Zurich Herald, 1928-02-02, Page 2CHAPTER XXX.,—(Cont'd.)
• "Thus was not primarily to scale a
peak of the Himalayas, nor even tq
visit Khatmandu, but to endeavor to
obtain a glimpse of the TeamIe of
Fire!
"We had camped for the night in
the shadow of one of the giant tors.
The bearers were seated around their
•fire at some little distance from us,
and Vadi and I were consulting re-
specting our route in the morning,
when I decided to take him into my
confidence. Accordingly: ,
"'Vadi,' I said, 'I know far a posi-
tive fact that we are within ten miles
of the secret Temple of Fire.'
"'The sahib is wise,' he replied,
"'So is Vadi,". said I. 'Therefore
he know how happy a thousand
pounds of English moray seeeld =lee
_.him. • It is his in return foe a sight
of• tta Temple,'
`! seen . ity die for nothing,' he
returned, softly. "Why_ •should the
sahib pay a thousand pounds?'
"'It is forbidden for any to see the
Temple, even from a distance.'
"'But if no one ever 'knows that I
have seen it?'
"'Fi•re-Tongue knows everything,'
be replied, and as he pronounced the
name, he performed a curious salu-
tation, touching his forefinger with
the tip of his tongue, and then lay-
ing his ~hand upon his brow, upon
his • lips; and upon his breast, at" the
same time bowing deeply.
"This- conversation took place, as
I have ' already mentioned, in the
shadow of one of these strange stone
hillocks.'`which abounded here, and it
was at this point that I received a
warning which -might have deterred
many •men, since it was inexplicable
and strangely awesome.
"My attention was drawn to the
phenomenon by a sudden cessation • of
chatter amongst the bearers seated
around their fire.. I became aware
that an absolute stillness had fallen,
and in the eyes of the Brahmin who
sat facing me I saw a look of- ex-
altation, of wild fanaticism.
"I jerked my head around, looking
back, over my shoulder, and what I
saw I shall never forget, nor to this
day have I been able to explain the
means by which the illusion was pro-
duced.
° "Moving downward toward me
through the jungle darkness, slowly,
evenly, but at a height above the
ground of what I judged to be about
fifteen feet, was a sort of torch or
flambeau, visible because it was faint-
ly luminous; and surmounting it was
a darting tongue of blue flame!
"At the moment that I set my eyes
upon this apparently supernatural
spectacle the bearers, crying some
weed in Hindustani which I did not
enderstand, rose and fled in a°body.
"I may say here that I never saw
any of them again; although, consid-
ering that they took nothing 'with
them, hove they regained' the ,nearest
village is a mystery ,which I have
never solved.
"Gentlemen, I know the East as few
of my fellow -citizens know it. I know
something of the powers which are
latent in some Orientals and active
M others. That my Brahmin guide
was a hypnotist and' an illusionist, I
have since thought.
"For, even as the pattering foot-
steps of the bearers grew faint in the
distance, the fiery torch disappeared
as if by magic, and a silken cord was
about my throat!
"As I began a desperate fight for
life, I realized that, whatever else
Vadi might be, he was certainly an
expert thug. The jungle, the rocks,
teemed to swim around ore as I crash-
ed
rashed to the ground and felt the Brah-
min's knee in the small of my abck."
CHAPTER XXXI.
$TORY 0]? TFIr7 CITY OF FIRE (CONT'll) .
"How I managed to think of any
defence against such an attack, and
eeptcially in the circumstances., is a
,e atter I have often .wondered about
since,
"You may observe that I have large
hands. Their size and strength serv-
ed me well on this occasion. At the
moment that the rope tightened about.
my throat I reached up and grasped
the Brahmin's Ieft thumb. Desperation
gave me additional strength, and I
'snapped it like a stick of candy.
"Just in the nick of time I felt the
cord relax, and, although the veins
In niy head seemed to be bursting, I
managed to get my fingers under that
damnable rope
"Clutching the rope with my left
hand, I greened and lay still. The
BMhrnin slightly shifted his position,
Which was what I wanted hint to do.
The brief respite had been `suffici. nt.
As he moved, I managed to draw my
knees up, very, eli:ghtly, for he was a
big heavy man, but sufficiently to
enable nee tit throw him off and roll
oven
"Then, gentlemen, I dealt with him
es he had meant to die•al with me; only
I used iiy bare hands and made a job
Of it.
"The fires burned lower and lower,
buTriode )r ade leo attempt to relen�ish
thein; and because I sat there lo eilent
sell kinds el ja ogle creattires crept fur -
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tivery out of the shadows and watched
ire with their glittering eyes.
"So the night -passed, ani dawn
found me still sitting there, the dead
man huddled on the ground not three
paces from roe. I am a man who as
a rule thinks slowly, but when the
light came key mind . was fully made
up. I dressed myself in Vadi's clothes,
and, being very tanned at this time,
I think 1 made a fairly creditable
native.
"Faintly throughout the night,
above the other sounds of the jungle,
I hasiseheard that of distant falling
water. Now, an informant at Neg-
ligee, in speaking to me of the secret
temple, had used the weeds:
"'Whoever would see the fire must
quit air and pass through water.'
"This mysterious formula he had
--et- as,ei i,e.el to trap wase jute corn--
erellensible English; but during niy
journey I had been considering it
from every angle, and I had recently
come to the conclusion that the enc
trance to this mysterious place was in
some way concealed by water.
"And now, gentlemen, I must relate.
a discovery which I had made in the
act of removing Vadi's clothing. Upon
his right forearm was branded a mark
resembling the apparition which I had
witnessed in the night, namely, a lit-
tle torch, or flambeau, surmounted by
a tongue of fire.
"The plateau upon which I stood
was one of a series of giant steps,
and on the west was a sheer descent
to a dense jungle, where banks of rot-
ten vegetation, sun-dried 'upon ~"The
top, lay heaped about the tree stems.
"Dragging the heavy body of Vadi
to the brink of this precipice, I top•
-
"I dealt with hint as he had meant
to deal with me."
pled it over, swaying dizzily as I
watched in crash down into' the- poi
onous undergrowth two hundred feet
below.
"I made a rough cache, where I
stored the bulk of niy provisions; and,
selecting only such articles as I
thought necessary for my purpose, I
set out again northward, guided by
the sound of falling water.
"At midday the heat grew so great'
that a halt became imperative. , The
path was still„ clearly discernable; and
in a little cave beside it, which afford-
ed grateful shelter, from the merciless
rays of the sun, I unfastened my
bundle and prepared to take a frugal
lunch.
"I was so employed, gentlemen,
when I heard the sound of approach-
ing footsteps on the path behind me
-the'path which I had recently tra-
versed.
"Hastily concealing my bundle, I
slipped' into some dense undergrowth
by the entrance to the cave, and
crouched there, waiting and watching.;
I ltd' not waited very long before a
yellow -robed mendicant passed by,
earrying a bundle not unlike my own,
whereby I concluded that he had come
some distance.
"1 gave him half an hour's start and
then resumed my march. If he could
travel beneath a noonday sun, so
could I.
"In this fashion I presently carne
out upon a larger and higher plateau,
carpeted with a uniform, stunted
undergrowth, and extending, as fiat.
as a table, to the very edge of a sheer
precipice, which rose frons it to a
height of three or four hundred feet—
gnarled,
gnarled, naked rock, showing no ves-
tige of vegetation.
"By this time the sound of falling
water had become very loud, and as
I emerged from the gorge through
which the path ran on to this plateau
I saw, on the further side of this
tableland; the yellow robe of the men-
dicant. The was walking straight for
tilt face of the precipice, and straight
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WASHING •�;'
Everywoman's
Ataid-of-all-work
in the rock, a little stream leapt out,
. to fall sheerly ten or fifteen feet into
a winding channel, along which it
bubbled away westward, doubtless to
foinn a greater water fall beyond.
"The mendicant was fully half a
mile away from me, but in that clear
tropical air was plainly visible; and,
fearing that he might look around,
I stepped back into the comparative
shadow of the gorge and watched.
"Gentlemen, I saw a strange thing.
Placing his bundle upon. his head, he
walked squarely into the faceef the
waterfall and disappeared!"
CHAPTER XXXII. ,
STORY '01? THE CITY Or FIRE (CONT'D.)
"'Quitting air, must pass through
water.' The meaning of those words
became apparent enough. I stood at
the foot of the waterfall,' looking up
at the fissures from which .it issued.
"Although the fact had been most
artistically disguised, T could not
doubt that this fissure was 'artificial.
"A great deal of mist arose from it.
But I could see that, beyond a duck-
ing, I had little -to fear; and, stepping
down into the bed of the little stream
which frothed' ands bubbled" pleasantly
about my bare legs, I set my bundle
on my head as the mendicant had
done, and plunged through- the.water-
fall, into' a place of delicious coolness.
(To be continued.)
Mild Winter Has
Set No Records
Niagara Fruit Growers Uneasy
Over Prolonger Warm
Weather •
According to meteorological records
the present winter, although it has
\been of a mild typeito date; ]ras'not
made any records for high- tempera-
tures. For the past 35 years there
have been periodical warn .linters
similar to the present' one. s
The temperature average r last
December was 29.2; just three` 'gees
above the average, as compared with
an average temperature•of 81.5 which
prevailed during December of 1920,
and an average of 34.3 in December,
1889.
The warm weather and rains of last
Friday and Saturday, following a de-
cidedly cold period earlier in the week,
has resulted in the country roads be-
coming- almost impassable for motor -
driven traffic. The frost- has com-
menced • to come out and in some sec-
tions -of the .province it has come out
arid the roads have dried'sufeciently
to allow dragging and grading opera-
tions to prooeede
Wirtor ' sports have been hard hit.
Hockey, curling and other sport sche-
dules have received a severe setback,
as no natural ice is available for these
sports except in Northern Ontario,
which is experiencing much colder
weather than in the southern, central
and eastern parts of the province.
Fruit growers in the Niagara Pen-
insula are growing uneasay over .the
prolonged mild spell. No damage has
as yet been done, but should the warm
weather continue a few days longer,
to be followed by heavy frosts, the
result would undoubtedly prove dis-
astrous, as reports from several- Ni-
agara districts state that the buds of
shrubs, rose bushes and even some
apple trees have commenced to chow
a swelling.
Farmers also are anxiously looking
for snow to protect the fall seeding
from frosts.
Neglect of Research
Manitoba Free Press (Lib,): The
nation that neglects the advantages
to be obtained from the research lab-
oratory will inevitably fall. 'by the'
wayside, And yet the Canadian •Gov-
ernment Is spending only $170,000 this
year on research work, and there are
no adequate laboratory facilities for
carrying on industrial research. With
only a few exceptions, the industries
of Canada are not strong enough yet
to provide their own facilities, al-
though they might do more than ap-
pears to be the case... Canada has
been neglecting a powerful means to
her material advancement which
other countries have found to be` ex-
eeedingly valuable. It is time that
she bestirred herself and employed
the method that is open to her of ae-
celeraiting her progress and develop-
ment and increasing the prosperity
of her people.
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One of the many methods of locat-
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some scientific backing, is the "seis-
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feet deep is- dug and filled with 150
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These are picked up by suitable ap-
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being a delicately mounted pendulum
such as is used to detect earthquakes,
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points and comparing the tines
taken for the waves to get there the
trained prospector can tell if the
ground wave has met an obstacle.
It has been found that oil deposits,
particularly in Texas, often occur in
rock salt donees. These are large
cavities formed out of the salt below
the surface, extending down to the
level of the oil. This gradually seeps
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pools there, and if a' wave should hit
it, it would be bent from its normal
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In most cases drilling has shown
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where indicated. There is one com-
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of the method that it spends some
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alone. The method has been very
successful there, but was not being
used, and would `probably not be used
in Canada since the peculiar salt
'domes are net generally found here.
The Need for Protection
Toronto Mail and Empire (Cons.) :
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European countries if the Govern-
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our industries from foreign compete
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smaller industries which have been
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Know Your School Golden -Haired Aje
Sought- in Jungles
By Four Scientists`
Party Headed by H. A. White,
of Field. Museum, to Hunt
for Other Rare Animals
on Expedition to Asia.
New Orleans.—The golden -fleeced
monkey, the giant panther•, the blue
tiger, the giant seledong, the bantang
and other animals, the names of
which well would fit into Marco Polo's
diary, are prizes sought in Asiatio'
jungles by four Americans, headed by,
Captain Harold A. White; of' the Fieldi
Museum, of Chicago.
With Captain White are Morris and
Sidney Legendre; of New Vi•lea,ns)
graduates. of Tulane and. Prinoitoni
and recent Oxford students, and Ben
Finney, of Richmond,. Va., a'll athletes
with a liking for science.
Of the rare* aniroldb, sought, the
golden -fleeced" monkey and' the giant
panther are the most desired. The
former is a monkey covered with; long,
Olden hair, beautiful in appearance
and so rare that even ancient Chinese
manuscripts number it among gifts
worthy of presentation to empresses.
The seledong is• one of the largest
a.nima.is in the world and Captain
White already has' one to his` credit:'
It weighed 3;000 pounds and' its great
head iq now in the New Zoological
Gardens. After six months in the'
jungles the' hunting party, which sail-
ed from San Francisco, January 6,
will return with its collection for the
Field Museum.
Fake Diploma Schools Fought
In Federal Educational
Drive
Atlantic City. --The Federal govern-
ment is waging "war to the death"
against fake correspondence schools,
universities and colleges, many of
which carry on a traffic in diplomas
and degrees, selling them to "anyone
with the price" it was declared here
by W. E. Humphrey, chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission.
He spoke before the fourth annual
meeting of the Association of Ameri-
can Colleges, in the Chalfonte Hotel.
Some of the fake sch000ls, some
operated by individuals "during their
spare time," were named by Mr.'
Humphrey, who urged aid from the
association to obtain state legislation
controlling such enterprises and in un-
covering them.
Some of the alleged universities, be
declared, sold a master's degree for
$5 and a doctor's degree for $8.50.
A large number, chartered in this
country and operated by American
swindlers throughout Europe, were
selling degrees and' creating general.
contempt among Europeans for the
educational systems of the United
States, he said.
There '`sere to -day in the United
States 850 private correspondence
schools; with 2,000,000 enrolled stu-
dents paying more than $70,000,000
annually in tuition.
Canadians would' do well to find out
definitely the true worth of such insti-
tutions before sending good . money
for instruction of questionable value.
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promising to fulfil your promise as far
as you can promise?" The reply is
not recorded.
A farmer became the father" ' of
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tel•egran to his sister-in-l.aw: "Twins.
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