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L i THE MAELSTROM BY FRANK FROEST. Late Superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard. "I can't express how I felt. My quick anger against my father was no less intense than his lon-g-nurs/d hatred. "We talked long. I finally re- fused his offer to go "oack to Canada, and told him that I would n^ver take another penny from my father. He was against that. He argued that it ws the least Mr. Greye-Stratton could do for me. When ne saw I was determined he pointed out the possibility that I might ba Mr. Greye-Stratton's heiress. and that to refuse the allowance might embitter him against me." Stoe flamed for a moment into passion. -As if I wanted anythinganything from that man! When he left me I scarcely knew what to do what action to take, resolved to do nothing. After all, when I WM in a colder mood I could see nothing that I could do. I could not or would not attempt a reconcilia- tion with my father. I could not at- tempt the vindication of my mother. I renounced the allowance, and tilings went on as they wre before except That I had my brother. "He went back to Canada and the Uuited States. Now and again 1 had letters from him. Vie had a hard struggle to make ends meet." "Kallett nodded mechanically. Something in her tone made him be- gin to see the brother in a less sym- pathetic light. He blurted out the question on the spur of the moment: "H bled I meant he wrote ta yoa lor money?" Stoe winced. "Yes; he wrote to me for money. A little more than a year ago he was in England again. H* 'has stayed here <ver since. He called on Mr. Greye-Stratton and something happened what I don t know. I suppose there were re- criminations, but my brother told me little but that 'he was now entirely without resources. fr. Greye- Stratton" Hal'.ett noteB that ehe persisted in the formal mode ot ref- erence "had cut off all help from him I don't know if Mr. Metuies has said anything to you about my brother?" Sbe flashed the question at him suddenly. -Not a wonl. Thi is the first I iiave heard of his existence." "1 ask because he questioned me closely about him. My brother is a hard man. Mr. Hallett. and his out- look on lift is different to that of in* ordinary person. Circumstances have been against him. He was driven to find a living how he could. I want you to remember that if he was driven to it. I helpod as far as I could, but he had heavy expenses, tie signed my father's name to some cheques." "H committed forgery? "Yes. The canceled cheques came into the hands of some one else, who knew that Dick Errol was my brother. He threatened to pass them on to Scotland Yard and give evidence against Dick unless 1 paid. Last niRin there was an appointment made at my flat. The price he needed was greater than 1 could |y. When he went I followed him. 1 knew he h*i th cheques on him and I hoped that 1 might find some way to get th?m from him. "Just before 1 met you 1 had ap- pealed to him. again. He refused. He had the cheques in his hand, snatched them to you on the impulse of rhe moment. That is all, Mr. llallett." "But there Is somethingg more," he said; "something you have not said." She shook her head, her UPS press- ed tightly together. "1 have said all I oan all I dare. You h-Mped me. Mr. Hallett, and I have told you more even than I have the detective*. It has been a relief she signed "to tell any one.' 1 Jiramie was silenced. Yet a scoi of questions trembled on his lips. Trained to see the weak points in a narration, he could not fail to real- ize that there were gaps in the story gaps that needed filling before one could come to full judgment. She had passed no hint of the blackmailer, the man from whom she had the cheques. That he was closely linked with her in some manner he felt. And then speculation w.is lost in a rush of pity for the* girl, who had been so unwittingly dragged into a mael- strom from/ which he could see no way of escape. That the man Errol was a scoipidrel was certain on her own showing. He glimpsed through her reticence the fresh tragedy that his advent had meant to her lite. Vainly he tried to see for what pur- pose she was being used. If course Erroll had been bleeding her, but there was something more. It came to him suddenly. She knew the murderer she had said so. Here was a motive for Errol a motive more powerful rhan revenge or pas- sicn. She would stand to gain a for- tune by Greye-Stratton's death, and Errol would look to dabbling his fin- gers In il. Yet this was the man, for whom she wa-s playing with fire. He was not very clear about English legal methods, but he conceived that in trying to shield him sh.> was la/ing herself open ty suspicion. lie had judged Menzles acutely. If Greye-Stratton's fortune were to come to her. that detective would leave nothing undone to be absolutely sure that she had no hand in. the crime. Points would arise, actions be revealed that would look black against her by th very reason that she had carefully concealed them. "Miss Grey?-Stratton." he said gravely, "forgive me for what I am going to say. I believe it is a crime here to be an accessory after the fact in a case of murder. Do you realize that? Don't you chink It would be wis?r for your sake for your brother's sake to be candid with the police? Believe me, all that yoa have told me is sure to be known sooner or later." Her face was irresolute. "You thick they will find out? That it will b? worse because I tried to con- ceal it?" "I d-j. If you will wke my advice my sincere advice you will GOB* with m to Meuziea now. Under- stand me. I shall not betray a word of our conversation withou: your per- mission." She placed her >Jbow on the table and rested hi>r chin in her cupped hands, staring across the room in rev- erie. Presently she s;o.:d up. "I will thing of it," the said. "I wiii think of it.'' CHAPTHK VIII. The Wedding Ring. No effective detective organ Is fl- pecdent on one man. Co-operation is the essence of all rtccessful de- tective work, exactly as it is in the carrying on of any great business. Scotland Yard will throw a score, a hundred, ten thousand men into an en- terprise, it" needed be. ami every one of thim from the supreme brain down- ward will hav" an understudy ready at any n:mu..'nt to pick up a duty aban- doiiqjl from any cause. No individual is vital. Umuxh some may be valuable. livery fact, every ilefi-nite conclusion arrived at Is on record. There is no stopping, no turning back to cover sround already traversed. The spade work of de- tection is as automatic as bookkeep- ing. That is why Weir Menzies found time to cover the case against the pickpockets he hud captured the pre- ceding evening and to return to head- iiu'arUTs u> smoke a quiet pipe and consider things In general. lie stuck his feet on a desk, leaned back In his chair and began serenely to go through the reports that had accumulated from every point where i,- i A Successful Man Among the notable-professional men of this country who achieved great success along strictly legitimate lines was Dr. K. V. Pierca. Devoting his attention to the specialty of women's diseases, he became a recognized authority in that lino. His work, "The Common Sense Medical Adviser," is now in three million homes in this country and Europe. 'At one time Dr. Pierce represented his home dis- trict in Congress. Fifty years ago last winter, this noted phys- ician gave to the world a Prescription which has never been equalledtfor the weaknesses of women. Many women in every hamlet, town, or city will gladly testify that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription did them a world of good. Another of this great physician's successful remedies is known as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and, like the "Prescrip- tion," is now sold by druggists everywhere, in both liquid and tablets. The list of men and women all over the universe who have successfully used it for indigestion and as a blood tonic and system builder, makes an amazing total of thousands. If you desire a cloth-bound copy of a new edition of the "Medical 'Adviser! by Dr. Pierce, send one dollar to the Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, A. Y. It is a book of 1000 pages of ready reference. For those not within easy reach of professional aid at criticaT times, and in cases of emergency or dangerous accidents, it U invaluable. fll \ Information, however remote, might hav. been gathered on tiie Greye- Stratton affair. (To be continued.) GOOD JOKES AMONG THE HEIGHTS. He Yes, I certainly like good food and always look forward to ttoe next meal. She Why don't you talk of higher things once In a while? He But, my dear, what is higher than food? WASTED ENERGY. Butler Cheer up, -Katie; it ain't your fault that the silver was cop- ped. Katie, the Maid I know, but I just got through cleaning it. ONE HOLE AND THEN ANOTHER Plim LJfe must be an awful bore to Bill. Flam Why ? Flim He's an oil well digger. VERY HARD Eing I heard that your old man died of hard drink. Ding Yes. Poor fellow. A cak? of ice drojjped on 1m head. HORRID MAN She I never expected to work like this when I married you. He You didn't, eh? Well. I fig- ured that you had become habituated to it. You know you worked pretty hard to get me. NOT RCC'M FOR TWO The Professor That, proposed rocking horse (or the baby will take up too mucii room. Practical Wife Nonsense, my dear. Why. you ride your hobby ail over the house. SO WE'VE NOTICED "Paw. what is an advertisement?" "An advertisement is the picture of a pretty girl eating, wearing, holding or driving something that scmtbody wantfi to sell." NOTICE! Hat pin:- are used by the Ameri- can customs authorities to prod par- cels for hidden jewelry. \Ve hasten to inform our fair fellow subway travelers that we never hide jewels behind cur eyeballs. * LOST HOPES "Auntie, did you ever have a pro- posal?' "Once. dear, a gentleman asked me over th? telephone to marry him, but he had ;Ue wrong number." Magic Carpet VUitt to ffeio World* j UPPER SILESIA. Upper Sileste, which constitutes an area in which one ot the plebiscites -j ordered to be taken by the fram- ers of the Treaty of Versailles, con stiiutud before the war the south- ern part of Uie Prussian Province of Silesiu. contiguous with Russian Po- land and Galic4a. Nearly all ot Up- per Silesia lies within tile drainage area of the Oder River, the climate being one of the most equable in Europe. Mary censuses were taken to shuw t-he predominance of Poles or of Germans in this area, but al- most all the figures were open to sus- picion of unfairness. The popula- tion of this area is estimated today at about i225,OOO, German element being larger in the towns than in the country. There has for a long time been a strong growth of liberal opin- ion, and Silesian Socialists gave Prussia many anxious hours before the war, but the Sllesians, although they had shown hostility to Pruesia and to war, took their share in the Great War on tho side ot the German Empire. Bismarck more than half a century ago declared t.h>at the only bond that held Silesia to the Empire was the crown. Upper Silesia was largely Reman Catholic. The in- habitants are noted as farming ex- perts, but it is chiefly for her coal fields and her mineral riches that Upiper SIIes4a is coveted (by the two adjoining nations. Sugar refiner- ies, distilleries and glass works have also won fame for this are>a. liree- l.i 1 1 with population of 600.000 peo- ple,' is the most important, city. The plebiscite becomes a battle for the coal 'fields rather than an expression of democratic choice by the peoples of LWO great nation*. THE ROUND TABLE "WHERE WE MAKE FRIENDS OF BOOKS." It Is a matter of legend rtr.it the "tired business man'' readu dt-teo live stories for mental relaxation, but it was left for a tired business woman to discover that it U much more refreshing to write them than to read them. Mrs. Lee Thayer is an artist who has won marked sucess with her brusOi. lu addition she is a keen business woman, for she and her artist husband hare organized anil direct an agency for the selling of artisfs' works. This is an exacting occupation, for it requires not only artistic ability but critical faculties of a high order and sound business ac-umeu. Al the end of a full day Mrs. Thuyer found herself as fatigued, as much in need of relaxation as the busiest man and she found it in writ- ing detective stories for the enter- tainnieu'. and amusement of her in- timate circle of friends. Finally she ventured submitting one to a publish- er. It was immediately accepted and wua her enviable recognition as a mystery story writer. Several others follower and now her latest book. "Thr.t Affair at 'The Cedars.' " is just off the prasses. Bety Austin its the heroine. la the opening chapter wa fir.d bar abso- lutely dumfountled by the return of her lover, reported missing and later killed ia action. She, InMieving him dead and realizing that her heart was buried with him. married to please her mother. Raymond Austin was very sood looking and very wealthy. That is the best we can say of him. He Is found dead with a bullet wound in his head and sus- picion immediately points to Billy Waimvriglit. the returned man. clever young Irishman who. as detective, looks after the case finds several people who may be impli- cated. George Hull, the father of dead Aiicu whom Raymond Austin had dishonored, is found with a bullet hole iu bis shoulder. Frank^ker, who loved Alice, d'.s- The book is entertaining enough for anyone wio likes lots of action, with a murder or two thrown In for good measure in every chapter. Good detective or mystery stories really are good; but some of the stuff that's written nowadays is so foolish as to be almost ridiculous. Thia book is a collection of short detective stories, with Cleek the hero of each. Cleek must have been a reformed Apache, judging from the manner in which all other Apaches , get after him. The opening chap- ter tells of a terrible time he had in their JOL '.n. Paris, after being spirited away in an airplane from London. What it has to do with the rest of rhe story ihe reader must judge for him- self. There's too much samene.ss about every episode in the thrilling adven- ture of this man (leek. Someone is murdered, some valuable jewels stolen. (Meek is called off from a holi- day to unravel the mystery, he dis- guises himself as a dub. gets the facts while others are thinking about the case, and then throws himself on the murderer before going up the river to spend an hour of so in a boat with his best girl. It's all 100 easy for him. Someone must have got hold of the Canada Cement Company s book. "\Vliat tSie Farmer Can Do With Ce- nmni." because in one episode some- one built a room in which to keep his diamonds, and the walls were six feet thick, of solid cement. Even the ceiling was six feet of solid con- crete. Some room. But that didn't make any difference fj Cleek. He got into Use place a::d unravelled the mystery in about four seconds. There's another fine touch in an- other chapter. Cleek got out of his limousine and into a railway coach. No baggage, no nothing. His super- intendent wen; to buy the tickets at the "booking office." When he got appeared a; the time of the murder. , back to the coacli he found Cleek d- Johu A.uIa. needed monev and | K^i^d as a French tourist, with uif- wculd inherit part of his brother's | ' clothing, wig, whisker late I 'noverythiag. Now as Cl^sk had no Betv was abased and hated her [ luggage, as it would be called there. husband uhe might hav- been goaded ' e niust uave <rrled a complete suit to commit a frenzied an. And then ut Clothes, wigs, whiskers, etc.. etc.. there wu a stranger, a queer looking \ to le Uand v * P k character who appeared suddenly and ''^'r handy pUce. might have been guilty of anything. s wa >' whh * ' M *" stllft Peter C'luncy gathers up all these tna: - loose ends, tangled aud knotted and j In the fina' chapter Cl-^k, sitting weaves them intj the intricate pat- in. hia limousine ag.:n incidentally teru ot HOlution. And the reader has j h* must have been samo detective to never an idea wi:ich is th^ guilty one until the very last chapter. You will tiuil tin? bJoX intensely interesting and will be dHighted at the clorerues; display -.<! In working out the plot. Sherlock Homes was a piker com- p.ired to C'U-ek of Scotland Yard, the i! ii.'i'tivo in "The Riddle of the Mys- terious Uigiit,' hy Mary K. aud Thomas \V. Haiishew This nun Cleek certainly is a wonder. Any time he's called in on a case to lielp out his superintendent, he just takes a quick look around, scribbles a note of in- struction to his superior, throws t himself careless and graceful-likf onto hs unsuspecting victim, clicks the handcuffs together, and walk-? nonchalantly away. affcrd a limousine, unless u was part of his equipment is riddled with bul- U-t.s iin>d from an automatic pistcl in til*- luiiU of the tjuoen of The Apaches. ;'.. reader'* sympathy goes out to poor Cleek. who mis-sod all kinds of iluisers bullets, knives., e'c. through the whole book, only to be riddled with bullt'ts from an auU~iu.uk'. But it wasn't Cleek at all. He had bought a dead body, painted it to re- se'iiblf himself s.i: i! in his limousine, and left it tii.'re u< be sho-I full of holes, w::iU> h.> wen; up the river to spend an hour or M.I in his boat with his best girl. "Thi- Kiddle of th^ Mysterious Lighc." by Mary M. and Thomas \V. ll.ia-hew. Pufclis-lied by . B. Gundy. Toronto. * r * tt**.k.t>'*fc.tJ 1 History oiF Yow Nam ' i t J WARREN N '.-Uil ATIONS Wariictt. Wareing, Waring, Warison. Wasson. Kit/warm, 1'itzwarrun. Warner. RACIAL, ORIGIN Norman French. SOL'tlCE A given name; also an ocoopattoo. Hre is a group of family names, ail of which came from either of twn sodrces: but from which it is impos- sible to state in the case of Warren, except where the individual is fortu- nate enougli to be able to trace back the genealogy of his particular family to it-s origin. Most of tho family names in this group are the outgrowths of a given name which was quite widesepread i:i medieval Kngland. having been intro- duced by the Normans, bat which ha.- become obsolete today as a given name. There arc. of course, to be found many men who bear Warren as their -first names, but in virtually every case this is the result of the purely modern customs of using a family same as a given name. The oil same, in its Norman form, was originally "Gaarin" or "Gueriu," but under the Saxon influence it rapidly became soJtened into "War- in." in which form it fairly crowds tho oid record*. Warnttt comes from "WarinolVson."* the "ot" being dropped, for the most part, in the course of time. The -< Pitz" varia- tions are explained t -the meaning of "fits" as "son of.' 1 Warren, taowever, often comes from the sain,e source as Warner, which is the mediaeval word "War- rener." "Warener" or "Warner." from "Ware it." a game preserve. The war- rener was the offirer who had charge of these forest wilds nd naturally came to bo known as "Jackie le War- uer;" "Richard il.- Waren," etc. Sons et'teu followed the same calling as their fathers', unil so such names ia many descriptive of occupation and became simply family "t;i.<." BLIND BOTANIST. Mr. J. G. Wilkinson, the famous blind botanist, lost his sight in his ear- ly life. "During all my paintlnjr." he said. "I had always been much at- tracted by trees and plains, so I got Percy Griniohaw to taJte me t;> tho Temple Newsam woods, outside Leeds to a favorite beech tre,; there, and 1 I asked him .to phick for me a leaf, of it. He did si>. and with my tongue I began to touch every part, of i his 'leaf, and so got. its var- ious details and characteristics throughly into my head, till I was sun- I could recognize a beech leaf anywhtvi'. Prom that 1 begun study- ing leaves from other tr't>.-> in a simi- lar manner, until I could pick cut any of them at once from the mixed' lot yon gave me; . . . Now tl hop* I may say it with all modesty), there is not a leaf, stem, fruit or flower of any plant or tree iu the British Isles which I do not know, and should CALENDAR KEPT GETTING AHEAD THINGS A.LL BALLED UP UNTIL JULIUS CAESAR TOOK A HAND. a dimliMitive ending. Warelng, War- not ba able to recognize immediately ing, W arisen and Wasson all cornel had touched it with my tongue, even from "Warin's-son," the "son" bein^if not wall my hands." The method of rckoning time has always been more or leaa of a trouble to the priests or men of science of every civilisation. says- Answers, London. The first standard fixed upon waa die lunar mouth that is the period of about twenty-nine and a half day which elapses between one new moon and the next. Twelve of rhese lunar monrlis seemed to correspond in length u> the four seasons spring, summer, au- tumn and winter. And so th? y,-;ir was fixed at 354 days. Hence the ancients soon found that things were getting badly mixed. and that the seasons did not corres- pond to the months. In th course of ten years they were more than three months wrong. Try to Fix It. So the Greeks and Jews set to work to remedy nutters by atickinc :u another month now and then. They put in seven months in nineteen years and by this rather cUunsy ex- pedient managed to keep the calen- dar fairly straight for the time tye- ing. Julius Caesar was the first man to engage the services of a clever Egyptian astronomer, by nem SMigenes, and with his help set to work to put things straight. S.>.--igenes found that the calendar was na less than eighty days out, so Caesar proclaimed tha'. the year which we know- as A. D. 46 should have 44") d.iys. It has ever MIU-- been known as the "year of confus- ion." Made Year 365 Days. Then he put the length of the suc- ceeding years at 365 days, witli the exception of each fourth year, which was to have 366. Socigenes worked on the beliarf that the real year consisted ot exactly ',<>'> 1-4 days. As a matter of fa-i. it is eleven minutes less. This small frror accumulated as years rolled on. and in the yar 158- ps Gregory XIII published" a bull. or edict annulling ten days, so that- the day following Oct. 5 in thai year became the 15th. That the calendar might aol go wrong again, he ordered that three of the leap years which, occur i tour centuries should be omitted. How George Fights H. C. L. V.lf^i prices iti England have in- duced Kills George to revert to t* I- u.ial system of payment with some of hU dependent. Henceforth most of the agricultural laborers on his es- tate will receive all but a small -par- re of Wn>ir wages in g-.-xxls in- stead of money. Under the ptan .l'.'-r will live rent free and are to re- ceive special -weekly allowances of v:ir.. :t* iHodntufrs, as well as tobacco. beer and a clothing allowance. In money they will get only $1 a week u-h. AU but a handful of ttoo workers agreed to accept tile Kind's offer ns being a practical solution ot the high price sitiua<ion. The publisher of tha best Farmer's paper in the .Maritime Procincee in writing to us states: "I would say that 1 do not know ot a medicine that has stood the test of time like MINARD'S UNIMJQNT. It has been an unfailing remedy in our household ever since I can remember, and has outlived dozens of would-be competitors and imitators " SCALLOPED FISH. One and one-half cups of fish. 1 1-2 riii>s of oold boiled ric. one cup of grated cheese, oae cup white sauce. Any kind of fish nwy ba uaad tor this reclpei After coaking the fish. shrinl i and arrange it in alternate layers with the rice and white sauce in u well oiled bilking disb. Over mtcti layer of the mi \-uiv sprinkle a layer of the grated cheese to which st^aaoning (suit aud peppey has been added. Cover like tof> of the mix-j tu re with grated cheese and bJk til the top layer ol" oheese is well brotmed. RELIEF Al LAST I want to help you If yoa re suffering from bleeding, itching. Ulad or pro- truding Piles. I can tell you how. fat your own liona and without *nyon* aaHiatanca, yoa can apply tho bMt of all treatment*. PILES I prom isa to *aad yoa a FRIES trial ot the new absorption treatment, and r> (rencea from your own locality It yo will but write and ask. 1 a*aar you .ot immediate relief. Send no hat tell oUieri ot this otter. MRS. M. UM!EM, BOX fc Windeor. Out.