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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1924-11-06, Page 6TEA - 1.1486 choice than Young Hyson 501ld ever'wrbere. BSi I3LIZABS 8,i ffi O K .1116LL I R "When fume* com., .. rives Wads tkr sot, a tsn•+retilngs depart-" CHAPTER XXXVIII.—(Cont'd.)' Tatina, a mediaeval castle filled with "A boy -and -girl• affair—but of treasure Gaunt was the captain of course, they marry very`r early in the citadel and: Hugo : and Tito .his Jamaica, and my parents were ter- army. ' For a;' long while there ]}ad fCWJEbT; "SALM A," TORONTO ribly upset. She wasn't at all in bbee dno piwaping' in the heogarden, te army ust Max's class." ' Ardeyne wondered what Mrs. Egan of two, until they had worn quite a had meant by that, but he did not ask path around the walls, ars 3 s her, The idea of a boyofi 16 eon- Ti- was a difficult task to impress eepeeeepe • d c)fi tr : templet -mg marriage at all'was nes- Tito with the seriousness turally most' repugnant. ' He looked such a child now with the weight of mortal' illness• on him. And he had the mind of a child. -There had been very little tutoring on that coffee plan- ,," tation, 'and the boy had never been sent to school.. Tony Egan's son,•a half-caste, Ardeyne shuddered. What DENIM JACKETS. if the boy were -his own son. Yet this the country' all rec- was an example of mere physical re- iz mothers in -a matter of semblance to forbears for sem a rm e nt • is cable� serviceable garment gnizo what ablood. , Wasn't the brain diiferent. oyes is the overall, but I wonder how I Ar'e we not even the captains of our aany are aware what a valuable'ad- brains? !Soon is the little denim jacket, This If: Tony.Egan had lived—if' he rill outwear lighter shirts or,blouses hadn't. been shot and killed by that nany times over, besides being very madman would lie. have suffered his •asy to launder. When fashioned of I own flesh, however alien in color, to [he same poor denim as the overall it hazahavrd b been nwayI brought ys apin ques that, which hakes a neat little outfit. o Ardeyne could not answer. One could not blame Carrie, Shehadthe Whole Egan family against her, and there was that savage' streak in her which deeply 'resented indignity:' Her "suffer- ing could scarcely be measured' by ordinary` people. The day raced to its close, and after an early meal at his club Philip found himself; back at Harley' Street, with a couple of bags to pack' and a few notes' to be. otted down for Town- shend's benefit. It -was then for the first time that he thought of Alice in connection with this journey, and how it might affect hex. It was rather a. .pity that the Patient was a on of Carrie . Egan, who had been' so maliciously .rude to .Alice yesterday. Ardeyne sat down :at his desk and rang up The Rushes. It'was .some little time before he got Maidenhead. The line. was • unusually busy. parlor,. But finally he was through, p maid told him that Mrs. Ardeyne was still at dinner. ..For .a. wild moment he thought pf merely sending a verTal message to Alice and writing _to her later, but it would not .do "Ask Mrs. Ardeyne toecome to the telephone," 'the said. There was a brief pause, then Alice spoke'. to him. • ' ,`Oh, Philip, is .that you?" "Yes, dean.—I,wanted to tell you-': "Oh,' Philip, it's so good to hear youryoice. I've been missing you sot I think I'll come up, to town to- morrow -e ,<Don't Sy. come Alice. o "No, listen,.. A x've' got to go away for a few days. I'm' leaving to -morrow morning: "Couldn't I come with you?" From the fresh eagerness of her voice he knew she had no suspicion, as yet, that his contemplated journey was connected with Mrs. Egan. "I'm -afraid not, dear." "I'd be in the way?" "Not exactlx.that, but it wouldn't be veey _pleasant for you. I'in more or less :obliged to --see Mrs. Egan and her boy through to Davos. The boy is very ill. It will -be; good if '.we get him there alive:='/^ ' There was ;a brief silence at the other end of the wire, then Mice said: "Very well, Philip." "I hope you" don't mind, r:eai'?" • "Not m the least." "It couldn't be helped, I tried to SilencedCritic. find somebody else, but--" 00 o r:' "I wonder;" said Alice, "why you should think I'd mind?- Good-bye." She. hung up the receiver and stood for a moment with her hands pressed to`her'heart, Philip had lied to her—deliberately lied. Mrs. Egan didn't own such a thing as...a soh. Hadn't Lois Hem- mersley sand so? And Lois ought to The: jacket inay be cut over a b ons pattern by reducing the flare' some- what, and adding two or three inches to the length. 'A straight coat sleeve and a narrow band around the neck save proved most "satisfactory.—M. and bushels;+ re- narrowed; then he, pine h offer, for lies wheat co s Ate. -`' , ., e�the' th 1! t S t t e:exc1 fix od, - at ouch, could sn:Jte`no prnn,t grieve yehla eat into flour! What have ye to gnlnd1„ "Se111ing it.for seed grain," replied the nil ler coolly, for he- thought he was sire of his man. A ti5lon swept before the mind of Macalpin Misfortune had overtaken' the settlement, Early treats the year before had killed all the grain, and the last that his neighbors had had from 'the years• before had long since gone to keen" them and a few cattle alive; ri usness of his•; du- They looked into the future with die - ties. He would wander about, sniffing may, Macalpin, because he had farm and snorting .in his''otvn; peculiar fa - shion-seeking for cats iii the shrub- bery --and had frequently to be called sharply to attention. If anything, this game' got on Jean's frayed a nerves worse than. the eternal piping. If she took her -book into the fernery—the onlycool spot out of in 't was discon- certing a tt e-1 doors' in the day to hear a teres cry of "Halt, or. I fire 1" and find oneself looking into :the barrel of an. ancient musket, however one was assured that it was not .loaded. Then Hugo; still serious, would•de- mand to know if she were friend or enemy, and upon learning, that she was a friend, would request the "pass- word," which was changed every day and served up with the breakfast trays. Sometimes' she could remem- ber and sometimes she.. couldn't, and if she failed, .Hugo would be very, angry and remind her, that by her carelessness they might easily_ lose the citadel and she would be carried away by. the Guelphs of Ghibellines and im- mersed for 'evermore in a• town or dungeon. The servants, fortunately, humored him, and '-so did Gaunt, but to Jean these symptoms were ,'tragic . and alarming. She could; not play the game of defending the citadel with any heartiness.° Over and over again Gaunt assured her that Hugo's childishness was as comfortable a form as his mania could take, both for himself and others, but perhaps she knew Hugo better than Gaunt did. Children may be mis- chievous' and inventive, but Hugo,, under it all, was a little malicious. He would point that ,gun of his and click it, although for punishment: it had, been taken away from him on several occasions. One could not forget that. he had once shot and killedra man. Jeanwould not admit, scarcely" to herself, that. She was beginning to be afraid or him. She locked her'door at night, something" she'had never' done before, and .once—awaking sud- denly=she sprang tip weth'a convul- sive' start with' the cold 'white moon staring full nt.her, convinced.for a few seconds that the moon was Hugo's face. The horror of it was so un- bearable that She closed and barred the heat/ wooden shutters and ;switch- ed en the bedside light. In. conse- quence, for the rest of the night she was stifled., Often. Gaunt and she had debated about snaking' some ehange, but.the problem of Hugo was too great. "We shall be here. for the rest of our lives,"'she' "said wearily..- Then Gaunt's patient smile would fill her with- self-reproach. It was enough for. him just to be near her and help her to look after Hugo.• The question of ;consigning the little' man to a private asylum was never raised, He was trying enough, but he had his pitiful moments, Gradually, bit by , A. POPULAR BLOUSE IN ' SLIP ON STYLE. with new fea- tures An old friend is this stylish model. The 1 nese of the front makes thio style at- tractive for slender figures. The sleeve; may be in wrist or elbow length. The Pattern is eut in 6 Sizes: 34, 36, 88, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust meas- ure. 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Tho next Sabbath morning, dressed to hie .best, McAlpin :took, his ` stand early, by the gate of the little kirk on, the hillside, and as each fellow -church- man and neighbor passed he whisper -- ed to him: "You can. get seed grain at my place measure for measure. For each bushel you take at seed time you can bring me a bushel after haivest." After doing that for the members of his own congregation he sent his sons off to other churches in the neighbor- hood to make the same; offer, • Early the next day a procession of men with bags on their backs, men on horseback, men on oxen and men in ?vagons,, 'came in at Macalpin's, gate. Not "one was denied. "You're all alike to ins to -day," said Macalpin. "Bushel for bushel it shall be. What take at seed time re - eters me bushel fol• bushel -after har- vest' His sons measured out the precious grain and' filled the bags -and boxes of their neighbors: For three days the work of distribution went on until every "man in the neighborhood was provided with seed grain. The act of the great-souled Macaipin saved' the settlement; and the deed is -held. to this day as a treasured remembrance. InMyB k fMemory M Silas Hocking, the lingiish novelist,' repeats an amusing story concerning Di•. W. B. Pope, onc8.a famous Wesleyan pro- fessor of theolbgy and -of his son Sam. The son wss preparing for the bar. Occasionally he tried his 'prentice hand at preaching the gospel in village. chapels: One Sunday morning his father said to hien: "Sam, I'm not :feel- ing cut all well to -day. You will have to preach for me this morning,'' Sam demurred. The father insisted. and Suggested' that he had two hours to Snake a sermon, and if he could not do it in that tine he was, not fit to be a barrister. • Sant went away to the study. Then he, wept off to chapel.._ Unknown to him, his father followed and found a seat' hidden 'behind ,t>ie pulpit' He heard the sermon and their liasteued hone again. "Well,. Sam," said he on 'his return, "I've heard you preach and a poor thing you made' of it: 1 thoyght you could have done better than -that." "You think the sermon was not very good?" the son inquired. 'Good?"" the old man replied, "I think it Was one of the worst sermons 1 have'tistened to!"- "Well father," seid;+Sam, "I thought it was a •poottthing myself, bnt I turn- ed over' a big pile in year study, and it was the best I could find." To Enrich Science.. . The British mean to :have another• 26. Bythat time try at pverest"in 19 t t it nsay be possible to liop by plane to the world's loftiest summit, But that is ,'not" the way the usountaineers of the Alpine Club and the Royal Geiogra- phical Society intend to take. They know. How much kinder it would have been, really, had he frankly owned up to the failure of their impossible mar- riage instead of descending to the depths of such miserable' deception. She felt that she could have borne it better. She walked slowly through the hall and out into the twilight of the gar- den. • There was: a strange feeling in her hesid and she put up her hands tp her temples. Was this^the way madness began? What did mad people do? Her gaze riveted upon the sluggishly mowing river. Sometimes they did that—drowned themselves. CHAPTER • XXXIX. 5 coowrto ' s r cry -� •N the'world of, school and play: all children are equal. ":Youngsters from homes 'less clean than yours come into intimate; contact: with your children. To , guard against • contagion, make •Stare that your children are completely cleaned and purified whenever they "cone in from play. The safe oa . Your' great ally is Lifebuoy Health S p antiseptic ingredient' of• Lifebuoy 'penetrated each 'dirt- adore pore. Rich, creamy lather : carries it into every t cranny of the skin.: The healthful :odour vanishes a fere'" /Seconds after use, but the protection' remains. H EA -LTH AP More•thauSoa-aliealthHabit Keep your' children --safe with Lifebuoy. Teach them to use it often: - LEVER , BROTHERS LIMITED TORONTO .. .. _ Lb -4-85 diliBMOISOMMIW 'Trees Have Witnessed.Rise and Fall Of. Nations. - Which is the oldest tree in the world? If one. may believe legends, there is a tree in Ceylon which is well It into' its. twenty-second century. started life as a cutting of the Bo tree under which the Buddha sat in the sixth century B.C. ' 'Very old, too, is the Soma cypress in Lbmb'ardy, which le known to have existed forty years before the birth of Christ; while , accorddng to the late Dean Stanley, eight of the original olives may still be seen in the Garden of Gethsemane Hinduls are particularly fond pt'tfe stately banyan, ' and many of these trees are used as temples and have•be• Scotland's Stone. The proposal made- by"a Scottish member : of "Parliament recently that the stone of Destiny should- b8 th re- moved from its resting -place benea the seat of the Coronation Chair,' in Westminster Abbey, to Holyrood Pal- ace, Edinburgh,.recalls a number. of of the,histericalesignineance-of the ac- quaint legends. According to .the non. ,yet the latch key has a symbol. oldest of these, it was this stone which ism,entirely its own., was Jacob's at Bethel. Afterwards it " Examine the" images of the.Egyptian was in the possession of the Pharaohs deities' in the. British Museum, and of Egypt. Then it came to Ireland, you will notice in the hands 'of sore where"it was on the Hill' of Tara .in ' of them a cross with a circular handle,. the year 700 B.C. ' ' It represents the Ankh, or key of life, _was. presented one of the oldest of all religious sysn. aleg Ultimately the 'stone an o ei to open d the w p .rdenotingp Kenneth boles K the Pope to o p a legate f b g y -close the doors to heaven. The key lnad a magical ineaniug Pot the' Greeks and Romans, Their'gode were often given the` title of Key -bear, er, as for example, Janus, the god of come: famous. The great eubbeerburr, bit, the memory of That Place was on the banks of' the Nerbudda, is sup - growing dim. He scarcely ever.re- ferred to those long years at Broad- moor, nor did he clamor for a change to livelier_ surroundings nor meditate, wild financial enterprises. Of his own accoird he handed all ' his money over posed to be that described by an ad- miral of Alexander the Great as being capable oe sheltering an army under its branches. The venerable dragon -tree of Oro- to Jean, and at least they were assiere tava, in Teneriife, was reverenced for ed of a comfortable living: kits sutiouity'by the extinct nation of But one thing he often did mention,] the-Gaitnches, and.: •tile adventurous and that was the crime os which he i conquerors of the Canaries found it had been accused and Coisvleted.' As little less colossal and caveitnens: in Scots' in London than in Edinburgh— but that any one who wishes •to see 'it must give six pence. Latch -Key Lore. Most Of us, When we use a latch -key in entering a honse,•haye no, thought his childishness increased there ac- companied it a "determined desire to set himself right with the world. He began suddenly to assert his complete innocence of Tony Egan's murder. "I didn't kill him, but I know who did, he avould say, Then he would add with a great air of:niystery: "A MSS should always protect women. We are the stronger' sex. Women should. never suffer, no matter what they do;" (To be continued,) e Autumn Days. Along the line of smoky, The, crimson forest stands, And all the day the bluo-jay culls Throughout the autumn lands. Now by the brook the maple leans,. Summer, shimmering with .heat like Wltlrall his glory spread, golden olden. glow.' of a furnace, lay; And all the sureachs on the hill' over• IIordi>;hera: The English villa IIave'tu;ued their green Co red. colony, with few exceptions, had fled, and most of the Italians, including residenthotel and pension proprietors, fam had taken their ilies• to the moun- tains or the cool, shady heights above Ga Mortals:• It had been a long time since flee- ter Gaunt had even thought`of aban- doning his farm for seasonal reasons. tie was one of those rare people who ere affected neither by heat nor cold, and to whom mountain, sea, or plain are one as' regards air and: general climatic tionditions. ` If anything, he preferred Bordighen'a. in -'the summer- time for then he practically had it to himself, barring the natives, and, like all hermits, he was selfish. Put now ha 11111 think of making a M sAlpin, as a reward for, having con- verted Scotland to .Christianity, and Was brought to England by Edward I. as a sort of security for Scottish good behavior. Another legend regarding the origin gates, who was supposed to unlock the of the stone states that it was in -the doors of . war and Peace. In early. possession of the Soots before their conversion- to Chritiantty, The god Odin, according, to this version, threw the stone at the head of another diet), who had annoyedhim,. Odin seems to have been a' bad marksman, because the stone fell, not upon the offending been committed,a key was laid on the divinity, ,?ut among the Scots, who open page of a Bible,: when it Was sup held it in reverence ever afterwards. posed to move towards the culprit. One -interesting point about the ori- Wedding tinge had their origin in the gin of the stone thus diversely; account- key presented. to the Roman bride by ed for is that It was examined some iherhusband, as a sign of her authority in his household. Tactful and Taxless. The task of being an ambassador le. 1402 than did the naturalist Humboldt in 1799. Unfortunately, it Was ..deg troyed by Apnea in the year 1871. - In England the yews are the most ancient of "living things. 'Phe yew at Crowhurst, in -Surrey, is of.enorsnous dimensions. It Is hollow and fitted with seats inside. It was just as re• markable for size and age in the reign of Charles It as it is to -day, and most probably goon back to Roman. times. Tele 'o5ie in Selborne churchyard IS said to be older than -the church, and there was' a church there in Saxon Now by great mersises wrapt inmist,: Or past some river's mouth, Throughout the long, still anthem flay Wild birds ate ilyina south. ' -Wilfred Campbell. ' did so as far. as wleo•dieci in file previous attempts to the Villa Tatina. E seemed neces follow in their steps over the crevas-. feel that they owe it to the pioneers move, and actually ses and along' the ridges, in .order to prove -that mien can live and move in a tenuous, atmosphere depleted of its, oxygen.- For this climb- is meant to enrich science; it is not simply e sporting exercise.' Wore :the ascent nothing better than a gymnastic feat, It would not justifythe money spent Mien the determined siege of "the Roof of the World," Style and Quality. sary, on Jean's account, Hugo's chil- dishness had progressed rapidly. Sometimes they thought it must have ::, been the fall which developed his ec- centricities, for certainly they had become more marked since that event. He was once more in prison • poor` fellow, although fortunately he did not,1 realize it. The big iron gates of the villa were always lcept,locked, and Ise was never allowed to wander about the town unless jean oe Gaunt was • with him. They told him' that ihe'I gates Must be locked because of the danger of thieves and, accepting this theory, he spent leug hours patrolling the grounds with Tito and an old gun he 'had found in one of the attics:' Needless to say, the gun was not load - In In choosing a press the average girl of to -day thinks 'of only one thing - style. Some one asked a designer of tvornen's clothing why the choice in garments for• larger women is so much narrower' than for women of youthfulSigne. She replied: "We can't afford t0 metro thole. Yost see, the larger }yonsen are usually the older ones, and they want better material. We can sell the yoting ones anything if only it is 0 f1islaawas ed, Hugo quite sen sable enough to appreciate this, but, as he said,. ,anybody trying to" get over the wall and having it levelled at him would think, it was loaded. He made a great game - of guarding. the premises. Jean was a beautiflsl lady whom neighboring; robber barons were. seeking to carry stray: the Villa. Christian history the `.symbol 01 the key was associated with St. Peter, with his two keys of gold and iron: In the Middle Ages the key was used to assist 1n the idenificatien of Quilty engine If, for instance, a theft: had time ago by the' late Lord Bryce and an expert mineralogist. 'They found that the stone, which is of red sand- stone did not at all correspond with Tho Royal Oak of Boseobel which befriended Charles II. may or may not be the tree now pointed -out, but in any case it is a mere stripling to other days here and there in Britain. Wy- ciiffe preached and Queen Elizabeth dined, -so it is said, under the Crouch' Oak at Addlestone. The Cowtherpe Oak, in. Yorkshire, is supposed to date from Saxon times, and it was only in 1848 that tb•ere fell the tree ,against which, according to :tradition,. Bing Edmund was martyred. How old the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is no one knows, but, there are !a good nfany trees in its- neighborhood Svhich must -approximate to a thousand years: One of them ie called "Robin Hood's Larded' - - specimens of sandstone procured from a very pleasant one indeed.This re• Scomel' presentative possesses some remark- - While the Stone, of Destiny was at able' privileges, ,and ranks immediate SCOme the Kings of Scotland . were ly after the Royal princes of the coma crowned on it, and an old Latin try in wlrtch he 1s residing. It might prophecy, the origin of which is as almost be said that an ambassador, mysterious as that of the stone itself; like the king, can do no wrong, for 9 became current. This prop'heeY, trans, stands above the law of the country i which he is officiating. The courts have 80 pewee over his or his servants, and even a criminal if he werekhown,to be residing in'a embassy, -could not be arrested with out the permission of the ambassador Another interesting fact about as ambassador is that the ground , 01 which his residence stands belongs't fated, reads: "'Unless the fates are faithless found Mid visions merely dream, Where'er this stone be 00 the grdund the Soots shall reign supreme' . It was this traditional' couplet which gave to the stone Its name of the Stone of Destiny.' .And the plsophecy appeared to be, fulfilled when James VI of Scotland became James I. of Great the country frost which he comes,. Britain and Ireland. We all grumble nowadays about Gs This might have been thought com- pensation.enough for the -•foss ofthe stone, but it -has always been a griev ance in the Northern kingdom, At one time,,•, so strong was this feeling, a number of .young Scotsmen, mostly students-, formed a plan to steal the stone from Westminster and snuggle it back to Scotland. The plan, -how- ever, came to nothing. _ - The present agitation may, of, course, amount of taxation we have to pa This is where the ainbaeeador•agai scores. ,Ambassadors do not, have "t pay a single penny in taxes, Ambitious, Sad is the day for any -shsan, when I becomes, absolutely satisfied with`tl life he is living, the thoughtsethat he thinking. and the deeds that he 18 d Inge when thereiceases to be forevi have no more practical result. In• beating at the doors of his soul a d deed,, according to a cynic, Seotland's sire to do something la get which 1 real grievance ,is not that the stone is Peale and knows he, wes meant and i in Westminster—there are now jnore tended to do:=Phillips Brooks. From Coal t� Oil. The great oil -burning ships of to- day are .a sort; of -stoker's paradise.. raging h eat of the. inn rag g old dirt d The 1 coal -Miming days have gone; and -the mere 'turning of a tap is` sufficient to. spray the oil from the -tanks under the. boilers. 'Prom the point of view of the whole ship's; company, too "oiling" in port is very much more pleasant,thasi'coaling, which meant that the, whole vessel, with' everybody in it,was'sfaotlsered in dust, Now, however, a tauter comes alongside the skip and Sixes a flexible pipe through d hatch in her sides "Pre- sently the soft thud of the pump is hoard, and the whole thing is soon oe•er,'witliout foss or bother. 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