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TEA from emoking in a detached manner, long after {lengthy minutes of reflection had al- | About him 7' 'Fresh from the gardens' lowed its ashes to cool. iraged. With g \ {ton forgot his own problems to listen. "Speaking of gruesome things," the talker had said, "reminds me. I'm a doctor, former interne in Bellstrand Hospital in New York. "They've a big room on the fifth ficor where somebody is always dis- secting. One Sunday night I happen-| ed to look in and saw a man in there, murdering another one with a wooden mallet." J "Murdering him?" The laughed. "Well, T should have said, acting out a murder. You can't very well murder a dead man. The fellow he doctor the usual sonversation ; sudden interest, Hous-| o against/him the pe King Amanullah b modernism to the end, Having tried to hurr§ the East.and thus aroused "of Afghan re-| action, he has abandoned his throne and fled the country by airplane. In his earlier political doings, Ama- nullah was-not so in-Orfental. He was a younger son, but the son of a royal mother. His elder brother, Inayatulla, Bad been persuaded to renounce his to the throme in favor of his uncle. Then old King Habibullah started off on a journey to Jallalabad, from which he never came back. Uncle attempted to ascend the throne, but Anfanullah said, "No! Inayatulla may abdicate, but they can't give you! than for the biped. os _ The self-satisfied human of former ages himself the idea that he was begctlen in order that he his personal benefit, and that if nec- essary should kill, often by painful should utilize the rest of creation for was killing already was a corpse. "You mean--" s "You mean--" "Just what I'm saying. Pretty big doctors, I learned, all from Boston. They had taken a cadaver from the refrigerator and stood it in a certain position. Then the one man had struck it on the head with the mallet with all the force he could summon. Of course it knocked the corpse down --I'm telling you it was gruesome, even to an interne! The last I saw of them, the doctors were working with their microseopes--evidently to see what effect the blow had produced." "What was the idea?" 81 . " he neki] "Never found out. You see, oppo- fe is Ths the Judas, > ok . er site sides in a trial are always SAXTY" | him to hop over the mountains to a naa ; ho ----t torth ing. out. experiments and frying. 0 | sater climate, leaving elder brother, tage ila Lat a BL "a. scratch keep the other fellow from knowing| payatulla, to reign in his stead. nie the might ey A ol what's going on. Inayatulla's kingship lasted only a It was Colemar, follow- | "You--you don't know who the men' gor days however. He also fled to oe oe 8 grinning 2" Houston, forcing himself tol1nqiq in a British plane and Habibul- |were? i be casual, had asked the question. The| jay Ghazi veigns ip 'his stead "Bon! Good!" he exclaimed. "Now | voung doctor shook his head. | 4 € 3 alert, mon ami! The pencil and the | 1" the throne. It's mine!" And he took| it. Uncle and older brother were fin: vited to Kabul and thought it best to come. But uncle died most unexpect edly--probably of something he had eaten--and older brother left for Europe. sa SE CNG 18 Then Amanullah started his reforms which he calculated would bring Af- ghanistan up to date and. give her a place among the modern nations. The Moslem priesthood, however, had no | enthusiasm for sigh a development. They couldn't find any modern coun- try where mullahs counted for much. So they roused the country against Amanullah and nfade it desirable for | means, those to whom he was greatly: indebted. s : We have now reacted a stage in. human progress when we face reluc- tantly the question: What is the domestic animal, and in what relation does man stand in regard tc the other members of the family. Originally man is physically not on a level "with a large percent f the animal crea- tion, though scientific appliances may give human beings power over 1 rest in the struggle for a place in the sun. dias Shredded |NoDrudgeryln As Garden Grows| Future, Says Ford Though snow may be upon the| Declares Farming Needs to Be ground and the air bitterly cold with Completely Revolu- a biting wind now ana then there isa ionized Ne growing feeling of things to come. As 2 tiomze: the days become perceptibly longer! NEW YORK--A world in which no thoughts of many turn to the out-lone smokes or discusses prohibition, doors, the province of growing things. | where farmers no longer farm and Plans for gardens begin to bud while] housekeepers no longer cook "and where machines take care of th drud- yet the ground is frozen. : "Exercise in the garden is good|gry is outlined by Henry Ford in his j medicine, far better than that from|pook "My Philosophy of Industry," | drug stores; and it keeps one in better | just published. The great problem in the house to- health and bétter spirits than drugs: So here's for better gardens and bet-|day," the Detroit capitalist points out, "ig too much drudgery. We shall soon ter health." "pahlias will grow almost any-|find a way to do much of the cooking outside and deliver it in a hot and where. They do best in soil that is not too rich Too much fertilizer re-|appetizing condition at meal time at sults in much plant growth and few|no great cost." The old farm is likewise due for a flowers. There are many beautiful big change, according to Mr. Ford. varieties in almost every color and shade and they may be had at prices| "Farmsing needs to pe completely | other animals which is that of a na- 'te fit every pocketbook. A few plants | revolutionized," he says. "Larger cor: | tural body and not a spiritual body. will supply an abundance of flowers porations whose sole business it will| The ne wlife of the dog, for instance, for the house, for the more sthe flow-| be to perform the operations of plow: | ike that of his master, will be récog- ers are cut the more the plants willing, planting, cultivating and harvest! nizable 'hut for both decay will have produce and no flower keeps longer in| ing will supersede the Individual} gjsappeared and life will be perfect, ~ 7 water when cut." farmer or groups of farmers will com- | ¢pirvitual and eternal. RRR, SL A bine to form their work in a whole- gale manner. This is the proper way FIDELITY. What is there which is incompar- Keep Posted to do it and the only one in which r lin 3 able with true life in the domestic economic freedom can be won." : i : Re BDA 7 Can we imagine a future exist Changing conditions in all walks of sjpetl. : life necessitates constant readjust. Self Shee fo Sites we shall Sot be elsel ments. More true is this of the farm-| clothe with life the weak intent, |ing career Te the ctampled and: by er than of any person. The farmers; pet me be the thing I meant, the companionship of some of our should Sugy the demands of the pre-| yt me find in Thy employ domestic' pete. sent an profs from Hem. d Peace that dearer is than joy, "There are words which expiain cer- There Are factories and farms) out of seit to love is led, tain qualities which cannot b> elimin- everywhere that gre Sill TUNING And to Heaven acclimated, - ated from the language of eternity, some at no profit and others at 3 Until all things sweet and good and which are shown to us here by small margin because the operator| Seem my natural habitude. the example of the domestic pet most Wilk ol mice Tew conditions ewe --John G. Whittier. | wonderfully, ~ We reach that other a The ub general of A | Ses shore, each of us, in a different class, By is Oe OA te Modesty | as it were, from others whom we have learns by his secret service that the Hi ' Rhit 1 Sudnel Set here ' n ; is aware { his 1 d ide not your light under a bushe \ 'e. pe y i - A re plans on Modesty has more charm than beauty. | We have to be developed, we nave manager of a factory will make read- Of {hett own merits modest -men dre to be drawn-nearef, step by step, to 'helped. Have an offer of a position in | St. Louis that I can't very well re- Will write you from there. "Love and kisses, AGNES." a'tiste slapped the reins"on the 'Se Fate had seen fit to she of young Barry Houston i of tragic molds. A bi in his past caused his faith in his son and aueath to him t h ernacle only on ¢ 1 output be maintained. Mj cidents have prevented this iving from Boston, f dut to the treache superintendent, F T y Houston is ir rk ine the timber cou .aud, an eccentr Fre i whose life has bien saddened by the double tragedy of his son's death in France and the unsolved urder of his wife. Houston disch s Thayer despite the remonstr: {f Agnes Jierdon, a girl who has a mysterious hold over Houston. The m burn- ed. Houston decides to carry on. the fight when he is confronted with a forged lease which turns his timber rights over to a neighboring lumber company. Houston claims he doesn't * signing such a lease, In the presence of Medaine Robinette, to whom Houston is attracted. He tells her that Thayer's statement that llouston was accused of murder is true. GO ON WITH THE STORY A slight gasp traveled over the lips of Medaine, still by the window. Ba'- tiste, his features old and lined, reach- ed out with one big hand and patted the man on the shoulder. Then for a Jong time there was silence. "Eet is the lie, eh?" "Ba'tiste," Houston turned appeal- ingly to him, "as I live, that's all I know. ~ I never saw Langdon after he took that mallet from me. Only one shred of cvidence was presented in my behalf. It was by a woman who had worked for about ¢ix months for my father-- Miss Jierdon. testified to having passed in a t cab just at the end of our qu: end that Langdon had tie mallet." "Miss Jierdon is the same one who is out here?" "Yes." "She testified in vou "Yes. And, Miss R only ask her about 1i ts the story exactly as I've told it. § trusted me; she was the only bright spot in all the blackness. I may not), be able to convince you--but she could, |g. lace. Miss Robinette. - If you'll only--" {or Ye ; "Would you guarantee the truth of | ut the tie or anything she should tell me?" [eA Bt the: niin' who " » *absolutely. » . |drowning, he will, what-you-say, grab] T'm--1'm sorry." She turned again! , o ypavitack" hi | Vs . to the window. Houston went for-| And together they settled to the ward. x y A) . making of a bid that ran into the " 2 9 J " roi 5 Sorry? Why? There's nothing millions, an overture for a contract "Miss Jierdon has told me," came : : p i Agr h for which they had neither mill, nor In a strained voice, that she did pass tilmber, nor flume, nor resources to as you were struggling. That she complete! saw the blow struck--and that it was P you who struck it." "Miss Robinette!" "That further, you confessed to her and told her why you had killed Langdon--because he had discovered something in your father's life that would serve as blackmail. That she Joved you. And that becsuse she loved you, she went on the stand and per- jured herself to save you from a con- viction of murder--when she knew ind her heart that you were guilty!" CHAPTER XL LJ father to 1 THE ETERNAL DOG. Cini I By varius metnods, not all of them ; admirable, we take advantage of the Sh easily-awakened generosity of the so- 'called lower creation until we say they are domesticated--often deceiv- ed--and we invent the word "pet" as expressing their conc'ticn. Then we use them--even abuse them--=and in the. end we have to kill them, body and soul, so as to make room for more, as it is rather trying to picture a future life with a collection of "pets." No doubt"it is if we imagine a re- surrection ether of human bengs or 5 ar wore from] Habibullah Ghazi, new ruler of Af- paper! | Boston 1 Pe pine the other man Was FLBugtall, was credited With magma Pe slumped into a chair and dived |» gigerict attorney." fe algyan into a pocket of his red shirt, to bring | "You never learned with what mur- j throned King Inayatulla safe ie forth a mass of scribbled sheets, to} gq; case it was connected?" [to India in a British air Tne : : stare at them, striving studiously to, «Ng» Inavatallah wad' i to have make out the writing. "Pardon me for asking. 1-1 travelled to India with seven women "Eet is--the copy of the bid!" come from Boston and. was trying to|of his household two brothers of "The copy? The bid?" | recall such a case. You don't remem-| former Queen Souriva and other Af "From the Blackburn mill There hap what time of the year it was; or ghan rotabies It vos understood He is no one mroun'. Ba'teese, he £0 how Jong ago?' ! ; | A lope uston, ake it : {intended to go to Quetta, Afghanistan, -- | "Yes, 1 do, It was in the summer, | and thence to Kandahar to join his lalong about two or two and a half| dethroned predecessor, Amanullah; | years ago." It was understood all foreign lega- | Houston slumped back into his cor-| tions in the capital of Kabul were safe ner. and were keeping on good térms with | But opce in his berth, the picture | gabibullah. Ping to rise before him: of a an ma Ca | "killing" another with a mallet. Ha it been Worthington, the termined, A Rural Deed | over-zealous district attorney, who had Of L S di struggled to send him to the peniten- ba for life? Yet--if that had id ong tan mg Worthington, if those experts had 0k esate y found evidence against him-- | Why Can't Local Medical Men Why had this damning evidence not Start Something in Out- been used against him? . Cabal (To be continued.) lying Districts i RE A serious condiion of affairs which has been brought forcibly to the at- tention of the authorities during the present Influenza outbreak has been {the scarcity of trained personnel 1 ! . i v i | look are i 3 1 is ° justments to meet sales resistance,' dumb, ; | the per Festich or ovis Who guided 44 i limited number of trained nurses and a wise farmer will study to learn Waen Di ingly has anes verished it hore, T oh bs b x get x available during epidemic times as the {just what products his particular Mill never revive. Pele B wat other side ind open { majority are busy, engaged in their | farm, perated with such labor as he E J hel a Pig vist) _ | ordinary occupation. Consequently May obtain, can hest produce at a ihn 2p Faris ors ae - when the sick population increascs profit. A change in freight rates, or bi : " ey ne oa po suddenly an immedate and unusual Je- iv the tariff, or in the growth of : jh bis ore a Ay ne Meaning {mand is made upon the nursing pre- nearby cities; any one or more fac- 9 Sue 8 wor = iy Ih | tession. | tors may make the old plan unprofit- s far as ove can judge, 2Y8 never had afly reason for thinking That fints is written on a domestic pets life when it ceases to breathe except the difficulty of comprehend. ing how a resurrection is to be attain. ed and yet honestly, the sar e diffi- culty surrounds the re-living of hu- manity. The effect of death is the same for us all. MORE CONSISTENT I will not believe that the Creator, by whatever means He acted, framed the whole in order to tantalize the Lpart. It is not given to mé to under- stand at present the why of existence, but I have as much right to believe as 1 do with regard to the domestic pet as has my honest opponent. It is more consistent with a God of love, in my judgment, that He should create what is lovable for eternity than for time. A few days ago, after 1 had spoken on this subject, one came tc me and said that I had given much to think about, though he was notiyet in agreement with me. Outside Seville Cathedral, a g many years ago, I saw 'some rough It has been felt that in order to take le or a new plan far more profitable | | care of the need at such a time there | than the old. We have passed out of | should be in each community a cer-|the ox-cart age into a swift-moving, | tain number of young women who are quick-changing age that calls for re- | trained in the practical side of taking adjustments on-many farms. | care uf the sick. The services of such !a person are very valuable at such a {time but are not limited to only epi- demics as in many of the outlaying i districts of Ontario and "Canada an !accident often happens when medical | attention is not available. A person trained in first-aid or home nursing can be of inestimable benefit to the sufferer at suck a time. The Canadian Social Hygiene Coun- cil at the request of the Department of Health of Ontario is urging all of its branches in planning their heaith education programmes to take cog- nizance of the availability or other- wise of local home nursing classes. "Where such do not exist efforts are to be made by local branches to set in action educational measures to the end. that local enthusiasm may result in the organization of classes. The Canadian Social Hygiene Council does not propose to actually organize thesa But what with, B ? aven't a mill to sav This te We the stuff, inthe we're setMng| 1 begin to turn oui! is Privileges Great privileges never go save in company with grave responsibilities.-- HamileonW, Mabie. CHAPTER XIL Time dragged after that. Once the bid was on its way to Chicago, there was nothing to do but wait. December came. February then-- "fet is come! Eet is come!" Ba' tiste, waving his arms wildly, in spite of the stuffiness of his heavy macki- naw. "Eet is come! I have open eet I--_I can not wait. Eet say we shall have the contract! Ah; oui! oui! oui! ouil" GRADUATION DRESS Any little girl would be proud to wear this lovely dress of white geor- gette crepe for graduation. Design No. 783 will interest mother; too; be- cause it is so easy to make. It is simply a straight one-piece affair with straight gathered ruffles stitched in place following the dotted line pro- vided by pattern. For parties, pale blue georgette crepe with edge of ruf- and It was a blow greater, far greate than one that could have been struck in mere physical contact, Houston reeled with the effect of it; he gasped, he struggled aimlessly, futilely, for words to ancwer it. Vaguely, dizzily, Houston started fo the door, only to bo pulled back in the gigantic grip|® of Ba'tiste Renaud. "No! No! You shall not go! tell Medaine that is a.lie!" "It is," Houston heard his voice as -- thougl- coming from faraway, "but. 1 don't know how to answer it. Where is Miss Jierdon?" "nr | "Miss Tie=35:% Medaine Robinette answered with an effort, "went back last night." drove on in silence, FE Ten minutes later, Houston leaped h : at the from the uggy end knocked of the cottags. Miss Jierdon," he) back into the sealed envelope You "Eet say five thousand dollars cash and the rest in a bond!" came en- thusiastically, from Ba'tiste. "Ba' teese, he have the friend in Denver who will make the bond." "But how about the machinery; we'll need a hundred-thousand-dollar lant before we're through, Ba'tiste." "Ah!" The old French-Canadian's jaw dropped. '"Ba'teese have mot think of that." "Tomorrow morning we take the train to Denver, and from there I'll go onto Boston: - I'll raise the money oh way." " he _ They t on enver, there to seek Mad few Bot Ba'tiste POE- sessed, to argue one of them into a loan of ten thousand dollars 'on the T formed the wie of Bens Te sources, to gain fro e 0 the | necessary bond to cover the contract a contract which Barry Houston! = 'only too well might never be Came Chicago and the technicalities of ironing out the final details of the land and trustworthy qualities which} fled skirt picoted or pink taffeta is exquisite. Velveteen, challis, printed sateen, wool crepe or crepe de chine is also smart. Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. The 8-year size requires 2 yards of 40-inch material. Pattern price 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred). HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain. ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. 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