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I had just finishe was filling my pipe vant‘s telegram. | It the big country ho« where I had come t« Loos, and Sandy, wh Aeromtoy ECC OOE case, was hunting for the I flung hbhim the flimsy w sgtrip pasted down en whist‘ ed "Hullo, Dick, you‘ve tallon. Or maybe it‘s You‘ll be a blighted bra it beavy over the hard mental officer. And t« language you‘ve wasted in your time!" || _ I sat name R Rheamatiam Treatmen is 1504s a# Whanmal MOTHER! MOVE ( : cauDys BowBs 0) "California Fig Syrup" Child‘s Best Laxative _ tamt & little or if ut gond. at has oone,. * TV CC U Snss never fail to open the bowels. In a few bours you ca"n see for yourselt how thoroughiy !f works all the consiipa tion polson, sour bile and waste from : the tender, little bowels and gives you w well, playtnl chill again. ; Miltions of mothera keep "Californi® Fig SyruP" bandy. They know a toaâ€" spoonful toâ€"day saves a sick child to morrow. A*k your druggist for genuine »@alitornia Fig Syrup" which has diâ€" erd""" Luhies anrd children of all (Copyrighted Thomas . CHAPTER I. | A Mission is Proposed. ‘ l just finished breakfast and ing my pipe when I got Bulliâ€" jelegriam. It was at Furling, country house in Hampshire had come to convalesce after nd Sandy, who was in the same @¢ nratine tar the marriniade. GREENMANTLE rections and though "Bullivant" e IC" must say "Cal‘ an inutation N# Rheomatism all kinds of Peo $@uUF pfin!!‘d for babi« wa»sterl’ on bra«sâ€"hats «gae + 6t FTreatment. W Rheamatiem, : te the pain it w â€" ‘Irv us and b for a bil carried the hot O1 fhg #yT0P y with en it, wp832t, 10 Guye re mross, feveris olic,. a teaspooun! n the bowels. 11 see for yourse orks all the *« BY JOHN BUCHAN. = Kisg‘s World‘s Q:Qs_tolt t. We troakt Mother! Your | or vou may get: wl be conâ€" boctricity. §t, West. . Toxento, blue he at Nelson and ees‘ed tduring the war. It scemed to have! 1!.',3'. its bearings and broken out into : ‘al manner of badges and uniforms . | which did not fit in with my notion of | it. â€" One felt the war more in its| streets than in the field, or rather one! â€" felt the confusion of war without feelâ€"| \ ing the purpose. 1 dare say it was flll‘ . right, but since August, 1914, I never, ‘spent a day in town without coming| | home depressed to my bocts. | j A took a taxi and drove straight to| \the Forcign Office. Sir Walter did) "not keoep ine waiting lon@. But when :(his secrelary took me to his room 1 would not have recognized the man: H hid known eightcen months before.| af His big frame seemed to have dropâ€"| "! ped flesh and there was a stoop in {the square shoulders. His face had| t,,lcst its resiness and was red in patchâ€"| &/es, like that of a man who gets too "‘litlle fresh air. His hair was much ® greger and very thin about the &/ temples, and there were lines of overâ€" Shuul haknw the aves. But ihe cyC# h I1$ 1| orders 0 ty ToU He pow {} My 1 picnic. You Aze not acrald 0% | ey * Well, in this job you would | e feenting with an army avound | ut alone. You are fond of ing difficulties? Well, I can give‘ a task which will try all your :vs. Have you anythimg to say * y beart was beginning to thump mfortably. â€" Sic Waliter was not man to pitch a case too high. am a sotdier," I said, "and under Sons, Ltd.) HAIRDRESSINC AVENUVE ROAD ue hi but what a \RDRE 1 oppor wll od with starirg® ow at t W ch t1 am about to proâ€" yourscit an he forward Lone Tree?* whole skin red @1 11 "thougn ir 1 would ecamfortâ€" we‘ve wot : now, and nt on getâ€" i week or I thrive on gleep like a Ja W n an‘t think hated the Ol M an niad 1 doors t w shTrapn< wizzically t} et his back ibstractâ€" e wintry you are it there Ww e caln TOLOXTO pose does nol co stretch within t duties 1 sha3 if you declire. I «hould act my U RoPOyie it CR ts .L duties I sha‘! perfectly understan© if you decline. You will be acting as I «sbould act myselfâ€"as any sane man wou‘d. I would not press you for worl‘s., If you wich it, I will not even make the provposal, but let you go here and now, and wish you good luck with your baitalion. 1 do not wish iâ€" navslax a ea~yl «ohiler with imposâ€" 1¢ with your baitalion. I do not WIS" to perplex a gosd soldier with imposâ€" sible decisions." ‘This piqued me and put me on my mottle. To m 26 Aanfwe sn m «way before mott‘e. "I am not going to run AWAY before| the guns fire. Let me hear what you|! propose." ‘ Sir Walter crossed to a cabinet, unâ€" leked it with a key from his chain,| and took a piece of paper from a drawor. â€"It looked like an ordinary halfâ€"sheet of note paper. , "I take it," be said, "that your travels have not extended to the East." | [ ."Noy‘ I said, "barring a shooting |trip in East Africa." | ? "Have you by any chance been fo!-‘ (lowing the present campaign there?"; \ _ _"IP‘ve read the newspapers gretty regularly since I went to hospital. I‘ve| got some pals in the Mesopotamia show, and of course I‘m keen to know‘ \what is going to happen at Gallipoli ‘and Snlonika. I gather that Egypt lis pretty safe." } i "If you will give me your attention {s . "ake "minntas . L will suppement M AT»EM Y "I‘ve read the n regulariy since J we got some pals in show, and of course what is going to h and Snlonika. I & is pretty safe." "If vou will give for ten minutes i WItl SUpPIOTMICA® your newspaper reading." Sir Walter lay back in an armâ€"chair ard spoke to the ceiling. It was the hest story, the clearest and the fullâ€" est. I had ever got of any hit \:f t{\e war. He toid me just how NU "..6 and when Turkey had left the rails. 1 heard about her grievances over our seizure of her ironclads, of the misâ€" chief the coming of the Goeben had wrought, of Enver and his precious Committee and the way they had got a cinch on the old Turk,. When he had maken for a bit, he began to quesâ€" a cinch on Lae OR 4 spoken for a bit, tion me. "You are an into you will ask how a monnine Enver, & piayed so SMuIT 65 37 Sheitkhâ€"ulâ€"Isiam â€" is though the Kaiser â€" War and calls hims med Guilliamo, and zollerns are descend answer that Islam in coming a back nuny Krupp guns are the ne I don‘t know. I do n« in Islam becoming a b "Look at i went on, "If many alone d European wA Turk cared a expect to find dient, and Cor provinces, . w there would t counted on t} disappointed. fanstical as t 1 The Senuss: hayv game. The P threatening tro wind blowing t the parched gri And the wind is Indian border. wind, think you Sip Waliter h K EVE P w A R M ( But speed the day fot Small Square Oil Burner i'tnl pass ',‘-..,, stow s eneath that 10veY e n will te anizatio ney and uire Ag mavrily a nP ga0, PHLEUT LT ENALL SQUAR~ OIL BURXEER P.G. Box 515, Eiation F, Toronto, Can. te P y Weice NE RI NTE EOc d ever got of any bit of the e to!ld me just how and why n Turkey had left the rails. about her grievances over Oiur of her ironclads, of the misâ€" s coming of the Goeben ,had ‘:‘)'\. MADUEW OWB CRCC CC cyrecct nin the scope of a soldier‘s OZCC P in Ee Grenat To get this Just mail thi&fl t come by any °°m°if“ble & l BB nate hat Islam in Turkey :s beâ€"| ~"A "C0â€" 000 C lua wesld uts a back number, and that| "Dis even as the world outs ns are the new gods. Yetâ€"| But there, "Thou‘rt weary, now. 1 do not quite believe} mine; becoming a back number." | Use thou my feet instead of t at it in another way," he}| "If it were Fnver and Gerâ€", Old Joseph, toiling manfully me dragging Turkey into A| At joiner‘s tasks from day r)'e ;V’f" !‘;:‘j‘ p-“b‘g):tsesw;h;:ti '}‘10 Looks up with workâ€"worn eye ) ‘fin‘:ll the rc::zulm? army ‘o%et} Strong hands thet bear th d Constantinople. | But in the awas. s s, _ where Islam _ is strong,‘ "My yoke is done, thine K001 uld be trouble. Many of us, Take thou thy rest and ts on that. But we have been| ... as*" ated. The Syrian army is as| Theé swarming children striv as the hordes of the Mahdi.| And one falls burt, a puny 1 aesi have taken a hand in the‘ Unmarked save by His pityi The Persian Mosliems are! Arnd eager hands that res ino trouble. ‘There is 2 dfY| "Like as a mother comforte!l amo, and says LNC AIUOD® re descended from the Pr . seems to have fallen pret e ordinary man again W hat Islam in Turkey is L i back number, and th ns are the new gods. Yet Royal Securities Corporation, Limited Kan: Address s the hordes of i have taken a 1 ie Persian Mo c trouble. â€" Ther n# through the d grasses wait ind is blowing t F4 6 ase * w 6: «l intelligent fellow, nnd} mboubetinti x a Polish adventurer,| The olives girdle ? & BATomt To ul o cmegy. ough the East, and ses wait the spar. blowing towards the Whense comes that weret his voice 18 Ling Street West, Teronto me "Investment ltems" and other Niterature nple toj hot ,al:-‘ ; y s t n1 n Todam ! _ "It looks as if Islam had a biggetr hand in the thing than we thought," I ,said. "I fancy religion is the only thing to knit up such a scattered |empive." | (To be continued.) and was speaking very Si0OW MXV . °_ tinct. 1 could hear the rain dripping from the eaves of the window, and far off the hoot of the taxis in Whj,t{- hall. 5 @cHave vyou an explanation, Hanâ€" mes Dye Old Curtains, Sweater or Skirt in Diamond Dyes "Mamond Dyes" aqq years of wear to worn, faded skirts, walsts, coats.1 stockings, sweaters, coverings, bang ings, â€" draperies, everything. FRvery: package contains directions 80 simple mny woman can put new, rich, fadeless polors into her worn garments . Or draperies oven if she has never dyed before, Just buy Diamond Dyesâ€"1n0 othor kindâ€"then your material â€" will come out right, because Diamond Dyes are guaranteed . not to streak, spot. fade, or run. 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Even so then let it be, i ar AnasA tha dax tor tim and me." Thus pass the slow years one by one. Beneath that lovely thatch of brown, Till all the tender tasks are done That lit the squalor of the town. Incarnate love more sttong than death, The Christ fares forth from Nazareth. (God help us all in Nazareth). â€"pKlearor Duncan Wood in Youths‘ Companion,. mss w sns mm mmom Minard‘s Liniment for Burns & Scealds NURSES The Nazareth. ph, toiling manfully layr‘s tasks from day to day, lF you are an intestor you certainly ought to read it. Send us your name and address on this coupon now and we wil send you the latest issue,.» No charge ind trust to me." corn eyes to see bear those tasks shall be; 1s% Tombe des Anglais. (Some unknown warriors lie in one large grave in the forest between Sois sons and Villersâ€"Cotterets. This grave, which is known A8 "Tombe des ADS: lais," _ (Englishmen‘s Grave,") is boautifully tended by & French family ven n ol sh aet semaviadl Deautiduiiy OBuet 22 °000 col of Villersâ€"Cotterets, and is railed round to keep the deer from trampling it.) ____.._0â€"‘-â€"â€"' Minard‘s Liniment for Coughs & Colds: amamepnamemmnertfpemee ce mt His Funeral. h d hi o io l t id fitccde dn ic h i I plied: "It is so that when she has an acho in one she can use the other one." Sleep, in this forest plot, Unknown for ever, Though France forgotteth not Your last endeavor, Marriags Token. When a woman in Sia she blackens her teeth to marriage state. AVET PPWWONECCOCC Your own shall find the spot Never, ab, never! In Siclly a married at t ing the legal Sun on the forest wide, But not for your seeing, Nor how down each green rlde Red deer go fieeing. Bright youth, a martyr, died, France, in thy freeing. 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SomeLong is his volce, however, as be chatied i: Russian, caused me to look up. "Who is he?t" J asked a wa‘tor. "The smallest man in the world, air â€"Andre Ratoucheff. He is twenty years of age, and ounly twentrâ€"six incl es in beight, HMe often comes in here for tea. The tail man with him is his father," I dctormined to know them, writes a London newspaper man. _ _The smalest man in the world is ‘[one of the most fascinating prrsons ! have ever met, . Mis bead . ®< arcely reachos the level of an ordinary table He worrs a minute monocle, and on his fourth fAinger, which is the length of an ordinary man‘s thumbâ€"jolat, # tiny ring in which is set an exquisitely carved cameo. Uses Furniture to Fit. His clothes are of the latest cut. The tiny doubleâ€"breasted lounge euit he was wearing was of a style the most fastidious man might have en« vied, Everything, even the four black bone buttons whic» fastened his jacko‘ had been specially made for him. Ratoucheff has an extensive and upâ€" todate wardrabe. 1 trembled as a large dog belonging to the proprietor of the hotel brushed by the c air on A whinh he was meated. That dog could of the hotel brushed which he was seated. have annibilated Sim He is smailler than any child of four yet he is an intolligent, cultured mal and a great artist, He speuke no Eng lish, but in French and German he i as fluent as in his own language. This tiny man comes from a eo.on) of twenty two Russian midgets, man) of whom had to fiee from the Bolshe Â¥1ks. His parents are normal people, and he is one of the phenomena of buman(â€" ty for which there is no rccounting. When he spoke to me his voice wa« as hish nitched and Autelike as that of When ha «poke to as high pitched and | a child. Wherever ho goes set of furniture. | H ered in an ordinary in an ordiuary Lbath â€"bed. bath, chali table, chest, « and tiny }a every where. he fitted into The midget‘s food, though the 8 kind as that eaten by an ordinary m is less in queut‘ty than a haby wo need to keep it going Chicken, 12« paddings, fruait, milk, winesâ€"anyth will form part of the mealâ€"â€"but w the liitle man helps himself fromw dish it is difficuit to see whether quantity has been reduced at all. An average meal would be a piece of meat an inch square, a quarter of & potato, a small amount of cabbage, and as muc‘ soup as could be poured into an eggâ€"cup. This would b followâ€" ed by a cofféeeâ€"saucer full of pudding, a couple of grapes, Or A tiny plese of a«pple. . phuil in i NX is n Ratoucheff‘s hand writing dashing, ratber pointed in and larger than that of fatber. The smaliest man in the me, with indiference, that a gom expect to live after years of age, b; which tin whiteâ€"hatred and old. "Bu added, "what does it matte happy while we live, and w to die some day?" How many people ksnow the « of the phrase, "a mare‘s nest*" Certainly "mare" in this cas« nothing to do with a Lorae. it corruption of "mara," a meleryole mon who, according to tradition sessed a noest filled with won jewels and gold. Whether this tienular demon ever existed is . jewels and gold. Wu ticular demon ever e® ful, but he certainly speech, for whenever "nightmares" we are sctously evoking the sa svirit. When we say ihat som worth a rap" most of ns a "rap" means a rap of But the origin of this from the days of Gearg "TAp â€" WAas & eousic: passed off for a halla The expression, "I « comes from Italy, vrived from "Aee," the 1 for a snap of the fug« At ore time bake: keavily for giving they threw in an ext1 they were on the «i we got the phrase, "~. Nowadays a "blu« a woman who is dov has nothing to do w Origin of Familiar Phrases ,'! I saw your face but | Aand yet it Teems | Bince then the hour | Without a song. in the sixteenth con‘ in Paris and Venice ed women who wore ings to distinguish 1| ca‘tured members of Don‘t forg« ean‘t oat adv‘ Midgets Never Live Long ON EARTh. 1 n os he takes I He would be Â¥ hed and ¢ h A complete auil€ irs, table, dreesing iwers, writingâ€"tosk accompanies bin whole outft coul nall trunk. Sony. the latest cut,. ed lounge euit of a style the mirht have °D: in the world . that midget e after thirt wich time the; d. "But then eyos from m» tstecs passec Somethbing i: e chatled i: tha matter gest nd we we ve a). go. ling is bold and 4 in character, of his sixâ€"foot a tor. ; world, &ir is twenty tyâ€"six inchâ€" r10s in here un in h W MJ m hy th i1 ‘The | tw« n H A 1M mng n _â€"_Rend CS2AT 5, lucrs W <pl i y .. We + igine Cylin Tire Metallic * tC1 Cuarant« t3 4 Kine St. Â¥ a»l F24 «$ tm Wr ie n