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,^HnuT Stdf^ Footsteps In the Dark By lIFT.EN BEMIS At five-thirty 1'. M. as usual, George Madison left tlie First Na- tional hank of Crosstown. He start- ed up the busy street with that deliberate tread of his, then swung back to the corner. It might look •uspicious to change his ways to- night. "The i-anie, sir?" asked old Tim, blind since the battle of the Marne in World War I. "Yes." said C.eorge, wincing as his nickc' banged the tin cup. "A bit cool for .'Vpril," ofTcrcd Tim, banding up the Crosstown Evening News, "(ict to know wea- ther, don't we â€" being out in it every day like me an' you. Ray â€" jns' how many years you been coin- in' from tlio I'"irst National to get my papers?" Ocorgi- started, paled. Couldn't let on to the old fool that after midnight he wouldn't be around, couldn't explain that after tonight he'd be a free man, a man of means, no longer a slave. Only thing you could call a bank teller, wasn't it? "It's â€" it's about 15 years," came from Gccirge's dry lips. ^o doubt the bank folks are pretty fond of you by this time," commented Tim. "They're mighty nice to me, tooâ€" from the presi- dent down." "Yes, of course," choppid out George, swinging away. Mrs. Murray's gloomy boarding house irritated him more than ever tonight. Rut after warm food and lively table conversation with the other boarcUrs, his confidence rose. JJe 'ttas al.ile to let himself into the First Kationa! that evening, nearly as calmly as he'd done hun- dreds of fdrnicr eve nings. Only this time he would not be working overtime for his superiors. Just for himself. Finally, he was stuHing big rolls of currency into a traveling bag. He hnped hiii. luck would hold, that Henry, tlie night watchman, would dn/e in the hack room, as usual. His luck did hold. It held so well it was uncanny. Kvei his aged automobile ran perfectly till close to (lavbrcak, when he abandoned it and linpped a fast freight for the west. His chief ob>cctivc now was to reach a certain man highly skilled in plastic surgery, a man who'll ilo anything for a price. <>eorge Madison now became James Farnum. His hair was bleachul white, bis upper lip was "Let me go! I'm James Farnum!" exclaimed the teriified George. •niooth sliaven, his once good- looking nose was unpleasantly aqui- line. I'Aen his voice was higher pitched. He not only looked dif- lerent, he felt different. He was rich. In Alaska, he went into fur trading, became surprisingly pros- perous. He remained a bachelor and avoided making close friends. Three years of this and h- grew restless, lie wi nt to Chicago, then to New York an<l took in the best shows and niglit clubs. He ran into Kd Katchet, former clerk in the old First National of Cross- town. He talked with him at length and wasn't recognized. So he decided to return to Crosstown and take a look around. Aftir all it was his home. He was put up at the Cross- town hole! with no iiueslioiis ask- ed. In the hotel lobby, on the Itreets and in the shops, he was treated like any stranger. One day as he passed the bank, he saw old blind Tim sitting on his customary corner. Tim was selling a newsiiaper to a strange man. "Ciuess I'll drop a five spot in Tim's cup for luck," di ci<led George. It gave hini a warm feel- ing inside to he going toward old Tim again. But as he paused before him, Tim leaped up and grabbed George's beautifully tailored sleeve. He cried, "George Madison I It's George Madison I" "Let me go I I'm James Far- num I" I lalnied the terrified Geor- ge, trying to pull away. "What a break." said the strange ain, boUitig out hj'Hlcugi. 'Tvc itin looking for you a very long (fane I Thought you might \i\ow back â€" they generally dol" "Plain clothes, eh?" sneered Oeorge. "I'll prove you're wrong â€"I'll iue-l'll-" "Can't lool me," piped up old Thn. "I get to know a man's loot- â- teps after bearing 'em for 15 years I" The End In the Holy Land, a New Flag Rises Against Menacing Mort ars â€" These Lebanese soldiers of the Arab Army of Liberation are iiart of a heavy weapons groii]) using French 75 mm trench mortars. Sucli mortars have been used constantly in the past few weeks in the Ijattle for Jerusalem ; as British moved out, more Arab forces poised for invasion. Two Hanganah soldiers stand guard beside tlie colors of Israel that were raised over Haifa after the seaport city was captured by the Jews. Departure of Hrilish High Commissioner syml)olized end of Britain's rule in tlie Holy Land and the formal birth of the State of Israel. Some Notes From The Farm Front Of Special Interest To Rural Readers By John Russell Another farm crop that's com- ing to the aid of afflicted man- kind is the good old pancake in- gredient â€" buckwheat. That's because buckwheat con- tains a chemical substance called rutin whicli â€" during the few months it has bten used â€" has proved high- ly beneficial in certain types of internal bleeding. Rutin docs this by strengthening the walls of the tiny blood vessels known as ca- pillaries. To meet the national needs for rutin in the United States alone, medical manufacturers estimate that at least an extra 50 thousand acres of buckwheat will be neided an- nually. The entire plant, around blossom time, is used for the ex- traction of its rutin, so that no grain from this e.xtra acreage would be available for flour or for livestock feeding. * * * Nothing is of greater importance to the welfare of both man and beast than proper protection of drinking water supplies. Precau- tions which will guard against pol- luttd water are simple, and either boiling or chlorination nill insure that water is safe for drinking. If boiling is used, the water should be kept at boiling tempera- ture for at least ten miiuites. For chlorination, two teaspoons- ful of frisli chloride of lime should be mixed to a smooth paste with a little cold watei. To this add one quart of water and mix well. You now have your sterilizing solution, four drops of which â€" added to one gallon of water and Ict stand for IS minutes â€" makes the water fit for drinking. A fresh sterilizing olution should be made every seven days. * * * An Australian farmer makes cheap but highly effective bird scarers out of empty fruit cans or jam tins. One end of the tin is removed and then six or seven cuts are. made down the sides of the tin to within an inch or so of the other end. These strips are then bent at a slight angle. Dead cen- tre in the unopened end a dent (not a hole) is made, so that the tin will sit snugly on a piece of wire stuck in the ,{round. The slightest breeze 'catches the out-turned strips of tin and turns the glistening contraption speedily enough to frighten all the birds from his fruit and vegetables, the farmer claims. * * * A purebred Canadian Ihdstein cow has just established a new world's record. Owned by J. J. E. McCague of Alliston, Ont., in 305 days she gave 28,24,^ pounds of milk containing 980 pounds of but- terfat. This .10.'^ day fat production is also a new North American record for the Ilolstein breed in the ma- ture class and makes her replace â€"as Canadian . hampion over all breeds- -an Ayrshire cow with a mark of 909 pounds fat from 21,241 pounds of milk. The displaced world champion milk producer for JOS days is a United States Ilol- steui with a record of 27,613 pounds of milk. * • * Staging a wrestling match with a half-grown beef animal in or- der to clip its horns is far from the softest job in the world â€" par- ticularly as there's a much easier way of accomplishing the same thing. You just use a little caustic potash on the new-horn calf. According to a Provincial ex- perimental station a little of the caustic, in either paste or stick form, applied to the horn buttons when the calf is a few days old will do the trick. To prevent un- necessary spreading and burning of the skin, apply vaseline or grease around the outside of the area treated. This method not only works on small farms but Is being used with success on larp^ cattle ran chci at wtIL Protection of crops from frost damage in early spring or at the end of the growing season is still a problem that challenges agri- cultural scientists; and although various methods have been suc- cessful to some extent most of them require too much trouble and labor, or are too costly. The smoke screen method of protecting seedlings and trees from frost has worked well on many occasions, but is inconvenient be- cause of the constant attention nec- essary to keep smudge fires going. In some places agriculturists have worked on tlie development of in- fra-rid and fuel-burning radiant heat generators; and while these have been fairly successful, the area each unit can cover is so limited that the cost appears to be much too high, for general use. Chemi are working on two other angles of approach to the problem. One is to find a chemical which will increase, the frost-resist- ance ot plants an investigation prompted by the discovery that po- tato' s treated with certain fungi- cides were not killed as readily by fall frost as those untreated. .Second approach is through the use of plant hormones. In England, for instance, the same chemicals which stop apples from dropping off the trees have been used to delay the blossoming of peaches un- til the danger of frost has passed. Development of plant varieties which will grow to maturity with- in the frost-free period is another form of defence being tried by some Canailia'i plant breeders. • * * In many soils across Canada it is almost impossible to grow such things as tomatoes, corn, cabbage, cauliflower and tobacco unless wire- worms are first destroyed. And al- though benzine hexachloride was responsible for tainting sucli crops as turnips and potatoes last sea- son, its use â€" under proper precau- tions â€" for the control of wire- worms, cabbage maggots and other soil-infesting pests cannot be con- demned. In using BHC the recommeuda jioiis of the Federal Department of Agriculture should be strictly adhered to at all times. For grain, corn, tomatoes and tobacco BHC dust (.5^1 gamma) should be broadcast at the rate of 125 to 150 pounds per acre a week to ten days before seeding, and the soil should then be lightly harrowed. For control of maggot of cab- bage, caulidowir, broccoli, etc., the same strength BHC dust is used at the rate ot 40 pounds per acre. It should be applied to the plants and soil around them 3 to 4 days af- ter transplanting. Heard This Otie? The famous bandleader, Paul Whiteman, is built on a rather large scale, but he'll never admit that he's fat. When people kid him about his weight, Paul tells them about the millionaire who really was stout. Calling on him one day a visi- tor found the millionaire lying comfortably on a couch clad â€" all 500 pounds of him â€" in a bath- robe with enormous checks. In the middle of each of these checks a number was sewed. "What's the idea of those numbers?" inquired the visitor. "Are you practising for when The Law finally catches up with you â-  sends you to Sing Sing?" "Watch me," replied tlie man of wealth and poundage. Press- ing a nearby button he sunimon- ei' his butler. "Wilkins, scratch Number Twenty Three," he com- manded with a yawn. >» "Butterhoppers "Butterhoppers" was the name coined on the spot by a bright schoolboy when he examined some curious grasshoppers on display at the Royal Ontario Museum. Obvi- ously they fascinated him. .\nd no wonder â€" for these 'hoppers from tropical South .America, recently acquired by the Museum, had the grim-looking bodies of their kmd. but were transformed into things of beauty by their gorgeous butter- fly wings. With a spread of about six inches, the wings have a colora- tion in shades of reddish brown, and dainty as butterfly wings should be. These winged 'hoppers have a formidible scientific label, of course, but "Butterhoppers" suits them perfectly. Correct Teacher: "If I take a potato and divide it into two parts, then into four parts, and each of the four parts into two parts, what would I have?" Little Emily: "''otato salad!" New Fossil Remains ,j Of Ancient Ape-M^n Over a year ago a scientific" >*«•â-  pedition left .America to study on the spot the fossi remains of man- apes found in 1936 near Johannes- burg, South .Africa. The remains consisted of two skulls, a femur and an ankle boiie) and they had b^en blasted by min- ers out of some limestone caves. More bones were later turned up about two miles away. This month there came news of still further finds, including remains of antelopes, porcupines, bush pigs, hyenas ^nd jackals; and the5e new- est discoveries seem to confirm the belief of 'he scipntists that the earlier discoveries represented sub- human species hitherto unknown. « ♦ • The early South African men- apes, or ape-men, were small in stature, only about four feet tall. Their brains were about the size of those of chimpanzees or goril- las; while they had the hea\T Jaws of apes, their teeth were almost human. There were no over-sized canine teeth, so characteristic of the ape. Their hands were small and delicate, and they walked like men. It is thought tliat they stand much closer to modern mankin than do the orangoutang, the gorilla or the chimpanzee. These finds have led to the be- lief that at some period in the earth's history there were creatures with ape-like brains combined with limbs and bodies that were virtu- ally human â€" in other words by something like the "missing link" people used to talk about 50 or 60 vears ago. • • * How old are these fossil remains. While geological dates must always be accepted with a certain amount of caution, these specimens may be anything from half a million to five million years old. The ani- mals, especially the horses, found among the remains indicate that tliese South .African men-apes lived on tl'.e plains â€" an environment which would not have been suitable to the forest - dwelling anthropoid apes. .And there is some evidence that they lived at least partly by the chaseâ€" that is to say, crushed skulls of ancient baboons were re- covered, indicating that they might have been killed by clubs or rocks. WTMmmiOFW£PlIB£/C Lazy Ants .Anuricaii scientists, returning from a survey in Cent.al America â€" where ants are more numerous and more highly developed than they are in colder latitudesâ€" report that in the average colony only 40 per cent of the insects are real go- getters. Twenty per cent work oc- casionally, and the remainder, we regret to say,, are no good afall; they spend their time "lolling about the nest". That is a higher propor- tion of loafers than in any human society. It's all very disillusioning. • Shut away from the li{;lit of day, burrowing beneath tlie surface of the earth; searching, hiuling, bringing to light the natural wealth wliicli so lightens and colours our lives. The Miner â€" man of fortitude, whose wiry hamis. firm couutenanee and sterling heart give impetus to the wheels of industry. Men like this, some of Canada's finest, are in the public's serviceâ€" at your service. DAWES BLACK HORSE BREWERY One of a series of advertisements in tribute to those CanaJians in the service of the public JITTER By /usivr iPcinter 4- t < 4 4 4 i A at 4 4t -4 4 % *â-  m fe. ♦ I. A. 4. * -4 '\».« â€" ^ 1: y -*