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«Mtar TIE JIM WAS BflUTED BY MYRENE M. C.ARRISON. PART U. :a year, any^vay. A writer ought to ' But next day when Sally s«w Ab-^ ^'^^Z *^.'"' *.'*'* "' «''"'''*•'"' «****• ner comir.tr in fron. work, long before '/«" •^- *""' things to eat. l^k* «w quitting ti«*. she ha.J a hunch that I '^!''° '"T . """^^^ '"'"^ ""*"â-  ' Mr. Jinx was .ti.: on ths job. 1 i'a..y l^^ughed. ,.r, • . ... . . .;»"-' turn everything into luck, Daisy Elerped into a post-ho.o and Abner ..milcJ fondly, and her heart swelled. Slie had vanquished tho jinx at last. One evening in late October Sally was waiting Abner'n return from town. Tempting odors rose from the belated iiieal. Sally, in her low rot'ker batid;; tha kitchen stove, mused hap- pily of garnered stores, bursting granaries, and shelves of preserves, jams and jellies. Turkeys wera fat- tening, chickenK swarmed over the fields, nsxt week, they would butcher a young porker. "I wouldn't live any- where else but on a farm," she whis- pered contentedly. Something flickered past her win- dow. "There'.? Abner now," she said, drawing the teakettle forward and placing the plates in the warming broke her leg," Abner announced tragically. Sally felt as sorry as Abnor looked, but this was no time to show it. "Of course it's too bad, but, since it's hap- pened. It's lucky she's fat enough for beef. You'd Letter go right after the butcher and put her out of her mis- ery," she urped hri.skly. Abner stared at her reproachfully "It's awful!" he .shuddertd. "lit a blessing it wasn't the hcii'ei'," Sally i>ersisted. "Daisy's rea'iy out- li\ed her usefu'i.«ss. Her milK isn't as '-ch as it wa.- vnd she do".3ii't give as r.v.ich as she fljould to be prolit- ablc." 'Vhen Abner lu'-ned silently away Sally's eyes f.Keii with tears, "He tM.ij.) I'm hard-n?avted, but if I'd, closet, fail! u word, hs'd be raving wild." | There was no .sound of an approach- The next few days .Sally kept Ab- ing car. "Thought it was his light, ner busy dispo»ng of Daisy, "Her Must have been mistaken," muttered beef and her hide'll go a long way to- ♦ Sally, ]»ering through the window, ward paying for a young cow, ami I'll I "What could make those strange make up the difTerence with the extra j shadows?" . butter," .she planned cheerfully. Sally | SaJIy open;!d the door. A crackling really folt quite elated over her skirm- j sound above her head chilled her Ish with Abner's jinx thi.s time. blood. She stepped out onto the grass As time went on she viewe<l her ex- ! and in growing tenor stared upward, periment with deep satisfaction.. She | " Crackle, snap, crackle! Tongues of found less and less reason to conceal ] flame curled along the eaves. A bolder her affection and .\bncr thrived under j flare leaped from the gaping chimney, its manifestation. A sinister force held her f<ir a mo- She kept the matter of the unhandy ment, then she threw, up both hands <Ad house in the background. "Next , in a wild gesture of defiance of the spring he'li build, perhaps," she! fiery ."-erpents coiling and writhing thought cheerfully. Since she had in- across the blazing roof, stalled some of her own conveniences There was no time to give the alarm she got on nicely. Though she had | â€"neighbors would soon be summoned never mentioned her objection to car- j by the flames. Would Abner never rying water, Abner saw to it himself, i come? adways keeping her supplied. j Breaking from the horrid spell. One day she did voice lier fear of Sally ran inside. The water bucket a fire with such poor water supply, j wa.s nearly empty, waiting for Abner .^Xhe chimneys look dangerous to me. ' to refill. There was no water nearer I wish you'd have Dolson look them ] than the spring. The house was over before cold weather. I'm afraid , doomed. She'd save what she could of to trust a big fliie up them. Those i the contents. It seemed ages of pull- .old shingl-es would bum like tinder." j ing, dragging pushing furniture out She glanced up at them anxiodsdy. into the orchard beyond the danger "Those chimneyi) are like a singed line. "Snowflurries." winter, that brisk daine. to-day Came to diean our tnioky town, Uusted off the Bob«r gray. Swept our steps and lilghways down, And bustled on her way. With a rag of fnowclcth, she Reni'odled our small world he<re In tbre'» bhistory minutes. See H-.'W tho air 4s pollsheil clear! How ou-r strosta shine magically! I should llkt> to visit her In her northern home. I'm told Tho house Is set !n leagues of fir, The grounds nre lustrous to behold, The sky Is Jeweled, and her good s4r, (>M A!aii Winter (so they say) i Sits at the window of the north ' Plucking goose-dov.n night and day For Kiumnie.' pillows. Some floats forth Ollsteuing or softly gray, CANADACUeA TRADE PROSPECTS GOOD DOMINION BUYS MORE THAN SHE SELLS. Time Ripe for Canadian Busi- ness Men to Enter Whole- hcarte<!ly Into Cuban Market. Marked evidence has beefl given lately of a keen AaMvn <>u the part of Cuba to extend Us trade with Canada. Dr. A. F. Bainz d« la I'eua, senior Cu- ban uotisul in Canada, has aiiiinunced that Cuba will open more consular trade and tliew» Js an expressed beltot ofllces in the nomipion, these In all j,,at Dominion buslnosB men are not It Win De^t You TKA V9t Perfectly balancedâ€" ««perb In flavovir. probability to be located in Winnipeg and Quebpc In the near future. At coming half-way to aohl«ve a further I mutual d'Cvelopmenl. A« Is continual* . To <lolhe the hillside, Iwlgu and U«i In sapphire light, and smooth the ' ^^fr]°g "fi.'„ streams I To exqulalle serenity I That whosoever looks on, <lreams Their white wnworded poetry. -Tsanlto (Iroquois for Heaver) Color on the Deck. tbe same time he is working energetl-,y J^^^^^ ^, Cun^UUi^n reputation cally foi- a ( aiiad Ian Week In Cuba. I ^^^^ ^igh In Cuba. Several of Can- a suggestion which has elicited In- 1 in all parts of the Domini on. Should this iiiaterlallsie men pro'' mlnentin all branches of Canadian trade wIM lie Invited to accompany him to Cuba, where every opportunity ada's greatest banks are established J^ I there and enjoy the fullest confidence of Ihe Government and the people. As Dr. fcilnz de la Pena remarks, the time Is ripe for Canadian business men to get wholeheartedly Into the Cuban win be extended them to get as clo«« ^^rket. xNever ha« there been a bet- as possible In touch with conditions They will be permitted to take along with them as many samples of Cana- dian products as they desire and these will be displayed to the fuUeot advant- age. SiM'h evidence of an anxiety to fur- ther develop trade with the Dominion oat, beftter'n they look," grinned Ab- Saily stood at the gate until he was ready to go back to the field. For «iom;e rea.son she could not throw off her forebodings. When she turned to go in a long, weird screech pierced her oars. "Of course it's the wind whistl- ing through the bricks," she muttered, her vaguely apprehensive eyes on the roof. "It almost seem.-; as if Abner's jinx WHS after me," she shrugged. "I won't give him the .'satisfaction of seein' me worry about anything! Abner's lived with those chimneyri long enough to know them." Sonic days later Sally saw Abnor stamping up the back walk. She The sky, a pale, pale blue, seemed to have In its deptlis a faint rose, as if somewhere far off behind It a vivid dawn were shining. Perhaps .some distant sunrite was being faintly re- fletted. The white posts that ranged,, ^,. , , , , , the length of the deck rail caught thei!« "^J" ev^^^^tyi^^. and particularly so elusive tint ajid became some of them, ! ''^.'^'^"'^^ "'^? """^^^^ '^ ""^'^ '"'' « almos.| a delicate lavender rose. Others »t^"'''"on of export trade from Can- remained pure rose and fell them, glvlug sou oiura or gray, or ter feeling towards Canada than at pr^ent. There Is no reason why the annual trade should not be rai.'»ed from $9,000,000 to $90,000,000. â- ,». jftishmns- A Chinese Lady's Day. My Dear one. The hours of one day arc as like each other as are twin blossoms from tlio pear-tree. B white and as the boat '^'^ '° ^'"^* '° "*'^'"" *^^^ balance of j tell thee. The mornings ai-e pa shadows shifted over "*"''''• ^'"'"^ '" °"^ **' ^^^' ^*'''' ^ """""'^s I hi the duties that come to ali wo soft blurs of gray or'*""**'" "'''''^'' ^'^"•'"^'^ •"'>* *° " greater i who have the care of a household, leaving them brilliantly white. Patches ' extent th!in she stvIs. and this has con of sunlight aprinklwl Ihe floorboards ^ slstently been the case for some time. There Is no news to passed women and I am on the terrace the afternoons with tliy sister, turning tlie'lrluilnes7inro\oW 'where''" "'*' "^'-â- "' '''"'* "^* Canada pur- 1 Mahll and I take our embroidery the sun touched the tun and „ifl,.„„n '-"'i^"! f''<"" t'"'"! <o the extent of |10.- and sit upon the terrace, where we base, it became a brilliant orange with i ,â- â€¢ "'"''' "''"'"^ '" """ '''>"'"'•>• pass long hour.<. watching the people a line of velvety red. The sail cloth s.heathing fired by the sun turned only to the value of $6,776,605. In 1925 | in the valley below. The faint blue „ ..._ „_, ,„„ „„,, IU.UCT1 ""^ IDonvlnlons i>urchas«>B were $7,- j smoko curls from a thousand dwell- creamy, and here and there through ' ''^^â- ^?^ '^"^ **?'' '^'^^ $7.1«,406. ' In ings, and we try to Imagine the lives gaps, .the Indigo of the ocean showed. The glass encasing the electric light bulb.s took on opalescent tones. A basket by a steamer chair showed touches of green and purple. One by one, passengers appeared, a woman In a bright blue dress; another In a red hat and with a green book. (Hud it been a green hat and a re<l book, might one call her literary?) A child flashed by in vivid red. The deck was no longer somber, its hidden beauties had revealed them- selves. the last fiscal year Canada bought of those who dwell beneath the roof- from Cuba to the value of $11,063,284 trees. We see the peasants In their and sold to that country to the extent rIce-fleUla rich mud Panting, strangled by smoke, Sally Bobbed , "Oh, Abner! Abnor!" A weird, wailing, almost human cry mocked! her. Wind and flame, in clo.se em- brace, danced with wild abandon. i Sally could no longer breast the : acrid .smoke. "The jinx'll get my jel- lies. I can't get to them. Mandy knew best. She placated him." Sally stumbled to the heap in the orchard just as Abner's car came roaring up the road. Other lights were now leap- ing toward the burning hou.ie. She closed her eyes. "Sally!" Abner called hoarsely. "I'm all right," Sally managed to say, and then, for the lii-.^t time in her life, she fainted. When .'lally came to, she found her 'Immortals" of France Ban Cemetery Eulogies. Here.iifter all good thlngM said about French "immortals" must be uttered while they are still In mortal form aud not over their graves. This mode was '"â- â€¢'"â- "' â- '"^ potatoes to a value of $3, of $8,524,718. Cuba An Important Customer. It Is not generally realized what an Important customer of the Dominion Cuba is. Cuba purchases from Canada alone more than fifteen Latln-Ameri- CAn countries combined or more than nineteen European coumrios com- bined, states Dr. de la Pena. DoTiilnion watch them dragging the from the bottoms" of the canal for fertilizing; hear the (shrill whistle of the duck man as, with' long bambcKi, he drives the great flock of daicks homeward or sends them over the fields to search for insects. We see the wedding procession far below, and can but faintly follow the great covered chair of the bride and the exports to that country consist mainly j 'â- '^^^ <"" servants carrying the possea- of agricultural aud vegetable products, • ^^o^s of the new home, and animals and animal products. ; The summer wanes and the autumn Cuba falis but little short of the j '» uPO«» "* 'wUh all its mists and shad- United States as the heaviest pur- j o^^s of purple and grey. The camphor chaser of Canadian potatoes, the Mari- I "â- p*s look from the distance like great time Provinces' pn)d.uct being In great i ''^Ite of (Ire, and the euculyptiistree, demand iheje. In the last fiscal year '" »'s dress of brilliant yellow, Is a Cuba piuchascd 3.044.447 bushels <if by BRAID TRIMMING IS EFFEC- TIVE. Exceedingly smart is thi.s girlish" frock suitable for many occasions. The bodice front is joined to a plaited smiled indulgently at his boyish rage. I .self in her own bed. Slowly the evunt.s ready to give his jinx a wallop. I of the evening marshaled themselves. "That drove of hogs I Iwiughl the Tears welled up in her eyes and roll- other day is poswssed!" Abner storm- |ed down her cheeks. ed. "Pour Abner ! He'll never get over i "I've heard of such," Sally remark- ed demurely. "I turned the.ni Into the bottom field it," she half sobbed. A i|uick fU'\y, .â- Miiier'.s stop, sot lier h<!art to pdunding. "I won't give in!"i to hog dov,-n the rest of tho corn. What â-  whispered Sally, "1 won't!" With do you thiiil; they've done?" j every muscle tense nhe braced herself "(Wouldn't guess." to nteet Abner's dismal surrendei- to "Kt the geese! every tarnal one of his old enemy. establislied by the present group of "Immoiilalfi" the^mselves, breaking a oenluiy-old tradition of euUigles and panegyric* at Ihe burial of dis'tlnKUlsb- ed men. At a meeting of the .-Xcadi-my of In- scriptions and Lltt'iatiire a note was signed i>y th» members which read: "Out of coiiHldea-atlon for I lie health of my Mirvlvors, I want no speeches at my funeral." .\eAdemy circles have long ili.scu.ss- od Uie subject of speeches In damp oemetorlOfl anil their elTecl on tils health of men of advanced age. The funerals this week of Henri Cochin and ,Te;m Ulcheijin in the midst of the Intlueii/.a eiildemic decldecl the Aciide- luiolans lo overturn a pi-ecedent to pro- tect tlieli' own lieiillli at such rites. them! I come on them in the act. It's awful!" ho .-shuddered. "The greedy cannibal.-* I" cried Sally. "It's horril>le; but, now they're grono, I'm free to admit I never liked gec.se. ThtMt u.sed to lie lots of huckleberries on that little island before the geese took lo ncstin' lh<'re. bushf.s \^1 sprout up again," she said hopefully. Abner scowle»l. "Mother sold a lot Sally'.s eyes widened, her breath came fast. Abner was smiling, actu- ally smiling! His arm.s shot out and held ber close. "Dear Sully," he whis- pered. "P-iiidii'l the house burn up?" Sally falteioil in utter Wwilderinent, Maybe the *"To the ground, but you're all right, so I should worry 1 I'm fairly bustiii' with pride of you, Sally. Vou saved everything worth saving. The boys Countess Locks Baby in Cage for Air and Safety 13. Wheat flmir was sold In the same year to the extent of 147,998 barrels w«rth $1,118,198. Cuba is like- wise a coius^lsteut heavy purchaser of oats and oth&r grains, canned and pre- served vegetables, whiskey and otiier product.s. Canada's imports from Cuba are listed under the agricultural and vege- table products class and the Item of sugiir almost accounts for Ihe tntal, which has been Inci-easing of recent years. Canada's sugar purchases from Cuba in tho last three fiscal years have been respectively 170.617,0,')5 lbs. worth $!>.462.254; 173,783,614 lbs. worth $6,498,985; and 412,742,601 lbs. worth $9,966,526. Increasing Purchase of Wheat. .\ prediction of a (sreatea' liiiporla- tion of ("anadian wheal into Cuba was gaily painted court adv.-From "My VTV iT-i ^u ^ ,â-  . »'""•"'- i„,i;, „» .i,„ nKi ,^ . 1 .. w skirt, while the back is in one pi?ce. Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, by -o.. u , » i- . j ^ ^x. ,^ Braid is effective. y used at the becomr Ing round neck, on the long dart-fitted sleeves, the narrow belt, and on the Elizabeth Cooper. Epidemic Depletes Oaks of English Countryside. The mysterious epidemic which has attacked and Is rapidly depleting the oaks for which Knglaud is famous Is engaging the attention of research workers on the FVirestry Conimission. II t.s feared that In another twenty years the nlagnif^c^ent oaks planted in ' bodice front to give the modish bolero effect. Buttons â€" so important this sca.son â€" adorn the front and the sleeves. No. 1485 is in sizes 16, 18 and 20 years. Size 18 (36 bust) re- quires IJi^ yards 39-inch, or 'ZM yards 54-inch material, and 394 yards ?4- inch trimming braid. 20 cents. Our Fashion Book, illustrating the the seventeenth centurv will be com- ''ewest and most practical styles will pLetcly wiped one, so great has been ^ ,*>^ '"*f'7'* *» every home dress- the depletion during the war and since '"''^«'- P'^'** °^ *^'^*» ^°^ ^^ ""*^s then by epidemic. .Mildew, together ^"* *-"*'Py- HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. with the rover moth, Is held respons- ible lor the dispa.se which has spread ovw the sonihem countries and killed st)ine of the noblest of the British 1 oaks. Other force* are also at 'work ! . i / • * j .V, . â-  ,v. ... . » xj I stamps or com (coin preferred; wrap threatening tho most characteristic' ,. \„, n \ « ^ iT j Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in I It carefully) . for each number and address your order to Pattern Dept., of g«-ebe feathers, so did Mandy. They I got the rest out. They're hauling the brought jcf>od money. The island isn't ! stuff over here now." worth a picayune for anything else," he declared. "I'll huve to get rUl of these hog«, too. I couldn't abide thejdiant fiice. %ight of them after this. There's al- ways something â€" " "Careful!" .Sally covered hi.i lips with Olio hand and smoothed Ms wrinkled forehead with thp other. Abncr'.s gloom subsided. "1 <lidn't name' no rainei?," he grinned sheep- lichly. A few days later Abner came home with a piece of news that .set Sally rejoicing. ' (Mark introduced mo to a striinger who l>t,gan right away, 'I read of the encounter on youb ploce, Mr. Reedy, ar.d noted that you owii a sraail inland, now uninhuliited. I've ' been looking for a i|uiot place, whtiv I can write undisturbed. Krom all ac- Snlly drew a long breath. Sh«j couldn't, keep her eyes oft" .\bn(tr's ra- , lilt face. ! "They're going to break ground for' our new house on the knoK Monday.' We'M get the foundation laid, then we'll take tho winter to plan the in-; side. It's, got to be as handy for you' lus we can make it, I'll tell the world 1" Sally's lust anxiety vanished. The jinx was i<'st in tlie holocaust. (The Knd.) the Mews in Westnilnsler, has had consitrurted a galvanized Iron wire cage Into whicli a iieiambulator con- taining her baby is wheeled, and the cage Is securely liadlocked. "Tho baby C4i.n obtain plenly of fresh air wilhoul the nurse having to walch her con- Htontly," the coinitess. told reporters, "and 1 think tho Idiea Is one which working mothers might well adopt." laide St., Toronto, return mail. Patterns sent by recently made by J. K. Conzales, pur- chasing agent for the Uovernmonl of ' fee of the English countryside. Cuba, who was recenlly in .Moniieal ^rou. stone, brick, concrete and ; ^.. p . ... , j p 73 West Ade. A Mayfair variation on the tlieohe buying Can;ullan goods for his coun- /heaper wood have so far displaced u/JTc^ t„^"1"„ pI.!!.!! !!..? ut" Idea ha.s been developed by the ' try. Canadian hard spring wheat Ks I oak as build ing material, and the oak Countess de bi Warr, whose ymmg bus- j prcferiwl to all otlier varloties In Cuba, ' ir^e takes so long to come to maturity band Is one of Ihe few I,alK>r rei)re- he state.s, and II will be only u tew j f'^t private enterprise cannot plant eentatlves In the Mouse of Lords. The years l)efore the aiiiinal consumption : o^^s a® a <»mmercial proposition. countess, who lives In a small flat In of Canadian grain will assume much i '^^ ""'y oaks now being grown to i,i i »i t â-  i r i "i lurgei- proiiorlions. A project is on ''epleni^'Ii the national supply a,ro those ' "' "" "'"'os'st , i can i 1O0.I lo erect large flour mills at Ha- 1 P'^nted by the i^restry (^ommlssio,,. ^e'*^!,'," }!!''..fl'^T'lf±!^^!^\ \ana. aiwl when these are fliilshod Ihe : * ♦â-  demand for C^tnadlan hard wheat will I "^^^ Coincidence Heredity. be more than ciuadrupled. When In "Where are you going?" a young the Canadian inetropolls Mr. Gonzales ' woiimn iisKs^d a shipmate, the second arranged for the i>iirchase oi; $3,725.- j day out. 000 worth of iKitiitoes for later de- | "Across the ocean," replied the I'very. j other. Cuba Is anxious for more C-anadliin i "Thai's a coincidence: So am I." Or talk in strange and curious terms; Of protoplasms aud of gerins. But this is plain as plain can be That boy of mine is much like me. Britain Appoints Woman Broadcasting Governor. , Mi>' Kih.^l^.Siiowilen. wll'o of Philip; .Snowdi'ii, forniir l.ahoriie Chiincellor of the Kx('he((uer. has been ap|H>|nlrd ' counts thi.s suits my purpose. IJli . , ,â- â-  ,t ^ , a ,. ,i ... ,, ... ,1. 1 .. , Olio of ilie gnveriiors ol Ihe br<)adcast either buy. Jt outnglit or rent it as youl; -^ • .'^ i •â-  . .i ' ., ; , J -J .1 r . 1 1 1 • .u 1. I ng orgaiii/.a iiin wliuh tlie Kovern decidot I told hull therei, wasn't any' '^ "• hoiuti on a but he ^'nid he'd put a tcntf I didn 1 took'hlm down the crt^ek roA4'wlverft ment Is taking ovirr from the> private ne .«m ncci put "PiuiQ,,,: „n.adca«ting Company from t know what to sav. 7~* • , , ' ,j . , -,â- > Juniiar.v I lor a con«infiialion of ?.l,- 100, UOO. Mrs: KiKiWden Is one of Great Biltaln'M leading feminists. She also is an aiithor of note and an eff(«'ilve public speaker. Her new post c^riie« a salary of $3,500 a year and among Ihe other gov- ernovfl are Sir John Nalrne, a director of lhi> Hank of England, and some other promlliunl persons, with tin- Barl of Clarendon as chairman. I _: he could tj^r- the island and he offered me laWI â-  year for it." Sally clappnd lier hwids. "Of-eourse you UX)k up with hi.? offer'?" "NoJ I told him I'd talk it over with y/>i;. Thi island isn't worth no much. . I'd be ashamed to take tlvat for the unt of it." "It isn't what it's worth to you. It's V hut it's worth to him. Rent it for ;S8J- No. Iâ€" '27. ♦-â-  Mlnard'a LInlmint for chapped handti Ksklino- of the Mackenbies Kivcr District. 200 miles wllhiii the Arctic Circle. 'Ih-ey aio very generous lo Ihe Chunh of Kngland in Canada. The Indians aud Eskimos of the dikUict douated $li.T5 from each family to the work of the Church Missionary Society. VVheu on a chair he llings his hat I'm sure no stranger taught blm tliat. Those dressing tactics, oh. so slow. Which ia'rltate his mother so, . Were not acquired; but yesAo-Uay - 1 us^d to dawdle just that way! I see him living j'er aud o'er So much that '. was scolded for. That niaddenlug indifference to The little things he ought to do ybould'he corrected, but 1 know 1 did, as be does, lung ago. That love, of laughlor and of mirth Caico with him on his day of birlh. . In many a fault and uiuuy a whim I lee mysielf reborn In hini. And It's unfair to scold a lad I\)r merely being like his dud, ,^ -Edgar A. Oue«t. In High Reglona. Great things are done when men and mountains nieet; Thesft are not done by justUng In tlie street. - William make. Explaintd. Farmer tustng telephone) "Send me over a bushel of oats." Clerkâ€" "Surely. Vnr whom?" 'Doo't try to loV« with nie~ for D»y horee." for Coldt â€" Mlnar«('« Llni^'er.t. •• 1 ? 'â- . r