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Endurance Cord.. , . , 8.75
Royal Cor x ....
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Balloons 29x.40 $12,50_,___ $12.50 TUBES ' 29 x 4,40
Royal Cord 29 x 4.4'r i $13.75 Red $3.95 Grey $2.75
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Tubes $1.75 Grey $2.25 Red
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you , ever experienced the pleasure and the savings you
make by buying your groceries at the nearest Dominion
Store? ` You can shop there with absolute confidence in any
Dominion: Store and be assured of getting the most for
your money and QUALITY MERCHANDISE.
SPECIAL TEA WEEK
Here is another oppor-
tunity of securing the
famous Dominion Stores
Teas at a saving. Biesads
to suit all tastes.
Quality and Flavor
unequalled.
RICHIVIELLO 75e Iib.
Ceylon and Assaean Reg. 79c
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NEW PACK
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Choice Quality
No. 4 C
size TIN
°WINO 90 lb.
• English Breakfast
.S.L. UILK 5 c Ib.
NEW PACK
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Red Pitted 3 lb. Jar
Cherry or
Strawberry
Star Ammonia 3 pkts. 25c
LUX in Toilet Foran 3 for 25c
Soap Chips 2 lbs. 25c
Silver Gloss Starch 2 pkts. 25c
Whole Pickling Spice 25c Ib.
Co pound Iriustard 29c Ib.
NEW PACK
L BSTER
Y/2's l's
49c . 29c
CROWN Sime)) $1.®9
Medium $1.19
JARS Large $1.65
Rubber Jar Rings 3 doz. 25c
Zinc Jar Rings 20c doz.
Parawax i . 2 pkts. 25c
Maple Leaf Choice Santa Clara
SOAP MATCHES 3 bzs.25C � y� q xg.lar
P & G or GOLD 'itJ i `�11CwJ+
SHIRRiFF S 3 for
10 BARS 59c Jelly Powders 25c 2 lbs. 29c
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ready to render practical assistance in furthering
agricultural interests.
We encourage fanners to strive for bigger and
better production by extending loans for the pur-
pose of sound development.
Consult ,our local manager.
WINGHAM BRANCH,
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BEAU GESTE
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blowing hard, that terrible wind whic
carries the Saharan dust a hundre
miles to sea, not so 'much a
storm, but a mist or fog` as fin
as flour,. filling the'' eyes, the Iung
the pores of the skin, the nose an
throat, getting into the locks of rifle
the works of watches and camera
defiling water, food and everythin
else; rendering life: a burden and
curse.
The fact, moreover, , that. thirt
lay's weary travel over burning des
ert, across oceans of loose wind blown
sand and prairies of burnt grass, an
through breast high swamps, and a
cross unbridged boatless rivers,, la
between him and Kano, added troth
in to his satisfaction. For, in spit
of all, satisfaction there was, Inas
much as Kano was railhead, and th
beginning of the journey Home, Tha
but another month lay between him
and "leave: out of Africa," kept Georg
Lawrence on his feet.
' From t13at wonderful and romanti
Red city, Kano, sister of Titnbuktu
the trails would take him, after,a three
days' dusty journey, to the rubbish
heap called Lagos, on the Bight o
Benin of the wicked West African
Coast. There he would embark
on • the. good -ship Appam, -gr;et
her commander, Captain Harrison
and sink into a deck chair with that
glorious sigh of. relief, known 'in .its
perfection only 'to' those weary ones
who turn their backs upon the Out-
posts and set', their faces toward home.
Meantime, for George Lawrence,
disappointment, worry, frustration,
anxiety ,heat, sand -flies, mosquitoes,
dust, .fatigue, fever, dysentery, ma'.aria
ulcers, and that great ' depression
which comes of monotony indescri-
able, i, ariness unutterable; and lone-
liness unspeakable ,
And the greatest of these is lone -
lin ess.
oneliness.
.But, in due course, George Lawr-
ence reached Kano and the Nassar-
awa Gate in the East Wall, which
leads to the European segregation,
ithere to wait for a couple of days
or the, bi-weekly train to Lagos.
hese days he whiled away in str ill -
ng about the wonderful Haussa city,
visiting (he market -place ex iloring
s seven miles of streets of mud hous-
es, with their ant -proof dom•gpaln
earns; watching the ebb and flow of
aried black and brown. humanity at
he` thirteen great gates in its mighty
arthen ramparts;politely returning•
he -cheery and respectful 'Sanu! Sanu'
reetings of,the Haussas who pasted
is specimen of the great Bature rare
he wonderful white uten, -.
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that of the old slave -caravans which
the white man thinles he has recently
suppressed; and casually passed the
time o fday with Touareg camel driv-
ers, who invited him to hire or buy
their piebald, brindled, ora white' cam-
els, and occasionally, a rare and val-
uable beast of the tawny reddish buff
variety, so prized for speed and en-
durance,
On the platform of the Kano stat-
ion (imagine a platform and station
at Kano, ancient, mysterious, gi-
gantic, emporium of Central Africa,
with its great eleven -mile wall, and its
hundred thousand native .inhabitants
and itstwentywhite men; Kano, eight
hundred xniles from the sea, near the
border of Northern Nigeria which
marches with the French Territoire
Miltaire of Silent Sahara; Kano,
whence start the caravan routes to
Lake Tchad on the north-east and. to
Timbuktu on the north-west)—on this
indescredible platform, George Law-
rence was stirred` from his weary ap-
athy by a pleasant surprise in the
form of his old friend, Major Henri
de Beavjolias of the Spahis, now some
kind of a special staff -officer in the
the French Soudan.
With de Beaujolais, Lawrence had
been at Ainger's House at Eton; and
tl,v` two occasionally met, at thus on.
the. Northern Nigerian Railway; on
the ships of Messrs Elder, Dempster,
at Lords; at. Lonchamps; at Auteuil;
and once or twice at the house of a
mutual admired friend, Lady Brandon,
in Devonshire.
For de Beaujolais, Lawrence had a
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great respect and liking as a French
soldier of the finest type, keen as
mustard ,hard as nails, a thorough
sportsman, and a gentleman accord-
ing to the exacting English standard.
Frequently he paid him the remark-
an�aw�lb?��.�LL,�i7,li�'id�
Jolly, you might almost be 'English,'
a bequet which de Beaujolais receiv-
ed with less concern by reason of the
fact that had been bis mother a Dev-
enshire . Cary,
Although the Spahi ,officer was
heavily bearded, arrayed in what Law-
rence considered hopelessly ill-fitting
khaki, and partially extinguished by
a villainous high -domed white helmet
(and looked as truly French as his
friend looked truly English), he, how•
ever, did not throw himself with a
howl of joy upon the bosom of
cher Georges, fling his arms about
his neck, kiss him upon both cheeks
nor address hire as his little cabbage.
Rather as his old bean, in fact.
A strong hand=grip, "Well, George!"
and, "Hallo! Jolly, old son," sufficed,
but de Beaujolais' charming smale
and La.wrence;s grin showed their
mutual delight,
And when the two men were stret-
ched opposite to each other, on the
long couches of their roomy compart-
ment, and
ompartment,"'and had exchanged plans for
spending their leave—yachting, golf
and the Moors, on the one hand and
Paris Boulevards, race -courses, and
Monte Carlo,'on the other—Lawrence
found that he need talk no mare; for
his friend was. bursting and bubbling
over with a story, an unfathomable
intriguing mystery, which he arta- t
tell or die.
As the train.,.steamed on from Kano
Station and its marvellous medley of
Arabs, Haussas, Yorubas,.Kxoos, Eg-
bas, . Berl -Bevis, Fulanis, and assorted
Nigerians from Sarkin;Sheikh, Shehu
and Matlaki, to peasant, tasnel'man,
agriculturalist, herdsman, shopkeeper,
Nigerians from. peasant, camel/nail,
clerk, soldier, tin -mine worker ,and
tamed, with their women and l+iecin ,
he Frenchman began his tale
Through Zaria, Minna junction
and Zungeru, across the Jebba Bridge
able English compliment, "One would
hardly take you for a Frenchman,
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Abeokuta, with brief intervals during
which Lawrence frankly snored, de
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ABOUT MIDDLE 0 F SEPTEMBER.
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_ Owners of these debentures 11.1 ;him, and from here to Lagos he was
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ery dollar of Huron & Erie ev- i e the sparkling Atlantic, the Frenchman i
sets totalling over ,$gr,oErie . W itold his tale—threshed at its° mystery
5 PER CENT. l and discussed it, speculated upon it,
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Fi and returned to it at the very end of
Per Annum is payable half-year-
ii.-,. ;;every di resion, Nor ever could Law-
!'--1ly upon $zoo or more for e, a, 3, i g
_ 4 or 5 years, t ence have enough --since it indirect-
�I; ly concerned the woman whom he 'al. Ilki � Avoid unnecessary risks by rovays loved.
selecting a Huron; & Srie trus- ii When the two parted in London,
ae9 tee debenture investment. `iLawrence took it up and continued it
iiii '°A''” ' ; himself, until he, in turn, brought 'it
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And the story, which Major Henri
de Beaujolais found so intriguing, he
told to George Lawrence as follows—
"I tell you; my dear George, that it
is the most extraordinary and inex-
plicable thing that has ever happened.
I shall think of nothing else until I
have solved the mystery, and you
must help me. You, with your train
cd official mind, detached and calm;
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your phlegme Britannique.
Yes -you shall be my Sherlock Hot-
mes, and I will be your wonder strick-
en Watson; address me as 'My dear
Watson,'
Having heard my tale—and I warn
you, you will hear nothing orlittleelse for the next two weeks --you )trust
hesitatingly make a pronouncement
Something prompt and precise, my
dear friend, hien?"
"Quite," replied Lawrenoe,"But sup.
pose you give tete the facts first?"
"It was like this, any dear Holmes...
As you are aware, I ani, literally bbr.
tied alive in my present job at Taka-
ta, But yes, with a burial -alive itt my
present job at Tokotu, But yes, with
a burial -alive such as you of the Ni-
gerian 'Civil Service have no faintest
possible concepfinn,' in the uttermost
Back of Beyond. Yes, interred liv-
ing,' itt the southernmost outpost of
the 'Territoire Militaire of •Saraha, a
spot' compared with which the very
loneliest and vilest Algerian herder -
hole would seem like Sidi-bel-Abbes,:
itself, Sidi-bel-Abbes like Algiers, and
Algiers like Paris in Africa, and Paris
like'' God's own Paradise in Pfeaven,
Seconded from mybeloved ,regiment
"far from a boulevard, a cafe a slab,
far indeed from everything that rakes
life 5u1-,pr,rttible to an intelligent tear`;,
em I ent�+ntbed."`g
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