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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE ONT. THURSDAY, OCT, 3~, "193$ The Green ghost by Stuart Martin SYNOPSIS Maud Barron awakes with monition of disaster. She hears footsteps. ~ ™ Maud' ] Eye" tf ttock, i at their has reappeared. "I will take over your case," he said, in his professional manner, "and I do not doubt that we shall be able to put an end to these distur ing visitations. For the meantime your -best plan is to get as much rest as possible, and don't let worry you." He waited for a little longer, and then intimated that he would w " out a prescription which one of servants was to take to a chemist, He strolled out to the front the house. He did not intend any elaborate scrutiny of the place just then, nor did he have the opportunity for it, for as he was walking slowly along the gravel path he heard footsteps coming round the the house. William Hughes appeared next moment. He did not seem surprised at meeting Foster, and the latter was glad to see that his possible than it meeting. "I heard you were up seeing Mis; Barron, doctor. How do you fine her?" "Very much upset and not in i condition to be disturbed, Mr. Hugh- "You think she takes these nightmares seriously?" "They are not nightmares, Mr. Hughes." "You won't make me believe otherwise, doctor, with all your seriousness. Look here, man, just think it out in a commonsense way. Her father had the same delusions--■" "He died because of them, anyway, and there was the photographic print to show." "Oh, well, that print never meant much. I won't insist on my point of view that he killed h; n't matter much now it looks as if Maud h< pet delusion, and I ai about it." "I regret I cannot discuss with you what is, in some respects; a problem for my profession." At that Hughes's eyes gleamed, but he mastered whatever emotion stirred him and with some deliberation lit a cigarette. "Yeu will at least give me ci for having Miss Barron's health of my chief concerns," he said : low tone. "She and I will be married as soon as possible." "I was not so well informed as tc know that," said Foster, wincing i little. "But I congratulate you." "I do not intend to go into mat ters that do not concern you, Fost er, except to mention it. But you will see that under the circumstances I have a right to make my views known. You have been sent for; and now that you have made your call I do not see there is any need for you to stay. If we want you again we shall let you know." Sidney Foster's face went a shade pale at that, but he kept his balance well. "I am again sorry that I cannot accept your suggestion, Mr. Hughes. I have been asked to take this case and I have given my word to mself. It does- s taken c i very sorry do s "Indeed!" Hughes flung out sharply. "But we have a doctor already. I myself engaged one this morning." "But I repeat that I have been asked to take the case and have accepted it." Foster's Evening Stroll Foster passed on, biting his lip, and as he turned the corner of the house he felt the eyes of Hughes boring his back with all the intensity of open antagonism. So now the gauntlet had been thrown down. He and Hugh< not work together unless there was some radical change in circumstances; but his own position was a delicate one and he knew that he would in future be constantly on his guard to steer a course that would avoid a rupture. Had Hughes any hold on Maud Barron? How did it come about that this secretary could talk so fidently about marrying her within so short a time since the murder of her father? Why was it that Maud Barron had asked him to aome help her now the green ghost appeared once more? Was it that she had no confidence in Hughes. Ii so, why was she marrying him? The questions drummed into Foster's brain with hammer strokes. He drew out his watch and saw that there was still some time before dinner. His mind went back to One-eye, the mujatto detective, and the similarity of the situation over in Jamaica. If this was a case of devilish Voodooism in quiet Surrey then One-eye ought to know that the manifestations were at work again. Foster walked swiftly along the drive and went out to the main road. H( boarded a 'bus going towards Sur-biton and at the post office there sent off a short cable to One-eye informing him of the position. He left the wording in such a way that mulatto might deem it worth while to come to England, for there was no detective in Britain who would, or could, bring such knowledge to bear as the mulatto possessed. Then he returned to Shirley. He had still half an hour or so to employ before dinner, and he employed it by examining the precinets of the house, carefully watching for footprints, but there was not a s'.yn. The only marks he observed were two small holes, about two inches in diameter, as if the high heel of a lady's shoe had been planted in the soft earth. But these two holes were at a distance from each other of about seven feet. Directly under Maud Barron's bedroom window, however, a flower lay broken and crushed into the earth. It had been pressed by a weight into the ground. Foster bent down to examine it. He saw that a little loose mould had been carried to the path and lay in a tiny heap. In the middle of the heap was a small dent similar to the two holes he had already noted. "The gardener has been using a flower stick," he thought; and to make sure he went round and found the gardener in one of the hothouses. But the gardener said that he had not touched the flower border, nor had he been using any sticks in that position. As for the broken flower he looked at it scornfully. (To Be Continued.) No Words are Found Gable and Young ANECDOTES This One of Jack London's best known books, "The Call of the Wild", now comes to the screen and has every known element to appeal to every movie fan- Clark Gable and Loretta Young are perfectly cast and Buck, the dog, will win everyone. THE WORLD'S SIXTH The preliminary ai the World's Poultry Congress which meeis in Berlin next year has just Ebeen published. Congress sessions will be held in the "Opera Kroll" and will be officially opened on July 24th by Chancellor Adolf Hitler. During the Congress the afternoons will be devoted to excursions to places of interest within the city of Berlin and outside. At the close of the Congress the delegates will attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games and then take a week's tour through rural Germany, including a trip down the Rhine. A six weeks' trip is being arranged for Canadians when France, Switzerland and Bel. gium also will be visi;ed on the Continent, and a few days in England on the way home. So far the following countries have definitely decided to participate: Canada, Argentina, Australia, China, Czecho-Slovakia, Great Britain, Ecuador, Esthonia, Haiti, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Norway, South- late y°u-em Rhodesia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. Mary Constance Fowler in Spirit > upon the fragrant follows as the vessel 'hat lies there Pipe Smokers! fill up with "GOLDEN VIRGINIA" and enjoy a really good smoke! Issue No. 39 -- '35 Never to s The far eyi drifts. Is to have known little more Than birds know further than the pinion lifts. Only in loving may the heart know Their countless words, who sing, are mourning tales Of dijn-remembered dreams, where shadows move. Unknown to day; and daylight telling fails Yes, spell out color in a blind man's An for the deaf turn color into sound; Do these. There are no words; though they are sand, To tell love t0 the loveless. None are found. And to be loved, not loving, is but to know The sun is heat upon the lids, not light. Therefore the smile is secret, tongue is .slow And falters, seeking words to late sigh:. Improving Poor Pasture rieli Both grass and soil from pastures that have been grazed for a number of years without manure or phosphate applications will ihow a deficiency of phosphorus. Even if most of the droppings of grazing animals are returned to the pasture there is a net loss of phosphorus in the production of live s.ock and their products. This continued removal of phosphorus, never very abundant in the coil, soon becomes a limiilng factor in the growth of desirable pasture crops, particularly the legumes. The failure of legumes, and particularly white clover, due to phosphorus deficiency, contribu.es further to the thinning of the grasses dependent upon the legumes for nitrogen. Superphospate (acid Phosphate) is the first-fertilizer material to use and the one most likely to pay through stimulation of both legumes and grasses. Application of 300 to 500 pounds of 20 percent, superphos- story of Mark Twain and the old lady in the Pullman should not be let die--says Cyril Clemens (in "Mark Twain, Wit and Wisdom, a splendid collection of 154 stories and anecdotes about the famous humorist who was born one hundred years ago, come November 30 next): Exhausted to the point of extinction by a very full day in Chicago, Mark boarded the night train for New York and retired to his berth at once for (as he fondly thought) a long night of blissful repose; but just as he was slipping over the border-line between waking and sleeping he heard an old lady's voice wistfully soliloquizing and telling herself how thirsty she was, with the regularity and persistence of the ticking of a clock. "Oh, I am so thirsty!" At last, unable to bear the nuisance any longer, Mark got up in his nightclothes and groped bis way the length of the cold, dark car to where the drinking water was kept. Filling a .glass, he carried it back to elderly victim of loquacity : thirst. This good deed done and payment in heart-felt thanks from the old lady duly pocketed, Mark got back into his berth and pulling the blankets up over his head with deep sigh of relief and content snuggled down to sleep. But just as the sandman was bending over him i all-too-familiar and accursed began to exclaim and kept up at minute intervals the rest of the night: "Oh, I was so thirsty!" And here is Irvin S. Cobb's contribution to Mr. Clemens' collection: A young reporter called one morning as the great humorist lay reading and smoking in bed, and announced that he would like his life-story for his newspaper: Mark Twain took a draw on his pipe and com- "Well, in the days of King George the Third when I was a young man I used to . . ." "Pardon me, right there," interrupted the reporter. "I know that you are not a spring chicken, but how could you possibly have been living during the time of George the Third?" "Fine, young man," retorted Mark, smilingly offering the young man a cigar, "I heartily congratu-You are the first and only reporter I have ever met in my whole life who corrected a mistake before it appeared in print." By the way, Cyril Clemens is president of the International Mark Twain Society and a relative of the beloved humorist whose real name was, of course, Samuel L. Clemens. A treat for green tea drinkers Mi SALADA Your Handwriting Tells Your Real Character! By GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Graphologist) All Rights Reserved. Recently I seem t0 have been receiving more letters than usual asking whether I can tell just when marriage might be expected. I would like to be able to answer questii this kind, but it is quite outside the scope of my work. Questions having t0 do with fortune-telling, are entirely beyond my sphere of influence oi advice. If you ask me to tell you what kind of dispositior. you have, or your boy friend or girl friend -- the help you there. Graphology also shows whether a writer is reserved and sensitive," or spontaneous and ardent; greedy and selfish or kindhearted and generous; broadminded and tolerant or narrow-minded and partial; refined and cultured or purely physical-minded and material, and in it will reveal the characteristics that go to make up what you cause you t0 act in the way that you do. Graphology, allied to psycho! plus a smattering of common s> and some knowledge of human ture, will help you immensely in s ing the problems that daily confront so many of us. But it will NOT tell your fortune, nor is it able t0 pierce the veil that hides Tomorrow from Today. It is based on scientific foundations, and Whilst we do not claim infallibility for it, no do I myself claim that all the delineations I make are entirely beyond criticism, at the same time there can be no doubt that it is a tremendous power for good, and a power, moreover, that most people cannot afford to ignore, if they are ous to mate the most of them-;s. I have evidence in the form of hundreds of letters that express the gratitude of the writers for helpful advice and guidance. And whal has helped so many others, has, I suggest, a message for you, too, ii you see it in the right way. This might also be an opportune time for me to reiterate once morei that the advice I give in cases of per-: isonal problems is not necessarily final and arbitary. I often have letters from readers of my articles or listen ers.in to my radio broadcasts, telling me definitely that they will do whatever I advise. In some cases this has to do with a choice between two men for a suitable husband for a girl who writes .me, and it is a tremendous responsibility to have to shoulder. I am not afraid to give advice when it is asked for or appears to me necessary, but I would like to say that any advice I give is rendered with a view to giving you a new point of view on your problems. If you ponder over it and use it as a basis for finding out the truth for yourself, then the advice will have served its true purpose. Can Mr. St .Clair give you a new slant on your own character? Perhaps he can reveal some unusual angles about your friends, too. Send speciments of the writing you would lysed, stating age in each case. Enclose 10c coin for each speci-d send with 3c stamped addressed envelope, to: Geoffrey St. Room 421, 73 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ont. Your letter will be replied to as quickly as is possible in view of the volume of mail that is continually arriving. And your II be strictly confidential. Although John Philip Sousa earned a lot of money fi musical compositions, be s publication rights of the famous "Washington Post" march--of whicn millions of copies have been sole for a mere $35. "I had no adequate idea of value of my composition." he plained, "and sold the 'Washim Post' and several others for apiece, and I was also to fur three arrangements, one for piano, one for orchestra, and one for b; Sousa once had an amusing perience during a visit to Venice with his wife, where they had delight of hearing Castiglioni's band play "The Washington Post." He relates it in this memoirs, "Marching Along." At the close of the piece Mr. and Mrs. Sousa entered a musi' store near the bandstand and inquir ed for "the piece the band had just played." -A clerk went ■ acre its equivalent is j bandstand and i ' 1 out i T' recommended and should last from three to five years. | Washingtor Commercial nitrogen in addition , Filipo Sous to superphosphate, applied at rate of 150 to 200 pounds per i Spring, Sousa was iter examir advance grazing from . clerk: weeks. To avoid burn- "Who is ing the tender leaves, apply when, Sousa?" the pasture is dry. j "0h' he ls under conditions where very few j Italian comp: desirable pasture -plants remain it; "Indeed! I may be better to plow, fertilize, and ; tiear^it. Is he reseed the land with an adapted' pasture mixture than to depend upon fertilizers alone for rejuvenation. In Wrong Pew minister consented to preach during his vacation in the country at in Episcopal church. When he arrived at the church on Sunday morning the sexton welcomed him and said: "Do you wish to wear a surplice, sir?" "Brother," replied the minister, "I i a Methodist. What do I know about surpluses? All I know is about deficits." APPLE COLOUR CHART There has been a steady demand for the apple colour chart prepared recently by the Horticultural Division, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, to assist in the harvesting of Mcintosh and Fameuse apples at the proper stage of maturity. This chart may be obtained free on application to , the Publicity and Extension Branch, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. ovanni Filipo r mcst famous very interested to famous as Verdi?" Well, perhaps not quite as fam-as Verdi; he is young yet, you i of < Mose Good Provider Judge: "Mose, is your wife depend-it upon you?" Mose: "She sho is, jedge. If I didn't go out and get de washin's she'd starve plum to death." m NOSTR(tS....jW EAR $1.25AnDniBfcls, Descrijrtmi folder eariqwst caused by colds. Flu and swimming. A. O. LEONARD, Inc. 70 Fifth Ave., New York City "Have you ever seen him?" "I do not remember, Signor." At that point Sousa turned to his wife and said to the clerk: "Then let me introduce you to his wife: This is Signora Sousa!" And Mrs. Sousa, in turn, observed: "Permit me to introduce my husband, Signor Giovanni Filipo Sousa the composer of 'The Washington Pest' " There was much explanation and laughter and then the clerk nobly offered to charge Sousa only the wholesale price for a pirated copy of hi3 own march! IN GREATBRITAIN Occupied Agricultural Land In England and Wales 30, 370,000 Acres. The total area of agricultural land occupied in England and Wales in June, 1935, was 30,359,000 acres, com-pared with 30,454,000 acres in 1934, a reduction of 84,000 acres or 0.3 per cent, according to a report just i sued by the British Ministry of Ag; culture. The area returned as under crops and grass was 24,984,000 a decrease of 82,000 acres or 0 cent. Contrary to the general in recent years, the total an rough grazings at 5,422,000 showed a small decrease of acres compared with the pn year. For the first time since 1918 the steady decline in the at has been arrested and ther increase upon the area in 1934 of 141: (1.6 to ! Design for Living Enough of joy to balance pain, Something to lose, something to gain. Someone to love, some one to care, A simple faith to mold in prayer, A sense of peace, of sweet content, To greet the night when day is spent, hops was unchanged. 394,000 acres; the total arable is now rather larger than 1932. This increase was due almost entirel the expansion in the area under clover and rotation grasses. On tin other hand the area actually under crops, exciuding clover and rotation grasses, at 6,775,000 acres showed decline of 62,000 acres or 0.9 p cent, on 1934. A further -substanti reduction of 15.9 per cent, to 286,000 acres occurred in the area of bare fallow. This was the lowest figure turned under bare fallow for several years. For the second year in sue there was a reduction in the of permanent grass amounting 227,000 acres, representing 1.4 cent, the acreage under permanent grass of 15,554,000 acres being very little more than in 1.930. The total area under cereals declined by 41,300 acres or 1 per cent, to 4,094,600 acres, increases in wheat, oats and rye being more than counter-balanced by a substantion reduction in the acreage of barley and a smaller decrease and there was again a reduction in the area under roots, a small increase in the acreage under turnips and swedes. After a substantial increase in the previous year the sugar beet acreage in 1935 showed a moderate decline. There was a small decline in the area under the four principal vegetables, but a further net increase in the acce. fruit. The acreage ci' The Love of Nature YOU ask Why I write of Nature? Of bird and blossom and bee; You ask why the ways of the wild-wood Bring joy to the heart of me-- -And why I write not of the city Of its life and its busy throng, And why the joys of the country Are luring and deep and strong. I once was a child of the wildwood, As free as the birds that fly, As free as white clouds that wander Afar in the azure sky; The flowers of early springtime, The whispers of forest pine, The call of the wind from the hilltop Were pleasure that all were mine. The robin securely nesting On a beam in the old log-shed, The swallows from homes on the barn eaves Showing their shining heads. Where friends and dear companions To the little country child, Whose spirit was shy, like the bird-ling's That flew through the forest wild. And when the summer waning Brought autumn's tender days, When fields and woods alluring Were bathed in yellow haze. The painted leaves, slow drifting T0 earth in the sunlight gleams, The purple haze on the hilltops Filled life with the joy of dreams. So must I write of Nature, So must I sing her praise, With her I walked and wandered In the freedom of childhood days. And in the picture before me Of tree and blossoming sod, Of lake and stream and hill top I can see the hand of God. --H. B. A. ^tBURNS£,SCALDS NO PEP? When you feel like a log and your muscles tire easily, it's more than likely that wastes that shouldn't be in your body are sending out poisons into your blood. At times like these, take a bubbling, bracing glass of Andrews Liver Salt each day till the trouble clears up. Then take an occasional glass--once or twice each week--and you'll stay perfectly fit. Get Andrews now. Small tin, 35c; Large tin, 60c; Extra large bottle, 75c. Proprietors, Scott & Turner, Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng. * .