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Thursday, April 21, 1927 llSAn All TMA _ & . to be sold out at § LESS THAN COST € & for the next 30 days. All g our Trusses have a Compor § Pad without understrap. F We have a complete line of g'l‘msses for any kind of = rupture. enmmememmmmmmnmmemnmmmmnnemmit : _ Expert E000E tm enb bbn + What Every Piayer Knows guarantee him! She (at whist)â€"Isn‘t it the rule: e mt when in doubt, play trumps? Why Discriminate Heâ€"The usual rule is: When in _ Mrs. Newnich (looking over house doubt, ask what trumps are. plan)â€"What‘s this thing here going to be? Office â€" _ 12 Mansion St. KITCHENER * Impartial Experts Say EXAMINATION FREE A Pebble was the \Aâ€" _ Cave Man‘s Candy! It kept his mouth moist and Today, to make & lasting, satisfying impression, take her Wrigley‘s ______â€"â€", Calling on his sweetie, he took Our complete stock of § is the finest ‘Orange PeKoe‘ sold T russes County Treasurer‘s Sale of Land For Taxes Probet, Fred 1 County Treasurer‘s Office, #â€"13t. Court House, 1 By virtue of a warrant issued by the Warden of the County of Waterloo, and authenticated by the Seal of the said County, bearing date the 2nd day of February, 1927, and toâ€"me directed, for the collection of the arrears of taxes, due for three years upon the lands hereinafter mentioned and described, being in the County of Waterloo, all of which lands are patented. I hereby give notice, pursuant to The Assessment Act, that unless the said taxes together with all costs, be sooner paid, I shall on Saturday the 11th day of June, 1927, at the hour of 2 o‘clock in the afternoon, at the Court House, in the City of Kitchener, in the said County, proceed to selil by public auction the said lands, or so much thereof, as may be sufficient to discharge such arrears of taxes and costs incurred. in and about such sale and authorized by the said Act. Name Armstrong, Wm Waiter, J. A. Dodds, Jno. Mahon, Michae! M.Weichel & Son Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario Court House, Kitchener, Feb. 15th, 1927 V.L. 112 V.L. 97 Cookâ€"No, thank you; I usually leave it at the station for the first week. "Just a waste of money. We probâ€" aly won‘t ever have any Italians coming to see us." A Cautious Maid Mistressâ€"Shall I send for your luggage? ' Architectâ€"That is an Italian stair case. TOWNSHIP OF WELLESLEY Caddie Masterâ€"Wellâ€"there‘s old Mack over there hasn‘t smiled for forty yearsâ€"but, of course, I can‘t guarantee him! Not Foozleâ€"Proof Golferâ€"Can you let me have a caddie who doesn‘t giggle all the time? Job Filled "Any previous newspaper experi ence?" "No, but I was editor of my col lege paper." "Oh, I‘m so sorry, we‘ve got an editor." Gentle Pacifist "Hey, there, feller! What yoâ€"all runnin‘ for?" ham: "I‘se gwine t‘ stop a fight." "Who‘all‘s fightin‘?" "Jes me an‘ another feller." weuingnt on dgie®s Lot Description Acres Amount Cost Tétal .L. 29 10th Con. Va $ 91.06 $18.47 $107.92 L. 112 12th Con. /a 108.50 17.18 120.69 A. 97 12th Con. Va 37.51 18.54 53.06 L. 24 _ 1ith Con. _ 4 13.85 14.95 28.80 L. 9 10th Con. V 245.91 20.76 266.66 BAMUEL CASSB®L, itchener, Feb. 15th, 1927. County, Treasurer Cl e s i on ceA i Scott & Bowne. To ‘ Safeguard Your Body Against Winterâ€"Ils With Vitaminâ€"Rich Nourishmentâ€" Take It Abounds In Codâ€" liver Oil Vitamins SCoTTS EMULSION Smiles tonto, Ont e 0t lt Guitgst From thieves‘ hangout to thieves‘ hangout the word passed along stirrâ€" ing the underworld like the passage of an electric spark. "There‘s a bigâ€" [ger guy than Pete Flynn shooting {the worksâ€"a guy that could have ‘Jlm Gunderson for breakfast and j not notice he‘d et." The underworld bheard, and waited: to be shownâ€" after a little while the underworld 'began to whisper to itself in tones of awed respect. There were bright ' stars and flashing comets in the sky | of the world of crimeâ€"but this new Ip!anet rose with the portent of an evil moon. Ratâ€"faced gunmen in the dingy back rooms of speakâ€"easies muttered over his exploits with bated breath. In tawdrily gorgeous apartments, where gathered the larger figures, the proconsuls of the world of crime, cold, conscienceless brains dissected the work of a colder and swifter brain than theirs, with suave and bitter envy. Evil‘s Four Hundred chattered, discussed, debated â€" sent out a lhon%@fi? tentacles to clutch at a d to turn this shadow and its distorted genius to The Batâ€"they called him the Bat. Like a Bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapineâ€"like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day. He‘d never been in stir â€"the bulls had never mugged himâ€" he didn‘t run with a mobâ€"he played a lone hand and fenced his stuff so that even Tkey the Fence couldn‘t swear he knew his face. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rateâ€" women were their ruinâ€"but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapeâ€" vine telegraph could locate her. Get whom, in God‘s nameâ€"get what? Beast, man or devil? A specâ€" terâ€"a flying shadowâ€"the shadow of a Bat. "Get himâ€"get himâ€"get himâ€"get him‘" From a thousand sources now the clamor aroseâ€"press, police and public alike crying out for the capâ€" ture of the masterâ€"criminal of a centuryâ€"lost voices hounding a specter down the alleyways of the wind. And still the meshes broke and the quarry slipped away before the hounds were well on the scentâ€" leaving behind a trail of shattered safes and rifled jewel casesâ€"while ever the clamor rose higher to "Get himâ€"get himâ€"getâ€"â€"* ] Get himâ€"to hell with expenseâ€" I‘ll give you carteâ€"blancheâ€"but get him!" said a haggard millionaire in the sedate inner offices of the best private detective firm in ‘the counâ€" try. The man on the other side of the desk, manâ€"hunter extraordinary, old servant of Government and State, sleuthâ€"hound without a peer, threw up his hands in & gesture of odd hopetéssnses. "It isn‘t the money, Mr. De Courcy â€" I‘d give every cent I‘ve made to get the man you wantâ€"but I can‘t promise you resultsâ€"for the first time in my life." The conversation was ended. "Get him? Huh! I‘ll get himâ€" watch my smoke!" It was young amâ€" bition speaking in a certain set of rooms in Washington. Three «days later young ambition lay in a New York gutter with a bullet in his keart and a look of such horror and surprise on his dead face that even the ambulanceâ€"doctor who found hint felt shaken. ‘"We‘ve lost the most promising man I‘ve had in ten years," said his chief, when the news came in. He swore helplessly, “Damnl the luck!" The Shadow of the Bat You‘ve got to get him, boysâ€"get him or bust!" said a tired police chief, poupding a heavy fist on a table. The detectives he bellowed the words at looked at the floor. They had done their best and failed. Failure meant "resignation" for the policeâ€"chief, return to the hated work of pounding the pavements for themâ€"they knew it, and knowing it, could summon no gesture of brayâ€" ado to answer their chief‘s. Gunâ€" men, thugs, hijackers, loftâ€"robbers, murderers, they could get them all in timeâ€"but they could not get the man he wanted. . CHAPTER ONE A Novel from the Play > by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART and AVERY HOPWOOD~ T he But look here, Billâ€"you don‘t mean to tell me he‘l} keep on getting away with it indefinitaly t" _ The editor spread out his hands. "Now, look here," he said. ‘"We‘ve got the best staff of any paper in the country, If I do say it. We‘ve got boys that could get a personal signed story from Delilah on how she barbered Samsonâ€"and find out what struck Billy Patterson and who was the Man in the Iron Mask. But the Bat‘s something else again. Oh, of course wa‘ve panned the police for not getting himâ€"that‘s always the game. But, personally, 1 won‘t pan themâ€"they‘ve done their damnâ€" dest. They‘re up against something new. Scotland Yard wouldn‘t do any: betterâ€"or any other bunch of cops that 1 know about." \ ‘"‘Wellâ€"can‘t you dig up a Sher lock ?" Columnists took him upâ€"played with the name and the terrorâ€"used the name and the terror as a startâ€" ingâ€"point from which to exhibit their own particular opinions on everyâ€" ‘lhlng from the immortality of the soul to the merits or demerits of the Luck Stone League. Ministers menâ€" tioned him in â€" sermons â€"cranks wrote fanatic letters denouncing him as one of the sevenâ€"headed beasts of the Apocalypse and a forerunner of the end of the world. A popular reâ€" yue put on a special Bat number wherein eighteen beautiful chorusâ€" girls appeared masked and blackâ€" winged in costumes of Brazilian batâ€" furâ€"there were Bat club sandwiches and Bat cigarettes and a new shade of silk hosiery called simply and sucâ€" cinctly "Bat." He became a fadâ€"a catchwordâ€"a national figure. And yetâ€"he was walking Deathâ€"coldâ€" remorseless. But Death itself has beâ€" come a toy of publicity in these days of limelight and jazz. A cityâ€"editor, at lMinch with a colâ€" league, pulled at his cigarette and taiked. "See that Sunday story we had on the Bat?" he said. "Pretty tidyâ€"hithâ€"and yet we didn‘t have to play it up. It‘s an amazing listâ€" the Marshall jewelsâ€"the Allison murderâ€"the mailâ€"truck thingâ€"two hundred thousand he got out of that, all negotiable, and two men: dead. 1 wonder how many people he‘s really killedâ€"we made it six murâ€" ders and nearly a billion in lootâ€" didn‘t even have room for the small stuffâ€"but there must be moreâ€"~"‘ His companion whistled. ‘ "And when is the Universe‘s Finâ€" est Newspaper going to burst worth with ‘Bat Captured By Blade Reâ€" porter‘?" he queried, sardonically. "Oh, forâ€"lay off it, will you?" said the city editor, peevishly. "The Old Man‘s been hopping around about it for two months till everybody‘s plumb cuckoo. Even offered a bonus â€"a big oneâ€"and that shows how crazy he isâ€"he doesn‘t love a nickel any better than his right eyeâ€"for any sort of exclusive story. Bonusâ€" huh!" and he crushed out his cigarâ€" ette. "It won‘t be a Blade reporter that gets that bonusâ€"or any reâ€" porter. _ It‘ll be Sherlock Holmes from the spirit world!" Where official trailer and private sleuth had failed, the newspapers might succeedâ€"or so thought the disillusioned young men of the Four Estateâ€"the tireless _ foxes, noseâ€"down on the trail of newsâ€"the trackers who never gave up till that news was run to earth. Starâ€"reporter, legâ€"man cub, veteran gray in the tradeâ€"one and all they tried to pin the Bat like a caught butterfly to the frontâ€"page of their respective jourâ€" nalsâ€"soon or late each gave up, beaten. He was newsâ€"bigger news each weekâ€"a thousand trickling ‘ty'pewriters clicked his adventuresâ€" the brief, staccato recital of his career in the "morgues" of the great dailies grew longer and more inâ€" credible each day. But the big news â€"the scoop of the centuryâ€"the yearnedâ€"for headline, "Bat Nabbed Redâ€"Handed," "Bat Slein in Gunâ€"Duel With Police"â€"still eluded the ravenâ€" ous mouth of the linotypes. And meanwhile, the redâ€"scored list of his felonies lengthened, and the rewards offered from various sources for any. clue which might lead to his appreâ€" hension mounted and mounted till they totaled a small fortune. The men higher up waited. They had dealt with lone wolves before and broken them. Some day the Bat would slip and falter â€" then they would have himâ€"But the weeks passed into months and still the Bat flew free, solitary, untamed and deadly. At last even his own kind turned upon himâ€"the underworld is like the upper in its fear and dis~ trust of genius that flies alone. But when they turned against him, they turned against a spookâ€"a shadow. A cold and bodiless laughter from a pitâ€"of darkness answered and mockâ€" ed at their bungling gestures of hate â€"and went on, flouting Law and Lawless alike. their own ends. The tentacles reâ€" coiled, baffled â€" the Bat worked aloneâ€"not even Evil‘s Four Hunâ€" dred could bend him into a willing instrument to execute another‘s ‘"Honestly, though, Billâ€"were you seriousâ€"really seriousâ€"when you sald yon didn‘t know of a single deâ€" tective with brains enough to trap this devil?" The editor paused in the doorway. "Serious enough," he said. "And yet there‘s one manâ€"I don‘t know him myselfâ€"but from what I‘ve heard of His companions rose as well, but it was evident that the editor‘a the ory had taken firm hold on his mind. As they went out the door together he recurred to the subject. coat. "Wellâ€"let‘s talk about some thing elseâ€"I‘m sick of the Bat and his murders." _ _"I do not." The editor was emâ€" phatic. "He‘s the Chapman typeâ€" abut he‘s brainier than Chapman. Got a ghastly sense of humor, tooâ€" look at the way he leaves his callâ€" ing card after every jobâ€"a black paper bat inside the Marshall safeâ€" a bat drawn on the wall with a burnt match ané he‘d jimmied the Cedarburg Bankâ€"a real bat, dead, tacked to the mantelpiece over poor old Allison‘s body. Oh, he‘s in a class by himselfâ€"and I very much doubt if he was a crook at all for most of his life." "You mean?" "I mean this. The police have been combind the underworld for himâ€"I don‘t think he comes from there. I think they‘ve got to look higherâ€"up in our worldâ€"for a brilâ€" liant man with a kink in the brain. He may be a doctor, a lawyer, a merchant, honored in his community ly Bat ?" The editor smiled. ‘"See," he said, "U‘s got you already. Noâ€"I can prove an alibiâ€"the Bat‘s been laying off the city, recentlyâ€"taking a fling at some of the swell suburbs. Beâ€" sidesâ€"I haven‘t the brainsâ€"I‘m free tc admit it." He struggled into his "Bill! shivers! by dayâ€"good line that, I‘ll use it some timeâ€"and at night, a bloodâ€" thirsty assassin.. Deacon Brodieâ€" ever hear of himâ€"the Scotch deacon that burglarized his parishioners‘ houses on the quiet? Wellâ€"that‘s our man." "But my Lord, Billâ€"â€"* "I know, I‘ve been going around the last month, looking at everyâ€" body I know and thinkingâ€"are you the Bat? Try it for a whileâ€"you‘ll want to sleep with a light in your rcom after a few days of it. Look around the University Clubâ€"that whiteâ€"haired man over thereâ€"digniâ€" fNedâ€"respectableâ€"is he the Bat? Your own lawyerâ€"your own doctor â€"your own best friend. Can happen, you knowâ€"look at those Chicago boysâ€"the thrillâ€"killers. Just brilliant atudentsâ€"likeable boys â€" to the neople that taught themâ€"and coldâ€" blooded murderers all the same." "Am 1°" The editor laughed grimâ€" ly. "Think it over. Noâ€"it isn‘t so pleasant. But that‘s my theoryâ€"and I swear I think I‘m right." He rose. His companion laughed uncertainâ€" The editor frowned. "Confidentialâ€" lyâ€"I don‘t know," he said with a chuckle. ‘"The situation‘s this: for the first time the superâ€"crookâ€"the superâ€"crook of fictionâ€"the kind that never makes a mistakeâ€"has come to lifeâ€"real life. And it‘ll take a cleverer man than any Central Office dick I‘ve ever met to catch him‘" "Then you don‘t am ordinary crook luck ?" Try Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills for anaemia, _ rheumatism, neuralgia, nervousness. Take them as a tonic if you are not in the best physical condition and cultivate a resistance that will keep you well and strong. Get a box from the nearest drug store and begin this treatment now. The pills are sold by all medicine dealers or will be sent by mail at 50c a box by writing The Dr. Wil liaE\s' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. I found it difficult to do my houseâ€" work and was tired and breathless at the least exertion. 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