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The Seaforth News, 1928-09-27, Page 2Rae tea Is aiwrays the most -desired. The slight caning out in price of cheaper teas cannot entice the tea -lever from his discriminating choice. The Fiieaest of AJJ Fine Team BEGIN HERE TODAY i Mystery surronrtdt, the sudden ec- centricity of three wealthy and se- date brothers, one cf them the father of youthful Patricia Drake. Alarmed; because of the evident terror which has gripped the trio, Patricia asks the advice of her guardian, Attorney John Wells, andtells hint that two weeks ego her father, Hobart Drake, a Wall Street broker, clothed himself in a sheet and went to the town square where he delivered a mock oration. Roger A few days lateen her uncle, Ro g Drake, an eminent scientist, made a burlesque of a scientific address. That morning, the third brother, her uncle, Andrew, was found seated on the floor I playing with tows. The three are sane, sober and respected mien. Wells asks Owen Miles, detective sergeant, to investigate. GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II. • "I have never encountered so strange a case," John Wells remarked when the office door closed behind, their young client. "I have been the attorney for Ho - beet Drake and his sister Jerusha for the past twenty years and their af- fairs are in perfect shape." The at- torney sat back in his chair and placed the tips of his fingers together reflectively. 'Roger's brilliant scien- tific career speaks for itself and An- drew made a big financial success of his sheep ranch. I had known the family years ago but not intimately. The cool, comforting flavor of WRIGLEY'S Spearmint is a lasting pleasure. It cleanses the mouth after eating -gives a clean taste and sweet breath. It is refreshing and digestion aiding. ONOY THERE le nothing that has ever taken Aspirin's place as an antidote for pain. It is safe, or physicians wouldn't use it, and endorse its use by others. Sure, or several million users would have turned to something else. But get the real Aspirin (at any drugstore) with Bayer on the box, tend the word genuine printed in red: .r( frin mark k -0l 5ythe bads ((reBintoned 't1 eeuaaaa) 1ldientthE Bnyor Msnufaotute. Wbfls 1t to we l known that Aepirh menu =yet rams- ttaro to 5,5110 the pwith eirrtn5050, 1 WSW 51,11 re stamped wltb tbeto "$arar flea" trade lmatw pgoncy?'° Her Yo --ice was deeply eerie, trate and it seemed to Miles that her bright, dark eyes beneath the strong brows Were attempting; to boyo hint through,. "Did she explain the duties Which would be required of you?" "Everything le quite satisfactory, Wilhelm" she said, aft ache had en fevered the routing questions, "We will give you a trial,, Carter will show y'pu to your room and Pierre will have same supper prepared for you in the servantsdining room." • Carter, the butler, reappeat'ed and led the way up two flights of back stairs toe small but hmuacnlate room at the side of the house. Milos waited until ho heard the other's footsteps descending the stairs before he ex- tingudshed the light and raised the shade, As he looked across the grounds a shambling male figure strolled down the drive, It was assuredly neither the rotund chef nor the elderly, digni- fled butler.., Could it be the "outside rem" or was there an eavesdropper, an interloper hanging about the place? Descending to the ground Robe, Miles wandered out through the entry And across the driveway. The hour was growing late and it was probable that he would have no opportunity that night to encounter the three be'others. Miles turned just as the shambling figure came saunter- ing around the bushes. "What you (loin' here?" The ne-I gro's teeth' were chattering in his ' head. "Who are you?" Miles countered: amiably. "I'm William Brown, the! new houseman," "bat's de truf? I'm Mendes Lunt,I Rip for short, night watchman till midnight an' most eve'ything else out- doors in de daytime." "Why, what's the matter?" Miles laughed. "There can't be any danger of tramps or burglars." ' Ripidesechewed ruminatively for a moment. "There's more clan tramps an' thieves can come sasbayin' 'round. Some mighty funny things goin' on in dis here neighborhood lately an' when de next comes off it's goin' to be where Rip Lunt ain't—I got to be movie'!" "They held themselves aloof from the neighbors with the bitter pride of poverty which resents the memory of past affluence. "I should like to know how they impressed you before prosperity re- turned to them," the detective asked "I want to gauge what changes the past twenty years have made in their several characters. It's evident from the widely different careers which they chose that the three brothers are as far apart in temperament as the poles." "They always were," Wells remark- ed reminiscently. "Roger is the oldest of the family --.he must be about forty- eight—and except in outward appear- ance, he has changed the least, in my estimation. He ,as always a dream- er, a shy sort of youth. Andrew, two years his junior, was just the oppo- site; boisterous and fun -loving, and more sociable thaw any of the rest. Jerusha—Miss Drake.—comes next. dignified and austere even as a mere girl." "What of the third brother, the father of the young lady?" "There you will find the greatest change, Sergeant." The attorney spoke hastily and in a more confiders - tial tone as if to make amends for his implied suggestion. "Hobart was a drab, colorless young bank eleak at twenty-three, wholly with ut ambi- tion to get out of the rut. Now he is a dynamic force on the Street and until this unfortunate episode the leading citizen of his community. I cannot believe that his sanity is in question, much less than all three brothers should be attacked at virtu a113 the same time! I feel that there must be some other explanation." The attorney pushed back his chair and rising, moved to the window where he stood for a moment. Then he wheeled: "Sergeant, I haven't a theory, a suspicion, an idea of a pos- sible solution! The whole thing is monestrous, incredible! If I were ignorant and superstitious, if I be- lieved in the Evil Eye—!" He left the sentence unfinished and Owen Miles sinned slightly once more. "But science has proved the exist- ence of the modern equivalent of the Evill Eye, hasn't it, sir? Isn't that what you're getting at?". "You mean hypnotism, of course? It seems too bizarre a thought to entertain seriously. If these three brothers are not the victims of some strange drug, self-administered or otherwise, which is slowly driving them mad, what possible alternative explanation is there?" The detective rose also and picked up his hat from the desk. "We shall I SUE No. 38—'28 see." The afternoon was well advanced when Sergeant Owen Miles approach- ed the long lines of glistening green- houses near a country club and then paused as a hearty voice hailed him from the golf links. Turning he be- held a stocky, robust figure clad in golfing clothes striding vigorously to- ward him. 'What the dickens—!" Miles stared as they clasped hands. "Scottie, what's come over you that you are fooling around with the idle rich at a country club?" "Didn't you hear, Owen, my lad?" Fergus McCready beamed joyously on his youthful friend. "This com- munity has seen fit to take me up so- cial like, and I've taken up my own national game to keep in shape." "I've got a bigger game on than l golf, Scottie, and I hoped you would like to take a hand in it with rue." He paused suggestively and Scottie, rode to the bait, "What is the case, laddie?" When the etory was concluded he remarked briefly: "I'm with you. It may be a mad- ' house we're going to but it sounds to me like eamething very different, CHAPTER III. Just after the dinner hour that evening, Sergeant Miles, alias Wil- liam Brown, the new houseman, pre- sented himself at the kitchen door of the square old Colonial house in which so many generations of the Drake family had lived. An elderly butler made his appear- anat. "The new houseman? Miss Drake will see you ire the servants' sitting - room." Almost immediately a tall, gray- haired woman entered. "IIdij ei ece engaged you at our usual CIIAP'TER IV. Without encountering the reluctant The flowering heads should be cat aught watchman again, Miles entered before they are too 'fully open, and degree, how to 'protect .himself from the house and made his way up• thebefore head downwards in a cool dry back stairs to his own room. hung respiratory infections .and to treat All was dark on that side of the place: them so that they do not so after hone" now save in the room just be -1 Hlonesty (Lunaria Biennis) with its lead on to death, his actually observed flat silvery seed vessels is delight respiratory mortality falls somewhat low his own. fully ornamental. It grows well un below that of the lower vertebrate Someone was posing the floor ofed dor trees, and in shady places, and that room below with a measured orders, Dr. Pearl explains. if a few speeiments are allowed to "Tho proportionate mortality from 1 seed themselves every year a plenti- diseases finding their seat in the all fug supply of young seedlings will be mentary tract and its associated or assured. IIonesty should be 'cutgans (concerned in the combustion of when dry and ripe, the outer weather -I Spend' ris .{ aro' Special Saiiings to England -Ireland -Scot- ]arid—Prance-Bel€iur rt To open Ohrletmes with tho folks at lion" wilt be mere antedated Olen ail the to them. In you wilt be ha tier if you aro with them. Aiontreal-Glassow.Ecifast-bi serpoot E,aasregi,tia Nov. 24 ),7 eoes errs etecbe+tee eta"oarp pewee -eland 1Doc. 2 S.,esp/end Dec. 9 Pali/ex-Glasgow Belfest-Liverpool Meie»'ireet Dec. 15 If altifaz-eueensPown.eiver p ool $astir, Dec. 20 ger covrpleo- information, phone • fifie• arils or call S King St. h Toronto, P.O.t ee4 Portage Ave., Wiewipcg. Man. 1e$1'r. WilnamSt, Saintdolm,N.B. Sr Paul Drag„ Halifax, N.S. 53balhousie St., Quebec, N.Q. E. ;CANADI.AN SERWIg brant with sudden tragedy. "Haven't we been for years, even though we 'three have managed until now to con- ceal it from all the rest of the world? What ie the end going to be? I can see the writing on th wall and I tell you I am not going to endure it until utter madness (dimes! There is a quick way out, quick and euro -1" (To be continued.) e Dried Decorative Plants Many flowers may be dried during the late summer and early autumn months and provemostwelcome and decorative substitutes for the highly priced out blooms of winter, and the growing of 1 few such plants is an nndobuted economy as well as a source of great interest to all flower - lovers. Conditions Better Due to Hygiene Research by Johns I-Ia kine Biologist Proves Ability to Surmount .Hardships Baltimore, -Man's .intelligent 0051• trol of leis envirosimout, through ]sousing, equitation sad byglono; app pareetly hate enabled him to (memento handicaps placed upon life rosptratarY system in the unequal evolutionary development, ofhie organs, Dra• 1taY- rnoncl' Pearl, director of the Institute of Biological Research of Johns Hop. kine University, has found, In a coMparethvo study of causes of death, elaeeifled' according to the ane' tornlcal location of the principal ori garlic brealcdowns involved, he has learned that "broadlyetlne distribution of mortality to organ systome rune parallel in the three orders of lower, animate to the condition found in man." The investigation was based on find- ings of postmortem examinations of animals in a London zoo and of Truman mortality data from England, Wales, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Although he regarde the data as having many eaten - title shortcomings, Dr. Pearl describes the reeults as "suggestive" in The Quarterly Review of Biology," of which he is editor. "In reptiles, birds and mammals, just as in man," he says, "the two organ systems having tlye-largest 13103'-. tallty chargeable to themare the res- piratory and the alimentary systems, with the circulatory system standing third. The other organ systems, which have a low mortality chargeable to them in man, also are concerned in a low mortality in the reptiles, birds and mammals." There "appears to be a clever evo- lutionary progression" in the mortal- ity attributalile to breakdown of the respiratory system, he asserts, his figures disclosing that the death rate "steadily and regularly increases pro- portionately as we pass from reptiles, through birds, to mammals." These organs in the mammal group appear to be "less effectively adapted for coping with the environment stresses and strains" put upon them than they are in reptiles, but "when•we come to man this progression is broken." Because man has learned, in some "Is there any joke in what has des- cended upon. us?" stained seed cases being peeled off to display the silverydisks under -1 which will remain in perfect condition for very many months. The dainty sprays of the mauve j and pink perenniels Sea Lavender (Statics Latifolia and Incana), and' the particularly pleasing golden yes-: low annual variety—Statim duelli, the thistle -like flowers, andj handsome steely blue bracts of the' hardy Sea Holly (Edyngium) fare most attractive for decorative per•I poses, and the blue succory (Cata-I nanche) with its hyacinth blue fiov-I ers which are produced so freely in, July, should also be .remembered. The vivid flame rcepsules of the Physalis Franeheti, generally known by the popular name of "Chinese Lan -1 terns," the rich reds, yellows, oranges and pinks of the Bverlastinge, Heli-' chrysums, the Australian Everiast- ings, "Ilelipterums, and the quaint tread which told of deep Concentra- round red and yellow heads of the tion. Drawing on a dark babhrobe and half hardy Globe Amaranthus all slippers Miles opened his door nodose- bring a welcome touch of color into lessly and crept down one flight of the house at a time of year when a kd" f th which he bright colors are most appreciated. stairs, nt�a agar e door calculated as being directely under hisMinard's Liniment cleanses cuts, etc. own. He had gone but a few steps when a door across the hall opened 4,000OQO Dead in Chinese with a perk, and a short, almost burly ' figure with toweled brown hair and a Wars heavy, sun -browned countenance cross- Slranghai.—According to unofficial ed to the outer door .and turned the estimates made public here, the knob softly. - Chinese wars fought in the provinces Miles was close enaugh to hear the of Chihli and Shantung during the last subdued yet urgent tones of the new- several years have resulted in the comer. deaths of 4,000,000 men, 1,000,000 of "Roger, let me in! I want to speak wham are said to have been youths. to you!" Nine women out•of ten have a rift "What it, Andrew? Am I never sloe in life. The other would get to have any peace?" married, too, if she were asked. The door closed agdin behind the two and Miles crept to it and laid his "Jack fell out with Betty, and now ear close to the panel. he's running around with six different "It's just this, Roger; you'll go ie. girls." "I see. Sick of one and half -a- pieces if you're not careful." The dozen of the other." ri hearty, slightly aggressive tone of Andrew Drake was lander now, but • roughly aectionate. "You gave your- self dead away tonight to that bug - hunting, wocd-gathering nut, Grayle. He seems to be your best friend, but even he'll begin to think and talk like the rest of the town if you don't help to pass the whole think .off as a joke," "'Joke!' " repeated Roger in trem- bling tones, "Is there ,any joke in what has descended upoit us?" "Look here!" Andrew spoke with the patient, incisive emphasis of one imparting a lesson. "Hobart had at drop too much aboard when he went out and made that Julius Caesar speech, and your lecture was an ill- advised bit of pleasantry, while 1 wast only playing a trick this morning, to scare that fool Edward. Got that straight?" A moan was Roger's oniy answer and Andrew growled: "What's your idea, then? Do you want to whole town to think that we are ---afflicted?" There, had 'been a palpable pause before the last word. "Aren't we?" Roger's voice was vi - Use food) le highest in the reptiles, lower in the birds, lower still in the mam- mals and finally lowest in man living under superior conditions of present, day civilization." • Minard's Liniment for Every Pain. Poverty ' It requires a great real of poetry to gild the p111 of poverty, and then it will pass current only in theory; the reality is a dead failure. —Mme: Deluzy. Magistrate—"Whatever could you have been thinking of to steal all those sheep?" Accused—"I dunno, your worship. I must ha' been wool- gathering." Lord Lov"sit Tho lion. Robert Perko fees .ebown commendable restralu', in replying to Lord Lovnt, liead of area Empire Sete Bement Beard, who, at Winnipeg, Was quoted as saying that Iso•iailad to Understand .why Canada Fair bring 01,000 hirmigrants from "iso] -prefer'= ret]" eoulitriee annually u'-tl only 50,0 000 Irorn the British isles. fits Lord, ehlp also stated, aeco'dtng to a cleft - patch, that the Brit.islr pe01)10 view, 1 with nierin, Canadian retial ie s to bring to this country what may be 1 tortnod "subservient peoples;” 'lo cilia, Mr. Perko replies Mutt "if British hnmigraine, won't come to Canada, we can't help it. The ilydtislt immigrant who is 111)10 end wllltng to groom the land le pr tctic.rlly being eubslcllzod to come to Cr.'la)ln. 'Phis, is not the caro wilt tiro 'strhservlent reoploe' referred. to bi' Lord Lovat. They coma to Canada oven though given no encouragement '.o do sa by the government,, Learn DRESS DESIGNING A School 'Of proven worth. 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In the store or pre the 'phone, always ask for, 0 According to despatches from Ot- tawa, Lorci T,_,ovat's remarks in 'W1nni- roe have caused surprise and are re - as "unfortunate," One might go further and 047 that, they are de- s'dedly cut of •plane, Is 1t anyone's fault if 51,000 non -British Europeans decide that they wish to trove to Canada and if we allow them to •come in? As pointed oat in an Ottawa dere, patch, a very large percentage of these people come here with money in their possession, remain in the oe cupations to which they are directed, and rarely become a charge upon the community. They make excellent citizens and it does seem a shame that a visitor from Great Britain should apparently go out of his way to make disparager remarks con- cerning them. Some of these new- comers may have belonged to "sub- servient peoples" in Europe,ebut that is not the :case when 'they become citizens of Canada. This country is not interested in what they were, but in what thsy are. Mr. Forke—himself an immirant from Scotlandmany years ago, and ane of thousands of Scotsmen who% have made good in this country puts the situation clearly when he says that great efforts, financial and otherwise,are being made to attract People here from Great Britain. If they won't come in sufficient numbers to overbalance 'the immigration from other lands—lands that receive no such encouragement from the Cana- dian authorities—why should this •country be blamed? Mr. Parke and his assisants cannot go over to Great •Britain and compel people to come here. Canada has invited them and extends assistance and co-operation. What more can she do? Lord Levet, like some others in the Old Land, seems to find it difficult to understand Abet Canada is and al- ways will be a cosmopolitan country. The greatness of this nation is being. built upon the mixture of many races. This is necessarily the case for if it were possible for us to transport to the dominion the entire population of the British Isles there would still be roam in Canada for millions more. We have in this country to -day men and women representative of practi- cally every nationality antler the sun. They or their forefathers have come here fora definite reason. That rea- son was the improvement of their condition in life and the search for greater opportunity, They reached the teoneiusion that Canada offered this greater opportunity and so they came. Thousands of them have suc- ceeded here. They have burned the bridges behind them, They are firmly rooted in Canada. Their lives, their hopes, their aspirations are Canadian. Canada is their home. And Canada is glad to have them because they and the many others still to come are aiding in the great task of developing our couutry.- Lord Levee and others should lake note of the IIon. Robert Forke's.re- marks to the Empire Parliamentary Association in Ottawa. "We welcome all immigrants of the right type," the Canadian minis- ter of immigration said, "but especi- aly do we welcome those of Great Britain who roma here to make their home. Our policy is to welocme all immigrants who can possibly be as- similated." Mr. I!orke added that he greatly re- gretted paragraphs which had appear- ed in • certain English papers that British immigrants: were not welcome 3n Canada. Such statements were. not in accordance with facts: British enmtgrants are welcome; 110 domin- ion of the empire was putting forth more strenuous efforts to obtain peo' pie from the Old Land, 115 said. • , 6 There seems to be a determined ef- fort to give the impression that the govormmnt is turning away British newcomer's and having a band at the (leek every time a boatload of .immi- grants arrives from Poland or some other country. Such oharges and in- sinuations are, of course, absurd, the beet answer to then being that the man in charge of the whole immigra- tion department, is himself a British immigrant. Lord Levet came to Canada to die - cues immigration matters. If. he made the remark attributed to him :at Winnipeg, ono must conclude that his prejudices are stronger than his dl:^,retiot, Canadals quite capable of handling her own Immigration regulations, American • (as'-'islying SCotoman dashes) : "Say, Ire, I guess you call that en express?" Porter: 'Mate No, it's ;fust dome a bit of %heats'. Tell ha back in a minute!"