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} WEA oo HAS THE LARGEST SALE OF ANY PACHRET TEA IN NORTH AMERICA. The Stealer of Sight | BY LUCK WILLIAMS: A ing for that sound, and at last I found you can't understand, but you will I am going to sound that note It can't hurt me. How "And why you?" he went on. "It is one to come into my web. You happen But you will be only He went to the window, and, pulling ing. madly. more. that! Not that!" I mumbled to myself. "It can't be. It's impossible." I closed 'my eyes in fear. Sigh, scream, crackle. a: ght in be reall ex- uld the light in my eyes be really 3 f eo ; { darkening? I opened them again.| pense which is incurred in refinishing, The pain behind them was scorching. My brain was all afire. At that moment had the gag mitted it-I should have shrieked aloud: My eyesight was failing. The varnish on the violin threw back no gleam as it had done before. The madman's eyes were no longer visiblé to me; they were just two black sockets. My vision became dimmer and dimmer. I could barely perceive the standing in front of me now. Sigh, scream, crackle. It was ever sound- In the violent movements of my mouth to speak, the gag slipped away, and I cried aloud, The terrible note stopped suddenly. . My glance flicker- ed here and there, but the room was growing darker and darker, until at ast blackness pressed against my' screws in the cleats which hold it to eyes, thick and impenetrable, i "You've done it, you devil!" I cried "You've driven me blind!" I heard a laugh ring out, fiendish in its triumph, My head fell forward, and, my mind reeling in that blank, stifling blackness, I remembered no per-| real antiques are usually beautiful in figure "No one will hear us now," he mut- Without another word he took up! his violin and bow and stood facing He was full in the glare of the put away. He's completely gone." 4 PART IL fn, I looked at him wonderingly, per-| it. I did it by the colors I feel. Ah! be. haps a_little frightened. | % "You with sight cannot understand; soon. ) 3 that," he continued, now angrily. "I|again and again and again until you - learned to play with my violin so that are blind. 3 I could feel color. There is no sound could it?" He gave a laugh that was % 80 beautiful or awful that I cannot born of something blacker than mere 3 achieve. And to me every sound is! blindness. : colored." He stopped, and recom- " 1 1 menced abruptly with what I thought, not just because it is you. I've been 2 was another topic. "Have you ever| waiting, preparing months for some : heard of the Secret Note of Tibet?" | a He paused again and then went on.| to be the one. i "It is practiced in Tibet, in the the first? You should live in darkness. ; Hidden City. There they have secrets All the world should * * * Yes, I am ) centuries old. Sometimes, to punish al going to drag you into the pit with ; criminal, they place him in a cell, and' me, where light never comes. Then every so often a certain curious note! you will know." is sounded. The constant repetition of that note is so awful that in some aside the blinds, drew across the old- way it destroys the optic nerves. The, fashioned windows their heavy wood man goes blind forever * * * I know, shutters. that note!" Then and not until then did my tered. befogged brain realize this was a madman speaking. . "For some years I have been search-| me. the light. seemed to absorb it. : » : | 1 | that made 'me b chuckling. 4 ¢ The Great Canadian Swestmeat Lol provides pleusant action p for your teeth, alse ® penetrating the crevices | seconds. and cleansing them. A Then, too, it aids i digestion, Use WRIGLEY'S after ; every meal---see how ; much better you will feel. - ~The Flavor Lasts 3 [ A... RR: » YOUR STOVE BRIGHT | STOVE POLISH VRE TE A Brack Hnicur. : was going to begin. 1 anticipated it § | more of it. But, no, according to my | eyes his arm still continued to rest | repeating the note. to 'itself in" | arm never tire? | But gas, which was well behind me, and the silver of his hair and beard and the varnish of the violin reflected back But his lustreless eyes said. room was in darkness. He drew the bow slowly across the strings of his instrument. It is hard to describe what T heard. Beginning i with a kira-pitched sigh, it gradually; | rose and rose to a repressed painfull pay» | shriek, ending in a discordant crackle] think of * diabolical, to the glory of perfect sight. (The End.) It set my teeth on edge, it was in| i such a high register. The note, if such se . : it' could be called, lasted about six! Liquid Air Explosive. He paused for about the] When liquid air containing from 40 same length of time before repeating! to 50 per cent. of oxygen 1s mixed with After the first unpleasant shock my | 8ive which Is sald to be comparable in feelings subsided into those of faint irritation as he continued to produce the note, punctuating it with evenly timed intervals. Then I laughed at him for the madman he was. What harm could that do? The minutes sped on. I had no idea of the time or how it passed. Then oie pod I 'became aware that instead of the| A study of the great collection of monotonous repetition of the sound! meteorites in a European museum has having a soporific effect on me, it was| led to the interesting conclusion that riveting my attention all the time. | meteoritic iron, as it falls from the During the pauses I was restless. I|8ky, and the various steels produced in followed the rise of the note to the climax, and after the crackle was over I felt a temporary sense of relief. He stood before me in the same position, His arms and fingers never seemed to tire, and never once did his staring eyes blink. _ He must have repeated it 'many hundred times before my exasperation began to get acute. Why could I not get away from this madman and his strange, disturbing noise? The pauses ploded by means of a detonator, This explosive has been tested in coal mines. The liquid air must be used within a few minutes after it is prepared. + nna Meteors and' Steel. sults 'of essentially 'similar chemical and phyiscal action.. One"of the most striking characteristi's noted in me- siderable quantity of nickel. fps. Minard's Liniment for Corns and Warts in ORS, Sree hs Medals 'for. Minerva. Now look at this. Watch me. the Tibetan note commenced it would! table." x clutch something in my. brain' and! Annie grinned. bear it up to impossible heights. It|- "It be a grand thing," was a genuine relief when the crackle "t'ave a eddication." 7 EE | ---- I] was over. Keep correct time. Start on time. "Quit fooling, madman," I tried to : : aE say, but the pri in my mouth per- Arrive on time. - Work on. time. Finish mitted only a gurgle. The man before me continued un- Eo al Jp da te Suing the same sound; I watched his am now to tell when the sound nass, v with dread. "Oh, for hedven's sake, stop!" I tried fytilély to say. "It's unnerving." But he never stopped. Slowly, subtly, I believed he had! reduced the pause until there was no foi 1 3 brief silence, like an echo, 'Would his| 3 Would he never the six seconds. My brain then was cease? On "Yes," a voice was saying, when I came to; "his nerves seem badly affect ed. But he'll be all right presently. Of course, old Gettle will have to be "He wouldn't let me come in the room at first when I went tip after hearing the shouting," my landlady| old ones, the sideboard of 1895 can be "And when I did get inside the But I noticed the gas tap was on. It's a slot meter, and the light must have failed gradu. ally, as it always does. Of course, Mr. Gettle wouldn't know it had gone lines. out, and as for this poor young Then I opened my eyes once more » wiemaker should attend to all funda- it. powdered charcoal it forms an explo- power-to dynamite and can be ex- our modern steel works are the re-| teoritic iron is the presence of a con- ] "Annie," called her mistress, "just 3 come into the dining room a moment. |! I I can |; appeared to be less lengthy, and as| write my name in. the dust on this |: she said, on time. = Leave on time. In this ways ample, time is allowed for thorough-!- In Bearly every piece of furniture which id 1 better if it were refinished. In most cases, these pieces of the houswife the small even if they are not fine heirlooms of colonial mahogany and walnut. The line 'and 'only need a good finish to bring out the great beauty of the . Many' of the black walnut pieces of the Victorian age are cap-| able of being converted into desirable furniture. The wood is beautiful, the workmanship excellent and in many pieces the lines are good. We may be tired of and wish to renew a sideboard of twenty-five or thirty years ago. It is of good solid oak wood. If the underlying lines are simple and straight forward, the pro- portions good and the construction de- pendable, a satisfactory piece of re- finishing can be done. The back can be taken ,off by removing the few :).the body of the sideboard. Sometimes it is 'possible to use the upper section of this high back, now wholly out of style, and' have it put on to form a low back not more than ten inches high. Sometimes it is necessary to discard it entirely and get a new piece - {of oak for the low back. If this Is curved, about eight inches high in the centre and five inches at either end, it will make a good appearance. The glued on carving will come off if pried carefully with a chisel. By re- finishing the wood and substituting plain brass escutcheons for the fancy transformed into the buffet of 1923.|" This is possible because in this old sideboard there were the three prere- quisites of refinishing furniture: good wood, good construction and good Add to these a goodly amount of patience, persistence and 'perse- verance and we have a reliable recipe for success. i CARPENTER WORK. Before any work in actual refinish- ing .is done, a carpenter or cabinet mental repairs which are necessary. Any structural changes, such as the removal of glued on ornaments should be made at this time. EQUIPMENT. Refinishing furniture is rather a messy job and should be done in some unused room and if possible where there will be little dust. The equip- 'ment is simple and will depend on the special problems arising with each piece... The following be needed or it is possible that only a few of them will be called for: Var- 4 It Rests theWrist ' HE whole body is A laxed, the ironing is done far more quickly, and 'the end of your ironing finds * you with untired arms and wrists, if' you iron: the Smooth, white hands-- XX Fresh, clean skin-- Simply that Lifebuoy "cleans the whole depth of the pores, and opens them to Lifebuoy's : softening palm and. cocoanut fave oils. The health odour van- éshes quickly after use. items may all] -- HaveYouTried Them | ] Those bigs brown loaves of + Spon your mode » bakers' ovens? LL "old-fashioned" full-fruited 8 neighborhood bake shop. an