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By Rowan Chen
this' itecident, he'd put a stop to my
motoring,"
"I'll promise that," said Shenton, "if
you'll promiee that you'll never etalte
risks again."
"That's settled;; theu,adelde said,`"azid:
now Ian goingto leave you for a bit,
akThe doctor will be here soon;"
Toppin'g a ateep rise In the road,
Gray'Sheathe,* who -had '`driven°his lit
tie two-seater all elle way, London
to Wee•tmoredand, saw a signboard
bear in bit black.leters:the words;
"This 1-1111 is Dang'erous,"•
With all caution_ he slipped down the
wickedly -twisting incline. Re .turned.
it sh'al'e coater adroitly—and thee
forced his wheel round, saving himself.
and a motor -cyclist from grave 'iujur r.
Injury .there However; aud as
j Y was,
so'kr o Pten a Ilper e, it was the innocent
a
party that suffered. The motor -cyclist
escaped with nothing worse than a
dainaged' machine, but Shenton was
thrown' from the car on to the bank,, up
had ad.:i•un•
'One of lus wrists was bruised, and
tl+ere a . was nastycut on his brow, but
.
it was his leg that had been most badly
hair,.
pe heard someone ,speaking, . and
lo•Qking up, 'saw what be took to be a
rather effeminate -looking youth, trim
in leather cap and jacket, and neatly
fitting breeches and long boots,
Shenton regarded the motor -cyclist
with •disapproval in his usually good-
humored eyes,
"Sorry?" - •-
he tiled. " Jiang it all,
man! What's• the good of saying you
are sorry? You came tearing round.
that corner on the wrong side of the
road. If I hadn'tbeen crawling, we
might both
have. been k
ill
ed.
Lo cau caryou i i t."
"I'm more than sorry, really," e th.
other admitted. ".end I don't 'blame
yo i'for being mad about things. • But,
you see, it's only once in the bluest of
moons that I meet anybody on this
hila, . . I do hope you're not bad-
ly hurt?"
Wincing, Shenton hobbled towards -
the, Car. Although noa bones were
broken, his foot';gave him considerable
pale, •
"Gee!" he exclaimed softly. - "It's
worse than I thought. I can't walk,
and I don't believe I could drive even
it the car were waiting in, the road.
And what's worse, I've an appointniment
to. keep."
It was while he lighted a cigarette -
that he saw his .companion .remove the
leather cap; saw;' too, with "astonish-
ment;'.a maze of auliiirn;hair. :;
Instantly the large blue eyes •and the
effeminate manner were explained. For
:lr second or two Shenton stared.at her.
"Good Lord!" he said at last. "You're,
-•you're a girl!"
She nodded. "Yes," .but I'ni, twenty-
two, though. . - . Your legs hurt
ing -you badly, I can tell that. Luckily
our 1.411s;e is quite near—at the foot of
the hillIf you'll lean on. my shoulder,
well soon reach it. Then I'I1 phone
for the doctor, andget our gardener,
who knows all about oars, to fetch
yours in, and my bike as well."
She managed to .get him into the big,
comfortably furnished house, and while
he lay on a couch 'he heard her say
through the telephone something
which interestedatm very much.
"Yes," she ealdU e}"this is Dorothy
4Iauning speaking doctor, and if you
can come across • right away—"
The rest of the sentence did not mat-
ter
atter to Shenton. I,t was the mention of
her name which set hila thinking.
When she rejoined him, he said,
hesitatingly: •
"I heard you give your name, to the
doctor, amt. it you're Mise Manning, I
suppose you innst be the daughter of
Mr. David Manning? And this must
be his house, Barrogate Lodge?"
For a second or two a little frown
puckered her brow.
"Ahs I think I see," she said at'leat.
"'Are you the Mr: Gray Shenton who
was coming to interview father about
that engineering post in. Peru?"
"Yes," Shenton admitted. "I knew
I was near to the house, but I didn't
know how near, and if—" he smiled
ss hesealoris--"we hadn't met as we
slid; Mitis Monolog, I'd have gone • to
the village to make inquiries."
There was a short pause before Dor-
othy said, half -defiantly, half -pleading-
ly.
"You've been tremendously, decent
about .things, and I'm going to ask a
favor. When my father comes in, don't
give me awa , will you? z mean about
my coming up the hill the way 1 did?
If he 'knew that• I'd been to blame for
Half an hour lata, litter the 'doctor
lied called, and told Shenton he must
rest for several days, David Manning,
of Manning a. ' Hurst, Mining Engin-
eer -s, was slaking haude with , his.
woe/cabs employee.
"No use your worrying about things,
or drinking you'll be a trouble to us,"
he .resna;rked. "I'm only thankful that
it wasat worse, and thankful, too, tbat
my girl came off so ii hdy. Sb.o says
that if it"hadn't been fer your 000lness'
and coarage, oho might have been.
ki tel "
1 t,
Later on that night 'Shenton discuss-
ed with hie nest his qualifications. for.
the post that was vacant in far-off
Peru,
IIA,VE a • RIT1 EN A SONG
Trap`s' for • Amateur, Poet8 anal Com Iosei s.
•
The popularity of brpatleask couoerts remedy for theft, and consequently hi
has given a tremendous it'npetus "to eliuld guard bis manuscript,
.song -writing by ateateupa.
Iztverab fat imeevs there t ong' may
make a fortailo, ".d. Pee',feet Day," of
which more than four million' .copies
ware .sold,- fo'tlrrded ail 'imeien;se pub-
,;fishing btteiness,
But the most serious method of ex-
pioltina ameteur, song -writer, is lane
carried out by, bogus music publislter's,
Tineas rneu advertise .for rnapnseripts,
on receiving which they write in glow,
irig• terms to the euthore, expressing
It is not eurprising, therefore, that confidence in, the success of the Ner•lcs,
ninny- people •make thein first flight in and "accepting" them on , condition
ranthorsbip by writing a song. Since that a certainesum !,s' palet, towards, the
:there is no recipe"for popular,.songs,:
-who can :say •tbat they may not hit 'on
the right ingredients and `produce "eoine-
thing'that will sell like hot calces? '
For such literary novices. there are
,manytraps and' unless•' the tire`were,-
they
er:'
p, , Y y
they tiee Iikely to fall into one or more
of theul
A common dodge is fradulently offer-
ing to compos•e,u'tuele to words, Maley
tricksters are practising this swindle,;
anis consequently amateur authors
• shouhu be careful •irr sending money to
persons' of whom" they know nothing.
An everyeay occurmence, too, is
stealing songs,. Swindlers get hold. of.
songs on sone pretext, and then, with.
' "perhaps a:little, adaptation, pass them.
off as their own. '•
This�lcind of 'theft is ver difficult to
y.
cope with,' because of the ,difficulty '.of
proving it. Th•erexwas� aotuiully,�;,a big
lawsuit in 'tho U.S. over the .author-
ship of "Tlpperaey,'.' ane old lady claim-
ing that she had been robbed. of It'. She
was •tinder the', impression that: 1VIr'.
Harry Williams, of California, fathered
it, whereas its authdr Was Henry.
°i i Birmingham.
it am x n
es it 1 v
Jam W s .
ng
' 'W`hen an English publisher gave evi-
dence to -this effect her cash collapsed.
Geuera'lly, indeed, a writer has , no
.•
Ffis iiib irness the which rajaTejonof. Sarawalt'with. Kyan 'chiefs 3rozn Dutt;h
Borneo. He rules over 40 OOO square miles of territory containing a'aopula.
tion of legit a million:
"Thereit is• then" Manningan- { . h ` d ail " said Dorothy as 'she rose. ' won't last long for him, but if only he'd
tt ; " Q + give' the liwaiting• h
�,+t "You canstart Oat' thatyou e on leaictiddy, I'm nLe Glr nce .oP . those
nouncetl at les., u I hope t o get P
, r . room now but three. Years.
fit. B the a to
Turning u� d e n l sawhi
c �off u �s d A he m
you `ite � understand don't you,that all a use to see you before y u gog y:»s
this is a single man's job?" toeno?row.'•' i "You -40 i didn't hear?" she whis-
,, he ` pered.
" ' sir " Shenton a swered. "That.�ritli.a .smile and a"good ;light,"s
1.ss,. , nti ,
he Shen- "I did,"he said. "I heard but I eau't
was wade clear in your advertisonren • lett bine • and looking afterr,,
t, ,
o some- - believe it. • I didn't dare tell you
Lind you ittenticine�. it when you wrote- ton said to himself; not without ate
+. a • 'r Dorothy. - Itwasyou I war; talking
asking me to come and see yb,t. thing of 1)ittei•ness. A siszg'le � man's 3 g
:S
'about ut last.n
r Idling
n �'single. ht.. anted you to
Right, ,B1zt so that there won't, be. job! Ah, wel1. In -any- ease a singlenight. I w
hl uess, andyet 1 i'dn't. want you to
anynrisunderstandin afterwards, I man like m8 wouldn't stand an eaxt y g ,i y
u —
ess�", It: d r nov
want to emphasize rho point.. The par-, chance of winning a girl like Dorothy."g d do t seem fair, v
e :ar "r you're going to is a On the* morning of the next day he: now if you'll
,foul, qtr to g g . g wait—"
place, and"the climate's not 'went to '1 ok over his car, which had "I won't need to," she told lam, "I
roughlsho , -
'`sell made a fool of myself last: night in
toogood. When. T send' ou fellows -been repaired. .He was going. to a Y g
p
i capital...• front of father. I told him how 'I felt
there, I send the kind that are willing it in order to add to his tiny
•• .thought about You; and he -said 1f you said
totakeChances--anti, a man ,who has Be had not to find anyone that
anything. ' lik ' t a " 'the arae but Dorothy was there - Y g, Gray, I can't be
a wife to look after lent e
h t. in garage, ,�,
• i lievo •it but now ou'ee goingto eta
'trim motor -c clrst kit. Un�see•n, Y y
x messed. hYmself as per- in her t m ,,'
Shentone
P
fectly contented with that condition of he watched her place a great bunch of in London, and work at the head office
a li ' And I—T shall live where -you work.
Shenton did not return, to :London
day: He waited till the end of
week, and when `he'aid ,g'o, he had two
immediately"you're y w y, --I'm going up n Y'
•
kis ,engagement; but before :he had flowers on the seat beside that which
been in Barrogete Lodge twenty-four he would occupy.
hours, he had -begun to grow a trifle He heard her say in
uneasy about himself:• voice, as she laid them
hehad been upset physically
-Just as d p p Y Y
by a girl whom he had believed to be
a boy, so now he was, upset emotional.
ly by that very same girl.
When he had been in the house for
three days, and had arranged to leave
in the morning of the tomtit, he was
deflnitely in love with her.
..At dinner on the third night of his
stay, he listened smilingly, yet with
gloom behind the smile, to .certain
good-natured words of advice from
David Manning. "
"For your own peace of mind keep
those views of yours about the bachel-
or ]laving the beat of it," Manning said,
"I remember sending a; very likely fel-
Mw out to the mines, and hegave
the job before he got there, because, if
you please, :hd'd• fallen in love with a
girl travelling on the sameboat. Take
•care that nothing of that sot happens
to you, Shantou."
"It won't," Shenton answered, still
managing to smile. "No matter how
'many girls there may be thecpaeseu
Iger list, :and no matter law beautiful
they :,may be, I shan't give a thought
'to .one of them."
Dinner over, he and Dorothy sat in
the. little. lounge together, while Mau,
ning, to whole -a. batch of letters had
been sent on :from' the •.London office,
went to his•. study.
There was silence in the lounge for
quite a long time. It was broken by
the girl.
"I suppose," : she suggested, "you
must be looking forward very much to
getting•over to. South America? You
go for three years, don't you?"
He noddedee'
"Yes., for three years. It's what your,
father calls a' single man'tlob, and
three years is rather ti long time. But
1! I' make gleed, then—"
He hesitated soaong that she said:
'Tee, what then?"
"Ob, I was rambling a bit,"he ans-
wered. "In three_ years I may change,
my views about certain things. I've
an idea' that when they're over, I'll be
mighty glad to get back to England.
I've an idea, too, that 1'11 be going then
to a girl I know, and if sire's neither
married nor engaged, I'll ask•her sortie -
thing that might make her happy."
"But I thought you couldn't be
bothered with, women? If you're•lteen
about one, why. don't you tell her be-
fore you go away? : That's what I'd do
it I were you."
Shenton shook his head. "No," he
said. "If you. :were in my place you'd.
realize that you'd takenecn a job which
you couldn't hold if you were married.
You realize, too, that r,'x a poor man,
couldn't ask the daughter of a rich
man to become engaged to you, and
wait for at least three years."
an unsteady
there: "YOu
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CROSS -WORD
TM IN INTERNATIONM. SYNDICATE.,
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably
sure. These will give you a clue, to other words crosing them,
and they in turn: to still. others. A letter belongs in each white
space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either
horizontally or vertically or both.' '
HORIZO'NTAL , ;.. VERTICAL
1 -Steeds
2—Combining form nee nine "one"
3 -Implore
4 -Group
`5—Funeral pile
6—Terminate
7 -Kind of bean
'3—Threefold
11.—Ruling powers
powers
14 -Cooking utensil
15—Allege
' 17-A written satire
18—A dance
10=Mediterranean island
21—Rellgious devoutness
23=Dried grass
24: Small soft lump
25—Harass
27 -Conspicuous Service Cross
(abbr.)
29-lnstruoted
32 -Detestation
34 -At present
35—Ginger (slang). ,
37-Rufflan
38 -=Ball of yarn
40—Belong(ng'. to •us
41—Sone
43—Chuhi
44 -Biblical character ••
1—Commotion'
5—Ecclesiastic
9 -Individual
10—Non-professional
12—Likeviise not
13—Outfit
14—Rushes tumultuously
16 ""Stain
' 17—MIlk-like
19—Container
20—Yelp
22—Imitation
•24 -Spanish title
26—Scrupulously exact
28—Looks
29—Novice
30—Large sized
31—To engrave with acid
33—Ionic (abbr.)
35—Scrutinize
36 -=Announcements
39—Tibetan gazelle
42 ---Young dog
43 --Through
45-Mernber of ancient trtar race
45—Employ '
47 Hall
43—Taxing the patienee
49—Enclosed'
IVIUTT AND JEFF -By Bud Fisher.
cost of production, '
• Sometimes this request for money
snakes an author"suspicious, with the
result ,that he;.laol .s his haled, ' In, gen-•.
eral, '1owever,''the ;amount asked for
" .a ction 'as
sofit, "and tlrere,.the it nsa. ,
far as the dupe is concerned, ends. He
heave nothing more froze the "publish-
area; and if he writes to them' his let-
telais returned, endorsed "Gone away."
TTaousai,ds' of amateur song -writers
have .been swindled in-•thfs� way. One
of them, a woman believing: the stock
yarn that a •pro woman,
of • her was a
"winner," raised tweiuty-five dollams,.
partly by pawning ;oertaixi ,necessaries,
and partly by borrowing; and sent this
"publishers "' Since' then
sum to the pu s. ,_
she has- both written.'to and inquired'
at their .former address, but she •has.
been unable ti get into touch .with
them.
In a similar manner a. man was rob-
bed of one hundred dollers'which, by
the exercise of much thrift, he had
pat by for a rainy day.
AYna-tear song -writers, therefore,
should beware cif bogus;,con posers and
'course
•. �h•e.s. The only safe u
i
made ubl s
>:. p Y
for, them is to treat velth: men and firms
of.reputa, who al.e certain. to:d'eal'with
then hone ably,
companions, his • employer -and- future
father-in-law, andi—his future bride.
'"What Causes; "Singing" in
tie Ears?
Hearing Tis .due to vibrattona. of air,
beating upon the tiny ,drum of oil ear,.
which are translated into, sounds to be.
picked ;up by the brain.
The "singing" may be due tee several.
causes. It may not be. real.sound at
all, but an infiarematibn which makes,
tho nerves work as though responding
to sound. In this case our brain. gets.
theimpression of hearing when there
is really nothing' to hear. Certain,
drugs, too, will,produce this eftac;•t.
Again, the tribe whose purpose it is
to regulate the air pressure in the ear
may have gone wrong, perhaps es the
effect Of- a cold, iri which -Case our bal-
ance of air will be bat of•propthtton;
and we listen to the tiny beat's of our
ow:u bleood, enommouily magnified by
the drunis of the ears. •..•
Or the wax which is always forming
as a result of natural secretion may
not be removed quickly enough. This
hardense and here again we are: liable
to get; an improper pressure, ,just as
though something -were accidentally`
touching a real drum, resulting in the
-sound •tve know as "singing-"'
Travel's' 13,000 Miles to Tell
of :Slaying of His Comrade
W. 0:: Cloak, of. D'unedin, New Zea-
land, thrived in London recently after
traveling 13,000 miles to tell the story
of the murder of a comrade, which he
witnessed-' in Cologne ••iii 1,919.
"The New Zealand Gove_nment," he
told a "Daily Mail" reporter, "has sent
me -to give evidence about' the ' death
;
of Private Cromer, of the OtagoRegi-
ment, New Zealand, whom 1 saw shot
dead on February 7, 1919. 'Iexpect
to go to Cologne in a few days' time!'
At the beginning gf the Allied 'oc
cupation.'on the :Rhine a band of Ger-
man youths sworeto cut off the hair
ofall girls who, fraternized with mem-
bees of the army of occupation.' "On
the day he met his death Private Cro-
mer talked with a girl who Was sitting
on the same bench in a park.
Good Cheer.
People -soon tireof being uplifted, as
they grow weary of standing on tiptoe,
When a man is left contemplating the
drab routine of life once more ''after a
vision on the mountain top he must
•makethe inspiration he 'receives in
one crowded; glorious hour serve hill
for many 'wo'r'king' days. He cannot
soon expect .the electrification and the
excitement to return.
But the. plain and homely virtue of
good cheer will companion every, clay
if We permit, and if it does not lift us
to dizzy and exhilarating heights,
neither does';it let us sag way down to
the very nadir of depression after we
have soar& to the zenith of delight.
.Good cheer is a simple thing. It is.
not a costlyprogran'r of entertainrften't
and it 'runs, up no big tills in a Play-
house or a ballroom. It in a game
which any one can play, needing no
• expensive outfit: It can 'take place
within` th:e ocnfznes ci a sickroom; it
can even go on: in one's`own.anind. The
best"thing about the gam$ -is the bene-
fit to he spectators. So many sports
.are good for the player and none be-
sides. But this one heape and lifts all
within a striking radius of the genial
disposition.-
Fortunately,
isposition.Fortunately, good cheer is incurable.
Its germs find lodgment and are scat-
tered like motes of the sunbeam's:'
morning gold. Laughter is a bld for
raughter; delight is even more con-
tagious:than sorrow, '
E1tJerly Artist.
Rosa'Bonheur was seventy.when sae
painted : her famous picture, ' 1lorses
Tranping Ottt Wheat."
Howthe world rewards its 'fun-
makers!'
funmakers!+To borrow the old name -of;
the 'singers who brought' good cheer,
they might be galled the gleemen.
Mankind hae need of all the ..mirth a
Mark Twain or Stephen Leacock, 'a,
Chaplin or a 'Harold :Lloyd' ' can -
bestow.
Answer to last week's puzzle:
Men eat; seep, andslack too much,
h+
Knockers do not kill me—they, kill �breathe too little dri'
o L drink suffi-
businesst They are the persons who cion,' water and think too
, a little. l'hi,•a'
sift sand"into the gear boxes of pre -,is the scathing criticism of a doctor
gress. I •,':ho lectured recently n London.
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Natural ,:l esources ,Bulletin.
The :Natttatel Resoureea Intelligence
Sez vicar t iii Depziatte* of the In-
tei',Ib?r° ,At Q;tawa ra ..s
W 1 it the' op•onftiiei.ta.the autumn
term' ' pf the, schools; ;:the prxpils are
again settled down 'te study. What
this study shall be and its effect upon ,
the 'after -lives of those coning -Oen- "",
,diens "men' and- eaomen will depend aeeeseet
eile
largely upon the teachels. A set cur
riculum is established by the pro
•vincial' educational authorities' which
Must be' followed, but these regula-
tions cannot and are riot intended to
eliminate individuality entirely. We
Panall look 'back upon our school
courses, ; whether, primary or seccn-
dary, and pick out the particularly
bright spots, w1ir sone o± our teach-
ersniad e .their pe,teeziality felt, in the
teaching of a suoject. There is no
uIar subject,or _: in which
more, ;pop one
more jattitude is possible, than that
of Canada. Canadian history, Can-
adiaii geography, Canadian natural
•esottrces, and their development are
z
intensely interesting to the teacher
who is one hundred per "cent, Can-
adian, and such'k`'teacher can'iniprees
his_or her pupils with the magnitude
of the wonderful heritage . that is
theirs as young Canadians:`
Canada needs to be better. known,
at home as well as abroad, and our
own people can do much to place her
advantages and opportunities before
the world.; The teacher, reaching 1>`he
home through the .pupils,, espeeially
in the newly settled areas, can hare' a
very • great influence -for good. 3 Gan-
ada has need for patriotic teachers, in
order that the rising i eneratien' will
appreciate the benefits and advantages
thatawait them when they.a
re ready
to take their place in the world.
The Natural' Resources' Intelligence; °•
Service of the Department of the'In '•
terior will gladly forward to teachers
'nape and literature on. Canada, that
will materially help them in promot-
ing a true Canadian spirit among
their classes:
Flying by British Women
Subsidized by Air Ministry
Flying as a . profession' has been
recognized by the Iiviti.sh "government •
as being well within the capabilities
of women .and a club already has been
formed to carry out the Air -Ministry's
scheme for a light airplane organiza-
tionorganiza-
tion for London with members of the
fair sex. In connection with the open-
ing ro, of the Stag Lai e Aird
droneomat Edgware, near London, by.
the .:London Aero Club, of which six
flying members are• women, a move
has ` been made with the object of
training women pilots for possible en-
rollment in an air force for protecting
the capital from enemy raiders in the
event of war with nearby powers...
',The Aix Ministry has` agreed to
provide the club with £2,000.,worth-of
equipment and a grant of £1,000 for
upkeep,; and has promised more -qua -ay
as it is needed. It also willgive £10
for every, certified woman pilot train-
ed by the club.
Could Be. Worse.
"Dick invariably drives off into ,the
rough."
"Oil,; well, he doesn't.,mind, he's a
botany student anyway:
Find Agrippa's Wall.
Part of the wall enclosing Jerusalem
built by Agrippa, one of the last Jew-
ish kings•,'and destroyed by Taut,'hes
been unearthed recently. It is about
60 yards in length and four yards in
thickness.
Car Inspections Needed.
1'er•iodic anepectieni?' atcb .upsmall
rcrairs beforo they become big, ones.
Women, taff an eizgrneering works
and direet a steel company in Loudon.
Rubbing patent leather with the in-
side of a banana peeling is also good
to c'_ean zt ,as..we:1-as• to keep it soft
He who loves not.booke,before,he
comes to thirty years of age • will •
hardly love them enough afterwards
to understand thein.—C:'arendon.
In the Rockall depression, some 100
miles northwest of Ireland and Scot-
land, the Atlantic is about ,8,000 feet .x..
deep, or a lathe, over 11/2 miles, whist
in the North Pacific Ocean there is
the Great' Ocean Chasm, which is six
miles deep.', '
A distinguished :scientist recently
declared that the true preventive of
the house -fly es dangerous `to, htiinan
life, was the deatruction of decompos-
ing matter, duct heaps, and such nui9-
<iiees, at .the time; When the fly i9
breeding, He affirmed that itt ; all
cotttrtt'jee where the proper system of
dust and dirt removal •was. in apera
this''diseases' attribtited• to "the
house -fly as a carrier . were practic-
ally lion -existent. Get: rid of: the dirt
and. filth --that's the real foe.