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“There!" I ast hook upon Mother gown and turning her so tha taced the full length mirror Taki a good look at vourself, Duchess, ind then pray for humility. You'll over get it any other way after a giance at that reflection.” She gave me a playful little sla pon the shoulde “Don’t 1t T knew by her eves th <he was far from t displeased Run along now to your guests. be down in a mix ; “There aren’t at present,” T re turne t her. “The Underwoods \eritzen are in their roorn g and the rest haven't One of ‘er has," she or Ao yon count tl young spr +# a Veritzen one of the fan ioodness knows he's underfoot nough to he counted in “He was here, hut has go ack to icer house again nswered, bracing myself for t ross-examination which T knew d follow t) But asto; ding her head sage “T thought he'd dodes father at the last min Rut isp't there anvthing you es 40 about {t? Can’t that pig-he be made t concelted old bully ason " T saw the her probi planned int 1ished rigidly suppressing m opportinity e eriticism rview our of with a at her characterization of the great man “It 1 ean get a cb *o him alone, hefore t 11l dowhat I can to show him he {s embarrassi greatly ng our ¥ she s o “I'd go farther than that’ mother-in-law retorted witl vieious little elick of her lips Love’s Einbers Adele Garrison’s Absorbing Sequel to “Revelations of a Wife” Beginning a New Seriab—————————'| Madge Beards the Lion in His Den the Graham's & said any to run down to. . smiling iy ? meeting his to disa listing st and promptly selzed it, sement nee to speak o rest co th ¢ ha refuses tomeet Nocl at dinner hospitality XEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927, by s.s be- | tell the gentleman he'd er we like one and put away his Characters of the Story to hope that you've run across any family feuds while he's a g or | lo Vance ing he'd cease to be a guest. But” re- | John F.-X. Markham—District Markham took his cigar from his uetantly, “as long as you're work- | Attorney of New York County mouth, and turning it szbout in his ing for him 1 don't suppose vou| Alvin H. Benson—Well-known fingers, conterplaied it thought- can go that 1 certainly | Wall Street broker and man-about- fully, should be emp} As for [town, who was mysteriously mur- “I wouldn't say that” le re- eing him alo that to ! dered in his home ed, after a moment. “I've man- age The Joke Is on Farmer Brown's Boy By Thornton W. Burgess Riest and triple blest is he Who on himself a joke can sce. T srown’s Tioy Farmer Brown's Boy ha o was going to find ou such hats, This Iie wonld leave kind around and keep watch got another old piece of cary s mothe lit queer prons n was pli very ust a his he lung on Then he went over to clean and dress A harness hung on pegs just inside th ind leaving the door oper Bro: ork and of cary Brown's Boy had tu pair of ove ralls n pair. ung on a nail on iooryard This post w kely to tr stoal T Hro 1 S s i Abse i 1 1 vatehine r ogo lock « r Iiro 1 some things of nd pieces of simple. this f0 he from me. T'll m the opportunity for| Major Anthony Benson—Brother to find out whom your brother you to do Hurry along now. |of the murdered man dined with Thursday i and 1 He n irs at any| Mrs. Anna Platz—Housekeeper kn that this person returned for Alvin Benson lLome with him shortly after mid- 1 her injunction but{ Muriel St. Clair—A voung einger night." He paused as it deliber- w's door for a hur-| Captain Philip Leacock—Miss St. at he wisdom of saying more. warning. Never | Clair's flance 0 act is, 1 don't need a do for Mother Graham to nder Pfyfe—TIntimate of Alvin great deal more cvidence than I've suspect that anyone hesides her- ! Benson's sot alr to go before the g self was planning to make an op- Mre, Paula Banning—A friend of jury and for an indictment.” i mity for my uninte ted talk | Pfyfe's A look of surprised admiration v Philtp Veritzen, | sie Hoffman cretary of the flashed in the major's sombre f: she the eighth wonder”” . tirm of Benson and T n “Thank God for that, Markham! Lillian commented ver fear, T} Colonel Bigshy Ostrander—A rte- ha said. Then, sett his heavy 1y up to her ired army officer w, he placed his hand on the dis- he kept her promise, and n' Willlam H. Morfarty—An alder- trict attorney's shoulder. “Go the 1 le later, we were all gathered | man limit—for my ke!” he urged. “If e living room, she assisted and | George G. Stitt—Of the firm of von want me for anvthing, I'l be ouflaged Mother Graham's rath- | Stitt and MeCoy, Public Account- | Lere at the club till late.” byious tactics so clev an With this he turned and walked | cing my employer Maurice Dinwiddie — Assistant ' trom the room cross a low reading table, with no District Attorney It bit cold-hlooded to one else in the room, ! Em Heath—Scrgeant of the hLother with questions o There was no time - 1| Homicide Bureau soon after brother's death.' knew that n and Mr.| Burke, Snitkin, Emery—Detec- commented Mar 1, the Jackson might arrive at any minute, | tives of Homicide Bureau world has got to go on.” s0 with a feeling that I needed many ! Ben Hanlon—Commanding Offi- Y\ stiflod a yawn 1 ditional hands for ' cer of Delectives wed to Dis “Why-—in hoaven's " he courage, T looked | frict Attorn.y’s offi urmured 1istlessly. my employer and spoke | Phelps, Tracy, Springer, Higgin- Athlessly but steadily R A B (Saturday, Juwie 15; 2 p. m.} Mr. Veritzen” T said with what | trict Attorney’s offi Wi (ran (opsa Rl o Ssnloningion I realized later was a pleading note | Captain Carl Hagedorn—TFire- $1" Vance gazing lazily ont into M e e Madison Sc Markham frown- to ask you a grest favor, but 1 Dr. Doremus—Medical esaminer 115 dceply at the faded ofl portrait want you to promise flrst that you! Frank Swacker—Secrctary to the °f 0ld Pater Stuyvesant that hung won't he offended ar me—hecanse T District Atiorney 4 oyerithavineninng ask it b Presently Vance turned and eon- There was pleased astonishment | S S Van Dine—The Narrator lemglatediyhe WRalsiticlis s Lorncy in his eyes | q with rdonic smile, You know, my child,” he began, | e P @ ,* he drawled; that anythin S AN ALY RliyaysEbasn RLliagurcal ol He stopped, and his eyes nar A woman's gloves and handbag amazement to me how easily vou 1O found in the room where the gators of crime are mlsled PEroae T iiak Caneernat ohyi murder s committed. Tn Ben- Ly what you call cl You find a S ey s hedroom are found his f footprint, or a parked automobile, Copyright N th and toupee policeman |or a monogrammed handkerchief, Faktin Sarlas Tho reports having seen a big gray ond then dash off fn n wild chase. omobile outside Benson's housc | 'Pon my word, iU's as if you chaps |at midnight. Later Markham rcon- [ were all under the spell of shillin’ | fides in Vance that the hand <hockers. on't you ever learn | has been traced to Miss St. Cl: that crimes can’t be solved by de- | NOW BEGIN THE STORY ductions hased merely on material . clues and cireumst'ntial evidence? T think Markham was as much | Markham's prooceu- | surprised as T at this sudden eriti- fost empha anec Kindly featurcs and a sturdy, erect ENS QM MORDER CASE 'AN DINE © cuapues scrienees sows Vance well | pied, and durin of the | cism; yet we hoth knew lunch we spoke hut littic. cnought to realize that, despite his | [ As we sat in the club’s lounge- | Placid and almost flippant tone, room later having our smoke, | there was a serlous purpose behind | Major Benson, who had been stand- | his wor g dejectedly at a window close “Would you advocate ignoring all caught sight of Markham and |the tangible evidence of a erime?” T e e i 4 Markham, a bit patroniz- > ced man of about 50, with grav Ae- would doubtless re- Lens painted tor crime fuse (o believe that ¥ the Descent from the Cross in the cathedral at Antwerp if there was sufficient circumst'ntial evidence to indicate that he had been away on diplomatic busine for instance, | at the time it was painted. And| yet, my dear fellow, such a conclu- slon would he prepost'rous. en | it the infrences to the contrry | were <o irresistible as to be legally overpowering, the picture itself vould prove conclusively that hens did paint it. Why? For the simpls reason, d' ye sec. that | no one but Rubens could have pointed §t. Tt bears the indelible imprint o his personality and genins—and alone m not an aestheticlan,” Mark- n reminded him a trifle testily. “I'm merely a practical lawyer, and when it comes to ning the crime, T prefer to metaphysical authorship of a tangible evidence theses.” our prefrence, my dear fel- Vance returned blandly, “will bly involve you in all man- uer of embarrassing errors. He slowly lit another cigaret, and blew a wreath of smoke toward the iling. ! “Consider, for ex your con- the present murder nt on. in his emotion- “You are laboring | e misconception that person who prob’biy ble Benson. You | h to the major;: | s in he wr legs dr under the Know led the admitted wi gre th unspea as mu nd you told him you had nearly | enough evidence to ask for an in- dictment. No doubt, you do possess a num- of what the learned solons of v regard as convineing clues. lut the truth is, don’t ¥ know, you \ven't your eve on the guilty per- | at all. You're ahout to bedevil o poor girl who had nothing ever to do with t} erime.” Markham swung about sharply. A retorted. “I'm about fo | innocent eh wl Ledevil an person, Since my assistants and 1 are the only ones who happen to Jinow what evidence we hold against ler, | perhaps vou will explain by what oceult process you acquired your of this person's inno- How to Keep It— Causes of Iliness | [ Your Health The fact that it should still be | plentiful | i QUESTIONS ANSWERED | “ You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by | writing to the Question Iditor, New | Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, New York avenue, Washington, D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps ! for reply. Medical, legal and marital | jjnox, where on the following day advice cannot he glven, NOr €A1 | vy Admiral Sit IFranels Drake |extended rescarch be undertaken. | nada’n spirited onslaught upon the All other questions will receive &) gpanish ships. Many of the gal- personal reply. Unsigned requests| ) one of the invaders were riddied | | Sy oy A senvict cannot bo answered. All 1etters g tne English guns. After a hasty | “oeeltlich SVICE e, are confidential.—Editor. | council of war, the Armada turncd | 8 Light-headed people ou @ Tk HopprobiiisktaXcallbe merd MO EERRaRS. (CNRUSERIN A o R isdneeniefouzntiiito son “white livered”? RO In "l" 2 :"r],“g i : 5 A Chite- avine | “Suite” have the same meaning an e A, White-livered means Taving | I Clara Bow tn “Hula” at Strand to- a pale sallow and feeble look and U7 e +. | morrow.—sdvt. | implies that one is base. cowardly | A+ Sul prohotncec wanest. The two words are the same and and pusillanimous, Q. What company produced the | inotion picture “His Dog"? | A. The Producers Distributing | Corpora 1560 Broadway, New York City Q. What Is the value of a one|on the other hand a suite of at-| thousand dollar bill of the Confed- | tendants, a suite of s or apart- IAS o erate States? s e ot Turmiture, cter | X-RAY, GAS and OXYGEN A. The highest ever offered for| Q. Why is snow w [ L a one-thousand dollar hill of the | The whiteness is due 0 ths | Confederate States is $15.00. Only at the enow erystals are ioff A Painti those of the issue of 1861 arc worth | minute that each eell of the retina uto amtmg anything. {receives a general imp fon pro- | | Expert Work L 2 0 Q. Ts there such a thing as = |duced by the combination of differ- B e kricos hottomless ocean or sea? | ent wave lengths reflected from the I'RANKLIN $Q. A, Every body of water has a |innumerable minute facets. STATION floor. The ferm “bottomless” i< e ¥. E. R, ar used to descrine bodies of water | READ WERALD CLASSIFIED ADS where the depth has not heen | sounded or which are exceptionally dcen. | Q. What do tigers eat? | A. Encylopedias y that thel prey of tigers consists of almost anvthing in the way of flesh from a bison or cracodile to any small | rreature which it may strike down. | “Q. What causes fowls to pull out | their feathers? | A, The habit may be caused by | confinement, the presence of insect | pests or by improper feeding. When | some of fhe fowls of a flock have formed the habit it is best to let them ioose on a wide range and to change their diet by including a supply of animal feed. that the fowls have all, Above see :mnn:y of inducement to exercise. 17 the habit becomes fixed, it s very troublesome and may necess Kkilling the fowls in order to stop it Q. ilow do flsh get in still pm\d i A ither they were left there at | | the recession of waters or the pond | | the eartns | per layers of the carth's atmosphere, | Howard of 1 | August {the ditferences of usage atmosphere and h“'v FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: the surface of the earth and the oceans, and this heat is held by l)w belt of air around the earth, which prevents it from radiating into| space, exactly as the glass roof of | a hothouse or cold frame permits the rays of the sun to pass througl creating heat in the earth under the slass, but does not permit the heat to radiate rapidly away. In the up- the comparative thinness of the air permits much more rapid radiation | of the earth’'s heat and consequent- Iy the temperature is much lower. | Q. How did the English under| Toord Howard drive back the Span- fards in the battle Nith the Invinc- ! ible Armada? A. In this battle Admiral Tord ! fingham was in ecom- mand of the main English fleet. On ! 1588 the Armada was driven close to the port of Grace- | acciden “ DENTIST Dr. A. B. Johnson, D.D.S. Dr. T. R. Johnson, D.D.S, a4 variable; where, the sense is et cither form is admissible, as we say at'present a suit of clothes r, a suit of sails, the and a suit of arm fonr suits of cards, follow, suit; A Fight to a Finish but United Pasteurizatior always wins over bac- teria. The decision is in your favor, for when vou buy United Pasteurized Milk, you know that all the bacteria have taken the count and that the milk you feed to your baby is pure. ANANN NI RN §\\\\\\\\“\\\\\ UNITED MILK bottles are washed in the marvelous Miller-Hydro Bottle Sterilizer—the only one in AAA1AALALAIARERNANRENRNRRARRRNNRNN SRt T ) Lody. clared calmly. “It's not oniy worth- | B arceted and me with lees but dangerons. . . . The great | S—=—=——m— ~em=/ | Tas boen stocked Dy the intiodue- | New Britain. a ow, and turned at once trouble with you chaps, d' ye see BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN | tion of young fish or eges. | {to the district attorney is that you approach every crime . Editor Jdournal of the American] @ On what finger shonld an | THA_3" | “Markham, Tve hecn thinking With a fixed and unshakable as Medical Association and of Hy- | tPRagement ring he worn? ////// i | things over constantly eince our mption that the ecrimi; gla, the Health Magazine A. The third finger of the left | / rclephnne.léloz lunch sterday,” he said ind either half-witted or a colossa Tn 1884 Dr. Theobald Smith found hand. | //// ere’s one other suggestion T L ! Texas fever in cattle was trans- | Q. Are Jim Crow laws federal & might ke There's a man “I gay, has it never hy any chance | ferred from one animal to another ' Or stale ordinances? i I Dfyfe who was very occurred to you that if a detective by a tick. The discoverg was epoch- A. They were adopted hy indi- . close 4o Alvin: and it's possible he could see a clue, the criminal would | making 1se that was the first vidual states and the federal govern v could give vou some helpful also have seen if, and would either disease caused by a germ which was ment had nothing to do with them. | formation. His name didn't oceur ¢ concealed it or disguised it, if | definitely proved to be transmitted Q. Who appointed the clectoral 7 | to me vesterduy, for he doesn't live had not wanted it found? And,through the agency of an insect, commission that decided the Hayes- 35 Woodlsnd St. e ataely ir city; he's on Loug Island o you mever paused to consider| Cows infested with ticks are & Tilden controversy? b oseph Landwel ! somewhere — Port chington, 1 t anyone clever enough to plan | menace hecause they carry disease A. Tt was appointed by Congress ew Britain {hink.—Tt's Just an idea. The truth excoute a successful crime | As pointed out in a recent bulletin and consisted of five justives of the | Conn. Caen! Minege can't seem to figure out wese days, is, ipso facto, elever |Of the lLouisiana state board of Supreme Court, five Senators and | onl at makes sense in this ter- ¢nough te manufacture whatever [ mealth, they are, morcover, unhappy fjve Representatives. The vote was i o R DT T D {cows. Iven animals with a light g to 7 in favor of Hayes, each mem- ce Brown's Boy e ko Tl asplite hrn “Tour detective seems wholly un- | Infestation showed a production of | her voting strictly in accord Wl nee Brown's Roy could work | irew a quick, resolute Lreath, Toux detectlve seemsiwolly un- (liacstation suo el amioduSta N ok hor Noling striolly) injfactord with TR OEo eI o5d and at the same time keep wateh | as to check <ome involuntary | willing to admit that the surface | !8.6 per cent less m han those pis political affiliation. | fivery heme that has a ¥ e bny mellMaslthoae of that old ‘e of carpet | sign of emotion, 1t was evident appearance of a erime may be de- | Without ticks, cows hicavily infest-| ' How long did Carter Glass|| which are Dlesied with more extinsive srounds, can bo fmproved with a | hat the man, for 21l Tis hahitual | liberately deceptive, or that the |€d With ticks produce as low as 42.4 | gorve as the Sccretary of the Treas- || little attention on the part of ¢ atear gardener. Landscaping and tho he overalls were preferred 10 Gty of mature, was deeply | clucs may have been planted for | Per cent less milk than when they | yry and how long did he serve in S O L L L L S L e L picce of carpet, or else the thief | bros the defnite purpose of misleading | Were freed from their annoyance. |4y, United States Senate? I i vetinne e S e S laver isuEb o nor ks ) e defnite purp sl e st sukgestions contained in' our Waslington Rurcaws latest bulletin on Peau- S 100 > know that the | wrpat's a good suggestion, i | pping A. e was Secretary of the titying Home and now ls the time for th work which must SarnshgnasaRning e ighe | Major,” Markham said, 1 \ astaion el L o GRCROR S L [ B 1sury In the Cabinet of President || be done 1f nest o e R A SR LR (REDI L ; ol ) Irotation on the back of a letier. an air of indulgent irony, | UCks, dipping has been found the | yyyjon ‘from December 1918 until Soin i 140 WER Y B § 1 1 " t and most certain procedure. : # Pl PR e ST CLIP COUPON HERE gt | S — o o 7 . T get r it immediat aleonyletitorystoworimis| TR ETES LRI AR T U e | INoveribey 1010 wiisn el iresicne | IS (i SN N SR RIS et i ¥E L Barman Lrown Vance, who, during this brief fn- nals it we were to fznore all fn- | telch 18 CHE 200 T b ie. | He was appointed fo the United | FANRECAPING 46D OARCENING SOIOR, Fraahivston By, " oHokeEERIdn, « |terehange, had bheen gazing uncon- | dicatory evidence, cogent circum- (l,/h“ ihetan Sometimes ' onlleq StateS Senate for the unexpired term 18231 Now Yorit, Avenus, yvashinston, DtC i {cornedly out of the windox, tn stances and irvesistible conferences. | Lyt g aip®. The cattle are passed Of Thomas S Martin, deceased, from | |, et cv it s e N HOMB I GROUNDE Hand ' i addressed himself to the ms As a rule, you know, erimes | \0 o SN0 n 4 s rid of the in- | 1919 o 1925 and was reelected for s herewlth five cents in loose, uncancelled, U, S. postage samps or Menus for [,'p Famt[y Colonel Osir not witnessed by outsiders.” i the term 1925-1931. | in for same: cral times i at’s your fundamental error, |~ o o A pe f Q. Why is it colder in high alti- | l-‘-'\\“- o h | The chiet of the bureau of ani- 9 e campany of your brother.” * know," Vance obgerved dm- | - B art. tudes than in low? o {mal industry of the U. S. Depart b A [18% TEI MARY Major Benson 1 slight ges- “Every erime I wit-{ o AR sty for A. Decause the further away Y . d | ment of Agriculture is authority for e e e ¥ ' fruit, corenl, | ture of deprecation. 4 by outsiders, just as 1S €Very | qno statement that tick infested | One goes from the surface of the o o ik icrald o um, s vith pou 1 T an acquaintance, He'd Le ork of art. that N0 one | ynimals are greatly reduced in vi- €arth, the thinner is the belt. —_—— _—e,— e - — e — —_—— - ¢n ist, milk, coffs s the eriminal, or the artist, |(ality. While the milk from the The rays of the sun pass through 1 Suecotash turned to m wtwlly at work, is wholly incon- | tiek intested cow, it submitted to ¥ i\ 1 1 don’t imagine t'= time even <quential, The modern investiga- ‘[‘ teurization, and other controls, % ¢ jin auite suitable for drinking, it is i r [ 1 not likely to be so good a milk as = = ‘ S ‘ ‘ that trom & gompletely armal and THE WEEKLY WEIGHING-IN - - . - - By GLUYAS WILLIAMS ‘ Ik, coffor | liealthful animals. s N e h Custards A 50 ) h Costara | Science Moves Slowly EillRs v s & Preseription for - (Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, = cilions Fever and Malaria. I Kilks th germs Orpheus nstrumenta Quartet VIRCUS 0 FLENVIZER 61 Coolidge St New Britain, Ct , I'm about after tifty years, to teach farmers the importance of insect | carriers of disease is an indication | of the slow rate with which the ad- ‘x:\nv?s of modern science ke reach- | {ing the public | Only the discovery that the mos- | quito transmits yellow fever en- !abled the Americans to build the | Panama canal after the French had | failed. Now we have that malaria, | yellow fever, typhus, African slecp- ing sickness, Rocky mountain spotted fever, Texas fever and many other onditions are transmitted by in- sects, biting flies and similar pests | that feed on human and animal blood. necessary. Egyptlan Motif | This lizard envelope has a tone trimming of brown calf in an to bedevil an innoceat person, eh?" ' Egyptian motif. N WEIGHING HIM AT LAST AND NOW DADDY'S GETTING OUT ON ENOYING HIMSELF WELL NOW THEY'VE TFINISHED WHAT A STEW THEY MAKE OF 1T HI5 CHART T0 MARK IT DOWN \ WELL WHILE THEY'RE ARGUING THAT OUT HE MIGHT AS WELL BE 1927, by The DAPDY CLAIMS IT WAS 16 LBS 11 OUNCES AND MOTHER S IT WA5 1o POUNDS 7 GUNCES JUST PS HE THOUGHT TREY CANT EVEN AGREE WHAT THE SCALES READ SHE'S SURE SOMETHING MUST 600DNESS MOTHER'S THROWING BE THE MATTER WITH HIM ANP A FIT BECAUSE ' SHE'S FOUND HE GAINED 2. OUNCES LESS THAN. WANTS T0 GET THE DOCTOR IN. | [ LT WEEK [ ) o~ | G 2 (| )] | { ! NX ) i ERHAPS HE CAN PROVE BE'S ~ THERE! NOW SHE'S SURE HE'S ALLRIGHT BY SHOWING THEM CAUGHT Hi$ DEATH OF OLD, HOW BRIGHT AND SUN H[‘RIIS MOTHERS CAN ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING 'TO WORRV ABGUT 2 seitiiin el M