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Love ,laughs at other's than lock-
smiths! He mocks the plans of sober
business.
The Great Trust Co. said: "Go!'
The girl pleased: "Stay,
The Great Trust Co.'s Cournand 1
posed mouths of exile to the shadow
,e1 the big woods, The girl ask°
only. for anew Hours before that ext
was begun.
'l'he Great Trust Co: was imper-
emnal and cunt; a corporation. with
'tentacles so far-flung that, though
Ithe soul of It was ]rot where its'
mighty schemers wrought in secret,
lits extremities, that aid' Its will in
execution, were told ansi callous.
But the girl was sot impersonal,
,Tears were in her eyes, though her
lips pouted when he strove' against
her . urgings, And she was so, cozy
'and small that he could have hidden
her in Iiia arms ,where she stood on
:the station platform — nand with dif-
ficulty kept himself from doing so.
And, when her hands crept into
lila he forgot the huge, cold, imper-
sonal corporation, let the train go on
without !nim, went home with her 1n
that - everlasting partnership of two
— and lost twenty-four hours. tAnn
'what twenty-four lost hours meant in
:the affairs of the men of the north
country be discovered after he had
!left the girl.
Harry George had some sort of ex-
cuse for not realizing what penalties
'this delay on his part incurred, for
he had been waiting three weeks for
the Great Trust Co. to decide on his
application. But a young forester
cannot be insistent.
The brain and heart of the Grea
Trust Co. are in Montreal. Granit
and mystery surround. The myster
has many names. Its agents in th
'far St. John country know It es th
Great Trust Co. It Is said that, unde
'other names to shield its elutchin
'fingers, it reaches to grasp the wate
powers and to hold for Its own th
'great forest of the nation.
When George answered its sum
mons, he went up into the towerin
building ou St. James street an
found no mystery. Ile was directed
to the one whose name he had given
'as a passport at the gate that close
the avenue ot.rubber' matting. Beyond
'Die door marked "Superintendent o
Field Work," he expected to find —
well, the Great Trust Co. personified
in some degree, in flesh and blood
The listless little man who waved
him to a chair with a hand that held
a cigarette did not seem qualified to
dictate for the baronies of forest and
mountain and lake and river,
"Air. George," he began, and then
picked languidly among the papers on
his desk. The packet that he secured
'and flicked idly, es he talked, con-
tained the .forester's letters, and ere
dentials, .
"Mr. George!" He snapped away
the cigarette butt. "This Great Trust
country! Have you been there?"
"No, sir."
"That will not metre much differ-
enee in your efficiency as far as we
are concerned." Ile tapped some pen-
cil jottings on the back of George's
Indorsements. "I have ordered two
of our explorers to meet you at Nor -
ray Junction; that's on the '11E011 line
through to St. John. I Have ,written
their names here —Smart and Niles.
They'll take you'on to Corran-che.
That's your jumping-off place. Brapch
line and logging railroad. You'll out-
fit there at our company store."
The young man took his papers
from the hand that extended them,
"You will please understand, Mr.
George that as a practical forester you
are cooperating with our explorers.
Merely cooperating, t writ say. They
•lcuoW more about present comtner-
cial values of standing timber than
you do." It was plainly not to soften
thls blunt appralsal that he added:
"Theyr'e old-f0slrioned woodsmen ,the
kind that can go through a'stanu or
timber on the jog trot and estimate
better with the eye in one day than la
a professional forester can th his
Calipers in a month.'
George felt sundden anger,; the dic-
tum was so listessly decisive. He kept
his tongue between hie teeth, how-
ever.
"We've go
what timber is worth, standing You
are something of an experiment with
ns. We want you'
those'men o
opinion as t
mill .busines
We could throw away a, twenty -five -
thousand -d oflar, a m11
s w i . a
from now it
lion=dollar
reposition. That anchors
want your
needs In the conservation line,
plane for replen!shing what
take at pre.ent, and what to leave.
It's scout W
and eyes.
legs!"
It was the
had shown that he noticed the te
r
sonality 'of this new servant; of the
Great Trust
George flushed anti of
feet. The reference to the .personal
.seemed to indicate that alfa super-
intenden't I]
kindly pay very. 14rict attendee to
In
million under consideration. 'The
word 'stop' "doesn't belong with' your
job, We' are hiring only a few pairs
of eyes Instead of 'ant cirfny 'of caliper
chaps. The caliper fellow follows you
when you' have reported. Will you
I these last words of imine? 'They're the
s important part of your instructions,"
George, towering with his six feet,;
le of sturdy manhood over the little man'
who squinted at him, bowed:
"You are -going. into: a queer place
the Great Trust country — Where
there happen to be strange conditions
lust, ' at present, You are .not to in-
terest yourself in those conditions, or
to, waste time up there inquiring into
them. You are to get into the woods
is tluietly lis possible: Your are to
stay those,` The fewer people who
Imo* just'; why you aro there, the
better. Keep. your eyes on trees in-
stead of human 'bellies. Otherwise,
you won't be of any value to us." He
had pushed a button, and the boy had
appeared. "Call at the treasurer's of -
five on your way out, The' bay *111
;how you. Your expenses will be ad-
vancecl. You can reach Norray Junc-
tion to -morrow night, if you start
to -day. Our men have orders to meet
you there."
George started that day. His celer-
ity in getting outnz
of ontreal would
have interested even the listless little
!eau of the Great Trust Co: From the
telegraph office nearest to the big
Wilding, Ile sent two messages; the
little marl would have been pleased to
know that he put business first —
he ordered his trunk from his board -
Ing house in Westmount, directing
that it be put on the train that was
fo take him through that city. Then,
he wrote a second message, lingeril.g
over it as though trying to soften its
e
y
e brutal abruptness.
e "-Good news, bad news. Am passing
✓ through Toronto on International to-
g day. The big folks have taken me.
✓ Can you come to station for a wordy'
e It was addressed to the girl.
Then, he raced to the Grand Trunk
Station, .wholesome example for at?
g Young tnen — a faithrul servant, who
d had heard, and who obeyed. Outward-
ly an example; inwardly, he rea'lzed
and confessed to himself that the
d wings of haste were plumed p:in-
lipally for Toronto. And yet it was
his firm determination to rush on.
He told her so — confessed it to her
in the first jumble of speech after he
had greeted her on the station plat-
form,
"But where — where eoea this new
work take you, dearest?" she asked,
her upraised eyes brimming.
"North, under the big trees."
"A week — a fortnight?"
"Months," be owned, trying to
lino°.
"Months — months? And you danc-
ing along on your way like this with
only a pat and a good -by for poor
little pre? harry George, you get your
Coat and your bag, and come with
me and ask my pardon."
"Mary, they have told me to 'go.
f must--"
' And I telt you you most stay.
There is a to-inorrowli'or -your hate-
ful old business. Months -- and you
`eady to run away and deny to me a
?ew poor little minutes till to-
morrow! Why, Harry George, can you
Stand there and loop at me ,End re-
e.at that you meant it?"
"But; men are waiting. And, Mary
I ani waiting. I atn'ltere:'
"15 was then that she put her hands
nto hie end pleaded. She did not listen
to him. He had never found her wili-
ng to listen'to the serious things of
lifeline. Life had not worn Its solemn
'visage when It fronted her •winsome
Wittiness.. She had always laughed
,ire and seriousness, and the matter -
11 -fact that takes care for, the mor-
row, row, out. of their determine. He had
wished' sometimes — chiding himself
for his New. England prosiness --
ihat she would listen a bit mare
patiently to his grave pians for their
!attire, instead of insisting on play
Ing butterfly among the flowers of
!heir love. .Fiat Mary Laroche, ,trans
planted from the Souttit Ile hall al
eays sighed, kept his ^sunset, sur
rendered his hands to hers, and al
Igwcel her to lead him
t men enough to tell fig
to go through with
n the fly, and report your
o the future; it isn't saw-
s with us, you undersfnad,
; few years
nd not feel It. But a rail-
pulp- milt' is a different
p
us. W
8
opinion of prospects,of
' 'of
to
s '
crit, you understand, Legs
g.
You ,seem to: haft° good
first time the little man
`hr
Co.:.
fiupon p his
on
ad finished his business
"Then 1 am not to stop for actual
plotting and measurements sir?"
"Mr, George, We have a million or
so acres bopgbt, and more than, r
'"Come,'. she .cried, "obey, you big
boy „who would play truant! One
el i.r yon n ahaIl smoke atter dinner
g
with ptre. And then all for me, to
tell me of the big woods and how
you shall make the great fortune wi*.'a
which we shall live happy ever after.
I will • !listen, tine time, I .will sit
very close, maybe on' your knee, and
listen; and, .11 your story is pleasing,.
hall
you s have., perhaps, the reward."
There were no tears in her .eyes,
r.ow. She had been a bit shocked, and
frightened at hls astonishing attempt
to break tlrrbhgh her soft fetters. But
now she was sure of him. She lifted
bis big hand to her ifp as earnest of
the promised reward,
More listless, more, impersonal,
now, seemed the little man back ie
the
trice^ the man: f
t w1 o had been
making him' walt three tveekp, .and
now sent 'him away like a roelret•
Nearer, dearer, more delicious :than ,
ever„ before eeenied this little girl,
Pressing close to Elm, regardless of
envious passers-by, careless• of the
grins of porters. To the nearest of
these she turned, still clinging to fier
captive,
"Brite j',i ,c )oat and, lint! ,from the.
nimainiamemagnsor
car,' she commanded. ,"At ouee. OOitr'
ry1 Arid she reached up both hands,
Ptaitding.Mt tiptoes, and put ;her .pink
fingees ever Lie Pips: ..Yotr'shall not;
go,"'she panted, "until ,You :have left
ane love 'eitongh" Id leaf -till you come
back again! t! And: so no forgot the
listless man, forgot the appolntntent.
set Norray- ,Junction,' and a' at with
He remembered all of them in the
night, after he had left her That the,
woodsmen would wait for him, he
felt sure. He hoped they would 'wait
without bothering the little man in
bi
the g office with inquiries hover the
wire, HIS Canadian conscientious
nese told him that' for a young man
bent upon saccess' his beginning for
the Great Trust Co. • was : not one
calculated to bring flim congratulat-
ory messages front headquarters.
To get those thoughts out of his
head, he hurried: his breakfast and
hastened to the girl. They walked
together in Lhe fresh air al! the Aug-
ust morning.,
"I forget touch that yen. Bold Inc
lastnightot the work of the forest-
er,"'said Mary. "But it 1 rai•membei,'
I do not 111e that woi'k You should
have told me more about,it when you
were studying in the college here."
"But you never would llsten•to me,
if [ talked •about anything else than
loving you," he complained.
"It would have,: been a "waste 01
time to tails about anything except
love," she returned, with a smile that
cleared his face, "But if I had known
that forestry Was a work that would
take you into the woods for months
when yon ought to be here with me,
where a girl's lover should be, I cer-
tainly should have made you study
something else. A girl must not be
deserted, There's only a little while
to be gay in, you big boy of mine,
and a girl that's engaged must have
eyes only for her owe beau,"
"Of course," lie blurted, realizing
that he was selfbgh and jealous at the
same time.
"'OP course!' she mimicked, "Why
should every big beau think ,that he
must lock up the girt like' a canary
stud carry away the key white' he
fiances up and down the lands?"
"I'm not dancing," returned George
gloomily.. "I'm going away to make
good for both our sakes. I ask you to
watt and be patient — only that.".
"And sit on the perch in my cage
and chirp a lonesome little song!"
She smiled brightly as she looked up
at him, but there was bitterness in
her tone, and pomething else that
stirred vague uneasiness, I•le had
hoped that his lady would pin her
colors upon his breast ,diad send ,him
Mit to conflict witha hereoine's faith
and courage.
"You do not seem to realize that
I'am doing it allfor you that I
am eaeriticing so much In leaving
Yeti."
'1 understand, now, what you want-
ed'me to'de yeate'rday•Wiien you came
dashing along, trying to Toll away
from me. You wanted me to , cry:
'Hurrahl'm glad you are going away
from me for long months. 'I want to
be alone. 1 want you to go into those
great woods and suffer and be in
danger. I want you. to do all that—
and do' not stop with me for one tittle
hour out of all the long mouths, Hur-
ry away!' Now, it I had 'said it, !tow
would you have liked that, Beau Tor-
toise, will the hard, shell?"
He ' admitted that Ile would not
have liked it, but tiie admission rather
added to his general discontent. It
was only when he bade' her good -by,
that day, took his leave of herin the
sanctity of the woodbine bower which
their affection had consecratede that
the old faith and understanding seem-
ed to .spring' into line again between
them. For she wept bitterly once
more the clinging, dependent little
sprite whose Impracticability and
elfish whims had bewitched his Purl -
ten, senses. And he Wad again the
protecting genius, loving her the more
passionately the more dependent 'ale
became.
For most of his journey North,
memory of that sweet abandon of her
will and her loyalty to him Ire -pt him
brave and shut those outer doubts out
of his mind. Even her lack of per-
fect sympai1 y .w1tle his ambitions
seemed a- precious part of her, win -
same, nature. ; And by dint of glari-
fication of her, weakness he stamped
the' life out 'of that little serpent of
doubt that had biased a hint that She
might be selfish In asking him to
stay milvltt, later be beguiled Into
solacing. herself for his absence,'
lI
At Norrayinna ti o
n 'next
day,he
stepped down oat of his Pullman and
out of his dreams, He stopped think-
ing exe!usively about a:ary Laroche,
and began to think prettydiligently
about the Great Trust ust Uomptrny. '
He had ,a vague; idea diet ,certain
woods' gentlemen,' named Smart '.and
Niles, w cold be
waiting eagei•ty'and
humbly at the car steps, Norray Jumc
tion had a station building,a tank on
stilts, and coal sheds. Across the
platform was a train, plainly ready
for upcountry. Ile saw his trunk
banged to the platform trans the main-
line train, and slammed into the
baggage car across the platform! it
had been checked through.. There
fore hl o
v
s course was 1 plain t
\ , made o
him. But ho inquiring Niles or Smart
stood beckoning wi•thiri range of hit:
vision,
1
h
e 9mo cI
4�
! ear, h,e.cotiid sec wux
filled with men wearing blanket coats'
and plaid jackets, unifortnsof woods-
l:31
oods
men. In 'tire door of ,fisc car _a burly
m:tn had Uraced' himsglf, occasionally*
'Phe brakeman, waiting for the Con-
, doctor's word, stood by the steps tools -
Mg on with a' grin
Another crateful , for the .treat
'them ,,' said, tee braker'nau, as George
reached him. ''Shipped pickled as
usual." '
Sudden hope sprang In George.
"That big tau— is his name Niles
or Smart?"
°Nope -Kyle. "Big Bili,' they -call
thin, Great driver for the Ct, T. Bur
-
'coshes In the new crews,"
The forester mounted the ear steps.
]sere at least was a Great Ernst Co.
man. .Kyle's greet arms and sturdy
legs barred the door with effective
triangles. 11!s heart reached to the
lintel, and a grizzled nntstaclte,, that
ran down his cheeks and thrust mit
like 'home from his jaws; seemed to
bar "int the upper part of the door.
He did not make 'wily for Gsorgo,
"There's a smokingplacefor drum -
niers in the combination car, back,"
he advised the young man. "You
don't avant to get in here. They'll
be figlttiug before they've gone ten
miles;"
'Pile giant was bluffly good-natured,
"I'iu a Great Trust Co. than, my-
self," George hastened to inform him.
'"Forestry department. I'tn looking
for Mr. Niles or Mr. Smartt"
"Don't hurt your eyesight •—• yenta'
strain it if you try to loon to where
they've gone,"
1''e stopped to lciclt another pet-
sistent inebriate back into the smoky
interior of she car.
"But they were to meet me here—
they 'wer'e to wait for me here," In-
sisted George.
"Civ Niles and Lynch Smart don't
Wait, not when they get started for
the "woods," stated the big man.
"Where were you yesterday?"
"I was was detained,' stammer-.
ed the young man,
"Bad for you. I saw them just be-
fore they took the train to dome out
here to the junction. 'fold tine they'd
been sentenced to load themselves
down with a tree -college dude, 'They
follered their part of orders, And,
to tell the truth young feller, I reckon
they was glad of the excuse to give
you the slip. If you've slipped up
on your part of orders, You can't,
blame fouler fellers:" •
"But they could nave Waited,"
George muttered. "It was only twen-
ty four bours,"
'You couldn't expect thein to roost
twenty-four hours on that waterin'
tank or this station platform, :And
they ain't the kind of chaps to go
back for fresh starts," De looked
George up and down; "Better give it
up, hadn't you? It's a big country,
north, to find men in. when they're
tryin' to keep away from you."
"Is that the kind of feeling's the em-
ployees of the G•reat'i'rust have for
each other?"
"Well," drawled, ICylei "Civ and
Lunch ain't exactly the hind that will
grab up a city tenderfoot and hug him
hard — not reel hard!"
"I'll go into this car, if you'll let.
Inc pass,," said George euril)',
"Better ride with the drummers, or
the dames, back there!" Kyle was not
rude; he was patronizing. "Lately, the
Great Trust Co, is hirin' g'rillas, most-
ly — I mean for the gashin'-fiddling
lob, and I'm takis' in forty ring-
tailed ones this trip."
"Gashing fiddling!" repealed the
forester.
'Why, cross -cut sawyers, ntan!
Say, you are a tenderfoot, ain't, ye?"
After that, and with that humor -
blunt, young man. I'm goln' to say
to you that 1 believe you ain't been
mixin' in very thick with the general
public lately, not to ireon- any more
about the world's news, than you . do.
You've either, just come out of some
college, or else you've neeu settin' in
some back yard courrnr' a girl!"
George was glad that his suite -tate
Mete, cuffing to right and lett. •
"A college feller thinks he knows
too much to pay any attention to
what the worlds doin'; and the feller
in love don't think about anything.
And here Duke Cornelius, of the Great
Ioban, lays dead in his house at Cor-
lran-cache, 'leaving for heiress' a
daughter'. that 1s the handsomest girl
in all the north country, lenvin' half
is million acres of tlmberlatad and sill
the men from St. Francis Ito St.
Agatha - to mourn, him; leavin' five
thousand dollars in hands of a com-
lnittee, to be spent In one slay in
eeiebratin' his funeral, and the
crowds now corrin' from every village
and leggin' camp two crass bands
ordered, and me dowry -to the city to
"That's
myofficial 1
C A blleill
ess, young
man to get them bands and an
orator and a thousand -dollar coffin
that's abead of us, now -- the coffin,
6 mean — out In the baggage car!
All that t yout in
en
lispp' andse tin'
here beside Governor Harriss, comirr'
back from iris official business,: and
not kn
owiri' him from a doctor,
or un erstnndfi' his Mishima!
. ivIy
eters! That shows that this world
creeds, something more than wireless
telegraphln' to get news circulated!"
fie sat for some time and dragged
at hie cigar, and gazedout of the
Window.
George,, Was glad that the tlnnult In
the ear, recently stilled by Kyle's' Pas-
sage,broke out o
0 n W aft• sh.
e APig h
t
started up just behind them,' and men
rushed that way.' An apology fee his
ignorance could not have been beard
and he couldenot brink of a suitable
one. Governor Harries, tools off.;; his
plug' hat, and guarded It on his knees;
"I never had it touched, yet; but
you never krfow what a.drunk is-goin'
thrusting back with ,fist er meceasln- to do when he's too far gone to red-
ed foot men' who lurcnec1 1131 the aisle ognlze ddgnity,e
and tried a0` Irm olr v i1 nig Bill crone upthrob h
B7A t l ast, 1 -nl. g the car,
I
ku4glglug :Alen etc, riot and, left, bait-
Biliousness—
—-•--.--.
is certainly one of tate most disagree-
able ailments which flesh is heir, Ip.
Coated tongue—bitter taste in the
mouth—•nausea — dizziness — these
combine to make 1ifea burden. :The
cause is a disordered' liver—the cure
Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills' They
go straight to the root of the trouble,
put the liver: right, eleansethe
stom-
ach and 'bowels, clear the ton
tongue and
take away the bitter taste from the
mouth. At the first sign of bilious
mess take
Dr. Morse5s 40
Indian Root Fills
tering down: tlte' irurocent 'littd aide'
guilts•, nntll _rte burst through tl�te'
press and oh -Oohed the twowho worse
battling. ale tore them aliart, cracked{
their heads together, left one, moil
dragged the other to the opposite'
end of tate car,
"It'sgoin' to keep Bill Kyle pretty
busy If he collates on stopping every
fight that's due in this section for the
next tht'ee days," observed Governor'
Harriss critically. "Funeral commit-.
tee reckons onspendid' at least three
thousand on Ticker -- and, seem' that
it's been smuggled over from titel,
States, you get more ranin the dollar..
The other two tllousatid will be spentl
on the barbecue. All outdoor cookie'•
for this feed! ',!'hey got the fires tot
goin' before •I came ;away."
Ile mentioned these details with al
satisfied relish that jarred on Goorge,t
considering the reason for the aurae -1
ing demonstration,
"This strikes me as being a queer!
funeral you're talking about, !f yoii'l.11
pardon me for saying so, 1t sounds:
Iike a celebration of some sort."
"It is a celebration," stated lir.'
Harries calmly. "Celebration is call-
ed for by the will, That was Cor-
nellns Corr'an's idea — to have 1113
friendsenjoythemselves."
Be produced another cigar,
"Even these segars coil° out of that
appropriation. Boxes open every-•
where in the village; help yourself:
That's why 1 offered you , one," . he
added naively. slat. drink, smoke,:
and whoop it up,' was' the motto of',
Cornelius Corran, and he says, 'fl
want the boys all to remember me as
that hind of a feller. I want 'em to
look back and say that the last' thing
old Cornelius ever None was to ghat
'em the time of their lives.' And Ire's
(loin' it."
The old man eyed his silent com-
panion slyly from the corner of Itis•
eye. "You don't think that's tho right
kind of a -funeral to have, do ye, city
feller?" he demanded.
"No, I don't!" blurted Gecl'ge "It
seems rather heathenish to mo, Your
Corran meat have been a—"
"You'd better not pass comments
on Cornelius, not at this time, in thee
section," broke iu Governor Harrisut
briskly, but calmly. "You're a stran-
ger and young, and l'ln advising' yea.
for your own good. Nobody ever
ain't been In the habit of criticising
the duke of the Totem. Nobody crit!-,
cised how he' got hold of most half w
million acres, nor whether his titles
would stand law, nor now he handled
his men •w11011 they didn't toe the
scratch, nor how lie spent mane?
when he was speedin', ndr bowho
hung on to it when be had a 'ciose' fit,
And he's Marlin' things up In tt blaze
of light that will flicker 'round hie
memory for a long time to come,.
Young mala, I reckon -it'll settle into
a steady halo for Bliss, so tali• asthe,
old cines up this way go; as for the
young elms he's Clare Corran's,
(To be continued)
Unbreakable (.'clans
The wless-makers of 'Baccarat;t
France, have produced the•Orst geese
boat is unbreakable. 'i'lie•rnew lire -1
sees has been successfully kpplled tot
the filanatfaoture of larn,p chimneys
for use in coal -minces eentitI',ng mmol l
Bre-damp. The makers have also sue- II
tattled Iu increa_4ing' dm eleetioitty
of the glass. Thu, tlte;r necompl9:ah
by adding magnesium bride to the'
ordinary crystal glass.
--.7
A University. Hoax.
Blather a good story, is being toldi;
around, Queen's University at, the ex-
penee of arts 'I5. It seems that one
day last autumn W. I'. 3. O'Meara,+
the august president of that brilliant
year, received a letter from Montreat
stating that a meeting was to be held(
there at an early date to discus° m
style of student gown. The Letter, its
due course , was read,'at one of the'
year meetings, anis the president was
deputed to represent his class.
On ari.•iving in Montreal he took a
cab to the address given, full of ideas
about student gowns, end conning
over the speech with which he hoped
to win the plaudits 1 rl u rts. of the gathering.
t
His surprise and chagrin may well
be imagined when he found himsel•,e
dumped at a fourtb-class hotel en.
the outskirts of the eine with no sago
of a committee. He suddenly awoke
to the fact that he had been the vie::
tfm of a well-plenned.iioax. Needless
to say, his report before the year do
his rcittrn was short and: to the point,
It wap decided to hush the matter up,
but some one could not stand the
pressure, 50 blurted out the whole
Accommodating Mosquito.
A resident of Dawson, Yukon Terri•
tory, declares that the mosquito is
more numerous tin the Arctic cone
than in the tropics, though theme' i3
no land too cold or too het for its
habitation, and the onlyplate wle.r
it is not found' is in where
loalities : i e
1 crit
there is little or no moisture. There
is no 'country' where the mosquitoes
are ed. -large and so numerous as they
are in the Klondyke; and 15 is itrrp•ss-
ib
Bible todestroy thein., as they preps:,,
irate' in the kite • heavy' .
s that grown
there, 'w'h ch contains' nrosture almost
,oyual:to swamp lands. If, therefore,
� safe preparation were invented
which would keep the Mosquito away would be an immense' sale Tut
it, not only iu Alaska and the Cana.
diem, Klandyke, bOt in all parts of the