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"Fresh from the Gardens" In The Garden Lawn Treatment Lime is not the cure-all for a lawn which many are inclined to believe. As a matter of fact it should be used rath- er sparingly, as often an acid soil, which the lime tends to correct, actual ly discourages the growth of dande- lions and plantain, two weeds which are a very common pest in most parts of the country. A rich soil, however, 1s necessary to promote heavy growth and the dark green, fine sward we are after. Good drainage is also import- ant and sunlight for most types of grass, though if our location is shaded we can secure special grass which will da well under these conditions. Fer- tilizer of the commercial variety, re- Jatively high in nitrogen, gives good results. One should be careful in ap- plying the fertilizer to prevent burn- ing. Dissolving in water first or ap- plying just before a heavy shower or watering is the safest way. An annual application of pulverized sheep man- wre will supply both nourishment and humus and, unlike ordinary manure, this will not fill the grass with a lot of weed seeds as tk > sheep manure has been steamed during the pulverizing process to kill anything of this kind. In Buying Shrubs There is no object to be gained and often losses result where one sends half way across the continent for plants, shrubbery and trees. Purchas- ing from ihe nearest reliable source is best as then we are sure of getting something adapted to our section of the country. When. this stock arrives if we are not ready to plant immediate- Jy, open the parcel, spread out the roots in a shallow trench and cover firmly with damp soil. Above all things do not let the roots be exposed io sun or wind and if the plants are very dry on arrival, bury stems and all for a day or two. Get Seed Suitable For Canada 'While a very minor item, as far as cost is concerned, seed, like the foun- dation of a building, is all important. In fact carrying the comparison still further seed is the support upon which the whole of gardening depends. Soll, Jocation, climate and cultivation may be perfect, but without the right quality of seed and of a kind particu- larly adapted to our Canadian condi- tions we cannot possibly succeed. A certain plant may give ideal results in the States or in England, but be- cause it is not adapted to local condi- tons is often a miserable failure here. On this account, it is most important to secure something especially suitable to Canada. Before one is tempted to depend absolutely on seed saved from ones own garden last year, it should be remembered that much of this is probably & mixture of several shades, varieties and different qualities of plants. The bees which mix the pol- Jen are no respectors of color, and when they get through with sweet So economical [ WRAFp Boiled Salad Dressing Got tome today. Try it and 'llinetantly know why it' he Made in Canada peas, for instance, they have probably mixed things up so much that weakly colored blooms are sure to result. Then, again, the seed saved is usually from the later and inferior flowers, or, in the case of vegetables, from late maturing plants, and in consequence is quite liable to give late and disap- pointing plants. On commercial seed farms, varieties are grown in large solid blocks so that there is no chance of mixing and, in the case of high- class flowers, blooms are screened against bees and the pollen mixed by hand, There is no attempt to produce flowers for bouquet purposes or early vegetables for the table, but seed only, and that is selected from the earliest and most vigorous plants. Mushrooms Most of us are fond of mushrooms but most of us, also, are afraid to in- dulge our appetite in these things for fear we will be the unlucky ones who get one of the very few poisonous kinds. Before risking those gathered in the woods or pastures we should make ourselves thoroughly familiar with the different species which are now fully described in various Govern- ment bulletins. To ensure an ade- quate supply, regardless of the season, and to be positive regarding the safe- ty of our supply, however, we can grow these ourselves. Practically any seed store lists mushroom spawn and will supply same along with the sim- ple directions for growing in an old root cellar or other dark corner. --,: Dazzling Splendour The night was winter in his roughest mood The mornipg sharp and clear. now, at noon, Upon the "southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, rage, And has the warmth of May. vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a But resigning all its The speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below Again the harmony comes o'er the vale; And through the trees I view the em- battled tower, Whence all the music, ceive The soothing jnfluence of the wafted strains, And settle in soft musings as I tread I again per- The walk, still verdant, under oaks and elms Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suf- ficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me, --Cowper "Poems." -- His Country I journeyed from my native spot Across the south sea shine, And found that people in hall and cot Labored and suffered each his Jot Even as I did mine. Thus noting them in meads and marts It did not seem to me That my dear country with its hearts Minds, yearnings, worse and better parts Had endeq with the sea. I further and further went anon, As such I still surveyed, And further yet--yea, on and on, And all the men I looked upon Had heart-strings fellow-made. I traced the whole terrestrial round, Homing the other side; Then said I, "What is there to bound My denizenship? It seems I have found Its scope to be world-wide." I agked me: "Whom have I to fight, And whom have I to dare, And whom to weaken, crush, and blight? : My country seems to have kept in sight On my way everywhere." --Thomas Hardy, "Poems." FERIA AAT he la th Living I live for those who love me, For those that know me true, For the heaven that's spread above m? And the good that I may do. ef itn The Green Murder BY 8. S. VAN DINE. "harm in it," Von Blon retu | ing himself beside Chester. "Ada has SYNOPSIS, Philo Vance, friend of John F. X. Markham, District Attorne mes in- terested in the Greene Mu Case, Julia Sree is killed and he: 0 'oblas sister, ig jreene's widow, together with fre chil- dren, Julia, Chestes, Sibella, Ada, an adopted, daughter, ve in the ole Greene mansion. The bu rglas ter Greene, discovering 'that an old .32- caliber revolver is taken from Chester's bedroom. Sibella is cross-examined next. CHAPTER VI--(Cont'd.) Presently, however, Sibella 'aughad gayly and held out her hand. "Another Regie, monsieur. I was * *> - "Tt was' not a particilart riou wound, then?" Markham Rr . "No, not serious," the doctor assur- Ted him; "though it barely missed being fatal, Had the shot gone an inch deeper it would have torn across the lung. It was a very narrow escape." "She had," suggested Vance, "ap- parently turned her back on her as- sailant and attempted to run away; and he had followed her and placed revolver almost against her back-~ Ie that your interpretation of it, doec- tox?" "Yes, that would seem to be the on the verge of b i pious; and I simply mustn't beccme serious, It's so frightfully boring. . Besides, it gives one wrinkles. And I'm much too young for wrinkles. "Like Ninon de I'Enclos, you'll al- ways be too young for wrinkles," re- joined Vance, holding a match to her cigarette. "But perhaps you can sug- gest, without becoming too serious, some one who might have had a rea- son for wanting to kill your two sis- ters," "Oh, as for that, I'd say we'd all come under suspicion. We're not an ideal home circle, by any means. In fact, the Greenes are a queer collec- tion. We don't love one another the way a perfectly nice and proper fam- ily should. We're always at each other's throats, bickering and fighting about something or other. It's rather a mess--this menage. It's a wonder to me murder hasn't been done long before. And we've all got to live heve until 1932, or go it on our own, and, of course, none of us could make a de- cent living. A sweet paternal heri- tage!" Sibella was here referring to Tobias Greene's will, which stipulated not only that the Greene mansion should bo maintained intact for twenty-five years, but that the legutees should live on the estate during that time or be- come disinhérited, She smoked moodily for a tow mo- nente. "Yes, any one of us had ample rea- sons to be murderously inclined to- ward all the others. Chet there would strangle me now if he didn't think the nervous aftermath of the act would spoil his golf--couldn't you, Chet dear? Rex regards us all as inferiors, and probably considers himself highly indulgent and altruistic not to have murdered us all long ago. And the only reason mothe hasn't killed us is that she's paralyzed and can't manage it. Julia, too, for that matter, could have seen us all boiled in oil without turning a hair, "And as for Ada"--her brows con- tracted and an extraordinary ferocity crept into her eyes--'she'd deazly love to see us all exterminated. She's not really one of us, and she hates us. Nor would I myself have any scruples about doing away with the rest of my fond family. I've thought of it often, but I could never decide on a nice thur- cugh method." She flicked her cigarette ash on the floor. "So there you are, If you're looking for possibilities you have them galore. There's no one under this an- cestral roof who couldn't qualify." Though her words were meant to be satirical, I could not help feeling that a sombre, terrible truth underlay them. Vance, though apparently lis- tening with amusement, had, I knew, been absorbing every inflection of her voice and play of expression, in an effort to relate the details of her sweeping indictment to the problem in hand. "At any rate," he remarked off- handedly, "you are an amazingly frank young woman. However, I sha'n't recommend your arrest just yet. I haven't a particle of evidence against you, don't y' know. Annoyin', ain't it?" "Oh, well," sighed the girl, in mock disappointment, "you may pick up a clue later on. Ther ll probably Le another death or two around here be- fore long. I'd hate to think the mur- derer would give up the job with so little really accomplished." At this point Dr. Von Blon enter- ed the drawing room. Chester rose to greet him, and the formalities of in- troduction were quickly over. Von Blon bowed with reserved cordiality; but I noted that his manner to Si- || bella, while pleasant, was casual in the extreme. I wondered a little about old friend of the family and probably took many of the social amenities for granted. "What have you to report, doctor?" asked Markham. "Will we be able to this, but I recalled that he was an], itunt And, at the crucial moment she veered a little, and thus saved her life." "Would she have fallen immediately to the floor, despite the actual super- ficiality of the wound?" "It's not unlikely, Not only would the pain have been considerable, but th: shock must be taken into account. "Ada--for that matter, any woman --might have fainted at once." CHAPTER VII. Vance smoked a moment, his eyes averted. "Yes," he agreed. "I think we may assume that.--And another point sug- gests itself. Since Miss Ada was in front of the dressing-table, a consider- able distance frém the bed, and since the weapon was held practically against her, the encoanter would seem to take on the nature of a deliberate attack, rather than a haphazard shot fired by some one in a panic." Von Blon looked shrewdly at Vance, and then turned a questioning gaze upon Heath, or a moment he was silent, ag if weighing his reply, and when he spoke it was with guarded reserve, "Of course, one might interpret the situation that way. Indeed, the facts would seem to indicate such a conclu- sion, But, or. the other hand, the in- truder might have been very close to Ada; and the fact that the hullet entered her left shoulder at a par- ticularly vital point may have been the purest accident." "Quite true," conceded Vance. "How- ever, if the idea of premeditation is to be tbrogated, we must account for the fact that the lights were on in the room when the butler entered imme- diately after the shooting." Von Blon showed the keenest aston- ishment at this statement. "The lights were on? That's most remarkable!" His brow crinkled into a perplexed frown, and he appeared to be assimilating Vance's informa- tion. Still," he argued, "that very fact may account for the shooting, If the intruder had entered a lighted room he may have fired at the occu- pant lest his description be given to the police later." "Oh, quite!" murmured Vance. "Anyway, let us hope we'll learn the explanation when we've seen and spoken to Miss Ada." "Wel, why don't we get to it?" grumbled Heath, whose ordinarily in- exhaustible store of patience had be- gun to run low. "You're so hasty, Sergeant," Vance chided him. "Doctor Von Blow has just told us that Miss Ada is very weak; and anything we can learn be- forehand will spare her just so many questions." "All I want to find out," expostu- lated Heath, "is if she got a look at the bird that shot her and can give me a description of him." "That being the case, Sergeant, I fear you are doomed to have your ardent hopes dashed to the ground." Heath chewed viciously on his ei- gar; and Vance turned again to Von Blon. "There's one question I'd like to ask, doctor. How long was it after Miss Ada had been wounded before you examined her?" "The butler's already told us, Mr. Vance," interposed Heath impatient- ly. "The doctor got here in half an hour." "Yes, that's about right." Von Blon's tone was smooth and matter- of-fact. "I was unfortunately out on a call when Sproot phoned, but I return- ed about fifteen minutes later, and Sonugutod Calvanized 8heets ROCK-BOTTOM CES Brat Eo Sorrugated vanized eavy Shated. ial lor Fd Prices Tor oes aay money by bu Busing RL Quality i ARTHUR X. JACOBS E question the young lady this after- noon?" "I hardly think there'd be any rned, seat- Forewarned Forewarn'd, fo! ed. 'A danger foreseen halt avoided. : {Forecast is better than hard work. himself behin : || Seven nations inthe ow have taken time into their own hands by moving those of the clock. North of the equator men and women have their clocks ahead one hour. South 'them back. A por- with its thoughts: ture of daylight saving, Another por- tion of mankind has just come home 'to the port of Standard Time. Your Mother's Mother gave 'her children "Christie's" Arrowroots,Canada'soriginal Arrowroot Biscuits, baked in Canada by Christie's since 1853. There is nothing better for your children, It may seem a simple matter--this of coming face to face with your elock, lookisn it straight in the keyhole and , "This hour belongs to me," as Eo to prove the statement with the movement of a mere finger. But it is not so simple nor--as you are aware in your very moment of triumph--without a reckoning. It has taken parliaments, and 'congresses, and supreme courts to inaugurate and preserve this right of men to manipu- late minut And even so, where in hurried right over. Luckily I live near here--in East 48th Stret." "And was Miss Ada still uncon- scious when you arived?" -- ---- Rent Concessions Granted To Queensland Farmers Brisbane, Queensl.--Rents for 3560 "Yes. She had lost iderabl blood. The eook, however, had put a towel-compress on the wound, which of course helped." Vance thanked him and rose. 'And now, if you'll be good enough to take us to your patient, we'll be very grateful." "As little excitement as _ possible, d Von she i holdings covering an aren of about 52,000,000 acres in Queénsland are being reduced 25 per cent. and the settlers' leases extended: as part of the State Government's ef- fort to maintain the level of primary production in the face of an uncertain economic situation, Some 1242 settlers have received i by the Upper Burnett and you understand," ad on Blon, as he got up and led the way upstairs, ' Sibella and Chester seemed -unde- cided about accompanying us; but as I turned into the hall I saw a look of interrogation flash between them, and a moment later they too joined us in the upper hall. Ada Greene's room was simply, al- most severely, furnish; but there was a neatness about it, combined. with little touches of feminine decoration, that reflected the care its occupant had bestowed upon it. To the left, near the door that led into the dress- irg room communicating with Mrs. Greene's chamber, was a single ma- hogany bed of simple design; and be- yond it was the door that opened upon tie stone balcony. To the right, beside the window, stood the dressing table; ar: on the amber-colored Chinese rug before it there showed a large irrega- lar brown stain where the wounded gil had lain. In the centre of the right wall was an old Tudor fireplace with a high oak-panelled mantel, (To be continued.) EE EE Pf Link Height and Intelligence Investigation of 1,000 school children in Glasgow, Scotland, apparently proves that there is a distinct connec- tion between height and intelligence, which was more noticeable: among boys than girls. LOVE. Infinite love joined to infinite skill shall pilot the way through every strait and temptation.--J. Alexander. Callide Valley land settlement themes and special concessions have also been given in the wool industry, which has recently been at its lowest ebb, ----t ENERGY. Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no. opportunities ' will make a man mail without it. one season there may be take, fa an- other there must be give. Once every year the world Seems suddenly to divide itself into two camps--those who want daylight sav- ing and those who don't, Some of the farmers say the cows won't abide by it. Some of the city folk say it is prac- tically impossible to catch a train by it. But for many the prospect of hav- ing one hour more of light in each sum- mer afternoon is too acceptable to al- low of argument. So Time can only look on while men tinker with the idea that perhaps, des- pite all that has been said about his in- exorab!~ness, they can make him serve those who too slavishly have served him. But not without a chuckle does he observe their excitement over the i possibility. Some day, le muses, he will have to look up his old companion Tide, and talk over the bluff that the two "For after all," says he, "friend Tide Best oil cheapest in None, {to work together, even be and I may says factory sup't. "The last thing we'd try to econo- mize on," says the superintendent of a large eastern factory, "is lubri- cating oil, By using cheap oil we could 'save' hundreds of dollars each year--but it would cost us thousands of dollars for repairs, re- placements and lessened efficiency of equipment." The same ig true in the home, If all housewives knew what factory men know about lubrication, few of them would use anything but 3-in- One Oit for their expensive sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, electric fans, lawn mowers, washers, and other household devices. 3-in-One, a blend of mineral, vegetable and animal oils, is the best oil for house: hold use, for it cleans and protects as well as lubricates. Ask for the old reliable 3-in-One Qil at good drug, grocery, hardware, department and general stores. For your protection, look for the trade mark "3-in-One" printed in Red on every package. '{ betote and iter jt was. purchased have to wait for them now and then." --The Christian Science Monitor. ATC The Spring of the Year What an exciting time the "Spring of the Year" was to us all in Newfound- land! What a promise of good things to come, the first balmy days of spring brought to us all, both young and old! The storms of winter were now but a memory as the sun grew stronger. Then came the soft warm raing to melt the snow. Little patches of moist earth steaming in the heat, ap- peared in the streets and lanes, and there was the music of a country brook in the rushing snow water, as it pour- ed noisily over the cobbled drains, and frothed and bubbled around the irom grating in front of the pump." As even ing approached, and the sun sank slowly behind the hills, the accumu- lated water in the "ruts" caused by the heavy wheels of the "long Carts" from the country, froze lightly, and the thin ice creckled beneath your feet. The frost had gone out of the earth. Spring had come! Little forlorn patch- es of snow lingered in the thick woods, but in the open fields, bunches of pale green showed their timorous heads, and the little brooks, swollen by the freshets, took on the appearance of real rivers, and in their ambition near- ly reached the roadside as they eddied : under the little bridges. There was a beauty in the straggling line of thin icicles, defeated winter's grim sentinels, as they hung in ragged formation from the eaves of houses and porches, and music in their rhyth- mic dripping as they melted, and made a myriad of little holes, in the soft and welcoming earth.--From "The Paths to Yesterday," by John Maclay Byrnes. eee enn Birmingham Renovating Old Taverns Into New Birmingham, Eng.--That there is' {po lack of good purpose to which old taverns may be put was shown in an exhibition held at the Muni- cipal Art Gallery here by the Birm- ingham Copec Housing Improvement Soctety Ltd, The exhibition, entitled "New Homes for Old," was intended to drive home the need for continuance of methods by which the society has workeq for several years in convert- photographs showing slum 'property by the society and reconditioned. Co-operating with the Copes, So- clety, the public works. and health departments of Birmingham | tion ang the Council of Bournville Trust statis! so long played upon mankind: . must know that when men learn how: ing slum property. It included many