New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1922, Page 10

|| by Mewviiie DavissoN PosT © 10992 NEA Service, THE LAUGHTER OF ALLAH | Monsieur Jonquelle, the Prefect of | Police of Paris, told me this nlnr)ui " We were on the deck of his yacht in | the Mediterranean; the coast of Africa was In the distance. We had | been talking of that strange, famous | Englishman whose tragic death in the | North Sea had stirred the world, ‘Why had he never married—the | greatest Englishman of his time? We did not name him, Monsieur Jon- quelle called him “Sir Henry" in lllceJ story. | The Prefect of Pollce of Parls pre- | % sented the story as though it were a; detached tale of an oriental story _ teller in a bazar of Calro. And 1] Mstened with my eyes closed, on the | cool deck, moved slowly by the long swells . listened to the tragic love story of this strange, reserved, | famous Englishman who had lived in mystery and died in mystery: The man who rode north from | the cittadel, along the Boluevard Mo- | hammed All, was no longer young. He sat firmly in the saddle, and to | the distant eye, he was hard and lean | Jike a hunter in condition, but his| face discolored by wind and sun, in repose, was tired. It was an un- usual face, seamed and crossed with lines, the mouth firm, almost harsh, with the muscles developed along lhe“ Jaw. But it was not these features that impressed one. It was the man's extraordinary eyes. They were large and set far apart. The 'color you immediately saw—a dark metallic blue—the blue of cer- taln remote spaces in the tropic sky. The lids drooped, giving the man an expression at once of serenity and menace. "He rode a gray Arab, and his ‘clothes were evidently the best pro- duct of a Bond Street tatlor. He rode llke a soldier—like one accustomed to live days and nights in the saddle. #The man feit old and tired. The vast, eternal unchanging as- pect of Egypt oppressed him. Here all humar effort seemed equally futile. =~ Here, as in India, one grew only old and accomplished nothing. _ And, on this evening, he felt acutely the menace of Egypt. " England had only extended fingers on this great desert running south into impenetrable mystery. She had only the peace of the bayonet; and " behind the indolence, the listless resignation of these desert peoples, ' there seemed to lie a vast, inherent . hatred of the invader that never Jessened, and that walted always with | an unfailing patience. In India the. | Ahing skulked in the distance, but| . here it seemed to approach—to be at | hand. Perhaps what the man knew staged this impression. The whole world of . Islam was uneasy. She had been _@espoited i Turkey '‘and . shamed. e ———————————— .- ask for Horlick's \ The ORIGINAL Malted Milk Original Food-Drink Jor All Ages. st Home, Officea&s Fountains. k, Malted Grain Extractin Pow- ders Tabletforms. Nourishing-Nocooking. 88 Avoid Imitations and Substitutes . 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Try Inc She feit that weak rulers, for gain or the love of Jife, had held her in leash when she ought to have been loosened with a great shout to a holy war., The heads of Islam were quiet, | but the tribes were restless, England, feeling always with her delicate antennae, knew this and, al- ways wise, moved first, She had withdrawn this man from Indfa and seht him here to set the butt of the Lee-Endfield a little firmer In the sand south toward Khartum. He had a fortnight in Calro before he took up this tremendous Ilabor, and he used it to be free, to be alone, | to ride when he liked without an orderly at his heels, It was great honor that England did him. He might, in the end, be-| come Viceroy of India or Sirdar of Egypt. But, on this evening he was! impressed with the value of what he | HE REALIZED THAT THE HORSE COULD NOT GO ON. pald——his youth had been Mquired of him. ‘When he should come up out of this desert he would be old. And what had he got—what would he get out of these great honors? The man rode slowly, holding the nervous Arab in. The strange, in- congruous current of the city passed him, but he was thinking of some- thing else, and he* gave it no atten- tion. There was another thing. He mused vaguely. He had seen on this very day, in the shade of a magnifi- cent flowering vine, a young soldier and an English girl. They were sit- ting on a bench; neither moved and only their hands touched. They did not speak, and yet their faces were like the faces of angels. This was a thing that he had al- ways hated. It was not the enemy in the front that threatened the army, it was these loving creatures in the rear. Ruthless ;3.6 determined, he had set his face agalnst it. The army should be celibate. And he had brokeri and elbowed out the men who would encumber themselves with a loving heart. Well, he had lived by the rule him- self! There had been no woman about him on the frontiers of the Emplire! ‘When he came, now and then, to London, the current of life in which they moved falled to touch him. They were creatures apart. He knew of them only what ap- peared before the eye. And, while he saw the beauty which they as- sembled, he saw also the thousand follies that seemed to give them pleasure, and he wondered in what mysterious charm lay their appalling influence on his soldiers. And on this evening, alone in this mysterious city, he beégan to be as- sailed by a curious consuming won- der. He began to doubt the value of the one thing that he had gotten out of life. 'What was this other thing that gave an ignorant soldier and a common housemaid, motionless az';":‘ STRENG Ty AND REAL FlEsy FATHER JOHNS MEDICINE NO DRUGS the faces of the angels? What did this mysterlous wor mean that men used to designate this thing? He knew what the love of life was, for he had seen every sort of creature fight desperately to live; and he knew the love of gain and the love of power. But men, all ‘men, everywhere, Imperiled and abandoped these things for the love of women, and they did it with no doubt, like one who trades glass for a jewel, He reflected, There was no virtue in the thing that he had, In the thing for which he traded away his life, thus to transfigure the human . face. And when he should come up out of this great desert south toward Khar- tum, he wonld be old! Suddenly he realized that the horse could not go on, and that he was con- trolling it with difficuity. He had traversed the Rue Muski, skirted the P’lace Esbekiya and -was about cross the Kamel Pasha, that short boulevard entering the Place KEsbe- kiya from the north, when a proces- slon stopped him. The sacred carpet had arrived from Mecca. The streets before him were gorged with people, and the whole city echoed with welrd Orlental cries. There was little new to him In the orgy of these native ceremonies, with | their riot of sound and color, and their vast medley of tribes assembled from the waste places of the earth. For & moment, as a soldier, he ap- proved the precaution taken by the English authorities—a company of troops thrown In, here and there, to divide the tribes and the horde of natives that surged along with every color, and with every sort of cry, and every extravagant gesture. He approved, too, the diplomacy that gave these rggiments a gala alr with their bands musie, as though they rivaled the Arab and the fellah in doing honor to the holy relic, while, in fact, they held the fingers of England on the city lest they slip off in a sudden rising of these native hordes. ., Then his mind returned to its re- flection, with an {idle interest he watched the strange, haif-naked, primeval creatures that appeared, issuing out of the vast limitless ocean of sand that lay endlessly to the south, from tribes, old and unchanged since ithe days of Abraham—creatures from the uncharted deeps of the Sahara, naked and subsisting like the Baptist. ‘What lay far off there in the dead cities of this sand-swept wilderness whence came these mad men, gaunt, covered with halr, and infinitely old, no human creature could say. Per- haps the magician and the wizard of old times lived on there, And there in ancient tombs, in honeycombed walls sifting full of sand, in strange wilderness, eternally dead and siient, old wist men abode who k the anclent formulas by which in- exorable course of nature could be turned aside. Perhaps they maintained there to this day that mysterious power which the sacred books of all religions agree that certain dread members of the race possessed in the morning of the world, And the streaming horde, with its cries and colors, slashed and inter- gected by smart European regiments, mingling the drum and the Highland e o] COUGHING RELIEVED The more you cough the more you strain your throat, lungs and system. Raise the phlcgm easily without strain or pain by tulnf Leonardi’s Cough S{r\lp (Creosoted ), t is soothing, healing, leasant and effective. Best thing for acking coughs, deep seated colds, bron- chitis, croup, grippe and whooping cough. A most beneficial and safe treatment for children and adults. Save yourself from colds, coughs and serious trouble. Get a bottle of Ieonardi's Cough S8yrup (Creo- soted) from your druggist and bring quick relief, Sold by City Drug Store. and silent shadows of a flowering vine, to | pipe with the wallings of the desert, became a thing unreal——a fantastic background for' that other mystery that so profoundly disturbed the man, And while he sat in the saddie looking down at these wild people ot the desert, another looked down at him, A woman, accompanied by the resident doctor and a maid, entered the English hotel on the other slde of | the square, croased the foyer and got into the lift, As she passed, a little dapper man, bald, dressed llke a tallor's print, and with the alr of one who 18 a social register, spoke to his companions pouring a cup of tea at a table by the wall, “That's Nelly Landsear—used to be a famous Southern beauty in the States, Jove! She's gone to pleces! Had a devil of a MNfe! Married Bristed Ames—dirty little beast! My word, she was a wonder once! Looks fifty today!" And he began to tell the dramatic story of this woman and the creature that she had married, the story of & tireless effort to keep a weakling on his feet, to make a man of him. The story over again of Daude's “King's In Exile.” A story that was a| o tragedy of failures. | (Another installment of this thrill- |ing story will appear In our next lssue, MODERN CLUB BUILDING College Fraternities Will Unite in New Dwelling to Be Erected in New York City. New York, Nov. 16.-~College fra. ternity men are the latest New York- ers to turn clift-dwellers. The high price of lodgings, which has driven many familles from priv- |ate houses into apartment houses, has | caused members of various fraternity clubs to seek a common roof. To meet this need the fraternity clubs bullding, a sixteen story struc- ture, 18 being crected at Madison avenue and 38th street. Members of the various clubs, near- Iy all ‘of them college graduates, will have their own private club quarters and sets of sleeping rooms, but while they may lounge and lumber under the Grek emblems of their own brotherhoods, they will eat and exer- cise in a communal dining ‘hall and gymnasfum.’ The house committee will comprise a representative of cach participating club. National headquarters of sev- eral fraternities will be located in the building. Serving on, the honorary board of the housing committee are Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war; Ma- jor-General Robert L. Bullard; T. Coleman DuPont; Byron P, Harrison; Will H. Hays, former postmaster gen- eral; Secretary of State Hughes; Joseph E. Ransdell; Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires; Oscar W. Underwood and former Governor Charles 8. Whit- man. CROPS ARE DAMAGED Mexico City, Nov. 20.—A regent cold wave which swept over virtaally the entire republic did great crop damage, especlally to corn and beans, the nation’s staples, according to re- ports recelved by the department of agriculture, Crop losses are various- ly estimated at from ten to thirty per cant. MANY WOMEN VISIT DAVIS BIBLE CLASS Gount Shows 245 in Attendance in Response to First Invitation Ernest W. Christ, recently elected third vice president of the Every- man's Bible class, presided at the session held yesterday rthorning at 9:80 o'clock at Trinity Methodist church at which 215 women were in attendance. This was the first meet. ing to which women were Invited but Rev. John L. Davis expressed the {hope that it would not be the last. o e NI e S el A S AN 2 s Ve AR SIS WIS A SRR OF DUFFS Y *YOU WILL THRoW 'PILLOWS AT YOUR (' DADDY WHEN HE'S ,TRYING TO READ, . WiLLYoU 9 $ALESMAN $AM SAM, | DONT BELIEVE YOU GO TO. HALF TH' PLICES | SEND YOU TO TO COLLECT THESE | [ HOURS BILLS - NOW, | WANT YOU To 60 Tb MRS MURPHY'S AND COLLELT THIS BILL AND BRING D BACK SOME EWNDENCE. THERE IF YOO DON THAT YOUVE BEEN T COLLECT ™ BWLL Rev, A, B, Taylor, song leader, gave the women the chance to choose the first hymn to be sung. They decided that “He Leadeth Me" would be most ftting. Miss May Lord, who has bee conducting evangelistic meetings at the Methodist church for the past two weeks, sald the opening prayer, Visitors were present from Stafford, Forestville, West Hartford, Chaplin Philadelphia, Pa.,, and Amherst, Mass. Members of the class were urged to attend the Paullst Cholir concert at Fox's theater on West Main street on Friday evening of this week. Girls were stationed at the door to receive subacriptions for the Red Cross. The total attendance at yesterday's session was 802, Of this number 215 were women, 246 were from the Red Army, 80 from the Whité and 262 from the Blue. Rev, Mr. Davis' topic was "The Progress of Thought,” = He asserted that thoughts are (lvided .into three distinct groups namely trouble, cause and solution. He clalmed that If ‘it were not for trouble people would not think, After trouble has come it is necessary to find the cause and solve the solution, the speaker sald. Further on In his talk Rev, Mr. Davis touched on the prevention of clear thinking. Ha sald that .many men and women are prevented from thinking clearly and as they should by prejudices and fear of results. There are: people who think they would like to say or do certain things, but because they are afraid of the results they do not express 'their thoughts, he added. Rev. Mr. Davis announced that Miss McCullom, New York psycholo- gist, will conduct a series of lectures on psychology at the Methodist church every afternéon and avenln(‘ for two wecks beginning on Frid December 1, VOICES IN THE AIR WGY (General Electric Company, Schenec- tady, N. Y.) Monday, Nov. 20, 1922. 6:00 P. M.—Produce market News bulletins. 7:45 P. M.—Musical program. WGI {American Radio and Research Corp. Medford Hillside, Mass.) 6:30 P. M.—Boston police reports. Late news flashes. Early sport news. 7:00 P. M.—Evening program “Geology and Genealogy.” Concert. Miss Beulah Cederborg, soprano; Miss Mae Forslind, pianist and accompan- ist. Weekly business report. World market survey. Continuation of con- cert by Miss Beulah Cederborg. Tkt KDKA (Westinghouse—East Pittsburgh) 7:00 P. M.—News. Weekly survey of business conditions, prepared by the National Industrial conference board. Tri-weekly letter from Farm & Home. The Last Group of Radio Articles No. 81, 7:30 P. M.—Bedtime story for the children. 8:00 P. M.—Special addresses prominent business men. 9:00 P. 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