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Show THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS. LAYTON. UTAH The. Mind ji.r Meter .0 . t ' loyelL ' tea-tal- Bell Syaict.A-WN- Serrlee. Ypreini-ropwta . rsr. Word Completion' Test ' In the following exercise there are ten skeleton words-- . That is, in each case some of the letters have been omitted. Study the let--, ter given and try to ' fill in the fnissing letters to make a common word. , ' 1. ' .6. 2. pu-i- c. 7. ' a-t-- pr-p-t- y. 3. 4. ! - fi. ct. 9. su-- or 10. stf-n- d. . , 5. in-st- -y. . attract, 5. property, 7. visible. 8. neglect, . : public. amazement.' ' ' country. industry, . - 9. .support, 10, stipend. Foreign Words and Phrases - . Amour propre. (F.), Self-estee- t Self-lov- e; m. Billet doux, (F.) A love letter. Hum spiro, spero. (L.) While li've Z hope. (Part of motto of South-Carolina.- ; ) En bon train. (F.) In a fair way, on the road to success. Flagrante delicto. (L.) While committing the. crime; caught in the act. Gosse, (F.) Street siang for 'child, 'infant' Compare kid," kiddie," and the Irish gossoon . Hors de propos. . (F.) the purpose; irrelevant. Iterum. (L.) Again, Not to . that Fo&fc jfeAi To Alkalize Stomach Quickly If. lif , like; later i! was dances and plenty of them. Ace went to Harvard; Harvard was a tradition in the Blaikie family. He went to Harvard Medical Instead of finishing off in Germany, SYNOPSIS t( !n ttie aridou rXa Mary Avery,. harbor (own of Satuit, Mis,, with twa negro maida, Sarah Darbt and Bessie Wil. ' liams, on tea manuscript describing the limon Second Head murder, which occurred on her estate, heat t Mary live Mr. and M'ra. Peter Stow who every year summer masquerade party. One of give the guests of this function is murdered. Nearby live Dr. and Mrs. Geary and their married daughter Edith and her buaband Alfred Bray; Doctor Myroa Mardrn and Cara Prentiaa. a hia beautiful young girl who wat bora in France. Next .live Paul and Lora Eames and their' daughter Molly. Molly was engaged to the murdered man, Ace Blaikie. She had previously been engaged to Walter Treadwell, who bad been Blaikie' secretary, but the angagement Wat auddenly broken and ha bad left. town. Other neighbors hrs tbs Fairweather sisters. Flora, a hopeless invalid, and Margaret. All but the latter twe attend the masquerade, Mary's niece, Sylvia Sard, la visiting bet for the summer. The wooded part of Marys estate it called the Spinney. la it is a tiny log cabin, called the Little House. On the day .of the masquerade excitement is high. Mtry decided ta taka Sylvia, wha is an unusually observant child. Caro Prentiss and Molly Eames drop in during the afternoon. Molly seems Soon carr arrives and Blaikie, Doctor Warden gnd Bruce Hevaon, a friend of Ace's, slight. Molly ia impatient to. leave and they all ex cuee themselves. At the party Sylvia identifies each of the masked guest's as they arrive. Ace comet garbed as Julius Caesar, Molly Eamos appear ta a Snow Queen, accompanied by a mad in armor whott) Sylvia identifies as Valter Treadway. They dance together continuously. Caro Prentiss and Warden ' arrive dressed in Revolutionary costumes, the doctor wearing jeweled shoe buckles. When the guests unmask, Ace, Walter and Molly juve disappeared. Sarah Darbe confide to Mary that someone apparently had spent tba night in the Little shoe buckle in the House. Sylvia frnda Spinney and Mary drop it into a jewel box amd forgets it, Sarah walks down to the Lit-tlHouse and return screaming. She lias found Ac Blaikie stabbed to death in the Spinney. Mary summons' Patrick OBrien, chief of police, who bad been schoolmate wf hers and Acts, ace-str- ange eight-year-o- . 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Only 251 for a big box of tablets at drug stores. over-indulgen- ce ALSO IN TABLET FORM The period which Z .fnight describe as babyhood provides me with no.picture of Ace', although it is possible. that I. did see him then' at Sunday school, or on the beach; Already the boys had shortened his old New England name of Asa to Ace I little 'knevfr how appropriate that nickname was to become, I. was exactly . eight when 1 first became conscious of his t remember perfectexistence, ly how he looked the first time I laid observant eyes on him. The Blaikies had spent that Summer in Europe. Ade was their only .child and naturally their pride and joy. Well he might be thatl There was no period in his life When, whatever the occasion,' he wasn't the most handsome mkle creature present, the most Striking and debonair, It was typical of Ace! that' hot only did he appear the first day of school wearing a- Scottish costume which his mother bad bought in Edinburgh it was. typidal of him that he carried It off with distinction and complete unconsciousness. Z suppose that' every other girl hi the- cla'ss fell dead in love with Ace that day, I did not,, however. Already yes, 'even' then, .Mark Avery and I were meeting at the ' to s go to school together. ' Ace broke hearts left and right in his cocksure pilgrimage through life Z an; glad be did. not break mine. He never caused me even a suspicion of .heartache. Z saw. more and more of Ace, however. We became great, friends, He always entertained and- interested me. He was fascinating. ' Ace, Patrick .OBrien and I were the leading spirits in our class. Patrick, as I. have said, beat me in the race for scholarship and, was graduated at the head.. However, although he' was salutatorian, I was Valedictorian. Ace never studied. He was never In danger of reaching the. head of the class, but not once did he fall below the middle. How he remained so far above it was a miracle. He had a good mind, ah instant and retentive memory. Anything he could read in fifteen minutes before class opened, he could remember. The rest was a winning audacity and a charming impudence. He was beyond discipline. Yet the teachers all adored him. Ace might have gone far, but. he was not ambitious. Except for his one splendid adventure, aU he wanted out of life was easy money for lavish entertaining. The Blaikies had always been people in Plymouth important house is without Their county. doubt the most beautiful in Satuit The gardens are the pride of the countryside. Inside are gathered the inherited family treasure, in furniture, pictures, book, of nearly two centuries. The Blaikies had always had money and very soon Ace began to At first, it was chilentertain. and the drens parties candy-pull- - Ech tiny tablet la the equivalent cl a teaapoonful of genuine Phil lipaMilk ol Phillips MILK OF MAGNESIA FALLING HAIR - - cross-road- - IN UTAH AND THE ITS HOTEL Ogdens Finest Em LCCND . . One of Utah's 359 Room Best 350 Bath $100 to $4.00 Air Cooled Corridor Coffee Shop Spacious Lounge and Lobby Delightful Rooms Grill Room Courteous Service and Convenience Every Comfort will be found at BEN LOMOND THE HOTEL OGDEN, UTAH COME AS YOU ARE CHAUNCEY W. WEST, Ccn'l M6R. s girl-babie- s - la-t- e tin - m - - ; le g Continue! SATURDAY as most doctors did in those days, he chose to study in Paris. He was there when the World war broke. In the autumn he Joined the Foreign Legion. He was wounded that winter; when he recovered, He he Volunteered for aviation.flew with the French army, until we entered the war. Then he Joined our army. He became an how life fulfilled the prophecy of his nickname! He had five enemy planes on his record, fie believed, himself that he had brought down two or three more; but that, he Could not prove. When he came back from France, the town gave him a party no one in Satuit missed it We asked him to come in uniform wearing all his decorations the French and Belgian Croix de Guerre, the Militaire, the Legion d'Hon-neu- r and the D.S.C. Z thought him, that night, the handsomest male ereature I ever laid eyes on. Then Ace settled down to a practice in Satuit. Of course he could not make money in so email a place, but instantly he became a great success. Personality helped here, his own tremendous strength,' his robust vitality. For witti Aces entrance to a came a Air, But pergust of health-givinhaps hia greatest asset was that sympathy with the kick, .the old, the weary and the discouraged. It even helped that he- liked so much. However fathers felt, mothers always knew an iri: finite, pride when they pleased Doctor Blaikie by bringing forth- A glrL But for other reasons, the countryside adored Ace. One was his reckless generosity, Anybody who wanted to sell tickets, or to get up a fund for . charitable purposes made a for Ace. He under stood human nature oh the side of frailty perfectly. .Mothers of girls in trouble, fathers of boyi In trou-blwent at once, to Ace, to get him to treat with seducers and po- ' nests Are Not Used. r Nothing Illustrates Ace rnfireper-fedlthan .the story of his treat ment of Tom Boy Ian, Tom was 'die village drunk. Ace was always having to take care of him, free of course Tom had . no . money for alcoholism. Once he brought Tom through delirium 'tremens. Yet when Tom got well Ace always gave him hit first drink after Tom had begged long enough for It Mattie-"commented- yet . . And yet . . Something had happened to Ace I don't ' - y -- 3T. Bruce Rented the ' Ace. Gamp 'From Came to Satuit Cvery year, but now for the. whole summer. He did not, ,ai formerly, live with Ace. . Ace owned a little camp' on the Indian river. Like everything Ace touched, it wbs charming and convenient Bruce rented the camp from Ace-li- ved there with his two Colbret servants, Adah Silverston and Berry Vale. , Bruce Hexson had become a' social fixture . In summer Satuit Nowadays he never came to our parties, but always, broodingly tender, we felt him there. . . SUNDAY . s m mm I remembered hearing the clock strike four before I fell asleep tha night But once asleep I lay like a log for perhaps an hour. Afterward I remembered that early in the morning, just after dawn, awoke with a searing thirst Grad ually, I pulled jnyself up out o: bed andstaggered to the bathroom. On my way back to bed I pausec to- look out the window. A gray ish fog covered the landscape Trees blurred shadowy through 1; like foliage in a faded photographic film. Yet motion caught my dead eyes. Down below, emerging from the Spinney, I saw But I must not anticipate here; for what I saw made but a fleetlni: impression on my consciousness. Still bemused, I fell Into bed and into another deep slumber. I forgot entirely what I saw. It was Sylvias little voice which next awakened me. Come, get in bed with me, my pet! I invited. She snuggled down close beside me, putting Dorlnda Belle between us on the pillow. "Did you have a nice time with Aunt Mattie? I asked. - . sleep-clogge- c 'I described ,our movements Sylvies and mine in de.taiL Peter and I dressed at the' Bray house," Mattie paid. .' "We left eur t eight and place at about about tens Naturally, got back-a- t we never left the house again. No- -' She body' left the house own was her It stopped suddenly. thought, dogging her words,, that had 'caught her up. . Qf course Ace left before the unmasking because we never saw him again," Mattie glided swiftly., It .puts an end to our masquer--adeMattie ended, lifejessjy, could' never give another one!' The telephone buzfced. Instinctively! arose. But before I could, get' the extension on the piazza, I heard Sarah at the hall teiephorie. . I took-uthe receiver. Patrick OBriens voice said, . "This is the chief-.opolice speaking, Can I talk with Mrs. Avery?" . This is Mary,. Patrick," I broke' half-pas- but" s, f '- '' Sometimes' when the gravy from roasts ' is not quite dark . as you want it to b, try adding, a little kitchen . bouquet.. Just enough to color it., . . -- . . . ca&ch you vf-fi- ) ma! barley, a two;year experiment at the National Agricultural Re-- , search Center of the United States Department of Agriculture shows. Rations containing 30 and 38 per' cent of scabby barley Were com- pared In feeding trials with' rations having the same quantity of corn of of normal barley. Hens on scabby barley laid just as many eggs and maintained their weight as well as those on the other ' two diets. The Only noticeable 'difference was that birds fed the ration .containing corn ate 10 to 13 per cent less feed for ' V each egg laid. corn When barley replaces yellow ration ltls best to supply Vitamin A by deluding either alfalfa : leaf meal or cod liver oil Barley 'contains little of' this Vita.' . min, if any. . Scab lit a fungus disease which affects the quality, of barley grain and reduces the yield. It is .usually carried over from the previous year on corn stalks and small grain stubble . In-th- e -- . Water Is important In the proper care of poultry important drinking water Too often this item is neglected. There are apt to be Insufficient water louhtains for all the birds or the wafer is stale, Sometimes the birds roost on the drinking fountains and foul, themThe birds can not develop ..their best any more than .we can do our best work when we are thirsty, asserts a writer In the Indiana Farmer's Guide, The one thing to remember about the drinking fountains is that they Should be placed on cinders or screen so that the chickens' can not pick up the that may be present in the jqoist solL-- , '.is-ve;- - . - very-badly- CHANGE 70 w V coc-cid- ia limestone Grit. Desirable A ration of corn, middlings, milk and salt will produce good results Oh, how' are you this morning, if chicks are allowed to run out into s Mary?" Patrick asked. .the sunshine in the summertime. Well,. I .slept after a while, I Such a ration is too low In calcium answered. if the chicks are brooded Inside. It was a tough break, Mary Several trials have shown that the happening on your place!' I called lata chicks can be raised from up to ask if I could come to see you baby chicks to maturity on the simfor a few minutes. Im at joe ple ration above if they can run out in a gravel yard. Inside chicks reGearys. I know youll have to be here quire more mineral. all the time, Patrick. Dont even bother to telephone. Come whenMust Keep Pens Clean ever you must. If Im not at home, If poultry has had a disease and Sarah will take care of you. Mat-tirecovered the pens should be has is here. as infested with the considered (TO DE CONTINUED) germs. They must be cleaned properly before any new birds can be Wapping, Part of London into them with safety. The most put Wapping Is the name of the old way of doing this Is to section of London belew the Tower satisfactory chicken the cleanse yard thoroughly where many of the docks are losure all residue has that making cated. It Is historically famous as removed. Then cover all the been were the place where pirates damp places with unslacked lima. merly hanged. .- , Scabby barley, which hogs usually will not eat, may be safely fed to chickens. It gives about the same results In the bens ration ds nor- home,-Mary- . applies to leftover vegetables,' . clearly, . - Find Chickens i)o Well. on Barley Hogs Refuse I can remenjbcr so little, ' in.. Use. scissors- for cutting up leftover. fish; meat, or fowl, .This also VJinfleir been on go- trapnest - Bon'Jt loft help-lessly-ec- - Poultry men who s, The children will delight in using them during the lunch .period. . . you- improve the ' . What time did L -- . a fi , Place straw? in; lunch, boxes when cocoqt or milk are included. . : - diu:e. . fidl Syndicate. WNU Scrvlc, V ,"' pullets can readily select from "' . the records the birds that posress Dr. Fierce Favorit Prescription make these important factors. weak Women strong. ' No alcohol. Hold When trapnests are not used, it is !? druggist in, tablet or liquid, Adv, possible to select birds with the requirements of good breeders by x Intellect and near! system t leg banding during the would not undervalue the culI first laying year When pullets are ture of. the intellect, but would ' housed in the fall, those that show exalt the culture of the heart, evidence of laying by having bright red comb, width between the pubic bones and softness in the abdomen should be banded with a red celluloid leg band. Date of hatch , should be known so that the early can birds be' identified. maturing Intensity or rate of production can be identified later, usually in January and February, by banding with a white band all pullets that show the loss of yellow color in beaks and shanks. Persistency can be identified with a blue band. Birds showing continual production In late August and September of next year by the absence of any molting are persistent layers. During the spring and summer, any birds that go broody should be n black band. Next banded fall, any poultryman who followed the system of banding described can readily Identify the best producers and birds suitable for further consideration as breeders, selecting those brds with red. white and blue bands. Such birds will possess early maturity, intensity and persistency of production and - - ,f Snvi.e tlu-i- r - And mean to his body. Somethin! had happened to his sou-L- ' In the meantime, I had married Mark Avery. I used to talk Ace over with him.. My husband, who was a nerve specialist like Doctor. Geary, with an office in Boston; had Berved as a physician in the World war. He had great wisdom. He said to me once, Mary, the strange thing about war is that it frequently ruins good, men and rehabilitates bad ones. Men are returning to. this' country oh every transport, who, if 'they .had .not been, caught at' the right moment by the discipline of an army, would have spent most of 'their lives in Jail On the other hand, war frequently ruins able men its rigid discipline, its Inherent' immorality. War must have been bad medicine for Ace. It must Jiave Unloosed something In him that' he had always held in Abeyance be . fore. At any rate, from the time hb came, back, he seemed to me to Not physically! To disintegrate. the very end, he kept his magnificent body in condition. He was always Inheriting . money. Yet no matter how much company fillet the huge Blaikie house, Ace was always leaving on sudden calls. How often when I have been there, he hag returned with a weariec A big eleven but triumphant, pound boy! or "A nice little girll Once and this was the spex of his medical pride Girl twins! The countryside always surgec with gossip about Ace. He was, bac always been, would always be a terrific I use the word of my gen era tion flirt I will not say thal; he desired all women, but I wil say that any pretty woman seemed to serve as a challenge to him. Why, when Mark first began regularly to specialize on me, Ace looked upon that as a challenge! I laughed hij tentative wooing out of existence. Along with this tremendous susceptibility, let me call it although it wasn't exactly tha came an equally tremendous fickleness. As I have hinted, to see a pretty woman meant, a; duction. X lice. I Yl Viitiflr; man, brood-iiu't-- . .Everybody. .Every Boston paper's tried to. get you, but ' said you were .still .sleeping. Thata right, Sarah. Dont let anybody, feet to me today except long distance of course." "There's a stack ol telegrams, Kirs, Avery Ill look at them later. I bathed and dressed swiftly, vent downstairs.1 Almost instantly Mattie Stow came into the living-roofrom the halL- We kissed, then stood off and stared appraisingly at each other. As X do, You look, as washed-ou- t . Mary! It I look as I feel," I. aald. You look all of that, Mary. Zti the most horrible- experience of sny lifetime.' Sometimes'. I feel as though Id never get over if!" Horrible I"- I could qnly J.tc, wUAiii. the Inheritance production, as developed by Ur. 1. A. llays of the Massachusetts State College it based on cai'.v maturity, non intensity or t ale id production and persistency of Jong time pro- . - I Joultrytneii payer . the telephone I. f Ni e - s lnyiin; ability f thi-i- flocks without the tise it trapnests can h so by following u system of banding, cotn monly known at ln? red, uiutc. and blue system.'. The present ticcoj tod theory of g, tyanls.- . Yes,. Mrs. Avery I suppose everybody's . . 1bn (food When Trap. " . bee-lin- e . SELECT HUF.EDERS . nerve-breakage- bowl containing pebbles and water will Iast.from November to March if bulbs are renewed as those in bloom fade out. , . .' , Leftover boiled rice served with cream, .sugar and topped with, to the chil-- .. jelly usually-appealdren for lunch dessert. Its very nourishing, tod, A . ' IUNDIXC JilRDS TO X - e ii W.N.U. SERVICE COPYRlGHTlNfLZHAYNESIRWIN Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. .'Oh ye. Aunt Mary, Aunt Mat-ti- e once, on Aee's part, a desire to put a little pitcher .of cream in conquer her; and to conquer her of of my plate just for me. to fire front to begin was, at once, 'What time did Aunt Mattie and her. Rumor of his conquests, both at home an,d abroad, choked ouf Uncle Fetef get home last night? Caddie put me I dont know. For the last few years, ami DoFunkv Hallo La. life bclucii other riunbrs had It they came. of financial embarrassment. 'And so you did not See Aunt was said thal Ace had run through all his patrimony and hi various Mattie and Uncle I'ctcr until this inheritances; lhat each year In- morning? , No. They came Into my room creasingly, he spent more than he earned. and they hugged me and kissed And then occurred the strange me. Oh 1 almost forgot. Aunt Complication to which I have al- Mattie told me to tell you that she ready twice referred. Molly Eames wanted to come over to see you came back from a year in Europe after brcaklast- -a soon as possithe most beautiful girl that Satuit ble. In three had ever produced. t reached e it and touched the months she wa engaged to Wa- bell. I said, putting my Sylvia lter Treadway. Aces secretary. It arm about and drawing her her seemed to everybody that they how you remember do closer, you were passionately in love and yet Ace at the Doctor danced with after six month Molly broke her masquerade? engagement to Walter. Six months Sparkles gathered In Sylvia's ater, she became engaged to Ace. Oh yes, 1 remember! He No one of us who had known eyes. couldnt guess who was. He tried Ace, no one of us who loved Molly, and he and he tried, but he tried events. of turn this ;'elt happy over But one thing Ac brought to us couldnt Doctor Ac has gone nway, I from the war which meant more to He to her. skid gone away for dechis all Satuit as a whole than 1 orations and that was his friend. e long, long time. But want you as to as long you live, remember, Bruce Hexsorx. kind he how he and looked how He was Bruce llexson lawyer. was in Faris when the war broke has always been to you. Fromise and volunteered immediately to me you won't forget him. Oh, Ill never forget Dorter drive an. ambulance for the French In the Ace Ace," met hospital. Sylvia vowed easily enough. Ht army, When we entered the war he vol- She did not ask me where Ace had unteered for aviation. The two gone. Sarah cam In with my tray. men served in the same squadron. Now run downstairs to the piazLong before the Armistice, they And don't I bade Sylvia. rals. za had become inseparable me. leave it without of asking wal .man private Bruce, loo, Sarah did hot seem herself. The fortune, lie lived in Fennsylvania. He came regularly every summer deep umber of her flesh still to Satuit and visited Ace lor two showed a tallowy quality. I hope you feel better this morn-nlnlime. months at Mrs. Avery, she said. And then suddenly an unexpected to him. fee! rested, Sarah, but you i thing happehed To use the old pat phrase Bruce dont seem so very spry. 'X feel that were all under susgot religion, but not somehow Ace always picion! Sarah commented somberIn the usual sense. avoided talking about his friend's ly. Everybody on this Head we spiritual seizure, but he told m women as well as the men. once that he attributed Bruce's We dont I made myself smile, frenzy to the long strain of the war. lave to worry, Sarah, I reassured If he had been wounded once, her. Nobody in this household he said to me, it would have been has to worry. Doctor Geary says better for him. Aviators often went Doctor Biaikie was ' murdered haywire. The officers watched .us somewhere , about midnight problike doctorf. The instant any one ably before. We all have alibis. of us showed the first sign of psy- Arid then, 'Sarah, it seems to me chological strain, they gave .him very unlik-elthat a woman could long leave in Paris.-- ' If a man have committed this, crime. How were slightly wounded, the change could A woman have stabbed a to the hospital helped. Bruce nev- man so tall and as Ace Biai' big. er got 'pip; he never showed any kie? Thats signs of A Woman who's big enough . my explanation.' and mad enough, Mrs. Avery can Whatever the reason, the result do anything. was definite and permanent Bruce Will you rail up Mrs. Stow at llexson' s whole 'jife changed. He once, Sarah' 1 asked,, and tell her that I'm dressing now and to cbme Over here as soon as she v. rmrsn on - . e - HitAil fria ,,. |