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His Name
as Preserved Fish
—BY RICHARD CONNELL.
PART IV.
With a sigh of satisfaction the man
who had been Preserved Fish took up
his work behind the soda fountain of
the - Alpha and Omega Drug Store,
Main Street, Bucyrus.
He sought out a boarding house.
"What name?" ased the lady who
kept it.
"John Fish,"
There was no smile. "Pay in ad -
Vane," was all she said, not even a
remarkabout Yarmeuth bloaters.
He was introduced to the other
boarders, minor employees like him-
self,
"Miss Dowson, meet Mr. John
Fish."
A fat, moist hand and a fat, moist
smile; no giggle; no impression made
on Miss Dowson.
"Mr. Hewitt, meet Mr. John Fish."
A quick, tight grip, a quick, tight
smile, a toneless "Glad to know you".
That was all. No interest in Mr. John
Fish was evinced by Mr. Hewitt.
"Miss Smith, meat Mr. John Fish,"
A well -kept little hand and a pleas-
ant smile, but purely a formal one.
And so with the other boarders.
John Fish had .a faint, vague feel-
ing of missing something.
At breakfast next morning no one
looked up when he came in; no one
nudged anybody in the ribs; no one
tittered. He was permitted to eat in
moody silence; no heed was paid to
hint- . Only Miss Smith spoke to him,
and she called him "Mr. Gish."
Two thoughts escorted him to his
work in the Alpha and Omega Drug
Store. One was that no one had ever
forgotten his name before. The other
was that Miss Smith had auburn hair.
Long, uneventful weeks of milk
shakes,; phosphates, frappes, banana
splits, and sodas floated by, and to
John Fish,' came the slow realization
that he was not as happy as one.
should be who has just escaped from
an odious bondage. He joined the
Bucyrus Baptist Church and went to
all its social functions; but with his
absence of personality he was very
much a wallflower. No one sought an
Ltroduction to him. No one looked
up when he came in, or followed him
with curious eyes when he went out.
One night three months after he fled
from his . home his drug store was
burglarized, and he had a not unim-
portant part in catching andsubduing
the thief. In the Bncyrus "Bugle,"
next morning, he sought eagerly for
an account of the affair. He found it
at last, a meagre paragraph hidden
among the shoe advertisements. With
a strange, starved feeling he read it,
and noted that his name was dragged
into the last sentence, quite casually.
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ISSUE No. 33—'23.
"A clerk named John Fisk helped to
catch the thief."
That was all. They even had the
name wrong. He thought of the story
the Clintonia "Star" would have
spread on its front page had he, Pre-
served Fish, been a hero back home.
Nothing less than tato columns and
his picture, and his name in the head-
line. He realized now why he was
feeling so lonely, so utterly left out.
He missed the notoriety.
Habits die hard. Preserved Fish
had the publicity habit. He admitted
it to himself. He missed, actually
missed, the public eye that had been
focused on him. As Preserved Fish
he was Somebody; as Sohn Fish he
was nobody. Nobody likes to be no-
body.
But one thing kept him from pack-
ing up his zither and going back to
Clintonia and the spotlight. He had
fallen in love with Miss Smith. She
was so little and gentle and timid. Her
name was Mary.
He thought her shy, with a charm-
ing shyness, . as they strolled in the
cemetery the following Sunday after-
noon the accepted trysting place for
sounds inside. He banged on the
door.
"Who is it?" called the faintest of
voices.
"It's me," he said.
"Who's me?"
"Preserved Fish," he answered
loudly.
"What?" The weepy sounds stopped.
"Yes, that's my real name. Pre-
served Fish. Get 'eat? Preserved
Fish."
"Oh -huh," from inside the door.
"I changed my name to 'John' be-
cause 'Preserved' made' me so San-
spicuous. Now I'm going to change
it back to 'Preserved' and be some-
body again."
Mary Smith, a little red about the
eyes, but smiling, came out into the
hallway,
'Is that true what you said?" she
asked.
For answer he thrust the letter into
her hand,
"Axe you the Preserved Fish whose
name used to be inthe papers?" she
asked, looking up at him shyly. Awe
was in her tone,
"There' isn't another man named
Presrved Fish '• in the world," he said,
his chest expanding,
"Oh, Preserved,'+ cried Mary Smith.
softly,
He did . the proper thing.
If you should chance to go down
Market Street in Clintonia, at the
corner of Cannon Street youwill see
a glittering drug store, the most pros-
perous in town; and over it, the larg-
est sign in that part of the state, in
gleaming letters of gold :cads:
lovers. He conquered a lump in his
throat as they sat down on a bench in
a nook by a mausoleum, and spoke
what was in his heart.
"Oh," she answered him in a soft,
frightened voice, "I like you all right,
John. But I'm very, oh, very sorry;
I can't marry you."
"You can't?"
"No, John."
She laid a small hand on his blue
serge sleeve.
"You see," she said, "my ideal of a
husband is a man who amounts to
something."
"Don't I?" said John Fish, although
he knew he didn't.
"Forgive me for saying it, John, but
you don't."
He stepped viciously on a passing
caterpillar.
"John," said Mary, "I'm terribly
sorry. But it has always been my
dream to marry an important man, a
distinguished man. But, John, you're
just ordinary. Your very name is
commonplace."
"So's yours," muttered John Fish.
"Yes, I ]snow," returned Mary
Smith, "and that's one reason, I won't
marry you. I bate my name. It's s0.
common. But it wouldn't be an im
movement to change it to Mrs. John
Fish. If you were named Frothing -
ham or Hollingsworth or Montressor.
—I might think about it"
John Fish stared glumly at the toe
of his shoe.
"Besides," added Mary Smith, "we
couldn't live on eighteen dollars a
week."
"But, Mary" -he started desperate-
ly to say.
"Please don't let's talk about it any
more," she cried, tears in her eyes.
"Good-bye."
Before he could detain her she had
hurried away among the maze of
monuments.
When John Fish, dejected and
world-weary, shambled into his board-
ing house, there was a special delivery
letter propped against his wash bowl.
He ripped it open. It was from Gala-
had. The note read:
"Oh, you Preserved Fish (alias
John): I just sold those Confederate
notes to a collector for 6800. Being a
good brother, Pll only charge you a
hundred commission. Better come
home, grab the seven hundred, and
buy out Old Man Kepler. He'll sell,
Says business is rotten since you left,
Well, olive oil, old' soused mackerel!
Galley.
With quick, determined steps John
Fish wentstraight to Mary Smith's
room. He heard faint sniffling, weepy
DRUGS AND SODA,
Proprietor
PRESERVED FISH
(The End.)
Here Comes the Thief.
Here comes the thief
Men nickname Time,
Oh, hide you, leaf,
And hide you, rhyme.
Leaf, he would take you
And leave you rust.
Rhyme, he would flake you
With spotted dust.
Scurry to cover,
Delicate maid
And serioua lover.
Girl, bind the braid
For the lusciously fair
He has an eye
For the luscious' yfair
Who passes by.
0 lover, hide
Who conies to plunder
Has the crafty stride
Of unheard thunder.
Quick—lest he snatch,
In his grave need,
And sift and match,
Then sow like seed
Your love's sweet grief
On the .haeltward Mr,
With the rhyme and the leaf
And the maiden's hair.
—Hazel Hall.
•
1
Lowering Herself.
About.
the
tifause
REMOVING STAINS.
Grease just has a natural affinity
for good clothes. At least I so con-
cluded recently when I stepped from
the car and discovered I had an im-
mense,emear- of grease on one of my
best gray silk stockings. If you don't
know what to do with a grease epot
or a stain it's a calamity, If you do
know what to do it is only a nuisance.
I find the following list almost indis-
pensable, for I am never quite ,sure
which remover I should use when a
spot appears upon a cherished gar-
ment,
Grease.; Rub lard or oil in spot and
launder in the usual way. For grease
on, delicate fabrics a paste of fuller's
earth or white chalk is a: good solvent.
Apply paSte and allow it to absorb the
grease. If the spot does not disap-
pear at first, try another or several.
applications.
Grass. For light fabrics' hot water
.andsoap is the hest solvent. Ordinary
laundering and boiling should remove
grass stains from white goods. For
colored fabrics use a solvent of soap
and cooking soda made into a paste.
Rub this paste on the spot and let
stand over night. Then launder' in the
usual way.
Chocolate. Sprinkle with borax and
soak in cold water. • Thea wash in
warm water, using soap.
Coffee and Tea. Spread stained sur-
face over bowl' or tub: Pour boiling
water through stained part from a
height so as to strike the stain with
force.
Cream. Wash in cold water, then
with warm water and coap.
Fruit. Treat like coffee stain. If
stain persists soak in solution of Ja-
velle water and boiling water for a
few minutes. Rinse thoroughly with
boiling water to which a little dilute
ammonia water has been added.
Blood. Cold water or a paste of
cornstarch and water is a satisfactory
solvent. Soak in cold water till stain
turns brown. Rub out of cold water,
applying soap, and wash in warm
water. In using cornstarch, apply the
paste, making several applications till
the stain is absorbed.
Mildew. For a solvent use lemon
juice or a paste of one tablespoonful
of starch, the juice of one lemon, a
little soft soap and salt. To remove
the stain, wet with lemon juice and
expose to the sun or apply the paste
and expose to the sun.
Paint. Turpentine, benzine or alco-
hol are good solvents for most cases.
For delicate colors use chloroform.
For old paint stains equal parts of
turpentine and ammonia is good. Wet
the spot with one of the solvents; let
stand for a few minutes. If stain is
not removed, wet again and sponge or
pat with a clean cloth.
Iron Rust. For this stain three sol-
vents may be used; A 10 per cent.
solution of hydrochloric acid, oxalic
acid or a paste of lemon juice, starch,
salt and soap. In using one of the
acids, wet the stained portion with
borax and water and spread over a
bowl of boiling water; apply acid drop
by drop till stain begins to brighten.
find a few minutes—when I am wait-
ing for something to boil, for instance
—I sit down comfortably and pick up
a book. This is infinitely better than
taking a chance on going into another
room, becoming absorbed' in something
else and forgetting what's on the
stove.
One thing ' I have banished
forever from my kitchen; that is my
work basket. When I sen Bead over
heels in cooking, batting, and the thou-
sand and one duties of a housewife 'I
do' not want to be reminded at every
turn, that there is a pile of niloding
waiting for me,—Ruth E. Botsford.
A STYLISH COSTUME SUIT.
"You say she's lowering herself to Dip at once in alkaline water to neu-
go with that man? trauma solution. If stain doesn't dis-
"7ies; he does•n'tlhl e high heels and appear, add more acid and rinse again
she's stopped wearing them."
•
Dogs Following Motors.
The practice is again being indulged
in of allowing pet clogs to run behind
motor cars. This is a dangerous pm
-
in ammonia water. In using lemon
juice paste, wet the spot and expose
to the aun. This method is longer but
it is effective with light rust spots.
MY PANTRY TABLE.
oeeding for the dog. It becomes
We had an old washstand that was
overheated and strained in trying to too dilapidated to use, so we threw it
keep up, and is apt to suffer greatly. on the junk heap, keeping the marble
Itis a cruel and thoughtless proceed-
ing, and one that will not be permitted.
A dog must, of course, have exercise,
but it should be obtained in some
other way.
Minaret's Liniment"He� Heals Cuts.
A good attitude of mind is that of
the man in a rowboat headed up-
stream. He knows that he must row
even to hold his own.
Cats need plenty of grass. Give
them either a run out of doors, or, if
in a box. I oS two hooks of fiction, and whin I
slab as a top. The table sits at the
pantry window near the flour barrel
and is used daily for rolling bread,
pies, and soon: Mrs. C. B. G.
SPARE KITCHEN MOMENTS.
My kitchen has a sunny pleasant
window which until a few months ago
was of no use to me except for its
original purpose—to admit light. But
now I have installed beside it a tom-
fortable rocking chair, and just above
this on the wall a small shelf painted
white. On this I keep' not only my
that is impossible, green stuff grown recipe files and account book but one
A Lifebuoy bath
Cool, fresh, rested skin
tingling with health and
comfort—
Iieeling cleaner than you
ever felt before --
Becauseof the bid, creamy
lather of "Lifebuoy.:
1 MINING PROSPECTS
IN T DOMINI®N .
BRITISH AND AMERICAN.
CAPITAL INTERESTED
Canada Will Profit by Improve -
'anent in General Situation
in • World's Metal
Markets.
The mineral production of Cennela
in 1922 accounted for a value oe e133,-
029,595, an amount df $11,100,2553 in
excess of tliat of 1921, but falling short
by sane $45,000,000' of the value of
the 1920 production, The only pro-
vines which' did not reocrd an in-
crease in the output of minerals last
year were Nova Scotia,' Saskatchewan
and Alberta: The resumption of'miu-
ing activity. in Canadawas al est. en-
• tirely confined to' the latter months
Lb64 of the year, and it Is glattlying to
note .that the, brislcnees evidenced in
the declining period of the year bee
been carried with additional moment-'
um into 1923 and that prospects ear a
substantial mineral produotlon in the
yeas' are very bright,
4805-4291. Youthful and very popu-
lar is this smart suit, with its one,
piece dress and the accompanying box
coat. As illustrated, the blouse -por-
tion of the dress is of figured silk,
and the skirt portion and jacket are
of Canton crepe. This will be a good
style for linen or ratine. The width
of the skirtatthe foot is 2% yards.;
The Jacket Pattern, 4291, is cut in
8 Sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and
20 years. The dress, 4805, is cut in 4
Sizes: 14,16, 18 and 20 years. To
make the dress and jacket as illus-
trated in the large view will require
for a 16 -year size 4% yards of 40 -
inch material for jacket and skirt por- I
tions, and 2% yards of 82 -inch sills or
contrasting material' for blouse and
sleeve portions.
TWO separate patterns mailed to
any address on receipt of 15c FOR.
EACH pattern in silver or stamps, by
the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West
Adelaide St., Toronto. Allow two
weeks for receipt of -pattern,
Mlnard's Liniment for Dandruff,
Shopimlen of the King.
The King does not, in the ordinary
course of events, do his own shopping.
It is done far him. All the same, he
has certain shops which he favors,
and to these he given his Royal patron-
age.
From a recently issued list it ap-
pears that the King has seven Ash
merchants; eight grocers, two tailors;
six tobacconists; four hatters; five
batters; two brandy naerchanise four
fruitmerchants; eight butchers; and
flVe champagne merchants.
Also included in the list, among a
host of other ahopnaan, are a rose
grower, a fish' sauce manufacturer, a
kilt maker, a philatelist, a maker of
hard tennis courts, and a manufac-
turer of lamprey pies!
The Prince of Wales seems to have
more tailors than the King, though ''
this does not mean he wears' more t
Clothes. He has nine tailors. But sal
one of ahem is in Melbourne, his Royal I
Highness probably does not regularly
patronise them all.
Wee Typewriter.
The Invention of the smallest prat.
tical keyboard typewriter weighing
only 21,e pounds, is claimed by a Con=
necticut man.
N Have Summer Heat
This Winter
A Wenn house and a cool
cellar day and night the win-
ter throu h:Andasavingin
your coal -bills of from agtosol
A KELSEY
WARM AIR GENERATOR
in your cellar will ensurethis.
The Kelsey lsthe most efficient
% and economical system of
e/ home heating everdevised
and will heat the smallest'
cottage or the largest mansion
properly and Noel thfully.
/ MAY WE 5550 YOtl Pe arisulAps?
CANADA FOUNDRIES & FORGINGS
LIMITED
JAMES SMART PLANT
BROCKVILLE ONT.
•
Corrugated Galvanized
Steel Roofing
Direct from Manufacturers to Consumer
WRITE FOR PRICES
W. E. DILLON CO., Limited
189.- 191 George St, - Toronto
—and then he buries his sting in
your neck, The pestiferous
11IOSQUITO works 24 hours a
day and your sleeping }lours are
his busiest.
"Slay It with Sapho." Oneor two puffs with
a Sapho Bulb Sprayers and In Ilya to twenty
minute, ,Pony 00,111to la dead. Or burn a
rlttle In your a 5,0000,, 1t you ureter,
And aap5o ,la}'s al,,, roaalle,, ant, and
otter nests as well.
11,, It everywhere. Spray it over the 510155
table—ln ibo kttehon—ft'sabsolutely harmle,a
on feed and 500-POIa000Ds to humans
or animal,.
Sapho Powder 26 cents, 50
cents and $1.25.
Sapho Bulb Sprayer $1,00.
If you haven't tried Sapho
get a Sapho Puffer for 15
cents, See special offer
below.
As10 for Sapho Liquid for
moths. Spray it is your closets
and on furniture for complete
protection.
Kennedy Manufacturing Co
586 Henri Julien St. . Montreal •
THE DUCHESS, OF YORK' AT ROOF HOSPITAL
The Duchess oe York was present at the inauguration of a roof ward at
a hospital for children, and was caught by the photographer. intensely 1n_
Wasted in au explanation being made by a mires at the bedside of a little
patient, who Is malting a piece of basketry.
staff
in'ekIaI
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Did you know that musts meats,
not onlly,
gives more zest;and flavor to'eseats,
but also stimulates your dig
13ecauseit aids assimilation it adds
nourishment to foods.
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The broad concentration of interest
in the Canadian 10i0105 situation is ,
becoming utilized along construed?)
lines in many parts off the couptry.
several companies•, it is reporteld, are
now 'ming organized overseas to ac-
quire and develop promising proper-
ties in various sections of the Domin.
ion.
For the rest, properties all over the
country .winch have lain idle for years
for want of capital and initiative are
either being revived or acquired by
other and richer companies. This in-
tereslt is being distributed an over
the Dominion and resulting in -a very
general expansion of mining activity,
Gold Mining Camps Well -Established.
The various gold mining camps of
Northern Ontario are now well estab-
lished with a good number of produc-
ing and dividend -fraying properties,
and it is -only a matter of time hofore
their number will be increased, accord-
ing to authorities, New mills are be-
ing rapidly erected and the capacity
of others doubled or trebled. The
sliver situation at Cobalt has been
well maintained, and the increase in
production effected in 1922 is expected
to be further extended this year, with
resumed development in the nickel
area at Sudbury.. One large liicicei-
producing corporation, long idle, is re-
suming operations with 700 men,,
and
other companies are making extensive
additions to plants and planning a con-
siderably enhanced production.
Developments in Quebec have been
well iroralded and interest is wide in
the new provincial gold area, Some-
thing like 100,000 acres- have been
staked out In claims in the Abitibi
and 'Demieltaming diatriots and ex
-
proration and development work will
take place' this summer, The Covent -
meat has declared its faith in 4he area
by undertaking to establish a record-
ing office at the end of the railroad
now being built and- subsidized by
the. Provincial Government to serve
this new territory and known as the
Interprovincial and James Bay Rail-
way. It has also lent its support to
the extent of extending facilities of
entry by the building of colonization
roads. -There is similar entielty in the
Maritimes. Mines long idle in Nova
Scotia aro, beliig reworked .this year.
In the first months of 1923, the coal
mines of the British Empire Steel Cor.
Aeration have recorded productions
doublet thete of Me corresponding
periods In' 1922.
Greater Coal Production Expected.
A greater production of coal is ex -
elected in Alberta this year, resulting
no less- from more . equable working
conditions• than from a more extensive
demand. Manitoba at thepresent time
le securing 75 per cent. of its coal
from Alberta and the Provinces. of
Ontario and. Quebec are eiperiment
ing with the prairi0 product, in the
hope that a way may be found to sub.
stituf'e Western coal for at least some
proportion of foreign coal now lm.
ported into the Eastern provinces.
There are not lacking substantial
signs of recovery • in the Mining situ-
ation in British Columbia. The last
months of the old year witnessed a
renewal; of activity which has con..
Unwed in a satisfactory manner In the
beginning of the new. Some of the
mines which during the period ,of de.
nation have remained idle are now
being opened up, and there is not
lacking evidence of returning interest
of capital both from Great Britain and
the United States in this field. The
two large smelting plants of the pro .
vincie which furnish .a market for a
large percentage 'of' the ores .mined
anticipated a busy season of increas-
ing production, thus affording an opti-
mistic barometer for the mining in-
dustry of the province.
Surveying the present mining situa-
tion tram' coast to Coast, one can
scarcely discern a gloomy feature. In '
short, Canada is likely to derive full
benefit from the improvement.in the
general situation in the world's metal
markets, and 1.923 Will no doubt bring
the exploltatlon of the Domnion'h
great mineral resources a step nearer
the position their wide distribution
and ininlene•e wealth Justify.,
s' wireless am lifters and a
U ing p
loud speaker to magnify the sound of
heart beats is surgery's latest de-
velopmeet,