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The Green Seal By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock." etc. ^4 CHAPTEi; XIV.â€" (Cont'd). "I was not wide awake enough to wonder at such an unusual occur- rence. A lighted lamp stood on the dresser, and, I remember, it was the presence of thi' !amp that convinced me next morning I hadn't been dream- ing. Almost right away I drifted back to sleep; but not before I heard Aunt Lois \^hisper in a distressed tone: 'The Kiss of the Silent Death- God protect this poor, helpless, inno- cent baby!' "That episode remains the most vivid of my er-rly childhood. What could she have meant by those strange words? Did she refer to the mark? I never forgot them. "Aunt Lois, you must understand, is naturally nervous and excitable, and as young as I was I made al- lowances for her disposition, without knowing why I did so. Children, you know, seem to understand such things intuitively. But as I grew older â€" I mean mature enough to _„„ .i^ - ii_._ „„ speculate upon it -I used often to fJ^„,.> able, I telephoned for a taxi, and by the time Miss Fox had donned hnt, coat ard Kl°^'«^^ »"'' ^^.^^^^'^^^''.^Pf- come just when I did. You see, the ed to the ground floor, it was waiting ;„„,,,„ •'^„„„ ,.,„„ „„„„. ;„„j n,» J^^^« first question. "Nobody knows what's happened â€" only as I've doped it out. Wait till Miss Pox has had time to talk to her aunt, then we'll know whether I'm right or not. She's quiet enough now. I persuaded the neigh- bors to KG home. Fussy lot, believ'! me. Nothing ever happened on this street before." "What have you 'doped' out?" I was impatient to know. "And why should Mrs. Fox have been '.scared stiff,' as you expressed it? What .scared her?" "Dunno what scared her. It might a-becn worse than that if I hadn't wonder what she meant by 'The Kiss ' of the Silent Death.' So one day I asked her." She fell silent and sat for a while meditating. I did not interrupt, but I was thinking that Mrs. Fox must for us. She gave the chauffeur the street and number, and I promised him he would lose nothing by forgetting sneed ordnances. We turned into First Street and had proceeded per- haps half a block when Miss Fox looked back. My mind at the moment was to full to attach any importance to the act, and 1 thought no more of it until a minute or two had elapsed, during which .=he cast two more un- easy glances backward â€" as we mount- ed the viaduct across the Santa Fe tracks, and again as we climbed the acclivity along whose crest run Boyle and Pleasant Avenues. The last time she mechanically clutched my arm. "Look!" she exclaimed under her i breath. "It is they!" "They?" I dully echoed, rousing preoccupation. Who? Her reply â- n;as another excited com- inside door was open; just the screen was shut. I knocked a couple o' times and didn't raise anybody. Then I wlked in â€" in a hurry. I smelt chloroform." "Chloroform!" I ejaculated in amazement. "Yep, chloroform. I had a hunch I'd better not waste any more time knocking. And I wasn't any too soon, either. Found the old lady on the dining-room floor with a towel over her fjce. Towel was soaked with the stuff. I got rid of the towel; nobody but me got wise to the chloroform." I could only stare in wonder and wait for him to continue. "I was just going to hunt a doctor when she come to and see me. Then she went from one fit to another, so I rustled the neighbors and phoned you to get the young lady home." It all seemed such an incredible proceeding that I could only slowly "In this emin- A Few Pointera for Dairymen. A poor milker never gets the best results from a cow. A nervous ani- mal resents the bungling touch of a rough or inexperienced hand. Why not encourage the little peculi- arities of the well-bred dairy cow. She i» simply a big milking machine and if her whims will produce more milk let her have them. I If we are going to s»lect a bull we ! would select the one with the worst temper, all other things being equah j Because temper and vigor show male I characteristics which should not be ig- \ nored. i A gentle sleepy bull that can be j managed without a nose ring does not 1 as a rule produce the best calves. I It is downright cruelty to keep a ' bull in a small enclosure in the sum- mer, a victim to heat and fliesâ€" but many men who claim to be good â-  dairymen, do this very thing. How could we expect a cow to keep I in good health and give pure milk This Advertisement nvay induce you to try the first packet of I! but we rely absolutely on the inimitable flavour and quality to make you a permanent customer. We will even offer to give this first trial free if you will drop us a postal to Toronto. "iTIi GERMANY'S IGNOBLE BACK- DOWN. By Chas. M. Bice, Denver, Col. I sympathizers, he deserves and will I receive the adoration of a grateful , people. I Certain papers in this country that I stand for America's preparedness, After much "crimination and re- however, are disposed to belittle the crimination" between the govern- ' achievement, and claim, if there is a ments of the U. S. and that of Ger- triumph, it is naval rather than diplo- many, the Kaiser has at last yielded matic, for, say they, "Germany has to the American demand respecting abandoned her submarine warfare submarine depredations. | against merchant shipping and the Some people call this a diplomatic victory for the Yankee nation; but when she is confined in foul and ill- others are equally insistent that Ger^ quarters, winter or sum- realize Struljer's words mand - - j ently respectable and quiet residence "Look Quick'" ' neighborhood the occurrence of vio- I turn'^barely in time to glimpse ' !«"« of any description was incon- a long, speedy looking machine. It ce'vable. The time was broad day, .„„â- . „K^^â- ,f ,„Mâ„¢o,r i„ fi,o Qfrniffht the immediate setting the most mod- hold the key to the riddle, and if my level exnans^ of street sS-etching be- ^«* ""'' 'l"'^* °' ^" ^^^ ''°"^««' *^« tact and diplomacy could do it, it was ^^y^^ us,^?rom the base oHie hfll to "--'""'â- '- "'-=-" "' °" -*'â€" ^''° """ the viaduct, and hitting it up at a lively clip. They didn't mean to lose us, it was manifest, in the maze of , , wind'ng streets of which we might "^„^rii â-  ui. now take advantage if w were so wen, you mignt told her I had caught her crying over n-jntjed But I had no intention of Struber slowly admitted. "Somebody m. ,r, thr- »..,i,n<. «F t-K^ .,iâ„¢v,f i,«. trying to elude them wanted something of the old lady's For there was no mistaking the car E,!ehty bad to take such a chance or its two muffled, be-goggled, un- I JV hat's she got that s worth the risk? recognizable occupants. } ^« "^'^.^ ^^h »" ^orts of crooks It was the gray automobile. ">. «y t>me but never crossed ropes with one that d a-pulled off , a stunt like this unless he knew it'd put him CHAPTER XV. I on Easy Street the rest of his life. ventilated mer. A pair of horse-clippers rights of neutrals because the British fleet has made the submarine question a dead issue." What about the Lusitania? demand these papers. That question is still unsettled. But Germany's answer in the case up to me to persuade her to unbosom herself. Lois looked toward me again and took up the thread of her narra- tive. "Pool, dear Aunt Lois. When I particular victim of all others the one least easy* to reconcile with the appa- rent outrage. "Was it robbery? â€" burglary?" I call it both," many has yielded only because "the waters were made too hot" for her by be the activity of the British naval force. bought for $1 . 50 and the use of these Whatever may be the real cause of once a month on the cow's flanks and ; Germany's acceding to America's de- I <>* t^e Arabic, and the concessioni udder will make it an easy matter to ; mand, the result is equally glorious . therein made, and principles enunci keep them clean. and reassuring. Regret, disavowal How many cows on the average and indemnity are all conceded by farm give milk containing more than Germany, with the assurance that twenty per cent, of butter-fat? Per- the Teuton will hareafter be good. We are assured that the Kaiser's or- der to his submarines has been made me in the middle of the night her confusion and distress of mind scared me so that I commenced howling at the top of my voice. She caught me up in her arms, declaring that she had meant only to mother me; that in the same way she often had tiptoed in to where I slept to see that every- thing was all right with me, and Precisely at what point the gray i !'» waiting to find out what they that I must run along and play and automobile abandoned its pursuit of ^^s after,^ and whether or not they think no more about it. "Her betrayal of her heart-hunger on that occasion made me for the first time realize keenly that I had no mother but her â€" that she had no copped it, We moved together up to the porch, where Miss Fox almost imme- diately joined us. Her aunt was ly- for a us I did not observe; doubtless after its occupants, whoever they were, had satisfied themselves as to our destination. It was more than likely, . ,..,,,., . , „ too, that the low shadowy car pro- , ">? down, easy now except child but me. I never got any fuller ceeded to an advantageous position nausea that was the natural after ef- explanation, and after that, my curi- nearby from which our departure ^*^'^t of the drug. In a low voice she osity, childlike, dwindled and finally mjght be noted and the chase once *-â-  -•»-* x ,- °'*J^away. . , i, ' more resumed. I could not say. I So It came about that after a ^^^ too much taken up with the cot-, while the details got to seem like a j^ge Miss Fox indicated as being her ' dream, and when 1 thought of the aunt's home ' episode at all it was as such. But Houses that people live in, to some ' you must see, as I do now how im- extent at least, have a personality of possible such a dream would be for a their own, and they and their imme- ! child who had never heard of death, i jjate surroundings reflect the charac- ' I understand better now. She ters of their tenants. i was looking at my markâ€" my in- i j ^^^ ^ gmaH cottageâ€" a very small ' The girl shook her head decisively delible budge of infamyâ€" of murder cottage, I might say, for it could not ' "She can't tell much. She was â€"of God knows what!" She clutched have owned more than five or six ', husy in the kitchen when she was at her 'oosom as if she would pluck rooms fairly smothered beneath a '' attracted by a slight noise at the the stain from her. "I can almost v^relter of gold of ophir roses whose front of the house. At first she paid feel the horrible thing burning into myriad blossoms shone like newly "o attention to it, but when it was my flesh! No wonder it filled her minted money. The thick tangled repeated she came to the -front door with pity and compassion!" j growth had clambered clear across the to investigate. All she saw was From whatever angle one might j-oof and back to the ground again what she took to be a Chinese laundry io.i/ it it .uno ir< uii <.r.nc..ior,»<. n ... ., -i > ,• i _ ^i man's wBgon Standing at the curb. It wasn't right in front of the house, but down a way, toward Mrs. Falk- ner's, next door. "But you know the Chinese habit of walking right into one's house suggested that we go over to a couple of lawn seats. She was deeply troubled. "Mr. Struber, do you know what happened?" she asked as soon as she sat down in the bench facing the one Struber and I chose. "Only what I've guessed, Miss Fox," he replied. "I was hoping your aunt could tell us about it." view it, it was in all conscience a on the farther side. All along the monstrous thin|; that anybody could street the sidewalk was shaded by have been so inhuman as thus to bland and disfigure a helpless, inno- cent child with a mark of such abom- inable associations. It was much as if she rested under the stigma of a fine old pepper trees, and where you turned into the walk leading up to the cottage two uncommonly lofty Lombardy poplars stood sentinel- like, forming a noble gateway. There ' without knocking. She thought of crime of which she was not only ^vas a well-kept lawn bordered by this and turned to look into the front blameless but ignorant. And yet, had every conceivable variety of rose, 'room; then she was seized from be- lt not been put there, her very exist- most of which were in bloom. There hind. Before she could scream or ence would have been snuffed , out were, too, beds of other flowers and struggle, she says, a doth was press- years and years before. This I was some agreeiAly arranged shrubbery â€" fd over her_ face, she was dragged to learn later. i loquats, guavas, oleanders, privet The Kiss of the Silent Death â€" and the like. But I was most forcibly injpressed, first, by the homelike air that hung about the place, and, next, by its de- tachment, as if it had withdrawn from the rest of the world to pursue a placid, unruffled existence independ- , now her duty to tell what she knew; cnt of the quiet neighborhood envir- ' K'rl. Struber pursued that the mystery hanging over her onment. I "I made a quick search of the niece and foster child had assumed a Was it an atmosphere of secretive- ' house before the neighbors got here, phase that threatened her with name- ness ? Perhaps not. But the thought but it didn't look 4orn up any. Of less injury unless the handicap of came to me. ; course I couldn't toll if anything was silence were removed so that friends it seemed impossible that any jar- '"'ss'ng. Then your aunt didn't see who were ready to help her might be ring note from the outside alien anybody?" armed with knowledge, when a sud- world could intrude here to shatter ' Miss Fox again shook her head, den clamor of the telephone made the serenity; yet, if Struber were to "No, nobody at all, except you. She be believed, this was exactly what had happened. Our machine stopped, and I was haps not more than one out of every : 100. I The separator should never be al- lowed in the bam or near it. A half dozen window sash, glazed, will make a dust-proof box in which the dairy vessels can be sunned and kept absolutely clean. ' Any enterprising farmer living near a town of 5,000 or more can sell every pound of his butter at full re- tail prices or little above, the year round. ' For several years we have bought farm butter from the same farmer, at two cents above retail market price, every month in the year and glad to get it. Never attempt to keep summer but- ter for early fall prices, because it will not keep. All milk should be aerated as soon as taken from" the cow. This can be done by passing it through the sapa- ^ rator, but it is not as good as a de- vice which divides the milk into many fine streams and then allows it to flow over a wide surface in thin sheets with plenty of ice to keep the sur- face cool. If nothing better can be had, milk may be aerated by placing the cans in a trough of cold water and dipping the milk with a long-handled dipper and pouring it buck into the can until it is thoroughly cool. I Never cover milk while warm, in the cans, as it will produce a musty odor. so drastically stringent that the re currence of incidents similar to the thing he demended, bit by bit, and Arabic and Lusitania cases is con- sidered out of the question. At the outset of the negotiations Germany asserted her right in unmis- takable terats to continue her original submarine policy, and stated in its ated, should easily apply to the Lusi- tania when the time comes to settle that dispute. It is enough to know that the weapon she relied upon haa been struck from her hand, and that ends it. The President got nearly evcry- the American public kept its head and backed the President. The war-toot- ers and peace-at-any-price fawners, and the angry hyphenated citizens have had their day in court. The public has had enough of them. Whe- The milker who will thump a cow ' â„¢"" ""''"• °Ti"=»'S' but all this is now first note that "the German Govern- ther the President "muddled through" ment is unable to acknowledge any i '" the diplomatic controversy, as some obligation to grant Indemnity in the i «•»>">. or not, we have escaped the matter, even if the commander of the i danger of being dragged mto an igno- submarine should have been mistaken mmious war. as to the aggressive intentions of the * Arabic." But, in the note a month Never judge a woman by the com- or so later, we were informed by , pany she is compelled to entertain. Count Bernstorff, that Germany is 1 willing to negotiate concerning the , " amount of the indemnity to be paid for the disaster, and this is expressly ! stated, whether the submarine com- mander was convinced or not, that the Arabic intended to ram the submar- , ine; and Germany has gracefully yielded to the testimony of the Bri- tish officers to the contrary. The ; Imperial government, in the same ' note, assured America that "the at- tack of the submarine was under- \ taken against the instructions issued to the commander," and that "the Government disavows the act and has notified the commandef, Schneider, accordingly." j We have some recollection of a , "war zone" decree, and the liberal dimensions thereof, as set by the Gcr- , verily, the touch of the accursed ring was patiy described in this euphem- istic phrase. I had just reached a decision that I must see and talk with Aunt Lois and try to convince her that it was back away from the door, and knew nothing more until she came to and saw a strange man stooping over her. She never saw her assailant at all." ' "That was me she saw," Struber explained. "The cloth was a towel and it was soaked with chloroform." â- 'Good gracious!" exclaimed the for squirming under the attack of flies, ought to be hoisted out of the burn on the toe of the dairyman's boots. Need not expect cows to keep up the milk flow during the tail-end of summer, unless you have plenty of soiling crops to feed. Dead grass does not produce milk. The Value of Cow Peas. a mere reminiscence, it seems, and we are to hear no more about it. This is a signal and surprising vic- tory for the whole world, for it fixes the limits of submarine activity for all time, and demonstrates how illy founded were Mr. Bryan's direful ap- prehensions that found expression in his resignation as a cabinet oflicer. What a chance for immortal gloiy his evil genius induced him to throw away! This is not merely an American vic- tory. In principle the U. S. has been defending the rights of all neutrals, and all will rejoice over the success of American diplomacy. The result will make it easier to broaden and strengthen the code of Lois and me jump. Such was nervous tension at the moment. I grabbed up the instrument and clapped tho receiver to my ear, and given a fresh demonstration of the i immediatelv rorocniy.pH Sfrnhpr'a ^/.4-....4-:..a'.. ».i»n4-»K;i;*.. *-^ t.:„ â€" ii:-.â€" > was not given an opportunity. But I have discovered what they were after â€" what they took." ^ _^ We waited expectantly. immediately recognized ' Struber's detective's "adaptabiTity to his calling, 'â-  "The little ivory box," she added 'O'ce. I which this time was his facility in : soberly, her eyes on Struber; "the '"Ihat you, Mr. Ferris?" he asked, effacing himself from observation. 1 1 one you came here to see. This 13 Struber. Say, if you can did not see him at all until he detach- let Miss Fox off she'd better come ed himself from the trunk of one of home right away. Don't scare her; the poplars against which manifestly her aunts aU right; but something he had been leaning, and approached was pulled off before I got here and to open the tonneau door. th« niri i„,lv-. o-r.„» h„„ fiof â„¢.>7" ! g^f^^j.^ ^y companion had time to voice her anxiety, he announced: "The old lady's all right now. She's alone." And at that moment I be- came aware of a covert surveillance - - from every house along the street. Look here, Struberâ€" Miss Fox Truly, curiosity must have been ram- , heard you. You must make it more pant. tr w »• convincing that nothing serious has. Miss Fox hastened up the narrow Unnecessary txertion. happened to her aunt." gravel walk and disappeared in the Pullman Porterâ€" Next stop is He broke in quickly. I house. I lingered to hear the particu- 1 station, sah. Shall I brush yo' the old lady's gone bug. Get me? I became aware that Miss Fox, white-lipped, tense with anxiety, was bending over me. She too had heard. "Ask him," she hoarsely demand- "what has happened." "Take my word for it, Mr. Ferris, ' lars from Struber. Mrs. Fox is all right. She's simply. That worthy also watched the been scared stiff, and her own kin ' graceful form until the screen door (To be continued.) Putting It Otherwise. His Wifeâ€" Oh, dear! I wonder if there is any perfect happiness in this world. The Cheerful Pessimistâ€" Not likely. Silver linings are surrounded by clouds. yo' off They can be grown as far north as Dept corn can be grown and on land so poor that clover would not catch at all. They are called "the poor man's clover," because you can get such quick results. A crop of cow _ peas can be grown in three months, international rights' when the present and It will be fully equal to a two war is ended. Force has bowed to years' crop of clover. You can sow rectitude, and morality has dominated the peas any time from May to Au- ! power once more. President Wilson's gust and can get a good big crop fol- , statesmanship, inflexible will and i lowing an early crop taken off in lofty courage have again triumphed,] June. Plowed under after the first and though harusscd at home by the frost, they will leave the ground in impatient, and heckled by Teutonic elegant shape for a crop next year. ! [ The seed costs about $2 . 50 per bushel and should be drilled in at the rate of one half bushel per acre. The First of ALL "Home Remedies" 4*"yASELINE," in its many • forms with their innuni- cralile usesi, is the foundation of the family medicine chest. Vasel Ine L Pcltolcum Jelly It keeps the .<;kiii smooth and sound. Invaluable in the nurs- ery for burn.s, cuts, insect bites, etc. .Misolulely pure and safe. AVOID SUBSTITUTES. In- sist on "Vaseline" in original packages hearing the name, CHIiSEBROUGH MANU- FACTURING CO., Consoli- dated. For sale at all Chemists and General Stores. Iltttstratai booklet frrr on retjur-^t. CHESEBROUGH MFC CO. (C.na.Iid.lMil 1880 CHABOT AVE.. MONTREAL â- HHMMMMMMm«3l3l«MMMHH»»Hfifi[a can do more for her than a flock of dippy neighbors. I don't want to say too much over the phone." I hung up and turned to the anx- ious girl. "We can believe him," said I with conviction. "Goodness only knows what it is, but no harm has come to your aunt. I'll go -with you." This proposal seeming to be agree- closed and hid it. There was a queer expression on his narrow features, and his crooked beak wrinkled with excess of inward emotion when he turned again to me. Pushing the fin- gers_ of one hand up along the back of his head and tilting his derby for- ward, he ruffled his hair in perplex- ity. , "Don't ast me," he forestalled my I daytime, please. now? Morton Morose â€" No; it is not necessary. When the train stops I'll step off. No Nightly VisiU. Burglar (just acquitted, to his law- yer) â€" I will drop in soon and see you. Lawyer â€" Very good; but in the Ration for Chicks. 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On the other hand, Charles Beiirseul, who discovered and described the principle of the tele- phone in 1855, died poor; Michaifx, the inventor of the bicycle, ended his days in the utmo.st penury, and Fred- eric Sauvage, who is credited with the invention of the screw propelloi-. was imprisoned and died bankrupt and insane. Why those Pains ? Hero is a testimonial unsolicited "If I had my will i( would be ndvcrtiied on every street corner. The man or woman that hns rheumatism and faili to keep and use Sloan's Lini- ment is like a drowniitfi man refuaing a rope." â€" .if. J. Van Dyif, LahtJutoJ, N. J. Sloan's Liniment H X n s Spi^ain HMHMHKMMHHxK'A^a