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either the drug, morphipe, ¢p t -gator.t m«‘ficino y‘fi'u goy you éve?; akcf ministering had been found at the autopsy, your story might carry more weight. But no traces of those subâ€" 'i:.ws appeat in Ke report of the Sperating surgeons. If yéu suspected Miss Turner, why didn‘t you accuse k{ xt ofn?" s 1 told you," Nan spoke with difficulty. "I didn‘tâ€"I don‘t exactly aus herâ€"1I can only sayâ€"I don‘t dipr:;truthr. lho’od,illthrew‘ away all the morphine and all the eurative pellets, it would never be known that my husband indulged in drugs at all. 1 am sensitive about his "MVe book telling about poisons and their antidotes.. As I read it, I beâ€" €ame convinced that Mr. Raynor was regularly taking arsenic into his sysâ€" tem. 1 thought first of suicideâ€"then I began to suspect Miss Turner of knowing something about it." "And that explains, you think, the whole matter of the arsenic poisonâ€" JIng?" "Don‘t you think set" "Frankly, 1 do not. I still thinkâ€" pardon my brutal plainnessâ€"that all this is a fabrication of your own. First, poison pellets were found hidâ€" ".~ in a vase in your bedroom. Again, * SmIUR iNc principai reason was, I feared he would attribute the conâ€" «itions to the pellets 1 had been givâ€" ing himâ€"and I knew those were barmlessâ€"for 1 had had them analyzâ€" ed by an expert chemist. So Iâ€"I really don‘t know how 1 came to think ef poison, but I did, and I bought a Hittle book tellin® shankt uniaams‘ sw «hi al o4 th mA get the drug t} 1 had to hide i when ho could? eame almost 1i tured me until ] again." "THE GIRL‘S NA) HAVE BEEN MiISS ~ 1( her closely, " people merry that soon it would becon able habit. Somebody t eureâ€"it was warranted tried it on Mr. Raynor that if ;% didn‘t eure hi him no harm. And, tooâ€" youâ€"1I don‘t want to unutterably eruel he w €laim b tells D Douglas Raynor is found shot through the heart in the early evening en the floor of the sun room of Flower Aeres, his Long Island home. Standing ever the dead man, pistol in hand, is Malcolm Finley, former sweetheart of t Raynor‘s wife, Naney. Eva Turner,| Raynor‘s nurse, stands by the light | switch. In a moment Naney appears,| whiteâ€"faced and terrified. Orville Kent,r? Nancy‘ brother, comes in from the |} south side of the room. And then Ezra c Goddard, friend of Finley; Miss Mat-it tie, Raynor‘s sister, and others, enter ¢ upon the scene. Detective Dobbins , heads the police investigation. An!, autopsy reveals that Raynor also was | being systematically poisoned with|" arsenic. Lionel Raynor, son of Dougâ€" |® las Rayno: by first marriage. comes to| ecretly taking on it would be BEGIN HERE TODAY. hated Dougla ike a m 1 had to tha ‘emed to indicate s radically wrong. ansemic, was short ubject to intense hese things to Miss d 1 imagined them moment Nancy appears,|"*‘ d terrified. Orville Kent, | u4 er, comes in from the ing he room. And then Ezra or d of Finiey; Miss Matâ€" | ber sister, and others, enter | eys ne. . Detective Dubbms‘,vi. lice investigation. An on‘s s that Raynor also was it itically poisoned with,m * ‘1 Raynor, son of Dougâ€" ©!* first marriage, comes to D r‘s estate. Now Naney| * hat che heliovae Nurealtiwa alarmedâ€"yet 1 o Doctor Saxton e was so terrible. m himâ€"and then nd it, heâ€"he beâ€" maniacâ€"he torâ€" to give it to him aynor. 1 reasoned ire him, it could do 1, tooâ€"I cannot tell t to tell you, how he was toe me beâ€" think that. 1 tory of your . oneâ€"1 do thir was adminisic Mr. Dobt knew my drugsâ€" come an i y told m ME WAS EFFIE TALCOTTâ€"AND IT MIGHT TURNER." don‘t wonder incy took no nte regu an ineradic i me of the irmless so 1 couldn‘t ng it, d imâ€" drug TOF In consequence of this story of Matâ€" tie Raynor‘s, Detective Dobbins set off at once for New York City, to inâ€" us n mt mt e m U IN= terview the nurse at the add;;u she had left behind her. for years, she may be a dietician as well as any other specialist." hed d ‘"Well, one night they were driving out somewhere after the theatre, and there was a motor accident. Miss Talcott‘s leg was broken and she went to the hospital. She was there nearly a year and when she came out she did not exactly limp, but she could never dance again. Of course this ended her stage career, and. she turnâ€" ed to my brother for support. ‘ Mmz, "Wel‘, Mrs. Rayncr, I can‘t think nd, )8‘ this is a time for such punctilious B"t €/consideration of Miss Raynor‘s feelâ€" n;lnc:", ings, or even of your husband‘s weakâ€" peasrs, ness. Try to remember that you are Kent, | under grave suspicion yourself of havâ€" a the ing killed your husband, by poison, Ezra ) or by a shot, or both. Try to rememâ€" Mat-;ber that your explanations and exâ€" enter \euses, so far, Lave no real weight as DDiPSevidence in your favor, and for heayâ€" A"|en‘s sake. if you know anything defiâ€" 'V:‘;‘t‘;;'nitc or truiy prejudicial to any one Jougâ€" ‘else, tell itâ€"and help your own cause! es to| _ Dobbins spoke emphatically. m.ry( "Now," he went on, "what I‘m getâ€" .'urwjting at is this. If you have enough’ "Do‘real doubt of Miss Turner, say soâ€" @Sks ‘and I‘ll go straight and hunt her down .. land face her with the question." : *Yâ€" | "I don‘t knowâ€"‘ and Nan‘s worried | the face showed deepest doubt. "It does j ut 1 seem so awful to accuse a poor nurse| irug |of_crime, with so little to suggest it." |, k it| "Maybe I can add a litt‘e," and as U%’itl‘e short, sharp tones fell on their cars, Miss Mattie glided into the room. z ~vh,' "I‘ve been listening," she said, seatâ€" g andiing herself. "I make no bones of P und |doing that, in any matter concerning | j (“t'-!my brother‘s death. I‘ve heard alll,. [ suffered, Lord knows! and in a momâ€" ‘ent of desperationâ€"but that‘s not the | g;int at present. If Nan didn‘t give | Douglas poisonâ€"then Eva Turner did. My brother had a lamentable episode in his life about twenty years ago." "With Eva Turner?‘ asked Dobâ€" bins, quickly. "That I don‘t know. But the girl‘s name was Effie Talcottâ€"gnd it might have been Miss Turner, under a difâ€" ferent name." "It was when my brother was perâ€" haps forty years old. He was a widâ€" ower. Effie Talcott was a chorus girl and Douglas fell madly in love with her. He had no idea of marrying her, but he lavished every attention on her. Miss Mattie settled hersel{ in her chair, almost as if prepared to enjoy the recital. He was gnde;!"in say she didn‘t shoot suffered, Lord know: ent of desperationâ€" ‘"Come to me, then," said Miss Matâ€" tie, calmly. Mrs. Raynor is young and trustingâ€"she‘s really unversed in the ways of women of the world. I don‘t liked the Turner woman, and moreâ€" 'over, 1 always thought there was something between her and Douglas. I mean something that happened beâ€" fore she came here." "That‘s what I want to get at!" cried Dobbins, eagerly. i lasâ€"I believe your story of the drugs and the cureâ€"you see I know you betâ€" ter than Mr.‘ Dobbins does. I am shocked, of course, to learn that Dougâ€" las hankered after morphineâ€"it‘s disâ€" gracefulâ€"but to my mind, it‘s a small matter compared with the question of who killed him. Now, I always disâ€" you two have saidâ€"and I must conâ€" fess, an, I think you‘re pretty fine. I don‘t believe, now, you poisoned Nan#. reputation and I dof‘"t want the matâ€" ,m known. His sister would be most ichagrined apd mortified is she knew ‘of it." | There‘s many a bad sermon preachâ€" a nonâ€"committal ¢d from a good text. my brotherâ€"she U t w i 9 8 s y cave oo C 7 Tpee toy | sheer %astef linen, flowered chiffon, ;georget e crepe and crepe de chine and other interesting selections. â€" Pattern }price 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin is preferred). Wrap coin carefully, ’ HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. _ Write your name and address plainâ€" ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you wan. 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Strain and add to the chopped peppers and onions. Add the other ingredients and cook for two hours. _ Turn into bottles and seal. Makes four pints. This is a very old recipe which has been handed down in one family for several generations. It is the traditional accompaniment in that household for cold New York] State baked beans. An Old Time Chili 2 dozen ripe tomatoes, 5 green pepâ€" pers, 4 large onions, 2 tablespoons ginger, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 2 teaâ€" spoons cloves, 1 tablespoon salt, 2 cups sugar, 1 quart vinegar. Cut the tomatoes in small pieces and cook unâ€" 1 Green Tomato Chutney ‘ 7 ounces green tomatoes, 7 ounces apples, 4 ounces sugar, 2 cups vineâ€" fgar. 4 ounces seeded raisins, 3 ounces ichopped onions, 3 ounces chopped garâ€" lic, 3 ounces salt, 4 ounce cayenne, 1 , ounce mustard seed, 1 ounce celery iseed. This is another recipe where |the scales are most important. Peel and chop the green tomatoes and ap-" ples. Add the sugar and vinegar and simmer until the tomatoes and applesl are soft. Put the raisins, onions and | garlic through the meat grinder andl add to the first mixture with the seaâ€" sonings. Stir well and store in jelly glasses, covering with paraflin. Makes five glasses. 1 Plum Chutney * 4 ounces seeded raising, 3 ounces chopped onions, 3 ounces chopped garâ€" lic, 2 ounces mustard seed, 14 ouncesl stoned plums, 2 cups vinegar, 5 ouncea! ’sugar, % teaspoon salt, 14 teaspoon | paprika, 4 teaspoon cinnamon, 44 tea-l spoon ground cloves, % teaspoon of| ground allspice. Mix the ingredients and cook until the fruit is very soft. Seal in bottles or in halfâ€"pint jars. Makes two and oneâ€"halt pints of chut-l ney, "I think you can find the address, somehow, can‘t you?" ‘"Maybe; when I know what you want her for.© Is ite a case?" "Yes; it‘s a case," and Dobbins smiled inwardly. ‘ "Oh, well, then, I‘l give you the address." ""Look here, I want you to tell me something about herâ€"about her early life. I‘mâ€"I‘m a reporterâ€"I‘m getâ€" ting statistics about the early life of [ nurses, and how they came to take upI their profession." "Out on a caseâ€"I ddn't know where, exactly," "Sit down," she said. "What‘s it about?" "About Miss Turner, Dobbins reâ€" plied. "Where is she?" fu*ion by a middleâ€"aged woman careâ€" lessly tro'omed agtii‘ E;;m“ail}-att;;e:! Popular Pickles (To be continued.) give you the ou to tell me out her early terâ€"I‘m getâ€" early life of ne to take up C AHDEP: Snp ie n oi sat N c l B i 01119 have been seen by Europeans. In 1919 1 P Snponivindasen! may ulc NE L, 0_ _ u. 90 se 79 .# Temale ‘Oof: whai lthe evidence of competent observers. is awaiting him, In Nigeria and the Congo native tradiâ€" mm ols tions assert the existence of monstrous coopnEss â€" . animals resembling those whose forâ€" Goodness is usually its own vinâ€" mer existence is proved by their fOSSili dication ,but not always, for holiness remains, but unknown to science as ! js not invariably selfâ€"evident. existing in the present era, and eome! adgih ie uds ty o0 cmd Trorine uiss S uons SR ie ty on c c d 200000 (RV UE Other stories have not been so forâ€" tunate. At the beginning of this year another one had a promising career eut short in its early youth. .A large and mysterious animal was reported to be spreading terror in one of the Southern Provinces of Nigeria by enâ€" tering huts at night and carrying away sleepers. In most cases it apâ€" pears to have been followed up so .|closely by the villagers that it dropâ€" ;\ ped its victims before they id been |seriously injured, but the terror of its | fame spread through the count ‘y. Thel news ran round that a huge and fearâ€", |ful beast was abroad hunting for peoâ€" |ple to devour, and night guards wére |arranged in every village, but before the story had got well started the "laidly beast" was skot and killed by a man into whose hut it had ventured and proved to be a large hunting dog, probably a stray from the Northern Provinees, where such animals are used for hunting, which had run wild. And so the legend was scotched before 1 it had time to add another to the list ‘ of Africa‘s mysterious monsters, , MYSTERY BEASTS. I Though no one now believes in the ‘existenco of the human and animal monstrosities which, sixty years ago, were supposed to be found in Nigeria /1 and other parts of the. West Coast, reports of mysterious "dragons of the |t prime," survizing in remote places, | 1 a:e,ltgl‘eumnt. and are supported by T $ 00 ack a c EL( id on nc s P eined "Investigations are now taking place to discover if the girl could posâ€" sibly be the daughter of che Copenâ€" hagen explorer, Louis Bertelli, who was lost with his wife in the jungle fourteen years ago and has never . been heard of since," * | The story is now well launched and | I expect to have the pleasure of find-‘ ing it bobbing up from different parts | of the world for years to come, and of watching it grow as it travels round until the girl with dark auburn‘locks like Lola Dâ€"â€" whom Mr. Alfred Aloysius Horn met on the Ivory Coast in the Earlies. ' A LEGEND CUT SHORT. mds 0 oc ouidont io ie errepiee n ie s on is causing a wid»spread speculation among African travellers and explorâ€" ers, who, however, have made a good start towards solution of the mystery. "Investigations are now taking _ We note the advance from "no tatâ€" too marks" to "blonde hair," and are not surprised to learn that this "reâ€" markable drama of the jungle. . . . ." , 20 ms horror he saw an unclothed,| halfhuman girl, with blonde hair,! tumble out of the branches and fall to the ground, while the apes, scared by.' the shot, ran away. The strange creaâ€"| ture, who had been shot just above| the heart, died a few minutes later." , [cab)ed the story as it has grown on the journey down the southern half of the. continent. In this latest version it was the German overseer himsel{ who went hunting in the Cameroon, and meeting a company of apes "raisâ€" ed his rifle and shot one." This sequel must be told in the correspondent‘s own words: "To his horror he saw an nnelathad | oy | _, That the advance of civilization and the spread of education have not deâ€" p& |Stroyed the mythâ€"making faculty is illustrated by a grim story which has y recently begun to make the round of the world‘s press. Two or three ,e|months ago a native hunter rel.:ort_cd‘ ly to the officer in charge of a district L_|of the British Mandated territory of ;f Cameroon that he had accidenta.lly y killed a native woman while hunting ®|in the forest. On enquiry the District Officer was satisfied that this was one of the accidents which occasionally occur in the forest where the underâ€" growth is thick and the Jlight bad. The involuntary homicide was acquitted of blame and the story was robably forâ€" s gotten in the Cameroon when it' apâ€" . |peared, revised, enlarged and improvâ€" r"{ed in a Berlin newspaper. According | s,to the German version, the German| sioverseer of one of the plantations, on | n'\vhich the Germans have resumed opâ€" | "Ierations in the Cameroons since the || t<Peace, had reported that one of his ‘| African workers, having penetrated |} *|into :. part of the forest where no huâ€"} : : man being had ever set foot, had met|< ‘|a party of apes, and had fired at a|} particularly fine specimen seated in e the fork of a tree. The animal fell to 1 |the ground, and on approaching it he|h v,was astonished to find the body, not|h |of an ape, but of an African woman | t without onnaments or tattoo marks by | S which she could be identified as a|e member of any of the local tribes. Ac.|n cording to the report "it was assumed | t that the woman must have been carâ€"| c ried off by the apes when a child and | A If.'rOWn up among them and adopted [ their habits." This i quite a credit-f iable effort; note the artistic touchesâ€" :B ‘the forest "impenetrable to man," and | the suggestion of a feminine Tarzan.| â€" fThe hunter is reported to have becn{ acquitted of any blameâ€"in unpeneâ€" trated African forests Tarzans are | not so common that hunters can be |pl expected to keep a lookout for them.'w; Onee more we seemed to have come to | w! the end of the story, but it still had ne plenty of life in it. It has h‘:\ve]lod"of to Cape Town wheree the corresponâ€" | the dent of the "Sunday Chronicle" h.‘lS!dp' Strange Tales How Legends Grow is Told in Tales From the Dark Strange Continent l There is something in the atmosâ€" phere of every person which predicts :hh future; for the way he does things, the energy, the degree of enterprise which he puts into his work, his manâ€" nerâ€"â€"everything is a telltale of what is awaiting him. Minard‘s I find (wrote Emerson) the gayest ’castlel in the air that were ever piled far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people, _ A man should make life and nature happier to us, or he bad better never have been born, are| The member of the expedition most he’plvased with headquarters was Kalaâ€" em.lwat. Kalawat had been so young : to when she left Borneo that she had had,never had a taste of the natural joys led ‘ot monkeyâ€"land. She knew nothing of onâ€" |the delight of climbing trees; she bad has’developod her muscles, instead, on the i the chandeliers and curtains of a New .Of!Ym'k apartment. And now she was 0n an acre of land surrounding our house, ‘elf’anacre of land surrounding our houx-n?,| °:‘ and all about the edge was a row of ‘$â€" |evergreen trees, great tall trees standâ€" el ing about twenty feet apart. Kalawat t‘s|took to these trees like a duck to the water. She never ventured beyond ‘d, the limits they set, but she would go il‘.!mund and round, swinging from one tO‘to another literally by the hour. She by |found a friend in the Airedale from a-‘the ~~xt doorâ€"one of those shaggy, Vfi.’triendly Airedales that are always + {laughingâ€"and he followed her on her * | rounds, trotting along under the trees "C|as she went through the branches and ‘â€" | looking up now and then with a broad _ | Airedale grin. _ Sometimes Kalawat " | would hide from him among the foliâ€" ~|age, and then, while he looked about, d puzzled, would steal down the oppoâ€" ~! site side of a tree and come up behind I \him and pull his tail â€" He would ~]| whirl around quickly with a sharp ~| bark, but in a flash Kalawat would be ‘\up in the tree, chattering derisively. ‘| When Kalawat was tired of playing in ‘| the branches she would go into the ‘ganlen and pick posies and gorge herâ€" | selt with fruit Or, sometimes, she "would perform her monkey antics for F'a delighted audience of natives. â€" I |have seen as many as fifty blacks, marketâ€"women laden with vegetables, village dandies smeared with red clay, porters, servants off on an errand, all j standing convulsed with laughter, to see Kalawat do her tricks. When | night came, Kalawat did not want to | come into the house. She hid in the trees under the overhanging eaves of the house. Only when we ordered a servant to pretend to beat one or the other of us with aâ€"stick would she come flying out of her hiding place, In that land of animals, we became known as "the people with the ape." Not only natives but white people | _ came to see Kalawat. Mothers brought their children to Jook at her, and when we took her to town, we were followed as if we had been a circus parade. If we went into a store, customers and clerks lost all their interest in buying and selling and watched Kalawat as she made a tour of investigation of the place.â€"From "Camera Trails in Africa," by Martin Johnson. Kalawat in TORONTO j |a Belgian railway engineer, M. Leâ€" â€"| page, reported that he had seen in :\ the Belgian Congo an animal about (|twentyâ€"four feet long, as tall as a ] rhinoceros, with a large hump between |its shoulders, two tusks, and a long _ straight horn on its snout. That the |creature was not a figment of his heated imagination was proven by its track, which showed that while its! forefert were oneâ€"tued like those of a! horse, its hind féet were cloven like thos: of a cow. In Nigeria anothér hitherto unsnown animal was seen by a big game hunter named Lee. He described it as Faving a head like a hippopotgmus, but with cheeks and ears like a horse, a long arched horseâ€" like neck and a red mane, two straight horns on its snout, and the body of a hippopotamus on horseâ€"like legs. The reports of other mystery beasts from ‘ South, East and Central Africa are evidence that the Dark Continent has | not yet yielded up all its secrets, and that there are still many new things to come out of Africa.â€"W. F. H., in The African World. 1 DUNGEONS IN THE Liniment for aching }olnta’ ATMOSPHERE Do not be tempted by the price of cheap teas. Only fine teas will give continued enjoyment < JAPAWMH TEA > Our Garden *Fresh from the gardens‘ AIR EAspirin WHEN a cold or exposure brings aches and pains that penetrate to your very bones, there is always quick relief in Aspirin, t will make short work of that headache or any litte pain. Just as effective in the more serious lufl'ering from neuralgia, neuritis, rheumatism or lumbago, No ache or pain is ever too deepâ€"scated for Aspirin tablets to relieve, and they don‘t affect the heart, All druggists, with proven directions for various yses which many people have found anvaluable in the relicf of pains and aches of many kinds,. An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding, and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.â€"R. L. Stevenson. ISSUE No. Empire Free Trade Saint John Telegraphâ€"Journal (Ind.): In order to interest Canadians in the 'scheme of free trade within the Emâ€" pire, Lord Beaverbrook and his friends ‘will have to tell them what will take the place of the Canadian industries which, under absolute free trade, would be destroyed by compemion‘ from Great Britain. Australia is ln-l terested in the same question. Minard‘s Liniment for Neuralgia | Windsor Border Cities Stai (Ind. {Lib.): Farmers of the West are not Inow depending so entirely on wheat In they once did. They have learned a lesson in the hard school of experiâ€" lence‘ They have â€" learned that, wealthy though the land may be, they are at the mercy of the elements, where grain is concerned. J l Greater Recklessness Halifax Herald (Cons.): There is a recklessness on the highways of Nova Scotia this year beyond anything of thé kind ever.experienced before. A greatly increased number of motorâ€" ists appear to have gone "speedâ€" crazy" overnight. The results are inâ€" evitable. The motor car is leaving a trail of Aeath and disaster in Nova Scotia in 1929 that is appalling. Ttrestone CENJOY LABOR DAY Better get that l\ew Set of TERESE Now! CGUMâ€"DIPPED Mixed Farming AN AIM Suspicion dlnmsél kings to tyranny and husbands to Jealorgy. â€" Lord Up.. .cs .F Conscious virtue is the only solid ,bndltlon of all happiness: for riches, power, rank or whatever, in the comâ€" mon acceptation of the word, is supâ€" posed to constitute happiness, | will never quiet, much Jess cure, the inâ€" ward pangs of guilt.â€"â€"Lord Chesterâ€" field. ! LOVE oF copn The clouds, which rise with thunder, slake Our thirsty souls with rain; The blow most dreaded falls to break From off our limbs a chain : The Thne purest and grandest beauty (far beyond that of the fairest flower, and high above Nature‘s noblest work) is of the mind and soul, that labor to enlarge our humble course; by no deâ€" flance or sheroism, or even conscious teaching; but by patience, cheerfulâ€" ness and modesty, truth, simplicity and loving kindness.â€"R,. D. Blackâ€" z_ @.'_ tnunmres LOVE or NATURE You should have heard him speak of what he loved; of the tent pitched beâ€" side the talking water; of the stars overhead at night; of the blest return of morning, the peep of day over the moors, the awaking birds among the birches; how he abhorred the long winter shut in cities; and with what delight, at the return of the spring, he once more pitched his camp in the living outâ€"ofâ€"doors. â€"R. L. Stevenson. The French intervention ha held up the preliminary works . Novomeyski group in any sense ualwork is expected to start in ber or November next. The refusal of the Colonial and Forâ€" eign Office to alter their decision reâ€" sulted in the French government‘s anâ€" nouncement of an appeal to The Hagâ€" ue, London and Paris are supposed to be still in correspondence over the matter. In view of its own supplies of potash it is clear that France is, inâ€" terested in getting a fqoothold on the Dead Soa. cession But the Colonial Office ruled tha: under the Lausanne Treaty â€" only rights conferred on subject of Allicd powers retained their validity and that the journalists in Constantinople could hardly claim to fail under that head. ‘The group tried another manâ€" euver. Since they could not bring an action against their own government, they admitted, and it was in the name of the latter that France deâ€" manded recognition of the old conâ€" Ruled Out Under Treaty Having been defeated by the Novo meyskiâ€"Tulloch combination the grouy backed by Colonel Bury acquired the concession and demanded its recogni tion on the part of the British govâ€" ernment, since in accordance with th« Treaty of Lausanne preâ€"war concesâ€" sions remained in forcee. In Palestine there are few areas not carrying some concession. The holdâ€" ers were for the most part speculatore who had no serious intention of deveâ€" loping the concessions,. They cither resold the concession or at least made an attempt to sell it. The Dead Sea concession, for instance, was granted to a group of journallists in Constanâ€" tinople. It is highly improbable that the Stamboul> group had any other intention than to await a favorable moment for disposing of their rights. And they succeeded out so very long ago. ;l While the various competing groups were still struggling to obtain the |eoncession, apart fro mthe now victâ€" orious consortium, Englishmen, Amerâ€" icans and Australians had entered the lists, a Foreign Office representative had stated in answer to an inquiry from the same quarter that France had protested against the granting of the concession to the Novomeyskiâ€" Tulloch group. Protest Traced to Englishman The most piquant part of the mai ter is that the protest is said to have originated with an Englishman and to have emanted from a group whose discovered that in 1911 the Turkish government had granted a concession for the exploitation of the resources of the Dead Sea. Jerusalem, â€" The pronouncement made by the British Government in the House of Commons in reply to a question of Colonel Howard Bury that France had signed its intention of preferring a charge against Great Briâ€" tain at the International Court at The MHague in connection with the grant Ing of the concession for the exâ€" ploitation of the mineral resources of the Dead Sea to the Novemeyskiâ€"Tu}â€" loch group does not come as a #yyâ€" prise. Both London and Paris Rely on the Lausanne Treaty __ By Ernest Davis France Gives Notice of Appeal to The Hague Over Great Britain‘s Activity Dead Sea Ore vIRTUE BEAUTY s noblest work) is sou!l, that labor to ° course; by no deâ€" or even conscious patience, cheerfulâ€" Bring Protest n Octo of the not BIG SBAVING ON : DPUBING EXHIBI wit 0 YONCGI FOR C4% 1) 2%_ shaus BARBER EOUIP Al Dl )\ JUCL )