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Port Perry Star, 2 Apr 1931, p. 6

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This finest Orange Pekoe tea costs less than others SU A T a A 'Fresh from the gardens' SYNOPSIS. how that little guy--the one who got : Henry Rand, b5, a business man, is away--could sock!" ound murdered in a cheap hotel in > i) 3 nS , HY Grafton. His son, James, traces a yellow . "y eah, said Fogarty. T've _Scen hand- | 'em before, One of 'em was Kid Jucatre Heke siuh and a woman ' erchief to Olga Maynard, a cabaret yi: a einger in Buffalo, who claims a stranger Divis. He used to be a pug. Used to whom she danced with stole them from be a pretty good preliminary boy, but her. She and Jimmy search for this man " '. in and finally see him. From police photo- he wouldn't train, "Good Lord! Jimmy groaned. Eraphe they recognize him as Ike Jen-! pen. Olga falls in Jove with Jimmy ON ag 7 ys, y Jimmy meets and falls in love with Now J know where P've seen that Mary Lowell, who is engaged to Samuel face before. When he ran past me Church. » wealthy Jawyer. Mary breaks | knew there was something familiar when she sees his cruelty (© "0 : i tle dog. Church iis looking about him, but for the life of ices Jimmy to Jose differer , ' 3 Jobs, and Olga tells him that Courel me 1 couldn't Place it. > "It was his nose, of course. You done the same to her because she - fuged to have anything to do with him aid he was . a lace BO Lre ary thie do vith Wy; said he was a fighter. I can place ter, and Jimmy. himself, run ac » hid? now. It was that broken nose Jireet feht wane of the parti ©! of his." noc ne other out png vie to Tun the crowd yells to stop him He turned to Barry. "That man ----------a was one of the pair that followed me . aE VNTR that night. He was the one who came CHAFTER XXXIX. ) { running with the gun. What a dumb- There was a wild upheaval in the | bell I am! In my hands and out again erowd as the man who had left his! just like that!" opponent unconscious on the sidewalk "If he'd had a cap on, I'd have Jowered his head and plunged through. i known him in a minute, but he didn't, There were cries of "Somebddy and his hair was all museed and his grab him!" but no one attempted it,! collar torn. If I'd on'y had moie time perhaps because of that peculiar in-'to think.' : ertia that seems to afflict crowds so 'Wh often, perhaps because of fear, for he abo was a menacing figure, even in flight. tha As he broke through the r edge | of the throng and passed | nd Barry, perhaps some ten ya: from them, Jimmy got a gl him with his disheveled ha tered nose and his collar the devil are you talkin' asked Fogarty through lips were tightly clenched on And Jimmy told him the story of the encounter he had had. | "Does this Kid Divis, as you eal) travel around with a man by lie Jensen?" he asked ni, the 1 Foparty. me of skew. e. Regular buddies. That is, Ther. he was gone, dnd when he | they uted to be. 1 haven't seen Jen- dizappcared from sight J sen for some time. By the way, di assailed with the uneasy feeling that yon know Ike?" be should have tried to stop him ' said Jimmy, and he was 'omething familiar about that fleeing 3 1 why he was so anxious but he thought better of figure raised the question whether it to find him, hadn't flashed before his eyes before. | it, ; They were picking the other man| Inctead, he turned to Barry Colvin. op from the gutter. He was conscious "Come on, Barry, we're going down but there was a deep cut in the back 1{o police headquarters to see O'Day." of his head uck the * * » re he had si curb. A gy eman avrived, ordercd| "Kid Divis? Sure, I know him" the crowd back and rang for a patrol! Lie O'Day reached in the wagon. | dy here he had cached his The victim, unsteady on h feot, "Why? he asked. dottered und had {o be helped in by | 'e just saw him in a street fight," dlie policeman. | y explained. "Come ¢ Barry," said Jimmy. | man Divis," said O'Day, "was "It's all « Just a street fig one of the first we brought in here > of toughs. Thomas Fogarty, sur- through amused eycs, between a c« Then 1 ¢ veying ihe scene | when we first began to search for Ike Jensen. Someone tipped me off that Divis was an old associate of ick at a rakish angle from} Jensen's, but he swore up and down, 1. He removed it to spit on' when we got Lim in here, that he and then he la 1. hadn't seen Tke for weeks. Said he mptuous laugh I must have left town." ched his elbov "Hello, "He lied to you, then," Jimmy de- > _ | elared. "Di was with Jensen the ello, Mr. Havent night Jensen and I had that little for Did you mixup. He was the fellow I told you see He j mb about that came running up after- in the direction of the patrol. ward with a gun." "Yen, I & it all right" He "Good Lord!" O'Day spit savagely troduced Ba: Colvin. into the cuspidor. "And we let him "Glad 1« v you, ) vin." go!" " boys, weren' Jarry "You remember, Lieutenant, I de- said ever-ready grin. "And scribe d the man as a fellow with a ra yo . MEAN? Don't be helpless when you throbbing head. Quiet a grum- suddenly get a headache. Reach bling tooth. Relieve i t for immediate pains of neuralgia or neuritis. : a haven't any Or check a sudden cold. Even you, get some at rheumatism has lost its terrors you come to. for those who have to Take a tablet or two and be depend on these tablets. pain. Take promptly. Gargle with Aspirin tablets at the first on of sore throat, and reduce the infection. Look for Aspirin on the box-- broken 1.0se? We looked for his pic- ture in the Bertillon room." "Sure. But we didn't have it. The Kid's never had anything proved on him. Bi how could we know, Rand? Believe me, we got a lot of guys with broken noses when we started pulling in the boys we thought could steer us onto Ike Jensen." Barry Colvin laughed. "I imagine #0. Nice boys--all of them." Jimmy said: "Well, I'd bet m_ last nickel that Kid Divis was the man who was with him that night. 1 wish we had him now." "We'll look for him, Rand. I'll start right away." O'Day pressed a but- ton. * * * * It was early the following after- noon that Mary Lowell, not back long from luncheon, looked up to find be- side her desk a stockily built young man with a pug nose, carefully parted hair and an engaging smile. "Miss Lowell?" "Yes "I--er--" he stammered and looked down at his hat, which he was crush- ing in his hands in his embarrass- ment. His fat cheeks turned a rosy red. "My name is Barry Colvin. I wanted to talk to you about something 'm- portant. First," and he lifted his eyes to meet hers, "I hope you won't throw me out before I finish." His mouth widened in a grin as he spoke. "Sit down, Mr. Colvin." Mary in- dicated a chair, and smiled, for there was something about Barry Colvin's manner that was hard te resist, a con- tagion in his smile, a downright friendliness, even, that in any other person might be considered impu- dence. , "First of all," he began, placing his hat on her desk, "let me repeat that I want to finish before you throw me out." He grinned again. "No, I'm not an insurance agent, and I'm rot going to try to sell you a lot or an automobile. And I'm not a biz silk stocking man from the east." "Good heavens!" she cried in mock horror, "Then you must be a book agent." "Wrong again," he laughed. "I'm a alesman, but not the ordinary kind. I'm what you'd call a specialist." "No," she said, "You're a lawyer. I saw you when you were in here yesterday." His eyes were suddenly serious as they sought hers. "I'm also a friend of Jimmy Rand," he remarked. Then, at the quick, inquiring look and the troubled frown that his words produced, he threw up his hands, simulating despair, "There youn are, I knew it. You're getting ready to throw me out now for butting in on somebody else's busi- ness. Let me talk, will you, please? I didn't come for Jim. I'm no ambas- sador. If he knew I was here he'd probably give me a good licking--and he could do it, too." Barry clasped his hands around his knee, lifting his foot several inches from the floor and gazing at it as he went on. "It's none of my business, Miss Lowell, but Jim Rand is the best friend I have in the world--and about the most stubborn individual in the world, too--" "I wish," she interrupted, "you'd say what you have to say. I don't want to appear rude, but it's difficult for me to--" » "I know," he put in. "I'm sorry. V'll get right down to the point, Miss Lowell. I'm going to tell you why Jim Rand came to Buffalo. You don' know, do you?" "No." "Well, Jim Rand came here because his father was murdered several weeks ago and a clew led him to Buffalo." "Murdered!" she gasped. "Oh!" "Yes, the most mysterious thing 1 ever heard of. I won't go into it all, because. it's a long story. We don't know who did it and we can't imagine why it was done. But poor Jim hasn't been himself, waturally, since the thing happened. "Suspicion first pointed to a certain man in this city, but he proved an alibi. Then it pointed to a girl--a girl named Olga Maynard. Jim found her in a restaurant one night while you and he were together." She was staring at him in wide- eyed amazement. "Then that was the--" she broke off. "Go ahead, Mr. Colvin." x "He met her the next night--in the Same place. At first he tried to trap her into an admission. Then, when he told her the police were looking for her on a murder charge, she fainted dead away. Jim told me that you saw that, and that you quite naturally failed to understand it. . "Now he's convinced that the girl was absolutely innocent of any con- nection with the murder. In fact; she's been helping him in his search for the suspect. "That's all, Miss Lowell. I won' | bother you any longer." Barry pick- j ed up his hat. "I just had to tell | you, because I thought you'd like to know and -that, as far as Jim was | concerned, you ought to know. He wouldn't tell you himself. He said it was too late." ne | Her hand fluttered to her throat. She blinked to hold back the tears. "It isn't," she whispered. "You were kind to tell me, Mr, Colvin." » ' * * When Barry saw Jimmy Rand that evening, he said: "Jim, I want you to remember this day. If you've got a notebook, mark the date in it. Some {ay you're going to appreciate me for what I amu great benefactor to nankind." . {To be continued.) 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Allison, in " Canadian Poets." ---- English Too Easy Berlin--Despite the great prefer- ence shown for English over French by school children in many parts of Germany, the Prussian Ministry of Education has ruled that the schools must start with French. The rea- son is the educators' belief that the English language is so easy to learn that long training is unnecessary, whereas French requires years of drilling. : Heretofore schopl children have been allowed to ehoose the foreign language they desired to study first, with the result that in many prov- inces of Eastern and Northern Ger- many only English {is available in the early years in most schools. In Lower Silesia sixty-six out of sixty- seven school districts starts with English, and in 'Schleswig-Holstein all thirty-five districts 'start with 'English, which 18 particularly easy for. the inhabitant§ of the original home of the Anglé-Saxons, RR ER ~ ISSUE No. 13---31 We hau slipped down the burning] slope, expectin_ every minute %o be our last, then found ourselves falling into space. We shut our eyes, rather than see the fiercely burning furnace that we believed lay AY denly I f ug: ~~ self choldy, oH dg breath, decySe. 2 in the cool swirling depths of a moun- tain pool. I fought my way to the top, and found Scottie swimming in cir cles up there on the surface, looking | for me, with a most doleful expression on his whiskered face. Above us the woods burned brightly, and down stream the river disappear. ed in a smoke-filled tunnel of flaming trees. It was through that tunnel we must go if we were ever to get out. The air was alive with hot cinders-- and the light was so uncertain that we had nc idea whether the sun was shining or not. When the water grew shallow I waded around slippery boulders, and crawled over ledges where the swift, white currert pulled and tugged at my clothes and often swept me off my feet. It was painfully slow work for both of vs. Scottie was clutched un- der my coat and I staggered along as fast as I could. The stream narrowed, and the rock ledges on either side rose to a height of twenty feet or more. It was a re- gular gorge. "Up over us the woods were burning fiercely, but above the crackle snd roar of the flames rose another sound--a sort of deep bass rumble like thunder that broke through a leng drawn out note. Fall- ing water, and not very far ahead! The Current grev deeper and swift- er, and the gorge continued to grow steeper acd narrower. 1 clung to a ledge for support while I rested. Sure enough. Not a hundred feet along, the stream dropped over a ledge. I crept as closely as 1 dared. Apparently the water fell twenty-five or thirty-five feet into a round basin and the gorge was considerably wider at that point. It looked for all the world a3 it some giant with an auger our way back through the gorge. On a flat rock in the stream we sat down to think--the bank was too cool for comfort and the rock was none too cool. Taking off my leather jacket, 1 carefully cut the heavy Jeather into strips, using the sleeves and all. When fastened together these strips made a 'strong rope about ten or twelve yards long. Now for a place to tie it at the head of the falls. T needed a log that could be wedged sccurely between the walls of the gorge--that would do it. Final ly I foun. one the right size. Half floating it, 1 made my way towards the edge of the falls, One false move --and over I'd have gone! Carefully I workeC one end into a crevise in the ledge. With on end anchored I pushed th2 other into place against the opposite wall of the gorge. Then 1 went back for Scottie. From my shirt 1 made a sling. With one end of the rope anchored around my / waist, 1 braged 0) y myself against / the tree and lowered Scottie down. The rope just reached, and he climbed out on the side of the basin. My turn came now. I straddled the log, took a tight hold of the leather rope, and slipped over. The force of the falls was trémendous. The rope slipped through my fingers, and 1 spun dizzily around, apd with a thump I landed in the shallow water at the edge of tLe basin. 1 cltmbed wearily out and there wa: Scottie watching me on the bank. The wiods seemed. to be getting lighter ahcad. 1 pushed on faster-- and soon we were on the edge of thé saw. Far up to th~ right the fire was rapidly working down to the lake. To our left, the woods were burning al- most to tue water's edge. We were hemmec in again, Suddenly there was a scrambling in the underbrush--some heavy animal scratching through. Scottie remem- bered the bears and stood still with had borcd this big hole in the rock, into which the water tumbled and hissed. a porcupire, nearer The or ing grew (To be continued) | Borders beats Maltad Mik The health-giving, delicious drink for children and grown. ups, + i. Canada's Maple Trees There are nine species of maple native to Canada, according to the Forest Service of the Department of the Interior. Three of these, name- ly, the broad-leaved maple, the vine maple, and the dwarf maple are con- th The | Pound and Half Pound tins at your groeers. only maple native to thé Prairie Provinces is the Manitoba maple, and this and species (sugar, or hard, maple, red maple, silver maple, striped maple, and mountain maple) are found in the eastern provinces of the Do- minion, 'Made in Canada by the Makers of Cheese and Velyeera Xa KRAFT Salad Dressing offers everything anyone could ask for in cxquisite, refresh- ing flavor, yet it's sold ata price so low it's within the reach of everyone, Alarge 12 ounce jar costs only 25 cents, one half the cost you're used to paying. Get some to-day. . know why it's the favorite everywhere in Canada, Tey it and you'll ibstancly - fe Slowly, step by step, we retraced every hair standing siraight out like ?{routes and field the remaining five 4 boundary. Engineers of Geodetic Survey of Canada, Department of the Interior, Had Difficult Task During the summer of 1930, the Geodetic Survey of Canada, Depart- ment of the Interior, carried out the difficult task of establishing, as. tronomically, two points on the unsur veyed section of the Ontario-Mani- toba boundary between Island lake and Hudson bay. In addition, the terminal point of this line was locat- ed astronomically on the Hudson Bay coast according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament of 1912 dealing with this provincial bound- ary. According to statute commenc- ing at the boundary between Canada and the United States, the boundary between the two provinces follows a straight line drawn due north through the northwest angle of Lake of the Woods, to the intersection of the centre of the road allowance at the 12th base line of the Dominion Land' Surveys system. The longitude of this meridian section of boandary was officially determined to be 95 deg. '09' 11".61 west of Greenwich. At the 12th base line the boundary is de- flected to the northeast and extends in a straight line to the east end of Island lake. - From Island lake the statuatory boundary is defined as a straight line extending to the point where the 89th meridian of west longitude intersects the south coast of Hudson bay. . The section of the interprovincial ' boundary from Lake of the Woods. northward to the 12th base line and thence northeasterly to Island lake had already been survayed and mark. ed on the ground. The remaining section from Island lake to Hudson bay had not been of exploration in this section of couatry little or no knowledge was available of the ter- ritory through which this line would nicest little mountain lake you ever| pass. As a preliminary step to send- | ing out engineers to survey the line on the ground and erect the neces- sary boundary monuments, it was necessary to establish by precise ob- servations, the boundary terminal on the Hudson Bay coast. When this was done the initial azimuth (true direction) at Island lake of this 280 mile line could be computer and made available for the commence- ment of the work of demarcation. As a further aid to the surveyor ens gaged in running this line, it was de- cided to photograph from aircraft a strip of country from Island lake Hudson bay following as clos2ly as possible the theoretical boundary. From the photographs it was plan- ned to plot a provisional strip map showing the main water, routes and topography of such great importance to the surveyor in planning his travel operations. Un- fortunately at the present stage of development of aerial navigation it is impossible tonavigate a machine in a straight line along a theoretical line 280 miles in length over an un- mapped area. The Geodetic Survey of Canada was therefore asked to co-operate in this undertaking and to establish two intermediate points at intervals on the thecreical .in2- as well as to locate the boundary 'ter- minal by the methods of precise, or as it is better known, geodetic as- tronomy. The surveyor conducting the subsequent aerial photographic operation would then have at his dis- posal at intervals slong the ling, known points on which to check his course. g Geodetic engineers in establishing the boundary terminal proceeded down the Nelson river in canoes and made their way southeasterly along the coast a distance of 170 miles. At the point where the 89th meridian of longitude was found to intersect the coast, the boundary terminal was established and marked permanently on the ground by the erection of a substantial concrete monument. The position of this monument, marking the most northerly limit of Ontario was made more easily identifiable: {from the air by mapping the neigh- | boring shore lines and other topo- graphical features, In the location of the tgvo inter- mediate points on the- theoretical boundary between Island lake and Hudson bay, aircraft were used for transportation. Flying Qoyer this un- mapped area, the aircraft wer? directs ed by the methods of aerial naviga- tion until a lake was found approxi- mately on the line of the theoretical boundary. Landing on the lake an astronomical observation for position then permitted a calculation to be made of the distance and direction from the observed station to the By repeated trials, us ing this method two points were es- tablished close to the theoretical line --one on Black Duck lake about 90 miles east of Gods lake and the other near Sturgeon lake shown on most maps of northern Manitoba on the upper reaches of the Shamattawa river. These points when shown on sketch maps of the local areas will serve to guide the aviators on the subsequent aerial photographical operation, preparatory to the actual work of demarcation. > It js foolish for vs to lock up tha debtor in a debtor's prison and erpect : | Fim to pay his debt.--Henry Moi gan- thau. " lh

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