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Zurich Herald, 1917-03-30, Page 6T Eh'.., a is an Every.4 TEA FASTLY • R.EFUS+ �9r SU , ' S .it IT TES black, Mixed or Natural Green. E205 he es Nan Or, The Adventures of Captain Fraser CHAPTER XVIII.--(Cont'().proznptl`r "Whatever has happened to your'"He'll get the better of it," said Mrs, memory?" said Mrs. Church, sweetly.'Bylzks, kindly, as her quondam foe "My memory," said the trickster' wiped her eyes again. "If he don't brow;slowly, 'pas iiiheis thhnn e tover with you'd better marry before October." it?",. To say that Captain Barber pricked "It doesn't seem ,lune so geed as up his ears at this, indicates but feebly it was," said the lady, affectionat.el�•, his interest in the remark. He held "Never mind, my memory win his breath and looked wildly round the have to do for both," rooni as the two ladies, deftly ignoring him, made their arrangements for his There was enough emphasis on the last sentence to send a little chill future. through the captain's frame. He said "I don't like to seem to hurry it," nothing, but keepinghis eye on his said the housekeeper. plate attacked his fugal meal in sil- "No, of course you don't. It he ence, and soon afterwards went up said October, naturally October it stairs to bed to think out this position. ought to be, m the usual way," re - If his own memory was defective marked the other. Mrs. Church's was certainly redund- "I never said October," interrupted ant. When he came hurrying in to the trembling mariner. dinner next day she remembered that "There's his memory again," said he had told her he should not be home Mrs. Banks, in a low voice. to that meal. He was ungallant en- '`Poor dear," sighed the other. ough to contemplate a raid upon hers; sa"We'llid s.l Bak atter your with a benevolent she, with ^ rare thoughtfulness, had smile. "Don't you remember meeting ,already eaten it. He went to the '"Thorn " and had some cold salt beef, me by the church the other night and and cursed the ingenious Nibletts now telling me that you were going to on his sway to London, marry Mrs. Church in October?" sky high. Mrs. Banks came in the next even= "No," bawled the affrighted man. ing with her daughter,' and condoled "Clean gone," said Mrs Church, with the housekeeper on the affliction shaking her head; t'it's no use." which had already been:noised about "Not a bit," said Mrs. Banks Seabridge: • Mrs. Church, who had "October seems rather early. said people, perhaps, are not affected ex - accepted her as an ally, but with Mrs. Church, "especially as he is in actly alike, and Captain Flower, while mental reservations, softly applied a mourning for his nephew." admitting the lightness, would have handkerchief to her eyes. "There's no reason for waiting," � disdainfully contested any charge of sats its his s. lo loneliness anks that makes (him may be said that t he waainst s not a objection model say want to hurry it. After all, he ought! patient, and had on several occasions to know what he wants." i wilfully taken steps to remove the. "I never said a word about it," in-' feeling of,hghtness. terposed Captain Barber, in a loud It was over a fortnight since his,re- voice.turn to London: The few shillings "All right," said. Mrs. Banks, in -1 obtained for his:watch.bad disap•1 a ,; J dulgently. "What are you going to Wear, my dear?" she added, turning to thehousekeeper. Mrs,. , Church seemed undecided, and Captain Barber, wiping the 'moisture from his brow, listened as one in a dreamto a Tong discussion on the pos- sibilities of her wardrobe, Thrice he interrupted, and thrice the ladies, sus- pending then conversation for a mo- ment, eyed him with tender pity be- fore resuming tt• ., "Me and Frank thought of -October," said Elizabeth, speaking for the first time. Sh'e looked at Captain Barber and then at her mother. It was the look of one offering to sell 'a casting vote, "October's •early," said the old lady, bridling, Mrs. Church looked up at her, and then modestly looked downy again, "Why not a double wedding?" she asked, gently. Captain Barber's voice was drowned in acclamations. Elizabeth kissed Mrs. Church, and then began to dis- cuss her own wardrobe. The owner of the house, the owner of the very chairs on which they were sitting, en- deavored in vain to stop them on a Point of order, and discovered to his " '' are you?" asked the sufferer, mortification that a man without a memory is a man without influence. In twenty minutes it was all settled and even an approximate date fixed. There was a slight movement on the part of Elizabeth to obtain Captain Barber's opinion upon that, but being reminded by her mother that he would forget all about it in half an hour's time, she settled it without him. "I'm so sorry about your memory, Captain Barber," said Mrs: Banks, as she prepared to depart. "I can under- stand what a loss it is. My memory's, a very good one. I never forget any- thing.' ny-thing." "You forget yourself, ma'am, re- turned her victim, with unconscious ambiguity, and, closing the .door be- hind her, returned to the parlor to try to think of some means of escaping from the position to which the in- genuity of Captain Nibletts, aided by that of Mrs. Banks, had brought him. CHAPTER XIV. Opponents of medicine have hit upon a means of cleansing the system by abstaining for a time from food, and drinking a quantity of fair water. It is stated to clear the eyes ,and the skin, and to cause a feeling of light- ness and buoyancy undreamt of by those who have never tried it. All "How are You feeling?" demanded Mrs, Banks, in the voice of one ad- dressing a deaf invalid. "I'm all right," laid Barber shortly. "That's his pride," said Mrs. Church, mournfully; "he won't own to it. He can't remember anything. He pre- tends he doesn t know me. im..-- 2 and 5 lb. Car ons - 10, 20, SO and 100 lb. Bags. 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When digestion fails, whether from loss of tone, climatic changes, overwork, or errors of diet, nothing so soon restores tone and healthy activity tp the digestive system ae the root and herb extract— Mother Seigel's Syrup. It tones and regulates the liver and bowels, and cicare the system of the decayed products of indigestion—the fruitful cause of headaches, TAKE THE DIGESTIVE TONIC languor, acidity, heartburn, flatulence, brain fag, and biliousness. it makes food nourish yon, and thus builds health on good digestion. The aew1.00siye contains 1 gree times as mach as the trial size sold at Spc per bottle, 601S ed days before; rent was due and the cupboard was empty. The time seem- ed so long to him, that Poppy, and Seabridge, and the Foam might have belonged to another period of exis- tence. At the risk of detection he had hung round the Wheeler's night after night for a glimpse of the girl for Whom he was enduring all these hardships, but without success. He became a prey to nervousness, and, un - ablate endure the suspense any long- er, determined to pay a stealthy visit to Wapping and try to see Fraser. • He chose the night on which in the ordinary state of affairs the schooner should be lying alongside the wharf; and keeping a keen look -out for HLTN INFLUENCE IN RUSSIA. 'THE MARTYRS OF ARMENIA. Responsible for Intrigue and Assas- sination for Many Years. Prussomania has been a disturbing factor in Russia for many years, and has been the continuing cause of re- volution, intrigue, abdications, assas- sinations and the perpetuation of fac- tions within the empire that in the present day have brought about the fall of the greatest absolutism in his- tory. Two Czars, Peter III. and his son, Paul I., owed their death by assassin- ation largely to the resentment of friends and foes both, made his way the Russians at the Prussian influ- ence, Alexander II. also forfeited his life to that malign influence. The history of the Czars is a long record of stormy regimes and intri- guings within the imperial court, probably without parallel in the his- tory of any other dynasty. It is re- plete with abdications and removals of emperors by violent deaths, but the first tremendous struggle of Rus- sian sentiment against the Prussian influence culminating in the present revolution, may be said to have be- gun with the death in June, 1762, of Peter III,, who was the husband of Catherine II. The Ides of March thereafter were days to be well remembered by the Romanoffs, self -asserted successors to the line of Byzantine Caesars, for it was on March 23, 1801, that Paul L died by the hands of assassins, and March 13, 1881, that Alexander IL, after four attempts on his life, finally fell a victim to a Nihilist's bomb. The present revolution is the latest example of the fateful March days in the fortunes of the Roman - to the Minories and down Tower Hill. He had pictured it as teeming with people he knew and the bare street and closed warehouses, with a chance docker or two slouching slowly along, struck him with an odd sense of dis- appointment. The place seemed changed. He hurried past the wharf; that too was deserted, and after a lov- ing peep at the spars of his schooner he drifted slowly across the road to the "Albion," and, pushing the door a little way open, peeped cautiously in. The faces were all unfamiliar, and letting the door swing quietly back he walked on until he came to the "Town of Yarmouth." The 1••ublic bar was full. Tired {workers were trying to forget the `labors of the day in big draughts of ' beer while one of them had thrown off his fatigue sufficiently to show a friend a fancy step of which he was somewhat vain. It was a difficult and intricate step for a crowded bar, and panic-stricken mien, bolding their beer aloft, called wildly upon him to stop, while the barman, leaning over the counter, strove to make Ms voice heard above the din. The dancer's feet subsided into a sulky shuffle, and a tall seaman, removing the tankard which had obcured his face, revaeled the honest features of Joe. The sight of him: and the row of glasses and hunches of bread and cheese behind the bar was irresistible. The skipper caught a departing customer by the coat and held him. (To be continued). Here is the way one gardener pro- tected the strawberries and the birds at the same time; Made a bluebird house with rooms for at least four pairs of bluebirds. Set it on top of a post in the center of the berry patch. They kept other birds away million, and its area 15,000 square It, This encouragedthe birds to build in miles. Belgium has a population of from the berries. Bluebirds eat only the insects off the fruit. offs, Since 1605, when Dimitri was as- sassinated in Moscow, four other Czars have fallen victims to as- sassins. They were Peter III., in June, 1762; Ivan VL, in 1764; Paul 1., March 23, 1801, and Alexander II., March 13, 1881. The Swiss Navy. The Swiss have a navy consisting of a few gunboats on Lake Lucerne. They should have an army of 500,000. The population of Switzerland is three Aluminum is now being substituted in place of wood in the manufacture of automobile bodies. Large sections of aluminum castings are now used in making touring cars and the inclos- ed bodies of certain other motor cars, a use which was not practicable ten years, age. Cast aluminum is also used for making automobile dashes. I.iodies made of it are lighter than those ,made of other sheet metal and haire a rigid surface that will not dent easily in case of accident. The alumi- num surface• retains paint well, and the increased rigidity makes the car more durable. 6% million, and an area of 11,000 square miles. .v'e You Our New Furniture Catalogue? Belie sure and write for free copy, profusely illustrated. it's full of great bargains. EASY TERMS FOR ALL. URROUGHE 615-647 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont. OBJECT OF TURK TO STAM? OUT CHRISTIANITY. Hundreds, of Thousands Rave Died in Preference to Accepting the Mohammedan Faith, The slaughter of between seven and eight hundred thousand Armenians by the Turks since the beginning of the war reveals the Armenians quite as much martyrs to Christianity as any of the early Christians who died in Nero's arena, writes Viscount Bryce. There are to -day more than a mil- lion Armenians and Syrians starving to death in. Asia Minor, Syria, the Russian Caucasus, Persia and Pales- tine. The relief work for them in America is in eharge of the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief in New York. In the history of the early Christian church there are no figures so glori- ous, none which have continued to be so much honored by the Church all through its later days, as those of the martyrs, men and women who, from' the time of Nero down to that of. Dio- cletian, sealed with their blood the testimony to their faith notwith- standing every lure and every threat, in order to preserve to their death loyalty to their Lord and Master, Christ. Died for Christian Faith. In our own times we have seen this example of fidelity repeated in the Turkish Empire, and it is strange that the Christians of Europe and America should not have been more enoved`bY the examples of courage and heroic devotion which the Armenian Chris- tians have given. Of the -sevelr or eight hundred thousands of Armenians who have perished in the recent mas- sacres many thousands have died as martyrs, by which I mean they have died for their Christian faith when they could have saved their lives hy renouncing it. This has perhaps not Veen realized ' even by those who in Europe or America have read of and Veen horri- fied by the wholesale slaughter and hideous cruelties by which half of an ancient nation has been exterminated. They can hardly understand how there should be religious persecution Alai in our tur time, so let me try to facts. It was not religious fanaticism that led the present rulers of Turkey to seek to root out Christianity. Far from being fanatics, most of these men, though nominally Mohaziinzedans, have no religion whatever. Their aim is political. They wanted to. make the whole Turkish Empire. Mohammedan in order to make it uniform with only, one creed and no differences between one class of subjects and another. They saw that the Christian part of the population, suffering under con- stant oppressions and cruelties, con- tinued to turn its eyes westwardand hope for some redress from the Chris- tion nations. so they determinedto eliminate Christianity altogether. Christ or Mohammed. During the recent massacres when- ever any Christian would turn Mo- hammedan his life was spared. It was only as a Christian that he was killed. Many a Christian child was torn from its parents to be brought up as a Mussulman. Thousands of Armenian Christian girls were Fo,old in the market or distributed among Turkish officers to be imprisoned for life in Turkish harems and there forced into Mohammedanism. But many more thousands of Armenians, women as well as men, were offered their choice between Christ and Mo- hammed, and when they refused Mo- hammed were shot down or drowned forthwith. For days together the bodies of Christian women who had thus perished were seen floating down the Euphrates. Surely the remains of this suffering • nation could make no stronger appeal for pity and help to the Clr+istians of America than they make through these martyr deaths. Only a remnant is now left to whom charity can be extended. It is still a sorely afflicted remnant, How Children Help, Tho squire's pretty daughter (ex- amining the village ' school) --Now, children, can you tell me what. a mit:- • aclehe• cis? Thildren looked at ono another, but reained silent, a'Canmno ane answer this question ?" the new curate asked, who was stand- ing behind the squire's daughter. A little girl was suddenly struck with a brilliant idea. She held up her Band excitedlyell, . '1WNeliie?" the squire's daugh- ter asked, smiling approval. "Please, miss," the small child re- plied breathlessly, "mother says 'twill be a miracle if you don't marry the new curate."