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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-6-10, Page 6p., •»:.`b�7,�i"tace,.e.,r,-Y,...., ,. THE SHOT IN THE NIGHT BEGIN HERE TODAY. j "Oh, net him, please , Anyhow, The writer of this story, seeking ` be lives quite some way oft." nocturnal adventure, walks toward "So much the better, Better not London from Woolwich. He stops have your doctor if we can help it. to rest in front of a long, low hoose Isn't there one in this road?' of interesting architecture with ; "Yes. Dr. Felstead . nearly op - front covered with white stucco. Tall posite." French windows lead into the gar-1"All right. you know the story to den. In one of the French windows there burned a light. tell? You want to bed at ..zbet A revolver shat is heard. The ter tell the truth, at•what time?" writer lifts the lateh of the gate and; "Eleven o'clock." tiptoes up the walk to peer into the I "And your husband stayed in the lighted window. He sees a man; study working; he said he had some - seated in a desk chair. He steps thing urgent to prepare, Round about into the room and finds the man half -past five a shot woke you up. dead. A door opening into a dress -1 You jumped out of bad, ran in here, ing-room is ajar and from that room l conies the sound of sobbing. A beauti-- i and found hint. You understand? ful woman is. holding a revolver, She Really, pull yourself together.�� R;e- confesses to shooting her husband be -i peat what I have just told you, g Staring at me, in a hypnotized cause he has been cruel to her about - sr a former lover named Dick. voice,; she said, At half past five I a shot woke me up; I jumped out of NOW GO ON WITH THE STORYI bed, ran in and found him, and then ""He loved ire when he'd got me:. and then . , " most wretched. And he didn't get' "Then you lost your 'head, and you tired of it. Oh, I can't tell you." telephoned for me, 1Vir. Brown." "Go on." "Mr. Brown." "Well, it was last night, to -night I "Yes. I'ni an old friend of the family. I arrived, and you asked me to go for the doctor. I'll go now." The small hand clutched nay arm.. is first mate now. So .. you can't "No, ring up, •please. Don't leave believe a man would be so vile . , my me." husband bribed the captain to dis- "All right. But when the doctor miss Dick with a bad character." She conies, it's you who trust open the almost choked: " . to dismiss him door." for being drunk on duty. He's ruined III. done for." Her voice rose loud: It seemed a long time before Doc - "And when I thought of my boy Dick, tar Felstead came. I had had trouble as I lay there in bed, ruined, done for with, him over the telephone, for he . something seemed to go in my did not seem to understand how a head. 11y husband had a revolver for! person who was not a patient should burglars. , I knew where it was ... want him so early in the morning. At I don't knave how I did it . . - I just last, I made him realize that there ran in, right up to his desk, and fired was a casualty; he arrived at twenty at him. , .. And I don't know, I don't to seven. All that time I had been know ... and here I ani,• and here' pacing about the tragic room, watch- Iam...ohlmyGodl" My hand went out to find hers, to hold it in a reassuring grip. I did ,et�tliilll IIIff I .Ise ` i not trust myself to speak, for horror and the repulsion had gone; in my heart was 'only pity for the woman iiliAillulvll�ll(I f�..' 1 who had suffered so much. mean, just before I went to bed. My husband told he he'd been the owner of Dick's ship for some months. Dick II. For a few moments my mind work- ed orked in the midst of confusion. Save eeeeahe.peeonrohow, I must, but the problem did not at once resolve itself very clearly. It was no use to tell .her to run away. She would be caught. It is a testimony to my disturbance that the solution did not come to me until the woman, with a profound sigh, let herself sink back, while from her weak hand the revolver fell upon the floor. Ip ulled her to her feet. I realized that it must be getting light, that something must be done now: "Look here," I said. "I don't know you. I didn't know him. I don't care whether you killed hini or not, but I'll help you:' "Yes," she said, looking up at me. In the beautiful green eyes lay child- ish trust and complete weariness. I picked up the revolver: "There's only one way. We must make it look as if he committed suicide," "Yes," she said, listlessly. "Will you wait here for a moment while I .. arrange things?" She nod- ded, but just as I reached the desk and its ghastly occupant I heard her footsteps behind me. She dared not remain alone. I caught a glimpse of her now and then, as I fitted the fin- gers about the weapon. I managed to curl the little finger to make firm the grip of the nerveless hand. Yes, it was complete. Then I was surpris- ed to hear behind me a hysterical lit- tle laugh, and the woman's voice say- ing: "He was left-handed."- I could not help smiling through my horror at this revival of the spirit of self- preservation, and shifted the revolver to the left hand. "Now," I said, turning to her, "It's quite simple. e. Where does your doc- tor live?" Carryit a1w s Wit ou/ . r t WRIGLEYS Keeps teeth' clean, breath sweet, appetite keen and digestion good. iiradt after wn,t.rrsi aan m S a,if 5 (� nv g p+? Doublemt,i. JukrFrau • cowl amdtifp It it EveryMeal 4- "Look," I said,, "that's where, your bullet went." • ing my ghastly -companion, and tremu- lously feeling that he was obstinately staring at me through those half- closed eyes. I kept a watch, too, upon the woman in the other room, who had thrown herself into the :armchair. From time to time I went to her, forting her to sit up . and to repeat her story. She terrified me, for the Words came as from a gramophone. Also, at the last moment, when she heard the front door bell, she gave a scream of terror and clutched me round the neck in a maniacal grip; I could feel her shivering all over, her heart beat as if she were about to suf- focate. I had to use violence at last to tear her hands apart, to shake her to her feet and to drive her, whimper- ing and crying, to the front door. I heard the door open; the doctor's voice, his steps in the hall. Just as I was moving toward the door, a sound caused - me to turn, a loud so whichfrom and had- come the corpse. Shaking with terror I gazed at the motionless thing. It was only as the doctor entered that I realized that the revolver had fallen from the hand. I don't know why, but this ; mails me feel sick with fear; i it seem- ed to me that our scheme was set at naught by this trifling accident. I don't know why, but I formed the idea that if the pistol were not grasped in. the dead hand, we should be exposed. I rushed toward the body. The doc- tor was coming in. In a sudden fit of madness,, I picked up the pistol and thrust it into my ticket The doctor gave me a curt nod,1 went up to the body, felt the pulse.' The woman in the doorway was watching me,her eyes blinking with!, hysteria. While the doctor . was sounding the heart, I could hear her; voice, mechanieally reciting "to" bed at eleven o'clock .. I was asleep,' and at half -past five . , ." i She was tying the rope round her neck, now that the pistol no longer lay on the fioor", for 1 had no chance yet to put it back. If I could only get behind the doctor! I went up to the woman and seized her arm in a.; grip 50 savage that .she winced with pain: "Hold your tongue," 1 Oliver- ed, i iapr-ed, hoarsely. She stopped suddenly, act if paralyzed. 'T rejoined the doctor. If only I could get on the_other side The doetor grange- I e w, I " , h was. g I cake Can Buy 11 , GItTaRbN o:Oax0 f t 'wp not know that this man was left- handed. Then he turned to me and said: "Heart -failure!" "What? How?" I asked. "Oh, it's quite clear." I was too stunned to speak., I let the doctor raise up the body, drag it to a sofa, open the shirt and vest, murmuring meanwhile: "He's dead; I'm sorry to say that's quite certain, but perhaps it will be some satisfaction to you if I make still more sure." The -doc- tor's fingers were nimble; after a moznent the man's chest lay exposed, while the doctor applied his stetho- scope: there was no wound. I felt dizzy. Here was something that I couldn't understand. A man struck as if by lightning, and behind me the woman, the murderess, whom I'd found with the weapon in her hand , .. ? The doctor, had finished: "I'm sorry to say, Mrs.... I haven't the pleas- ure of your name ... that I'm afraid there's no hope. Let me advise you to go to your room." She did not reply, so the doctor turned to me: "Perhaps you will look after this lady. I suppose the servants will be coming down soon." Some instinct was speaking to me now', for I said in an even tone: "Of course,, I'll look after her. It's a great shock to her to come in here and find her husband like this. Haw long do you think hes been dead?" "Well," said the doctor, opening and closing the fingers with complete casualness, "It's difficult to say. There's no real rigor mortis yet, but there's just a little. I should say that he must have died where he sat, not earlier than midnight, and not later than two o'clock in the morning. Still, that's of no interest to you. I'm afraid you'll have to come to the in- quest. I thinit, if`you':1 excuse me, It11 go now, I can't do anything more for you."' "Thank you, doctor," I said, see- ing him out. When I came back, the woman had not moved. She was staring at her husband's body where it lay. "So," I whispered, "you didn't k111 him." "I shot hint," she murmured. "No, no," I said, consolingly, in the tone one uses to a child. "Don't you understand? It was a dead man you fired at. He had been dead over three hours when you fired at him." Then my eyes caught sight of a chiffonier between the two tall windows. "Look," II I said, pointingto a shattered Lowe-! stoft bowl, "tat's where your bullet. went." (The End.)' Another story of midnight adven- ture by W. L. George, "In a Legatee's l Shoes," cvi:l follow this story. . Minard's Liniment for Backache. Dressed for the Part. A movie director was rehearsing a crowd scene for a new thriller. After he had directed the men who had been selected for the scene, he told them tb report at the lot late that afternoon. "This scene we've rehearsed," said he "takes place in Russia, and I want all you ;guys in fur overcoats." "Bust most of us ain't got any fur overcoats," protested one of the ex tray: "That's none of my business," re- plied the director. "If you're not dressed for Russia i don't let you on." The man tarried. "I tell you I won't let yon , on unless you are dressed for Russia!" shouted the director. "But I've got on two suits of under- wear!'protested the extra. Atter Cases. "What/, became cf your watch, my, boy?" "Here it is, father." "What! The 'watch I gave you had a gold r'ese, and this is silver." "Yee, but. father, you roust reinem- her t: ireu.tnstarzces altar eases," •N The T'troote Ifctett'af. fat Incurablce, In affltiettafr with Ociftvua and Mika Hospital:, f . new York, City, Woe a three years' Course at Trxlcml 14 yosay women, having the remittal talawotia,r .end desirous or beoomfn I mow, This N4sp.f0 h:3 ad4ptcd .Shp eight. cea awe, Tf:e name receive uniforfr Gt the 2t*t,7t, M ,rant. il• attawjno4 and travri•e, axf+cr"rs to sr.6 from limy York. 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"Ben, Boit" 1 To have one's song pnbiisli•ed in the millions, hennaed,warbled. and sung. in theatres, concert. r'oonis end homes and "perforated" and put on a roll to he ground out on mech'anical pianos end organs, and yet reoeive no corn- peasation---not even a eopy of hiss own braiu child --was the .experience of Dr. Thomas Dunn Eiglish, author of the truly immortal "Ben 13o1't." In 1843 Dr. Englisch, a praetioing, physician at Fort Lee, N,J., promised two of Ills personal, friends; the editors of "Tine New York Mirror," a poera of the sea as dream t a .conntribution. Little did th Is the Accuracy Possible When Measuringoleiat thus poem would go Steel Band �Tapos.` down into li'istary as one of the great- est sentimental ditties of the age. A surveyor's steel band, tape 100 feet throughout the ages, from country to Wizen he sat down; to write the divine in length can be measured with an. er orr not exceeding one one -thousandth of -an inch. This is an. interesting fact mentioned in a recent report of the Physical Testing Labaretory of the Topographical Survey; Department e the Interior, at Ottawa. Tow is this --dorms and what is the purpose of such accurate measure- menta,,the layman may ask. The ques- tion can best be ans'Sv@red by consider— ing the origin of some of the standards Of length of the past and imagining the difficulties that would result were sur- veyors in Canada to survey valuable city Lots with the statutory units of length of earlier times. Perhaps- the most curious of these old sitandards -was ,the inch in the reign of Henry III. of England: In 1224 the. rule was laid down that three barley- corns' equal one•in�ch. The barleycorns were to be dry and were to be taken from idle middle of the ,ear and -laid. end tar end. The rule continued that 12 inches equal one foot;. 3 feet equal one ell or ulna; 5% ulna equal one perch; 40 perches long and 4 - in breadth equal one acre. The measure went of land therefore depended on the fundamental unit of a barleycorn. One can readily see the multiplication of error which must result in the mea surement of land and ,the trouble it. would cause in this age. where city froilttage otter -reaches a value of sev- eral thousand -dollars a foot• A Peculiar Method. Henry I. established the yard as the distance from the print of his nose to the end of hie thumb. It is not record- ed how often he was) called upon by the surveyors- of that day to render the necessary assistance in graduating their measures • With the legal stand- ard or what ambiguities may have re- sulted from this peculiar method of measurement. Equally curious Was, the derivation of the - rood in Germany in t'he sixteenth century. Rosbei's work on surveying relates that "to find the length of a rood in the' right and law- ful way, and according to scientific usage, you shall do as. follows: Stand at the door of a church on Sunday and bid sixteen men to stop, • tall one 1, sand small ones, as they bappeu teapass out when the aervice le finished, _ th•en make them put their left feet one be- hind the other, :and the length thus ob- tained shall be a right and lawful rood to.•survey the land with and the six- teenth part of it shall be a right and lawful` foot." We are not told what authority there"was to compel these inen to stop and line up or what the penalty would he. in case Of refusal, - Standards of length have varied It ie the women who get in the hay ti,,_„w country, from 'eo, j,t to county and afflatus was nowhere iu els ht iizitil - ha begau to delve Into rerni.niseencee of his boyhood. Mechanically he wrote the line: Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Then followed a poem of live Stan, zas of eight lines each. Not until" the last line is there auy reference to the sea, when suddenly the hero's occu- pation is given as "Ben Bolt of the salt. sea gale." It Wes this, last line that strengthened the ballad and fulfilled the promise of a sea poem to the au- thor's editor -friends. Off It went and was duly.published on September 2, 1843. The author then essayed to set the Deem to music, but with no suc- oess. But the tuns which carried "Ben Bolt to every corner of the English- speaking, world was an old German melody. It carne through the efforts of Nelson 'themes, a roving minstrel singer. While appearing at a Pitts- burgh theatre Kneass. was told by the management that if a' new song could be produced he would be added to- the east of the next play scheduled. He consulted a hanger-on at the theatre, a' former British journalist, A. el. Hunt. Hunt had read "Ben. Bolt" in an Eng- lish news'peper, gave it to ICneass from - memory and filled in. from his imagination .when his, memory failed. Rueass thereupon adapted. the Gei'lnari melody to the words and subsequently the completed song was introduced in the new play, ""The Battle of Buena Vista." The drama tired, but the s� survived. A music pub'-isber"obtained the copyright and reaped a fortune.. Everybody had adopted "Sweet Alice as their pet The grace of'the lines and the. repetition -`of "Ben Bolt" made it highly effective. The ballad itself voices, a universal theme. It echoe the vain regrets of a -man who looks back upon a youth that is . gone forever. So much -so that Du Maurier' in 1895 utilized this unsophisticated little. song as the pivotal point in his famous. "Trilby," fully fifty -two --years after: its appearance in America: Dr English was fond of relating that after the song was pirated a ship, a steamboat and n a racehorse were named after it, adding: "The ship was wrecked, the steamboat exploded and the horse never woh a race"—some- what consistent with his own luck in never' receiving any royalty. His sole compensation was, m watching "Ben Bolt" gliding safely through the sing- ing waters of song._ _ I even from one village to a neighboring village. Many- attempts have been made to select a standard not depend- ent on a recognized physical m-eaenre- f ing rod. French engineers sren.t'seven yeaa's in determining the length of the metre and even then failed to obtain the iiiillionth .part of the oath's quad- rant to the accuracy desired.. Others have attempted to relate measures of length to time by the determination of the length of a'•peneulum vibrating seconds; thus establishing a measure- ment of length fundamentally related to the'time of revolution of the earth. Canadian Standard. But the fact remains• that the stand, and of measure in Canada its a bronze bar similar •to the Imperial standard yard legalized in 1835. Three copies were sent to Canada in 1874 but two were lost in the fire which destroyed the Parliament. Buildings at Ottawa in 1916. The distance between two fine lines ou the surviving bar in the custody of the Weights and Measures Standards Branch of the ,Department of Trade and Commerce is the legal unit of measurement of length in Can- ada as established by the Weights and Measures- Act. Working in sea -boots and their hus- bands' gear. Days begin early when the weather's clear, But when the fog drifts inshore, .wet and gray, They work at hooked rugs and their quilts all day, Hearing the cope horn bellowing like a steer. The standard rules of the Topo- graphical Survey for calibrating mea- sures 'of dength. are kept at the Physi- calTesting Lab'oiatory. There Is equipment here y for determining lengths to the finest of accuracy. While under o'bs,ervation the rules, are kept in. a bath of distilled water to ensure uniform temperature;. and: measure t meats are made witch the aid of special ' elghpower microscopes. In. order to avoid mul'tiplicaticn of error in ex= tending the unit ..measure . over the length 'of 100 feet, measurements, of the single unit may be matle•to an ,ac- curacy - of ons ,fifty -thousandth of an inch. • Dominion Land Surveyor -s• are re- quired by statute to have a steel band tape, of whket the. Iength has'been de- termined,. A certificate is :supplied by the PhYs•ical Testing Laboratory for each te tested: ap tested: This tape must, in each case, be handled with oars and on no account used for field work for fear 'of altering its length by getting bent I or twisted. With this tape the sur - i veyo.r checks his field tapes frorn time to .time. It is therefore necessary in fthese days of very high land values that his fundamental unit -of length be known with a high degree of accuracy land the testing of tapes Is therefore Ione of the important functions of the ;laboratory. "To My Wife.. Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Reginald. Heber, Bishop ot Calcutta, Change, to these al, things are sub -wrote two hymns that have become fa- ject but Eternal. Love.-Shel-ey, mous: "Holy, holy, Hods, Lord 'God Almighty," and the missionary hymn,, From Greenland's Icy Mountains," He wrote the -following beautiful lines to his wife during his voyage to India in 1822 thena long and tiresome one, to, take up his bishopric:— , With so much wind there is small If thou, my love, west be' my side, my chance for trees, babies at my knee, - The houses stand out, shelterless and Ancl in the graveyards near the pound- ing fleas Ti e epic stones rise in bleak solitude, Each one• recounting r g e- Eao its own tag. dies Often with latitude anti longitude. Minard's Liniment for burns. Songs of Sea and Lands. I read whatever bards have sung nE lanae ea one toa sea, And the bright days when I was young Come thronging hack to me. In fancy I can Bear again The Alpine torrent's roar, The mule -bells on the hills: of .Spain, The sea at Elsinore. I journey on by park and -spire,= Beneath centennial trees, Through fields with poppies all on fire, And gleams of deflate: seas. Let others traverse sea and land, - Anci toil through various climes, 1 turn the world round with my hand - Reading these poet's rhymes. Longfellaaw. Real Irish. errs Merby was tnstruoting her .beat maittof-all-work regarding the proper names of cerfain ar'tieles. "Arid, Bridget," slue said, "these are ewers—ewers -don't call, them jig's." "Sure ate I won't, ma'•ani," said Wid- get. "An' is alt them little basins mine too, ma'am?" w g y would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea! I miss thee at t1xedawujng grey,- when on our deck reclined, In careless eas my limbs'I lay andwoo the 'cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream my twilight steps I guide; But most beneath the lamp's pale bean I miss thee by my side. Lary ead my books, my pencil try, the •lingering noon to cheer; ®�,,r But miss fly kind approving eye, th:y®ryou.r meek attentive ear, . But when at porn and eve the star .be - holds me on my knee, ' I' feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for me. Then on! then on! where duty leads . my course be onward still -- O'er .broad Iliedustan's' sultry_ meads; o'er bleak Almora,h's hill: • That course nor Delin's kingly gates, nor 'wild Malwah detain, For sweet the bliss us both awaits by yonder western main ea -tures thtinan1ess 100 Miles Per gallon of Gas on the New. Single Harley-Davidson Motor- cycleA Less than one cent per mile to operate. - Write for catalogue and Prices. tf-a a.ci i ►alter Andrews, Jets ; 346 Yonge St, a Toronto•A C:"nadiatt Genei�i Isle ;tt•fc Product., The Thurnb Rest which re - 0 heves all strain from the hand and wrist. • The Heel Stand which makes it tuinecessary to lift the iron. The 'Hinged Plug, which pre- VP vents wear and disconnection of the cord • The -Hot Point, which snakes ironing quicker and easier.. Hotpoint is the only electric iron in the world to give you all these advantages. And the price it -ren arkably low. Hotpoint Standard Iron $5,50. Special Ion l$1 extra. THE Killarney's Shores. Rising the mountain region toward Killarney, came . to, atrack of. moun- tain bog, one of the mast improvable I have anywhere seen. Soon enter"ed the wiidesft and mese romantic country, a region of steep rocks an.l mountains,, which eentinwed for nine or ten miles. From oue of theseheights looked for- ward to the lake .of Killarney and at a considerable distance, lifeeT back- - ward, to the river Kenmare. Came in view of a small part of the Upper Lake spotted with islands and surrounded by the most tremendous mountains that can be imagined. . . . From this scene of wild magnificence, I broke at once upon all the .beauties of Kiliarnney. , The part of the lake you command. appears a basin of two or three miles round; toh t clef f• t t is - enc o� 1 se d by -the mountains you have passed, particu- larly by the Torc, whose outline is un- aonunonly noble and joins a 'range of others that form the most magnificent shore in the world. On the other side is a rising scenery of cultivated hills. . From - thence I ]ooke,d clown on a pretty range aE enelosures, on the lake, and on the woods and lawns of bluckr•oss Abbey, forming a large promontory of thick wood, shooting far into the lake. The most active fancy can sketch nothing in addition. islands or wood beyond seem to join it, and reaches of lee lake breaking partly between give the most lively intermixture of water; alx or seven isles or islets form an aconin parement, some rocky, but with: a slight vegetation, .otlterscontaining groups of trees; and the whole tirou'ra into forms which would furnish new Meat to d S a a painter. --Arthur Young, in. "A .flour in Ireland." For Young or Old.. Young Wilson had been, much itt- tezes�ted izi cet'.•tain sblf'ttcls emaazating from the o Witliame barn; so when next met young filen Welles-fee he ask- ed: "''ou folks have got A new calf, haven't you?„ "No," replied young 'cireilt,,ls, "that Is only grandpa pra:ctleing on bls n.eW �axol,J:olio."