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FRANK CARTER, noted racing moâ€" torist, is involved in a slight accident outside the home of Professor LEONâ€" ARD ELLINGTON, famous anthroâ€" pologist. He is taken inside, and disâ€" covers that the professor, and his daughter, DCROTHY, are sailing to south Africa, on the same ship as himâ€" self in a few days‘ time. Carter is going to drive in the Grand Prix. Professor Ellington is going to investigate an important discovery made there by his assistant, RUPERT FEAâ€" THERSTONE. Dorcthy Ellington is going there to marry Rupert Featherâ€" stone. Professor Ellington is a most unconâ€" ventional scientist, and very interested in motor racing. . Dorothy Ellington considers it a fool‘s game. Dorothy has queer ideas about other things, too, having trained herself according to Rupert. She controls all emotion, and has no photographs of her future husâ€" band, just "mental images," she says. Frank considers this rather unhealthy in a girl so young and beautiful. His Aunt CHRISTINE is accomipanyâ€" ing Frank to Africa, On the morning of sailing, they all happen to travel down in the same comâ€" partment. Aunt Christine gets on very well with the professor, and also in the carriage is JCHN FORRESTER, a sSsouth African, returning home. You can start the story here. You will like it, It is in line with the regular Advance serials. Just read the synopsis and then you can take up the story and read on. sYNOPSIS of PREVIOUS CHAPTERS When Frank approaches the head Steward to see if it could be arranged that he should sit near Prof., Ellington and his daughter, he finds the matter has already been arranged by his aunt. The steward, hOWever, did not add that a Mr. John Forrester had sought to be near "Miss~C. Carter~"In theâ€"party on the Iboat is Olivéer Knox Oliver and a bevy of pretty girls going out to South Africa to present new musical comedies and revues. Another on the boat is Hoffman, who is going to razce in the Grand Prix for a German firm. Frank introduces him to Dorocthy, who is not enthusiastic about it. Ncow read on! "I Congratulate You Both!" "Yet you say you are niot going to see the Grand Prix?" said Hoffman turning remarkably mournful eyes on Dorothy. "Would you miss such thrills?" "I‘m going cut to be married," said Dorothy. Hoffman clmched despairingly at his forehead . "And I sayisuch things! Now you think he will be killed sure! But I asâ€" sure you, hethas the devil‘s own lusk. He drew: himself up stiffly, bowed awkwardly from the waist. ‘‘May I congratulate you both?" "You don‘t understand, Hoffy," said Frank quickly. "You‘ve made a mistake "T‘ll leave you to enlighten him," said Dorothy coslly. *"Then you can conâ€" tinue your interesting reminissences. Good night, Mr. Hoffman." "I have offended her," said Hoffman regretfully; "I have said something. Women and I never agree. No matter! Come and have a drink." "No thanks, Hoffy," said FPrank. "Then come and meet your old friends. Hugo is not drinking either. He is scared for his nerves. Then there is Mancini from Rome, Hugo Lebrun from Paris, Imredy from Hungary and Knickerbocker from New York." MONDAY, MAY 6TH, 10940 Frank reluctantly allowed himself to be dragged across to the group. He would not see Dorothy again that night, anyway. ‘They greeted him with vociferous cries. He had raced against them All E... P Published by Spemal Arrangement T T"I po4 > e : mb (N =â€"â€"sp UJ b‘ d/ OddÂ¥ dd d l dd M M During the early part of June our representatives, Mr. Ross Ballard and Mr. Earle Mulhall, will be on tour in the North, taking portraits in the home. Sittings may be arranged by writing to our Toronto Studio, 83 Bloor West. Please note the names of our representatives and be on guard against other claimants. Annual Spring Tour ASHLEY CRIPPEN PHOTOGRAPHERS of TORONTO. at one time or ancther, beaten them or been beaten ,.seen them get injured and have miraculous escapes from death. Rivals on the track, a camerâ€" aderie that only grows up among men like soldiers, even enemy soldiers, who fiirt with death, held them firm friends. Imredy had raced for nothing to raise money to nurse Hugo Lebrun back Lo health after a smash; Mancini had stopped in a race to save Knickerbocker froin certain death on the track after he had been thrown from his car. One who was not there had gone off the track at over 100 miles an hour rather than risk going over the body of a man who was already dead. It was a dark night. Stars ran up and down the sky and the mast lights pitched far above him. He lit a cigarâ€" ette and stared out into the darkness. *"*Hullo," said a voice in his ear. "YC were at Uncle Oliver‘s table, weren you?" Hoffy had been going to give it up for years. But Frank was not in the mood for talk, After a while he excused himsel{f and walked along the swaying deck to his favouirte spot on board ship, right at the bows. The girl with the golden hair stood beside him. "Have you got a cigarette, please?" she asked rather diffidently. "Certainly." He groped in his pocket. "Uncle doesn‘t allow me to smoke. I sing a bit in the show, you know, But I get a notion for one occasionally. Only it‘s so accasionally that I‘ve always lost the last packet I bought when it hapâ€" pens," she continued frankly. "Thanks, I hope you don‘t think it too cheeky of me to ask. My name‘s Beryl Dall." ‘HMHow do you do#‘ said Frank amused. ‘"*You‘re Frank Carter. I know. I‘ve drawn you." "Drawn me?" "Yes. The minute we heard about this race we got up a sweepâ€"the ccmâ€" pany, you know. Uncle Oliver fished the names out cof a hat. I nope you win." It was of him they spoke after a while. "Heleaves a wife and three chidlren,‘" said Hoffman. "Bah, it is a fool‘s game I think I will find anocther job after this race." "For my sake, the Empire‘s, or yourt own." "*Ail three. Look, there‘s a falling star." She sat down on a deck chair very ecnveniently placed in the shelter over the deck. Tnere was another one beside it, She patted it. "Won‘t you sit down?" "‘Thanks." He sat down. ‘"My name‘s not Beryl Dall, really." "You just said it was." "I know. I wanted to hear how it sounded. I‘ve just got it. Uncle Oliver says it will look gocd on the bills, But it sounds awful. My real name‘s Plorâ€" ence Shaw." "Much nicser," Frank agreed. "But not very high class." "Neither is mine." "No, but you‘re a man. It sounds pretty good and rugged. I thought racing drivers were rugged. You don‘t look a bit like cone." They looked at the falling star, a bried path of light in the dark sky. "T‘ll never get as far up as that so I don‘t need to take it as an omen." Fate‘s Test "You ought to meet Hoffy," said Frank. "I fancy he would be rugged enough for anybody‘s taste." "Who‘s Hoffy?" Frank explained. It occurred to him that if Hofly came round the corner of the deck now there would be some explanations in demand. This was his second female companion bocker "What‘s your worry? . after "The higher life." . â€" One EL‘ M ?.‘ ff the,. "What time do you : rather , the morning, Miss Sha a man "MVell 1 have th~ h2 of the evening. They were botph exâ€" ceedingly good looking. And he had ex>used himself{ by saying that he was ex2used nimseil by saying tihat ne Was sleepy. He didn‘t feel in the least sleepy. Miss Beryl Dall, or Florence Shaw, was a bracing spirit. If only Dorothy could be as obviously unaffected and careâ€" be fred "What time do you generally rise in the morning, Miss Shaw?" "Well, I have to be up bright and early. No sluggards need apply in the show business, These stories about temperamental stars who get up at 11, rest in the afternoon, and drink chamâ€" pagne cut of slippers until three in the morningâ€"don‘t you believe them." "But do you like getting up early?" "Of course not. Who does?" ‘You wculdn‘t think if you lay in one morning that you were stunting your spiritual growth?" "I wouldn‘t give it a thought." "Do you believe in emotion?" "Look here," said Miss Shaw firmly. "Tf you‘re trying to pull my leg, let me warn you that I have an uncertain sense of humourâ€"â€"" "Better an uncertain sense of humour than none at all," said Frank. "I bet ycu have a pretty wicked temper, too." "Friends who pinched my stockings have been known to say so." "But you like a bit of fun?" "It depends on the fun," said Miss Shaw cautiously. "If you saw, for example, a very fat man bending down to pick up a pin}; or if yeu saw a man with a funny looking high hat and there was a lot Of crisp snow on the groundâ€"â€"" "I have perfectly human impulses, if that‘s what you mean," she said. "Putâ€" ting it more vulgarly, I like a good laugh and I have yielded to the temptaâ€" tion of even the lowest forms of pracâ€" tical joking." "And you like dancing? Music? Having a good time?" "Is that an invitation? â€" There‘s a dance toâ€"morrow night € "If you like," said Frank recklessly. "Then I accept. If I don‘t, Bertieâ€" that‘s one of the boys in the company will insist,. And I‘m not sure that Bertie shruld be encouraged. He‘s perfectly charming., butâ€"well, you know how it "Gocd night, Mr. Carter. Thanks for the cigarette. See you toâ€"morrow." "God night," said Frank. He watched her walk briskly away. Have T been flirting? he asked himâ€" self, and decided that if he hadn‘t, he had beem distinttly on the verge. A fascinating young weman. And then he thought of Dorothy E1â€" lington. Slim, straight, beautiful, rather inâ€" tolerantâ€"but very warm and human und2rneath. Frank smiled, The fates had been testing him by throwing in his way so soon another zirl of considerable charm and personâ€" ality. He was rather glad that the fates had. So swift had been his subjugation to Dorcthy‘s charm that a faint trace of his scepticism regarding such powerâ€" ful attraction at first sight had lingered with him. He had wondered if his heart had not been trying to fool his head. But now he knew. No other woman however charming, however vivacious could distract him a hair‘s breadth. He was in love. Romatnic. Perhaps abâ€" surd. Butâ€"true. "It‘s got to be bad luck for someâ€" one," he mused, staring into the salty darkness. "For meâ€"or for my unknown friend Rupert. Andâ€"I wish him no harm, but I hope it‘s going to be Rupert!®‘ (‘To be Continued.) The characters in this story are enâ€" tirely imaginary. No reference is intended to any living person or to any public or private company. Calgary Albertan:â€"Pedestrians are never in the wrong, says an objector to warming given in our "deathless days" cainpaign. But who the heck wants to be dead right? He sighed Copyright , ONTARIO Testing The Strength Of Your Heart ‘It is interesting to see the difference between an older or experienced boxer and a beginner, not only in the ring but during the physical examination before the bout. The heart rate of the old or experienced boxer is usually slow and regular, beating perhaps just 66 to the minute which is increased after light exerzsise to 84. In the the heart beat may be 84 before light exâ€" ercise and 96 to 108 after exercise. The heart rate of the experienced boxer will be back to normal in oneâ€"half to a minute after the exercise, and that cf the beginner may require from one to two minutes to get back to normal. While in many cases this slowness of heart rate and quick return to norâ€" mal after exercise in the experienced boxer is due to a stronger heart, in most cases it is the nervousness of the beginner that increases his heart rate and the length of time required to reâ€" turn to normal. This fact is even more cticeable in taking blood pressure, the bleood pressure of beginners. or nervous individuals is often 10 to 20 points akove normal just before the reading is made. Notwithstanding these facts, the test of the strength of «the cheart in an athlete, soldier, or average individual is usually e.sumated by <cthis simple test. The heart rate is taken with the inâ€" dividual standing easily but squarely cn both feet, He is then instructed to jog (stationary run) fifty steps at the rate of two steps a second, 120 to the minute (doubleâ€"mark time it is sometimes called). The heart rate is then taken and he is instructed to stand in an "easy‘" position for two minutes. If heart rate is back to normal at the end of the two minutes, it is considered a "good" heart, and capable of withâ€" standing athleties orâ€" war efforts. When the heart is rapid before exerâ€" cise, it will usually be back two minutes after exercise to the rate at which it was before exercise, that is if it is just nervousness that is causing the inâ€" creased rate., In fact, in many cases it will be lower two minutes after exercise than it was just before the exercise. This is a good sign in that it shows that exercise is not only safe but that exerâ€" cise, taken regularly, will help to "slow down‘‘ the rate of the heart beat. You can try this simple test of your heart beat should you be wondering if your physician was right in pronounâ€" cing your heart sound despite the fact that it was beating at a fast rate. ____ Why Worry About Your Heart? Is it beating rapidly? Is it irregular in its rate? Is it enlarged? Has it a murmurâ€" Send for Dr. Barton‘s inâ€" fermative booklet about the heart enâ€" titled "Why Worry About Your Heart?" (No. 102),. It will help you to underâ€" c;tand your own heart. Address your requect to The Bell Library, Post Office Box 75, Station O, New York, N.Y., enâ€" closing Ten cents to cover cost of handling and mailing and mention the name of this newspaper. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act) Courses in French Popular With the Troops Overseas Legion War Services Find Remarkable Response to Plans for Educational Advantages. Ottawa, May 4â€"Canada‘s fighting men who have enrolled in the Canaâ€" dian Legion War Services‘ educaticon programme should be able to "parlezâ€" vous" by the time this war is over. Upwards of 4,000 men are attending French classes in Canada and Engzland and to faciliate their effâ€"rts the Leâ€" gion has issued a 60â€"page handbook containing hundreds of questions and answers they are most likely to enâ€" counter in France. The booklet, pubâ€" lished in collaboration with the Canaâ€" dian Association of Adult Education, also contains an extensive Englishâ€" French vocabulary. A large supply of them have already been shipped to Robert England, M.S., M.A., Legion‘s Ooverseas Director of Educaticon, at Aldershot, and others have been sent to French instructors for distribution in the various Military Districts throughout Canada. A statement released by national headquarters of the CLWS. shows that, of all courses of instruction being given, the study of French is most popular among the men. In the Alderâ€" shot Area Command, in response to a questionnaire, 2,500 applications were received from Englishâ€"speaking Canaâ€" dians for classes in the French lanâ€" guage, and about 500 applications from Frenchâ€"Canadians desiring to learn English. Assistance to the Legion in render ing this service is being given by Prof A. Lloyd James, and by Prof. Desseigâ€" net. head of the Department of French at the University of Reading, England. One hundred Frenchspeaking officers and men, drawn from the ist Canadian Division, are acting as group leaders. The teaching of French, aside from being of considerable cultural value, will contribute greatly to the military efficiency of the men, especially when they arrive in France and become asâ€" sociated with the armed forces of our gallant allies. By lames W . Barton, of Pout s TEhat 1Bodyp ’Compares Increase _ \\: in Living Costs in _ _ Last War and in This â€" In his resent speech in Toronto Prcf. H. R. Kemp. cconcmic adviser to the Wartime (Price and Trade Board, anâ€" |nounced that the ccost of living in | Canada "has not gone up mcre than four per cent," since the cutbreak of war and added that "we cught to feel tharkful that it has not gone higaer." Canada Better Than Many Other Nations With a yiew to ascertaining whether the consuming public may apprehend any such rise in cost of living as took place during the Great War The Torâ€" onto Telegram has from Sir Thomas> White, Minister of Pinance at that time, a statement as to the rise in the cost of living from 1914 to 1920, the causes therefor, and of the increases with th« place in other ccuntri¢ same period. "Azccording to officvial figures taken from publications of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and the Departâ€" ment of Labor," said â€"Sir Thomasiwhen asked, "the heavy increases in the cost of living in Canada during the Great War did not begin until 1917 when our war expenditures had mounted. to astroncmical dimension and. hundreds of thoursands cfi Canadians were enâ€" gaged in the manufacture of munitions (with which to blast the Germans out of their trenches) and consequently withdrawn from the production of numâ€" erous classes of commodities entering into the family budget, not to mention the enormous demand for foodstuffs and other supplies purchased from Canadian producers by the Alliese with funds advanced by the Government and also furnished from without. Takâ€" ing the base period of 1913 as 100, the cost of living index in Canada as shcown by these official publications rose to 103 in 1914, and remained at that index number during 1915.. That is to say, the rise in the cost of living during the first year of the Great War was only three per cent. as compared witp the rise of four per cent. during the first eight months of the present war. No dcubt this is accounted for partly by the discount on the Canadian dollar but mainly by the much greater exâ€" penditures for war purposes by the Federal Government as compared with the expenditures for the first year of the Great War. "The cost of living for the correâ€" sponding period in the United States (which was not then at war) is shown as having risen 2.7% for 1914 to 5% for 1915. In Great Britain the rise was more striking, the increase to July, 1915, having been no less than 23%. Rise Least in Canada "Further comparison shows that the rise in the cost of living in Canada during the Great War (great though it was) was less than in any other country engaged in the war, not even excepting the United States, which did not beâ€" come a belligerent until the spring of 1917. Again taking 1913 as the base for comparison, the cost of living in Canâ€" ada had risen in 1917 by 31% ; in the United States by 42% and in Britain by no less than 76%. In 1919 the inâ€" crease in Canada was 66 %; in â€" the United States 71% and in Britain 108%, In 1920 when the peak was reached the cost of living in Canada had increased by one hundred per cent.; in the United by 111% and in Britain by 152% . ’ In France in 1920 the Indéx figure had risen to 341, a rise of 241% over 1913. The German submarine campaigh mt " 3 a \\"' %‘,1 Confederatlon Llfe HEAD OFFICE “Agsocnatlon TORONTO _ Official F A, W. PICKERING, 51 Toke street ‘lal figures taken f the Dominion and the Departâ€" Sir Thomas:iwhen :-od uUres id a comparison hose whi_ch took ries during the No Daylight Saving This Y ear for Noranda or Rouyn "timeâ€"saving °. ypian. Noranda Mines emplic ago voted on the questi by decisive v:ie decid Standard Time. As a ther Roeuyn nor Nor SIT. this yvear, at "Y‘"ith regard to the present cutlock, Sir Thomas added: "With an urprecedented surplus of commodities of all kinds in Canada and the United States and with no immediâ€" ate prospect of a demand for munitions on any scale comparable with that of the Great War it would seem reasonâ€" able to expect, unless the character of the war radically changes (as it may), that with normal harvests and no ereater decline in the exchange value of cur dollar, there should be no furâ€" ther substantial increase in the cost of living in Canada during the current yearâ€"at least let us hope so." Matachewan Men Recerve Awards from Lloyd‘s, London His Majesty‘s mail delivered last week to two Matachewan bankers what are reputedly the first awards for bravery to Canadian civilians by the underâ€" writers at Lloyds, of London, England. Norman Marshall Plant, manager, and Ralph Kenneth Robinson, teller, of the Imerpial Bank of Canada branch at Matacshewan, each received a 14â€" carat goldâ€"watch and chain for "reâ€" sourceful â€"and courageous services" on Sept. 13, 1939. Prior to opening the packages and the accompanying Iletâ€" ters, Plant and Robinson were unaware that they had been named for what is selieved to be an unique honour in Canadian banking life. against Allied shipping had much to do with the shortage of food and greatly increased prices in Britain and France during the last two vears of the Great Bankers Who Foiled Holdâ€" up Given Gold Watches: ts .c’lf/llll////////////.f///IIIIIIIII////////////////V,../J.u t AI ast week Rouyn had ab take up the Daylight S a. All that was needed w rence of the neighbouri anda. h wi anda dedlv WILL BE CARRIED IN THE FUTUREâ€"THE STORE TO BE KNOWN ASs GROCERIES MEATS PROVISIONS icials of h Norandg c TIMMIXS REPRESENTATIVES Wishes to Announce GROCERY AND MEAT MARKET For Service Phone 2452â€"M Jack Wilson JACK WILSON igqed to re:nmain on a consequence neiâ€" anda will have the least. THAT HE HAS TAKEN OVER THE Rouy 252 TAMARACK ST pI W J. M. LORRAIN, 158 Balsam Street South that time and Foiled Holdâ€"up The "resourceful and courageous serâ€" vices" of the pair consisted of foiling a holdâ€"up by wounding and capturing one of the two bandits and recovering the entire $8.020 cash lect. The captured bandit is serving a sevenâ€"year term in Portsmouth qpenitentiary but his ac«â€" complice is still at large. Late in the morning of Sept. 13 last year, the two bandits entered the bank â€"one taking a post at the front door and the other advancing toward the teller‘s cage. "This is a hceldâ€"up," shouted the latâ€" ter as he whippéed owut a gun. After Plant was ordered into the Portsmouth p€ complice is stil Late in the : vear. the two b "Where is the money?" asked the gcunman. "In the cage," replied Robinson. The bandit ignored the information, cpened the safe door and picked up $8.020 in bills which he stuffed instde windbreaker. After . grabling the <~gun from the After. grabsing the â€"gun from the teller‘s ‘cage, the bandit backed out the front door witny his accomplice while covering the staff. Shot it Out "As. soon as he left the door I grabâ€" bed my gun and took an empty gun," Plant reported. "I ran out ‘the front door with Rcbinson. I saw the bandits run behind a wocdpile 30 yards away but the bandits were 20 feet apart. "They started firing at the staff ; I got on the top of a flat rock. and the bullets from the bandits‘ guns threw splinters in my face. â€" I shot it out with the bandit who had theâ€" cash and Rcobinson tried to bluff the other "This is a hceldâ€"up," shouted the latâ€" ‘er as he whippeéed owut a gun. After Plant was ordered into the eller‘s cage with Rcbinson, the pair was ‘creed to stand with their hands in the air as the bandtt ‘walked to the rear of bandit One of Plant‘s shots hit the bandit with the cash. He ran a few feet and dropped, where he was captured by residents. The second bandit fled from the bank staff and residents and escaped in the Bush. The wounded bandit, identified as Harry Biliock, recovered from his wounds, stoed trial at Haileybury and was sentenced last October to seven years in prison. The feat of the two bankers was reâ€" ported to the underwriters at Lloyds, who are believed to have established a Canadian precedent by last week‘s reâ€" Blairmore Enterprise:â€"They call him horse isecause he takes after his fodder. Montreal Star:â€"A pal tells of the reâ€" markable girl who learned to ski after only fifteen sittings. ognition of bravery asked the