- PAGE TEN The Last is the Best sn I. EFORE the days of tango teas and fox trots, whén we gathered at the home of somebody's best beau down in the Old Town, games, and the invariable rule of THE LLAST ISTHE BEST OF ALL THE GAME wasa law that could not be disputed. ; In a recent issue of the New . York Herald, James L. Ford, in reviewing "Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" says that the work of E. Phillips Oppenheim improves steadily as the years roll on; and that his stories are as full of dramatic interest as ever. : True, and his VERY LAST story is yet the best of all. It has dramatic interest plus; it has ine dividuality; it is inventive, scientific, ingenious, SKILLFUL--a story that will live as long as will the name of the author itself. This wonderful story is "THE BLACK BOX," a mystery tale told as only Oppenheim can tell it. Plausible, yet seemingly beyond human compre- hension; sensational, yet profoundly dignified, | mysterious without a hint of cheap "'blood and thunder." THE BLACK BOX is full of action--gripping, ' soul stirring, thrilling--something doing in every line--never prosaic, never commonplace, never dull. Being written by E. Phillips Oppenheim it necessarily follows that the plot is original, that .the situations are 'exciting, the denouement in- tensely dramatic. And so ""the last is the best of all the game," and as noth- ing is too good for our readers, this LAST and BEST story willbe presented to them in serial form. The unique motion pictures of THE BLACK BOX, which were produced by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, will be shown at the same time in this city. You will want to see these startling pictures; you will want to read this thrilling story: you will want to bg among those who solve the mystery--who learn th THE BLACK BOX. =~ carn the secret of Watch for theOpening Instaliment! re POPULAR SPRING STYLES! Men's flat last, gun metal, laced or button broad shank, with low broad heel, Goodyear welt sole, \ Bp tte et tg tn H. JENNINGS, King Stree! eee he Most Valuable: Medicine ever discovered. The best known 12emady for : - * CougHs, CoLpS, Nima. sretseny v Sotst). Chiorodyne. id taken in dvops, . draduatéd according to the he 1 dwt Ye as Calin Scoot she pocel the mervous ew ben all fil; leaves i can be taken dther medicine can be tolerated. we used to "countout" for the | ny THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1915. ---------------------- ------_ ---------- i ------------t, A PRACTICAL MISSION MEMORIAL INSTITUTE, TORONTO, IS A UNIQUE CONCERN. In Crowded Area, Containing 33.379 Human -Beings, It Flourishes In the Carrying On of a Host of Activities --. Everybody Is Set at Making Something In Which He Excels, In Christianity few places In Canada does take more simple; homely, Christian color thar in the Memorial Idgstitute, down in the grey the corner of Richmond and Tecumseh streets, says Gregory Clark in a recent issue of The Toronto Star Weekly. There are 3,379 human souls crowded down in that area where-the. Institute lifts te--splendid head, and those souls are of twenty-two different nationali- tien, There are one hundred and seventy-five workers who give their labor to the work of the Institute, And every week, sixty-three meetings are held in it, from the regular di- vine service down te the "club" meet- ings of tiny. lisping kindergarten girls. The aggregate attendance at the Institute is between 7,000 and 10,000 a month. Is is a hive of life, swarming, swarming. And in it, over it, through it all is the breath of a divine faith, a humble but a joyous | faith. | The Memorial Institute has six buildings--a church and five houses. | The church was built some years ago {'by Mr. William Davies, in memory | of his daughter. On the wall, as you enter the church, is a brass plate, inseribed: "This House was erected for the Worship of God, by Mr. and Mrs. William Davies, in memory of their | beloved daughter, Ellen." | Three years ago this March; Rev. Mr. Brown came to the Institute. It was a Baptist Church with a mem- bership of 85. Walmer Road Baptist Church then took it over, guaranteed its main expenses, and launched it of mission work. In the three years, Mr. Brown has evolved out of the church a mission centre, with five large houses adjoining as part of the "plant." The actual membership of the church has been increased by 92. But its influence has spread over the whole Tecumseh street district, and it has literally laid its comforting hand 'on thousands. The church, the central building of the institute, is an ordinary-church. It has the usual auditorium. The basement, however, is no ordinary basement. When Rev. Awdrey Brown took the writer down there were 16 sewing machines in the centre of the floor, and a fireplace blazing, around which sat a number of women knit- ting. Around the walls were lockers and work benches. In oné corner were shower baths partitioned off. In anothér corner was the pure milk depot, where baby milk is procur- able. A half dozen unemployed men were constructing a new refrigerator. Another half dozen were making lockers, shelves, painting and reno- vating. At some smull tables one of the 63 meetings of the week was in progress--a score of tiny girls learn- ing to knit and speak English. And the fire-place! Don't forget the home- ly hearth! Over the main door of the chure is a'big bronze lamp, just recently made by the hands of one of the un- employed who came to Mr. Brown. He was a clock-maker and copper worker with a fdmily, forced to dig in the city's sewers for a living until his health threatened to give way. He came to the institute about his who A ill, and was Siven y féw of copper to work with. This Tan p was the result--the lamp that id' the weary feet into the | God! There is something sal about it. That clockmaker has 'mended several clocks and is now making a decent living doing work for the friends of the institute. on heart of Toronto, at comes to him: "What can you make?" Some say "cocoa-fibre pats. Some | say toys, chairs, cabinets, tinware. A i ker came. He was given a room in the institute and now s all the tattered feet that come | teresting chapters of human life. "I'he old-fashioned way of hand- ling oe unemployed problem," said ~the former ol which is convict lab- or. At neither of these can men 'paid, and Bion 1s HH A PERILOUS JOURNEY. Explorer Flaherty Describes Re-diss covery of Islands. . Robert. J. Flaherty, the Canadian explorer, gives a vivid description of his re-discovery of islands in the far north which have been absent from charts since the da of the early mariners. He says: "After being nearly eral times, the Great Whal vs wrecked sev- CeTEW was reached. With a new ¢rew, the boat was actu- ally driven ashore off one of the Nas- tipoka Islands, and it took four days fo get her into good shape and into the water again. After she had been battered by storms in Hgdsor Bay for about three months, the craft's deck gear and tanks were carried away in a heavy sea_and this attempt to find the islands was doned. "Then it was plawned>to make the attempt over the ice during the win- ter. The Eskimos who were to aet as guides put off the start until the first island Eskimo should coms to the mainland and brings reports as to ice conditions. He never appeared, and when, finally, a sledge journey across the bay was abéut to begin the ice fields were reported as breaking up, hence the journey across Ungava was undertaken. "The information I had gathered i from Eskimos during my first trip had led me te believe that the so-call- ed Belcher Islands, which parallel the east coast of Hudson Bay for more than 300 miles, at an average dis- tance away of about 70 miles, were of vastly greater extent than was gener- ally believed," said Mr. Flaherty. "On the Admiralty charts they appear as mere dots. Yet it is a fact that on the chart published in 1662 three great islands are shown in Hudson Bay, and two of these appear on Hud- {son's original map, that explorer hav- ing apparently cruised close enough to their shores to note them. The in- numerable, sea-swept reefs and small stone or chopping kindling | ? island outliers have proved, it seems, {an effectual guard against the ap- proach of a ship to the main island system since the days of small ves- sels, and the later Admiralty charts have been based on information given by Captain Coates, a Hudson Bay shipmaster, in 1721. "You will find on the maps these { groups .ef little dots with the names about as Captain Coates gave them--- North and South Belchers, Baker's Dozen, King George, The Sleepers, and Two Brothers. It is true Hud- son's islands appear on the old maps some distance to the westward of these, but that may be on aecount of an error of the early voyagers in de- sermining the location of the lower portion of the east coast:-line of the bay. The islands are in pretty much the position Hudson placed them, and are surrounded by the 'dots' that ap- pear on the Admiralty charts. Owing to directions of the trade routes in Hudson Bay and the dangerous char- acter of the islets, their neighborhood has been given a wide berth by mar- iners. "At Great Whale river I had found a book of copies of a series of letters that passed between Governor Sir George Simpson and his faetors of the Hudson Bay Trading Co. in 1846, " od his arrival. | which, curiously enough, partly con- (cerns a proposed trip of exploration to the "islands of our discovery, and .the correspondence shows clearly the | failure to discover other than a group ' jof outlying reefs. To the best of p my knowledge, the Hudson Bay Co. | turn has been ignorant of the existence of the larger islands." A feature film of Eskimo life will be shown shortly at Convocation Hall, University/of Toronto. The explorers maintained between 30 and 100 Eski- mos and 100 sledge-dogs for motion- picture work. Mortified, "What is the mattér with your old cat? She looks disconsolate these days." "Pap hurt her feelings dretfully. Brung home a mouse-trap last week I told him not to db it. Cats has got their feelings same &s anybody else." deserted when | TCHIRA TOMA, | Serbians' Name For Sir T. Lipton-- | _ Love English. { Nis bh. "28s 2 Is no coun- | try in the world where English 'are held in higher esteem | than in Serbia | . The visit.of Sir Thomas Lipton { this country, which is now coming] | to an end has given the Serbian peo | ple an opportunity of , expressing | their friendship for England and | their joy that tlhiey are becoming ! better known and understood by the | British people, and they have given him such a welcome as few men have! ever had in a foreign land He has heen a guest of every y municipality where he has made a | stay; the leading men of the country { have acted as his. hosts, and he is the bearer 'of innumerable messages of thanks to the British nation. How proud the Serbians are of their Eng- lish Allies no one can realize wh» has not witnessed the kindnesses and attentions showered upon English- men who visit this land of war at ithe present time. Though Sir Thomas Lipton's 'visit was a private one, the Serbian peo- ple with one accord determined to show their feelings of gratitude and good will, and throughout the coun- {try Sir Thomas has been the object {of amazing demongtrations.: He has { handed over his fine steam yacht [Erin £0 the Red Cross, and he aes i companied a party of dottors, nur- ses and orderlies to Serbia. His i ship also carried sixty tons of hos- | pital stores and ambulances, and. the | Red Cross party is now doing its | good work at Vrnjatchka Banja A representative of "the Serbian Government met the Erin at Salon- | ica and accompanied the party te i Nish, where M. Grouiteh, the Under { Secretary of Foreign Affaixs (former- {ly Serbian Charge d'Affaires in Lon- |don), the mayor and leading -citi- { zens, representatives of the army, {and the Prefect of Police awaited the train to welcame Sir Thomas and | his party. He was taken at once to Premier M. Pastich, who welcomed him and spoke highly of the gener osity of the British people. to-day | to} Gladstone Eulogised. An invitation reached him immediately to lunch with the Crown Prince, and together they drove to see the sights The mayor and corporation gave a dinner in almost the Town. Hall in his honor, hm al-? most every speech contained enlogis- tie references to Gladstone, who, as leader of the British race, released the Serbians from Turkish rule. The secrets of the army were made known to Sir Thomas, as representa- tive of the Serbians'. honoured Al- lies; and Foreign Office officials ac- companied him to Belgpade, where the 'brilliant . officer who now domin- ates Semlin al with his guns (Colonel Toulegdsjitch) greeted j him at the railway station. The Lord Mayor and members of the corporation | uwaited him' at his hotel and in- vited him to a dipter in his hon- or, and the people of Belgrade as. sembled in large numbers and cheer- ' { | A Host Killed. At, the palace Sir Thomas was the guest of Prince Paul on the after. noon of his arrival; and on hig re- the Austrians paid their re | spects by pearly . blowing up Ms oar- Sage with a six-inch shell, which ex | ploded. less than twenty vards away, | killing ' a woman and 'a girl. | One who was to have been his Bost {at dinner that night was killed by a shell from the ememy, and one of i the corporation officials who 'was de- | livering, invitations to guests was {killed by a piece of granite blown {from the road into his carriage. The lord Mayor, was the victim oigthe Serbians' enemy--typhus. He huofl to leave that night for ithe bedside of his dying .wife, who had gone from, the danger of the . Aus- trian shells only to fall 4 victim to, 4! 1 Habitual. Relative --'"He is sleeping quietly that I wonder if we know when the end comes." Wife of Dying Pirst-Nighter -- "Yes, we will. He will get up apd go out about five minutes before the end." so witl A Made in every drop, and enjoyed all over the world. ONE QUALITY £ : Grocers keep x : HP. on their handiest sheif, i Haste makes some people lot of other people's time: ~~ &° 'England | i Serbian gums; he was cheered by the brave men who have: thrice beaten the Austrians, and he is now ai- fectionately known by the Serbian soldiers around Belgrade as Tchika Toma (Uncle Tom). He was accom- panied to the station on his depar- ture by mounted infantry. At Krag- ujevats he was received by the com- pander in-chicf of the victorious Ser- 'bian army, Field-Marshal Radomir Putnik, and by his famous chief of stafl (the originiser of victory, as he is known in ), [With the oon Yor the first time since the commencement of the war a military band played during the as he t streets passed , and | | cheers were given as he left the'town dining with the after and Corporation and oday before leaving Nish, Si Thoms wis tert oad by ih Pras ident of the Serbian i it in the temporary Parliament House, and afterwards the Lord Mayor and mem- bers of the corporation waited w come quickly. Hospital comforts, drugs, clothes, and food are urgently needed by the brave and kindly peo- ple. They are wanted in shifloads, in thousands of tons. 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