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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-10-18, Page 6Weilil, igton i la Fir* Insurance Co. Established 1840 Head Office, Guelph,. Glatt. Basics taken on all clasee of insur- ance at reasonable rates. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chislt Block iiIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND MEALTH INSI.TRANCE — AND REAL ESTATE 0, Box 360 Phone Poo . XNGUAM, ONTARIO J. W. BU'SHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office --Meyer Block, Wingham. Successor to, Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingharn, - Ontario .1. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office, i' : H. E. Isaxd's.-Store.. NIlOW EA'C.,L3 WAS CHOSEN Robert Morels Was lrst to Introduce Subject of National Mint to thefeel #a United States. ... .American currency owes its origin to Robert Morris, born in England., and who came to America when he was thirteen years. old. He was the first to introduce the subject of a National Mint to the United States. Morris was the financier of, the Amer- ican ' Revolution, He reported to Con- gress a plan for the establishment of American coinage, and, chiefly through his efforts, seconded by those of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, a mint was started, says the Bystander in the Toronto Globe. An act establishing it was passed by both Houses of Congress and received President Washington's approval on April 2, 1792. During the Confeder- ation, each. State had the rightto coin moxpy, but only according to the standard of fineness, 'weight and value required by the central Govern- ment. For the mint, a plot of ground situated on. Seventh street, near Arch street, in Philadelphia, and on which an old stillhouse stood, was pur- chased. There a plain obrick building was erected, the corner -stone of which was laid by David Rittenhouse, Director of the Mint, July 31, 1792. It was occupied for forty years. The operation of coining currency began in October, when silver half -dimes were first minted. The first metal purchased for coin- age was six pounds of old copper, which was coined and delivered to the Treasury in 1793. The first de- posit of silver bullion was made by the Bank of, Maryland 'on July 18, 1794. This consisted of coins of France amounting to the value of $80,715. The first return of silver coins to the Treasury was made Oct. 15, 1794, and the first deposit of gold bullion for coinage was delivered in gold ingots by Moses Brown, a mer- chant of Boston, Mass., Feb. 12, 1795. On July 31 of that year, the first re- turn of gold coinage was made, and consisted of 744 half -eagles. The first delivery of eagles, which con- sisted of 400 pieces, was made on Sept. 22, 1795. Before the emblems on the silver dollars were determined, an acrimon- ious dispute occurred :n the House of Representatives over the choice of the eagle as the national emblem, be tense it was designated as the ni King of Birds by naturalists, and therefore not a suitable symbol for a nation established as a free and independen republic. The opposition was twitted by Judge Thatcher, who suggested that perhaps a goose might suit the gentlemen better, for it was a rath humble and a republican bird. I might be servicable in other respect h sam d -- r �+ h� y� H. -\.' 3ORNE, M. D. n and Surgeon Medical ...-presentative D. S. C. R. Phone 54 Wingham Successor to Dr. W. R. Harnbly DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND 3Jf.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P... (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON' DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, ;Faculty of. Medicine; Licentiate' of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29. DR. O. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours -9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. ,graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago. Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry Store, Main St. 'SOURS: 2-5, 7-8.30 p.m., and by. appointment. Ale of Mown M,,,, cB &z galls re- .,ypended to. Al: ibr ,;ae of laden, . Phones. Office 300; Residence 6o1 -t3. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELETRO=THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8., or by appointment. Phone tgt. D. IL MCI N IBES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of n11 kinds; we specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night' calls °responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont. Phone i50 GEORGE A. SIDDAL — BROKER— Money to lend on first and second "mortgages on farm and other real es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of .i teeest,. also on first Chattel'mort- gages on stock and on personal notes, Afew farms on hand for sale or to rent on easy terms. 'hone 73. Lucknow, tint. t er t s also, as gosling might bet pe upon the dimes. Immediately there was a tumult, for this humorous re- joinder was taken as veiling an in sult, and a challenge to a duel follow- ed it. Judge Thatcher promptly de- clined it. "What," said the bearer, "will you be branded as a coward?" "Certain- ly, if the honorable member pleases to," replied Thatcher. "I always was one, and he knew it, or he never would have risked sending the chal- lenge." The regulations of the .`.'int were strict. No spirituous liquors might be brought there. Profane language was prohibited; smoking was. forbidden. The coining presses must be locked every night after work was done, and the keys placed in the custody of the Chief Coiner. When artificial light was necessary, the watchman must early a dark lantern, for a naked light, as from an open candle, was forbidden. The watchman was em- powered to have by him a musket and a bayonet, two pistols and_ a sword, kept in perfect order, but 'to be In- spected once a month by an officer whose duty it was to see that the arms were discharged and then re- loaded., Up to the' year 1836 the work of the mint was done entirely by hand, then steam was introduced, to be re- placed, within, our own time, by elec- tricity. The United States Mint con- tains a rich collection of ancient coins, as well as a number of mer- chants' tokens once in circulation. There are some private gold coins that were struck In Georgia and North Carolina, and also in the west following the discovery of gold in California and Colorado. The first of these privately issued gold pieces were struck b7' Templeton Reid, an assayer, who in 1830 established him- self near the gold mines in Lumpkin County, Georgia, and converted the gold from the mines into coin form. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD ,.thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone e3 x, Wingham ~ ' W..1. BOYC1 PLUMBIet'r arxn HEATING ?hone 58 Night Phone 88 S.A.J. & A. W. IRW I1 DENTISTS • For Producing Seed. WINGBAM ADVANCE -TIMES .en aroone Geor0 Marsh OA /1 coRY tI it by The PENN PUBLI5MING CO, SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 1,—Garth Guthrie, Ca- adian war veteran, having to live in the open on account of weakened lungs, is factor of a Hudson's Bay post at Elkwan, He came back from the conflict with a permanently scar- red face, which he realizes cost him the love of his fiancee, Edith Fal- coner, Sir Charles Guthrie, his bro- ther, is a millionaire war profiteer. CHAPTER I1,—With Etienne Say- anne, hafbreed, his firm friend, Garth meets Doctor Quarrier, geologist, and his sister Joan. Their schooner has drifted ashore. Quarrier complains he has been robbed by a man known as "Laughing McDonald" or to the Ind- ians as "McDonald Hal Ha!" because of a scar which gives him a perpet- ual grin. McDonald is Garth's com- petitor for the fur trade. At Elkwan an Indian girl, Ninda, tuberculosis victim, whom Garth has befriended, is dying. Quarrier hints that Ninda is Garth's mistress, which iso hotly re- sented. Joan, trained war nurse, cares for Ninda, but the girl dies. CHAPTER III.—Garth tells Joan part of the reasons for his presence at Elkwan. He takes the Quarriers to Albany, from whence they can pro- ceed to Montreal. Charles Guthrie writes reproaching his brother for not coming home. Charles' wife assures him Ethel still loves him, but Garth in his heart knows better. His scar- red face has separated them. CHAPTER IV—Three of McDon- ald's party visit Ellcwan seeking to buy gun shells. From them Garth learns of evil talk among the Indians concerning him and Ninda, and real- izes Quarrier will spread his version' of the affair.' Chapter V.—With Etienne's help Garth wins the friendship of Saul Souci, "medicine man" , and treaty chief of the Crees, and gets his pro- mise to persuade the Crees to take theirr furs to Elkwan instead of to Mc- Donald. Garth' is ambushed by Joe Mokoman, Ninda's reputed father, whom the factor had driven from Elkwan. "Shot" Garth's airedale com- panion on many battlefields in France, saves him, and the Indian is taken, a prisoner, to Elkwan. Chapter VI.—Garth sends Mokoman to McDonald with a message of de- fiance, and the war is on. CHAPTER VII—Garth hails with joy the freezing of the strait, which will enable Souci's followers to bring their furs to Elkwan without difficul- ty. Etienne craftily spreads reports that McDonald and his schooner arc bewitched, and evil will befall all who trade with him. All trees when mature bear flowers primarily for the purpose of produc- ing seed. To accomplish this end there are"two essential organs, the pistil and the stamen, says Nature Magazine, of Washington, The pistil includes the pollen, a fine dust, com- monly yellow, in contact with the stigmatic surface of the pistil this fertilizes the flower, or, in the gar- dener's language, sets the seed. These two parts, the essentials of a perfect flower, we usually find in each blossom in the garden, but trees, especially those in the woods, more often have a separate flower for each, a pollen -bearing flower and a seed- producing one. Crocodile's Dinner -Call. Tri Ivjango, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda, an African by the use of a peculiar call can sum- mon an 11 -foot crocodile from the W.N.U. SERVICE • Two -.grinding hours of slavery on lacerated feet into the pin -pointed fury, and turning in their'harness, the spent dogs lay down, refusing to move. Numbto threats or urging, the heart -broken huskies, crusted with ice,. had made their choice. Rather than the torture which flayed their faces, they would lie, backs to the barrage, while the withering wind slowly stif- fened them to ice. There was nothing the men could do. The dogs were done. "I turn dent loose. We hunt'de tim- ber" Etienne shouted into Garth's hood. With his'knife hd slashed the dogs from their frozen harness, but the' huskies lay while the snow beat over them, refusing their freedom. Shot, white;coated from nose to tail, gingerly muzzled the motionless sha- pes. Castor,. alone, resented the act by a feeble snap. Lifting their heads and shaking them, Garth in turn call- ed their names, but the numbness of, the white death already was in their blood. Gently he lifted Castor to his feet, but the leader sank limply to the snow. "Good -by, boys!" he called to the white shapes by the sled. , "You gave us all you had. Good -by!" PF PJMli3' Thursday, October 18#hi 1926" had missed them; lost the chance to hunters, while Garth, who knowledge save the huskies who had given him' of Cree was limited, stayed with the their all that grim December day. --i dogs. Then a white body shouldered into As Garth watched a boiling kettle of salt wavy, ands :his legs—Shot! of bannock baking it "Where did you go?" he shouted a tilted frying pan, the dogs ailment- , intothe dog's' ear the e excited ,ed the return of Etienne tho r atgh the "We may not lxersuade.the..hunters.. to cross the ice with 'us,,btit,we can make it hot for so ce.rers Souci when. he tries his mumbo -jumbo, Will he dare Make his: medicine When tie sees us?" Savanne scratched. his head before x e beast left him to plunge 'into the dusk. Much depended Upon what the replying. "Somet'ingeen dis dat ees storm—then returned to seize Garth's (head man had learned, and Guthrie mittened hand. (probed the, immobile features as the Following the dog for a space he half-breed thrust his shoes in a) drift stumbled against a mound in . the and stepped to the fire, snow—the sled! He groped for the "Well, what news?" heaps that marked the frozen dogs, From the gravity of his expression but in vain. They were gone. Etieene? it was clear that Savanne was strug He had got them up into the spruce.' gling with a problem difficult and In his joy Garth knelt and hugged baffling. ' the ice -sheeted body of the great sire- "Ver' queer t'ing—ver' queer!" was. dale whose tongue found his master's the unresponsive ''answer as Etienne face dropped his mittens on their neck Food! thong to warm his hands at the fire, The sled -load was untouched. Eti- "What is?" enne had had but, one thought --to 'What dose Cree tell me. Dere are save his dogs. So Garth slashed the eight hunter avid camp een dis valley frozen lashings and reached a grub- here; some from Elkwan and some bag, tea pail and kettle; then started from down de coast. I'talk to dem all. for the camp, following blindly the, W'at dey say ees ver' strange." dog 'who nosed out the tracks of the I "Well, for heaven's sake ,shoot!" glow of the fire! "Souci has been here ;two—tree day The dull y through the blur of snow led them back. He invite dem to the Canoe over the last yards. There, on his . Riviere w'er he . mak' de beeg medi- knees, Etienne was working over his cine." huskies' legs. I "Did he get them to promise to take "Grub and a pail!" shouted Garth, their fur to the' schooner?"' as he scooped up snow for tea. "Good "No! Mokoman, he talk to. dem old Castor! You feel better now?" 'strong, too, but dey, not know w'at The husky, sprawled- near, the blaz- de ydo w'en I say de strait froze. Dey • o' er NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Facing the drive of the wind, the team fought its way slowly down over the frozen tundra. With night the frost stiffened, and the needle -pointed barrage Of snow crystals stung the faces of men and dogs like the lash of myriad whips. Heads down to avoid the agony, men and dogs swung away from the thrust 'of the wind, until the half-breed, straightening again, felt the bleat of the blizzard on his right cheek, and changed their course. Often, unable to face the burst of edged torment on their noses, the dogs lay down, backs to the drive, re- fusing to move. Then, Garth and Etienne, lifting them to their feet, dragged the team and sled until the huskies again leaned into their collars. Blindly into the murk walling them in plunged the tireless half -bread lead- ing the way to the shelterof the far timber and food, Wtih face frostbitten from exposure in feeling for direction, hands numb from tn- tangling with mittenless' fingers the frozen harness of the dogs, Etienne plunged down the sloping tundra, his face buried in, his hood amid contsantly fighting to sate his numbing' fingers, cI pths sir s ...a r .w ,�_rf-eere�; There flashed through 'Nike 1Vlacdo Wiau,,t d f as $adal iilaealM�li 911 _. �.4�� a. W,neYYeY"i,,,,e,seta„eIY,iii ehWed+Ywrke01 me►+wtlMw.. A. J. 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With the Warmth the Men Rubbed the Circulation into Numbed Hands 'and Faces, "Dey weel fpeze'in ten minute— nevair feel eet now." shouted Etienne, his voice breaking as he turned from a last word with his favorite Castor. Shelter and fire! All thought of the food frozen under the sled cover had left them. The windbreak of the spruce meant fire, warmth, life—but how far was the timber? With the ax from the sled the two men started, Shot at their heels. A hundred yards and Etienne stumbled, stopped—while Garth lunged into him. The man on his knees turned to the other, "De spruce eet ees here!" His snowshoes had fouled a dwarf spruce on the edge of the timber. Swiftly now they plunged ahead, seek- ing the heavier growth. In a hundred yards they were in thick bush. While Guthrie scraped out a fire - hole with a snowshoe, Etienne gath- ered dry spruce twigs and started a fire; then slashed down saplings and soon hada comfortable heat in the snow -hole behind the wind -break. With the warmth the men rubbed the circulation into numbed hands and faces. But out on the tundra in. the drive of the blizzard lay ,five loyal friends, stiffening under the drift. Leaving the fire Garth and Etienne started to back -track to the sled. Guthrie, with Shot alternately ping- ing ahead and returning to find his master, had gone but a Short distance into the blackness with its shot-like hail of fine snow, when he found that he had drifted away from the hfllf- breed. Too dark to locate tracksin the, snow which filled at once with drift, lie kept on with the' wind cn his left shoulder. Suddenly he missed Shot. He stopped and ishouted, hop- ing the dog' was near, but the aire- dale 'was lost; or had left him. Why? Continuing down wind, counting his paces, at last Guthtie knew . that lie had passed the sled in the blind nntuk, so circled. Etienne had said the dogs would freeze in ten minutes --and be queer. Dey say Souci has not met Mokoman, an he was here on de Ware long tam. Dere was1+' troubl', too, wide eompanee, down de Rabbit." "What kind of trouble—fighting?" "Ah -bah. Dis Blackbeard run de French Cree ovair de ice—drive dent off de island." "He did, did be? Wel], that will cook McDonald's goose for next year - The government will have the police up here waiting for that schooner on her return, Run 'em off the island? Good! I only wish' he'd try that with . us. I woulclin't mind meeting up with Monsieur Breault of St. Johns." Etienne drew a long skinning knife from his inside sash. ''I would lak to. cult dent whisker'wid die ver' short;;. ecu de neck." "I'll bet you would, you old knife - fighter! Like the job you did on One Eyed Louis, up at God's lake." Etienne squinted along the edge of the knife—than ran a thumb over it, "Breault insult ma femme," he said quietly, and returned the knife to its.. sheath. In the blue dawn the dog -team g in logs, lifted his tail in response. have mooch fox — silver, black and pulled out of camp bound down river "Der moccasin save, der feet," said cross." to the west fork, which would take Etienne. "Good ting de cut feet on, "They are going to Souci's pow- them north through a gashin the bar - de bushso we put on de shoe." wow?" ens to the watershed of the Canoe. "But how did you get them up to "Yes, and hunter down de riviere— follow you? They were close to fro- all weel go. zee when we left them." I "How far is it?" Etienne grinned as he pinched and "Not far—ten mile—mebbe more, rubbed a pair of hairy paws., "Dei ovair' de hill." husky- ees ver' smart feller. Dey were all tire out -but not start to freeze w'ein we left dem. Een leetle tam, dey so tire and hungree, dey freeze, But Etienne tell dem dat supper start soon, and de come to life, toute suite. Den I drag dem here." "I'll go bach for blankets," said the much relived, 'Guthrie, and with Shot went to the sled and returned with robes, and the;whitefish for the fam- ished huskies. Later, snug before their fire in the wind -break of the timber, two men and six dogs slept the sleep of ex- haustion, while the norther drove ac- ross the white tundra. * ,k *. * * * Although the wind ceased and the snow ceased by noon of the following day, the crippled dogs held Guthrie to his camp. With his glasses he located the smoke of cooking fires in the scrub across the basin, and in the early afternoon Etienne slipped his moccasins into the thongs of his snow shoes and started for the camp of the Garth's mouth shut hard. "Well, Etienne, we haven't been invited, but we'll surely attend .that party." Etienne nodded. "But dees Souci, w'y he talc' de troubl' to do Bees t'ing?" "He's going to tell: the hunters that the spirits are the friends of McDon- ald and they must take their fur to the schooner." "I feex dat for heem. I tell de. Cree ovair dere dat you and I watch de schooner at night, an' see fire come out of her an' de devil dance on de mast. • I scare dose squaw so bad, one had de fit." "How about the "Dey wait to see scare." "Where is this Mokoman?" "He has gone to de Canoe. He was not wid Souci." "Well, we head for the Canoe at daylight, Will the dogs be able to travel? If not, we go without them." "Ah-hah, de dogs can walk to de Canoe." men?" Souci—but dey are The norther had left much drifted snow and the stiff legs of the'huskies cut the pace to a walk. Shot, exuber- ant after his two days of enforced idleness, ranged to the front and. flanks] in search of ptarmigan, rabbit and mouse. Along the river, the bro- ken -out drift in the old trail marked the hunters on their way' to the ren- dezvous on the Canoe. It was evident that the Cree trappers in the north of the island were bound for the medi- cine lodge of the old shaman. Twen- ty or thirty hunters with a catch of at least one hundred foxes would ga- ther to witness the necromancy of the: conjurer. On the power of the old man's magic would depend the des- tination of twenty thousand dollars' worth of fox pelts. Whether Elkwan or the schooner at Seal Cove was to enjoy a rich Christmas trade would be determined by the ability of Saul and his spirit coadjutors to' nullify the superstitious fears aroused by the sin- ister rumors of the crafty Etienne. It would be a battle worth' watching, thought Garth, keen for the meeting in the lonely valley of the Canoe be - ween the grasping Cree who had be- trayed him and the resouceful Cree (To be continued). NVISEISIMEMINXIMINIENIMMEGIEM Have You any of These Things To Sell ? Young Pigs Baby Chicks. 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