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td^MUROER^H/QEWHOft^ mSw\ ^' AGATHA Christie ^^ â- TMOPBIB- \Mill« Wre Will. II, h.i .l..ii;-iil.T VI. .III. MuJ..i lluiiiaiiy aii.l inii.- i..MKh- hvrn pU>eu >t table tl|n'l»K. « SP"" n..BfaK«- 8IKI.B Ihat f..|>l J<" rrcveljiin hax hfrn iiiuriior.-.l, at lilt, h >"!<â-  "> l'.»'- haii.i'li.ii Huriial.y found hl» fiier.il <lta.). I).« banc of hl» »KuM fraclurr I. I r< • ulyiin h will JlvideH bin tiilali: into Knii tcual parti.. Iietwen! Iilii ulster, »liK. Jrniilfrr liardner, ami tli<- three chllctreii ol hiH U<",«ai>ea Kl«t.r. Mary rcarcon. A Jaiiieji riari.i)n lia.l btui In Kxhumii- lon the afliTiiuon of the munlir. leav- liiK for I...ii<!rin thi- followliu iniiriiiiiK Major Hurnul.y recelxm a <nr.iu' I' r I Olio poutKlH In a ntwuiiaprr competition While roli.e Inil tor Narrao.itt N luiHtlonliiK JanieM I'enrHon, a youriK â- xiii.iM •i.n f 111"' i..in *0W OO OM WITH THE BTOHY. ( HAl'TKR 9. She was II very exceptional kind of younK woman. .She was not striking- ly beautiful, but she had a face which was arresting and unusual, a face that havintr owe seen you could not lorKtt. There was about her an at- mosphere of common tense, gavoir (aire, invincible determination and a â- lost tantalizinfc fascination. "Oh! Jim," she exclaiine<l. "What's kappenetl?" "It's all over, Emily," said the fount; man. "They think 1 murdered oiy uncle." "Who thinks so?" demanded Emily. The young man indicated his visitor by a gesture. "This is Inspector Narracott," he »aid, and he added with a dismal at- tempt at introduction, "Miss Emily Trefusis." "Oh!" said Emily Trefu-sis. She studied Inspector Narracott with keen hazel eyes. "Jim," she said, " is a frightful idiot. But he doesn't murder people." The Inspector said nothing." "I expect," said Emily, turning to Jim, "that yoV've been saying the most frightfully imprudent things. If you read the papers a little better than you do, Jim, you would know- that you must never talk to policemen unless you have a strong solicitor sit- ting beside you, making objections to every word. What's happened? Are you arresting him. Inspector?" Inspector Xarracott explained ex- actly what he was doing. "Emily," cried the young man, "you won't believe I did it? You never will believe it, will you?" "No, darling," said family kindly. "Of course not." And .she added in .t gentle meditative tone. "Vou haven't jfot the guts." "I don't feel as if I had a friend in the world," groaned Jim "Yes, you have, said Emily. "You've got me. Cheer up, Jirti, look at the â- winking diamonds on the third finger of my left hand. Here stands the faithful fiancee. Go with the inspec- tor and leave everything to nie." Jim Pearson ro.se, still with a dazed expression on his face. As they moved towards the door, the inspector said politely: "Good evening. Mi.vs Tiefusis." "Au revoir, InsptK.-tor," said Emily Rwcelly. And if he had known Miss Emily Trefu.sis better he would have known that in these three words lay a chal- lenge. The inquest on the body of Cap- tain Trevelyan was held on Monday morning. From the point of view of een.sation it was a tame affair, for it was almost immediately adjourned for a week, thus disappointing a large number of people. IJetween Saturday »nd Monday Exhanijiton had sprung into fame. The knowledge that the dead man's nephew had been detained made the whole Wair si)ring from ii mere paragraph in the newspapers to gigantic headlines. On the Mon- day, reporters had arrived at Ex- hanipton in larg<' numbers. Mr. Charles Enderby had reason once more to congratulate himself on the luperior position he had obtaine.l from the purely fortuitous chance of the football competition prize. It was that journalist's intention to stick to Major Hurnaby like a ItHJch. And under the pretext of photograph- ing the letter's cottage, to obtain ex- clusive information of the inhabitants of .Sittaford anil their relations with the dead man. It did not escape Mr. Enderby's nrftice that at lunch lime a small table near the door was occupied by a very attractive girl. She was well dres.sed in a demure and jirovocalive style, and did not appear to be a relation of the deceased, and still less could be label- ed as one of the idle curious. "I wonder how long she's staying?" thought Mr. Enderby. "llather a pity I am going up to Sittaford this after- toon. Just my luck." But ; hortly after lunch, Mr. En- derby received an agreeable surprise. he was standing on the steps of the Thre«' Crowns when he was aware of • voice an extremely charming voice, addressing him. "I beg your pardon- but could you tell me â€" if there is anything to see in Kxhamplon?" <'harles Enderby rose to the occa- sion promptly. "There's a castle, I believe," he said. "Not much to it but perhaps you would allow me to show you the way." "That would be frightfully kind of you," said the girl. "If you are sure you are not too busy--"' Cbarle!! Enderby dl.<r1aimed imme- diately the notion of being busy. They •set out together. "Vou are Mr. Enderby. aren't you?" said the girl. "Yes. How did you know?" "Mrs. Helling pointed you out to we." "Oh, I see." "My name is Emily Trefusis. Mr. Enderbyâ€" I want you to help me." "To help you?" said Enderby. "Why, certainly â€" but â€" " "You see, I am engaged to Jim l'earK<m." "Oh!" said Mr. Enderby, journal- istic possibilities rising before his mind. "And the police are going to arrest him. 1 know they are. Mr. Enderby, I ktiuw that Jim didn't do this thing. I am down here to prove he didn't. But I must have someone to help me. One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women." '"Well â€" 1 â€" yes, I suppose that is true," said Mr. Enderby complacently. "I wa.s looking at all the.se jour- nalists this morning," said Emily. "Such a lot of them I thought had such stupid faces. I picked you out as the one really clever one among them." "Oh! I don't think that's true, you know," said Mr. Enderby still more complacently. "What I want to propose," sai.l Emily Trefusis, "is a kind of partner- ship. There would, I think, be ad- vantages on both sides. There are certain things 1 want to invostigate â€" to find out about. There you in your character of journali.st can help me. I want " Emily paused. What she reall;. wanted was to engage Mr. Enderby as a kind of private sleuth. To go where she told him, to ask the tjues- tions she wanted asked and in gen- eral to be a kind of bond slave. But she was aware of the necessity of couching these proposals in terms at c;.icc flattering and agreeable. "I want," said Emily, "to feel that I can DEPEND upon you." She had a lovely voice, liquid and alluring. As she uttered the last sentence a feeling roso in Mr. En- (lerb.v's bosom that this lovely li'.p- 1( ss girl could dei'end upon nim tr. the last ditch. "It must be ghat-tlj','" said Mr. Endorry. and takii.g her and he squeezed it wiith fervor. "But you know," he went or\ with a journalistic reaction, "my tini is not entirely my o'.vn. 1 mean, 1 have to go where I am sen',.' "Yes," said Emily. "I have thought of that, and that you ^ee is where I come in. .Surely I am what you call a 'scoop?' You can do an interview with me every day, you can make me say anything you think your reader.s will like. Jim Pear- son's fiancee. Girl who believes pas- sionately in his innocence. Rejjiinis- cences of his childhood which she supplies. 1 don't really know about his childhood, you know, she added, "but that doesn't matter." "I think," said Mr, Enderby, "that you are marvelous. You really are marvelous." "And then," said Emily pursuing her advantage, "I have access natur- ally to Jim's relations. I can get you in there as a friend of mine, where <iuitc possibly you might have li.e door shut in ysiur face." A glicrious prospect opened out before Mr. Enderby. He had been in luck over this affair all round. "It's a deal," he said fervently. "Good," said Emily, becoming brisk and business-like. "Now, what's the first move?" "I'm going up to Sittaford this aftern<xm." He explained the fortunate cir- cumstance which had put him in such an advantageous poisiton with re- gard to Major Burnaby. "Because, mind you, he is the kind of old buffer that hates newspaper men like poi- son. But you can't exactly push a chap in the face who has just handetl you i'6,000, can you?" "It would be awkward," said Em- ily. "Well, if you are going to Sit- taford, I am going with you." "Splendid," said Mr. Enderby. "1 don't know, thoungh, if there's any- where to stay up there. As far as I know there's only Sittaford House and a few odd cottages belonging to people like Burnaby." "We shall find something," said I'mily. "I always find something." Mr. Enderby could well believe that Family had the kind of person- ality that soais triumphantly over all obstacles. They had arrived by now at the ruined castle, but paying no atten- tion to it, they sat down on a piece of wall in the so-called sunshine and Emily proceeded to develop her ideas. "I am looking at this, Mr. Enderby, in an absolutely un.<entimental and business-like way. You've got to take it from me to begin with that Jim didn't do the murder. I'm not saying that simply because I am in U.ve with him, or believe in his beau- tiful character or anything like that. It's just well- knowledge. You see I have been on my own pretty well since I was sixteen. I have never come into contact with many women and I know very little about them, but I know really a lot about men. And unless a girl can siz*- up a man pretty accurately, and know what she's got to deal with, ;;he will never get on. I have got. I work as a mannequin at I.uiie's and I can tell you, Mr. Enderby, that to arrive there is a feat. (To Be Continued.) Valuable Insecticide Is Found In Common Weed "The Devil's Shoistrint;," also known as tlie wild pea, a common weed In the Eastern half of the Cnited States, con- tains rotonone, a valuable insecticide, a United States Department of Agri- culture cliemiBt has found. The dis- covery, says "Sclentitlc American," is signillinnt for farmers, both as poten- tial growers of the plant and as users of the Insecticide, to insecticide manu- facturers and to Importers who carry on international trade in roteiioue and other commercial Insecticides. W. W. Skinner, assistant chief :>t the Chemical and TechnoloBical Re- search Unit of the Bureau of Chemis- try and Soils, first called attention to the probable Insect Icldal value of devil's shoestring, following his obser- vation that bees and other insects fed on near-by plants but avoided the latter instigated the research which led to the recent discovery of this weed's booms of this toxic weed. Dr. Skinner rotenone content by E. P. Clark of the bureau's insecticide division. Rotenone. which is used for the same purposes as pyrethrum anti nico- tine insecticides, has been extracted chiefly from derris, a vine from the East Indies, and from the root of the cube, a South American shrub. It is deadly to many insects, but it does not poison man or animals. The devil's shoestring (Cracca vir- glniana) Is tho first North American plant found to contain rotonone. Re- lated species are found in tropical countries. The discovery of rotenone in this American plant promises to make the United States independent of foreign sources for insecticides made from rotenone. Tho rotenone is found chiefly in the rfxit of the plant. Rotenone and other constituents of an insecticidal nature make up 4 or 5 per cent, of the roots. Department scientists believe this could be increased by selection and breeding. Rotenone now costs about the same as pyrethrins, the active principles of pyrethrum flowers, but the department scientists believe that as its use increases It will become cheaper. It 1;^ rapidly coming into use in greenhouses, for truck crops, and for combating fleas and other external parasites on animals. Spray material, containing about 5 per cent, rotenone, has recently sold for about $10 a gal- lon. A gallon of this material is di- luted to make about 800 gallons of spray. Horse Makes Comeback Australia Spurns Tractors Melbourne. â€" Back to the horse Is the slogan of farmers of Victoria, who are discarding their costly tractors in this time of depression. Tho result is that the price for heavy horses for farm work has bounded from $100 to $225 and $250. The aver- age life of a heavy horse, it la pointed out, is ten years, compared with five years or a tractor, while the horse has no overhead charges tor repairs and spare parts. This revival demand for horses means a revival of the demand for fodder and harness, and also has stim- ulated the blacksmithiug and rugmak- ing trades. Pupils Help Teach In Model School Work of Unit at Columbia University Described by Its Director "Maine, New Hampshire, Vermon, Massachiisetts, Rhode Island, Con- necticut." That is the way many of IIS started our recital of the States of the Union in the school of yesterday, writes Rollo 0. Reynolds, Director Demonstration School, Columbia Uni- versity. They were but names of ir- regular shapes on the map befors us. We learned to name them, to bound them, to give their capitals and prin- cipal products. We had vague ideas, very often distorted, of the people who lived In those States; shrewd Yankets selling wooden nutmegs; wild West- erners â€" on bucking bronchos; long, lean Southernern â€" supervising Ne- groes picking cotton. In connection with the Summer ses- sion of Teachers College of Columbia University there is a demonstration school of children who are having a much more vital contact uith our coun- try than can be secured by books. By car, by train and by boat these child- ren have come with their parents from the four corners of the land. They make up probably one of the uniciue and most interesting schools in the world. The Dally Scene Of the 400 children more than a fourth come from twenty-flve States; from the farms of Vermont, the ranch- es of Texas, the mines of Montana and the cotton fields of Georgia. The list of States represented in the school this year sounds like a page out of the atlas. Hundreds of educators every day In the demonstration school are watch- ing these children being fused into groups, being organized in activities, being given experiences which go to make up modern education. In a fifth grade the group is con- cerning itself with cotton. In the room there are two young misses who live surrounded by the cotton fields of Georgia. They bring to the group the stimulus of first-hand contact. They can tell how tho cotton field looks; how cotton Is planted and picked; how it is hauled to the gin, pressed into bales; and perhaps its loading on to the old sternwheelers. Then, too, there is a young man who lives in a factory town in Massachu- setts where cotton manufacturing still reigns. The process of transforming the cotton into cloth as he has seen it becomes real. And again, here is a lad whose father owns a clothing fac- tory in New Y'ork City and from him at first hand the group earns of the process which turns the cotton cloth into tho finished product. Toward Larger Concepts Only the other day among the ob- servers in this grade were some edu- cators from Haiti. The teacher seized upon the opportunity to ask one of them If he would contribute to the dis- cussion by telling of cotton raising in Haiti, and for half an hour the child- ren bombarded him with questions which built up within them a different attitude toward their Haitian neigh- bors to tho south. From this knowledge about cotton the group will move to some of the conditions which have existed in the cotton industry; the pitifuly low wages which have prevailed; the conditions in the factories; the pressure of piece work; the sweatshop conditions and the New Deal with is codes as they affect the industry. In a sixth grade the Interest of the group for the session centres around tho machine and how it has affected the life of man. A discussion of the ^Jtu^^bHu ua A Permanent at 95 Kor >i.ii> >:i ..iiiiiiioliit-i lia.< Ihimi w .iMlerilii; wii;il (liesf here â-  prrmanent waves were like, now she knows She's Eini!y Hoskin;. aged 95, getting the wnrks In a Los Angeles pulchritude plant. Unfortified Canadian Border A Product of Many Parleys President Roosevelt's recent refer- ence to the Canadian-United States border as n boundary without fortifica- tions emphasizes the unusual condition which exists along this 3,000mile strip of land. Aside from patrols at strat- egic points of Royal Mounties, customs and immigration oflicials and boats of the Department of Fisheries and Waterways, It is unguarded. However, it took more thali a century of negotia- tions to arrive at this happy state of affairs. The fixing of the boundaries, begun in 1783, was not concluded until 1308, and although there were during the negotiations one or two instances of local uprising between the settlers on both sides of the line, the final issue was in no case due to a display of force. Because of the faultlness of the only available maps and the ignorance of the negotiators regarding the topo- graphy of tho country under dispute, the marking of the boundaries was an extremely complicated affair. A Dispute in the 'East The most dangerous of the frontier disputes was the settlement of the boundary between Maine, New Bruns- wick and Quebec. This was fixed by the treaty of -1783, but not completely settled for more than fifty years. The treaty named as the boundaries of the United States such vague locations as "the north-west angle of Nova Scotia," namely, the angle formed "by a line drawn north from the source of the St. Croix River" and the islands in the Bay of Passamoquoddy which belong- ed to his Britannic Majesty. The iden- tity of the St. Croix River wa:. decided by a commission in 170S; that of the islands by an agreement with the Bri- tish commissioner, Thomas Barclay, of New Brunswick, in 1S17, and the "angle" by direct negotiations between Daniel Webster, American Secretary of State, and Lord Ashburton in 1812. In these negotiations the King of tho Netherlands was called upon to arbitrate. Although his award] waa based on thorough investigations Maine did not agree to it and the difll culties culminated in the "Restoofe War" of 1838-39. For this affair the President was authorized to call oul the militia, but hostilities were averted Border West of Niagara Difficulties also entered into the fix ing of the boundaries west of Niagara. France first claimed the Mississippi basin by virtue of the exporations ol La Salle; English fur traders claimed the Northwest With the cession of Quebec in 1763 the situation changed, England claiming what is now the North Central States. The North West Ordinance of 1787 envisioned the ambitions of the young Republic in the vacant spaces of the West Lewis and Clark, Gr^ and Astor car- ried the flag to the Pacific. The electioneering cry In 1844 ol "Fiftyfour Forty or Fight!" typified the spirit of the time, but wiser coun- sel prevailed. Negotiations were en- tered into in 1846, and it was decided that the boundary should follow the forty-ninth parallel from the Rockies to "the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Van- couver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said chan- nel and of Fuca's Strait to the Pacific Ocean." The many waterways along the bor der â€" tho Groat Lakes, the St. Lawr- ence, St. John, Richelieu and Detroit Rivers â€" all have caused many difficui- ties in the boundary question. Tc solve them Elihu Root, Secretary ol State, and James Bryce, Ambasaadoi Extraordinary at Washington, brought about a treaty which created the In- ternational Joint Commission. This commission, which first met in- 1912, consisted of six members, three ai>- pointed by the President of the Cnited States and three by the King on th€ recommendation o£ the Goveruor-Gen- eral-in-Council of Canada. Its decisions have decided many troublesome con troversies. machines which brought the group to New Y^ork starts the interest. And again first-hand information is fur- nished by tho students themselves about the machines in their parts of the country: about the machines that get the coal out of the mines from a lad from Pennsylvania; about the great machines which harvest the wheat for our bread, from a girl from Illinois; from a Detroit lad about the machines which turn out automobiles on a traveling belt. Teaching By Pipils From this background of experience the teacher leads the children into a consideration of the economic and social difficulties which beset us to- day; the effect of the machine in turn- ing people from the country to the city; the vast unemployment brought about by the replacement of men by machines in order that the owners of the machine may make more profit. From these children from the mill towns of North Carolina and Massa- chusetts and from the East to the West the teacher can bring out actual experiences and contacts with this great economic depression and its ac- companying human suffering and lead them to a consideration on their level of comprehension, of some of the means and agencies being evolved right now to combat it. These child- ren contribute to the education of the group and gain new concepts of other parts of this country. On the sidelines the observing stu- dents see how the skilful teacher capi- talizes these rlcB and varied experi- ences; how the interest of these child- ren serves to make dynamic the know- ledges, skills, habits and attitudes. And so, throughout the entire school, from the kindergarten up through the high school, this give-and-take from various parts of the country, this shar- ing of experiences with each other, this satisfaction which comes from be- ing able to stand out, to succeed in the contribution which each makes, furnishes the finest kind of modern education for the children and enables those who are here tor study and ob- servation to see sound modern educa- tional practice In actual operation. Miss Anna Manning, a court steno grapher ip Boston. .Massachusetts, claims a new kind of record. In 10 years sh« has taken down some 60,. 000,000 words in court cases, and never once has there been a com plaint that she made a mistake f .Mr. Freeman Grow, grocer, of Coldendale, California, bought a cat to kill the rats that Infested his shop. Next day be bought a dog. The rats had Killed the cat. The Moonlight at Midnight Majesty and mysteryâ€" the moon .\ broken circle in the midnight sky- Across the lake a mad of radiant light Such wondrous beauty makes eternity. Could there have been before a nighl like this? abyss pa. like this? Yet in the centuries o^ime's aby How many souls have^l|sn such geantryâ€" X^ Mysterious grandeur of the iCidcighl skyâ€" And thrilled to see it. Wild men and their mates. Before the white man came, had oped the gates Of gratitude to God â€" not knowing Him, But deeming One all great, which still was God. â€" May Austin Low, Gowns Reminiscent of Edwardian Era at Ascol The curious thing about Ascot this year was that not only the debutantes wore dresses reminiscent of the Ed- wardian era, but their mothers also did. The older women chose full- length dresses of chiffon and georgette made on long graceful lines with softi. ly feminine trimmings, says a London woman society editor. As a result, they appeared more gracious and charming than they have for many a year. It would he hard to disapprove ol this season's debutantes, she thinks. They are very different from their predecessors of last year or the yeai before. ISSUE No. 31â€" '33 * * • >