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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1931-09-24, Page 2alacia Orang Pekoe has a cost f metro ting flay tt•ur 0 4 ' 183. 6nresla_f_a. the gar What New Y • rk Is Wearing Sunless Year So Far In Gt. Britain The most sunless year since .888 records show. Britons &re hoping ler good weather during September and October. Official weather reports show that 27 of the 31 week -ends so far have been marred by rain and storms. Dur- ig the past 26 months there has dot been a rainless period exceeding three weeks. The lowest maximum temperature since 1882 and the wettest season since 1924 were recorded during the first seven and one-half months of 1931. BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern DECIDEDLY TRYING The present season is generally _re- ferred to as the most trying in many years. It is said to be the year with- out a summer. Between July 15 and Aug. 17 it rained every day in the London area. During the first 13 days of August 3.23 inches of rain fell in Kew Gar- dens London. the average combined amount for the first two weeks of June, July and August. Eight bours of sunshine were the greatest number registered for a single day at Kew between July 15 and Aug. 15. Dur- ing the first two weeks of August fire burned in many office buildings and homes. On Aug. 10 two degrees of frost were recorded in many parts of England. Agriculture and resorts have suf- fered severely from continuous ad- verse weather conditions. Crops in many districts have leen flattened out or washed away. Holiday resorts -.re in despair and the season is generally declared to be the worst on record. HOLIDAYS STORMY .-IE TER SYNOPSIS'It ' • Henry. Bolt and his • Mainwering, are staying 1 farm. Holt's friend, Moi Nestrel House, is desirou marry his nephew, Ha) whom she dislikes. Sevel disappearances have bee neighborhood, Mona Pa daughter, being the latest Another boarded at the, Piecroft, and his valet': unravel the mystery of Chief Inspector Baynard s trel House and rune into Samuels, who gives some formation. Later he is f death. Barnard suspects disappears. Hayden Me Muriel because of herreft him Barnard rescues he', attacked on the moor by Belt, infuriated, seeks out in the struggle that Boli killed. CHAPTER Chief Inspector Baariae ing when Trotter arrive He glanced at his enhere, ant''llV17. ullen has talked: . • Trotter nodded. s. "Sure, Chief, and i yarn, too!" "It would be! Sit & me have it while I shavt' Trotter dropped into e mit his disreputable pip it it carefully before, and crossed his legs like one e to deliver some pleasant recit nard listened as he went on ard it might have been , an. office routine for im tt appeared to take. only. eyes shone a little bri ter came to the news fo been -waiting. JACOBS SE • "' sv,s " " • 'VA "'+, • " A,' offical photographs of Gentleman James; 'ver see this gentleman, Miss inwaring?" he asked, quietly. '1111.1riel looked at the two phot. graphs of a thin -faced, tight-lipped man, with close caopped black hair, and a little pucker of perplexity creas- ed,. her forehead. There was same - 1 thing farniliar about the face, but /when and where she had seen it she could not recall. Barnard watched her closely, and s she still hesitated he took the otographs and slipping his hand oss 'the tops, so as to leave only the' actual face visibla, held them out again. This time the effect was bet- te' he saw a sudden light of recogni- tion flash into her eyes. "Yon know- him?" he asked softly. • ADVE-Nr.17,114X-S Of ib,t41° Adhi.,/1)00 SCOTTIE savage hoed hunters of the hills still sees. a pirate ship shelling another little d tea plantations. With such, a fairyland so near us, you can inia.gine that We teak advantage of the opportunity to raake a plane, flight to the island. From the tirae it first appeared Rs a, dark blue blur on the horizon, we were impatimr te get started, "But you'll have to watch the jaPanese" cautioned the Captain of the Madrigal. "Formosa" is a Japanese possession and lies south welt of Japan about .niflety miles off the coast of China. Qfiite naturally they don't want "strangers flying over their island Without permission and the sole,niers might shoot first and inquire after- WardS." It was still early in the morning when Captain Stuart, of the little ship whose crew we had rescued, and I took off in the pleyne. The island presented a splendid picture, sleep. ing in the bright simlight. The coast at the eastern side rose up, abruptly thousands of feet above!: waritecriure for 'What came 'before: Captain Jlinins1 rugged mllmtains, from which the 1 ht f°11pw5 in Whiell the descend on the rich camphor groves pirates are driven away u t fl 1,i s vess . firp to the vessel they pursued. Captain alintnY rushes to the rescue. But 'we laughed too soon. Chung had no control at all, and the next Inoment that stream caught me squarely in the chest and bowled me end over end, Scottie must have stopped to laugil at me for the next moment I saw him half sailing. and. halt skating clown the deck in a stream. of water. Picking oursel- ves up, • we finally got control of the hose and began playing ' it on the woodwork a the burning ooat. After Chung had soaked most at the passengers with his hose and one of the crew had dived overboard to avoid getting drowned at his hands, we finally got the stream un- der control and played it on the burn- ing ship, while the faeghter took off the people on board. In spite of the use of two hose, the fire burned rapidly and as the ship's officers finally left their boat, the decks smoked under their feet. In another moment we cut the freght- er free and backed away full speed astern. We were only a few hundred feet away when the decks blew up with a tremendous crash, shooting columns of Dame and sparks high into the air. The ship now burned brightly all over and bega:'t to settle rapidly into the sea. There was nothing more to do, so after :watching it for a few minutes, we " put about and soon the burning vessel was but a red glare on the horizon. We sailed on for a few days after we had rescued the crew of the burn- ing ship, then, early one morning we came in sight a a long dark shore- line. "Formosa" the captain call- ed it—and what a picture that brings "It .. .it's very like Hayden Mer- cer . . . but he has a lot of fair, wavy heir," stammered Muriel. Barnaeaestas thinking rapidly. He hdneVAr-liad an opportunity of get- • ing rea*, close. to Mercer, the man as as wary as the devil, and as slip- ery as a snake. but he knew now that he had identified him. "It is Hayden Mercer?" asked Mur - el, hesitatingly. Osibly, Miss," replied Barnard. a 1,"PaderNia you'll tell me what you red..icieeweaifin e I ' T-41 But beyond the facts which she had I, already stated she could tell him no- thiig and Barnard. did not press her at all. If Holt had really gone gun- *ning after the Corsican the probabil- ity was that he was already dead. Numerous men had set out to get Gentleman James but none had yet succeeded. ''' Feeling genuinely sorry for this fine girl plunged into the midst of thie 'lerrible business. ringed around hy vicious criminals, Barnard dropped much of the official mask and became ni, .st human as he endeavored te ere her: But time was pressing, uld not afford to stay long he ad "13.—m! So that'S mented, as the recital Mullen knows nothing' "Absolutely nothing, him through it good he would have talked if "All right. Trotter, y. an hour's sleep; there's • e fore us." Easter, Whitsun and August Bank holidays were wet and stormy. Since May 1 there have never been three cosecutive days with nine hours' sun- shine each. On Aug. 14 it rained418 inches in Londen, and BirMinhal,;e7e- perienced the ewettest- his- tory. Roads and railroads have been flood- ed. to depths up to six feet; transpor- tation in some sections has been at a standstal" for periods exceeding 36 lours; houses and shops have been inundated; many people have been drowned and struck' by lightning; gales have swept seaside resorts and towns, and thunderstorms have raged throughout Britain. Fire brigades have been summoned repeated to pump out submerged cel- lars. In one week -end basements in more than 400 London homes were flooded. - Barrels of beer and'Other alcoholics have been washed out of basements and into streets. In one Kentish vil- lage barrels oi beer washed into a narrow lane halted traffic for several hours. But there ishope in the offing. Sir Richard Gregory, the well known wea- ther expert declares; "Periods of bad weather come in cycles of 50 years. To take rough dates, 1770-80, 1820-30 and 1870-80 were wet periods, with an interval of 50 years of comparatively good wea- ther. "The year 1920 imtiated a wet per- iod which is still with us, but its allotted time is up, and the probability is that next year will introduce the 50 yearfine weather spell." INSINCERITY There is but one thing without honor; smitten with eternal barren- ness, inability to do or to be—insin cerity, uribellef. He who believes no thing, who believes only the shows of ge- "Sure, Chief. .Whatt,?ahourlaeliee ee to hira."' , a44 - Barnard 'completed lale toil .„ I arid '12 out haste, ate a leisurely ineakie - With her. and was on the point of rielae the post arrived. He eecoetized official. envelope and guesseasstheih ae cord Offiee aeleasan .waiie"dirritil he was bale_ W ala" nrnai'vt • And, e.vd, likes, so becoming' ale. the thing as the "party dress." The main dress is such an uncom- plicated affair. It's the wee sleeve frills and &ale peplum hip flounces that do the trick. The edges may be finished with picot, done profession- ally. St le No. 518 may be had in sizes 14, lea, 18, 20 years, a6 and 38 inched bust. Yellow eyelet batiste aqua -blue tones in chiffon print and pale pink chiffon make up daintily in. this model. Size 16 requires 5% yards 39 -inch. to give her mews of Halt e had. any, he returned and set about pre,- ePrcmisiag c e grim ja before him_ eaatelPhe little ecalized. parationc jaele„.ae -Ceakaa,Talef, XXII. r HOW TO ORDER VATTERNS Write your name and addreas plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilsoa Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. room before he opened • An exclamationeif sutise escape him as he stared at tapatographs enclosed. "Gentleman James 1" Imurmured. "Alats James Kohn, Fnch james, alias . . . who; this tier 1 The report came td ae shoelc. Then it was not Py ftwho. had attempted to murdes , ma but this international crook of:i an orign. The use of the knife .1) to a La- tin. Anglo-Saxons -e use this weapon; and it was a k hich killed Slick Samuels. s must be anothc: of the Kest . ase gang, one -whom nether h Slick awl seen. Beenaed bega Crewless Vessel May Study Arctic Weather Russian scientists -svill make next year the first Polar expedition on which nobody needs to go, it plans of Professor P. A. Malshanov, of the Aerophysicai Observatory of the So- viet Government, at Leningrad, are put into effect. Recently Professor Mole- hanov built the small radio equipped ballons which were carried on the Arc- tic cruise of the Gerinan airship, the Grat Zepaelin, and by whieb readings of temperature, wind, speed, and other conditioas in the upper air were ob- tained without need of sending up a human observer The radio apparatus yourself those unseal - able cliffs, fivei, or even six' thousand feet I,igh. Over be- yond were deep wooded v leys and. high mountain peaks, while far to the west a coastal plain reached down to the sea. From the north to the south side of the island runs a wide, cleared path- way. This is the "GuardLine'' that separates the mountain ceuetry of the Taiwans or hedhunting savages frora the rest of the island. Away up in the valleys they live, in a beauti- ul wooded country. (To be continued.) Note: Any of our young readers writing to "Captain. Jimmy," 2010 Star Bldg., Toronto will receive his Formosa, the beautiful island ot signed photo free. to mind. myself evill go in. ,.aek4,, Ford, will uard the rear entrance, and yon;Ser- geant Drew, will remain at the front, but you must both keep out of sight. understand?" The two local policemen nodded. All day they had been watching Kestrel House for any sign of life within and now that evening was approaching Barnard had decided to force an en- try. His previous visit that morning had failed to bring any response from. rider hew ., housed under that ei toot ' Sergeant Trotter adjusted tbe angle For Infant Anasznra And folcl upon tb.emselves, a , many more despera ' nals we .e along, r e . T ott r " But where did the 15r ions Pye- Londoe.—. "imple and. cheap" I more? croft come in? Why ha? e flecleand t in The Saturday Ree taken such rises? What d he been so close at hand When 1, Corsican was attempting the murer A dozen more auestions throrigeralO chief in- spector's xnind as hatori hie hat ; Chocolate Malted Mik The health -giving, delicious drink for children and grownup& - - Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. Andre aloineau appea :ed -for an in - Ashes stant be -fore it was withdrawn with Laid in a quiet corner of the world amazing swiftness. Without hesit- There will• beeleae-ane ..mote..D.L.,111%.. ' ' tion Barnsed,eneaeaeseeeeeee_ewea.., an tharRitarbat Wald catayare ale . ...._ —...t.—a.freideeed ' handle and ung per—une- door. night leaped into the roorn, but quick as he Over the meadoWe when the moon. is furled; Throwing caution to the winds he had been there was no sign of 1115 I shall be then so little and so lost quarry. Trotter behind him gaveun Only die manyfinered ram will ed to be no possible means of exit, find me, behind me exclamation of astonishment and stared blankly around. There appear- And I have taken thought to leave with stet iron bars. frost. to feel the long oncoming even the single window was protected Need" "Shut the door and stand by it," snapped Barnard. Now without sorrow and without ela- the inhabitants, and he had concluded Trotter did as he was commanded, tion that they were on the defensive. Once; and revolver ready, watched his c i I can lay down my body, nor deplore big butler's face at an upper window the other side of the room. tion, How little, with her insufficient ra- he had caught a brief glimpse of the as he crossed to a large cupboaed on so he anew .that his birds had net' I (To be continued.) i Life has to teed us—bet these hands, flown. must they p e CureFound 1 C • Go in the sme blank, ignominious way ll right," he said briskly. "Come sim • t no and set out for 13arr area. The first person he rie ashe ap- proached the farm was riel Mant- waring. She looked atii anxiously as he stopped and raise is hat A sleepless night and oneldereale trouble about sornethilg diagnosed Barnerd, as he enquiretp lely hew she was feeling. s,• "I'm all eight," she rep d briefly, '•but Mr. Holt is missing) Barnard swore beneath d s breath; he had arrived too late. "Is that so?" he said qui Y. 'Tea - g about of his bowler hat, pulled his jalte', more closely about him, and stepped out beside his chief. In silence they went through the plantation, and rap- idly crossed the strip of lawn to the heavy, oak door which was the front entrance to Kestrel House. Barnard slipped a bunch of keys from hie pocket, and inserted one in the lock. "Probably well bolted inside," he muttered. Then, as the lock turned and he pushed gently against the wood, "No, by gad, it's not!" "Steady, Chief," warned Trotter in a low voice. "This is too easy." Barnard thrust open the door with a sudden movement ard drew back. Nothing happened, and he walked in, Trotter close behind A deathly sa- e ervaded the place, even the remedy for the scourge o anaemia is announced by the Medical view of Literature. Research Connell, ., It is the resalt of five years' re-, _---e.---- search work in the east end ot Lon- don by a woman doctor, Dr. Helen The American ,Language Mackay, ana her colleagues. I Herbert Agar in the New States. dition of iron, together with am- man and Nation (London) ; The Eng-, They have discovered that the ad. monium eltrite, to a normal milk diet lish should train themselves to realize! that it is neither absurd nor vulgar. ;Ma; raises the resistance to infection, ! that a language which was once the tor infants prevents and' cures anae- : considerably improves tbe rate of seine, should it. the couise of centuries growth. , „develop diffeeently in different parte The chief experiment was cnducted' of the world. If such were not the at the Queen's Hospital for Children, ! case, we should all still be speaking a where two evenly matt:bed sets of sort of Ur -Sanskrit. Just as French Chilaren were kept under observation, and Italian May be described as , vergent forms of modern Latin, so it th ther used aS controls. would be helpful to think of the lan- guaee of Oxford and the language of • d-' one group being given iron and iron ! things, is not in. relation with nature the balloon merely reported bY haps you can tell me sweet and fact at all radio signals at brief intervals teee it, when you last- aaw for in - readings of the various instruments stance." A lie which is half tile truth is ever also carried by the balloon. This ex- Muriel shook her head the blackest of lie.—Alfrod Tenny- perience gave Professor Molshanov "He left as to SOTI. the idea for an unmanned Arctic ex- (Lter immediatel 'THESE HARD TIMES" "The had times and scarcity ot 'money makes it rn.ore important then ever to economize. One way I save On clothes is by renewing the color of faded or out-oastyle dresses, coats, tockings, arid underwear. For dyeing, or tinting, I alevays use Diameed Dyes, They are the most economical ()nee by Inc leecaase they never fail to roduce xesults that mike you proud. 'Why, things look better than new when redyed wale Diamond Dyes. They never spot, streak, or run. They go on smoothly awl evenly, when In ride oa even a ton -year-old child. pedition. A special vessel built strong- yesterday with ly enough to withstand any possible I've not semi hi ice pressure is to be set adrift next i "DIM the doctor year, the plan is, near 'Wrangel Island, MT., and Muriel., northwest of Berhing Strait. The There was se vessel will be equipped with a cora- manner which are for the turned e end plete assortment ot weather Mstru- picion. ments, astronomical instrinnents t� "And you ilea determine the vessel's position and a where he may robot-like radio sender arranged to malaise, read these iiistruments periodically Mriel besitatede,a and to report re regular intervals to tell this griniefece neaeiving stations in S:beria. It le ea- , tear that he hdo Pected that the 'vessel writ iroese itao in "eve el ma& tbe lee and drift with it for several ;came mis,e ett s years, probably entirely across the "it ibetter thaVY Arct"ce". Meanwhile Rna0lan truth, Where etrmea eelentists working tomfortably in their Muriel loud i'Iso, in laboratories Imearede of miles away those searchieg will have reports of everything that ree, obey than to cgit LI ot clock which had so irritated Barnard 'salt, r diseases of the respiratory ern English. Harvard as divergent forms en his first visit had ceased to tick.Iron treatment halved the morbidity An air of stagnation, threatening, ap pressive enshrouds I them. Trotter and gastrointestinal tract. glanced around with considerable cur- The infants in the iron group, atter iosity, but Barnard allowed him no three mouths' treatment, averaged a time for any detailed inpection. I pound. more in weight than the ordin- "They're somewhere at the top at' ary diet group. the Muse," he whipered, "come ot,1 Commenting on Dr. Mackay's work aild look out for trap." - the Medical Research Council says• : Just as they were about to move for- "Her report shows that anaemia her ward there dame a soft sound behied persists Widpspread among infants in ; s see- there. Trotter glanced eound and per -1 London, and that there is still a gram) ceived tat the front door was slowly , 01...illnesses in infancy directly asoci- t idea closing on ite own accord. He grip.' ated with anaemia, and readily our - he de- I peel Barnard's arm. "See that. able by tbe simple method at adding I Chief?" he whispered. iron (perhaps also with anfinitesimal aid to "I'm not blind," snarled Barnard. quantities of copper and reangs,nese) t her I "And don't seize my arm like that to Lite milk diet. fl Ouse again, you fool." "This is a simple and cheap remedy, ,,-.. ,, Trotter very deliberately took a re- and her results have proved that treat. gently. volver from big pocket as he followed meet of this kind given not only defile. re the It Iris chief up the stairs. Ile didn't like ite improvement in the general health goT 1 doors which closed as that one had of Infants; but increases their rsit-1 avoid donemice to the various other aliments and er to At the head of the stairs Barnard infections common in early life." v. soon pansed and lathered; a sliht, noise, assior had attrzeted hs attention, the. tourid The antral crimolist of the teratea rarely, of shuffling fo t'5 snnewlvre .n A i.lt.ates of America Includes Bonie 12,000, Ile vote aonii the e'' ,'r. A second murders, 100,000 hold -us, and 500,000 the later a door opened and the Pace !•,f burglaries. e.ave it the chief inspeer Another thing, Dianmed Byes never take the life out of cloth or l goes on in the vessel's neighbOrhoOto d, limp as SUMO dyes do. They deserve of the trth, and het e to be tailed 'the world's finest dyes'!" Vitt ran alway3 tell a donkey by Suddenly a thought. 813.0.1 Quebec. his lack of horse, sense, took out his Vval10,an MOSS GOLD iNES Soul for our Special Circuar • cooeriug this interesting Speculation • F. W. Macdcinalcl & Co. Members Standard Stock et Mining Exchange Montreal Curb Market 88 king St W. 159 Craig St W. TORONTO IVIONTREAL Eagle 6255-6 MA. 7785.4121 Wire couneetions to an vende' markets ISSUE No. 38—'3 th of Iv] 33( fa in vi fo eg Ir in si 01 51 Iv ti la ti fe a a tl t( 11