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The Seaforth News, 1927-09-29, Page 21E SAW THE FAIRIES BY KATE VAUGHAN seeeee fall into the water, and 'et last she They say the fairies dance here one e c.ed 1° l,e P, (110 hotto111. r. moonlight rhlights. She lay for a moment, wondering. "Do t`t6Yr I'd give anytbing to sec.'why she NY:LS 00 uamfartuble and we', them, Imagine seeing fairies 1n the 'ha Aid mat des; then he apenbd he r twentieth c ntnry!" eyes, anis when he had done et., And the speaker, a young girl of epr'ang to her feet, There was not water anywhere, only the was in o 1ibVenteerl; laughed merrily, while her beautiful place, all mother-of-pearl companion, a little youuger, Looked anti -goad; the floor was carpeted with somewhat piqued; for elle was doing. the honors of her home to an old 1"°1°" stapes, rho pattern formed, sohool friend, and was gut young or rubies, sapphires and diamonds,os enough to love fairy lore and, at all brilliant !:he had to shade her egos events. to like to believe in their ownwhen she looked at it. Then a gold - fairy -I. -1 pool. .011 door slid open, and the queen of. Tlrr !Iris, as they sat thus eller- We fairies entered, followed by a ting os, :.,� mossy margin'of tho pool swarm of other fairies, who were evi- and laved their white hands in the clently her attendants, and the little. gurgling water at its source, were all pup in green who had` laughed at her unmindful of. a' pair of great, wistful misfortune. It seomccl to Nellie that browneyes gazing at thorn from he, was looking 'm;ehievon:.ly at her amon . the loaves of wild -laurel. z-uw' b Iia!" said the queen, in a silvery The brown eyes belonged to a lit- voice, `"a mortal!" tie Canadian girl who loved fairy- There was a sound like the rustling stories, and had been once told by of leaves, which Nellie saw .gas but her nurse, in .answer to her eager _ the noise made by the fairies, who quos!:!one as to where the faiiios'[now crowded round her, looking curl- lived: 1ttsly at the little mortal who was Oh, there are none in this country, ' among then ,and sometimes touching they aro over in England, I guess her garments, which made Nelle very though they say there are heaps of ,'• for sho lyes' conscious them in Ireland," Inlet she was streaming water frons And then, when the found she was every fold on to that beautifulfloor; h to be brought to England, although 'and thoy all Iooked so freeand clean she regrottni it was not to Ireland— land beautiful, like so carry flowers. as they must be. $o much more cone- , As the queen looked at her she hard- choked back her tears but, oh, how "How could my little girl go to sec,: elate ..•... FARMERETS'PIIOVE TO BE GOOD JUDGES Left to Plight—Mary Anderson, Peal. Couuty; Wilma Boucher, Peel County; elevelyn Young, Cheltenham; Alice Bacon, Claremont; Ida Galbraith,_ Glen Valley whe proved their ability as prize stock judges at the 0.11,11. • mon,there--she yet telt that she wart 1y knew where to petsshe wised, fcr er' mater' And hien sleep in such°a daneeraus place? er head, forT71e Call Sup - going to the enchanted land cf her though so small, the fairy looked every Came another thought: Flew could pose my darling had been drowned? The sten ,genas down beyond the purple books, inch a quern, and as with ono waveshe, so big, live in suck a tiny 1,1ac0, Your clothes are actually wet where fell, sous menace to fruit growers in. But, alas! she had been in England, of her tiny tins! she conmanded her with such tiny people? She "would they have dipped in the water!" A wind has blown the lark into a Queensland and New South Wales. Canada, where slavery has never been now several we:hks, and no "sigh of atteudauts to fall back. Nellie note:• have to stand still all the time far fear At first, Nellie clung convulsively cloud; an institution, the word "slave" should fairies yet. In vain had alis examinedThere are five species 1n A�u'stralia, ed that evert. the mischievous little of treading on 'them. But the fairies to suer mother. Oh, how good it was Ons backward bolt will serve to say the commonest by far being PEerapas enter into rho, names of prominent carefully every tun of primroses, to man shranl, away hastily, were in no trouble about that, for the to be a mortal again, instead 01 a ' farewell lioeephalus. Nocturnal: to habit geographical features, such as, Great see if come dainty little fairy did not "Ohildrei of earth," raid the little assn said to two of her atendants: soullness being, without love or hate, To the dart valley that my fathers and very gregarious, these animals Slave Rake, Slave river, and Lesser lie concealed in their cups. Such queen, sternly, "how came you here?,. g "Take off those cloths, and dress her for anyone! And then she told her ploughed. Sieve bake? banks and hedges, and violet -spangled Deni you know that tire penalty for live in large camps of hutudreds of as becomes a fairy." mother all about it, at Which her 1 A statement, furnished by the Geo thousands of individuals. They mi - moss, must surely be the hams for mitering our pante is death?" Nellie noticed that all the fairlea�mother smiled and said:• rrhe house they built is enpty. I must grate according to, season and food graphic Board of Canada, throws an them) I Now, had Nellie been less afraid it were dressed in flowers, and she began "You claearned it all, Nellie, dear!" go interesting sidelight on the history of But ft was all in vain. Not even a may be that she would have felt in- sukvltly, but usually return to the same found large enough to make her lcaew Elie eadn't. It all seemed 0 The breast of eve, where I may learn day time they cling to wonder what flow•ere would ever be But Nellie shook her heart—she Over the twilit moorland till I find .camps in successive seasons. In the the Northwest and upon Indian cue- suspicion and unkindestc tiny people inflicting dear on any one Why,a peony, the very large real. to tho 9>ranches toms" Indian place- names, it points clothes. Nobody Won Batty %ed.ares Mr. Shaw i' aerious , Writer Joins in .tote Jutland Controversy London. -=George Bernard Shaw, add- ing his voice to the long-standing con- troversy over the Battle of ,Iutlaud, believes that, nobody, won tho battle but thinks that Germany cane out of the war with enhanced naval prestige. In„a letter to the /livening Standard denying the authenticity of an inter- view attributed to nim by a Vienna journal which the Standard repudlish- ed and in which ho was quoted as say- ing that he "had a suspicion" that Admiral von Scheer won the Battle of c rtland, Mr. Pilaw writes: "Nobody won the bathe of Jutland e.nd. the 'our side won' of schoolboys in both countries peed not be taken into account. What should make us think a little is that we Went into the war with great naval prestige and Germany with none, though her mili- tary prestige was the terror of slur- ops. Germany came out of it with a new and very respectable naval pres- tige, while her military prestige had ceased to exist anywhere:' Flying Fox Pest in Australia The `'Council for Scientific and I'm dustrial Research of Melbourne, Aus- tralia, is finding difficulty in devise irug methods for cooping with the large fruit -eating bats, commonly known as "eying foxes," which are a Most ser- L rgest Concrete Canal Ready Soon Peasants of India to Gain Easier Crops by Trriga- . tion Bombay.—The Gang canal or' the iutlej Volley ;P.releot, which .is the biggest concrete -lined .oanal in the world, Is now almost complete, and its opening ceremony will shortly be per formed by the 'Viceroy at Ganganagar, in Bikaner State. This canal is lined for over 80 miles of its course to pre- vent absorption losses ,and will irri- gate come 1100 square miles of state , ' land;, Nearly two years ago, while laying the foundation stone of the canal, the Maharaja bad said that the groat plan of bringing 1 na canal to secure at least a portion of his territory^tegainst drought and provide some havr of refuge to the cultivators' of thee' or parte had been one of hie life's am- bitions: The Maharaja expressed the he* that ho might be present in Iwo yore' time to witness the actual opening of the canal. ' and to see water flow through it, thus transforming a desert tract into fields of waving corn, and a People, at present struggling to main- tain themselves and their families, in- to a, prosperous and jeapPy peasantry. How Great Slave Lake Received Its Name , How is it that in a country- like cut u fill when • he asked her new English nurse where ;rte had had, of trees in dense numbers; they are out, may the to physicalcharacter- to h n know. told her so large as he•rselt, for y What thing it is that gives men istics.cf the place, to incidents in the. the fairies lived the o d est Rower she knew of, would not be restless and alert and asingle gun - ever since sae found herself in the large enough to cover her head. BitPublicity F1l�III of South peace+ of mind, shot will put a whole camp to eight. history of the tribe, or to assceiativel ont books. fairy palace, an a rprassed 00050 oL she was not left long in doubt, for two The last light trembles in the farther ' of a tribe with a region. Ekanvples And so she was beginning to fear , A friCan idailWayS At nig9rt they depart in search of food siren in books,::heir own her was size; everything fairies came to her, and• one said: air, ?such as fruit berries, eucalyptus!mai' be seen in battles), chewan rives she would only know tl! arcund was so they that Lha tEelt Johannesburg, S. AE,—The South +sins ies the night, tare hour 1 dares (swift flowing), Battle neer (peace and was reading "Rlgnet. with the , "Shrink, shrink, thou foolish mortal African Railways has just completed not lose. i tiowe,rs and honey. They are par of numerous�and Ottawa like a great giantess, Tuft," for the hundredth time, when! The near of the ream was so logy Who east rashly entered our fairy t1 i000 -foot film which traverses every A hand has beckoned pre, I know not + ttlarly fond` oY cultivated 1ruit, Andy i portal; ortion of South Africa; its aconic y tho damage that they can do lin an. liver (river frequented by the Ottavra she overheard the ;:our.:; gins ."aY ; , he would have to steep to go through Shrink till thou'art cf fairy statue, p intastriea anti ileasure re whexe, i orchard in one night is appalling. tribe) • Another point is that Indian this pool was f.rb! Ir t 1 tted' ii, and tee turgnoias ceiling was only beauties, 1 t A voice has spoken, but I know not , tribes ..neral] had two names—the now dclightfcl h- was to think her . And take on thye•slf our fairy na- sorts. The amount of fruit actually eaten zs g' y Met above 'her head. So, when the nature." whese. groundnares they gave themselves, and the parents had .just r -,me t,r this lively queen spoke• we. may be sure she did- + Starting at Cape Town, where views Edvt•ard 1)avioon. ',relativelysmall• the is strewn' name even them by their enemies•--• pias OF course t,1rs peal meat be ; not feel inclined to laugh; but slie did And Nellie Pelt herself growing from 'Table Mountain and of the surf ones fallen ed ricl which has been g a f irorite' snow with tl;? fairies! „ smaller and smaller, Her head was bathing aro a feature, the various big ! merely nibbled or claw marked. 1 and in many cases the names wbich urauage to stammer out that she was 4 have been used by the white man have The water iva so rtrar it reflected not intended to getting nearer the Jeweled floor so towns in South Africa are visited, and R' ya ny;f mss" Many obvious methods of destruc- n „:rem „ "am s. This aacouii s very carry, she had a everything, from rile fringed ferns ' intrude old how she came Tepidly that she looked to sea if her in every case views of the town and a , r y : r , tame have been tried. Shooting as ex- been y rhe v i round its brink La her own ur«rude, and then t feet were not sinking through it. But its special attractions are reproduced. Wiz; v: R,ensiva Strychnine poison in the for the very-unc rplimentary names t.s, t o t 1 1 t i to fall into the water wee a looking .„y ' brown eyes as she ataz ed. into its : , , , na, they were not sinking; but, oh, ` - - which some Ir digin tribes bear. The r.t the. fairy host, At Oudtshoorn we have ostrich farm- r x orchard' is successful to an extent. •e ok the queen looked at how small hies were getting! Her ing pictures and at Kinmberley those tea.. " l: Poison gasses in the earners are not decoed then proceeds to the effectthat di•p;l:e, els slim sroke, q Ti,e > onn fiirls had pap...." -1 nn, ,tctd `. eto slippers 1, ked lilts beats, and her of ancient and modern working in the «v Y effective because of the timidity of Great and Lessor Slava lakes ^.nd her more kindly, and turning round nae: Hutt he nils al:nt: rho ,-.1.m,out ok hes foot was now where Sher heel alone diamond mines. These things are s I' ° x e S Lire bat: it is almost impossible to Slave river were named from a• t sbe the h little snip in gTeeri she frons the laurel aiel lav down at the • had. Leen! And lo! while she was never elaborated so as to conftuo the } g'iva a lethal diose before they take of Indians which once dwelt M t1 `t r • n and dabbled MT hand finger at him and said: looking, she found herself smothera'd spectator to any ono subject for mora wing: Infection'with'bacillus typhi region, These Indians called ti c edge .P it, .tr d `w-Mei'•tire•wup, t111s IS some of p is fn the enchanted water, in a huge mass of clothes. She strug•,than a couple of minutes. It is this avx uranium is said to have cleared Samna selves Etchareatt no, vRhich' mg: nes It aid not strike her that was rater- thy doing" r• nt Into glad' and then they were Rifted Prom'variety which must insure the success "; y g "the people dwellhe in the shelter of •it -t1 -cvis t•o � oY the pest some years ago, but w e p P g have failed to verify the report and the (Reeky) mountains." In oc:•it*�r- it is understood that Samna is still distinction to other northern Ind:ens badly infestech A small "flammen-� lvlio were caribou eaters and traveli- 1 werfer" 'has been tried but, besides ed widely in rua•sait of genes, the ! being dangerous and expensive, it le: Etehareottfnes were fish eaters and 1 not suitable for general use. ! kept to the lakes, All these and other methods •have, When the more warlike ,Crees went been more or less.sucerfu1 in killing, on the Warpath against the tribe:; on the oreatitres, but in every case the the Peace river they carte from the scale of possible operrtions is hope- south in canoes to I zer Slave lake, lessly inadequate. Wholesale aliaugh and leaving their canoes there, pr-- etr nluct be achieved if the i est is ta' ceeded overland, it is tiler e rera- bo minimizecb or oven merely kept ; ilY to be understood how war parties from "increasing. Perhaps the most of Crecs, finding that the lake .: �oll- offective attack will pre by biological i ing Indians did not 'Frozen their 0300 means, _ war -like attributes and id should A Good Suggestion London Daily Mall (Incl. Cons.): An English resident in Paris asks wheth- er it is not possible for the British Legion to organize a ceremonial visit 1flnthe sn theirofotriallcers anadd glorymen into France'as. Its isof any Slave Indians and the name he much to hs hoped that such an organ- ,applies to the ,lake was "Athaapue o4' ized visit may bo possible in rho im• meaning, possibly, the lake of the mediate Future: At the most this 'Athapascan Indians. The name 15 country could only spud a r•ePr'esenta- not known to -day, old Indians refer- tive selection of the men who fought, ring to the lake aa "big lake." It is to seeing that the total of British troops Peter Pond that we owe the pre ent g -ho from first to last were engaged name. On his maps, 1790, we find the on Preach or Belgian sail was 5,399; names "Iotchinine," another form of 000, of whom not very far short of "Etchareottine," "Great Slave" and "Slave." Lesser Slave lake is mentioneltil by Sir Alexander Mackenzie who learned of the lake in 1792 from Indian hunt- ers, the latter eating that it was nailed Slave lake by the Crew after its original inhabitants, Payment -:by Results Adelaide Chronicle (South Austra- lia): Employes are net at liber i' fb accept that port of an arbitration judgment which °nits them, tend to reject other parts of which they dis- approve. A par llel'to their taking advantage of the rarorter 1 stars and refusing to allow •pre e -w ori tic c old be a decision ,by employers to c + payment by results and reject hours week. So long as the condit„ms of industry arc regulated by cc Opul- sory arbitration, both c des must Obey the law, and each muct tali the bitter with the sweet. If the court declares as it has clone, that t h-. hours` 'week will riot work witihout Payment by results, which accocling- ly it orders: the employes eetast arti lo - by the fntding, or O e.-tllr reepore- pibilit.y d:f releadiatrng arbitration and restoring the old regime of free con- tract. A. reader would" like us to rowotn- e1a! • l5 'a`"` '? ' 'i a mend a book "with love, adventure, Should Marry But Once„ "There'll be men who'll be utterly era dangerous thing to der, for site 1 1 Ltd titan her and site saw at least a hundred was busy wondering how elle could i many contureicns, which seemed to fairies staggering under the weight of oas be to get down to the +sol h Nr11ie an ole ntixttt•ra of laughter and 1 ) fear, for 11e ryas evidently enjoying her own garments, which, so small had etorn1:tht, and Wondering, if •hc beg f the yet her, and she was able very conetort•- e s she become, completely smothered gest mother very much, 1hetlrer she N'a7be's diecnnttort amazingly, Y t of the railways' spleudld elm. The beauties of the Hex River and the Drakensburg are shown from the moving train, while the 'observation car and the dining saloon, with their w yttd not allow her to come ,1own to .'tare no haar5 it Par eat o q ' ably to !tide hesselt in one of her r,ho, again addressing Nellie, said; crowds of tourists, are:also in evi- thr, water just for encu. Then she saw mortal shoes, But no sooner had she donee. The Victoria Falls are deplct- "We see that you did not intrude ed from many angles, including an zomething floating toward iter, reached, or rather, shrrmk•into, fairy At first It seemed only aa white j isorn idle curiosity, but front what feather, dropped from a dove's wing, I mortals call accident, but which is gen- ped than the other fairy sten- airplane perspective, The flim ends and she watcher! le idly as it drifted I orally brought about by this perverse Ped forward sad arrayed her in a with a reception of visitors by a nae nearer. Then she looked at it more' airiest," and the queen Molted deg- white azalta skirt, a fringed gentian tive chief evhich includes war dances gars at Will-o'-the-wisp, who twisted bodice, and a blue -ball hat; and then : and scenes of domestic life in the eaS:r"l Surely it was a fairy boat, for on it , himself about in laughable confusion, was a tiny little figure, exquisitely I Therefore we will not punish you die e .e'1 In a rose -petal gown, trimmed but as we think you are a nice little ,,:I1 blue forget-ine-nots. mortal!"—here a beautiful fairy trip tiger -mantle was a snowdrop, all Peri up and whispered something in ci:.fnl:iy fringed with green, on on her the queen's' ear --"anti very fond of head •.ltic•11 was tiny as her own fairies. Jey tells me, we will pardon tee.... !oil,i!—wr.s a eh•elet of dewd:•,•pt your being here, and make you nue of that 1.cr:lt 1 r 1 eperkied more bright. us.'' l tens n ,1y di:tnt.nule. Behind ,ler Nellie's heart gave a great throb, become an unhappy fairy. True, she bark bun two lone, fair luau!:.; and She had, It is terse, wanted to see had forgotten to long to return to her Neill- e•on1.1 not help thinking how fairies, but she had never wanted to . mother, for she no longer remembered 'ury lfk* title fairy queen was t.+ that leave her mother and father and be- her; but there Was a terrible pain all wee French dol she ha rias Ira;::', cepa• -rue of them, and she know quite through her as it she had lost- some- Ilut the fairy queen Ives nrit. alone, enough. from what she had read of ithing, she knew not what; and where And Site's Still Thinking /hoot It A inisclrievousdooking little sprite, fairy foists to he sure site would never1 mer heart was she telt only alt empty She—"Ane I the only girl )nave Just as 0111011 as herself, bat tabu had I be ailowed to belong to her mortal ache, ever loved?" the meet impertinent little fa^••1 and ' family if she b:ram0 one of them; 1 Yet all her fellow -fairies were so loved?" course, you aro—and the the e•iekerlest eyes 1 nt(to world was and then it was hard to die so young! i merry, so full of gambols and tricks! prettiest, too:' rowel; her, it was dressed In green The queen's eye was upon her; she; Only she was dull and miserable, and _ and wore an acorn cap on his head, feared t:, show her reluctance and I they laughed at her, and Wilt -o' -the Girls are warned by a writer in a The Royal Automobile Club of Len- in which was stuck a sparrow's foath- wisp 'poked fun at her—and rather weekly paper against a number of don says alfitshness, Impatience,and er. Bis cloak, wllfeh be wore over lam-- x rough fun, tea; sometimes. foreign young men who are going carelessness cause 90 per cent, of the M.� He lilted to get behind her when one shoulder an1Y. was a arakva �� -,„ ares the queen, 'waving ,her wand, said: kraals. "Pair, forget thy mortal kin, Per the Heart of a fairy must burn within The fairy form; to all ase be cold— To father, and mother, and home of old " e• And then a great change came over Nellie. The happy mortal -child had Her Majesty As she appeared at 't recent public function. etre, flower. Nellie had ohvays expected fairies to be dresser! in silks and satins, but on coning to think, it seemed much more likely that they wordd dross in flowers than that they would go, like common mortals, to buy silks anri satins But Nellie a not rateM. me o they were having their fairyidanees about pretending to be Arab chiefs. and trip her up. Then, when they Actually, of course, they are wolves -in took their meals, he would whip out sheik's clothing, of her hand the buttercup, full of dew, -- - she was conveying to her lips, OT con- trive that the blossoms she had were denuded et their honey; and the peed little fairy had a sad time of it, though alio had no lessons to do—no l l i had ] t i to i s think, for the fell skiff was quite u i( tiresome duties. For, though a fairy gr w h 1 now, site had Ieft her soul somewhere, near her now, and so eager as :the to see the beautiful little people that - ,t 1 and laving epee had 11, Could not be she leaned. inward, and alas! alae: i happy without, though she did not fell luta the pool, ) know the cause of her own Misery.' Of She was just conscious of a peal of course, none of the other fairies lilted mocltin„ laughter as she rolled over, her. and then the water closet! over her. - One night the queen said it was' Her first thought was terror of the � e r moonlight, and they would visit their cold shock! her next, what her poor 1 favorite Peol. - kr ry mother would say waren she fauns! her � •��v���&y�"� 1Qellie yeastl iter, but her words stir - little girl was drowned. But the wa-i 1 red aro remembrance In her heart, nor ter, after all, was not very cold, and w 1 even when she found herself watching the thought of her mother's grief so z i the others dance on the fringed brink very sad, that had the water not pre- 4 of the pool`, vented her tears flowing, no doubt Just. then Will-o'-the-wisp came near she would have wept her eyes out, her and flashed a flrefly—which, he al - She telt herself singing, yet it was ways carried with frim at night—right notat all unpleasant. The water did -` j in her eyee, not fill Iter eyes and moth and ears The glare blinded tier, and she top - as it did when bathing, and began to pled over onto more into the pool, think how pleasant must be the life and she knew ne more, of a fish, when she became conscious p "Nellie! Nellie! my darling, my me- et the sound of music. cions child!" ;'Perhaps I am dying," she thought, Somebody was dragging her from "and. it is the muslo of heaven," bhe water, she. thought. She open - But very soo0 alta again heard ed her eyes and saw her mother bend laughter, which else felt sure was p 1 urs on Ing over her, with both arms deftly clasped around her, rtie Speeding the Malls, The postal authorities directed Major Tudhope to meet the Empress of France last week at Father Point, pick up the mail bags and fly back to Montreal. The first attempt proved a failure, but in the future the depart - rout hoes to save fourteenhours' from the spirite who had seen her overseas mail for Toronto. s motor accidents. There would seem to be much to learn about motoring besides how to drive a car,' show their contempt by 'be. tow :••; c,.•t the !aka -dwellers the epiphet "awon- ak" or 'slave.:" The first white man to visit Great ,Slave lake was Samuel Herne who reached the southeastern 1'o tion of the lake in 1.772. He did rat most MISSING EDITOR BORN IN TORONTO Phil'Payne, who is shown above with his wife, well known newspaper man et New York, who was born in Toronto, was a passenger on "Old Glory;' travelling with Lloyd Bertaud and James D. Hi11. Old Glory and its three occupants are now numbered among the missing; When a small boy Payne moved to Grevenh'uret where the started his journalistic career on the Graven - burst Banner: He vteked Gravenhuret last year, 1,000,000 forever rest In the land wltic hthey defended. - Air Expectations London Observer (Ind,):The Im- possibility of wry country being con- tent to mark time in aviation is shown by the number of fresh enterprises which are on tiptoe, ao to speak, at the moment of writing. Of these tho most imlrortant and ambitious are' the efforts to cross the Atlantic in a west- ward direction—which show that oven the most formidable of adverse con- ditions are conceived by the airman and by the constructor as existing only to be overcome. This spirit is as vigorous in Great Britain as any- where,. and what has to be sedurod by constant vigilance is that public auth- ority shall give it full seeps and en- couragement, wretched when I marry;',. humor, and pathos in it." What about a dictionary? l"I am always precise, seldom brit- "Then, for humanity's sake, you leant and never indiscreet "—Margot, should marry only ono," Countess of Oxford and Asquith.