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F 0 years ih the finest quality in tea. Present jowest in 15 years. SALADA bas prices are the Last evening was one long to be re- membered. We were favBred with a panorama of celestial beauty that will not soon be forgotten, a sunset having a glory that would challenge the brush of the most skillful artist. All day we were in the "doldrums," close to the equator, with a sea smooth and oily, stirred only by a gentle swell, from the influence of the trade winds blow: ing farther to the south. During the afternoon the clouds wei solidly bank- ed at the horizon, lke fantastic moun- tains of snow, leaving the dome of the heavens free and blue. Even at mid- afternoon dainty colors appeared as linings to these clouds of snowy white- ness, pink and blue, and at times shades of green, reflected from the fragments of rainbows that now and again grace dthe sky. These colors were reflected on the surface of the sea in an opalescence, like the iridescence seen when oil is poured upon water. The water all about the ship was aglimmer with this kalesidoscope of color, as luminous and radiant as an opal. As the sun neared its setting, the clouds in the east took on a rosy hue, which changed and deepened thro.gh various shades of purple until, after he sun sank be- low the horizon, they took on a deep, steel blue, a cloud effect I had never seen before. The west, too, was mass- ed with clouds; but the sun, red as an A Tropical Sunset August moon, sank in an open space, its brilliancy reflected in flaming hues upon the adjacent clouds. Presently great shafts of pale light, broadening toward the zenith, shot up from the BY SS V -- ---- -- The Green Mur AN DINE. # Sa T > Ba SYNOPSIS. Philo Vance, a friend of John F. X. Markham, District Attorney, becomes in- terested In the Greene Murder Caso. Julia Greene' is killed and aer younger sister, is wounded. O obla Greene's widow, together with five ohil- dren, Julia, Chester, Sibella, Rex and Ada, an adopted daughter, live in the old Greene mansion. The burglar theory Is repudiated by Vance, who questions Chester Greene, discovering that an oll .32-calibre ; revolver is missing from Chester's badroom. Sibella is cross-ex- amined, then Ada. Sibella aceuses Ada of committing the crime. Vance declares the whole Greene family abnormal fl CHAPTER IX.-- (Cont'd) "You're shutting your eyes to the facts, Markham," -Vance declared place where the sun had disappeared across a field of deep blue, At the horizon, fleeey clouds in fantastic shapes floated as on the surface of the sea, icebergs, ships under full sail and | jagzed mountains. The moon two days old, at first a thin thread, brightened as the twilight deepened, until its nar row pathway across the smooth waters wag ashimmer with a trail of silvery light. Venus, the evenfng star, poised just above the silvery crescent, in all its traditiopal beauty. Presently the heavens were studded with twinkling stars, standing out with startling brightness. The light faded, twilight deepened, the colors disappeared and earnestly. "You're overlooking sev- eral strange features of last night's crime--the horrified, astounded atti- tude of Julia at the moment of death, the illogical interval between the two shots; the fact that the lights were on in both rooms; Ada's story of that hand reaching for her; the absence of any signs of a forced entry--" "What about those footprints in the snow?" interrupted Heath's matter- of-fact voice. "What about them, indeed?" Vance wheeled about. "They're as incompre- hensible as the rest of this hideous business. Some one walked to and the night dropped down with truly tropical suddenness. Twilight in the tropics is of brief duration. Night fol lows cloce on the heels of day. We went to a late dinner with the sensesof having witnessed one of 'nature's choicest exhibitions, the glory, the sur-| prising radiance of which remain with me still. I have seen many gorgeous sunsets, in the great desert, on the in the mountains, on tropical seas, but never one comparable with this in th» splendor and variety of its coloring.-- Albert Field Gilmcre. The Thames A living thing beneath my window flows; It ig both broad and deep, profound and calm; It passes mighty fown and country farm And rural hamlets where the willow ETOWS. Full many a valley green and rich bestows Jis English waterg on that widening arm; "e Substance and shadow joined in married charm, Motion. and station it together + knows. Hee how the borrowed sky inverted low On stillest nights ker patternel carpet spreads, When water-wrinkling winds no longer blow, Whereon the moon in stealthy si. lence treads, And looks about with measured mo- tion slow, And our struck eyes with moonshine weds, --Romilly Jobn, "Poems." ---------- Young wife: "Now, Bill, I want yon to go to the minister and arrange for having the baby christened." Bill ¢shipyard worker): "You mean to say you're going to let somebody ait that little thing over the head with a bottle?" twofold 'Try this Salad , Dressing Kraft Old - Fashioned Salad Dressing will keep for weeks. Tt stays good right down to the last tangy teaspoonful. There's Mever any waste and . . . Jt sells for an amazingly Jow 40th Anniversary of Salada Tea Company Foxty years ago this month In an unpretentious little building on Front Honourable Peter Larkin, the busi- ness progressed very rapidly and by 1895 a branch had been opened in Montreal. Two years later the United States market was invaded and an office opened in Buffalo. To-day, three of the largest and finest ware- houses in the world, devoted exclu- sively to the packing of tea, stand as a memorial to the founder---located in Toronto, Montreal, and ir Boston (the scene of the memorable tea party which precipitated the Revolutionary War). The Canadian market was then con- trolled bs China and Japan teas--the quality, These teas were being sold from chests, exposed to air, dust, dampness, foreign. odours, and so forth, all detrimental to the quality of tea. In England, which was, and still is, the greatest tea-drinking country in the world, Ceylon and Indian teas of fine quality had practically dis- placed China teas, and it occurred to Larkin that Canadians also would pre- fer 'hese finer teas, He, consequent ly, introduced a Ceylon and Indian blend 'o this Continent. He then con- ceived the idea of packing it in metal packages, ia order that it would reach the consumer intact, with its flavour and quality unimpaired by dampness, store odours, ete. This step revolu- tionized the tea market on this Con- Ltinent, He sought a name for his product and decided on "SALADA," which was the name of an old Indian tea garden. All that was left now was to tell the public about it. He wisely decided that the quickest and cheapest way *° do this was by means of the news- paper. The result was so gratifying that he continued to use the news- papers as his chief advertising vehicle from that day. He strove always to give the public the finest quality tea he could at the price and then advertise it for all he was worth, His achievement is the largest selling package tea in North America. mma Duty Nothing which a man hath reason to think is ikely to do more harm than good.--Baxter. ' The shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves us when we leave the light of life.-- W. E. Gladstone. ' Harmony with the decrees of the Author of this word; co-operating with them, not vainly withstanding them.-- Carlyle. The de =rminate moral requirement made fupon a given individual at a glven moment of time; the individual feed requirement of the law.--J. Mul er. 5 pte dere. "Did you notice fhe situation ing for?! - He who tries to live most for him self, lives least for himself. plai=s, above the tundras of the north, | Street, in Toronto, the Salada Tea Company packed its first pound of tea. Founded in 1892 by the late largest sale being China tea of poor | from the house within a half-hour of the crime; but it was some one who knew he could get in quietly and with- out disturbing any one." "There's nothing mysterious about that," asserted the practical Sergeant. "There are four servants in the house, and any one of 'em could've been in on the job." : Vance smiled ironically. "And this accomplice in the house, who so generously opened the froat door at a specified hour, failed to 'n. form the intruder where the loot was, and omitted to acquaint him with tha arrangement of the house; with the result that, once he was inside, he wert astray, overlooked the dining room, wandered upstairs, went groping about the hall, got lost in the various bed- ! yoomg, had a seizure of panic, shot | two women, turned on the lights by switches hidden behind the furniture, made his way downstaile without a sound when Sproot was w.thin a few feet of him, and walked out the frogt door to freedom. . . . A strange bur- glar, Sergeant. And sn even strang:r inside accomplice.--No; your explana- tion won't do--decidedly it won't do." He turned back to Markham. "And the only way you'll ever find the true explanation for those shootings is by understanding the unnatural situation that exists in the house itself." "But we know the situation, Vance," Markham argued patiently: "I'll ad- mit it's an unusual one. But it's not necessarily criminal. Antagonistic human elements are often thrown %o- gether; and a mutual hate is generat- ed as a result. But mere hate is rarely a motive for murder; and it certainly does not constitute evidence of crim- inal activity." s "Prhaps not. 3ut hatred and en- forced propinquity may breed all manner of abnormalities--outrageous passions, abominable evils, devilish irtrigues. And in the present case there are any number of curicus and sinister facts that need explaining--" "Ah! Now you're becoming more tangible. Just what are these facts that call for explanation?" Vance lit a cigareite and sat down on the edge of the table. "For instance, wky did Chester Greene come here i1 the first place and solicit your help? Because of the dis- appearance of the gun? Maybe; but 1 doubt if it is the whole explanation. And what about the gun itself? Did it disappear? Or did Chester secrete it? Deuced queer about that gun. And Sibella said she saw it last week. But did she see it? We'll know a lot more about the case when we can trace the peregrinations of that revolver. And why did Chester hear the first shot so readily, when Rex, in the next room to Ada's, says he failed to hear the second shot? And that long inter- val between the two reports will need some explaining. And there's Sproot --the multilingual butler who happen- ed to be reading 'Martial'-- Martial,' of all things!--when the grim busine:s took place, and came directly to the scene without meeting or hearing auy cne. And just what significance at- taches to the pious Hemming's oracu- lar pronouncements about the Lord of hosts smiting the Greenes as he did the children of Babylon? She has some obscure religious notion in her head, which, after all, may not be so obscure. And the German cook; there's a woman with, as we euphe- mistically say, a past, h phlegmatic appearance, she's not of the servant class; yet she's been feed- ing the Greenes dutifully for over a dozen years. You recall her expl tion of how she came to the Her husband was a d bias's; and frien Manchuria?" "No; fs it worth apply-| "Despite her | sted hending spectator of an attenpted burglary. And again I mention the lights. Who turned them on, and *| why? And in both rooms! In Julia's room before the shot was fired, for sae evidently saw the assassin and under- after the shooting! Those are facts which fairly shriek for explanation; for without an explanation they're mad, irrational, Wtterly incredilbe. And why wasn't Von Blon at home in the middle of the night when Sproot phoned him? And how did it happen ue nevertheless arrived so promptly? Coincidence? ... And, by the by, Se.- cant, was that double set of foot- prints like the single spoor of the doctor's?" "There wasn't any way of telling. 'the snow was too flaky." "It probably doesn't matter par- ticularly, anyhow." Vance again faced Markham and resumed his recApitua- tiun, "And then there are the points of difference in these, two attacks. Ju ir. was shot from the front when she was in bed, whereas Ada was shot in the back after she had risen from bed, although the murderer had ample time to go to her and take aim while she was still lying down. Why did he wait silently until the girl got up and approached him? How did he dare wait at all ufter he had killed Julia and alarmed the house? Does that strike you as panic? Or as cool- come to be unlocked at that particula: time? That's something I especially want clarified. And perhaps you ns ticed, Markham, that Chester himseif went to summon Sibella to the inter- view in the drawing room, and that he remained with her a considerable tim. Why, now, did he send Sproot for Rex, and fetch Sibella personally? And why the delay? I yearn for an ex- planation of 'what passed between them before they eventually appeared. And why was Sibella so definite that there wasn't a burglary, and yet so evasive when we asked her to suggest a counter-theory? What underlay ner sativical frankness when she held up each member of the Greene household, including herself, as a possible sus- pect? And then there are the Jetails of Ada's story. Some of them are amazing, incomprehensible, almost fabulous. There was no apparent sound in the room; yet she was con- scious of a menacing presence. And that outstretched hand and the shuf- fling footsteps--we simply must have an explanation of thoge things. Aad her hesitancy about saying whether she thought it was a man or a woman; and Sibella's evident belief that the girl thought it was she. That wants explaining, Markham. And Sibella's hysterical accusaticn against Ada: What lay behind that? And don't for- get that curious scene between Sibelia and Von Blon when he reproached her for her outburst. That was devilish odd. You noticed how she obeyed him. And you doubtless observed, too, that Ada is rather fohd of the doctor; snuggled up to him figuratively during the performance, opened her 'eyes sn him wistfully, looked to him for pro- tection. Oh, our little Ada has flutter- ings in his direction. And yet he adopts the hovering professional bed- side manner of the high-priced medico toward her, whereas he treats Sibella very much as Chester might if he had the courage." Vance inhaled deeply on his ciagr, ette. "Yes, Markham, there are many things that must be satisfactorily ac- counted for before I can believe in your hypothetical burglar." Markham sat for a while, engrossed in his thoughts. "I've listened to your catallogue, Vance," he said at length, "but I can't say that it inflames me. You've suz- gested a number of interesting possi- bilities, and raised several points that might bear looking into. However, the only potential weigh! of your argu- ment lies in an accumulation of items which, taken separately, are not par- ticularly impressive. A plausible an- swer might be found for each one of them. The trouble is, the integers of your summary are without a connect- ing thread, and consequently must he regarded as separate units." 'That legal mind of yours!" Vance rose and paced up and down. * c- cumulation of queer and unexplain- able facts centring about a crime is no more impressive than each separ- ate item in the total! Well, well! I give up. I renounce all reason. I fold and 8 i ks without fe into a house and steals not women and then turns up the stood his purpose; and in Ada's roors,| headedness? 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They realize from past experience that the' consum- ing public seem to prefer fresh lamb rather than lamb from cold storage, and as an illustration we find that according to Government Statistics there was in storage on April 1st, 1932, some five million twenty two thousand pounds ag against three million one hundred and fifty thousand pounds on April 1st, 1931, showing that conditions and requirements are changing. During the last few years the quality of lambs have shown a decided improvement, and by doing so you have done much to stimulate greater consumption, hence demand for greater volume. This has been accomplished by better breeding, better feeding and castration of buck lambs. Light thin lambs do not produce good quality lamb meat. Heavy lambs are also undesirable for the market, but. good fat lambs yielding a dressed carcass. of thirty-five to forty-five pounds are desirable and will command top prices, or in other words well finished lambs weighing 70 to 90 pounds live weight at the market are desirable. Lambs weighing over 90 pounds at the market are likely to be discounted in price. With all these facts before us we feel disposed to recommend you to ship out your lambs as they get fat and hold unfinished lambs on the farm until fat, but the chief feature is to keep sending them out as they get ready, believing as we do that prices will be better during the early season of marketing rather than fall months when receipts are likely to be heavy. . We are anxious that farmers may receive the best possible returns for their and are asking our ship- pers to co-operate with yor maintaining a regular shi ging servi ce and assure our that we have a full | staff of experienced salesmen, and in a position to handle all classes of live stock whether by rail or by trick. the latter in her zhsence. Of course precaution should be taken that 'he alien baby is neither much older nor much younger, nor much bigger vr much smaller 'han the kittens, al- though there are exceptions to this rule. My cat Grannie has devotedly rursed and broight up ap oxdinary gray rat which was placed among her kittens when it was no bigger than one's thun.b. To the end of his life the cat remai.cd as affectionate os | ever towards him and insisted on giv- ing him a good washing, although :he rat, which was most particular shont ais person, squeaked his protests against being trevted like a baby. It is not uncom.non that a cat should adopt snc bring up young squirrels. However, my only experi- ment in this direction proved unsue- cessful, not because of the cat, which was 'aize pleased with the new saby, but because the squirrel refused to make itself at home. I also knew of a cat who allowed 'chickens to nestle with her kittens, and, by way of re- taliating, the hen would brood the kittens when the cut was away. The fortable with ther: heads peeping from beneath the wings of the hen. My two cats, Grannie and Katie, also brought up some wild young rabbits, which 1 introduced among the kittens Min the absence of the mothers. Usually tle two cats used to go into the *'oods and kill wild rabbits, but they nursed and fondled these babies like their own kittens. Another cat took charge of a fox cub, althuv gh it soon became too much fer her, and grew too big and strong tv be mothered, which the cat was very anxious to do. One of the strang- est cases I came across was that-of a bttle Jersey cow which was given three motherless lambs to nurse.' The little things soon learhed to take the milk direct from the cow, and she adopted them, licked them fondly and took them round the fields with her. » Aaother queer episode among farm- yard animals was brought to my no- tice by a farmer who found his cow lying i» her stall with a yonng ig , cking its hardest. The cow had actually lain down in such a position tl.at the pig could help itself. rhe farmer hac to keep a keen lookout for te future, else the pig was in the cowhouse and helped itself plentifully to the cow's supplies. A lamb reared by hand was sent out for exercise with the cows. She knew no other friends but her human ones and the cattle. When she was two yeurs ¢ld she was shown other sheep, but was terrified and would have no- thing to do with them, running off as fast as she could to join her cows. Nettle, my terrier, was a great pal of Jumbo, a charming «nd playful pet ferret. They used to romp together for hours, and no untoward occur- rence ever marred this friendship. Just as ideal a comradeship existed be- tween Tiny, another terrier, and Tim, a fox cub, which had come into hands by misfortun-. The aMiane between the two was immediate. When Tim grew big and strong their romps became very wild, but remained good- natured, and often my spaniel wou'd join in the play. Previously Tiny had served as playfellow to Tom, a little gray otter cub, whom my old female iter would by no means adopt, prob~ ably because she wns jealous. So Tiny, then a pup, and Tom grew up hap- pily together and became boon come panions. ' However, 1 know of extraordinary gecurrénces which do net belong to any of these two classes of friend- ships. The first is that of a Canadian gander who became 8o friendly with the sheep that had been brought into a meadow near the pond, where the gander was settled with his mate, that in the end he abandon:d his goose, who wis at that Lime hatching her five eggs, and went off with the 'sheep. The poor goose set alone on the eggs, and one morning she was foind dead, and we all believed that she died of a broken heart. The unfaithful mate showed no regret and continued to fole. low the sheep until a fox surprised, killed and ate nim. ~The other case is even more extra- ordinary, and the actors were a pair kittens seemed quite happy and com- | SW