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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-10-18, Page 611500 is the purest and most IScie ntifacaj1y Prepared teat, Solid today. - Try it. About the House .________ it -- _ 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 AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL (Inc of,the 'Best Equipped 1n Ontario. We have First -Class Instructors to malts you a.lteai Expert, Writs or see: W G. Paton, 661 Queen St. E., Toronto.' ISSUE No. 42—'23. (To be continued.) The United States annually gives away 65 million packages of vegetable and flower seeds. 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. 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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 and how give ly to will own Wha ,are'. it is wort! work even ruin world give Make meas dlspr and