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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-09-04, Page 6AdVSIICe-TintleS4 Vublisbed at WINGETAIVI - ONTARIO very Thursday IVIorning W. Logan Craig, Publisher W1NOHAM ADVANCE4IMES Thursday, September 4th, 1930 SCription rates One year $2.00, Six months $1..:30, in advance. To U. S. A. $n,so per year. dvertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Established 1840 ks taken on all class of insur- e at reasonable rates ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingbarn J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block VIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND -- HEALTH INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE - 0. Box 360 Phone 240 1,41111,GHAM, ONTARIO J. -W. BUSHFIELD .111arrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office --Meyer Block, Wingha.m Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANST-ONE 24,..B.BISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Winglaam, Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingliarn, Ontario DR. Gil. ROSS DENTIST (Mice Over Isard's Store MI. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon 3idedica1 Representative D. S. C R. Setecsor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROST. C REDMOND R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PPLYSILAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Stsculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the 'Qatari° College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chishohn Block •lemsrealeine Street Phone 29 •••••I DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST e Dyer John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office Adjoining residence next to &railcar, Church on Centre Street, ;Sundays by appointment Osteopathy Electricity Phione 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. • A. R. a. F. E. DUVAL :Licensed Drugless Practitioners {ler- opractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic Collage, Toronto, and National Col- lage, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res. - exuded to. Ail business confidential, Phone 300. ALVIN- FOX gstere 1rugkss Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE 1ELECTRO-THERAPY Emirs:: 2-6, 7-8, or by &piped:lament. Phone 191. 4.0. McEWEN LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r14. Sales of Farm Stock and Imple- ateents, Real Estate, etc., conducted esith satisfaction and at rnoderate clarges. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER 'REAL ESTATE SOLD 1A, thorough knowledge of Farm Stot.:. Phone 231, Wingliam ICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER 613r6, Wroxeter, or,, addres,• Gorrie. Sales conducted any eel and satisfaction guaranteed. ORS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Oce MacDonald Block, Witigharn A. J. WALKER I UtiOITIME AND FLINERA SERVICg A, I. Walker Funeral I)irctor and 'Embalmer. Phone 106, Res, Phone 224, ihricatiSine Funeral Coddle , MASTER OF TI1E FISH "Cap" Rowan's Word Is Law In the North Country — libtrvest 20,000,000 Pounds. Canada's prairie proVinces provide flour for most of the pancakes and doughnuts eaten in Toroato ,and Montreal. The honey on your break- fast table may be from southern afauitoba. Last Sunday's turkey, as • litely as not, came from one of the big ranches in Saskatchewan or Al- berta. Arid there are people who pre- dict that a string . of canning fac- tories will be built on the 'plains of the west to take care of fruit and vegetable harvests. The clanging west is finding wide - scattered markets for its diversi- fied products. Just how the particu- lar phenomenon of the prairie pro- vinces Is the ashing industry. Far from the sea, these provinces have a harvest of something like 20,- 000,000 pounds of Whitefish and trout every year, most of the harvest coming in the dead of winter when the eastern Canada and United States markets are at their best. In Saskatchewan a scant army of 1,000 halfbreeds, Indians, Norwe- gians and a few others scour the northern lakes during the coldest months of winter. They harvest near- ly,lealf the crop of western whitefish and hout. To them William Rowan is king. They call him "Cap" Rowan, or Master of the Fish. His word is law in the north country and he travels from Prince Albert to the Barrens. Inspector for the Federal Department Of Marines and Fisheries, "Cap" Rowan has mushed o,ver northern Saskatchewan trails for twenty years. A short, stocky veteran, whose great- est kick in life is a cigarette at the end of a long day on the trail. He Is a big man iu a big country. Last v• -inter Rowan left Prince Al- bert bound for the Barrens. He plan- ned to inspect every lake along the route and to travel into little known country in earch for new fishing grounds. Rowan faced great hazards. He travelled alone in a country which has not been reached by the map - makers. They know its borders, Its outer fringe, but they have learned little of the interior. The doughty little fisheries inspector chose 50 be- low zeroweather to evplore this •country. Population is scanty—Chipevryans and a few Crees. Trails are treach- erous, with reports of a number of deaths by drowning on the northern lakes this year. Rowan himself has had some narrow escapes. "Cap" Rowau occupies an import- ant position in Saskatchewan's big commercial fishing industry. For three raonths after the opening of the northern season in November he travels from lake to lake, sanction- ing or stopping fishing .operations. His -word is law and the native fish- ermen obey him without dispute, There are no police, no game guard. - lens, no other Government agents in the country he travels. But on his say-so fishing operations cease on one lake and are resumed on. another. Lad 'Who Made Good. Some years ago a poor Mauchester youth set out on a voyage of adven- ture.. All he took with him was a small paintbrush and palette. He is Mr. Augustus Kenderdine, who now lives on a lonely ranch on the North Saskatchewan river. Many old school friends in Manchester will remember the boy who showed a dise tin& bent for drawing, and who at- tracted the notice of the famous Bel- gian painter, Lafosse, M. Lafosse persuaded Kenderdine's parents to allow him to study painting in Paris, but after this art training young Au- gustus suddenly decided to leave home for a life of adventure. He left the Old Country for Western Sas- katchewan, where he married. During the long winters lie occupies his time in painting pictures of the prairies. Some few years after arriv- ing in Canada he beld an exhibition of his work and was Acclaimed a great artist. Since then he has 'ex- hibited at the Royal Academy and at the. Paris Salon. Sayes Court Park. Sayes Court Park, Deptfordt En - land, now a recreation ground, is .all tleat rernah4 to -day. of John Evelyas stately maision and demesne, which figures so frequently in that famous author's diary. Therehe dwelt dur- ing the greater part of his life, and there he entertained, amongst other distinguished guests, Queen Henriet- ta Maria, King Charles II., the Duke ofYork, Pepe% and Dryden. To Sayes Court, too, came Peter the Great to study shipbuilding in Deptford Dock- yard, a doorway being ;broken , through the wall separating the yard from the grounds of Evelyn's man- sion, so as to afford the czar con- venient ingress and egress, Too Shy to Wed. Situated in the lovely fruit -grow- ing district of ths Cornish valley of the, ',Lamar, Landulph is said to be the shyest -village In England, The young folk there are so nervous of one another that there bee been but one .marriage at the ancient parish chnrch within the past five years.' Ae- cording to the rector, the young men thin% more about playing cricket than they do courting. A churchwarden IS opthnistic enough to believe that ro- mance will return to the village 11t due course, Motor Vehielee in Britain, Between 1921 and 1928 the num- ber of motor vehicles in Britain in- creased by 223 per oknt,---froin 878,- 700 to 2,03(1,000. It is estimated that in 1928 there was one rnOtor've- hide for every twenty-two persons in the country and one driving license for .every eighteen persons. Will Meet at Predeeictorn The 'Canadian Society of orest Ranters meet itt conVention next rear at Prederletou, N,B. i.yr Edison ;114Ai,•iliallrii:kaions....6y*fgooi WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE of earth together. Dr. Long, out fishing with Alexarke "It isn't safe to leave it here," he der 'Pierce, a detective, tells of Lis explained. "But I'll be lucky. if I get prejected trip to Southley Dowtis. it to the house And this, Dr. Long, Pierce advises him, to keep his eyes gives ns soumthing else to think open wide while there. On the way in about." a train Dr. Long is attracted bY a We thought about it as we Walked &rid, who later fainta, Dr. Long back towa.rd, the house. And treats her, and looking into her bag, thought of many things else, partieu- is astounded to find a loaded revOlv- larly those never -to -be -forgotten erwords of . the elder, Southley: Dr. Long meets Ahmed Das, an ergy daughter is going to marry Oriental, who conducts hftn to South- Vilas Hayward," the old had said. ley Downs, where he meets Ms. Her face had given no sign wheth- Southley and his son, Ernest South-- er or not he had spelten the truth. ley, Mr, Haywood and his son •Vilas, In the seconds that followed, it might and then Josephine Southley, Who is have been that she glarteed at mc. the girl he had met on the train. Jo- But she didn't hold the glance long enough for me to tell for sure. Her face as if had been was still before in eyes; soft -lined, shadow eyed And I was scornful at my senseless Optimism that I even presumed to doubt but that her father had spoken the truth—that I was even fool en- ough to hope otherwise. Of course she had lever] Vitas from the first. Nothing elseinattered. She was the ki'nd of woman, whose love subjugated all other things. Her kindness to me, the 'gentleness with which she looked and smiled, might have been simply the expression of a sweet girlishness Such as most men, sorne-thne in their lives, are fortunate put away that clod that held the im- enough to know. And again it might pt•int, I opened the drawer el ere I have been contrivance, design, the had put the stained shirt.' Purpose of which was bidden in the "Yes." intricate web of the .my,tei Pcir 'Somebody had unlocked the draw - haps iinconscipusly I was playing a er with a screw -driver." part in the drama of the old house, And the shirt was gone?" and her relations with me were in "Gone nothing! Some one bad just some 'mysterious way involvedtorn a solid square loot out of the . Yet I couldn't bring myself to front part of the shil-t-tail. And it with. dispatch. • question her motives. 11 was simp- dazed me so that I dropped the clod." And where did you pick up the ly impossible for me to accuse her The moon that night cast eery owboat?" I asked, "You went Over of actual craft. ,squares of light on the floors. The Because of the murder, Dr. Long But in .the test her true feelings orchestra of the maeshes started up Must remain at Southley Downs. All had stood forth. She had shonm• again—the call of birds, the niacie o•f the persons there are questioned by where she really stood. The fact that jinsectsthe rustling of 'branches .all Inspector Freeman. I was to leave the house in disgrace deeply remote and hushed. In the meant nothing to her. Pier love had daytime the occupanes of the manor - NOW READ ON spread its wings above all such things house had all been 'ordinary, sens- Then he got up with a little snort as this. I had not mattered :a grain ible Aryans, not afraid to look in a seehine tells him the story of South - ley Downs and its ghost, which is not the ghost of a human being but of a tiger. Err. Long has a quarrel with, Vilas Hayward over Josephine, and finds that the Hayward s have a strange au- thority over the Southleys. He is or- dered to leave Southley Downs. The rain prevents him leaving at once. Di Long and, Ernest go out on the road, in the rain looking for the tracks of a tiger that Ernest says are there. They find the tracks. Later Ernest and Dr. Long see a prowling creaturc n the hall of Southley Downs. -This lightens the elder Hayward, who al- so sees it,, Ernest begins to feel that klunad Das is perpetrating some de - The elder Hayward is later found dead, his neck broken by a giant's blow. The coroner and police arrive in n•der to investigate. Sam's other errands he had done house, and petted in the hall. The detective took the clod that held the imprint up .to his molt' to deposit with the Shirt He was to meet Me m the library immediately after. •1 waited a long. time for him to cOme. And when at last I heard him 1110011 looked wan and pale and strange. There was a light in the power- house—a little building at the rear of the manor -house that contained the engine that had previously generated electric light for the house, ,Hoping on the stair, he walked as slowly as for a friendly word from some mel - a pall -bearer with a bier.' Every step low, African voice,. I walked around .was distinct and slow, instead of the to it The workmen were busy at the usual tap tap of his quick motionsplant, trying to repair the break. Then 1 saw him in.the" candle light But the workmen weren't colored al the door, of the stairway, And nev- people, after all. They were bending tr have I seen such bewilderment up- over the engine when I first ap- on the face of a human beingproa.ched the door, and 1 couldn't see This is the dainridest house I ev- their faces. They •didn't hear, me er saw!" he saidcoming in 'the soft grass, and they He stalked into the room with his smiled very intent. Then they staiet-' eyes wide and staring fromsheer am_ ed up as my foot grated on the thres- a.zement. He sat down in a great hold. chair, and rocked himself back ..and One of them was the elder South - forth, his eyes on the floor. And now ley. The other was the lean, be arid then he 'swore gently, dazedlywhiskered old man who had brought I have seen the same look, in my pro- the boat—Robin, he •called himself, fessional experience, in the faces of I noticed jusLone impressing thing men just picked up 'alive after startl- about him. He wore rubber boots. mg automobile accidents. . He was the only man on the pian "You \Ovkhaatsriftlhee7m)saetteirnsitewctr," They were little, ankle length, quaint tation, as far as I knew, that did. He turned slowly, still numbed and affairs; and I was amazecl at my own dazed. "I . say the damndest! No stupidity that I had not remembered case I was ever in had quite the dev- the fact before. I had noticed the boots the minute he had stepped from ilish, upsetting, -aggravating features that this one has. When I started ee the motor boat. They had plain rub - of disgust. "That colored man was crazy, Nothing here—but by the Lord!" He scarcely breathed as he rubbed his hand over the surface of the rock. He bent tintilhis eyes were within a' few inches of its rough face. "What now?" I asked, "Somebody's beat us to it, that's all. This rock has just been washed off, with water. Either there's an- other amateur detective around this' place—cleaned off the clots to make blood. tests—or else ;he walls of that old house have ears!" "What do you think?" "What is there else to think buf that some one came down here and destroyed the evidence" Freeman made a close examination of the soil about the rock. The man who had preceded us had left one clue at least. There was a bare bit of soil just beside the stone where no grass had gliown, and itt it we found the cleat-, sharp imprint of a man's heel. "But it*Might be the track of the colored man that told us about it," 1 I suggested. - -"And it might not be the. If I. -s don't do anything else I ought to, at • least; observe who I'm talking to and all about him, That darky was 'mire- 1 foot." "Tben it's the track of the mao we chased a moment ago?" t "Of cburse, He'd come up here, 1 just before we did. He either col- lected the 'evidence tor sortie ktratt- teur experiments of his own, or, what'S inore likely,Hdestroyed it to 1 protect the murderer. Bat; there's .something., funny about this print," He •bent ever it with his light, 'Zoe see it's perfectly .clear—a perfect int - Never saw a:better. Ground heppens to: be, particularly sticky, and, there, are no grass roots to interfere. Probably the water drained off the Stmee and softened it, in yesterday's rain. And the odd thing, about it is that the heel: hasn't ally nails itt it." "A rubber Med, then ?" Evidentiy—bet not the- kind of rubber heel you wear. Most of them have some sort of non-skid devices. This heel is ;Aoiid rubber."' He took a 1°1;g-blade4 Minting knife from his pocket, and with infin- ite care. Cut the carth around the im- print, and lifted it front the ground, thought it woitld crumble at first, But tlict soil it:Set:Chad a sticky qua, - icy,' and StMle Of tha grass roots ar,. cend it helped to 'hold the Mlle etibe of dust on the windowsill. Of course dark corner. In the night, you could I hadn't forgotten her hesitancy./ see a different expreSsion on their Perhaps there had been regrets—in faces. decision—but the truth had come out I kept remembering time strange le in the end. - gend of the tiger: Then I thought o And It had come out agent in the of Ahmed Das, and the theory of re- incarnation; and finally came aroundlittle scene beside the marsh, when to the memory of those tveo curious I had been ready to leave the estate scratches on the face of the dead Man. with the coroner, It was not to be forgotten that her lips had told the Agttin and again 1 had that same cy- detective of my dispute with the cle of thought. I had the drawing-reoth to myself, Haywards, bringing down upon me a except fog -the younger Southley.The certain meaStre of snspicion. ber heels, such as had made the track we had found On the hillside, beside the white stone. Beyond. all doubt or question, he had been the man he had chased just after nightfall. My eyes leaped over him. He had long, legs—the kind that could stride swiftly. He was agile, too. . "Howdy, sir," be greeted -me. "Would you like a job?" Southley looked up tith a smile. 'We're trying to get these lights so they'll work,' 'he explained. "I'm getting tired of candle4ight. I don't suppose you know. euything about el- ectric generators.' ' "I :knew quite a bit about them when I had the engineering bug—in college," I confessed. "I might be able to help you." 'Ilan I had a curi i o mpress on. It seemed to me that a swift expres- ion of apprehension and dismay flash - ea across my host's face. It wasn't in the least distinct. And it was so senseless a thing I concluded I had been mistaken. Robin looked up, too, s o ewh a t qu,izzicaliy. ' "I can fix the thing," he said hur- riedly, "and besides, 1 need the job." "I guess he can do well enotfgh," Southley agreed. But I couldn't resist the impulse to remembered how she and, Wes d „.eteciave was at work in his room.make a cursory examination of the ard had. always been together. Southley_ himself gone- into the n geera.tor. Perfiaps it was love of the Hayw And it only cost a laugh to remem.; denwhether he had come out again I engine. Perhaps it was that irresist- .: ible human impulse to tinker— and ber that I had attributed this fact to mere tha.n that, to exhibit knowi'edge.: At first 1 foUnd it difficult to believe that the .plant was really severely damaged. It looked in the most per- fect condition. But Southley ealled me away itt a moment, and invited me to walk back with him to the'manor, house. Inspector • Freeman would have been dismayed if he had known my thoughts as Southley and I Wept back' to the drawing -room. For before an- other hotelhad passed,. there was to be further amateur interference in the Working out of the Southley Mystery. Even whild 1 chatted .with my host, I was plemning the heat Means to get back to the Power-house..I was going to keep a close watch on that garru- lous; 1ong4egged longshoremae, (continued next Week) I did not know. The uegroes had re- tired to their cabins, as ustial in the latter part of the ceenings, Vilas was in the library, trying to read, dont think he was having any toii good suecess. The last two days had in -de stupendotts changes in Vil as. He haeNpicked up two or three little nervous habits, too; that were particularly distressing to match. The mysterious death of his fattier, was of course .the greatest inflnence; and the eveiepresent menace, the shadow ited the darkness, had stretched his tier-. yes almost to the breaking point I had noticed A .ctirioui,. thing, as. evening Orem, on,. It seemed to me that the other occupants pf the house were avoiding Vilas. Perhaps it was jeat a ,eoincidenee; yet Clic thing had htMpenect three or fear ithleS. From eight to ten he had spent Most of his time roving from one room to anoth- er. Whoever was in the room when he came, greeted him eourteouSly cm, hut 110911 had business else-, where, I saw it work out With not only Southley, hut his daughter as m,e11. Of ecan-sethere were :reasons; but l' couldn't even get a,,e;limpse..at them, ,1, iteagined that Vitas' would not have' eared to be alone in the lib- rary , there had been any other choice. ,»Frent time te timehe sum - monad the servants, seemingly for tilt the mysterious forces that were at play in the old tham.dort, rather their to her own wish. Her love for him was; evidently the most passionate, intense kind, hardly to be expected in ths slender, appealing %lri, She show - cd her willingness to sacrifice for 1101. But why had she been ready to kill ,im that night in the den? 'The look n her eye as she letteed across thci eble cotild not be mistaken. Yet, nany times before, in the long years the 'we*, womee have "killed the' -,.en they loved. Conditions have a- risen in which love itself was the 'activer, that presked back the pistol - rigger. 11 was 1101 for any man to say. 'The questioe went deep ipt9 he mystery of a woman's heart. She tad tried tO kill him, and yet she lov- ed him. Tie bronght sorrow' to her !yes; and yet it had made 'no' differ- elt ize. It tytis. SeeMiagly, it love not to 11. tiic'i,tiicd Aucj 1 Wished that I could go beyepd the 'dell, strange reaches -of the 'swamps, and ;lever re- turn to Southley DoWne again. After all,"1 heard Inspector Free- man saying, '1 don't Set, why I should worry about :these things. Stich things as the tracks that the nigg,rs tell .about in the road --and that eh :Who rat? away from us on the hill— most trivial services, and all the rest of this ftetny busin- About eleven I walked out onto the 11 ss I've got My man, and that's the grounds, mostly beeallSe the itimos only thing that matters." pliet'e• of the house had begun toi T -don't know limy MUCII he had said strangle me, I WItnted fresh air, :the that I had not heard, My thought:: wind blowing off the water, the sight, had been too ,busy, of a It moon in the sky, Of "So you are sure of it, areyou?" course the tragedy of the night be- 'Vsa . clear case.' Blood-staitted fore had occurred outside the house>, shirt—ancleht entnity — above all on the very hill citt which 1 stood, things, the, fact that he's the one but there, remained the feelipg, that man, ex.cept of cOurse, ,HayWard's the crime had its root and source and own sot:, that hasn't an :alibi.. He OttiSeS in the itonSe itself. But the went outdoors with ititit Islothfitg to moonlit hillside wase't muelt of a rte. it at all, 1...Ong." 'What: wmnd th Cve was brought We Climbed thic p af the great CLitmotis smells front the Marsh. 'rim 4,1 A REVIVAL.. A white, wool skirt topped with a sleeveless jumper worn over a ling- erie blouse is another new revival, rho jumper is belted in brown leath- br to carry out the sports alliance of brown and white, Smart tennis frocks wear tnosi original belts, often in color to Match little Shadtung jackets. Absolutely NO HAY FEVER or Summer Asthma, this year, if Start taking E.A.Z-IVIAH CAPSULES before your attack is due. Relief • guaranteed from one $1 box or money back, No smokes, sprays, snuff or serums. No harm - fel or habit -terming drugs. ICAZ- MAR has stopped Ray Paver where people had it 20 Years. DelNITtleSt.t.H.A.7..H.AuYst•PlalfElvitto wee 11 t Half Milln:z.11:y gsylfti:nusepllosrt.eNc itea?ie og There are to -day half a milli= Egyptians slaves of the drug habit „ where twenty years ago they were al- most in Ignorance that such ,a Oleg, exited, This le thCs oubetanc, report of the Central Nalectit,e 111 - ecu of Egypt to the League of Na- tions Opium Commission, and is one of the mOst sensational documents sila far filed with 'that body, aecording 10 J. V. MeAree in the Tolonto Mail and Empire. It has been Pr•oeared by' T, W. Russell, an Englishman who is director of the bureau an4 also head of the Cairo city poliee, and has the approval of the Mustapha El-Nahase Prime Minister. When it Is said that less than a generation ago the Egyp- tians were almost in ignorance of the drug evil, it should be explained. that the ignorance com)erned the; modern drugs such as heroin and co- caine which are now being used by' 500,000 people. The East has always had its drugs which have taken the. place of sleet -toile liquors. Visions of a voluptuous paradise populated chiefly by houris have also afforded the Orientals an escape from realities and an anodyne for thenn But the old drugs were mild in comparison. Chief among them was hashish, which is a habit-forming drug, but nothing like so terrible in its effects as heroin, The hashish- evil, accord- ing to Mr. Ruseell, is a local one andi clan be handled by the Egyptian au- thorltiee themselves. It may take a good while to root it out, but it is no such problem as that of the synthetic drugs manufactured in Europe. To rid Egypt of these narcotics the co-operation Of Europe is necessary,, and the need is urgent, One has only to reflect that one person out of every 28 in Egypt is a drug addict and that 20 years ago heroin was unknown, there to realize how swiftly and pow- erfully the baba bas established self. Egypt has done what she can to protect herself, but Egypt has not e the means ane' is never likely to have, them to stem the tide of smuggling.. It will have to be checked on the European side. Another sinister tact is that drug users create other artg users. Nothing is commoner than for a drunkard either in his cups or when sober, to issue the most solemn warnings to others not to follow his example, but drug users just as com- monly tell those who will listen to - them 01 the delights to be found in the use of narcotics. Moreover to be- bervleer aagesp eil•esqisutiernest cloisnesiiderraabliewfbOlDrict of character and persistence. Once gained the habit can be broken by any person of average will power. In. fact, reformed drunkards are a goo& deal commoner in our civilization than drunkards. But the dope habit is easily acquired. There is no initial distaste or nausea to be overcome. Once formed it lasts for life. In recent months the drug smug- gling business of Egypt is supposed to be in fewer hands, but this does not mean -that there is less of it on the contrary, so much money has been made and the prospects of mak- ing more are so alluring that there has mine into existence a powerful smuggling ring with ample funds at its disposal to bribe officials who wilt accept bribes and perhaps deal suit- ably with oecaSional inform:era. It is agathst. this unholy combine that the Lea, e of Nations is asked to aet. LONG EARTH WORMS. to, Australian Naturalist Captures Soiree ' Ten Feet In Length. Gigantic earthworms, ten or elevez. feet long, able to lay three-inch eggs,: like huge olives, and in the habit of making loud gurgling noises when- ever a human being walks on the ground nearby, have been captured by Charles Barrett, Australian nat- uralist, in the extreme southeastern tip of that' continent. These gigantie worms, one of which would make 'bait 'enough for a whole season's fishing, usually live in heavy clay soil, Mr. Barrett reports, into which they burrow deeply in the hot season.. lit the spring and fall they tome nearer to the surface. Stalked with sufficient care they can be dug out and captured but it vibration of the ground alarnas therm Ilia creatures- contract their 'bodies quiettly into the deeper parts of the burrows. That is what makes their gurgling noise. The average' length of captured worms, Mr. Barrettt re- ports, about four feet, but one nine -foot specimen ,was Measured and an' 11 -foot one is credibly reported. - These Australian giants belong to tho sante animal group • as the ordinarY American earthworms, although one relatively little studied by nat- uralists. . - Treasure Boost of Books. The old- Bodleian Library at Ox- ford is'nOw lighted by electricity. So great are the Bodleian treasures in hooks and Manuscripts, so appalling would be the loss ff. fire seized them, that artificial light has always been, forbidden there. Ewen the cold glearo. Of the electric bulb was forbidden,, for electric wires fuse. 13ut with the confidenee derived trona modern, methOds„of limitation the authbrities have consented to the wiring of ter- tain parts. The cons.dalions 811t - dent, who was once turned out at dusk, will be able to pursue his stet - dies longer, Pirst 'typist Cnwekteme: Om ideas at the British Foreign Office apparently do not always meet with spontaneous welcome, according tt Dr, riegn Calton, tincier-Seeretary for Foreign Affairs. Lecturing at the London. School of Economies reetretly Calten said that In 1889 a groat innovation was ietrechtead into the 'Foreign Office. The first:ty:!int np pceieed, a woman nained 1.;7 Ma- ur, but Quet.,11. Vietoria ,reftn;ed to read what Vrs, Inatome Iyht 61. -11.0,. atways ina$06: Mal wbaJwPr submitte4 by 110111,irriael''.i., nr1nted er,inseribed.