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A m, to tell him of her plans. | m-------- PAGE TEN a TE In the Realm of Woman \ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1918. Sd efi Si en SL ; ee eo Cm OR A RE PR nd -- Some Interesting Features ife" By Jane Phelps BRIAN AND MOLLIE ARE UNCONSCIOUS TH A T .. CHAPTER LXXI. =~ Fhe next morning; recalling that he hed made an engagement to take Mellle to dinner that night, so fil- ile Bis evening, Brian wrote Ruts a short note as wellcds replying to her wire. Then he went about his 68 duties whistling gayly. = His duty 9%, he wag free to anticipate ae of the évening.. There was a time when women had no choice. They were either w! , or, failing that, daughters. No'rivalry between business aud wifehood SXjsted. Now Ruth, ty a telds, had realized = that rivalry {rom the /ne she had gone to work Tor: Arthur Mandel--realized it dut w no slightest idea of sur- I Ig either. 4 and a career € Was young, strong, am- 'Bhe loved Brian, she all in her power to make Y.. She was intensely in- in her work, and would do hing possible to make it a ui intended to keep a , Sweet home for Brian. She 'not allow her business even to ereep 1Mto her talks with him. Yet she w ed to talk of Why ust force herself to do the wanted to WATCHED, . Tonely hotel room, that the deubts came; that the jealous thoughts made her unhappy. Often she wondered if, had she been less keen for her own inde- pendence, she could have helped Brian: to push himself more rapidly. Always ghe deelded, no! if it wasn't In him, she could do no mors than she hud done. Yet always there was Brian--alone, and--Moflie King One moment Ruth would grow cold at the possibility of losing Brian's love, the next a wave of something very like defiance would rush over her. " But all this was when she Brian were separated. 86 now she wondered if he were misging her--wondered, and longed to know. While Brian, satisfied that she would have her wire fiom him before night, her letter the next morning, closed the office early and went to meet Mollie King. They had decided to dine at one aud {Of the village restaurants, a place patronized by strangers in the city as well as by the villagers them- selves. Strange, it should happen that on that very night Arthur Mandel had consented to join a party at that vy restaurant for dinner. He cared nothing for such places, but _ they [were out-of-town business acquaint- ances, so he went along. With the perversity of fate, fhey 4 3 do. to talk of . ) in /which he was in- te ed. only for his sake, but for: sake of her own happiness. r Ruth was away from #Re felt that notning in the | Was worth very much without | ip bis spproval. She was disturb- | doubts, and often by jealous | th ts. Yet never did she allow w of this\to affect her work. * That must be done, and done. to the | i 9f ber ability. It was in the | 'When she sat aloné in some were given a table next to that al- ready occupied by Brian and Mollie. "I hope that good looking man, the one with the dark hair and eyes, will know us the next time he sees us," Mollie whispered to Brian. "Perhaps he knows you..He hasn't taken his eyes off us since he sat down." "It is more than likely he is Lry- ing to tlirt with you." Brian's quick Jealousy inimediately aroused. Had ALKING ~~ With Lorna Moon IT OVER THEY ARE he known thaé it was Ruth's .ém- ployer who evinced such an interdyt he might have been more careful in his remark, which, judging from Mandel's etpfession, he, had. over- heard. \ "Let him ftry! that's all the good ik will do. Now, Brian, tell. me all about yourselt," and soon, the next table and [ts occupants forgotten, Brian was/ telling Mollie King, the sympathetic, of his worries, and his hope of yithmate success Abhur/ Mandel emmght much of what he. said, as Brian's voice was of a penetrating quality, even when he spoke in a low volee. Then after & while, their dinner finished, they rose to go. As they passed the table where Mandel and his guests were seated, Brian said distinctly: "We'll go there to-morrow night." "So it's every might when she's away," Mandel thought gs he watch- od them leave. . "Shes a pretty girl, but the man's a fool, Ruth is worth a dozen of her," he had iately taken to thinking of his employee as "Ruth" although he always address- ed her punctilioudly as 'Mrs. Hack- ott." During the remainder of his stay at the restaurant, hie was the gayest one at the table. Surely things were happening that would eventually throw Ruth into his arms. He could afford to walt. She was worth serv- ing seven years for, if necessary. And ghe had refused to take a couple of days' rest at the Springs because e, that young fool, would be lone- iy! That night Arthur Mandel slept soundly. Happy in the thought that he would soon make up to Ruth for all the neglect Brian made her suffer. To-morrow--Mollle Is *Dangerous- ly Sympathetic. re gm A ot ledge will remain, to greaten our a The Message What & glorious autumn day this is. Fasnl'fer a walk along the # morning. I wish have taken the whole * What a panacea | fs found in the sunlignt. It seems that na- re tried to biend He good of all the seasons into cest # lap? of the iworld; "striving perhaps to leave a ote memory fol lierself fa we taink kindly a of "her as whe Bats under her 'white coverlet. artist of them all, she i mn , and valley and canvases; lavish grey branches of Autumn. adorns a valley side with glowing crimson; then in soberer mood she woos the dying leaves to a gentle yellow. Or with glorious' abandon she turns a hesitating world into a thing of aggressive beauty in orange and gold; bending her sunny smile upon the water which quivers in @cstacy as it mirrors her face. Greatest physician of them all, she signals on = "all's well" lo a world of weary hearts ere she goes to sleep. On the glorified face of the valley side is a message of. cheer from the leaves that rustle down- ward tq their brown couch there is a whisper of hope, and in the bare that wait patiently there is a promise that spring will come again. It is the medcine time, the time of healing when nature offers te take our troubles 16 sleep with her. She \ Will bury them away with the falling 'leaves and when spring refusnt she wiil bring them again, but the sting, and the. bitterness will have gone, she laughingly only the good browa niold of kmow- 5 Yo 23 ER PE i ; & souls and widen our sympathy. D LORNE -M'GIBBON, MONTREAL. The president of the Holden-de- Cready Co. - So ---------------- _ The, death occurred on Friday morning at her home, Sherwood Springs, of Eleanor Stewart, wife of Smith Latham, aged seventy-eight years. : x Imperial Bonds In the Making - A» ONAR LAW, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, and*Wal- 'ter Long, British Colonial Secretary, have made it clear that the Imperial Government has at last accepted the principle of inter Imperial preferential trade, but that it will not be carried out until after the war. It may, theréfore, not be without interest to review the evolu- tion of this inter-Imperial preferen- 4 r ¥ - < Ca a a tial trade matter since the time when Oct the Tmperial Federation League came into existence in-the Motherland un- der the presidency of the Rt. Hen, W. E. Foster, M.P., on July 29, 1884. The object of the league was to bes cure by federation the permanent unity of the Empire. The basis de- manded that no scheme should inter- fere with the existing rights of Local Parliaments as regards local affairs; that it should combine on an equit- able' basis the resources of the Em- pire for the maintenance of common interests, and adequately provide for an. organized defence of common rights. In the following year, on May 9, 1865, a a branch was {formed at Montreal with Dalton McCarthy, M.P, as president. In 1887, on March 19, the first Colonial Confer- ence was opened in London, and, from an Imperial preference point of view, it might well be considered a notable event, Then and there it was that Mr. Hofmeyr expounded a scheme, advocated by the Cape delegates, as "The feasibility of pro- moting a closer union betwecen the various parts of the British Empire by means of an. Iniperial tariff of cus. toms, to be levied independently of the duties payable under existing tar- iffs, on goods entering the Empire from abroad, the revenue derived from such tariff to be devoted to the general defence of the Empire." It was not long before the trade end of Imperfal Federation began to receive some attention in Canada, and on March 24, 1888, at a league meeting held in Toronte, it was adopted: "That the Imperial Federation League of Canada make it one of the objects of its organization to ad- voeate a tride policy between Great Britain and her colonies by means of which a dijerimination in the ex- change of nitural and manufactured products shall be made in favor of one another pnd against foreign na- tions, and that the substance of this resolution be brought before the Dominion | anfent fof thelr" ean: sideration at én early date." Further, on March 1, 1892, the Imperial Federation League of Can- ada adopted: "That in JUS waht a inter-Imperial erent! rade relations being adopted in the British Empire, it is the opinion of this @ague {hat Canada will be found ready and willing to bear her share in. a just and reasonable propcrtion of. Jmperias Thspenuuiticies. At the second Colonial Canterates, held a1 Ottawa in 1894, the principle of in- ter-Imperial - preferential trade, on motion of the Hon. Geo. E. Foster, ir. r W , was SER Rn ER Xeapun England a Defence Com- mit es a | to be more and more assuming controt, demanding contribution for defence from over- seas dominions without any con- sideration of the trade side, holding that such was sordid and heresy to free trade doetrine. This led finally to the disruption of the league, in which Sir Charles Tupper played no minor role. The whole question, however, was focussed . by a master-hand, brought back to the forefrontof practical polities, when, at a Canada Siub-dinger "in Lo on March 28, 1896, Joseph Chamberlain, in a mag- nificent speech, asked: "What is the greatest of our common obligations? It is defence. What is the greatest of our common interests? It is Im- perial trade," and he ended his elo- quent address by quoting the verse of Thomas Mhcfarlane, of Ottawa, who, with Jehu Matthews, of the To- ronto Mail, was one of the staunch- | est pioneers of inter. prefor- ential trade: "Unite the Empirs--~smake it stand smonidr rio shoulder Tet ita mem: The L0uek of British, Brotherhood; Pv and |. WORK RESUMED AT PLANT. The Operationg are to mmediately. Trenton, Oct. 28. --The * Impérial Munitions . Board, Ottaws, which owns and operates the explosives plant at Trenton, will Immedmtely start operations; the output being very essential. This is the official statement received from Ottawa. Up at the plemt the ¢!'ferent buildings which were untouched by the fire, such as the power plant and 'the acid lines, have resumed opera- tions to their full capacity. All the railway tracks are intact, the head offices, time and different admihis- tration offices, Y.M.C.A. buildinz, all of which were unharmad to any extent have the appearance of ming as bus) 2 before the explosion of ail . A Positive Luxury in Infusion Ca Pure Tea, without admixture . . . of Any Kind, foreign to its growth. "SALAD" - has the reputation of nearly a quarter of a ~ century behind every packet sold 8437 Gangs of men are at work clear- ing away the debris at the site of the T.N.T. and guncotton linos : CASTORIA For Infants and Children DRIVE THROUGH THRACE. more Opposition Would Collapse Before Golden Horn Reached. London, Oct. 28. The Evening Standard publishes the following statement from a British admiral: Ane condition to which the Ans- than would collapee reached the Golden Horn City. 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