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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-02-01, Page 2t '457 7 //Yr .7 Christie Quality has made Christie's Soda Wafers the best -liked Sodas in Canada. Tastier, crisper, fresher .. . the best you ever tasted. YU9AN UOE SOE LAUCHSC by Sax Rohmer SYNOPSIS. :Matt Kearney sees his sister Eileen aboard the Wallaroo, bound for . Colombo. Eileen tells Jack Rattray, that she is upset by the sight of a re- pulsive-looking e- IL Ha g, who had also saidn. iam goodbyes�o Haig, hes had traced Matt shipn shipment nd sof opium to the Wallaroo, but it was unloaded before detectives were able to search the ship. Dawson is recalled to Scotland Yard and asks Kearney to search King's We re- house, which adjoins Jo Lung's place, whom they suspect. As they are leaving Matt picks up a notebook, and is sur- prised at the presence of a woman, who quickly disappears. The notebook is nater stolen by one of Yuan Hee See's henchmen. Yu'an Hee See departs with his woman companion to France. An sentry in the notebook mentioned the RestaurantSuleiman Be cfPitsoestoPaInaehenoice that on the receipt of green slips two sten go upstairs. They join a motley crew and are given instructions by an gyptian. Haig arranges to have anY- ene leaving the place followed. TORY. NOW Go ON WITH TIM CHAPTER X.—(Cont'd.) up to send messages, Dr. Oestler has been, in the wireless room. He sends and receives a great number of mes- sages. "There's nobody to fall in love with, or nobody I've found so far, I mean. There's a perfectly dreadful woman at the chief's table (old Corceren is chief engineer. Do you know him?). Some sort of half-caste. A truly ter-. Bible pig. I don't know her name and haven't troubled to find out, But oid Corky has fallen badly; everybody's laughing about it, "Charley Winter says she's some sort of vaudeville act going out to an Australian engagement. I hope she gets the bird the first night she opens." "There are two very unholy -looking Chinamen living somewhere onthe deck below—at least, I thought they were Chinamen, but someone told me they're Siamese. They are certainly not twins. One is small and high- brow and wears glasses, and the other is quite tall with a long neck. Tthink they must have tried to hang him at some time, but he was too tough. He's a poisonous -looking brute...:" A scratching on the glass of .the window immediately in front of the table attracted Eileen's attention. She paused, pen in hand, looking up to see the chief. officer. Jack Rattray stood on the deck outside, jerking his thumb aft and performing an excellent pan- tomime of a very thirsty man drink- ing. Eileen shook her head and pointed with her pen to the writing table, But Jack persisted, and finally Eileen nod- ded consent. "The doctor's compliments," said Rattray seriausler. "If you will step along to his room, he will make up a presc. iption." They went downstairs together, heading for the doctor's cabin. Rat - tray took a short cut through some of the serving quarters, and, passing an open doorway, Eileen detected over the rattle of a near -by kitchen the strains of a gramophone. "Is that the chief's gramophone?" she asked, turning to Jack. "He's entertaining the lady snake charmer," was the reply. -- "She's not Teeny a snake charmer, is she?" "No. I don't think she could charm snakes—as a matter of fact, I believe she trains elephants." and to meet the glare of vicious, sun- ken eyes, as the Cockney fighter con- fronted hire. "Looldn' for anything, noose?" in- quired the latter truculently. "Yes," said Haig, "do you think you could get me a taxi?" For a moment the other glared, then his battle -scarred face broke into an appreciative grin. "I thought you was a foreign bloke, but I ain't no bloomin' porter, nate. Get your own bloody taxi,!" Dawson Haig walked slowly in the direction of the Place *igalie. * * * The R.M.S. Wallaroo lay about fifty miles south-southeast of Bares- ' Iona, aresIlona, having experienced a wet, cold, but singularly smooth passage. Eileen was in the writing room completing a long letter which she had com- menced the day before, immediately after receipt of a Marconi message which read: "DON'T FORGET YOU PROM- ISED TO WRITE SIGNED BILLY HAIG." "I'11 wait," said Haig. He settled their account with the Arab waiter, and lighting a cigarette, was turning over the mystery of the whole thing ng in. his mind. Suddenly the cus at the head of the stairs were drawn aside.. • • Two men came down, one support- ing/the other. The man supported was heavily built and of definitely Teutonic type. From time to time 1Rle spat into a bloodstained handker- chief. He walked unsteadily. His companion, who wore a brightly colored pullover and grey nnel trousers, seemed much concerned about him. "Sure you're all right, mate?" he asked as they reached the foot of the stairs. "I'm all right, Kid," was the gut- tural reply. "You do me well, but you do me decent," They began to cross the floor, mak- ing for the doorway. "There's no malice, Franz?" "There is none. Orders is Orders." Haig realized tinct the fighting man, with that sublime insular ignorance of his class—took for granted the fact that no one else in the restaurant understood English! "Anyway, I'll see you to a taxi," he said, "and we'll 'ave a drink together in Cairo." They had nearly reached the cur- tain draped in the opening beyond 'phich the stout lady presided over coffee beans. Dawson Haig held his breath, "For me, not Cairo," the German replied. "I go to Marseilles tomorrow .. and . . by the Wallaroo. . Haid stood ap and followed. By some unfortunate accident, a taxi Irassed at the very moment of their emit, and he came out onto the street only in time to see it pulling away, Distinctive Quality Dimly the note of a gong sounded in some place below. "Go now tb your room," saki Yu'an Hee See. This is Aswaml who has arrived. I shall be detained perhaps foran hour." (To Be Continued.) Little Towns On gay mornings, foreign craft Bring to the port their load And the claque of wooden sabots sounds Along the cobbled road. Strange scents, strange tongues, Bring joy and mystery, Little towns are never lonely If they're by the sea. It was destined to be consigned to the post at Marseilles. It largely con- sisted of complaints about the pas- sengers, who, as represented by those joining the ship in London, final para- graph, were far from interesting. evi ra graph, writtea on the p i ' eve- ning, ran: "1 suppose it's hopeless to expect too much for a fai e of thirty pounds. My cabin is quite comfy, and the eats are good. The ship's officers are dears, and Jack''Rattray looks after me wonderfully. But the passengers are very piggish." Eileen took writing paper from the rack and continued: "There's one rather nice inane on board, a Mr. Durham, and, oddly enough, he knows you! Isn't that funny? He seems to be a great friend of Charlie Winter, the purser. At least he's always there whenever there's a cocktail party. I'm told he's some kind of official of the Line. He tells most amusing stories, and I shall be sorry when he leaves. He's going ashore at Marseilles. "Then there's a Dr. Oestler, whose cabin is next door to mine, He's going to Sydney to take charge of the con- struction of some big electrical works somewhere in Australia. He knows a terrible lot about electricity. He's an Austrian, I think, ugly, with thick- rimmed glasses; but clever and very fascinating. Jimmy Jackson, the sen- ior Marconi man, told me that the doctor is going toI revolutionize n don'tow what radio industry... . he means. But both times I've been 708 ,Fresh from the Gardens Henry Vlll Documents Found in Old Chest The discovery o'. important Henry VIII. documents at the home of an elderly widow, Mrs, J. Smith, of Oundle, Northamptonshire, England,. was described recently at the Cost: ference of the British Records Asso- ciation in London by Miss Jane >Vake, Secretary of the Northamptonshire Records Society. Mrs. Smith, while showing Miss Wake round her house, opened an enormous chest full of documents dat- ing from the Seventeenth Century and relating to numerous Midland, East- ern and Southern Counties. `'We searched through the papers, making a record," said Mies Wake, "and found among them the King Henry VIII. documents, which fill a gap in the records relating to the King. They were accounts of bailiffs, farmers and other ministers of man- ors `to the Lord King.' HYDE PARK. "They related to Middlesex, Hack- ney, `Chelsey,' Westminster, Hyde Park, the Manor of Tieburn, the Manor of Stanwell, `bought of Lord Wyndsor at Michaelmas, 1542: " The documents are now in the Pub- lic Records Office, London. Other papers found at Mrs. Smith's house, including a copy of .a letter from the Privy Council tee the Lord Lieutenant, directing the enforcement of the laws against Papists, dated July 30, 1714, are in the Nottingham- shire Records Office. They consist of papers deposited at • Smith's Bank, Oundle, by clients. They were left unclaimed when the bank closed in the Nineteenth Cen- tury. The Master of the Rolls, Lord Han- worth, presiding at the business ses- sion, said that the Association had been formed to assist the movement for the preservation of muniments and records of interest. "The archives which we are now preserving are the means of illustrat- ing the life and the history of the simple people who have gone before, as well as thea eat deeds which have been done in the past:' On grey mornings, old men sit And rub tobacco in hardened hand. While telling tales of long ago They look away from the land, The youth of the village listen well As they think of days to be . Little towns are never lonely If they're by the sea. Even sunsets, afterglow Long grey shadows creep, As yellow sails of anchored fleet Are molten gold in the deep; And figures of lovers are patterned And blended against the sky. In the cool evening scudding home The native sea -birds fly, Ah, hear the patter of children's feet As they run the dock so free . • • Little towns are never lonely If they're by the sea. H B.Clarke. Sydney, N.S. London's Tiniest House A house which, it is said, Sir James Barrie had in mind when he described the home of Mr. and Mrs. Darling in "The Little White Bird," is wedged between two tall mansions in Hyde Park Place, It has a tiny front door and its num- ber is 10, like the Prime Minister's in Downing Street! It is six feet i wide ide and about twenty feet long, and it contains a tiny entrance hall, one room on the ground floor, • and two more above. To get upstairs you have to climb a narrow iron ladder. The front door not only has a number, but also a letter -box, yet neither knocker nor bell. No one has lived there for some time, but when a well-known doctor lived next door he always kept the house fresh -looking with green paint, curtains to its one window, and gay Sower -boxes on its sill. It is said that sixty years ago a maiden lady, who lived at No. 9, built it for a retired maid. Miniature furni- ture was made to fit. But nurses who take their charges to Kensington Gar- dens, the haunt of Peter Pan, tell them that once upon a time a queer old dwarf with a smiling face lived there; he used to run out of the house on the stroke of midnight and play by himself in Broad Walk! CHAPTER XI. There is a fine old house in the Darb el Ahmar, not far from the Bab es- Zuwela, in the native quarter of Cairo, which, after standing vacant caly tfound a r a number of years, ppa'r a tenant. Some time in 1923 it was leased, and ever since had been occu- pied. The frontage on the, street is not imposieg, except for two rather fine windows above a bleached deux e.. vex ed with Arabic inscriptions. Ratft contains some fine apartments on the first floor, and on the night of the 20th—i.e., two days before the Wal- laroo was due a•t Port Said—one• of them was the setting of a scene to witness which Dawson Haig would have paid much. This lofty, rectangular room, illu- minated lluniinated by twe hanging lamps of per- forated brass, was otherwise simply furnished in the Arab manner, Under the light of one of the lamps was set a coffee table, and near to it, buried in cushions, Orange Blossom lay, sheathed in a robe of nearly transparent pink silk, her slender ankles intertwined, her little feet bare, so that the manicured coral at her nails on her tiny toes glistened like slightest movement. She smoked cigarettes and drank tea from a porcelain cup. A longe silver incense burner sent up ds of perfumed smoke. The three doors of the apartment were closed, so was oppressive to a degree. Tha native latch of one of the three doors was depressed. Yu'an Hee See came in, wearing just such another plain robe as that which he had worn in the office of Jo Lung in Limehouse. He closed the door and looked along the room. his "Little blossom," he said, strange voice echoing in the neaxlY empty room. "You love the perfume of Ho Nan. I, too, love it, but you burn too much." The woman pouted. "I can never do as I like," she exclaimed. "Since you brought me from China, 1 1 have ave never known ha?piness. What you come to tell me? Is:stife that must embark upon a ship, train, or be sick in an airplane? Some- thing, I see in your eyes." Yu'an Hee See watched her, smiling. "There is indeed a further journey which you must take, little one," ho said, "but surely you 'welcome it— or are you so happy, in the house of Aswami Pasha that you regret to. leave Cairo?" "I have small love for Aswaml,' she replied, "and less for Cairo. We are going, then, to Arabia? There, at least, I have my comforts --my ser- vants." "In the morning, Orange Blossom." He walked slowly towards her. You have until the dawn of tomorrow which to talk to me, to bewitch me with your beauty, and Malts ale more completely your slave• she The woman smiled up at him a bent over her. 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This statement on every tin is your guarantee that Magic Baking Powder' is free from altun or any harmful ingredient. eleo Toronto's Health Best in Years` City Free From Epidemics Death Rate in '33 Close to Lowest iri; History Toronto.—The health record of the' city in 1933 was not only the best in' the past five years, but "in general' might be considered as probably the best in history," the local board of health's first meeting of the year was. advised recently by Dr. G. P. Jackson, M.O.H, The report, analyLiny vital statistics for 1933, listed the .following deduc- tions from the year's records: A general death rate of 10.5, slight- - ,, ly lower than that for 1 32 (10.6) and close to the lowest rates on record, 10.3 in 1924 and 1925. Exceptionally low rates for diph- theria, both as to the number of cases reported and the number of deaths from the disease. Further reduction in the low rate,. for tuberculosis established in 1932, . The all time low rate for infant mor• tality, set up in 1932, "practically, maintained." No deaths from measles or infantile paralysis. • No reported cases of smallpox or sleeping sickness. No epidemic from any cause of major importance. Lowest birth rate on record. Increase over 1932 in death rate oa women in cbildbirtL, but 1933 rate approximately same as average for past live years. New low rates for a nuniber of causes of death, particularly those to which public health efforts were spe- cially directed. If the 1929 death rate of 11.8 had prevailed in 1933, Dr. Jackson points out, deaths here last year would have been 800 more in number. If deaths in Toronto of non-residents of the city were excluded from last year's total,' he added, the rate for 1933 would have been 9.1. In regard to diphtheria, the number of cases reported was only 56, con-, trasting sharply with, the total of 1,022 in 1929. In the same period the num-, bar of deaths was reduced fro-: 64 to 5. No deaths took place of any person) protected by toxoid immunization, he' said, and the reduction in cases ee-' ported could be traced to the immuni-' zation campaign. Dr. Jackson deeply regretted the in-, crease in maternal mortality, but fear- ed that a factor in the increase was the reportedly increasing frequency of abortions, particularly those self -in-,. duced. Of the maternal deaths report' ed here last year, he said 25 per centi were from abortions and half of these' were probably self-induced. He be-, lieved that many maternal deaths re-, ported due to puerperal septicaemia. were traceable to abortions. Manchuria's weights s and measures are being standardized. Mickey's New Job Mickey Mouse is familiar as a toy, a mascot, and as a decoration on nur- sery tea -cups and kiddies' handker- chiefs, but his latest use is unique. Even Chaplin himself could not rival the merry mouse in his new job, writes Tit -Bits (London), for Mickey is actually helping specialists to cor- rect errors of vision in children at a famous London eye hospital. Among the latest equipment used for rectifying faulty sight is an appar- atus for correcting squints., The child has to look through two lenses in front of which are two slots in which coloured plates, similar to lantern slides, are fitted. Both plate- are ex- actly the same and have on them pic- tures of Mickey Mouse in various comic attitudes. At first the child sees two separate pictures, but, slowly, the plates are moved about until the child sees the two pictures merged into one. This merging has the effect of making both eyes concentrate on the same spot, thus correcting the squint.. The treatment, in its early stages, is a strain on the muscles of the eye, but the hospital authorities declare that the child does not notice this in his excitement at seeing the pictures of I Mickey. Core She wore her clothes As if they were No very special Part of her. A shabby hat, A faded coat Would fool the stranger Nor denote That underneath The sleazy dress Her soul was gowned In loveliness. —Philip Stack, in the New York Sun. Choose always the way that seems the best, however, rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agree- able.—Pythagoras. Promises may get friends, but it is Performances that must nurse and keep them. ---Owen Feltham, EXTRA MONEY FOR YOU We want a representative in this dis- trict, full or part time, to work with us in distributionthmie n Investigationn and com- ing gold Neilsen Will•.pruve unparalleled sales and money making features for you and pe your n a notessentialt1Machos Previous en nus rt have wide local acquaintance and high standing. 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