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I them. ht M an x. min. a no in.” darkne- - "Ont it Boom I,” l cm. tt o he was; ha! M”! rule and (P um t it all RM. Ro J" a. his hub m" I‘D! his Rh m M m up”. hint of Hood um.- i "he rse nt,ot 'ette. "I Mil- also " My ted " and into peesemVly whom her lodgings, chair. nu an m ink H ltr This dunn- person was patently m.Fhttdishmatt. Tho othbr was as unmistakably of Gallic pattern, Plough he dreamt] and carried himself n a thoroughly Anglo-Saxon fashion. Th" Englishman dropped his book " the floor beside the chair, uprose Ind extended a cordial hand. exclaim- ng: “li'ure ye, Monsieur Ituehe- Examining Board Formed Canada Essay Contest Professor Wallace Chairman Many Boys and Girls in Town .nnd Country Districts Out to Win Honor and Cash. Th " PEI) law " AVOIDING PANGBI " rr VP", for the rm, Mink-t wir hump: II 1i'jll//i/j'siii:i,ss,,tjdiasiMjlp, tte hut vtty -5 , friends wu Canadian Plan Book L-cupied to take .yetrt,1't llama that reproach! the new"! ideas Ind test treatment in Colonial. Englinh. Mutant! Domestic a.sir.r--bure1ow. can“. and twqotoeey reldcncu. They cm! " types of construction, Designed by Canadian "ehitov.t. Iron ml province. laden Builder’s Guide 'f"trtietrtatt or model amiable deportmm Countenance down no llalhnoon bl" ly he introduced he found uniting m, much at ease in making free with harm, and reading whit fr gh the aftern on A and Ready Now. Order Your: Today, 39.1.! Mo " «on per Copy. Practient Ankh. on _ Planning. Building. Financing, Decorating. Furnishing and Gardening h “as Irony holidu Huck CUAP'rER1 ldhoud atttF Tttit " tttr Mm ly oe ua h rum things c You men .riven that S It hand: tit. Wes I know you'd r your way in 1d help youm nrmlations?" " in: himself to "dignity --BY REQUEST ' warm r-di airing ir modest A: primeval l... "rely badly he he ishmm: super i mext " IN w Wa In 0n nu treet my Jrly hulid ld ad it to one him in his his easiest his whisky a slender from his ay in here younwlf to L?" "twtte- elf to them never does a?" Piccadilly lull“ y! m- Runs“ t forttet- mulny lot ltr he! my me with on were odderimt , simply ny." 1 Ituehe- nm- has iousness' the eyes of h'meiish,lpreferred t "My ref ituchemin. my time,' "But what i "Oou't as m-r air ".protested. “ n, lea red nuuted. Inn: to 'inruter vrately dy did m ig om, think th hear tte ver ugly-Ii have very M. l with ink for Elll on rd In: Indebted for this unexpected honor on the part of the First Under- Secretary of the British Secret Ser- -vice? Or whatever your high-sound- Iing title is . . ." " . Ya “’ '-"" by? 108m Fattag 0m: Immoral Mizsao cmqtss8 rd. Atty boy or WI who has not yo: my .hnuld fo no at once so as to take 1'0!!th expires in order that the essay r the eotttetattt. 'iiohr.o Wertheimer replied 1axilr-- and knocked out his piper“! merely dropped in to my gooqvbye." _ Duchemin discovered symptoms of more animation. "And where, pray. um I going?” "That's for you to say." Monsieur Duchemin meditated briefly. "l see," he announced. "1'm to have a roving commission." “Worse than tint: none at all.” Duchemin opened " eyes wide. "Look here: What the devil--'." "Well, if you must know," tho Englishman interrupted hastily, "mr instructions wero to give you your walking papers if you refused to re- sign. So your connection with the s. S. is from this hour severed. And if you ain't out of England within twenty-four hours, we'll jolly well de- port you. And that's that." “One perceives one has served England not wisely but too well." "shrewd lad!" Wertheimer. laugh- ed. "You see. old soul, we admire you no ond, and we're determined to save your life. Word has leaked through from Petrograd that your name-has been triple-starred on the Smulny‘s Index Expurratorius. If you linger here much [anger the ver- dict will undoubtedly be: Violent (lusth at the hands of some. person or [wt-suns unknown. So here are pass- ports and a goodiah bit of money. " you run through all of it before this blows "'/t't', we'll find a way, of course, to get more to you." The other nodded, investigating the onwlope which his lulu chief had handed him and the smile faded from the eyes of the man whom England preferred to recognize as Andre "But where on earth is one to got" "Don't ask me," the Englishman protested. "And above all, don't tell me. I don't want to know. I don't want you to come to a sudden end through somebody's establishing illicit intercourse with my subconscious mind." He took his leave shortly utter that: and Monuiour Duchemin set- Tho two slipped round R rock shoulder. Parentc, and teachers are urged to encourage the boys and girls to enter this con- test so that this community will be well and worthily vt-Pvt-sented by the essays sent in in the editor. The winning of a place in this Province-wide contest is no mean honour to which to aspire and the prizes are well worth earning. LQuis T" tied down in the chair which his quest had quitted to grapple with his problem: where ugder Heaven to go? -- . . . . I .,,.‘,,L!4_ AL». He picked up "in abstraction the book which Wertheimer had been reading-and wondered if, by any chance, he had loft it there on pur- pose, so strong seemed the hint. It was Stevenson's "Travels with a Ihrnkey." If-ho assured himself-there were nny place in Europe where one might count on being reasonably secuxe from the sulioimus attentions of the grudge-bearing Bolsheviki, it was the Cevennos, those little-known hills in the the CHAPTER II. A CITY OF LUNAcv. "A little place called Le Monutier, in a pleasant. highland valley 15 miles from Le Puy . . notable for the mak- ing of lace, for drunkenness, for free- dom of Ianguagv, and for unparaytl- ed political dissvnsiou," was Mr. titevenson’s point of doparture on his "Travels with a Monkey." Monsieur Duchumin made it his as well. i, Lone nftvr noon, sheer fool's luck :led him to a hamlet whose mean t,iiuic./,r, served him bread and cheese 2 with a wine singularly thin and acid. i The one able-bodied man in ovi- tdencu. u. hulking, surly animal, on 'eyyine that Duchemin wished to (visit Montpellier-le-Vieux, refused 5 with a growl to have anything to do 'with him. Several times during the _ mun-5a of luncheon he caught the ftl- ', low eyeing him strangely, he thought, ifl‘idll a window of the auberge. In 'the and the peasant girl who waited :on him grudgingly consented to put :liim on his way. MAG I C BAKING POWDER utredin anadp than The weather was fine, his heart high, ho was happy to be out of har. ness and attain his own man. Constant exercise tuned up mus- cles gone slack and soft with easy living. A keen sun darkened his face and hands, brushed up in his cheeks a warmer glow than they had shown in many a year, and faded out the heavier lines with which Time had marked his countenance. Moreover, because this was France, where 'ttte may affect a whfsker with- out losing face. he neglected his razors; and though this was not his first thought, u fair disguise it proved. Rain at length interned the tra- veler for three days in tt little place called Meyrueis, long leagues remote from railroads and the world they stitch together. Hero (said Duchumin) nothing can disturb me; and it is high time for me. to be considering what I am to make of the remainder of my days. Too many of them have been wasted, too great a portion of my span has been sacrificed to vanities. Yet a little while and one must bid adieu to that Youth which one has so heedlessly squandered, a last adieu to Youth with its days of high adven- ture, its carefree heart, its suscepti- bility to the intinite seduction: of Romance. And for all this mood of premature resignation to the bourbeois virtues Duchemin was glad enough when his fourth day in Meyrueis dawned fair, and by night was up and away, pur- pming u day's tramp to Montpellier- leNieux (cotwerning which one heard curious tales). He followed her directions, con- tinued his long tramp and in the lil- ver and purple mystery of a perfect moonlight night found himself look, ine down from a hilltop upon Mont- pellier-le-Vieux. Rumor had prepared him to know the place when he saw it, nothihtt for its stupendous lunacy. Heaven knows what convulsion or measured proeess t', Nature accomplished this thing. or his part Duchemin was unable to accept any possible seientifie explana- tion, and will go to his grave believ- ing that some half-witted cyclops created Montpellier-le-Vieux in an hour of idleness, building him a play city of titanic monoliths, then wan- dered away and forgot it altogether. To his mind there was something sinister in the portentous immobility of the place; in its silence, its want of excuse for being, a sense of age- old evil like an inartieuiate mgnace. “when -iGdpur a man moved from behind a rock some thirty or forty M1rtard'-the dependable llnlmont. 'used' -- "ih'foriodd than of all other brands combined. MADE IN‘CANA DA NO ALUM §.W.OILLETT CO. Lg TOHONYO, CAN. south' of Franee, well inland from paces ahead, Duchemin stopped short, with jungled nerves and a barely smothered exclamation. Possibly a dupe of spectral tenor would have been bu startling; in that weird place and hour humanity seemed more incongruous than the supernatural. It was at once apparent that the nun had neither knowledge of nor concern with the stranger. For an instant he. stood with his back to the latter, a stout body Ming out too well the uniform of a private soldier In the American Expeditionary Forces-- that most ungainly, inutiIe, unbecoming Costume that ever graced the form of man. Then he.half turned, beckoned has- tily to nne invisible to the observer, and furtively moved on. As furtively his signal was answered by a fellow who Wore the nonedescript garments of a peasant. And as suddenly as they had come into sigh, the two slipped round a rocky shoulder. and the street of monolith: was empty. (To be continued.) London Times (hisz it. In plain now tint (Shine must occupy the serious at- temlon ot this country for a long time to come. What. is happening there ll of fur-reachlng and dominant tsignW cance at this moment in the manifold "ttirs of the world. Our own Govern- mont have come to grips with the problem presented by the new phase ot Chinese disorder, and they have chosen the right method ot dealing with it. MANY POOR TEAS NOW SOLD. A lot of very cheap tea has recently been placed an the market. This tea is mostly very inferior In qutaty. Helpless. "My husband is so incapable ot tak- ing cam ot himself.” 'So is mine. Why. when he is mend. ing his socks or sewiug buttons on his shirts, ha insists that I Hiram the needle tor him." Km warts Pino Mate-"Who told you to put Hump tiowers on the table?" Svewnrd “The captain. sir." 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The cold white meadow-lands, The hill-sides swept with winter'. Whitenod frost. Are trtrt In winter“: “up. But ulmdows shorten As tha nu Mounts high Behind the hill. And secretly st work The miracle takes place; The air I: knighted With the Spring! Tho svweetneua of tho Coming April Shower 's . And Mayttme sunshine "'-.ee Creeps into the trusty wind And permeates the sentient world. A secret now But guessed by Chickadee and blue-jay. Floxtble and unbreakable phono- graph records have been introduced in England. alphabet Tartar Alphabet, Them are S'02 letters In the Tartar It has the most delicious flavour. Try it. "SAMBA" is the 'sole work of (name of ar seventeen (17) yen-I of as." The Gum. Flexible Records. GREEN TEA m Insist Upon ~Mahel Hill When a child die: In wine parts ot Greenland, the mum. bury a live dog with It to guide the child in the other world. n it In claimed dogs can tind um: way anywhere. Wolghu'ol _ In “chm tunes sandal“! weights of high accuracy were made from glass. Fortunate people have one weak. neu which they seldom correct. They think that unfortunate people are " ways so through their own fault. _ Bpby's 3i Own ly, t5oap A While you T- are enjoymg Wrigley's, you are "getting benefit " well. t A fur Conic? li- d ht- ---------- Ar. you tmt-tod in Sui-1 M ML ______.._|I.-n c-u"-..-.-. Ihi C-.,.,,.-.,..) MY... Bury Dog. Alive "SOUS. M tt--'W. Best for You and Baby too An English phntcln [Ivo- . - 1u'renrdlng the mum ot "over- tnottterua." H. can: A Mom! at mine, with about sixty employs... w- an £100 . you to Act as his "psychodoctor." lt‘a not In his tutored to have <31qu ttt In: stall; It upset- urguulntlon. [An other empluyom. however, he has to lake sumo amount ot risk when en- MM anyone. Tectlmonluln and an interview don't fully reveal character or temper-mom. Thus it frequently Immune that an 'smplopyo disappoint'. " something It not mlulu In M. "mkoup." than a somothlu I. thou which ttttmgMtt't be. And that's when l (was. In. A In! for Parents. In nine use. out ot (on I discover that "over-motttetrint' In the “use of the trouble. Home is A., a young mun of (won-tuna. He'll do anything hits told to do. but In dqdieierttt in nitro- lumce and inttuuve. Orer.mothoexrd'. " his mother gave him announce, an. roamed control over me spending of It. She still chaos“ his ties. "" never walked alone -iaetttthorietul,v, 1 mean. And than why he I: as he, to. Then there's B. Ho's u "tttttHo of new”. At a use“ his mother-tull- or, too, pennant. I.“ “Don't" to Mm half a million or mom (Imo- ln his childhood. The continual check has wracked Illa nerves -- by sullproulon ot natural Instlncw. C. has been an anchored and over. protected “not he k 1 "Many." He can't talk to men as a man. All these. and others, I do my best for. 80.6. times I cure them. not the moral " clear, and I wish perm!» would hood it. "Over"-motheri" In almost as bad as "uudti'-utottteritut. It handivam throughout lite. Pew [mania are aware ot the net that In till- thumb "as a means ot per- aolnl idetttitiott that never fuilx. The picture of the tourtoetr.vearou ind or lannlu hears but little resemb- lance to the man or woman at thirty. Futures cttattgre, luir autumn, pain and trouble mu its peachy mnootlr “can, and hither Time snatches tho mm: from tho chubby face. till, in after lite. on twins cnntmuted with a picture take-n In our youth. we cry in "toet1trtttrteatt, “Din I "or look liko that?" But a tisumb-portrait never changes. Now, every (ma knows that the Inner surf-no of the last. thumb-Joint is mark- growth, tuey "1‘0“!er [val-nuns run- other. Further. the thumb-linen ot divor- ‘ent races. ot [Mormons moving ln-dtt tereut metal (radon. and or people of diverse dustrositiottti, vary greatly. But. tmuvidunltr than marks never alter. Provided tho thumb is never nutt- lated, its a, will have enactiy the same lines and curing. allowing tor growth, " tlee yearn old as at titty. In fact. what may be mind the topo- graphy of the thumb In as tint-haun- able u the topography ot tho oven-lant- tng hills. But with the marks on individual thumbs are. so to spank, oop.rtkhotd, yet them is a strong similarity in tht. respoct between the member: of "ttd lamtly. Ber, We t4oty tttttt they mm: liko miauture nuns at l: by deep furmus. Ht'gan‘d thumb- and you will ttttd t ok Impressions of the thumbs of I group of brothers and “um I). tutu. and a marked “an.“ le " found A m "Mm. I A pockeum panda-u nu boon it lv, ntryl hy " aim in the mm. 1 "itstion (creel. " existing bemoan all of them. whllo in thrlr main characteristics they will be totally unlike the thumb-"non ot (be boys and girls next door. l have uh! that a ttttstub-portrait never than... and this is strictly true. Our Own lebtlny. 4 The tumre VIII Mn In More for you Just win: you " Into “on (or a. l tutare- jut M and no --e- (1nd.) Tram-o. within ARE MOTHERS A TORONTO A Living 0.. Better Than a Dead Lton. A Doctor's Wand“. Thumb Portraits. lia’u n Mimi's of