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“The Oldest of Detective Stories It has been pointed out that the de- tective story is as old as the hills and that certain of the “Arabian Nights” forecast’ “The Murders “in the Rue Morgue” and “A Study in Scarlet” by a jog oan years or mote. No better he antiquity of the detec; tive ect ca be found than that of-; fered by feudal Japan, which pro- duced the tale of the arrest of ia stone god Jizo. In’ this folk story of ancient Yedo ; the hero detective moves with all the ; seeming indirection of Leeoa and Du-| pin and Sherlock 4 perlorm. -oka was he, Mayor of Yeda the store’s messenger reached Yoko- gawa street he ready to seek rest. more safe invention could have | Jizo, the patron saint a Sateen aut defenceless wom tress he went to the caeiaeae a ai cg that he had slept and that robber had made off with the sti during his slumber. would not believe his. stor Waste goulicnara: best Inpossibi for a robber to make off @ bundle’ in areas daylight. the porter should pi el of Mayor O- who trusts him and this time he has betrayed you. Even though Jizo is a Buddha, I cannot pardon him for his neglect of duty. I will have him ar- rested and brought before me for trial.” So O-oka gave eae orders to his court officers t or's seat for trial. Three of the officers departed on yer peas Hac first boun the stone god thon ey ea fs et ae ook ae firm pedestal eal crowd pediniie erore= ‘the an = } tracted b; pe ee behavior of the court office: When they were told that og May and the neighborhood of Honjo Staite The task of unseating the god was too much for th to a cart like any offender the crow wi op berate tue platform upon which sat nd the arms | p, With coll, of sone: { bee hth the Sates O-oka addressed’ the god in stern terms: ‘ou are a eciigcat tool, 0’ Jizo!” he exclaimed oud iow for all to hear. “You ok supposed ti _protect everyone aie faligren ta 7ua and /yeaders tribute, yet. this ifrasting porter here made a prayer to you, og ge asleep at your very feet, nd d while he slept: You aie Sees of Sas an ac- come in this robbery. oe ything a bes tae omar perGre I acs sent Mayor eae waited for a few mo- ments as if an the stony lips \ passed sentence immediatel k, not a | His Honor, “and Att ae aT specti his re! “Wh about here’ flicers. Jizo bas ane thieves? The: think this court is a penny show and they laugh at the court 8 orders. Shut all the gates at once,” The frightened attendants hastened 3 : 2 3 aie Ba . 2 e. thus puanants fou under ccanl tee hurried to their homes to bring back the cloth fine. Before the day wa: f cotton cloth ha each culprit being set down upon the +a of cotton cloth which he paeiaee ed. Before he would allow the 700 ‘to go, however, O-oka retired with the por- ter be had been robbed to an inner chamber and he asked thé porter to look over the 700 pieces of cloth and e if he could identify any of them ha Since every manufa turer of cotton cloth in Yedo always marked the selvage of each strip with a little red trade-mark stamp t! ter searched the edges of many‘stripes Mayor’ mp of his plunderéd pack. Instantly Mayor O-oka ordered the arrest of the two meh who had brought this cloth; they confessed to the robbery, and all the cloth they had taken from the sleep- ing porter’s pack was restored to him. All the Re ces of cloth, taken in ‘toll by t their owner guilty members of the crowd which had attended the trial of Jizo were re- leased. Then Jizo, the stone 804, was put on a cart, wreathed with the green pine and the pean “symitols of long life igs proespe carried back to ho Spedecthl-1 in You te ‘a street at the head of a triumph- procession. had hip utr dati niles and Mayor 0-oka tl sa sriore Bike” tite eye hie seat of BR Fighting a Food Shortage Cold weather came before my beav- er neighbors had lafd in Hinde food supplies for the winter, says a na- turalist. A forest fire drove mae out of their old home, and they selected eae and no food had been eR in Ms oe I oe the new wilderness hom of log- gers were cu atting Pa y hi a thick belt of pines and a confusion of fallen spruce logs. Tracks in the snow during one night wallowed out to. th showed that five beavers oe was at 3 and hod overtaken and killed another in the deep sno} The wolves seeme: ihstugaie the beavers decided to build a tunnel. Beginning at the bottom of be bess Road the shore, they ie ou ward the ake grove. For ftteen test that ran about two feet under the Roach then it in- clined upward, and came out under a pens, built a dragway from the end of thi tunnel to the aspens and felled a num. and worked them through the tunnel to the pond. last cold, ice, snow a es of enemies ‘completely stop) the beavers’ partes Their food. ore as seen through the clear ice, was less than one half the normal quantity and they began to burrow in the pona r Again the cold h prevented their work, low water froze to the bottom and shut them off. They were not beaten, how. ever.. They dug a-canal from their house to the heart of the root area, and kept it open. When the ‘roots Gave out, they had to leave the pond or stary y tried to gna thoush the ice, and nearly’ succeed- but they discovered unfrozen pei under the dam and tunneled out to the chatnel of the stream. A new c1 in the lower end aa ee as it strikes the g: ip the shock ny wild oats to harvest later on, Tea ANT INST No Raise an of | / buy a tin of the healthful table beverage t The quality is constant and the , = scum, Kich, even flavor pleases. & E or Coffee POSTUM in Price A rutch has a spring concealed WHERE THE “IcEBERGS RE HATCHED. eS one looks at an ining’ MEY, 01 is surprised to find consuderaly bigger than South Amert- ; ca, Which illustrates the distortion oe the nro Le tion, inasmuch | is Sout erica actual ae aoe fhe size of “Greenland: me, Greenland is the big- gest island in Jhe world, and once w on a time it must have been a pleasant pies to live in. Plant fossils found here prove eae anciently it had a tena climat hCiiee havesuehsa very long. time 60, for to- aes nearly at an Gre covered 1,000 feet. a mountain ra: two miles high most of the great is. land slopes downward stward toward Baffin Ray and Davis Strait, id so the ice sheet a continually @ west coast iste? ‘numerou pieces, D off, tormi and are set afloat in the What happens GOA inglpidual ive: 'Y:| berg after that os a upon accident- ay run ashore ie west side of Davis Strait) or on the coast of Lab- ee ee Bugs If it escapes his fate, passage southward through the atrale will be very ee because it must plow its way through lanti t region of open sea it may drift about for many months “be- es going to pieces. Large bergs on occasions got as far as the rae es. A sizeable berg may have nearly vertical walls 100 ee high, with pjn- nacles towering to @ that eleva- of ice have very eens ee is not all safe for a ip to g ar one, for huge Paes conan side down. he period of a: “| from icebergs is April, May and June. REED WE ARE IN LUCK THAT AIR IS FREE. When the Steel Trust was organized Andrew fesicaie mesaprken that the eommon stock was not even water, it was “suet al Thi me has ie ae worth aaroetiate since SS you eae any of it, you must pay ti it at tl rate of $113 a share. Ordinary air, hapa goodness! ha: not gone up in pri It is about the only thing that st ai done so. Even the ee Garages. advertise “free This. 4 really very fortunate, be- cause we need air cs only to breathe, but also for fuel. We keep the house warm in. winter, & She range goi by burning air, You ‘thought it was a Well, that is necessary alsu, the coal would be of no use as fuel ee you nn air to burn with area furs ong thing. Bu urning, in Teicha range or furnace, means ws Soniee together of the oxygen of andthe garbon of the coal. They eet a aaa combination. The air ecessary to the process of Estkastas as the coal. Our ay HS is fixed upon coal as the ir si iat_we have ertee from an fipposite point of view. erything else is, taxed nowadays. aaa ‘ick the government were a take a no! o-put a tax o Placing n mieiieter fa enc. dwelling, Would not that be horrible There has long tes a tax on fresh It is called a “win- a mint mu m, and gs _ttowance it fresh air is’ there. by cut dow ‘Ait is aan heavier stuff than is bet ar imagined. Thirteen cubic weigh a pound. ut it is fuck we are not obliged to store i like coal, for it wi = air will fill thirty teat xade ea thirty feet high, po ee Sea God Bless the Prince of Wales. Among our ancient mountains And from our lovely yale les O let the prayer re-e “God bless the Since of. oes With heartened voice awak Those minstrel strains of 0F8 Till Britain’s d_ glor; re-echo, “God bless the Prince of Wales!” ita hostile bands or danger hre: ong “our ancient, ete. A Welsh translation of the words of the Prince's Anthem, which were written by Se Linley, were made by Ceirog Hughes. The music of the anthem is by Brinley Richards. A Pagan Fashion. hion of keeping little od of luxury. is not at all oth Greek and Roman wo- new have hve et dog: ich imade lo ie dcoeactamienchle jay of to-day over her poodle. men, usually foreigners, were ‘0 stroll about the Ro- in thétr once seeing sarcasticalsy inquired o} women of their country had no child- t | Iy about | signi’ Oftan: these cating mountains | JA MOTHER'S TRIALS | that Greenland i = * Care ot Home and Children Of- down. ; ten Causes 2 The aga = home, deep in hduse- hold os cares of mother- hood, needs her in, ati health. m a ete health and severe. er own, health trials and her aaa welfare exact heavy cane while hurried meals, broken rest much indoor living tend t 0 weak- en “her or ee No, wonder that \ the an at home is often indisposed hoemehes, one keeps her. well make her blood health. get this good blood so necessary t perfest health, and that is cia aie e of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pill. pills make new blood RS bend aili m a at bright, cceagte uday ‘ong. 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It you have health, then, cherish it, guard it and tre it you treasure life, for out of ivare aie issues of life. eS eri Never Needs Winding, vee g before watches were invented, seape Scone s of telling oe ony and on by means of gc dey flower cock Paulie garden, and you wai find. 1 te oth eeeful i ‘ornament- a © Make a circle oe ea the edge with small ston ual distances round the edge wane Bey fshies of the clock, from one to twelve. re the outside edge falls opposite to each section. Then put in the following” plants: In section No. 1 plant Single Carna- No. 2, White Pyrethrum; No. ais 4, Lady He the No. wk- No, 7, Manette No. 8, Venus! Lantiaks glass; No. 9, Gous Marigold; 10, Clovewort; ntain Dabaclion} No. 12, Fig Marigold, nan sh ee ee Hawkweed will 0) the Marigold will follow ‘ite xiiich 30 on right round the ery the clock will only “go” during the summer months, and for only twelve hours out of the twenty- for an it it proves Sanco, ‘accurate, aay never aoe Wanaine)” ding SUMMER COMPLAINTS KILL LIPTLE ONES At the first sign of illness during as. good and the mother has the guar- antee overnment analyist that we are perfectly safe. The at sold by medicine ‘dealers or mail ‘at ada a box from The Williams’ Medicine Co., Siete: Ont. q ses ~cnecesy A university scholarship is awarded to the most successful student at the Battleford, Sasi@tchewan, ~~ High chool by the ladies of the 1. in rations of Battlefords fallen sol- JONEY ¥ ORDERS, Send a Dominion Express mney Order. 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