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BEGIN HERE TODAY.
Capt. John Hewitt Comnmissionertof
Police at Jesselton Bri'ti'sh North Bor-
neo, ;Peter. Pennington is detailed by
the government to capture the leader,
of The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chi-
nese bandits. : Chai-Hung, influential
Chinese, is .suspected by Pennington
of being leader of the gang, Penning,-
ten erns Bra 'mzon a rubber
o Retatan, to beware of The planter
Yellow.
Seven. Brabazon is an admirer of
bee a
utiful women ud "falls
an easy
•ictiin to their, charms.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
SLOAN b3LOCK- CLINTON,
DR. J: C. DANDIER
Office Hours: -1.30 to 3.30 p.m., 6.30
to 8,00 p.m., Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 p.m.
Other Hours by appointment only.
Office and Residence - Victoria St.
DR. • FRED G.' TFOMPSOIN
Office and Residence:
Ontario Street Clinton, Ont.
One door west of Anglican Church,
Phone 172
Eyes examined and; glasses fitted
DR. PERCIVAL HEARN.
Office and Residence:
Huron Street — Clinton, Ont.
Phone 69
(Formerly occupied by the late -Dr.
C. W. Thom»eon).
Eyes examined and glasses fitted
DR. H. A. MCINTYRE.
DENTIST '
Office hours: 9 to 12 A.M. and 1 to
ii P..M., except Ttiesdaya and Wednes-
days. Office over Canadian Malone
Depress, Clinton, Ont.
Phone 21.
DR. F. A. AXON
DENTIST
- Clinton, Oxit.
Graduate of C.O.D.S., Chicago, and
R.C.D.S., Toronto.
Crown and Plate Work a Siir}claity
He was still standing he the same
position when the boy came in with
the lamp. Brabazon, squaring his
broad shoulders, uncorked the bottle.
He poured himself out a stiff tot.
IIe was gazing at An arrow, with a
find metal barb; its butt -end split to
admit a long, narrow strip of °paste-
board, On the side toward Brabazon'
was a bright yellow surface, 'orna-
mented with a'series ..of black circles.
He crossed the verandah and plucked'
the thing.froin the woodwork. The boy;
was slipping pact him but the plant-
er's hand shot out and swung -himn
round to face him.' He held the symbol
almost under the creature's nose.
"What 'do you know o£ the Yellow'
Seven?" he demanded roughly.
The Chinaman shivered.
"Nothing, . tu:an," he stammered
Fearfully.,. -
Brabazon stuck his legs wide apart
and nodded his head several tines, a
grim smile playing on his lips.
"Bi -1a," he said presently. "Clear
out:"
Mindful of Pennington's warning
and with an uneasy feeling gripping
liis 'spore, he sent a 'watchman with
an . urgent note to Wallace -one of
his juniors, requesting him to join him
immediately ;and be prepared to stop
the night. While waiting for the re-
turn of the messenger, 'he scribbled a
note to Pennington and enclosed with
it the Yellow Seven.
"Dear Penn./' he wrote. "I have
just received the enclosed per arrow-
Post. I'm not particularly scared at
things S understand, but tleis has come
as somewhat of a shock.
"Cheerio! G. Brabazon."
Wallace—aa genial youth with sandy
hair°and freckled face -arrived at the
foot of the verandah steps at about
nine, followed by a coolie carrying a
long -bamboo pole with a basket of
clothes suspended at one .end and a
pair of field -boots at the other. He was
accompanied, moreover, by a large
hound, short -haired and boisterous.
"Evening, Brabazon! Don't mind
me bringing my clog, I hope? What's
in the wind?"
Ho dropped into a chair and de-
posited his hat and stick on the floor.
"Help yourself to a drink," invited
Brabazon. "To tell you the truth, I'm
glad you've trotted that nameless
beast along. Some hungry .Chinaman
or other 'purloined my fox -terrier a
week ago." He released the glass
stopper of a bottle of soda -water and
handed it across- to Wallace. "You
remember the Allison affair, of course.,
It appears that his assassination was
by no means an ordinary act of high-
way robbery, but the deliberately con-
nived portion of anextensive cam-
paign. manoeuvred by a secret society.
I have very good reason to believe that
an attempt is about to be made against
myself, and that is precisely why I
thought it advisable to send for you."
'Wallace drew his chair closer and
for more than an hour they sat talk-
ing.
Alinost a week dragged on.
Wallace—who was blessed with con-
siderable inventive genius -suspended
an ingenious burglar -alarm from the
bushes that encircled the bungalow, a
network of cotton and hone -made bells
that the dog succeededid agitating se
often that they were compelled to tie
him up!
On the seventh day Brabazon woke,
to find himself becoming scepticalwith
regard to the whole affair.
That afternoon, he sent Wallace
back to his bmmgalow, dog and lug-
gage and everything, and gave the
watchman instructions to cease his
nocturnal perambulations and hand in
his• rifle. He would have destroyed
Wallace's burglar -alarm if he had no:
treed it, but he didn't, and at a few
minutes after midnight, it rang 1
Swearing softly to himself, he took
the hurricane lamp and the revolver
that recent occurrences had brought
to light, and went out.
The line of tinkling bells rang for
a second time and he held the lamp
well above his head, peering into the
tight. • : Suddenly he Started back in
amazement and quickened his steps.
in the direction of a crouching, trembl-
ing, figure that shank back from him
as he approached. The hard lines of
his face softened as he went,and pre-
sently he stooped; and lifted the slim
form of a girl to her feet. She was
simply clad, in e long-sleeved jacket
of light -blue silk, bordered with black,
and quaint trousers of the same ins=
terial. It dawned upon Brabazon, ae
lin surveyed her in wonderment, that,
she was of a class superior to that to
which he was adcustomed,. that her
skin was rather white than alive, and
that she was possesed of a•beauty he
had never imagined -possible in a Chi-
nese girl. Her hands were small and
well -formed.
"Who are you?" he 'demanded in
Malay.
She replied to him soft! .
Y
" Ste -Koo >" he th u ht
.elle
s
aid.
"Where do you e from?"
She uttered a little nervbus laugh,
"I am the daughter of Chai-Hung.
The police have driven pmy father from
his home. ,They camiie' and searched
the house—and I ran away, In the
darkness; 1 saw the lights .of your
windows . {,. ..
ITe took her cold, trembling fingers
between his own andforced her, half
PY "twuPr;nh,Stl iLL..
an,dts:tmoctmm®may
edge, staring with childlike- surprise
at the unaccustomed surroundings.
"You must have something to eat,
Suey-Koo,'": he said.
She shook her head. ,
"I an not hungry. I only want to
go home."
He remembered that" he was /died
only - in the sarongand eingldt in
which he was acc:1ustomed to sleep.
"'Wait mart just a little while," lie told
her, and e well take you."
=As he changed with feverish energy
into the suit of khaki drill he had so
recently dis•car'ded, the wave of feeling
that her coining had provoked swept
D. H. McINNES
Chiropractor—Electrical Treatment.
Of Wingham, will be at the Rotten -
bury House, Clinton, on Monday, Wed-
nesday.and Friday forenoons of each
week.
Diseases of all kinds successfully
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CIinton,,Oht.
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Automobile and Sickness and Accident
Insurance.. Huron -and Erie and Cana-
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to meet parties at Brucefield, -Varna
and Bayfletd. 'Phone 57.
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TIME TABLE
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Buffalo and %oderich Div.
Going East, depart 6,44 arm
Going West, ar. 11,50 arm
"' " ar. 6,03. dp. 5.53 p.m
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DIRECTORY':
President, Jamin,„.7nvans, ,LieC01.1Vood;
'Vico; James Comnmolly, Goderieh;. Sec.-
Treasurer,
ec.Treasiimer, D, F. McGregor, Seaforth.:
Direetbrs: Gder•go oCar•tney, Seaforth;.
James- Shouldlee, Walton; Murray'. Gib-
son, Brucefteid; Wm.. King, Seel'ertlm;
Robert.Perrio hlarloclt; John llennewelr,
iorodliagen;:..7'e . T onolh, Godericb.
Agents; Alex. Leitch, Clinton; J-.. W.
Yeo Godorich; T'd...0-Ilnchle3,' Seaforth;.
.i_; Murray, 'EgmonclVille; P. G. Jar -
meth, Brodhagen,
Any looney to be paid lo may be Pall
to Moorish Clothing Co,, Cliiliepn, or at
CoiVin- Cutt's Growy, Goaer,oh;
,Parties ' desiring to effect insurance,or
transact other .Uiislnesswill be liromPtly
Attended 10 on a.ppllcatiOlm to anyof tho
ahovo.officersaddressed, to their respec-
tive poet office:. I ossca ingpeolecl, by, teo
plrecter who M1Dyes neerep the scene,
"I am the daughter of Chai-Sung”
At one time peapie could %et, only bulk tea—tea ex-
posed to air—flat flavour—Then came'e5ALADA"
--sealed in metal —itch-flavoured—fresh—delIC--
ousr,dust-f °ee-naw people use SALADA". Four
grades ,.75c;to $1:.05 per lb.
269
Canada Outlines
1928 Air Program'
Royal Force to Co-operate
With Other Departments
in Expanding the
Work
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY
Each year aviation- is playing'- a
greater part in the development and:
conservation of the natural resources
of Canada, says the Department of
the Interior at Ottawa, in outlining its.
hying program for the coming- season,
and goes on:
"Aerial transport is solving the most
urgent problems of the forester, sur-
vey*, geologist and explorer- in their
work in the more remote and unex-
plored parts of the country, as well
as in the settled districts, and new
applications of aerial methods to other
lines of research are constantly en-
larging the field of usefulness of the
airplane."
The • 1928 program of the \Royal
Canadian Air Force in civil operation
for Government departments includes
the following work;
Forest Service—Provision of twenty
hours flying time, for emergency fire
Periods in British Columbia;, continu-
ation of air control as In 1927 in Al-
berta; continuation and intensification
of aerial patrols over- 14,600,000 acres
of forest in Saskatchewan, and cont
tinuation of the work in five preven-
tion and suppression covering -40,00,000
acres in Manitoba.
Photographic survey in the Nelson
River watershed in connection with
Possible pulp and paper developments
and in the Saskatchewan patrol area
in order that base maps may be pre-
pared for use of air patrols.
Topographical Sur* a y.—Vertical•
aerial photography .in connection with
mapping the Rouyn, Sudbury and
the Pas mineral areas, and' in the
Gatineau, Opinaka, and Chicoutimi dis-
tricts in Quebec;, vertical photography
in the Shelburne and Guysborough
districts in Nova Scotia and the Mona-
.,
ton district.inNew Brunswick; oblique
areial photography for mapping the
Dryden, Quetico, and Rainy Lake dis-
tricts in Ontario; in Saswatchewan,
oblique photography of the Lac La
Ronde, Lac Mironde and Reindeer
Lake areas; in Alberta!' vortical pho-
tography lin the St. Ann area, and
oblique photography of an area in the
vicinity of Lake Athabasca; oblique
photography to -complete the mapping
of Wood Buffalo Park near Fort Smith,
N.W.T., !n co-operation with the
Northwest Territories and Yukon
Branch.
Departnent'N of Iridian Affairs--
Transportation of treaty paying part-
ies in Northern Manitoba.
Department of National. Revenue—
Transportation of officers of the Pre-
ventive Service as necessary.
Department of Marine and Fish-
eries—Aerial patrol of Hudson Straits
to determine ice conditions in con-
nection with the navigation of ,Hud-
son Bay. Contracts have been let for
air services in connection with fish-
ery'' protection work on the Pacific
Cot.
Depasarment of Agriculture—Experi-
mental dusting for the prevention of
whet rust in the Prairie Provinces,
and for the control of the spruce ,bud
worn in the Muskoka district in On-
tario.
Department of National Defense—
(Geographical Section—Vertical aerial
photography for mapping in the East-
ern Townships; in Quebec, and in
Central Ontario.
Department of Mines (in Co-opera-
tion with ,the Topographical Survey
like an ever -swelling stream through
his whole being, overwheming the
voice of Reason. Forgotten—in his
wild eagerness for cdnquest . of this
timid, fragile creature, lovely as the
lotus-flower—were the immutable laws
of east and west, the warning of Pen-
nington, her very. connection, in fact,
with the bandit who controlled the
dread movements of the Yellow Seven.
Suey-Kon had stumbled into the
burglar -alarm that Wallace had made,
and yet it never occurred to Brabagon
secure in the fool's paradise that
his own frailty had built up -that the
'unerring finger of the, great Chid -
Hung was behind all this, and that
this seemingly helpless girl was but
another of the astute Oriental's cun-
ning instruments, instructed to 'decoy
the planter to her father's lair!
A girl in Kuala Lumpur had told
Pennington -that Brabazon was irresis-
tible! Whatever the significance of
Suey-Koo's midnight {mission may
have been, with the homeward journey
barely half completed, she found her-
self nestling contentedly within the
Englishrnan's encircling arm, for all
the world as if that member had evorr
right to be where it was.
Brabazon!"
From somewhere behind him, the
planter heard himself called by name.
He released the girl and swung round.
Standing in the open space between
the hutinents that he had just left, he
saw Wallace and the Pathan watch-
man. Brabazon waited until they had
caught hint up.
"What is it, Wallace?"' he de
neanded.
"Look here, Brabazon, I'm sorry to
butt in and all that, but isn't this a
trifle unwise? The area beyond ourwire's simply swarming with Chai-
Hung's men."
Brabazon started.
"Who told you that?"
"Pennington," returned the assist-
ant. "I've just seen him. He told me
to advise you to send the. watchman
with Miss Ghai-Hung."
"Pennington!" Brabazon's brain
reeled. "How the devil did he know?"
He bit his lip. _"I suppose he's hang-
ing around on one of his stunts. Of
course Chai-Bung's men are about.
They're' looking for the girl. She's
lost." ,
He faced Wallace defiantly.. -The
assistant dropped a hand on his
shoulder. ,
"Don't go any farther—tonight. It's
too risky.",
Brabazon felt 'for his pipe:
He strode back to where the girl
waited.
"My watchman will see you home,"
he said. -'
,Her face fell. Her hands stole to
his sleeves. The look she bestowed on
him stirred the fires within. Trembling
with an emotion that was utterly be-
yond his power to suppress he: press-
ed her fngers to his, lips. '?n all this
monotonous existence of; which hetwas
fast growing tuned, Suey-Koo was the,
brightest thing he had encountered.
"You will come and ase me?" she
whispered 'presently.
"Where can I find you—and when?"
When Brabazon again joined Wale
lace, the latter noticed that the cheeks
of the manager were flushed beneath
the tan of yams. Until they,parted at
time spot where two paths met, neither
spoke a word.
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The residence of Ghai-Hung was
surrounded by a high pallisede. There
were three gates, set close together—
largo .portal with narrower en-
trances on -either side. The tall Miele -
man in grasy black who leant against
this effective screen` was rolling; a cig-
aret with practiced- skill,: using to-
baceo which ,he fished from the- inner
recesses of a rubber pouch. He clip -
geed 'off thestray ends with a pair of
folding scissors, .shielded the match,
with his hands, then' reached up and
swung himself over on to the other
eider d'ropp pts on to the soft earth
within a bt. feet ,of a bamboo
ar:e�wen
joss -house with an open front. There
were tiled steps' leading up to a long
altar, illuminated with paper'lanterns,
and onthe :'altar itself Tested' two
bronze urns in which charcoal was
unwillingly, up the steps to a corn- burning.
foetabl° chair. She sat an the extreme� (To be continued.)`
SEA STRAIGHTENS
ROMANTIC TANGLES
When 'Mei Christie; whose
novels and Articles ere •read all
over the North American con-
tinent, reaches an impasse with
characters in leer novels, she ,
"sends them on an Atlantic voy-
age," to use her own words, be-
cause their tangles are unravelled
on the ocean. ` Miss 'Christie;
now married to J. S. Mezzavini;
New York broker, is shown here-
on the White Star liner Megantio
leaving for England after spend-
ing theorth
ten month nIV
American :continent in which
Am can
timeshewrote. two 76,000 word
novels, and. forte -five articles.
Department of he Tn
emdor)
—Y
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rti-
cal aerial Photography of mineralized
Quebec,
Ontario
and Mani-
toba. in'
Departnieut of PublicWorbs—Ver-
tical and oblique photography 'of har-
bors and harbor works.
Department of Railways and Canals
—Tranaportatlon service and . photo-
graphy in connection with the Hud-
son Bay Railway, and Fort Churchill
terminal and harbor construction.,
In addition to the work of the Royal
Canadian Air Force, extensive pro-
grams aro being carried out by Pro-
ylneial Covornnxente and private in-
tereste.
"The year 1927 saw a great advance
in the, establishment of regular air
services ;in the ,remoter parts of Can-
ada and in 1928 a ,further. great ad-
vance is anticipated,]' says the depart-
ment. "It is now possible to travel
by air to the 'principal mining fields
in. northern Sapkatehewan, Manitoba,
Ontario, and Quebec, with ease, com-
fort and safety. fr
"In addition to these services, a
large number of :aircraft will' be em-
ployed_on transportation.aor mining
exploration, prospecting, forest 'in-
ventory, and other similar work in
the remoter parts of Canada. Regu-
lar winter air mail services have been
contracted for 'by the Postoffice De-
partment to the Red Lake area from
Hudson, Ontario; to Anticosti., and
Seven Islands from Murray Bay,
Quebec; to Charlottetown, and Mag
dalen' Islands from ' Moncton, New
Brunswick; . and from Leamington,
Ontario, to Pelee Inland in Lake Erie,
the most southerly point in Canada.
"Contracts are now being arranged
for the hastening of incoming and
outgoing transatlantic mails during
the summer season of navigation, to
and from Rimouski to -"Montreal, Ot-
tawa,
Gtawa, and Toronto, and consideration
is being given to the further exteu
:ion of such services. Experimental
work by the British Government in
long distance travel -by airship'is pro
ceeding. 7f the trials of the airship
now being carried out are satisfactory
it is possible that experimental trans
atlantic fights may be undertaken
this Fall."
Prince's Plane
Viewed as Taxi
Public Now Views Heir's Fly-
ing to Keep Engage-
ments as Normal
Transportation
No better proof of the extent to
which flying is now coming to be
1 ecognized as the normal means of
transportation in, this country could
have been provided than by the re-
action here ti.f the feet that the Prince
of Wales 1s now regularly taking to
the air in the courseof his official
Twice within the last week the
Prince>has used a Royal Air' Force
his i 's• .back
planeheld at t s d spo al, to fly ac
to London from his provincial engage-
ments, and the spectacle: of the heir
to -the throne do flying kit, complete
with parachute, climbinginto .the
cockpit of the Bristol fighter, fitted
With. new slotted wings, a safety de-
vice, has already become a- familiar
picture to British newspaper readers.
Uses Plane Frequently
IIe was scheduled to make his first
use of the plane on Wednesday in con-
nection with his visit to time Norfolk
Aero' Club at'Norwich, .but with his
usual disregard for ceroinony, the
Prince anticipated this by flyig g basic
on Sunday from Scarborough, York-
shire, to, the Norfolk airdrome near
Ring George's country residence,
Sandringham. At Scarborough,where
he attended the conference' of British
War Veterans, nearly 250 miles from
London, his visit extended into the
early evening, and Sunday -was Queen
Mary's birthday. The Prince wanted
to dine with his father and mother
.on this occasion, se he ordered the
plane to pick him up at the Yorkshire
coast resort' and _hopped off, landing
close to Sandringham in time to at-
tend the family dinner party.
It was an even more significant
demonstration of the Prince s view-
point that the airplane is a convenient
way for the busy' man to get around
the country when, on Wednesday last,
after a round of engagements. at Nor-
wich, including the demonstration
flights, featuring a drop by an Ameri-
can parachutist, John Tranum, the
PrIuce used the plane again for a
hundred -odd miles to hop back to
London.
Public Accepts His Course
The spirit in which his viewpoint
Was accepted- by public opinion, nev-
ertheless; to' observers here who re-
member the storm aroused three or
four years ago when the Prince came
a succession of croppers in the steeple-
chases and on the hunting field. When
the flurry assumed almost the propor-
tions of a constitutional crisis, the
Prince eased off a little in his rifling,
and then as soon as he. had educated'
public opinion around to his way of
thinking he went on taking chances
acrossfences the same as before.
This time he has apparently no serious
difficulty keeping opinion abreast of
him.
When It was amtounced.a few weeks
- ago that he proposed to fly whenever
that means of transportation happened
to be more convenient, a few letters
of protest were received by news-
papers, but the press rapidly sensed
that there was no popular feeling la
favor of restaging against the flying
,of the Prince the protest demonstra-
tions against his hard riding.
Only 'a few newspapers have com-
"They say you'll go wet f you go mented on the heir's aviation activi-
too close while viewing Niagara ties, and the reaction seems to be
Falls." summed up in an editorial of the
"That only happens 'when jon're Liberal "Star." "The Prince is in a
on the Canadian side." hurry and thinks of the airplane . It
is a short way across the country and
British is no more dangerous than steeple -
whited
No sooner has the idea pre-
is
itself to his active mind than
he Is in the air. Jockeys,. soldiers and
statesmen have all used the air as
their short cut. Why shouldn't the
Prince?"
Treats Matter Casually
"I, too, am taking to flying in my
old age," said tate Prince, who will
celebrate his thirty-fourth birthday on
June 23. It was -in the same view re-
garding flying as the established
method of travel which he is beginning
to use rather late, 12 anything, that the
Prince replied to the fiat question
whether he planned to take out a
pilot's ticket himself. "I prefer: riding
or golf, but I may talcs up flying later."
And if he . does 'it may be safely pre-
dieted that ve17 few voices will be
raised.
"The times are rotten, but let us
make time best.of things. Pardon me,
I have a dinner date with my mother:
Here is my plane.:. Good-bye," he said
at Norwich.
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ignorance used as. a dump, form part
of a system of vast subterranean halls
25 feet wide, 30 feet high in places,
and, in one ease, 350 feet long.
The object:of the French mission.'
is. not only to take measurements;
which may be of both historical. and
moaein value, but also to determine, if
Possible, the, origin -and date of the
different parts of the structure. It is
only known that in 1031 the Kurds.
had established on the site a military
damp designed by the Emir Homs,
and that this was held until it was
captured' by the'Crusaders in 1110:
They were survivors of; the first .Cru-
sade. It became an important stra-
tegic position on the road to Damascus
and the' Knights of. St. John were
entrusted with its occupancy by the
Count of Tripolis, a reference to a suc-
cessor of whom was recently discover -
ed at El Mina, the port of Tripolis.
This reference, an inscription in old
French, said to have been made by
Beheinond VI., who wag Prince of An,
troch and Count of Tripolis between
1251 and 1268, reads:
"In the name of the Holy Ghost, I,
Behemond, by the Grace of God,
Prince of Antioch, Count of Tripolis,
have caused this tower to be made
with the money of the Community of
the folks of Tripolis, in the year of
the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus
Christ, MCCLXIL"
The Krak des Chevaliers, under his
predecessors, and his successors, with-
stood many sieges, notably one in 1103
led by the Emir Notireddine, whom the
Hospitailegs routed, and another led
by Saladin:. in 1188;'and it was not
until 1271 that it was wrested from
them by Sultan Malek el Daber Bibars
after prolonged fighting. Then, after
ten years, it was abandoned only to be
used, from time to time, as a pine* of
refuge for nomad tribes.
About ten years ago, a section of
the womanhood' of the British nation
was enfranchised in the face of much
opposition. To -day it is a difficult
task to estimate the ,sum total of bene-
fits that have accrued as a result of
this step. Even a mos casual review
of tate facts diifclosos many beneficent
changes actuated by the women of
Great Britain. Can it not be said,
therefore, that time immediate future
looks still' brighter with the addition
of 5;000;000 new women voters?
One of the outstanding changes
which night be said to have taken
place ae the result of wonlate suffrage
is in the ,English home itself. Wom-
an's increasing. and keen interest in
the vote has widened her horizon, thus
benefiting not only herself but all her
family. This Increasing interest, by
the, way, was commented ori by the
Duchess of Atholl, Parliamentary
Secretary fol' the Board. of'Education,
on her recent visit to the United
States,. when she Said ,• the. women
"crowd into political meetings and
seem to be anxious to'learn all they
can 'about political issues of the day."
Another important change, as Grace
James pointed out in the New Yoele
Times recently, is that of the • tone
of the 'electioneering speeches. Wea-
ther-beaten • slogans and tvorinout
political tricks find no sympathy
with British women. The recent elec-
tion of fourteen, womon mayors in
England and Wales, including one
Lewd Maier, 'Mies Margaret Beavan,
In. Liverpool, is: bound: to make Wa-
tery. And besidos mayors, there nee
women aldermen, councilors, ina.gis-
trates, jurors and guardians. A jtidgo
was recently reported as having said,
"the coureo of justice Inas been con-
siclerably helped rather pan hindered
since the women have served on the
jury;" The clenmoustratecl ability of
women these peel; years to manage
property has proved many mimunicipali-
ties to iitand such work over to them.
T.hd demand for women. police has
been steadily growing, 'while the num-
ber of women barristers, solicitors,
accountants; surveyors, architects,
preachers and so forth is rapidly i1i-
creasing.
it can scarcely be cloueted that the
ballot is direptly, or- indirectly re-
sponsible for the, significant strength
and scop° of the present-daY Eng-
lishwoman's activities in nearly '' all
directions.—(Clnietian Science Moni-
tor Editorial.)
"Bill, you used to have something
about you that'I lilted, but you spent
Prehistoric ,.
Eggs Found
Japanese Dig Up Those of
Iguanadon in South
Manchuria
Dairen, --Twenty-one fossilized eggs
of what Japanese scientists say was
the prehistoric iguanadon have been
recovered front under twenty fret of
drift dep'ofits'"north of Dairen, where
the South Manchurian Railway was
excavating for bridge work, near the
town of Chuantou on the Tatzu River.
The eggs, which are from two and
one-half to four inches in diameter,
are saideby Dr. FI. Murakami, chief
geologist of the Dairen Geological In-
stitute, to he in the neighborhood of
10,000,000 years old, and to be un-
questionably those of the iguanadon, a
mammoth - reptile somewhat akin to
the dinosaur, whose eggs were found
several years ago in -Mongolia by Roy
Chapman Andrews.
The iguanadon, a cold-blooded type
of monstrous lizard, is said to have
ranged from twenty to thirty feet in
length, judging from bone fossils
found in this same Tatzu River region.
It had four' legs, the hinder ones being
strongly developed and those in front
shorter and less powerful. The huge
lizard is supposed to have often walk-
ed Upright and to have used its fore
feet to still small animals or to pull
down to its mouth the tops of tho
giant plants upon which it lived.
Professor: "Which one of my an-
cestors sprang from a monkey?"
Voice front Rear: "The one with the
sprained knee." ,
We had suspected It. Late reports .
assert that several of the Nicaraguan
bandit leaders were, educated in the
United' States. --San Diego Union.
ent Fortress in Syria
it has been estimated that fully
50,000 tons of manure cumber the,
tindergronnd galleries of the KKal'att
el Hunt (.List des Citevatliers), said/
to be the most perfectly prosel'ved of
ell the ercllitootural work, of 'tire!
Crusaders, whose four teeters still
rear thenmselres 'from one of the anal
rnits of the :Aleutio Mountains, twenty
miles fortlleitst of Tripolis, its the
French Mandate of Serial. A Freuolt
archaeological mission working andoi'
the'auspices o.( the Aeatimnie this Tu-'
scriptions tl@ tits institute de France,
Is now malting measurements of the
castle, and the report on its progress
would not have beei1 tralasiatitted for
scini time !rad 'it not risked: Paris for
information how to. dispose 'of the
valuitblo fertilize they had. found in
the subterranean gallerios.
This revealed that many 'hitherto
undiscovered features of the place had
been brought to light, Behind the
talus, 'or embanked wall, there was
uncovered a circular underground
paseego and various defensive works,
long since covered up and ;forgotten,'
Canals, wells and cisterns, all the net-
eesaey equipment for the water sup-
ply of
up-ply>of a garrison of 2,000 have been
traced. The underground galleries,
which tits modern natives in. Sam:..
The cool, comforting flavor
of WRIGLEY'S Spearmint
is a lasting pleasure.
(It cleanses time mouth after
eating••: -gives a clean taste and
sweet breath.
it is refreshing and
digestion aiding.
EVNE
MEAL,
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