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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-05-28, Page 3• '..t 1 • • • A blend of the world's most fragrant green teas SYNOPSIS Signor Parelll of Milan, famous com- poser, collapses and dies while he is conducting his own symphony at the Queen's Mall, London. At the inquest It is disclosed that a rare poison, curare, caused the death. - Inspector Haynes receives a call from Oxford stating that a supply of curare hes been stolen. - In an up -country bungalow in West Africa District Commissioner Westcott receives a package of strings for his 'cello—he opens the package and a few minutes later collapses—dead. The theft of the curare is confessed by au Oxford student, Branksome, WhO hands it over to a Dr. Elawltes, who believes In deadening pain of animals used for vivisection. Lettice Manton, her mother, grand- mother and Flephen Garton, of the Yoreign Office, are all keenly interested in the solving of the crime. • CHAPTER X11 WISDOM AND JUSTICE Lettice Manton did not feel quite as impressed as she thought she ought to have been. She had never been in a court before. She had always ima- gbaed courts as being a little more :dignified than the Justice Room at Mill Dean. ! The Police Court at Mill Dean did not fill her with any feelings of awe, :despite the fact that the' preliminary • scenes in a murder case—a case in which she had been acquainted with the little victim, and even knew the !prisoner—were to be staged. At one end of the small, stuffy, .badly -lighted hall was a ramshackle. stage, supported on trestles, over the ,front of which was hung a large piece of faded green baize.cDuring the Win- ter months, when concerts, amateur I - ;theatricals and dances were of not infrequent occurrence, this .plattorm was allowed to remain to', whatever uses the hall migytlap?Put at other .•••tinies. The „gandiklySinted canvas proscenium had a 4kfish look in the morning light, and the red curtain, furled on its pole as far as it could he !hauled out of the way, hung awry and :was not calculated to inspire any of 'the respect for the Law which Lettice found so sadly wanting. • There was no scene set—merely'. a black velvet hanging, thick with dust, at the back of the platform, in front of which were ranged a dozen or so cheap looking chairs behind a long table covered in red baize and be- leprinkled with tumblers, water care- Ifes, pads of blotting paper, pen -holders land ink wells. The benches set lengthways across the room were pretty well full by the time Lettice entered the hall, the rus- tle policeman politely saluting and holding open the door for her to make her way in. At one of the two tables in front of the stage sat •Colonel Eve- sham. As lie turned round and recog- nized the girl he gave her a courtly bow; they had met more than once at dances in Brightmouth. He whispered something to Sergeant Perkin.#,'who at once picked out an ancient Wind- sor 'chair from a pile beside the stage, and beekoned to Lettice Manton. She squeezed her way up the Side aisle and sat down on the proffered seat just in front of the first row of wood- en forms. - "That's the way the gentry gets treated. Ordinary benches is good enough for the likes of you and me," The hoarse whisper of the unshaven man with the crooked nose, red eyes and nondescript colored choker where his collar and. tie should have been, was quickly checked by the Sergeant's cry of "Silence!" Lettice looked at the clock. Mrs, Braokley - Hargreaves' punctuality seemed a little otiose. 'The court was to sit at1.0.30. But the cheap and battered alarm clock on the table be- fore Sergeant Perkins already show- ed that it.was not far short of 11. A subdued murmur of voices filled the hall. A door at the side of the proscen- ium opened and Mr. Chesterfield, the Magistrates' Clerk came in. He was a short, elderly man with white hair, and a fresh pink and white complex- ion, and wore gold -rimmed pince-nez. He carried a black leather portfolio, and a sheaf of loose papers. He smil- ed and nodded in a kindly way to a great many of the pebple in Court who happened to catch his eye. But • be looked a little worried all the..sane. Not only was the occasion itself a sad one, but he had heard that no fewer than fourteen of the magistrates had announced their intention of sitting. It was difficult to keep the minimum number of two in the strait and nar- row path of correct legal. procedure and common sense. As he took his seat at a small desk, with his back to the stage, there was commotion at the other end of the hall. .A. constable entered, followed by a rather sheepish -looking man itt a cloth cap, seedy dark coat, and corduroy leggings, his throat swathed in a dirty looking white flannel scarf. A second constable who followed. the man tilted rwrst-tr,r • • To Original!, Shareholders of Pickle Crow 81 Central Patricia and to others who may be interested Pickle Crow Shares sold in 1934 at 50c. They have been selling steadily for the past few weeks at above $6.00. Central Patricia could be bought in 1933 at 17c. It now sells above $3.40. We, who sold Pickle Crow at 50c, now offer Gateway Patricia Gold Mines shares at 25e. The Pickle Lake -Crow River district is now a proven gold producing area . . . one which we mainly sponsored and developed. You may well believe, therefore, that we would not have purchased 700,000 Treasury shares of Gatewat Patricia outright if we were not fully satisfied of its unusual possibilities. Facts About Gateway Patricia The property consists of 27 claims (about 1,080 acres) directly adjoining Central Patricia, running for ono mile due west and one-half mile on the north. On the projected line of strike of the Central Patricia main ore bodies Gateway Patricia has a length of one mile. Latest developments on the new ere bodies at Central Patricia -1,200 feet nearer the Gateway boundary—give assays ;about $14.00 per ton. The contract for diamond drilling on Gateway has already been let. If you wish to participate in this new veraur. e, send in your order promptly for shares at 25c each or write for complete prospectus. Use the coupon below when sending in your order or when writing for further particulars. MN, 4111. a *WWI *V. mo•••• mom *Mb OW.. IN." 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The prisoner reddened slightly and removed his headgear, with difficulty, for it was now Vain that he was handicapped by a paii• of handcuffs round his -wrists. • Lettice watched the man .,,closely as he was marshalled slowly Up. the side aisle. Poor Tom Saxby. He was a rough enough fellow, and there was little doubt that his several convict- ions for poaching were just. But Let- tice Manton found it difficult to be- lieve that he could be a murderer. Scarcely had Tom Saxby been in- stalled in the temporary dock and ac- commodated with a Windsor chair than. the door at the side of the stage once more opened and the magistrates who were to form the bench made their entry. The whisperings andhe murmuring died down at the call of the Sergeant and the whole assembly rose to its feet as the procession of J.P.'s mounted the platform up the short step ladder at the side. When they had taken their seats the crowd resumed their own with a sound like the rushing of a wave back down a pebbly beach. Lettice Manton had time, whilst the. Clerk made his usual demand as to whether they were any applications for summonses to the Bench to study the indisidUals who composed it. The Chairman was Colonel- Frost— she knew him- well by sight—a tall rubicund man who looked very mili- tary despite the fact that his commis- sion dated back to the days of the old Volunteers. On the Colonel's right sat Lettice's recent hostess, Mrs. Brackley-Hargreaves, who looked very imposing almost intellectual—as she put up her lorgnettes. (To be Continued) Sees Extremes Bible Institute Chief Says Young Folk Better Or Worse Than Ever TORONTO --The good young peo- ple of today are better than ever, in the opinion of Dr. Paul Rood, presi-f dent of the Bible Institute of I.Acis Angeles, who is here for the anneal meeting for the World's • Christian Fundamental Association. Dr. Rood characterized the • difter- ence between modernism and tindit- mfltalisifl as a question of authority. "The modernist makes the fallible reason of man his authority: The fundamentalist accepts the infallible revelation of God as his authority. Tho modernist believes in salvation by work, the fundamentalist in sal- vation by grace." Frogs' Legs Give Jobless Income LONDON, ONT., --• Door-to-door peddlers have been. offering London housewives many kinds of foodstuffs during the past few months, but a new delicacy came upon the Market during the past fevi days. Frog logs at 40 cents a dozen have lifted sotrie of the ,,imomployecl from a meagre exieteues into a position of comparative afflueriee almost. over night. With the- biggest crop of frogs in the district. for some years, unem- ployed working in pairslrte caught as inni, a (iSO frogs in a moping at .the -(1oves ft enal. Tiontlen "'•• ellifeArl.1"1"thrr"r.• • aby Food Combinations of Vegetables and Fruits Are Favored When baby's solid food diet con- sists of just two or three teaspoons- ful of vegetables a day, it's really quite a problem for mothers to get much variety into his meals. r.` te`•,. Lesson They Never Learned Two persons were killed, and six- teen injured in automobile accidents ' on Western Ontario highways over the week -end. That is a pretty good record con. sidering the fact that spring has searcely come to Western Ontario yet. When warmer weather comes and cars get really going on the highways, if that rate is maintained, we may look forward to an eventful summer. One of the fatalities was the old story of a man driving a horse ve hicle after dark without carrying a light. The other was the still older story of trying to beat a locomotive over a level crossing. The injures received, most of them very serious, were from the usual run of accidents—too much speed to hold control; passing on a hill, head- on collisions, etc., that had their ending in sixteen people going to the hospital, from which some will emer- ge sound; some maimed for life, and seine may never come out alive. Everyone of those drivers knew the • risks of highway motoring. Everyone of them had seen or heard of the other fellow meeting injury or death in week -end accidents, and no doubt every one of them had con- demned those other fellows for their careless disregard of safety driving under similar circumstances to their own, But they never learned- the lesson. Neither will many others. This week -end many more will go to the hospital and a few more will go to the cemetery. And next week -end it will be the same. Apparently the numan race is in- capable of learning lessons of cau- tion. or even common sense, as far as motoring is concerned. —The Hu- ron Expositor, Seaforth. Unfortunately it isn't practical to prepare just a few teaspoons of car- rots one day, a few tablespoons of spinach the next. And the result in most homes is that baby gets the same vegetal:Ileaday after day, or that you are forced to the extrava- gant practice of throwing away per- fectly good foods. What most mothers haven't real- ized until recently is that this lack of variety in baby's diet may lead to imperfect nutrition. No single veget- able or fruit contains all the minerals and vitamins that babies need. In view of this fact, the recent intro- duction of solid foods for baby in combinations is quickly winning the approval of -leading doctors every- where. Three combinations of vegetables are offered. • Spinach, carrots and peas are included in one; tomatoes, pumpkin and string beans in an- other; and beets, peas and asparagus tips in it third. There is also a com- bination of prunes, pineapple juice and lemon juice. All of these combinations of baby food were recommended by leading baby specialists to provide a diet of balanced nutritional values, and all are prepared by a special method of homogenization which makes them far easier to digest and much more nourishing than the same foods pre- pared by sieve straining. Perhaps some inspired Burbank of the future will succeed in growing a single vegetable or fruit that fur- nishes all the vitamins, minerals and other food essentials needed to satis- fy normal nutritional requirements. But in the meantime, mothers can solve the problem by feeding baby homogenized foods in balanced com- binations • "The science of evolution sustains the theory that mind has an increas- ing influence over matter." —Phelps Phelps. Motoring Under the Alps It will be possible to motor under the Alps, between Switzerland and Italy through the famous Simplon tunnel, if plans submitted* to the Swiss Federal Railway authorities are carried out. 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