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ASk for Saiada $ | ’A::“-lt is the finest > Of Finnish Stock To travel down the Nolga issto pass through a varied racial panorama. Soon after leaving Nizhni Novgorod one has on the right bank of the viver the Chuvashes and on the }eft bank the Maris, of whom the former are a puzzle to anthropologists, while the latfer aro of Finnish stock. The holulay costumes of the Chuvash woâ€" men, with their heavy manyâ€"colqred hoaddréSaés, jingling with old coing, are especially striking. A day‘s sail brings the boat to Kazan, capital of the ‘Tartar _ Autonomous Republic, where the spires of the minarets and the . bulbous domes of the Russian One glides along the broad placid stream through a series of days that becomes gradually warmer and sun nier and nights that become less cool. For after the first day‘s sail eastward from Nizhni Novgorod to the old Tarâ€" tar atronghold of Kazan, the main course of the river is southward, toâ€" ward the hot Caspian Sea, which washes the shores of so many desert lands. Aspi When the Volga passenger steamer Turgeniev (the Volga steamers are ehristened in about equal proportion after famous writers and natural scientists, and after revolutionists and Boviet leaders) cast off from Nizhni Novgorod and started its fveâ€"day éruise to Astrakbar, at the mouth of the river, one was immediately conâ€" scious of the change of atmosphere, The bleak, strenuous, restless life of the presentâ€"day Russian city gave way to the deep repose of the unchanging Fiver. l I°S folly to suffer long from neuâ€" ritis, neuralgia, or headaches when relicft is swift and sure, thanks to Aspirin. For 28 years the medical profession has recomâ€" mended it It does not affect the heart. Take it for colds, rtheumaâ€" tism, sciatica, lumbago. Gargle it for a sore throat or tonsilitis. Proven directions for its many uses, in every package. Every drug store today has genuine Aspirin which is readily identified by the name on the box and the {ayer cross on every tablet, One usaally begins the popular asteamboat trip Jgown the Voiga at the old city of Nizhi Novgored, with its picturesque location on a high bluff ovedlooking the junction of the Oka and Volga Rivers. Nizhni Novgorod mtill preserves its character as a naâ€" tural commercial meetingâ€"place for Russia and the Rast: every summer, on a low tongue of land which is re-“ gularly flooded during the «pring rige of the river, takes place the tmdition-l al fair. Russia‘s National River Flows its 2000 Miles to the Caspian Sea | Nizhni Novgorod, U.S.S.fl..â€"fltrolcb-‘ Ing to its magnificent length of more than 2000 miles from the far north west of European Russia to the largest salt lake in the world, the Casâ€" pian Sea, the Volga is preâ€"eminently and indisputably Russia‘s national river. For uncounted centuries peoâ€" ples have used this great waterway for trade and war and migration : "Matushka Voiga" (Little Mother Volga) is the central figure i% many ballads and stories. Mighty Volga Passes Varied lSSpE No. 42â€"‘29 ‘Iflmrd'o L;nimmzr Warts. Start of Five Days‘ Cruise SA~IA ‘racemark @egistered in Cunadea ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ Sincerity is quite as valuable u knowledge and even more so â€"L. Murâ€" ray. f Bydney, Ausâ€"Sir Truby King, reâ€" cently knighted in recognition of his work in reducing infant mortality, adâ€" vocates an hour a day in the sunâ€" light, lad in a linen bat and a loin eloth, as part of Australia‘s school curriculum. _ He believes it would eliminate tuberculosis, uw POLAR BEAR FAVORITE atT BANFF One of the greatest favorites of the visitors to Banff national park is the polar bear in the Zoo. He was brought down is a tiny cub from near Hersâ€" chel Island in the Canadian Aretic, by an oficer of the Rayal Canadian Mounted Police. "To pretend they can be used for any other purpose is to confuse the lssue and to make unnecessarily difâ€" ult the task of disarmament." _ "The ‘tradeâ€"protection‘ excuse for more cruisere is utterly fallacious. The real reason for any nation wishâ€" ing o build cruisore is becauso other nations are building them. It is the desire to be able to match these ships gun for gun, in a fleot action. That io what cruisers were used for in the last war» it ie. what they would be used for again. C Sir Truby King Advocates Sunlight Tuberculosis Cure "It has been pointed out that our regular fleet was powerless to deal with the submarine menace. _ The truth is that the task of maintaining the Seven Sea: as a private lake for the merchant ships of any one nation is ludicrously beyond the power of the navies of toâ€"day. "Our cruiser« were not called upon to protect our tramie from wholesale surface raiding, and so their inability to do so was not exposed. As it was, a few German ships did break out of the North Sea, notably the Moewe and Wolf, and they sank our ships in the Atlantic unhampered, A medal was struck in Germany to commemorâ€" ate the Moewe‘s exploit, after she had returned safely, To advance "trade protection" as a ’reaaon for building ten new cruisers }lp equivalent to a wif6é demanding & new umbrella because the roof had blown off. So delares a retired Briâ€" tish naval officer in The Socialist Reâ€" view (London), and be adds that the futility of this reasoning â€"would have been exposed during the late war if it had not been that "the geographical position of the German bases made it possible for Britain to pin their fept within the confines of the North Sea. This former naval officer goes on to say ; c Britain‘s Need of More Cruisers? tle poniecs with their flocks through the desert that comes close to the river during the final day‘» sail, from Stalingrad â€" (formerly Tsaritsin and renamed because of the part which Joseph V. Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party Central Comâ€" mittee, played in its defence during the civil war): to Astrakhan. The round Salmuck tents, the figures ot ecamele silbouetted against the landâ€" scape, the sight of an occasional mosque, crowned with a crescent, all emphasize the approach to the East. â€"Christian Science Monitor. Last and perhaps most picturesque of the races on the Volga are the Calâ€" muck nomads, who roam on their litâ€" schools left bank ammounce the presence of another people the Volga German colâ€" onists who were brought to Russia at the time of Catherine the Great and who still retain their native language; although with some modifications and additions. ‘The Germang also possess their autonomous republic, with the: tha. dittle town of Ulianovek (formerâ€" ly Simbirsk), birtbplace of Viadimir llyitch Ulianoff, destined to acquire such internatiqnal fame under his reâ€" volutionary pseudonym of Lenine, Various Racial Types Among the peasants who rush on board at every stop and who bring bread and egzs and chickens for sale to the passengers who disembark one can recognize various racial types; Russians, ‘Tartars, Chuvashes and Mordvians. As the boat approaches Baratov gabled roofs and. hurches with steepies instead of domes on the hurches symbolize the mingling of the The river turus south.at Kazan and, of their )anguagb in éourts ’ "My word, Zizi! Do you call this an occasion for an exhibition. of a sense of humor?" ® } "Not precisely, but I mean he couldn‘t even see how fum»y he was, bargaining with you to let him know when the psychological: moment arâ€" rived for him to commit perjury to save his sister," ‘*Your English is nearly as involved as his plans! Now, Zizi, thonzil busiâ€" ness must be ‘ooked into nextâ€"and settied before we can accuse the MF‘ tiful widow." ues aA 8 } "I‘ll promise this Mr. Kent. â€" I‘l promise to téell you first of all, when 1 have learned the identity of the real criminal.â€" And 1 wil tell you within the 24 hours." 5 . "I know what ails that Kent man,": Lizi said, as they walked away into the gardens. "He has no sense 011 humor." "Will you let me know, Mrs Wise, if or when you see matters so tending toward my sister that she is in danâ€" g’r?” "In order that you may make your fake confession?" "I did not say arrestedâ€"1I said conâ€" victed, However, 1 do not think she wil even be arrested. So, as 1 said, wait 24 hours before you make public this rather bewildering story of your own guilt. We have pretty well proved that the shot was fired at five minutes before seven. You were then on the bridge with Missâ€"Fay. Now when you see your sister in such dire danger that you feel necessary to take over her guilt, and claim it for yourself, it will be time enough to make your confession. But for heaven‘s sake get it boistered up into shape so that at least Dobbins will believe it!" Kent did not smileâ€"he . looked troubled, and said earnestly, "But you tell me, Mr. Wise, that my sister will not be arrested‘if sho is innocent." "Reaching here to find Raynor shot and the others standing about in conâ€" sternation ?" ty« OIY“‘H & "Oh, Mr. Kent, you are forgetting your story of shooting him yourself!" Zizi cried this out. "Oh, yes, 1 did. She said it was seven, and she must hurry home, as her mothor would be expecting her, So she went home, and" 1 came back up the hill to this house." "Not that 1 remember." "Yet I think you testified that you stood on the bridge with Miss Fay at seven o‘clock." ' watch?" "Now, as to the time, onle more," Wise said. â€" "What do you know of the time from your own observation reâ€" garding that moment of the crime?" ‘"What do you mean, exactly?" "1 mean, from teatime urtil after you knew that Douglas Raynor had been shot, did you look at your own Kent looked so blank that Zizi smiled at his utter lack of ingenuity. *Don‘t Penny." "Supposing I did itâ€"and threw away my rubbersâ€"" ‘"Where did you throw them?" ‘"Whyâ€"why 1 don‘t knowâ€"" "All rightâ€"where would you choose to throw them?" "Is thot really a clew?" "It‘s sort of a negative clew. (I haveâ€" made most careful search and J have found in the house no rubbers that can be made to fit that print." INTHE FAINTEST OF TONES SHE SAID, "FEAR NOTâ€"NO HARM SHALL TOUCH YOUâ€"IFâ€"IFâ€"IFâ€"" * ville Kent; Ezra Goddard, friend of Finley; Miss Mattie, Raynor‘ sister, and others, enter the room. . Lionel Raynor, son of Douglas Raynor by first marriage, comes to claim his ;athcr’l estate. Nurse Turnsl;“ gn- esses to ammpflng to poison as Raynor out revenge. Pennington Wise, a celebrated detective, and his girl‘assistant, Zizi, are called to take the case out of the hands of Detective Dobbing. â€" Wise tells Orville Kent that an outsider is suspected of the murder because of the print of an overshoe found on the floor of the sun room. NOW GO ON wWITH THE STORY over the dead man, pistol in hand, is Malcoim Finley, former lwoeu:eart' of aymr’. pécacl Ntanfil l?y'.tbo r., «< 8 switch. m:nq; her brother,“g- through the heart in the early evening on the floor of the sun room of Flower Acres, his Long Island home. Standing "In the rubbish can, 1 suppose," and BEGIN HERE TODAY He turned cold all over, a chill perâ€" spiration broke out on him, and, alâ€" though he tried to scream, he found himself unable to utter a sound. Zizi had done her work well. A more frightful ghho:t, even a more evident one, v?d ve roused Raynor‘s susâ€" picion of trickery, but never dreaming Reaching the bedside, Zizi, so intent on her work that she felt almost a real ghost, leaned over and lightly touched the sleeper on the arm. ! When he awoke suddenly, &And sat bolt upright, the ghost was in the middle Of the room, and with slowly waving arms was coming toward him. Now Raynor was afraid of ghostsâ€" he vowed his unbelief in them, but he always knew that if he ever saw one he should be frightened out of his wite. And he was. & sound sleeper, and softly turning the knob she entered the door and alosed it behind her. Unseen, the gray figure glided along the hall and paused at the poor of Lionel Raynor‘s room. Listening a moment, Zizi heard no sound saxe the regular breathing as of Her makeâ€"up box had turned her {ace chalky white, her lips were pale, but her eyes were not only ringed with black shadows, but a tiny touch of phosphorus on her eyebrows gave an unearthly glow that was suggestive of the infernal. ‘"Yes, tonight, And<I don‘t want any help." R "Late, I suppose.‘ "Yes; well after midnight." And that‘s how it happened that very late that night, about halfâ€"past two, a slim little figure stood in front of a mirror and draped itsel{ with a multitude of gauzy gray draperies that floated and waved at a breath or a motion. _ <% Zizi‘s head and shoulders as well as her tiny body were covered with the misty veils and the cowlâ€"shaped hood came well over her forehead. . "It might be a good thing," Wise said, meditatively. "I know your powâ€" ers in that direction, Zizâ€"1 mean in carrying out a scheme of that sort, and I say, go ahead. But do it now." _ *"No, I‘m not. 1 happened to learn that Lionel Raynor is more or less of a spiritualistâ€"or, rather, that he beâ€" lieves in spirits and is mortally afraid of them. Now, l‘ll\give him a maniâ€" festation that if it doesn‘t persuade him to give up that will, at least will prove that he has suppressed or deâ€" stroyed it," "Surely." 7 "And the scaring procedure?" Zizi leaned toward Wise and whisâ€" pered, "Ghosts!" the the Raynor will from the Lionel proâ€" position." "All right. My idea is to scare him into fits!" Lovely! And then?" ‘"‘Then? Why, then, he‘ll give up "Not an imbecile, â€"dear, merely a thoughtful person ruminating aloud." "Get back to your plan of extracting "Zizi, stop that! It‘s growing on you, that habit of babbling on like an imecileâ€"‘ * _ "Oh, I forgot 1 haven‘t told you the plan yet. And, by the way, Pen, did you notice a most important item when you gazed on that picture of Miss Dolly Fay?" e ""No, oh, seeress, what was it?" "I‘ll check #P up firstâ€"I may be wrongâ€"but if it should be, andâ€"yes, it must be, it‘s quite in keepingâ€"" "You‘re crazy!‘ "No, I‘m not. "He‘s not the sort of chap who frightens easilyâ€"‘" "Not by mere wordsâ€"I know. 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A special menu of red meat, which is the envy of all the childless lions in the Zoo, is being given to Pat, while Dor? is waited on by "Keepor Bill" as If whe were a princess, In the meantime hundrede of people have heard of the new arrivals and have tried to see them.. It is far easier to interview the Governor of the Bank of England than see those Now they are. al once again the Zoo‘s happy family, as Gas is resigned to drinking milk until the time arrives when he will grow into a fine heaithy manâ€"eater like his ancestore betore London.â€"Gus is causing trouble Again‘! Gus, in case you don‘t know, is the most important nuisance in the whole London Zoo. He is one of the three offsprings of Doris and Pat, who arethe proud parents of the first lion eubs to be born in the Zoo for six years. * C s Gus is wooly and #oft, but as he is the only "man" in the new favymily he spends his time showing ho knows it. The other two cubs are more sisters without any progressive ideas, but Gus has already shown a hankering after his first real bone. All Gus got was his first real spanking, adminisâ€" tered fro mthe paw of Mr. Pat Lionâ€" which is one of the reasone why cubs leave home. London Zoo‘s Alaska bas paid bounties recently on well over 40,000 eagles, and we in New England kill every bald eagle we can reach, with some such excuse as the (discredited) ne..spaper stories of its attacks upon children. Eagles are protected by law in Massachuâ€" setts, as are ospreys, sparrowhawks, screech owls ‘and a few others, and their possession or capture is forbid den.â€"Our Dumb A.smals. 4 Lion Cub is Center of Attracâ€" tion in the Old Capital if not destroyed. _ This latter point has been well brought out in investiâ€" gations of the status of the red grouse in Europe, where the same attitude toward birds of prey prevails, unâ€" fortunately, as in this country. | _ We do not claim that hawke and : owls destroy no song birds, game birds or poultry, but we are certain that the damage done by many of thee birds is very greatly exaggerated. The screech owls .n my orchard killâ€" ed rats, house mice, feld mice, and deermice in numbers, but the only eviâ€" dence of bird murder which 1 could find were remaing of one starling and one house sparrow The dongâ€"earâ€" ed owl pellets I examined this winter showed skulls of sixtyâ€"one meadow mice and the sternum of one bird. Sparrowhawks in summer are almost entirely insectivorous and in winter largely mouseâ€"eaters, but I learned of one recently which made daily visits ‘to a poulktry yard in New Hampshire until it was captured (the chickens must have been pretty small), The. osprey is more than ninetyâ€"nine per cent fish eater, but the last issue of Bird Lore tells of one which killed tame ducks. The number of birds killed by most species of hawks and owls is negligible, though there are exceptions to all rules and, as in the case of the erring osprey, "lead pills" may become the indicated remedy in special cases. On the other hand most hawks and owls destroy great numbers of very injuricus rodents and many of the birds eaten are the wedak or diseased memBers of a flock, which are easier to catch, and which might spread disease to the other membere Now Recently a game protective official asked me why we who are interested in wild birds did not prepare some rea} "dope" as he called it, upon the feeding habits of our hawks and owle There is plenty of authoritative inâ€" formation for those who wish to learn the real stauts of these birds. â€" M. Chapman comments editorially on the fact that the pupile at a "Game Conservation Institute" in I'?v Jer. sey killed "296 nawke and 199 ow!s" during i short period, without apparâ€" ently making any effort either to disâ€" tinguish between the different species of birds destroyed or to study. their stomach contents in an effort to as certain whether they were or were not, injurious species. } A group of birdsawhich are in need of encouragement are the muchâ€"maliâ€" !ne‘ "birds of prey,"" the nawks and owls. . These birds are diminishing steadily and all too rapidly. Dr. Witâ€" mer Stome, editor of the Auk, writes in the July, 1929; issue of that authâ€" oritative journal, â€"*"There seems no hope for our raptorial species. . It is all very well to claim that it Js a matâ€" ter of »ducation, but the birds will be exterminated before we can educate the public,; especially when Game Comâ€" missions Are educating. them in the other direction.. It would seem therefore that the case of the hawk® and owls is bopeless." _ And is Birdâ€" Lore for Julyâ€"August, 1929, Dr. Frank 4 ~By DR. JOHN E. MAY EState Ornithologist, Massachusetts Prize Nuisance Happy Family by West Af An t} MUTT A 675