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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1920-2-5, Page 3.91 „.. t fTHE CLINTON NJ W ERA � Dear; ; sinthir, apyrisdsixiri , acct, -.14Orre nbour,as sociable as a creme sbe broke into his absorption at last. lie looked up In surprise, then, chucked the volume carelessly aside, and twisted himself around till his Bend rested fa her lap. "Vet les?" he asked cheerfully. ''lonesome? Bored with yourself? Ain't I here? Surely You don't feel yourself neglected because I happen to have my. nose stuck inn bookie' "Of course not I" she denied vigor- ously. The childish absurdity of her attitude struck her with sudden force. "Still, I'd like you to talk to me once In a while." Bill's eyes narrowed a trifto, but he still smiled, And sutitlenly he stepped around behind her chair: put both bands under her chin, • end tilted her head backward. • "Ali, you're plumb sick and tired to death of everything, aren't you?" he said soberly, "You've been up here too long. You sere need u change. I11 have to Mee you out and give you the freedom of the cities, let you dis- ei,liat'a and ethic -tea, and rub elbows with the mob for a while. Then you'll be glad to drift buck to this woodsy hiding plet-e ,of Uurs. When' do you want to start?" „"Wby, 13i11 i" she protested. But she realized In a ease that 13111 could read her better than site could read, herselfirew of her emotions could remain long hidden from that keenly observing tend mercilessly log- lam mind,, She knew that lie guessed where she stood, and by what paths she had gotten there. Trust •him to know. And it made her very teuder toward pith that he was so quick to understand. Most men would have resented. "I went to stack a few tons of bay," he went on, disregarding her exclama- tion. "I'll need it in the spring, if Mot this winter. Soon as that's done we'll hit the high spots. tVe'1l take three or four thousand dollars, and while It lasts we'll be a couple of—of high- class tramps, Flub? Does it sound good?" She nodded vigorously, "Perk up, then," he wheedled. -"Bi.ii-boy;"she murmured, "yeti mustn't take me too seriously," "I took you for better or for worse," he answered, with a kiss. "I don't want it to turn out worse. I want you to be contented and happy here, where I've planned to make our home. I know you love me quite a lot, little • person. Nature fitted us in a good many ways 'to be mates. But you've gone through a pretty drastic siege of Ogled= in this rather grim cottntry, sad I•gesss it doesn't seem sneh aa ilnaring place es It did at Amt I doa't want you to nurse that feeling until it becomes chronic. Then we would be set of tine, and It would be hoed -by flappinees. Bat I think I know the eure for your malady." In the morels/ he began his hay (tutting, Abest eleven o'clock he threw down his scythe and stalked to the tweet, "Put an your hat, and let's go inves- tigate a mystery," said he. "I beard a they bawl hi the wends a minute *go. A regular barnyard bellow." "A cow bawling?" she echoed. "Sure7 What would tante be doing away up here?" "That's what I want to know?" Bin laughed. "Pee never seen a cow north of Fraser—not this side of the Rockies, anyway." • !they saddled their horses, and rode out in the direction from whence had arisen the bovine complaint. Tho sound was not repotted, and Hazel had begun to chaff 13111 about a too vivid imagination when within a half mile of the clearing he putted bis horse up short in the mi'"ddte ot a little meadow. "Look I" The track of a bread -tired wagon And freshly crushed the thick grass. Bill squinted at the trail, then his gaze swept the timber beyond. "Sohtebode has been cutting timber over there," he enllgbtened. "I can sea the fresh ax work. Looks like they'd been hauling poles. Let's fol- low this track a ways." The tiny meadow was fringed on the north by a grove of poplars. Be- yond that lay another clear space of level land, perhaps forty acresein ex- tent. They broke through the belt of poplarsand pulled up again. On one side of the meadow stood a cabin, the fresh -peeled Log walls glaring yellow 1n the sun, and lifting an earth -Covered roof to the autumn sky. Bill whistled softly,' Along the west side of the meadow ran a brown' streak of sod, and down one side of this a man guided the han- dles of'a plow drawn' by the strangest yokemates Hazel's eyes' had seen for many a day. • "For goodness' sake!" she ex claimed. • "That's the true pioneer spirit for you," Bill spoke absently. "He has bucked his way Into .the heart of a virgin country, and he's breaking sod with a .mule • and a cow. That's adap-• tation to 'environment with a venge- ance—and grit.), ".'There'& le woman, too, 33111. And see—she's carrying a baby?" teazel pointed eacltedly. "Oh, Bill 1" The man halted his strangely assort- ed team to watch them come. The woman stood a step outside the door, a baby in her arms, another toddler holding feet to her skirt. L thlek- bodied, short, square -shouldered man was this newcomer, with a round, pleasant face. "Hallo, neighbor 1" 13111 greeted. , The plowman lifted his old felt hat courteously, His face 111 up. "Ach I" Bald he. "Neighbor. Dot iss a goot word in dins country yore dere iss no neighbor. But I am glat to meet you. V111 you time do der house and rest a vele?" "Surer Bill responded. "But we're neighbors, all right. Did you notice a cabin about halt a mile west of here? That's our place—when were at home.w "So?" The word escaped with the peculiar rising inflection of the Ten - ton. "1 half saw dot cabin yen ve came here. But I dirk It vasa aban- don. Veil, let as to der house go. Id vitt rest der mule—und Gretchen, der cow. Bah I" He rotted a blue eye on hls mien. graoue team, and grinacri widely. "Came," he invited; "ethic vita to gist.)' They Mand her a matron of thirty - odd; fresh -checked, ronaddaced tike n:.t �rr; >1�: 0 BILIOUS headache spoils many an expected enjoy. intn►.t. When the condition" of the liver is neglected, biliousness scents to become chronic and recurs every two or ' three weeks, with severe sick head- aches, 'Why not get right after this trouble and tied it by using De. Chase's Kidney -Liver Piils to restore the health and activity of the liver. Constipation, indigestion, bitche ache, headt'tebe, biiiobenoss and leile tidy derangements seen disappear, With the use of this teen -known medicine. One ¢ill,a dose; 25 ets, a box, all dealers, q0. lhlaiaaeoe,'t2atee Fc Cor, Ltd.,'Toronttir t Hasel at Once Appropriated the Baby. her huabnnd, typically German, 'with- out his accent of the Fatherland. Lim eel at once appropriated the baby. It lay peacefully to her alms, staring wide-eyed, making soft, gurgty sounds. "The little dear 1" Bawl nam Inured. "Lauer, onr name iss," the man said casually, when they swore seated. "Wagstaff', mine Is," Bill completed the informal introduction. "I am from Bavaria," Latter, told him. "V111 you smoke? I light mine tube—mit your'bife's permission, "Yes," he continued, etulEng the bowl of his pipe with a stubby fore- finger, "I am from Bavaria, Dere I vasa upop a farm brought oop. I serf 18 der army my dime pen Amorlgo. Dere I marry my vile, who Is born in Milvaukee, 3 vorli In der big brrew- eries. Afder dot I learn to be a car - Denten. Now I ata a kink, mit a castle all mine owe. I am no more a vage staff::" "You're on the rigbt track, " 13111 'nod- ded, "It's a pity more people don't take'the same notion. What do you think of this dountry, anyway?" "It les goot," Lauer, answeted bree4- ly, and with unhesitating certainty, "It iss goot. Vor der boor man 1t lse— lt iss Flalletton. ' 421t fife huntret tot - litre had hiss two pants he can selt a home make—und a 'h'dn bet O g sure olf.i' Beattie Bezel. Lauer'tf motto *J ient- ly i tossed the bleed head et het toury'eanoid daughter. °leo, I don't think I'll ever get loaf^ soinis," eh4 P' 3, "rut toe tided to tan $TOPPED.HER HEADACIJE$ Years Of Suffering Ended By "Fruit-a-tives" 1)2ILemur Sr„ Se. Jona, N. 33, "Itis with pleasure that I write ti tell you of the great benefit I received from the 1188 of your modieine "Frail -a -fives", made from fruit Jokes. ! was a grsz4 ste(jerer for many years front Nervous Madge/les awl Canslipaliott. x tried everything, consulted doctors; but nothing seemed to help me until I tried "Fruit -a -tins". After taking several boxes, I was conilileteiy relieved of these troubles . and have been unusually well ever since". Miss ANNIE WARD. 50c. a box, Gfor $2.50, trial size, 25e.. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit -a. tives Limited, Ottawa, here, And I've got lots of work and my babies. Of course, it's natural I'd miss a woman friend running In now and then to chat. But a person can't have it all. And I'd do anything to have a roof 02 our own, and to have it some place where our nein' don't depend on a pay envelope, Many' a time I've sat and cried, just from tbinkln' how bad I wanted a little place of our own, where there was grass and trees and a piece of ground for a garden. And I knew we'd never be able to• buy it. ; We couldn't get ahead enough," "lend so," her husband took; up the tale, "I hear off disstcountry, verelent can be for noddings got. tInd so we serape and pinch and safe nickels and dimes for fife year. Lind here ve are, An der way from Vi,^,consin in der vat' gon, yes. Alit two mules. In Ashcroft I buy der cow, so dot ve haf der fresh milk. Lind dot iss tucky. For von mule he die on der road. So I am platy oop der lent and haul my valgon colt von mule and Gretchen der cow." Hazel had a momentary vision of un- related hardships by the way, and she wondered how the man could laugh and Ails wife smile over it. Two thou- sand miles In a wagon 1 And at the journey's end only a rude cabin of logs—and years of steady toil. Isola- tion In a huge and lonely laud. Yet these folk were happy. She wondered briefly if her own viewpoint were pos- sibly askew. She knew that she could not face such a prospect except In ut- ter rebellion. Not now. The bleak peaks of the IElappan Bose up before her mind's eye, the picture of live horses dead in the snow, the wolves that snapped and snarled over their bones. She shuddered, She was still pondering this when she and Bill dis- mounted at home. �c CHAPTER XiV. The Dollar Chasers. Granville took them to its bosom with a haste and earnestness that made Bagel catch her breath. Tact- fully nen* so mach as mentioned An- drew .Busb. nor the RvWio*aaad-dollar legacy—the d1epoetttor of which sum ,till perplexed that defunct rentie- sea% mentors. And once more le a genial atmosphere Hazel conchideel to let sleeping dogs tie. She learned from various sources that Bill's for- tune loaned big, had grown by seine mysterious process,ot Granville tattle, untii it had reachel the charmed at figures of convention. There bad been changes. Jaen Bar- my had consoled litmself with a bride. Moreover, he was making geed, in the popular phrase, at the reel -estate game. The Marshes, as she had pre- viously known them, had been tatter- ing on the edge of shabby gentility. But they bad come Into money. And as Bill slangily put 1t, they were using their pile to cut a lot of social ice. Kitty Brooks' husband was now the head of the biggest advertising agency In Granville, hazel was glad of that mild success. She was inordinately proud of Bill, when she compared him with the aver- age Granville male—yet she found her- self erself wishing he would adopt a little more readily the Granville viewpoint. He fell short of lt' or went beyond It, she could not be sure which; she had an uneasy feeling sometimes that he looked upon Granville doings and Granville folk with amused tolerance, not unmixed with contempt. But he attracted attention. Whenever he was he the success or failure of any day de- pends upon whether the bowels functionate properly or not , You Need The 'di ' . �e salon of food entails the production .of poisons that must be eliminated regularly and thoroughly, I fa•.t Side of Ant ilfedlet id Go the World, r Werth'Guinea abore, 841,,ir rywiwle is task, . la fetes tae. Qs, • Thursday, Februal'y, 5th,chg, adages to tale de meta really tie' tenAn00ets, ter twlee she conjnred up e vision or lits getting into some been noes there, and utterly foregoing tbo North—which for hoe wits atrealdl" be- ginning to take on the aspect et a Weak find cheerless region where there was none of the thhtge which daily whetted her appetite for luxury; note lug but bardshipa innumerable -and gold, The gold had been their re- ward --a reward well earned, she thought. Stili—tbey had been wonder• tally happy there at the Pine river cabin, see remembered. They came home from a theater party late one night. Hazel kicked ole ber slippers, and gratefully toasted iter silk -stockinged feet at the small coal grate. Fall had come, and there was shp to r. "Well, niwhat dtheo 7012aithink of It as far es You've gone?"' he asked 811' rupee'. "I think It's fine," she candidly ad- mitted. "I'm enjoying myself. I. like it. Don't your "As a diversion," be observed thoughtfully, "I don't mind it. These people are all very affable and pleas- ant, and they've rather gone out of their way to entertain us, But, after all, what the dickens does It amount to? They spend their whole life run- ning In useless circles. I should think they'd get sick of it. You wilt." "Hardly, Bittern," the smiled. "We're merely making up for two yeale o3 iso- latloa. I think we must be remarkable people that we didn't tight like cats and dogs. For eighteen months, you know, there wasn't a soul to talk to, and not much to think about except 'what you could do if you were some place else." "You're acquiring the atmosphere," he remarked — sardonically, she thought. "No; just enjoying myself," she re plied lightly. "Well, 1f you really are," he am steered slowly, "we may as well settle here for the winter—and get settled right away. nu rather weary of being a guest in another man's house, to tell you the truth." "Why, I'd love to stay here all elm ter," she said. "But I thought you In. tended to knock around more or less," "But don't you see, you don't partici, Marty care to," 'he pointed out; "and it would spoil the fun of going any place for me if you were not interest. ed. And when it comes to a show- down I'm not aching to be a bird of passage. Ono city is pretty much like another to me. We'll take a run over to New York. I want to get some books and things. The we'll coma back here and get a house or a flat, I tell you right now," he laughed not unpleasantly, "Pm not going to rents on this society game. You can play it as hard as you like, until spring. I'll be there with belie on when it comes to a dance. And I'll go to a show— when a good play comes along. But I won't mix up with a lot of silly women and equally silly ane -men, any lade taaa le absolutely necessary." 4/Why, Bill l" she exclaimed aghast "Well, ain't It so?" he defended M- elly. 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Foi more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic arid Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness :arising therefrom, •and by 'regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Comfort—The Motor's Friend. ff�a=s-, sv �'7!�� t1'� yp §I y ,a^, 1 e W F�.:w "•�'3 $eta Ai@ ,E.,igiiature oft In Use For Over 30 Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK ctTY �Ji!IX^��^4'�•�`.�h-5Vt Lf,, -�. (fyrlr,91� brnge. That Lorimer girt nes orales superimposedon her artistic tempera- ment, and she uses 'em to advantage. ' Practically all the rest that Pee mot are intellectual nonentities—strong on looks and clothes and amusing them- selves, and that lets them out. Shucks, there isn't a real man In the lot. May- be Ptd run across some people who don't take a two-by-four view of life If I stay around here long enough, but It hasn't happened to be yet. I must saq that the habitual conversation of these people gives me a pain. That platitudinous discussion of the play to- nlgbt, for Instance." "That was droll." Hazel cbuckled at the recollection, and she recalled the weary look that had once or twice flitted over BM's face during that after -theater supper. Bill snorted. "troll. ?whittle," be that "JIIa- tut ignorance, eenpled with a desire to appear the poaaieasor Of culture, to sometimes amuedug. Bat u a ethereal thing it ;dandy ltittates." "You're hard to please," ab repited. He ehruiged his ahouldeaa sad re. mataad Mlaat- a' "Well," he said presently, "we'll take that jaunt to New York day after to- morrow." Ile was still sitting by the window when hazel was ready to go to bed. She carte hack into the room in a trailing silk kimono, and, stealing softly up behind him, put both hands on his shoulders. "What are you thinking so hard about, Billy -boy?" she whispered. "I was thinking about Jake Lauer, and wondering how he was making it go," Bill answered. "I was also pie- turing to myself bow some of these worthy citizens would mess things up if they had to follow In his steps, Hang it, I don't know but we'd be better of! If we were pegging away for a foothold somewhere, like old Jake." "If we bad to do that," she argued, "I suppose we would, and manage to get along. But since we don't bave to, achy wish for it? Money makes things Pleasanter." (Continued next Week.) Irrigation Extends in the West The year 1111t1 stands out in the agrieulttirat history 01 Alberta and Sesltatcheeou as bav,ug proved be. youd all doubt the aitorutous beneilis to be ticrivt'd Erne farm irr.gatlon WI' in the drought which affected nearly tine whole 0t these provinces, the south country within the irriga tion belt tlot,only produced exceltcct crops, but to many localities yield. were harvested well In excess of tit 'average of what are called good years. On 145,500 acres to the Lethbridge District, 66,200 toes of fodder crops, and 3,775,000 busheie of grain have been growl to the total value ot about $G,790000. Wheat was the Largest crop proctueed, there being weld over two million bushels. Other crops harvested included more than a million bushels of oats, nearly 400,- 000 of barley, 26.000 of flax, and GG,• 000 tons of :Melia. In addition vege. tables were grown and sold from late area. As another example of what phenomenal . yields may be taken from Irrigated land, the , case of e farmer at Brooks may be cited who on his farm produced a. $0.000 har- vest of alfalfa seed. The yield was 14 bushels to the acre, which sold in the nelghborhood at 80e. per Ib. and netted him a return of $740 per here. •. It the large irrigation block of the Canadian Pacific Whitey east of Val eery there' aro aperdyinlatety 023,000 acres of t'rrigahle land, and 'the amotint 1n;theesetllbridge distviet approilteetes 110.000' acres, malttlte A total of 73. ,5M acres. Of this 10511 thhu 20 per r 1 was, in btop flee yeao. •On the baele of this year's average p ode +ir.,, tul irrigated 1ai31 tee Wet , oeb10 r+ erode tile' 01 eetwofn •' to Wilton donate; Ye," no 0t• over 14Q gen .e of Lrrlenteedd rantaseeeeseeseseseeele, aiweeeessatentetweetowese (1) [lend 'Cates of C. P. It. Irrigation Canal near Calgary, Alta. {2) Steps of an Irrigation Ditc With such examples as these of the f'ruit's of irrigation it is little wonder that the farmers of the dry belts of Alberta and -Saskatchewan are clam- orine fin• extensions to the existing systems of irweg lain or the installa- tion 0f new project. ; or that the Itn- therities should late' devoting more time and attention to the furehering the schemes of it rogation, A new pl'ojeet Is already under way In the south area of Alberta wbieh will teke in the lend in the t'taymond, Storting" anti Mograttt districts, and tite comn'lssloner br lrrigution, with •licifideivarters iteeli1elliey, has recant- etyirottirned neetie tt"•teconnaleenee. ,trip M the' itit1fttlo• 'i„dke cOuntre, Marna lie bas beelltt,y)tathering Infor- m/aloe nfer- m'Jto a t' '1 halo . i h D 0 t tN 1Ki 1111 Y b1 an tteteei' pro)h)tocr'kehyTill Tills pro 1, jt�l10s tot )•fie' diversion' of tlletflood ;lvtiters at the North Saskatobewan •lfBeer to litigate 1110 leaes /eine. lb tete 151 ati`d ".§oath ot Br 'tato tette, All the Way to tern wenn between •`feungstee n and 31asitatton The sthobiet fit ,p1at1,ihe !lh t0 tap tji_e„ h near Gleichen, Alta. North Saskatchewan River., at, or near Rocky hiotmtarn House, and by; means of canals and ditches .carry) the water to lakes and,depressiossi tying to the east, utilizing Buffalo Lake aa the plain reservoir, The Alberta Provinetal Govern went is also eonsiderine the estab. llshment of an ireigaiton, expert 'mefital far at a point on thue� Sas-, katehewan lijeer two n31ke meth ae Medicine Mat, covering a dietane of twelve miles along Aho river a0e joining th . illy. There lire app'rexte mately 3bt00 acres of land whic- ran he, brought under irrigation ea -4 der this pian,, tie • The Ernest feature of trrigatodl lands is that they can he trusted to, ptotlebs at least good average trope e r;, year, end indeed; se far from the 'quality of the land deterioenttnge itte tdndenoy 1gieto betumo more since (Illative as the tosser learns ley emir 'and' observation shat quantities 04 tenter to use. and the boat sytfete of cIOp rotation, r r'pyw Y Ate`"