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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-10-20, Page 6PAGE SIX; THE SEAFORTH NEWS., Revenge Mysterious Doyle (Continued from last None.'sha1'l ever know the details df that estrange 'tragedy. Thede ,was Is marks of ,struggle or sign kA an attempt at escape. We 'kn•el't at the edge of ..the Hole and endeavored to pierce the unfathomable gloom which shrouded it. A faint, sickly eedhalntlon seemed to rise. from 'its depths, and there was a diStanit hurrying, ,clatter - lag sound as ,olf 'waters in the thowels of the earth. A great stone, lay embed- ded: in the mud, and this if hurled over, but we never 'heard thud' ot. splash bo sh'o:w that it had reached ;the bo'tto'm. As +we hung over the ,nbis- 'are chasm a sound' Idlidat last rise to our ears out 'ad its murky depths. High, clear, and throbbing, it 'tin'kled for an instant out 'of the abyss, tobe succeeded by the same deadly Still- ness which had preceded, it. I do not wish to appear to be superstitious, or to put down to 'axtreordinary causes fhait which may have a ,natural, •ex- planation. ;That one keen note may have 'been some strange water sound produced far down in the bowels of the earth. It may have been that or it may have been the sinister 'bell of which I had heard so much. IBe this as it may, it was the only sign that rase to us from the last terrible resting -plate of the two wh'o had paid the •ddbt'whi'ch had so long 'been owing. 1We joined our voices in a call with the ,unreasoning obstinacy 'with which men will cling to hope, but no answer .came back to us save a thousand hollow reverberations from the depth's. beneath. Footsore and heartsick, we retraced our steps and climbed' the slimy slope once snore. n'shat shall we do, 'Mord'aunit?" T asked, in a su'bdued voile. "We clan hut pray 'that their s'ou'ls may rest in veace." Young Heatherstone looked at me with flashing eyes. "This may be all according to occult laws," he oried, "hut we shall see what the laws cd England have to s'a'y upon it. I 'sup- po'se a thele Inlay be 'han'ged as well as any other ,man. 'It may ;not be too late yet to tun them down. Here, good dog, good dog_herel" He pull- ed the hound over and set it an, 'the track of the three men. The creature sniffed at it once or twice, and then, falling upon his stomach, with ;bristl- ing hair and protruding tongue, it lay shivering and trembling, a very em- bodiment e+f canine terror. "You : see," I said, "it is no con- tending .against those who' have pow- ers at their coimmand which we can- not even give a name to. There is nothing : for it but to .accept the in- evitable, and to !hope that these poor men may meet with somecampen- ' sation in another world for, .all that they have suffered in this," ;For a long timte I could not draw him away from 'the scene of his'fath- er''s death, but at last repeated ar- guments ','and reasonings, II` succeeded in 'making him realize 'haw us'el'ess and un'p'rofitable any 'further efforts on our part 'mu's't .necessarily ;prove, and in inducing hint to return with .nue to 'Cloomlber. Ohl the 'weari'so'me, tedious journey! at had seemed long paragra'pilis. 2 never showed 'them to ati'y wife or to ;11ordauult, and they 11 only' know of 'thlhir -existence' ,when they read these pages, '1 don't 'know that there is any oth- er point ;which needs cleaning up. The intelligent reader will .have already seat the reasons thegeneral's fear . s 'fear of dark ,faces, of wandering men (trot knowing how his pursuers might come 'aftter hunt), of visitors (from ,the same cause and because his hate- ful hell was liable 'to Isom -id at all times). His 'broken sleep' let hin to h and house at night, ,wander about the house g , the lamps: whioh-;he burned in every Inoom were no doulbt to 'prevent his imagination' from 'peopling the dark- ness with terrors. 'Lasitly, his elabor- ate pre,catitions ,were, as he has ;him- self explained, rather the result 'of a feverish desire to do something than in tlheiexipeiotatior'that he could really ward off his (fate. ;Science will tell: you that there are no suc'hpowers as those -claimed by the Eastern 'mystics I !J'am'es Pother - gill West, Can ,comifidentlF' answer ;that science is wrong, and invite the read - ens attention to a pithy, uf-.disrespect- ful, aphoristn of (Baron Hellenba'ch. For what is 'science? ISlcience is the ooncensus of opinion of scientific men and .history has ishawst that it is sloov to accepta truth. 'Science :sneered. at Newton for 'twenty yle'arls. Scientce proved .mathematically that an iron ship could not swim, and, s'cien'ce de- clared that a ;steatmship could net cross the !Atlantic. Like Goethe'is Me- phistopheles, our wise 'prolfessor% 'forte is to "stets ,verneinen." Thomas Di•d•y'mus is, to .use his own jargon•, his :prototype. Let him learn that if he will look to the ;East, If ram which all great movements come, he will find there a 'school of philosophers and of savants who, working on different lines, are 'many thousand 'years ahead o'f him in all the essentials of knowl- tedge. . THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHY week.) !brier 'hoverend between life and .dearth, and though. she came round at Wast, thanks to the nursing of 'any sister and the pro'feesflonal !skill of Dr. John Easterling, of Sarammaer, site lh.as never to this 'day entirely recovered her former ,vigor. Mordaun't, 'too, suffer- ed much for some time, and it was cn9'y after our remosal to 'Edinburgh that 'he rai:lied frotm• ;the shock which he .had undergone. As to poor Mrs. !Heatheretone, neither medical atter tion,nor change of air can ever ',have a permanent effect ulpon her. Slowly and surely, but very (placidly, she has declined in health and strength, un- til it is evident that in a very few weeks at the most she will have re- joined her husband and restored to him the 'one 'thing which the must have grudged'' to leave 'behind. The Laird ,of Bramksoane carne 'home 'from Italy restored in, Health, with tate .result that we were com- pelled to return once ;m'ore to .Edin- burgh. The change was agreeable •to us, for recent events had cast a cloud over :our country 'life and had sur- rounded us 'wi'th ,unpleasant 'associa- tions. Besides, a highly 'honorable and remunerative appointment in con- nection with the university library Thad become vacant, and had, through the kindness of the late Sir Alexander Grant, been offered to my father, who, as may be imagined, lost no time in accepting so congenial] 'a post. In this' way we came lb'aek to :'Edin burgh very much more important pteoptle ,than we left it, and with no further reason to be uneasy about the details of lh'ousekeeping. But in truth, the whole household has been dissolved, for 'I havle tbeen married for some months to my dear Gabriel, and 'Esther is to 'become Mrs. 'Heath- enstone upon the 20d of the month. If she makes him as good a wife as his sister has madle to toe, we may both- set ourselves down as fortun- ate men. These mere domestic ep'iso'des, as S have already exlpla1ned, are intro- duced only ,because I cannot avoid al- luding to them. My object in .dralw- hag° up this statement and publis'hin'g' the evidence' %which• corroborates it, was certainly not to parade my pri- vate affairs before the :public, but to leave on record an authentic narrative of a most remarknlble series :of events. This. I theme, e'nd'eav'o'red to do in as mcthodi'cal a manner as possible, ex- aggerating nothing and suppressing nothing. 'The reader has now the evidence 'befprehim, and can form his own opinions unaided'.' by me as to the ,causes of the disappeanance and death of 'Rufus • Smith and of John Berthier IHcath•ersto.ne, V C:, 'CIB. •There is only one point ,which is s'ti'll dark to me. Why the thetas to the Ghoolab 'Shah should ;have re- moved their victims to the, 'desolate Hole of Cree instead' of taking their lives at Cloolmlbler, is, 'I confess, a mystery to an dealing with occult laws, ,however, we Mustallow for our ;own complete ignorance of the subject. 'Did we know mlore we might see ,that there was some ,anaitogy 'be- •tween that foul 'bog and the 'sacril- ege which had 'been .committed, and that their ritual and customs deman'd- enoug h when we lead some slight eel that just ,such a death was the one keenest and mast receptive intellect which ::is the scan also Of pride, of ala•iice, o+t sensuality, of .selfishness THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1932, of :She subject, nothing about the ca p,acit;es of the soul' at' all as 'd•istmgc. vislied front, t'he capacities of body or the love of coinfor't, can never hope a1RC3 soul conibinecl. Occultists have 'to surmount the first of the ordeals for ages devoted themselves to that which she occult aspirant .has to pass. These weed's niust all be ,thoroughly eradicated b'etore e i and remorselessly the garden can, be planted Many, of course, break;down in }this'prdlimininy process, and ,ane ' never deemed 'w'or- thy of the honor of initiation; but the very essence of the order is that it should , he ,elect. • t results obtained And what are the by this most .ancient and stringent school of knowledge? 1 By the very na- ture of thin'gs we outsiders scan only have vague ideas of the few which are adapted' to our undensbaoding..The i'ithle which we know is probably the mere fringe sof the subject. Yet -they comprise some •fairly, weighty` ad- juncts to our stolc'k'lof facts. IIsi 'the first place, they have prov- ed without the shadow ofa doubt that man possesses a soul Iby the simple expedient of separating it Ifrom the body as ,he would put off his'grekt-coat and can travel in his soul with the rapidity of thought to the other end of the world. When 'Pau]. al Tarsus says that .man 'consists• of a body, a soul, and a spirit, he is not indulging in v'ai'n surmise, ,but is stating con- cisely the conclusions arrived at by the 'occult soho'o1 to which there is every reason to .think that he be- longed. (Again, the adepts claim to com munlileate with each other by means ofthought - transferrence and ,not by word's. The initiated can therefore talk as easily at the distance' of a thousand miles as if they were in the same room. 'Their desolate retreats and caves in the Himalayas, which seem so lone'l'y to the ignorant, are really,the foci of mental activity and interchange of views. To attra'c't each other's atter ion when they !wish bo communicate, they have the power of sounding that bell -like tingling afar - um whioh played sb prominlen't a part in bhe case of my poor father. They assert again, and support their assertion by proofs, that they have stitch a mastery over the subtle chem- istry of nature that they can take the elements from the atmosphere and combine them or mold them into any Poem they please, so as to make any object visible: IIn• this manner a block of marble has been conveyed in an instant from 'B'otnbsy to !Calcutta, and letters have been sent with a rapid- ity which apidi'tywh•ich would render the te'legrap'h obsolete. !These are one or two of the minor results claimed„ by, the Eastern philo- sophers, and surely, if they profess to have attained nothing else, their system deserves some attention from the s'cientis'ts of the Wiest.' The adepts tlhent'se'bves, however, in discussing the question, dismiss these physical phenomena as ,puerile manifestations, useful enough for service in this world, but of no permanent or real importance. Into the higher regions of bhe sy+s'tem none can penetrate save those who have already mastered the inferior grades, and been chastened in mind and body. 10'f course the objection would at o5,05 occur to any Western reader that it was extremely improbable that a clique of men .could keep their knowl- edge to themselves, and that if it were possible it is still reprehensible, •sin•ce such knowledge rs in'tende'd for the use of 'the whole Suntan race.; To this the occultist replies that the powers which are acquired by his system are df such a formidable nature that they might' be terrilbiy abused if they fell into the wrong hands. He considers, study chiefly; they have accomplish- ed results iti'cmbeeti'oni with it which erre<aIbsohttely theirbewildering in ' mamnificlence• but, 'stiddensuddenly it iitt o- duce'd to some of these, the prosaic intelligence is staggered, and feels in a ,world of miracle and enchantment." lin 'another part of his interesting work Mr. Siutebt deals withsounds b 'adepts i ante dart protliui;ted at a y which correspond' to those which haunted my father for So long. Of these he has ha.d personal experi- ence. "Dt is Inev'er'loud," he says; "at lelast, I have never • heard it very loud; but it is always clear and dlis-, tinct to a remarkable extent.. I•f you lightly 'strike the edge Of a Shin clar- et glass with a knife you may get a sound which it would Ibe difficult to persuade any one had •came from an- other room; but the occult bell. Sound is Bide that, only purer attdl , clearer, with, no s'u'b's'ound of jarring in it whatever. '* *i 'a iTlhe bell sounds are .not mere sportive illustration% of the properties olE the currents. which are stet in a'cti'on 'to produce them, They senwe the 'direct practical pur- pose among occultists• of a tele'grap'h- ic call.b'ell. It appears' that 'where trained occultists are concerned, so that the mysterious magnetic con- nection which enables them to com- municate ideas is one'e estatili'slhe'd, they can prodwue the bell sounds at any 'distance in the neighborhood, of the fellow initiate whose attention they wish tb attract" From, my fathy er's case it seems that this bell sound is used .not •merely for th'e purpose of cotnmunication, but also to enable the ad'ep'ts to detain their 'hold .over any individual and to inform them exact- ly where he was that they might lay hands upon' him at any moment. YI'hese few additional particulars may throw some light' uponany ob- scure points in the statement w'hic'h has been so .concisely,and truthfully drawn up by my friend and brother, Jaime's Fothergilt West. THE END. Addendutn. By -Mr. Mordaunt lHea'therstone. II have just looked .over the proof sheets of ;my good friend's account of the events which led up to the death of my father, and'!I am able to ind;arse it on every point—save, indeed, , that he lays too little stress on thle kind- ness and devotion 'which the display- ed himself throu'ghotrtI tI have asked him, (however, before sending' his proofs finally to 'the 'Press; ,to allow me to make this shall addition. in order that I may say a few words upon, these Indian occults, o'f whom so 'little is known. an this appendix form, any reader is et liberty to neg- lect it; but should he be interested in the subject, I have endeavored to co'l- lect a little information for him., The !Eastern adepts' exist a't pres- ent in the north of India and 'in'T'hi'b- et, 'th'ough in former days it is prolb- able that their -organization, was much more', widespread. Under the sanious utamos- of the Egyptians, Chaldean (Magi, lEssen'es, Gnostics, Theurgic Neo Platonist, and ,Seers, 'we catch glimpses of them :throughout - history. They :form, the closest and 'most im- portant secret society which has ever been organized a society to ;which any suitable man :may gain admission, but which is girt' round with such :physical terrors, so mulch bodily privation ,and discipline, that Few have the courage and hardihood to 'persevere to the end. Those who ane earnest and resolute, en'ou'gh to attain such ,knowledge and such pow- ers as raise them far above the ruck of mankind, The knowledge olf bhe occult philo- therefore, th'aft the hamarr race is not sdpihers is, both physical ' and meta- yet prepared for the just exercise of physical, but it is to the latter branch, ;t'h'ese forces, and that a great respun- and especially to the hu'm'an ,soul and 'sibility rests with his 'order to test every candidate for initiation in the most severe manner, and so to insure that no unworthy man should' ever gain ad'mi'ssion. This is the adept's reply,' and, right 'or wrong, he inflex- ibly adheres. 'to the line of conduct which he has laid down for himself. Fbr the information which I have. jotted• down here I am indebted part- ly to my own reading, partly to what I have heard from my father, and most Of all to Mr. A..P.,.Sinntett, for his excellent summary of the, occult philosophy, ("The Occult World."). I .cannot ` supplement any aoc'out better than by adding one or two of Mr. Sinne•tt's clear and forcible State- ments. "The whole edifice of eecualtism," he writes, "from 'basement to roof, is so utterly strange to ordinary Concep- tions that it is difficult to know how to 'begin an explanation of its con- tents. How ,could one describe a cal- culating machine to an audience un- familiar vi'ith the simplest mechanical contrivances amid kn'owin'g no'thin'g Of arithmetic? And the highly culture.d classes of modern Europe as regards' the achi•evemetnts of occultism • are, in spite 'oif the plerteetion o'f their liter- ary scholars'hi'p an'd' the exquisite pre- cision, of their alttain•men'ts in their owi1, departments of science, iii the p!OS'iti'oin as 'regard's occultism of koolw'ing 'nothing about able A .B iC PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical flicker of h'oipe, or at least of expecta- tion, (before us, ,but ,now that our worst fears were 'fuf llleti 'i't appeared 'inter- aaina'ble. We 'picked up .our peasant guide at the ou'ts'kirts of the m'ars'h, and having restored his dog we let him !find his own way home 'Wit'hout telling !him anything 'of the results df our expedition,. We ourselves plodded ail day over The moors with heavy ;feet 'and heavier 'hearts until we saw the ill-omened, tower Of ICl'oomlber, and at 'last, as the sun was setting, found ourselves once more 'beneath •rte roof. 'There is no ,need for ire ho enter into 'further details, or to describe'Ide grief which our tidings conveyed 'to en'ofher ;and to •daughter, Their 'Tong appropriate to thle crime. On this point S should be sarry to be dogma- tic, :but at least we 'must allow that they must +have had some very good cause for the course of action which they so deliberately 'carried, out. :Months afterward 11 aaw a short paragraph in bhe Star of IIndia 'lan- nouneing that 'three eminent Bud- d'hi's'ts—!Lal 'Hoomi, IM'owdar (Khan and' Ram Singh—had jus+t•returned in, the . steamship 'Deccan Ifrom a short trip to ,Europe• The very next item was devoted to an account of the lele and services of )Major-IGenenal Hea- th ers'tone, "who has Stately d'isappear- ed, Frani, his coun'try'housle in 'Wig- townshire and who, there is too much DR. H. HUGH ROSIS, Physician and Surgeon. Late of London Hoe- rital London,England. SP ciai attention to diseases of the eye, ear , nose and throat. Office .and resi- dence behind Dominion. Bank. Office Phone No. 5; Residence P'h'one 104. e DR. F. 'J. BURIROIws, - s aforth. oderich street, residence, G Office and res east of the United Church. Conoa'er for the County of Huron. Telephone No. 46. DR. C. M'AOKIAY.—C. Mack.,. honor graduate of Trinity University and .gold" medallist of Trinity Medicaa College; tenter of the College all Physicians' and Surgeons of Ontario: DR. F. J. R. FORISTER—Eye, Ear Nose and Throat. Graduate, in Medi- cine, University of Toronto 1897. Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural 'Institute, Moore'fieid'a Eye, and Golden Square throat hospi- tals, London,' England. At Coimmr ercial Hotel, Seaforth, 3rd Monday ia each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. A SOUTHERN PICNIC. On an Australian sheep station, you know, everything is given over to the growing of wool—or was 'before the land was cu4tivated to the extent it is today. To 'provfd'e ample grass for our wooly friend, the s'h'eep, great forests of eucalyptus trees are ringed and staid gaunt, white, protesting figures till ht last they fall. This side of the world anyone would be sc'and'alized at all that good wood going to waste; but in those great distances, sparsely populated,' it 'is not profitable to cart them for 'tim'ber, and so there are "burning off" days, which nrake 'an oc- c'asioh for a picnic. We assem'b'le in some paddock, which in 'Australia may be several miles: square, where there are 'hundreds of trees, some standing, m'any'alrea'dy fallen; • we all work hard piling . up :.old branches round' some prostrate giant before 'Vetting fire to it, until the immediate landscape is ablaze •with huge bonlfires (in'cidentaiiy' this also 'helps the grass). Then, hot and thirsty, we collect together for our picnic. We have taken out with us some merino chops, not the large coarse things one sees iso much of in England, but little ones. resembling Welsh mutton, only much nicer—un- less I have idealized them in me'moryl We make a small lfite, then cut out a square shallow hole in the ground which is filled ` with glowing embers. A gridiron has been constructed of green twigs (the lAustralian bushman is an adept at this sortof thing). This with the chops is placed over the manufactured stove; some potatoe's es of ashes ' have 'been thrown into t h the fire, and 'with bread, and tin pan- nikans to drink from, I maintain you do not knotw the full joy of a picric till you have experienced it 'carried out in this fashion. On one occasion, I, remelt-lber, we load with us a young Englislnhrantt who contributed his bit by making a dish of scrambled eggs ac'cord'ing to the best tradition's of Eton I How anxious he was that his achievement should not be spoiled in such primitive, and to him unusual, environment. How we all fetched and carried breathlessly, that everything should he ready at the, exact moment —a most extravagant dish with heaps of eggs and, butter and cream. 1 And what a success it was! Neves- have I eaten such scrambled eggs. We had picked some 'mushrooms on the way there, and • someone .grilled them, A feast that lingers in the memory ! (Later we untethered the 'horses, standing patiently tied to trees, and journeyed toward Nome in the gather- ing twilight; making our own tracks through the p'addo;cks,- 'strewn with failIan timber and did stumps, till we reached the highroad. its destiny, that they ,have devoted most attention. Their physical 'know!!' edge, however, and their power of manipul'atin'g those secret Paws by avhidh nature builds or destroys, are .far in excess of 'anything 'kn'own to European ,science. It must ;be rentem- btredi t'hat.;our'awn scientific results are the results of a: few hundred years, whereas the occult 'philosop'hy Inas been the work of the very cream of humanity, extending over an unbrok- en, period' of at least twenty thousand years, during which time every adept has hamd,ei ,dawn 'h:is • powers to his initiates exactly as 'they were handed dlown to him, or with such 'additions as his life of ,stu'd'y has enabled him to make. Wonderful as are the powers to Which these men have attained; they are the 'first to disclaim any su- pernatural soance :for them, They arise entirely from an intimate knowl- edge Of nowlledge"of the nature .of 'things and a deep insight into the hidden forces pet vadin•g the universe. The whole race may hope same day to attain the learning which. they have already ac- quired. cquired. 'On'e of the ;first lessonss which the occult initiate has to learn is that wis- dom is not Ito be innpllanted in any Mind by the :mere ,pro'ces's Of study and of ntstrucbion. 'Tlh.e soil .insult be prepared before this most precious seed can be committed to it. The reason to fear, has been drowned:" 3 ,expectation of some calamrty ;was not wonder if iby ,chance there was y other h'um'an eye but mine which 'to,p'repare them for the ter - these table reality. Tor weeks any poor iGa- traced a con'n'ectran between. DIR. W. C. SIPIRIOAIT.— Graduate' ad Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and Sur- geon's of Ontario. Office in rear of Aberhart's drug store, Seaforth. Phone 90. Hours 1.30-4 p.m., 7.30 -9 p.m. Other hours by appointment. Dental ' DIR. J. A. MUNN, Successor so Dr. R. R. Ross, graduate of North- western University, Chicago, Ill. t4- contiate Royal CollegeofDental Sur- geons, Toronto. Office over Sills' hardware, Main St., Seaforth, Phone 151. A.* IDR. F. J. BECHELY, graduate e Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's grocery, Main St., Seaforth. Phones, office 185W, residence 1853. Auctioneer. GEORGE ELIJDOTT, Licensed Auctioneer for the County of ,Huron.' Arrangements can be made' for Sats Date at The Seaforth News. Chargee Moderate and satisfaction guranteed. WATSON AND REID'S REAL ESTATE AND INSURANICE AGENCY (Succsaors to James 'Watson) MADN ST., SEA,POIRTH, ONT. Alt kinds of Insurance risks effect- ed at lowest rates in First -Class Companies. Want and Fo'r. Sale Ads, 3 ,times, 50c THE McKILLOP Mutual Fire Insurance Co. FItllRIM AND ISOLATE'D TOWN PROPERTY, O•+N'L y, IIN'S'URED Officers - John Bennewies, 'Brod. hagen, 'Presiden't; Jas. Connolly, 'God- erich, Vice.JPres. ID. F. McGregor, Seaforth 'Nb. 4, Sec.-Treas. Direotors—Geo, RI McCartney, Sea - forth No. 3; Alex. Broadfoot, ;Sea- forth No. 3; James Evans, ;Seaforth No. '5,; IRobt. •Ferris, Blyth No. 1; Jae, Sholdsce, Walton No. 4; John Pepper, Brucelfield; William Knox, Londes- borough. Agents --Jas. Watt, Blyth No. '1; W. E. 'Hinckley, ;Seaforth; J. A. Murray;' Seaforth 'No.. 3; V.J. Yeo, Clinton No, .3; R. G. Jermuth, ]Bornholm. (Auditors — Jas. Kerr, Seaforth; Thos. Moylan, ISeafort'h No. 5. Parties desirous to effect insurance or transact other business, will ' be promptly attended to by applications to any of the above named officers ad- dressed to their .respective post office's. 'Like a' Grip ,at the (Throat, For a disease that is soot classed. as fatal there is prolhali'ly nine ,which causes more terrible suffering than asthma. Sleep is imlplossilb'1'e, the lsu'ffener, be- colmes• exhausted and finally, though the attack passes, is left in unceasing' ,drelad Of its -return. Dr, J. D. Kel- logg's ,Alsthtna'Remedy :is a wotid'er• lEutl 'nemedlial agent. 'It inme'diately, relives the.restricted air passages as thousands can 'testify. 'It is said 'by d ealeris everywhere.