The Seaforth News, 1926-05-27, Page 7FACE TO FACE WITH A TIGER
By DAVID KER
Right upon .the Nerbuddah Rivet',
in Central India,. Nothing to break
"Ir the dense black mass of the,impene-
trating :.jungle except the faint
twinkle of the starlight upon the
smooth, swift -flowing stream in its
midst; ,not a sign of human life, save
the little, one -storied cottage, with
its trim, white' veranda, which shel-
ters the two English engineers who
are 'surveying this gloomy region in
'the interests of a future railway.
lit' Both have had a• long • and 'hard
day's ;Wotk,''and Barry Vane, the
elder -of the two, has gone to bed
earlier than usual, never doubting
that his companion will speedily, fol-
low his example.
This, however, was by no means
Frank Morley's intention. He had
overheard one of his native attend-
ants declaring that there was a tiger
somewhere in the neighborhood, and•
the chance of tasting the scalp of a
"real Bengal" in his first season ."up,
country" was a temptation not to be
resisted. •
Harry's first snore had hardly an-
nounced that he was- safely disposed
of when a dark figure came stealing
"along the veranda, glided Like al
shadowacross the space between the
house and the bamboo stockade that
encircled it, and nimbly sealing the
fence, disappeared into the !slack-
shadows
lackshadows of the surrounding jungle,
Morley -for , he it was -had al-
ready choserr his post of ambush, and
chosen it well. ; The house stood upon
a steep' bluff overhanging the river,
with which it communicated by a
flight of steps cut in the rock; but
a few hundred yards further on the
high bank sloped down into a -hol-
low, evidently a favorite drinking
T-•- place (as the tracks that covered, it
showed) with the "big game" of the
neighborhood.
A. little way down this slope grew
a solitary tree, which, though small
compared with some of the giants
around it, was quite large enough
to afford a commodious porch.
The young sportsman climbed
across into the lowest fork, and, lay-
ing his rifle upon his lap, awaited
the coming of the monster.
Dreary, dreary work, crouching
there in the depth of that gloomy
---lee.-forest, with every nerve strained to
the utmost, and not a sound to break
the ghostly silence except the moan
of the night -wind, the hoarse "sough"
of the dark river, arid, 'at times, far
away in the unseen depths beyond,
the scream of a bird of prey or the
maniac laugh of the hyena.
At first all was shrouded in dark-
ness, but at length the full moon rose
in all her splendor, throwing into
sharp reaef the rocky .banks and the
masses of weeding that crowned them
and making the black, 'sullen stream
^- Platter . like a sheet of silver. But
still no tiger, nor any sign of one
"Bother the lazy brute, keeping .a
fellow waiting this way!" growled
Morley, as crossly- as if the tiger had,
made an appointment with him by
letter. "Just like these perverse.
beasts! When onefloesh't want therm
they're safe to -turn up, and when
one would give any money for a
sight of one there ain't ilia tin of.
a tail to be seen 1"
Few truer sayings have ever been
uttered than the o:d Latin proverb
which speaks of "wishes granted by
the gods in their anger."
With the complaint still on his lips
he turned his head, and -saw on the
top of the bank behind him, within
easy reach of his perch, the largest
-'tiger he had ever seen!
,His wish was granted, and no mis-
take! So close was the monster that
he could feel its hot, fetid breath and
count .every .one of the huge white
fangs which .glittered soominously
in the moonlight,
Thatthe tigerr saw 1 him 'quite as
plainly there could be no doubt what-
ever, for in that dazzling brightness
a smaller object would have been clear
' set thrice the distance, and the boughs
among which he sat were almost bare
of foliage.
And So, without sound or motion,.
the man and the beast, alone beneath.
the almost unearthly splendor of the
moonlight, stood looking fixedly into
each other's eyes. ,
Then, in that moment of supreme
teener, Frank Morley, as the fierce
eyes glared into his, saw once more,
in a sudden flash of memory, the old
paper -covered volume of "The Juve-
nile Buffon," which had been hie first
study its natural history, and the very
page on which stood the qoaint old
woodcut tepxesenting • the ::;Bengal
tiger.
He remembered how he had tried
to color it, and how vexed he was
because the yellow and black stripes
wouldrun into each other and Make
a daub; and the crabbed old engrav-
ing stood before himas plainly as if
it were therein bodily presence in
place of the terrible original
But, defenseless as he was (for his
body had sunk down into the fork of
the tree, so that before he'could get
himself into a position to fire, his fate
would be sealed), the tiger, •'whether
already glutted with prey or disarm-
ed by his perfect immobility, showed
no disposition to attack him. The
cruel eyes still held him with their
lurid gleam, but the huge form was
motionless as a statue; and in that
dead silence he could hear the rise
and fall of its heavy breathing.
At length-axter how long a time
Morley could never have told, al-
though before it ended he had sol-
emnly disowned tiger -shooting at
least twenty times over -the monster
began to move slowly away. It turn-
ed suddenly, looked at him once more,
and then, as if satisfied that nothing
was to be feared from him, went
past .him down into the hollow, the
tip of -its waving tail almost touch-
ing him where he sat.
Hello! who's there?" -shouted
Harry Vane, roused from his dreams
of tiger -stalking by the bursting of
something that might well have been
mistaken for a tiger itself.
"Tiger!" answered a gasping voice,
which even he could barely recognize.
"Up with you, quick!"
The speaker was no other than
Frank Morley, who, with his clothes
flying in tatters and the blood from
several deep thorn scratches ming-
ling with the perspiration that pour-
ed down ltis red-hot face, stood before
his startled comrade like a spectre.
But the one word "tiger" was quite
enough for the veteran sportsman. He
was up and dressed almost before,
Morley had time to explain which
way the beast had gone,
His hunter -servant, Ahmed," was
ready quite as soon as, his toaster,
and the three men started together,
guided by the huge round footprints
which the soft earth held like wax.
By sunrise the "royal- Bengal" lay
dead beside the river with a two.
ounce ban through his head; and thus
did Frank Morley keep his resolve of
giving up tiger -shooting forever,
Naturally..
Moth -"You look sick;"
Candle -"Yee. I feel kinda ltgbt-
headed!"
Duties of the Nose.
The sense of smolt Is not by any
means the sole function of the nose.
Fur snore important is its use for
breathing purposes. The air breathed
In through the nose is warmed, mois-
tened;• and cleaned so perfectly that
not: a particle of dost pasees into the
itntgs. Breath taken in throngh the
month Is cold- and -laden with germs,
which tray affect .the teeth, cause sore
throats, and clog the lungs. This .ex- I
plains wiry it. 10 so desirable to -breathe
only Chrou6h the nose.'
THE FAMOUS SUN COMPASS
Albert holt Bumstead, right, Chief cartographer of the National Geo-
graphic Society, inventor of the sun compass, Lieut. R, E. Byrd, left, took
the little compass with him on his flight to the North Pole, and gives it great
credit for its service when the old type compass would have been useless.
. Petal Pillows of Voile.
Nothing Is prettier for the bedroom
or boudoir than the popular voile pil-
lows. Some are made• heart -shaped
and trimmed with frills or embroidery.
But the very newest ones are petal-
covered over round cushion forme, to
resemble big flowers.
One lovely voile cushion seen was
made entirely of apricot -toned cotton
voile made into rows of petals put on
in circular rows. The petals were
formed from diagonal folds doubled.
To make the diagonal necessary for so'
many petals on a cushion a foot in
diameter,- the material is folded at
right angles and crossing strips mark-
ed with a lead pencil and then cut two
inches wide. To make the diagonal
material into one long strip, which is
the, most scouomical way of forming
the petals, the crossing strips should
be etitohed together on the sewing ma-
chine. The seams are of course kept
Inside when the diagonal is doubled,
and the edges turned in to a depth of
one-eighth Melt, This loaves a double
fold just the right width and thickness ,
to make each petal. This is done by
simply snipping the long strip new
'double into 2% -inch lengths and doub.
ling these lengthwise or perpendiou-I
tarty and gathering thein together at
the base to resemble a petal. In tack-
ing the petals in rows upon the pillow I
there_ should first- be a slip .cover of !
voile to match, and then each row of
petals must be lapped over the next •
row from the outer edge to the Center, i
The petal pillow seen was finished in
the middle with seine streamers to re-'
semble the heart of a flown.
Another exquisite voile cushion
seen was made exactly the same way,
only pale blue voile petals were shaded
into yellow ones toward the .center..
A rose petal voile pillow was shaded
from deep rose to pale pink, and these
petals weremede with corded edges.
Why Man Walks.
Man has walked erect from the be-
ginning of his "human origin„'" accord-
ing to the theory of,Dr.'Dudley -Mor-
ton, professor of surgery in Yale Uni-
versity.. During the arboreal life of
man's ancestor, declared ,Mr. Morton,
gravity pulled the lower limbs into au
erect position.
"When the first members of the au-
thropoid stem adopted their brachiatic
habit their limbs were drawn down
into a vertical position by the force of
gravity. At some time during the de-
velopment of man he dropped from
the trees and Look up his terrestrial
habits already In an erect position.
The branch of the sten which remain-
ed arboreal became so developed in
the terms and shoulders -that their
weight prevented then from walking
upright later. That is why there Is
the semi-erect branch of the stem in
Lthe greater apes to -day."
Rhubarb in Orange
Marmalade.
Orange marmalade is just as delici-
ous and much less expensive if when
making it one adds rhubarb in the pro
Portion of one quart of rhubarb to
three parts of the orange and lemon.
Cook all together.
A GENU INE GHOST STORY
Some years ago there was a lone
house standing near a plantation not
far from Guildford. • This house no-
body would ever• take, because it was
haunted and strange noises were heard
in it every night after dark;
Several tenants tried it, but' were
frightened away} the. noises. At last
one ittdivlthial, more courageous than
the rest resolved to unra.ved the mys-
tery. He accordingly armed himself
cap -a -pie,' and, having put out ttie light,
remained sentry in one of the rooms.
_-Shortly he heard on the stairs pit.
pat; a full stop; then pit, pat; a full
stop again.
The noise was repeated several
tines as though some creature ghost
v uv puvu,.,
At Iast the thing. whatever it was,
carie close to the door of the room
where the sentry was placed, and lis-
tening, his heart, tao, chimed in with
the tune pit, pat but rather faster
than it was wont to to.
Ile flung open the door -hurry, ekes..
r;y, hang. -something went downstairs
with a tremendous -lump, and all over
the bottom of the hoarse the greatest
confusion, as of thousands of demons
rushing In ell directions, was heard!
This was enough for one night; The
ere coming u» stairs:
next night our Crafty sentry establish-
ed hitneelf
stablished'ltimself on the first landing, with a
heap of straw and a box of lucifer
matches.
Soon all was quiet, lip the stairs
again cause the pit, pat -pit, pat. ,
When the noise *as (1109e to his am-
bush he scraped his match and set fire
to his straw, which blazed up like a
bonfire Man instant, And what did he
see? Only a rabbit, which steed on
his hind legsas niur.it astonished as
was the -sentry!
Both man and beast having mutually
inspected each other, the biped hurled
a sword at the quadruped. which dis-
appeared downstairs wicker than he
carne np. The noise made was only
the rabbit's fore and hindfeet -hitting
the boards as he hopped from one stair
to another.. The rabbits had got into
the house from the netghboring plan -
tenon, and had fairly frightened away,
by their nocturnal wanderings,' the
rightt'ul owners thereof, The more
courageotis sentry was. rewarded for
his- vigil, for he Belt his tongue as to
the cause of the ghost,
I•Ie got the house at a reduced }rent,
and several capital hehbit-plea made of
the ghosts' bodies into the bargain,
y-Leessons in 0,
AUCTION
B•'LGE
New Series by WYNNE FERGUS ON'
author of " ergucon on electron Bridge"
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Copyright 1929 by Hoyle, Jr..
ARTICLE No. 33
In, a recent article an analysis was
made of the take-out of partner's no-
trump when second hand had passed.
One of the pointe emphasized was that
if the original no-trump, bidder didn't
like the take-out, he should bid two no-
tmump. Since that time the writer has
received several inquiries as to the type
of hand that would justify a two no-
trump'bid over a take-out of one no-
trump by partner with a bid of two
hearts or two spades. The easiest way
to answer that question 1s by asking
one. Supposeyour partner bid one spade
and second hand passed, with what
kind of hand would you bid, one no-
trump? Answer that question correctly
and you will knoivwhen to bid two no-
trump -over partner's take-out of two
hearts or two spades. The object of all
correct bidding is to arrive at the best
bid of the combined hands; that is, the
best bid of twenty-six cards, not of thir-
teen. For example, suppose your part-
ner bid one spade, second hand passed
and you held the following cards;
Hearts A, Q, 4
Clubs -K, J, 10, 7,
Diamonds - Q, 3, 7, 2
Spades-$, 3
The correct bid is undoubtedly one no-
trump. Why? Because experience has
shown that whenyour partner bids a
suit and you have less than three cards
of that suit, you will have a better
chance for game at some other suit or
no-trump. This is one of the steps in the
process of finding out the best bid of
the combined hands, If you don't deny
help for partner's suit bid, how can you
tell him the kind of hand that you have.
Learn to "mirror" your hand to your
partner that is, tell him plainly and
clearly i y yosir bidding just what kind
of hand you have, For that reason, sup-
pose you bid one no-trump with the
following hand:
hearts - A, Q, 4
Clubs - K, J 10, 7
Diamonds - Q, J, 7, 2
Spades -6, 3
Second hand passes, your partner bids
two spades and fourth hand passes.
Don't you think you ought to bid two
no-trump for exactly the same reason
that you would bid one no-trump with
that hand over a one spade bid by part-
ner? The principles are exactly the sante
in each instance,
In the following hands, there is no
score, you are the dealer and have bid
one no-trump. Second hand has passed
your partner hag bid two spades and
fourth hand has passed. What would
you now bid?
I-Tearts-10, 6, 5
Clubs -9, 2
Diamonds - Q, 10, 7
Spades -10, 9, 8; 5, 2
IIand No. 1
Hearts -Q 7 2
Clubs -A, K, 7, 3
Diamonds - K, 6
Spades- 10, 9,'4, 2
Hand' No. 3
Hearts -Q, 10 6,3
Clubs -A, J 5t, 2
Diamonds- IC, Q, 7
Spades - Q, 4
Hand No. 3
Hearts -, 10 4, 2 -
Clubs -IC, J, '
Diamonds -A, IC, Q, 6
Spades -7, 6
The following hand is an excellent
example of good play, so study it care-
fully. Note how the declarer figured out
the only possible chance for game,
Hearts -10, 4
Clubs -K, Q, 10, 9, •7,
Diamonds - , 6, 4
Spades -7, 3
Y s
:A B:
:Z
Hearts = Q,9, 8, 6, 3
Clubs -6,
Diamonds -K, 8, 7
Spades -A, K, 10
No score, first game. Z dealt, bid one
no-trump and all passed. A opened the
four of spades. Y played a low spade, B
the jack and Z won the trick with the
ace. How should he plan the play of the
combined hand? Z must leadthedeuce
of clubs from his hand and playthe
queen 'from dummy. If this card frced
the ace, he can finesse against the jack
on the next round. A good player, how-
ever, would not play his ace on, the first
round, so, in that case, Z is up against
a difficult problem. He must set his
club suit at once before the queen of
diamonds, Isis only possible reentry
card, is taken out of dummy. For that
reason, Z must make one of two plays:
(a) he can lead a low club, hoping that
the ace is now single or (b) he can lead
the king of clubs, hoping that the jack
is single. Either play is a guess but one
or the other must be made for the only
hope for game is to set up the clubs. As
a platter of fact, the king of dubs would
have been the correct play at trick
three for B originally held the jack and
four of clubs.
The following hand was played re-
cently in Detroit and forwarded to the
writer as an excellent example of the
"squeeze," that is, the forcing of one
hand to discard winning cards.
Problem No. 17
Hearts -IC, 7
Clubs -6, 5, 4
Diamonds -9, 8 6, 2
Spades -A, K, Q, 4
•
:A Y B
z
Hearts - A, Q, 9, 4, 2
Clubs- J,
Diamonds -A, K, 5, 4
Spades -7, 3
There is no score, rubber game. Z
dealt and bid one heart, A and Y passed
and B bid two clubs. Z bid two hearts
and all passed. A opened the nine of
clubs and.B won the first two tricks
with the king and queen. He then led
the ace of clubs which'Z trumped with
•
Hearts = 5, 8, 3
Clubs- A, K, Q, 10, 8, 3,
Diamonds -5, 3
Spades - J, 6
the nine of hearts and A over trumped
with the ten. A now led the six of
hearts. How can Z so play the hand
that he will make the balance of the
tricks against any defense? Watch out
for the solution in the next article.
Chances.
• While cue man Is complaining (hilt
there Is no chance, another can sees
and melees one, At life's never -ceas-
ing drama we, must promptly take
the cue, et the play. halts with the
failure 11 our own port of it. Anti
when the opportunity knocks at any
door, we must be as eager to receive
It as any radio devotee is to catch tiid
least faint audibility from any tietant
place, For sometime the soiled of
that rare and preciou. knock Is very
faint; and it may not recur, however
sorry we are that we have missed it,.
A good deal or the talk of teen about
their luck is Very tiresome, 'Phey had
just as much of a chance to make good
as anybody had, but they did not per-
ceive it or they did ..ot know how to
use it,. They ready enough to rise
up and decry or envy trim who came
and worked the vein where they found
nothing and declared fl barren.
But the rewards rightly go to those
who hold on, after the rest decide that
It is quitting -time. Nature and fate,
such impartial distributors or profit.
Lind loss, cre certainly never going to
play favorites for the benefit of quit-
ters. And the public itself, in the
long run, is just in its assessments and
appraisals; it has its own way of show=
lug that it ern tell the difference be-
tween a men and "a stick with a col-
1ai• on it:'
. Wowl
1st Cat --"l hear that new dog's
name 18 'Clinger,' Does he bite?"
Sod Cat --"No, but. he "seam"-
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Beauty Parlor for Doge.
Roston Inas a beauty parlor for pets
where dogs can be made to look their
best. in preparation for appearance in
I dog shows.
REG'LAR FELLERS -By Gene Byrnes.
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STORIES OF WELL-
KNOWN PEOPLE
Will Invented it,
,It is not geiteral'ly ]crown that
Bransby Williams is one of the finest
Shaltespearianscholare of today.
At the chib recently a man was tell-
ing et story, anti used the slang adjec-
tive, "blinking." .
•.Whereupon,. another member re-
marked: "Funny word -'blinking!' T
don't remember hearing it before the
war. Wender who invented it?"
"Shakespeare!" said Dennehy
promptly,
"Shakespeare? Oh, nonsense!" ex-
claimed several voices.
"Not at all, I assure you, insisted
Bransby. "You'll find the words -'blink-
ing idiot'. in The Merchant of'Venice,
Act II, Scene 9."
"The Kind Princess,"
For years Psincoss Victoria, who is
known in the palaoes as "The Kind;
Drinoees," on a000unt-•of hr- thought-
fulness for others, subjugated her °vise
life to that of Queen Alexandra, Even
before her father's dearth, Princess
"Torte" was recognized' as being her
mother's constant and devoted com-
panion.
This devoted personal attendance In-
volved 'Princess Victoria's withdrawal
from the public eye for a considerable
• number oesyears. As a result of this
semi -retirement, prompted by the most
unelflsh of human motives, she has
never been a prominent figure In the
world of society.
She has often reseed unrecognized.
A year ago when she was spending a
holiday at Lugano, on the Italian
lakes, the Swiss. papers related 'how
she was stopped on the promenade by
an Italian rajah, anxious to make a
name as the Lord Bountiful of the
place. He generously offered to be-
stow on her a dollar bill! The sister
of the King of England meltingly ex-
plained that she had no need of the
rajah's targesse.
Princess Victoria, who was bora in
1869, is the tallest of the royal family.
She is highly artistic, -but all her life
she has been subject to neuralgic
headaches and it was probably ber
delicate health which prevented her
taking up sculpturing. She is fond of
music and collects old glass and aid
silver, Her favorite poet is Browning.
iter royal highness suffered greatly
on account of the tragic loss of the
Duke of Cliaronce, her favorite broth-
er, but ber greatest sorrow, of course,
has been the death of Queen Alexant-
dra-
Since she left Sandringham, the
Princess 1'Ictnria has 'been in resi-
dence at Marlborough House, where
she has been engaged in the somewhat
palatal task of arranging for the re-
moveal of such of her late' mother's be-
longings and her own as s'he desired to
place in her new residence at Iver,
near Uxbridge, Middlesex -six miles
southwest of Harrow. But for the
breakdown in health she would have
occupied her Iver residence early in
April,
A Great Speaker.
Dr. G. W. Kerby, principal of Mount
Royal College, in Calgary, has the re-
putation of being one of that city's
leading Graters. On one occasion after
addressing a Sunday school sudieuce
in the Chinese mission, the chairman
(who was a Chinese) rose to his feet
and, In thanking the reverend gentle-
man, said, "Dr, Kerby, he great speak-
er. Ito talkey all 'e same graml-
pbone,
Flamborough I -lead.
Evening, like a gentle sister
Steals across the harbour, trimming
Her moon -lantern where Ilse brimming
Seasandsmouidertng skies meet.
Gliding onward, trailing sweet.
Liao while her flitting feet
Skins the waves, the fields: of wheat
On the cliff,
Now she is stooping
To the poppies gaily trooping
Like the little people.
Higher than the Trills and steeple
To tate dream -clouds she is heaping
Lilac, lilac, till the sleeping
Stars ase wakened there and, peeping,
Creep: out softly, like the day's end.
Thomas Moult., in "Down Here in
Hawthorn."
Chains of the Human Race.
'1'he Bishop of London bas been giv-
ing the result of Itis studies of lire al-
ter forty years in hoiy orders. Pecactr-
ing at Christ Church, Westminster, he
said: "After tarty years' ministry 1
have discovered six things which are
chaining down and oppressing the hu-
man race, and semellmos making it
perfectly miserable There six thetas
ore: (.) the fear of death, (2) the
burden of unacknowledged and unt'nIl-
fessed stirs; (3) the haunting templa
tion which goes on year after year: (11
the dart,nese of doubt: (5) Ilse sett -a'
of boing ai> vR� bk a creed, (G1 c::t
aytT'4 ,i'c�isary dw p,alnable nicien-
chnly." Phe bo jcJd i tit )Llrls
younger years the 111511 on his eat, ',u
settee of being enalai'eti by a creed,
had nearly prevented'liiil from being
ordrtined.
Iii a new, large aeroplane now being
.hilt to terry 'thirty peseeueers. as
Well as a big cargo all office, complete
with a trained typist, is being Metalled
for the ronvell1e11Ce of 1111.9111css men,
The bite of the python or the boa
le painful, but not paisonotte,
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