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"Yes, he‘s dead right snough," he maid. "Poor chap . : + You‘d better leave this to me . . . 1 MUSt ingist," "But can 1 do nothing to help** _ clothes which the original searesrow had worn, and poted that the dead man was dressed in the identieal outâ€" fit. From the sleeve ends protruded straw, Miding, but not completely, the dead white hands of the man. The broadâ€"brimmed hat, ¢reen with age, u,l-tmn:u.u;. "I suppose really " aaid m-u-.uu-umr:'.b,,. uf so gruesome a sight. _ n .:"uaf-.' said Murk. "You stay Jill, please." But she igâ€" nored his appeal and strode on by his side, palefaced, but determ‘=~! to shirk pothing that was ber 00 syrn as the owner of the farm. ‘ The "scarecrow" presented an unâ€" pleasant sight, and the ground about it was splashed beavily with blood. Both Jill and Mark remembered the "You‘d best not come farther, Miss Jill," he shouted. "It‘s a man, and he‘s s '-mum'i'.'i. .s.‘;."‘.?a.;::;; t recently ‘wen sown to uce an early cror next year, and provided & great a*.raction to rooks and woodâ€" :l:-.u-v.u-muru now dungled from sticks placed here and there about the field as ll warning *« others, A‘so, not far from "Nonsense," commented Mark; but, turning to Jill, he said: "I think I‘d better go along and have a look. He seeme io hay} seen something . unâ€" "But there‘s blood on it," whimpâ€" ered Larry. "Real blood. He‘s h:n alive and gone dead again." ‘ _"Up. wintey wheat field." he «ome to life and |; dead. Â¥ou on stong any pick ie un‘ and t up." Larry Luby shuddered. ‘Me pick him vp?" he cried. "Why, ::}mlnumw- Not ’.:.J:.l. laughed. It sounded a little a".\"-ry well, then," .h."-l.u. "the can someone P rrci y cA «ic eialmine "How ;‘-fl-.l can it have come to life if it‘s dead?* reasoned Jill. "I noticed that it ha4 fallen over during Mark bent down and MAdQ a closer THINKâ€"it thkeSgys shan 1¢ wordh o( Baking P9Mer to make e deliâ€" weys â€"Giks the same perfect vesulteâ€"every time.NNp wonder Canada‘s us E0°T5. The reason SQulasaP * tere prov ""‘5-&’:! ferâ€" &'.‘Mm. YA father which tana o t io Inte P o Heane in ie KDO#n fea Jill with 'Nhhau- 1 Ru"P"in love with = ‘“'.b. that be "but is Jealous i "'fi" T /A ‘w daughter, & '--1""‘ hS «* Darbour in Terr ‘u.t‘mm. MNaTk. conversation departy 12# !® a ""Jill, upset, Tnto / tears in L"’..:" «unr:.nll lt ", ".ttempt is j m us y al Late that night aue. M-;-\;- l!- s" is n B Sn‘ , t . «> amaist cof ;,""w::' Tai rm w Â¥ ANip Harbour. f %ua the h Rotes. On n'i'nr.:l'.: iiemprae n 22 MeF dircovered t The winter w*eat field was one '\i»f I’l”l’l””l””’fi t Jilf of the Fields { »IBD B BBR B L B BB L L LAAA LRAARL LA Mothert;â€"_ _ â€">«Merridew becomes, on e ther, im "at stite on sdorem thet n u'm" wer ..t.ho management. Sin, FY0D!® Cremzpy, Jade by a #" °TWfl ul ag ary barualu) (Chilont, AlM.® Thi entement on every M‘;â€"m-â€".â€"h:-â€"':: se o guarnnter Uheltagic Baking Powder is free from aluen ponpnllnnl cnarane . iss *9018 "remapy, fhade by a io mss anstndien, i6 it g the “'.x old county oo oi e o ereigneps "4uE to Londop Puilitp a A ROMANCE By Kennaway James s say it doesn‘t pay be surei _ Mark found hhnself going back reâ€" peatedly from his work to the grim seene in the wheatfield until, at last be felt he must go away from it all for balf an hour to clear his mind, to amoke a pipe, and to get a better perâ€" spective. Mark had kept the police sergeant away from Jill. He assured Bullock that Miss Merridew could tell him nothing more than he had already been told, and it would be a kindness to put off his interrogation of her for the prescnt. There was Mark, of course. . But what had come over him. She had to scold him like a child. Me had lost his balnnce. He was no longer to be relled on. The police would arrive seon and she would have to see them. ...Thqm.hz‘thtm . . . But presently it not seem to matter, . . She Lad fallen asleep. down upon her bed and cried quietly. Meantime, Jill had surrendered to the feelings which, with difficulty, she had repressed during the last hourâ€" though it seemed a lifeâ€"time. ‘ Her world was tumbling about her. She was no longer the careâ€"free conâ€" fident Jil}, striding about her farm untrammelled by emotion or fear. She had become a girl overwhelmed by fear, and a sense of helplessness in the face of it. lthi .in:'lt.l. m. ;‘hh 5 o with upeu was a part of the country landscapeâ€"and a goodly part, for, somehow his belt reminded one of a hoep round a goodâ€" The importance of his ::i: tw- l‘mm m-lbl'hfu-whlm.vlu time Jill telephoned to the police, ‘ THE WHEATFIELD CRIME. He took the way across _ _Mark went back to where Larry and old George stood gazing at the body, He covered the dead man‘s face with a large bandanna handkerchief which he borrowed from the shudderâ€" Ing Larry, who was standing there fascinated. Mark looked closely at Jill as she spoke, but she avoided his eyes. Her mind was a ferment, for, disturbing and horrible as the murning‘s events were, she felt that there were even more unpleasant things to follow, She could not anticipate what they might be. But there came again to her the feeling that in some way Phillip Barâ€" bour might be implicated. She prayed inwardly that it should not be, and decided to discuss the matter with Phillip when be called at the.farm that day, as be was sure to do. lllage policemen that man was Serâ€" "Yes, we sha.l have to send for them this time," admitted Jill, "and we mnhnbhluh-nbm\hhm hry._.lltp-piut. 1 shall be "You can send for the police, You can‘t help the man. He‘s quite dead." Jill covered her face with her hands, but in a moment she had recovered her composure, Mark was anxious to get her away. He took her gently by the arm, turned her about, and walked towards the furm. "Please do as 1 ask. Send for the police. Yeu have only to telephone. I will come and do it if you like?" had reached the gate leading ‘-;‘.g"-'.‘-ee‘h‘me% s She drew off her riding boots, lay If any man could be called a typical "Go and bring a tarpaulin," he orâ€" al N For the first time the most coveted award of the London School of Denâ€" tal Surgery has gone to a g!‘. She is Miss E. L, B. Stamper, of Willisâ€" den, England, and the award is the Saunders Scholarship, the ho‘der ot which is regarded as the zenior stu ‘nthtl.nnynro”»m‘ ‘l-hlml--uf also took w..b‘u‘h surgery, bucteriology, eme tal diseases in children, and a cert} feate of honor in radiolegy, ‘The ‘ "I Wad a long «onversation with your dear mother «od {ather at Buckâ€" Iugham Pulaceâ€"ind I have not for gotten It. Th<; knew I were a Yorkâ€" shireman beore I came away. 1 am putting my confidence in you, and I hope yor may long be spared to go on pursuing your work." â€" London Correspondesce of the New York Timéy Magazine, sehoo!l will not admit women stw _ _ When the speeches beeta it was Mr. Smith, one of the oidest, hardest and greatest of Pritish trade union leaders, who proposed the Prince‘s health, _ Meaving himself to his feet with something of the m&«sive effect of a heary howitzer gotting into position, he talked of * hope with which his class looks «o the Prince. He ended with his #‘olld peroration: At luncleon in Barnsley, the Prince sat with the Mayor on one alde of him, Mr. Smith on the other, and a Barnsley chop before him.‘ (The fame of Barnsley chops is due to their size; as they weigh a pound and.a quarter, only two of them can be cut from one sheop.) Unemployâ€" ment and the slums were the r0‘ subjects at the luncheon., ® Now in his seventies, he is such a man as only Yorkshire can produce. He is grim, gruff, blunt, downright and decided. In a cloth cap and muffier, with a deadly pipe slung * tween his teeth, he is a vast bulldog of a man with the temper of an autoâ€" erat and the thick brogue of the West Riding of Yorkshire. A man who says what he means and means what he SAY®, e home of Barnsigy chops and Herâ€" bert Smith. Mr. Smith had been the president of the Miners‘ Federation «nd was "Abr ‘Erb" to a million mirors. _ It was a nickname of propriciorship, for Mr. Smith was a pitboy before he was ten, His childâ€" hood was spent in some of the bitterâ€" est poverty in the country including the workhouse, _A few days visiting unemploy» -ue.'-unh..r.'mmm of Wales came to the bleak mining Meanwhile, Inspector Norton, of the Denbridge police, together with a colâ€" league, was making an examination of the body of the murdered man. Sevâ€" eral photographs were taken before he allowed the body to be moved. An improvised ntretcher had been made of a hurdie, and presently two stalâ€" wart constables lifted the body from where it lay. smy‘ ay Suddenly, there was an exclamation from all who were watching the grim work, for beneath the body lay a round metal tobacco box. *k (To Be Continued.) The Prince of Wales truistic channels. her lové was centred, he would not be implicated. But Marks® Jealousy reâ€" fused to let his mind run in such alâ€" The prospect pleased him. He told himself that if he loved Jill, his duty was to shield her and hope that if Barbour were really the man on whom see how mention of Barbour could be He knew that very soon he and Jill, and no doubt everyone clse at the farm, would be crossâ€"examined very closely by the police. He could not Jill had told him that he had asked to see the papers in her father‘s desk, and that fact, combined with some one‘s obvious effort to do the same thing, showed conclusively to Mark that Barbour was in some way mixed up in the strange affairs which had desce..ded upon the peaceful farm of From a distance came the sound of a hunting horn, for it was a great foxâ€"hunting country. And as he lis tened his mind went back to the night when, from that very spinney, he had heard the three sharp barks of a fox. Then he remembered the old belief that Girl Wins Dental Award the farm, where, in the field of winter wheat, a sinister little group of police and others stood round the murdered three foxâ€"barks mean three dead men, "Well, there‘s one of them," he mutâ€" tered, as his eyes again travelled to the field of winter wheat. "But who From speculation about the identity of the dead man, Mark‘s mind, after a time, turned again to Jill and to Mm'hklhlhnb-‘ terrupted so dramatically by the traâ€" gedy. She had insinuated that she loved this Phillip Barbour, so he supâ€" Mfinhmm“allbp‘ of ever winning her. He hated the idea of surrender, but he had to be honest with himself. Only one thing seemed likely to turn the situation in his favor, and that would be for it to be proved that Barbour had someâ€" thing to do with the burglary and the murder, Mark was not a malicious man, but he could not help hoping that something of this kind might be WhytePacking 20. It isn‘t their fault. A child has to be taught. When bhe is ten it‘s too late. When he‘s eight, or even six, It‘s almost wo Jute. Neatness must be absorbed with the milk in a nursâ€" Ing Lottle. When children are two or the **ould have some idea of 0"â€" Moreover, they need not always be walted on. It is absolutely amazing to see the things some children of two and a hbaif or three can do for themâ€" selves. Wash and dress themselves, and feed themselvesâ€"If not perfectly, at least enough to help out on a busy dayâ€"and even bathe themse!ves. They ean put on their own wraps and over shoes, t0o, Mowever, the principal thing for & mother to realize is that }itle c» are not holpless. The can be m toglnluhmo.uholplmm house in order, If she will only take time to teach them, EGGS WANTED But about children clearing up acer themselves, We see children of two, four, six, eight, twenty, forty, and eighty who have never learned to pick up a thing after they‘ve dropped it or put things right after they‘ve dropped it or put things right after they‘se been disturbed. \ Tying shoes and buttoning hard but« tons will be more difficult. 1t takes the smartest child some time t; jearn to te a bow or even a knot, Buttons win be mastered first. sells drinks" to come around. n-f upon she left the room, returning few minutes later wearing a man‘ hat, and carrying two glasses ot the milk drink the doctor said the chi!i ’mnm have. _ "Nice drinks," -u} called, "ten cents each, Who wants one?" "I do," sald her Hitte Jaugh ter, and mother handed her a drink and pretended to collect the ton cents. The child drank the milk down sweetly, while mother also partook of the seame beverage.. After playing this came a fow times, the little girl became sw fond of the drink that she began ask» ing for it of her own accord. This idea of making a game ‘of a number of things was used to advantâ€" agoe by a friend of ours. Her little girl for some unknown reason tired milk and was drinking far less the doctor ordered. ‘The mother ‘ ried about it and the doctor suggested giving the child milk in the form of a fiavored malted beverage, 100. the child refused, asking tor stead. However, mother got a brigh The little fellow has been trained to all sorts of things without knowing he was being trained. And that‘s more than balf the battie. train and mother announced the; / !¢ff that he had no knowledgeabout would soon be time for the "man -E"l"‘_"_'.‘. Soviet women battalions. . In the first place she is what we cal a "merry" mother, She has a babit of making a game out of everyâ€" :’.. Amnother custom of bers is to »n*hu-ud"nn'-cmj ing "with" him. We Pay Top Prices For Eoo®, Write For Our Weekly Quotationg "How in the world did you ever teach bim?" every one wanted to now, If 1 tell him to clear up his nursery he pushes his little table and chairs back to the wall, puts bis toys all in a corâ€" ner and lays the odds and ends in a plle e\ the couck. I don‘t have to tell hi now, or name each plece, He picks t ugs up like a grown person." . Perhaps you won‘t believe us when we tell you that this baby of two years and four months siid down when be‘d finished his cereal and baked ap ples, allowed his napkin to be untied and then gathered up his pill+ws and marched them back to their accustomâ€" ed place without a word or suggestion from any one. ‘ mother said, "He does that at home. The other day a little fellow was at our house and sat up at the table to dine. We had no high chair, having passed ours along, so he had to be boiâ€" stered up with two green pillows from the !ivingâ€"room. Teach Children Meaning of Order Youngsters _ With 7080 Front 6%, East, Torsat, gsters _ With ?Tu':ini:c May Do l:x" I88HE No. 6â€"24 to Ease Burdens of Awasult of Training. ) l â€"taie fas Lunien Senge) Obrge: "In every realm the pathfnders have been few and the truths that at last triumphed were at first the possession of a minority."â€"Harry Emerson Fos ~"The churches are the greatest inâ€" Auence in this world of ours to overâ€" come the present tendency toward greed and for sprealling the new philâ€" esophy of government."â€"Franklin D. Roosevelt. "The women soldiers areâ€"drilled in exactly the same way as the men," th report stated, "but they are not conâ€" scripted for service, their battalions being entirely composed of volunâ€" tsers. "It is fairly well known that M‘ i% several battalions of infantry, arâ€" tJlery and sappers composed entirely c‘ women." "TJut another newsagency stated that had been umable to confirm the _ According to a London news ageney battalions of women soldiers in Soviet Russia are udergoing strenuous trainâ€" Ing in & general drive to weld the Red Army into a more eficient fighting unit. \lloluoldhovlohu&b‘. He has a jewel for a mind mwewuunm This small son of own, â€"Robert P. Tristram Coffin from the â€" Saturday Review of Literature. Myste~» What is the mystery about Russia‘s women soldiers? He makes no motion_but is right, He spreads out his appetite Into a network, twist on twist, This little ancient selentist, Mis back legs are a pair of hands, They can spindle out the strands Of a thread that is so small It stops the sunlight not at all, He sping himseif to threads of dew Which will harden soon Into Lines that cut like slender knives Across the insect‘s alry lives. He lays his staircase as he gots * Under his eight thoughtful toes And grows with the concentric fower Of his shadowless, thin bower, With six small diamonds for his ey¢s He walks upon the summer skics, Drawing from his silken blouse The lacework of bis dwelling house. ‘All 1 know I read in the papere," Here‘s Quickest, Simplest W ay to Stop a Cold 1. m Almost Instant Reilef in this Way T could neither deny nor confirm Russian Women‘s Aupwin / aman smm Ans. ~<~ :4m B At some of the busiest trafilc points in London (Eng.) it is possible to count more pedal bieycles than motor The builders of the famous leaning tower of Piss, Ita‘y, intended it to be vertical, but one side sank when it was only 36 feet high, and they finished it in the slanting position. Why not invest some of your beauty budget money in bathroom luxuries und seo for yourself how pleasant the daily bath may be? Many prefer tollet water to bath powder, and others use both. But for the sake of your guests it is a good Idea to have a little jug of tolles water in the guest bathroom. Bath oll someâ€" times takes the place of bath saits. A few drops of it saften rnd perfume the bardest water, Bath ensembles assure you of nonâ€" eonfiicting perfumed odors. If your soap and bath salts are the same scent as your bath powder, the effect will be more pleasing. The same is true of tollet water. | _ Muge cakes of soap are really more economical than those of medium size. And they‘re much more fun to use. Rough wash cloths and a long handled bath brush should always be hanging within reach of the person who is tak» ing a bath, you buy. see that you get Aspirin Tablets. Aspirin is the tradomare ol The Bayer Company, Limbed, and the name Bayer in the form of a eross is on each tablet. They thus work almost when you take them, And for a gargle, Aspirin ‘Tablets dissolve so com» pletely they leave no trtitating _ barticles. Fict 4 bex of 12 N Mfl'...:-:llom A well outAtted bathroom makes the daily bath a real joy. And, speaking of "outftted," we don‘t mean fixtures of shining metal or landscapes on the walls, but things you use when you take a bath. Manitoba‘s next com‘ng producer. Maps and Full Information on Request. DIANA GQOLD Also in Black and Mixed Doran Securities Ltd. 67 Yonge §t., Toronto . water NJ phoths acsrting to drections in box. For 113 M0UK Who works for & Drewery. Aracs l Ill.',lh hhm&h-fl;'u..b m“""""-"flnhmm #utomobile. Th¢ townafolks in c *4X uhond 8 automos: val down between Ely and Carmbridge whle the was motoring from §4¢° méyy, w3 o es . Wneinnd~â€"Percy Tit. iwadiacccc.. i. nhug festivities, Worth '9‘:“ modes designed + ;lunalhn.mmm 'ahn shown wers . tem ray beige, pale Siue ang aauf"" b*et Sport Skirts Twelve I Inches from Ground Paris.â€"§ fushion »hir ie ie tmugr the eve of President Lebrun‘s annual pared elaborate toilettes for the eveâ€" The manner in which Saskatchewen will fulfil! its share in lopping 4,000,â€" 000 acres off Canada‘s area is nci policy “w.‘l::p a are to announced shortly by Hon. M. A. MacPherson, Attorneyâ€"General and treasurer. Regina.â€"Possibilities that Saskatâ€" chewan farmers will be faced by comâ€" pulsory wheat acreage reduction when they sow their 1934 crop are remote, according to Premier J. T. M. Anderâ€" __"If you will come and have a meal with me in January I will serve you a lettuce and tomato salad, fresh from our garden, and strawberries with whipped cream (if the canned cream will whip; if not, beaten egg white). Then there will be plenty of bananas also, if the thieves do not get too many, We have more than 10 Lanches coming on now,. Our garden is best from December to April; after what it is too hot for anything to grow. This year we had about 30 pineapples, and I used them mostly for jam. The Chiâ€" nese use them quite a bit with beef." "The smoke has no outlet, so it setâ€" tes around the room and makes the walls black, The floor is littered with wood or grass for burning and the family pig or chickens, I have more than once had to step over a pig or have one come and lie down with a i.n-tbyudh. Most of the homes, expecially the heathens‘ are built with few or no windows, as the fewer they have the less likely the evil spirits will enter the building. "The doors at the front and back are closed. up tight at night to protect them from thieves; the whole family of pigs, dogs, chickens, and cats brought into the house also. Is it any that so many of the natives are sick? It is always a wonder to me that the chikidren live at all. Most of the bedâ€" reoms are inside rooms with no light: Acreage Reduction "The Ees i O e cce 42 on top, and the rice cooked in this way. When the rice is prepared, then they take a buge fryingâ€"pan, much deeper than curs, and prepare their mevult ARe PAE oo nc c ,_....,,M“M-y own cook has begun to take a pride in keeping the aluminum pots clean, for they always look so nice, and I do not hesitate to tell him so. lflo.h‘ back to the little Chinese home, as enter the woman is sitting on a low stoo!, with a small table in front of her, shelling watermelon meeds to be used for moonâ€"feast cakes, EARTHENWARE POTS. "I have tried my best to think of some places in Canada to which 1 could compare the Chinese kitchen, but have failed. Anyhow, the stoves are open carthenware pots, into which the weed or grass is put; a kettle is placed mmeed en MOTITICDOOL3 with the fleor. This is covered with a mat, .‘m&ohllh!“-““ I‘.u.-uiornnbbdu.llm middle of the room is a table, on which they place their #od. This table, as }..u.u.-wuâ€".uwlv cleaned once a year. It is almost im« pdbhbâ€"blchlnnmd that to keep a place clean is so much better than to clean it after it is dirty, mhatt ERERIE CCC TOCO0C lb cal of the poor, or even middle cast» home of South China. Tke floor i® mud, which is almost as hard as ¢tâ€" ment. On the ~igkt as you enter the door is a bed made of boards, and Muomdnmmlutm T To 1. anucned with a mat. . C uie Wi y Which Are Built With Few or No Windows Writing to the Women‘s Page editof of the Toronto Globe, a woman mis Slonary tells of bomemaking in Châ€"n#: "Homemaking in China is very dif Wfi-uâ€"flnhwl shall describe one place, which is typ!« TC0000 CbAdle manks to shop for antiques, Saw Her Majesty‘s j Is Held Unlikely were . chartereuse "if t