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The Seaforth News, 1927-12-08, Page 6f la,vou T57 , why accept exhausted bulk tea. /4' 1115,11. t /". OD VILA 1001 titik tba- eaa% BEGIN HERE TODAY. Sit Charles Abingdon engages Paul Barley, criminal investigator, to find out why Sir Charles is kept under serveleance by persons unknovaa to Hn Harley clones at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls, from his. chair in a dying state. Abingdon's words last are Brinn" and "Tire- Ton sue." Baelev asks Brinn the meaning of .Fire -Tongue," but Brinn refuses to enlighten hirn. Harley investigates the life of (Wilma Ewan, friend of Phil Abing don. dsueeter of Sir Charles. Weida, an Orisntal, calls at the home of Nicol Brinn. Cu ON WISH THE STORY. ilAPTER XIX, —(Cont'd.} Right. le.a, it seemed from all about him. re .e swiftly pattering foot- steps! Testantly be divined the truth, toeing his tracks upon the higbroad above. a serition of his pursuers had surrounded the station, believing that ke would heed for it in retreat. Paul Harley whipped off his coat int ilaah. and nring it as a ram, smash- ed the wind, v. He reached up, found the cateh, a .1 opened the sash. In ten reeencts be tee In the room, and a great (-latter- teld him that he had overturned eane piece of furniture. Disteeinnng his eoat, he sought Ara roan,i nw electric torch, He, preteed the bettion. No light came. It wee lr P, 1 He drew a hissing breath, end Ivp:an to grope about the tittle mom. At last his hand touched - the tekiphene, and, taking it up: "Hello!" h • said. "Hello!" vane- the voice of tho oper- ator --"what teaser?" "City Real. Pollee business. Ur- gent!" One, two, ttree seconds elapsed, four, five. six. "Hello!" cane- the voice of Linea. 'What you. innee?" said Harley. And, interruptieg the other's reply: "I am by no weans safe, thrice! I am in one of tie tightest earners of my life. Lithe: Get Weentexl If he's off duty. get Derton. Tell him to bring-' Sorreere leapt. I in at the broken window herald tee speaker. Resting the teiethem- up :7 the table, where be had theml it, aw-lay reached into bie hip pecket a...! wrapped out his automatic. Dimly he k.f.)ai,1 leer Innes ripeak- hes. He lutlf attest, raised the pistol, and knew a -anl -n intense pain at the hark of hit tell. A thousand petits seeniod !,.ray to split the andel..., Pa fea himself sinking lute an aeparent le bottomless pit. -- — CHAPTER XX. coNetecrtre taxes. "Any news. Westx?" asked Trines, eagerly, startine up from his chair as the inspettar entered the office. Wessex shook his head, and sitting down toek up and lighted a eigsret. "News of a sort," he replied, slowly, "but nothing of aty value, I am, rsfraid. My assistant, Stokes, has die,' tieguished }dwelt." "In what way?" atked Inners, dully, dropping back into his chair. I "Toaight Nivel Brien had a visitor! —possibly a valuable witness. Stokes, like an idict, abed her to slip through his fingers an I tried to arrest Brinn!" "You say he tried to arrest him What do you 'mean ler that?" "I mean that Nigel Brinn, leaving Stokes locked in hie. chambers, went out and completely disappeared!" "But the woman?" "Ah, the woman! There's the rub, If isa had lain low and followed the women, all might hewbeen well. But who she was, wham she came from, and where she hzts. gono, we have no idea." Trines stood up resWerisly and began to them his fingers upon the table edge. Presently he looked up, and: "There's a shadow r.f hope," he said. "Rector—you know Rectal— had been Mailed by the chief to cover the activities of Nicol Brine, He has not reported to me go far to -night." "You mean that he may be follow- ing him?' cried Wessex. "It is quite possible—following either Wing Brinn or tbe woman." "My God, I hope you're rightl— even thoecth it makes the Criminal Investigation Department look a bit centinned Innes, "there is ISSUE No. 40—'27 something else which you should know. I heard to -day from a garage, with whir% Mr. Harley does business, that be hired a racing car last night He has often used it before. It met him half -way along Pall Mall at seven o'clock, and he drove away in it in the direction of Trafalgar Square." The telephone bell was ringing, and as Tunes eagerly took up the re- ceiver: "Yes, yes, Mr. Lanes speaking," he said, quickly. "Is that you, Rector?" The voice of Bettor, one of Paul Hurley's assistants, answered him over the wire: "I am speaking from Victoria Ste.. tion, Mr. Inues." "Yes!" said Innes. "Go ahead." "A. very oddelookbag woman visitod Mr. Nicol Brain's chambers this even- ing. She was beautifully dressed, but wore the collar of her fur coat turned up about her face, so that it was diffccult to see her. But somehow think she was an Oriental." "An Oriental!" exclaimed Innes. "I waited for her to come out," Rec- tor continued. "She had arrived in a cab, which was waiting, and I learned from the man that he had picked her up at Victoria Station." "Yes?" "She came out some tine later in rather a hurry. In fact, I think there was no doubt that she was frightened. By this time I had another cab wait- ing." "And -where did she go?" risked Innee. "Back. to Victoria Station." "Yesl Go on!" "Unfortunately, Mr. Lines, my story does not go much further. I wasted very little time, you may be pure. But although no train had left from the South Eastern station, which "Good evening," the Hindu said, speaking perfect English. abe had entered, there was no sign of her anywheee. So that I can only suppose she ran through to the Brigh- ton side, or possibly out to a car, which may have been waiting for her somewhere." "Is that all?" asked Inneg, gloomily. "That's all, Mr. Innes. But 1 thought 1 arouhrreport it." "Quite right fleeter; you could do no more. Did you see anything of De- tective Sergeant Stokes before you left Piccadilly?" 1 "I did," replied the other. 'He also I was intensely interested in Nicol Brunn'visitor,visitor, And about five min- utes before she came out he went up- stairs." "Oh, I see. She came out almost linmediately after Stokes had gono up?" "Yes." "Very well, Rester. Return to Pic- cadilly, and report to me are soon as poesible." limes hung up the rceeiver, CHAPTER XXI. THE SEVENTH HAMA. As Nicol Brinn strolled out from the door below his chambers in Picea- Wilson Publishing CoMpany Advertising is dilly, a hoarse voice made itself audible above his head. "Police!" he heard over the roar of the tratfie. "Help! Police!" 'Detective Sergeant Stokes had come Othioft oet upon the balcony. But up to the direction of the Cavalry Club, the sergeant had not succeeded in attract- ing any attention. Nicol Brinn knew that death was beckoning to hint. He knew that his keen wit was the - only, weapon which could avail him to -night; and he icriew that lie must show himself a master of fence. A loeely Man, of few but enduring frieniehips, he had admitted but one love to his life, except the love of his mother. Thla one love for seven years he had sought to kill. But anything forceful enough to penetrate to the threshold of Whet l3rinn's soul was indestructible, even by Nicol Brinn himself, dust outsi-de the Cavalry Club a limousine was waiting, driven by a chaeffeur who looked like some kind of Oriental. Niro Brinn teased up to the rears, and bending forward: aclae,ire-Tongue," he saial, in a vollow The chauffeur immediately descend- ed and opened the door of the ear. The interior was unlighted, but Nicol Bunn cast a comprehensive glanee around ere entering. As he settled himself upon the cushions, the door was closed again, and he found him- self in absolute darkness. All the windows were curtained, or rather, as a rough investigation re - vested, were closed with aluminum shutters which were immovable. A moment later, as the car moved, off, a lamp became lighted above im. Then he saw that several current periodicals were placed invitingly in the rack, as well as a box of very choice Egyptian cigarets. Lighting a fresh cigar, Nicol Brine drew a copy of the Sketch from the luck and studied the photographs of more or less pretty actresses vidth ap- parent contentment. He had finished the Sketch and was perusing the By- stander when, the car having climbed a steep hill and swerved sharply to the right, he heard the rustling of leaves, and divined that they were proceeding along a drive. Ho replaced the paper in the rack, and took out his watch. Consulting it, he returned it to his pocket as the car stopped and the light went out. The door, which, with its fellow, Nicol Brine had discovered to be lock- ed, was opened by the Cliental chauf- feur, and Brinn descended upon the ateps of a shadowed porch. The house door was open, and although there was no light within: "Come this way," said a voice spealdng out of the darkness. Nicol Brinn entered a hallway the atmosphere of which seemed to be very hot. "Allow me to take your hat and coat," continued the voice. He was relieved of these, guided along a dark passage,: and presently, an inner door being opened, he found himself in a small, barely furnished roe/it where one shaded lamp burned upon a large 'writing table. His conductor, who did not elder, closed the door quietly and Nicol Blinn found himself looking into the smiling face of A Hindu gentleman who sat at the table. "Good evening," the Hindu said, speaking perfect English; "won't you sit deten?" (To be continued.) time that Nicol Brinn turned and proceeded in leisurely fashion in the Commercial Importance of Jack Pine Although at one time looked upon as more or less of a "weed tree," the jack pine (Pines Ba,nksiana) to -day is of considerable commercial import- ance. The average annual production of jack pate ties and lumber is prob- ably not less than 35,000,000 feet board measure, the greater part of this being utilized as railway ties. Some 30,000 cords are also cut for pulpwood aud some 19,000,000 laths and 1,900,000,000 shingles are made each year. ta.e. "" mesevese TOO MANY ARMS "It was a mean trick to ring a Mr. Centipede on the bug champ, who was rneetina all comers! A young elubmau irreproathably attired in morning woar, but looking extremely gloomy, Canto into the smoleeroom and ordered a double brandy. "What's wrong, Charles?" asked a friend, "you look hippoe" "So am," Charles replied in a hollow voice, "I've just returned front a beastly wedding." 'Indeed, whose?" 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The discovery was made while a re- search party was studying the life of the sun a variety of barnacle, with no thought of cancer in their minds, Professor Johnson.. of the Depart- ment of Oceanography said to -day that the investigators had observed that phenomena i51 the life of the barnacle, which starts as a free -swine eiliag larva, were closely related to the biological condition known as Veneer - (MR, "The barnacle develops into a cypris, to do which it had to settle on the soft parts between the joints of a crab," he said. "We discovered that after this a wonderful thing hap- peuod—the barnacle reversed its or- der of developmeut, becoming embry- onic again and forming a tumor in the crab's intestines. "The process is again reversed af- terward and the creature breaks through the walls of the crab, becom- ing a sueeulina. "Dr. Blair Bel has shown that can- cer is the result of a condition in the oells of the human body which do not take on new life and become malig- nant. 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Unite British Em- pire, Speaker Believes Tactinutortant role played by adver- tising, not merely am a meatus ot mar- keting geode, but as a factor in na- tional life, as, a means of .comenting different units of. a Dominion and bringing its far-flung members better to understaria each otherat problems, needs and aspirations, and in bringing the membeas or az Empire closer to each other so that they also might better understand each other's Pest. tion on questions affecting the welfare of the -whole communitY, was the thane of a naddress by Ald. Theodore Morgan, delivered at the weekly lun- cheon of the Advertising Club of Montreal recently„ He urged- the great responsibility that developed . ou the aqvertising man, iia vie ed of his groat oPporturti- tiee 'for doing valuable educational work. The national advertising man was the only emu in Canada whose production could be the eyes of every reader in Canada practically at the same thee. The advertiser could car- ry messages to people who, would Probably never be reached through other channels. National Asset. Advertising was more than a means of promoting business, API, Morgan said. IThe vast resources of Comae were still little known to Canadians even, mid much less to the outside world. With all Canada's many sec- tional differences and disputes, Can- adians had one thing in common, the desire to promote and develop Can- ada's industry and agriculture. The emelt of the national advertiser was almost the only educational pub- licity that reached all Canada at once, No editorial 'writer, for instance, could hope to reach all the readers in the country, as they could in the 051 !Country. This threw a great respon- sibility on the national Eulvertiser. Need of Immigration. Canada's ueed of immigration was well known and admitted. The R.C. 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It the enthusiasm o fthis Young Canadian nation Was wisely used, it would go far toward solving her fu- ture problems and an era of pros - ed in world history lay before Canada. parity an ddevelemment unprecedent- The things Canadians should take pride in had not in the past been well enough known to them. It was the duty of Canadian to think of Canada as a unit and of the Empire as a whole. And it was tha duty of the national advertiser to help inform and educate the people of the country. In this sense, advertising was a vital fac- tor in the industrial and economic lite of the nation. Every Province had made valuable contributions to the life of the nation but none had given fore great mon to the country than Quebec. The come try needed big men like Laurier to direct its affairs. Educational Tours. 'Mayoralty educational trips, niter. provincial conferences, businems con- ventions were valuable assets in. help- ing the different parts of the country to know each other better. Tho tour- ist trade was a valuable factor and there should be a good fund expeuded on publicity to encourage this trade. It was easy to arouse national con- sciousness when th enation's life was at stake. It wag not ao easy when all was peaceful ausi the provinces had other things to do but national advertisingwas one of Cho powerful means to be used to that end. He urged the press to bea run mind how public opinion was Influenced be the way they portrayed events. There never Was a time when there was more need of statesmen in Ura ern - Oriel chairs, There was too much tendency to encourage Canadianri to think along American linen. Ho quoter Sir Alfred Morelia recent statements which foreshadowed a day when the world -would have three commercial combinations ,the United I3e SureYou Get The Genuine GILLETT'S FLAKE LYE kt.-4,02,sz.v.wew.K.%.0.9 States, the European countries and the British Empire. 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Sterling, of cllevelancl, interviewed re- cently ,foRowing his return from two months' hunting in Tanganyika Ter- ritory, formerly German Hast Africa. Sterling, who shot Ave Hone and tha third largest buffalo ever alain a whRe hunter in Africa, said he got a lot of fun during his trek through the African jungle, but 110 real. thrilL He was more impressed, he said, with • his study of the characteristics anate mode of living of the natives who went to make up his safari, or bunt- ing party, of 140 native porters than • he was with his experiences as a hunt It is -the men"of Africa who primp and paint, not the women,, according to Sterling. The Inteks are most meticulous about their hair, he said, while the native women clip their locks closely and give it little care. "I noticed among ,our gun bearers that bare of their braided tresses came Sabre the Polishing and ailing of our rifles," he said. They would let their hair grow, smear it with at eamhinatiOn or ausacolored grease and clay and use the same mixture to give a heightened color to their cheeks. "At night the blacks would weer stockinglike cap to keep their hend- dress in order. When they Weald re- move this in the morning some of tem would look even more beautiful than, their women folks." While the African wives devoted less time than their bettor halves to their personal upkeep, be said, they religiously kept tabs on the number of years they were married by a curi- ous but crude necklace at wire rings strung about the tteck. "The African husband is a stickler for his rights," said Sterling, "but I can't say he gives his spouse a square deal. When the native breadwinner wants to step out he does it in com- pany with time boys' by drat herding the wives he a 'home,' or series of huts, with the cattle, surrounds that muddy enclosure with a fence of thornbush, and then sets Itp another be= two or three miles away, where the men alternately gorge on raW meat sleep off their gamer and then gorge themselves again until little is left of the game but the bones. Thege feasts last two or three days. Once surfeited, they call in the wives to take the leavings." The chief delicacy to African na- tives, Sterling said, were the eyes cif a gazelle, which are devoured without cooking, The natives, he said, crave for the medicine carried by the white hunt- ers, and will feign illness and resort to all sorts of excuses to be minister- ed to. "'Dawa,' they call it," he said. "One native woman with a monstrosity of a. sick baby begged for 'dame to put her infant out of misery. Of COUrtte, we didn't accede to her wishes, but it would have been merciful te have done so." The African Don Juan has a method an his own, according to the ta...,e- ing Clevelander. When the breech- cloth -clad sheik of the Jungle goes a - courting, he said, he props his :nen- Iacing spear in the soft earth outside the but of the object of his affectiens, and if another Romeo tribeetnan should, perchance, approach, he pre- meds on his merry way and makes to effort to disturb tbe jangle tete-a- e tete. "It is the suitor who owns the great- est number of goats who atands heat with the old man and wins the daugh- ter," Sterling declaxed. "But once won, it doesn't cost the husband much to keep his wife in wearing apparel, for she wears nothing More than a. cloak of skin, and this isn't renewed every year. So, you will see, the shill- ing a day, English money, earned 1/7 natives as gun -bearers for hunters and the 8 cents a day. they get for arm work is money in the batik, so to speak." The black porters who made up the Sterling safari were fascinated by the phonograph and jazz tunes carried by the Sterling party. Will Study lit:Wound Chip Dropped by Iowa Meteor, Iowa City, Iowa. ---A 110 -pound chip from a meteor, sent 11111111re; earth- ward when the falling 'MASS e:tplodod in the air near Iowa City, has been. 416 taken to the laboratory of the UM - 1 varsity ot Iowa for scieutista to rarely. They believe it is the largest me- teorite, preserved infect, ter which the date of fall is kno The meteor probably exploded at a height of iifteea miles, sews Professor Charles C.. Wylie of the Valversity of Iowa. Four fragments were Round, the largest shunts was buried three feet in hard clay and two mew labored two hours to remove it. They had a alepute, and agreed to leave it to the military expert. "What bullet," they asked, "dewyou consider the deadliest?" For several minutes he remained in a brown study. Then he looked up with the eir of one who has settled the matter anally and de- finitely. "The OS14 *Gd bibee he said. 4 b