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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-01-26, Page 6The colour and exquislfe flavour of ""SAIIADA" arm" Tea aro riattir'ai--Onl + ► a PriCess of curing Is different from 181ack Tea7-1106 aro equals- plure—"SALADA'" Green Tea Is sealed hi. air, tight alunelmaul-- fresh--delleloi,7 —satisfying:. 38a per i -Ib. at all grocers, Ask for tills tea. BEGIN HERE TODAY. Paul Harley, criminal investigator, is engaged by Sir Charles Abingdon to solve for him the mystery of con- ment surveillance by persons unknown to him. While Harley is dining at the Abingdon home, Sir Charles falls to the floor in a dying condition. Harley insists that Abingdon is poisoned. The last words uttered by Sir Charles are "Nicol Brinn" and ' Fire -Tongue." 'Paul asks Nicol Brinn to tell him the meaning of "Fire -Tongue." Brinn re- feses to enlighten Harley, Paul Harley and Phil Abingdon, daughter of Sir Charles, are made er.soneers in the home of Ormuz ishan Oriental. Nicol Brinn rescues Phil while Paul promises to sign a state- ment written by Ormuz Khan. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY, CHAPTER XXIX.—(Cont'd.) Vaguely he detected the speaker 'withdrawing. Thereupon, heaving a fend sigh, he removed his coat, looked shout him as if in quest of some place to hang it, and finally fixing his gaze open the studded grating, stood upon the divan and hung his coat over the spy -hole! This accomplished, he turn - The table was slowly sinking through the gap in the floor beneath. , Trending softly, he moved forward end tented himself cross-legged upon. lti it continued to descend, and he found himself in absolute darkness. Nicol Brinn ran on to the verandah and reused for a moment to take etreath. The window remained open, as Phil Abingdon had left it. He stepped into the room with its ele- gant Persian appointments. It was empty. But as he crossed the threshold. he paused, arrested by the sound of a voice. "A statement will be placed before you," said the voice, "and,when you Stave signed it, in a few minutes you will be free." Nicol Brinn silently dropped flat at the 'back of a r divan, as Rama Dass, :rowing out r r of- the g room which com- municated, with the,golden screen, made les way toward he distant door. having one eye raised above the top e2 the cushions, Nicol Brinn watched I m, recogniving the man who had aceempenrtd the swooning lady. She kad.been deposited, then, at no great distance from the house. Creeping forward to the doorway ity which Iama Dass had gone out, Nicol Brinn emerged upon a landing fromewhich •hairs both ascended and descended. Faint sounds of footsteps Below guided him, and although from all outward seeming he appeared to saunter casually down, his left hand was elutehing the butt of a -Colt auto- matic. Re presently found himself in a maze of basements—kitchens of the setablishment, no doubt. The sound sr footsteps no longer guided him. He walked along, and in a smaller de- serted pantry discovered the base of s lift shaft in which some sort of small elevator worked. He was star- fag at this reflectively, when, for the attend time in his adventurous career e silken bard was slipped tightly about Lis throat. a, He was tripled and thrown. He fought furiously, but the fatal knee peeesure came upon his spine so shrewdly as to deprive him of the strength to raise his hands. "My finish!" ware the words that Washed through his mind, as sounds like the waves of a great orean beat upon his ears and darkness began to descend. Then, miraculously, the pressure gifted; the` sound of great waters Wedded; and; choking, Ceughing, he fought his way back to life, groping • Fie a blind man and striving to re- gain his feet. "Mr. Brinnl" said a vaguely familiar voice. "Mr, Brinnl" The, realities reasserted themselves, refers him, ,pale, wide -dyed and %iteething heavily, stood Paul Harley; elowl prone upon the floor of tate pantry lay Rama Dass, still clutching one end of the silken rope in his hand! "Mr.. Harleyl" gasped Brinn. fro clutched at his bruised throat, "I have to thank you for, my. life," lie reused, looking clown at the prone figure al jlarley, dropping upon his 'knees, '.turned the man over. "1 struck hint behind the ear," he, mattered, "and gave him every ounce. Good heavens!" He had sipped his hand inside Rama Daes' vest, and now he looked sip, his face very grixl. "Good enough!" said Brinn, cooky. —'2g ._`...... ISSUE3 No. ., ..0 "He asked for it; he's got it. Take this." He thrust the Colt automatic into Harley's hand as the latter stood up again. "What do we do now?" asked Har- ley. "Search the house," was the reply. "Everything colored you see, shoot, unless I say no," Into two rooms on the first floor they burst, to find them stripped and bare. On the threshold of the third Brinn stopped dead,• and his gaunt face grew ashen. Then he tottered across the room, arms outstretched. "Naida," he whispered. "My love, my love!" Paul Harley withdrew quietly. He had begun to walk along the. corridor when the sound of a motor brought him up sharply. A limousine was be- ing driven away from the side en- trance! Not alone had he heard that sound. His face deathly, and the lack -lustre eyes dully on fire, Nicol Brinn burst out of the, room and, not heeding the presence of Harley, hurl- ed himself down the stairs, He was a man demented, an avenging angel. "There he is!" cried Harley—"head- ing for the Dover Road!" Nicol Brinn, at the wheel of the racer—the same in which Harley had made his fateful journey and which had afterward been concealed in the garage at Hillside—scarcely nodded. Nearer they drew to the quarry, and nearer. Once—twice—and again, "I struck him behind the ear," he muttered. the face of Ormuz Khan peered out of the window at the rear of the limousine. They drew abreast; the road was deserted. And they passed slightly ahead. Inch by inch, Nicol Brinn edged the torpedo body nearer the wheels of the racing limousine. The Oriental chauf- feur drew in ever closer to the ditch bordering the roadside. He shouted hoarsely and was about to apply the brakes when the two cars touched! A rending crash came—a hoarse ecream, and the big limousine toppled over into the ditch. Harley felt himself hurled through space. * s - "Shall I follow on to Lower Clay- bury, sir?" asked Inspector Wessex, excitedly. Phil Abingdon's message had come through nearly an hour before, and a party had been dispatched in accord- ance with Brinn's instructions. Wes- sex had returned to New Scotland Yard too Iate to take charge, and now, before the Assistant Commissioner had time to reply, a phone buzzed. "Yes?" said the Assistant Commis- sioner, taking up one of the several instruments: "What l" Even this great man, so justly cele- brated' for his placid demeanor, was unable to conceal him amazement, "Yes," he added. "Let him come up." He replaced the receiver and turning. to Wessex: "Mr. Nicol )3r1nri The Prayer Book 1 i J Ini Parlament is hire,„, he inf ormed footsteps sounded in the cerridor. Calve a rap at the deer, "Comae in,” said the Assistant Cons rniesioner. The door was thrown open and Nicol Brien entered, "Gentlemen," be said, without other. greeting, "I'm here to make a state- ment. I 'desire that a sborthand- writer attend to take it down." • Ile dropped weakly into e chair which Wessex placed for him. The. Assistant. Commissioner, doubtless stimulated by the manner of his extra- ordinary visitor, who now extracted a cigar from the breast pocket of his ill-fitting jacket and nonchalantly lighted it, successfully returned his well-known tired manner, end, press- ing a bell, "One shall attend, Mr. Brinn" he said, A knock carie at the door and a Since the time of Edward VI.,Par- Bement has never relinquished its control, until 1919, when by the Church of England Assembly (Pow-. era) Act, 1919,• it gave'the initiative: in church aflame to' the Churek& of England. ` By that enactment a Church Assembly was cleated, con- sisting of three houses—the House of Bishops, the house of Clergy and the House of. Laity. They are authorized. "to deliberate' on all Ratters concern- ing the Church of England and to make provision in respect thereof." . The tact creates an ecclesiastical committee of fifteen peers and fifteen members of the House of Commons, and any measure • submitted by the Legislative Committee of the 'Church Assembly le referred to this cornmit- tee, whegse duty it is to make a repert to Parliament. When so reported, a ?resolution is offered in each house ANDA) OFOUAi-11Y PPR OVER 50 ( i u So far as discipline il£ concerned, the Church of England at present is in a state of chaos, The bishops have thrown up their hands—notably the .1}lsliop of London, In many churches the priests out -Roman Rome. The ultra -Protestants suggest that the ex- treme Anglo-Cdthliea should go to Rome, as Newman did. ,In reply they assert that they represent the best and truest tradition of the Church of England, And although they do not say so, undoubtedly they appreciate the freedom which they now enjoy in the 'Church of England and which they might lose under the stricter discipline of the Roman Church. Some Anglo -Catholic extremists favor .dlis- establishment, as in the past nancon- fortnists did, but this is not n real issue at present, .The ether altern- atives are -to allow the present chaos to continue, or, es the .Archbishop of Canterbury has announced after a conference with the bishops, to recon- sider the revision and send it once more to Parliament. It has been the glory of the Church of England that it is an inclusive church, broad enough to harbor dif- ferent types of belief and practice-- Anglo-Catholics, ractice—Anglo-Catholics, Evangelicals and Modernists. The problem which the bishops now face is to find modifica- tion of the Prayer Book proposals Which, while permitting Reservation under ai able rubric will at .the same time make such provision against ex- treme practices' as will satisfy the in- siatenco that the Church of England shall` not abandon its Protestent'tra- dition. But, as Lord Denbigh said in the recent debate in the House of Lords, speaking as a Roman Catholic who declined to vote on the subject: "l cannot imaginea moreeincompet- ent body to which to refer such a question than the present .modern Parliament, composed' as it is of pro- fessed agnostics and men of various. religions, many of -whom never go to a place of worship from one year's end to. another, except, perhaps, to see their friends married or buried or to be married or buried themselves." sergeant entered. directing that the measure be pre- "Send Ferris," directed the Assist -•rented to the King for his assent, on ant Commissioner.' ';Quickly." 'receiving. which the measure has the' Two minutes later a man came ineffect of an.act of Parliament. The carrying a notebook and fountain pee.Imeasure cannot be modified by ,Par,, The Assts nt`Commissoner motioned llanient—it mast he either accepted or rejected. hive to a cluur, and: The "Prayer Book measure,1927" "Pray proceed, Mr. Brinn," he said. authorizes the use in public orship of the prayer book annexed and the issue of supplementary forms of ser- vice. The book annexed is called "The Composite Book" and contains the Boole of Common Prayer as adopted' CHAPTER XXX. NICOL BRINN'S sTORY OF THE CITY OF FIRE. "The statement which, I have to make, gentlemen, will almost certain- in 1662, "with permissive additions ly appear incredible to you. However, and de'Aiations." It sets forth altern'. when it has been transcribed I w411 ative forms of service. The "measure"' sign it. consists of eleven sections, dealing, "Although nay father was no travel- principally with technical questions' er, I think I was born with the wan- and matters of detail relating to the derhist. I started to explore the world act of Uniformity (1662) sad other statutes, printing, copyright, etc. The Composite Book, or, as it is sometimes called, the "Deposited' Book," represnts years of .labile An the Archbishop of York has said: "It (the new Prayer Book) will mark the completion of the long toil of twenty years.';'r * We have sought, however ,imperfectly, to make our. Prayer Book as inclusive as the Church. Our desire -has been to secure not compromise for 'the. sake of peace, in my Harvard vacations, and when college days were over I set about the business whole-heartedly. Where I went' and what I did,` up to the time that my travels led me to India, is of no interest to you or to anybody else, because in India I found heaven and hell—a discovery eough to satisfy the most adventurous man alive. "At this present time, gentlemen, I am not going to load you with geo- graphical details. The exact spot at which my life ended, in a iiense which but rather comprehension for: the sake I presently hope to snake clear, can of truth, of the fullness and richness be located at leisure by the proper of the one fellowship of faith and authorities, to whom I will supply a life." detailed map which I Kaye in my pose In the debate in the. House of Lords session. I am even prepared to guide the Archbishop of Canterbury said: the expedition, if the Indian Govern- "Nothing that we have suggested ment considers an expedition and makes any change in the doctrinal cares Co accept my services. position of the Church . of England. 4'tJp there In the northwestprovincts The balance of emphasis may here they told me I was crazy when I out- and there be somewhat altered;' lined, one night in a mess, of which While opposition was expected in I was a guest at the time, my scheme Parliament, rejection was not con- fer heading northeast toward a tri- ceived possible. How can it be ac- butary of the Ganges which would .counted for? It is undoubtedly due bring me to the neighborhood of Khat to a recrudescence of the latent Pro-' mandu, right under the shadow of testantism of the English people -the Everest. arousing of the no -Popery spirit "Bordering an independent state, which in the past has expressed itself this territory is not at all well known, in violent forms. The chief objection but I had secured as a guide a man in Parliament was to what Arch- named Vadi—or that was the name bishop Davidson calls "the ankious he 'gave me—whom I knew to be a .question" -of Reservation. high caste Brahmin of good family. The present rubric merely provides He had been with me for some time, that if a sick person is unable to come and I thought I could trust hint 'to the church and yet isdesirous to Therefore, once clear of British terri- receive the Communion in his house the curate may celebrate there hero in tory, I took him into;my confidence Y respecting the real objectof my jour- a form prescribed. The alternative ney. order authorizes the priest to set (To be continued.) apart +or "reserve" so much of the consecrated bread and wine as shall serve sickP ersons desirous of corn - What About the Reel? municating, and it provides expressly Manchester Guardian (Lib.): It that -the elements shall be reserved would seem that right from the very only for the Communion of the sick earliest days there has been room for and shall be used for no other pur- two schools of poinion about dancing pose whatever." This prohibition is as an exercise for military men. On designed to prevent the adoration of the one hand there is the tradition of the elements, a practice which, it is the "war dance," which le certainly said, has been steadily increasing in, not regarded among those tribes the. English church. In the debate in which indulge In 11 as au effeminate the House of Commons, Sir W. Joyn- and mem they pastime; on the other son -Hicks charged that "the Sacra - there is the attitude of Michel, Saul's ment to-dayis being used as a subject daughter, who "looked through a wit- of worship." In March last the arch- dow and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; antj, she despised hire In Ler heart." . Fascist Italy would 'seem to belong to 'the same school as Saul's daughter, for Ita7lan officers have 'been forbidden to Indulge in the Charleston, Black Bottom and other "exotic dances" Lest they should bring the King's (or bble Duces) unifordr into contempt. But Renter now tells us that when M. Paialeve was asked whether he in- tended to issue a similar inetruction for the guddance of French officers he sought advice from a general, who promptly replied that he firmly be- lieved in the Charleston as a polite distraction for all commissioned ranks, and supported bis belief by hamse1f demonstrating the suspect steps for the benefit of M. Painleve. Actor: "I am in a quandary. I have been offered an engagement by two theatre managers, asid I don't knew how to act." Candid Friend: "Well, don't worry. Thiey'lil soon tinct that out!" Panto Stage Hand (to manager)— "Shall I lower the curtain, guv'nor? One of the living statues has the hic- cups." For frostbite use Minard's Liniment. bishops and bishops agreed on stria' gent rules limiting Reservation, which dreadful wild Happen to them if they they declared they would put forth in case the Prayer Book measure became law. 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Raid Native Villages, London, A new and terrible breed of man-eating lion, which makes or- ganized raids on native villages in. packs of 'twenty or thirty and traps mita its appetite for Ituman flesh to, its cubs, has appeared In the British African Colony of Kenya, according to, official reports which have just reach- ed London: - Night after night, according 'to• these reports, packs of a dozen or two dozen lions lionesses raid the native.' kraals, crash their way through the flimsy roofs or walls and bear away screaming victims to devour at'their leisure. Women and girls drawing water at the rivers and boys guarding herds of. cattle'are being carried off and hun- dreds of heads of cattle eaten. Five hundred irons, it is estimated; have gained supreme control overheat: dyads of square miles of territory. All this is not only a reversal of condi- tions prevailing, up to -a few yeare age, but is a contradiction of the accepted ideas about the relations between lions and human` beings. Young and Lusty. The man-eating tigers hitherto en- countered have been with a few ex- 4:ptions, old or crippled beasts, too slow to hunt their usual prey, and who have learned to eat human flesh primarily because it is easier to pro- cure: The new man-eating lion is a very, different kind of" animal, young and verile, . who hunts human beings be - emus 'h e-eaus'h ebas come to think of them as Ilia normal prey. The territory wherein this new breed of lion' has made its appearance is the Masai reserve in Kenya, and the presence of the animals, curious- ly enough, is ascribed largely to a British ordinance ..abolishing the Masdi system of adult initiation known "Mn." Ina rasecent oradispatch it was related how the Masai, when called• on to as- sist a white hunter in ridding their reserve of marauders, offered to dg so if they were equipped with the long spears and big shields whichhad been taken fron•i them aaa part of the Goi'ernment's policy of paoifleation, and when these weapons were re- stored they amply proved their ever- ; age by attacking lions singlehanded. Law to Blame Details now at hand indicate that under the "Moran" system no. youth ' could be considered a man until he had blooded his spear,either by kiI- ling his enemy tn' fair fight or slaying a lion single-handed; The Masai, es- pecially since their itrbal warswere forbidden, had become known as a race of intrepid lion .killers, and the lion in their, turn had acquired such 'a wholesome respect for humans_that its was noted sometimes that they gave up their' lives in organized hunts almost'without w out a struggle. This condition changed when hen the spears and shields were abolished by ordinance. .The lions grew bolder and bolder and they began to raid the native a t e c ttlo and finally the native kraals. Finally they have become such a menace that official steps have had to be taken to exterminate them One measure is the restorationto the native hunters of their seven - loot spears and buffalo -hide shields. Another is to dispatch white hunters to the reserve on a lion -killing mi» iron. ne such bunter, J. A. Hunter, killed eighty lions in three months. • Man-eating lions have proved a problem in other parts of Africa, no- tably in Uganda and.Tangany:!ke, but for different reasons. In Uganda a dire outbreak of rinderpestkilled off thousands of head of game and forced the government and the -.natives to destroy almost all of it to prevent the spread of the diseases to cattle. Deprived of their natural prey, the Uganda lions turned to man eating. One lion alone killed eighty-four hu- man beings and' another forty. In Tanganyika, magi -eaters thrived because of the widespread native su- perstition that they were witch doc- tors in disguise. A hand of witch doctors known as Antunslmba claim- ed to be able to turnthemselvesinto lions at will, and so terrified did the natives become that they made practically rib resists th ce to e dep- redations of real lion '. ' It is recorded thea#te{.eene man-eater attacked a crowd of'*1;000 natives and. that another charged' a gang of fifty natives in broad daylight. Korean Sailor Des Saving 32 Shipwrecked Japanese Tokio—Tying a.,lifellne around his waist, a Korean sailor dived recently from the steamer Myogi Maris, wreck- ed in the 'Northern Sea of Japan, twain to the island off which the ship had grounded and made the line fast to rocks on the shore. Then thirty four Japanese sailors followed one another along tilerope and all of thein were saved except two. who lost :their Bold in, the buffeting of the waves, The Korean died -from the effects of the' cc@d water, rhe Myogi Marti, a vessel of b,275 tens, was crippled i:i the lturriean off Hold:e elo on. December 29 . and since ilhen had been drifting 1111 it went ashore on the leland. "Betty thinks dist Ito man is good enough for here' "\Vell, Phe maty be right—and she matt' he left."