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ol > eet a ol 2 Bhan WN OF MN pi BE FLAVOR, GREEN The by Stuart Martin GHOST SYNOPSIS Maud Barron awakes with a pre- monition of disaster. She hears padding footsteps, Rushing into her father's study: she finds him dead. : CHAPTER 11. Foster of the S.S. Meridian Who, or what, had killed James Baron, the planter, sugar-mill own- er, successful merchant of Jamaica and London? Within an hour a local doctor had been called and had made an ex- amination of the dead man. Within half an hour more the medical of- Ticopsaf one of the liners lying be- yond the harbour was also present. He met the local doctor as the latter was coming down the stairs. They were something of a con- trast in almost everything. The Ja- maican was dressed in whites that were stained and considerably the worse for wear; the man from the liner was in the smart uniform that told of discipline and regulations. The former was an elderly man, bald-headed and tired of a climate he had endured for forty years as he was tired of being called out of bed to attend to unfortunate human- ity; the latter was keen, strung up, his eyes and face alight with vigour and energy. He was young and strongly built, broad of shoulder, lean of jaw, "That you, doctor," he exclaimed. "I am Foster of the 'Meridian.' A ped forward quickly. "Things will remain as they are--until I get the authorities here. All the same, I wish you had the case instead of me. This climate makes men do things occasionally." He pointed to the feet of the dead man. Foster saw that James Barron's feet were crossed, the left resting on the top of the right; and wedged between the two ankles was a small revolver, the barrel pointing towards the floor.- "I haven't moved the gun," went on the other still mopping his head. "The police will do that, See where he shot himself? Right over the heart. His clothes are singed, show- ing that the weapon was held cloze to his body. Well, that's all we can do just now. It'll mean an inquest, of course, Maybe the reason will come out then. You don't happen to know if he had financial troubles?" "I know nothing about his private affairs, but I feel sure that he was not embarrassed in that respect. Why he is one of the richest men in his line." Foster bent down and examined the spot where the bullet had cut short the life of his friend. "Bled inwardly," he muttered. Then his keen gaze travelled to the face that still bore that awful, terri- fied expression. Was this the face of a suicide. Every instinct in him boatman came out for me. There has been a tragedy?" "A death," said wearily. = They faced each other for a mom- ent. The island--doctor--mopped his head wearily. "You are a friend of Mr. Barron?" he continued. "One of the maids told me they had sent for you. He snd his daughter were going home on your ship. She's all right--Miss Barron, I mean. I've got her to her room, One of the maids is attend- ing to her. It's her father. He's in there." He jerked his thumb towards the study. "I'll have to notify the authorities." the older man "What do you make of it? Is it true he's dead?" "You may look, if you like. "Things like that happen here. Heart, probably. He had some trouble like that, I hear. But that didn't take "him off. Say, I'll come up with you." He mopped his bald head again and turned. They entered the study together. The older man indicated the victim of the tragedy with a ges- ture and turned up the light which had been lowered. "Good heavens" Sidney Foster stared at the fig- ure which had drooped somewhat, but still remained in the chair, the hand hung down over the right arm, the head thrown a little back. 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"There's the gun and the man is dead," he commented. The coréner will decide, I guess. Say, I'm sorry I can't stay longer. I'm dog tired, but I'll send along the representa- tives of what law we have to take charge. Expect the inquest will be to-morrow. You coming? I want to lock the door." "No, I won't be coming," replied Foster." "I'll wait here. You see, I'm more friend than doctor--and-- and--" - "Aw, I understand, You'll find her in her own room. Poor girl, this must be a terrible shock to her. Well, I'm going. I've got to lock this door, but I'll leave the key if you promise not to disturb any- thing--"' ' "All I want is to be present when the law arrives. I want to be here when they start investigating. Mean- time I may be able to do some good elsewhere." Foster glanced round the study again as they went out. A stand camera lay on its ide not far from the dead man's chair. A dark lan- tern as on a side table, the wick still smoking. A piece of magnes- ium tape lay beside the lantern. Foster stood for a moment on the threshold raising his head as he sniffed thoughtfully.--To be con- tinued, "Religion is stronger than ever, ¢ven though church attendance may rot indicate it.'--Sir Wilfred Grén- fell. j1001C PAI Le oe WHAT DOES Your HANDWRITING REVEAL 7 es = Geoffity St Clair (Editor's Note:-- The author of these interesting articles invites YOU to ask for his help. He has already helped many of our readers, and re- news_his offer following this week's article). LJ Fd LJ Should a girl who is engaged to a likable young man make a practice of going out with another man? This poser is put to me in the following letter 1 received from a reader: "I am 24 years old and am engag- ed to be married to a boy of 26 and we are both very much in love. We are to be married late this summer. A few months ago I met another young man and he appeared very in- terested in me from the start. He asked me several times to go out with him, and finally I did so. Since then we have been out quite a num- ber of times. I didn't tell my fiance anything about this, because at first it didn't seem worth while, and pow I am rather afraid of what. he may think, although there is really noth- ing between my new friend and my- self apart from a little companion ship. I should mention that my fiance is out of town for long periods, and sometimes I Jo get awfully lonely. The trouble now, is that my new friend tells me that he is very fond of me and says that he doesn't care for any other girl. What do you think about this matter, Mr. St. Ciair? 1 am sending you specimens pf each of our writings so that you can delineate our characters = ac- cordingly." To deal firstly with the handwrit- ing specimens. Your own writing shows you as having an" extremely affectionate nature and you are quick to feel for others. You are straight- forward enough, but the danger is that you may be influenced to easily by your emotions. That, in other words, your present feeling of friend- ship for No. 2 young man will de- velop into something stronger and really endanger your love for your fiance. Both the young mien are apparent- ly clean-cut, self-reliant and decent. There is a slight difference in their temperaments. Your fiance is more reserved than your other friend, not so expressive of his feelings, but he is just as capable of emotional feel- ing; that is, his love will be just as strong and perhaps more enduring. However, on the whole, there is no great basic difference between these two young men. You could do a whole lot worse than marry either of them. I do think, though, that you have not been entirely "playing the game" with your fiance, I don't for a mom- ent suggest that you have been un- derhanded in any deliberate way, for 1 believe you were entirely genuine in seeking a little companionship. The trouble arose "in keeping it a secret from your fiance. It is in that angle that there appears some vestige of deception, inadvertent per- haps, but nevertheless present. And there is the danger that your relationship to your new friend will take on a more ardent form, You are naturally generous and warm-heart- ed and are capable of responding to emotional appeals. I suggest that you endeavour to discontinue meeting No. 2 young man, After all yoy are, in a measure, being unfair to him too in giving him hope'that he may be more to you than he has been in the past. And you are eertainly walking on thin ice so far as your engagement is concerned. * EJ] » Have you any problem that Mr. St. Clair can advise you upon? Would you like his help? Have you any friends whose true characters you would like to know? Perhaps you merely wish to know what 'YOUR handwriting reveals of your own character. Send specimens of the writings you wish analysed, stating birthdate in each case." Send 10c coin for each specimen, and include with 3c stamped addressed' envelope, to: Geoffrey St. Clair, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ont. Let- ters will be confidential and will be answered as quickly. as possible. rebelled at the idea. He had not| Gtaypa BJ "| tude is no small matter. way of its predecessor. Laplace's NEW YELLOW LABEL BROWN LABEL - 33¢ Ib. ORANGE PEKOE - 40¢ 1 Ib. " "This England" New Statesman and Nation (London) It is nearly 550 years since the tomb was built, yet it could scarcely, be more beautiful if it had been made last week,--Sunday Express, ; + B® A blind man was chosen by the Cressing Silver Jubilee committee to be the judge of a woman's ankle competition.--Glasgow 'Daily Record. $$ ® 3 About 30 .city workers who were waiting on Hassocks (Sussex) station recently, saw their usual train pass through at about 40 mph, The driv- er of the 7.19 a.m. from Brighton to London" Bridge had forgotten to stop. He stopped the train about 100 yards beyond the station, The driver was not able to reverse hig train as a form has to be filled in_ before this HENHOUSE VENTILATION . problem in poultry houses. off relatively large amounts of va- skin. It was found at one experiment- production was obtained when tem- peratures were not permitted fluctuate widely. A henhouse {emper- ature at 50 degrees F. is too high to be maintained on most farms in a lower temperature held uniformly would be desirable,-Increasing num- bers of poultrymen have had success with artificial heat properly regulat- ed, but failure has commonly result- ed when temperatures were allowed to go too high or to fluctuate wide- ly. : '| twenty-five years, The removal of moisture is a major Poultry have no sweat glands, but they give peur in respiration and through the al 'station that the maximum :\ egg to winter without artificial heat. Hence, THE: SILVER JUBILEE New York Times. Reviews. The Reigns Of Europe's Monarchs ~~ + Most of the published deseriptions of King George's "Silver Jubilee" have stressed first the continuing loyalty, throughout. the twenty-five '| past years, of the British people to. their sovereign, then the periods. great changes in the world's history | and in the British Empire. It has certainly been an eventful quarter- century; yet it may be doubted: whether any reign of equal or greater length in Europe will not have wite nessed similarly impressive, often equilly momentous, vicissitudes of history, Accustomed as we in Amer- ica are to a Chief Magistrate's tenure cf four or at most eight. years -- a period usually too short for thorough going political or social changes to come about--we are not in the habit of associating them with one ruler's official tenure. Lincoln's "term. and Wilson's perhaps come nearest. to presenting such a picture, but especially when they have included such an episode as the World War, will necessarily serve better to portray a changing era. King George's reign has not been long when compared with that of nu- nierous previous sovereigns, in Eng- land and on the Continent. Queen Victoria's sixty-four years on the throne, from 1837 to 1901, far over- tops it; the famous "Diamond Jubi- lee' of 1897 celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the Queen's accession. Elizabeth reigned forty-five years. George III occupied the British thtone for sixty, Louis XIV of France for seventy-two; there were other European sovereigns . who, governed during nearly or quite half a century. With all 'of them, the reign was a landmark for momentous changes in the history of their country, often of the world. We speak habitually of the. "Vic- torian era," forgetting perhaps that the England at the beginning of that reign was as unlike the England' in the middle of it as the England when it ended. A series of what were 'in those days described as social revolu- tions had altered both the manner of living in England itself and the place of the country in the world. . Into 2izabeth's long reign weve crowded the firm establishment of/Protestan- tism in England, the Huguenot wars w-Up, But We Don't Know Why (New York Sun.) Astronomers seem to be coming around to the opinion that any star is likely, at some period of its long life, to explode like the one which flared up last Winter in the con- stellation of Hercules, Some stars may explode more thanSonce, for all anybody knows. Why they blow up is a mystery. Becoming a nova, as it is called, is probably a stellar dis- ease, in which case the eruptive im- pulse is entirely internal. It is pos- sible, however, that the outburst may be the result of an external ac- cident to the star, such as an en- counter with a relatively dense cloud of cosmic gas or dust. Since the sun is a star, there is good reason to believe either that it already has had its fling as a nova or that it will become a nova at some time in the future. The lat- ter possibility is a bit disconcerting, because life on the earth could not survive such a catastrophe. The earth itself probably would be con- sumed. It is, therefore, reassuring to learn that in the few cases where stars that later exploded * weg ob- served before the outburst it was found that they showed fairly large fluctuations in brightness for sev- eral years, The nova which appear- ed in the constellation of Aquila in 1018, for example, had been known for 30 years to be a variable star fluctuating between the 10th and 11th magnitudes. The sun has maintained. a gratifying equanimity throughout the period in which man has profited from its ministrations. y An increase of one stellar magni- It means that the star at maximum was two and a half times as bright as at minimum, Although changes have been observed in solar radiation, they are relatively minute. The sun shows no sign of serious instability. Its steady outpouring of just .the amount of light and heat the earth requires is likely to continue for an indefinite number of millions of years, ; The interesting = suggestion is made by Dr. Gustaf Stromberg, .of the Mount Wilson Observatory that explosive outbursts in stars may re- discomfort, tr Lydia E. Piokham's ablets, In most casés they br welcome relief, As roline New man says, "They vy ease the pain". Mrs. Raymond Chaput, Route 4, Tilbury,Ont. says,"I suffered some thing teerible. Had such backaches and headaches I was worn out, Your Tablets helped me". Let them help you, £00. Ask your druggist, sult in the formation of planetary systems. If that is the case the sun surely has passed through the mova tage at least once. The idea is, as Dr. Stromberg expresses it, that matter ejected from a star during an explosion "gradually settles down into planets and satellities." so-called new star that .appears the firmament may be a signal that a great planetary construction job has been started. ft is not unlikely popular tidal theory at Every in that the now the origin "expounded hy Jeans and his nebular hypothesis. It always puts a tremendous strain on the laws of probability to believe that a passing star once had such a close encount- er with the sun that 'it. drew out of the sun great streams of matter which. later condensed into planets. Stars in general are so far apart thal such close brushes must be extreme- ly rare. Dr. Stromberg's idea makes a stronger appeal to comnicn sense. It also revives the pleasant picture 'of a universe filled. with possible abodes of life. The tidal thepry; o 38 0i- lowers, made man a lonely creature in an almost lifeless cosmos. An Early Canadian Hospital -- General hospitals are regarded as comparatively modern develop- ments in \Canada, And yet Dr, W. W. Patton, of Port Morien, N.S. has been telling a Halifax audience of a 100-bed hospital erected by the French at historic Louisburg as-long ago as the year 1742, an institution which, whatever its limitations in comparison with the shospitals which have taken -its place, possessed what was for those days a great boon in hot and cold running water. According to Dr, Patton, this hos- pital, the ruins of which were ex- cavated four years ago, was the first one of any size to the east of Quebec, Operated by the Soclety of the Hos- pitallers of St, John, it occupied a building of quite extensive size. It was built of solid masonry, was two storeys high, with two wards and some private rooms. The building had an altar at one end and its doors were wide enough to admit of it be-, ing converted into a chapel in the event of the church accomodation |, of the town being over-taxed, There was a laundry, a kitchen and other iacilities, but we have no means ot knowing how it was heated, This early hospital was not de: pendent upon military: funds . or patients' payments: for its mainten- ance, On the contrary, the people at large kept it going by contributing ten pounds of codfish a day, There being more than enough codfish to provide for the needs of the hospital, the surplus was exchanged for other goods, = Six soldiers' rations a day was anothér form of maintenance, 3 SS REDUCING FARM POWER COSTS Farm power costs may be reduced by. making needed repairs and adjust- ments on tractors, by using proper hitches and operating with an opti- mum load. 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When the old King died at the age of 77, he had seen as ruler of France the creation of the most bril- liant court and. literature in French history; something like French hege- mony over the rest of Continental © Europe, a series of brilliant victories by his generals, followed in the end by a series of. disastrous defeats in the Marlborough campaigns and the relegation of France to a secondary place. Abroad, he had witnessed fe 2 Q meteoric career -of Charles XII .of. Sweden, the struggle between British' Parliament .and Crown, the protect-: orate of Cromwell, the restoration of the Stuarts and the English revolu-:, - tion of 1689, down to the establish-, ment of the Hanoverian dynasty. It was little wonder that Voltaire should have named his history of the period "Siecle de Louis. Quatorze" Whether he wrote in it of France or of other countries, every reader understood {he appropriateness of the title." 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