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THE HERMISTON HERALD
Thursday, July 10, 1930
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The Mazar off Mystery
CHAPTER IX— Continued
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He hurried out—to return within s
minute or two with U r. Elphlnstone.
And, for the first time since the be­
ginning of my acquaintanceship with
him, Maythome showed evidence of
something close akin to excitement.
“Here’s a new d e v e lo p m e n the ex­
claimed as be came into the room.
•M r. Elphlnstone has been to my office
and followed me here to tell me that
Mrs. Elphlnstone has disappeared!"
We all turned on Mr. Elphlnstone.
He was shaken out of his usual dream­
iness; he looked perturbed, dismayed.
• puzzled, wholly at a loss. Standing
there a little within the doorway,
blinking at us as If unable to make us
out or reckon us up, he nodded auto­
matically at Maythorne's announce­
ment. But be was sufficiently master
of himself to confirm It, In words.
"Since last night!” he said. “Dis­
appeared— completely! Most extraor­
dinary—and unpleasant—and embar­
rassing— I really do not know what to
think—or do!"
Crole, who had given the two police­
men a sharp glance on bearing the
news, pushed a chair toward the new­
comer.
“Sit down, Mr. Elphlnstone," he
said. “Perhaps we can help you a
bit. When did Mrs. Elphlnstone dis­
appear?"
Mr. Elphlnstone dropped Into the
chair, and looked round us again.
“Just so!" he said. “The fact Is.
the whole thing Is really most confus­
ing. Last night, of course! We left
Miss Apperley's flat and went to
Short’s hotel. We had dinner on our
arrival. In our own private sitting
room. It was some little time after
that that Sheila came. She— ”
"Oh I— Miss Mercblson came there,
did she?” Interrupted Maythome.
"Miss Mercblson—Sheila—my step­
daughter—yes. She came. She and
her mother went Into the adjoining
bedroom— to talk. I heard them talk­
ing. I — I went away— downstairs, you
know—I thought I ’d smoke a cigar In
the smoking room. I was down there
perhaps an hour.
I foregathered
with a man who turned out to be some­
thing of an archeologist—Interesting
conversation. Perhaps I was a little
longer away. Then I went up to our
rooms again. There was nobody there
— nobody at all I I thought perhaps
Mrs. Elphlnstone and Sheila had gone
Into the drawing room, and I went
there, but they were not to be seen.
I waited some time. Then, ns they
didn’t come, I made some Inquiry.
And 1 found— really most astonish­
ing I— I found, from the hall porter,
that Mrs. Elphlnstone and Shelia, and
Alison Murdoch had all gone out of
the hotel some time before, evidently
soon after I had gone down to the
smoking room. And— ’’
“Pardon me, Mr. Elphlnstone,” broke
In Maythome, "but— who Is Alison
Murdoch?"
Mr. Elphlnstone looked at his ques­
tioner pretty much as a man looks
who wonders that anybody shouldn’t
know as much as himself.
“Alison Murdoch T’ he answered.
“Oh, ah!— you’re not a Marrasdale
man, of course. Alison Murdoch Is a
sort of foster-sister of my wife's.
Brought up together, as children, you
know. Then at one time she was for
many years my wife's maid—still acts
In that capacity when we go traveling,
as In this Instance. But for some few
years she has lived In a little bouse at
Marrasdale— Blmslde, really—on her
own means— little competency, you
know. An active woman, though—In
the tourist season, for instance, she
helps them at the Woodcock with their
cooking—clever, bustling woman !"
"And she went out last night with
Mrs. Elphlnstone and Miss Merchison7”
asked Maythome.
“So I learned from the hall por­
ter. He said that Mrs. Elphlnstone
and her maid— they know them both
well enough at Short's for we are al­
ways up, all three of us, two or three
times s year, and Miss Merchlson,
whom, of course, they also know well,
all went out together about— I think
be said half past nine."
"Did he call s cab for them?” de­
manded Maythome.
"No— he said they turned to the left,
down the street—walking," replied Mr.
Elphlnstone.
“Dear me!—I really
can't think why they should go walk­
ing at that hour of the evening!”
“But the point Is—did they, or any
one of them, return?” Inquired Crole.
“None returned 1" said Mr. Elpliin-
gtone. "1 waited up till midnight—
eventually I retired— very much pus-
sled. And— I was so fatigued I fell
asleep at once, and slept soundly un­
til morning. To my great amazement,
1 found that neither Mrs. Elphlnstone
nor Alison Murdoch had come back—
Sheila, of course, I supposed to be at
Miss Apperley’s So, after getting a
little breakfast, 1 drove to Miss Ap-
perley's, and Just caught that young
lady as she wss leaving for her
claseea. To my still greater amaze-
Bsent she knew nothing whatever
about Sheila. Sheila, she said, had
suddenly remarked, after sitting In
silence for a long time the previous
evening, that she would go to Short's
hotel and have things out with her
asotber, sad had set off there and
then—and bad never returned! So,”
concluded Mr. Elphlnstone. waving
his sliver mounted cane, "there It la!
AU three have vanished!—Io Ixmilon [
I thought of Mr. Maythome and went
to his office—and was brought along
bore to him. And I naa going .o ask
goo, Mr. Maythome—do yon thins It
peqrfMo tjMT k»TB
kidnaped T
by J , 8 . FLETCHER
if those chaps hare mads anything .
out, and to give Cottlngley a start.
Better come, both of you."
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"I won’t," aald Crole. “1 must get
W. N. D. Service
back to my office. I can do no good at
Short's, and you can Ting me up if
you’ve any new« Oh, by-the-bye," he
as
If
in
surprise.
"To
be
aura—It
be­
No one laughed: Mr. Elphlnstone’s
added, aa Maythome signaled to a
simplicity was too apparent. He waa longs to my w ife!"
taxicab driver, “I forgot to mention It
Maythome bent over the table before. Holt. Armlntrade’a check duly
very grave, too. In bis simplicity, and
Crole was equally grave In replying to toward Uannera and Corkerdale and arrived this morning. So that's all
for a moment or two spoke to them in right, and I suppose we’ve finished
his Ingenuous question.
"No, Mr. Elphlnstone, no, 1 don’t a whisper: I gathered that be was with his part la all these mysteries."
think It possible for three women to telling them bow and when he found
“Finished with nothing. Crole!" ex­
be kidnaped, even In London," he an­ the brooch which he had Just ex­ claimed Maythome. “The curtain Is
swered. "I think you'll And that they hibited. Again he turned to Mr. El- still up—well up!—on everything.
went out on some business of their pldnstone.
Coming, Holt?—you’d better."
“You've no doubt that this is your
own, and that they had good reasons
I went with him. I wus not so much
wife's
brooch?”
he
asked.
“After
all,
—again of their own!—for not return­
concerned about Mrs. Elphlnstone as
I
suppose
that
one
of
these
things
Is
ing. But let me ask yeu for a little
about Shells. T le t some new and
more Information— when your wife and very like another."
very serious situation had arisen when
“That’s
is
my
wife's
property!"
af­
her daughter went Into the bedroom to
Sheila called on her mother the pre­
firmed
Mr.
Elphlnstone
with
more
de­
talk In private, where waa Alison Mur­
vious evening there could be no doubt
cision of will and manner than be
doch?"
—nothing else, 1 was sure, could have
Mr. Elphlnstone considered this for usually showed. “I bought It for her occasioned the strange departure and
myself, years ago, in Inverness, it Is
a moment
disappearance of which Mr. Elphln­
“Probably," he replied at last, “prob­ one of two— they are precisely alike. stone had told us. What was It?
The
stones
are
of
a
rather
uncommon
ably In the next room to that—a
It took tittle time to run round to
dressing room, which she used as a bed­ sort of cairngorm; the silver mount­ Short’s, a famous. If somewhat old-
ings
are
old.
I
bought
the
pair
in
a
room.
We always have the same
fashioned hotel in the West end, great­
sort of odds-and-ends shop In Inver­
ly In favor with country family peo­
ness— I remember the circumstances
ple. While we. rode there Maythorne
very well. But to be sure!—1 haven't
occupied himself In posting up Cot­
seen either brooch for years.”
tlngley In all our doings that morning,
"Mrs. Elphlnstone didn't wear them,
and especially about the disappear­
then?" suggested Maythome.
ance of Mrs. Elphlnstone. Cottlngley
"She thought them old-fashioned
soaked it aU In without saying a word;
and rather too heavy,” replied Mr.
he was still euting apples, and he
Elphlnstone. "She looked on them, I
munched them steadily while his em­
think, as curiosities— she said they’d
ployer talked.
But aa Maythome
been used, originally, for fastening
made an end Cottlngley also finished
plaids— men’s plaids, you know, at the
his last apple, and tossing th e . core
shoulders—and she put them away. I
out of the cab window, rapped out a
don’t remember that she ever did
wear them— but I have no doubt what­ word or two.
“Steamship offices 1" he said. “Like­
ever that what you show me Is one
of the pair.
Now, where did you liest place, first.”
“Hood I" assented Maythorne. “There
get it?”
“Let It suffice for the moment, Mr. may be something In thuL All rig ht!
Elphlnstone. to say that I found It, —you get on to IL But first, we’ll
accidentally,” answered Maythome. see tf anything’s turned up here."
We left the cab a little way from
“Picked It up, you know— when I was
Short’s, and walked along towards the
at Marrasdale.
Never mind more.
principal entrance. Manners and Cor
Just now."
He replaced the brooch In his pocket kerdale were Just coming out as we
reached it—I thought I saw In their
and rose, looking round at the rest
manner that they had heard some­
of us.
“Well?'' he said.
"What
thing.
next?”
“ Well?" asked Maythorne as we
Nobody made any suggestion. The
next words came from Mr. Elphlnstone. Joined them. “ Any news?”
"Nobody’S returned,” replied Oorker-
“I wish I knew what has become
of my w ife!” he said, plaintively. dale, "and there's nothing in Mrs.
Elphlnstone’a or the muM's rooms to
“Do You Think It Possible They Have "Can no one think of anything
suggest why they ever went away.
Been Kidnaped?"
to do?"
“She’ll have to be sought for, sir," But we have heard a bit that the old
rooms when we stay at Short’s
said Corkerdale.
He nudged Man­ gentleman hadn't found «out when he
There's a sitting room, a bedroom, and ners. "We'd better be doing some­ set off to you this mousing.'’
a dressing room: Alison Murdoch al­ thing, I think,” be murmured. "The
"W hat’s that?’’ asked Maythome.
ways has the dressing room. I should
‘T»dd circumstance, to be sure!” an
hotel first, eh?”
say“ she’d be* In there when my wife
sowed the detective. “I ’d like to know
Maythome turned to Ecoteshare.
and Sheila went Into the bedroom."
“I suppose you’re on the telephone?” what it means. O ff It from the under
“Did -yon find out from the hall he said. “Just sol—let os ring op hall porter. He nays that some little
porter If they took anything away Short’s and find oot I f Mrs. Elphln­ time after Mr. wnd Mrs. Elphlnstone
with them?” Inquired Crole.
“Any stone lias returned there.”
and the niaMI «arrived Inst night— he
light baggage—anything of that sort.
knows all three well enough, he says,
lie went out Into the testl with Ec
As If they, or one qr other of them,
cleshure; the rest of us waited until : ns they come there two or three times
meant to stay away for the night?"
their return a few minutes later. May­ a year—-a man came Into the entrance
“I didn’t Inquire." replied Mr. Elphln­
hall and asked him If they—naming
thome shook hts head.
stone. “But I ’m sure they didn't. The
"No news I” he answered.
“They ; them—were «topping there? He said
hall porter—an Intelligent man whom haven't been back there—op to wow. they were, and he believed they were
I've known for many years—told me But—as they set out from there 'I then having «dinner. The man went
this morning that bis own opinion, suppose that'« the best base -from away. But 'this under hall porter also
when they went out was— well, In which to conduct operationsr
says that 'he noticed the same man
short, one that would never have oc­
"W e re going tliece. anyway," «old hanging shout the hotel front after
curred to me."
that. Httd 'that he was there, as If
Corkerdale. “Mrs. KiphlnstoneM «nt
"And that was— whnt?" asked Crole. io be found I ITrkapg Mr. Elphlnstone watching «when Mrs. Elphlnstone and
“He said he thought the ladles were will come with as?—w e may Hilt on her daughter and the maid went out—
going to have what he culled an honr some clew from something that's 'been In fart,'he's positive that the man fol­
at tlie pictures.” answered Mr. Elphln­
lowed them down the street and round
left."
stone. “O f course, I didn’t under­
We left the house. Outside, across the first 'comer. And—that's all I”
stand him. He explained that Just the street, Johnson was «till loilfing j
"And a good lot I" remarked May-
round the comer from Short's, la the about. He caught M aythom e* «eye; rhorne. “Could he describe the man?"
direction they took. Is one of these what Maythorne did ho the way of
'"Oh, yes! A little, thin man, about
new-fangled cinema theaters, where, I signaling to him I did not make out,! thirty or so; slight brown mustache,
am told, moving pictures are shown. but Johnson loafed away., and «till j wove spectacles; very respectably
But I cnn’t think—”
further away, and faded -out of sight. dressed; wore a Trliby hat—looked
“I think we may take It that they
like a clerk or commercial traveler—
"No need to keep that «chap hanging
didn't go there,” remarked Maythome. round." observed Maythome. “Now something of that sort.” replied Coe-
He glanced significantly at the two for Cottlngley— I think I «hull put iCot-
kerdale.
policemen. “This'll have to be gone tlDgley onto the track of Mra Elphin
"Did he say anything to the under
Into carefully,” he murmured. “Tour stone—he’ll find her a lot quicker ; hall porter as to wny he wunted the
line!”
Elphinstones?" asked Mkythome.
than any professional poSlee will.”
"We don’t know that Mrs. Elphln­
"No— the man asked him It he could
“Where’s he going 1« pick up a
stone mayn’t be found at Short’s— dew?" Inquired Crole. sarcastically.
take up any message.” said Corker­
when Mr. Elphlnstone goes back there,”
"I^ove that to Cottlngley 7” «retorted dale. “ He replied no—I» didn’t mat
said Crole, glancing at his watch. “I t ’s Maythome. “He’ll see a clew where ter: be wouldn’t disturb them If they
now noon, and— "
no one else would. Alt he «ranis is were nt dinner; he'd look In again."
“And he didn't look In again?"
“We don’t,” Interrupted Maythome. rlenr—and concise— Instructions «e
Then. In an undertone, he muttered: start out on.”
“No—the lust the under hall porter
“But I guess he won't! Mr. Elphln­
We found Cottlngley at the top of saw of hlru. he was following the
stone!” he continued, raising his voice. the street. He was eating aa apple, three women down the street."
“I want to show you something— In supplement to his lunch of knead i
Maythome remained alien, for a
something that I have In my pocket. and cheese. Phlegmatic as ever, he minute or two.
“Well," he said at last. “1 suppose
Here it Is," he went on, producing the turned with as toward the nearest
cairngorm brooch, and laying It on the cab-rank. Maythome talking to him as you’ll follow -things up In your own
way. I f 1 can be of any help, let me
table. “Tell me!—have you ever seen we went along.
“What next?" asked Crole as we know, I f 1 hear anything. I'll let you
that article before?”
know. Corkerdale. May as well help
reached Edgware road again.
Mr. Elphlnstone peered carefully at
“I'm Just going ronnd by Short's each other." He turned away. Cot
the brooch and then looked up, quickly.
"Where did you get thia?" be asked. hotel," answered Maythorne, "to hear tlngley and 1 (allowing him. After go­
ing a abort distance, be motioned to
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"T ry your line—the shipping offices,
ha said. “May be some
D e s o la t io n in W a k e o f G ig a n tic G o ld D r e d g e s Cottlngley."
good."
Cottlngley went off. and Maythome
and I walked oa ia alienee for a
Automobile tourists through the recover a small quantity of the yellow
northern part of California are liable metal, but at that the business Is very while.
“Tlda is a queer business. H o lt!” h»
to have their attention attracted to profitable. The stones taken from the
soli are useful only to grind up for said after some time. "Thut Mrs
mountains of cobblestones frequently
Elphlnstone Is either guilty or Is privy
seen. Sometimes these piles are V) or «■ement. but the plies standing today
« ill offer crushed stone sufficient for to someltody aloe's guilt seems dead
00 feet high and several hundred feet
long. They are never beautiful sod the demands of the entire country for certain I B u t—where on earth has she
«IlSHpiieared to? And when and where
they add nothing to the landscape. In many years.—Washington Star.
are we going to get news of her?"
fact, they are eyesores, but there Is
I got no more light on Iba» problem
C k astaal Troos
little prospect of their removal. These
for more than two days.
Nohudv
There is a Chinese hairy chestnut
plies are the accumulation of the gold
dredges, gigantic constructions which and a Japanese chestnut, but no Japa­ heard anything, nobody discovered an*
ast their way through the land and nese hairy chestnut. The Chinese hairy thing. I called continually at Short’s
leave a trail of desolation. Farm lands chestnuts are being brought to this Mr. Elplilnwtone. after being at his
and orchards are brought up by the country In the hope that they will re­ wits’ ends, settled down to a sort of
operators and left In ruin, for the land place our chestnut I roes which were philosophic calm, waiting. And noth­
la useless for any purpose whatever destroyed by a blight. While the trees ing bs,>|ieiied. until, on the third night
grow slowly and do not bear a good after the disappearance. Maythorne
after the passage of the dredger.
Theos machines cost aboat a quarter crop for about ten years, they are ba- rushed np to niy n » n » and thrust an
of a million dollars, hut the coat of tleved ta be stsrdler than the Japa- evening ne«»|«aper before me.
“For God's sake. H o lt!" he e r
nere chest nat% which bear In two or
operation ta very small. A large qusn
! claimed excitedly “Read that I"
tltr of the earth a v t H IraBled U> tt-rr* /e»rg,
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(TO B I CONTINL'WU
tlla e tr a tla n « kjr » W I N MYERS
Paße
T h is W eek
| p A R T H U R BR ISB A N B
Texas Surprises T h e m
W hiskers the Fashion
Get Your Automobile
You Have a Rich Uncle
Another young American surprised
the world last week in London. This
one, W ilm er Allison, from San Antonio,
Texas, beat Henri Cochet, the world
tennis champion, in three straight seta.
London could not have been more
surprised If the young Texan had lifted
up the Nelson monument with one
hand.
I f you plan a trip to London, and
want to look fashionable, let your
beard grow, in caveman fashion. Young
Oxford men and the “young set” gen­
erally are doing th a t
Britain decides that whlakera are
necessary to celebrity; a man cannot
look convincingly eminent clean­
shaven.
They overlook at least three—Alex­
ander, Caesar and Napoleon. They
were clean shaven and quite convlno
lag-
That style w ill not last. Whiskers
are nests for germs, traps for crumbs,
needed only by those that lack char­
acter. In the case of doctors, they
should be made Illegal. Scarlet fever
and other germs cling doggedly to
Lacoste, second among tennis play­
ers, last week married Mademoiselle
De La Chaume, best female golfer in
France.
According to eugenlsts, their child
should be the earth's greatest tennis
or golf star.
Very probably It w ill play neither
game, and take to flying. Charles A.
Dana used to tell of two highly Intel­
lectual stlrplculturists that married,
determined to have a fam ily of ge­
niuses. They had one child, weak-
minded.
Nature keeps us about even.
Automobile companies report sales
greatly diminished In June.
This means that many Americans
are making a serious mistake. E ffi­
ciency and rapid motion go together;
you wouldn’t think much of a bird that
decided to economise by doing without
wings. Better do without something
else.
An automobile, wisely bought, used
and cared for. Is not an extravagance
tor any man. It ts a necessary part of
modern equipment, and to do without
It la the worst kind of "false economy.”
Secretary Mellon, keeper of the pub­
lic purse, announces a satisfactory fin­
ancial year, and a surplus of $184,000,-
000 In Uncle Sam’s pocket.
Mr. Mellon reduced by $746,000,000
the public debt which now totals six­
teen billions, one hundred and eighty-
five millions. Not much for such a
rich country. Business might he better
If bonds were not paid off so rapidly.
But Mr. Mellon probably knows best
Mr. Lingle, reporter for the Chicago
Tribune, murdered, turns out to have
been deep In the plans and probably
sharing the profits of gangsters, ac­
cording to detectives’ statements. His
salary wac $65 a week and hts Income
$60,000 a year.
The most serious statement In this
lamentable exposure Is that Lingle
dealt In police promotion. To be made
police lieutenant the charge was
$1,500, for a captain, $5,000.
No wonder some of the police turn
to graft and gangsters, when the posi­
tion they bold Is part of a graft system.
The Incident In no way discrédita
the Chicago Tribune, which knew
nothing of Lingle’s underworld life.
However, Colonel McCormick end
Major Patterson, whose ownership
controls the Tribune, w ill want to
know what particular Individual In the
Tribune organisation did know of
Lingle’s activities, supporting him
with the Tribune’s authority and pr»
sumably sharing his profits.
Babe Ruth 'slammed out” hla thirty-
first home run last week and ts getting
on toward forty years of age. That will
Interest millions.
Goethe "slammed out” the second
part of Faust when he was seventy-
two. That Interests few.
Legs and arms rule now. Brains will
control men's interest In the future;
say, 100,000 years hence.
W h en
Babies
CRY
Babies w ill cry, often for no
apparent reason. You «nay not
know what’s wrong, but you can
always give Castoria. This soon
has your little one comforted; i f
not, you should call a doctor.
Don’t experiment with medicines
intended for the stronger system«
of adults 1 Most of those little
upsets are soon soothed away by
a little of this pleasant-tasting,
gentle-acting children’s remedy
that children like.
I t may be the stomach, or may
be the little bowels. O r in the case
of older children, a sluggish, con­
stipated condition. Castoria is still
the thing to give. I t is almost
certain to clear up any minor
ailment, and could by no possi­
bility do the youngest child the
slightest harm. So it’s the first
thing to think of when a child has
a coated tongue ; won’t play, can’t
sleep, is fretful or out of sorts.
Get the genuine; it always has
Chas. H . Fletcher’s signature on
the package.
B lundering Font
“My husband Is forty. You wouldn’t
believe It, but there Is ten years
The largest astronomical observa­ difference In our ages.”
tory In the Far East, and one which
“Impossible I I ’m sure yon look
la surpassed only by observatories quite as young ¡.j he does."—London
In Germany and the United States, Tlt-BIta.
has Just been completed In Sanaku,
a small suburb of Tokyo. The total
cost of the work Is put at $200,000.
The length of the telescope Is 11
meters and the diameter of the
lens 20 Incites. Work on the build­
ing to house this and many other
scientific Insirumenfs which are In
eluded In the observatory equipment
has been going on for more than Strengthened by Lydia E.
three years untler the direction of Pinkham’a Vegetable Com­
Doctor Hashlmoto, a noted special­
pound
ist In astron ;t.lcal Instruments
“At last the time has come when
Mission, Tex.— “I have used a good
Japanese astronomers can work
freely," the doctor said after the deal of your medicine and always find
it p v t
observatory had been opened. “Al­
help. I w ss feeling
though we have had the will to go
so weak and miser-
more deeply Into astronomical lines
able that I had to
lie down very of­
In this country, we have been un­
ten and I could
able to do so because of lack of
h a r d ly d o m y
equipment The situt.tlon was tanta­
housework. I read
mount to being at war without
in the paper how
wenpons. We shall now be able to
Lydia E. Pink-
engnge tn friendly rivalry w ith,our
ham’s Vegetable
brother astronomers In all ports of
C o m p o u n d h ad
h e lp e d o th e r
the world.”
women who were
in the same condition so I said I will try
Sports by T elevision N ear
it for myself. I am very much bitter
Football, baseball, cricket and now and I recommend this mcfucine,
other games muy be projected by and will answer letters from women ask­
television, according to Sir Ambrose ing about it.’’—Mas. J. W .Ai.srirtwolt,
Fleming, Inventor of the Fleming 1015 Miller Avenue, Mission, Texas.
valve. In a recent address before
Real Living Roams
the physical society In London he
The beds have been taken out of
said this could be accomplished by
the use of mirrors. Operators could the American living room. “Living
employ a large mirror In throwing a room" now meuns something In our
small and very brilliant scene on a lives.—Woman’s Home Companion.
scanning disk. Behind this mirror
could be placed a p «oto-electrlc cell,
which would have projected on It a
brllllan' Image spot by spot, as the
scanning disk rotated. For this to
be successful It would be necessary
to make the photo-electric cell much
more sensitive than those at present
la use.
Jap Astronomers Proud
of Greet Observatory
COULD HARDLY
DO HER WORK
Sundial Made e f Cement
One of the suburbs of Bsc Fran-
cisco has undertaken to attract some
attention to Itself by erecting the
largest sundial ever made. It Is made
of coucrete and Its top Is high above
the heads of the spectators and its
W. N. U.. Portland, No. 28-1930.
shadow la cast upon the ground
which is marked off for the purpose
Placing the Blame
o f indicating the time. The Inclined
“I ’m a self-made man.”
-si
surface of tbs dial Is often Irrever­
"That relieves som e one o f an ms-
ently used by children for tbs pur­
pleasant responsibility."
pose of a kelly slide.
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Stung!
Flit it mid only
tn thit yellow
can u ith the
black band.
Here’s the sure, quick, easy way
to kill all mosquitoes indoors
and keep ’em away outdoors!
W illiams. Boyd and Connor plan new
deeds, having flown from New York
to Bermuda and back, non-etop, In 17
hours and 1 minute. And Dorothy
Heater, nlneteenyear-old girl, in Port­
land, Ore., does an "outside loop,”
after one year’s flying. Three times,
with two failures In five tries, the
young western girl did what few men
ever have done and no woman ever
attempted
.Mrs. Della Akeley returns from the
land of the African pigmies much Im­
pressed with the good qualities of
those little people. She thinks R la a
pity that they should be vanishing,
rapidly.
Sometimes they eat each other, but
they are affectionate, keep their word
and have other good qualities.
It becomes us to remember that all
of our ancestors were once cannibals
Only the races that ate human flesh,
regularly, or In case of emergency,
survived.
The others had no meat to give their
children In times of famine.
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family, foe Baby after the bath,
for Mother ss a finishing touch
to her toiler . . . and for Farber
after shaving.
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