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The Seaforth News, 1928-07-12, Page 6less would have made him tolerate the society of the profiteer, if?But what was his business'! 1 meruit, when I put the question to 11, Myself, the exact nature of the serene .�. ��c 1 y �r�+rx9 Which the White Eagle must be plan - eine, Robbery,of course, but whet, 'Y•.. i. when and how? CopYYWht ilk ' NEA ell!tii~e Inc, THE, JEWELLED CASKET BEGIN IIERE TODAY. fu1 despite his years these filled me John Ansley, a man of education with'a fear that I have never known and breeding, becomes a master crook before, And I have seen the gray - preying upon other thieves. Amidst clad boche leaping down into the all the afternoon traffic on Fifth Ave, be knocks down a man whom he sees brutally rubbing a hunchback's hunch, and then runs, At an auction Ainsley makes ` a small purchase of tapestry and then sits back and wntehes the proceedings. The auctioneer holds up' a golden box, studded with jewels, that had been Made far• a multimillionaire of vulgar tastes. The :box is sold for ]'65,000 to Marcus Anderson, a man who be- came, during the war, one of the rich- est men in the world. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY I stayed -a while longer, watching less valuable things as they were nue who knew me b sight. For tinned off, but I noticed no ane pres- Eagle w y g ent who seemed to offer me a chance where the White Eagle flew, there must be prey. I had robbed him of trench where' I was standing. And then I was able to banish fear. For I remembered that the White Eagle did hot know the face Of the man who had tricked him menthe ago. True one of his followers knew me, eyes flashed hate more often than I lingered over my cofeee until the others paid their cheque and peasecl by niy table. I stole another glance at the hunchback. Ile was a fit com- panion for his master, for despite his slight and deformed physique, there was upon his face a ruthlessness equal to that of the White Eagle, His deli- eats features and pale skin would 'have made the unobservant &lass hien 85 a poetic -minded youth. Most of us, when delicacy is coupled with deform- ity, Ascribe spirituality to the partner- lnhip. But I,, who niust know crimin- als, understood ,that the clean-cut mouth was vicious, and that the brown but men aro rarely recognized by de- mirth, scriptions. And;even as I gave myeelf leisurely T followed them. 1 sines this Assurance, the White Eagle glans- them step into Anderson's, town -car ed carelessly away, and he and hie and start uptown, I followed in a companion followed the waiter to a taxi. I was not foolish enough to tell. table, my driver to follow the car ahead, but I heard them state that they were took I told him to go slowly, that f wished expecting a third person, and I to enjoy the spring air; and when the the chance that that third person was town -car turned a corner, I suggested not the one -eyed follower of the White to my driver that he do the same thing. So without arousing the chauf- feur's curious suspicion, I saw the town -car stop before a modest private residence on a side -street in the upper East Side, and noted the number of the house into which the White Eagle and his companion entered. As for Anderson, his address was easy to find. .A. telephone book—or if his tele- phone was not listed, there were a hundred other ways to find where he lived. I did not wish to follow him farther. I dismissed my taxi at Madison, Avenue, and entered a grocery store. It was an expensive -looking shop, the sort that would have a fashionable patronage. I asked for the proprietor, told him that I wanted five minutes of his time, and went directly to the point. "I'm in the automobile accessory business," I said. "I have an auto- matic windshield -cleaner that I manu- facture, It's an article that's hard to find. People won't be convinced by a demonstration. They think it won't wear. So I have to let them use it for a couple of weeks. Now, social position and bank references mean no- thing to me. I've found out that the. richer people are, the less inclined they are to pay little bills in a hurry. I've only a small capital and I need cash. The people in this neighbor- hood trade with you. You know the ones that pay by the fifth of the month." (To be continued.) of future profit. They were all decent, well-bred folk, and it is not upon these that I wage my warfare. No gentle- man or lady need ever fear the ac tivi - ti s of John AinsleY.Theieare enough vulgarians in the world for me to prey upon. So I left. I dismissed Anderson from my mind. After all I need an opportunity for the exercise of my talent, and there was no opportunity here. It was sheer accident that made me lunch that day at the Mirabeau. The winelike air and the bright sun made my genius would desert me. I called me continue down the Avenue as far myself an artist; in my heart I knew as Washington Square, and then I dis-. covered that I was hungry. The Mir - that I was worthy of that title. But abeau, the resort of lovers of good the artist who of deliberate choice food, was the nearest place. I dropped Paints pot-boilers ceases to be an art - in there, surrendered myself to the discretion of the voluble French wait- er who attended me, and began a hearty meal. I paid little attention to my fellow - guests, an almost evenly divided mix- ture of Bohemians; business men and Frenchmen. I notice that those who scrutinize their neighbors in public places invite an equal scrutiny, and so I keep my eyes upon my plate. I am content that few people know me by sight, and that still fewer know me by the name under which I choose to masquerade. But a waiter stumbled against me, and in acknowledging his quick apol- ogy, I looked up. Just beyond him I eaw two people. One was the hundh- back whose humiliation—although he had not at the time seemed aware of it—I had resented today. The other was the most dangerous man in Eur- ope, the man whom I had outwitted months ago, Monsieur Armand Cochet, known to the underworld and the po- lice of Europe as the master criminal leader of the world, the White Eagle. Myself? Ah, I say that Cochet is the greatest criminal leader. I work alone, needing no gangsters to carry out my orders, using no machinery save my own hands and mind in the achievement of my triumphs. Also,. if more need be said on the question of the relative abilities of the White Eagle and myself, you who have read my memoirs will remember the affair of the Club of One -eyed Men, and will not have forgotten that I scored off the White Eagle in that instance. For that matter, I knew that the White Eagle had not forgotten it, and while I may lay claim to at least the ordinary courage, I will confess that, as I met those fierce blue eyes, panic assailed me. The great curved beak which was his nose and which, in conjunction with his white hair, had given him his niekname; the wide mouth, thin- lipped, with a sneering droop at one corner; arid the lithe body, still power - his quarry before; I might do it again, And this was a game worthy of my talent. Robbing ' stupid profiteers hardly gave nie excitement. But i snatching meat from the talons of the White Eagle was a man's sport. I smiled as I thought of the elaborate organization ruled by M. Cochet. What a triumph if once again I could make that organization work, not for its mister, but for myself. Feat, _counseled me .to pay my cheque and quietly depart. Prideeold me that if I continued the easy road, -• - for ere is a treat that can't be iirrat;t Berxefit and plea sure in generous measurer ex 80 Pesmpterinint Flavor GR8UE Na 27-428 "My dear Duke!" cried Anderson. ist. I had wished to rob Anderson, a gross, stupid man without wit to cope with me if I decided to assail his security. Had I snatched Anderson's box, it would have been an act of common robbery. Yet I had for a moment considered doing that very thing. Why? Be- cause my wits were growing rusty from disuse. Here was a chance to sharpen them. And even as I said this to myself, I realized that I had spoken the truth. For into the res- taurant came Marcus Anderson, and he joined the White Eagle and his hunchback companion. "My dear Duke!" cried Anderson. So Monsieur Armand Cochet, the White Eagle, was a duke" The senti- mentalities that April had brought to me left me for good. Beyond Anderson's salutation to the couple who awaited him, I could bear no more of their speech. Only the multimillionaire's snobbish delight at knowing' a gentleman of title had en- abled me to hear his greeting. Anderson had deliberately spoken loudly in order that the patrons of the restaurant might know that aris- tocracy was here. Now, content that attention had been attracted, Ander- son did not raise his voice. But steal- ing an occasional glance at him through the medium of a mirror on the wall, I could see .that the man was overcome with snobbish gratifi- cation. Byrd Polar Plane Tested for Height Tri -Motored Ford Makes 12,- 000 2;000 Feet, But Has to Drop 1,500 Pounds of Sand to Do it New York,—The tri -motored Ford monoplane, in which ' Commander Richard IO. Byrd hopes to fly to the south pole, has just undergone an alti- tude test here in which 1t reached a height of 12,000 feet. The airplane, however, was unable to attain the maximum height fully. Loaded, and 1,500 pounds of sand were jettisoned. In order to be used successfully on the south pole flight, the airplane must pass over mountains 10,000 feet high. The exact significance of the test here will not be determined until per- formance of the airplane Is carefully checked against the probable flight conditions which it would face in the Antarctic. The airplane was piloted .by Lieut. Bernt Balchen, accompanied by 1:Iar- old I. June, United States navy pilot, who is expected to accompany the Byrd expedition. Balchen took off from Roosevelt Field with a full load of 12,000 peunds and climbed to an altitude of 8,800 feet. As no maneuv- ering could increase the altitude 500 pounds of sand were dropped and the monoplane rose to 10,000 feet. When the second 600 pounds of bal- test was dropped, the airplane rose to 11,000 feet. The third 600 pounds of sand was thrown out later, permitting It to rise to 12,000 feet. It was re- garded as possible that the weight Of the sand thrown off the airplane would about represent the weight of the fuel consumed in the polar trip before the 10,000 feet elevation would be reached. In this event, it was said, the performance of the Ford monoplane might be regarded as satis- factory, It is at present equipped with 300 -horsepower Wright whirl- wind motors. Substitution of a Pratt &Whitney 400horsepower Wasp en- gine for the centre motor may be tried in an effort to give the airplane additional aititude. * * 4 * * But one does not need to hear.—if one is John Ainsley—in order to know what is being said. I could follow the course of their conversation easily. First there were the pleasant inquiries concerning each other's health, Then there was a reminiscent anecdote by the White Eagle. The pale -faced hunchback capped his leader's story. Anderson delivered himself of a heavy jest. Encouraged, he began to brag. The White Eagle led him on, ably assisted by the cripple. I could 'tell that the two criminals —the hunchback must necessarily be a criminal, inasmuch as he was the White Eagle's companion were grossly flattering their guest. And Anderson was lapping it up like a greedy pip, - ,:. . - Now, Armand Cochet did nothing, I judged, without a purpose. The man was a gentleman, fallen, it le true, from his high estate, but a man of fine inteitions, Ai)c icat� i t &tincts. Such a one could Tette no pleasure in.ihe society of Anderson. Tide was business upon which the White Eagle was engaged; Tething Sunburn/ Use Minard's Liniment. Pentland Sails on Liner With Job in Engine Room Southampton, Eng.--Aravious .to get practice' experience •14 engin- eering, which he is studyieg et Cambridge, d whose 14rd Pentland, Maternal -grandparents are the Marquis and Marchioness of Abet.- (leen, berBeen, sailed as a worker in the en- gine room of the Mauretania re- cently, The youthful peel is just 21 years Old. Young Lard Pentland, second' Baron, succeeded to the title in 1020. His father, who was Captain John Sinclair, was secretary and controller of the household of the Marquis of Aberdeen when the Marquee was Governor-General of Canada.: Tho Captain, who had Id - ready had a distinguished military and political career, marrieds his chief's daughter, Lady Marjorie Gordon. Captain Sinclair' was a close friend of the Liberal leader and Prince Minister, Sir Henry Camp- bell -Bannerman, and was by, him included in the Cabinet and subse- quently suggested for the peerage. Lord Pentland is a gret,t-grand- son of Sir Jelin Sinclair, seventh Baronet of Dunbeath, and a mem- ber of the historic Soots house of ti inclair,' of which the present Earl of Caithness is chief. •�r� •. e* de, ro ""Orange Pekoe" Is only the name given to a size o'f leaf—Some good, many poor, Orange Pekoes are sold --The most economical and yet the finest flavoured Is "SALADA" prapge Pekoe -,Sealed In metal•—pure_fresh!—delicious" 3C per '-Ib4 I II ORANGE PEKOE, BLEND i./ 28@ Radio Links Two Isolated Pacific Isles With Mainland Inhabitants of Nauru and Ocean Islands Converse Daily. With Australia, New Zealand and Ships at Sea 500. Miles Away-. Thrr''*(rlt Telrnhnrin Cirrt."t Auckland, New Zealand -Way down:tianru and Ocean.' The captain die - der the equator, and about 2,200 elegies his cargo with the shorestaifs, ranee north of New Zealand, are two little palm covered islands, each oply about six milee in diameter. For years their sole output was `a' few tone of copra. Then came the discovery that these two islets were worth," as they stood, more than $1,000,000,000, for, the cocoanuts` at Nauru and Ocean Islands were growing over hundreds of millions of tone of Phoe-. prate rook in the world. To -day the British Phosphate Commission works these deposits to :the extent of nearly a million tons per annum, and.) where who thus obtain intimate details of all that Is arriving on the trip. 'It le no uncommon thing for the wireless `oiler- ator to conte down into the saloon and say to one of the lady passengers, "Mrs, So -and -So, you are wanted on the phone." The lady looks surprised till sherealizes that she Is traveling on the .only vessel in the Southern Hemisphere equipped with :a- Wireless telephone. Then she rune .up delight- edly to chat with her husband .000 mules away on a little ocean speck, to inform him what a great time she a solitary trading schooner once has had 1n Australia, and even to give called occasionally, tramps come daily him instructions for -the cook, and the dinner on the night of her arrival. Sometimes a call comes from the only other installation of the kind in the South Pacific,- one belonging to the Methodist mission station in the Solomon Islands. Here lonely mis- sionai'ies working among savage na- tives revel in the opportunity for a chat withfolkoftheir own color and race. This little chain of radiotele- phones, three ashore and one afloat, is playing its part 1n breaking down that tropical monotony that is the greatest drawback to life in the little THE BABY'S FIRST SHORT CLOTHES When baby is ready for short clothes mother will be happy to find this combination pattern; No. 1174, which contains a short coat, with or without cape, short jacket and bonnet.. Just everything for "byebye" land: The simple coat is made with a yoke, that always- adds a little graceful. touch to the straight line. The round collar gives a tailored finish and is cut for, comfort. The cape adds warmth for the cool days. It may be sewed in one seam with the collar to the coat, or made and used separately. For the cool days and warm evenings, when just some light wrap is wanted., the simple Iittle jacket with set-in sleeves will quite answer every need. The bonnet, with a rever that is be- coming to every baby face, fits,nicely by the use of small plaits • at the neck- line. Cut in one size, and requires 2% yards for the entire outfit. Price 20c the pattern. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. Bolshevism and Immigration Ottawa Droit (Ind.): The commun- ist peril, which is becoming worse and worse, is the direct result of our immi- gration policy. And as Parliament be checked at the entrance, and imp does not seem disposed to be more' medlately insisted on surrendering strict towards foreigners, whether his own and the Queen's- In Spite of they come from the British Isles or the curator's remonstrance teat an Continental Europe, we must expect exception would be made in their be to pee more ftltitieviata buey,eeee with half. colonization, but with revolutionary "r Propaganda. And to think that these In Uganda a lrnan who hunted ele-. are the people whom the Government phants with a camera was, while erefere to our French-Canadians—our focusing 'a herd,seized by a trunk patriots, workers and pacifists.' from behind, flung against a . tree, knelt 1511011, acid then hurled, dying, into the long grass. British Royal Umbrellas Checked Like Commoners' London—The King and Queen of England, like 40,000,000 of their sub- jects, are seldom seen without a capa- cious umbrella hooked over one arm. Once one has encountered a Lon- don downpour he can: sympathize with them. The precaution, however, has to load the fertilizers, chiefly for Aus- tralia and New Zealand, A. high-powered wireless plant, one of the chain by which Germany once girded the Pacific, now works under. British control at Nauru, claimed- to be, for its size, the wealthiest island in the world. But mere Morse com- munication with the great outside world is insufficient- for the commer- cial operations at Ocean and Nauru, which lie 10 miles apart. Each island has its own wireless telephone plant, a half kilowatt instal- lation for two-way conversion, and islands of the southern seas. They daily the managers and other-offlcials' operate on a..wave length of 720 call one another up over this 100 miles meters, clear of all interference frons to discuss all details regarding output, loading and other matter's affecting. the commission's work. On board the. Nauru Chief, the supply ship which carries officials, native labor and stores to the two islands, 1s a similar half kilowatt Marconi set, and when with- in a 500 -mile rangethis vessel is in, constant daylight conversion with ship traffic, and --at times are heard -by amateurs in Australia and New- Zea- land who specially tune in for them. Captain Johnstone of the Nauru Chief declares that the radiophone to to him' a Godsend and to the Phosphate Com- mission an Investment that hap saved its erection and operating costs dozens of times over. Rome's' Moral Wave Hits Coast Resorts Government Orders Plfefects to See That Bathing Suits Are Limited to Beaches Rome.—The Italian seaside resorts bill fair to be rather tame this year. • The German Republic London Dally Mail (Ind. Cons.): We are witnessing what looks tike the opening of a new epoch. Itis not only in Preset and' in the elections to the German Reichstag: that the National- ists and the military party have sus- tained a series of defeats: Even in Bavaria, which has always in recent Years ' been a Nationalist stronghold, the Socialists have made great gains,. though they are still in the minority: After "moralizing" almost all other as- pects of,Italianlife, Fascismo has now, Minard's Liniment for Insect Bites. decided to turn its attention to , the ' beaches, where rich Italians and for -.I It is not Mr. Bernard Shaw or Mrr_ signers cheat boredom -during the II. G. Wells, but the late Lord Nor Summer months, indulging in a Bo-' cliffs, who has done the most to form hemian freedom from the usual con; the character of the post-war genera- veutions as to dress and deportment. �tlon.-Lord Burnham. Just when -a majority of Italians are abandoning the sweltering cities and I are headed toward the sea and look- ing forward to,spend'ng a feweinenths without ever ' wearing anything heavier than a bathing suit, they have been overtaken by a • circular issued by Premier Mussolini to all Perfects having seaside resorts within their jm'i5diction, bidding the mto exercise the closest supervision that the strict- est _ standards of morality will not be. �• Broken, It is forbidden to wear bathing suits that do not measure up to the ideal of strictest puritanism. One-piece bath- ing suits,, therefore, are•,,' absolutely ta- boo. It is forbidden to dance or Cline in bathing suits .or even in dressing. gowns. It is forbidden to appear any- where but on the beach unless fully dressed. The bathing 'cabin for men and women • must be kept severely separate, except the family cabins. Tho deportment of bathers must be such as not to give offense to the most scrupulous sticklers for propriety.. 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It. is prob- able that the chief reason why such a large proportion of our correspon- dents lave read no matel'iai 1n any language since graduation . is that they had acquired reading habits 'which did not yield easy mastery of the language for the purpose of gain- ing content readily, understandingly and appreciatively. "Experimental data, relating to the acquisition of a reading mastery of the native tongue bead to the belief that it is peychelogicelly and linguis- tically not true that explicit knowl- edge of the technical construction of a language so that'it can be written cor reedy Is ueoeseary for a reading mas- tery' of the language. Exactly the contrary appears to he true. . "It has been, proved beyond ques- tion, in respect to the native tongue, that explicit awareness of technical details is a barrier to a reading mas- tery of the language, _since reading.ls a synthetic process in which words must function marginally and merely as symbols to revive content; and the gaining of content is not dependent' upon a knowledge of technical mime alae in linguistic construction. "In acquiring a. reading mastery of the native tongue brie child gains his reading habits very largely, and often completely, before he undertakes a detailed study of the technical con- struction of the language Fortunate- ly his reading Habits become so set- tled before his technical study .be- gins that they are resistant to disturb- ance from technical study. ' If the child were detained In the acquisltion of reading until he began the study of gi'ammiiar and had exercises in eam- Position, he would be seriously.handi- capped In his. mastery of the art •01 arts so that he could` read easily, ap- preciatively'and uuderstan.dingly." Mouse -Ties Up An African City A mouse paealyzed the electric Power system of Johannesburg', South Africa, for three hours at noontide re- cently, caused a city-wide tie-up: and brought injury to live persons. It poked its nose into a terminal box at tho central power station. With a flash and a roar, a blinding sheet of flame shat out. Five men nearby wore scorched, three of them so badly they. were taken to a hospital. Some 15,000 workers on their, way` home to luncheon on fast express. trams were brought to a standstill. All electrically driven machbrerp In the city went dead,- and many of. the workers living at a distance had to go without their noonday snack alto- gether. ` Suspense' in China London Times Had.): The possi- bility of a renewal of civil war owing to a clash between the forces of the various leaders cannot even now be excluded, and in such a war the dis- order, would certainly be greater than ' before. The risk is great, but there are two strong moderating influences. The firet is the manifest triumph of f the vague, strong, but still most im- perfectly organized forcesinChinese politics that is called Nationalism, and that does to some, extent, hold mem' destructive militarism in cheek. The second is the frank recognition of the new spirit in ''China by foreign Pow- ers, first by Great Britain, and now,. alter a 'considerable Interval, by Ja- Pan. For the, moment Japan bears' a very great responsibility. That • re- sponsibility can only bo effectively' exercised if it is fully shared, on agreed principles, by all the Powers wlio are directly interested in China.` War Propaganda Manchester Guar0iai1 (Lib.); In :the last war a Government could sent any, lie it liked, across tine globe knowing that its success would depend on its skill in making its own -lies seem 1ese. Improbable than those `of its enemlea, At the beginning of the war most of the lies in circulation were duo to pri- vate or eemi-private eeterprieee But as the war pi'ogr'eesed Oovernmente treated the inventioir and dissemina- tion of lies as a key industry mid Made it one of thotb principal cares, Lying became a 101?'' el war service In every country