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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-8-11, Page 2The Kingdom of The Blind E, I'$ILLIPS OPPENHEIM. °` (Copy -lighted) thoughtfully. As 'she drew on her gloves, isbe looked down at the empty space upon her thirdfinger. For a moment there was almost a lump in her throat. CHAPTER XVI. SYNOPSIS: wi'The story; written in 1916, ee' Lady Anaelman's luncheon -party at the Ritz Hotel, London, Ameele the gg'uests are Lord Romsey, a Cabinet Ivliniater; Surgeon -Major Thomann, Chief Inspector of Field Hospitals' his fiancee, Geraldine Conyers; bei ilo ther, a narnllieutenant, and his fiancee Olive Moreton; Captain elonald Granet, nephew of the hostess, home with a wounded arm. Lieut. lanyat receives commission on a ; `mystery ship and Major Thomson decodes a' secret message from the battlefield. Lord Romsey receives a visitor and the conversation reveal.. the Cabinet Min- ister 0 in-ister'0 secret dealings with Germany. Thomson calls at Granet's apartments to discover whether he knows any- thing about Lord Romsey's vlsitox. Granet denies any knowledge of the so-called American chaplain. Gerald- ine evades Thomson's pien for an im mediate marriage. Ile expostulates •with Conyers for disclosing Admiralty plans to the two girls and Granet. After a walk in the park with Gerald- ine, Granet returns to his room to find a bottle missing from a cupboard. He warns his servant that a new hand has entered the game. War Office refuses to allow him to rejoin his regiment. Thomsen goes to the Front to inter- view Granet's General and hal his suspicions confirmed. Granet motored the two girls to Portsmouth to visit Conyers on the ""Scorpion,'and tried to discover the ship's secret device. That evening, beeauee Thomson warns her that Granet is suspect, Geral- dine breaks their engagement. The following day Granet calls'unon Mon- sieur Guillot at the Milan Hotel and gives him a document from the Kaiser offering France a separate peace.. After Grenet's departure Guillot, whose real name is Pailleton, is sum- moned to the French Embassy and compelled to set out far Brazil on pain of being searchers then and there, Conyers sinks two suhnlarints. CHAPTER XV.--(Cont'd.) La•ly Conyers reieel her head from her knitting and. looked across at. her daughter. A little flush of enior hind suddenly streamed into Geraleire's Sage. She drew back as though she had horn sitting too near the fire. `"Of Nurse it b," she eieriarel. "I have an'y known Captain Granet for a cert' slut time. I tike him, of course—every one must like him who knows him ---hut that's all." "Do you know," Lady Conyers said, a moment later, "I almost Nape that it l ail." "`And wiry. nr;ther?" "Because I consiiier Hugh is a great judge of character. Because we have known Hugh since he was a boy, awl we have krown Captain Granet for eihr ' t wee:: " Gc elms rase to her feet, "You ou don't like Captain Granet, mother." "'I do not dis:ike him," Lady Con- yers replied thoughtfully. "I do not see how any one could!' "Hugh ices. He hinted things about him ---•that he wasn't he/mot—arid then forbade sae to tell him. I think Hugh was mean." Lady Conyers glanced at the clock. "Yell had better go and get ready, dear, if you have promisee to be at Ranelagh at half -past ten;' she said. "Will you just remember this?" "I'll remember anything you say, mother:" Ger ii _line promised. "You're a little impulsive, dear, at times. although you seem se tho.ight- ful, Lilly Conyers continued. "Don't rush at any conclusion about these two men. Sometimes I have fancied that there is a great well of feeling behind Hugh's silence. And more than that—that there is something in his life of which just now he cannot speak, which is keening him living in great places. His ahetracticns are not ordinary ones, you know. It's just an idea of mine, hut the other day—well something haprened which I thought rather queer. I raw a closed car turn into St. James's Park and, evidently according to orders, the chauffeur dine very slimly. There were two men inside t rir iri very earnestly. Onc c f time! wets Thee; l'; the other was —well, the mot erett•.rt man at the War (Iffier'. who seedo-n, as you know speaks to any ore." "You mean to ray that he was aline, talkine confidentially with alueh?" Geraldine exclaimed incredu- lously, "Ile was, dear," her mother assent- ed, "and it made me think. That's all I have a fancy that some day when the time comes that Hugh is free to tall,, he will be able to interest you —well, quite as much as Captein Granet... , Now then, dear, hurry Theres the ear at the door for you and you haven't your hat on." Geraldine went upstairs a littl The two men who had walked up together arm in arm from Downing Street, stood for several moments in. Pall Mall before separating, The pressman who was passing yearned for the sunlight in his camera. One' of the greatest financiers of the city in close confabulation with Mr. Gor- don Jones, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, was an interesting, almost an historical sight, "It is a source of the greatest saris faction to me, Sir Alfred," thefi Min- ister was saying earnestly, "to each royal and whole -hearted support in the city. I am afraid,' he went on, with a little twinkle in his eyes, "that there are times when I have scarcely been papular in financial circles.' "We have hated you like poison," the other assured him, with emphasis. "The capitalists must always hate the man who tries to make wealth pay its share in the support of the Empire," Mr. Gordon Jones remark- ed.'="The more one has, the less one likes to part with it. However, those days have passed. You bankers have made my task easier at every turn. !You have met me in every possible way. To you personally, Sir Alfred, I feel that some day I shall have to express my thanks— my thanks and the thanks of the nation—in a more tangible farm." "You are very kind," the banker acknowledged. "Times like this- change everything. We remember; only that we are Englishmen:' The Mir titer hailed a passing taxi, and disappecred. The hanker strolled' slowly atom; Pall Mall and passed through the portals of an august -1 looking club. The hall -porter relieved him of his coat and hat with great' i, -fermi,. As he was crossing thet, hall, after having exchanged greet-; ings with several friends, he came face to fare with Surgeon -Major. Thomson. The latter paused. "I am afraid you don't remember me, Sir Alfred," he said, but I have); heen hoping for an opportunity of thanking you pers malty for the six: ambulance ears you have endowed. I. am Surgear.-Viajer Thomson, chief' int solar of Field Hos itals"' Sir Alfre;l held out his hand affably, i "I remember you perfectly, Major," '; he declared. "I am very glad that my 'gift is acceptable. Anything one can do to lessen the suffering of those who are fighting our battle, is almost him reeoghized the atmolghere of power. "Wonder what old Anxeluwin's thinking atlout," one man naked an- other in an opposite corner. "Money bags, was the prompt re, ply. "The man thinks money, he dreams money, he lives money. He lives like. a prince but he has no pleasures, Fromten in the morning till two, ho sits in his office in Loin - bard. street, and the pulse of the city beats differently in his absence." "1 wonder!" the other murmured. Other people had wondered, too. Still the keen blue twos looked across Keeping Up With Father acrd the Boys. These are the swift-auoving days of Progreesiere There is no standing still. As David Starr Jordan is said through the misty atmosphere at the to have declared, "If you don't expect grey building;oppnsite. Men and Yea to advanee'and help ethers, then eat men passed before bins in a constant, ,put o£ the way! Get under the earth unseen procession. No one came and and bole to" fertilize the cabbages!' spoke to him, no one interfered with The. farmer and his. boys are moving, his meditations, relent, Thu two men who too, as yell as those of other encases had been discussingof the room _y One him passedthem and profession. If one looks up their ^tion. records, in many instances, you will find farmers running for provincial offices, sitting in the hails of legisla- tion, attending township, county, pro- vincial or national conventions, serv- gleneed backwards' in his dire. "After ail, I suppose," he observed, as he passed down the hall, "there is something great about wealth or else one wouldn't believe that oid Ansel - man there was thinking of his money- bags. Why, belle's Granet. Good fel- Ing on committees; v ehot,mother low! I'd no idea you'd joined+ this. and the girls will. have to"goSome," august company of old fogies. if they anywhere near beep up. Granet smiled as he shook hands. There has been a great change, in "1 haven't," he explained. "You the status of Opinion, as:regarde bave to be a millionaire, don't you, farmers and their families, in the last and a great political bug, Were' few years. A little more than a sltcrt they'd let you m? No place for poor decade ago, there were few comforts soldiers! I have to be content with or conveniences possible in their the Rag. "Poor 'devil!" his friend remarked sympathetically,—"best cooking, best wines in London. These Service men look after themselves all right. What are you doing here, anyhow, Granet?" "I'm dining with my uncle," Granet replied, quickly. "Sir Alfred's in there, waiting for you, he friend told him, indicating the door,—"he has been sitting at the the trials of the pioneer mothers, in window watching for you, in fact. So addition to their other hardships, long!" they had to live with the forefathers!" The two men passed out and Granet But today the farmer's wife is the was ushered into the smoking -room. woman who is sure she will serve Sir Alfred came back from his reverie real cream on the orealcfast cereal and greeted his nephew cordially. The to -morrow morning. She can guar - two men sat by the window for a few moments in silence. "An aperitif?" Sir Alfred suggest- ed. "Capital!" They drank mixed vermouth. Sir Alfred picked up an evening paper from his side. "Any news?" he asked. "Nothing fisesh" Granet replied. years. On Saturday afternoon, many "The whole world's excited about this limos, she rides into town in a'high- we'd ine affair. Looks as though high- powered automobile, and as she asses we'd got the measure of those John- nies, doesn't it?" her city sister an the pavement (who "It does indeed," Sir Alfred agreed. must either wait for a delayed street `Two submarines, one after the other, car or walk), she is the subject of a homes. No telephones, no rural de- livery, no improved roads, low priees for fate products; long hours of un- remitting toil; with pleasures few and far between. " As is usual, the women had -even'a harder time than the men. 'Some one has quaintly said that, "as regards entee the golden butter as genuine instead of oleo, on the family pan- eakes. If she wants a chicken for a 'Sunday dinner, she can take oath as to its exact age, instead of buying at a fabulous price one that has .been in storage for perhaps lo, these many P P • two of the latest class, too, destroyed new emotion—not pity, but envyl within a few miles and without a We, of the farms, rejoice that this word of explanation. No wonder is true, and; wish to assure every one , every one's excited about it!" "They're fearfully bucked at Diet who reads these lines that the farm: Admiralty, I believe," Granet remark women .generally earn everything, ed. "0f course, they'll pretend that they get and enjoy. I am rea:ly to they had this new dodge or whatever i agree that there are changes and im it may be, up their sleeves all the' provements in many farm homes, but' time. Sir Alfred nodded. "It is very fortunate for us that you feel like that," the other replied. "Thank you once more, sir." I The two men separated. Sir Al- fred turned to the hail -porter. "1 am expecting my nephew in to dine," he said,—"Captain Granet, Bring him into the smoking -room, will you, directly he arrives.' "Certainly, sir!" Sir Alfred passed on across the marble hall. Thomson, whose hand had been upon his hat, replaced it upon the peg. He lookei after the great banker and: stood for a moment in deep thought. Then he addressed the hall -porter. "By -the bye, Charles," he inquired. "if you ask a non-member to dinner, youhave todine in the strangers' room, suppose?" "Certainly, sir," the man replied. "It is just at the back of the general dining -room." "I suppose an ordinary member couldn't dine in there alone?" "It is not customary, sir," Surgeon -Major Thomson made his way to the telephone booth. When he emerged, he interviewed the head- waiter. "Keep a small table for me in the ' strangers' room," he ordered. "I shall require dinner for twit." rep At what time, sir?" Major Thomsen seemed Inc a mo- ment deaf. He was Looking through the open door of the smoking -room to where Sir Alfred was deep in the ,' pages of a review. t "Are there many people dining there to -night?" he asked, "Sir Alfred has a gaest at eight I o'clock, sir," the man replied, "There fare several others, I think, but they have not ordered tables specially." "At a quarter past eight, if you please, I shall be in the billiard -room,. , Charles," he added, turning to the hall -porter. i Sir Alfred wearied soon of the .1 pages of his review and lease i hack in his chair, his hands folded in front of him, gazing through the window e . at the opposite side of the way. A good many people, passing backwards and forwards, glanced at him curious- ly. For thirty years his had been something like a household name in the city. Ile had been responsible, he and the great firm of which he was the head, for international finance conducted on the soundest principles, finance which scorned speculation, finance which rolled before it the great snowball of automatically ac- cumulated wealth. His father had been given the baronetcy which he now enjoyed, and which, as he knew very well, might at any moment he transferred into a peerage, He was a short, rather thick -set man, with firm jaws and keen blue eyes, care- fully dressed in somewhat old -fish., ioned etyle with here -rimmed eye- glass Ming about his neck with a black ribbon. His hair was a little close -cropped: and stubbly. No one I Could have called hint handsome, no one could have found him undistin- t gulshed. teen Without the knowledge I of hie millions, people who glanced at "°bY'uauear n, orae ,+o -run omau,o„o hatoaa"O, laigrrS q�✓�TxC ANY 1E TORONro,oapoula 0014 It;U"l;iS No. 31--'21, not enough, and although I am 'bless - Well," he said, "come in to dinner,: ed with a comprehending, generous i huchand, ready to give me conven- young fellow. You shall entertain! . me with tales of your adventures; rences of all kinds as fast as be could whilst you compare our cuisine here afford them, I have never found any with your own commissariat:', contrivanee on any market, Canadian They passed on into the strangers' or foreign, by means of which my dining -room, a small but cheerfuli daughter and I could do all our work apartment opening out of the general in an efficient manner and ride around dining -roam. The head -waiter usher- while we did it. For some women, the ed them unctuously to a small table nearest approach would be a pair of set in the far corner of the room. "I have obeyed your wishes, Sir roller skates. Alfred," lie announced, as they seated themselves, "No one else will be ,lin- ing anywhere near you." Sir Alfred nodded. Knowing how modest you soldiers than a farm woman who has given are in talking of your exploits," he the best she had to her family, but, remarked to Granet, I have pleaded in so doing, allowed her husband and for seclusion. Here, in the intervals children to outgrow and come in time of our being served with dinner, you of the Front. The can spin me yenta to be ashamed of mother. Read the yenta whole thing fascinates me. I want daily papers, current magazines, and to hear the story of your escape." They seated themselves, and Six Alfred studied the menu for a mo- ment through his eyeglass. After the service of the soup they were alone. He leaned a little across the table. "Ronnie," he said, "I thought it was better to have you here than to have you down et the city. Granet nodded. "This seems all right," he admitted, must, and do, lead narrow, lonely, isolated lives --that they da not figure• rmuelt tschematiai•rs as veregalyia "real he life" ando the01 world's work. But the life of town aria city is not the only life, Ih the barnyard, Where the patient dumb.bcasts await our corning; in the' field, under the snowdrifts, where the wheat Iles growing; or in the farmhouse kitchen, where we minister to the physteal wants of hungry men and helpless 1itbie ehiidrens—that is life. Ael a woman writer once said, "It is the woman who has walked across a •plow- ed field some stormy, wintry night, to help her sister in the hour of trial; who has tenderly dressed the tiny, new born baby, or silently and rever- ently composed the limbs e£ the dead; 'harnessed horses, milked cows, or learned the rude surgery of the farm; or perhaps gone still farther and car- ried baby lambs and little pigs into her clean, warm 'kitchen to save them from perishing, who has really seen life." Contributed Recipes. Our Favorite Dark Oake.—Three eggs, two cups of brown sugar, one cup of butter, ane and one-half cups of sour cream—not too heavy -one and one-half 'teaspoons of molasses, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon each of cinnamon and ground cloves, one pound of raisins,,- one pound of cur- rants, one-quarter pound of chopped walnut meats, and flour to make a very stiff batter. Bake about one 'hour in a slow oven, or until, when pierced. with a toothpick, no dough will ad- here. For a change, I make a loaf cake from this recipe by leaving out the fruit.—Mrs. S. 11. W. Soup -Use spinach, beet tops, chard,er any other kind of greens for this 'soup. Shred the greens in small pieces, add one heed of lettuce also shredded, one cupful of peas, fresh or. canned, a liberal seasoning of butter or'bacon fat and a little water, Stew until very tender. Rab through seive, and add a bit of thyme, a spray of parsley and a sprinkle of nutmeg. Let boil up, remove from fire, add the yolks of two eggs well beaten, stir thoroughly, add one capful of rich milk and one teaspoonful of grated cheese, if this flavor is liked. Heat to the 'boiling point, but do not let it boil, as this would curdle the .eggs., Serve with toast or wafers.—Mrs. L. T. Mint. Julep. With a wooden potato masher ' bruise enough mint leaves to fill a cup. Place in a pitcher and add one thinly sliced lesion, two pieces scrap -- ed ginger root, ore quart of boiling water. Cover and let stand in a warm place for two hours. Strain off tea and chill. Fill, tall glasses half full of crushed ice and pour in tea to: the top. Add a slice of lemon, a fresh' mint -leaf, and sweeten to suit. Monument Marks Spot Where Zeppelin Fell. The spot where the first Zeppelin was brought down in England (Caffrey Station, Hertfords•hire), is now mark, ed with a granite monument to the late Captain William Leefe Robinson, V.C., who was responsible for the des- truction of the raider, The monu- ment was unveiled on Juty T. The London Gazette, in announclug the award of the Victoria Cross to Captain Robinson, stated that "he at- tacked an enemy airship under cIr cumstances of great difilcuity and dan- ger and sent it crashing to the ground as a flaming wreck, Ile had been in the air for more than two hours and had previously attacked another air-, ship during his flight." Shortly after this exploit Captain Robinson was captured in a flight over the German lines in France and, held a prisoner in Germany until the enol of the war. He died a few days after being repatriated. Minerd's Liniment for Dandruff. Farmers are taking their rightful place in, the work of the world.. Wo- men` must keep up, then, in self-im- provement. There is no sadder sight new books. Keep up with the times, and lee more in the morning paper than a clean cover for the pantry shelf or material out of which to cut a pattern. An Oriental Proverb says: "An educated man is an educated in- dividual—but an educated woman is an educated household." Prove this to your own satisfaction by reflecting that few, if any, of our great •men glancing- around. "Well, one art of have left behind them great sons, g g P while misty great men owe and at - the great work is finished. I have tribute much of their success to a lived for eleven days not quite sure noble mother's training and influence. when I wasn't going to be stood up with my back to the light at the It was easy several years ago to Tower. Now it's over!' pick out the farmers in an audience "You've seen Pailleton?"' "Seen him, impressed him, given him the document. He has Ms plans all made." "Good! Very good!" (To be continued.) His Wife's Share. A doctor, whose practice is largely among the mill hands of his locality, tells an amusing story at the expense of an old Irishman. Both he and his wife were taican with Severe colds, which threatened to develop into influenza, and the doctor advised quinine and whiskey as an antidote. "You must both take it,' he said. "Take it every three hours ---two grains of quinine and a little whis- key." The next day he called again, The man was up and about, but his wire was in bed. "Did you follow my instruction?" asked the doctor. "To the Ieter," replied the husband, "How much quinine have you left?" was the next question. "Sure, 1 t'ink she bave taken tic' whole av it," said the man, "And didn't you take it too?" asked the dootor. "Niver a bit," was the reply. "It kept me busy Lakin' th' wbiskay every tonne oho took the quinine, an' shuro sho's in bed an' Oi'm up!" t There la nowordfor strawberry in classical Greek, that fruit being prac- bically unknown to them. Minard's Liniment for Burns, ate. by their clothes. Cowhide boots and coarse clothes were often were. But today, contrary to the city newspaper cartoonists, this is not the case. Farmers dress and appear like any other business men. Wooten and girls should keep up here. Some one has •said, "Whenever a woman says, 'Oh well! I dent care Trow I look!' she generally looks the part." Women on the outlying farms to -day, with rural delivery service bringing fashions and catalogs to their very door, may be as suitably and becom- dngly dressed upon all occasions as the women of the city. A policeman in plain clothes is one man. In his uniform, he le equivalent to ten. So let the farm wife look well to her personal appearance. Men get away from home and rou- tine duty much oftener and: easier than their wives. It is estimated the. only thirteen in every 100 farm wo men have an annual vacation. Wo must get away in order that we can more Appreciate or pp our'homes aures when we get back. "Distance lends enchant Ment!' -"Far-off fields look greenest' —or "Absence makes the heart grow fonder"—a11 of these captions hay touch, of truth and wholesome phil The Toronto . tcoattttat for 'Inoue- slblea, in»aftlsitatlan with llenevue and .odors RlthreetyeWt'a' Now of'irain Ing to young women, having the re - ;adroit etieeaeon,, and dostroue et be- coming nurses. Tills Uoepltal hoe adoptett the=elght.hour system, who pupils receive unifortee of the flohooi, a monthly aliowaneo and travelling expenses to and from Now York. Icor further information septY to the Suportntondent, . Five Dead Men. First Soul 1 was a peasant of the Polish plate;, I left my plow because the message rant Russia, be danger, needed everyman To save her from the Teuton; and was elain.� I gave my life for freedom—this I know; For those who bade ma light had teal me so. Second Soul l saw a Tyrolese, a mountaineer; • 1 gladly left my mountain homoo to tight Against the brutal, treacherous Mus- covlte And died int Poland on a Cossack spear. I gave my life for freedom—this I know; Por those who bade me fight had told me 'so. Third Soul I worked in Lyons at my weaver's loom, When suddenly the Prasaian despot hurled His felon blow at France and at the world; Then I went forth to Belgiur�il and my doom,• I gave my live for freedom—this I know; Fpr those who bade me fight bath told me so. Fourth Soul I owned a vineyard by the wooded Main. Until the Fatherland begird by foes Lusting her downfall, called me, and I rose Swift to the call—and died In fair Lor raise. I gave my life for freedom --this I know; For those who Mule me light Ita:l told me so. Fifth. Soul I worked in great shipyard by the Clyde, There came a sudden word of wars' declared, Of Belgium, peaceful, helpless. um prepared, Asking our aid;. 1 joined the ranks and' died. l gave my 'life for freedom—thin 1 know; _ r For those who bade int light had told me so. • Another Lie Nailed. A foreign devil --the pleasant C'111-, nese name for all persons of another race—is a rare sight in the interior villages of Chinas; in some he is st1ll1 known only by hearsay. The Euro - peon or the Amerean traveler who - first eutera a remote vtitage excites I much the same interest ea "the wild j mast of Borneo' excites in a country torn bore. In "Travel," Mr. William.1 A, Anderson tells bow the natives of a cevtalh village in North China re -1 calved hint and incidentally how he was the means -of dispelling a meat in- jurious rumor about the Anglo-Saxon knee Joint, Seated upon an old millstone in a shaded corner of the yard, the says, I became the object of a good-natured inquisition by the curious farmers, who casually came to me in ones and twos until they felt It safe to be bold. Then an old matt, wrinkled like the neck of a turtle and with eyes twink- ling with humor and curiosity, darted forth on inquisittpe hand and pinched me with his bony fingers. Instinctive- ly I tightened my muscle, and he emit- ted a long and appreciative "Alt!" I twas then politely requested to rise and Sit dUwn again. The request was made with such• gentle earnestness that 1 compiled, "Alt!" said the old titan again, nod- ding with satisfaction, "1 thought it was 0 110." "What Is the meaning of that?" 1 asked, "I have always been told," heex- plained with a deprecatory air, "that foreigners 'had no johns in their Mmes. I see now that it must be a mistake, because ypu can wend ryoters!' Ids' wilimgnests to enlighten thein made us all friends instantly, and they advanced upon me to examine my gar- ments, remove my sun helmet to test its weight, try the loather of my shoes by stretching them, uubutton ray coat to see if, I wore an undershirt, ask the price of my clothes and enter into a violent altercation art to their advan- tage over native garments, A Strange Bit of Natural History. From a Nile station. in the Sudan a British officer reports a remarkable bit o1 superstition or natural bistory, he does not pretend to say wheah. Be - Ing out on a hunting expedition with a party of Sudanese, he came upon tate body of'a giraffe that had been !tilled some thirty-six ar forty-eight hours before, and, as the wounds showed, by a lion. Upon asking his servants why, if a tion had killed it, he had not oaten t it, they smiled as if to eay that he was _ evidently new to the Sudan and point- ed out that the giraffe had Callen and still lay on ire left aide. They then ex- plained thatif, when a lion still os• hs _ gains, it falls on its right sdo'he eats it, but if on its lett side he leaves it untouched. Other Sudanese with e whom he dismissed dill motto£ told osaphy. Perhaps farm. woman can not' leave home for three months or even three weeks, winter and summer, but a few days or hours spent away froth the routine and monotony of even the pleasantest porno will acs eompiish wonders for the health, out- look and disposition of these evornen. It has been charged by those who do not r .11y 'now, that farm women him the e0110 thing. "ho Ansi shnn(tI, admits that the natives may have been "epoofing him and the belief may be, only a superstition; but he is inclined to think otherwise and teaeliove that the natives have hit upon a factof na- tural n rural history white me had not dlseovered, Claiming to bo the largest "family" in the world, Dr. Barnades homes hold 7,200 children. MUNICIPAL INSURANCE I. SYSTEMS 1 N i AND SASKAT Enduring Peace., Upton --"We were told that atter the war we should have an enduring peace," Uupton—"Well, it tins . endured a lot, don't you think?" How This New Devela is Carried Out in These Large Cereal Areas.. One 'ef the inevitable misudveuturos a£ the penult of agriculture which both a larpter's assiduity and exaotthg oaro, are powerless to safeguard or offset is a hail storm, and practically all territories where mettle are an Important crop periodically suffer to 'common in this regard from the de. vastating bllgltt. For a considerable time, under various sehems and 0001- 5081os, it has been possible for tee' Canadian enactor to insure his crop against the onslaughts of hail, and so face the summer months with a greater, degree of calmness and as - senesce. In the past two years, how- ever, the provinces of Albelta and Sasicataltewan, two of the world's most Important grain areas, have gone a step better and instlteted systems of mtuticipel hail insurauce. o Saskatchewan Act. The Saskatchewan Flail Insurance Association eousdsts of one delegate from cache- municipality which has •come under the scheme by a majority vote' at the aanual municipal elec.. tions. A board of nine diroetors holds aloe fpr three years. Laud 10 the munleipaiities under the scheme is as- sessed at four cents per acre together with an additional rate per acre fixed annually by the directors to be levied on land of an owner or occupant un- der crop in excess of forty acres. Every person Habit to aasosement un- der the Act mast, by tlta first of June each year, lite a e'cport giving .Ii legal description of his land and the num- ber of acres under crop. Falling such a report the facts are ascertalocd by an (Metal whose declaration binds the owner or cecupar.L Cralis are insured ago -lust damage from hail from June 16th to Sept wither 15th, and the nwuer of a craft which le damage:I twee. within t:.rt•' days, give mels', when en la.pectcr its- quires into the t l.,!1 t ,tint reports, ports. Each claimant is t.i,t, e l to r cciv•r not lucre than flea* r, t l.er :icr5 fnr ec•ely 0n,' ler r,. r ',int?e Prrtif Karl hn itta ,t tis, Were. a ortp is d'm'fi''J lees then aloe per cent. no in;k?iti.ilty- is flue. 10,1,. also thr,utti- out the ,1121" fo:tann and dicta this Same at,'d 1 tresila3 as cuinnitliVe. Alberta Act• Through the albcrt.t Municipal Flail Insurance Act, municipal districts to which the Art Applies -are broug it 00 - der it by a favorable vote of the riot". tors. Members of the heard hold of - flee ter three years. Every person owniug laud in the hall fneuranoe slis- Inlet is required to report hefere Juno 15th every year the acreage of the land awned by ltim, the acreage and location of each emus sown, and tho amount of !n er:moo per acre desired, which may be six, elglt'. or ten donate per sore. Ali crops of wheat, oats, barley, lax, rye anti spite are Sneered from Juno 15111 to September 15111, and fall wheat and rye from June est to September 15th. No liability for in- demnity exists when the damage done Is less than five p:r cent. of the por- tion of the crop injured. The premium for hail insurance is levied on the crop area only, at co much per acre, and the board has authority to levy a rate sufficient to pay the costs of administration, the losses in full for the year, and also to create a surplus for the year of not less than ten nor more than twenty per Bent. of tho losses of that year. Wilcl Puritans of the Desert. It was announced •-eeently by air, Winston Churchill in the British. House of Commons that a powerful and fanatical Arabian desert tribe. the Waitabi sect, is to be raid an annual subsidy of X90,000 to keep them facia attacking the Emir Feisul awl the Arabs who are Britain's allies. One who knows the Wahabi states that It should he cheap at 1110,000 o year to buy their goodwill and to keep them quiet. They are a most violent 5501118. One Interesting custom among them is the way they correct their women, They tie them up in bag's, then Mamie palm -canes, and beat the "outside of the bag" unmercifully. Each man has three wives. Should any 0f them go ant of floors the code allows him to have her put to dealt. This Is because they believe that if any other cerin looks at her she is con- taminated, and that if a woman goes outside hes' home sero is certain to go wrong, Wearing any Costly. finery, precious Manes, or metals is a penal offence. The reason for that law is that they aro ultra -Puritans, and consider it a high Mimeo of extravagance for a wo- man to adorn Herself. They trill their mon (or women) for evoking even Ir cigarette, tVhnn. env `L'r3mbet• of the. t•V'a11a1>l, Used Autos •('x RELOa r SELLS r,'t"IDIM; USltd 1,a onrn of ell typos; all caru eold sub. loot to delivery up to 800 nrllea,,or Well ran of e01a0 distance if you Wieb, in en good Order oa pareliesod, or pnrehane Me refunded. RflQ Satebaslla of your em's choice 10 loOk them oyer, or .oak ttr 00 tiee utoOlt ntnttre roc ptltion, Very ]arta stookaward oAbanQ idreakeses Used CRP ithuitet t ?ems* Iseeeler r earasee tribe goes from their villages and mete or sees strangers, lie must be Fore entering the .villageof going to hie home divest ltlmsell of all cloth- ing and wash most thoroughly. They are vh-ile, and as austere as they are bloodthirsty and bravo. Some people fail to recognize opt pal'ifunity tri psi it comes up 'hue erhail a s kWh Britt ii, them.