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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 ’.
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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-
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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»
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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
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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.