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T H E HERM ISTON H ER A LD The Mazaroff M ystery By J. S. FL E T C H E R . Illustrations by Irw in M yers W. N. D. Serrino T H E «TO R Y ïe e iC C om plexion R equisit« Oaa bs read la *ay box or toooder. Wllleorb (or 1 to 180 Chicks. The Boot economical and earo free heater devised. Price IS. SO postpaid, 0. O. D. Agents Wanted. iL u L iMiClWry HUSK P o viin Profilo R . I . Reds, R . I . W h ite n , W h ite Rocks, Barred Rocks, Black Minorca* Black Giants, W hits Leghorns— all from carefully anper- rissd flocks. Also W .L . Pullets, year ling bans and day old tnrkeys. Order new to insnra delivery when wanted. U ervyn H olt Is en caged by a man ca llin g h im self Mat&roff as a tra v elin g com panion. A fter a sh ort tour th ey put up nt the W oodcock Inn on M arrasdale moor. T hey m eet, casu ally, Mrs. E lp h in ston e and S h eila H erchl- son. MazarolT tells H olt th ey are w ife and d au gh ter and that his real nam e Is M erchlson. That n igh t M asaroff (a lls to return to the Inn and b is d isap p earan ce Is unexplained. H olt m eets 8 h ella and tells her o f M azaroff'» d isa p pearance. T hey g o to her cousin's (V arner C ourthope) sh o o tin g box h op in g to Snd som e word o f M e sa r off. Thare they m eet Hr. Arnjln trade sn d Doctor E ccls- anar® H olt Is qu estion ed by Po lice S ergean t M anners and a i'e- porter, B ow n as. M asaroff's m ur dered body Is found. Crole, Ma saroff's law yer, and Maythorne, p rivate d etectiv e, arrive. V alu ab le diam onds th at M asaroff usu a lly carried a re m lesln g. Mrs E lp h in ston e scoffs a t the Idea th at M asaroff la M erchlson. C H A P T E R n i — C o n tin u e d (©, by Alfred A. Knopf. Ino.) cabin trunk or no cabin trunk, monu ment or no monument, I believe that Salim M azaroff was Andrew M erchl son, and th a t he was murdered as Merchlson, and not as Muzaroff." “As— M erchlsonF I exclaimed, pans ing In sheer surprise. “B ut— who knew him, here, as M erchlsonF “T h a fs got to be found out, my la d l" he answered, w ith a knowing look. Wo found M aythorne standing at the door of the Inn, In company w ith M usgrave: Maythorne gave Crole a sort of Informing smile as we came np to them. “M r. Musgrave has Just made a dis covery,” he said. “H is gun Is miss ing." “Not three months since I gave twenty pounds for It I” Musgrave mut tered. "Very near brand new It wad! Conldn't have believed It could ba* been taken from there, neither." “And where was It taken fro m )” asked Crole. “I t was taken from the private sit ting room that M r. H o lt there, and the dead gentleman had," replied the land- “Nothing absurd, ma'am, in my tell ing you that,” retorted Crold, w ith the least touch of asperity. “H o lt,” turning to me, "you w ill Just tell us precisely what Masaroff confided to IF rjf, to r SpooioJ D im o u n t. you. the second night o f your stay at 100% live delivery guaranteed. 00 the Woodcock. T e ll the whole story." years* reputation your safeguard. I told the whole story, as we all (M T T O W )Q U I HATCHERY stood there In th a t Uttle room. But, 2 4 2 0 1 s t Avon though I watched Mrs. Elphinstone closely during my narrative, I saw no I t S till Grow s sign o t any wavering on her part. Booth Tarklngton said a t a dinner “The thing’s absurd I" she declared in Ind ianap olis: ’n the end. "U tte rly absurd 1 The “O ur ultra-m odem w riters—the man wa* probably some adventurer superrealists and so on— condemn wbo had Kot hold o f certain facts Robert Louis Stevenson, but R . L . «bout M erchlson's. past history, and S.‘s popularity grows and grows. wanted to make money out of his “A friend o f mine visited Samoa knowledge I" la s t year. “U m l" Crole said quietly. “Now " 'W h a t do you Samoans do fo r a u you w111 pardon me for UvlngT he asked an urban native. nf,lnK Pla,n «P®ech to a lady, la ln- “ *Oh,* said the native, w ith a deed an utterly absurd suggestion 1 ■mile, *ws sell coconuts, and birds of Mr- M a la roff, ®r. we should call paradise, and R. L . S.’s In k w e ll? " h,m' M r- Merchlson, so fa r from being _ » needy adventurer, was a wealthy man, a very w ealthy m an! And I f you w ill pardon me s tilt, further, I _ _____ w llt Just put something before you. I I f this man was, as he asserted hint- 1 prove' 8elf to Andrew be' and Merchlson, - we shaH who probabl* mar- morning and y o i c ^ F oW Stipatioo w ill end with a bowel £ a action as fre e and t u j sens- £ * taro a t her bast—positively no S pola,nogrtphg. Try I t »5 rled you twenty-two or three years ago, your second marriage w ith Mr. Elphinstone Is no marriage at all I You are still, In law, Mrs. Merchlson, I u u ’. »!■*■*«»- and— ” ■»d rear»», —h i Me .“ W hat la all thia leading np t o F ■ B A D A MZZJUOfr. demanded Mrs. Elphinstone. “I — " “To this, ma'am," continued Crole, T O M O R R O W i A L R 'C H t liftin g an admonitory finger, “and a very Important point, too, as you will quickly see. Although I have had Canaries o f M a n y Colors very little dealing w ith this unfor- M any colors o f canaries were tnnate man, I have had some dealing. Shown a t the recent grand national w hile he was In London, and It la my show o f cage birds held In the Crys- distinct Impression that he b a t died ta i palace, London. Bine canaries Intestate." w ere entered fo r the first time, and "W ell— and w hat has that to do there w ere a number o f w hite oaea w ith m e F questioned M r * Elphln- and hundreds of yellow singers. Rol- stone. le r canaries w ere tested fo r song In “M erely th ia ma'am. I f he was a remote, softly carpeted room. One Merchlson, and yon his wife, and this feathered prim a donna w ent from young lady your child, yon and she Meta, France, to sing. Another col- come In, between yon, fo r every penny o r novelty In the show was a w hite he's le ft 1 And there w ill be a great Jackdaw. M ore than »800,000 w orth many pennies, or I ’m a Dutchman! o f birds o f many varieties w ere die- M y advice to yon, ma'am, is this— be- played. fore settling on an attitude o f in credulity and denial. Just step across to the Woodcock, end see I f you can not satisfy yourself that the man lying there, sadly disfigured, but Identifi able, was not the man he claimed to be.” W ith this Crole made one o f his old-fashioned bows and walked out, and I followed him, leaving mother and daughter standing looking ar each other. As we pasted the gates. Crole pulled ont a snuffbox and took a hearty pinch. “T h a t’s a d— d fllnt-llke woman. H o lt." he said, cynically., “H ard— hard— and obstinate I" My own Impressions of Mra. Elphin stone were precisely those whleh' Mr. Crole expressed so emphatically. Rat I was Just then thinking of other matters. “ i f the real Andrew Merchlson was drowned la Mombasa bay," I said, Lots of folks who think they have “how could— " "Indigestion" have only an add Crole Interrupted me with a sharp, condition which could be corrected sceptical ladgh. In five or tan minute* An effeo “ Aye. but was be so drowned— ttve anti-add like Phillips Milk of there, or elsewhere, or any where F digestion he exclaim ed "M y own belief Is that he ares never drawned at a ll! For Phillips dose away with an that all that Sinclair, the w riter of that It prevents the distress so apt to letter, knew, Merchlson bad arranged occur two boars after eating. What for a boat to come off for him at a • pleasant preparation to tak e! And certain hour at night— It cornea, and b e * good It la fo rth « system! Un he a ll,» off Into It and la dean gone H e could have sent moner like a burning doee e f soda—which E asy! la but temporary relief at best— and thing» »s p ecialty money— ahead Phillips M ilk of Magnesia neutral of him to wherever he was hound. ise» many times Its volume in add. Didn't you teii me be spoke of Dur- TO-NICHT lAften/toocf Sours Next time a hearty meal, er toe rich a diet hsi pmuips * Milk of Magnesia, b en F " I d Durban. yea." I answered. " It was there be took the name nt Maze reff." “A y*, well." continued Crete. “no doubt he’d some reason— other than the one he told you of— for leaving bis eld name behind him. lie may have wished folk In both England and India to believe that Andrew MercM- Bet le tte r or no letter. M r * Elp hln sto n* lord, w ith a glance a t me. “Hnng on the w all, on two books It was. Just Inside the door— yon may ba* noticed It, M r. H o lt F “Yes, I noticed a gun there, cer tainly," I refilled. “But— 1 hadn’t no ticed th a t It had gone." "N or roe— only I haven’t been Into that room this last two or three d a y *" said Musgrave. “I t was the missis that fonnd It out— she came to me about It Just now. O f course, some o’ them drover chaps poked th eir noses In there, and, seeing nobody about helped themselves to It 1— easy enough, that would be." “ Was the gun loaded F aeked May- th o rn * “I suppose n o tF “W ell, It w a * ” adm itted M u s g ra v * “1 kept It loaded—you never know what yon may want in a lonely place like t h l* " “D angerou* though, to keep a loaded gun about, don’t you th tn k F said Maythorne, good hnmoredly. “By the b y * what sort of cartridges were there In your g u n F “Kynoch’* number twelves,” replied M u s g ra v * promptly. “Alw ays u s* “T hat might help you In tracing the gnn," remarked M a y th o rn * “You should tell the police that.” He turned from the landlord towards the moor, motioning Crole and myself to follow him. “I'm going to have a look at this Reiver’s den," he said. “B etter come w ith me. Odd, Isn't It, that Musgrave's gun. loaded w ith num ber tw e lv e * should disappear on the very night on which M azaroff Is shot dead) Didn’t you tell ns. M r. Holt, that the doctor showed you some shot which he called number tw elv e a F “H e did." I assented. *T suppose this doctor— w hat’s his name — Eccleshare 1 — knows number twelves from number te n s F be sug gested. “ H e’s a shooting man, himself," I replied. “ Staying a t High Cap lodge w ith a shooting party.” "Ah, then he'd know w hat he was talking about," he remarked, and turned from me to C r o l* “ W ell— and M r * ElphlnstoneF Crole told him all about our doings a t M arrasdale tower as we walked across the moor. H e listened and said Uttle. But I noticed that hla eves grew brighter and bis whole a ir more alert when we came to Reiver’s den— a black, gloomy, eerie; Just the place for murderous deed * T here was a local policeman on guard there; he showed us the place where MazarolTs body had lain and been discovered. This was amongst a mass o f gorse and bramble a t the foot o f an almost per pendicular rock, some th irty to forty feet In h eight “M y m a t * w hat found him," the policeman said. In a confidential whis per, “he says as how when he first come across him, he thought as the gentleman had fallen over them crags In the d arknes* But o f course he hadn’t— and ’cause w h y ) I f he’d ha’ fallen from t h e r * he'd ha’ broken hla neck and every bone In hla body; big, heavy man like that he was. And there wasn't no bones broken. My Im pression, gentlemen. Is as how he was murdered first, snd carried here a fte r ward. Look how these here shrubs Is trampled down I" Maythorne was closely examining the surroundings: I noticed that he, too, was apparently struck by the evi dent tram pling o f the gorse and bram ble. Once or twice he stopped, as If to look closer at his objects— once I saw him pick something from the ground and thrust It Into hla waist coat pocket. Presently he came back to where Crole and I stood w ith the policeman. “ I f a gun were fired In this ravine, those rocks would give back a fine re verberation," he observed. Then he looked at the policeman. “ Yon didn't bear anything that n lg h tF be asked w ith a smllo. “I heard nothing," agreed the police man. “Don't know nobody as did, neither. T here’s a cottage by here— Jnst back o’ that clump o* beech— the folks there, they didn't hear nothing. Not— nothing whatsoever I” “Oh, there’s a ^cottage there. Is th e re F said M a y th o rn * “ And who lives In I t F “Old shepherd and b it missis— Jim C o w l* his name 1 *” replied the police man. “ I was talking to him about this a ffa ir Juat now— they heard nothing. M aythorne tam ed away, toward the clump of beech. We followed him. along a narrow track that ran at the foot of the rocks under the lower branches o f the tre e * and went up a flagged path to the cottage door; Maythorne knocked; a woman’s voice hade ns enter. In s ld * at a round table drawn up ■n front o f a tu rf fire, an old mnn and an old woman s a t At sight of us. the old woman rose, politely, but the old man stuck to his seat, eyeing us with no friendly g la n c * H e got In the first word, too, surlily, before M ay thorne could address him. “Don't know nothing about that there a ffa ir in the den yonder!” he growled. “T ell'd the policeman Just now w t neither heard nor see’d any- thing, and don't w ant no bother about It." “ My good friend I” said M a y th o rn * soothingly. “ We only wanted to ask you where this footpath, that crosses Reiver’s den, snd goes outside your garden, leads to ) We re stra n g e r*" “T here now. master 1" remarked the old woman, glancing reprovingly at the old man. “You see now!— this gentleman's only asking his way. Tbs W h e n A r m ie s M e e t in B a t t le o n C h e s s b o a rd The principles o f chess are based oa the struggle o f every-day I l f * I t Is a bottle between two armies of equal strength, fought on a field o f M square* Victory usually perches on the more proficient o f the two gener als In e-jmmand. In a technical sens* the capture o f the opposing king Is not permitted, yet when the capture Is Inevitable, the game Is ended. This fact seems to escape the recognition o f many p la y e r* who direct their en tire energies to the capture of pieces or p aw n * when consistent play would Indicate an easy road to victory through the medium o f a checkmate T he tem ptation to proceed w ith the attack before all the pawns are In the field Is a great o n * but such prema ture attacks are usually abortive and frequently result In disaster. Chess literatu re abounds in examples of games I d which disaster snd defeat were a direct consequence of the fa il ure to develop property one or another o f the p ie c e *— E zch sng * Birds Named Themselves T he |<eewev named Itself by Its call, and bob white wrote Its name Into his greeting. By his call, the cuckoo has made himself an International character, while the ehlekadee has Individualised Itself la Its utterance. When asked what’s In a name, the birds might reply: "W e have put moat o f ourselves Into them, and they have been most ezceUect advertising." Historic New York Saetto» T h e so-called Annekr Jans tract contained alioet (B acres In New York city, extending .from W arren court, D o a’t Be a W akkler along Broadway to Duane street, thence northwest a m ils and a h a lf Concéntrate all your thoughta apon te Clirtstopher street, rhe Hodson the work I d hnnd The sun's niys d< river formine the base ot a sort e f 1 not hura untll hnn gh t te ■ fo c u *— Alexander O rab an BelL Page 5 path, s ir)— It leads across the moor to High Cap lodge, a ir; M r. Court- hope’s place." “Then it makes a short cut to— where, n o w F asked M a y th o rn * “W ell, sir, it's s short cut from M r. Courthope’a to B lrn s ld * and to the Woodcock,*’ replied the old woman. “But It’s Uttle used, sir— it's Uttle better than a sheep track." "And we didn't see nobody along It that night, neither one way nor t ’other," growled the old man. “Don't know nothing— a in 't got nothing to tell— nothing I" We backed out, closed the door, and went away. Maythorne smiled— Inscrutably. “AU the same, Mazaroff followed thia path," he said. “ W h y ) Did he want to go to High Cap lodge)— M r. Conrthope's place) Or— had he been there and was coming away from I t ) Who knows) However, 1 want to go up to the top o f those rocks.” He turned off the path, and began to make his way to the head of the ravine through the scrub and under growth. Crole and I followed. We came out on a sort of plateau, over looking the black depths In which MazarolTs body had been found. And t h e r * a solitary fig u r* stood another old man. older, It seemed, than the crusty and ancient fellow we bad Just le ft; grayer, more gnaried and w rin kled, bnt erect and alert, and evi dently quick of hearing as a boy, for at the first sound of our approach he turned sharply upon u * “T he place already sttracta the curl- o n *” be observed, half-lroulcally. “We have something more than Idle curiosity to bring ns h e r * sir," re torted Crole, almost sharply. “ We are the dead gentleman's friends! May I In my turn ask— as you seem Inter ested In the m a tte i^ -lf you can tell us anything to help u s F The old man smiled, and looked from one to the other. “W ell, I could tell yon of something, but w hether It w ill help you or not I don’t know. Yet— It might. I heard a gun discharged— hereabouts— on the night this man was missed.” “And about what tim e would that be)’’ Inquired Crole. "About what Is usually my bedtime." replied the old fellow. “Ten o’clock.” Crole looked at M a y th o rn * “That must have been the shot,” he said, musingly. Just then the policeman at the foot o f the rocks, who had been pottering about the bushes, looked up, and waved hts hand excitedly. “Come down here I" he shouted. “Tve found something. A gun I” We began to descend the rocks to the dense undergrowth amidst which the policeman stood. H e was gingerly handling a sporting gun, and as we drew up to him, he nodded toward a clump o f overgrown gorse. “ Shoved In beneath that I” he ex claimed. “T h a t’s where It w a * " M aythorne opened the breech— there were two cartridges In the barrels; one, In the choke-bore barrel, had been discharged. H e glauced at Crole. “O dd!" he said. “W hy didn’t he nse the right-hand b arre l)” The old gentleman, who seemed to he fascinated by the sight o f a weapon that hHd doubtless been used by a murderer, laughed a little. “i f that’s the gun that wns used to sho ot'this young gentleman's elderly companion," he remarked, "as I, per sonally, have no doubt It w a * there’s a good reason why the murderer need the left-hand barrel. Pf‘rhu|»s you're not a shooting man. s ir)— If not, I may tell you that the left-hnnd barrel of a fowling piece Is always nar rowed In the bore as It approaches the muzzle: the notion, of course, la that the shot, or dlaclmrge. ta concentrated rather than diffused. I f a man wanted to ehoot another man dead, at close quarters, as In this case, he'd nat urally use the choke-bore barrel In preference to the other." Then, with a polite nod. he turned and went off. Maythorne watched him for a minute or so; then glanced at the policeman. “ Who ta that old gentleman F he asked. “T h a fs Mr. Hasaendenne, of Blrn- slde hous* sir," replied the police man. Maythorne drew Croles* attention and mine to a name and address en graved on a plate let Into the stock— J. Musgrave, Woodcock Inn, Marras- d a l* “This Is the landlord's missing property, sure enough," he remarked. We le ft Reiver's den, and went back across the moor. Maythorne, as soon as we reached the Woodcock, nought ont Musgrave snd told him o f the dis covery of his missing gun. He hurried over bis lunch, and as soon as I had finished mine, addressed me. “The police are sure to come along here a fte r the finding of that gun." he remarked. “ And I want to be before hand with them. I want to examine MazarolTs belonging*" “Just sol" murmured C r o l* "T hat, o f course, must he done." We went up to the dead man's room. Maythorne did the searching while Crole snd I looked on. In the waistcoat po.’kets of a well-worn tweed suit M sythornt found a nnm- her of loose diam ond* large and small. “ W hat did 1 tell y o u F exclaimed Crole as the diamonds came to light. H e did carry diamonds, loose, os him ) Look at those, now— must be s dozen or so stones t h e r * loose In hit pocket I Do you suppose those arr worth a lot. M aythorne)— Yoe know more shunt It than I do." “Can’t say." replied Maythorne. In tlfferently. H e was more deeply In te nded In a crumpled scrap o f thl paper which he found In an In' pocket and smoothed out before a» "la w k at thia F he M id pres« i Here's something, at any rate." ITO ■ ■ CONTINUED» Dodchp Kuenirtcp Fainj Tai® A " M A H Y -G R A H A M - B O N N E R m»~ ■ » wniwM twens u n m n ■■■■■ i , . « » YANGTZE ft was along the eastern coast ot China that David first saw the Yangtze river. Yangtze spoke to him a t once and suld: “Tve board from Geo, David, that you’ve talked to other rivers, and I hope you’re not so weary of river ramblings and talk but what I can tell you my story too." “Y e * " said David, w ith a certain amount of p r ld * 'T v e become quite w ell acquainted w ith r iv e r * but I should love te hear your story, Yangtze. I t w ill be wonderful when I get back home to say I ’ve talked to the Yangtze river way over In C h in * ” Yantze smiled a Jolly, happy smile. " I f I talk too much," he said, "you may stop me, but you can’t stop me from flowing In a river way. I ’ve a river brother who la Important around here too, named the Yellow riv e r or Hw ang H a Between us we've built np a great plain and they’ve helped ns w ith canals so as to enable people to get from one rice field to another. W e’re all mighty fond o f rice. Moai of the big ports such as Canton and Shanghai and Tientsin are near our mouths." David really didn’t mind how much Yangtze talked. H e loved hearing the Chinese names. To him they had al ways been names he had never ex pected to know fam iliarly. “T o be sare," Yangtze was contin uing, "we care about corn, too, and grain and silk. “But what a good time I have! Great ships from the sea come sailing up along my river. 1 let them go at much as a thousand miles and how I Summer COLDS Almost everybody knows (uNfl Bayer Aspirin breaks up a cold— but why not prevent it? Take SI tablet or two when yon first feel the cold coming on. Spare yourself the discomfort of a summer cold. Read the proven directions in every package for headaches, pain, etc. For Side or Trade— 1.400-acre sheep and dairy farm ; free water; on highway and R. K. Fltspatrlck A Thorp. W alla W all*. Wash. ForGalledHorses Hanford's Balsan of Myrrh » . Snt to»» U SH » D ie t fo r Zoe Captives T w o tons o f. dried grasshoppers were ordered from South Africa re cently fo r animals a t the national zoological park a t Washington, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. They were fo r the diet of some o f the rare African birds and dlao fo r mixing w ith the food of some o f the mam- mals, according to the zoo director. D r. W illia m M. Mann. Valuable ele ments are combined In the proper amounts In the in sect* experts have found, and few satisfactory substi tutes fo r them have been discovered. G et poisons out o f system. . . . D o cto rs k n o w th a t th is m o d ern scientific la x a tiv e w o r k s e ffic ie n tly in s m a lle r doses b e c a u s e y o u c h e w i t . S afe a n d m ild fo r o ld a n d young. Feeitö: FOR C O N S T IP A T IO N T he Yangtze River. do enjoy them. Beyond thut distance there are rocky gorges and ra p id * Only smaller boats can go further. Come along and wander with me." So David went wandering along the Yangtze river. He saw pagodas and slender bumboo trees. Yangtze told him that the bamboo trees were used to help make roofs und walls to the houses and pipes too through which wa ter could be carried. And chairs made from bamboo trees too. as well as beds and b u c k e t*. baskets and mat ting, and the fram e work of umlirel l i t * lanterns and f a n * rakes, corub* Stlcka. From the leaves raincoats were made, so that David did not won der that Yangtze admired them for tb e lr unselfishness, hut he admired them mostly because they were so lovely to see. T here were willows growing along the river's banks too, und the soil along the river was really fa t looking and quite yellow. “Good rich soli," Yangtze Bald, “and yellow Is our favorite and most Im portant color over here. I t ’s what we call the Im perial color." T here were Islands along the river. Now snd again there wus a mist and then the sun would quickly come out and there were ralnlMiws and the dampness o f the d irt didn't gel David wet at all. They passed .tea fields and Yangtze said: , "Bometlmet they call me the river o f< h e Fragrant Tea Fields. Isn’t thul ■ Rice name)'* David agreed thut It was. “Then." continued Yangtze, “ Hong Kong, down alotig the coast, means Fragrant Streums us In the oldeu days vessel» used to put I d there tv get fresh and tw eet w ater.” David saw sheds decked w ith or ange blossom wreaths and perfumed flowers and he ta w silk worms being hatched under blankets, spinning tbelr silken cocoon* H e saw Yangtxe al times looking as thick as though made of pea soup and Yt«ngtse luughed when David a;edie o f it. “I even make part of the Pacific yellow to o l" On they passed by farms and little settlements where Map children played and where banners waved In the breeze or where lanterns shook and almost seemed to be merrily laughing. “ Now and again," said Yangtse. “ty phoons sweet» In from tlm Yellow sea T h a t’s when your friend Wind get» excited. Oh, but It gets excited." As Y e v th U a d a n to a d a I t Bunday Ncbool Teacher— Now. Net tie, what does It mean to bear fsla« witness against one’s neighbor) N ettie (aged seven)— It's when no body ain ’t doin’ nothin' and somebody and tells It. O er W orldly U fe a ts Mother— Where do bed Uttle girts B etty — Moot ebang* everywhere. — Ez B rita in 's Richest C ity I f the proportion o f well-to-do c iti zens may be ganged by the number o f private motor cars licensed la a city, then Bradford Is the richest city In Great B ritain. In ratio to Its population, Bradford has the largest number of private motor enrs; Lon don, Edinburgh, Glusgow, Manches ter, and Birmingham being fa r be hind. W ith 8,700 private c a r * Brad ford has one for every fifty o f Its In h a b ita n t* M en Becoming W e a k e r Sex Prof. A. M. Low, the famous Scot- fish electrical Inventor, claims that, a t the pace we sre traveling, wlthta 80 years women w ill he as strong as men, and w ithin 100 years mnn will* be considered the weaker sex. D a u g h te r Is H e a lth y Now •‘Mythirteen-year-olddaugh- ter Maxine was troubled with backache and pain when she came into womanhood» 1 knew Lydia É. Plnkham’s Vi Compound would help her be cause 1 used to take it myself at her age. N ow she does not have to stay home from school and her color is good, she well and does not complain o f being tired. We are tecom- mending the Vegetable Com pound to other school girls who need it. You may publish this letter.”—M a Floyd B mp dwr, R. f a, Gridley, Kannu.
