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-- _ BY j. B. HA RIS-BURL:AND f
CHAPTER VII.—(Corit'd.) I Boctors, policemen, Trehorn, Sir
The maid put down the tray on a Alexander Bradney, friends of Paula
table, went to the big lacquer ward- Merrington, to servant—these ';ani,
robe, and took out the fur coat. An others ad pieced, together the tragic
expression of relief came into Ruth's story of Paula's death. And et, curi-
eyes, At any rate the woman had not curly enough, in.shite of the awful
removed, the coat fir other eyes to see.
But gone tonature of the tragedy, a'•dull mono -
But when had '; the ward- tony, the possible 'result of law and
robe and why had she gone to the order and ceremony, lay heavy ov the proceedings ,like a pall. Th
greatgreatest tragedy of the greater
est
vel
e
t with delight
Fletcher brought forward the coat
and laid it on the bed and 'answered . ra st of the world would seem
the questions before Ruth had asked lifeless if it Were told by witnesses to
them. a coroner and a jury.
them.
will remember, my lady,"
,she 1 Whenr dthe last witrtess had said the
said, "that you asked. me a. few days the coronerturnedOver hisu notes,
ago to take more care of your lady- cleared his throat, and looked at the
y shiwen st fo uhe, and, knowing that
You jury.,
"HERE'S THE- PIN." I and down the block and tell me what in the car eiitherr, I,thou t night,
thatd not You : have heard: the evidence,
"Mother," ---,id little Herbert; "will you see. haps your ladyship's g we gentlemen, he said, in a brisk, bust-
you please in rn collar tight? Herbert,
At heart Evelyn was a good sport. might be ruled
beautiful coat nesslrke voice, 'and it is. now my duty
the pin." Sure enough, in his s
hand he grasped a large safety
with which to more closely confine
collar of his play coat.
"Why, what a dear, though
child, exclaimed an acquaintance
think you have the most helpful.,
dren I ever saw. Almost any.
twice Herbert's age would ex
mother to get the pin, herself."
"Well," admitted Mrs. Briggs,
was seeing just how helpless m
children—and adults as well—are t
made me determined to try and to
my children to be self-reliant:
"I began with Linda as soon as
could toddle. 'Bring mother your
tens and we will go for a
'Bring your warm' coat and we
take a ride.'
"One day Linda came to me wi
her buttonless little play jac
'B'oke,' she announced. 'Where is
button?' I inquired. `Go get mo
the button and we will sew it
again.' In a moment•she was b
with the button.
"I placed a workbasket where the
children could reach it and they be-
gan bringing me necessary repairs—
thread, blunt scissors, needlecase, and
h.nn he
To -morrow.
A friend who was, troubled unci weary
he knew,,
Who'd be glad of a lift and who need-
ed it, too;
On him he would call and see what
he could do
To -morrow.
Each morning he stacked up the let-
tere he'd write
To -morrow. "
And thought of the folks he would fill
p y g ped and those cabs
mall She admitted what she might have ad- aren't always. very nice, are they, my to present it to. you as clearly and con-
man
mitbed days before: almost all of the lady? So when T came in to drawn isely as possible, so as to help you to
the blinds this mornin re come to a decision. The medical evi-
the yards had been raked up; some had lead a look at t g' my ,lady' dente is plain enough The deceased
the beginnings of gardens; and here, talten it to he coat, and I d have. was poisoned by cyanide of otassium
and there clean white mY workroom if it ha dn't P '
tfulcurtains were been for the tear. I thought I'd bet- bud enough poison was eoknt in fty
ei hanging behind freshly washed win -1 ter ask your ladyship about that." bottle of . liqueur to have killed fifty
chi--, lows. It was a reasonable explanation, wit in. Death probably took place
That's after three monthsit and within a few minutes, and r
boq' of living was quite true that Ruth had asked nsensibil-
peet' near mother! said Donald. I her maid to pay more attention to ho space p a have occurred within the
I think," Evelyn said y, llifurs R th pad quay say, Oh that therefore fair t h mdmute d Thh fact,
in , ve n slow, "I' u as " a e. steers ,y
o was
"ft have Lina Craig come and see ma was very nice and thoughtful of you, alone in the fiat, did. not cry out for
an Sunday." Then elle. smiled, Fletcher, But this tear—oh, it is bel or run for assistance does not
ydreadful! I can't imagine how it hap- necessarily prove- that she had taken
pened. Ianust have caught it on some.. the poison of her o
hat
ach NEW USES FOR DOOR BUMPERS. thing. Sir ,Alexander r own free will or that
be ori- she wished to be left alone to die.
ions if he kexon er would _
Those wooden door bumpers that new. One of the skins is
torn, Fletcher.
nit"
te screw into the wall back of the doorl "Yes, my lady," said the servant,
extending out three or four inches fingering the sleeve of the coat. '"I
walk.' with a hard rubber tip at the end are' can see it better now there's more light.
will useful for other than their original I could stitch it up" -she paused for a
purpose. moment— so as no one would notice
th Screwed into the bottom of the legs' it, but it wouldn't last. Ohl"
,cat. of an ordinary dining chair trans- I Her fingers were thrust between the
silk the chairfrma it t into a very acceptable high' and she nsudden y withdrew and the leather the a fur,
thenr the child not yet large held a small m anz�
on enough to use a chair of usual height.: tween ' her finger and thumb. twig bo-
ack Some housewives prefer such an ar-I "It pricked pre," she said, "and it
rangement to the usual high stool for must have been that as did it, my
working at a table or sink since the lady.
back of the chair offers extra supporti Ruth needed all her self-control as
to the worker.she replied sharply, "Nonsense, Flet -
In the same way a low work table
leherl" and held out her hand.
the like. They quickly learned wh
to get wrapping paper, twine an
paper bags.
"I believe this training is teachi
the children. to he more patient
thoughtful. Many times I have watt
ed thein when a toy broke or som
article of clothing gave out. Inst
of casting. it impatiently aside or re
ning to me for help, they almost i
variably look it over thoughtful
'We'll have to have hammer and nai
Herbert will announce. '
get them.' Or, 'Mother can sew th
shoestring together if she had lin
thread. I'll get it, Herbert,'
"Just now this is a great help
me, But I believe that in the futu
it will be the children who will re
the reward."
erect can be successfully raised so as tot adShe examined the twig as thoumu-
gh it
prevent unnecessary stooping. If the sen been some curiosity from a nth
scum. hIt wast more than had
bumpers are stained or painted to cot I in length, but it was stout and it had
ng respond with the article with which' a rough sort of point. It was not a
and they are used their appearance is'thorn. If she had been pitched into
11- good, for at a casual glance a visitor! a thorny hedge she would not have
e might likely suppose that they had come off so lightly
e
ad been put in place when the chair or
"It must have been there for ages,
0- table was made. Fletcher," she said. "How could I
n- If the sink is so low as to be incon-,one abtwigailke that?" ve torn coat last night
JY. venient for dishwashing fasten four of "I cannot say m lady,"
my y, the servant
r $, the bumpers to a square frame or� answered stiffly, "but T don't think. it
T
'11 platform as a stand upon which to' can have been there very long, my
at place the dishpan. This makes allady, because the wood is quite fresh,
en strong, steady foundation and, a fact andel green."
that will appeal strongly to _ Ruth Bradney could stand no morel
to ful housekeeper, the rubbertipswillcare-, this. It was almost like a cross -j
re not mar the enamel sink, examination. What a woman! With
i the eyes of a lynx. Nothing had
aP Yet another use for them was found escaped her notice, I
when the kindergarten set became too, Well, it doesn't natter, Fletcher,'
a e poisonous salt into water, which &-
chairs were still uncomfortably better stitch it u +
high.' P now and I'll talcs it! "That, gentlemen, I think, is all I
to Bumpers proved to raise the low tables down to the furrier's myself. I shall need say about the medical evidence in
e- and chairs to just a suitable height
Th to see the man about it
for the youngsters. this case except that th d d
d
of
MOTHER AND THE STREET.
"I can never, never ask anyone
come and see me here 1" Evelyn d
clared chokingly.al
n
Do d looked queerly at his sister
then he glanced down the street an
whistled under his breath. It was n
a pleasant outlook. The houses looked
as if they never had been cared for.
Nearly all had cheap lace curtains
that varied in shade from what Don -
aid' called "pale dirt" to iron gra
Each house had a yard, but most o
the yards were bare, and the :hie
use of the fences seemed to be to hol
all the torn papers that blew down th
street.
"So far as I can judge," Donald de
dared, "this neighborhood needs moth
er's garden about as much as any
place very well could,"
"Mother's garden!" Evelyn echoed.
"You don't mean mothers going to
have a garden in this place!"
"She certainly .is!" replied Donald.
"What's more, the game of mother and
mother's garden will be worth watch-
ing. Better fall into line, Evelyn;
you'll miss heaps of fun if you don't."
"Fun!" Evelyn retorted scornfully.
It didn't seem that anyone could go
In and out of a yard several times a
day and not see what was happening
in it; yet Evelyn went in and out end
saw noting new. Once 0r twice, to be
sure, she noticed Donald digging up
a border or seeding bare spots, but she
wept' by quickly without specially re-
marking what he was doing. Once or
twice too she caught her mother talk-
ing over the fence to one of the neigh -
bots, but each tine Evelyn went,
straight into the house.
One Saturday when she was down-
town shopping she returned earlier
than she had expected. At the corner.'
of the street she stopped; something
seemed to vetch at her heart. Had
there been an accident? The yard in;
front of her house was full of people.,
When-slxe became calmer she saw that
they were nearly' all children, and that
each was Loading e purple or yellow
pansy.
low for to children to work at in she said with a smile. "The coat
"Against the theory of suicide must
be set the fact that the poison was in
the bottle, and net merely in the glass.
Now a woman wishing to take her own
life would not put the poison in a full
bottle, but would put it in the glass.
She would not wish to endanger the
lives of other people.
"Against the theory of murder, how-
ever, we have set this—that this pois-
onous salt has a very bitter taste, and
it at once produces a feeling of burn-
ing heat in the throat. It also has
a strong odor of almonds. Anyone
sipping this liqueur would at once no-
tice that something was wrong with it,
though not perhaps so readily as if
the poison had been mixed with any,
other form of spirit. Noyeau itself is
made from the kernels of peaches and
contains a small amount of prussic
acid. And you must take this fact into
consideration, that there may have
been an intention to disguise the taste
of the poison as much as possible, and,
of course, you must consider -the pos-
sibility of the deceased having gulped
down a large quantity of the liqueur
in a single mouthful.
"A person intending to commit sui-
cide would hardly have troubled to
select this particular liqueur. Indeed,
you must bear in mind that consider-
able trouble was taken over the pre-
paration of this fatal liquid. Cyanide
of potassium is not easily soluble in
cold alcohol, and whoever prepared the
mixture must have heated the liqueur.
A woman about to take her own life
Would not be very likely to do any-
thing of the sort, even if she had the.
'Iknowledge. She would have put the
comfort while the adult -size table and torn, and there's an end to it solves 1ees easily.
ly
A SIMPLE, PRACTICAL ROUSE
FROCK.
e servantplaced the trayuhavee ecease
o tside
mu
st
tak
en the
poison
the door
between
andretu•
"I'll take it to mnydroom, ns coat.
•,",B a the hour at the fiat, Sir 10.20, the
she said, "and bring it backSin half'ttiime of thef ids rete n dIndeed,twe
an hour. 'Your ladyship can rely onlcan narrow down the period to half
me to do the best I can for you. !an ]your—from 9.30 to 10 o'clock—for
'Thank you so much, Fletcher. II the deceased showed' no signs of life
really don't know what I should .do at 10.20.
without you." I "Now with regard to the other evi-
The maid left the room and Ruth dente, it is a matter for regret that
closed her eyes. The light from the Mr. John Merrington is unable to be
window seemed to hurt them. She; prerent. As you have heard, Mr. Mer -
concentrated her thoughts oi. Fletcher.: rington met wits a motor accident on
The woman had been in her service his way to stay with his friend, Mr.
for five years—a thoroughly reliable, I Ardington, atDedbury. Mr. Merring-
honest, and pleasant woman. How was i ton has not only Lost his memory, but
it that Fletcher had seemed—well, justaccording to the latest report, lies in
a little different this morning—not 1 a critical condition at the house of Dr.
quite so pleasant, perhaps? Surely Trohorn. We have listened to a state -
Fletcher would not imagine that iter, ment made by one of the best brain
mistress had not gone to the theatre.: specialists in London to the effect that
One can tear one's fur coat anywhere'possibly Mr. Merrington will never re -
if one is careless enough. But that' cover his memory of a certain period
twig! How sharp of Fletcher to have in his life, and I may say that I have
found it how wonderful of Fletcher been guided by that statement in my
to notice that it had 1eea recently decision not to adjourn the inquest in
broken off some shrub or tree! 1
"I must burn the hat," said Ruth to' evidence „°f getting Mr. Memngton's
herself. She looked at the fire that
Thad been lit an hour previously and
was now burning brightly. It had
been lit more for its comiOrtable ap-i
pearance than for warmth, for the ,
whole house tvas kept at an even;
temperature of fry degrees by central
heating. But for once the fire would'
justify the extravagance.
Ruth slipped out of bed, locked the 1
i door, and opened the drawer where!
1she had placed the hat.
But the hat had vanished. Ruth
'stared blankly at the place where it
should have been. No longer had she
any doubt about Fletcher. No one else!
cull have taken the he.t, and Flet-)
her had said nothing whatever about
t. I
Ruth searched everywhere, but still
he could not find the hat. Pletcher'.
ad simply removed it. And she, Ruth, I
culd not ring the bell and ask flet-'
x, e about it.
She unlocked the door and crept'
ack into bed. She was shafting with,
rror. If at thee, .moment her hies -1 Hoped to, at Least.
and had come Mee the room she prob-
bly would hese confessed everything, Shoe"' will you treat mo after
But inter on, when she had had her we are married?"
nth "nd had dressed herself, refusing He -"Well, just as often as I do now
allow Fletcher to help her, she re- I hope."
ewed the situation more calmly. She
aw what it would mean to John Mer-' Woman's Tool.
ngton if site told Life troth. 1 Engine -Driver "The reason we are
eHAPTER VIIh I kept' waiting here, ma'am,is because
All day the '•aro: er's court had been the engine Inas broken down. T. Have
crowded, and be •tmosphereinitwas examined it, and it i only had the
thick end slr!n. It,w'c cold ootsido, proper tools 1 could fix it in half an
and a der xv ;cta+•e clung' to the win- 1iourl'
flows. Bo ^f!cr hour witeeeses had Helpful Old Lady -"Here's a Bair.
come fore, - + d given their evidence, Pin.
answers, n • ••tions, and ,vanished into)
obscurity %gain. Minard'a Liniment fo. Dandruff.
4454. This model has convenient e
1 pockets, inserted at the joining of
waist and skirt. The lines are simple
and the style is easy to develop. Ore- s
tonne and unbleached muslin are here h
combiner. Crepe in two colors would r
also be attractive, lel
The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes;'
Small, .34-3G; Medium, 88-40; Large, b
82-44; Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust b
measure. A Medium size requires. 5 e
yards of one material 32 inches wide°
or, 134 e'erds of plain materia for the b
waist portions and belt, and 31!i of to
figured material, The width at the el
foot is 2? yards. s
Pattern nailed to any address en ri
receipt of 16c in silver er stamps, by
the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West
Adelaide Street. Allow two weeks; for
receipt of pattern.
"Chestnut Street Dooiyard Associa-
tion! Notice uny difference, els?" She
turned at the sound of her brother's
voice. Donald put his hand under her,
elbow. "It's time this blind streak'
passed, young Woman, Now Walk up l
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(To be continued.)
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Minard's Liniment Heala'Cete. - -
To -morrow,
It was too bad, .indeed, .he was busy
to -day,
And hadn't a minute to stop on hie
way; .,
More time he Would have to give
others, he'd say,
To -morrow.
The greatest of workers this man
would have been
To -morrow: '
The world would have known him had
he ever seen
To -morrow,
But the faot is he died and he faded
from view.
And all _,that. he left here when living
was through
Was a mountain of things he intended
' to do
To -morrow.
—From "A Heap o' Living," by Edgar
A. Guest,
Blood
in the Race.
Dr. Christian P. Neser, of Onderste-
pcort, South Afrioa, declares he has
found a way to determine the ender
alma of a racehorse more solentifieally
than has hitherto been possible.
He finds that the red blood ; car-
puseles In the animal increase as its
ability to stand hard cera -n increases,
so that, other things being equal, the
horse with the highest blood count has.
the best chance of winning.
Horses used in ordinary work, states
Dr. Neser, have only 23 per cent. of
red corpuscles in their blood, while
horses trained for the course often
have as much as 52 per cent:
ed corpuscles are oxygen carriers,
and when a horse has many of them
he can run longer and faster, becaxrse,
his muscles can draw on a large re-
serve of oxygen, and he therefore does
not tire so quickly.
1
A STITCH IN TIME.
When you want an extra snap to
repair a garment, do you have trouble
in finding tops and bottoms that fit?
A friend of mine has an idea that
saves much trouble. When she has
a stray snap she does not throw it
into a drawer loose. She has a small
card about the size of a post card
through which she punches a hole with
a card punch, stiletto, or anything.
handy. Then she puts the bottom of
the snap on one side of the card and
the top on the other and snaps them
together. Whenever she needs a snap
of anysizeshe
does not need to spend
precious minute: searching around in
a drawer trying to match up parts.
wry body.
f Aids digestion,
tied cleanses the teeth,
soothes the throat:
a good signg
to rentetstber
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death
OF lose and 'laurel, eucalyptus,' palm,
Brooding 'in lavish sweetness. 1 am
mad
For the harsh glory of my own far
' hills,
For the stern masculinity of hone.
They .do not have sunrise or sunset
here;
Rather the shameful day slinks cower -
log in
Over gray waste of :waters and gray
land,
Under a muted, melancholy sky.
And never does it burn away In one
Swift, splendid burst of • sanctifying:
flame
As day once did, but shambles grayly
past .
Under the mantle of the leper fog,
To the dull stupor Of a starless night:
O God -for splendid spaces In this
dawn-
For glimmering vastness for the,
wind that Swings
Tumultuously in from starry horizon
For the tempestuous magic of a sky
Torn into shreds of fire—and for the
hush
Of aspen leaves black on an amber
heaven—
For all 'the 'mighty pageantriee of day
That made life epic large, I. am athirst,:
They have been music in niy memory;
They, will go echoing with me till L
come
Home to my hills.
Feet that have trodden granite
Can never be contentwith milder
ways. -
Eyes that have held high cony
with the stars
Cannot be tamed to blinking servi
In niolelike burrows, I3earts t
have followed the wind
Beat with a winged insurgence till
they spur
The timorous flesh to skyward trails
again.
And mine to -night is wild with all re-
bellion;
Blind to all other beauty—hungering
only
For hill horizons and a coyote moon
Sage in my nostrils—milling, mave-
rick stars— '
And
tars-
And then the flame clad riders of the
dawn„
Loping across the -sky with hoofs of
thunder.
—Ted Ole'on,
The Great Disillusion:
Disillusion, alas! comes to all of us.
Iy first disillusion, says Mr. Arthur•'
rrltt in the Best I Remember,came
hen I was a bey of nine years, and
ery detail is burned upon my mem-
At my day school in a Lancashire
wn the boys had a mad craze one
ar for a particular form of sweets.
1 our pocket money went on 'a sort
sherbet, which we ate dry with a
con, and which we called "kali;" It
s sold in little flat woollen boxes,.
d there were several varieties, lom-
g
oran e
, pineapple, in
ea 1
PP and so .Porth.
intone varied sharply as tothe
rits of the various kinds. One: boy
wised lemon kali; another cared for
taxing except orange; and a third
wed that all other varieties' of the
est wore simply uneatable corn-
ed with pineapple kali. We quer-
ed and almost came to blows over
relative merits of the flavors. We
mei groups of orange kali boys and
bitterly toward the avowed chain
ns of lemon and • pineapplo kali,
fact,: we boys blindly elevated the
s into real party issues:
ow the summer holidays came
e. our differences of opinion were ...
height, and I went to visit rola-
s in an Bast Lancashire town.
le there I had the supreme joy of
g taken over the factory where
halls were made. On my round I
red a room 'where four girls In
to overalls' were Tilling the familiar
b
wooden bozos, which were already
led; there was a mountainous pile
the toothsome powder on a' huge
d table. I• looked at the boxes;
Bore colored labels, yellow for _
O kali, red for orange kali .and
n for pineapple hail. But all the
s were being filled from the same.
Aghast, I asked one of the girls
horrible mistake was not being
e. "Aren't you putting orange
into a lemon kali box?" I asked
tone that must have sounded hor-
truck.
h, no," she replied; "there's no
'once in the hall; the difference Is
in the labels on the boxes."
eft the factory, a sadly disillusion-
oy.
`3,
Work.
one lite his very best into every
thing he does—puts his Heart
conscience into it, and tries to see.
much, and not how little, he can
his employer -he will not be like
be underpaid very long,' Lor he
be advanced. Geod work cuts Its.
channel and does its own talking.
t matter 15 you do twenty-five dol -
worth of work for five dollars?'
the best advertisement of you
r1 you can possibly. give. Bad
, Half -done work, slipshod work,
with a good salary, would soon
you. No, the:way. to get on in the
is not to see how: little you can
for your salary, but how much.
your employer ashamed of the.
re salary he gives by the great.
oltortion between what 700 do,
what you get, --Success
Po
w
ev
or
to
ye
Al
of
sp
wa
00
on,
Op
pr.
no
vo
sw
par
rel
the
for
felt
pro
In
kali
N
whil
at a
tive
Whi
bein
the
ente
whi
flat
labe
of
roan
they
lento
gree
boxe
pile!
if a.
mad
kali
In a
rot• -s
'0
differ
only
T1
ed b
If
little
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