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2 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1929 My Battle-Royal In the Red Sea Long before Conrad wrote "Lord Jim" 1 had an adventure with pilgrims on the way to Mecca that is brought hack vividly to mind whenever that book is mentioned. In the days of which 1 write I spent as much time as I could on any ship that offered herself: and 1 preferred a verminous old tramp to any of your Luxury at sea, if you love the sea. Is like going to the opera with your ears plugged. 1 like to taste the tarred rope's end in the soup and have the run of the captain's bridge at any hour. 'fill* skipper of the Pinto (that was not her name) would have made an outstanding figure in any book if you had dared to paint him and his language faithfully. He was a mountain of flesh and oone, and had but one eye, although he could see farther with that one than any cf his officers could see with two. Our "Hard Case" Skipper He knew his job from masthead to bilgecock, and he wouldn't have allowed anyone to teach hlm.it even if he hadn't. He ruled by (he power of his massive fists and thunderous voice, and yet he could be as gentle and sentimental as a spring poet, especially if you started him talking about children and their sayings. The other fellow on the Pinto who would have made a reputation for a writer of sea yarns was "Chips," the carpenter. He was a short, squat, handy-legged little man who kept his tools in a coffin of his own make and design. He told me he knew he would not be shot over the side when his time came; he had his coffin in readiness so that he might be buried de- I got the chance of joining the ship at Penang. In those days the owners of a tramp ship didn't weigh their of- gave them their instructions, and supplied them with medicine. Pilgrims Run Amok. They began to die off like flies, yet there was nothing panic. They accepted fate with courage--so long as the firebars lasted!The pilgrim who has to be lowered over the side must have an old firebar from the boiler-room placed at his feet in the rough and ready shroud. That is to lake him straight to the bottom--to miss the sharks that might impede his passage to the gods. It was "Chips'" job to supply the old firebars that had been discarded from the furnace. But I fancy that a forbear of "Chips" was one of those Phoenicians who came up the Thames and managed to make a little out of the simple-minded ancients who were ready to trade a copper mine for a piece of pretty glass. Anyhow, the stock of firbars ran out and a distressing murmuring arose among the pilgrims. "Chips" had tried to run this little side-line on his own. He had been selling the firbars to the relatives of the dead pilgrims. He had 6*een giving an extra one here and there if the money was good, And when there were no more firebars to be had those pilgrims made the heat haze on the sea dance a wilder jig with their howls. They believed that the ship's crew had conspired to condemn them to eternal predition; they had something to fight for. They came in solid phal- There was only c Id tramp, and th Sir Hubert Still Sticks to Whiskers medicine men, looking with their froth j pattered mouths and bloodshot eyes j like devils incarnate. The chief medi-: held a chicken, which he repeatedly dashed in the face of one of j it. as from a thing of dreadful menace.; Suddenly, with a swift slash of a; knife, the witch-doctor decapitated the fowl, causing the blood to flow over him as 'though from i fountain. It was a trial by blood--should the blood touch anyone but the witch-doc-deemed guilty of ' ARCTIC EXPLORER WEDS ACTRESS IN CLEVELAND Sir George Hubert Wilkins, noted Arctic explorer (extreme righ his bride, the former M Sunday School Lesson : had h nitted. Significance Text--The r everlasting Psalm 103: 17. Although spellbound by the primitive scene enacted before my eyes, I sensed that something was making its way through the'bush In niy direction. Next moment, a native broke through the bush, carrying a large thrusting spear. He saw me, but from his hesitation, I knew he could not quite make me out. There was only one thing to do. I. flashed in his face tho electric torch | I was carrying. With a shriek of fear he dashed into the hush, as though all the ju-ju devils ,ve.-e after him. In an instant pandemonium broke loose. Blacks rr,n in every direction, mad bala *ith ! i the ; had to be made up in other ways, the carrying of deck cargo, as they call it, being the most profitable. It wasn't mentioned in the bill of lading! The agent at some port or other would mention casually that he had some freight that could be discharged on the homeward voyage; it would be cheap, but wouldn't take up more than deck space. Well, well! If you underpay a good servant you mustn't expect him to turn up his nose at anything "buckshee," as we used to say when we scounged in the old days, ten or twelve years ago, The skipper of the Pinto was offered five hundred native pilgrims at a nominal pricci per head; they were on their way to Mtvflg^V whence *fc*y would return prepared for ihat longer journey which all of us have to make t one belonged to passed through so at it was choked with rust. Armed with anything we could lay our hands on, we met the storming party, or rather ve held the bridge. It was a sharp fight. The skipper fought like ten men; his powerful firsts worked like flails, and the first and second officers didn't stop to scratch their heads either. It was "Chips"--and rightly so-- who turned the battle decisively. He brought the hose into action. The natives were beaten back to the poop. In a little while there was quiet; thoso who were nursing their w-ounds those who had escaped injury even smiled ingratiatingly in that way the native has when he recognizes his We got them to Jeddah, the port of water to pour over his grave, desert's last compliment to the ,-ith its fascinat friean bush life. Camping on ing the rains in close proxi ■illage, 1 was roused from Africa, the Land Of Sudden DeathjanfS.'one'oT^ Nearly Three Years in thel^ Heart of Equatorial Africa'e. --Three Years of Cease^and shout less Danger, or Hunger and j Taking Thirst and Nightmare Ad- l^e^at" venture--that is the ExperiaHcoherent!; ence from Which Mr. arid}One won Mrs. T. A. Glover Have Just Returned. with fear. The Snake in the Camp e Next morning the savages w< pounding corn and killing chickens, 1- order to appease the evil spirit t! if! had -ippeared to them, it j One night, unable to sleep becai o of mosquitoes, I sought the pn 1- of one of our camp-tires. Around ' itside my tent, iiie, 1 groped my way ' , to find the whole v ofttside, jabbering Hal To ; mid i 'imake myself I s the i dried By Mrs. Kathleen Glover lystery and adventure--the I ie unexpected. Mother Africa that a leopara had the chief and, on being disturbed, had mauled the ocupauts. I called for lights, and made my way through ihe rain-swept vilage. kle-deep in rushing water. Wha shambles the hut presented. Over and didn' in the end. A Jonah Aboard I was standing alongside "Chips" when the stream of humanity came aboard at a small port less than three or tour days' steaming due south from Madras. They brought with them the food .hat would be necessary to sustain them on the voyage. All they askod in return for their small head fee was water and a place on deck where they might sit or lie- the quar-•igged them up an awning What t them had t ) the sun. was! And the s e with that lot- hip', "Chips" shifted his pipe across his tobacco-stained lips. "1 don't mind takin' 'em," he said, "but I don't hanker for th' job of bringin' 'em back. Before they get to the questioning, but the mate told me it was less than his wages--and they were pretty small. "Nothing to speak of. Few cases of sea-sickness." . rrl'- i i.•-;■">"■"• "chips" passed me on deck after-we had got under way again. He had changed his pipe for ing his check wi'h philosophic deli- "You must have made a bit out of those old firbars," said 1, and winked. He spat over the side. "I made more out of the new 'uns I pinched from the stores," he said; "they paid more for 'em--they looked nicer. Ain't it a life? Makin' a bit where yer can fooling even the blinkin' dead or the mourners?" "What about the old man?" said I, thinking of the wrath of the skipper when he came to hold the "inquest." "He spilt a couple o' bottles with the agent," said "Chips." " He's sleepin' it off, and there ain't a better skipper out o' ihe Thames." He looked at the dark waters of the Red Sea. an shook his head reflectively. "Thicker' pea soup," he said. "No wonder th Israelites walked over it--I could."- 1 remember trekking aci pitiless stretch of desert between Zeiga and Faya, A mad camel charged and stampeded our water camels. In an instant the whole caravan was in full career across the desert, the camels fighting to rid themselves from tbS" goat-skins that were holding them back, shedding our precious water-bags in every direction. The shot that sent the mad camel down was too late. The parched sand was seeping up the precious water. Frantically we worked tc little of the life-giving flu; retained in the hollows o sacks.* Water. wefcn r the c j th3 alf-e: in pie dog, while stretched out over the floor were three human forms moaning pitifully. The chief's two wives were only slightly injured, but the chief himself was pretty badly hurt. / At .Grips With a Leopard Next morning I decided to follow the marauder, but it was only with the greatest difficulty'that 1 could procure guides, the natives being thoroughly Ihave caused his death from the fangs of the disturbed reptile; to shoot j equally impossible. Picking up a spear that was sticking in the ground, 1 cautiously approached, put the spear I as near to the repulsive reptile as possible, and with a swift heave tossed it into the air, With a scream, Sam (woke, arousing the rest of the camp. With the aid of burning grass, we hunted the snake out. and dispatched it with sticks. It was one of the death-dealing puff-adders. "We Live for Die." The hyena, usually regarded as the most cowardly of beasts, yet can, when driven by hunger, be as recklessly daring as the lion. My husband, on a photographic expedition, accompanied by one boy, had a close call with one of these disgusting brutes. One night, while they were sleeping on the ground, he opened his eyes to look straight into the face of a huge silhouetted form--at fii Jourr way- arding the Watei 3 guarded those t off the f it was t then. Juliu We 1 mild : 'clea sod ; 1(1 llOl what happens that they're inclined to be troublesome." It was long after we had left Aden and were slowly squirming through the heavy, sullen waters of the Red Sea that we sensed a Jonah on board. | There wasn't a breath of air to be had unless you sat in the forepeak and caught a whiff of the breeze that the old ship's momentum created. The lative piled aft, stirring lazily under the awning. The sluggish waters seemed buoyant! enough to alow of walking on the sur-' face. There hadn't been the slightest trouble with the pilgrims up to that day. Then one of them came along to see the skipper to say that one of his friends had "belly sick; plenty no Gift o' the Gab. We didn't carry a doctor. The skipper was the dispenser of medicine: his favorite remedy for any malady was black draught--a concoction of seena and salts and treacle and Heaven knows what else. If a deckhand broke a leg he had to get better on liberal doses of that tack. Disease of some sort had broken out among the pilgrims. The skipper spoke India as I had never heard her spoken before. He went down among the natives, barking at them in a strange tongue that waj neither Hin-dustanoi nor Rotherthithe nor Eng-J'sh, but a wonderful blending of all three. " Hi's profanity filled hie with j Making the Best Of It Detroit Free Press: Arnold Tonybec-once asked if, whan Americans boast ed of their higher standard of living, they did not really mean standard of consumption. The distinction betwec-consumption and living can be ove stressed. Occasionally there appea a prophet who will sell one of his tvi loaves to buy white hyacinths to feed his soul; but for the gr humanity in all ages and countries there has been little to life but the pursuit of material things to consume. That is its civilisation, which is measured by the success of the ad I idea that r of t kipper had no regard for doctored freely, marshall-; intelligent as orderlies, cupful. On the four! of the ( where it had left the vil-•ossed a small ravine. Af-long trek we came on it sunning uck it, it rolled over as though ud I 'iad jdead. I approached to examine my it-mad na- "bag." In an instant the leopard had in o'clock me by the leg. Almost at the same we gave moment 1 fired my second shot and ition one released its grip--dead! But in th j fraction of asecond the fangs had done iels began their work, and it was eight weeks be-to show signs of weariness, falling fore 1 could painfuly limp round the through sheer exhaustion. There was camp. nothing to do but cut off their loads | Night had descended on the village, and leave the poor beasts to follow at far away boomed the big drums of the their ease when they had rested. j witch-doctors. Making sure 1 was un-As the sun was sinking, clouded in observed, I made my way through the a silver web, we found the well. A I thick bush in the direction of the few cupfuls oozing out of the sand, sound, crawling on all fours. I reached It was blackish, hardly fit for human'a place where, with ordinary good consumption, but in an hour we had j luck, 1 could remain unseen. Two or deepened the well and were drinking three hundred men were sitting round j in a circle, while in their centre were boy, woke up. Grasping the situation, he blazed at the beast with a shot-gunr Next ^morning^hiy husband men-chief, who informed him that hyenas in that particular area were exceedingly daring, and later in the day pro-jduced two men from his village who I had both been mauled by these beasts ias they were sleeping in the bush. | Living as they do, amid so many dangers, it cannot be wondered that | African travellers accept the fatalism of the natives, as summed up when .they say to you: "We live for die."-- Three days later we sc mound that marked the re of a native who had failed t iv a little j the witch-doctors gesturing and shout-sting place ing wildly. > reach the { As the rhythm if the tom-tom be-sd a little came fester, so did the dancing of the Noth STRENGTH OF LOVE ing is We do not always see the full significance of events when they happen. We may be overwhelmed by some factor in the experience of the hour so that we fail to see the forces which have occasioned it or the direction in which it is leading Us. Not until some time has elapsed, possibly years, are we r.ble to see the deeper meaning of it all and discern the hand o/ Providence in it. There can be no doubt that was the se with the people of Judah and Jerusalem. When the blow fell and loved centre in Jerusal '.m and carried to a far foreign land it looked like a clay of unrelieved disaster. But, viewed in the light of history and seen in its perspective, it is more readily understood and its educative and redemptive element more easily recognized. Throughout the second Quarter's lessons this year we saw something of the forces which led inevitably to the dissolution of the Jewish national life as it had been constituted. During this past Qu.-.iter we have seen these people in exib, at school, as it were, learning the deeper lessons of life from Cod through the pronhets and teachers given to them. Then having learned--in some measure-that lesson, we have seen then* transplanted once more to the old ground in Judah. | What differences can you point out in the Jewish life of Jerusalem in the re-established colony from the life of the old kingdom of Judah, as it was just preceding the exile? Was their religion ever again exclusively a national i-eligion? Did not this "trip abroad" somewhat enlarge t'reir national outlook and broaden in some measure the religious outlook as well? God was no longer confined to Palestine, but the God of the whole earth. What was the effect of Ezekie-'s teaching on their conception of religion? Recall the emphasis Ezekiel placed on individual responsibility to God. The idea of getting rid of our personal accountability in the corporate religious life was no longer possible to these returned Jews. Do we ever read again of the Jews takin i up any form of idolatry? Before the exile th's had been the rause of much difficulty in their religious life, but never again was this a tendency of the Jewish ° What effects had -the exile On the character of the people? Probably here thev developed those strong commercial tendencies which have marked them as a people since the restoration. In what wav (I'd this experience yre-fare the wav for 1he coming- T)f 1tW Messiah aid the Christian revelation of Cod? Glowing in past and present were largely cut off and hme pointed to a new dav. Besides the broadened national outlook, though but. slowlv developed, prepared the wav for the conception of a universal religion and a universal brotherhood as seen in Christ. It would be interesting to recall t re-outstanding leaders who contr:buted so largely to the preservation and odueatii n of th* exil=~ and gave them leadership in th° difWt period of rt,» restoration • KtoW*'. Daniel. Zer-ubbabel, Ezra. Xehoir/.ah. Malachi. love. ithing higher, under nothing more pleasant, fuler or better in heaven or on earth; for love is born of God and cannot rest but in God. --Thomas A. Kempis. FRIENDS ~~ Too late we learn--a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, faultless to the --John Boyle O'Reilly. One of the Newest Submarine a concrete ?, that marital prob- British submarine Pondor s hard to solve.' 1 the ways. What Sold for $150 j Now Worth $15,000 I Mr. Shaw Was Really Right ! On Value of His Manuscripts I London.--There is a Bernard Shaw j boom. His faculty for the dramatic and startling is now extending to his I first editions. It was not until the middle of last year that the first editions of his works began to be really valuable. Now they are worth ten times as "Three years ago," said Mr. Gilbert H. Fabes, the well-known Loudon expert. "I purchased a number of Mr. Shaw's manuscripts and first editions for $150. Now they are worth between $10,000 and $15,000. "When I asked Mr. Shaw what he wanted for these, he said ne had no idea of their worth, but as I insisted that he place a price upon them ho said, 'I will take $25,000 for them.' "'That,' I answera.. 'is an excellent start for a Dutch aaction. I will offer you $100.' W3 then parleyed for a time and then Mr. Shaw agreed to let Hie have them for ;150." Mr. Fabes, who predicted the rise in values of modern first editions, has just published a book on the subject, entitled, "Modern First Editions; Points and Values." "With book collecting it is true that what England thinks to.day, to-n Mr. "We shall see the first editions of books by many writers of contempora- ry lite j rise t the long-despised first edition of Tennyson will be the emaralds for the diadems of the mighty book collector of to.morrow." Even first editions of translations have their value, and the first issue of first English edition of Lenon Feuchtwanger's "Jew Suss" is priced at $15. Willesden Wit ■> takinS married, but I wi | that he had a wi