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The Seaforth News, 1930-02-13, Page 3The Liar When I was a littleboy, my family ' -"considered me an awful liar, and .my three older brothers stated the fact both frequently and warmly to me and ' to 'others in my presence. Birt you know I think they misjudged me, I wasn't an awful liar. 1; was an ox eepttonally good one, And why wouldn't I be with three other broth - ere to learn the technique from? 1 aleo learned some of the more subtle forms of deception from my mother and father and their grown up friends. For ext raple, I remember one day when I had "swiped" a cake of sweet chocolate and shared it with my •brothers,. Mother inquired about it casually—oh, very casually, if you know what T mean—so that I knew at once that I had been discovered. The inquiry was made in some such around -about way as this: "Boys, I had a cake of sweet chocolate, ,'which I think I'put.on the upper shelf of the •pantry, but now jt isn't there. I won- der onder if any of you have seen it." We had not seen it, we had eaten it, and` Mother knew that, and we' 'knew that she knew it, If she really 'hadn't known, her manner would have been quite different. We could read her as readily as. a book. Most child- ren can read their parents. What she wanted was to give us a chance to "come _out courageously and tell' the truth." She didn't want to accuse us for fear of frightening us into a lie, and she didn't want to .ask a direct -question that could be answered by "yds" or "no" because "no;" being the shorter word, .was likely to be chosen in preference to "yes.".. So she employed a perfectly transparent ruse, and a ruse to the keen, ele- mental mind of a child is just -the same as a lie. ' And what did-_ my older brothers • do in this crisis? They didn't try to lie Qat of . it. Olt, no! They knew it wouldn't do any good. So they looked• fist naively surprised and then indignantly accusing—at me. "Why, Mother, said; they, "we ate it. Russell brought it out to us and said you had given it to hist." The worst of it was, I had said just that. I had Saiditbut they'hadn't hadn't believed it and I knew they hadn't believed it and -they knew that I knew it. In fact the whole proceeding had been fabricator' in duplicity. It was a system we had worked before and went like this: My oldest brother , would lead its all to some distance from the boase and would then say to me, "ituss, there's a cake of sweet chocolate on the top shelf of the pan- try. Go ask Mother it we can have it." They kuew perfectly well, by ex- perience, that I should take it with- out asking, thus insuring myself and them against the possibility of refus- al, while they were provided with 'a perfect alibi. And as for me, I knew Mother and Father didn't believe in - whipping. The worst "that would happen would be that they would talk to sorrowfully about the pain it gave them to have a son who would Ile to them. I knew I. was expected to an hen it • 'after a while d t cry v o would be allover. • There were other times when my Mother would pretend to believe vie. She wouldsay with great candor and sincerity: "if you say it is true, Rus- sell dear, 1 know it must be. Remem- ber that I trust you absolutely." But of course: I knew that she didn't be- lieve me and didn't trust me but was just trying to make me confess by shaming me. It struck• me as ae. agreeable though rather silly method and I u}vore with equal candor and sincerity that I was telling the abso- lute truth. On the whole I think 1 deceived ray Parente more successfully than they deceived me, andmyadvice to parents is: Don't lie to your children any more than is absolutely neces- sary, because you can't deceive them anyway and there is always the chance that if you are truthful with them they may be truthful with you. It isn't likely that they will,. but they may. Children wil do almost any- thiug to imitate their parents. As for the way I trent my own son: Well, f try to be honest, It is very difficult, I admit, but I'm always upheld by the thought that if I try to lie to hits he'll surely see through it—and then where has my prestige gone to?-1tusseit M. Coryell. elreilE nerves are fed by L the blood. Poor blood means starved nerve tis- sue, insomnia, irritability and depression. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will enrich your blood strean andrebuild your over-worked nerves. Mies Joseptuue M. Martin, of Kitchener, Ontario, tesei fies to this : °1 suffered from a nervous breakdown," aha writes. "I Lead terrible sick headaches, dizziness; felt very weak and could not sleep; had no appe- tite, I felt always as if $ome• thing terrible were going to ;happen. After taking other treatment withoutsuccess, on my sister's Advice, I tried Dr. Williams' Pitik Pille,and now all these aymptotns are gone, and I am strong and happy again." Buy Dr. Williams' Pink Pili now at your druggist's or any dealer in medicate or by mail, 50 cents, postpaid, front the Dr. Williams Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ontario. S29 tea eon Milliensits9 PINK PILLS n "A. NOUn0NOLD NAPM ' as s. .Fouerrne" Humans For Sale When Are the Civilized Gov- ernments Going to Stop Slavery? By Helena Normanton, RA, "$emember them that are in bends!" The message thrilled through British hearts Iu days gone by, and this country took the lead in a crus- ade for the freeing of ,the slaves, But this .dark blot on civil'lation still per- siets—and even in a Christian .coun- try, It is up to us to do our part to vemoye it and for ever, Philosophers tell us that Man is marked off from the animals by the gift o laughter and the use of tools. It mightbe added that animals do not sell each other into captivity. Men do. Interesting as it might be to retrace the past and to find out how human slavery originated, it present semore •Back in 1882 when the Canadian Pacific Railway was pushing through important to face the and to y ! Prince, The Prone does not contain grebe the felt that between four and the bush in Northern Ontario on its way across the continent, this old-time. a single word accessible .to an Ameri- Better Than.Gold May be Worth"a Old Bones M y Fortune :and a Smoking Fire a Pointeu to Wealth. • Old Timer Retires Haiti and the U.S.• iClassified Mdve tiling rogrnm Despite the marines sent to.lIaitf Lavriti A''m HLLL, :Sti!'D11N by Washington the French language 1301tOS great work. on the -Hie niter death and a real world helots. remains there impregnable.' Over 400 pages. Only 25c poetpeb2, Z'�,. This we are.told by certain French $• La • 486 1.uc1 e Ave., Toronto editors, who call attention to the tact v v NTiap Iseeese :ice' •1s TO fI 1T OI, t that in Haiti the French language us at ilhom onolo bane or nut ,Q @ • resists the Arne:acan invasion more Knitting-. Machine Company; Toronto i3. successfully than it deed in Paris. When the 'United States established order about 1915 .in the •tumultuous republic of the Caribbean, relates Pierre Soulaine in the Paris Figaro, an attempt was made to propagate the use of Euglisli' in the island. But: the blacks, mulattos, and quadroons, he rejoices, refused to abandon .the language of the old Creoles. This infttnt adds; "Titoorinnewspapers of Haiti are a!1 published in French, The principal ones are the Nouielliste,-'the Matin, and the Tempe. A new journal, the Presse, has been lately founded by a Mr. Auguste. He has set up a very expensive printing -plant at Portme six milliouseof our fellow human crea- tures are even to -day living enslaved. in this beautiful world. Whereare they? a perplexed read- er may inquire. Did not Great Bri- tain abolish slavery once and for all in 1833? The answer is that the vast ma- jority of slaves , to -day are in Abys- sinia, China, and the Arabian area, Great Britain did, a century ago, make valiant efforts to stampnutthe plague of slavery. In 1772, by Lord Mans- field's celebrated Judgment, it became illegal to hold' a slave in England. In language which has been quoted a thousand times: If slave sets foot on English soil he becomes a free man. eThl Underground Railway." In. 1807 Great Britain abolished the trade- in slaves between any of her Dominions (including England) and Africa, In 1833 she completed her task by emancipating all, those who were held in slavery in any of her Dominions. But Great Britain could not -and cannot now—control the whole of the rest et • the world. Readers of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" will recall Eliza's celebrated Journey Like otherfu i over gm ice. L ce aver Sg tive American slave before the Civil War of 1865, her idea was to get north mute Canada, wherein, as Canada was a British colony, she woLld automati- cally become a free woman. Those who assisted fugitive slayEs' thus to freedom by sheltering them and passing them on at night to the next safe halt were said to run "The Underground Railway." • But all slaves, to -day cannot solve their prob- lem by the simple method of getting on la the soil of the British llimpire, although no doubt some hundreds do gain freedom that way every year. An American 'artist named Mott travelled to tete Pribylcv Islands in a sealing Vessel a year ago to paint some pictures of seals in their native home, and one day noticed a curious. bank ofsandlying close along the shore. He dug into It, and found beneath the sand a mass of bones. They were seal bones—millions of them—which had been flung up by the sea in the course 0 centuries. Further search has shown that there aro miles. of these bone deposits along the shores of the islands., One hal a mile wide, mule long,P pile is a and six feet deep. Now, bones are one of the best of all fertilizers, and the value of the find is simply gigantic —far greater than- that of any gold mine. This brings to mind the case of the wandering prospector who, years ago, while dressing' a desert WyOm- ing, came across the body of a horse which, though it must have died long ago, was stili fresh and sweet..The body was covered with a layer of fine dust, which the prospector ret cognized as borax. He saw the value of the discovery Sud sold it to a large packing firm in Chicago, who kept the -secret for a long time. To -day the uses of borax are innumerable, and range from the preservation of food down to dressings for tried feet and lotions for inflamed eyes• Riches In the Desert (Everyone has heard •of Carrara marble. fa 1925' a party ,of Iinglish• tourists exploring- the mountains of Carrara found a dirty block of marble which had evidently fallen from a cliff overhead. Ons of the :visitors; who had some knowledge of geology,' noticed that thee: Stone had a Pink tint which was unusual The sam- ple was taken to Einglaud, where it was found to be a new variety.•A large quarry has already, been opened and is prOeing Very profitable Two woolen, Mrd.. Wildon and Mise Spencer, weir° erosafn$ the Mojave Desert, in Southern lealifereia, look-. lhg for geed. Thee wore not sweet!, Mui, and one night, feeling' Very dis conrpged, tamped ole the batik oft a, entail greet atilt lit a fire to nook their 50Pper The fire began to throw oast neret ill-snfeeliitg 'smoke, so that it wee iiippSplble to ge near it or cook o_n 1t, pt :'bite ,neer, tired wo-. men. were ford to oollept more fuel and light.s fresh f'te Itt the middle of .the, night Vers. Wilson sprang up suddenly, know 'pat engine did a lot of good work and it was fired by James T. Fallon who had joined they road: three years -previously. -On the last day of 1929 Fallon., for over forty year`s an engineer, closed more •thau fifty years of railroad ser- vice. His -.picture is inset with that of the old locomotive, No. 222, sister to the one on whdo!t he worked as a youth. can hostile toward foreign languages. "The latest number of the Presse to reach France contains photographs of the demonstration by students on strike. The striking students remain- ed emain ed within the limits of a pacific de- monstration designed as a protest merely takes the more secret form of THE RE spsmagainst the minimum salaries paid �'Y i smuggling in human beings. Can the League Help?' Many of the wretched girls sold as slaves are detained religious pilgrims, many frogs the Far East, who never get free again. Abyssinia is. another • Her -child is a never-ending source great slave -seller to Arabia, of joy and a never -failing responsi- Is there any hope for these miser-bility to the fond mother. it not in- -able and tortured beings? Yes --and frequently happens that minor all- again—no. menta of the child distress and pus- • their professors in comparison to the mficecompensation OF !A FOND MOTHER byagniAmerintcan teachers sent to Haiti:' received But in other parts of the island, we are then advised, the demonstrations were marked by bloodshed. As this French journalist points out, in the tropics, rifles and revolvers are even more dangerous to handle than else- where, and he goes on: "The approach of the Presidential election excites the emotions and sharpens the Interest of the Haitians. They claim, as against the interven- tion 01 the marines, an independence of which they have never made very good use since the days of Toussaint Louxertnre et Dessalines. Their Parliament has been suppressed, and theyare weak • enough to regret it. stomach: They releeve wise, ewe' The Government is directed by an executive body composed of the is much to be done! rest the digestion, banish constipa- President and of Ministers mostly tion and make teething pains.disap- p edi•. •anteed ar uat Iii mustbe bless e Th ` eat new stepwhich no Ta g e xab 's Ow gB y taken by the League is 'to make slave- to be flee from injurious- drugs such trading . an international crime like as opiates and narcotics and may be Piracy, which any law-abiding' nation given to the newborn babe with per - can summarily stop. Britain is work-' feet -safety and beneficial results. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 oents a box from the Dry Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, rock vibe, Fresltmnu—"Sir, mark my words-" Professor "I have marked year words and find that you Bata nets - spelled forty per cent. of: them, You must improve a great deal. Mark my words,"' Their hope lies in the League of zle her; she does not know just what Nations, , Their` despair lies in the to do, , yet feels them not serious. en. difficulty first of getting the League. ough to call a doctor. At just such to move strongly enough; - and, "sea- -times, as these it is - that Baby's Own end, of ensuring that those nations Tablets are found to be mother's like China which have abolished slay- greatest help and friend, ery on pr er`should abolish it in fact. Most childhood ailments arise from American . prohibits the manufac- a derangement of, the stomach or tura, transportation, and sale of alto- bowels. Baby's Own Tablets will hobo drink; . China prohibits slavery. Immediately banish them by cleans - Of the two prohibitions, the American Ing the bowels and sweetening the is probably the more effective. Se 1 there Take the Lead Curs to T DR. WATSON'S TONT" STOUT slay» 41* One package makes four' gallons.' Mail 75c today and 1ve will for- ward ycu postpaid Ono package. of this .delicious beverage. M. ALDDEN Bo CO.LIM9.TE D '.t'Oltttleel waeseettse Toronto s'esy a a .,i! pfd a ee PLEASURE The first great rule is that we must do something—that life must have a Purpose and an aim—that v»rn% should be not merely occasional 0118 spasmodic, but steady and continuous. Pleasure is a jewel which. will only retain its lustre: when it is in a set- ting of work, and a vacant life is one of the worst pains, though the islands of leisure that stud a crowded, weli- occupied lite may be among the things to which we look back with Lie greatest delight—Lecky.. ASPIRATIONS Every true aspiration in the world finds something even higher than it- self which it climbs as the vine, year after year, climbs the towering oak. Stolen. From Free Homes Myriads of slaves are languishing under the worst conditions in Abys- sinia, of whom mane are stolen by. capture from their free homes in Cen- tral Africa, just as in the old days of the tral:lc in BIack Ivory. And Abys- sluia, mark you, is a Christian coun- try! disgrace of. sty. It owns thea P g being the last Christian country to tolerate this terrible evil.. The cruel caravan still -wends its: weary Way across torrid wastes, the weak and suffering leaving it at their peril to die • of hunger and thirst by the wayside, the strong whipped on by the cruel lash, just as' of yore. Vil- lages go up in smoke, families are rent asunder, little maids are sold in- to conoubinage, exactly. as the Bible depicts happening to the ancient Israelites when they }Vere exiled into captivity. INVIOIBLE~FLOWERS Children are flowers at the invisible world; tndoetructible ,self-prepetuab- ing flowers, with each a- multitude of angels and evil spirits underneath its r dein- iniontoiling and wrestling, fo 0 inion over it J. Neal. "Ahd 'otv is youit 'usband gettin' en?'' "'El can't complain," "My, is 'e that bad?" ing hard for this, but a few continent- al ontinent al' nations dread the summary naval searches which the equalization of slave -trading to piracy would entail. As Lady Simon has : said in her noble book: "Slafery is the supreme offence' aga'nst the liftman race." Even' if there be such a thing as a happy slave which I doubt—that would be the final and most clinching argu- ment against slavery- No one ought to be happy in•his own degradation. The land which gars "iagna Charta to the thought of all the ages, and which has just received the sacred soil of Runnymede as a perpetual gift, must still lead in the noblest of cam• Wilber.` From Langton to ins: F m peg force, from Dr. Johnson to Josephine Butler, the message calls vibrantly as, of yore1 "Remember them that are in bonds!" Minions of Slaves Still The shame of slavery still dis- graces the world. A commission of the League of Na- tions reports that there are "no fewer than 4,000,000 slaves in the world to -day; probably the number is nearer 6,000,000—people who are not persons, people who have not the right to . own property, to exercise their consciences, to direct their own affairs, or to retain wifeand children, There are at least 2,000,000 in China, 500,000 to 700,000 in Arabia, a con- siderable number in the hinterland of Liberia, and a few thousand in other different parts of the world" And, according. to The Christian ea- tery (Undenominational) from which we quote these figures, "conditions of slavery vary from the open and tor- turing slavery of. Abyseima to the disguised system in China, where girls who are realty household slaves are treated, according to a legal fic- tion, as adopted family members. 'fen- der f n- der the impetus provided by the League, 185,000 slaves have recently been set free in. Tanganyika; 215,000 Raiding. British Territory To quote from Lady Simon's recent authoritative book:. "The completeness of destruction by Abyssinian slave raiders ie the completeness of the locust, but more cruel, it is known that many of these raids have ravaged beyond the ICen- ya-Abyssinia and the Sudan -Abyssinia border, The ravages of the slave traders on both sides of these borders are well known to British officials Major Darley tells us of the following incident Connected with one slave. raid.. On the trail, he said, he count- ed the dead and dying bodies.of more than ftaty ceptivee who had dropped by the roaside..'For on such journeys there is no Commissariat department, in Sierra Leone; in Burma. and those who carry no supplies can n Sierra ly," a Leon Tlt7, 7,500Chittiau hope only fora merciful spear, since Cen- tury,S"with the facts thus known, the. the alternative is death by thirst or public opinion of the world W[ll sup - by the teeth. and talons of wild 'beasts. " tngeteids of square ;yells 0! teal- port the League in whatever efforts tory al'b. utterlydepopulated by Abys it may inaugurate to wipe out the slues raids.. Most .of this territory last vestiges of human bondage." within the confines of tee Abys• sinus Empire, but pert of it is with - is BELIEFS in the British Empire. We ought not to judge: people .gr "Apyssineen raids into the country their beliefs, beeaUSB see do not kaow sout1West of the Bohm plateau in the how they have been brought about; British guteen are colleted, and _with- but we may justly apply. the crdtlal ill the ,,lea' six menthe there have been teat to our own views, tied honor or sev8rai raids into the Kenya Colony dishonor theta accordingly. The aelseeelatiolr et the border and, Ont. chosen be the United States." Check Falling Hair with Minard's, Freedom Wanted Managing Director: "Have you suet our London manager?" ssisitort informally—he called me e. liar once." Arabs Ask Repeal of Mandate As Aid: to British Friendship Jerusalem—''We do..tote hate Eng- land, but we do not love the man- date," argued the Arab paper "Jame] Ile Arabia" the Mufti's organ, in the last issue/ before it was suppressed 6 i indelinitoly for publishing the story about the alleged Jewish conspiracy against the Mufti's Iife, in answer to the Felestin's contention that the Arabs see kthe repeal of the Balfour mandate o the • i de claret on and not f "Why concentrate our war against the Balfour declaration when the mandate Is more .dangerous to the Pan -Arab Union than ZionIsm?" asks "El Arabia." "Arab hostility to the trusteeship means a struggle for complete independence and not toler- ating foreign rule of any shade. The repeal of the mandate will strength- en Anglo -Arab friendship. Britain does not regard as enemies the,Egyp- tians who are fighting for independ- ante.' Well-being and happiness are not Thus the leading Moslem organ an inheritance of y hick we take pos- would seem to confirm Harry Saoher's session from the hour of our birth, evidence before the Inquiry Commis - and whichwe are destined to enjoy sion that the Arabs are using Zionism at our ease; they are to be searched es a lightning conductor, while they after with unwearied assiduity. We are realty fighting the mandate. enter into life destitute of everything but simple existence. Al that we en- joy in our passage through life are acquisitions: they, are the result and the rewards of our own diliigence and caro, or communicated by the, dili- gence and care of others.—Cogan. The usual gloomy crowd was sitting routed a dentist's room the other day, when one old boy looked up from the Paper he had found on the table and said cheerfully, "I see there's been a big battle of the coast of Sdtland." 'Your thermometer is wholly in - co Ted, n00•rect, It registers 10 degrees less than the actual' temperature. 'That's why I like it. I dread these fearfuly candid friends." Mlnard's Is Best for Grippe, HUMAN HAPPINESS 'I k t it is" she criede tams SUPERFLUITIi s "What un p rtlt ate Sou talk ng. tem t the s th b of adeqesee A Ys$inialt0 plgoadvauce e '`flu L. sa, e • } p- f b Our s pe u tie she Id a given about?". de�tli'atlii d tare, ken. . ooiq' fart, or airs $artiier' abs 08 0119 0 up for'tbe cobveddieuoa of of ars; .our. eAsphalt; ! y'1 . X118 a$s1?¢r,, vel i conveniences shot l glue 1441to the t at find loved galea atitast thea have penetfated '* she Was fig.., Ttt y til, fig lead Lan. 190 miles into B1r'tish neeeesi'ties of 'others;' and even our much mgrs valuiibie ttwau a.gold. ella. 1 ' for h thick' el,,, peblt oqf n fagot ells tee Rory' necessities give way to the extrema; ;'an of rte,the fortunel • Siave-owhing is still legal in the.ties of the Poor. -John Howard. ed tidily area' at , t e -markets of melee otheeit besides its didaov- Are, Peu.nst: , where °pars are openly held for the sale of slaves • y • 3D HAA t NEEDS DS �; ,-,.:� and the Go»1 rilhlent 951158 ea deed: on Neighbor l ip In g, over. garden he ibdivldual sales. Th e Klug o f fensee." kea 'Aiti bees done Weil e az arid Nej d has a .sed to co - this year B soag Browni"well, oPe te with the Grit st Government vdh much honey, but to suppress the slave trade, but so they to stn 7 HEALTH AND LUSTRE }kora& stung my mother-in-law long as slave -owning is, permitted, the TO GIVE IT t EAL is twice,' , tends Leaver 'really is sapprassed. It ASK YOUR BARBER COULDN'T WALK FOR FAT But lost her flabbiness in two weeks She was crippled by fat, but reduced In, two weeks this easy way. That is Plain truth—her husband says sot She weighed nearly 200 lbs. and had to stay at home, Read this letter: "My ' wife has been sufferingwith swelled legs and feet and weighed 196 lbs. 4 oz.—very seldom able to go out walking. After taking Kruschen Salts for two weeks, her flabbiness has gone, legs and Poet feel easib•.." , Excess fat is caused by the liver, kidneys and bowels, the "scavenging" organs et the body—failing to do their work properly. 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