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0 a8 to the original word-| "It's an fll wind that blows nobody : ingot Son Nasr opinion of GORtsy any good," is the general way in which v directs attention to the fre-| Thomas Tusser is misquoted. Tusser quency with which the epigrammatic wrote: expressions of authors are misquoted | fycept wind stands as never it stood, ~ in everyday talk and writing. Advo-|1t ig an 111 wind turns nome to good." cates of absolute correctness shudder Tord Brooke wrote more thin thio at the liberties taken with original "And texts. Take for example Butler's fa.| DUDdred years ago, "And out of mind mous lnes-- as soon as out of sight," which is now " > # ight is out of "He that complies egainst his will reversed in "Out of sig BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Samuel Honeybun, retired English countryman, finds his rain gauge filled with blood instead" of water. then comes news of the murder of-- Sir Francis Lathrop. Sir Francis' daughter, Margaret, had planned to marry Sir Guy Lathrop against her fath- er's wish, and suspicion is directed toward Sir Guy. But-- Adrian Klyne, private detective em- ployed by Margaret, works+on the theory that Honeybun may know Something ui the murder. To obtain evidence S as-- Rev. Charles Danvers, and takes up his residence at the inn close to La- throp Grange. He leaves suddenly when blood is reported found in the [ain-gatge of Silas Stampage of Rux- ton, Suffolk. There he meets-- Ted Knowles, reporter, returning from a fruitless call on Stampage. They discuss the latest angles in the mystery and agree to meet again later. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. EB = DON the footway a great red eye blinking at Mim. 4 Creeping close, he was overjoyed to 1d {find that the red curtains did not quite meet in the middle. There was a nar- row space through which he could peer into the interior. = There was a woman there all right, but she did not look as if she had been screaming. On the contrary she seemed singularly complacent and on the best of terms with the tall, aus- tere-visaged man in earnest conversa- tion with her. The man was standing up, while the woman was perched on the edge of a rough table. And, wonder of wonders, the woman was Miss Adela Larkin, who by all rules of geography and arithmetic ought to have beén in Cheverel Rec- tory a hundred and fifty miles away. Klyne had no doubt that her compan- ion in the hut was Mr. Silas Stam- page, the eminent surgeon, retired from London practice, whose house on tHe edge of the marsh he had just mL Planet, I will fit in with { story I shall eventually fact it wii lead up that story." ¥ i away from & Mr. Stampage's front doo: 'from the marsh and peered into the wild-fowler's hut, to see the presumed master of the house in conversation with & young woman who showed no signs of distress, here nobody else about who could have screamed. ie SED SR "Good stuff!" said Know'es, "That'll get 'em guessing. But it's a bit weird, eh? What do you make of it yourself, Klyne?" - oe # "Not much- yet," 'was the reply. "But I shall if you are a good boy and phone or wire that up for publi- cation in to-morrow's issue of your stunt-hunting rag. But this is a point. You musn't drag me into it. 'No men- to, and be past of | | "Then it's a deal," the Journalist Assen CSN ae followed up the scienm| though there was| A Bit-of-an-Elf came flippiting down From where she lived in Faerie Town. greases, etc., 4 were in Ontario, Quebec and 1 each in New Bruns mind." "She and comparisons are Ie of his own opinion still," odious," wrote Dr. John Donfie, and which are thus interpreted: "Convince | he Is variously interpreted. Even Ben & man against his will and he's of the | Jonson, speaking of Shakespeare's same opinion still," or "persuade a | "small Latin and less Greek," has man against his will)' etc., which is | "little" substituted for small." Mil not quite so meaningless, for although | ton's "human face divine' gots "form" & man may be persuaded against his for face, and "all" is adopted for will, he cannot be convinced. "neighboring" in the famous line, "the That quotations from the Bible | cynosure of neighboring eyes." should be mauled fs surprising, but it, John Morris, 1667-1711, wrote "like is true. Here are a few: angel's visits short and bright," and Correct--"It 15 not good that man | Robert Blair, 1699-1746, had it "like should be alone"; incorrect--"It 1s not | those of angels shorts and far be ®ood that a man should live alone." tween' and Thomas Campbell adopted Correct--"Behold, there ariseth a|the senttment in "Pleasures of Hope" little cloud out of the sea like a man's as "like angels' visits, few and far be hand"; incomrect--"A cloud no bigger tween." The man who quotes general- than a man's hand." ly says "like angels' visits, few and Correct--"In the multitude of coun- far between." : selors there is safety"; incorrect--*In Matthew Prior's "Virtue is her own the multitude of counselors there is reward," is always quoted with "its" wisdom." : for "her." Addison's "The woman Correct-- "There 1s no new thing that deliberates is lost" is spoiled by under the sun"; incorrect--"There is "hesitates." Congreve's "Nor hell & ed nae the nh oo that fury like a woman scorned" is mis- 'ornect: h 6 may ru as "hell " of 'one's ¥ readeth it"; incorrect--"He that rune I as, Svs. ows A "I didn't know that, but it's the, But why on earth had she loosed off master all over," laughed the servant. that ghastly scream? may read." is given as "a little knowledge," which Correct--""The laborer" is worthy of renders it perhaps less ion "It's the way he'd treat you if he was' On" the train he sought out a seat his reward"; incorrect---"The laborer and his" "welcome the coming, speed [in, which heain't. "He went out five by himself, and half an hour later he Is worthy of his hire." the going guest" has the more elegant | minutes before you rang." | was at Beccles. He was surprised and A much quoted line of Shake "departing" in error. "#| "Klyne looked the fellow over from not a little gratified to find his journ- speare's, "AI that glisters 1s not gold," Gray's Bl live fi head to foot and decided that he was alistic friend, Mr, Ted Knowles of the has been remdered, "All is not gold TEy'S oy ay - > ner tm speaking the truth, | Planet, on the platform to receive him. that glitters," and "All that glitters is igh oy » one > i ey op "Very well," he said. "I'll take your "A little of each," was the frank re- not gold." Glisters evidently does not noted nT ae #1 word for it and drop in on Mr. Stam- ply. "The fact is the only decent appeal. 3 Xd boreoa oy . a 2 on page to-morrow." ; hostelry in this one-horse place is oThe Play's the thing. quoted oft | BE NE Or ON ho shal T toll Wir called? quer. coor with Haas eon boys from times with approval by critics, actual De a 2 Ya ay lee o 1 id ied the servant. | other papers. So I am in a private ly requires the succeeding sentence, varia 'Be a = hn Suit ,| Klyne did not answer, but turned lodging, and F took the liberty of en- "Wherein I'll catch the conscience of nds 4° way" finds scospta iy on away to re-cross the uhcultivated en- gaging a room for you, too. I knew the king," to complete its meaning. "Where dl a will - a Ra closure which could not be dignified you wouldn't want to be pestered by "A rose by any other name would Burns's "some wee short hour" is on with the name of garden. He was a herd of pushing youngsters, and 1 smell as sweet," is really precsded by 1 a to "tl : 1 urs"; | half way to the road, when away to thought T-ntight-pick your-brains-of| the words "That which we call," but arge Jo 8 woo Tiont hourg®} th ight there sounded * the ghrill an 'exclusive story if I got you on the | 11 48_seldoni. used. Wordsworth's 'the. gdod die first" is ie rig Ki Yailted iit Guiet" } Fou, It is a remarkable fact that Shake- glven with "young" substituted for Soream re Woman. " i od a / all," id Kiyne shortly, And meke my Tea al ight uy Sucer. | ; . "first." his tracks and strove to locate its You shall," sai | K.yne shorty, But it fst worth while. Put up that Speare = in ig than ony "One step above the sublime makes | Source. jrand.with a reservation," } spear! : other writer. *"Thoug s be mad- ste) Ve t 0 ' 1 ; eference was made to ; 9 ws mw it Bence hod Tn "Se the rion in um Pinal, 18% 1h Yad te gud su the No arth eteence wis mad to {am barn he Lands of Fue Tes where's method In Ws wii. | Age of Ressou" and ft is. thvariaip| UKE rain. snd the daviness 2 yards and lighted their pipes in the homely esa, "Misery scyains a man with | Yungled. away. But his sense of direction told sitting room of their lodgings. strange bedfellows" is rendered "Mis-| Disraell's "Everything comes if a him that the cry had ben raised out' "I reckon you didn't interview! fortune makes a man acquainted with," | man will only wait" has been mis- on the marsh and he went forward till Stampage?" said Knowles. "At any quoted in a dozen ways. he came to a plank bridge leading rate not to make him cough up any- 1 from Mr, Stampage's grounds to the thing useful?" flower. No. 1112 is for misses and|sodden flats beyond. On the other side | "He Coughed up enough, but not to small women and isin sizes 16, 18 and| of the bridge he found himself on a me," replied Kiyne. Unfortunately | 20 years. Size 18 (36 bust) requires | raised embankment running out into I couldn't hear what he was saying. 2% yards 36-inch material and 214 | the marsh. From some distance along To begin at the beginning I got the yards -ifich ribbon for panels. 20c. | es EE ~ [tive and chuckled: "Cute chap. Want The designs illustrated in our new | ' ; to get me away by the first train in Fashion Book are advance styles for | ? ; 3 *% ih the morning and prevent my possible the home dressmaker, and the Worst) 4 ; : researches in: this beniglited county. or girl who desires to wear garments "| Well, have it your own way. I'l prob- dependable for taste, simplicity and ably get more out of you in the long | economy will find her desires fulfilled | run than I should out of myself. We {in our patterns. Price of the book | will travel up-together® ~~ 1 10 cents the copy. | In the morning the pair eaught the HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. | early southbound train, and< Klyne | { She was bored in the Lands of Faerie, The two men parted, Knowles going visited. r ; game visi And she wanted to work in a dairy. toward the station and Klyne a'ong If only he could hear what was be- the road marshward. His boots ing discussed Klyne would cheerfully squealched in the sloppy mire, the have parted with a handsome sum of wind-driven drops from his cap-peak money. From the movements of his blinded him, but he kept on to-the lips the man appeared to be talking gates of a fairly large house, { incessantly, but only a faint burr There was no vegetation or shrub- reached the watcher outside. Either bery or coppice to veil a more stealthy he was speaking in a very low tong@r reconnaisance, so Klyne marched bold- the glass of the closed window was ly up to the weather-scaled front door too thick to allow the passage of his and pulled the oldsfashioned bell- vaice. at chain. There was a long wait before - Suddenly the moving lips grew rigid the door was cautiously opened by a in their natural line--a liné denoting hefty young man in shirt-sleeves and cruelty, as only the human mouth can. a striped waistcoat. He had the bi- Kilyne shifted his gaze to Miss Adela ceps of a prize-fighter, but one of his Larkin. She*was nodding and smil- arms was in a sling. The source of ing, and then her clear young voice the blood? rang out, vanquishing a'l obstacles: "I want to see Mr. Stampage," said| "Why, of course, Uncle Silas, that's Kiyne. { what we must_do." : "There's a many does that as don't Klyne turned away, making his way see him," was the reply. } back over the plank bridge and so to "I know he is in," persisted, Klyne. the road. If Mr. Stampage was the "I met a man on the road not long girl's uncle she was in no danger from ago whom he threatened to shoot." him. tion of ga detective. Leave it to be inferred that you did the peeping in at the hut window." ! y "That will suit me all right as thé crime specialist of the paper," said Knowles. "But this isn't your die- tated paragraph, is it7" . "No," rejoined Kiyne. "I shall call in at your office at noon to-morrow 4 The Guard at the Border lowered his, Spear, "No Elf or Goblin crosses here. Witches and Will the Wisps go Ra through, & k This Pass is not for the likes of you. Go back to the Town of Faerie: You are much too pert and airy." The Bit-of-an-Blf was young and slim, And she frowned a dreadful frown at him: # "The Mortal Lands ave wide and fair With cows and goats at pasture there, That this is true I surely know, For the Will-othe-Wisps have told > me 80. I'am bored in the Lands of Faerie And I want to work in a dairy." increase gallons in tity and $2,100,000 in value over the figures of the previous year. Fuel and gas ofl were next in importance with a combined production of 135,954,166 gallons, valued at $7,771,405, compared : with 134,941,640 gallons worth $7,169, 187 in 1924. : The output, of kerosene dropped off from '61,206,285 gallons 'valued at $7, 487,457 to 45,012,566 gallons vaived ai $5,967,208 last year. Lubricating oils showed a slight gaiff last year Increas- ing in quantity from 16,467,084 gallons ° to 15,776,664 galldms and in vélue from $3,068,199 to $8,129,228. : ; 'There was little or no change in the output of petroleum spirite, |wax 'and candles, asphalt, : >. It is of interest to note that the quantity of Canadian crude oil used in manufacturing processes last year amounted to 12,337,192 ime, pertal gallons, as compared with 5,172, 903 gallons in 1924, an increase of 'about 160 per cent. Exports and Imports. Bald the Guard, you're told? Your hair as it happens is much too gold; pany ee Your voice too sweet and your lips too red And your eyes too dark," is what he Pex sald, "The morta! lar.de are not for*you: It wouldn't be safe to let you through! You go and dance fn your Faerie Ring By the light of the moon. This is just the thing!" : The Guard was big and burly = + ~ = | And his volce was rough and surly.' "What 1s. this tale The Bit-of-an-Elf was young and slim And she cocked a perky nose at him: 3 ; z "The Mortal Lands are wide and fair, | Exports of petroleum and its pro- - | With people always working theve-- = (duets from Caeneda are necessarily - Ji or ro oni il he ee pont fr el th -of_not & Tr 1t Bapbened. thet walor to own requirements. In the eleven months ended February, 1926, ex- ports under this heading were valued at §1,144,627, as compared with $1,- 261,361 and $831,260 {n the Correspond- ing Jetiots of 1925 and Jozt .respec- And---she went to work tively. On the other band, fmports in 4 ® A Iberts. Beno. | the same period. totalled $42,132,576, . as against $34,983,054 in the corres ~|ponding months a year ago. Of the {total imports, however, nearly one half of the value represents in the crude state. « 5 Present. Indications ail point to a prosperous era ahead for this indus try. One of the drawbacks to the ad" vaicement of this phase of Canadian Industrial activity has been the lack ficient domestic supplies of crude petroleum... Exploratory work and drilling operations now being carried. cu in different flelds in the Provinee of Alberta giy g levidting this situation, dicted 'that when the Alberta reach a more advanced sti of de- velopment, the pe 0 products in- dustry of Canada will be able to meet domestic requirements, as well as en. tering into the export trade more actively. 5 i EES Klyne marched boldly up to the weather-scaled front door. petroleum and give you that for publication next i day. 4 The journalist looked at the detec- 'Eruption of the Populace. "Tourist (In Naplés)--Heavens, what is that roar--Mt. Vesuviug?' J Guide--':No--- Mussolini is day." here to. | : was glad to see Miss Adela Larkin Write your name and address plain- ! board it after crossing from the ly, giving number and size of such | branch line platform, He had regard- patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in| ed the removal of the press man from stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap | the scene of possibie mischief-making it carefully) for each number | as a shade more desirable than leav- uddress your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by least of two evils, xa return mail. ! SL ' 5 New that she had departed from 3 Sd 3 _ LRuxton, her mysterious task, what- A | ever it might be, finished, he con- gratulated himself that he was re- lieved from both the contingencies that had worried him. And as he settled down in the smok- ing compartment at the side of the star reporter he found himself an- noyed to find that if Miss Larkin had remained at Ruxton it would have been the greatér of the two evils he had apprehended the night before, He % x had always prided himself on béing CH . jable to eliminate all J HUNTING GROUNDS THAT MAKE MEN "HAPPY. * }in the pawns in his The Canadian hunting season that has just been brought to a close has | his self-esteem to been voted by experienced hunters, who have come to Canada for their fall not wholly free f outing, as one of the finest ever experienced. Game, big and small, was Sino da plentiful. Many camps reported deer and moose in abundance only a few | SE Kd rods from camp. This applied to northern Quebec Nova. Scotla, northern | mons Here Is so little to please; Ontario and: British Columbia, the outstanding hunting grounds ot this Hopeless the grass and the trees, country. ) ' CRE Prisoned with pavement the earth; Nothing can struggle to birth After the rain. PRR TY Impossible. The Boss----'"Robert, I hope you try to save half of what you earn." Office Boy--*"I don't get that much, |" sir." 3 Sik oc A large rent makes a big oné's income. ing Adela in the house of her sinister uncle. It was a case of choosing the A hole in NT i City Rain. Rain is so sad in the town, Dreary as it drizzles down In a discouraging way-- Cities remain just'as gray After the rain, "Big Sewing 0 You" At Practically Wholesale Pri But when the country knows storm Rain is a frolic and warm, Kisses and cleans everything; Lilting, the rivulets ring After the rain. = Rain is so sad in the town, Sooty as it trickles down Buildings that brag to the sky, Hiding the clouds that dance by After the rain. --John Hanlon.