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SPIAFORTH • - ONTARIO
Branch Office 7 Hensel',
Hensel' Seaforth
rheas 113 Phone ,173
IrfrgiACAL
SEAFORTI1 CLINIC
DR. -E. A. McMASTER, M.B.
Graduate of University ,of 'Toronto
• , -°i J.L. Le B'.ADY, M.D.
Gratate' of University of -Toronto
nee
Th (slink is fully equipped with
complete and modern X-ray and other
tip -to -date diagnostic and therapeutics
equipment.
Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in
diseases of the ear, eye, nose and
throat, will be at the Clinic the first
Tuesday 'iii every month from 3 to 5
pm.
Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held
on the second and last Thursday in
every -month from 1 to 2 p.m.
3687 -
JOHN A. GORWILL, .B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR. 11. H. ROSS' OFFICE
Phone 5-W - Seaforth
MARTINW. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D.'
Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr, W. C. Sproat
Phone 90-W - Seaforth
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, • Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL
HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED-
NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m.
to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic
first Tuesday of each month. 53
Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
12-37
.AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD JACKSON
Specialist in Farm and Household
Sales.
Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun-
ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction
guaranteed.
For information, etc., write or phone
Harold Jackson, 14 on 661, Seaforth;
R.R. 4, Seafortn.
3768 -
EDWARD W. ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer For Huron
Correspondence promptly answered.
Immediate arrangements can be made
for Sales Date at The Huron Exposi-
tor, Seaforth, or by calling Phone -203,
Clinton. Charges moderate and satin-
faction guaranteed.
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LONDON and WINGHAM
NORTH
A.M,
Exeter ... - . 10.34
Hensall .. • 10.46
iKippen 10.52
Brucefield 11.00
Clinton 11.47
SOUTH
P.M.
Clinton , 3.08
Brucefleld ............ • 3.28
1 1ppen 3.38
Hensail 3.45
Exeter ,3.58.
C.N.�RP TIME TABLE
EAST . ,
A.M. P.M.
Goderleh ..... 6.15 2.30
Holmesvilie 6.31 2.48
Clinton f..:: 6,43 3.00
Seaforth 6.59 3.22
St. Columban 1.05 3.23
Dublin 7.12, 3.29
Mitchell 7.24 3.41
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'IOW :olpl. Are you, dight,
i;iing? '
Ughtning: As old as the • unl'verse.
Farmer:- Where do you live?
Lightning: My home is inn the
earth but during storms I am in the,
clouds, an well:
Farmer: Whait are you?
Lightning;, I am electrical energy,
eatisti'ng in poal'tive and negative
forms, which when divided attract
each other.
Farmer: Why do you jump to the
earth?
Lightning: Because the atmosptlhere
is a dielectric and offetta resistance. I
build up, a large quantity of electrical
energy in the clouds; the attraction
of negaaiive energyin the earth at-
tracts and enables me to break down
the atmosphere, .and this breaking
through the air has. been named af-
ter me -Lightning!'
Farmer: Who first interfered with
your power?
Lightning: Benjamin Franklin dis-
covered that I was a form of electri-
cal energy and could be controlled.
He then erected metal conductors ov-
er .bugildings, .makin'g it impossible
for me to damage them. These con-
ductors werecalled lightning rods.
" Farmer: You are still •free to dam-
age unprotected buildings?
Lightning: I have burned more
buildings in North America than all
wars. I burn more Unprotected build-
ings.every year than any ether cause
of fire, in rural districts. In getting
to earth I •strike many suburban
,homes which burn, as they arelocat-
ed some little distance from fire fight-
ing apparatus.
Farmer: Do you boast of this tre-
mendous fire waste With death and in-
jury to people?
Lightning: No, r am Nature's na-
tural 'law +-a great aid to vegetation
and atmospheric phenomena, aiding
in the f'orm'ation of rain storms, and
vegetation growth. I regret that dam
age occurs due to the negligence of
the property owners.
Fanner: Why the lightning stroke?
Lightning: It is the result of these
abnormal electrical conditions= similar
to the breaking of a dam or 'a water
flood as an overcharge of energy is
seeking an opposite electrical energ3-
in the earth. In the form of flood
this energy breaks through, develop-
ing into a lightning stroke.
Farmer: Why the fire?
Lightning: When I break down the
CHAPTER X4II
SYNOPSIS
A man identified as Joseph
Slinn ie fennel dYown.ed• in the'
Hudson Meer' near Albany, N. Y.
Slinn was insured i y the "'Protec-
tive Life Insurance companl, and
bis beneficiary id a mast named B.
B. Twombley who lives in Troy.
The company's Albany agent, Car-
lin, identifies the body, and the
insurance. money is paid to
Twombley. But Jerry Glidden,•
suspecting that Slinn was murder-
ed, has gone to Ironburg, a little
mining town in Pennsylvania, to
see an "Angela Slinn." She turns
out to be an ugly recluse of a wo-
man who lives in .e, shack near
the abandoned "Break O'Day" ir-
on mine. She denies knowing
Joseph Slinn. Rose Walker,
granddaughter of the owner of the
mine, runs the local store and
post office. When a man regis-
ters at the hotel as B. B. Twomb-
ley, of Portland, Maine, Jerry
wires Troy and learns that
Twombley has moved to Maine.
He has already seen Twombley
with Rose Walker, and again at
Angela Slinn's slack, so Jerry is
not surprised to •discover that he
is trying to buy the "Break O'Day"
mine. Jerry goes to the mine to
get a sample of ore, and while he
is there, something is thrown in-
to the water. Learning that an
expert can judge the value of the
iron is vacationing near Pitts-
burgh, Jerry goes there. When
the expert tells him the iron •is
good, he wires' Rose not to sell
and starts back to Ironburg. From
Americus, a town near Ironburg„
he 'phones Rose and learns that
she has been called -to Angela's
shack. Driving there in a hired
car, Jerry finds a sunbonneted
body floating in a creek. He be-
lieves it is . Angela. Now thor-
oughly alarmed about Rose's fate,
he bursts into Angela's shack to
find Twombley and Carlin,•.. 'He
calls frantically, 'fRose!" ,
Rose was seated opposite the men,
her elbows on the table, her chin cup-
ped in her hands. Alive and wetl-
and morose. A frown creased her
forehead, her brown eyes had con-
tracted, her red lips bent firmly down-
ward.
-Hello, Jerry. Don't listen to these
birds. They've been trying all after-
noon to jolly me into selling or force
me into it. And I won't."
Jerry leaned heavily against the
doorpost. "You're not hurt?"
"Only threatened."
Twombley significantly tapped a
hip pocket, "Don't start any rough
stuff, Glidden."
"No, don''t," Rose supplemented. "It
wouldn't be fail• to these gentlemen.
They couldn't retaliate. •You see, if
I was dead, I couldn't give them Break
fact, being'a sentimentalist, he thinks
!there's a romance between you, and`
' he's got thtjt straight, 1 congratu-
late you'betli:' All right, w Just use
your influeiice to made her appreci-
ate the liberality of our offer. Wn'l'I
give her ten tJbousand cash down and
sin over five per cent of the prefer-
red stock as `soon 'as we're 'incorpor-
ated at Doncaster tomorrow."
Heaping new assumptions upon old
Jerry thu's envisaged what had hap-
pened:
Joe Smith, in Twombley's, debt,
learned, through some accidental din=
covery of his sister, resident here,
the probable new value of Break 0'
Day Mine and dropped a boasting hint
to ,Twombley, who, having had fore-
bears in Ironburg, readily credited it.
Twombley sought 'Carlin's aid. Inno-
cently Bower examined and confirmed
specimens sent Carlin by Angie at
Joe's request. But capital was re-
quired. Twombley and Carlin insur-
ed Joe in Twombley's behalf. Some-
how' the plotters forged a suicide let-
ter, then murdered Joe so that the
effect would seem that of self de-
struction and so that the body would
be washed ashore at a convenient.
spot.
Here, apparently, was . the prelimin-
ary crime. •
Not, however, the last. "Murder
will out" -yet only because it devel-
ops too much momentum. The first
offense entails others. Sooner or
later 'human imperfeotion makes a
slip and the final, flagrant mistake, un-
covers the original felony. Angie be-
came suspicious, , blackmailed the
violent. Twombley. He hid in. the
woods around this plateau the other
evening and rid himself of •th•at dan-
ger by throwing her over the cliff-
alm'ost to Jerry's destruction -short-
ly before Carlin^ was due to arrive
and close the sale with Rose!
All this Jerry saw, or thought he
saw, between the rise and fall of
Carlin's eyelid. Twombley had mov-
ed to Portland to be clear of Albany,
but could_n'ot safely change his name,
either there . or here, because too
strong a ray of publicity must pla4v
upon him when once he promoted the
new company. ..
All that and one thing more. This
pair of murdering swindlers, having
never seen Jerry elsewhere, still fail-
ed toconnect him with the P.L.I.
Company. They assumed he repres-
ented some capitalists who had also
stumbled upon the 'Break O' Day sec-
ret. Judging others by themselves,
they took it for granted that he could
be bought, even if he did have a lik-
ing for Rose Walker.
Carlin's words had scarcely ceased
to sound before Jerry answered them.
"My only employer'in this ore mine
deal is Miss Walker," he said, "and
I know what Break 0' Day's worth --
and I'll see you two men damned be-
fore • -I flimflam her. You're a pair of
thieves -and a pair of murderers!"
Rose looked at him in amazemen't
as he hurled that final, epithet. Car -
°'Twombley; where's my brother?"
0' Day Iron for a hundredth part„ of
what I've . thought it must be worth
ever since they showed me --how .bad-
ly they wanted it."
Carlin still considered Glidden.
Shifted from the girl's view, that
gray face rippled into. cunning, A
sly smile 'twisted the thin lips. Ohe
Mitchell 11,b6' • 9.28 gray eye winked:
6 Dublin , 11.14 9.36 "I don't know what interest you re-
Seaforth 11.30 • 9.47 present, Mr. Glidden; but from what
A Clinton .11.45 10.00 my friend Mr. Twombley tells me of
Goderich • 12.05 10.25 your activities it's clear you've found
6 out, the way we have, that this old
e.
r little fifth grade ore for perhaps two
or three years, . .
"We've got past the land reclama-
• P.M- tion bluff along 'ago, Jerry," Miss
4 oderich e 4.40 Walker calmly broke in.
-Meneset 4.45 "There was merely a legitimate
McGaw 4.54 business' strategem," explained, Car -
,Auburn y 6.03 lin. "This clever lady saw through it
Walton th 513l.14 and we admire her sagacity." •
' McNaught 5.37 '"So much so, you couldn't bear to
Toronto 9.45 part with me. 'Redhead dove for his
gun every time I tried to break a-
.
''WEST relay."
A.M. Twombley cursed, but the adventur-
Toronto $.2b ous insurance agent from Albany
P'M"
winked again at Jerry. . "Well, as 1
Maireugiht ,, :. , -,,,!-‘4.!--, .12.10:4.
'Walton , 12:x6 Ihy; h'e"thing'w•-nnt ; rorthh-mheh ; -. but.
Bl hh '12,2,8, We want to be "fair to her. Now', Mr,
,Aaiburn 12.39 Twombley .thinks you've got her ie
McGaw 12.47 terests at heart even nnore, than we
Meneset.....Y W; ...... , .. , 12.54 have; and more than you have the hi -
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C.P.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
lin's gray face went white. Twomb
ley sprang from his chair, •oversetting
It and drawing Iris revolver.
Then somebody -or something -
pushed vehemently by him through
the open. door. • Between him and the
levelled barrel stood Angie.
Only Rose kept her head. She
struck d•own the levelled revolver.
"Who's this?" Carlin 'demanded of
his. confederate. "That Slinn wo-
man?",
Twombley, cheeks as fiery as hair,
nodded. "I scant her to Doncaster on
a fake errand after I'd got her to
write that note to get the Faller girl
here. Ddn't think she's be back half
this soon. Wish I'd have-"
• But Rose was keeping a cool double
grip on the wrist above the weapon,
Jerry's heart still threatened to
crack the cage of his nibs. That body
he had hauled from the creek - it
was certainly a dead body! He look-
ed'for water on the floor -where Angie
stood. Floor and skirts were dry.
Nevertheless, something had • hap-
pened to the recluse -something ulti-
mate. Her brogans were white with
road dust., Her apron hutig awry.
That eternal sunbonnet, pushed off
-allandattglingebetween shoulder blades-
. -jumped with her agitated breath. He
halide clenched and unelenclied, Her
brined, brutal face was tortured and
`white with. terror. Thoroug'hly alive,
she roared:
it
err'
The broker merle a hideous at-
tempt 'to smile; ta told yen he told
me 'the other day he had some busi-
ness in °Doncaster . .
"And so you got me to go there
today. You. lied,"
Quickly Rose spoke: :"I didn't
know you had a-"
"Twoi ibley:'knew it -and this other
fellow, if he's a fellow named Carlin.
My own twin frother, Joe. It was
them got him to hide here, dressed
like me -even when you'd come, Miss
Rose -after they'd offered him half
his -
insurance to pretend ate. commit
suicide in the Hudson!"
"Shut up!" bawled Carlin. ' •
"Oh, .yes, yyou did!" Angie sholtted.
"Wasn't I let in on that little ccirner
of the big deal? But you held out on
him -said you'd make it up when
you'd got your iron company organiz-
ed -kicked because he knew you, too
well -because he wanted cash in-
stead of stock. Why, you fooled even
me into helping -into stealing letters,
too, and telling that telegram: me,
who guessed long ago you weren't
honest thieves and ordered Joe never
to turn his back' or let you in here.
And now--"
"And now because J'oe said he'd
tell if you didn't play fair' with him
-
and'because you wanted all the
money to buy -the land and start your
company - you've - you've drowned
him in this lake- here that you didn't
know, like I knew, emptied into Brun-
nor's Creek!"
Twombley broke. away from Rose;
but Rose had secured his' revolver.
"You're crazy!"
, "Twombley-". Carlin's voice was a
mere whisper -"I believe you were!"
"I know he did it!" Angie spreadr
wide her arms. She flung back her
rugged head. "On my , way back
through Americus I heard something
told all I knew -and advised them
to start a posse out here. I. heard
they'd just found a body in Bruner's
Creek -and I identified it!"
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Quickly Carlin raised a foot, upset
the table, extinguished the lamp. He
swerved, evading Jerry's blows, and
bolted through the open doorw,ay.
While Rose excitedly emptied his re-
volver upon the vacant dark, Twomb-
ley followed Car'Iin. Jerry and the
two women sank in a tangle when
all three tried to pass the threshold
simultaneously. The fugiikves had al-
ready piled into their waiting car, and
the car began to move.
"Shoot!" cried Jerry. '
"I've no more cartridges!" cried
Rose. .
Weaponless, Jerry ran forward.
But the car ran faster.
It headed at top speed -Carlin driv-
ing -right across the plain for those
woods through which cut the cart
track to the 'turnpike. Abruptly it
wheeled three-quarters about. There,
'whither it had beenm racing, appeared
fights. Thence sounded shouts. An
ill -formed line of running men ap-
peared: Bud Campbell's posse from
Americus.
The car rushed madly over the op-
en country that, edging the cliffs, des-
cended at a perilous angle to the val-
ley beyond the Iake. It was the
route Jerry, had followed on each ' of
his two expeditions to the water;
but to take it afoot was one thing,
to plunge along it in a racing automo-
bile was another.
The automobile veered to th'e cliff.
It literally leaped in air. It struck
upon the last land's projecting lig-
and that unsupported lip, instantly
crumbling beneath this crushingly
imposed weight, pulverized --dispersed
in powder and fell, with the car,
down to the waters of Break 0' Day
Lake.
It must have been hours before Jer-
ry could get a word alone with .Rose,
"I hope," he pleaded, "that you for-
give me for ever thinking you might
have been in cahoots with those
guys." .
She put a hand on his shoulder. "I
hope you forgive me for ever think-
ing you had designs on my mine. The
fact is, you've been a darling."
"The fact is," supplemented Glid-..
den, "that you're far and away the
best business woman I've met. Before,
I ever guessed you might be rich-"
"And showed me• the way to it!"
"-I thought about asking you for
a job in your store. Will ypu' give.
me a job with Break 0' Day?"
Culmination of the Slinn-Twombley
case bore fruit at the. P.L.I.'s home of-
fice. Lightner wired congratulations.
and promised promotion. Over Rose's
own telephone, and through Rose's
own lips, Jerry sent his answer:
"PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNA-
TION FROM DATE."
[THE END]
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with lightning rods.
Farmer Does. Metal attract you?
Lightning a I iNo, the • only °ting11194,••
might bee /Said to attract me is the,
a •posite electrical en -rgy stored up
on the surface of earth and on hand=
lags..
Farmer: Why do you usually burn
barnghswtnin,hen you stripy?
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Lig: Hay is..oa very• •coni-
bustible nature and eapeuiallyl when,
barns are filled with new. hay. This,
being damp, often a gas accumulates
which a very small spark will ,ignite.
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LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPtIV
A
It pays to include
objects; such as these trees, in thefaregrouad of -your
landscape pictures.
ANDSCAPES always have been
-and probably always will be -
popular picture subjects. But there's
a technique to making good land-
scapes, and the photographer who
wants to consistently produce first
rate results will do well to keep
it in mind.
The technique is based principal-;
ly upon a theory of selection. Most
beginners try to include too much
in' each picture. Therefore, the first
rule for successful landscape pho-
tography is to select your subject
carefully. Aim for simplicity in -me
rangement and composition; avoid
overcrowding. Beware of extreme-
ly general scenes. Don't always try
to picture a whole valley or morin-
tain range with one snapshot. A
half-dozen pictures, each showing,
one interesting portion of the pano-
rama, will result in much more en-
loyable and . appealing snapshots.
Second, learn to avoid subjects
,vhich appear to be divided into
two equal parts. For example, some-
times a tree will; be standing in
such a position that it seems to be
cutting the picture in hall. In an-
other case, the horizon line may
run directly across the center of
the snapshot. The exact center of
any picture is usually its weakest
spot so don't concentrate too much
attention there.
Technically, the secret of good
landscape pictures lies in straight=
forward photo technique.. However,
herenare a lew tips. Look for side -
lighted scenes. On most outdoor
shots use a . medium yellow fil-
ter; it will help you get cloud "ef-
fects. And finally, to add depth to
your picture; include some object.
such as a tree, a house, a person,
or an animal in the foreground.
Notice how the trees in' the fore-
ground add depth to our illustration:.
This picture, incidentally, . illus-
trates the, type of landscape effects
you can get at the sunset hour.
But most important: of all, just
take the time, and devote some
thought to working out your land-
scape pictures. You'll_ be well .re-
paid with higher quality results.
396 John van Guilder
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