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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-09-24, Page 2Quality—Always sways The choice to s used exclusive. ly Sala. a yield richly - of their delicious :« cines. Say Snafu' as ove Gives Itself THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD BY ANNE S. SWAN. Love gives itself and Is not bought^—Longfellon. aasePTER XXIX.—(Cont'd.). "I couldn't believe them when they told me at the station, yesterday, that , you had arrived," said Bobbie, chan- ing the subject, because Judy's graphic words moved him more than • he eared to show. "You might have written." "There wasn't time. And, anyway, did it matter? For if we were away a thousand years from Stair, we should come back to find you and Edie just the same! Say, Bobbie, I've just met Peter Garvock at the march dyke, at the very place where he and Alan fought that dreadful Sunday after- noon, which you and I will never for- get!" or-get!" "You are surprised, doubtless, at this late call," he began in his slow- est, most guttural and difficult voice Bobbie leaned up against the stone balustrade, looking the) deep interest he felt. "So you saw old Peter—eh? Well —and didn't he look a sick and sorry man?" He did. Among the changes that are going, Bobbie, the greatest, I do ueaeve, has taken place in him!" "He has never had a day's peace of mind, I believe, since it all happened. How did he take' your coming back? And does he know that Miss Carlyon is actually Alan's wife?" "I told him. I don't exactly know what is inside of Peter, but it is some- thing deep, and very different from what was there last time I saw himl But do come inside now and have some tea, and see Carlotta." The man 'of whom they had talked was still out upon Barassie Hill, the prey of a thousand conflicting thoughts. He epent hours roaming there, in the sweet spring solitude, and finally, out of the chaos of his thoughts, there rose the image of one strong desire. Shadowy and almost incoherent at first, before many hours vere over it had taken shape and had become the purpose of a life. Between eight and nine o'clock that night, one of the reduced household of Stair was surprised when the front- doorbe:l rang, to find Mr. Peter Gar- voek on the step. I wish to sea Mrs, Rankine, if you please. Te:1 her that it is Mr. Peter Garvock, and that the business is urgent." "Yes. sir. Come in," said the wo- man, who was a stranger to the fam- ily history of Stair and The Lees, and was simply surprised that a celler should come so late on a Sunday even- ing to the house. Carlotta was alone when the mes- sage was brought, and after reflecting for a moment, she rose and went downstairs without consulting Judy, as was her first impulse. Judy was in the Pool, as it hap- pened, alternately refreshing and har- rowing her memory with old things end old dreams; and thus so remotely hidden at the back of the house that she did not hear the clang of the bell, nor the entrance of the visitor whom the maid had put into the little morn- ing -room. Carlotta, in a sweeping gown of black velvet, with a turned -back col- lar of old lace, looked a perfect pic- ture, but Peter Garvock's pulses did not stir at sight of her. The fierce passion which had devastated his life, and the lives of others, had burned itself out, and left but an empty ker- nel behind. Carlotta was completely mistress of herself, and gave him a quite kindly gr..eting, but she neither offered her hand nor did he. and strainevery nerve to avail him -Tithe White Horse Pass, h.: could fol - self of it? The only doubtful point low, in imagination, the desperate was its genuinenees, 'and even the' trail of, the gold -seekers in 'ninety - address of the Canadian Bank of I seven and 'ninety-eight. Commerce at Dawson City, while it . The distance over the Pass Ws one gave an air of reality, to the+whole hundred and eleven mires; then those affair, seemed. hardy in itself suffi- I who actually reached tike banks of the cient to justify a man taking a long! Yukon were faced by an alternative— and costly journey for the purpose of either they must make camp and wait verifying the bona fides of one of its for the navigation of the river to. customers, • begin, or they Must continue the trail over the frozen mountains to Dawson. Arrived at White Horse City where Garvockepeht the night, he set out on the stage which was to carry lam' over the final reaches of his journey. It was very finely' equipped, Over two years had new elapsed• since Aff'ery's offer was made to Ran- kine, on the steamer in Enid -Atlantic. What might not have happened in two years? So it was really Affery's track Peter ly horsed, and every precaution taken Garvocic was on, and as he drew near- to maintain the efficiency throughout er to his destination he became con- the whole distance. Horses were scions of that quickened eagerness of changed every twenty miles the rest spirit which takes possession of the 'houses, where they invariably stopped man who aims at some particular and momentous goal. If the prairies and mountains im- pressed him, he was still more amazed at the flourishing cities he found lo- cated on the Pacific coast which had opened up its golden waterways to the commerce of the world. He had to stop twodays in Van- couver, waiting on the boat to take him to Skegway, and there he learned all the tortuous windings of the amaz- ing journey in front of him. Four days by, sea to Skegway, eight hours' xail over the White Horse Pass, then to steep, were comfortable and ade- quate, and the days, driven through the most stupendous scenery of the world, so remote, ipaccessible, so un- touched, undeseerated by the hand of nian, made the most profound im- pression on Peter Garvock. It had. the odd effect of thrusting him back upon himself, of making hint shy of speech even with his fellow -travellers. But these experiences he never for got, and fives to this, day in the hope. of repeating them. . Dawsons at the junction of the Yu- kon and I{londyke rivers, he found to another steamerr down the Yukon to be a bustling, cheerful little place, Dawson—seven or eight days in all; though all the feverish baste and hor- just the same time as jt had taken ror of the gold -seekers' time was now him to cross the Atlantic. a thing of the past. Wide streets, At the Canadian Bank of Commerce comfortable homesteads, quiet, well- in Vancouver he learned, to his satis- equipped hostelries for the traveller But the matter is urgent.' X have faction, that Affery had certainly been laid taken the place of the bars, and called to ask whether you will be so in Dawson as late as the previous boarding-houses, and dance -houses good as to give me the latest cines ou summer. That was something to go that had yawned to receive the miner have concerning your—your has- on with at least; and he prepared to and relieve him of his gold. band," he said deliberately, though undoubtedly he faltered on the name. "We have no recent clues," she answered simply. "The only address we got, when we went to New York, was that of a ,cattle ranch in Alberta, belonging to a man named Fordyce. But Alan never went there." "But he went in that direction, I understood from Dr. ..Sanderson?" said Peter with painful eagerness. "Oh, yes. We believe that he ais somewhere in Western Canada, or, more likely still, in the I{iondyke. He met a man on the boat going out, who asked him to go up tcs the Yukon with him, and I believe that is what be has done." " "That is all the information you can give me? Do you happen to know the name of that man?" "Affery. And he had an address at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Dawson City. I have written there, but got no answer." Peter Garvock took out his note- book and made a note of all the names and addresses of which Carlotta had spoken. „ "Why do you Want them? I've told you it isn't any use writing. We've done everything in the writing and cabling line that it is possible to do, but without result." Peter Garvock's face wore a strange expression as he closed the book and replaced it in his pocket. wantto write. Buts er .AFTER l EVERY MEAL affords 1. benefit as well as pleasure. Healthful exercise for the teeth and a spur to digestion. A long. lasting ,refreshment, soothing to nerves and stomach. The World Famous Sweetmeat, untouched by hands, full of flavor. 151 enjoy the novelty of hie journey with The gold -born cityewas now emin- a little less of the impatience which ently respectable, and while its growth had marked its earlier stages. must necessarily be' restricted by the There are few experiences which nature of its climate and other con - lay a greater hush on the spirit of a ditions, still it provides home and van than to travel over vast places, livelihood for a large•number of res- in which he is made to realize the pectab:e and self -resecting citizens. power and majesty of Nature, and the boundlessness of her resources. (To be continued.) Garvock, though a quiet, stay -at- London's Rosman Relics. home sort of a man, had made the The Bank of England is• to be usual travel journeys in Europe, and had been once to India on business to closed shortly foi extensive repairs the Bombay house of his firm; but he and additions, and as a good deal of had never desired to explore or study excavatfon will be 'involved the So - India. To him it was merely a busi- ciety of Antiquaries has appointed a ness place of call, Now, however, he committee. to examine any Roman re - tasted for the first time the delirious c lice that may ex. unearthed. and obsessing lure of the trshall o re it 1s almost impossible to dig to any may put it Each freshpicture depth In the city area withoutlfinding unfolded to his gaze on that wonder- p ful journey from Vancouver round the seine trace of the Roman city, One Pacific coast filled him with awe and of the surprises awaiting visitors, to a strange kind of joy that was half the London Museum, as well as to the pain. Guildhall Museum, is the enormous The weather was glorious. In these number of articles and relics of all surprising lands, summer comes with descriptions which have been found an ant n -this lice can be little under- in the river and during excavation stoodomman this aide. If she is long ind work for the foundation of city offices. coming, at least she is. no laggard when once she sets out in earnest, nor A recent vita' excavated, close by the is she niggardly of her stores. The: Sate Dspeelt bulldi ,g, proved one of largenessof her gifts in the matter the richest nines of Roman relics of flowers and perfumes and beauty ever discovered, and the bank site is indeecribalbe. ought to yield much of interest, Garnock fes and moved in an en- That London in ,'Ionian times was chanted land. Such wealth of flowers, no mean city is .aloNn in a reuiar e I don't t I h 11 such riot of coloring, such .sunsets able way. Not only have many artier go, Mrs. Alan, and bring him back and sunrises have to be imagined since if he is alive. If he is dead—then Ilesthey Gannet be.described. Not now in been found, but upon them no shall assure myself of the fact before any particular haste to get to his fewer than three hundred naives of I conic back to Scotland, so that your destination, he even grudged. the makers have been deciphered, Only mind—and mine—may be at rest" . hours spent in necessary sleep, fearing the ethos, day, in Tokenhouse Yard, to lose one item of that vast and mov- ing a plate of Saurian Snare was dug up panorama of snow-capped noun- tains and precipitous hills rising sheer with the maker's name upon it. from the waterways, often so closely land -locked that it looked as if the boat must perforce have to snake pause at the limit of the world! It was Norway stupendously magnified, and it seemed to have neither boun- dary nor end. Any ordinary man in whom the in- stincts of feeling and reverence are not dead muse be uplifted by such ex- perience, and be brought, in spite of himself, nearer to the eternal verities. 'By the time Peter Garvock reached the. White Horse City, where he had to entrain over the famous Pass which so many thousands had converted into a trail of blood and death duringthe tremendous early onrush to the gold- fields, he was a very different man— e humbler, better man—than when he quitted the narrow confines •0f his office in Renfield Street, Glasgow, on Car•lotta's face visibly paled. "But why should you do that?" she asked unsteadily. "Do you know what you are undertaking? It is a fright- ful journey to the Yukon. It will take you six months, and unto'' -d money, and then—and then—will it be of any use?" "I have to make that journey. You have heard the word atonement, Car- lotta? Well, it is atonement I seek to make," said Peter Garvock, and pass- ed from ,her astonished eyes out into the night. She did not see him again, but by the middle of the week it was known in Ayr that Peter Garvoek had left Scotland for America, and that the object of his journey was to find the lost Laird of Stair. CHAPTER XXX. THE TRAIL. Some wise person has observed that e disc Ives completely makes rich soapy solut i a: soaks dirt out P.-449 Modesty. . n which be The dashing young lady was anxious the only way in which to learn the the morning of the day o w her aunt, who was rather old -fashion. had left Scotland on his strange quest. of the earth correctly is At White Horse Cit he learned be ed, should look as' presentable as pee - geography to travel in leisurely and observant yon d doubt that the ice I ad not yet slble in her bathing suit. fashion over its entire surface. That being an impossible feat for most of people, the great majority have to live in a state of comparative ignorance regarding the conditions of life at places remote from their own habitation and environment. Peter Garvock was reminded of this many times as he made his moment- ous .journey to the Yukon territory, following in the tracks of his lost kinsman. The railway over the fam- ous White Pass was not long opened, and in London he had been able to obtain very little information regard- ing the journey. In New York If* I fared little better, and was obliged to' push on to Vancouver, where he had; been informed he could take his tick -1 ets to cover the journey and obtain: the fullest information regarding it.! By the time he reached Vancouver May was drawing to a close. In the railway journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, he had: ample opportunity of being impressed; by the land of vast distances and; boundless opportunities, which has lured so many of our best and bravest; to its capacious heart. He talked with: his fellow -travellers, for, though the! objer•, of his journey had little to do' with the future development of Car. -I nda, he tcok a Briton's interest in it. _ And each step of the way, meeting with some fresh interest, face to face: with tremendous problems both exon -1 omie and racial, he felt that even should that object fail; the adventure' would not have been in vain! It is; good for the stay-at-home man to real-' ize how vast is the surface of the globe, and how small an atom he is upon it. 2s Carefully weighing up all the meagre scraps bf information his cou- sin's wife had been able to give hien, he concluded that his best plan was to lose no time in coming up with Affery. When Alan found himself utterly on his beam -ends, what more likely than thathe should ponder on 116.9 a 1177 WHAT .ARE YOU WORTH? w - Sonteono aeked about a' wealthy man who had, died, "How much did he leave?" The lawyer repiled; "Every- thingd It is remarkable that people always judge a msn's• worth by the amount, of honey he leaves value is not °aridly calculated. One may have all and be valueless, whilst another may have little or noth- ing—according to the world's standerd ---and ---andyet be supremely valuable.. We aro never so wrong as when we limit worth oto noncy. After all, money is only a forrn'of barter; and la almost worthless cld.ttself! Buttons, or boots, or beads could be honored in the same ivay, though ,they, might not be so convenient. One bit od paper is worth five dol- ' tans,. Another•'bit is used for making a fire.. One piece of metal is a sceptre fora king. - Another of. about the same - length and weight is used os, a poker.. Dried Sage. Wsei•ein lies lure difference In thesisLose your temper and someone will bits of paper and pieces of metal? help you to find it. Only the worth we sot .upon• them. You must stake Yourown way 11 what is, it that makes one fellow ' you. really want to have it, indispensable ,to a business or cont- When day ba'ealks some en ars too nruuity whilst others come and go and lazy to make use of t11e pieces.mare not missed? The answer is not Select your sweetheart at the; dance, found- in terms of money or property but pick your wife on wash -day. or even :ability,but-sheer worth. Diner believe all you hear; you are Thole differences are found every, fortunate if you .eau believe all you where—in cricket, golf, legislation, say, p and social life, 1,, There ado two sides to every cines-. Worth, then‘ Is really the amount tion, both of which are often entirely of our usefulness• to the world. If Wrong. other people are not potter because of Bread • is the staff .of life; but that our 'being amongst them, then we are doesn't\ justify a man making his life worthle;u. A man can' get 'as much one continuous leer. as tie can carry—and morethan that, • Once Sunday was a day of rest; no* as so many do= -and be of no worth at alt- 'It 1s giving utak makes him of value. Withholding is ever an im- poverishment. To live so.that our fel- low men and women may find life easir is to live worthily. It is a heartrending thing to have it said of us:- "He's no use!" It means that we have no place in the game, that the world couldget on quite as web, without us. Of course, it all de- pends upon who says it! One might say it and be no better than the per- son about whom he is 'speaking; an. other' might misjudge us' or do it ac- cording to wrong standards. A man's worth floes not always lie on the surface. How often we heat it said: "You have to know him to I value him." To judge hastily of anyone is un- fair, but we all do it and we never quite value each other. To one who knows, ds we may be of pre-eminent value, and that brings out the best in us. When you think of thevalue of a per- son, what do you entertain, in your mind? Do you think of his salary, Position; family, upbringing. house cud car? A scoundrel may have all these things, whilst one minus them is an asdet to the nation and is ever living to make men free. Professions end posser,i•ioes of them- selve.s never make men valuable. It is always what they are and never what they have which conditions men's worth. The most .wonderful book in the world declares that we are only of use as we "do unto others as we would they should do unto us." But we meet always "be" before we do. Worth is first a matter of character and not reputation. What we are, and not what others think us to be. "To thine own self 'be true, and it follows es the,night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man," No. 1168—Children's Kimono -sleeve Dress, with panel front, tucks at the shoulders, square neck, patch pockets, and long or short sleeves. Sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. 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I10T/ TO ORDER PATTERNS. gone out on the 'Yukon, and that once "Surely, Aunt Ella," said the girl over the Pass, he would have to make rattier cautiously, "you're not going to the last three hundred miles by stage- wear your spectacles in the water?" coach instead of by steamer: That "Indeed, I am," replied her aunt. sort of thing in the twentieth century "Nothing shall induce me to take off lifts a man clean out of the rut in another thing." which his life has hitherto been set! ti He had few fellow -passengers on the train which carried him over the Minard's Liniment used by Physicians. Pass. The season was very early yet," - and the few desiring to reach Dawson You and Eye, wanted to make sure that the Yukon was navigable first. Peter had pro- We areafast becoming a bespeetac- vided himself with a certain amount led s'rtion, and the culprit responsible of literature, such meagre stuff as he could find about Alaska and the frozen north; but, somehow, the reality seemed to drive all the written ac- counts out of his mind. Sitting in his luxurious parlor -car, as the tour- ist train climbed the rocky steeps of ISSUE No. 39—'25. the offer that had been made to him, A handy _size .pa&-: age for occasions when half'a pound is "just right." 5 25 is -education. That, with the enorm- ous growth in popular literature, bas made us a race of readers. The re- sult—a disadvantage to be set against many advantages—is eyestrain. Spectacles may cure this, but as prevention is better than'. cure, why not adopt something which will stop the strain from coming? Once it was thought that closing the eyes at intervals for a short time was the best.anti-strain device; but that Inas now been discarded, it be- ing found that the cutting off 'of the'L rays of light, and theirsudden return, is bad for the eyes. • The proper anti -strain method is not to close your eyes, but to change their focus, Thus, if you are reading a book or studying accounts, and feel eye- strain, look from the book or figures to some object ten to fifteen feet away: Two or, three seconds (Mince. The change of focus takes the strain off the eye by giving it the rest which comes froma new focus. The; `eye muscles, in short, are not kept in ono • position and at one tension. To remove sof:ed spots on a rubber ' - raincoat cut a raw potato into slices and rub it well on the marks. This will also ramose mud stains from clothing. we spend all the other days of the week resting after Sunday. We cannot turn "be it resolved" into profits.—Harry N. Owen. 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The Canadian National Parks Branch, which keeps a record of all wild bird banding operations of In- terest to Canada, has had brought to , its attention an account of a bird local - If -called a "tieklace," which wes kill- ed on the 12th of August, 1924, by Mr. IL. Curtis, of Horse Island, in the Dis- trict of St. Barbs, Newfoundland. On the bird was found a -thin silver band Inscribed with the words: "Inform Witherby High Ho' -born, London." On writing to Messrs, H. 3'. & G. Witherby, 326 High Holborn, London W.C.1, England, it was learned. that this ring, No: 67,423, was put on a young glttiwake (Riese trideetyla), on 203 •siamozesdigiOb . 28th June, 1923, on the ramie Islands. Northumberland, England, by one of Drink Bovril the , goodness �f 'Beef.' Bovril` gives you strength and energy to resist cold and illness.: Bovril keeps you V,iarlll front within. Bovril is made in Canada under Government Supervision." Sold only in Bottles. : r Mr. Witherby's correspondents, The foot of the bird was examined and was pronounced to be that of a kitti- wake, which agrees, with Mr. Wither. by's, records. The record is extremely interesting, more especially as 'this. bird is the' first under Mr. Witherby's ringing • scheme—which has been is operation for 16 years—reported from this side of the Atlantic. • Nasty l They .had not been married very long, and so it is not very strange that until this day they had never had a quarrel. however, now they bad, their first little tiff, and she turned to "him with tears in her eyes. "Well, John," she said, "even though I have been extravagant I got a bar- gain to -day,, "Yes?" lie replied. "1'11 bet 11 was a bargain! You have no idea of the value of money. I- suppose you think • j'eu got something for nothing?" Her eyes gleamed for a moment. „Yes, dear," she said sweetly. "1 get a present for you." N° wonder,,labor is high, with so many good farm hands writing bad. poetry.