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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-11-04, Page 2For Discover Yourself GREEN.TEA T77 revelation. Try it. To drink cup is a THE SRI BY RAFAEL SABATINI. The Master Tale -Teller, Author of "Bardelys the Magnificent." Another Stirring Story. of Adventure and Love in a Now Setting- • The Peniatsulaa' War. plain to his men and the lieutenant. started toward Tavora, Sergt,Flan- $ g Final Report of Peat UR Comatxittee. a an,be an to grow anxious Ile knew The Tcronto uospnal tut' IncurabI e, Ip I the Peninsula front the days or Sr'iutnnnuon runt, eallavuo and ,tilled Sulpha!, Sohn' Moore, and knew the brutal Co-rLour vprA cox: '17n°' 4 re d rn(p v Ire' Coure. °city of which the Portuguese' peas f T atnln . 4o v r o omdn hnvins t'P r n drrd odnentlon, nd doelrop, at b.o. una entry' was enpabl E3. - j ,r:,, This �ttoeptl I nnrt ddopted tiro cisiit- He had seen evidence metre than hon. sy,ton;. The nubile rgeewo unitorma of Of the unspeakable fate f French tie _ -- - mord ly vItowdncn and travoltnu once o : le unapea <a e :rt o.. • oxponsar to nrd trona Plow Vor6, Far fdrtlinr I. 1 f t] retreating u•inv fs t ndont Stragg ere .1.Orn le < Infnrlrn Ion writ° Ane uppr n a of Marshal Sonit. He know of crud — fixions,mutilations and hideous aliom inations practiced upon Chem in these remote h:11 districts by the merciless men into whose hands they happened that some of those knew tl to fall, and he fierce peasants had been unable to dis- criminate .between invaderand, de- liverer; to them a foreigner was a, foreigner and no more. Set since it was not for him to remonstrate with the lieutenant, he kept his peace and hoped anxiously for the best. The little expedition at length reached the village bf Tavora, and in reply to Lt. Butler's words: Conyento Dominieano?" a woman pointed to a massive, dark building. A moment later the sergeant, by Mr. Butler's orders, was knocking upon the iron -studded main door. A quavering, aged voice demanded to •know who knocked. "English soldiers," answered the lieutenant in Portuguese. "Open l" A faint excllamation suggestive of dismay was the answer, the shutter closed with a snap, shuffling steps re- treated and unbroken silence followed. iVIr. Butler completely lost his tem- per. "Seems to nos that we've stumbled upon a hotbed o' treason," he cried. "Break down the door!" "But, sir," began the sergeant in protest, greatly daring. "Break down the door!" repeated Mr. Butler. The troopers fell upon the door with a will. Presently, as it began to yield a bell suddenly gave tongue upon a frantic tocsin, summoning the assist- ance of all true sons of Mother church. Butler, however, paid little heed to it. The door was down at last and, followed by his troopers, he walked under the massive gateway into the• spacious close, Then, from a huddled group, a fig- ure rose, and advanced with a solemn, stately grace. "I had thought, said a gentle, melan- choly woman's "voice, "that the seals of a nunnery were sacred to British soldiers." For a moment Mr. Butler seemed. to be laboring for breath. Fully sobered now, understanding of his ghastly error reached him at the gallop. "My God!" he gasped, and turning to flee"tin horror of his sacrilege, he crashed headlong into a pillar, and, stunned by the blow, sank unconscious CHAPTER I. "An instant yet," he implored. "Mr. Bearsley would never pardon me did I A GENIAL nom let you go without what he calls a � It is established beyond doubt that stirrup -cup to keep you front the ills Lt. Butler was drunk atthe time. that lurk in the wind of the Serra." This rests upon the evidence of Sergt. He implored it almost with tears. Flanagan and the troopera who accent- at Butler had reached that state of ponied him, and it rests upon Lt. But: • delicious torpor in which to take the lei's own word, as we shall see. An let me add that however wild and ir- responsible he may have been, yet by his own lights, he was a man of honor, incapable of falsehood, even though it were calculated to save his skin. In further examination it may truthfully be urged that the whole hideous and odious affair was the re- sult of a'misapprehension; although I cannot go sofar as one of Lt. But- ler's apologists and accept the view that he was the victim of a deliberate plot on the part of his too -genial host at Rego•. Lt. Richard Butler of the IrishDra- goons set out on a blustering day in the cattle with you. I shad'1 overtake March with his troopers, Cornet 0'- you before you have gone very far." Rourke and two Sergeants,onto the O'Rourke's crestfallen air stirred valley of the Upper Douro, the sympathetic Souza s pity. was to report to one Bartholomew "But, captain," he besought, "will Beats.ey, an English wine -grower, you not allow the lieutenant—" Lt. Butler cut him short. "Duty," said he sententious' -y, "is duty. Be off, O'Rourke." left his place at Reoa g , And O'Rourke, clicking. his heels vic- iously, saluted, and departed. CHAPTER II. THE AFFAIR AT TAVORA. Came presently three bottles in a basket, and when the first was'done Butler reflected that since O'Rourke and the cattle were already well upon the -road there need no longer be any road is the fast agony; but duty was duty, and Sir Robert Cranford had the fiend's own temper. Torn thus be- tween consciousness of `duty and the weakness of the flesh, he looked at O'Rourke. "In your place I should let myself be tempted," says O'Rourke. "Ten minutes more or less- is no great mat- ter:'. The Iieutenant discovered a middle way. "Very welt," he said. "Leave Sergt. Flanagan and ten. men to wait for me, O'Rourke, and do you set out at once with the rest of the troop. And take who would aid him in the purchase of 100 head of cattle., - Mr. Boarsiey, however, had lately for England, there to wait utttil the disturbed state of Portugal should be happily re- paired, But had he been at home Butler's dragoons could have received no warmer welcome than that which was extended by his steward, Fernando Souza, Rations had been short of late, and for four and twenty hours the troopers abode at Mr. Bearsley's quints, thanking God for such cont- hurry about his own departure. A herd of bullocks is easily -overtaken. fort. It was perhaps a more potent vin - Nor was this al -l. The benign Souza tage titan he had at first suspected, was determined that the, sojourn there and it .played havoc -with Lt. Butler's of these representatives of his conn- wits, balcony above, and called upon the try's deliverers should be a complete The prospect of the establishment of a' peat 'fuel industry in Canada has .been m rtertal,y advanced by the in -1 vestigations carried on by the Peat Oomm`ittee, according to the final re -1 Bort of. that body, published .by the Department of Mines. The Pent Com- maittee was appointed jointly by the Goverarnieuts•of the Dominion of Can- ada and the province of Ontario, with th'e' object of finding, if possible, a psact1calvworking and 'commercially - feasible method of: making aivailabe of our extensive peat de - .posits as an auxiiary source of fuel supply, especially in the "Aout Fuel Area" of Ontario and Quebec.. The foreword to the committee's • filial re- port states that a gratifying measure of. saicdess had been inet by the -com- mittee in its investigations and that the'object of its, appointment had been substantially attained.' The unsatisfactory situations which. have aeleen in parts. of Canada, 'Par- ticularly in Ontario and Quebec, through the deipenden:ce on anthracite of, foreign origin brought forward the necessity fpr a darp;esti•c scuroe of fuel supply. for this area. An investigation into the poesibilitiee of peat as a sub etitute fuel was undertaken and' the committee began its investigations in 1918. Field operations were carried on by the committee at the peat bog near Alfred, Ontario, about 40 miles east of Ottawa. During the period of investigation machines were d,esigased and methods developed! by which the production of peat on a commercial basis could be aocomplished. The in Vesttgators went further and made a study of the uses to which peat fuel could be put and how the bogs not worked for fuel and those from whtc 1 the peat had been removed could be utilized for agricultural purposes or otherwise advantageously disposed of, The outstanding conclusionsdarrived at by the .comnmittee were. that the only methods or processes. which could be economically empidyed for the tnanufactuee of peat fuel were those employing air -drying, that the climatic conditions in -Ontario and -Quebec were favorable -for the manufacture of peat. fuel for 100 days during the summer season, and that the commercial pro- duction of 'this form of fuel, on a longe scale, could. be conducted on many of the bogs which had been examined in detail, and which were' favorably -situ- ated with regard to centres of popu- lation and transportation facilities. saamajoiiiimis The SMARTLY SIMPLE. This one-piece slip-on dress is both- practical oth practical and attractive, and would be very chic if made of bordered material or plain flannel. The fitted collar, ane - piece tight -fitting sleeves and tailored belt with' buckle are of the latest mode. No. 1162 is for ladies and is in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches -bust. Size 36 requires 2% yards 64 -inch' bordered to the ground. material; or 3% yards 36 -inch plain. Meanwhile the alarm bell of the 20 cents. convent bad done its work. The vial- The secret of distinctive dress lies g a ers were up, enraged by theoutrage,I in good taste rather than a lavish ex and armed with sticks and scythes, p`enditure of money. Every woman flung themselves upon the dra oons. should want to make her own clothes, Two saddles had been emptied, and and the home dressmaker will find the it is doubtful if a man of them would designs illustrated in our new Fashion have survived, for the odds were fully Book to be practical and simple, yet ten to one against them, when to their maintaining the spirit of the `node of aid came the abbess. She stood on a the moment. Price of the book' 10 dents the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. steward was deeply !earned in people to desist. They obeyed with wines and the talk was confined to obvious reluctance, and at last a lane was opened in that solid, seething mass. (To be continued.) rest and holiday. So he had his own laborers go into the uplands and bring back the bullocks, which were driven into Regoa the following afternoon. Our lieutenant would have set out forthwith to return to Pinhel, knowing how urgent was the need of the di- vision, "Why so you shall," said Souza. "But .first you'll dine." "Sir Robert will be impatient," de- murred the lieutenant. "Rut half-hour," protested Souza. "What is half-hour? And in half-hour you will have dine." "True" ventured Cornet O'Rourke, "and it's the devil himself knows when we may dine again." Butler, never dreaming—as indeed, how could he?—that Fate was taking n hand in this business, gave way, and they sat down to dinner. Henceforth you see him the sport of pitiless cir- cumstances. They dined withinthe half-hour, as Souza had promised', and they dined exceedingly well. Emptying his fourth. and final bumper of rich red Douro, Lt. Butler paid his host the compli- ment of a sigh and pushed back his chair. But Souza detained him. that subject in its many branches. "Indeed, as you say, captain, this is a great wine," said the steward. "But we had a greater." "Impossible, by heaven," swore But- ler, with a hiccup. "You may say so; but 11 is the truth. We had a greater; a wonderful, clear vintage it was, of the year 1708. Mr. Bearsley sell some pipes to the monks at Tavora, who have bottle it and keep it. I beg him at the time not to sell, knowing the value it must come to have one day. Bu he sell all the same. He say we have plenty, and now we have none. Some sons of dogs of French who came withMarshalSou't discover the wine and guzzle it like pigs. But the monks at Tavora still, have much of what they bought, I am told." • Lt. Butler stirred, and became sym- paths tic. "'San infern'l shame," said he in- dignantly. "I'i'i no forgerrit when I . meet the French. And now the monks drink it?" He was a good Catholic, but Souza looked at him in sudden alarm, be- thinking himself that all Englishmen were heretics, and knowing nothing of the subtle distinctions between Eng fish and Irish, ere Treat In silence Butler finished the third a� & W I andlast bottle, and histhoughts fisted for you and your children in themselves with increasing insistence. 1upon a wine minted better than this the Peppermint sugar jacket of which there was great store in the and another in the Pepper- i cel -ars of• the convent of Tavern. Abruptly he asked: "Where's Tav- r cut•flavored guru inside. ora?" He was thinking perhaps of 1 the comfort that such wine would bring to a company of war -worn sel- f? wl I diers in the valiev of Agueda. "Some ten leagues from here," an- ! ewered Souza, and pointed to a map Utmost value in I'bit hung upon the wall. long l.a-s-t-i-n-1; flits lieutenant rose, and rolled un- 1 n- • 1steadils y across the room. Ilewas a delight. tail, loose -:imbed fellow, blue-eyed, fair -complexioned, with a thatch of fiery red hair excellently suited to his temperament. "Why," he seide studying the map, "seems to rue 's if we should ha' come that way. I's shorrrer road to Pes- queira than by the river." "As the bird fly," said Souza. "Fut the roads, be bad -•-just mule tracks, while by the river, the read is toter- able good." "Yet," said the lieutenant, "7' think I shall go back tha' way." Lachrymose People. "What lachrymose people the Eski- mos must be." • "How so?" "They indulge in a Blubber so of- ten." Minard's Liniment for Colds. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co.,' '73 West Ade- laide Si- Toronto, Patterns sent by return mart What the Artist Wants. Last night we sat late over tate fire. it had been a blustering {lay, but, at sunset the wind fell and the stars came out/ in splendid brilliancy. Rose- lind had taken up hor work, and we were anticipating a long, quiet even- ing, when the door opened and our friend the artist walked abruptly in. Without ceremony, he dropped his hat and coat on a chair, and almost be- fore we realized . that he was in the house he was, standing before the fire warning his hands and saying that it was an uatcommonly ,sharp night. No more welcome guest ever comes under our roof than the artist... . His fel- low -craftsmen are all talking about his extraordinary work, and the world is fast finding him out; but he, remains as simple -hearted as a child. It if 1815 quality quite as muuh;as the genius,for expreeslon which I find in him which So Unnecessary. asseros me that be has the elements of greatness. Mistress (to new maid) -"Nora, you At the Games. "Why on earth is that fellow ' at- tempting to jump with his Svercoat on?" "It's a spying overcoat, can't you see?" Hands That Talk.' What, is known as the deaf and dumb alphabet is a common accomplishment among those who are, thus afflicted and those who are responsible for their welfare. But, if the 1'esearches of a well-known scientist are carried to a successful . conclusion, a new method of communication may be evoleed, in wbich the hands will be made to speak words and sentences in exactly the sane way es the mouth does. The scientist in question is Sir Rich- ard Paget, who, with the aid of beT. lows and a metal tube, which take the place of the lungs and windpipe, has made his hands "speak" words in a remarkably natural way. In the course of a demonstration, Sir Richard explained that vocal sounds are pro- duced by the action of air passing over the opening of,a cavity; he Illustrated this by models made of plasttoine, and cardboard. By supplying air to these models he made them utter vowel sounds and even words, such as "Mare - ma," "Minnie," "rather," and "well,' Then, discarding the models, he. used his hands only, and made them "talk' so that everyone could hear and understand. • Moistening his hands to prevent the leakage,of air, he manipu. lated them in. conlunctibnwith a metal eep^Young with Your doctor will tell you the old-fashioned wash -day is one of woman's greatest foes. Strained backs, ugly hands, jangled nerves and short;' tempers—all cense from the everlasting rub -rub -rubbing on the ancient washboard. The modern way is. to lea Rinso do the work. Change the hard work of washing to just rinsing. Simply dissolve Rinso in the wash -water, put :in the clothes, soak for 2 hours or more and just rinse. Let Rinso •do your next washing. Made by makers of. Lux. Change_. washing into just rinsing R-452. AUTUMN AND YOU There is a notion that as we get au fn veers we aro robbed of charm: One -need only to notice the aclverlisentents about "Don't grow old " "(Jaren for. grey hairs," Resist the 'wrinkles," and so 05, 10 realize the dread,. that exists many minds with the. passing of our days.. It is more or 1essvanity,..MQr a per- son should g10 w -i t et mote mellow, with the addition of years.` Maturity and peace should reign together. ' A. misused life breeds -an old age of despair ' and sorrow; but where no - Unity of thought and feeling have been cultivated there' must Certainly follow a sw.eetnesr that is attractive to all. You have noticed haw Nature gets there glorious in .the autumn, always .a season of joy, because of the mag- niflcence Of the colors. 11' seems as though Nature make a suprems effort to wlied,up her year's labor with a majestic panorama of marvellous beauty. She 15 lovelier as she 'gets., older. One of our English poets wilted:— Let me grow lovely growing old;, The many pure things do. Laces and ivory and; gold and silks Need not be new. 'And there is healing in old trees, Old streets and glamour' old; Why may not I as well as these Grow lovely growing old? Nothing 15 -more saddening than to find a than who set out in life . with buoyant hopes and enthusiastic de- lights and desires becoming a cynlc; because in the battle of lite he has not gained what he alined for.. Such people.beoome Jealous, unsympathetic, and miserable, ugly both in spirit and action. The features become gnarled and marked,and the older they grow tire:more cut off are they from interest in their fellows. We have all heard that "a cheerful mind is the best face- cream." That truth is as old as the hills. The addi- tion of years to thoseof cheerful mind does not detract from them in any way; and 1t multiplies their friends. Their presence Is as tho breath of - frash air. Nature is least arresting in -midsum- mer; in spring and autumn "she dons her most beauteous robes. And life should bo the same. Never permit things . to ge- so .;much on the top •of you that your vitality becomes drained. tor: no purpose. Rre etre guilty too often of wasting eI Truths— our ' substance with unprofitable Seven Hoar thoughts sed deeds. BY storing the life and mind with noble thoughts and-'^•• feelings ambitions and hopes, so this essence of . the beautiful wilt stake us more comely as we get farther from birth. Ton may couo]ude that an aged pef- sou who has become withered in spirit, anis fretful and tantalizing, has gone astray somewhere. Where a lila has been luived in open contact with the illuminating powers, such life becomes a power to illuminate also. Our journey through life should be - progressive, Our education should never be complete. Our castles should never• come ar ill' The sun should always be ittlc lreiatt of ns, enuring the shadows to fall behind. Seery day and in every way let us try to grow better, Thus shall we be ledinto green pastures and by 8011 waters, and age shall not add to the burdens of life\ —It• takes real strongth to eit0t1 i abuse without becoming"vied2oative. —Courtesy is cheap, but it always pays a big profit. Success as.a usually be had if we are willing to ray the market price. --Some people think they are cul- tured when they at'e only critical. —Most of our troubles disappear if we march up to them courageously. —Stinginees is probably the last. fault we will ever acctts'e ourselves of. —A prejudice is an honest convic- tion ]n its dotage. Mlnard's Liniment for Neuralgia. The Oldest Game? Invented in ancient Greece more than two thousand years ago, a game was exitibitel recently in London con- sisting of fourteen small flat pieces of ebonite of various shapes which, when properly arranged, form pictures, of an elephant, an ostrich, a charging�'aeol cal ees ona. Baffin soldier, a barking dog,' and several other figures. When we were Comfortably dis- don't seem to know about -finger bowls. posed before the Jit e, and the tally, Didn't they have thein where you breaking free fi:om Personal incident, worked last?" mostly wash began to flow in its accustothed chem- N6ra—"No, mum; they mos y nrels, Merymr nncl Caret "Were mention- ed themselves afore they come to the ed by Rosalind '. It happened that table." yesterday Rosalind and had been looking at an etching Of-Meryon's, and London's Milk in Giese Tanks. ve had naturally f - ales to ta'k'i ri i , g •During, the past eight months. 1,800,- about rife pathos of his lite. 000: gallons of milk have been brought I "Don't bother about that,'' said our in glass -lined tankers from country friend,, starting out of his chat` and, depots to, London, standing before the fire. "There is nothing that a, real artist care's less for than what your call sauccests, . No happier man •ever lived than Corot'dur- ing those years when there was:notlh- ing tb do hut sit in the fields and watch the -morning sky and then go and paint It. As for Meryon . he bad' the supreme sat'isfaction of saying his say. l•le put himself on his plates. and that was enough ter any man. , , Don't you understand that ell an artist ee'l's is a chance to work? s y What we avant is not suiccess, but the C'Z'` ' chance to get etireeivee onto canvas: ' +J"7�Om 1 a 4, I paha because I can't help �> 'My Study Fire," by Hamilton '17. i v° l4C£Ce/G d Wier/4. s•zr 'Mabie. - gel2Cia Atban&ay. trni,eA, etre %nnpNl. WRIGLEY'S aids digestion and makes the next cigar taste better. Try it. `' CG95 FTER EVERY MEAL ,. When his puropse had been made Island. probably used eche This gams teas p'rc e Bafdn island, which lies immediate - nationally for the training of the Is at pewees of observation or memory in ly to the north of I u-dson Strait ^ children, and, although mentioned in present a field of inveetigatton by alto ancient manuscripts, all trace of it Geological Survey of Canada. Dr. L. J. Weeks. and rut a><sistant weirs landed during the summed' on this island from the Canadian government boat making the annual trip , to the established' posts' lo ' the Arctic. They will re- main during the- winter and carry on.a geological survey of the southeru part of the island. Baffin island is the largest' and prob- ably the most im1?ortent of the Arctic islands. -It has an area of 211,000 square miles. Observation matte along • the. part of the coast that has been ex- plored show that.it is underlain by rocks of Precambrafn and Palaeozoic age and to less' extent probably by Tertiary sediments. A small tonnage of graphite and mtea has been shipped from the southern part of the island anti at Pond 'inlet in. the northern part had been lost for the last 1,600 years. White trace Increase. The world's white population is esti- mated to increase at about 6,000,000 tube and made then spay, distinctly, a email tluu•t tits of cool Is mined. ',Hullo, London! Are you there? Lila, ; OThe coal, according to Dr. Weeks, I love you i"1 ne da Natal* Aid . fo LeveliOes r.�lI�QI�IL� BAN Preserves and beautifies. the. complexion b8lidl a�'i �rtl+an e el is regaa'ded as of Tertiary age. Two u b've your dainty. uudelwear and • main semina each 'll ems f et thiel.. and a•lculitng5true tints; you must ne'L real '''.1:q feel, apart titre to^ilnl. St Is ihe,CO&L dyo. For the gorgeous tinting like You front the lowed 'sewn !hat ie being. i sec in things when they are new, use , unitized bg: the•,Hctdaon<s: B•ay "Coan- the brigand Diamond' Dyes. Don't stop with tinting, thoughi It's-' 1/any. When fr slily deg it breaks in - just as easy to Diauond,Dye'almost to irregular latrine 'wlurli sr dull. black with hem ".dad there a bright anything you wba—or the hangings, in the home—a brait,dnew eerier right' surface, and which eaxtty nothing over the o1:1. Homo dyeing is lots of :. semblitug a cleavage plane. After be - fun --and think of what it saves1 ling sacked and left tame months in FREE uo w, for the :asking! Your the open it. shows 0 tendency 10 crum- drugglat wail'pryra you th'e Diamond ,ble, The crumbling is not to great firs Dye Cyclope-dia telling dozens of dye 1 in the coal front the upper swain Ail saerati containing simple directions, ! ai.r-dr1@d sample gave on ana10'sla: and prat show you actual irk f•goaig moisture, 14.2 ppm carat.; ash, 5.0 'per samples of corers. Or write for big lauetrated book Color Craft, free from cent'.; volatile, 23.4 per` cent.; fixed; l DIAMOND DYES, Dept. N9, Windsor, 1 carbon, 67,3 pen' met.; calorific value, Ontario. 10,300 British. thermal milts, • A second exnoaure occurs at a' -point a !u 10 d'owiistnarctm ori the Salmon river t•rom ilnst a efoa'ared to above, from witirb; quantities of d1^0.1 Have been ,ob- ' Wesel. • g :rho visited the piece in 1924; is well This. cxpose�d in a cliff ori Ss.Lmon. river, and Mak° it NEW for 15 cif S