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The Exeter Advocate, 1916-1-27, Page 2The Green Seal By CtlA1 :LES EDMO ?IDS WALK ,Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby,* "The Time Lock," etc. CHAPTER XXII.—(Cont'd), The hearing was assaulted by tele harsh, strident melody and crash of brasses froxn a Chinese orchestra, us- ually so disagreeable to the Cauca. man's musical ear, but at present in nice harmony with their setting, The very air was heavy with exotic per- fumes and the incense from thous -1 ands of smouldering joss -sticks. The1 affair, in good truth, was organized.! and conducted upon a splendidly mag- i nificent scale, and for some minutes, the combined colorful whole was be -1 wildering to the eye; detail was tents' porarily eclipsed by the general effect, and I wandered aimlessly about trying to get my bearings, my attention free • quently diverted by the greetings of friends and acquaintances. I did not know what to expect, Whatever else I had imagined as be- ing likely to confront me here to- night, it included a mental picture of a Chinaman accosting me, drawing me of if mysteriously to a secluded cor- ner, and after I had handed hire the ring and box, whispering at my ear the way to find Lois. The rest I left in the air. au, Mystery r S and y erne were c .o 1' ya ren' to this gay, glittering festival, hon• - ever, and the bright faces of friends were so constantly rising before me upon every hand, that it was dit1' eu]'t to keep my purpose in mind as a. grim reality and not as a sort of hideous nightmare. I early began to grow restless and impatient, responding to salutations only in an absent fashion, while I hurried up and down the broad t aisles between the rows of booths, keenly scanning every dark foreign; face for some sign er token that my quest was ended. As time drew on and nothing hap- pened my impatience grew beyond all bounds. Nine—ten—ten-thirty—elev- en o'clock came and went. I devoted. a moment to wondering what had be- come of Strrxber, and what he would do when lie returned to the city and learned of Lois's disappearance. Al.; though I had no inkling of what bad , carried him otr to the mountains, I could not but believe that be had been led away purposely—on a wildgoose chase, like my own here to -night, After all, when the signal came I wiis not looking for it; it caught me wholly unawares. I was standing be- fore a booth where were displayed in- numerable specimens of carved ivory. There were tiny images of Buddha sitting cross-legged in his familiar at- titude cf meditative devotion; ole- rlents with howdas upon their backs; hideous, grotesque gods and god- dense: ; t'ilessmen, and countless other .fancies all exquisitely carved. In the midst of this heterogeneous welter of fantastic images and figures an t11d gray-haired Chinaman sat, his position very much like that of the diminutive Buddhas. In front of him was a low bench bearing tools and fragments of ivory—ivory chips and shavings—and a nearly finished con- ception upon which he manifestly had been engaged. The incident that brought me to a keen sense of my surroundings was peculiar. I must have been standing $ here watching him in a preoccupied way for some minutes. People were s constantly passing and now and then pausing to admire the ivory carver's wares, whose merits were exploited by a eeetty girl in a fetching Chinese costume. p All at once I became aware that the old Chinaman was staring in my iiirection with a fixed intentness that had something uncanny about it. It I vas the sort of Iook that one feels, the sort that drags one up from the pro- fosindest of reveries, to swing corn- p pass -like and meet the scrutinizing .: eyes. But his regard was not engag- o ad -by mine. Following its direction, ray. own dropped to my right hand— q to .the death ring. It was the- ring that had, apparently, hypnotized him. He seemed suddenly to divine that n had detected his interest, for his eyes raised to mine sent me a warn- q Ing glance. Then deliberately he picked up a small cube -shaped bit of b Ivory and affected to work upon it with one of his tools. With a start I recognized it as one• of the ivory boxes, I could not afford to attract atten tion, so I turned.away and strolled: on down the aisle. At the end I wheeled and walked slowly back, Now, I note witli satisfaction, nobody was linger Ping about the booth. I was in tim to see the pretty girl, obviously ben upon some errand, disappear through the curtains at the rear. I had received the signal at last, I took a swift step or two forward and leaned toward the old man. "Well," I undertoned, "I am here; I have been here all evening." 1 Without deigning so much as a look " at me or ceasing in his employment, but with a swift glance toward the rear curtains he returned; d e "Policemen.' here, too. You no mind velly good." Of course I was in no wise to blame if the police had extended their active ities to the bazaar; it gave fee an added feeling of confidence in their ability that this possible source had occurred to them, Bat I experienced a quick feeling of alarm at the idea that I was to be held accountable for ese a here. their i nc e "I told nobody about the message— not a word," I uttered with fervent earnestness. "If the police are here, it's not at my instigation ---not be- cause I told then] to come—under- stand?" The old man worked on in silence. After a long, anxious pause, and still without looking up, he said; "Welly well. You wait. Shut up by 'm by; I come for you." At this moment the pretty girl re- turned, her face wreathing• in smiles when she caught the admiring look with which I was examining her ex- hibit, and before I could withdraw gracefully* from the vicinity,"I was obliged to purchase, at a terribly ex- travagant price, an image of Confu- cius, Another tormenting period of wait- ing now ensued; but. already the erowd was beginning to thin perceptibly. 1 was informed at one of the booths that midnight was closing -tine, and as it was same minutes past eleven I curbed my impatience as best I could, and, having secured my hat and coat, kept a watchful eye upon the ivory carver's booth. Of a sudden I heard my name pro- nounced in a voice unmistakably fam- iliar. I looked round but encountered no face that I recognized, Then right in front of me I espied a Chinese boy in a costume of dazzling yellow and blue silk covered all over with embroidered gilt storks and amazing flowers. He was grinning at me, and I identified him by a gap in his upper front row of teeth. It was Stub. "What are you doing here in this masquerade?" I demanded. "Gee! Isn't it great, boss?" he re- turned cheerfully. "I'm just picking up a little easy money on the side. But, say, the kids wouldn't do a thing to me if they caught me on the street n the rags. Gaudy! Wow!" "Do you mean to tell me you're paid for making this -spectacle of your - elf ?" "Yep. I'm in the Chink village. I ' erve tea, chop suey, shark's fins, bird's-nest soup and all the delica- cies o' the season. Most of 'em's real Chinks, but :a bunch o' us kids pulls down four bits a night for bein' art o' the scenery. Dead easy." "And this is why you have been wanting to sleep all day this past week—I see. But don't for tt that have first claim upon your valu- able services, you imp.. Wait a minute." An idea had suddenly pop - ed into my mind, and I had only a short time to avail myself of this pportunity. "You seem to have an extended ac- quaintance among the police," I said: 'I want you to give someone of them —preferably a plain -clothes man—a ote from me, and tell him to get it to the chief of police or to -Struber as quickly as he can." The sauciness was erased from the oy's face by a look of frank curio- sity. "What's on, boss? The place's atto Kx;WO NOM J R \00`\11111111IfY11( ti Your cares in comfort- ing, the aches and pains of the family from youth to old age, are Iessened when you use 0 this old and trust -worthy remedy - Bruises Rheu at!sra Neuralgia O 10 Mothers: 'Keep a bottle in your home - Price 25c., 50c. and $1.00 00C1100 tiflat)Y4Z } " been lousy' with fly -cops all evening, One's behind you right now,tpipin' us. ! Let him pipe. 1 mustn't be see talking with him; and don't you I directly from me to him either. Fin. a way to slip him this without any body seeing you do it," I had fished up from a pocket th figurative invitation that had brough m l g e rein to -night, and on the back ' scribbled: the lights of a swiftly approaching automobile. or . a second we were bathed in the dazzling rays, and I leaped breathless over the door, for our turn aside had been so abrupt that I feared a. collision. Ina flash the machine was upon us, It roared by like the wind. Next in, stant it had disappeared. (To he continued.) GREEN FEED IN WINTER, Green feeds for poultry contain only a small percentage of actualfood nutrients, but are important because of their succulence and bulk, which lighten the grain rations and assist in keeping the birds in good condition, The poultryman should secure a suffi- cient supply of such °feeds to last' through the winter months in sections where growing green feeds can not be obtained. When chickens are fattened without the use of milk, green feed "helps to keep them in good condition, t Cabbage, mangel wurzels, clover, alfalfa, and sprouted oats are the green feeds eommouly used during the winter. Cabbages do not keep as well in ordinary cellars as mangel wurzels, so where both of these feeds are avail- able the cabbages are fed Ara. They Used in Millions of Tea hots Daily --Every Leaf is Pure Every infusion is alike ke delicious. 11 Black, Green' or Mixed` >d 15 ealed Packets only: are often suspended, while the mangel j The Cream Can, wurzels are split and stuck on a nail: i ,r A writer signing herself "Farrtaer's n on the wall ox the pen, Clover asci. Wifer, in the Ohio Fanner recently alfalfa: ]nay be fed as bay, eut into ec ntly g° one-half to 1 incl] lengths, er niay be gave an Account of the value of the a bought in the form of meal,. Alfalfa cream can, which is worth reproduc- meal has a feeding analysis equal to fag here' Here it is: } ri The cream, I ' m e bran, but is not as digestible an ac-�fa to can is an important f and shrubs should be placed where they will do the roost good—where they will be seen and enjoyed by thu occupants of the house. Children and young people especially are oftenin- fluenced by their environment more than n .e - they know, no r s willing 9 o are valla to r n ad- g „ c „ran nian arm h.: t, count of its. larger ercenta a of fibre, y Dines. No uten- mit, and the unattractiveness of their* I Clover and alfa fa Should be cut while ell has become popular more rapidly home surroundings has driven nnany slightly immature, if they are to be than it, It as the cream check that bays to the city. Am obeying these directions liter- ally. Just received first sign from old Chinese ivory carver at ivory booth, who doubtless is to conduet ni somewhere. Am waiting for him 11.40 p.m, Ferris. I handed it to Stub, "Do you u derstand what you are to do?" wanted. to make sure. "IIget you, boss," be replied, a Fina wistfullook betraying his eagernes to learn what this mysterious pro ceeding portended. He darted away just as the pretty girl emerged from the ivory booth her fantastic costume concealed by motoring coat and veil. She bade tai old artist a cheery good -night an joined a pleased -looking young chap who was waiting for her. The two went away, smiling happily into each other's eyes. I felt a queer wrench a my heart as I watched them disap pear. Then shortly came the Chinaman Ile advanced with such a pointed ig of my presence that I on my part appeared to pay no attention t hire. As he passed he Rung a short com- mand from a corner of his month "You follow me," and pursued his way without further pause. I fell into his wake, and in a min- ute or such a matter we issued through a side door into an alley -way A light above the door relieved the darkness of this restricted passage, ;lily guide turned toward the rear of the auditorium, and we presently came out upon a street densely shad- ed by pepper -trees. Here a touring - ear was waiting with a dim blur of a figure sitting motionless at the wheel, and the old man motioned me to en- ter, I held back. "Where are you tak- ing me?" I demanded sternly. Ile climbed deliberately in beside the silent chauffeur before vouchsaf- ins a repl cornea and fed to poultry. The leaves Pay$ the grocer and dressmaker, The backyard, seen and traversed and chaff from such hay are especially builds houses and barns, buys the many times daily, should receive es e - adapted for poultry feeding. , Pian°, sends the children to college cial attention. If it is a bare place ee Sprouted oats make a very goad and buys oil and gasoline. And what with muddy pools and unsightly ace could do more than the cream can? cumulations, it should undergo a green feed and are used quite extort-' „ sively in this country. The oats can! Get another cow," was the slogan radical change. Such change costs be soaked for 12 hours in warm water of the owner of the cream can; but little, but, when made, should bo n- and then spread out in a layer of from the 101 I slogan is "Get a better cow." earned out with'care and a view to I one-half to ] t inches deep on a floor, Then weigh your milk and use the permanency. Take time to plan the or in a tray or tier of flats, which Babcock tester, Scales are a neces- planting and decide once and for all I have openings or Boles ora three- sity on every faire and the testing where the shrubs will be most effect- s, aixteenths (3-16) inch mesh wire bot.'outfit is not expensive, neither is it give and attractive, -' tofu, so that the water drains freely. ;so complex that it takes an educated i. The women usually have to take the They may be stirred daily and sprink- • person to use it as many suppose. i initiative in work of this kind, and led, or allowed to sprout without stir- 1 tir With scales and Babcock test no one should be given every assistance pos- ring, until ready for feeding, They need keep -cows, the cows will keep sible by the men. ]luring the winter e are usually fed when the sprouts are him, Don t guess; it pays io knew. the subject should be discussed at d from 1 to 11�i inches long, although. Weigh your cream—then if you ship Farmers' Clubs and plans mads for an somo poultrymen prefer to allow the 36 pounds when the check comes you ;active campaign in the spring. Sever - sprouts to grow to 2 or 3 inches long. will not be positive it was 38. a1 clubs in Quebec have organized Oats need a moist and warm atmos- A man may pay 25 cents to guess competitions in this line of work with , � o t phcre in which to sprout quickly, so n the number of beans in a can and excellent results. These improve- -• that it is necessary to furnish heat or' consider himself a sport, But he is meats involve little or no expense and to keep them in a warm room during not in it with the man who lases from may be accomplished in the time that g- the winter, while they may be sprout- , one to two per cent, to as high as 30 the busiest farmer and his family can ed out of doors during the rest of the per cent. of the butterfat for the easily find if they appreciate the fin- , • year. It takes from 6 to 10 days to privilege of guessing twice a day on portance of the work and are dispos- sprout oats, depending on the tem- i the speed of his separator. Why not ed to undertake it. The farmer owes perature of the room. Oats frequent buy a speed recorder, made especially to His wife and to himself, but chief ly become mouldy while sprouting, To i to attach to any make of cream sopa- ly to his children,the best that he can prevent this, they may be treated with ,gator, and quit guessing? The cone- do towards increasing the attractive- formalin, using 1 pint df formalin to mon error is turning the separator too .ness of his home. The improvement 30. gallons of water, which. is sprink- slow. The result of one or two turns often need not cost a cent. The first led over and thoroughly mixed with 30 per minute is the bowl running 600 item, greater neatness, costs only an bushels of oats. Cover the oats with ' to 700 revolutions too slow. This is efrort. The second item of improve- a blanket for 24 hours; then stir until losing money by turning the cream ment, the plan, costs nothing but they are dry. Keep them in a sack ! iuto skim -milk. study. The third item of improve - which has also been soaked in forma - Besides timing to give the cream went, the plants, can often be -wholly lin. Oats thus treated and dried may can a square deal, wash the separator secured from the wild.—F,C.N. in he held for 'a long time for sprouting.l every time it is used. If you do not Conservation. Where the double -yard system of do this, run some clean water through confining poultry is used, one of the the separator after it has stood over It Pays to Paint. It pays to paint all permanent buildings that are made of planed lumber and properly finished, If tastily colored with paint properly ap- plied, it adds greatly to the appear- ance of the place. This is a source of delight to the owner and helps make the family contented. A building that is kept well painted will last Inde- , finitely. A good grade of paint well through the winter in most sections. velvety cream is more accurately applied keeps moisture from reaching Oats, wheat and barley are used sampled; hence, it gives a better test the nails, the lack of which allows throug:.out the spring, summer and than the hard, lumpy cream. Cover buildings to become weatherworn, early fall. Several of these grains cream with cheese cloth to avoid dust and its parts become loose, weak, rot - may be sown together to secure a 'and insects and to give the cream air, ten and misshapen. A well painted greater variety of green feed, and any Don't bring your cream in the kitch- place is not only more desirable to quick -growing grains may be used for en to sour it, thinking you will get a keep, but is more readily sold, as buy - this purpose.—Canadian Farm, better test for sweet cream tests the ers prefer a well kept place and will same as sour. The amount of butter- pay more for such It pays t paint "1 no can tell. I show you. You savvy?" Still I hesitated. Was I deliberate- ly, with eyes open, being led into an- other trap ? My guide stirred me. "What's the matte you? You 'field?" he asked in a perfectly indif- ferent tone. "You no come, I say good -by." Trap or no trap, I was in for it. I must take the risk. I opened the ton- neau door and stepped in. The old rogue knew that I would come. The silent chauffeur instantly came to life. The electric headlights sud- denly blossomed; there was : a click of the starter switch, and the machine gathered speed and went rushing away through the night. Was it taking me to Lois? I was filled with a miserable sense of being carried farther and farther away from her with every mile that unrolled so swiftly behind us. The automobile was a large seven - passenger touring -car,' and I was a solitary figure on the back seat. We were well into the northern outskirts of the city before 1 became aware that I was not the t in of eau s sole oc- cupant—though possibly the only animate one. I had entered it in dark- ness; the top was up; the street lights • we sped past did not go fax toward illuminating the portions of the in- terior that were in shadow. It was not until my foot touched something soft and yielding' that my attention was drawn with a start to a shap- less mass upon the floor. I made out the vague • outlines of what appeared to be a bundle of rugs, or carpet.,' I leant forward and felt over the heap with my hands, even. going so far as to lift the top folds. Rugs, 1 concluded, puzzled =or car- pet. Satisfied that my surmise' was cor- rect, I: dismissed the matter from my mind; but for the moment' I was struck with the incongruity of com- bining so ordinary an errand as this of hauling a bundle ;of rugs with,one as momentous as mine .was. In a very few minutes we were speeding along Huntington Drive, which would soon fetch us to South Pasadena and, Alhambra, or: if our des- tination lay ,beyond these towns, to Arcadia or onrovia, or eyen Sierra Madre, where Struber had gone that afternoon. We went between. the two first - named towns with scarcely diminish- ed speed, and were rounding a 'bend hi the 'highway when. our. machine swerved sharply to the right, There was a biincling glare from yards is kept in green: feed, into i night; then taste the water from the which the hens are turned when the , cream spout and ,you will know tvhy it crop attains a height of 4 or 5 inches. ;should be washed. The maeliine rusts This method of alternately- yarding after a time when not washed. Any poultry furnishes green feed for the one can afford to care properly fax as birds and at the same time freshens high-priced a machine as the separa- the yard. Rape, wheat, rye, oats and tor. , barley are usually sown for this pur- Have all cream the same tempera - pose. Rye is good for late fall and . ture—as cold as possible when mixed. early spring feeding, as it will live Keep the cream. stirred as a smooth fat in cream is not affected b sour- machinery because of the betteap- Up or Down- y First senior I'm going to marry it. poor girl and settle down. Second senior Better marry a rich girl and settle up. Mean Cat. "Algernon called on me yesterday afternoon." "Yes; he told me he had some time to kill.", Clear Profit. "If.Icould get someone to invest a thousand dollars in that scheme, of mine I could make some money." "How much could you make?' "Why, a thousand dollars," A linen shirt is much colder than a cotton one,' linen drawing. away more of the body's heat. Ice contains latent heat. It twill ab- sorb 1.40 degrees of heat when melted over a fire or by the sarin. Snow is white . because its' minute crystals and prisms reflect the rays of which white Iight coneists.' Hail is rain which, in its descent, has passed through a cold layer of air and been frozen. When a 'grizzly bear cannot finish a meanie buries what is left over in the earth until . he requires it again. Stories are toldof grizzly bears bury- ing injured hunters in this way, thinking them to be dead. When you move, to stop your cat from running' away immediately from the new house, rub butter well over its feet and legs. By the tiine.it has fin- ished licking of the butter, all idea, of flight will have disappeared. ing. Don't ship a thin cream, for you simply donate the skim -milk to the creamery, make transportation high- er and besides a heavy cream keeps in better condition. The owner of the cream can has en- dorsed and adopted a system by which the old-time burdens have been re- moved, and the net results are great- er than before. When you sell butter- fat you are selling sunshine. Whe you sell grain you are selling the fer- tility of your farm. Can the farmer make a better investment than the cream can ? . Backyard Environment. A great part of the home lifeof families on farms isassociated with the backyard, which, of all places around the farm home, as usually the cause little.iusects get between the most neglected. The front yard may folds of its skin and worry it. If it be fairly well . attended for the Deco- gets its body covered with rnud, they sional passer-by to sec, but flowers are unable to reach. the skin. pearance, and because it will keep the bolts and other parts from rusting or rotting, causing expensive break- downs and making it difficult to re- pair. It is especially profitable -to keep waggans and buggies well paint- ed, for it keeps the wood from check- ing and the wheels ,from shrinking. Every time a tire is set it puts more dish into the wheel, which weakens it. For 50 cents a year a vehicle can be kept tight and be made to last almost as long as one will keep up the paint- ing. So far as is known the greatest age attained by an insect is that reached by a queen ant which was nearly fif- teen years oldwhen it died, A rhinoceros rolls in the mud be - GOD 'DIGESTBONdr— When your digestion is faulty, weakness and pain arecertain anddisease is invited.. , 'I Mother, Seigel's Syrup corrects and stimulates the digestive organs,'' and banishes the coir ailments which arise from indigestion. FOR 4OYEAR S THE STANii .n 'REMEDY' FOR. STOMACH AND LIVER TROUBLE wry. ...i ,:At all Druggists, or direct on receipt of price, 50c, and $1.00. The laraebott c con lint three times mach al the smaller, A.J. Writrit & Co. LIMITED, Craig Street West Montreal. `. SHIPPING Influenza, I' 1 n k - FE kl y e, npizootie, Distemper and all nose and throat disoases cured. and all others, no matter how ':exposed," kept from hating any of these diseases with Si'lxgiv's LIQUID »ISTr3MnER, COMPOUND. Three to six doses often cure a case. One crottle guaranteed to do o. Best thing. for brood snares; acts ,on the blood. Drugs ist.s and harness shops or manufacturers sell; It, Agents wanted., SPO1N, WIEDICAL co., Cllemisfr, csa.P1, I?� IT MAKES ROUGH HANDS SMOOTH There is aro better remedy_ for chapped hands and lips. than vaseline Trude mark 'Card 'hor Ice Keeps theskin smoothand soft. Said la handy metal boxes and tin seises at chemists aad,fenerai, steres e,etptobere, Refuse Substitutes. Rootlet oh se.. ArligikijOre 7777.4.4:914'=:` CHESEBROUGH MFG,, CO, (Consoiag,ited) 186e Ch*botilva. Manan " been lousy' with fly -cops all evening, One's behind you right now,tpipin' us. ! Let him pipe. 1 mustn't be see talking with him; and don't you I directly from me to him either. Fin. a way to slip him this without any body seeing you do it," I had fished up from a pocket th figurative invitation that had brough m l g e rein to -night, and on the back ' scribbled: the lights of a swiftly approaching automobile. or . a second we were bathed in the dazzling rays, and I leaped breathless over the door, for our turn aside had been so abrupt that I feared a. collision. Ina flash the machine was upon us, It roared by like the wind. Next in, stant it had disappeared. (To he continued.) GREEN FEED IN WINTER, Green feeds for poultry contain only a small percentage of actualfood nutrients, but are important because of their succulence and bulk, which lighten the grain rations and assist in keeping the birds in good condition, The poultryman should secure a suffi- cient supply of such °feeds to last' through the winter months in sections where growing green feeds can not be obtained. When chickens are fattened without the use of milk, green feed "helps to keep them in good condition, t Cabbage, mangel wurzels, clover, alfalfa, and sprouted oats are the green feeds eommouly used during the winter. Cabbages do not keep as well in ordinary cellars as mangel wurzels, so where both of these feeds are avail- able the cabbages are fed Ara. They Used in Millions of Tea hots Daily --Every Leaf is Pure Every infusion is alike ke delicious. 11 Black, Green' or Mixed` >d 15 ealed Packets only: are often suspended, while the mangel j The Cream Can, wurzels are split and stuck on a nail: i ,r A writer signing herself "Farrtaer's n on the wall ox the pen, Clover asci. Wifer, in the Ohio Fanner recently alfalfa: ]nay be fed as bay, eut into ec ntly g° one-half to 1 incl] lengths, er niay be gave an Account of the value of the a bought in the form of meal,. Alfalfa cream can, which is worth reproduc- meal has a feeding analysis equal to fag here' Here it is: } ri The cream, I ' m e bran, but is not as digestible an ac-�fa to can is an important f and shrubs should be placed where they will do the roost good—where they will be seen and enjoyed by thu occupants of the house. Children and young people especially are oftenin- fluenced by their environment more than n .e - they know, no r s willing 9 o are valla to r n ad- g „ c „ran nian arm h.: t, count of its. larger ercenta a of fibre, y Dines. No uten- mit, and the unattractiveness of their* I Clover and alfa fa Should be cut while ell has become popular more rapidly home surroundings has driven nnany slightly immature, if they are to be than it, It as the cream check that bays to the city. Am obeying these directions liter- ally. Just received first sign from old Chinese ivory carver at ivory booth, who doubtless is to conduet ni somewhere. Am waiting for him 11.40 p.m, Ferris. I handed it to Stub, "Do you u derstand what you are to do?" wanted. to make sure. "IIget you, boss," be replied, a Fina wistfullook betraying his eagernes to learn what this mysterious pro ceeding portended. He darted away just as the pretty girl emerged from the ivory booth her fantastic costume concealed by motoring coat and veil. She bade tai old artist a cheery good -night an joined a pleased -looking young chap who was waiting for her. The two went away, smiling happily into each other's eyes. I felt a queer wrench a my heart as I watched them disap pear. Then shortly came the Chinaman Ile advanced with such a pointed ig of my presence that I on my part appeared to pay no attention t hire. As he passed he Rung a short com- mand from a corner of his month "You follow me," and pursued his way without further pause. I fell into his wake, and in a min- ute or such a matter we issued through a side door into an alley -way A light above the door relieved the darkness of this restricted passage, ;lily guide turned toward the rear of the auditorium, and we presently came out upon a street densely shad- ed by pepper -trees. Here a touring - ear was waiting with a dim blur of a figure sitting motionless at the wheel, and the old man motioned me to en- ter, I held back. "Where are you tak- ing me?" I demanded sternly. Ile climbed deliberately in beside the silent chauffeur before vouchsaf- ins a repl cornea and fed to poultry. The leaves Pay$ the grocer and dressmaker, The backyard, seen and traversed and chaff from such hay are especially builds houses and barns, buys the many times daily, should receive es e - adapted for poultry feeding. , Pian°, sends the children to college cial attention. If it is a bare place ee Sprouted oats make a very goad and buys oil and gasoline. And what with muddy pools and unsightly ace could do more than the cream can? cumulations, it should undergo a green feed and are used quite extort-' „ sively in this country. The oats can! Get another cow," was the slogan radical change. Such change costs be soaked for 12 hours in warm water of the owner of the cream can; but little, but, when made, should bo n- and then spread out in a layer of from the 101 I slogan is "Get a better cow." earned out with'care and a view to I one-half to ] t inches deep on a floor, Then weigh your milk and use the permanency. Take time to plan the or in a tray or tier of flats, which Babcock tester, Scales are a neces- planting and decide once and for all I have openings or Boles ora three- sity on every faire and the testing where the shrubs will be most effect- s, aixteenths (3-16) inch mesh wire bot.'outfit is not expensive, neither is it give and attractive, -' tofu, so that the water drains freely. ;so complex that it takes an educated i. The women usually have to take the They may be stirred daily and sprink- • person to use it as many suppose. i initiative in work of this kind, and led, or allowed to sprout without stir- 1 tir With scales and Babcock test no one should be given every assistance pos- ring, until ready for feeding, They need keep -cows, the cows will keep sible by the men. ]luring the winter e are usually fed when the sprouts are him, Don t guess; it pays io knew. the subject should be discussed at d from 1 to 11�i inches long, although. Weigh your cream—then if you ship Farmers' Clubs and plans mads for an somo poultrymen prefer to allow the 36 pounds when the check comes you ;active campaign in the spring. Sever - sprouts to grow to 2 or 3 inches long. will not be positive it was 38. a1 clubs in Quebec have organized Oats need a moist and warm atmos- A man may pay 25 cents to guess competitions in this line of work with , � o t phcre in which to sprout quickly, so n the number of beans in a can and excellent results. These improve- -• that it is necessary to furnish heat or' consider himself a sport, But he is meats involve little or no expense and to keep them in a warm room during not in it with the man who lases from may be accomplished in the time that g- the winter, while they may be sprout- , one to two per cent, to as high as 30 the busiest farmer and his family can ed out of doors during the rest of the per cent. of the butterfat for the easily find if they appreciate the fin- , • year. It takes from 6 to 10 days to privilege of guessing twice a day on portance of the work and are dispos- sprout oats, depending on the tem- i the speed of his separator. Why not ed to undertake it. The farmer owes perature of the room. Oats frequent buy a speed recorder, made especially to His wife and to himself, but chief ly become mouldy while sprouting, To i to attach to any make of cream sopa- ly to his children,the best that he can prevent this, they may be treated with ,gator, and quit guessing? The cone- do towards increasing the attractive- formalin, using 1 pint df formalin to mon error is turning the separator too .ness of his home. The improvement 30. gallons of water, which. is sprink- slow. The result of one or two turns often need not cost a cent. The first led over and thoroughly mixed with 30 per minute is the bowl running 600 item, greater neatness, costs only an bushels of oats. Cover the oats with ' to 700 revolutions too slow. This is efrort. The second item of improve- a blanket for 24 hours; then stir until losing money by turning the cream ment, the plan, costs nothing but they are dry. Keep them in a sack ! iuto skim -milk. study. The third item of improve - which has also been soaked in forma - Besides timing to give the cream went, the plants, can often be -wholly lin. Oats thus treated and dried may can a square deal, wash the separator secured from the wild.—F,C.N. in he held for 'a long time for sprouting.l every time it is used. If you do not Conservation. Where the double -yard system of do this, run some clean water through confining poultry is used, one of the the separator after it has stood over It Pays to Paint. It pays to paint all permanent buildings that are made of planed lumber and properly finished, If tastily colored with paint properly ap- plied, it adds greatly to the appear- ance of the place. This is a source of delight to the owner and helps make the family contented. A building that is kept well painted will last Inde- , finitely. A good grade of paint well through the winter in most sections. velvety cream is more accurately applied keeps moisture from reaching Oats, wheat and barley are used sampled; hence, it gives a better test the nails, the lack of which allows throug:.out the spring, summer and than the hard, lumpy cream. Cover buildings to become weatherworn, early fall. Several of these grains cream with cheese cloth to avoid dust and its parts become loose, weak, rot - may be sown together to secure a 'and insects and to give the cream air, ten and misshapen. A well painted greater variety of green feed, and any Don't bring your cream in the kitch- place is not only more desirable to quick -growing grains may be used for en to sour it, thinking you will get a keep, but is more readily sold, as buy - this purpose.—Canadian Farm, better test for sweet cream tests the ers prefer a well kept place and will same as sour. The amount of butter- pay more for such It pays t paint "1 no can tell. I show you. You savvy?" Still I hesitated. Was I deliberate- ly, with eyes open, being led into an- other trap ? My guide stirred me. "What's the matte you? You 'field?" he asked in a perfectly indif- ferent tone. "You no come, I say good -by." Trap or no trap, I was in for it. I must take the risk. I opened the ton- neau door and stepped in. The old rogue knew that I would come. The silent chauffeur instantly came to life. The electric headlights sud- denly blossomed; there was : a click of the starter switch, and the machine gathered speed and went rushing away through the night. Was it taking me to Lois? I was filled with a miserable sense of being carried farther and farther away from her with every mile that unrolled so swiftly behind us. The automobile was a large seven - passenger touring -car,' and I was a solitary figure on the back seat. We were well into the northern outskirts of the city before 1 became aware that I was not the t in of eau s sole oc- cupant—though possibly the only animate one. I had entered it in dark- ness; the top was up; the street lights • we sped past did not go fax toward illuminating the portions of the in- terior that were in shadow. It was not until my foot touched something soft and yielding' that my attention was drawn with a start to a shap- less mass upon the floor. I made out the vague • outlines of what appeared to be a bundle of rugs, or carpet.,' I leant forward and felt over the heap with my hands, even. going so far as to lift the top folds. Rugs, 1 concluded, puzzled =or car- pet. Satisfied that my surmise' was cor- rect, I: dismissed the matter from my mind; but for the moment' I was struck with the incongruity of com- bining so ordinary an errand as this of hauling a bundle ;of rugs with,one as momentous as mine .was. In a very few minutes we were speeding along Huntington Drive, which would soon fetch us to South Pasadena and, Alhambra, or: if our des- tination lay ,beyond these towns, to Arcadia or onrovia, or eyen Sierra Madre, where Struber had gone that afternoon. We went between. the two first - named towns with scarcely diminish- ed speed, and were rounding a 'bend hi the 'highway when. our. machine swerved sharply to the right, There was a biincling glare from yards is kept in green: feed, into i night; then taste the water from the which the hens are turned when the , cream spout and ,you will know tvhy it crop attains a height of 4 or 5 inches. ;should be washed. The maeliine rusts This method of alternately- yarding after a time when not washed. Any poultry furnishes green feed for the one can afford to care properly fax as birds and at the same time freshens high-priced a machine as the separa- the yard. Rape, wheat, rye, oats and tor. , barley are usually sown for this pur- Have all cream the same tempera - pose. Rye is good for late fall and . ture—as cold as possible when mixed. early spring feeding, as it will live Keep the cream. stirred as a smooth fat in cream is not affected b sour- machinery because of the betteap- Up or Down- y First senior I'm going to marry it. poor girl and settle down. Second senior Better marry a rich girl and settle up. Mean Cat. "Algernon called on me yesterday afternoon." "Yes; he told me he had some time to kill.", Clear Profit. "If.Icould get someone to invest a thousand dollars in that scheme, of mine I could make some money." "How much could you make?' "Why, a thousand dollars," A linen shirt is much colder than a cotton one,' linen drawing. away more of the body's heat. Ice contains latent heat. It twill ab- sorb 1.40 degrees of heat when melted over a fire or by the sarin. Snow is white . because its' minute crystals and prisms reflect the rays of which white Iight coneists.' Hail is rain which, in its descent, has passed through a cold layer of air and been frozen. When a 'grizzly bear cannot finish a meanie buries what is left over in the earth until . he requires it again. Stories are toldof grizzly bears bury- ing injured hunters in this way, thinking them to be dead. When you move, to stop your cat from running' away immediately from the new house, rub butter well over its feet and legs. By the tiine.it has fin- ished licking of the butter, all idea, of flight will have disappeared. ing. Don't ship a thin cream, for you simply donate the skim -milk to the creamery, make transportation high- er and besides a heavy cream keeps in better condition. The owner of the cream can has en- dorsed and adopted a system by which the old-time burdens have been re- moved, and the net results are great- er than before. When you sell butter- fat you are selling sunshine. Whe you sell grain you are selling the fer- tility of your farm. Can the farmer make a better investment than the cream can ? . Backyard Environment. A great part of the home lifeof families on farms isassociated with the backyard, which, of all places around the farm home, as usually the cause little.iusects get between the most neglected. The front yard may folds of its skin and worry it. If it be fairly well . attended for the Deco- gets its body covered with rnud, they sional passer-by to sec, but flowers are unable to reach. the skin. pearance, and because it will keep the bolts and other parts from rusting or rotting, causing expensive break- downs and making it difficult to re- pair. It is especially profitable -to keep waggans and buggies well paint- ed, for it keeps the wood from check- ing and the wheels ,from shrinking. Every time a tire is set it puts more dish into the wheel, which weakens it. For 50 cents a year a vehicle can be kept tight and be made to last almost as long as one will keep up the paint- ing. So far as is known the greatest age attained by an insect is that reached by a queen ant which was nearly fif- teen years oldwhen it died, A rhinoceros rolls in the mud be - GOD 'DIGESTBONdr— When your digestion is faulty, weakness and pain arecertain anddisease is invited.. , 'I Mother, Seigel's Syrup corrects and stimulates the digestive organs,'' and banishes the coir ailments which arise from indigestion. FOR 4OYEAR S THE STANii .n 'REMEDY' FOR. STOMACH AND LIVER TROUBLE wry. ...i ,:At all Druggists, or direct on receipt of price, 50c, and $1.00. The laraebott c con lint three times mach al the smaller, A.J. Writrit & Co. LIMITED, Craig Street West Montreal. `. 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