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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-09-25, Page 3Verse awe e COFFEE Par'iu?ar peoples Pure! No chicory or any adulterant a�n this ,choice coffee A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS The hero of this story, though no longer pasha of a great city, still lives in peace and tranquillity in one of the secluded coast towns of Morocco. The talo of his magnificence in other days • is not lost, nor is the story how he once met the demands of an income overspent. It was as ingenious as it was dishonest—which is saying much. The Tangier correspondent to the Lon- don Times writes: At length the pasha's situation be- came serious. The crops • of the year before had been poor, and he had drained every possible source of re- venue, legal and illegal, just and un- just.' The Jews would lend no more. The tribesmen of the country round threatened revolt, but every day the expenses • of his household increased. It was a matter of pulling through tilI the harvest—but the harvest was still a couple of months ahead. Two or three thousand pounds would suffice for the most pressing needs—the rest might wait; but how to raise even that paltry, insignificant sum? For the Whole of one night he pondered, and in the morning he issued an edict. There was danger, this document stated, from the surrounding tribes, whose- loyalty to the Sultan was in doubt.. The walls were suf1 eient to defend the city, but it was of vital im- p•ortance that the suburbs should not be raided, as the population was large- ly dependent for its food supplies on the gardens and granaries situated outside. The military forces under his command, though sufficient to pro- tect the town, were quite inadequate to venture outside and patrol the sub- urbs, and there was no cavalry. In these circumstances he proposed to raise a troop of ,.horsemen. The men were to hand but there were no horses, and the edict terminated in inviting every merchant -of -the town to provide a horse. Now, unlike the Arab tribesmen of the country districts, tile town IVioor is no rider. He climbs now and again on the padded crimson saddle of .a'fat mule and ambles, to his place of busi- ness or to pay a visit, but a horse is to r him an annoying and dangerous quadruped.- possessed of only two ideas.: to . fight every other horse it nlieets--for in Morocco only stallions are ridden—and to throw its rider. Accordingly not a single merchant pos- sessed a horse and determined not to buy one until the absolute necessity arose, on - the principle of "wait and see:"' A few nights' later about ten o'clock, when all the inmates of his house were 'asleep, there was a tremendous knocking at the nail -studded door of the house of one of the principal mer- chants of the city. Hastily donning such garments as were within his reach, 'and wrapping his bed blanket around him, for the night was cold, the elderly gentleman called out from within and asked what was wanted. "Open, in the name of the pasha!" With a drawing of many bolts and the turning of great keys the door was opened by the merchant himself, who tiMidly asked the reason of this late visit, "We have called far your horse," replied the master of the pasha's household, who stood without, sur- rounded by half a dozen particularly evil -looking soldiers. "My horse?" "Yes, the horse you were command- ed to .buy, The tribes are in open re- volt, 'and the horse is required at dawn.,, "Oh, sir," replied the now affright- ed merchant, "I have been looking for a horse ever ,since the pasha's edict was published, but in vain. I have searched high and low, but I couldn't find one, I left no hole or corner unex- plored, but all without :success—so help me all the saints of !;slam, may peace be upon them!" "Then you have no horse?" asked the - pasha's representative roughly. "Alas'l my lord, to -night I have none —to -morrow I' will endeavor—" "To -morrow you will have no .oppor- tunity. My orders are to arrest and imprison every merchant who has not got his horse." "Arrest! Imprison!" cried the miser- able blanket -wrapped old gentleman. "Yes, arrest and imprison," "Pity! I beg pity!" he cried, weep- ing copiously. "You are a good and worthy man. Soften your heart. Find me some solution to this tragedy." The master of the pasha's household seemed to ponder the matter deeply for a' moment and then said, "Indeed I pity you 'with all my heart, but I must obey my orders --unless—" "Unless ?" "I am ready t� make a sacrifice. My own horse Is hero. I will sell it to you, and you can hand it over to the pasha." "Oh, thank you. And the price?" "Three hundred dollars." • "Three hundred dollars!" almost shrieked the merchant. "Three hun- dred dollars? Impossible!" • "I see you don't want to buy it." And, calling up his ill -looking soldiers, he ordered them to arrest the unfor- tunate man. "I will pay! I will pay!" cried the meroliant, and, leaving his blanket in the hands of the soldiers, he escaped indoors, to emerge a few moments later with a beg of coin. .' "There is more than three hundred dollars there," he said, "far more, but it does not matter." • The master of the pasha's household ordered a man who led a horse by a rope to hand .it over to the merchant." In the flickering light of the lamp the g miserable •individual found •himself face to face with the object he most dreaded in the world, a `horse; and what a horse! It appeared in the darkness immense; its eyes seemed to him to glow with unearthly fire, and as he unconsciously took hold of the rope it reared and neighed. With a cry of terror the merchant sought re- fuge inside his doorway. "Come, comae;" said the pasha's re- presentative, "you must take the horse," holding out the halter. "Whore—where can I take it?" pite- ously asked the merchant. "I have no. stable." "Your house—" "My house! There are only women in my house, and even the courtyard is carpeted. Everyone would die of fright; besides, it would certainly kill nie long before I got it in." And a fresh flood of tears• staved his words. "Well, take it you must—unless—" "Unless?" "Unless I take it round to the pasha's stable -to-night instead of to- morrow at dawn." _ "Oh, my god friend, my savior, take it!" and he pressed more money into the officer's hand. The cavalcade moved off, and, cry- ing and shivering, the merchant closed his door, It was only then that he re- membered that the Soldiers had not given him back his blanket. When the merchants of the city met to attend to their business on the fol- lowing day it was evident that they were all suffering from nervous shock. At first they guarded .a discreetell-HENiad'Sjiu fqr Firewood.enee, but at length our friend related FOOD FAILS the episode of the previous night, If the Canadian forests could ren> Ce ricusly enough, they ,had all had der an account for the firewood slap - the same experience—and, more curl- Defective (Digestion is the Cause, plied by thein In 1922, it would read cus still, in every case it had been a something like this; "The Canadi ferocious untameable gray horse, with and Misery Follows. ' Public, to the Forests. of Canada;. ilery eyeballs, which bad screanle,t. 860,.846 cords of firewood, $35,228,702." and reared, that they had one and all do are thousands of people who And then the bill would represent only gettheit r' been obliged to buy at a wickedly ex- Proper noel ishineiit the original value, orbita'nt price for the pasha's caviilry- from the food they eat, bec.inse their To produce this enormous quantity The same clay the pasha announced digestion is defective, Fool that lies of firewood required 841,780,560'cubic that he had been able to make peace undigested in the stomach is not mere - that of standing timber, the largest with the surrounding tribes, and that }y'wasted, but .will feritieiat and poison amount consumed by any of our many all danger was over. As he satin his your system. I .iatulence and sour rise forest products. garden he ordered one of his slaves to iiigs in the throat fo:low and unless To the unthinking person this fire bring him a certain horse from the y�lu are careful you will become a wood output is but one of the many clirouic dyspeptic. stable, A few minutes later, with a ares to which our timber producing bound and a neigh, a vicious-look]ng 13y toning up the stomach to clo the arena are put, and is ,passed by with stallion was led before_ hien. He look _wore nature intended, you will re- the same unconcern move the. mime of the trouble. Noth. „, e , ntell ed at it for little while and'smiled;,, Lug will more promptly restore the di says the Natural Resources Intel then said, "Let that good horse havegence Service of the Department o a double feed of barley to -night," and eestive organs than good new blood. eeemaeb, nerees end glands all' de- the Interior. If, however, he wer de- pend on the blood, and when it gets thin"anti watery they are at once weak. workmen to be paid three days' pay eazed It ]s because of tlxe!i action in .should see a pile of firewood seve out of the twenty-six' that he owed •,hu;lclin up and enrichingfeet high on either bide of the track the Blood them, and- went into the house towith no break through the 3,494 mil. trr`a Dr, ,Williams' Pink fells have count the dollars. a G he would cover in his trip from coas �� .proved •Successful in so many cases of 1 o coast, he wouldget a visual demon indigestion where ordinary medicines non Lit' failed. The new rich blood quick- stration of the importance of Canada annual cut of firewood. Pilled four feet. high It would make a wall 12,832 miles in length, ora wall across Canada fourteen and one-half feet high and lour feet thick. • Almost all species of wood are used for fuel purposes, depending upon the area in which it is cut and the mar- ket In Ontario, Quebec and the Mari- time Provinces the firewood is mostly composed of hardwood, maple, beech and birch - predominating, In the knowledge, and he has put new land. . Among the biaadening influences in pPrairie Provinces large quantities of on the Antarctic neap which may prove our lives, one of the most potent is an British and are cased, while veryy one day to be of great commercial acquaintance with those who have larerColumbia, oft timber aowinitto the value. serge sarretu e timber available, many lived'in ocher lands and have a range species are used.. Amundsen in his exploration has of intellectual interests and spiritual lead to live by faith like other sailors inclinations that are new and fresh before and since Columbus. The lat- and stimulating. Those who put a ter received a few hundred dollars for girdle round the earth and have not discovering America. Nansen, inter- the'. powers of sympathy and imagine national altruist that he is, has had time, enabling them to feel and to see to write books to finance his journeys. ' deeply, are traveling in a physical Shackleton was compelled to pass "'"the sense, but they might as well remain begging -bowl vigorously to supply the at home for all the gain. they make in little "Quest" for his final adventure. 1 the :knowledge of the world and in the The first American polar voyager, ! understanding of their fellowmen.. Kane, of Philadelphia, could not have l Ina little, isolated country men lead financed his undertaking without the narrow, egocentric lives and boast that generous aid of a New Yorker, as their . tethered daily round circum - Peary, after strenuous lecture tours scribes all that is worth while. Oliver and much writing, owed his supreme , Wendell Holmes said: of a New Eng - encouragement to another broad -mind- ; land city that you. could not pry the ed citizen. The annals of discovery inhabitants loose from their idea that are filled with the experience of de -: it : was the hub of the solar system, termined navigators who sailed to- 1 In Lhasa, capital of'Tibet, the belief ward the unknown with incomplete of each ignorant, simple soul is that . , .: ..., /tip. ^'.•"rn'„ y Classified Ad ertasemiAnts MONEY TQ Ir.,OAY+4 ARM LOA:NSr MADE •- an -'-' Mortgages purchased. Reynolds, 77 Victoria St„ Toronto. FOR SALE 1-1-•t PPL! 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Roald Amundsen deserves a better ]y -:tones up the digestive organs; the reward than permission to file a venire apyetlto•improves and you are able to tary petition in bankruptcy at Chris- eat` with comfort and get full nourish- tiania. - The Norwegians themselves, l urentfrom your food. should organize a fiscal rescue eicpedi- i •You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills tion, if none else will undertake it. For through any dealer in medicine, or by the doughty explorer who was first to mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. attain the South. Pole has stimulated ; Williams' Medicine ' Co., Brockville, geographic enterprise throughout the ' Ont•, world. His researches in magnetism and in trend of ocean currents bevel '. resulted ill, valuable contributions to Foreigners. When it is remembered that Cana- da's forests are annually providing over a cord of firewood for every man, woman and child in the country, and that the warmth and comfort of mil- lions of our people are dependent up- on the continuance of this fuel supply, the value of the forests of Canada will be more fully appreciated. Large areas Soft -Fleshed Fish. The softness of the flesh •of many deep -water fish is due to the pressure at the great depths where they spend their lives. When they are brought to the surface this pressure is taken off; they then expand and their flesh becomes soft. Sensitive plants in the Tropics protect themselves from cattle by drooping and seeming to die. There are also sharp spurs on the stalks which prick the tongues of hungry animals. RIS NIGHT & MORNING & ...:, KEEP A • 6J ES, ,!CLEAN CLEAR AND HEALTHY rjiJsa !OR rots EYE CARE woo,• p,vaixe co. CUICh00.11y4 of Canada, particularly in the central portion, are devoid of other local fuels, i (-j rt '� and dependence must be placed upon; i j • wood or imported coal. It is therefore' the part of wisdom to protect the t forests from Lire that the supply of firewood for domestic and power pur- poses may be assured. Teacher Was Blow. A school teacher was talking to the equipment and strong faith, and who the filthy, smelly ,town is the centre mother of a boy who had reached third on their return were miserably recon-1book. ! of everything..The nrountafn villages - "He's got all the learning he'll ever pensedi though others richly profited of the Andes are filled with folk who want," said the mother. .. by their pioneer activity. ( scratch for fleas,_postpone till "mans: The teacher replied: At this late day it. ought not to be na" .what ought to be done to -day. and ! school eighteen; ea I e was at sool until and spent four necessary to urge prompt aid for ,the I indulge the chauvinistic pretense that, years at college, yet I know very lit. gallant mariner of Norway The no land is like their own, no glory tie." world in his debt should ,en* e himcompaa'�``J,r`el eti.er 'Iteee •:ry:`"•Bet the : ,. Ah, 1k ani," -skid the mother, to meet *obligations' he incurred for " like conceit persists and para -at large "some folks are much _slower at learn= the• benefit of the race. ingg than others." In parts, of our own Dominion. Too sufficient` unto ourselves; we inveigh against the alien as unansimilable when we ought to be teaching those* whom we;would find docile enough in When the baby is 111; .when he cries most instances if we cared to teach WHEN B.11 3Y a great deal and no amount of atten- them. tion or petting makes hien happy, Baby's Own .Tablets should be given him without delay. The Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which re- gulate the bowels and sweeten the stomach and thus drive out constipa- tion and indigestion; break up Bolds and simple fevers and make teething easy. They are absolutely guaranteed to be free from opiates and narcotics and can be given to even the new-born babe with perfect safety and always with beneficial results. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box from The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Too Late. Wandering aimlessly about the farm the city boarder happened to .see Uncle Si and the hired man cutting up a hog they had just killed, and with visions of pork chops in the near future, made theremark that he was very fond of fresh pork. "No fresh pork from this one," said Uncle Si. "We're going- to cure him." "Cure him!" exclaimed the city boarder, "Good Lord! You are too late to cure him now; you should have tried that before he died." 'es sseeee There has 'recently been conip]oted at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in and hand-playet1 carillon of fifteen bells for installation in a .church at -'Oshawa, Mt* and a ball tons. England, Ontario. o combined clockwork Tlie largest bell weighs It Is a" sign of savage ignorance and of imperfect civilization to feel resent- ment against another man merely be- cause he cornes'}'rom a land we never saw and ruses a dialect with which we are unfamiliar, If we are mentally hospitable, we shall eagerly welcome the chance to hear wonder tales of strange clixne,s and peoples and ad- ventures ,with "beasts, 'men and gods" such as are denied to our shut-in lives I except through the medium of litera- ture. It argues a purblind, miserable satisfaction with the groove we move in when we are unwilling to step out of it with an outheld hand of personal greeting to a "foreigner." Those who mast want the peace of the world are those who sedulously cultivate all ways and means of in- ternational intercourse. They do their best to give the desirable stranger to feel at home and at ease among us. Because they seek to establish a uni- versal friendliness, they are of one mind to discourage the anarehist_and his seditious principles They would not inundate Canada with 'those who would demoralize and destroy. That kind of foreigner they would repel, but the others are welcome guests, and the desire of every lover of his own land is, to make friends of them for the ad- vantage of the entTre comity of civil- ized.lands. `Rescuing Coal. Large deposits of coal thrown over- board by various warships stationed near the island of Crete during the wale have;peen recovered in a curious, not to say; laughable, manner. The thrifty islanders, being without dredging ap- paratus, attaclledl;an octopus to a line .and lowered it to the bottom. As soon as the tentacles of the creature closed round 8 lump of Boal they pulled it up. To the ordinary Auueriean the thought of .coupling the octopus and coal will seem both natural and fitting. A September Ronde!. 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