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PART I. a well known clubman in Bond Street
"Hullo, Brace," said Paul Harley! on Wednesday evening. It was proved
as his'secretary entered. Open one by the constable who made the arrest
is making a devil of a row outside," that robbery had not been the motive
"This is the offender, Mr, Harley," of the assault and Bampton confessed
sew Heace, and handed my frienda that he bore no grudge against the
eistaing card. assailed naane indeed, that he had
never seen lam before. Be pleaded
Glancing at the card, Harley read
aloud; "Major J. E. P. Ragstaff, Cav-
alry Club, London."
Meanwhile a lond, harsh voice
which would have been audible in a
full gale was roaring in the lobby.
intexication, and the police surgeon
testified that, although not actually
into -deeded, his breath had smelled
strongly of liquor at the time of bis
arrest. Hampton's employers testi-
flal to a hitherto blameless character,
"Nonsense!" I could hear the major
shouting. -Balderdash! There's more and as the charge was not pressed
fuss than ff I had asked for an inter-
view with the Prime Minister.'
13race's smile dee eloped into a
laugh, in which Harley joinecl. "Ad-
mit the major," he 4aul.,
into the study where Harley and
1 had been seated quietly elevating
he emit was dismissed with a cau-
tion."
Having read the paragraph, Har-
ley glanced at the major with a puz-
zled expression.
"The point of this quite escapes
me,' he tonfessed.
there presently strode a very- choleric "Is that se?" said Major Ragstaff.
gentleman. He wore a horsy cheek "Is that so, sir? Perhaps you will
euit and white epats. and his tie be good enough to read this."
Frorn his wallet he took a second
elesely resembled a stock. In his
hand he carried a heavy malacca cane, reevesimper cutting, smaller than the
firet and geremed to a sheet of club
gloees, and one of those tall light
termed wleeeeet, Betepaper„ Harley took it and read
• eeeee
He ,vas belovf med.= heiat. elite a42°.•444/
and wiry; his gait and the shape of "Mr. De Lana, a well known meni-
hie legs, his baild, all proclaimed the het. hi the Steek Exchange, who met
dragoon. Hie emplexioe waspnrple.
with a eenous aefident recently, is
still in a precarious condition.'
and the large white teeth -visible be -
The pezzied look on Harley's face
math a 'bristling gray Tdous.taelie
added to the natural ferocity of his grew more acute, and the major
watched him with r -n expression which
appearance. Standing juet within the
he I can only describe as one of fierce
doorway, "Mr. Paul Ilarlee ?"
meI enjoyment. "You're thinking I'm a
*bolded. It was a.pparently
damned eld fool ain't you?" he
wary, but it sounded like a reprimand./
Idy friend, standing before the fire-ishouted suddenly.
-Scarcely that," said Harley-, smile
place, his hands in his pockets and/
ing slightly-, "but the significance of
his pipe in his mouth, nodded brusque-
theee paragraphs is not apparent, I
ly. "I are Paul Harley," he said.1
!must confess. The man Hampton
"Won't you sit dawn?"
Major Ragstaff, glancing angrily would not appear to be an interesting
character, and since no great damage
at Brace as the latter left the study,'
tos-sed his stick and gloves on a setteehas been done, his drunken frolic
and, drawing up a chair, seated him -hardly comes within my sphere. Of
nett stiffly upon it as though h
Mr. De Lana of the Stock Exchange
in a saddle. He stared straight at
e vverel I never heard, unless he happens to
be a member ona
Harley. -You are not the sort f the firm of De La
of
person I expected, Air," he declared.] Day?"
May I ask if it is your custom to• "Hes not a member of that firm,
keep clients dancin' outside on the!
sir,' shouted the major. "He was, up
t"
mat and all that—on the blasted mat t
o 6 o'clock this evenin'.
sir!" ' "What do you mean exactly?" in-
quired Har/ey, and the tone of his
Harley suppressed a smile, and /ivoice suggested that he was beginning
to beefily reached for rny cigarettr ease,
entertain doubts of the major's
sanity or sobriety.
"He's dead!" declared the major.
"Dead as the Begum of Bangalore!
He died at 6 o'clock. l've just spoken
to his -widow on the telephone."
I suppose I must have been staring
very hard at the speaker, and certain-
ly Harley was doing so, for he sud-
denly directed his fierce gaze toward
me. "You're completely stumped, sir,
and so's your friend!" shouted Major
Ragetaff
omen you in India—and, yes! in Tur- "Iconfess it,' replied Harley quiet,
key,: He! I've got yo„ Sir!" He ]y; • , and since my time is of some lit -
d
;sprang to his feet. "You're the Har
tie value I woulsuggest, without
ley who was in Constantineple disrespect, that yet explain the incon-
3912» nection, ifany, between youreelf, the
drunken Bampton,and Mr. De Lana,
of the Stock Exclange, who died, you
inform us, at 6 o'clock this evening
as the result, presumably, of injuries
received in an accident."
"That's what I'm here for!" cried
Major Ragstaff. "In the first place,
then, I am the party, although I saw,
to it that my name was kept out of
print, whom the drunken innate. as-
saulted."
Harley, pipe in hand, stared at the
speaker perplexedly.
"Understand me," continued the
major, "I am the person—I, Jack
Ragstaff—he assaulted. I was walk-
ing down from my quarters in Mad-
dox Street, on my way to dine at the
club, same as I do every night o' niy
life, when this fiarnin' idiot sprang
upon me, grabbed rny hat"—he took
up Ms white hat to illustrate what
had oecurred—"not this one, but one
like it—pitched it on the ground and
jumped on itl"
(Continued in next issue.)
Women! Use "Diamond
wheal I had placed upon the mantel -
"1 ani always naturally pleased to
*To clients, Major Ragstaff," said
Harley, "but a certain amount of
routine is necessary even in civilian
life. You had not advised me of
your visit and it is contrary to my
Custom to discuss business after 6
o'clock."
As Harley spoke the major glared
at him continuously. "I've seen you
In India!" he roared; "darnme!
"Quito true."
"Then I've come to the wrong
glop."
"That remains to be seen, major."
"But I was told you were a private
detective, and all that,"
"So I am.' said Harley quietly. "In
1912 the Foreign Office was my
client. I am now at the service of any
one who cares to employ nee."
The major seemed to be temporar-
ily stricken speechless by the discov-
ery that a roan who bad acted for the
British government should be capable
of stooping to the work of a private
inquiry agent. Staring all about the
teem with a sort of naive wonder-
ment, he drew out a big silk handker-
chief and loudly blew his nose, all the
time eyeing Harley questioeingly.
Replacing his handkerchief, he direct-
ed his regard upon me.
"Thi g is my friend, Mr. Knox,"
said Harley; "you may state your
ease ?lettere him without hesitation,
liednes
rose to depart,
• "Sit down, Mr. Ireioxl Sit down,
sir!" shouted the major. "I have no
skeletons in the eupboard. I simply
Want something explained which I am
leo thick-headed—too damned thick-
headed, sir—to explain myself."
• He resumed his seat and, taking
out his wallet, extracted from it a
etnedi newspaper cutting whiele he
offered to Harley.
"Rend that, Mr, Huxley," he direct,
"Ttead it aloud."
Harley obeyed and. read as folleeeet
"Before Mr, Smith at Marlborough
Street Polite Court john Edward
•Bartittork was charged with assaulting
1 hIOTICE
Agente Wanted everywhere to intro.
duce and sell new Auto Aatestiory,
Well net big retailer:I to you, einuaa,
oreattel Mildred,. For evemtleularel
wrote .1. B. wu1rFtst.0
8 Mersime Ein, Toronto
Use Moro
How many members of your family
drink ntilk, three times a day, mai
seven clays n week? How many drink
any milk at all?
As a usual thing, n higher per-
coutage of people in cities .form the
habit of drinking milk with her
meals than do those on farms where
milk is produced. It is not at all
uncommon for the country boy or
girl to go away to school, or to the
city, and there aocielre his first lik-
ing for mills—the most perfect food
in the world. Often the halt is be-
gun when ho orders a half-pint bottle
of milk at some cafeteriasor chooses
from the counter a small plate of
cottage cheese, later on beginning to
wonder why he had never cared to
drink milk at home or eat the por-
tion of cottage cheese prepared by
his mother.
A recent survey reveals that about
seventy-three per cent. of the children
whose parents live on Sarnia do not
drink milk, and many refuse td eat
milk products, such as cheese, or but-
ter.
The Provincial Hoard of Health
would like to see a larger percentage
of rural children take advantage of
their opportunity to get 04 much as
possible of this best all-round food.
For that is what Blilk is. It not only
tastes good, but it makes bone,
muscle and blood. It has been said
that the vigor and success of a nation
depend largely upon the amount of
milk its citizens drink.
Milk is the best single food be-
cause it contains a mixture of all the
important things that we and in a
Telexed diet. We find the same nour-
ishing elements in milk that are con-
tained in a meal made up of meat
and eggs, cereals and sugar, oils and
fats, with salt and water. Milk is
a fuel food; it contains sugar and fat,
and the body needs fuel food to keep
it warm, and to make it move in work
and play. But milk is also a good
food because it contains those ele-
ments which repair waste, aid
growth, and builds flesh and bone,
We used to believe that children
• grew bow-legged when permitted to
• walk too young—that the weight of
their bodies was too much for the
soft bones of their bodies. But this
is only a haffetruth, and bow -legged -
nem is due as much to the lack of
lime in the youngsters' diet as to
early walking. Another reason chil-
dren need milk, lots of milk, is that,
our perfect food contains large quan-I
• titles of lime needed in the building
of growing bones and teeth. To sup-
ply new material for the bones of the
body, adults need milk and the lime
it contains nearly as much as grow-
ing children.
Milk is not a drink, primarily, It
should be eaten, not swallowed as a
I beverage. To get a few ounces of
milk from its mother's breast takes a
'baby from fifteen to twenty minutes.
Milk should be "chewed," taken in
small sips, rolled about the mouth,
' and enjoyed much after the manner
I one consumes a glass of malted milk.
; Children need milk because it con-
:
• tains a substance absolutely neces-
sary to healthy growth. That sub-
stance is called vitamine, and though
children get some of it in their other
, foods they alone do not furnish it in
sufficient quantities. Your boys and
girls should be given a chance to
grow—especially when it is much
easier to furnish them piles, fresh,
rich milk than it 3s the child in the
city.
It is possible for grown-ups to live
for months on milk alone, though a
working -man would have to drink a
great many quarts each day to keep
up his vitality. Used in combination
with other foals, milk insures a:well-
balanced diet. A pint of milk each
day for adults; a quart a day for chil-
dren should be the rule.
Dyes."
Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists,
Coats, Stockings, Draperies,
Everything.
Each paegage of "Diamond Dyes"
contains Cate direetions for dyeing
any article ot wool, flak, Cotton, Hume,
or mixed geode. Beware: Poor dye
atreake, epote, fades and rules eve
terlal by giving it a 'dyed -look." Buy
"Dimmed Dyes" only. Druggist has
Odor Card.
The Great War Veterans' Assecie-
tlon ot Canada has a membership of
200,000 in 847 brandies,
The British people are now wartra
Mg up to tractors for farm perer.
One British farm paper says that
herses soon will net be needed.
Baby's Advice—
Don't use medicated soaps unless
your skin is sick—
end don't mike it belt by using strong stem
elven% or by neglect,
Use Baby's Own Step freely with worn roster,
rinse well and dry carefully, and the most
delicate skin s011 I,e lout soft end white end
HARD SKINS idI become softer and althea
rrires
nays olivs
SOAP
,Restt5I,j8.264
4,DA yireng
One quart -of milk Supplies food
enerbtgegeuag,
lsto one of the following;
E
Nine oranges.
Three-fourths oa et pound of beef-
steak,
Voutalifthe pounds of -chicken.
Four and a half pounds of lobster.
Six pounds of squash.
• One poemd of cottage cheese sup-
plies more protein than a pound of
beef, pork, lamb, veal, or chieke»,
Children must have milk—grown
people ought to.
Fiftieth Anniversary of
Sun Life.
The year 1921 marks the fiftieth an-
niversary of the Sun Life Assurance
Company of Canada, which in the ball
century of its existence had grown to
be one of the largest and moat SUS.
cessful life insurance companies in
the world.
One year after it was organized, in
1872, the company's income • was
$48,000; its assets, $96,461; and it had
written Policies for a total of $1,064,-
350. By the year 1880 the income had
grown to $141,402 with assets $478,-
682, and insurance in force of $8,897,-
129. From this time onward the ea
velopment of the company, not only
in Canada, but in stretching out to
many other coIndriee of the world,
proceeded at a rapid pace, as tbe
tables for the next four decades inda
c4418690 Income
A ssets 1;48789,00000
$230
Ineuranee in force$16,759,000
,
1900 Income $2789,000
Assets ....„ $10,486,000
Insurance in force;57,980,000
1910 Income
$
Assets .. $389,679
1645:00900
Insurance in torce$148,849,000
1920 Income
$28,751,000
Assets
$114,839,000
Insurance In force.$486,641,000
Details of the financial statement of
this company for the peat year appear
elsewhere in this issue, and will be
studied with more than usual interest
in this its Jubilee year.
Perfume of Wood.
The North-western Indems nearly
always made their totem poles out of
Weatem red cedar, but this thole°
was probably due more to the fact that
the wood is easy to work and extreme-
ly durable rather than to its trag-
ranee. It may be taken as a very good
general rule that woods that are
scented are resistant to decay and in-
sect attack, and have good eablnet
"allities
With the woods of the world to
choose from one cam easily arrange a
whole scale of scents tenni the sweet-
eet and most delicate of perfumes at
one extreme to rank and overpower -
adore at the other The stores of
the perfumer's shop will not yield a
greater variety than one can and 10
woods
Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, etc,
rrrwrr :Nor
A Subway Bakery et Verdun,
An underground baleen', flan tile
Puma/ of HMS l8ecrinfIBI02. faraloh-
CS ell the bread .used by the refugee
veinalatios19 Hate ruined city of Ver.
dun. No other building wee suffieient-
ly weatherproof to beim 4 bread -bale
ing eatablisbeneat for the retuning
towespeoplee and tbe authoritievawere
forced 10 ref/id/Mien the great °voile
uaelergroned in order to turn Out tbe
principal feed of the toelma Serene
tinleat each day the Mane le brought to
the mouth of the Meek emir= beneath
the great wellwhere tinesof people
await their vitiate
The bakeshop is a Part at the tam -
Due undergreunil city of Verdun, built
after the war .01 1871 and desegued to
house thirty thousand persons during
an attack. During See Cleeet War
=emends of ieeldiees and a few re-
fugees lived in this subterranean
abode while the city wee under fire
foe four years.. The hakery was in
operation all the while.
• Paper Bowls.
Anew idea in finger-bowla bas been
patented by Simon Bergman, of New
York. It is made of paper, and en the
inside of its bottom ie printed an ad-
vortfeemerut In invisible Mk. When
water is poured into the receptacle, the
printing appears,
The inventor says that the printing
should become visible with a slow de-
velopment, so that a person usIng the
Anger -bowl will notice Hee gradual ap-
peareng of the advertiseeneed, and
thes'eby Slave his Wendell dire•cted to
It.
The same, Mee inay bo applied to a
paper iCerarERIM saucer eer a paper
drinkimg cup.
Minard's Liniment tor Burns, etc.
it takes a leint ofbeef to
make a bottle of Rovrii.
RIL
NEVBR
PROTIUM=
Jas not changed since 1914
Same Price, Sante Quality,
Same Quantity.
WHY LOOK OLD?
When one studios -
tion of Milton's
gale Restorative
eyery 2 months
SeePli 010 hair
natural, NO
on, no dirt;
the hair can
be wattheci
when desired.
Try ft. Bloch
or neown.
Price, 818.00.
Bent prepaid to
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COARSE SALT
LAND SALT
Bulk Carlota
TORONTO SALT WORKS
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At Your Service
Wherever Yon Live.
The woman 10 town, or couotrY, liits
the 011=0 advantage as her elates In
the city In expert, advice from the
best4mosrat firm of Cleaners and
layers in Canada.
Parsers trona the country sent by mail
or ea -preset receive the some eszetal
attetteten.as werlcderivered pereranally.
Cleaning and Dyeing
Clothing or Household Fabrics.
For yeane the name of "Parker's"' has
signified. ,perfactiot 10 titre work of
Twirling old things Irak hire new,
whether personal. alute-tuts- of even
the most fragile material, ar hxame-
bold curtains, draperies, rugs, etc..
Write to isa for further particulars or
mad yew percale direct to
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SUN IAITE:4530
COEMZU OF CAN
1871 HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL
JUBILEE YEAR
RA=
1921
HALF a century has elapsed since the Sun Life Assurance Company of
Canada issued its first polity in 1871. The 'figures submitted herewith
indicate the size, strength and outstanding position to which the company
has attained among the life assurance institutions of the world, as a result of
its operations during those first fifty years.
SYNOPSIS OF RESULTS FOR 1920
ASSETS
Assets as at alst December, 1920 $114,839,444.48
3ncrease over 1019 . . 9,127,070.21
INCOME
Cash Income from Premiums, Interest, Rents, etc., in
1920Increaseover 1010 . : . • '' • • • • • •
PROFITS PAID OR ALLOTTED
Profits Paid or Allotted to Policyholders In 1920 ,
SURPLUS
Total Surplus 31st December, 1920, over all liabilities
and capital . . . . . . 8,364,667.15
(According to the Company's Standard, vie" for
Manatees, tho errs 'fable, with 8)..f, end 3 per
cent. interest, and tor annuities, the B. 0. Select
losnulty Tables with 3).'S per tent. intekes*.
TOTAL PAYMENTS TO POLICYHOLDERS
Death Claims, Matured Endowments, Profits, etc., during 1920 2 19,960,402.00
Payments to Policyholders since organization . . 102,187,934.30
ASSURANCES ISSUED DU/ZING 1020
Assurances issued and paid for In cash during 1920 $106,801,266.23
Inctease over 1919 . . . . . 20,342,416.79
HUSINESS'IN FORCE
Life Assurances in force 31st Decetribet, 1920 • $486,641,235.17
• Increase over 1919 . . . . . . . • . 10,282,778.12
THE COMPANY'S GROWTH
$ 28,751,578.43
3,047,377.33
$ 1,615,645,64
7005
litCONSt
ASSETS
USE ASSURANCES
IN FORCE
110 ', ' ''.
11:018:12012 "
$ 48,210.03
•/Mfg
2789,2 0.52
0,575,453.04
28,751,578.43
$ 06,461,58
478622,m
2 ' 19
.473,514,
10,480,891,17
38,104,70047
1103%4440
$ 1,084,310.05
• 0,807,130.11
10,760,855.02
57,080,084,08
141540,27900
486,641,238.17
PLUMETICKING
ON OSTRICH FARM
"ALWAYS LEAP YEAR.
HERE," SAYS MANAGER,
Food Bill at the Farm is Sixty
Dollars a Day, Yet Birds
'Seem Always Hungry.
n was niumelidans day at the e4-'
treh farm. A curious crowd Stood out-
side the railings and watched a young
man capture the huge bird. He did,
it by quickly graceful; a bird and bend- •
lug its neck with one hand while with.
1110 a10 rd, liawahlaetPetbetrtts b
da bblaekIiosttb
eld over'us
1
been blleded, be easily pushed Clean.
hate a email pen where other men eat
tho "ripe plumes" from their bodiee.
The plumes ire picked every the
nionthe at the fame where two hun-
dred teal ifinety-six birds are corneal.
An ostrich is first. pleked when les*
than A year eke and then every nine
months throughout its life. The older
it is the better the feathers, and many
of the birdlive to be seventy or •
rieventy-ilve years old.
The most valuable plumes come
from the wings; which yield twenty-
four feathers each, sometimes twenty-
seven inches long, The tail yields -
about, seventy-five smaller feathees.
All the snowarleite plumes come from
the blackest birds and always from.
the males. On the particular farm of
which we speak, which is the Inegait
and oldest 01 118 Mud in the "hilted
Statee, there are ostriches of two dis-
tinct- varieties, the South African os-
trich, which has bluish-blaek flesh, and
the Nubian ostrich, which has pink
Saab . . Tleo birds have remarkable
strenigth, a tremendous stride • and
speed, and, though sometimes cowards
they often fight oach other furimialy.
Kicking forward, they strike their Op-
ponent in the chest with a thud that
sounds like a shot in a barrel. Of
course the fighting birds must be sepa-
rated at once, but as eto keeper dares
risk his life among them at those mad
moments, some one roils a dozen
oranges into the euclosure. Tho en-
tire flock fly at the fruit, and the guar -
58 quickly forgotten.' Fights occur
only in the courting pet, for at all
other times the beide dwell in their
separate small enclosures.
Can't Teach Ostriches Sense.
"It is always leap year at our place,"
said the manager, "for 11 10 the female
that does the choosing. There are no
domestic difficultiee for those stately
stepping creatures. They mate for
life. Only once in the history of ties
farm has there been a tragedy. lliajOr
ateleinley—a regal fenowl—Idcked his
Mate to death because she would not
sit on their eggs tit the daytime,
though he sat upon them dutifully all
night Dayeafeer day be was seen
remonstrating -with her, driving her
toward the nest in the centre 01 their
101, Finally he Literally kleked bar to
death, despite our best efforts to save
her. Soon afterward, when ho was
put again into the ss
esobusrtinfatapetsu
n, aud-
other one promptly
stili Mrs. No. 2 he has been 'living
happy ever after: They are ,ftilinY
birds, but they seldom show a grain of
sense and we cannot teach them aas-
thing"
You would expect a 1°110, raucous -
voice from a creature whose head le
all mouth and staring eyes; but the
only melee an ostrich can make sounds
liktht(134aulimasnuueglbeasrfinsaulisiaxbGat
a.3trisotpeortmlike
.
Each pair is given lis own high -
fenced lot, sufficiently lane for them
to exercise in; and In the centre the
male bird digs a bole In the ground
for a nes5. There in the bare dirt the
eggs are laid. Each egg weigbe ilve
pounde—more than three dozen hen's
.eggs weigh. It is the father's duty to
keep the nest dear of all trash and
to sit upon it even, night; but as soon
as the chicks are hatched the patent
birds walk away in utter unconcern.
Indeed, no care ie neeessary. The
baby bird, which is as large aS a mean
lien, eats nothing for three or tour
days, then swallows a quantity of peb-
bles and is soon ready for its first
taste of alfalfa or grain. The food bill
at usa farm is sixty dollars a day, yet
the ostriches Bean aawaYs huligrir
Remarkable Dream Warnings
In 1912 a confession that a dream
Prevented him from sailing in the
Maki was made by the Hem J. C.
alladleton, vicepresklent Of ate
Canton Railway of Ohio, U.S.A.
"I booked my cabin bit Merely 23rd,
he stated, "I felt unaceountethly as.
pressed at the time, and oel April ard
• I dreamt that I WV the Titanic cap-
size in -mid-teem).
-The following night I had a similar
dream. '856 next day 1 told my wife and
several of my friend% nod eventually
I deckled to cancel my passage,"
Readers will remember bow the 71-
1150.
It
struck en iceberg on her maiden
trip and' sank with onom
eout lots of
1fe.
It 18 about sixteen years ago that
• the Brixham fishing emack Lyra ewes
,1 rim down off the Devonshire coast
with tbe loss of five mon On the San -
clay night previong to tlio disaster one
of the 111011, named leurnetiux, dreamt
af Cho wreck Mel related bit expel'',
911510 to
Istlitilit1,1vit'let. 1 "eqouTd(Ighlet7otinge0onteo
he
• to take my place." Of oeuree that Wen
impossible, and he went to his grave.
Jumping at contsAions often lands
you in trouble. „
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