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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-11-24, Page 3"House Sense" and the Lost Boy HERB LEWIS Editor's Note -Pio following seem - came, Then the father set oat Into ingly improbable stories aro vouch; the woodland. He went up one pan- ed for by the author, a wellliepown Yea and downeanoU er, working Ear - newspaper writer. I ther and farther from 'tome, until be My fanner, who wast a New Eng. realized he might become noxi in file lander, was a stare lover of 'horses. He saw in. the horse more than instinct, more 'than "horse souse"; he saw wooded !tills himself, His frequent calls and whistles echoed and re-echo- ed along the rock-ribbed •gulohes, but genuine intelligence., 'How he ad -i no answer'eame other than than calls' Bred a fine specimen et the •equine of the whippoorwill or the "whoo- famllyas it stood with its head: well- whooa" of: the ltooteewls. erect; ears pricked forward and look. After some time Mr. Caswell, by ing with investigating or knowing following a cow trail, reached a road - eyes at some object that attracted its way which ho soon realized was two attention' Stan$ing with flowing miles from ho nee and tar from the mane and tail, a form of ilio and hollows where the children had been beauty, father beheld such a creation nutting, "No wonder," he thought, "that a boy would get lost even in of God as abmost� lumen. To-day,`fortY years later, some men daylight, whoa 1, who have been here are saying the horse is•goue, and,like for ,years, -gots lost an. near home," the dodo or roe will soon become an Quickening his stop he pressed to- o J;inet' species, There are thous- ware his some. ends, however, wile however much As Caswell approached els ]rouse he lithey may doli.glot in the modern"ilery hoard Mrs. Caswelland Mary talking,. -thiarlofs" which now travel without but the yoke of Walter, was not ming- horse, will insist. that tho .horse lad with: theirs. Suddenly old Dan will never puss from among ue. In came trotting up,' with altnosl as deed, there are many, many //laces much s•plrit and action 0,0 in days oC where . his faithful service con aid old. man that automotive power cannot "Daddy," exclaimeCe Mary, "what do reach. Even should this: be over You suppose ails old Dani? This come, there are too many people( makes twice he has come up to the -who love the animate so greatly over house, acting as if something was the inanimate, that the'horso will he wrong wields him," propagated and perpetuated up Le "Yes," added Mrs; Caswell, "I saw that day when the world will be him (come that way once before. 'changed in the twinkling of an oye." What poeseeses him?" e In fact, to -day, among the wealthier By this time Dan had run etp to Mr. classes there are 'many, who having Caswell, nosed hien about, turned tired. of limousines and stupe'• -sixes, around and around and then started are again turning to beautiful :horses away. When Caswell did not follow, as means of joy in travel. And some Dan returned. Then Caswell said, "I of such- horses their owners would know old Dan—he wants me to go n:ot exchange for the most valuable with ;him. Stay here, both of you, motor vehicle yet placed on the but if I call, you come, too,' market.Old Dan started and Caswell could •Though men like my father, who berdly keep pace with him. On, on passed on some years ago, may not be they went--up-Hazel brush hollow for here to champion the horse, the post- a half mile, then turned into /mother -erlty of such men are carrying on gulch (it was close to where Mary and will.not forget what good horse had emerged from the woods), then flesh has been, nor some of the re. on for nearly a mile. Old Dan- never markable stories about horses, My slowed hie pace till he stopped, snort - father, being an Easterner, was in ad and turned and whinnied, :close touch with the "Kindness to At firsteCaswoll could see nothing Animals" movement -which became so nor hear anything. Then he hoard firmly founded in Boston and which the brittle crackle. FIe leucin his • Where's His Trowel? IT'S NO 0000 TO THE TRAPPER This Northern Ontario Beaver pelt shows that however useful his tall may be to the beaver its no good to the trapper. Love nd P expect Only Firm B .1 sis No Royal Road to Wedded Happiness, Says Lady Aberdeen. London —Lord an d Indy Aberdeen, whose recent golden week leg anniver- eary brought triat:t, ei teal e •ngratula- tione Dom nil parts' ce the world be- cause of the long records beth hold in useful public scrvico,'hai'e no recipe for wedded h ephayss. `"There can be ro royal road to. wedded happiness Lady Aberdeer said, ""We are all d -."wrest and we cannot dictate to one another. lint'so long as the union is basad on mutual lave and respect,' ehboge are likely to work out all right," Lord and Lady Aberdeen have travelled extensively and as long ago as 1893 Lady Aberdeen organized. the Irish i.ection' at the Chicago World's Fair. She has been prominent in eo- ciel work, especially women suffrage, for halfa century. Her husband has held many high posts, including Vice- roy of Ireland and Governor-General of Canada. Between intervals ofpublic service, Lord Aberdeen has lived the life of a have got a chance of equality, highland chieftain and at a luncheon "We aro no less enterprising or less recently in his honor, the men dressed capable ie. organization or less intern - in kilts at tho request of Lady Aber- gent than any other nation in the deen. The King and Queen were am- world, but at present wo are not deal- ong the first to send their greetings ing with equal conditions." to tho couple. ]Sart Balfour, who was best man at their wedding fifty years Political, Rancor in South ago, was invited, as were seven of the eight girls' who were bridesmaids- Another Link With iar ast Nations and Races. London Daily Telegraph (Cons.): All the great nations of the present and the past have been born of the mixture and confusion of races. We Discovery of Tomb More are not so much born. of English stock Famous Than King Tut's Reported as of English deeds, English thought, English feeling. The most potent ele- ment in national lnclivdduality, the. London—The discovery at Sakkora, force which makes most of the differ - near Cairo, ^zypt, of what ie believed encs between English and ]trench, to be the fume of Bing Zoser, fan!• American, German, Russian, is what pus Pharoah of the Thiry Dynasty, their forefathers have done and suf- continues, "Our ,Dumb Ant -reels" ilashltght in the direction and saw (about -4,000 311C,). is reported to fered, "We have heara with our ears 'was a favorite with him, and he had two feet protruding from a hollow log. special dispatches from Cairo. and our fathers have told us," this is real personal touch with Mr. Angell. His heart was in his mouth. Walter! The find Is said to be more import what makes a nation—the lessons of Snch association builds Ideals in bast in the log—and except for slight ant archaeologically than Umdiscov-]the national past, the standards of character' and strengthens the par- movements of the boy's feet, be would cry of the tomb of Meg Tut-ank- value which the past lids left, its fn - Pose which already rules in one's life have believed elm dead. Caswell ran : Kamen. stitutions, its habits in action, the —and it is handed down to posterity. to the other end of the log, and called,' The work, which was being direct" ideals which it has honored. Hence, the leve of mankind for the Walter faintly answered. "Be quiet,' ot1 by .F, Id. Firth, of the antiquities 'hor'se cannot pass away. son," ordered Caswell, "don't etrahi ( department of the Egyptian Govern - Tee following story Is founded up- yourself any more—I will get You meat have been temporarily halted 1v on, or inspired by, a little story often out:' "tae nave -in of a side shaft leading told by the writer's father:A "1111o11" and a pun on a pry -hole. j clown to the tomb, but "the glint of On the old homestead in Minnesota and the log opened to the end where; precious metals far underground has a mare and colt were running in pas- Walter was fast. Caswell sprang to 1 been seen]" the disxnlchos says. tare near the hotls0. One. night after his boy; rolled him out anti. closped1 The discovery of the tomb, believed the family had gond to bed, the mare htni in his arms TI'te boy was un -I to be that of Ire -hotel, architect to came running to the house, Pet leer colisetous, but after a few moments l King Zoser, and builder of the sten nose on the bed -room window and opened his eyes and recognized hie' iiyremtd near Sakkol'a, was reported neighed. Realising that snmc►t inir father, only to become uncamsciaus:by excavators working in last March, It was also atrthat region was wrong, my father quickly dressed again.suggestedio and followed the mare toward the It was many days before Walter re- that the Ionil might :.have been tom- • wi'le the 1 ra- ant- terrible experience. Zoser 1 f y ioEvery little way the covered from a to eporarily used by pasture. mal would stop, turn and whinny and Two things be felly decided. One tent was being built or that it might tile// draw father on, Dowit in the was never 10 try 10 ranch a rabbit lu have been that of 7oser's Queen. pasture was a shallow well—or where a log; and the other, that Old Dan . Third Dynasty., known as elle a well had- been started and covered had more sense then 01-eThe e neighbors The Dynasty, two Kluge, one of with boards. In some way the cover who wanted to shoot him—whether them Zoser, built huge rrlastasa tombs had been removed and the colt had that bo plain or ]gorse sense. Old Dan at Bet Iihal!af, near Abyclos, further Callen hi the hole and could not get had evott his laurels and an unending ap the Ntte than Sakkora, Im•uoter out, The colt Was lifted out by my vacatioli at the Caswell ranch, even ]then built a mlghter nlonnmeat for father and the mother tried 3n every should !:here be no Horse heaveu---and i lNing Zoser, time step llyrrmtd, `way to express her thonics for the sormtfrees I thunk there must be. kind deed, running first to the colt; then back and licking father's baud and putting her face up to his. It was such demonstrations as this that so deeply impressed my father with the well-nigh "human intelligence" of the horse. I And here is another story even More rema'iltable: I=v Down in the hills of 'able Ozarks 'lived George Caswell. The family; was composed of himself, his wife and two childra,n, Walter aged ton and Mare, aged twelve. The children one 1 des wandered into the woodland,! hunting haselnats. In some way they became separated. letu• some hours they sniveled for nu;e rend their became suddenly aware. or bclug separated and, quite far fee.* home.' "iary and Walter, unknown to eneh' other, called and called, but without eva.11--••.they lead roamed too far apart to be lteal'd. Waller had slanted to go back, as he thought, but soon lost' ". his way an4 wandered down into a deep canyon, litary, being unable to get an ans- wer from her brother, decided to re- trace her steps toward home, which she did As she came out of the t5iitis hle Wii'111 British House to T..' riff Sought ' Review Industriea By"it A. Mond Will Discuss Pl'ecari-OUS Posi- tion of Coal and Steel. Industrial Magnate Advocates London,"There "There is a flourishing Empire Being Within "Single • workers' educational wog/elation, Who - Ring Fence. will undertake the education of the London.—"Give me the British Em- capitalist?"" So risks the Observer on Bea- l/Ire as my 'territory and I will tion the eVe of the lrarliamentary session, p when the precedents position of tho produce more than the United States coal and stee industrials comae under over dreamed of," declared Sir Alfred searching review. Mond, British industrial magnate, as. Experts point to the ViekeneArnlr dressing the Empire Industries As - strong, Whitworth amalgamation as a! sedation here. recognition in the world o2 steel that His satellite is to give all the units the product of a large scalp industry , of the British Empire a single tariff, in a weak market must bo based upon thereby facilitating free trade among the most perfect plant, also that selee. therm, and then start mase production. ttvo organization is possible only on "Think," ho says, of the grouping the broadest beefs. The world of coal achieved in the United States, a coag- has yet to learn that lesson, try tenctloniug an one economic unit Lord Beaverbrook, in the Sunday. iyith the free exchange' of goods from Express; makes himself the prophet ,Now York to SanFraneisco, with one- ofa now era, basing his claim upon eurr00cy, one exchange, ane standard his experience as the one who of weights and measures, one Tang- browg ht about the Canada Cement ung, (,'eve me the same •5c0pe:. and m•trlccts, let the Empire be within a merger. He scouts the idea that he single ring fence, within watch 13ri• was a philanthropist thinking of the tish industry would be the manufac- public welfare, He was - intent on making money and selling the public turiug end, the largest manufacturing end of the British Empire, ]hon wo • a sound security, which would en - hence his rising. reputation as a mer- chant banker. He succeeded in both aims. The consumer he was not bothering about. IIe admits that men With the highest reputation have ask- ed him to take a financial interest in the British coal trust. '"I had to answer 'No.' I bad long done with business and risked my last? throw in that game," he said. He ap- proached Winston Churclril in. vain. "Will an individual financier now; come forward . to moot the urgent need. Drake, too, • went out for pri- vate gain, yet vast advantages ac- crued to the Empire as a result of his adventure." bushes suddenly, old "Dan," the aged family horse,. appeared. Dan was an America With a Complex. animal twenty -odd years old, In leis day be had been an attractive step. Der In single horness; but !laying aged, he had been turned out to grass 0 and was seldom used for any purpose. The neighbors said Caswell was each bean the occasion of violent oat - foolish to keen him about any longer. bursts of American indignation again - 'Why don't you. shoot him//, George?"stile rest of the World): What is nide was a frequent question." penilrg to America? . , It is an ar- ♦ "I lead as scow shoot one of my resting fact that, in spite of an im- family or at least one of you folioiny. plicit claim that should place America as oke Dan: He Is not hurting any- beyond the need of falling into period' thing and is getting a rest from long, cal megrims, she should assert hor- n -110 end tried service. He 1s wel- Belt like an adolescent. But this is came to the range, of Cnslveii farm the way of a certain sort of oompielt, as long as he lives," and as the States have some scientific n was well-nigh dark when Mary, psycho -analysis the condition may be taae and worried about Waken:, commended to there,,' walked into her home She had hop- _-_ „ eel (hat he had preaedaa her home, ]Sut he was not thorn The parents Small Boy -"Quick, policeman.' A. ,.grow uneasy as the shadows gather- man's been beating my father Por. ad' and twilight merged into dar1mess, more .than an hour," Policemans Caswell called, yodeled and whistled 'Why didn't you call me sooner?" with all his ability in Clue lines, hop, small boy—"Father was getting the New best of it until a few minutes ago." ing Inc an answer from Walter. "Arrest is more certain if you Ile lit hard language than In a soft bed." I "Is he really your rival?" "Yes." "Great Scott"If I had. a rival who looked like that, do you know what I would do?" "No," "I'd give up the girl." Westminster Gazette, (Lib,): (For- eign comment on the Sacca-Vanzetti case, the change in the French tariff laws, the formation of an Anglo- French -German Chemical Trust, have A eertaiu woman it/ so painfully tidy that olio makes life miserable for the rest of the family.. One of Ler rules is that everyone in the family. must remove their hoots on entering the house. One day recently she said to her husband: "I have just found a grease spot on the chair you sit on. I I:hink it must have come from that old pair of trousers you wear in the warkshop," "Now, Look Here, Sarah," said the husband, in a determined tone, "for the last 20 years I have taken off my boots every time I come into the house; but 111 be hanged if I'm going to go any further than that!" THE CONTRIBUTOR "My friend says he contributes to the best magazines." "Yes, 1 really believe Scribes to all of them, my he sub- dear Africa. A romantic courtship led to the .Sohannosburg Star: There is a con wedding. Lord Aberdeen, then 21, elderable body of opinion in this as lost his way while hunitng and sought in other countries not actively 'denti- a night's lodging. He met Ishbel Red with any political party or leader - Marjorie Banks, then but 11 years ship, but which often determines the, old, and waited 11 years to marry ]'ler. result of an election, and lndioations are not lacking that this section of Builds Huge uge the community is being alienated by 1(A a si the Prime Minister and certain of his Racing Ai ® colleagues. The sustained virulence and maliciousness of the attacks on General Smuts, the insults and Philadephian Aims at Speed threats of personal violence to Which Record With Three- he has been eubjeoted, and the organ - 'zed attempts to prevent him from. Engine Car speaking have disgusted all fair-mind- Tliladelphta.—A huge racing auto- ed persons irrespective of their party, mobile, powered by three twelve-cyl- and political opinions. Indored aviation engines, is being completed by J. M, White, wire menu- The Need for Economy faeturer, in an effort to set a new speed record, Mr. 'White announced recently, The V -type engines develop 600 horsepower each, so that the machine will have 500 horsepower more than that of Major Ii, 0. D. Segrave's auto mobile which made the present re- cord of 200.70 miles an hour last March. Mr. Whits pointed out that Major Segrave found that at 200 miles an hour half his 1,000 horsepower was required to overcome wind resistance, while at that' rate of speed Mr. White's "triple" will have 1,000 horsepower left. One of the macihtn,O s motors is pracod in front and two in elle rear, the rear axle. It is without clutch or and all three aro geared directly to gear -shift, , Mo White expecte his machines will make at least 210 miles an hour. It will be ]chipped to Or - speedmond-Daytona Beach, whore the speed test wil be made this winter. "Let's see," said the chatty man, "your brother went abroad on a fel- lowship, didn't he?" "No," was the reply. "It was a cattle -ship." Little Cora Ann had been told that she must always wait patiently until she was served at meals, and not to reach across the table or grab for her food. One day, while dining at a neighbor's with her mother, the little girl was accidentally overlooked. She was very patient for a time, but at last she could beer the strain no long- or, seeing everybody eating but her. self. So leaning' quietly across to her mother 5110 said in a loud whisper: "Mother, do little girls wllo starve to death go to heaven?" ._ Putting Game To Use AN UNUSUAL POWER PLANT A. hunter making a lassoed Moose tow his canoe at Lake Amat, Quebec. Alphabet Traced London Morning Poet (Cons.): That progressive saving of ten millions a then, we find that even the prole-tarl- year which Mr. Churchill talked of at is not ruling as suet. but only in so when ho assumed afire is much over -far as come of the proletarians. are in duo. Instead, the country etas seen) the inentber.ehip of the Communist both expenditure and indebtedness go- i Party. Proletarians who do not share ing up, until 1t begins to despair of 1 the Bolshevist faith, although they any relief from burdens well-nigh nal may be good 15oc ialiste, are as undo - to be borne. If this is done in tho alrabie and as eie�rely percccutcd as greentree of a Conservative Adminia 1 ally other 'unbeliever' in -tussis. Thus tratfon, what will not be dono in the eve and that it ie not 111c' dictatorship dry true of Socialism? That is the sof the proletariat that constitutes the question that is presenting Itself tot Got 1h1 r net. , f I .;six to -clay, but the the pnblie mint; and that, le ilio gees -1 ane-f.rhrrged) of he (,Imtnuni:a Party, dolt lthich should pro: col,✓ the Min -i ✓.rt ez melub r t,r, in spite of all the Istorlal ]nand, for on sae0ess 10 grail- I prIvilo _ s a:weeded In th-' Commute Piing with this need for economy, the !ion, is fess than 1,0'ttt pint, the cone credit of the Oorernment will be 0)0 nit/Wets elute c o etitutinq only about tablislted or destroyed. one -halt of 1 per vent. of Russia's vast population- theme, further, we find that it Is not the Communist Party that rules 1'tussia, but the so-called Po!itburoau, a body of eeven men. And even thio Politbnrean is under the domination, it seems, of a single individual, the 'strong mate' in Russia to -day, Joseph V. Stalin." Who Rules in Russia? "While announcing that they aro a Government by the grace of workera and peasants, who combined repre- sent about 40 per cent. of Russia's . population, the Bolshevik! declare in the same breath that their rule is 'a dictatorship of the proletariat, the proletariat eonstitutiug but about 4 per cent. of Russia's entire impala. tion," writes A. S. Sack, farmer repro• sentative of the Kerensky Govern- ment hi the United States, in Novem- ber Current History. "Analyzing fur - Letters Said Known to Man 10,000 Years Ago. Vichy, France.—That man possess- ed a definite alphabet 10,000 years ago seems to have been established by the finds mado by the International Com- mission of Scientists, investigating ex- cavations at Glozel, near here. Con- troversy over the authenticity of the supposedly neoilthio remains develop- ed last September when Rene Due- saud, conservator of the Louvre. Mus- eum, said that the implements and bones were "planted," at Glozel less thau 20 years ago and probably ea a hoax. The anthropological, congress which heard his charges then took up the appolutmont of a committee to detreutine the authenticity of the find, Thegirlat the boarding-house ask- ed Slim' why a chicken crosses the road. He said he didn't even know why they crossed their knees. "What do you know of the charec ter of this man?" wasasked of a wit- ness at a police court. "What do I know of his character-? I know it to be unbleachable, your worship!" the witness replied, with much emphasis. A Dundee man tells the story of two Dundonians who, atter death, went to their appointed places. One of them on meeting the other remark- ed --"This is an aft' cracked vp Place, It's no maul better than .Dundee." "This is root Heaven," ala served his companion dryly. A farmer's boy stood by the road- side near an overturned load of bay, A neighboring farmer driving by not- ed this forlorn appearance and.invit- ed hien home to dinner, saying that he could tante care of the load of hay afterwards, They boy „seemed Un- willing n willing to accept the invitation, and 'remarked that his father would not be pleased, The farmer finally persuad- od hem to accompany him. During the meal this boy was very nervous, and several times said that hie father would not like ie • On being urged to give the reason. for his father's air• joction, be said! "Well, you see, dad is under the load of hayl" ARM "Mexicans Have Never Been Christians." "13110 Mexican Government has been dills to carry mut its anti -clerical mea- sures because ot the indifference of the mass of the pagan.indian popula- tion to the Christian cult in general," writes Frederick II. Maetens, known author, author, in November Current History. "The Mexicans are neither European nor Christian. They are at bottom American pagans who cling with alt the red man's tenacity 10 race Wavle grounded in primitivism, and have an inborn conviction that only an Indian god will answer an In- , titan's prayers. in spite of thea con - "A pis can be stretched farthop Lary -long labors of priest and tuts - when the dough is elastin. sionary, whet' the Iltexlcau is scratch- ed, the Aztec, ILuichete or Zapotecan The Old RL1ssizt. appears. Once this is . realized the otherwise inexplicable spectacle ot a "In old Russia religion was the people allowing its Government to dominating force, but the extraordi- sweep away the superstructure of nary religious fervor had no counter- what is cousiderad its natioual reit- part in morality and industry; the gion, without any serious effort to religion of suffering and of acelama- prevent, is largely explained." tion of the will of God held the place which in Western countries is held by; An old Barky got up ono night at the consecration of manhood and the a revival meeting and said. "Brudlors struggles of oonsoienoa against sin."tan' sietors, you 'mows au' I knows asserts Stephen Graham, well-known' dat dat I ain't been what I onghter been. writer, in Novermber Current I•i'istory, l I'so robbed hen roosts an' atole hangs, "Tho morale of nal classes -were on a an' told lies, an' got drunk, an' slash, low level, and the extraordinary fe-! ed folks with meth razor, au' shot cundity of the race resulted in great' craps, an' cussed and swore; but 3. sexual ggxsess. Children, horn into dirt d p poverty, an over swarmed and per- ished. " " * Prostitution flourished, fanned by excessive chinking, vodka being drunk as beer is in England'.. " " An unfortunate feature of the national life was widespread thieving, which assuntod the form of graft in the upiser classes ' ° s The educated were phenomenal In their education thank the Lord dere's one thing I ain't aebber done -I ain't nebber lost mai religion!" e— -_- A French lady advertised for a gov- erness and received an application from England. After a hard struggle, with our language, the French leads replied es follo'wa; If you you wish eleave cliant;e place will aticF culture, but there was no 'lad or youconic a l round the year with nee o odneation' extended to the working here, where I continually reside? Me classes. it " " However, the people I possoss three children, ago three, had great reserves of health and vi- weeks less than eleven, half past 11111e tality, a remarkable inclusive ran and half -past six. The summer she 0uage, imwaluahle traditions, 3ollclorb passes deltehtfutiy, but the winter he ' is indeed hasty; bttt ehe the governess oan bo preserved with many hot vest- Manta. which keep in health and keep out cold. Me 3. wage you 600 by the month, if tit's Yon suit writ me the hour for come," and music, unusual mavens and phtilaosop10to iostanotis, great intellectual eapaoity, an incomparable territorial inheritance and economic potontinlities entirely proportionate to other aspects of potential greatness,"