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now than he had been at Fundovn ly Yesterday he was the son of a gentle, noble, charitable and godly man; to- day he was a guttersnipe, and yet he had attained caste. His honors had multiplied. His prin.ess has opened $ drunken roustabout, perhaps, or some furtive jackal of the slums, The mother who had borne him was not Pan Yi, of blessed memory, but for all he cui un knew, an unwed woman of the streets. / In that he must take pride, Great , credit now attached to-him. 'Chinese "n "Fresh from the Gardens the telephone." This the speaker pro-| ceedni to do and by the time she had, finished they had arrived at their destination. During these several hours he had been saying farewell to Chinatown, #0, this high-perched home and all 'ts' deities, for with the coming of sunrise, a new life for him would dawn and sad, a wistful parting: it had meant the tearing up of tender roots--how tender he had never guspected till now. As he had walked here under the stars He had been aware of a tall, fa- niiliar figure at his side; it had moved step by step with him. Their souls had met. Sam entered hig house and went on into his own chamber. Slowly, medi- tatively, he disrobed and purified him- BY REX BEACH SON OF THE GODS CHAPTER XXX. That downy cloud upon which Alan- na rode ran aground, it began to bump and jolt her roughly. A flat tire probably. What luck. A voice was calling her over and over; it was fam's, and he was shaking her, How rude of him! . . . Why was he rush- ing her through a blinding flicker of lights and shadows? The film had run off its sprockets perhaps, anyhow the whole theatre was rocking and swaying. . . . Pshaw! This wasn't a theatre, she wasn't riding on a cloud: this was a taxicab, Yonder was the glow of the meter and the back of the driver's head. . . That 'air felt goud and those incandescent flashes that came and went were--street lights. Certainly. Whizzing street lights and this was Sam at her side. Probably she had fainted. | "Yes, you fainted." It was Sam's voice speaking. "Thank heaven you're | better! Do you hear me, Alanna? I'm | taking you home and everything is all right." The notion of the cab was stimulat-| ing; Sam wag rubbing her hands and slapping them; he was fanning hor| with his hat, too. Her sense returned with a rush. "I remember now. How did I get| away from that place and those men?" "I carried you oui. Tell me how you got there." "Sam! You're vhite. why = went there!" "Yes, yes! We'll be home soon." "I'm all right, honestly! I couldn't wait to tell you and--the man is sail- ing in the morning. There's nothing | White! That's It was a half hour later. In the parlor of the Wagner suite, Mr SPeter Daly, spurred on by Eileen, had told his story in minutest detail, and nong of his listeners had followed it more closely than Albert Wagner. Ihe speaker concluded by saying: "There's no possible doubt about it, Dunne gave me his report on it at the time, and we talked it over later; how he saw Lee Ying pick the little fellow up on his doorstep and how the| old man and his wife insisted that he had been sent in answer to their pray- ers. Dunne is still alive; he'll be glad to verify everything I've said. Wagner, you know something about these Chinese: they put great faith in their gods--the good ones do, and Lee Ying was devout. He and his wife were uncommonly religious, But the looks of Sam there is enough to prove what I'm telling you. He's no Chi. nese." i Eileer. offered substantiation by de- claring: "I knew Sam's father--I1 mean Lee Ying--better than anybody. He always called Sam a Son of the Gods,' He declared the Princess of the| Colored Clouds had sent him. I used] to wonder what he meant, but now I understand." Curiously Sam inquired: "Who am I" Daly shrugged. 'My guess is no better than yours. Nubody ever claim-| ed you. We picked up a good many waifs, but mighty few of them am-! Mr.! | self; then he put on his ceremonial | Chinese robe, his cap with the ruby | button, his white hose and silken slip- , pers. On silent feet he moved to the : door of that shrin: where Lee Yinz (1585 A.D.) Goodmorrow, neighbor! Hast thou heard the prate? : Some wags at Charlecot have slain her arms. Lee Yings blood was not. ,& 999%; a his; in him ran the blood of some TheYTR fomnd young Shakspeare's Sir Lucy's in 8 proper wax, I hear! Ay, that's what comes of dallying with skites And drambling after player folk in bs; pubs; Young Will, they say, would tarry on o' nights gods appreciate humor: doubtless they nq tipple were the glass Beelze- were smiling broadly. i bub's. Ah, wellaway! agape! And now he's skipped--gone Lon: don-ward--poor Will! That trollops' town will take him ' = He'll set no worlds he realized that henceforth he wonld, " the nape be as much out of place here as he Ang snuff him like 4 rushlight on » had been elsewhere. It had been a gill, I' faith, ten a to a groat, 11 bet : The merry whores on rides a gibbet yet! --Mildred Plew Merryman in Scrib- ner's Magazine, mei meme From $500 to Fortune How Dominion-Wide Indus- try Began in a Store The last word in Christie quality . . . extra rich + + « extra light . | . extra delicious . . . and always fresh as fresh can be. is against them. First British House Hence the first display of all-British, exclisive new models, held at the May- fair Hotel, The big room set aside from all over the country overflowed into the next door Jounge to watch the mannequins parading in every sort of frock, from wedding dresses to beach Better Speech Campaign pyjamas. Several of the best known exclusive r-- $a had bent in worship to his gods, He WHAT CONSISTENT ADVERTISING 1 i Hints West-end shops are joining inthe new | slid the panel back, stepped inside and WILL DO Organized mn Argentine Yn movement, Hitherto they have always closed it behind him. The enigmatic " ra Buenos Ayres, -- The Argentine i i 1d on! kept their designs to themselves, but image stared at him from fixed, in-|"" of Company Tells Academy of Letters, recently founded we ale Juice Femaves TORII . now Jane Munns, Reville's, Isobel's of scrutable eyes. He lit the joss sticks and watched the thin blue lines of fragrant smoke | arise, then he knelt before the golden tablet on the wall and bowed his head. When he spoke it was in the sing- song language he had learned at the knees of Pan Yi, 4 aoc "Oh, Benevolent One, to whom 1! owe all joy and happiness, and whose | | virtues I revere, my prayers float | Mr. Success Story A romance of modern business that should be an inspiration to every small store-keeper was told to newspaper men today (Friday, February 26th), by C. E. Edmonds, President of Christie, Brown and Company, Limit. ed, who is completing his fifty-sixth years of service with the company. Mr. Edmonds, who can recall per- by the government to purify Spanish as used in this country has started ite campaign by asking journalists, radio announcers and educational authori- ties to employ the best Castilian us- age, A flood of immigration made the Ar- gentine language what it is, Italian especially affected Castilian, and such tarms as "Che," whose nearest United Bond Street, Hartnell's and other lead- A fow Jumps of sugar added lo the ing dress designers are organizing water in which a ham or a large piece shows for the retail trade. Some of 2 Deon is bofling Will improve the the London desigmers have already ! achieved a world-wide reputation, One: Fruit stains on table linen can be ig 3 young man, Norman Hartnell, who removed by making a little bag of the only left Cambridge University four stained part and filling it with cream years ago. His bold, original designs of tartar. Tie round and boil in 80aD- gre the talk of London, Another fa- suds for a few minutes. Rinse in the moug English designer, Captain Moly- usual way. neux, is head of one of the best known Cp sonally much of the rise of the | Heavenward to you. In this still hour | cnpiatie, Brown organization, told how | States - equivalent 4s "Bully" and| Doormats that have become very, Paris firms Now he is coming back | of the dawn your unworthy son is be-! the giant biscuit company was started | "Chan," a 'good-by word, offend the dusty should be laid face downwards, and opening a Lohdon house. | set by loneliness and yearning, his | love and his longing beat him to the! | ground. He gropes in darkness, the { path is blind, the forest is black and, | demons of doubt infest it. Make him! in a small store on Yonge Street, Tor- onto, by two men with a working capi- tal of probably not more than $500. To-day the business they founded is capitalized at millions of dollars and to know the permancnce and the real-| ig the largest industry of its type in ity of truth. Cleave to him as he! ings to you. 'You have resigned your earthly dignities and you walk clear-eyed be- side the bright waters of Celestial | streams, all wisdom and understand- ling is yours. Pause, I beseech you, Canada. Y plants in the East, another--the mil- lion dollar Winr'peg plant opened last week--in' the West, and thirteen dis. tributing hranches from Halifax to Vancouver, The simple history of Christie, it has two manufacturing|. ears of descendants of Spanish dons. beaten with a s.ick until the loose dirt 1s removed, then scribed with a brass broom, using tepid water and salt (2 tablespoonfuls to a pail of water). changing the water frequently. Dry thoroughly on a flat surface before re- London Fashions Group At the same time as this movement .Britisl. dress manufacturers and \ wholesalers have banded themselves | together, into a co-operative organiza. Fashions was packed, and the crowd of buyers placing. A lump of soda dissolved in blue water will prevent the blue from mark- ing clothes, Suet is a good medium for greasin;! | cake ting; it is not so liable to burn, and makes cakes come out easily, tion called the London Grou, Fifty firms, whose turnover runs into millions of pounds a year, 'have joined. While each firm chooses its own uesigns anl manufac- tures it own dresses, all 50 will co- operate in attracting buyers from i shops, big and little, who might other- and plant deep in my hearts the rota' Brown and Company as told by the | of faith in the reality and the eternity | aotive veteran president is this--The | When ironing embroidered pillow Wise go abroad. of our oneness. i cases and sheets, place a thick fold of! The opening date for the launching "Do you believe in luck?" gh t Out of nothing you i in 1849 wh t , : & i 3 a : ounted to anything. Whoever you are, business. began in when lwo "of rse, 1 do. Aren't the | towelling underneath, and press the Of these dreisshows coincided with in the lei 39 bares. a al hs I guess i, have good "tuft in! Sresied ne aiue frum 3 To | Jousg wen, James Mathers and Alex-| 0. abies getting it all the ai on the Wrong. id this 'the British Industries Fair. Buyers 3 Sam: ' 3 § i y fef an ¢ ; gon. Its a mistake, You're white, YOU: of ander Brown, formed a partnersip in} ipo» brings up the raised pattern. from the Dominions and Colonies and re. } white, white! Don't you understand" The listencr was aghast. This was dreadful, Poor sick child! "I under- stand," he sald soothingly. "Close your eyes; we'll be there in a jiffy." "No, no! Listen to me." Alanna struggled cit of his arms; there was a vsildness in her voice and bearing that told its own pitiful story. She clutch- him and shook aim feebly, babbling meanwhile something about Eileen Cassidy, a police inspector, San Fran- cigeo, Lee Ying, a white baby. How could he face Albert Wogner? | How could he explain where he had encountered Alanna? The whole thing was too unfortunate. For instance, that cruzy idea that obsessed ner. Wel!, he had saved her reason once, perhaps---- He pricked up his ears and turned toward her; She had ceased her gib- berish and was speaking in a normal, conversational tone. "Sam. Quit shushing me. If you don't stop treating me like a lunatic I --1I'1l let out a yell. I'm trying to tell yon something of the greatest im- portance to both of us and it won't regisier. too dramatic for any use, but it's true." "Alanna!" he cried in a choking voice. "If you're mot out of your head, then I am." "That's better! I was getting mad by the minute, A relative of Eileen Qlenidpe, by the name of Daly, is in ew York and he declares you're no more a Chinese than he is." "Absurd! I can't believe it! What proof is there?" ? "Proof enough, I fancy; we'll find out when we get to the hotel, All I can do is repeat what she told me over = MOURNING WARDROBE "A death occurred in our family and I had to go in mourning. I could hardly afford to buy all black ~ clothes, so decided tu dye what I had. I consulted our druggist and he advised using Diamond Dyes. Everything came out beautifully; coats, wool dresses, stockings and "all. 1 have since learned to appreci- ate the excellence of the black Dias mond Dyes. I tried another black dye and the results were impo. 'sible. I had to get Diamorid Dyes : do the work over. Recently 1 have tinted ny curtains a beautiful 'raspberry shade and dyed a rug a fpvely garnet with Diamopd Dyes. y are real money savers--the gt Aves miouey can buy--I truly It sounds wild, I know, and | | He usea to say that the virtue of a | vase lay not in the clay but in the | potter's skill." Eileen's eyes were shining and she spoke with conviction: "They have fairies in Ireland, why not in China? Lee Ying was the wisest man in the | world and he knew things we'll never { understand. He called you a superior | being, a prince. I think he was | yight." | "And so do 1," Alanna said goftly. ! She drew closer and laid her cheek | against Sam's sleeve. | Daly smiled and then looked at his | watch, "Well, its getting late and , that's all I can tell you. I'm mighty | glad that I happened along in time to help two heart-broken lovers, al- though the truth was bound to come out sooner or later, Mr. Wagner, it | looks to me as if it's about time to say,! | 'Bless you, my children!' " | | The father rose, laid a kindly hand | {upon Sam's shoulder and said in a tone of utmost sincerity: "I can't see that it makes any great difference who you are or what you are, my boy. The only thing that concerns me is ! Alanna's happiness. I've been ter- ribly sorry for both of you kids." Chinatown, always late in closing! its eyes, was asleep when Sam Lee| ceased pacing the walks of his gar-| den and stared down into the empty | | canyons beneath him. Dawn was not] far away. So, he was a white manl| Lee Ying's virtuous acts had lived! | after him, his dead hand had reached | forth from the grave and unveiled the | truth. This aight had marked an epoch in SBam's life and yet the signifi-| | cance of it failed to stir him as it, | should: there was something anti-| climatic about it and the disclosure which should have stirred him to the bottom of his being left him almost unmoved. That was, no doubt, because he had spent his whole life anticipat- ing something of this very sort. What, did provoke a genuiny tumult in his/ soul, of course, was the result of that disclosure. 'There indeed was some-, thing stunning, something overpower-' ing, and he wondered if it, too, might not be the work of that beneficent spirit which looked after him. Tee Ying, the man of many mercies, the doer of thirteen hundred kindly deeds. Was this his final sacrifice? . . Much Tuck, great riches and high honor were what Sam's auguries had foretold and they had come true, but in reality, all done nothing to warrant them: he had not even proved himself worthy to receive them. 5 4 gid | "My father disbelieved in heredity. | | disappointment "but my soul is sick' 3 gmall store in Toronto to make bis- { and it calls to you. A pearl is but a' cujts, They had with them as assist: | temple built by pain around a grain of ant salesman, Willlam Christie, who | sand: around the jewel of your love! was destined to become a partner and {for me I pledge myself to build a|gyentually play an important part in stately monument to my enduring|canada's biscuit making industry. trust in you." The biscuits sold from this small (The End.) bakery became popular with a limited ------ rns clientele and the business began to TIME progress. Four years later Brown and Mathers retired and the business was Time, my son : | 1 ' 4 Christie. | Is our great teacher, handled by young William Christie { us this, and he showe Mr. Brown, however, resentered the | That, as his swift years follow on company in 1861 and the name, Chris- each other i tie, Brown and Company, Limited, was { So all that is begotten of those years adopted. Falls, and is follow'd by its proper Confederation of Canada in 1867 heir, found the business firmly established ----) as one of Canada's coming concerns. In 1871 and again in 1874 larger pre- trom all over the world will be able to BENSON'S allt] SYRUP 10¢ f 200 practical, home-tested Canadian recipes. those blessings had flowed directly from Lee Ying's hand: he, Sam, had He was glad to know he was whitz, nevertheless an odd nent smold- sid in thobace of his mind; it offend- Lovely Things All things lovely and righteous are possible for those who believe in their possibility. --Ryskin. 7 Radio Debut bane, bably '1' , Lindbergh went on the 7 SHE made Lier radio mises were necessary and it was symp- | tomatic of the sales energy behind the The CANADA STARCH CO., Limited, MONTREAL judge for themselves the success of London's bid to say the last word in women's fashions, as she has always done in men's. pri a Animal Facts a general table syrup! Z Frogs absorb water through the skin; never drink it. They do not breathe, but swallow air. When the skin splits as the frog groys old he: pulls it off and swallows it. Dogs did not bark in their wild state. The bark is a development of domestication, = © Fur-bearing animals are found in Florida. They include the otter, rac- coon, skunk and squirrel Lions and tigers are too weak in lung power to run more than half a mile at a time. "Canada's Prize Recipes" dramatic story of organization that the first trans-Can- ada train had a Christie representa. tive on board. From that point the business has never looked back until to-day Christie Bigeunits are known round the world. | The original store in Toronto has | been replaced by three factories--one occupying nearly a whole down-town block in Toronto, the second Toronto | factory occupying many thousands of square feet of floor space, and the third--the new Winnipeg plant--Is ' acknowledged the finest biscuit fac- tory on the continent. i The original plant turned out a very small variety of biscuits, To-day over | 500 lines are marketed, And here, according to. Mr, Ed- the Christie, Brown organization. It had consistently maintained a high standard of quality in its products and has advertised steadily in good times and bad, using newspapers from coast to coast, year in and year out. mrss hme spe Men and Dogs Daily Herald: Cruft's Dog Show, at the Agricultural Hall, London, is a pleasant reminder that life has its = is the real key to success in | | compensations. - A wellknown novel-| - ist once wrote a book in which he drew an image of the world without 'without dogs? of selfishness, ep em too. much It was, of course, intend: | 'od to be a cynical, dreary tale with a moral, What would the world, be, The great show, | with its beauty, its inspiration to; kindlineps and understanding, is an' cbject-lesson to a world which has lumbago--get some Aspirin simple headaches, colds, ete. Rucumarism DON'T suffer with rheumatism, You get amazing relief from Aspirin. Simple, but- how effective! Those worst days, when suffering is acute, 1f you take Aspirin, the pain subsides, Take it right away. Take enough to drive away every twinge. Aspirin can't hurt you. It dees riot depress just follow the proven directions. These tablets are just as effective in such. suffering: as in the case of The harbor seal isn't valued for its fur because it has no fine under-fur. Unlike most animals, the reindeer prefers to travel against the wind. Turtles lay eggs enclosed in a tough calcified shell, which are deposited in holes and left to hatch by the heat of the sun. . The ave 'age weight of an elephant at birth is from 150 to 175 pounds. Mysterious killing of ducks on a lake in New Hackensack, N.Y,, turned out to be the work of an alligator brought from Florida and which es- caped from a nearby farm. er ------ Horsemen of War From out of a cloud they appear m the east, The horsemen of the apocalypse, the heart, or upset the stomach, Their faces are grim, they are dressed If you ever have those painful , for the Teast, attacks of neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica, | The Rorsemen bo war, onc again are . . eashe: and, - |"Anl Heking their bivod-redden'd lips. Oh, I se them, I tell you, they are fret- . g to go, } And humanity once again fails; The ! relief is felt immediately. From a smoke to u flame, then a shat. seas Get the goosioe & Sblcts ] «| To repeat all their bestial tales. | Ee ot Sh box a £2 The two that never should meet, | Will be locked in ¢ conflict, the worst. with 'he best; {And the horsemen of war are enjoy. |