ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS

WRIGLEYS

After every meal

Makes the
mext cigar
taste better.

NEVER FIRE FIRST

ge
JAMES FRENCH DORRANCE -

Co-Author of “Get Your Man," \
“Glory Rides the Range,” Etc.

(Serial Rights Arraffged Through
F. D. Goodchild, Publishers,
Toronto)

‘ mission not entirely unsuspected by

(Continued)

“Looks like murder,” he said, his
eyes leaving the stolen uniform and
focusing on the wound, the clean hole
of a steel bulletin the right temple.

“It is murder—from ambush,”) the
girl declared, her voice Chee

- conviction.

But Seymour was not so sure. Ww ith-
out disturbing a convulsive death grip,
he examined the revolver held-in an
outflung hand. It had been discharg-
ed once.

wasn't a comets Seiniemenny
he reasoned. “Hé had some
mat of what was coming. Couldn't
have drawn his gun after that bullet
hit him. The wey my ears read the
reports, he fired just after the rifle
spoke—probably a spasmodic pull on
the trigger with no aim or hit. You
know, Mounties are not supposed to
fire first. The rule has killed a num-
ber of them.”

' “He was sc brave—absolutely fear-
less,” she murmured.

Seymour might haye gone further in

her mind from his professional deduc-

tons.

'm Ruth Duperow,”
“My uncle is a missionary here.”

At once he remembered Moira’s de=
cription of the colorful cousin whe was
keeping her father company. he
contrast in type was remarkable.

“Yes,” she went on, “I knew the ser-
geant quite well and admired—both |
my uncle and J admired his courage)
and uprightness.

“You said hi

The girl's fra
her. “His reat h

_ Mour but we
Caswell. You see, he has been here

aaine was-
ss did not desert!
was Russel Sey- ;

iim first as Bart |

reconstructing the crime, but he
checked observation on the subject
lest she susp:ct his training.

“You knew him well, Miss——!

Miss——” he asked, partially to divert}

'
she told him.}

Sam Hardley, and he dian's like Bart—
iE mean Mr. Seymour,”
The real Seymour made mental note
fragment without seeming to
eg 01 more than casually

rested.
} “At that, Hardley will have to be
notified, I suppose,” Miss Duperow
went on. “It's the law, isn’t it?”

The sergeant nodded. “Something

jof the sort. But first I'm going to

have a little look into the brush to see

—what I can see Mind waiting for a
‘

* crled the girl,
hag a step toward him and lay:
; impulsive hand upon his sleev:
ever murdered Bart may be lurking
in the brush and wouldn’t hesitate to
jtake a shot at you. You don’t know

j how desperate the— ” She broke
| off in sudden caution aid finished in-
| consequentially “One killing is
} enough for to-day.

“A killing too many,” he assured
jher, but swung into the saddle. “I'll
{take no unnecessary chances, and I'll
not be gone long.”

With the girl's disapproving look
following him, he rode into the under-
brush to the lef of the trail. From
that direction, he figured, had come the

tak-

bullet. He had s:nall hope of any en-
counter, With the cowardly attack
neatly turned, he could conceive no
reason why the perpetrator . should

|hide around the scene pf the crime.
There was a chance, however, that he
might pick up the trail of departure
and learn its trend before the camp’s
amateur sleuths got-busy and blotted
out all signs.
' On superficial survey, it seemed to
the sergeant that the bogus officer had
been riding out from town on some

those against whom he meant to act.
Near the trail forks, someone had Jain
in wait and killed him.

One shot had sufficed. Caswell’s
effort to answer undoubtedly had been
futile. Then the slayer had slunk
away in the brush. It seemed unlike-
ly that®he would go into town; entire-
ly reasonable that he would return
whence he had come. Seymour im-
agined that that would be the place
for which the pretended Mountie was
bound, were that ever determined.
That the escape had been through the
brush seemed likely, since nobody
had passed them on tho trail after the
shooting.

Twenty yards into the brush, he
set Kaw parallel with the trail that
followed the River Cheena. The un-
dergrowth was not too thick for rid-
ing if one watched for fallen trees
and devil-club thiekets. The ground,
soft from recert spring rains, took
tracks like putty. An Indian in moc-
asins might have passed without leav-
ing a trail, but any booted white must
have shed footprints like Crusoe’s man
Friday.

Soon, the officer picked up horse
tracks so fresh as to be still sucking
moisture from the muskeg. These
angled toward the trail over which he
had followed Miss Duperow. He
traced them back to a clump of pop-
lars. There he found evidence that
+a horse had been tied, evidently hav-
\ing been ridden from the main trail.
Fooiprints coming and going testi-
| flea ic a round triprin that direction.
‘He examined there with care. In
g these with a lead pencil,
cf a tape, he noted the im-
a peculiar plate on the right
her the wearer was slightly.
‘lame or possessed a gait that made it

advisable to reinforce the outer edge

| of his boot.

| selmonberry

i
The foot trail ended’ in a patch of
bushes, already in thick
leaf and furnishing an ideal curtain
Groping about where the earth was
beaten down, he soon discovered 2
copper cartridge case. His eyes siz-

We could not agree with Ruth Du-
perow that the road agent, or agents,
had mistaken the express vehicle for
one of the passenger coaches in use
on this diMcult line. That did not
stand the test of 1eason, any more than
did a supposition that the robbery had
been for the sake of obtaining the uni-
form of a mounted police officer. No
one p bly could have known that
such rig was in transit. At best,
the authori which any spurious
wearer might command, must be of
brief duration for the owner could be
counted on to follow his clothes. The
risk was not-worth the fleeting ad-
vantage.

The serge-nt did not have to argue
himself into a couvietion that he must
seek elsewhere for the purpose of the
holdup. Some other shipment—just
what, he meant to find out—that was
coveted and worth taking chances to
secure must have been expecte He
believed that, in examining hisNoot,
the robber-murdered had come upon
the uniform end had decided to use it
in some other bold suroke without the
law.

The sergeant could not withhowd adr
miration for the daring which the
man who called himself Caswell had
shown in his last hours of life. To
put on the trusted and feared uniform,
to declare himself the representative
of Dominion authority and to under-
take the solution of his own crime was
a coup as clever and noyel as it was
impudent. Had the culprit stopped
there, he might haye made a clean
get-away with whatever else of loot
the stage carried. Seymour conclud-
‘ed that the prize which hat’made him
resort to murder must be of great
value. He did not overlook the Dos-
sibility that Bart might have been
slain by a pal dissatisfied with the
division of the spoils. But, in view
of hints dropped by Ruth, he was in-
clined to believe that this morning's
slaying had no connection with the
B. C. X. crime. The girl, after all,
was his best source of information.

Just as he was about to turn back)

and question her further, the horse
tracks he was following broke from
the bush into the switchback trail and
were lost. At once he swung Kaw
around for the return ¢anter, Short-
ly he ovértook his own pack cayuse
faithfully plodding in pursuit, and took
the animal under halfer, that it might
not become confused) at ihe crossroads.

At the turn, he saw that a group of
men had .gathered about the lifeless
figure of Bart. A freight wagon
drawn by tivee yoke of oxen had been
stopped near by and reins dropped on
four or five saddle horses. But he
looked iu vain for his companion of
chance. Ruth Duperow and her
mount were gone. »

CHAPTER XV.
Under Suspicion

None of the usual greetings of the
Noumea trail were offered Seymour
he rode up to the group. Instead,
ound himself the target for a bat-
us y of frowning glances. The men
presented a stolid front of frigid scru-
tiny. The probability ~ upon
him that, as the first ch

8 ger t
¥ pic) in
connection witli the crime.

the scene, he was u

The sergeant stopped his horse and
was about to dismount when there was
& movement among the men. A
short, stout man, from whose ample|
belt dangled a small cannon of a re-
volver, waddled forth to stand before
him. \
“What's happened?” asked Seymour
quickly decideding to say nothing of}
his previous visit.

“That's what we're goin’ to find |
out,” said the fat man in that shrill

small voice with which humans of un-;

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Roman Knight With
Sword and Buckler

Interesting Discovery Is Made By a
Peasant In Bulgaria

A peasant plowing near a small yil-
lage in BulZaria, turned up one of the
most interesting archeological finds
made in recent years. When the plow
Struck an obstruction, the peasant
found it was a slab of marble. Lift-
ing this a marbie tomb was disclos-
ed and within lay a suit of bronze arm-
or of a Roman knight, together with
shield, sword, spear and several uten-
sils, including an exquisite vase.

Director Velkoff, of the National
Museum, and Mr. Popoff, an expert on
Greek antiquities, estimate that the
find dates back to the pre-Alexandrine
period. They surmise that he may
have been a dweller of a Hellenic col-
ony on the Black Sea coast.

On the helmet, well preserved and
of a high order of workmanship, were
the figures of Apollo, Pallas, Athene,
Poseidon, Minerva and Mars. One
ear-piece found bore the figure of Zeus
with the trident. The other ear-piece
was lacking.

The Netmet was silvered and some
of the white metal still adhered. The
human figure that once bore the hel-
met and carried the weapons was
entirely absent, except in the form of
ashes in smal] amount.

“The knight who bore
was evidently a igh perso: Ze,” sajd
Director Velko' “Therefore, after
his body Kad been deposited in the
grave it was burned, an early instance
;of cremation.”

Some Chinese Still
Will Sell Children

lie Hard Up Take That Way To
i Raise Money *
That the selling of children, and

the armor

for a month, studying the camp with-
OUL anyone suspecting thai he was not
the mining exueit he pretended he!

; ed this as having been thrown from a
| 30-30 Winchester,
| thal his saddle carried, one likely to

the same sort as|*

you?”

‘due girth often aye afflicted.

“Who're/ especially of girls, is still prevalent
in China away from the forcignized
centres is shown by an episode that

Was. Not untii the stage robbery did
he disclose whe he was and put on his |
uniform.”

Seymour trieu to hide a smile: the
plan which the 1 outlined as Bart:
Caswell’s sounded so exactiy like his}
own, When_he
his hand was stroking med
clean shaven chin.

‘Is there a zoroncr in Gold?” he
asked.

“When a man was killed in a shaft
cave-in on Sweet M: Creek last
week, a deputy acted before uncle read
the service,” was the girl’s informa-
lion, delivered with a frown. The rea-
son for the contraction of brow ap-
peared when she added “That deputy
sheriff and coroner is a chump named |

WORKING GIRL’S
EXPERIENCE

Read How She Found Help
in Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound

Arnprior, ‘Ontarion —‘‘I must write
and tell you my experience with your
medicine. I was working at the factory
for three years and becaniec so run-down
athat. I used to take weak spells and
would be at home at least one day each
week. J was treated by the doctors for |
anemia, but it didn’t seem to dome any
good. I was told to take a rest, but was
unable to, and kept on getting worse.
1 was troubled mostly with my periods, |
I would sometimes pass three months,
and when it came it would last around
twoweeks, and I wouldhave such painsat
times in my right side that I ‘cotldbardly
walk. lam only 19 years of age and
weigh 118 pounds now, and before tak-
ing the Vegetable Compound I was only
108 pounds. I was sickly for two years
and some of my friends told me about
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound, and when I had taken a bottle of
it I felt a change. My mother has been
taking it for a different ailment and has
found it very satisfactory. I am willing
to tell friends about the medicine z
to answer letters asking about it.
Miss HAzeL Bernp7, Box 700, Arnprior,
Ontario.

A day out each week shows in the pay
envelope. If you are troubled with some
weakness, intiicated by a run-down con-
dition, tired feelings, pains and irregu-
larity, let Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta-

ble Compound help you.

ny Bave-N, jUs 1542...

turned back to her, |

le easy range of

be common in that region. Undoubt- |
;edly the dented case had held the!
'stee? nosed bullet that had ended the}
' cdreer of the crook who had dared im-}
personate % Mountie.

Wher Seymour stood erect, he saw |
and shoulders aboye the;
én. in plain view and
the tragedy scene.
Doubtless in the very spot which he
occupied, the murderer had stood erect
to fling a taunt or shout a false warn-
Ag at the approaching horseman; then
he had shot before the other could act. |

The circumstances of the crime re-}
produced to his own satisfaction, Sey-j

| mour squandered a moment in study-j
in

|

ing her the murdered man himself was | made maps and

ed in the

{hat hanging from the horn of her sad-

ng his partner of. the trail, his scru- |
tiny unsuspected ‘by the fair object
thereof.

Ruth Duperow stood uncovered, her

dle. The sun played upon the un-
meshed waves of her silyer-gold hair,
bringing out unnumbered glints. She |
was taller than he had thought, almost
as tall as her cousin, Moira. Her|
face was buried in*hands that rested |
on the saddle seat, her poise slumped
and heavy with xrief. ig
“Poor youngling,” mused the ser-
geant in deep sympathy. ‘She's tak
ing it hard. , These gentlenien crooks
sure raise Ned
ing that her unc'e was a m
this Bart would not be at los
trumps to lead Reckon his blossom-
ing out in scurlet just topped the

bill. Must have cut quite a figure in
life, this Bart Caswell—or whatever
his real name was. Handsome dog,

f em‘jance to me.” He

vith the hope that some-

one would have the job of tell-!

pafter nearly 09

(To be continued)

An Air Pressure Railway

South Devon Had Only One Of Its
Kind@Ever Attempted

The South Devon Atmospheric Rail-

Way which was operated for a consid-

erable time during the year 1847, was

the only one of its kind ever attempt-!

ed. The trains were run entirely by
air pressure, which was forced
{through a pipe laid along the centre of
the track, says London Ansy In
order to maintain an adequate supply

of air, pumping stations w provid- |
ed at intervals of three miles, The
Monklands and Kirkintilloch line

which celebrates !is century this year,
started, with a single truck and no
engine at all. In order to provide the
necessary force for propulsion, stout
umbrellas were held out to be filled
by the following wind, But the re-
lurn journey was not so eg Those
who had ridden one way were forced
to g@i out and push th train” home
again.

sy.

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a criminal. |lionaire and a pat
Regaining his horse, Seymour a housewife, 1 public man and a life
mounted, minded to follow the hoot. lorisdnerweresa pionge (om anveh Oxd on:
print trail for a way. This was child's | | Baten ole. SHIT eh
play; Kaw attended to it, leaving the; "buted their quota AU ABC ene
ant free to peer ahead. Mean- | all religious faith are included. The

s mind was busy revolving the
ng faets with which chance

book, it is said, will be used to further

ris the aims and objects of the socie
nade aulgRen ee for mental doubt which was founded nearly a century
‘ ze robbery. The uniform) and a quarter ago.
in which Bart wa’ clad unquestionably -_——-_—-
ulbsed i the Hie andehtinet te aoiaa BY taking aboard 274,500 bushels of
’ Division had a new tailor, a| Wheat in 6% hours at Montreal, the

in stitching
of the change

had been made

on the insignia and trac |

steamship Iunerion, it is believed,

j created a new world’s record for rapid

remained on the sleeve. Even had loading.

there been other members of the

Force in the district, he would have —

sworn to that uniform. He had nota} Among the 15,000 passengers car-
doubt tha. the handsome dece y of} ried by the British air transport sery-

Cousin Rath
stage sing

either had held up the
handed or bad participat-
me,

ice during the past year only one life

Was lost.

| to

occurred a few days ago at the Amer-
ican Church Mission. A Chinese came
to the mission and related that he, his
wife and child enroute from Hankow
their home in Nanking, were
stranded at an inn on account of the
wife's illness.

They had been there, he said, about
two weeks and he was entirely out of
funds. He owed the innkepeer six
dollars and his only recourse was to
sell his little sen. He begged the
jMisison peopte to buy him.
| Investigation appeared to show that
the tale was true; that they were
Strangers in the place and were en-
lirely destitute. The missionaries
had the woman brought to their hos-
pital where she quickly responded to
proper Ca an‘l two days later the
litle family sent on its way with
money enougi to see them through to
Nanking.

The alleriuath was the same in a
sense as might lippen in any coun-

try. The mission was besieged with
“worthy c. It was remarkable,
say the mission people, what a large
number of pedple found ‘themselves

ferced to sell their children, and it
was notable that a majority of those
offered were girls.

Fighteen thousand doors comprised
a single shipment just made by an
Oregon lumber concern to a firm in
England.

ito start the year.

Wins Indian Name

Saskatchewan
Honors at Tuxis Boys Camp in
Algonquin Park

Albert Brown, who represented Sas-
katchewan Tuxis boys at Camp Ah-
mek, in Algonquin Park, w awarded
the Burt McDonald scholarship for
general proficiency on the basis of all-
round camping ability at the end of
the two months’ camp, which was at-
tended by 200 boys and leaders from
all over the Uniled States and Can-
ada.

A still further distinction gained by
the Saskatchewa&n Tuxis boy was that
of being granted an Indian name in
the Order of Gitechiahmek, which is
composed of a sclect group of boys
and leaders who have demonstrated
their ability as campers and have
shown the highest qualities of person-
ality and conduct.

Albert Brown was named Apenin-
dis, which means, in English, the
sélf-reliant one. He was the only
boy in camp this year to attain an In-
dian name.

Burt McDonald, a former resident of
Regina, was the donor of a scholarship
which made it possible for Brown to
attend the camp. Mr. McDonald was
present in the camp for the closing
banquet, when the announcement of
the award was made, and was the first
to congratulate the Saskatchewan boy
after the silver cups had been present-
ed to him by Taylor Statten, director
of the camp.

The “honor” campers are chosen on
the basis of all-round activities and
relationships of a camp life. The
number of bars in the various activi-
ties qualified for by the campers is one
of the factors considered.
Brown qualified for 16 of these bars
in swimming; lifesaving, y canoeing,
camperaft,  woodcraft, astronomy,
trees, flowers, "shicoan, * public
speaking. diving, boxing, entertaining,
Indian life and  riding—Regina
Leader.

Reforming the Calendar

d By Wi
Several Years Ago

The thirteen month calendar scheme
recently passed in a resolution by the
American Meteoralogical Society, was
advocated by J. W. Harris, a pioneer
Winnipegger several years ago.

The calendar reform scheme, as out-
lined by Mr. “Harris, appeared in his
book, “The Art of Rapid Computation
and Science of Numbers,” published in
1919.

The “year of 13 months of four
weeks each, with one extra day,” is
fully explained by Mr. Harris under

ipeg Man

the general head of “Chronology or!

Time Computation.”

“The 138-month system, with 2 days
to each month,” says Mr. Harris, “has
many points in its favor, and much to
commend its adoption for universal
use at the earliest possible date. This
arrangement of 13 months of four
weeks each, with seven days to the
week, would leave an exira day In
each year, which could be made to oc-

cupy a place as a holiday to close the

the old year, or to be called New
Year's Day and utilized as a holiday
It would thus cause
no disarrangement concerning the
names of the days of the week, nor
with business transactions generally.
The added dey for leap year could in
like manner be” sandwiched between
Saturday at the end of the 26th week
and the following Monday as an extra
holiday to be called “Leap Year Day.”

As a name would have to be given
to the added or thirteenth month, Mr.
Harris suggests that the misleading
old names of the months be done away
with and they be called the “first,”
“second,” “third,” and so on to “thir-
teenth” monta.

Eat Less To Be Thin

A reader writcs: “Kindly give re-
gime for quick thinning, as you have
for quick fattening.

Reply: Rasy. _ Quit eating. If
that’s too rapid, eat less. If you want
to feel comfortable as you thin, eat
nothing but bulky vegetables, but eat
plenty of them. Cabbage, cauliflower,
lettuce, spinach and all other greens;
tomatoes, radishes, turnips, beets,
Squash, pumpkin and string beans are
on the listof bulky yegetables—San
Francisco Bulletin.

Pnglish sailors once believed that a
whale crossing before their prow was
an ill-luck omen

Boy Captures High

Albert)

HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS|§
CONSTIPATION, |
INDIGESTION,
KIDNEYS,LIVER,
BOWE

Maximum Possible Size Cannot
Positively Ascertained
The question is oftay asked as to th
maximum known or possible size of
hailstones. According to records of
the U.S. Weather Bureau, the maxi-
mum possible_size of a single hail
stone cannot pe positively stated, but
stones larger than a man’s fist and
weighing over a pound have sey veral s
times been reported on good author
ity. During a hailstorm in Natal,
April 17, 1874, stones fell that weigh-
ed a pound and a half, and pass
through a corrugated-iron roof as if
had been made of paper. Hailston
14 inches in circumference fell in Ne
South Wales, February, 1847.
Cazoria, Spain, on June 15,
houses were crushed under blocks of
ice, some of which are said to haye —
weighed four and a half pounds.
October, 1844, a hailstorm at Cette,
France, wrecked housés and sank ves-
sels.

hailstones much larger than |
aboye mentioned undoubtedly refer in.
all cases to masses of ice resulting —
from the coaléscence, after falling, o

a number of smaller hailstones lying
closely packed together on the ground,

WHEN BABY IS ILL

When baby is iN;

7

le
when he cries a Ee

The Tablets are
mild but inarauel iaxative which b
regulate the bowels and sweeten the
stomach and thus drive out const a=
tion and indigestion; break up colds
and simple fevers and make teething
easy. They are absolutely guara:
teed to be free from opiates and ni
cotics and can be given to even ae
new-born babe with perfect safety
and always with beneficial resull
The Tablets a‘e sold by media
dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box
from The Dr. Wiliams’ Medicine Cos
Brockville, Out. =f

Noted Maharajah Was
Great English Schol

Prince Ruled Over Three Mitii
People in India

From Madras comes news of the

core. The Maharajah, Sir Rama Var- |
ma, though a great English scholar
and a most progressive prince, woul
not take meals with his wife because,
according to the customs of his”
she was of “low birth,” neither wor
the Maharajah drink water or eat a
meal after he had shaken hands with
or received a foreigner until he had a
taken a bath in running! water.
crown falls to the son of the Maha)
jah’s elder sister, who, also accordin
to custom, was married, while sul ;
girl, to a man of high caste. Th
Maharajah’s own son, therefore,
though well educated and brought
in luxury, cannot take his fathe:
title. Travancore, the leading M:
layalim State of Softthwest. India,
an area of 6,730 square miles and
population of 3,090,000. The Mahara>
jah, who possessed great wealth, lly~ “
ed in a beautiful palace at Trivandrum,
the capital ofthe State. As a ruler a
of so important a State lie had a sal
ute of 19 guns, to which, as personal
compliment to himself, two were add-
ed, putting him in the front Teok C)
Indian princes.
Frozen meit first be:ame known ta
the eulzeg woild when a party, of

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