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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-05-12, Page 6M m.,....,,.. -..,.-.. ohto car w drove like mad mol into few minutes later', jumped into tow gar- age around the corner, where he ord- ered .gasoline .enough to fill the tank, oil in the crankcase and water' bah the radiator, Said he'd be back after it at once, He went then to another room he rents near by, The boy's spay he changed clothes and that at appear- ed to he that he looked pretty wide around the waist. They think he strapped a couple of guns to hiinseif. When they telephoned he was back in front of the hotel with the car a'l ready for a run." "How are your men going to keep track of hen?" cried Charlton. Griffin grinned. "Trust them," he replied. "They're sitting in a police car without any By MERLIN MOORE TAYLOR (Copyrighted) Synopsis of. Preceding Chapters, Louie Vogel, a notorious criminal, is offered $5,000 by Lebrun to kidnap Judge Graham, terror of evil -doers. As Lebrun leaves "Silver Danny's" saloon, he is observed by Ralph Charlton of the Department of Just- tice who has dubbed him "The Gray Wolf." Vogel takes the $1,000 given hinv to bind the compact to Stella Lathrop, a country girl he had found starving in thecity and befriended. Stella is now earning honest wages in a factory and refuses to marry Vogel unless he gives up his evil ways. She has, howevea, fallen a convert to. Bolshevism. Vogel carries out his pact. Judge Graham lies bound in a shack some miles out of the city. "The Gray Wolf" demands that the Judge should let certain prisoners off with merely a fine. Threats of death for himself and torture for his son have no weight with the just Judge. Charlton becomes suspicions of "The Gray Wolf" and Vogel. Stella Lathrop joins the Inner Council. Charlton visited Stella to find out if she knew of Vogel's where- abouts and in the hotel hall encoun- tered Lebrune. CHAPTER VII. A Game of Hide and Seek. Around the turn of the hall Chart - ton paused. He knew that Lebrune had not recognized him. In fact, he of waterbowi and pitcher being smash- ed upon the noon The Government agent vanished in the opposite direc- identifying marks light this minute tion~ Over his shoulder he saw the unless Vogel has reeved•% It's one of form of a man who bulked large turn those sixty-,hersepower .feliotivs we the corner of the hall, slop, then fair - bought the other day to chase bandits ly dash to the door of the girl's room in, and guaranteed to run the wheels and sent it bursting from its hinges obi' anything in this check of : the wibh two blows of his powerful shoul- woods." ders. idea "Well,' here's luck to thein," said With a roar like that of a ma Charlton. I wonder what Lebrune is ed bull the newcomer sprang through .doing? I'll bet a little money that the opening. Instantly there was the there'll be some action soon." vicious crack of an autnhriatic,' a wisp. They weren't left in doubt for long. of smoke fluttered throegl the door- almost immediately the telephone way into the hall, the acrid smell of rang again and the man trailing The gunpowder was wafted to Charlton's Gray Wolf" reported tint be had nostrils. Then a human body was rushed home front the hotel after the catapulted, out of the room and encounter with Vegel, runs out his sprawled out upon the Poor in a hud- roadster and departed north with a died heap. Charlton was wondering motorcycle policeman in pursuit. whether the man were dead, whenhe Another hour the old clock ticked arose, shook his fist in the direction off and Griffin and Charlton had just of the smashed door, cut loose with a agreed that they would go some place volley of curses and fairly loped to and have dinner together when the .ward the stairs. telephone again rang and their hopes The Government agent tarried only came tumbling about their ears. long enough to 'hear the girl's sobbing, Vogel, too, had' driven north and "Oh, Louie, he was strangling me," with hien in the car wasiSteldd Lathrop. and the gunman's growled reply. Then The police car with two complacent he heard the sound of a multitude of detectives had easily kept himin sight approaching foosteps and discreetly ,until beyond the city limits, then a vanished down a back stairway. blowout had sent the pua-suers over "Evidently our friend Lebrune had the side of theroad into a ditch. The a little surprise sprung on him," he crestfallen and disappointed sleuth was not at ail sure that the other even said to himself, smiling grimly. "Oh, well when rogues fall out it'is pretty totem him. Instantly he made up his near time for honest men to collect" Charlton was very well satisfied with what he had learned by his visit to Stella Lathrop, although he had not iniad that he would try to learn what had brought "The Gray Wolf" to this place. If, as Charlton suspected, •Le- brune and Vogel were concerned in the expected to have several things re- vealed to him at one swoop. He had learned that Vogel was back in town, that Stella and Lebrune were both members of some organization called the Inner Council, that Vogel and "The Gray Wolf" were not unknown to each other: For some reason, how- ever, Vogel had returned when 'Le - "The Gray Wolf" probably had come to the hotel to. see "Red Steil." These suspicions were confirmed when, poking his head cautiously around the turn of the hallway, the Government agent saw Lebrun at the door of the girl's room. Evidently they were acquainted, for her door brune did not expect him.Verily, the stood open and both she and the man cards were falling right for Charlton. were plainly outlined against the He decided that the next move was square of light front the windows of to return to Inspector Griffin's office her roams streaming through the ,and camp there until the detectives doorway. who were trailing Lebrune reported. Charlton observed that they seemed He was satisfied, too, that Griffin's to be in argument of some kind, al - en by this time had learned that though their voices did not carry to l Vo ewas in his old haunts and were him. He edged himself past the shadowing him. At any rate he would play safe and telephone. "Got both of your mien under sur- veillance.," reported Griffin as soon as he had recognized the Government agent's voiee over the wire. "I think you had better come down and roost here for a while: unless' ygn,haye some', "giYYYYb"""Il9!CL'r'i':'i�-�' oorner of the hall and, keeping his back against the wall, inched along in their direction. Ile saw Lebrun° at- tempt to push past her into the rooin, saw her thrust him back and attempt to close the door, saw "The Gray Wolf's" foot shoved between door and jamb, saw him thro ,,ba ,„ s ara. & tMika. raoa— w anerr Ye was inside the room and the door closed behind him. As Charlton, running. noiselessly on the balls of his feet, hurriedi jo the door his ears caught the click of a key being turned in the lock. A mo- ment later he was -crouched beside the door, one eye watching the hallway against the appearance of witnesses to his eavesdropping, his ear pressed tight againet the panels. "'So, little one, you do not permit men to visit your roan," Lebrune was saying in his oily manner. "Well, per inission or no permission, I am here. I couldn't stay away. Your heir, your eyes, your adorable mouth, all called to me with the voice of the tempter. And I am only a man. I yielded and I came." "Give me that key," demanded the girl- savagely. Lebrune laughed. "Later, perhaps. Not now. First, I propose to be repaid for paying you a call. Your lips are alluring, my dear. Colne now, a little kiss or two and I ant your slave. "No." Indignation, wrath, were in her tone. "Them I fear I must take them. That is our motto, you know. Get what you want any way you can—without trouble, if possible; by force, if neces- marks, spreading enemy p>opaganda, sorry. What's a little kiss or so be- violating the espionage act more than tween us now. You belong to the in- once, end so on but it was one of the ner Council." Charlton pricked up his hardest cases to get a conviction I ears'. "And you are one of us. Free ever worked on. Some one 'behind thein love is one of our tenets and the spent money like water trying to get strongest ase those who love best. I am quite wild about you, girl. It will take a strong man to wrest you from me, and your lover Vogel is not here to attempt it!" Evidently he sought to lay hands upon her, for to Charlton's ears came "I was just about to do that very thing," • replied Charlton. Just as fast as he could get there Ire was in Grif- fin's office. But they sat and, talked while the clock on 'the wall ticked off an hour and a half before the call they ware expecting came. Several times the telephone bell tinkled and Griffin answered, but it was only sone of his men on other duties calling up to report or ask for instructions., Charlton fidgeted uneasily and smok- ed two heavy cigars front the inspec- tor's box, one after the other, al- though he knew from experience that they would most likely upset him. "What has been done about those I.W.W. and: Bolshevist birds who were to :be sentenced by Judge Graham Monday?" asked Griffin in one of the frequent breaks in conversation. "Sent back to jail for the time be- ing," was the reply. "Of course some other judge could sentence them, but there seems to be a disposition to keep them in storage until Judge Grahan-i,. who tried them, is found. It's funny, Billy, but same powerful influences have been at work in behalf of those. fellows. We bed the goods on thein in any one of half a dozen charges -- obstructing the draft, seditious re - them free. I'll bet some desperate efforts were made to pull a packed jury on us and I would not have been a bit surprised if the jury had split and been unable to reach a verdict." "I suppose they were safely on the road to Leavenworth now," remarked the sound of a stinging slap, then the the inspector. "They will be if Judge noise of a seruggle, Graham is the one who passes sen- "Youd-d little ,she-devil,"grated tence on them. He hates people who Lebrune. "D—n you, quit your break Federal statutes worse than his scratching." Charlton sprang to his feet His blood boiled within him. Inborn chival- ry, handed down through generation's of ancestors who had been gentlemen, urged hint to the rescue of this girl in distress. In the very act of thrust- ing his shoulder against the door he paused abruptly. Duty demanded that he should not permit Lebrun' to learn that the 'Government roan was inter- ested in him. Instinct and manhood intently to the repines. Them, with a and indignation of the strongest 'kind satisfied smile, he hung up, threatened to sand him crashing "It was the boys who are after through the door to panhandle this Vogel," he said: "They were 'outside the hotel and, in fact, had got in touch with the ttvo amen trailing Lebrun when an,automobile drove up and out hopped .-Vogel. I didn't know before that he could drive a car. I must 're- member that.; ' Perhaps it will help solve some of these motor Car thefts---" "Oh, forget it, and tell me some- thing.," implored Charlton, "Rght," agreed the inspector, "Well, as soon as Vogel head gone into the hotel (you know he has a roan there), the boys strolled over and took a squint at the .car. They sail ik was ,all dirty and muddy. Must have Biot comae in from the country, Short- ly after Vogel went in, Lebruhe carne out in the devil of a hurry, hopping yeeel feel, holdieg a bloody handlter- Satanic majesty is commonly reported to hate holy water, and I'll bet that disloyalty in his eyes is the unpardon- able sin the ministers talk about. Ah, there goes the telephone again." He clapped the receiver to his ear. Then his eyes • brightened, he turned to face Charlton and nodded; While the Federal agent virtually held down a seat of nettles and needles the in- spector asked questions and listened cur who had taken advantage of a woman. Within his breast the strug- gle eves terrific, almost as great as that whose tumult reached him from within the room. Charlton • was saved from making a deeision of any kind, He heard steps conning up the stairway. 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Noise of drum and timbrel, .noise of shout and song, Every sport and pastime that you call delight, Well glad am I to hear them for 'the day were long Had I no ,such memory, left with me et night, Home and hearth and mother, all be- long to you Let them only serve you, training heart and hand 'Till a gallant laddie, strong and staunch and true You shall cross the portal into Man- , hood's land. Building the New Home. In building a new house the first who was telephoning reported that consideration is the location. The site several minutes later a rakish' "road- for the home must be dry. It would star had passed the wreck traveling be interesting to know how much of the illness of the world may be traced back to damp buildings. Probably, with the exception of bad food, no ether one thing is at the bottom of so much ill health as dampness in the building where most of . one's time is spent. Catarrh, anaemia, rheumatism, tuberculosis, 'may be the result of liv- ing in a damp house. And if a robust constitution, coupled with outdoor work, prevents the occurrence of any actual illness such as these, at least the body is robbed of much needed vitality. Besides the injury to health, dampness in a building hastens its deterioration. In choosing a site, then, look for a location which promises a dry founda- tion. Bed rock, of course, is ideal, but is not always to be found where the home must stand. Sand and gravel is next best, with clay the poorest foundation soil of all. If there is no other choice, the excavating should be .,ea 'lea. team- neeee....tla . -erae you do not know by previous digging the exact nature of the soil, find .out what it is before deciding definitely on the site of the house. If possible, build the home on a knoll where it will receive sun and air from all sides. The old way of build- ing your hone in :the midst of a grove is Reseed. We know now that such a course invites dampness and tuber- culosis. This .dloes not mean that there is to be no shade. A few trees located so as to shut off the fiercest sun in midsummer, or perhaps to break the cold winter winds, add to the comfort of the familyeand looks of the place. Of course, the direction the house faces must be decided by the location of the Lam. A south or an east face arre considered the beet, but if north or west must be our choice, the rooms may be planned so as to place those. where we spend the most time on the sunny side of the house. Put your own sleeping -rooms on the -south or east. The spare room, which is seldom used, can have the blelak north corner. For a farm home in Ontario I should choose the south side of the house for the kitchen. Our prevailing winds are from the west, therefore a southwest cornea will give you the breeze, and you will have the sunshine to brighten your working roots. sixty miles an hour and that far an the rear, outdistanced but still try- ing, the motorcycle piol'iceman was a poor second. (To be -continued.) The Fallow Fields. Let the fields lie fallow Bare and brown. Let the great winds stride over them, And the snow come down. Let them lie open to the sun, To the patient rain, And the dews whiten them E'er they yield again. Plow in the sturdy weeds, The common flower, Let their wild vigor yield A lusty dower. Then after sun and snow, After dew and sleet, From the earth will spring the Flame of the wheat w green. Tradition in Navies. The navies of the world are peculiar in their traditions and customs. The wide collar on the seaman's shirt re- mains, though the grease -slushed queue has long been forgotten. The American man -o -war's man wears a black neckerchief because the British sailor put it on as a badge of mourn- ing for Lord Nelson; the three white braids on his collar are similarly. adopted in token of memory of Nel- son's victories at Copenhagen, the Battle of the Nile and Trafalgar. He has put a star in each oorner of that queue -guarding collar, and he holds to some other peculiar ideas, which other services share, but the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, the morning of Sunday, March 9, fifty-nine years ago, is 're- membered and memorialized by all the great battleships of the world's navies without regard to nation, re- cognized as introducing the greatest improvements and reforms in • the structure of fighting ships since ships were built. Canada has over 38,000 miles of. railway, or one mile for every 224 persons. hltnard's Liniment •tor Burns, eta Preserving the Graceful Antelope Half a century ago countless ante- lope roamed the prairies of Canada, the United States and Mexico; today it Is doubtful whether there are 15,- 000 of these graceful little animals In all this vast area, though in past years reliable observers have seen several thou'san'd in a single day. Mr. Thompson -Seton has estimated that, at the time of first settlement of the west, the range of the antelope cov- ered two million square miles, and that there were no less than twenty million of these animals. The riffle and the advance of agri- culture have done their work. One writer, in describing the antelope herds of the "seventies," . says "the prairie seemed to vibrate with the gal- loping of these ,swift little creatures, and they were slaughtered to such an extent that their outstretched car - eases were• piled in heaps like cord-, wood." ' The antelope to one of the most graceful animals.; it is scarcely more than three feet high at the shoulder,. and is fleeter than the swiftest grey hoinul. It is feared, however, that, while the antelope is absolutely pro- tected in the western provinces, it is too lobe for the epodes to recover. The Dominion Parks Branch is endeavor= Ing to save, the antelope in preserves. In but one of these, however, is stie-' cess reported, A herd of the little` animals. was discovered near Menis- kane Alta., and these were surrounded by a wire fence enclosing eight sec- tions, As the land was eminently suited to the purpose, and unlit for agriculture, it has been created a na- tional preserve for the preservation of the antelope. At the time of capture the 'herd consisted of forty-two ani- mals, and this number has now in- creased to about one hundred, This, unfortunately, is the only record •of increase of antelope in captivity, and is undoubtedly due to the fact that they are enclosed in their natural range. Dr. W. T. - Hornaday says: "The chief difficulty encountered in trying to afford protection to the ante- lope is in its own nature. It is deli- cate, capricious and easily upset. It is se sensitive to shook that it liter- ally 'dies at the drop of the hat.' Ow- ing to the extreme difficulty in main- taining this species in captivity, its total extin'ctioit at an early elate seems absolutely certain, unless it is fully and permanently protected in its wild state, on its native range, for a long period." Canada's action in giving universal' protection and providing natural ranges for the antelope will undoubt edly prolong, the existence of the sriecies, but it is oole a question of title when the advance of civilization will entirely absorb the free nature; ranges and complete its extinction, The next question is anterial. Shall we have brick, cement, concrete blocks, sbuceo, field stone, frame, or a combination of one or two ? Soine ma- terial which will not need to be paint- ed is desirable, unless' the first east actually prevents using it. Frame houses do not cost so much—or have not in the past—but when the cost of painting every few years is con built. If women are to stay on the sidered, it is a question if the frame farm they must have the work made house does not cost nacre in the end. lighter, and there is no cheaper nor more efficient helper than electricity. even if you are •going to have acety- Used Autos BrnsAK= SELLS TI3I,M ; USW cord of all types; 11x1 carp 'told auA- jeet to delivery up to, S00. miles, er toot run or dame distance it yea wish, in as goc•,A order as purcbase4, or pnrebye rice refunded. EX$$G uxeobsn a of your own abets, to look them over; or sill ui tg to e any ear to city representative roc lnspeptlon, Very large 'mock always ea r Land, Breakey'e Used, Car Market 402 Tpaghp $t st. - nes,:es have a separate flue. Arrange to have an ash pit for the fireplace built into the chimney, with a door in the base- ment for the removal of ashes. Whether you expect to have elec- tricity right away or not, have the house wired for electricity when it is Field stone is an enduringmaterial, and if you have it yourse'f. is inex- pensive although the cost of laying is lene or gasoline for lighting, plan on, somewhat greater than the expense of electricity for power. It will cost very putting up brick. Brick is the ideal little extra while building and if you building material according to many. should sell the farm, the lonowledgs It absorbs less moisture than stone, that the house is wired will not hurt drys quicker, and is a poor conductor of heat. In building your basement, pian for plenty of windows to come in the proper location for your purpose. The basement should be aired as religious- ly as the house, especially if a part -of the sale. lalnard's Liniment Relieves Colds, ata. Powdered Fish as Food. When, shark livers have been press - it is used to store vegetables: 14I•any. ed for "cod-liver oil," or in other cases eases of epidemics in neighborhoods where oil is derived by like means have been teased to unventilated vege- from various fishes, there is left over COM - table cellars beneath olid, houses. Then a residue called "cake," whieh is com- if you are to have a modern house =nay utilized as -fertilizer. with furnace and laundry in the base -A Japanese, Sadiwher Satow, has rent, provide for windows through developed a process whereby this cake which coal may be put into the coal can be made available for human food. bin and light thrown on the furnace.. The material is dried in a high A window over thelaundry tubs isan vacuum at low temperature and absolute neces'sdty for successful ground to powder. An enzyme (Mon washing. If you are to have laundry alc buamic f er rs�npart t) is ad soluble,; the thededto render and funace, separate the two by 'a ter is then extracted with water, re- • solid concrete wall, otherwise your.. dewed to dryness by evaporation. in washroom will be always flecked with: vacuo and again powdered by grind- coal soot. The best location for the ing. cistern is below the basement floor. The albuminous extract thus ob. The location of the furnace must be; tained in pawdered form is available considered. If a hot-air furnace is; for the nicking of soups and for other used it is thought to give better re sults if placed about the centre of the l culinary uses. It ',is, of course, very basement. This does inn=ay with anyj nourishing. extra long pipes. If hot water er In Holland all• Christian names steam are used, the plant may be put after the first are taxed. in a corner of the basement. An out- side chimney saves planning rooms to conceal it, but wastes heat. 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To Principals and Teachers, Scholars and Parents : We will send "E3oine Inspection Blanks" to the teaching staff throughout Ontario for distribution among their pupils. As patriotic Canadians your sympathetic co-opera- tion is sought in the important work of conserving the live -s and property of our people from destruc- tion by fire. The inspection is planned to take place throughout the Province during the week of May 2nd. The primary object of this Inspection is to draw atten- tion to hazardous conditions in the homes and have -the fire menace removed or corrected by the house -holders. The housing problem makes the protection of dwellings of paramount importance. CLEAN UP Pre-ent fires by removing the cause, Information and text -books, "Conservation of Life ani' Property from Eire," "Lightning, its Origin and Control," free en request. • ONTARIO I IRE PREVENTION LEAGUE, INC. in Affiliation with Oiitarlo Fire Marshal's Offloe 153 Unn1t'ei's.ltyAvenin' IC!r onto Giotton Til. 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