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The Seaforth News, 1928-02-09, Page 2Mss a9 +uca.,u,e •dale. "1 found myself standing in deep undergrowth, and pressing this gently aside, I saw a wonderful spectacle. Away to my left was a great white marble building, which I judged to be • a temple; and forming e crescent be- fore: it was a miniature town, each White -walled house surrounded by a garden. It was Damascus reduced to fairy dimensions, a spectacle quite unforgettable. • "The fact which made the whole thing awesome and unreal was the presence, along the top of the temple (which, like teat of Hatshepsu at Deir el-Bahare seemed to be hewn out of the living 'rock but was faced with white marble) of seven giant flam- beaux, cacti sgrmounted by a dating tongue of blue flame! "I was afraid to rave too far from BEGIN 'HERE TODAY. Sir Charles. Abingdon engages Paul Harley, criminal investigator, to solve for him the myste'r'y of constant sacs veiilance of Sar Charles. Sir Qharles asks Paul to dine with him at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls from his chair In a dying state. His hitt words are "Nicol Brinn" and "Fire Tongue." Paul asks Nicol Brinn' to explain to him themeaning of "Fire 'longue," Brien refses to divulge his secret, Marley and Phil Abingdon, daugh- ter of Sir Charles, are made prisoners in the home of Ormuz (than, an Ori ental, Nicol Brinn rescues them, and gees to tell the story of Fire -Tongue to the police. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XXXIII.--(Cont'd.) ".A strange greenish light prevailed here and directly before me I saw a flight of stone steps leading upward through a tunnel in the rock. By the light of a 'pocket tereh which I had provided myself, I began to ascend the steps. "I had ascended 'more, than five hun- dred eteps, and felt that a rest would shortly be necessary, when I reached a soli of cu've, or interior platform, from which seven corridors branched out like the spokes of a wheel, "7'o the damp coolness of the lower stairs an oppreesive heat had now succeeded, and I became aware of a continuous roaring sound,. which 1 found myself unable to explain.' "Attached to a belt beneath my ria- STORY OF THE CITY OF FIRE (CONT D.) tive dress I carried a Colt revolver; "My awakening was as strange as 4nd therefore, leaving my rifle and bundle in a corner of the cavern, I selected one of these corridors more ex- ar leas at random, and. set outto peeved to slope lore. This corridor ro PP P very gently upward from the plat - farm, and I could not fail to notice that at every step the heat grew greater and greater. It became pos- eible to discern the walls- of the cor- ridor ahead because of a sort of eerie bluish i:ght which had now become visible. "At a Foist where the heat and a sulphurous smell were almost unen- durable the corridor was blocked by massive limn bars beyond which the rnfleet u,n .'•f some gigantic fire danced upon the walls of a vast cavern. "A e hired feet beneath me was a lake rf firel That is the only way 1 ran (leen-lite it: a seething, bubbling lake of fire. And above, where the reef of the cavern formed a natural cone, was a square section formed of massive' stone blocks, and quite eb- vio-'•.l: the reandiwork of man. The bars w1• e toe hot to touch, and the hent was like that of a furnace, but e) lie I sto d. pering first upward and then dewnward, a thing happened which I almost hesitate to describe, for it scans like an incident from a f1`t:i are. e.n;dee by a rumbling sound draped in the doorway were pulled v* '^h was tible above the roar more widely aside and a woman came n. «l a fire h he aw, the centre block in •"Gentlemen I will not endeavor to the rore see orlon. i Ac i' conjured up by magic, n describe her, except to say that she renege-ea-cc.!mmn of b:ue flame arose. was so darkly lovely that I doubted swept up se rhircly, and licked L^'Iso the evidence of my senses; tall and r Tithe, with the grace of some beautiful the t' ire el a hungry drdgon upon ,tr ; c creature. the reef of the cavern. Instantly the 3 "Den she saw that I was awake, trap was close.e again; the tongue of fire drappt•J hark into the lake from rho paused and lowered her ,head in which it had arisen in the draught of confusion. She wore a gossamer robe air, of sheeny golden silk, and, standing "Aril rig"t Haat me where I stood, there with the light of the dawn be - rigid with h rime looking through hind her, she made a picture that I those bars, fall a white -robed figure— wllether man or woman I could not determine: Down, down into the fiery pit, a hundred feet below! for personal reminescences, 1 am here "One long -drawn, dying shriek for another plupose. One of those reached my ears. "Of my return to the place at which I had left my bundle and rifle I re - I' Tasty Meat Pies ' Tel =arra beof'a heart le'lane pie trim oft the fat and eateries from the heart, lenvtug no blood clots, ens], brown all over is beckon fat. Pelee - it ;crew kettle, cover with hot hater and simmer two of three hours, ac- cording to oleo I•Ietre ready a C1iP of Pl`ntes soaked and pitted. Out the heart crosswise, Put in a deep dish, add a polut of brown gravy made with the, Bever and tee Qruirels, cover' ivltil a crust and bake about forty minutes. Serves' eight. Tamale Pie Make a mush by stirring two enps of cornineal•,mieed with one and' ne- half teaspoous of salt, into six 'cups of bolting water; cook fortis -five min- utes. , Brown a sliced onion In a tablespoon of fat; add one pouud of hamburg steak ate' atir until red color disappears; add salt, pepper, two cups of toniatoe$ and e minced sweet pepper. Grease a lialstng dish, put ie a Layer of cornmeal- mush, add sen - geese meat and cover with mush. Bake for belt an 'hour.. Serves six. 1 Pork -Apple Pie . • Have the hones removed from the the mouth of the tumlel, but neverthe-. upon a brief period of my life at once neck end .of a loin of pork weighing t in agood view' more sweet and more bitter than any about two pounds; Out the meat into less was little city toat cots thin slices, season with salt and •pep- of the little city at my feet. Gingerly I had known. Next to that strange, Per and fill a-paa0ly lined dish: with I moved farther forward, ever Gran- invisible prophet Whose name was p se of the buildings Fire -Tongue, eaheldunquestioned alternate layers. of the meat' and • ing out for a $limp Nelda u gslices of tart.apples. Sprinkle light - Inure immediately below me, forgetful sway in this secret etty. Her houseng of the fact that I walked upon the was separated from the 'others, and ly with the hut' th brown sugar, t B,nrinlrI IidhitlY with brink of a recipice, '• "Suddenly my outstretched foot failed to touch ground. I clutched wildly at• the bushes around me, Their roots Seers not firm in the shallow soil, and, enveloped like some pagan god in a mass of foliage, I toppled over the cliff and fell!" CHAPTER XXXIII. anything which had befallen me. I lay upon a silken bed in a pavilion which was furnished with exquisite, if somewhat barbaric, taste. and "I was lying there, in a curt ons a d apathetic state; when the curtains "One long -drawn, dying shriek reached my ears. think would have driven a painter crazy. ' Thls is not the time nor the piece accidents which are really due to the hand of tate had precipitated me into the garden of the house of Naida, and twin ahsol'ttely not one recollection. I she in her great compassion had tend - was aroused "rc:n a sort of stupor of ed me and sheltered rue, keeping my horror by the ri7ht of a faint light presence secret from those who would moving across the platform ahead of have dealt with me in summary fa- me, as T was ab.;ut to emerge from shion, and, indeed, who were actually the tunnel. "le was the ligh' of a lantern, car- ried by a man who night have been the double of that yellow -robed men- dicant who bad first unccnociously led me to the( accursed place. "As the light of the, lantern was swallowed up in the passage, I found my bundle and rifle and set out to fol- low the man. Four paces brought me to the foot of more steps. I walked barefooted, frequently pausing to Bit- ten. These were fleets, carvings upon the walls, but I had no leisure to examine them. "Contrary to my anticipations, however, there were no branches in this zigzag staircase, which conimuni- sated directly. with the top of the lofty plateau. When presently I felt the fresh mountain air upon my face, I wondered why I could perceive no light ahead of me. Yet the reason was siinpia enough. "Sino I had reseed through that strange water -gate to the City el Fire, the day had ended: it was night. And when, finding no further steps ahead of me, I passed along n level, narrow corridor for some ten paces and, look- ing upward, sale the ;stars, 1 was, astounded. "The yelbot•:robed rian had (Reap- peared and, 1 steed aloin., looking down upon timet secret Ott* which 1 had conte se far to see. SeSUE 'Nee 6--'28 on the look -out for my arrival. "Yes, so Naida informed me. To my great surprise she spoke almost perfect English, and- that sort of understanding sprang up between us immediately, which, in the case of a man and a beautiful woman thrown together as we were,.can only termi- nate in one way. "She was some sort of priestess of the temple which I had seen from the top of the cliff. What else she was I very shortly learned. "In accordance with one of the many strange customs of the City of Fire, her personal servants, or rather slaves, were blind mutes! "Naida., for such was her name, told me that the Brahmin, Vadi, who had acted es my guide, was one of the followers of the Prophet of Fire, to whom had been given the duty of intercepting me. "In this way, gentlemen, I entered she traveled to and from the temple Sayer bo mea in a covered litter. To look upon her, nutmeg; add ,,two-thirds of -a cup of as upon Fire -Tongue hinmself,was . brown stock and a tablespoon of melt - death. Women, 1 lea'rned,. were elig-! ed butter; cover with a top cruet with' iblo for admission to this order, andholes in the center and bake. Serves six to eight. • California Rabbit Pie Brown a out up rabllit in two table- spoons of bacon fat and two. table- spoons of minced onion. Put the lib - these were initiated by Naida. "As the days of my strange but delightful captivity wore on, I learned more and more of the weird people who, unseen, surrounded me. There were lodges of the Cult of Fire all mit in a ;baking dish: add three cups and pepper and bake in a hot oven over the East, all having power to `Orange P9koe" is courts. the ilaMe given to a size 1yAfr elnme goody Many/ poorp Orange , Pekoes arrp,sold—The most ecoa�er ai• and yet the flne'st flavoured, fa " SAi„AL 14" Orange Pekoe --Sealed in metal—pure--•frasie deiiei"sus–ilac per 2 -ib. into slices, Bake without a top orast aa:t serve cold, garnished with tomato as,pio and minced • green peppers; Serves four. Maryland Oyster Pie Grease a baking dish and lay in a layer of Booked hominy, then a Neer of oysters, alternate°until a aup and a hall of hominy ''encl.-three dozen oys- ters have been used. Add the liquid from the oysters to half a cup of mills, then two tablespoons of butter, half a teaspoon of salt, and a quarter :. of a teaspoon of pepper; pour over the above mixture, cover with 'a thin crust and hake;` Serves six or seven.. Pbtato Patty Pies A recipe thatmakes the same old doings taste better and look pretty. F111 individual casserole Bisbee one- third full of cold roast beef cut into small pleats; add seine minced onion and a sprinkle of salt. Slice over this cooked carrots cut very thin. Add: meat gravy (a, tablespoon is usually' enough for the; aver ge ramekin), and!! round off the top with mashed pototo. l. Decorate with strips 61 cheese out • thin and narrow, Sprinkle with salt make initiates and some to pass das- of stoek'to the trying pan mixture and , until.• brown. ciples into the higher grades. Those i biitt,ttogettheit rrwitth a bit othen put over omaee, a baySteak PIe With a ntela ca who aspired to the highest rank in theonions. A popular pie in, Cana3a calls for ordler howtetrer, were compelled to leaf and a dozen of small onions , a pound and a half of round, steak, ,. ,, I Cook until 51e rabbit le tender. Then cut into cubes; - cover this with a vieit. this secret city in the'Indian add two ..cupe of- diced potatoes (cook-. quart of boiling water and cook for a h` ills•• ed ten minutes then drained), a guar- few minutes, then add half a bay leaf, "Then last r learned a secret ter of a pound of diced cooked barn one sliced oniony a teaspoon of salt, which. Naida hadkept back acid a dozen ripe olives. Cover with a dash of paprika, and simmer until front me. These followers of the new crust and bake until the latter is a the meat is tender. Remove the meat 2oroaster were polygamists, and she`Mahe brown. Serves six or seven. into a baking dish, thicken'the stock Was the first or chief wife of the mys ! with flour and hater blended, add'9ralf terious personage known as Fire-EEEEEE Veal Pie De Luxe owe 01 nd bate Ped almonds, d if a Tongue. I gathered that others had Out about two pounds of veal into aoaen chopped ripe olives, one algreen superseded her, and her lord and 'pieces and' season with salt, pepper ddoze pehopr danr• !calf i e, of gr master rarely visited this marble and a dash of nutmeg._ Have ready toes. .Put this over the meat, add a house set amid its extensive gardens. about twenty plumped and pitted must and bake until. the crust is "Her dignities remained, however, prunes, put them in a baking dish, , a to nice .brown. and no one had aspired to dethrone add to them the veal and a gravy her as hied priestess of the temple. -------- made by blending two tablespoons of She evidently knew all the secrets of l butter, one cup of bat water, a, few the organization, and I gathered that drops of onion juice, a teaspoon each ehe was indispensable to the group of minced parsley and durrant (or who controlled it. other tart) jelly, ancb three tabile- "Respecting Fire -Tongue himself, spoons of finely chopped raw ham. his origin, his appearance, she was re- Cover with a rich pastily and bake. solutely silent, a second Acte, faithful Old -Fashioned Chicken Pie to the last. That the endk of this cult Dice a cup of gold chicken and four were not only religious but political, pork chaps which baveb een cooked she did not deny, but upon this point with a slice or two of onion. Put the she was very reticent." two meats into a deep, greased baking (To be continued.) The Outsider . I have looked on at life so long, so long! The lesser loves and hates have passed me by As I were not The shudder and the sigh, The whispering and the laughter, ever throng About me, and avoid, They call me strong Who, never pause the weakness to descry Which else I'had not hidden; they defy The thing I am not, passionless, and wrong My half -formed ideals till they shrink and fade I have been standing by. the outer gate Until the very sweetness of a song Has terrors for me, and I am afraid Take a quart •of cooked lamb, ct 'marked with -letter's, and ; questions i To enter. I have found this truth In small ;pieces, add two ceps of bole .mare answered bye,thea beryl's stop too late; ed potatoes, diced, and a no and a plug before- certain -letters, It was I grave looked on at life too long, half of chopped pecan meats; season ale% supposed to possess special pow -1 too long. with salt, pepper and minced parsley. Ethel Davies. er over evil spirits, and it was said Appeal Dog's Case Mount Sterling, Ky.—Sentenced' to• death for "sheep killing," Kaiser Bill, police dog, enjoyed a new lease of sliced sweet potatoes. and a cup of life recently as a result of an appeal !iiia beans, than the beef. .Cover with of his case to Circuit Court. a sauce .made' by blending -a table - He was to have died some time spoon each of butter .and flour, add• ago, bat last minute moves prevent- ! ing a cup of stook, a cup of tomatoes, ed the execution each time. 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Patt-eons sent by A New Biologic Law Announced German Surgeon, Says I Ie Has Proved "That 15 Is Age of 'Greatest Re sistance to Disease Profeesor Kirschner, formerly diree tor of tires urgioal Untversltr ethntc in Konigsbetg, Pluissfa, and ocenpy- - ing, of late, a similar position in Tu- bingen as to successor of the late Professor Perthes, has recently-nub- lished .observation in which he en- dcavors to prove that resistance to • Peritonitis depegds to a greet extent on he ago of the subject, 'according. to the Berlin correspondent cf gee Journal of the American Medical As. sedation Who writes: "According to his results, children and aged persons present the highest mortality, the lowest mortality .being fouled in the 11.15 age group. Or, to express the matter in figures or graphically, a curve is obtained that indicates that the resistance of a 1 tinian being Inc death from periton- itis increases, doom by 'doer, from the moment of birth up to about the itge,' of 15, from which time ou It agar declines steadily. f)Kire•cltn!or investigated, tbolt, ea the beefs of comprehensive, unequiv- ocal statistical material'' from his clinic and from the medical literature In general, the queston whether tori- tonitis constituted an exception or whether from the curve of peritonitis any general 'law' koulal be °educed. He found that everywhere, in deetlse. from intestinal disorders, pneumonia and during epidemics (for inetance, the epidemic of cholera' in Hamburg in. 1892), there is a distinct line run- nire through that agrees essentially with the relations between age and resistance in peritonitis. "He established further that the re- sietance curve shows this course with the peak at age of 15) not only for diseases but also for all i^.juries that befall mankind during life. "The proof for this statement can gen- eral from the c' t furnished isl ed r lv urr •e c.e flu to 1. Ger. oral mortality statistics of the man Reich. It appears, according to Kirschner, that there Is a regular and definite change taking place in mankind as conditioned by age, which can be expressed in figures. There Is a general . biologic law in operation, which influences the prog- nosis of every disorder, and every Corm of injury to which man is sub- ject. "As inan is a part of the mtinlfesta- tMons of life on earth and issubject to the sans great biologic laws as all other living. creatures, Kit s:liner thinlzs it probable that this .lar' ex pressing a parallelism between rests tauce and age is not confined to 'he- man beings, but that it is a new. biologic law that, can be universally applied to all living nature, including man, animals and plants. "In collaboration with an assistant, Kerschner subjected various anininie and plants to diverse injuries in cider to establish' more definite fig - Ines covering the relations between resistance and age. The application of this biologic law' to all nature 12 probable, and with reference to man IIrsebner regards it as definitely proved." indueesle:ep and Compose the heart and .mind. It was called the "sweet- tempered stone," It was especially used in the seventeenth century for divination, by suspending and swing ing a beryl' ring in a bowl filled with; water. The edges of the bowl were Pat into a baking dish, adil three cups that by holding; a beryl in one's mouth of cream sauce, place a puff paste on one "scala summer a devil from' top and bake until a nice brown. hell" and receive answers to dues-� Roast -Beef Pie tions. Line a deep baking dish with line- The new specimen at the museum try, place in. the bottom• a few cold, was found in' the bell of a river by R prospector, ' whom Dr.. Linton obtained it. ' t has a rich green color. .l.f cut for jewelry it would make 250 average settings for rings and pins, after allowing to% it loss of about one-half In 'cutting, - LONDON AMATEUR BROADCASTS SHORT, WAVE RADIO PROGRAMS Interesting experiments are being made with short wave transmission of concerts in London to the most dis- tant regions. These are made at a station equipped and operated be Mr. G. learcuse, an enthuslastic amateur, and they have already produced ex- cellent results as far away as Dns- traria and New Zealand. hr It a t r o e cn o - almonds and alhard bolted egg, cut Mitiard's Liniment for asthma.. JUST LIKE OS "Make any New Year resolu- tions?" "No—what's the use? • ('d only break 'em again!" CLOSE FRIENDS SURE "Wily, do you think those girls pre close friends?" "They're quarreling alt the time." eeeee ees •e uS.t,t BEST FOR ALL YOUR BAKING --- Pies, Cakes, Buns and 13read DOES ALL YOUR BAKING BEST SPAIN CLINGS TO OLD ROYAL COACHES AND PURE-BRED. HORSES elm-trice—Cinderella, if she came to Madrid in search of a coach, would be dazzled by the choice presented to her in the royal coach houses' next to the Ring's palace. The court of Spain always has been, distinguished by the splendor of Its horsed equipages and, in spite of the automobile, teeny of theec have been 'retained for use at royal weddings, visits of foreign sovereigns, the open- ing of Parlianientand funerals a: which the Ring 1e rep eecnted. Am- bassadors. from m-bassadors.from foreign countries are: supplied, too, with, a gorgeous train of carriages, drawn by blooded horses, when they present their credentials at the palace. Until a very ere years ago tiie royal stables contained about 100 pure-bred hackneys, but the number has been re- duced to abort ninety. The automo- bile has supplanted the rest. The coach, houses now, form a sort of mu- seum, visited by tourists in consider- able numbers. 7r 'ire aro to bo found coaches - in wh many 'monarchs - have have ridden a at maintain- ed ed in such a state of pertectiou that they could be sent out on the streets at a moment's notice, In glass -fronted cabinets are kept Pompous liveries, pertwlgs for foot- men, `brakes, bridles and whips, ail beautifully ornamented, Then there are tite saddles of all the twenty-nine. cavalry regiments of, which the Ring is an active or honorary officer, with other saddles of wonderful construe, tion snit ornamentation =presented to the Icings by sultans of Morocco. Robert -"1'11' 'never take that girl out again. She insulted rue." Mein, alta—" What thele site say?" "She naked Me if I ,could dance." "But there's nothing insulting in that," : "But she asked me while 1 was dancing with her.,' eDict that patent medicine eau bought euro your aunt?" "mercy, no! 00 i'eaditig the Circ iler that wag wrapped around the bottle abs got tvvo' more diseases."