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The Seaforth News, 1924-01-24, Page 6Partic: la choose The most delicious blend proe,anrable. A out th House The Hidden Hour BY J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND -.-- CHAPTER XIX. (Cont'd.) and he's ,right there, Kane -that we "I think you are right, sir," said have put the American police on his Detective -Inspector Kane, '/It's a track, Well, I cabled New York this ver.y ticklish job." morning before I left town, and I "' showed the letter to the same hand - And it's not as if we should colli writing ^ expert who examined the anything by arresting Merrington," first?'. Mr. Crust continued. "To begin with, Same acidic sir?" the .net is not drawn quite. tightly "Sr s—Ditto s handwriting -71J with- round him as yet.' And,even if 'it out doubt. Not that I put much faith were, no jury would. convict ..man • ap h e eve I Sir Walter yesterdhy. Ia didn't tell go upon in this case—almost too him just how matters stood, bat 1 much, in fact." He paused and offer - said we wanted Merrington's evidence. ed Kane a cigar. "I mast be going Sir Walter was quite explicit on the now," he continued. "I'll send two point.' "Then T suppose,good chaps down to -morrow as soon as sir, if m :Vier, I can. One of them will stay here as ' rington never recovers his memory, agentleman -Of -inde endent means' he will get off, even if we can prove who wants to- buy ap house in the beyond doubt that-" "1 won'tgo so far as to saytha i neighborhood. The other—well, Mr. t, Ardington is looking for a foot- Kane, But at present we cannot man—" prove our case without—well, here are "Ori, that would be Peters, sir," the facts, Kane, so far as they are laughed Mr. Kane. "I never saw a known to us. There is no doubt that better manservant outside a play." Merrington . did purchase a bottle of , "Yes, Peters. You'll work.']n the pink noyeau a week before his wife's open --Kane, this is a big job," death. He bought it from a Dutch "Is it, sir?" artist, who had some of the stuff be- "Yes—a far bigger job than you fore the war, Thus artist returned to think." He paused and looked round Holland the day before Paula Mer- the old panelled room, "and this is rington's death, and that is why he just the scene for it" did. not come- forward at the inquest. ! Mr. Kane shrugged his shoulders, He returned to England a week ago, but when Mr. Crust had departed the and hearing about the case came detective sat down 'and stared gloom - round to us and gave information.. ily at the fire, Now there was no reason why Mer-) Ditton might be dead and someone rington should not have purchased else impersonating him. It was not this liqueur, but the odd thing is that pleasant to think of that. On the other the servant in the flat knew nothing hand, Ditton be alive and might about it, Our theory is that Merrill,' really have written those letters. ton kept it at the studio, put the poi- � "And if that is the case," said Kane son in it, and posted it to his wife.! to himself, "we are up. against some - We also know now that Paula Mer -'thing stupendous." rington herself purchased some cyan- ide of potassium at a chemist's shop CHAPTER XX. in Brighten far photographic purpos- es. This might point to suicide but John Merrington sat in the warmth for the very strong evidence against' of the spring sunshine and smoked that theory. It would, of course, have his pipe. The old grey paving under been easy enough for Merrington to ;his feet was already chequered with have obtained some of this poison and 'lines of green where small rock plants have put it in the liqueur. The pro- and even weeds were pushing their duction of this evidence was also de- way up between the slabs of stone. layed owing to the severe illness of Behind him rose the beautiful irregu- the man who sold the poison. It was lar mass of Ardington's Tudor house, only a few days ago that he saw a with its many mullioned windows and picture of the poor woman in some its dull"pink walls and its roof of illustrated paper, and recognized her lichened tiles and its curious twisted as the woman who had purchased the chimneys, Until this visit Merring- cyanide of potassium." ton never remembered a time when it "But the motive, sir? Are we quite had not bean a pleasure just to look clear. about that?" at the house and walk through the "Not quite clear as yet, Kane. We gardens, Dedbury Priory was pre - want to prove that Merrington was on cisely the kind of house that Merring- bad terms with his wife and that he ton himself would have liked to own. wished to marry some other woman. It was not too large, and every bit of We are looking for that other woman, it was beautiful, and it lacked • the and we believe that Merrington was somewhat stiff formality of more im- actually going off with her on the day portant and better-known buildings of his accident. Of course, even if we of that period. Part of it, for in - can prove that, it does net follow that stance, was faced with half-timbered Merrington murdered his wife. I can walls that dated back to the middle never understand why a man should 'of the fifteenth century, and incor- murder his wife in order to live with porated in the building were frag- another woman. But it 'often happens meats of the old stone priory which and in this case there was, of course, had been destroyed, not by the zea] of the temptation of the money. Paula the "Defender of the Faith" but by fire in the fourteenth century. To Merrington it was, and always had been, a place of amazing beauty and interest, and though, in the stress of sorrow that had swept over him, it no longer gave him any pleasure, it was the place above all others where he would have lilted to be in that first in these experts. A really clever forg 1 and no judge would sentence a man er is too much for them." to death, when the man is incapable! "A pity 'we cannot find the ch of putting up a defence." 'who called himself Mr. Vernon." ! ' 1 suppose he is' not shamming,, "Yes, indeed, Kane. But the fellow sir?„ j' `No. Sir . Walter tested him thor- has hadvanisbeenhed aswalls owedl ullas:by th ,,, amnesia.. talk ... earth. We don't even know . if he ev ON "THE CUP THAT CHEERS" There is black tea and green tea— do .you know why? The black leaves have been fermented and are milder, the tannin is changed and made less soluble, so you get less of the bitter principal in your beverage; and then the leaves mast be carefully fired or exposed to the sun, to check the fer- mentation, and the heat must be just right, so as to remove the moisture but not drive off the volatile oils. All along the line, from the hand picking by women and children, the curing, the shipping and the blend- ing, your tea calls for delicacy, care and judgment. That is the reason it is such a culinary' crime to abuse it when it is handed over to you for the final making and serving. The - Raw Material—The little green leaves of the first harvest are the finest, picked in April in China and Japan they spell delicacy; suc- cessive pickings give somewhat lower quality. In Ceylon, where many of your best known brands originate, tea -picking goes on the year round at ten-day intervals. The tea from dif- ferent "gardens," as tea plantations are picturesquely called, varies in character, so you see that you must trust your tea merchant for the care- ful blending of the final product. Ad- venture till you find what suits your taste and stick to it, The blending of teas calls for experts along the line, and "tea tasters" must have all the skill, and more, of the connoisseur of fine vintages, to produce a product of even quality and the same character- istics from the varying teas received. "Orange pekoe" is a general quality designation, not a kind of tea, and alone is not enough to designate the sort of tea you may like best. Flowery pekoe, orange pekoe, and just pekoe, mean the three smallest leaves from the top of the plant, size and quality varying in the order named. But teas also vary according to climate, the time of picking, the curing, and with the altitude at which they are grown, Like humans, the plants that grow on the heights have the best character! The Finished Beverage—In the making there are just three essen- tials, very simple ones and easy to attain, and too often they are all ne- glected, First have freshly boiled water, a jumping boil; watch the tea -kettle as a cat watches a mouse hole and when it "surges wildly" as the Orientals say, jump for it! Second, use an earthenware, porce- lain or china pot -not metal, and pre- heat it by rinsing in hot water. Third, pour on the water (one cup to each teaspoon of tea let it steep not less than three nor more than five minutes. Tea that steeps too Iong or boils (horrible thought!) is a tannin stew of bitterness and unwholesome- ness that one dislikes to contemplate. Its fragrance is gone, its delicacy has fled, and the whole party is completely spoiled, for either health or pleasure, KEEPING BABY WARM, In severe weather every mother )sows that it is extremely difficult to keep the baby's hands from pushing down the covers and getting almost blue with the cold. We can put stock- ings on his feet or Iet him wear the little sleepers with feet in them and, thus protect his'lower limbs, but those lively pink fingers are a problem. A very "simple solution for this is to take his old white cotton stockings, which he will not wear in cold weath- er and which would very likely be too small for him next summer, cut out the feet and stitch across firmly on the machine, These make nice elastics mittens that can be pulled up over his hands and pinned to his sleeves in such a way that he cannot pull them off. Then mother will not shiver and refer to hie fingers as icicles when morning comes. Where a house is not heated by a furnace itis often a good idea to have the baby wear a little nightcap, as his little bald head is apt to get very cold and there is sometimes danger of ear Do Not SUFFER or Loose Your TEETH SOHRCUIV1 Paste will positively remove all soreness and infection, rendering the gums firm and healthy, correcting bleed- ing gums and a bad breath. Mall sixty: cents to SOHRG17M Labora- tory, Box 445, Toronto, for trial. Money refunded if not satisfied, t• ISSUE No. 4--'24, troubles on this account. A very young baby is more comfortable in a basket than in any crib with open bars, for the reason that no drafts can get in from the sides as is the case with the cribs.- A. clothes basket is the most convenient kind of basket to use if the baby's outfit does not include a regular bassinet, APPLE LOLLIPOPS. When children tire of the custom- ary and wholesome apple which forms a part of the noontime lunch, give them a delightful surprise by putting in a candy -coated one, Make a syrup of one pound of gran- ulated sugar, one tablespoonful of vinegar and two cupfuls of water. Boil this till it spins a thread, but do not stir or it will get sugary. Add a little red cake coloring if you have it on hand. Insert thin sticks about four inches long in the stem ends of bright red apples. Next dip the apples into. the hot syrup, holding them by the' sticks; then set them on waxed paper to cool. You have transformed com- mon apples into lollipops, which will make an instant appeal to the .mag ination and palate. If yellow apples are used drop a, bit of butter color into the syrup and pretty golden glazed apples will be the result, A NEAT AND SIMPLE HOUSE FROCK IN "SLIP ON" STYLE. 4552. Printed cotton, figured per- cale, dimity, ratine, linen and other, wash fabrics may be used for this modeL It is also good for wool crepe or jersey cloth. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 34,' 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust' measure. A 38 -inch size requires 4311 yards of 36 -inch material. The width at the foot is 2 yards. For facing and' collar of contrasting material as illus -1 trated I yard of 36 -inch material is! required. Pattern mailed to any address ons receipt of 15c in silver or stamps, by, the Wilson Publishing, Co., 73 West. Adelaide Street, Toronto. Allow two' weeks for receipt of pattern. TRY A LEMON. An astringent that I have found en- tirely satisfactory is'leman juice. Its also has a slightly whitening effect. Cut a lemon in half and rub the cut' end over the face, massaging gently' with anupward motion for the special. benefit of sagging muscles. An appli.! cation a week is really enough for the average. skin, as it causes a generale tightening of the tissues, and using oftener than this might be unpleasant; Merely-Prevention. Willie was under orders never to go in swimming.. And mother meant to see that he obeyed. So one day she became suspicious. "Willie, your clothes are wet," she said. "You have been in the water again." • "Yes, mother; i went in to save Charlie Jones." - "My noble dariing;l Did you jump in after him?"" "No, mother. I jumped in first so as to be there when he fell in." Mlnard's Uoimont Heals Doti. ou h1y It's a genuine case of par got to London. Still—we've plenty to Merrington had two hundred a year of her own. Now that's roughly how we stand at present, and Merrmgton has to be kept under observation.' "He's not likely to give us any clue, sir, is he?" "No, but I'm afraid of that fellow Ardington. He may know something about this business, as I told you terrible agony of mind and soul. Here, when I first came down here. so it seemed to him, he could hide "Yes, sir, you hinted at that, but himself from the world and make an you never told me why you suspected effort to rebuild his life. And there Mr. Ardington. I haven't been able was nothing here to remind him of to find out anything against him." Paula, his dear little wife. Paula had Mr. Crust was silent for a few i never been to Dedbury. He could seconds. Then he said, "You are not have faced even a day in the flat, working under me in this, Kane, but:nor could he have worked in his own it is not necessary to tell you every -:studio. But here—with his friend thing.In fact, if T told you of alllArdington—he could wait and make the ridiculous ideas that came into my,an effort to work with some .chance of head, you'd only be worried and con- success fused. I want Ardington shadowed! ,As yet he had not been able to think and I want a full report of his move- coherently of Paula's death, but so ments—a daily report. That's all you far as he had been able' to reason at need know. As for Mr. Merrington— all it seemed to him that there must well, he mustn't be allowed to slip have been some acecident. He could through our fingers, that's all. Now' not believe that Paula had Idlled her - about Mrs. Jurby. Has she had any self, and he would not admit that she more anonylnovs lett" had been murdered. He had not even "Not since the lasters?one I showed read the account of the inquest. He you, sir—that was the third." ,had relied entirely for his information "Yes, and nothing in it—just vul- on what Trehorn and Ardington had gar abuse. I wouldn't worry about told him. Mrs. Jurby just now. But tell her! All that he remembered was that you're working hard on her behalf, birthday party when Paula had been and that you expect to get hold of the so happy and full of fun and so— scoundrel"—Mr. Crust paused and beautiful. He was thinking of that laughed—"well, very soon. By -the -by, birthday party as he sat out in the I had another letter from Ditton this paved garden and stared across the morning, posted in Philadelphia." green lawns at a tall yew hedge that Mr. Kane made no comment on this statement. The first letter from Dit-r ton, received three weeks after his disappearance and posted ' in New York, hadcome as a shock and sur- prise not only to Ids. Crust, to whom it had been addressed, but to every- one at Scotland Yard. Detective -In-. specter Ditton; warding to his own letter, had retiredfrom the force and forfeited his pension, in order, so Dit-' ton had stated, t0: save his life.. He had implored -Mr-Crust and his Col league to keephis, whereabouts a,se- cret and let the public believe he was dead, There had been no address at the top of the letter, but a request (in a postscript) thatno attempt would be made to find him. "I am a coward," the ex -detective had Written, "and have purchased my life by flight and silence. Oneday you may have to do the same." It had all bteen most as- tounding—incredible—and scarcely to be explained even by the fact that Ditton had takbn leave of his: senses. The second letter lacked the violent shock of the first, and Mr. Kane did not even say, "Oh, indeed, sir." "Yes, 0 8 coed letter," Mr. Crust continued but of no. importance. Dit- ton inerel7 her'eehes us to make no effort to £zd him. Ile has heard— Merely Prevention. eard ran like.a blackwallon the farther side of them. At the sennd of `footsteps he looked round and saw Ardington, who had just emerged from the house. "I've done three hours' solid work," i said Ardington, with a smile, "and you are going to start to -morrow. I'vegot a commission for you to paint a portrait:" (To be continued.) The Little House. So tiny seemed the little house, Scarce roomfor bed and board; Yet here' were love and happiness. In heaping measure poured. • But now too large the little house, For one has gone away, And through the high and empty rooms • The joyless echoes stray. Still ever round the little house The sweetest memories cling Of laughing face and dancing feet, That made ourhearts to sing. Oh, Father, keep the little house; Bring balm and tender care;,' May smiles again of happiness In Thy good time be' there. —D. Lillian Morley. Minard's Liniment Por Dandruff. Under the Moscow Government marriage ;in Siberia is only a matter of taking out a license to wed; divorce is equally easy. A wise man Will makemore oppor- tunities than he finds.—Bacon. WOMEN CAN DYE ANY GARMENT, DRAPERY Dye or Tint Worn, , Faded Things New for 15 cents. NURSES Tha-..Toronto, Iloiapitat-"for them, abiem• in uf0Uatlon whit Bellevue and ulned Hospitals, New Yorit Cit$ offers, a • three years' Course of 'Train- ing to young women, having the re - ()lifted e-qulred: education, and desirous of be- .doming, nurses. phis .Hospital' hos adopted the eight-hour system. The pupils receive uniformo of the School, a•monthly ailowapoe and: travelling Oxnenses to and from New York, lent, furthe4 information apply to c;,..ort"tn.utant Next Best Thing. "Can you speak French?" asked 'the manager. The applicant for a job seemed non- plussed. Then she brightened up.' "Not exactly,", she explained, "but engagd to., a young . man who's a Preach polisher," Only a watch repairer can keep his eye on a timepiece and still tend to business. , For Inv, lids Delicious, strengthening beef -tea and dozens of 'other tasty and nourishing dishes may be easily and quiddy preparedwith In tI,n of 4, 10,50 and 100. 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On the other hand an overdose of solar rays may cause sunstroke or, in lessor exposure—as many of us found last summer—a mighty. .uncomfortable ease of skin ecorohing. But it has recently been discovered that the- humau',body may be 80 sensi• tized by certain substances that even a brief exposure to ordinary sunshine is dangerous' or.fatal. The discovery came about in a curi- ous way. A. Munich chemist, Herman. von Tappelner, wanted to test the physiological effect of a certain coal tar dyestuff called'acridin. It is customary to begin such experi- ments with the littlest of living things and, it the results prove interesting, to work on up tlie scale of animals to man. By steeping hay in water one can get millions of lively little swim : - ming creatures to work with. Then the chemical to be tested is dropped into the water in measured quantities Until they are killed off. In this way. the fatal dose can be easily and ac- curately determined. Tappeiner 'set a Pupil testing the poisonousnese of acridin in this way but he got conflict- ing results. onflicting'-results, On one day, the animal- cules would all be killed by a small dose of the dye, and on another day a hundred times' that quantity would leave them alive and wiggling, Finally after much futile work the reason was found. If the glass of water colored with the aoridin was ex- posed to the light the little creatures, died., but if It was kept in the dark they were unharmed by the presence of the dye even in large quantity. This clew was followed 'tip. Other kinds of dyes were investigated and tried on higher forms of life. A color- ed. substance obtained from blood, known as hematoporphyrin, was found to be fatal to white animals in sun- light. If a little of this is injected in- to a white mouse it is all right as long` as it lives In the dark. But as soon as it is taken intothe sunshine its skin begins to itch and burn, The ears, nose and other hairless or thinly. covered parte turn red and the mouse schatohes its body and rolls upon the Boor to ease the irritation, Soon it shuts its eyes and sinks -tato a coma- tose state out of which it never wakes. After experimenting upon animals it is customary for a scientist to experi- ment on himself, Accordingly a Ger- man physician, Fritz Meyer-Betz, In- jected a' shot of hematoporphyrin into his own blood. He felt no ill effects while in the shade, but wheu he ex- posed himself to saiilight he began to feel like the white mice and only saved himself by a. hasty flight into the house. Evidently then it is possible to sensitize a Human being tosunlight as we can sensitise a photographic. plate by certain dyes so that even red light will fog it. It has long been known that certain plants will so sensitize animals that they may die from exposure to the sun's rays. White pigs that feed on buckwheat are sometimes so,affected. The disease is: called fagopyrism from the Latin name of buckwheat, fogopy rum. Other plants have the same ef- fect under oertain circumstances, among them pahitroots, St. -John's - wort, alsike clover and knatweed. Cattle, pigs and sheep may feed on these plants with impunity while liv- ing in the shade, but en coming out in- to the sunlight, even a week or more later, they may be afflicted with an. eruption of the skin. If taken out of the sun they may recover In -a few days, but if they remain exposed they dash about in frenzy and perhaps fin- ally fall dead. Darla skinned or heavily haired animals are not affect- ed except possibly onwhite or bare spots. Since such violent symptoms can be caused by sensitizing with these sub- stances it may be that there are other and ordinary foods which may in the long run make stock or people super - ,sensitive to the sun. Possibly certain articles of.dlet,, harmless to those who live in houses or in northern climates, pray h'e.the reason why the white man cannot^'endure the tropical sun that his colore`d,brother sustains with im- punity.If"this should prove to be so then the equatorial portions of the earth might be "made habitable to the. Caucasian race. The March of Music. The spirit of the new musics in nb way different from the spirit which informed the music of all the classical composers. In thesedays of quick and rapid. thinking, and still more rapid action,' it was, not to be wondered at. that .in music as in all art, these characteristics of speed were making themselves felt, There eouhj notAbee ugliness in -any music worth the name. The ordinary noises of the street might become lin- 'pleasant if reiterated too often, but in nine oases out of ten they were not ugly, . . The noise of a •sawmill, In certain con- ditions, might be just as beautiful as the sound of the conventional bah- blipg brook. Modern music was only modern in so far as it reflected emotions and feelings in modern terms. While it may be "never too late to mend" bad health habits, it is never too early to form good once.—Mary S. Haviland.