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Durham Review (1897), 1 Feb 1934, p. 2

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town, ind ring me at r;:y home numâ€" ber at eight tonight for further inâ€" etructions. That clear?" "Perhaps that‘s best," said the manâ€" ager thoughtfully, "And it may save you straining your conscience or your powers of invention if you‘re asked questions. So here is all you need to know meantimsâ€"get your kit together fur a two or threeâ€"day stay out of "Why, certainly," said Glynn readâ€" ly, and then as he suddenly rememberâ€" »d his promise to telephone, he added, "But if you don‘t mind, I‘d say the best plan is for you to teil me nothing more until the job starts. Just leave it that I‘m to stand by for orders that may come at any time. Then if anyâ€" thing leaks elsewhere you‘ll know it was not through me." "If that‘s all, it doesn‘t matter," mid the manager with a distinct air of relief. "But let‘s get this clear first of allâ€"this business is the most complete and castâ€"iron hushâ€"hush. You‘ll be given a holiday from Airâ€" ways while you‘re on it, and you‘ll draw treble pay and a present at the »nd if you do it well. But you must give me your word not to tell a living soul what the business is, where you are going, what you are doing until I say you may. Can I count on that implicitly ?" MAGIC costs so littleâ€"=and you can always 4 * count on better baking results. Actuallyâ€" n it takes less than 1¢ worth of this famous baking g TA powder to make a big threeâ€"layer cake. Don‘t risk «& l poorâ€"quality cakes by using inferior baking powâ€" w der. Always bake with Magic and be sure! *"CONTAINS NOALUM." This MAGIC 3:3 Tonne oo Matana se , MADE IN CANADA say harmful ingsedient. # â€"or maybe I‘m making it look like all the fours possible." "Only the newspapers," said Glynn ralmly. "They‘ve got a yarn that it‘s rumored the Prince wants to fly. I Inaw the routes to India. I speak Hindustani, and I‘m pulled off my regular job in a great hurry. Putting mwo and two together, that makes four "Good lord!" exclaimed the manager in startled tones. "What put that in your head? Has anybody said anyâ€" ‘hing ?" "I was wondering if it was anything to do with that Prince fellow that‘s talking of flying to India," said Glynn rasually, taking a cigarette. "Afternoon, Elliman," said the manâ€" ager waving to a chair, "Sit down. Have a cigarette" 1 suppose you‘re wondering why we hauled you off your run at the last minute?" CHAPTER 1.â€"(Cont‘d.) Twenty minutes later Glynn was being shown in to the manager at the Airways‘ office. At Croydon aerodrome, Glynn Eliiman, pilot of the Indian Airâ€" Mail liner, meets Norah Seaman who has come to see some friends off. (Glynn is ordered to stand by for a special job. He talks it over with Norah and connects the press reâ€" ports of a Prince of Napalata, who is ill in London and in haste to return to India where his father has died, with tily nn‘s orders. says Miss ETHEL CHAPMAN The Flying Courier sSYNOPSIS by Boyd Cable » famous cookery editor of the Farmer "Oh, no," he assured her. "It‘s all ir. the day‘s work for us to get chased off on hushâ€"hush jobs to look over some new type of bus or engine or something. I‘d guess it‘s something of the sort." "More and more mysteriouser," she laughed. "Almost sounds like the Orient after all." There was the hint of a question in her tones, and he answered it at once. ‘‘Don‘t even know where I‘m going yet. My boss is to tell me this evenâ€" ing, later." "It certainly can‘t be India if you‘re to be back in days," she answered. "I hope it isn‘t a tiresome journey for you "Not a thing," he told her, "except that it evidently isn‘t that job we guessed at. I‘m shunting off out of town tonight, probably, but expect to be back in a few days." ‘Yes," he answered. "You have a good ear for a voice to recognize mine so quickly." He heard her laugh lightly. "Partâ€" ly recognizing it, and partly because 1 expected you. Well, any news?" About seven that evening Glynn telephoned Norah Seaman as he had arranged, His call was answered alâ€" most on the first ring, and he guessed rightly that it was the girl herself who answered him. "It‘s Miss Seaâ€" man speaking. Is that you, Captain Ellimar.?" "Which is one reason why 1 picked you specially," said the manager, and rose, holding out his hand. Glynn grinned happily at him. "And that takes earning these days," he amended, "But I don‘t mind owning that the chance of earning it by ways wut of the usual is one better than getting it." From the open drawer he lifted out a small automatic pistol and pushed it across the desk. Glynn picked it up, looked at it, and handed it back. "I‘ll get out my own," he said, adding with a mildly enquiring look in his eye, "if it‘s likely to be needed?" ‘"You‘re getting treble pay," said the manager significantly. "That‘. all then," seid the manager briskly. "Oh, one thing moreâ€"unless you have one of your own you‘d prefer, you‘d better take this." Glynn took the efwelope, and seribâ€" bXed_}:is_narpe on the receipt form. "Quite clear," said Glynn simply. . "‘Take this cash then," said the manager opening a drawer and taking out an envelope, "You may need it for fares and hotels. Just sign the receipt for it, will you?" 999 CHAPTER II. "The law of Napalata," explained Sir Aylmer, "is that the heir to a Prince who has died must proclaim himself in his capital within seventy days. The seventieth day as it hapâ€" pens, is the day of an important reliâ€" gious festivalâ€"one on which every year there is danger of religious strife only averted with difficulty. The priests on both sides are frenzied by the rumors and tales going round; the troops and police are tormented with the doubts instilled in them...." â€" _ (To be continued.) ‘ Promises may get friends, but it is performances that must nurse and keep them.â€"Owen Feltham. "In sixteen days from now, the gutâ€" ters will be running blood," said the Prince steadily, "unless I am there." The surgeons glanced at each other again. "In a fortnight from now, it is just possible the Prince might risk travelling, but I see no hope before," said one, and the other added briefly, "Nor 1." "And that means riot, bloodshed, civil and religious war," added Sir Aylmer quietly. "It might mean anâ€" other outbreak like Moplah, and worse. This is why my Government, and the India Government is so urgent to get the Prince out to Napalata." "My own halfâ€"brother," exploded the Prince. "No use mincing words, gentlemen. _ My â€" halfâ€"brother â€"the Vuiture, as they have rightly named him. He aspires to my father‘s royal seat, and if I am not there to check him is like to seize it, unless my troopâ€" ers‘ swords are strong enough to deny him." "Of course," said Sir Aylmer slowly and with a side glance at the Prince, "‘there is an influence in Napalata..." "It is true," cut in Sir Aylmer quickly, as he saw a look of distaste on one of the faces opposite. "My own official cables and reports have been discredited." "Most curious," murmured one surâ€" geon, and the other shook his head in puzzled agreement, The Prince laughed shortly. "You do not know the East, gentlemen, nor the rooted belief in the powers of Princesâ€"and of bribery." "But surely," said the one surgeon, "our word as specialists, quoted by such an authority as Sir Aylmer, should silence such rumors." _ _"Hardly that," said Sir Aylmer. "Yet grave enough,. You have both heard of the rumors being spread through Napaata, and the dangers of riots and outbreaks being stirred up. The most dangerous lie is that the Prince is dyingâ€"without hope of reâ€" coveryâ€"and that when he dies it is planned to put an impostor in his place." \ "Sir Aylmer here may tell you it is perhaps of less importance that I live if I am not in my palace in the next two weeks or so," said the Prince. "I fear it is impossible to promise that," said the one quietly; and the other added, "I take it the importance of getting to India is less than the importance of preserving the Prince‘s life ‘"Within a week from now," added the Prince, with his eyes on the surâ€" geons‘ faces, "His Highness wished me to meet you here, so that I could give you my asurances in addition to his that it is of serious importanceâ€"the most grave importanceâ€"that he should be flown to India at the earliest possible date." ’ At the house of which he had got the address, a close and anxious disâ€" cussion was then in progress. On a big bed in th> dimly lit room, the Prince of Napalata lay, his head and shoulders slightly raised on the pilâ€" lows behind him. Seated at one side of the bed were two very famous speâ€" cialist surgeons, and facing them on the other side of the bed sat a man known to the surgeons as high in the confidential affairs of the Government and of India, He was speaking slowly and deliberately. "Certainly gets mysteriouser, as that girl said," reflected Glynn as he hung up. "Taking orders from a man I don‘t even know the name of, or anything about except his house numâ€" ber and street. But at least it‘s out of the routine, with treble pay tacked on, and that‘s good enough." "N> need to report any further to me, Elliman," the manaer finished. ‘"You‘re officially on holiday now, and I‘ll be told about it as and when you‘re reporting back again. Good night, now, and good luck." He ‘put his other call through at eight o‘clock and again was answered promptly this time, by the manager of Airways. The instructions he got were brief to a point of curtnessâ€"to take a cab to 2 house of which he got the address and where he would be expected and admitted on giving his name, to take what orders were given him there, and carry them out without question. "N> need to report anv furthar i After he had finished their talk he hung up the receiver and stood thoughtful for a moment. "Wonder why she‘s so keen about news of that Napalata biz?" e wondered to himâ€" self. "nowing his country a bit, I supâ€" pose, and interested in the local gosâ€" sip of it. Oh, well......" "All right," she agreed. "But remâ€" ember if it should turn out to be India after all, I‘ll expect you to tell me all about it." "Then perhaps I‘ll hear from you when you get back to town*?" she askâ€" e3, and he answered quickly, "You certainly will, And I‘m going to see you again as soon as possible after 9n CC OCAmCVOR sEWEAAH, HBFORCE, 605 Sterling Tower, Bay Street, Toronto money making features for flou and your connections. Previous selling exâ€" perience not essential, Man chosen must have wide local acquaintance and high standing. Replying state briefly past business ex‘perieboo and give three resâ€" ponsible references. E mon 0 n id EN ME UTSY trict, full or part time, to work with us in the distribution of shares in producâ€" lnclgold mine. Investigation and comâ€" ing gold mine. lnvestlc.t}}tdn';nfi comâ€" parison will prove unparalleled sales and EXTRA MONEY FOR YOU "Without bunk in the place of hisâ€" tory few existing political movements could hope to carry on."â€"H .G. Wells. A faded coat Would fool the stranger Nor denote That underneath The sleazy dress Her soul was gowned In loveliness. â€"Philip Stack, in the New York Sun ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO The treatment, in its early stages, is a strain on the muscles of the eye, but the hospital authorities declare that the child does not notice this in his excitement at seeing the pictures of Mickey. Among the latest equipment used for rectifying faulty sight is an apparâ€" atus for correcting squints. The child has to look through two lenses in front of which are two slots in which coloured plates, similar to lantern slides, are fitted. Both plate *are exâ€" actly the same and have on them picâ€" tures of Mickey Mouse in various comic attitudes. At first the child sees two separate pictures, but, slowly, the plates are moved about until the child sees the two pictures merged into one. This merging has the effect of making both eyes concentrate on the same spot, thus correcting the squint. Mickey Mouse is familiar as a toy, a mascot, and as a decoration on nurâ€" sery teaâ€"cups and kiddies‘ handkerâ€" chiefs, but his latest use is unique. Even Chaplin himself could not rival the merry mouse in his new job, writes Titâ€"Bits (London), for Mickey is actually helping specialists to corâ€" rect errors of vision in children at a famous London eye hospital. "The archives which we are now preserving are the means of illustratâ€" ing the life and the history of the simple people who have gone beforc, as well as the great deeds which have been done in the past." The Master of the Rolls, Lord Hanâ€" worth, presiding at the business sesâ€" sion, said that the Association had been formed to assist the movement for the preservation of muniments and records of interest. They consist of papers deposited at Smith‘s Bank, Oundle, by clients. They were left unclaimed when the bank closed in the Nineteenth Cenâ€" tury. f 3 Other papers found at Mrs. Smith‘s house, including a copy of a letter from the Privy Council to the Lord Lieutenant, directing the enforcement of the laws against Papists, dated July 30, 1714, are in the Nottinghamâ€" shire Records Office. The documents are now in the Pubâ€" lic Records Office, London. gap in the records relating to the King. They were accounts of bailiffs, farmers and other ministers of manâ€" ors ‘to the Lord King.‘ HYDE PARK. "They related to Middlesex, Hackâ€" ney, ‘Chelsey," Westminster, Hyde Park, the Manor of Tieburn, the Manor of Stanwell, ‘bought of Lord Wyndsor at Michaelmas, 1542)‘" J Mrs. Smith, while showing Miss Wake round her house, opened an enormous chest full of gocuments datâ€" ing from the Seventeenth Century and relating to numerous Midland, Eastâ€" err and South»rn Counties. "We searched through the papers, making a record," said Mirs Wake, "and found among them the King Henry VIII. documents, which fil a The discovery c* important Henry VIII. documents at the home of a1 elderly widow, Mrs. J. Smith, of Oundle, Northamptonshire, England, was described recontly at the Con ference of the British Records Assoâ€" ciation in London by Miss Jane #ake, Secretary of the Northamptonshire Records Society, } Henry VIIll Documents Found in Old Chest want a representative in this disâ€" She wore her clothes As if they were No very special Part of her. A shabby hat, Mickey‘s New Job "SALADNA Distinctive Quality Choose always the way that seems the best, however, rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeâ€" able.â€"Pythagoras. _*"You can love your neighbor and be stupid enough not to know how to love him."â€"Thomas G. Masaryk. It is said that sixty years ago a maiden lady, who lived at No. 9, built it for a retired maid. Miniature furniâ€" ture was made to fit. But nurses who take their charges to Kensington Garâ€" dens, the haunt of Peter Pan, tell them that once upon & time a queer old dwart with a smiling face lived there; he used to run out of the house on the stroke of midnight and play by himself in Broad Walk! ‘ It bas a tiny front door and its numâ€" ber is 10, like the Prime Minister‘s in Downing Street! It is six feet wide and about twenty feet long, and inside it contains a tiny entrance hall}, one room on the ground floor, and two more above. To get upstairs you have to climb a narrow iron ladder. The front door not only bas a number, but also a letterâ€"box, yet neither knocker nor bell. No one has lved there for some time, but when a wellâ€"known doctor lived next door he always kept the house freshâ€"looking with green paint, curtains to its one window, and gay flowerâ€"boxes on its sill. Be careful, however, that you get Aspirin Tablets for this purpose. Remember: Only Medicine Helps Sore Throat Modern medical science now throws Aspirin is the trademark an entirely new light on sore throat. Bayer Company, Limited, ; A way that eases the pain, rawness name Bayer in the form of and irritation in as little as two or is on each tablet. They « three minutes! completely enough to gargl It requires medicineâ€"like out leaving irritating partic ASPIRINâ€"to do these things! That is why throat specialists throughout the world are prescribâ€" A ing this ASPIRIN gargle in place w»am of oldâ€"time ways, T A house which, it is said, Sir James Barrie had in mind when he described the home of Mr. and Mrs. Darling in "‘The Little White Bird," is wedged between two tall mansions in Hyde Park Place. If they‘re by the sea. Sydney, N.S. â€" Even sunsets, afterglow Long grey shadows creep, As yellow sails of anchored fleet Are molten gold in the deep; And figures of lovers are patterned And blended against the sky. In the cool evening seudding home The native seaâ€"birds fiy, Ah, hear the patter of children‘s feet As they run the dock so free . . . Little towns are never lonely T 2 A On grey mornings, old men sit And rub tobacco in hardened hand. While telling tales of long ago They look away from the land. The youth of the village listen well . As they think of days to be . . Little towns are never lonely If they‘re by the sea. Bring to the port their load And the claque of wooden sabots sounds Along the cobbled road. Strange scents, strange tongues, Bring joy and mystery, Little towns are never lonely If they‘re by the sea. On gay mornings, foreign eraft London‘s Tiniest House 1 Gape Soue To â€"H. B. Clarke. T3 Repeat gargle and do not rinse mouth, allow gargle to remain on membranes of the throat for prolongeg effect. your throat. 2 GARGLE thoroughly â€" throw your head way back, allowing a little to trickle down GARPGLE Ca c ®P 20000904 TPU Cas name Bayer in the form of a cross is on each tablet. They dissolve completely enough to gargle withâ€" out leaving irritating particles, _ . Manchuria‘s weights and measures are being standardized. Dr. Jackson deep!: regretted the inâ€" crease in maternal mortality, but fearâ€" ed that a factor in the increase was the reportedly increasing frequency of abortions, particularly those selfâ€"inâ€" duced. Of the maternal deaths reportâ€" ed here last year, he said 25 per cent. were from abortions and half of these were probably selfâ€"induced. He beâ€" lieved that many maternal deaths re ported due to puerperal septicaemia were traceable to abortions. 5. No desths took place of any person protected by toxoid immunization, he said, and the reduction in cases eeâ€" ported could be traced to the immuniâ€" zation campaign. In regard to diphtheria, the number of cases reported was only 56, conâ€" trasting sharply with the total of 1,022 in 1929. In the same period the numâ€" ber of deaths was reduced fro=< 64 to If the 1929 death rate of 11.8 had prevailed in 1933, Dr. Jackson points out, deaths here last year would have been 800 more in nu.aber. If deaths in Toronto of nonâ€"residents of the city were excluded from last year‘s total, he added, the rate for 1983 would have been 9.1. New low rates for a number of causes of death, particularly those to which public health efforts were spe clally directed. No epidemic from any cause of major importance, Lowest birth rate on recor‘. â€" Increase over 1932 in death rate of women in childbirtl, but 1933 rate approximately same as average for past five years. No reported cases of smallpox or sleeping sickness. No deaths from measles or infantile paralysis. The all time low rate for infant morâ€" tality, set up in 1932, "practically maintained." Exceptionally low rates for diphâ€" theria, both as to the number of cases reported and the number of deaths from the disease. Further reduction in the Jow rates for tuberculosis established in 1932. A general death rate of 10.5, slightâ€" ly lower than that for 1982 (10.6) and close to the lowest rates on record, 10.3 in 1924 and 1925. The report, analy:in, vital statistics for 1933, listed the following dedueâ€" tions from the year‘s records: Toronto.â€"The health record of the city ‘in 1933 was not only the best in the past five years, but "in general might be considered as probably the best in history," the local board of health‘s first meeting of the year was advised recently by Dr. G. P. Jackson, M.O.MH. City Free From Epidem _Death Rate in ‘33 Close to Lowest in History Toronto‘s Health Fresh from the Gardens , and the 708 A small boy strolled into a diu£ store and said: "Gimme a n‘ick=‘s worth of assafetity," The proprie‘© wrapped it up and passed it over. "Charge it," said the boy. "What name?" "Hunnyfunkle." "Take it for nothing," retorted the languid druggist, "I wouldn‘t write im’ and ‘Hu»nyfurkle both for no nickel." > The year 1980, the report #»h was the peak year for Cuba‘s tou trade, 86,244 arrivals having been corded at Havana. In 1931, the ! fell to 49,348, while the 1930 fig was slightly under 34,000. During the first 10 months of the current year the number of tour!s‘« entering Cuba through the port of H# vana was 24,890, compared with 30.¢54 for the corresponding period of 193> The number of arrivals recorded for the first six months of 1933 was a> proximately the same as last yen~. During the fourâ€"months‘ period, Julyâ€" October, however, the total number 0# tourists arriving in Havana was 3.414 as compared with 8,118 for the corres ponding period of 1932. Washington. â€" That recent cond tions in Cuba have reacted unfavor ably on the island‘s formerly prospe ous tourist trade is indicated in stati« tics submitted by the Consul at H: vana, and made public by the Con merce Department. NEWSPAPERS MUST BE READ. The importance of the radio and the press is fully recognized by tho Third Reich, But it must have come as a su‘prise to many Germans when in a recent lawsuit, the judge dismis=â€" ed the appeal of a tradesman for damâ€" ages against the Prussian State beâ€" cause of an alleged incorrect entry in the trade reg‘ster 0, the grounds tha: the tradesman should h#ve observed how this information had been pub lished in the newspapers. That proâ€" fessional men as well as tradespeople must read the newspapers is empha sized. Thus, for example, a man canâ€" not plead that he did not know tha such and such an order had to i« earried out by a particular date. This means that not only the news items bu:; also the public advertisements in in any industrial trust, Whereas . few months ago they could be seen i all parts of the city, today they hav. been reduced to manageable number> The new organization includes th« cream of Berlin‘s street musicians, i+ organ grinders, vocalists and oth«: artists. They rumber 180, and be tween them control all Berlin‘s court yardsâ€"for street entertainments o this sort are much rarer than in many other â€"countries. The new organiza tion has a sort of general staff whose duty it is to study the map of th eapital and divide up the territory justly between the members, There are about 80,000 courtyards in Berlin To "serve" these properly, the 180 men would have to visit fifty to sixty of themn daily, Each must keep to his own district and can change only : specified intervals. Their energies {o: the present are directed toward go*â€" ting entry into many courtyards, now closed against them. Most of their instrements are borrowed. Their reâ€" pertoire consists mainly of folk sonys together with popular songs of the season and marches. RIGID RULES FOR MUSICIANs, The day of the romantic street muâ€" sician in Berlin is over, His has now become a serious occupation governed by rules and statutes as rigid as thoso Recent researcaes among the archâ€" ives of the ancient city of Regensbury reveal the fact that,a menu card, â€"r till of fare, was used at least 444 years ago. During a session of th« Reichstag in Regensburg, in 1489, the chronicles relate that Duke Henry » Brunswick was seen to have on the table at his cide "a long piece of paâ€" per, which he studied from time +o time." This aroused the curiosity of some of his neighbors, one of whom, Count Haug of Montfort, usked him for an explanation. The Duke is :« ported to have replied by showing him a paper on which the head cook had written down in order the dishes to be served. Who Told You Thai? © The recent anniversary of the .»4 battle of the Falkland Islands was vutilized by the Berlin authorities to honor the memory of those who buil up the German Navy of preâ€"war days, Anu-ber of streets near the formor val headquarters have been rename | after such men as Admiral von Ti pitz, Count Spee and Admiral vo Schroeder. _ The Berliner will a}so welcome the change since it supplants names like "Hohenzollernstrasse" an| "Kaiserinâ€"Augustaâ€"Strasse" which are so common as to lead to confusion, The most common street name is Bovâ€" linerstrasse. There are thirtyâ€"one o( them. . The explanation is simple. Most of these names date from the time when many of the suburbs now included in the capital were outside ;+, All "Berlinerstrasse" were naturally the streets which led to the capital. 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