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The Seaforth News, 1928-05-31, Page 6xofrowysomerts che Ca 0)1.10'2 ', NLA Service Ina . BEGIN BERE TODAY, I really thought that he was; mind John Ainsley, a 'man of education you, the man wag beside himself in and breeding, becomes a master crook wrathful humiliation- On1Y the fear —preying upon other thieves. Posing that I might after all be what I elaim- as a millionaire, he goes to the estateed to be, and the fear of ridicule which of. a wealthy retired broker, Kerne-'1 had -promised, restrained him,t ButChan, to steal a large ruby ring be- I, did not now that he would be re - longing to Kernochan's daughter, who strained, and, so I slipped the ring into is engaged to Ernest Vantine, chief a eup of agree, not, however, into the owner of a detective agency. cup that had been set at the vacant of the Having acquired a paste copy place at the table which was meant fon merfrom an elderly widow, its for- ie: I slipped it into Vantine's. iowner, Ainsley substitutes then pp imitation for the real ringwhen the He colored furiously. lie felt "as lights go out in the librar, Btit the ridiculous as he. was. "No, I'm not substitution is discovered and Vantine going to search you," he almost roar prepares to search Ainsley. ed. NOW GO ONWITHTHE STORY I bowed to him. "In that case,"�I, Vantine smirked. "I am dealing staid' "T shall' drink Mr. T{ernochan s ffee" The dress, of light tan, suggests an co with a desperate criminal, Alice. But * * * * * ensemble, and is made of extremely Something within me gave warning; light m Ainsley is dealing with a detective of ommaterial, The ostrich feather r some reputation. Would a criminal, Sf pickingupVantine's cup, I boa conforms to the summer edict of•,, as daring as this roan, leave this house instead o without the object for which he has chose the one meant for me. And be- "the French styles mentors. SNAPPY SWs19 L fl SUIT "Het Water" Makes the Man Warm Water Turns Female Frogs to Males Lady frog tadpoles turn into males when they are kept In kat waterVoo. long, eocording to oxperiment0 made by Emil Wits'hel ot the University of Iowa, we are told in Science Service's Daily Science News • Bulletin( Wash- ington). We read: "Reporting his researches before a meeting of. the American AseocietiOn of Anatomiste at Ann Arbor, Michigan,Mr. Witsebi stated that he grew two sets of tadpoles tronathe egg stage until the differentiation into sexes be- gan to be evident. In one set, in. whioh the temperature of the water. had been increased approximately es In nature, the sex ratio was about nor- mal -100 females and 96 males, In the other set the temperature of the water was suddenly jumped to nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit when the tad- poles were five weeps old,- The sex, glands of the females in this set gradually assumed a masculine char- acter, and the frogs emerged as males." lips, Van risked his liberty? Certainly not.Look I fore eauId put ittoiiiy ' d wrist. was with me. I was shaken up, but at his face The ring is somewhere in ti this room • he picked It up— se's fingers grippe my orris . "So, that's where you hid it:" he uninjured. In thirty seconds I was cried. in the garage, et the wheel of my car. "Oh, end this farce!" I cried. I ""Don't be' absurd, Ernest," said Cries from the house—they had heard stis hands wide. The girl Miwore anss Kernochan petulantly. "The my impact with the ground—alarmed was seatedrec inua chair. high upon her Coffee was just brought in." quicln lounging ul was awaffeur. y he at was not elaborate coiffure, p g p But Vantine must have seen some- And I was not captured. I reached New York, abandoned my car, pur- chased clothing—even late at night it is possible to buy apparel in the great city=and within an hour after that L' had eliminated, I felt certain, any pos- sibility of capture. For I am of un- distinguished appearance, and the de- scription meant for me would fit a thousand other Hien. Yes, T was safe—safe, I mean, frons the pursuit of the clumsy Vantin and bhe ex -policemen who make up the staff of his agency. But I was not safe from sorhething else. Once again I tell you that at this time I was an amateur, cursed with sentiment= -aye, sentimentality. For I could not help but think of the sweet- faced widow in Boston. The Grand Duke's ring should have been hers. Somehow I felt that I had robbed her, not the grossly rich Benanin Kerno- chan. And so—I turned the ruby into cash, engaged a disciteet lawyer, and Mrs. Henry Adams leaped that cer- tain,stock which- she did not know be- longed to her husband was hers. 'She lives, I believe, in comparative luxury upon a farm in Massachusetts. She should live well; the income from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars the price paid me for the Grand Duke's ruby by a dealer in stolen stones—is ample for a widowed lady of simple tastes. Yes, I was an amateur—I had not yet forgotten that I was also a gentle- man. The adventure o.: the Grand Duke's ruby had cost me money, instead of showing me a profit. Yet if by that adventure I was lighter in my pocket, I was also light in heart, thinking of Mrs. Adams, as I sailed the following week for Europe. (To be continued.) National Monuments head. In the depression above her crown, formed by a coil of chestnut hair—her only attractive possession— I placed the Grand Duke's ring. My hands were quicker than their eyes, forgetful of the presence of his fian- and I stepped closer to Vantine, say cee, he cursed angrily. ing wearily: "Search me!" "If all detectives are as stupid as Twenty minutes later I was dressed you, Vantine," I told hien, "I wonder agajn. Miss Icernochan had returned. that more people don't go in for thing triumphant in niy eyes, for he poured the coffee out, part of it, into the saucer, and then groped in the liquid remaining in the cup. Then, She had sat down again in the chair. I had plucked the ring from her hair and it reposed snugly in my waistcoat pocket once again. Yes, in those days I was an amateur; but I leave it to you who read my memoirs, to decide whether or not I showed, even at the outset of my career, flashes of that genius which since have rendered me incomparable - "Let's talk this over," suggested Kernochan. He made a wry mouth. "You have us on the hip, Mr. Ainsley. But you must realize that you can never take the ring out of this room. And we are convinced that it is some- where in this room" "So ani I," I declared. "I think it's about time that you and I searched Vantine." Vantine laughed, but there was anger in his mirth. "You're welcome, Mr. Kernochan," he said. But the suggestion was too absurd for Kernochan to entertain. I give you my word, had Vantive been searched I would have found the ring upon him• But in that event I might have lost the ruby ring. "Let's sit down, have sone coffee and talk this over," persisted Kerno- chan. "I won't use harsh words, Mr. Ainsley. But that ring is here. You brought a paste copy—" I raised my hand. "All of this, Mr. aernochan, this unfounded libel, will be paid for in court" "I din't want a lawsuit any more than you want a criminal prosecution," he said. "And we'll 1•ardly have one without the other. But I do want the ring." He ordered the butler, who had assisted in the second search of me, to bring coffee. "We're all excited and under a strain, and a cup of coffee will help us to look at the matter sensibly" The butler left; I sat down. "Go ahead," I said to Kernochan. He argued, pleaded and threatened. 1 was adamant. I told him that I had been insulted, and that if my depart- ure were much longer impeded, I would have satisfaction in the courts. was permitted to leave the room, I The butler entered, bringing coffee. I would be permitted to leave the house. refused to partake, and startell boldly for the door. Vantive leaped to his feet. "You can't go," : . cried. I turned and advanced to the table en which were set the cups of coffee. 1 guessed, I thought, his intention. "I suppose," I said, that you are going to search me again." theft." I reached for his cup. "I don't propose to be denied my drink because you are a jackass," I remarked. With that I put his cup to my lips; the ruby "If all detectives are as stupid as you—" ring passed into my mouth; I put the cup down and wiped my mouth with a napkin. A second later the ruby ring had once again returned to my waistcoat pocket. I nodded coldly to Kernochan and his daughter. "Now, then," I said to Vantine, "if you will kindly unlock the door, I will go upstairs, get nay things and leave." The sweat stood on Kernochan's forehead, but he nodded to Vantine to acquiesce in niy demand. The detec- tive opened the door for me; I walked calmly through it, and began mount- ing the stairs in the hall outside. Now, I have said that at this period in my career I was an amateur. This account of my recklessness is proof that I tell the truth. But do not do me the injustice to suppose that I thought for one minute that, though I Outdoors or indoors -- whatever your task. Let WRIGLEY'S refresh you—allay your thirst, aid appetite and digestion. Helps keep teeth clean. - After Every Meal I heard the telephone click as I set my foot on the first step. Rather than risk a brawl, I would be permitted to go upstairs. By the time I would have packed my bags, policemen would be in the house. Only Vantine's pride had caused this much delay in summoning the police. For their arrival meant publicity and consequent ridicule, in the press, for the great detective who must call in village policemen to re- cover a pewel stolen under his eyes. But Vantine's pride was not too elastic —it had snapped now. He would risk ridiculeand Kernochan would risk a libel suit. The jewel was worth these risks Yet, knowing what they were doing, I managed to restrain myself until I reached my room Then I acted as swiftly as ever a man, in a similar predicament, could hope to aet. T snatched up hat and coat, crossed my TOM. in a bound, threw open the French window that led to a balcony, and vaulted to the ground twelve feet below. True, I risked a broken leg, but it was only a chance. Arrest meant certain imprisonment, My recent past could afford no disclosures. And luck 834 eoe Never before has such care been oised in preparing teas for the public. Never before has such a blend of high q aiitY teas been made, as hi "SAL,ADA". This flavour, this unfailing deliciousness is bring- ing pleasure to millions. -Hasten Slowly It is somewhat disconcerting to the child to learn in Sunday School that Joshua caused the 61111 to stand still and to be taught in the secular school that the earth moves around the sun. There are other puzzles for the child which, Montgomery Major specifies for us in an article in The Forum, in which he pleads thatchildren should not be asked to belieyie blindly what it is impossible for their elders to believe without much .philosophy and interpretation. "It 1s folly," he says, "to proclaim that Christianity rests upon, miraculous signs and events, and that, shorn ot these, there is, and can be, no Christian religion." After the child learns what Mr. Major calls the contradiction between the miracles and the laws of the universe, he loses his faith, His religion, based upon the miracles, has been destroyed, along with his faith in those moracles, French Taxes For 4 Months $31,440,000 Over Estimate Pairs—During the first . four four menthe of Otte year, France's taxation receipts have exceeded budget estimates by 800,00000 francs, about $31,440,000. Indirect taxation has yielded 3,- 25.0,000 francs and direct taxation 600,000,000 francs: 'Practically the only tax which shows a deficit on the estimates is the turnover tax, which is 31;000,- 000 francs less than estimated though 86,000,000 more than was received dariug the same period last year, i 'rip* fon All! Hiking Around the World oft. the Front Ferch "How fir swore you walked' "More than 1000 miles lose to 1000 I exp "'lien youcet must be half -r57' noross the continent," observed the mailman,. pausing on Itis route and resting hie. wave -sack .on the front steps, And .that little snatch of couversa- tion, we,read iri the I'roviilenee Sun- day Journal, gave William Riobardbon . ilio idea of Isis imaginary hikes, of whtelt. we roar} oil: It strack his imagination, Blind- ness ien't,sueh a nuisance, if you have an imagination. William Richardson says that, Yes, sir! Halfway across the con- tinent, Cracking' good ideal He'll make:a kind of gaine'of his daily exer• cisb—his porch walking.. He'll keep, tabs • on his mileage and plug on to 1'California." Always slid want to see. ;California. ,Tice imaglnary.hitce idea,, idly tossed kite Mr. Richardson's,mind by a congenial carrier of letters, start- , ed tart-fed early in February, 1925. William Richardson is eighty-one Years old, and his eyes deserted him. four years:. ago. Every day, unless there's a blizzard or a tornado or something, Mi. Richardson walks hie front porch hack and forth. He makes believe he is out on the high' roads' trudging the country from end to end. Elm -bordered lanes, distant lakes• laughing' in the summer sun, hilie Bigger and Better tumbling along the far 'horizon, green gg valleys and wide prairies, red apples Detroit Free Press: Manufacturers � bunched iii the trees by the roadside,. announce that tatted States has be- people passing and taiking—lie sees come "deflnitely a two•ear country.;," all these things, in Isis imagination: nxore or lass a task !u some Actually he is walking thirtythree 14 5V1,1 u Some of our"reader's will. (lisapprove I homes to make two deferred pay- feet to the far end of the front .porch of Mr, Major's argument, but we must ments grow where only one grew be- and then thirty-three feet back again. occasionally give voice to those whose fore. I, Eighty laps, .up and back, make ex - belief is not based upon the generally accepted dogmas. Children must be taught, says Mr. Major, "that religion Is a progressive and cuhninative spiri- tual pintual endeavor for betterment and must be shown how the whole conception of God and religion has progressed and improved through the Old Testa- ment .into the New. It must be ex- plained to them that the ancient Bibli- cal cosmology ie not God's but the accepted belief of the time. They must not be taught to 'believe in Christianity because of the miracles, but, if you will, in the miracles be- cause of Christianity.,' Mr. Major ,argues further: "It is obviously unwise to preach a gospel of fire and brimstone to child- ren of an ,;e which is too apt to in- quire curiously where heli is- and ex- pect it to be located geographically. Once it was safe enough to make congregations tremble before the awful picture of 'sinners in the hands of an angry God: Butt today' our en- lightened children are not to be eo- ereed by threats of hypothetical pun- ishment. They are not afraid of a damnation the nature ot which they can not conceive. "Modern Sunday School training, even under the best conditions, is not vital, is illogical, is absurd, is reac- tionary, and is futile. Religion must be vital and necessary in its presen- tation to hold people who will them- selves deal in vital and necessary problems. It is the duty of the Sun- day School to teach religion so that it shall be. hildren should betaught sanely and quietly; they should be reasoned with and not commanded. Do not think them devoid of reason- ing with powers. Do not tell them to believe because they ought to be- lieve. Tell then to believe because there is a valid rason for belief. "Their religion shoukt, be based upon the teachings of Jesus, so that if the miracles and the Virgin Birth crumgle, they have their faith un- shaken. They should not be bullied. by threats of hell or bribed by promise of heaven. 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But a perfectly clean' distinction can be drawn between a duty and a religious .practice, however deserving of merit, but to abstain from - which will not endanger anyone. As long as children are too little to look after themselves, it is .the mother's duty to see that they are gate. It is unfortunate that one should allow the precious faculty of instinct to be atrophied. Animais, closer to nature, show themselves superior to plenty of women. SAW i�Fa1L�$t a ,OND5 SAW 5tai9s shade longer Cuts easier. Saws faster. SIMONDS CANADA SAW CO. LTC. MONTSEAL VANCAUVER. ST, JOHN, N.S„ TORONTO D actly a mile, and the venerable tra- veler paces off an average of about ten, miles a day. • That is 800 trips• !up the trout porch and. 800 trips back. !again. Talk about the "bunion der- !hies." er- !hies." If it's that counts, William !Richardson wins "in. a walk. I With slow stride, hardly a shuffle,. he has "crossed the `continent" and • !rata -reed to Providence. That is some 0,000 miles. Florida • next appealed to the porch -hiker's 'imagination, so he set forth, holdin' south, "em the road -- to Miami.", A light bamboo-caue,not only guides, Mr. Richardson along his route, but servesas a tabulator of his mileage. There are four wooden rings onthe- handle of the cane, and at the snd of each twenty laps, he slides one ring: down the stick, recording is quarter . of .a mile. When the fourth ring Inc been moved, he knows, that he has covered a mile. 'Warren Pendleton, grandson of Mr. Richardson, keeps a note -book with daily records of his imaginary hikes. however; the teaveler holds that the official record is written in :his mind. He knows just how far he has travel- ed, to the very lap, since he started walking, more than three years age. During' his first year, he .walked 2,311 miles on the front -porch "beat" He increased this to an even 2,400 miles the second, year, and tramped a total of 2,476'milea-during the third year of imaginary vagabonding. It is his aim this year to hike a full 2,500 miles. "By next August -if my feet hold out—and I expect. they will—I'11 be a third of the way around the world," remarks Mr. Richardson, .pausing for a brief rest in ••1115• daily jaunt. "The warm sun is with me now, and I'll be able to make up for lost time. I average about one mile an hour, but' sometimes when I feel like 'speeding up, I complete a mile in forty-five minutes. One day I walked thirteen miles. As I remember, that was my `best day" Asked where he intends to make his next oblectiveafter reaching "Miami," he shakes his head and smiles: "I shall start for home Immediately, for I do not linger` long: on my trips. I keep walking. Perhaps I'll, never get hack to Providence. Any day, my walks along this porch may be cut !off suddenly, .. To -day is mine, and 1 can only take what is mine. I do not want to mortgage my future, or I might get into debt." 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