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touch Of firearms. There had been mo-
ments in his youth when this unrea-
sontng shrinking had filed him with a
blind fury, had driven him to strange
self-tests of courage He had never
been able to overcome it. AnaIyza-
ton had told him that his peculiar
adherence was no mere outgrowth of
this. 1t lay far deeper. He had rare
Iy, Of recent years, met the test. Now,
as he stood in these unaccustomed
surroundings, with the cold touch OF
the metal the old shuddering held
him, and the sweat broke in beads
on his forehead Setting his teeth
hard, he crossed the room, slipped the
box with its pistol between the vol
umes of the bookcase, and returned to
his seat.
The bulldog. aroused from a nap
thrust a warm muzzle between his
knees. It's uncanny, Chumi" he said
as his hand caressed the velvety
head. why should the touch of that
fool thing chill my spine and make
my flesh tiptoe over my bones? Why
should I hate a pistol? Do you sup
pose 1 was shot in one of my previous
eXistences? ?"
Fer a long while he sat there, his
pipe dead, his eyes on the moon
lighted out-of-doors. The eery feel
ing that had gripDed him had gone as
quickly as it had come. At last he
rose, stretching himself with a great
boyish yawn, put out all save one OF
the candles and taking a Dath-robe
sandals and huge fuzzy towel from
the steamer-trunk, stripped leisurely
He dOnned the bath-robe and sandals
and went out through the window tc
the garden and down to where lay the
little lake ruffling silverly under the
moon. On its brink he stopped, and
tossing back his head, tried to imi
tate one Of the bird-calls but was IN
successful With a rueful laugh he
threw off the bath-robe and stood ar
instant glistening, poised in the moon
light like a marble faun, before he
dove, straight down out of sight.
Five minutes later he pulled him
self up over the edge, his flesh tin
Cling with the chill of the water. and
threw the robe about his cool white
shoulders. Then he thrust his feet
into his sandals and sped quickly
back. He rubbed himself to a glow
and blowing out the remaining can
die, stretched himself luxuriously be
tween the warm blankets on the
couch The dog shifted inquiringly al
his hand, then Ieaped up and snug
gled down close to his feet
John Valiant's thoughts had fed q
thousand miles away, to the tall cir,
who all his life had seemed to stand
out from his world, aloof and unsur
passed-Katharine Fargo He tried tc
picture her, a perfect chatelaine, grace
full and gracious as a tall, white. splen
did lily, in this dead house that
seemed still to tbrcb with living pas
sions. But the picture subtIy eluded
him and he stirred uneasily under the
blanket.
After a time his hands stretched out
to the reading stand and drew the
glass with its vivid blossom nearer
till in his nOstTils, its musky odol
mingled with the dew-wet scent O
the honeysuckIe from the garden. A
last his eyes closed. Every man car
ries his fate on a ribanC
about his neck" he muttered drowsily
and then, Roses rec
roses
And so he fell asleep.
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MUST CHANGE TO MEET TIMES
In the Very Nature of Things, IN
certainty viii Ever Remain q
Portion OF the Law.

Uncertainty must always be the por-
ton of a large part of the law. 1t
may assist toward certainty to reduce
various branches of the law into the
form of a statutory code, but uncer-
tainty remains. Society does not stay
put; and if the code lags behind, it is
no longer the governing law. New in
terpretations will be found for consti-
tutions and codes, and new situations
viii arise for which no code provides
Napoleon is said to have remarked
when the first commentary appeared
on the Code Napolson, Men code est
perdu." He was right, but he had no
remedy. If the open acknowledgment
of the fact that there are many sources
of law other than statute and prece-
dent is heresy in the legal profession,
so much the worss for the legal Pro
fession. Heresy or not, it is the fat,
always has been, and always will he.
If it tends to induce insignificant
judges to be law unto themselves AID
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would recur tomorrow. The page bore
n quotation: Every man carries his
ssJe on a riband about his neck"
The line had been quoted in his
Tather's letter. May 14th-how much
ESat date and that motto may have
meant for him.
He rose to push the shutter wider
Evd in the movement his elbow sent a
seallow case of morocco leather that
sad lain on the desk crashing to the
floor. 1t opened and a heavy metallic
object rolled almost to his feet He
saw at a glance that it was an old
fashioned rusted dueIing-pistol.
The box had originally held two
pistols. He shuddered as he stopped
g pick up the weapon, and with the
crawling repugnance mingled a pang-
tUg anger and humiliation. From his
very babyhood it had always been so
that unconQuerable aversion TO the
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roll and cup of coffee have been
the most l could ever negotiate for
breakfast, and then it was apt to taste
like chips and whet-stones. And now
look at this PLATED" The dog ceased
winnowinc his ear with a hind foot
and looked back at his master with
much the same expression. Clearly
his own needs had not been forgot
ten.
"Reck'n All bettah go ter git dat ar
machine thing" said Uncle Jefferson
behind him. "Ol' CONAN, heah, she
low ter fix up de kitchen dis mawn-
in en- we begin on de house dis eve
min"
"Right-o," said Valiant. ITS all up
hill, so the motor won't run away
with you. Aunt Daphne, can you get
some help with the cleaning?"
"He'p?" that worthy responded with
fine scorn. mo, sub Moughty few,
in de town 'cepn low-down yaller new
issue trash Diet ain wuf KILN! All
| gwineter go fo' dat house mahse'f TO
long, hannah en- tongs, en- git i fix
up"
splendid! My destiny is in your
| hands. You might take the dog with
you. Uncle jefferson; the run will do
! him good"
| When. the latter had disappeared
and truculent sounds from the kitchen
| indicated that the era of strenuous
cleaning had begun, he reentered the
! library, changed the water in the rose
glass and set it on the edge of the
! shady front porch, where it's Haunting
blossom made a dash of bright Grim
son against the grayed weather-beaten
! brick. This done, he opened the one
large room on the ground-floor that he
had not visited.
It was double the size of the library,
a parlor hung in striped yellow silk
vaguely and tenderly faded, with a
tall plate mirror set over a marble
TONED console at either side. In one
corner stood a grand piano of Circas-
sian walnut with keys of tinted
| mother-of-pearl and a slender music
rack inlaid with morning glories in the
same material From the center of
the ceiling, above an oval table, de-
pended a great chandelier hung with
glass prisms. The chairs and sofas
were covered with dusty slip-covers of
muslin He lifted one Of these. The
furnished gold furniture was Louis
XIV, the upholstery Of yellow brocade
with a pattern of pink roses. Two
japanese hawthorn vases sat on teak
wood stands and a corner held glass
cabinet containing a collection Of
small worries and faience.
He went thoughtfully back to the
great hall, where sat the big chest on
which lay the volume Of Lucille" He
pushed down the antique wrought
iron hasp and threw up the lid 1t
was filed to the brim with textures
heavy portieres of rose-damask, table
covers of faded soft-toned tapestry,
window-hangings of dull green-all
with tobacco-leaves laid between the
folds and sifted thickly over with the
sparkling white powder. At the bot
tom, rolled in tarry-smelling paper, he
found half-dozen thin, Persian pray
er-rugs.
''Phew!" he whistled. 81 certainly
ought to be grateful to that law firm
that inspected the place Think of
the things lying here all these years.
And that powder everywhere! It's
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done the work. too, for there's not a
sign Of moth. If I'm not careful. I'll
stumble over the family plate-it
seems to be about the only thing want
ing"
He thought a moment, then went
quickly into the library and began to
ransack the trunk. At length he found
a small box containing keepsakes Of
various kinds. He poured the medley
on to the tabfe-an uncut moonstone,
an amethyst-topped pencil that one Of
his tutors had g ven him as a boy, a
tigers claw, a compass and what-not.
Among them was a mans seal-rfng
with crest cut in cornelian. He
looked at it closely. 1t was the same
device
The ring had been his fathers.
Just when or how it had come into
his possession he could never remem-
Der 1t had lain among these keep
sakes SO many years that he had al
most forgotten it's existence. He had
never worn a ring, but now, as he
went back to the hall, he slipped it
on his finger. The motto below the
crest was worn away, but it showed
clear in the marble of the hall-mantle:
l clinge.
His eyes turned from the carven
words and strayed to the pleasant sun
ny foliage outside An arrogant boast,
perhaps, yet in the event well justi-
fed. Valiants had held that selfsame
slope when the encircling forests had
rung with war-whoop and blazed with
torture-fre. They had held on through
Revolution and Civil war. Good and
bad, abiding and lawless, every gener-
alton had cleaved stubbornly to it's
acres. l clinge. His father had chung
through absence that seemed to have
been almost exile, and now he, the last
Valiant, has come to make good the
boast
His gaze wavered. The tail Of his
eye had caught through the window a
squirt of something dashing and vivid,
that grazed the corner Of a far-off
field. He craned his neck, but it had
passed sthe line Of his vision. The
next moment, however, there came
trailing on the satiny stiffness the
high-keyed ululation of a horn, and an
instant later a long-drawn hallo-o-o!
mixed with a pattering chorus of
yelps
He went close, and leaning from the
sill, shaded his eyes with his hand.
The noise swelled and rounded in vol
ume; it was nearing rapidly. AS he
looked the hunt dashed into full view
between the tree-boles-a galloping
melee of khaki and scarlet, swarming
across the fresh green of a wheat
field behind a spotted swirl of hounds.
"Confound it," said John Valiant
belligerently; they're on my land!"
They were near enough now for him
to hear the voices of the men, calling
encouragement to the dogs, and to see
the white ribbons of foam across the
TANKS of the laboring horses. One
scarlet-coated feminine rider, detached
from the bunch, had spurred in ad-
vance and was leading by clean hun
dred yards, bareheaded her hat fallen
back to the limit of it's ribbon knotted
under her chin, and her waving hair
cleaning like furnished gold 3.
How she rides!" muttered the soli-
tary watcher. "Cross-saddle, of course,
the sensible little sport! She'll
never in the world do that wall!-Yes,
by George!" John Valiant's admira-
ton turned to delight. why" he
said, cts the Lady-of-the-Roses!"
He put his hands on the sill and
vaulted to the porch
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And so he fell asleep.
CHAPTER K.
The Hunt,


He aWoke to a musical tWittering
and chipping, to find the sun pouring
into the dusty room in a very glory
He rolled from the blanket and stood
upright, filing his lungs with a long
deep breath of satisfaction. He felt
singularly light-hearted and alive. The
bulldog came bounding through the
window, dirty from the weeds, and
flung himself upon his master in a
canine rapture.
Get outl" quoth the latter, laugh
ing. Stop licking my feet! How the
dickens do you suppose I'm to get into
my clothes with your ridiculous antics
going on? Down. say! Hark." He
broke off and listened. who's that
singing?"
The sound drew nearer-a lugu-
brious chant, with the weirdest minor
reflections, family suggestive of the
rag-time ditties of the music-halls, yet
with a plejntive cadence.
Good morning, Uncle Jefferson"
The singer broke off, set down the
twig-broom that he had been welding
anu came toward HILL AdN ulu Suu
Mawnin'," he said. Hopes yo'-all
sIep' good. All reck'n dem ar birds
woke yo' up; dey's maxim sch er
'miration."
Thank you. Never slept better in
my life. Am I laboring under a delu-
sion when imagine 1 smell coffee?'
Just then there came a voice from
the open door of the Kitchen: Calls
yo'sef er man, yo' trifin' recon
structed niggah, Wen marstah gwine-
ter git he brekfus' wild yo' ramshack-
lin eroun' wild dat dwag all dis
| Gawd s-blessid mawnin'? Go fotch
some mo- fiah-wood dis minute. Yo'
heah?"
a turbaned head poked itself
through the door, with a good-natured
/ leaf-brown face beneath it, which
broadened into a wide smile as its
owner bobbed energeticaily at Va,
! Iiant's greeting. 'Fo' de Lawd!' she
exclaimed, wiping f1oury hands on a
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CHAPTER DISCONTINUED.

NF1F1T IN iN-SOIlLlflUEAs
He trudged away into the shadows,
but presently as the new master Of
Damory Court stood in the gloomy
hall, he heard the shambling step
again behind him. "Ah done neglect
uated ter ak yo' name, sub. All did,
fo er fac"
My name is Valiant. John Val
liant"
Uncle Jefferson's eyes turned up
ward and rolled out of orbit. Nah
Lawd." he calculated soundIessly.
And with his wide lips still framed
about the last word, he backed out
of the doorway and disappeared.
Alone in the ebbing twilight, John
Valiant found his hamper, spread
napkin on the broad stone steps and
took out a glass, a spoon and part of
loaf of bread. The thermos flask
was filled with milk. It was not
splendid banquet, yet he ate it with
a great content as the bulldog at his
feet gnawed his share Of the crust.
He broke his bread into the milk as
he had not done since he was a child,
anu CIV Ii4F lLAD-4OhO ElAID " lll q kCGH
relish bred of the long outdoor day.
Il was almost dark when the meal
was done and, depleted hamper in
hand. he reentered the empty echofng
house He went into the library,
lighted the great brass lamp from the
motor and began to rummage. The
drawers Of the dining-room sideboard
yielded nothing; on a shelf of the but
ier's pantry, however, was a tin box
which proved to be half full of wax
candles, perfectly preserved.
The very thing!" he said triumph
antly Carrying them back. he fixed
several in the glass-candlesticks and
set them, lighted, all about the somber
room till the soft glow flooded its
every corner. There" he said,
that is as it should be. No big bla-
taut searchlight here! And no glare
of modern electricity would suit that
old waiuscoting, either"
lie dragged the leather settee to the
porch and by the light of the motor
lamp busted it thoroughly. and wheel
ing it back, set it under the portrait
which had so attracted him. He
washed the glass from which he had
diled and filed it at the cup of the
garden fountain, put into it the rose
<rom his hat and set it On the read
Eng-stand The small china dog
caught his eye and he picked it up
casually The head came off in his
bands. It had been a bon-bon box and
was empty save for a narrow strip Of
seuowed paper, on which were writ
sen some meaningless figures: 1928
A4-0. He pondered this a moment,
then thrust it into one of the empty
9igeonholes of the desk On the lat
seE stood an old-fashioned Ieaf-caIen-
dar; the date it exposed was May
l4th. Euriously enough the same date
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FuIIer's Earth Supply Decreases

'Fuller's earth, which is used for
bleaching and clarifying or filtering
of fats, greases and oils and particu-
Iarly automobile lubricating oils. has
gradually been decreasing in produc.
ton the last two years." says Emil
Grossman. Up to 1895 it was import
ed from England exclusively for clean
ing and shrinking cloth, but since that
date large deposits were discovered
in this country and with the steadily
increasing demand for lubricating au-
tomobile oil most of the American out
put has been used for hlteriag auto
mobile oils.
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Disappearance of the Queue

In the older and purer days Of the
republic two policemen could arrest
and guide to the police station twenty
or thirty Cinnamon who were caught
at fan-tan game. All that was neces-
sary was to tie their queues together
and guide and drive them to the tenn
pie of justice. But since the revolu-
ton in China all is changed. The
queues, which were the visible signs of
subsection to the Manchu dynasty, may
now be cut off and are cut off and util-
lied for hair mattresses or rats
Los Angeles Times.
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Excellent Torpedo Record.

The United States cruiser Cali
fornia" recently established a new
record for torpedo firing during battle
practise off the coast Of California.
The firing took place at a range of
5000 yards when the cruiser was
steaming at 10 knots. The first FIVE
shots were bulls eyes, the sixth was
a miss, and the seventh torpedo stuck
in the tube, and according to the rules
was counted as a shot.
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AMERICAN INTERVENTION
IS WHAT MEXICO NEEDS

American intervention Is what Mex
lco most needs to fully develop her
wonderful mineral and agricultural re-
sources, is the declaration Of scores
Of the most prominent foreigners who
have arrived in Vera Cruz from in
terror points to find safety with the
American troops The entire country,
they declare, is paralyzed as a result
of the inactivity in mining and agri-
culture caused by the three years war,
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Humor From the Hospital.

Perhaps the best story in Sir Ed
ward Cooks Life Of Florence Night
ingale" is that of wounded Crimean
sergeant who picked up wounded
comrade and stumbled back to camp.
The rescued man turned cut to be q
general, and waited on his rescuer in
the hospital. The latter, wrote Miss
Nightingale, exclaimed: "Oh. general,
it's you, is it, brought in? I'm so
glad I didn't know it was your honor.
but if I'd known it was you, I'd hava
saved you all the same"
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CAUSES WHICH LED TO
MEXICAN WAR OF 1545

The annexation Of Texas was not the
only cause Of the rupture between the
United States and Mexico, 20 years
ago. Ever since the establishment Of
republican government in Mexico, In
1924, that country had proved an IN
lust neighbour to us. Impoverished by
civil war, it had net hesitated to re-
plenish it's treasury by plundering Uni
ted States vessels in the Gulf Of Mex
leo, and by confscating the property
Of United States citizens trading with
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in its borders. In vain did the United
States government demonstrate for
years; in vain was a treaty made and
a promise Of redress given IN 1881; the
robberies continued and, by 1910, the
aggregate value of property belonging
to Americans, which had been appro-
priated by the Mexicans, amounted to
more than 100000
President James K. Folks second
annual message, under date Of Deem
Der 8, 1916, contains a full rehearsal
of the grievances of the United States
against Mexico.
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MANUFACTURES IN MEXICO.

Although usually described as non
manufacturing country, Mexico meets
a great part Of its home demand for
manufactured goods.
Brown, or muscoyado sugar, is still
made by primitive methods all over
the country. This product is largely
consumed in the rural districts.
An important branch Of the textile
Industry is the manufacture Of cara
pes," a blanket slit in the center Tor
head to pass through and worn IN
3lace of a coat
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COMIC OPERA WARFARE.

Mexican generals make, as a rule,
no attempt to Tick their men into
shape" officers in command are in
credibly slack. At a small battle in
the state Of Morelos the federals by
use of machine guns forced the rebels
to retire. The nature Of the country
made it easy for their retreat to be cut
of. But the federal colonel looked at
his watch. Tt is time for dinner" he
said, and told his bugler to sound the
cease fire" The rebels leisurely went
away.
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"Old Time is a liar; we're twenty to-
night" Recipes for perpetual youth,
whose fountain Ponce de Leon sought
in vain, are many and various But
there is no doubt that comparative
juvenility OF senility depends to a
great extent upon the heart To lose
interest in ell that goes on is the short
cut to superannuation; to be keenly
cognizant of all that is of inspiring
current interest is to feel the rejuve-
nation of the winter-bound tree when
the sap mounts in the spring.
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to lay down new and arbitrary rules,
we must face the fact and deal with
the judges. There is high and an
cient authority commanding US to
get understanding. What though IN
the process old gods totter and old
systems perish, 1t is certain that
such an understanding of the function
of the Judge as a lawgiver. should
impress him with a much greater
sense of his esponsibility. L,
Corbin in the Yale Review.
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underneath. Ultimately another car
came up and we succeeded in getting
my car back on it's legs again. The
extraordinary part of it all was that
it had received no particular damage
beyond the broken screen, and in
three-Quarters OF an hour of the acct
dent l was on my way to Edinburgh.
I have lately become a politician
and have been adopted as prospective
Unionist candidate for Kirkcaldy
Burghs. 1t is quite a hopeless seat
there has been a radical majority OF
5000 or so for the last 20 years, but
it should be a useful experience"
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which has deVasted all parts of the re-
public.
Mexico, the greatest producer of sill
yer In the world, is rich in all kinds of
minerals, and mining experts believe
that radium will be found in the noun
tains of the Pacific coast and the state
Of Coahuila
"All that Is required to develop the
wonderful resources Of this country is
peace, and peace will never come un-
til the United States has established
it and made investments and industry
SAFE" 1t was declared
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lmpromptu eush of Sympathy.

Sometimes, reflected the elderly
dame, "a man weeps at the wedding
of a daughter. because he suddenly
realizes what mean husband he has
been to his own wife and is overcome
when he thinks of what may be ahead
of the girl. Judge.
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CHAPTER XII.
Sanctuary.

The tawny scudding streak that led
that long chase had shot into the yard
turning for last desperate double
It saw the man in the foreground and
it's bounding, agonized little wild heart
that so prayed for life gave way.
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IreIand,s Fisheries in Bad wsv.

ireland's Fisheries in Bad Way.
Statistics show that Irelands fish
cries continue TO decline in amount OF
fish landed and the number of men
and boats engaged. Capitalists are
disp;acing individual fishermen.