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» ry A eS : a ¥ » an . & be glued -shoulders--hunclied, "hig jaws munch- 'his 'eye towards the == beds, walked down to the REEN | T by Stuart Martin he GHOST LY an bi BYNOPSIS Maud Barron awakes with a pre monition of disaster, She hears padding footsteps. Rushing Into her father's study she finds him dead Dr. Sidney Foster, a friend, is joined by Detective "One Eye" Uttock, a mulatto, who has never lost a man. The dog lay down and the mulatto turned and walked slowly round the Louse, his gaze fixed on the ground. I'oster stood watching "him as he went over every yard' of the garden at the back of the house, his eye to the ground, his high ing at his chewing gum. At the end of his examination - he scrutinised the sides of the house and {ke paths and lawns there before going to the front. Foster followed, still watch- ing. The study window and that of Maud Barron's bedroom looked out to the front, and One-eye gazed at hoth critically for some. .time, then cas forest beyond the private garden. Now and then his lips moved as if he were speak- ing to himself, but his impassive ex- pression never changed. The ground was 'hard and dusty, the paths were of dark cinders where they were not of cement. There was not a footmark anywhere. The mulatto examined the flower and gazed about the road; then he straightened his shoulders, nodded to Foster and jerked his thumb towards the town. "Found any clue?" asked Foster. "Ah think," replied One-cye, "dat we'll have de inquest jest before noon. Guess we'll sce yo' den." And that was the' only word that Dr. Foster got out of him all the way down to the town. They parted in the main street of Kingston, but Foster could not go his way without breaking the silence that had become almost unbearable to him. "One-eye," he said frankly, "I feel this affair keenly, perhaps more than you can understand. Will you let me say again that if I can be of any help to you in any way whatever I dm at your service." : The mulatto chewed slowly for a moment before he answered. Missy Barron is ver' nice gal, doc. She gwine get married one day,]| hey 7" 3 "One-eye 1 don't know anything about that, but she and her father were my friends." "Sure. Cap'n Swathlin' one ob yo' frien's too?" Se "Yes, I knew him quite well. What t him?" 'tne mulatto hitched his shoulders. "Guess Cap'n Swathlin' can't get Leah in time to take a hand, doc. Wal, you' an' Ah gotta mix, Ah sup- pose. Say, we'd bettah git back, docfl Ah Jocked 'em all in, y'know. Lissen, doc. Lissen t'me. ARI tell yo' one ting; what dat ole doc says at de inquest doan mattah a-row ob beans. It's what Ah says." "One-eye, you don't believe it was guicide 7" The mulatto spat girect, 5 "Mistah Barron didn't shoot al far into the him- _ sel', doc. Mistah Barron was murd- ered," he said; and swung round and walked off before Fester could ask another question, Chapter 1V THE INQUEST It was just before mid-day when Dr. Foster arrived at the Barron's home. The door was opened in an- swer to his knock by One-eye. The mulatto showed him into the large dining room where he found the arrangements for the inquest all complete. The coroner was in the chair, the Jury were scated ready to hear the evidence. The old doctor who had béen called during the night was seated beside the coroner. The pro- Going on a Holiday? We can give you the West whether you want to = Rest Play . Fish D. J. McRae Lingerlong Lodge, Ardbeg, Ont. (Fast norih of Parry Sound.) gateway | ceedings opened quietly enough. Maud Barron came down to give her story. She sat white-faced and stricken on the coroner's right while he asked his questions and wrote down the answers. Then she was allowed to go. It was with a sigh of relief that she vanished from the room. The servants were called, and as they came and told what little they knew the mulatto detective moved from the window where he had been gazing out on the lawn and took his position beside the coroner. He scrutinised every. witness coldly and deliberately, The negro butler was first to give his evidence. The coron- er asked One-eye if he had any questions to ask the witness. The mulatto stared at the negro. "Ever heard whether Mistah Bar- ron had any enemies?" he asked calmly. ' . "Enemies, suh? No, suh. Never a cne as could say a word against de boss." "Yo' ever bin in Mistah Barron's study when was takin' photo- graphs?" "No, suh." "Yo' ever took 7" "No, suh." "Yo' ever knew where he kept de pictures he took?" "No, suh." "Yo' bin long in de employ ob de late Mistah Barron?" : "Four years, suh." "Yo native ob dis island." "Yaas, suh." "Yo' Christian?" "Yaas, such." . "Yo' doan worship de green snake of de Obeah?" hl "Me, suh? Oh deah no. Ah'm de good Christian, baptised in de church " scen de pictures he "Yo' neber tell lies?" "Neber, suh. "Yo' air one big liar. Yo' tellin' lies now." (To be continued.) Grow Supple and Slim ~ In This Way In good dancing schools in England or on the Continent these two ex- ercises are much used. Try them. They give suppleness to the figure and special elasticity to the hips and thighs. Hold firmly by your right hand to the top of a chair. Put your shoulders well back. Swing four right leg backwards and forwards as high as you can manage, keeping the upper part of.your body still, but not stiff. : Do this a dozen times. Change hands and feet, and repeat. When you have practised a little (and, easy though it sounds, it has its diflicul- ties), you should make the change from right to left leg and hand all part of the same swinging motion and, without any pause. Then this: Lie on your back and imitate the pedalling of a bicycle with 'your legs. Keep in rhythmical time. You may be inclined to pant, but you shouldn't, as that shows you are not in good condition. Practice the movements slowly and for a short time until you can do them breathing deeply but evenly as you do so. After these exercises imitate a footballer and suck half a lemon. Refreshing -- and slimming in it- self, Ontario Theatre : Tax Return Higher Toronto. ~~ Operative for the first time last month, Ontario's' revised amusement tax has brought the Pro- vincial Treasury almost three times ag much revenue as did the old tax in June, 1934, Premier Mitchell Hep- burn announced recently. The new tax yielded $289,271 last ago. Feature of the new schedule was the imposition of a five-cent tax on 26-cent admission tickets to places of amusement, The: former schedule left tickéts under 25 cents untaxed. { (From a National Geographic month, compared with $80,778 a year, Africa Boasts a Sausage Tree Bulletin, Washington). Add another plant to the already large collection of botanical freaks. A Princeton professor recently found a new variety of evening primrose. Its claim to distinction lies in the fact that its buds develop to full size but never open. Most interesting among peculiar plants are those which bear uncanny resemblance to something else, Cen- tral Africa boasts a sausage tree, from| whose widespreading -crown hang what appear to be bologna sausages, and a "poached-egg tree," so-called because of its huge white flowers with golden centres. Aus- tralia presents as rival a tree whose thick based = trunk tapers upward like a soda bottle, and the black:boy tree, which thrusts a spearlike shaft six feet above its shaggy crown of leaves. these might be savages on the war- path, In South Africa one may shrink from what seem to be huge red spiders lying on the ground. They turn out to be lilies. Equally sinister looking are that region's blood lilies, whose intense red blossoms and stalks are thrust up like the heads of dangerous snakes. Similarly, in hot desert canyons of the United States wanderers = have quickened their pace toward the curling smoke of a friendly campfire only to dis- cover it the deceptive bluish-green branches of a smokebush. In New Zealand some of the barren moun- tain sides appear dotted with sheep. Closer examination proves the large rounded gray masses to be haastia plants, or "vegetable sheep". Other plants, though undistin- guished in appearance, are remark- able for their odors. Goats in Ten- eriffe are fond of a plant which' grows in rock crevices and exudes the musty odor of mice. Skunk of the plant world is the durian. Al- though its fruit is reputed delicious through Malaysia, and it is said that Borneo head hunters will commit murder' to get one, the fruit is per- meated by a strong, unpleasant odor that lingers for days. An agreeable contrast is the umbrella bush. Its durable timber, "appreciated for fence posts in Australia, has the de- licious fragrance of raspberry jam. In the Western United States grow powerful herbs, loc.weeds, which have a weird effect on animals, Cattle, sheep and horses that eat them soon lose their muscular co- ordinaticn., They stagger drunkenly around for a day and may event- ually die. QUALITY FINESY IF GRADED Demand For Best Product Shows Increase; Reliability Doubled In Warm Weather "The reason for the gradual but steady rice in the price of fresh eggs recently," sald W. B. Somerset, com- missioner of marketing, "is that with warmer weather the reliability of the average run of farm eggs 13 called into doubt by many housewives. "The discriminating purchaser be- gins to question her source of sup- ply and sometimes goes tg extraordi- nary trouble to get out to the coun- try to obtain absolutely fresh eggs. "A great many people do not know, however, that an egg which is new-laid is not necessarily a satisfac tory egg from the standpoint of flav- or and yolk color. Uniform rations and controlled-fed flocks will alter the quality of an egg very material. ly, and at this season of year the demand for the top grade of eggs, es- tablished under the egg-grading reg: ulations, becomes quite active, "The highest grade of egg is the A-1 grade, which is produced only on farms specially licensed after thelr premises have been inspected and their method of feeding and sanita- tion approved, "This grade can only be packed by these licensed producers. The eggs must be sold in cartons, sealed on the farm with each seal identifying the source of supply. This guarantees that all such eggs are not only: pro- duced under the bes' possible condi- tions, but in addition have been care. fully candled for every defect before being offered to the public." : To day is the only day we have, Of tomorrow we cannot be sure; To seize the chance as it comes along Is the way to make it secure. For every year is a shofter year, And this the truth sublime: : A moment misspent is a jewel lost From the 'treasury of time. 5% = "Dear Friend: School has nearly From a distance a group of |. | who said she had lived through two Birds Should Be Ready By Early Winter; Clean Alfafa Range Will Give Results + According to investigators at the Pennsylvania agricultural experimen- tal station, bronze turkeys gave con- tinued increase in growth during * a 24.week period. Work carried on at other stations allows a 24-week grow- ing period for turkeys. Poults hatch- ed on April 16 to 30 are of market 2 Black Ti Ina 2 glo age on October 30 to November 15; + while those hatched on May 16 to 30 : EF reach market age on November 16 to 30.. One must not overlook the jm- portance of having turkeys finished and in prime condition at time of marketing. It may be necedsary In some instances to allow a longer per- fod for market before the end of a 1 Reveals Your 24.week period. ; a po gn | Turkeys' eggs require more moist. |J' Character! > * y Sib Handwriting | All Rights Reserved St. Clair Geoffre Graphologist ure during the 28-day incubation per- BE lod than do hens! eggs quring thelr Yesterday 1 received a letter from 21-day period. a a lady' in England, who wrote me On the eighth day, all eggs should | some time ago asking for a character be candled, and all infertile ones re-analysis for herself and two ot her moved. If an old type or poorly -ven-| friends. Here is what she says: tilated incubator is used, the eggs| We think each one of the three should be candled again on the twen- | analysis you sent is true and quite tleth day, and all with dead germs re- | accurate. I myself am very conscious moved. On the 27th day, the incu-|of certain of the traits which you bator door should be closed and not| criticised in so friendly a manner, disturbed again until the main hatch {and thank/ you again for the remed- is completed, fes which you.were good enough to On the 28th day it is advisable, es- | outline. You say one thing of me pecially when using forced-draft ma- | In particular which although not al- chines, to remove the poults that| ways acknowledged by my friends, have dried off to the nursery trays, |I feel myself to be absolutely true. chick boxes, -or when available, to [That i8 'where you state that 1 am battery brooders, where they may be | 8 'rather self-interested person'. Im kept in a temperature of 95 to 98 de- | this connection it seems to me re- grees F. The shells may be removed | markable that you should sum up from the traps and the unhatched |My character by stating that you eggs given more time .to hatch. should sum up my character by stat- . ing that you felt that the most suit- 1 THRIVE ON RANGE able vocation for' me would be that "The 'poults should be confined un-| of nursing, because 'of the self-con- til they are ten to twelve weeks of tained poise that you say 1 have. age, when 'they should be moved to | gay you were remarkable because a clean range, preferably one of al- for the last 42 years I have been en. falfa, clover or bluegrass and white | gaged at nursing, including 15 years clover. The brooder house should be |i; Canada, and I have acted as ma- moved regularly, to supply green feed tren on several occasions, sometimes and to lessen the chance of contaml- {for fairly long periods. But, though nation, A clean range is-one on which K. I loved the work, and nearly always no -poultry manure has been spread |jgved and sympathized with my pa- and on which no poultry have been |jents, I realise that always, in the -ranged-for two-years. ---- | back of my mind; was a fairly deter- out mined aim to acquire success and money". I have quoted this letter, illustrat- ive as itis of many generous letters that I receive, because it proves be- yond any doubt that Graphology does reveal character, and in many cases also, talent. - Most of my work in connection with my newspaper column is de: voted to helping' to solve per:zonal problems, but it seems to me not inapposite that, now and then, 1 should remind my readers of the scientific basis of this work, . Thais letter brings this out very clearly, more than any words of mine could do--bhecause it is. essentially practs fcal; it deals with an actual case, and thus bring the illustration to the fore in a very personal way. Recalls Days Of Pioneer Church In Western Canada ---- Experiences of 60 years in Alberta were recalled at a church metting at Pincher Creek by Mrs. John Mec- Dougal, wife of John McDougal, pjpneer missionary. of the western plains. At Pincher Creek, she said, the foundation for the great Alberta ranching enterprises were laid. She remembered the first service her hus- band conducted when they establish- ed the first mission post at Morley. They crossed the country from Ed-| it 18 my practice to make a rapid 'ed addressed envelope to: Geoffrey Not so very long ago, a Western reader tried to disguise his hand- writing, obviously in the effort to find out wether I could discern the real from the false, From the point of view of learning something of the accuracy of what we claim for Graph- ology this was perfectly in order. But, this reader went further than that. He had a very serious problem that was causing him a good deal of anx- fety, not unmixed with unhappiness --and he requested my help in solv- ing his problems. Now in this work, in connection with various newspapers, the volume of mail' is so large that is is not pos- sible to give -to each letter the at- tention that it might deserve, and thus, from the graphological" angle, summing up of the various character- istics shown in the writing, and then go on with the particular problem pre- sented in" the letter. 1. don't look for evidence of dis- guise--when a person writes In. to me for a character analysis, 1 take for granted that he is serious, and is being quite fair with me by giving | hig actual normal handwriting, It one had to search every letter to cee it there was ang attempt to disguise the normal "hand, it would take me six months to deal with one week's volume of mail. Happily, cases of this kind.are rare, I am not criticis- ing this particular correspondent: 1 was able to convince him that graph- ology is very helpful and he acknow- ledged this. But I have dealt with the case, in order to urge my read- ers-who write-to me to write always in their normal hand. » LJ . "If -you would like to know what Mr. St. Clair has to say about your character or that of your friends, send specimens. of the writings you wish analysed, stating birthdate in each 'case, Enclose 10c colin for each 'spéc:men and send with 8c stamp. St. Clair, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Ont. All letters will be confidential, , monton by ox-cart in 1873. Building a home beside a lake, work was immediately begun to erect a church, Within two years it had been completed, housing con- gregations of from 400 to 500 In- dians, The \little church still stands near the stone cairn erecter to the emory of the McDougals by the | Southern Alberta Pioneers and Old- Timers' Asscciation, on the main road to Banff, The listeners were told how the McDougal family came west in 1870. RecRev. John and his father, Rev. George McDougal, built the first church in Edmonton, a log structure on a hill overlooking Saskatchewan river, where McDougal Memorial Church now stands. : Time for a Real Five-Year Plan (From the Vancouver Province) The London Times, which views most of the news from Russia with an appraising, austere and somewhat skeptical eye, has just got word of something going on in that country which it regards as really danger- ous. Experiments are going on in Mos- cow, says the Times, the aim of which is to prolong the normal span of human life to 180 years, =. These experiments are going on in the Institute for Experimental Medi- cine. The Times doesn't say what they are, and perhaps it doesn't know. Neither does the Times throw cold water on the ability of the Soviet scientists to produce this! new longevity, What the Times does is to ask embarrassing questions about the consequences if the Soviet scientists should prove successful. What anyone can see, of course, is that if the Bolsheviks discover how to live until they are 180, they will have enough time in which to work a real Five Year Plan, the trouble about the other Five Year The coming of the Mounted Police in 1874 and the railway in 1833 was graphically described by the speaker, wars and one rebellion. Her hus- band was a scout in the Reil rebel- lion in 1885; her son John was in the Boer war and-she had three sons in the Great War when her husband died. = HEALTH MEANS CHARM AND HAPPINESS are not really ill : yet when the Gr day's work is done you are too tired to enter into the good 'times that other women enjoy, Fe Extn energy, : try Lydia B. Pi 's Vegetable Lompound. It tones up your general * health: Gives you more pep--more ¥ I H oe SI R bet that 98 out of 100 emembe, 98 of | it out 'by arithmetic, = "Suppose a man married at 26 and had tou children, and so on,ad absurdum 0 nauseum or infiditim 'as the. cas may be." Then it appears that man of 180 could have 16,384 -- w haven't worked it out ourselves, bu women report Let it help we take the Times' word for it you 100: HH : great - great . great - great - great ' + grandchildren and 21,844 direct de | scendants, 84 of them over 100 year of age. Shs Ty reached fits elimax."" liste No. 29 -- '35 an | will see that it could be chad grown tired Spaikling eyes Plans being obviously that they take speak of Bealth much longer than five years, = ! ahd virality. Cleas 'But the Times mainly. objects to healthy active girl the project of getting people to live is both happy and to be 180 that it would "introduce|. popular, an unreasonable / complexity into} 'erhaps you family affairs." The Times works| children, each of whom had four} SESE Soul 8 ¥i- FT 2 3 ig 'It wou fet 'vonr fancv olay ator thé implications of this project, you indeed, as the Times says it is, "very danger- ous." All the scales and proportions of our human life, as far as the passage of time 'was concerned, would have to extended in relation to this new expectation of individual survival. We should know, if we had a Pattullo government, for instance, that it was in, and we in'for it, of course, not for the statutory limit of five years, but for the new statu- tory limit, which we should have to allow, of about fifteen. There would probably be the con- sequence of a terrible lot of - bad- tempered old people in the world, and there would be a lot of adver- tisements in' the paper, beginning "Life Begins at 84." It wouldn't be a gay prospect for the people who of life, 'despite those advertisements, at 100. On the whole, we shall hope that the In- stitute for Experimental Medicine at Moscow will fall down on the job. The Sewing Machine. After the sewing machine has been thoroughly oiled use a thin blot- ter and stitch a few rows through it to fake away any surplus oil that may have been left around the needle mechanism. : and rorquals. Seventeen Species Seventeen Species Of Whale Stranded E. G. Boulenger, in London Sunday Observer, ; The average individual, who has seldom, if, indeed, ever, seen a stranded whale, may be surprised to learn that between the years 1927 and 1938, 224 of these giant ocean- going mammals were washed ashore on various parts of the Hritish coast. These "landings" 'have been re- corded by F. C. . Fraser, assistant 'keeper in the Department of Zoo- ology in the British Museum of Na- tural History, in a document that is of peculiar interest. Dr. W. T. Calman, the keeper of zoology, points out in a brief in & troduction the difficulties "surround ing the compilation of the report, An arrangement was made by the museum whereby the strandings of whales on the British coast were reported by the receivers of wrecks, Special leaflets and - instructions were provided by the museum and sent to the authorities concerned as soon as a stranding was announced by wire, Often entire specimens or huge fragments were forwarded for identification, and 'casts or other preparations made. > Although. the remains were some- times too battered for recognition, a very large number of species were found to enter home waters. The various maps issued with the report show at a glance which were the most productive "whale. years" and exactly where the various speci- mens ran aground. By far the commonest whale in our sets: is the common porpoise, and during the six years under review 26 specimens gave themselves up. . The great number came to grief off the east coast, which ran aground between Deal and Bexhill one was taken alive and lived to grace the Brighton Aquarium for several months. As in a previous report covering the years 1913-1926, 17 distinct spe- cies of whales are reported, but the species noted in the two periods dif- fer considerably. The recent report mentions, besides the common por- poise, the . white-sided whale, the white-beaked while, the bottle-nos- ed whale, true and false killers, pilot whales, Cuvier's whale and such whalebone whales as the humptbacks The dramatic appearance of these leviathans, while mere curiosities to the average onlooker, is often a mat- ter of importance to the marine bio- logist. For example, there is evidence that in 1033 an exceptional inflow of Atlantic water into the North Sea occurred, brity ing with. it un- precedented swarms of minute plant which: normally occur only in the ' warmer seas of the western oceans. At this samé period a tunicate, or sea squirt, generally associated with In- dian, Mediterranean and Atlantic waters, appeared for the first time in the North Sea, and these appear- ances coincided with that cf large numbers of dolphin. How far the . various whales may be regarded as following food masses or drifting helplessly at the sport of powerful currents does not appear to be de- finitely ascertained, but there is lit- tle doubt that such appearances are not to be dismissed. as mere mat- ters of chance. 3 That much remains to be ascer- tained regarding the movements of whales may be gathered from - the fact that the very rare false Killer, a creature attaining some thirty feet in length was unknown in the living state in home waters until a huge shoal of about 150 individuals became stranded in Dcrnoch Forth during October, 1927, No more was heard of this species until a smaller shoal of some 20 specimens ground- ¢d near Swansea in the summer of lasf year. 700,000 German Babies Undergo ~ Physical Test Berlin. -- More than 700,000 young Germans--war babies. of 1914-1915-- started physical examination recently when the Reich started building its new universal army. . Of the recruits, more than 350,000 were potential soldiers * from the class of 1914 and a similar number labor service men from the class of 1916, The examination was the most rigorous since .pre-war days. A United Press correspondent who watchid the tests at two Berlin centres found 'the young men enthu- wiastic and 'cheerfully undergoing more than half an hour of intense thumping, probing and gymnastics. The officers were highly considerate and the usual army brusqueness "as lacking, ; : A high percentage of physical fit- ness was shown, for example, out of 163 applicants at the two inspec- tions visited, only three were 're- Credentials were closely scru- iia T it on ay oii =» and of gevepal.<- ow > | > «it CIR » 5 da SH a rF 2 [ » TE 8. ¢ k A h< AN » b vo ll + col al A i fis i 4 RA " &