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Now evening hovers; the ashen web of trees Blends with a heaven of ashes, then 'Wh got an: 'When, swift! the foam- ne Nw es, In skiey curves of cold ethereal white : | that a son has arrived, "BY REX BEACH SYNOPSIS 'When Lee Ying, a prosperous Chinese merchant of Announces 0} Dunne knows that the child is Jeally a White foundling, Sam Lee, raised as Ying's son, attends Eastern College but nds a social t, "plays sent to Paris by Les Jing to marry Sam. Bverett vens and her d: gry fail, abr be- it to Bathurst an English He meets Alanna Wagner. hey fall in love. Alice Hart tells Wag- ner Sam is Chinese, and Alanna, in a rage, publicly horsewhips Sam. In re- sponse to a cablegram, Sam boards a liner for home, but Lee Ying dies before his arrival e takes Lee Ying's body back to China, but finds he cannot ac- custom himself to that country. tens CHAPTER XXII.--(Cont'd.) Furthermore his father's people | were no more foreign to him than he was to them, He spoke their lan- guage, to be sure, but as for attaining intellectual contact with them they re- mained as unsympathetic and as aloof as Eskimos. Such persons of conse- quence as he met were polite, accom- modating; he was shown much consid- eration but he seldom saw the inside of their homes. His reputed wealth and his evident accomplishments made him a personage but he was eyed with curiosity and with distrust; nobody believed that he honestly wished to be- come one of them. He remained a sort of biological anomaly, a deviation from type, and obviously they resented him: In their opinion he had a half- breed mind and it lost him caste, This unwelcome conviction was borne home upon him in the course of time. He lived at a great hotel, in a style befitting his means, but he perished of loneliness, He knew better than to seek company among its guests or among the white residents of the for- eign settlement, for he had learned that the racial line was drawn even more clearly here than at home. | Home? Yes, he thought of America | now as home. | Even thé children in the streets re- fused to make friends with him, and if Chinese children were as unman- nerly as those of New York they would have made faces at him and showered him with stones, for to them he was exactly what he had been to the kids of Mulberry Bend Park. As it was they eyed him like owls and followed him only so long as he dis. tributed presents among them. Steadily he grew more homesick: he could not sleep: food nauseated him. One day a panic seized him; hurriedly he flung his things together and fled to the docks. It was no use: he was whipped. China had disowned him, stoned him out. Once again, in a rag- ing fury, he locked himself into his stateroom. None but a Chinese could have re- turned, after months of absence, to find his house in order and his busi- ness--a business as important as that of the Palace of Imperial Bounty - did exactly that. He came unannounced, but the stately residence on the roof was as tidy, as spotless, as thoroughly aired as when he had left it. At sound of their master's voice the cook and the two house-boys, friendly, adoring souls, pattered into his pres- ence and kow-towed before him, They were the prey to soul-stirring emo- { tions, their eyes were streaming, agi- | tated words of welcome and of thanks- giving poured from their lips. Moy, Sam's valet, was even more deeply affected than they: an ague shook Lim, he abased himself, he stroked his employer and patted him, he laughed, he cried: like a shadow he followed him from room to room, voicing ex- travagant compliments, Sam felt a stinging in his own eyes and a pain in his throat. Here was love and honor and dignity, here was his home, Other faithful friends were waiting in the great bazaar to wel- come him, already news of his arrival had sped thither and the place was in turmoil, It was on the streets of Chinatown, by now. These were his people: his wanderings were at an end, * His first act, when he had cleaned and robed himself befittingly, was one of filial devotion. Alone he entered the little teakwood room where the joss sticks smoldered and knelt before the messiah of his father's faith. On the wall beside the brooding idol hung a gold plate engraved with the legend of Lee Ying's'name and to this he bowed his head. cer flame in a chimney. running smoothly, efficiently. Sam Lee J > son had stricken the father. Resent- ment blazed in Sam's mind like the Enemies. So be it! His liking for | them had turned to loathing: In their j eves Chinese were sly, rapacious, vin- he would live up to that reputation: he would use them as despitefully ns they had used him and his father. The weapons with which to do so were ready made: he was rich, he was a man of influence. Lee Ying's philan- men he would carry on and add to, but aside from that he would use his riches and his power against those who had humiliated him and his par- ent, Opportunities in this direction pre- sented themselves as time went on and he seized them. With his own people he was easy and liberal, in his deal- ings with Americans he was hard. Chinatown had always looked upon him as an unusual person, but the gossip and the speculation he provok- ed had not been invariably flattering. Respect for his learning and his ac- complishments was genuine, but it had been tempered with distrust if not with actual resentment. All that quickly changed. When the people of Mott and Pell and Doyers Streets be- came convinced that the son of Lee Ying proposed to carry on his father's business as usual and to maintain, nay add to, that man's good works, he be- came enormously popular. Smiling faces greeted him, the blessings of health, happiness and longevity were called down upon him. As the successor to a great fortune and the proprietor of an important business, Sam naturally became an object of interest to a number of peo- ple, some of whom were genuinely ambitious and some of whom were merely unscrupulous. A "college-bred Chino-American in his twenties aad without business. experience was a target at which more than one pro- fessional promoter aimed a thrust. Cunning plans were laid to interest him in every sort of enterprise. Not all of these were unsound but Sam so regarded them and he took derisive pleasure in exposing their hollowness and in humiliating their proposers. In this he had some success and as a re- sult the acid in him turned more sour. He gained considerable satisfaction in dealing as harshly as possible with the white people he came in contact with and meanwhile his contempt for their shams and their hypocrisies grew: They were an avaricious race, nothing was sacred to them; their laws were oppressive and their justice was corrupt; their religion was a mockery and their virtue was as empty as a drum. As for himself, he heeded no restraints except those laid down by his honorable father's teachings, and respected nothing but his own de- sires. Mr. Carter, his attorney, one day spoke to Eileen Cassidy about the change in his client. "Your hero, Sam Lee, isn't much like his father, is he? Lee Ying was one of the finest, gentlest characters I ever met, but the boy is harder than nails," Eileen nodded. "Yes. He isn't the same fellow I used to know." "It's a queer, racial atavism; in spite of all his education and his ad- vantages he's more Chinese than his father was. He's charitable enough to his own people, he's even more popu-~ lar with them than Lee Ying was, but he's positively malevolent towards everybody else. Sometimes I think he almost hates me and I'm sure he doesn't trust me in the least. His own lawyer!" : "HARDER EGG SHELLS Keep this good Canadian shell-making product con- stantly before your laying hens, and keep your good Canadian dollars at home where they are worth 100 cents. AN ALL-CANADIAN PRODUCT 98% Calcium Carbonate SHELL-MAKER is better Oyster 'dictive and untrustworthy. Very well, thropies in aid of their own country- | th Can you blame him?" Eileen ia- quired, "The white people have give: him a pretty rough deal. I'd ha. em, too." J ' "No doubt. : And I'm sincerely soiry for him. .,. Somehow I've nove: been able to think of Sam as a Chin- ese, I never forgot what his father was, for everything about him was Oriental. The boy used to be different. It never struck me that he had ar Eastern mind. And of course Lee Ying always spoke of him so queeriy: Son of the Gods! I never could make out what he meant. I asked him once but he didn't tell me much." "How dreadful if he were really white," Eileen said. "Um-m! But he isn't. Lee Ying was an honorable, a conscientious man: the one thing he dreaded most of all was that Sam would mar.y some white girl. No further danger of that." fF Now that Sam was known to be in complete control of his own affairs, certain of his former college friends endeavored to capitalize their ac- quaintance with him and among the The cult of the family is the founda- 'tion of French life, It is customary in newspaper articles to write that the French have not even the word home" or itg precise equivalent in their lang- uage, and the deduction is that the French differ entirely from the Anglo- Saxon peoples in their disregard for family life. It is amazing how such ab- surdities tan prevail. 1f the French |differ from the Anglo-Saxons in one thing more than another it is in their far greater regard for the home. | France is built upon the home: the whole system of society is constructed on the foyer. i Foyer may or may not be as good a word' as home -- besides meaning hearth, it is also applied to the green room of "the themtre--and chez nous for the British and the Americans may not contain such depths of significance and affection as the expressions to which they are accustomed, but it is number was Kicker Wade. Wade came to see him one day and announc- ed in his breezy, hearty way that it was high time he and Sam renewed the bonds that had united them at Eastern. He had been intending for some time to drop in and say hello to his old pal, but--you know! Sam certainly had been missed at the uni- versity, Dirty shame he had been fired. All that hooey over a frail! Colleges were the bunk, anyhow, and about all a man got out of them were his acquaintances. (To be continued ) iat asthma s Skimmed Milk Defended By Columbian Professor The discovery of Vitamin G and its attributes shows skimmed milk to 'have a much higher food value than has previously been known according to Professor Henry C, Sherman, of the department of chemistry at Columbia University, who urges modification of any "unreasonable anti-skim milk leg- (islation" that may have the effect of depriving the human family of this food. x "Means should be sought to bring much more of the available skimmed milk supply into human consumption," Professor Sherman deciares, "not in competition with whole milk, but for the improvement in nutritive value of foods into which whole milk either does not enter or enters only to a limited and already standardized ex- tent." Discussing such advertising methods as the use of standardized names, des- criptive labels and phrases like "vita- min rich," Professor Sherman points out the distinction between Vitamins B, D and B, which are common and can be artificially irradiated into foods, and Vitamins A, C and G. Vitamins A, C and G, he says, cop- tribute to the attainment of higher standards of health, possessing and ex- erting a health value in amounts much larger than are contained in most American dietaries. Research, Pro- fessor Sherman continues, shows that increased consumption of these vita- mins far beyond the amounts actually required to prevent deficiency dis- eases, will benefit the body. The full, antl-infective value of Vitamin A de- mands at least four times as much as is needed for normal growth, he says. rn w-- Higher Education Dr, Robert A. Millikan in the At- lantic Monthly (Boston): Are we not overdoing this whole business of higher education? In numbers, yes! While we are indeed now over- stocking the white-collar class by pouring out from our Universities great hordes of people who have net the aptitude and the capacities for effective intellectual "labour, and by letting local influences force the ex- pansion of so-called junior colleges into superfluous colleges, carpenter, the barber, the bricklayer, the typist, and the housekeeper for great task that now lies before our we can| scarcely overdo the training of the the wise use of the leisure which |. the advance of science and its ap-| plication are affording. This is the |: laughable to judge of their associa- tions in the French mind by their as- sociations in ours. They mean at least as much as 'home," and the hearth is really a family centre from which the Frenchman rarely drifts. The Baoglish- man's home 'may be his castle, but it is a castle into which most anybody can enter, at almost any time, Tho French on their side declare that *"charbon- nier est maitre chez Jul," He is not only master in his own home, but he is not disposed to open the doors free- ly to anyone who is not of the family. This is true not only of a class but of every class. The working 'man, bourgeois, and the nobility are not ready to admit into their intimacy those who are not connected by blood or by 'marriage with them. There exist, of course, political and literary salons--though they are less numerous than they used to be--and there are social receptions as in other countries, but these semi-public af- fairs scarcely take one int» the pri vacy of the home. It is much more difficult to penetrate into that privacy, not only for the foreigner but for the Frenchman, than it would be in our own country. It wonld be a shocking breach of manners to drop in even on a friend, in France. The h are, in short, firmly closed. Sometintes when a visitor from America or from England came to France, 1 would present him perhaps to the President of the Republic, per- haps to the Prime Minister, perhaps to half-a-dozen other notabilities. There was never any difficulty in making the arrangements, but to present him to a private family was an entirely different matter. I came to the conclusion that it is much easier for the duly-qualified person to be received by the Head of the State and by the Ministers in France than, let'us say, in England, Masri 'woman iy i not mevemary to es. It is just a 0 headaches. | Justa 0 the obtained only with considerable trouble; but that on the other hard, the foreigner in England or America would find the great houses welcoming him much more than the foreigner in France would find corresponding hotises welcoming him, What.is true of France is equally true of other Lat- in countries. It & ould be borne in mind that in a peculiar sense tae French guard the sanctity : the home. "Sisley Huddleston in "France and the French." --ip---- Fashion Dooms Python "It is complained {rom South Africa that ' the prevailing fashion in wo- men's bags and shoes will soon make the python an extinct serpent. With- in the last year, it is reported, 12,000 python skins were prepared for ship- ment abroad at Pretoria, the Trans- vaal colony: It is declared that the python is not a venomous serpent and has never | been known to attack a human being unless in defence, and has, "tradi- tion and travelers' tales to the con- trary, never killed a man." The Pretoria correspondent of The Daily Telegraph of London qualifies this by saying: "When the matter is carefully investigated, it is proved that there is hardly a single instance on record of a man being killed by one" he adds: "On the contrary, i is being pointed out that pythons are highly usefnl things' to have about the place. 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Dept. 20, Dennis Avenue, Toronto 9 I -------- ssid 7 _ | where an audience of the K: . would | se 1 have found nothing since ] ther Sng ancoment, but neither Pro fessor Pickering's discovery nor that lanets." Ek Professor Bendandi has just finis ed his book, "A Fundamental Prine position of his first planet beyond Neptune in line with his announces ment of last year : "There is no planet to be found in the position indicated by Professor Pickering," says 3endandi: "There are bodies beyond Neptune of gigantie size, as I have already announced on March 25 and 26, 1930, but not one off these bodies is found in the constella~ t'on marked by Professor Pickering. "Plato, which has been proved to be dandi, "and therefore a star of no importance, cannot, under any circuu= stances be considered worthy to belong to the eight planets composing the sun's family, "Neptune is always subject to per turbations, but these are not to be attributed to Pluto, because, besides being of altogether insingificant di- mensions, it is more than 50 degrees of heliocentric longitude from Neptune and therefore in a position that it would be impossible to perturb Nep- tune. "The perturbations of Neptune are too vast to be attributed to a small mass such as Pluto." Bendandi's book orn the aew basie principle of the solar system was pub- lished in Italy last August, It delves: ceeply into the subject of the sun's spots; solar perturbations and the hy potheses of solar phenomena. Astronomy for Bendandi is only a side issue, He has been chiefly noted for his exact predictions of earthquakes. tf - Keeping Guard in Scarlet . ' It is a bright sunny morning. At the Castle gateway the Guard is chang- ing; the word of command echoes un- der the arch; a rattle of bushied Grenadiers comes on up the hill, marching all rouni about the Castle, | dropping. sentries and pickinz up sen- itrles You enter into the relief from jennui of the picked-up ma. swinging into step with tI: . others, also into the man dropped, as his comrades' march- ing footsteps die away. Surely, if he happens to be of . patient, receptive disposition, it must be pleasant being on sentry duty up at the Castle. For instance, out there--on the North Ter- race "bosomed high in tufted trees"-- he can actually look down into the rook's nests! t However stifly he must hold him- self he can watch the winding river, the boats like water-beetles upon it, and the lively town down below him} the carts and carriages, the hawkers, children, and dogs coming down the hill under the Curfew tower, He can see into the crooked streets which 'ITun out to the river where the poor Swarm, and the Italian organ-grinders and icecream mei live. He can see, too, right out in!) the shire with its heavy elm trees; and there to the right a little way across the meadows, he sees Bton College, its dark brick towers and battlements," It he had very good eyesight he might even see me, a speck, as, yawning and shutting up my book, I come to the window and lean out to enjoy the panorama which also contains him keeping guard in scarlet among grey battlements, -- From "A Nineteenth Century Child hood," by Mary McCarthy, ee fee en. False Ambition of the local observatery indicates that they have fixed one of these four finishe - ciple of the Universe," which fixes the an asteroid," continues Professor Ben- mood of silence, which envelops the _