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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1929-1-23, Page 7• / 1 / 1 / Grading Cream ETTERCREAM Means ETTER BUTTER•L 1 I Y TT R S t'R L.. We are now prepared to Grade your Cream honesziy, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Greantory each day we lift it, We gather with covered truck to keep sun off it. •e 'um of1 1 lI e pay a Premium Gent per b, lender fat for Specials over that of No, 1 grade, and 3 Cents per. ib, but- ter-faf for No 1 grade over that of No, 2 grade, The basic principle 0 the improvement in the quality 0 Ontario batter le the elimination er second and off grade cream. Tina, may he accomplished by paying the prottueer 0 good cream a better price per pound 0 butter -fat tem is paid to the producers of poor cream, We solicit your patronage and co-operation for better market, WO will loan youa can. See our Agent, T. C. MCCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels. :he Seaforth Creamery feces 7® �. �q t �i Fcing the Authentic Nei -waive ive cf a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1303—Now First Given to the Public, nY °umlaut by L•uu- - � x Company -lee calls mercer a 'lung; '' ne added, "and the natives do, I,belteve, regard hem as the head 0 a certain tribe. The lads eel] blm 'Old Sing Cofree'—a memory I suppose 0 the Ashantee war. Anyone will tell you where he lives. Ile has a name as a preachers among the holyjumpers:— but he's getting too old to do much preaching nowadays, Go and see lata for fun anyway." R So next morning 1 went. I had hardly been prepared for the plunge into "Darkest Africa" which I found myself tatting, es, leaving Gov- ernment house behind, perched on the gest of its white ridge, I walked a few yards intend and entered a region which, for all its green palms, made a similar sudden impression of pervad- ing blackness on the mind which one gets on suddenly entering a coal-mht- ing district atter traveling through fields and meadows. There were far more blacks than whites down on Bay street, but here there were nothing but blacks on ev- ery side. The. roads ran in every dfrcetten, and along them everywhere were fig- ures of black women shuffling with burdens on their heads, or groups 0 girls, audaciously merry, most of them bonny, here and there almost a benuty. There were c]mrclles and dance halls and saloons—all radiating, no to say, a prosperous blackness. ' At first the effect of the chole scene was a little sinister, even a tittle frightening. The strangeness of Af- rican jungle, was here, and one was a white man in it all alone among grin- ning savage feces. But for the figures about one being clothed, the ilinslon had been complete; but for that and the kind-hearted salutations from comely white -turbaned mammies which soon sprang up nhnnt me, end the groups of elfish children than laughingly blocked one's progress with requests—not to any weird Atrienh dialect but In excellent ;,sglisli—for "n copper, please." This request wan not above the maidenly dignity of quite Ide end Ime- oin lord., tlno of tab"',', n r,alh etI. perb young creature, asked for ' n .'ftp per, plense,' het with n saucy cwwtuet ry befitting her nliulescence. gasp you one if yuu'Il tell me where the 'Nutt' 11.14,"said 1 "Ole lain • roti he nel.erl, and then tell into it very 1 y ngn} sr re mo laughter, Recovering, she pet her $neer to her Tina altr^ratlitn stl.m'- Letterheads Envelopes Billheads .And all kinds 0 Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. We will de a job that will do credit to your business. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and if it requires replenishing tall us by telephone 81, The Post Publishing Nouse and said: "Colne along, I'II show you!" And walking by my side, lithe as a young animal, she had soon brought me to a cabin much like the rest, though perhaps a little poorer Molting. "51111! There he is!" and she shook all over again with suppressed giggles. Iave her f; e a sixpence and told her to be a good girl. Then I advanced up n little strip of garden to whore 1,hnd caught a glimpse of a venerable white-haired negro seated At the win- dow, as 11 for exhibition, with a great open hook in his hands. This he ap This He Appeared to Be Reading With Great Solemnity. geared to be reading with great soletn- nity, through enormous goggles, though I thought I caught a side -glint of his eye, as though he bad taken a swift reconnoitering gleam in my di- rection --a glance which apparently bad but deepened his attention and increased the dignity of his demeanor, Remembering that he was not mere. ler royal but pious also, I made my sal. • Illation at once courtier -like and sane- r timonious. j "Good day to your majesty, • I said; "God's good, God looks after Mt sera- ; ants." "De Lord is merciful," he answered gravely; "God takes care of his chil- dren. Be seated, sar, and please ex- cuse my not rising; my rheumatism is n sore affliction to me." I was not long In getting to the sub- ject of my visit. The old matt listened to me with great composure, but 'with n marked necession of mysterious im- portuner! In his manner. '"It's true, sar," he said, 'when I had i tingled, "I could end it for you, I I could find it for you, sure enough; and : I'm de only men in all de islands dat cuu;d. rut I should have to go will you, tine it's de Lord's will to kelp me Isere in d!; chair wed rheumatics. De rods has turned !n dese aid limey n time, and I have faith in de Lord ticy weread turn ngaln—,res. T'd Fad 11 fee, yon; sure enough. 1'd find it If any man could—and it was de 14 rd's will. But mebhe I can seeit fm• you evident movhag from dl., ' l;air•" "Do yea mean, brother, that the Lord las given you second sight?" "Dat mn 11I Glory to his name, hal- ielujith 1" he answered. "I look In n glass hn11—so; and if de spirit helps me I can ace elem.' Inc a picture far ander de ground—far, fur away over de sea. It's de Lord's truth, sae— blessed be his name 1" I asked liim whether he would look Into 11]s erystal for me. With a burst •if profanity, as unexpected as it was vivid, he cursed "dem boys" that had stolen from him a priceless crystal whirl) once had belonged to his eld royal Mother, who, before him; had had the same gilt of the spirit.' But, he add00--turning to a table by his side, and lifting from it n, targe cut - glass decanter of contiderable capac- ity, though at present void of con- tents—that he had found that gazing into the large glass hell 0 its stopper Produced almost equally good rosette et tizzies. IFEATHERSI WANTED 4 e Highest market price ro paid for yourFeathers .Y011iek e+a4•a'ta•F4'us4q1.**w.ba#,*44+4H 151041 n0 aseeu 1110 i0 ne 1008 enough to shut the door, We had to be very quiet, he de- clared;'the splrit could work only in deep diener!, And he caked toe to bo kind enough to close niy eyes. Theu I heard his voice muttering, in .a strange tongue, a queer dark gobbling (rind of words, which inay lam been ancient Africaa spell -words, or sheer gibberish such as magicians In Ali tines and places have employed to mystify their consultants. I looked ut him through the corner 0 my eye—as.doubtiess he had antici- pated, for be was glaring with an air of inspired abstraction into the ball of the decanter stopper. So we sat silent for I suppose some ten minutes. Then 1 heard him give another deep sigh. Opening my eyes I saw him slowly shaking his head. "De spirits don't seem communicable des afternoon," he muttered tilting the "decanter slightly on one 81de and ob- serving it drearily. "Do you think, your majesty," I asked with as serious a face as I could assume, "the spiritsmight work better—!f the decanter were to be filled?" "lilebbe, sar; mebbe. Spirits is ea- rions things; dey need Inspiration sometimes, just ince ourselves." "What kind of inspiration do you think gets the best results, your maj- esty?" "Well, sar, I can't say as dey Is very particular, but I'se noticed dey do seem powerful 'tached to just plain good old Jamaica rum." "They shall have !t," I said. I bad noticed that there was a sa- loon a few yards away, so before many more minutes had passed I had been there and come back again, and the decanter stood ruddily filled, ready for the resumption of our seance. But be- fore we began I 0 course accepted the seer's invitation to join him and the spirits in a friendly libation. Then—I having closed my eyes—we began again, and it was astonishing with what rapidity the thick -coming pictures began to crowd upon that in- ner vision with which the Lord had en- dowed his faithful follower! Of course I was inclined now to tnke the whole thing ns an amusing impos- ture; but presently, watching his face and the curious "seeing" expression of his eyes, and noting the exactltirde of one or two pictures, I began to feel that, however much he might be in- venting or elaborating, there was some substratum of truth in what he was telling me. The first pictures that came to ham were merely pictures, though Astonish- ingly clear ones, of Webster's boat, the Flamingo, of Webster himself, and of, the men and the old dog Sailor; but in, all this he might have been visualizing, from actual knowledge. Yet the de- tails were curiously exact. Presently his gaze becoming more fixed; "I see you anchored under a little settlement. You are rowing ashore. Dere are little pathways running up among de coral rock, and a few white houses. Seems to be a forest; big trees—not like Nassau trees—and thick brush everywhere; all choked up eo thick and dark, can't see nut'n. Walt a minute, dough. Dere seems to be old houses all sunk in and los', like old ruins. Can't see dem for de brush. And'walt Lord love you, sar, but I'se afraid—I seem to see a big light com- ing up trough de brush from far under de ground—just like you see old rot- ten wood shining' in de dark—deep, deep clown. Didn't Itell you de Lord gave me eyes to see into de bowels of de earth?—it's de bowels of de earth" for sure—all 111 up and shining. Praise de Lord ---it tun de gold, for certain, all hidden away and shining dere un- der de ground—" "C'an't you see tt closer, clearer?" I oxclnhned lnvoitmtarily; "get some idea 0 the place it's Id?" The old man gazed with a renewed intensity. "No," he sold presently, and his die- appointed tone seemed to me the best evidence yet 0 its truth, "I only see a little golden mist deep, deep down un- der de ground; uow it is fadinag away. It's gone; I can only sco de woods and do ruins again.' This brought his visions to an end.' The sterile obstinately refused to make' any more pictures, though the old man continued to gaze on in the decanter stopper for fully five min. Wes. CHAPTER 131. In Which We Take Ship Once Mora The discovery which—through my friend the dealer In "marine cnrtost- ttos'—I had made, or believed myself to have made, of the situation 0 Henry P. Tobias' second "pod" of treasure, fitted exaetly with Charlie 'Webster's wishes for our trap, small stock as be affected to take in it at the moment. "Short Shrift Island" lay a few mtlea to the northwest of Andros !eland. Now Andros la a great haunt of wild RUi L + �' WEDNESDAY. JAN1TARY 22,3t'1, . uuete, not to 891011 or that mere august bird, the Ilumiu,^,o, Attl:tetloa number one for the gau4 Charlie. Thera, though it 18 some hundred and fifty miles long and some fifty mflea broad 0 110 broadest, 1t tans never yet, it Is said, beau entirely explored, Its centers still 1 t 11 a mystery, ne i ntives declare it 1s haunted, or .at all events Inhabited by some strange peo- ple we one bas yet approached close enough to see. You can see' their houses, they say, from a distance, but a8 you appreaeh them, they disappear. Isere, therefore, seemed an excellent for f r to bins to lake rover in. Charlie's duck-ehooting preserves, end. loss mac! Mires, dslanded with man- grove copses, lay on the fringe of this Mysterious region. So Andros was plainly marked out for our deetlpa- Don, . Sailor had watched his master get- ting hes guns ready for some days, and, doubtless, memories stirred In him of Scotch moors they had shot Over together. He raised his head to the night wind and sniffed impatiently, as though he already scented the wild duel on Andros island. He was Im- patient, like the rest 0 us, because, though It was an hour past sailing. time, we. bad still to collect two of the crew. The two loiterers turned up at last and, all preliminaries being at length disposed of, we threw oft the mooring ropes and presently there was heard thnt'most ashllnrnting of sounds to anyone who loves seafaring, the rip - piing of the ropes through the blocks as our mainsail began to rise up high against the moon which was beginning to look out over the huge block of the Colonial hotel. the sea wail of which ran along as -fur as our mooring. A few lights In its winnows here and there broke the lintel; rinrkuoss of Its facade, glimmering through the ave- nues of royal palms, I am thus ex- pttdt because of something that pres- ently happened and which stayed the mainsail In Its rippling ascent. .A tall figure nets running along the sea wall from the direction of the ho- tel, calling out, a little breathlessly, in a rich young voice as 1t ran: "Wait a minute there, you fellows! Wait a minute!" We were already moving, parallel with the wall, and at leant twelve feet away from It, by the time the figure— that iguresthat of n tall boy, cowboy -hatted and picturesquely outlined in the half light—stopped just ahead of us, Ile raised something that looked like n bag in has right hand, calling out "Watch" as he did so; and, a moment after, before a word could he spoken, Before a Word Could Be Spoken, He Took a Flying Leap. he took a flying leap and landed amongst us, plump lu the cockpit and ,was clutching firsl one of us and then the other, to keep his balance. "Did 1t, by Jovel" he exclaimed In a beautiful English accent, and then started laughing as only absurd dare- devil ap -devil youngsters can. "Forgive me!" he said, as soon hs he could get his breath, "but I had to do It. heaven knows wilat the old man will say!" "You're something of a Iong jump!" said Clutrlie, "Oh 1 I have Clone my twenty-two and an etghth 00 a broad running jump, but I hail no quince for a run there," answered the Ind, carelessly. "But Suppose yotl'd hit the water In- stead at the (leek?" "What of it"r Can't one swim?" "I guess you're all right, young meat". said Charlie, softened; "but , wen, we're not taking passen- gers." The words had a familiar sound. They were the very ones I had used to Tobhis, as be stood with his hand on the gunwale of the :Waggle Darling. I rapidly conveyed the coincidence— and the difference—to Charlie. It atrtlek me as odd, I'll admit, that our second start, 1n this respect, should be so like the first. Meanwhile, the young man was answering, or rather Pleading, in boyish was: "Don't call me a passenger; I'll help work the best. I'll tell the truth. 1 beard—never mind how --about your trip, and I'm Just nutty about buried treasure. Come, be a sport. We can let the old guv'nor know, somehow 8nd it won't kill him to tear has hair for a day or two. He knows I tan take caro of myself" "Well! said Charlie, after thinking »ret MAY he CON. L&AD>*R in SENATE Senator Gideon D. Robertson, of Ottawa, a who h has been mentioned as the leader of the Conservative forces In the Iced Chamber, a position left vacant by the death of Senator W. A. Ross. Senator Robertson was the Minister of Labor In the Meighen Cabinet, prior of 1921. ;mane 01 his Slow way, •'tve"l (tang !i over. You 1111 ounin along till elm morning, 'i'hrn 1 ani, gel a goal tans; at you. If I don't tike your !nolo we'll still lie able to put you oIf at West End; and if I do----well—rlght.lm 1 Now, but he shouted, "go ahead with the s .els." (Mee more thele was that rippling of the rapes through the bloc'Jts, 118 oar metusnil rose up high against the moon and filled proudly with the steady northeast breeze we bud been waiting for. So two or three hours went by, ets we plunged on, to the seething sound of the water, and the singing of our sails, and all the various rumor of wind and sen. After all, it was a good music to sleep to and, for all my scorn Of sleeping landsmen, an irresistible drowsiness stretched ine out en the roof of the little cabin, wouderfully rocked into forgetfulness, arty nap ramp to nn end suddenly, as though some one had flung me nut through a door of blue and gold into a new-born world. There was the sun rising, the moon still on duty, and the morning star divinely naked in the heaven. And there was Charlie, his ,,broad face beaming with boyish happiness, and something like a fatherly peter - neva In his eyes, en he watched his campuniun at the tiller, whom, fur a half -asleep moment of waking, I couldn't account for, till our start all came back to me, wt en 1 realized that It was our young scapegrace of over- ., , night. Charlie and he evidently were on the hest of terms already. Old Tom had been busy with break- fast and soon the smells of coffee and freshly made "Johnny -cake'• and fry - Ing bacon competed not uusucressfully with the various fragrances of the morning. Breakfast over, Charlie filled hit pipe, assuming, as he did so, a judicial aspect. I Tilled mine and one young friend followed suit by tnklnu a silver cigarette case from his pocket and striking a antes on the leg of hit khaki 'knickerbockers with a profes- sional air, "All set?" Reiter; Charlie, awl, after a slight pause, he went on: "Now, young man, you can see we are 9earing the end of the island. An- other hurt -mile will bring us to West End. Whether we put you ashore there, or. take you along, dements on your answers to my queetinas." "Fire away,"' answered the youth, blowing a cloud 0 cigarette sxtoke in a delicate spiral up into the mnrninfi sky; "but I've really told you ail 1 have to tell." "No; you haven't told na, how you came to know of our trip, what we were supposed to be utter, and when we were starting," "That's true!" flushed the Ind, ma mentarily losing its crenpnsure. Then. partly regaining it: "Is it necessary tt answer that question?" "Absolutely," answered (-Startle, be- ginning to Look really serious. "Because, if you don't mind . . well, I'd just as soon not." "For that very reason I want to know. We are out on a mere serious. business than perhaps you ' : eltze, and your answer maty mean more to us than yeti think." -I'In sure it cannot be of such impor- lenee to you. Really, It's hardly fair for me to tell. I should have to give away a friend." "I'r sorry, but I shall have to in- sist," replied,' Charlie, looking very grin. "All right, then," nrsy;er•1 the yoni11, looking lain straight in ILO nyrs, "put me ashore." "No; I won't do thiel twee ";rber," dldnred Charlie :'e 4i ,hew, "I'il put y'0'"'''. - end keep you sett . eat , 1 ti. -.,.•--iiia you answer my • n:: "You will, eh r ,.t;: Ih-. Ha.. r,,:, MAY be CON. LEADER in SENATE kon.J.A.Calder, of Regina, and a member of the Senate, whose sante has been men- tioned as Leader of the Conservative Party in the Senate. Senator Cal- der was Minister of Immigration in the Moighen administration prior to the general election in 1921. as. ho spu1�1, .t4,. tnotlsut, ho leaped tip on to the gunwale and, with- out hesltitll*n dived lute the grout glassy rollers BUY Charlie was qutelt too Tike a flash he grabbed 000 of the boy's an. Wes; 00 that tin benutiful dire was spoiled; tuul there wits the hoy, hang- ing by au 11n1llsune d leg over the ship'e side+ a helpless captive—his azuls In the touter and his -leg strug- gling to get free. Rut be might as well have struggledl against the grip of Hercules, lu timelier nloraent Charlie had him hauled idatard again, has eyes full of tear: of boyish rage .and leu• wllIntIou, "You young fool t" exelalneed Char lie, "The water round here 1s thick "You Young Fool!" Exclaimed Charlie. with sharks; you wouldn't have gone fifty yards without one of them get- ting etting you." "Sharks!" gasped out the boy, eon- temptu0usly. "I know more about sharks than you do." "You seem to know a good many things I don't," said Charlie, whose grimness had evidently relaxed a little at the lad's display 0 mettle. Mean- while, my temper was beginning to rise on behalf of our young passenger. "I tell you what, Charlie," T inter- posed; "if you are going to keep this np, you'd better count me out on this trip and set us both ashore at West End. You're making a fool of your- self. The lad's all right." The boy shot me a warn glance of gratitude. "All right," agreed Charlie, begin- ning to lose his temper, too. "I'm damned if I don't." And, his hand on the tiller, he made as, if to turn the boat about and tack for the shore. "No I no!" cried the boy, *ringing between us and appealingly laying one hand on Charlie's shoulder, the other on mine. "You mustn't let me spoil your trip. I'll compromise. And, skip- per, I'll tell your friend here all there ie to tell--everything—I swear—tf you will leave it to his judgment." "Right -al" agreed Charlie at last1 so our passenger and I thereupon 'withdrew for our conference. It was soon over and I couldn't help laughing aloud at the simplicity of It "Tust es I told you. Charlie, I ex- claimed ; " It'S innocence itself," Turn- ing to the lad, I said: "Dear boy, there Is really no need to keep such a small secret as that from the skipper here, You'll really have to let me tell him." The boy nodded acquiescence. "All the same, I gave my word," he said, When I told Charlie the Innocent se cret, he laughed as I had time. and his usual good humor instantly re- ser-- (Continued e- r (Continued Next Week) Soldiers on leave, even when not wearing tuutg theau • Ut jouns, az'c to be given reduced rates on railways of the Irish of free State, An . investigation in England has shown that drunkenness is more common between April and Sopteul- 'ber than in the other half of the year, A nozzle containing a chamber far soup has been invented for wash- -Mg auto. The hose, is attached to the nozzle and the 1 t water i' applied ' 1It e in 1 d 1 rile usual way. W. D. S. .1AMIES0N, M4; CM; I.M.CC;' Physician and Surgeon' Office R'lekelvey Block, Brussels Successor to Dr, White .Phone 46. T. T. 11/1' RA E M. m. o. er O, DI, 0. EL, Ytling, of Brussels Phynlol"n,Surgeon. Aeoeuohear' Uftiee at residence, oppov,te marine Chnrab, William, street. DR. WAFRDL-AM Honor graduate of the .Ontario Veterinary Oolleee. 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