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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-2-4, Page 2j i:. t i• BREAKING A CHAIN BY I,,OUIS OO I%WJNI WARTY. "Younvitl have toopenthe shop this snorting, Lucia, end take cure of it the best you can,' called my father Tram the next room, "formy head is etch ng so that I shall be uzrabie to moved to Montreal.. leave my bed to -day.!' But we soon found that the great .. I miss quite a nitre girl then, not city was already. over -crowded with snore than eleven years old, but, as workers, and in a little white we be father and I lived alone fend there was came . poorer than we had ever been no one efee to perform the task, I before. arose cheerfully, shivering into my Hearing one day that a wealthy eltethes-for it.. was bitter cold and gentleman, who was about to take «i quite early --and hastened downstairs.: Iong journey, wanted za respectable Broom in hand, for the purpose of .person to care for his house during sveeeping off the sidewaik°firet, I pro- his absence, I hastened to apply for ceeded to throw open the front door, the situation, but only to draw back, with a faint I found him at his office -a hand - cry of terror and surprise, some, kindly -featured man, seemingly Crouching behind the friend'.y sha- but a few years older than myself. dQW of a large packing box, standing "Have references? he asked, at one nide of the doorway, was a sad, on my stating my business. apperryntiy about twetivo or fourteen, I iirodueed a' written. paper, which, e poor, ragged creature; with'hollow. our good minister had given me before cheeks and a hunted look in his dark- I I left the home of niy childhood: blue eyes that lived in my memory for A 'flush of pleasure overspread his many a day afterward handsome features as he read it. "Please, don't pea,s, tion t cry t:. ,, , or call "You do not recognize.. me, I see," any one!" he entreated in a tow, 1; cad- he remarked. ing voice- "They'll surely take me I certainly slid not, and said so. again, and I: don't want to go back." "But you niust remember John "Don't want to go back where?" I , Ray?" ,asked, growing courageous and taking I shook my head. In the many a step nearer hien. troubles that had come upon us, the heaved a mar ofconvict bov I had once For answer, he pointed to s he y z to ythe ball and chain attached to one of his assisted had passed entirely away. ankles. l "If you have forgotten me, Lucia In those days -for the trine of which Summers," he returned, , taking a I write was long ago -it was custom- small, shining gold -piece from his ary to attach a weight of that kind to watch chain, "perhaps you may re - the legs of convicts in order to prevent member this, the coin you -gave me them from going very far in ease they one dark night twelve years ago. I should attempt to escape, so I at once had no occasion to spend it then," he understood he had broken away from 'went on, "for I found work almost the town jail, immediately, and, since, I have kept "I was arrested for stealing a meat- it as a talisman against temptation pie and they treated me so bad at the and a ,reminder of the promise I made jail," he said, with a dry sob that went you." straight to my heart. "that -that-" "But why did you never let me hear "I'll hide you safely away." from you?" I asked. Trying with much difficult to pre- "I wrote to you once, hill; received vent the chain from rattling, which no reply, and two months ago, when I would betray his presence to :niy fa- found myself the junior member of {her, we succeeded • in creeping down to the dem whom I had served so long, the back cedar, There I left him, well I went to your town to look for you, satisfied with my morning's work- but you . had gone, no one knew A little while after I carried him a whither." bowl of steaming coffee and a slice of John Ray, prosperous and happy, bread, -which he swallowed, to my , went on his inte;aided journey, but not great satisfaction, with a decided r alone; for we were married soon after, reish. i and I accompanied hini, and My father ter T and till it 'contained, together ni•th our household goods, was consumed lay tire. Later my father's eyesight fai:ed him,. and, hoping to better our condition,. we ,,. turned to leave, "if I had a good ; eyes attended to by a celebrated strong file, I could get this fere chain French doctor. off, and then I'd be an right" I When his sight was fully restored,• "I will bring you not only a file, but ;' we came back to reside in the beauti- a good suit of .clothes that belonged to , fuI home which had • come to us all my brother that's dead, and an old ; through my, timely aid. in "Breaking red wig from the garret, to disguise' a Chain," you with," I answered, "on one eon - clition only." Rrsaadeasting School - "What is it?:" he asked, eyeing me Children's Concerts. curiously: - "Onl this that gme- your From an English paper. "Music," it y # yougive solemn promise never to steal again, is. learned that the policy of giving no matter how poor or hungry you elementary schoolchildren during may be, and to try and become a good school hours the opportunity of 1 ten - and respectable boy." ing to the best music will be carried A flash of brightness, ,risible even in forward another stage during the win- the dim light that struggled through ter, when the London County Council the narrow cellar window, passed over are holding a series of twelve child - his wan features,and kneeling; down ren's concerts at various balls in Lon - before me, he caught one of my hands, dein, The County Council is working and bending over it, slowly breathed In eo-operation with the People's Con - the required pledge.` cert Society and the British Broad - For time days, during which time canting Company; and the couaerts•, to I'a na y , >; , ; fortunately for my project, my father be held on Friday afternoons, will be kept to his room, the poor fugitive re- broadcast from 2L0 and Daventry: mained in his dingy` retreat. Then The concerts, which are the outcome when night came on, and I well 'knewl of an experimental series held in Bat - the one constable our town boasted lay ! tersea early this year, are designed to •comfortably between his b`�an-1 train children to become keen, Intel snoring y kets I softly opened the back door, and.ligent listeners, in the hope that they p let John Ray, as he called himself, out; will come to • appreciate what is best into the darkness. 1 in music. Each concert will be pre - Freed from his fetters, and arrayed; faced be- a short ieeture on the select in the nine suit I lead given him. he' ed numbers, and communal singing DR. WILFRED T. GRENFELL Medical missionary and explorer, is shown -at the left, starting out for a walk through the snow to Ball upon some of his wards in the frozen reaches of Labrador. a ithem, not to male music themselves Should Make Music fatal :mistake. Compulsory Study. There can be no civic conscience, no The study of music .should be made clean politics, no firm .organization of compulsory in the public schools, and the people without music as basis, themaesee should be taught what true Those r•ho can not sing together, can music is. The only way to accomplish this is to cause the children continually to not act together for high spiritual and political ends. It is as necessary for people to have music as they maroh hear, to sing, and to perform upon in. towards their civic and national goals. struments music of 'the highest as it is for an army to have bands or quality, The average popular music to chant folk songs on its way to; bat- of Canada. is, without doubt, of an un tie. attractive charaoter.- A generation of 'g- -• bays and girls brought up 011 Bach; Turkey's New Calendar.. Beethoven, Gounod and 'Wagner would With the passage of one law Turkey have souls 100 per cent. purer than has jumped ahead exactly 582 years. the unfortunate children of to -day fed This nsvr law requires the use cf the upon melodies ofcontemptible in- isiternatitrnal. ?•r.3ar, which changes + the date in Tani:ey from that of 1344 The greatest danger threatening (the 142ahonvetan year based on the Canada is that it may become utterly Hegira, the flight of the prophet from niater,ialand trivial; for triviality, in- Mecca to Medina) ' to the Christian variably accomplishes materialism date, '1926. The religious feast days and the decay of ideals. A nation that will be proclaimed as heretofore, on hass no deep -hearted songs, a nation the risings of the new moon. that can not, or will not, sing, can be Turkey alio has adoptod.the twenty - no organic thing -it is hut loose dust. four-hour clod: of current European Who ever heard of a. fashionable use, function where the guests sang choruses and part songs,? Our people Great opportunities come to these are educated to have music made at who make use of j1he small ones. looked so respectable, even handsome,: will he encouraged amongst the: chiId- feltworld never be reco ren- The scheme is receiving the sup - that I _e.. he g Hazed, and, thathe might not want for Port of Dr. Arthur merveil, way, , ready cash to assist him on his Inspector of Music, to the London t I pressed a Iong.-treasured gold -piece; Board of Education, and others. of my own in his hand, as we parted --•gin , in sober silence in the shadowy door - Happy Zoo. way. hus•band certainly doses enjoy Twelve years tante "azid'tiwent. Mss- My his den. Has your . hue.fortune meanwhile.h.ad visited us in smoking in several ways. band a den?" One wintry night, our little shop "No, he growls all, over the house." •mrd .. • _ .. . . 'RECG'LAAR FELLERS -1V Gene Byrnes. THE FOREST ARDIAN By. H. W. Sellafield, St. John, N.B. Where the trees thin out at the Barren, and the waste land -stretches North, With never a bush to seater those that must venture forth, art from his fellows; a storm -scarred, sentinel Spruce, There stands apart Breasting the -snow and bitter cold the wild north -wind setsloa se... • h •common foe • r• rl feet he'd gained and. held against the A hundred g, And fn between1' he'd s .read his seed and watched his children grow. , With roots deep down for safety, his branches ,skyward run, A full two hundred years he'd :fought, to hold the ground he'd won: When the rains drive in from the Suth'ard and the lichenmosss grows green, Through the short sweet summer "season ere .the Northern Lights are seen; He gathers strength from Mother Barth and revels in gun and rain gathers Olear to t s eighty -foot the crest of his crown the sap stirs once `again, When the storms ewee h down from •tho.Arctic, hurtling with ;:s�ieet:and snow, 1 wn C'hi�ef Asad the icy cold creeps upward, freni the, frozen ground below, Thavely he faces the burden, resisting the tearing blast, s- behind him Guarding the yottngste2 > knowing himself the last. ' the -ears out rind•ly„fighting for time and space. TIO'S fighting y � Tilt those that frrldo'w' after .raft rise in their etren:gtli and grace. Knowing if he fails them he'll carry tiuem down in Mie fall, . forward will oon uer and cover all. And the I3aitens cree�p•ing a ti -Canadian t'orest: and Outdoors. HEi CAST 'COtaN't OF • ee'GG &or -.cos •ACOS..: • AVecatC-rHT F'YoO PODDlteH iF Yoh DONT PLA ° `THIS AF-S•ERNOOh1 WEYoe) OFF N-,i'NE RdW 'TEAM Cieei r HARDLY 14t4 Mott Faoan��+'i`iAi'0 leaRME DEVIL t sees, Tena° Hoer noes, usmooADs.! A WFtClt- r M1NGF P1G At-ANR Tett. A Rea FOR MEL - . ew Series •bYWYNNE F R ITSON. a th or qf'. erggsoxar cAtatx€pr� . rx:14e' u • QQYi'istat.1,l2S,, by Xluyte, ARTICLE No. 16 An intereeting experinttent is,beititg ten. If B should hold both of them, h' tried out by a local group of auction is bound to win one trick. On the other 'Players, They meet once a week and hand if B held the king alone, Y would each player keeps track of another gain a trick by playing his ace. The player's losses by bad bidding or bad play is really a guess but Y should play play; Before the loss is entered, the the ace of spades hoping to drop the losing player has a right to justify his singleton king. If he doesn't, then he bid or play and the other three players should play for the clubs and try to set decide whether oi' not he lost and the a thirteenth club in Z's hand before he number of polnts.,At the end of the loses the ace of diamonds. If Y plans game, all four players settle up their his play in this manner, he should only lost points with one another on the lose one spade, one heart and one club same basis as their trick score sothat trick and, therefore, score game, and it is very much to their advantage not rubber. Asa natter of fact, 13 did hold only to play well themselves but also the king of spades alone. if Y failcd•to to be on the lookoutfor bad bids or play the ace of spades, 13 would have plays by the others. The writer has• won the trick and led a heart which A never heard of a better way to learn would have won. The latter would now auction. About one hand in three causes lead• -a diamond. Y must now lose a a discussion so that practically every diamond' and club trick so would fail point of the game comes up for analysis to make his contract by ane trick. This during an evening's play. There are two is a very instructive hand and should- drawbacks, neither of therm serious: be carefully studied. First, that the discussions take too much time; and second, that too much Answer to Problem No. criticism may cause hard feeling among *the players. players. These objections can be met by limiting the discussion of any one hand to two or three minutes and by an agreement that the arrangement terminates whenever any of the players lose their tempers. The writer would most strongly recommend a trial of this eystem to those players who play with one another fairly often. It will not only improve your play but also add to the zest of the game. Try it out and if any bids orlas come upthat cat se a seri- ous difference of opiion, refer then to the writer and they will be published in these articles. 4 Here are two hands that were sub - ss muted' for analysis`byy the local group who are trying out the system: , Hand No. 1 'Hearts -A, Q, 8, 8 Clubs" -A : Y : Diamonds- A, 4 : A B Spades -A,: 9, 8, 7, 5, 4 • Z No score: Z dealt and bid one no-trutap. What should A now bid with the fore- going hand? A should pass and open his spade suit. it is almost a certainty that he can defeat the no-trump bid. In this way he can score penalties and aisso his 100 aces. Any other bid with this hand is unjustifiable. Hand No. 2. Hearts -A, 4'.," - Clubs- A, Q, 9, 8 Diamonds J, 8, 3 Spades - Q, 8, 6', 4 Z: :B A': Hearts -8,3. Clubs -10, 7, 2 Diamonds- A, 4 - Spades. -A, J, 9, 5, 3; 2 No -score: Rubber game. Z dealt and. bid no-trump, A two hearts, Y two spades. B three hearts, Z three spades A four hearts and Y four spades, 1 opened the jack of hearts and Z. won the trick with the ace of hearts. Z now led the queen of spades and A played the seven. How should Y now play the hand? When A played the seven of spades Y knew that there were only two spades missing, the king and the. Hearts -- 7, 2 Clubs -10, 5; 3 Diamonds -•- IC; 8, 7 Spades J, 8, °r, 5, 3 Y :A B Z Hearts -A, K, 8,17 Q, 9 Clubs - C, Q Diamonds A, 10, 9 Spades -K, 10 No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid, one no-trump. A and Y passed and B bid twe spades. Z bid two no-trump,. A and Y. passed and B bid three _dial: monds. Z :now bid three hearts A passed, y bid three no-trump and all pas:d. A opened the six of clubs. How ahea�ld Z figure out the cards held by his opponents, both from the bidding and the opening lead of the six of cly;bs? How should he plan the play of the hand so as to: score three odd, gameand • rubber? Z should figure B with at least five spades and five diamonds. If that is so A probably has only two diamonds .. and one spade. This conclusion is strengthened bythefact that he opened his club suit in preference to either of his partner's suits. On the first club lead B' fails to follow suit, discarding a dia- mond. Z should now be able to figure out B's probable holding: Spades-' A, Q, 9 and two small; diamonds- Q, J and three small and three hearts. If this analysis is correct, he can go game by winning the first club trick in Ins own hand with the seven of clubs and leading the Engel clubs. A' must wits this trick, and it snakes no diger- • Macorkege warnhate.suit he pose leadshelaadyback, ZdiymormustdS ; Z should wine trick with the ace In his hand and Lead the king of spades. B roust win this trick and should then lead hearts. Z should then, win the trick and lead two more rounds of hearts, taking all of the hearts out of J3's hand. On the third round of hearts he should discard a spade from. Y's Isand.-hle should then lead the ten of spades which 3 must win with the queen. 13 must now Iead either diamonds or spades, so that in either event YZ •will only' lose one more trick. Played in this way, YZ should only lose one club, two spades and 'one diamond trick, thus scoring game and rubber Scotland's Eternal • Snows. One ueneily thinks of Switzerland and the Alps .in 'connection. With eter- nal snow,. but there are areas on„the- mountains of Scotland where the snow never nie',ts. Hidden away on the mighty slopes of Bien Nevis and Cairngorm are gul- lies and cbasafs to which the sun's. rays never pierce. There the snotty never meitef, and has poseibly naves inched during thousands of yearss. The nor,tb,ern -precipice of Ben Nevis is -always covered with a counterpane o$ dazzling whiteness, and evenin the hottest ,days• of summer, when the val- leys are sweltering in heat, snow falls up there. In one of the clefts, there is a miniature glacier, the last remnant of the age when one evadeu'aus glacier extended from the Grampians to what ks now lmnown as the Irish Sea, and which •carved out the bellows in which , now . lie such' lakes as Loeh Lomond and Windermere. In England and Walesthere . Is no mountain which has even a patch. of mew ; which never melts, but there le a gully on Snowden called the Deep Cup -where snow often lies while sum- mer visitors are disporting themselves ,cue - preserve an to acquire Comers• in. order are British Sou,t}i. At. ._ ,, rica,,Australia, Ditch Bir 1 Indies, In - RUBBER INDUSTRY �F THE DOMINION SHOWS SPEEDY AND CONSISTENT GROWTH(: Imported Raw Matenal ode .; a SOU 'Ce of Cons c eiruble .: Nations ReveI ue.. The ribber Indue'tiy of Canada, -: which sues shown snob rapid and healthy development until in the 'last survey of Doa iIai'ou manufactures it had reached the polaition' of twelfth anion •, the leading industries of Cana- da, is la certain respects an uniusual one. Few industries in Canada have sltow•n sueli. ,speedy and conslsteut growth; and yet the activity is to be regarded, largely as exotic; as scarce - la any of the essential raw material used. in manufacture is to be >ourd In Canada, The development of the rub- ber industry in the Dominion fatrnisli- es .the most eloquent tribute to Cana- da's strategic positien es a base foe manufacturing, unit only for engage - matt in export trade to countries of the British Empire' brut, as indicat'ed in the trade survey, to foreign •laude• as well•. The ,rubber goods industry has at traoted.;to Canada million;; of dollars of eapttal from the United. States and . Other countries as well as 'enlisting lo - eel funds. in some volume. The 1921 census of ownensltip of Canadian in - dues trial securities• recorded 68 per cent of the investment in the general rub- ber geode- industry being Canadian, about 20 per cent. United States., and about le per cent. from the United King -dem r'8dent. In the m tnufactl ring of rubber footwear Pull's 70 _per cent. of the capital was from "the United States, and 25 per cent, from Canada,' .with a very small 'contribution from the United Kingdom and other coun- tries. The development of the - indus- • try ` has put Genadian manufactured lubber products into every ;art of the British Empire and into more than forty foreign countries. Centres in Ontario and Quebec. la the survey of the industry cover- ing the year, 1924 a, total of 38 estab- lishments are reported, in 'which there lea -capital of $56,190,930 invested. A total of 10,778 persons • find employ- ment and ere paid in wages and saLar- iee th4a earn of $11,413,632. The cost of .rn terials used in the industry. Sia $24,519,236; the gross value of pro- duct $57,411,446; and the net value of production $32,892,210° Looking backs to 1921, there there •has been au'4tr rease in ' - the' value of net peo•ducticn in the period of $10,279,548, or 46 per cent- Aentarto 'itla'd Caileeezo are tis two iin- pertztnt producing provinces, Ontario maintaining a wide lend in the gen- 1. eral rubber goods section, with 130.--... r tieh Co'umbie. also contributing, and ! Quebec leading in - the manufacture of footwear. t. long the important lines of manufacture, aro rubber foot- wear, ootwear, whi'eit in 1924 had, a production • value of $19,950,208 rubber 1iealie and soles, $1,018,185; belting $2.301,774; Bose $1,407,21S pneumatic tire cas- ings $22,855,905, and inner tubes $4, .318022; •solid auto truck tired $531,- 189; endother tires anti -tubes 44565, - en tropical, heat at Llandudno. Mid- - Material raw or partially manuface summer suowetorms• are by: no means tu.ret is brought into Gauada from a • uncommon °au .the summit of Cater number of countries -United while I apply idsis .while in the Lake district .fi ow � ,Belgium, t 1, doss, 'United States; . France, often covers the mountain tops till the Dutch East Indies, Straits; Settlements - end of May. Med other^ -and nclude crude balata, -�+-- crude rulii>er and gutta - percha, bard A Doctor's Guarantee. rubber in sheets•, bard rubber in t tbes, "A,re soe. sure, an anxious patient' powdered robber and recovered 'rub- once asked, a. phys•ici,en;..'ate t'ou sure bar. In the year: tinder revis�w, Me - that I shall recover? I have heard Norte• of crude rubber and gut to perciia that doctors sometimes give the wrong amounted in value to $819;1,73&, and diagnosis and have treated patients fpr other raw and partially r.roceseed pro - pneumonia wire afterward died of ty- ducts to $528,394: ` Manufactured, arti- phoid .fever." cies of rubber brought total imports "You've been woefully misinform- tip to $12,38:3,759, of • which •$9,79o,000 ped," replied the nioilfco indignantly; was purchased from the United: States, "if I treat a man .tor pneuniouia, he $1,996,731 from the United Iiirigdom, and $500,838 from the Straits , Settle- ments, Distribution World Wide.' dies of pneumonia. Preliminary. "Now, my dear str," 'said 'Dr. -Fox,,,. Canada 15 exporung her .rubber "`1 cannot cure you unless you do manufactures to practically every everythingg.I tell you." country* of the glebe. They go in "Ail right, doctor," said Skinner; "I greatest quantity to the United Bing- pxoriiiae.,, dote, arhieh •in 1924 purohesed to the "Good! Now, first of all, pay me my extent of $2,1129.219. This next best bast- year's bill,". • cus•tomGr IS the Argentine, which took -- -� -�' goods to the value of $1,245,948, whilst A good name is like a fortune. Many New iealan-c1 likewise went over the a man has aimed "cite more diffieuxt to million' Mark. Other ifnportant th eu-r x wA$ aceta ett E;J00614 TO GAT /'. °Pie \,. AF7Elev:Ar2Cs ANS teeaD'e' Me: seat , afeeleataigesede •n , ' estersesh -tea :1... ro, Nef. do t#2d tial s>, :sire e, In) .'100;x:-.40* ata,, Brazil, Newfound•',iaud, Japan,. Trance, Uruguay, Jaana.iea, I3elgtunr, Straits Settlements, Trinidad, .British Guiana,.Ceelon and Mexico. The Canadianexport traria in rub- ber, goods is• ino,•aaeingr very seestan- tia•liy as indicated in more recent trade figti•req, Statistics -cf track for the twelve month ending October show the, following for eulsber exportti for -the pest threo ye:i'. 1')23, $8,- 503,100; S;503,100; 1024, $0,849,442; 1125, $15,- 891,85S. The rubber g'oeils industry is otic wittich 0,an vda liar Peculiarly developed from iinpoi•tcdd raw ma- terial and, by mann her t ereasini;ly favorable position in the world of trade, made it a soured of constcloz' able national revenue Whet He Was Trying 1=0r.. ereepital Nurse ---"You wish to seri the young mast Injured in ,the motor accident. You are the lady he was With 1" atintd line-•- 'Yesr, l;:thotvagh' it worths be only fair to give ;him the kiss he l eras trying tor." bi