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The Captain's Other Self Is Invisible visible to All But One Man.
To the Corporal It Brings a Crisis When
Courage Demands Mutiny.
13y DOL'GIAS 1)OLD.
! Clheeney never dreamed, hove oe,
It bad com0 ov i• ': th e. i:ey again! ; that the corporal knew every detail
t arlrthr:al J4cl.t :.1:Sa18i)it understood
of Chesney's accredited cure at the
in a. flash what hart happened. The eanatorit.m. But cn: of the attend-
o1K?, terrib!c. menace, ,o lome lonebelieved! ants there had been a man who mar-
exorl:i,orl, had sprung out of oblivion,'r.ed Madison's eister, and through this
_ brother-in-law. :Mattison knew every
had again gripped Chi nay- noiv L ap detail of Cheeney's past madness,
tain Daniel Chesney of the engineer:1-new what the evmntams would be if
carps.
h"So nL�v; here in ran c.' realized now—now in the swift, wild ney had that idealistic sense of smil-
-••-K�+i �•: ::tiv cdaaen cn a � so
I' ,
Five minutes later tide company was
malting its terrible way, bent on the
special detail, upon whose successful'
completion depended the precarious
safety of the whole salient. And sue -
cess, so bloodily toiled for, crowned
their efforts.
When after nightfall a }ill in the
fighting followed, since even war must
take grim breath, the Red Cross beer-
! ers brought in their dead and wounded.!
Among these was a man neither.
dead nor wounded, though he was; un-
conseious and breathing thickly—the
popular, diplomatic Daniel Chesney,
distinguished not only as a •soldier; but
known as a charming dinner guest,
cosmopolitan and unusually well read,
On the heels of his .arrival cane a
lieutenant to General L's tent. With
the ]lieutenant were three infuriated
privates whd idolized Captain Ches-
ney. For where his sense of sup•eri-
it ever rushed on Chesney again ---•and ority had never been offended, Ches-
1.
breek which should have flashed back crisis of a terrible any, that Chesney,
it: c• psisite silver, But the ono, ear ove+'taskcd, ova -intensified, shaken by
1 shell shock, was, for the hour at least,
et t::L.h t:.., c:lthnet? to yelbw opaque- 1 his
rues,K and the .hre was colored, here raving mad --ami. about to sent
men into an annihilation as horribly
and there, by ".ca.'in;• currents of
ugly red. sii!y as it was catacly meetly :hock -
'i he brea?: hall formerly flowed joy -i ill: .
u LL o• r white peb 'e Now bo lies As Chancy, his handsomegray
ing good will apt to flower from a
descendant of feudalism toward those
under his authority. The three pri-
vates, in deadly indignation, told their
tale of Madison's 'mutiny.
(To be continued,)
o- " 11' tot 1.g, his whole :,,tistn-I!CLOTHI:vG FROM FOREST TREES
I
of den nen cchoked it. ~ Sometimes1Sometimesit ''.Y('''r: trail. dominant figure quivering with!
clambered over thee. Sethhet: tae: 1t , , Several Regions of the Earth `Yield
wriggled under them. , exaltation. shouter. his wild purposeI -
at Madison, the mall, stocky, heavily 1 Dress Material.
t —even though One of the strangest of myths is.
air, the falcons of war pursued their knew the one way oft g that which concerns the "deadly upas
complex flights. or fought cloud duels he glimpsed that toward them three tree" of Java, whose poisonous exhale
in which the vanquished fell wrapped, of Chesney's men were • running—
in tions were formerly alleged to kill
The ono wayout!
ir. a 1'314=111g Everywhere thele earth and sky 1 Not for himself. Chesney had any man or animal that ventured into
ordered him on a message, an instant' it; neighborhood.
echoed, in tortured e xd;.r s, to the bel- Doubtless it had its origin in solve
lisle sounds of war. • (Madison himselfnd into safety. carry
But traveler's tale, for the tree in question
But Corpora} :Madison heard no- —rather widely distributed in soutYl-
thing of them consciously. His strain;
meanwhile the men— crib and southeastern Asia— has zi-
eel ears were tensed an Captain Ches For them—the one way out— terrors for natives of coat -
court -martial, frightful words, Chesney's What it meant for Madison himself, tries, who, theon theacontrary, those, find it
screaming boast of the order the was court-martial, the stigintt of shame, extremely useful
about to give I the climax of a traitor's death flashed It th 1 kind tree in th
Across it the shells whined.
and t
screcrlled. Far above it, in the eine, featured corporal instantly, vividly;
c
That order! It meant success for' clearly, terribly before the corporal.
the enemy. It meant horror and ruin • There was no time for explanations,
for Chesney's own men I no time for anything except that one
tit,a1 ung a. •n p
ing blue eyes at his captain, Madison take because the corporal was trained fibers in order to' render it available
knew that Chesney was not Chesney, through ingrained discipline to vesper far use. A cylindrical section of it
ower of from a small branch well furnish a leg
fora pair of trousers or an arm for
iercing understand-, way --all the harder for Madison to
is eon y. ofe Quebec and the famous Saguenay
world that produces ready-made cloth- I River trip points is doing a capacity
ing, The inner bark is a natural cloth, business east and west. A large num-
only requiring the removal of the soft ber of Americans may be seen on
cellular stuff from between the woven these trips, especially east of Mont-
real.
The Canadian Pacific Railway lake
steamships are already doing almost
d1
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mammon�
Lean air. PotC�ef� IT0E
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ICIN OF
OFA' EXPRESSIONS
Til•
es F}I DO L ' Collor° of victory Bonds v�ll ffua definite
Prices quoted on ilio iinaaciai nage of ilia
— Toronto horning t;avxre. ------
WILL OUTSTRIP ALL RECORDS OF
PRE-WAR YEARS.
Many Parties of Ex -Troops Return to
Nature For Another Period
of Free Camp Life.
The readjustment activity is very
Marked in the increased tourist travel
in Canada this summer. it is about
double what it was in any war year,
and bids fair to outstrip all records
of pre-war years. The waren weather
set in early, and June started many
moving silo will wait fax July in
ordinary summers. The reports are Gifts, that ivhate'er tlhe gods may
unanimous in telling of big business send
in both American. and .Canadian pat" Shall lift us high and bear us far,
nonage. And these are Labor without end
One interesting feature is the in -
And Courage, which is man's last
creased -number of parties going "back •tiencl
to .nature." These parties are made i And.Honor, �lhis one Star.
up chiefly of officers and men who had
experience in camp life and long for a Trivard'3 Liniment cares Cara et in
return to the free life that iliacs up
the tired body and bestows freedom The Devouring Caterpillar,
from care and bank worries. The A caterpillar in the course of a
Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific •
month will devour 6,000 times its own.
weight in food. It will take a man
three months before he eats an
amount of food equal to his own
weight.
W. L. McKINNON & CO. INTERESTING FACTS RESPECT-,
Dealers in Government and ]t^.Cnnici)ai
nosy de INCr THEM FIRST USE
mc'-'innon lcl(x., la =uncle, St„ Toronto
Care.
Peace and put off, all care from thee.
Endure a little and be strong.
And lo! this ever -rising sea,
This mounting• tide of misery,
Shall sink, shall ebb, 'ere long.
What though the years have brought
to grief
The days of warmth, the ,lays of ease,
The blossom odorous and brief,
The bursting and ephemeral leaf;
Good fruit shall follow thee—
Cows
Railways both have taken charge of
a number of such parties. There is
difficulty in securing sufficient good
guides and in providing canoes and
Men to paddle the "freight and pas-
sengers" to their destination away
from civilization. This form of outing
is sure to grow in popularity, in the
opinion of tourist managers.
Doing a Capacity Business.
The Canada Steamships, which oper-
ates lines 'of steamers between Mont-
real and Toronto, Kingston, Rochester
and Hamilton, and between Montreal,
cuy longer; he was the mad man he vlvtd'y, in any officer, the p
hadbefore the martial authority.
.seen years
,e Lhe in
he
a' till
roes and
there are sana.oriu-n where his father had No•t a damnator circumstance capacity busiuess
would be lack; n against Madison' a coat, 'while from the bigger branch two months to run. The Northern
s^rre.Ly puthim for cure. Out of it gthe body of the garment is obtained. Navigation Company, which is oper-
Che.sney had come apparently inert himself—these very soldiers—running p r 1 ated in connection with the Canada
toward them—Chesney's Bate of Medi -
bark
tro ice} uouth America the sinner
tally sound, and had rushed -eagerly y bark of another species of tree yields•I Steamships. is having a like experi-
into an army career. son—
II an excellent cloth, the fibers of which' ence.
He and Madison came from the are interwoven much as if the fabric Transcontinental traffic on the rail-
stoma small Ontario town. There Three astounded privates arrived came from a loom. All that is neces- ways is exceptional. The Canadian
]Madison was not in Chesney's set. just in time to see their 'brilliant, dis- sary is to wash and beat out the ce.11 pacific Railway trans -Canada train is
The Chesneys were of an old, cynically tinguished captain go down under a lar stuff from the interstices and, usually booked away ahead, amply
arrogant stock. Madison had more smashing blow from the mutinous, when dried, ,it is light, flexible and justifying' the enterprise of the com-
than once, when encountering Chesney murderous fist of Corpora} Madison. altogether suitable for making up into party A fine line of advertising in
serially, felt his blood boil over the As Private Gray said later: garments• American daily newspapers was put
young aristocrat's supercilious toter- "The devil himself couldn't have The famous "taps" cloth of Poly -
ease.
last spring by the Canadian Pacific
ease. At last the despised civilian acted any quicker! Down goes the nesia is made from the inner bark of Railway, and the results prove that it
was well placed. Capacity is the only
restriction on travel this year for the
people who have the money, and they
are legion.
Hotels are doing a record business.
Whenever any convention of moderate
had been tried too far. There had captain like a stock -yard's steer under the paper. mulberry. When of the fin-
ensued a fist fight in which Chesney the axe! And while we were gapin', est qualityit is bleached to snowy
had been soundly "licked" by the so- Corporal Madison wheels like lightnin', whiteness nd fine as muslin.
tial outsider. jumps past us like a panther, puts the In tropical Africa the inner bark
Naturally then, when Madison neck of wood between him an' us— of a leguminous tree is utilized in the
found himself Corporal Madison in an' is clean gone!" same way. Indeed, it is surprising to
the world war, with Chesney as his But Madison's run was a brief one; learn how widely treebarks are em- size comes to town it is difficult for
thevictor in the 1v- it carried him to Lieutenant Henley,clothing the ,
superior officer, ployed as material for c o g business travellers to get acconmioda-
gone encounter was not surprised to where he saluted and reported briefly: world over. And in the West Indies tion. Ottawa is working in an organ -
find himself keenly disliked by the "Captain Chesney's down, sir. What grows the "lace -bark tree," which ized way to care for the 4000ddelegates
captain. are your orders?" yields a delicate tissue so like lace that are expected to be present at the
that many articles of feminine adorn- national Liberal convention next
merit are made from it. month.
-- Canadians spend a lot of their good
Conciwsive, money in California, Florida and in
other parts of the United States in the
"How did you get on?" winter season. More enterprise like
The sweet maiden breathed the that of the Canadian Pacific Railway
f American
her lover's marl • ear as vowouldresult in a return o
words into o� 3 �
she met him in the passage. tourist money spent in this country in
He had been "seeing father," and the summer season. For Canada is a
she wanted to know the result. delightful laud to summer in, though
"Oh, your father is heartless!" said there are reasons for feeling it is a
the young man indignantly, "I—T fine country any time of the year.
The Adventure of Mrs Dubois
Mr. Dubois. a retired Belgian pro- ward with outstretched Band and said:
lesser of mathematics. lived in the "Admiral. allow me to shake hands
country until the Germans burned his with you as one dose with an enemy
I.iuuae. He then went with this Baugh- one respects.
tole to Brussels, says the Belgian Mr. Dubois took his hand and re -
Bulletin, where the rented a modest plied, •'I am Mr. Dubois, professor of
apartment. j mathematics.'
+ire morning one of his daughters ! "You are so far from being Mr. Du -
c •tic to tell hint that two German otli- i bois," the spokesman replied with
ter,; were waiting to see him. He ' great politeness, but firmly, "that your told him T could not live without you,
• and--"
"Yes, yes!" — impatiently. "What
did he say?"
"He merely offered to pay my funer-
al expenses!"
found them inclined to be excessively
polite. One of them studied him care -
faille and then asked if he was the
person known as Mr. Dubois.
••1 am, as a matter of fact. Mr. Du- thumb lacked a joint.
'bole. professor of mathematics," he "That," said Mr. Dubois, "is the re-
rns:i'F red, sult of an accident I met with while
The officer smiled and stroked his driving twelve years ago; the flying
moustache. "Have it your own way," glass cut my hand, and —"
"Do not insist, admiral," said the
right thumb bears the scar of a wound
you received on board your ship six
years ago when a cannon exploded."
He pointed to Mr. Dubois, whose
he said. "Please get ready to leave
acid, us within ,ten minutes, Take
el..)+i;iht sufficient for several days.
,l;cu may, if you like, take leave of
ree.u• tamely."
Teo officer took the p iee"ei' to one
of the beer hotels in 13ruseli, Where injured, while this man's right thumb
be turned hien over to a barber. iMir. lacks the tip."
Dubois found it hard to restrain him- The photograph was passed from one
self when the barber cut off first his to another amid an ominous silence.
The two officers who had brought Mr.
Dubois shivered. Presently the com-
manding officer crossed his arms and
addressed Mr. Dubois:
"So you are not Adm. Beresford?"
"I air Mr. Dubois, professor of
mathematics," the answered once
more, with his eye on the door.
The commanding officer raised his
arm and, pointing to the door, said,
"Clear out!"
Needless to say, Mr. Dubois did net
stop until he reached his own apart-
ment, where he burst in upon his
family. They stared in astonishment
at his beardless face.
"What is the meaning of this?" de-
manded his father-in-law,
Mr. Dubois drew himself up, put the
monocle in place, and announced: "I
am Aclzu. Beresford-"
chief officer in a stern voice.
At that moment a young officer ven-
tured to interrupt his superiors, Hold-
ing up a photograph, he cried out:
"Look, the admiral's left thumb is
inouitache and then his cherished
beard. The officer, upon inspecting
Think, seethed pleased, even triumph-
ant, and handed him a monocle. But
when Mr. Dubois protested that he had
never worn one and was unable to
keep it ill place, the officer said:
"Admiral, do not keep up this farce.
We have, as you see, the greatest res-
pect for your rank and your misfor-
t?1ne."
` 1rhe officer then informed hien that
they had received orders to conduct
hint to Zeebrugge.
When the party arrived at the canal
„tile officer, with apologies, bandaged
;Ur. Dubois' eyes, and When the band-
age was removed he found himself in
i:•irhe presence of several aged officers
of a table covered with neaps and
Pans. One of the officers came for -
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Minard's Z;iniment Cures Diphtheria.
The French soldsters and sailors Id-
led in the war number 1,366,000.
Overcrowding and a great ,shortage
of houses in all Australian cities is
officially reported. Wholesale con-
struction is necessary.
All grades, Write for prices.
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The Origi1141 "Plue Stocking"
Word "Teetotaller" Was the Out-
come of Stuttering Speech
Once upon a time, as the. story••
tellers say, there lived 'in England
a theatre manager of the bogus type
who was very dilatory in the matter
of paying this salaries. Now in this
cclapany was a self-willed actor
whose strong part was the ghost in.
"Hamlet." If his salary was not
forthconeing on 0 Saturday morning
he would exclaim: "Then the ghost.
won't walk to -night!" As he Was
an indispensable actor, he was al-
ways paid. Sometimes he received
only a portion of his salary, with the
promise of the remainder in the
course of the performance, and he
would even go so far as to hold up the•
play just befcre the scene when he.
entered, until he was paid.
When the Ghost Walked.
Of course, the manager could not
give his salary to one member of the
company- and overlook the others, so
they all began to fee} x keen •interest
in the walking of the ghost as a
barometer of the pay situation. About
the time of "treasury" on a Saturday
morning they would wait until they
received word by a messenger that
the ghost woald walk.
To this day the expression that
"the ghost walks" is synonymous
with the paying of salaries not only
in theatres, but in many offices, and
actors- assembling . for their weekly
salaries in a not too reliable company
put the question to each other, "Is
the ghost walking?" while, if about
to accept an engagement of a man-
ager of whom they know nothing, they
ask, "Does the ghost walk?" -
Another incident which occurred in
England and gave rise to a popular
expression relates to the warder of
the Tower of London during the time
of the Plantagenets. He had what
the citizens of London considered an
exaggerated belief in his own prer-
ogative, and they took offence when
he claimed the right of trapping fish
for leis own ;benefit outside the Trai-
tors' 'Gate. He placed in the river
a basket or "kiddie" commonly used
at that time, but the people, thinking
he had no right to do so, systematieal-
ly made raids on his kiddies and de-
stroyed them. When he found' the
damage done to his preserves, he
would exclaim, "A pretty kiddie of
fish, indeed!" It "is easy to see how
"kiddie" would become "kettle" when
the old style fishing basket went out
of vogue and how the original mean-
ing clung to the expression, "a pretty
kettle of fish!"
The Stuttering of a Prohibitionist.
It was quite a different class of
society that the expression "blue
stocking" acquired .its present signifi-
cance. At the famous club of literary
ladies formed in England about the
middle of the beighteenth ,century by
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Ben-
jamin Stillingfleet, Who habitually
wore blue stockings, was a regular
visitor. Blue stockings, therefore, be-
came the recognized badge of member-
ship and a blue stocking to this day
brings to mind a certain type of intel-
lectual and conservative person.
It is a question 'whether Lady Mon-
tagu and her circle knew that as far
back as 1400 there was a similar club
of ladies and gentlemen at Venice
which was called the Della Calm from
the color of the stockings worn.
Another Engli'shmail who has sur-
vived lin a popular term is' Richard
Turner, whose convictions on prohi-
bition were' so . strong than even his
habit. of stuttering did not restrain
Wm from lecturing on it in public.
One ti'me while speaking in Preston,
England, in 1833, on total abstinence,
he concluded his address with the
word's:' "Nothing but tee -tee -tee -total
abstinence will •do—that or' nowt!" It
is due to that ,stuttering conclusion
and not to the fact of substituting a
tea for intoxicating liquors that a
total abstaiiner is now known as a
teetotaller.
Gold,Production,
The gold production. of the British'
Empire was in 1916, the:latest year in
which complete figures are available,
i.4,2w9,$44 ounces, or 64 per cent of the
world's total. According to statistics
in the Canada Year Book, the Dominion
comes fifth as. gold -producing come-
try.
ouptry. Australia is thircle 'In silver pro-
duction Canada takes 'second. place in
the world.
Patience is the right power of sue -
0008, , .. .
• Gathers eggs as, oft p es possible
and. keep in a cool, dry, well, ventilat-
ed place, Eggs' absorb oil aes- an
;Ihoulx not lie'kept filar decaying veg.:-
tables, kerosene, etc.