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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-12-29, Page 2111 Grocers Stoci T88 If you want something better -try it._ BEGIN HERE TODAY. this has provided some mild anise- rent" Paul Harley did not reply. "It is possible," continued the un- seen speaker, in whom Harley had now definitely recognized Ormuz Khan's secretary, "that you recently heard a resolution respecting yourself. Your death, in fact, had been deter- mined upon. Life and death being synonymous, the philosopher contem- plates either with equanimity." "I am contemplating the latter with equanimity at the moment," said Har- ley. dryly. "The brave man does so," the Hinde eontinued, smoothly. "The world only seems to grow older; its youth is real- ly eternal, but as age succeeds age, new creeds must take the plate of the Cite PTER 01 [IV.—(Cont'd.) old 01105 which are burned out. Yuri'•} litKided grimly, watching a He n+ted that its lower fringe did ring ea -rtelei floating slowly upward. not quite touch the floor. By stooping 'It is a little thing to those who down. he could see a few feet into knee the teeth." the Speaker resumed. secs(, Semi beyond'. It was in dark- "To the purblind laws of the West it ness. hu;rever, and beyond the fact may seer' a great thing. We seek in that it w::s carpeted with a rich Per- Rome to do sir Rinne does: We judge si:nt rug, hs' learned but little from his eve.•y nisi ..o we find hire. Therefore, scrutiny. The gilded screen was solid reec gniz;n * that yxu• total disappear - and intme able. euro might compromise our move- Noddle rove- Ntddl z his head grimly-, Harley meets in the near future, we have felt in he lockets for pipe and pouch, decided to offer you an alternative. wind&iris g to these, too, had been taken This oiler is based upon the British from him. 1' iu y had not, however, and chemist( rWhere the oath of some the east ss; r. aa, of his awakcnlrg hav- ing p r sed, he fihIecl and lighted his l t tar and stropped down upon the divan to etevider his position. Thathe laid walked blindly into a trap prepared for hint by that mys- l"'niees nes, onnlity known as Fire - Tongue, he ne longer could drubt. Upon these bitter reflections a slight stood intruded, the first which had de imbed the stillnere about hien since the moment of his awakening. Sewn ne hod entered the seem be- yend the aeldsd screen, and now a fat t l tht showed beneath the fringe of the curtain, Paul Har'ey sat quite still, crooking and watching. F tdd^nle be perceived a pair ef g?nPs hick boats. Their wearer was es'cier'ty sto'-ling quite near the sc••e'enpossibly listening. Harley had an item she* wane- second person steed intnmediat^'st - bellieid the first. Of this )den he el -steely end confirmation. A voice mete •-d his name: "Mr. I'n r 1 ,.]„y,•" He ro•trd nor ee ssre, but he thought If was. the nate :' Ormuz Khan's sec- retar•v. T' + oss'v> his pipe from be- tween ]ns teeth, F :dt- "Yes, .:nuc do .:o.r want with nee?" he a'ked. "Yoe- eel nem Mr. Harley, for a few anon tees, i et feel sufficiently , y Y recovered.' "P"ay rem 1, ' said Harter*. mf tree pr reeve of a second person l ,ehind the s. rex n he was new ensure, foe he had detected the sound of whispered instructinne; and slaking lower and lower teem the divan, he peered serrentitiru:sly under the bor- der of the rtrenin, believing it to be more thea y', ht'tile that his move - meets were watched. This I'd to a notable discove^y: A pair of erav suede shoes became vis- Ible a R.N. irrhas behind the glossy black ho. -s- -enviously small shoes with rinur"ally high heels. The iden- tity of thee' wear r was beyond dis- pute to the non who had measured that delicate foot, Ormuz nett stood behind the Remelt! Sir Charles Abingdon engages Paul Harley, criminal investigator, to solve the mystery of eosstant surveillance. of Sir Charles, While Harley is dining at the Abingdon hone Sir Charles falls from his chair in a dying condi- tam. Dr, McMurdech pronounces death dee to heart -failure, Harley insists Sir Charles was poisoned. The last words uttered by Abingdon are "Nicol Brinn" and Fire -Tongue," Harley asks Brinn to explain the meaning of "Fire- Tongae." Brinn refuses to divulge the seers:. Ormuz Khan, Oriental, is a friend of Phil Abingdon, daughter of Sir Charles. While Harley is shadow- ing t , : ].ohne of Ormuz Khan. he is dis- i•c e; e,t by the Oriental and imprison- ed in the house. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. ('lIAP'f I R XXV. FNnl1SnmAN'S 1105Oit. "You have been guilty of a series of nnfertt.nat.e mistakes, Mr. Harley," continued the speaker. "Notably, you have relied upon the clumsy device of disguise. To the organization in which you have chosen to interest yourself, 1.i HARLEY NODDED GRIMLY. blade, he shaved, and having shaved, lighted his pipe and redressed himself at leisure. He had nearly completed his toilet whenma slight sound in the outer room arrested his attention. He turned sharply, stepping through the door- way. A low carved tahle, the only one which the apartment boasted, display- ed an excellent English breakfast laid upon a spotless cover. Harley held his pipe in his hand, and contemplated the repast. It was only logical to suppose it to be innocu- ous, and a keen appetite hastened the issue, I -Ie sidetracked his suspicion, and made an excellentbreakfast. So the first day of his captivity began. He resumed his pipe and smiled philosophically. He had hoped to see the table disappear beneath the floor. As evidence that ire was constantly watched, this had occurred during a brief visit which he had made to the bedroom in quest of -matches. When he returned the table was in its former place, but the cover had been removed. ' He carefully examined the floor beneath it, and realized that there was no hope of depressing the trap from .above. Then,, at an hour which he judged to be that of noon, the saine voice addressed him from beyond the gilded screen. "Mr. Paul Harley?" "Yes, what have you to say?" "By tine, Mr. Harley, you must y , Y, Y have recognised that opposition is futile. At any moment we could visit death upon you. Escape,' on the other hand, is out of the question. We de- sire you no harm. For diplomatic reasons, we should prefer you to live. Our cause is a sacred one. Do not misjudge by minor incidents. A short statement and a copy of your. English testament shall be placed upon the table, if you wish," "I do not wish," Paul Harley re- turned. "Is that your last word, Mr, Har- ley We warn you that the third time of asking will be the last time." "This is my lust word," "Your own life is not the only stake at issue." "What do you mean?" "You will learns what we mean, if you insist upon withholding your con- sent until we next invite it" "Nevertheless, you may regard it as withheld, definitely and finally.." Silence fell, and Paul Harley knew himself to be once more alone: Lunch- eon appeared upon the table whilst he was washing in the bathroom. Re- membering the change in the tone of the unseen speaker's voice, he avoided touching anything. From the divan, through half-closed eyes, he examined every inch of the walls, seeking for the spy -hole through which he knew himself to be watched. He detected it at last; a little grating, like a ventilator, immediately above hint where he sat. This communicat- ed with some room where -a silent watcher was constantly on duty! Paul Harley gave no sign that he had made this discovery. But alrendy his keen wits were at week upon a plan. He watched the bar of light fading, fading, until, judging it to be dinner time, he retired discreetly. When he returned, he found din- ner spread upon the table. He spent the night in the little cell- like bedchamber, and his second day of captivity began as the first had. begun. For his dinner he had eaten nothing but bread and fruit. For his break- fast he ate an egg and drank water from the tap in the bathrooms. His plan was now nearing completion, Only one point remained doubtful, (To be continued.) Women Winners man is a thing g of smoke, the word of honor of en Enlrii•:bmen we are pre - pe Ciel to tir5ept.' "Many threats," murmured Harley. "On echaif of Great Britain I accept the compliment." "We het e ,tick faith in the corn p,e t.•neso < cur plans, and in the war- less of the hour of triumph, that if yot. will pledge yourself to silence, in writhes, es, you will not be molested in any way." "It is impossible," said Harley, tersely. "Think well of the matter. It may not seem so impossible tomorrow." Paul Harley offered no further an- swer to the speaker concealed behind the violet. Curtain. "no not misunderstand us," the voice continued. "We bind you to no- thing but silence." "I refuse," said. Harley, sharply. "Ilisrniss the matter:" "In spite of your refusal, time for consideration will be given to you." Faintly Patil Ilarley detected the sounds, made by Ormuz Khan and his secretary in withdrawing. The light beneath the curtain disappeared. I'or perhaps a space of two hours, Paul Marley sat smoking and contem- plating the situation from every con- ceivable angle. Night attire was provided in the sleeping chamber, but he did not avail himself of this hospitality. Absolute silence reigned about him, Yet so im- mutable are Nature's laws, that pres- ently Paul Harley sank back upon the matresses, and fell asleep. He awoke, acutely uncomfortable and ill -rested. He found a shaft of light streaming into the roam, and casting shadows of the iron bars upon the opposite wall. The brass lantern still burned above hint, and the silence remained complete as when he had fallen asleep. Ile stood up yawning and stretching himself. ile'undressed and reveled in the joy of a hot bath, concluding with a cold plunge. A razor and excellent toilet requisites were set upon the dressing table, and whilst his nonginatiois whispered that the soap might be pois- oiled and the razor p eases a septic , warm, display's a line "dcutation." y�ygg F ep ipia plrt,^Fi t42 sr Y AND ALL CLE asarPe Maid-of-verylvaolt-iwr!c 168111 .No. 52-'27 Race Track Results This Year Show Women Owners Take Great Interest SOME HEAVY WINS To the women went most of the laurels of the past thoroughbred rac- ing season. The active interest taken by women in horseracing is one of the sport's notable recent develop- ments, although it receives very little attention, Mrs, Payne Whitney's stable was the heaviest money winner on the New York tracks. Her he ties were first in thirty-one races, second in . forty-two and third in forty-nine, aecounting for a total of $172,469; Mrs. John D. Hertz of Chicago fin- ished the season with the distinction of owning the greatest individual win- ner, Anita Peabody, which realized $111,906 for her owners Anita Pea- body running in a sportswoman's feel - ors, not only was the first owned by a woman to be the leading filly- of the season but is the second ever to-estab lish herself' at the top of the money - winning list; earning more than her predecessor -Samuel Hildreth's Nov- elty, which won $72,630. Besides own- ing the top money winner, Mrs. Hertz's stable finisher fourth in earn- ings. Previously the outstanding achieve- ment of a turf woman was when Mrs. J. P. Coots won the Kentucky Derby with Black Gold. Anita Peabody's best single performance was her tri-. umph in the historic Futurity, in which she brought $91,000 to her own- er. Mrs. Whitney's biggest individual winter was the magnificent steeple- chaser, Jolly Roger. That great jump- er of Airs. Whitney's Greentree Stable won six races and accounted for $63,076. The greatest earnings ever made in a season were by the Rancocas Stable In 1925 and the same stable's Zev of international race fame, similarly set a record for the greatest individual earnings, $272,008. The Flag Controversy Dr. Martin in the Capetown De Burger: It is very diilicut for me to see why the settlement of the flag question is a reason why we and the Opposition should suddenly fall upon each other's necks, or why we Na- tianalists should turn our backs upon the Allies who have stood by us in that struggle with great fidelity and sacrifice. The flag struggle line cer- tainly done th Nationalist party no harm. The Labor party has had to bear the brunt and bitterness of it. Meanness will never advance the in- terests of any party, and our national interests cannot be served by under- mining good faith. Mlnard's Liniment for Neuralgia. All Classes an Cuba Invest In National Lottery Tickets Time is divided in Cuba into three periods of ten days each mouth, these being the intervals between the draw- ings of the National Lottery. In Ha- vana, he expectancy £ucreasos as draw- ing day approaches, and signs appear on the cigar stands and bars that Beal in tickets, reading at dist "We Will gamble day after to -marrow," and then "To -morrow is the day." Ticket vendors waving long strips of "billets," as the tickets are called, pa- trol the streets shouting tee serial numbers they have for sale, for the IIaranese usually have their favorites. For example, if prizes have not been awarded for some time in the 13,000 class, these tickets will be eagerly bought. Meanie, street car numbers, police badge numbers and tee number of black cats counted in a stroll about the city are among the things inter- preted as omens by confirmed lottery Players, both American and Cuban. The night before the drawing is made noisy by the shouts of "last chance" vendors. and the buying at this time is houvy. Even the poorest dig in their pockets for 30 cents-- the price of the one-hundredth part of a ticket, for the capital prize Is $100,- 000. During tho Christmas season the "Nativiltad" drawing is held, the capi- tal prize being $300,000. The tickets cost proportionately. Every confidence le held by the Cubans in the fairness of the lottery, the drawing being held in public, usually at 8 o'cloelt in the morning. So intense is the interest. during the earlier morning monis on drawing days that the cabaret habitues stop to purchase tickets on their way home, and waiters invest their night's tips in the oblong bits, Not Lion and Lamb wank of Montreal Ann ll al Meeting The annual meeting of the Beek of Montreal brought to a close a year in which the Bank had enjoyed almost record growth. SirVincent Meredith; President,! and Sir Frederick Williams -Taylor, General Manager, in their addresses, stteseoed the rapid stridies that Can oda was making but struck a warns,ing note against possible aver spece- lation. Sir Vincent Meredith in hie ads dress, said in part; Trade eonditions in Canada dur- ing the year have been active, and, while there is still keen competition in many lines, balance sheets gen- erally show satisfactory profits. Manifold evidence supports' this statement. Bank debits, bank clear- ings, bank deposits car loadings, railway gross earnings, imports, note circulation and lower mercan- tile mortality all reveal that the tide of business las risen during the year. Speaking generally, manufactur- ing industries, thrive; textile mills are fully employed; iron and' steel operators 'continue to face strong competition from abroad as an £n creasing volume of imports attests; the lumber trade shows a slight im- provement; newsprint- output in- creases; production of footwear is larger and the industry is in better state:, the manufacture of motor cars has slightly diminished, but in the first nine 'months of the year 161,683 cars were turned' out, hav- ing a value of $105.,179,000 or prac- tically the same as in the like pperiod. ef last year, though the number of ears uveas 700 less. I see to reason why an abatement of confidence in the continuance of these proeperous conditions need be pi '1. Sir Frederick Williams -Taylor, in addressing the shareholders, said in part In two fundamental respects, earning power and liquid strength of resources, eur position continues I highly satisfactory. Never have we I been better prepared to care fox all i the normal weds of the public and to meet any business or financial exigency, , I have referred to the past year as the most expansive in the country's commercial' history. That Canadians have 'experienced a greater degree of individual prosperity than ever before is, I think, undisputed. The high'general level of emplloyment, and the enhanced spending power of the people, are attributable to a sue - 'cession of geed harvests and to a great broadening of the, basins of ;production,. Until a few years ago ' Canada was best known abroad as an agricultural country, and outside capital sought investment here chiefly in government and municipal issues and in railway building to 'provide transportation for an ever- increasing agricultural area, Today most of the largely increased capital coming in for investment is for in- dustrial development. It is now fully recognized' that Canada has the natural resources for the building ,up ofa vast variety of indigenous I industries, and dee fitted by the char- actor and spirit of her population to take an inoiwasingly important place among the industrial nations of the world. Canadian Marathon itlook is Bright Bricker. and Webster Already Have Been Selected for the Olympic Event Canada is enthusiastic about its prospects in the marathon at the Olympic Ganes in 1928 and already two runners, Bricker of Galt and Web- ster of the Hamilton Olympic Club, have heel selected to carry the Do- minion colors at Amsterdam. Bricker has won two of the three marathons in which he has competed and the ex- eellent form which he has shown stamps hint as Canada's best hope. Webster has won only one trent, but the manner in which he tools it leads Canadian critics to selc,'t him as one of the best runners of recent years.. Four men will represent Canada in the marathon and the other two are to be selected from the following: Percy Wyer, Johnny Mlles, Billy Rey- nolds, Orville Garbutt and John Cuth- bert. Canada always has made a fine showing in international competition. Sherring of Hamilton won the event in the 1006 Olympics, Canadians also can point to a fine record in the Bos- ton marathon which they have an- nexed eight times as follows:. Mac- donald in 1898, Sack Caffrey in 1900 and 1001, Tom Longboat in 1907, Fred Cameron in 1910, Jim Duffy in 1014, Ed. Fabre in 1916 and John Miles in 1920. Although Canada's old stars did well in international competition the pre- sent crop of runners Is expected to ex- cel their records. John Miles won the Boston marathon last year in the best time ever made over the coulee. Cliff Bricker won the Buffalo marathon and Percy Wyer raced through a blining snowstorm to win the Detroit mora - Utast. Those victories in three big marathons lead the Canadian fans to believe that their represontatitvos siOlI be among the best in the field that will line up al. Amsterdam in 1928. Dostoievsky's Views on Crime and Punishment The theory of the great Russian writer, 1)osloicv;ky, that love, pity and comprehension are the only ef- fective means of overcoming crime, is set forth by Dr. Francis Snow, form- er head of the Russian Bureau of the Committee on nubile information dur- ing the World War, in December "Current history." This theory, statesDr• Snow, is being carried out to some extent by the Soviet Govern- ment. u•liiclt "except in the ease of counter-revelutlotteries has abolished capital punishment for crime. It is humanely attacking the problem of prostitution on the economic side by protecting '5 01111 workers from dis- missal and nnietnliloyment, and gives legal protect. inn to unmarried mothers anti illegitivatt0 children," Dos4ofev- sky :,et. forth his humane ideas in bis great novel "Crime and Punishment," states 1)r. Snow, "and there is no doubt whatever that it has exercised a tremendous influence at Ieast in the penumbral legions of men's minds in slowly shaping and evolving a more humane attitude toward' crime. The modern:psychiatrist's attempt to ram prebend the origin of crime and the development of the criminal mental- ity is essentially a practical 'applica- tion of it." 3—r v Newsprint is Second To -clay Canada's exports of news- pinnt paper rank second in value amoteher principal (exports, wheat home in first place. BUT LION AND TIGER cs The lords of the veldt end the It is not what one does; it is the Captivity makes strange lied l'�ilot e. / whole pnrpore of life consciously or jnuglessrorn enemies in the 'wilds, aro great pals iu the London nom Joel., unconsciously expressed in the doing the lion, elands the 1115:' atmorp:+ere better than Teddy, the tiger, who, being 'that measures the worth of the man or the woman who does ti, Wilson Publishing Company yin 1700 FLARED SJIIRTS ARE SHOWN ON MANY OF TIIE NEWEST FROCKS Decidedly smart is the modish frock pictured here. The two-piece flared skirt is joined to the bodice baying a vestee with round neek, and the long dart -fitted sleeves are finished with shaped cuffs. No. 1700 is in sizes ;i•l, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches must. Size 38 requires 27/1yards 30 -inch, or '2 ;!a yards 54 -inch material. and el yard 30 -inch contrasting. 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Vaccination in N.13d Thorough and Strict Enforce- ment of Existing Laws Has ClearedUp Small- - pox Situation NEW BRUNSWICK FREE For some reason which health authorities are not ,prepared to de Clare, off -hand, the fall and early win- ter of 1927 lids boon marked by spor- adic outbreaks of smallpox in widely- ecattered sections' of the Doi -Melon. To a considerable exteut,'these in- termittent revivals of a disease which can 'be utterly subdued, are due, in the opinion of officials of the Canadian Social 1lygiene Council, to a careless- ness on the part of the average Citi San, as far as vaccination is Corti •a - ed. Prompt, measures 1n the pa:„ tY • ] health. bodies have servo( officio h ve s0e l to ]d , 4. eliminate the old-time horrors on the disease when epidemics ravage, cities and nations unchecked. But the ' fact that smallpox has been 'changed from the terror ofthe house- hold to an infectious disease which can be kept under control, has forced. it into the background, to a degree, and thus contributed to the attitude of neglect as far as preventive mea stu'es are concerned and the growth.. of an unprotected population. In view of the present Situation across- the Dominion, information qi ' the methods employed by tha. Provin- cial Health Department of New Brunswick, are very timely. ."It is impossible for an epidemic of smallpox to make any headway in this province," A. M. Belding, editor of tine St. John Telegraph -Journal, said recently. "If memory serves, there was only into case of smallpox in New Brunswick last year and its= came from another' province." The exact reason for this fortu- nate state of affairs goes back more than a (punter century. Some twenty- five or thirty years ago, smallpox broke out in none of the New Bruns- wick counties. It gained consider- able headway and before it was nvcr,. it was obvious to the heads of the Provincial Government that the finan- cial loss involved wasgoing to =k:; serious inroads on the treasury, In fact, It was finally 'necessary for the province to issue a bond to cot•er' the losses which Neoi Ilruns- wick sustained as a result of this smallpox outbreak. At that time, however, there tram no A effectively -organized Department ss Public: Health and few active health boards. The state of affairs at that time i•= an interesting contrast with condi- tions in New Brunswick to -day. The lumber camps used to be fruit ful sources of trouble and at times, could develop into real hotbeds of smallpox, Now, However, the oper- ator of each camp is responsible for Y all costs connected with any outbreak of smallpox among his neon for the financial outlay involved in stamping out the disease. These camps were formerly danger spots but this method has almost mine pletely eliminated the risk. As far as children aro cioncerned,. their protection is dealt with under the Public Health Act of 1917, in ,a, which it is stated that all children mast bo vaccinated before enten'ing school. With adequate safeguards protect- ing the two sections of the province where smallpox is roost probable—in the schools and in the lumber -camps —ofilcient organization and prompt measures on the part of ono of the four district health officers, whenever a case breaks out, have resulted in the cutting down of the number of cases in New Brunswick to the abso- lute minimum. The Ghost Ship Of the North Sea. The North Sea has a Flying Dutch- man of its own -a sort of ghost. ahip whose appearance is superstitiously regarded by sailors as an omen of i1S1 fortune, if not of death, to the be- holder. It was first reported by a Brit- ish war convoy that left a Norwegian port in November, 1917. Lieut. Com- mander Fox of the Mary Rose counted twelce ships as they passed out of sight of land. Later an enemy raider attacked the convoy. When Com- mander Fox counted the convoy again`; there were thirteen. Other officers on the Mary Rose confirmed the somber. No one had seen tiro thirteenth ship join the ccm voy. One moment t:here,was blue eel sparkling behind the twelfth ship: the next the stranger was speeding along' with the rest, a somewhat rusty craft whose name had been so obliterated by long service at sea that it could not be made out. When the raider's attack began tire' stranger was still with the convoy. When the enemy had bean driven off tine stranger had vanished as myster- iously as she had appeared. Ilse liars' Rose was lost in the skirmish. The North Sea phantom has ap- peared, according to its growing le- gend, several times since then, cash Rime as the precursor of 111 fortune to The ive mets were discussing theft•, the beholder. She is said to be a aa'.l respective domestic lives. "Tliero's warship or again a rusty , t eightes', a not a day," said Mr. Newly -W si bili battered schooner ora email sen wcrn tarty, "Mit that my wife asks 71:110:-.0-.a fliner. But however she is i opo:t_ii, money." "You lucky cuss," reurnd North Sea sa£lornr0n believe . he l,n:10 Air. OldUmer ielviouHly): nn good. -___-__ iszn't a clay but ahave to ask my • 'fhe only difference Metwe, 5:oi . wits for niinney I isent and tnrisli er ,Si;ie � tl;at 'Stoicism recognizes Itt1 In.<'crlai cls>I Mlttsrd'e Liniment for Grippe, ttreirt.