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extraordinary jobs i in distant places london no job is too weird if a good living attaches to it there is a roan in london who makes bis liveli hood out of a punchproof face he fc an exlight weight champion attach ed to a west end gymnasium where at the age of fiftysix be acts as a kind of human punchball few people can ttand a flush hit to tho face even when tho striker wears heavy boxinggloves this wonderful fellow makes nothing f a full smash on tho jaw from a man half as big gain as himself he merely grins johannesburg greatest of gold cities has a population of nearly 150- 000 black men most of whom are em- bloyed in tho mines if one of these bets into trouble whether as a result of beating his neighbor over the head with a knobkerrio or merely commit ting petty larceny off he goes to mlamaulankunzi coring mps of shyness this gentlemans real namo is gra ham baltehden officially ho is dir ector of native affairs fur the city actually the natives regard him as their white father and believe hini to bo the person who will take the blame fur all their crimes and misdemean ours ho does not quite do that ho does the next best thing his native name mean- peacemaker and uo does in fact net as mediator between black men and white it is no joke being father to 150000 blacks as as mr bal- london says himself it is a twenty- fourhour job tho house of the nine books is in chelsea and is tho home ot mme desterre a lady whoso pupils are politicians and mps whom she cures in a few lessons of shyess hesita tion or stage fright more than that she teaches them how to speak in japan crowds still gather around tho professional storyteller english people rarely become proficient in japanese which is a most difficult language yet one of tho most cele brated of japanese storytellers is an englishman named black whose knowledge of tho language is so per fect and his wit so brilliant that he is more popular in tokio than roost na- jtive professionals their secret art violins and celli belonging to well 3 nowu players aro usually very valu- nblo and heavily insured there are a few men in this country perhaps six in all who mako a living as in strument porters these are so well known and so dependable that a great artist will trust one of them to take iis 5000 violin from london to edin burgh if need bo naturally they are tvoll paid for their sorvices wo all know that the united states liolds most of tho worlds stocks of gold and silver there are vaults at tho philadelphia treasury which con tain millions in minted dollars the coins aro kept in bags each holding ono thousand dollars it is said that there aro only two men in tho world who thoroughly understand the art of piling these dollar bags ceiling high so that there is no risk of their falling a man named toughlll originally in vented tho mothod ot piling these bags safely and beforo ho retired ho took a pupil who in turn taught tho secret to another man thus thero are al ways two men and two only who can 1 this particular job an important job for the bags aro very heavy and if they fell someone would probably get badly hurt th best water colour for walls and ceilings frc stencil premium label on ecery peer age send for decorators guide and stencil catalogue 08 gypsum lime and alabastine an ill wind by william francis an eton garden ots sunday morning after chapel i was invited to visit a certain charm ing and spacious eton garden in vited thither and not a little fiatter- to be invited by its owner and creat or a master of high and venerable standing in tho school his garden was very remarkable it lay apart from the houses and the street secluded in an unaccountable net work oi branching streams for tho thames at this point scatters itself into sovoral meandering channels willowshaded waterways that coll and twist and aro gathered again into a great weirstream that washes pel- lows eyot and- tho playing fields and on ono of t broad island- patches between tho water and the water this beautiful gaden lay re mote a placo ot green alloys and vine trellises and rosebeds of trim bor ders and shaven turf of orchards and wildernesses and glowing flower- drifts in tho meadowgrass the hand of h gardenlovor had fashion ed the whole ot it tion tho breadth of tho open lawn in tho midst to tho deepened shadow of tho further re cessesand a hand moreover that draws back and is stayed at the right point where tho looso springflower ing of tho meadow and tho river hank left to itself slips from under tho fringo of the garden and rambles away in freedom it is an enchant ing placo to visit on tho first sunday morning ot june especially when you aro feeling rather proud of tho invita tion offerod you in stern but friend ly tones tho owner ot tho garden lead9 you round grimly pointing ont its failures and shortcomings the i flowers that wont como up and the weeds that wont stay down but there is a kingfisher it is nest ing in the steep earthy bank that faces tho little hornbeam close and the bathing ladder the blue streak is there and gone again- as yon reach the spot percy lubbock in shades of eton frankly sick of it and horos life offering me a way out im taking it wally so i think its goodbye she added a line about divorce papers signed sealod and addressed the lettor and crossed tho hall to his dressingroom hed find it when he came home to dress for dln- nor another of those poisonous din ners at the llillsons how she bated them tho soppy inanities of laura hlllson the rot about the younger generation the shares market talk and wallys heavy wisdom about tho need tor calm conservatism calm conservatism free large ulustrar eu catalogue 014 new and rebuil bicycles from 10 up motor cycles boats outboan motors itulios on paid write to duke cycus and moioe jo g25 queen street w toronto ont ok that was all her life had been since she had married walter weatherby for his money two mortal years of deadly paralyzing calmness without a thrill except the thrill of spending and wally generous as he was scorned somehow or other to take tho joy out of that ho gave her all the money she could use all she could waste had been jim dorris- tons proposition she opened her husbands dressing- table drawer disturbing the order ly arrangement ot its contents club cards golf scores keys and the load ed service automatic he had used in franco she put the letter in be side it and in so doing touched the cold steel of the dull barrel for a moment she stood motion less then slowly withdrawing the letter sho went to the window and flung it open a tiny breeze was enough to brace her courage and steel her resolve sho laughed aloud wally jo anything rash what a chance she assured herself no wally will bo his own conservative self returning to his dressing table sho leaned tho letter against tho mirror then going to her room she threw on her coat and closed her bag the hall clock was striking five as she let herself out of tho flat she was to meet jim at victoria at fivethirty the boat train left at six in the gloomy isolation of the taxi doubt assailed her again what if wally did well something tragic her mind clung to the sense of im pending tragedy i in arliament squire fugitive rain drops fell heralding a storm dark scurrying clouds brought night be fore its time and the tiny breeze which but a few nlnjtei beforo had fanned away her fear now grew to a wind of almost hunicane force nervously she feit for her pass port and couculsively confirmed the presence of rer pearls sho rather hated herself for aking them but jim had promised to send wally a chcque for them his lucky beads as he called thorn he really be lieved they had brought him his good fortune on change theyd actually been worta a quarter of a million to him he insisted great big superstitious baby lliat he was dont leave wally my luck he had pleaded ill pay him twice what the pearls are worth and that goes for the diamonds too sho had brought both jim could post the cheque from the boat she arrived at tho station ahead of time despite the storm which now was blowing in full fury they would probably have a rough pas sage she didnt care heaven knows shed had calmness enough and tomorrow shed bo in paris sho came upon her trunks tho new ones she had bought and sent on ahead lims were near by these your trunks maam a porter was inquiring why er yes her voice was queer where was jim he was to have where wsa jim he was to have had tho luggage attended to all how did that fly get into the theyd have to do ho had said would house asked the irate husband his w c leckie recently appointed vicepresident ot standard brands limited in charge of gillett products division owl laffs and habit is haid to break even the habit of doing good work teacher willie give the defini tion of home willie homo is where part ot the family waits until the others are through with the car nothing is so permanent as sweet sixteens changing affections at the behest of his best friends and severest 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hard and lie was forced to go afloat again that was two years ago now ace what ho says i go to sea and two years ago i was laid up for six months with very much suffering from rheumatism and general breakdown and was forbidden by my doctor to go to sea or to touch water but it was hobsons choice with me there was so much unemploy ment i was forced to get somewhere so i am still here weathering the storms of the last two winters and 1 can honestly say i have never felt the slightest pain from my old complaints since i started two years ago to take kruschcn salts i wish kruschcn every success and you may make whatever use you think st of this letter skipper j j it is common knowledge that rheu matism is associated with an excess of uric acid in the system uric acid is composed of nccdlelikc crystals and the pain of rheumatism is caused by those needles settling down in the joint mutck and tendons kruschcn is a powerful solvent of these torturing crystals it swiftly dulls their sharp edges then expels them from the system your pains ease swellings subside knotted joints become loose afterwards the little daily dose so stimulates the liver and kidneys that regular and complete elimination is ensured your insido is kept clean mischievous uric acid never gets the chance to accumulate again start on kruschcn tomorrow keep up the little daily dose and youll soon joyfully agree with thousands of others that rheumatism meets its master in kruschcn kruschm salts is obtainable at 11 drug stores at wc and 75c per bottle be to get to their compartment ob whero was jim imagine him being ate at a time like this it was a quarter to six she waited a few minutes more and then went to telephone in tho booth at the end of the platform she ask ed for change at the bookstall it was counted out to her on a pile of evening papers upon tho inky half tone portrait which on that day was featured on the front pages with gloved hands she began pick ing up the coins and then suddenly as though stricken sho let them fall wildeyod sho gripped the sheet read the incredible headline and re- colled as sho recognized tho photo graph of jim dorriston big typo proclaimed promoter arrested and then followed a story of which to her befuddled gaze j only a few phrases stood out huge stock swindle arrested on eve of flight abroad criminal record bared victimized women say dorriston took jewels the cab which bore her home seem ed to crawl hone there was a bare chance that she still might have one one thin forlorn hopo of get ting that letter back before wally got in thank god it was thursday the day he had an appointment with tho dentist thank god for that delay it might save her keep for her the only comforts her life had known the only man who had ever been good to her wally had been that and she had been happy enough un til jim had swept her off her feet with promises what a fool she had been what a fool sho felt herself close to the point of madness as a policeman held up the traffic a few minutes later she was at her door tho hallporter did not know if mr weatherby was in he had not taken him up in tho lift hysterically sho fumbled for her key and lotting herself in ran to his room ha was not thero quietly she opened his dressing- room door and turned her anguished eyes to his dressing table and then utter panic seized her for the letter was gone the drawer was open and sprawled inert upon tho brilliant crimson of a persian i prayer rug with arm limply out- stretched beneath the radiator lay the prostrate form of walter weath- erby white with horror alio tried to j scream but no sound issued from her fearnumbed throat and stagger ing she crossed to the still figure and sagged down beside it and then the form that was walter weatherby stirred ever so slightly and a cool calm voice was heard to say dont move ive dropped my pearl stud under the radiator theres a letter or something there too someono left tho window open and it blew oft tho dresser ill get it 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1932 both in the competitive classes and 1a tho educational exhibit section the unit in chargo of theso displays will bo tho collego of agrlculturo of tho uni versity of tho philippines and dr b ii gongalez dean of the college and prof n b mondlola of tho depart ment of agronomy sepcrvidng not ono case of parrot dlseaso psittacosis has been reported in britain slnco may 20th from which date tho importation of parrots has been banned j for trouw i due to acid indiomtio sour stomac ktabtbusn constipation njuluussa en food about many hours after eating people suffer from sour stomachs they call it indiges tion it means that tho stomach nerves havo been overstimulated thero is excess acid tho way to correct it la with an alkali which neutralizes many times its volumo in acid tho right way is phillips milk of magnesia just a tasteless liquid pleasant efficient and harm less bnt it kills excess acids made it has remained tho standard with physicians for moro than 50 years it is tho quick method results como almost instantly it is the approved method you will never uso another when you know bo sure to get genuine phillips milk of magnesia prescribed by physicians for over fifty years in correcting excoss acids 60c bot tlesany drugstore so look for tho name phillips on wrapper raft bottle in canada baby ills and ailments seem twice as serious at night a sudden cry may mean colic or a sudden attack of diarrhea how would you meet this emergency tonight i lave you a bottle of cosioria ready for the protection of your wee one lor your own peace of mind keep this old reliable preparation always on hand but dont keep it just for emergencies let it be an everyday aid lis gentle inllucnce will case and soothe the infant who cannot sleep it- mild regulation will help an older child whose tongue is coated because of sluggish bowels all druggists have castoria issue no 16 31