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Nessn A LOG JAM IN A CITY A new Communist library in Parh' Rochester,N.Y., was presen}ed with the unusual situation of having a tightlyâ€"locked jam of logs and deâ€" will contain no books of fairy talesâ€"‘ bris accumulate at one of its downtown bridges during the great floods that have recently been cxperienced in a case of manning "Motherâ€"Goose," the Empire state. . The crowd on the bri‘ge watches civic employees preparing to blow up the obstruction with but keeping "PoppoGander," dynamite. w# § Londonâ€"Crown Prince <Frederik of Denmark arrived in London recently for a week‘s goodwill visit during which be will call on members of the Royal family, and the Prime Minister, and he will be the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Angloâ€" Danish Society. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen the ties beâ€" tween England and Denmark, partiâ€" cularly through the large colony of Danes living here. ’ The source of the Blue Nile, said ‘Najor Cheeseman, is a spring at Gish Abbal in the mountainous district of ‘Sakain, and it soon becomes a conâ€" siderable river which ru* Into Lake iTana. a magnificent inland sea, some | 50 miles long by 40 broad, at an altiâ€" |tude of 6000 feet above sea level. The overfiow issues at the southeast corâ€" ner and becomes in English the Blue Nile er Abbai River. History reâ€" lates that the source of the Blue Nile was first seen by a Portuguose, Pedro Payz in 1613. At one place‘ below the Tisisat Falls, said Major Cheeseman, the gully between solid rocks is only seven feet across, so that it is hard to believe that it is the same river which goes over the falls. The caryâ€" ing of the channel in the solid have rock seemed to â€"some extent to have been â€" caused by the revolving of large pebbles in pot holes from the force of the stream in flood time. ' In theâ€"valiey bottom the river in places has cut for itself a narrow gorge, so that often the water cannot ‘be seen except from the edge of the gorge. There are thus three distinct valleysâ€"â€"a small winding channel !the selfâ€"cut ravine, and the gigantic main valley. The river falls into this valley at Tisisat and cannot get out till i@Wemerges from the last mounâ€" tain range at Siribantiâ€"350 miles lower down. Resembles an English Stream Thence to the Sudan the river flows through undulating country with forest clad hills, The tributaries of the Abbai form a continual obstacle race to the traveler who is constantâ€" ly passing up and down these chasms. So ardous is this that at times a forâ€" ward march of a mile a day makes good going. The river in parts reâ€" sembles an English downland stream. The banks are thickly lined with wilâ€" lows, there are meadows with grazing cattle, wheat and barley fields, and Abyssinian villages, while there is a delightful temperate climate all the vyear round. Owing to continual cataracts the whole of this portion of the river was bhardly a practical proposition by boat and on many stretches there was no track for animals, It was estimated that owing to the speed of the stream and the rocky nature of the bed_silt gathered en route was all washed down to the lower reaches. At Tisisat the river hurls itself qver & precipice some 200 feet high, makâ€" ing a ‘magnificent waterfall. _ Below this fall the river enters a ravine which increases mile by mile until it is a huge, rugged valley, some six to ter miles across and with mountains towering some 6000 feeé on either side. Magnificent Waterfall Maujor Cheeseman‘s party consisted of an Abyssinian clerk, an official sent by one of the native chiefs, a Sudanese noncommissioned _ officer, two police and a Sudanese cook. These were all mounted on mules. â€" In addtâ€" tion to these, he had 15 muleteers to look after the 30 mules, a head muleâ€" teertwo mail runners and a cook‘s boy heip. He found it easier to see the river from the bank than from a boa*t, owing to the numerous catarâ€" acts. Londonâ€""It is a strange thing," parting legacy. Then Doctor Melville sald Major Cheeseman, speaking to stretched out his hand and picked it the membere of the Royal Geographiâ€" up, scrutinizing the bony horror with cal Society about the upper waters of professional interest. the Blue Nile, known as the Abbai,! "The second finger of a man‘s left "that the upper reaches of one of the hand," he pronounced judicially. "And most famous rivers of the world by the absence of gouty lesions in the should have been so long neglected."|joints, I should say that the man was On the maps these are markéd by a|youngish. He must have been dead dotted line, indicating uncertainty. for quite a long time." Aceurate maps and firstâ€"hand accounts| Kathleen Glenister, sitting next the are equally unobtainable. doctor, leaned over and gently took Upper Waters Of the Nile Are British Officer Speaks of Their Wonders to Geaâ€" graphical Society Danish Prince in England To Be Explored "What has the Home Office got to do with it?" Sir Dudley demanded with a note of defiance. "Quite possibly nothing at all, but a good deal if the body from which the crow pecked that gruesome relic is discovered." "You will be taking sttps to have this cleared up," he suavely remarked as though it were a matter of course. "If my influence with the Home Office can be of any service to you, Glenâ€" ister, pray command me." U The neighboring squires and the sporting person bade their host good day. Mr. Stephen Coine‘s farewells were elaborate. "Let me have a squint at the thing," he said dully. _ The grisly horror was passed along the table. "‘That‘s the Glenister crest all right â€"the twoâ€"headed gryphon," he said. "But it doesn‘t follow that this is George‘s ring, or that, if it was, this is George‘s finger." The tension was broken by Sir Dudâ€" ley, who had not appeared to notice the scrutiny bent on him. His gaze had been riveted on the skeleton finger. The only exceptions to the ocular battery aimed at Sir Dudley Glenister were Lady Marrables, who munched a peach in perfect unconcern, and Docâ€" tor Wiloughby Melville, who seemed to be absorbed in introspection. With varying degrees of directness, the eyes of nearly all present were turne on the man ,who, whether George Genister had died near or far, had so enormously benefited by his death. ‘ CHAPTER II. THE "DARK SECRET." ‘The silence which followed Kathâ€" leen‘s assertion was a tribute to its obvious good sense. The inference that since the crow could not have carried the fleshless finger from the other side of the Atlantic, its owner must have died within range of the bird‘s flight, could not be gainsaid. "I thought so," she said in her deep| YOU Appear to want." contralto. "That is my brother‘s sign-. ‘"Now you are being a dear," Kathâ€" et ring, with the Glenister crest. The leen received her swain back into bird could not have brought it four or favor. "Of course, I don‘t expect the five thousand miles from America.|impossible. You could not ferret out George must have been killed much Dudley‘s dark secret singleâ€"handed, nearer home." lany more than I could myself. But I Kathleen Glenister, sitting next the doctor, leaned over and gently took the finger from a grasp which, after a moment‘s surprised resistanc*, yielded. Sir Dudley Glenister, English barâ€" onet, recently come into the title through the death of a cousin, James Glenister, royally entertains som* friends at a hunt and picnic on his estate. There while preparing lunchâ€" A crow flies dirécrtlivr(;;vé;ge;:i':â€";nd when one of the party takes a potâ€" sb?‘t; at t:hg bihgd, it drops its plund*®râ€" Plop into the centre -o-fwtfi:.&‘i.ning table. Coming to rest it confesses itself to be the fleshless finger of a man. Save for an affected little scream from Mrs. Coningsby, a silence of some ten seconds greeted the crow‘s parting legacy. Then Doctor Melville stretched out his hand and picked it up, scrutinizing the bony horror with professional interest. The outside shooting guests having NOW GO ON wWITH THE sToRY CHAPTER I.â€"(Cont‘d.) BEGIN HELL TODAY Rochester But it is one thing to propose and another to dispose when the spectre of murder has started walking about the countryside. The host of Beechwood Grange was seen no more during the afternoon, and when at last he had to meet his guests at dinner he was in a black mood which forbade any referâ€" ence to the episode at the picnic lJinch. He took a good deal of wine and bu!â€" lied the s®rvants. Nevertheless, when dessert had been placed on the table and the servants had left the room, Kathleen tackled him with a directâ€" ness that drew Willoughby Melvilie‘s bushy brows together in a thoughtful frown. "I suppose, Cousin Dudley, that you are going to have a search made?" "Search? What for?" The young people had resumed their walk now. "I noticed every inflection of his voice, every shade on his face," Kathleen said. "It is quite clear to me what has to be proved. Dudley inâ€" veigled George home from America on some pretext entailing secrecy, and murdered him. Then with the most diabolical cunning he must have manufactured the evidence that deâ€" ceived the family solicitors." "Sound reasoning," Norman agr®ed. "I shall insist, under threat of callâ€" ing in the police, that all the men on the estate are turned out to search for the body. We will see how he takes it." ; departed, . the house party grouped ‘itself for the walk home through the coverts. _ Doctor Melville, who had obtained permission to keep the finger, fell in at the side of his hos¢, to whom also Mrs. Coningsby attached herself. Norman Slater and Kathleen brought up the rear, by mutual consent lagâ€" ging behindâ€"out of earshot. The girl‘s face was sot and hard. am afraid of my cousin, and I may be in danger, Norman, when he dis covers that I am going to leave no stone unturned to detect his crime. I shall f*el more secure if someone I can trust knows of the task I have set myself, and of my cowardly fears." "If that is the way you look at it, I am with youâ€"up to the neck. Not that there‘s any cowardice in you that there‘s any cowardice about you, Katty. One hates fuss, but one couldn‘t help smelling a rat, don‘t you know. Dudley didn‘t strike me as facing the music with an air of comâ€" plete innocence. A mixture of bluff and funk, eh?" "Behold me, then, as bright as they make ‘em," replied Norman earnestly. "At least," he added the saving clause, "I will reflect your brightness by doâ€" ing whatever you wish. You must remember that I am a soldier by trainâ€" ingâ€"not a detective, which is what you appear to want." ‘"Now you are being a dear," Kathâ€" he is lying unburied somewhere in these woods." Kathleen halted in the woodland path and laid her hand on his sleeve. "Look here, my friend," she said, "I like you very much, and 1 admire your honesty and proved couwrage. But if there is one thing I can‘t abide it is stupidity. If you are going to be stupid, 1 shall not only cease to like you, but I shall have no use for you â€"in any capacity, mind." "I have thought all along that therc was foul play," she said. "Now I know it. My brother didn‘t die in America. Dudley murdered him, and ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO lying unburied somewhere in Suffers From Floods _ Manchester Guardian (Lib.): The expulsion of Trotsky from the Comâ€" munist party of the Soviet Union marks the last stage in the fight beâ€" tween the successors of Lenin #ince the death of the leader of the Comâ€" munist revolution. For Trotsky it has been a losing fight from the first. His original onslaught against the growth of bureaucracy and the steroâ€" typing of Communist policy was deâ€" feated by the combined efforts of the rest of the "Old Guard," and even when he was joined by somo of the reâ€" pentant victors the new "Opposiâ€" tion" were no match for Stalin, who outmanoeuvred them in a inanner worthy of the best traditions of the American "boss." Minard‘s Liniment for Grippe. "Well, Richardson?" he went on as the typical bluecoated boor stood in the doorway. "Come about that finger?" "Begging your pardon, Sir Dudley, that‘s about the size of it," the serâ€" geant replied. "Of course," said Gienister acably. "Do you want to take it away and have an inquest on it " ‘"There is not enough remains for an inquest, sir,‘ said the sergeant solemnly. "But it is my duty to take it away." "The police sergeant from the vilâ€" lage has called, Sir Dudley, and would be glad if you could spare him a minâ€" ute," he announced. Sir Dudley ground out an oath. "Ask him to step in here, Hinkley," he said. "‘Thank you, Dudiey," she said.â€" "I hope the result will be a relief to you as well as to me." »The interchange was curtailed by the entry of the butler. "If it will give you any comfort, I will have the woods gone through with a smalltooth comb," Sir Dudley anâ€" sw*red, forcing a smile. "Personally I don‘t see much use in looking at Beechwood for something which the High Court has pronounced to be burâ€" ied at Lone Wolf City, Montana." reply. Speaking generally, manufacturâ€" ing industries, thrive; textile mills are fully employed; iron and steel operators continue to face strong competition from abroad as an inâ€" creasing volume of iniports attests; the lumber trade shows a slight imâ€" provement; newsprint output inâ€" creases; production of footwear is larger and the industry is in better state; the manufacture of motor cars has slightly diminished, but in the first nine months of the year 161,583 cars were turned out, havâ€" ing a value of $105,179,000 or pracâ€" tically the same as in the like period of last year, though the number of cars was 700 less. ‘ "For Trade conditicns in Canada durâ€" ing the year have been active, and while there is still keen competition in many lines, balance sheets genâ€" erally show satisfactory profits. Manifold â€"evidence supports this statement. Bank debits, g:nk clearâ€" ings, bank deposits, car loadings, railway gross earnings, imports, note circulation and lower mercanâ€" tile mortality all reveal that the tide of business has risen during the year. Sir Vincent Meredith, President, and Sir Frederick Williamsâ€"Taylor, General Manager, in their addresses, stressed the rapid strides that Canâ€" ada was making but struck a warnâ€" 1ing note against possible over specuâ€" ation. * The annual meeting of the Bank of Montreal brought to a close a year in which the Bank had enjoyed almost record growth. Sir Vincent Meredith in his adâ€" dress, said in part: The Fall of Trotsky my brother‘s body," (To be continued.) of Montreal Annual Meeting the | Minard‘s Liniment for Neuraigla. t! It is saidl that when be was in Paris he was seen one day holding the broom of a crossing sweeper. It was in the days before street cleanâ€" ing departments were . established. Men or boys commanded certain street corners, which they kepi clean to permit passage over the street, and therefore expecied a graiuity. Liszt found himself witheut change ard, pot wanting to forget the streeiâ€" sweeper, held his broom while (he fellow went off to change a fiveâ€" franc coin. When he returned, 14szt handed over the broom and gave the boy his tip. The munificence of Liszt was well known. He discovered the fun of givâ€" ing early in life, and there were litâ€" erally thousands whd had reason to be grateful to the famous pianist for his charity. s "The amount of potash *n sight‘ may be said to be that underlying a strip three miles wide by six miles long. _ Within the solable layer this strip contains 23,000,000 tons of potasâ€" sinm oxide and in the polyhalite layâ€" ers about $4,000,006 tons. _ A* present the United States consumption is 250,000 tons of potassium oxide per annum, For this rate of consumpâ€" tion the foregoing will suffice for 250 year." "With an oil field within a few miles, and the fact that solar evaoration is very easily carried out in the dry and rarefied atmosphere of the Texas high plaing, it is seen that the cost of proâ€" duction should be moderate. Facilities in Nearby City ‘"The industry will also be helped by the fact that the oil industry has developed the nearby City of Odessa so that power, supplies, labor, etc., may all be readily and cheaply obâ€" tained there. [Potash Enough l For 250 Years | Found in Texas | _ I have referred to the past year as the most exmm.‘ivc in the country‘s commercial history. That Canadians have experienced a greater degree of individual prosperity than ever before is, I think, undisputed. The high general level of employment, and the enhanced spending power of the people, are attributable to a sucâ€" cession of geood harvests and to a |great broadening of the basis of | production. Until a few years ago Canada was best known abroad as an agricultural country, and outside capital sought investment here chiefly in government and municipal issues and in railway building to provide transportation for an everâ€" increasing agriculturel area. Today most of the largely increased capital eoming in for investment is for inâ€" dustrial development. It is now fully recognized that Canada has the natural resources for the building up of a vast variety of indigenous industries, and is fitted by the charâ€" acter and spirit of her population to take an increasingly important 'phce among the industrial nations of the world. The search for the compound in this field was begun by J. A. Udden, of the University of Texas. He sus.â€" pected the presence of potash, beâ€" cause here, just as in Germany, there was once a Permanian Sea which had been cut off from the res* of the ocean and has evaporated in dryness. "Weil Cuttings" Found Wdden found potash minerals in ‘well cuttings‘ in the area. His pionâ€" eering work was completed by the United States Geological Survey, "These deposits will naturally be mined like coal," the two professors report. "The produc{sâ€"sulphates of potassium, sodium and magnesiumâ€" have a different market value from the chlorides. Austin, Tex.â€"Poiash deposits large enough to supply America‘s needs for 250 years have been discovered in western Texas, Dr. H. E. Sellards and Dr, E. P. Schoch, of the University of Texas, have reported to the American Chemical Society. In the past the United States has depended on Gorâ€" many for potash. Deposits Contain Magnesium, Solium and Sulphates of Potassium, Professors Tell Chemical Society earning power and liquid strength of resources, our position continues highly satisfactory. Never have we been {)etter prepared to care for all the normal nee& of the public and to meet any business or financial exigency. I see no reason why an abatement of confidence in the continuance of these prosperous conditions need be apprehended. Sir Frederick Williamsâ€"Taylor, in acdressing the shareholders, said in ower, Labor and Necessary Supplies to be Had from Odessa, â€" Report Points Out Oil Town Near New Find In two fundamental respects, Liszt‘s Kindness The on‘ly difference betw ism and _ChrisGar Scion Stoicism recognizes the on The North Sea phantom has an peared, according to its growing *o goend, several times since then, ca~} time nlqhe precursor of i fortgne t« the bekoider. She is said to be a «mal warship or again a rusty freighter, : battered schooner or a small seaâ€"wort liner. But however â€"he is reported North Sca «ailormen helieve she bodcs no good. When the raider‘s attack hbegan stranger was still with the com When the enemy had been driven the stranger had vanisched as mys jiously as she had appeared. The X Rose was lost in the skirmish. Uther oincers#on th conhkimed the ramber, seen the thirteenth ship vay. One moment there sparkling behind the twe next the stranger was & with the rest, a somewh: whose name had been . by long service at sea not be made out. The North Sea has a Flying Duichâ€" marn of its ownâ€"a sort of ghost ship whose appearance is superstitiously regarded by sailors as an omen of i}l fortunc, if not of death, to the beâ€" holder, Jt was first reported by a Britâ€" ish war convoy that left a Norwegian port in November, 1917, Lieut Comâ€" mander Fox of the Mary Rose counted iwelce ships as they passed out of sight of land. Later an enemy raidor attackecs the convoy. When Comâ€" mander Fox counted the convoy again there were thirtcen. The Ghost Ship Of the North Sea With adequate safeguards protectâ€" ing the two sections of the province where smallpox is most probableâ€"in the schools and in the luamberâ€"camps â€"eficient organization and prompt measures on the part of one of the four district health officers, whenever a case breaks out, have resulted in the cutting down of the number of cases in New Brunswick to the absoâ€" lute minimum. ‘ "It is impossible for an epidemic of emallpox to make &any headway in }lhlu province," A. M. Belding, editor of tho St. John ‘Telegraphâ€"Journal, said â€" recently, _ "If memory serves, ‘thero was only one case of smallpox in New Brunswick last year and it came from another province." The ‘exact reason for this fortmâ€" nate siaie of affairs goes back more than a quarter century. Some twenty» fixe or thirty years ago, smallpox broke out in none of the New Brunsâ€" wick countles. It gained consider able headway and before it was over, it was obvious to the heads of the Provincial Government thai the finanâ€" cial loss involved was going to make serious inroads on the treasury. In fact, it was finally necessary for the province to issue a bond to cover the losses which New Bruns wick sustained as a result of this emallpox outbreak. At that time, however, there was no effectivelyâ€"organized Department of Public lealth and fow active heaith boards. The state of affairs at that time is an interesting contrast with condiâ€" tions in New Brunswick to«day. The lumber camps used to be fruitâ€" ful sources of trouble and at times, could develop into real hotbeds of smallpox. _ Now, however, the operg ator of each camp is resporsible l‘fi all costs connected with any outbreal of smallpox among his men for the financial outlay involved in stamping out the disease. These camps were formerly dange; spots but this method has almost com pletely eliminated the risk. As far as children are concerned, their protection is dealt with under the Public Health Act of 1917, in which it is stated that all children must be vaccinated before entoring school. In view of the present situation across the Dominion, information on the methods employed by the Provinâ€" clal Health Department of Now Brunswick, are very timely. can be kept under control, has fom; it into the background, to a degree, and thus contributed to the attitudn of neglect as far as preveniive meaâ€" sures are concerned and the growth of an unprotected population. To a considerable extent, these inâ€" termittent revivals of a disease which can be utterly subdued, are due, in the opinion of officlals of the Canadian Social Hygiene Council, to a carelessâ€" ness on the part of the average citlâ€" zen, as far as vaccination is concernâ€" ed. Prompt measures in the past, by oficial health bodies, have served to eliminate the oldâ€"time horrors of the disease when epidemics ravaged elties and nations unchecked. â€" But the fact that smalilpox has changed from the terror of the hou hold to an infectious discase whi clare, offâ€"hand, the fall and early winâ€" ter of 1927 has been marked by sporâ€" adic outbreaks of smallpox in widelyâ€" scattered sootlons of the Dominion. For sor authorities Thorough and Strict Enforceâ€" ment of Existing Laws Has ClearedUp Smallâ€" NEW BRUNSWICK FREE Vaccination in N. B. some reason which health pox Situation on the Mary U {t] t ru n th 1t« n Ip ha AJ ift e