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Out of town and night calls re- sponded to. All business confidential. Phones: Office' Soo; Residence 60z-xe. J. ALVIN FOX DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER., CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Phone xpr,• ' Hours: to -x2 a.m., 2-5, 7-8 p.m., or by appointment. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR EAU STE' By Percival Christopher. Wren. TFIE GREATEST MYSTERY STORY EVER WRITTEN "Why don' the gals jine the has party?" he enquired, looking round where the women, in the long bar cans, sat afar . off and admired t prandial performances of their lord "Shut up. Take no notice of tl women -folk," said Digby, "Sound pl among l&ussulmans of any kind;" "No doubt yore right, pard," agre Buddy, "but there shore is a real litt peach over there jest give rite the gla eye like a Christian gal as know a hill o` beans from a heap e' banana Cute an' cunnin' • Still ,we don want no rough stuff from the Injun . My, but it was a cinch. " an he sighed; heavily. CHAPTER VII Ishrnaelites "Greater love hath no man than thi That a man lay down his life for h friends." 1 could fill a large volume_ with th account of our .adventures; as Touar cgs of the Sahara, on this ride tha at Azzigig, in the French .So dan, and ended (for some of us) a Kano in Nigeria, in British West Af rico..•It was perhaps the longest an most arduous ride, ever achieved b Europeans in the Sahara -few o whom have ever crossed the deser from north to south without an or ganized caravan. We rode south-west when woe could and we rode northeast•when we mus as .when. north Of Air,.we were cap tured by Touaregs on this way t their Own: ,country" on the borders o Morocco.: During one terrible yea we _ made an ,almost complete circle, beibeingat one time at Eli Hilli, aithi two hundred miles of Timbuktu, an at anothei, atAgadem, within th same distance of Lake Tchad—an then later finding ourselves at Bilma hundred miles to the north. Sometimes thirst and ,hunger duo us to join salt -caravans, and some times slave -caravans (and we dear that slavery is still a very active pur suit and a flourishing business in' C tral= Africa). Generally these caravan were going in the direction opp,osit to ours, but we had to join them o perish in the waterless desert. Som times we were hunted by gangs larg er than our own; sometimes we wer met at,villages with volleys of rifle fire (being taken, naturally, for welt we pretended to be); sometimes w reached an oasis only to find it occu h- out rendering the.story.as wearisoni to as was the ,journey, a- For example, our discovery of the he 5, le an e a ed• le. d d s. 't s: place where there certainly ought to have been "a strange fair people of a civilization older, and in some ways higher, than our own; ruled over by a woman, so incredibly beautiful, so naervellously . ." etc. One . day we rode over the crest of a long ridge of sand -covered sock --straight into. band of armed men who outnumbered us by ten to one, at least, and who were ready and waiting for us with levelled rifles, We did as we had. done before, on similar exciting occasions. The Holy Ones, Hank and Buddy, fell dumb, and Digby became the emis- sary of the Senussi Mandi;I, his lieu- tenant. Digby rode forward. S, "Salamonne aleikoumi Esseleme, ek- es liwan" (Peace be unto you, brothers), said he, in solemn, sonorous greeting, e to,which ,a fine-looking'olcl man re- - to my great relief, "Aselamu, at alaikum,' marhaba, marhaba" (Greet - Sou ings to ,you and welcome), in a differ - t ent-sounding'Arabic from ours. It - turned out later that the old gentle- d man' took us for an advance -party of Y a big band of Touaregs who were near, and. was only too. charmed to. t find ns so ,charming. Digby then pro- - ceeded with the appropriate accofint'. of ourselves, .alluding to the dudumbd, forbidding Hank and Buddy as most t, holy men, khouans, hadjas, marabouts, - under,a strict vow of sileuce that it o would be ill work for any man to f attempt to break. Himself and me ✓ he described as m'rabets, men hered- itarily holy and prominent in faith n and virtue. d How ranch of this our hearers. un - e derstood, and how much of what they d understood, they believed, L could not a, tell, but they were obviously relieved to find us friendly and not part of a vc Iarger force. We were promptly in- - vited- to come along, and thought it ret best to comply,. there being little rea - son against doing so and ziiuch against en- refusing. In any case they had, "got s us,"' from the moment we came upon e their levelled rifles, our own slung be - ✓ hind us; and we were at their mercy. Seine As we rode along, nominally guests, - but feeling we were prisoners ,I. was, e interested to hear Digby assuring the - old sheikh that,though we were as at holy as it given to mere men to be, e we were nevertheless good hefty pro- pied by a patrol of French Senegales troops—far more dangerous to u than the nomadic robbers for whom we were a match when not hopelessly outnumbered. Whether we did what no European have ever done before, I do not know but we certainly went to places where Europeans had never been before, and 'discovered" desert cities which were probably prehistoric ruins before a stone of Damascus was laid. We en- countered no Queens of Atlantis and found no white races of Greek origin, ruled by ladies of tempestuous petti- coat, to whom it turned out we were distantly related. Alas, ta. 'ir 'e found only extremely poor, primitive, and - dirty pec,ple, with whom we sojourned 1,recisely as lone as untoward circum - - selytisers who carried the Q'ran in e one hand and the sword: in the other, s fighting -men who would be pleased, to chip in, if the Touaregs attacked his band. The 51d gentleman . returned thanks and said that, once home, they s did not fear all the Touaregs in the v, ' Sahara, as the place was quite im- I pregnable. This sounded attractive, and proved to be perfectly true, What I did trouble them, was the, fact that fivhen they set off with a caravan of camels for sale at Tanout, it was anorc than likely that they would, for months, have to, fight a series of pitched battles, or lose the whole of the wherewithal to purchase grain for their subsistence, for there was noth- ing a Touareg robber desired more than camels. "It is- the only wealth . that carries itself," observed Digby sententiously. After rating for some three or four' hours towards some low rocky moun- tains, we reached them and approach- ed a narrow and lofty pass. This we threaded in single file, and, corning • to the top, saw before tis an endless plain out of which arose a gars, an t abrupt and isolated plateau, looping' i like a gigantic cheese placed in the ni"vldle of the, level expanse of desert. Toward this we rode for another hour or two, and discovered it to be a pre - out across a . notoriously dangerous race of country to the east,. We must have puzzled the simple ouls of this inbred dying people, for hough we were obviously of strict iety, and. ebscrved the same hours of prayer as themselves from the fed er at dawn to the asha at ,tight ;we cold not pray in company with them or, as we sat and''faddhled (or gos- siped) round the sheileh's lire at night,, ould we' say one word on religious objects, We ran no unnecessary isks., A dignified "Allahou altbar" or' In ehah Allah," showed out agree- ment with the speaker and qur pions orthodoxy, and it had to suffice, As puritanical protestant reforniiitg.Sen- ussi; we had a higher and purer'brand. of Islamism than theirs, but refrained from hurting their feelings by any parade of it, " • , ` Digby was great, and his .descrip- tions of Mecca and Medina ,Baghdad, Constantinople, and Cairo, Fez, Tim- buktu, and Ktifra, held his hearers spellbound and left them little time for questions, Hank and Buddy were equally great, in what they did not Say and the manner iYn which they did stances compelled. Of course, we could never have sur- vived for a single month of those years but for the .desert -skill, the cour- age, resourcefulness and experience of. Hank and Buddy. On the other hand, he deay wits of Digby, and our tnowledge r,f. Arabic, saved the situ •- tion time after time, when we were n. contact with our fellow -reran, tau hese occasions we became frightfully holy. Hank and Buddy:. were marc- bouts under a vow of silence, and we wvere Senuesi on a mysterious errand, ravelling from Kufra in the Libyan esert to Timbuktu, and visiting all. arts of holy places. on the way. Luck- ily for us, there were no genuine Sen- ussi about; and the infinite variety of sects, with their different kinds of dervishes, and the even greater var- iety of people who spoke widely dif- fering dialects of Arabic, matte our task comparatively easy. Probably our rifles, our poverty, and our ob- vious truculence 'did still more in that direction, We suffered front fever, terrific heat, poisonous water; bad and insuf- ficient food, and the hardships o what was one long campaign of active war- fare to live, At times we were very. near the and, when our camels 'died, where a long journey ended at a dried- up well,. when we were surrounded by a pack of the human wolves of the desert, and when' we were fairly ca'p- 'tured by ash:iflt •of Touaregs, susp'ic- bow; of our bona fides As 1' have said, an account of our katabasis would fill a volume, but the description of a few typical i.heiderits will suffiee to give an idea of it, with - 1 a ELECTRICITY i Adjustments given for diseases of t all kinds; specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant, Night calls responded to. Office on Scott St., 'Wingham, Ont: Phone iso t ... d GEORGE A. SIDDALL" t; -----Broker---- Phone 78. 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Obviously this bridge could easily be removed if nec- essary, place y, and the place defended with the greatest ease, if 'any enemy were foolish enough to attempt to bridge the abyss while the defenders dropped boulders from terrific heights and tired their rifles at point-blank range from behind the strong stone wall that faced the chasm. Having crossed the bridge, we rode on upward to where this narrow slit in the mountain opened out into a big rock -enclosed square like a land- ing on a staircase--beYond which camels could not go. In this natural serai we dismounted and, left our beasts, continuing our cliinb on foot. It was, indeed, an impregnable place, and I did not see how the best troops in the world could capture it, so long as there remains a stout-hearted de- fender in any one of the invisible placesthat commanded the path up. which two men could nowhere climb abreast and where, in many places, only one could squeeze with difficul- ty. And on the plateau was a walled, city, a city built of blocks of dressed stone, blocks larger than any I have ever seen put to such purpose, and ob- viously of such an age in this use as must have left them ojd there when the world, as we know of it, was young. It was a great and melancholy place, containing, I should think, at least three times as many dwelling- places as there were dwellers. Person- ally, I lost .any sense of our precar- ious position and all feeling of dan- ger and anxiety, in interest and won- derment of this "walled city set upon a hill," and such a hill. But, as I have said, there was no wonderful white race her for us to restore touch with modern civiliza- tion. Nor was there any wonderful black race either. The inhabitants of this strange city were just ordinary Arabs, 1 believe, though I am no eth- nologist, and, so far as they knew, they had "always" lived there. Never- theless, I felt perfectly certain that no ancestor of theirs had .placedthose incredible monoliths in position, nor made for themselves doorways twelve and .fifteen .feet in height, leading,into chambers ten feet higher. . Thesepeople were undoubtedly the long-established dwellers in this city, but none the less were they dwellers in someone else's city, and merely camping in it at that, even. if for a few thousand, years. However, they were very interesting people, living simply and austerely under the benign sway of their 'patriarchal sheikh, and quite ...hospitable and friendly. They knew but little of the outside world, though they realised that there were Rournis and infidels of all kinds, other cities than their own, holy places be- sides Mecca and Medina, and greater sheikhs,' sultans, and emperors than. their own. They apparently regarded the world, or at any rate their world, as divided up into •Touareg etobbers on the one hand, arid the enemies and victims of Touaregs on the other. In their mativellous rock fastness they were safe, but out .on • the desert they were at the mercy of any nomadic r9bber-band stronger than themselves, Water they had in'plenty, as their mountain contained an apparently in- exhaustible spring and well, and they had goat -flesh and a little grain, veg- etables, and dates, but were compelled to make the six months' caravan jour- ney to Tanotit fir the grain that .form ed. the staple of their food, as well as for ammunition, salt, and cooking ves- sels -for which commodities they ex- changed their camels as well as dress- ed goatskins, and garments beautiful 1y woven and embroidered by their women -folk. With these good folk we stayed. for some days, a pleasant restful oasis in he weary 'desert of our lives, receiv- ng genuine Arab hospitality and re- paying it with such small' gifts as were of more value to them than, to us, and by offering to scout for, and fight with, their caravan then about to set cipitous mountain, sheer, cliff -sided, with a flat top; the whole, I suppose, t about a square mile in area, Appar- ently it was quite inaccessible and un-. s trodden by the foot of roan; or even t of mountain sheep or goat. Only an p eagle, I imagined, had ever looked up- o on the • top of that isolated square j mile of rock, �wv I was wrong, however, the place n proving to be a gigantic fort -a fort of the most perfect kind, but which w owed nothing whatever to the hand s of man. Circling the clifflike precip- r ;taus base of the mountain, we carne " to a creek in the thousand -foot wall., a crack that was invisible at a hun- dred yards. Into this narrow fissure the sheikh led us Jn single file, and, squeezing our way between 'gigantic cactus; we rode along' the upward- sloping pwardsloping bottom of a winding chasm that was notsix feet wide. Suddenly our path` was cut by' a wide ravine, some three yards wide, a great crack across the crack in which we were entombed, 13ridging this was laid a number of trunks of the dome palm and over these a matting of palma leaf and sand trade a harrow hut safe 'See not say it. Nevertheless, it was well we could make the departure' of the caravan our opportunity for going, and it was well that our hosts were, what they were,and! even then the ice, at times, was very thin, We descended from this extrao:+.;in- ary and apparently absolutely un- known prehistoric city, and s>t c•f"t with. the caravan, rested and in l.,..:.,, case than we had been in for nig. We were going in the right direc- tion, we were approaching Aire we should then be near a caravan -route on which were wells; and if our dan- ger from our fellow -men, Arab and French, were likely to increase, our danger from the far more terrible enemy, the desert, would decrease. With luck, we might parallel the cara- van -route and make dashes for water When opposite the oases on the route, trusting that we should be able to evade French patrols (of Senegalese infantry and Arab gouiniers) and Touareg reading parties alike. We said our "Abka ala Kheir" (good-byes) to our late hosts and heard their "Ianshi besselma" (Go in peace) with real regret, at the last oasis on our commqn route, pressed. on in gootlehreart and high hopes, dit1 very, well for a month, and then fell straight into the hands of the rascal- ly and treacherous Teguma, Sultan of Agades, when we were only four hun- dred miles from the" frontier of Ni' geria and safety. (To h. Continued) EXCITEMENT AT ZURICH Great excitement was shown in the village early Sunday morning between three and four o'clock, when our 10 cal barber, Mr. ` E. Oesch, hearing a car drive into Edighoffer's hotel yard, got ' busy to watch these intruders,, and saw two fellows: leave the car and first make for Stade & Weido's hard- ware store. They could not open the door, so they 'tried the door of Gas- cho's general store and were also un- successful, and then, While they were breaking into the door of the rear. of the Gascho store, 'Mr. Oesch and'. Dr: Cowen gave alarm over the phone and loaded their rifles and " took the street all ready for action. When Mr. Gascho learned of the doings he im- mediately rushed in the front door of. the store and turned on the lights. 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