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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-04-12, Page 6the colour ani exquisite flavour of "SAAOA" ireer,Tea are natural—Only the processof tuning Is different frant Mock Tea --Beth are equally tlure--"SALADA" Green Tea, is : P0aped in air" ight alaeevaleaum---fresh---deliciotas-•—satEsfypteg--- 38c per *-11a. at ail grocers* ASIC for this tea, THE CLUB OF ONE -EYED MEN BEGIN HERE TODAY' Eagle! The thought a blackmail en- tered my mind, but 1 dismissed it et once• If the White Eagle had been threatening the millionaire, the nun- "To prey upon thieves; that shall be ner of each of them would have par - my career," he decides. "For if a thief taken af,usiness. strain. No, they had been is robbed, tubera may ho look for re- talking b dress?" What business? What possible Ainsley visits the Jardilt des business could est between the Nymphas in a. A with two Amerite-hn ,ed White Eagle and Josiah Higgins If aollnaintances. A tall, white-haithe IIiggins had had a son or daughter to his feet. My perfunctory apology elan is pointed et to him as tial profuse and sincere•- Seeing White Engle. The White Engle, it,' could have become entangled in betaine P'rg Mears, is a brilliant crook who neversome underworld affair. I could that he was poorly dressed, I ventured has fallen into the clutches of the law. I understand that the White Eagle had to offer him a coin. He seized it The White Eagle is in the company beep called upon for nid. But the greedily, and I would have passed on, of a gross, vulgar -seeming man and couple ware childless: only I noticed that the rest of the woman. Ainsley* suspects that the If Biggins ware ns foolish as he group were all blind in ono eye. White Eagle is manipulating awas unadmirable, I could have guess - man and womanstolen leavess his Other groups stood across the swindle. He finds out the names the ed at a solution of the problem that street, iu the street, and farther clown friends and returns to his apartment, puzzled me. I could have imagined the narrow sidewalk on which I stood. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY that the White Eagle was surrepti- And I noticed that every ,single one Homily disposing of stolen goods to of thern suffered the same affliction: I find that one thinks better in bed the nlilloinelre, But Biggins was too they were all lind in one eye. than any other place, Undressed, sane to indulge in that sort of shady I suppose that my 'amazed horror then, with cigarets en a stand beside barter, if he were not too honest. was reflected hi my face. .For the man to whom I had presented the gratuity laughed nt me, "Monsieur is amazed, yes? To see so many of us is strange?" "Is this a hospital hove?" I asked, pointing at the building before which we stood. He shook has head. "No, monsieur, the home. of .a patron 91 ell af- f efed such as We. Monsieur has nit read this morning's Cri de Paris?" I shook my head and he thrust into my hand a copy of the paper, folded back to expose an advertisement. I read it lamely in my faltering French. Translated it ran: "A gentleman whose son, having lost an eye for France, bore his wound proudly, despite his affliction, until his death by accident recently, wishes to honor the memory of that noble son by kindnesses to those sim- ilarly afflicted' The gentleman will devote part of his large fortune to the founding and maintenance of a club for one -eyed ashen. It will not be limited only to those who lost their sight In the war against the cursed Bache. All men who are without the sight of one eye are eligible to the privileges of the Club. Those inter- ested are requested to apply to Num- ber —, Rue des Saints Peres, between the hours of nine and twelve on Wea- 1 I read this amazing advertisement, so typically French in sentiment, and my eyes filled with tears. It was a charity a trifle too bizarre for Amer- ican taste, but its kindness would ap- peal to the generosity of any country. I placed another coin in my inform- ant's palm, and hurried away from. the grotesque scene. But at the first corner 1 stopped, turned and stared after the nian who had passed me, It was the White Eagle; and all niy interest in him, which had evaporated while I read the strange advertisement, condensed and flowed back into my brain The war left John Ainsley, a men of education and breeding, for work Ile becomes a master crook. WW Serve Vancouver island 'The Prineos9 Blaine", newest member of the Canadian Pacific Railway's 1103 el Family of ste•amsllipe, now on her way to Victoria, VI, vial. the Panama Canal from 'the shipyarcle on the Clyde, Scotland, The vessel will be used for service bs•tween 'Vancouver on the mainland and Nanaiino an Vancouver Islami across the Straits of Georgia, a' distance of•about 40 miles, and Is far- ther qunlilted to ply between Seattle cu the south and Skagway on the north. She will have a speed of 18 ]mots, is 2,000 tons gross register, will have accom- modattoil for about 1,200 passengers, and Is specially designed fol' the trans- portation of automobiles, a turntable being 111515liod to reverse ears for Ole - embarkation. On her trial rtuls on theC13'de The Princess Elaine did' over 19 knots, Despite my resolutions, then, to think no more of Higgins and the White Eagle, they Were both in my Mind as, turning. a corner into the Rue des Saints Peres, I collided with a group of people standing before e doorway. I muttered an apology, stepped back, and noted that the per- son .of the group with whom I had come into most violent contact—he had fallen to the ground—Was blind in one eye. • I bent over swiftly and helped hhn me, I pondered the strange relation- ship which I had seen evidenced to- night. Whitt was the basis of the acquain- tance between the White Eagle, a no- torious though unpunished criminal, and Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Higgins, of Cincinnati, Ohio? I wondered that I bad not recogniz- be something underhanded, even ed the Higginses at first glance. Still, the ,photv"�,^.,;sp:,v of them, which had ' aneared in the American i itt :ui=b- peen press, had evidently been re- touched to a degree, And if I had not lnsialttiy tacos ,t"0 the faces, I paid proem tribute sill the, Marta I glory by ititaiediately identifying I their names. Who in the newspaper reading world had not heard of Josiah Hig- gins, who had been a multimillionaire before the war, and who was now popularly reputed to be worth at least a billion? Statisticians had esti- mated how many times his fortune, if reduced to dollar bilis, would girdle the globe, how ninny times it would rebuild the Pyramids if reduced to silver coins. And other statisticians had solemnly affirmed that it cost thirty thousand dollars to dress Mrs. IIiggins for breakfast, and at least a million and a quarter properly to clothe and ornament her for dinner. Their extravagance had become a They were all blind in one eye, matter of international awe. Also, the queer parsimony that accompan- though I could not guess why the mi1- ied their extravagance was known to tliouBonire should descend to such a mat- ed• the world. Higgins proudly boast- ter, The White Eagle was a crook; ch tity, and never gave a dollar to a crook does only crooked business, charity, the he never lent money, whether his partner be honest or They haggled with hissuwoi but lag- otherwise' That is axiomatic. But was probably with workmen, and where in the axiom lay a profit for was probably the most cordially hated me? employer in Anterien. I awoke with a headache; T had They had assailedte gates of fes slept little, and that little had been had▪ !n New York, and Theythhad failed interrupted by dreams in which the ttad become historic. hadhfails- White Eagle took a fortune from Jos - bo rgs asss Mayfairll Fifthe the Feu_ bi • ins, while I looked on, power- theybourgs well as Avenue, but fah Higgins, did not lack for satellites. They iless to abstract the fortune from the were in s f sir way toward creating I so-called supercrook. a fashionable society of their own, if 1 I tried to eat breakfast, but the com- fashion be judged, as it frequently is, bination of too much wine and too by the amount of newspaper space ac- little sleep had killed my appetite- I corded it. was nervous, restless, and so I wont And this couple talked confidential- for a walk. I crossed to the Left ly with such a person as the White Bank, wandering aimlessly, my mind intent on the puzzle, solution of which I felt meant profit to me, and finally found myself in the neighborhood of the Luxembourg. The walk had clear- ed my head, and appetite had come to me. I walked on to Foyot's and ard- I tossed upon the bed; I fumed and fretted and smoked a score of cigar- ets. Somewhere in this relation be- tween the criminal and the mllloinalre lay an opportunity for me, if only I had eyes wherewith to see it. For whatever the relation between Higgins and the White Eagle, it must Always have the magic WRIGLEY package in your pocket. E Soothes nerves, allays • thirst aids digestion. 1446 A. SMART DAYTIME FROCK This attractive frock is a practical and smart style for all daytime wear. The skirt has plaits at each sidle of the front and is joined to the bodice, while the back is in one piece. 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Hudson Bay Basin Princes Didn't Get Rich in Resources "Promised' Giraffe Timber and Mineral Wealth Owner, in 1489, Refused to Described by Dr. R. 13. Give Animal to King's . Stewart St vv t Daughter GOLD YIELD EXPECTE_ D Chicago,—The pining s of a princess _ for a giraffe 400 years ago is pre- -"— re- served In a. history of that elongated Additional Pulp and Paper animal published by the Field Mus - Mills 'Probable in'Near eum of Na ural I3lstory, Lorenzo de Future Medici had a giraffe in his menagerie at Florence, which aroused the in- auel au Picturing the future of the Hudson tarot of Anne de Be i t , d ghtes Bay Basin Its a produettive median of of Louis Xl. of France. She had the Dominion, the Hon. Charles Mo- dreams of owning a giraffe of her own Crea, Ontario Minister of Mines, spoke and finally alleged Lorenzo. had pro - briefly recently before the Canadian misod her bis. Institute of. Mining anti Metalini'gy, Finally she wrote him on April 14, Toronto. Branch. 1439. IIei' plea was of no avail. Lor- it ff Mr. McCrea'`introducod Dr. R. 8, enzo kept his g a e. Stewart,chief medical adviser of the . Giraffes have been popular in regal Hudson's Bey Company, whogave an circles since the time of remote Egy- illustrated lecture on "The atural ptidn ](lugs, Julius Caesar showed Resources of the nucleon Bay Basin." ,Rome its . first giraffe in a triumphal Mr. McCrea referred to the railway procession i.e i8 B.O, builders pushiag two different, lines up Although it hardly seems possible, to Hudson Bay and James Bay, as mo- gh•affes have 504050009 , They used to Bern pioneers, following the example cost between and $2040, but set by Hudson. the explorer, in 1811. now run from $5000 to $7600, Noting the immense area of the Hudson Bay Basin, more than 3,000,- 000 ,000; 000 square miles, Dr. Stewart refer- red to the vast rlinge of itts climatic conditions extending from sub -Arctic to temperate. < Geological Make-up. Referring to the geological make-up of the basin, the speaker tuoched up- on the granite to be found along the northern rims of the bay, the lignite on the Salmon River which supplies the stoves of many of the northern stations of the company, the mica be- ing produced in small quantities at Lake Harbor, the nickel deposits at Cape Smith, lead at Mayfair River, Brimful of Foolishness, gypsum and china clay in the Moose Hubby—"Why do you think this hat Factory section, and quantities of iron ore to be found In the Belcher Islands looks tiny on my head?" district, but noted that so far no gold Wigs—"Because on your head that deposits of any consequence have hat's''llrimful of foolishness." been located, although prospecting is being carried still further northward, and a fair probabilitty exists of this precious metatl being found In paying quantities. Zara, the product of the district for 250 years, are still being sent out in largo quantities, Dr. Stewart stated. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose He in Fish of Two Varieties. "Hudson Bay is not teeming with fish, as some people imagine," Dr. Stewart said, referring to the scarcity of any variety except rock cod and white fish, In time, the fisheries of the basin may attain large production, but not for some years. Pulp and paper production is already going ahead, with prospect of additional mills in the near future. Black and white spruce, tamarac, balsam, poplar, white birch and balsom pine are among the principal species of timber found in the area. Fall wheat, grow- ing at Moose Factory, had shown as high a yield as that in the Western provinces, and a good future in agri- culture was predicted by Dr. Stewart. "I believe the Hudson Bay area route will prove a boon to Wdstern Canada for general commodities, but it will not be for some years—pos- sibly never—that wheat will be ship• ped to any great extentt. The straits are open longer than people imagine, but the difficulty will be to keep Fort Churchill's port open long enough to, be of value to navigation by the new routte." n saphs or coin preferred; wrap coin And then interest became amaze tp ment, for he entered the house before which the groups of blind men stood. Immediately upon his entrance a servant came to the door and beckon- ed to the unfortunates. Five minutes later they were all within the house. I waited outside, at a convenient corner. Somehow or other I could not believe that this grotesque adver- tisement contained all that was of in - toot Of course, crooks are notee- ered breakfast. Food put me in a iously impulsive, given to streaks of more philosophical frame of mind. extravagant generocity. Nevertheless After all, I night be deluding myself; Higgins might have made the ao- uaintance of a notorious crook situp - I waited. One by one, the blind men began to emerge from the house. All of them ly for the/sake of the thrill that some seemed happy, as though incredible people gain from such an acquain-I good fortune had come to them. Fin tante. At any rate, it did not behoove ally the man whom I had tipped ap- peared. I accosted him, and he beam- ed upon me. "Ali, it is my generous American!" "Well, did you join the Club?" . I asked, w (To be continued) Mlnard's Liniment �for� cuts end brulses me to wear out nif nerves In imagin- Ing problems that, having no exist- ence, could have no solution: And yet I was ashamed of these re- flections; for after all, they were simply confessions of my own inabil- ity to meet a situation and make it yield a profit. it carefully) for each number and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. 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Although. the Speed of practical air.' craft has been mounting by the tens of miles an hour, year after year, the construction of fast -military planes in . the past always has been at least three or four years behind racing. ships. The new move } brings the standard seaplane lighting equipm081 in date of design, within a year and a half of the fastest racing ships pos- sessed by Greet Britain. Although the Supermarine Napier will be equip- ped' for the actual requirements of navy air fighters, it will remain on the "experimental list' 'of the Air Minis• ttry during 0. period of testing. The first detailed description of this fastest of floating airplanes to be re- ceived in this country and published in the current Issue of "Aero Digest" says that the fuselage has less cross. secttion area than any plane ever built—the basis of itis design being the minimum cross section required to ac- commodate a pilot. In the building of the British racers of this type the cockpit literally was "tailored" to fit the individual 'pilots who were to. fly the planes. "It is generally agreed,' says the "Aero Digest," "that the Stipermarine Napier represents the zenith in clean- liness of design. The recent develop- ments in the design of the racing Napier Lion engine have given the aircraft designer such a perfect op portunity to obtain a good lead-in for the fuselage that no increase in the cross-sectional area of the body was dictated by the consideration of power unit Installation." In general construction the machine Is a- low -wing, semi -cantilever mono- plane with twin float chassis. Secrecy of construction of this "fly - Ing bullet" has been exceeded only by the secrecy with which the Air Minis- try has surrounded the details of the "Lion" engine which powers it. 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After Every Meal /�//, BEST FO AAS YOUR BAKING ries, Cakes, nuns and 18reacl — DOES ALL YOUR BAKING BEST Canadian 'Pools Pay - Over $800,000,000 Winnipeg.—An interim payment 0n wheat and flax amounting to $28,- 000,000 is being received by members of wheat pools of Manitoba, Sas- katchewan and Alberta, and the Coarse Grain Poole of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, In making the. an- nouncement of this. distribution, E. B. IRamsay, manager of the Central Sell- , ing ell-ling Agency, said that the Canadian pools now have paid out more than $800,000,000 to their members since 1923, when the first pool was started in Alberta. The pools handled more than 1360 000,000 bushels of wheat daring the crop year 1927-28, 111r, Ramsay said. This Is. about 6,000,000 bushels mertl than was delivered by the three pro- vincial pools of the Central Selling Agency touring the previous crop year. Stuffed Dates Wasil and stone 2 pounds of dates the day before the candy is to be made, so that the dates will not be too sticky to work with, The next day nave ready walnut meats, marshmal- low, peanut butter and fondant in small quantities if the dates are to be assorted or any one o fthe fou' fillings if they are to be plain. For really de- • licious stuffed dates, vary the filling. Use marshmallow and yainutts, fon- dant and peanut butter, fondant and Hutt. For 3 or 4 dates, use a nut moat and a small amount 0f filling, Mold the dates Well after the fillinghas been added. and: the dates will not crack, 11011 the finished stuffed date in' cubeb• granulated or powdered sugar. "Two Million Marks in Lege Arrive Here." These legs are evidently welt armed against aka -malty. Troth is the 1ligiaest thing that marl ratty lteop, Geoffrey Chlss,(s.