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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-06-03, Page 6,Iteeeealitallinegiallateeteleala..... -elegy ee a gee, egeeeet.a. gaagege TI -IE SHOT IN THE NIGHT BEGIN HERE TODAY. The writer of this story,. seeki nocturnal adventure, walls Iowa - London from Woolwich. Hee to to rest in front of a long, low bouso of interesting architecture with front covered with white stucco. Tall French windows lead into the gar- den. In one of the French windows. there burned a light. A revolver shot 'is heard. The writer lifts the latch of the gate and .tiptoes up the walk to 'peer into the lighted window. He sees a m seated in a desk 'chair. He ste into the room and finds the mt dead. A door opening ,into a dyes ing-room is ajar and from that coo comes the sound of sobbing. A beaut ful woman is holding a revolver. S confesses to shooting her husband bee cause he has been cruel to her about a former lover named Dick, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "He loved me when he'd got m most wretched. And be didn't g tired of it. Oh, I can't tell you." "Well, it was last night, to -night I mean, Just before I went to bed. IVI husband told he he'd been the mane of Dick's ship for some months. Dic Is first mate now. So . . you can believe a man would be so vile , . m husband bribed the captain to dis miss Dick wttli a bad character." Sh almost choked: " . to dismiss hit for being drunk on clay. He's ruble "Oh, not him, please ., Anyhow, eg! he lives quite some *ay off." rd1 "So much 'theabetter. Settee not ps have 'your doctor if we can.lielp it. Isn't there one in this road?". • "Yes. Dr. Fe:stead' nearly op- posite," "All right. you know the story to tell? You went to bed at . . . bet-- teg tell the truth, at what time?" "Eleven o'clock:" "And your husband stayed in the an study working; he said he had so/tee- ns thing urgent to prepare. Round about In half -past five a shot woke you up. You jumped out of bed, ran in here, es and found him. You understand? he Really, pull yourself together. Re. - peat what I have just told You." Staring at me, in a hypnotized voice, she said: "At half pest five • a shot woke me up; I jumped out of bed, ran in and found him, and then e . . . and then et "Then you lost your head, and you telephoned for ine, Mr. Brown." 'Go on' "Mr. Brown." "Yes. l'm an old friend of the y family. I arrived, and you asked me r to go for the doctor. I'll go now." k The small hand clutched my arm. "No, ring up, please. Don't leave y Inc." "All right. But when the doctor e comes, it's you who must open the • door." d I • III. , .. done for." Her voice rose loud "And when I thought of my boy Dick as 1 lay there in bed, ruined, done fo . . something seemed to go in m head. My husband had a revolver fo burglare. I knew where it was .. I don't know how I did it . . I jus ran in, right up to hie desk, and fire him. . . . And I don't know, I don' know . . and here I am, and her I am . . oh! my God!" My hand went out to find hers, t hold it in a reassuring grip. I di not trust myself to speak, for horroi and the repulsion had gone; in my heart was only pity for the woman who had suffered so much. 11. For a few moments my mind work- ed in the midst of confusion. Save her, somehow, I must, but the problem did not at once resolve itself very clearly. It was no use to tel her to run away. She Would be caught. It is a testimony to my disturbance that the solution did not come to me until the woman, with a profound sigh, let herself sink back, while from her weak hand the revolver fell upon the floor. I pulled her to her feet. I realized that it must be getting light, that something must be done now: "Look here," I said. "I don't know you. I didn't know him. I don't care whether you killed him or not, but I'll help you." "Yes," she said, looking up at me. In the beautiful green eyes lay ehild- ish trust and complete wearinees I puked up the revolver: "There's only ono way. We must make it look ea if he committed suicide." "Yes," she said, listlessly, "Will you wait here for a moment. while I . . arrange things?" She nod- ded, but just as I reached the desk and its ghastly oceupant I heard her footsteps behind me. She dared not remain alone. I caught a glimpse of her now and then, as I fitted the fin- gers about the 'weapon. I managed to curl the little finger M make firm the grip of the nerveless hand. Yes, it was complete. Then I was surpris- ed to hear behind me a hysterical lit- tle laugh, and the woman's voice say- ing: "He was left-handed." I could not help maple through my horror at this revival of the spirit of self- preservation, and shifted the revolver to the left hand. "Now," I said, turning to her. "It's quite aimple. Where does your doc- tor live?" It seemed a long thne before Doc -1 tor Felstead came. I had had trouble' r with him over the 'telephone, for he did not seem to understand how a ✓ person who was riot a patient should want him so early in the morning. At t last, I made him realize that there d, was a casualty; he arrived at twenty t to seven. Alt that time I had been e pacing about the tragic room, watch. o d • - Carry it always with you/ 4, WRIGLEYS eKeeps teeth • dean, breath sweet, appetite keen and digestion good. great after wok:Lars smoking saembet Doobwatso Jaw Foal 0,14 ...Imo) er .Every Areal Issue No. 23-26. . The doctor was strange. He would , • ...L. 4104* ''Srij RLJABL - et,;.eeseeeeeeteelet'..egee-""'"'"'""g".'. not know that this man was left- handed. Then he turned to me and said: "Heaet-f allure I" "What? How?" I asked. "Oh, it's quite clear." I was too • stunned to speak. I let the doctor raise up the body, drag it to a sofa, open the shirt and vest, murmuring meanwhile; "He's dead; I'm sorry to say that's quite certain, but perhaps it will be some satisfaction M you if I make still more eure." The doc- tor's fingers were nimble; after a moment the man's chest lay exposed, whi:e the doctor applied his stetho- scope: there was no wound. felt dizzy. Here was something that I couldn't understand. A man struck as if by lightning, and behind me the woman, the murderess, whoin I'd found with the weapon in her The doctor had finished: "I'm sorry to say, MTS. . . • I haven't the pleas- ure of your name . . . that I'm afraid there's no hope. Let nie advise you to go to your room." She did not reply, so the doctor turned to me: "Perhaps you. will look after this lady. ' I suppose the servants will be coming down soon." ----. Some instinct was speaking to me now, for I saicidn an even tone: "Of course, I'll look after her. It's •a great shock to her to come in here and find her husband like this. How long do you think he's been dead?" "Well," said the doctor, opening ut ay "Look," I said, "that's where your bullet went." ing my ghastly companion, and treme- lously feeing that he was obstinately staring at inc through those half- u closed eyes. I kept a watch, too, upon fi the woman in the other room, who h thrownhad haresif into the at mchair From time to time I went to her, b forcing her to sit up and to repeat I her stoay. She terrified me, for the s words came as from a gramophone. v, Also, at the last momone when she heard the front door bell, she gave a scream of terror and clutched me round the neck in a maniacal grip; I could feel her shivering all over, her S heart beat as if she were about to suf- focate, had to use violence at last M tear r her hands apart, to shake he to her feet and to drive her, whimper- ing and cryieg, to the front door. I heard the door open, the doctor's et voice, his steps in the hall. Just as h I was moving toward the door, a sound caused Inc to turn, a loucl sound which had come from the corpse. Shaking with terror I gazed et at the motionless thing. It was only ye • th doctor• "I'e ed that the revolver had fallen from the hand. I don't know why, but this tr made me feel sick with fear; it seem- ed to me that our scheme was set at don't know why, but i formed the idea het if the pistol were not grasped in lee dead hand, we should be exposed, rushed toward the body. The doe- er was coming.in. In a sudden fit as'adness, m 'adness, I picked up the pistol tied thrust it into my pocket. The doctor gave me A C411`i. ent up to the body, felt the pulse. 'he woman le the doorway was etching me, her oyes blinking with ysteria. While the doctor was mending the heart, could hear her voice mechanically reciting . . "to be bed at eleven o'clock . . I was asleep, and at half-peet five . . ." She was tying the rope round her neck, new that the pistol .no longer lay on the floor, for I had no chance yet to put 11 back, If I could only get behind the doctor! I went up to the woman and seized her arm in a grip so savage that she winced with pain: "Hold your tongue," I whisper- ed, hoarsely. She stopped suddenly, s if paralyzed. I rejoined the doctor, f on:y could get on the other side and closingethe fingers with comple casualness, "it's difficult to sa. There's no real rigor mortis yet, b there's just a little. I should e that he must have died where he s not earlier than midnight, 'and n later than two o'clock in the mornin Still, that's of no interest to you. I afraid you'll have to come to the quest. I think, if you':I excuse me, I go now. I can't do anything more f you." "Thank you, doctor," I said, see- ing him out. When I came hack, the woman ha not moved. She was staring at 11 husband's body where it lay. "So," I whispered, "yeti didn't k; him." 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Tals, is an intecesting fen mentioned in a' recent report of the Phyeical- Testing Laboratory of the Topographical Survey, Department of the Interior, at Ottawa. HOW is this done and what is the purpose of •such a,ccurate measure- ments, the layman may ask. The eues- thin eau best be answered by °wielder- ing -the origin of some et the sts.ndards of length of the past and imagining tbe difficulties that 'would result were sus- YeYors in Canada to •survey valeable city lets wieb. tbe ,statutery unite' of length of earlier times. Perhaps the most curious of these old standards wee the inch in the reign of Henry of enry EEngland. In 1224 the rule was laid down -that three barley- corns equal one inch; The barleycorns were to be dry and were to be taken from the middle of the ear and, laid end to end, The rule continued that 12 inches equal one foot; 3 feet equal one ell or ulna; 53 ulna. equal 00-0 perch; 40 perchee.long and 4 in breadth equal one ALCM The measure- ment or land therefore depended on the fundamental unit of ,barleycorn. One can readily see the multiplication of error which must result in the mea- surement of land anti the trouble it would cause in this age' where city frontage often reaches a value of sev- eral tacresand dollars a foot. A Peculiar Method. Henry 1, established the yard as the distance fione the print of his nose to the end of his thumb. It is not record- ed ,how often he was. called upon by the surveyors of that,day to render the necessary assistance in graduating their measures 'with the legal etand- ard or wieat ambIguitiss may bevel re- sulted from this peculiar 'Method of measuretuent. Equally eurions was, the derivation of the rood in Germany in the sixteenth century. Ifosbel's work 00 serveying relates that "to find the length of a rood in the right and law- ful we t throughout the ages,, from, country to - country, from county to county and even from one villege to a neighboring ing village. Many attempts have been nead-e to select a standard not depend ent on a recognized physical measuee" ing rod. French engineers spent seven years in determining the length of the metre and even then failed, to obtain the millionth .Prat of the arth's quad- rant to the accuracy desired. Others • have attempted to relate measures of length to time by the determination of the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds thus establishing a meaSure- went of lengtla fundamentally related to the time of revolution of the earth Canadian Standard. But. the fact remains. that the stand- • ard of measure In Canada le bronze bar similar to the Imperial standard yard legalized in 1835. Three copies were Seat to Canada in 1874 but two were lost in the fire which destroyed the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa In 1916. The distance between two dine lines on the surviving bar in the custody of the Weights and Measures Standards Branch 05tD he Department ant • Trade and Oonimeree is the legal unit of measurement of length M Can- ada ae establiehed by the Weights and Measures Act. cos'arng scientific usage, you Mall do as follows; Stand at Me door of a chin•ch on Sunday and bid sixteen men to stop, tall Ones and mall ones, as they happen to pass out, when the service Is finished, then: make them put their left feet one be o Ind the other, and the length thus ob. o ained shall be a right and lawful rood El i survey the lend with and the six- t eentli part of It shall be a right and 1 t awful foot." \!'e are not told what I t u tho HOT here was 1.0 compel these k len to stop mid line up or what thee la enelty would be in case of refusel. Standards of len tl I e THE STORICBEHINt) THE SONG` "Ben Bolt" 'To.have one's song published in the humMeda warbled and 'sung in theatres, coneertmoins and homes and "perforated" and out on a roll to be ground out on mechanical pianos and organs, and yet receive no com- peasation—not even a copy of his own brain child—was the experience 05 Dr, Thermo Dunn 'Eiglish, author of the truly immortal "Ben 13ol1." In 1843 Dr. 'English, a practicing IMetician et Port Lee, Net., promised two of ids portional friende, the editers of "The New York Mirror," a poem of tha sea as a contribution. , Little did he dream e that this poem would go doevn into history as one of the great. est sentimental ditties of the age. When he sat down to write the divine 'PI - afflatus was neeehere in sisght until he began to delve into reminiscences ot his boyhood. MeclutnIcally he • hee wrote tline: Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben • Bolt? Then folloveed poem of five stemzas of eight lines, each. Not until the last line is there any reference to the sea, when 'euddeuly the hero's (Mem, pation is given as "Ben Bolt of the salt - sea gale." It was this last lineatleat strengthened the • ballad and. fulfilled the promise of a sea Minn to the au- thor's editor-friende. Off it went and Was duly published on September 2, 1843. The author then essayed to set the .poena to music, but with no sue - a080. But the tune which carried “non Bolt to eYery corner of the Englisio speaking world was an old German meinx1y4.. It came through the efforts of Nelson Kneass, a roving •nainstrel Singer. While appearing at a Pitts burgli theatre Kneass was told -by the management that if a new Song could be produced lie would he added to the cast at the next play scheduled. Ile Consulted a hanger-on at the theatre, re, former British Journalist, A, M. Hunt. Hunt had read "Ben Bolt!' in an Eng - little 'newspaper, gave it to Knease from.memory and filled in from his imagination when his Memory failed, Kneass thereupon adapted the German melody to the words and .subsequentlY the completed song was introduced In the new play, "The Battle of Buena Vista." The drama. died, hut the WSW survived. A music Publisher obtained the Copyright and reaped a fortune. Everybody had adopted "Sweet Alice" as their pet. The grace of the lines and the repetition of "Ben Bolt" made it highly effective. The ballad itself -voicee a universal theme. It echoe the vain regrets of a roan who looks back upon a, youth that is mei forever. So much se that Mauriac in 1895 utilized this, unsophisticated little song as the pivotal point in his famous "TrilbY," fully lifty-two years alter its appeara.nce in America. 'Dr Enelleh was loud or relating that 'after the song was pirated a ship, a steamboat and a racehorse were named after it, adding,' "The ship was wrecked, the steamboat exploded and the horse never won a race"—some- what consistent with his own lurik in The standard rules of the Top°. grapleical Survey for calibrating mea- sures of length are kept at the Physi- cal Testing Laboratory. There is equipment here for determining lengths to the finest of accnracy. While under observatiou the Tubes are kept In bath of diatilled 'water to ensure uniform temperature and measure- ments are made with 1.13.,e aid of special highpower microecopes. en order to avoid multiplication of error in ex- tending the unit measure over the length of 100 feet, nteasuremeuts of the single unit may be made to an ac. curaey Or 0110 liftY4.11,01150/1(15.11 of au inch. Dominion Land Surveyors are re- quired by statute -to havesteel band tape, ef which the length has bean de- termined. A. certificate Is supplied by. the Musical Testing Laboratory for each tape tested. This tape MUM, IA each case, be hantleed with care and on no account used for field work for fear f altering its length by getting bent ✓ twisted. With this tape the sur- veyor checks. hie field tapes from Ulna 0 time. It is therefore necessary In nee day e of very high land values, hat his fundameetal unit of length be nown with a high degree of accuracy r04 taltioert)e.sting of tapes 14 therefore ne of the important ructions of the sibo h e Cape Sable Island. The Mined makes e sort of land from a e tier e Against the aea. The men are much awe y. my eyes caught sight of a chiffonie etween the two tall windows. "Look, It .1 r s t Is omen w1 get in the beg working in segboots and their bliesansi, said, pointing to a shattered Lowe tat bowl, "that's where your bulae rent." (The End.) • Another story of midnight adyen ure by W. I,. George. "Ina Legatee' hoes," will follow this story, !nerd's Liniment for Backache. Dressed for the Part. A movie director WAS rehearsing a owd scene for a new thriller. Atte e bad directed the men who had been eleeted for the seene, he, told them reportat the lot late that afternoon This scene we've relmareed," saki he ekes place in Russia, and want all o gays In Om meercoats." "But mwe r most of us ain't got efola overcoats," protested one of the ex- bands' gear. t Days begin early when the weather's clear„ • But whhe en tfoe drifts Inahore, wet tied gray, 'rhey .work at hooked rugs and their quilts all day, Hearing the cope horn bellowing like . a steer. With so much wind there is small ehenee for trees, The houses stand out, shelterless and etude, Ansi in the graveyards near the pound- ing seas • The epic stones rise in bleak solitude, • Rada one recotiotang its own trage- dies Often with latitatie and longitude. 05, "That's none of me. business," re - led the director, "if you're rioteased for Il I don't let you on." The Mall 151.1.10. "I tell you 1' woe't let you on unless you are dressed for Rt10314!'' 0110 Atka t he direct en "But I've got on two 00150 of ender- . wear!" protested the extra. eaught by this trifling' accident, I dr Alter Cases. "What became of 'your watch, my boy?" "Here (1 48, father." "What! The 'WE tell I gave you had gold case, and this is silver." "Y „5011 must ieniem- eircumstances altar eases,", a • NURSES The Toronto Hospital for 'nen, eblee, In Of I Wfition with Salicylic nnd Allied • Hospitals. Otto York Clay, offers a three years' Course of Training to young women, having ihe ',Antrad ednontIon, nnd doeirolis of docomng nurses. This Hospital hes 'adopted the 'eight- hofir ovf on, • Tit* goPils resolve on ifofini of the School, 0 monthly ollowon 1,0,1 teoVellng ascot., to awl from Now Yok. For tortlur Intorintion Wafts the Sliperitedeht. •• inard's Liniment for burns. Songs of Sea and Lands. I read whatever bards have sung Of lanes beyond the sea, And the beight days when 1 wee young (101110 thronging back to me. In fancy I can hear again 'rhe Alpine torent'e rear, The mule•belle on the hills of Spain, The sea at Elsinore. I journey on by park and spire, Beneath centennial trees, Through fields With popplea all on ere, And gleams of dMtunt seas. • • Let ethers traeerse sea and land, And toil through veeMue climes, thin the world round with my hand lteecling these poet's! rhymm. Real Irish. Mrs Meaty wasrinstrueting Iter 11511 maid of-alllwork regarding the peoper Miles of certain aniicles, "And; /311dget,":s1}e sad, "these are eWers--ewers----dett't call them jugs." "Sre an' 1 won4., sad•Bricl- get. "An' is rail. them little basins mine too, ma'am ?'! 343 Vonge St. . Toronto A Canadian General Eletra- Ptodoct sag "To My Wife." Reginald Heber, Bishop of Caleutta, wrote LIVO hymns that hago become fa- rate, Time, Occasion, Chance, anti Image, to these all things eve sub- ect but. Eternal Love,-Shel:ey. mous: "litelY, Holy, Holy; Lord Cod iind the miselonary" hym, "Front Greenland's fry Mountains." He wrote the following beautiful lines to him Wife durifig his voyage to India in 1 822 then a long and tiresome one, to take up his biaboprc; If then, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, How g.adly would our pinnace glide oer Gunge's mimic seal miss thee at the dawning grey, when, on our deck reclined, in careless eas my Realm I lay nazi woo the cooler wind. I ;else thee when by Gunga's stream ley twilight seeps I guide; mssbeneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee by my sde. I spread my books, my pencil try, the lingeeing noon to cheer; But mists thy kind approving eye, thy meek attentive ear. But when at morn and eve attester be- hld,s me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for Inc. Then onthen onwhere duly leads my course be onward still- Oer Motel IiillEthatan's sultry meads, oer bleak Almoralee bit, nal course 1101' Dellirs kingly gatee, nor ivild Malwah dotaiu, ,-or sweet. the bliss us both awaits by yonder western male. 1111eS that mean itess work for you - Thunk Rest which re- iieves all strain from the hand and wris. The Heel Stand which makes • it unnecessary to lift the hon. The Hinged Plug, wind, pre- , Mi vents wear and disconnection • of the cord. bt lus itnit The Hot I otnt, which makes ,tt." ironing quicker end easier. • " Pa elotpoint is the only electric iron alt in the world to g,ive you ail these •gr int ide ter fro nelIsa lea never receiving any royalty. His sole 'er compensation was- in watchlue "Ben Bolt" gliding safely through the sing- ing waters of song. Killarney's Shores. fleeing the inotantain region toward Killarney, came to a track of moun- tain bog, one of elle most improvable hage anyeehere seen. Soon entered the wildest and most roniantic oomph -ye a.reglon of eteep rocks ana mountains, which. continued for nine or ten mik. From one of these beiglits looked fol"waed to the lake of Killarney anil at si constdereble distance, anel beck - ward, to the river Kennuire. Came in view of a small part ot the Upper Lake spotted with lelands aacl sureounded by the meat tremendous mountains that can be imagined. . . From this scene of magnificence, I broke at once upon all the beatutieS of Killarney. The part of the lake you command appears a basin of two or three miles round; to the left it is, enclosed by the mouotains you have- passed, paaticu- larly by the Toro, whose outline is um cemmeney noble and joins a range of others that form the "nose magniticent shore in the world. On the other side is a rising scenery of cultivated . Front thence I looked down on a pretty range • of enclos.ures on tbe lake, and on the woods and lawns of Muckross Abbey, fomeing a large pronioatory of' thick wood, shooting far into the lake. The most active Riney can sketch nothing in addition. 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