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THE CANADA STARCH CO., LIMITED Head Office > Montreal 30 !-!kittyiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim!ii;iiiiiiiii!i!iiiiiiiiiiiii!rj;i|iiii|iii;!-!iii;:i!i::!:ii'pii!'; lis peared several times â€" on five sue- try any of my unsurpassed pre'ra-j cessive days, I afterwards ascertain- tions," she glibly pursued, "I can ed. The one of that morning was anyway give you an opportunity to similarly addressed, but it seemed to help some friend â€" perhaps, eh, my i indicate a conflict of purposes some- dear? I pos'tively remove all dis- figurements, such as birthmarks, ' warts, wens, moles, tattoo-marks and every sort of blemish, restoring the : skin to its original perfection. j "D'ye know of anybody disfigured, I say, by a hideous tattoo-mark, dearie ? | ! Just tell 'em Madame Carcassi can ' remove it â€" wipe it out like you'd | where. It was worded thus: rERSON.\L â€" Brlee Ferris, attorney. Pay no attention to advertiaement about val- uable mall parcel. Only persons inter- eHted now know It la safe. James Strang. O! course, you can buy cheaper teas, but II The Green Seal By CH/tJJtES EDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc CH.\PTER XVI.â€" (Cont'd). There now could be no doubting that the two unrecognizable passeng- ers were determined not to lose any of my movements. The circumstance had ceased to be merely curious; it was becoming positively disquieting. "Don't worry," my companion counseled. "Just leave it to me. I'll nail them gtrys before â€" " He broke off with an exclamation of surprise. He was staring back- ward, then all at once he slewed round and curtly commanded our chauffeur to stop, which he did so promptly that I was pitched for- ward. "What yuh make o' that?" he ask- me under bis breath. My comi>aiuon'3 manner already had impelled me to look backward too. We had just crossed Alameda Street. The gray car was drawing in to the curb where a man was ad- vancing rapidly from the sidewalk to meet it. Obviously he had signalled it to stop. The tonneau door swung open, the movements of all three being now marked by nervous haste, and the newcomer was climbing in when Stru- ber was stung to action. He sudden- ly turned to our chauffeur with a sharp command that made that young man obey on the instant. "Here, you! Swing this machine round and rush that gray auto like you meant to knock it off the street. iVIovel Hurry!" Our car circled and speeded up. Al- ready the other machine was itself gathering headway, coming toward us manifestly with the intention of turn- ing into Alaaaeda Street before we could get dose to it. Struber was fidgeting with impatience. He stormed at our driver: "Beat it, you boob! Beat it! It's a cinch you'll never get pinched for fast driving." The gray car skidded into Alameda Street, and darted away with its muffler open. An instant later we crossed behind them, and I barely glimpsed one of the figures in the tonneau derisively waving a hand at us. It was plain that our slower ma- chine could never hope to overtake the gray racer, and Struber once more drew as to a halt. He seemed not in the least disappointed or put out, however^ by our failure. "Well," said I, "you missed them. And now they know that I know they've been following me." The tietective produced a soiled and tattered envelope and a stub of pen- cil. He jotted something down as he laconically returned: "But I lamped the number. That's all I wanted." I dismissed the taxi and we sepa- rated at the entrance to the buildmg where my office was situated. Two or three clients were impatiently waiting my return, and Stub handed ine a slip of paper bearing several telephone nnmbers that I was expect- ed to call up on my arrival. For the next half-hour I was ab- sorbed in boffiness. As soon as the last culler was gotten rid of I called the first of the numbers/ which prov- ed to be the Spring Street jewelers where Aarsten was employed. Within a second or two after I had announced my name I recognized the Dutchman's voice. "What you t'ink, Mr. Ferris. I found the regrord of your diamond," he said. "You'd nefer guess who the other fellow was that brought the (incut stone to Opzoomer Brothers â€" the big, jolly fellow, I mean." I assured him that I was not good iit guessing. "Ferris," came the surprising in- formation. "What!" I yelled. "Do you mean my father?" "Ah! That, now, I can't tell you. I just wrote down the last names â€" Willetsâ€" Ferrisâ€" like that. I don't CHAPTER XVII. On the day of the attack upon Mrs. erase a chalk mark on a blackboard â€" ^ Fox there were two more happenings and all without pain or inconvenience ' that demand some attention, and then or interference with engagements." I this narrative takes a stride forward Lois had drawn back and was star- ' to the first week in May. The interim ing at her with a sort of fascination. â-  is thus casually dismissed because The woman happened to glance nothing of importance fell; it was as around and became aware of my if everything had come a standstill â€" presence. Doubtless I was eyeing hei; as if the mystery were not to offer with extreme distaste and for a sec- another single development. ond she was disconcerted; but only is undoubtedly the most economicad aind wKait appears to be 'cheap' in price will prove to be extravaigaiit in use. The fresh young leaves of *'Salada" will yield you generous value for your money. bus I saw Struber almost every day for a second, for at once she leered at during the period. He was always me in a way meant to be ingratiating and came and gave me one of her cards also. (To be continued.) A â- â€" busy, seemingly accomplishing noth ing, yet never was downcast or dis- couraged. He grew unaccountably re- ticent, merely hinting at strange arid unimaginable surprises that were in store 'for all of us. I assumed that this attitude was a pose behind which . . he hid a consciousness of defeat and Many Commit Suicide Rather Than ARMY DESERTIONS IN JAPAN. Face Courtmartial. The frequency of army desertion, as well as suicide of some of the de- fectation of careless indiflFerence that serters, is causing some concern among the Japanese military authori- ties. Statistics show that during failure. \ Late in the afternoon of the day in question, however, the detective sauntered into my office with an af- regollect whether I efer heard the first names." All at once Aartsen'a oft-repeated phrase, -*'the big, jolly fellow," took on a new and suggestive meaning. My father had been a large man, of gen- ial disposition, fond of his joke, and as far as it went the phrase fitted him. "Describe the man more particu- larly, Aartsen," I eagerly requested. And the details which came back over the wire tended more and more to establish the astonishing possibility. But, after all, why should the cir- cumstance be so improbable, though it remain astonishing beyond the power of words to describe â€" that one of the men with the diamond was my father ? At any rate, the idea immediately set my brain to a piecing together of some of the loose ends, and for a few seconds after I had hung up I sat at my desk in a state of high excitement, while my thoughts fairly flew. There were my father's long years in China and his familiarity with the country and language; I knew little enough of the history of that period of his life, and almost anything might be possible. I considered that everything that had happened possessed a Chinese, or at least an Oriental flavor. First of all, the ring and its ivory receptacle, which had been my father's, were un- questionably of Chinese workmanship. Next came the diamond in a box that was a duplicate of the ring box, and on top of that \va.s Lois's box â€" -Lois Fox, the daughter of Steve Willets. Then Willets himself is discovered masquerading as a Chinese: what was his connection with the mystery? He must have been led to my office safe by either the ring or the dia- mond, which latter possibility at once suggested that he had been in touch with the person who had mailed it to me. Then, going back to Miss Fox again there was her mysterious correspond- ent hailing from the Far East and the surmise that he and the anonymous sender of the diamond were the same: right here, it seemed to me, one link anyhow ought to be found. Advancing a step farther, James Strang had failed to appear at a stip- ulated time; apparently he had van- ished in thin air. Then, on the day he was expected, at almost the hour, a man calling himself "S. Willets" ap- peared at the Republic Hotel, gave his place of residence as Johore, and then in turn disappeared. That my father, in some unaccount- able way, should be involved was a startling suggestion, and before I called the next number I was sensible of a strong premonition that matters were approaching a crisis. Only one other of the calls has any bearing upon my story. It prov- ed to be a brother lawyer who had been moved purely out of curiosity to question me about something of which, until he brought it to my at- tention, I was ignorant. "Say," he shouted at me, "don't you ever read the Times personal col- umn?" ' 'No," was my reply. "What's on your mind?" "Well." my friend bluntly advised, "one addressed to you appeared all last week. This morning it is word- ed differently. Better look 'em up." That morning's issue of the Times still lay upon my desk; I sent Stub out for that of the day before. Al- though I immediately turned to the second advertisement (the one al- ready at hand), I give them here in the order of their appearance. I may add that I read them with a distinct shock of amazement, and straightway started off on another frenzied but futile excursion of spec- ulation. Here is the first one: PfmSOKAT. â€" Rik-e F..i-i-!s. attoniev rieuse a<knowledge immediately thiouBli this ooluinn /ooelpt of valuable mall parcel. This was the personal that had ap- quickened my curiosity more than he had been excited and eager. I surveyed him expectantly, and iggf yg^r there were 950 cases of de somewhat testily told him to throw ^^^.^^^^ ^j ^^ich 93 per cent, were away the cigar he was snioking He ^^.^^^ ^^^^^ ,^^j^ ^^j^^^ did so, cheerfully, and wrinkled his .^. ..., ,o. vi ti. _ nose at me when I handed him a cigar cities with 184 cases, while there were that was at least endurable. 112 cases aX Osaka. Out of the total, "I've nailed the owner o' the gray 258 soldiers were brought before the auto," he announced without pre- military court and punished, while 698 amble. Doubtless it is apparent by deserters voluntarily surrendered be- this time that a marked characteris- f^rg the three days' grace had ex- tic of Struber's was his unexpected- ness. I waited, and in a moment he added : "It's Mr. Meyer Hardwick's ma- chine. Know him ? pired. The increase of suicide among de- serters is believetl to be due to the re- duction of days of grace during the I stared my bewilderment. "Meyer war from six to three days, the de- Hardwick's machine! Why on earth serter sometimes preferring to kill should he be so interested in my himself than face the shame of court- martial. Deserters who surrender be- ruber shrugged his shoulders, fg^e the three days expire are restor- >: '^"ll.'"C"ru„^'" L'*i»?" -i "^ ed to the service with a light admoni- Would-be Bomber movements ? " Struber " 'T is wasn't Hardwick that was shadowin' .. y- ., ^„ ,^,„„ 4.i,„:, ,„,. 4.i,„„ you. A pair o' private bulls from 'o"- ^^/^^l ''^'^y t**^"^ '^^t"'^" ^^^^ Frisco was a-usin' his auto; I haven't become fugitives and are peremptor- learned yet what their drag with him ily punished on their arrest by the is. It's a sure thing he ain't runnin' military court. j any taxi livery. "These two sleuths . has blew across the Mojave to where | they come from, and Hardwick has /^^„„,„,, nffi^ffr been out o' town a couple o' daysâ€" fJ cT If lUn yij''^*^'j^ up in the mountains fishin', they say at the company's office. Now what do yuh make o' that?" j I could make nothing of it. I re- membered Hardwick's surprising show of feeling when I took him to task for his treatment of Lois Fox. ' And then I remembered the two per- sonals. I rallied Struber for having ; failed to see them. For the barest fraction of a second he looked crestfallen, but immediately , his jaunty self -a.ssura nee returned. ! "Yep, I missed 'em," he confessed. "The L. A. papers don't carry person- j als every day, like as if this was New , York or Chi., so it ain't a regular , thing for us to tag 'em. One on me. But, say, Mr. Ferris, I'm beginning to see a lot I didn't see before. . . . Adios." He was moving briskly toward the door when I halted him. "Here, you tell me what you have in mind before you go. I'm suf- ficiently in the dark as it is." He paused and considered, inspect- ing the inside of his hat. "Nope," he decided at last, "I won't tell you nothing now. I may be dead wrong about what's stirring in my skull, and till I know better I can al- ways look wise." And so he left me. The second happening does not have ] to be treated at length, yet it can not ' be lightly dismissed. During the night of the day on which JUrs. Fox was ' attacked, she died Calf Diphtheria. Calf diphtheria is due to a specific infection, and is always a serious mat- ter. The trouble may appear with calves from three to live days old. Such calves refuse to drink milk or suck. They show more or less (fis- charge of saliva from the mouth. These patches gradually develop into ulcers covered with a dead, granular , or cheesy mass, which does not peel easily from the raw surface under- i neath. There is considerable rise of ^ temperature and an offensive odor ' from the mouth. The trouble may easily extend to neighboring parts, to the lining membrane of the nose, and then there appears a yellowish dis- charge. In some cases the lining membrane of the digestive tract is similarly affected and then there is tendency to diarrhea. Little pigs show similar symptoms. So far as now known the germ is a normal inhabitant of the intestines of healthy hogs and cattle and proba- bly always virulent. ^Tien the dis- ease is prevalent, the virus is, of course, scattered everywhere. Very young animals are most easily and most seriously affected, but cases have been reported in calves and pigs six or eight months old, and even oc- casionally in adult cattle and adult hogs. The sores may be cleaned with two per cent, creolin in warm water, and then treated with Lugol's solutt&n, ap- plied twice a day to the ulcers. Per- manganate of potash may also be used, two ounces to each gallon of water; majje up fresh each time, as the mixture cannot be kept from day to day. Either treatment should be given to valuable animals about twice a day for from four to six days. Frequent and thorough disinfection of calf -pens and calf-yards is one of the first essentials in management. around the trees. The old maxim is "Bring your chickens to your tree, keep them there, and they will destroy more insects than in any other way." The suggestion is a good one if not in- flicting extra expense for fencing, but it is possible that some kind of movable fence should answer the pur- pose, as the fowls need not be con- fined except early in the season. Pride in the Country. We hear the term "civic pride" in the city. It applies just as much to the country resident. It means the pride that causes you to keep your premises clean and sightly and pre- sentable to the stranger or passerby. .A.nd then you yourself might get some pleasure out of a well-kept farm. Measured by the common standard, keeping your farm tidy actually adde dollars to its value and to the value of the products you have for sale. Let's clean up and stop breeding trouble on our farms. The inhabitants of the United King- dom receive, on an average, about seventy-five letters each a year. Lieut. Itobert Fay, lierman Army. | who confessed lie was la America to attempt tu de^itrojr .Ulled luuul- ; tlon sbips. { To the Man Higher I'p. The ansBsthetic, Do you ever stop to think it would seem, searched out an unsus- -A.3 your pen dips in the ink pected weakness of the heart, and Which will separate some fellow next morning Lois»<\ covered that her; from his job, aunt was dead. A tenant was found what an awful thing 'twill be for the cottage; Miss Fox moved to a down-town rooming-house; and on the third day she was back at the office â€" a trifle paler, a trifle more subdued, her eyes tender with a light of added suffering. My heart bled for her." râ€"â€" OOOD DIOBSTION , Vn*a your dlieatioo U tiultr, walk] j pmla arc c.ft«la aud dla.a». U uiTUcd. Mother SeUcl'a Synjp correct, and itimul.t*. th. dUaative or^ant. aad b.olahea tha naay atlo.ata which arise from IndiAeatloa. FOR 40YEARS TreStudirdI REMEDY MOTHER SEICELSSfflUF FOR STOMACH lAND LIVER TROUBLE At u!. DruiCiiiR'a, or dIrMrt 00 r«cclpi of price, SOc. .od Si.OO. The tnrfte bonla coat.loa three timea «a luuch u th. auMller, A. I, Wilin A Co. LllirrtO, Cr.i4 Street Wnt Msatreal. When your letter he shall set How his anxious heai-t will palpi- tate and throb ? How about' the little tot â€" An immediate effect of Mrs. Fox's Do you think of it or not? death was to transform the police's ; And the wife depending on him for lukewarm search for a burglar into her bread; a determined effort to run down a ^.ml does something seem to say dangertjus assassin. J That they need his little pay? Nothing of note however, oc-curred : p y^ ^ thought e'er travel until the first week m May; and then, ^ thrnntrh vour head" one morning, came the incident which | through your Dead . now I regard as the first careless act' . i.- t of our unknown opponentsâ€" for want Do you think of him I wonder â€" of a better designation I call them Of the man who's serving under, such. I Whoso destiny you hold in your I was engaged in my private room | right hand ? when I was attracted by a strange jg your thought upon him then, feminine voice. It wasn't a pleasant ^^ ^ip in ink vour pen voice; It rasped and jarred and seem- 1 ^y,^- j^ ^ji, ^^^^ hj^ ^ut upon this ed somehow out of place. I went to \ . . , , â-  ., the connecting door and beheld a stout | irigiu lana . woman in a shabby, cheap velvet' dress. She was perhaps fifty, but her Is he old and grey and bent?_ coarseness of feature and bold man- : Could he never save a cent ner erased any veneration which her! That would help to keep his little sex and years might otherwise have : family now ? commanded. | ^^g j,,. luckv, just like you ? She had opened a sample-case upon j^ j,^ honest," brave and true? the end of one of the tables nearest "^ ^^ ^^^ „^ ta^g the word of So- Miss Fox s typewriter desk and was d So? displaying an assortment of worth- ana-o less perfumes, toilet soaps and cos- metics in gaudy wrappers, and de- 1 Docs it ever seem to you, spite Stub's tart reminders that can- j That just what he's going through vassing was not allowed in the build- May be meted out to you sonje day ing, and Miss Fox's undisguised re- "in kind? pugnance of the woman, she was ex-' ig yom- love for self alone? ploiting their questionable virtues : j^ ^. j^eart as hard as stone ? with a rude, familiar loquacity that t(„ „„„ ,,„,.,. u„,.e vour fellow- L'nsafe Lanterns. The season of shortened daylight brings its own peculiar fire dangers. One of these is the use of the lantern about farm buildings. Of recent years, owihg to competition, a low-priced lantern, which is a serious fire men- ace, has been placed upon the market. Instead of being securely screwed on the oil reservoir, the burner is simply slipped on, with the result that if the lantern is upset, the burner comes off and the oil is allowed to run out upon the lighted wick. The result is either an explosion or a .serious blaze and unless speedily checked, damage to life and property. suggested liquor. Sliss Fox's altitude, naturally enough, was anything but encourag- ing, and I was on the point of inter- fering and relieving her of the em- barrassment of the unpleasant wo- man's persistence, when the situation took a turn that made me pause and i jje has prospered you, old boy. Do you ever have your fellow-man in mind? Do you ever, in despair. Kneel down and say a prayer? Or, do you never, never think of God at all? prick up my ears. Without warning, and without the ' least cessation of her leering talk | extolling her wares, she suddenly i .•.vept everything back into the case] and snapped it shut. Then she laid a | card upon Mi,-<s Fox's desk. Gave you health and wealth and joy; So be careful when the axe you must let fall. When war was declared, white peo- ple of all nationalities in German col- "If I can't persuade you, dearie, to onies only numbered about 25,000. Poultry and Fruit. If the hens have the run of an or- chard they will not render as good service in protecting the trees from injurious insects as they will if con- fined in yards around the trees. While the orchard should be utilized, it gives much opportunity to the fowls to work over a large surface, which may to a certain extent lessen their vigilance T^' i">n colds In the chest or sore •â- â-  throat."*, for rheumatism or stiffness; for sprainB and cramp.-). "Vaseline" CapMtciuu b r 1 n E a quick relief. -Vaseline- CAPSICUM Petrolfnm JcUt. It does all that a mustard piaster will do. Is cleaner, easier to ap- ply, and will not blister the «kln. There are many other "Vaseline" preparations â€" simple home rem- edies that should be In every family "Vaseline" Carbolated, an antiseptic dressinsj for cuts, Insetrt bites, etc.: Anulgic "Vaac- Une," for neuralsia and head- aches; pure "Vaseline," for piles, chilblains, etc., and others. AVOID SrnSTTTtTES. Iinii.t on "V»w- line" in oriKiiiHl parkas.-* bcarini^ the name, CHESEBnmCH MANUFALTIR- ISO nr. CotMolidatpd. For sale at all Chenilsta and (.^enerui Sloret*. Free boulc. let on request. CHESEBROUGH MFC CO. iC.MeliJ.tiid) 1880 CHABOT AVE.. MONTREAL m m m m m |MM«HiaHH«MMMMHVMMMMMHMMH War upon Pain Pain IS a visitor to every home and usually i( comes quite unexpectedly. But vou are prepared for every emergency i£^ you keep a small bottle of Sloan's Liniment bandy. It is the greatest pain hiiUr ever discovered. Simply laid on the skin- no rubbing requiredâ€" It drives the pain away instantly. It ii really wonderful. f n Sloan's Liniment Sp^ain^, BMMHHmMHHIIHHmMHHMHMHHHMB