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. = Plan ahead! THE ROBZAT REFORD CO. Cos. Bay and Wellington Sts.. ____â€" thing included. ‘ Christmas Sailings From HALIF AX ® Dec. 5â€"ANTONIA for Plymuoth, Havre ar.d London. Dec. 11â€"ATHENIA for Belfast; u_IJvupoollAu;d Glasgow. Havre and London. % Prom ST. JOHN N.B. > Dec. 10â€"ATHE NIA for Belfast, / ... Liverpoo!l and Glasgow, Bold up the Kir in Ame #) Round Trip from $155 up. Children half fareâ€"every, I7 th To enjoy Christmas in the Old Home! Christmas in England, Mogmanay in Scotland, Â¥uleâ€" tide festivities in Ireland, are now within easy reach of everybody. See a steamship agent toâ€"day and make your reservation while the best accommodation is to be had. F th wrgun h uph M "SALADA" TFaA 0 19SUE Now 47â€"27 _ . w‘v they missed the Jamaica h Colcn<! Bishop, which sailed r Tortuga two days after the Evarol‘s southward passage. s raturally preferred Cartaâ€" «aftse offering the greater ~f loot. Loyalty to their leadâ€" thom silent. o#s, it was to Cartagena ‘ed in the middle of tn tcars and negroes had the forees directly under ol to twelve hundred men. )* thought he could keep »r contingent in order and * Liscover here an rwony comely droll. You, M. le eval of the King‘s Armies d Sea in America, propose so of a purely buccaneerâ€" >r; whilst I, the buccaneer, me that is more concerned :rq the honor of France." ibustier," cried Rivarel in CART od laughed outright. He read the Baron‘s mind arol, intrigued by his d upon his disapprovâ€" TT u laugh, monsieur it, and his three capâ€" they t'bought him >x him in loyal silence. !s Rivarol burned with . The mask had been ‘m, and he had been nâ€"he, the Generl of ies by Sea and Land it officer! You! Lord Why, you are just a seen am Real Quality > ve nos, it was not { April that the sight of Cartaâ€" rol summoned a gship to deterâ€" sault. , messieurs," he ake the city by XXVIL, bean in the â€" huvarol hat I my sUperior It may have been a couple of hours later, when Captain Blood, as spruce and cool of if he had just come from a levee, stepped upon the quarterâ€"deck of the Victorieuse, to confront M. de Meanwhile the fight went merrily on The fort was suffering badly. Yet for all their manceuvering the bucâ€" caneers were not escaping punishment. The startboard gunwale of the Atropos had been hammered into splinters, and a shot had caught her astern in the coach. The Elizabeth was badly batâ€" tered about the forecastle, and the Armbella‘s maintop had been shot away, whilst toward the end of that engagement the Lachesis came reeling out of the fight with a shattered rudâ€" der, steering hersolf by sweeps. | Boea Chica and little more than half | a mile away from the remainder of the Gibbering and cursnig, M. de Rivaâ€" rol stood there and watched this acâ€" tion, so presumptuously undertaken by Blood on his own responsibility. buccaneers timed their broadsides with extraordinary judgment to catch the defending ordnance reloading; then as they drew the Spaniard‘s fire, they swung away again, not only taking care to be everâ€"moving targets, but: further, to present no more than bow or stern‘ to the fort, their masts inj line, when the heaviest cannonades were to be expected. f j fleet, and from their flanks flame and emoke were belching each time they swung broadside to the great round fort that" guarded that narrow enâ€" trance. The fort was returning the fire vigorously and viciously. But the h‘s unreasonable and unreasoning fury. The four buccaneer ships under canvas were going through extraordiâ€" nary manocuvres half a mile off the He was awakened at dawn by the rolling thunder of guns.‘" Emerging upon the poop in nightcap and slipâ€" pers, he beheld a~gight that increased The first six boatsw were caught in the surf and pounded into fragments bofore their occupants could extricate themselves. The thunder of the breakâ€" were pulled away for the shore in the cances, piraguas, and ships‘ boats. Rivarol‘s pride compelled him, howâ€" ever much he may have disliked the venture, to lead them in person. rs and the cries of the shipwrecked ‘arned those who followed, and thereâ€" y saved them from sharing the same The Baron went back to his flagship infuriated, but, by no means a BEST FOR Al_._l. YOUR BAKING â€"â€" Pics, Cakes, Buns and Bread Captain Blood alone kept his head, setting a curb upon his deep chagrin. He had promised himself that before parting from M. de Rivarol he would present a reckoning for all the pretty affronts and insults to which that unâ€" speakable fellowâ€"now proved a scoundrelâ€"had subjected him. (To be continued.) ‘ whom he had swidled, but also M. de Cusey. Among the buccaneers that night there was hilarity over the sudden abatement of M. de Rivarol‘s monâ€" strous pride. But when the next dawn broke over Cartagena, they had the explanation of it. The absconding M. de Rivarol had gone off with the treaâ€" sure, taking with him the troops and marines he had brought from France. He had left behind him at Cartagena not only the emptyâ€"handed buccaneers _ The end of it all was that M. de Rivarol gave a promise at once to make the necessary preparations, and if Captain Blood and his officers would wait upon him on board the Victorieuse toâ€"morrow morning, the treasure should be weighed in their presence and their fifth share surrenâ€" dered there and then into their own keeping. "M. le Baron," the latter greeted him. "I must speak frankly, and you must suffer it My men are on the point of mutiny." The Baron sat scrutinizing ledgers, like a city merchant, and checking figures to make sure that all was corâ€" rect to the last peso. He looked up irritated by the interruption which Captain®" Blood‘s advent occasioned. CHAPTER XXVIH. * THE HONOR OF M. DE RIvAROL * During the capitulationâ€" and for some time after, Captain Blood and the greater portion of his buccaneers had been at their post utterly in ignorâ€" ance of what was taking place. Blood, although the man chiefly responsible for the swift reduction of the city, ’\was not even shown the consideration iot' being called to the council of offiâ€" cers. ‘ This was a slight that at another time Captain Blood would not have borne for a moméent. But at present, in his odd frame of mind, and its diâ€" vorcement‘from piracy, he was conâ€" tent to smile his utter contempt of the French General. Not so, howevéer, his captains, and still less his men. It was only by undertaking to voice their grievance to the Baron that their captain was able for the moment to pacify them. Cartagena agreed, having no choice in the matter, and on the next day, which was the 5th of April, M. de Riâ€" varol entered the city and proclaimed it now a French colony, appointing M. de Cussy its Governor. | _ Swollen with pride by a victory for which he took the entire credit to himâ€" 'self, the Baron dictated his terms. H« demanded that all public effects and officeâ€"accounts he delivered up; that the merchants surrefder all moneys an goods held by them for their corâ€" respondents; the inhabitants could choose whether they would remain in the city or depart; but those who went must first deliver up all their proâ€" perty, ant those who elected to remain} must surrender half, and become the subjects of France; religious houses and churches should be spared, but they must render accounts of all moneys and valuables in their posâ€" session. At noon on the morrow, shorn of defences and threatened with bomâ€" tardment, Cartagena sent offers of surrender to M. de Rivarol. is flyinz from what remains of its tower, and the way.into the outer harâ€" bor is open to your fleet." > M. de Rivarol was compelied to ewallow hisg fury. i ‘You are fortunate, M. Blood, that you succeeded," he said. "It would have gons very ill with you had you failed." cap. v. "I have to report, M.‘e Baron, that we are in possession of the fort on Boca Chica. The standard of France Rivarol, still in bedgown and nightâ€" New Tenantâ€"‘"Is it true that this house is haunted?" Caretakerâ€""Oh, no, slr;' i!';;lvl‘ _bveen ‘t‘l'x-t;r‘;ughly dll: infected." Minard‘s Linimetn for Chilblains: * Fascism and Democracy. Leon Blum inâ€" Paris Populaire: ("More and more toâ€"day in Europe reâ€" action is taking the form of Farcism ; |and Bellicism.") There are in preâ€" j| sentâ€"day Europe Governments that by ,| their very structure defy all possiâ€" _ | bility of democratic change and which _|by that very fact constitute permanâ€" ‘| ent dangers of war. A political turnâ€" |over in Italy, for exampleâ€"that is to : say, in a country where the popular sovereignty is reduced to zeroâ€"is an ‘| expression utterly devoid of meaning. ;| . . . We must inspire the conviction that a Socialist victory in Germany, [France and England , will mean the | consolidation and organization â€" of | peace, and that a victory of reaction | would deliver Europe to new catostroâ€". phes, catastrophes such as the lmagl-‘ nation refuses to invoke . . . Should Socialism win in France, Germany and England a sufficient authority over public opinion, we should be able ' to make a Europe whose atmosphere would become, as it were, unbreathâ€" ‘able for .Fascism and. in which . the : Governments of tyranny and advenâ€" | ture would re reduced‘ to a. kind of shameful isolation that would rob lthem of all power of mischief and 'would probably. shorten their existâ€" ‘ ence. i Bride‘s mother (a trifie sarcas tically): §o do the butcher and the baker and the dressmaker, | understand. & Young Bride: 1 give Jim credit for giving me good food and plenty of clothes to wear. a seam at the centreâ€"back, a large convertible collar, wide cuffs, and two setâ€"in pockets with laps. The tie of contrasting or matching material is decidedly chic, and buttons make an attsactive trimming.. Fur may be added to the collar and cufls, thereby adding warmth for cooler days. No. 1653 is in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust. Size 36 requires 4% yards 36â€"inch, or 3 yards 54â€"inch maâ€" terial, and 3% yards 36â€"inch lining. Price 20 cents the pattern. J The éoat pictured here is an unâ€" usually smart design as well as being practical andA comfortable. There is CORNS Quickrelieffrom painfol corns, tender toes and pressure of tight shoes. Dt Scholi‘s PLENTY OF CREDIT ilson Publishing Company A SMART NEW CAOT WIN I AKCIU attitude must not be confused with weakness, nor must it be interpreted as meaning that she will tolerate inâ€" definitely attacks of this nature diâ€" rected against the security of the Btate. â€" * Belgrade Samonprava: If the attiâ€" tude of Jugoâ€"Slavia towards Bulgaria now changes, the responsibility must lie with Bulgaria. Jugoâ€"Slavia is peaceful in her aims and the maintenâ€" ance of peace is a fundamental purâ€" pose of her foreign policy, but this attitude must not be confused with Melbourne Australasian: (Communâ€" ists have been active in Australia reâ€" ceritly). Very few in Australia wish to witness the birth of a Fascist pir ty. Such an organization, if it lacked selfâ€"control or if it were sprinkled with fanatics, mlgh( prove more trouâ€" blesome than the handful of loudâ€" volced persons whom it would aim at suppressing. Yet there have been ocâ€" casions on which such a body might bhave given valuable service to the community, l Practically every home garden, and many market gardens are surrounded with shade or orchard trees whose ’lea\'es ordinarily go to waste. Many have forest leaves readily accessible. 'Care must be taken i nthe use of orâ€" ’(,‘are must be taken in the use of orâ€" properly sprayed, the leaves will be all right to use. If not, they may bear various insects, and if so they should not be used as fertilizer. The large maple and elm shade trees which usâ€" ually form a part of the sylvan setâ€" ting of the home, will provide an enorâ€" mous. amount of compostâ€"ususally enough to.make al the fertilizer reâ€" quired by the accompanying garden. Why not begin saving this lifeâ€"givin: material now ? If live stock is kept on the place, a very economical way of treating the leaves is to use them as bedding. They should be kept dry until ready to use. Dry leaves have even more absorbent power than straw, and therefore make a very excellent bedâ€" ding. The manure containing the leaves, when thrown out of the stable, wil become compacted, causing slow decomposition and saving the fertiliâ€" zer value. t This lesson from nature‘s method gives us the queue on how to get the most fertilizer value from leaves. They must beKept from the air.. The best way to do this is to compost them by placing them in a pile, with manure or some other organic matter to make a compact mass and exclude ‘the air If no manure is available, ‘loam may be used. A foot or so of leaves may be laid, then an inch or two of good loam, then another layer of leaves, and so on, tramping the pile down after each layer is put on. If sods are available, they make a very desirable addition by putting them grass side down. A mixture of leaves, loam, and sods, makes an exâ€" cellent compost. This may be used as a dressing on the garden, and it also makes one of the best possible goils for potted plants. 4 In the natural forest, the fallen leaves make layer after layer. Rain, snow, and the damp gases from deâ€" caying vegetation, keep them damp underneath and form them into a compact mass, excliding the air to a considerible extent, and thus aiding in the forming of humus. The presâ€" ence ,o0f air is necessary to decomâ€" position, and the slower the decomâ€" position occurs, the more humus is formed. Why, then, not save this tremendâ€" oug waste? In most European counâ€" tries, where economic conditions are such that every possible bit of ferâ€" tilizer must be preserved, the forest leaves are gathered, stored until ready to compost, and then used as fertillzer, +~While this is done to a limited extent in this country, what is saved is only a drop in the bugket to the possibilities. * Most people consider that when the leaves Rhave fulfillicd their mission on thé trees, they have fallen to the earth, they are useless and an incumâ€" brance to be gotten rid of as specdily as possible. But nature teaches a difâ€" ferent lesson. © The fallen leaves in the forest serve as a fatural mulch to protect the roots of the trees and the underlying flowers and plants from the rigors of changing seasons... Then they decay and form a rich humus, giving to the goil the nitrogen they bave stored from the air during the growing season This humus, or leaf mold, is the richest soil element we have. And yet, each fall sees the desâ€" truction of thousandsg and thousands of tons of one of the easiest available forms of fertilizer, the substitutes for which gardeners must pay out fabuâ€" lous sums. The month of falling leaves ig here again, and once more these beautiful stores of pentâ€"up energy will be raked up by the trillions and offered up to the God of Waste in one grand funerâ€" al pyre until the skies be darkened with the smoke, and the air filled with the purngent odor of burning vegetaâ€" tion. DOES ALL YOUR BAKING BEST Serbia and Bulgaria Save the Leaves. Civil Disturbances. TORONTO L'h‘el Osservatore Romano: (Italy alone je, | can reconstruct the Papal State which ow ‘it so brusquely annihilated). We do j1;. | not invoke foreign Powers nor interâ€" ‘nallonal- courts. The Holy See, as nq | Cardinal Gasparri declared during the ed | War, awaits the solution of the Roâ€" se ’man question not from foreign interâ€" ny vention but from the sease of straightâ€" te. {forwardner:s and justice of the Italian or. | people. To the foreign Powers it will op. | only be left to take note in the usual be |form of what Italy has done in accord ay | With the Holy See. _ «7 amed for its fragrant creamy â€" lather 2 WHL [NRRRRERAM Albent Soup Limited, Mirs.Montreas H Minard‘s Liniment for Neurit _ Rome Popelo d‘Italia: In the Mediâ€" "lemneaz_z world some peoples have already given_evidence of a complete breakaway from the spirit and the principles of the French Revolution, After a~century and a half of experiâ€" ences and delusions, of crigis and soâ€" cial upheavals, a search is being made for new formulas and new methods, In place of the cult of the masses ~which was initiated with the diffusion of the Utoplas of Rousseau is substiâ€" tuted the respect of values, of experts, of hierarcy. There is a preference for the consultation of organized cateâ€" gories instead of appeals to electoral herds. The dutles and the functions of the individual towards the State take the place of the rights of the citizen. M 1: K dtgmar d B forover so years |§ d o. o t y BA 4 srcothlsh [A He: Yes. That‘s why 1 call to ste youâ€"to get it started agair. She: Don‘t you know smoking slows down the action of the heart? Best for You and Baby too The Roman Question. The Function of Fascism. #1 ©18. hnve] Augurs Well For Future. plete After confirming the agrec: the |General Hertzog said that the : ution, | he had noticed abroad in consequ xperiâ€" | of the settlement augured well fo d soâ€"| future. Dealing with the Union . made |he said there should in future h hod._’doubt that next to theâ€"pational asses |the Union Jack was also South ugion |ea‘s flag, adopted to give expre: ibstiâ€" to their relationship with the oerts,lmembers of the Empire. He fel; rence | the question once having been se ute.[b‘;he agreement, there would | toral |tolally different attitude of one uonalltowandâ€" the other and this woul: State | of the very greatest importance \ the ; the future. Mrs. Roweâ€""Jack is «o crazy about wireléss I can bardly 4ras him away from | it.." â€" Mre. CGroveâ€"â€"*"Excellent training for a husband my dearâ€"lisâ€" tening." ' "Insects, particularly bees and ants, display wickedness. Ants will mass in army fashion and destroy a neighbor Iamle. Brigand bees, too lazy to work are common assailants of wellâ€"stock ed hives. Bees and ants also becoms« deliberately tipsy from decaying fruit and certain flowers, In Abyssinis, goats and sheep are regular addicts to their ‘dram,‘ taken in the form ~{ beans of the coffeeâ€"plant. "The English cuckoo is one of the best _counterfeiters. It lays eges, cleverly disguised, in other birds‘ nests in order to avoid the bother of hatching them. Crows and monkeys have their organized bands of thieves, with chief, lieutenants and sentine‘!s. Many observers contené that crows also hold court, during which witnes: es for the defense and prozecution are heard, and at the end of which cerâ€" tain crows are assigned to punish the evil doers." "The rogue elephant, who jun amuck for no apparent reason, J« troying man and beast, has been Je cribed by Kipling and many oth writers. Outlaw horses have likew|= been made hero or villain of countles {tales. Mares have been known : ‘kidmp foals and hide them | awas Trusted sheep dogs from time to tin have dropped their daytime mask » protector of the flock and at nish: have set forth as bloodtBirsty kill~=: of the very sheep given into thei care. Birds, frequently of the mos: charming and harmless species=in a; pearance, are also in the assassin class, this trait becoming more pr: nounced after a period of imprison ment in a cage. Singularly enough. smakes are almost entirely free 0: such accusations ,and murder among fish is equally rare, although the swordfish occasionally attacks and kills a whale for amusement. Robbery, murder, drunkenness, ki4 napping, counterfeiting, even ‘crime: of passion," play a part in the lives 0 animals and ingects, according *to : writer in the Paris (France) Time For nearly every vice or crime n which human beings are guilty on can find, he asserus, a counterfeit in nature. We read: appeal fairly and justly to the ; found sentiment and justice o1 people. The conversation beitw: the Prime Minister and himsel{, soi< General Smuts, had been very dif cut after the passions of the lasi <s years, but sirce 1926 they had + veled a considerable distance and far as he could see this was the !a=: of what were described as the racial questions Of South Africa. They had been in contention for 100 years and he had h feeling that the qpresen: agreement would be more than a flas agreement, it would breed an atmo= phere of unity in South Africa, and that larger atmosphere in which most of their former questions were solved. They were on the threshold of a new era. * Honors Are Even. No party had won, no pari fallen The,solution was calcul General Smuts congratula Prime Minister on his most ant and statesmanlike speech ; confiddnce that the agreement a sound , basis and spelied with honér." Bunday all the churches sang a = emn Te Deum in thanksgiviag for + peaceful solution. Unparalledel soon, were W(uleltq when Parliament m« The House ‘was crowded and amo the spectators were Princess Ali« wife of the GovernorGeneral, and ° $. Srinivasa Sastri, AgentGeneral (, India _ Loud cheering from ail «id. reeted the Prime Minister on ris» to epeak. a new spirit of national coâ€"operatio; and racial amity. Telegrams of c0» gratulation poured in to cabinet min Isters and the leader of the Opposi tion from every part of the countrs + Cape Town.â€""Peace with honor" to both sides is the keynote of the settle. ment of the flag dispute, confirmation of which was tor*oomlng when Par liament met recently, and the whole country is rejoicing over the happy outcome, while prominent politicians interprot the agreement as heraldin> 1e Among n wil ing AF fath wh h genu mire famtl ©1 Ing My lander saw i; more at Edito M ingly ed f« news "Morse hase W