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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1909-12-16, Page 7OrEV Desernitur 160, 1900 G. illiorr.O.00ART D. ,14,0,AGOART 44.4,44440 leTaggart Bros, A GENERAL MANKING BUSI- NESS TRANSACTED, NOTES DISCOUNTED. PliAFTS 1$S114D INTELEST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE • NOTES VIIRCII- ASED. -- H. T. RANCE. -- - NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- • ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT, REPRESEN- TING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT CLINTON. •••••••••••••••.i...•••••••,•••••,•••••••,,••• OFFICE, W. BRYDONE, BARRISTER, SoLiorroft NOTARY, PUBLIC. ETC. OFFICE -Sloane Block -Cf INTON. 11••••••••=...M.M.... •••••11=••••••....11, CHARLES B. HALE' REAL ESTATE -and INSURANCE OFFICE - - - HURON ST. DR. W. GUNN L. R. C. P. L. R. C. S. Edinburg Office -Ontario street, Clinton. Night calls at front door of office or at residence on Rattettbury street. e -DR. J. W. SHAW -et -OFFICE- . RATTENBURY ST. EAST,. , DR. C. W. THOMPSON. 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Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, suelt as "Lost," "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., in- Serted (ince for 85 cents and eueb subsehuen t lesertion 10 eentg: Cominunica,tions int.nded for • publioa- Mon tnust, as a guarantee of goe'd faith, be accompanied by tbe hadle the writer. W. Jr, mtrannt,/,, Miter and Proprietor Cliaktorow Nows.Reeordi too great to be grasped at once by tbis erude, -cupidinotte brain, "How do know?" tbe men repeat- ed Neeerthelese he dropped watch, • and chatn into his pocket, then, with te meaning grimace. extended again his horny, greedy palm. . "What" - 'Hand over th' two pun and well go." • "I'll see eou hanged first!" "Ashore ee go." He pronounced his tIlthlIfttlitn,, motioning KirkW001.1 to en- ter the boat, The American turned, looking for the Alethea or for the vessel that he believed bore that !tame. She was nearing the -lightship when he found her, and as he looked a at -malt blurred • the air between them; blotting the brigantine out with It PUDIUdge of ram. The effect was as if she had vanished, " as if she were forever snatched from his grasp, and with Dorothy aboard her -heaven alone knew ie what need of himi •!Jute and blind with despnir ad. wrath, he turned upon the map and caught him by the collar, forcing bim out Rrver the Hp of the overhang. They were unevenly matched, Kirkwood far the sligitter, hut strength ceme to him In the crisis, physical strength and ad- dresS such as he had not dreatned were at his command. And the surprise of hid onslaught proved an ally of un - guessed potency. Before he himself knew it he was standing tip the -over- hang and bad shifted his bold to seize the fellow about the waist; .thee. him clear of the dectc. and aided by .the lurch of the•claboet. he cast hlm bodily.into the dory, The man, falling, struck hisbead against one of tbe thwartsa glancing • blow that stunned him temporerily, Kirkwood himself dropped as if shot, a trailing reef point slapping his cheek until it stung as the boom thrashed overhead. • It was as close a cell as he had known. The knowledge slckenedbim a little. .Without rising' be vrorkecl the paint - loose and east the dory adrift; alien crawled -back...Into the cockpit. No pang of compassion disturbed him as he abandonedthe fisherman to the - mercy of the sea. Though the fellow lay still, uncouthly dietorted,. In tbe bottom of -the dory, he was in no dan- ger. • The wind and waves together veciuld gam the bolt ashore. For that Matter. the man was even then: re covering struggling to sit up, ' Crotwhing. to avoid: the boom, Kirk- wood wept forward tti.tbe bows and, • grasping the mooring catile grew it in, !dipping back into the'eockpit to get a stronger purchase, with bin feet. 'It was it Woggle., .The boat polled slug- gishly.against the windthe cable inch- ing' In jealously. And behind him be could henr a eoice bellowing inartivie late menaces and knew that in another moment the. fisherman Would ,hent his Frantically he tugged anti tore at the slimy rope, battling with a will, and a prayer.. It gave morereadily toward - the end, but he seemed to here fought with It for ages when at last the an- chor tripped and he got it ' Immediately he leaped back to the stern. 'fitted In tlie:tiller and seizing the ineinsheet, drew tile boom in till the wind 'should catch In the calm's.. In the dory tbe skipper. bending at bis oars e was not two yards hs.tern. Fie Was hard aboard when, the 'tails filling with il bang, Kirkwood pulled. Louis Joseph Vance copyright, 1008by the liebbegdiortrill Co. IFor .the longer Diet maneever was deferree the better was hls etlaney tie . Attaining •his object. It was ti for - torn beet. Bet In time the eresan- tine, to escepe Seaside sande, would be forced to tack mod anted out past the ligbtship, the wind off 'her port bows. • Teen their courses would in- tersect, It remained to be demon- strated wbether tee cattioet was -speedy enough to strrivt at this point of contact hi advent.* of or shunt. taneously with the harger vessel. He watched the tboat anxiously, quiet: to approve her merits OS W19 displayed them. lie bed sellee smell craft before-frall eenterboard cat - boats; bendy and swift, built to serve in, summer winds and protected wa. tens, never such a one as this. 'Ye he liked bee Offshore, too. the wind 'Unrifled with added strength or possibly had fresh. ened For minutes on end the lee- ward gunwales would run green, and now and again the ecreaminge.peiting squalls teat scoured t he 04 Mt ry . would heel her over until' the water renicaded in over the lee combing, and the rinbler, lifted clear, would hang idle punt. smitten by wane' rating bil. low, the tiller would be alt but torn from Kirkwood's hands. Agsin and ;wain this happened, and • thosewere- times of trembling. But iiiwaym the mit boa t • righted, shaking the t',1inging weter$. tette her and awinteng tier stem Into • the wind again. Ittlfl there Would follow an abbreviated breath- ing spells during whites Kirkwood Wile 5 t liberty to dash. the Stilt spray from WS e,Veii anti search the wind berried wast'e for' the brigitetine. Sometimes she found her, sometimes not. • . Long after be indlexpeeted her to she Weet about, and they began: to close in •upon env}, other. .. Ile eotild see that even with shortened 'convert she. was staggering drunkenly under tho. fieree impacts of the Wind. . For himself, It was ,nip .and tuck how,.and no man In his normal sense Would have: risked a sixpence on tbe . boat's chance; to live .until She creamed the • brigantine'bows. - . •iTitrie outof reckoning he was forced :to kiieel iii the swimming cockpit, steering With one hand, umieg the bail- ingdish with. the ether and keeping bis eyes relielopsly turned to the...belly- ing patch of sell.. It was heartbreak - leg toil. Ile.beganretuetautly „to Cote eede that 'it could net hist much longer. • :And if he missed the brigantine. he • .would be 'Ioet. . I, ,. ,. • Long since he had become numb with cold from incessant dienchingis . of icy .spray • that plied de over the windward counter. keeping the .btittom ankle'deep regardless of his laborieue but intermittent efforts with •tbe : bail- . ing-dish. And tee ttvo, brIgantipe and cockleshell, ' were drawing . together with appalling:deliberation, i But teat his .voice steely .in his par,ched throat heeoulde baye sheeted In his elation whet; . eventently he' geined the point...of interseetion an eighth, ot. a nine ahead of. the Magee- . tineetind got sight of *her windwnrd freebeard ss wont slewly the eat bon t forged across her:emirate . . • • '.1Ser all..that, tbesinomerit Of his ac -- Mil triumph 'Was not eete Ile had still.. -to. carry off suecessfully n seheitie that ' 'for • sheer flUdaeitY• of conception sind cieiteuipt.. for " da OK' transcended • all that:bad gone befere. ' ' -. s • . Holding tbe s 'catboat on for a • thee, • he .brought her; • a beet ' ha nilso teely a • little ' way beyond the.: brigantine's • coureeand hung in the'.eye Of tbe wind, the• leach* Caplet* 'and tighten-, lag with report's' like rifle . shots and the water sloshing about hie rervetes bailing dish new altogether out of mireb-vvhile be watched the oncoming .rpent.1es0;11,.• his eyes gliate'niter With andel- . . • She Was footing it smartly. the brig- antine'. lying doWti to it and snoring into • the wind,' 'Beneath • her . stein wares .broke In snow white showers, . whiter than the yearn; of her letiging jib -:broke and, gnashing their teeth. In • impotent . rimy. a willed andeddied down. her sleek dark flanks'. ltolibing, . courtesying, she elunged• on shortening the Ihterral„with Mighty.. , leaping bounds, On her boirs- with - each instant the golden letters of her • Dame gr.ew !street. and tneree legible • • until-Alethett-he , could . read It elate beyond dispute. • .-• • Joy welled Inhis. heart. ele .foreet till that. he. had undergone In the pros. peer of what he proposed atilt to do.in the nettle efehe only woman the world • held • tor • him, ,teiggestionime he had eotne thus far In her serviereeniques, tioning, hy her side, be was prepared to go atilt • ftirther, though' all butnan. lty. should single her out with ocelot. Ing fingers.. • . .- They were- nettehing lien aboard the - brigantine. Ile conkl see a line of !watts abort her windward rail. Per ' haps she was of their number. Ile waved tin enclacions immi. Some one replied,it great ahem shattering itself ithintelligibly against the gale, tIe nel. tiler understood ntii• attempted to reply. His every Neon y was 1 oneentrattal on the ettprome momeut nowat eand. Cresol:ding the heeled to a nieatas, he paid off the sheet nod pulled up the tiller The (grille:it levered oh boy heel With II rriltik iii•t* :40 11 Ill ppm/ run and rigid : then, . with the tit twelves -lel 'might et the elm' belied .111,1., she 'mei like • an snare 1111(1)9 11S' rxiii.o ill linen bows, so close that the trespass{ 4 op, latter first threntened to impale the sail: nett, the boas plute.lus, (walled down n Imre 4 so root beloi,d the rn 5. boater stern . Working in A frenzy of haste. Kel. wood kliiiitutil 5 he trier 111111 ol P1' bringing tile oat h Tullis, ANL Iritnin!lig the melligheet ea beat he might, rotted himself nudist under the brigs n Oleos leeward uroirtrr, (rater pouring In gen. eroustraiver the eat's. ' ladling, he edged nearer, initialing ills r rnft as though Intending to rem the Istraer retreat, toot be tem phort. 40klin$ th0 littio 1001E21 Wilt n it was 1.tj ton) lam clear of ,thedeolc, he east Itim • . bodily Into ay: (4)41. the tiller up, and the catboat slid away, a .dozen. feet separating them in a breath: • . . A• yell of rage booting' down the wind,. but he paid 110 11,Vd • careless, alike of the dangers lit* had paSsed and those . that . ya wiled before is les, lie trimmed the sheet fled stood away on the port task, heading directly for the Nom lightahlp. _e_................... CILATITIlt XVI, LEANI 11011)st:the teetering. feet iiraeed epon the slippery and treat chosen's; deck, IS'1rk 'wood clung to titter and inaluslieet lied two', ed al) NI 51 It' i t h nuxions twee, a Illtelter a flaring entree deep between his brows. . • A mile to westward, three nr morn ahead. he voted aye the brigantine standing eloae in under the ItISSOX shore, At limes elle was 1111.10)1e. Again he could eritch merely the glint of her etinens, white egainet the dark gloom of the littoral, toned by a mist af flying spindrift. Ile Strained his ryes. eratehing for the thanee which would take tattoo in the rake of her intlitta and Hails When eh• alatmild eon* Sheet. .. ... four feet he :you'd risk tbe jump. Fle .erawied out fly tete overhang. 4:vouch- ing ou. Ina toes. 47140 baud light 'leen the tiller, the oteer totaling the deck. ready -ready, Abruptly tlas Alethee shut off the weed: the 'all fietteued aml tile vat dropped bece. In a secuud the dis. tepee bed doubled. In augutsh Kirte wood .uttered an exceedluis bitter cry. Already be Witi falling far off her counter. A sheet restelted him. He was dimly conscious of a clerk objeet burtlitig sthetatisuttitiiistilseom4e7hinglid;roitibpeed--e°ackePoili of rope. He fell forward upon it into water eighteen lushes deep and for the first time realittel teat but for that line he had gone to his firowulug its an. other neuute. • The cat was staking, Ai he *crumbled to his feet, elutch- ing the life line, it eeavy vveve washed over the weterlogteel vraft and left It all but submerged. and a Benin tug on the. rope added point to the advice, whieb, reaching his ears iu a bellow like a bull's, penetrated the panic of his wits. • "Jump! !lump, you fool!" • in an instant of eolierenee he saw that the brigantine was lufUng. None the less much of the line had already beenpaid out, line there was no reek. (ming when the end would Ise reached. Without thne to make it fast he hitch- ed It twice round his waistline! chest; once rowel en grin, mei. grasping it Shove hie bead to ease Its constriction wilco the tug should (sane; lenped on the combing and overboard, A green roaring aValanehe swept :down upon hine and the leakiest; catboat, over wheittiltig both simultaneously.. The agony that was his during the tlext utinutes ca;.n by no means 00 exaggera ted. His senses .were blatistl out in blackness. Then he was breath Ing once more, the iseen clean air sfue. bine his hetes. the While he :ewer') UP. supported In an ethereal void of bril . • Ilanee..11.15 mouth . was full 'of aome- • thing that bui•neet, a Iteuld hoe acrid end stinging Ile gulped, swallowed: • slaeberedechokeel, mutter& atteintited to mit ep, was aware that :le: PYQS the. • &COI venter of a ring Of glaring, burn - Ing eyes, like eyes of ravening beasts, and fainted, • Bis next conselons Impression. was . •of Standing up, supported by friendly . arms on either side, while somebody was asking. nim .if he couid walk 'a atep 110 or ‘„.atswpost..rt seati.d%nalliy: held ups. on the edge of the (*aidn. skylight..an object of interest to some half dozen men, seafaring .felloWs. nil, by . their habit, clusteredround bet ween hitt, and tee witelvetird rail. Of their num- bet' one stood 'directly before 'him, dwarfing hie companions. as anich by Ilia air of cointeand as' bY his Oneerts men height -trill, thin .faCed and .low, with hollowweateerworn cheeks, a mouth like a crookmi gash front ear to ear and eyes like dying. coals, with whieli he looked the rescued np.., and down itcone grim, aemi-huntorous, aeinespecniat Ire glance. In ha tid!.4both huge :Intl red. he fondled ten.clerly a • 'aettientits •been empleyed tot 'filet .ascipt.it bra.i.ide feta* whose .contetes had ap aid to the .clrowning..' • . • . As leireuteod'S gaze encountered his the man' stalled, 0u11 117 jerklegeble heno .to one Side witte a singularly :de- risive a Ir. • . . • etre einteyd' he blustered: "'Ow .gees it now? : Feeen"attpier, eigh?"• . "Rome,' thank you - more .iike •drowned • rat.", • kirkwood eyed • him stieepistley. "i supposeyou're the man who threw me t bet line? I'll have to - wait' till • my head Mears up, before I Can thank you properly." •. , 'flou't mention: it." Ile of She lan- tern jewel Stowed the bottle away with jealontt care In one ,of his immense :g00t -poekets and seized . K wood's hand in a grilsp. tiet. made the young tnan wince. "You're Byte enough now. nytneds. Stryker, Capen Wilyum Stryker. •Wetet the row? Lookhe for a friend?" he demanded suddeelyeest Ktrkyroodes .attention wandered "Yes; your •.paisengers, „I presume: they're. below"- . eintasetigerel" hush fell' upon• the group, •durttig. • *Mei) Kirkwood sought Stryker's eye ip iuhtifUl pleediete and: Stryker looked rotted him blankly. "Where's Mist; Calendar?" the'iybilng than HUI rifled nlisif ply. "1 must see ber. t once!" • • The keen studdeep set eyes of tbe skipper. elonded • es .they returned to Kirk Wood's perturbed. eoutitenanre. "%Vote* you telithr about?" he de- test:Weil brusquely. • • "I ilium see Miss Calendar or Caren - dor himmeit or Stieready.". iiitkwood pe mod and, get tine. no ratify, grew restive under tetra keret Maarten bb' re- gard '"I'llat's why I cone. nbotird." he. amended, beset to tie* absurdity of the :statement,- eto .see-ee-Catetelar," 'Well, em , setryear Man:used' to itifutie into lila tone n 515.0 of euspleioum sometime • "-Why ?" instated • 1: irk wood, nettled. but 55111 tinenniprellending. "Wylie mean to tell me. Yoe come Off from-. wherever tem tilti elem. from.- ° Intentifie to beard thisevemsel and find 0 part' ,t13111Cia Caletelar?" "Cerminly 1 did Why" - "Well!" pried it . Stryker, rubbing him Minds 1e:tether with ;to air oppress- ively obsequious "I'm sorry el term yen 34)5 111 +seine to the wrong_ slum. sit'. 'WP Stfh.k 110 011(1)5. date We're III the eurdware line, we tire Yon might try titett door, or I ()easily yotill tied what you went nt brit:tiii;1:115:51:::;4.1ornteni,(1;.iy. A giggle frnm hie Mullein* stimulat- guessed you wita tench a fool, hammy f wouldn't ''ro 105 you drowtull" Stagyercd, KirWtied bore Ilia so ren. tie trueuletue without rettenttoont "f'ttitsular.".he SbuS Mniered, trying te explain. "Calendar YS IV- "! rill 'Op Woi Volatile? said. 'e tuyt:o tut Ettesegettietxt with, you an' you*vs gone nu' went nu' forgot tiw dyta. Menne it's forst year's velenear you're teluldn' of You, Johnny" Ito it lout of a boy in the group of tittl Meth -"yOU E811 80 fetch tides• gentiewau Wbitakwo for nieeteeteelx. Look Metre. tiowl" With nu Wort Kirkwood mustered up 51 seow of dignity -Nip 1 to wettest:ea' tie mid as valully 85 he could, "that you deny knowIng George II Calendar and his daughter Dorothy and"-, 41 (loon 'live to. Listen to me, young man." For the time the fellow dee carded his clumsy favetiousnetre "I'm, Witrum Stryker, Caere Stryker, nettle ter an"arf owner of this weasel, tin' wot 1 says 'ere Is law We don't carry 00 passengers, Dare understand me?" aggressively "There ain't no nUM5011 .4 Ill'Cen reetrinu oralonehe swept dow» ',pow titnt byhted 1.111P1i Oil r aboard the A ily t beer, SO' IleVA: WAS, 55)1' liet't.t, Will UV!" '"Wlitit ' nit itie Old -.roe say 'i" ti 5 rk. WetHl 1114110r.A1 ' '1111S 811111.; This A 1 131 heer, • rtigim. tei:fiti front Liverpiall, bonne -from Lou- don to Ilentwerp, in cargo. . Anythink el,Se?" • ., ' - '.• • • .k.irkwood' Filtitlit his head-, owning to 5051 55 the taw:Tates with a gloomy gaze. As he did itu-slial remarked how <dose upon the Sheppey headland the brig- atitine bad drtt Wit .5lie umee wa'given*. to go about, For the Moment' he waft left alone, wretchediy wet.. shivering, wan -and shronken visibly. with the .knoSylede that In. had dared greatly • for nothing. lint for the„neeessity •of keeping , up.. before Stryker and. his Crew the Yoong Man felt that he Could gladly have broken down and wept tor sheer . vexation a nd disupPoint wept. , Some little while later Stryker again • approac.bed him, perhaps swayed by an unaccustomed itninilse .. of eoinpes-• Sion. vi.vb 101, however, he artfully con- cealed." - Blandly 'ironic, returning to his Wiper:mention of the shopkeeper, ".N.othitik elSe we Can show you, sir" he eteulred. .. • el• presume you cenidn't put • me • ashore." Kirkwood repliectingenuonsiy. .10 sternest -lie digest the eaptalu silow. ed him Ks htick. "'Eye, year". he call- . ed to one of teecrew, "tyke thisaiwyet Tyke 'ins below un' put lin t� . bed; give 'ini a drink" an' , dry le' do's... idebbe 'ell be better when 'e wykes l up:- 'F.1 don't . talk- sense now, Ituit'S '. .atire. 11' 1051 arsk me," sye 'es benne . an' no 'ope for lun., • • -. . . .1 ' • : • S • • F, .•CritiPTErt xvit. • . . • 1 C. ' ONTRADI OTORY , t� the ' hone - - • " ful prognosis. et... Oaptate' . Stryker, hie unaccredited pee.' . • .., • sengee was not better when. after a period of oidivious rest illde.,' . nite Itt• duration, he' awoke.' . Hite sub- • sequent nesuiention of listless resIgna- • tion, of pecific.aecitilesdence. in the dic- tates of his 'dsstiey, waa.. perety de: • eeptire--thio ice of .despair over pro- found:depths of exuslieritted: rebellion. Overhead on • the deck a heavy thunining of hurrying feet.awake IsIM to keener perceptiVepees. ' •. judging from the Inceseant rolling . and pitching 'ofd the brigantine, tbe• . crashing thunder of sestet upon, her e sides,. the eldritelt shrieking of tbe gale, ilf3 Well as from tbe chorused"grbens and plaints of each individual bolt stud timber in the frail febric thee housed ,bia fortunes, the wind had strength.. ININISMISSISINSISINIMINNINSINOWNNIO ened nutteritt7ly •Curing his beer* et' forgetfulneste however malty tbe /ate ter .inIght have been • A wilt) night, rertalnly. ProttalitY by that time the little roasel was to OS* Siliddle, of the North Se*. ifrouftel tor Antwerp. The first colnr ef reSenttneat ebbing' trout .his thoughts. left We rather lege terested than excited for the taro:speeds tie found that be was neither pleassal uor dispitatsed Ile presumed that iR would be tie more diffieult to tease money on personal belongings In Ani. werp timn nitywherr rise It has been observed that the first , flower of via- ill:lathe' the rum blossom, the next the entiventionalized Maw -de -11m of the tnoney balder. wonid P.� pawn- shops, then, Iti Antwerp, and KIN: - wood wits conthlent that the sale nr- pledge of his sisnet ring, attar:attt.. matchbox and vigor caRe would provide - him with niontsy notiall for it retuna to Loudon by third elass, ot the worst. There -well. nil events, were 4011 tt14* kneea tif the gods. Ele'd squirm oat of hts trout,h,s somehow. An for,the other miter, the Calendar affair, be presumed be was well rid of .ft--toh sigh tif regret. 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How They Defend It Against Leal De - straying insects. A standing army of aids for delete -- sive purpose* is kedteend provided • with food by a• sensitive plant of.. • Nicaragua. •in this swede there are - two large therns at the base of eacix -leaf • vinhabited by the colonies of ants, .ilitch bi ore nmake' to the thorns and ma a home for themselves by eating out .the •soft inner tissue. •On the lea. • atalks there are hon,ey• glands. and. atthe tip of .euelieleatlet there is a sausage [shaped body about as large as a pin's laead, consisting of albu- minous .food... The ants sip the nee-- • tar and eat the food bodies and, be• - iinaigurcy,ontented with their lot, remain on• the plant without dieing•it tin y When the plant is •threatened by an • inyasiori of leaf-Cutting:ante 'which would damage it the exits composipg • the plant's army or police force reale out and repel the intruders, Many ' • similar arrangements exist in tropical. In one of the most remarkable of . these ant plants the female ant bitee e• hole in 'the stein and brings up her brood inside it. The • Stalls Of . each. leaf is swollen at its base and bears• food bodies, which • are eaten by Die• s ants When they. emerge to find for thenasele's As the b d food bodiee : • are eaten now ()nee are formed; these, " keeping the, aritswhieh are of a fierees - 'disposition, in • the ,plant's • eteploy- .thent, ?lents et the sante . species • which do not. happen to be inhabited by ants fall an easy islets to .leafe cetting kinds of antaeevlitch are pnly. too plentiful in the 'tropics. In other'. eaaes the defensive ants are provided • only With shelter in cavities of• the stem, and various naturalists•have Oh - •served, thee these ants pour •oet isa troops whenever leadeutting enemies ' attempt' to attack the foliage. • . The ants which thus defend theses plants are small, but sting with ex- treme virulence, 'their small size mak- nig them the mote formidable The leaf -setting ants cut off the leaves and pile them up in heaps,. forming • a sort of kitchen garden of leaf mold,. uponwhich they eultivate a tungus • belonging to the mushrooth faintly_ They sow the spores of the mushrootra and make a pure culture of the lune • gus, nibbling at it to prevent the development of intehroom heads ani thus promoting the growth of spawn - Whence the Wonderful Bread - Life in Five Roses DO YOU know,..Madarn, that billowing from the Lake of the Woods clear to the snow peaked Rockies are the finest wheatlands that ever threw back golden kisses to a smilleg sun? • Our selection of a birthplace was indeed Most judicious. We cannot too fervently congratulate ourselves over being born . Canadians, can we? Alt the infinite resources of Provi- dent Natere have concentrated to • produce in our own Northwest epee• - /act /me berry. • 0 la the cream of this Manitoba wheat crop,. not Me skim milk, that rnaketh FIVE ROSES quality. And Manitoba wheat, owing to • climete and soil is the prime cereal of the world. . • * * * *• lust listen 'es the explanation of Sir James Grant, a real " rhe intense winter frost penetrates "deep into the ground, in the spring when the sail is ploughed, harrowed " and planted, the lower depths are not "greatly disturbed; but in the warm " summer months this eald stoeaga "chamber o," nature, imparts gentle "MoiSture to the roolS of the grain, " keepbtg tool during the kenSe heal." Therein lies the eoodnesa of the only wheat fit for PIVE ROSS, * * * If you,Mistressnousewife, with your own white bends, Wore to pick the very cream of this flee wheat, wouldn't it mewl periett flout? Yet, you couldn't be more fastidious than our expert buyers. Just as you wouldn't let Mrs. Brown do your shopping, we watch our own wheat buying and selecting.. Wherever the fairest crops are har- vested are one of the 75 FVg ROSES elevators, sifting them/kr berries, Years of practical knowledge and experience stand behind each buyer, who is wed -paid to 'know where the • rare grains grow. • We have the money and the ant to control the very best. Certainly your interests: a e well looked afters * Believe us, Madam, FIVE ROSES con tains only the plump, wholesome, well-filled berries of the spring wheat; the mellow sun -ripened, transparent berries. All thia and more is yours if you will but say "FIVE ROSES" to your grooer FIVE ROSES bread-lifo. healthfulneea, nurftee strength, economy. Read the label, Madaneend be flour -happy at last. LAM Or Tilt WOOPS MAIM LO., LTD., MONTREAL