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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-12-04, Page 2}Tile March of the White ward By SIR GILBERT PARKER, II. Jaspar me..sa_t deer 1-h'ailded the Indian a pipe and tobacco, and, with 3rtne folded, watched the fire. For: half an 'hour they sat so white man, Indian, and dog, Then Jaspar Hume rose, went to a cupboard, took out ome sealingwax and matches and in a , a moment melted wax was dropping upon the lock of the box containing lois :idea. He had just finished this as Sergeant Gone knocked at the door, and immediately after entered the room. "Gosse" said the sub -factor, "find Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, and Late Carscallen, and, bring them . here," Sergeant immediately. departed upon his errand. jasper Hume then turned to Cloud -in -the -S' , and said, "Cloud th- ny you'goa e Sk I wantlong to matey hiereaway to the :Barren. rounds. Have twelve dogs ready by bine o'dlocic to -morrow morning." Ctcud-in-thc-Sky shook his head thoughtfully, and then, after a pause, said, "Strong -back go too?" ("Strong - hack" was his name for Jaspar Hume). But the other did not or would not hear. The Indian, however, appeared satisfied, for he smoked harder after- ward, and grunted to himself man times. A few moments passed, and then Sergeant Gosse entered, followed by Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, and Late Carscallen. Late Carscallen had got his' name "Late" from having been called "The Late Mr. Carscallen" by the Chief Factor because of his slow- ness. Slow as he was, however, the stout Scotsman had more than once proved himself sound and true ac- cording 'to Jasper Hume's ideas. He was, of course, the last to enter. The men grouped themselves about the fire, Late Carscallen getting the coldest corner. Each man drew his to- bacco from, his pocket, and cutting it, waited for Sub -factor Hume to speak. Hlis eyes were debating as they rested on the four, Then he took out Rose Lepage's letter and, with the group looking at him now, he read it aloud.' When it was finished Cloud -in -the -Sky gave a guttural assent and Gaspe Tou- jours, looking at Jeff Hyde, said, "It is cold in the. Barren Grounds. We shall need much tabac." These men could read without difficulty Jasper House's reason for summoning them. To Gaspe Toujour's remark Jeff Hyde nbdded affirmatively and then all looked at Late Carscallen, He opened his heavy jaws once or twice with ad animal - tele sound, and then he said, in a general kind of way: "To the Barren Grounds. But who leads?" Jasper Hume was writing on a slip of paper, and did not reply. The faces of three of them showed just a shade of anxiety. They had their opinions, but they were not sure. Cloud -in -the - Sky, however, grunted at them, and raised the bowl of his pipe toward the Sub -factor. The anxiety then seemed to be dispelled. For ten minutes more they sat so, all silent. Then Jasper Hume rose, handed the slip of paper to Sergeant Gosse, and said, "Attend to that at once, Gosse. Examine the food and blankets closely." The five were left alone. Then Jaspar Hume spoke: "Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, Late Carscal- len, and Cloud -in -the -Sky, this man, alive or dead, is between here and the Barren Grounds. He must be found— f h' 'f ' ] ' Hyde her letter. Jeff Hyde rubbed his Angell ,befPre he 9,41,ehed, tt�,'he delicate' and perfumed missive. Its delicacy seemed to bewilder him. He said in a rough but kindly way! "Hope to die if I don't,: and passed it on to Gaspe Toujours, who did net find• it necessary to speak. Hie comrade had answered for him. .Late Carscallen held it in- jquisitively a moment, and then his aws opened and shut as if he were about to speak. But before he did so' the Sub -factor said, "It is a long jour- ney and a hard one. dpliose who go may never come back. But this man was working for his country, and he: has gotta wife—a good wife! He held up the letter. "Late" Carscallen wants to know who will lead you. Can't you trust one? I•will give you a`ieader that you will follow to the Barren Grounds. To -morrow you will know who he is. Men, are you satis- fied? Will you do it?" The four rose, and Cloud -in -the -Sky nodded approvingly many times. The Sub -factor held out his hand. Each man shook it, Jeff `Hyde first, and he said, "Close up ranks for the H. B. C.!" (H. B. C. meaning, of course, Hudson Bay Company.) With a good man to lead them they would have stormed, alone, the Heights of Balaklava. Once more Jaspar Hume spoke: "Go to Gosse and get your outfits at nine to -morrow morning, Cloud -in- the -sky, have your sleds at the store at eight o'clock, to be loaded. Then all meet me at 10.15 at the office of the Chief Factor. Good night" e As they passed out into the semi - arctic night, Late Carscallen with an unreal obstinacy said, "Slow march to the Barren Grounds—but who leads?" Left alone the Sub -factor sat down to the pine table at one end of the room and after a short hesitation be- gan to write. For hours he sat there, rising only to put wood on the fire. The result was three letters: the larg- est addressed to a famous society in London, one to a solicitor in Montreal, and one to Mr. Field, the Chief Fac- tor. They were all scaled carefully. Then Jaspar Hume rose, took out his knife and went over to the box as if to break the red seal. He paraded, how- ever, sighed, and put the knife back again. As he did so he felt something touch his leg. It was the dog. Jaspar Hume drew in a sharp breath and said "It was all ready, Jacques; and in an- other three months I should have been in London with it. But it will go whether I go or not, Jacques,, The dog sprang up and put his head against his master's breast. "Good dog! good dog! it's all right, Jacques; however it goes, it's all right!" Then the dog lay down and watched the man until he drew the blankets to his chin sleep drew oblivion over a fighting chin, masterly soul. e At ten o'clock next morning, Jaspar Hume presented himself at the Chief Factor's office. He bore with him the letters he had written the night before,. The Factor said, "Well, Hume, I am glad to see you. That woman's letter was on my mind all night. Have you anything to propose? I suppose not," he added despairingly, as he looked closely into the face of the other. "Yes, Mr. Field, I propose this: that the expedition •shall start at noon to- day." "Shall—start—at—noon—to-day?" or is wr es sa ce." He bended Jeff In two hours. ,t ,, England Wages 'War on Race Suicide England is waging a resolute war against race suicide' and infant mor- tality. 'Unless she can educate her people in the expediency of increasing the British population by British births and of conserving the lives and health of children already born she knows that Germany in twenty years will he able to wage against her a war that Germany will win, then. Medical statistics confound the aver- age Englishman, who has not been given until the present time to think- ing seriously of the death rate and the birth rate per se. A recent publica- tion Of these medical statistics has given him food for diquieting thought, Between 1910 and 1919 a yearly average of 100,000 babies died at birth or were still -born. The yearly birth. rate averaged 700,000, exclusive of those babies that had died within twenty-four hours of birth. But of the 700,000 given to the coun- try 90,000 died each year before they had attained their first twelvemonth's birthday. Those who survived display an alarming health condition. One in every four children in the working classes:, is mentally deficient, ten in one 'hundred suffer from malnutrition, thirty in each hundred have defective eyes, twenty-five have adenoids and eighty out of every hundred need the dentist badly, The poor baby, of course, suffers more than the infant whose parents are well to do. The death rate of children below one month in profes- sional classes averages twenty-one in etre thousand, but in the working Classes 46.3 per thousand is the rate. Now, •the large percentage of'work- ing class children who grew ;Into lidults below par was not so appalling a circunetande before the war came to England. I do not mean thatlltheir number, was lees then or that the con- dition was unknown. These statistics cover a period of nine years. But be- fore the war England still had that population of healthy, wholesome young manhood now lying out in. Flanders fields, and the status of the working class was such that their health did not constitute a grave ma- terial menace to the future of the Em- - Dire. Such a oontention applies even to the mentally deficient. Whoever ar- rived a traveller in England prior to August, 1014, and remembers the tat- tered touts who hung about steam- boat piers and especially London rail- way terminals and ran panting miles "'after a cab for the sole purpose of unloading its bags and trunks for a penny or two will find no trouble in believing that the figures relative to mental deficiency among slum peoples there are not exaggerated. But it did not matter so signally while the working classes of England were content, Their women scrubbed and slaved as servants or underpaid factory hands; their men were quite frankly underdogs and the writer of- ten suspected that they were proud of being just that. An exceptional mem- ber of a lower class family rose above his station becausehe was not ham- pered by stupidity and bad health, and the others were never done marveling at bins. To -day the great majority of these men and women have made up their minds' that they are, or must be, the exceptional members of the working class family. They would not accept a penny now for a service! They would not run a block after a cab for a pound sterling! They propose to rule in England, but if they are not uplifted, mentally and physically, they will wreck the British Empire, farseeing. Englishmen know this and have accepted it. Because of their knowledge, they are urging politic i'egielation and reform anent the un- derdog of five years ago. Welfare centres, the first step in all infant saving, are multiplying in every English town and city, It is esti- mated that $g a year wilt save one baby's life at a Erltish welfare centre. Half thin slim to furnished by the gov- ernment and half by voluntary contri- bution. At the present writing there are 236,Britieh towne that have these welfare houses. The largest one in London had 700 entries in the year ending June 30, 1919. Fifty babies and forty-two mothers came there every day ' for care and instruction. To us, this is no great innovation, but it mane the paesing of an old order in England. "Burt, who are the party?" "Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, Late Caatseallen and Cloud -in -the -Sky." "And who leads them, Hume?" Who leads,?". "Wirth your permission, sir, I do." "You, Hume! You! But, man, con- sider the danger. And then there is— there is, your invention!" "I have considered all. Here are three letters. If we do not come back in three menthe, you will please send this one, with the box in my room, to the address on thee..,,�envelope; this is for a solicitor in Montreal, whichlou will •also forward as soon as possible; this last one is for yourself; hut you will not open it until the three months. have passed. Have I your permission to lead these men? They would not go without me." "I know, that, I know' that, Hume. I hate to' have you go, 'but I can't say no, Go, and good luck go with you." Here the manly old Factor turned away his 'head. He knew that Jasper Hume had done right. ht. He knew the possible sacrifice this man was making of all his hopes, of his very life; and' his sound Scotch heart appreciated the act to the full. But he did not know all. He did not know that Jasper Hume was ,starting to look, for the man who had robbed him of youth and hope and genius' and home. "Here is a letter that the wife has written to her husband in the hope that he is alive. You will take it with you, Hume. And the other she wrote. to me, shall I keep it?" He held out .his hand. "No, sir, I will keep it, if you will allow me. It is my cornmision, you knew." And the shadow of a smile hovered about Jasper Hume's lips. The Factor smiled kindly as he re- plied, "Alli, yes, your commission -- Captain Jasper Hume of —of what, Hume?" Just then the door opened and there entered the four men whom we saw around the Sub -factor's fire the night before. They were dressed in white blanket costumes from head to foot, white woolen capotes covering the gray fur caps they +yore. Jasper Hume ran his eye over \thein and then answered the Factor's question: "Of the White Guard, sir." "Good," was the reply. "Men, you are going on a relief expedition—end in which there is danger. You need as geed leader You have one in Cap- thin Jaspar Hume" Jeff, Hyde shook his head at, the other, with 'a' pleased. I -told -you -so expression; Cloud -in -the -Sky grunted his deep approval; and Late Ganscal- len smacked.. his,. lips in a. satisfied manner and rubbed his leg with a schoolboy sense of enjoyment. The Factor continued: In the name of the Hudson Fur:: Company .1 will :say that if ydu come back, having done your dully,'faith'fully,'you shallbe. wellre- warded. And Irbelieve.you,will come back, if it is in human power to do so." Here Jeff Hyde said, ."It ion.'t re- ward we're dein' it, Mr. Field, but be- cause Captain Home wished it because we believed. he'd lead us; and for the lost fellow's wife. We wouldn't have said we'd do itif it wasn't for bins that's just called' us the White Guard." Under the bronze of the,Sub-factor's facethere spread a glow more red than' -brown, .and he said simply, "Thank you, men"—for. they had al� nodded assent to Jeff Hyde's words -- "Come with me to the store. We will start at noon," And at noon the White Guard stood in front of the store on which the British flag was hoisted with another beneath it bearing the magic letters, H. B. G.: magic because they have opened. to the woad regions that seem- ed destined never to know the touch of civilization. The few inhabitants of the Fort had gathered; the dogs and leaded sleds were at the door, The White Guardwere there too—all 'but their leader. It wanted but two min- utes to twelve when Jasper Hume came from his 'house, dressed also in the white blanket costume, and follow- ed by his dog, Jacques. In a moment more he had placed 'Jacques at the head of the first team of dogs. They were to have their leader, tee; and they testified to the fact by a bark of. approval. Punctually at noon, Jaspar Hume shook hands with the Factor, said a quick good-bye to the rest, call- ed out a friendly .Howl to the In- dians standing near, and to the sound of a hearty cheer, heartier perhaps because none had a confident hope that the five would come back, the March of the White Guard began. (To be continued.) Minen 's Liniment Cures Colas, &a "As the Twig is Bent." A sad case came to light in school last week. For some time numerous things had been missed. ,A book, a half dozen pencils, a child's lunch, a cap, a pair of rubbers, apples, and numerous other small things. Ten days ago someone obtained the key to the teacher's desk, opened it and stole two dollars out of her purse. The teacher said nothing, but watched. A twelve -year-old 'boy from one of the best homes, 'but who had never had spending money, suddenly began treating everyone in school. A little judicious questioning brought out the truth; this boy had taken not only the teacher's money but everything else that had been missing. The entire neighborhood was upset by the incident. How could it be that this boy, the son of parents of ab- solute honesty, could be a thief? He had 'been brought up in the Sunday Scheel, told the difference 'between right and wrong, had all sorts of ad- vantages, and yet had gone wrong. Now if it had been young Peterkins whose family hadn't much, and who probably nevem was taught anything at home, you could understand it. But this boy's mother was so good and the soul of honesty. It did seem queer to the ones who didn't go below the surface. But those who had watched the boy grow up rather felt that they could explain it. Two or three mothers got together and exchanged confidences. There was the time when the boy was two and he carried home Jackie Smith's auto- mobile. Of course, it only came from the ten -cent store, but ,it was dear to Jackie's heart. The lad's mother ex- plained that' he was too young to know it was naughty, and it was such a little thing and her son wanted it' so) badly, it seemed a shame to make a fuss about it and have him return it, so she kept it. A year or so later it was a sack of pop corn he took away from Jenny Tones. Jennie cried and told his mother, 'but it was silly to cry over a little sack of pop corn. She did give Jennie a fickle, however, to buy an- other. All sorts of incidents came up. One told of half a dozen fresh cookies disappearing off the table while the boy and his mother were calling; an- other had her early roses picked by the boy, who, his mother explained, was so fond of flowers. The conversation narrowed down to the mother. Was she exactly 'honest'? She never went by a candy counter without picking up one at two pieces, and fruit vendors knew her afar off and hastily covered their choice peach- es and plums when she approached. Two or three books with tell-Vrale,lib- rery tags were on her book shelves and had been for months. And she prided herself on seeing how many times a week she could get the better of the grnccr or butcher in making change. liar arcrument always was that they ah ways cha"god her too much and she i•nd the light to get even. The tooth r rind not deliberately go out and ' i ••r h ul n someone's pocket to -:i+. 13 •r. was she honest? ' aha .aught the boy, honesty? . '-::,1 t.+ld him it was • wrong to steal, but had she taught him that? Suppose when he took the auto, away 'back in his baby days, she had explained to him the rights of others and made him return the toy. Would he have deliberately stolen money when he was twelve'lyears old? It seemed hardly probable to the mothers who discussed the case. No age is too young to begin to teach the property rights ofothers, they all de- gilded. If you begin with the littlest things and Insist on absolute honesty regardless of what the other fellow does, the big things will take care of themselves. Parents, Attention! The astounding discovery that ap- proximately five hundred thousand school 'children in' Canada to -day'c'are 1ll'1i III Illiii! i under weight has naturally and •pro- perly led to concerted action tothe end; that this appalling condition of alfalra may be rectified as soon as pttytilile. Araft .statistics show that seventy per cent, of the men were re- jected fordefects that could' have' been prevented or cured by care in 'child- hood. Weight and rate of gain form one of they best tests of health in children. Kome Decoration. Henry Van Dyke calls the pictures on his walls the windows of his home. Through them he gets glimpses of the beauty which lies beyond the section of, living space 'bounded by the stone walls of his home. Through one such window, he could see the ocean, and almost feel the cold spray and the strength, of the eat air. Another win- dow gave him a view of the mountains, with all of bite uplift of a daily climb, in thought, to their s,iolonaits. The influence of .sued `silent teach- ers in the home can hardly be estimat- ed, but in nothing else is the average home so poorly furnished. Good taste may be displayed in the choice of carpets and'easy chairs. Wall paper may be selected in quiet restful tints, but the decorations may be family per - traits framed in objectionable ornate ly mouldings, cremes, representations of Indians in gaudy war paint„or so-call- ed cal paintings, purchased perhaps of some itinerant vendor and suggestive of nothing in the heavens above or th'e earth beneath. Seasonable Recipes. Mock Bisque Soup.—Simmer one quart of tomatoes until they will go through the ett+ain�er, adding one- fourth teaspoon of 's'oda.'just before re- moving from the fire. Strain, acrd -add to a white sauce made with one quart of milk, two tablespoons of butter and a half cup of flour. Season to suit with salt and pepper, and two table- spoons of sugar. Pour in hot soup dishes and place one tablespoon of whipped cream on each service. Then sprinkle minced' parsley on the cream. Pear and Cheese Salad.—Select halves of large canned Bartlet pears. Place on lettuce leaf on serving plate, fill hollow in pear with cottage cheese, and cover with, sweetened whipped, cream or boiled salad dressing. with a half cup of sugar, stir untill well blended, 'add one pint of cream and attain.,, When cold add one table- spoon of leipon•extract; and freeze. Het Maple Sauce, --Boil two cups of maple syrup with a half cup of cream or butter until it threads. While still hot, pour over the serving of ice cream. Creole Chicken, --Cat in pieces furl serving, season with salt and pepper and bream in four tablespoons of buts. ter melted, to which has been added ene'fourtls cup of finely chopped onion. When the chicken is browned remove from frying pan, thicken mixture in pan with four tablespoons of flour, add two cups of stock or boiling water, two, cups canned tomato, one finely chopped red pepper, one-half cup of chopped celery, and salt to taste. 'Re- place chicken and simmer until tender. Serve on platter surrounded with sauce, and garnished with parsley. r^ : Minerd'a Liniment Cures Diphtheria. In this world it is not what we teke up, but 'what we give up that makes us rich.—Henry Ward Beecher, Sailor's Duff,—One egg, two table-: spoons of sugar, two tablespoons of butter, one-half cup of molasses, one teaspoon of soda dissolved in one-half cup of hot water, one and one-half cups -flour. Mix in order named and 'Steam one hour in buttered pudding dish. Burnt Cream Sauces—Melt one half cup granulated sugar lin, enameled. saucepan, add one pint of thin cream and set over hot water until the sugar melts again. Raspberry and Currant Ice.—Boil' four cups of avatar and one and one- third cups of sugar twenty minutes,' Put two cups of calmed raspberries; and two of earned currants throu'glt! ricer and strain through double cheese -1 cloth to remove seeds. When the! syrup is cool, add fruit juice and freeze. Lemon Ice Cream.—Scald one pint' of rich milk and stir into it ane level; tablespoonful of cornstarch. Add one-! half cup of sugar and cook in doublet boiler ten minutes, stirring frequently. Then add the yolks of two eggs,,'beaten ATLANTIC FLIGHT! Wonderful example of the value of OXO. Captaie Sir J. 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Imperial Royalite Coal Oil meets every test of a perfect oil, allows you full power from tractor or stationary engine. Used in oil }seaters and stoves, it burns clean—no smoke or soot—and it's best for' oil lamps, too. You can get Royalite everywhere when you want it. Our unlimited means of distribution assures that. No coal oil is better than Imperial Royalite, Po why pay higher prices? IMPERIAL RO ALIT[- CAL OIL ON SALE EVEIYFIEi2E kat Three Billion Globes of Gold. Three billion globes of gold the size of our earth—that indeed is a vision or wealth ".beyond the dreams of aver. ice,” Yet that is leis than five cen- times would have amounted to at corn, Pound interest clnring• the Christian Era, Impossible? It is IVf, Cnnllle' Fianmiarion, . the mathematician and astronomer, who makes the mind -staggering propos!. Um). Somebody in the press has credited him 'with saying that the, five milliards of francs -one billion dol- lars --extorted from France by -Ger- many in 1871, was equal to the ilroduct of five centimes placed at five per cent. compound interest at the birth of Christ. M. Fla amarion corrects the quotation. What he dui. woe 'to recall the remark of General Foy on the vot- ing of a -milliard francs in 182th for the relief of the French emigres, that not yet had a milliard of minutes elapsed since the birth of Christ; which was quite true, that number of niintttfs not being attained until April 28,1002, But the statement about vrhat five centimes would have amounted to at compound interest is marked with er' ror. It is a large error, says M. Plam- merion. It bigger than the whole earth, bigger than the sun, bigger than the whole solar system. Not one in- got ofgold the size of the earth, nor two, nor three, nor a hunaltd, nor a thousand suclr ingots, would equal that uct, Theprodcalculation is simple, though it might prove tedious to carry it out in full. An amount placed at interest at five per cent., compounded annually, doubles in fourteen years and seventy- seven days. Very well. File centimes placed at compound interest in the year 1 would have become ten cen- times in the year 14; 20 centimes in the year 28; 40 centimes in the year 42; 80 centimes in the year 56; 1 franc 60 centimes 'in the year 71; 3 fiance 20 centimes in the year 85; and so on. Thus far the suns has seemed to grow slowly, But the rate accele- rates, or seems so to do. At the end of the first century the sum Is only 6 francs 40. But at the end of the second century it Is 819 francs 20, at tete end of the third it is 104,857 francs 60, and at the end of the fourth century it is 13,421,772 francs. Al- ready we have reached millions. There soon follow milliards, or billions, as they are commonly called in Canada; then follow trillions, quadrillions, quin- tillions, sextillions, septillions, octil- lions, nonillions, decillions---numbers which no mind can grasp. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1803, the sum of the orig- inal five centhnes is 7,610 decillions, and this suns, doubling every fourteen years, in 1873, the year of II. Flans - merlon's first computation, amounts to more than 243 undecillions of francs. What means 243 undecillions? Or 243,516,500 nonillions? That is 243,- 516,300 followed' by thirty ciphers. No human mind can grasp it. What would that sum of money 1mein ` Asan, one kilogrammegold? of gold is worth 3,400 francs, our capital would weigh 7a decillions 622 nonillions IRS octil- lions of hcilogreninmes. Now, this earth weighs only 5,875 sextillions of kilo- grammes. If it were of solid gold it would have to he multiplied by 3,486,- 1.Q0,000 to equal the tremendous quan- tity in question. In brief, five centimes, or one cent, placed at five per cent, compound in- terest at the birth . of Christ, would now equal 3,436,000,000 globes of solid gold, each the size of the earth, Her Best Age. - Women themselves probably are under the delusion that their best age is something under twenty-five and something over eighteen. At any rate, they are supposed to resent all birth- days after thirty, and are occasional- ly charged with working backwards and growing older in rooks and young- er in years, But no woman who knows hoar to put on her clothes, who reads and thinks, who develops all Her best qualities, need worry at passing into, the thirties, for at forty a woman is at her very best, physically and men- tally. She is at the zenith of her beauty, and if elle has cultivated her intelligence, she is at the zenith of her mentality also, Very few men of any note find the seine pleasure in the .society of a young, undeveloped girl which they find in a mature woman of forty, At that age snob a woman is 'an ideal companion, 'and her preference for the society of a mania a real compliment to his mental and moral qualities, No, there is no reason why a woman, uniese she be merely a coquette, and has nothing to recommend her but a pretty face, should dread advancing years. There is a charm about all ages, in- deed, and many a woman is more beautiful and attractive when her hair. is streaked with grey than ever she was before, Rope From_Bark. An Australian has discovered a method for using fibre obtained from the bark of a large variety of eucalyp- tus trees in the manufacture' of twine, repo and bagging. To keep well, 'onions must be ma. time end thoroughly dry. Store it crates if r.ossiiile or ventilated barrel's, °'e goal ,e:itiltntjan is essential.