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One Waterman's Ideal will last for years. Every handwriting can be fitted. Above trademark is your guarantee of satisfaction. Prices $2,50 to $.150.00. Illustrated Folder mailed on request At the Best Stores in most Every Town L. E. Waterman Company, Limited, Montreal The result was the least expected of !floor.. 'Here, take that,' he said. `It any I might have anticipated; that is held a fortune- once upon a time; to say, the older lady was chiefly rill- maybe it will bring the kid luck.' ed with nameless fears and a dread 1 "That's all. That is the sort of of the mystery that seemed to hang , creature my only living brother was. over not her niece alone but also her- i --his own brother's murderer. .1 was self, and she really knew very little sick at heart for the poor thing who of the past that might be of use 'to had been Lois's mother; Z hoped that us. She was a nervous, timid woman she might be dead. and no doubt of a disposition to mag- "It was the ivory box that he nify, in the light of later develop- threw at Jim. I kept it—I don't meats the few facts in her posses- know why; perhaps because I thought sion, until she had come to be obsess- it really might be worth something." ed with a perpetual nightmare of As Struber and I were prel,Jtring, terror. i to leave, I detected an a ieasy 1pgk in These few facts, however, unsatis- • Lois Fox's eyes and fancied she was Eying as they proved to be, were new reluctant to see me go, even to Miss Fox and have a direct "Are you afraid to stay here?" I bearing upon subsequent develop- • asked, lingering upon the porch. ments. I "No, no., Birt I am troubled about that autoobile following you. Please CHAPTER XVI. fi he careful.m" According to Mrs, Fox's' account ' My heartleapecl at the thought that ds ways been wayward, and worry over in impulsively mtine els d she mA de no of hmove er anto his frequent escapades, more than one witlidra�sv it. 1 of which had amounted to serious! "I shall," I promised. "Since my .� breaches of the' law, had hastened the own unpleasanexperience I am not ;":flu • at maturity,he had beeneobli ed to of y to into any more laps— g not if I know it, But, my dear girl,. her younger brother, Stephen, had alb she should be concerned about me. I ---"1419.1 death of has parents Before u i wing likely walk ' t ' F+i., flee the country when suspicion point- you two women must not remain here } tl ed to him as the murderer of his older i alone, unprotected; I'll find out from ± �' brother, Samuel. ! Struber a reliable pian and have him. Miss F1.' whispered to me in an watch the house' The Green. Seal � By CIi:ARLES EDMONDS WALK Author oi; "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc. CCIx :PTER XV,---(Cont'cl)• a� may be dceived simile day by an imitation of 8114 and possibly you will not detect this imitation until the tea -pct reveals it, Demand always the genuine "Salada" in the sealed aluminum packet, and, see that you get it, if you, want that unique flavour,:" o fresh, 'lean .leaves properly prepared and packed.. agitated way: "This is the firs I� Although she protested that there '``"`� "```"``"`-� - ;n " ue1." resolved that she was not going to be on a • purposes should ever be wintered The two brothers, it seemed, hacl the next victim of the scoundrels who ; It is well known that. the progeny > over. z_ been upon some expedition of than had enveloped us in their coil. And from mature parents are superior to A little alfalfa makes the cern stick rt t for it— it,• ". own- -fishing, Steve accaun ed yet when the snare was finally laid those descended from young progeni- to the pigs ribs. is.. off San Pedro, from which Steve head for us we both walked into it as tors not fully developed. Boars and ; The well-fed litter of pigs must' returned home. A Portuguese fist . blindly as molest f b d' , h 11 b k t ' have an opportunity to exercise or knew that T ever had an Uncle am-' f was ria need. of y doing so, I was Hold t the Good Breeders. i "Do you suppose," I asked, "that ' man talked in the Wilmington bar Our taxi had pros eded perhaps two ,sows or ree mg should c e kept in "What the two Chinamen would have assault- :. ems of having seen two men fight- g a good thrifty condition, but not fat, else thumps are liable to claim the d x rooms blocks an the return to town when ' `" �+ ed me this morning?" in a catboat after dark, an tr her e : writes a Struber looked well-known • Thenasked "No,I don't.Its my guess that Steve's story twa. discredited, There she is all right all right. writer has always been troubled was bis comment, hei a me I4e it a d own breeder of hogs. `•Plumpest. ing S u mutter d you iabout that! Beatto i e ,s d' edited, The • 4tThere The rit r e " he a the cne to rind out what they could; `body was Hover found, but Steve's ;They stay just far enough behind sols to' keep his breeding sows from be- • There are 20,000 different kinds of rias Fox: "How da you know t y y tool, it?" i they meant to question you, but the flight was accepted as conclusive err-, a fellow can't see their Dumber." i coming too fat, and consequently, far-' butterflies. "While you two were talking, be- kid gave them all opportunity, and dence of his guilt olid the grand jury i I looked back and saw the gray f rowing a small number of scrawny fore I came out on the porch, I pausal they -weren't overlooking any safe later returned an indictment his against automobile perhaps half a square in, pigs. ed long enough to look into the front ;bets." , as we him would, pearanFrom le o othrn ha 1 be hearddfro out rear, painstakingly accommodat-I once took a large sow to fatten It Bight way I missed i Conjure our brains , 1 ing their pace to ours, as a few ex - ears later. • I able; so presently I asked Struber Meanwhile the Foxes a move suddenly .and abruptly slowing down s e' was withpig andfedher a the whether be had found the Republic from San Francisco to Los Angeles, cornmeal and wheat middlings she would eat. Imagine my astonishment and vexation when she had three lit- tle dwarfed pigs—not only smaller than pigs usually are when first far- rowed, but emaciated. Sows for breeding should not be al- lowed to run with the fattening hogs for one half the ori. I did not know room myself. a a the little box. from the mantel, where! the whole thing remained inexplic- i him until nearly fourteen ' periments on our part --speeding up . p lid d h h 11 . st has always stood,' "'Dud you or your aunt keep any-• Hote1's missing guest. and bad been in the latter city barely thing in it?" `; }Ie scowled and shook his head, a fortnight when late one night Steve "`Nothing of consequence: only a " "He just disappeared. There's no- s Fillets appeared unannounced at few choice k'escadero pebbles and thing to go an but his description, i their home --the same cottage where agates= -her precious stones, Aunt . and that's brought us nothing We the were now gathered --bearing in again --demonstrated. (To be continued.) CANADA'S LIVE STOCK, INDUS- TRY. Lois jokingly called them. But you " can only wait and see if anybody turns his arms a girl infant three years old. know what they are; ours were ex- . up demi, It isn't the same as if yuh He displayed no trace of tender- In competing for , the markets of ceptiarially pretty, but of no pante"-; was huntin' somebody that's well ness or affection for the child, rvhieh the world there is no branch of Indus- lar" valve." "known; the haven't any idee who this he declared to be his, and in answer try that exceeds in importance that of fed 4n $ern, but kept in pasture by We continued to discuss the episode guy is," to his sisters inquiries respecting t length, but with t' f e MyMissFox's, Inhersthek o the little one's breast he live stock breeding and raising. 'Para- hemseIves and given a plentiful solo- el up FOR at eilgt u tvi no sa as a - , glance neat mar n , ply of slop, made of equal parts of tory results. The unavoidable theory I read understanding, clamed that it wawa birthmark, phrasing the old Jingo cry, we have wheat shorts, cornmeal and what HEADACHES, S, BILIOUSNESS that Airs Fox's assailants were Chin- "It's d d ' 1 the land the have the will and we way it was only an assumption that ed. so I can tell her if ever loseall . the means, and ever more means, and young will / N D they vele Chinese; y t; Whereupon Struber listened r y y three months old if allowed to run ' 1 1 b a blind Steve - 'tel f M' time like I am a kids the easiest • I d' t ' d with a boar, but sight or twelve �'Suppase I tell lum," I proposed. It s her brand," he had sal anica - ' bran. ' there 'self h th What 's needed is ese explained nothing whatever, Any., "If you think it best," she acqules- ly declared. I put it ere m, have e climate. i Most un t road then CONSTIPATION, a sows w b t • • w : bin se the laundry wag- . ' • e with When a fellow's on the lump .the simultaneousI the ways of market est mfg 1t lave een marked attention to a reef o Mi , , ing owever ivergen in views an Winels was not a Chinaman, although Fox's mysterious correspondent. He thing in the world to misla. Ifo She theories people may be, it cannot be months is as young as it is judicious masquerading as such at the time he seemed to regard the circumstance as ever wants to knots what it� means," denied that they are all united in a to breed them.• 1 N met his death, of vast importance, but ane that for he had maliciously added, just tel One factor, however, now seemed the time being merely added to his her it's the `Kiss of the Silent Death.' common effort to improve both agri- clear, namely; the object of the Per- mystification --especially when he be- It's her mascot" cultural and industrial conditions. In' efetent secret search, directed at first came convinced that neither the girl "But," Mrs. Fox wistfully explain- helping the one the other is being The pigs' from large -bodied, old sows will be more in number, and fre- quently double the size of pigs front at the unknown Republic guest's nor her aunt bad the remotest idea ed, "I couldn't ever tell her anything, aided• The interests are inextricably young sot's when, farrowed ---and this with the same feed and care --and 0 xn, next, :Amy person, and my own who Strang could be. so awful, so I always said it was a involved. If either is especially pros - rooms and office, and then carried "Trouble is," ho laid his finger upon birthmark. Steve was base enough perous, both ultimately must be, al -will frequently weigh 50 per cent. into Miss Fox's home, was closely the crux of our difficulties, "we to lie about it, and I thought if any- though one may feel the benefits of more at a year old. Not only this, i,ientified with the carved ivory boxes; haven't anything to work on but loose body would go to the -trouble of tat- extra demand and high prices before. but as :Struber observed, "There ends, there ain't a blamed thing that toeing a little baby they wouldn't , seemed to he no end of them,�r can be made to serve as a connecting waste time over a silly, meaningless the other.. My mind flew back suddenly to the link. Suppose Strang and the guy at mark like Lois's." In the past fete years especially, a early morning. For the first time the Republic are the same. Suppose Struber's curiosity was getting the deal of scientific effort has been de - I connected my two Chinese callers he sent you the diamond --why did he better of him, so I went over to where voted to the cultivation of the land but it stunts or dwarfs the growth of such young things permanently, and they never attain good size. A neighbor of mine last year bought an old sow in the spring for $10. She with the box missing from my desk do it? Why did he write those let- he was seated and told him about the and improvement of productions of had,ten fine pigs in April, which were drawer, a conclusion with which Stru- tens to Miss Fox? What's she to tattoo -mark. He gave me: a bewil- the soil, and sight has not been lost (fattened and sold to a butcher in the f Ii h i+sem+ ber promptly agreed... him?'" ""It's like this," he voiced an idea , "I know—beggin' your pardon, of his own: "in some way or other Miss—that you're Steve Willets's the Chinks 's mixed up in the whole . daughter, That don't help us any, business, but whether they're the main either, except that Steve gets croak: guys or just tools I don't know. But ed by a Chink ring while cracking Mr. there's this about it—we don't knot' Ferris's safe where one of the boxes whether it's only the boxes they want, is. Right now everything's so dog - one particular box, or what they be- goned tangled up that—unless—" tiered look, but made no comment. of the needs and necessities of that a of t e same year, bring The entire episode of Steve Wil- other branch of inestimable worth—$115, and he still has the sow for a lets's visit to 1115 sister had been so live stock, meaning thereby horses,) breeder. cold-blooded, :so brutal and unfeel- ing,. nfeel- cattle, sheep and swine. In the lot -I bows should be kept for a number urging to that the accept the little one neededno 11a ter direction pure-bred animals have! ed of years untiltheir places can he have fill - charge. Her husband ordered the un- recently been placed in various dis-younger natural father froin'the house with a tricts where their services were pre- proven to be good breeders. command never to show himself viously difficult to obtain, the rogis- Formerly, heavy pork from hogs, twelve to 24 months old (and the fat- ter the better) was demanded. Men who worked hard in the open air, said there was a wasting quality about pig-pork—that it shrunk in the neve is inside some particular box." He trailed off into silence and sat again under pain of being turned over tration of pedigrees has been nation - "The diamond?" I suggested. revolving something in his mind. We to the police. Willets had laughed, alized, systematized and subsidized, "Sure it might be the diamond," waited for him to continue, but at apparently unimpressed either by the grants towards greatly liberalizing Struber admitted; "I've had that idee length he shook his head once more threat or the wholesome loathin g with the premiums at exhibitions have been in my skull right along. and merely said: which these good people regazdecl made, a special branch has been es- « „ "But as I was going to say, if it "I was thinkin' o' Strang; some -him.. of and did not stick to the ribs. i ' two Chinl callers• d I I t `"I brought the lid Here—and I tablished in connection with the Ex- P was Mr. Fez s s how he sticks in my min almost that frisked his desk for his box — had an idee about him, but it ain't risked my neck to do it, too—because perimental Farm system at Ottawa the one the diamond was in—they clear yet; I got to work it out a little I knew she would be well taken care, to investigate the cause of disease, to didn't have time to open it to see further." of," he had said. Then followed a give counsel to breeders and to con - what was inside, or to look far enough All at once he was struck with a threat of his own: "See that you do trot outbreaks of infectious or con - to find the one with the ring. They thought. He turned to me abruptly. it too, for if she dies hell will be a tagious ailments, judges and lecturers cool retreat for you compared evith have been appointed free of cost, cold didn't know what second the kid 'd be back. "Same right here with your aunt, Miss Fox. Mrs. Fox surprised who- ever it was trying to get her box. They must a -had it already when she came from the kitchen to the front door. If she hadn't a -done that they'd a -blew without botherin' her. She forcesl them to fix her so's they could make their get -away. They didn't stop to find out what was in the box." "Seen anything more o' the gray auto?" he asked. "It •followed us here," I told him, "Say!" he exclaimed, but relapsed into silence -without saying it. In a moment he went on: "You just go on about your business without letting onyou're wise to them trailing yuh. I'll get them ginks anyhow." Before Struber and I returned to the city—Miss Fox was to remain at home—I obtained the desired inter- view. with Mrs. Fox. Fortunately, this call for heavy pork is. decreasing. In the farmer's family, and with people generally em- ployed in indoor occupations in the towns and cities, pork from younger hogs is preferred. This pork is not Nearly allour minorailments,and many of the serious ones, too, are traceable to some disorder of the stomach, liver, and bowels, If you wish to avoid the mis- eries of indigestion, acidity, heartburn, flatulence, headaches, constipation, and a host of other distressing ailments, you must see to it that your stomach, liver and bowels are equal to TRY the work they have to do. It' a simple natter to take 30 drops of MotherSeigel's Syrup daily, after rncais,yet thousands of former sufferers have banished indigestion, bil- iousness, constipation, and all their dis- tressing consequences in just this simple way. Profit by their experience. As a digestive tonic and stomachic remedy, Mother Seigel's Syrup is unsurpassed. 2015 MOTHER E SYRJP. TIE. NEW 1.00 SIZE CO\•TAI ''S 'a TRQES AS MBCA AS THE TRIAL SIZE t,OLD ATS0cri a BOTTLE. this happy home when I'm through ;storage facilities have been arranged only the best, being the tenderest and 1with Frere s have useifor the 1 id, an whPm en I`gtvant and refrigerator cars " equipped and sweete at abut lowerit s the quickestbetter pre: Y her I'll want her in a hurry." 1 paid for, grants have been made un-duced,cost d a e t r With no word respecting the baby's der the tremendously beneficial Agri- Profit to the producer. ' mother, nor his own hidden wander- 1 cultural Instruction Act, with its ten i Young animals grow faster an ings and fiittings to evade, the law, million dollar attachment, for the en- I with less food than when they become ti Willets faded away into the night as , couragement of 'veterinary education older, and pork from a hog less than secretly as he had appeared to the and research, and `everything possible a year old does not cost so much to surprised and dismayed Foxes. 1 has been done for the development 1 produce as the pork from old hogs. They were not troubled him and increase_ of cooperation. { To make the most money from hogs, again; at least he never dirit him But one of . the greatest lines of `none, except those kept for breeding bothered them; and it was not until! he came to be connected with various endeavor has yet. to be mentioned, crimes and outrages, after Lois had namely the improvement of market - grown to maturity, that Mrs. Fox ing and transportation • facilities. learned anything of her evil broth Without inquiry and investigation er's subsequent career. I nothing can be methodically and sat - It was when his name began to isfactorily accomplished. With this, adorn the newspapers that terror 1 principle in view a marketing commis - crept into her soul and took up a per- , sion was appointed, the duties of abiding place there. Her , which were to ascertain advantageous husband was now dead; she had no Dints of sale and to effect and protector; and she could not banish brin about the most convenient and _from her mind her brother's veiled g promise to return some time and de-' economical arrangements for disposal, wand his daughter. Recollection of shipment and carriage to destination. the man's vicious nature was stamp- I Owing to high freight rates, distur ed indelibly upon her memory, and bailees in shipping and scarcity of she was in a constant state of gnaw- 'boats, unwonted difficulties have re- ing anxiety over the girl. cently been experienced in exporta- "But now that he's dead," she tion and even.. in handling across the "who out pertinently enough, could have inspired to -day's dreadful continent. It is towards remedying attack on me? Why should anybody these and'"placing matters in a much want the ivory box badly enough to better light and on a greatly improved do such a thing? Surely, it isn't footing that the commission has been worth much." created. In many ways there is evi- "Where did yOU get the box ?" Idente that this is being accomplished, asked her. I although undoubtedly there are ob- "`I forgot to tell that ,part," .the re- I stades to overcome that will be con ply came slowly. "Her father left it'staelely cropping up. Nor is the tip - the night he brought Lois to us. He ointment of `;he aforementioned mar - had; gone part way down the walk p when he turned suddenly and carne ' keting commission the only step that back into the lamplight—my husband is being taken for the advancement was still standing in the open , door. ,I of the live stock and agricultural in - I crouched behind Jim, hugging little , terests, but a commission of iniluen Lois so tightly she could hardly ( tial, widely -known and experienced breathe, for I was terrified at the business men has been appointed to possibility of Steve changing his ; go into the whole subject and to re- mind and taking her away again. Z port upon the most advisable .mea - believe, though, he would have had sures to be taken for the advance to kill me before he could have done that. - i( meat of farming, breeding and refs "Anyway he stopped at the steps ing, shipping and selling and financ- and pitched; something at Jim's feet, big, " and', for the aggregate prosperity something that clattered upon the of the country. \< .ozzozamozoo 0000,000% ' by those Pains? Here is a•testimonial unsolicited gi[- "If I had mywill it would be advertised on every street corner. The man or woman that has rheumatism and fails . 0 j1 i. i to keep and use Sloan's Lissi•. X�I i meat is like a drowning nOt um refusing a rope."—A. J, Van .Dyke, Lakewood, N, J. og loan s It X Liniment ICICI1111111I�������� 11111a PAIN RIMUMATI S P INS -'� SORE ;• Ucif.5.