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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-2-17, Page 2CHAPTER XXV. Our very simplest undertaking seldom if everdevelop along the line we fondly believe they will. As =natter of fact, oftener than not the eur'prise and upset us by originatin the most unforeseen and exesperatin complications; hidden snares for ou confident feet, unsuspected deadfall for our sanguine heads; and in the en turn out in a way quite contrary t what we had all along expected the would, Here I had been for weeks bend ing every mental and physical energy to the unravelling of a tangle of mys- tery, in which I had become involved without choice or initiative of my own and now, when the snarl was about to fall apart and disclose all the underly- ing motives and causes, I contem- plated the impending process with ut- ter indifference. X eame to myself in a perfectly sat- isfied frame of mind. Lois was safe and unharmed; her arms clasped my neck tightly; she was holding my head to her warm bosom. And I could feel her heart beating with excess of the emotions which my first compre- hending look read in her lovely face bending so close above me; the keen- est distress and anxiety—marvel of marvels! -- a passionate, eager love that yearned over me and cried out to the love for her that was in my own b heart. What cared I then for the diamond, or for Lao Wing Fu? And what car- ed 1 whether James Strang told his story and showered riches upon my dearly beloved, or carried them with him back to Johore? I cared not a whit. They were crowd., ed completely out of my thoughts. Every interest and concern that the world had to offer had grown stale and sordid by comparison with the rushing stream of happiness and contentment that swept over me. But such bliss- ful intervals, alas! have a painful, disappointing way of abandoning one at the supreme moment of ectasy; they are emery, fleeting, like matin vapors in the sun. .As soon as Lois perceived that Il was in possession of my senses and looking up into her heavenly eyes with all the burning ardor that possessed ore, she underwent a change. It was too inconspicuous to be defined, but not to be mistaken; an instinrtive shrinking away from me that made me instantly sit up and take quick no- tice of the rest of my surroundings. We were in the tonneau of one of the an erne )1 c: 1th:eh, ft was mani- fest, had not moved, and the instant I looked out I :gay Struhrr walking rap-, idly toward us. Lois instinctively ap- plied herself to the arrangement of I her hair, which hong about her face and upon her shoulders in enchanting c.nfusion. In a second Struber would be upon us, I reached up impulsively and caught one of her hands. I crushed the back of it to my lips and laid the s Soft palm upon my cheek. I "My darling!" I breathed at her ear (Struber was now within a yard o or two of us), "I can almost forgive a our enemies for all the trouble they i have inflicted upon us because it has hreught this wonderful revelation of u love." She bad no time to reply, and, now that was withdrawn farther away 11 from me, it was too dark to see her face distinctly. But I knew that she f was not resentful She gently disengaged her hand,fs just as the detective hailed us. { "Oi-yoi!" he cried, grinning at me. I b "So yuh ve come out of it -- what? : et Soon as you flickered Miss Fox came' n to an' said she'd look after yuh. Far -10 1:n' Strang an' me's been pretty busy."1 d "I never quite lost myself," lees e , slyly informed him in a subdued voice, s 1 "I knew what was happening. When a Mr. Ferris—when I felt that I could y be of some use I recovered myself fi g quickly enough!" g She knew, then! I had by now got - ✓ ten the night's happenings in true Imre! s t spective, and T recalled everything d 1 right up to the moment when my key-' o!ed-up nerves could stand no more and' Y something snapped; when everything i went suddenly black and Perlin and -j Strang and Struber plunged atine to! relieve fine of my precious burden.! 1 She knewl She was not insensible of those burning kisses, nor the tum- ; ultuous outrush of my newly kindled passion. And she had rallied and ministered to me when I broke down under the terrible thought that sh was dead• Well, if this officious man woul only take himself away I would tel her again, and yet again. It woul !make sure that she knew. I woul leave no room for doubt to ever creep Tinto her mind respecting the depth of my devotion, the height of my ad- oration— "0' course he had his get -away fix ed, just like we'd said; but we nailed that fritzer Dave Maguire, and his mother, the beauty doctor, an'—" "What in thunder are you taking about?" I broke in, all at once real- izing that Struber had been talking ever since he had come up to us, He stopped and looked queerly from me to Lois. With a short laugh he then moved toward the open forward door. "Reckon the sooner I get you two back to town the better it'll" be for yuh. This sure has been one boister- ous night for people what ain't used to boisterous nights . . . Giddap!" he yelled happily as he threw over the starter switch. While the big machine gathered headway, he said to us across his shoulder; "Harry an' Strang 'II come along in another car. Harry's a auto shark' y' know, an' he'll have the tires fixed in no time. Gosh! It's a wonder yuh had anything left but the air in the tires. Autos ain't made for chasin' mountain goats or climbin' trees. Harry '11 bring in the prisoners." "Prisoners?" I eachoed. "Who?" "Yee—three o' them. Madame Car cassi,lrer crooked son, Dave, an' one Chink who gave promise of respon- tlin' to third-degree treatment." The car now demanded his entire' attention and for the present a par-. fad was put to further enlightment from him. I turned to Lois, and again was, overcome with n rapturous sense of ter nearness. The night could not hide her fresh, pure beauty; for every line of her dear face, every shifting light in her fine gray eyes, every bewitching trick of expression, tvas as clear to me as if it ltacl been broad day. But by and by I grew con - does of a chill, if she were purpose - y holding herse'f aloof, and by de- grees my buoyancy and exaltation ozed away, leaving me uncomfort- ble, miserable. I -was racked with mpatience because Struber's now un- welcome presence put a restrietion Pon unguarded exchanges of Senti-" eat and tenderness. Presently she began speaking in er• office tone. "The only hurt I suffered was to my eelings, Mr. Ferris, and to my nerves, o please don't worry about me. 13e- ides. I got rid of the tattoo -Park.". "Please begin at the beginning," I egged, "else I shall never get it raight. I've been so frantic all fight, so torn with dread and anxiety,a ver you --Oh, Lois, Lois!" 0f a sud en I leaned toward her and lowered 1 Vaseline. Tm9e Airlr Capsicum P.tranum JeI'i Breaks up' colds in throat and chest. Better than a mustard plaster for rheu- matism, gout, sprains, cramps, etc. W ill not blister the skin. Sold insanitary tin tubes at chem. Inc and general stores every- where.' Refuse substitutes. Free booklet on request, CHESEBROUc H MFG. CO (Cotuolidatod) X880 Chabot Ave. Montage! e my voice to a whisper. "My darli beautiful girl! When the realize d burst upon me that I loved you; 1, I could only see you in fancy be d dragged to God alone knows what d I eous fate, I thought I would lose senses utterly." ! She caught her breath in ash 'gasp and freed her hands, wh once more I had imprisoned in m �_ 'Please do n't,Mr. " ' said gently. "I. I — h. you hurting me more than you have a !idea of!" There was a genuine ring of s fering in her voice that worried a puzzled nee. There was no present portunity to force an explanation, H that glorious love -light in her ey been only a vagary of my disorde • ed brain? I could not believe it be so; yet the warmth of my enth siasin was being deliberately chilled. I "Please don't, Mr. Ferris," me," she was saying, "until I can e plain." i "But, Lois—my darling—" "Don't—oh, don't!" Her voice, l t and strained, quivered with repres led emotion. Really, really you mu not talk so. -Do wait, please, L me tell you about to -night — abo what happened." 1 My riddle -tortured brain refuse to cope with this situation. 1 could not persist, and so I listened. Ia "When the note came I hadn't the' a slightest suspicion that I was not to • b meet you. When we met the =arils they call Maguire, and he climbed s in with the chauffeur, I was just e 1 b bit dubious,. but I didn't really sus -115 pect that anything was wrong. I S was confident that soon I would be + a with you and Mr, Struber and Mr. Strang. tl "My escort—Mr. Maguire — must al have had his orders, for he didn't ut- hi ter a word all the time we were to- H gether except to give me a few neees- lo r ary directions. His conduct certain- as ly caused me no uneasiness, for he was ee Killen, gruff and i11 -humored, as if the be responsibility of squiring me was pose in itively distasteful to him. Whenever lie curiosity got the better of me and ee I tried to question him he -would an- swer with a grunt and at last he 0. lost patience and counseled me to hi 'hold by horses,' telling me I should du learn everything presently from somebody who knew. I've had mer cheerful companions. "We got out in the road where horse and buggy stood waiting off in a lane. The horse was hitched to a wire fence. The automobile left us turning and going back to town, suppose, and my escort and T got into the Iluggy, The horse was headed, hewn the lane, and hi a few minutes we came to a cluster of frame shacks. "We stopped. Everything was dark and silent, and for a second I experienced a twinge of apprehension,, n inclination to draw back before it tvas too late. But just then a door pened, letting out an oblong of dim ight, and when, I recognized Lao Wing Fu on the threshold I was hate healteted an instant .over takilrge A; but• he would ewe apodigized for the fnconyenienee and discomfort he was putting me tel' "The scoundrel!" i exclaimed. "And I had hoped before this to enjoy the memory of having wrung his neck! What were his plans?" "He wanted, first of a11, the ring; next, the diamond. Then he gave me to understand that before I left him I must submit to having my tatoo- tnark obliterated,'" "So that's where the Carmel wo- man conies in. Lao, with all his cun- ning, chooses poor tools to further his schemes, .I wonder," I added, 'cif he really believed that any decent or re- fined American girl could be per- suaded by that blowsy woman to sub- mit to her. alleged treatments'? Faughl" "I can see," Lois said reflectively, "where a Chinaman of even his pow- er and influence would 'be at a dis- advantage in dealing with white people, There's no common Ievel upon which they can come together and op- portunities to advance his schemes are correspondingly limited. White) men or women who would lend them -I selves to his purposes would have to, below indeed to do so. I suspect he t ons has some hold over the Gamest wo- man or her son." . in "I wouldn't be surprised if you're hid-' right," I agreed. "But go on about my; Lao." "His ultimatums were in the na- ort time of a climax to a story he started ich to tell me. But his evening's pro- ne, grain suffered an interruption that she; threw everything into disorder; it ere turned out so differently from what 11y he must have planned—when he learn- ied that you and the officers were of -I coming, I suppose — that I got no nd, very clear idea of. what he was telling op_ me. 1 ad "You know, I was supposed to be es waiting for you land Mr. Strang; I was principally occupied in wondering why ee, you didn't come, I was growing Wer- e-! vows over the delay, and Lao got only a divided attention." she: The extraordinary aspects of this x_! adventure that she was recounting so simply, and with a restraint that was 1 habitual with her, filled me with o eel amazement and admiration. s- (To be continued.) st et) SIR BRYAN MAHON. ut1i1 A Fine, Dashing Soldier of ,Fifty- • three With Good Record. A Mahout is a person who, by the id of a small sharp spike, controls an pparently unwieldy and unintelligent, ulk, and it may be that this _ fine' Wier earned this sobriquet in the ervice for a somewhat similar attri- ute. General Sir Bryan Mahon, who in command of the British forces in aloniki, is called by. that name in the rmy. Sir Bryan Mahon is only 53, and is ierefore, one of the "young" gener-! s. ITe has been a cavalryman all s service, and first went into. the 8th ussars when he was 23. He was not ng in obtaining his baptism of fire, things went in those piping times 'peace, for when the KhaIifa first gan to proclaim himself as the re- d carnation of the prophet's first utenant, he went to Egypt. This e as in 1896. i 'In the Dongola show be got a D.S. , and in the fighting that followed ghee up the Blue Nile, Atbara, Ont-' t `man, end Khartoum, where K. The Virtue of the Natural Leaf Is perfectly preserved In the sealed 11 �ivlf� I 81 4 packet. Young tender leaves only, grown with utmost care and with flavour as the prime object,gare used - to produce the famous Salads blends. What a 100 Acre Farm Should Produce, 1 Previous to receiving your letter I had read the article in your Deceniber 31st issue, and I would offer the fol- lowing criticisms of the conditions of affairs on this one hundred acre farm. Perhaps you will not agree with me in every point, but .I certainly think that, with the limited knowledge which I have regarding this proposi- tion the criticisms are justified, writes Mr. E. 5, Archibald, Dominion Animal Husbandman in Canadian i armer. A hundred acre farm of good char acter soil should be producing a great deal more than this hundred acres mentioned. In looking over the state- ment one finds that the live stock kept amounts to only 4 horses, 7 milch cows, 12 head of young cows, 15 pigs of all ages, and 20 ewes; yet in the accounts one notices items for the purchase of hay, 5 or 6 tons; straw, 1 to 2 tons, and chop for cat- tle and pig feed amounting to over $70, with a total for feed purchased of $177.26. A hundred sere farm should produce average crops approx- imately as follows:— 10 acres of corn ensilage,,, .150 tons 5 acres of potatoes and turnips and rnangels, say 900 bushels of po tatoes and 1,200 bushels of tur- nips and mangels. 5 acres of peas 100 bushels 5 acres of wheat 200 bushels 15 acres of oats or mixed oats and barley 900 bushels. 20 acres of hay 40 tons 16 acres of rough land and bush. 20 acres of pasture. 4 acres of building sites, roadways, lawn, orchard, etc. This is a rough calculation which, of course, would be varied depending upon the layout of the farm, the char- acter of the soil, and the character of farming carried on. Many hun- red acre farms in Western Ontario pt'odpce a great deal more than above stintatecl. This foodstuff would be ufficient to feed at least twice the lumber of live stock maintained thereon. Either the hundred acre farm men- ioned is very poorly farmed or the . ,lir Yitl t Dread of young stock, it must be most unprofitable. Again one notices that four 2 -year-olds should have weighed at. least 1,000 pounds each, which means that they were sold at only 5 cents. per pound live weight. Prob- ably they were worth no more, but had they been properly finished they Knight easily have sold for two to three cents more per pound live weight. The ridiculous part of the meat question is that the four 2 -year- old steers did not produce as much in- come as was expended in the house- hold for the butcher bills. Again, the seven cows produced ap- proximately 9 gallons of cream and 46 pounds of butter per cow, or. a total of approximately 75 pounds of butter per cow. The cow which does? t not produce 300 pounds of butter per b annum on a hundred acre farm valued at $100 per acre is a losing proposi- tion. Generally speaking, this hundredi1 acre farm is not producing either in t field crops or in manufactured pro ducts, namely, beef, pork, and dairy products, one-quarter of the amount which it should. However, in this statement one notices that improve- s ments in the fields, etc., if such were m made, are not credited; also that im- f provements in the stock, if such were.t " made, are not credited. One also no- a Gees that the twenty ewes have pro- t hich no income either in lamb, mut d ton or wood, Generally speaking, the following w suggestions for the immediate im- b provement of conditions might be th made:— s CANADIANS TAUNT ENEMY WITH DRUM•' THEIR IDLE HANDS MANUTAC. TITHED TROUBLE, Cowpunchers Gathered 'a Band and Played the Russian National Hymn. Wearying of a life of comparative idleness for back of the actual fighting: line,' away from the trenches and around divisional headquarters, a; bat- talion of Canadian soldiers, mostly men from the western prairies, Wren of outdoors and accustomed to a life of freedom and activity, sought amusement. Cowpunchers, many of. them were, with the cowman's mis- chievousness and simplicity, Life pal- led. They were within the sound of the guns, but they were not firing,. themselves nor were they having the thrill of being fired on. So idle hands though it had musicians, and so a band manufactured trouble. This particu- lar battalion was without a band, al - was considerd essential. Mouth -or- gans there were, but these were not enough, a band was the only one thing that would do. But in that shell swept area, where shops of any sort were few, no instruments were to be had. And as the soldier forages for food so started a campaign for music- al instruments. Once upon a time the community of Nieppe had a a town band, but that was in the old days and the members of the band long since have gone to the front with the French forces, But their instruments remained behind, in the Town Hall. This alluring fact was discovered by men of Saskatchewan and Alberta and one morning the bat- alion had the nucleus for a splendid and, eight - instruments all told. The night before there was not a trage of "the makings" of a band; the next morning there was. That's all there s to it, and even the official investiga- ion that followed had not served to P anywthing more. Needed a Drum. The eight instruments, however, were not enough. There was, for en - Mace, no. big bass drum, and for any a martial air a big bass drum s esential. Especially necessary is it o the playing of the Russian national nthem, which has an importance v afterward developed. The Cana- ians in the rear sent word to their comrades on the firing line. They anted a bass drum. They needed a ass drum. The firing line is about o last place to seek one of these in- truments of melody, but it was flown that the Germans across the ay possessed not only a bass drum, ut all sorts of other instruments. So e Canadians determined to make the atter one of national honor and sup - y their needs from the enemy enches. In September came the big ritish effort to break the German nes. Trench after trench was taken om the Kaiser's soldiers, and on one eneh in particular, where it was own there existed a band, the as- ult was especially vigorous and the pture speedy, Thus the bass drum d the other instruments essential to complete band were found and ickly sent to the rear to the men . oni the west. It was not long before the battalion had a splendid musical organization. Finally the battalion moved up to take its turn in the trenches. At that moment there came news of a Russian victory in the east. The Canadians, well entrenched in trenches that once were German, found a German scholar, o, do German, painted a great sign, ling of the victory of the Russians, d' hoisted it over the trench, The `mans, only a few yarde away, saw hrough their periscopes and a cry of utonic rage went up, emphasized by hewer of hand grenades and bombs, Storm of Bombs. Then the Saskatchewan band struck the Russian national air. From p down in the trenches, whine the usicians sat on the ground and blew all they were worth, the enagnifi- t strains of the grand and holy air me upwards. A storm of bombs was the German response, making, so mueh noise that the band desisted, the Cana- ditans sitting tight, in petted, :,lfcty, 10 feet below the 5nrfaCe. When the Germans tired of their bombing and there camp a hill in the conversation, the band instantly 1 Shiner to Y p tam, k ec A proverb revised—"A fr ieed 10 need; said a writer, '9s n friend you don't need." oil must be in a very poor state of e fertility, and needs very radical ^jyr yeet, iiµ, steps in improvement. A hundred ;' tMy acre farm which is not capable of pro- '1151 ro- ;tviding hay, grain, and other feeds for > the small number of live stock car - 1 j s ter. ried thereon could not be profitable. One notices in . looking over the o statement that two men are maintaii ed on this farm, and considering the feeds raised there is far from suf- ficient labor to keep two men busy, especially during the winter months, with the small number of live stock which is being kept. Aside from this, one notices the special charges for cleaning well, sawing wood, and the like, which Wright be easily done by these men. Again, one notices such items as $S0 for the gracing of cattle. If this hundred acre farm cannot produce 35 tons of hay and provide sufficient pas- ture for the 7 milds cows and 12 0X0 01 0000 ' MAreel A+Ot fial g 00 r VOXIN lieawaseoie of your concluded that 1 J1111111111111111111i11111111111111li�1 �" sour party. g 0 ' "Well, an hour or more must hem a� �ar4 elapsed before I was dillusionec!. qIt tki�y ` ����� i I�� 4., wo is herd for me to give you a definite ip! conception of just why I became so lT! ♦� ' \illilllililllli 6 terrified—for I was, at the last, in an �fsdl 51 (awful panic of terror." She laughed / { I he an embarrassed way that told me more than bei words did: she was • not easily frightened. "But that • was s tv e hnlh broke away froth m th ;em anti ran—ran blindly, wildly out into ! the night--" !`l�+ And into my outstretched acme" I finished for her. "I was waiting for • you. I had heard your cry for help.", eee 1 Foe just an instant one small hand' was laid upon my arm, and after ' I quack warm pressure was withdrawn ai 1 heard a sound like a soh, But Lois immediately tools up the thread ege I of her'recital, her voice quivering with indignation. I "Oh, that horrible, h"ri'ible crea Lure! When she touched me 1 ' thought I would die with term' tied 1 disgust!" • a 1 "Yes. But this was after Lao Wing iPu end I had talked. You mast un-, {deeetand that outwardly he was a con - I stant model of courtesy and politeness, i Behind that courtesy, though, lin 1 was ruthless sled cruel. lie had mule his piens, and tie fru' its he was able he meant, to carry them out, 1.ogar1l- ' less of me 01' rmr 'feelings, or any - 1 body, chic's, 1f my life lied been an obstacle I'm eeeneent be would not e � 1111 es, alt ,,,rllil!IIL ter+ 1� 4 Why bear those pains A simile bottle win COlivsrece you 1' ' an.'s Liniment Arrests Inflammation. Prevents severe oomph - cations. Just put a few drops on the pain f hZ spot unit the Pain ills. appears. General bicho,,. finally brought the Khalifs to book, he got a nest brevet ha t g v u enatrt-col- „olency and later on a brevet colonelcy and tate Order of the Fourth Class of the Osmanieh. Loral Kitchener has always known what a good man Sir I Bryan is, and so when the South Af- rican war broke out he was safe for a command. He got tt cavalry bri- gade, and after Cron,ie had been smashed a1 Paardeberg and Sir John French had galloped his cavalry's tails off in that melodramatic expedi- tion to Kimberley, Sir Bryan set out to drive the Dutchmen away from Mafeking."B-P." and his gallant friends in the little Transvaal town were hard pressed and on short com- mons when "The Mahout" turned up to relieve the pressure. When 111 India, to which laird he went back after South Africa, Sir Bryan commanded the 8111 Lucknuw Division, Parenthetically, 'The lluhcut" is n V11,v'fine bridge player and a tre- mendous con"urn<r of cigarettes, and if anyone in our array is ever going 1u smoke ono in the Yild1z Kioslc it will be lt:.. 1. To increase the production of Is the farm two, three or four times, as tv soon as possible, by a good system of b rotation, better tillage method, and th probably better selection of crops, to- m gether with manuring, etc. Details Pl of this phase of the work may be had t'' free upon application to the Field 13 Husbandry .Division,,, Central Expert- li mental Farm, Ottawa. fr 2. To increase the production of tr the live stock do the farm. If these len cows cannot produce, by the best sa commercial feeding methods, more ca than they did during the past year, an they had better be sold immediately and replaced by cows which can show qu a profit. If the feeding methods are fr faulty, these should be improved im- mediately so that the cows may have an opportunity to prove their worth. This also applies to the handling of the pigs and the sheep. 3. The cash incomes from this farm must be increased two or three times. The present income is out of all pro- portion to the necessary expenditures. wh, and also to the large amount of labor tel which is being maintained, There is an sufficient labor on this farm to .pro- Go duce a cash income from the stock it t and also from the fields of .at least Te five times the present income, Gen- a s orally speaking, the expenditures ' seem to be very fair for a farm of this size, especially where improve- up mentseare being made, with the ex- dee caption of the items for the purchase m of feedsand for the grazing of stock, for which certainly appear unnecessary, sen considering the limited stock main- ea tabled. AFTE 100009440000000000004ep.y0 f ee. 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An eccentric mmn is one who tel ways Drains his neighbors— but ho- is cr considered so by the afinees h1 iglti,m•a. Afire w-"F,'ed says he loves brat tie cul•1 over your vigil: eine' 111:6„ Pm glad you told r.1 thee 1 tns a to Mee; iL tln the miler eels IF pANYA EYE IIZSn7X, 1i c,nrl,.krxer scbveF nay nxzn a ,, :vosls 41111 nc 1'xtito, 5' nasa,ssls retiree thr si<•1: and acts as a pr 0' a:alh .f"r,t,l'hnrn.: !,held given an (he tnnlfun, :late for hr"nd Inart:s and n.11 t"t1: nt1mrss. rn"htomsidt 01o(batlit + dtrht8frenh1p( 135.mlrr, t Catl5r and t,ut,•:' r(1'g r•, sipOgAr 5018DY(4An Co., Boor Crltoinlsts olid Th cteriologiets, Gofshxa, lad,, V,S (3., deed t ' • The Green Seal BY CHARLES EDMONDS WALK e. Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc. CHAPTER XXV. Our very simplest undertaking seldom if everdevelop along the line we fondly believe they will. As =natter of fact, oftener than not the eur'prise and upset us by originatin the most unforeseen and exesperatin complications; hidden snares for ou confident feet, unsuspected deadfall for our sanguine heads; and in the en turn out in a way quite contrary t what we had all along expected the would, Here I had been for weeks bend ing every mental and physical energy to the unravelling of a tangle of mys- tery, in which I had become involved without choice or initiative of my own and now, when the snarl was about to fall apart and disclose all the underly- ing motives and causes, I contem- plated the impending process with ut- ter indifference. X eame to myself in a perfectly sat- isfied frame of mind. Lois was safe and unharmed; her arms clasped my neck tightly; she was holding my head to her warm bosom. And I could feel her heart beating with excess of the emotions which my first compre- hending look read in her lovely face bending so close above me; the keen- est distress and anxiety—marvel of marvels! -- a passionate, eager love that yearned over me and cried out to the love for her that was in my own b heart. What cared I then for the diamond, or for Lao Wing Fu? And what car- ed 1 whether James Strang told his story and showered riches upon my dearly beloved, or carried them with him back to Johore? I cared not a whit. They were crowd., ed completely out of my thoughts. Every interest and concern that the world had to offer had grown stale and sordid by comparison with the rushing stream of happiness and contentment that swept over me. But such bliss- ful intervals, alas! have a painful, disappointing way of abandoning one at the supreme moment of ectasy; they are emery, fleeting, like matin vapors in the sun. .As soon as Lois perceived that Il was in possession of my senses and looking up into her heavenly eyes with all the burning ardor that possessed ore, she underwent a change. It was too inconspicuous to be defined, but not to be mistaken; an instinrtive shrinking away from me that made me instantly sit up and take quick no- tice of the rest of my surroundings. We were in the tonneau of one of the an erne )1 c: 1th:eh, ft was mani- fest, had not moved, and the instant I looked out I :gay Struhrr walking rap-, idly toward us. Lois instinctively ap- plied herself to the arrangement of I her hair, which hong about her face and upon her shoulders in enchanting c.nfusion. In a second Struber would be upon us, I reached up impulsively and caught one of her hands. I crushed the back of it to my lips and laid the s Soft palm upon my cheek. I "My darling!" I breathed at her ear (Struber was now within a yard o or two of us), "I can almost forgive a our enemies for all the trouble they i have inflicted upon us because it has hreught this wonderful revelation of u love." She bad no time to reply, and, now that was withdrawn farther away 11 from me, it was too dark to see her face distinctly. But I knew that she f was not resentful She gently disengaged her hand,fs just as the detective hailed us. { "Oi-yoi!" he cried, grinning at me. I b "So yuh ve come out of it -- what? : et Soon as you flickered Miss Fox came' n to an' said she'd look after yuh. Far -10 1:n' Strang an' me's been pretty busy."1 d "I never quite lost myself," lees e , slyly informed him in a subdued voice, s 1 "I knew what was happening. When a Mr. Ferris—when I felt that I could y be of some use I recovered myself fi g quickly enough!" g She knew, then! I had by now got - ✓ ten the night's happenings in true Imre! s t spective, and T recalled everything d 1 right up to the moment when my key-' o!ed-up nerves could stand no more and' Y something snapped; when everything i went suddenly black and Perlin and -j Strang and Struber plunged atine to! relieve fine of my precious burden.! 1 She knewl She was not insensible of those burning kisses, nor the tum- ; ultuous outrush of my newly kindled passion. And she had rallied and ministered to me when I broke down under the terrible thought that sh was dead• Well, if this officious man woul only take himself away I would tel her again, and yet again. It woul !make sure that she knew. I woul leave no room for doubt to ever creep Tinto her mind respecting the depth of my devotion, the height of my ad- oration— "0' course he had his get -away fix ed, just like we'd said; but we nailed that fritzer Dave Maguire, and his mother, the beauty doctor, an'—" "What in thunder are you taking about?" I broke in, all at once real- izing that Struber had been talking ever since he had come up to us, He stopped and looked queerly from me to Lois. With a short laugh he then moved toward the open forward door. "Reckon the sooner I get you two back to town the better it'll" be for yuh. This sure has been one boister- ous night for people what ain't used to boisterous nights . . . Giddap!" he yelled happily as he threw over the starter switch. While the big machine gathered headway, he said to us across his shoulder; "Harry an' Strang 'II come along in another car. Harry's a auto shark' y' know, an' he'll have the tires fixed in no time. Gosh! It's a wonder yuh had anything left but the air in the tires. Autos ain't made for chasin' mountain goats or climbin' trees. Harry '11 bring in the prisoners." "Prisoners?" I eachoed. "Who?" "Yee—three o' them. Madame Car cassi,lrer crooked son, Dave, an' one Chink who gave promise of respon- tlin' to third-degree treatment." The car now demanded his entire' attention and for the present a par-. fad was put to further enlightment from him. I turned to Lois, and again was, overcome with n rapturous sense of ter nearness. The night could not hide her fresh, pure beauty; for every line of her dear face, every shifting light in her fine gray eyes, every bewitching trick of expression, tvas as clear to me as if it ltacl been broad day. But by and by I grew con - does of a chill, if she were purpose - y holding herse'f aloof, and by de- grees my buoyancy and exaltation ozed away, leaving me uncomfort- ble, miserable. I -was racked with mpatience because Struber's now un- welcome presence put a restrietion Pon unguarded exchanges of Senti-" eat and tenderness. Presently she began speaking in er• office tone. "The only hurt I suffered was to my eelings, Mr. Ferris, and to my nerves, o please don't worry about me. 13e- ides. I got rid of the tattoo -Park.". "Please begin at the beginning," I egged, "else I shall never get it raight. I've been so frantic all fight, so torn with dread and anxiety,a ver you --Oh, Lois, Lois!" 0f a sud en I leaned toward her and lowered 1 Vaseline. Tm9e Airlr Capsicum P.tranum JeI'i Breaks up' colds in throat and chest. Better than a mustard plaster for rheu- matism, gout, sprains, cramps, etc. W ill not blister the skin. Sold insanitary tin tubes at chem. Inc and general stores every- where.' Refuse substitutes. Free booklet on request, CHESEBROUc H MFG. CO (Cotuolidatod) X880 Chabot Ave. Montage! e my voice to a whisper. "My darli beautiful girl! When the realize d burst upon me that I loved you; 1, I could only see you in fancy be d dragged to God alone knows what d I eous fate, I thought I would lose senses utterly." ! She caught her breath in ash 'gasp and freed her hands, wh once more I had imprisoned in m �_ 'Please do n't,Mr. " ' said gently. "I. I — h. you hurting me more than you have a !idea of!" There was a genuine ring of s fering in her voice that worried a puzzled nee. There was no present portunity to force an explanation, H that glorious love -light in her ey been only a vagary of my disorde • ed brain? I could not believe it be so; yet the warmth of my enth siasin was being deliberately chilled. I "Please don't, Mr. Ferris," me," she was saying, "until I can e plain." i "But, Lois—my darling—" "Don't—oh, don't!" Her voice, l t and strained, quivered with repres led emotion. Really, really you mu not talk so. -Do wait, please, L me tell you about to -night — abo what happened." 1 My riddle -tortured brain refuse to cope with this situation. 1 could not persist, and so I listened. Ia "When the note came I hadn't the' a slightest suspicion that I was not to • b meet you. When we met the =arils they call Maguire, and he climbed s in with the chauffeur, I was just e 1 b bit dubious,. but I didn't really sus -115 pect that anything was wrong. I S was confident that soon I would be + a with you and Mr, Struber and Mr. Strang. tl "My escort—Mr. Maguire — must al have had his orders, for he didn't ut- hi ter a word all the time we were to- H gether except to give me a few neees- lo r ary directions. His conduct certain- as ly caused me no uneasiness, for he was ee Killen, gruff and i11 -humored, as if the be responsibility of squiring me was pose in itively distasteful to him. Whenever lie curiosity got the better of me and ee I tried to question him he -would an- swer with a grunt and at last he 0. lost patience and counseled me to hi 'hold by horses,' telling me I should du learn everything presently from somebody who knew. I've had mer cheerful companions. "We got out in the road where horse and buggy stood waiting off in a lane. The horse was hitched to a wire fence. The automobile left us turning and going back to town, suppose, and my escort and T got into the Iluggy, The horse was headed, hewn the lane, and hi a few minutes we came to a cluster of frame shacks. "We stopped. Everything was dark and silent, and for a second I experienced a twinge of apprehension,, n inclination to draw back before it tvas too late. But just then a door pened, letting out an oblong of dim ight, and when, I recognized Lao Wing Fu on the threshold I was hate healteted an instant .over takilrge A; but• he would ewe apodigized for the fnconyenienee and discomfort he was putting me tel' "The scoundrel!" i exclaimed. "And I had hoped before this to enjoy the memory of having wrung his neck! What were his plans?" "He wanted, first of a11, the ring; next, the diamond. Then he gave me to understand that before I left him I must submit to having my tatoo- tnark obliterated,'" "So that's where the Carmel wo- man conies in. Lao, with all his cun- ning, chooses poor tools to further his schemes, .I wonder," I added, 'cif he really believed that any decent or re- fined American girl could be per- suaded by that blowsy woman to sub- mit to her. alleged treatments'? Faughl" "I can see," Lois said reflectively, "where a Chinaman of even his pow- er and influence would 'be at a dis- advantage in dealing with white people, There's no common Ievel upon which they can come together and op- portunities to advance his schemes are correspondingly limited. White) men or women who would lend them -I selves to his purposes would have to, below indeed to do so. I suspect he t ons has some hold over the Gamest wo- man or her son." . in "I wouldn't be surprised if you're hid-' right," I agreed. "But go on about my; Lao." "His ultimatums were in the na- ort time of a climax to a story he started ich to tell me. But his evening's pro- ne, grain suffered an interruption that she; threw everything into disorder; it ere turned out so differently from what 11y he must have planned—when he learn- ied that you and the officers were of -I coming, I suppose — that I got no nd, very clear idea of. what he was telling op_ me. 1 ad "You know, I was supposed to be es waiting for you land Mr. Strang; I was principally occupied in wondering why ee, you didn't come, I was growing Wer- e-! vows over the delay, and Lao got only a divided attention." she: The extraordinary aspects of this x_! adventure that she was recounting so simply, and with a restraint that was 1 habitual with her, filled me with o eel amazement and admiration. s- (To be continued.) st et) SIR BRYAN MAHON. ut1i1 A Fine, Dashing Soldier of ,Fifty- • three With Good Record. A Mahout is a person who, by the id of a small sharp spike, controls an pparently unwieldy and unintelligent, ulk, and it may be that this _ fine' Wier earned this sobriquet in the ervice for a somewhat similar attri- ute. General Sir Bryan Mahon, who in command of the British forces in aloniki, is called by. that name in the rmy. Sir Bryan Mahon is only 53, and is ierefore, one of the "young" gener-! s. ITe has been a cavalryman all s service, and first went into. the 8th ussars when he was 23. He was not ng in obtaining his baptism of fire, things went in those piping times 'peace, for when the KhaIifa first gan to proclaim himself as the re- d carnation of the prophet's first utenant, he went to Egypt. This e as in 1896. i 'In the Dongola show be got a D.S. , and in the fighting that followed ghee up the Blue Nile, Atbara, Ont-' t `man, end Khartoum, where K. The Virtue of the Natural Leaf Is perfectly preserved In the sealed 11 �ivlf� I 81 4 packet. Young tender leaves only, grown with utmost care and with flavour as the prime object,gare used - to produce the famous Salads blends. What a 100 Acre Farm Should Produce, 1 Previous to receiving your letter I had read the article in your Deceniber 31st issue, and I would offer the fol- lowing criticisms of the conditions of affairs on this one hundred acre farm. Perhaps you will not agree with me in every point, but .I certainly think that, with the limited knowledge which I have regarding this proposi- tion the criticisms are justified, writes Mr. E. 5, Archibald, Dominion Animal Husbandman in Canadian i armer. A hundred acre farm of good char acter soil should be producing a great deal more than this hundred acres mentioned. In looking over the state- ment one finds that the live stock kept amounts to only 4 horses, 7 milch cows, 12 head of young cows, 15 pigs of all ages, and 20 ewes; yet in the accounts one notices items for the purchase of hay, 5 or 6 tons; straw, 1 to 2 tons, and chop for cat- tle and pig feed amounting to over $70, with a total for feed purchased of $177.26. A hundred sere farm should produce average crops approx- imately as follows:— 10 acres of corn ensilage,,, .150 tons 5 acres of potatoes and turnips and rnangels, say 900 bushels of po tatoes and 1,200 bushels of tur- nips and mangels. 5 acres of peas 100 bushels 5 acres of wheat 200 bushels 15 acres of oats or mixed oats and barley 900 bushels. 20 acres of hay 40 tons 16 acres of rough land and bush. 20 acres of pasture. 4 acres of building sites, roadways, lawn, orchard, etc. This is a rough calculation which, of course, would be varied depending upon the layout of the farm, the char- acter of the soil, and the character of farming carried on. Many hun- red acre farms in Western Ontario pt'odpce a great deal more than above stintatecl. This foodstuff would be ufficient to feed at least twice the lumber of live stock maintained thereon. Either the hundred acre farm men- ioned is very poorly farmed or the . ,lir Yitl t Dread of young stock, it must be most unprofitable. Again one notices that four 2 -year-olds should have weighed at. least 1,000 pounds each, which means that they were sold at only 5 cents. per pound live weight. Prob- ably they were worth no more, but had they been properly finished they Knight easily have sold for two to three cents more per pound live weight. The ridiculous part of the meat question is that the four 2 -year- old steers did not produce as much in- come as was expended in the house- hold for the butcher bills. Again, the seven cows produced ap- proximately 9 gallons of cream and 46 pounds of butter per cow, or. a total of approximately 75 pounds of butter per cow. The cow which does? t not produce 300 pounds of butter per b annum on a hundred acre farm valued at $100 per acre is a losing proposi- tion. Generally speaking, this hundredi1 acre farm is not producing either in t field crops or in manufactured pro ducts, namely, beef, pork, and dairy products, one-quarter of the amount which it should. However, in this statement one notices that improve- s ments in the fields, etc., if such were m made, are not credited; also that im- f provements in the stock, if such were.t " made, are not credited. One also no- a Gees that the twenty ewes have pro- t hich no income either in lamb, mut d ton or wood, Generally speaking, the following w suggestions for the immediate im- b provement of conditions might be th made:— s CANADIANS TAUNT ENEMY WITH DRUM•' THEIR IDLE HANDS MANUTAC. TITHED TROUBLE, Cowpunchers Gathered 'a Band and Played the Russian National Hymn. Wearying of a life of comparative idleness for back of the actual fighting: line,' away from the trenches and around divisional headquarters, a; bat- talion of Canadian soldiers, mostly men from the western prairies, Wren of outdoors and accustomed to a life of freedom and activity, sought amusement. Cowpunchers, many of. them were, with the cowman's mis- chievousness and simplicity, Life pal- led. They were within the sound of the guns, but they were not firing,. themselves nor were they having the thrill of being fired on. So idle hands though it had musicians, and so a band manufactured trouble. This particu- lar battalion was without a band, al - was considerd essential. Mouth -or- gans there were, but these were not enough, a band was the only one thing that would do. But in that shell swept area, where shops of any sort were few, no instruments were to be had. And as the soldier forages for food so started a campaign for music- al instruments. Once upon a time the community of Nieppe had a a town band, but that was in the old days and the members of the band long since have gone to the front with the French forces, But their instruments remained behind, in the Town Hall. This alluring fact was discovered by men of Saskatchewan and Alberta and one morning the bat- alion had the nucleus for a splendid and, eight - instruments all told. The night before there was not a trage of "the makings" of a band; the next morning there was. That's all there s to it, and even the official investiga- ion that followed had not served to P anywthing more. Needed a Drum. The eight instruments, however, were not enough. There was, for en - Mace, no. big bass drum, and for any a martial air a big bass drum s esential. Especially necessary is it o the playing of the Russian national nthem, which has an importance v afterward developed. The Cana- ians in the rear sent word to their comrades on the firing line. They anted a bass drum. They needed a ass drum. The firing line is about o last place to seek one of these in- truments of melody, but it was flown that the Germans across the ay possessed not only a bass drum, ut all sorts of other instruments. So e Canadians determined to make the atter one of national honor and sup - y their needs from the enemy enches. In September came the big ritish effort to break the German nes. Trench after trench was taken om the Kaiser's soldiers, and on one eneh in particular, where it was own there existed a band, the as- ult was especially vigorous and the pture speedy, Thus the bass drum d the other instruments essential to complete band were found and ickly sent to the rear to the men . oni the west. It was not long before the battalion had a splendid musical organization. Finally the battalion moved up to take its turn in the trenches. At that moment there came news of a Russian victory in the east. The Canadians, well entrenched in trenches that once were German, found a German scholar, o, do German, painted a great sign, ling of the victory of the Russians, d' hoisted it over the trench, The `mans, only a few yarde away, saw hrough their periscopes and a cry of utonic rage went up, emphasized by hewer of hand grenades and bombs, Storm of Bombs. Then the Saskatchewan band struck the Russian national air. From p down in the trenches, whine the usicians sat on the ground and blew all they were worth, the enagnifi- t strains of the grand and holy air me upwards. A storm of bombs was the German response, making, so mueh noise that the band desisted, the Cana- ditans sitting tight, in petted, :,lfcty, 10 feet below the 5nrfaCe. When the Germans tired of their bombing and there camp a hill in the conversation, the band instantly 1 Shiner to Y p tam, k ec A proverb revised—"A fr ieed 10 need; said a writer, '9s n friend you don't need." oil must be in a very poor state of e fertility, and needs very radical ^jyr yeet, iiµ, steps in improvement. A hundred ;' tMy acre farm which is not capable of pro- '1151 ro- ;tviding hay, grain, and other feeds for > the small number of live stock car - 1 j s ter. ried thereon could not be profitable. One notices in . looking over the o statement that two men are maintaii ed on this farm, and considering the feeds raised there is far from suf- ficient labor to keep two men busy, especially during the winter months, with the small number of live stock which is being kept. Aside from this, one notices the special charges for cleaning well, sawing wood, and the like, which Wright be easily done by these men. Again, one notices such items as $S0 for the gracing of cattle. If this hundred acre farm cannot produce 35 tons of hay and provide sufficient pas- ture for the 7 milds cows and 12 0X0 01 0000 ' MAreel A+Ot fial g 00 r VOXIN lieawaseoie of your concluded that 1 J1111111111111111111i11111111111111li�1 �" sour party. g 0 ' "Well, an hour or more must hem a� �ar4 elapsed before I was dillusionec!. qIt tki�y ` ����� i I�� 4., wo is herd for me to give you a definite ip! conception of just why I became so lT! ♦� ' \illilllililllli 6 terrified—for I was, at the last, in an �fsdl 51 (awful panic of terror." She laughed / { I he an embarrassed way that told me more than bei words did: she was • not easily frightened. "But that • was s tv e hnlh broke away froth m th ;em anti ran—ran blindly, wildly out into ! the night--" !`l�+ And into my outstretched acme" I finished for her. "I was waiting for • you. I had heard your cry for help.", eee 1 Foe just an instant one small hand' was laid upon my arm, and after ' I quack warm pressure was withdrawn ai 1 heard a sound like a soh, But Lois immediately tools up the thread ege I of her'recital, her voice quivering with indignation. I "Oh, that horrible, h"ri'ible crea Lure! When she touched me 1 ' thought I would die with term' tied 1 disgust!" • a 1 "Yes. But this was after Lao Wing iPu end I had talked. You mast un-, {deeetand that outwardly he was a con - I stant model of courtesy and politeness, i Behind that courtesy, though, lin 1 was ruthless sled cruel. lie had mule his piens, and tie fru' its he was able he meant, to carry them out, 1.ogar1l- ' less of me 01' rmr 'feelings, or any - 1 body, chic's, 1f my life lied been an obstacle I'm eeeneent be would not e � 1111 es, alt ,,,rllil!IIL ter+ 1� 4 Why bear those pains A simile bottle win COlivsrece you 1' ' an.'s Liniment Arrests Inflammation. Prevents severe oomph - cations. Just put a few drops on the pain f hZ spot unit the Pain ills. appears. General bicho,,. finally brought the Khalifs to book, he got a nest brevet ha t g v u enatrt-col- „olency and later on a brevet colonelcy and tate Order of the Fourth Class of the Osmanieh. Loral Kitchener has always known what a good man Sir I Bryan is, and so when the South Af- rican war broke out he was safe for a command. He got tt cavalry bri- gade, and after Cron,ie had been smashed a1 Paardeberg and Sir John French had galloped his cavalry's tails off in that melodramatic expedi- tion to Kimberley, Sir Bryan set out to drive the Dutchmen away from Mafeking."B-P." and his gallant friends in the little Transvaal town were hard pressed and on short com- mons when "The Mahout" turned up to relieve the pressure. When 111 India, to which laird he went back after South Africa, Sir Bryan commanded the 8111 Lucknuw Division, Parenthetically, 'The lluhcut" is n V11,v'fine bridge player and a tre- mendous con"urn<r of cigarettes, and if anyone in our array is ever going 1u smoke ono in the Yild1z Kioslc it will be lt:.. 1. To increase the production of Is the farm two, three or four times, as tv soon as possible, by a good system of b rotation, better tillage method, and th probably better selection of crops, to- m gether with manuring, etc. Details Pl of this phase of the work may be had t'' free upon application to the Field 13 Husbandry .Division,,, Central Expert- li mental Farm, Ottawa. fr 2. To increase the production of tr the live stock do the farm. If these len cows cannot produce, by the best sa commercial feeding methods, more ca than they did during the past year, an they had better be sold immediately and replaced by cows which can show qu a profit. If the feeding methods are fr faulty, these should be improved im- mediately so that the cows may have an opportunity to prove their worth. This also applies to the handling of the pigs and the sheep. 3. The cash incomes from this farm must be increased two or three times. The present income is out of all pro- portion to the necessary expenditures. wh, and also to the large amount of labor tel which is being maintained, There is an sufficient labor on this farm to .pro- Go duce a cash income from the stock it t and also from the fields of .at least Te five times the present income, Gen- a s orally speaking, the expenditures ' seem to be very fair for a farm of this size, especially where improve- up mentseare being made, with the ex- dee caption of the items for the purchase m of feedsand for the grazing of stock, for which certainly appear unnecessary, sen considering the limited stock main- ea tabled. AFTE 100009440000000000004ep.y0 f ee. 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