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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-09-22, Page 2GREEN TEA BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Sir Charles Abingdon calls “When I tell you why I ask these upon questions—-and I only do so on the Faai Harley, criminal investigator, i understanding that my words are to and tells him he is much disturbed be- be treated in the strictest confidence cause of constant surveillance by par- . vv. ties unknown to him. Harley is asked new light? to d’ne at the Abingdon home and, - when be arrives at the appointed time the butler informs his the master is ca’i •m at the bedside of a sick friend. —you may regard the matter in a „ . ‘Nicol Brinn’ and ‘Fire- Tongue’ were the last words which Sir Charles Abingdon uttered. . ________ _ ~ short silence* ensued, during When Abingdon returns home he * which Doctor McMurroch sat staring tells Fa^ey of a false message sent moodily down at the carpet and Har­ te. Pa‘- him to the home of the sick-ley slowly paced up and down the friend. Dinner is served and during room; then: CJarles,becomes [ "in of the fact» he said sud_ sud'- ^Iv ill and falls from his chair: „„in a dying state. Dr. McMurdoch pro-!den-’ - -Sir Chai les clearly ap- nourccs death due to heart-failure. >- - , - „.v-.ij. jast words are "Nicol ‘ Y6 ,you satisfied1 professionally that Brim” and “Fire-Tongue.” CO AHEAD WITH THE STORY. “Go ahead,” said Doctor McMur­ doch ana. turning to the side table, he reurel out two liberal portions of vm’sky. “If there’s anything I can do to help, coupt me at your service.! so. „ „ ___ ____ You te’l me he had fears about little play? I understood you to mean that Phil?” [his apprehensions were on behalf of “He had,” answered Harley, “and Phil.” it is madenning to think that he died! Paul Ilarley stood still, staring before he could acquaint me With, meditatively in the other’s direction. *4: /"X 1 *4* 1 -| -V* 4- T Lx A w A Tv .v X* I i £ 111 5 ..... J. .. > ... I a sallow complexion, and the features * of a Sioux. t There came a tap at the door. [ “Ini” said the tall man. The door manservant lessly neat cropped cle? to the wind salver upon wh’ch lay “In!" ■ * ■ ,ing down at the card. j His servant silently retired, and i following a short interval i up;'3 1! again upon the door, opened it, an b standing just inside the room an­ nounced: “Mr. Paul Harley.” The door being quietly closed be­ hind him, Paul Harley stoed staring! across the room at Nicel Brinn. j Harley, after that one comprehen­ sive glance, the photographic glance, of a trained observer, stepped for­ ward impulsively, hand outstretched. “Mr. Brinn,” he said, “we have never met before, and' it was good of you to wait in for me. I hope my tele­ phone message has not interfered with your plans for the evening?” Nicol Brinn, without change of pose, no line of the impassive face altering, shot out a large, muscular hand, seized that of Paul Harley in a tremendous grip, and. almost in­ stantly put his hhnd behind his back again. “Had no plans,” he replied, in a high, monotonous voice; “I was bored stiff. Take the armchair.” Paul Harley sat down, but in the restless manner of one who has urg­ ent business in hand and who is im­ patient of delay. Mr. Brinn stooped to a coffee table which stood upon the rug before the large open fireplace. “I am going to offer you a cocktail,” he said. “I shall accept your offer,” return­ ed Harley, smiling. “The ‘N. B. cocktail’ has a reputation which ex- opened silently and a appeared. Ho was spot­ end wore his light hair j to the skull. Crossing )W, ho extended a small a visiting card, repeated the tall man, leek- COBWS Quick relieffrom painful corns, tender toea and pressure pf tight shoes. D^cltoli’s i AtsirwU and sho<f swc3 cvsryivhcrj Lving state. Dr. McMurdoch pro-'^V’ cieany ap- ~ .‘?s death due to heart-failure • Prehended an attempt upon his life, tends throughout the clubs of the death was due to natural causes?” "Perfectly satisfied,” replied the physician, looking up with a start: “perfectly satisfied. It was unexpect­ ed, of course, but such cases are by no means -unusual. I-Ie was formerly a keen athlete, remember. ’Tis often Surely you don’t suspect foul their nature. But I have hopes that you esn help me in this. For in­ stance”—again he fixed his gaze upon the gloomy face of the physician.— “who is the distinguished Oriental gentleman with whom Sir Charles had recency become acquainted?” Doctor McMurdoch’s expression re­ mained utterly blank, and he slowly shook his head. “I haven’t an idea in the world,” he declared). “A patient, perhaps?” ‘Possibly,” said Harley, conscious of some disappointment; “yet from the way he spoke of him I scarcely think that he was a patient. Surely Sir Charles, having resided so long in India, numbered several Orientals among his acquaintances if not among IfijjJ’riends?” “None ever came to his home,” re­ plied Doctor McMurdoch. “He had all Athe Anglo-Indian’s prejudice against men of color.” He rested his massive chin in his hand and stared down re­ flectively at the carpet. Again Harley found himself at a deadlock, and it was with scanty hope of success that he put his next ques­ tion to the gloomy Scot. “Was Sir Charles a friend of Mr. Nicol Brinn?” ha asked. “Nicol Brinn?” echoed the physi­ cian. He looked perplexed. “You mean the American milloinaire? I believe they were acquainted. Abing­ don knew most of the extraordinary people in London; and if half one hears is true Nicol Brinn is as mad as a hatter. "But they were not in any sense friends a^ far as I know.” He was watching Hadley curiously. “Why do you ask that question?” “I will tell you in a moment,” said Harley, raidly, “hut I have one more question to put to you first. Does the term. Fire-Tongue convey anything to your mind?” Doctor McMurdoch’s eyebrows shot upward most amazingly. “I won’t in­ sult you by supposing that you have chosen such a time for oking,” he said, dourly. Harley’s manner was almost fierce. “There is not a scrap of evidence to support such a theory,” he admitted, “but if you knew of the existence of any poisonous agent which would pro­ duce efforts simulating these familiar symptoms, I should be tempted to take certain steps.” “ What had he eaten?” “Nothing but soup, except that he drank a portion of a glass of water. I am wondering if he took anything at Mr. Wilson’s house.” He stared hard at Doctor McMurdoch. “It may surprise you to learn that I have al- In three long strides he crossed the room and locked the door. 1 issue No. -4- r ready taken steps to have the remains of the soup from Sir Charles’ plate examined, as well as the water in the glass. I now propose to call upon Mr. Wilson in order that I may com­ plete this line of inquiry.” “I sympathize with your suspicions, Mr. Harley,” said the physician dour­ ly, “but you are wasting your time.” A touch of the old acidity crept 'back into his manner. “ My certificate will be ‘cyncope due to unusual ex­ citement’; and I shall stand by it. / world.” Nicol Brinn, a product of the Un­ ited States, exhibiting the swift adroitness of that human dod, the New York bartender, mixed the drinks. Paul Harley watched him, meanwhile drumming his fingers restlessly upon the chair arm. “Here’s success,” he said, “to my mission.” It was an odd toast, but Mr. Brinn merely nodded and drank in silence. Paul Harley set his glass down and glanced about the singular apartment of which he had often ’ heard and which no man could ever tire,, of ex­ amining. In this room the poles met, and the most remote civilizations of the world rubbed shoulders with modernity. “I take it,” said Mr. Brinn, sud­ denly, “that you are up against a stiff proposition.” Paul Harley, accepting a cigaret from an ebony box (once the property of Henry VIII.) which the speaker had pushed across the coffee table in his direction, stared up curiously into the sallow, aquiline face. “You are right. But how did you know?” “You look that way. A" ’were lollowed. Somebody you’ve come here.” Harley leaned forward, resting one hand upon the table. “I know I was followed,” he said, sternly. “I was followed because I have entered upon the biggest case of my career.” He paused and smiled in a very grim fa­ shion. “A suspicion begins to dawn upon my mind that if I fail it will also be my last case. You understand me?” “I understand absolutely,” replied Nicol Brinn. “These are dull days. It’s meat and drink to me to smell big danger.” Paul Harley lighted a cigaret and watched the speaker closely the while. “I have come to you to-night, Mr. Brinn,” he said finally, “to ask you a certain question. Unless the theory upon which I am working is entirely wrong, then, supposing that you are in a position to answer my question I am logically compelled to suppose, also, that you stand in peril of your life.” “Good,” said Mr. Brinn. “I was getting sluggish.” In three long strides he crossed the room and locked the door. (To be continued.) CHAPTER IV. INTRODUCING MR. NICOL BRINN. At about nine o’clock on the same evening, a man stood at a large win­ dow which overlooked' Piccadilly and the Green Park, The room to which the window belonged was justly con­ sidered one of the notable sights of London and doubtless would have re­ ceived suitable mention in the “Blue Guide” had the room been accessible ’ to the general public, It was, on-the contrary, acceseiblo only “to the per­ sonal friends of Mr. Nicol Brinn. The man at the window was inter­ ested in a car which, approaching from the direction of the Circus, had slowed down immediately opposite and now was being turned, tho chauf­ feur’s apparent intention being to pull . up at the door below. He had seen | the face of the occupant and had .recognized" it even from that eleva- : tion. The watcher, Who had been stand­ ing in a dark recess formed by the presence of heavy velvet curtains draped before the window, how open- ’ od! the curtains and stepped into the : lighted*<oom. He was a tall, lean Also—you “r knows Three Wars. “He’s a veteran of three wars.” “Only two, I’m sure.” “No, three—Spanish-American, the World, and matrimonial.”/ _____A_____ A man who was continually losing his collar-stud while dressing com­ plained to his wife about it. With an ingenuity porn of the use of hair-pins, she told him that if he Would hold liis Stud in his mouth he would not lose it. This worked for several -days, when one morning she was startled by an unusual commotion going on upstairs. “What’s the matter?” asked the wife anxiously. "I’ve swallowed my collar-stud!” gasped the husband. 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Brazil’s Academy, making a Brazilian diction­ ary, finds that the aborigines and Africans imported as slaves, have ad­ ded respectively 3,000 and 1,000 terms to the vocabulary, besides numerous literary and popular terms unknown in Portugal. Some 400 years ago a was discovered near The German name for The WHniSX E.W. COLLETT CO. LTPV • TORONTO, CAN. way osswe Made in Canada. JVo JHwn. net all, of tho 175,009 Menr.onites of the United States will have migrated to the new “Land of Promise.” ..A vanguard of about 2,00'9 Canadian, Mennonites axe now at work in the; Paraguayan hinterland preparing the- soil and building communities for. those to follow. This extraordinary f migration was begun under the direc- ■ tion and advice of Brig.-Gen. Samuel' McRoberts, chairman of the board of; the Chatham and Phenix National \ Bank, New York City, who was chief j cf the procurement division or thej ordnance department during the World War. it was to him that thoj Mennonites in Canada turned when they decided that tho time had come for another long trek. As he is quot­ ed in the New York Evening Post, General McRoberts sayg: “A committee of Canadian Mennon­ ites came to me about five years ago, and asked me to help them find' a place ’ now number hundreds of thousands where they could colonize. Why they. throughout the world, and all now- came to me, I dont know. But they, adays have their eyes on Paraguay.” described what they wanted—-chiefly a place where they could lead their pastoral life and be left alone by gov­ ernments and free from interference ox- mixture with outsiders, and I agreed to help them. “The choice of a land quickly sim­ mered down to Paraguay. Asia was out of the question because of politi­ cal and religious turmoil tlfere. East­ ern Europe would not do because of economic conditions. Africa is a Brit­ ish colony and would not suit the Men­ nonites. The Mennonites wanted to Radio Paths for Ocean. Liners Double-beam radio beaefins as a. means of directing aircraft across the’ Atlantic were foreshadowed by Dr. J. II. Dellinger, Chief of the Radio Lab­ oratory of the Bureau cf Standards, in an interview with a reporter qf the New York “Times,” on the eve of his departure for Europe qn a three* times months’ radio tour of inspec­ tion. Dr, Dellinger pronounced such a plan as entirely feasible and believ­ ed it not unlikely that they would be constructed within ten years. Colonel Lindbergh has predicted regular com­ mercial flying between New York and Paris within this period of time. Says The Times: Aircraft radio beacons for lessening the hazards of transatlantic flying would necessitate the erection cf radio-transmitting stations at intervals of 500 or 1,000 miles at points in the ocean or tho establishment of two* powerful stations on both sides of the Atlantic. H the former proposal is adopted, these;, directive beacon sta­ tions would have to be made station­ ary in tho ocean—probably forming an integral unit of the widely discust sea­ dromes, where airplanes crossing the- ocean could land, and from which they could take off. These radio-transmit­ ting stations would be erected at inter­ vals of 500 or 1,000 miles with the use of the double-coil antenna as a means of radiating the double-beam signals for guiding aircraft. These stations,, just as in the case of aircraft radio­ In the course of this beacons on land, would continuously that have branchcdJ-rcm the Mennon- ito faith, but still hold to' the out­ standing tenet of pacifism. These sects I For nearly three centuries, says ( The Evening Post editorially, the [ Mennonites have been seeking a home free from war. I.............__ .......... search they have wandered from one send out two directional signals anl- section of Europe to another. In 1G83 (thus establish a path or zone of safety on tho invitation of William Penn,'along which airplanes could travel they went to tho U.S., and in the lat-1 with relative safety, ter part of he last century a number I If, however, only two directive bca- . of them settled in Canada. . But war' con stations—ono on each side of Um- followed them everyvzhere. Now, how- Atlantic Ocean—are to be erected, it ever, we are told, they are to be am-[will be necessary, according to Dr., on-g a peopl who are not warlike. The Dellinger-, to use high power. Paraguayan army consists of only! Transatlantic airplanes taking ad-- get away from Canada because they ■ 2,500 men, organized to keep order j vantage of these directive beacc^s. are chiefly German and were unhappy! in the country’s 171,815 square miles, I would have to be equipped with a rc- andweroad: “As the Mennonites dis-j reiving set, operated with ono dial; courage their members from holding, a visual indicating device for ;lonot- public office or seeking ‘the vanities' ing when the aviator is traveling ia of this world,’ they are riot likely to 1 a zone of safety as outlined by t.’o ‘ and a- io engine in* erf er- ■ in case At th ’ present time, most of the experimental work cf the Radio Laboratory cf the Bureau of Standards with radio aids to air navigation centers about tho re­ ceiving apparatus for use on airplanes. Experimentally there has been de­ veloped at College Park, Maryland, a. simple one-dial receiving outfit which is automatic in operation. Varicolored lights flashed on the instrument board of the .flying craft indicate to pilot when he is on or off cquisigna) zone or path of safety. "From this beginning,” said Dr. Del­ linger, “reflecting arrangements of im­ proved types have been developed by American and other experimenters giving the evolution of the so-called beam system.” It is in the realm of navigational aids, the Doctor thinks, that direc­ tional radio has attained the greatest success. The direction finder, he says, is a device now well known to mariners. In its simplest form, it is merely a coil of wire which indicates the direction from whch a wave is coming, merely by turning the coil and listening to the variation of the intan- . sity of the signal. He goes on: In the rapidly developing realm, cf air navigation the direction finder has not been found so practical as in mar­ ine use. Fortunately there is another way of utilizing directional radio which bids fair to solve the problem of air 'navigation in fog. This method takes' advantage of the direc­ tive properties of a loop antenna. Just as with other types of directive antennap there is no production of a sharply defined radio beam, but the directive effect is sufficiently great, to be usable. At a transmitting station operating as a radio beam for aircrait navigation, two coil antennas arejise’.i, erected at right-angles to one another, each of these sends out waves largely directed in the line along which the antenna points. An airplane flying along a line equidistant from these two lines receives signals of equal in­ tensity from each. When off to the right or the left of this line, it re­ ceives one signal more intense than the other. A number of ..ingenious^ methods have been worked out, take advantage of this variation to keep an aviator on his course. ___’__.•! If, however, only two directive bca- But war' con stations—ono on each side of tbs- there following the war. So I sent Mr. Fred Engen, an experienced col­ onist, to Paraguay, and he found al­ most exactly what the Mennonites were seeking.” Undei’ the colonization plan which now has been in progress foi* five years, we read' further, the Mennon­ ites will sell their present holdings in Canada and settle on 3,000,0'00 acres of fertile land in the uppci- Para- nuayan chaco the Indian name for wilderness—-about 1,700 miles- above Buenos Aires. The land belongs to the Carlos Casado family, which owns a total tef 7,000,000 acres along the River Paraguay and- the eastern range of the Andes. After arrange­ ments had been made with the Casado family to set aside 4,000,000 of the 7,0'6'0,00'0 acres, and a corporation had been organized to handle tho develop­ ment of 3,000,000 acres for the Men­ nonites, Mr. Engen negotiated a charter from the Paraguayan Gov­ ernment which gives the Mennonites every privilege they asked. We read on: “It amounts to the creation of a State within a State wherein the Mennonies may enjoy their chief re­ ligious tenet, freedom from military service, as wpll as exemption from taking oaths and the privilege of run­ ning their own churches and schools. “After a committee of Mennonites had approved the land and reported on it in glowing terms to their Can­ adian brethren and the Government charter was granted them, prepara­ tions for colonization began. A base was established at Puerto Casado-, on , the Paraguay River. Here a great Drives away pain—Minard’s Liniment hotel and several community houses j have been built for the housing < " " ** first colonists. A pumping station has been completed to supply fresh drinking water. “These first houses will be vacated ; by their present occupants as soon as their permanent homes have bden built, and will be turned over to suc­ ceeding colonists as they arrive. I coming families will gradually' be come into conflict with th© Paraguay- j double-beam radio waves; ans. Being excellent fanners, with a means of shielding the aiiiili: gift for organization, they will aid ignition system to prevent materially in developing this back- ence with radio reception, ward South American country.”— ' radio telephony is employed. Literary Digest. Figure. but sho’s some one’s'tis true beach but not in tho Homely daughter, She goes to tlio water. She’s not just afraid sho’ll get herself wet But tho water will hide her one and best bet.« * ♦ The word dollar has an interesting history, which is related In the town of Yachimov, in Czechoslovakia, where representatives of the Little Entente recently met. silver mine Yachimov., the , town was Joachimstahl. Count of Schlitz had silver coins- made from the metal and these coins bore the likeness of St. Joachim. Thfe silver money was known as joachimst- haiers. This- was, in time, abbreviat­ ed to thalers. Other changes .occur­ red sach as daalder, daler and dalar. In the sixteenth’ century these coins were called dollars te England.>!< * * Christendom's last monastic repub­ lic still holding sovereign power in its territory, that of Mount Athos in one of the Greek peninsulas, is to be deprived by Parliament of its com­ mand of the gendarmerie. This sym- * Russia were among the first settlors bol of the Patriarch’s civil sway will - in Kansas and introduced there the be for State reasons transferred to the authority of the Government.# « * States of the Union that had lynch­ ings last year numbered ten, the same as In-1924 and 1925. States ..that never have had a lynching are Massachu­ setts, New Hampshire', Vermont and Rhode Island.• * * A Bolton watchmaker haa entered the perpetual motion class’. His in­ vention is a wrist-watch, inside which Is a small weight or balance that swings with every movement of the wrist and gives a turn to tho spring. Half an hour’s wear is said to be suf­ ficient to wind it for forty hours*of timelteeping. Should the watch run down, all that it -Is necessary to do is to put it on the wrist, when at bnco it begins ticking. * # ♦ Soviet Russia claims a prodigy. He is Nicholas Nazarov VTho, at 16, is a full-fledged college professor. Nicho­ las entered Tashkent University pt the age of 10 and in four years com­ pleted the mathematical, historical and scientific courses which other students required ten years to finish* of the" HouseBy Can Travel Six Miles in a Day That the housefly not uncommonly makes a joilrney of five or six miles i in twenty-four hours is shown by ex- I periments conducted by the United States Bureau of Entomology. Fly t _ i flight tests were conducted in Texas. ' Approximately 234,000 flies of many . , . , . r . different species were trapped, then”1° 7^ ■ dusted with My powder®! Elkans mumeatron between these interior. llborate(L P1 traps with {OTd re. fanul «> and the base will be mam- nieB were lacefl. T, and bullock-j howefl houBefl 1- 7 H C0;°™TTa covered in some cases more than six most, duplicates the mov&ment of Am-1 .. . . „„_• „ t • . /xi • tit • -i miles in less than twenty-tour liours. erican pioneers into Ohio, Illinois, and ... .. ,a xi. • i Observations at Rebecca Light S.noal,Kansas. Among those pioneers, inci-1 ......................° . dentally, were many ancestors of the Mennonites now planning, the migra­ tion” to Paraguay. Mennonites from *hard winter wheat’ for which the State is now famous, | “The agricultural value of the land in Paraguay, according to General McRoberts, was an important induce­ ment to the Canadian Mennonites. Their first report to their followers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan describ­ ed their ‘Promised- Land’ as looking ‘like an immense park,’ wherein they found oranges, lemons, bananas, and cotton growing wild. » | “It'xs said there are forty-two sects miles in less than twenty-four hours. 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