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Break Of Day
(Sydney Post -Record)
Every hour of day is good to those
who love life. So why define a fav-
orite hour? To do so when each hour,
is equally good is absurd,' isn't it?
Yes, but for a moment consider the
hour of going to work in, the morn-
ing. The darkness of night has been
dismissed. Children are . going to
school. Good people are returning
from early services in the church.
And behold after rest here is a new
day to taunt and to challenge us.
Taunting us because there simply
isn't time in which to do everything
that the light of day challenges to be
done. Yes, taunting but never let it
be conceded daunting us. We are a
hardy people, surviving our misdeeds,
surmounting our infirmities of the
spirit if wepersevere and finally
somehow, despite ourselves, accom-
plishing something of no mean char-
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'SEAFORTH, Friday, February 27
The, Budget
The continued increase in Canada's
productivity made possible some tax
concessions in Mi. Abbott's budget,
which he introduced in the House of
Commons last' week.
The main tax cut, of course,. is
eleven per cent on income tax, and
the benefits of this reduction will be
felt by all taxpayers. But there are
many other changes that will be
beneficial to Cl parts of the country.
After April 1 next, it no longer will
be necessary to purchase_ radio lic-
enses. Cost of maintaing the
will be' borne by allotting to the _
C.B.C.,the excise tax already payable
on radios, television sets and parts.
The stamp tax, which has been in ex-
istence in various forms for thirty
years or more, is eliminated. Long
regarded as a nuisance, it produced
some $12,000,000 in revenue.
Cigarette smokers benefitted by a
reduction of four cents for a package
of twenty. Sales tax has been elim-
inated on books and newsprint. Cor-
poration taxes were ieduced six per
cent for large companies, and ten per
cent for those with less than $20,000
annual profits. Allowance on divi-
dends is increased. The basis for
'considering medical expenses as de-
ductible for income tax purposes has
been reduced from four to three per
.cent.
All in all; Mr. Abbott's budget is a
realistic appraisal of the Canadian
economy and its capacity to produce.
At the same time, it adheres to the
pay-as-you-go principal, which had
the effect of saving millions of dol-
lars' which taxpayers otherwise
would have been required to pay by
way of interest.
In a White Paper which the
Finance Minister presented to Par-
liament, it was indicated that Can-
ada's net debt will be down to its
lowest post-war level at the end of
this fiscal year.
During the year, the White Paper
said, $47,800,000 will have been lop-
ped off the net debt to bring it to
$11,137,500,000. This will bring to
$2,284,000,000 the total reduction of
the debt in the last seven years of
budgetary surpluses.
• It will be the lowest since 1944
when it was $8,740,100,000. It com-
pared. with 83,152,600,000 at the end
of the 1938-39 fiscal year, just before
the outbreak of World War II.
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Education Week
During next week, March 1 to 7,
Canada will observe Education
Week. . The purpose of the week, as
outlined in a pamphlet prepared by
the National Education Week com-
mittee, is to "focus attention of all
citizens on the important business of
education."
Education, of course, is something
that must go on all year round, and
it is not enough that we emphasize its
importance for one week only during
the year, and then forget a'b'out it.
The fact, however, that during the
week the public is made conscious of
the business of education can be help-
ful
in that much that is said or writ-
ten during that time will be of good
effect throughout the year.
The week, too,provides an oppor-
tunity for the public to examine first
hand the educational facilities that
+eft in the Canadiarr community,
aanid;'io assess them in the light of the
tetras whim they produce. The week
offers also the means whereby those
front line of education
�'/�.o' are if.�lte f
..•� - each rS- Cin Y( into t- their
*ems, and iiida+�ate perhaps great -
,t,
Iiarental co.eper4tiort: •
itCation isizot Something that is
res 'Onsibilit.'• : of the parent
eher 'or the school board,'
Proper education of
depends on a ;r 'ell-
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Old Winter Scene
(The Hanover Post)
Winter life on Canadian farms
nowadays is a far cry from the lone-
ly existence endured by pioneer set-
tlers. Thanks to modern science and
industry rural dwellers can keep in
touch with each other almost as well
when snow covers the countryside as
during the spring, summer a n d
autumn. They probably have more
fun in winter than in the other sea-
sons because the demands of farm
tasks are less urgent. In the old days,
which oldtimers insist had colder
weather and deeper snowfalls than
recent winters, a blizzard could par-
alyze a district for as long as three
days. Farmers and communities
were cut off from each other until
teams of horses struggled through
thedrifts to break the roads. Farm
dwellers in those times lived in dread
of illness or other emergency strik-
ing at such a period of isolation. All
too often, extra strains and stresses
,arising from the storm itself produc-
ed situations in which there was need
for a doctor—who sometimes could
not get through the drifted roads and
the buffeting of the storm in time.
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30,000 ig 3E ER BOOTS
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Westminster Abbey
(Winnipeg Free Press) -
Recently Prime Minister Churchill
broadcasting from the "Jerusalem
Chamber" of. Westminster Abbey
made a brief statement of the need
of that great edifice of one million
pounds for the restoration of its
fabric.
It was . an occasion. With Mr.
Churchill was Labor Leader ,Attlee
and the High Commissioners of the
Commonwealth, indicative of the
fact that the Abbey belongs, not only,
or primarily, to the great City where
for long centuries it has stood. It be-
longs around the world wherever
echoes the English tongue.
It was curious to note how this fact
wove itself into Mr. Churchill's
,words, not in their denotation but in
their connotation. So simple his re-
marks. So sudden their flowering
into a rose of the language.
The Dean of the Abbey has .an-
nounced that this first pound note,
that given by Mr. Churchill, shall be
framed and hung within those pre-
cincts. Would it not;be more fitting
that the famous Churchillian phras-
es, themselves part of the fabric of
the language, be thus enshrined? As
for the pound note—''was mine, 'tis
his, and has been slave to thousands.
But the phrases, from his tongue have
within them an immortal flame. They
belong to the%genius of ih Abbey:
They, like it, belong to history.
It is for this reason that the appeal
from the 'Abbey crosses seas and
lands with no diminution of accent.
The fabric -of the Abbey is' the eon -
cern of all the 'English ,speaking as
its history and its: i,F1 Acs ape the
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How would you yotelleefescoreehack
home and find a dead'4 1s'h• in your
bath tub?
Well, of course that's.•a.silly sari
of question. Those things just
don't happen. No, they do not
happen here; not in this happy land
where oaf lives are pretty well on
an even keel. Each of us has his
own particular troubles—the kind
all flesh is heir to—but eve are sin-
gularly free of those 'dined d'isas-
terry which so often strike our
neighbors and kinfolk in other
parts of the world.
Do you remember when we had
the earthquake? I bet a lot of
people have forgotten all about it,
although it was less than twenty
years ago. One morning I got up
and as I left the apartment house
where ,j. then lived, 1 noticed a
large crack up the back wall of, the
old building. When I ,got to the
corner I bought a morning paper
and found it was full of accounts
of the earthquake. As I remember
it, nobody was killed. There was
some property damp ge, but we were
all so surprised that it happened
at all that it filled our newspapers
and our conversation for days. Now
it is all in the very dim past. As
a matter of fact I slept right
through it, although it was hard
enough to split' my building up the
back.
And once, remember, about the
same number of years back, the
new Thames kicked up some ruc-
tions in London, Ontario. All I
can remember about that disaster
is a newsreel picture of a 'man,
well -clothed and comfortablelook-
ing, getting into a rowboat from his
upstairs window with, his bag of
golf clubs carefully slung over his
shoulder.
No, we don't really 'know very,
much about finding dead fish in the
bath tub. But a little . boy called
Bobbie White, knows all about it,
and he isn't going to forget it for
a long, long time. Bobbie lived
on ,Canvey Island, in the Thames
Estuary over in old :England. To-
day his home island is called "Isle
of Death." He was one of ten
thousand people who, one fiendish
night, had to flee the island just
a month ago. Sixty-two people
didn't .reach safety because the an-
gry
ngry hood weters, 'caught ep with
them and they were drowned, No-
body slept ' threeglh thin disaster;
nobody had time to rescue his golf
clubs.
This week, Bobbie returned home
and that was when., he found the
dead fish. ft is only a symbol o
the wreck and ruin ''which the oth-
er ten thousand—less the sixty-two
dead—are finding on Canvey Is-
land.
And what those folk are finding
is only a sample of what other tens,
of thousands in Britain and Hol-
land and Belgium have found when
they returned to their flood -wreck-
ed homes. We lucky people don't
know anything about.'
Last Friday night ,I me up on
the train with a local lad who now
works for ,pne of the largest rub-
ber companies in Canada. He was
telling me that they have been un-
usually busy at hie plant these past
couple of weeks. They have stop-
ped making all kinds of rubber pro-
ducts except one—rubber bopte.,,
Last 'week they ,had fifteen thou-
sand pairs ready for shipment ov-
erseas. They started flying them,
over last Sunday, and how those
unfortunate people over there need
them:!
They need just about everything
else too, and we are the very peo-
ple who can lend a hand. The oth-
er morning when I read in the
paper that Mr. Churchill had asked
Mr. 'Gromyko of Russia .to call so
he could say thanks to the Rus-
sian quarter of a million gift for
flood relief, I didn't feel as embar-
rassed, as I might have because I
knew and was proud of the fact
that Huron County had 'already
stepped in and was well on the way
to raising ten thousand dollars to
help too..
Ten thousand' dollars win buy a
lot of rubber boots. It will also
help a lot to'make a small boy for-
get a dead fish in his bath tub and
all the horror that went along
with it.
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Huron County Farm •News
In general there seems. to be
ample feed supplies on most farms,
for the balance of the winter sea-
son.
With the continued open winter,
farm meetings and other events in
the county- are still being well at-
tended.
The County Soil and Crop Im-
provement Association have com-
menced plans for a County Brush
and Thorn Control Day on October
14, this year.
Plans have been fully completed
and already a number of entries
are in, for the Sixth Annual Hur-
on County Seed Fah, which will be
held in Clinton on March 6 and 7,
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Urges Orderly Marketing of Cattle
Speaking at the annual meeting
of the Western Stock Growers' As-
sociation' in Calgary recently,, the
Rt. Hon. James G. Gardiner, Mini-
ster of Agriculture, urged produc-
ers to follow an orderly pattern in
marketing finished cattle and cau-
tioned that unseasonable selling, of
which there is now some evidence,
could 'only have a depressing effect
markets on -present mar s and could lead
to shortages later in the season.
Mr. Gardiner' stated that since
Japuary 1. 53 per cent of the cat-
tle marketed in inspected slaughter-
ing plants had graded Red' or` Blue
brand, compared to 43 per cent for
the same period last year. This in-
dicated a ,heavier marketing of fin-
ished cattle than normal during the
early part of the year. ,
He drew an analogy bets een the
present apparent trend in cattle
marketings and that which occur-
red with hogs in the latter part of
December. Heavy hog marketings
then had led to a shortage of pork
in early January and, in some in-
stances prices had, been higher
than they were in December.
The Minister pointed out that a
similar appeal, to, the United States
cattle producers to follow an order-
ly marketing pattern had, been
made recently by the U.S. Secre-
tary of Agriculture, Ezra. T. Ben-
son. Mr. Benson had emphasized
that the United States economy is
fund,amentali'y strong with employ-
ment and incomes at a high level
and that this promises more stabil-
ity in cattle, prices. Mr. Gardiner
said the same fundamental consid-
erations applied to the Canadian
situation. Foliowin.g Mr. Benson's
statement there had been a signifi-
cant drop in the previously heavy
United States cattle m'arketings
and prices since had shown some
firmness. -
"It is highly desirable," Mr.
Gardiner stated, "that ,Canadian
producers should follow an orderly
marketing pattern and that distri-
butors should maintain' a normal
stock position in order to avoid the
possibility of shortages later in the
season.
* 4s *
yield of dry forage froni 2,101
pounds on the untreated plot to
3,886 pounds per acre on North
Gower clay loam soil. For each
dollar invested .in fertilizer there
has been an average return of
$6.50.. During the latter years of
the trial, due to the higher price
of farm produce, the return has
been much higher. On four other
soil types complete fertilizer was
the most effective during. .five-
year period. This4, treatmet in-
creased the yield on Carp clay loam
from 1,867 pounds to 4,220 pounds,
on Grenville loam .from 1,796
pounds to 4,376 pounds, 'on the poar-
ly drained Rubicon sand from 2,175
''pounds to 3,315 pound's, and on
Farmington, a shallow,, droughtly
soil from 1,209 pounds to 2,058
pounds. At the Branch Farms in
Quebec and the Maritime Provinc-
es increases of similar magnit,,de
have been obtained.
Hay and pasture 'crops in the ro-
tation, employing' the ,more produc-
tive species, 'remove large quanti-
ties of 'nutrients from the 'soil. Con-
sequently, it must be replaced by
the use of manure or commercial
fertilizer. In• a rotation it may be
advisable to apply half of. the man-
ure to the hoed crop or at the
time of seeding down and the re-
mainder in the fall of the year as
top dressing to the pasture. Com-
mercial fertilizer may be applied
in the intervening years to main-
tain a high level of production.
Oats—The Variety Question
In only five of the past 18 years
have the plant 'breeders in Canada
failed to release one or •more new
oat varieties to growers. Twenty
of these newly introduced varieties
were produced in Canada, while mix
came from other 'countries. Each
of the new varieties has been re-
leased because it showed some im-
provement over the older sorts
either for small or large areas.
Most of the new varieties that
have been distributed, Saye D. A.
Derick, Cereal Division, Central Ex-
perimental Farm, Ottawa, ' have
limited' adaptability or in other
words are best suited to a certain
soil type or climatic zone. About
the oelly way to find out whether
itch varieties are suited' to the
conditions on any particular farm
is ,'to try them out in comparison
with the variety+ , already being
grown.
A few varieties however have
been developed and made available
to 'growers, which appear to have
wide adaptability or which are able
to produce well on many different
soil types+ and in different climatic
zones, While such .varieties may
have a wide range of adaptability,
there ie no guarantee that they will
;prove superior in districts where
varieties have been developed to
must the local environment of soil
and crlm'ate.
'Variety recommendations are us-
ually made by experimental insti-
tutions only alter actual plot tests
have 'been made over a period Of
yesTee :These tateareefenteed `se
as to determine the performance of
varieties under many different sets'
of 'conditions, but even the results',
Of such tests will only allow re-
eomrnendations to be made in, a
very general way. In Eaten]. Can
ata whero sell 'Varies Erore distN et
to dd tt4et, •from farm •to ,f arm ennd
event feet naiad tis' field, the variety
ene'eeetre b'e'eo1nes one . for ' the in-
':' '(votttihued ar P e') .
The results of experiments eon
di eyed on permanent pastures ott.
different -mil epee e. Eastern Can-
ada by the Division of Field Hus-
bandee (Soils, and Agricultural En-
gineering), Experimental Forme,
Service, indicate the pos's'ibilities
offered by pasture improvement,
reports Agronomist S. M. Donald
son.
In the Ottawa district, supe
phesphate applied every three:$*00
et 604 poundg per acre Ytirer", s, '1Cr
Year period hie+reaabed thle`k erago
The mother wise is -sure to employ
Canada's Food Rules when her boy
Is growing up. Experts have found
Good diets help build
bodies sound.
Dept of National Health and Welfare
Years Agone
Interesting Items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Twen-
ty-five and Fifty Years Ago
seeeneesseensenseleess
From The Herore Expositor
March 2, 1928
Mr. G. R. McCartney, of the Mill
Road, is the proud possessor of a
grandfather's clock that is nearly
160 years old. .The clock was made
for Mr, McCartney's' great-grand-
father, by John Armour, of Kil-
mours, Scotland, between the years
1780 and 1790, and was brought to
Canada by his grandfather, the late
Robert McCartney.
Mr. T. L. Scott, the well-known
Cromarty dealer for threshing out-
fits, received] a carload of four 30-30
oil -pull tractors at Hensall station
last week. He has since sold one
to Mr. James Mustard, Kippen, and
one to Mr. Ben Elder, Hensall.
The Glee Club, Winthrop, was en-
tertained' by Mrs. Nelson Govenlock
Tuesday night. Mrs. J. 'Dolmage
won first prize and the consolation
went to Mrs. J. Montgomery.
Mr. William Ducbarme, of the',
Blue Water Highway, who owns' a
fine farm ,pear St. Joseph, has pur-
chased] the' 125 -acre farxi on the
14th concession, Hay township,
from .Mr. Louis Schilbe, Zurich. The
purchase price was $10;500.
Mrs. Elmer Hackwell, Walton,
saw a beautiful deer on Monday.
There have been several seen in
that vicinity of late.
The contract for about eight
miles of concrete pavement be-
tween Seaforth and Clinton, on the
provincial highway, has been
awarded by the Provincial, Depart-
ment of Highways to W. W. King.
Edelweiss Lodge of Rebekahs
held a most pleasant social 'even-
ing in Seaforth" when there were
27 tables of euchre in play. Prize
winners were: ladies, first, Mrs. R.
McGeoch; consolation. Miss Martha
Reid; men, first, ,ttobert Smith;.
consolation, Ben Johnston; lone
hands, Chester Henderson. An in-
teresting program was given, which
included a ladies' quartette by.
Mrs. W. A. Wright, Miss F. Beat-
tie, Miss P. Patterson and Miss H.
Murray; piano solo, C. A. Howey;
reading, Ben Johnston; instrumen-
tal. Miss W. Chesney; Sailors'
Hornpipe by G. P. Canino, with
Mrs. J. E. Keating as accompanist,
and a duet by Miss F. Beattie and'
James A. Stewart.
Sp 4411e Camel.
eft Will be better r me la fte
dead. There. is nothing more to
ive for."
"For heaven's. sake don't give
wee: lake this. Xop, must rousse.
yourself. If salt 'don't there is 'no
sense in anyone trying to aid you."
"Leaving me in peace."
"You're behaving like a coward."
"Perhaps I am. Tell me what
you want of me and then go.'
"I've called about Purchases 01
morphine from a Liverpool chem.
'et."
"Yes, yes. I know that is the
atest false 'testimony to be 'brought
against me."
"You never bought ,the stuff?"
"Of course not. But what's the
use saying so. They ask me where
I was on such and such an occa-
sion and I can't remember."
"Don't you keep a, diary?"
"Not covering every moment of
the day and night. Apparently I
was away from 'Nethertort when the
transactions' took place."
Surely, .you have some idea
where you were?"
Quentin Thorne shook his head
hopelessly. "Sometimes my wife
and I went for long drives in the
car. We often 'took food with us
for the day, making tea on a little
spirit stove. I rather think that
on one of the occasions mentioned
by the pollee that we took a• trip
into Derbyshire. Even if I knew
that for a fact it would be uncon-
firmed.
nconfirmed. Margaret is dead. She
cannot speak on my' behalf."
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Unforttlnat'ely your very material'
witness ;has hoPpee it again."
""'She'll turn up, before We too"
late."
"We've had the whole police
force of America looking for Myr-
tle and they can't find- the faintest'
trace. And you can't put in hear-
say evidence, et the assizes."
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"They really are trying toe get+
.hod
""On ofmher?y"
word of honor, vire
i]Bplwyt•
fair, especially when there's a cape-
tai charge.aA"
"That's right, inspector, 1
never thought otherwise, in spites
of one or two hard ls'neoks I've de-
livered."
"If I really felt that an innocent
person was ,being victimized I'm
sure 1 should resign my position."
"Don'•t db that—yet."
"Not likely. You see I haven't
ante' such qualms."
Then it's up to' me to convince
you." ,
"Go to it. You've slightly overthree weeks before the opening of
the assizes."
"None too much time, but I hope
to make the most of it,?'
'Good luck—even though you are
threatening to break me."
' "Wlould it be that serious?"
"If you are able to prove that
Thorne has been wrongfully arrest-
ed' my name will be mud:"
"But I'm hoping . to deliver the
real culprit into your hands."
"We already have him, sir."
"Prejudiced as ever! Suppose H
satisfy you that you've been bark-
ing up the wrong tree --•what then?
And provide you with irrefutable'
evidence, together with the villain
of the piece?"
"That would be different. We'
want to know exactly what you do,
and honestly believe we have the
rights of. it, Show me otherwise
and produce the murderer and ev-
erybody will be satisfied. But yore
are making a ,big mistake this
time."
"Wait and see."
Mr. Sharpe was whistling, ale
most merrily, as he left the gloomy
headquarters of the Netherton Po-
lice.
• There was one thing Morrison+
Sharpe had always admired in his
dealings with the police — their
met.hodt of combating out facts with
a fine-toothed' patience. It was not
his own way of sdeing things, for'
he preferred a ruthless exercise of
sheer logic; for the most part,
though he did not disdain to ac-
cept an occasional "hunch" which
he preferred to call "inspiration."
When in a quandary he wouln
laboriously play over a mental
game of chesstrying to fit the'-
out of your reckoning. More than moves oP the pieces with those 'of'
once you have 'insisted that your living persons. So often had this.
concern is to run the guilty person been successful that he almost re -
to earth not to produce a legal sac- garded the procedure as infallible.
rifice." With a shock he found, that for
"Thorne could have sent a proxy once things refued to work out as•
to obtain the drug." they should.
"Why should he? Are you in -For a w hole day he locked him -
tending to prove that he was a self in his room and stared mood -
morphine addict?" ily at a checker board.. e'o' ail on-,
"Hardly. Our medical advice looker it would have seemed a
doesn't warrant that." blank and u•nprofita•ble pastime_
"Listen," said Morrison Sharpe But Morrison Sharpe had, every sin -
seriously. "Are you prepared to gle king, queen, bishop, (,night,
admit a coincidence?" rook and pawn accurately placed'
'They do happen." in his mind's eye; moving, mating
"No need to be, half-hearted and analyzing as if a game was be -
about ft. I've experienced some ing played with deadly serious -
most amazing coincidences in my ness.
career. So have you. Similar Punctually at midnight he .went"
netees, for eininple. Quentin to bed. As usual he put every'
Thorne is an unusuaer,combination, thought out of .his head and went
I admit. ' For all that• there may be off into a deep sleep. According
dozens of men so called' in, this to his habit he awoke at 7:30, as.
contry. Why net one in Liver- though an alarm clock had Warned
pool?" him of the time. to rouse.
"Another possibility—anyone de- After amodest breakfast -he
siring to get hold of forbidden reached mechanically for the chess
drugs might quite conceivably board. Then he scowled, conscious,
adopt one belonging to somebody that his thought processes had not
least calculated to arouse suspi- been stimulated' as they should
cion. What abetter than that of a have been.
clergyman. One glance at Crock- Something was very wrong. He -
ford's Clerical Directory and ev- was reminded of an occasion when
erything one wants to know is at he had, tried to solve a crossword
hand. Try the doctor who made puzzle from clues which belongede
out the prescription." to a different square. It was soon
"That was forged, We don't obvious what was amiss, but he
take ,things, on trust." had, pluckishiy set about filling in
"There you are then. False pa- the blanks, to fit the indications, al -
per, false name, false everything. though in several places .the ' had)
Heaven help you, man, when your found it necessary to stretch the
precious evidence is torn to shreds meanings fairly freely.
by the defending counsel." Yes, that was' it. Inspector Mat-
"We may have made a. slight mis- thews was doing the self -same
take about the buying ofthe stuff, thing. He had collected] all, the•
but—" correct clues and was busily en -
"Slight,,, you call it! Hang it, gaged in fixing them into the wrong
the fact is vital. You'll never con- frame. And, willy-nilly, he was,
vince a jury without telling them managing to make them seem a sat -
for :sure that the accused' had ac- isfa.ctory fit.
cess to the drug." . There"was only one sensible
"You're forgetting something ev- thing to do. That was to ddsre-
en more impartant:" , gard the i:.,fram•e completely and
"Am I?" build .up a correct one, making ev-
ery precaution against bias from
the doubtful finding. To do this
he decided to take a. leaf out of the
official book and start again at the
beginning as far as that was pos-
sible. The absence of Mrs. Thorne
created one disadvantage, for he
surmised that some vital knowledge
had gone with her to her grave.
"Presumably it would be impos-
sible for you to say where you
were as far back os Junes 1945."
"Why that is different. I could
answer that. From the end of May
until the beginning of July we
were on our honeymoon.
"Can you swear to that?"
"A than does not forget such a
such a happy occasion so
soon."
"Of course not. Where were
you during those five or six
weeks'?" -
"Down in Dorset."
•""That's. all 'I wanted to know."
Mr. Sharpe bustled off to inter-
view the inspector. Ile showed
symptoms of 'unusual excitement
which caused that 'busy officer to
put aside some important work on
hand to listen attentively.
"Don't you see what it means,"
Sharpe wounds up after detailing
the extent of his, discoveries.
"Thorne 'couldn't possibly be the
man who visited the Liverpool
chemist.
''So it seems," Matthews admit-
ted. "But that was not an essen-
tial date, remember."
"Don't you dare try and keep it
From The Huron Expositor
February 27, 1903
Mr. Donald Crawford, McKillop,
has leased his fine farm on the 13th
concession for a term of years to
Mr. John Doherty, of Grey, for the
annual rental of 1300.
Despite the fact that ',':Grogan"
seems to have lost faith in the dis-
ciples of the roarin' game in Sea -
forth, one rink distinguished' them-
selves at the bonspiel, Waterloo,
capturing first prize in the consola-
tion game. The successful rink
was composed of John Beattie,
James Dick, W. McDougall and. W.
Ament.
Mr. Thomas Pinkney, of London,
and formerly of Seaforth, has leas-
ed the Royal Hotel from Mr. Jas.
Weir.
Mr. and Mrs. John McIntosh, Mr.
Folie, Miss.' Latimer, Mies F 4.ird and
Mr. Roy Willis spent Sunday in Ex-
eter.
Mr. E. La Cosse, formerly a bak-
er for 'Cardno Bros., was ticketed
to Edmonton, N.W.T., by Greig &
Stewart, where he has secured a
very good situation.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas' Lane, Tuck-
ersmith, entertained a number cif
friends from Seaforth at their com-
fortable home on Monday evening.
After a most dainty supper had
been. served, .social enjoyments of
all hinds were indulged in, and: a
moat pleasant time was .had by all.
Mr. Alex Mustard, proprietor of
the 'Brueefleid' and: Bayfield, saw-
mills, recently purchased a fine
piece of bush from Mr. Henry Bea-
com, Goderich township. 'The bush
consists of 42 acres, and Mr. Mus-
tard paid $1800 for it.
At a recent piano examination at
the Toronto College of Music, Miss
Mamie McBwan, Leadbury, was
awarded flrstrelass .honors.
Mr. ,Robert Mutters sale near
1i;ippen on Thursday, was a gratify.
ing success. 'One 'horse was knock-
ed down at $1.70; calves brought
$60 kq.i$$Q wand one_pig_hrottght4.3Q...'
The following were ticketed! to',
distant :points this week froni Sea-
forth
eaforth : Phonics Town, to Indian-
apolis, Ind'.; 'Wm. O'Reilly, Beech.'
wood, to Burford, North Dakota;
Mins Jeannette Mollalwing, to New
York; 'Captain W. Ii'. Oritn:dy, idd"
erich, tb Liverpool; AIM Coons' and
daughters, to,,Wlnmi'peg; Mi :' 718ib
ex, Nide Cumdning's and M1se belle
Van ']hMond to Totoiite to' attend
the mill{tlerjr oDenfiitit
"Yes. There isn't only one
charge of murder. If Thorne didn't
!,ill Rotherson he still has to an-
swer for the wife. Anything to
say about that?"
"Merely that Myi-tle,Rotherson's'
story becomes even more signifi-
cant."
"How do you make that out?"
"Two people hitting on an iden-
tical scheme. Even to the choice
of chocolates."
"Nut lung ago you were support-
ingethe long arm of coincidence."
"Rh!"
"You're not deaf, sir."
"No, I heard it all right. I've no
defence against that, Tell me,
however, if you imagine the court
'will be satisfied?"
Matthews pulled a face. "We
can only wait and see. You know
what judges are, and juries too."
"You're gamrbling."
"Many trial!', amount to that."
"But a man's life against the re-
putation of the pollee is a nasty
Mort of business"
"Put it thatwa if ou wish
y Y Va-
turally I rather relent the bile nua,
tion. Take it 'froth me, though,
my chief and the whole' department
feel dotuv{nced that we have the
right man."
"When Myrtle Rotherson ,pope up
its the witness boil you'll 'have to
Whitt' th'e stridence ds leaky."
"If she does, you -men."
"I said `,hell',"
"Winittlitikt that be just tow dandy+.
CHAPTER XII
Having decided „to review the
case from the beginning. Morrison
Sharpe first of all went to Mrs.
Welkin•, who was quite willing to
talk. She ,had'basked in a sort of
reflected notoriety sipne the trage-
dy and out of it had got a gratifies
ing sense of adventure.
"Of course I am being -called as
a witness at the trial," *he explain-
ed. "As one Of those 'present mag
evid'ewce is quite important',
"IP I remember 4 aright," Mr -
Sharpe remarked, "you were look-
ing after the sugar and milk."
"So I was. And Mr. Rotherson
Stopped me sweetening hieetee pea
cause he'al-Ways used saccharine."
"What about the milk?"
"That was another thing that
went clean out df 'my head for
weeks, we, were all that excited
and dazed or I should have men-
tioned; earlier about the cream. The
*fear sent a sural jug across for
our guest."
"Only sufficient fors one person?"
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