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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-07-05, Page 2t Try an E e ire t- 1 Du ' a pacer of 1d a eel and see if is isnot the most delicious Tea, yoga ever tes-ted. s'IvIcst ;Tee.D`it ires e''s Think It Is." THE t LITEUMAS —BY C. RANGER GULL. PART IL Miss Yates and the Countess lit tiny Russian cigarettes which had been kept for three years in teak. "r never felt so romantic in my life," said the authoress. "That dear Marquis l Oh, the bright star Iaooloo l" "For my part," said Sammy, "I (lever felt less romantic. I hate the word, and I've got reason to, as it Mappens. But I never felt more pleas -1 ed with myself, and the world in gen- eral." "Youth is a wonderful thing, and You are fortunate, Sammy, Sir Sanies was beginning when there was a sudden cessation of talk. The Marquis de Senterre had risen in his place on the dais and was smil- i ing at his. guests. I "My friends," he said in French, "when I planned this little meeting ore months ago I had hoped that our ear, our incomparable Camille"—he rued to the young woman at his side +nd rested his hand for a moment on er shoulder with a fatherly gesture "I had hoped that Camille would Mg' for us." He paused for a moment and the ooze was absolutely silent save for he tinkling splash of the fountain. "She cannot do that. You have all eard rumors, of course. To -night my earest friend allows me to tell you le truth. Her voice has left her! It s my privilege that a statement which ill bereave the whole world should be ade in 'my house. It had to be made, lid I trust you will forgive me for sing so to -night, though I think it is compliment I pay your A murmur of sympathy mingled -th,exeitement Yes, they, the fay red , few, were the first to hear the -nth. To -morrow every one of the uter world would throng around hem! The courtly voice on. "Nothing an compensate you for our great loss, ut I propose—itis at the special wish f ,Madame la Rose—to show, you to- ight something which you perhaps ould not see anywhere else but here. have been half my life trying to .. A universal custom fter that benefits every - Every body: Aids digestion, ,7 al/ cleanses the teeth, soothes the throat, a good thong torel!nenaber Sealed hi its. Purity Package' THE VOR LASTS li veyou shinesdyour shoes todag ? MATCHES On the CPR.and -where qualrtycounts- Eddy matches are served to patrons ALWAYS, sivsOYwneaa IN' CANADA ASK XPDY.'e mArelAIa, ISSUE No. 27--'23. acquire certain very rare 'animals for my private collection. I refer to that great cat known as the blue puma. I suppose this creature is .the rarest of all the beasts of prey. Even in Peru, its natural home, it is but rarely seen. The ordinary puma, or Felis canceler, is fairly common.. The blue variety, the aristocrat of all the feline tribe, is hardly ever met with. My friends, you shall see what you shall see." He bowed, smiling. There was a roar of applause and a clapping of jeweled hands. As they all rose from the tables, and the music began again, Sammy Richardson saw Audrey Bayne's face ho profile. She was looking up at the Marquis with an almost insane adora- tion upon her face. - They were all sitting in a circular gallery looking down upon an arena covered with sand. and; round the courtyard had stopped' DO YOU WANT A BOY? and: stiffened. Homes required for Babies to be The „Marquis de Senterre caught hold -af little Sammy Richardson by the Shoulderand flung him behind him. The long whip flickered and hissed over the huge growling beasts that seemed sinking lower and lower -al- most flat with the sand of the arena. The brutes were crouching, in a moment they would spring. A wild shriek carne from the -gal- lery just as the biggest of the punas was in the very act of springing. The Marquis shouted loudly rt was enough. The Indian standing next •• to. Ca- niillela Rose, raised his rifle and fired three quick shots—the puma fell dead in its spring uponSammy Richardson. There was a fusilede above the heads of the others, the Marquis ad- vanced -upon them cursing,and they slunk away growling and turning sulky heads'.through,the archway by which they had come: Audrey Pyne leaned' over the bal- cony dead white, al-conydead-white, and incapable of mo- tion. Sam;ny lay in a swoon a few inches from the creature who had sprung at him. Then Miss Susie B. Yates and every ane else there had the sensation of their lives. Madame la Rose caught Audrey up by the shoulder, tearing her frock as she did so, and struck her two swinging blows upon the face with her open palet. The diva's eyes blazed black fire; her red lips were open like a Grecian mask of tragedy. A raging, terrible, wonderful fury! They stood trembling', these cele- brated people, as the voice lashed the cowering girl below. Almost word by bitter burning word they were enabled to under- stand. The secret was a secret no longer. And what Camille la Rose poured out upon the head of Audrey Bayne explained it all. Within a minute they understood that in Paris not long ago,. desiring toshow her power over a celebrated man she loved, Camille had dared him to fight a duel with one of the most famous duelists and bullies in France. She had done it lightly and in the spirit of romance. It was exactly like being in a small, circus. The roof above their heads was of glass, now, of course, quite Meek and dull, but the gallery was brilliantly illuminated. Sammy, cone gatulaun"himself, had got Audrey, quite close to him. Both of them were' leaning over the cushioned edge of the gallery, like the dress circle of al theatre, and looking down into the' ere as on y one row o sea s; it Th 1 f t all round the circle. Behind the spec raters was a fiat carpeted promenade,' and at a grand piano, in the dusk, l Camille la Rose was playing quietly. i All the guests stared down below, waiting for what they should see, and in n11 their minds was the sorrowful thought—as they heard the plaintive, music that the diva was making—that never again would that supremely, wonderful voice ravish the hearts of mankind. A door opened and closed with a snap.` A man in picturesque costume Came down to the edge of the circle. His 'face was coffee -brown and he had a nose like a hawk. lie wore a wide felt I and crimson scar£ round his sinwy throat. They saw at onee thst he was a South American Indian. Under one arm he carried a small re-. peating rifle.. He leaned against the pillar, a little distance away from Sammy and Audrey, and waited, his opal eyes ranging curiously over the brilliant company. There was a general hush in talk as. Camille la Rose stopped playing. Simultaneously as the lights of the gallery were all lowered those in the arena below leaped up in great illum- ination. Then, with a delightful thrill, they all' saw the Marquis standing in the centre of the circus. In his hand was a heavy leather whip with a loaded handle, and lie looked up and smiled at them all, Audrey caught held of Sammy's hand. Her own little hand was burn- ing hot. He saw that she eves in an ecstsy of hero worship and false senti- ment: "Listen!" she whispered. "Here in- deed is the .ideal night of a girl's dreams. Now you understand."' Down below in the arena a curtain ruffled strangely. It moved again. With a rattle, it was pulled aside by an invisible hand. Then, up in the gallery, there was a deep, multiple gasp "Ah—h—h—!" Six great black -blue creatures noiselessly glided into the arena. They appeared as if by magic: They were huge cats, long, sinuous and beautiful with a diabolic beauty. From a dim crowd—a blur—they sorted themselves out into six padding demons their oblique eyes shining like emeralds Iit from within—incompar- ably dangerous, incomparably splen- did. Audrey, stared fascinated as the Marquis smiled and cracked his whip. Camille la Rose had left the piano and. was standing beside her. The Mar quis saw Camille and kissed his hand. Then he quietly lit a cigarette. There was a dead silence up in the gallery. Suddenly it was cut into by a high hysteric voice, heard clearly by every: one. Audrey Bayne had lost grip of her- self entirely. "Sammy, if you really care" -They saw her arm flash out and a little lace handkerchief floated down below. I"Sammy, if you really care, you will fetch me my handkerchief. If the Marquis can stay down there, you can go_„ From the arena carne a sudden sheet. From the gallery a cheery "Right -o," With a chuckle, Sammy Richardson swung himself over the balcony and dropped lightly ` on to the sand. He picked up the handkerchief, kissed it, and •looked up at the red-haired girl with the wild violet eyes and chalk - white face who stared clown upon him. There was a noise like that ofa great dynamo down below—a multiple purring, which rose to a deep menac- ing note, The six shadowy, gray -blue figures which had' been padding round inartl'e lanimenZ for Corns and Warta adopted. ` Infants' Home, 68 St. Nicholas St., Toronto. "Yes; it was just in that way ,I did it, 1, Camille la Rose." She plucked Audrey Bayne up and held her close, so :that they were al- most mouth ` to mouth. "And the man I loved was killed andmy voice, my voice went: away and God punished' mo!'; Camille caught Audrey to. her and kissed her updn the cheeks which she had so lately struck, The tears of two women mingled in sorrow and repen- tance, Suddenly a door at the back of the gallery was flung open and the: Mar.- finis de Sentare strode in. Behind him, looking like a little dog that is. afraid it is going to be washed, was Sammy Richardson. The eyee of the Marquis were blaz- ing with anger. He was about to speak when` suddenly Camille with- drew herseelf' from Audrey and turned to meet him, • Her face, which had grown dead white and strained with agony, flushed faintly. She clutched at her heart and gave a little cry. "Camille!" --it was Senterre's voice, urgent, and alarmed. It was a dramatic moment, All the guests saw them there with clear dis- tinctness. - Suddenly Camille turned to them. A. smile dawned upon her lovely lips. They had never seen anything so � beautiful in their lives before, She stepped up to the Marquis, took hold of his arra and led hint to the grand piano. He stood there, wondering— they all wondered—with little Sammy Richardson behind them, as Camille sat down at the piano. She raised her I jeweled" hands, bowed her head, let her , hands fall upon the keys, and then the most marvelous voice the world had ever known pealed out in its full rich glory. The voice of Canaille la Rose had come back. (The End.) • M!nerd's Liniment for Coughs & Colds A. out the ()use DAUGHTER'S ACHIEVEMENTS SURPRISE MOTHER. "Oh, Mother, we just had the most fun, and I am so glad that I really am a Happy Hustier now," sang Mary as she returned at four o'clock in the afternoon from attending her second meeting of the Happy Hustlers' Club. She had been invited to attend the meeting of the previous week by her little friend, Doris, that she might learn something of their summer pro- ject of canning. Her interest and en- thusiasm had developed to such.a de- gree that she had accepted an invita- tion to becomean active club member. It was from this initiation meeting that Mare -was returning as she romp- ed into the: kitchen where her mother was canning the first surplus straw- berries of the season. All ecstasy with her own accomplishment, for she was carrying in her basket three pints of canned strawberries which she had water to come within an inch- of the canned herself, she began to tell top of the jars. After counting fif- Mother of the wonderful things she teen minutes from the time the water had learned that afternoon. started' to boll, the jars were -taken Removing the jars from her basket out and sealed tightly. Miss Brown. to the kitchen shelf, she placed them called this "processing. And that is beside those her Mother was just all, only I am to wrap them in paper. finishing. Immediately they both no- before I put them down cellar so that ticed the direct contrast between the the light won't bleach them." jars of strawberries. Those that With the evidence of her daughter's Mother had just finished canning by achievement and the proof of the the opens kettle'method were of a dark method' used, Mother spoke to :Mary, red, tending toward a brownishcolor.r. saying, . I am proud of you, daughter, , Already most of the berries were and I hope you will stick to the Happy floating at `the top of the jar, while Hustlers." But to herself she said, the rich syrup was all at the bottom. "Lost is the day in which we do not The ones Mary had just brought back add to our fund of knowledge, but I from the canning club were of a much have certainly learned a lesson from brighter red, retaining most of their my daughter to -day. I think it is original hue, -with the berries evenly about time I woke myself up, jumped distributed through the syrup, out of the rut and became aware of It was with pain in her heart that what other folks are doing, around Mother noted the failure of her long, me." • hot afternoon's work. But this pain Canada's Pulpwood. was somewhat tempered by the pride in her daughter's accomplishment. ' "Mary, I had thought you girls were going to your club meeting to play, and perhaps talk a little about four feet lvnde, woulItl'reach In a con, canning, but to have you come home tinueus line over 6,000 mil'ea,- or the canning, all' this display of your after - and from Vancouver to Halifax, with work surprises, me. Do tell me and. out over ttilo Atlantic to Queens how you did it? How did you make town, lieland, these strawberries look_ so red? I have - canned strawberries for twenty years, but they never looked like that. What did you put in them?" asked Mary's mother. "We did have a jolly time together,' and we found it lots more fun to can:; strawberries than' to'just play' games' and talk. We never put a thingin the berries to make them red, though. It' is all in the way you de it. Derisi picked the berries yesterday, and after;` washing and hnilling' them, put them 10 a large pan with a cup of sugar to 1 each quart of berries and . let them stand over night. "Just as soon as we girls got there, we sterilized and tested the jgrs, rub -i hers and tops., They, were all. put into boiling water for ten minutes, and, then taken out with the funniest scis-, sor-shaped forks and left to drain. We didn't dry them ae we always do, for Miss Brown, our leader, said - they wouldn't be sterilized then. • Some germs that might. .cause spoilage would be on the dish towel and would cling to the cars, 1 "Then we -tested all our jars and tops' to see if they ware perfect. With1 the screw-top j rs we placed the top on the jar . without the rubber and sealed it tight. Then if we could in sere ourthumb-nail between the top and the jar, the top was defective. Sometimes we fixed this by rimming them around with the back of a steel case knife. With the glass -top jars, we placedthetop on the jar without the rubber and tapped the outer edge of the top. If' the top rocked, Miss Brown would not let us use it, for it was imperfect and would likely cause the berries to 'spoil "Then we tested each rubber by folding it over, half and then folding it backon itself at the sane point. If it did not crack, it was safe to use. A good rubber will also spring back into shape when you stretch it. "After we had adjusted rubbers on each jar, we filled them with the ber- ries, adding the juice of the berries to fill the jars instead of water. We screwed the tops on only half way and placed these filled jars in the wash - boiler on the stove withonly enough In 1020 there were Cut in Canadian forests 4,024,826 goads- of pulpwood. This woad, if pilled four feet ,high and, gi'A,!-'iSf, S -TANDEM Ooubie Acting.... - 1. A silent' easy wor. kin1 and dor4' He pump that definitelyiep/aces the. .W/ng. type mode% - Pampa an kinds of bgaids. 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At all Grocers insist ors Mc Lf4RGN'S EVINCIBLE Made by SScLARENS MUTED, Hamilton and wianiDca, ' 16 r- . with. water tothe Mix ens of as thick paste. ig obta red. d water consistency1esired thickness mix with until the desired overt if a milder flavor u tard freshly for �" meal.Lutaa �:Ike p,g I al � i' i,. P _. t up lots ,A STRAWBERRIES with "Lily„White" cuts down the cost of preserving--tteeps the fine natural -color and fresh flavor of the berries -=and prevents "sugaring". For all your Preserving, use half sugar and half "Lily White" Carp Syrup" At all grocers—in 2, 5, and -10 A. tins. TIIE CANADA STARCH CO., •LIMITED 307 MUSIC 'BRIEFS The ;recent discoveries .in the tomb. of Tutankhamen, at Luxor, indicates that 30 centur-es• ago, musical instru- ments. occupied an important part In the life of tine Egyptians. One of the discoveries wets a •'sistruni," a metal- lic instrUmen•t consisting of a num- ber of metal 'rods of various lengths and thicknesses. To hear the tinkle ' of metal loeguee, silent Por 3,000 years, . •must• have "been a thrilling sound for those privileged to be present. The idea of music weeks, music fes- tivals, 'music drays, •etc., is spreading quickly. Montreal has rocently shad. 'both a'nrusic week 'and a music Eesti val. The Ontario Music Festical at Toronto attracted public interest. A few flays ago, the coming festival of music to be heli( in Leeds, Euglan•d, was announced, and it was not lio loxxg ago that Australian music papers car- ried glowitig.accounts of a great Music Week conducted in that country.. Truly the importance of music In our national life is being seen on all sides'. Tlio French press has been making a good deal of protest against the pro• posal of the Polish Government to 're. move the remains of Chopin from the Pere-Lach-aise Cemetery in Paris to Warsaw. Although Poland influenced Chopin's music, yet it was in Parrs, where he lived and worked, that he drew his • greatest inspirations. His associations in France were made in timate•for the reason that his father, although an exile in Poland and tear• ried to a Polish wife, was French. • A -typewriter for writing down music has been invented by; an Italian musi- cian, Signor Fortoni, who gave a de- monstration of his invention recently to a gathering of musicians in Loudon. The machine is all that is required.. Not only can a composition be written down as with pen and ink, but the use of a transfer paper allows 'of many copies being made at the same time: The machine is worked with a mina•. tura pianoforte keyboard. A. pointer is moved from note to note, and the action secures a correct position on the stave. Transpositions is easy, and the types include the three clefs re- quired. It can also be used as an or- dinary typewriter, thus making it pos- sible to write in the words at the same time as the music and also to insert. any directions required. The cost, it is: stated, will be rather less than that ofthe average typewriter. Poisoning by Woad sicohol. Many questions :have been asked 'about woad alcohol. I0 was not gener- ally known haw den dly is this poison ons concoetron uirtil the enforcement of prohibition led to tine marry at- tempts of unscrupulous dealers to sell wood alcohol for drinking purposes. Since then the numerous deaths and ,ewes of blindness resulting have stir - Ted a very creep Interest in the subject of its, manufacture and appearance. The U.S. national committee for the prevention of biindntess has issued lm- portant pamphlets showing teat the liquor rs even more deadly a poison than was supposed, that Its harmful action may be induced by breathing its fumes and by absorption through the mucous membranes of the body, thus clearly demonstrating that ie Is a'dan:gerous• agent even to work with. Even in cases not meaning fatally there is often total loss of vision. The wood alcohol used in this coun- try is obtained . ehdefly from etas de- structive distillation of wood --bard wood, birch, beech, maple, oak, elm and alder being those nest frequently used: The elite uses to which tt' is put are, for the denaturing of grain at, Cobol; for various purposes in lines 01 common manufacture (especially as a solvetlt in the preparation of shelled, varnish, dyes, etc,), as an ingredient in medical and' pharmaceutical pre- parations; in the chemical industries and as a fuel and illu nina,nt, Only within recent years has wood alcohol become so dangerous to life and sight. Formerlyit was a dark, bad -smelling, bad -tasting fluid which no one was. tempted to drink. Later, a process was developed by wlxich,thie color, smell and taste are removed. Wood alcohol, when purified in this way, leeks, smells and tastes .like grain alcohol, and may thus be easily substituted for it by untscrupuloue per One teaspoonful of wood alcohol talr. on, internally Is ,aufriclont to cause to total blihdneess—a, larger quantity often eetxses death: If you value your eye eight er your life, never use wood al ccdto'l, denatured alcohol of medicated' alcohol fair drinking purposes. Pass this knowledge on if you would assist reducing the fatslities•whieh+aro oc curring from 'MS canto. The Test, Axl old Irishman was sdtttng in front • of his house puffing away see. pulling heroically at his pipe; Hae would con- tinually light a match and pull and pull at his pipe, then throw the match . away and light another. "Come in to dinner, Pat,” said his wife at the door. "Faith an' Oi will in a minute, Bid- dy," said he. "Moths has been tai in'. nie Mat If 01 sl rooked a bit av ghlass Oi'oud see the siipat0on the sun. Oi don't know whether Melke's been fool- in' oolin' me or whether 01've gat^ holdav the wrong kind of glass." i e There's a better man behind an hon arable failure ''teen 'the 'ohe.behind 'a dishonorable success.—Herbert Kauf man: