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"Forgive me he said. "You are so banal, You remind me of one of your compatriots who declared long ago that if an earthquake were to engulf Englathd toâ€"morrow, the English reâ€" maining would manage to meet and hold picnics and drive about among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event You have that lack of imagination, dear boys, which has enabled your race to do feats that beggar imaginâ€" ation. Now proceed.)‘ He did not interrupt again, and Tom and his friend told their tale between them, sometimes referring to Jane for confirmation of a detail. "That‘s how it went, sir," concluded Tom, "and the silver box is now locked up at my office. I‘m not going to do a thing about it till you‘ve given me your agqvice. It belongs to poor Felice‘s mother, we assume. His purpose was noble,. He felt himself a trustee and nothing else. In fact, he was going to devote the entire worth of the treasâ€" ure to the poor of Lima; but everyâ€" thing now belongs to herâ€"you see? The signora‘s rather a difficult sort of woman. and before I tackle her, I should think it more than kind if you‘d give me the benefit of your advice." "This is exactly how it all happened, sir,‘" ventured Tom. "And I‘m trying to tell it that way. I know joily well most people won"t believe it in any case.," "Fear nothing,)‘ replied the old man To know you ana Angus it to believe it, I credit every word so far." For answer, Jacob pushed two elecâ€" tric buttons. One lighted the summerâ€" house, while the other rang a bell within doors. "We will have some refreshments," he said. "You are both likely to be thirsty .‘ When they were supplied, their host lighted another of his big cigars and spoke to them. "I see the difficulties of the situation; and you will perhaps be the better for a little support. This I shall be wilâ€" ling enough to give you. You did very wisely not to open the storehouse of defunct Benny. The fact makes it impossible for her to raise any quesâ€" tion as to its contents. With regard to your poor friend, I should conceal the horrid details of his death. A mother may be spared those, and if you write your adventures, I should merely say that Pardo went ashore alone, and that, finding he did not return, you boys braved the earthquake and tried to resecue him, but only discovered his dead body. The island was tumbling to pieces, and the assumption must be that some boulder from above desâ€" troyed him. Probably Anita Pardo will raise no questions as to that. and you can explain how your party all agreed to let her son enjoy the proâ€" ceeds of the treasure hunt as a reward for his services and a mark of your friendship. You can impress uron her the purpose to which Pardo was going to put his haul, but you cannot, of course, make her do the same. If she is poor, she may be of the opinion that charity . beginsâ€"at home. And who shall blame her." "Now this continued the speaker, "is where I propose to come in. One cannot suppose that the collection dredged by Benny Boss from Lake Titicaca is a priceless treasure, but it must assuredly possess considerable value. I, however, am no expert, and it will therefore be wise to have an expert present when the box is openâ€" ed. If the lady is mistrustful, then she can choose her own expert. Tell her that you have her son‘s treasure, but that it will only be opened before inâ€" dependerst witnesses. Explain that I â€"â€"‘@Acob Fernandezâ€"am interested in the discovery and wish to be present when it is examined. Then say that I will bring a famous authority with me, or if she would prefer to choose some such man for herself, she is, of course, at liberty to do so. My name at any rate, will convince her she is in safe hands. "If she is agreeatble to this course, we will assemble at an hour convenient to herself, open the box and study its contents. It may not be possible to appraise the value cof the collection n a moment; but she can engage a second opinion if she is dissatisfied with the figure. Antonio Alvarez shall come. He is our man and a great friend of my own. The hoard in any case will represent museum pieces in virtue of its history; but no museâ€" um, either at Lima or in Europe, can puy any considerable sum. The world is hard up and the people‘s bellies have got to be filled before the museâ€" um shelves." They thanked him gratefully. ‘Splendid of you sir!" said Tom. "That will put everything right. T‘l visit Anita Pardo toâ€"morrow and fix it up. Then we‘ll come along to her and bring the silver box and a locksmith to open it under her eyes. She won‘t raise any question when she knows you are controlling the business." MONDAY, JULY 24TH, 1939 "So much for that then," answered Jacob. "I will see you at your office toâ€"morrow, Tom, and then we will talk about Mount Atajo. Now its time I went to bed: but your wonderful story Jacob emerged from an amazing motor car at the appointed time, presently drank the dry sherry awaiting him, lighted a cigar and laid his propoâ€" sition before the young man. "Keep the mine, Tom," he began. "It will give you an intelligent occupaâ€" tion and, assumimg that your Jane likes Peru, you can bring her back when you have married her. Lima is an exceedâ€" ingly healthy city, as you know, and she will be free of my aviariesâ€"a privilege the young woman has brains to appreâ€" clate. "Now, touching Mount Atajo, I will not take it off your hands, but I may tell you the reports are exceedingly and ‘the possibilities generous., With my penchant for silver I will therefore, if you approve, join you and share your mine. The mine languishes from old age It is behind the times, out of date, utterly inefficient. But these are defects that can be cured. The silver is there waitâ€" ing for you to reach itâ€"so my people assure me. They are as positive as any mineralogists can be that far finer grades of ore lie in your Gdominions than any you have reached; but at your present rate of progress it will not be reached in my limited time, probably not even in your own longer span. "So this I will do. On the basis of fiftyâ€"fifty, as they say nowadays, I will recondition your imine, install adequate machinery, double the staff and make it a going concern." "It would cost you as much as the show is worth, sir," said Tom. "I think otherwise. This is a business transaction and being an old man in a hurry, I should not make such an offer if I felt in any serious doubt about it. All mining is, of course, a gamble; but I am prepared to do this, Now, as to your side, you will argue that to halve your returns is not a particularly pleasâ€" ing prospect. (But be under no delusion as to that, My reports leave nothing to be desired and I am prepared to say that, under the new dispensation, your half interest in the mine will very swiftly far exceed your whole present returns from it. I suggest that you take my reports to London with you and submit them to your advisers. Jane told me you are going home to be marâ€" ried very shortly. Then you can cable ‘Yes‘ or ‘No,‘ and I shall proceed at once on the proposed scale if you agree and the leral Bbusiness be put i1 hand." "It sounds too good to be true, Sir." "Noâ€"otherwise I should not have told you. You shall have reports bafore you sail, and you will find them engaging reading. As to Signora Pardo, I will be at her direction the day after toâ€"morrow at noon unless I hear to the contrary." ‘ "Take your Jane with you," said Jaccbh. "A woman may assist you. 1 know very little about them myself, but Jane is clever and tactful. If I had chanced upon a Jane some seventy years ago, it is possible that I might be a grandfather at this moméent instead of a grandâ€"uncle. They say that if the God doesn‘t send you children, the devil is sure to send you nephews. In my case thiut is profoundly true. Tell Jane to come to lunch toâ€"morrow at one o‘clock and devote her afternoon to me.‘"‘ "I‘m seeing her this evening and let you hear." She was very calm and listened withâ€" out imterruption to their story. Nor did she ask many questions after she had heard it. The signora supposed that Felice must have put his claims before them and that they had raised no quesâ€" tion but surrendered the treasure at once; yet Tom had made no allusion to any relationship between Pardo and the dead adventurer. She sounded him cautiously on the subject for unless he knew the facts, Anita was not prepared to dwell on them. All that mattered to her centred in the treasure now:; but she felt naturally anxious to learn how she had come by it. ‘"‘She‘s dying to come, Sir." A little later Tom and his sweetheart visited Anita Pardo and found her as usual inscrutable and selfâ€"possessed. "There are some questions I should wish to ask you, Signor Ayimer," she began,. "What happened that put the silver box you speak of into my son‘s possession? I understood from him that the booty, if it were found, should be divided into four parts That was what he told me before he went to his death ." "Perhaps I can best answer that Sigâ€" nora," said Jane. Then she explained how first Angzus had declined to face "They agreed, but Felice had no fear. We all tired to prevent his going; but, before that, we had given up our claim upon the treasure and knowing that it was all his, he would go and find it. I am sorry now we waived our claims, for that mizht have meant his life; but he was a great man in his way . He felt that possesion of the treasure might enable him to do much good. He would go. And when he did not come back, his friends had to try and save him.‘ "Of course. But it was too late. Poor Felice had been killed. The island was falling to pieces, But the treasure lay beside him. He had managed to get it. Tom and Angus escaped with their lives, and Angus was able to bring the silver box back to the ship." "You did not open it?" "It was yours; but we felt that you would like to have skilled witnesses to support you when it is opened and T‘cm knew Signor Fernandez, It was really owinz to him that the treasure has been recovered for you, Signora." "And that my son lost his life." "I‘m afraid soâ€"not that any blame attaches to him, or anybody." "Signor Fernandez is a great man and a very good man," said Anita. "I am well content to be in his hands. He will do everything that is right. The people trust him." "He was wonderful," she said, "and full of great thoughts. It is a deep grief to us all that he should have died so sadly." "You need not," she answered. I will take my son‘s gift from his own dead hands when the silver box is spened, and great or small that will meet my needs. Duelos con pan son menosâ€"a fat sorrow is better than a lean one." Before they left her both expressed their sympathy and sorrow at the mother‘s loss, and Jane praised Felice. "You must feel no anxiety about the future." added Tom. "I know what Felice would wish, and now he is not here, you must let me take his place as best I can. I regard you as a sacred trust from him." Relieved that their interview had passed so peacefully the younz people departed, and when Jane went to see the birds, she was able to tell old Jacab that his intervention had been well reâ€" ceived. She rejoiced in the aviaries and her honest raptures delighted Fernandez. Jane gloried in the colour and form and varied loveliness of the collection,. and almost shouted for joy to see two that resembled Benny‘s in every particular. Presently she handled her host‘s monumental volumes with becoming reverence and hoped that he would soon publish anâ€" other. ‘"‘Tom has let me hear about your offer, Signor, and I know perfectly well that he will delight to accept it. He thinks it is grand of you. So do I. And he will come back to his work if you are content to let him be Manager and look after your interests as well as his own." "Why not, Jane? And who knows but that you may look after my interâ€" ests too? Perhaps, with you aAt imy elbow I might gird these aged loins and live to complete my remarkable book. You are rather flippant, Jane; but you are highly intellizent and your attitude to birds is all that it should be. You don‘t talk nonsense about them and quite understand they are by far the most beautiful and attractive creaâ€" tures in creation. That is a sound basis for future eminence." "You owe it to the world to {inish it," said> she. "I owe a great deal more to the world than I am ever likely to pay," he answered. "Still, there may be opporâ€" tunities. Tell me, Jane, when you are married, shall you come to Lima,, or stop in your own country?" "Foâ€"day I‘ve had the happiest day of my whole lifeâ€"but one," she said, "and have seen more utterly exquisite things than I thought could exist even in the world of the birds." "Why drag in another day," inquired Jacob. "Why not tell me it is the hapâ€" piest "Because it just isn‘t," she answered. ‘"There was a day in the dim past, Signor, when Tom asked me to marry him." Soothing Words Lured Despondent Bovine Way "I stand correctedâ€"miserable old bachelor that I am, Jane. (To be continued) A despondent cow apparently atâ€" tempted to commit suicide at Millers Falls, Mass., recently, by lying down on the main line of the Central Vermont Railway a few minutes before the fast freight train "Rocket" was due. Four sectionmmen vainly attempted to move the animal with shovels, ropes, helâ€" ters and words, kind and harsh,. Finalâ€" arrived, addressed the cow in a soothâ€" ing Italian. The anime! sighed, rose and was led away. Mr. and Mrs. Costain of Dome Extension Observe Anniversary Silver Wedding Event Celeâ€" brated on Saturdav. South Porcupine, July 22nd, (Special to The Advance)â€"An unique event in the annals of the Camp is the fact that Mr. and Mis. Harry Costain, of Dome Extension, are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary todayâ€" Saturday, July 2nd. A silver wedding is not unique neither is the celebration of a silver wedding in the Porcupin®e Camp, but when the wedding in the first place was solemnized in the town of South Porcupine. and the couple have lived continuously in ""he Camp since that date, then we believe this particular anniversary is unique. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Costain were married by Rev, Mr. Lyons, in the Manse of the United Church, S. Porcupine, on July 22nd, 1914. Mrs. Costain, who was, before her marriage, Miss Eleanor Gelling, came from Castletown, Isle of Man, and came to ‘the Camp with Mr. John Cosâ€" tain and family to reside in Canada, that same year. For some years they lived in South Porcupine, later moving to Dome Extension where they now live,. A family reâ€"union was held at their home on Saturday. Theirâ€" eldest daughter, Mrs. George Sparling, came down from Kapuskasing and their other children. Orry, Majorie, and George, with Mr. and Mrs. John Cosâ€" tain, were present. During the evening many friends dropped in to offer conâ€" gratulations and they received many nice gifts. We extend best wishes and hope they may live to see their golden wedding. , The stillborn baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Miller of the Faymar Mine was buried on Saturday in Tisdale Cemâ€"» etery. Mr. and Mrs family, of Rae Friday from a Fort William. As youngsters we were taught the Silvester method of restoring the apâ€" parently drowned, and as I remember it, one assistant was to work the arms overhead and down against the chest walls (patient lying on his back), anâ€" other assistant was to pull out the tom:ue and hold it out by means of a handkerchief, a third assistant was to massage or rub the arms and legs upâ€" word thus sending blood toward the heart, and the _ fourth assistant was to run for a physician. For this reason the more simple Schafer method of artificial breathing, whereby one person is all that is necâ€" essary, in now taught everywhere. The method is as follows: No one questions the effectiveness of this Silvester method, but it meant the need of three or four assistants and unfortunately only too often when an accident happens there is but the one other person present. Combining Two Methods of Life Saving Place the patient face downwards on the: ground, : put: yourself astride or on one side of :the patient‘s, body, in a kneelmg posxtlon facing his head. Placâ€" ing your hands flat on the small of his back with the thumbs nearly touching and the fingers spread out on each side of the body over the lowest ribs, lean forward, and steadily allow the weight of your body to fall over upon them (your hands), and so produce slow downward pressure, By this means the air (and water if there be any) is driven out of the patient‘s lungs. Immediately thereâ€" after swinizg backwards, rapidly releasâ€" ing~ the pressure, but without lifting the hands from the patient‘s back. Reâ€" peat this forward and backward moveâ€" ment every four or five seconds. This Schafer method naturally. has been considered ideal, but Prof. Hederer of the French naval school in a report of the American Medical Association states that by the old Silvester method about twice as much air was forced into the lungs each time as by the Schafer method as above and the other use the Silvester method by kneeling at the head of the patient grasping both elbows and raising them upwards leaving the patient‘s hand on the ground. When the assistant using Sschafer method relaxes or releases the pressure, the other assistant raises the elbows, thus creating more room in the lungs for air. Seven MHealth Booklets Are you susceptible to â€"colds? Do you worry about your heart? Are you overweright or underweight? Does your food agree with you? Do you have to watch your calories, fats, starches, etc.? Do you believe you have an ailâ€" ment that medical tests do not reveal? The following boklets by Dr. Barton will be helpful to many readers and can be secured by sending ten cents for each one desired, to cover handling i and service to The Bell TLibrary, 247 West 4rd Street, New York, N. Y., mentioning The Advance, Timmins: The Common Cold; Why Worry About Your eHart; Overweight and Underâ€" weight :Food Allergy; Eating Your Way to Health: Neurosis; Scourge (Gonorrâ€" heaâ€"Syphilis). (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act.) (by James W. Barton, M.D.) Frank Williams and Avenue, returned on month‘s vacation in of Pouts EChat Bobdp Entombed In Mill Hole Six Hours and Released Miner Dies In Hospital South Porcupine, July 22nd, (Special to The Advance)â€"â€"Many neighbours and interested friends are visiting the garden of Wm. Perrissini on Main S.. to see plum trees with fruit set on them. At the garden of Mrs. Gauthier in Golden City ripe plums were noted last fall, but we believe this is the first Ssouth end garden to boast of such fruit. The trees are small and have only been planted for two years,. Still more interesting is an Experimental "tropical garden" (about 6 feet square) which Mr. Ed. Rapsey has been tendâ€" ing and sheiltering this summer. Beâ€" lieve it or not a fig tree (quite small) is producing greén figs! This little plot has been protected and sheltered this summer, but is in the open gardenâ€" not under glass! Dr. Harper spent the weekâ€"end with his family at their summer cottage at Temagami. Dies Sixteen Hours After Release. Had Broken Back. Was swept Into Mill Hole by Fall of Rock From Above and Buried Fifteen Feet in Muck. Took Rescue Workers Six Hours to Get to Him Working From Adâ€" jacent Manway. One of the largest strawberries ever grown in the North was seen this week. It measured five inches around the largest part of its cirecumference This berry was grown by Mr. Lambert at his homestead farm (Sunny Croft Gardens) near Connaught. Mr. Lamâ€" bert is experimenting with a ~new variety of berry, and the results are remarkable. Eight to ten of these berâ€" ries fill a quart basket. Plums and Figs Now Growing in South Porcupine Garden The many friends of Mr. John Maâ€" son of the Dome Mines will be sorry to learn that he is sick at his home. Mr. Ken Myers left on Friday to visit at the home if his wife‘s parents, near Ottawa. Mrs, Stevenson, of the Delnite Mine, is a patient in the Porcupine General Hospital. Sixteen hours after he was released from what promised to be his tomb At the bottom of a mill hole in the Holâ€" linger Mine, Florenz Radasovich, 37 year old Jugo Slavy miner, died in St. Mary‘s Hospital. His back was broken. At about eight o‘clock on Wednesday night Radasovich was working over a mill hole on the 2,150 level of the mine. He was hanzing to a rope and engaged in barring loose rock down into the hole which was about fiftzen feet deep. Sudâ€" denly a large amount of loose rock over the hole gave way. It swept Radasovich into the hole with it and buried him at the bottom under fifteen feet of loose, jagged pieces of muck. I m m en se â€" Strawberries Grown Near Connaught. Messrs. Andrew Harty and Lawrence Haddon left on Saturday for a week‘s fishing and vacation at Temagami. The fire was the result of sponâ€" taneous combustion, the actual cause of which has not been specifically deâ€" termined. Painting was going on inâ€" side the house and the fumes, etc.. were the primary cause of the exâ€" plosion, which broke all the windows in the house and caused dense black smoke to pour out and envelope the house. This smoke called the attenâ€" tion of the Bowes family whoe live quite near, to the fire. They put in the alarm by telephone, 8. Porcupine Brigade Respond to Call from Whitney Township South Porcupine, July 22, (Special to The Advance)â€"A fire alarm was given on Friday around 12:30 noon and the truck and six firemen resâ€" ponded immediately. The fire was t1 Whitney township on the Golden City road at the home of Mr. A. McFarlane, who is assayer at the customs assay office on Golden Avenue, S. Porcupine. The fire completely gutted the interior of the fiveâ€"roomn dwelling and furniâ€" ture was destroyed although the fireâ€" men used the chemical and prevented the building from being a total loss. Rescue crews got to work immediateâ€" ly. They dammed off the area above House Badly Gutted by Fire on Friday. Other South + Porcupine and District News. Mr. A. Moreau is in Porcupine Genâ€" eral Hospital recuperating nicely from appendix operation performed on Thursday. * Mr. Mark Ford, of Dome Extension, is. we hear quite sick at his home. Mrs. Stringer, who has been on holâ€" iday, returned on Wednesday to her home at Dome Extension. The Ladies‘ Auxiliary of the Canaâ€" dian Legion (Porcupine Branch) have received permission to hold a picnic at the Buffaloâ€"Ankerite picnic grounds next Thursday afternoon (27th). Lady members and their children are inâ€" Rapid work is being done on this stretch of highway. The cement now extended from the "scalesâ€"house" in to town as far as Kerr street, And at the other end of town cement has vited I Mrs. Gus Knutson, of Connaught Hill who has been in Hamilton for some weeks receiving medical attenâ€" tion, returned on Friday much imâ€" proved in health. from where the rock fell to prevent a further drop of muck and then they went. to work to got at Radasovich through the manway to the side of the mill hole. been poured from Bruce avenue corner up Crawford as far as Broadway. Mr. Abie Frumkin has just returned from visiting the World‘s Fair and is visiting his parents on Golden avenue. After six hours of work the injured man was reached. He was in a crouchâ€" ing ‘position and was more dead than alive when brought out. He was imâ€" mediately rushed to the hospital but physicians were unable to make careful examination for some time as they dared not disturb Radasovich who was suffering from severe shock. P Charlottetown Accounts Seen to be in Very Bad W ay Woodstock Daily Sentinelâ€"Review:â€" Corn is supposed to have originated in Central America and to have been unâ€" der cultivation as far north as New England when Leif Ericson dropped in on America. Soâ€"a contemporary subâ€" mitsâ€"Kentucky has been full of kerâ€" nels much longer than the colonels have been full of corn. (Charlottetown Guardian.) The official summary of the special audit and investization of the city acâ€" counts conducted by Messrs. D. Archiâ€" bald and W. A. Morrell, will cause very grave ~concern to our taxpayers and citizens generally. Surviving him his wife. The auditors go on record as having discovered an alarming series of irâ€" regularities, including misappropriation of funds, deliberate jugglinz of acâ€" counts, issue of unrecorded debentures from which the city received no money, falsification of accounts in the printed reports, forged signatures of members of the Finance Committee on vouchers, and irregular endorsements of cheques which would appear to be forged. On Thursday a man‘s condition g fiveâ€"thirty he died _ The summary is a very able and comprehensive outline of the findings given in the detailed report, and reveals a shortage in city funds amounting to over $69,000. It‘s so much easier to just call the Timâ€" mins New Method Laundry on Washâ€" day instead of slaving away doing your own wash. We think every woman will agree! Best of all, you can do that, and it won‘t cost any more than if you did it yourself! Furthermore, laundry work gets clothes much cleaner, more sanitary too . .. those are scientifically proven facts! Call on us next Washâ€" day. Let us show you! TIMMINS afternoon the injured grew worse and about are two children and New Method MORE TIME Wedding at Timmins United Church on Saturday Morning Miss Sophie Kucheran Mr. George Arnold Ginn Married. Miss Clara Marin was the attractive bridesmaid wearing a becoming enâ€" semble of pale pink embroidered net, made on fitted lines, and bearing a shortâ€"sleeved bolero jacket,.. She wore a matching picture hat, with a nose«â€" length white veil, white net gloves and white shoes, and carried an arm bouâ€" quet of premier roses and baby‘s breath. Following the ceremony, a wedding breakfast was served at the home of the bride‘s parents, where Mrs. Kuchâ€" eran received the guests, becomingly attired in a streetâ€"length dress of blue flowered sheer, with a white picture hat and white accessories, She. was assisted by Mrs. McGinn, mother of the groom, who wore a navy blue sheer, over print taffeta, with a white picture hat and white accessories, Later in the day, the bride and groom left on a honeymoon tripto Niagara Falls, Toronto, Detroit, and other points south, the bride choosing for travel navy blue tailored suit, with white acâ€" cessories, Mr. Joe Mitchell, of the Dome Ex«â€" tension was the groomsman. Mr. and Mrs. McGinn will reside on Crawford iStreet, South Porcupine. IRVIN ROSNER, R.O. FUN NOW BUCOVETSKY BLDG. 23 Third Ave. Timmins EYESIGHT SPECIALIST For Appointment Phone 1877 EYES EXAMINED CGLASSES FITTED se it PP P PP P with â€" Bcelentific Accurancoy by io PACGE and