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RE a ® The Black Menace ARTHUR "8 REEVE / mea ey bd Fa Toh aad te si | OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY; SEPTEMBER, 23, = [Forests Should Be Under State Control Rotarians Are Told At the regular weekly luncheon at Welsh's Parlors on Monday last the Oshawa Rotarians listened to an un- usual and most illuminating address & hy Mr. Black, Secretary of the Fores- Suddenly there was a violent ex- plosion and a radiator in the living yoom blew up as if it had been a bomh. Not a second later, another in the. hall shattered, scattering flame far and wide as from the un: jointed end of & pipe a jet of gas apparently shot out in a Jong ton- gue. ' We retreated to the middle of the room in which we were, as a- mid flying splinters and pieces of steel another radiator exploded. One after another they went, like a bombardment and instantly al- most every door and window was a curtain of flame. "Must (have connected the gas main somehow with the steam heat ing and wired the 'thinghike a get of hombs," cried Kennedy to us from thie hall, "Get to ithe win- dows where there are po radiators, -guick-jump," There was no need to urge haste @8 the hooming of the radiator bombs all over the house continued surrounding us with a "veritable | Curtain of fire, floors and ceil-| ings were shattered, the air was| thick with plaster dust and smoke, Everywhere was wreck and ruin, | And above all were the licking, | bungry flames for the old rebuilt] colonial house was but a huge, plece of tinder, dried out by years | and ready at a touch to flare up. : Speed on the second floor, was qut off from the stairs as Kenpedy | abd I gained the lawn. "Throw down a rug- -blanket-any- | thing," shouted Craig. Just as Speed turned from the | window we heard a scream down near the barn. . In spite of his per-| il Speed paused In the window | pointing. It was from Clare, and as we looked we could see several hooded figures running from the barn, They had seized her and were bea¥- ing her off, struggling but no longer screaming, as a gag was fore ed over her mouth. Evidently there had been a see-| ret passage from the cellar of the House of Mystery to this barn, and | we had overlooked it. They had | waited long enough for Craig to pass the barn and become involved in the fire trap that had been set in the house against such a raid.| Then they had darted out, seized] Clare, and now were away, with! her. Above us was Speed, caught in| the flames which were already! mounting about the window. We could not leave him to per- ish there. miserably. Nor could we stand still and allow Clare to be | carried off bodily, no one knew by | whom or where. epual to the task. CHAPTER 17 The Gray Cruiser The fire was gaining rapidly on | Speed, but he stood in the window, | almost fascinated at his helplessness, as he witnessed the capture of Clare. "Hurry" shouted Kennedy, "Get a rug--Something, anything that's, big." | Speed closed his eyes, held his | breath and fought his way back into the flames and smoke of the room. A moment later he emerged stagger- ing and gasping, and threw down to us a partly blazing rug of grass-cloth. We seized it and stamped out the | fire. Kennedy grabbed one end, waving at me. | "Get the other corner, Waiter," he cried, then as he caught sight of | a couple of operatives, shouted, | "Here, you fellows, take the other | corner." Thus we improvised a net. Stand- ing in the window Speed leaped into the rug. Although the impact of | his weight bore down one side until | it almost touched the ground, and his feet went through the other side, it broke his fall sufficiently. Kennedy dropped his end now, in- tent only on the rescue of Clare, which had been delayed even now | too long. Over the lawn he dashed | | away, after the retreating figures, | bearing Clare. Speed and I followed closely and | we van we could see the group of | ing them helplessly as {sure that if there nedy had approached in his car, Some one in the neighboring house must have seen the smoke and flames from the House of Myst- ery and telephoned the news to the local fire department, for at that moment there burst upon the still air of the countryside the weird windings up and down the scale of steam siren at the fire-house and 'power plant, It was sufficient to wake even the volunteer fire depart- ment, and we were content to leave the house now to their tender mer- cies, as well as to those of the de- tective bureau operatives whom Kennedy told off to stay as we wal- Towed after our fugitives, Fortunately the clump of woods was not so thick or undergrown that it completely concealed them as they fled through it, with Clare held firmly and forced along between two of them. As we ran we could see that they had gained a little private garage on the back road and had seized a car which was evidently kept there for emergency. Kennedy began signalling franti- cally on a police whistle three sharp blasts repeated as often as he could | above t ren. "They're off," fumed Speed, watch- their car | swung into the road and started a- way gathering more power: "And | there isn't a chance that any one will stop them on this road coming to | the fire. Kennedy said nothing, but waited with outward confidence in himself as the valuable minutes passed while | the car he bad come in, and the road, | with the driver alert, came sweeping down to us. Speed and I leaped into the back | while Kennedy directed five of the detectives to join us crowding in the limited space. He himself swung into the front seat with the | driver, preferring to let the men who understood this particular mo- | tor best, handle it. We were away in an instant and | as we sped along Kennedy drew his! gun and began examining it hastily to make sure that that it was all right. Speed and I and the rest | did the same, for we were all well armed, and as | looked about I was was going to be gun play we preserved as fine a band of gunmen as could be desired out- side of a moving picture. They had a start on us of some minutes, but the road was fairly straight and there was little reason that they should get off it, at last | for some miles, for the upper road | was the more travelled and was es- pecially likely to be congested as {| the Heaton Hilliams turned out for the great event of a local fire. Our car sped along in spite of the weight it was carrying, nor did the driver, who was getting into the spirit of the chase neglect to take any chances in passing the few farm- ers' teams we met or in shooting past the wretched crossroads. At last we came to the brow of a hill. Over the valley and almost at the brow of the next hill we could see the car. It was some encour- agement to know that we were gain- ing, if only by a few yards, and at least on the trail. The occupants of the car ahead, | looking back, saw us and it seemed to act as a stimulus to them. They were getting every inch of speed out of their engine as we were out of our own. TO BE CONTINUED [vyned and and under State control. try A fation and editor of Cana- dian Forestry Magazine. Mr, Black pointed out that inas- much as products of the forest in the form of lumber or pulp form an im- portant basic part of 90 per cent, of our industries, it is of the highest im- portance that Canada's forest resour- ces are preserved, Canada still has untold wealth in mammoth forest ac- reage. The chief enemies of the for- est are forest fines, which have taken their toll of altruction amounting to as much as the lumber industry would take in a decade, Under proper control the forest re- sources are not depleted, A supply of standing timber is taken and the smaller trees left, to mature, Ger- many, for example, has more than doubled its forest resources in the last twenty years though taking off more timber than previously. Because of the fact that it takes 'a hundred years to grow a forest, Mr. Black outlined that the only feasible method of preserving and increasing our forest acres is to have them State Whitby College the gyrating echoes of the si-| {not indicative of as large an enrol- {should result in the best record in steadily advancing {both | Jewish Is Again Crowded The Ontario Ladies' College, which opened for the fall term last week, is again being taxed to ca- pacity. Advance registrations were ment as last year, but opening day saw many more arrivals than were expected, with the result that the College is again destined to have a full enrolment. The faculty of the College is this year of a very high standard, and with a capacity at- tendance, the activities of the year its history, for the College has been in recent years in attendance, in the accom- plishments of its students, and in perfection of equipment. SEE En Sy 683rd Year on Jewish Calendar Commencing at sunset Thursday and continuing until sundown Fri- | day evening, Rosh Hashonah, or the New Year, was celebrated. although, among the more orthodox | Jews, Sunday, the 24th, will be ob- served as scrupuiously as the first | side-wall of the The a is HE by the | Jews as one of the two most sig- nificant days in their religion, rank- ing with the Day of Atonement. Ac- cording to rabbinical legend the New Year marks the creation of the world and this 18 supposed to ho the 6,683rd year since the world was created. The Jewish people, apart from attending solemn ser- vices in the synagogues, utilize the occasion to exchange greetings among relatives and friends, The Jews base their observance of the day on the passage in Leviticus 23, 24th verse, where it is said: "In the goventh month, in the first day of the month shall be a solemn rest unto you,' Good Pictures, Road Shows, Vaudeville Booked For Martin's Patrons of "the New Martin's theatre, who are accustonied to de- manding the finest feature attrac- tions in the theatrical world should congratulate the manager of this popular playhouse on the program that he has arranged for the fall and coming winter. In addition to the usual sterling vaudeville skifs, Mr, Thompson, announced this morning that the latest and best releases from the Hollywood picture colony would shortly be shown here. Musi- cal comedies of the clean, whole- some kind, many of which have had | long runs in New York, Boston, Chi- cago, Toronto and other important | cities in the theatrical firmament, are coming here. Among the mo-| tion pictures that are coming is | "Foolish Wives," in which Erich | Von Stroheim, is the star. This | will be the second showing here, so | great bas been the popular demand for a return engagement, management acceded to the re-' quests. Other pictures include "The Storm," "Under Two Flags," "Human Hearts, which has not yet been released; dnd the "Ken-| tucky Derby." The Dumbells are coming for a return engagement. Among the the musical comedies that will play at this theatre are Gus Hill's "Bring- ing up Father," "Mutt and Jeff." "Keeping up With the Joneses," "Listen to Me," and Harvey's min- strels. As this theatre procures its vaudeville talent from the National Vaudeville circuit Oshawa pleasure seekers are assured of the best in [this respect. Alterations have been | made to the theatre which have {added to its beauty. Just think: this time last summer {our chief anxiety was, would the | pressure of the coal burst out the bin? --New York! Evening Post. { -_-- or five disappear into the clump woods, and making for a direction | opposite from that in which Ken- TA flog, 2, CP (J -- Jd Blue Concord and Niagara grapes make delic- ious jelly, jam, grape juice, eic. supply you with these vanities grown in the Niagara Peninsula, famed for the flavor of its grapes. Red Rogers are also obtainable, This is a large red sweet grape excellent for table use. This year's crop is fine an quality. Prices will semain The stamp of the Niagara District Grape Grow- ers on a basket means better grapes, carefully graded and packed. Ask your dealer for baskets with this stamp. You will then be sure of getting the geal ro -- -- ---- » ~ Your dealer can now fiom. NIAGARA DISTRICT GRAPE GROWERS, LIMITED ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO If you want to know the many in- |e utiop. 1922 A '"slow-motion" pleture is to he taken of Charlie Chaplin "making up' his face, We hear that another forthcoming attraction is a slow-mo- tion film' of Mr, Lloyd George mak- {ing up his mind.--The Passing Show (London), The new verb "to coal' has some interesting forms, among which we notice "shall we coal?" "we will coal!" ete. It all ends, however, with "we may be cold."--New York Sun. Strife in Ireland (Continued from page 1) ville Park, which was presented to the city by a Mr. Dunnville, Or- maau Gardens, and Botanic Gard- ens. He also mehtioned the huge industries and fine churches, Visited Glasgow. Before returning to Canada Mr, Sproule visited Glasgow, Scotland, where he called on Master John Yule, son of Rev. and Mrs. George Yule, of Oshawa, who is attending college in that city. Mr. Sproule had the opportunity of seeing many of the outstanding places of interest in Glasgow and sailed from' that port, arriving in Montreal last Sat- {urday evening and returning to | Oshawa Sunday morning. He | brought back with him a number of | real Irish grown black thorn canes {which are in great demand among (his friends. Mr. Sproule stated that [the crops were looking fine but were {much later this year owing to the {heavier rains than usual. 'Taxie » Driver Find (Cc ontinued fron from page 1)' { appearance, sufficient evidence to re- {fute the claims made by the prose- He pleadel for leniency on er ach as 4 at all aoxae A Sn "sh (pod stores AN A few doses of Balsamea--and | coughs and colds disappear com- pletely. ph and clears the lungs and bronchial tu in action, is free fro because it tastes Relief guaranteed or money BUY A BOTTLE TO-DAY. COUGHS AND coLDs ® Se BALSAMEA, sithough Powerful m all harme ful drugs. 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