?A Lfe E:or Sale
BY 8YCI.NF.Y HORLER
The Prime Minister nodded.
‘‘Certainly. I led rare that
I nm voicing the thoughts ol
everyone present when I say
that we, as tne rulers of this I
country, owe a lasting debt
of gratitude to you, Mr. Chip
head. Now. please.”
The Becrct Service free
lance took up his tale un
ruffled.
“One of the reasons why I
have hazarded the guess that
Jarvis Stark Is mad,” he re
sumed, “is because, my cousin
being a father well-known
alienist on t ic other side, I
have her‘ti ublc to dabble
somewhat extensively in the
subject myself. Of course, I
d » not pretend to be a mental
specialist, but Jarvis Stark
during the past few weeks
has afforded me many
glimpses into bis mind; there ;
were certain unmistakable
signs. . . .
"But, gentlemen, T will not
weary you with information
that really belongs to a metii- j
cal textbook, and which you
v/ill hear later from your own
experts. Instead I will come
to facts.
“Naturally, when my friend
B»c Robert Heddingley asked
me some weeks ago to give
him what help might be pos
sible in this perplexing af
fair, which had already as
sumed very grave propor
tions, I was anxious to do J
what I could. That it was not
an ordinary criminal with j
whom v/e had to deal was ap
parent. I early realised that
the person directing this enm
!> ugn oi systematic black
uiail was a man highly placed
Imnself. He was a man who
moved in circles where the
most exclusive information
could be obtained.
• inis conclusion was rorceu
home to ire by the fact that,
only a few hours after I had
received Sir Roberts confi
dence, a warning not to inter
fere in the matter was de
livered at my flat.
‘Callin'*, ot Scotland Yard
the following day, I made a
i other queer discovery. Whilst
t hiring to the Deputy Com
missioner o cler’: entered the
room and placed some type
written documents on his '
desk. Althoi ;h not wishing ,
to be inquisitive. I could not
help noticing that the ma
chine used for these reports
was fitted with the type
known as elite. Now, al
though machines fitted with
this type are very common in
the United States, net many
English business men cm- '
ploy them. E believe also that
s.sch machines are not favored
In your Government offices?” .
The Home Secretary spoke
for his colleagues.
“That is so"
“There were two other co
incidences which made me |
regard those reports with
gome significance,” continued
Chipstead. “One was that the
letter w was out of alignment, 1
and the second that a green
ribbon had been used ” He
paused to look around the
room, and then added: “In
the unusual communication I
received some hours pre
viously the machine used had
had been fitted with elite
type, a green ribbon utilized, j
and the letter w in the word
* warning’ was out of align
inenc.
“If this story of mine was
tiken from fiction instead of :
real life,” said Chipstead,
i*rter another pause, “you
would all say that the detec
tive in tite case had blundered
In a miraculous fashion upon
the very clue he wanted. But
>*iy experience goes to show
that in crime the most ob
vious facts are generally the
most misleading ones. The
coincidence I have mentioned
were, In a way, somewhat re
maricable, but it would have
Game Management
1$ a Big Business
Harrisburg, Pa. — (UP) —- Game
nMUgMnfut in Pennyslvanla is a
••big business with bis dividends.”
l*«i> stewards of state hunting, the
UHte Game Commissions®, said.
Revenue received in the state
ganc iu«w* from licenses, penalties
ami oth« fen during 1932 aggre
ga('\l »3.e67.8<.3 The commission
j. vid $139,44-'* during th? year as
Immllfts on wild cats, weasels,
pray fozes auh goshawks. Five
ikrw 0uae refuses were estab
been ridiculous for me to
have assumed that, in the
whole of London, there was
only one typewriter which
could produce the similarities
mentioned.
“What interested me more
than the typescript on his
desk was Jarvis Stark him
self. The man, I had always
heard, was odd in his manner,
but his behavior that morn
ing was so peculiar that I
could not help retaining the
memory.
“After leaving the building,
an idea, so bizarre as to be
credible in only the most
sensational novel, came to
me: what man in London
was in a better position to
become a blackmailer on a
high plane than a Deputy
Commissioner of Scotland
Yard?
“You gentlemen will re
member the case of the
Austrian Colonel Redl, who
shot himself a few years
ago,” went on the speaker,
after astonishing the com
pany with his last sentence.
“Colonel Redl, you will re
call, was a very highly placed
officer in the Austrian In
telligence, who used his po
sition to sell his nation's
secrets. I happened to be in
Vienna at the time of his
arrest, and it was through
receiving a postcard from a
friend now living in that city
that the idea I have men
tioned first assumed definite
shape in my mind.
“I had to keep this start
ling suggestion entirely to
myself; I dared not tell even
Sir Robert. But during the
weeks that followed I never
allowed the possibility, that
the man I was after might be
Jarvis Stark, to escape my
notice.
“I will not waste time by
narrating how I kept Stark
under constant supervision,
but after a while it became
plain to me that he must be
the directing force behind
this gang of crooks.
“It was an extraordinary
discovery to make, but I
waited because I wanted ab
solute proof. Bit by bit I ob
tained this, until it became
perfectly clear that an out
wardly respectable Deputy
Commissioner of Scotland
Yard was also an exceedingly
dangerous criminal, who.
within a few months, had
gained such a hold over the
Underworld that he was the
recognized ‘big noise’ of
crime. For the explanation of
this phenomenon you must
listen to your experts.”
“Did the man Julil know
who Stark really was?” asked
a listener.
“No. Stark used the deep ,
cunning of the unbalanced 1
man. No one employed by him
succeeded in penetrating his
disguise. His chief hold over
those who worked under him
was that he could utilize his
power as a police official to
have them arrested if they
tried to trick him.”
“And do you seriously think
that it was Stark who
hounded poor Ferraby to
death?” the Premier in
quired.
"I nave no doubt, as i nave
already said,” replied Chip
stead, “that Jarvis Stark was
the power behind this cam
paign. He confined himself
to blackmail, however. The
scheme of attempting to ter- ;
rorize the whole Government
through the new disease be
longed to Juhl.”
The Home Secretary drum
med with his fingers on the
arms of the Qhair.
“I think you will agree,
sir,” he said, looking at the
Prime Minister, “that it was
a good idea in the circum
stances to leave the investi
gation in the hands of the
lished. The state acquired 146,500
acres of gams lands and con
tracted for 70,000 more. Game
law penalties brought $154,730
from the prosecution of G,468
game law violators.
Hunters in the state killed
game valued at $20,000,000 during
the year and trappers secured
$5,000,000 worth of fur-bearing
animals.
Living Proof.
From Hummel, Hamburg.
"How long can a man live with
out brnins?”
"fltell. vou’ll soon be fortv-two.”
: Intelligence people. Ilcdding
ley, we are muen inuebted to
you.”
“There's the man who must
| have the credit,” the Secret
• Service chief replied, point
ing to Chipstead. “As a
matter of fact, I was com- !
plctely in the dark myself |
principally because I was
given so little information
which was of any value.”
The Prime Minister rose.
“We will not pursue the
subject further,” he an
nounced; “the affair has been
exceedingly unpleasant. Once
again, Mr. Chipstead, allow
me to thank you on behalt
of the Cabinet.”
“There are just three things
I should like to know, Chip
stead.” Creighton and the
Secret Service free-lance
were walking down White
hall. “The first is, why did
Stark kill Sir Simon Baste?”
“Because the millionaire
refused to pay him black
mail. Baste had had a very
speckled past, but he felt
himself to be sufficiently
strongly entrenched in the
good opinion of his fellow
men to resist the demands.
But in the end he paid—
with his life.”
"And do ycu trunk that
Juhl first approached me be
cause he wished to have a
catspaw for murder?”
‘‘Quite likely. In fact, look
ing back, that is the most
probable reason why he tele
phoned you. Of course”—
with a grim smile—“he never
intended to pay you that
live thousand pounds.”
‘‘Why did Stark betray him
self in his own house?”
‘ Because he must have had
a sudden brain stcrm. His
plans had miscarried, he
knew the end was approach
ing, and seeing you was the
final straw. But why worry?
The gang is broken up now,
and you are a free man. The
girl Xavia is to be deported,
and the scandal of Hathway
Steers will be hushed up. I
had the news this morning
that he died from a heart at
tack. There would seem to be
nothing to prevent ycu now
from being quite happy.
Two hours later Creighton
walked with Margery Steers
in the peaceful garden of
Roughmoor.
As they turned the corner^
the sun came out from be
hind a cloud and shone full
upon them.
To them both, as they
stood silent, it was a symbol:
from the darkness they had
passed into the light.
The End
Montana Hunters Had
Gone! Snasen for Elk
Great Falls, Mont, — fUF) —
F.ve hundred and fifty elk, most
op them old bulls, and 915 deer
were killed by 1,375 hunters in the
Sun river district this year, ac
cording to a report by Forest
Rrnger Ben Martin and deputy
State Gama Warden Bruce Neal.
Two hundred and fiity-nine of
the elk killed were bulls, 210 cows
and 51 calves.
Queen of the Sun
It is only fitting that the Queen of
Sunshine should warm the world
with the sunny smile she displays
here. She is Miss Anita Perry, of
New York, who was recently
crowned queen in the annual selec
tion of its reigning beauty by the
• senior class of the Miami Beactu
Fla., High School.
Airways’ President
Predicts Air Liners
St. Louis —(UP)— Air transport
that carry 20 or more and travel
more than 200 miles an hour
within two years are predicted by
Lester D. Seymour, new president
of the American Airways Inc.
Airplane travel has increased
j steadily during the (last i v
years despite the decrease in
other means of travel. Seymour
said, and predicted the next few
years wou’d witness an even
i greater pick-up in airplane tra#*l
WILDS TO LOSE
Tulaa, Ok’iP —(UP>— Hugh Dn
cis, young Tulsa naturalist. will
unusual animal life in the
African wilds from the air os a
member of the latest Mart:n
John- >n exploring expedition to
iIn Dark Continent.
Davis. assistant director of Tul
sa's zoological gardens before
ioin'ng the expedition, will oper
ate a new type of electric still
camera from planes carried by
Johnson. Photographs of African
animal and native life heretofore
impossible will b« obtainable by
aerial photography, the Johnsons
be-’eve.
Decides Davis the Johnsons will
lx- accompanied bv Robert Mo
reno, sou of Antonio Moreno, film
star; Arthur J. Saninl, sound
ramera engineer, and two pilots.
The living equipment will be n 12
piace Sikorsky amphibian and a
. allcr five-passenger plane.
Davis said the Johnsons expect
to penetrate regions hitherto
closed to exploration because of
the inaccessibility of the country
and the hostility of the natives.
The party expects to be gone two
>.ears, living In their planes most
of the time.
Your
Children
By Olive Roberts Barton
_‘jlL1”'A_1 n c ^
TRAIN THE BOVS IN COOKING
Co the boys are learning to cook.
The paper carried a whole page
of pictures recently, of high school
boys in caps and aprons, bending
over biscuit pans and mixing
be 7/Is.
I do think there is one mistake
about all this. If you want to
make a real cook out of anybody
you've got to catch ’em young.
Not at an age when anything out
of the prescrib'd routine will be
approechcd with self-consciousness
or even disgust.
However, they arc learning in
spite of themselves. And what
does this tell us? That the in
evitable has happened. If women
are compelled to go out and make
a living in the business world, it
Is quite as fateful that men will
on occasion have to assume do
mastic responsibility.
It's a Good Tiling
Nothing ever happens until the
times say, “It has to be done.’*
Then we get busy and start a new
wrinkle.
To be less faceitlous, this mat
ter cf men knowing about cooking
is about the best thing that can
happen. If I wera the domestic
science teacher I should include a
course in baby feeding, too. scalding
milk, boiling bottki. cooking cer
eals three hours and straining
them, making custards and jun
ket, coddling eggs, fixing orange
juice and tomato juice, and con
coctin<T that old stand-by when
fevers come up. orange juice and
strained white of eggs, known as
orange albumen.
And then let them clean up the
mess, brush out bottles and boil
them, scrape cut strainers and
scald them, learn to do everything
the girls are learning to do these
days, and that young mothers bend
their weary backs over day after
day.
Because you never can tell what
may happen. The world is full of
young fathers today with sick or
employed wives who find them
selves utterly helpless in looking
alter the baby.
iviu-.i rare i-acis
It is too bad that men have to
turn to these things. I am not
one who thinks the male is at
his best or happiest doing house
work and playing nursemaid.
But what v.e have to face are
facts. Facts tell us that when
things are in utter chaos as they
are now with unemployment, or
illness, or both, it's a case of
catch as catch can. If mama hap
pens to have landed a job and
papa can't get a thing, it is up to
him to act as holder-dovvn-of-the
house, pro tem at least.
These boys are probably think
ing. "Oh, heck! How silly! Well
never need to cook.’’
We hope not, but who knows
what is ahead? Even if times
boom again and Pippa can once
more sing her song, there may be
another cataclysm waiting. I have
seen many panics. I have seen
young married couoles go through
all sorts of soul-trying times. And
I have seen untrained men hope
lessly trying to turn out food in a
smoked and cluttered kitchen
while their wives battled with ill
ness in a bed upstairs.
Besides. I think it is fine for a
man to know what work cooking
is. Perhaps then he won’t come
home on wash day and fuss about
the biscuits being hard. Cooking
is work and our future men may
as well know it and give credit
where it is due.
Lifer Still Contributes
To Family’s Support
Boston —tUP)— Though Albert
L. Harvey, 57, is serving a life
sentence in state prison, he con
tributes regularly to the support
o.’ his wife and six children.
During the 10 years that he has
served, he has devoted all his
spare time to making dolls and
toy boats. Prison authorities have
sold his handiwork and Harvey
has thus earned enough to give
his family $1,502.15 within the
di cade.
For Sunday Flight
Supper, or Lunch
Well to Keep Supply of
Canned Delicacies on
Shelves.
Whether you keep house seriously
or ‘‘kitchenettily," us some put it, you
?re almost certain to keep a supply
canned crab meat, tuna lisli, sal
mon and lobster meat on hand. They
are called on then for main dishes
and salad, for lunch and for Sunday
night supper and for canapes and for
entrees—if you go in for formuI din
ners.
Of these four foods, lobster per
haps has the more distinct flavor. A
very good brand of canned lobster
must be selected on tide account.
Packs of lobster vary more titan
packs of the other fish unless it is
the crab meat, which Is of two dis
tinctly different kinds. The Japanese
•rob meat comes in larger pieces,
Keeps its natural flavor, and is
packed in such quantities that it is
used largely. It. is particularly good
for salad whenever large pieces are
desirable. Personally, a household
authority says, I like both lobster
and crab left in fairly large pieces
vhen a salad is prepared. At least
a third ns much celery as flsh is used
,or these salads, and mayonnaise is
mixed with them. Tiny capers or
minced green olives improve these
salads. Tuna may be used the same
way. When salmon is used as a
salad, it is better left ia larger pieces
— as it comes from tl can. Plenty
of mayonnaise should lie arranged.
'Villi
iiitnj-foiiM'u eggs fui jinn ,
lengthwise eighths—around the sal
nion. Eggs are, of course, often u -ed
to garnish tlie other fish salads. An\
one of those fish may he put into an
aspic jelly with celery and sliced
stuffed olives. A ring of salad of this
sort may he served with cucumbers I
cut Into dices and mixed with may
onnaise or with a mixed vegetable
salad dressed in the same way.
For canapes, thr* fish is usually
finely minced and well seasoned be
fore it is spread on rounds of toast
or fried bread. Sometimes the salad
mentioned above is molded in tiny
molds not more than one inch in di
ameter. When these are turned out
of the mold they are put on tooth
picks and eaten with canapes, as an
appetizer.
For a creamed dish, or for its rich
er relation the New burg, lobster and
crab are the favorites. The creamed
fish is served on toast In patty cases,
or Is put in ramekins or in a large bak
ing dislv, covered with crumbs and >
browned in a hot oven. When high I
seasonings and pimentos and green
peppers are added to a creamed dish j
r
i! Is snmetfnu’s known as “deviled.”
Any of those make delicious
j iinhales and souffles, one is as good
as the other. Sometimes a Ifollan
daise or a Tartar sauce is served
with these hot dishes.
One other delicious use for these
sea foods should lie mentioned. They
make such delicious erbam soups a*
“bisques,” ns they are called. Of
course, they are a little heavy for
dinner, hut I know of one household
where this Is a specialty of the hos
tess and where guests are nlwa.vs
hopeful of having a meal begin with
her famous lobster bisque.
In either of (lie recipes given, of
product can he used to better Advan
tage. hut we are quite likely to find
good use for them often in their
canned form.
Salmon Timbales.
J tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons ftuur
1 cup milk
H teaspoon salt
fi teaspoon clioppoil parsley
Vt teaspoon onion juice
!, teaspoon white pepper
2 slices pimento
'j cup ripe olives, minced
] cup flaked salmon
1 cup bread crumbs
1 tablespoon butter
lleat two tablespoons butter and
add the flour, gradually add milk and
stir until it thickens. Add salt, para
ley, onion juice, pepper, olives, pim
entos and salmon to mixture, l’onr
into buttered ramekins, cover with
crumbs over which one tablespoon,
of melted butter lias been poured.
Place ramekins in a pan of hot wa
ter and bake in a lint oven (450 de
grees Fahrenheit) until tlie crumbs
lia\e browned. Garnish with parsley.
This recipe may be doubled for a
luncheon dish.
Spinach Ring Filled With Lobstsr
and Crab.
3 nips rooked or canned spina h
1 teaspoon grated onion
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 i teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
2 c;;gs
3 tups cream satire
Vi cup fine bread crumbs
1 cup flaked lobster meat
1 cup tiaked crab meat
t'liop spinach lint' and add graft'd
onion, which lias been browned In
butler. Season with salt, black nop
per, paprika and add the well-beaten
egg yolks. Mix the spinach with one
and one half cups of cream sauce
anil fold in tbe well-beaten egg
whites. Place in a buttered ring mold
and dust witli bread crumbs. Place
in a pan of hot water and bake in a
moderate oven (:>."><) degrees Fahren
heit) for twenty minutes. Loosen tbe
spinach by pressing from the side of
the mold with a knife, turn out on i
hot platter and till the center with
lobster meat and crab meat heated
with rest of white sauce. Oarnlsli
with scrips of pimento or slices of
lemon or hard-cooked egg.
©. 1033, Cell Syndicate.—WXl' Servlc*
1
How Old?
lie doesn’t look a day over fifty.
And feels like forty.
At the age of G2. m
That’s the happy slate of health
and pep a man enjoys when he gives
his vital organs a little stimulant I
When your system is stagnant
and you feel sluggish, headachy,
half-alive—don’t waste money on
“tonics” or “regulators” or similar
patent medicines. Stimulate the
liver and bowels. Use a famous
physician’s prescription every drug
store keeps. Just ask them lor Dr.
Caldwell’s syrup pepsin.
This appetizing syrup is made
from fresh laxative herbs, active
senna, and pure pepsin. One dose
will clear up almost any case of
hfadai lie, biliousness, constipation.
But if you want to keep in line
shape, feel fit the year round, taka
a spoonful of Dr. Caldwell’s syrup
pepsin every few days. You’ll eat
better, sleep better and feel better
in every way. You wilt never need to
take another laxative.
Give the children a little of this
delicious syrup two or three times :»
week. A gentle, natural stimulant
that makes them eat and keeps the
bowels from clogging. And saves
them from so many sick spclb and
colds.
Have a sound stomach, active
liver and strong bowel muscles that
expel every bit of waste and poison
every day I Just keep a bottle of
Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin on
hand; take a stimulating spoonful
every now and then. See if you
don’t feel new vigor in every way.
Syrup pepsin isn’t expensive.
SEE... EXAMINE
KNOW WHAT YOU BUY
Our merchants are here to please you. It is to
their advantage to do so, and to your advan
tage to First try to buy in your home town. The
advertisements in ourcolumns are an indication
of what can be bought in our own community,
of our own merchants. Let them show you.
