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Thursday, July 17, 1930
T H E HERM ISTON HERALD
The Mazaroff Mystery
By
J. S. FLETCHER
illritra tio n * b y IRW IN M YERS
(©. by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)
W. N. U. Service
CHAPTER XI— Continued
— 17—
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quality is uniform , and the gold foil
wrap retains all the natural freshness
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less damaging experience for you
and
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T h e In e v ita b le
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When a man earns his money he
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make people— like yon, for Instance—
suspicious about her. She cared very
little about it, but we began to dis­
cuss the question of the Identity of the
murderer. For It seemed to me that
whoever had stolen the will had pre­
viously murdered Its maker! And
eventually, and I think, accidentally,
I told her about that cairngorm
brooch which you showed me the
other night.”
“A h !” exclaimed Maythome, with
a sudden betrayal of his keen Interest
"You did? Good—good I And— ’’
“She Immediately became excited.
She jumped to the conclusion that you
had picked It up at the scene of the
murder—”
“I d id !” remarked Maythome.
“So she suspected—and said that
that of course wns why yon were tak
lng care of i t Then she told me that
—from my description—the brooch
was one of two which Mr. Elphinstone
bad bought years ago, In Scotland,
and given to her. She had never worn
either, as they were cumbrous nnd
heavy: she still had one, but she had
given the other away, some time be­
fore.”
“Aye, and to whom?” asked May-
thorne, eagerly.
“To
Alison
Murdoch 1”
replied
Sheila, giving us nil a swift, envelop­
ing glance. “And of course, as soon
as I heard that, I saw through the
whole sordid business. Alison Mur­
doch was the guilty person 1 She had
murdered and robbed Mazarolf; she
had dropped that brooch at Reiver's
den: she had thrown the will Into the
library at the tower—the ope fatal
mistuke she made for her own chances I
—and . . .
I told my mother my
conclusions. And then I fetched Ali­
son Murdoch In, and accused her—
polntblank!”
There was a murmur that seemed to
denote a mixture of Interest and of
admiration from the two policemen;
Corkerdale, who sat twiddling his
thumbs and watching Sheila Intently,
smiled broadly.
“You plumped her with It, miss?—
straight out I’’ he exclaimed. “Yes—
yes?”
“Straight out!— there and then,” as­
sented Sheila. "But let me tell you
why— in addition to what I ’ve already
told. During the last few minutes
of my talk with my mother I ’d been
thinking, harder and quicker than I ’d
ever thought In my life. Now, I re­
membered something about Alison
Murdoch and about her family. Al­
though my mother rarely mentioned
such matters to me, I knew more about
Marrasdule and my father’s connec­
tion with it than she had any Idea of
—I hud picked up a lot of knowledge
and gossip from the old people round
about us. And I knew that my father,
Andrew Merchlson, was well known
In those parts before Ills marriage,
and that his people had been folk of
some consequence there. I knew, too,
that Alison Murdoch's family hud been
there a long time, too, and that be­
tween It and my father's people there
was a deadly enmity, arising out of—”
“Land!” Interrupted Mr. Elpliln-
stone. “Land! The Merchlson lot did
the Murdochs out of a hit of lund—
some years ago. Piece of oppression
and chicanery—but it was done. Un-
forglveable, of course— In tile minds
of these Border people. Feud I Land
feudl Such thing» ure remembered
for ever.”
“They rankle,” said Sheila. “There
was blood shed over It at the time—
a Merchlson shot a Murdoch; though
not fatally. All that's well known—
Mr. Elphinstone knows all about It—“
“Countryside gossip to this day,”
agreed Mr. Elphinstone. “There are
men and women there in Marrasdule
who remember It—’’
“Well,” continued Shelia, “It struck
me that Alison Murdoch, who Is a
silent, grim, reserved, determined
woman, probably not only remembered
It, but was the very sort of person,
who. If she got the chance of revenge,
would tuke It without hesitation. I
figured It all out this way. Alison
Murdoch, when Mazaroff. who. of
course, was really Andrew Merchlson,
came to the Woodcock, was helping
there: helping with the cooking and so
on.
She saw him, and recognized
him. She no doubt got acquainted with
Ills habits and knew that he strolled
out on the moors, after dark. Now,
“Safe—yes!" she answered. "All
right, too. But—everything else Is all
wrong! Maythorne?—where Is he?*’
"Outside,” I said. “The police, tool
Two of them—Corkerdale and Man­
ners.”
“ We’ve got to see the police at
once!” Interrupted Sheila. “1-et them
In, Mervyn.
You’ll hear everything
that 1 say to them,” she added, turn­
ing to Mr. Elphinstone.
“There
mustn’t be any delay, either 1 Open
the door!”
I thrust back the latch and threw
the door open—the three men outside
came In. wonderingly. The two po­
licemen, thus admitted, appeared to
lose their tongues, but Maythome,
after u tirst keen glance at Sheila,
smiled.
“I think you’re none the worse for
your adventures. Miss Merchlson,” he
said. ”1 hope Mrs. Elphinstone Is not
seriously the worse, either?”
“My mother's had a sort df col­
lapse after she came In,” replied
Sheila. “The doctor says she will be
all right after a night’s rest. Sit down,
all of you, if you please—1 want to
talk to you.” she continued, abruptly.
“You’ve all been wondering where my
mother, and Alison Murdoch, and my­
self went, and where we’ve been since,
haven’t you?”
“A good deal of search has been
made for you, miss,” observed Cor­
kerdale, finding his tongue. “Going
on now. It is, too 1 What happened.
If I may ask?"
Sheila looked at Maythome and
from him to me.
“Happened?" she answered. “My
mother and I were kidnaped 1"
Mr. Elphinstone groaned—but there
wus a note of, triumph in his voice.
“By whom were you kidnaped, Miss
Merchlson?" asked Maythome quietly.
Sheila unconsciously lowered her
voice as she bent forward to answer.
“Alison Murdoch I” she replied.
“And—where Is Alison Murdoch?"
continued Maythome.
“But—I sup­
pose you don’t know I”
“ N o !" answered Sheila.
“1 don’t
know!”
Corkerdale cleared his throat—the
sound suggested that he thought It
was high time he cume In.
“What I'd wish. Sir. Maythome,” he
said “—that is, Sergeant Manners nnd
myself— would be If the young lady
would Just tell us what happened after
she and her mother and thl& woman
left the Hhtel three nights ugo. Seems
to me we want a consecutive narra
live, as It were. Then—”
“I'm going to tell you.” Interrupted
Sheila. “But I shall have to begin
before that. I must begin where Mr.
Slaythorne and Mr. Holt came to Miss
Apperley's Hal that evening—the eve­
ning thnt my mother arrived here.
After you two had gone,” she con­
tinued, turning to Maythome and me.
“I thought a lot—a tremendous lot—
about the whole business. I was very
uneasy about everything—the whi­
ttle general situation. To tell you the
truth, I felt that If things were going
to remain where they were I should
come perilously near to suspicion of
my own mother. So—”
Mr. Elphinstone smote his knees
with his open palms and groaned
audibly. But Sheila gave him a glance
and went on.
“So, eventually, I said to Mist Ap-
perley thnt I was going to Short's, to
have It out with my mother, if I
could.
I came here— I saw my mother
In that bedroom.”
“Alone?" HSked Maythome.
“Alone I We had a sort of row at
tirst—she wns naturally furious with
me; first, for hiking the will out of
her possession; second, for running
away to London with It and giving It
to M r Holt.
But in the end she
calmed down, and eventually, when
we hail restored amicable relations be­
tween ourselves, she told me that I
need not have been so hasty, for It
was her full Intention to send the will,
either to Mr. rostlethwalte. who hud
prepared It. or to Mr. (.'role, the very
next day, with an account of how it
had come Into her possession "
“ How had the will come Into Mrs
Klphlnstoue's possession?" asked May-
i home.
“Ornery” and “onery” are corrupted
‘In this way," refilled Sheila. “1 forma of "ordinary.” They are dialect
old you and Mr. Holt that my mother or colloquial tenns meaning Insignifi­
.vas out late In the evening for two cant. low, mean, contemptible, and
evenings In succession and thnt on they express a higher degree of con
'he second evening I stole downstairs tempt and disapprobation than “ordi­
>n m a ring tier come In. and. nnper- nary" does. “Omary” ns a contrac­
■ ■elved by her, saw her examining a tion of “ordinary" waa a common pro­
document which I afterward discov­ vincialism In England In the time of
ered tv be the will. Her explanation the Stuarts, although It Is now nearly
s that on coming In that night she obsolete. We find the phrase “uppon
found one of the French windows In ornarle time." In the Eastliampton rec­
the library <>i<en. and on the rnrfiet. ords as Inte as ICT9. In Ireland and
hist within, an envelofie containing the the United States this form persists In
will I She had Just picked this up and the still more corrupted forms or “om
was examining It when I saw her “
ery" and “onery." which were bronchi
“To he sure— to oe sure!" muttered to the American colonies and perpet-
Mr ' Elphinstone “ Perfectly d e a r!— nated largely hy Irish and Scotch Irish
.■erfectlr!”
Proceed, If you please," sold May
■ hom e, qnletly.
F rs tb A ir and W ir m tb
Well." continued Sheila. “I then
The public health service says that
to talk tv my mother about fresh warm air of a proper degree of
various ¡«»«Ibllitiea s t to how the will
moisture and free from appreciable
nnd come there I f-olnied nut thm
draft la now recognized as pssenflal
the poewsnlon of It. and her refusal- to Indoor workers The old blen that
to ■< vionn for it snd to reply to ipiew
a cold room necessarily contains fresh
tlnns (all of which Is due to her nat
air and Hint comfortably warm rooms
ural [wide and obstinacy ami dislike necessarily contain had air baa been
>f being coerced by anyone) would discarded.
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she didn't live at the Woodcock—she
Uvea at a cottage of her own, on the
way to Blrnside. I came to the con
elusion that having made up her mind
to revenge the old fued on Andrew
Merchlson, she watched for her op­
portunity. On the night of the murder
she saw him go out and take the path
towards Reiver’s den. She abstracted
Musgrave’s gun from the parlor and
followed him—and shot him. And—”
“A moment!" Interrupted Maythome.
He glanced at the two policemen.
“Corkerdale and Manners will under­
stand the meaning of a question I
want to put to you,” he continued.
“I t ’s this—does this woman, Alison
Murdoch, at all resemble your mother,
Mrs. Elphinstone?”
“Very closely 1" answered Sheila.
“They're of the same'height and build,
anyway—very similar in figure and not
at all unlike In general appearance.”
“One could easily be mistaken for
the other In the dark, eh?” asked May­
thome.
“I should say, very easily," asserted
Sheila. “In fuct, I have so mistaken
them, myself.”
Maythome turned to the policemen.
“That accounts for what Eccleshare
and I’arslave suw— or believed they
‘Straight Out!— There and Then,’’ As­
serted Sheila.
saw,” he remarked In an undertone.
“Eh?”
“Seems so— to me,” nnswered Man­
ners. “Yes— I should say It dip.”
Corkerdale, however, said nothing:
he was still watching Sheila. “You
were saying, miss— ?'• he suggested.
“Well— I was going to say that that
seemed to me a good ground for sus­
pecting her, taking other tilings into
consideration," continued Sheila. "But
I had another ground. It wns well
kaowu— It had already got talked
about. He wns cureless about dis­
playing his wealth—I myself heard,
ns people do hear things In villages,
that lie left large sums of money and
even diamonds lying about on his
dining tuble. Now, I knew that Alison
Murdoct Is a covetous, avaricious,
grasping womnn; miserly to the last
degree. I f she murdered Andrew
Merchlson out of revenge, she was
Just the sort of woman to rob his
dead- body of everything on It nut of
sheer greed I She Is, I say that
sort—”
"A hoarder I” muttered Mr. Elphtn-
stone. “A saver of farthings!
I
thiuk you're quite right, Sheila. But
murder?—dear me!"
“Well, that's the conclusion I came
4o." said Sheila, “and these were my
reasons. In the few minutes In which
I thought all this out, I came to the
absolute definite conclusion that A li­
son Murdoch had shot Audrew Merchl­
son, had robbed him of his money,
valuables, and papers, nnd thnt It was
she who had thrown his will Into the
open window of Mr. Elphinstone'»
library, where my mother hnd picked
It up. And. as I said at the beginning,
as soon as I'd arrived at that conclu­
sion, I called her Into my mother's
room— that room I—and accused her of
the murder!”
Mr. Elphinstone treated us to one of
his groans. But Corkerdale. unaun-
sclously, edged his chair nearer to
Sheila.
"Now this Is where the really In­
teresting part comes In, miss!” he
“Ornery” Long Employed to Express Contempt
Immigrants, who settled In the South
ant) West. Tills explains the fuct that
“omery'' und “onery” are generally re­
garded ns soutlierlsms or westemlsma.
In 1Si!0 the New York Constellation
published the following as ■ southern
expression: “You omery fellow! Do
yon pretend to rail me to account for
my language?"—Pathfinder Magazine.
H e a r in g In sects Fe ed
“Yon wrote recently In this column."
writes a cormqwmdent to “Ixsiker-
on” In the Ixmtlon I hilly Chronicle
“that one of yonr readers heard sings
eating. I have never heard them. Km
I hare heard snail» and caterpillars
rat. Snails make n srrnlrhlng mdse.
Caterpillars crunch. The niterplllara
of the privet hawk inoth make quite
a loud noise, and I have often heard
them when sitting In the garden, and
they have been rating the lilac leaves."
Other corresfMindents « a te that they
have heard snails feeding.
Alaska’s Coastline
Alaska has more than 2J.IXKI rnll -s
o f coast.
said. “You charged Ler! What might !
she reply, now?"
"She denied It, of course— Inillg '
nnntly,” answered Sheila. "She was
for flouncing out of the room, to com- '
by A rthur B risbane
plain to Mr. Elphinstone. Then she
changed her mind, and said she'd go
N o matter how severe,
W ork Start« at Last
to her own room, pack her things, and
you can always have
leave the hotel. I soon settled her,
W e Don’t T ake A dvice
though I"
immediate relief:
W omen in Business
"Aye?—and how, miss?" asked Cor­
A New Jersey Ghost
kerdale, still more interested.
"1 told her that If she attempted
W ork has actually started on the
to leave that room until I'd *flnlshed
with her. I'd ring the bell, send for Boulder Dam. Good news.
Probabaly, the power and water. In
the police, and give her in charge!”
Bayer Aspirin stops pain quickly. It
said Sheila. “And I should have dons the end, w ill be owned by private
floes it without any ill effects. Harmless
so— nothing would have stopped me. Individuals, paying a small sum to tbe
to the heart; harmless to anybody. But
That calmed her down—she knew met Government In proportion to cost,
it always brings relief. W hy’suffer?
Then I talked to her. I pieced things paddling the power and water to the
together finally. I told her that her public for all the traffic will bear.
But, at least, the water and the
cairngorm brooch had been found on
power will be used. That Is a start.
the scene of the murder— ”
“How did she take that?” inter­
Later. If the people have brains
rupted Maythome.
U n c o v e r A n c ie n t C i t y
“She turned very pale," replied enough to run their own affairs as
The French government and Yals
Sheila.
“But almost instantly she efficiently as the corporations that
retorted that my mother had un ex­ exploit them, they w ill know what to university are uniting In the work of
actly similar brooch—why wusn't she do about Boulder Dam, Muscle Shoals uncovering the ancient city of Doura
suspected? I replied that my mother and other properties. Once men did not on the Euphrates river. The scien­
never wore the other brooch—evident­ own even their own bodies or lives. tists have been excavating for about
ly she, Alison, did. Then I went on They do not yet own their natural re­ a year und the objects unearthed are
to rub It Into her, frightening her all sources. But they will, some day.
said to have thrown new light on the
I could. My mother, on her part,
little-known area of 300 A. D., as
Lindbergh gives the League of Na­ well as the obscure Parthian civil­
begged her to tell of anything she
knew. Finally, on m.v telling her that tions transit section detailed sugges­ ization.
unless I got some explanation. 1 should tions for aviation. Standardization of
Up to the present time the finds
give her in charge there and then, she airways, uniform markings and signals, consist mainly of purchment records,
a
comprehensive
meteorological
and
admitted that she knew—something 1“
of no importance In themselves, be­
“Ah I” said Maythome.
“Some­ radio reporting system, uniform regu­ ing mostly minor legal documents,
lations
for
clearing
are
suggested.
thing 1"
but of great value In supplying
“Something I" repeated Sheila. “And
names of officials and other data of
The recommendations are sound, the city.
having admitted that, she made a
but
the
people
are
too
busy
to
pay
at­
strange offer—though I ’m bound to
say thnt It didn't seem so very strange tention to recommendations, from no
at the time. She pointed out that she m atter how high a source.
Except In California and a few other
wns alone there In London, that she
was, in a degree, at my mercy. Then states, we have not been able to agree
she reminded us that she hnd n brother on a code of automobile signals.
In the great State of New York, for
here In London, a man who left Mnr-
rusdale years ago, and who hnd, she Instance, when a man puts his hand
said, a business In the Harrow road—’’ out and wiggles It, you won’t know
“Aye, to be sure!” muttered Cor­ whether he will turn to the left, to the
right, stop dead or back up.
kerdale. “The Harrow road!”
“And she made ns an offer,” con­
Mrs. Edison wants women to go
tinued Sheila. “She said thut If we
would go with her, there und then, to back to the home because they "lose
her brother's house, and allow her to prestige In business.’’
"Deep down In her heart, every
consult with him first, she'd tell
us the absolute truth about all thnt woman wants a home," the distin­
she actually knew. We were fools guished lady told her hearers. That Is
enough to go— and we set off nt once, true, but every home needs a man to Make Profitable Use of
without telling anybody.
We ex­ support It and protect it.
Tim e to Get Results
Between "losing prestige” and wash­
pected, of course, to be back In a
Sometimes we are so utterly dull
ing
dishes
and
clothes
for
an
Incom­
vers short time."
and out of touch with the stimulus
“What happened, talas?” inquired petent male, the Intelligent woman de­
of life that we complain how time
cides to relinquish a little prestige.
Corkerdale.
If every one could find a husband hangs upon our hands. The truth Is,
We left the hotel and got a taxi­
time neither files nor remains still.
cab round the corner of the next like Thomas A. Edison the problem
It moves onward at exactly the same
street,” continued Shelia.
“Alison would be easy.
rate today as It did a million years
Murdoch told the driver where to go.
ago. What Is happening Is an altera­
I know where the Harrow road opens
Miss Martha L. Connole, Indy lawyer,
In Eilgware road at Paddington Green ; replying to Mrs. Edison’s statement. tion In our reaction to time. All these
points of view arise out of a changed
we went a long, long way beyond that. asks:
state of our mind. One moment we
At last we got out—”
"The home, where Is that?"
see things one way— the next the
A minute, Miss,’’ interrupted Man­
Woman has been kicked out of the
ners. “When you got out, did you home, according to Miss Connole, and same things have an entirely differ­
happen to uotice If you were being finds I t hard to succeed In business be­ ent color. Thut Is why, one day, time
seems to he fleeting, and another to
foNowed? By another tuxicab, now?”
“I did see a taxicab pull up on the cause "chivalry ha3 fallen Into the ash drag.
Time Is ulways with us, and all we
other side of the street lower down,” can.”
"When you see a woman working.” have to do Is to occupy ourselves In
refilled Sheila. "I noticed thut while
says Lawyer Connole, “some man has ; a way thnt will produce the best and
m.v mother was paying our man.”
Manners sniffed, und whispered to fallen down on the job of providing for greatest results. This means thinking
on a constructive basis, so that every
his colleague— an audible whisper. her support.”
moment of life Is spent In such a
“Thnt 'lid lie— him !’’ he said. "Tracked
West Long Beach, N. J., thinks It , manner as to have in It but a mini­
'em ! Beg pardon, miss for Interrupt­
has a ghost. It was first seen a week mum of waste.—Exchange.
ing you.”
"We walked up the road a little ago Sunday night by a party of young I
R oll O v e r , Y o u ’r e D rea m in g
way," continued Sheila.
“Then we people In an automobile. They threw
“ What’s your Idea of an Ideal placs
turned Ir.to n side street, and Into a stones at tha white figure and swear
for a vacation?”
still smaller street that run off that— that It stood ten feet high.
A few days later, at midnight, 3,000
“A place where the fish bite and
a dark, gloomy street. Outside one of
the housea, Alison Murdoch asked us people waited In a graveyard, borrow­ the mosquitoes don't, nnd where
neither the bees nor hotel keepers
to wait a few minutes while she went ing courage from each other.
Twice previously the ghost had ■ting you.”
t
;
in. We did. She wus away perhaps
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five minutes. Then she came out nnd rushed and scattered small groups of
fetched us In. It was n dark, gloomy watchers.
Ant Sets su Example
This time, of the 3.000. only half a
house— ns gloomy us the street out­
People who are too busy to tnke a
side. She took 11s Into wlmt seemed dozen women saw the spook.
vacation should learn from the low­
Two thousand nine hundred and ly ant. Consider the ant. There Is
to tie a hack bedroom, on the ground
floor, where there wus u dim light ninety four. Including the police, saw nothing busier than an unt, and yet
from a gas bracket, and asked us to nothing. T hat’s about the average for It always finds time to go to picnics,
wait a few minutes longer. Then she ghosts. In real tests.
—Judge.
r
went out—nnd that was the last we
A
German
scientist
startles
Berlin
saw of her.”
Worry Is something one ought to
Corkerdale,
still
twiddling
his with a long range loudnpeaker that take something fur. I t Isn't a nat­
causes
a
great
orchestra
to
be
heard
tlmnihs, took Ills eyes off Sheila for
ural state of mind.
the first time. He cast them up to the for twenty five miles In all directlonc.
ceiling, and stnred at whatever he A Chicago band could play in the Loop,
saw there, thoughtfully.
Manners, »nd be heard with palnrul distinctness
on the north, south, and went sides,
however, let out one word, sharply:
and twenty five miles out into Lake
"Trapped!”
Michigan.
“o f course we were trapped,” as­
serted Sheila. “ We deserved to be!—
Think, then, as the old Puritans used
anyhow, I did. We hadn't been In
thnt room five minutes before we to say, when describing Hell, how It
knew It. We heard the door locked will be hereafter.
Think of Gabriel’s horn that will be
from outside, and what seemed to lie a
bar put across It, too. I Immediately beard 25,000 miles In all directions,
flew to the window and tore the blind around the world, bringing the dead
and the curtains away. Then I saw Iron) their graves and reassembling
that there were heavy shutters across the disintegrated elements Into which
the window—on the outside—and 1 they w ill have been dissolved. That
found the sashes of the window Itself will be a real loud speaker.
were nailed down. We were trapped
Mr. Burr, research director of Texas
Indeed! Horrible!"
“What happened?" asked Maythorne, Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
leals effectively with the gar, a can­
softly. "In brief."
nibal fish shaped like a snake, that
“In brief—yes,” said Sheila. “I ’m
destroys great quantities of good fish
not going .Into details of that horror
Mr. Burr attracts the cannibal with
for anything—now, at any rate. I
“Eight years ago before my
» 200 watt spotlight, and the gar. swim
beat on the door, but there was no mlng near the surface. Is caught In a
last baby was born, I started
reply—everything was quiet enough.
taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s
net charged with electricity, stunned,
After an hour, a panel that I'd noticed
Vegetable Compound. I got
sinks to tbe bottom and suffocates. It
In one of the walls—the sort of thing, cannot live In deep water.
such good results that I named
a hatch, you know, that communicates
Respectable fish caught In the nel
her Catherine Lydia. I have
between a kitchen and ■ dining room,
tre not Injured. Destruction of the gar
six older children and five
waa suddenly slipped open, and a hand will save endless millions of good fish
grandchildren, too. I am 44,
mid arm thrust In a big basket and
I f only that could be tried on war
but people tell me 1 look much
dropped It on the bed. Then tbe panel like nations!
yoi
junger. I am now taking the
was bunged to. again, and I beard It
Ve egetable Compound again
secured. There was food— plenty of
Twenty five thousand pupils In 274
It. nnd good—In the basket, and • Bible schools are to be taught “The
because o f my age. I eat and
couple of liottles of wine— good claret Evils of Liquor” and the desirability
sleep better and I do all my
—and glasses and a corkscrew. So we I
housework, and my washing. I
Jf leaving whisky alone, quite apart '
weren't starved. But there we were, from prohibition.
will do my best to answer let­
trapped! — until this evening — two
ters.” — M rs . H . Dolhonde, 6318
Every boy and girl In this “dry land’
nights and two days. Ws neeee saw needs that teaching It should begin In
York St.,New Orleans, Louisiana.
anylMiely. Each ei ruing a neither basket the graveyard, made prosperous by •
was dropped In. so suddenly that we'd bootleggers, continue
In hospital
no chance to seize the hand (list wards, a id wind up at the “social fuuc !
«Implied It. or to get a glimpse of O r tiou,” wl ere Americans of all ages,
adjoining room. We neither saw »«• make fools of tbenlselves and show
heard anythin", all the tim e"
that they despise the law.
T h is W eek
PAINS
BAYER
A S P IR IN
Looks Y oung,
Feels Fine *
Lydia E, Pitikham's
Vegetable Compound
(TO BE CONTIXUIII.)
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