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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-3-30, Page 20.4.4444•4,-. _ • ^ Write for Free Sample Packet TEA and learn how delicious good tea can be. State your choice. black or Mixed or Green. With the sample we will send you an interesting illustrated booklet about Ceylon and its wonderful tea gardens. ADDRESS :—SALADA, 34 YONGE STREET, TORONTO The Green Seal By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby„" "The Time Lock," etc. EX X •••44 l C. `••• Op , • Bahris in. November,in n meaene had prepared the minds • of each :for openness •to conviction regarding the. other's innocence. The two then directed their suss picions toward Steve Willets„ a life prisoner in San Quentin, and vim - vessel the situation from this point or view. For some time Lao's in- iluence bad enabled hint to communi- cate with Steve through the medians of the "grapevine" telegraph that ! constitutes a connecting -link between every prison :and the outside world. Unsuccessfully he bad sought in- formation that would put him upon the trail of Marian Sylvester. Steve ; was wily and evasive. Life prisoners sometimes were pardoned, and then the missing heiress would prove D. Most valuable asset. Steve had con- trived to keep infermed respecting his putative daughter's wbereabouts and condition, but he was not taking Lao into his confidenee, even thoUgh the latter was holding out the tempt- ing hint of a possible jail delivery. So Lao was merely fed with fade that ;Stopped just short of enabling him positively to identify Marian, If he could learn certainly about the tattoo-mark—But how was a China-' 411 man to go about that? • IN EVERY -EMERGENCY You will find sot= use fat Trade Mark Petroleum Jelly lt relieves rough, Chap') cd hand% broken blisters, burn, cuts, insect bites and skin irri- %floes of all kinds. Sold in handy glass battles and tin tubes, at chemists and gen- eral stores everywhere. Refuse. substitutes. Free booklet mailed on request. CEESEBROUGH MFG. CO 'Consolidated) 1880 Chabot Ave. Montreal LIBB 1,7.4. TRE IRON LAND. German Police Are Continually Raid- - : ing uwouh* itou$os, Day by dtiy, the Berne "Tagwaeht," the organ of Swiss Social Democracy, tells 'what is really • happening in . „ 1 Germany. In the latest issue that has I reached this country, it describes the t political activity of the police, "Firat of all, everybody suspeeted Of ha :big revolutionary tendencies is spied upon day and night. A num- ber of papers which are under pre- ventive censure are no longer allowed to leave blank spaces, where passages or an article have been suppressed. "\V"urbenburg is under a specially close surveillance. The local police • officials were sent fromthe famous police school at Halle. But even these men were not found sufficient to 1 safeguard public order: Stuttgart is flooded with detectives, who ai'e pre- sent in numbers at every meeting. Tiles° are dissolved on the slightest pretext, and all the names of persons taking part in the meeting taken down. "One of the latest 'herole' deeds of the police in Stuttgart was the arrest of four Soeial Dimocrats, The police handled then in a most brutal way. Two boys who witnessed the arrest were detained from two • o'elock in ' the afternoon until late in the even- ing lest they should tell what they knew of the affair and denounce the police. It often happens that school children are suddenly arrested on their way home, detained without food or drink until late at night, and then liberated without any explana- tion. Their anxious parents are never warned and no excuse is ever given to them. The children are being i ff1 • th were col - CHAPTER \XIX. (Cont'cil. flight frem China. and remove all. Steve tried to make Lao believe that aPen I le 1 01,"1 a 4Is, eY Tiding with him The rtrevit.as night. it NYUS StraiDgeS at every turn, press - others /hot wero being carelessly Lois was in reality his daughter; and titin l;ellef, Loa Nol Meant to tell left to the disposition of chance, But • when Strang, after the Nerainaer ing against him at every halt, so that meeting, wrote Hardwick warning he arrived at the hotel in a condition Lois tii,-; I,vhole ...tory, aa far as pos- Peter B. Ferris was dead, and what him to be cautious about Lois (of 0 of nervous strain that left him, as sih1e explain his reasons far wanting ' had become of the ring? Occurred coulknow be expressed it, "in the r ight, frame tile tzatoo-mark )bitertited, anti thus then Charley Yen's death, and the•wh"in Strang ut the time d o' mind to take it out on someone" nothing definite), and hen Ilia Warn- trY to win her consent to its removal, trail was indicated to him, though ow The ransacked room afforded the last was followed immediately But to seeure the requisite privacy for a time he heatitoted tv approaeh: 'jog Lan return to Los Arigeles by on. i straw; but his aches and bruises re, without ex.•iting', her alarm find sus.; raga and did not do so until obliged; stricted the taking, -out process to an Piej.'n had been next to impossible' to. Events. in which he was secretly ,other from him, to the effect thatl presence might be part of a" upbraiding of Corrigan, the hotel until e.amstances played directly a principal participant were rapidl!r .L'els's fTTI hla landa. Tie wee provided, vita drawing to a head in China and be blackmailing seheme that threatened manager. sorts of dire caltunities to Kenton Alone at last in the new room to thei i•••t• .f talkingto I ois was all at once forced to at quick! • )•1 panic which was 0 enw egan fully to realize the seriousness P . terrorized in thousands of ways. under the Lest eenditiens, and fur- Straightway, however, he was n °- - thrown into a • • • • f • ti o• him In "Frequent also are domiciliary searches. A whole row of houses was , Money in Sorting Potateee. examined because a rumor had spread There is money to be made by the that a leaflet was being distributed i sorting of potatoes. Constanera large protesting against a win+er eampaign. and small, do not like mixed lots.. 1 bey in Rhineland. There is serious unrest ,avant thems uniform in site and qua. "Not less severe is the eensorship aniongst the miners in consequence ity. Consequently potatoes are us - of the prohibition by the Government tidily sorted before being put on the of all discussions coneerning the pre- market and the price which Li paid sent state of affairs in Germany. T „the potato -grower is the price of this way the authorities hope to pien. sinogrt.ed Tpioietartoefoesr,e,lesthsethveactottstot ogfasnovret; vent an outburst of discontent, In - who ships unsorted potatoes really Socialist papers the word 'capitalism' has to pay the charge of sorting. "In all big stations and tramway alsTol,lehasshitpop shipper rayo of nuontrertnect al;tea, thaensdi is invariably cut out by the censor. detectives. and that is the freight on the culls which termini there are numy police "Often trains are stopped and the arevlieatesih• shipper rn oofutunosfoilta sitixarateonest: passengers searched, but not froni therefore, is simply wasting money. that the police keep a descriptive list the top market prices and because it pays to sort because it gives one fear of spies. It is even probable It of all Socialists suspected ef. peace saves freight on culls, and, it might propaganda, as ninny member's of the be added beeause the culls could be Socialist party have noticed them- kept on the farm and made use of in selves being photographed in the rations for live stock. streets. "It is known that all the corre- spondence of suspected Socialists is opened by the authorities. Lately the police are even overhearing all con- versations on the telephone and us- ing this means to ascertain the opin- ions of different members of the So- cial Democratic party." - • • II 1 ' k was, which he had. been transferred, be 4. MOTHER MEL' SYRUP The proof of Mother Seigel's 'Syrup is in the taking. That is why former sufferers, whose vitality was being sapped. by Indigestion, say it is just ex- ceilent for stomach, liver end bowel troubles. Thanks to Mother Seigel's Syrup, they are now strong and well. iS EXCELLENT F If you are afflicted by Indi- gestion or other disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels take Mother Seigel's Syrup regularly for a few days; long enough to give it a fair chance to make i t s beneficial influence felt, Then note the improvement in your appetite, your strength, your general conditien. .1015. HEADACHES, BILIOUSNESS CONSTIPATION INDIOESTI • Mei .mgiellte of SyruP contains three times as much as the Pc sisc, fherrnore. unsuspectol by her, of us- posed by another serious t La a an ,. ing ... aa a quat.t... e .i.. a aecoy tv age: radical difference of rave made : mallifeted l''Y the innocent and unsuspecting girl, the blunt dismissal of . a little as•hile he formed a pretty ac- t, Ha,.„..,...• , . , get mt. it?, Tris r,,wer with tie ring it very difficult for him to recover' important eventualities curate conception of the true state ;tail Coe reliquary. The haul. had the boxes and the ring without (in' So manY ;1N -ere s•et in motion 13;v Strang's and of affairs; Steve had escaped from stitait ....ia..n he must have them, and his estimation) involving the likeIv . Lao's meeting in. November, event-: prison; he knew Chinese nature, their gather ualities which, in working. to an in„ genius for concealment, for acting t' 'i reSesuive had tu be resorted hazard of betraying their $ig.nificanee.' to. He lti nut have haimed Lois, . So he went about tryiag• to evitable end disrupted the even tenar• secretly in the dark( and he knew it Stitt:4r averred; 1W might have them in after his own peculiar me- would be hopeless to appeal to the , of our lives, Lois's and mine, that it: i W'Oti gin :,0 4 Oat MY mutaler without thods.police with the fantastic story he it seraple, if I had refaaed to give up; It must not be lost sig,h f tl t'IN.aa a t ti la pity the meeting could not have:P happened years before. As another; would have to offer to account for his ;he ring and relionar.- 4 • . • An' more than twenty years. Strang i fears. It was too late to find me at instance, when the two became rea-' IL '.program Ida program was inand Lao Wing Fu, deceived and mis- sonahly certain' that Steve had taken l'eY office, and he dreaded going !wittal. as we krif.w, by Smiler laia•-!guicled by what they believed to be the diainond to California along with: abroad 'with the diamond in his pos- t; met aril followed Farlin and me. ' the true state of affairs, entertained little Marian, Lao' immediately re„, session. He could not even open his Tait-faism had been spreading not a hostile and suspicious attitude to -I lone among the Piteitie Coast andrd each otherWith true Orient - solved upon starting the conspiracy. door without seeing a Chinaman some- aniett of Ameriea, aal patience and impassivity r Chine:wa'. Lao , uhich was soon to effect the bandit's where in the .hall; the reflection that but with ehaeging effilklithms, it wuss bided his time, beliein vg the oppor-: escape; a degenerate and iia•espons.; they were hotel servants did not in athese tzio' , envimore eeming into its own in tunitto get even ouldsooner or ible Steve Willets at liberty to mix: the least restore his peace of mind. Chino. Lan's rtiali made it haver- . later present itself; but the fact that . sue his erratic inclinations, would int • It as now clear that Steve meant • ; y wso ati. a. that he recover the symbol of; the dhanond never appeared between; time expose tvhat a Steve Willetsto have the diamond at any cost, and hia autherity, whieh my father had the time of its loss and the meeting. confined could so easily keep Con_i that he had at his beck and call any ii . e,ween Lav and Strang at aoaore, coaled. After which Steve could be, number of dangerous allies against seized at the time of th . thee betI red withouwhom a solitary stand would be hope- movet jeopardy. ; ,sa-,:entess.f: MARMALADE! It's the season for Bitter Oranges and Grape Fruit. Make your Marmalade with St. Lawrence Granulated Pure Cane Sugar. Being absolutely pure it assures best possible results and removes all risk of fermentanion. FREEUpon request. we send excellent.orange and grape fruit marmalade recipes and 3o marmalade labels for home use—Address ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINERIES LIMITED, MONTREAL Then, too, Strang was in posses- less. Out of the predicament grew sion of facts that Lao Wing Ft, did the idea of rnailing the diamond to : not have. If Steve had stolen the! me and accompanying it with a let- ' diamorl, -the fact that it had not since I ter of explanation, which he would reappeared argued that he had hidden :follow in person as soon as it was it; if so, where? possible for him to do so. James Strang thought he knew. How he was assaulted and dragged He became active at once. Firstinto an alley when he went forth to of all, Hardwick was privately and hunt a letter -box; how he succeeded guardedly warned by letter against in dropping into it the parcel but not i Lais. There was the old underground the letter, which was taken from him; i traffic in opium upon which their how his assailants were finally rout- ....'cl him elf now seriously in- i fortunes had been built, respecting , which nobody was better informed • jured, crawled into a cab and was , than Steve Willets. And Strang was driven to the only haven he could unsparing of the cables. 'Within a think of—Meyer Harwick's residence :week or two he had gathered together —must all be passed over. For days a mass of information which made he was confined to his room, fretting him more than suspect Lois's real over the gem's fate. The letter, of identity. and led him to extend to the course, had been taken to. Steve, and Unite States an already projected Steve would know where the diamond trip to England. He brought with 'had been sent, -whether or not it reach - him the ivory box in his possession,edits destination. Therefore Hard - because it bore in its pattern the dis- wick's machine -was pressed into ser tinetive symbol of death, a mark that ice and a guard of private detectives would establish the girl's identity be- followed me until Strang was satis- yond peradventure. fied that I was no longer in danger He had informed himself about my -i from the Hop Sings and his desperate self, too. He arrived at Los Angeles brother. By means of the personal on the day he notified Lois of, de- he cautioned me against Steve's shn- termined to lose not a minute's tiny]." method of trying to entrap me in recovering the diamond and pre- into a betrayal of having the diamond senting himself with it and the ivory in my possession. And at last, when box at my office.• he had about made up his mind that He secured a room at the Republic, he was well enough to leave his re - on an impulse registered his true treat and pay me the long deferred name, then boarded a car for San call, Struber had found hirn. Pedro. Among the' hills on the old - Strang turned aside to indulge in home place was a certain ravine; in a brief digession. that ravine was a cave which, in the "Was Lao far-seeing, or a lucky old days, had been known only to his dog? His success made him head o' brother and himself; in one of the the tong. An' then the time came cave's rough walls was a small eon- when he had to skip so sudden that cealed niche that had been the hiding he left behind everything he owned place of plundered treasure many a except the clothes_ he was wearing time during the period of their youth- at the time. • It looked like total fail- ful maraudings. While pondering ure an' complete disaster; but, by over the matter of the missing dia- gosh! just see how things 've worked curved to James *Strang. He went out! "But look here. What I was going inond this old hiding -place had re - straight to it, thrust a hand into the to say was this: It wasn't long after recess and drew out a small package that before the Tao-fus were the most which once had been tightly wrapped active figures in the government. in oiled silk. Now;towever,'the fabric Many o' the leaders lost their heads was rotting and falling way; but in- in more ways than one, but Lao saved side it reposed the diamond, undim- his by lighting out for 'America, an' Med and unharmed. • it looks to a man up a tree as if he'd .He crawled out of the cave, and ' a guessed right. He worked for the 11 through IA not a Chinaman, as at first he had lution, an' now when it's the recent revo- ACTIM U005110 .40 ,--/- gle.-----< -- Not long so my left knee be - 0. ---7, came lame and sore. It pained me many restless nights. So se.P g rious did it become that I was forced to consider giving up my work when I chanced to think of Sloan's Liniment. Let me say— leas than one bottle fixed me up. Chas, C. Cornybell, Florence, Tex, I DiesP,ain Interfere? oj beginning to an s fuey, the disguised fugitive plunged caught in. the toils of a despotism -," Pit . Linim n Read this unsolicited grateful testimony— There is a reedy second later came face to face with --dynasty i believed, but Steve. With a roar of look like the battered old empire was at him, and, the cmiet, secluded ravine avosse.than any it ever knew, he re because the seene of a terrifid combatcovers his badge of authority an' The very fierceness of Steve's on goes hiking back to China. Republic? slaught, however, defeated its pin - Huh! To those who know anything pose. Strang was sent hurtling down o' the inside workings o' Chinese poli - the steep incline and be ore Stevej tics the word has been made a joke with more regard for his own bones, of." could come up with Mtn again, he had (To he Continued.) won the highway and the open, where the other dared not peess him As a resat of this narrow- escape., Resignation may be a good sauce Strang was obliged to remain under fel' adversity cover at San Pedro until near night- fall, nursing his bruised body. . Aunt —"Johnnie, Why is it that you When he started on his return to never remember to say 'Thank you?' Los Angeles he discovered that he was Johnnie (eyeing wistfully a box of surrounded by a veritable cloud of chocolates on his aunt's knee) -4 Chinese. While seeming unaware of expect it's because 1 don't get things his presence and to be intent only given to me often enough to practiee." '04 opiromo git 301101010110101k II a )gi 110 .11,....1•KONONNWIN "When is a partnership like a pen? 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