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New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

ley" said Wragge, lis to beg you to tell me if you have heard the names of any local gentlemen mentioned in connection with the keepers daugh- ter. You must have all the local gossip at your finger tips.'
 The baronet shook his head. "They don't tell me much, these vil- lage cods," he said. No, l never heard who Sally's mashes were ex- cept that there were plenty of them. The talk is that she was married to some fellow in London
 Wragge made a wry face expres- sive of disappointment. That's not very informing" he said T seem to have had my journey for nothing. But should value your opinion on one other point. Sir Dudley. How about your keeper John Grimes, as the murderer"
 Had a high explosive shell burst within hundred yards of the house the effect on it's owner could not have been more marked. He sprang to his feet, his race gone all purple and working strangely,
 What on earth put such tommy rot into your head?" he hectored. "Why should Grimes want to kill my cousin?"
 'I don't say he did; it is only a conjecture" replied the inspestor soothingly. There might have been the old meodramatic motive of the outraged father who wants to get square on his daughters seducer' oh 2"
 Sir Dudley broke into a cackle of harsh laughter. That's bad break, Wragge," he said. q was beginning 10 be impressed with your cleverness but now you've gone and spoilt it."
 I've will rule Grimes out thAL" said Wragge rising to depart. Good day, Sir Dudley, and many thanks"
 (To be Continued)
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
A Wife's Confessional
 Adele New Phs. REVELATIONS OF A WIFE

cause Of something never explained" l said. and of his fathers refusal ever to see him again. Nes l knew that; also that his mother died with out seeing him."
 Hugh never torgaye his father for that" Lillian said, "and when the elder Grantand married again, all chance for reconciliation lied; for the second wife Is as cold bloodrd creature as WAS ever nlIs- named fish. lIut Hugh's uncle, his fathers brother, always stood by Hugh, and before he died appointed him eXecutor of his sons estate and guardian of the boy. Unfortunately, the estate IS mixed up with that of Hugh's father and grandfather. lt is one of those fool things which some rich men try in this land of the free and home Of the brave. That brings the stcpmother into It. She is guardian of her own son, ltugh's brother.
 "T suppose you're wondering, nat urally how I know all this" Lillian said. Tt can be told in a few words. Somebody, not Hildreth Grantland, but some other person, patently an enemy of Hugh, has pri- yate detectives going over his life for the last five years, trying to get something on him." which will make the disappearance of these funds all the more fragrant.
 "I Was Tipped OT'
 T was tipped off to it by worker in the agency, who knew l was a friend of Hugh. and I've been busy ever since on the opposite angle. If I only could get some trace of Hugh himself! What he wanted to run away for, don't know, for I'd wager my left ear that he never had dishonorable thought in his life He must have lost his reason, or ese-"
 She cupped her chin in her hands with her elbows on her lancashire sign that she was thinking out some angle of her problem-a4d l waited patiently for the end of her reycrie Suddenly she sprang to her feet anC swung the valise to the table.
 i've brought the thing down tc date for you" she said, and it's : mess. nothing else. But if all the missing money is here, that's some thing. I'd almost testify that Inc gave it to me for safekeeping. my self"
 She laughed as she took up dht of the packages of bills, stripped the covering from il, ruffled the bills through her fingers, But the smile vanished in an instant and, pallit 10 the lips, she held the bundle ou to mo. The bills were all counter. 1 fCit'
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

Cream butter and sugar. Add IA cup of the flour, Add eggs well beaten with water. Mix and sift flour, salt, baking powder and soda and add to first mixture. Beat well and drop from a teaspoon onto q buttered and floured cookie sheet. Bake twelve or fifteen minutes in T moderate oven.
 If you don't know ho wdeliciol maple sugar is in sweets you have treat In store.
 Custard Souffle
 Five eggs, tablespoons butter, tablespoons flour, IA cups scaldcG milk, 1,3 cup sugar, few grains sal Is teaspoon grated nutmeg.
 Melt butter, taking care 1t does mol bubble or discolor. Stir in -four and when perfectly blended slowly add hot milk, stirring constantly. Cut until thick and smooth and boiling. Beat yolks of eggs until think and lemon eoored with sugar and salt and nutmeg. Add first mixture and mix well. Fold into this mixture the whites of the eggs beaten until stiff and dry, Turn into buttered bak' ing dish aud bake half an hour in 2 slow oven. Serve at once or th, souffle will fall. Serve with tar fruit sauce.
 Copyright, 1925. NEA Service, Inc
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
London Hotel Speeds Up
 To Hold American Trade

London, March @I.--pne of the few London hotels which still re- tains an old world atmosphere has recently been modvrnizcd in so far IS radio is concerned as head sets for listening-in have been installed in every room in the house.
 In the sumner So to 90 per cent of the patronage Of this hotel is made up of American travellers. Until a few years ago. when the hotel was sold, it had b,longed 10 one family for nearly 50 years.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

Dudley 10 recognize him at sight as the police officer who had pulled Norman Slater off him in the fracas at Cadogan Gardens,
 He aiighted at the little wayslde station. went 10 the lodge gates Of the Grange, walked up the avenue, and rang the bell at the great oaken front door, Iinkley rathered jibbed at admitting him, but yielded at once on being informed of the visi- tors official position,
 There was no one in the library and'Graggc had 10 wait q long half hour before Sir Dudley joined him,
 Come to arrest me for murdering my cousln?" Sir Dudley sneered.
 Wragge assumed servility he was far from feeling.
 You will have your little joke, Sir Dudley" the inspector laughed. q am after MT. George Glcnister's murderer all right, but 1t Is your help l want--not you"
 "The object Of my call Sir Dud-
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
Cigarettes Find Favor
 With Italian Smokers

Rome. March 97-Italian cigar cites and tobacco are now on sale in all the markets of the world, while the consumption and sale in Italy of home-produced smoking articles are increasing by leaps and bounds, according to report of the governmental tobacco monopoly.
 Throughout Italy. it is stated, there is a growing tendency to aban- don cigar smoking in favor of cigar cite smoking and since imported cigarettes are quite expensive. the Italian monopoly is reapihg the benefit of the change fn smokers tastes. The consumption Of the average individual smoker has in- creased 4o per cent since before the World War.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

ful. shall take my magic charms and change all of you into puppy dogs, Then. how would you like that?"
 Mr. Tuney and the others did not answer the Witch, for they did not care to be changed, So they walked along in silence until they came to tree with a faucet sticking out of it.
 "Ha" the witch cried as she spied it, Here is a soda water tree. I can tell 1t as easy as pie, And here is little glass 10 drink out of. Now you all shall have the fun of seeing me drink sixty leven sodas, for I am very thirsty"
 We are ali very thirsty" the strange creature said.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
FIGHTING GERMS
ON HEALTH .

Quite a bit Of truth in what you say of people feeding themselves gcrms," Mr. Mann agreed with his wife.
 But what about these germs not being able to live out in the open air?"
 Well most Of them will live an hour or two at the least" she re- piled.
 And it does not take that long for them to be transferred in these days of modern living conditions"
 Incidentally, March is the worst time of the year for influenza and colds and pneumonia MT. Mann
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
Letter from Leslie Prescott to John
 Alden Prescott.

Letter from Leslie Prescott to John
 Alden Prescott.
 If I had done what I wanted to back to you unopened. Fortunately for you, however, Ruth was here when the postman delivered it and she persuaded me to read it.
 After reading it I showed it to Ruth. I suppose you will not like that, but I will be candid enough to tell you that the letter 1 am writing is very different than it would have been if l had not consulted her and in part taken her advice.
 l am going to put down the gist Of our conversation, and, although know you have never cared much for Ruth, I am quite sure that you should be grateful to her, inasmuch as she preached some sort of a com promise.
 Jack, why is all this misundcr- standing between the sexes? Is it because we can not either Of us think sancly when we think of each other, because our emotions and passions must enter in?
 Woman has awakened to so many things in the last decade that il seems strange 10 me that when a man comes into her life she i'm mediately goes back 10 the old primitive traditions, the old prim- itive standards. Her brain and her reasoning powers which have been developed by leaps and bounds in tho last few years seem to go tc sleep
 In the old dsys woman was scalIy & cbattcG Of d man 10 dc with what he chose. Literally she was given from the hands of one male into the hands Of another. He, father had possession of her as child until she was thought oll enough to he handed over to hol husband. That is easily proven by the words Of tho wedding ceremony which, you know is archaic in tn extreme. The question at the wed ding ceremony gives thi
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
DONATES FORTUNE

Tokio, March 27,--On condition that he be given an income of l2,- 900 yen year for life. Kumataro Ishigaki has given his entire fortune of about 1,O00,OOO yet to the Marine Products Society to be used in the encouragement of fisheries, Mir. lshi- gaki is 67 years of age and amassed his fortune in the fishing industry. This Is said 10 be the only case in Japan of an entire fortune of such size 10 be given away in its owners lifetime.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
British Engineers Elect
 Woman to Membership

London. March 27.-For the first time since it's formation in 1854. the British Society of Engineers has elected a woman, Miss Annette Ashbury, Of Fulham, associate mem Der of the organization.
 Miss Ashbury was munition worker during the war, and with in two years became head of a de- partment where large shells were made for the big guns at the front. After inc war she established a com pany which specialzes in the manu- facture Of machinery parts and wire less apparatus,
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
Mysteries of Japan to
 Be Revealed in Movies

TolliO, March 27.-Tho mysterious interiors of the temples Of the two most powerful Buddhist sects in Ja- pan are to be opened to the moving camera. The Iligashi Honganji and the Hishi IIonganji sects in Kyoto have decided to make use of the movies in their missionary work, and allow the temples and sacred precincts to be used as locations for filming the lives of the priests and the religious ceremonies, The scen- ario of n religious drama by the chief priest of IIigashi llonganJi al- ready is being cast.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
Careless Official Makes
 Brides C0nsternatiO

Naples, March 2T.-All Of tl' marriage licenses and mari'iag' birth and death certificates issue during a recent petiod of sever, weeks by one of the district mayo alities Of this municipality wci rendered illegal by the disappear ance Of vice mayor Troise. who Ina neglected to sign the papers whle would have lesalized the documents
 The fact that 5o0.O00 lire dissr peared with Troise makes it seen unlikely that he will return, anG now the authorities are searching for a method Of making legal al of the irregular aemIssA illiriii. mate births and automatic diVcrces the careless official left behind him
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
 RUB RHEUMATISM PAIN FROM SORE, ACHING JOINTS

What is rheumatism? Pain only St, Jacobs oil will stop any pain so quit drugging.
 Not one case in fifty requires in ternal treatment. Rub soothing, penetrating St. Jacobs oil directly upon the tender spot and relief comes instantly. St. Jacobs Oil is harmless rheumatism and sciatica liniment, which never disappoints and can not burn inc skin.
 LAmber up! Out complaining. Get a small trial bottle from your druggist. and in just e moment you'll be free from rheumstic and sciatlc pain, soreness, stiffness and swelling. Don't suffer! Relief awaits you. old. honest S,, Jacobs oil has cured mil Hons Of rheumatism Sufferers in the last half century. and is just as good for sciaiica, neuralgia, lumbago, sprains and sneilinGs.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
Lilllan's Discovery Concerning tho
 Rolls of Money

"I'n never deny hunch again, Lillian resumed after a pause. She had convinced me that Fanny Pow ell, Hugh GrantlHnds secretary, whom she had been hunting, was the amnosa- stricken girl whom she had rescued from the train and brought Co the farmhouse.
 When l saw that girl that day" she continued, the part of my al- lcgcd brain where the lunches are born told me 10 take charge of her. The other part where resides my modiCum Of common sense, urged me to leave her 10 the authorities. who sooner or later must have taken charge Of her, Just suppose l had left her alone? Why, the key O the whole miserable business probably lies in hcr hands. When she re- covers her memory We will know. In the meantime We can afford to wait"
 But won't the people who lost the money make a fuss if it isn't re- stored to thom?" I asked, thor oughly bewildcred hy the startling story she was telling me.
 That's just what's puzzling me" she returned "Thcre's something hshy about the thing to me and l believe that somewhere, somebody has put up job on Hugh, You know, while he is canny in some ways, he IS a groat-hearted, unso- phisticated boy in others. For in- stanccits the easiest thing in the world for a woman 10 appeal to his chiyalry and fool him to the limit. I don't mean that he falls in love with them, but he will not believe evil of women until it is forced upon him"
 You think then, that this girl" I began tentatively.
 "DeCide,lly, No!'
 Decidedly mo-" Lillian answered. "She would heve been diced up into hash for him any minute, madly in love with him. as nearly as l can md out, a!thOuEh he never gave hel any attention. save that he might have offered any woman in his cm- ploy. No, I think the thing lies nearer home than that. You see the missing funds belong to the estate of HiIdreth Grantland"
 "A relatiye?" I asked breath, lessly.
 Yes, cousin the son of his fathers brother" she returned "The thing is all so terribly mixed up that I haven't been able to get head, let alone tail, to it, yet. Per haps you know the tragedy oi Hugh's boyhood"
 "Of his expulsion from college be.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

yentured.
 Probably the germs would not be able to get such a death grip on people if their systems were not run down by the hard arduous liv- ing conditions of winter.
 "There are two ways of fighting off disease. Keep germs out of your system, of course, and then by proper food. sleep, exercise and gen. eral care of the body make the sys- tenn so strong that germs cannot get hold.
 AS for me, I am going down to see doctor and sec if I need ton- ing up a little bit"
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
HAS TIDES PROPHET

IiyerrooL England, March 27.- An instrument callcl the prophet of the tides" has been presented by Liverpool steamship owners to the Bidston Observatory at Birkenhead. The machine will tell the time Of ocean tides in any part of the world SO years in advance, and if will also give the time Of all the tides during the last 800 years.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

Breakfast-Stewed prunes, cereal, thin cream, graham griddle cakes, maple sirup, crisp graham toast, milk, coffee.
 Luncheon - Buttered rice with cheese and tomato sauce, rye bread and butter sandwiches, canned cher rles, maple cookies, milk, tea
 Dinner Vegetable cream soap, croutons, scalloped potatoes, corn croquettes, jelied spinach salad with eggs, hearts of lettuce, custard sout- ne, whole wheat bread jelly milk coffee.
 This dinner is a vegetable dinner but the dessert and salad supply the protein usually found in the meat course,
 Children under ten years Of age should not be allowed to eat the eerB croauettes suggested in the dinner menu but they will find sufficient nourishment in the other dishes on the meny.
 Children under school age will Of course not eat the griddle cakes planned for breakfast but they may have some of the sirup with their toast.
 Buttcrcd Rice With Cheese and
 Tomato Sauce
 One cup rice, tablespoons but ter, 1-4 cups canned tomatoes rubbed through a sieve, 1-2 teaspoon pepper, S-4 cup grated cheese.
 Cook rice in boiling saltei water until tender. Drain if necessary and pour boiling water through it. Cover and let stand until dry, Melt butter in hot frying pan. add rice and shake over the fire until the kernels are well coated with butter and slightly Drowned. Bring strained tomatoes to the boiling point, season with salt, sugar and pepper and pour over rice in hot serving dish. Sprinkle with cheese, lifting rice lightly with A fork in order 10 mix cheese through rice. Serve at once,
 Maple Cookies
 One cup maple sugar, S-i cup 5Ci- ter, 9 eggs. tablespoons water. : l-s cups -four. teaspoon baking powder l-s teaspoon soda, few grains salt, ..-..-.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
DAILY FASHION SERVICE -------r-.. TAILORED SUIT DISTINCTIVE

When you do run across a tail- ored suit in the spring collections, 1t Is quite apt to be distinctive and striking, Here is one with a very long coat and an oyerblouSe of white pique with bound bultonholes. The whole effect is very straight and tubelike.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
WOMEN PREVAIL IN VIENNA

Vienna, March 27.-The fair sex is decidedly in inc majority In Nien- na. according 10 a census taken by the city authorities on January l, .1gs5. The figures are l,00G,s90 women and gG?,0SS men.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

This, ladies and gentlemen, is known as the "dirigible derby" a piece of millinery created for flap pors from a black felt with orange felt trimmings, a silver tissue lining and q propeller of rhinestones. The effect is gloriously heightened if 1t is worn with scarf of orange silk.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
The Art of Iainesse,

In the train, going down to Beechwood next day, Inspector Wragge was moi in the guise Of e subscrIption-huHting clergyman. On this occasion he was In his own nat- ural semblance since he wished Sir
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
nEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

SIR DUDLEY, believed to be the murderer of his cousin, James Glen ister, following the finding Of q skeleton finger Of the dead man. asks the hand of
 KATHLEEN GLENlSTER. sister of the dead man, in marriage. He Is refused by Kathleen. who believes him murderer, and who is in love with
 NORMAN SLATER. Kathleen is tricked by Sir Dudley into visiting a lonely place to obtain information about her brothers death. Slater, fearful of her safety. follows on . motorcycle.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY,
 "No, sir. It leads to Beechwood village and Colnbrook beyond. But both places are long way of--a lonely walk for & young lady.
 Norman's anxiety was increasing
 Did the young lady use the tele- phone while she was here?"
 "We ain't on 1t, sir"
 Norman gave the waiter five shil' llngs and retreated into the hall. He had reached the entrance and was making for his cycle. which he had left at the curb, when the throaty voice of the waiter stopped him.
 "Arf a mo, sir. l dunno if this hal to do with you. found it when was sweeping up after the luncheon people were gone"
 ''This' was a scrap of paper, th' creases in it suggesting that it hat originally been twisted into tha homely form of communication, thsee, ,cernered note. It bore a feV words In pencil:
 "Prevented at last moment iron joining you. Come to keepers cot tage. You will find me there with out fail"
 Putting the note in his pocket Norman added a pound to his frs tip. Then he went out and starte his motorcycle, the drone of drowning the chuckie with whieI the wheezy waiter retreated into tn ' hotel.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27
Maple Cuokics

One cup maple sugar, S-i cup bCl- ter, 2 eggs. . tablespoons water. : l.. cups -four. teaspoon baking powder l.. teaspoon soda, few grains salt, ...-..-.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

Short words, most of them, but they're not 80 easy to get, because of the great number of unkeyed letters. In addition, one or two of the words may be found above average difficulty.
 HORIZONTAL Tears seam . Almost a donkey : Metal rods in jail cells II Foe l2 Fatal i3 Plant from which bitter drug
 is procured .. II Chicken l5 Premium for exchange of
 money ...4n' IS Furnishing .-- 5-: IS Opposite of poetry s, 19 Newspaper subscribers 24 Seventh Note in scale 25 Behold 28 Wedge-shaped support 29 Had affection for 90 Half an em 32 Myself 34 First in rank 3S Grotesque blunders 40 A few ten-ccnt pieces 43 Toward sea A To employ 45 Left 46 Sleeps 47 Two plus one 4S Gaelic 49 Before 50 Little children
 VERTICAL 1 To harvest
 A bay
 3 A laborer
 To daub
 G., Horse ' Supports $ Constellation
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-11-12

JAS. IrOnsides and Otto nSopenA
were Great Falls visitors Saturday
they report the roads y very poor
condition.
Mrs. v. d. szmsth whe was visiting
the Gemmill ranch returned 10 Great
Falls a few days $50.
Robert Custer was called 10 GEaas
Falls the past week by the serious
illness Of his mother.
Walter Burke spent several days
the past week IN Socket and Great
Falls.
Mrs W C. Jones spent Che past
week in Great Falls attending this
convention.
Miss Annie Boadle and Miss Fer
guson spent the weekend at the
Boadle ranch returning 70 Great Falls
Sunday.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-11-12
TIGER AND BLACK BUTTE

John Boadls, Joe Faabel and Geo
N. Potter returned Saturday from
Chicago where they accompanied /
shipment Of cattle.
e. N. Thrasher spent the past wesA
with his family In Stockett where the
children are attending school.
Wash. father Of T. n. Bartlett Is ser.
hously m ct his home with little hops
Of recovery.
Miss Irene Anthony lie spending tins
week with Mrs. J. selstrOm while her
sons Ivan and Paul are hunting big
game near Missoula
Mrs. Jas. Daley, Mr.. Chamberlain,
Geo. N. Daley and others were hunt
Mr.. Chas. Bartlett Of Rockford,
ing near Tiger Butte last week.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-11-12
cARD PARTY

The Ladies' Of the Altar Society
win give another one of their popu-
lar card parties at the Parrish Hall
on Tuesday evening November 18th.
Play win begin at $3.50 sharp. Tickets
including luncheon fifty cents.