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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-02-16, Page 7THE GIRL WI -I0 'WAITED , A Short' Story of the Dolle'T'reflic in London England • Sally. Deane hated Oscar Svensen, the Oceau Star and mako sure if he lug giant Swede,, almost as muck as was on board. ' she loved and adored her, absent sail. f She did not tell her mother the •or.boy, Peter West. story Oscar Svcnsen batt "told her, More than alt, she was afraid of tenting to worry hor until the truth Ohang, the fat, squat Chinaman, who 'wee out. was rich and Needed in Limehouse, I At the dock gates, however, she -and had a shop at the corner of the was unable to gain adtz(iselon, owing .street where Sally lived,. net far from to eome trouble with the dockere, who the docks. Every day, as Sally was either go - Ing to her work at the factory in the 'Commercial -road, or when she was re - terming home, elle would see Chang ,standing in his shop door, His almond^shaped eyos would' gilt ter asthey looked at lier fresh young beauty and he would crease his yel- low fe into a horrible leer, "Lougee waltee till best boy eomoe back again!" he would chuckle. were striking. But an oftetal on the gate told'her he had hoard sonieth1 ig fibula Ocean Star coming back without one of the crew, lvlio !tad been ashore and never rejoined shtir, lie believed he had heard the man's name given es West. • Blindly, with tare in her eyes, Sal- ly began to grope her way slowly back homeward, It seemed imposdible tliat she would And Sally would feel curiously never see her Peter any more—Peter. afraid, though she tried not to show with his brown curly hair and his it, and was always polite in her smll laughing eyes, his . tender but strong 'ing ,newer. mouth, his heart of gold, his great But title morning, when he ;melee' love for her! • to her, elle was -Without fear. Poaching the corner where, Changs. "No more waiting, Chang!" she lighted shop stood, she eaw the China- -.at tar nran inside,, talking to the Sadie. I atg cd gene'. 3 "Tho Ocean S comes Into dock this 'afternoon. Peter The shutters had been put um and tvfl be pante this evening for geed!" he was ready to close the,door, But • Sally slipped into the` shop, "Chang welly glad!" .grinned the . Chinaman; nice boy, Peter The Ohinamau was ashiug Svenson West! e -You liken velly well, Ise°. to step down into the room beyond. Bet Svcnsen fellow Throe you welly Salty followed, determined to con - well also, Plenty- talk about you to front the Chinaman with his villainy ma:' and 10 bring hint to justice. • Oscar Svenson?" idashecl Sally, ehrough the open floor, she :heard tossing. her golden curls derisively. Chang speaking, FIe ain't in the same street with my 'you settee new lot of 'snow'?" he' Peter, Chang; and he ,knows it. Peter was saying. is coming home this time for good, „You het!" laughed the Swede soft - Got a laud job, and we'rebeing mar- ried in a week or so," • Iy, showing it large packet in a ca- "Allee same, ,any dear, Oscar Sveu- paaious• pocket. "My pal on the Ocean sen he sweat^ he malty, you, and notStar dropped It me as they docked. I Peter!" chuckled the Chinaman -smug- wasn't able to get. a word with him, ru ly, sending a chill of tear through, Sal- so I don't know if he's, got any more. ly as she Passed on. Look hero! That's all right about West, .isn't it: Your friends kept him • • °•0 back, in China for good?" • It was not by chance that Oscar "You nuste° Chang to see Mister se-ease/1 was waiting outside the lac. \Sresteo safe and soundee!" chuckled tory at the time. when Sally would be the -Chinaman greasily, "Now you making her way back home that malty the.' pretty little Sally, you night, thinkee?" He Step pad in front of her,a big "When she's got over the crying and uncouth man with fair hair and businose. But meantime I'm off to cruel blue eyes. • get rid of the `snow' up West—" - Her ;lied was full of Peter—she "No you ai t'tt!'' demanded Sally tvouhl have passed him by, but he frenziedly, stepping into the room. gripped her wrist and swung bar "So you two are playing that game; round so that she was forced to stand aro you? And because my Peter knew beside him in a darkalley-way. oe it' you've tried to get rid of him?' you're in au almighty hurry, ain't But I'm going to the police. I'm going you?' he sneered" "No time for me right awayto Inspector Wade at the to-night—eh?". t ` station "Never clld have,. Oscar!" rater ad "You waitee!" Chang's squatfigure Sally. coldly. ''Let go of my -wrist len prevented Sally from leaving the wanted home to get supper ready.. room, and clue recoiled before lila al Peter'il be back to -night.' mond-shaped oyes. ''What for you go "Will he?" snarled the other: „Mae. to pollee, pletty little' Sally?" be, and maybe—not. Supposing he To have you both pet inside?" don't home?' Supposing he's been kept out in China?" "Kept out in China?" laughed Sal- ly. "Don't be soft! How'd that hop pen,. I'd like tokuowV "It .has. happened, anyhoev, Chang's seen to it all right." "Chang—seen to it?, What dyer mean, Oscar" gasped Sally, startled by the queer certainty with which the Swede spoke. "Yee remoinber, maybe, ho`v the day after the Ocean Star left here this last time for China with your Peter aboard, the police made a raid on Chang's place?" . • Sally nodded. The police had ex- pected to and a big haul of cocaine, the drug popularly known as "snow, on Chang's premises. They had re• calved information' from 'someone to cheat effect. ' `. But the raid had been without of - feet. Nothing had been found. Afterwards Chang had talked a good deal about wanting to know who had reported him to the police.: FIs had mentioned the •matter; to Scally more than once, now she came to think of it. "Well," laughed the big Swede harshly, "it was'Peter who gave Chang' away to the police, only luckily Chang hadbeen cute enough to have the stuff hiddou..whore the police couldn't find' it, But Chang didn't forget. Be- ing a Chink, ho took care to revenge himself, you can bet. Whole the Ocean Star got to China this trip, and your Peter went on shore, he was met by some of Chang's friends. and -that's the 1`ast to be heartier him. So yeti ,night as well make up your mind. Sally, that you'll net see 'him again." "It's a lie! ti • Sally wag velty near to fainting, so terrible was tfear that gripped at her heart. She know enough of Limehouse and Chinamen to understand that if Peter had given Chang away "to the police the Chinaman was quite capable of acting 'as; Seen`sen Irlad said. ' Peter, before'.teaving' bn'thle last trip, had'been'a good deal in Chang's company, and ho had let drop in Sal- ly's hearing some angry words about the traffic In "snow" which was going on. Peter had also been vary friend- ly with Detective -Inspector Wade at the Limehouse police station. - Sa1ly, trembling with a sudden dread in the darkness of the alloy, tried hard to persuade herself that this story was not true, "You're trying to frighten me!" she said, wrenching 'her wrist free from the Swede's hold. "I'm going home, and if' Peter ain't there already I'm going to thedocks to find out." r * * * * But Pater was not at home when Sally ,reached the betted, and, though her mother told her it was , early t0 expect him aa yet, fear tools her straightway to the dock gates tie had A Big One hi Dry Dock Sir Thomas Beecham Explains His Antipathy to Broadcasts He Believes Radio Improves -jazz, But Tones of Great Orchestras Suffer if Wafted into Space as Ether Waves Sir Thomas, feec'.:arn, Brrltlsh or- ohostral'•conductor,' following :hls re- cent debut on the radio as guest con- ductor of the Now York Philharmonic Orchestra over WOR, explained, in part, his antipathy to tho broadcast- ing of orchestral presentations at which, he officiates as conductor, ebestrad or good musical ntt;nbere he goes to a music halt." The Famous Quotation Sir Thomas's famous (Notatlan in regard to broadeaet' wade lees than OUR "Tear ago, was; "Ever slime the beginning Of the •present century there has been eommittea•ugalnst the tinterturmt& art of ` nuts le every "The broadcasting of jazz over theimaginable sin of cominladen and wiretess,l' said ` Sir Thomas, "may omission, but all the previous °rimes actuall•v' succeed in making it sound and stupidttiee pale before the latest better ,from the loudspeaker titan It attack`ott to fair name—broadcasting would sound if one were present In person 'at the playing. However, Or- chestral selections may Buffet a groat deal by vlrtno of Um very complicated nature of the totiee from the many and widely different instruments that 'go to mako up the great modern or- chestral organization. When ane hundred or more instruments are be Ing played harmoniously the resultant Mime are extremely •complicated in structure, it follows that if they are taken out of their 'neural medium, the air, placed on a wire as electrical Particles, then broadeast into space, they are bound tosuffer in quality. "It is unfortunate that orchestral music, which I consider the highest type of needed, •preaentatton,• abet" so suffer in the transfer," Sir Thomas likened the tones: heard from the loudspeaker to one ',peak- ing through an obetructing medium. SOME IDEA OF HOW BIG THEY REALLY ARE so that the tone and modulation of The Giant Liner Berengaria as she looks' when ashore for her winter over the voice Are rendered tones of in the fact b men work- quality: He likened the tones of hauling: The vast size of the lueli is indicated by a that two w r cesnplecated ,music* raimbdie to ing on the ladders are almost completely hidden by one blade of her stern maze of threads, all combing to pro• propeller. duce the effect desired by the con. ductor, which are hopelessly thrown ."CHAPARRAL" _ out of order by their transfer from This ungallant verse appears • in the their natural medium, the air, Stanford (Kentucky) "Chaparral":— "If a slight detrimental affect is interposed," he said, the whole int - handcuffed Svenseu was taken off by the inspector. So the vengeance of Cltang ended in a different way from that witch Sally, sale in her lover's arms once more, had imagined possible. If traffic's choked for many blocks, tars:" If horns do sound and bumper looks "1 am yet In doubt whether the ef- With bummer, you can 'bet your soaks feet on radio listener, is good or bad when the higher forms of mete ars put on the wireless," he said, after his debut with the Philbarmonio musicians over WOR. • "I shall have to listen to a concert in America when the opportunity presentee be- fore snaking a serious deoislon. Of A woman's at the wheel. When taxi drivers ' dodge and sweat, And big cops weep, and people get All set to jump, then you can bet A woman's at the wheel. When a car leaps as if. ',.were shot, With gears that scream quite like a lot course, I cannot decide for every one, Of dying men, then like. as not but at least I can form my own im- A woman's at the wheel. pression of what one can hear over A. woman's voice and a woman's smile American wireless stations and cem- JUST THE tHINGt May ease dull care, and a woman's Tare It with what is heard when one guile is present in the musio ball." Lady Bug: Look at the nice May bring us joy, but look out while "The average Brtish listener," he cateplltar neckpiece 1 got torA woman's at the wheel! said, "is Phlegmatic, and therefore In Ohelstmasl There were iia bakers In the New blazed Sally, aflame with hate and de- Tear- Honors list. We are passing termination to avenge Peter. "To through a --tine, we might say, when have that beast of e Swede caught knighthood is not in Sour. • with drugs on him? "Your peter tellee.police about me "So you want to .marry my daugh- last timee ship in deck," said the ter?" "Yes, "Do you know much Chinaman. "Mister Svcnsen know about business?" "Not much.' e'Do Success of recent experiments with that for fact. Didn't you think if he you know the difference between an a fuel consisting of mixed gasoline give Chang away, Chang going to get- asset and a liability?" "No." "well, and alcohol indicate that the place for tee . own back? But Chang' uo mut- you will after you marry my dough- the latter isin the motor, not the dere?, You can't Royce that to police ter?" motorist, Chang know nothing about what hep - a --- m many casae he may beu sing a radio receiver ,which is antiquated and not .. Doctor.: As I said, you -re just re• gained consciousness after the crash, capable of intercepting and reproduo I'm Dr. Peter, and— Victim: Opt Mg the radio waves' with fidelity. For a second you gave me -a chock. However, I am told that many lie• T thought you said you were St, teams in England have excellent re- Peter.•cawing sets. Tine Briton :is a great home lover. When he arrives In the • evening he generally stays home. This makes for the general popularity of wireless receiving sets in England, which are generally found intercept- ing the lighter musical numbers. When a Londoner wants to hear or penin China. Chang alae, Triad, stat- A Sport Fast Becoming Popular in Canada plc man. Chang velly fond cf you. Liken malty you himself. You go to police if you like. Chang know noth- ing. By time you go police, Svenseu hiclee chugs all away. Better wait a minute—" Here, to Sally's astonishment and. amused relief, someone pushed a way into the room from the shop lieyond. Slio could scarcely believe her eyes. it was Inspector. Wade himself, with another figure behind frim. "Hullo," he said, as he saw her. "You here, Sally? Hullo, Chang! Has our trap succeeded? IIas the Swede another haul on him?" Swensen, with a sudden cry, flung backwards, • ono hand held over his. capacious pocket with its largo packet of cocaine, the other fumbling at his hip. But Inspector Wade had sudden ly drawn a gun. "No, you•don't!" said the inspector. "You're trapped, Svcnsen, and yer may as well' makethe best of it. You've been playing a 'snow' running game for a long while, and we've been waiting to catch you. I've someone hero' with me who can give evidence against you." Sally stared in greater amazement than ever. From behind the inspector there ap- peared Peter—Peter, whom she had behoved to be in China, and lost to her for ever! in a moment site was enclosed in his arms, 'kissing him and crying with delight. "But they told nie at the dock gales that a mau muted West had been lett behind in China!" she said, "but Sven- sontold Inc--', * • . • • "There was another man named West on' board," laughed Peter, "and Svenson believed I was to be loft be. hind. But Svenson was wrong. He was told . that .by Chang." "But Chang is in with him in this 'snow1 business. I heard them talking; just now!" urged gaily. "You're wrong, my dear!" murmur- ed the inspector: "Ohang has been hand in glove with me since Svonlen tried to put him under suspicion and cot us to raid hie place, For that ie what happened, though be told Chang that your Peter had given him away,". "And Chant? never forgivee an bnejtiy. who 'Stabs' hint in the backi" smiled the Chinaman immutably, rub- bing, his ub-bing,his lean hands together as the THE GREATEST THRILL EVER—STANDING ON Aln A mod. unusual picture of two Swedish skiers just as they took off Co 1 the 110 Amin on the fammo Fiske,' torpot course !tear Stockholm. Tho 101sh of the jump will land 111011 i6O feet below. 1t by "means of wireless," Just before itis radio debut In America he 'midi "In England I have never played for .the radio because, I telt that it had a bad efIeet on `fisc; radto audience. I feel that radio receivers are not capable ofValle the best for the higher complicated types of muslo. Possibly radio Is more. ad - Yenned in America and may be cap- able of reproducing the concerts more faithfully. I may have more to say alter I broadcast." Sir Thomas stepped out on the stage et Carnegie Hail when he made his radio debut without the slightest resitancy at being placed; fear the first time, within the hearing of the largest audience before whtoh be had ever waved his baton. The srresenee of his avowed enemy, the microphone, apparently did not cause trim the least' bit et worry, for he conducted with vigor wind oven grasped the micron phone stand between numbers. Daring the intermission he made a brief' address over the announcer's instrument and •thanked the people, of America for the wonderful recep- tion that had been accorded him. "So, far as I am concerned—I do not speak for the audience -the concert so tam has been a complete success," he said:—(N.Y. Times.) ---9-Britain's Dumb Dora The shade of Dora (historians may remember her more official name of Defense of the Realm Act) still hangs over England. When the lovely lady first' appeared to hold-up a forbidding hand against the sale within certain hours of various commodities ranging from tripe to whisky sodas, there was a war. And, although. Britons never will be slaves, they bowed to necessity and submitted to the petty annoy- ances prescribed by Dora -with what grace they could, But when the war. was over Doraremained and England. has ever since rebelled. The matter has just been again sub- mitted to investigation and the Dora Committee has made its recommenda- tions. It would not sweep away all the restrictions still left as war -time relics, but it does suggest certain con- cessions to British love of liberty, It would allow theatregoere to buy chocolates as late as the third act and permit vendors of spirituous liquors, within certain prescribed limits, to sell cigarettes, but it would by no means permit truly open shops—in a merchandizing and not industrial sense of the word. The London Times declares that the recommendations of the Dora Committee will be hailed with general relief," but the Saturday }review wants complete freedom and no compromise. "The majesty of the sovereign British people," it declares, "Is indeed reduced to a low state if we aro to imagine it purring with de- light at these privileges." In the campaign being waged against Dora there are certain vague remind- ers of the reaction tocertatin laws in this country. It is asserted that it is a restriction upon personal liberty, that despite tile pettiness of the regu- latiens imposed by the act an import- ant principle is involved and that it results In contempt tor the law. We wish the English more power in their struggle for freedom and hope that they may uphold Anglo-Saxon tra- ditions relating to, the right to person- al liberty with greater Success than in certain cases we have succeeded In doing in this country.—N.Y. Times. Natural Resources Manitoba Free Press (Lib.)1 The Federal Government is to take up the question of the return of the natural resources to the ?retie Provinces, Action is long overdue on the part of the authorities at Ottawa and in con• rection with Manitoba the need for an early decision 15 particularly pressing. The Manitoba Government has caked for arbitration. The matter of right is so obviously on the side, of the western provinces that the Feder Government would be !well advised to get down to blainse'. without delay, The. people of the West stare had enough jockeying on this matter, Try It, Men. One: woman writes that her husband is a model because When, ire le wrong he Bays 00 in plain Bnglish indeed'ot piling behind a 'bunch of roses or a pox of candy. --•Woman's 'Demo Com- panion, .. Canadians Have'" Distinct Entity, States Falcone* Head of University' ofoToront Addresses Yotling Mena ,'r Club in 1Vfontreal A SEPARATE. PEOPL Lalnd of Dominion Places Its Stamp on Citizens, HSays W, f He • That the 'Canadian people havq distinct entity within thesetros, that m they are different from anybody eld81' was the grin conviction expressed by. , Sir Robert Falconer, President of tilt' University of Toronto, speaking lirt"' Montreal recently on "The Elemonta of Canadian Nationality:" Sir Robert said that he had Dome to the conclusion, after about 10 9'eitrbi f of study and,, thought on the mallow that Canadians have, the right le be called e. soparate people and that title 1 individuality is the outgrowth of cep ,. thin charactetristics, peculiar to Can, i ada an to tho people, who have, since! the first settlement was made dow ne in Nova Scotia, been Doming 10' the' e land ever afterward.` s' Stampa individuality. 9' It le the land that is stamping a individuality upon the. people o1 Cg + ads, insisted Sir Robert. Free% beautiful valley$ and historic' k. 00ast.of Nova Scotia, up the nary,l' lour St, Lawrence Valley, through t a Ontario, int dere settled arts ot On P of s t! R r rugged wildness of New Qatari(' and around the mighty Lake Superior, across the ,sea -like prairies, into the mountain valleys of the Realties and down the surging rivers' of Canada's moot western province until one sea await of a mighty land is retched there to something different all the way, This leaves its imprint on the roul and character of the . Canadian people, said Sir Robert, It is a lend as beautitul aa anyone• might know, The land, however+, is net the main source of Canada's individuality, said the speaker. The variety of stock, .tha different races from which Canada de- rives rte national charadter has a very strong inliuence, Unldi:e Australia, where from 95 to flt per cent. of the people are British, said :pir Itobe;ts ' ', Canada can trace its ancestry to many : , sources, First there is the Fre{{glr : section, descendants of a fine (panty :t et. God-fearing peasant immigrants • from Old France, and secondiyittheee bis the Bnglieh-speaking division of whom a large portion of rte people came to Canada with a IsIgll moral purpose. For instance,. the 'United' Empire Loyalists, whose sense of patriotism led them to sive up alle So that they might follow their conic- Lions. h Incandescent Ideas. Sometimes an. idea is so brilliant that it makes people blink and the originator is penalized for, not dim. tattle his headlights. ---Farm 1 Firm side. Mental Power. The adjustment that must continu- ally go on between the English and French-spoaking sections of Canada'•, population has left a great beneficial effect upon this country's citizens, de- clared Sir Robert. The mental powers et exerted to translate the ideas of one race into thelanguage of another ]las been a highly educative process, since education is in a large measure mere y; ly a claridoatioo ot ideas. This has been going on all the time, sad to -day n there is less clashing between the two races, English and French, than there was 50 er 75 years ago, de- a dared the speaker., and the people are at the same time educated in a te. true service. Some elements of the people who ';'. first wont into the Canadian West was nest touched' on briefly by Sir Robert. The sturdy old stock of British origin '' who first trod the outstretched '.' prairies saved that part of the Do ;a minion which is so necessary for Can ada's greatness, said the speaker. The s: i early_ settlers, the missionaries . and i r the North West Mounted Police all. �.h played their part in holding the West inviolate for Canada., That spirit widl'}�. never be overthrown, it will remain so, declared Sir Robert. Quality of Education. ' e! The quality of our education has it distinct individuality ot its own, said.": the speaker. Our universities, though .,-. still retaining some of the effects of the influence of nniversitiea in the Old' Land, are different from those in any • other country, and are moulding the e thought of young Canadians along the lines of Cauadianlsm. Before : concluding his remarks, 'Sir'; Robert made a forceful appeal for young men of this land to look into ,c; Canadian history in the fullest sense '. It will be found to be very illuminat. A• ing, ho said and will give rise to to lore on the part of Canadiaae,for• Cane", ala, t truly beautiful country. t,, 1.1 ct: iia;iesY • Heeal`dn(Cons,) t The first: Canadian flying fiord to receive e, ' name is located at Ottawa. It had Ben named "Lindbergh." . No on t in this Dominion deelyde tp detran ono iota from the splendid exploit o, tette One young airmail; he hes had- world of praise do .this pountry, Th': surely this is earrying `hero-worship' just a little too tar. Wley net tree neuter of ono of the British air p oneeri,' Sall, Robinson, •Alcock, 13r01t 1—off,, oozing nearer horns, the name of is Canadian film Bishop or Batker? WR r Canadians do curious things at times; and this is Dna of them. ' If past year, the now one win Lilo the be a 1oap year• —for podeistriaa`ns. 1 •.