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a1R'eer Specialists, 15 Downie St., Strat-
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JOAN J. HUGGAR+D
Barrister, Salic;tor,
Notary Public, Etc.
Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Out.
R. S. HAYS
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer
and Notary Public. Solicitor for the
Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the
Dominion Barak, Seaforth. 'Money to
loan.
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Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan-
cers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office
In the Edge Building, opposite The
Expositor Office.
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VETERINARY
JOHN GRIEVE, V.S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All disease of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
and residence on Goderich Street, one
door east of Dr. M'ackay's office, Sea -
forth.
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary
College, University of Toronto. All
diseases of domestic animals treated
ig the most modern principles.
Charges reasonable. Day or night
galls promptly attended to. Office on
Main Street, 'Herman, opposite Town
Hall. Phone 116.
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Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Late assistant New Yoak Ophthale
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Nye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
Obits, London Eng. At Commercial
Hotel, Seafoe:th, third Monday in
each month, from 11 aan. to 3 pan.
fla Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
DR. W. C. SPROAT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
Umiversity of Western Ontario, Lon-
don. Member or College of Physic-
lha and Surgeons of Ontario. Office
In Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Beaforth. Phone 90.
Honor graduate of Faculty of
Medicine and Master of Science, Uni-
versity of Western ()uteri°, London.
Member of College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario. Office 2 doors
east of post office. Phone 56, Hensall,
Ontario. 3004-tf
r DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY
Graduate Dublin University, Ire-
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litotunda Hospital for Women arnd
Childxen, Dublin. Office at residence
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Office and residence Goderich Street,
east of the United Church, Sea-
ford). Phone 46. Coroner f Or the
County of Huron.
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DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medalist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Flaeulty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical Schaol of Chicago ;
Royal Ophthalmis Hospitali London,
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, E-ngland. Office -Back of Do-
minion Bank, Sea.forth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls ansiwered from residence,
'Victoria Street, Seatforth.
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Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St ,
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Sanith'e Grocery, Main Street, Sea -
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CONSULTING ENGINEER
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gineer and Lend Surveyor. Associate
.m,ber Engin= Institute of Can-
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' Half Breed
A Story of the Great CowboyWest
By LUKE ALLAN
(Continued from last week)
Throwing five Policemen in a line
through the Hills from north to south
a few miles from their western end
-it was the post of danger -he sta-
tioned some cowboys and the rest pf
the Force the entire division being
centred there for the time being, be-
tween the Hills and the 'Montana bor-
der. The north he left in care of
ranchers and cowboys. On the very
first night he knew he had the out-
laws corn'ered; they tried to break
through to the south, were fired at.
and fled back into the Hills.
The discovery of a few scattered
spots of blood where the firing had
occurred decided Mahon's next move.
Calling up the new man, whose ex-
perience had been among the, woods
of the north, he started to trail the
blood stains, leaving instructions
with the two remaining Police on the
south to keep close to the Hills they
might respond to any unusual move-
ment bfiere.
The half -(breed'''s training in fol-
lowing trails' came' now to Mahon's
service as never before. All he had
to draw him on were the scattered
spots of blood and here and there
slight signs of passing horses. Cor-
rigan, his companion, useful as be
was in bush trailing, watched Mahon
go about his, task with great respect.
Right into the deepest shadows of the
trees, now almost in full leaf, the
blood led, Corrigan's duty being to
watch for ambush while 'Mahon con-
centrated on the trail. Deeper and
deeper they plunged where so much
danger lurked and where so much
neither of them had ever seen made
their going half blind. But after a
time the trail led into clearer places
and their progress was faster.
Several timers as he moved along
Mahon imagined slight sounds from
the shadows about him, and .once or
twice Corrigan crept away to recon-
noitre, but they could find nothing to
support their fancies. It was not a
position for trifling with, since any
one of the ten outlaws, armed and
expert shots, would not hesitate to
kill if his safety from capture de-
pended upon it. Indeed, Inspector
Barker had solemnly warned then.
that Dutchy and his fellows would
probably •shoot now on sight. But it
seemed against all reason that they
would risk hanging on •the trail of
the Police following the blood spots.
Down to the edge of a small lake
-the very one beside which he had
spent with Blue Pete his first night
in the Hills -Mahon led, but there the
trail escaped him. Probably the
wounded man had bathed the wound
and bound it up, and Mahon and Cor-
rigan seated themselves on opposite
sides of a tree to talk the situation
over. There, screened by overhang-
ing foliage and placed so that nothing
could approach them, they were more
conscious than ever of being watch-
ed, even of being in dire peril.
Neither of them thought of the
safe way out --perhaps the wise one
-retreat. The very placidity' and
silence about them laughed at flight.
The lake lay as peaceful as a child
asleep, and the big trees drooped with
only a lazy rustle in their tops. Ma-
hon wondered if it was this very sil-
ence, where so much was always hap-
pening, that gave him such a sense
of brooding watchfulness. It was a-
greed that they should skirt the lake
in opposite directions, meeting on the
other side. Mahon set out, keeping
Ito the tangle of green beyond the op
en shore, eyes and ears strained. To
the right was the lake. To the left,
in that trackless forest, was always
something that seemed to compel at-
tention in spite of himself. Some-
times he was convinced that it mov-
ed along there within a few yards,
keeping silent pace with him; and
yet he dare not risk investigation un-
til the, opportune moment. He tried to
relieve the strain of half caught
sounds by telling himself it was only
imagination, and often he stopped
suddenly that his eats alight satisfy
him that he was alone. At a clear •
fig across the way he lay several min-
utes waiting, but nothing happened.
He was debating whether he should
not rush boldly into the trees and
take his chances to expose what was
there, when a sharp hiss sent him
crouching back into deepest cover. It
was the instinct of warning; and the
reaction of surprise was to raise his
head warily to peer about.
As he came above the bush he
found himself looking into the :barred
of a rifle before a malevolent face
not twenty yards away.
His first thought was that this was
not the something that had been
tracking him; it was in a different
direction. He had but an instant to
note .hat the face was Bilsy's, a
bandage about his right arm pointing
to the source of the blood stains he
had been following. And then some-
thing hurled itself from the bushes
to his left with a loud cry, and two
rifles blazed. The awful broken gur-
gle that came from Bilsy's lips Ma-
hon knew to be his death cry; but it
was to the other, his saviour, he'turn-
ed.
As he looked, a loose, ungainly fig-
ure stumbled from the trees and sank
in sickening jerksh to the edge of the
water, and wita gasp of horror Ma-
hon stared down an the twisting fea-
tures of his half-breed friend, Blue
Pete.
THOMAS BROWN
Licensed auctioneer for the counties
of Huron and Perth. Correspendence
arrangements for sale dates can be
made bf calling The Exposit sr Office,
satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 802.
OSCAR ,KLOPP
liond'r Graduate Caeey Jones' Na-
tional School for Auctioneerring,i Chi-
cago. !Special eourse taken in Pure
Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer-
chandise and Farm Sales. Rates in
keeping 'with prevailing packet, Sat.
%faction assured. Write or wire,
Oscar Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone:
13-98. 2888-52
,Licensed auctioneer for the County
of Huron. Sales attended o ht all
warts of the county.\ Seven years' mil:
perleace in Manitoba and Sadratche-
1.178 r 11, Exeter, Centralia P.O., kit
No. 1. Orders left at The Huron ET-
pealtor Office, Seaforth, promptly at-
tended te.
Without a thought of the dangers
aboot him, Mahon raised the con-
torted face. The eyes opened heav-
ily and stared blankly up at him. a
second, then widened into a twisted
smile they fixed themselves on the
Policeman's white face.
"Thank God!" whispered the half-
breed. "'Tis all right. Bilsy didn't
'get you. I --I didn't see him till near
too late."
Mahon was feeding swiftly for the
source of the strain. deepening on
Blue Pete's breast. As he opened the.
shirt the half-breed smiled wanly.
"Never min' me, Boy. Th' ain't
nothin' yuh kin do. Bilsy-near got
me -this time . . But I've
paid -der wot he done to th' ole gal."
In his face was not a quiver of
pain, not a sign of regret or fear or
sorrow. )Mahon's ivoice caught, as he
tried to speak.
"Wlhy didn't you let me take my
chance, • Pete? Oh, Pete?"
A weak smile lifted the corners of
Blue Pete's, mouth, and in his eyes
was a world of affection.
"Bilsy - don't miss,Boy. Yuh
heal -et no chance . . '• Itis=
fer yer mother . . She wants
-them letters, No, let vat be. Get
out o' here, Boy, quick! Thar's isore
after yuh."
He raised himself with a burst of
strength.
"Don't stop me," he muttered hur-
riedly. "Ken't talk -much. Sort o'
fizzles 'out -4n •here. They're under
the big pine in Pine Hollow. You
know it. Get 'em -to -night. Now
go -quick!"
Mahon started to the lake for
water. As he raised himself some-
thing crashed against his head andhe
dropped like a log. But even as he
fell he had a dim vision of the half-
breed leaning over him to feel his
heart -and then a crashing of bushes
and Blue Pete was gone, blood drip-
ping horribly behind him,
CHAPTER XXVIII
SCORES SETTLED -AND OPENED
Corrigan, coming at full speed at
the rifle shots, found 'Mahon lying un-
conscious in a pool of blood, little of
it his town. After dashing a hatful of
water in Mahon's face, he dragged
him into the trees and awaited the
help he knew would come. To hurry
it and to guide the Policemen listen-
ing just south of the Hills for such a
signal, he fired his own rifle twice,
and then turned his attention to the
battered head ef his Sergeant. To
such good effect did he set about it
that when the other Policemen arrived
Mahon was sitting dizzily against a
tree trying to recall what had hap-
pened. Bilsy's body they found in
the bush as it had fallen from Blue
Pete's unerring bullet.
Two hours later 'Sergeant Mahon,
his head bandaged, was planning a
coup.
He knew Pine Hollow and the big
pine, for he and Blue Pete had used
it more than once as a rendezvous'
during their excursions into the
Hills. It was a natural hiding place,
fringed with thick bushes and. so ov-
erhung with trees that, save in heavy
rains, the ground was never wet.
Late in the afternoon, while the
sun still shone brightly out on the
prairie but gloom was thickening a-
mong the trees of the Hills, seven
Policemen converged noiselessly on
Pine Hollow, -with orders to close in
warily to within a hundred yards and
there to lie until seven -thirty, when
darkness would make further advance
less dangerous. At thirty yards they
Were to _await developments.
•Blakey, as Mahon's superior in
point of service, ordered Mahon to re-
main behind, for the blanched faoe
and wild eyes warned him of coming
collapse, postponed only by the ex-
citement of the moment and the grit
of the sufferer. But Mahon grimly re-
minded him who was in charge, and
as dusk fell, with his head playing
him uncanny tricks, he was crawling
through the trees to his allotted place
in the tightening cordon of Police.
At the appointed time he embark-
ed on the more perilous part of the
adventure, his ears keyed to the faint
rustlings of his fellow -Policemen on
either hand. 'His part of the plan
was not to stop at thirty yards, but
to go on and See what Pine Hollow
had to show.
For some time he had heard sub-
dued voices from the Hollow, and as
he crouched at the edge of the pro-
tecting bushes the faint glow and
crackle orf fire came to him, sOlving
at once the problem of the darkness.
From the earnestnese of conversa-
tion he gathered a difference of opin
ion, and when he came nearer found
it concerned the wisdom of a fire. It
was Dutch Henry himself who growled
that he did not intend any longer to
go without something hot to drink.
Inch by inch Mahon wormed his
way into the bushes. Dimly then in
flickering moments he could make out
the flames through the foliage, and
as he arrived at the edge of the open
saw Dutch Henry proceeding with
the preparation, of tea. Gathering
him,self together he leaped into the
There was a wild rush, some to es-
cape, some to their rifles, and even as
Mahon's rifle caveeed them the hands
of several of the outlaws were grip-
ping their firearms.
quiet voice. "You will drop your
rifles and line up on the other side of
the fire."
Three half -raised rifles hesitated ;
,kix men stopped in mid-flight. Nine
pairs of eyes glared u.p at the khaki -
clad figure outlined in the light of
the fire.
Mahon stepped forward and paused
for them to obey; but only a couple
of them made a movement to fall in-
to line. Nine reckless outlaws -nine
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t ihr, #li rr'!sr'A ralzQ'lul,i'.
can,tnued,.."ygtl �fSe: move aM ► '°:"Bxe'ar a1
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"Minn its"'' 0100 , {i gatehv lireniy.
"There'll Imo lese;Oy.ou anyway."
'Mahon whfriedf Aon'sei,aus on the
instant that he. Was' too: 'late with a
Oilman like Dutch :HMO. But even,
as the muzzle coveredhim, a jet of
flame bursil firom !the thicket and
Dutch Ilenry'a bullet sped harmlessly
aver his head, 'On the instant the
hollow was full of Policemen, 'and
eight rustlera lined up 'behind' the fire
with lifted }wands. '
'Dutch Henry lay huddled on his
side, one hand loosely grasping his
rifle, the other pressed against his
forehead, from which a slight trickle
of blood oozed. And the Police were
asking each other who fixed the shot.
Mahon's head began its dizzy tricks
again, as hp sank against a tree.
It was a record round -up. Dutch
Henry and Bilsy had paid the penal-
ties of their crimesand eight inter-
national outlaw's were on the way to
long prison terms. And the only po-
lice casualty was Sergeant Mahon,
who, when it was all over, collapsed
and was carried to the Post, where
for two days he lay in semi -coma,
babbling of Blue Pete and! Bilsy and
Dutch Henry. If others figured in his
sick dreams it was never recorded.
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Mira emerged from Lethbridge pris-
on into the bright glare of a typical
prairie spring day. Uncertain of her
future, with no plans or hopes, she
nevertheless refused the assistance
eagerly offered by the kind-hearted
Mounted Police. Her first thoulght
was of Blue Pete, then of the 3 -bar -Y
ranch, yet to neither was she prepar-
ed to return immediately. The shock
of freedom itself was all she could
bear as yet. "'Her instinct was to es-
cape from Lethbridge, and without
more thought than that she would
there be unknown and able to recover
somewhat from the shuddering pris-
on memories before facing her friends
she bought a ticket for Calgary.
And while Blue Pete wondered and
suffered back there in the Hills, long -
ng for her return, yet vaguely un-
derstanding the delay, she spent a
onely fortnight in a strange city.
Blue Pete had at least the relief of
action, where his old enemies were
engaged in an organized outlawry he
was undecided how to treat, torn be -
ween his hatred of the law and of
he leaders of the rustlers.
'At last Mira could stand her inac-
ivity and isolation no longer. Slink -
ng into a train for Medicine Hat,
he alighted at 'a small station before
eaching the town, only the Mounted
Police aware, in an indefinite way, of
her movements.
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On the third day after the capture
f the rustlers Mahon came partly to
himself. And it was 'not his wound
hat troubled him then but his mind.
His muddled thoughts kept trying to
oncentrate on something he dimly
knew to 'dem'and :immediate attention;
but he could not determine what it
was. On the fourth day he was in
he saddle with Priest, feverishly an-
xious, hoping against hope.
Straight to the cave in the Cypress
Hills he led, and pulled back the
creen of vines. When his eyes grew
accustomed to the darkness, he saw
how things had changed since he knew
t. The old box was replaced by a
able of rough boards, and near it
tood a crudely made chair that was
a model of comfort compared with
he stumps that once served. Mahon
tepped inside on tiptoe, suddenly con-
cious of a pool of blood before the
ntrance. Another great pool was
before a box from which a soiled
green skirt was partly pulled. With -
n the box were a knife, fork and
poo; two tiny handkerchiefs, two
books, and a pair of small, worn-out,
high -heeled woman's riding boots.
But Blue Pete was not there. Ma-
hon, leaning heavily against the table,
picked up a bit of paper which cover-
ed an open letter he recognized as an
old one to him) from his mother. In
some way the half-breed must have
ound it during the days when they
rode much together. A spot of blood
on the oorner of the upper paper
made him shudder with foreboding,
,as he. tried to read it with wet eyes.
• "My dear Boy," it ran, in trembling
ines, just as his mother used to ad-
dress him. "I no youl find this when
don't turn up. •Bilsy get me whur
t hurts and I can't seem to think rite.
Hiop yer all rite fur yer mothers sake.
Tell her I dun my best. Tell Mira if
I don't pull thro that I love her." The
drop of blood had fallen there and
below it the wounded half-breed had
Scrawled: "cant breeth rite. I try fur
the pine tree but I dont no. If I dont
rake it good' by Boy. Maybe they
ant got Blue Pete yet."
'Mahon pressed a hand dizzily a-
ge:::f5 die sto::e wall of the cave, and
i iptoed out.
The trail of blood was not hard to
follow, heavy brown stain's showing
where Blue Pete had been forced to
-est. As they approached the circle
of brush about Pine Hollow, Mahon
shrank from knowing the truth. In
there, where he had seen that spitting
ret of fire that saved his life, must be
the body of his 'best friend, the best
friend man could have. Nothing else
could came of the wound he had seen,
the blood trail he had followed.
Shrinking at the last, he sent
Priest ahead, and sat down in a faint-
ness that let him scarcely strength to
realize his sorrow. Dimly he heard
Priest moving among the bushes and
at last stop and call. Mahon found
him bending over a stained impres-
sion in the soft ground. Por long a
body had lain there bleeding, then the
instinct of his calling turned his eyes
about him on the ground.
There was no mistaking the signs
he read -a woman's tracks. He knew
intuitively whose they were.
The next night Inspe' for Barker
found the explanation in Yds mail.
"There is no use looking for Blue
Pete's body," wrote Mira Stanton. "I
found him. He aint one of the Po-
lice and nearer was and T aint go-
ing to let the Police bury him. I
loved bim and he is mine to the end.
You wont see us again."
The Inspector read it through sev-
eral times, examined it all over, plae-
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lie 'mad the :letter aloud.
"It explains everyth�zi, s#�' xxlxed'
] ahon, "• 'he's coxae on° Ina botty aad
buried it herself ealrher than let.sus
have dint, dead' alive r'
"ITn i--+rn!" 'T.he'Inapeetor 1oo1 ed
off through the window' into the;'broad
sunlight of the street, • ."You-- think'.
so? . . • Are you still going to
set up that .Cenotaph, Bay?"
"It's the least I• can do, sir; after
what he meant to me---wihnt he. did
for me."
"Don't you thitPk . you'd
better wait till you find' his .body?"
"When I do, sir, I will bury it be-•
side the stone I am: setting up." •
The older man rattled his fingers
on thef top of the desk before reply-
ing.
"Anyway, it's a fine enough senti-
ment," he muttered . "And
I don't know. By the way, did you
find Whiskers?"
(Mahon frowned. "That puzzles me
a bit, sir. . . But Mira's tak-
en her, don't you see?"
"Very simple," growled the Inspec-
tor.
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In Windy Coulee, just where the
old trail enters the Cypress Hills, Ma-
hon set up a slab of unhewn marble.
Back against the Hills its three sides
stood massive and raugh as they came
from the quarry. And on the other,
looking out acrose the prairie, was
this simple instription:-
"Greater Love
' from
Boy."
THE END
EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF
THE TRUSSED STUDENT
Nobody in England ever died in a
more curious and horrible way than
Franois Charles John Ellis, a 19 -
year -old Cambridge University stu-
dent, the only son of a widowed
mother. He was found lying in his
bedroom by a servant early qn the
morning of February 23rd, tied hand
and foot, a gag in his mouth, and
his face swathed in bandages. He
was quite dead. There was no sign
of a struggle, no mark of foul play
except the olevio.us! bandages'. An
autopsy found that he had die of suf-
focation. A jury reported death by
Misadventure, and Scotland Yard re-
tired from the scene satisfied that
there was no murder mystery to be
solved. But since then rumors have
been heard which suggest at least
that the public is not quite satisfied
that all the truth has been made
known. Nevertheless the police in-
vestigation is at an end unless some
further facts come to light. But ev-
en assuming that there is nothing
sinister about the case it remains an
extraordinary one.
Ellis was a quiet, unobtrusive boy,
a diligent student, and shy of girls.
Years before he and some friends had
invented a curious form of amusement
which consisted of their , tying each
other up to see who could escape the
fastest, or make the securest knots.
On one occasion Ellis is known to
have tied himself up. But there was
no evidence that he had contieued
this somewhat uncouth form of en-
tertainment after going to Cambridge.
But the assumption is that he did as
a matter of fact tie himself up and
made such a good job of it that he
was' finable to get free. Against this
one might mention the fact that if
he gave this performance it was a
solitary one. No friend was at hand
to witness his ingenuity. Would any-
one 'in his right senses go through
these tortuous manoeuvres, even if he
was unconscious of any danger, for
his private amusement? It seems in-
' redible. Yet not the slightest evi-
dence was given that Ellis might have
committed suicide or been murdered.
Yet here are the only possible explan-
ations, and all equally repugnant to
one's reason.
returned to his roem in Sid-
ney Sussex College after Sunday
evening services and that was the
last seen of him alive. About eleven
o'clock a college friend called on
him, and tried the door. It was
locked. He knocked but receilved no
answer. Hearing a movement in-
side as though someone was breath-
ing heavily, he looked through the
letter -box but could see nothing and
pre su m ed that Ellis was asleep.
Shortly before seven next morning,
Flack, a college servant, known as a
"gyp" like all other Cambridge serv-
ants, entered the room and found the
trussed figure on the floor. At first
he did not recognize Ellis but thought
it a dummy arranged 'to give the
young student a shock the next m,orri-
ing. Then he saw the empty bed
which had not been slept in and the
truth of the huddled figure dawned
suddenly upon him. The alarm was
given. Doctors were summoned. Then
came the police and theahorrible pub-
licity to the universiti. But the most
curious point in Flack's evidence was
that the bedroom door was unlocked
in the morning. He was positive on
this point. Yet if the student had
been heard breathing heavily, pre-
sumably at the point of death at 11
o'clock the night before, who had un-
locked the door? Or after having
slept, did he arise and dress himself
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Searle' did. not think it possible far, `.slare:'ef t1fa,:<
Ellis to have done this unaided ,anpaally, 'g. • b
But Sir Bernard Spilsbua; y, the, and it wou.'id e i
I6me Office expert, so frequently suet meat. in 0a'da.
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as .n witness in murder trials, was of
opinion that Ellis had dame it . all,
and the weight of his authority no,
doubt influenced the .jury. He gave
experiments in court to show how
it could be done. He was of opinion,
though, that after Ellis had finally
gagged himself he could not have
lived more than fifty seconds, for the
gag, added to the bandages would
shut off breathing. He Ayoukl live,
therefore, as long as he could hold.
his breath. Sir Bernard has a friend
who can hold his breath for 70 sec-
onds, but he has trained himself es-
pecially for this delightful parlor
triek. HIS theory was that Ellis had
bound himself in the chair, slipped
in the gag, tied his own hands and
then found that he could not breathe.
In his struggles to release himself
he had fallen from the chair and with
his face downward on a cushion on
the floor. Unable to wriggle away -
from this his death would be a mat-
ter of seconds. So the mattee rests.
But what of the door locked at night
and open, in the morning? What of
the heavy breathing coming from a
room in which a man was either dead
or lying on the floor in such a way
that he could net breathe? What, in
short, of- the general theory of a
solitary experiment that ended so
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Another novel saws
persuade eeme
other foreign familiest,
each year from China
this counta,y. These famisiee
seificierit looney to *Kilo Oneelt,
they usually have a
children speaking the' erinala'
ing their parents to. Canada., ?erouktin
all probability become Canadian diiPie
zens, and thus we would have eitaqiaa
us a considerable and increasing num-
ber of Canadians farn.iliar with the
Chinese language and havitig had'
some actual experience of life in Can-
ada. IWIhat better material Could; -
there be for the fture Canadian salesa.'a
mien and merchants who will build'
up trade between the two nations?,
Mr. Hussey reports -that peace bi bee
lig gradually restored in the country
and that the only fighting at ezesent
s between the Chinese Government .
and the communiets. As an illustra-
tion of the general decency and 1aive-
abiding charatter of the Chinese he
mentions that in Peiping there hak
not been a person, foreign or Chin-
ese, robbed or attacked in 20 years.
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CAN CHINA SOLVE OUR TRADE
PROBLEMS?
Is China to become the great mar-
ket for Canadian goods, and the final
underwriter of this country's foreign
trade? Is China to become more im-
portant to our manufacturers and our
wage earners than the United States,
✓ even than the rest of the British
Empire? These are questions which
naturally arise after reading a letter
from Mr. Harry Hussey, a Canadian
now in Peiping to a friend in Toron-
to. To his mind Canada has so far
neglected a tremendous opportunity
which is lying at her Western door-
step. In the past year it is true that
trade missions have 'visited China
from several countries, Canada among
them.. The Canadian mission is be-
lieved to have made a better impres-
sion than most of the other:-, since the
members of the delegation were for-
tunately tongue-tied. In any event,
they did not make the foolish speech-
es that are customary on such oc-
casions, and consequently improved
the Chinese opinion of them. Our
correspondent suggests that perhaps
they made fewer foolish speeches be-
cause they spent such a short time
in the country. If foolish speeches
are to be made, as seems inevitable,
it is better that they should be made
n the ship coming home.
But there were two features of the
visit of the Canadian mission which
caused misgivings. One is that be -
fere reaching China it had visited Ja-
pan. Here the members were lavish-
ly entertained. This entertainment
seems to have cut short the time they
were able to spend in China. More-
over, they would be told in Japan
that while China undou•btedly offered
a great field for Canadian goods, the
best way to cultivate it would be
through Japanese channels. The Jap-
anese do a considerable business in
China, but nothing would be more
fatal for the Canadian wheat and
flour business than _trrfall into their
hands as agents., -"'The arrangement
might work admirably for a short
time, but after that the Japanese, es-
tablished in control, would either drop
the Canadian exporters or put them
on a competitive basis with Australia,
the Argrmtine and Russia. In the
end whatever profit was to be found
in the business would probably be
found in the possession of the indus-
trious middlemen.
rIt was also unfortunate that at the
time of the visit the native press in
China was giving a lot of infuriated
attention to the effort of the Aus-
tralian Government to put all Chinese
immigrants on the same basis as taxi-
drivers in Toronto, and have them.
finger -printed. The Chinese press
was also bitterly resentful of anti -
Chinese articles which appeared in
British Columbia newspapers. These
articles were freely translated in the
Chinese papers and published with
criticisms which would probably land
a Canadian editor in jail if he wrote
as bluntly. It seemed to the guile-
less Chinese that a suitable time to
reprint these articles was on the
occasion of the arrival of the Cana-
dian mission. It gave them, so to
speak, a certain timeliness and news
value which were not exactly helpful
to Canadian trade. Mr. Hussey says
that the Chinese Exclusion Act is an
unnecessary insult to a great nation
which should be our best customer.
In his view the Chinese Government
is just as anxious to keep coolies at
home as we are to keep them out.
Therefore it would seem that the two
nations should be able to make a
satisfactory agreement on this point
that would not offend Chinese sensi-
bilities.
"It is no accident," says the writer,
"that the Chinesle constatuae more
than one-fifth of the human race. . .
Give this country a few years of peace
and no one can estimate the progress
that it will make. With the rapid
industrialization, of the( eountry,
China will have 15,000,000 more
people in the next fifteen years (the
Chinese say in ten years). Every one
Try rendering lard in the waterless
cooker. It does not spatter and need
not .be watched so much as when the
ard is tried out in an open kettle on
he stove, or in the oven.
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Exeter
a.m.
6.45
7.01
7.12
7.19
7.38
7.56
8.03
8.09
8.23
2.50
3.10
3.22
3.30
3.53
4.13
4.21
4.23
4.43
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11.13
11.18
11.27
11.58
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