£ * _ WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928. . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG | gives a new enjoy- . ment to the daily fare. - Even the plainest food be- comes appetising and tasty- with H.P. Sauce. One trial will convince you H.P. is the sauce for your table. All Stores sell H.P, + Borden's EAGLE - BRAND milk fai i when mother's Tails, Supplying Send for free Baby Books The Bordon CG Limited 4 AND OTHER Al BEAST, TO THAT A * VARIED AND RELIABLE REMEDY, :. DB THOMAS' ECLECTRIC OolL Jtiful and historic mansion fin + Newstead. -l partly bulit of stones GEEOLTLDLELLLOIIIIPBIN Many Historic Homes Supposed to be Unlucky Families Know Misfortune 040000 ICOO0OTPIO0POOOOO00e England abounds in houses reput- ed to be unlucky. The unluckiest of all these must surely be Newstead Abbey, Byron's old home, that beau- Not- tinghamshire on the outskirts of Sherwood Forest. The bad luck attending Newstead is due, according to general belief, to thie priory, which stood here until 1539, being seized and its lands con- fiscated. The buildings and the broad acres of this religious house were sold 'foilowing year to Sir John Byron, "of Colwick, who then set about building himself a residence there, partly demolishing the priory church for the sake of the building materials. He did not wholly destroy it, for he requirad, as a picturesque adjunct to his residence a ruined monastery, an object which gentlemen of taste greatly appreciated. But they had not, all of them, the advantages of at one and the same time providing their own ruined priory and finding their own building materials out of the ruins they made. Of course, the superstitious looked with bated breath on Sir Johm Byron's sacrilegious doings, and pre- dicted a\bad end for him. But noth- ing happened 10 mar his peace and contentment. The "Black Friar' who haunts the ruins and whose appear- ance every now and then is an omen of ill to those who reside at New- stead, seems at that time not te have béen known. But Lord Byron, the poet, claimed to have seen him, and he has been seen within recent years. The troubles of the Byrons began with Sir Richard, who was a Royal- ist, and was ruined for his loyalty to King Charles. His successor was cre- ated a baron, but he died childless and in poverty. Pach successive Lard Byron was afllicted with misfortunes. The sixth lord, {"e poet, was a de- generate althouy . « genius, and he had a club fooi.. He followed his great uncle, the infamous *"'Devfi Byron," who had wilfully wrought a8 much ruin on Newstead as he | could, to spite his heirs. He had cut { down all the woods, and almost en- | tirely unroofed the mansion. He died i in the scullery, the only part of the | house wnich remained weatherproof. ! The poet sold Newstead to Col. Wildman, who lost most of his for' tune. Finally, after the decease of the next owner, Mr. Webb, his daugh- ter died suddenly. She was succeed- ed by her brother, who also died sud- , denly in 1916, in East Africa. In ' the same week, Sir Arthur Markham, M.P., who had rented Newstead, died suddenly, | That is the ominous record of .....Jyvie Castle, in the neighborhood of Banff, Scotland, beautifully situat- ' ed or the River Ythan, is associated in the unlucky way with an ancient prophecy of that prophet of unpleas- i ant-things, Thomas the Rhymes. He declared that b the castle was Irom a ruined abbey, all the ladies of Fyvie should be unhappy, until at least three miss ing stones should be brought to the castle--one to Preston's Tower, one in my lady's bower, and one below the -water-gate. "And that," concluded this gloomy Thomas, "ye shall never get." dence and 'an ancient ruined castle facing it from a height. No longer & 'possesnion of the Shirley family. Chartley was extremely unlucky to them 80 long as they held it. o = e85g Hi <3 i 1 ; i sis jit i transferable, it would ap the estate. lity Air Travel. Such a forecast as that recently Maj-Gen. William at the third ann co London, does £ ized EH : 8 fit i i ES MISHAPS AT WEDDINGS, Groom Had Long Search to Secure » License. ; Stories of unexpected or amusing happenings at weddings are numer- ous, and form a large part of the off+ guard conversation of some clergy- men.' The happy events are not always the smooth and cut-and-dried affairs they are represented to be ia the society news 'columns. It would be an interesting experiment for a newspaper to write up, weddings with the same realism appited to politics of a railway accident, for Instance; but it is probable that the experi- ment would fail owing to the opposi~ tion of the "contracting parties" and their parents, who have terribly exact ideas of what should be sald. A wedding story told by Long- fellow is contained in a new book, "Memories of a Hostess" (Mrs. James T. Fleldg), by M.'A. DeWolfe Howe: a + Longfellow gave him an accoun of the wedding of s schoolmate of mine, ,, AR excellent, 'generous- h generously bulit woman, with a little limping cid clergyman who has already had three wives, and whose first name is ---- Long- fellow said, in memory of what had gone before, the organist, as if driven by some evil spirit, played "Auld Lang Syne" as the wedding. proces- sion came in, consisting of the bride and her brother, two very well-made large persons, and the elderly bride- groom limping on behind all alone, | The organist sudtenly stopped at this i point, breaking off with a queer little quirk and shiver as if he only then | discovered what he was doing. In- i deed, the whole weddjng appeared to | have points to affect the risibles of | the poét. He could hardly speak of | it without laughter. This bad almost a parallel in the | case of a Torofito wedding some | years ago. It was a church wedding, i and on New Year's Day. The groom, | who came from the United States, | where marriage customs are different | in some details, arrived at the chureca all ready, 'as he thought, but alas! | when asked for the license, he had | none, No one had posted him on | this important detail. The minister | refused, of course, to act without | this document. The groom entered his cab (it was before motor cars were so universal) | again, and drove out Queen street ! west for miles before he found a license vendor whose place was open. He was absent nearly an hour, and, meantime, the assembled guests, numbering several hundred, were greatly pussled, and craned their necks and strained their ears for some light on the mystery. Had the bride been deserted at the altar; was the train late; or what had hap- med? Fortunately ths~organist ad a sense of humor, and he con- tinued his program of mukie, inter- spersing the '""set" pieces with such old favorites in another 'sphere as "Where Is My Wandering Boy To- night" and "Will He Ne'er Come Back Again?" : Moa Islands of Ice. Do you know why ice forms on the surface of ponds during frosty weather? ; The reason is that when the tem- perat@ire; ia a little above freezing point, the water increases in bulk and begomes lighter, so that the ice, when form: floats on the surface. When we look at-a frozen pond it doesn't appear capable of supporting much weight, does it? Yet it.is really very strong, for ice one inch and a half thick will support & man;'ten inches thick will support a cannon; and eighteen inches thick will 'Sup- port a modern railway engine. Various ice marks on the mountain sides of Southern Canada have re- cently caused geologists to estimate that at one time ice must have laid 1,300 feet deep in those parte! Ever since the Titanic snk after striking an iceberg, an ice patrol regularly searches the North Atlantic | Ocean for icebergs and sends news of their positions by wireless to other vessels. Some of these icebergs are one hundred feet high, but the amount of ice showing above water repre- sents only one-eighth of the size of the actual berg. The spring is the most dangerouc time for vessels, for this is when the to split up and break | it is written Las Hurdes. BARBAROUS PYGMIES. Queer Rice Has Existed In Parts of Spain. Three feet tall---sometimes a little more, though often less--a race of barbgrous natives have come to light in Spain and caught the attention of King Alfonso, who plans to take them out of their windowless mud hovels, scatter them among the normal popu- lation, and give them a chance to be- come civilized. As a contributor to the International -Interpreter writes, their condition has been a forbidden subject until of late. We read: Long years ago, when the present correspondent was making it his business to become acqualated with eve part of the country, and as many of the people in it as possible, the manager of a bank, in discussing with him the fierce contrasts of Spain --and we were thinking then of the splendor of the new banks that were being raised in Madrid -- told him that out on westarn borders, a shade southwest of Salamanca, nigh unto the Portuguese frontier, there was a part of Spain that was "utterly aban- doned," that was unrecognized and unattended as far as possible by the state, that was "darkest Spain," most pitiful, and seemingly unredeemable by any modern Spanish Government, This region, which he said was fn- habited by people who until recently had never seen bread, lived in huts of sticks and mud, were rearfully attenuated physically, were wholly illiterate and knew nothing of news: papers, and were so much afraid of the strong, confident people from other parts that on thelr rare ap- proach they, the natives, often fled, and - where the full-grown boy had often not three feet of stature, is known as Las Jurdes, or sometimes It 18 rarely marked on small maps, but is to be found on big ones due south about twenty to thirty miles from Ciudad Rodrigo, near to a range of hills called the Sierra de Gato. and largely in the valley.sof Las Batuecas. In the valley are a number of small hamlets or collections of huts of the kind indicated, with a hole for a door, windowless, airless, foul. Some seven thousand people live here in this way under appalling conditions of degeneracy. When the matter was mentioned to others who it was thought might know about it, they looked coldly at the interrogator as if offended. Spain turned its back on Las Jurdes; It was | ashamed of it, of its own part in its condition. Mr.Blanco Belmonte, who penetrated there and pitied so much what he saw, read a paper upon it to the Royal Geographical Society of Spain. The listeners almost wept, but nothing more happened. Now, however, all Spain is discuss- Ing Lag Jurdes--the newspapers, the Cortes, Spaniards everywhere--and, as the writer in the International Interpreter tells us: - This abandoned land, presenting a scene of infinite desolation, has even been made the subject of reports by various personages of eminence, one of whom has"directed to the king what is deseri as an 'eloquent memorial." = All this is because the king himself, in a most knightly manner and upon his own Initiative, set out for Las Jurdes, rode and walked through it, entered the hov- els, inquired of the péople, and found things out for himself. > Before he had left Las Jurdes, Don Alfonso had quite determined what was the best thing to do with it, and his conception was his own, and was in fact in opposition to that propounded by the experts in the form of reports. The king's scheme, Which is virtually the national deci- sion, is probably the best and the most efficient one. The others re- ported in favor of making roads, schools, installingtelegraphsand tele phones, and doing all sorts of stand- ard civilisation things, which in the course of time, long, long time, would perhaps bring Las Jurdes to a higher level of life. > HAPPIER, HEALTHIER WOMEN by thousands are known to exist in this country because they have been relieved from pain and suffering by taking Lydia BE, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Selence in surgery and electricity have advanced greatly dur- ing the past fifty years, but treatment of disease by old-fashioned root and herb medicines has neyer been im- proved upon. The leader of thém all is Lydia BE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which after fifty years of 0: | success is to-day recognized as the og : : sie standard remedy for female ills and sold everywhere for that pgrpose. Replies to a questionnaire recently sent out to 50,000 women by-.the Lydia E. 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RN "No, .said the king; it is slow and uncertain. The thing to do is to re- move all these people immediately to other parts, set them to mix amons others, and so raise their standard of 1ife and their capacity in a way they could never be raised if they remain Aad naar Frat a NAR Rvs atte Nass Satatn esas Sananes tienen only among themselves. And when they have all been taken away to various parts, the thing to do with Las Jurdes is to bura it out com- plete, everything. Afterward, there will be plenty of time to consider whether any good ean be made to come from that land. This will probably be done, and soon. It is surely an extraordinary bat necessary procedure, A whole rice, as it were, to be moved, a whale district between twenty and thirty miles long to be burnt and destroyed. One of the difficulties, perhaps the only one, and a strange one, is that these miserable people have after all an affection for the piece of land on which they live, and do not want to leave, ds pt . Keeping Up Appearances. What discomforts people will suf fer merely for the sake of appear ances! In Santiago, Chile, says Mr. Harry A. Franck, in "Working North trom Patagonia," there are poor but |. aristocratic families that, umablé to- afford the usual summer vacation that it is the custom for the upper class to take, shut themselves tight in the harks of. their houses for two So 7 Write Ad. columns. Tell Three days' produces 4 LIXES MINIMUM outside Santiago in a décad months or more and live on what food their trusted servants can smuggle in to them. A man who had every mark of being trustworthy as- sured Mr. Franck that he had been invited to the homecoming party of & family that he knew had not been e. Slee dt A Safety Council. The Safety Council of London is endeavoring to establish the custom of walking to the left, and it is ae serted that a d. The effort has and. 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