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The Seaforth News, 1928-08-23, Page 6295 years one dreamed 5 ea m rs ago that such a fragiant y� could be beverage as d'SALA t'A Orange Pekoe produced—pure ted— ure as science can make it—fresh, superb in flavour -43c per half-pound—and ail black tea. A treat indeed for tea lovers. tst4otarlateri &MKS MXitel CM/tight 194 , NEA Semite inc. i1f. DUEY Ji S11- Q , 1 inevitably be Moused, Leedon might talk, Even in that excited moment of any escape, I realised that matters would not be as easy as they would have been had net Thomassen come to blackmail me. Nevertheless I thoeght that they would be easy enough, 1 was a fool. But .then, I was a thief. Anda thief to a fool, But I did not look at future difficulties then, I eves wondering if the White Eagle, reading Thomassee'e •identity in the morrow's smilers, Would appreciate the fact that I ,had deliberately made him an instrument of justice. I thought that he would; the French ere notable for their romantic imagination. Th White Edgle, if bo knew all the facts, would appr'ec'iate them, and admire me, Indeed,' I admired myself, ` I had extricated myself from a nasty situs - tion with credit. Certainly! I con- sider that my execution of Thomassen —it was an execution—is the most highly colnmendable act of my life. I had kept my word M a murderer, but myself'. I had also kept faith withY My BEGIN HERE TODAY lock as a key was turned in it, And John Ainsley, a man of education 1 so I raised my voice, drowning the and breeding, becomes a master crook sound. —preyingupon other thieves. In ar- "Damn it,,_ Thomassen," 1 .cried, 'ragig ith a "fence" to dispose of a "you ettu't get away with this." box of jewels which he stole from the Itis blue eyes, slightly bloodshot, White Eagle, a crook, Ainsley is over- I turned upon me with a glare of sneer - heard by Swede Thomassen, a murder - es in hiding. I can't, eh?" he demanded. His Thomassen comes to Ainsley s hand went to his hip pocket Ho was apartment and demands half ofl the i in his shirt sleeves. In. pretended fear jewels. He makes himself tomptetely at tomo in Ailtsley's apartment and i I backed away from him until Ireach- waits for the money, Ainsley tele- I ed the window. And as I did so, the phones the White Eagle, telling him; White Eagle, followed by that com- that the man who robbed him and a pinion of his who had masqueraded partner will be dividing the jewels at as a hunchback the last time I saw 9 ' o'clock in his—Ainsley's—apart-' him, Lotier; entered the room. I uttered. an exclamation of.simul- ated surprise. Thomassen whirled and saw the intruders, His gun leap- te And Thomassen was shrewd enough ed from his pocket, but the Wh g Eagle fired first. I heard Thomas - to realize that any attack upon meisen's death -cry, and then I went would be better deferred until just as through the window, smashing the he was leaving. My servant, despite! glass. I dropped to the ledge below. my instructions to her, might come to�I broke the twine that secured the the apartment. Electric -light inspec clumsy effigy in place and hurled it tors, the janitor—some one like this to the ground below. And as it fell, I might call, and if I were not present emitted a shriek, the despairing cry of to receive him, embarrassment might a man hurtling to death. And then arise for the hiding murderer. I my effigy thumped upon the ground. I had persuaded him that he should The books with which I had weighted stay here until ten o'clock, so I felt' it made it sound like a human body. fairly confident that he would make I heard an exclamation from the no attack upon me until shortly before room. Clinging desperately to the that hour. And the White Eagle was ledge, 1 looked up. The White Eagle's due at nine. * * * * * We dined, the loathsome Thomassen and myself, off viands that I prepared. And at a quarter to nine we had fin- ished and were smoking after-dinner cigarets in my bedroom. I had ad- vised sitting in here, because it was the most secluded room in the apart- ment. And Thomassen, as the hour for his departure alipreached, began to yield to the strain of the situation. A murderer contemplating another the room. And like a cat I rose upon murder—I was certain that he in - the ledge, swung to the window -sill, tended to kill me and take all the An- and before Lotter could cry a warn. derson jewels—it did not seen absurd ing, I was upon the White Eagle, had to him that one room should be less wrenched his revolver from his hand conspicuous than another. It was the and dominated the situation. cent, Then he tries to hold Thomas - sen in his apartment until the White Eagle arrives. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. Favorable Results Reported at prop-; erties of Alexandria Mine, B.C.. Prince Rupert—Officials of Alexan- dria Mines have just reached here after a visit to the properties of the company in Smithers and Hazelton districts. The Ryland Basin property in the Rabin° Range has. some surface showings of high-grade silver -lead -gold ore; yielding sensational values. An engineer and crew' aro walking on the Property 'surveying preparatory to oar vying out a development program, The management have high hopes for this property, Tho Velvet property, in Hazelton period last year and a decrease of $G, - district, has such favorable showings period when compared ad decrease the Pre ,- a that twelve adjacent claimshavebeen foss week of this year; Comparisons: theieonv lf. acquired, increasing the Alexandria's 1027 ,. 1 d 1920 'c nee 0 , wke respected forbears might condemn my acreage by 600 acres. Development Aug. 8th $123;642,841 $96,524,901 mode of life, but they would forgive to date in the Velvet has disclosed a Aug, 2nd 130,673,485 89,052,441 mo this chapter. For I had risked my series of veins from 6 to .10 feet wide, July I 26th 124,573,686 84,007,114 own life rather than let Thomassen go well mineralized and carrying tom- JulY'16111 134,540,688 194,407,144 free. I ask no praise for the things merelal values in silver and lead: Mond Will Revise1Smelting Facilities I. do; but this time, in the matter of Consolidated Smelters are reported to Sic my. Thomassen, you must withhold your censure. You who understand may forgive. on Ma•Y 21, 1928, and 82 days" en lulaY 31,1927. Newspaper advertising In 80 load- ing cities for the first six monthieot 1078 was 4 per cont. less -than foe the same period of 1927, and 7 per cent, less than In 1926 Periodical advertising in National publications In the first seven months of 1928' was 7 per cent, lege than in the first seven months of 1027, and '1 per cent. more thae'in 1926. Pages printed i11 newspapers of over 100,000 circulation (Average for June) Da111os Sundays 1928 31, 104 1927 30 108 Toronto Bank Clearings Show Increase Bank clearings in the city of To-, mite for the week ended August 9th amounted •to 5123,642,941, an increase of 527,118,540 over the corresponding lb' —There will be a revision of both treatment and capacity of smelting facilities of the Mond Nickel Company in conneetien with their pro- posed expatlsiou ;program at, the Frood. Extension .Mine; according to an ofd - face appeared through .the broken glass. FIe looked down; in the sha- dows below he saw a dark mass; he took it for me. Perhaps you who read my memoirs understand now why I had to wait until after dark. In day- light my bundle of books and pillows and overcoat would not have deceived him for a moment. But it deceived him now. He uttered an ejaculation of felt- cious delight. He turned back into (To be continued.) farthest roost from the entrance door, and anything said or done was less likely to be heard in my bedroom. In - "The alarm will be raised in five minutes," I told them. "But unless you give me two minutes' start, I'll deed, be thought that I was playing shoot" into his bands. The White Eagle stared at me. His At just before nine o'clock I staxted deep-set eyee were bewildered. an argument. I said that he ha taken the mere valuable of the jewels and that we ought to divide them again. From his pockets he produced his share. Ho was glad for the dis- pute. He wanted to work himself up, cold-blooded though he was, to a point where my murder would seem more justifiable. Even men like Thomassen it to me," he threatened. have their queer code. From the doorway I laughed at him. I laid my share with his upon a „perhaps, Monsieur le Duc. Meantime table. As I did so, I heard the faint _two minutes. And read tomorrow's est of sounds, the mere clicking of a papers; perhaps then you will under- stand." Then I went through my living - room, through the front door, and took the stairs three at a time. Outside, I hailed a taxi. As we drove into the park, I saw the White Eagle and Lo - tier emerge from the building. But there was no other taxi. They could escape, but they could not catch me— for both of which facts I was extreme- ly glad, for it had not been my plan to jeopardize the White Eagle. "Nom de Dieu, why this? It is you who telephoned me to come here. I know your voice, Why?" I swept the jewels from the table, stuffed them into my pockets, and backed lo the door. "Itis too long a story, my dear Duc," 'I answered, "Nevertheless, one day you shall tell 0, a can't t at lien is treatb be beat! Benefit and plea- sure' in generous measure! 6! Pefil erami>nt Flavor ISSUE No. 33--'211 be negotiating for a property adjoin- ing the Velvet and their engineers aro in the field. Good progress is being made at the Portland Canal properties of the Alex- andria Company. • No. 2 tunnel is i'e-' tial announcement. At the present ported to have encountered,good time 'officials of the company, J., F. grads. ole. Robertson (smelting manager) and L. Also, the engineers' reports from.J Ingolstrud (chief engineer), are on this company's holding In the mineralized a tour of the west, examining the district spew distinct mie proper- smelting plants of western copper min - zones running throughout the proper- ing complinies. Details of the pro- posed revision have not been an- nounced, and no action with regard to smelter changes are likely to be taken until next year. Oliver Hall, formerly mine manager, took over last week the position of general manager ot. Canadian operations of the Mond Nickel Company, succeeding Dr: C. V. Cortese, who has resigned. Vigorous Fight Waged In Western Ontario by Two Gas Companies Hamilton,—In. Western Ontario, Property overthe snow during the there is said to be a gas tear on for coming winter. The tonnage of ore supremacy between the United Gas & developed and in sight ie. the mine is Fuel Company of Hamilton and the large and will run better than $7. Dominion Natural Gas 'Conrpany, also Construction of a 1,000 -ton mill is se- of I4"amiltern' and ,district. The United garded as the most economical plant. Company is endeavoring to invade the The compact formation of ore zone district embracing Paris, Galt, Brant - will, it is estimated, enable the corn- ford, Woodstock, Ingersoll and other pang to produce at a cost of 54, per points and supplant natural gas with ties. Howey Making Headway Towards Production Basis Additions to physical assets of Howey Gold Mines' this year to date have been substantial, and the ques- tion of a mill is coming to the fore- front. An oftifficial informed the Northern Miner that by the late fall Howey should be in a position to de- cide lust what tonnage mill would be required, and it is likely that heavy machinery nery will be moved into the Evidence S rozA o .... WA recommend German1 Guilt ALEXANDRIA "The most important bases for a GOLDMINES LTD. judgtiaeo oil the quem m whether 41 8 a MINES• Germany was solely Tespenaible for Because after careful investigation we believe the diversity of this Company's holdings in the Priancipal combiued withMininga of cell- adthe hest of management and engineer- ing talent, Will snake it ono of the great dividend earners of the future.. In our opinion it is, ono of the most outstanding mining speculations, now before the ton or less, and this would leave sub- stantial profits on a 1,000 -ton opera- tion , At the close of last year the com- pany had 1,721 lineal feet length in Galt, which body had previously ore and since then ore bodies have passed a resolution to do away with been extended 25 to 50 per cent. in natural gas because of its sulphurous length -and have been proved cell- odor and make a new contract with siderably wider. Some 900 feet east the United Gas & Fuel Co. of this of present workings drills cut through city. Officials of the Dominion Cons - 10 feet of $10 ore in a zone 160 feet pang stated that they had discovered wide. On the 500 -foot level 'the ore is opened up for 300 feet, averaging. 14% feet wide, the grade being, $7. At 125 feet, 150 feet of ore 15 feet wide .has been opened up, better in grade than the mine average. The eastern face on the 250 -foot level continues in good Ore. At the 375 -foot level east excellent ore is being developed some 140 feet east of the present face on ' the 500 -foot level, suggesting that. a inch greater length will be shown at 500 feet. Results to the west of the shaft have been not nearly so encouraging. The rake of the ore body is towards the east, and workings have 6,000 feet to go before reaching the boundary. A diamond drill machine is being de- livered and under contract proving'of ore farther east will be pushed more rapidly. Some 500 feet of drilling will be done in Pais way and will help greatly in speeding blocking out of ore. • There Is a porphyry area south of the workings, located by drills, and a crosscut is going out to prove this section. A drill is also working north of the workings on the surface to prove favorable ground. It will he carried to 800 feet at least. 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I How had 5 known that I would not be the victim also of the White Eagle's rage? I had not known. I had taken deliberately the chance that I, too, would be killed. " Why? Have I not ,,aid that when I surrendered honesty I cluir114. linnozl PV I permit a beast like Thomassen to na..the just penalty of his dreadful crime CouldI aid in such escape?,. Had I expected to regai^,•1 bre-Andel*: eon jew-o?lillebite Eagle set. Tris eyes upon them? In aliawer to that I can only say that I had prepared myself to die in their defence. For the money that they represented meant rehabilitation, the abandonment 61 this life. And I' was a111 young enough to think that niiraeles do sometimes happen. Of course, Thomassen', body would be found in my apartment; The police esetellskeeek foe fun. Suspicion Would artificial gas. ' Officials of the Dominion Natural Gas Company stated that the issue was fought out before the Council in public. Detailed informati on Request. U the' World War are undoubtedly fur- niehed be the Color Hooka published during the war," saye Alfred von Wegerer, German semi-off'cal war historian, in the August Current His- toty. "These publications, from start to finish, contain only a small fear- ment of the documentary materialavailable, ani the individual docu- ments were abridged and disflgnrecl by various omissions and transposi- tions in the text, The Color Books of the three great powers, England, Rues-' sia; and France, clearly show a tend - throwto leave out an thin that might throw an unfavorable light on their se the C cuipate the 'Central Powers. The Ltd. French Yellow Book, in addition to INVEST ENT' SECURITIES these characteristics, contains fo'"ged Herne, Fletcher & Co., ' M en will, be maned' y Y g Coupon. own policy; or that might tend to ex - Metropolitan bldg., Toronto. Name ...., Address such' large quantities of natural gas recently that they were able to -give the Galt municipality officials a writ- ten.guarantee that by January 1, 1929, a largo purification plant, costing $250,000, would be established and in operation on its lines at some point near London. This will enable the company to mix its gas with that from its wells in Haldimand County, and it will be virtually odorless, All centres now served in that district will be assured of a supply of pure gas. Minard's Liniment—A reliable first aid The Father (admonishing his Mill - dean): "Well, I can tell you there is committee, declares that "the Germano one thing I never did when I was a will never eliminate from the record small, boy." 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"The tribunal of history may very probably acquit Germany of the major guilt of desiring a general war." he says in conclusion, "but I cann it see how it can ever acqu°t Germany of having assumed the responsibility of a war that might have been avoided at any date to Aug. 1, by accepting tie British proposal for a peaceful settle- ment, Report Reidy Annual Trade Figures Now Available The Condensed- Preliminary Report on the Trade of Canada for the fiscal year 1927-28 has just been issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This handy little brochure has been considerably enlarged this year 'and now comprises 120 pages. 7t con- sists of two sections, a "Review" and a "Condensed Statistical Record" of Canadian Trade. The "Review" deals with the vol- ume and Vahte of the Dominion's ex- ternal commerce. Its fluctuations, dis- tribution and routes of transporta- tion are examined in respect to both current conditions and recent varia- tions. Several Of the analyses are now published for the first time. Can- ada's progress and her present joss tion among the great trading nations of the world are explained in particu- lar detail. More particularly, the "Review" treats of the following among other subjects: Relation be- tween Trade in Raw and Manufac- tured Products; Seasonal fluctua- tions; Trade by Continents; Imports by Principal Countries; Exports by Principal' Countries; Trade 'Balances; Principal Commodities Imported; Im- ports for Canadian Industries; Princi- pal Commodities Exported; Trade. via the United States; Canada's Position' in International Trade; Canada's share in World Import Trade, eta, etc. Thi•"Coddensed-Statistical Record" of Canadian Trade has been enlarged this year so that it noW covers eighty- three • (83) countries, the commercial exchange with. Which is segregated and dealt with in detail. This is the only official report containing trade statistics in this'form. There arellso summary and analytical tables dealing with Canada's trade as a whole. `Copies of, this report may bo obtained on application to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa. — — t Lenient Leonard -No man with y sense would allow you to carry on the way you do, Itis Fiancee—flow de . you know what a man with any 0e11e0 would do?