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Flesherton Advance, 10 Aug 1932, p. 6

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»^ «•-••«-••« 4 Gems of Peril By HAZEL ROSS HAILEY, Brown Creation SYNOI'SIS. Rich old Mrd. Jupltrr ih rubbed and murdered durlnx the cnf!aK«><>ent party â-  civ>« fur her Hccrctnry. Miiry llarU- â- â€¢â- â- , w^o hnd urrunKfd to 8<"<ri-tly iiip«'t her si-aiifKrHce l.rothtr Kddle. Miirva Bance, Dirk Ruyther, advlKca her to keep quiet about Kddic until he '•an loin'e him. Dirk t«le|>huni-s that he has had a call from Kddlr. Dirk overnleepM and Itov.en, The Star reiiorlpr, drives Mary to th'- rendezvouR Kddle la killed t>y a rnr. miiintill j: alunit a fly before he dlea. WeekH paan and Iiispector Kane Uropa thf iii-<i\ b<:llt'\lnK Eddie la the murderer. CHAPIEK XI. Before the (disclosure that not only Inspector Kane, but old Mr. Jupiter himself and even Dirk, belisved her brother had robbed and murdered Mrs. Jupiter, Mnry sat .stunned. "Even if that were tru», as you •ay," she got out pre.s.'ntly, "there still remains the questionâ€" who killed Kddie?" , Kane lifted exasperated eyebrow.s. "But you saw the car that killed him!" he .said, as if dealing with an I nrea.sonable child. '"Just another of these hit-and-run drivers. It*s mur- der, of courso. But nine out of ten of them aren't caugl-t. It's too bad. But if you look at :t another way, it's mercy." "You can sit there and say that! ' Am:»zement and desperation mada her bold. "But what do you want the matter stirred up for?" Kane was getting wrought up. "You ought to be glad it's finished. Your brother'.s better oflf where ho is tha.i if he'd lived, to take tht rap. You'd rather .â- â- ee him killed accidentally than live to go to the electric chair, wouldn't you? Be- lieve me, he's lu ;ky." "Electric chair?" The gr^y eyes blazed .scorn at him. "You don't mean that. And Eddie wasn't killed accidentally. You know better than that, too. Yoi C4n get eye-witnesses' testimony of a dozen people â€" " "Eye-witness testimony isn't worth a damn," said Inspector Kane with finality. "People don't know what they see. If one says it, th3y al! say it. They want to get in on the ex- citement, that's all." "But -Mr. Bowen and I both saw. We're not just â€" people." Kane laid a pencil down with a de- cisive rap. "You're 'hypj,ed' on the idea that somebody was after that brother of yours. And George Bowcn is a re- porter for a sensational newspaper, He'd see anything that would give him a big story." Mary shook her head. She v;as n-c much older herself than the "baby brother" ihe was finding excuses for, but she h?.(' grown up swiftly 'n these recent weeks. She had lost faith in ir-any things that had once been part and parcel of her childho.xl's creed. The injustice of it went tnrougli her like slow poison distilling black hatred for all these stupid people who cid nc.t care what cloud begrimed her brother's name, or her own, j.o long as things were "hushed up" and for- gotten. Now she understood ^hat the •earch for Eddie's murderer had been fruitless because there had been no • arch, except of the most cursory sort. "r>et the matter drop." Well, she who was most directly concerned was IV- satisfied to let the matte- droji, and never would be, while the mystery of Eddie's "accidot.t" remained to plague her mind with harrowing su--,- picions. New dignity sat on the girl's slim shoulders as she faced the police in- spector and her voice was calm and determinetl. GOLD Syndicate Tn K M ENDOUS . development now KOInK on throughout Northern Ontario presage a gold boom of magnitude. New camps are opening up rapidly. New mlne.i are In the making. For. tunes awnit those who ;?ct Into the leaders In these new areas iarly. OITTPTANDINO among fhesa arcaa Is Tyrrell Matachewan, and 'he outstanding pre- ferred property Is that of Tyrrell Township McNeely syndl- »te. In '.he hands of pioneer min- ing men of repute, work has gone ihead steadily until th property has shown all Indlcallona of a nine. TIIRRR MKN have done Inltl.il work with their own money. To-day, with the element of risk reduced, they Invite pupport. A limited number of the original units are still available at tlOO each. These units are exchange- able for :,'000 shares of fully paid, non-asoea.'iable Capital Stock. IIKMKMUER th« story of Lal'e .Shore. Clip the coupon tjelow now for lescrlptlve circular and map. Tyrrell Township McNeely Syndicate, 17t Ybnge St., Toronto, Canada Without obligation please furnish ma with full details of Tyrrell Twp. McN'cely Ryndlcate: Vama . . Address ISSUE No. 32â€"32 "No, you're wrong. You can't dis- miss us as lightly as that I may be an imaginative woman, and a relative, but Mr. Bowm is neither. .\nd he seems to be the only person l)€«ide3 rr.yself who cares what happened to Fddie. Even Dirk, my fiance," she stumbled on ihe lo" ed name, "has <hangc(i lately. He doesn't want t"} Uilk about the case. I don't know \.hy, unless â€" " But .<he decided to keep her iktso. al affairs to herself. She drew up sharply. "1 do know that Eddie was killed, deliberately. Mightn't it have been the other fellow, the one he owed nioncy to? Why hasn't anyone found him? lie's tht one who's really lo' blame!" "What do you kni>\v about the ether fellow?" Kane asked suspiciously. "The same fts you do. That if Eddie did it â€" and I don't believe it for a minute â€" he ".vas made to do it ' y the man he owed money to." Kane smiled tolerantly. "I wouldn't say that, Miss Harkness. That's only a theory. You've nothing to back it up." "Haven't 1? Then I'll find some- thing. I'm going to prove that Eddie had no part in that crime if it's the j 1' st thing I ever do." Her small fist beat the table by way of emphasis. Kane pursed his lips. "As you please Miss Harkness," he said, "'i,ut I think you're making a big mistake. You're a very lucky girl." Mary moved impatiently, but he fixed her with an earnest eye and continued. "You're no relation to the Jupiters, are you?" he asked abruptly. "Why, no," Mary replied in sur- prise. Kane nodded his head sagely. "Well, for an outsider, you're sitting in the lap of luck, if you only knew it. Those two old people set great store by you, and I understand one of the last acts of that old lady's life was to ask hor lawyer to draw up adoption papers for you. That son of theirs turned out wild, and you're all they had. V/hat the old man will do now his wife'.-? gone, is a question. But the way I get it, he don't believe you had ii thing to do with it â€" thinks it was all your brother's doing. "He wants to do the best he can by you. He knows those in-laws-to-be of yours, the Ruyt lers, and what stiff- necks they are. He knows too much scandal right now could blow your r-.mance higher than a kite. Now, why don't you let it pass. Your bro- toer got a bad break, going and com- ing, but don't let that spoil your life." The storm of resentment that had racked Mary (Liring Kane's revela- t ons had left her more calmly pur- poseful than she had even been in her life. With icy hands she took out her powder compact, and carefully dusted her nose set her hat at the correct angle snapped her purse shut put on her gloves and .stoo<l up. "Thank ycu for all you have done, Inspector," she told him with a chilly little smile, and went out quickly. As Mary went down the stairs to the street floor her .spirits dropped rapidly. "Well, well! Little children of the storm," observed a familiar voice. It was Bowen. "Say I've been 'coking everywhere for you. Got one or two little matters I'd like to talk over vrith you. You wouldn't have lunch with me, would you?" The rain was coming down in sheets. Several sprightly leaps landetl them breathless and laughing in the dingy entry of a small one-time saloon, from which the smell of hot food poured like steam. It was dark inside and the only waiter, a repellent-looking creature in giea.sy black, stared at his pretty visitor as if a woman's pres- ence in the place were rare indeed. When they had ordered and sent him away, Howen apologized. "This i: an awful dump, but it's a good place to talk. Take j >ur things off?' He took their wet coats and hung them to dry over the backs of two vacant chairs. Then he looked about cautiously. The place was empty ex- cept for two men who ro.sc to depart, toothpicks in mouth. "Dicks," Howen explained. "They are getting out." Mary kept her eyes on her plate to avoid their Imld, ad- miring glances. "Hmm!" said Bowen, "guess my rating with those birds is up 100 per cent! They'd give their gold teeth to know who you ai^e." He waggled his eyebrows archly and settled his tie with a flourisp. "Ah, Bowen, the woman-killer!" Mary sadi, "You're funny. What're you doinf; it forâ€" to cheer me up?" "You did lo.>k kinda dithery. Don't know what dithery is? Well no mat- ter. Bigger things on foot." Turning serious abruptly, he lowered his voice discreetly. "Listen. Remember when your brother was hi.rt, his talking about a fly?" Mary nodded. "Well, it kinda stuck in my mind. Thinks I, I'll hie myself out to the race-track some sunny afternoon and nose around. You know what? There's i. race-track gambler hanging around Jamaica that everylnidy rall.s 'The Fly'." Something iu brown crope Chavez for milday? It has a green velvet girdle and the ornament 1« of green and gold. "Do you suppose it could ije â€" " He threw out his hands and shrug- ged. "I haven't found anybody yc'i. that's seen him with your brother. But they all know Eddie down there. Sooner or later I'll find put what the tie-up was. Anyhow, it's a tip." "Did you see him?'' "No, and that's a funny thing. No- body's seen him for a couple of wevks." Mary calculated rapidly. 'It was â€" two weeks ago tomorrow night â€" " Bowen nodded. "Correct." Excitement kindled flames in the girl's cheeks and brought stars to her eyes. "Oh, if it should beâ€"" She grasp- ed both his hands with her own and gi'.ve them a glad squeeze. "If you help me to clear up all this â€" trouble, I'llâ€" I'llâ€" I don't know what I'll do!" "Hold It, hold it!" ehided the other. "I've got a weak heart. Besides, we haven't got to first base yet in the matter of evid;'nce." "But we will ! Oh, I knew all alon<? there was something back of this." Her face clouded again at the recol- lection of her recent interview with Kane. "Maybe he'll do something about it now!" Bowen observed her bitterness, and guessed its cause. "Listen," he told her sternly. "All I ask is. â€" don't say a word about this to Kane." Curiosnty pronipte<I her t« ask his reason. "Well, more than one reason." They drew back while the murderous-look- ing waiter served their food â€" huge plates heaped with steaming spaghetti and meat balls. Bowen jerked a thumb after the waiter's retreating back "Two years out of Sing Sin„' â€" him. He's got to stay where the police can keep an eye on nim or go back to stir. Good guy. He wouldn't cut your throat for le.ss than a dime." As Mary surveyed her plate dis- trustfully, he added, 'Go ahead. Eat your lunch. Poison's not his line. But as I was saying, if we find the guy that killed your brother, I want the story â€" I don't want the other papers to get it. And another reason is, if the Fly is the man I think he is, it'll take more than Pretty Jim Kane to bring him in." (To be continued.) Parasites and Manure Mamire Is the greatest source of danger from the eggs and young para- sitic worms. It Is also the breeding area for the numerous fly pests so in- 1 jurlousv to domestic animals. The practice of permitting manure to ac- cumulate about stables and yards for one day longer than need be should be avoided, as It Increases the proba- ' bility of animals becoming Infested ' with the common animal pests. It Is hard to get away from the old practice of carelessly throwing manure out In-' to the yard and itaving It there for months, llo^ much more sanitary It' would be for the animals if all fecal matter were removed and placed in a protected pile or pit. Such practice would reduce the parasite and disease loss, that Is generally present. In a recent survey covering some 32 farms the examination of the fecal matter fr(»m sheep showed every flock to be infested with a number of parasites. The parasite eggs were found In the manure In every case. Keep the ani- mals away from their own body dis- charges If possible to do so. Such practice pays a good return In better health. Higher Education By L. P. Jacks In "The Education of the Whole Man" Not long ago I paid a visit 'o a great factory wiiere hundrudii of young women are employed. I re- marked oil their ease and dexterity and cheerfulness. "We have a school of physical culture attached to the mill," said the manager, "and we teach them to walk In our evening classes. The Interesting thing Is," he added, "that when we have taught them to walk and to carry themsel- ves easily they begin asking for oth- er things. Some want to sing, some want to dance and some want books, and throe of them have been writ- ing i>oetry. I expect we shall end up by hecomInK a little university." Our vision of education is delicious {IVrile SalaJa, Toronto, for cxctlUnt recipe) 2U educated. If we could Import Into our leliure occupations generally something of that passion for excel- an'lence which is so necessary in oth- eplsodlc process conducted by pro-jer connections. The pleasures tl at fessional drudges, whose (lull hum-] I have enjoyed most are not thosfi ming goes on inside the walls of a I which I bought ready-made, but those school or a college should be ex- panded into the idea of It as a great romance, the summary adven- ture of our age, the central concern of every citizen, lifelong In Its dura- tion, universal In Its scope, address- ed throughout to the making of whole men, and having nothing less for Us object than to convert the totality of knowledge into human skill, and bring it to bear on the pursuit of eycellence in every department of social activity. My own education was sadly de- fective as an education of the "whole man." It was divided into what are called "subjects" â€" Just un- cor-ordinated chapters of knowledge, parcels of book-say and hear-say, tied up with string, and pitched Into our mind as into a basket. There was one set of operators who train- ed our minds in the class-rooms, and another set who trained our bodies In the gymnasium. And there was a third gentleman, called "the chap- plain," who was supposed to train our characters and look after our souls. But there was no unity of aim. The mind department, thi body department, the character de- partment, the soul department were at sixes and sevens. In all this piecemeal procedure one thing was consistently lost sight ofâ€" the whole boy, who Is mind, hody, character and soul all in one. At a meeting called to protect our b-- Mful countryside from the in- va...-n of ugliness now threatening itâ€" factories, Jerrry-building, hidoaus advertisments and such-like â€" I heard a speaker make a profound remark. "You will never keep your beauti- ful England," he said, "until you get a beautiful people to live in it." By "a beautiful people" he meant sim- ply a people whose bodies had been liberally educated to correspond with a liberal education of the mind, and to support It at every point the eye trained to see beauty and to value it, the ear trained to hear harmony and to resent discord, the hand trained to fine craftsmanship, the whole man, mind and body together, to creative activity. It Is vanity to attempt to graft an Al culture of the miud on a C3 cul- ture of the body, or, as a foreign critic once expressed It, "to train the minds of the young men in your lec- turerooms as though you meant them to become clergymen and to train their bodies in the football that I made for myself by exercising the very modest amount of skill I happen to possess. I believe that all men and women are made that way. No one ought to be consider- ed educated, whether boy or girl, man or woman, until ho or she has acquired at least the elements of some sort of skill. There is no bet- ter protection against folly and vice. There Is no surer road to the real enjoyment of leisure. A sound physical culture should be made accessible, along with .nen- tal culture, to all classes of the com- munity; it should form an Integral part of our national system, and he as "compulsory" as anything else. I am convinced that we have, in the bedraggled physique of the town- bred population, one of the chief rea- sons why popular education has failed to produce the effects expect- ed of It. There is such a thing as the high- er education of the body, as well as the higher education of the mind. It is something quite different from what athletics aim at and goes much farther than any of the matters which hygiene is concerned with. It regards the human body as a whole as capabl eot being developed into an instrument of the highest skill, governed by a perfect self-control and exercising a beautiful economy of power which is Itself a mental culture of a most valuable kind. Unfortunately, we are still in the grip of a very old tradition which regards mind and body as somehow hitched together in an- ill-sorted partnership, the mind a celestial thing and the body an earth-bom and Inferior thing which one has to tolerate as best one can. This false Idea, how- ever, will not last much longer. We shall come to see, as many see even now, that the being we have to educate is always body and mind together. When that is generally re- cognized, the higher education of the body will be made accessible to all classes of the community along with tho higher education of the mind â€" the higher education of the whole man. Too Many and Not Enough (Written on a Boston and Albany Local.) There are too many people in the world . . . Too many children whose ears field as though you meant to become need scrubbing, Too many drummers whose Jokes policemen." The coeducation of mind and body would recognize that perfect health is not to he defined alone in terms of sound sleep, good digestion, muscular strength and animal spirits, but demands In addi- tion an organlzaton, an economy, a self-control not to be attained with- out careful training, and beyond all that, the development of the finer aptitudes for self-expression In crea- tive forma. The human body is na- turally skill-hungry, and until that hunger is satisfied it will be ill at ease, craving for .something it has not got and seeking its satisfactions : the world . need snubbing. Too many girls who touch up their lips. Too many porters gaping for tips, Too many fat men lolling and snor- ing. Too many old men, piteous and boring, Too many women with Main Street chins (A mouth leaves off where a neck begins) â€" There are too many people in the world. But there aren't enough in all of In external excitements which ex- citements which exhaust Its vitality | and diminish its capacity for Joy.| Short of skill, the perfect health' even of the body Is Impossible. j Forms of physical 'culture are al- ready In practice which train the | whole body as an instrument of self-, expression and self-control, teach-, Ing It the harmony and dignity of j normal movement, both singly and I In concerted operations of great, beauty, and making all this funda- mental to higher activities, a grow- ing point for many arts. At all points control Is ranked above ef- fort, and tho normal pwformancfli above the exceptional feat, to walk with the minimum fatigue helng held sea- more important than to run with the maximum speed, to speak the moth- er tongue with easy articulation than to utter a shout that ran be heard n mile off. to breathe naturally than to hold one's breath for ten minutes under water. Not enough thoroughbred colts all prancing. Not enough puppydogs dinky and dancing, Not enough woodchucks dozing and dreaming. Not enough daffodils glimmering and gleaming, birches, or brooks, or sunrises, not rnougb time, between living Not enough wings. Not enough springs. Not enough and dying To set our minds on ono swallow's flying. Not enough time to dip our free Cupful of beauty from sky and No, not enough In all of the world! â€" Atlantic Monthly. Berlin Mail Tube Refrigerated Berlin.â€" A refrigeration system has Strength of course 1« ' been installed in part of the 274 kilo- aimed at, but a strength that show;i Itself In economy rather than ex-; pense. In balance than In strain. In versalility than In violenceâ€" a differ- 1 ent thing from the strength needed for a boat race or a prize fight. In every human helng there Is a lat- ent passion for excellence, and the primary object of education should bs to awaken and foster this passion. and let It loose to do its work In every department of labor and of leisure. All of us might enjoy our leisure far more If we bad been belter meters of the subterranean air tubes by which the Berlin postofflce facili- tates its special delivery service. The refrigeration was necessary to prevent overheating by friction In the tube from the main postofflce to Tem- plehof Airport, a stretch of about six kilometers which the carriers make in ten minutes under a high-pressure system. The subway trains require seventeen minutes for this stretch. Where Fat is Fashionable Slimness is a thing of beauty to the Canadian girl. But the women of West Africa must be fat if they wish to attract. The stouter the black mammy becomes the more fashionable is her figure. Consequently, her meals are some- what prolonged affairs. They usually consist of yams, ground into a pulp which is called "fou-fou," rice, and bananas. And to assist the process of putting on weight, she takes as lit- tle exercise as possible. There is a certain tribe in Nigeria where girls about to be married, and who wish to appear at their best, are Sent to what is called "the fattening! house." Here they are fed at short intervals on all sorts of luxuries â€" chicken, eggs, soups, and so on. They stay in the place for several weeks, stuffing for all they are worth, and taking care to move as little as possible. When the happy bridegroom comes to claim his bride at the end of the fattening process he finds her so tre- mendously fat that she is unable to rise fron. her seat. He is a very proud man as he makes arrangements for this huge mountain of flesh to be car- ried to his home. Once the dusky belles are married and resume their normal life they Icse n.uch of this unnatural -'atness. Nevertheless, they do their best nevor to get below !. certain weight. It is the plump girl who gets all the admiration from the opposite sex. The thin girl is passed by unnoticed.' The Canadian girl nibbling dry bis- ci its and sipping, orangejuice because fashion decrees that she must be slim, ard the West African maiden gorging until it is unsafe to swallow another mouthful, because she is e.xpected to be fat, are both slaves of fashion, and s^ "sisters under their okin." Is there one being, stubborn as the rock to misfortune, whom kindness does not affect? "So Kato and Alice are uot on speaking terms." "No; but they more than make up for It by what they say about each other." Revenge Revenge is ever a hypocrite, rage a( least strikes with the naked sword; but revenge, stealthy and patient, con> ceals the weapon of the assassin. Justice The sentiment of Justice is so na- tural, so universally acquired by all mankind, that It seems to me inde- pendent of all law, all party, all .t^jU- glon.â€" Voltaire. 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