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The Wingham Advance, 1919-09-04, Page 74-0 4-0-e4eateet-i ++++4.44-e-sse•-•-.4-41-+ *se enee•-•-.444.44 Mystery of a Missing Diamond Solved by Movie Film We fate;" as it frequently &tee, take* a hand in staging a mule scene, the drama thus introduced trona real He outthrills in most cases auything the scenario writer Can offer. Every 'Davie director has stories to tell of remance, mystery, comedy and tra- gedy that eave crept into the pictures. Mob scenes naturally are the most productive of all in thrills born or ac- cident aid coincidence. Instances of Wag lost eons andsdaUghters whO have been recognized ken the ;wean and sebsequently foued by their hived ones ate common. There are incidents, too; of pickpocket,e caught at work by the camera and brought to justice be the evidence thus afforded. - One Of the most remarkable stories of a mystery' cleared up by et movie edines trope the film, "Hell` Roarin' Reform." erhis movie witee instrumental in restoring to a girl a diamoad pin, highly Indeed for its assoctations, Which had been missing nearly°•twelve yearg. The story from real life, towhee on war and what war brought to this girl. But for the fact that she was in the thick of the figeting.on her errand of mercy he never would have eeen "Hell Roaren' Reform." lead she not seen that ,pleture-well, Tom •Mix still would lie wearing the dia- mond pin given to Major Veetnon T. Winton by the tete King Edward of England. Tom Nix still would, .be wearing it on hisealtirt front when he Moved before the calners, in the hope that :some day, somewhere, Edith Win- ton would gee it -which she did final- , while she rested front ministering, to the wounded in the shattered towe Or Ypres. eIt all began twelve years ago, when Tem Mix was a member of the Texas Ithegers, There came to Lubbock, Tee., at that time one Major Vernon T e Winton, British Artnyeretfred, and his daugater dedith. Meech Winton seas a mining•engineer, and was in the United Stetes to investigate soine •hroperties or an English, syndicate. seat becanee necessary for the Major tii take a long trip into the mountaine . . and he left his daughter at tee ranch Q friends outside Lubbock. Also ° he t in her care the treasured pin • ie which King Edward had awarded • hip Services in leading an expleitation • e edition into Central Africa ; ',Nellie Major 'Winton was away -the sitemend pin mysteriously disappeared • from Miss Winton's room at the riebefi. After a quiet inquiry she be- came eolivinced that it had been, sten eas and appealed to Sheriff Reb Haupt. 4tanger Toni Mie ehenced, to be in Lebbock and was asked by theeelier- niff th aid in the investigatipe.'Neery one aboutetbe ranch was elciseeyeenes- tioned but to no purpose. Tag Seseriff piened his •empicion on thia rousta- bouts, but Mix had his eye -Oh. 'But- ° eller" Beeson, the town bad ° •nean. Neither 'the:Sheriff 'tier Mix, therener, ;Wee able to eneee aieything &Oiler •Aueeects. Mix wanted! :lock, Sup "Butch" but the bed man made out , :such e good alibi that he wee alleeeed to retain his liberty. Then itaseemed that tee pinenras lott forced* Tom Mix wene4 skeefae te to seareli "Butcher" peneeneeelse- letgings when their owner was ab- sent 'and the "Butchers" clothes were frisked while he was swiminenge but no ,frate of the elite:wits reveelecn A HOPELF,SS OUTLOOK, Sheriff Haupte presented .to Winton his regrets that the nittitheity of Texas,as represented by i leineeelf and his dputiei with the .ceseistence or Ranger Tom fix, had been unable to help her. And ewben Major Winton returned eight months later his daugh- ter had the difficult task of breaking the news that the pin his King ,nacl given. hem Nees gone. Th p .ease was elosed-excenf that leangereTom Mix had e hunch abet he was going to eee, that in again. He said soebut con- fessed that there was nothing beet of • the hunch other than his conviction tliat "Butch" Benson had etenething to- do with the elteft, • ° , Of course Major' Winton sealed his giatitude at the interest MIX evinced in the affair e but it was plain that lee did not expect to see again his me- mento from.King Edward. Miss Win - °teal naturalle added her smile -an in- credulous ontse-as Mix explained with some awkardnese that he, would keep his eyes open and was etre that in the end he would solve the mystery. The Major and • his daughter re- turned to England shortly afterward , without leaving an address th whjcli the 'pin tnightte sent wben Mix made geed. Nor did Toni Mix's hunch show 'much (sign of panning out. Yeare went by ,and from cowboy he climbed t� motion picture star, :Bet In • the back of hie head he alWaye *entitled picture of that pen Everywhere he wont he looked closet? at every dia- morel pin he saw, sometielee he eh•ins as he tells how, more than once; he eame mighty close to gating into trouble throtigh being toe inquisitive Omit other people's jewelry, A SURPRISE 1N TOMBSTONE. Appropriately enough, perhaps, the place in Which the sequel occurred is named Torabstone. The name fitted In Out of the dead peat developntent. In thie Arizona town of Tombstotte Tom Mix wad working In n picture. There was a small gambling roan back of a saloon and, melting diver - seen one evening, Mix happened in. The faro dealer straightened up in bis chair as Mix entered. Arnd Tom - why, he reteived such a tetock that for a moment he thought !surely this was a movie, and automatically, reach- ed for the guns which were not at his hipe. The long led pin was blazing on the tiled of the dealer. Scarcely able to believe his eyee, Tent Mix /stalked alongside the dealer. A close-up of 'the pin removed all doubt. The initiate "V.T.W." blinked AV him in letters of fire. r Yet Mix hesitated. • "What," -he flaked the dealer diffilt dehtly-"what happene to be your name, pardnere" The dealer amebae& followed Mix's ga2e to the pin, looked up it the Pox Star again: "Merrick," he anewered briefly. Jewett., "Then"- Tom Mix premed neater-- "theee are not your initiate?" The dealer grunted. "New -Ws utit a pretty I got front a bad man who thought ha could bet." Wbereupott Torn Mix opened nege- tiations and for $200 obtained owes- eion of the pin, which had been gam - Wil away for OE "That, dealer wee stpattre," sari Mix. eirceinetancee and how bighly it Wall treaeured by the Major. "I3ut don't imagine that my job wile done. It had taken me nine year's to eendi 'across this lore, and now that I had it I wasn't any nearer restoring It to the Major. Hie l'anc11 friend down at Lubbock had 'died. in the illeanenne and I couldn't get a line on where hie *telly had gone. So I was UP itgainet it'when I couldn't find out where to get inetouch with the Wintone. "If d had any gumption I would have realized that the British War Office 'would have a record of Major Wineele; but that never ;struck nee. And -here% tbe tragic part - bad I inquired at the Wer Office I would have beep infernied that Major Win- ton, having rejoined hes regiment at the start of the war, had been killed in action severve months before in Flanders. , "I would eave learned, however, that his daugeter Eeith was ire the English Red Cross in. eervice, tn France, But, as I said, I didn't think to ask the War Office end so---" Possibly it is Juat as well that the Fox star failed to find • immediate means of returning the pin. It would have spoiled the climax which out - Moves the movies. '• SCENE SHIFTS 'TO WAR ZONE. The armistice lia,d been signed • and the millions of soldiers and thousands of• 'Red Cross nurses in France were relaxing from the years ot racking ordeal: •lt.ith the last of the wouhded l'ouimies, Edith Winton 'moved back from the battle line of Nov. 11 to a aospital at Ypres. That was last De- eernber. Two days after Christmas-leshould ,have been Christmas eve, of tourse„ 'but it was not -Miss Winton Went to a motion picture show, the first • she had seen in two efears. On the screen galloped Tom Mix in "Heel Roarin' Reform." No, she did not recognize him -it -was more than eleven yeavs since, the ranger bad told her of his bunch about the stolen pin.M Came a close-up of 'X. Still Miss Winton did not recognize him. Never- theless, she staeted suddenly from her peat as Mix appeared in giant size. On the left brettest of his rough cow - bey shirt was the pin that had disap- peared from the ranch at Lubbock, Texas, nearly twelve years ago. 'ripe she recognized the actor. , At last the girl for whom Tom Mix had worn this message in all his nie- tures since the day he came aeroes the faro dealer in Tombstone had seen it. As Tom Mix could have saved lava - self a lot of worry by asking the British Wer Office for word ot Major Winton,' so could Miss Winton have saved,' herself trouble by writing t� Mix. 'estut she did not. Hardly know- ing Wbat to believe -whether. he, after all' was the thief -she „decided to wait until she could gain leave' of absence and look him up 'personally in America: SHE GOES TO CALIFORNIA. leeur weeks ago Miss Winton re°4- ed. °New York from England. At the Fox offices she found that Tom Mix was in California making his: pieture, "Rough Riding Romance." Stet doubt,- ful about the. part Mix might ha•Ve had in the ralbery and determined to ineet him face to face, she went ;�n to California. At • the Fox studies in Ieollyweed she was told that Mix was in theefo ulot- hills of Mot Baldy„ about thirty miles away. She hired an aistoniobile and went out there. • Mix was ewinging of his horse at the roadside after a gruelling day when Miss Winton's machine stemeed. "Can you tell me, please," she ee- gan-buf the sentence never was finished. ) With a whoop Tom Mix was running the few steps toward her, his fingers fumbling , at the 'clasp of the pin on his shirt. Before saying a wordehe thrust that into her hands. "Lordy," he broke out, his smile breaking all over his face, "I sere thought I never would get a chance to give you that pin. I've been wear- ing it, hoping you'd see me in the pictures some time and send your ad-- dress. And, say," he looked around expectantly. "How's the Maj-" Then he stopped at the look in her eyes, recalling that the British army had called upon its old officers when the storm broke five years ago. There isn't a-ything else to tell ex- cept that Tont Mix still wears a dia- mond pin with the monogram, "V. T. W." -a replica of ono presented by the late King Edward tO the late Major Vernon T. Winton, who died on Flanders fields. Tont. Mix's pin is the gift of Edith Winton, who insisted that he accept It tie a remembrance of a hunch that made good after nine years and of a promise that was kept after twelve. • • 4 • •-•-•-•••••••-•-••-•••••-•-•-•-•-••-•••••••• • SAMOA ' highway for coast •and inter-Solend traffic. The entire length of the group. it RoSe Ieland be ineluded, to little Woe than 300 mile, and Ito ;roe* pea is larger than the state of Rhode Ieland by 50 tuatara milso. "The native inbabitante of the Islands are of Polynesian stock and are clearly related to the nativee of both Hawaii and New Zealend. For practical mamma these natives may be divided into four Wanes, At the head stand the chief% who are hereditary in the souse tbat tbey meet belong to certain families, but elec- tive in that they exercise authority be virtue ot titles conferred on them. "The Telerate, talking -Mean, is their executive officer, who phraees their thoughts in eloquent langletee, and is frequently the central figure in the district and the source et autherity. Below him one above the lowest class. compoeed of what are known as the 'common people,' are the native teach - ere and catechists, ento • wear More clothes and do lese figletitig than the .rest of the populittion. ' "There is nothing in the dress. or bearing of a high chief Which. enables a' foreigner to distingtneh him, but he is isolated from tee rest of the people by a system of rigid °Willett*. No one may hold up an undirella or do certain kinds oe work in his prea- ence, and a special vemabulary sen apart in which to, addreee litm. Tee common names for food, an ax, a pig, etee are tabooed in his peesence. His face, his anger, and ether attributes are described in an eetleely different set of worda from those. used for or- dinary men. "Hedged about as lie is, the chief. in his intercourse withdiersone net of his rank, bas come to. depend largely on his 'talking man' 'who, like his 'chief, is elected from certaia faireliee In which the office is liereditary. As a rule no one is elected who bas not a, gift for oratory, whion is a com- mon talent in Samoa. s "The powers anti duties of the 'talk- ing men' are considerable,. They am 'nen of much dignity a carriage, and as they stand leaning ueoe a staff t office wale a 'Inc.' or fly -trap cast over one shoulder, with which occasionally to emphasize then' remarks, they cam - pare favorably in appearance with the orators of a natien•more civilized that. themselves." !CRITICS IN • AUSTRALIA • 'Premier Finds Situation Very Uncertain. gationilists Would ReVirm on New Lines. itsondon Cable - (Reuter De- . spatche-Outlining the general situa- tion in Australia which 'Confronts Pre- mier Hughes, the Sydney correspon- dent of the Times states that the Pre- mier finds the political situation very uncertain. The mixed driving force which has been asseMbled for the nee- ceseities of the ivar has expended it- self..now and the Nationalists are dis- playing • a decided desire to reconsti- tute themselves on neevnines. Already there is evedenee in 'West , Australia; South Australia, Victnria • and New South Wales thitt the farmers and perhaps the reternea soldiers will • create new parties 'closely identined with •the producing intefeets, while the • employing class shows a' strong dispo- sition to revert to conseryatism, At the same time the labor party has ejected from its ranks all known ex- tremists who have been bent on form- ing -a Soviet party. As the State and also- the Federal Parlianients approve proportienal vot- ing, future elections will possibly sub- stantially alter the present representa- tion of the Nationalists. Disintegrat- ing influences are °also Markedly pres- ent in the State Legielatures. s Nevertheless, Premier Hughes holds' -a commanding positiOn -In° the Federal arena, and remains unchallenged, and be view of the fact of the breakdown .af former Premier Watt i through ill- ' health, the Premier fs certain to re- -main in office until the elections. His party, however, contains disruptive elements; and he may be °compelled to teek a new alignment with the nyder- ate Labor wing, which, associated With advanced . Liberals, would give him control of the new radical party. With the high cost of living, prof- lteering, heavy taxation; industrial strife, soldiers' grievances, tariff revi- sion, Bolahevism and naval expansion as the urgent constitutional problems, :coupled with friction With the States, and myriad reconstrectieh problems. Premier Hughes will have to sande .A whole continent, which starts with the idea of getting all ite svishes, and believes that he is to have Many mil- lions from the German; inderanity to distribute, His greatest danger ie • profiteering, and unless he can ecotch this evil, even his tremendous prestige may vanish in a single day. Premier Hughes will require to be a superman In order to survive the political Strife which will accompany reconstruction. The German • Samoan islands, for which New Zealand is to hold the mandate according to preliminary summaries of the peace treaty, are described in a bulletin from the Na tional Geographical Society, based on a cOmmurdeation to that body, as fol- lows: "Samea, called by former geOgra- pb.ers the Navigators Islande, from the skill in navigation shown by its inhabitapte, consists of four principal bits of land lying in the South Pe- ens nearly midway between New Zealand and Hawaii. "The number of islands in the group may, by counting the smaller. be inereased to 11, or even 14, but only Sava, Upolu, Tutuila, and the ieree usually included ueder the gee.' eral terra Mantis, are iniportant. "All are verdure -clad and inhabited. and in appearance and shape tesereble hnniense green hats, the interior rare resenting the erown being rocuntain- elite while the brim or shore is MV- ered With tocoatiet palms, breadfruit. banana, and other tropical trees, which furnish the native food. "At some prehittorie period the peaks of a eubmerged mountain chain tuntting northeast and southwest have been lifted from the depths of the wan by the upheaval of voicanoem now long extinct. Accuteulations of soil brought by heavy rains from the MetIntains meet the ever-growing reef. Which. prevente eaty approach to elee land except in those placee where fresh -water etreems, forcing their way through, term openinga in the coral barrier. "Between reef and shore a lagoon. me have the pin at a tenth varying in width from 200 yards to REMEMBERED HIS FRIENDS •"••••••••••••.•••••••••••••• Carnegis$ Will Gives In- comes to Many of Them. Really Did, Give Up Most of Fortune, New York Despatch -The will qf Aedrew Carnegie, filed, tor probate to -day and admitted to probate im- mediately by Surrogate Fowler, dis- poses ot an estate Valued at $25,090,- 000 to ;30,000,000. The residuary es- tate of about $20,000,000e goes to the Carnegie Colenaration. Direct' public bequests of 56O,000 are left to institu- tions, and •legaciee of $268,000 a year go to friends, relatives end persona of public promieence, Mrs. Carieegie receives all her hus- band's real estate with his personal effects of every kind ,believed to be worth between $5,000,000 and 10,000,- 000. In explaining why he made no further provision for his tylfe, Niro. Louise Whitfield Carnegie, and no be- quest to hie daughter, Margaret, now Mrs. Roswell IVIllier, the testator said: "Having years ago made " provision for my wife beyond her desires, and beiug unable to judge at present what provision for our .daughter will best promote her heppiness, I leave to her mother the duty. of providing for her, us her mother deems best. A moth- er's love will be the best guide," ' its actual wortb wben he heard the two cr three miles, provides atecure BANK ROBBERS THE PUBLIC BEQUESTS, The public bequests were: $30,000 to Hampden Institute, $200,000 each to Pittsburg University and the reliet fund of the Authors' Club of New York; el.00,000 to Stepeens' Institute, "to improve my original gift"; $100,000 Lo St. Andrew's Society, in addition to a lifetime gift of $10,000, and $60,000 to ooper ' Annuities to well-nnown persons in- clude the following: William H. Taft, $10,000; Hon. John Berns, $5,000; Mrs. Grover igleveland, now Mrs. There J. Preston; $5,000; Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, $5,000; David Lloyd George, $10,000; ',John, Morley, "life-long friend," $f0,000;s1Valter Damrosch, $8,- 000; Thoneas Burt and John Wilson, members Of Paeliament and life-long friends, $5,(1e0. Men an evonien associated in the organizations established by Mr. Car- negie for the distribution of his wealth for the benefit of mankind, also re- ceived legacies. They include: Rob- ert A. Franks, Financial Secretary and President et the Home Trust *Com- pany, founded by Mr: Carnegie for the conduct if hie private business, as named by -him as executor under his will, $20,000; Die ,Henry S. Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, $10,- 000; James' Bertl•am, pi•ivate secretarY, $10,000; eiresident Robert S. Wood- ward, of :gernegle -Institute at Washington, $u1,000. John A. Poyn- ton, secretary,. eeceives $5,000 a year. Mr. Carfiegteneave $10,000 a year to each one of hie „married nephews and nieces, tied $5,900 to each nephew un- married. s To his sister-in-law he gave $10,000 it year "with love," His 'brother-in-law,. Harry Whitfield, and his wife eleer shim; get $10.000, and Maggie Lauder, and Mrs, George, of. Dunfermline, cousins, get $5,000 each. Claude S. tCarnegie, of Devonshire, re- ceives po,boo-a• year, R.EAll4k DID SPEND IT. , • le very little movement of poultry reported, but an bureau is noted en British. Columbia, though this is being absorbed, and very little accumulation is reported, Canadian storage stocko of frozen poultry were reduced during the month of (July front, 1,690,661 petuads to 1,197,484 pounds. Some firms report a practieal clearance of their stocks, while others are still fairly heavy holders, and the market for this stock Is rather dull at the present time. As was Pointed out last week, much of this frozen poultry is held at western "inots' Nmaterial change took n Plume i the United States poultry markets last week, the arrivals of live poultry being taken care of at a slight ad- vance on most varieties. • 4 • DUBLIN B,IIOBBLACIP. Those of 1780 and Tools .of Trade. Another Daring Ilold,-Up in Detroit. Detroit Despatch-elianilten Boule- vard branch of the Arnerican State Bank, in Highland Park, was held up and robbed by six armed bandite to- day. They took $3,000 in cash and eeV-, era' thomand della:el in Liberty Betide, and &leaped In art automobile. Officials of the bankare checking up the betide to determine the lose. Horace Cole, booltkeeper, was alone when the mee entered in the rear of the batik lie walked folevard to the bared window, and a gun was pointe ed at him by one of the Met. Mande Up, held weer the moue," the mot -holder eald. Cole obeyed and mother man walk- ed behind the countereand scooped all the Meth he Mild find in the Vault and cashier's cage together With Lib- erty Bonds, into a brown bag. Ile mimed $7,000 in turrency that was in the vault. The robber e then drove off and are Atilt at liberte. leNteV 1115 CLIENT. (New York Ameriesne Client (just acquitted on burgiarY thaegessWell, good-bye. I'll drop in on you Rome time, noun/me-MI right; but make it In tilt &Innis plate* It len% exactly a erime to kill tiree, Unless it belongs to some one else. • Among the populace of Dublin le 1760 the shoeblacks were a numerous and formidable body. The polisb they used was lampblack and eggs, for which they pureemed all that were rotten in. the markets. Their imple- ments consisted of a three-legged stool, a basket containing a bluht knife, called a spudd, a Painter'e brueh add an old wig. A gentleman usually 'welt out in the Morning with (linty boots or shoes, sure to find a shoeblack sitting on hie steel at the corner of the street. The gentleman put his foot in the lap the shoeblack without ceremony, and the artist ecraped it with his spudtl, wiped it with his wig and then end on his composition as thick as black peal with his painter's brush. . The stuff dried with a rich polish, requiring no friction, and little infer- ior to the elaborated model nfluide. save only the intolerable odors ex- haled from eggs in a high state of putridity, and which filled ally house which was entered before the coin - Position was quite dry, a,nd sometimes even tainted the air of fashionable drawing rooms,-Univereity Magazine. The wine was matte February 13, 1912, with codicil dated March 31 last. Elihu Root, jun., who witnessed both the will and eodicii, and flied them for probate, in estimating the estate be- tween $2e,000,Q0(l'end $30,000,000, said: "He really diddivest himself of his great, fortune for the benefit of man- kind, as he long ago said he would." Mr. Carnegle's bequest of the residue of about $20,000,000 to the Carnegie Foundatien makes his bequests to thea Corporation $145,000,000, and his total public benefactions of every • :kind $371,065,653. The•Corporation Was in- corporated byspecial act of the New York State Legislature in 1911 to "re- ceive and eareetain a fund and apply the income to promote the advance- ment and diffusion of knowledge among the people of the 'United States by aiding technical schools, institu- tions of high learning, Iibraties, seien- tific researehes, hero funds, uneful publicetions, and by such other Other agencies and mem as shall from Gine to time be fennid• approprlete." •41* [Kg AND POYLTRY Review of Situatton as Last Tuesday. •••••••• on • Eggs -The situation durieri the past , . week has. iema,ined pra Wally un- it chaeged. There is, howe er, a firmer undertone for specials an extras, and for these grades in some teases a pre- mium over last Week's pries has been paid; this epplies to our eastern and British COlumbia. Markets. riehe Prai- rie. Province market e are id as :lima a conditien, partietnarly colialeering the hea•vy falling ofe in receipts in that part of the eo ry. We have, however, indications f a firmer mar- ket, and hi wine p rts of Northern Saskatchewan. as htg as 50 cents is now being paid- tee gatherers. The eastern trade was teeny last week of - tering 48-44 centeelo.b., cases return- able to Country 'shippers, but very few sales are eeported at Visite Priem To -day 50-52 &lints f.o.b, it fairly gen- eral with seine shippercevho handle candled eteek, and sOme, egg Circles reeeivingi from 53-54 cents, Sales of Apeneand May storage stocks were re- ported last week at 58 eents, storage and imerame paid until the end of SPARTACANS ON PEACE TREATY ••••••••• Circular Letter, Found by German Culture Leagiie, Shows the Party's View; of the Pact. the eettsene , The British Columbia mar et 'shows 1\e mottle slight adverted-, over laht week, and ptiees have noir leached t level where etCalifornia eggs' eon be im- poreed and sold chtiper than the leeal SUPPlieS. , 'The United States 3raarkets remain steady at 1ast weekl. level. Very little tradineis Teported pass - leg In storage sto, s. On the New it York market see ge packed firsts are quoted at 46 cents, eeeonds 44- 45 cents, the bitter assuming moorage charges. On _the Chicago market storage peeked firsts are qttoted at 421,4-43 coed's, ordinary 41-41% cents. Poultry-Receipte of live 'poultry orettlette . to thereto*, but prieee re - Main fairly firm. Very little deemed poultry le arriving, but an inertmee may be lookk for with the eoolet weather. In the middle west there Berlin Cable - A. cireular 41 let- - Where Livin g Men Use Oenuine Saga Language (Special IntIrtveitezsmovvuiatit Vilhjalmur even Chaucer'e Englielt is hidden with- in a new edifice of speech. Tete Iceland has Linotypea. If nevispa- epeech and Merely language of Nor- pers littd rea.cited the simple perfection way' 5we4('14 and Denmark changed almost Leyond r“,(Jgnition under the or vers libre, this eimple remark would deadly stupor of the Dark Ages. OnlY be the whole story. Something more, iceleucl has kept its heritage. however, Bee= to be required, and BUSINESS IN SAGA WORDS. teerefore as a trate, so to speak, to Iceland's children of 1919 learn their tbe majesty ot the plain announce- lessons in the speeeli of the viltings. ment, we add that Iceland's Linotypes Iceland'sbusiness men talk business are not operated by Polar Bears or in words identical with the tremen- the .A.uroro Borealis, but by operators dims chants of the Gunnar and (+rotten who "Pet it OM" all One? compos- Sagas. Iceland's newspapers tell Us- ing rooms in the world so far as elms- day's news in a language that the sic( purity of composition is concern- European world bad forgotten when en. If a New York Or Chicago or San Columbus sailed westward. .blzencisco operator were setting his Because of thls tradition ot learn- lainotYee matter in the Saxon of King ing, Iceland's small population has Alfred, or composetors of France, produced distinguished men quite out • Italy, and Spain were linetyping pure of proportion to its numbers. One of Gothic, they would be doing some- the first physicians to win the Nobel thing to vie with those Icelandic men, Prize was selected from this coramen- They are teletyping in pure saga Ian- ity of lees than 80,000 eeople. Henvas gilege, and why this is so le explained Vilhebn Pinson, Mellow among oTher the following ittterview with Ville, achievements for his development Of jetimur Stefansson, the famous Arctic the Finsen light treatment for lupus, eeplorer and ethnelogist. one of the World's deatructive skive •AT VILHJALKUR STEFANSS.ON diseases. The sculptor BerteT Thor - SAYS. waidsen (or Albert Thorwaldson, as his Tbere are no elementary schools in father called hira) was an Icelander. • leelands There hardly are what we Mr. Stefansson, Canadian -born, but ShOuld call high 'schools. It would of Icelandic blood, has twice conduct - fellow, apparently, that the percen- ed impoetant reseenbes un Iceland, al- lege of illiteracy is immense. Tne ter-iv/etch he turned to the American eieact contrary is the fact. In this Arctic. In the, winter 1906-7 he lived ineely sea -caged place just under the with the 'Eskimos at the mouth of Keetie Circle there is absolutely no 11- the Mackenzie River. From 1908 to neeracy at all. There never has been 1912 he journeyed many thousand any. Even the Dark Ages did not miles, depending on his rifle eor sub - Wipes, Iceland as completely as they sthisiteenleoeu;g aanddveinttelvualsugintutheet icioeurfsoeunotl eelipsed the rest ot Europe. There has been so sustained a pre- hiatdheoreteona unknown BEiseltuinieleviliedlikeiyonever servation of knowledge that to -day h inere is no farm, leowever lonely, that , the people *of the 'Stone Age. In 1913 twee not possess inmates competent he sailed front Victoria, B. C., in corn - to educate the children. Some work- inand of the Canadian Arctic Expe(1i- ee, always is competent to aet as tutor, end every Iceland father and mother le competent as a matter of course. BOOKS ON EVERY FARM. ;Not a single farm lacks books. Nearly every farm has books in more elien one language, and most Icelandic neuseholde have books in at least three -Icelandic of course; Danish ,(which is not Icelandic); and booke tu English or German, or both. Thus Iceland'e youth not only is thoroughly well equipped to enter the C011ege of Iceland or colleges of the 'outer world, but the love of literature eenich hag flourished for a thousand teare gives the people' of the little Country a rich and uniene possession. :nhey own to -day the beautiful wild lenges in their original purity. Of all :the lands on earth, Iceland is the one, eind the only one,, that has preserved 'As original language. LITERATURE STABILIZER LAN- GUAGE. It is literature alone that stabilizes a language. Literature fled from Eur- ope during the Derk Ages, but never has there been teelme in Iceland when At lacted men and wemen with the knowledge, the passion to teach the :Sagas in unmarred purity and truth. These Sagas were, and they are, the unfailing springseen which folk -educa- tion has fed. When the Icelandic n'iking ships were- feared on every sieas to sit amid deitandic households ;oast, the beat els, of the rovers still send. hear the Skalds sing the songs -that gradually became the Sagas of .fhieceeding generationsTo-day their neoneable descendants love ' best. to Work the yeat'seyield of wool in the !Ong winter nights while ahosen ones 17.1sad or recite to the gathering. ,So stabilized, the Icelandic language s pure to -day as it was it thousand srears ago. In that long period, all tee languages of-Eerope have suffered erittny and vielent changes. Gothic has vanished. Latin has become a dead language. Saxon and kindred ter from the leaders et the Spee - thous party has fallen into the hands ; of the League for the Protection of German Culture. It says the,party •clp- Kees the clause in the. peace treabr relative to labor by German werkmen, in the rehabilitation, of devastated diet tricte Frame and Belgir, ..saying the pact was "signed' hymboni•geols• with bourgeois, which4thit"partY does not recognize." The letter- tfrtates that the Spartacan organization- will nee: send its laboreve te Prance;'and• *- dares the milliner -of- transpnrting workers their -Mparation from i their families, and their querters, in bar- racke is rerniniacent• ofs bodily slav- ery. "The picture," •the letter ° escon- tinues, "is made prettier by siege - nations between. elte Germane and French as to the part German' in- dustry will play in the Work cat' re- conetructiom. °Labor . be. the pthie- tariat the 'prite, with which 'Abe bourgeole epurchases the continued exietence, the's Fatherland, where- as the 'eenee of the revolution was to ta cease the •performances • of blood,y slave service for the bather - land. The German proletariat- Will not. perform this advice in some other form." a • s* Bearers of Great Names. A London journalist has found the'se personal name in the repords of the gerteeal register office. He has discov- ered eirl registered In 1847 as. "Ili It *Mai•ia";• in- .1853, a boy as "Napoleon elle Great"; '1857, "Robert Alma, Bala- clava Inkerman Sebastopol Delhi": 1860. "Arthur Wellesley Wellington Waterloate•1861,"Not Wanted James"; 1863, "Jerome Napoleon dward Hen- ry John"; 1865, '`Edward Dyng Tally- ho Forward"; 1870, "One Too Many"; 1877, "Peter the Great"; and "William the Conqueror," twins; 1883, "Richard Coeur de Lion Tyler Welter"; 1896, "That's It Who'd Have Thought It"; 1887, "Laughing Waters." Some re- Inarkable single mulles are to be Met with,,such as "RighteOus," "Comfort," "Weeny," "Elector," **Hopeful," "Re- ' derription," eelealtation," "Obedience" .and "Alphabet." Tvains, "Love" and "Unity," are to be' touted, and, besides "Faith," "Ilene" and "Charity" as triplets, there ate "Shadraeh," "Me- slinch" and "Abednego," boys, and two boys and a girl, "Alpha," "Beta" and "Otnega." WINES AND RUM CONGEST DOCKS Enormous Influx of Liquor Into London. Excise Tax May be Greatly Increased. • Menden Cable --,,One of the chief causes for the unprecedented etate of eorigeetien en the London decks is said to be an enormous influx of wines and rum, for which the liquor trade gave tremendous orders immediately alter the armistice was toncluded. It he reported that the Port of don authorities are talitig step to glow tloWn theae shipments until coaditione become more normal. euggestion that the GovernMeht. could look to -the liquor trade to eite' eliorate its financial problenta was made to -day at Carlisle by Baron D'Abernon, eintirman Of the Central (Liquor Traffic) Control Board, and well known as a financier.. Baron IYAbernott said that, despite the la - Creased taxation, the profits from the sale of liquor were greater than at any period in the trade's hietere. If ancial eireumetances required le, he added, the revenue from aleoltel totold easily be brought up to X200,000,000 yearly. 322 Olvil Ater4100 ta Luat;Ideutb. GlemeOw Faire is always a popular time for marriages, but never belies* have there been so many holiday marriages as during last week. This sta.temeett applies particularly to "irregular" marriages, or what are more correctly described as CiVii Mete riages. So great WO the nUmber of wedding parties at the collar Winn- ings that they literally forated UP in tieetlee for registration. On Fair Irri- day Sheriff Lyell registered 76 Of these marriegee. This easely constl- tutes "recore". for a single day. Since the end of Iune 322 civil wed- dings have taken place in the county buildings -a daily average of over 20. Up ted end of last week there have been. 2,373 such marriagee this year. The first Occasion on which the number 01 eivil marriages exceeded 1,000 in a year was In 1900, during the South African war, and then the total was 1,064. During eucceedeig years the total fluctuated around 1,000. In 1914 when the war broke &et. the eotel •suddeuly juitmed up to 2,657, and in 1915 the highest number yet re- corded for a siegle year was reached _namely, 3,676. Peace year, however, promises to exceed even that number, - • . • 4-10-11-0 11-11-11. 9-44-4- 0-4- ..+4 AFGHANISTAN •-•-••••••-•-• +44-44-444-444 • 4 •4, 41/41w4, 'The reported assassination of Habibulleh, alter of Afghanistan, es a reminder that not even that relnote and obscure land of Middle Asia es- caped the effects of the world war. Now that there is any evidence:, as yet that the monarch's murder was inspired • by growiug antipathy to autocrats, but the collapse of Ruesia left Afghanistan free from an influ- ence that often caused. her consider - tion. and among other extrardinary able embarrassment., ing scrupulously is credited with observe feats.ologoingvmoving re oe nee withoAs crossed Alaska okti ye t ottyr Bra ei neo kmOs pc eie ko den. scrupulously the policy laid ruler, ey his father, a noteworthy about matters of foreign policy, but ingthant ofinteeornf:uolutinneg froBnrlitjahine In the following year he penetrated ps taint ofnaer taheedr enxoprltohr ediv t hu gt areaeooev cern-owrient:gtoutside in the domestic affairs oe of Prince Patrick d new land north of It, absolute monarchy. In his book, "111y Life with the Habibullah's father it was with FIRST AMERICAN COLONIZERS. Eskimos," Mr. Stefansson calls atten- made travel comparatively 'sale Afghanistan-tiebes which forriterlY among the meterogeneous tribes of tion to the fact tnat Icelanders naa colonized Greenland 500 years before slightest provocation. Frequently pounced upon each other at :Alia Columbus discovered the Weet Indian they submitted their disputes to arbi- frontier of Araeriect, and that it was tration and. the custom of the Dew a Norseman, sailing to visit his father in Greenland, who discovered the awarding several of its marriageable women ,kto:ethe rival tribe was one • By the time Columbus% Icelandic factor in gliiainating any clear-cut American mainevid in the year 1,000. distinctions. Iletiveen the- tribal units communicated with Greenland had of the lands • become scanty. Filially it ceased and To the iteanger tile Afghen dis- a mystery that has not yet been solv- plays a- sort: of epecions and deceps ed closed in upon the Icelandic colon- tive Oriental. courtesy. In fact* a les. When William Davis practically national preverb is that "The man years of isolation, he found no Euro- no Afghan." But the stranger also who shuts his door to a stranger is re -discovered Greenland after its 800 peans surviving. . would do well to know a saying cur - No record ever was found that gave rent among the Hindoos, "God shield even a hint or their possible fate, un- you from vengeance of the elephant, . til Stefansson found the men weorn the cobra said the Afghan."- Fon the world has christened the "blond many strangers have found teat, up - Eskimo." Since that disoovery, lay- on provocation, to which the Afghan men, if not scients, are entitled to is extremely, sensitive, his disposition hold the roniantle hope that they is vengeful, cruel and crafty. His may prove to be • descendants of the desire for pillage, theft and decep- lost Icelanders thus found by a son tion also is int to get the best of or Iceland. - him, • No guessing need be done about the Your Afghan is a swarthy,. swag - Icelanders Who' remained in Iceland. gering, -proud, but withal prepossess - Many a great nation might envy this ing sort of man, every inch the war - isolated group its excellence Of na- rior while he keeps his turban on, tional ist ords. A:quarter century be- but giving a faint suggestion of a fere English Elizabete. ascended the bewigged, jurist of old English days throne. Iceland had a printing office. when he•rernoves.it to disclose a head A Bible, and a very elaborate one, shaved...ringlets falling about his shout - was printed in Igeland in 1584, four ders fienn the unshaved portions. years bel ore the Spanash Armada set Occegionally the men are fide', as sail. It seems crudely modern to are most., a the women, whose hair in two pleas with colored tassels at mention Linotypes in connection with such gaudy antiquity. Most apologe- the end; conceivably might call to tically we mention that the first one mind en American musical comedy chorus prepared = prepared to . sing "School °Days". were it not for their flowing Oriental robe. Afghan women, like Turkish wo- men, are kept secluded, but they are considerably more adventurous; than their Turkish sisters, hence scandal is not infrequent, even in a land where a man may have as many wivet as he can support. Amir Habibullah, if report of his death be true, left four widows. By Habibullah's father, A.bdur Rahman, also were enacted measures of national defence singularly in keeping with occidental schemes for conscription. He made the boast that he could throw a hundred thousand men into action in a week to defend .one of hie provinces, and said his entire doniain could raise a million fighting men to define her soil. Nor did he step at the prediction. He worked out a system by which. each man in every eight would. alternate in taking , military instruction. One had to be very young, or very de- crepit, to escape the anite's draft, fox' the services ages -were from 16 to 410. SO far as barring private munitions makers is mocerned, Abdur Rahman, long before his death in 1901, might have sUbscribed te the proposed League et Nations, for he had his Own factories at his-eapital, Kabul. There are said to have been produced a dozen or more rifles and thou- sands of cartridges a day, and sev- eral guns a week. But neighboring states never had much fear of any pan -Afghan aspir- ations on the part of the Kabul War lord, The arms were most varied and picturesque, and the cartridges are said to have been excellent seVe that they seldom fitted many of the rifles. - Though he may know not efticieney, the Afghan Is a "first-class fighting man," as the British learned in the two Afghan wars. It was at the elose of the setond, 111 1879, thaf Geri. Rob- erts made his &ewes rnaleh to Kan - dollar to reinforce Gen. Barrows, Who had been defeated by the Afghans, a feat which was rewarded with the peerage and the title, "Lord Roberto of Kandahar." Persia, Turkestan, Balttehistan and India surround this island menarche' with est estimated area of 245,000 square miles and a population, else estimated, of 5,000,000, Afghan his- terituts date their peopbee beginuing to King Sind, and refer to them as Children of Israel, a theory that may have gained popular acceptance be totigues have passed from England, I was installed in 1914. -From the Mer- * Merman remains only as a ghost, and genthaler Lines Qa Type News. SHORT ITEMS OF THE NEWS OF THE DAY Gerrnan National Liberals Are Booming Ilinden- .,,urg for President. WILSON'S TOUR New Bru.niwick to Take Over Wholesale Vend- ing of Liquor. A. farewell dinner wae tendered • Rey. Father Burke at Toronto. A monument erected by the town- ship of Bramosa to the memory of eleven soldiers was unveiled at Rock- wood. The Meaford Woollen Mills' hits Teeeived an order for 17.000 yards of • khaki- frieze, worth about ;55,000, for the Greek army. Premier Fester announced that New eirunewick would probably take over the wholesale vending of liquor on Nov. 1. • Adjutor Girard and Emile Genet, lads enmleyed by the Dominion Paper • Company, were killed by a premature explosion of dyrittniite at Pont Rouge, Stephen Friedrich has formed a now Cabinet at Budapest la which he as - seines the post of Minister of the Interior. Heavy rattle have fallen over the wheat belt of Neer South Wales and Queensland, giving promise of big crops for those sections. The Catholic Bishop of Ripon has unveiled a wayside eross to Imperial 'and Canadian soldiers, tubseriptions for vthieh came largely from Cana- dians. The Government has decided to abolish, the press censorship in Ire- land Aug. 31. Ole Hanson, Seattlees Mayor, who tattled nationwide fame as a result of his eland during the J.:neva strike • last February, presented his resigns,- tien. All harbor work irt Copenhagen was brought to a :standstill ag 4 result of a strike called by the harbor work- men. The German National Liberals are booming Field Marshal von Hinden- burg for tho presideecy In the .first elections to be held under the new constitution. The Echo de Paris says that the treaty with Austria° carries most fav- ored nation clauses for all the allied and associated governments, without distinction between. them. President *Wilson will leave Wash- ington next Wednesday on his speech- making tour in the interest of the peace treaty, and will deliver his first address in Columbus next Thursday, probably' in the evening. In the ariest of John Joen, Shuter street, the police are of the firm opinion that they have the "king pin" of the "dope" trade in the •eity of Toronto, and the man evho is respon- sible for the great Increase in the pernicious traffic during the past year or two. The sentence of death imposed upon Pierre Lenoir, convicted in May last of having had dealings with the enemy, will be eammuted to life Im- prisonment oe Devils' Island, says the Paris Journal. Owing to the increased cost of coal, gas, oil and labor, the Light Commis- sion of Kitchener has decided to in- crease the price to the consumers from $1.25 to $1.35 per thousand feet. The new rate goes hite, effect on Sept, 1. The exportation of wool from Aus- tralia to the United States will become possible after June 30, 1920, when the Central Wool Committee, which has controlled the output of the commod- ity for the British Government, ceases Its activities. Mr. F. A, Aeland, Deputy' Minister of Labor, bas been appointed without salary as third member of the Cana- dian Board of Commerce. It is under- stood that the eppointment ie tem- porary and that the Governmeet, after conferring with Judge Robson and Mr. O'Connor, will at it later date make a permaneet appointment. ' Gold. Production. The gold production et the British Empire Was in 1916, the latest year in -which coinplete figures are available, 14,229,844 ounces, or 64 per -cent. 61 the world's total. According to statisties in the Canada Year Book, the Dentine ion comes fifth as a gold-produeing country. Australia is third. In silver production Canada takes second place in the world. 1.1•44.4.4.rn Tommy -Pop, what is it sinking fund? Tommy's Pop --A sinking fund, my boy, Is a- er---well, you've heard of cause of the Afghante Semitic appear- ance, but it is not generally credited by ethnologiste. Afghatt literature is rich in poetry, Mostly war epics and love lyrics. .All but the moue- tein letafire are ritoharemedau, end they eling to a pagan belief in Willett Congress peeling t naval appriation are blinded faint suggestions of old bill, haven't you? mythologies and inteitat religious,