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Port Perry Star, 29 Jan 1931, p. 2

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SYNOPSIS. Henry Rs Rand, 55, is found murderel ton. In the room with him are ian's handkerchief and the stub theatre ticket, These are traced 8 Maynard, in Buffalo, a cabarct , Who says they must have been | rom her by a man she danced th. Jimmy Rand, Henry's son, goes Buffalo and he and O ga search for find the man, but he gets away. fares us Tho 3 him through police pic- as Ike Jensen. Jimmy falls in Jimmy asks Lieut. O'Day, at the . station, if he may confide in him. CHAFTER XXX: 'Jimmy Rand pulled his chair a little nearer to O'Day's desk. He lit another What cen I say to her even if I do explain? I carn': ask hor to marvy me--I haven't got a nickel. I haven't even got a decent job." "If she's worth her salt," O'Day growled, his ruddy cheeks flaming brighter, "she won't care." Rand gazed dejectedly at the flow. They were silent for. several minutes "Oh well," Jimmy rose. "Let's change the subject. I think I'll be going home, lieutenant." He extended his hand. "Tharks for giving me your time." O'Day said gruffly: "My time's yours, eny time you ask for it. By the way, lad, tomorrow's my day off. Would you come up to dinner to- morrow night? I've told my wife about you an' she'd like to have you. BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON n Hlustrated Dressmalking Lesson Wr cigaret and sat gazing at the match as it flickered and finally went out. +e "I'ma fool, I suppose," he said, not knowing how to begin. "I ought to keep mv month shat, but T feel if FH burst un'ess I confide in someb I.ieutenant, sometring's been on mv mind for weeks, worrying the devil ant. I've already gone and done it." He smiled ruefully, watching the smoke from his cigaret curl up toward the ceiling. O'Day produced the bag of rap i his sentences with deep inhalations of | sight, but I do know me tremendously, and I've been in love "Apparently not tenant," said Jimmy. t marry someone clsa." | "Oh she is, ek? Who?" 8 "A nan by the name Ch "Church, eh? Wha Maybe 1 know him. Samuel Church--he's a lawyer." | " "Sam Church? Good nig Church and you after the same Say, you pick pretty stiff oppo + don't you?" "Do you know him?" "Sure. Seen him in court dozens of | times. Got one of the finest homes ,.. In town, an' him a bachelor. Money *" "to burn, they say. Made mos: of it fairly recently, too. Say, he's forty- five is Le's a day." "He doesn't look a day over forty. "Well, he's at least forty-five, He's much too old for this girl you've beer telling me about." He looked at Jim pityingly. "Too much money to. turn "down." Jimmy winced. "Don't say that. | - T accused her of that very thing my self and I've been sorry for it ever since." O'Day patted Jimmy's knee. "I'm sorry, lad. I'm sorry, too, for the irl." The other looked up. you say that?" "Because If there ever was a man who didn't deserve a decent woman, it's Sam Church. The thing that sur- prises me is that he has actually posed marriage. It isn't like h usually tires of them too soon." "You mean there have been other +» women?" "What makes i Sy "I.mean that his house, if it could £ talk; could tell many a story that § would make choice readin'. Theve i have been a dozen, more or less, breach-of-promise suits, but they never saw the light of day in court, because he's too smart a lawyer in the first place an' he never put any- thing in writin'. Oh, he knows how to squirm out of a tight place all wight." "What kind of 11an ie he? How is he regarded?" 1 ¥ 4One of the biggest lawyers in town, «. although I pen to know he's not . above fixin' a jury, an' he got his start : in the legal profession bein' an ambu- chaser." ri Mary's going to marry him!" « "I'm sorry, lad. It's a damn shame. don't you tell her?" : iy 1 couldn' t. You don't under- no backbiter you are. I'll tell her ily self." = #No, you musn't." Jimmy raised a protesting hand. - "Listen here, Rand. Did you tell Lowel why you were in town-- you happened to be out with the girl?" "No." "Why in the devil didn't you? Then bet this wouldn't have happened." "I thought I had good reasons at : for 'not Telitag 'her. Now it's too Nothin' fancy, you understand. Just plain cookin'. i about six o'clock." Day muttered to himself after Jimmy out of me. had left. "You've just been warning me about * * . * falling in love. It's too late, licuten-| The shirt-sleeved clerk who had given Jimmy the first day he had gone to work for the laundry had occ him a couple of times the next morn- and refueled. "Go on," he said gruff- | for the new basiness he was bringing ly, his voice muffled by the huge wad | in. in his cheek. "Keep i* up, Rand. That's the And then, the while he punctuated stuff." _his cigaret,.Rand told him about Mary | that 'Mr. Porter, the man who had " Lowell. { hired him, wanted to see him. He "1 don't know, lieutenant, whether | went right in, thinking some more there's uny such thing as love at first | praise was in store for him--perhans she appealed to even a raise. with her ever since that night at the | that he was heing let out. | restaurant." Porter raised his head for a brief "An' she broke ue with you be- instant from his desk when Jimmy cause she saw you wi h this Maynard | entered. "I'm sorry, Rand, but I'm girl in vour arms? discharging you." He pretended to "Yes." be busying himseelf with some papers "Your friend Olga seems t6 be bad "You're what?" i . Inck to you, doesn't she? But you c an| "I'm letting you go. Here's a week's be sure of this, Rand. If she got m nd i PAY. " wd at seeing you together pet] "But why? 1 don't understand. your hattom dollar she { Everybody said I was getting along rol you.' all right. I worked hard and I did my work, didn't 1?" {little to keep within the budget, and » | opportuni 1 We eat "You mean it?" "I'd be proud to have you. "Thanks.' I'll be there." "It's a shame--a damn shame," O'- Rand his instructions asioa to commend ng and afternon for his speed and At the end of the day he was told But {, his amazement he was told | "Suse, 1 know." Porter was still | studying the papers before him. "i,! ah, tha" is, we have to cut expenses a so I'm havi off." Jut why me? The shipping clerk caid I was already the best driver he ng to lay some of the men had." "Well, you were the last one hired, you know." He muttered something about "obligations to the older em- ployes." | "Your chief concern when you hired me," said Jimmy bitterly, "was whe- ther 1 would stay after I had learned the job. You seemed to think I'd run away as soon as another job offered itself." "Sure." Porter seized on the sug- gestion. "That's another reason why "silk frock to brighten your you happen to be the first to go. Why should we strain a point to keep you here when you're only anchoring here | for a while so you can keep your eye open for something better?" | "It seems to me," remarked Jimmy dryly, "that as long a. I did my work and did it well you needn't have gone out of your way to worry how long I was going to stay." "Rand," said the other, finally look- ing up and meeting his eye, 'you're just wasting your time here. A man with your education has no business to be driving a truck .You ought to get some place where there's more ng," said Jimmy, "to hear the real reason why I'm being fired." "You've heard it. That's all." Por- ter rose as if he would put an end {0 the interyiew. But Jimmy stopped him with a hand on his arm. "Do you know what I think, Mr. Porter?" "No. What do you think?" "I think you are a liar." He had raised lis voice, and Miss Caton, at the other side of the room, stopped chewing her gum and listened atten- tively. Porter's face went white and hig hands gripped the edge of his Vek, "You're talking pretty careless Rand. "I'm speaking very carefully, Por. ter, Listen to me while I say it again. You're a liar. He leaned across the desk, his face just a few inches from the other man's. "I'm w (To be continued.) ee J ee What New York Is Wearing nished With Every Patternd successful meringue. It requires \ strictly fresh eggs. Alsg wateh it "| carefully while in ovea, as it Of course you'll want a pastel crepe winter i wardrobe. And this one is full of charm and practicality. It poses a circular flounce around | it just below the hips to give youth- ful animation to its slender skirt, that bursts into graceful fulness at the! hem. ee point," he went on, speaking very calmly, "we can go out in the delivery stable «» in the yard and debate it." } 'ready fo be spread and | find that 'Economy Corner Meringue Put 2 egg whites, '% cup confec- tionery sugar, 2 tablespeons cold wa- ter (or %& egg shell full), pinch of cream of tartar and shake of salt into bowl and Leat until stiff. # Then spread on ple and brown in oven. Do not beat meringue until it is cold storage eggs will not make a georches very quickly. Apple Sauce Cake Half cup lard, 1 egg, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup seedless raisins, 1 cup apple sauce, sweetened for table use, 1 tea- spoon soda, dissolved in 2 tablespoons 3 hot water, 2 cups fl ur, -1 teaspoon cinnamon, 15 teaspoon each of all spice, nutmeg and salt. Beat well, pour into a greased loat pam and bake about 1 hour in a 350 degree F. oven. Prune Jelly One pound prunes, 1 pound sugar, 1 ounce gelatine, 1 orange, 1 lemon, whipped cream. Wash prunes well, then cover with water and soak over night. Put on to boil in same wa- ter until tender; add.sugar and boil 10 minutes; strain and remove stones. Take gelatine soaked in 1 cup of wa- ter. Put on stove juice«from prunes equal to 2% cups; ada juice of lemon and orange. When this comm:aces to boil add gelatine and prunes. Turn into mold and serve when cold with whipped cream. |, Cranberry and Apple Punch Cover 1 quart of cranberries with water, Cook until quite ender. Strain through bag and when cold, add 1 quart of sweet cider. Sweeten to taste and chill. This is very good. EESEECRIEIE Sp, In the British Museum "What do you see in that time-touch- ed stone, When nothing is there But ashen blankness, give it A rigid stare? "You look not quite as if you saw, But as if you heard, Parting your lips, and treading softly: As mouse or bird. "It is only the base of a pillar, they'll | tell you, That came to us 'Fresh: from the gardens' Turks Install Electric Muezzins Although many human beings flee {from New York and seek warmer re- glons when the cold weather takes hold, the metropolitan region is a popular Winter sesort for sea gulls. Coming from Ne oundland, the coasts of Labrador and even further north, these oceangoing birds, notably the big northern or herring gull, rive in early winter and remain uf unt region offers £ & To Call Faithful to Prayer The ancient and conservative Mo | speaker of each mosque to a radio ol although you! benefit of modern radio science, so that the faithful now may be called earlier and louder for prayer without requiring a priest to climb a tall tower in the chilly dawn to do it per! sonally. the traditional call of from the tops of the mosques at the ligious services, The Turkish Gov ernment, it is said, is anxious to econo | mize in the upkeep of the mosques and the use of the electric muezzin saves enough time that the services and expense of at least one priest can be dispensed with. It is possible to connect the local amplifier and loud In Turkey, it is reported, ex-| periments are under way with radio or an electric phonograph and ampli amplifiers and loud speakers to give fier may be started automatically in the muezzin| the same way. Another advantage of hours specified for prayer or othef re. hammedan religion has accepted the! ceiver and to broadcast the necessary | calls from a central radio station, so! that one good radio announcer acting as muezzin can serve the whole coun- try at once, the only local necessity' being that someone get up in time to turn on the receiver. Even this might be done by an automatic alarm clock, the electric call to prayer, the Turkish | engineers urge, is that. a battery of loud speakers In the tower of a mosque may be made many times more powerful than any numan voice, | so that one tower will serve a much wider countryside than is possible when a live muezzin instead instead of | a vacuum-tube one broadcasts the call, Washing Day On wash day in cold weather, try heating the clothespins by putting them in the warming oven when you begin washing. The warm pins heip to keep the hands warm when hang: ing out the clothes. * * * On "Blue Monday" in winter pour some water into the hot water bag and slip it into your clothespin Lag while the clothes are in the last rins- ing water. Keep the hot water bag under the pins when you go out to | the line and your hands will keep warm while hanging out the clothes --even in near-zero weather. A gen- | erous handful of salt added to the last rinsing water will 'keep the It offrs a charming variation of | From a far old hill men used to nama clothes from Ireeging fast to the line. the capelet collar that ties in a bow | at the front. It's so versatile for afternoons or! Sunday night dining and dancing. Style No. 2904 may be obtained in| sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and | 40 inches bust. Chiffon, lace, wool crepe, satin crepe, | Areopagus." --*"1 know io art, and I only view A stone from a wall, But I am thinking . that stone echoed The voice of Paul. & | | { When your fine woolien vests are | gone beyond repair under the arms, | the bodies are generally good. These has make splendid petticoats, warm and | gomtontable; for the little tot, cut by | the "Gertrude" pattern, Use the full width, cut from 16 to 18 inches long, canton crepe and flat crepe lend them. | wpa as he stood and preached be- if your body part will allow, bind selves beautifully to this model. Size 16 requires 41% yards 39-inch. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. sem ---------- Hypocrite! I shall sit calmly You will not guess My heart beats savagely Against my dress I shall lie deftly With a gay smile 'Wishing you would kiss me All of the while Vr? I shall speak lightly So you won't know 1 long to.beseech you Never to go. When you have left me --After a bit I'll say to my mirror "You hypocrite." --Anonymauus. Se tan What Brown Meant Collins was. sitting comfortably in a chair at the suburban golf-club when he was approached by Smith. "Why is it that Browa never plays | soit now?" asked Smith, "Can't afford it," Collins replied. Smith looked surprised. "That's rather strange," he sald. 'Why, only the other day I met him and he said his business was going like clockwork." "Exactly," smiled Collins. "His business has just been wound up." "And if you dispute the question in * side it Facing the crowd, A small gaunt figure with features, Calling out loud "Words that in all their aecents Pattered upon That marble front, and were i reflected, ! And then were gone. | little, Or nothing at all; once echoed The voice of Paul." cumstance." aur "Ig ghe fond of children?" "I should say she is. husband for seven months courts to get the custody of them." ------r----c-- "Say what you will," asserted a man who was proud of his ancestry, "jt 1s a fine thing to come of good "It's a finer thing." replied proud of his stock." the other who was wealth, "to own it!" It's very nice to live in the country; nice for your city relations. "534" The New Giant Cunarder The above'. an artist's drawing of the new giant Cunard liner at present under construction on the Clyde. | This enormous Vessel will register 73,000 tons and will be the largest liner afloat, intimate wide S., Peterboro, Ont. . "I'm a labouring mau and know but But I can't help thinking that stone --Thomas Hardy, in "Satires of Cir- She fought her in the | around top with bias binding, fasten the shoulders with dome fasteners wasted and crochet a row of edging around | the bottom. » Chest pads can also he nade, using two thicknesses and shaping. These are very handy to have on hand when | the children get colds.--Mrs. * * Boil clothes pins in a salt brine and they will not stick to clothes in fros- ty weather. » » . On cold days, if handkerchiefs, table napkins or other small pieces C. A. are pegged to a piece of line in the house, and the pie:e of line is then attached to the outside line with three or four pegs, cold fingers will be avoided. A convenient length of rubber hose hung near the laundry tubs will save labor in lifting many pails of water, in filling washing machine, boiler or] scrub pail. Slip one end over the tap, directing the other end where the water is needed. * To remove frost from window glass rub well with hot ean The Three Ways Young Moore was applying for a post as bookkeeper to a big firm. "Qf course," said the manager, understand double entr "Oh, yes, sir," fidently. "In my lat triple entry." "Triple entry?" ager. "I don't understand." "Well, the applicant. * * you a income tax people." eee A we More Queer Advertisments Wanted--Assistant butcher." ferred. Man. wanted for gardening, also to take charge of a cow who sings in ithe choir and plays the organ. of spectacles' by a man in red leather case with a silk Lost--A pair lining. Lost--A bunch of keys, by a gentle man on a purple string. Wanted--A boy to gather fourteen years old. | i | | | | | SAFE For " Prompt relief from COLDS. . .... SORE THROAT . RHEUMATISM . . LUMBAGO "eo NEURITIS ..... ~ ACHES and PAINS 'Does not harm the heart Moore con- place they had echoed the man- it was like this," explained | "We had one set of books for the boss, a second for the shareholders, and a third set for the One able to drive and kill himself pre- eggs | of today succeeds in accumulating the - early spring. The metropolitan E many fine feeding grounds for the birds. They swarm above the harbor, swooping down to its waters for dead fish or pieces of refuse and fcllowing 'in the wake of vessels to pick up | scraps thrown overbiard by the ship's cook. Marshes in the Jersey mexd- ows, streams in suburban areas,:are i stocked with delicacies that tempt I the gull appetite. It must be admitted | that the gull, picturesque as he may | be when hovering with motionless | wings above a vessel, is a stavenger by nature. City dumps provide food the gull does not despise; he brings {man able assistance in the cleaniug {up of waste in near-by waters. But the gull is a wanderer and traveler whose peregrinations have: no limit. He may summer in Huc- son's 'Bay or Icéland, and Winter . along the Great Lakes, in Yucatan or even in the Mediterranean. The North Atlantic is an important field for his tours. Whe) an ocean-going vessel, or a lishing schooner, sails | out of our harbor, swarms. of gulls-- especially the little kittiwake, with its graceful 'black legs--follow astern and it is believed that they some- times travel in this manner straight across the Atlantic. Liirds markel as nestlings in England have been dig- covered as adults on thi: side of the Atlantic, and soma raised in Prussia have been captured off the coast of Mexico. Tha large Glaucous gull, or Burgo- master, often ventures southward as 2 far as the New England coast, 'the Great Lakes, and the Niagara River; and the Black-backed Gull fregentiv visits the seacoast, but seldom goes far iu:and, * * The herring gull, most often has his home--if it can be called a home --generally on some iittle islana off Labrador. To such a place, where. there is abundant food in the form ° of cod, caplin, clams and sea urchins, he goes in the Spring to find his mate and build a nest of twigs, seaweed, * | grass or moss. Three eggs are th: | ordinary lay and but one brood is ° ! raised in 'a season. While herring gulls sometimes steal one another's eggs, as do ravens and black-backed gulls, their worst enemy, until re- cent years, has been the professional "eggers," who ca.re in ships to make a business of gathering gulls" eggs. some years ago Canada and the United States made an agreement by which this pra-tice was ended and . every summer the Dominion sends its patrol boat back and forth along the coast. There is a feeding trick of the gulls which shows their intelligence. When fish are scarce they have to feed on sea urchins, clams or periwinkles. These shell fish can be caught. only at low tide and are hard to get out of their shells. The gull, therefore, takes the clam in its bill and hovers high above a flat rock. Letting it go, the bird hasyto feilow it down in a hurry, lest another of the species, 'or a raven or saddleback get there first. Sometimes several atlempis are necessary before the target is struck and the shell is broken. a Another Leaning Tower While) the Leaning Tower of Pita is the most famous "monument" of its kind in the world, ii isn't the only one. St. Moritz, where devotees of winter sports are now gathering, can boast of a leaning tower of its own. One of the sights of this beauti- fully situated Swiss village, now cele- brated all over the globe, is the tow- er of the old chucch, which has a very pronounced slant. It dates from 1573, and is the only part of the old church that is now standing. The most famous toboggan run in the world, the Cresta, is one of the big attractions of St. Moritz. It is three-quarters of a mile long and the distance «has been govered in fifty- nine seconds, or at very nearly the speed cf an express train. Then there is the skating. Some of the finest skating in the world can ° be seen at St. Moritz, and the place is worth visiting for that alone. mt etme Rais Spots Removed Rain spots on fine fabries can be removed by dry brushing, Fasten - the spotted part of the garment over : the ironing board and pin it securely in position. Brush briskly across . the grain of the material with an old toothbrush, or any other brush hav- ing stiff fine bristles. This treat- ment of rain-spotted material is more effective than dry cleaning since gasoline often fails to remave such - spots, oid * \ . ee ar 'By the time the'average college oy. 'horsehide, the pigskin, the coonskin, and finally the sheepskin, poor father' hasn't much hide left either. : ~ ='The Pathfinder. :

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