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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-08-13, Page 2For Boys and Girls THE PEARL NECKLACE , There wasonce a great Icing, who ruled ina city by the sea, and he had but one child, a daughter,who was so beautiful that her renown spread over all the neighboring countries, and many princes sought her hand in mar- riage. Her father Was so proud of her that he never refused anything she asked,' and she grew so capricious and exacting that it became no easy matter even for a king to gratify her many fancies. When she was about seventeen, she set her heart upon having a necklace, which eras to be made of the finest and largest pearls the world could show, and more than a year was &pent in collecting' these gems from every country under the sun. At last enough were found, and the necklace was .completed, and whenever the Princess Ernestine looked al them g e ming in their velvet case, or hung •.n around her pretty white neck, r1 felt happy in the thought that alone in all the world possessed so priceless a treasure. But the best of things are apt to have an end; and one summer even-, ing the princess was sailing on the' quiet water, leaning back in her boat and toying with the necklace at her ii' throat,. when suddenly the clasp loos- and ened, and the wonderful pearls drop -1 ped into the sea. Here was a catastrophe. Ernestine wrung her hands andwept, refusing to be comforted, and declaring over and over again that she could never) be happy until her beloved necklace was restored to her. The next day she continued just as inconsolable, and the next and the; next, doing nothing but weep after her! •lost treasure, until her father, in de -1 spair, caused it to be proclaimed'; throughout all his kieg'dom that who-' ever succeeded in bringing back the pearls from the depths of the ocean ! should have the princess for a wife, This was quite enough to attract'` the boldest divers from all the coun- tries around, determined to try if luck and skill 'could not win for them so lovely a bride. But in vain they risk-) ed their lives, plunging again and again into the green waters in search of the buried necklace. The sea in' this case held its own against them,' and despairing of success, they grad-! uaily gave up the search. Now, there lived on the coast a poor fisher -lad named Nello, a handsome' ani fearless boy, who had often watched the princess from afar, and won :eretf at her great beauty. But' wit --f he heard the proolamation, he determined to try and win so fair a prize, and, as a first step, he visited a wise old woman who Inved in a cave by the waterside, and asked her ad-' vice as to how he should begin. You will never find the necklace," declared the wise woman, most posi- ' tive:y, "unless you can first catch the` talking -fish, and get him to help you" "The talking -fish!" cried Nello; "but Z have caught fishes all my life, and ! never heard of one that could talk." "Nevertheless, there is one that can," replied the wise woman, "and 1 unless you are able to catch it, you may as well give up all thoughts of the necklace and the princess." "But even e k''tce, like the others, taking -all, the ricks. However, far many weeks he fished steadily, leoki::g offer every netful he caught, and hoping eeeh morning for better luck than the day Lefere had brought him. No one knew of his project .n:ccept— lltt e BeleAtte, the pretty usher girl, who carried hie spoils every morning into the city for sale, and who listen-' ed to all his hopes and fears with a heavy -heart, wondering if he would ever remember his old friends when •he should have found the. talking -fish and won the irrincess for a bride. Thus things went on for a long, leng time, and . the hope in Neilo's 'heart was beginning to give way to ' despair, whe: ane day, an drawing up his nets, there lay on the very top the strangest fish he had ever seen ' in his 3ife. It was small, and its scales shone like burnished gold. Its eyes, instead of being dull and glassy, were sparkling with life,' and on its head were marked distinctly, in silver lines, three separate crowns, In an instant, Nello plunged his prize into the glass bow), which he had always ready, and trembling between hope and excitement, he cried out: "If you are the talking -fish, I charge you answer me, and assist me in my search." Immediately the fish replied: "For what do you search, and in what do you need my help?" "I seek the Princess Ernestine's pearl necklace," said Nello, hardly able to realize his wonderful luck. "It lies beneath the sea, but I must have your aid to tell me where." "Shall I dive down and bring, it up to you?" asked the fish, who seemed restless in the little bowl that held him, But Nello shook his head, remem- bering emembering the wise woman's warning. "We will go together and seek it," ho said. "Very well," answered the fish; "step into the water- and I will show you where the necklace is kept; but you must make your own bargain for it when you get there." Nello did not hesitate an instant, Grasping the glass bowl firmly in one hand, he stepped over the side of the boat and sank slowly through the green water. Strange to say, he did not feel at all like drowning, but breathed as easily as when in the air, and with wide -opened eyes he watched the strange fishes that swam around him, and the huge sea monsters who, uncoiling their many folds, yet passed him idly by. Every living thing beneath the water seemed to recognize the mys- terious fish he• carried, and shrank from any near approach while they swam eagerly about. Down, down he went, until at length his feet touched the smooth bed of the ocean and he found himself walking beneath the sea, as readily as he had ever walked upon the earth. Strange and beautiful sights sur• rounded hint. Groves of Coral, vrhose floors were studded with gleaming pebbles, amid which waved the grace- ful ferns of ocean, bending languidly, to and fro, as the water gently swayed them. Delicate flowers clung to the' shining rocks, and smooth, pink shells made murmur at his feet. Suddenly, before him rose a stately palace, built of coral and pearl, and, as he neared it, groups of sea -nymphs urrounded him, gazing with wonder-' ng eyes at the unwonted spectacle. "Ile carries with him the talking-! shi" they whispered to one another,. and, joining hands, they swept on be-, ore him, their long, green robes and eating hair looking like seaweed, as hey glided by, Along the spacious corridors of the alace. they accompanied him, sighing adly to one another: "He brings with him the talking- sh, and he has come to take away ur precious necklace. Alas, alas!" nd their voices sounded like the mnr- nur of the waves upon the shore. StM Nello pushed on, until he came. ppose I am lucky enough to find this wonderful fish," persisted Nello, "how am I to tell it from any other?" "Oh, that will be easy enough!" was the answer; "you cannot possibly fail ! s to know it, for it is not like any other 1i fish in the water. It swims through the whole ocean, so that at one time fi or another it may come in your way, E and if you only catch it, your fortune' f and your bride. are won. Put it at, R once in a bowl of water and bid it t answer you; but be careful about three things. Do not lose possession , p ' of it fora minute, obey exactly every s direction it gives you, and see that it! suffers no harm whatever while in 1 fl your hands. Otherwise, all your labor 1 o /will be in vain, and you may find a yourself in great danger." ! 1 String of codfish caught by boys at Camp Bonaventure, Bay des Cha- leurs, New Brunswick,. foe'n, atcd her long hair fell g:eamin to the ground, while in her' cleat gray eyes lurked a spirit of mischie that bade; one beware how they trust- ed het; Around her throne stood her fairy court, :only less beautiful than their queen. At her feet a huge see-eerp•ent guarded her from all threatened dan- ger. Brilliant plants waved ,their crimson lea"es in the pale green wat- ers; the at-ers;.the treasures 'of .the ocean were lavished on all sides, and, above her bead, most highly of all, hung the wonderful• pearl necklace, shining with a gentle lustre, and making Ne)lo's heart throb with delight, g 1 -le had his life still, and he asked for , nothing more. Had the princess teen f a thousand times mere beautiful, he would_tiot have risked again those horrible ocean depths, and with a grateful nett he rowed for shoee Some years after he marc ri1 the pretty Babette, who made him a charming little wife,: and he spent all his days as a fisherman, without ever giving another thought to the talking - ash, or the throne he had lost. And the princess married a great king, who gave her another necklace as like the first as possible; though, whenever she felt a little cross, or out of humor, she would bewail her --hard fate in losing the only ornament she could ever really value, and would scorn the second necklace as being poor and mean in comparison. But the lost pearls still hang in the fatty halls beneath the ocean, and the sea -nymphs prize thein as their great- est treasure; while, as for the talking - fish, if, anybody has over succeeded in catching him since, I, for one, have never heard of it, Tha ocean fairy looked sadly at him, and at the fish, he carried. "You have come to take away the most treasured of all my possessions," she said, plaintively, while tears stood in her deep gray eyes, "and I have no power to withhold it. But why can you not leave beneath the sea that which belongs by right to its domain?" Nello's heart was touched with pity but he said, gently; "Forgive me, I pray, as I have come to restore the necklace to its lawful owner, as well as to win for myself a fortune and a bride." "But what can you give me in ex- change for these priceless gems?" said the fairy, softly. "Surely you will not carry them away and leave me nothing in their placel" "I would not, indeed," replied Nello, much perplexed; "but I am but a poor fisher -boy and have nothing that I dare -to offer you." "You have that pretty golden fish," said the fairy, "and I love such shin- ing creatures. Give him to me for a pet and plaything, and you may take my treasured necklace." But Nello, remembering the wise womans caution, answered, resolutely: "1 am sorry, indeed, but the fish I cannot part with, else great harm might happen to me." "Then," said the fairy, pleadiugly, "give me at least one of his golden scales, only one! Surely that is not a heavy price to pay for my glorious pearls," Nello hesitated. He knew he had been warned to let no harm come to the fish,but surely one scale could make no difference. It is rather hard for a fisher -boy to think that a fish can be readily hurt, or that it can possibly matter much if it is, The fairy's lovely grey eyes were ' raised to his, but he did not see the glitter in their depths. She held out her white amts with a pretty, pleasing gesture, and he could no longer resist her. Hastily seizing the fish, he tore off' one of its glistening scales—only one —but there sprang to the spot one tiny drop of blood. Instantly a sound of thunder rang in his ears, the fish slipped from his grasp, the palace, the ocean fairies, and the necklace disappeared from his sight; a roaring of many waters! surrounded him, and he found hire -s self struggling for life in the cold, green waves. He knew that he was drowning, andi making one desperate effort, he sleeve. to reach the surface, while hideous fish, no ;onger held in bay, sought to engulf hint in their huge jaws. But Nello had not lived a fisher - =Ws life for nothing, and, drawing his knife from its sheath, he defend- ed himself bravely ,as he straggled Nello thanked the wise woman, and went back rather sadly to his work, to the centre of the palace, where in es o catch rn th g e talking a lofty room,the queen of thet her d h' boat o near Troglodyte. Lilco bands of limber steed e'er which is stretched . - Some satin substance of elastic strength, Tho muscles of his yell -proportioned limbs Lay, rounding firmly, _through his giant strength. He moved as moves the panther when • he stalks With. silent speed and supple, savage grace, Advancing on his prey, or when he leaps From hidden crouch in some dark, Jungle place, He stood beneath the sun, his. splendid term Untrammeled, in its fiowless beauty, bare; His nostrils widened, and his great lungs drank Deep draughts• of heaven's free, lite - giving air, Within his veins and arteries ran blood Richer than that of kings, because more red, Untainted as the day when first it sprang From Evolution's distant fountain. }read, "A man,!" you say, "A perfect, normal man, "With whom remains the Image of the God "Whose thought conceived him!" Nay but look again; One third a man—an animated clod Mark you•his face; the broad, protrud Mg brow; No spark of intellect, no glcnm of soul His brutal features with their light endow, ' The art, the music and the storied lord Of centuries conte not within his Me; His undeveloped mind, hie sleeping soul, Leave hint, as yet, the fraction of a man! --J. Duncan -Clark In "Success, The Quick or the Dead. Tourist—"You're a bit young to be with all his might to reach the air. the oldest inhabitauL." At ' nt,•tie breathless and gasril ir, fish seemed so very small, and het fairies reclined upon water- ase, an saw is oalnlg a throne of pearl. I him on the water. Would have preferred diving for the; I€er robe was white as the ocean But what did Nello care for that? REG'LAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes. JUST SIMPLY UPSET! ALL HE NEEDS IS CASTOR OIL ABOUT FIFTEEN CENTS '{'O FIX HIM UP! x•-22 IT'LL 000T MORE'he THAT, DOCTOR, 1 6ETCHA Oldest Inhabitant ---"It be these 'ere motor -cars tearin' through the village. be the sixth oldest inhabitant in teen and the widgeon aro ever heard -` _ three months." here. There are no roads, and Bra] Spain ;cads the. world in production li of olive oil. na A Prvate Graft. le � A .sICIAL .SILK PLAN" FOR CANADA OXFORD ` CHURCH BEGINS 5TII CENTURY Tha new artificial silk plant recently completed at Cornwall, Ontario, is ex- pected to employ at the ottsst five hundred persona, half wale. and half female, and' it is estimated that the first unit of the plant will average 25; 000 pounds weekly, or over 1,000,000 pounds annually. This, is an announce Mont of some significance in Dominion business, since it rllarrks the inaugura- tion of rayon mauul oture in Canada, In the opinion of the Manchester Guardian Commercial, the progress of tithe newest textile industry has been,,. remarkable, but the really sensational developments lie in the future. The manufacture of artificial silk is now so remunerative an enterprise that vast suets of money are available for re- eearoh, and it is not too much to hope that rapid progress will be made in cheapening the cost of •produotiou, in creasing the tensile strength of the fibre, especially when wet, and over- oomingaome of the difficulties of cos.- bindng it with other textiles,. as well as other matters receiving attention. There is, therefore, cause Or much satisfaction that this industry should have so early' -established itself :on Canadian soil. It ie pointed out that there is much room for the Industry lu Canada in view of the great expansion of rayon consumption in Canadian cotton, silk and woollen geode mills. Canada has been importing almost all of her artist Dial silk from England and' the United States,' with lesser quantities from Bel - glum, I!'ra•uoe, Switzerland and otter oeuntrios,, end it 1N eIOW erpeeled that the 12odtinian will to a great extent be- come . melf suppoa'tiug as to supple', tdtongli-imports• will have to augment Immo preiductlon Inc some time yet:. •Imports oP to-iitclai aS1 z nnanulaettuee into Canada in. the trot year for which figures are avnlls)le totalled two and a half milllon iiollars, and the value of these has, 'mete increasing in a re- markable manner, .. Canada is, in moult ways, ain.gulariy. advantageously situated to enter this lndllstry. The Dominion possesses Targe quantities of the raw material, namely cellulose, in the form of pulp- wood, which le the basis of the vieec o method' oe treatment, the development of which in Europe has resulted in ape- preciable amounts of Canadian pulp- wood being imported into 1 raance and Italie for use in their factories. This advantage has long been realized, that Which mililtatod against earlier sstab;, lishnient being th'e'' large amount of oapital required, the elaborate and eco- clalized machinery, and the trained labor necessary. - Tho consumption of artificial silk .in the other Dominions of .the Empire must be very large and likewise in- creasing, and Canada, which is becom- ing to an eves. Increasing extent the manufacturing centre, of the British Empire, will have the advantage of proximity over Eugland and tariff aver the Milted. States, in supplying these cduutl'les with rayon SERVICE HELD ONCE A YEAR I CATHEDRAL ANCIENT RUIN ON COAST OF ESSEX, ENOLAW'D. Built by St. Cedd 12 Centuries Ago, it Has Become a Common Barn. For the first and last time this year a happy band of pilgrim's, headed by the Bishop of Chelmsford, have held a service in the loneliest church in England, writes• a correspondent d1 The London Daily News, from Brad- woll-Juxta-.flare (Essex). Imagination has carried us back twelve hundred years, This afternoon we discovered "the lost cathedral of Ithaneester," known only to a few as the Church of St. Peter -at -the -Wall, built by St. Cedd, the Missionary Bishop of the East Begone. Two canoes, using an old thatched cotvhottse as a vestry, robed them- selves in cassocks and put on their canonically and worshipped at the Sax- on shrine that was once made of wood and thatched with reed from the ooze flats,, well, the nearest village,is two tulles away, The Bishop of Chelmsford gave an address in what he called "my cathe- dral," and spoke fraternally of Bishop. Cedd ae "my predecessor." Canon, Owen, !rector of Bradwell,lec- turecl the pllgritne outside the church, "There- is a 'wonderful atmosphere about it," he said, "which has never been lost in the 'centuries of neglect Mid decay." Canon Lake, cub -dean of Chelmsford, told me that the main structure is prac- tically in the same condition as Bish- op Cedd left lt. "The church has now passed into the care of the chapter and o11Oe a year we hold this service and come to look at our property." Will Steamships Disappear? The Diesel engine, which promises to supersede. steam machinery for the propulsion of ships, is not a recent invention. It was produced by Dr, Diesel, a German, in 1897, and since then It has undergone vast improve- ments, The essential difference be- tween a Diesel motor and the petrol engine of a motor -car rets in the man- t net in which combustion is effected. In ' the latter, sontbined air and petrol vapor are compressed moderately and then ignited by an electric spark. With the Diesel motor, pure air undergoes a high pressure (about 5001b, per square Inch). This increases the temperature of the air to such an extent that when t a lino oil spray is projected into it, combustion is instantaneous, Though a Diesel inetaliatfon costs More than steam-engines and boilers, its fuel bill is less. This may account for the fact duet, 1n the pest year, motor shipbuilding has increased 47 per cent, while steamer' construction has declined by 24t, per cont. The tennago of Diesel -engined ships now e in service is over two million gross, white that of motor vessels is course of construction is over a million tons, n LARGEST COLLEGE AT FAMOUS UNIVERSITY. Contributed Its Share of Illus- trious Names to 'History During• ' 400. Years. Christ Church, the largest and most notable of Oxford colleges, begins the fifth century . of its'existence this month. • For roagoit5 of convenience the celebration already has been held, so the true birthday of tli-Is curious. in- stitution, which is both a college ,and a cathedral and yet is eailed a church, will pass quletiy.4iring the long vaca- tion• iilocloru investigation has revealed a remarkable continuity in the history of :English ecclesiastical foun:clp;tions. The Saxous -built their churches on the • rupia of the great Roman temples; and the Normans, in their tarn, rebuilt the Saxon churches. This continuity is Meet remarkable in Oxford, where nearly every college. has grown out o1 a medieval monastery. 'Christ Church stands on the site of a priory, a perish church and at least iwb older monastic collages; its bells were re- moved from 'a neighboring abbey. and both the stones and the funds us -ed in its construction were obtained from the dissolution of more than forty monastic foundations. in 1946 the tercentenary of this same college was celebrated; an?l in a sense Properly, for 1546 was the date of Its. last .foundation. The true credit be•' longe, however, to an earlier date and to Cardinal Weleey, son of an Ipswich butcher, who•began it ae Cardinal Col- lege at a time when he was the favor- ite of King Henry VIII,' and stood sec- oud'only to him in power and pomp and fortune, Wolsey was notlitng if not a man of action, A Gigantic Protect. To melte room for hie college a quar- ter of the city of Oxford was pulled down. In the first year alone he spent a sum equivalent to $750,000. His plan was to vast that the great church of St, Prideswides, which serves as the cathedral of the Oxford diocese, was to be razed to make room for his. col- lege chapel. His kitchen is one of the largest in the country and the groat dining hall is second only to the hall of restminster in size and grandeur. When Wolsey fell from favor his college was taken over by the Icing, who refounded it tinder hie own name, hen suppressed it as a college toe unite it with his new Oxford diocese. Beside Wolsey's great hall and kitch- n, Christ Church boasts, two of the finest English examples of the Gothic style of architecture, both built more lei a century after Gothic became merely a historical term. Ono of these, he stairway of the hall, was designed in 1640 by a geuiue known only as "Smith of London," The other, Toru Tower, carrying the Great Tom bell which every night wings 101 peals to announce the closing of college gates, was designed by Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's, in one of the The pilgrims tramped across - the loneliest marshes in Essex—the near-; est station is nine miles away—and! kuelt In prayer ou the rough sandy floor before a slmpie altar of moon- daisies. There is no pulpit or font in the Church, whloh contains a row kit- chen chairs, it was the strangest sera vice ever held in a British diocese.' The North, ea Ssplashed almost at the churoh door; the singing was aocotn• panted by the wild music made by the wind through the droaping eaves. Perched on the sea wall overlooking the Blackwater estuary, the church bee came a lighthouse for North Sea ship ping, and on misty clays the mar'iner's sweep the fiat shores with their tele- scopes for this landmark: Then It became u common barn, where feria wagons used to unload their hay, and an old rope for lifting the loads still hangs from the ratters. : Tho Annual Service. The coast defenders in the great war used it as a shelter againet the cold area winds; lighting their fires inside the church. At last this ancient ruin, which stands on the site of the Roman sta- tion of Othona, was saved to the na- tion, was restored five years ago and rededicated by the Bishop of Cholnls- Lord. Puzzled. Tile women berger lives with her husband lu the only cottage to be•seen bullet." row happy moments when he really eased the feeling of medieval bulld- re. Ohnist Cbuolt in il.a 40(1 years has ontirbuted its share of illustrious antes to hieteryn American as well as nglish. William Penn was a student of The House until be was sent down or his religion, as wee George tarcu- ille, whose stamp act led to the lie volution and the loss of the American olonise, Sydney, knight and poet, Hakluyt, the geographer; Ilen 'Oni- on, John Locke, the philosopher; Ble- ep Stubbs, the historian, and "Lewis arroll," author of "Alice in Wonder - and,' are but a few of the great Christ Church company. Many -Hued Lions, In heraldry the lion is always a sym- ol of sovereignty and power. The lone in the arms of England are three, and each is leo garde—e. lion walking nd showing the full face. The first lion was that of Rollie, uke of Normandy; the second, that f Poitou. These wore borne by Wh- am the Couquedor and his immell- to descendants. It was TIenry II, ho added a third lion to represeut the uchy of Aquitaine, which came to im through his wife Eleanor. French heralds call the lion passant leopard, and that is tvity- Napoleon id to his soldiers, "Lel us drive these opards into the sea." The many' -hued lions of fun signs are of heraldic origin. The Red Lion is the lion of the arms of Scotland, and was also the badge of John of Gaunt, from which it probably hail its chief origin 'as an inn sign in England. The Blue Lion was, the badge of tlm power- ful earls of Mortimer; the Golden Lion the badge of Henry h,. and also of Percy of Northumberland; and the White Lion the device' of the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl' of Surrey. Subtle, Thle Roy. "Tho dealer made you pay iuove than this car Is- worth," commented the 'candid friend. "I know it," answered 2Ir. Cunirox- - "I'm selling him a piece of property, and I want to convey the impression that 1 fun guileless and easy" timo "f understand Jack Is a sornnam- for miles around. No sound but that of the soca and the cries of the teal,the indeed! Ithought he waw an atheist." v e s 11 0 b I a D 0 11 a w D N0.1T WONT 1 FirrggN GENTS WIU. MAKE JiMMIE A WELL BoY 1 LIKE FUN li Vd LL! 1 ALWAYS eET TWENY-Fr GENTS FOR JUS' TAKEN' iT o (Copyright 1925, by The )3,11 Syndicate. ngJ Y:0.N©.3' The normal beat of the human pulse ie 72 per zuinute, although speeds of 175 and even 180 have been,recorded.