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r THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1921. The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. Used Autos I > REAKET SELLS 1 JL> cars of all types; 8l tion. Each time that information proved to be misleading and our attack failed, costing us heavy losses, i USED Of course dispositions might have S?fo: Joo Cmlier or *t& b«en chanSed «nce his observations mco if yofSh in^ wele « de hu «K e he fact repurchased, or purehaa* mains. Further," the General oon-! . tinued, filling his pipe slowly and m° overTT ai? « 2 pressing in the tobacco, "on the sec-city representative for end occasion we had four hundred MERCHANTS BANK OFFICIALS EXPRESS TEMPERED OPTMISi REGARDING BUSINESS SITUATION thrown forwarc of Ossray. They w pitch r'arkness, and > the village ' ' l the (Copyrighted) SYNOPSIS: | is to live, one must eat. Therefore n,„ -* „-;n.™ ;„ iQifi >,osrin3 U work. Four sons I have and a guests are Lord Romsey, a Cabinet why I dig alone. Why do you .not Minister- Surgeon-Major Thomson, I send us more soldiers, Monsieur Chief Inspector of Field Hospitals; his 1'Anglais fiancee, Geraldine Conyers; her bro- "Wait but ther, a naval lieutenant, and ms xhoi fiancee Olive Moreton; Cs^tain Ronald Granet, nephew of the hostess, home with a wounded arm. Lieut. Conyers receives commission on a "mystery1 ship and Major Thomson decodes a secret message from the battlefield. Lord Romsey receives a visitor and the conversation reveal:, the Cabinet Minister's secret dealings with Germany. _ Thomson calls at Granet's apartments | brfore _ . to discover whether_ he knows. ?n^j wMdi stretched what i little t: jered cheerfully, n looked sadly thing about Lord Romsey's Granet denies any knowledge so-called American chaplain. ' jvades Thomson's pie? The old rained barn. "It is always 'wait,' " he muttered "and one grows old and tired. Bon- The car passed on again and suddenly dropped into They cam ™. lro™ 01 iustifiabl, ght once have however to send him back again," Thomson The General hesitated. "Well, what are they?" "They are a little intangible, sir." Thomson confessed, "but excee '.ingly impottcnt. Without anv direct evidence, I have corns to the conclusion that Captain Granet is a mysterious person and needs watching. As usual, ' we are in trouble with the civil i^q'nas. "".thorities, and, to be frank with '?',i.;.;c;. 'ord of their known to the Germ of Granet's captur shelled, and those Gfanc I : . trying to strengthei personal bravery, pearance of a keen > do him a wrong President and General Manager Review the Canadian Business Situation With Much Hope--Financial Position of the Bank an Exceptionally Strong One--Crop Outlook j Encouraging. At the annual meeting of the Merchants Bank cf Canada the various reports which were presented showed that this institution occupies a command' ing position in Canadian financial affairs. The addresses of the President, Sir Montagu Allai^and the General Manager, Mr. D. C. Macarow, were concise statements of present day conditions and contained an optimistic survey of the future. The General shrugged his should- "Very well," he decided, "under the circumstances you have the right to know What my message i The s coincidences seemed amazing. We simply <!c.:dH that they'd better give Granet a billet at home. That's the reason of my message." "I am very much obliged to you, bit," Thomson said slowly, "You have given me exactly the informath the£e'.wWh for^an im-^ges, convoy wagons, and' e%y de ^ {^^^ *ZVZ E^"* °ffi"r who was sitting mediate marriage. He exposes i-ption^ G , After a walk in the park with Gerald- Major Thomson after a P^-i affairs Were nigU attacks. He seemed me Granet^ S^toSi |? disappear-got too far S=a:S^ iWcaTsayTs M^s SAe^mrVe^: of^oui^Vett £££ o/them. Anything to allow him to rejoin his regiment. Thomson goes to the Front to interview Granet's General. CHAPTER X. been out all might, stood on the steps of the house and welcomed Thomson. "Hullo, Major," he called out, "just across., eh?" - "This moment," Thomson assented. "Anything fresh?" "Nothing to speak of," the other Surgeon-Major Thomson awoke. replied. "We've just had a message about twelve hours later with a start.1 ;n that the French have been giving He had been sleeping so heavily that them a knock. We've had a quiet he was at first unable to remember his; time the last two days. They're bring-whereabouts. His mind moved slug- j jng u.p gome more Bavarians, we gishly across the brief panorama of j think." his hurried journey--the special train "j}0 you think I could have a few from Victoria to Folkestone; the des-|word:s with the General?" Major troyer that had brought him and a, Thomson asked. few other soldiers across the Channel, | "Come in and have some coffee, black with darkness, at a pace which: Yes, he'll see you, of course. He is made even the promenade deck impos-; jn nis own room with two of the fly-sible; the landing at Boulogne, a hive jng m,en just for the moment. I'll of industry notwithstanding the dark-, jet you know when you can go in." ness; the clanking of waggons, the They passed into shrieking of locomotives, the jostling, which. had onee been the dining-of crowds, the occasional flashing oflof the chateau, and in which a long an electric torch. And then the ride: table was laid. One or two staff offl-in the great automobile through the; cers greeted Thomson, and the man misty night. He rubbed his eyes and;who had brought him in attended to looked around him. A grey morning ■ ■ ■andering about loose in a British uniform.--but there, I won't go on with that. He came back each time with information as to what he had seen. Each time we planned an attack on the strength, of that informa- distant corner of the telephone band around his head. He signed to Thomson, however, to "Now that I have gratified your cariosity," he said, when he returned, "perhaps you will gratify mine? Will yo'u tell me just how you over in England have come to have suspicions of this man?" (To be c led.) Keep Minard's Linin i the house. was breaking. The stands-till before a white gate, in front of which was stationed a British soldier, with drawn bayonet. Surgeon-Major Thomson pulled himself together and answered the challenge. "A friend," he answered,--"Surgeon-Major Thomson, on his Majesty's service." He leaned from the car for a moment and held out something in the hollow of his hand. The man saluted and1 drew back. The car went on along a rough road which led across a great Btretch of pastureland. On the ridge of the hills on his right, little groups of men were at work unlimbering guns. Once or twice, with a queer, screeching sound, a shell, like a little puff of white smoke, passed high over the car and fell somewhere in the grey valley below. In the distance he could see the movements of a body of troops through the trees, soldiers on the way to relieve their comrades in the trenches. As the morning broke, the trenches themselves eame into view--long, zig-zag lines, silent, and with no sign of the men who crawled about inside like ants. He passed a great .brewery transformed into a canteen, from which a line of wagons, going and returning, were passing all the time backwards and forwards into the valley. Every now and then through the stillness came the sharp crack of a rifle from the snipers lying hidden in the little stretches of wood-tend and marshland away on the right. A motor-omnibus, with its advertisement signs still displayed but a great ted cross floating above it, came rocking down the road on its way to the field hospital in the distance. As yet, Jjowever, the business of fighting teemed scarcely to have commenced. They passed1 several small houses and farms, in front of each of which was stationed a sentry. Once, from the hills behind', a great white-winged aeroplane glided over his head on its way to make a reconnaissance, Queerest sight of all, here and there were peasants at work in the fields. One old man leaned upon his spade and watched as the car passed. Not dozen yards from him was a great hole in the ground where a shell had burst, and a little further away a barn in ruins. The car was forced to stop here to let a cavalcade of ammunition, wagons pass by. Surgeon-Major Thomson leaned from his seat and spoke to the old "You are not afraid of the German jhellsi, then?" he asked. "Monsieur," the old man answered, "one must live or die--it does not matter which. For the rest, "" "The General had his breakfast an hour ago," the latter observed. "We're pretty well forward here and we have to keep on the qui vive. We got some shells yesterday dropped within a quarter of a mile of us. I think we're going to try and give them a push back on the left flank. I'll go in and see about you, Thom- "Good fellow! You might tell them to give my chauffeur something. The destroyer that brought me over is waiting at Boulogne, and I want to be in London to-night." One of the officers font the other side of the table smiled queerly. "London! My God!" he muttered. "There is still a London, I suppose? Savoy and Carlton going still? Pall Mall where it was?" "And very much as it was," Thomson assured him. "London's wonderfully unchanged. You been out long" "September the second," was t cheerful reply. "I keep on getting promised a week but I can't bring it House Insect Pests. Insect pests may descend on any *'?f„"^„ i household and their visitation need "™ ' not necessarily bring a blush of shame to the cheeks of the perfect housekeeper. Flies and mosquitoes are the most dangerous to health of the insect pests; fleas, bedbugs and cockroaches should be regarded with suspicion as possible carriers of disease; moths are the most destructive. Clothes moths are of immediate interest to housekeepers during the spring months for it is then that the little yellow or buff moths which measure only one-half to three-fourths of an inch, when their wings are spread, lay their tiny eggs. Small caterpillars hatch from these eggs and feed on woolens, caxpebs,1 furs "iftiaf eft'.' ISSUE No. 25--'21. "He's such a nut with the telephones," the man by his side explained, helping himself to marmalade. "The General positively can't spare "Oh, chuck it." the other exclaimed in disgust. "What about you?--th< only man with an eye to a Heaven-ordained gun position, as old Wattles declared one day. We're all living wonders, Major," he went on, turning to Thomson, "but if I don't get a Sole Colbert and a grill at the Savoy, and a front seat at the Alhamibra, before many weeks have passed, I shall get stale--that's what'll happen to "Hope you'll have your 'hair cut before you go back," a man from the other end of the table remarked. "Your own mother wouldn't know you like that--much less your sweet- The. young man fingered his locks reflectively. "Chap who was going to cut it for me got shot yesterday," be grumbled1. "Anything doing as you came over the ridge, Major?" Thomson shook his 'head. "One aeroplane and a few shells." "That would be Johnny Oates going out in his Bleriot," some one remarked. "He'll be .back here before long with a report." The officer who had met Thomson in the garden, re-entered the room. "General says he'll see you at once," he announced. Thomson followed his guide into a small back room. An officer was seated before a desk, writing, another was shouting down a telephone, and a third was making some measurements upon a large Ordnance map nailed upon one of the walls. The General was standing with his back to the fire and a pipe in his mouth. He nodded cheerily to Thomson. "When did you leave London?" he asked. "Nine o'clock last evening, sir," Thmsion replied. "Rather a record trip. We had a special down and a destroyer, oyer." "And I'm to tell you what you want to know," the General continued, glancing at a document in his hand. "Well, close the door, Harewood. Out with it?" "It's about Captain Granet of Harrison's staff," Thomson began. The General frowned and knocked the ashes from his pipe. "Well," he asked1, "what is it?" "We've reasons of our own for wishing to know exactly what you meant by asking the War Office not feathers. From these fabrics they make cases in which they rest until they emerge three weeks later as moths. Moths will not lay their eggs on garments kept in light, well-aired, used closets, nor on garments stored with moth balls, tobacco Or camphor, in the! tarred paper sacks or dn cedar chests ' new enough so the odor is pronounced. But if the eggs have already been laid on garments before they are stored, as is often the case if such garments are not stored until May, none of these precautions will prevent the ravages of the moth larvae. Always before garments are stored they should be thoroughly sunned, aired, beaten and brushed to dislodge and destroy the eggs' which are so minute they can hardly be seen. After this is done the proper storage of the garments will keep them safely from being "eaten." Carpet beetles or buffalo moths bother only those housekeepe! have their floors covered with nailed-down carpets. This insect is a broad oval beetle, three-sixteenths of art inch long, black in color with a red stripe down the middle but covered with scales which give it a marbled' black-and-white appearance. When disturbed it pretends to ibe dead, the larvae of this beetle feed upon carpets and woolen materials. They work from the under-surfaee making irregular holes or cutting long shts in the carpet. The larva is brown, one-fourth of an inch long, and covered with stiff brown hairs that are longer around the sides and at the ends than on the back. This beetle will not be a nuisance on bare floors covered with mattings or rugs. Getting rid of this pest, if carpets are nailed down, requires long continued effort and great eare. The carpets must be taken up, thoroughly beaten, sprayed out of doors with benzine and allowed to air several hours. The floors must be thoroughly swept, washed with hot water, the cracks carefully cleaned out and kerosene or benzine poured into them and sprayed under the baseboards. If there are wide cracks in the flooring, these should be filled with liquid plaster of Paris. Before relaying the carpet, tarred roofing should foe laid all over the floor. Bedbugs may be brought into the house in trunks or suit cases, in 'baskets of laundry or they may even migrate from an infested house whose occupants have left. Under usual cumstances, bedbugs work only at night when it is dark, concealing themselves in cracks of bedsteads, behind wainscoting, under loose wallpaper or in other crevices in the day time. Bedbugs have been known to live as long as a year, however, with-food. One to five eggs a day are over a period of two months or >. These eggs hatch in ten days and the bug is matured in seven weeks depending upon conditions emperature and food. Die usual housekeeper's method of J y inspection of beds and oedding, par kularly the seams and tufting of ma tresses and of all crevices, liberal of kerosene, corrosive sublimate ( !S poison), or of boil- (where this does no harm The President's Address. Sir Montagu Allan in part said: "The general depression in business, felt to a greater or lesser degree in every country in the world, has affected the business of the bank to some extent, but we hope the low point of depression has been passed, and that there will soon be a change for the better. The coal strike in England which will no doubt result in the loss of a great deal of trade, and the unrest and discontent which seems to prevail in nearly all the countries of Europe, give rise to serious financial problems to be reckoned with, but no man in this country who is strong and healthy can afford to be a pessimist for any length of time. The known and undeveloped resources are sufficient to ensure future prosperity. New Issue of Stock. "As mentioned in last year's report a further issue of $2,100,000 of new stock was made, making the paid-up capital of the bank $10,500,000, and by the transfer of the premium on the new stock to the rest account, the rest now stands at $9,450,000.. "The shareholders of the bank now number 2,997, as against 2,622 in 1920, being an increase of 375 during the Current loans and discounts stand at $109,183,000, as against $113,198,000 last year. It will be seen, therefore, that this bank continues to extend its ample share of assistance to the industries of the country. General Manager Is Optimistic. Following the president's concise yet comprehensive review of the situation, as reflected in the year's statements, said Mr. Macarow, there is little left for me to add beyond, perhaps, a word or two by way of amplification. It will be observed that in comparison with last year's figures our total assets show a shrinkage of, about $7,000,000, or, roughly, 3% per cent., which, in view of all the surrounding circumstances, must be regarded as a satisfactory showing, the liquid position being well maintained the while. The trend of our interest-bearing deposits for the same period has boon steadily upward, an increase in that department of about $7,000,000 being shown, but this gain has been more than offset by the decline in the total ordinary deposits. A year ago, however, under the heading of demand deposits, a sum of about $8,000,000 stood to the credit of the Government in connection with "Victory Loan payments. This amount, which, of course, was of a purely temporary nature, was withdrawn, during the year so that, after making allowance for it, the total deposits and total assets about held their own, a satisfactory achievement we have no doubt you will agree. Crop Reports Are Promising. Crop conditions throughout the country are at the present moment exceptionally promising. If I may say a word as to general conditions it will be one of tempered optimism, having a due comprehension of the many difficulties which require to be met but having, at the same time, a proper appreciation of the actual and pptential riches of this country. There are indications that the monetary position, broadly speaking, is less stringent and that the general liquidity of credit now in evidence is continuing to develop further. Altogether, and in a word, it is not difficult to be an optimist as to the future of "Canada Unlimited." to borrow the apt expression recently used by an eminent Canadian. The Board of Directors was re-elected, with Sir H. Montagu Allan as President and F. Howard Wilson as Vice-President. AUTO USED PARTS We carry a full line of used parts for II makes of cars, cleaned and free from rease and dirt. 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Cockroaches eat and soil foodstuffs, eat holes in woolen and leather and may damage even the cloth and leather bindings of books. Roaches ieave Who1 behind them an offensive odor which taints all food from which they have eaten, and imparts to fresh food, which is served on dishes kept in a pantry where roaches have been, a peculiar disgusting flavor and odor. They may be brought into the house on food supplies or a small army of them may migrate from old quarters to new. They conceal themselves in the daytime behind baseboards, shelves, window casings or furniture and come out only in the dark. They are most abundant in pantries and kitchens and prefer warm, moist places. Roaches will not continue to be a nuisance if all food is carefully stored in tin cans or other insect-proof containers or in ice boxes, and if tables, stoves, sink, floor and cupboards are kept absolutely clean and free from crumbs and bits of food. Perhaps the best remedy for cockroaches is to blow sodium fluorid, either pure or diluted mixed with flour, half 'and half, from a small bellows, over the shelves, tables, floors, runways and hiding places of the roaches. The resulting dead and paralyzed roaches should be swept up and burned. Borax sprinkled about is also useful. House ants are annoying and troublesome but not particularly harmful. There are many varieties of ants, some of which are really garden ants that occasionally stray into houses; but there are a number of nests can be found under the flooring, in other woodwork cr in the masonry of the house-foundation by following the ants back to the point of their disappearance, and such places treated by squirting a little kerosene 01 gasoline into the opening from an oi can or small syringe, there will b< some hope of getting rid of these per sistent pests. Infusing kerosene or gasoline, of course, care must be taken not to have any flame near the nests cannot be found., can storing all food supplies in ant-proof metal containers or in ice boxes, and prompt attention to cleaning up all crumbs on the floor or tables will keep down the ant nuisance, but will not eradicate them if such precautions are not continued. Ants seldom travel on a cold stove so that food, can be stored s-ucc fully in the oven or on top of an used stove. Food may also be kept on a table if each leg of the table is placed in a small bowl or pan of water. Care must be taken, however, not to have such a table touch a wall or another piece of furniture. Occasionally the legs of the refrigerator must be placed in wgter. Baits made of sponges moistened with sugar syrup or sugar syrup mixed with borax, to catch ante so they may be drowned, are of doubtful value. A poison which is an efficient remedy is arsenate of soda. 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