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The Seaforth News, 1925-06-18, Page 6The Fresh Flavor of delicious is preserved in the air -tight SALADA pacKete Finer than any Japan or Gunpowder, Insist upon SALA A. Love Gives itself THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD 13Y ANNIE S. SWAN. "Loye gives Itself and is not Fought."..-Longiello v. boarding-house greeted .his nostrils, at the door, he was conscious of'a sad- den whiff of almost overwhelming dist. gust. All, the stairs of the New York boarding -houses -even those of :the meanest description -are heavily car peted. No man or woman ever be- holds these carpets lifted for cleaning purposes. Of :course, it'may be done in the dead of fright, but Most certain- lythey look as if tlsey had Iain there from primeval times, and had absorb- ed the dirt and the Delors of centuries. It was a very tall house with 'in- numerable stairs. Affery, ftriniliar with it, and apparently gled to hear that Mrs. Isaacstein was still in pos- session, hauled Rankine insideto in- terview her. She received them in a front par- lor of modest dimensions furnished in red plush. Heavy curtains were crimp- led across the windows, and there was P 'no suggestion of ailr of any lend in 'the place, Mrs. Isaacstein was elder- 'ly, shining, and fat. She had glossy 'black hair, crimped and brushed smoothly about her ears, where it met some large ear -rings composed of coral and gold: An immense. medal - Iron -brooch containing a portrait of, presumably, the late Mr. Isaacstein, adorned her ample bosom; her dress was of black satin, which has advan- tages over most -materials in that' it does not show the dirt, and can be freely sponged without detriment. Her fat and not overclean hands had many CHAPTER XIX. (Gont'd.) "Not till to -day, I think. Mrs. Somebody, calling' at The Lees told them. I believe Sifters was the name. The Professor has gone, and I follow to -morrow. I'm going tosleep at the Station Hotel to -night, after I get all the stuff out. Your mother was very kind -she asked me up to The Lees to sleep, Pet -I mean Mr. Garvock." "Mime call me Peter," he said gruffly. 'I like. it. And I hope you will come up to The Lees. If you will tell me when you will he ready to leave the Clock House, Pll send a car- fiage from the hotel." "Oh, how very good of you! Well, I think I will come," ;aid Mrs. Car- lyon, pleased with the little attention, and not alPall concerned as to whe- ther sh ,pught to decline it in the cir- cumstd4.des. "I'm not fond of hotels. I got a pretty good dose of then in mg touring days; though these, of course, were not very classy ones. I suppose -you have heard the reason why we are leaving Ayr?" Peter shook his head. "Carlotta has gone on the stage!" said. Mrs. Carlyon hastily; and at the same time narrowly observing him, to see how he would take the news. "She has gone on as leading lady, with our old friend, Graham Madox, And if you ask rue, Mr. Garvock, I should say that's good-bye to matrimony. The kind of actress Carlotta is going to be has not time for that sort of thing in her life." Peter Garvock's face flushed some- what painfully, and, though intensely interested, he did net seek to pursue the subject, but turned it off by ask- ing again when he might order the carriage from the Station Hotel. So that night the feud between Stair and The Lees had another precious little bit added to it. It was told with great gusto how Mrs. Carlyon had spent her last night in Scotland under the roof -tree of The Lees and, further, had been driven to tie station next morning in the brougham, in company with Peter Garvock, who showed her as much solicitous attention as if nothing had happened and ehe was going to be his mother-in-law after all. CHAPTER XX, AN OASIS IN THE DESERT. In due course the great steamer ar- rived at New York Harbor. As time was then no object to the particular couple of passengers in whom we are interested, they had leisure and opportunity of watching the frantic efforts of those less for- tunately situated to get out of the clutches of the Customs. For some dark and mysterious reason there had suddenly been an access oil great ac- tivity and c-tivity..and watchfulness in the Cus- toms Department, and examinations which aforetime were conducted more or less perfunctorily were now gone into thoroughly, to the confusion of a considerable sprinkling of the saloon passengers. The delinquents were principally women; and Rankine and Affery, l standing by, had the felicity of behold- ing colossal stacks of female apparel held up by inexorable customs offi- cers. Affery had a way with the officers, and their own luggage *,was passed Tactically untouched. The whole af- r appeared to Rankles' largely a travesty, as well ea an unnecessary *exhibition. A &met math at all times liti! After' eating,or smoking �wrigley's freshens the mouth and.Inveetens the breath. Nerves are soothed, throat is refreshed and digestion aided. 3o easy to carry tlrelittle packet! 1.580E No. 25-'25. '"A country that has to protect its tariff with such measures," he observ- ed in disgust, as he turned from the spectacle of a fashionably -dressed wo- man in tears of mortification over her humiliation, "is badly in need of a new administration. Come on, rand let's get along, Affery. I'm fed up." I "Take it easy. , She's got her de- sarts I happen to knew who the lady 'is. She's been defrauding the Spread Affery wastr,perfecL:y at hone,; bent that night Rankine diad no chance of malting the acquaintance of hip fellow- Iodgers, for Affery took him out to see New York, aril they did not return till the small hours. They, slept late next day, then Af- fery had to make sorer purchases, and linaily they stood together about half - past seven in the evening in the main track of the Central Railway, , from which, the train departed for the West. Rankine was rather surprised that Affery had not agaiarefer•red to the Yukon incident, and surmising that be had perhaps wounded more tender susceptibilities than he knew by ;els refusal, he'ventured to bring the sub- ject up ub-ject:;up again. Affery was filling a very fat cigarette -case from a paste- board box .he had bought on Broad- way, when Rankine said somewhat diffidently: I don't know how to thank you, Affery, for all your ` good fellow - P—•„ "Oh, stow itl",answered Affery, as if the matter was of the least possible interest to him. He was looking very lean and hag- gard at the moment, and had an odd, detached expression on his face as if. he was scarcely a denizen of the ordi- nary world of men. (To be continued.) rings on them, and when she saw Af- e fery she smiled an expansive smile of genuine welcome, ---7...707r._,,, "Ash, Mr. Affery, how do you do? " , _ It is lofely to see you again! I thought • xr J I t you was cad. Where hof °you been , i v d °�' lis long time? Come, now -where, ah.She I I �I put her massive on one 1 1liiP . , side, posing like some ridiculous bird. "In Europe, for my sins, Mrs. acein.a !Eagle steadily Inc at least ten years. Mi. RankineZ1fromi ntroScoaiand. pile'is Shouldn't wonder if this particular I going to atop in Nety York, it may be !little show wasarranged for her bene -I for good. I want you to take 'him in fit. You see, she's really only a go -i and do for him with your usual bene - between. She sells the stuff after shat flcenee, As for • me,, I'm off to - gets here. But she's been copped this! msseese e I time, and no mistake. Well, we'd bet- ter be moving." He beckoned a cabby, made a bar- gain with kiln with the air of a man who knew the ropes, and they drove off from the gesticulating crowd. It wasa'beautifnl day, the air soft and balmy, the sky deliciously blue; and Renldne's spirits were uncommon- ly good. "Away basic to the ice and snow, Mister Affery?" she said, shaking her head as she essayed to take inhis companion with one of her most com- prehensive glances, Apparently she was satisfied, for she nodded to him with much kindliness, and said she. hoped he would not mind a sixth -floor room, as it was all she had. Rankine was on the point of say - They had not again alluded to the ing he would try elsewhere, but a look conversation on the moonlit deck_ from Affery deterred hirn, After - Once or twice in the last hours they wards, when he had gone through had spent together on the ship, Ran- some of the lower rales of boarding - kine wondered whether he had dream- house life in New York city, he owned eel it all, or whether Affery had been that Affery was entirely right about the land -hearted Jewess. Her house had points .unknown and unshared by any others he struck But it ,vas so different from any - romancing first and last. Suddenly, as if divining his thought, Affery flashed one of his side -glances at him. "We're going to a decent boarding- thing in the way of a public hostlery house I used to know on Forty-second he had ever made use of, that it can Street. It's central, respectable, .and readily be understood how he shrank cheap. Kept by a daughter of Twee. from it. In common with most men, When they're good, they're very good. boardinghouse life with its limitations I shall stop till to -morrow night, then and petty restrictions, its compulsory take. the West bound` express. You'll• association with persons one does•=:not, under any circumstances, desire to know, made no appeal to hint. But, realizing that for the present he had • slap, i suppose, tnlienmtely, "I suppose so. Or, at least, until I have got a look round." "And trot out your intros then you'll see how much good they are. We'll meet later an, I expect, and corn - pare New York notes. But you'd bet- ter not stop as long as I did, nor'try as many berths. It's better, on the whole, to have a line and to stick to it. What's yours going to be?" Rankine drew out his rather fat pocket -book which he had been study- ing off and on with considerable anx- iety during the closing hours of the voyage. It contained the usual type of letters of introduction: one from his lawyer to a firm of equal stand- ing in New. York; one from David Sil- late, written in pencil in the train, where he had met Rankine journeying up to Glasgow for the last time; and two from other Ayrshire friends more or less vaguely expressed. One of them, considerably to Rankine's dis- gust, had been sealed; for which rea- son, and acting on Affery's instruc- tions, be had tossed it into the sea. As it happened eventually, he had in a moment of pique, thrown away the only thing that, in New York city, would have been of the smallest use to him. Letters of introduction are of var- ious kinds, but there are very few worth the paper they are 'written on. Most persons who have been reduced to making use of them have proved them humiliating, in some cases dam- aging to any particular cause they had at heart. Why the custom of ask- ing them and writing them has not fallen into desuetude it is not possible to understand. There is nothing in this world to be had without payment, and very often the person who writes the letter of introduction ,mows per- fectly well the futitlity of what he is doing. It creates, in the mind- of the person to whom it is presented, a feeling of irritation which it is hardly possible to put into words. Mostly the recipient is powerless to offer the kind of permanent help or service desired and expected and the utmost he can do is to speak a word of casual kind- ness, offer a meal, or some other half- hearted hospitality. Affery, who knew the ropes of city life and all the tortuous ways of the office -seeker, felt a profound pity for !his fellow -traveller. But realizing that he must find his own feet, and arrive at his level in common with the rest of humanity, he now proposed to leave him severely to his own re- sources. `'Leave'em in their ccsy corner till after I've Cleared," he said, with a glance of good-natured scorn at the fat pocket -book. 'Just for four -and - twenty hours you and me will do our- selves proud, at my expense. I'll show you New York afore I quit it for ever." Rankine was not favorably impress- ed with the boarding••house kept by Mrs. Isaaestein to which he was in- troduced on Forty-second Street, and only the odd personal spell Affery ex- ercised.over him induced him to enter it. A good dealit the second-class ac- commodetion on the boat had jarred upon his susceptibilities, though he had done his best to fight against his oft -times rising choler and disgust. But when the oder of Mrs. Isaacstein's no choice, and that he was probably wise in standing `aside and allowing Affery to arrange matters for him, he said he would be glad to look at the sixth -floor room. Ho liked it. It was near the roof, and had the complete advantage of be- ing cut off, in some considerable de- gree, from the particularly involved odors permeating the rest of Mrs. Isaacstein's establishment, While he was contemplating the cheap furniture and the somewhat unsteady -looking bedstead, Affery made a swift bargain en the landing outside. Finally he came in and closed the door, "See here, Rankine. You take my tip, and stop here. She's a very de- cent sort. She'll take you, on my recommendation, ler seven dollars a week, which includes breakfast and supper. You find your own mid-day meal at one of the quick -lunch coun- ters. You" can have a good meal when you get to know' the ropes for a quar- ter, or even for ten cents, but I hope you won't come down to be a ten - center. It'll do till yo i strike ile,' and it's a respectable address. I Was here once for two years in my palmiest day;, when I was a bartender at Joe Cassidy's, on Forty-first Street." "Is that the class who frequent the house?" asked Rankine rather dryly, lniegiremg that -Affery was taking ra:• ther much for granted where he was concerned. "There are all sorts. She accom- modates about a score of teachers, artists, and clerks of the better sort, J.'.ou pays year money and you take your choice. I'm not ramming it down your throat, mind, but I think you might. do worse. Will you have up your stuff?" Affery has left his, with the ex- ception -ed a small handbag :to which he was hanging on at the moment, at the station depot whence he would take next day the West -bound train. Rankine decided that in the mean- time he had better agree. "1'11 take the room for a week, any- way, Affery-paying in advance." So Rankine betaine paying guest te Mrs. Isaacstein, and often -afterwards, looking back on that day's transac- tions, he had to smile a melancholy smile, at his own fastidious qualms. RSES The Toronto Ha:aitat ler Irmirakic+, in. aftlllatIon with 0uliavuo and Allied. Ho,pltal:, New York City often a then Imam' Cutlf,e ct Trail/No to. young Women. having Ur, required-ednoatloll, and desire. of becomint unset. T.Ilie 11,53101 no/ adopted Um eight. hear ty:tom. .Tllo pupilJ receivepupil uniform: of 1ha School, n monthly nlieweime and travellint cipot/ma to and from Mew York. F r 1 t .,_ Information 30(11 to +he Superintendent. &rlusiue„Patterns J ,3-u Cir .- 1101 CHARMINGLY SLENDERIZING. Slenderizing and straight -lined, this clever ensemble -effect frock of printed crepe gives the large woman an added touch of youthfulness.. The wide' underpanel is of contrasting color crepe.. This sante color` snakes the cuffs and collar, and the full-length' revers at each side which emphasize! the coat effect. An all-around belt' with novelty buckle adds to the tailor -i ed finish. No. 1101 is cut in sizes 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50 inches bust. n Size 46 requires 8% yards of 36 or 40 -inch; material with 11/4 yards extra of con- trasting material for panel, revers and collar. Width of dress around bottom, about lie..yards. Price 201 cents. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS, Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you wrnt. Enclose 20c in stamps or .coin (coinpreferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns: sent by return (nail, Ile answered a friend on the phone, And pulled what appeared like a bone. "I'm getting on fine - With this wide of nine- At least I am holding my own." Minard's Liniment for Backache, Canada's Woods. There are approximately 100 arbor- escent species of hardwoods, and 11 species of conifers, or softwoods, in Canada. Of these, only 23 species of softwoods. and 32 species of hardwood's can be considered as commercially ilii- portant. The conifers form . over 801 per cent. of the standing timber, and 95 per cent. of the lumber and 5111p. wood produced. The hardwoods aro chiefly used for fret, but they also fur, nish considerable lumber Inc•,loosing, interior finish, cooperage, turnery and other weed -working industries. I., or all Daint ahin,gs _The film, dainty things of sheerest weave and most charming hue -things some, people never dreamed could be washed- are perfectly safe in the pure, rich suds of Lux. d' Just dip them up and.downin the abundant Lux lather. No rubbing, to roughen their delicate texture orstreakand fade the lovely colours. • And not only once, but inany. times, can they be laundered. Each time they come fforn the gentle Lux bash as charming ss though they were new. Remember, if your pretty things arc safe in pare water, shay are perfectly safe in the mild Lux sleds. ...,.. -.•tit+s Lever Brothers Limited, Toronto. LI kir Photographs of•the Saints. Ignorance aud usisophisticatton are qualities often -nay, usually -found among .the peasants of the European countries. An especially curious, sort of ignorance was observed in a corner of the peninsula by the authors of Mis- adventures with a Donkey in Spain. The villagers there seem to have been mbre familiar with the camera than with ptetures drawn by the artist's hand. The book says. The usual'quee.tioning by the peas- ants -revealed a depth of Simplicity in them even greater than we had met before. They had oreached question eight and we had replied that we were P ainters, "You will do good trdde In the vi1- lagos of this district," said one of tare men; "there are houses to paint, Itis the sermon of the year." "But," we implied, ''we are not house painters." "Not house 'painters!" they cried, amazed, "But what then do you paint?" " ,. "We make pictures -portraits, land- scapes, people, and so on," "Aha, yes," they sold, satisfied, "we understand now. You work with the machine. You are photographers." "Na," we answered; "we are not phctographers," But how then?" they asked. "How can one make`pietures without the ma- chine?" . "We do it with the hands," we said; er example, these liiotures"-Point- IiMg totsthereligious portraits that dec- orated the whitewashed walls-•'thsse pictures are done with hands by artists. Drawn!" We made gesticula- tions of sketching. "Ali, no'!" they replied, wagging their -heads wisely at us. -"These pic- tures are made with machines'. They aro photographs of the saintly person- ages." We had some difficulty in persuad- ing them that the pfethres emanated from the imagination of the artist and that aapicture o4 St. Mark dressed in a monkish cowl, holding in his hands a bound. volume, .accompanied by a lion with a most carefully dressed ehlgnon, was not a photograph from nature. 0 do not think that we left an effective wound in their simple faith, but the discovery that the pictures were not strictly true did' give them ' something of a shock. Beginning Again. I wish .that there were some wodstful p ace Called the Land of Boginning Again, Where all our mistakes and alt our hest -aches And all el our poor, selfish grief Could be. dropped .like a, shabby old coat at the door, And never be put on again. I wish' we could come on•it all unaware Like the hunter who finds a lost trail, And I wish that .the one whom our blindneps had done The greatest injustice of all, Could be at the gate, like an old friend that watts For the comrade lie's gladdest to hail. We wcuCa find all the things we in. leaded to do : ' But forgot, and ra'nembered too late, Little praises.upspoken, little promises broken, And all of the thousand and one Little duties neglected that might bave. perfected The day•for one less fortunate. --Louise Fletcher. Rats in India.T A former Indian official says that rats are one of•tire'greatest curses of India. 'Thore are hundred's of millions. oPllrem, and they.oannot ie eetermin- ated because. of i'elfglins be:fefs. The' I Hindu will harry the rat, but will not lai11 him; the Mohammedan, who does not object eto killing hums that with - I out help ha, can do nothing. And, se the -evil continues. it is no exaggera- tion to say that, if -the number of rats could be kept down to a reasonable figure, the wealth of India would be in- creas•ed: a fifth, "Don't worry"makes a better mot- to when you add "others." For FirstAid-Minard's Liniment. Newfoundland Seal Catch. The season's kill of the Newfound- land sealing fleet anrolinted to approxi- mately 127;000 seals, which is consid- ered fair ; in comparison with other years. Ton vessels were engaged in the hunt this year. One vessel was destro,'ed. The .production of aluminum from bauxite ore was carried on -inCan- ada during.1328 at Shawinigan-Falle, Quebec. Ten other plants, all in On- tario, fabricated aluminum products. Tho ,value of the totaUoutput .from these plants -was : $7,01.7,830.. APID city, ,Thq vorid's best • , hair tint. Will re- store gray hair to its natural color in 15 minutes. Small size, $3.30 by mail Double size, 85.50 by mall The W. T. i'emitedber.Storeb 129 Yong° St Toronto .y 3 rep Fill an SPA P Enameled Tea Kettle. Bet it on the stove. NoKettle will boil water quicker. That means con- venience, time saved, too. All SNIP Enameled utensils are very fast coming to the boil and in their job of cook- ing. Not only quicker to coolt with,but easier, more quickly cleaned after. The -best any way you look at it. Think this over. sr Sid to Enameled EA E TTLES Save Fuel t77 w+T: W'HA'T IS BLACK LIGHTNING? Secrets ;Scientists Can't Solve,. 1` Scientists at'e, always busy, 'delving ''- mow and more,. deeply. into I;(ature's secrets. Yet almost every day fresh puzzles crop up which,, fol• a time,..dety • solution, Did -you over hear of black light • - ning? You would imagine that the in- tense heat of the electric discharge must give a blaze of flame. Yet Alex- ander L erseu, lire Dutch scientist, has established the fact that; there such. a thing as a lightning flash•'invisible to the human eye. These' nestles were recorded by a '0 specially -arranged cirnera, but not by the sight. " Larsen suggests that this .- particular type of lightning gives out:" wave lengths much shorter than the wive.leugths of visible light, and': so. intense .that the human eye is incap- able of seeing them. Fish That Wear Lamps, - How is it that the firefly .produces a colli light? That the firefly bilins oxy- gen to produce its light seems beyond doubt, but with all his resources man cannot copy this •dight. It has been proved that the firefly uses 90.6 per cent.: of its energy 'for light, whereas in a.man-madeglow-lamp,•vonly about half of one, per Hent. of the energy is available fol 11gi�t. To make. a .light equal in brilliance ,to that bf tit0,firefly by human meth= oris would require' a. temperature !of something like 2,000 degrees lrahren heft. . Remember, too, that not only fire- flies but glowworms and scores of dif- ferent sorts.of'fish are able to produce this cold light. The most brilliant of the light -burners are creatures whicoh, live in the t•ieenrencigps abysses of oceans where the temperature is al- ways at or about freezing point.. The Secret of Scent. Scent is still in many respects an - unsolved. myatery. We know that al:"."- most l-"most every 'dbiect gives out. tiny par• toles which produce the sensation of scant. But lee size of these particles is minute beyond belief, for a grain of musk will scent a drawer .for a genera- tion without losing any weight. Again, why is it that on one day a fox leaves a scent which hounds can follow at full speed, while on' the next there is so little that the pack Is utterly at fault? Scent does not depend upon the weath- er -that much we know. 'What is the cause of the earth's magnetiser? AlI navigation depends on the compass, which4n tun depends for its usefulness -on thefactofthe ,earth's magnetisf. Even if, as sus- pected, our planet's core is solid iron, this does'not explain the phenomenon, or why is it that two or three metals, such as iron, nickel or 'cobalt, possess magnetic properties, while all the dozens of others have nothing of the .Sort? :Mysteries of Magnetism. Again, why is it that the earth's mag- netic phenomena depend so plainly up- on the sun? We are aware that mag— natio storms nre• always more frequent in each eleventh year- that in which sunspots are most frequent -but no one knows the reason. Speaking of magnetism, a curious ex- periment has had a "curious result. Plumb -lines over four thousand feet long were swung in a copper mine, which has a shaft 4,250 feet -deep. Piano wire was used with metal bebs weighing fifty pounds each. First. the wire stretched fifteen then, when the bobs were immersed In oil to pre- vent vibration,: the two lines shortened twenty-frve inches. '- But the oddest phenomenon was the attraction of the `wires one for the other. This amounted to one tenth of a foot, and even when lead bobs were substituted for iron ones the attrac- tion remained the same, Where They Paid in Sugar. In St. Kitts, or St. Christopher, an island in the West Indies, during the• great days of its prosperity, which ex- tended from the reign of William and Mary wellinto the reign of George IV., thore was little. or no handling of money. Everything, says Sir.Freder- ick Theves in the Cradle of the Deep, was '-pais for in sugar, indigo or tobac- co: Servants' wages were paid In sugar, A skilled artisan, after' four years of , free service, received four thousand pound a year. That curious salary he would, exchange for goods sent out from England. He must have found it difficult to find a bank er a strong box for his savings, for four thousand pounds of sugar take up loom, and a thrifty man who' spent much less in a .year than lie earned would find Himself In a few years with enough sugar laid by to fillet barn. Slaves wore bought and sold' in terms of sugar. The purchaser of an estate could pay fol' it 'either iu hsdigo' or in tobacco or in sugar. The wife 01 thegovernor of the island onto set her heart upon'a piece of Smyrna carpet, the price of which was seventeen'Irun- dred pounds of sugar; of course she didn't pay for it, over the counter. A. woman who wept downtown shopping in those good old days must have taken a Slave along trundling a wheelbar- row of sugar for her insignificant pur- chases of needles and pins: and soap& and perfumes; when she went to look for Easter finery die must have beon accompanied by a four -horse dray! 'Matting can be freshened by wiping it with., a. sloth wrung out of water to which ammonia has been added.