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to the "crowd doing the inspection,
in the opinion of A. Roy Moore, prom
inent Wilson drug store proprietor
who was once in the dairy business.
In a letter to w. Kerr Scott, COM
missioner of agriculture, written as
the result of this bureaus story fol-
lowing up the commissioners Pine
hurst speech. Mr.. Moore told some
thing of his experience while in the
dairy business and expressed freely
his opinion of the present inspection
methods of those in charge.
Commenting on the fact that North
Carolina dairying has actually decreas
ed in Importance in the past 20 years
he W~cte:
"The matter is :aot one that cannot
be easily remed.ed, as l see it, be
cause q great deal of the trouble
comes from the authority delegated
to the crowd doing the inspection.
Every effort should be made tt
select people to do this work who are
honest, conscientious, capable ant
sympathetic with the dairy people.
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him of her: and he came land took her
by the hand, and raised her up
Authority Over Disease.
In last Sundays lesson there was
displayed Jesus authority in the
realm of doctrine: "They were aston
ished at his doctrine: for he taught
them as one that had authority" His
authority even extended to the realm
of demons: "For with authority" they
said, she commander even the I'M
clean spirits, and they do obey him.
Again he asserts his authority, this
time in the realm of disease. Luke the
physician tells us that it was "a great
fever" with which Simon's wife's
mother "was holden, and that Jesus
"stood over her and rebuked the fever
and it left her" And the word Luke
used here for 'rebuked" is the same
word he used to describe Jesus exer-
else of authority over the evil spirit
This authority of Jesus in the realm
of disease was displayed on a wider
scale at sunset of that busy day, when
"they brought unto him all that were
sick, and them that were possessed
with demons. And all the city was
49,
healed many that were sick with
divers diseases, and cast out many
demons; and he suffered not the
demons to speak, because they knew
him.
Source of Authority.
Jesus, walking among the rows Of
sick and afflicted brought to his door
that evening, is the picture of tho
Good Physician meeting perfectly a
dying worlds every need. That sun
set marked "the end of a perfect day"
How that day and every day of the
Good Physicians busy life began, are
told us next: "In the morning, great
while before day, he rose up and went
out, and departed into a desert place.
and there prayed" When his disci
Piles found him, and gently ehided him
for this, as it must have seemed to
them, waste of time from busy day,
saying, Cali are seeking thee" he re-
piled, "Let us go elsewhere into the
next towns, that I may preach there
also; for to this end came I forth"
AS much as to say, Il know it is to
be busy day. therefore carna forth
here to pray" F'iayer time is by no
means wasted time; to take tine to
pray is to save time for work and to
multiply strength for work. The au-
thority Jesus exercised m every realm
was purchased by. prayer. Our lack of
it is explained in the words, eye have
not because we ask not. Ye ask and
receive not, because We ask amlss.
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Alex Norris, a writer who. objects
to detective stories. is theorizing on
the subject of crime fiction, during
a weekend party at the home of Dr..
Thurston, near London: Other err. e guests l :s
the family lawyer, and Strickland, a
sportsman Mrs. Thurston is the only
woman present. Townsend observes
that Mrs. Thurston appears strangely
flushed after a conversation with Eel
loves. the chauffeur. Mr.. Rider. the
vicar, is another guest for dinner.
Strickland begs to be excused so
as to retire early. Then. a few mo-
ments after the hostess excuses Uses, h ,9p
stairs penetrate the house. Seconds
later Mrs. Thurston is found dead in
bed, her throat cut. 1t was necessary
to break in the bolted door to enter
Mrs Thurston's room. No one else is
found within and the only open WINDOW
reveals a 20-foot drop. DR.. ThurSton,
guests and servants all are accounted
for.
(Now GO ON WITH THE STORY)
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Of the household, and knew the
servants names. "Go upstairs
with your master, and see he has
everything he wants.
DR.. Thurston turned at the doc,
to bid us good night, and when ]
remembered his loud and CHEEKY
greetings and leave-takings I was
deeply moved by the wretched lit
tie smile he gave us.
"It must have been a powerful
stroke" DR.. Tate said when we
were alone. about 80 minutes
ago, I suppose?" It was now a
quarter to IL. "It's hard to tell
precisely. Somewhere between II
and half-past, anyway. Who did
it?"
It did not seem to have occurred
to him that we were mystified.
suppose he thought that an act Of
such violence in a familiar house.
hold could scarcely have been done
without instant discovery. When
we explained it all to him, he was,
of course, incredulous. "But !.
but ;" he began.
Williams interrupted him. "I
know" he said CURLY, cts impos-
sible. It's incredible. But you see
it has happened"
The police sergeant joined us.
We scarcely looked up as he came
in. He was big red-faced man
Of 48 or so, with a struggling
ginger mustache, and look of
rather berry benevolence.
"I've made my examination of
the body" he announced in, a
heavy voice, such as he probably
used for giving evidence in court,
land I've formed my conclusions"
he added.
You've what?" snapped Will
liams.
II said, I've made my examina-
ton of the body, sir, and the blood
stains, and the instrument. And
I've formed my conclusions"
This was almost comic relief.
"You mean to say you think you
know who did it?" gasped.
Il didn't go so far as to say that,
sir" admitted Sergeant Beef, "but
I've done all that's necessary for
tonight"
"You had better get in touch
with Scotland Yard as soon as pos
sible," I told him, feeling some
what irritated by the stolid self
Importance of the man.
"That may not be necessary"
he replied ponderously.
DR.. Tate, who knew the local
only too wen. said
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the hail." he said. Then thought
fully, 'That'1l keep suspicion in
the household"
I was not listening very care
fully, for another thought had oc-
Cured to me.
what about footprints" I said,
"supposing that anyone did get
down from that window by any
means 2"
It seemed a remote hope, but
then so was everything else. Very
carefully we examined the flower
beds for several yards left and
right of line from Mary Thur
ston's window to the ground, and
from the wall to the very edge of
the bed. But the ground was
quite undisturbed. Slowly Strick-
land and I walked along to the
front door together. We met Nor
ris coming from the opposite di-
rection.
"Seen anything?" I asked him.
He said ''No" very quickly, and
led the way into the house.
/ AS we came in we met DR..
Ihurston coming downstairs. He
stopped and looked at us fxedly.
Then he asked sharply, where
have you been, you three ?"
I told him we had been search
ing the grounds, but almost before
I had finished speaking he had
walked on dazedly into the lounge.
He sank into a chair and seemed
to take no further interest.
Williams, who was standing by
the mantelpiece, called me aside.
and I told him what I had found.
He nodded. "It's almost a relief"
said the lawyer.
What? That the knife is
found ?"
"Well, in a way. I had almost
begun to doubt whether there
would be a knife. Whether there
would be anything so e. prosaic. "
1 glanced aside at his face. He
seemed calm enough, but his word
ing was so odd that I asked him
again what he meant. .
Look here, Townsend. haven't
a scrap of superstition in my ma
ture. I believe in facts. But Tn
going to admit to you that the
mildest word l can use about this
is uncanny. / don't mean just be-
cause we found Mary dead behinc
a bolted door. I've heard Of thai
sort of thing before-with quite 9
normal explanation. But damn 1t
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. CHAPTER 6

AS LEFT the house to search
the grounds I had snatched up a
powerful electric torch which lay
on the hall table, and after gen.
eral look round I went to the
gravel path which ran beyond the
wide flower bed that was under
Mary Thurston's window. 1t
seemed to me that here, if any
where, I might find something,
some (the word had already
come into my mind) clue. And I
was not disappointed. I found two
objects which, if they were not
clues, were at least, thought,
connected with the crime.
The first lay far out on the ten
mis- court, Is yards or more from
the house. It was a broken cleo
trio light bulb. . AS soon as saw
its fragments cleaning on the
short grass, I stopped to pick
them up. But before my hand
touched them, I paused. I sud-
denly remembered all I had read
of crimes, and their discovery.
Fingerprints! And thought with
a shudder that I had been pro-
jected by this affair into a new
and frightening world, in which in
vestigation, discrimination, and
! the discovery of fngerprints took
the place of the more normal
events of my previous life.
The other object was even more
relevant. 1t was the knife with
which the murder had been done.
When I saw it lying on the wide
flower bed under the window, was
surprised. And yet, as it was
afterward shown to me, ought to
have been prepared for greater
surprise if it had not lain there.
For where else should it be {?
Wherever the murderer was at
that moment concealed, it must
have been his first care to rid him
self of his weapon. And since the
weapon was one which would
easily be identified, he did not care
how soon it was found, provided it
was not found on him. He had
done the obvious and the safest
thing had dropped it out of
the window as soon as he had COM
mitted his crime.
So there it lay, and my torch
even revealed a wet bloodstain on
it. But once again I knew better
than to touch it. I left it lying
there, and decided to return to the
house to report my discoveries.
AS I stood up I saw Strickland
hurrying towards me. mot a
sign of anything" he said. His
voice was a little thick, but he
seemed cool enough. His nature
was perhaps too bovine to be
easily stirred.
I showed him the knife, and he
whistled.
poor old Mary" he said, look
ing down at it.
I did not like the mixture of con-
ventional regret and familiarity in
the remark, and I said sharply
"You were fond of her, weren't
vou?"
yes" said Strickland, making
no attempt to move, or to take his
ewes from the knife. LEND me
that light a minute" he added.
He held the torch near to the
,-nife, then stood up. Its one o.
those blasted Chinese things from
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when you consider this 4. the
door was bolted. Within two min
utes Of the scream looked out Of
the window. Within two minutes
everyone in the house was &C.
counted for. And yet am certain
that there was no way out of that
room. examined every inch of it.
What in the world can be said ?
Someone did it. A hand held the
knife. There could be no tricks Of
suspension. tell you it affects me
as if I had actually seen some
thing impossible-like a tree grow
ing visibly or snow falling on a
hot day. It i. it really frightens
me-"
Brighten was the last word ]
should have expected from Sam
Williams. And yet when we were
discussing the whole affair on the
following day he said that he dis
tinctly remembered using it.
TN what way?" I asked, for nay
mind was stupefied.
well, how can the brute have
escaped? This is not a matter OF
detection. haven't the slightest
hope of anything Scotland Yard
can do. It's it isn't human.
Townsend"
I think those words of Williams.
the level-headed, skeptical lawyer.
disturbed me more deeply than
anything else. And because l
more than half agreed with him, /
contradicted most fatty.
"Oh, rot" I said, "there'n be
some perfectly simple. explana-
ton"
my dear chap, how can there
be? Unless the man had wings"
The vision which this aroused
dark, murderous creature like a
giant bat tapping away from the
house-was too fantastic. mo,
no." said; don't get side
tracked into nightmare. There
must be means of escape from
that ROOM"
"Shall we look again, them"
ooh, don't :" The thought
Of what lay there made me sick
and miserable. I must have lit
eral mind, for it was the actual
body which was most dis
tressing to me, while for Williams,
unexpectedly, the doubts and
fancieS were worse.
"Come on" he said. Better
than sitting here, thinking" '
ITO Be Continued I
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SHARPLY, Don't be ridiculous, Beef.
This is quite evidently not case
for you. And very much doubt"
he turned to us-"whether even
Scotland Yard will be able to solve
it. But there must be no delay in
sending for them. No delay at all.
I for one could not stand by and
see time wasted which might be
valuable in tracing the murderer.
You had better ring up from here"
The Sergeant remained I'M
moved. He blinked his red eye
lids. II know my duty, sir" he
replied.
DR.. Tate grew angry then. II
suppose you've been in the Red
Lion all the EVENING"" he said.
"Well, I tell you now that unless
this matter gets proper investiga-
ton without delay / shall go to
the Chief Constable at once"
"You must do as you think
proper about that" said the police
man, ."but in the meantime must
ask that none of these gentlemen
leave the house. I'll tell the SER
wants the same. I'll be up in the
morning to he tapped q
large notebook-"to ask some
questions"
''That. I believe. is the usual
thing"
very well, then, gentlemen, I
may take it that you will all be
here tomorrow? Perhaps I'd bet
ter just have your names"
And slowly, painfully, he began
to write our full names and pri-
vate addresses in his large book.
1t was an exasperating 10 min
utes. But at last he finished. and
went out into the kitchen, appar-
emily to collect the names of the
staff.
Presently we heard the front
door slam, and knew that the eye
OF the law was no longer on us.
Yet none of us moved. Williams
turned to DR.. Tate.
What do you know of Rider?"
he asked.
Rider? He's q Woodworking
chap. But sometimes wonder if
he's quite sane. He has a mono
mania, anyway. Purity. He real
ly does the most unbalanced things
when purity's called into question.
Suddenly remembered the
curious question he had asked me
before dinner. and repeated the
gist of it.
Just like him." exclaimed Tate.
He probably suspected something
absurd, or something quite trivial"
ITO Be COntinued)
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subject of the Tuckertown power pro-
iect and the ruling of the Federal
power Commission that the Carolina
Aluminium Company must have a Fed
eral license, as witness the following
language in a resolution on the mat
Ter:
"At time when every effort should
be made to stimulate productive ex-
penditures and activities by private
enterprise, it is inconceivable that
the project should he blocked by a
Federal policy
H. J. Bryson, State geologist, has
been called to his old home at Inca
by the death of his father, B. G.
Bryson, retired engineer.
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ssWork for constant innrovo

"Work for constant improvement.
always, but not too quickly. Chances
should not be made so rapidly as ~
drive them (dairymen) out of hns
mess, but in a helpful way A great
deal of the requirements which oro
so costly are brought on by comino
along demanding one thing and few
weeks later coming along and ro-
curing something directly opposite
All of which is done primarily for
show and front and with no sinceritv
of purpose"
He prefaced his letter with tho
statement that he feels himself I'm.
prejudiced because II have nothing 70
lose any more-having long since
found that an unsympathetic insnec-
ton service made it impossible f.
ever hope to receive any renumera.
tion."
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MIDDLEBURG M. E. CHARGE.
Rev. D. A. Petty, pastor.
Services for next Sunday are an
nounced by the pastor as follows:
Services at Middleburg at IL a. M,
followed by communion services.
At Drewry at 8 p. m.
At Townsville, at Hargrove's chapel,
at 1880 p. m.
The public is cordially invited.
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CHAPTER z

upstairs again, and reached the
broken door. But as we opened it
we both paused in establishment
The body was no longer alone
Kneeling beside the bed, his face
buried in his hands, was Mr.. Rider.
the Vicar. When he realized our
presence, he looked up. And the
expression on his face was unfor-
gettable. It was like the agony
on the face of a martyr in a prim'
tive religious painting. His
cheeks were bloodless, and his
lower jaw dropped as though he
had lost the power to control it.
"Rider! How did you get here 2"
asked Sam Williams. His voice
seemed to me to have a note of
suspicion in it.
The Vicar slowly stood up. He
moved stiff1y as though he had
knelt for long time. Get here 2"
he repeated, not seeming to under
stand the purport Of the question.
II arrived a few moments ago."
Where? Howl" The sharp
ness of the lawyers voice surprised
me. Could he still be thinking Of
his winged man?
IT don't understand you," said
Mr.. Rider slowly, and it seemed to
me that he spoke the truth. II
came to the front door," he added.
who showed you in?"
"Stall, the butler"
WJi11io me- hocifA%o<5 MA,S x,o,,
came straight up here 2" he asked
at last.
EYES," He looked down at the
bed again. "Poor soul! Poor
soul" he said. IT hope she will
be forgiven" Then he added in a
lower but it seemed to me more
fervent voice, II hope we all may
be forgiven"
Sam Williams looked at him
closely. "Mr. Rider, do you realize
that this was a most savage MUIR
der? And that the murderer has
not been traced? Can you tell us
anything that will help us ?"
The man was in great distress.
I could see that he was trembling.
"She died /. a sinner" was his
reply, at which Williams made a
sound Of impatience. "But then
:. :" said Mr.. Rider, staring at us,
1--WE are all sinners, aren't we?
All of u.s." And he almost ran
from the room.
Williams and I stood listening
to his footsteps pattering quickly
downstairs.
"What do you think 2"
'What can one think ?" said
1.-THE mans mad, of course. But
whether he had anything to do
with it or not, can't even guess"
Before we could start once more
that meaningless search which
Williams had proposed, we heard
the car draw up to the front door.
Fellowes had returned, bringing
the local doctor and Sergeant
Beef, the village policeman.
There was little enough for the
former to do. He soon joined us
downstairs, but before saying any
thing he went over to the crumpled
Inquire Of Thurston, and said, LOOK
here, Doctor, I'm going to order
you to bed. We're going to do
everything in the world we can
Ior YOU, and it won't help us for
you to stay here. Now be a good
chap :"
Inurston rose. as obed It as a
small boy.
Stall!" DR., Tate was a friend
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1T IS NEVER far from the place
of divine worship to the place of ser
vice to our fellowmen. So our lesson
opens: and straightway, when they
were come out of the synagogue, they
came into the house of Simon and An
drew, with James and John. Now
Simons wife mother lay sick of a
fever; and straightway they tell him
of her: and he came and took her by
the hand, and raised her up: and the
fever left her, and she ministered un-
to them" Are we telling the Good
Physician of our sick and bringing
him to them as did these early follow
ers of our Lord? How promptly and
effectively the Lord responds to such
appeals of human need: "They tell
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Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL
ilaily Dispatch bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.


In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Jan. 21-In the sweeping
injunction issued to prevent interfer-
ence with the silent salesman slot
machines, Judge Isaac M. Meekins
barred all hands and the cook from
interfering with the business Of the
plaintiff in the sale or distribution OF
candy minis by the use of the "silent
| salesman"
| It might be interesting to find OFT
what would happen if some daring
local law enforcement officer should
move against the zone arm bandits
on the theory (easily provable by even
casual observatory that they neither
| sell nor distribute mirlts.
Surely Judge Nieekins didn't mean
to protect exactly the same sort of
gamsling devices which have been ex-
rressly outlawed by deliberate, con-
sidered action of North Cardinals leg
islature.
Yet any man, woman or child with
even moderate intelligence needs only
to watch Silent salesman" in OPP
ration for five minutes to decide that
it is absolutely nothing, in its essen
tial aspects, except the old-time slot
machine that paid off when two cher
ries and a lemon or three of the same
kind of fruit appeared.
However for they may stray from
the fold during off-years, congress
man seeking reelection can be de-
pended upon to shout Hosannas in
praise of the New Deal and our be-
loved president
Not to class him as usually anti
New Deal, it's interesting to note That
Congressman John Kerr, OF the sec
ond district, is already tWanglng the
New Deal Tyre, though ne continues
to decry President Roosevelt pet
wage and hour bill.
Utility Commissioner Staniey WIFI
| ;oorne is studying rate reduceion pro-
! posals made by the Tide water rower
| Company and expects to issue q STATE
nnent regarding them in the i'eA' Jay
| or two.
The Board of Conservation and De
velopment feels very Strongly oii 'ae
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1927-United States warships con-
centrate to take Americans out Of
troubled China.
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FORMER DAIRYMAN
FLAYS INSPECTION

Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Jan. 21-Troubles of North
Carolina dairymen can be laid largely
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By DIR. ALVIN e. BELL

(The International Uniform Lesson
on the aeove topic for Jan. % is Mark
1:29-45, the Golden Text being, Mark
1:34, "And he healed many that were
sick.')
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READ THIS FIRST:
Mrs Mary Thurston, middle-aged
wife of a retired English physician, is
found murdered in bed during week
end party at the ThurstOn home near
London. Those in the house when Mrs.
Thurston retired are her husband;
Townsend, the author; Williams, the
family lawyer; Strickland, sportsman.
and the servants. They find her few
seconds after three piercing screams
is found in the bedroom. The door was
bolted from the inside and the only
open window revealed a 20-foot drop to
the ground. Below the bedroom win
dow, Townsend finds the murder
taken from the Thurston hallway.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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The Board of. Conservation and De
yelopment feels very strongly on the