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3y "And yqu‘re going to see me, tooâ€"In The Advance‘s exciting new adventureâ€" story stripâ€"CHIP COLLINS‘ ADVEN TURES! . "I‘m Chip -Coilips â€" And I‘m going to see you twice a week, onâ€" "You and I adventures. “I kn ow ‘Wait and see!" are in for some thrilling Interesting Events at South Porcupine Whist Drive and Bridge by the Rebekahs. Meeting of Girl Guides. Other News of Interest from South Porcupine and the Dome. _ Mr. and Mrs. Olsen, of Kirkland Lake, spent the holiday with Mr. and Mrs. J. Jonnson, of O‘Brien avenue. The whist drive and bridge given 57 the Rebekahs on Friday evening was a very pleasant affair as these parties alâ€" ways are. Foassibly the cold and blusâ€" tery weather kept a few from coming out, but those who attended enjoyed the evening very much. The prizes were exceptionally nice for the occasâ€" ion, most of them being donated. The fortunate ladies in bridge were:â€"i1st, Mrs. A. Ewing; 2nd, Mrs. J. Aitken; consolation, Miss A. LaForest. For gents, Mrs. R. Mansfield playing as man won first, and Mrs. W. W. Wilson second. Ken Myers won consolation. At the whist party the successful ladies The Girl Guides met on Friday in their usual "hall"â€"the school at the Dome. As their Christmas party had been postponed they opened the New Year with jollification. â€"A party of twentyâ€"four girls can have a grand time togetherâ€"and they did. Gifts were exchanged and a lunch made up among themselves. The leaders, Captain W. Naish, and Lieutenant I. Donaldson, tell us that serious business is now to commence. Next Friday a large atâ€" tendance (at 6.30 p.m.) is requested and the meetings will be taken up with regular "Guiding." The different paâ€" trol leaders were given their emblems on Friday. The Oriole Patrol under Edyth Rapsey. Forgetâ€"meâ€"Not Patrol under Etta Munroe. Beatrice Maxwellâ€" Smith leads the "Honesty‘"‘ Patrol; and Joan Naish takes charge of the "Snow drop" Patrol. South Porcupine, Ont.. Jan. 15th, 1935. Special to The Advance. . Little Joyce Knott entertained twelve of her little chums on Dec. 20th.â€"thé occasion being her third birthday. She received many beautiful gifts. Mrs. A. B. Gooding‘s gift was the lovely lunch served, the table being prettily decorâ€" ated with Santa Claus trimmings and flowers, and centred by a beautiful birthday cake. All the kiddies had a wonderful time, and went home at 8.30 p.m. happy with a bag of fruit and candy. were:â€"ist, Mrs. B. Curtis; 2nd, Mrs. G. Helmer; third, Mrs. T. Mahon. Gentlemen prize winners:â€"1st, Mrs. Wm. Thomas (as gent); 2nd, Mrs. Libâ€" by; 3rd, Mr. T. Mahon. Miss Margaret Gooding, in Order to help the Toronto "Star" Santa Claus Fund this Christmas, put up a cedar chest of chocolates among her friends to be drawn for. The lucky winner was Mr. Lindewall, manager of the Consumers‘: Coâ€"operative Store, in town. Number 66 was the lucky ticket. The resultant funds were sent to the "Star.‘" Mr. Oliver, of Haileybury, is visiting at the home of his son, Mr. E. Andrews, Connaught Hill. Mr. Hopkins, of Connaught Hill, who has ‘been visiting his brother for two months, in Muskoka, has returned home. A most enjoyable evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gcodâ€" ing, of Crawford on New Year‘s Eve, when several Oof their friends gathered to sing and dance the old year out and the new year in. The party broke un early in the morning, everybody having had a wonderful time. Mr. Blakeman from Elk Lake, spent the holiday with his family. Miss Margaret Loyd left forâ€" Stratâ€" ford on Saturday after spending the holiday at home. The regular schedule of air service between here and Sudbury is not yet in operation. Passengers are being takâ€" en as necessity occurs. The new hanâ€" gar at the airport is slowly progressing. Men‘s Club of the United Church is meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 15th, for its regular session. â€" F d The Ladies‘ Guild of the United Church meets on Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Burton‘s Dome Mines, ,for election of officers. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Lang entertainâ€" ed a number of children at a New Year‘s party at their home at Dome Extension on Friday night. A good time was enjoyed by the youngsters. Mr. Schneider, pilot for the Algoma Airways, has accepted a position with the Canadian Airways Ltd., and is leaving soon for Montreal. Mr. Terry Hunt also leaves with him. Mr. Woon, hockey player, is quite sick with laryngitis. WHO SAID IT FIRST? MAY BE ANSWERED HEREWITH The following list of supposed sayings by wellâ€"kncwn men may or may noi explain the origin of ceriain wellâ€" known phrases. Help yourself! Suit yourself! _ , Samson: "I‘m strong for you kid." Jonah: "You can‘t keep a good man Two More Women Charged with Breach of Morals David: "The bigger they are the harder they fall." Columbus: "I don‘t know where I‘m gcing, but I‘m on my way." On Saturday night police picked up two women, one at 1 Balsam street north, Anne Girard, and the other at 155 Main avenue, Betty Johnson. They will appear in police court toâ€" morrow charged with immoral living. Mail and Empire:â€"His Majesty‘s honours list for Canada is deservedly Nero: Keep the home fires burnâ€" solomon: "I love the ladies." Noah: "It floats." It all happened in the simplest possible way. There had been no premonition of evil, no subtle intiâ€" mations of the shock to come. No breath of wind had heralded the storm. No one had felt any appreâ€" hension, any undue anxiety; there had been no misgivings in the ‘breastsâ€" of those who were the starâ€" tled spectators of that event so trivâ€" ial .in itself, so tragic on account Oof the impenetrable mystery that enâ€" veloped it. tional happenings of today are often linked with events that thrilled and horrified anothser generation. Before revealing the triumphant part played by Arsene Lupin in the affairs of the Womanâ€" with T‘wo Smiles, it is necesâ€" something that happened 15 years before. The reader shall be: put in possession of every relevant fact, and be in a position to compete with Arsene Lupin in solving what, at the time of the tragedy, appeared an inâ€" soluble problem. Monsieur and Madame de Jouvelle and the guests staying in the coumâ€" try house at Volnic, in the Auvergne districtâ€"a . huge . turrekted _ manor houseâ€"had all been to a cOncéert at Vichy given by the wonderful singer Elisabeth Hornain. Madame de Jouâ€" velle, who had known Elisabeth beâ€" fore her divorce from Hornain the banker, had invited the .singer to lunch on the day after the concert August the 13th, Vichy being only a few miles from Volnic. All had gone gaily at lunch. The de Jouvelles made splendid hosts, entertaining with great charm and cordiality. The guests, eight in numâ€" ber, had vied with one another in merriment and wit. There were three young couples, a retired genâ€" eral, and the Marquis J:an d‘Erleâ€" mont, a distinguished man of about 40, whose charm of manner few women were able to resist. But the homage of the ten at table was entirely directed towards Elisaâ€" beth Hornain. She was the centre of attraction; wit and repartee conâ€" verged upon her; eatch speaker cager to gain her attention and approbaâ€" tion. She, on the other hand, made no effort to shine or please. She spoke but little, and though her reâ€" marks did not lack point and shrewdâ€" ness, she did not strain after cleverâ€" ness or wit. Where was the need? She was beautiful. She dressed with great simplicity. but even had she been more strikâ€" ingly clothed what she wore would have passed almost unnoticed, .so great was the appeal of her perfect figure, â€"soâ€"â€" harmonious herâ€" every movement, so marvellous her bearing. Ropes of flashing jewels hung round her neck, interlaced in a dazzling confusion of rubies, emeralds and diamonds. When anyone venâ€" tured to admire them, she would turn off admiration with a smiling: "Oh, they‘re only stage jewelry, you know....... but really very good imitations." "I could have sworn they were genuine," would ‘be the invariable reâ€" ply. â€""go should I," she woOuld agres. "Everyone is taken in by them." _ After lunch, the. Marquis d‘Erleâ€" mont skillfully manoeuvered so that he got Elisabsth to himself. She apâ€" peared to listen to him with interest but rather dreamily. The other guests gathered round Madame de Jouvelle, who seemed a little put out at the marquis for monopolizing the guest of honor. "He‘s wasting hisg time," she murâ€" mured. "I‘ve known Elisabsth for years. Nothing doing there! She‘s like a lovely statue, icy cold! Nothâ€" ing doing, my friend, sheer waste of They were all gathered outside on the terrace in the shade of the house. Ths garden sloped away at their fset, bathed in the hot sun. It was laid out formally in lawns and gravel paths the flowerbeds bordered by clipped yEew hedges. At the far end of the garden stood some ruins, the remains of an old castle, its crumbling walls, towers, and chapel standing on mounds or jutâ€" ting upOn the paths that wound in and out of a shrubbery of laurel, box and holly. It was a scene of majesty afid power, especially when it is.rememâ€" bered that on the other side of the shrubbery ° a mighty precipice fell sheer away to the ravine which surâ€" rounded the castle and at the botâ€" tom of which, 50 fest below the garâ€" den level, roarzd the waters of a raging torrent. "What a wonderful setting!" exâ€" claimed Elisabéth Hornain. "When I think of our painted canvas scenâ€" "Not yours!" protested Jean d‘ Erlemont. "It would be so wonderful! Dcn‘t deprive us of such a treat!" Madame de Jouvelle. "But my voice would be lost in such vastness." ery with its trembling walls and artiâ€" ficial trees..........! How marvelous it would be to act iii scenery like this!" "What‘s to prevent your giving us a song ner:, Elisabeth?" asked "No, no..........I should never have suggested such a thing. Ishould be ridiculous.......... A pygmy lifting up Elisabeth Hornain laughed as she tried to find excuses while everyone pressed round begging her to sing. But she was yielding . to persuasion. The margauis had seized her by the hand and was trying to get her to its voice!" follow him: us all such pleasure!" ~ _She still seemed to hesitate, then give suddenly decided: "Very well, then! Just take me to the foot of the ruins." There was no longer any hesitaâ€" tion about her as she walked slowly off, with the easy measured gait that was hers on the stage. A moment later she could be seen again, this time alone, climbing more steep steps, while Jean d‘Erlemont retraced his way up the garden. Then she appeared again, still higher up, on a terrace where stood the three Gothic arches of the ruined chapel, a curtain of ivy veiling the empty space beyond. Here she paused. Standing erect upon a mound that served as pedestal, she seemed supernaturally tall, and when she spread forth her arms and ‘began to sing both voice and gesture seemed to fill the vast natural theater cof green and granite beneath the blue vault of the sky. Not a soul could have said what Elisabeth Hornain was singing. Her voice rose and fell in grave,, sonorous notes, nS°w breathing of tragedy, now full of life and hcpe, when, sudâ€" denly.......... It must not be forgotten that all this was happening in the safest, most secluded of spots, nor was there any reason to suppose that all would not conclude serenely. What â€" folâ€" lowed was as rapid as unexpected. Suddenly, all was catastrophs. The magic voice ceased. abrutly. The living statue singing among the ruins was seen to totter on its pedestal ard suddenly crumple up, without a cry or geasture, without any show of effort â€" or anguish. All who beheld it were convinced that there kad been no strugels, no agony, and that they would find nJt a dying woman but one whom Death had struck down instantaneously. Nor were they mistaken, for when they reached ths place, Elizabeth Hornain lay there stark and livid_. A stroke? Heari failure? _ Neither! For blood cculd ‘be sesn cozing from her bare neck and shoulders. And in the same second.that they saw the blsod, someone voiced the general stupefaction with the cry: "Look! Her jewels are gone!" There is no point in going into ths: details of the inquest which at the time was a nationâ€"wide sensaâ€" tion. It shed no light upon the mysâ€" tery, and was rapidly concluded. Both magistrates and police investiâ€" gating the affair were up against a blank wall and could not penetrate to the secret of the singer‘s death. soon everyons was convinced that nothing more would ever be known. That there had been murder and robbery was all they knew. There the matter endeéed. That murder had been done could not be doubted, although no bullet, knife or murderer had been found. But it was obviously murder. Five out of the 42 spectators of the singâ€" er‘s collapse swore to having seen a flash in the air, without, however, being able to indicate the exact diâ€" rection Oof the flash. The Other. 37 asclared that they had seen nothing unusual. Mcanwhile three others felt sure they had heard the dull reâ€" port of a gun, while the other 39 had heard nothing at all. Nevertheless the procf of the murâ€" der was visiblie â€" in the wound, a terâ€" rible, ghastly wound, such as might have been made by some diabolical bullet tearing the flesh from the left shculder to the base of the neck. Then, again, what had become of the jewelery? If murder and theft had becn commit‘ed, who had comâ€" mitted them? By what miracle had the assassin able to escape, when some of the servants, who were stationed at top floor windows had had their eyes on the singer all the time, on the spot where she was singâ€" ing, on her body as it fell, on her corpse as it lay on the ground? _ They would most certainly have noticed any suspicious character lurking in the grounds; would have seen his flight through the shrubbery; his dash for Yreedom........and,, iagain, just beyond the ruins fell the preciâ€" pice which it would have been sheer impossibility either to sceale. or to She sedédmed supernaturally tall. ivy or in some hole in the grounds? Both were searched for weeks. A young detective was summoned from Paris, ~an â€" ambitious aqd zealous sleuth called. Gorgeret, who had alâ€" ready distinguished himself in ~his profession and was noted for his skill in bringing criminals to bay. All to no â€" purpose. Investigations proved ~fruitless, The cage was shelved much to the disgust of Gorgeret, who vowed never . to give it up. descend. Completely broken up by the tragedy that had darkened their home, Monâ€" sieur and Madame de Jouvelle left Volnic, never to return. Tho chateau was put up for sale, furnished. Six months later it was bought, but nobody knew the purchaser, Maitre Audigat, the lawyer, having carried\ out the sale with the greatâ€" est secrecy. All the staff were dismissedâ€"sErvâ€" All the staff were dismissedâ€"SsErVvâ€" ants, gardeners, farm workers. Only the big tower over the entrance gate was inhabited by an. elderly man called Lebardonâ€"an exâ€"policemanâ€" and his wife. Eleven years later, Lebardon died, His wife remained sole guardian of the old tower. She proved every bit as secretive as her husband, ard never uttered a word about what went on in the chateauâ€"if, indeed, anything ever went on there. . Four more years passed,. The new drama was ready to begin. Junior Employees _ _ Dropped by T. N. 0. Consolidations and Changes in T. N. 0. Railway Depts. Cause Eight or Ten Releases. Seniority Counts. At North Bay last week, A. T. Cavaâ€" nagh, general manager ®€ the T. N. O. Railway, admitted that recent changes and consoliddtions meant that eight or ten junior employees had been released from employment, through the exercise of the seniority rights of older employees. At the same time he pointed out that the changes were not nearly so extensive as rumour suggestâ€" ed and that the number let out of emâ€" ployment would not exceed eight or ten. Other employees will find themâ€" selves holding lesser positions and in receipt of smaller salaries through the reorganizations. Four departments are affected, Mr. Cavanagh said, the paymaster‘s, audiâ€" tor‘s, accounting and treasury departâ€" ments. It has been found that econâ€" omies could/be effected in the operaâ€" tion of these departments. Exercise of the seniority system has resulted in charges being made in several departments not directly affectâ€" ed by the consolidation, as older emâ€" ployees "bumped" their juniors. In some cases, messengers with only a short service record have been forced out of their positions by the men whom they succeeded when they first took resulted in changes (being made in positions with the road. At the present time, the reâ€"alignment of positions has not been completed, and "bumpings" are still in progress. When the consolidation does go into effect finally to its full extent, eight or ten employees are the maximum numâ€" ber who will find themselves without positions, the general manager estiâ€" mated, although a Jlarger number will find themselves holding lesser positions and receiving smaller salaries. ; The process or reâ€"aligning positions is a lengthy one when the seniority system is used, Mr. C; ed. It may be some full extent of the afi he said. MB . Sudbury Star:â€"With production for 1934 at has something to aim at in (TO BE CONTINUED)