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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-3-16, Page 6This Advertisement may induce you to try the ]first packet of 11 but we rely absolute) j on the inimitable flavour and quality to make you a permanent customer. We will even offer to give this first trial free if you will drop us a postal to Toronto Fael f,?�3 p ea; l 5:a:?.— ire i' l lamaseries are usually perched .'way ' up on acme mountain -peak, an' the lamas, being a suspicious, inhpspit, able set, don't invite calla from Strangers. "Well, the lamasery e' Tao -Fn was in a class by itself. Ages ago it hatched out a brand o' belief that stir- red up all kinds o' persecution from the orthodox Lumaists; but e, late years its creed had begun to trickle down through the rest o' China, spreading over the whole -country until it developed into a powerful secret society, half -religious an' half -politic-,. al in nature --something like the Jesuits, you know. "Those chaps believe they huve a perfect right to kill anybody who's done, 'em a wrong, an' you can see how a gang o' men with political am - _a Litt:+ne, who can persuade a bis; M>; enut.rh following o the populace to r agree with 'em, can get abort (vely. � thingthey're a mind to go a,t,r. The whole ereintry act this time STA. in- feter with Tao—fee—ern, an' aerie from getting within reaching listance o' the dimnund, the idea -o trying to ap- prnpriate any o' thea -sacred rdiCS didn't just exactly fill me with en - LIP thusiasm. a e Green Seal t fly CiUARi,ks EDMUNDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "Thu fleterreeeter IIttbY," "The Time Leek,' ete. CI1.IPTER .•'.XVIII. Centa), Tis alliance with my ;rather tame bout in the most eataral way im- e ,.:(1•le. Both leen were young and cnteeerieint ; S., Bing had a knack of digging ',p uppeetunitiee ler financial meet, and he had the time; my father's; time wn.• pretty well taken up by his business;, but he had some capital which Strang Lacked. Besides, father never leereeci to speak Chinese, which, Strang told us, -"Steve and I picked up as easy as cwearin'." Lao Wing Fu the two learned to know through various business deals ''We trusted d him more than most. Chinks," Strang explained. "You mustn't get the idea that he's an out an' out crook, because he isn't. He simply goes according to the Chink way o' looking at things, which isn't a white man's by a whole lot, "For several years, while I was making Honk -Kong my headquarters, I was still Samuel Wallets. But like the bad penny he was, Steve turned up an' about the first thing he does is land enc in n peck o' trouble with the British authorities, It was a mat- ter o' opium running that I needn't go into here more than to say it was the first lot I ever shipped to old Beef Barwick at Honolulu. He used to run it into Frisco in the hold of his old schooner, the Mary Kenton. That was a good many years ago, but see how all these things are all mixed up together. salary was the daughter o' Beef's partner, Anthony J. Kenton, an old-time Frisco merchant and pillar o' the church, an' she married Beef. She was Meyer Harwick's mother. Anth- ony J. an' Beef founded what it now the Kenton -Hardwick Company, the biggest importing concern of Chinese an' other Oriental products in the U.S. Beef an' old Anthony's both cashed in long ago; but I own nearly half o' the Kenton -Hardwick stock, besides looking after the Eastern end o' the business. "But the point's this"—he chuckled: "Meyer Hardwick's fortune smells o' opium, an' he'd sooner have anybody think his father'd been a pirate than to have that found net. But, pshaw! That used to be the proper way o' making money quick; it only needed a little nerve. Why, your father an' I, now—But we haven't time to go into that. "I had to light out o' Kongkong, alt' it was a good many months before I was free to come an' go there openly. There's some parts o' China where' I'm still remembered as Sam Willets; ! but for the most part I'm Jim Strang, o' Johore Bahr). "Major hector Sylvester was a' crony o' your father's, though I'd; never got acquainted with him till the time o' the Tibet expedition, Peter 13 Ferris an' Major Sylvester were in' a set that a rough beach -comber like mn din't have anything in Neuman with, though o' course Peter B. an' I were together a whole lot in n lm: inees way. The time came, though, when the two o' them together had use! for me—you can bet your sweet life; they slid! "It came about in this way: For � years, off an' on, I'd been hearing about a whale of a big diamond that ' v:: .:(id !r. he omewbere up in the Khan' country. It via' kept a.. a sort "' feta.. h in one o' their himaseriee. It was a rough :tone, but worth the pickings of a proviree. Never got anything very definite, y' understand, nor dint often hear the thing men - tamed at all—just word here art' a word there while I wee trading round at different places. But after a while I got to noticing that every time a caravan came down from Li- kiang or Ching -too, somebody from it sooner or later would drift into Can- ton with fresh stories o' this wonder- ful diamond, or else I'd stumble across sopteone who'd recently heard about it from someone else. "So it went on until it came to me that there must be fire where there I was so much smoke, an' I went to inevstigating in earnest on my own (hook. I "For a time I could dig up nothing ' more definite than the fairy stories I'd already heard over an' over again. 'I was still under cover for the Hong- kong now an' then without worrying much over whether I was due to be nabbed. "One night Luey came to my room to tell me there was a man in the shop who might tell me something about my diamond. 'What does he want?' was my first question. It's not for nothing that a Chink comes vuluteering even a little thing like in- formation: 'He come seeking you,' says Luey. Says I: 'If he's not a bloody Brttieh bent on persecuting an honest trader, show him in.' j "Luey swore by the shades of his illustrious ancestors for a thousand generations back that he could vouch for his 'cousin.' 'We are of noble blood,' Luey told me. Isis father, I gathered, was a kwan who'd run afoul o' the Government an' had his pro- perty confiscated. "'What's the chap's name?' I asked. 'Loa King Fu,' says Luey. 'Why didn't you say so at first?' says II. 'Show him in.' "Y' see, I already knew Lao as a pretty shrewd young chap who'd had some dealings with your father as well as me; but I supposed him to be in Nanking or Shanghai, which, I want, to say, is a long ways from Canton. Lao told me he'd been on my trail for months. An' then he gave me the' first real, simon-pure information about the diamond I'd so far stumbled across --made it at last seem real. . "He told me he'd heard in one way an' another about my interest in the' stone, an' that circumstances were such that he might help me to it—if I'd help him to something he wanted. "'Where is this amazing diamond?' I asked him. I hadn't an idea he'd tell me, but when he answered up prompt I saw why there was no reason' to keep the place secret. 'It's at Tao fu,' says he; an' as far as getting at it was concerned, he might as well've said the North Pole, or the Tower o' Landon along with the crown jewels. "In them days nobody knew any -j thing about the Tibet country to speak of—an' they know blamed little now. The country's wrinkled over with' Imnasarice—homes o' the Buddhist monks an' nuns, y' know. These 0 p,°WARDSBUIt' 8k9.0- nyis0 13 p [ltY Jia tuba+Wilf1E" le a pure whits Com Syrup—moredell• sato in savor than "C,so ,c Brand". korlraps you would preterit. Delicious with Blanc Mange I3ave you never tried "%rnrcw•l3rend'' with Slane Mange and other Corn Starch Puddings? They seem to blend perfectly—each improves the other—together, they snake simple, in- expensive desserts, that everyone says are "simply delicious", ED'WARDSBLIR6 "CROWN BRAND D CORN SYRUP is ready to serve over all kinds of Ptldtliegs— ruakes a new and attractive dish of suck an old favorite as flaked Apples—is far cheaper than butter or preserves witetr spread ou bread—and is best for Candy -making, ASK YOUR GROCER—IN 2, 0,10 Ana 20 1.5, 7,55. THE CANADA STARCH CO., LIMITED Bead OIlice a Montreal 30 MOM Alla 11111 HRH ILII 11111111111111 1 11(111 11 II 111 110 l 1falinallIIEMIEffilffia There'd ben considerable talk nbeet the English Government sending an exploring part;; into Tibet, lar' t,i that end negotiation; had been ender way at Pekin for several menthe. I.ao said he had it straight that if the ex- pedition ever started, Sylveter would be in command. He an' his wife had big reputations as explorera, on' in the nature o' things they were Lound to get somewhere close to Tao -fu. "'What is it you want?' I by no' by asked Lao. "'It is like this, illustrious One,' he says: ' when the expedition. starts I want to go with it, Your friendship with Iiwam Ferris cang et me a bil- let as interpreter. I know the Lh'as- an an' Drupa dialects. "'That ought to make it easy, then,' I told him. 'But why you want to•go at all,' I says, 'is beyond me.' "He sat studying a bit; then his answer made me sit up an' pay strict attention. Says he: 'There are things in this world greater than diamonds; the greatest of them lies at the la- masery o' Tao -fu. I want it' "Not unless you're a pretty big gun among the-Tao-fus,' I said, 'can you ever hope to succeed in such a crazy undertaking.' You see, I wanted to make sure of an idea he'd given In e. 'There is much; he says, 'that must remain unspoken between me an' you. Tao -fu is far out o' the world to be the source o' spiritual guidance for the Thrice -blessed One's children. I hold a commission. But this must remain a secret between us.' "'Enough,' I says. 'I'll get word to Kwan Ferris at once.' "Six days later Peter B. Ferris, Lao Wing Fu an' I were sitting with our heads together in my room at Luey Chang's. "'Funny thing,' says your father, 'but Syl an' I've had some talk about this same diamond.' Then he went, nn to tell me how centuries before a king of Nepal had sent the diamond to a dalailama of some kind o' offer- � ing, but it had only caused trouble because it'd been stolen from a Budd- hist temple somewhere in India, en' the king o' Nepal had no more right to it than any o' us had. Major Syl- vester got it all out o' some old re-, cord• • "Well, the upshot o. the whole thing was that when the expedition started Lao an' I wen with it. If he got the diamond, the four of us are to have' equal shares in IL" For Neuralgia and Sick Headache Use it soon gives relief. Sold in clean, handv tin turns at chemists and general stores everywhere. Refuse substitutes. Illustrated booklet mailed 011 rerluesi. VS;9..•. ", yr j ?.� '1' CHESEIiROfiGFI MFG. CO 1860 Chabot Ave. M_onhcar and on the back of an envelope drew the character on the ring with with a pencil. "1n the ancient Chinese writings," he explained, "that means 'dead; 'to die,' 'death';' Ho quickly drew an- other and quite dissimilar character, "In modern Chinese this means the same thing. But any Tao -fu man would recognize the other soon enough." 1111. WO, 006 I (To be Continued.) OEYt e Farin CHAPTER XXIX. Strang's narrative 'of the exepdi-'3 tion into Tibet would fill a volume. Recounted to us from time to time be-, fore his return to the Far East, in the matter-of-fact tone one might em- ploy in describing the most ordinary of everyday events, it grew into a wonderful chronicle of a stupendous undertaking; but I am obliged to con- fine myself to those details that are necessary to make everything cleat! For centuries the Tao-ful lamasery; had been the shrine of the sect's most i sacred relic, This was a ring of great antiquity, which in reality was nothing more than an ingenious in- strument for making assassinations' safe and easy. It was venerated in a phrase that signified "The Kiss of the Silent Death," and whenever a ictim was marked for punishment a Bearer of the Kiss" was chuson by lot and sent forth to carry out the de- cree of the order. In the course of weeks, or perhaps months, a con- spicuous figure In the nation's govern- ment, maybe some powerful viceroy or mandarin, or maybe only "an ob- scure merchant or artisan, would be found dead with a strange sign upon his forehead, which the people had learned to dread as betokening the visitation of a swift and mysterious end. The "Kiss" was bestowed upon rich and poor, lofty and humble, withl exact impartiality, It was this ring, investings ate possessor with leader- ship, which Lao Wing Fa had been t empowered to wrest from the remote' and all but inaccessible lamasery of Tao -fu, It was Here I took occasion to ask Strang whether he understood the significance of the ideograph on the ade seal. "Had trouble finding anybody who ould read it, eh?" ho returned, 'Wellrmaybe that's because it'belonge 1 o the old loan e' symbol writing, the Ma that was in vogue when the ring was made," lie pulled his chair up to my dealt s v rr "Get Rid of That Little Oat." Smith and Jones were neighboring ferment in one of Ontario's banner oat -growing townships, who had en- tered their fields in the standing grain competition. A dozen others were contestants along with them, hut by early harvest it was generally con ceded' that these two competitors were so far in the lead that the prizes were sure to be awarded their fields. In terest was keen, and finally it was agreed that Jones was to be the win net of first money, writes Mr. John Kyle in Canadian Farm. Imagine the consternation when the judge gave the award to Smith! An indignation meeting was held, a letter expressive of the popular indignation sent off to the Department of Agri- culture, declaring that that particular neighborhood was done with all simi- lar competitions. The Department immediately sent a copy of this letter to the judge. The judge knew that he had done his simple duty There was no doubt in his own mind that he had given a just decision, and be re- solved to investigate. • Accordingly, he asked the farmers to have the fields threshed, at his ex- pense, and to have the actual yield of grain and straw decide the :natter. To the surprise of everyone except the judge, Smith's field was the win- ner by several bushels. Apologies were made and another letter mailed to the Department, making amends for the injustice done to an efficient public servant. "But bow did you detect the differ- ence in the yields?" was the puzzled query put to the judge. "Simplest thing in the world," he explained. "I noticed that in Jones' field that there were a number of heads that had few light kernels in them, but the rest of the head con- sisted of something that while it re- sembled grain was really chaff. There were scarcely any of these grains in the other field. It was the presence of these poor heads that made the difference. I have got into the' way of looking for these heads." And how do you account for them?" was the next question. "These men will tell you• Mr. Jones when you cleaned your grain you got out all the weeds and all the light oats. But you didn't set your screen to get mid of the little oats. These little oats germinated all right, but they hadn't vitality enough to ern - able thein to head out with every ker- nel well developed. These seeds fail- ed at the very point wheretheir strength would have counted roost for filling your bins." "On the other hand, Mr, Smith either hand-picked his grain or set his screens to get rid of those little seed oats." There's a lesson in this for the farmer in all his seed selection. Tho corn grower who selects the best eave from his fields, breaks off a couple of inches 'from the ends of the cob and plants only the big kernels, A few hours devoted to careful -seed se - action before the rush of planting is n sight may easily increase the re - urns from the average field by ten per cent, C t k Good Grass Seed is Important - Our clever crops 'are becoming male and more of an uncertainty. In the proper rotation of clops there is a place fox them that is hard to fill with an efficient substitute, *There is to- day scarcely a more tkeklish problem ,efot'e the farmer. Clover crops are bard to grow, but they are hard to do without. Gener- ally when a poor each le the only 'exult obtainer), there is a tendency to lay the blame upon the land, Probe Majority of caeca. But in placing the Warne there it another matter quite often overlooked, and it very import- ant one at that, It is the Matter of having and sowing only the best seed, To -day our ablest authorities are generally convinced that the beat seed to sow is seed that is acclimated to the locality, the climate, and the soil, Other things being equal, this ie the seed that should give the best results. Other things being equal, seed that is grown from plants acclimated to a warmer climate than our own are apt to be the most uncertain, In such a year as the present one, when' home- y grown clover seed is scarce, there in some possibility that such seed may be offered for sale. It a matter for which the fanner should be on the lookout. • Inferior seed, no matter where grown, is a poor investment. In Da 1~ the seeds are small, e .m 1l, and the amount of natural food available for , the sprouting plant is not big. A shrunken seed possesses very little of this, and is apt to possess little vital- ity or vigor. Good, plump, well-de- veloped seed is the best. When buying grass or clover seeds, the farmer should take care'to ascer- tain that the seed is free from weed seeds, especially the more trouble- some kinds. If an analysis has not been obtained, then it a good plan to submit a sample to the Seed De- partment at Ottawa, and ascertain its purity before sowings—Canadian Countryman, Grain Saved by Feeding Floors. Those who have used feeding floore for their hogs have found them to be good grain savers, and concrete feed- ing floors are coming -into favor. Such a floor should be six Inches thick, and, if not laid the against to barnyard pavement, p t, should have a curb extending from twelve to eight- een inches -below the surface of the ground. This will prevent the hogs from rooting under the floor. The floor should slope slightly toward one cor- ner in order to carry off rain or water used in washing. A rim around the outside edge will prevent grain from being pushed off into the mud. 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The task et' carrying food supplier, and munitions to 1111 army of '4,000,000,000 t + •r =d on n ale r concentrated lir„ line of 200 miles long by twenty deep, he terms the most complicated -of the war, "It does not begin ba give 15 concep- tion of the vast transportation prob. .lents involved," bo says, "to say that daily 25,000 tons of ratfont must be forwarded to the soldiers, that 1,000,- 000 quarts --a' veritable river -- • of wipe must reach them, that seventy- five tons of lead must be Shipped /or each .German killed or wounded, or that the cost of war material forward- ed each day is $10,000,000, One rail- road alone furnishes snore bhan 3,500 cars a day for army transport pur- poses; 100,000 automobiles and 009,- 000 09;000 wagons are required to distribute the shipments at the front," The system of transportation and distribution in the confused conditions obtaining just after the outbreak of the war, be says, was much like that of Louis XIV., or Napoleon. With time and experience, fo ever, the sys- tem s- tem has been developed into a regu- lar graded series of stations and sub- sbations, from the station-magasins, or ceutral supply stations, of which there are about twenty 'peeled from fifty to 100 miles behind the front, to the gates de ravibaillment, the local stations situated from five to ten miles behind the front, from whieh supplies are transported in army wagons, mo- tor trucks or by narrow gauge roads to the artillery and trencbcfr. Provisions for Emergencies. The central supply stations are the clearing houses for all army supply consignments. They aro situated at strategic points within easy reach of seaports and obher important cities and usually possessing unusual freight facilities. Each forwards supplies for 50,000 or 100,000 or in some cases more men a day. From one to three trains are despatched every day to each gare regulatrice, or regulating atabion, where they are classified and forwarded to the gare de rav- itailiment. The gates de ravitaill- ment keep ten days supplies on hand to guard against congestion. It is roughly figured that the daily require- mInt of an army corps of 40,000 men is forty carloads. The central supply stations are equipped with the main bakeries for the army. There too the wine and coffee are received in bulk and ap- portioned for reshipment. The wine comes in tank cars not unlike Ameri- can oil cars and is distributed in small barrels The coffee is roasted in the centres and sent out in bags, "There are eight tracks, each 1,300 feet inelengtl!," Mr. Hiatt's article says in an outline of the methods of making up and distributing a supply train, "laid to care for the trains that ,are made up daily. Bulky supplies, hay for the horses, bread for the men, shells for the cannon, whatnot, aro carefully put into the same ear, while the small groceries, the petits vivres, the meats, coffee, sugar, tobacco, sorb, pipes, cheese, aro put together, per- haps in the same car. This distribu- ttiion is made to prevent eonfwsidn in deliveries and disputes as to quanti- es. Sometimes Brave Shells. "When the cars are duly labelled, bills of lading made for their contents, the train made up, soldiers and of- ficers from the various departments represented board the train, and it pulls out, to the main track with the right of way. "When it reaches the gare regula- tlice, where dozens of other such trains are centring, the trains aro or- dered to such and such a destination, perhaps flrsb broken up and part of their load sent one way, part another, . according to the needs of the day. "As a train from the gare regule- trice reaches the third and last stage of ibs journey it drops .off a car of supplies hare, another there, as the. orders run, if a battle is raging at the front, the engineer may receive orders to wait until night before ven- turing along the danger zone, or if the need is pressing he may brave she shells anti proceed" It is to'Laugh. "Human nature is a strange thing," says the man with the, aptitude for uttering platitudes• "Now the things that amuse me do not 1nnuse you at all." "Quito true," .replies his friend: "But there are compensations, Now, it amuses me to see that you are amused by the things that "amuse you." Encouraged. "You look blue and discouraged, old man." "I'm not myself this; morning." "Well, that's nothing to reel so bad about,"