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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-10-19, Page 6A Bag Of Gold Porters were slamming the doors The express was on the point of leav- ing the station of tho seaport town. Gilbert Carson took the girl's hands in his. "I'll get that money hack by hook or by crook, Gladys!" She smiled up at him. ' "Then I'll keep my promise," "I wish 1 hadn't to go away and Ioavo you. Why, by the tune I'm back you'll have left Trenmouth for good!" "Yes; we'll be living in London." "You'll let me know your new ad- • dress, so that I can write? Don't for- get that." The whistle sounded. He hurried into his compartment as the train be- gan to move. Gladys Whitfield stood and waved until it had disappeared; then she turned slowly towards the' exit. At sight of an acquaiatance she forced a smile, assuming a cheerful air. "So he's going abroad?" commented the middle-aged lady chaffingly. "Mr. Casson? Yes; on business." "He was at school for two or three years on the Continent, wasn't he? A distinctly foreign appearance, too, 1 wonder you don't prefer a real Eng- lishman Miss ! nglishman, my dear!" an answer to her message, and soon on Miss Whitfield reddened. g purpose to identify him. I'd met i'• "He's quite English!" she protest- I afterwards he appeared in person, hire once in Berlin years ago." ed warmly, 1 The Farrance: tactfully left them to- His father looked up timidly, re -1 "On father's side, yes. But his! gether. garding him in pride and relief. mother his was Austrian; so he's bound I I m better now, he assured her. Gladys Whitfield gripped his fingers to have inherited some of her national! But his appearance and his voice in hers. characteristics, And, b *cl A I belied the words. One glance at his "You've been home nearly a week, "I'm sure mistaken," the�face sent the girl to his side. yet you didn't write!" girl interrupted,you're and walked quickly' ter?"she asked gently. you tell me what's the mat. "How could I, when you forgot to away I put your new address at the head of * * * * * * his head. our letters, careless girl?" He smile No news had come from the travel- I „ „ I'm He shookY not really ill," he muttered. ed. "Look here, we must celebrate ler for some little time. When the ! No; nor mad either, in spite of your the occasion! And, Gladys, you know war started at the beginning of he friends' opinion. I dare say they've already about the fifty pounds. I've gust, Gladys Whitfield, full of anxiety, mentioned this." saved it—I said I would. Don't you imagined him stranded somewhere inI He pulled out a small canvas bag. think that some might be spent on a Europe, unable to get back. "I've Iost my purse, or been robbed ring?"—London Answers, of it in the journey. But"—he would Sometimes, at her new home in Lon -t not meet her gaze—"this money's' BILLETING COMEDIES. don, the girl longed for the Weat!taintod; so, even though I found my- Country and the sea. She had few; self penniless in London—" Many Excuses Are Made to Kee friends in town, and was apt too eas-! He spoke unsteadily. The i 1, p ily to become low-spirited. One after- i g Soldiers Out of Homes. noon in particular, as she went to mystified, laid a hand on his shoulder. "And how is Gilbert?" she asked foolish people who are id to visit an old schoolmate, she walked,. anxiously. "I'm sure he must have place obstacles in the way of of officers with drooping shoulders, In a tired it had plenty of exciting adventures. I'm who call to billet soldiers upon them fashion. Iso glad he's back in England." would profit by reading the billeting Then suddenly, as she turned into a Henry Casson looked up. stories told by Patrick Miceli in the main thoroughfare, her lassitude dis-) "How do you know?" he demanded, Amateur Army. The stories are not appeared; her face lit up; she bent ; in a muffled voice. without their humorous aspect : forward in eager surprise. On the I "Why, I saw him on my way here "On one occasion an officer asked a opposite pavement she had caught this afternoon!" With a convulsive effort,citizen, an elderly man of paunch and sight of Gilbert Casson himself, English dignity, how many soldiers he Mr. Cas - "Here in London! And 1 didnt evencould keep In his house. 'Weil, it's know he was back at all!" she thought son rose to his fe 9t. Hire this—' the man began. gladly. Where—where . 1 "Have you any room to spare here?" She told him, and described his She would have run across, but the son's companion. demanded the officer, traffic prevented. Through the stream} aA police -inspector!" echoed Henry '"`tone except on the mat,' was the of omnibuses and taxi -cabs she had 1 Casson mechanically, caustic answer. occasional glimpses of him. Gravely He seemed to have aged ten years 'Two oar the mat, then,' snapped he was talking to his companion—a as he turned towards the girl. Their the officer, and a pair of tittering tall man, in the uniform of a police g Tommrtie were I°ft at Eire door. inspector—who moved closer beside , eyes met. Then he dropped his head. Sadder than this, even, was the him, holding his arm. He did not You'll have to know sooner or plight of the lady and geatlemau at glance over to where the girl stood al -i resetedt Gilbert has evidently been ar- St. Albans, who told the officer that most on tiptoe. their four children were just recover - By the time she could gain the ! She stifled a cry, ing from an attack of whooping cough, other side of the road they had vani "I'm going to confess to you. Lis- The officer, being a wise man and Iters. This fifty pounds has a history. anxious about the welfare of these umfished, perhaps into the neighboring I , Vaseline Treara Marl capsicum. p<ireieen 414 Breaks up. colds in throat and chest. Better than a mustard plaster for rheu•, matism, gout, sprains, cramps, etc. Will not blister the skin, Sold in sanitary tin tubes at chem. ists and general stores every. where. Refuse substitutes, Free booklet on request. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO (coe„osa:ua) 1880 Chabot Ave. Moetroe1 "The five o'cleek's a quick train.* The girl was not listening. He. glanced round and sawher standing OE THE ADMIRALTY algid. Two men alighted from the car. They were shaking hands. "Gilbert!" cried Henry Casson chokingly. Then his on saw them, and, leav- ing his companion, came hurrying across, with an excited greeting. They shrank from him. I3is outstretched hand dropped to his aide. "Gladys," he blurted out, "what's Re was Sponsor for Woman's Suf- wrong? Won't you speak to me?" frage 13i11 in the His father interposed, "I've found out everything! You've Lords. betrayed your country! You're a spy The new Civil Lord of the British in the enemy's pay! Take your money Admiralty is Lord Lytton, who takes and go!" the place of the Duke of Devonshire, The young man seized the bag of nominated Governor-General of Can - gold before it fellada in succession to the Duke of Con - "That's all true, father, only I was naught. acting under orders." Inheriting Knebworth, one of the Slowly they faced him. most magnificent of ancient English "The authorities were trying to cap- estates, and small revenues with ture the chief spy—the head of the which to pay its up -keep, Lord Lyt- of Russia, leased Knebworth from MANY BRITONS whole business over here. Just by ton became the second earl when he N Lord Lytton as the home of his mor- ONS chance I'd found out a good deal about was fifteen and had, according to Itisgenetic wife and children when he him while I was on the Continent, and family and friends, the clear duty of , was exiled from Russia at the time ARE EXEMPT when I got back I told the police. But making a rich marriage to rehabil- i of his marriage. The rental was said NEW CML LORD 1 LORI) LYTTON'S APPOINTffIENT IS VERY POPULAR. they wanted proof. Iitate the family fortunes. With the ,to be $22,000 a year for three years. "My friend here—the inspcctor!features of a young Greek god and But as soon as war broke out the — Henry Casson, from Trenmouth!" fram Scotland Yard—got me to set the romantic temperament of a poet, Grand Duke Michael was permitted THREE TO FOUR MILLION YOUNG she stammered. "Gilbert's father!" a trap for him. I pretended that I he was one of the best matches in to return to his native country and • MEN ARE SHELTERED. "Do you know him, Gladys?" could sell official secrets, though, of the English matrimonial market when take his family with him. Since then "Yes," answered the girl slowly. course, the details I gave were all at the age of twenty-two he married Lord and Lady Lytton have been at "I'd like to see him, speak to hint, as wrong. But the plan succeeded. He's the penniless Miss Pamela Plowden, Knebworth themselves, about the soon as I may!" been arrested to -day. They let me seven years older than himself, the only period since their marriage when The London Times' Military Expert An hour later Henry Casson sent see him caught. I came up to town daughter of a small official in India. they have lived there for any length Foresees a Long A Graceful Speaker. Struggle. Tubs station. She soon recovered I t s t e proceeds of—of— He chok- der hie care, fled precipitately. Later frons her dila ed. "I'd better begin at the begin- he learned there had been no whoop- ppointment, however, I Hing!" remembering that he was safe at ing cough in the house ; in fact, the His face was working.Hestru least, and would soon be coming to ( g people who caused him to beat such see her. Cheerful now, she continued briskly on her way. Outside Farrance's Hotel a little crowd of people had collected. They him go because I felt sure—quite "'These fellows are just recovering were gradually dispersing as the girle approached and ascended the steps. sure—thatfrom in his heart of hearts he'd m whooping cough,' he told the After inquiring for Rub Farrance,1 always remain British, no matter' householder ; 'they had it bad, We g gwhat friends he made abroad or what , didn't know what to do with them, she asked the reception -clerk the rens- i foreign customs he adopted. I'm proud but, seeing that you've had whooping on they had assembled. I geed for composure. a hasty retreat were childless. He "My wife was an Austrian lady, as felt annoyed and discomfited ; but you know. She died ten years ago. about a week following his first visit It was by her wish that Gilbert was he called again at the house, this time sent on the Continent to study. I let followed by sax men, iof being a Briton, you see, and I hop - y gentleman was taken "An elderl I ed he's be proud of it, too!" Henry ill outside, miss, a few minutes ago. Casson's voice broke. They brought him in iters,"she was "I thought his sympathies were al - told, ways with the land of his birth, but Her friend, hurrying down to greet I—I was wrong. He's a traitor! He's her, gave further details. Mrs, Far- been selling secrets of the Trenmouth ranee, it appeared, had been an eye- defences to our enemies! He's been witness of the occurrence. As they acting es a paid spy -yes, my own talked, Mr. Farrance pushed open son"' cough here, I feel it's the only place were it will be safe to billet them: And he left them there." "ZIGAR FOR YOU, ZIR 7" The Waiter -like Instinct of a Sur- rendering German. Among the officers who have Just the door of the sitting -room, arrived in England from the Somme "Have, they been telling you about Incredulously the girl tried to inter- battlefield, Captain H— told the rupt, but he went on, unheeding. 1 following story : our patient upstairs, Miss Whitfield? ' "Yesterday morning a letter arrive "German morale ? Well, I don't By Jove, it seams to be an extraordin- ed for Gilbert, thanking him for in- I know. There's a captain of the ary easel' His wife and daughter bombarded formation supplied, and giving a fur- S's, aboard this ship, who told him with questions. ther list of questions which he was to '-- me a thing that happened to him at . He left t us, et res, He was "Yes, yea; he's recovering now. It whenehe went eoff to catch this btrain ;workinge along Pa7iecommunicaton was only a fainting -fit from exhaus- and I picked it up tion. In fact, he can sit up and talk, c quite ; chance.' trench with a party of bombers,oceiwhen What do you think were the first Then a police -officer camp but 1 sent Be met a regulargtheir of words he said? Why, directly he no- him away, and 1 rushed to Gilbert's ore BoUp and all holding twho car i well room to roe if there were any more up and led by one who carried an papers that would incriminate him. I ,enormous olgar box over his head, found several, and this—this bag of! "The English officer suspected some money—fifty pounds --which he'd eve- I sort of foul play, of course. The tieed the doctor, and heard us decid- ing on beef -tea and bi'andy, he insist- ed that he couldn't pay." They murmured exclamations of dently earned by treachery. I Cama Boeing have played so man dirty aYpay' to London at once to—to warn hemi" itrleks. But the follow who y % s) n"r r The Germans have found a new "But that was all nonsense!" eon- „ „ the blgpped open ;;'= I r 5 ; k „ horror for use nn the lemerticen front, tinned Mr. Farrance impatiently. "He I wouldn't be engaged to him, box, and showed it had notit- xe It i must have Gladys Whitfield whispered "until he ing in it but cigars, and explained „. '. ?x,. yd ? c a ivtsonoai gas, quite invisible, o been walking about all could show me that amount. He's well as be could that it was by wayv which gives washing of. its eteonee night, and the doctor declares he been rather a spendthrift, you know, of being a sort of propitiatory offer- ' ` F a only by a sickly and sense.steaern hasn't eaten any food for at least but he declared he'd got it somehow, Ing' you know. s l ,� y smell, Another new weapon en- twenty-four hours, And all the time Can that be the reason he was tempt- "He wanrtd up by saying : 'This ril, ' i ]>]oyed on the eastern front is a aim. he was hiding a bagful of sovereigns In his coat -pocket!" ed____,,war no good ; no good at all, sir, Ple magazine attachment for the She broke off, A silence Followed. Piccadilly again sotto,, new, sir I Of b. x f , rjflb, by m.eane of whtc}t twenty -live His listeners gasped. * e * „ * course they're fed up ; but they've s,. x t r a a bullets can be fired without re -load. Fifty pounds or more, I can't As theygot a big machin° behind 'em et," � x a 6 l ing, These are weapons that the make head or tail of it. Ile has ape passed into the big booking y xo"t rn f c �w - , .• allies will soon be able to cPrance hall at the terminus Gladm, Whitfield * „ v;•.a dThe gnu used by our tree parently had a shock of some kind." took her purse from her bag, Henry ; Hie First Name is Fortune,pa in 3a'anat. "Starving, with a pocketful of „ le very much more effective than that. geld!" Ruby Farxanee commented, in Casson noticed the hesitating gotten,' Hunter tells me he is going to rarzy Lytton, used by the Germans, ea prisoners timezereent, He pressed her hand. f marry an heiress. I asked him her' ... __. as have admitted. r`i'll sale hits for an explanation pre. "No need for that, thank you, my i age and he aouldn'ttall me." After Lord Strathcona gave it, up, ^--- 4e--•---••- setrtly,n dear, all the same.' Be showed his Oh, it iso b her age hunter is in- Knebworth was lensed at tlifferonAll the Comforts "Have return ticket. "I'll write to your'terested in, it's her heritage." Flaw you discovered his name, filends, and pay for any expbnsei times to visiting royalty and neper- Beatrice (after dinner at the Adel - Edward?" Mrs. 1"arraneo queried. they've incurred, 'I'h , R"asmt ing Americans, Mr, Ogden Mills of phis) --Cir, I reel like crying! Vas; it was written on an envoi- I His weary smile touched the girl; ( 110—.What, made the brida.:rnaids New York rented it in 1909 as a James --•Well, there le a littliroom apo In ills latter -cash. Henry Casson,", but, unable to speak, she turned awn look so ha ? country resldenee for his daughter, hero glad $ Whitfi Id Lorre Lytton.. Lord Lytton can hardly know much The London Times' military corre- of naval matters, still his appoint- ment to the Admiralty is the most popular one by the Coalition Cabinet. As a boy at Eton and a young man at Cambridge he won local fame in ama- teur theatricals. Later he traveled over Europe, living long enough in inflicted upon the enemy this year diseased bird may carry the infection Italy, France, and Germany to learn we have no right to entertain any to the entire flock. Birds first appear the language and understand the lit- more illusions on the subject of Ger- less active in their search for food, erature and politics of each nation. man power. In making our estimates and when fed, show lack of appetite. In the House of Lords he at twenty- of strength for the next year we must Diarrhoea is nearly a constant symp- eight was considered the most grace- take for our basis of calculation of tom, being due to inflammation of the fel speaker in the chamber, and one the German;strength that which is cera, As the disease progresses, dull - least favorable for us. We know nes: and weakness is more pronounce the number of German divisions in ed, the wings and tail droop, and a the field and we must assume they peculiar discoloration of the head is are or can be brought up to strengtoften noticed. The birds appear list- h,We must still admit large reserves less and pay little attention to what behind them: The sweeping up into occurs about them. Most of the af- German factories and farms of. able I (acted poults die unless prompt mea - bodied men and women in Belgium sures are taken to combat the disease, and in the nine provinces of France On examining a bird that has died of occupied by the enemy, combined blackhead, the caeca will be found to with the utilization of Poles for mill- be thickened and clogged with cheesy vary purposes, will produce it large contente. The liver is usually more accession of strength for the German or lass enlarged and covered with yel- armies. lowish or yellowish -green spots. "An ounce of prevention is worth a Recruit Classes Untouched. pound of cure." Care should be talc - "The 1917 and 1918 classes of re- en to keep the breeding stock strong cruits in Germany have not yet taken and healthy. Any new shock should the field. There i a constant reflex be secured from a flock in which die - to the front of wounded who have ease has never made its appearance; recovered. Lastly, we must admit as even then a thorough inspection possible that before Germany accepts should be made of the birds before defeat she will call on all youths and placing them in a Hoak. If possible, men fit to bear arms between the keep turkeys by themselves and do ages of 15 and 60, and thus hope to not keep them on the name ground wear us out by a long phase of vice continually. Pigeons, sparrows, rats lesions resistance, and mice are believed to carry the "We must act on the aesumplion should tbe e eat ludedcauses theadisease. isar s a8eoshese that all these things will be as badifrom the houses and runs occupiedrble as possible for us and then if eve nre the turkeys. If a bird dies of black - prepared to meet them all the better I head, It should be promptly buried, shall we be prepared to deal with any, or,better still, burned. Birds that lower standard of power that Ger- (appear sick should be killed and their many presents to us. We ought not bodies destroyed. Thorough disin- to rest content until we have more fection of the house, roosting places divisions in the field and even then feed trough and drinking fountains we shall be far behind Germany. should be made. Radical measures No Legislation Needed. are necessary in order to stamp out "We need no fresh legislation un- the dieease that is a great handicap less and until the exhaustion of. the to the success of the turkey industry. less and uclntil s compels dto ex- Up to the present, blackhead has prove youtend the age of liability above 4L ed the most difficult of all diseases to For such action there is at present prevent or to eradicate, The para - no pressing need, because there are siteseinfect the soil, thus increasing dis- still from three to four million young the difficulty of eradicating- ybthe men ensconsed in civil occuptions and ease. Applying freshly burned lime dee ground most frequented by the sheltered from service by a number birds of regulations and edicts welch the brds is recommended. Board of Trade and other depart paylt is particnecesular say that the attendant meal have been weakly permitted to a particular attention to the flock at regular intervals, and isolate any draft and issue in defiance of the birds that appear a little dumpy. spirit of the law and of the expressed Advanced cases of blackhead are con - will of the British people. We have sidered incurable, but the following 1,600,000 men of military age who remedies may prevent infection: Sule have received badges entitling them petur, 5 grains, and sulphate of iron, 1 to exemption and over whom the tri- grails, or benzo -naphthol, i grain, and bunals have no power at all. Even a salycilate of soda, 1 grain, These larger number are sheltered in Gov- remedies should be preceded and fol- ernment departments and in industry, lowed by a dose of Epsom salts (10 or excused from serving et the front to 30 grains), or one-half to three tea - by a whole host of obstructive regula- spoonfuls of castor oil. One woman tions. claims she saved a large portion of her flock by tieing ateaspoonful of „ , muriatic acid in one quart of water. What we are doing is delibcr- This was kept before them. The feed ately to prolong the war bet prevent- I consisted of a warm feed of moistened spondent, discussing the supply of men for the army and the need for There are several marked symptoms the enrollment of met of military whereby the disease is recognized, and age who are escaping service, says: this time of year the flock should be "However satisfied we may be seen every day and carefully inspected with the losses and defeats we have bo see if all are in normal health. One Blackhead in Turkeys. Turkeys are generally considered to be the most, difficult fowl to raise -- at least, they appear more delicate when young and more subject to dis- orders of the system when' nearing maturity than chickens, or water fowl. After bringing the flock safe- ly through the first month or two, it is very discouraging to the poultry- man to see the half-grown flock grow- ing smaller, due to the ravages of dis- ease. Blackhead is more to be dread- ed than any other trouble. Symp- toms do not become apparent until the disease has got such a hold on the system that treatment has little effect. Blackhead is a disease that destroys tuekeys in every part of the world where they are raised. Ib is contagi- otts.and affects the liver and caeca or blind pouches of the intestines. If the birds can be kept strong and vig- orous, they are able to put up a good fight against effects of the germs when they enter the system. How- ever, a delicate bird has a poor chance of ever reaching maturity if the disease is in the flock. The die ease makes great headway in the mid- summer months, if the season is damp. While young birds are mosb susceptible to attacks, old birds are not immune. whose knowledge of foreign affairs was unusual for a reran of his age. Before he became one of the prin- cipal sponsors for the Woman Suf- frage Bill in Parliament he support- ed 'legislation to suppress the white slave traffic. He wanted a bill passed to brand the convicted man on the forehead with a hot iron, and remained unconvinced of the injustice of such a measure when it was op- posed by Lord Chief Justice Alver- stone because such a mark would Miss Plowden came of good family, make a man's reform an impossibil- she was pretty and charming, ambi- ivy As an advocate of Woman's Suf- tious and original, and she had the frage Lord Byron entirely approved good luck to attract the attention of the action of his sister, Lady of the then Marchioness of Granby, Constance Lytton, who went to jail now the Duchess of Rutland, a woe ;and refused nourishment alter being man of many accomplishments and , arrested for breaking windows in the sweet disposition, who then, as now, Pankhurst brigade. held the democratic idea that a beau- Lady Lytton, in joining the host- tiful and talented woman was good eases of the Cabinet will at once take enough for any society. Lady Gran-,iier place as one of the most interest - by was a member of the "Souls," that ing as well as beautiful women in little coterie to which belonged Miss the Government. Margot Tennant, now Mrs. Asquith, and Arthur Balfour and Lord Curzon, and in Lady Granby's drawing -room in Arlington street Miss Plowden was introduced into the charmed circle. ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL Two British Railway Companies Are Ready to Undertake Work. Honeymoon at Knebworth. More than forty years have passed Lord and Lady Lytton spent their slnc'e the British Foreign Office ex - honeymoon at Knebworth, it being preasly approved the idea of con - loaned to them by Lord and Lady etruoting a tunnel under the Channel Strathcona, who had it on a long for railevay communication between Eugland and France. But lees than ten years later, when the question was submitted to a Parliamentary committee, the military authorities ton's grandfather, Edward Lytton , tools the negative side on strategic Bulwer, the poet and novelist, who in -I grounds, and the consequence was an herited it from his mother and took I unfavorable report by the committee. her name as Baron Lytton In 1866, i Many bills for the building of a Chau - when he was elevated to the peerage nel tunnel were subsequently intro- duced, only to be rejected at the in- stance of the Government of the day. The last occasion was in. 1907, after an inquiry by the Committee of Im- perial Defence. But in August, 1913, Mr. Asquith promised a fresh investigation. In the fire of the present war England and Prance have been so welded that their parting seems impossible. The proposed tunnel would be but an addi- tional tie of friendship and guarantee of good will. Two railway companies, the France Great Northern and the English Southeastern, stand ready to build the tunnel, each furnishing oneehalf of the total cost, which is estimated at $80,000,000, Their engl- neore have it all planned to rim through the chalk ridge from Dever to Cape Gris-Nez, a distance of 21 miles, emerging on the French side between Sangatte and Wissant, some 12 miles south of Cavias, lease, the Lytton family not having the money to Iive in it themselves. In its general exterior it is to -day much the same as it was left by Lord Lyt- for distinguished services to the State. The estate has been in the Lytton family since the time of William the Conqueror. Edward Lytton Bulwer's mother, a Miss Lytton, an old lady as eccentric as she was wealthy, pull- ed down three-fourths of Knebworth, saying that she couldn't afford to pay for such a large establishment. What is left of it is sufficiently com- modious to house a royal family. New German Horror. Prolonging the War. ing the War Office raising fresh divi- sions and obtaining even the drafts necessary for the existing divisions for sufficient time ahead." Jews 'b"eak the glass out of which the bridal pair have drunk during bhe ceremony, to remind them of their mortality, In modem Greek marriage cet•e-1 mony two rings are used—a gold one for, the bridegroom, and a silver one for the bride, Brides hi Greece must first visit site oven in company with her, father, sal. lite it, and then obtain leave to set out for the church. Formerly no wedding, rich ar Poor, took place without the happy pair be- ing escorted to and from the cere- mony with musk. shorts in the morning, with a grain ration of wheat and oats. If a suecess • is to be made with turkeys, every pre- caution must be taken to prevent this dread disease making its inroads into the flock, Beginners should be parti- cularly careful to guard against in- fection. Farmer's Advocate, Ftem very ancient times it has been considered an omen of misfortune to be married in green. A Chidese bride, while putting un her wedding garinents, stands in a round, shallow basket; this is suppos- ed to make her ,tif placid disposition, Anciently, bice wedding -ring wee flint placed on the thumb, then on the first finger, then on the second, and lastly on bhe third, where it renaitred. Mrs. Henpeck—"i'm positive that In der George is thinking se'iausly of y e gave a cry They(At setae moment a malar -c I She—They had each refused the the Countess of Granard, Three yore' the olds se ice hooka the bride- nratrimon ," pock -•-"Well fetuag' round toward has. ; At theed in, the road opposite, i ago the Grand Duke Michael Alexan- . groom "for to takeohis bride not , b hoof mi I wouldn't mare for an r groom. b`e worst man is sometimes ca- only dor sewer, for pante,' hit also boy of mine to bo so nitt'are for j a drovitcll, the only brother of the Czar pable of giving the haat advice, i"far fairer, for fouler." I to regard it as a joke' �a( Ada'•-$._ i!G i` — _. �� _ _- — r2'c0.. :,'_.:^ �t ��?•c`hi�n�.5_...'e,�l,�, �#'@3�'e�t6 g.:�g�F3'_.S't�.e4—� MADE IN CANADA CONTAINS NO ALUM r `tai �'��. .v e� •�hA . isskv.Y S 54 �. Y •f S C '�'.! ~ 4 ���>^{• a�1 .ry�....fi7rs�_,31:.t..i`�. .. r z as (� r--,7 they wanted proof. Iitate the family fortunes. With the ,to be $22,000 a year for three years. "My friend here—the inspcctor!features of a young Greek god and But as soon as war broke out the — Henry Casson, from Trenmouth!" fram Scotland Yard—got me to set the romantic temperament of a poet, Grand Duke Michael was permitted THREE TO FOUR MILLION YOUNG she stammered. "Gilbert's father!" a trap for him. I pretended that I he was one of the best matches in to return to his native country and • MEN ARE SHELTERED. "Do you know him, Gladys?" could sell official secrets, though, of the English matrimonial market when take his family with him. Since then "Yes," answered the girl slowly. course, the details I gave were all at the age of twenty-two he married Lord and Lady Lytton have been at "I'd like to see him, speak to hint, as wrong. But the plan succeeded. He's the penniless Miss Pamela Plowden, Knebworth themselves, about the soon as I may!" been arrested to -day. They let me seven years older than himself, the only period since their marriage when The London Times' Military Expert An hour later Henry Casson sent see him caught. I came up to town daughter of a small official in India. they have lived there for any length Foresees a Long A Graceful Speaker. Struggle. Tubs station. She soon recovered I t s t e proceeds of—of— He chok- der hie care, fled precipitately. Later frons her dila ed. "I'd better begin at the begin- he learned there had been no whoop- ppointment, however, I Hing!" remembering that he was safe at ing cough in the house ; in fact, the His face was working.Hestru least, and would soon be coming to ( g people who caused him to beat such see her. Cheerful now, she continued briskly on her way. Outside Farrance's Hotel a little crowd of people had collected. They him go because I felt sure—quite "'These fellows are just recovering were gradually dispersing as the girle approached and ascended the steps. sure—thatfrom in his heart of hearts he'd m whooping cough,' he told the After inquiring for Rub Farrance,1 always remain British, no matter' householder ; 'they had it bad, We g gwhat friends he made abroad or what , didn't know what to do with them, she asked the reception -clerk the rens- i foreign customs he adopted. I'm proud but, seeing that you've had whooping on they had assembled. I geed for composure. a hasty retreat were childless. He "My wife was an Austrian lady, as felt annoyed and discomfited ; but you know. She died ten years ago. about a week following his first visit It was by her wish that Gilbert was he called again at the house, this time sent on the Continent to study. I let followed by sax men, iof being a Briton, you see, and I hop - y gentleman was taken "An elderl I ed he's be proud of it, too!" Henry ill outside, miss, a few minutes ago. Casson's voice broke. They brought him in iters,"she was "I thought his sympathies were al - told, ways with the land of his birth, but Her friend, hurrying down to greet I—I was wrong. He's a traitor! He's her, gave further details. Mrs, Far- been selling secrets of the Trenmouth ranee, it appeared, had been an eye- defences to our enemies! He's been witness of the occurrence. As they acting es a paid spy -yes, my own talked, Mr. Farrance pushed open son"' cough here, I feel it's the only place were it will be safe to billet them: And he left them there." "ZIGAR FOR YOU, ZIR 7" The Waiter -like Instinct of a Sur- rendering German. Among the officers who have Just the door of the sitting -room, arrived in England from the Somme "Have, they been telling you about Incredulously the girl tried to inter- battlefield, Captain H— told the rupt, but he went on, unheeding. 1 following story : our patient upstairs, Miss Whitfield? ' "Yesterday morning a letter arrive "German morale ? Well, I don't By Jove, it seams to be an extraordin- ed for Gilbert, thanking him for in- I know. There's a captain of the ary easel' His wife and daughter bombarded formation supplied, and giving a fur- S's, aboard this ship, who told him with questions. ther list of questions which he was to '-- me a thing that happened to him at . He left t us, et res, He was "Yes, yea; he's recovering now. It whenehe went eoff to catch this btrain ;workinge along Pa7iecommunicaton was only a fainting -fit from exhaus- and I picked it up tion. In fact, he can sit up and talk, c quite ; chance.' trench with a party of bombers,oceiwhen What do you think were the first Then a police -officer camp but 1 sent Be met a regulargtheir of words he said? Why, directly he no- him away, and 1 rushed to Gilbert's ore BoUp and all holding twho car i well room to roe if there were any more up and led by one who carried an papers that would incriminate him. I ,enormous olgar box over his head, found several, and this—this bag of! "The English officer suspected some money—fifty pounds --which he'd eve- I sort of foul play, of course. The tieed the doctor, and heard us decid- ing on beef -tea and bi'andy, he insist- ed that he couldn't pay." They murmured exclamations of dently earned by treachery. I Cama Boeing have played so man dirty aYpay' to London at once to—to warn hemi" itrleks. But the follow who y % s) n"r r The Germans have found a new "But that was all nonsense!" eon- „ „ the blgpped open ;;'= I r 5 ; k „ horror for use nn the lemerticen front, tinned Mr. Farrance impatiently. "He I wouldn't be engaged to him, box, and showed it had notit- xe It i must have Gladys Whitfield whispered "until he ing in it but cigars, and explained „. '. ?x,. yd ? c a ivtsonoai gas, quite invisible, o been walking about all could show me that amount. He's well as be could that it was by wayv which gives washing of. its eteonee night, and the doctor declares he been rather a spendthrift, you know, of being a sort of propitiatory offer- ' ` F a only by a sickly and sense.steaern hasn't eaten any food for at least but he declared he'd got it somehow, Ing' you know. s l ,� y smell, Another new weapon en- twenty-four hours, And all the time Can that be the reason he was tempt- "He wanrtd up by saying : 'This ril, ' i ]>]oyed on the eastern front is a aim. he was hiding a bagful of sovereigns In his coat -pocket!" ed____,,war no good ; no good at all, sir, Ple magazine attachment for the She broke off, A silence Followed. Piccadilly again sotto,, new, sir I Of b. x f , rjflb, by m.eane of whtc}t twenty -live His listeners gasped. * e * „ * course they're fed up ; but they've s,. x t r a a bullets can be fired without re -load. Fifty pounds or more, I can't As theygot a big machin° behind 'em et," � x a 6 l ing, These are weapons that the make head or tail of it. Ile has ape passed into the big booking y xo"t rn f c �w - , .• allies will soon be able to cPrance hall at the terminus Gladm, Whitfield * „ v;•.a dThe gnu used by our tree parently had a shock of some kind." took her purse from her bag, Henry ; Hie First Name is Fortune,pa in 3a'anat. "Starving, with a pocketful of „ le very much more effective than that. geld!" Ruby Farxanee commented, in Casson noticed the hesitating gotten,' Hunter tells me he is going to rarzy Lytton, used by the Germans, ea prisoners timezereent, He pressed her hand. f marry an heiress. I asked him her' ... __. as have admitted. r`i'll sale hits for an explanation pre. "No need for that, thank you, my i age and he aouldn'ttall me." After Lord Strathcona gave it, up, ^--- 4e--•---••- setrtly,n dear, all the same.' Be showed his Oh, it iso b her age hunter is in- Knebworth was lensed at tlifferonAll the Comforts "Have return ticket. "I'll write to your'terested in, it's her heritage." Flaw you discovered his name, filends, and pay for any expbnsei times to visiting royalty and neper- Beatrice (after dinner at the Adel - Edward?" Mrs. 1"arraneo queried. they've incurred, 'I'h , R"asmt ing Americans, Mr, Ogden Mills of phis) --Cir, I reel like crying! Vas; it was written on an envoi- I His weary smile touched the girl; ( 110—.What, made the brida.:rnaids New York rented it in 1909 as a James --•Well, there le a littliroom apo In ills latter -cash. Henry Casson,", but, unable to speak, she turned awn look so ha ? country resldenee for his daughter, hero glad $ Whitfi Id Lorre Lytton.. Lord Lytton can hardly know much The London Times' military corre- of naval matters, still his appoint- ment to the Admiralty is the most popular one by the Coalition Cabinet. As a boy at Eton and a young man at Cambridge he won local fame in ama- teur theatricals. Later he traveled over Europe, living long enough in inflicted upon the enemy this year diseased bird may carry the infection Italy, France, and Germany to learn we have no right to entertain any to the entire flock. Birds first appear the language and understand the lit- more illusions on the subject of Ger- less active in their search for food, erature and politics of each nation. man power. In making our estimates and when fed, show lack of appetite. In the House of Lords he at twenty- of strength for the next year we must Diarrhoea is nearly a constant symp- eight was considered the most grace- take for our basis of calculation of tom, being due to inflammation of the fel speaker in the chamber, and one the German;strength that which is cera, As the disease progresses, dull - least favorable for us. We know nes: and weakness is more pronounce the number of German divisions in ed, the wings and tail droop, and a the field and we must assume they peculiar discoloration of the head is are or can be brought up to strengtoften noticed. The birds appear list- h,We must still admit large reserves less and pay little attention to what behind them: The sweeping up into occurs about them. Most of the af- German factories and farms of. able I (acted poults die unless prompt mea - bodied men and women in Belgium sures are taken to combat the disease, and in the nine provinces of France On examining a bird that has died of occupied by the enemy, combined blackhead, the caeca will be found to with the utilization of Poles for mill- be thickened and clogged with cheesy vary purposes, will produce it large contente. The liver is usually more accession of strength for the German or lass enlarged and covered with yel- armies. lowish or yellowish -green spots. "An ounce of prevention is worth a Recruit Classes Untouched. pound of cure." Care should be talc - "The 1917 and 1918 classes of re- en to keep the breeding stock strong cruits in Germany have not yet taken and healthy. Any new shock should the field. There i a constant reflex be secured from a flock in which die - to the front of wounded who have ease has never made its appearance; recovered. Lastly, we must admit as even then a thorough inspection possible that before Germany accepts should be made of the birds before defeat she will call on all youths and placing them in a Hoak. If possible, men fit to bear arms between the keep turkeys by themselves and do ages of 15 and 60, and thus hope to not keep them on the name ground wear us out by a long phase of vice continually. Pigeons, sparrows, rats lesions resistance, and mice are believed to carry the "We must act on the aesumplion should tbe e eat ludedcauses theadisease. isar s a8eoshese that all these things will be as badifrom the houses and runs occupiedrble as possible for us and then if eve nre the turkeys. If a bird dies of black - prepared to meet them all the better I head, It should be promptly buried, shall we be prepared to deal with any, or,better still, burned. Birds that lower standard of power that Ger- (appear sick should be killed and their many presents to us. We ought not bodies destroyed. Thorough disin- to rest content until we have more fection of the house, roosting places divisions in the field and even then feed trough and drinking fountains we shall be far behind Germany. should be made. Radical measures No Legislation Needed. are necessary in order to stamp out "We need no fresh legislation un- the dieease that is a great handicap less and until the exhaustion of. the to the success of the turkey industry. less and uclntil s compels dto ex- Up to the present, blackhead has prove youtend the age of liability above 4L ed the most difficult of all diseases to For such action there is at present prevent or to eradicate, The para - no pressing need, because there are siteseinfect the soil, thus increasing dis- still from three to four million young the difficulty of eradicating- ybthe men ensconsed in civil occuptions and ease. Applying freshly burned lime dee ground most frequented by the sheltered from service by a number birds of regulations and edicts welch the brds is recommended. Board of Trade and other depart paylt is particnecesular say that the attendant meal have been weakly permitted to a particular attention to the flock at regular intervals, and isolate any draft and issue in defiance of the birds that appear a little dumpy. spirit of the law and of the expressed Advanced cases of blackhead are con - will of the British people. We have sidered incurable, but the following 1,600,000 men of military age who remedies may prevent infection: Sule have received badges entitling them petur, 5 grains, and sulphate of iron, 1 to exemption and over whom the tri- grails, or benzo -naphthol, i grain, and bunals have no power at all. Even a salycilate of soda, 1 grain, These larger number are sheltered in Gov- remedies should be preceded and fol- ernment departments and in industry, lowed by a dose of Epsom salts (10 or excused from serving et the front to 30 grains), or one-half to three tea - by a whole host of obstructive regula- spoonfuls of castor oil. One woman tions. claims she saved a large portion of her flock by tieing ateaspoonful of „ , muriatic acid in one quart of water. What we are doing is delibcr- This was kept before them. The feed ately to prolong the war bet prevent- I consisted of a warm feed of moistened spondent, discussing the supply of men for the army and the need for There are several marked symptoms the enrollment of met of military whereby the disease is recognized, and age who are escaping service, says: this time of year the flock should be "However satisfied we may be seen every day and carefully inspected with the losses and defeats we have bo see if all are in normal health. One Blackhead in Turkeys. Turkeys are generally considered to be the most, difficult fowl to raise -- at least, they appear more delicate when young and more subject to dis- orders of the system when' nearing maturity than chickens, or water fowl. After bringing the flock safe- ly through the first month or two, it is very discouraging to the poultry- man to see the half-grown flock grow- ing smaller, due to the ravages of dis- ease. Blackhead is more to be dread- ed than any other trouble. Symp- toms do not become apparent until the disease has got such a hold on the system that treatment has little effect. Blackhead is a disease that destroys tuekeys in every part of the world where they are raised. Ib is contagi- otts.and affects the liver and caeca or blind pouches of the intestines. If the birds can be kept strong and vig- orous, they are able to put up a good fight against effects of the germs when they enter the system. How- ever, a delicate bird has a poor chance of ever reaching maturity if the disease is in the flock. The die ease makes great headway in the mid- summer months, if the season is damp. While young birds are mosb susceptible to attacks, old birds are not immune. whose knowledge of foreign affairs was unusual for a reran of his age. Before he became one of the prin- cipal sponsors for the Woman Suf- frage Bill in Parliament he support- ed 'legislation to suppress the white slave traffic. He wanted a bill passed to brand the convicted man on the forehead with a hot iron, and remained unconvinced of the injustice of such a measure when it was op- posed by Lord Chief Justice Alver- stone because such a mark would Miss Plowden came of good family, make a man's reform an impossibil- she was pretty and charming, ambi- ivy As an advocate of Woman's Suf- tious and original, and she had the frage Lord Byron entirely approved good luck to attract the attention of the action of his sister, Lady of the then Marchioness of Granby, Constance Lytton, who went to jail now the Duchess of Rutland, a woe ;and refused nourishment alter being man of many accomplishments and , arrested for breaking windows in the sweet disposition, who then, as now, Pankhurst brigade. held the democratic idea that a beau- Lady Lytton, in joining the host- tiful and talented woman was good eases of the Cabinet will at once take enough for any society. Lady Gran-,iier place as one of the most interest - by was a member of the "Souls," that ing as well as beautiful women in little coterie to which belonged Miss the Government. Margot Tennant, now Mrs. Asquith, and Arthur Balfour and Lord Curzon, and in Lady Granby's drawing -room in Arlington street Miss Plowden was introduced into the charmed circle. ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL Two British Railway Companies Are Ready to Undertake Work. Honeymoon at Knebworth. More than forty years have passed Lord and Lady Lytton spent their slnc'e the British Foreign Office ex - honeymoon at Knebworth, it being preasly approved the idea of con - loaned to them by Lord and Lady etruoting a tunnel under the Channel Strathcona, who had it on a long for railevay communication between Eugland and France. But lees than ten years later, when the question was submitted to a Parliamentary committee, the military authorities ton's grandfather, Edward Lytton , tools the negative side on strategic Bulwer, the poet and novelist, who in -I grounds, and the consequence was an herited it from his mother and took I unfavorable report by the committee. her name as Baron Lytton In 1866, i Many bills for the building of a Chau - when he was elevated to the peerage nel tunnel were subsequently intro- duced, only to be rejected at the in- stance of the Government of the day. The last occasion was in. 1907, after an inquiry by the Committee of Im- perial Defence. But in August, 1913, Mr. Asquith promised a fresh investigation. In the fire of the present war England and Prance have been so welded that their parting seems impossible. The proposed tunnel would be but an addi- tional tie of friendship and guarantee of good will. Two railway companies, the France Great Northern and the English Southeastern, stand ready to build the tunnel, each furnishing oneehalf of the total cost, which is estimated at $80,000,000, Their engl- neore have it all planned to rim through the chalk ridge from Dever to Cape Gris-Nez, a distance of 21 miles, emerging on the French side between Sangatte and Wissant, some 12 miles south of Cavias, lease, the Lytton family not having the money to Iive in it themselves. In its general exterior it is to -day much the same as it was left by Lord Lyt- for distinguished services to the State. The estate has been in the Lytton family since the time of William the Conqueror. Edward Lytton Bulwer's mother, a Miss Lytton, an old lady as eccentric as she was wealthy, pull- ed down three-fourths of Knebworth, saying that she couldn't afford to pay for such a large establishment. What is left of it is sufficiently com- modious to house a royal family. New German Horror. Prolonging the War. ing the War Office raising fresh divi- sions and obtaining even the drafts necessary for the existing divisions for sufficient time ahead." Jews 'b"eak the glass out of which the bridal pair have drunk during bhe ceremony, to remind them of their mortality, In modem Greek marriage cet•e-1 mony two rings are used—a gold one for, the bridegroom, and a silver one for the bride, Brides hi Greece must first visit site oven in company with her, father, sal. lite it, and then obtain leave to set out for the church. Formerly no wedding, rich ar Poor, took place without the happy pair be- ing escorted to and from the cere- mony with musk. shorts in the morning, with a grain ration of wheat and oats. If a suecess • is to be made with turkeys, every pre- caution must be taken to prevent this dread disease making its inroads into the flock, Beginners should be parti- cularly careful to guard against in- fection. Farmer's Advocate, Ftem very ancient times it has been considered an omen of misfortune to be married in green. A Chidese bride, while putting un her wedding garinents, stands in a round, shallow basket; this is suppos- ed to make her ,tif placid disposition, Anciently, bice wedding -ring wee flint placed on the thumb, then on the first finger, then on the second, and lastly on bhe third, where it renaitred. Mrs. Henpeck—"i'm positive that In der George is thinking se'iausly of y e gave a cry They(At setae moment a malar -c I She—They had each refused the the Countess of Granard, Three yore' the olds se ice hooka the bride- nratrimon ," pock -•-"Well fetuag' round toward has. ; At theed in, the road opposite, i ago the Grand Duke Michael Alexan- . groom "for to takeohis bride not , b hoof mi I wouldn't mare for an r groom. b`e worst man is sometimes ca- only dor sewer, for pante,' hit also boy of mine to bo so nitt'are for j a drovitcll, the only brother of the Czar pable of giving the haat advice, i"far fairer, for fouler." I to regard it as a joke'