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TH. GOLDEN EY
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Or t'The 34 dvenfUres of Ledgard."
By the Author of "Whet He Cost
I ed hospital! He was. safe now, but
surely never a maxi before had walk-
ed so near the "Valley of the Shadow
of Death." A single moment's vigi-
lance velaa.ed,, a blanket displaced, a
dose of brandy forgotten, and Trent
might have walked this life a multi
millionaire, a peer, a little god
amongst his fellows, :treed far ever
from all anxiety, But Francis was
tended as never a man was tended
before„ Trent himself had done his
share of the carrying, ever keeping
his eyes :fixed upon the death -lit face
of their burden, ever ready to fight
off the progress of the fever and
ague, as the twitching lips or shiver-
ing limbs gave warning of a change.
For fourteen days he had not slept;
until, they had reached Garba his
elethes had never been changed since
Lahey had started upon their perilous
journey. As he rode into Attra he
reeled a little in his saddle, and he
walked into the office of the Agent
more like a ghost than a man.
Two men, Cathcart and his assist-
ant,.who was only a boy, were loung-
ing in low chairs. As he entered they
iii
looked up, exchanging. quick, start-
-4 led glances. Then Cathcart gave vent
to a little exclamation.
CHAPTER E XXVI:
they had been fighting. . Little
It was Trent himself who kept 2 wreaths of mist were curling upwards
watch through that last 'long hour I and t
e sun
)shone down
moment at loud -
of moonlit darkness till the wan ' less, g light,
morning broke. With its faint, grey 1 clear ss the omes lying vapors umelted dis a fat
streaks came the savages of Bekwan- l Froanis heavily;athe Icru hogs, to
do, crawling up in a semi -circle groaning
he was well known, were
through the long, rough grass, they. whom ed into a little circle around
suddenly, at a signal, bounding up- i him. Trent brushed them on one side
right with spears poised in their I
h=inds—an ugly sight in the dim ! and made a brief examination. Then
dawn for men chilled with the moist,.; he had him carried carefully into one
,te ho
damp air and only half awake. But : of the tents Wt
Trent had not been caught napping. ' medicine -chest.
His stealthy call to arras had arous= I Prepartions for a start were made,
ed them in time at least to crawl be- I but Trent time wasthou few. For the
this
hind some shelter and.grip their rifles. r man, in me withinse power et was hourso ruinhs
The war -cry of the savages -was, met
with a death -like quiet there were " h•im, lay at his mercy. That he bad
no ins of confusion or terror. ' A l saved his life went for nothing. In
IQu boy who called out with fright; the heat of battle there had been no
was felled to the ground by Trent ! time for thought or calculation. Trent
with a blow which would have stag- ! had simply obeyed the generous in-
stint of a brave man whose blood
band, an o With theirstrifles et ' was warm with the joy of fighting.
upoupon, and every man stretched flat Now it was different. Trent was sel-
laytha ground, Trent's )died ya-ratsse dom sentimental, but from the first
lay waiting. Barely a hundred yards he had had an uneasy presentiment
separatednthem, yet there was no concerning this man who lay now
sign of life from the -camp. The loner• '
•ie . of savages advanced a few steps I
vent for hi
O . within his power and so near to death.
more, their spears poised above their A mutual antipathy seemed to have
leads their half -naked forms show- , been born between them from the first
lag more distinctly as they peered moment when they had met in the
orvillage of Bekwando. As though it
avageand ferocrough the grey gloom, , were yesterday, he remembered that
erase ferocious. The white men, leave-taking and Francis's threaten -
as
surely sleeping still. They ~vera tt
as near now as they could get. There • ing words. Trent had a seays fe
was a signal and then a wild chorus that the man was his enemy—certain-
yetis, They threwhaside allc dis-' ly the power to de him incalculable
guise and darted forward, the still harm, if not to altogether ruin him,
guise
air hideous with the cry of was his now. And he would not hesi-
ttle. Then, with an awful sudden- state about it. Trent knew that, al -
ss, their cry betaine the cry of though broadly speaking he was inno-
eatli, for out from the bushes belch -
Monty,
of any desire to harm or desert
a yellow line of fire as the rifles Monty, no power on earth would ever
f Trent and his men rang out their • convince ,Fands of that. be,Aover-
elcome.. A dozen at least of the men antes were, and always must overt
'3s1"-anclo looked never again wheferenc againstmhim. Without
interference from any one he had al -
He faces of their wives, the rest ready formulated plans for quietly
gated. Trent, in whom was the
e of fighting, made- then his first and making in his rightful position
n
!stake. He called for a sally, and and over Syndicate. him his toe r-
rusb d. our, revolver. in hand, upon the Bekwando But uld
this without catastro he would
range t s
the broken line.Half the blacks ran
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away tike rabbits; ts; the remainder, any outside
skill and source tact; would be interference from
greatly outnumbering Trent and'his Francis5meatto interfere—nothing fatal,
i
part,- , etood firm In a moment it
I"Great Heavens, Trent,, what have
you been doing?"
1 Trent sank into a chair. "Get me
some wine," he said "I am ail right
I but over -tired."
Cathcart poured champagne into
a tumbler. Trent emptied it at a
gulp and asked for biscuits.. The
man's recuperative powers were won-
derful. Already the deathly white-
ness passing hischeeks.
sswas p ssng from c e s..
"Where is Da Souza?" he asked.
"Gone back to England," Cathcart
answered, looking out of the open
casement shaded from the sun by the
sloping roof. "His steamer started
yesterday."
Trent was puzzled. He scarcely un-
derstood this move.
i "Did he give any reason?"
Cathcart smoked for a moment in
silence. After all though a disclosure
! would be unpleasant, it was inevit-
able and as well now as any.time. "I
think," Cathcart said, "that he has
gone to try and sell his shares in the
Bekwando concessions."
"Gone—to-.-sell — his shares!"
, Trent repeated slowly. "You mean
to say that he has gone straight from
here to put a hundred thousand Bek-
/wando shares upon the market?"
Cathcart nodded.
1 "He said so!"
I"And why? Did he tell you that?"
"He has come to the conclusion,"
Cathcart said, "that the scheme is
impracticable altogether and the con-
cessions worthless. He is going to
get what he can for his shares while
he has the chance."
Trent drained his tumbler and lit
a cigar.
1 "So much for Da Souza," he said.
"And now I should like to know, Mr.
! Stanley Cathcart, what the deuce
i you and your assistant are doing
shacking here in the cool of the day
1 when you are the servants of the
Bekwando Company and there's work
to be done of the utmost importance?
j The whole place seems to be asleep.
• Where's your labor? There's not a
soul at work. We planned exactly
when to start the road. What the
mischief do you mean by wasting a
fortnight?"
Cathcart coughed and was obvious-
ly ill -at -ease, but he answered with
'some show of dignity.
I have come to the conclusion, Mr.
Trent, that the making of . the road
is impracticable and useless. There
1 is insufficient labor and poor tools
no satisfactory method odraining
the swampy country, and further, I
I don't think any one would work with
the constant fear of an attack from
those savages."
"So that's your opinion, is it?"
Trent said grimly.
"That is my opinion," Cathcart an-
swered. "I have embodied it in a
'report which I despatched to the sec-
retary of the company by Mr. Da
Sourt "
Trent Tose and opened the door
which swung into the little room.
"Out you go!" he said fiercely.
Cathcart looked at him in blank as-
tonishment.
"What do you mean ?" he exclaimed.
"These are my quarters!"
"They're nothing of the sort,"
Trent answered. "They are the head-
quavters in this country of the Bek-
wando Company, with which you have
nothing to do! Out you go!"
"Don't talk rubbish!" Cathcart said
angrily. "I'm the authorized and
properly appointed surveyor here!"
"You're a liar!" Trent answered,.
you've no connection at all with the
company! you're dismissed, sir, for
incompetence and cowardice, and' if
you're not off the premises in three
minutes it'll be the worse for you!"
"You—you—haven't the power to
do this," Cathcart stuttered.
Trent laughed -
"We'll see about that," he said. "I
never had much faith in you, sir,
and I guess you only got 'the jobTher
a rig. But out you go noav, sharp.
If there's anything owing you, you
can claim it in London.
"There are all my clothes—"
Cathcart began.
Trent laid his hands upon his
shoulders and threw him' softly out-
side.
"I'II send your clothes to the hotel,"
he said. "Take my advice, young
man, and keep out of my sight till
you can find a steamer to take you
where they'll pay you for doing noth-
ing. You're the sort of man who ir-
ritates me, and it's a nasty climate
for getting angry in!"
Cathcart picked himself' up. "Well,
I should•like to know who's going to
make your road," he said, spitefully.
"I'll make it myself," Trent roared.
"Don't you think a little thing like
some stupid laws
pi of science will stand
in my way, or the way of a man who
knows his own mind: I tell you I'll
level that road from the tree there
which we marked as the starting -
point to the very centre of Bekwan-
cle."
He slammed the door. and re-entered
the room. The boy was there, sitting
upon the office stool hard at work
with_p pair of compasses,
"1Vlat the devil are you doing
there?" Trent asked. "Out you go
with your ruaster.l""
The boy looked up. He had a fair,
back -
was hand to hand righting, and Trent would stop him. Trent walked a. cursing already the bravado • wards and forwards with knitted
r brows, glancing every now and then J
whichhadbrought him out to the ; at tate unconscious man. Francis
For a chile it was a doubtful coir.-' would certainly interfere if he were'
Then, with a shout of triumph, 1
allowed to recover.
chief, a swarthy, thick -set man e�*
herculean strength, recognized i CHAPTER XX.t II.
anis • and ;-prang upon hire. The i " A fortnight afterwards Trent rode
w which he aimed would most , into Attra, pale, gaunt, and hollow- ,
rely have h,iled him, but that Trent eyed. The whole history of those days
With -the butt -end of a rifle, broke its , would never be known by another
force a little. Then, turning roundehe' pian! Upon Trent they had left their.
blew out the man's brains as Francis . mark for ever. Every hour of .. his `
sank backwards.. A dismal' yell from ',tithe • in this country' he reckoned of
his followers was the chief's requiem; I great value --yet he had devoted I
then they turned and fled, followed' fourteen days to saving the life of
by a storm of bullets as Trent's men ! John Francis. Such delays too—and '
found time to reload. More than one ! such nights! They had carried him ..
leaped into the air and fell forward '. sometimes in a dead stupor, some
Upon their faces. The fight was' times a raying madman, along a wild
over, end, when they came to look ` hush -track across risers and swamps
round, Francis was the only man who into the town of Garba, where years:
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glass jars—or will get it for you. And. be sure and
save these jars for preserving.
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smooth face, but lips like 'b'ent's �.
own.
maybe [f�'►A'IQlA
".I'm just thinking about that first
bene) by Kzlrrucorner, six," he. said,
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"I'm not sure about the level." Some.
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Trent's face relaxed. He held out
his ,hand.
"My boy," he said, "I'll make your
fortune as sure as my name is Scarlett
Trent 1"'
l make"Wemake that road,, anyway,"
the .boy answered, with a smile,
* * '5 * *
After a rest Trent climbed the hill
to the Basle Mission House, There
was no sign of Monty on the potato
patch,. and the woman who opened
the door started when she saw him,
"How is he?" Trent asked •quickly:.
"Why, he's gone, sir—gone with
the Jewish gentleman who said that
you had sent him."
"Where to ?" Trent asked quick ly.
"Why, to England in the Ophii !„
the woman anewered. that, after
Then Trent began to feel r
all, the struggle of his life was only
beginning,
(To be Continued.)
CANADA'S 'LIVE STOCK
INDUS-
TRY.
In competing for the markets of
the world there is no branch of indus-
try that exceeds in importance that of
live stock breeding and raising, Para-
phrasing the old Jingo cry,, we have
the land, we have the will, and we
have the climate. What is needed is
the means, and ever more means; and
simultaneously the ways of market-
mg.However diveigant in views and
d
theories people may be, it cannot be
denied that they are, .all united in a
common effort to improve both agri-
cultural and industrial conditions. In
i helping the one the other is being
aided. The interests are inextricably
involved. If either is especially pros-
perous, both ultimately must be, al-
though one may feel the benefits of
extra demand and high prices before
!the other.
lIn the past few years especially, a
deal of scientific effort has been de-
voted to the cultivation of the land
and improvement of productions of
the soil, and sight has not been lost
of the needs and necessities of that
other branch of inestimable worth—
live stock, meaning thereby horses,
cattle, sheep and swine. In the lat-
ter direction pure-bred animals have
recently been placed in various dis-
tricts where their services were pre-
viously difficult to obtain, the regis-
tration of pedigrees has been nation-
alized, systematized and subsidized,
grants towards greatly liberalizing
the premiums at exhibitions have been
made, a special branch has been es-
tablished in connection with the Ex-.
perimental Farm system at Ottawa
to investigate the cause of disease, to
give counsel to breeders and to con-
trol outbreaks of infectious or con-
tagious ailments, judges and lecturers
have been appointed free of cost, cold
storage facilities have been arranged
and refrigerator cars equipped and
paid for, grants have been made un. -
der the tremendously beneficial Agri-
cultural Instruction Act, with its ten
million dollar attachment, for the en-
couragement of veterinary education
,and research, and everything possible
has been done for the development
and increase
ci se of
But one of the greatest lines of
endeavor has yet to pe mentioned,
namely the improvement of market-
ing and transportation facilities.
Without inquiry and investigation
nothing can be methodically and sat-
isfactorily accomplished. With this
principle in view a marketing commis-
sion was appointed, the duties of
which were to ascertain advantageous
points of sale and to effect and
bring about the most convenient and
economical arrangements for disposal,
shipment and carriage to destination.
It was in following this policy nego-
tiations were carried on for the pur-
chase by the British Government of
six and a half million pounds of meat
canned in Canada. •
Owing to high freight rates, distur-
bances in shipping and scarcity of
boats, unwonted difficulties have. re-
cently been experienced in exporta-
tion and even in handling across the
continent. It is towards remedying
these and placing matters in a much
better light and on a greatly improved
footing. that the commission has been
created. In many ways there is evi='
dence that this is being accomplished,
although undoubtedly there are ob-
stacles to overcome that will be con-
tinually cropping up. Nor is the ap-
pointment of the aforementioned mar-
keting commission the only step that
is being taken for the advancement
of the live stock and agricultural in-
terests, but a commission of influen-
tial, widely -known and experienced
btisiness men has been appointed to
go into the whole subject and to re-
port the most advisable
upona mea-
1
sures to be taken for the advance-
ment of farming, breeding and rail-
ing, shipping and' selling and financ-
ing, and for the aggregate prosperity
of the country.
'd
An Impression of Real Toil.•
"Why don't you quit work and go
fishing?"
"I tried that once," replied Mr.
Restagain, "If getting up at 5 o'clock
in themorningand travelling n 1 out to
g
a fishing place and falling into a
boat, and maybe out of it, and "sit-
ting .in suspense by the hour in Or-
der to land a two -ounce fish are what
you call rest and recreation, give
me the work."
As Everyone Knows.
He—What is the difference 'be-
tween a gown and a creation
She -•-I can't give you the exact
figures, but it's a small fortune.
ti's.. —.
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and possibly you will not detect this imitation until,
the tea-pot reveals it. Demand always the. genuine
"Salad." in the sealed aluminum packet, and see
that you get it, if you want that unique flavour a
fresh, clean leaves properly prepared and pached.
Hold on to the Good Breeders.
It is well known that the progeny
from mature parents are superior to
those descended from young progeni-
tors not fully developed. Boars and
sows, for breeding, should be kept in
a good thrifty condition, but not fat,
writes a well-known. breeder of hogs.
fihe.writer has always been troubled
to keep his breeding sows from be-
coming too fat, and consequently, far-
rowing a small number_ of scrawny
pigs.
I once took a large sow ..to fatten
for one half the pork. I did not know
she was with pig and fed her all the
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
fed on corn, but kept in a pasture by
themselves and given a plentiful sup-
ply of slop, made of equal parts of
wheat shorts, cornmeal and wheat
bran.
Most young sows will breed when
three months old, if allowed to run
with a boar, but eight or twelve
months is as young as it is judicious
to breed them.
The pigs from large -bodied, old
sows will be more in number, and fre-
quently double the size of pigs from
young sows when farrowed—and this
with the same feed and care—and
will frequently weigh 50 per cent.
more at a year old. Not only this,
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
had ten fine pigs in April, which- were
fattened and sold to a butcher in the
fall of the same year, bringing him
$115, and he still has the sow for a
breeder.
Sows should be kept for a number
ofyears until their
places can
be fill
-
ed with younger ones which have
proven to be good breeders.
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
pot "and did not stick to the ribs."
Fortunately, this call for heavy
pork is decreasing. In the-farnier'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
only the best, being the tenderest and
sweetest, but it is the quickest pro-
duced, at a lower cost and at better
profit to the producer. -
Young' animals grow faster and
with less food than when they,become
older, and pork from a hog less than
a year old does not cost so much to
produce as the pork from old hogs.
To make the most money from hogs,
none, except those kept for breeding
purposes, should ever be wintered
over.
A little alfalfa makes thecorn stick
to the pigs' ribs.
The well-fed litter of pigs must
have anr
oppo tunny to exercise or
else thumps are liable to claim the
plumpest.
There are 20,000 different kinds of
butterflies.
FOR
HEADACHES, BILIOUSNESS
CONSTIPATION,
INDIGESTION
Nearly all our minor ailments, 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 ofother distressing ailments, you
must see to it that your stomach, liver
and bowels are equal to
the work they have to
do. It is a simple matter
to take 30 drops of Mother Seigel's Syrup
daily, after meals, 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 Scigers Syrup is unsurpassed.
201S
TRY
MOTHER
AL'S
SYRUP.
Tan Nsw1.00 SIZE coxru\s 3 TIMES As MCH
AS Til IS TRIAL. SIZE SOLD AT 50c P.ZR BOTTLE.
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Why those Pains?
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"If I had my will it would
be advertised on every street
tomer. The man or woman
that has rheumatism and fails
to keep and, use Sloan's Lini-
ment is like a drowning man
refulang a rope." -4. J. 'Pan
Dyke, Lakewood, N, J.
Sloan's
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Gossip on Winter Models.
It is to the period of the second
empire thatthe notable dressmakers
have gone for inspiration for the.
winter models. One great couturiere
has gone even further back and has
revived the redingote. In this con-
nection, it is interesting to note that
he is the grandson of the 'man who
created the redingote for Louis Phil-
ippe, a coat that a few years later re-
presented the smartest attire for the
Parisiennes of that day. In its new-
est form it gives to the figure the
small waist effect; the . skirts, how-
ever, are.wide, with gathered panels
at the sides. Many original touches
are introduced in the arrangement of
the revers, collars and other minor
details. Fur is extensively employed
for decorative purposes. The cuffs
are hemmed with it and so are the
many varieties of the choker collar.
Among the new fur coats are the
long garments with La Mode's sanc-
tioned flare at the hem; in others
the influence of the early Victorian
era is noticeable. A beautiful man-
teau is trimmed with cross fox; also
a sealskin trimmed white fox and an-
other seal -trimmed clear gray Aus-
tralian opossum. Again, the short
coatee has not been neglected, and
the guises in which it is to be viewed
are as original as they are faheinat-
ing. °Natural and dyed musquash
coats are just now in very great de-
mand.
Flat envelope handbags are in high
favor. Women of fashion litre these
long, narrow pocketbooks to carry
with tailored suits. Fine seals, vach-
ettes and glazed leathers are used
and the silk linings are sometimes
plain and at other times gay, with
birds of paradise, parrots and ' the
like. Some of these bags have eight.
or nine pockets to recommend them.
Hip or seven -eighth lengths prevail
in coats, although various lengths are
shown. With the three-piece suit the
redingote is invariably shown.
The side closing is seen frequently
in coats, usually with the high collar.
Usually the collars are of the same
material as the suit, but often they
are of velvet or fur, fastening at the
side in line with the one-sided fasten-
ing of the jacket.
The waistline occupies its normal
place with a nipped -in effect and belts
are placed at the sides, front and
back or all round.
Jackets also have the long, tight,
fur -trimmed sleeves and furs are cut
in Russian effect.
F
A NEW IDEA FOR RED CROSS
FUNDS.
In this,. the 16th month of the war,
it would seem an impossibility to
think of any ,new way by which to
add to the Red Cross funds. Picnics
have been held, concerti given, for-
tunes told, tags sold, innumerable
other money -making devices put into
practical execution, so that the inge-
nuity of Canadians has been put to
the severest of tests. It has remain-
ed for Mr. Henry Pearce, of Victoria,
to suggest an original idea. Mr.
Pearce, in delivering a recent Red
Cross speech, stated that many thou-
sands of people possess many super-
fluous articles of convertible mone-
tary value, such as pictures, jewel-
lery, furniture; china, curios, books,.
glassware, which they ' would be
pleased to donate td' the Red Cross.
His 'suggestion is that' the Red Cross
everywhere hold a series of "Super-
fluity Sales," which, if run on proper
business lines, with some popular ef-
fects of ,auctioneering, would bring
large sums of money into the Red
Cross coffers.
This seems on the `face of it an ex-
cellent idea. It would turn property
which no one would grudge , into
wealth which the Red Cross could
use. The contributors would assist
the Red Cross without cost to them-
selves and the buyers would secure.
bargains. It is certain, indeed, that
the Canadian Red Cross, with its
steadily increasing responsibilities,
can make good use of any increased
revenue.
LIVE CONTRABAND.
What Neutral, States Must Not Sup-
ply Countries at War.
Most of us, at the outbreak of the
terrible' war now raging, read the
King's Proclamation concerning con-
traband of war. Contraband is an al-
most pure Spanish word ("contra -
beside") meaning smuggling, and was
for many years only applied to that
offence. .
But towards the latter part of the
eighteenth century it was extended to
arms, stores, and, in fact, anything
that might be ' used for • hostile pur-
poses. These were forbidden to be
supplied by i'ieutral states to any of
the chantries actively engaged` in war-
fare '
The term contraband has also been
applied to human beings. This was
during the great American Civil War,
which was fought over the question of
negro slavery, and resulted in a vic-
tor ►' for the Northern States and the
abolition of a degrading traffic in itnen
and wormcil.
During this war a martial court, in
18111, formally declared negro slaves
to be contraband,
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