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GREEN TEA _ To drink a cup is a revelation. Try it. = #! BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Samuel Honeybun, retired English eountr: n, startles the neighborhood with the announcement 'that blood is found in his rain-gauge. Right on the Is of the announcement comes news of the strange murder of-- Sir Franeis Lathrop, father > Jaz garet, who is engaged to Sir Guy La- throp. Sir Guy is suspected of the murder. Detective Inspector Roake of Scot- land Yard, who had been assigned to the case, visits the Lathrop home. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. Je RED [RAIN MYSTERY. ON HILL mm © et showed the detective's letter to Sir Guy. "The damn feélier's splurging about all over the shop," said Sir Guy, "I told you these private sleuths were no good. He'll never catch your father's murderer. Much better marry me right off the reel and let me protéct you." "And the day after our wedding have that Scotland Yard inspector ar- rest you," said Margaret. "No, thank you, Guy. I much prefer to let Mr. Klyne carry one. At least he's got an open mind." » x - "I see," rejoined Sir Guy gloomily. CHAPTER VIIL "You won't marry mo as long as Iam Ro warm expressions of thanks under this cursed cloud of suspicion. ite took Big, depeitare, but having Se be it, but you i quite Endersnd gain ie road, he stopped irresolute. [that we can't go on living in the same It was a new sensation for him. His house under those conditions. You or many successes had been won by his (1 will have to clear out, and it's me being cocksure of himsef. Now he that's for it." was full of misgivings. There had! Margaret's refusal to marry him been scmething roguish in that con- til the mystery of her father's death founded girl's tone since she had fail-' was eolved ranked. The next morn- ed to find his assumed name in tho ing, in a huff, Sir Guy left the stately Clerical Directory, and it was uncanny house he had inherited and had him- that she had not asked where he was self motored to the railway station to BE re a eb nalsaieh Sn arly train Starting Ietore Ri Sunday Had she orn {es in ' of the young clergyman at the inn and| Now Inspector Roake of Scotland had she identified him with the La-|Yard was a restless soul. When he throp detective? Moreover, she had wasn't in full cry after a certainty he fastened cCown the envelope, an un-!was fond .of what he called "kicking usual proceeding in the case of a let- | ---- ter of introduction. It was the stuck-down envelope that | settled it. It would be the act of an idiot to present a letter in ignorance of its contents. Instead of continuing his walk to Long Paston Manor he returned to the inn and in the privacy of his bedrcom steamed the envelope open. This is what he read under the stamped heading of Chaverel Rectory: "Dear Mr. Symes--The bearer is either a lunatic or a criminal impaos-'; tor, and you would do wel to hand | him cover to the police. Father has| gone to town to-day, and in his ab-{ sence 'Mr. Danvers' called and badger- | ed me for an introduction to you on | abortive attempts, hauled Sir Guy La- in evening clothes or tall hat. He might, =. pectable artisan returning home after redeeming a pledge from a pawn- And there was assuredly furtive in the baronet's carried on by ording to body v he : to the Thames Embankment by way| Department of Mines. The Peat Com- of Charing Cross and Viliers Street, | Mitte® was appointed jolutly by the thence along the Embankment to Wat. | Jovernments of the Dominion ak Case erloo Bridge. Halfway across the province of Ontario, bridge he leaned over the parapet and the object of finding, If possible, a dropped the bundle into the stream.|Practicel-working and commercially- Then he walke® on toward the south- ern end of the bridge, and his gait was no longer furtive. He strode forward head erect and eyes to the front, as a man who has nothing to conceal Probably he hadn't, Roake reflected. He had got rid of his guiity burden when he cast the bundle into the Thames. Roake hurried to the Embankment station of the river police and was lucky enough to find a launch along- side the wharf. The little craft was soon chugging down-stream with the Scotland Yard officer on board. There followed an exhibition of the marvel- ous skill with which the amphibious patrolders of London's waterway set about their "lawful occasions." Shown the spot by Roake, they got out their grappling-iron€ and, after only two the products of our extensive peat de- posits as an auxilary source of fuel supply, especially in the "Acut Fuel Area" of Ontarlo and Quebec. The foreword to thé commlttec's final re- port states that a gratifying measure of success had been met by the com- mittee In {ts Investigations and that the object of its appointment had 'substantially attained. The unsatisfactory situations which have arisen in parts of Canadd, par- ticularly "in Ontarfo and Quebec, through the dependence on anthracite | of foreign origin brought forward the necessity for a domestic source of fuel supply for this area. An Investigation into the possibilities of peat as a gub- stitute fuel .was undertaken and the cominittee began its investigations in 1918. Field operations were carried on by the committee at the peat hog near Alfred, Ontario, about 40 miles east of Ottawa. During the period of investigation maehines were designed and methods developed by which the production of peat on a commercial basis could be accompiished. The in- vestigators went further and made a study of the uses to which peat fuel could be put and how the bogs not worked for fuel and those from which the peat had been removed could be utilized for agricultural purposes or otherwise advartegeously disposed of, The outstanding conclusions arrived at by the committee were that the only methods or processes which could be economically employed for the manufacture of peat fuel were those employing air-drying, that the climatic conditions in Ontario and Quebec were favorable for the manufacture of peat fuel for 100 days during the summer season, and that the commercial pro- duction of this form cf-fuel, on a large scale, could be conducted on many of the bogs which had been examined in detail, and which were favorably situ ated with regard to centres of popu- lation and transportation facilities. ---- What the Artist Wants. * Last night we sat late over the fire. It had been a blustering day, but at sunset the wind fell and the stars came cut in splendid brilllancy. Rosa lind had taken up her work, and we throp's bundle inboard, a ball of ooze and slimy mud, "The juggins weighted it!" snorted the Inspector, feeling the brick in the interior. "If he hadn't it would have been @ mie down-rivér by now and | would have led us the devil of a dance." There were no facilities on the launch for examining the contents of the bundle, so word was given to re- turn to the police Station. There, on the slab in the receiving room, the un packing took place, and Roake"s eyes near.y bulged from his head when he extracted a stained suit of clothes and, wrapped in it, a sharp-pointed Italian stilleto. "The clothes he wore and the wea- pon 'he used!" gloated the Inspector, restoring the.exhibit so far as was sible to its former semblance. "Good enough proof to pinch him on, any- how, and blamed if I don't go and do it. He ought to have trickled back to his diggings by now." Leaving the bundle in the safe cus- tody of the river police, he waked to Jermyn Street and interviewed the hall-porter of the flats he had watched all day. In answer to his question he was informed that Sir Guy La- throp had not returned. Roake hovered about til} midnight and then, concluding that Sir Guy did not mean to return, he retreated to the pretext that he was our curate. 1 | know nothing about him, though he| was quite frank about his object, | which, I gathered, was to extract] money from you. To get rid of him | I appeared to accede to his request, though naturally he is not aware that you against him.--! Yours very sincerely, Adela Larkin"! Klyne put the letter away in his pocketbook, frowning rather in be wilderment than in anger. "Of all the treacherous young cats!" - he muttered, "This means that I must his heo's" Which was why he was get my information otherwise than | prowling about the small wayside sta- Sipugh Mr. Syme" a ob tion serving Latiwop Grange when Ji nd later in the day got it, by | Guy took his ticket for e discreet inquiries elsewhere than at eed minute there was no more heel- the Manor. Wilmot, late chauffeur to | kicking for the Inspector. He thought Mr. Symes, had Ro y - hat ; ho had got his veriney. He Wey Suaje gentleman's employment and was -ied for Lendon, and when the train lieved to have obtained another situa- steamed in took his seat a few com- HOD 18 LOO hetefon "The Rover partments behind the one entered by don, re, "The | - his quarry. sug {Satie Danvers" Bled impelt The baronet was Svidently Soing 2 aining his room a € Inn and hot with a view to leaving Englan notifying Margaret Lathrop of his del pucarinently a man to be shadowed pasture. His letter to his client bade with that dogged Jatiches which had rhe careiu., raised Mr. Roake to his present posi- In the garden that evening' Margar- tion at the Yard. So Roake took the job in hand, and when the train ran into the London 9 terminus was soon in swift pursuit, It esa reat | was a simple matter of SEarueting a | taxicab driver to follow the preceding for you and your children in | taxi to its destination. This was a th eppermint sugar jacket house of service flats in Jermyn Street, eB $ !where Guy Lathrop had lived from the and another in the Pepper. "No, thank you, Guy. : "I'll let Klyne carry on." +in his hutch he vanished up the stairs, 'end Inspectdr Reake, after a glance New Scotland Yard and set in motion the vast mechanism that radiates therefrom for preventing wanted fugi- tives from leaving the country and for arresting them if they remain in it. - "Merely a matter of hours, but I shoud have preferred to have run him in myself," the Inspector murmured. (To be continued.) ---- Aenea. were anticipating a long, quiet even- ing, when the door opened and our friend the artist walked abruptly in, Without ceremony, he dropped his hat and coat on a chair, and almost be- fore we realized that he was in the house he was standing before the fire warming his hands and saying that it was an uncommcaly sharp night, No more welcome guest ever comes under our roof than the artist. . . . His fel low-craftemen ae all talking about his extraordinary work, and the world is fast finding him out; but he remains as slple-hearted asa child. It is this] quality quite as much as the genius for expression which I find in him which assures me that he has the elements of greatness. i ah rn When we were comfortably dis- posed before the fire, and the talk, breaking free from personal incident, began to flow in its accust d chan- nels, Meryon and Corot were mention- ed by Rosalind . . . It happened that yesterday Rosalind and I had been looking at an etching of Meryon's, and we had naturally fallen to talking about the pathos of his life. . . . "Don't bother about that," said our, friend, starting out of his chair and standing before the fire. "There Is nothing that a real artist cares less for than what you call success. . . . No happier man ever }ived than Corot dur- abuse without becoming vindicative. [Ink those years when there was noth- --Courtesy is cheap, but it always|ing to do but sit in the fields . . . pays a big profit. ° and watch the morning" sky --Buccess can usually be had if we [80 and paint it. - As for Meryon . . . are willing to pay the market price. |he had thé supreme gatisfaction of -~Some people think they are cul- I 3 I tured when they are only critical. plates and thit was Suen or. any At the Games. "Why on earth is that fellow at tempting to jump with his overcoat on?" "It's a spring overcoat, can't you see?" arte se Minard's Liniment for Neuralgia. ee fe Seven Homely Truths-- --It takes real strength to stand Yat the name-plates in the vestibule,! | took up what was to be a prolonged | 4 vigi. in a totacconist's shop Serums are] : street. For it was not till after dar Utmost value in that Sir Guy "Lathrop emerged from long l-a-s-t-i-n-g his lair. But dhe old watch-dog's a palses quickened as he tock up the chasa again. There was a change in the baronet's riz, a charze that prom- | liced great things. He was dressed dif- {forcrly, and when he had entered, the flats he had carried a suitcase. | Now he was ¢ | | Reoake was 'WRIGLEY'S aids (kat his man ~ digestion and makes He disiiked the next cigar taste ortailed trust armistice up to the death of his uncle. With a cheery nod to the heli-porter I= \ a 22) --Most of cur troubles disappear it Man. . . . 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What is known as the deaf and dumb alphabet is a common accomplishment among those who are thus afflicted and those who are responsible for their welfare. But, if the researches| "How so?" of a well-known scientist are carried "They indulge in a blubber so of- to a successful conclusion, a new ten." - method of communication may be evolved, in which the hands will he made to speak words and sentences in exaitly 'the same way as the mouth does. g The scientist in question is Sir Rich- ard Paget, who, with the ald of bel lows and a metal tube, which take the place of the lungs and windpipe, has Lachrymose People. "What lachrymose people the Eski- mas must be." eel coe Minard's Liniment for Colds, re _ London's Milk In Glass Tanks. During the past eight months 1,800,- 000 gallons of milk have been brought in glass-lined tankers from country The world's white population is esti- remarkably natural way, In the mated to Increase at about 5,000,000 of a 4 fon, Bir Richard explained that vocal sounds are pro- over the opeciug of 4 cavity; he illustrated |. this by models made of plasticine and cardboara. By supplying eir to these model he made them utter vowel sounds and even words, such as "mam- ma," "Minnie," "rather," and "well." Then, discarding the models, he! used his bands only, and made them | "talk' 80 that everyone could hear and | understand. Molstening his hands to prevent the leakage of air, he manipu- lated them ln conjunction with a metal | p---- made his hands "speak" words in a White Race Increase. a though Naturé make a to wind up her year's la One of our Eaglish poets writes: -- Let me grow lovely growing old; The many pure things do. Need not be new. - And there i healing in old trees, Old streets and glamour old; Why may not I as well as these Grow lovely growing old? find a man who set out in life with buoyant hopes and enthusiastic -de- because fn the battle of life he has not gained what he aimed for. Such people become jealous, unsympathetic, and miserable, ugly both in opirit and action. The features become gnarled and marked, and the older they grow in their fellows. We have all heard that "a cheerful mind is the best faco cream." That truth is as old as the hills. The addi tion of years to those of oheorful mind does not detract from them in any way; and it multiplies their friends. Their presence is as the breath of fresh air. Nature is least arresting in midsum- mer; in spring and autumn she dons her most beauteous robes. And life should be the samé. Never permit things to -ge so much on the top of you that your vitality becomes drained for no purpose. We are gullty too often of wasting our substance with unprofitable thoughts and deeds. By storing the life and mind with noble thoughts and feelings, ambitions and hopes, so this essence of the beautiful will make us more comely 28 we get farther from birth, . You may conclude thal an aged per- son who has become withered in spirit; and fretful and tantalizing, hes gone astray somewhere. Where a life has been linved in open contact with the illuminating powers, such life becomes a power to illuminate algo. Our journey thrqugh life should be progressive. Our education should never be complete. * Our castles should never come to earth! The sun should {always be in front of us, causing the shadows to fall behind, Every day and In every way let us try to grow better, Thus aball we be led into green pastures and by stlil waters, and age shall not add to the burdens of life. ---- ee tn Geological Work on Baffin Bafiin island, which lies immediate 1y to the north of Hudson Strait, is at present a field of investigation by the Geological Sury the Canadian government boat making the annual trip to the established posts in thes Arctic. They will re main during the winter and carry on a survey of the southern part of. the island. islands. It has an area of 211,000 uare miles. Observation made along part of the coast that has been ex- pe Te Nothing is more shddening than to' lights and desires becoming a cynic," the more cut off are they from interest . y of Canada, Dr, L. J. "Weeks and an gssistant were landsd durifig the sunimer on this island from - .| Bafiin island is the largest and prob- {ably the most important of the Arctic ofa