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The Clinton News Record, 1931-09-17, Page 2Clinton News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO Terms of Subnoriptlon—$2.00 per year inadvance, to Canadian addresses; $2.50 to the W.S. or other 'roreign countries, No paper 'dlscoptinued until all arrears are paid unless tit the option 'ot .the publisher: ` The date to which every subscription Is Dahl is denoted on the label. ,Advertising Pates—Transient adver• tieing, 12e pea count line for first' insertion. 8e for eacb subsequent Insertion. ns ion. C•]eading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements,`not to exceed. one inch, such as "Wanted,' "Lost," "Strayed," :etc., inserted once tor 35c. each subsequent Insertion 15c Advertisements sent in without in. structious as : to the number of In. sertlor a wanted willrun until order• ed out and will be ebarged accord• (ugly. Rates for display advertising. made known on application. Communications intended tor pub• %leation must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. D. 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Losses inspected by the director w'.o lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS! TIME TABLE — -� Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderlch Div. Going East, depart. 6,58 a.m. 8.05 pan. Going West, depart 11,55'a,m. " n ; " 9.44p.m. London, Huron 4 Bruce Going South 8,08 pan. Going North . 11,58 Salada Orange Pekoe has a ost fascinating flavour . 111 RANGE PEKE, BLEND a- d A 4 $t°Ppst°s�ll from the garde/10 7N3{ •ism-owM►m=.-.+-•-..-o-.-.-s•o+.-.-.•e..-.. THE TULE MARSII MURDER STORY OF A MISSING ACTRESS AND THE TAX ING OF WITS TO EXPLAIN HER FATE. BY NANCY RAfllt MAVITY, SXNOPSIs Don IDllsworth's wife, formerly the actress Sheila O'Shay, disappears, leav- ing no trace, Dr. Cavanallgh, criminal psychologist, learns that their married lite has been very unhappy. Peter Piper, I•Ierald reporter, while trying to get an interview with Dr. Ca- Vanaugh, meets Barbara. the attraotiye daughter, and finds she was engaged to Ellsworth before his marriage... An unidentified body has been burned In the mash until it is entirely unrecog- nisable except for the feet that it 18 e woman. Dr. Cavanaugh tells Peter that the body found in the marsh is that of Sheila O'Shay; Barbara faints when she hears this, Peter, who is halt in love with Barbara, suspects that she knows something about the murder. Mrs. Dano, Sheila O'Slray's waiting' woman, is ar rested, and Peter is sent to interview he:. CHAPTER XX.-(Cont'd.) With a smile half indulgent, hof wistful, the doctor led the way down the corridor to the jail elevator. Youth! When a man Iooks thus ten. derly or the ebullience of youth, Dr, Cavanaugh reflected, he is growing old. The time had long past when any of life's indiceuts could make him shout "Whoopeel" The greatest psychiatrist in America glanced briefly at the newspaper reporter whose pay envelope held $50 every week, and sighed a sigh of reminiscent envy. The long bare room in the women's quarters of the city jail smelled vague- ly of whitewash, The matron, with clanking keys at her belt, and an air professionally maternal, ushered in Mrs, Kane and faded into, a corner. Peter grinned. •It must be rather a strain to assume a motherly air with the redoubtable person who marched to the table when the two men had seated themselves, and faced theca with a belligerent stare. "Mrs. Kane," Dr. Cavanaugh Le- gan with an air of kindly severity, "you have made a mistake in judg- ment.t' "You ain't got a thing on me, not a thing," Mrs. Kane snapped,her teeth flashing up and down with more than usual rapidity. "They can talk till doomsday, and I'll say the same You got that hair by hook or by crock, but how can you prove that it belong- ed to Miss O'Shay? Answer me that!" "A good point," Dr, Cavanaugh conceded blandly. "But if the hair which I took from your dress does riot connect you with Miss O'Shay, it does connect you with the woman found, supposedly murdered, in the tole marsh. Things might be rather unecmfortable for you if you refuse to admit that the hair is hers." Mrs. Kane's mouth opened, closed again with a click, and finally ra opened. "Anybody that thinks I'd harm. Miss O'Shay is a fool," she -muttered. "Ali you policemen are fools, anyway." "Not necessarily," Dr. Cavanaugh argued cheerfully. "But I'm- not a policeman: Let us suppose that you have Miss O'S'iay's best interests at heart—that you believed you were best protecting her by refusing to tell any of her affairs to outsiders. in the circumstances, I 'still think you made a mistake in judgment. • The police are bot.nd to find out—or at least to try to find out. And in try. Ing they may uncover --all sorts of things.' Mrs. Kane, who had stood rigidly erect, sat down very suddenly in the chair by the table, as if a scaffolding under her voluminous garments had collapsed. She had had a sleepless night, and despite her determination, she leaked badgered and perturbed. The doctor made no hove to go to her assistance, bub ,continued to look across at her with steady, placid' gale. He didn't fuss; he didn't shout'at her and point his finger: he didn't put words into her mouth and demand "Isn't that so?" He seemed to have some sense. Why not tell him --a lit- tle, ajiyhow? Enough to get those questioning men away from her— those men to whom she would not talk. though they kept at her for a yearl "They'd better have left things alone," she protested sulkily. "What good does it do to rake everything up? If that was Miss O'Shay who was found' in the marsh, you can bet there was some scandal back of it, There always was," she added bitter- ly, and followed her words with a ve- hement click, like the snapping spring of a trap. "Still," the doctor suggested tran- quilly, "sonde scandals are worse than others," "1 suppose they are," Mrs. Kane admitted grudgingly. The doctor continued to gaze ser- enely into space. Peter was scrib- bling indecipherable notes on a sheet of copy paper held under the table. The heavy breathing of the matron, who was indulging in what she euphemistically called' d "cat nap" in the corner, 'was the only audible sound in the room. ` - Mrs. Kane also closed her eyes for a moment; but when she opened them they were alert, with the sharp glint "I'll tell you this, if yeti want to know," 'she said acridly, "though I never thought as I'd live to tell it to a single soul. That whipper -snapper, Mr, Ellsworth, didn't want to marry Miss O'Shay, He was wild about her at first—and he wasn't the only man wit) was that, I'm telling you—and then jiecooled off and wanted to back out. They had a terrible fight. But anybody that gets into a" fight with Miss"O'Shay knows he's been in a real scrap. 'Re flung out and said he never wanted to see her again. And then she went to a Iawyer, she did, and drew up the nicest little breach of promise suit you ever saw. You bet she'd got it all down in writing, too, and had kept the letters. It took jest one look at that legal document and the evidence to bring him round. She kept the papers, just to remind him if he ever got funny, and they're in the wall safe in her bedroom to this day. If y,,ou're looking for one person that wouldn't be too displeased to have Miss O'Shay out of the way? it strikes me you'd better page Mr. Don Eils- worth 1" Swishing her long skirts, Mrs. Kane rose to her feet, with what eonld only 'be described as a flounce. "Thanks," said Dr. Cavanaugh, quite unruffled by this outburst. "I'll do that. I am sure that your infer - /nation will prove extremely val.nabla." Peter had also risen to his feet. There wasn't a chance in a hundred, he told himself, but you' never could tell till you tried. • "By the way, Mrs. Kane," he said, speaking for the first time, "I've a camera man waiting just outside the door. I'm a newspaper man, and you know we always have to have attrac• Live pictures to go with our stories. So long as this case is in the papers, anyhow, won't you let us have your picture to dress it up a bit?" With an amazement that almost robbed Peter of the power of action, he saw Mrs, Kane pat her sausage roll of varnished hair, "Well, now," she said, "1 ain't rightly fixed for a picture. But Peter was already shaking the matron by the shoulder, "Hurry up and open the door for the man in the hall, ma," he whisper- ed. "Your prize prisoner is going to pose for a flash!" "I suppose you'd like me to smile? Dear me, that flashlight thing is sure to make me jump a foot!" • "Sure!" said Peter irrepressibly. "Look pleasant, right towards the camera, please. That's it—shoot!" 'As the jail elevator rumbled down. wards, Peter turned to Dr. Cavan- augh. ' "Whoever. would have thought she'd fall for a line like that?" he exclaim- ed, -"Gee, human nature's funny, isn't it?" "So I've oserved," Dr. Cavanaugh agreed imperturbably, "But if you'd looekd at her hair,. you wouldn't have been so surprised. No woman dyes her hair without a reason—or shall we say without faith? You're the first person, I suppose, who has flut- tered Mrs. Kane for a long time. You justified' her faith, And now, I sap - pose, she'll be persuing you, to make sure of her conquest." "God forefend I" gasped Peter. "I hope they keep her parked in jail!" CHAPTEIt XXI. Peter Piper stood With his finger hovering over the doorbell, in a state of acute and unaccustomed ember- rassme„t. Peter's finger usually at- tacked doorbells without hesitancy: He cocked his head slightly to one side and observed that tentative member with detachment, as if it did not be- long to him. "Shucks!" he admonished it with a shake of the head which tilted Ida disreputable soft felt hat even farther over one eydbrow. "Punch, you idiot, punch! You can only get kicked out, and heaven knows, that's no novelty." The doorway where Peter stood was rather impressive, as doorways go; but Peter was unimpressed by grand- eur. Too many mahogany doors had swung open to him --swung open upon suicide, murder, embezzlement, the downfall of ambition, the price of folly. The glamor and the awe' of wealth had long ago lost all power to affect hint --he had followed the same story too often across'Khorassan car- pets and splintery bare. boards. Yet, for some reason Peter was undeniably nervous, But then, Peter had never before attempted a formal social call on a young Lady. In Peter's set you did hot make calls. If you liked a girl you said casually, "What do you say we stay downtown to dinner tonight and do a show?" Then you "bummed" two tick- ets from the drama editor, and that was, that. But Barbara bothered him. You couldn't say a thing like that to Bar- bara. Barba a probabl went to b r showy in box parties without the intervention of a drama editor lir felt as uncertain of Barbara as if she belonged to a strange and probably hostile savage tribe. He had no particular respect for her tribal customs, whatever they were—in fact, he had an extremely,, upstanding respect for his own; hut he had to see her again. And for the first time in his varied life, Peter was greatly at a Ioss as to how to proceed. Well, the only way to do a. thing was to do it. a He o a =ht to have asked ked her first, of course. But you couldn't very well say, "By th'e way, may I ball?" to a girl who has just slumped to the -running board of a ear in a dead faint, (To be eontinned,), What New York Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE 'WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressandking Lesson Fair-. wished With Every Pattern And it's cut on the more feminine lines, so becoming and liked, and just the thing as the "party dress." The main dress is such an uncom- plicated affair. It's the wee sleeve frills and double peplum hip flounces that do the trick. The edges may be finished with picot, done profession- ally. Style No, 513 may be had in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, ; 6 and 38 inches bust. Yellow eyelet/ batiste, aqua -blue, tones in chiffon 'print and pale pink chiffon make up daintily in this node!. Size 16 requires 5% yards 39 -inch. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Deadliest Poison. Known h Found By Scientist Cape Town.—The deadliest poison known to science has been discovered by Dr. H. H. Green of the Ondersta- poort Laboratory, according to the Pretoria correspondent of the Hertzog Government organ, Die Burger. It is stated that one drop .of the poison which has been fooled in a bulbous herb growing in the Transvaal, is sufficient to kill 10,000 adults, the odor alone being enough to cause death. As r• is claimed to be the only known poison leaving no trace in the body of the victim, the government has Decided to,kcep secret the process of manufacture. Known as Adenia, the poison is 5,000 times deadlier than strychnin• Its discvery' arose through a gang of white railway workers tasting the bulbs to quench tl eir thirst. One who swallovied the juice died and all the rest were taken violently ill. Two Africans who• cut up blithe under Dr., Green's instruc- tion were overcome •1?y the smell of the leaves and their lives were saved with difficulty. • Tonnage in London Port London,—More than 1100 vessels, totaling 995,133 net register tons, peed the Port of London ;luring the week ending Aug: 15. Of these 542 were to and from colonial and foreign ports and 564 were engaged in coastwise traffic. "THESE HARD TiMES" "The hard times and scarcity of money makes it more important than ever to economize,. One way I save on clothes is by renewing the color of faded oi' out-of'style,droases, coats, stockings, and underwear. For dyeing, or tinting, I always use Diamond Dyes. They are the most economical ones by far because they. never fail to produce results that make yotr proud. Why, things look better than new when •redyed with Diamond Dyes. They never spot, streak, or ran, They go on smoothly and evenly, when in the hands of even 'a ten -year-old child. Another thing, Diamond Dyos never takethe life e out of cloth or leave it limp as .some dyes do, They .deserve to be called 'the world's finest dyes'!" SHG Quebec Superstitions Are 94e ADVE-1 njp-s of Hard to Erase t ( Superslition is a, subject that ale- d �t ' serves critical investigation in its con- l' neotion with health, writhe Otto Neu- "''''''"?""-'46�• tSi>07"7°I ' clatter in '1Iygeia,' Superstition al-' what onmo 7ofore• C t i ""Ji ragged mu t o y contains one element that 110 sees 1. pirate h 1 gg sun sins, from , which INA was co anan 'Jimmy o ship s a ling •another little • One can;„entirely overcome; namely, "vessel. A fight follows in• which the savage head hunters of the hills etilr 30110£, which fills :.11' the empty space that knowledge leaves unoccupied. Be- lieving is a, primordial power of the emit and ' ergreater 0 s t 11 when c t person is close to the primitive State, Belief has'been passed on from gen- eration-to en eration to generation since primeval times, and every one carries with hint today primitive beliefs' that are cover.' ed only with a thin varnish of culture, Most persons are able to exclude belief entirely and to replace it by knowledge only in their special work, In everyday life many beliefs age bas- ed on old customs,. The eating of ice' was, until recently, considered. a dan- gerous thing; to eat fruit with milk is still considered dangerous by many, Everything that is stated'positively the average person accepts as correct, and criticism has ai long way to go•to bring him away from it. The'more primitive a person is, the more inclin- ed he is to believe, Aside from the special field of knowledge, the major- ity of people are primitive. The sick person, for example. is especially close to the primitive state. In him everything revolves around the hope for recovery. What this or that person promises'is believed without criticism until it has been proved that it does not help, or that it even makes matters worse. The patient becomes, a child once more. Most people do not know much more than a child about disease and health; especially when they themselves are ill; they depend entirely on. belief and hope, and rea- son is put aside. Do you believe that: Anaemia and jaundice can be cured by Cooking sheep's parasites into jam? '•To take dog's lard and goat's -.fat will help in tuberculosis? A person will be protected against rheumatism if he carried a wild chest- nut in his pocket, The severity of a disease can be judged by observing how many of nine pieces of charcoal swim on top after they have been thrown into water. An eye disease will develop when an enemy takes a photograph and pierces the eye? A hunchback child may be cured by pulling it through a split tree ilt the time of new moon, before sunrise?' Epilepsy can be cured by carrying the charred bones of a magpie on the chest, or by wearing the skull bone of. a donkey on the forehead? New-born infants should not lie on their left side because that will make them left-handed? If some one should ask you these Dr similar questions you would laugh and think him crazy: And yet such beliefs are found not only among primitive people, but even among civilized per- sons of the world today,, Dr. Morris Fishbein has_ recently given a large number in his book, "Shattering Health Superstitions.” There is still a great deal of superstition, particular- ly relating to health. One's beliefs depend somewhat on the environment, In olden days, and among primitive peoples today, some fiend- was considered the cause .of all evil and disease, However, since fiends could not be seen to enter the body it was necessary to imagine the influence and the power of the fiends as separ- ate from the human body—is ghosts. The ghosts are looked for everywhere in the surroundings even in inanimate. things—in storms, lightning. thunder and rain. The imagination gave ghosts the form of fearsome things—of ugly wo- men, dwarfs, deformed persons, scor- pions, cats, ravens, lions, wolves, etc,, or fantastic creatures such as basil- isks, vampires and werwolves were considered demons of disease. The Babylonians and the Egyptians coni. bined the different human and animal forms to make fantastic creatures, and the devil may be Econ! in old cave drawings to be wearing a "horso's hoof," These bringers of disease were treated in the same manner as were domestic animals and fellow leen. By force, terror, noise and unpleasant odors, by invocation of still more row- erful spirits, by kindness. friendliness, submissiveness, gifts and promises it was attempted to induce them either to spare their victims or to make their stay unbearable, either to leave -the "possessed" voluntarily or to dispose thein to good rather than harm. Superstition is not necessarily con- nected with transcendental occur- rences. If we consider "biochemistry," for instance, a rhisleadingly ' termed therapeutic method, promoted in Ger. many by special league, we find that it is based on superstition. One would think that all ailments were curable by the administration of one of twelve mineral salts in the blood and were caused by their lack. No more than twelve were known to Dr,-Schussler, the founder of the method, A sect in which mystic, dietetic and other rationalistic superstitions are mixed together in a peculiar fashion is Mazdaznan, Here are a. few samples of its doctrines: Relax all muscles whether you are lying, sitting, walk- ing, standing or working. Then empty your lungs slowly, to the limit, and -hold your breath for twenty-six sec- onds, and you have done your best to free yourself from the carbon dioxide Barrels of beer and other alcoholics stored in your hotly have been washed out of basements and into streets, -In one Kentish vi] - Canadian Coal Production lage barrels of beer washed into a narrow lane halted; traffic for several Below 5 -Year Average in July hours. of coal mines output But thereishope in the offing. Sir col du ing July amounted to 82t, Ricard Gregory, the well known -wee. 150 tons, a decline of 84.4 per cent they expert declares: over the five-year average for the "Periods of bad weather come in mditth of 1,259,330 tons, according to cycles of 50 years. To take rough a report issued by the Dominion dates, 1770-80, 1820-30 and 1870-80 Bu were wet periods,;with an interval ot 50 years of comparatively good wea- ther. pirates are driven away btit ii set descend. on the rich Complier grovel hi•e n the vesseo the reseuod. CaptaO 5110 tea plantations, With dueh; ai Jimmy rushes to the rescuo..�. Blit We laughed tdo soon, Chmigrah'yland' eo near to us, yoir,cali had no 'control n all, aril tho next imagine that we -.took aiivantage o11 moment that atroam eattglit mo .tile oppolltumity to'mtake to pianos squarely Itt tlro'chast and bosvled mo night to the island. From the time °fid over end. Scenic must have it first appeared as a dark blue blur on stopped to Iauglr at mo for th neat the horizon, we were impatient ,to moment, I saw him 1,411 sailing and get started: "But" you'll- ' have to hall' skating clown `watch the Japanese" eautfoned the the deck inn a Captain of the Madrigal. 'ibrmasa",is h Japanese possession and 11es south west of Japan about ninety miles eft .the coast'' of China. Quito naturally they don't want strangers flying over their Island without permission and the soldiers• might shot first and inquire after. ;yards." It was: still early in the • morning when Captain Stuart, of the Bale '- ship whose erew we had rescued, and I took' off in the plane.: The island presented a splendid picture, sleep- ing in the bright sunlight. The coast at tho . eastern side roes op abruptly thousands of feet abpve " water. Picture for yourself those unseal - able cliffs, flvel or even six thousand feet high. Over be, yond were deep wooded vial. lets and high. mountain peaks, while far to the west a coastal plain reached down to the sea. From the north to the south side of the island runs a wide, cleared path - war. This is the "Guard -Lino" that separates the mountain country of the Taiwans or hoed -bunting savages from the rest of the island. Away up in the valleys they live, in a beauti- ful wooded country. (To be continued.) Note: Any of our young reader's writing to "Captain Jimmy," 2010 Star Bldg., Toronto will receive bia -signed photo free. streain of water. Picking oureal vee up, we finally got control of the Bose and began playing It on the woodwork of the burning iroat. After Chung bad' soaked most' the passengers :with his hose an one of the crew had dived overboard to avoid getting drowned at hi hands, we finally got the stream nn der control and played it on the burn ing ship, while the .freghter took off the people on board, in spite of the rise of two inose, the lire burned rapidly and as the ship's officers finally left their boat, the decks smoked under their feet. In another moment we eut the' freght er free and backed away full speed astern. Wewere ol of hundred only few lu led feet away when the decks blew up with a tremendous, crash, shooting columns of flame and sparks high in'q the air. 'Phe ship now burned brightly all over and began to settle rapidly into the sea. There was nothing more to do, so' atter watching it for a few minutes, we put about and soon the burning vessel was but a red glare on the horizon. We sailed on for a few days after we bad rescued the crew of. the burn- ing' ship, then, early one morning we came in sight of a long dark shore- line. "Formosa" the captain call- ed it—and what a picture that brings to mind. Formosa, the beautiful island of o1 d s v.� 30edr Chocolate Malted Milk The health -giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups, • • Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers.j Sunless Year So Far Antiquity of the Cat Jinn Gt. Britain Chinese history shows that the do- mestic eat thrived there for centuries before the coming of Christ; but dur- ing these hundreds of years the Chi- nese cats did not get any farther west than Persia. However, the Persians Iilted this kind of dat so well that they adopted it; as a result of which we now have the beautiful Persian cab which is such a favorite of cat lovers everywhere. Most plausibly, the cat originated In Egypt. For many centuries before the Christian era the cat was being pic- tured in hieroglyphics on most of the monuments in the Nile valley. It is thought :that the Egyptians domesti- cated the African wild -cat, a very vi - eines little creature, in order that their granaries might be protected from mice. The cat must have per- formed some wonderful service, for the Egyptians gave it much attention. They even erected temples in honor of the cat. If the family cat died, it was not buried' in the back yard an* t forgotten, but its mummified form was placed in the vaults, even with, d the Pharaohs. All the members of an ° ancient Egyptian family would shave 9 off their eyebrows as a sign of mourn- ing for a departed cut. In one year alone 180,000 mummified cats were removed from vabits near Cairo by the British authorities and distributed to museums all over the world. It is thouhgt that the Egyptian cats were brought to Europe by Phoeni- cians, traders probably, where their' value was soon recognized by farmers. Until some more plausible explanation is given, the Egyptians must be given credit for domesticating the African. wildcats. They have left indelible "eat history" on their obelisks and various other monuments of four or five 'thousand years ago; while the record of the Chinese sat is made largely from legend, -L. E. Eubanks in "Our Dumb Ani- mals." Glass Opaque From Outside Glass that opaque from the outside recently was demonstrated in the win- dows and windshield of an automobile. Passengers and drivers can see per- fectly from the inside of the car, but the appearance from the outside is that of a mirror. The only difference from ordinary glass from the inside is a slight bluish tinge.-�Popoular Me- chanics Magazine. The most sunless year since 853 records show. Britons are hoping for good weather during September and October. Official weather reports show that 27 of the 31 week -ends so far have been marred by rain and storms. Duro ing the past 26 months there has ;let been a rainless period exceeding three weeks, The lowest maximum temperature since 1882 and the wettest season since 1024 were recorded during the first seven and one-half months of 1931. DECIDEDLY TRYING The present season is generally re- ferred to as the most trying in many years. It is said to be the year with Out a summer. Between July 15 and Aug. 17 1 rained every day in the London areaa During the first 13 days of Augus 8.23 inches of rain fell in Kew Gar dens London, the average combine amount for the first two weeks f June, July and August. Eight hour of sunshine were the greatest number registered for a single day at Kew between July 15 and Aug. 15. Dur- ing the first two weeks of August fire burned in many office buildings and homes. On Aug. 10 two degrees of frost were recorded in many parts of England. Agriculture and resorts have sat - fared severely from continuous ad- verse weather conditions. Crops in many districts have leen flattened out or washed away. Holiday resorts are in despair and the. season is generally declared to be the worst 0n record. HOLIDAYS STORMY neater, Whitsun and August Bank holidays were wet and stormy. Since May 1 there have never been three cosecutive days with nine hours' sun- shine each. On,Aug. 14 it rained 1.18 inches in London, and Birmingham ex- perienced the wettest day of its hie - tory. -Roads and railroads have been flood- ed to depths Up to six feet; transpor- tation in some sections has been at a standstill for periods exceeding 36 hours; houses and shops have been inundated; many people have been drowned and, struck by lightning; gales have swept seaside resorts and towns, and thunderstorms have raged throughout Britain. Fire brigades have been summoned repeated to pump out submerged cel- lars. In one week -end basements in more than 400 London homes werh flooded. • reau of Statistics, July production was made up of 717,108 tons of bitumi- 'nous coal, 71,972 tone of lignite coal Nova Scotia's production totaled 395,- 240 tons or 47.8 Per cent. of the total and 36,988 tons of sub'bituminotie coal, Canadian production. Alberta. mined} 260,389 tons. MOSS GOLD MINES Send for our Special Circaksr covering this Interesting Speculation F. W. Macdonald & Co. Members Standard Stock & Mining Exchange Montreal Curb Market` 38 King St. W. 159 Craig St. W. TORONTO MONTREAL ELgin 6255-6 ' MA. 7785-4121 "The year 1920 initiated a wet pea Wire connections to all iod which is still with us, but its principal markets allotted time thew, and; the probability lis that next year willintroduatli the 50 year fine weather spell, ISSUE No. 38,—'3I • • •