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The Huron Expositor, 1935-08-30, Page 71• • r . 1 A • w. • • IX. AL MEM 'kL ,wrosr',�. flume go,� 3O11I1T J. S'U,GGARD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public,' Etc. .Beattie Block Seaforth, Ont. RAYS & MEIR ` Succeeding R. S. Hays Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers and Notaries- Public. Solicitors for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. JOHN H. BEST Barrister, Solicitor, Seaforth Ontario i.. VETERINARY JOHN.GRIEVE, V.S. ,'Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls prometly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary -,Dentistry a• specialty. Office and 'residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr." Jarrott's office, Sea - forth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate... of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night calls promptly attended,to. Office on Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scottish Terriers. Inverness Kennels, Hensall. MEDICAL DR. D. E. •STURGIS Graduate of the Faculty of Medi- cine, University of•• Western Ontario, and St. Joseph's Hospital, London. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. Of- fice at Dublin, Ont. 3493.. DR. GILBERT ,C. JARROTT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. /Mem- ber of College of Physicians and Surgeons of `Ontario. Office, 43 Gode- rich Street, West. Phone 37. Successor to Di'. Charles Mackay. DR. W. C. SPROAT Gr''Aduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon- ▪ don. Member of College of Physi- cians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office 'in Alberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Seaforth. -Phone 90. •- N qb :,.,.list,. DR. F. J. -BURROWS Office and residence, Goderich Street, east of the United Church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Brian. " DR. HUGH H. ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- ' lege of Physicians and Surgeons of .Ontario; pass graduate course in Chicago Clinical School M Chicago ; Eoyal Opthalmie Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England.. Office-Baok of . Do- minion Bank, Seaforth: Phone No. 5. Night calls answered..from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. DR. E. A. McMASTER Graduate of the University of To- ronto, Faculty of Medicine Merhber of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of New York Post Graduate School and Lying-in Hospital, New Y rk, Of- fice on High Street, Seaforth. Phone 27. , Office fully equipped for 'ultra short wave electric treatment, Ultra Violet Sun Lamp treatments, and Infra Red electric treatments. Nurse in attend= once. • DR. G. R. COLLAR Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni- versity of Western Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post- graduate work at New York City Hospital and Victoria Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall 56; Office: King Street, Hensall. • 1R DENTAL• DR. J. A. McTAGGART Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Hensall, Ont., Phone 106. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in farm and household sales: Prices reasonable. For dates and information, write or phone Har- old Dale, phone 149, Seaforth, or ap- ply at The Expositor Office. ARTHUR WEBER Auctioneer's License Sixteen years' experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Telephone: 13-57, Hensall. Write ARTHUR WEBER, R. A. 1, Dashwood. INSURANCE THE JOHN RANKIN AGENCY Insurance of all kinds. Bonds, Real Estate. Toney to Loan. Phone 91. EE OR,TH ONTARIO iA k i-IOTEL WAVER R LEY •" cOMF MQQ FRANC] E.F r 'TON, , (Continued from last week) .. (Her laughter held her again as she stood holding the beaker over Janet. It was so ibig that she could tamely span it, and her hand shook as she herself was shaken ''by''her demoniac mirth. I stood iiveliplless1y looking at I,er from sn!y dark corner., in an ony of apprehension. And Janet;; .Sb'e was =conscious and lacy' gagged and strapped •and bound to bed. Her arms had been pulled 'back ;cruelly, her wrists tried behind her to the iron -top. Her legs, had :been bound •to the sides. A strap from one of the trundra passed ever her' waist and under the bed, and ev- en in the dim lig.ght of, the torch, I could see from where ,I stood how cruelly tight it had been ;pulled. Rags which had been stuffed 'Into her mouth were hello in position by a piece, of cord, wound round her head and cutting across her mouth, pulling down her lower jaw.. "Do you know 4v'hat she said, Faan- cis, wljen I chloroformed her? Would you like to know? She said, ,'•Prarn- cis, where's Flrarn-cis ?' Ands? here you are to ,see her. Isn't it shameless of her to let you look at her lying there.-l4k'e that?" - "You she -devil, take it away," I cried, tortured beyond dis;cretiion. "Ah! Yet would, would you? 'Fool -see what..You've made me do. I've spilt 'some of it. and itnniesed her by a hair. Talk like that or. move a- gain and- ; " Then she 'laughed andbl'asiphemed in turns, While I stood horrified, 'peer- ing out of my dark corner over the chest of drawers, per'spi'ration .gath- ering in beads •on my .forehead and streaming down my face. How short was the time since I !had .sat :in the garden, .(breathing Clod's free air, at the foot of God's great church, -the pleasant garden noises 'striking my listless ears as 1 dreamed and pon- dered o!f miy love! And now I stood, trapped and tortured in this dark lit- tle cha.mlber of hell, free yet afraid to mevt: while the 'dear, one I loved 'lay (helpless before me on the brink of blindness and death. On the slop- ing roof just over my. 'head I • could hear the sparrows chirping in the sin, while the dank stagnant attic air. was filled with the jeers and ob- scenities of Satan tHeaden and Hell with a layer of tiles 'between them. She tortured; me. 'My God, how she' tortured me! 'Sly tilted the beaker till the liquid quivered on the lip. II don't know what I could have done! I thought of pushing over the chest of drawers and making a dash for ;it round the end' of the bed,' but nothing could prevent her.if she real ly intended• to carry out her fiendish threat.. 1 tried remonstrance and persua- sion; but'mry efforts were met with nothing but laughter and jeeps, "That's better, Francis,. darling, now you .begin to understand how clever •stupid Margaret is. Why not try to enjoy the fun with me! Just think how it will. burn her,'death and decay all ,a,t once! With her face tuned up like that,' little pools of it will gather' in the corners i>f her eyes. When the lids burn away how weird and funny t'heyt11 look. And Francis, think of the rags in her mouth! But the really priceless part of it all is, Francas, darling, that you haven't yet seen the point of the joke!" IMjy one hope Was for delay, and I thought that if only' I could keep her in conversation, we might per- haps be missed eisedfs:covered by the others. Little' Allport was to have arrived at four, and he would be sure to inquire for Janet. "Yes, of course it's only a .joke; Margaret.. Now do stop joking and tell • me what qt's all about!" "You poor silly foto1," •she jeered. "They'll think it was you; that's the joke. I'ye arranged it all beautifully. What a.`joy it will be when I see you bein'g. handcuffed and taken away. Now it's time we stopped this pleas- ant chatter. Janet wouldn't Eike you being alone in the dark witch me like' this, you know. So here goes. One tb be ready. Two to iye ste'---" I could'bear no more. Whether I did the rightt thing or not I have nev- er been able to decide, but I had a heavy bunch of keys in my pocket, and before she Could pour, I hurled them as Tiard as I could at her face. And I missed my aim, may God forgive me, and 'how like me it was, butt I missed her by an inch. She gave a little chuckle, tipped the vitriol -a full quart of it or more there must have been -over Janet's face and breasts, and was out of the room almost before I had time to stir. 1 gave one agonized cry, and dash- ed round the end of the chest of drawers, only bo collide full tilt with one of the beams in the roof. It caught me straight 'across the fore- head and I fell like a log with a crash to the floor. How long I lay there I don't know -perhaps for only a matter of sec- onds -but when I did come round I was dazed! and confused. Neither door.nor bed could I find. I drawled dazed and dhelpless about the floor, colliding first with the sloping tiles and then with a pile of boxes•. Al- most as though it were some other person in distress I could hear myself whimpering and muttering a mix- ture ofimprecation and prayer. How damnably dark it was. If I could but see! ' • After what seemed like • an etern- ity of futile searching, I found the door at last, and it was locked. I banged on it weakly and trigido to shout, but my, head was singg so that 1 could hardly stand or raise 'my Voice above a whisper. Then I crawled to the broken bed on which my 'poor textured darling lay. With -hands :that shook I. found the sheet and mopppped"her poor disfigured face and, ;body. She was covered with a kind of ;filthy slime. Death and de- cay. Death -and decay. I believe that I must have fainted. There was a crash and t}be room seemed to fill with a crowd of angry Men. The Tundish, angry and fierce, was shaking me to and fro. "You! Jeffcock, you! You infer- nal lying Judas!" he cried, 4n4 hurled me from him right across the floor. I fell against the wall and lay there weakly repeating again and again, "It was Margaret. , Vitriol:' She's mad and threw vitriol. It .was Mar- garet:", At last i attracted their attention, and Ralph;' came and stood beside me. ,Hie stooped to hear what` it was that I saki. •Then Kenneth and Margaret stood above me too. G 1"She did it. She chloroformed her and then threw vitriol over her," I gasped, half sitting up on ,the floor. "Oh,. you liar --you wicked liar- how can you say such a wicked thing. Why, you were caught in here with the door locked!" Even to me she sounded quite con- vincing. Then she bent down over me suddenly and •putting her hand intp the side pocket of my coat she pulled out a key. - "TWhy, here's•the key of the door ii his pocket! Now what have you got to say for yourself?" she cried. 'Ralph stoope&and picked something up from the floor. "Acid this, is your knife, IMr. Jeffcock," he said very coldly, Margaret shrugged her shoulders and turned away towards the 'doctor, who was kneeling by the bed. Numb with my grief, I sat prop• ped against . the wall, -my bead a - throb, my r soul sick with the horror of what I had felt and heard. Through the 'broken door the light from the passage showed up the dusty floor, with its scattered papers and boxes and ' its derelict household lumber. Our movements had filled the air with dust, which the pallid passage light turned to a ghostly beam, and through it like s.om;e distorted figure in a dream, the doctor loomed gigan- tic as he knelt by Janet's side. . This then was to be the final scene to the drama of this . devil's, week, with myself the villain, bludgeoned and broken, a murderer and a Judas, spurned by my4•frie'nds and accepted by all as the hell fiend who had de- filed ,beauty and truth in the person -of my darling. This was the hill Clop to which my broad straight road of love and life had led..me. In this dis- mal attic was I to part fromthe wo- men I loved with my love barely born and wholly unconfessed. . - The"doctor looked up, at last, and, without hope, I waited for the 'ver - diet -there ..was death and decay in the dust -laden air. "What's all this nonsense about vitroil?" he cried with amazement on his face. His words came cool and clear like a breeze from the northern snows. Margaret answered him, "Mr. Jeff- cock said that I threw vitriol; of course that's absurd, and so I thought that it must have been vitriol and that he'd thrown it himself. The door was locked and we've just found the key in his pocket. ph, it's all too di ea•dful!t' "Well; we shall hear what Mrs'. Kenley has to say about' it in a min- ute when she conies round." "Comes round? Why, she 'cant recover, can she -after all that -she must be burned to death?" There was a catch in her voice, and from where I sat I could see her clasping and unclasping her hands nervously behind her 'back, The doctor got up. from his knees. He said not a word; but stood' tower- ing above her, looking sternly down. on wasn't vitriol," ',he said at length, in a slow measured voice. "As far as I can tell, it was • medicinal paraffin or something of the kind, and has done -her no harm whatever." I dropped forward on my knees gazing at the doctor.' A Judas he had called me, but I could have bless- ed him where he stood. Like some diver who has dived too deep and fills his bursting lungs .with painful breath, my relief was almost more than I could 'bear. There was a little time of silence. and then like some echo from' the lost came Margaret's gentle laugh: Low at first, it grew in volume to an un- controlled and piercing shriek that went reverberating through the emp- ty •attics, through the roof, and into the sunlit air. "I tell you it was vitriol," she cried between her shouts of laughter. Then quite suddenly she ceased, while the doctor and the others stood looking at her aghast. • ` r else that harlot Hilda Sum- merson has tricked me after all," she burst out again, an •t. before the doc- tor and the two 'boys could recover from their surprise, she darted through the door and went racing down the narrow passage, her arms waving, wildly as she shouted and shrieked, "Hilda, you harlot, you herr. Pot, I'm coming for you now. IShe ran like one demented, and in her madness overlooked the stair top when she reached them.. But they would not be ign'o'red. We saw her disappear -there was a louder shriek and then a crash -a moan and then silence. The Tundish, with Kenneth and Ralph close behind, hurried after her. I dragged myself to where Janet lay. The Tundish had 'released her bonds and had covered her )once more with the sheet. She turned and op- ened her dear gray eyes to find me kneeling by her side. My hour of torture was over, but as .1 'knelt, that &cher great doubt that only lovers uneonfessed ' can know, came surging, round me. -CHAPTER XVI Explanations and a Challenge A few Hours later the sad remain- der of our little tennMs party were gathered in the drawing room round one of the 'open windows, Janet and Ethel comfortably on the, settee, The Tundish and myself perched each in a corner of the, broad window sill, little Allport lolling back at his ease in one of the large wicker chairs. It was both wide and deep, and entirely unconcerned as to his 'lack of inches, hesat well ;back, his legs stuck out straight in front of him, his diminu- tive feet barely )projecting bellond the edge of the "'seat. During the evening hours a heavy raze had gathered, to thicken later into definite cloud and now a steady rain was falling. The air was heavy with sweet rain -washed scents re- leased from thirsty soil and reviving plants. The smoke' froiti our pipes floated over our heads in swirls andsnake- like twists that showed up gray and 'blue 'in the,fading light. Through the open widow there came the wel- come patter of the rain. A thrush was singing his evensong. On Jan- et's 'lap lay the surviving tabby ca:, lazily indolent under her gentle car- essing hands. A sense of tranquil- lity and brooding peace seemed to en- fold us like some quiet blessing. "Peace on earth," Sang the thrush ha the tree, and "courage and hope" thr.clh'bed my heart in reply, whenev er I looked at Janet. She was fac- ing the light, her eyes like two clear stars, that•now and•again would shine into mine, when the room and its oc- cupants would fade'away, leaving us alone together fort a blessed brief eternity. She :had not been really hurt by Margaret's ill-treatment, and apart from the effects of the chloroform and a bruise here and there, she was none the worse for her experience. Cold bandages, a little,ebrandy, and a couple of hours' rest, had enabled me +to..recover from my own collapse, which the doctor attributed as much to shock as to the 'blow on my head. Margaret's headlong fall had brok- en a leg and bad stunned. her. She regained consciousness but never her reason, and she had been taken to a neighbouring asylum babbling inco- herently of 'paraffin and vitriol. Kenneth and Ralph had returned to SheffreId together in the Daimler. I was Z'in'g down in my room when they left and can tell. you nothing of the manner of their going, or of how Kenneth and Ethel parted from each other. The Tundish had forbidden any re- ference to the ,day's events until af- ter dinner, and now, solemn and sad, but with feelings of unutterable re- lief, we sat waiting to hear what lit- tle Allport, had to tell us. . He finished his coffee at last, put the cup on a table beside him, re -lit his pipe, and with 'so'me hesitation at first as he paused here and there for a word or a phrase, began to give us the explanations we were each for ou': own special reasons so curious • to hear. "First of all, doctor," he said, "I think I had better- tell you what I' am able to, about your dispenser, Miss Summersont for in a sense she has been the root cause, both of Miss Palfreeman's death, and of ell your later troubles. Had she only been more rd'bust in character, this week might have come and gone, for all of you, like any other among the an- nual fifty-two." "As you will know, Miss Hanson, the Sunrmersons used to live in that row of little houses just beyond the end of the Hunters' -garden, and un- fortunately for Miss Summerson,fthe' two girls struck up a friendship. A3 far as I can make out, it began as one of those • morbid exaggerated friendships which it is difficult for. 'ordinary normal folk to understand, but -it ended in disaster and shame fo'r the younger girl. "She has made' a clean breast of everything to me, but 'I can only tell. you that for the last two years she has been absolutely, and completely. in Miss Hunter's power, and Mr. Jeffcock ]sere, 'at any rate, may be able to'appreciatewhat that might) ultimately mean .for a nervous girl.; She was terrified out .of all! sense of safety and proportion. It was a tyranny complete, and she has told me of things unbelievable.!, I remembered the cruel laugh that I had heard in the waiting -room on the morning of my arrival at Dale liouae;"arid how poor Miss Summerson had lied to the doctor about it. 'How many similar lies had she told, I wondered, during the past two years; how many unhappy hours spent in self -recrimination! Ethel moved rest- lessly in her corner of the settee. We were silent for- a little space. Then Adliport, clearing his throat, proceed - "The key of the 'poison cupboard was never lost at all. It was handed over to Miss Hunter under threat of exposure to the man to whom Miss Summerson hoped to become en'gag- ed. 'She has told me, and I -am in- clined to believe her, that she thought that Miss Hunter wanted to help her- self to some of the drugs, and that she hadno idea that the 'poisons were to be tampered with or used, and very possibly there was no •such in- tention when the. key was first seour- ed." "But why didn't she demand what she wanted, instead of getting hold of the 'k'ey, and; running the risk of being caught at the cupboard? If She had M'is's SSum•m'erson in her pow- er in the way you've suggested, sure- ly she could have asked for drugs or anything else at any time she liked." Allport shook his head. "No, doc- tor, d'f you think that, then you don't RATE°, \ FROM $150 WITH BATH -WRITE FOR FOLDER* SPADINA AVE.& COLLEGE ST. • TOf ONTO • yet understand ' Miss Bunter -I do not myself entirely -there are still certain points that I can't set down even a mad woman's reasons against but I do understand her better than that. You see, above everything else she was cruel. 'She knew well en- ough that Miss iSumnmerson would be in an agony of apprehension until the key was returned, and it was that Which gave her pleasure. It was typical of a hundred other cruelties that Miss 'Summerson has suffered, some of them rarely petty, many of them worse." The Tundish seemed to be .con- tent with the ersplaaation. I, too, had .questions I wanted to ask, /but I was too eager to hear the rest of his story to frame them, and the lit- tle man continued without further interruption. "Well, that is how. Miss Hunter secured the key... There was nothing e.ctually criminal in the giving of it, but later, Miss Summerson's retic- ence was of course 'a punishable of - :fence. She has begged me to tell you, doctor,that in spite of every- thing , she ,would have come fiorward Pad • you ;been arrested. I have told you, as I promised 'L would, and you must take it for what it is worth. "However, if she endangeredyou all by the one act, she certainly sav- ed your life, Janet, over the matter of the vitriol. When she asked for the key which according to promise was already overdue, '.it was not forthcoming, and er bottle of vitriol' was demanded against iteereturn. For- tunately, and we all know . now • how very fortunate it was, they were in- terrupted before the exchange could be made, and it gave Miss Summer- son an opportunity to decant the con- tents of an old sulphuric acid 'bottle and substitute medicinal paraffin ,for it. ' 'And now •I" want you to try to un- derstand the difficulty of my position on the morning after the murder. There was simple evidence to have warranted the arrest of the doctor here. He made up the fatal draught; h+d knew, all about and had access •to the poison; and both he and Miss Palfreeman had lived in Shanghai and had almost certainly ''been•, ,ac- quainted there. There was a possible motive -after the inquiry an obvious one -the key of the locked ;bedroom door was found in his pocket." "What!" The Tundish exclaimed with unusual excitemei,t. "Yes, in the pocket of your indoor coat, doctor. I had my reasons for saying it was found elsewhere. For one thing, I wanted to .observe Miss Hunter when I made the statement, to see. how she' would take it.. I wish now that I had thought of some other, place' in which ' to have said I had hidden it,' but I could not have fore- seen the consequences •of my decep- tion." "But China! How could you ws- sibly have known at your round table inquiry that I had lived in China and hacl met Miss Palfreeman there?." "My dear doctor," the little , man laughed complacently, "we live in civ- i't'z'ed times -times of t'eleph'ones and medical directories, for instance. Within five minutes of Mr. Jeffcock's call to the police station on Wednes- day morning, I was asking Scotland Yard to look up your record in the directory, and to, find out -if you were known by repute to any of the medi- cal staff. Inspector Brown's superin- tendent knew exactly which players in the tournament Were• staying with Dr. Hanson, and before we came to 'Daleh'ouse Inquiries with ' regard to Mr. Jeffcoek's antecedents and +the rest of the party were already on foot, • We d'id riot know Miss Palfree- man's address, but y1oti kindly furn- ished us with that before we even had to a-sk you for it. It was not a' difficult matter for Scotland Yard to ascertain that Miss Palfreeman's uncle had (been for time in Shang- hai, that her father, who was a gov- ernment official, had committed sui- cide there, and that you had . lived there too and were almost certainly acquainted with them all three." (?Yes, of course. How ,perfectly.';' simple! But the quarrel! What a- bout that? Neither the medical di- rectory nor the girl at the telephone exchange could' help you there." "No. That was merely an instance of the nasty suspicious turn a detec- tive's mind instinctively takes. I didn't' know that there had been any quarrel. But I did assume for the time that you had murdered ,Miss Palfreeman, and if you . had done, then surely it was only logical to' make the assumption of a quarrel too ?" ' "You did really suspect me then, and lehve me at large? Surely that was a risk to take?" ' No, as you will see later I did not altogether Suspect you, But I did when I was questioning you at my inquiry. When you treat patients, doctor, you diagnose the disease and then you treat him for it, and you work consistently on the assumption that your diagnosis has been correct until you find out definitely that you have made a mistake. You don't make up your medicines to suit tWo or three possible ailments on the off Chance that one of them may be cor- rect. Well,- my own experience has taught me that at an inquiry like the one we had round the diming -room ta'bie on the Wednesday mining, the only possible way' to obtain exact in- formation is to assume that the ques- I (• lon't, really . el. anything ole 1 ;qui you as 'Moss Palfreeman As I questioned, you 1 was of ;your guilt. , .Then, when a er, I was able to: svoP - of a and sift out the informs o , .I secured." ('Con'tinued next week.) Importance of Fertilizer 'With -Winter wheat now corning to the fore in tore imimediate plague of Ontario farmer?, considerable Valu- able information is found hi a re- eestt circular issued by the Depart- ment of 'Chemistry of the ,Ontario Agricultural College. `Thus circular recommends °a sufficient amount of suital>4 fertilizer, to mininnize win- ter' killing. The 'importance of fertilizer in this latter respect was shown quite ef- fectively also' in a survey of over 30 farms, made last spring by Empire Fertilizers Limited, of 'Toronto. This definitely showed that fields Which 'were sheltered and well fertilized carie 'through almost 100 per cent., while unfertilized wheat was killed 10 per cent. to, 20 per cent. Accord- ing to G. W. Jarvis, president of Em- pire Fertilizers Limited, it is 4 feet that fertilized wheat almost always grows vigorously, matures, more rapidly, and .not _only has a- larger yield per acre, but .also 'plumper and ;better quality 'grain. "Wheat growers generally report that properly fertilized wheat is ready for cutting a week of ten days before ur'rfertilized wheat," says Mr. Jarvis. "Also where fertilizer is us- ed you will invariably find that the entire crop is ready at the same time, not merely uneven patches here and there throughout the field.,, - "Some, wheat growers imagine that it is possible for unfertilized wheat to •catch up .to fertilized wheat before cutting. Many tests' have Shown de- finitely that this is not the case. Time after time we have 'planted the same wheat in .fertilized 'ground and also in unfertilized- ground right beside it. Anybody could see the diifference, for in almost every case the fertiliz- ed heads Were much longer and con- tained from 40 to 60 per cent. and often as much as 100 per cent. more well -.filled, high quality kernels. The Eni•pire company, which , is one of the leaders' in its field in Canada, has been maenfacturing fertilizers ender the tr'ad'e name of "Empire" and "Canadiant' for 30 years, With this firm • fertilizer is not merely a by-product, since it concerns itself with making , nothing but fertilizer. All it formulas have been put through exhaustive tests before being offered the public, something which has re- sulted in general satisfaction where - ever they are used. .Exe'r," et.x's�r xix� Hensall, ' '10.00111. a, r , RG.S. ,r'; 13lrueefiel•d ♦ .4 ... ,.R' Clinton' .R.Rtr t .,,• ,,. Lomdesbor+p ,.,..�, Blyth x.,x. Belgrave-� • .,v..,: , ..O0,,,,,r1,#• Wing'h'a ,;.' C.N.R. 'Corte 'Tab qoderich .. 6,,, 2M Clinton 7.00 Seaforth ..., 7.22• �, Dublin .... 7.33 g„ Mitchell 7.42 West -- Dublin Seaforth , .... 11.84 9.57 Clinton ..' „ 11.04. .10.11 Goderich ,12.14 10.37 C.P.R. Time Table. East A.>11L C oderich 6.50 Menset , 5.55 MeGaw 6.04 'Auburn 6.11 Blyth 6.25 Walton '' 640 .,,'cNaught 6.52 Toronto 10.25. • Toronto :vIcNsught Walton Blyth , ,..z ..:... 12.12 A'iburn .. 12.23 McGaw 1 -' 12.34 Mcnset4 12.41 Goderich d, 1246 - West ' A.M. 7.40 11.48 12.01 The United Provinces of India have come into the 'Canadian National Exhibition on a huge scale this year. The arts and crafts of India's fam- ous cottage workers will be on dis- play in a fitting setting. The exhibit is valued at $50,000. • It is ques'tionable whether an y other organization or institution any- where has attracted as many fine bands of Europe and America as the Canadian National Exhibition. This year the "ace" 'band is that of His Majesty's Irish Guards from Welling- ton Barracks, London, Eng. This is one of the crack bands of the British Army. c'll=SNAPSI-10T CUIL MEMORIES OF HOME 'ictures, such as this one, are not difficulttto make so let your camera .furnish you with "Memory Insurance." 0 YOU remember 'way back hen grandmo r srlor" was 'furnished yrQh the very fest horse -hair furniture, the lovely 'round "center table" with its marble top, the huge portraits with their' leep, heavy gilded frames and the always present "what -not" with its assorted display of "bric-a-brac? Wouldn't you like to have a picture of it to'help recall fond memories of days gore by? Believe it or not jxlt it will not be many years until you will be trying to pirture in your mind some of the furniture and furnishings you had in your home when you were a child or perhaps when you were first mar- ried. Interior snapshots will serve as "memory insurance." , Don't put off taking these pictures any longer for making them is not at afl difficult; in fact you will enjoy it. Here are a few pointers that may help you in making your first shots. .If you take your interior pictures in the daytime the chances are that you will have to take a time exposure unless your camera is equipped with a very fast lens, say /.3.5 or faster. If a time exposure is necessary you will have to use a tripod or else place the camera on some solid support such as a table. Even with an /.3.5 lens you should have some substan- tial support for your camera for you will probably find it necessary to take your shot at 1/5 or 1/10 of a second, and at speeds glower than 1/25 of a second it is extremely dif- ficult to hold the camera steady. Any movement of the camera will cause a blurred picture. The secret of success in indoor pictures lies in controlling the light reaching the various parts of the room to be pictured. To begin'With, never point,.your camera directly at the w•incldw or door through which the greatest amount of lig) ing. Xeep the light behind side of the camera. I'f,• as s t is com- or to the �metimes happens, a sunny window) is in,a partlourar part of the house you/ • want to take, you can eliminate sun -glare by a very simple trick. Pull the shade of 'that particular window clear down and keep it down for an exposure long enpugh to,give you the other features a.nd details. Then, close the shutter and run the shade, up to its northal position. Now, go back to the camera and, without cban,ging the film or the camera's position, open the shutter again for a half second longer. It's a good idea to use a eery small lens stop In taking Indoor pictures, became you want detail. •Focus on a point about half -way between the camera and the far side of the room; then, when the lens is stopped down you will find that practically every- thing is in sharp focus. Avoid including large pieces of furniture in the foreground, lest they take up more space In the picture than they deserve. Exposure time will vary, of course, with the brilliance of the daylight and the degree to which the walls reflect light. On a bright day, plc, tures ina predominantly light col- ored room can be taken with an ex- posure of five or ten se"onds. On dull, days, in dark rooms having only one window, you will need as much as flue minutes, with the lens at f.16. "Memory Insurance" costs but little; so load your camera today for interior pictures that in later years Will be worth a lot. JOHN VAN GUILDER 444 C