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SE CER | a \ A y. Mrs. . . Dick Sot Ariel out of her trouble his whole attitude in this crisis light and suddenly she realized sh loved him. Then seemed to the ¢ turning point, always a t reader, she began to write and her first story was by the ed- itor. of the Baltic. Another child was added to Phil' family. INSTALMENT XXV The days grew shorter: it was dark now when Gail vame home , fro the library at five o'clock. As she sat cuddling the baby she could .see are oak branches tossing in the .dusk of the yard and the leaves ¥ scurrying down, + At this hour she would often fall 'to dreaming. It was an hour in S'which to remember Edith, talking i eagerly of poetry, of drama. of Ut- ¥ opias and philanthropy; ar hour i that brought back Ariel, spoiled, { 'petulant, beautiful, always to be ex- * cused and adored by her siyers. 4 Above all, in the winter twilights « with the soft. Jump of babyhood i that was another Gail Lawrence in "her arms, Gail dreamed of Dick and I of the brief moment of romance { that had somehow seemed to give i her her. true; values in life. She ,shad been playine. playing idly and » superficially, with Van Murchison % and she had awakened to the full sirealization of what her hear: need- 3 'ed, what her heart could give, just a moment too late. . It had been Ariel all tha time for big sober quiet Dick. He had . 'never seen Galil; she had never 2 tried to help him find her, But she i knew in her heart that she could % have given him = thousand times . what Aric] could give. Ariel must be i changed indeed if she had become a & helpful tender mate for a struggling { lawyer. Ariel's deal was not one of + homemaking, of quiet and domestic Ui .ity beside a fire. Hollywood --sup- {posing them 'still to be in that 4 neighborhood--would only imflame * Ariel with a desire for luxury, fame, "money. i+ But then they might long ago | half "have left southern California. It | was almost three years now since that memerable Christmas Dav be- |: fore Ariel's eighteenth birthday 1 when she and Dick had run away "from them all. Gall had had two % communications from her since; the first was the scribbled note she had he in «her deserted bedroom; the econd had come a few months af- ter Edith's death, and had been post Jimarked Phoenix, Arizona. & *"Gall dear, I 2m so horribly sorry f about Carling Ede. but, Gail, she "was hanpy," the tearestained un- _punctuat>d note had read. "She was 'too good for this world and only 'would have had trouble and disan- "pointment. I am well and so is Dick. Zand we are coming home soon to tell "you all the news s0 no more now _# exceot that I adore you." It had been signed simply "Ariel". 2 and had borne neither date nor ad- 3. dress. 4 One day she had driven Phil's car, = full of small bovs, out to the Stan- Fjslaus ranch. It was prosperous fsilsg HS 2:53 { Bg 3 * 3 3 gd i 8 8! ow jut where Dick , Gal . She, Gail, had a book that he had wanted--and so on-- and so on. Mrs, Stebbins had answered that Dick was' just about the worst let- = for three weeks, but he was coming home, according to what he wrote, and just as soon as he did Mrs. Stebbins would see he wrote. There was no mention of Arie! or Dick's marriage in either letter. Gail had not dared risk, the secret. and either Mrs. Stebbins had been equally cautious or Dick had not taken his mother into his confid- ence, Gail suspected as the months wore along that perhaps Dick's mother was too good, too simple, too trusting to pect. She fancied THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1931 lin the hazel eyes--how they brought 'back the days of long ago! ¥ "But you are "Is Dick with you, Ariel?" "Dick? Oh yes! He's coming in with the bags." "And are you going to stay in Ole we-- Oh heavens, no!" Ariel sald ely. g happy, darling?" younger sister had seated herself at tne table, her bag and, gloves had been flung there, now she loosened her winter coat. Hort to cable home about, col- £7 Something 'seemed to shrivel in Gail's heart at the tone. "Can we marriage now, Instead of answering Ariel fast- ened bright curious eyes on her sis- ter. "Do you mean to say that no- body has ever suspected?" "Nobody. It surprised me. told even her mother. And people have all taken it for granted that you were in Los Angeles with Aunt Annie Ralston's family. They did- n't question it--not one half so much as I thought they would. I believe they still think of you as a child rather than a woman--some- one to be sent around and school- ed--I1 don'e know. Anyway, if any- one has ever connected your name ith Dick Stebbins' I never heard "I've often wondered," Ariel said listening attentively. "Not." she added with her own little favorite alr of arrogance, "not that it made any difference to me! But I've of- ten wondered what the old ladies in town were thinking about it." There was a moment's silence, for Galil sensed something unexpres- sed In her sister's tone and waited, puzzled, for an explanation "I'm terribly glad--" Ariel began hesitadingly. "Gall!" she added sometimes that there was but one adequate explanation of Dick's and Ariel's silence. There were not happy; the impulsive marriage that had found her so young had proved a mistake. They were quarreling, perhaps already separated. "Poor Ariel, poor Dick, poor all of us!" Gail would think. "Some women live in their bodies. like Lily, loving and bearing and nursing babies. Perhaps they're the lucky ones. And some of us have to live in our minds and souls and dreams. But it's hard. It's hard to claso air and kiss the wind for- ever! I can be 8 writer, I suppose I certainly mean to make myself one, if work and trying will do fit. But it would have been wonderful-- wonderful, to be a wife!" Ons rainy October afternoon Lilv and the three older children were delayed at her mother's house and Gail found herself alone in the big kitchen with the tinv Gall, Sam traveled un and down the coast now, doing pressagent work for a string of vanderville theatres, and was as often in Portland and in Vos Angeles as at home In Clippersville. 'Tonight Gall half expected him and expected that when Phil die- covered his family's absence he would drive at once to the Wibser house and bring them all back. Meanwhile. she fussed awav con- tentedly with preparations for her own supper. As she went to and fro she look- ed often at the great washbasket, lined with dotted Swiss and blue ribbors where the younger Gail was peacefully asleen, "You little darling!" she would say standin to look down at the puckered little face. Suddenlv she heard a mot or car on the old side drive; the engine stopped and a car door slammed. Then there were footstens on the porch and the handle of the kit- chen door turned. A second later as Gail turned an inquiring elance that way and said aloud. "Phil?" the door swung open and the dimlv lighted anerture framed a woman's slender figure. A young woman in a furred coat spattered lightly with rain, with a small hat drawn down over drifting fly-away golden hair. snow and the Lawrences' money | Ariel troubles, preposterous and unex- - as the situation seemed. were "over. Phil was doing well, Gail had 2 had a nice raise, the oil station paid ts hundred a month faithfully snd 'that money Phil handed over un- 'touched to his sister. ! The remains of the once magnif- "lecent Lawrence estate were divided iow; the old house was Phil's the er had been surveyed and mea- and given to Galil, the Stanis- us promerty was wholly for Sam nd Ariel. Rent went into the bank Ariel's maiden name. Sam pald board to Lily. Gall looked at the old ranch wist- fully. She had dreamed once a f dream of coming there with , of being mistress of these acres of orchard and pasture and wheat fields. They could have .. They would ve had children, driven into town a mud-spattered old ear, stopped mail, for feed, for needles and and ink: Dick would had cases in the big court- house in the shady square and Gail would have gone into the library 'to ask the girl at the desk for the 'new novels. on Sundays they would have _ telephoned Phil and Lily to ask what the chances were of a picnic up dh had a boy and 2 CR ve But certainly 1 by this yme time for any that to think the chance of Xe Diad to have had Dana" Sewell Gall stood stricken motionless for a moment. Then a great trembling and weakness came over her and she took a step toward her sister and stretched out her arms. And Ariel came with a bird's flight asross the kitchen and flung her own arms tightlv about Gail. "Oh, my darling--my darling!", Gail whisvered, her wet reek against Ariel's wet cheek. "You're back!" "Gail!" Ariel sobbed. "Oh, dearest--dearest!" There was no bitterness, no mem- ory now. It was Ariel, the adcred youngest, here against her heart again, living, loving, sorry, eager to be forgiven; there was nothing in Gail"s feeling but one great ache of joy and pain and love. "Gall I've wanted you so!" "And I you! But--but what fools we are to cry!" Gall stammered, laughing and erying both, with trembling lins and brimming eyes. | "I knoe!" | They @wew apart, hands linkes, and looked at each other. ' "Yoa look--older, Ariel. You---I hardly knew you!" | Ariel shrugged in the old indif-, ferent way. "Oh, well" | "Oh, well, naturally!" Gail fin- ished it for her with a laugh. | Ariel saw the basket and the baby: she gave Gall a frightenea| That's Phil's baby.' Lily's baby." Ariel's proud mouth curled in the old haughty way. "I heard he had, married her," she said, displeased, and there was a little pause. "She's awfully nice, really." Gall » | protested, feeling as If a fall of fold, water had suddenly enveloped r. fently. Suddenly they were back in their old relationshin and there was re- proof in the voice In which Ge sald. "Ba raveful. Ariel! &h» isn here. but Phil mav bs. any minute" "Do vou mean tn t+'1 me that Joe Case' divorce! wife--" "Joe Case died. Arial. And thev were here" Cieil sajd 2% the other vnica stormed en an indisrant nate, "they were here when Edith-- And "Oh, haw can vou fav sn! That | horrible Wibser!" Ariel said impat- ! | 1 ddenly on a more definite note. "I've got to tell you something; it's going to surprise you." She fell sil- ent. "You must have known that there was something funny about all this?" she interrupted the pause to ask irrelevantly, There was a sound behind Gall at the kitchen doorway. She turned and faced Dick Stebbins. Bigger, browner, with more of that sweet homely kind air than ever, Some quality, reliable, trust- worthy, restful, seemed to emanate from him: there was infinite strenath for Ga'l in the mere touch of his hand. He kissed her very simply and looked bevond her té# Ariel. Gall, her sapphire eyes and the disciplined sweet wide mouth accenting her feeling of bewilder- ment and non-comprehension, sent her glance from one to the other. "Had your talk?" Dick asked and the remembered voice sent waves of thrilling weakness and jov and pain through Gail's. whole beine. "Not yet," Ariel said. "Tell her. Tell her the truth, Dick." (To be continued). RAM CLUB POLICY With a view to developing uni- formity in breeding on a commun- ity basis and also to improve qual- ity and volume in the production of wool and market lambs, the federal Department of Agricul- ture has instituted a ram club pol- icy. Under the terms of this policy three and two star ram lambs and shearlings are supplied by the Department to club mem- bers at stated prices. Clubs will comprise not less than ten mem- bers each, owning at least ten breeding ewes each. The federal Department assumes any addi- tional cost over the amount of the stated deposit and also pays freight to the nearest railway sta- tion to the Club. Further infor- mation may be obtained by writ- ing to the Department at Otta- wa, or from the nearest field rep- resentative of the Sheep and Swine Division of the Department. C.G.I.T. NEWS Camp is the order of the day for all C.G.1.T.'s this time of the vear., Oshawa Canadian Girls in Training are being well repre- sented in the different camps for this part of the province. On July 18, a group went to Lake Couchiching to the Ontario Re- ligious Educational Council Camp and will remain there for two weeks, A group of young girls camped at the Scugog Camp all last week with Miss Gertrude Moore in charge. Miss Nellie Johnston was among these camp- ers and has remained out there this week as one of the camp di- rectors for the group of girls who are there at present, On July 29th Errington Par- sons, Betty Lovell, Marjorie Hen- ley, Isobel Smith, Marion Mec. Donald and Charmione Felt are icaving to spend ten days at Beau Rivage Camp in the Thou- sand Islands. From August 15 to 22 the Girls' Work Board of Oshawa has been given the use of the Kiwanis Camp north of Oshawa and gir': from 12 to 15 years of age will be allowed to attend. Miss rlelen Boddy is taking applications for registrations' at this camp and those who wish to go are request- ed to have their application to Miss Boddy before August 8. Leaders of each group going to the Kiwanis Camp must be re- sponsible for the transportation of their girls. DANDRUFF Mi NARD'§ | IMEN | | . have to be fixed. - O.C. NV. 1. : LIBRARY NOTES B Areren "Recti Cultus y Pectora Roborant."' THEY ARE AT REST Friday, July 17, 1931.~ ..Owing go an oversight, occas- ioned by the editor's absence, on- Iy half of our *"Notes" a red in "The "* of Friday ,July Brd-and they without any head- ing. . (Fortunately. our. "mat." was pressed into service again inst week.) .It was our intention thay among the notes for that day reference should be made to the very real sense of loss. experi. enced by the librarian and scores of their young friends in the sad passing of Gordon Johnston and Eric Byron. ..Gordon was a member of the Junior Bird Club ever since its inception and a faithful partici- pant in all its meetings and field excursions. . . Eric belonged to the old Boys' and Girls' Association of Room 8%, Centre School, and had atten- ded the reumion-banquet on Fri- day, June 19th, but a few days btfore his death, NOTES OF THE WEEK May we take this opportunity to call attention to the heauty of the grounds? The school, stand- irg amid a carpet of well-kept lawns and beautiful trees, shrub- bery, and flowers, presents a cherming picture. It is the ad- miration of students and the en- vy of visitors. Mr. Comrie ard his associates have spent many hours of hard work watering and keeping the grounds in order during these hot, dry summer days, and the result is one of which every citizen may well be proud. ..We are happy to announce that "copy" for the September number of "The Ocavite" is be- ginning to pile up. We are in re- ceipt of an excellent school-soc- cer story which will be run seri. ally in the September and Octo- ber numbers. Thig is only one of the many interesting features in store for the Fall Term. Frank Hayes (of Qld 1B- writes from Columbus: "It is certainly great to be home get- ting tanned up again." "Aye," sav we all. The library has been thorough- ly cleaned and the floor olled. Consequently it now looks ubout twice as attractive ag it did when school broke up a month ago, and that is saying a great deal, indeed We have frequently marveliod al the number of boys and girls who are drawing books from the Roys' and Girls' Branch of the Fublic Library these warm days?) It is good to see how many have discovered that books are a real part of the holidays too, as well ss swimming, picnics, and play. T* you have not been down .o the Junior Library lately you will find, when you go, that a number of changes have been made in the arrangement of the books and ferniture, With its shelves upon shelves of books, and attractive posters, it isn't any wonder *hat it has become the young folks' Mecca. We have been reading the "I'hilobiblon" (Love of Books) of Richard de Bury (1281-1215) and we cannot refrain from shar- ing a few of the mediaeval bis- hap's observations with our read. ers: "In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books 1 forsee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. All things are corrupted and de- cay in time: all the glory of the world would be buried in obliv- ion unless God had provided mor- tals with the remedy of hooks-- How highly must we estimate the wondrous power of books, since through them we survey the utmost bounds of the world and time, and contemplate the things that are as well as the things thay are not, as it were, in the mirror of eternity." May we take this opportunity to call attention to the heauty of the Collegiate grounds? The school, standing amid a carpet of well-kept lawns and beautiful trees, shrubbery and flowers, presents a charming picture. It is the admiration of Ocavites and the envy of visitors. Mr. Comiie and his associates have spent many hours of hard work watoar- ing and keeping the grounds in order during the hot, dry sum- mer days and the result is one of which every eitizen may well be proud. Speaking of Ocavites, we are happy to announce that "copy" for the September number of "The Ocavite" is beginning to pile up on our desk. We are in re. ceipt of an excellent school soc cer story, which will run serially in the September and October numbers. , This is only one of the many interesting features in store for the fall term. Watch this column for further announce. ments, Frank Hayes, of Old 1B, writes from Columbus: "It is certainly great to be home getting tanned Lup again." Aye, say we all. The rest of the summer read- ing lists have been mailed out to the successful cntrance candi- dates. The library has been thorough- ly cleaned and oiled. Consequent- ly it now looks ahout twice as at- tractive as it did when school broke up in June, and that is say- iLg a great deal indeed, We have been reading the "Philobiblon" (The Love of Books) by Richard de Bury (1281-1345) and we cannot re. frain from sharing a few of De Bury's observations with our readers: -- "In books I find the dead as it they were aliye; in books I for- see things to come; in books war- like affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. .Al things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not to devour the ghildren that he generates; all the glory of the world would be buried in obliv- ion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books." ..."How highly we must estimate the wondrous power of books, since through them we sirvey the utmost bounds of the world and time, and contemplate the things that are as well as those that are not, as it were in the mirror of eternity." We have frequently marvelled at the number of boys and girls who are drawing books from the | and Girls' Branch of the | Boys' Public Library these warm days. It is good to seé how many have discovered that books are a real rart of the holidays too, as well #9 swimming, picnics, and play. If you have not been down to the Junior Library lately you will find, when you go, that a number of changes have been made in the arrangement of the books and furniture. With its shelves upoa shelves of books and attractive posters it isn't any wonder that it has become the young folks' Mecca. _-- Times office ' morning each week. Swimming and boating a::i- dents are continuing to happen and more than one Scout has been instrumental in saving somebody 'in distress this year. All Scouts are supposed to be prepared for such emergencies even though good fortune does not make it necessary for them ali to be effecting rescues. Some of the Oshawa Scouts have been demonstrating their ability in this line during the last two weeks, in earning -their Swimmers' and Rescuers' badges. It is hoped that a good many more will take advantage of the warm weather to do this, as these badges are very important, A full meeting of every Sea Scout in the city was what caus- ed 8.M, J. H, Rigg to wear such a broad smile the other day. Hie troop is to be congratulat- ed. Preparations for Camp Fifosh are proceeding apace and tomor- row will see the hoys on their way. The dam has been rebuilt and vith the aid of the farmer and + team of horses, a great deal of "iottom has been scraped out, making the swimming hole quite 1 fair depth. The bridge will need repairing s¢ rebuilding this year and many ftoms around the camp site will Everybody is thankful for the work of the brave fellow who re- noved the three wasps nests from the interior of the cook house with a stick. Scout News of what the Boy Scouts of Oshawa are doing contributed by the scout lead- ers. Contributions to this column will be welcomed, and should be sent We are told that he suddenly Activitie to the not later than Tuesday remembered a very pressing en- gagement which he had to run to in order to he there on time. The spectators also remember- ed several important affaird to which it was necessary to turn their attention. "The Jamboree is beginning to show signs of life. A meeting of members of the local Association with Fire Chief Elliott, chairman of the Troops and Camps committee, was held on Saturday last, and a further meeting was held last night. The date for the Jamboree has heen set as September 19th and 2uth, and {it is hoped that it will be a higger and better one than last year, Troops are requested to prac- tice up on their stunts for this occasion, A big Council Fire programme is planned for the evening of Sep- tember 19th and a Scouts Own Service for the afternoon of Sep- tember 20th, Many willing helpers were on hand to help with the fixing of Fifosh dam. : One boy who missed the cars on Saturday, hiked out with his. shovel just to show he intended 10 be there. "Others camped right at the camn and worked during the day. We sincerely hope -that the Peavy rains have not undone all tLe good work. v p However, we shall soon know. L. Bth a twee add' | ing implements By Thornton Ww. Burgess Naught can for carelessness atone; Be safe in vigilance alone. ~--Mrs. Fleetfoot. It is hard never to be careless. I don't suppose there is any.one who never is careless. Even those whose very lives depend on con- stant watchfulness are sometimes careless. It happens constantly among the people of the Green Meadows, the Green Forest, the Dry Desert and the Broad Prairie. It results in many narrow escapes and sometimes lost lives No one knows the needs of constant vigilance better: than does Mrs. Fleetfoot the Antelope, and few there are who are as constantly on the = watch for danger as she is. But even she is careless once in a while. There is one thing she must have every day, and this is water. So some- time during each day she visits the nearest place where she can obtain water, While the twins were too young to travel far this place was a pool at the beginning of the foothills that led to the Great Mountains. Every day she visited it. She always approach- ed it with care, looking, listen- ing and testing the air with her wonderful nose. One morning after the twins had become strong enough to follow her about she 'headed toward this pool for her daily drink. She didn't take the twins there, however, No, indeed. Long before she reached it she made them lie down in a bit of rough country where they were securely hidden so long as they did not move, Then she headed for the pool. Now, she had visited that pool many times and never once had she encountered danger there. Never had she had cause to be suspicious. This morning she was in a hurry, Eyes and ears were alert as usual, but for once she didn't stand and .carefully test the air with her wonderful nose, She saw nothing suspicious and she heard nothing. She put her head down and began to drink. It just happened that Howler the Wolf had taken it into his head to have a look around in that part of the hills that morn- ing and he was mear the pool when Mrs. Fleetfoot appeared. Howler's eyes gleamed hungrily as he saw her approach. He crouched flat. He did not move, fer he knew how keen were the eyes of Mrs, Fleetfoot. He also knew too, that the rustle of a leat would be enough to make her suspicions. So he lay, still hoping that she would come with- in jumping distance. Had she gone straight to the pool she would have, but for no particular reason she turned and approached the water at a dif-, ferent place from where she usually did. Howler knew that the instant she had had enough she would return to the Broad Prai.ie, There was nothing to do but try to creep nearer, So care- fully he began to creep forward. Suddenly Mrs. Fleetfoot threw up her head and in her eyes he saw alarm and suspician. It was now or never. He sprang for her. Quick as he was Mrs, Fleetfoot was quicker, She bounded to one side as if there were springs in her feet. No sooner did her feet touch the ground than she was in the air again, headed for the open country of the Broad Prairie. Howler leaped after her. He i8 no mean runner, and al- though he knew just how fleet of foot she was he hoped that he might be able to turn her into the broken country of the hills, where she would be unable to use all her speed and where he was thoroughly at home, Out onto the Broad Prairie dashed Mrs, Fleetfoot, terror in her eves, for Howler the Wolf is one of the few enemies she really fears. His small cousin, Speed- foot the Coyote, she could fight, but not this great Wolf. To one side of her and for a while keep- ing almost even with her raced Howler, as he tried to turn her toward the hills. It was a won- derful race. Mrs, Fleetfoot was terror stricken, but despite her terror she did not forget those precious twins hidden out there not far away. She partly tuhlned toward the hills, and Howley re- doubled his efforts, Farther™and farther from those precious twins she led him, keeping just enough ahead of him to make him think he had a chance to catch her. Then when she felt it was safe to do so she turned to the Broad Prairie and showed Howler what real running was. Wiht a snarl of disappointment he gave up and trotted back, It was a narrow escape, Indeed, fit wae, Copyright, 1931, by T. W. Bur- gess. The next story: Have Playmates," "The Twins OLD CUSTOMS ARE STILL EXISTING Memorial Rights Held By Counting King's Chessmen London.--Ever since Edmund Burke, the statesman, said so, Britons have taken it for granted that "the age of chivalry is gone." This conclusion, ike many others based on eloquence does not hap- pen to fit the facts. The Middle Ages live again In the sentinel condition attached to the post of hereditary deputy-keeper of an- cient Dunstaffnage Castle, near Oban, held by the Campbells, Captains of Dunstaffnage. Once a year the holder of the title has to spend a night alone within the ryined and roofless castle walls. Angus Campbell, the present and twenty-ninth Cap- tain, duly fulfilled his solitary duty recently, It is a proud and distinctive heritage of his histor- ic line, reminiscent today of the solemn ritual of early knighthood, Sun-Worship In North A far older link with our past, and one little suspected, is seen celebrated in some country in the village feasts still parts. These feasts date hack to pagan times. When hea- then ancestors were converted to Christianity, it helped the change to leave as many feasting customs as possible. The Baal fires, still lit in Northumberland, may take us back beyond pagan- ism to a race of sun-worshippers, who lived before Stonehenge: was built. Some of the survivals of the past supposed to be more or less dead and forgotten, come to life at times with unexpected results. A Canvey Island resident thus learned recently that the collec- tion of tithes has an ancient twist which may make a man responsi- ble for the liabilities of his neigh- bors. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed this month when farm- and live-stock came under the hammer to pay tithes in Suffolk. Buyers refused to bid more than a few shillings for anything. A farm tractor fetched eleven shillings and the upshot was that only £5 11s. was realized out of £112 10s. claimed In Sussex, also recently, a man saved himself more than a thou- sand pounds by proving that an "ancient road" ran where he was charged for making a new one. Not so long ago, an important fishery right turned on proving who was the owner of a dead meet tonight as usual, Wolf Cubs--6.30 p.m, to 7.30 pm. Junior and Senior Troops-- 7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. $ +All boys expecting to attend Camp must be present at this meeting for final instructions, (Continued. on pags 6) whale washed ashore about the time of Henry VIII. It was stated in court that even before the time of the much-married monarch, the King claimed the head halt of a stranded whale, the Queen taking the tail half, possibly be- cause naturalists of the period lo- cated whalebone at the wrong end. The question the court had to decide was whether this -roya! right to a dead whale had ever been waived in favor of some old private fishery owner, his quaint point was argued to constitute a precedent affecting the ownership of a very valuable fishery. The fact that a whale does not happen to be a fish made no difference. It was a "fish" when the. original right was granted before Magna Charta, and that, in law, settled the point. Manorial rights in Kingston, Russel, Dorset, used to be held by the odd service of counting the King's chessmen. Another roy- al pastime was known as '"shov- fls bourde," and we know that, in 1532, "my Lord of Rocheford" won £86 12s. 6d. from the King on the '"shovida bourde." This game fis the ""Shove-ha'penny" of today, and there is a good deal to be said for it as the ancestor of billiards. When the King went fishing in olden time at Stafford there was a curious division of the spoils. Ralph de Waymer held a stew or fish-pond near the eastern gate of the town on condition "that when the King should please to fish, he was"to have the pikes and breams, and the said Ralph and his heirs were to have all the other fishes with the eels coming to the hooks." At Dunmow is seen an annual reminder that certainly since 1445, "he which repents him not of his marriage, either sleeping or waking, in a year and a day, may lawfully go to Dunmow .and fetch him a gammon of bacon." The modern revival of this cus- tom takes place at Ilford, and it is curious that the old ceremony at Dunmow may have been a re- vival of a still earlier one. At Whichnor, Stafford, in 1327, "one bacon flyke" was given to the man who could say of his wife "a yere and a daye after our mar- ryage, I wold not have changed for none other, farer ne fowler, richer ne powrer, sleping ne wak- ing at noo time." The Lord of the Manor of Es- sington had to bring a BOOsé every New Year's Day, and drive it round the fire at least' three times while "Jack of Hilton" blew up the fire, "Jack of Hilton" was a brass image, "having a little hole at the mouth, which being filled with water ana set to a strong fire, makes it evaporate and vent itself in a constant blast so strongly that it is very audi. ble, and blows the fire fiercely.' From this we see that our ances tors knew more about steam than we suspected, Declares Human Life Originated in Sahar: Los Angeles, July 23. -- The Southern Sahara desert was the cradle of the human race, Dr. Arthur Torrance, Los Angele scientist and explorer asserted upon his return from an 18,000 mile expedition through Africa. Dr. Torrance also claimed to have found evidences refuting the Darwinian theory in his extensive investigation of the primitive tribes and geological history of the Sahara. "Man evolved from a lower type of human animal, but his origin was in its present form, he said in explanation of his re- vised theory. He declined to go into detail on the theory yester- cay, but sald his next book would outline his reasons and present pictorial] evidence to substantiate his belief. "lI am now convinced that man was evolved in the southern part of the Sahara, despite the fact that Roy Chapman Andrews maintains that man's origim may te located in Central Asia," Dr. Torranee said. "There is no no doubt 'in' my mind but that this general section of the world formed the cradle of the earliest human life." One of the aims of his expedi- tion, Dr, Torrance explained, was to find remedies to cure sleeping sickness, a disease which has rav- aged African natives for ages. He said science had reduced the num- ber of African sleeping sickness fatalities from the four million a year of 15 years ago to less than £0,000 last year, Sleeping sickness which results from the bite of the tsetse fly, may be easily controlled in white people, who are susceptibla to scrum to combat it, he said, "The same persons who go loudly proclaimed a mew era of unlimited prosperity two or three years ago are now equally con- vinced that the end of eivilization is at hand and that while time still remains we had better sell the whole country back to the In- dians for what it will bring."'-- Am. paper. He: "What do you think of a man that throws a banana skin on the footpath?" Him: "I don't know. What do you think of a banana skin that throws a man on the footpath?' NO POWER IN GUM! KOOLMOTOR GASOLENE Saanh A Free from valve=sticking gum No place for GUM around valve seats : s s makes the valves sluggish...cuts down speed, power, and pick-up. 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