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The Clinton New Era, 1915-02-11, Page 6YP `� ttrnrintnm�rnrttr�trttntrnrn There •is a Cold (by Camino' Why not prepare for it'by ordering your winter supply of Lolli;;h atlley coal, none betterr in the world 14.1. Holloway, Clinton n�rrnntn�nntrrtmnnrttrttc ttr CENTRAL Thirsda'y, (February lith, 1915.•' ewer add STRATFORD, ONT. Ontario's best Practical Trains ing School. We have thorough courses and experienced instructors in each of our three departments, Commercial, Shorthand, and Telegraphy Our graduates succeeds and you should get our large. free catalogue. Write for it at once D. A. McLachlan, !'Principal uy Flour Now Now is the time to put in a supply of Flour before another rise which is sure to come. We handle the best lines of Flour made in Canada— Purity. Five Roses, Exeter, Clinton and Milverton We can sell you the above 25 lbs to one ton lots Another car of Shorts and Bran. 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Music Emporium C Hoare'• •laerVI9'6"SfVVVIAMIIVVVVVV V V VVVY,' ;ya .�1 nut (1!8B CLINTA I NEW LOCK? by Cx!ALL ES'EINiaNDS WALK Anther o• "The Sliver Blade," the Paternoster i u5y"'etc. , +•+.v -gra � rro . s,y, o til bt c.14 by A. Cir I nem ,•.• 0" ' "Flint. Do you really know what you are sayli g?" "Tut, Mr. Van Vechten. I said. 'barely possible.' I meant no more. If you can't control yourself it will be useless for me to talk further. I be- lieve your help would be valuable, and I had hoped to enlist it; but I might as well leave you if you cannot give your attention to the chances of Mise Carew being involved." "You have as 'much feeling as a jellyfish, Flint," the other broke in. "I am stunned. Give me a moment to grasp this hideous suggestion." And he did succeed, gradually, in pulling himself together. The, very idea was so shocking, so far beyond the pale of any possible experience that he might within reason expect, that his admirable imperturbability was for the moment shaken. He final- ly said: "What have you to support your belief?" "Not much. And I have no positive belief. I simply want to present a theory for your consideration, sug- gested uegested by such few unsatisfactory facts as we have, in the hope that, together, we may arrive at one more plausible." "But Paige—kidnaped!" exclaimed Van Vechten, aghast. Mr. Flint ceased trying to disabuse his mind of its fears, by unsupported assurances. "Let us go back to yesterday," he resumed. "The episode of the four men you saw enter the house over yonder Was not mystifying to me. Even while you were relating it I was pretty certain that they were re- sponding to an advertisement of some description. The only peculiarity lay in the fact that they arrived precise- ly an hour apart. "But that circumstance also is easily explained: The advertiser had need' for more than one man, and he wanted to interview them one at a time with- out meeting one another. Upon run- ning through the files of the daily pa- pers for a fortnight back, I found a confirmation of my conclusions. Hero it is." And he handed Van Vechten a newspaper clipping, which the latter studied long and intently before re- turning: "WANTED -A young man who will week of exchange unreservedly one � v e his time for $1,000 cash. Must be muscular and willing to risk an ad- venture involving an element of imposed dan- ger. If iosed conditions are im- plicitly obeyed, payment will be made immediately upon successful outcome. If you are confident you are the young man, Address X720, Tribune." "Now," Mr. Flint wont on, "certain obvious conclusions may be drawn from this advertisement, and certain c things concerning it may be prcAty confidently inferred.. "Whatever the enterprise, it in- volves some danger; it requires young men of physical strength and daring; and it is of sufficient importance to the advertiser for him to expend a considerable sum of money in putting it through—say four or five thousand dollars. There is an army of young men answering the "description, em- ployed as well as unemployed, for whom the little ad, would hold an ir- resistible appeal; undoubtedly Mr. X-720 was deluged with applications. "Then what is his next obvious step? Why, he puts the mass of let- ters a process of selection through tors and rejection. From the lot he chooses the few whish strike him the most favorably, and makes appoint- ments with the writers. The house across yonder was secured as a base of operations." "It was, not rented from the agent," Van Vechten suddenly interposed, re- membering a feature of the Powhatan; committee's call on that individual. Mr. Flint raised his brows. "50?" said he, "We'll come back, to that. letter. S was going to say, the mere fact of the advertiser having selected so respectable a neighborhood to op-. erate from was no lees than a stroke, of genius. Nobody to pry into his af- fairs; nobody to suspect him -it was! only by accident, that suspicion was at- traded to him at all." Mr. Flint's vis- age assumed a satisfied expression, ud he remarked: "His ingenuity commands my admi- ration; I apprehend that the case will. neoyo interesting—most interesting,! indeed." ' Poor s<""hood is the indirect cause of much winter sickness—it allows chills, invites colds and ,sickness. Noueismm iv alone makes blood— not drugs or liquors—and the nourish- ing food in. Scott's Emalsion.charges summer blood with winter richness and increases the red corpuscles. Its Cod Liver, Oil warms the body, fortifies the lungs, and alleviates rheumatic tendencies. YOUR DRUGGIST HAS IT. 14-45 SHUN SUBSTITUTE.., t'KoiT 4a'i`li Qr�f i.'{Q!'C,d n"r, ,ey, TORTURED CONSTIPATION it i'rukat '�e a s11 Cured Para- - zed Dowels and Digestion I dyes. "s ,:7,, 1`;'1.), ^la - $r. EoNIrACa ng SIIAWINIGAN, Qud. Feb. 316, 1914. "It is a pleasure tome to inform you that after suffering from - Chronic Constipation for 44'years, I have been cured by "Fruit-a-tives". While I was a student at Berthier College, I. became so ill I was forced to leave the the college.. Severe pains across the intestines continually tortured me and it came to a point when I could trot stoop down at all, and my Digestion became paralyzed. Sonie one advised me to take "Fruit -a -Lives" and at once I felt a great improvement. After I had taken four or five boxes, I realized that I was completely cured and what made me glad, also, was that they were acting gently, causing no pain whatever to the bowels.. All those who suffer with Chronic Constipation should follow my example and take " Fruit-a-tives " for they are the medicine that cures". MAGI,OIRI PAQUIN "Fruit -a -fives" are sold by all dealers at goc, a box, 6 for $2,5o, trial size,. 251. or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. cions house of mystery.." - The young mini's blank immobility alone betrayed his stupefaction. After a pause: "Easy, easy, Flint," said he, un- steadily. "Ifindly repeat that; this in, fernal snarl is dulling my faculties." The other did so, adding: "Of course it was left there -overlooked-‘ by somebody; whether by Miss Ca- rew or somebody else, I am not pre- pared to say." Van Vechten sat a long time deep in thought. The occasional glance he di- rected at the detective was eloquent— in contrast with his impassive fea- tures—of the doubts and fears and anxieties that were aseailing his "Don't tell me," protested Van Vech-! ten, "that you can find any satisfaction! In the difficulties you are expecting toy encounter. It will be bad enough if! !. 'we have to deal with common crooks„ but '3 criminal prodigy? Lord defend fiat:, "I'm afraid, Mr. Van Vechten, that, you have no very keen relish for an intricate problem." "Relish!" the young man barked. "With my cousin at the mercy of a gang of unprincipled knaves? I guess, not!" "Oh, well," the detective conceded, "I can't, of course, expect you toview the affair from .a professional stand- point; but I assure you, this case is 'exceedingly promising, and my enthu- siasm and determination mount as it; grows more baffling." "That's something, at any rate," Van Vechten admitted with a show of reluctance. "Your zeal will lose you nothing, I promise you. But where did you find the purse?" The sharp gray eyes swept Van Veclten'S earnest face, Mr. Flint re- plied soberly: "Now you have bit upon the circum- stance that connects Miss Carew with. the affairs. I found it hanging from a nail, iu a dark ,corner of an upstairs closet, across the street—in your pre;'gng hypothesis can be accepted as a! v4t�fr , Id= II¢� '"E Called Me a Satire. 'E 'as Some- thing on 'Is Mind, so 'e 'as." mind, and of a conflicting hope that things were not so black as they, were was the reply. "Your habits of life, being painted. At last, with a slight your daily associations, naturally :gesture that signified his helpless- 'would develop a certain skill in that ness to cope with the situation, he direction. 1 would attach considerable) leaned back and sighed. weight to your opinion insuch a case." "I pass;" he said resignedly. "Tete "Then," with much positiveness, thing's utterly beyond me; it's up to "'nothing in the world could be more you, Flint. Go on." ,absurd than to imagine the girl 5 "Well, you have all the details that :saw being engaged in anything eriini- 'suggest a possible kidnaping con- nal, or even entertaining a suspicion spiracy—first, the uncertainty as to that she is surrounded by a criminal the young lady's whereabouts; second, atmosphere. She is young, She is the -advertisement; third, the secrecy 'beautiful, she is refined and gentle: and extreme caution observed through- the siamp of purity and adherence tb out by the unknown conspirators; right ideals is unmistakable in her -fourth, the callers at Number 1313;' face, Whatever comes of your invest•, fifth, the purse." Van Vechten breathed another sigh, gallons, you will find to be unq uali- .one of relief, fiedly true all that I now assert re- "Mystifying it all is, to be sure," he specting her." ,said; "but that array might sound "I 'do not question your -judgment , ,more formidable if it were more cer, for it is more than probable that your, stain and positive. At the same time, estimate is oorrect. But the fact is, Amy anxiety about my cousin has by no of less importance than the circum-,, 'm abated " stance that the young lady seems to en Working , ijheory. "If the 'deed was committed abroad, how was the young lady conveyed to 'America? If he was, first lured to ,this country, how was she persuaded to make sub an important move with- out notifying her relatives? And al- ways there is Mrs. Devereaux to be considered, If Miss Carew was sep- arated from her, how is' her 'silence to be explained? Tf she was not 'sepa- rated from Mrs. Devereaux, then the older lady either ,must be regarded' as a confederate, or it roust be assumed that she was forcibly taken also— either assumption being extremely im- probable. "There is one other idea that oc-, cured to me, but a pretty far-fetched one, Fin bound to admit: We may have stumbled upon a rendezvous of inter- national thieves. The purse may have been stolen from Miss Carew, in Eu- rope, weeks or even months ago.". But Van Vechten decisively shook+ his head. "It has not been out of ;her possession a week," asserted he; the; significance of which the .detectivea seemed to understand. "Well," said he, "I have beencandid with. you, Mr. Van Vecbten; suppose you return the compliment" "What do you mean? I have nothing to tell." "'Nothing to tell,' " the other echoed musingly—"precisely." The contract- ed eyes favored Van Vechten with a penetrating look. "Mr. Van Vechten," he began quiet- ly after a pause, "I have not followed my profession for a score of years with- out acquiring more or less facility in certain directions. For example, I know almost intuitively when anybody is keeping something back from me. I knew that you were not entirely open and frank while I was talking with you yesterday." The young man regarded hila with an amazement not entirely free from discomposure. "Of course," Mr. Flint went on, with- out the least emotion, "I can't imagine what your reason may bo for reti- cence; but 1 do know that if you per- sist in remaining silent upon any point of this case, you are adopting a most unwise course. I am not trying to force your confidence; I am merely inviting it, leaving the decision with your good judgment. Bear in mind that I haven't the slightest personal interest in finding Miss Carew; she is merely incidental to an investigation I am pursuing." For a long time Van Vechten pon- dered. At last be said, very soberly: "'You are right, Flint; I haven't been perfectly frank with you. My concep- tion of detectives and police generally has been the haziest, but I believe I can trust you"—with stress upon tete "you." "I am going to, at any rate," And then lie recounted the episode of the veiled lady in the taxicab, the incident of the girt and the sandy - haired man in the crowd, and of his ,subsequent view of the former at a window in Number 1313. "My impulse toward reserve is so difficult to account for," he said in conclusion, "that k had determined to keep the matter tb myself." "I ata glad you didn't," was the low - voiced rejoinder. "Flint, said Van Vechten earnestly, "do you believe that I am qualified to ,form a fairly accurate estimate of a Person's character, from a study of that person's features?" "You should be, Mr. Van Vechten," Bans for out" "On reflection;" Mr:Flint medita� tortain a very cordial dislikey Lively continued, "I was scarcely jus. "But," expostulated the other, "she doesn't know me, Flint. I never saw tified in asserting that the facts sage her in my life before yesterday. Why gest the possibility of Miss Carew hay- should` she dislike me? God knows I' Ing been kidnaped; it would be more never intentionally harmed anybody in. accurate to say: If it turns out that mY life." she has been, why, then the facts we: "She unquestionably thinks she now have would dove -tail with the, knows you -which, as far as her con crime." duct is concerned, amounts to the, "I was thinking of Mrs. Devereaux,', same thing," cut in the other—"you know who shot I have racked my ,brain over it". is?" Van Vechten announced, "until I ami The detective nodded. Van Vechten! utterly befogged. I have heretofore! asked:accredited myself with some slight de-: "Could she have been. kidnaped' gree of perspicacity, but her unmistak O.lse? e • able animus completely mystifies me. 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It surely has remedied many cases of female ills, such as inflamma- tion, ulceration, displacements, tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, and it may be exactly what you need. The Pinkham record is a proud and peerless one. It is a record of constant victory over the ob- stinate ills of women that deal out despair. It is an es- tablished' fact that Lydia E. Pinkham's VegetableCompound has restored health LYaln P'",InM to thousands of such suffering women. Why don't you try it if you need such a medicine? Local News 53 PAY DAYS IN 1915. The year 1915 will have 53 pay days, Saturdays coming that many times during the year. MINOR LOCALS. It is stock taking time with the merchants. •Send in your local items, We arc always pie,tsed to publish them. Commer_ial 'travellers through- out the country are protesting strongly against the railways cut- ting off so ninny trains. • present, returned Mr. Flint; "she isP aloe—that our" destinies have never an item against the possibility. I want, crossed before in any way." first to mention'the most serious as- "Queer enough," was the other's pelt of the whole affair,; for there Is ,comment. "But the veiled lady;. are one circumstance that makes its trim- you ,certain the could not have been futility almost self-evident. , Miss Carew?" "Assuming that the man' who was "Oh, no, she was not Paige. There killed went to the house in answer to avas no detail of resemblance. I have the advertisement—and there • is no, a fancy, based' upon nothing, that she reason to believe otherwise—in all and the girl at the window are the likelihood he was „a stranger to the ad- same." she remind you?" vertiser; then,' where shall we look . "But of whom did for a motive? The detective fastened him with a "This, strikes me the most probe shrewd regard. "is able one: his scruples balked at the "That, returned Van Vechten enterprise; he denounced the crimil the one point concerning which'I feel nals, who were, thus threatened with' that T 'ought to, know something deft, exposure and arrest if they did not rite, but which persistently eludes mediately silence the intractable indi- me. In fact, the conviction never vidual. They chose the second alter-' •crystallized. " native which would indicate thatthey' -'7vlr. Flint fell into a brown study, are desperate enough. from which the other had no incline - "Now let us consider the facts sup- 'tion to disturb him. During their con - porting the improbability that M•iea Continued rex[ week, Carew' has been kidnaped. 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'But FOR FLETCHER'S 0 A E5 -I' ®F 1 A GET YOUR SF.:\'1$ AT. :?AIR'S The plan for "The Private See - rotary" opens. at :air's Store on Friday morning of , .. e week. The play will Le given in the town hall on Vi'i lay evenii.g- ;J'eh. 12th, and preet of the proceeds will go to the ,Patriotic Ass( c '•- tioe,of town Everybody. should ' get <1 couple of tickets asthey are at popular prices, 55 and 53 o n•is, .44++++:1.4 .H.4.44+.144.4÷1÷1-1-1. 1-1.3• N BOWSER NEARS � THE GRAVE • Batt Is Drawn Back by an Electric Battery, By M. ;QUAD • Copyright, 1914. by Associated Lit- erary Press, �T i•-1-1+1*•H-1-d-I-adee eed 1"II i -I -I"i-I- When Mr. Bowser left the office he had under his arm a snug package that be had purchased duripg:the day, and he handled it with loving care. He began as soon as seated in 'the car to work up a doleful' expression of countenance, and he succeeded so ' well that a motherly woman turned to him and asked: "Are you a man of family, sir?" "Yes'm." "Then you have your wife make you some catnip tea as soon as, you get home." And a man across the aisle almost shouted out: "Catnip tea for him? Why, it's got to be something stronger than that! He was out playing poker last night and lost $7. Don't I know the signs?" However, there was. It pretty fair look of "I am bound for the grave" on his face as he reached borne, and he sighed like a tired Horse as he climbed the steps. To his great astonishment . Mrs. Bowser ignored both the look and the sigh and continued to treat him during the dinner flour like one Who had 150 years of life before him. When they went up to the sitting Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S °ASTO IA. IPRO'HIBITION CONVENTION. 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"Well, let's hear it" "It's that I've had my blood tested today by a doctor who happened to drop into my ottice, and It was a good thing I did. Another week and it might have been too late," "Too late for what?" queried Mrs. Bowser. "Too late to save my life. That is, I should have bad to go to the hospital and be operated on for cancel' of the stomach. I just caught it in time." "It was very lucky that some quack came in with something to sell." "Quack, quack!" shouted Mr. Bow- ser as be jumped up and got mad in a breath. "That's you exactly. You can't be happy unless you are ringing in something about quacks and fads and fakers about once a week. It has you otsothat Idread to even tell s g that I've got a corn on my toe or a cold in the head. If you are ailing I can't sleep for my anxiety, but if you knew that I was standing on the verge of the grave you'd fling out some insult or other." "Wen, you had your blood tested," sheuietl answered. q y "Yes, I did. You know how I've been run down for the last year, and I !wanted to know just what ailed me. It didn't take the doctor over five min- utes to find that my system needed electricity. For the want of electricity my blood is turning into water. "And so you have bought a battery, lof course." "Yes, I've bought a battery." "Of the doctor who found your blood NUS turning to water?" "Why.'not? He happened to have one with him, and why shouldn't I buy it?" • "No reason at all, my dear. I 'sup- pose It is on the hall tree and thatyou intend taking le treatment right away? I think you bad better. I once knew S1 man whose blood turned to water aid he went insane and died. I have heard that electricity restored youth. Perhaps it will work that way in your case. Mr. Bowser looked at her for a long minute without being able to make up flim mind whether she was guying or in earnest, but being unable to detect a smile on her face he finally brought In his battery. It was a simple affair,, which was set in operation by a spring, god hesoon had It In working order. WVtten the current began making itself felt in his hands and arms be grew good natured lied blandly mid: "This 10 worth all ,,tete medicine 1 , old 50111 down my tln'oat In yeerl Otir `artily doctor nus been dosing and d' me me for ninths without avail, eedanae he didn't know what ailed ale. TIPPERARY' Y' BISCUITS Biscuits of delicious, golden -brown sweetness, bearing pictures of troops of the allied armies, Union Jack, British Bulldog, etc. Entertaining andinstruc- tive for the > iddies and super.- iatively delicious for the grown-ups. At your grocer's, every biscuit guarantied. 3o. D. S. Perrin & Company, Limited London, - Canada neve thut one single treatment will carry me back fifteen or twenty years. You know that when Pliny was eighty years old he used electricity and join- ed a football club," "I never heard of it. but I hope It will affect you favorably. I have no- ticed lately that you dragged your legs In going upstairs." "Well, there will be no more drag ging after tonight. On the coutrary. i'll be bounding up four steps et a time. When I get through you'd bet- ter take a treatment. There's nothing Tike taking time by the forelock. The subtle fluid has not been permeating my system above five minutes, and yet I feel as if I could jump over a six rail fence." For the next three minutes Bir. Bow- ser leaned back and closed his eyes and had a lamblike look: on his face: Then the monotonous whirr of the bat- tery suddenly changed to a series of gasps as if for breath, and be straight ened up with a yell and began to beat his heels on the floor. "What on earth's the matter?" ex- claimed Mrs. Bowser as she reached over and tinned the spring to shut the current off. "The blamed thing got away some- how!" he gasped as he let the handles fall. 'The doctor said something about induction, and I guess that was it. Perhaps I've got enough in my arms. For a few seconds I thought it would pull every tooth out of my head. Say, now, but before I try it on my legs Pit experiment a little on the cat." "But you may scare her to death!" "She won't scare for a cent. Say, it will be a good thing for her. She's boon growing lean and scrawny for the last month, and electricity may be just what she needs. Iler blood may need phosphates as well as mine. Is the cook home?" "Yes, but don't you go experimenting on her. If she got a shock she'd bring a lawsuit for damages." "And why don't you try it?" "Because I don't need it. If than thing tuns away again it may tie you up in knots. It was lucky I happened to be here to turn the spring." "Well, we'll see how it will work on the eat. Even if her blood is not im- poverisbedshe needs toning up. Come here, pussy." The family cat came over to him without hesitation, and as ebe reached his feet he started the battery and clapped a sponge to each of her sides. For about thirty seconds the cat hump- ed her back, rolled her eyes and won- dered over the new sensation. Then she seemed to get the idea that she was being attacked by other cats and that it was to be a fight for her life. Her first spring carried her on BIr. Bowser''s knees and the next to the top of his bead, and the sudden attack rolled him out of his chair upon the floor. He yelled, and the cat ecjuealed_ He pounded at her and she clawed. The fight was over in a minute, with the cat shooting upstairs to hide under the bed, but in those sixty seconds Mr. Bowser had received a dozen bites and a score of scratches. He scrambled up with the blood flowing from 1113 wounds and his dignity all torn up the back, and his first act was to dash the battery to the floor and jump on it with both feet. His next was to yell at Mrs. Bowser: "Woman, I'll wreck this house from Cellar to garret! , You knew all the time"— But Mrs. Bowser wasn't there. She had followed the cat upstairs. His first thought was to rush after her, but as he reached the stairs he paused with a new idea. Murder would not satisfy, his thirst. "Woman, hear me!" he called. "To- morrow morning—my lawyer — your lawyer—divorce—no alimony, and yotl and your blamed old cat may starve lana the streets and die in the poorhouse!' it never occurred to Glut to test 10 blood. Ah, unit Say, that does me good!" "I suppose it restores .certain lost properties to the blood?" eagerly ob- served Mrs. Bowser. "That's what it does. What my blood lacks is phosphates. You must fertilize the blood the same as you would the soil. By George, but I feel i1 clear••un to my ears! I hones lyMl Tehruary—second month in 101.5. lIas it been cold enough for you?