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Exeter Advocate, 1912-10-31, Page 2OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY I XPLA1N D, C :APTER Is Il , -t onj "a'<, it'ri sm word of explanation to her TEQ.17 SivertAeza ftrttnd himself partner she hastily creased over to d , , la fox tae knew what the piano. But when he met Fro ,tran Haug toe e. f thief's eyes her heart bean to beat 1xo WAS aalroixir, acrd ciao none. of i the lett e1r -t le hoes aid uiie shook him � stat of his ;coli surliness. -,: rouge ley one memories cause floating back to hint AS be listened to the two girls' merry talk, wutehed them: on suddenly they broke, into an prorepto dertee, and begged them to mug to biro the Bald times which : t, heard. ,, h....d o a, for <a awe._ ,cab r, he had ra tis i� "1 'aw; sorq�ry to say," observed e. Std;+4, laauafrlrap, "that, our next- doortells neighbor, Mrs, Haa.lafae,d, ire the general belief in the houses A ;ia that we belong to �e Christy paiufelly, and once more the feel -i io of fear returned to her. "'Will i' f the ycau #ell �� the, naxne o t last seaaltA l" she asked. b e : 'barn bowed, and .�nto the pile of asusic to find the aiof,,. ou she whispered, rg,catwen me 3 Ha;\@. 4f, 1 1 h hex did not her . 'e dl the nvay, teak .yl i Sign �cl t a and s ryltL ~o � d . � g '1fiNrna up: Utnst gilts, Ettgltsh people don t i tQ begin the next`:da,mce. seem to understand that one earl, Boor Blauclze wa daaxtce and sing, at home for pure pleasure and not professionatly*,,, ,(ter that the old a,Rttber often, pa'i4 the a, :visit, end they learned Uke 1414 very, nneeh Osud tQ en' y his tirades aagtrzast #1►e degeat- mc ler t rates. And threes with k, ezall•vened now and than #et otvatzl Tree House, car from they Ranifass, the ped' bye nod the trees orxee more, and they. ; Q Axa that enter anti s' ed by her veil btrrnieg cheeks utrs?.htrd tears,: her feet ce Incest: reftased t violiu whose to tear her laeaart. The thought of the possibility ;e etoppiug the diasinol mockery of en jta weut e:azaae tQ her again, orad she tsagerl P seized the:farst opportunity departure; brit wino once the salts ref the excitement ;was o #gt1R all at ()nee evaporrat- sig sick mead faint, she lay a m14408,04 chair in , tla her ,gold plash area nth iaaxrtillaa which sl madeher 1cat maid, e„aree;t inquiries, t x eeralgia,,, "Let thein lgE It's the CLEANEST, &y.e!fit•"L2'.S'r,:a edllt+ATL3IQME O Aa, ogeg, caa buY,.11,"i?? ,roe d,^rq'R VITSA have to w 102.; .RIND of Co:tlt Toms- Copda aro maga aa,,.So ,+lifitake. rre I,aQpouai'6,Ie, Sand for Tem, Color. Card 6147,' Dooldet, end azaalet,sia.g arat:: ix$.'•,-ez setas-,eataa,a, are JouNseN-meaaaesox Co,,, Limited, Aired, Menu cul. Le' coda,. Now w ah a Iry m - No S ai tld was very x a ginAtive child, and she was just sett the age when girls or extra- va g ant adore:#moons for women., Hose was Slrei looking?" too_ i n she rC z g ," asked, turning away her blushing, „e e z st r face with the tree 4Tara . eca l piR ody of a woinau's innate tendency_ to hide Icer love, - Oh, she w s looking just ifs test alas patty, and es siren -like cretehed is Oman ,,, Then, euaberaog that Ssvanitild was tot? mg to, betir all the truth, she suddenly drew tap. "But there, 't speak of her any more.. I or \v elt to hear her name alar," Frithief cane to breakfast only ew awizautee before. the time when had start for bulls. looked vary neavy, and his iced a pale, set heck which Sig - :id, had learned to interpret only oo well, "You don't look 'well this more- ' lir. Eaatick,'x said the foremaan, earful, bright-eyed,' good -heart - old man, who had mau aged to bring up 'a largo family on his eel-', airy, and to whorlr Frithiof had of- ten applied for advice cues the sub- ject of domestic ecozroaay. "We were up late last night,' said Erithief, by way of enplane, - „l on. But the old areata was ailarewd d quiek.siglrted, and happening. ter on : to be in Mr. Th iifaaeces att� room, sae seized the cover- t r taastafiy' to remark ; it 1 , 4a14`o slaaall have. Mr. Falk knoelc- a Ing out aagam sir, if Pm not xnas- 4ad taakeu he as looking very ill tQ- ,day „ "I'm sorry to hear that,„ staid tl r.Bc iEtee, , lotwere qui tc iglit to tell me, Foster, We will ee what:: eon : be done." And the foreman knee} that there was no favoritism in this speech, ate lovely AS few laabitrzaunR one spriug ever walled westward the 'eveninZ engaaSe' they had now beeaa zaegOstOnked. "NO; We bad nretldn.. at Bergen," be a elms in very good egfirite they t zr, past the great Sestina lee with bis vxoJ u se, :aan; a big roll of music, with the stD,eeess they h bard to win,. t.o envy t It was iatdcea rid to have a a life; This o to be particular] c well la had ansa fi hen strength was day, and the home d�)zzan to great deal to banish the haarxatiuj thoughts 'of the past which tai solitude had so preyed ed on his ,idled. They discussed the people iaz Norwegiarn during the Intervaall, and lar ar -;abet svaay were ee:aartrivizag to get a good deal of fun out of the eveazixr : when suddenly their peace was invaded by the unexpected eight of the very face whieh Frithiof had so stret uously tried to exile from his thoughts, They had just finished a waltz. 'Sigrid looted up from her music and saw, only afew yards distant from her, the pretty willowy figure, the :glowing Race and dark'eyesand siren -like smile of Lady Rominau„ . For a moment her heart seemed to stop beating, then with a wild hope that possibly Fri - thief might not have noticed her, she turned to him with intense anxiety. "Prithiof," Eke said. in Norweg- ian, "you are faint. Go out into the cool and get some water before• the next dance." How she longed to get up and rush from the house! How she loathed that woman who stood flirting withthe empty-headed man standing at her aside l If it had not been for her perfidy how ,different all might now bet "I can't help hating her thought poor Sigrid. -"She has ruined Frithiof's life, and now in one moment has undone the work of months. She brought about my father's failure; if she had been true we should not now be toiling to pay off these -terrible debts hundreds of homes in Bergen would have been saved from a cruel loss -and he -my father -he might have been alive and well! How can I help hating her"' At that moment Blanche 'hap- pened to eatch sight of them. The oolor deepened in her cheeks. "Have they come to that t" she thought. `Oh, poor things! ' How sorry I am for them ! Papa told me Herr Falck had failed; but to have sunk so low! Well, since they lost all their money it was a mercy that all was over between us. And yet, if I had been true to him-" Her companion wondered what made her so silent all at once. "How extraordinary that I should chance to meet my Viking .bcre 1" she thought to herself. '-How veFy much alder" he looks 1 How very much his face has alter- ed:! -One'w-oukl have thought that to come clown in the world would have cowed him a little; but it seems ,somehow to have given him dinity. 'I positively feel afraid of him .' after all, l could soon get ,y old power ova: him if I -'hose tit-, I' will go ar i spear to la a1 , it would be ruche :not to no- fltierr, in their, ;s;.,r position, > v r ised sound street and MOROCCO'S SLAVE MARKET VIVID DESCRIPTION or, LIFE AT IIIARA.RESII. Auctions Opened With "A Word of Prayer" ---.French Stop Traffic. S. L. Benensan writing to the tendon Daily Mirror, regarding the slave trade in Morooeo, says ;- As soon as the trieolor is hoisted permanently" over-Marakesh, the southern capita of the .• Moorish Empire, the Freneh will put an end to the operations of the slave mar- ket, which is to -day the largest in Africa, It hats been fed for centuries by the caravan traffic that came. from. Tianbatetoo and the banks of the Ni- ger morose the Sahara desert. These caravans used to leave Mara- kesh nd cl 1 a. o for ..z crab e g as con. journey through the Sahara to a place he e there are great salt de - Posits. posits, There the carpels used to be loaded with ,gait, and the jour- ney would be resumed across the desert to Tie? ataetoe and the lesser owns along the Niger, where there e an enormous. demand for salt, was paid for in gold dust, ostrich. ethers, and slaves, andthese un- ;tenate humnan beings, tetany of them of tender years, were :carried Beek can eamais across the Sahara under oonditions that frequently, resulted in the death of $0 or 40 per eent. d not at a West End. eat treat to of so differ+ bo bappe>n:e•d earful; things ~ t the shop; sir every aging o a. sphere had work les violin st,t11 ga 10130 n01,16 a i "overley," ass tli d by ,a mac+krac ncl': ``Lady llonni,taa's carriage its aRt y ,. #c {t door, .'aidv icy and ..la the 4 ti a o iaaastily got up, made her was through the brightly lighted hall,1 s and with a sense of relief stepped1 into; her brougham, 1' :t was quite possible for Lady' tnianx to go, but the dance was yet over, arxnd Frithiof and Sig- rid had, of craursel, to stay to the bitter end.:, And at length. the programme had been toiled thr, tugh. She hurried down-staira tet put on her cloak and hat, rejoining Frithiof in a few minutes in the crowded hall, where ho stood looking, to her fond' fancy, a thousand tunes nobler and gran- der than any of the other men about him. "You are very tired V' asked Sig- rid, lipping her arm into his. "Yes, tired to death." he said. "It is humiliating for a fellow to be knocked out by so 'little." "I do not call it 'little,' " she said, eagerly. "You know quite. well it was neither the heat nor the work which tired you. Oh, Frithiof, how could that woman dare. to speak to you I" "Hush I" he ,said, sadly.. "Talk- ing only makes it worse. I wish you -would drive the thought out of my head with seething else." The dine dreary streets through which they walked and the gradu- ally increasing light in the east, seemed like a picture of has own life, for there dawned for him in. his sadness a clearer revelation of the Unseen than had even before been granted -him. CHAPTER XXIII. It seemed to Sigrid that she had hardly gone to bed before it was time to get up again; she sleepily wished that Londoners would give dances at more reanable hc;tlse, then, remembering all that had happened, she forgot her own weariness and turned with an eager question to Swanhild. "It was the little sister's daily duty to go in end wake Frithiof up a task of some difficulty, for either his bad habit of working at night during his lonely year in town, or else her illness, had left him with a ten- dency to be wide awake 'between twelve and two and sound asleep between six -and seven. "You haven't called' him yet, have your asked Sigrid, rubbing her eyes. "No; but it is quite time," said Sivattlnng ,nbiltl, shuup her atlas and rearing up in the bed where she had been luxuriously learning geography. "Oh leave hims .a little longer," ,b said Sigrid. "We were so late last night, and his head ii'as so bad, that I don't suppose he has had rxiueh ;sleep. And; Swar}hill, what- ever you do, don't speak ;of the. d'artee to him orask -him any 'ques-• tions. ,Aa ill -luck.. would have it, Lady ltonia,ax'was ;there.'' ter Mr. Boniface} considered the letslth of his employee as as matter DRESSED FOR. AUCTION, Since the French oecupied Tim- buctoo the value of the elavo traf- fie has dwindled very considerably, but to this day afew caravans manage to struggle through. In the'I great southern capital there are aaanyr Kahle who own a great ap;um- 1 slaves and sell those they do ,ant; and I head when I was aalcesh some yeere ago that', arae or tvco hien ran institutions on' lines of stud farms and used to child slaves for the market. The business is in the hands of aa, group of auetiou ers sailed dila,le.. They receive the eleven eith,,r from: their owners or from the masters of the caravans, in which case they tore givers two or three days' rest and some special feeding and be- fore the sales' they are dressed in bright and attractive garments, generally of calico, which are only scorn during the sale, and must be 1 " bythe t r - l to the auctioneers et t rice ea purehasers, When I was in Marakesh about ten or twelve of these men were engaged hi the sale of slaves, and each had his own eueloeure which the slaves he proposed to sell f the high st atnportaane4e and were herded, The markets are held t} _ le Serf 'r n a being a ( lzristaaaa first and a trades- man afterward, did not eonsidibr linoncy-anakint to be the great ob- ject of, life. Many a time good aid. Foster himself' had been sent down for a few days at the sea -side with his family, and it was perhaps a vivid remembrance of the delights of West Cordington that made him add, as he left the room; "He looks to nae, sir, as if he needed bracing up." (To be continued.) ELECTRIC RATES REDUCED. The Hydro Commission Publish the OIdhates and, the New. At Sub -stations. Old Rate New Rate Toronto .. ... .. x$18.50 $16.50 Guelph , .. 25.00 23.50 Seaforth .. ... 41.00 Unchanged St. Thomas .. 32:00 Unchanged Ingersoll . .. 28.00 27.00 Norwich 30.00 Unchanged Berlin .. .., 25.00 24.00 New Hamburg , 32.00 Unchanged Preston 25.00 Hespeler. .. 26.00 Dundas 17.00 Waterdown .. , . 37.50 Weston .. . 30.00 Mimico 30.74 London , . 28.00 Stratford 32.00 Mitchell..38.00 Woodsto. 26.00 Tlsonburg .. . 32.00 Beachville 33.89 Waterloo 26.00 Baden .. .. 37.00 Galt . 25.00 St. Mary's 38.00 Hamilton 17.00 Port Credit 36.79 Brampton .. 29.00 Just in Time. A 'German shoemaker left the gas turned on in his shop one night, and upon arriving in the morning struck• a snatch t,o light it. There was a terrible: explosion, and the shoemaker was, b1Qwe out through the door almost to the middle of the street. A passer-by rushed to his assist- ance and after helping him to rise, inquired if he was injured. The little German gazed in at his of business which was now place , burning quite briekly, and said: "NO, 1 ain't hurt. But I` got out 7 shust in time, eh?" :sa 23.00 25.00 16.00 30.00 Unchanged 30.00 27.00 Unchanged Unchanged 24,00 Unchanged 32.00 25.00 Unchanged. 24.00 35.00 16.50 32..00 Unchanged two or three times a week. OFFER UP A PRAYER. Before the sale the auctioneers ranged themselves in line, and on 1 behalf' of all of them the senior auctioneer offered _ up ° a prayer aloud. Ile called upon the patron saint of the eity to bless those who bought and those who sold the slaves, and his utterances; which did not err on -the side of brevity, were met 'with a frequent response, not only from, his brother auction- eers but from the tissembled buy- ers, As soon as the prayer was over each auctioneer hurried to his pen, sorted out his slaves, and led them, slowly round the' market while the intending buyers scanned the :slaves as ` they passed and lis- tened to the extravagant praise each auctioneer 'gave to the mem- bers of his company. 'Far: better the naked trufh tha an :overdressed lie, ALL BLACKS. The slaves, without exception black, were of all ages and phy- sique, from old men and women who could command only a few dol- lars, down to little children, who were sometimes offered with their mothers, but could be 'separated if necessary. This separation' led .from time to time to scenes too painful for deeeription here. When a purchaser lad selected the slave' likely to suit his require- ments there would be , some exami- nation, consisting generally of feel- ing the muscles and examining the teeth, for the Moors attach great importance to the . condition of a slave's teeth, and one whose mouth is in a bad plight can find no pur- chaser save at a, very low figure. FRIGHTENED CHILDREN. The middle-aged and the young would probably be purchased for -work in the fields, while the young girls were bought for the harenn, and the boys were oftenbought to be companions to the sons of the buyer, it being the custom in M•or- rocco -to give a lad a slave -compan- ion about his own age who grotiws up with him and becomes his confi- dential servant, often reaching a position of importance in the house- hold. When a buyer had selected his slave he would make an offer for him. and the dilal would then re- sume his tramp round the market- place,; leading the 'slave or slaves selected and ,naming the price that had been ,offered. If after two or three' promenades n ohocly bettered this :price the sale wouldbe con - eluded. HIGHEST BID $300. The behavior of t'he slaves varied very considerably. ' The old people for the most part were not going MPG, OA •P[1!RIN• The world's standard of glove perfection. Style Fit se„ that the ira$o niasact Durability. on every g99ve,, into slavery for the ;first time, and were consequently indifferent, Some of the younger ones were ob- viously keenly interested, doubt- less wondering whether fate would send thein a. goad or a bad roaster. The children were clearly frighten- ed, some of them clinging passion- ately to their mothers and needing force before they could be sepa- rated, while a few who were sus- pectedc anct of having antra• .able dis- position were led through the mar- ket with their arms tied behind h iSometimesw te r bac l.s. two un- t rely slaves are tied together, The strong amen and the attractive women and girls are always sold first, and the prices in some eases rise to hundreds of dollars, though never saw more there the equiva- lent of ROO in English" money paid for anybody, and thisewas excep- tional.. 'INVENTOR OF GOOD ROADS. Jelin Loudon lacActa1n, 'Who Gave His Name to a, System, John Loudon McAdam, the road builder, an article which ; appears in the current issue of Good Roads, is on,e eonsiderable interest to the lay reader, as well as to the man whose business is the building of roads, The article was written by Maur- iee O. Eldridge, Assoc. I+1, A.m. Soc. 0. E assistant in charge of road management investigations in the United States offiee of public roads. Tohn Loudon McAdam, was born at Ayr, Seotland, on September 21, 1758, He was theson of James Me - .Adam, a, descendant of Adana MC- Gregor, o-Gr gor, the first baron of Water head and ene of the Highland elan of 11 eGreger. When Janes II. of Scotland outlawed the McGregors, Adam settled in the lowlands and changed his nano to McAdam.. John Loudon McAdarn'e mother was SSusana Cochrane, daughter of John Cochrane of Waterhead, a rel- ativeofthe Earl of Dundonald. 1.Vhen John was fourteen years old his father died and he was in- trusted to the care of his uncle, William McAdam; a naerohant liv- ing in New York. Ile received his business training with his uncle' and accumulated a considerable fortune during the revolutionary war as an agent for the sale of prizes. 'When the war was aver, McAdam had lost most of his property, but bad enough left to enable him to return to Scotland in 1783, and purchase Sambrie, anestate in: Ayrshire, where he lived for thirteen years. He was married twice, his first wife being the daughter of an American by descent, named De- Lanoey. He bad seven children, four sons and three daughters, all by his first wife. 'In Ayrshire, McAdam was magis- trate deputy lieutenant of the county and road trustee. At that time the rods throughout oot Gxe &{ Britain, especially in S.eo-ilaud,l were very bad, and McAdam inter-( ested himself in investi gain con- ditions asd conducting experxnnents: in road building. As a result of his investigations; and experiments, he arrived at the conclusion that roads should be constructed cted of smallbroken stone. s tri t He contended that the earth foun- dation should be raised slightly 1" n land an t above the adjacent t d las 1 suitable direbel should be builta ' the sides to provide drainage, thaf4 the earth foundation should be cov- erect by a series of thin layers hail stone broken into small onguni lair fragments of a nearly eut?ica � ri shape, and so nearly as possible of+ the same size. A piece to weigh. over six, ounces. The layers of bro-' ken stone were to be oonsoli:clasted; gradually by the trafho and woul4 ultimately forus o smooth hard erusf) impervious to water and durable in. proportion to the hardness of the, stone and the density of trafl=te. Ileal laid down this priseniple : That the natural soil really supports the traffic. and that while it is pre- served reserved ie a dry •state it will su:staia any weight without sinking. The two essential requisites, therefore, were drainage and a. waterproof eovrering. IfAIlt-EAISDI G. Timid Lover--Tohnnie, Pll eive you a nickel if you'll steal me at lock of your sister's hair. Johnnie -All' right. Make it a dime and Pll steal you the whole of her wig. Why doesn't she take NA -DRU -CO eaa ke a Wafers They stop a headache promptly, yet do not contain any of the dangerous drugs common in headache tablets. Ask your Druggist about them. 25c. a box. 1JATIONAL DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO. OP CANADA, LIMITED. 122 $21We IN GOLD ME CPialE, WAY FREE .'4vtt,. ei ti =,iflrs '' ".SI. , , ''ts�at�.' .'iHsi"•s3,YrY,..I'sE. aura�osn,z AvsaNatYRIE613 ECYREli YERAPRSR6 ERPA Can yo I, prtnngo the ebovo eiee�eg or jumbled letters Into the,t�@mcs of eight .well known fruits. If'44o, Y011 CAN 9HA THE DISTRIIIv r1oN OP THE ABOVE PRIZE. It is no e oy ask. Hat ¢y_patfeace and pet- sev°react you can pr ably. make out g or 6 of Sleet. Tv the person who can ma ice out the largest number cps will Rice the num of. One Auurlr d. Dollars.. To the person making out the second largest number the cum of Flay Dollars, To the personmaking the third largest number' the sum of Thirty Dollars. 7o Om person maklug the, fourth largest number the sum 6l Twenty :Dollars, , Should two persons send answers squally correct, th, first two prizes wits be divided between them. (each recelvfog .$,S.oe) Should three :end In equal correct answers. the. first three prizes will hereto be divided, (each receiving 15e.00).' Should tour persons send coUaliy correct answers the whole sum of will be equally divided. (each receiving $40.00, and so on in like proportions, provided they comply : with a simple condition about which we will: write 'as'. soon cs-auswers me received. WE: DO. NOT. WANT A.' CENT OF YOUR MONEY WHEN YOU ANSWL•Ia 'MS ADVERTISEMENT. 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