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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-4-23, Page 6Secret's or London Tower ,-,�n,.+��.,rrlr1�;rrtt�a`tr"r.•r�r irirrar,�ir�� At times, some will tell you, wie a windwhistles about the turre and barred gates" of the Tower Louden, and out of a,. break stoem clouds the moon' peers : dow scan*,hiig with a silvery light baileys '•and ' sallyports and prism ers' walks guarded by these hig walls,' the dark shad+iw a an steals across the blood-soaked plo of ground on tower green an stands gaunt and erect, silhouette against the Norman keep, says th Louden Telegraph. The tide tanning the rive wharves, unseen, though but a fe yards distant, the occasional st•' of the shipping, and the inexpli. able sounds of a. great city add t the mysteries of the night. Th' should be a wrecking place fo nerves. Eight centuries of Eng land's story are isolated within th tower's encircling walls. If.an substance there inbelief ha e be the b l of t distracted ghosts revisit the scene of 'their great sorrows, assuredl no spot en earth do they congregat more quickly than here. Sir Walter Raleigh's phantom i said to have been seen flitting noise lessly about the cells and passages of his long captivity. Suddenly th white t h figure of a woman has. ap peered upon the execution ground, and as suddenly vanished—assigned; too one of 'Heny (tI[T's queens. sentry. watchful and alert, has fancied that he has'heard proceed- ing from the dungeons of the White Tower, muffled by the immense thickness cif the "halls; the agonized cries of Guy Fawkes, stretched in torture upon the rack. In all such stories necessarily 'there must be a large. element of imagination. In- deed, considering its crowded past, the ghosts of the Tower of London are remarkably few, Two only stand out in circumstantial' detail. en is of in the l li ax el le r w i e� 0 Thi r e y t s y e s GREATEST BRIDGE IN WORLD IS ON C.P.R. NEAR LEIN-� RIDE It is a Mlle Long and Cost 82,000,000 to Construct. One of the most gigantic engi- neering .works in Canada is tbe large viaduct carrying steel; across the Belly River just west of the city of Lethbridge on the Crow's Nest 1brancli of theCanadian Pacific Rail- e way in Alberta. The bridge is over mile a in length t h and has a d maximum .~finu lm i height of 314 feet above -the bed of A the river. It is the longest and. highest b ridge in the world There are longer bridges and higher Of these, one happened—proper- ly a .ghost happens—to none other than the keeper of the crown jewels. Late in life, when in his S3rd year, Edmund Lenthal Swifte committed to paper the narrative of his eerie experiences. thinking that it should not pass with him to the grave. He was a man of some distinction, who held his post from 1814 till retire- ment in 1552, and he played. a cour- ageous part in saving the regalia during. the terrible fire' which de- stroyed the armory in the Tower in 1841. No one privileged to know him could have questioned the ab- solute honesty of the assurance with which he closed his story. "To all which I have sett forth," he said, "'as seen by myself, I ab- solutely pledge my faith and hon- or." The regalia, in his charge was at the time kept in the Martin tower, which forms the northeast angle of the Inner Ward, and there the keeper had rooms with his family. How the spectre appeared to him is best told in his own words: One Sunday night in October, 1817, I was at supper with my wife, our little boy and my wife's sister in the sitting -room of the Jewel house. which is said to have been the doleful prison of Anne Boleyn and of the ten bishops whom Oliver Cromwell pi•ousIy accomodated' there. The room, irregular aha ed had three doors and two windows cut nine feet deep into the outer wall. The doors; were all closed, heavy and dark eurtains were let down over the windows, and the only light in the room was that of two candles on the table. T sat at the foot of the table, my son on my right, my wife fronting the chimney piece and her sister on the opposite side. I had offered a glass of wine to my wife, when, on putting it to her lips, she paused and exclaimed "Good God what is that?" I look- ed up and saw a cylindrical figure, like a:glass tube, something about the thickness of my arm, and hover- ing between the ceiling and the table ; its contents appeared to be a dense fluid, white and pale azure, like to thearthering of g g a -summer cloud, and: incessantly rolling and mingling withthe cylinder,. 'Tullis lasted about two minutes, when it began slowly to move before my sis- ter-in-law, • following the oblong shape of the table, before my son. and myself. Passing behind my wife, ib paused for a moment over her right shoulder (observe there' was no mirror opposite in which she could then behold le). Instantly she "crouched down, and, with both hands covering her shouldef shrieked out ; "Oh; Christ! It, hat; s seized`ne l" Even now as I write I feel ' the rnent. I caught horror of that mo t ght up their, striking at the "ap- pearance" with a blow that hit the wainsent behind cher. It then croes- ed the upper end of the table and disappeared in the recess of the op- posite window. I rushed upstais to the other children's room, and told the terrified nurse what I had seen. Meanwhile. other domestics had hurried intothe parlor, where their misteess was recounting ' to them the scene, even as I was de - telling it above stairs. The marvel—eon-lc will say,the absurdity—of all this enhanced by the fact that neither iriy sister- in-law nor my son beheld the '°ftp- pearance, though to their mortal bridges, but combining'both dimen- sion's, no bridge in the world 'mea- sures up to it. Before it was built the -railway line crossed the :St. Mary's River, using' twenty small wooden bridges. When a new survey wasmale a crossing s rn was found below low theCo n- fluerice of the St, Mary s a.nddBelly rivers,and this large viaduct con- structed ata coast of two million dollars. It required 645 cars of, steel in the construction, and alto- gether over 1,000 oars' of material. was used.,. A watchman is .on constant guard to prevent accident. After each train passes over the bridge this officer takes his mile walk to the other end, and waits for the next train, when he returns on his beat. There haso been t as accident on the viaduct since it wa.s turned over to the operating department • of. the railway company. The Soo - Spokane Flyer, a fast train running between St: Paul and Spokane, uses this bridge. vision it was as apparentas it was to my wife's and mine. You will notice that the agitation within the column did not result in the development of a human form, as with the apparition to the Baron de Guldenstubbe, familiar to the studeubs of the occult. This ob- viously'was the proper course. What might have happened but for the unseemly blow struck with the chair, denting the wainscotting, none can tell. Notes and Queries discussed the matter some 60 years ago with much learning, but the only materialistic explanation suo; gested was acolumn of fog descend- ing escending a damp chimney. . Mr. Swifte scornfully repelled the idea: "As if (said he) the densest fog that ever descended could • have seized one of us by the shoulder l The second ghost is still less sub- stantial. It. appeared at the stroke of midnight to a sentry stationed on guard at theJewel House door, benneath a stone archway -"as ghostly a door," says : Mr: Swifte (for this: apparition also oecured in his time) "as ever was opened or clo,sed on a doomed man." The sentry was alarmed by the figure of a lin ;e bear issuing from beneath the door. Desperate, he struck at it with his bayonet, which stuck in the door; then the man swooned, and his comrades carried him sense- less, to the guardroom. _ He was neither asleep nor drunk. But a moment before he had spoken to' a fellow •soldier ; he bore a high char- atter for bravery and good conduct. Mr. Swifte saw him the next morn- ing, changed. beyond recognition; and in a day or two .the poor fellow died. Thebody was interred with military honors in the rlelnish buri- al ground at Saint Katharine's. Several persons attested the manta tale. These and like mysteries, lying forgotten, were.. revived in the•writ- er's memory when reading the wel- come announcement recently made by the authorities that additional parts of the Tower of London are shortly to be thrown open to• public inspection. And chief among them. are the dungeons ! Ghosts' and' dread happenings—the stifling air and damp soil reek of such things., What tales these merciless walls, built' fifteen 'feet thick - in solid masonry, might tell of: doomed men immured here. One thinks of the cold river' flowing by, and water oozing up through a spongy . floor, and darkness that may be felt. In such places men have fought' for life against fearful odds in, cruel clays—and the Tower"of London has known cruelties that, shame 'uman-. ity. But its dungeons ,,are not -as these. Nothing is likely so inuch to surprise the visitor—perhaps a little disappointed in his surround- ings—when privileged in the .New Year for the first time to 'pass through, as - to find:that the ;.d'un- geons are all above ground.' Gun- dulf BishopofRochester, who built the White Tower as the central strop hold of the forties d g s, made no entrance from the ground. An enenri investing esti y n ng the keep - might beat his head ineffectually against theesheer r walls. Another surprise. The dungeons of the Tower are n0 cramped cells, but are immense chambers. One ie 91 feet h 35 feet, internal area ; the second .47 'feet in length by; fifteen. in breadth. A mere hole in the wall, .shut. by a .heav y door, will,at- tract attention. It is the dreaded Liable Ease, +wherein Guy Fawkes is believed to have passed" his last days on earth ---a place so'.snlall'trhat the prisoner could net stand up- right nor' lie at full length. The first Edward's wars in Wales and Scotland biought many prison-. ells to London, whose lives rotted. away in the 'l'owe'r dungeons The place also served for the immure- ment of the subprior of Saint Peter's and a party of his monks, suspected by the swine iponerch of being party to the forcingof the Chapel of the. Pyx at Westminster, and the robbing of the English re- galia stpred there. But the dungeons of the keep have another and more terrible as- sociation. They were the sole place wherein torture was administered within the Tower. In truth, it may be said that these walls have wit- nessed more suffering than any other spot about the fortress save perhaps, the execution ground it- self. In an upper apartment the in struments are shown; thumbscrews, so small to cause so anuoh distress; billaiiious bilbo-es, the "scavenger's daughter" -a fearful contrivance for producing acute pain -a massive. iron collar studded inside with spikes, the . wearing", :of which einuat soon cause death. There is 'a thodel of the rack. They are to -day mu- seum exhibits. One looks upon them quite coldly. In these dark places they were used. Guy Fawkes was .tortured on the rack in the dungeons of thee -White Tower. For half an hour he bore the agony. Then his fortitude gave way, and in a feeble voice hepromised t3 tell all, bub ,;1s secret was of such in- timate concern to the king that the ear of a. minister alone could be trusted'. with it. With all speed 'a horsed' messenger was dispatched to bring .Cecil to the Tower, and the confession was written down. Guido, the broken man wrote at the bottom with a quivering hand, but he could write no more. NEW LIFE Found in Change to Right Food. After one suffers for months from acid dyspepsia, sour ertottnach, and then finds the remedy is in getting. the right kind of food, it is some- thing to speak about. An Eastern >lade- and her young son had such an experience and°•she wants ethane to 'know : how to get relief.: She writes: "Foe about fifteen,, Months, my little boy and myself had suffered with sour stomraeh. We were un- able to retain inueh of anything we ate.' "After suffering in this way for:: so long I decided 'to consult a ape ciali,st in stomach -dri senses. Instead of .p.reaoribing drugs, he put us both on Grape -Nuts anti we began to improve immediately. "It was the key to a new life: I found we had been eating too much' heavy food which we could not di gest. In a' few weeks after 'com- mencing Grape -Nuts, I was abbe" to do my louse work. I wake in the morning with a clear head and feel rested and•,have no Soni stomach.. My boy sleeps well and wakes with: a laugh. • ° "We have ..regained our lost weight and continue to e,at Grape Nuts for both the morning and evening meals. We are well and happy and ewe it to Grape -Nuts," Nalme given by Canadian 'Posture; Co., Windsor Ont. Read 'The 1,oact to 11Vell.ville.," in pkgs, (`There's a Reais,on.,r Ever read the above letter? - A new ono apnea's* from tuns to tins. They are genuine, trea• and hill or homes lntezeet. • Occasionally.a man wins'a fight because he `hasn't the nerve to .run away. "Well;; well,". said a. doctor as he met a former patient in the street: "I'm glad to ,see you ',again, Mr. Thomson. Flow are you this morn- ing'?" "First, doctor," said Mr. Thomson cautiously, "does it cost anything to tell 'you ?" Sciatica Varuishie, � Instantly l� T if Nerviline Is Ned CAN YOU BEAT THIS CASE? No ordinary liniment- will even re- lieve Sciatica.. Nothing but the most powerful kind of a"remedy can pene- trate through the tissues and finally reach the Sciatic Nerve. You can al- ways depend on the old-time "Nervi - line." Nothing made to -day is as good for Sciatica as Nerviline waswhen first produced, about forty years ago. All this time the same old "Nerviline" has been curing' Sciatica, Lumbago,-. Rheumatism, and is considered to be without an equal in relieving pain.or soreness anywhere, ' "'Nerviline' couldn't be madestronger or better," writes James E. Edwards, The way it cures Sciatica is to me simply a miracle.. Per years I suffered fright- fully. I, ruined . my stomach with in- ternal dosing: :I rubbed in gallons of .oils and liniments—none were strong enough. One good rubbi:ng'with Ner viline relieved. I kept on rubbing and shortly was cured. My father cured rheumatism in his right arm and shoulder with Nerviline, and •my mother cured herself of chromic lum- tlagb with Nerviline: Our family sim- ply swears by Nerviline and we are never without a 50c. family size bot- tle in our home. We find that for ex- ternal pain, for coughs; colds, earache, suchminor ills it is a veritable family physician." ARE P:RA.IIIIFS'PE1IMANENT? Signs of Their Disa-ppearance inthe West. - The dictionary defines 'a prairie as "a level or rolling tract of . ruse- less ; . Land covered . with coarse grass." Strictly speaking, then,. the prairies no longer exist in Canada except locally, for there are no longer a&ty large areas exempt from settlement and the 'sebtlers'through- out the West have already been supplied by 'the Dominion. Forestry Branch with over 24,000,000 trees, all of which have been planted and most of which -are growing up in the form- of woodlots >and shelter - belts. So successful have been these plantations and so great has the •demand for trees grown, that the Indian Head Nursery Station, which has an anrntual.oapaeity of ap- proxim,ateily three million trees, can no longer supply this demand, and -it has been necessary to establish a branch nursery at Saskatoon. ' The opinion was'orece_wide-spread :that the prairies- Were ' naturally treeless, and, many ingenious theo- ries were advanced to account for this 'treelessness. Once was thaib the soil was ,too fine; a:second that the soil was all right, but that •beaau,se of the thick sod the itree.seeds could not the it; another theory was thatthere was insuffioi,ent,ra'infall, and .still another that the dry win: - ter winds killed the buds and twigs. But if any of . these factors have been detrimental to tree -growth on the prairies in the past, the Fores is h e y Branch as sine succeeded in producing trees which are so adapt- ed to climatic conditions that growth is assured if the trees are given a proper start. The m,osrt probauble 'c'a'use of the treelessness of the prairies.is mann;" not Nature. The fact that the In- dians long age were in the habit of -setting fire to the forests and giia-ss- landrs in order to afford better graz- ing, and that in the ;fall when ttheis,e fires were usually set, the prevail- ing Winds were westerly, seems to prove .that from the arid plains of eouthent Alberta and the United States, the area of treeless land was gradually extended by fire, hun- dreds of miles easterly.. But in Manitoba., since these fires have ceased, the western fringe of forest has begun -"to recover lost ground, and, aided by artificial refor'.eeta- tion -under the stim'ulus of he Vol,. lull ill l.IIlllii4 IU !)Illi f ll1 onto) hail lilTiUi it U hi a o �+ lih In.,m4o'i*y. ,. ?_`'Y�+_'+H'i. S+'• .°�,., .ZSh.'-.: � �'�' .,moi t� ✓ �". �`0• � `'e . snai"k'k'"� � l.'.+'i�'I':1�na ''� ,•"¢u�..^ a-,•v4+.v �' •3 .,:yY'�..n�i-G`�. BEST YEAST" IN THF WORLD. D CUiNE TSE "NUMEROUS IPI!a F,RIOR IMITATIONS THAT ARE BEINGNOFFEREk AWARDED HIGHEST HONORS AT ALLEXPOSITIONS.' E rt!SAt C A LL E TT C O M 'A.N V ILII NE T'. D �l:t7 YJ��;N'T�? ONT. MONTREAL k� t...,.y Re�''%•,Y 1•i" Si Sw •�"y �c�,3p a„+� '1+.mp �.. 141,1114200 11 o Dainty Dillies. Cream Puffs. -The chotix pastry, perfectly snoofi and glossy, may be taken. u in a F tablespoon n And put on a buttered baking 'tin, run- ning ,the spoon around in a circle to a,point to make a finished- top. Rut those who make these in quan- tity use a pastry bag and a large -tube through which they press -the paste so that the puffs will. all be one .size. The baking in a moderate oven is the difficult thing. The,. oven must be .hot enough to swell the 'pastry, but if ib is too hot the paste dries and doesnot swell, and a little too much heat at the last makes an al- most uneatable puff because so dry: Twenty to twenty-five minutes is sufficient for the cooking: Insuf- ficiently cooked, the large puffs will fall and are indigestible: They may also fall because the paste is not quite +sniff enough_ 'When -cold cut open and fill with either whipped eream or a cooked cream. The tops are usually brushed over - with ' a beaten egg, thinned with` milk. be- fore they are put in the oven, but sugar and nuts, etc.,may be used. If these • puffs are made quite small they : are good hot with a 'sweet" sauce. Cboux Paste.-Puit one cup of._wa- •ter, onefourth pound of unsalted butter, four tablespoons of sugar, and a pinch of salt into a saucepan, ,set on stove and bring to boil.; Have ready three-fourths of a . cup of dried and sifted flour and when, the mixture boils d'i•edge the flour into it, stirring rapidly with a wooden spoon, and then cook over a, gentle fire. until the butter begins to ooze from the dough, which will not then stick to the spoon. For the inex- perienced the putting in the flour may be difficult, and the pan would -best be drawn from- thefire until it . is in. On no account should the. fire be hot enough so that the paste will stick to the pan before it reaches the proper consistency._ When the bunter begins to ooze out, take 'fromfire and add imme- diately to it one by one, three or four eggs without beating: Stir each one in carefully and thorough- ly before adding the next, that is, the paste should be -,thoroughly bound together and smooth between each process. A teaspoonful or even a. little more of orange flower: water or grated lemon peel may be used for flavoring. Put -in with the first egg, albhough vanilla' may be used. The orange flower water:. is incomparably the daintiest and can be procured atethe drug store. The freshest eggs should be used in making this paste and put in one by one, for the reason that the paste must not be moistened too quickly or it will not bind, Milk Instead of water can be used and one-fourth lees butter is then re- quired. e-quired. Salted butter can be used, but no additional salt must then be. added : and the results are not as dainty with it. It is hard for the estry trench, tree -growth will soon be as common on the prairies as on the farms of Eastern Canada. amateur to get in enough flour, and) as different flours behave different-) 1 this ro lem b cannot be y F discuss-, ed rd I'rinofftaerowolle.s.—Qut of the tin - sweetened choux pastry are made these tiny balls for soup, which ares so much more delicious fresrhly1 made than when from' the great bot- tle of the pastry shop. The paste is pressed out of a tiny tube on a baking tin,and inar may UL' m. g may o�tbe yn brushed over with ,beaten egg bei fore' baked: Cake St._ Honore._There are six or seven processes to the making' of this cream:' cake. A foundation of pie crust in the shape of.a round plaque is made. The 'prettiest cakes are between six and seven inches in diameter. Around the edge of this are pressed•from apes - ; try bag, with a point the size of the end of the little finger, sixteen or seventeen little balls''or choux of 1 paste, or with a. teaspoon good little balls may be made and baked cepa- ii rately from the crust and then :ad - 1 ded to it, any little .brown points be- ' ing nipped off after the baking, - When the little_ choux are cold they are dipped in a 'syrup made by cooking together till it is rather stiff from one-fourth to half .a cup of 1 sugar, and an equal measure of wa- ter with a few drops of -lemon juice to keep it from granulating. The- economical will find one-fourth cup of sugar suffioients The :tnexperi- enced will need. more. After` these; are dipped in the syrup the are y p Y placed in a circle, close together around the edge of the foundation- The whole is then •fllled'a.t the last minute with whippecl cream,' pub on in fancy globs, in the summer, or in the winter a cooked cream is 5 u ted. The whipped should be prepared at least an hour before itis used. A French- cook giving an elabo•r- °" ate lesson of many Pages and many illustrations on this cake says that one can quickly succeed .in making it well, but 'that, the amateur must not expect without many repetitions of the work 40 make. cakes like the pastry maker who makes cakes all` day long' `' ltiplieil Cream.—"Cream • to, be - whipped ought to remain at leant an hour on the ice, and the work may be surest to succeed if the bowl is :set in a dish of broken ice: It is necessary to stop on .time or the. cream becomes butter. Ib is best to begin with a little in a bowl and use a whisk. When this is 'frothy turn ,1t through, a .sieve, and go on whipping what runs • through. You will not then- lose your whole, sup- ply if some should turn .to butter. If' the large glasswhipping churns are used . they shotttld be cold.' Sweetened whipped cream is caller':: chantilly in cosmopolitan cookery. 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