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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE. ONT., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18; 1928 BEGIN HERB TODAY -They respected not Oscar himself b.vt Finding the lLeless bodies of his two t?r the quality which had fallen from partners at their gold mining camp, heaven, upon him. Harry Gloster flees southward, know- j And as Samuel Carney, the lean and ing that he will be accused of th« gray headed, torrier-like man who was Crime. On the way Gloster is jailei cashier 0f the bank, walked down the after getting into a fight with several street thig morning. nearIy every man mjoanVeBarr^!rdaughter of a famous^0. Pa»«dhim wld: 'There goes the rider of the old plains, helps Gloster. brains of the Wickson Bank. lern is to escape. After eluding a posse, Glos- |a rnighty lucky fellow to get such a ter retraces his steps to Joan's cabin man for mere wages! One of these and is confronted by her guardian, [ days Carney will be made a partner, Buck Daniels; they finally call a truce,'and then watch his dust! He's got the however. Joan, partly in answer to genius'" the call of wild life within her and j Sxi^ th atmo&ph€re of adula. partly in an effort to find Harry Glos- I..____„,__, , . , A , n ter, joins a bandit gang in the moun- tlon, *hr?"*hSam"e C"ney tains. Joe Macarthur, a quick-shoot-! walked, it had lightened his step on ing scoundrel, is made chieftain of the many a back and forth from the grind gang when he appears with a scheme of the work at the bank. But today. to rob the Wickson Bank. Now the , it did not help him. The morning was' near Dov< gangsters are discussing Joan. I very hot, although the spring was not French syndicate for NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY j yet old and the hour was early; butj did net pay, owing "You've learned a number of new, there was a little foretaste of the blast- of coal. words, I see," said Dud Rainey, and j of the summer sun, and the sidewalk!-- smiled upon him deliberately, showing; burned Carney's feet through the thin | a white face and saying every one of his white teeth. I soles of his shoes. | all! I know it all! Oh, Sammy dear, "I said that anybody could see that she was in love," remarked Lew Cambridge, leaving out his former em-There was a genei , but Rainey haps she does. I don't know. But for my part, I don't think she could love a man. She has a long-distance look in her eye--" "What the devil are you driving at now?" asked Babe Cooney. "Nothing," murmured Dud Rainey, and went on with his work. Yet he had said enough to make them all watch her like hawks when at length she was called in for her dinner. It was noted,that Joe Macarthur did not sit down with her to •the table, although as chief of the band he had the right to assume the place of host. Instead, he wandered out of the house into the open, wearing an expression half strained and half gloomy as if he had been brought in contact with something which he 'needed time to think over. She made herself as perfectly at home as if they were all old friends sitting at the table in her own ranch. She chatted away busily. She told them how she had won the black stallion, and then how he had brought her through the mountains, picking his own way, while she sat in the saddle and let him go where he would. She told them how he had watched her fish, and how he had stood over her and observed the process of building a fire and cooking with a scrupulous interest asJf it ware something which he wished to learn for his own sake. Certainly there was nothing peculiar about her, except that she was more lovely, more naive than any girl they had ever dreamed of, far less seen. And then, in the very midst of a sentence, she stopped speaking, straightened a little, ( and stared far off before her. They glanced hastily around at the door. But it was empty. "What is it?" asked Babe ooney, his rough voice reduced to a whisper. "Hush! Don't you hear?" she asked them. They heard it then for the first time, the faint dissonance of wild geese crying out of the heart of the sky. CHAPTER XXVI. AN UNEXPECTED MERCY. President Oscar Fern of the Wick-Ben Bank was one of those persons whe are envied, not for their brains, but for their luck. When he established his bank there was no competitor. As a matte: fact, people have a greater respect for luck than they have for intelligence. He hurried on to get out of the heat, and yet as he found that he was com- you. ing so rapidly to the bank he slowed j and his pace again. The bank had sud- j thro denly become a plague house to him. nevs n away our honor and we can get it back again. We've thrown In that building he had built his re-; away our honor and nothing in the putation. In that bank he had estab- world can ever bring it back!" lished himself as a man of spotless Always he came out of this dream integrity, of sound mind, and scrupu- to hear his assistant murmuring be-lously honest business methods. side him: "I say, Mr. Carney, if you'll This was the thing which had been ■ excuse me for interrupting you, I want enshrined in the bank. Now he was to bring this little matter to your at-to throw the idol away. deceive his very employer, share in the loot that a band of ruffian* secured, "Hush! Don't you hear?' 'she asked. WRIGLEYS and afterward he must continue place, wear a solemn face about the crime, and in a year or more, perhaps, gravely accept the place of partner " the firm from which he had stolen. The fifteen thousand, spent away from the home town, would awaken no suspicions. Moreover, who could ever connect him xwith such a crime? It could not be! His position in the town of Wickson was a brazen tower of strength. No eye would dream of looking toward him. And, therefore, no eye would see him. Fortified with this thought, he advanced more easily toward the bank and opened the door, whistling softly, Polentas was his custom, through his teeth. He almost ran into the president himself as he stepped inside, and he gasped with a touch of horror. The swelling form and the *osy, smiling face of Oscar Fern might have been a nightmare. This was a whole hour earlier than the time at which the president generally appeared. . "What's wrong, Sammy?" asked Fern. "You look like the devil--all shot, for a fact. No sleep?" 'No sleep," muttered Carney, his eyes on the floor. j ana a is :,This daroned touch of hot weather i Prelude, Porto Rico Rich in Plant Beauty Blossoms and Fruits and a Long Succession of Golden Days Make Life Easy and Peaceful in this Isle of Dreams Porto Rico> now recovering slowly from the effects of the disastrous hur-' ricane, has been called the "Isle of Dreams." The novel forms of plant life, the almost unbroken succession of balmy golden days, the constant sighing or the trade wind in the trees, all give a newcomer from the temperate zone the feeling that it is not quite real. Life there is so easy, agreeable, peaceful, that he feels sometimes as if he were in a trance, far removed from actuality. The vegetation of Porto Rico is of fascinating interest to the plant student. Besides many varieties of palm trees, there are bitter almonds, man-Lyden Holt, goes, oranges, limes and grapefruit, s built by a °ne finds a thrill of novelty in •ollierv that senrtinS a yard-boy shinning up _ one's own cocoanut tree to get the poor quality^ cocoanut for dessert. At first j one is surprised to see limes in- --j stead of lemons used for iced tea and I know it! on fish, but one comes to prefer limes t of their finer flavor and talk about it. I don't accuse; their cheapness. They sell at four for I know it was for Clare's sake - 1 cent, and are brought to the door •but, oh, God, Sammy, we've j b.y native vendors. Oranges ordinarily cost 6 cents a dozen. The mango is one of the beautiful tropical trees. It is in thick foliage all the year round; its leaves are a rich, glossy green. The fruit, somewhat oval in shape, hangs at the end of a stem at least a foot long, limp as a shoe lace. Then there is the Santa Maria tree, with purplish pink bell-shaped blossoms. The "Man's Love" Blossoms Another interesting Porto Rican plant is the vine called Corazon de Hombre--("Man's Love"). This luxuriant vine has long, narrow, dull green leaves, bearing clusters of tubular blossoms ending in an irregular number of petals somewhat like those j daisy. The flower, of a waxy FELLED BIG CHIMNE was 180 feet high, tention and- When noon came he did not eat. Instead he took a walk through the fierce sun. He filled his lungs to the bottom with air. Then he came back and went at his work again. The heavy footfall of the fat president entered the bank an hour and a half later. Oscar Fern kept Paris Fin® fca Is alway^hTiiost-deslV^d. the slight faiiirfg oft in price &f cheaper teas cannot entice the tea-lover frorsi his discriminating choice. "SALADA" Em. SUfll New Zealand Enters Treaty With Japanese First Pack Ever Signed in tb,e Dominion With a Foreign Power Auckland, N.Z.--The trade treaty that New Zealand has Just signed with Japan is interesting from more than one point of view. It is the first with a foreign country that has been signed in New Zealand. The practice in the past in such cases has been to become a party to a treaty signed by Grea.t Britain. In view of the urgency of the matter, the home authorities agreed to New Zealand's acion. New Zealand concluded the treaty by virtue of the "sovereign powers," which for such purposes she Small Radio Set Brings Music to Gobi Desert Peking--Carrying only a small receiver, the central Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History obtained little bsneflt from radio during the three months it was In he Gobi district. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews and Ma party had few reports of the world news except on one of two occasions when they put into a telegraph station or met missionaries. The small radio outfit was taken to save carrying heavier apparatus. Its principal function was to pick up time signals which are broadcast each evening by the American station in Manila. Occasionally, the party heard talks from Vladivostok or Moscow stations, but none of the explorers understood Russian. However, when music was to be received, there was a scramble to hear each note. concerned. And Carney ground his j texture, is at first pure white; later teeth. ; faint streaks of pink appear, gradu- "You fat faced fool!" he snarled to! auy spreading until the whole blossom himself. "You have the front. But|is a lovely shade of coral. This deep-ho does the work? Who has the; ens finally into blood red, whence the i murmur from the brains? Who's holding you up do it! I do it!" Here there was little muffled bell a summons from the president, and he went in slowly, gathering up on the way two letters about which he must consult Fern. He found Fern tilted back in his th his thumbs hooked into the tion. ! expressive of its evolu- A remarkable tree is the manzanilla, or "little apple," from which emanates a poison so subtle that weary travelers stopping to rest under its inviting shade are said to have never v aked again. Still another is the ylang-ylang, specimens of which .shed their ---, fragrance over the charming Plaza at armholes of his vest, his rubber heels | Ponce, on the south coast. The frangi-on the top of the desk, and a fat eigar' pani, from which is made a costly per-his mouth. He was frowning* at fume grows wild in the woods. Many the ceiling and rolling the cigar from one side of his mouth to the stJalr, champing at it nervously. He paid^io attention to Carney as the latter .'entered. "Here's another letter from Dundee about the terms," began Carney. "Damn Dundee!" said Oscar Fern. "I want to talk to you, Sammy.' "Heard a good yarn?" asked the cashier with a secret contempt. "How much money have you saved It was a bolt from the blue. Pe spiration stood out on Carney's upper lip. He wiped it away with the tips of his fingers. Why--a 'few thousand-How's Agnes?" blurted out the kinds of cactus lay snares for the u Besides, there is the coralita vine, with clusters of clear, bright pink; the showy bougainvillea, the delicate plumbago, hibiscus, both red and pink, and the brilliant poinsettia, which often reaches the second-story dows of a dwelling. In the forests are graceful tree ferns, wild oranges and tiny orchids far more exquisite than those in the florists' shops. The cocoanut is one of Porto Rico' most useful trees. The juice of the green cocoanut is much valued as a drink by the natives. American soldiers found it useful first in the war with Spain. Frozen, with a little sugar added, it becomes a refreshing sherbet. Cocoanut ice cream is made from the milk of the riper fruit, and an even more delicious dainty is made by freezing a mixture of half cocoanut and half pineapple juice. Porto Rican coffee is particularly aromatic. This year's crop suffered heavily in the hurricane. The natives have their own way of coffee roasting, one which does not appeal to many Americans. They mix coffee Ottawa, Can.--One of the newest with sugar and burn it, the process varieties of wheat, known as Reward, j resulting in a strong, pungent flavor, a cross betwee nthe famous Marquis | Throughout the island main roads and a lesser known variety, labelled j are fine and beautiful. Yauco, whose been holding the atten-! houses cling to the sides of its hills, what (did it," Fern declared'-!tlon o£ nearly 500 farmers in Western j and climbs to a point from which the kind of bothered me myself!" 'j Canada this year. Reports on it so! sea can be seen beyond. And he laughed apologetically, as if far received by the Canadian Govern-j The American Railroad skirts the there was something ridiculous in the1 nient Experimental Farm at Ottawa,I island, and, while *'ie trains are slow thought that anything could really' wnere it was developed, are very en- ! and inclined to linger at every town, trouble him in his sleep. I couraging. Reward ripens a few days it is a trip worth taking. On account "What you need to do is to take a! earlier than Marquis, and is also be- ] of the mountainous character of the day off," Fern suggested. "Damned!lieved to have rust resisting qualities,! island, the road is at times forced out if you don't look hard hit!" ; though these have yet to be deter-; almost to the w "A day off?' said Carney, seizin"-; mined. It produces an excellent qual-; the spray -Jily on grounds which would serve' of flour- but whether it will prove I dashing in 1 to be worthy of being recommended 'You ought to get her out of town. Silence. (To be continued.) Nearly 500 Farmers Make Test edge; in places om the sea comes near the windows. Ontario Grain Pool isis to work himself into an I anger. "A day off? Where the devil j by the Canadian Department of Agri would things be?" I culture to the farmers of the Domin-. Toront0| ont.--In its first year - president caught his breath,, ion wiU on^ be ascertained by furth-: atioll) Jugt closedf tne Ontario; frowned, and then looked somewhat !er tests. Meanwhile Marquis wheat Grain Pof)1 nandled over 1,750.000! agape over the Lead of his cashier. I remains the undisputed champion. you ain't right,' Ninety per cent, of the spring .wheat nured. "Matter of Krown in Canada and 60 per cent, of ) take' a day off do!tne SDriES wheat grown in the United j States is Marquis, which is a product Experimental Farm at Ottawa. The treaty will confer substantial benefits on New Zealand, but Japan is merely to recive "most-favored-i before. Some n caused by the mention by the Japanese Consul-General for Australia and New Zealand of the immigration question, about which New Zealand convictions are strong, but the treaty is purely a trade document. According to Mr. Downie Stewart, Minister of Customs, Japan gets no concessions, and she signed partly as a recognition of the way in which she had been treated by New Zealand, and partly because she desired to share in any tariff concession that might be made to other countries. The advantage to the Dominion will be that from now its goods will receive tariff treatment as favorable as those of any other country. In the Japanese market Canadian butter has enjoyed a tariff advantage of %d. a pound. New Zealand butter will now be on the same footing. At present the trade of New Zealand in butter with Japan is very small, amounting to only £22,000 last year, but it is believed and hoped that there is a' great future for the Dominion's clairy products in the Far East. Australia, largely because of its! geographical position, has pushed: trade with the East much farther. Whereas in 1926 New Zealand's total exports to the East were valued_ at only £320,000. Australia's were worth £21,000,000. It is felt that If New Zealand could develop such mari kets, it would be less sensitive to fluctuations in the main market, which is Britain. The mob spirit and what I call conformitarianism are abroad in the land, crushing out individual judgment and action and silencing courage.--Nicholas Murray Butler. ."Gertie: • "I hear you're engaged to Jack, and he is such a shocking gambler." 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