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a smmcifcuif, or youpiper BUT why smoke a pipe tLt smells like burning insulation? . . .Tlx poor chap robably never beard of Six Walter Raleigh's favorite smoking mix ture. He doesn't know tLcre i a tobacco jo mild and fragrant it gets tbe O. K. of cvea die fuulcst pipe-initTer. He doesn't know that true milJnca nccdn I sacrifice body, flavor anJ "kick." He doesn't know be can smoke a pipe all daylong without getting blmself or any body else all Lot and botbered. In othef words, be basn't met Sir Walter Raleigh. Some day be wiL Let's bope it's soon. How to Take Car of Your Pip Qitui tit. 4) Doo't om aharp knife to dee owt the carbon. Yoa mr tut thnwah the cake tnd chip ibt wood. A kxoilmJt" wood ifoa" sue triv from tbe iwtiuttM ol pip. Uee dull kaiic ot kudo. Send ht our free booklet. "How to Tiie Cut of Youf Pipe" Brown Tiiliamion Tobacco Corportuoo, Louimlk, Kentucky, Dcpt 9. Sir Walter Raleigh Smoking Tobacco Bag T. Bug A Internal parasite named cocco phagus guerneyl. 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Writ for prices at one as everything points to greatly increased demand. Prompt 100 live delivery guaranteed 20 year' wonderful reputauoo your safeguard. CJayTedd QUEEN HATCHERY 1410 1st Av. Seattle, Wash. Quarreling Again Mrs. Gndjoy Oh, Henry, I won three strulght rubbers of bridge this afternoon. Mr. Gadjoy How many did you win that weren't straight? S5S5R Gowxs and colds wear aowa your strength and a Tt"I"V7"f vitality. Boschee'B V J v RvruD soothes instantly w ends couphs quickly. K A J lief GUARANTEED. Boschee's Atoll druggisU Syrup It's j milder W, N. U, PORTLAND, NO. 13-1830. The most eaeual tye would pick out Sallm Maiaroff a notable figure, a man cf affair, who rightfully claimed the attention of the multitude; yet there wae a geniality about him. a de mocracy of man .er, whloh reeerved him no pinnacle above hie feHow but made him one of them. There wae an element of myetery about him too, but It wae not the eort to produce euepl clon. but rather, of the type to Intrigue and Invite a friendly Interest lining eo obvlouly a real man and eo enable and open-hnndd, he was about the Met person In the world one would think of a likely to have cre ated powerful enmltlee or of being the object of a elnlster pureult and re venge. Why ehould anyone wish to do harm to this aMe, generous and thoroughly likable Individual? Facte being aa they were and no dark chapter In hie lite even hinted at. It became all the more strung that such thing afterward devel oped ehould have befallen him; that he ehould have become the center of a mystery that was cunning, cruel and baffling. This le a typical J. & Fletcher story rf the pusile variety. Thle author' popularity rests upon the fact that he always has an entertaining tale to tell and tells It ably. His people are alway human and he never love track of the many threads In hi mys tery or fall to work out hi puisle satisfactorily. CHAPTER I Mr. Maiaroff it was Dick Marker who first put fiie In .ouch with the man whose mys terious murder, while in my company, formed the basis cf what came to be famous In three continents as the Mazuroff affair. Unrker and I were old schoolfellows; we entered the army together as subalterns; we were In the same battalion throughout the great war; we were wounded on the same day, and In the same scrap a fortnight before the armistice; we were sent to the same home hospital and were eventually discharged from it at the same time, each unfit for nny further military service, but for tanately In possession of our full com plement of limbs. Uarker walked lato my rooms one morning while I vas still at breakfast, and flung down a copy of the Times, Indicating a blue penciled advertisement In the "Per S3nal" column. "That's your Job, Mervyn." he said In bis usual direct fashion. "Get busy!" I took up the paper and rend the fjdvejtlsement before making any r mark. "The advertiser, who has recently returned to England after a prolonged absence, and Is desirous of milking an extensive tour through the north ern shires. In his private automobile, desire the company of a brtitht. so ciable, well-educated, and well-informed young gpntleman. preferably an ei-ofllcer, Invalided out of the sen-Ice. Applications, with full and precise details and references, to be addressed Box M. 5343, the Times. E.G4" I think It was more out of curi osity than anything that I replied to that advertisement, sitting forth my qualifications and detailing my refer ences, let 1 never expected any re ply: I knew well enough that there were hundreds of men whose quullfi cations and reference would be Just as ;ood as my own why should I be singled out? It was therefore with a good deal of surprise that, about a fortnlpht later, I received and rend the following letter: "Hotel Cecil. "Stb September, 1013. "My Dear Sir, I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 23rd Au gust. I think you and 1 would get on together very pleasantly, and I shall be further obliged to you If you will call on me at this hotel tomorrow morning about half past twelve o'clock so that we may huve a little talk. I remain, my dear sir, "Truly yours. "SALIM MAZAKOFF." I walked into the Hotel Cecil next morning at precisely twelve thirty. Elvdently Mr. Mazanff had alreudy given certain Instructions about me. for aa soon as 1 Inquired for him 1. In my turn, was asked If I wus Mr. Mervyn Holt, and on my assenting, was handed over to an attendant who whisked me off to a private and pHlutlitl suite of rooms He Installed me in au ante-chamber, topped at an Inner door, murmured my nume to somebody within, closed thp door, In formed me that Mr. Mnzaroff wouldn't keep me one minute, and went away And I discovered at once thut Mr Mazaroff was really a mun of bis word, for before a minute liud gone, the door opened again, and he stood there with outmatched hnmL 1 took a gd look at him as I went forwurd. I Judged him to be about six feet In height; his brt-adtli cor responded; ultiujether he gave one the ImpreHHlon of hU'm-fs and solidity Ills age It wus dllllcult to estimate; his brown hair and beard were grl tled, and between lit eyes and his muntflclif there was a pood deal of gearn and wrinkle; he looked like a mun who bus weathered storms, and bwn under fierce suns and drying winds. There was a distinctive nlr of good nature, good humor, even of benevolence, about him, but It was somewhat discounted by a long, sharp nose and close-set, small e.ves, and further by a enst In the left eye. Hut his smile wus plensimt enough; so was the twinkle of his eye, and there was nothing cold nor fori mi I about his handshake. "Glad to see you,' he said, almost 'ruso,uely. by J. 6. FLETCHER Illustrations by IHWIN MYERS (& by Alfred A. Knopf, Ina) W, N. U. Service I was certain that wherever or how ever Mr. Mataroff bad come by Ms un-English name, he himself was a Scotsman: there was no mistaking his accent. "I hope you're feeling quite well again after your woundsr he asked. "Quite fit. thank you," I answered. "Fit for light work, anyway," "Aye, well," he ald, nodding, "na I said In my letter, I think you and I'll get on very pleasantly, If you car to come with an old fellow like tno." "I shall be plenaed to go with you." I answered. "1 hope I shall be able to do all you want. Von think I shall?" "It's little I want but company," he replied. "I'm a lone man neither kith, kin, nor friend. I've been out of this country many years, and now I'm back I Just want to dander rouud a bit, reolng place. An Idle time, ehr "You've no fixed plan)" I Inquired. "No more than that we'll Just get Into my car and go north." he an swered. "Stopping where we like and ... Ill l !,. A Mr. Maiaroff and I Spent a Couple of Hours Over That Lunch and Our Cigar and Coffs. when we like. Til tell yon I've a fancy for old towns, anything old and gray and cooL You take meT" "The Great North road, then, will be a good route to follow?" I said. "I know that road and it surround ingswell I" "That's it!" be exclaimed, Joyfully. "We'll do very well Just progressing northward I've no articular object except that when we get far north, there's a place I want to turn aside to Marrasdale moor Just to renew acquaintance. What about terms, now?" he asked, dlffldently. "I think I ought to leave that to you. Mr. MawroX" I answered. "I'd prefer to." He gave a sigh of what. It was plain, was sheer relief. "That's Just what I'd like you to do," he said, simply. "That's a thing that gentlemen shouldn't bargain about Leave U to me you'll not re gret it, I'm a very rich man, laddie, and rich men are entitled to have their little games and fancies, eh? Very well, now and when can you be ready to start?" "Any time, with a couple of hours' notice," I replied. "Good good !" he exclulmed. "Then I'll Just tell you whul we'll do. Holt firing your kit along here this after noon, and we'll start about five o'clock, and run gently along as far as we like before dinner time there'll be some old town w here we can spend a peaceful evening and a quiet night Id an old fushloned hotel. I've a fine Uolln-Itoyce cur In the garage, and a thoroughly dependable chauffeur, Web ster, a trusty, good, sensible fellow, Quantities of Amber Amber has been mined for hundreds of years In the so-called blue earth of the I'.altle batdn. It is classified as a fossil resin and geologist believe that several species of pines have had a part In the formation of the amber of the Baltic basin. Pieces of amber are torn from the sen floor and cast op by the waves. They are collected at ebb tide by searchers who sometimes wnde Into the sea and with nets attached to long poles drag to the beach the sea weed containing entangled masses of amber. Dredges have also been used. Lithuanian raw amber Is the prop erty of the government Each finder hag to deliver the pieces to adminis trators of the state's central depots Terra of Contempt "Wop" Is shortened from "wappa rousa," a Sicilian localism for a good-for-nothing fellow. New York city's population has In creased tenfold since 1&.'0. . fW V ?i ',.r and we'll bo right as rnln. Come by five o'clock. That'll suit you? Good I And now we'll Just go down and take a bit of lunch together." Mr. MnsurolT and 1 spent a couple of hours over that lunch and our cigars and coffee. He proved him self a knowing and generous host, and a great talker. Ills talk was worth listening to, I soon discovered that he had seen ninny strange places and peoples; without giving me any def inite Information about himself or his pursuits, he let mo know that he had traveled extensively In various out of tho-way parts of Asia and Africa. Presently I left him and went away to mnke ready for our Journey: at five o'clock I was back at the hotel with my luggage, and by a quarter past we were off. We followed out Marnroffs line of going as fur as we liked, and stop ping where and when we chose. It was dllllcult to get him away from towns Ilk Stamford and Grantham at York, after a preliminary Inspec tion of the old city, be announced his Intention of staying a week: we stopped ten days. All the way north, he was never tired of drawing me out about the war, and my own doings In It It was of no use to profens that one had forgotten; he would hnve the whole tale. And for all the youngsters who had done their bit he profcsKcd an nd miration which was akin to veritable hero worship. We got on together splendidly he was an excellent, a fatherly and broth erly companion. At the end of a month he and I were Inseparables, We had then run Into the crisp Oc tober weather of the north, and were on the southern edge of Northumter Iand. There, after consulting his mup, he gave his chauffeur orders to cut across country, north by west, making by way of Hexham and Wark for the wild lands beyond, and for a particular place marked on the chart as the Woodcock Inn ou Marrasdale moor. When, rounding a heather-clad bluff that sloped sharply down to our track, we came In sight of the Woodcock Inn, I was amazed to think that a hostelry should be found In such a desert It stood, a gaunt gray mass of stone, on the edge of a great moor ringed about by high hill as veritable a solitude as one could set eyes on. Beyond It there was not a sign of human life or habitation. "What an extraordinary place for an Inn!" 1 exclaimed as we moved nearer. "What custom can they get there?" "I know this country," Mnraxoff said. "Used to come here w hen I was a youngster, And though It's true there Isn't a sign of life about us except what's signified by the old Inn yonder, It's not such a desert as It looks at first sight There's nothing on the moor Marrasdale moor but you'll observe that there's valleys cut ting In between the bills that run down to Its edge? Well, there's vil lages In those valleys, and furmsteads, too, and more than ne sizable coun try house. I mind them all well enough, laddie, though it's more years than I care to estimate since I set eyes on them!" "There'll be people you remember," 1 suggested, "and who'll remember your "Not after all thee years!" he an swered quickly. "And between you and me and the post. Holt I've no wish to remember people, nor more particularly to be remembered by anybody. 1 don't want It to be known thnt I'm other than a complete stran ger to the place." I wag wondering why he should be go mysterious about this, when we drew up at the door of the Inn, There was a plain board sign over the wide, open door, underrated save for a faded painting of a woodcock flying across a moorland scene. I'.e nenth It 1" tarnished gilt letters ap peared the words: "The Woodcock Inn by Jameg Musgrnve." Found in Baltic Basin of amber. Failure to do so leads to a charge of embezzlement Amber has found Its greatest use In the fashioning of ornaments. Artisans who makes necklaces, bracelets and brooches turn the amber on a lathe and polish it with whitening and water, or with stone and oil, the final luster being Imparted by friction with flannel. New York Times. Chalk That Up Pat O'Hara and Mike Murphy (who strangely enough, were Irishmen) had taken Jobs at a colliery. Pat one morning broke his shovel when he was down In the mine. He was too lazy, however, to take It to the surface with him. go he left It for his friend, writ ing on It In chalk : "Take my shovel out Mike. I've for. gotten It!" Hut friend Michael knew Pnt of old, and refused to be caught by such a trick. So he rubbed the mesnge off and substituted one of bis own: Take It out yourself. I've never aueo It" Loudon Answer. "It wna Jlnncshnws that bad tl when I was last hero," murmured my companion. "Dead and gone, no doubt, nil of them! And this man no doubt'll be Musgravo." A man had appeared at the open door, and was coming across the Mad to us. He was a mlddloaged, good looking fellow, Pehlnd him camo a woman, a sharp-featured, alert quick ly observing woman, who slipped past the man and gained the aide of our car first It was she who did the talking. "Good day, ma'am," said Mr, Muia roff. "You'll le the landlady, no doubt? and thls'll be your IiiihIuiiuU Aye, well now, we're thinking of breaking our Journey here for a day or two, perhaps for two or three, Just to look around this grand country ot yours. You'll have accommodation?" "Oh, yea, Indeed, sir!" aimwered the woman, taking In the car and Its occupants with appraising eyes, "Since this motoring became faihlonabte we've a lot of custom, and we're pre pared for It I think you II find It comfortable, sir," as she led the way Inside. "We've bad customer here that said they were sorry to leave It There's a silting room here, sir. that you can have all to yourselves." She showed us Into an old fushloned parlor, snugly furnlxhcd with solid old stuff, and lighted by tall, narrow windows that looked out on the moor and the hills: Mr. Miunroff, at the mere eight of It, guv a grunt of pleased satisfaction. "Aye. ayct" he said. "Thls'll d grandly keep this room for me, ma'am, ns long a we stop Holt!" he exclaimed, when he had conferred with the landlady about dinner that evening and she bad left us to our selves. "Tht Is the fort of place I've dreamed of, nu.ny and many a time when I've been In places where there wasn't the shade of a wall nor the leaf of a tree to creep under cool, gray, sleepy, place where time seems to stand still. I like this. Holt ami we'll Just have a look round before our dinner." We went out to look round. It needed small powers of observation on my part to show me thut Mr. Macaroff whs as well acquainted with this old wayside Inn as Its landlord and landlady were. I could see that be knew every stone of the ancient buildings and every yard of their sur roundings. There was a walled gar den at the side of the house: he wan dered about It with the familiarity of a man who has known a pla Inti mately, As we were coming out of It we saw Musgrav at Its gute. We bad come up to the gate and a Musgrave was about to open It. two ladles came In view from behind the high wall, walking along the hylf grass truck by which we had motored during the lust three or four tulles of our Journey. Musgrave lifted bis hnt as they glanced In our direction; each gave hi m a nod and a smile ns they passed on before the front of the Inn. At one of them I merely looked: to the other I gave more attention. She was a girl of posHtbly twenty-one or tw-o years, brown hatred, light-colored, slim and graceful In her country coat and skirt, dlstrartlngly pretty, as I could see In that brief glance; the other was a tall, hundxoiup woman of middle age, somewhat stern tind cold In manner, despite the gracious re sponse which she made to tbe land lord's civil greeting, From their drex and appeurance these were evidently folk of consequence. I glunced at Mr. Mn.nroff as the ladles disappeared. He was gar.lng after them. It seemed to me with un usual attention. "Neighbors of yours?" he asked suddenly, turning to Muxgrave. "That's Mrs. L'lphlnstotie, sir, of Marrusdale tower," replied the land' lord. "That's the big old house acroxs tbe moor. Used to belong to Sir Itlchard Cotgreave, did Marrasdale tower been in that family hundreds of years, by all accounts. When Sir Itlchard died, a few years since, this Mr. Llphlnstone bought the place and came to live here: most of the land hereabout Is bis." "Mrs. Elphlnstone, eh," said Mr. Mnraroff. "And the young lady 7 Miss Llphlnstone, of course." "No, sir," replied Musgrave. "Tim young lady Is Miss Merchlson Miss Sheila, as we all call her. Mr. Kl phlnstone's daughter by a previous marriage, sir." I fancied I detected renewed Inter est In the expression of Mr. Mnzu roir face during this explanation. Hut he was a good hand at concealing his thoughts, and he turned and waved his hand toward the wide pros pect before us. "So Mr. ICIpliltiHtone of MurraMdalo tower owns most of what we see?" he suggested. "Well, not what you might call most, air," replied Musgrave. Those moors to the south and east, air, High Cap moors, they belong to a London gentleman, Mr. Vomer Court hope, a banker. He's got a shooting box right In the middle of 'em High Cup lodge they call It and he's there now, with a small shooting party, With occasional bits of gossip ot this sort, out first evening at the Woodcock went off very pleasant ly. I wondered what wo were going to do with ourselves next day In so solitary a place. Put Mr. Ma.aroff, It seemed had notions of tils own, which he promptly explained on coming down to breakfast. (TO BE CONTINUCUI that sluggish feeling Put yourself right with nature- bf chewing Feen-a-mlnl. Works mildly but effectively In small doses. Modor safe scientific. For the family. Feenamint TM ONIOIMAk fceiianiint 7 Cktwltti) Lum LAXATIVE tit Tutl But Ih Stint CJuiult llAe Gum rOR CONSTIPATION The X Type iK'im Herbert llawkes of Colum bia wag talking about the revised curriculum to go Into effect In th autumn. "Tim change," be said, "will mako university life plensanter, but It won't make It laxer. Quit the contrary. "I think It will do away with the student of I'.xe's type. "Young Hxe sauntered Into a tele graph otllce and wrote out a tele gram. The clerk ran over It several time, then he said : " 'I can't make out w hether this read "no funds" or "no fun."' "'Oh, well. said F.xe, 'what's th difference ?' " Mothers . . .Watcli Children's colds COMMON hriJ colJi oftfn "settle in throat and cheii where they msy become dangerous. Don't takt a thane at (lie lint snirlle rub on CTulJrtn's Muiterulconc every hour Jorflw hourt. Children's Muttrrole i juit good olj Muiterole, yoa bavs known so long, in milder form. Working like tit trainej maiieur, this famous blend of od of muitard, camphor, menthol snd other ingredients bring rrlief naturally. It penetrnu snd stimu lates blood circulation, help to draw out infection and pain. Keep full strength Muiterole on hand, for adult snd the milder ChdJrrn's Muiterule for little tots. All drugging. ouiimrv Admiration Mr. A. My husband admire everything about me my hair, my eyes, my hands, my voice Mrs. It. Well, what do you admlra about him? Mr. A. Why, hi good taste. Cold Mining In Nova Scotia Cold mining has bnd a distinct re vival In Nova Scotia during the lust few years, and operation are report ed on a dor.cti or more obi mines. Production, however, Is still limited to a few thousand ounces annually. v About ten years ago I got so weak nnd rundown that I felt miserable all over. One day my husband said, 'Why don't you take Lydia E. Tinkham's Vegetable Compound?' When I hall taken two bottles I felt better so I kept on. My little daughter was born when I had been married twelve years. Even my doctor said, 'It's wonderful stuff.' You may publish this letter for I want all the world to know how this medicine has helped me." Mrs. Hortcn Jones, so3 48th Street, Union City, N. J. ttiiui,im",H At ton tltlrl AM