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The Seaforth News, 1926-09-16, Page 2Merit Tea l is the outstanding -leader in Canada.. THE POISONED GIRL I. • Once again anda summer night and a sky spangled with stars. Under such skies adventure is common, because lovers, murderers, thieves, all feel the hire of warmth. It was one o'clock in the morning; I had been out, there- fore, only an hour. I wandered a 'while in Bayswater, where litt'e hap- pens, along Edgware Road, where ad- venture dventure is somewhat crude. Now I waa slowly crossing Mayfair, stopping in Upper Brook Street to 'listen to the strains of a string quartette, which. one, could occasionally hear through the' conversation of two hundred peo- ple and the clink of tumblers. Then I passed into Grosvenor Square, wait- ing for a moment, observing the taxis, sometimes glimpsing their freight; onoe there flashed past me, thus, a pink evening frock neatly surrounded by the black arm of a dinner jacket. I was just going to pass on, when, across the square, against the rail- ings I perceived a figure, all in white, whdeh stood there motionless. By star- ing intently, I found that it was a woman in an evening frock, hatless, who was holding on to the railings by one hand, while the other arm hung motionless. I was surprised. Grosvenor Square is a bad place for a rneeting, except perhaps for a housemaid. The house- maid's mistress, equally adventurous but more prudent, would hardly make an appointment against the railings of Grosvenor Square. I watched the woman for at least two minutes, dur- ing which she did not move at all. Then I observed that shd was not alone that is to say, five or six yards ' away stood a man.in evening dress, a light coat over his arm, a gibus on hia head. My interest became keen. Who were these partners in a silent drama? As I crossed the square the woman's attitude did not change. She hung on to the railings, one arm outstreched, her body erect. Her head was a little inclined, but I was struck by her beauty. She was tall, very slim; the outstretched arm was dead white; a bistro ehadow lay in the hollow. Upon the slender neck sat a neat round -head, closely coifted with smooth black hair, neon which in daylight must run blue lights. The eyes I could not see, but the black lashes threw shadowy crescents upon the pale cheeks. Straight nose, and a mouth made red- der by her whiteness. Her garment, Some soft white eitk trimmed with sil- ver, her filmy stockings, the small shoes, all this was intensely delicate. Then I perceived that her shoes were made of white feathers. I was amaz- ed, for I knew that this suggested ex- treme luxury. What was such a girl, for that is what she was, doing like this, gripping the railings of Gros- venor Square? And why, also, did that roan stand by her silently? "I say," I remarked to the girl, then broke off, feeling that I ought to ad- dress the man. first. I turned to him: "Anything the matter?" I asked,' ,There's a Treat for you and your children in the Peppermint sugar jacket and another in the Pepper. ataint.flavored gum inside. wi, IGLE '5 MPS Utmost value in long I-a-a-t-i.n-g delight,. LtM HERE. 1'O TELL YOU (THEY'RE GOOD, WRIGLEY'S aid digestion and makes the nest cigar taste better. Try it. CC -8S AFTER EVER*? MEAL !SsuE No. 37—'26. "I don't know," he replied. The answer was surprising, but I was preoccupied with the"girl, so now it was to her I spoke: "What's the matter? Are "Are all right?". She did not answer. 'Are you feeling ill?" I asked. She made not a single move- ment. It was as if she did not hear me, as if her 'spirit were removed into another realm. I felt indiscreet, but her attitude was so strained that I knew I could not leave her like .this. So again I begged her to say what was the matter, whether. anything was wrong. She filled me with nervous excitement, so that at last I took the. small hand and tried to remove it from the railings to which it clung. Then she spoke. In a muffled, low tone she said: "Let me alone." "Pm sorry," I said. "I• don't want oto butt in, but I'm sure=there's, some- thing wrong." "Let me alone." In despair I looked to the man: "What's the matter?" I asked. "I'm sure there's something the matter." "I expect there is," he replied. I stared at him, surprised. He was about forty, rather fat, well dressed, he was one of those rather red, goggle- eyed men. Yes, goggle-eyed: they just ... wa, goggle. "How do you mean?" I asked. "Don't you know the lady?" "Never saw her before in my life. I just noticed her standing there and came across, just as you did." Completely flabbergasted, I turned to the girl again. "Look here," I said, 'Poison!" I cried. "What poison?" "I can't leave you here all night. Don't you see I've got to do something? What's your name? Where do you live?" "Let me alone," she replied again. "I don't want anything." Her utter- ance was thick, so dreamy that I won dered whether she were sleep-tvabking. "Well," I said, "I must do some- thing. Anyhow, you can't stand here. Come with me; we'll find a policeman and see what can be done;' While so speaking I managed with an effort to unclasp her fingers from the railing. She struggled with me then and. sud- denly said: "Go away. I want to die. I've taken poison." "Poison!" I cried. "What poison?" She did not reply, but now I could connect her dreamy stats with one of the soporifics: laudanum, or cocaine, morphia perhaps. "Quick!" I said to the man, "hurry up. We've got to find a cab and get her to a hospital" The girl no longer struggled,' but had fallen back against me, obviously stupefied. After a moment's hesita- tion, the man lumbered across the square. I followed him, holding up the giye.The man hailed a passing taxi, feebly and in vain. Finally another taxi took pity on us and stopped. "Middlesex Hospital!" I said to the driver. The fat man was quite close to us, and as I helped the girl in I could not help saying to him: "Look here, you were there hefor.'e I was. Why didn't you do anything?" "Oh, well," said the man, goggling a last look at my burden, "one doesn't want to get mixed tip,"• Well, I was properly mixed up, speeding in a taxi toward a hospital with an entirely unknown, beautiful girl, attempting to sleep. I fought for i bee life, shouted to her, shook her, pinched her, to shake her out of her fatal lethargy. And I succeeded, for she cried oat struggled, tried to jump out of the cab, She was very close to me, and, . in my arms. I am, ashamed to own it, but at that Mo-' leant,. pity her as I right, fear for her as I,did, 1 could not help being affect edby her grace; I could not resist the delicate charm of her suave sceirted- nese.. I am not given to dse?s et heroism, but °I say that it was heroic of me not to kiss the swest,•red' lips which /ay so close to Minn, Andyt human nature is'_tee-rely hunan , It is a ,good ' thing that^' from Grosvenor Square to Alia Middlesex Hospital the distance is short,.: Ih I called at the hospital next morn- ing, a -little before eight o'clock. I, had some difficulty with the porter, 'whb refused to recognize me as having brought anybody there the night be - foe. Finally, after interviews,. with the secretary -and' the registrar, I was led into a weed by a bored nurse, whose attitude suggested that here were lots of women, and that I alight pick out one that I fancied. She -wenn - away immediately, leaving me by the aide of. one who was no )(angel. a sleeping beauty. The beautiful black hair was plaited; she was "Iistless;, there were lines of fatigue upon her. face, but it was entrancing at last to see her eyes, soft, very deep brown eyes. A white hand lay outside the coverlet. I ventured to take "Who are you?" she asked. I tohi, her my name. "Well; I don't know you." "Oh, -yes, you do. ^Tin the man who found you Past night against the rail- ings, and brought you,Yhere." She reflected. "Yes, I remember somebody how." Then, in the same even voice: "What diff you do it fox?" "I couldn't leave you there to die." "Why not? Am I not entitled to die if I like?" I did not reply; to die is certainly a human- right. She went on: "Of dourse,•it's always the some thing. One never gets what the wants." Her voice rose: "Oh, wiry -didn't you leave me' there? I shan't have the pluck to -try -again," While I was trying to console, her, the Sister in charge, who was cross- ing the ward, came to us, and 'with brisk optimism which her profession cultivates, remarked: "Weld, young lady, and how are we-ti'oinig now?" As there was no reply from the pa- tient, the Sister turned to me and said: "It's been a narrow squeak, but she'tI be all right now. - As soon as we got her, we gave her a little dose of apomorphine; we washed her out with a salt solution. Then three cups of hot black coffee, and there you are." The Sister beamed upon her good work, and added: "By the way, since you've done it, wouldn't -you like to tell me your name and address?" (To be continued.) Tough Wood Yields to English Machine's Efficiency. To spilt ordinary knotty and crooked world econonricaily into chips bI' ma- chinery was a problem that bristled with difficulties, and the efficiency of an English machine used Cor this pur- pose is unquestionably very remark- able, since knots several' inches in length can be cleanly cut into sticks, such as must otherwise either be thrown aside as unsuitable for.splitt- ing, or mashed up and wasted Wiese efficient machinery. 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Martin Luther had accepted the. challenge -of John .Eck to dispute at Leipzig. .Feeling ran high and two hundred Wittenberg students accompanied' Luther. lek seems to have been somethipg of . a bully In argument and "gave the idea of a man striving to overcome his op portent rather than of one striving Co Win a victoryfor the tenth." Mru'tin, according to an eye witness, "however hard Ills opponent pressed' bine, maintained his calmness and his good nature, though in debate he some- times used bitter words. , . . - He car- ried .a bunch of flowers In his hand, and when discussion became' hot he. looked• at it and smelt it" That bunch of flowers is a revela- tion of the man Luther. Though- a Doctor of Theology, he kept close to flowers and birds and little 'children. "I have one preacher," he once wrote, "that I love better than any other on earth; it is my tame little robin who preaches to me daily, . After he has taken his fill of crumbs he hops to a tree close by and lifts up his voice to God, and sings hie carols of praise and gratitude, then tucks his little head under his wing and goes to sleep, leaving to -morrow to look after itself." As the robin helped, so the flowers' helped, --helped him- in calmness and self-possession- I -have often wondered - what the flowers were -likely enough a few fragrant wildings plucked on the way. It was -July and the fields and way- sides of Germany would be clothed -ire bloom. I have .also wondered what his blus- tering opponent thought of this undis- turbed man with his handful of flow= ers,—every now and Uneu looking lov- ingly upon them and inhaling their fragrance. Doubtless he scorned the act as a foolish affectation, little know- ing bow sweet a ministry often lies In a flower. If more disputants carried flowers in their hands; disputes might come to happier endings. 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The mate leaned over the- rail like -one in profound meditation{ his Yee following the sailor on watch on the fo'c's'le -head as he walked'eto and frdand gazed out over the sea in front. Two men from the watch be. low came ;up out- of the fo'c's'le and Walked toward.the galley door; from the galley door' they walked slowly back toward the fo'c'e'1e, waiting for the cook to give the' breakfast call, and asthey walked they -conversed in low tortes; their voices pitched to the hush of sea and shy- and ship. Whatever it was they discussed their voices were slow, solemn, sonorous, and .the sound of their footsteps on the deck were measured and muffled. 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During the year 1926, 269 whales were taken and "pro cawed. There are signs that the whaling in- dustry on the British Columbia 'coast is becoming More 'active and profit-" able. This year, for the first time in the history of whaling there, a sea• plane io being used •in the- prosecution of operations' from the base at. Rose Harbor. In the spring, too, forty ex perienced Arctic whalere were brought from the Old Country and engaged for Work with the whaling 'fleet, supple menting • its activities, They Have been settled on small farms on the west coast of. Vancouver Ipiand, simi- lar to the crofts they occupied in the north' of Scotland, where they are able to combine the pursuit of agriculture with whaling. - Has Many Utilities. In the old days whales were hunted for their bone and oil alone... To -day • the utilization of the meat is au im- portant please of the industry„ Though certain prejudice still exists against the use of whale meat for human con- sumption on the American aoatineut It has long been favorably regarded. else- • where as an article of diet. The old become diffused with its radiance. The American whalers regaled themselves blackwater changed to a deep blue on tasty whale earapa•while on •rho • and the soft shimmer of the Olive abuse acrd tine Eskimo has long regard - wake changed to a clear, bright white- ed the stranding of a' -whale on his nes Thee. -bell onthe fo'c's'le -head struck' The Japanese have long appreciated sharply and the two men returned whale meat as an article of diet, and from the galley besring pane and ket- the Scandinavians relish the _flesh of tles that smoked. As they entered the t the mighty mammal. In the food short- fo'c's'le voices called out and a bustle age which existed during the war years of sound arose. The man at the wheel a substantial export trade was develop - glanced around, the mate straightened ed in whale meat from Canada to cer- -- up'and walked across the bridge, a lith tain European countries. 'tie stir seemed to run through the The whale is a warm-bloodedd maim= whole ship with the firat tint of Sed. mal and its flesh inexactly similar to beef with but slightly coarser texture. ' The canned product has no oily taste•' and it is,cheap, palatable, and. easily dins -tea. The analysis of canned whale. meat has shown that Its feed value May be compared with that of 1 "�;'1 " round , steak. Some time ago it was a ` ii+����•. whale meat 'could be suPPlied the pee- estimated eo- estimated that 100,000,000 pounds of pie of tile-Americancoptinent from the British, Columbia coast annually at a price of about 124 cehts a pound. Export Trade improving. In the.British Columbia whaling lu- dustry, which lras been lrighy modern. ized, the entire carcass after being in- flitted with air le towed back to the whaling station and there• stripped of its blubber and meat. The Canadian Pacific' coast industry ' annually pro- duces about 400 tons, of whale bone meal and 900 tons of meat and blood for fertilising purposes. A 'small quantity of the latter is sold as fer- tilizer in estilizer'in British Columbia and the re- mainder is -exported, principally to the. United States. Of 'recent years the Canadian export trade in whale products has slumped somewhat; but the present season is expected to see an improvement. The , whale meat canned in British Colum- bia has gone olumbia,has`gone in large part to'settle. ments between Liberia and the Congo in Africa, where is achieved a very rapid-yopularity and is highly regard- ed as an article of diet. rapan is also a very heavy purchaser. 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