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Five CR00K6D | CHAIRS By FAREMAN WELLS â- THOP8I8 Adam Mci'l.ston u funiier'a aon. â- rtic'leiJ tu u suUciior. iniikea a bruv« but uiisuccHSiirul ulleiniit to thwuri three tlil«v«8 In a baetinatchliig ruiil The bug wuH torn from tho hanJa of u (Irl who ufiervvurds expUlnn to Adatu thill ll oi'iiuins the ilay'ii luklnifs of hot father'* nhop. He alicmpta to truck the thieves ami rcach<'S an old warehouse. Adams •nlers the biilMliig while the girl watches the door Su<l<liiily he hears toolKleps The man turns out to i>e Adam t •miil<'»irâ€" (;orvUle I'erkln. Adam. In his iirlvato hours eipcrl nenis with Hhorl-wave wlri'Ieas. Walking hnnipward. Adnm Ib nearly run dnwr bv a iarce ewlft car. He calls on Prlsi-Ula Norval. Her father recounts the history of Ave antloue chairs lie DOSHessea. All the way homo Adam waa try- ing to put two and two together. It itas a compUcatPd calculationâ€" Mr. Mnntada, the Important client for •whom Mr. Perkin was makinK a match-light Inspection of a disused warehouse. Mr. Montada, the own- er of property In Grail Streetâ€" Adam had had a chance to verify that Mr. Montada, the client w^hose car had so N ^V*j:-tf^.^ Enjoy a really fine hand-made ciqarcttc by roUinq your oum v)itn GOLDEN VIRjGINIA ALSO MADE UP IN PIPE TOBACCO FALSE TEETH POWDER I nearly daKhed Into Admn later on the same evening. Mr. Montada. who wuK concerned In tho alleged frame-up that was likely to turn out BO badly for the ex-burglar, Ilagar. And now Mr. Montada, the employer of tho hunchback who had taken part In the robbery at Urall Street cor- ner. He pondered this sequence of ev- ents, but he could get no connected theory out of It; finally he put It from hiB mind. Hut It came back a few days later, and with greater force. HOLDS FAST Whon this den- tist 'a grand pre- â- cription for hold- ing plates firmly, tnugly and com- fortably in place kas the largest â- ale in the world â€"there's a reason â€"ask your den- tist-- he preRcribea lit â€" never causes iorencss â€" inex- pensive. DR.WfeRNETlJ POWDER 'OR HOLOINA OtNTAL PVATtS 'IRMLT IN PlACt "NOT A WOllU TO ANYONK! ! " Adam had been sent with a brief to one of tho few barristers who had chambers in the town. Tiiie paxticular barrister for whom this brief was marked did a good deal of work for the Perkin Arm. Adam was fre- quently at hl.s chambers, and al- though Adam wa.s not a "good mix- er," he had struck up a friendship with tihis barrister's clerk, a man named Meophani. Though always car- rying a worried expression, sugges- ting that the entire burden of his master's practice fell on his should- ers, Meopham was a kindly fellow, easy to get on with when once you accepted his belief that he was the indispensable pillar of his "bloke's" practice. To Meophaini, Adam mentioned the Hagar case. Meophani, who knew the details of the evidence, announ- ed with an air of assurance, "Hagar has a good chance of going down for three years, I should tiSiink." "His wife's a queer one," contin- ued Adam. "She's been trying to get our old man to have him asked a certain question In the box. When he refused she fastened on me.'' "They're often like that," said Meopham, Judicially. "Fancy they know a lone of defence tiiat'll lick anything. What sort of question was it?" He coughed drily, burying his face in a colored handkerchief. "Well, apparently all she wanted was to get the defence to ask him when he last saw Mr. Montada.'' "What?" The enquiry was sbnTp and explosive. He stared a moment and resumed: "Of course your bloke wasn't going to have him asked that?" "I don't suppose lie thought It would do any good." "I'll bet he didn't either. Look here, my lad, you'iu coming out to have a drink with me. No. I'm not going to pump you. I've ^leard enough, and you haven't so much as said a word to anyone, sec. But you can watch out tor my bloko asking that question." He coughed wretchedly for a few minutes while he found his hat, and as soon as he had ceas- ed coughing he chuckled as if It had been the most amusing exercise. QUICKEST METHOD TO RELIEVE A COLD 2* Drink lull f^Us^ of water. Repeat treatment in 2 hours. Follow Directions to Ease Pain and Discomfort Almost Instantly When you have a cold, remember the simple treatment pictured licre . . . pre,scribed by doctors everywhere to- day as the quick, safe way. Because of Aspirin's quick-disinte- grating property, Aspirin "takes hold" â€" almost iristanlly. JiHt take Aspirin and drink plenty of water . . . every 2 to -1 hours the first day â€" less often afterward ... If throat is sore, use the Aspirin gargle. But be sure you get A.SPIRIN. It is made in Canada and all druggists have it. Look for the name Bayer in the form of a cross on every Aspirin Tablet. Aspirin is the trade mark of the Bayer Company, Limited. DOES NOT HARM THE HEART 3- 1^ ttiru.it IS sore, crush an«l stir 3 Aspirin Taliletj in a third of a glass of w.iter and kvcI*. Tliis eases the Soreness in Vuiir throat almost insl.inily, Edis^a I'dsburq (RDWN BRAND [ORN SYRUP K ^ c>*tROY FOOD THAT u. KYV ^-^ NOURISHED ^AS MORE CANADIAN CHILDREN THAN ANY OTHER CORN SYRUP A pn4Mt ^ Tke CANADA STARCH CO.. limited A Adam iiiiiiiially would liiive bii'U the la»t man to take a drink duilnn; busluesM hours, but somehow now he HUH feeling cmiscioub that there ivas somethiug unusually iiiipurlant be- hind the otheis knowing look. T'ley ilraiik togelhcr In a little bar and ten minutes slipiied very pleasantly away until Adam fell hi' really ;iiusl Met back to the olHce. lie wAt al- most besiuning to feel as if llitre might be somi^'.blng attractive in the legal profession, something tiia'. hit>heitu he had mlHsi.'d. "Now not a word to anyone, mini you," the other told him as they p.ir- led. "If we don't see some pretty fireworks before this Hagar case Is linlshi'd I shall be disappointed, that Is all." Adam went back to tin; olllce In a puzzled dream that liad nothing to do witli the glass of mild ale lie had imbibed. An evening or two later, when he was hurrying off late to the Techni- cal College he came face to face with Mr. Montada for the first lime. A very small, wizened man with u great hooked nose bhat projected like a taloii from his yellow face, and little hot brown eyes that pier- ced like a stiletto, he seemed ho obviously to be Mr. Montada that It hardly required the sight subsequen- tly of the big car below to confirm Adam's Instinctive guess as to his identity. Mr. Montada was about to pass al- ong the corridor to Mr. Perkin's pri- vate door wihen the two became mix- ed up In one of those ab.surd maneov- I'os that occur when two hurryint; people endeavor to make way for one another It seemed doubtful It .Mr. Montada was a.s politly di.iposed as his nianeouvring might have indi- cated, for when the two had chassed iiiefrccllvely for the third time, his thin long upper lip lifted viciously, and lie spat out a foreign word, Spanish presumably, that sounded not at all complimentary. Ad.um stood stillat once, and tilie little man mov- ed round him and scurried down the passage. Adam heard Mr. Perkin's door slam a moment later and Judged that tJie client had walked in without so much as a knock. An imperious man this little Mr. Montada who owned derelict property, kept a chauffeur capable of high-way robbery and of trying to run down respectable citi- zens at night, and who was some- how concerned in what Mr. Hagar alleged to be a frame-up. It was in a very puzzled state of mind that Adam hastened along to the College reflecting on tiese things as he went. CANADIAN SCHOOLS (Bureau of Statistics) Schools and universities in Can- ada claim about :i.r> per cent, of the national exix'tiditure, and th's may be considered as an indication of their importance in the economic life of the country. Their weight as a social factor can not he as readily represented statistically, but the following considerations are of in- terest in this connection. No other occupantional activity in the life of the country claim.s the daily attention of as many persons. Each years sees one-fourth of the population of Canada appearinc in the classroom either as pupil or teacher. There are about- twice as many school children as there are farmers, and as many as there are men in all other occupations com- bined. For almost ten years of his life. the Canadian child of today goes to school. If his actual attendance in months is considered, counting ten months as a school year, he receiv- es eight and a half years of school- ing, or about half as much again as his parents. As a formative influence the school can hardly be expected to approach the weight of the home. But in relation to other influences its weight is heavy. If from the time that he starts to school he spends an hour and a half weekly in church, at the theatre, at the athletic stadium, reading the daily press, or listening to the radio, the young Canadian of today will have to live to the age of 90 years in or- der to spend as much time with any one of these as he spends in school. News ! Salada Tea norw has a blend for every purse YelloMT Label 28' -lib BROWN LABEL « 33c ^/i lb. ORANGE PEKOE ^ 40c ^A lb. All leaders in their class •I Much From Little BACK TO SCIENCE. Once In the laboratory Adam for- got all about Mr. Montada in listen- ing to the Professor's account of the splendid progress he had made with his Investigations on the valve. It was certainly an interesting ac- count. The Professor had, among other thing.s, stampeded the members of a visiting committee from the Town Hall Just as they were becom- ing a nuisance to the teaching staff, induced in his own wife a very elab- orate attack of hysterics, and had al- so induced one of the harmJess old ladies who cleaned the building after lecture hours to drop ivev bucket of soapy water in the middle of his of- fice carpet and dash away to lock herself In one of the cleaner's cup- board's, a refuge from which it re- quired a professional locksmith to extricate hipr. (To be continued) You Are The Captain All people like an excuse for their shortcomings. There are gray-hair- ed men who think their bad tempers are dne to the fact that their mothers did not train them properly, and lay the responsibility for the faulty grammar on the shoulders of some teacher who perhaps had forty or fifty children under her charge. Mothers may be lax in discipline, but there is no reason why their children should not finish up the job they left at loose ends. The mo.st im- portant lessons are self-taught. Do not try to get rid of your re- sponsibility for that which you are by blaming your mother, your teach- er, some school-mate, or an older brother who set you a had example. Whether others help or hinder, you are the captain. OLD PEOPLE FEEL YOUNG Just because more years than you oaro to count have fted by on your life's calendar is no reason for feeling old. Age, after all, isn't a matter of years. It is a matter of health. .Stay vigorous and you slay young. But how, you ask. Do it the way thousands of people of advancing years do. Take NVincarnis regularly. Wiucarnis is a delicious wine, free from drugs, that brings you alt the valiiahle elements of grnpcs combined with tho highest gratic liecf and guaranteed malt extract. Us invigor- alinf( elfect is almost magicalâ€" yet perfectly natural. I'hcao valuable elements in Wincarnis give vour ageing system exactly the •tiraiualing nourishment it requires. They soothe your nerves, enrich your blood, and flood your whole body with almost youthful buoyancy and vwotir. More than 20,000 medical men have heartily endorsed Wincamis. It is a great tonic. It will make you feel young again by creating for you new •lores of strength and energy. Get Wincamb from your dnigxift â€" Salea AgenU: HaroM F. Ritchie & Co. Ltd.. Toronto. m Puzzling Universe Its Inconsistencies Are Still A Mystery To Scientists The outer nebulae are ruslilng away at the rate of 12,000 miles a second. Assuming that we have here optical evidence that the uni- verse is expanding like a soap bub- ble. In accordance with the latest fa- shion In relativist circles, it Is easy to calculate when the process began and how long ago the great act of creation began. The answer proves to be ten thousand million years. But the new school of astro-physi- cists contends that the actual age of the universe must be a hundred times greater. It takes that long for the stars to radiate their mass away by tJie annihilation of their mass and Its conversion into energy. How can the universe be younger than tbe stars of which it la composed? The discrepancy presents one of the ma- jor problems of physical science. An English student, H. J. Walke, comes forward with an explanation that seems worth considering. He suggests that tie stars may be ra- diating not simply light, heat and electromagnetic energy in a suicidal conversion of their mass, but that they are ridding themselves of actual matter in the form of ions or incom- plete atoms, some of which are res- ponsible for the manifestations of cos- mic rays. The explanation is ingenious, but it requires experimental verifica- tion. How that is possible at a time when the very nature of the cosmic rays Is still the subject of much dis- cussion. It is difficult to see. When we know what the cosmic rays really are the mystery may be solved. U.S. Train Makes 100 Miles An Hour Philadelphia. â€" The "Flying Yankee" â€" latest in streamline train construction â€" clicked her wheels at better than 100 miles an hour on her trial run for the Boston and Maine and Maine Central Uailroad last week. Leaving the K. G. Hudd manufac- turing plant, the stainless steel train, first stream-line one for an eastern railroad was taken over the Reading railroad lines to West Trenton, N.J., and return. Rack in the manufacturing plant again, officials of the liuild C^om- pany said minor adju.stments to be made immediately will enable the "Yankee" to move faster than 1'20 miles an hour. Made up of three] sections, the train is 199 feet long, i powered with a OOO-horscpower Win- 1 ton Diesel engine. She is equipped i to carry \W passengers and a small baggage compartment. The days of romance are not yet over, and many a small and strug- gling establishment founded as a means of livelihood during the de- pression period may yet become a massive industrial undertaking. Consider the case of two brothers belonging to Birmingham, England, who in 1910 decided to engage in the smallest possible manufacture of bicycles and who rented a four- roomed house in that city at a cost of six shillings a week where t»ney commenced work. At that time the brothers thought that they were very busy if they succeeded in producing and selling twenty bicycles a week. After a year's hard work, however, they found that they had saved enough money to extend their humble "fac- tory" by covering an adjoining yard. Although the war interfered with their activities, they persever- ed, and today their work covers 13 acres and they, give employment to 8,000 workpeople. During the past year, the firm has manufactured (300,000 bicycles and next year, they are planning to produce not less than 750,000 machines â€" more than any other concern anywhere in the world that is engaged in the manu- facture of bicycles. This is the romance of the Her- cules Cycle Company, which will spend 250,000 pounds on newspaper advertising next year and which is today acknowledged to be in the forefront of the international cycle trade. Who can tell if some of the small works established during the past few years in this country by out-of-work individuals who were determined to preserve their inde- pendence will not eventually reach the same standing? â€" Brockville He- corder-Times. Ontario's First Highway It is just twenty years ago thai the first permanent highway wat built and it spanned the forty-milt *_ stretch between Hamilton and To ronto. It was built as a relief meaa ure to give much needed employ ment to hundreds of men in 1914-15, Since that time hundreds of milej of concrete roads have been built, stretching from Windsor to Moa treal and from Sarnia to points lead- ing to all urban centres of Ontario. With highways civilization advances. It was so in the old land. The Ro- mans were the first great roadmak- ers. They built so well and solidly that many of their roads are still in use, and we cannot think of road- making without casting the mind back to those fai'-off days when the legionaries of Caesar laid down the primary conditions of civilization â€" roads to travel by. Not by the sword but by the spade did those early conquerors make their finest con- quest. â€" Exchange. CHAPPED HANDS? NOf APPLY HINDS Set hou) qiiicldy it sooth&s H» HINDS CREAM Fits the pocket â€" keeps every paper in prime condilion DON'T RISK BAKING FAILURES . . . "It We had libraries of books tliat â-  told us what we don't know, they'd i have to be seventy liime.t larger than , the ones we have that tell us what we do know." Charls F. Kettering. OeanTeeth StfmSbnl HwHmUiI Dentifrice Lotion Cream (• tSid(Shai Soap poo "YOU CAN'T BAKE GOOD CAKE WITH INFERIOR BAKING POWDER. I INSIST ON MAGIC. LESS THAN \C WORTH MAKES A BIG CAKE/ joys MAD.\ME R. L.VCROIX. 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