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o | Y ehamber of ¥ 3 «Pt ATLL « FEES PRA £3 ry hb a £ Y, SRE I I PS Ra Lok 3 i. LY : keen : 7 ' A ' Mystery Writer Turned Defective One day in December, 1893, a number of people in London went around with black bands = ~tled to 'their hats. "They "were mourning the death of someone who had never lived! At the end of a story in the 'Strand Magazine' a detective called Sherlock Holmes had been pushed over a precipice if Switzerland by the arch-crim- inal Professor Moriarty. The character of Holmes was so or- iginal and endearing that read- ers felt they had lost a real friend. : Meanwhile Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Holmes, was in Switzerland, faced with a real tragedy. His wife Louise was gravely ill with TB. Doc- tors gave her only a few months to live, but the sunshine and good air of Davos might pro- long her life for a time. In fact, she lived some years, Doyle had a house built in the healthy district of Hindhead. ~ May 22nd was the hundredth anniversary of Conan Doyle's birth. The Holmes stories weve only a small part of his writing, and writing was far from the whole of his life. An Irishman by descent, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University. Before qualifying h took a vacation job as surgeon on a whaler in the Arctic. In 1882 he began practice on his own in Southsea. Over six feet tall, he weighed 210 pounds without any superfluous flesh. He loved all sports. He was a cricketer of nearly first-class- standard, a boxer, a player of both soccer and rugby football. And he found time to read vor- aciously on many subjects and to write a number of articles and short stories. He once enter- ed for a literary competition in Tit-Bits -- but did not win. In 1887 he published a short novel called "A Study In Scar- let." It was not very good and attracted "little attention, but it was memorable for the first ap- pearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr, Watson. In the next few years Doyle was mainly engaged in preparing and writing works which he val- ued more highly than the Holmes stories -- two historical novels called "Micah Clarke" and "The White Company." But a few quickly written short stories about Holmes, when they appeared in the 'Strand,' were so praised by readers that the editor begged for another six. Doyle was a little tired of iF BIGGEST CATCH -- The big one that someday won't get away. will never loom so large in the eyes of Randy Roberts. His first catch is a little three-inch pike. Sherlock _. Holmes already. He decided to ask $250 for each story, sure that the editor would say the fee was impossible, But the terms were agreed by return of post! Doyle soon gave up medicine. Apart from his writing there was travel and political activity," He ~ stood twice, unsuccessfully, for Parliament, He made a triumpn- ant lecture tour of America, he went to the Sudan as a war correspondent. In the Boer War he served as a civilian doctor, working hero- ically in terrible conditions. Re- | turning, he wrote a powerful defence of British policy in South Africa, and soon afterwards he was knighted. But the years that followed were not altogether happy for Conan Doyle. There was the worry about his wife's health; and he was torn between his loyalty to her and his love for a younger woman, Jean Leckie. This attachment remained pla- tonic while his wife lived; but in 1907 he and Jean were married. Outwardly his "life had been successful. He was probably the best-selling British writer of his time. In 1901 - 02 the 'Strand' pub- lished as a serial "The Hound Of The Baskervilles," the best of the Sherlock Holmes long stor- ies. Conan Doyle insisted that this book belonged to an earlier period than the last short story about Sherlock Holmes, in which the famous detective had been killed off by his author, who had grown thoroughly sick of him. "He is at the foot of the Reich- enbach Falls and there. he stays," he replied to inquiring readers. But at last he yielded to popu- lar demand, and to an offer of $5,000 a story from an American magazine. In the first of a new series of tales, the detective's apparent death was cleverly ex- plained away. For another twenty-five years Holmes and Watson continued to delight readers of two gen- erations. From his late forties onwards, Doy'e's chief activities were out- side literature. In two great achievements the master of mys- _ tery fiction proved himself a ~ real-life detective. He played the leading part in righting the wrongs done to George Edalji and Oscar Slater. Edalji was a Staffordshire solicitor of Indian Descent, who was sentenced in 1903 to seven years' penal servitude for many acts of cattle-maiming. After three years he was released without explanation and without pardon. As a discharged convict under police supervision he could not practise his profession. A friend drew Conan Doyle's attention to the case. Examining the records, Doyle found shock- ing instances of irregularity in the police investigation, and incompetence on the part of the magistrate. For eight months, abandoning all other work and paying his own expenses, he de- voted himself to establishing the truth. He discovered five lines of in- quiry which the police had ne- glected. All pointed away. from Edaljji. and+ Doyle summarized them in a newspaper article which provided conclusive evi-. dence against the real criminal. The authorities refused to prose- cute, but the Law Society re- stored Edalji to the roll of soli- citors. 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Johns, institute director. * * * In controlled experiments, conditions where milking ma- chines had been neglected wera simulated. Although the lye so- lution was used at only one- quarter the usual strength, the milk showed an astonishingly low bacterial count after just two weeks. To be satisfied that the re- sults were representative of those on ordinary dairy farms, officials arranged to exchange the test unit with one belonging to a local milk producer who had been getting high bacterial counts. LJ * * They discovered that all parts of the farmer's unit were dirty. It had been stored com- pletely assembled in a crock of cold water between milkings. Filling the teat-cup assemblies with 0.5 per cent lye solution between milkings had a dram- atic effect. Within three days the -bacterial count had been brought down to a low level. * * * Dr. Johns points out that one drawback to the use ol lye solution is that in hard water areas it tends to build up a deposit of mineral salts on sur- faces of the equipment. While it may not affect the bacterial count of the milk, it is unsighly and undesirable. * * * In England, the National In- stitute for Research in Dairy- "ing has introduced the use of a chelating agent such as Versene in a lye solution to prevent the deposition of calcium and other hard-water salts. The same method was tried out at St. Mary's Ont, and in consequence, one distributor of sanitation chemicals is prepar- ing to market a product in which the chelating agent is incorporated. * + * Eggs from: early maturing, full fed pullets are usually small and sometimes the in- crease in size is discouragingly slow. . oe LI At the Harrow, Ont, Federal Research Station, experiments have shown that restricted feeding results in: --Fewer small eggs. --Increased production. -- Lower laying house mor- tality. * * LJ A 20 per cent feed reduction is recommended. More than this can be dangerous unless poultry- men pay extra attention to the birds. One pitfall is that most chick feeds contain drugs to control coccidiosis and to reduce feed means to cut down protection. ISSUE 26 -- 1959 Compensation should be made. In times of added stress, such 'as sickness, change of housing or vaccination, the pullets should receive extra feed. LJ * * Further, young chicks on a restricted diet need extra warmth, They tend to huddle otherwise, and this has a weak- ening effect. Hoppers should be plentiful enough so that every bird can feed at one time, and a better distribution is effected if there are two feedings daily. Pastures should be mowed frequently to supply a succulent supplement to diet. J * * When the pullets are housed, feed should be restored gradu- ally. Pendulous crops, thought to be caused by birds gorging themselves, are sometimes seen. While the pullets may be disap- pointing in appearance, it takes only two weeks or so on full feed and under good laying house management for all birds to reach a mature, ready-to-lay state. First Aid For Patchy Lawns It's time to face the facts -- those bald spots on the lawn won't disappear by wishful thinking. But a little grass seed and fertilizer can transform even the most moth-eaten lawn into a velvety carpet. - The first thing to do is rough- en up the bare patches with a rake to provide a good bed for seeding. Now sprinkle the grass seed generously over the rough- ened earth and tap it down with the back of the rake or hand. This brings the seed in close con- tact with the moist soil and en- courages even germination. Fine soil sprinkled lightly over the freshly seeded patch comes next, and then water. Peat moss can be used as a top covering to pre- vent too rapid drying of the soil. * Nothing can grow without the proper food and grass is no ex- ception. Give it an extra boost with fertilizer. Fertilizer should be applied while the grass blades are dry thus it's best to choose a bright sunny day for the job. In midsummer when the wea- ther is very hot it is wise to water the grass well after apply- ing fertilizer. ' Don't count on being free of falling leaves until the autumn. The odd one will be trickling down all season so have a lawn broom' handy' to keep the lawn tidy. Be careful, though, when raking not to dig the prongs into the ground or the grass roots will be damaged. the restricted . PARKA'S perfect when it's 12 above zero, but not now. Spy's Best Pal Was a Poodle There's one certain way of paying all expenses and neces- sary bribes in order to smuggle anyone through the Iron Curtain out of Czechoslovakia -- and that is to smuggle in drugs. Chloro- form, streptomycin, penicillin -- they are Ythe contraband that really counts. With a phial of such stuff a man can buy any- thing he wants. That was the advice give by one "in the know" to Donald Campbell - Shaw when, in Jan, 1950, he embarked on an amaz- ing cloak-and-dagger adventure to get his sister-in-law, her hus- band and their little daughter out of Prague, under the noses of the Communists, to freedom. How hae pulled off his dramatic gamble against death -- without {indulging in any drug-smuggling -- is thrillingly told by himself in "Pimpernel In Prague." He did investigate the drugs racket, however, and he discov- ered that the amount of chloro- mycetin he would have needed. to cover every possible expense for his hazardous adventure was *. .. a doxen doses. "All over Bri- tain there are people who have been given this drug for pneu- monia in much more plentiful quantities without any charge whatever," he says. "On re- covering most people throw away the surplus as dangerous to keep. Yet that surplus would buy three human lives!" Antibiotics are a currency in Communist countries, passed from hand to hand the way cigarettes were use on the black market in Europe at the end of the war. Eventually someone will buy them to give to a des- perately ill relative or friend. But by then, says the author, they are either stale or have been adulterated to increase the quantity. "I heard of some babies in a Czech clinic who were treat- ed with streptomycin ostensibly pure and. obtained through the smuggling ring. The babies died in agony from the injection of what had been turned into a virulent poison by the racketeers in this foul business." He adds that the authorities in Britain seem quite unaware of the vast traffic in N.H.S. drugs across the Iron Curtain through the mail -- naturalized Britons sending spare tablets and cap- sules to their relatives. "It is a strange thought that some peni- cillin prescribed for a sore throat in Manchester, and paid for by the British taxpayer, may event- ually help in-the recovery of a Communist politician in a satel- lite country. ..." In his gripping book, the au- thor reveals smuggling and spy- LAKES AND RIVERS, heavily banked with trees, provide game fish with clean water, cool temperatures, proper food. When fire ravages a watershed, good fishing takes a long holiday. Please, be care- ful with all forms of fire. Pre- vent forest fires. DUCK SOUP FOR PUPS - Puppy ys fx x at the Animal Welfare Society shelter plays ring-around-the-washtub with grounded ducks. ing methods practised in Central Europe, in which dogs are used. For long distance the Hungar- fan kuvasz, a sheepdog, is ideal because it can carry consider- able loads concealed in its long, woolly fur, For short distances poodles are best. -- for two rea- ons. First, the poodle is one of the most intelligent dogs in the world, Secondly, he produces very little scent. Says the au- thor: "A poodle can pass up- wind of a police dog on the fron- tier without betraying himself by scent." He adds a rather sombre note. The training of the dogs is very cruel. They are ill-treated from puppyhood by men wearing all kinds of uniform and jackboots, the universal sign of the Cen- tral European policeman, so that jackboots become the symbol of pain to the dog until he will not approach even his own master if he is wearing them. "In practice each dog has two masters -- one each side of the frontier. The dog is fed on alter- nate days in either home. At first he is carried and later led from one to the other. Quickly he learns the food rhythm and with- out orders will leave one house at night in order to reach the other for breakfast." Grisly Relics The late Sir Edward Marshall Hall, a bdrrister celebrated for his oratory, was a spectacular figure in many of the greatest murder trials at the Old Bailey. Seddon, the poisoner, "Brides in the Bath" Smith, the Green Bi- cycle mystery, were all cases in which he played a leading role. During thirty years of advo- cacy he made a practice of col- lecting souvenirs. One of these was a painting of Sir Edward himself, made in Brixton Prison in 1907, by Robert Wood who was accused of the Camden Town murder, & particularly brutal crime in which a woman's throat was cut so savagely that she was almost decapitated. Marshall Hall brilliantly de- fended Wood, and when he se- cured an acquittal there were cheers in court taken up by huge crowds yn ? Wood himself, while in prison, had been. connected with another relic. Under prison regulations he was not allowed to shave with an open razor, but had to use a safely type. The last person to use It before him was Raynor, who was tried for the murder of William Whiteley the "Uni- versal Provider." Last year workmen digging in the grounds of a villa at Ver- nouillet, near Versailles, found a skeleton. The villa itself was a relic because it had once been occupied by Landru the French Bluebeard, who was guillotined thirty-six years ago for the mur- der of at least ten women. The French police wondered whether they had found the relics of an- other victim. DEFINITION The fourth graders were studying words, and after anal- ysis of the word "miracle," teacher asked Johnny to explain by example. "Well, my mamma says," Johnny replied, "that the way you are chasing the new school principal, it'll be a miracle if you don't marry him." B.A, B.D. A Natlon Under God Deuteronomy 7:6-11; 8:17:19; 11:1, Memory Selection: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his command- ments, alway. Deuteronomy 11:1, The thirteen lessons for the summer quarter when most peo- ple are taking vacations, are al- most entirely independent of each other. Except for the first two lessons, each is from a sepa- rate book. The messages of some of these books as Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Obadiah and Ze- chariah, are not as familiar to many people. This can be a very profitable study for us all. God had to make choice of some nation by which His Son would come to this world. He chose Abram of Ur of the Chal. dees to be the father of that spe- cial people. He said to him, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." Genesis 22:18. The Old Testamept is writtes by men of the Hebrew nation. Ix the first eleven chapters of the Bible we have the story of tht beginning of the world and it nations But beginning with th last verses of the 11th chaptet the story of Abram and his fam: fly begins. From there on iw Old Testament centers aroun this people. Other nations ar mentioned as their activities ot judgments relate to the Hebrewa The poetry and prophecles af well as the history are the work of this people. Truly, we are in: debted to the Hebrews. Strange to say, thls very peo« ple do not accept the New Testa« ment as God's Word, though practically all of it was written by the descendants of Abram, The nation, officially, did not believe that Jesus who was born the ged ft Abraham, accords e ng to t esh, was the Mes- ajah. The sybsequent history the people Is a great lesson all natlons, Within, forty years thelr land was overrun by the Roman armies and they were scattered. Their persecutions and sufferengs have been terrible, even within our memory. Only within the last 40 years have they regained a foothold as a nation in their own land. Moses set before them a blessing and a curse; a curse if they obeyed not the commandments of the Lord. We believe better days are coming for this people. May they, come soon! Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking MV.LELY NZ SENLIN| ans Javasllod ALL TAVANINOW £72 d /lv|aldio 2H LIVE]! d dV S|olv|| Vi2ld|s Al7|Z IN d3LISH2 3Hllg|00| Ls S 3INO|LS-L/SIN SI2IN|7|HSIS|a| TY 2Z[1 kdl 3 an? MOH AVId 3 [O|OME LIZ 2Ms a DOG'S BEST FRIEND -- los Angeles announcer Hugh Douglas speaks for the canine world. His is the voice of Skippy seated next to him, top, appearing in the film, "Visit to a Small Plomet," and that of a shaggy TV pitchman, bottom, inn. - ---- oo By Rev R. Barclay Warten