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The Seaforth News, 1924-09-04, Page 2The Delicious Flavor !P drawn from the leaves of One Up For Wembley Romance in the Gorgeous Setting of the Great Exhibition that links East and West and North anal South, PART I. was afraid of his own company, h s On her way from the private office own thoughts. Etaeo Then he ` remembered that Elsie of the hairof the Bother Line had said that she hoped to •visit to the general . office Elsie Kayne had Canada that evening, and made a Many bppontunities of seeing and sudden resolve, To Canada he would speaking to Jim Franklin, who was also go. The chances of his, meeting in the Freight Department, Elsie were about two .thousand to Elsie liked Jim Franklin because one, but Jim had always had a -fancy he did not attempt to flirt with her, f longodds. as did the other clerks, and she was just a little sorry for hint because he l� seemed so .uttelly out of his element in an bfflce. She knew that, after the War had crocked him up, influence had got him this job, and she was also sadly conscious of the fact that influ- ence was at work to get him out of it. As an ordinary, well educated, pub- lic school man, Jim Franklin was the fall feed bill. Of course theymust be goods, but as a freight clerk he was a washout. He made blunders in replaced by cockerels, which also take 1 arithmetic. day,and M feed, but I find that well developed cockerels are more apt to produce a larger per cent. of fertile eggs. than older male birds. When selling old cock birds to city dealers I find they has wort iIt opinions of as tors. Sold by all dvocers. Bitty ids package to ate. FREE SAMPLE of GREEN TEA IWIId REQUEST. °"SALADA,' TORONTO i Ab �,l ut the use THE PATH TO MARY'S. It was six months since Mary Col- lins had died. She had been a quiet woman and was never in the forefront of anything; but after she had gone people were amazed to find how elosely she had been interwoven with all the village life: She had not indeed been in the forefront, but she had been at the warm, beating heart of it all. Even fow, after half a year, no event hap- pened in the village that some one did not say wistfully, It seems as if Mary Collins might come in any minute!" Martha Brooks, who had been spend - Ing the afternoon with Mrs. Thayer, had been talking of Mary for some time; Mrs... Thayer had been Mary's. closest neighbor. Presently a silence fell between the two women, a tender silence full of memories. Martha Brooks broke it. She had been looking absently out the window, and suddenly something unusual caught her attention. "Why, Ada, you've moved your dahlia bed!" she exclaimed, Mrs. Thayer smiled. "I was waiting for you to notice that," she said. "Look along the path, no, the other way, the path to Mary's." Mrs. Brooks turned. The path to Mary's led along the fence and then through an orchard; and all the way to the orchard the dahlias stood glow- ing and splendid in the September sun. "Why,—what,--" Mrs. Brooks gasped. "It was Betty's idea. She had been learning in school about the Lincoln Highway, and she proposed making a memorial path over to Mary's with my dahlias and hers." "But it isn't nearly so good a place for them, is it?" Mrs. Brooks asked. Mrs. Thayer caught her breath. "As if one could think of that when it was Mad!" she cried. She was silent for a while; then, "I think of this so often, Martha. Betty isn't going to stay at hone always. She will go away to college and then to her own place in life. And it may be in a city,—most of our girls do go to cities these days,—and neighbors are not so common in cities. I want Bet- ty's little path of remembrance to be something she never can forget. She has every one of the dahlias named for some lovely gift or service. That long line of scarlet ones is for the weeks when she had scarlet fever and Mary came over every night to relieve me; the variegated one is for the bits of silk and ribbons Mary used to save for Betty's dolls—and so on. Some of them would sound funny to you or me, but my little girl never will forget what it means to be a neighbor." "It's a queer notion, but I guess I like it," Mrs. Brooks replied. SELLING OLD ROOSTERS. If you have a steam pressure cooker try using the old roosters at home. About an hour at fifteen pounds pres- sure will make an old rooster, in our cooker, become about as tender as a springer. The meat drops from the bones and is fine for chicken pies and pressed chicken. When you sell old roosters to private customers without steam pressure cookers they may half cook the birds and claim they were tough, which is the case. A few meals of tough chicken sicken them of poul- try and soon the beef steak market is 'benefitting while the poultry market loses a customer. Unless old male birds are unusu nl breeding value I think it is best to k' 1. them, as this reduces the summer as d Fifteen Fires An Hour. According to statistics juste publish- ed in the United States no fewer thin 869 American houses catch fire in each twenty-four hours. In other words, a new fire starts every four minutes day I' and night. year in and year out. I Although, of course, many of these fires are promptly extinguished, yet' the fire lasses in the United' States run to $16 a second, $900 a minute, or, in round figures, something like five hun- dred millions a year, America is a country of wooden houses, and also of forest fires on a huge scale, and with the possible ex- ception of Russia fire does more dam- age there than anywhere else. The direct lose by fire in Great Bri- tain is five million a month, or $60,000,- 000 yearly. This is the direct lose Thr g only; it does not Include the cost of He caught the train for Wembley.lfire brigades, and the heavy indirect Arriving at the Exhibition, he took losses of one kind and another.' Take denotice of the bands and the gar- alt thane into consideration, and the dens, the lake, and the amusements, flre bill is more than doubled. but straightway sought out Canada, In London alone iiia yearly damage the exhibits. At the end of that and there, for two hours, gazed upon j,y fire varies between $2,000,.000 and $3,500,000. Nearly a hundred lives are time he felt that he never wanted to look upon an apple again. Despondently he left the building and wandered into the grounds, seek- ing the less frequented parts. The simple ar t metre every r. lights on the water, the sound of children, of whom 1,200 are burned to Manson, manager of the Freight De- music, the laughter of youth—all death in a year. pertinent, had marked him out for these brought more and more mel -In the Unite destruction. the dearth roll, destruction. ancholy upon him; already enormously heavy, is Inoreas- That was not entirely because Jim's He lit his pipe and smoked savage- ing. Twenty years ago it was 10,000 ly, seated on a chair, his hands thrust a year; in 1922 the deaths from fire deeply in his pockets. amounted to pearly 16,000—that Is, one "I'm an incompetent fool and senti- person was burned to death every mental idiot!" he muttered to himself. 'thirty-five minutes. "What right have I to fall in love The losses caused by forest fires are with anybody?" almost incalculable. In the province (To be concluded.) of Ontario over'$2,000,000 worth of a-- timber is destroyed each summer. The Oddities in the News. forest fire bill forthe whole of Cana da is more than ten millions yearly. It is reckoned that In the world at large fire destroys nearly $10,000,000. worth of property daily, almost all of which would be saved if due caution were observed. Why He Was Poor. lost in London each year through fires, and in the two countries of England and Wales the deaths from flre total nearly two thousand yearly. The great majority of victims are be - do not often like'them at anyrice arithmetic was shaky, but rather but will buy them at the rate obout cause he and Elsie Payne seemed to 2 males to 20 hens. Some dealers will be getting over friendly; for Mr. Man- buy them all at the same price per son, big mail of about forty, who pound and then deduct one pound for dressed very well and was generally each cock bird in the crate. This saves reckoned to be a fine-looking fellow, using a separate crate for the male had his own plans about Elsie, who was reported to. have a big pull with the great Mr. Boulter himself, whose confidential secretary she was. birds and saves some time in weighing in the consignment at the market, It often pays to trade with the deal- ers to whom you wish to sell poultry meat. After buying a pound of sir- loin and half a dozen pork chops, the dealer smiles and asks if there is any- thing else. Then you say, "Yes, sir, Would you be able to use four old roosters and forty hens next Thursday morning? They are fine plump birds beaten shores palm trees white Pilosun- startling theory that every It was a sweltering day in mid- summer when Jim Franklin sat with human being is a veritable wireless his freight sheets before him. The station, sending out waves of varying names that he read set his imagine- is that aid him in his daily inveworntor, tion afire. Madagascar—Santiago— Ja advanced Hey the famous enveaves Lakhovsky. He calls these waves Vera Cruz -heaps more. "human waves." Lakhovsky believes He conjured. up the scenes. Surf- that eventually it will be possible to and we will deliver them at the back lit houses—all that he had read about door at exactly the hour your man in books. He longed to visit these dis- wants to dress them." This often re- tent places whose names he wrote sults in obtaining an order slip to down in a big book in Cockspur Street. bring the birds and fair payment. Travel was in his blood, yet he had Some dealers seem to like to keep a never been farther afield than the farmer standing on one foot while trenches of France. they visit with salesmen, kid the clerks He forgot the work on hand. Then, and do almost anything but write out suddenly, a bright voice addressed a cheque. This can also be avoided by`him: buying a few necessities of them after "Dreaming, Mr. Franklin?" Jim sat up with a start, and flushed. A very pretty girl, with dancing blue eyes, stood before him. "Yes; I'm afraid I was," he con- fessed. "Of our big steamers. It must be fine and cool on the sea to -day." "You haven't been for your holiday yet?" "No; my turn conies in November. Where ought one to go in November? South Africa, perhaps! But one can't they have bought of you. Have them take the pay from your cheque and it may speed up the whole transaction. And then such dealers soon find out if a producer is anxious to give them first-class goods and be friendly and soon they become more friendly which adds satisfaction to the job.—K. PESTS. A farm woman needs to know a lot do South Africa in a fortnight or on about getting rid of pests. six ounds a weeks' It is a matter of history that mice "No," said the girl;.`I'rn afraid you pick on the farmer's wife—witness can't. But it's lovely to see places. the nursery rhyme to that effect. How- I've seen India and Burmah and Aus- ever, she needn'tbothsr to cutoff their tails with a butcher knife. If mint tralia.' leaves are spread wherever mice are How ripping! It has become a to be found, the pests will leave for kind of obsession of mine to see the good. They have a distinct aversion world. All through making up these to the smell. Essence of mint will freight sheets, I suppose. The names answer the purpose i£ leaves are not have a ]c' d of magic ' them,' three -clays' train journey as fresh as to be procured "I saw India and Burmah last when taken from the water. eliminate maladies by overcoming radiations of microbes, and that some clay man may converse at a distance by directing their own waves. Miniature traffic towers are being used on after-dinner speakers' tables In New York to curb the flaw of ora- tory. Amber and green lights warn the speakers that their time is about to expire, while a red light is signal for a full stop. Once, while walking through the land of imagination, I saw a dull -eyed man, sitting at the door of a small, dingy cottage. "Wiry are you so poor?" I asked. "I'm not poor," he answered. indig- nantly, "There is coal underneath my garden—one hundred thousand tons of it." "Then why don't you dig it up?" I asked. Skin from a patient's arm was used "Well," he achYtitted, "at present I to make him new eyelide in an unus- have no spade and I don't like digging. ual operation reently performed at the —Herbert N. Casson. Liverpool Royal+Inflrnlary. Five prehistoric Truman skeletons, standing upright in undisturbed strata at Los Angeles, have bean discovered. in eating head lettuce when we ,are Scientists believe the skeletons date not provided with a salad fork. One to the last Ict Age, 126,000 years ago. lace where I was visitingthe slices At a recent meeting of the British wereut from the head oflettuceand Astronomical Association, some photo- these slices in turn were cut' in small graphs of tho moon in natural colors squares: after they were on the salad wore shown. The general tint of the lunar surface resembles weathered plate. This left the slices intact but made it much easier to sat the lettuce A SERVING HINT. We all know the difficulties we have Do You Perspire When Nou Change a sire? Then avoid tire trouble by equipping with AERO -CUSHION INNER TIRES No more punctures. No blow- outs. No need at all of .a spare tire—anddouble the mileage for your easings. Easy riding. If there is no Aero - Cushion Service Station near you write for particulars. Aero -Cushion Inner Tire and Rubber Co., Limited WINGHAM, ONT. • stone, concrete, or dried mud. These photographs promise to increase our knowledge of the nature of the lunar surface. It is hoped to take similar pictures of some of the planets. Five tons of fish, preserved by car- bon dioxide, in place of ice, reached Montreal from Nova Scotia after a There are hundreds of methods for night," said the girl. "I hope to see getting rid of flies. I have two favor -Canada to -night" The First Envelopes. it Jim frowned. The first envelopes of which there I Idistribute sweet clover abt till "I didn't know you were rotting!' is any knowledge inclosed a letter 1 When the season makes it possiblehe grumbled. "You mean you've been sent 226 years ago by Sir William _ oue rooms and the flies keep out Again it After every meal. A pleasant and agreeable and a 1-a • a-t-t-a-ig benefit a8 well. Good ll teeth, breath and digestion. Makes the next cigar taste better. 188UE t'o.'3e—'24`'. to Wembley?" Turnbull to Sir James Ogilvie. The "Quite! I go there most nights. I epistle dealt with English affairs of is the odor that is distasteful, If, however, the dies have got into live close by—at Harrow." state, and, with its covering, is care- "Ahl I wonder if you would—" the house, the best method is exterm- fully preserved in the ritish aft Museum. ination. For years I have concocted Jim's daring invitation was inter- At that period, and long afterward, it an unfailing fly poison that is abso- rupted by Mr. Mansons peremptory was the general custom to fold letters lutely harmless to humans: One tea- "ice' and and seal them with wafers of wax. spoonfuls of sugar and four table- lastcenturyenvelopes spoonful of black , two tea- Franklin, I want you. Early in the a velopes pepper spoonfuls of cream. Mix in a flat dish and set wherever the flies are most abundant. Mosquitoes cannot be killed readily but they can be driven away. Penny- , royal is effective. So is spirits of lavender. I For cockroaches there is nothing ,better than powdered borax. I If you have a rug that is infested with moths, spread a damp cloth on the rug and iron it dry with a hot iron. The steam acte as an effective destroyer der was right. Jim knew that he A few drops of carbolic acid in the wasd at his job. He turned on Have you .breathed the faith of fir no goo suds used to wash out closets is a good his heel and ]eft the room. light? trees, by the lure of camp -fire moth preventive.. While he was finding his hat in the Watched the wistful shadows creeping outer office Elsie Payne. - met him towards the restful lap of night? again. Have you sent your thoughts a-hom- "Going out?" she asked, ing to the source of space and "Yes—for keeps!" said Jim bitterly. time? "I've got the push!" - I Felt the pulse of aoul commuhion full "Oh, I am so sorry!" There was and firm with the divine? real regret in the girl's voice. "Is Sensed the wonders of creation? Grip - James Franklin, ex -major Machine Gun Corps, D.S.O., followed the big and stamped adhesive envelopes man with the flamboyant buttonhole achieved wide popularity in England into his private room and faced him shortly after the establishment of the with a sinking heart. penny posts in 1840, and by 1850 were In three minutes he knew the worst. largely used on this side of the At. "You're no good to us, Franklin!" Mr. Manson said, with relish. "No good at all. You're on a weekly basis, aren't you? Well, draw your next week's screw and beat it! Good morn- ing I" It was done cruelly. Jim wanted to say a lot of things, but thought it was not worth while. After all, the boun- began to come into more general use, lantic. The first machine for the manufac- ture of dnvelopes was patented i i 1844 by George Wilson, an Englie - man, and improvements were made the following year by Warren De La Rue and E. Hill. Solitude. IRONING PONGEE. The popular craze for pongee for women's wear and children's dresses, notto mention the boys' and men's suits, brings up the question of its proper ironing. Pongee cannot be laundered in the usual way and look right. In the first place, the material should be allowed to dry and never be sprinkled or dampened at all. A me- dium hot iron will give a beautiful finish on the dry pongee, and I find that I get even better results by iron- ing it on the wrong side first.' Really, when one knows how, it is much easier to "do up" a pongee dress than any other kind for there is no starching and dampening to do. The person who irons a pongee dress while still wet makes a lot of work that is unnecessary and produces a very un- satisfactory result. Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man—has decided his way in life. --Emerson. Minard's Liniment tieats cuts,. there nothing I can do?" ped the purpose of the whole? "I'm afraid not; except—I'm gladThen you know the mystic sweetness . le' ore than rSoap-atlealth Habit you're sorry. You've been an awful that corpse stealing o'er the soul, brick to me while I've been here, MisaAs on balsam boughs spread thickly LEVER 13ROTliERS LIMITED, Have Suna.aaer Heal This Winter A Warm house andacool cellar day and night the win ter thro�yyh• And a saving lit your coal bills of from ecx'toso% A KELSEY WARM AIR GENERATOR t •t your cellar will ensurethis. The Kelsey isthe most efficient and economical system of home heating ever devised and will heat the smallest cottage orthe Ia7;est mansion properly and heal thfuI ly. IMY WE SENO YOU PARTICULARS? CANADA FOUNDRIES & FORGINGS 1.1MITa0 JAMES SMART PLANT s 131t.00KYILLE ONT. JF.. s ': rin'"brt " Thi513.;%iR 4' Lincoln's Rule. . I ani not licand Li win, but 1 am hound te Le true, I• am nut bound to succeed, bort I am bound to live Up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right. —Abraham Lincoln, A fresh, `"s' r t uth ui ski • is admired by e Jc.eyo e OU must frequently purify your skin, antisep- tically, to make and •.eep it healthy, to bring to it a glowing beauty. t0 Thousands of men and women have realized this, which is why Lifebuoy Health Soap has become the most widely used toilet soap in the world. Lifebuoy is a scientific skin purifier—a real health soap. Yet soap cannot be made more pure, more bland, more beneficial to the skin than Lifebuoy. Lifebuoy protects Ito rich, copious lather releaeos a wonderful antiseptic ingre- dient which is carried down into every pore, eliminating all impurities and leaving the skin thoroughly clean and safe. r rr� IF s F HEALTH SOAP Payne!"TORONTO He wanted to say a lot more, but on the mosey mountain sod One with questioning eyes looks up- 1.1+-4-91 again the voice came from Mr. Man - son's office, • "Miss Payne." To Jim the financial crisis that had arisen was serious enough. but pot ward to the very heart of God. —BI. D. Geddes. .—._.., ^aecood Sight.- pearl so serious as the thought of Small Nophew="Did you ever fall Yin love with, a girl at first sight, Uncle losing sight of Elsie. He had just. Ned?" realizd that 11 was because'' of Elsie. Bachelor Unc'e-�-"Yes, my boy, . I that he had not gone abroad. He had olid once, but I went back tete next, been suffering the drudgery ofoffice morning and took a second look at - work only because in the office he saw her." Elsie every day. So Jim Franklin left the Boulter' The sou', of the self-centred man office feeling more low-spirited than{ will always travel in a small circle any healthy young man has a right to ,.feel. Ile was at a loose end; he For Sore Feet—Mlnard'c Liniment. ONLY A KING AND QUEEN By Leo Larquler Translated by W. L. McPh1erson Queen Alberta was awaiting Chris Can Salvator IV., king of Carinthia wild had been her guest for three days and who was Doming to take leave of lien At eighteen; when she was a little princess, who painted water colors in the (royal park, she had fallen des- perately in love with the Crown Prince Salvator. But the chancelleries, were, an the alert and old Europe, which had proved a wicked fairy to them, was alarmed at the idea of a marriage which would reunite two neighboring kingdoms. Alberta had married a vague Prince Consort, who had died in the course of an orgy in a hunting lodge. They had found for Christian Salvator a royal highness who was au aconlplished materfamilias; and for ten years the Queen of Syllirin and the King of Carinthia had not seen each other. The trumpets of the guard company blew in the court of honor below and Queen Alberta walked forward a few steps in the immense salon, filled with tapestries, mirrors and armor, to meet -. the monarch who was about to say goodby.. Suddenly he stood there on the pur- ple rug in the doorway. Across his white tunic he wore the orange -color- ed eardon of the Syllirian Order of the Grand Engle, The swinging doors which had open- ed closed behind him. They were alone. His lint words were commonplace arid formal, Bowing to her he mur- mured: "1 wish to pay my respects to your majesty before returning." IIs straightened up. "You have been crying!" he said. She wiped her eyes with her lace handkerchief and began to talk ex- citedly, as it she were asltanied of hav- ing bean taken by surprise. "Pardon me. Did you see it? Dur- ing these three days I did not falter once. 1 smilers and saluted, sitting beside you In the royal carriage, my heart breaking under the diamond in- signia of your order. Flags, acclama- tions, speeches by mayors and alder. 111811 at every pause 111 the procession, military parades --the reception wa•s perfectly orthodox and we were not left alone live minutes. Today 1 ant , nothing but i1 poor woman andyou aro ' only 0 man, end we suffer as do all thcso who carry their souls the I inetnory of an impossible lova. 'fell pre, was it not beantifnl--our love, against which the whole diplomatic I. carps was brawn up in battle array?" The Ring had not let go the Queen's hand. "Yes, that warfare was odious." ho said. "1 often recall the evening when my uncle made me unclerettuul with out circumlocutions that, as arrli:inite in succession to the throne. I could not aspire to your hand. "It was in the old palace wlte^e. 1 agent my childhood --in the big hail where, sine° my early hot 1" :I. ' always dined. with a df rt ey me and a single salvor can l': . ,.t the table. „Suddenly they rill' 'thee' 'lily Ma- jesty the Ring!' . taysl limn- ; tom. with hi- e' aril c"i his long, dried Yr ' • , a 11' ii •1 r r 1:: or leis tunic.i ur'e �icl u:d 1 era°d ly heir>a ,n .lsspel \ he tsJkU1 1 onsaw our deer silbei.etie gradually fading out. Fnr^pe frowned on Our love. 'Your tot a called to pre Weekly; then Net,' . '!.cored. He kept on ta'.kng. He ex.it'.' 1 a promi.e, and" The bugles sounded again in the pal. ace t. Queecourn Alberta withdrew the hand which King Christian i n Salvnkor had I been holding. 1 am only a.queen," she said. "and yon ore only a king, Those bugles un- doubtedly mean that the soldiers of the Cunrd are presenting arms to our Ministers of Foreign ASairs, who are about to enter. Christian, before they arrive I should like to make a confes- s1on. I love you now as I did then." 'Alberta!" They were about to fall . into each other's arms. But a bell on the table rang; then a lackey announced` the Ministers, who were Doming to sign in the presence o1 their sovereigns, same sort of commercial treaty. Gaudy uniforms were reflected 10 the tall mirrors, set between sombre suits of earner, and at the moment of leave-taking King Christian Salvador IV., stiff as a soldier on parade, con- cealing his emotion, spoke the custom- ary formal words: "I thank your majesty,' he said, "for the welcome which she Ilse given me, and I thank her also, in the name of my people, for the new alliance which she has permitted me to conclude." She stretched out mechanically a band which he grazed with his lips,. Queen Alberta next noticed the backs stiff with gold disappearing at the end of the gallery. Then the trumpets blew in the court, She went to the window and through the cur- tains she saw disappear in the rain the carriage which hoar° off the man whom she so hopelessly loved and who seethed almost brutally torn away from her by the 'cavaliers of his es- cort. Mighty Ruler. Teacher — "Now, Tommy, which viler inspired the; most respect.and fear'' Tonuuy _'Please, sir, the one 011 your desk."