Zurich Herald, 1934-01-25, Page 2¥1SOE LAUGflS
by Sax Rohmer
SYNOPSIS.
Matt Kearney sees his sister Eileen
aboard the Wallavao, bound for Colombo.
William Dawson Haig, who had also said
goodbye to Eileen, meets Matt and tells
him that he had traced a shipment of
Wein to the Wallaroo, but it was un-
loaded before .detectives were able to
search the ship. Dawson is recalled to
Scotland Yard and asks Kearney to
search King's warehouse which adjoins
7o Lung's place, whom they suspect. As
they are leaving Matt picks up a note-
book, and is surprised at the presence
of a woman who ,quickly disappears. The
notebook is later stolen by one of Yu'an
Hee See's henehmen. Yu'an Hee See de-
parts with his woman companion to
France. An entry in the notebook men-
tioned the Restaurant Suleiman Bey in
Paris. Haig goes to Paris, In the c. fe
he noticed that on the receipt of green
Blips two men go upstairs. They ;;oin
a motley crew and are given instructions
by an Egyptian;
CHAPTER IX.—(Cont'd.)
MacIles stared in the direction of
the speaker, a thickset, bull-necked
individual, sears of the ring visible
upon nose and oar. His companion,
Unele Tont, was a powerful negro,
whose little sunken eyes seemed to
hold a reddish light, so that they re-
sembled those of a gorilla.
MacIles joined these two at their
t::ble, and the negro, standing up,
drew a laden supper wagon alongside.
As a man who is famished, the Scots-
man helped himself promiscuously to
caviar, cold grouse, plover egg sand-
wiches, smoked salmon and sauer-
kraut. The ex -prize fighter filled for
him a mug with champagne just as The Egyptian pointed to the big
the Portuguese came in. He was Bradenburger,
greeted with cries of "Ferdy!"
"What's scared you, Ferdy?"
"Didn't think you was goin' to join
up again,, Ferdy."
This last from Kid Brown, the Cock-
ney fighter. Loud laughter, clapping
sf hands, and stamping of feet....
The new arrival smiled uneasily and
made his way to the settee where the
Chief reclined, watching him and
thinking: "This man is afraid. He
Inc'ty destroy us...."
e Downstairs in the restaurant, the
Russian politician continued his ap-
parently interminable harangue. No
ethee customers appeared, and the two
hien who had penetrated to the mys-
teries beyond failed to return. Daw-
,:on Haig turned to the French detec-
tive.
"I may be chasing a shadow," he
said. "But I am not satisfied. I
mean to wait until one of them conies
out again; then I mean to follow him.
Is there any other way out of this
place?"
"Not that I _am aware of," the
French detective 'replied. "As I told
you, it has never come under oux no-
tice before. It is used by • political
fanatics, and Suleiman, the proprietor,
is, I believe, a Turkish communist."
He smiled. "There is perhaps a pol-
itical meeting going on. I fear you
are wasting your time, monsieur."
"Having nothing better to do at the
moment," Dawson Haig returned
grimly, "with your permission, I in-
tend to go on wasting my time for at
least another hour, M. Ballon."
'Upstairs the party was growing
riotous. As a result of some small
dispute, Red, the huge Swede, very
drunk, had challenged One Eye, the
Chinaman, to a wrestling match. One
of the tables had been overturned by
the combatants, and much glass bro-
ken, but all carried on merrily.
The elegant Chief sipped coffee and
smoked Egyptian cigarettes, exchang-
ing light bandinage with various
members of the company. But always
he remained aloof, reclining amidst
his cushions—watching, weighing men
and estimating motives.
Two guests were singing at the top
of their voices, one in German and
the other in Portuguese. The sup-
porters of these rivals (who were not
singing the same song) added their
voices to the choruses. And in the
midst of this uproar, the Wasp, draw-
ing a knife from his sleeve, leaped
across the table before hila and
sprang, snarling, upon the German
singer.
"You sing that about me, you
swine!" he shouted.
Both vocalists ceased abruptly, and
the German fell back on a°table im-
mediately behind . him, 'which was
smashed by his weight, so that its con-
tents were spilled all over those seat-
ed near it. At the same moment, with
great presence of mind, he kicked the
Italian in the stomach!
The Wasp's knife fell from his
hand and, howling with agony, he
dropped and lay writhing on the floor.
The big blonde Bradenburger, extri-
cating himself from debris of the
broken table, sprang upon the fallen
Wasp. "Italian pig! I strangle your"
he roared.
The Chief stood up, smiling no long-
er. "Orders!" be cried in a sharp
voice.
The Bradenburger. hesitated, drew
back. Cat -calls, cheers, and laughter
ceased. The agonized Italian, groan-
ing, struggled to regain his feet. In.
the space of ten seconds complete sil-
ence came.
Alt faced the
mind you of Orders." The Egyptian's
voice crit through the stillness. "I
will overlook this breach—it is the
first tonight. But any other infringe-
ment I must report to Mr. King."
To hell with Mr. King!" the Ger-
man exelaimed thickly, his murderous
glance still set i'.pon the Wasp.
The Chief slowly turned his lunnixi-
dus eyes upon the speaker, The hist
of battle faded from the German's ex-
pression, and he looked almost with
despair, at that slim figure standing
at the end of the room regarding him.
"This is regrettable, Franzz," the
Chief continued in his calm voice,
"most regrettable tonight, when we
etre newly reassembled. Nevertheless,
I cannot possibly overlook it." He be-
gan to glance about from face to face.
All eyes were suddenly averted.
"Not the Adder!" the German whis-
kered. "Don't send for the Adder.
I don't mean to do it, Chief. 1 am
arunk—see? And when it is so, 1 am
mad to fight!"
"I shall make due allowance for the
fact."
And now the Chief's glance rested
upon the battle -scarred face of the
London prize fighter. "Kid!" he called
sharply.
With obvic us reluctance the Kid
obeyed, stepping forward al nest
sheepishly.
"Yes, Chief?"
Chief. "I have to re -
"Thrash Franz for me," he directed
calmly. "Do not injure hint seriously
—but teach himto respect Orders --
drunk or sober."
CHAPTER X.
Mention of that seemingly com-
monplace name, Mr. King, as if it
possessed some magic quality, had
sobered the compy. The centre of
the floor was cleared of bottles, straw,
broken glass, and cigar ends. All drew
back to the utrnust limits of the room.
•But all avoided the neighborhood of
the Chief.
Tice Kill, who wore a double-
breasted coat with a woolen pullover
beneath, removed, first the coat, then
the pullover. When finally he had
discarded his vest, he displayed a for-
midable torso, -ith bulging biceps and
rippling shoulder muscles. The Ger-
man also shed his coat, and as he did
so:
"Thank you, Chief," he said, looking
a:ong the room. "I take what it is
coming to me." Turning, he faced the
pugilist. • ,
"I'nn sorry, iaate," said the latter.
"But Orders is Orders. No offense.
Cover up as well as you know 'ow."
With which friendly warning he
shot a left of deadly accuracy to the
man's jaw. The sound of its impact
echoed around the room. It was the
"Maxim silencer," in the words of one
sporting critic, for which the Kid had
been celebrated in the prize ring—a
piston -rod blow, whchi, if it registered,
flesh and blood could not withstand.
And, incredible though it seemed,
the Kid meant it kindly. He knew
that swift oblivion followed by an ach-
ing head was preferable to a mang-
ling.
Franz staggered, threw up his arms,
and fell to his knees. Stooping, he
spat a tooth upon the floor. Kid
stood over hint, amazed when he did
not topple forward.
"Has he had enough, Chief?" he
asked.
"No, Hit him again, but makehim
stand up. Stand up, Franz," he ord-
ered.
The big German looked up, almost
pathetically, into the face of the Kid.
Then slowly he r. se. to his feet. Blood
streamed down his chin.
"Put yer 'ands up," Brown demand-
ed. "I can't 'it you while you keep
yer 'ands down. Make a fight for it
—it'll make me feel better."
Thee„Beadenburger rushed, closed
with the boxer, and held him in a
bear -like grip. The Kid brought a
short one to his right ear, but that
grizzly -hug continued,
"Chief!" the fghter cried. "Make
'inn break away!"
"I told you to thrash hien," was
the calm reply.
The Kid rained blows upon the head
and body, but the tenacious, powerful
German was slowly lifting him off his
feet....And now he had him clear of
the floor!
A hoarse, suppressed cry of ex-
citement from the onlookers greeted
this feat. •
Drink fumes cleared from the fight-
er's brain, and ring craft came to his
aid. Suddenly lie seemed to crumple
up in that strange hug which was
squeezing the life out of him. He
collapsed, dropped limply from those
embracing arins....and even as the
German looked down at him, panting
with his giant exertions, the Kid
carne to his feet lilt. a catch released,
and that piston -rod left drove again
straight to the. point.
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Franz crashed down so as to shake
the room.
"Good!" said the Chief. "Lay hinx
on the settee there until he comes to.'.'
His orders were obeyed and the
party continued merrily.
In the restaurant below, Dawsun
Haig and his Paris confrere exchang-
ed reminiscences, Perhaps a dozen
customers, came and went during the
hour that they dallied there, but no
more penetrated beyond the curtain
at the head of the little staircase.
Mr. Ballon was growing restless,
the stipulated he .r having expired.
"Would it be possible," said Haig
apologetically, "to arrange for some-
one to follow any persons coming
down from above and leaving the res-
taurant tonight?"
"Why, certainly," was the reply. "I
can go and arrange for this now, if
you care to wait."
(To be continued.)
Life Goes On
(From The Yale Revie'w)'
Let not your life become a Pharaoh's
tomb
Of buried memories, hopes embalmed,
Shut in hot airless silence
Where day by day nothing stirs, noth-
ing lives,
Gold in the darkness never gleams,
The drugged soul broods In a passive
$woon
Sightless over unseen treasures softly
rotting
In the hot darkness through dusty
months.
Youth may be furnished like a kind
With crystal dreams and golden
ecstasies,
But when the proud king leaves •for a
far journey
And is lost in the cold wake of the
world
In starry seas, the lively palaoe
Sinks dark and sulien as a tomb.
Let the rain and, wind -of tears and
sigIns storm through it,
With swift wreckage tarnishing the
gold,
With lightning of despair and long
low thunder
Of the world's sorrow, until the tomb
is broken
And the moon gleams through.
Mourn not for the wreckage, :but -as
the moon fades
In the quick dawn, break from the
ei ruins,
For life goes on.
Taste hien the morning air
However 'biter and however cruel,
Receive in nakedness those darts of
light
Whether in kindness in auger
thrown,
Tread humbly on the sacred breast of
earth, e
And grasp revered water's touch.
Oh, no more gold and crystar in high
.rooms,*i...
But rain. -Washed rock and tender
tiye water
Under the old sky worshiped with new
eyes,
For life goes on.
—Richard Aldington.
Electricity Used in a Test of
How Long Fish -Will Keep
At Gloucester, Mass., were .the art-
ists go every Summer, the United
States Bureau of Fisheries maintains
a station 'where Drs. Maurice E. Stans-
by and James M. Lemon are substi-
tuting science for the Band, the eye
and the nose in judging the freshness
of fish. You see them grinding up a
haddock, shaking it up with some
'water, then adding a little quinhy-
drone and finally passing a feeble elec-
tric current through the mass. A
voltmeter, familiar to radio enthusi-
asts as a potentiometer, tells how
many volts are passing through and
hence indicates how fresh the fish is.
The test means simply that more elec-
tricity can be passed through a fresh
than through a stale fish.
Clearly this is no test to housewives,
But dealers who buy and sell fish by
the carload and shipload can make
money by use of it. "It is necessary
to tell how long it has been since a,
fish was caught," say Stansby and
Lemon, "but it is important to know
how much longer a fish may he ex-
pected to keep if handled property."
After a fish is landed it stiffens,
which explains why firm flesh has al-
ways been the housewife's tried and
true test of freshness. Soon a soften-
ing process sets in. First the com-
plex proteins break down. Later the
bacteria set to work and bring about
further decomposition. Mere soften-
ing detracts from the value of a fish
but not from its edibility. Bacteria
spoil the fish.
Since fish is packed in ice for as
long as two weeks, during which soft-
ening may occur, the test is of com-
mercial importance. Stansby and
Lemon believe that their method may
be equally applicable to meat and
other packing house products.
or
Springtime Babies Win
Health, Says Scientist
Stockholm. — Babies born in the:
spring have a better chance for future
life and health than those born in the
fall or winter, says Professor Iver
Broman, Swedish scientist.
In the animal world, he declares,'
nature has arranged the time of birth
so wisely that the young usually are
born early in summer.
He says statistics tend to show that
even in the ease of man nature 'at-
tempts to regulate the time of birth ----
at least In Scandinavia, where the''
greatest number of children are born
Exquisite
Quality
"Laid Off Until
Monday
Mary Graham Andrews
Recently I read of a little boy who
had heard much "depression" talk. He
came home from kindergarten on Fri-
day and announced: "I have been laid
off until Monday."
That same day I met Mrs, Delk,
who complained, "0, dear, what shall
I do with Jimmie? He makes a ner-
vous wreck of me on Saturday and
Sunday when he is not in kindergar-
ten. I can't understand it; his teach-
er tells me that he is a most reliable
child, that if she asks him to do a
thing, she can depend upon his doing
it, that he is always courteous and
cheerful."
"Isn't he like that at home?" I clues-
tioned.
"No, he is not! He is always tag-
ging after me, begging to do one thing
after another. He torinents me with
silly questions. Finally, I get so irri-
tated, I make him sit on a chair. He
stays, but stages a tantrum, `I won't
stay here,' he screams."
I recalled the boy who said he had
been "laid off until Monday" and I
told Mrs. Delk about him, and sug-
gested: "Jimmie is restless and re-
sentful because you have laid him off
until Monday."
"Please tell me what to do," she
said, earnestly.
"Have you ever thought that a child
grows bored when there is nothing de-
finite to do all day? 'Why don't you
give Jimmie a chance to help you?
Give him an opportunity to get ac-
quainted with you and the interesting
home world about him. Why don't
you stop laying him off until Mon-
day?"
Mrs. Delk decided to test out a few
simple suggestions:
1: Not to let Jimmie oversleep on
aturday, because that would bring
's breakfast later than on the first
ve•days of the week. ..
2. To let him help set the table, car-
ry out the dishes and put the news-
papers and magazines in order upon
the tables.
3. To schedule his play time. .
4. Tp permit him to go to Sunday
School with the other children of his
neighborhood.
A chart was posted and checked each
week -end. This checking took on the
spirit of a game. Mrs. Delk was very
'careful to pass lightly over the fail-
ures and commend the successes
warmly.
It was not a magic formula but Mrs.
Delk feels that the suggestions were
of real value to her,
The same ideas can he used or.
adapted to fit any individual case and
bear character -building results. Par-
ents should realize that a chill is hap-
pier and b ,comes more self-respecting
if he discovers that he is depended
upon to do certain things regularly
and well. After all, is it not an im-
portant matter that each child be per-
mitted to do something each day that
develops self-reliance? Doesn't our
kindergarten bless our child with such
privileges?,
Prepare your child's schedule with
special Care for your busy hours, be-
cause these are the hours when par-
ents are apt to grow impatient. Child-
ren need to he definitely employed
when at home. If they are living on
a character -building program in kin-
dergarten five days a week, please
don't "lay them off until Monday." If
you do, don't be surprised that they
grow restless and depressed just as
unemployed adults so often do.—Is-
suedby the National Kindergarten
Association, New York City. These
articles are appearing weekly In our
olumns.
,,
Flatterers are the worst kind of
traitors, for they will strengthen thy
imperfections, encourage thee in all
evils, correct thee in nothing, but so
shadow and paint thy follies and
vice as thou shalt nver, by their will,
discover good from evil, or vice from
virtue. --Sir Walter Raleigh.
How To
KEEP FIT
W hen.yo»r physical regularity is disturbed.
and you feel run-down and. "headaehey" the
wise thing to do is to take Andrews Liver Salt
on several successive days until the normal
rhythm is fully re-catabhehcd. Andrews will
give Nature the aid*she needs to do this for
you by stimulating the inner cleaneing func-
tions. Then, when normal habite are resort
ered, follow the Andrews Holes of Health:
Hat moderately. Get lets of sleep, fresh air
and exercise, And take a bracing, effervescing
glees of Andrews Liver Salt once or twice a
week, Suetained good health will Amply repay
you. Get Andrews from your druggist. , In
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Also in Mack
and Mixed
Children of Large Families Lead
In Self -Reliance, Italy -Teaches
Milan, Italy.—In its endeavor to in-
duce the Italians to rear more child-
ren, the government has set out to
convince them that quality is in-
creased with quantity as regards the
brood.
Census results showing that no one
of Italy's sixty-three centenarians is
an only child have been given promin-
ent display as indicating that physical-
ly, at least, the advatage is on the side
of the person who has brothers and
sisters.
These have been accompanied by
statistics revealing that soldiers com-
ing from large families win more deco-
rations for valor than those from the
so-called "crisis" or small families.
The figures were arrived at after duly
idscounting the greater representation
of large family soldiers in the service.
The newspaper "I1 Popolo D'Italia,'
owned personally by the Duce, printed
an article pooh-poohing statistics put
porting to show that in American ele
mentary schools children from small
families give evidence of more idtelli'
gence than do those from among nun:
erous progeny.
This, it said, is explained by the
greater aid the former receive from
their parents, but the. intelligence thee
counts in the long runn is that born o
the self-reliance leered through an ab.
sence of molly -coddling in the largo
families.
Regarding,vaior, "it is only natural,"
said the article; "that the child whose
existence has been protected by dot,
ing parents will prove less courageous
than the child who, because he is on/
of many, was never subjected to this'
elaborate protection." .
850 Words To Do
Work of 500,000
Simplification of English Ton—
gue to Provide Solution
of World Language
Problems
London. -7 -"Basic English," a simpli-
fication of the English tongue intend-
ed to provide a workable solution to
the language communications prob-
lems of the world, has been launched
by the Orthological Institute of Cam-
birdge, England.
Failure of many attempts to provide
an "invented" language that could be
used throughout the world as a means
of communication between the people
of all nations who speak 1,500 living
languages led to the effort to adapt
the English tongue for the purpose.
;New Level
The new form of English, introduced
to Canada at the Institute of Pacific
Relations Conference at Banff in Aug-
ust, contains only 850 words, 600 of
them nouns, 150 adjectives, 16 verbs
or names of operators and the rest
adverbs, prepositions or names of di-
rections.
These in addition to numbers,
weights and measures, the calendar
and such words as club, radio and tele-
gram, already internationalized, do the
work of 500,000 words of English at a
level of ordinary communication.
English was chosen for the new
medium because it is the natural or
administrative language of 500,000,000
people, and because no other language
is susceptible to the . ame kind of sim-
plification. With no inflections and
analytic in structure it is not only
closer to the language habits of many
Orientals but, for the same reason, is
easier to learn.
In Japenese Schools
The interest with which persons in
all parts of the earth have turned to
this form of English (in which this
paragraph is written)gives its backers
the belief that it may be put to a Brea{
number of uses. Letters have come
Into the Orthological Institute in Cam.
bridge by the thousands from all parts
of Europe, the Far East, and the
United States. Schools in the states
on the American Pacific Coast are in,
terested in' it as a way of helping th
young Chinese and Japanese to a good
knowledge of English. In China„
where English is the second language;
there is much interest in it, and Jap-
anese teachers are about to put -it ha
their schools.
Telescopic Terms
Widely differentiated uses of a word
are eliminated in the new medium;
such as "for" in the same sense of be-
cause," "that" iii the sense of a rela i
tive pronoun', or "bit" as part of al'
horse's harness. It makes use of the.
fect,almost all verbs can be analyzed
into one of a few fundamental opera-''
tions in combination with a directive!
The simplest combinations of these
give equivalents for 2,000' common
verbs such as "put in" for insert," "go
up" for climb," "take out" for "extril
Cate," and "go against a law" for,
"break a law."
In the same way, by descriptive
analysis, many names of things are re=
duced to telescopic .erms, A "jour-
nalist" becomes a newspaperman" and
a "desk" a writing table.
Canal Traffic Grows
Cornwall, Ont. —Decided improve.
ment in shipping through Cornwall
canals in 1933 was indicated by figures
made available recently through offle
tial sources. Tonnage of freight can
ried amounted to 6,297,716—and in.
crease of 222,662 tons over 1932. Thj�
number of lockages rose from 4,939 t(
5,143, and the tonnage of vessels iron
4,905,030 to 5,065,221.
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