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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-10-13, Page 61SrELT,.ii1tQTONMUTUAL FIRE xNSUT+ANCE Established rfi4o Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Rusks taken on all dosses of insur- sine at reasonable rates, ABNER COSENS, Agent,: Wingh.arn J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH ----- INSURANCE . AND REAS. ESTATE P. O. Box eno POone 24Q WINGHAM., - - .. W. BUSBFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan. Office --Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, Ontario J. A. MORTON" BARRISTER, ETC. Wingharn,_ Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office over H. E. Isard's Store. H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Phone ea Wingham Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly DR. ROET. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Load.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, `Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29. Dr. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Office—Josephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. 'relephonest Office 28r, Residence z5z DR. G. W. HOWSON Y SON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on. Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Hours -g a.m. to 8 p.m. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 272. A. R. & F. E. DUVA.LL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and Electra Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago. Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry Store, Main St HOURS: 2—,S, 7-8.30 p.m., and by appointment. Out of town and night calls re- sponded to. All business confidential. Phones: Office Soo; Residence 6oz-13. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIC By Percival; Christ+;pher .Wren iREATEST IZIY"eaTERY STO RY EVER WRITTEN It would certainly be better to en- counter a patrol in the role of Arabs than in that of runaway soldiers from the Roreign Legion. Accodingly Hank decreed that we must pied: on, only enough time being spent here fur the camels to eat and drink their fill. He was of opinion that the party we were following was. an offshoot of the big band that had attar,>edZinderneuf and was un its way to "gather in" some village NvIdeli they visited per- iodically. Hery they would appropri- ate its harvest of dates or grain, such carrels as might be worthy, those of its sons and daughters who might be suitable for staves, and any goats, clothing, inuney, and useful odds -and - ends that .they might fancy. These Touareg bands make an an- nual tour and visit the villages of an enormous area, in the spirit of some- what arbitrary and undiscriminating tax -collectors. 1S/hat they want, by way of tax, is everything the villagers possess that is portable, including their young men anis, maidens. If the villagers are reasonable and relin- quish everything with a good grace, there need not be any bloodshed— or .very little, just in the way of fun and sportive merriment. The Touaregs do not wish to des- troy the village and slaughter the in- habitants, because they prefer to find. a peaceful and prosperous commun- ity here again next year. All they wish to do is to clean thein out ab- solutely and leave . them alone to amass some .more. But if the villag- ers choose to be uppish and truculent, giving ' their visitors trouble ---they must take the consequences—which are fire and sword and torture. Or, if the band is off its regular beat and not likely to conte that way again, it combines .'sport with business and leaves no living thing .behind it, nor any roofed dwelling in what evas a vil- lage—scarcely .one stone upon anoth- er of what was a little town. After about three hours' rest we pushed on again and rode for the re- mainder of the day and right through the night. The fact that we did not come up with our quarry seemed to confirm the theory that they wefe a war -party on raiding business. Peace- ful caravans and travellers would nev- er go at such a pace, and we should have a e 4Ve rtaken suchr a party easily. On this side of the river, or rather river -bed, the scenery began to change. The earth grew grayer in. color, cactus and acacia began to ap pear„and there were numerous great rock kopjes. The change was from utterly lifeless sand -desert to rock- desert, leaning a sparse vegetation. Suddenly we heard distant rifle -fire to our front --a few scattered shots. Simultaneously, Hank and Buddy brought the camels to their knees among the rocks and we dismounted, unslinginee our rifles as we did so. "Mustn't stet the sharnnios shot up,” ' t said Hank to me. "You hold 'ern, dao, c l chile the rubber around some," and 1 they skirini hod forward, Nothing , h further being' heard and. nothing seen, a they returned, and we rode un again. "Tall its what hashepp :'ned. We want to help. , '9 Digby also aired, his Arabia and the man was convinced. He appeared to understand all we said, and I un- derstood him about as well as an English-speaking Frenchman would, ',melee-stand a Deevonshire yokel. I gathered that the usual village . :rage, edy bad developed as follows: A woman, minding goats, had seen a ban, of Touaregs approaching this man called them "The- Veiled Ones,_ the Forgotten of God"), and'had fool- ishly, or bravely, got up on' a rock and screamed the news to a youth who was working nearer the village. They had both started running . but. the Touaregs had, caught the Woman. The youth had roused the village and the men had rushed out with their rifles to some rocks near by, ready to fire on the Touaregs and hoping to give the impression of a large and well -armed force, fully prepared to give thele a warm reception. The wo- men and children had scuttled to the big ravine behind the village, down which they would make their way to their usual hiding -place. A couple of lads had been sent off to warn the men who had taken' the camels out to graze. The speaker had been one of these men, and while he and one or two others were collecting the camels and driving them to the ravine,, a Tar- gui scout had come upon them and shot him. The rest of the Touaregs' bad come straight to the spot, circled round, fired a volley, and;closed in on the camels, He himself had been left for dead, When he came to his sens- es he was alone with the corpses of the other camel -guards, and he had slowly crawled to his hut to die. The Touaregs. had camped and were calmly, enjoying a well-earned rest. Apparently the village men were still watching ,events from their place among the rocks, the women and children were in hiding' down the ra- vine, and the: camels were captured.. I gathered that it would have been less calamitous had the camels been in hiding down the ravine, and the women and children captured. We ex- plained the situation ' to Hank and Buddy. "Sport without danger, and business with pleasure," was their view, but we must m give the Touaregs'the shock of their lives. We held a council of war, and it was. decided that the wounded man should get in touch with the villagers and tell thein that we were friends of theirs. More, we were deadly enemies of the Touaregs, and (most) we'd get the camels back and give them 'those of the Touaregs. too -if they'd play the man and do as we bade them. Having told his tale and, grasped. that we really wished to befriend him, the wounded man seemed to be If • from death than he had hought. He was shot through the hest, but I did not think that his ungs had suffered, asthere was no emorrhage frum the mouth. After drink of water and a pill, which Digby gave him with the assurance that it would do wonders fur him though I doubted whether there J. ALVIN FOX t Rounding a great rock, a mile or DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER two farther on, a rock that reminded ( one of a Dartmoor tor; eve saw an CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRAC'T'ICE ugly sight. A woman had been tied t ELECTRO -THERAPY Phone len Flours: 10-12 a.m., 2-5, 7-8 p.xn., by appointment. were wonders suitable to the situa- D. H. McINNES ion), he gut off the angareb and stag ered to the doorway of the hut. I� ram here he peered beneath his hand ur a while, and then tottered out ar.'l id some signalling, Very pluckily k:a stuck to. it until an answering movement. among the rocks, unseen y u:., satisfied hint, and he returned o the hut. Shortly afterwards, a hail naught him to the door again, and his time he walked off fairly steadily and 'disappeared into the ravine. He returned with a big, dirty, seuint- eyed Arab who, he said, was the head- man of the village, which was called Azzigig (or sounds to that effect). The headman was in the mental ondition of one who sees znen as rees wa}king, when he. found himself ti the presence of four armed and, uni- orrncd Rountis, two of whom spoke Arabic to him, and all of whom wish - d him:to put up a fight for Azzigig, ome, and Beauty. His own idea was o thank Allah that :things were no worse, and to lie Sow until the Touar- gs chose to depart, preying mean- "' that they would do so in peace, veitltvut troubling to hunt out the vil- lagers, burn c houses •slaughterh f� , ,t e goats, and have a little torture -party before doing so, When: k I as if h felt ed e sto pard¢-; stlar resentment about the mutilated woman and the slaughtered camel. tt 8 ands, to say nothing of the loss of the entire stock of carpels, he replied that it was doubtless the will of Allah, and who should dispute that? When I pointed out that it was obviously the will of Allah that we should ar- rive in the nick of time, and that the Ito an acacia tree and horribly mutil- ;s ated. I' need say no more about the Y sr ht „ and its effect upon us, although 1 I might say:a good deal. It was ev- d lidera that she had been herding a CIIROPRACTOR : fleck of goats. . ELECTRICITY ' "Village near,” said Hank, and he b Adjustments given for disease of !and Buddy again simultaneously 3 t all kinds; specialize in dealing with 'wheeled the camels round, and we re- b children. Lady attendant. Night calls tired behind the tui and distriuurticd. t Office on Scott St,, Wingham, Ont. Phones: Office 706, Resid. zz, Phone P o 5 GEORGE A. SIDDALL ---Broker--- Phone 73. L.ucknow, Ontario Money to lend on first and second mortgages on. farm, azid other real es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel mart- gages art- a: es onstock an � g st dots. personal notes. A. few farms on hand' for sale or to rent on easy terms. THOMAS FELLS AUCTION'IER REAL tSTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge tl wedea g f �'a g rti7: Stock -�- Phone 23X, Witltgharn -' 4 i I rl IY r t"N M lifH,il MI 15 k u ulh vial re s r,s t r t ,rear ! rHiH H „ u / i111tH Pkones Office, to6y Reid, 224 S'. * ye�e i! A.J. WALKER FURNITURE. DEALER and In.I � ERAI, DIRECTOR C TOR Mtrtot EquipMent. tl<t t+ d AM, ONTARIk Mtf,EYtletle H)e NrHeeYeBNYNtC1eYtYi'IY.H%flifdHiit1111i'HIItlli,jrNY4 s „t: corral the ho.:see here, and eceut t o,rne," ,aid .Hank. "It'll be t LL � .h dollar. t e ecet}zt.sc darned cvy- u,e; before they see us." This time the camels were tied, with their again, and; left, We ad- vanced en traillcur, as though to at- I c tack an Arab douar, a manoeuvre: with t which our training had made us only i too familiar.' Gradually we approach- f ed what appeared to be a completely deserted village by an oasis at the'e edge of a deep ravine. I should think H there had been a village ron this spot t for :thousands of years, though the present buildings were wretched mud c huts crowning the basements of an- cient stone houses of great strength, It was as thu h a tribe of gipsics, encamped permanently on an ancient British hut -circle site on Dartmoor, had fisc, the pxchisioric stones in the constructionof their, rude dwellings. Into this village, evidently very re» centiy abandonedwe n , made our way with due precaution. in one of the huts, on a rough angareh, lay a wounded rn.an, As we entered he' drew a curved dagger from his belt and :feebly :struck at 1xs. 'We are frier,..is," said .1 in Arable, Touaregs .should camp and �rest 1 stead of riding off, he said he won go and telk with his' brethren, Th he did, and returned with e delrutatio of very dirty, suspicious, evil-looicin Arabs, who evidently did not belie what he had ,told them and had cam to see for themselves. "Gee!" observed Btuddy, "Wetta ti ly bunch of low -lifer hoboes. "Some stiffs," agreed Hank, However, I harangued the stiffs ,o firing tlnnn a chance of recoverin their ;camels and teacldng the Totta egs a lesson. I fumbled for the A abic for "catching a Tartar" as :G tri to get these fatalists to sce.they ha as much "right to' life, liberty, ari the pursuit of happiness as,Touareg azid that the latter had no God -give privilege to torture, murder», and ro As ;for the "Will of. Allah," let then follow us and show a little pluck, an they'd soon see what was the will o Allah in the matter. In support Digby .said, "Anyhoe we're going to attek therm, whethe you, do or not. Those who: help .0 will share the loot." As the loot would include excelien rifles` and incomparable' camels, the gave the poor wretches' something t think about, In the end, they agree, that if we would really fight for' there andiwith thein, and give them all th loot, except a, couple of camels, as w had promised, they•would fight thei hardest. We began by'reconnoitering'' th Touareg camp. Absolutely certain'o their complete security, the robber had merely lighted fires and lain dow to rest, leaving one of their;numbe to guard their own camels and tw to guard those stolen from the vii lagers. Presumably these guards wer more herdsmen than sentries,' as th Touaregs had nothing to fear. Villag ers do not attack victorious Hogga robbers. It simply is not done. Al that was necessary was to preven the camels from straying, and to hav a rest •'before'proceeding on the tax gathering journey—with or without little sport in the village before start ing. . Our plan was simple and, our job was easy.' Half a dozen selected her oes of .Azzigig were to deal with the somnolent camel -guards— silently i possible. Every rifle that Azzigig could boast 'was then to be discharged into the.Touareg.camp, Wont as close a range as it was possible to wriggle to, When the Touaregs 'bolted to. the ravine, as they certainly would do, to take cover from this, blast and or- ganise their defence—they would:frnd- their way blocked by the entire French army, in" uniform, with a bug- ler blowing callsthous- ands to bring. up thous ands morel ..., I must say that the villagers behav- ed very well. They were, of course, born desert fighters, and we had put heart into them. After a tremendous volley, at about forty yards' range, they: charged like fiends, and when we four rose from behind, rocks and the Touaregs 'recoiled in astounded ter- ror, they surrounded them like a pack of wolves. • In a brief, mad, happy minute of hacking, stabbing, and shooting, they worked off a good;deal of the personal and ancestral grudge of centuries. As they outnumbered the Touaregs by five or six to one, had them at a complete disadvantage, and knew we were behind them, they made a short job of it and a clean. one. From another point of view it.was not a clean one. At any, rate, we pre- vented torture even if we could not save life. For once it was the 'under dogs turn, and he used his teeth... . Digby, not unreasonably, claimed that the bugle really wcin the battle. The upshot of the business was that we left Azzigig, each riding a 'splen - 'lid mehari camel, and each clad in the complete outfit of a Touareg raid- er—newly washed for us by the grate- ful dames of the village. Nor could the lads of the village do enough for us. What they could, . and did, do, was to provide us with a guide and a spare camel Iaden with food and wa-. ter, to help us on our way to the :text village arid oasis in the direction of our goal. f A desperate band of ruffians we looked, Touareg to the last detail of dress, weapons, and accoutrement,. Lean aid leathery hawk -faced. Nark and Buddy made ,splendid Arabs, and seemed to enjoy "playing" Injun" like a pair of boys. They soon learned the uses and arrangings of the serd and jubba vests, the kaftan inner coat, the heazam sash, the jelabia overall, the sirwall baggy trouscre, the ma- araka skull cap with the kafiya head- dress bound round with the agals, ropes of .cancel -hair. The blue veils Milch the Touaregs wear, wete the chief trouble, but intime erne we grew accustomed, to them. l: do not know whether these veils are a centuries- old relic of the days when the Touar- egs were a white raceand took. care of their complexions; whether they were a sudden bright idea for keep, ing the and from the lungs in windy weather; whether` they were invented for purposes of mystery and playing n-, bogey with their enemies and vic- tims; or whether they simply evolved as useful desert -wear for people al- ways on the move,. against cutting sand -filled winds and a burning glare that smites upward as well as down- ward, Anyway, it is curious that only the 'Tottaregs :evolved:. them, On our camels we carried zeenen,t ayes full of water, and jaafas, • ther sacks, which our hosts hubz, or native bread; and aside, hor- rible tnassesof dough nixed with oil and onions, flavoured with fil-fit, a sort of. Sed pepper.. On the spare cam- el were huge khoorgs, or saddle -bags,. filled with alafs of fodder for tlzc.cant- eIS,''as well as girbas full of water. We discarded our two military sad- dles and replaced them with Arab scrgs, and, it fact, "went native" altogether, retaining nathiug Europ- ean but our rifles and Digby's bugle. And in doing this,` even, we were not guilty of any anomaly, I had been in- terested to note that, along with heavy swords of Crusader pattern, and lances and knives of a type un ehanged since the days of Abraham, the • Touaregs carried splendid maga- zine -rifles of the latest pattern. Toth these and their ammunition were of Italian make, and I wondered wheth- er they had been captured in Tripoli, or smuggled by the Chambaa rifle - runners of Algeria. As two. men had Turkish rifles . aid cartridges of .430 calibre, I thought it likely that the former was the source.' The useful bugle was; of course, concealed. Before we` departed, the village pull- ed itself together, and, evidently try- ing to show us "what Todgers' could do" in the way of a diffa, or feast, regaled us upon fatta, a rness of car rots, bread, an`el'eggs, and a quite de'.. cent couscous of goat. For wassail, the headman • brought up from the "cellar" (under. his bed) a magnum (heather) of laghbi, a' rare old vintage palf-juice, which had lain mellowing and maturing in' bottle for • quite' a week. I found that my ,names for- things of this sort were not always the. same as the names. I had learned in Algeria, but by any other name they smelled as remarkable. I asked Hank what he thought of the "liquor." , "Fierce, ain't it?" replied he, and, left me to apply mine own ,evaluation' to the word.. ` "Guess we could stop here to be the Big Noise of the tribe,"remarked Buddy, endeavoring to' feed, himself gracefully with his fingers—not an easy thing to do -when a spoon: is the indicated instrument. "Yep. Shakers and emus;" agreed: Hank, with hazymemories movies of sheikhs s and emirs perhaps. "And a harem-scarum," added Bud- dy. (To be Continued) RAPID CITY The Miller Cement Company are erecting a concrete wail in our, burg for kir, W. E. Henderson. Miss Margaret Campbell visited with her friend, Miss McLeod, of Lueknow, one clay last week. The Misses Carter, of Ripley, visit- ed their cousins here last week. We wish to congratulate our teach- er, Miss Annie Johnson, for the splen- did showing her pupils made' at the school fair on Friday last, taking second prize among so many contest ing schools. Mr. Tom England, of Fergus, visit- ed with his parents here last week, Mr, and airs, Ernest Scott and family left for Adanac, Sask, by flip- for on Wednesday last. We wish them health and prosperity in their new house, Mr, David Meacl vi.:ted friends in Ripley oil Sunday. '> Mr. William Cook returned' home on Saturday from a two weeks' 'trip in North Brace in the interests of the E. D, Smith Nursery of Winona TORY CORNERS Mr, T. Nickel took a; business trip to Walkerton Iast week, Melvin Taylor spent Sunday with his parents in Mildmay. Mr. and Mrs, R. A. Taylor called on Mr, and. Mrs. William Elliott, of T4irnberry, on Sunday. The community was shocked to hear of the sudden death of Mrs. Fa- thergill, of Wingham, which occurred early Sunday morning., The 'sisters have the sympathy of their old neigh- bors, Wife Takes Vinol reels Fine Now "I was weak and had no strength. Since 'taleing. Vino], I feel fine now and do my work again."—Mrs. G. Barncsberger, ' The very 1x'ii.ST week you take Vino,, you begin to feel' stronger, eat and,, sleep better. Vivol is a simple, strengthening iron and cod liver coMpounil in use for over z5 years by weak, nervous worn - en, run-down nnen and sickly children. J, Walton &tc!(ibbon, druggist. i a6 Thursday, October rile, tinge gt Susi Qom Slim " W. ,T GREER, WINGI AM, ONT, e cor ste r;4t with inferior ferior tea. 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