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I T 'f $ i BONAVKMTURE DE LAPP. Synopsis.--Writing lops after the events described, Jack CaWer, Scot farmer of West Inch, tells how, In hia childhood, the fear of Invasion by Napoleon, at that time complete master of Europe, had gripped the British nation. Following a false alarm that the French ha I landed, Jim Horscroft, the doctor's son, a youth of fifteen, quarrels with his father over Joining the army, and from that Incident a lifelong friendship begins between the bo*ys, They go together to school at Berwick, where Jim Is eoCk boy from the first. After two years Jim goes to Edinburgh to study medicine. Jack stays five years more at Berwick, becoming cock boy In his turn. When Jack Is eighteen his cousin Edie comes to live at West Inch and Jack falls tn love at first sight with hie attractive, romantic, selfish and autocratic cousin of seventeen. They watch from the cliffs the victory of an English merchantman over two French privateers. Reproached by Edie for etaylng at home. Jack starts to enlist. Edie tells him to stay. Jack promises to stay and marry her. She acquiesces. Jim comes home. Jack sees Jim kissing Edie. Jack and Jim compare notes and force Edie to choose between them. She chooses Jim. Jack gives up Edie to Jim. The downfall of Napoleon Is celebrated. • half-dead shipwrecked foreigner drifts ashore at West Inch. CHAPTER V--Continued. w i: "Ht's dying, Jim," I cried. "Aye, for want of food and water. There's not a drop or a crumb tn the host Maybe there's something in the He sprang in and brought out Lblack leather bag, which, with a ge blue coat was the only thing in |be boat. It was locked, but Jin had. It open in an instant. It was half., full of gold pieces. Neither of us had ever seen so much ' '|n>fore--no, nor a tenth part of It. There must have been hundreds of ' them, all bright new British sovereigns. Indeed, so taken up were we ^ that we had forgotten all about their : $>wner, until a groan took our thoughts - fjack of him. His lips were bluer than fver. and his jaw had dropped. loan (see bis open mouth now, with ita row , *>f white, wolfish teeth. ' "My God! he's off," cried Jim. " "Hem run to the burn, Jock, for a v jhatful of water. Quick, man, or he's ;«• gone! F!1 loosen his things the while,*1' Away I tore, and was back in a minnte with as much water as would stay in my Glengarry. Jim had pulled open the man's coat and shirt, and we doused the water over him, and forced ; some between his lips. It had a good effect, for after a gasp or two he sat up, and robbed his eyes slowly, like a man who is waking from a deep sleep. . Bat neither Jim nor I were looking at Us face now, for our eyes were fixed ee his uncovered chest. There were two deep red puckers in it, one Just below the collar bone, and ; the other about halfway down on the right side. The skin of his body was extremely white up to the brown line of his neck, and the angry crinkled spots looked the more vivid against ft From above I could see there was s .corresponding pucker in the bade at one place but not at the other. Inexperienced as I was, I could tell what ,, that meant. Two bullets had pierced ^ his chest--one had passed through it, and the other had remained inside. But suddenly he staggered up to hia fpet, and pulled his shirt to, with a ft&k, suspicious glance at us. "MSTiat have I been doing?" he asked. "Pva been off my head. Take no no* I tlce ci anything I may have said. Have I been shouting?" Ton shouted Just before you felL" "Whai did I shoutr 1 told him, though it bore little aManlng to my mind. He looked rfharply at a*, and then he shrugged his shoulder*. * "It's Oe words of a song," said he. "Well, toe question is, what am I to do now? I didn't thought I was so weak. Where did you get the water?" I pointed towards the burn, and he staggered off to the bank. There h« lay down upon his face, and he drank until I thought he would never have done. At last he got up, with a long sigh, and wiped his mustache with his sleeve. That's better," said ha. "Have you any food?" I had crammed two bits of oatcake Into my pocket when I left home, and theae he crushed into his mouth and swallowed. Then he squared his shoul- , •ers, puffed out his chest, and patted his ribs with the flat of his hands. "I am sure that I owe you exceedingly well," said he. "You have been vary kind to a stranger. But I see that you have had occasion' to open my bag?" "We hoped that we might find wine • ®r brandy there when you fainted." .1 ' have nothing there but Just my little--how do you say It?--my savings. They are not much, but I must live quietly upon them until I find something to do. Now, on<* could live very quietly here, I should say. I could not have come upon a more peaceful place, without, perhaps, so much as a gendarme nearer than that town." "You haven't told us yet who you we, where you come from, nor what jrou have been," said Tim bluntly. The stranger look..] him up and down with% critical eye. "My word I but you would make n grenadier for a flank company," said lie. "as to what you ask, I might take otWhse at It from other lips, but you have a right to know, since you have receive^! me with so great courtesy. My name Is Bonavecture de Lapp. I am a soldier and a wanderer by trfde, and I have come from DUnfclrk, as you may see printed upon tfe boat." "I thought that-/you had been shipwrecked?" said I. • But he looked at me with the straight gaze of an honest man. "That is right," said he. "But the ship went from Dunkirk, and this Is one of her boats. The crew got away in the iong boat, and she went down so quickly that I had no tlmo to put anything Into her. That was on Monday." "And today's Thursday. You have been three days without bite or sup." "It is too long," said he. "Twice before I have been for two days, but never quite so long as this. Well, I shall leave my boat here, and see whether I can get Jodgings in any of these little gray houses up on the hillsides. Why is that great fire horning over yonder?" "It is one of our neighbors who has served against the French. He is, rejoicing because peace has been declared." "Oh! you have a neighbor who has served, then) I am glad, for I, too, have seen a little soldiering here and there." He did not look glad, but he drew his brows down over his keen eyes. "You are, French, are yon not?" I asked, as we all walked up the hill together, he with his black bag in his hand, and his long blue cloak slung over his shoulder. "Well, I am of Alsace," said he. "And you know they are more German than French. For myself, I have been in so many lands that I feel at home in all. I have been a great traveler. And where do you think that I might find a lodging?" I can scarcely tell now, on looking back with the great gap of live-andthirty years between what Impression this singular man had made upon me. Jim Horscroft was a fine man, and MaJ. Elliott was a brave one, but they both lacked something that this wanderer had. It was the quick, alert look, the flash of the eye, the nameless distinction which is so hard to fix. And then, we had saved him when he lay gasping on thp shingle, and one's heart always softens toward what one has once helped. "If you will come with me," said I, •*1 have little doubt that I can find you a bed for a night or two, and by that time you will be better able to make your own arrangements." He pulled off his hat, and bowed with all the grace Imaginable. But Jim Horscroft pulled me by the sleeve and led me aside. " You're mad, Jock," he whispered. "The fellow's a common adventurer. What do you want to get mixed up with him forT But I was always as obstinate a man as ever laced his boots, and if you jerked me back it was the flnesj way of sending me to the front. "He's a stranger, and ifs our part to look after "him," said I. "You'll be sorry for it*" said h% "Maybe so." "If yon don't think of yourself you might think of your cousin." "Edie can take very good cars of herself." "Well, then, the devil take you, and you may do what you like," he cried, in one of his sudden flushes of anger, Without a word of farewell to either of us he turned off upon the track that led up toward his father's house. Bonaventure de Lapp smiled at me as We walked on together. **I didn't thought he liked me very much," said he. "I can see very well that he has made a quarrel with you because you are taking me to your home. What does he think -of me then? Does he think, perhaps, that I have stole the gold In my bag, or what is It that be fears?" "Tut I I neither know nor care,' said L "No stranger Shall pass our door without a crust and a bed." With my head cocked, and feeling as if I was doing something very fine, instead of being the most egregious fool south'of Edinburgh, I marched on down the path, with ngj£, acquaintance at my elbow. •if Copyright by A. Ommb Deyt* tronage which a man uses when he smiles to his dog. "I am myself again now, thanks to my excellent supper and good night's rest Ah, It is hunger that takes the courage from a man. That most, and cold next." "Aye, that's right," said my father. Tve been out on the moors tn a snowdrift for slx-and-thlrty hours, and I sen what it is like." "I once saw three thousand .men utarve to death," remarked Pe Lapp putting out his hands to the fire. "Day by day they got thinner and more like apes, and they did come down to the edge of the pontoons where we did keep them, and they howled with rage and pain. The first few days their howls went over the whole city, but after a week our sentries on the bank could not hear them, so weak they had fallen." "And they died?" I exclaimed. "They held out a very long time. Austrian grenadiers they werfe, of tha corps of Starowitz, fine, stout men, as big as your friend of yesterday, but when the town fell there were but four hundred alive, and a man could Uft them three at a time, as If they were little monkeys. It was a pity. Ah, my friend, you will do me the honors with madame and with mademoiselle." It was my mother and Edie, who had come into the kitchen. He had not seen them the night before; but now it was all I could do to keep my, face as I watched him, for, instead of our homely Scottish nod, he bent up his back like a louplng trout, and slid his foot, and clapped his hand over his heart in the queerest way. My mother stared, for she thought he was making fun of her, but Cousin Edie fell into it in an Instant, as though it had b£en a game, and away she went in a great courtesy, until I thought she would have had to give it up, and sit down right there In the middle of the kitchen floor. But no, she was up again as light as a piece of fluff, and we all drew up /rar stools and started on tits scones and milk and porridge. He had'a wonderful way with women, that man. N'ow, if I were to dp, it, or Jim Horscroft, It would look as if ws were playing the fool, and the girls would have laughed at us; but with him it seemed to go with his style of face and fashion of speech, so that one came at last to look for it. For when he spoke to my mother or to Cousin Edie--and he was never backward in speaking--It would always be with a bow and a look as if it would hardly be worth their while to listen ^o what he had to say; and when they answered he would put pn a face as though every word they said was to be treasured up and remembered forever. Edie did not say much, but she kept shooting little glances at our visitor, and once or twice ha looked very hard at her. When he had gone to his room, after breakfast, my father pulled out eight golden pounds, and laid them on the table. CHAPTER Vl. Am miU ia a humble r-Y~l • v: 0 <• p&ii fsL Mmms 'spu of the buildings (horticulture) of the college of agriculture. University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo„ where the federal board for vocational education has placed disabled wprld war veterans who desire training tn agriculture. Make Gas From Government Engineers Endeavor H;Perfect Method of ( Hzing Straw. A MAY HAVE ECONOMIC VALUE An Automobile Has Been Operated With New Combustible and It Haa Been Used for Illuminating Puit poses and foe Cooking, 'Washington.--A gas which la obtained by the destructive distillation of whe&t, oat and rye straws Is now being produced upon a small scale at the experimental farm of the United States department of agriculture at Arlington, Va. Although an automobile has been operated with the new combustible, and it has been used for Illuminating purposes as well as for cooking, the possibilities of straw gas are not yet fully determined, the department says. In order to determine the exact commercial value of the gas David J. Price, engineer in charge of the new office of development work. a subdivision of the bureau of chemistry designed to help commercial and industrial concerns to use new processes and discoveries developed in the bureau, has placed H. EL Roethe, Jr., in charge of a series of production tests with the experimental apparatus at Arlington. May Have Economic Value, The work can be carried On but slowly owing * to the limited funds available at present, but It is planned to do much that will determine the quantity and nature of the gas that may be obtained from wheat, oat, barley, rye and rice straws, and from cornstalks, corncobs and other vt^etable matter usually burned as waste. If the results of these tests warrant further Investigation the experiments will be extended to the problem of plant equipment for producing the gas on a scale sufficient to allow the farmer to supply light and heat for his house, power for stationary engines and possibly» for his tractor, from a small Individual outfit. If a suitable unit can be constructed so that the farmer's initial cost will be small, It seems likely that the straw gas may have a certain economic value In tha Uncle Sam Turns Auctioneer Wandering Bag My fa flier seemed to be mueftbf^lm Horscroft's opinion, for he was not over warm to this new guest, and looked him up and down with a very questioning eye. He set a dish of vinegared herrings before him, however, and I noticed that he looked more askance than ever when my companion ate nine of them, for two were always our portion. When at last he had finished. Bonaventure de Lapp's lids were drooping over his eyes, for I doubt not that he had been sleepless as well as foodless for these three days. It was but a poor room to which I led him, .but he threw himself down upon the couch, wrapped his big blue cloak around him, and was asleep In an instant. He was a very high and strong suorer, and, as my room was next to his, I had reason to remember that we had a stranger within our gates. When I came down in the morning I found that he had been beforehand with me, for he was seated opposite my father at the window table in the kitchen, their heads almost touching, and a little roll of gold pieces between them. As I came in my father looked up at me, and I saw a light of greed' In his eyes such as I had never seen before. He caught up the money with an eager clutch, and swept it into his pocket . ., "Vec good, mister/* said be. "The room's yours, aud you pay always en the third of the month." "Ah, and here is my first friend," cried De Lapp, holding out his hand to me with a smile which was kindly enough, and yet bad that touch of par (TO BE CONTINUED.) SUPERSTITIONS OF THE PAST Peculiar Beliefs That Not* So Vary Many Years Ago Had Almost Unt* . versal Credence. A reader furnishes us with a list of old superstitions which were part of our folk lore in this part of the country before we had to have folk tore societies' to preserve^ this sort of thing: A rooster crowing ft tha front door meant a visitor coming. A twig catching a young lady's dress meant a beau. An itching ear meant that soma one was talking about yotL To turn back after starting meant bad luck. Opening an umbrella in tha house meant bad luck to the house. A measuring worm on a woman's frofk meant a new dress. An itching left hand meant that yon Would marry soon. An Itching right hand meant that you would shake hands with a stranger. Seeing the new moon over the left shoulder meant one would soon get money. Probably most of us sre superstitious about the number 18, Just as people were a long time ago. Our own superstitions will amuse a subsequent generation, as those recalled by our reader amuse us. Only a subsequent generation can safely laugh at superstitions. Socrates was put to death for laughing at some of the superstitions of the Greeks. Let us, then, laugh at these and take the superstitions of our own ttme as seriously as we please.-* St. Louis Post Dispatch. sections of the country where the raw material from which the gas is made is now considered as waste and burned or left to rot on the fields. In some sections of the country the straw is used as a fertilizer, but in the West and Northwest there is an unlimited supply of the material available for conversion into light -and fuel for the farmer. While it has been possible to operate an automobile with straw gas and It Is known that 50 pounds of straw will produce about 800 cubic feet of gas-- an amount sufficient to drive a light roadster 15 miles--the problem of redwing the gas to liquid form or condensing it sufficiently to allow it to be carried conveniently is an essential one that must be solved before straw gas can be considered as a possible motor fuel. This will be another of the tasks taken up by the engineers in the development division. ' Is Not New Thing. Straw gas Is not a new thing. Tho present process Was developed by George Harrison, a Canadian epginger at Moosejaw, in 1914, who later cooperated on the project with Professor MacLaurin of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. The university, In conjunction with the United States department of agriculture, exhibited a straw gas equipment at the exposition of chemical industries in New York city during the fall of 1918. This equipment was later purchased and Improved by the department The Canadian investigators succeeded In operating an automobile With the product. However, the fuel supply was carried in a large flexible hag on the top of the car--a method of doubtful practicability. Severn 1 valuable by-produAs are obtained tn the manufacture of tho gas. Carbon residue suitable for manufacturing ijunphleck of exceptionally fine quality ia ooe.^ This residue also contains certain amounts of potash, phosphate and tritrogenous compounds which give it fertilising value. The tar and ammohtacal liquids resulting from the process, aside from their value as disinfectants and preservatives, may prove useful In tho dye industry. If the engineers succeed In perfecting the present apparatus and In reducing the cost of production, there Is no doubt that straw gas will have an intfortant comma*- cial future. cm Accept "California'* only--look for the name the package, then you are child is having the best aiMl less physic for the little stomach, and bowels. Children love Ita fruity* taste. Full directions on each bottl®} Ten must ssy "California." ( Curb on Profanity. The following sign was the pool room of combined soft parior and pool room In Cra vllle: , . "Gentlemei^r-PLease do loud enough to be heard In the part of the ' room."--! News. Watch Cutleura Imp revs Your On rising and retiring gently the face with Cutleura Wash off Ointment in five with Cutleura Soap and- hot wat Is wonderful sometimes what Cuti will do for poor complexions, Itching and red rough hands.--Adv. Little Amenities. A noiseless'gun has Just vented. It will now be wage war without the e plaining of headache.--From London. Swivel chairs and equipment once used by Washington's famous desk officers, are now being sold at auction at the storehouses on Potomac Park drive. I Movie Lessons H Apleoe. New York.--"Maybe I'm no Ifary Pickford, but I have the makings of » great moving picture actress," said a scrubwoman to one of the district attorney's staff, investigating the soculled "moving picture schools." This investigation has disclosed that persons from scrubwomen to'mothers of large families have enrolled in these wchools at $8 a lesson. Wearing Gas Helmets to Foil Bees of Indiana TIncennes, Ind.--Bees, which lived in the ground until brought out by recent rains In many cases have completely halted plowing for wheat In sections of Knox county. According to the farmers, bees are more numerous this yesr because of the long dry season and tne plentiful supply of red clove;-. Some farmers are foiling the bees by wearing gas maSKS, which were brought back I from France by their sons who t were in the service. « Better Laying In Cool Breeze. Los Angeles, Cal.--Patrolman Frank Howell has found out how to make hens lay In hot weather. He puts them in cages and hangs the cages in trees where the breezes will play through the occupants' feathers. WILL OPEN MONGOLIA General Hsu Says It Js to Be Restored to Chin*. '••if 'if • M Commercial 9PPortunli«i Will Be Qiwn to All Foreign Nations. Urga. Mongol Is.--"Mongolia, restored Ss sn integral part of the Chinese republic, will soon be opened to foreign nations," said Gen. Hsu Shu-chen, commander of China's frontier defense forces in Mongolia. It was Gen. Hsu Shu-chen's army ot 10,000 men marching 700 miles aprosa the Gobi desert in the winter of 1918- 1919 that occupied Urga and put an end to the political power of the Buddhist priests whose leader, termed "the living God," then ruled Mongolia as an autonomous state. "All Mongolia-Russian treaties, grsntlng special privliegea to BuMlans in Mongolia, have been abrogated. continued "Little Hsu," as he is ft* mlUarly called to distinguish him from President Hsu. "Klacbta. although a Siberian city, la still garrisoned by Chinese troops because Kolchak*s representatives asked the Chinese to protect them from the reds, and the date of withdrawal has not yet bean decided." - General Hsu said China was not at all interested In the Internal affairs; of Russia, and that Russians taking* refuge In China were all treated alike, regardless of their political aflllla* tlens, subject only to Chinese law. > He added that all Chinese troops would eventually be withdraw© from Russian territory, but that substantial garrisons would be maintained on the' Mongolian border. ^ A New Jersey nftn Is the patentee of an undetachable umbrella ring toi hold the end of the ribs of a closed umbrella and be engraved with th» owner's nam£' Uft Right Off , wit ?* /.*• bit? Drop * "Freesone" on an aching corn, Jiat corn stops hurting, rou lift it right off with fingers. 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