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AEC ran Sh % rE a AR i en eS et it cried the girl; a GREEN The { : by Stuart Martin / v - ---- nr mrt he ae Marat am oh 23 2 GHOST || v i SYNOPSIS Maud Barron awakes with a Ji - monition of disaster. She hears paddi footsteps, Rushing into her Fathers study she finds him. dead. Dr. Sidney Woster, a friend, is joined by Detective "One Eye" Uttock, a mulatto, who has never. lost a man. Maud Barron and Hughes return to England. Dr. Foster glves Maud his . address In case of need. He receives a telegram informing him 'The Ghost" has reappeared. "The apparition?" "The very same as that which haunted her poor father, doctor, 1 was awakened by a scream, and when I got to her room she avas in a perfect state of collapse. It had come to window." © "Did anyone else see it?" "No. The house was all dark, everyone had gone to bed, It was somewhere about two o'clock in the morning. Naturally, I have tried to keep the affair from the ears of the servants, but these things have a way of getting out." i "What about 'the Alsatian hound? Was it disturbed?" "1 heard him barking afterwards, but that was when I had put on the lights and got Maud's maid up to attend to her." X "Was any scarch made?" - "Mr, Hughes came to see what] was the matter. He is a very heavy sleeper and did not. know anything until--". "Hughes? Is he here?" 3 "Yes, he has been .staying ever s:nce we came back from Jamaica. We have someone else, too. Miss Monteith. She is practically the only other beneficiary under Mr. Barron's will, Her husband was Mr. Barron's brotHer, a young one who died--" "You said Miss Monteith?" : "Yes, she goes under her profes- sional name." "What profession? Art, the stage, or what?" "She was a singer, I think. 1 don't quite know. Mr. Hughes dug her up and brought her here to keep Maud company until all the. legal formalities are finished. He knew her. 1 think--" "Did Miss Monteith hear or the apparition?" "No, she sleeps at the back the house." Mrs. Gibbs hesitated and bit her lip, frowning. "Maybe my old tongue is running away with me, doctor; but things see of are not the same, somehow, now. I don't know for sure, but I have heard rumours that Mr. Hughes is - expecting to marry Maud--" "I think I'd better go up to see Miss Barron," said Foster quickly. He went up and saw her, with Mrs. Gibbs following at his heels. Maud Barron lay on a couch in front of a big fire in her bedroom. She was wrapped in a gown and had two bright spots on her cheeks. It was evident at once that she had under- gone .a severe shock. Her nerves were in rags and her lips trembled as she tried to speak. Foster held her hand and felt her pulse leaping madly. "Don't try to tell me anything _ Just now," he said soothingly. "We will get you all right, don't fear, and clean all your worries up as soon as possible," "We had a local doctor this morn- ing," said Mrs. Gibbs, "but he wasn't very satisfactory so Maud asked me -to wire for you." "Ah, in what way was he not sat- isfactory ?" . "He treated the whole thing as a dream, a sort of nightmare. Tried to laugh it offt--" / "It was no dream! I saw it! I saw and Foster patted her hand gently, and nodded his head. "I know it wasn't a dream," he gaid with conviction, but his brows were wrinkled and his eyes were far away. "I sept for you," said the girl rapidly, "to ask you to stay here and help me. You remember you rolling your own wi GOLDEN VIRGINIA 1 = Lo 3 -- 3 om 40 promised you would, No one else believes me. You saw it in Jamaica. You know I am not a victim of hal- lucinations." "I saw it sure enough." "But how could it come here? Why does this awful thing come to haunt me as it haunted my father? Can the Voudoo priest send demons across the sea? What harm have I done them? What is the meaning of it all?" "We will find the answered firmly, "You are the only one who under- stands--you and Mrs. Gibbs. The others say I am. nervy, that I have nightmares, that I am wearing my. self out over nothing, But it is not nothing. It will drive' me crazy. It came last night--the same terrible face and the fingers--Oh." She buried her face in her hands and shuddered. Foster turned to Mrs. Gibbs, "What 'other' does she mean?" "Mr. Hughes and Miss Monteith, sir. It was Mr. Hughes who drove for the doctor this morning, All I wish is that the ugly brute of a ghost would give them a scare to teach 'em." "You will stay, won't you?" asked the girl, laying her hands feverishly on the doctor's arm. "I sent for you because there is no one else I have faith in, Will you not stay here and help me to get rid of this? You know it is not my brain that is giv- ing way. You know it is not my un- healthy imagination." I never had such fears and scenes--" | "I know you are perfectly healthy and normal," he said quietly, "I know that you have suffered from meaning," he understand. I don't believe you are a victim of dreams or nightmares or hallucinations, Since you want: 'me to stay, I will stay." Fert The girl sank back on her achions with a sigh of relief. "Thank heaven," she murmured. "If you had refused I would have had no one to rely on. It would 'have sent me crazy.' T Foster smiled confidently to her. (To Be Continued.) 663,345 WOMEN ARE EMPLOYED Ottawa--There were 63,346 wo- men, 15 years of age and over, who were gainfully ' employed at the census of 1931. More than half of them, 52 per cent., were engaged in service, 34 per cent, personal and 18 per cent. professional. Over 17 per cent, were in clerical work. Unmar. ried women in employment number- ed 535,144 and 61,335 widowed or divorced. ek Employment of women had great- ly increased during the decade since 1921, when the total was 485,140, the gain being 36 per cent. There were fewer women in service in 1921, comparatively speaking, only 46 per cent. as against 52 in 1931, but 18 per cent. were in clerical work compared with 17 in 1931, Capability Essential Under a new automobile traffic code the state's speed limit of 45 miles an hour is abolished; slow drivers who impede traffic are made amendable to law; right turns on red lights are permissible wheres local authority so determines, and the passing of vehicles on the right is legalized on broad thoroughfares in municipalities, All of these new rules are in the interest of larger liberty for 'the drivers of cars. All of them imply increased need for competent and responsible driving; but the driver, as heretofore, is to go his way without license to con- trol him, or examination to test his fitness, True, the. liberalized' code provides that mechanical inspection of all vehicles may be enforced: by the state highway department, That is a valuable concession to safety if the highway department is alert and impartial in doing its duty. A lot of weak-braked, or otherwise debi- liated cars now menacing life and limb, should be ordered out of ser- vice until dangerqus defects ye re- medied.-- (From the Chicago Yer) "It would he folly to try to re. medy the things that are wrong by going at them at too rapid or radical a pace." --Phelps Phelps. " uWhero the teacher expects much he géts much; where he expects lite tle he gets it." . ~Abbe Ernest Dimnet, something we can't for the moment |- _| morning!" -palatable when cooked, is a mystery. | the new. 'regulations which have béen MUSIC FOR WORKERS 1|URGED AS STIMULANT, London--Music for workers, par- ticularly those in mass turning out standardized pieces, warming the air supplied to pneumatic drills, and special apparatus for detecting dust in certain industries are among the recommendations made in the fifteen- th report of the British Industrial Health Board. it would eliminate * boredom" and increase efficiency by rhythm; for the 'warm air that it would increase the efficiency of the drills; for dust detection, because it would dimin- ish certain eye, nose and lung com- plaints, Experiments to investigate the psychological conditions of indus- try, especially in repetition work, have been carried out, and the re- sults show clemrly that where con- ditions are satisfactory the comfort and cheerflness of the worker be- ing studied and helped (e. g., by music in some instances), efficiency improves. Studies of causes of invalidism have produced valuable results, but existing evidence gives no support to the statement made by surgeons and others'that bus drivers are specially prone to gastric trouble. cial committee has been set up "in association. with the London Pas- senger Transport Board, The well-recognized * 'risks of workers in dusty trades have been carefully studied; a new instrument has been constructed by means of which it is possible to take samples of air practically at the breaking point, i.e. the mouth and nose. It has been proved that a stone- mason's exposure to dust may be three times as great on a calm as on a windy day, Preventive mea- sures have been suggested, includ- ing the wearing of "respirators," i.e, . appliances resembling 'gas masks," A Chain Of Smiles Observes the Christian Science Monitor: "When a woman entered a certain jeafeteria, the first thing she observed was the serious, almost disagreeable, expressions on the faces of the, women attendants be- hind the long cbunters," None of them even raised their eyes when they asked what ghe wished. With a smile she said, "Good Without exception, each in turn looked up astonished, pleased, and answered with a smile, After only a few times of going there, she found that each face would light up . with a smile of pleasure and good comradeship when she came in, Even amid the rush of their work they would take time to make some pleaant. remark. - This game, 'a chain of smiles," as she calls it, she has been playing for many years, and her business takes her over most of the United States and 'into other countries, Waiters, clerks at hotel desks, clerks in stores," post-office. employees, bootblacks, janitors, and scrub- the game; and she has found that a smile is never wasted." : Root Vegetables Keep Well In Dry Sand Root vegetables, such as beets, 'carrots and parsnips, may be pre- served during the entire winter in a perfect state by keeping them packed in dry sand. The sand snould be placed in boxes or barrels in, a dry, cool part of the cellar or{ store room, in layers alternating ' with layers of vegetables, until the re- ceptacle is full. From this storage the vegetables may be dug out as required. Why any one should go to the trouble of canning beets when they will keep perfectly well all winter in sand, and are fully as Some members of the Women's In- stitutes, in their study of economic- al ways of cooking and of time sav- ing, have discovered this fact about vegetables, and are passing it on for general use, : Mrs. Grundy Holds The Spanish Fort Madrid--Mrs, Grundy has ap- parently found her way to Spain. At least, 'the well known Spanish stage and film star, Ernesto Vilches, thinks 50. Vilches visited a bathing pool with a number of friends, and to swim, wore a costume that he had worn in the United States, Mexico, the Argentine and Cuba. It was one of {those costumes where the leg: goes almost as far.down as the knee. Apparently it was a little too much for the attendant who ordered Vil ches, out, as his costume was against issued, = t What, the new regulations are like can be "judged from the fact that The reason for the music is that, In order to settle the matter a spe-|. in coffee-making. wouldn't . admit there THE 0DD AND THE More English people go for their holidays to (or through) Belgium than to any other country, writes J. H. J, in the London Dally Mirror. This summer, the time of the Inter- national Trade Exhibition, there will be more English visitors than ever, about Belgium. Ore knows what to expect from the Dutch: they are fat, clean, and grow flowers. One knows what to expect from the French: they are, as the; old lady said, "so. French," But about the Belgians many things are surprising. In the first place, they are not one nation, but two. There are two en. tirely different languages. South of a line running just.below Ypres and Brussels the people are Walloons, and the language is French. North of that line the people are Flemings, and the language {8 Flemish -- which is more like Dutch than anything else, Belgium has been a self-govern- ing nation for mo more than a cent. ury; it was not until 1830 that she became an independent state. SHE IS AN EMPIRE Secondly, Belgium is not, as one might expect from her size, an agri- cultural country; she is in proportion to' her population the most highly industrialized country in the world. Like South, Lancashire and the West Riding, ¢he is a country of towns, and lives by' exporting. manufactured goods, Thirdly, Belgium 1s more "than a kingdom; she is an empire, Actually she is the fourth colonial power in the world. There are only about 8,- 000,000 people in Belgium, but there are over 9,000,000 natives in the Con- go 'who are Belgium subjects. The Belglans are intensely proud of thelr 'empire. Not. very-long ago they had nothing to be proud of; King Leo- pold II oppressed and exploited the natives in a scandalous fashion. - THEIR BEST CUSTOMERS Our own Cecil Rhodes, himself no angel, described Leopold Il as 'Satan himself." But now all that has been changed, and in some respects the Belgian Congo {8° a model among tropical colonies. The exports of 'the Congo in 1931--gold, diamonds, palm. oil, ivory, rubber--were worth 1,000,= 000,000 francs. Fourthly, Belgium has a couple of awkward frontier disputes in store. She claims the left bank of \the Dutch, And one day Germany will claim Eupen-Malmedy, which "is at pregent Belgian. That district, with its 60,000 people--mostly German and German-speaking--was filched from Germany in 1922 after a misconduct- ed plebiscite. The Belgians have a great admira. tion for Englishmen. Like us, they believe in - constitutional monarchy; like us, they believe in colonizing; like us, they are an industrial people. We are, next to the French their best customers. Altogether we might well women, all are her companions in|know more about Belgium. TEA DRINKERS LOSE IN ENGLISH TEST More Individuality To Care- fully-Brewed Cup Of Cof- fee, Is Verdict. Manchester, - Eng. -- Britain's tea drinkers were recently adjudged the losers against the coffee addicts in an earnest contest conducted- to the last drop through the columns of the Manchester Guardiann. The decision was based on variety Coffee drnkers were any "grounds" for the tea drinkers, Their cups brimmed over; with sat- isfaction when they claiin was more individuality to the care- fully-brewed cup of coffee than the drink Brewed from tea-leaves, ed there Coffee fans argued coffee is the mental stimulant of the scholar, the physical stimulant of the tired busi- ness man and a necessary adjunct to every gourmet's dinner, The tea- stereotyped in his procedure, Inspect Each Ewe - Evéryone who purchases one.or a flock of: breeding ewes should in- spect each ewe carefully for any de- fects which might make her unde- sirable for breeding purposes, All | breeding ewes should have sound discarded annually - because their udders have become spoiled, or the have not heen able to produce enoug milk to raise their lambs. For this reason, each ewe should they forbid sun-bathis xcept when clad in a dressing ge 'ed carefully to determ or not she has two and whether her u fa INTERESTING THINGS] ABOUT BELGIUM. IF Yet very little {8 known in England] 7 € S Your Handwriting Tells Your Real Character! rs : By GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Graphologist) All Rights Reserved. Scheldt Estuary, which {3 at present] brewer, so they argued, has become| ~ § udders: Large numbers of ewes are | - From the outset of this series of articles on Character from Hand- writing, 1 have endeavoured to deal with the technicalities of the science only enough to reinforce .the evid- 'ence presented by the variolls per. sonal analyses that I am giving, Ih has been my aim to deal almost | entirely with the human angle of Graphology. To show you, more by actual practice, what Graphology has to offer, rather than by exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting technical discussions. It appears to me that Graphology today needs no extensive or elabor- aie defence. There are, 1 have no doubt, still some sceptics--those who refuse to believe that handwriting CAN tell anything of character--but, to be quite frank, in the 'course of a long practice of the sclence, and after 'receiving many thousands of letters from coast to coast, through my newspaper articles and my radio broadcasts, I have only come across one or two out-and-out doubters, And it has been 'my pleasure to con. vert 'most, if not all, of these. Graphology. has go much to offer to those who are earnestly desirous of finding the real truth of their characters and also "0 those who are anxious to find what their friends are really like, It tells your weak points, and shows you how to strengthen them; it pots out 'faults, thus pav- ing the way for you to discourage and finally eliminate them. 'And fit also uncovers characteristics that you could--¢ultivate to your advant- age, to the end that you will be hap- pier and more successful in your en- deavours. And one of iis most vital missions is to delineate-the characters of your friends so that you will kngw them .Toronto, Ont. better and understand. them. Much of the misunderstanding and even the quarrels that create havoc in many friendships, could be eliminat. ed, if people but knew and under. 8 '00d one another. dn a letter I received recently, a young lady who lives in Northern Ontario sald; "Isn't it funny that we should pay in order ao learn things about ourselvés that we already know -- but suppose, after all, we don't really know ourselves thorough. ly, because we are tempted to think ourselves as we would like to be-- and that isn't always just the same thing, is 1t?" ' However, even if that were all that Graphology did, it would still be worthwhile, for many of us, even though we know our faults, refuse to face them courageusly, and the ad. vice of an unbiassed outsider 'often acts as a spur to us . . . Actually, however, Graphology in almost every case uncovers: characteristics that we fail to realise ourselves, That this is so is proved by the many let- ters, to this effec, that I have re. ceived. 'Future articles will continue this discussion, * 9 @ Can Mr. St. Clalr help YYOU as he "has helped so many of our read. crs? He will tell you-the truth, and nothing else, about both yourself and your friends. Send specimens of the handwritings 'you wish analysed, stating age. Send 10c coin for each specimen enclose with '3c stamped, addressed envelope, to: Geoffrey St. Cldir, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. W., "All Tetters are confi dential 'and will be answered. as quickly as the volume of mall allows. Speed . On the salt flat of Utah, Sir Mal- colm . Campbell drove his famous racing automobile Bluebird at the amazing speed of 301.337 miles per hour-in both directions. This is by far the fastest speed ever reached by any 'human being upon {fe earth's surface, Sir Malcolm "has more than achieved his great am- bition--to drive at three. hundred miles per hour, But if speed were all, there would be very little sense in attempting these feats, There is, however, the infinitely more important and prac- tical "side,--scientific facts to be gleaned from driving at such a pace; the. effect upon the engine, the car, the resistance offered, and a hun- dred 'and one other features that may have a vitally important bear- ing upon car and engine construc- tion in the future, from all angles. Sir Malcolm took a fearful risk. But he has been taking risks. all his life. It is to be hoped that he will now rest content, and 'leave to other and younger men the tagk of per- 'sonally driving at an ev k faster speed." He has given the world proof and to spare of his daring and his courage, He may well resolve to pursue in safety the investigations that are the inevitable and important aftermath of his: achievement, -- Montreal Star." i (¥ "The scientific approach may prove necessary before the prevention of war becomes.an accomplished fact." When you feel your: ole man's hand .A'holdin' tight your fingers, And you say, "Aint life just grand?" : A Woman' s Life When a woman's been em 'Makin' garden-all-day long With chicken scratchin' in it And' everything 'goes wrong-- When beans a-cookin' on the stove For 'a hasty dinner snack Boil dry, while you're a-workin' And burn 'til- they are black. When you rush in through the hes chen door, Your dress snags on a tack, And then it rips from neck to hem 'The whole way down the back. When you rush to set the table And drop a dish ker-plop! The sweat runs down your fore-| head And you feel like you will drop. Then you trip yourself upon the rug : And crash down on the floor, Of all the troubles that you've had, You know "there ain't no more." But for every morn there's evenin', With the -lights a-burnin' low, And you kiss away a small. one's tears, ~ Or wrap up a stubbed toe. Then when you tuck 'em into bed And kiss 'em all "goodnight, » When all the little prayers are said, You know that things are right. In 'the dusk you sit a-thinkin' --Julian Huxley. . --Edith Arle. DON'T. RISK BAKING FAILURES ...,' "DON'T TAKE CHANCES WITH INFERIOR BAKING POWDER. LESS THAN 1/ WORTH OF MAGIC trusting for Gil MAKES A FINE, BIG. CAKE. , 1 Lending Canadiar: Cookery: Experts warn 4 ; G10 A on "| ONTARIO APPLES '| which will be Winter apples; is es- - "Igood in Dundas, but lack of rain British Aire raf i' Inde Opens Active Period With ~ Demand For New Fighters London--Tmplementing the Gove : ernment's program of Royal Air i Forge expansion the Air Ministry i oF will need 2,000 new airplanes before a a March, 19387, and their construction 2 involves the largest orders for air- craft since the war. A Having known lean times for the past 16 years the British aircraft industries are quite able and ready to meet increased demands on t resources. Alre px important con- tracts are in courses of negotiation, - several of them for new types of warplane. : Replacements Several of the older types of air- plane now in service with : the : 3 R.AF. are doomed to disappear with. in tHe next few months, Their places = = will be taken by new machines, some Ct of which are still secret, of marked- a ly superior performance and general flying qualities. Two new types twintengined heavy bomber are al- ready coming into service in ' the anil Page Heyford biplane and the Fairey Hendon, a big monoplane built to carry a large load at high speed over long distances. : The ninistry has announced its. intention to place an 'order for a twin-engined medium bomber which is especially interesting because .it is-developed: from the design of a ~ civil machine. built to meet the : needs of a wealthy private buyer. x3 This craft, designed, built and flown il by the Bristol company, in less than <7 12 months, is an all-metal low-wing monoplane powered with two super- charged Mercury 646 h.p. engines. It has a retractile undercarriage, flaps - to reduce landing speed, and control- ' " lablespitch airscrews. In civil form : it has reached a speed of nearly 270 miles an hour, or 50 milés an hour 'more than the speed yet announced for . the fastest American: twin- . 3 engined transport planes, Fs + | New Flying Boats In addition to the Gauntlet biplane, which is now going into service and with an official full load speed of 231 A m.ph. is the fastest fighting aircraft ' " in any of the world's air forces, the Sel Gloster company has been asked to bpild a number of the new four-gun - biplane now named the . Gladiator. " This machine, powered with a single supercharged Mercury motor, is con- Sa siderably faster than the Gauntlet, o though it carries a bigger military : vi 5 load. ; oR Included in orders for new flying 4 boats is the Vicker's-Supermarine Stranraer biplane * powered with two motors which is officially declared superior in comparative aerodynamic efficiency to the latest foreign boats, either of civil or service design. It: is designed for bombing, reconnais- sance, torpedo-transport and instruct. - ion in flying boat pilotage and navi- gation, ~ IN BIG DEMAND Georgian Growers Fear They Will Be Unable To Fill All Orders Toronto.--A total output of 100, 000 barrels of apples-in the Geor- gian Bay district, 65 percent. of timated by the Georgian Bay fruit growers, according to the weekly crop report of the Department of Agriculture. Orders are so numerous growers fear they will be unable to meet the demand for Fall apples in the over- seas market; the report stated. Bruce county. reported stock threshing well under way during the last week. Counties of Soutnern Ontario report need of rain to re- vive pastures and assist root crops. In Central Ontario, reports from Ontario county indicated bot flies are not. so numerous this year, fol- lowing the treatment of over 8,000 horses last January. Canning fac- tories are busy with tomatoes in Prince Edward county and corn is also being canned. Threshing is general in Eastern Ontario, but rust has damaged late crops. * Pasture. conditions 'are very has withered the pastures of Fron- genag and Leeds. Rust and "'terrble 'weather" was vgported from Kenora, in the Northern Ontario section, Mani- toulin was more optimistic, stating stock haye continued to make fair gaing, ~All farm work in Temiska- bing is advancing well, 'the depart. ment reported, ; ; Stipriog for Wife Nurse: "Sir, the stork has hgh re a rn kid n essor: reat | But don Font to : surprise her" ha is