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STATEMENT Formér Peddler Re-affirms His Adventures in REPLIES TO CRITICS Remark About Baron Mun- chausen Cause of Ivri- tation New Yok, March 31. -- First from an arm chair in his apartment at the FiUth Avenue hotel, and again from the platform of town hall wher he was giving a lecture, "Trader (forn" Wednesday flung 'his answer to those who have tak- en exception to the accuracy of some of his statements about ad- ventures jn Africa. Twice he pull- ed up hE trouser leg and showed his famcus wounds, "The answer," he said, his long beard trembling with indignation, is contidned in three .words: was thee!" With his London literary agent, Andrey. Dakers, and M, Lincoln Schuster of the firm which publish- ed his book, standing close by, the old maa veceived reporters carly in the afterncon at his hotel, He had just finished reading the story in the Herald: Tribune in which Frank H Vizetelly, managing editor of Funk and Wagnalls, had called him "a wodern Baron Munchau- sen' and n which N. Herrera De Hora, heal of the International Police in he Boer War, had ques- tioned whit "The Trader' had said about Nha, the human goddess, and abou; gorillas, The remark about Baron Mun- chausen irritated the former pedd- ler so mich that he hecame calm. "As me writing man to an- other," Je sald, addressing a rve- wre | ; ro ERE om on Bath Bien VS ABERDEEN HOTEL 17 West D20d Bt. ness Sth Ave. NEW YORK Joba J. Dowam, Meneging Direetor porter, "Do you think those words were the words of a gentleman?" If Mr, Vizetelly knew men who came back from Stanley's expedi- tion, said the old man, these were men who came back "the other way." "They deserted him, footsacked him," he stormed. "There was a big party went in with Stanley, but when they came through, Stanley was the only white man left. I was there, and 1 know." "The trader" revealed what may be the cause of his extreme bitter- ness about Stanley. "What's mare, Stanley planted the Belgian flag and turned the country over to Leopold. Now wasn't that a nice thing to do! Us 30 or 40 white hunters were ruled out. Why, when 1 was 15 I shot a bull elephant--dead as a door- nail, And then along comes Stan- ley and turned the country over to Leopold. That is why we didn't like Stanley. There were a few of us convivials, shooting at elephants and as free as birds in a country twice the size of Texas--and along comes Stanley and turns it over to Leopold. A nice thing to do." The old man rambled on about elephants for some time and then took up the case of N. Herrera De Hora. ARRAIGNED FOR MANSLAUGHTER St. Catharines Man Faces Magistrate Campbell in Sil. verthorne Death Case St, Catharines, Mar, 30.--~A form- al charge of manslaughter was made against Stephen Bygrave when he was arraigned before Magistrate "* unbell today in connection with the death of Cedil Silverthorne, who died two weeks ago from 'wounds inflicted by a shot gun in Bygrave's hands on the farm of J. Tice, his employer, at Caister Centre on March 5. Bygrave was remanded until next Thursday. OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, TO RACE TOMORROW | Putney, Eng 30.--Strung {to the highest pitch of efficiency, crews of Oxford and Cambridge Universities engage in their ecightieth annual race on Thames [teen over four mile course. 'FLIGHT AGAIN HALTED Dublin, March 30.--A gale | sweeping western Ireland and the i Atlantic today caused Baron von | Huenfeld, flight sponsor, again to postpone start of the plane *'Bre- men'? for New York. wet spring months. Special Protection for Roads During Early Spring Warning to Drivers and Owners of Trucks and Teams The Ontario Highway Traffic Act contains provisions designed to prevent damage to road surfaces and road foundations during All who have to do with the operation of trucks or teams on the highways should be familiar with the law. It is provided that on all roads, outside cities and towns, during March and April: Solid tired trucks and trailers shall not carry more than half a load; Pneumatic tired trucks and trailers, with a haifa ad, capacity exceeding three tons, shall be limited to Horse drawn vehicles, with a carrying capacity one ton, shall be limited to half a load. The speed limits for trucks at all seasons are: hour for solid tired vehicles, and 20 miles an hour for pneumatic tired vehicles of more than six tons gross. The penalty for overloading at this season is a fine, imprison- ment, or both. Licenses may be suspended also. Highway traffic officers have been directed to be especially vigilant in apprehending all who disobey. The Department of Highways desires to impress upon truck and team owners and drivers the provisions of the law and the penalties provided. It seeks their co-operation in a observation of provisions so greatly in the public Ontario has an investment of over $170,000,000 in roads and an annual maintenance bill of $4,000,000. This investment must be protected. Ontario Department of Highways The HON. GEORGE S. HENRY, Minister. THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MARC EXTRENIST WING Supporters of L'Action Fran- caise Incur Grave Penalties Paris March 31.--The rites of the Roman Catholic Church have been refused to partisans of the famous Catholic Royalist group, I'Action Francaise. In an official ordinance signed by Cardinal Du- bois, archbishop of Paris, it is ruled that priests may neither bap- tize, confirm, marry, bury, admin- ister communion nor admit into church organizations the partisans who refuse to sign a formal renun- ciation of 1'Action Francaise. They will be regarded as 'public sin- ners" and priests compromising with the new restrictions are sub- ject to serious discipline. There {3 a provision, however, for the mar- riage of partisan and non-partisan "with diminished solemnity," and effects only as regards the non- partisan, This proscription also renews the forbidding by the Pope of the habi- tual reading of the newspaper I'Ac- tion Francaise, organ of the Roy- alists, or of aiding it. Members of 1'Action Francaise, must make in writing a retraction of "the errors of 1'Actlon Francaise, and total submission to the decis- fons of the Holy See," if they wish the blessing of the church on their marriage. If such submission is refused, the priest may be present at the marriage, but will conduct no religious ceremony, TO RELIEVE STOMACH __ DILATION Dilation of the stomica usnully arises because excess stomach acid causes food to ferment and form sour gases which are responsible for those unpleasant sensations of swelling and fullness, often very painful. To avoid and relieve stomach di- lation take a tablet of "Pape's Dia- pepsin' after meals or when pain is felt, *"Pape's Diapepsin" neu- tralizes acidity and prevents the formation of wind, heartburn and flatulence, and insures healthy, painless digestion, Druggists everywhere sell *'Pape's Diapepsin' at 60 cents a package-- not much to pay for complete free- dom from digestive pain and stom- ach troubles, is it? Better get your package of "Pape's Diapepsin" to- day. I -- exceeding [-- 15 miles an EC a ad oe interest. Helen of the Old House By HAROLD BELL WRIGHT. ; (Chapter XXIII continued) Jake Vodell answered harshly as he turned to go. "At least I know now for sure who it is that makes the Mill workers traitors to their class." He looked at Pete. Your son has made his position very clear. We shall see now how bravely the noble Captain will hold his ground. As for you, well-- always the old father can pray to his God for his son. It is so, heh?" Quickly the man passed through the white gate and disappeared down the street toward the Flats. "I am afraid that fellow means trouble, son," said Pete, slowly, "Trouble," echoed Captain Char- lie, "Jake Vodell has never meant anything but trouble." { Adam Ward did not join his family when they returned from church, A nervous headache kept him in his room. In the afternoon John went for a tong drive into the country, He felt that he must be alone--that he must think things out, for both Mary and himself. As he looked back on it all now, it seamed to him that he had always loved this girl companion of his old-house days. In his boyhood he had accepted her as part of his daily life just as he had accepted his sister. Those years of his eclhiooling had heen careless thoughtless years, and followed, as they were, hy his war experience, they seemed now to have had so small a part in the whole that they scarcely counted at all, His re- newed comradeship with Charlie in the army had renewed also, through the letters that Charlies always shared with him, his con sciousness of Mary, In the months paszed his love' had ripened and hocore a definite thing, fiyed and certain in his own mind and heart ng the facet of life itself. He had no more thought of accepting as final Mary's answer than he had nt turning the manazement of the Mill over to Jake Vodell or to Sam Whaley. But still there were thinas that he must think out, 01 that favorite hillside spot where he and Charlie had spent 80 mony honrs digenssing their indus- trial prohlems, John faced snuare|v the quections raised hy Mary's no." : Through the ehill of the fall 'light John went home to snend the evening with his mother. But he did not speak to her of Mary. He conld not somehow, In the hen:e thet was so under the shad- ow of that hid en thirg. Mis father was still in his room On his way to his own apartment a'ier Piz mother had retired, John stopped at hig father's, door to Lkanck gently ar ' 2:k. if there was gurthing that he eould do. The answer came. "No, I will be a!l right--Ilet m2 airne." Later Helen returned from some- where ith M-Iver. Then John heard Meciver and Helen going to her for their usual good- night Seelnz the lizht under his door, as gle pascrd, she tapped the panel and called rgofi)y that it was time a'l good little boys were fast asleep. Tt was gn hour, perhaps, after Jorn bad zone to bel that he wos ened by the sound of some cine x . quietly into his room. anst the dim night lizht in the hall, Lie cauzht the outline of an arm and shoulder as the Intruder carztully closed the door. Reach- ing out to the lamp 2a. the Lead 2? Viz bed. he snapped on the light and spranz to his feet, *Father:" #3h--be carefui, John, they will hear you!" Adam Ward's gray face was ghostly with nervous ex- citement and fear, and he was shak- ing a5 with a chill, "Nn one must know I told you," he whispered, *'but the new pro- cess is the source of everything wo have--the Mill and everything, I? it wasn't for my patent rights we would have nothinz. You ard I would be working in the Mi'l just lie Pete 2nd his boy." John spoke soothingly. "Yes. father, I understand, but it will be 2:1 right--I'll take care of it." Adam chuckled. "They're after it. But I've got it all sewed up so tizht they can't touch it. That cld fool, Pete. was here to feel me out to-day." "Pete--here!" Adam grinned. mere at church?" "They've got a new scheme now. They've set Mary after you. They figure that if the girl can land you they'll get a chance at what 1 have made out of the process that may. [told him you was too smart to be caught like that. Dut you've got to watcha them. They'll do anything." In spite of his pity for his fath- er. John Ward drew from him. overcome by a feeling of dizust and shame which he could not wholly ceatrol. Adam. unconscious of his son's emotions. went on. "I've mada I ail in spite of tuem. John. but U're had to watch them. They'll be at- ter you mow that I have turned things over to you. just as they have been after me. They'il never get it, though. hey'll never met a penny of it. I'll destroy the Nill and everything before TM give un a dollar of what I've made." John Ward could not speak. It was top monstrous--too horrible. As one in a hideous dream. he list- ened. What was back of it all? Why did his father in hiz spells of nervous excitement always rave so about the patented process? Why did We hate Pete Martin so bitter- ily? What was this secret thing that mas driving Adam Ward din- sane? fiat "While you folks was any answer other than the Mill owner's mental condition, John forced himself to the pretense of sharing his father's fears. He: agreed with Adam's arraignment of Pete, echoed his father's expression of hatred for the old workman, thanked Adam for warning him, boasted of his own ability to see through their tricks and schemes and to protect the property his father had accumulated. In this vein they talked in con- fidential whispers until John felt that he could venture the question, "Just what is it about the process that they are after, father? If I knew the exact history of the thing I would be in a much better posi- tion to handle the situation as you want, wouldn't 1?" Adam Ward's manner changed instantly. With a look of sly cun- ning he studied John's face, "Thera is nothinT about the process, son," he said, steadily. "You know all there is to know about it now." But when John, thinking that his father had regained his self-control, urged him to go back to his bed, Adam's painful agitation returned. For some moments he paced to and fro as if In nervous indecision, then, going close to John, he said na low, half whisper, "Jolin, there is something else T wanted to ask you. You have been to college and over there in the war, you mnst have heen a lot of men die--" Ta paused. 'Yes, yes, you must have heen close to death a good many times. Tell me, John, do you he- lieve that there is anything after--- I mean anything heyond this life? Does a man's conscious existence go on when he is dead?" "Yes," said John, wondering at this apparent change in his father's thought. *I believe in a life beyond this. You believe in it, too, don't you, father?" "Of course," returned Adam, "We can't know, though, for sure, can we? But, anyway, a man would be foolish to risk it, would- n't he?" ; "To risk what, father?" { "To risk the chance of there hea ing no hel," came the startling an swer. "My folks raised me to be lieve in hell, and the preachers a!l teach it. And if there should be such a place of eternal torment al man would be a fool not to fix up| some wav out of it, wouldn't he?' John did not know what to say. Adam Ward leaned eloser to his son and with an alr of secrecy whispered, "That's exactly what] I've done, Jo) *---I've worked out § scheme to tie God up in a eontract that will force Him to save me, The old Interpreter gave me thet idea. You see If {t shou'd turn out, that there is no hell my plan can't do any harm and if there is a hell it makes me safe anyway." He chuckled with fnsane satis- faction. "Tey say that God knows everything--that nobody can tigure out a way to b at Him, but I have --I have worked out a deal with! God that is bound to give me thet best of jt. I've got Him tied up so tight that He'll be bound to sue! me. fome people think I'm crazy, but you wait, my hoy--they"ll tind, out how crazy I am. They'll never get me Into hell, I have heen fig- uring on this ever since the Inter- preter told me I had better make a contract with God. And after Petal left this morning I got it all settled.) A man can't a'ford to take ans' chances with God and so I made this deal with Him. . Hell or no ell, I'm safe. God don't get the best of me,-----And you are safe, tco, son, with the mew process, if you look after your own interests as I have done, and don't ook anyippportunities, I wanted to tell You about this so you wouldn't worry about me. I'll go back to bed now. Don't tell mother and Helen what we have been talking about No use to worry them--they could- hot understand anyway, And don't! forget, John, what Pete told me about Mary. Their scheme won't work of course. I know you are too smart for them. But just the same you've got to be on your) £uard azainst 'her all the time.! Never take any unnecessary! chances. Don't talk over a deal with a man when any one can hear, It you are careful to have no wit-' nesses when you arrange a deal you' are absolutely safe. [It is what you can slip in to the written contract that counts--once you get your! man's sigpature. That's alwayy been my way. And now I have| even put one over on God." i He strole cautiously out of the room and back to his own apart- ment. y Outside bis father's door John rited. listening, until he was con- cd that sleep had at last .come to the exhausted man. Late that same Sunday evening. when the street meeting held by! Jake Vodeil was over, there was an-! other meeting in the room back of! the pool hall. The men who satf around that table with the agitator: were mot eriminals--they were workmen. Sam Whaley and two others wcre mem with families They were all Aweifcan citiezns. bu they were under the spell of their leader's power. They had been prepared for that leadership-by the industrial polices of McIver and Adam Ward rn Overioox z of that inner ecirele 3 ¥ authorized Ly the unions. The things they said Sam Whaley would mot have dared to! say openly in the Mill workers' or- ganization. Th- plans they propos- ed to carry out in the wame of the! unions they were compelled to! make in secret. In their mad. fan- atical acceptance of the dreams that Vodell wrought for them: dn their blind obedience to the leadership he had so clevely established; in their reckless disre=ard of the con-} Thinking to find an answer-to these perplexing questions, if there H 31, 1928 PAGE SF \ were as promised protection, they of the| insane, in fact, as the owner Mill himself, i The supreme, incredible, pitiful tragedy of it all was this: That these workmen committed them- selves to the plans of Jake Vodell in the mame of their country's workmen. \ (To be continued.) * \ he an LEGISLATURE'S SESSION ENDS IN NEW BRUNSWICK Fredericton, N.B., March 30.-- The Legislature of the Province of New Brunswick was prorogued this afternoon, Hon. W. F. Todd, Lieut.« Governor of the Province, attend- ing at the time and giving assent to the bills which had been passed by the House during the session of five weeks and two days. The House opened Feb, 23. 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