to 286,000
acres occurred in the area of bare
fallow. This was the lowest figure re
turned under bare fallow for several
years. For the
sion there wms
of permanent
227,000 acres,
cent, the acreage under permanent
grass of 15,554,000 acres being very
little more than in 1930.
second year in succes-
a reduction in the area
grass amounting to
representing 1.4 per
Design for Living
Enough of joy to balance pain,
Something to lose, something
gain.
Someone to love, some one to care,
A simple faith to mold in prayer,
A sense of peace, of sweet content,
To greet the night when day is spent.
to
The total area under cereals declin
ed by 41,300 acres or 1 per cent, to
4,094,600 acres, increases in
oats and rye being more than
er-balanced by a substantion
tion in the acreage of barley
smaller decrease and there
again a reduction in the area under
roots, a small increase in the acreage
under turnips and swedes. After a
substantial increase in the previous
year the sugar beet acreage in 1935
showed a moderate decline. There
was a small decline in the area
under the four principal vegetables,
but a further net increase in the acre
age devoted to fruit. The acreage of
hops was unchanged.
wheat,
count-
reduc-
and a
was
ask why I write of Nature,
bird and blossom and bee;
ask why the ways of the wild
wood
Bring joy to the heart of me—
And why I write not of the city
Of its life and its busy throng,
And wThy the joys of the country
Are luring and deep and strong.
I once was a child of the wildwood,
,As free as the birds that fly,
As free as white clouds that wander
Afar in the azure sky;
The flowers of early springtime,
The w’hispers of fores: pine,
The call of the wind from the hilltop
Were pleasure that all were mine.
The robin securely nesting
On a beam in the old log-shed,
The swallows from homes on the
barn eaves
Showing their shining heads.
Where friends and dear companions
To the little country child,
Whose spirit was shy, like the
ling’s
That flew through the forest
And W’hen the summer W’aning
Brought autumn’s tender days,
When fields and woods alluring
Were bathed in yellow haze.
The painted leaves, slow drifting
To earth in the sunlight gleams,
The purple haze on the hilltops
Filled life with the joy of dreams.
So must I vrrite of Nature,
So must I sing her praise,
With her I walked and wandered
In the freedom of childhood days.
And in the picture before me
Of tree and blossoming sod,
Of lake and stream and hill top
I can see the hand of God.
—H. B.’ A.
Inattention to
Spoken Word
A Bad Habit
Molly, seventeen, goes to the tele
phone. Someone announces himself
and Molly gets it like a shot. "Oh,
Bill, I thought it was you. What are
you doing?”
"Huh?” says Molly. Bill repeats it.
Then he says, "What are you do
ing?”
■ "Huh?” says Molly again. Bill says
"What are you doing?”
Molly says, "Oh nothing. Just read
ing.”
Bill asks Molly what she was read
ing.
I She says ‘Huh?” again, and Bill
tries hard to remember that Molly’s
curls are golden and her eyes very
blue. After a few dozen ."huh’s” he is
vaguely irritated although he is only
subconsciously aware of her stupid
habit.
Habit escapes detection
She hears perfectly well the first
time but won’t rouse her attention to
the sticking point and lets the idea
soak in by absorption. It is the laz
iest and most slovenly trick in the
world, this habit of putting all the
work on another. If Bill had said
he had been trying to find out the
difference between ichthyology and
entomology, Molly would have been
justified perhaps in asking for a re
petition, but it is the case with sticky-
minded that nothing at all soaks in
at the first telling; easy or difficult
it’s all the same.
Children pick up this habit so eas
ily that a mother, or even a teacher,
may let it go unnoticed. They patient
ly repeat every sentence they utter.
This mental lethargy is almost as
blameworthy as the other.
At the moment we have in mind
two families in whose homes no
right-minded person could stay com
pletely sane for twenty-four hours.
Each member of the family has to re
peat whatever he says twice. Each
one asks to be told over again. A
day is a succession of echoes that
tell a tale of inattention if not actual
stupidity.
CONCENTRATION IS DIFFERENT
"Open the window, Jane,” means
just that. Jane should not be an
swered when she says, “What did
you say?” when she has heard per
fectly well. "See who is. at the door,
Billy,” or "Where is the paper?”
should "register” at once. Why re
peat it?
It is true that children are often
deeply engrossed with something and
actually did hear. Truo, loo, tliat
we rudely interrupt others deep in a
story or a game by some unimportant
remark that could wait. But this is
different from the vacuum of inex
cusable “rigor mortis” of the brain.
Nothing is more restful to the eaves
dropper than to hear people converse
with ears ajar and wits on the trig
ger. Children need to be taught both.
Whether dunmb or not, the mentally-
lazy child will certainly earn thie
name if he' does not "snap out of
it,” and act and look intelligent when
spoken to. Molly might actually be
a smart girl. But if so she is keep
ing it a good secret.
Disappointed!
Fire And Forgetfulness Dash
ed Hopes of Brides-
To-Be
bird
wild.
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Fire and forgetfulness dashed the
hopes of two Manchester brides-to-
be.
For Ellen Corrigan, it was a case
of disappointment at the last min
ute.
With her bridegroom-to-be, Harold
Mottershead, she went to St. James’s
Church, to be married.
The vicar asked for the bride
groom’s certificate of the banns. Mr.
Mottershead could not produce it.
A telephone call to the vicar of
the parish in which the bridegroom
lived was unsuccessful, and the best
man dashed across the city to clear
up the mystery of the missing cer
tificate.
When he returned he told the
bride that Mr. Mottershead had for
gotten to publish the banns in his
own parish.
With tears in her eyes the bride
went back home. She will be mar
ried by special licence.
The other bride - to - be, Mary
Taylor, was to have been married
soon.
But fire destroyed her brides
maids’ dresses, her wedding shoes,
the groom’s suit and the furniture
for their new home.
The fire was at the home of her
fiance, Alfred George Benton, in
Blackley.
Mr. Benton helped to fight the
flames. The loss will probably mean
a postponement of the wedding.
THE MEN WHO LEAD
Today we have two classes of
minds. There is one crowd which
strives to attract attention by loud
ly proclaiming they are materialists,
and there is the other which believes
in personal civic righteousness. It
has been men of the latter type who.
in the past despite conquerors and.
persecution, have led the world and
the same will be true in the future.
—Dan Beard, U.S. Boy Scout Com
missioner.