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The Clinton New Era, 1919-12-18, Page 4oI w:• t et y� a.3 1 e7g, i�: ✓. ti" A , it THE CLINTON N fee G'ap ji tet 2rg L;(T?Zzaow1Y &Ga a nauuieap 1 rims l ager. when it crone to malting yoihr acquaintance and courting yen in the orthodox, manner." "You've made a great mistake," sho said bitterly, "If you think you've re- moved the lined:cep, I've' snffcred n great deal at the hands of men 10 the past six months. I'm beglzlning 'to be- lieve that all e-ilevethatall men are -brutes nt heart," Bearing Bill sat up and elttspetl his hands over•, his knees and stared fixedly into the fire, • • "No," he'sald slowly, "all men ore not brutes-el:ay more than el women are angels. I'll convince you of filet." "Take me horse, then," sho cried for- lorply,. "That's the only was you eau • convince, Me or Hake amends. "No," Bill murmured, ''"that isn't;"tire way: \Vett till you know„ore, better,. Besides, I couldn't take you out now if I wanted to Without exposing you to greater hardships than You'll .have to endure here, • Do you realize, that, it's rail; and we're in the high latitudes?.' This snow may not go off at all Even '.if it does it•will storm ;(shin be?bre n week. You. couldn't wallow though snow to your waist to forty -below -aero; weather,.” "People will pass liere; and 3'11 get word out," Hazel asserted desperately. • "What good would that do you? You've got too much conventionhl re- gard•for what'you term .sour reputa-" tion' to scud word te,Cariboo'11lendpws', that' you're living bank here 1Fith Itotu' Mg Bill Wngsteff, diid wdn't some and please, come :rind rescue you." Ile paused to let that sink in, thee: con- United: .`.Besides, you won't see a white face before sprint ;-then only by accident. No one in tlie North, out- side of a few Indians, lhne ever seen this cabin or knows where It stands.!' She sat dumb, raging, inwardly. For the minute she could have killed'Renr- ing BM. She who hrfd'been so sure in her independence carried, whether or no, into the heart of the wilderness at the whim of a man who stood a self- confessed rowdy, in 111 repute among his own kind. • There was a slumber- ing devil in Miss Hazel Weir, and It took little to wake her temper. She looked at Bili Wagstaff, and her breast heaved. , He was responsible, and he could sit coolly talking about .it. The resentment that had smoldered against Andrew Bush and Jack Barrow concen- trated on Roaring 13111 as the arch of- fender of them all. And lest she yield to a savage impulse to scream at him, ebe got up and ran into the bedroom, Slammed the door shut behind her, and threw herself across the bed to mune the eonad.ot her crying in a pillow: Atter a : time she lifted .her bead. Ottblde, the wind whittled •gnattly mend the eabin •oorae411. In the hushed h t:weals she beard a steady pad, 'pad, seandieg. aemotimes cacao by bet doer,, thee tidally at the far end et the roma. A beam of light time' threagh the generous Satehthing hob In -the deer. Stealing softly over; she peeped through this hole. From end to sad of the big room and (wet agate Soatdetg Bill paced slowly, letheng .straight ahead of him with a fixed, abient stare, hie teeth defied on his wither. fly. Hasid bitnirrd woe/decent, ''1y. ' ]Zany en hour la the last three (bombs the had walked the floor itke • that, biting her lip is mental agony. • And then, whtle' the wee looking, B111 ebrep*ty extiagatahed the 'wadies. In the, red gleam from the hearth the aaW him go Into the kitchen, dosing 'the 'door coaly.' After that there waa no round bat the swirl of the storm brambles et her window. ' • • -• * • • )n line with Roarinz BSI's foroosett ' the weather cleared fora brief span, and then wintor.seuit 'down in earnest. ,,and the cold increased, till a half- . Inch layer of frost stood on the cabin paves. Bat within the'eabin they were snug and warm; Bill's as kept the woodpile high. The two fireplaces shone red the twenty-four hours through. Of 'flour, tea, coffee, slight, beans and such 'stuff as could only be gotten from the tp ain Ath83fL1an ut e rt ANY derangement of the heart's action is alarming. Frequently pains about the heart are caused by the forma- tion of gas arising from indi- gestion. Relief from this condition is obtained by the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. Chronic indigestion results from sluggish liver action; con- stipation of the bowels and inactive kidneys. Because Dr, 'Chase's 14ldney-Liver Fells arouse theae organ to activity Choy thoroughly Cure indigestion and overcome the many annoying syinn- Lorna','' • Bin's Ax Kept the :Woodpile High. outside he had u plentiful supply...Po- tatoes and certain vegetables that, he had arown.in a cultivated patch behind the cabin were stored in a deep cellar. He could always 'sally forth and get meat. And the ice wiie'no bar to fish- ing, for he would cut 'a ,hole, sink a small net, and secure overnight a week's supply of trout and whitefish. Thus their material wants were pro- vided for. As time passed, Hazel gradually shook off a measure of her depression, thrust her uneasiness and resentment Into the backgrounit. As a matter of fact, she resigned herself to getting through the winter, since that was In- evitable, She fell into the way of do- ing little things about the house, find- ing speedily that time Sean when she busied herself at some task In the In- tervals of delving In Roaring Bill's library. On one of these days Hazed came into the kitchen and found,B11.1 piling tow- els, napkins, and a great quantity of other gelled articles on as 'outspread tablecloth. "Well," she tfqulrell '"whet Bre you going to do with those?" • "Tithe • 'era to' the la mars" ehe . li' dhed; t'Coflect'7o4 r dirty ,thuds, and' bring, them ford(- '• "LaundryI" Hazel echoed, It'eteereed•. rather a far-fetched joke. <•,• "Sorel You -don't l eupp tine •tor can get along forever'without having things washed,`do Tont' he replied, "'I don't mind housework, but I do draw the line at a laundry job when I don't have to do it. Go en—get' your' clothes," • So she brought out ber accumulation. ef garments, and laid them on the pile. Sill tied up the four corners of the tablecloth. "Now," said he, "let's see If we can't At you out for a more or less extended walk: You stay in the house altogether too much these days. That's bad' bust - nese. Nothing like exercise in 'the fresh air," Thus In a few minutes Hazel fared forth, wrapped in Bill's fur coat, a flap - eared cap on her bead, and on her feat several pairs of stockings inside moc- casins that BII1 had procured from some mysterious source a day or two before. The day was sunny, albeit the air was hazy with multitudes of floating frost particles, and the trump through the forest speedily brought the roses back to her cheeks. Bill carried the brindle of linen on bls back, and trudged steadily through the woods. But the riddle of his desti- nation wits soon read to her, for it two- mile walls brought them out on the shore of a fair-sized lake, on the far- ther side of which loomed the coulcal lodges of an Indian camp. "Yon sabe now?" said he as they crossed the ice. "Tine bunch generally conies to here abont this time, and stays till spring. I get the squaws to wash for are. Ever see Mr, Indian on his native heath?" Hazel never had, 'and she was duly interested, even if a trifle shy of the red brother who stared so fixedly. She entered a lodge with Bill, and listened to him make laundry arrangements in broken English with a withered old beldame whose features resembled a ham that had hung overlong in the smokehouse. Two or three blanketed bucks squatted by, the ere that sent itis blue smoke streaming out the apes eR the lodge. "Heap fine squaw 1" one suddenly aft, dressed Bill, "Where you ketehum?" B111 'laugbed at Hazel's confusion. "Away off." He gestured southward, end the Indian grunted some unintel- ligible remark in his ohm tongue—at which Roaring 13111 laughed again. Before they started home Bill sue. 'seeded in purchasing, after much talk, a pale of mocenslns that Hazel eon - ceded to be a work of art what with the dainty pattern of beads and the ornamentation of colored porcupine quills. Her feminine soul could not Neill when hill tl?rutin thein 1n the pt,ciret,of'her even it her mind was, set algteaihst aecepting rine': peace.• tokens Ii te- ;tri , , th the trieheltig ,sunset 'they wenii heael th onati ,4be ftoatihittat\,yttt hitt' W E§ A TOTUfff TER 1LBL[ECZEMA BY Suffered Three Years Until She Tried "FilLI1T-A,T1VES" • DAME PETER LpMARRE Pointe St. Pierre, P. Q. "I think it my duty to tell you how much yourmedicine has done for inc. I suffered for three years with terrible Eczema I consulted several doctors and they did not c10 me any good. Then, I used one box of 'Soodia- Sava' and two boxes of 'Cruit-a-tives' and my hands are now clear. The pain is gone and there liar been no return.. I think it is a marvellous cure because no other medicine did me ,any good and I tried all the remedies I ever heard of, without benefit until I used 'Soothe -Salus' and 'Fruiter -fives' `Fruit-a-tives' cooled the blood. and removed the cause of the disease, and `Sootha-Salva' completed the cure." ' • Danie PETER 'LAMARRE (fila) 50e. a box, 6 for $2.50,trial size 23c. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, Out, where the snow crunched and squeaked under their feet, and the branches broke off with pistol -like snap when they were bent aside. A hundred yards from the cabin Bill challenged her for a race. She refused to run, and he picked her up bodily, and ran with her to the very door. He held her n second before he set her down, and Hazel's face whitened. She could feel his breath on her cheek, and she could feel his arms quiver, and the rapid beat of his heart. Foran instant she thought Roaring Bill Wagstaff was about to make the colossal mistake of trying to kiss her. • But he set ber gently on her feet and opened the door. An'd by the time he had his outer clothes off and the fires started up he was talking whimsically, about their Indian neighbors, and Ba- sel breathed more freely. The clear. est Impression that elle had, aside f esa her brief panic, was of his strength. life had raa with her as easily as 1f she had been a child. After tbattthey went out many time together, ' Bill took' her hunting, lain- •ated' her Into the mysteries of ride Brei (fag; and' the manipulation of • •tlz•eheoter,:, tle.taugnt her towalk on s•ewslees,:lightly over the surfaee at tits wasted mesh :throggb which other- ** ther- uite.L*glIered. A sort of truce grate batweeti thew, and the days drift• ea or ttitbogt northward Incident. Belt termor( to hes bucca, . chopped wood, carried wirer.'. Stie look epon herself the care of the bonen, And through the long evealnps, in default of reaves. Iatlo*,.they wou3d sit with a book on either side of the fireplace that roared dedeace to the storm gods without. And sometimes Hazel would End hero self wondering why Roaring Bill Wag. staff could not have come into her life in a different manner., As It was—she never,never would forgive hem. , CHAPTER VII. The Fires of Spring. There came a day when the metalild brilliancy went ont of the sky, and it became softly, mistily- blue. A11 that forenoon Hazel prowled restlessly out of doors without cap or coat. There was a new feel in the air. The deep winter snow had suddenly lost its harshness. Toward evening a mild breeze fresh- ened from the southwest, At ten o'clock a gale whooped riotously through the trees. And at midnight Hazel wakened to a sound that she had not heard 1n months. She rose and groped her way to the window. The encrusting frost had vanished from the panes. They were wet to the touch of her fingers. She uuhookod the fastening, and swung LiFT CORNS OR 0 CALLUSES OFF Doesn't hurt! Lift any corn or callus off with fingers Don't sailer i- A tiny bottle of Freezono bests but a, tow cents at any .:drug store, Apply a few drops on the• corns, ealtuses and "hard, akin' on bot- , tom of, feet, then lift theft o$, r •When Freerbne, removes cones front the too* or calhfets from the bdttbnz 'of feel; ,thd ,tkln boeeath Is left pleb and breath A>34wQVl9 h9!i►i 8dll?B1Ag the window out,"A great gust .or anmp, warm wind blew strands of hair aerosa her face, 'She Mimed through the ease• sent, and drops of cold water struck her bare neck, That which she had heard was the dripping eaves. The ehinook wind droned its spring song, and the bare boughs of the tree beside tile cabin waved 'and erlaked the tale.Attdawn the eaves had ceased their drip, and the dirt roar ley bore to •the cdond-banked sky, P1'01e the southwest the wind still blew strong and warm. The thick winter garment of the earth softened to slash, and vanished with amazing swiftness, Strealns 'of water poured clown every depression. Pools stood between the (rouse and stable. Spring had looped strong-armed upon old winter and 'vanquished him at the first onslaught. • All that day the chlnook blew,: work- ing its ;eagle upon the land, 'Men day broke again with re clearing sky, and the snit peered between the cloud rifts, his beams tell upon vast areas of brown and green, where but forty-eight hours gone there was the cold revelry of frost ,sprites upon far-flung fields of snow. Patches, of, ,earth steamed wherever u hillside lay hare to the sun.. Prom some mysterious distance a lone crow winged iris way, and, perching on a nearby treetop, cawed rauoo`ns greet- ing. Hazel cleared awirythe breakfast things, and stood loohing•out the klteh- en window. •Roaring 8111 sat on nrlog, shirt -sleeved, smoking het pipe. Pres- ently he went over to the stable, red out, his horses, and ;;eve -them their 11b- erty. For twenty minutes or so he stood watching their mad capers as they ran and leaped'and'pranced back and forth over the clearing,' Then'he walked oil into the timber, his rifle over his sll.onlder, . - Hazel washed her dishes and went outside. She did not know w)iy, . but all at once a terrible feeling of titter forlornness seized her, It was spring —and also it was spring in other lands. The Wilderness suddenly took on `the characteristics of a prls'Sn, in which she was sentenced to Solitary confine- ment: She rebelled against•lt: rebelled against her -surroundings, against the manner of her being there, against everything., She fated the Nor! h, wished to be gone from it, and 01051 of all she hated Bill Wngetaff fos con- straining her presence there. All the heaviness'of heart, all the re• sentment she had felt in the firet't'is'rr days when she Yellowed him perforce away from Claciboo Meadows, .eiime back to her with redoubled force that afternoon. She went .hack Into the house, now gloomy without a fire, slumped forlornly into a chefs, and cried herself into a condition approach- ing hysteria. And she was sitting there, her head bowed on her bends, w)ien 13111 returned from his hunting. The sun sent a shaft through the smith window, a shaft which rested on her drooping head: ;Roaring Bill walked Manly up behind her and put hls hand on her shoulder. "What le lb„ little person?" he asked gently. She refused to. answer. "Say," he bent a 'little lower, "you know what the Tentmaker•sald: "Come 511 the•.' eup. ,md be the fire of spring Tour winter garment of rewentance Nina; The Bina at Theo has kut a 11ttH way To flutter-5edi 111. 'iae.le on tbs w_:na." "Life'ei too short to waste any of it in being uselessly seteerabie Come on out and go fats ride on ftilk. Pil•tate yea no a mettatahestde, - end show 'you a waterfmil that leaps three •hundred feet in the clear. The weeds Ore wak- ing up 'awl puttbaree tired( Raster ben- eath. ?beret beauty ateiy'uitere. Coma etemg 1" • But she wreathed bereelf away item him- • 'R want toy go home f" the welled. "I bate your and the North, and every - Thltrstlay, 1)CCOlnbdr '18(13, 1919 i23 Fresh, rich, fuUA4.lavcnred tea —the same every time Sok! only; in sealed packages Ile got 0)1t 1115 eignrerro nlnt'1itt)5. But his fingers trembled, spiking the tobacco. And when he tore•the paper in his efforts to roll it,.lro dashed pa - Der and all into the iirepl,too with something that sounded like:an • oath, and walked out of the. house; Nor did he return till the sun was well flown toward the tree -rimmed horizou. When he camp back lie brought to an artti- ful of hood and kindling, nncT begun to build a fire. Bezel curie ant of her room. 13111 greeted herserenely,,'. • "Well, little person," he Sahel, "I hope you'll perk up now." . • "I'11 try," she returned,- Stan i4'ou really going to take um 'put?" Bill paused with u match blazing In his fingers. "I'in not to the Inibit Ot saying things I' don't mean," he answered dryly:: "We'll.atert rily - "We'il.atert 1n:tile iuur ing:'} r 'slid-dtirk' •'eloaed in 'on- they on they cooped and me supper in silence. Rill remained thoughtful i'nd uhodr,at- ect Pan from seine placeitninug tats books ho unelu 11r,t u mop; hurt], spread- ing It an the table, studied It a while. After that he dressed In his kyalts from outside, and busied himself park- ing then( with supplies fur u journey— te n and coffee end 11,,na' rand sueh- thiogs done up in smell 000)115 sucks, And whoa (hese prepnrations were' complete he got a street of paper and a pouch, and fell to copying something from the map. He wits still at that,' sketching and marking when Hazel went to bed. By all the signs and tokens, Ronring Bill Wagstaff slept noun that night. Hazel herself tossed wakefully, end during her wakeful moments she could hear him stir In the outer room. And a full hour before daylight he called lar to breakfast, * • ♦ p P * * "This time last spring," Bill said to her, "I was piking away north of those mountains, bound for the bead of the Naas to prospect for gold." They were camped In a notch on the tiptop of a long divide, a thousand feet 'above the. general levet. A wide valley rolled below, and from the height they overlooked two great, sinuous lakes end a teetttnde of arnaller ones. 'Tee been' wondering," Hazel said. "This corintiry; somehow seems differ- set iffereat. You're not going hack to Cariboo Meadows, are you?" BM bestowed a loan of surprise on ber. `n should say not 1" ho drawled. "Not tbat.it would make any difference to ma Ent I'm eerysere you, don't want to tarn up there in my company:" "T'hatls tt tte," she observed, "But all the clothes ind ell the money I Mtge1• .the world, are .there!' 'don`t let money worry you," he said brtofty. "I bare got plenty to'seb'you lb*oughi And you can easily buy elotbeL" They were now ten days on the road. !Steadily they climbed, reaching 'up theoegh gloomy canyons where foam- ieg cataracta spilled themselves over sheer walls of erenite, where the dim and narrow pack trail' was crossed and recrossed with the footprints of bear and deer and the snowy -coated noun•. twin goat. (tearing 13111 lighted his evening Ere at last at the apex of the pass- He had traveled long after sundown, seeking•a,. camp ground where his horeea could graze. The fire lit up huge firs, and high above the dr tops the sky was etuddod with stars, brilliant In the thin atmosphere. They ate, and, being "1 Hato You and the North and Every- thing In It" thing in it. If you've got a spark of manhood left in you, yon'll take me out of here." Roaring Bill backed away from her. "Do you mean that? Honest' Nun?" he,asked incredulously. "I do—I do I" she cried vehemently. "Haven't I told you often enough? I didn't come here willingly, and I won't elite I will not! 1 I' have a right to live m4 1 fe in my own way, and it'n not this by tr "So," Roaring Bill began events, "springtime with you only means get- ting back to work, You want to get back Into the muddled rush of peopled placoa, do you? You want to be where you can associate with f u fy-rutile, pompndotirell girls, and be properly in- troduced to equally proper young men. Lord, but I seem to have made a refs - take! And, by the shore token, i'll probably 'pay for It—in a wily you wouldn't understand if you lived a thousand year;, Well, set your (Hind at rest." I'll take yon out. Ye sods and little .fishes, but I have sure been a fool!" Me tint down on the edge of the table, and Aazel, Blinked at bim, half scared, and £bII et wehder bite hell liPtoirn so MOM **HogMisleads iarpertnr�b- pllle,• 4404 y inttrr *dlat abs Brill of dib fMet ltde istillstenthe' eta. br^eik ilbaied her.'SIM Bevil Maty sit *a4 took at bion. The (sows 1 { a `b ia I8 t T .,' e World is the habit of health. The way to get it is to train your bowels, through the liver, to act naturally, at a fixed tine, efery day. _ t Take one' pill regularly (more only if necessary) until you succeed. Then you can stop taking them, without trouble or annoyance. This has been the good -health - rule for 60 years. RTER'S. ITTLE IVER PR. if•suste"1 ears SJghefuit* Colorleaf faegs,sILegr;drew:' ! •Irsetue of Iran in,:tL. b;I Ca y.0;1ron P105. _ Ip shill ,ip'ondit;on. c4. �' tw wlmP kosil. weary, lay deem to sieve. At sunrise Hnzel sat 11p and mobil ,ihnut her In silent, wonderie 1;,]pies.trthes. All the world spread u,: t :Bud v',:••t below, She eat else' • the t itlo alms nod - 'peered westward frolu r1,,< great ']height where the camp sat. T lstontly, and far below, the green of the frirest broke down to a lazy /Me of seed -little that rain ]n turn to a 110„e fat;' baaff,'snow- white in the rising sun. "There's a lake,” she sold, "No. Salt water—c long arm of the Pacific," he ;gilled, ", "Tll;at's where you and I part company—to your very great relief, I dare shy. but. took off in the other direction. Lord, you can see two hundred ualles! Tf 11 tteren't for the Babine range socking up you could look clear tri *here my cabin ?sterids. What an outlook! ' "I told -you, I think, about prospect-. Ing on the head of the Nails lust spring. I•fetl in with :muffin fellow up there, and we worked .together, nod curly in the season made a nine ionic clennup • on a gravel bar. I haee'.nnother place spotted, by the way, that would work out a fortune if a fellow wanted to spend a couple of thmrsand putting In some machinery. however, when the June rise drove us air our bar, I pulled clear out of the country, just took a notion to see the bright lights again. And I didn't step short of New York. Doyou know, I lnstr.d there Just one week,by the calendar. It seems funny, when you think of It, that a man with three thousand dollars to spend should get lonesome In a place like New York. But I did. And at the end of 0 week I new. I had all that money hurtling my pockets—and, all told. I didn't spend five hundred. Fancy a man jumping over four thousand miles to have a good time, and then. running away from 1t. It was very foolish of me, I think now. Well, the longer we live the more we learn. Day after' tomor- row you'll be in Bella Cools. The can- nery steamships carry passengers on a fairly regular schedule to Vancou. ver. How does that snit yonV "Very well." she answered shortly (Continued next Week.) Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO R A Hospital tee Sick Cid! Upkeep of hie ehartty IN¢qutros MEM J gists a Mdkute. • bear Eh. (slater: The 445E annual' report of the Hospital foe Sick C1Bd„en, urante,. shows a notable advisees to alarm department of its service to the ;safe tering sad cripeled youngsters or this province. The ward accommo- dation has been taxed to its capacity, and the summer annex, the Lake- side Home, was opened for the first time since the outbreak of war. The daily average of cot patie has increased during the from 192 to 223, including child from practically every county in Ontario. Even had the cost of sup -c plies and labor remained stationary,; the substantiae increase in the num- ber of patients would alone account for the addition to the charity's debt„ which at the close of the fiscal year] was $109,000. This debt has become an embarrassing burden. Further, tnorease must threaten impairment, of an enviable efficiency. 49 The Hospital is 1n the forefront o!' all institutions upon this continent devoted to the care of sick children. It cost 9335,399 to maintain last year. This great sum not only puts at the s' ,wire of the children of, Ontario all the resources of medical science, but, in addition, provides for a training school for 120 nurses and for unsurpassed clinical facilities, far the University students who aro( preparing to engage in their prom fession throughout the province. The income which must be forth- coming to finance this absolutely essential work figures out at seven, hundred dollars a day; and, as there, 1'; no endowment fund, all but a, fraction of that amount has to be, derived from individual benevolence. Therefore the Trustees are maltidg a Christmas appeal to every lover o t., children to foot the bills for some♦ period of time, no matter how short, it may pe, A minute of Mercy cost tlfty cents, For churches, societies, lodge ore., who have teezo ample fun wherewith to assist the Youngs'. to a fair start in lite, the naming o(l cote is suggested. A number oft memorial cots have, been thus dedie ceded in honor of the overseas ser -df vice of e#110w-oernbe341. This prid vilego is etc -tended hr reoognition of gine of $2;O00 to the, Main Hospital er $SOe•to the Lakeside, Rome, whdebf 'COM lie paid in anansl instalment; 14 sd desired., Ltteratnre, flierttrattve of a brseclies of the peairt year's work, Ober wirait any outer ts*b iailleiot 'itired,•'*1* he/ 000 teetalrrod. l! ti far 1160 gtiroreilb diek,C•'hiler' 00E4 It 141ru ntd. ''Cenhtbnt unn ; .. kl3%k! ire, iffeire,s55{id,ta ttlr'! stptatii ban of .el}lseat