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â€" Rich old Mrs. Jupiter is robbed and murdered during the engagement party she gives for her secretary, Mary Harkâ€" ness. Mary‘s scapegrace brother, Eddic, was to have been admitted at the murâ€" der hour. She tells her flance, Dirk Rayâ€" ther, who arranges a rendezvous with the boy but oversleeps. Bowen of The Btar drives Mary there. Eddie is run down and killed. Bowen tells Mory there is a racetrack gambler called The Fly to whom i.:r brother owed money. Bowen gives Mary a coat he found in the Juâ€" piter house the night of the murder, It is h : brother‘s. Dirk forbids Mary to go on with the investigation pecause of the notoriety. Dirk drove the car out beyond the limit of the rutty cliff road into the small meadow which crowned the Point and turned off the engine. With a second turn of the wrist he turned off the lights. OOR NR H SR 4 Hâ€" 4410400 0â€"000000004 444 9 4464 66 Then he turned and drew her to him, swiftly, surely, and with an air of complete possession. _ Surprise mingled with the ardor with which she returned his long kiss. "This," he said, and she heard him chuckle. "What?" "And something else. Listen. How soon can you get ready to be marâ€" ried?" Presently _ she asked â€" curiously, "What did you want to talk about?" "Why, I haven‘t bought anything yet," she stammered, "but there‘s lots of time, isn‘t there? A month, surely. It was 66 days the last time I counted, but lately I hnaven‘t kept track." Dirk smoothed her hands gently with his big one. p "I mean how long would it take you to pack?" "Dirk!" "You could pack a toothbrush, couldn‘t you? And we could buy things here and there as we went along? There are lots of nice little shops for women‘s gewgaws in Berâ€" mudaâ€"or would you rather go to Europe?® We could make itâ€"if we didn‘t stay too long." "But what‘s the hurry?" Mary‘s heart was hammering happily before the look in his eyes. "Let‘s get married tomorrow. 1 don‘t know why we‘ve waited this long, if it comes to that." "Well aren‘t you the impetuous lover!" Mary quavered, trying to keep a light tone. "Why this, all of a sudden ?" Dirk moved impatiently. "Oh, people have hacked at us long enough!" he growled. "If they keep at it much longer, they‘ll spoil things for us. Look at tonight." Reviewing the miserable evening she had just spent, Mary thought there might be something in what he He seized her hands and gripped them tightly. "If we‘ve got to quarâ€" rel, let it come after. I don‘t want it to epoil the beginring for us. Do you?" "No, oh, no." "Well, that‘s that, then. _ How‘s Saturday? _ That give you time to shop?" Mary nodded. It was a long time before they felt the need of words. "That‘sâ€"what I‘ve been wanting to tell you, all evening," Mary whisperâ€" ed, presently, "That we needn‘t quarâ€" rel any more. I won‘t see that newsâ€" paperman again, if you don‘t want Dirk felt magnanimous, too, apparâ€" ently, for he laughed indulgently and kissed her It was nearly two when Mary‘s latchkey turned in the lock and she let herself into the great house and went happily upstairs. Strange, she "I guess Mrs. Dirk Ruyther can be trusted to do the right thing," he "Man . .. theyre good 00 00044 404000 00â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"00â€"0â€"0â€"0â€"000044000â€"4â€"0 SODA CRACKERS CHAPTER XVI Gems of Peril sSYNOPSIS. By HAZEL ROSS HAILEY. wasn‘t tired now! Instead, she seemâ€" ed to bounce, featherâ€"light, up the long staircase; she felt far too happy to sleep. There was a dim light burning in her room, and a note left for her by the thoughtful Della. More thoughtâ€" ful than literate, for the note was difficult to decipher. "I stayd up to tell you Mr. Jupiâ€" ter warts to see you in the morning he is sorry for something and wunts to appolagize 1 do know what for." The world had been all wrong and now it was right again in every way. For pure happiness, Mary whirla around the room in an impromptu dance before tumbling into bed. As she drifted off to sleep the letâ€" ters of th: word "Saturday" seemed to buen upon the wa.ls of her mind ‘ ke zc gigantic electric sign. They both felt better after Mr. Juâ€" piter had "appolagized" next mornâ€" ing. "I was sorry for that the minute 1‘d siid it, Mary," he scolded. _ "You Fadn‘t ought to take what an old man like me says to heart so." "I guessâ€"that one thingâ€"is a kind of sore sp.t with me," Mary explainâ€" ed. "Whatever Eddie did or didn‘t do, I feel responsible for, at least partly. So I couldn‘t let anyone call him a murderer when it isr‘t the truth!" Surprisingly, she noticed the old mwan‘s eyes were wet. His lined face looked ten years older. "I‘ll bet I‘ve thought the same a hundred times since," he said, in a broken voice. "You know he came to me {>r money, I suppose?" Mary nodâ€" ded, in embarrassmert. "If I hadn‘t of lit into him the way I did, he might not haveâ€"" he broke off hastily, and substituted, "everything might have This humility was so new to the old man‘s manner that Mary could hard‘y credit her senses. It made it easier for her to know that he blamed himâ€" self, too. been all right. So you see, I‘ve got my share to think oa, same as you have." "Wellâ€"forgive and forget. That‘s all we can do." "Oh, I can forgive," Mary assured him, earnestly, "but 1 can‘t forgetâ€" noi till I‘ve found out the truth." "Well, bless you, child, I won‘t ston you. Go ahead. But if you run afoul of Emily Ann Ruyther, don‘t say I didn‘t warn you." Mary laughed and snapped her finâ€" gers. _ "Oh, that for Emily Ann! Dirk‘s all that matters, and he‘s going to help meâ€"he told me so last night." "Everything all right between you, eh?" Mr,. Jupiter was an excellent observer, and he saw his answer writâ€" ten in her face. "That‘s good." At the recollectio. of what else he had told her last night, her eyes were starry and her lips smiled irreâ€" pressibly. Stabbing her grapefruit thought: fully, Mary wondered whether she ought to tell him of her plans. In a way, it was like "giving notice"â€" but then she wasn‘t employed here any more, really. At least her only duties seemed to be playing cribbage and writing a few notes. "I suppose you haven‘t heard any more from Mr. Bruce?" she asked. The old man‘s face clouded, Mary instantly regretting having brought the subject. "Notâ€"aâ€"line," he said slowly. What on earth could be keeping Bruce? Mary wondered. _ Then she dismissed the matter as something that did not concern her. She ought to go about her shopping at once if she expected to finish today. Time was the important thing. "What would you like to do this morning?" Mary heard hersclf asking faintly, and could have boxed her own ears. There might be fittings â€" heavens, she couldn‘t nearly accomâ€" plish all she must if she waited until this afternoon. "Eh?" The old man came ous of the brown study that enveloped him. "Oh, I‘m going down with Miller to look over ‘The Gypsy.‘ Jordan thinks sea airâ€"may take a cruise if 1 can get the right crew." Mary drew a deep breath of relief. "Wan to go along?" "Oh, no, thanks. I‘ve something to do. A little shopping." She blushed a tellâ€"tale red. "I just called up to tell you, Mrs. Ruyther, that you have a checking account, you know. Why don‘t you run up a few bills, and see what kind of a husband I‘m going to make?" The telephone trilled suddenly. 1t was Dirk. "Oh, Dirk, you musn‘tâ€"not yet. That‘s one of the rules. Don‘t you know your Emily Post?" us "Go ahead, woman. Do you know how I treat my wives when they don‘t obey me?" There was more of the conversation, but it seemed to make very little sense. Smiling knowingly, the old man heaved himse‘!f out of his chair and tiptoed out of the room with clumsy, schoolboy gallantry. Almost instantly, it seemed, a starched and statuesque maid appearâ€" ed with an envelope which she handed to Mary on a tray. (Bessie had been released to pursue the sort of histriâ€" onic career for which she seemed to think herself fitted.) . Mary fumbled it open with one hand while holding fact to the receivâ€" er with the other. When she finally held up the crisp bit of paper it conâ€" tained and saw the figure â€"$1,000â€"â€" and the signature, J. J. Jupiter, still wet in the corner, her joyful exclamaâ€" tion reached clearly the young man murmuring fatuous nothings into the telephone many miles : way. "Better come. I‘ll be working late at the office, putting things in shape so I can leave. I may not get out until quite late." "But you‘ll come?" "I‘ll come. Wait up for me?" "You know I will." . She was to regret that decision about lunch, as she sat sipping a lukeâ€" warm, tooâ€"sweet drink at a chowded fountain after a hectic morning‘s shopping. It would have been deâ€" lightful to be lunching on a cool roof somewhere with Dirk opposite. Shopâ€" ping, even with a $1,000 cheque in her "A little wedding present" was written on the business card that fell out with the cheque. "Never mind supporting me yetâ€"â€" I‘m rich!" she caroled gleefully, and told Dirk of the cheque. "Well, that‘s fine!" he replied with perfunctory heartiness, Such munifiâ€" cence rather dashed his own pleasure in turning over his worldly goods to his brideâ€"toâ€"be. "Whit are you going to do with it?" "Bank it." "That‘s better. Lunch with me?" "Oh, I won‘t have time. We‘d dawdle and I‘ve so much to get!" "Buy clothes," she an :nded happily. "And then buy some ciothes. And then buy a few more clothas." purse, was terrible. Her feet hurt,‘ her head ached, and she felt as if her eyes would never qite focus agair.‘ And there was more to come. | At five she hailed the first taxi she saw, piled it full of bundles and climbed in gratefully. Feeling fit and a cricket enâ€" thusiast Rev. F. Levesonâ€"Gower, who is 61, made a good show in a game at Oxford, England, reâ€" cently, "You will not!" Cheering Facts Toronto Daily Quotes Some: Heartening _ Statistics Issued by Research Bureau The Canadian Economic Research Bureau, which makes a specialty of presenting facts about Canada to its patrons in the United States, is optiâ€" mistic about the future of Ontario. After commenting upon the recent advances in the prices of base metals and other commodities and after notâ€" ing the benefits to be derived from the British preferences on our primâ€" ary products, it is aware of nd other market, either in the United States or in Canada, which shows greater promise of growth in population and in manufacturing, mining and agriâ€" cultural activities. It claims that the province already has 52 per cent. of Canada‘s manufacturing producâ€" tion, 43 per cent of its buying power and 35 per cent. of the national wealth, and that it has shown a reâ€" markable stability of conditions in the face of a threeâ€"year depression. Here are other statements about Ontario put forward by the Bureau. The value of manufactured prodâ€" ucts grew from $579,000,000 in 1910 to $2,103,000,000 in 1929. It possesses the most promising mineral resources of any section of the world; its agriâ€" cultural output averages $500,000,000 per annum; its farming is highly diversified, which makes for stabilâ€" ity. It boasts an immense asset in the extent of its cheap hydroâ€"electric power. â€" Its cities are practically free of slums. _ The average wageâ€"earner bas not suffered to anything like the extent to which he has suffered in the United States. There has been a greater amount of homeâ€"building, even since 1929, than in the neigh. boring republic. In Toronto the ratio of homeâ€"ownership to populaâ€" tion is 63 per cent., which compares with 30 per cent. in Boston, 36 per cent. in Cleveland, 45 per cent. in Philadelphia and 38 per cent, in St. Louis. The climate _ makes _ for mental and physical efficiency, and thus for progress in industrial, minâ€" eral and agricultural production. From the same authority we learn that the highest development in tele. phone ownership bas occurred in Toronto, rather than in the United States as has often been thought. Acâ€" cording to the Bureau, 80 per cent. of the families in Toronto have teleâ€" phones in their homes, as against 59 per cent. in Boston, 53 per cent in Cleveland, 48 per cent in St. Louis and 47 per cent in New York. We read further: "In no other large city or the North American Continent has there been less of a decline in retail sales and buying power than in Toâ€" ronto. _ The leading Toronto .depart.â€" ment stores are the largest in Canâ€" ada, and are on a par with any other department stores in the world, givâ€" ing further evidence of the high standard of living and buying power in this city." Let us be thankful for health and eompetence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.â€"Izaak Walton. These statistics â€" and â€" deductions, presented as they are by an organizaâ€" tion whose hbead offices are in the United States, should help to inspire the people of this city and province with confidence in their own future. â€"Toronto Mail and Empire. "I always laugh when 1 see anyâ€" thng funny." "You must enjoy yourâ€" selt when you shave." "Long Island," she told the driver and sank back against the hard leaâ€" ther seat. She closed her eyes as the cab wormed its way crosstown toward Quensboro bridge. That state of comâ€" plete relaxation spared her the brunt of what followed. Common â€" sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarâ€" ities.â€"W. R. Alger. All she remembered afterward was tearing a yell and a curse, and feelâ€" ing herself jerked violently forward as the taxi swerved and careened wildly to the sidewalk, striking a flight of stone steps. Then she must have fainted, for she knew no more. (To be contined.) 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One of the most .trik ing features was the strength and duration of the children‘s interest in the activity. . The following stateâ€" ments are typica) of the teachers observations : "‘Pupils beg t the typewriters; school, "‘No matter w of garten children were in the Experiâ€" mental schools and more than two hundred â€" in the Control ®« hoo‘ls Kindergarten children who had a¢ cess to typewriters made more than four times as many attempts to write as did children who had to depend entirely on the pencil as a mediunm of expression." All children in the Expenmens‘ and â€" Control classes . were given achievement tests at the cos: of the investigation. _ For all grades comâ€" bined, it was found that during 4 school year the Experimental chil« dren gained roughly 7 per cent of a grade more on the tests than did the Control children. The â€" typewriter thus appeared to be a clearâ€"cut facâ€" tor in produciug sup».or achievs ment. _ We read further: "After observing the use of the maâ€" chine for two school years, practlc®" ly all of the teachers were conyvils ed of its possibilities as an aid to readâ€" ing. _ In the lower grades the 08° of the mabine seems, in the cas« of some children, to stimulate a !©« ng of readiness for reading. This prob ably results from the ease th which pupils are able to write letters and words,. Even oral reading |® indirectly benefited by the ma hine in that children are edger to read to the class carefully typed stom" * Rub and Scratch Ailment Cured by Sulphur During early July a herd of 175 pigs were examined, that had &!v<" evidence of being unthrifty and u"â€" comfortable, _ These pigs were TV‘ bing and scratching. _ Some wer® very much irritated and had most of the hbair rubbed off. _ Some we"® red and raw from excess rubbins a{ one place. The cause of the itchy skin was not hard to locate, 0n°® the scale and scabs had boen =0‘aDâ€" ed from the skin and onto & P‘°~" of black cloth or paper. . Th¢°° scrapings from the rough parts of (~« pigs skin, were then examined, w!!" a hand lens and found to be *J much alive, with small grey ®* which were recognmized as sarcop‘" mange â€" mites, _ The scales . form wherever the mange mite has b°°" at work and resulted from its ha"‘l of penetrating into the skin with ** stylet, causing_ erythema, which i8 followed by the formation of Y®*%> cles and crusts. It is beneath !h© scale or crust that the mange ®‘‘* is found. The common sarcop© mange can be successfully treated by the use of stock dips that are 0f penetrating nature or by the u®* 0f a& limeâ€"sulphur dip. See â€" bulletin 340, Ontario Department of Agric®â€" ture. _ Mange is widespread amon# swine in Ontario, and is causing !0> thrifty pigs on many farms. . 14t!® atures if abundant enough ®#% take all the profits. to come early to use + also to stay after are from a digest the ease . with to write letter® Dip popu t) A 0 Op ini t th t hi B Anad H oi d ti it h h