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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1930-06-27, Page 34 aIS . 4 a 4 4,43 8i JUNE 27, 1930. TRAVELLING Wherever you go, banking service awaits you if you carry a Dominion Bank Letter of Credit or our Travellers' Cheques. When abroad, on business or plea - Sure, they are a safe,easilynego- tia.ble meats of carrying money. THE DQMINION BANK SEAFORTH BRANCH R. M. Jones - - Manager 226 PALE FACES JADED NERVES Due to Weak, Watery Blood. Anaemia — impoverished blaod— comes so stealthily that it is often well advanced before recognized. Fa- tigue and diseomefort the earliest man- ifestations of the trouble are seldom taken seriously. Soon the face becomes pale; the nerves jaded; the heart pal- pitates violently after the slightest exertion; the appetite becomes fickle and before yo.0 realize it you are in a terrible plight. At such time, by enriching and puri- fying the blood Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will build up the nerve cells and correct the run-down condition. Con- cerning them Miss 'Margaret Torrey, Toronto, Ont., says:—"I suffered a complete breakdown. My heart world palpitate on the least exertion. Noth- ing I ate agreed with me. I started taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and by the time I had taken several boxes 1 was ready for anything; I had gain- ed in weight and every distressing symptom had left me." You can get these Pills from any dealer in medicine •or •by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. There are hoodoo men and women -who doubts this? There are ordin- ary people who carry with them into house and office an aura of disaster or fortune. The x which produces such phenomena is a mystery as yet unsolved. In Tutankhamen's tomb was the supreme x, which was death. With Lord Carnarvon were Howard Carter and his secretary, Dick Beth- ell, M. Benedite, the French arch- aeologist, who was in charge of the Department of Antiquities at Cairo, and M. Pasan•ova. Of those men only one remains alive. When the tomb was opened twe other notables entered. One was Col- onel Aubrey Herbert, Carnarvon's helf brother; the other was Evelyn White. When Aubrey Herbert en- tered the cavern, he shivered and stop- ped, reluctant to go on. "I wish to God Carnarvon hadn't found this tomb. Something dreadful is going to happen to our family." Before the year was out he was dead. When the door was forced Carnar- von walked into the tomb with a smile and a jest. "I wish he hadn't laughed—he will be dead in six weeks," said Arthur Weighall, the writer. Something stung Lord Carn- arvon on the cheek. He was s dead man before the wonders of the tomb were fully revealed. Evelyn -White, Egyptologist a n d scholar, became a changed man after the tomb was opined. It was as though he were haunted by some un- seen and dreadful presence. Within a year he had committed suicide "There was a curse upon me," he wrote in the letter he left behind him. The Egyptian authorities brought Sir Archibald Douglas Reed, a great radiologist, to X-ray the mummy. Within a year he was a dead man. Professor La.ffleur. of McGill Uni- versity, was the first American sci- entist to examine the chamber of death. He did not leave Luxor alive. Young men, old men, men in the prime of life, men for whose lives any insurance office would have ex- acted the minimum premium died, mysteriously, tragically. Only How- ard Carter remains of the principals. Almost every workman who entered the tomb has passed into the shadows. Seven French authors and journal- ists visited the tomb; six were dead within two years. When they unveil- ed Tutankhamen they found a mark upon his face the mark left on Lord Carnarvon's face was in exactly the same position. On the day the tomb was opened a cobra, which was the sacred snake of Egypt. went into Howard Carter's house and destroyed his favorite pet, a canary that the explorer took with him wherever he went; the cobra is the rarest snake in Egypt. Woolf Joel visited the tomb, and was dead within a year. Jay Gould was taken ill in the tomb and died. To every man without exception who has visited the tomb, misfortune has come. The most skeptical admit that there is something more than coincidence in the fatalities which have followed as- sociation even with minor articles that have been taken from the tomb. Pieces which have been placed in the Cairo Museum have been "working," Attendants whose duty it is to look after these exhibits have sickened and died for no known reason. The famous Dr. 'Mardus was con- vinced that the opening of Tutank- hamen's tomb would bring death. "The Egyptians for '7000 years pos- sessed the secret of surrounding their Mummies with some dynamic force of which we have only the faintest idea," he said. THE CURSE OF AMEN -RA A portly dragoman watched the lit- tle group of helmeted Europeans who were directing the excavations of Tutankhamen's tomb. He turned to his employer, the special correspond- ent of a London newspaper, and said: "They will find gold and death." The startled newspaper man asked why. "Because," said the dragoman, "the old gods live. This man"—he waved his hand contemptuously toward the tomb—"was an unbeliever. He found the old gods too late; and he offend- ed the god of all gods, Amen -'Ra." Somebody told Lord Carnarvon this story. He did not laugh at it, He was a very sane, uneinotienal man. In all seriousness, he immediately said: "I recognize that possibility." And this is the fact that is curious, that every mummy which is supposed by popular tradition to be "unlucky" is the mummy of one who has defied the great gods. Tutankhamen was buried with elab- orate ceremonial, but they made no image of Ra in yellow and set it at the bow of the boat which carried his swathed body; nor did they paint on suitable plaques the figures of the gods Tem, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Mut, Osiris, Isis, Suti and Nephthys and anoint them with cedar oil. And the spell of Peace did not go into the closed cavern where they laid the body of the young king. Only a great un- rest. For although Tutankhamen was hastily recalling the exiled divinities, and had changed his very name to propitiate them, the Old Ones who sit on the Parapets of Hell were not with him, and their wrath dwelt in the pitch-dark chamber where they laid the embalmed shell of the unbeliever. Some day we shall discover that thought has substance and that love and hate are as 'material as the rays of the sun; then we shall know that the stories we dismiss as myths and the frantic imaginings of half -dement- ed priests are terribly well founded in sober facts. Hate may not lie like a cloud over the Valley of the Kings, nor stand, an invisible and vengeful shape, to bar intrusion into the mys- teries of the dead; but hate is there, a tangible and everlasting factor. 'Very clear-headed scientists viewed the excavations with uneasiness. Such men do not believe in ghosts; but they do not preclude the possibilities of psychic phenomena. Mouth or Throat Infection! Dampness, dust, exposure and excess smoking frequently cause infection of the mouth and throat. A gatgle of one part Absorbine, Jr., to nine parts water will bring quick relief. And to break up the congestion, rub the outside of the throat with a few drops, full strength. The daily use of Absorbine, Jr.,— diluted—as a mouth -wash will sweeten the breath and keep the mouth and throat in a wholesome, germ -free con- dition at all times. $1.25,per bottle— at your favourite druggists,. 13 •'il•!E, AN71sE'r 0.75 'tNI ENT"• s' o snvoll rr tons'ils r UtLd Chest CQI,dS inary and by eoeaparatively few which have established names for themse1•ves as sires. Yet there has been' entwined about it a legend of southern//chiv- alry, and Old Kentucky, once famous for its mint juleps, its horses and its lovely women and novlr famous for its blue -grass, feels while the race is be- ing run much as it may have felt at critical moments in the Civil War. .Some memories of other Kentucky Derbies are contributed to the New York Herald Tribune by Henry Me - Daniel, the well known trainer, who saddled a horse for the recent race. Of special interest we find his account of that memorable Derby won by Ex- terminator, a horse as popular in Can- ada as in the United States. Exterm- inator was one of the best horses rac- ed in the United States in the past 20 years. Unfortunately he was a geld- ing or he might have well proved a successful sire. He is well remem- bered, hereabouts, as a tall, rangy, al- most ragged horse whose nickname was "Old Bones." Mr. McDaniel tells us' how he came to be thus named. Every horse, he says, has a stable name which is almost invariably dif- ferent from the name under which he is registered. It is always short. For example, Man o' War was known as "Red," and in the stable Exterminator was called "Slim." It appears that Walter Jennings, who started War Cloud in the Derby that Extermina- tor won, went on to win the Preak- ness, which in those days was run af- ter the Derby and not before, with War Claud. After that race some- body asked him, "W'hat sort of horse was it that beat you in the Derby, Walter?" Jennings replied: "Why, the plainest, most ornery bunch of old bones, you ever laid your eyes on. You could hang your hat on any corner of him." So "Old Bones" he became. But like the term, "The Old Con- temptibles," it became a term of af- fection and respects, for there never was a more honest horse than Exterm- inator who could run all distances av- er any kind of track, and could only be stopped by the weight which will stop all horses. We suppose that Ex- terminator had the distinction of being about the only horse that ever won a great race to the inward disappoint- ment of his owner, even though he had $1,000 bet on him. Exterminator was, in fact, a stop gap for W. S. Kilmer. • The jewel in the Kilmer stables at that time was a colt called Sun Briar, bought as an imported yearling from the Joel stud for $6,- 000. In fact, so much did Kilmer think of this colt, which had an un- equalled record as a two-year-old, that he named his breeding establishment after him and it is called Sun Briar Court. Through the Winter and in the Spring Sun Briar was the most discussed horse in the United States., It 'was believed that he would make a show of his field in the Derby. But in the Spring of 1918 his work did not altogether satisfy Mr. Mc- Daniel. The colt seemed sluggish, or cunning. He would run fast in spots and then loaf. It was felt ••that ho needed a race before the Derby to sharpen him up, and so he was enter• ed at Lexington and started at 2 to 5. He ran a dull race and finished third. McDaniel was now nervous about the colt's chances in the Derby, then only a few weeks away. He told the owner that he would have to buy a horse good enough to make Sun Briar really extend himself to find out whether he was ready or whether—always a most critical ouestion with a three-year-old —he could race a mile and a quarter. Mr. Kilmer thought a horse could he picked up for a few hundred dollars to answer the purpose, but McDaniel 'said he would have to pay several thousands for the sort of animal re- quired. He then said that he had seen a horse at Lexington run in a way that impressed him and advised its purchase. The fact that this animal was also in the Derby enhanced his value. but Filmer, after some hesitation. paid $9.000 cash for him and threw in two fillies worth $500 each. Exterminator, at this time, was pretty nearly ready to race in the Derby which was only a few days distant, and he was tried with Sun Briar. The colt beat him, but still Exterminator ran in a way that was at least promising. Moreover, he seemed to be of the• kind that would race better in an actual contest than in a mere trial. But Sun Briar seemed fit and Mr. Kilmer was strong- ly against the idea of withdrawing heal favorite and substituting the ugly duckling. Three days before the race there was another trial and again Sun Briar won. But in his stable the colt did not do so well, and strongly a - against his will Kilmer was induced to scratch him and start Exterminator. The gelding won with Kilmer betting on him for straight place and show and winning some '1;15,000. It might be said that later on Sun Briar show- ed that he was a real good horse, but he never was the stayer that o'.d Ex- terminator was. •old Bones' record of 3.22 2-5 for two miles made at Belmont Park stands to this day. WHEN A ST'RSTITUTE WON KENTUCKY DERBY Mainly by persistent and enthusi- astice propaganda the Kentucky Der- by, which was run recently on Church- ill Demons, has been built up into the most important sporting fixture on the American continent. It does not draw the crowds of a world's series in basebal'}; nor does it interest such a wide public, but it fascinates the elite of American eportdom and un- doubtedly attracts more people to Louisville than any other sporting fix- ture attracts to any city where any other event in the sports calendar is being decided. It is not the oldest race in the United States. It is not the most valuable. The horses that have won it are not, speaking generally, the best thoroughbreds that the Unit- ed States has produced. It is not the most searching test a horse can re• eeive. It is not at the Derby distance, It is not run at the best time of the year. It 'has been won by 'several hprses that were little better than ord- The Farmer's Problems. "We are as yet in the schoolboy stage in regard to intensive agricul- ture in Ontario," was a remark re- cently heard. Nature richly endowed the soil of Ontario but there are parts where tap. response is net quite so brisk as formerly. 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