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1 a 4] al to _the key tot ham, T could see, had already ac- | quiesced. He was in a mood to ac- cn Murder Case [EARLE ST ; 3 the - Ce : vi ual! iobles posed by the Ieatien 9% the Professor Einstein Disagrees A o > ers. 4 + Wily Geologists As to It was nearly 3 o'clock when we BY S. S. VAN DINE. : : reached the house. Heath had already | : Hr 2 arrived, in answer to a telephone call vo a - . A $i from Markhar; and we at once pre-! In the lecture on the ex- popylar h panding universe that he delivered in Kenneth J. Germeshausen of the Mas- fds . Io ated vussives to Mra, Sreene, Fol: Berlin Professor Einstein remarked severe- | lowing an oc i - 3 stein re : "Philo Vanst, ahh POR for solving Fe aspish, and 1 left bing . in the ng Pg a t.at the earth is 10,000,000,000 years Dobby for solving | ly alone. He made several desultory Markha direct] the old, thereby arousing the wonder of Be res a When District Attcrney | attempts at reading, and once, when and_Narkham went diteriy jo 1 oni ore Markham and Sgt. Heath are called in| ho put his book down, I glanced at Point: The old lady had eyed us sus. | geologists and cosmogonists ./ho more after the fatal shooting of Julia Greens | jo Pr U8 000% FOU © ERIEEE S01 piciously as we came in, and now sat OF less accepted 3,000,000,000 years as hin. ora. Tobie ei ia: Genghis Khan! Later in the forenoon | Figidly against her pile of pillows, her, a satisfactory estimate, The troth is ther with five ghildren, Julia, Chester, | » YON | oaze fixed on Markham with defen! that no one knows how old the earth Eh and' Ada (adopted) live in| he attempted to busy himself with | > is. On the other hand, there is ; them in order. : the old Greene mansion. Police investi- | cataloging his Chirese prints. sive animosity. ' * good em in order to. make alloys, | y tions reveal nothing: then Cl.ester is "Mad m," he 'began, somewhat se.| reason to believe that the solid crust when the size ~f the desired product| i ie Hound shot dead seated in a choir in his We were to have lunch with Mark-| yo,q1 we regret the ity of | Was formed about 2,000,000,000 years is small. ~~ i don Members! &F the" Groan] on Et 10 anion ham at the Lawyer's Club at ome nic 'call But certdin things have| "8% ~- x § - Writing in Metal Progress, Charles | Cross Society, which works for the| Nia goer ta Marxham's off e and, in- | o'clock, and at a little after 12 Vance! 4 icen which make it imperative that The age of the earth was a question Hardy states that about 100 tons of | welfare of wild flowers, meeting here, forma | m i at Rex has not told al: he| ordered his powerful Hispano-Suiza. | wo wisit Mr. Green's library. . . ." about which astronomers and geolo-| powdered Chromium, iron, nickel; sil-|1 'the adop'ion by Parliament of| that Hex has Been hot. A few hours | He always drove himself when engag-| «yoy shan't!" she broke in, her|igSts wrangled in the last century. |s x, tin, zine, molybdenum or tungsten ws to that end. AEE Jesse hs. Yon Bion reports the theft of | ed on a problem; the activity seemed | oioe rising in an infuriated cres-| Lord Kelvin, generally regarded as are now pressed within a month. A| The society also recomme ded the alone bo steady his nerves and clarify his cendo. "You shan't put your foot in the ultimate authority on mathema-| mold is filled with powder composed! i; stitution of wild fluwer sanctuaries |' Yo Their CHAPTER 26. THD am Gur wultiog 2 that room! Not for twelve years has | tical physics, had reached the conclu-|of particles that interlock. Pressure| private gardens and parks with a der 'mediat For' nearly two hiurs ways and], Markham wa: waiting for us, andl,y gre passed the threshold, and-no} Sion thl the earth could not be older causes them to eohere, Heat is then [view to preserving rare specimen, eS yoduIry another 40K. ns 8 og ie a vee 728 ly 0 ln Tm bh ec el St feral the a 4000080 yours Me ciation api fo wei the togsr at the 7 FTE TERE rhoitvta op oft, hy : ! sturb-| place where my husbund spent the | P¢DE on the rate at hich the cohering points. : Ey me : 3 3 disevesed: ona Tp ing nature had occurred. Pa years of isd life" P planet probably cooled after it was| Oruinarily, if two alloys of widely| yi 14.000 a Sack One Trip. Seater their leaves Filho col ly i d that the] "Unburden, old dear," invited| "I" appreciate the sentiment that formed. Later he extended the period different melting points are mixed, if the sy as A ALOE tho ed. . Finally it was agree v ; 2, 100,000,000 : p : _It cost the United States $14,000 to | them, to be treasured up among t! only. 'practicable tactics to be pur-| Vance, When we were seated at our) actuates your refusal," replied Mark-| 'v 190:000000 jear. Geologists de-|one of them may completely vaporize. Il sack of mail to Nev |best materials of its wisdom. . . . he routine police | table in a corner of the main dining| hsm; "but graver iderations have more "ime, It was evident to! Ir the powder-process nothing like 260d one small sack of m bt foes. : sued were those of the police] om. "You look seri ' . i them that the rock hi Zealand on an American freighter re-| It is pleasant to take one of tifese rosedire, . "You serious. I'm sure| intervened. Th: room will have to be | them that the rocks were much older. | this can occur. Hence allows of a 1 'the mile, | little dingy half-sheets between the 2 h holl, Le ex » Three methods have been employed | hitherto unknown ca cently. The mail rate is by the mile, litile dingy ! 8; However, before the conference | Something wholly to Le expected has! searched. a ploye: type can be pro- t by the welzht. thump and finger, and picture forth broke up, certain specific decisions had happened. Hay: the goloshes disap-| "Not if you kill me!" she cried.|in estimating the age of the earth's| duced, Moreover, metals and chemi not hy the weig . oo. who, above ninety. : been taken. The guard about the peared?" "How dare yoa force your way into rocky crust. One depends on the cal compounds can be mixed. Thus s 4 years ago, held it, wet from the press, Gaotiic estate was to' be increased. Markham looked at him with some | my house--7" saltiness of the ocean, the second on| tungsten carbide and cobalt will pro- pr SE «| and st ecaming, before the fire. Many' = and a man was to be placed on the wonder. Markham held up his hand author- | the thickness of the sedimentary rocks| duce an alloy that makes a fine cut-| 4 BB of the numbers bear the name of. an a ie Bans Fist To "Yes! The O'Brien woman called | itatively. and the third on the degradation of ting tool. Cooper and graphite make A old colontal dignitary. : There he keep a close watch on the front door the bureau at 9 o'clock this morning] "I am not here to argue the matter. | T2dioactive elements. a good dynamo brush. : sits. a major, a member of the coun. and windows. On some pretext or |Aand reported that they had been re-|I came to you merely to ask for the It is obvious that the sea was fot| An entirely ew class of bimetals ; H . cil, and a weighty merchant, in bis ~~ ther a detective was to be kept in-| moved from the linen closet during| key. Of course, if you prefer to have originally salt. If we can determine |is now being made by means of the| u i C high-backed armchair, wearing a side of the house as. many Tours as the night. They were there," how-| us break down the door. . . ' He draw how long it required for rains to! powder process.--Waldemar Kaempf-' solemn wig agd grave attire, such as ah possible, during the day; and the ever, when she went to bed." a sheaf of papers from his pocket. "I wash out salt from the rocks ard im- fert in The N.Y. Tin.es. x befits his imposing gravity of mien, on telephone ling of the Greenes was to "And, of course, they have not been | have se:ured a. search warrant for part its present saltiness to the ocean > . RE LI E F and displaying but little finery, ex- iy "be tapped. found, a 'kat room; and it would cause me deep ne would hae 2 fair indicetion of cept a huge pair of silver shoe- : Vance insisted, somewhat against No. She made a preity careful | regret to have to serve it on you." (I he earth's age, his method, origin- C Meadow buckles, curiously carved. Observe Markham's inclination, 'that every | SeArch before phoning. ; was amazed at his aggressive daring, 3 Suggest by Professor J. Jolly ows In a Ne : from ain | the awful reverence of his visage, as one in' the house and every person Fancy that. But she might have| for I knew he had no warrant.) of Dublin and developed by Professor! pown in the meadow; with the but Pp '| he reads his Majesiy's most gracious oi called there, however seemingly sayed herself the trouble. 'What does (To be continued.) Arthur Holmes, gives a value of 360, tercips, speech; and the deliberate wisdom remote his connection with the case-- the doughty Sergeant opine?" rr 000,000 years. Dr. J. W. Gregory, | you can see it growing, F with which he ponders over som® should be regarded as a suspect and| "Heath reached the house before; Gong from Lifes S book arguing that the rate at which sodium | 1 ong, thick, crisp, luscious grass. wn paragraph of provincial politics, and watched vigilan"y; and Heath was 10 o'clock and made an investigation. e's, Scrap is dissqlved is higher now than it was, The cows are stancing, all heads the keener intelligente with which ordered 'by the Inspector to. convey But he learned nothing. No one ad- Man in the past, multiplies this figure by sown, ¥ he glances at the shipnews and com- o this Jecision to O'Brien, lest her in- witted hearing any sound in the hail| "The Highest Being reveals himself five and thus arrives at 1,800,000,000 oft noses thrust ceep, A lot of things can cause a headache oun) advertisments. Observe and wtinelive partiality should Tesult in during the night. He researched the | in man."--Carlyle. years. What we have here must be Strong warm tongues curling and | OF other pain, but there is one thing | (ile! He may have been a wise I easotion nf fier Soruiny of ter house himself, but without result." "Man is the expression of God's be-| regarded as little more than the pulling, that will always give you relief! Just| oo i; pis day; but, to us, the wis- a "Have you heard from Von Blon | ing."--Mary Baker Eddy. roughest approximation based on And a continuous munching, take a tablet or two of Aspirin. Your| a. oo of tne politician appears life Re att. it seemed, hall ak this morning?" "All true manliness grows around a| What little is known of the past. The sun is hot, suffering ceases. Relief comes ia} pio hecause we. can compare his ready instituted a thorough investiga: "No, but Heath saw him. He came | core of divineness."--C. H. Parkhurst.| To determine the age of the earth| But away in the far corner stantly, regardless of what may have| , notices with actual results; and tion tito the private affairs of Julia to the house about 10 and stayed| " jod never made anything else so by calculating the time it took to de-| Rise the full trees been making your head throb with| "13 merchant seems . to have Chester and Rex: aud a dozen med | Pearly an hour. He appeared very| beautiful as man."--H. W. Beecher. posit sediments and form rocks is even, with the pond below, J busied himself about vénities, be- - Cletier Bu) Bex} Sud 8 doen much upset over the stolen drugs, and| "An honest man's the noblest work more difficult. Estimates made by| [one shadows and cool water Aspirin is harmless--carinot depress | aco we know that the expected A tieitios outside of the Greene mon] immediately asked if any trace of | of God."--Pope. | Professor Holmes and J. H. Bretz| v-here the cows will stand kneedeep, | the heart So there's no use Waltig| gyipg pave heen lost at sea or mould- ie gloks. with special instructions to them had been found. He spent most Let each man think himself an .ct| yield a total of about 500,000,000 victly meditating, for a headache to "wear off.' Its use-| o.0q at the wharves; that his Im- gather teports or eonversations of the hour with Sibella." of God, his mind a thought, his life a | years. Since no allowance is made for Leisurely whisking their tails, less to endure ain of any kind when poried broadcloths: were long ago which: might. have contained: Sonic "Ah, welladay! Let us enjoy our | breath of God."--Bailey. variations in the rate of sedimenta-| gin chewing contentedly, you can get Aspirin, It is a blessing | 14 tatters. . . . hint or rors indicating a fore- truffes gastornome without the intru-| Remember -- Christ Jesus proved tion caused by great upheavals, this Waiting for the milking time. + | to women who suffer regular systemic| myore is a good deal of amuse- SEs of rina f to crime) sion of unpleasant speculations, This| What ma really is. f.gure is usuuily multiplied by 4, giv- ; L. E. LOVELL pain; t men whe must work on, in| ont and some profit, in the perusal La Just as Markhan. rose to terminate] Madeira sauce, by the by, is very ore ing about 2,000,000,000 years as the ih . spite of eyestrain, fatigue'or neuralgia. | oo toge little items which charact: 4 the: distussion Vance i 0 Jerminate good." Thus Vance dismissed the CHARACTER age of the earth. ; . FRC HRASRD | CARE Learn its quick relief for colds; for| si,a the manners and circumstances - SotWard Had spoke gal subject. ~ I'm sure I would not care to be But the most acurate estimate is neuritis, rheumatism, lumbago. Be| 4 tne country, New England was - (gd s "Ini case there is to Yo a poisoning However, that luncheon was to| So elegant a man undoubtedly that made for the Na-| Daughter: "No, Jack is not rich; | sure to get Aspirin--and not a substi-{ yon in a state incomparably more i wo hotit] Asada © | prove a memorable one; for toward| That I should be ashamed to see tional Research Council by Professor|in fact, he can hardly raise the tute. All druggists sell Aspirin tab-| :.tyresque than at present, or than x ae, i) prepared. | tho ond of the meal Vance made a| The spo: where I began, Alois F. Kovarik and Professor| money to keep going." Mercenary | lets. A it hasbeen within the memory of Where overdoses of either morphine or | ,..opection or, rather, insisted upon Arthur Holmes. They used a method| Mother. "Then I'd tell him not to] "Aspirin' is a trade mark registered jon. there being, as yet, only a strychnine are administered immedi- | action--that was eventually to|For in life of ups and downs proposed by Dr. Boltwood twenty-five | keep coming." in Canada. narrow strip of civilization along the 4 ate action will sometimes save thel oo 4 explain the terrible trage-| We all. may win or lose, years ago--a ncthod based on the fact a : edge of a vast forest, peopled with § victim. I would suggest that an offi-| io at the Graene mansion." We had | And some wear chains and some wear | that the radioactive elements decay » enough of its original race to con- cial physician be placed in the| ..acheq ur dessert when, after a crowns, at a known rate. A million grams of| nN, woman cares to be the silent < trast the savage life with the old Narcoss Flats with the man set to} 10,0 silence, he looked up at Mark-| And some wear cast-off shoes. uranium yield 1-7400 of a gram of| partner in a matrimonial firm. customs of another - world. The fe watch the Greene windows; and he; = og said: lead every year. By determining the . : . white population, also, was diversi- ji should have at hand all the necessary | «rhe Pandora complex has seized|But if I don't put on an air lead content of uranium rocks their| =-- Mi SE --=-- "= | fed by the influx of all sorts of ex- apparatus and antidotes used in com-| .) 1 1 octered me. I simply must get| Of high and mighty pride, age can be calculate It was thus . patriated vagabonds, and by the, con= batting morphine and strychnine| ini, obia's locked library. That sac-|! think that few will see or care [that Professor Kovarik calculated the WN AR D S B U tinual importation of bond.servants x poisoning. red aditum has begun to infest my| het I put on beside. : age of a piece of uranium-bearing ° ¥ R from Ireland and elsewhere, SO that 2 Furthermore, I would suggest slumbers; and ever since yor men- 4 rock from: Sinyana Pala, Carelia, in < 6 * there was a wild and unsettled multi that'We arrange some sort of signal|tiineq the legacy of those books I've| FOr What are trappings after all Northwestern Rusia, and found it to 66, ) 99 tude, forming a strong minority to : ; with Sproot and the new nurse, s0|y.4 no rest, But camouflage and sham? be 1,852,000,000 years. Geologists are : the sober descendants of the Puri. \ Si that, should anything happen, our| uf yearn to become acquainted with | BY, character 1 stand or fall; therefore cerlain that the earth had ; : ® ; 2 tans. Then there were: the slaves, EN doctor can be summoned "without a| poping literary taste, and to learn Not what I wear--but AM. a crust about 2,000,000,000 years ago. ? i : ' contributing their dark shade to the : moment's delay. why he should have selected the po- --A. B. C. Einstein's guess of 10,000,000,000]" T EB picture of society. The soso es "If the victim of the attempted] jog for hig beneficiaries." years for the total age of the carlh CORN : Y x ence of all this was a great Yatiety : poisoning was saved, we might bel wpyt my dear Vance, what pos- : ; / | is as good as any one's. The universe . | and singularity of action and Snel dent 3 et able to ascertain who administered sible 'connection on ¥ 4 is supposed to have begun the expan- ] : { many Instances of which might be Y the drug." ; "Desist! You can't think of a sion evidenced by the rushing away of A Treat | selected from these columus, wierd The plan was readily agreed to.| question I have not already put to the outer nebulae 10,000,000,000 years for the whole Family - they are told with a simplicity an The Inspector took it upon himself to | ny veelf: and I'm unable to answer any ago. Hence Einstein is merely sug- Ex [] nt Fo 0 { = quaintness of style that bring ihe arrange the matter that night With| of them But the fact remains, I gesting that the earth may have been . an Excelle : striking points into very strong re- one of the official police surgeons; and | , yet inspect tha' library even if a born then. CANADA STARGH CO. for GROWING CHILDREN} Ty; iF liet.--From "The Snow-Image, bY iy Heath went, at once to the Narcoss | have to. get a judicial order to batter HIGH-SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY. Monta : rr Today! Nathaniel Hawthorne. » 6 aLs . Scfure a room facing , the| gon the door. Thers are sinister un- "In the twinkling of an eye"--what i Fesne mansion. dercurrents in that old house, Mark- does the phrase mean? The fortieth - Imperiled Health (WEDNESDAY, DEC.1,1 P.M.) | ham; and a hint or two may be round of a second is slow even to snap-shot| ~~ x. Field Director Vance, contrary to his custom, rose | in that secret room." amateurs, It is positively snail-like By, Dr.. Carl. E. Buck, : "Tt wi i i B ¥ rican Public Health Association early <the next morning. He was It will be a difficult proceeding if to Professor Harold F, Edgerton and - Ame oan be lulled nto a feeling = no one ; of false security based upon the pre- sent low death rate. That is something to~be thankful for but it will constitute an added dan- sachusetts Institute of Technology, LL Ld > . py . ® wet who found it necessary to make ex- £0 Did you say "So.you have joined a golf club." | posures ranging from one fifty-thou- 2 tl hd Go SE ------ -------- "I had to do it. The only chance |sandth to a maximum of one five hun- A CRI. S. 'P ? of seeing some of the men I have | dred-thousandth of a second. : ger if any one is ted to belleye there: . to do business with is to get 'em on In all high-speed photography ligh by that © very real anger oes not vo the golf links." | is all-important. Professors Edger- now exist, With even greater : in store. We 'can absorb and take care of 3 in the ORY Countep [105mm Wo have voc dons ton and Germeshausen produce some- 99 ARES TL a Just try one THE UPWARD LOOK thing like a miniature bolt of light- Constantly look up. Be on the| Ning and by its vivid light they make Such crispness, flakiness, freshness are for ch fo rise, like a bira | their exposures. Their clouds are . 3 ; found 0 in Christic's Premium or Fig dl a bg condensers--alternate layers of a con- ~ Give the Old Folks the best possible ft, 20 - et rire eh . Soda Crackers. They furnish just the into the upper air. Such is the ma. | THEE and | budge materiel Christmas by to DE neiond Goan WON US, salty tang for soup or salad , . . just ture of holiness, Being from God, it Li lp sscirichy us siotal toil econ IT, rrrighind Ki man Towle the crisp base for cheese or jam. is ever secking to revert to its | ducting material (metal foil), When tions, this depression is going to hav : ures. The neaviee" the pressure] it i allowed to spill, there is a blind- : \ 7 8 still in force. tions, pression Js going 10 Mo HL nite Tur ae BE Th my Jy et na. [yi pa a stronger is the force of its com. [valent of approximately 40,000 ordi- LAS LINGS FROM He heuith usnlas yo been refec aspirations, Such pressure, nary fifty-watt household lamps. : and mo 8 ; agri that of the a on | Lightning cannot be controlled, but .. i (Nov. y 1 st, ! re Baro had to lop off many; ac: a water, which seeks, through crevices this spark through a tube can be made| RIN. = "FIRST SAT Sno, Have, Lou ti In its enclosure, the level of its to flash just at the right instant, 3 his HALIFA [fortunately fountain. A spirit lke this wil | that in making hi demand the habit of fragmentary % prayer. for ta wwn Bois indulgence; earthly cares.