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[he Green Murder Case 8Y 8. 8. aN DINE. SYNOPSIS, Philo Vance, with a hobby for solving mysteries, becomes interested in (ie Greene murders when District Attorney Markhan. and Sgt. Heath are called in after the fatal shooting of Julia Greene and the wounding of her younger sister Ada. Old Tobias Greene's zidow, to- gether with five children, Julia, Chester, Sibella, Rex and Ada (adopted), live in the old Greene mansion, Police investi- gation reveals nothing. Then Chester ia found shot dead. Again footsteps are found to and from the entrance of the mansion. Ada comes to Markham's office and informs him that Rex has not told all he knows. Five minutes later word comes that Re has been cho, CHAPTER XVIIL--(Cont'd.) "It's Rex!" She sank limply into a chair facing Markham's desk. "Yes," he said softly; "it's Rex. Sproot called up a few minutes after you had gone. , .." "And he's been shot--like Julia and Chester!" Her words were scarcely audible, but they brought a sense of horror into the dingy old office. Markham inclined his head. "Not five minutes after you tele phoned to him some one entered his room and shot him." A dry sob shook the girl, and she burie: her face in her arms. Markham stepped, round the desk and placed his hand gently on her shoulder. "We've got to face it, my child," he said. "We're going to the house at once to see what can be done and you'd better come in the car with us." "Oh, I don't want to go back," she voaned. "I'm afraid--I'm afraid!" CHAPTER XIX, (Tues., Nov. 30, Noon.) Markham had considerable diffi- culty in persuading Ada Jo accom- pany us. The girl seemed almost in a panic of fright. Moreover, she held herself indirectly responsible for Rex's death, But at last she permit- ted us to lead her down to the car. Heath had already telephoned to the Homicide Bureau, and his ar- rangements for the investigation were complete when we started up Center street. At police headquarters Snit- kin and another central office man named Burke were waiting for us, and crowded into the tonneau of Mark. ham's car. We made excellent time to the Greene mansion, arriving there in less than twenty minutes. A plainclothesman lounged against the iron railing at the end of the street a few yards beyond the gate of the Greene gronds, and at a sign from Heath came forward at once. "What about it, Santos?" the ses- geant demanded gruffly, "Who's been in and out of here this morning?" "What's the big idea?" the man retorted indignantly. "That old bim- bo of a butler came out about 9 and returned in less than half an hour with a package. Said he'd been to 3rd Avenue to get some dog biscuits. The family sawbone drove up at quar- ter pa.' 10--that's hig car across the street." He pointed to Von Blon's Daimler, which was parked diagon- ally opposite. "He's still inside.-- Then, about ten minutes after the " Doc arrived, this young lady"--he irdicated Ada--'came out and walk- ed toward Avenue A, where she hop- ped a taxi. And that's every man, woman, or child that passed in or out of these gates since I relieved Cameron at 8 c'clock this morning." "And Cameron's report?" "Nobody all night." "Well, some one's got in some way," growled Heath. "Run along the west wall there and tell Donelly to come here pronto." Santos disappeared through the gate and a moment later we could sce him hurrying through the side yard utes Donnelly---the man set to wat: the postern gate--came hurrying up. "Who got in the back way this morning?" barked Heath. "Nobody, Sergeant. The cook went marketing about 10 oclock, and two regular deliverymen left packages. That's every ohe who's been through the rear gate since yesterday." "Is that so!" Heath was viciously sarcastic, . "I'm telling you" "Oh, all right, ail right," The ser- geant turned to Burke. "You get up on this wall and make the round. See if you can find where any one has climbed over. And you, Snitkin, lock over the yard for footprints, When you guys finish, report to me. I'm going inside." We went up the front walk, which had been swept clean, and Sproot ad: mitted us Lo the holise, His face was as blank as ever, and he took our coats with his usual 'obsequious formality. "You'd better go to your room now, Miss Greene," said Markham, placing his hand kindly on Ada's arm. 'Lie down, and try to get a ittle rest. You look tired. [il be in to see you vefore I go." The girl obey:d submissively with- out a word. "And you, Sproot," he ordered; "come in the living room." The old butler followed us and stood humbly before the centre table, where Markham seated himself. "Now, let's hear your story." Sproot cleared his throat and star- ed out of the window. "There's very little to. tell, sir. I was in the butler's pantry, polishing the glassware, when 1 heard the shot--" - "Go back a little further," inter- rupted Markham. "I understand you made a'trip to 3rd avenue at 9 this morning." "Yes, sir. Miss Sibella bought a Pomeranian yesterday, and she asked me to get some dog biscuits after breakfast." "Who called at morning?" "No one, sir--that is, Dr. Von Blow." "All right. Now tell us everything that happened." "Nothing happened sir--nothing unusual, that is--until poor Mr. Rex was thot. Miss Ada went out a few minutes after Dr. Von Blon arrived; and a little past 11 o'clock you téle- phoned to Mr. Rex. Then shortly afterward you telephoned a second time to Mr, Rex; aud I returned to the pantry. I had only been there e. few minutes when I heard the shot--" "What time would you say that was?" "Abcut twenty minutes after 11, sir? "Then what?" "I dried my hands on my apron and stepped into the dining room to lis- ten. . I was not quite sure that the shot 'had been fired inside the house, but 1 thought I'd better investigate. So I went upstairs and, as Mr. Rex's door was open, I looked in his room faust. There I saw the poor young jan lying on the floor. I .called Dr. Von Blon--" "Where was the doctor?" Vance put the question. Sproot hesitated, think. "He was upstairs, sir; and he came at once--" "Oh--aupstairs! Roaming about vaguely, I presume--a little here, a little there, what?" Vance's eyes bered into the butler. "Come, come, the house this no one but and appeared to toward the garage. In a few min- Sproot, Where was ths doctor?" Men like these finer- flavored crackers, oven-fresh and flaky with just a trace of salt. Have them handy in the pantry Wen. .. theyre good!" » of thought. Erna Bogen (left), * Hungary, and Helene Mayer, Germany, two of the world's outstanding wo- men fencers, get together at Los Angeles before the olympic games. "Taller they are--harder they fall," says Miss Bogen. ! "I think, sir, he was ir Miss Si- tella's room." "Cogito, cogito Well, drum your encephalon a bit and try to reach a conclusion. From what sec- tor of space did the corporeal body of Dr. Von Blon emerge after you had called him?" "The fact is, sir, he came out of Miss Sibella's door." "Well, well. Fancy that! And, such being the case, one might con- clude--without too great a curfuffling of one's brains--that, precoding his issuing from that particular door, he was actually in Miss Sibella's room?" "I suppose so, siz." "Dash it all, Sproot! deuced well he was there." "Well-- --yes, sir." : "And now suppose you continue with your odyssey." "It was more like the, Iliad, if 1 may say so. More tragic like, if you understand what I mean; although Mr. Rex was not exactly a Hector. However that may be, sir, Dr. Von Blon came immediately--" "He had not heard the shot, then?" "Apparently not, for he seemed very much startled when he saw Mr. Rex. And Miss Sibella, who followed him into Mr. Rex's room, was startled, too." "Did they make any comment?" "As to that I couldn't say. I came Cownstairs at once and telephoned to Mr. Markham." As he spoke Ada appeared at the archway, her eyes wide. os 7 "Some one's been in my room," she announced, in a frightened voice. You know \ "The French doors to the balcony were partly open when I went up- stairs just now, and there were dirty snow tracks across the floor. . . Oh, what does it mean? Do you think--?" Markham had jerked himself for- ward.. "You left the French doors shut when you went out?" "Yes--of course," she answered. "I rarely open them in winter." "And were they locked?" "I'm not sure, but I think so. They must have been locked--though how could any one have got in unless I'd forgotten to turn the key?" Heath had risen and stood listening to the girl's story with grim bewild- erment. "Probably the bird with those gol- oshes again," he mumbled. "I'll get Jerym himself up here this time Markham nodded and turned back to Ada. "Thank you for telling us, Miss Greene. Suppose you go to some other room and wait for us. We want your room left just as yoft found it until we've had time to examine it." "I'll go to the kitchen and stay with cook. I--I don't want to be alohe." And with a catch of her breath she left us. "Where's Dr. Von Blon now?" Markham asked Sproot. "With Mrs. Greene, sir." "Tell him we're here and would like to see him at once." The old butler bowed and went out. (To be continued.) i ---------- ACTIONS Actions are like ships on the hori Zon, being silhouetted against skies <« re. . The wife of a man who had "made his way in the world" was asked Why she had changed her doctor, "Well," she repjied, "fancy ordering linseed tea an 8 mustard plaster for peo- Meus rich as we are!" pe Circles and Hight Hues. mit and close "The 'simp? of hand prot The pottery of the red man seems to have been a step beyond the white man, but his burl' 'bowl, scoop ed out of a knotty growth on some old tree, was something that the White brother could accomplish, This burl bowl was set in the center of the board, within reach of all, and would serve as big. a stew as the housewife was able to cook in her great iron, or brass kettle. use, even in the Old World, when our first settlers arrived, mor for some years after; and it was only necessary to hollow out a few spoons from some soft wood, or to fasten clany| shells to convenient sticks (if one had imported no family silver) be- fore the family could be busy at their task of eating. i ~ Some of the containéss for food and drink which seem crudest to us were used, not only at the yery first, but well along in those years when we have supposed that living condi- tions were well taken care of, Gourds --for water glasses, comports, water bottles, dippers and oven "basons" --were in use for many generations, and in some localities until the mid- die of the nineteenth century. Horns were also used for cups and water bottles, long after the first days of dire want. , . It was to the trees, as usual, how- ever, that the pioneer turned for the real outfitting of the family board. The dining table of early America was in reality nothing more than a board, A table the proper size would have been entirely too large for a one-roomed house, and a broad, thick board was therefore substituted, which could be fitted on top of trest. les, when meal time came around, and moved out of the. way when the meal was finished. Some tables were made with hollows scooped in the board, a foot and a half apart, all around the edge, where the in- dividual trencher would ordinary have stood.--From "Candle Days," by Marion Nicholl Rawson, trees "In Fields Where 1 Was Known" Far in a western brookland That bred me long ago The poplars stand and tremble By pools 4 used to know. There, in the windless night-time, The wanderer, marvelling why, Halts on the bridge to hearken How soft the poplars sigh. He hears; long since forgotten In fields where I was known, Here I lie down in London And turn to rest alone. There, by the starlit fences, The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs. --A. E. Houseman, in "A Shropshire Lad." "Two of my friends are having a social war, One gives a dance and the other comes back at her with a bridge party. So it goes." "Have you taken sides?" "I should say not. You get more invitations by remaining neutral." TIN "Thark you very much" said the clergyman as little Georgie handed up his offering for the harvest festival. "I must call round this afternoon and thank your mother for those eight Leautiful apples." "P-please, sir,' stammered Georgie, "would you m-mind thanking her for t-twelve." is shown most clearly, Bois mir in early dishes and serving utensils.| Forks had not come into general| We have ther go good fortune wo live in an unenclosed parish, and may | thank the wise obstinacy of two or three sturdy farmers, and the lucky unpopularity of a ranting madcap lord of the manor, for preserving the delicious green patches, the islets of wilderness amdist cultivation, which form, perhaps, the peculiar beauty | of English scenery. The common that I am passing now--the lea, as it is called--is one of the loveliest of these favored spots. It is a little sheltered scene, retiring, as it were, from the village; sunk amidst higher lands, hills "would be "most too grand a word; edged on one side by one gay high-road, and intersected by another; and surrounded by a most picturesque confusion of mea- dows, cottages, farms, and orchards; with ® great pond in one corner, un- usually Bright and clear, giving a de- lighttul cheerfulness and daylight to the picture. The swallows haunt that pond; so do the children. 'There is a merry group round it now; I have seldom seen it without one, . , Now a few yards farther, and 1 reach the bank Ah! I smell them already -- their exquisite perfume steams and lingers in this moist, heavy air. Through this little gate, and along the green south bank of this green wheat-field, and they burst upon me, the lovely violets, in tenfold loveliness. The ground is covered with them, white and pur- ple enamelling the short dewy grass, looking but the more vividly colored under the dull, leaden sky. There they lie by hundreds, by thousands. In former years I have been used to watch them from the tiny green bud, till one or two stole into bloom. They never came on me before in such a sudden and luxuriant glory of simple beauty--and I do really owe one pure and genuine pleasure to feverish London! How beautifully they are placed too, on this sloping bank, with the palm branches waving over them, full of early bees, and mix- ing their boneyed scent with the more delicate violet odour! How transpar. ent and smooth and lusty are tha branches, full of sap and life! And there, just by the old mossy root, is a superp tuft of primroses, with a yellow butterfly hovering over them, like a flower floating on the air.-- From "Our Village," by Miss Mit. ford. rr P-L. SNUBBED In a certain London club is an in- sufferably plutocratic person whose parade of wealth does nothing to en- hance his popularity. 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The following state- ments are typical of the teachers' observations: - : { "'Pupils beg to come early to use the typewriters; also to stay after school, " 'No matter what fs done, the chil. dren want to "write about it.' "Any activity in which the ma- chines are used is taken up with | more interest and pleasure because of their enjoyment of the machine | "The effects of the typewriter were not confined to interest in the activity (for itself. The 3uceess which pupils achieved with ths help of the machine improved thelr genera) wental outlook and rendered them more more hopeful and confident. Many teachers referred to greater aiert- ness, more initiative, and more ob- vious satisfaction 'obtained by pupils from the kinds of work which the machine makes possible, "In order to determine the effect of the typewriter on. quantity of writing an analysis was made of the total two-year collections of written work. It was found that in total amount of writing done during the school year the Experimental chil dren exceeded the Control children in every grade. In addition the Experimental children showed a sup- eriority in -the quantity of original compositions. Their advantage in original writing was especially mark- ed in the first three grades. "More than five hundred kinder garten children were in the Experi- mental schools and more than two hundred in the Control schools. cess to typewriters made more than four times as many attempts to write as did children who had to depend entirely on the pencil as a medium of expression." All children in tie Experimental and = Control classes were given achievement tests at tha ¢'oec of the investigation. For all grades com. bined, it was found that during a school year the Experimental chil- dren gained roughly 7 per cent. of a grade more on the tests than did the Control children. The typewriter thus appeared to be a clear-cut fac tor in producing sup2.ior achleve- ment. We read further: "After observing the use of the ma- chine for two schqol years, practical- ly all of the teachers were convinced of its possibilities as an aid to read- ing. In the lower grades the use of the mahine seems, In the case of some children, to stimulate a feeling of readiness for reading. This prob- ably results from the ease With which pupils are able to write letters and words. Even oral reading is indfrectly benefited by the machine in that children are eager to read to the class carefully typed stories." gee Rub and Scratch Ailment Cured by Sulphur Dip During early July a herd of 175 pigs' were examined, that had given evidence of being unthrifty and un comfortable. These pigs were rub- bing and scratching.. Some. were very much irritated and had most of the Bair rubbed off. Some were red and raw from excess rubbing at one place. The cause of the itchy skin was not hard" to locate, once the scale and scabs had been scrap-. ed from the skin and onto a piece of black cloth or paper. These scrapings from the rough parts of the . a hand lems and found to be very much alive, with small grey mites, which were recognized as sarcoptic mange mites. The scales. form Wherever. the mange mite has been of penetrating into the skin with its stylet, causing - erythema, which is followed by thi Kindergarten children who had ac- pigs skin, were then examined, with 'formation' of vesi- & oles and apusise Je Ie eamath 3 -.