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Zurich Herald, 1916-03-24, Page 6Pop ar apedUses' Of course, "Crown Brand" is your favorites Table Syrup. Of course, you enjoy its delicious, appetizing flavor with Bread, Pancakes and Hot Biscuits. But what about "Crown Brand" the kitchen ? Do you use EDWARDSE CRG A for Gingerbread, Cookies, Cakes, Pies and Sweet Sauces for all kinds of Puddings ? Do you always use it for Candy -making-? Try it in all these ways. You'll find "Crown Brand" Corn Syrup handy, convenient, econo- mical, dependable, good. "I,ILY WHITR" is just what its name implies—a clear corn syrup—more delicate in flavor than "Crown Brand", �• that is equally good for the table and for candy -making. ileeeee ASK YOUR GROCER—IN 2, 5,10 AND 20 POUND TINS. to»* The Canada Starch Co. Limited, Montreal. CArug r LE A AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE BY IVY EATH ERBY CH ESN EY triy?fIA' � iC`r:�7w CHAPTER V. (Cont'd). "I can tell you that I am sure. Three years ago I met her often at her father's house. She wore her hair in a pigtail then, and her frocks wore short, but otherwise she has not al- tered much. Also, I can describe Car- rington to you, and you can judge for yourself if he is the man you know as Page. He is about live feet seven rather fat, and his skin hangs loosely over his cheek bones, as though he had once been much fatter. There is something wrong with one of his fingers, but I forget which." Scarborough drew in his breath quickly, and looked hard at the .crumbs , he was making. He remembered that when Mr, Page played chess he al -I ways made the moves with his left; hand. The last joint of the middle' finger of the right hand was missing,; and Elsa at once explained that her' father had lost it from the bite of a horse when he was a bay. "And the other thing?" he asked huskily. "The other thing is that Ilona de la; Mar refuses to perform to -night," said Varney. "Why, how does she come into it?"' When he had heard his friend's ea planation of his reasons for thinking that Mona de la Mar did come ii.to the story, Scarborough iro: e suddenly j and said: "Can you get a bicycle and ride tack , MOTER SYRU U The proof of Mother Seigel's Syrup is in the taking. Tliat is why former sufferers, tvhose vitality was being sapped by Indigestion, say it is just e:c- celk:al for stomach, liver and bowel troubles. Thanks to Mother Seigel's Syrup, they are now strong and well. !S EXCELLENT FOR If you are afflicted by Indi- gestion or other disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels take Mother Seigel's Syrup regularly for a few days ; long enough .to give it a fair chance to make its beneficial influence felt. Then note the improvement in your appetite, your strength, your general condition. 3015 HEADACHES, BILIOUSNESS CONSTIPATION 1. 18E00 The r.takottle df 4r14 contains tlir r Mies as much as the .orad size. 1 with me to -night? I'd like to talk things over with you." "Then stay and talk here—or better still—let me show you over our schooner. I'ts a funny place." "No," said Scarborough. "I must get back. I want to be within reach of the Chinelas if I'm needed. Will you come?" "Yes," said Varney. He hired a bicycle in the town, and rode back with Scarborough. They had their talk out, and by that time it was late, and Phil Varney stayed the night at the cable station. Next morning, while they were at break- fast, a note was brought to Scarbor- ough. He opened it and read: "Father is dead, I think he has been murdered. Come to me. Elsa.". That was all. Scarborough thought again of the cablegram. Was this the danger which the conning of the cir- cus had brought? And the danger might not be over yet, though the victim had fallen. Elsa herself might be in peril. He got his bicycle, and started at once for the Chinelas. As he rode -off a sudden thought struck him, and he called cut to Varney: "Find out what Mona de la Mar was doing last night, and what the busi- ness was which made her ref'isc to perform in the circus.". (. 1.APTER J. SVhen Scarborough jumped nil' his bicycle at the door of the Chinelas 1 ' Elsa was standing on the steps wait..! ing + ait- ing for hint. He went to her, and took! her hand in his. It was characteristic atthe pair . all that < he neither�> 1 t ,Stied . , nor did she expert condolences. "Father is lying upstairs," she said. "I have sent :for a doctor." "Then he is not dead?.!" Ssaid darar-, borough. "I thought- -" "He is dead." She spoke quietly. The blow had been a cruel one, but it had not un- nerved her. If there was work to do, she would do it, and the tears would come .afterwards. Scarborough, watch- ing her face, saw nu signs that the tears had come yet; but he noticed a line of hardness about her month that had not been there yesterday. "Why have you sent for a doctor?" he asked. "Because I want to know what was the cause of death. I think that my father has been murdered." He made her put on her hat and walk- with him down the road, away from the house where her sorrow lay. Presently he pointed to a fern -covered bank, and when they were sitting sidle by side, he took her hand in his again, and said gently. "Whine about it•." For a little while she said nothing.- Then othing.Then with a quick movement she drew her hand away. "First," she said, "I have a confes- sion to make." "To me?" "Yes: We have been known here as Page. I have allowed you to • be- lieve that it is our real name. It is not" "I know," said Scarborough. She glanced at him quickly. "How long have you known ?" she asked. r'Only a few hours." "You heard yesterday—at the circus --.Phil Varney told you?" ieyes.). "I told you yesterday that 1 did ,not know Phil Varney :.you have found out from him that I did. Did you in- terpret that as part of the scheme of deceit t • You said to yourself that it. was only another lie—a spoken Be this time, to support the acted lie? Tell nie, did you think that?" she de - Mended. "No," said Scarborough. "Then ,you made excuses for nie! What were they?" "I made none," he answered. "I thought that you had some reason for refusing to know him now, though in the past you had known him; and al- though he is my friend, I believed that your reasons must be good ones. IIe- sides, I remembered that you had ask- ed me not to call you Miss Page, and that you had said that you felt a rush of shame when you heard that name on my lips. Whatever deceit there has been, whoever it be that has lied, you have not lied to me, Elsa." "Thank you, Horace," she said in a low voice, and then added vehemently: "Oh, 1 hated it! I hated having to act that lie! It was all that.I could do sometimes, when you called me Miss Page, to keep myself from cry- ing out to you that it was not my name! And you are right about the other thing—I had a very good reason for refusing to know Philip Varney— the best reason in the world! He is the son of the man who brought my father to ruin." Scarborough started. Yesterday Phil Varney had said to him: "Miss Carrington is the daugter of the man who ruined niy poor old governor." Here was the charge flung back, and almost in the same words. Which of the two was the false accusation? He found himself wish- ing that he' could have a real doubt upon the point, for the sake of the girl at his side. But he had none; for Varney had given him chapter and verse. "My father had enemies," Elsa went on. "He had a warning the other day, and he sent me to Ponta Delgada to see which of his enemies it was who came to San Miguel With the circus company." "I know," said Scarborough. "You know that, too?" cried Elsa. "How ?" "The cable message." he answered: "Danger—circus." • "Who told you of that? I did not." "I was in the instrument room when the message came through. I knew of it when I came to see you two nights ago, and you told me that no- thing had happened, and that you were not in trouble. I knew that .you were, but I couldn't tell you why I knew." "Wh, not?" she demanded. "You might have helped me." "Because it is one of the conditions under which we take service with the Cable Company that all messages that pass through our hands are to be treated as secrets. 1 woe lu not nave spoken of that message, now, if you had not just told me tht: shad hrdci a warning that danger was coming front the circus company. Perhaps, even as it is, I ought to have said nothing." "I see," she said, almost with re- sentment, "that your hands are tied. Are they tied so firmly that you can't help me now?" • "No; and if they were, I think I should cut the bonds. ?Tow can I help you, Elsa?" "You can help me to find, and pun- ish, my father's murderer." She jumped to her feet, and faced him excitedly.She had spoken the p i words as though there were a com- mand, a challenge, and she was wait- ing for his answer. He rose and answered quietly: "If he has been murdered, I will. But you don't know yet that it is so." "No. but the doctor will be able to tell, and he will be here soon. I have; your promise?" "lues,,' he said. • "Then I will tell you all I know." They sat down again, and she gave. him in quick outline the truth• --as she knew it. She told him what her father had told her—about the con. piracy' which had blackened his name and driven him into exile. She spoke of the mother who had remained in Eng- land, working up the evidence which should prove her husband':: innocence; to the whole world; of the two years" which she and her father had spent in thio island of San Miguel in the Azores, waiting till the time should be ripe for them to go home and fitcei the courts; of the message of warning i • which her mother had .tent, and of the steps which her father had taken, with her help, to find oat what the: warning meant. "When I learned by our chance; meeting with Mr. Scott in the st.rect: yesterday," she said , "that: Philip Varney was with the eii.eus, 1 cent a message back to my father at once. The envelope I gave to Mr. Scott eon- taincd that message, Then I went on to the circus with you, saw Philip Varney and another person whom l i knew, and rode back home alone. When. I returned, my father had I gone." • Write for Free Sample Packet P.M giaBliMME.Y OF TEA and learn how delicious good tea can be. State your choice. Black or Mixed or Green. With the sample we will send you an interesting illustrated booklet about Ceylon and its wonderful tea gardens. ADDRESS:—SALADA, 34 YONGE STREET, TORONTO "Gone?" cried Scarborough, "you mean—?" • ':I mean that he was not in the house. And he did not come back all night. This morning he was carried back a corpse." "Where was he found?" "By the side of the Caldeira de Morte—the boiling spring which sends but poisonous vapors, and which it is even dangerous to approach. He was lying within a foot of its edge." "But that is three miles away," said Scarborough, "and he could not move a yard without help. • His gout was very bad yesterday, you said?" "It was so bad when I left him that the slightest movement gave him pain; but it must have got better suddenly. Or. perhaps the danger that he feared —some terror which was dogging him —made him forget it, and enabled him to do what would otherwise have been impossible for him, He must have walked there." Scarborough shook his head. "I don't think that is possible," he said; "but he may have been taken in a carriage." There were no wheel marks on our gravel and none on the road near the Caldeira. The drizzle of the night be- fore had made the ground soft, so that if there had been a carriage, it would have left marks. Besides he was seen on the road." - "Walking ?" "Yes." "Who saw him?„ "Muriel Davis. She was out for a run with her dog." "The pine -grower's daughter!" ex- claimed Scarborough. "The Caldeira de Morte is near Casa Davis. She is not the sort of girl to make a mis- take, but she may have been wrong- Are rongAre you sure it was your father she saw?" "She met him on the road and spoke to him." "Did she notice that anythink was wrong? I mean, was there anything unusual in his manner? Did she see anyone following him? Or was there anyone with him?" "He was alone, and Muriel says that lie semed to be in unusually good spirits. He told her that his enemy the gout had given him a holiday, and that he was taking advantage of it; and he asked her to bring Mr. Davis to the Chinelas to dinner to- day. She promised she would. Oh, Horace; I don't understand it! I left my father suffering agonies at the smallest movement, and a few hours afterwards he is walking along a high. road three miles away, and saying that the gout has given him a holi- day! It seems impossible! What pain he must have been in! And 1l'Turiel says he was cheerful! He was brave --I know he was brave but this seems an. impossibility. Can a man conquer a pain like that?" "Yes," said , Scarborough , "if some sharper emotion takes its place. Sud- den or violent grief might do it ---or terror." (To be Continued). . _—_ -p Different. Ionnie just got his anger jammed nc d ou . Blink—"The trouble with a bore Gracious, what door? is that one never knows what to do 'rho pantry door. with hint," Wink—"Not at a11! The Ab -ha! He didn't get the kiind of trouble is one is always afraid to cio LIFE IN THE IRON LAND. German Police Are Continually Raid- ing Dwelling Houses. Day by day the Berne "Tagwacht," the organ of Swiss Social Democracy, tells what is really happening in Germany. In the latest issue that has reached this country, it describes the political activity of the police. "First of all, everybody suspected of having revolutionary tendencies is spied upon day and night. A num- ber of papers which are under pre- ventive censure are no longer allowed to leave blank spaces, where passages or an article have been suppressed. "Wurbemburg is under a specially close surveillance. The local police officials were sent from the famous police school at Haile. But even these men -were not found sufficient to safeguard .public order. Stuttgart is flooded with detectives, who are pre- sent in numbers ab every meeting. These are dissolved on the slightest pretext, and all the names of persons taking part in the .meeting taken down. "One of the latest 'heroic' deeds of the police in Stuttgart was the arrest of four Social Democrats. The police handled them in a most brutal way. Two boys who witnessed the arrest were detained from two o'clock in the afternoon until late in the even- ing Lest they should tell what they knew of the affair and denounce the police. It often happens that school children are suddenly arrested on their way 'home, detained without food or drink until late at night, and then Iiberated without any explana- tion. Their anxious parents are never warned and no excuse is ever given to them. The children are being terrorized in thousands of ways. "Frequent also are domiciliary searches. A whole row of houses was examined because a rumor had spread that a leaflet was being distributed protesting against a winter campaign, "Not less severe is the censorship in Rhineland. There is serious unrest. amongst the miners in consequence of the prohibition by the Government of all discussions concerning the pre- sent state of affairs in Germany. In this way the authorities hope to pre- vent an outburst of discontent. In Socialist papers the word 'capitalism' is invariably cut out by the censor. "In all big stations and tramway termini there are many police and detectives. "Often trains are stopped and the passengers searched, but not from fear of spies. It is even probable that the police keep a descriptive list of all Socialists suspected of peace propaganda, as many members of the Socialist party have noticed them- selves being photographed in the streets. "It is known that all the corre- spondence of suspected Socialists is opened by the authorities. Lately the police are even overhearing all con- versations on the telephone and us- ing this means to ascertain the opin- ions of different members of the So- cial Democratic party." jam he was looking for that time. it." These Honest, Tire-Tr'i ec Ingredients ..- are the ?bulwark of RAMSAY Q U A L i T, Y In .R 'MS 1i PAINT you fist: the !met. accurate. and thorough coata eee et ,- nueee few untrti:d:;. Heart' Daft -thus will tell you no hee0' rnna31.41 , ri i V.,111 sun good to lf;metu ttdl 011 1;tt ductictuilia machini tt.i�htg ry euur"ut lo and "lino? I,.tddlint;,.. ;.r Pty it,ttn t ,r; a=u a, xi 1ib•-,n1,--.,tt8 for thr odd John yondo bout :self iter the eight, ltanu:t Citt,t.:•r.iru0I:rrt1'1r,c.5:,4t,.0henta;•ilealerc»txiitr.1l Il,tL1Ut0't "7 S. it) A. RAMSAY & SON CO (Established 1842) MONTREAL, Que. 4114410/1046 411414114160110k164tailV411/41 OntheFarni Bretking Stubborn Horse. An amusing illustration of the power of determined patience is re-, lated by Captain Kerr, of the British Cavalry. In his words it is as follows:; "I may instance the treatment by which a well-known Yorkshire breeds er and breaker—one who always broke -in his own colts-e;ured a stubs born and by no means uncommon case of mulishness. Riding A colt one day, about noon, the telt rested i.e., obstinately refused to turn out of the road that led to his stables, He reared, whipped around, kicked, plunged, stuck his toes firmly in the ground, backed into the ditch, anti otherwise behaved himself unseemly, Many a man would have adminis- tered severe punishment, and have endeavored to exercise the demon of contrariness by free application of the Newmarket flogger and the Latch.. fords. Our friend's creed was the suavitor in modo, spiced with patient determination. After exhausting everli method of kindness and encourage= ment he determined to 'sit it out,' so, bringing the disobedient youngster back to the point of disputed depart- ure he halted him there, sitting its his saddle as immovable as one of the mounted sentries at the horse Guards, or the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. "At the. end of an hour's. anchorage a fresh essay to make the pig-headed colt go in the way it should go result- ed in a renewed exhibition of rearing. Observing a lad passing at the time?. the determined tyke ordered him to go to his wife, and tell her to sent his dinner to the cross reads, for there he meant to remain ou+ all night and the day following if need be. The repast duly arrived, and 'eras des- patched on the animal's hdeb. Ano- ther effort was but a freslf failure, so the statuesque, weary wait was resum ed, and the veteran breaker at again for hours immovable. Here was the living exemplification of Patience - on a monument. "With the setting sure l=ame the horseman's supper, still net a move, and the sturdy yeoman prepared to make a night of it. In dile course his topcoat, and a stiffly Mixed 'nest cap' arrived. Whether or not thi colt divined the meaning a)' • these campaigning- arrangements deponent sayeth not; anyhow, hie master had hardly donned the one and swelled the other when the quadruped, with. one long sigh, one that nearly car- ried the girths away, all hie obstinacy evaporated, and thoroughly defeated, relieved himself from his post, and quietly walked down the road in the direction he had so long protested so firmly against. The lesson was a permanent one; it took spme eight hours in the teaching, but lasted a lifetime—he never 'struck up' again." If it be objected that a vicious ani- mal cannot be so handled, suffice it to say that impatience and barshuess certainly never controlled or brake one. Drainage and Hauling. Proper drainage not only allow: the farmer to cut his crop under more favorable circumstances; but it also affords easy removal of the crop from the fields in Large wagons, Charles G. McLain, farm drainage and water supply expert of the United States Department ofAgriculture, it discus- sing u5 sing farm hauling, says: "The removal of the crops £runt the field to the barn is often a very diffi- cult proposition, especially if the. s ea - son happens to be wet, or if there is a bad section of ground between the fields and the barn. This condition can be largely overcome by doing some drainage. It will also be of benefit to every farmer from the fact water now held in the soil is removed so much earlier in the spring. By drainage you not only put your soil in better condition, you lengthen your season of work. It: is through drawing the water away through tln- derdrains that you accomplish these two purposes. "The experience of the farmers who have underdrained their fields is sure- ly enough to convince any one that drainage hakes for better farming,. The fields that have been under - drained will stand the teams a1,1 wag- ons much earlier and better than un- chained fields. On the drained farm the loads that can be hauled? -are much heavier and larger then on the undrained? farm. The x'ce,son for this is' that the water in the roll is con- stantly seeking a lower level, thus leaving the surface in a nnuch timer condition to withstand the he,r,,, loads hauled Over it. Aunt—"Soon nie, Why is it thrtt you never remember to say `Thatelt Teti ?' " Johnnie (eyeing wistfully a box o ehoeolates on his etunt.'s elites) .."I expect it's because I clnn't get things given to me Often cnough t.ta tri edict,"