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She was a nervous, timid woman and no doubt of a disposition to mag- nify, in the light of later develop- ments, the few facts in her posses- sion, until she had come to be obsess- ed with a perpetual nightmare of terror. had been Lois's mother; I hoped that' she might be dead. j "It was the ivory bo.v that he j threw al Jim. I kept itâ€" I don't | know why; perhaps because I thought it really might be worth something."! As Struber and I were preparing [ to leave, I detected an uneasy look in I Lois Fox's eyes and fancied .she was | !i These few facts, however, unsatis- fying as they proved to be, were new reluctant to see me go even to Miss Fox and have a direct "Are you afraid to stay here?" I; bearing upon subsequent develop- asked, lingering upon the porch. j iQgntg, j "No, no. But I ain troubled about ' : that automobile following you. Please j CH.\PTER XVI. 1 be careful." My heart leaped at the thought that ' You may be deceived some day by an imitatioa o! ALADA and possibly you will not detect this imitation until the tea-pot reveals it« Demand always the genuine ^'Salada" in the sealed aluminum packet, and see that you get it, if you want that unique flavour of iresh, clc<xn leaves properly prepared and packed. Btt4 The Green Seal By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc CHAPTER XV.â€" (Cont'd). According to Mrs. Fox's account, her younger brother, Stephen, had al- ways been wayward, and worry over his frequent escapades, more than one of which had amounted to serious breaches of the law, had hastened the death of his parents. Before arriving at maturity, he had been obliged to flee the country when suspicion point- ed to him as the murderer of his older brother, Samuel. Miss Fo". whispered to me in an agitated way: "This is the first I knew that I ever had an Uncle Sam- uel." The two brothers, it seemed, had been upon some expedition of their 0%^'n â€" fishing, Steve accounted for it â€" off San Pedro, from which Steve had returned home. .\ Portuguese fisher- she should be concerned about me. I impulsively caught one of her hands in mine, and she made no move to withdraw it. "I shall," I promised. "Since my own unpleasant experience I am not likely to walk into any more traps â€" not if I know it. But, my dear girl, you two women must not remain here alone, unprotected. I'll find out from Struber a reliable man and have him watch the house." -Although she protested that there was no need of my doing so, I was resolved that she was not going to be the next victim of the scoundrels who It is well known that the progeny had enveloped us in their coil. And from mature parents are superior to yet, when the snare was finally laid those descended from young progeni- for us we both walked into it as tors not fully developed. Boars and blindly as moles! iTiFV7rif\i/ Hold on to the Good Breeders. Do you suppose," I asked, "that man talked in the Wilmington bar- Our taxi had proceeded perhaps two ^°^^' ^'"" '''â- Â«Â«<l'nS' should be kept in Struber looked at me. "What do the two Chinamen would have assault- rooms of having seen two men fight- j,,^^.,.^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^.^ ^^ a good thriftj' condition, but not fat ... -J â€" n.:.. ^^1" ':_„:_ » catboat after dark, and - • •â-  â-  .... vou know about that! Beat me to it," ed me this mornwg . ing m a was his comment. Then he asked "No, I don't. It's my guess that Steve s story was , u <. o» - Miss Fox; "How do you know they they came to find out what they could; body was never found, but bteve s discredited. The writes a well-known breeder of hogs, all right I The writer has always been troubled took if! "While you two were talking, be- fore I came out on the porch, I paus- ed long enough to look into the front room myself. Right away I missed the little box from the mantel, where it has always stood." "Di<l you or your aunt keep any- thing in it?" "Nothintr of consequence: only a few choice Pescadero pebbles and agates â€" her precious stones. Aunt Lois jokingly called them. But you know what they are; ours were ex- ceptionally pretty, but of no particu- lar value." We continued to discuss the episode at lenKth, but with no very satisfae- toi-j- results. The unavoidable theory that .Mrs. F"ox's assailants were Chin- they meant to question you. But the kid gave them an opportunity, and they weren't overlooking any safe bets." Conjure our brajns as we would, the whole thing rMnained inexplic- able; so presently "I asked Struber whether he had found the Republic Hotel's missing guest. He scowled and shook his head flight was accepted as conclusive evi- dence of his guilt and the grand jurj- later returned an indictment against ! him. From the day of his disap- ' pearance nothing had been heard from him until nearly fourteen years later. Meanwhile the Foxes had moved from San Francisco to Los .\ngeles, i and had been in the latter city barely a fortnight when late one night Steve Struber muttered: "There she is all right. They stay just far enough behind so's to keep his breeding sows from be a fellow can't see their number." coming too fat, and consequently, far- I looked back and saw the gray rowing a small number of scrawny pigs. I once took a large sow to fatten purposes, should ever be wintered over. A little alfalfa makes the com stick to the pigs' ribs. The well-fed litter of pigs must have an opportunity to exercise or else thumps are liable to claim the plumpest. There are 20,000 different kinds of butterflies. automobile perhaps half a square in our rear, painstakingly accommotiat- ing their pace to ours, as a few ex- , l i,* ^t > » â- â-  . periments on our partâ€" speeding up ^V^ °"^ ''»" ^^^ P<«"1^ ^ did not know suddenly and abruptly slowing down *°* "'** '^'th pig and fed her all the | again â€" demonstrated. (To be continued.) •He ju.<t disappeared. There's no- Willets appeared unannounced at thing to go on but his description, their homeâ€" the same cottage where and that's brought us nothing. We we were now gatheredâ€" bearing inj can only wait and see if anybody turns his arms a girl infant three years old. | up dead. It isn't the same as if yuh He displayed no trace of tender- , was huntin' somebody that's well ness or affection for the child, which known; we haven't any idee who this he declared to be his, and in answer guy is." to his sister's inquiries respecting My glance met Miss Fox's. In hers the mark on the little one's breast, he I read understanding. '. denied that it was a birthmark. "Suppose I tell him," I proposed. â-  "It's her brand," he had sardonical- "If vou think it best," she acquies- ly declared. "I put it there myself CANADA'S LIVE STOCK INDUS- TRY. In competing for the markets of cornmea! and wheat middlings she would eat. Imagine my astonishment j and vexation when she had three lit- j tie dwarfed pigs â€" not only smaller than pigs usually are when first far- rowed, but emaciated. Sows for breeding should not be ai the world there is no branch of Indus- '"^^ ^o run with the fattemng hogs try that exceeds in importance that of \f '"'' ,'^°'""' '»'' ^^P* '" '» P^^*"" ^X ese explained nothing whatever. .A.ny- way it was only an assumption that (.ej_ they were Chinese; the laundry wag- Whereupon Struber listened with on might have been a blind. Steve marked attention to a recital of Miss Willets was not a Chinaman, although pox's mysterious correspondent. He masquerading as such at the time he seemed to regard the circumstance as met his death. ~ â-  of vast importance, but on6 that for he had maliciously added, "just tell One factor, however, now seemed the time being merely added to his her it's the 'Kiss of the Silent Death* mystification â€" especially wh«n he be- came convinced that neither the girl nor her aunt ha<l the remotest idea who Strang could be. "Trouble is," he laid his finger upon the cru.x of our difficulties, "we clear, namely: the object of the per- sistent, secret search, directed at first at the unknown Republic guest's room, ne.xt, at my person, and my own rooms aiid office, and then carried into Miss Fox's home, was closely identified with the carved ivory boxes; but as Struber observed, "There seemevl to be no end of them." My mind flew back suddenly to the early morning. For the first time I connected my two Chinese callers with the box missing from my desk drawer, a conclusion with which Stru- ber promptly agreed. "It's like this," he voiced an idea of his own: "in some way or other the Chinks 's mixed up in tRe whole business, but whether they're the main guys or just tools I don't know. But there's this about it â€" we don't know whether it's only the boxes they want, one particular box, or what they be- lieve is inside some particular box," "The diamond?" I suggested. "Sure it might be the diamond," Struber admitted; "I've had that idee in my skull right along. "But as I was going to say, if it was Mr. Ferris's two Chink callers that frisked his desk for his box â€" the one the diamond was in â€" they didn't have time to open it t'o see what was inside, or to look far enough to find ihe one with the ring. They didn't know what second the kid 'd be back. "Same right here with your aunt, Miss Fox. Mrs. Fox surprised who- ever it was trj-ing to get her box. They must a-had it alreadj- when she came from the kitchen to the front door. If she hadn't a-done they'd a-blew without bothorin so I can tell her if I ever lose her. When a fellow's on the jump all the time, like I am, a kid's the easiest thing in the world to mislay. If she ever wants to know whdt it means," It's her mascot.' live stock breeding and raising. Para- phrasing the old Jingo cry, we have the land, we have the will, and we have the climate. What is needed is the means, and ever more means, and simultaneously the ways of market- ing. However divergent in views and theories people may be, it cannot be denied that they are all united in a common effort to improve both agri- cultural and industrial conditions. In ed, "I couldn't ever toll her anything so awful, so I always said it was a birthmark. Steve was base enough to lie about it, and I thought if any haven't anything to work on but loose body would go to the trouble of tat ends; there ain't a blamed thing that can be made to serve as a connecting link. Suppos'e Strang and the guy at the Republic are the same. Suppose he sent you the diamond â€" why did he do it? Why did he write those let- ters to Miss Fox? What's she to him?" "I know â€" beggin' your pardon, Miss â€" that you're Steve Willets's daughter. That don't help us any, either, except that Steve gets croak- ed by a Chink ring while cracking Mr. Ferris's safe where one of the bo.xes is. Right now everything's so dog- poned tangled up that â€" unless â€" " ; He trailed off into silence and sat ' revolving something in his mind. We I waited for him to continue, but at I length he shook his head once more ! and merely said : ' "I was thinkin' o' Strang; some- how he sticks in my mind. I almost had an idee about him, but it ain't clear yet; I got to work it out a little further." .â- \.ll at once he was struck with a thought. He turned to me abruptly. "Seen anything more o' the gray auto?" he- asked. "It followed us here," I told him. "Say!" he e.xdaimed, but relapsed into silence without saying it. In a moment he went on: "You just go on about your business without letting that â-  on you're wise to them trailing yuh. "S'"- I'll get them ginks anyhow." She fo'ced them to hx her so s they I Before Struber and I returned to could make their get-away. They the citvâ€" Miss Fox was to remain Sidn t stop to find out what was m at homeâ€" I obtained the desired inter- *« box. I yiew with Mrs, Fox. But," Mrs. Fox wistfully explain- helping the one the other is being aided. The interests are inextricably involved. If either is especially pros- perous, both ultimately must be. al- though one may feel the benefits of extra demand and high prices before the other. I In the past few years especially, a deal of scientific effort has been de- voted to and improvement of productions of the soil, and sight has not been lost cf the needs and necessities of that other branch of inestimable worth â€" live stock, meaning thereby horses, cattle, sheep and swine. In the lat- ter direction pure-bred animals have recently been placed in various dis- tricts where their services were pre- viously difficult to obtain, the regis- tration of pedigrees has been nation- alized, systematized and subsidized, . grants towards greatly liberalizing' the premiums at exhibitions have (been made, a special branch has been es- tablished in connection with the E.x- perimental Farm system at Ottawa to investigate the cause of disease, to give counsel to breeders and to con- trol outbreaks of infectious or con- tagious ailments, judges and lecturers have been appointed free of cost, cold storage facilities have been arranged and refrigerator cars equipped and paid for, grants have been made un- der the tremendously beneficial Agri- cultural Instruction .â- Vet. with its ten million dollar attachment, for the en- couragement of veterinary education and research, and everything possible has been done for the development and increase of co-operation. ; But one of the greatest lines of endeavor has yet to be mentioned, namely the improvement of market- ing and transportation facilities. Without inquiry and investigation nothing can be methodically and sat- isfactorily accomplished. With this principle in view a marketing commis- sion was appointed, the duties of j which were to ascertain advantageous points of sale and to effect ancl bring about the most convenient and economical arrangements for disposal, shipment and carriage to destination. Owing to high freight rates, distur- j bailees in shipping and scarcity of boats, unwonted difficullies have re- cently been experienced in oxporta-: tion and even in handling across the continent. It is towards remedying these and placing matters in a much better light and on a greatly improved footing that the commission has been created. In many ways there is evi- dence that this is being accomplished, although undoubtedly there are ob- stacles to overcome that will be con- tinually cropping up. Nor is the ap- pointment of the aforementioned mar- keting commission the only step that is being taken for the advancement of the live stock and agricultural in- terests, but a commission of influen- tial, widely-known and experienced business men has been appointed to go into the whole subject and to re- port upon the most advisable mea- sures to be taken for the advance- ment of fiirniing, breeding and rais- tooing a little baby they wouldn't waste time over a silly, meaningless mark like Lois's." Struber's curiosity was getting £he better of him, so I went over to where he was seated and told him about the tattoo-mark. He gave me a bewil- dered look, but made no comment. _ The entire episode of Steve Wil- lets's visit to his sister had been so cold-blooded, so brutal and unfeel- ing, that the woman had needed no urging to accept the little one as a charge. Her husband ordered the un- natural father from the house with a command never to show himself again under pain of being turned over to the police. Willets had laughed, apparently unimpressed either by the threat or the wholesome loathing with which these good people regarded him. "I brought the kid here â€" and I risked my neck to do it, too â€" because I knew she would be well taken care , of," he had said. Then followed a ' threat of his own: "See that you do ' it too, for if she dies hell will be a cool retreat for you compared with â-  this happy home when I'm through I with you. Some day I'm going to have use for the kid. and when I want her I'll want her in a hurry." With no word respecting the baby's mother, nor his own hidden wander- ings aftd flittings to evade the law, Willets fadeii away into the night as secretly as he had appeared to the surprised and dismayed Foxes. They were not troubled by him ' again; at least he never directly ' bothered them; and it was not until ' he came to be connected with various ; crimes and outrages, after Lois had i grown to maturity, that Mrs, Fox j learned anything of her evil broth- er's subsequent career. It was when his name began to adorn the newspapers that terror crept into her soul and took up a per- manent abiding place _ there. Her husband was now dead;" she had no protector; and she could not banish from her mind her brother's veiled promise to return some time and de- mand his daughter. Recollection of the man's vicious nature was stamp- ed indelibly upon her memory, and I she was in a constant state of gnaw- ing anxiety over the girl. i "But now that he's dead," she pointed out pertinently enough, "who could have inspired to-day's dreadful attack on me? Why should anybody want the ivory box badly enough to do such a thing? Surely, it isn't â- worth much." I "Where did you get the box?" I asked her. \ "1 forgot to tell that part," the re- ply came slowhr, "Her father left it the night he brought Lois to us. He had gone part way down the walk â- when he turned suddenly and came back into the lamplight â€" my husband was still standing in the open door. I crouched behind Jim, hugging little Lois so tightly she could hardly breathe, for I was tturified at the possibility of Steve changing his mind and taking her away again. I believe, though, ho would have had to kill me before he could have done , themselves a*d given a plentiful sup- 1 ply of slop, made of equal parts of . wheat shorts, commeal and whsat ' bran. j Most young sows will breed when three months old, if allowed to run with a boar, but eight or twelve months is as young as it is judicious , to breed them. j The pigs from large-bodied, old ' sows will be more in number, and fre- j quently double the size of pigs from ; young sows when farrowed â€" and this with the same feed and care- -and will frequently weigh 50 per cent, more at a year old. Not only this, but it stunts or dwarfs the growth of such young things permanently, and they never attain good size. ; -A. neighbor of mine last year bought \ the cu"itimio"n"of the""la~nd ^"^'^ ^o?^ '" ^he spring for JiO <?he ' had ten fine pigs iir .\pril, which were-; fattened and sold to a butcher in the , fall of the same year, bringing him i $115, and he still has the sow for a ] breeder. j Sows should be kept for a number ; of years until their places can be fill- '. ed with younger ones which have ' proven to be good" breeders. Formerly, heavy pork from hog-s, twelve to 24 months old (and the fat- 1 ter the better) was demanded. M.'n ' who worked hard in the open air, i said there was a wasting quality about pig-porkâ€" that ir shrunk in the ' pot "and did not stick to the ri'os." ! Fortunately, this call for heavy FOR HEAD.ACHES. BILIOUSNESS CO.NSriP.ATIO.N. INDIGESTION Nearly all our mlnorailmcnts. and many of the serious ones. too. arc traceable to come disorder of the stomach, liver, and bowels. If you wish to avoid the mis- eries of indijgesiion, acidit>-. heartburn, flatulence, headaches, con^lipalior. and a host of other distressing ailments, yoa must see to it '.h.it your stomach, liver and bowels are equal to I ^ Y the work they have to do. It ii a simple matter to take .lO drops of Mother Seigel's Synip daily, aiter meals, yet thousands of tomjcr sufferers h.ive banished indigestion, bil- iousness, consbpalion, and all their dis- tressing consequences in just this simple yrxv. Pri'i'it bV their experience. As a, digestut "ji'iic iiiui stomachic remedy. Mother Scigcl's Syrup is aiJfl'rtiassed. MOTHER ""' SEIGEL'S SYRUP. *s mil TTux Si.-t -»Lu aiSOcI'IlK DorTi.E. pork is decreasing. In the t'armer's family, and with people generally em- ployed in indoor occupations in the . towns and cities, pork from your.ger hogs is preferred. This pork is not only the best, being the tenderest and sweetest, but it is the quickest pro- duced, at a lower cost and at better profit to the producer. ' Young animals grow faster and with less food than^when they become older, and pork from a hog less than a year old does not cost so much to produce as the pork from old hogs. To make the most money from hogs, ' none, except those kept for breeding ! â- H«9ifi3asaM«XMaM«SMaSB«««9 m m m n M m m m Sii m m Why those Pains? Here is a testimoaiil unsolicited "If I had ray will i; woii!d be advertised on every tirc-ot corner. The man or woman that has rheumatism and laiU to keep and use Sloan's Lini- ment is like n drowning man refusinjJ a rope." â€" J. ,/. I'an Dyke, Ukt'.^DoJ, .V. J. Sloan's Liniment M m m m m m m m that. I ".\nyway he stopped at the steps ing, shipping and selling and financ- and pitched something at Jim's feet, ing, and for the aggregate prosperity something that clattered upon the of the country. 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