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Zurich Herald, 1917-02-09, Page 6Clean and --Free f r Dust • Sealed Fac sets Only P. Never in Bun( Black—Mixed—Natural Greene la212 The Brid e's time public -house pleasantly situated by the river, with an extensive connec- tion amongst gentlemen's servants, 'busmen, and other skilled judges of good beer, the subtle and delicate per- fume e1' which liquor pervades the place from cellar to garret, and hoe more than once taken the police,,on duty to the back door, under the im- pression that something wanted look- ing into. To some men imprisonment in etieli all—I suppose I may make a remark?" a plaice= would have been little short oI Flower changed the subject, and ecstasy. In the heat of summer tlie3'. turning to Miss Tipping began to one who flings his .money away is al- most as bad. These 'ere broaches aro very pretty, and they do him credit, but I can't say but what some- thing cheaper wouldn't 'ave done as wel)," "I thought you liked them," said the indignant Flower. "I like them well enough," said Mrs. Tipping, solemnly; "there's nothing to dislike in them. Seems to me they must have cost a lot of money, that's would have sat in the cool' cellar amid barrels of honest beer; in winter, they would have led the conversation cosily seated around the tap -room fire, For exercise, profitable employment at the beer -engine in the bar; for intellectual exercise, the study of practical chem. i,try in the cellar. To Captain Fred Flower none of these things appealed. He had visit- ed the cellar certainly—in search of subterranean exits; he had sat in the tap-room—close to the open window; but his rabid desire to get away from the place and never see it again eould not have been surpassed by the most bitterteetotaler that ever breathed. His greatest trouble was with Pore son, whose limpet -like qualities were a streak in a low voice of their new. home. Miss Tipping wanted a sort of Eden with bar improvements, and it find. was rather difficult to • They had discussed the matter be -d fore, and the wily skipper had almost,. quarrelled with his bride -elect over the part of the country in which they were to live, Miss Tipping holding out ' m ! y for the east coast, while Flower hotly ea,championed the south. Mrs, Tipping, with sonic emphasis, had suggested leaving it until after the honeymoon, but a poetic advertisement of an in.n in Essex catching her daughter's eye, it was decided that instant inspection should be made. (To be continued). • Where the Danger Lay. Crewe—Good heavens, how it rains! ing home?" said i1rs. Banks's broth^intrly from the windows at the broad. I feel. awfully anxious about my wife. Or, The Adventures of Captain Fraser 9 CHAPTER XIV.—Cont'd). {;sing home you said 'yes,' then t source of never -failing concern to the "Well, I don't know much about it," said the housekeeper, looking round appealingly. "I heard •'you speaking to somebody at the door in a • low. voice." "It wasn't a low voice," interrupt- ed Mrs.- Banks, sharply. "Well, I couldn't hes_ what you were saying, and then when you went out- side end T eeked von whether you were • The hest sugar for the sugar bowl is lc t Its purity and refine" granulation give it the highly sweeten- ing power. It dis- solves instantly in your teacup or on yourbreakfast cerea: ..a1„14413,-1111" Cartons Purecane 10 and 20 -lb Bags i you?e ascend u ifortunate mariner. Did 11 "Are you cure ::he said she wee go- to the drawing -room and gaze yearn er-in-law, in en.awful voice, as the old lady sank back in her chair. "Yes," sold Mrs. Church, -with a fine show of reluctance: There errs a dead silence. during which they all • heard the smelling - salts drop. I "If this man said Captain Barber was ill at Mapleden, why didn't you tell me?" continued Mrs. Church, in a mildly aggrieved voice. "I think if anybody ought to have known, it should have been me." "It's all a fuss about nothing," said Mr. Green, brazenly. "She stayed out a bit too late, and then wanted to put it all on to me." A good Samaritan picked up the smelling -salts and held them to the victim's nose, while her scandalised relatives discussed the situation in hurried whispers. The brother-in- law eyed her with bewildered disap- proval, and in the disjointed accents peculiar to surprise was heard to make use of the words "friskiness" and "gal- livanting" and "old enough to know better." Her relatives' remarks, however, caused Mrs, Banks comparatively lit- tle pain. Her attention was fully taken up by the housekeeper, in whose satisfied smile she saw a per- fect recognition of the reasons for her action of the previous evening. Sbe got up from her chair, and with a stateliness which her brother-in- law thought somewhat misplaced, took her daughter's arm, and slowly left the room, her departure being the signal for a general break-up, By twos and threes the company drifted slowly'up the road in her wake, while Captain Barber, going in the other direction • .. aimed Captain Niko e ^ sap , as ` •' II . .. 0 e order that he might have the opport- unity of saying a- few well-chosen words to Mr. Green on the subject of pi ecipitancy. "If it 'adn't been for me tipping 'im the wink, so as to let him know what line 'e was to go on when I carne down, where should I 'ave been?" he demanded of Captain Nibletts. And that astonished mariner, with a helpless shake of the head, gave it arc dans fee 'Ira Qus1ii3' ratajisd 5r w�- e; t 3 "The hi An -Purpose Sugar" up. CHAPTER XV. The "Blue Posts," Chelsea, is an old THREE V l T A L, QUESTIONS pression in stomach and cheat after eating, with Are you full of energy, vital force, and general constipation, headache dizziness, are sure signs good health? Do you ktnow that good digestion ,i of Indigestion, Mother Seigel's Syrup, the great is the foundation of flood health; Pains and op- j herbal remedy and tonic, trill cure you. AFTER MEALS TAKE. MOTHER AND L€ ANISH9 STOMACHTROUBLES so,s a Y. R U EP, At all Druggists, or direr on receipt of price, Sec. and $1.00. The large bottle contains three times much as the smaller. A. J. WHtrE & CO. Ln,lTao, Craig Street Wcst, Montreal. WANTED R THE I V Canadians wanted for the Royal Navel Canadian Volunteer Reserve for inuriediate overseas service, Only Hien of good character and good physique accepted. Pay $1.10 Mininauin per day --Free Kit. $20.00 per Month Separation Allowance. Experienced men from 38 to 45, and boys from 15 to 18 accepted for service in the CANADIAN NAVAL. PATROLS for defence of the Coasts. Apply to COMMODORE iEM11.IUs IARVIS Naval Recruiting Officer, Ontario Aro& 103;13 ay S tn. et, TORONTO, or !• Dept. of the Naval Service �a1k OTTAWA ri steam of Father Thames sand to craft dropping down on the ebb -tide tot the sea, Uncle Porson, sallow face and; unclean of collar, was there to,tabh beery romance of the ocean, I tae She's: gone out without an umbrella. Drewe—Oh, she'll. be all right. She'll take shelter in some shop. Crewe ---Exactly. That's what nial:es ane"',o an;ious. retire to the small yarci,at the: reared." the premises and on from the be F h fist- hav depnonst life Cl '1 4 retie cele i s e door at the passing i e of . a ; u s that the vapors of iodine and bromine lit' -street. Uncle Porson was ,bele•p ing over his shoulder, pointing ouiI.cpass through thin glass, even at ordi- niilkmen with histories, and cabmen navy temperature. with a past. The second week of his stay`- as drawing to a close before he filly. realised the horror of his position s - His foot, which had been giving , het ' - considerable trouble, was getting miicit better, though it was by no means we enough to give him a chance in a foa race with Mr Porson or Charles; arc as the family at the "Blue Posts" re e. alised the improvement the attention of his personal attendants were re -d, doubled. The key of his bedroom' door was turned every night after he ".I had retired, a discovery he had mhde the first plight, after carefully dressing'. for flight and spending an hour over the composition of a farewell note to Miss Tipping. There was no chance of reaching the roof from his bedroom window, and the pavement below of- fered him his choice between a wed- ding and a funeral. And anfld all this the fiction wa maintained of preserving him fro his lawless foes and his own incon- venient devotion to duty. A struggle for escape was not to be thought af, as the full measure of his deceitful=' ;Hess would transpire in the event of'. failure, and' the wedding drew nearer day by day, while his active brain wa „awl c„etin ; about .:xn'vain' for -;0` means of escape. "Next Tuesday," said Mrs. Tippin to her step -daughter, as they sat i the much -decorated drawing -room ode afternoon, "you'll be Mrs. Robinson:" Miss Tipping, who was sitting. next to the skipper, looked at him languish- ingly, and put her head on his should- er. "I can hardly believe it," she said, coyly. Flower, who was in the same, pre - rated • The only flour publicly and unreservedly guaranteed not bleached, not blended. Phenomenal Strides Made By Canadian Northern Railway System In First Year As Transcontinental New System in the Past Year Carrried .Approximately 131,000 000 Bushels of Wheat, an Increase of 1.26 Per Cent. Over Previous Year. Company's New Mileage on Pacific Coast and Northern Ontario Makes Astonishing Showing Right from Commence- ment of Operation. Company's Lines Most Favorably Located. From Our Own. Correspondent. Toronto, February 9th. • The phenomenal gains that the Canadian Northern Railway reports for its year as a transcontinental line makes the statement one of the most favorably received by every - most important that has ever been body who is fallowing the growth of Wined by any railway in Canada.' the Iarger Canadian railways will It is even doubtful whether the comefromthe fact that the Canadian tremendous increases in business Northern Railway has come within handled have ever been duplicated hailing, distance of earning its. total , b r any„ system .it tt?e. world. r There- fixed charges, '.the. deficit for the ' -are many features to the, report year being brought down to less that make it of spezial iport to than a quarter of a million dollars, every Canadian, -owing to the in- a reduction from the previous year terest the country has in the build- of almost $1,400,000. As was to be e ing up of this important transcon-' expected, a great proportion of the ' tinental line and the attractive ter- j increased revenues come from the ritory that has been developed; large crop gathered in the Canadian through the completion of the sya-IWest in the fall of 1915, but since • tern. The feature of the report • that time there has been a marked that is likely to he especially grati- I increase in the general freight fying is that which shows the pro - d traffic handled over the lines, and minent part the Canadian Northern, i during the first four months of the ment patted her head tenderly, ' with its transcontinental system, • current fiscal year gross earnings dura , y' has been able toplaying 3 as being easier than replying handling have continued to show large in - I "And I must say," said Mrs.i rip- 1 such,a large proportion of the gram creases over the corresponding per - pine, regarding the pair, "I'm a plain requirements of the Mother Conn- : iods of the year now under review. woman, and I speak my mind, that if try, - I Perhaps the most striking develop - it was me I should want to know more Right along it has been the con- , ment in this connection is that it is i about him first." tendon of Sir William Mackenzie in the month of October that the "I'n quite satisfied, mar," said Miss and his associates that it was only heaviest grain movement occurs, t Tipping, without raising her head. a matter of a very short period he- and yet in October, 1916, the gross "There's your relations to be sat- 'tore Canada and the Empire would earnings showed a gain over those isfied, Matilda," said Uncle Porson, in enjoy the benefits of the big sys-' of the same month in the previous an important voice, ' tem that had been built up across year. As the grain crop was very Miss Tipping raised her head and ,' the Dominion, and the showing much lighter, this evidently in - favored the interrupter with a baleful 1 , made in the report indicates that dicates that the growth in the traf- stare, whereupon Mr. Porson, stretch- ?, these hopes have been realized tic in other commodities has more ii,g his -neck feebly, glanced at Mrs. i much earlier than it would have than offset the lighter grain move - Tipping for support. i ` been thought possible when the ment of the year now being report- ed on. Some of the interesting features of the Board of Directors' report as indicating the position of the line and the progress it has made in - such important centres as Vancou- ver in the West, and Montreal in the East. Company's Earning Power. The development that is sure to be "Our relations needn't come to see transcontinental system was set in us," said his niece at length. "He's _ operation a little over a year ago. marrying me, not my relations." Important Gains of Year. "He's making me his uncle, at any r A few of the outstanding fea- r•tte," said Mr. Porson, with a sudden tures of the report are as follows : access of dignity. An increase in freight traffic dur- elude the following : "You don't mind, Fred, do you?" e ing the year of $8,352,412, equiv- An agreement of great import- a=lced Miss Tipping, anxiously. alent to as much as 45.87 per cent.; ance in the development of the "I'd put up with more than that 1(,,increase. in passenger traffic, $717,- System's freight and passenger for your sake," said Flower. I,cs ., 246, of a gain of 13.25 per cent.; traffic was made with the Cunard needn't tell people." j • an increase in total operating Steamship Co. In future the Cun- "That's all very fine," said Mrs. Ti r-, revenue of $9,564,168, or 36.91 per and Line and the Canadian North - ping, taking up the cudgels for the 3 , cent. over the previous year. That ern Railway will be, in fact, a single speechless and glaring victim of these i the company's lines handled over transportation unit between Europe pleasantries, "but there's no mystery i : 131,000,000 bushels of grain is and Canada. about your uncle; everybody knows proof positive that the railway has i 'rho possession of such favorable him , He doesn't disappear just an been located in the best grain grades as those on the System's he is going to get married, and begrowing areas of the West. . lines has given the Canadian brought back in a cab months after- The exact grain traffic handled Northern an already important ad - wards. He isn't full of secrets he amounted to 131,978,809 bushels as vantage in the economy of opera - mustn't tell people who ought to compared with 58,575,520 bushels tion, particularly in carrying the know." in 1915,or an increase of 73,408,-e two commodities offeringin largest "Never kep' a secret in my life," 289, eqivalent to an increase of as I volume, viz. lumber angrain agreed Uncle Porson, whose head was much as 125.31 per cont. j The main line of the Canadian buzzing under this unaccustomedThat the Company has been able Northern Raileva.y from Quebec to praise, to make such striking gains in the , Vancouver is superior to any line I know quite enough about Fred,„i amount of traffic handled over its crossing the continent of America said Miss Tipping, tenderly; when •I lines will undoubtedly be more' in points of grade and curvatures want your opinion, mar, I'll ask you for it.;' Mrs. Tipping's reply was interrupt- ed by the entrance of a young man, from the jeweller's with four brooches ing the last seven of the t>rhen of the aggregate lrulation of the forFlower to present to the hides- menthe of the fiscal year, and when • cities and towns of all Canada, hav- maids, Mrs. Tipping had chosen . it is "recalled that last winter the ing 5,000 inhabitants and over. them, and it did not take the hapless weather conditions in the Western I The present situation emphasizes skipper long to arrive at the cohere- rovinces, and more particularly in i the fact that the Railway is not as sion that she was far fonder of brides- plush . Columbia, were the most dependent upon grain 'op move - melds than he was. His stock of , severe that had teen experienced in; rnent as in the past, :1 in be - mc i et' was beginning to dwindle, and et great many years, in fact, in se a coming transcontinental has acquir- the purchaof. a second wedding suit some instances, were the most dei -I edhighly diversified traffic. The t within a month we beginning to tell ficult that Canadian railways had developments of the year confirm ev 1 t ever •• to meet in that part of the, the Directors in the belief that they readily appreciated when it is re- favoring traffic. membered that it was only operated; The lines of the Company's sys- as a transcontinental system slur-; tern are now serving 75 per cent. en upon u5 soaring spur s. "There's another thing about Fred country. It should also be point- ! strongly hold, that the Ultimate I don't quite like,” said Mrs. 'ripping, a ; e; with roochranged . upc:rtshhersat capaciousthe lapb; "ho'ses extrava- gant. I don't like a mean man, but ed out that the Company hacl the' prosperity of the Canadian North- disadvantage, owing to the condi- ern Railway System is measurable tions arising from the rrnr, of be- only by the prosperity of the Dom- ing without its own terminals in inion of Canada. The Best Hours for Winter r•eeding, Considerable has been written re- garding the feeding of horses ill so far as hours of feeding are concerned. Soine would feed twice a day, some three times daily, others would give the regular daily allowance in four different lots. We must, in horse feeding, always remember that the horse's stomach is rather a small af- fair, and that the horse's didcstive system is not equipped to handle large quantities in a short 'time suf- ficient to last for many hours there -- after. The nature of the horse's digestive tract is such as to indicate that smaller feeds and more frequent, but always given with regularity, would be more desirable at mare wide- ly separated intervals. On the aver- age farm during the winterseason the feeder does not rise very early, and it is safe to say that the horses in the average farm stable du not get their first feed before seven o'clock in the morning; get their se°.Orel feed around about twelve, and either one or two other feeds later in the day. Where three feeds a day are relied upon, we would favor giving one-half the hay in two feeds; one somewhere around six or seven o'clock in the morning, the other at noon, the other half of the hay to be fed when choring up for the night, which may be done 'some time between six and eight o'clock. The grain ration could very well be divided into two feeds; one in the morning after watering, and the other at night, after watering. At noon a turnip, a couple of carrots, or a mangel might be given to good ad- vantage. But we believe there is a better method of feeding than this. Where the horses get their morning feed about seven o'clock and a noon feed about twelve, both representing -fair- ly small quantities of hay, and where they are watered in the afternoon around four or five o'clock, as is usual on these short days, wo believe they would do better to have a very small allowance of hay just after this evening watering and sufficient to keep them quiet until seven ar• eight o'clock at night, when they' can be very well fed a regular night feed of hay, composing the bulk of the hay ration for the day and their oats, and be bedded down for the night. The horse is a restless animal, and the quieter he can be kept the better. Wewould favor this latter systenit ernes ing, with the roots at noon as pre- viously mentioned. 'We would water twice a day, and the latefeeding at night takes the attendant to the been where he can see that everything is all right, and tends to keep the horses quiet until morning. --Farmer's Advo- cate. Start Pruning Now. It is necessary to start the pruning of the apple orchard some time in February at the latest. The. e epee some other jobs for which the farmer wishes to pick good days about this time of the year, such as drawing the ice, sawing up the woodpile and killing hogs, and with all 'these attend- ed to there is not too much time left for pruning before Spring's work be- gins to crowd in - No matter what the system of prun- rngt or whether the cutting bo heavy or light, one thing should always be remembered when pruning in Winter in a country where snow is to be ex- pected frequently, that is, to pick up the brush as you go; only a person who has had to straighten out and burn tangled branches and twigs after they have been drifted over, knows fully the satisfaction afforder by hav- ing his work up-to-date every evening. If more than one pian is to work on the pruning job let it be decided beforehand which one is to be the hose; this saves time, and goes some way toward ensuring an even appearance of the orchard when the work is finished. With three or more men it pays to have the boss on the ground all the time, so that he can see that no mistaken ideas are introduced by the workmen. A reasonably fine saw, in good shape and of the regular carpenter style, with a handle that will not craft the hand of the worker, is about the only tool needed, except the small pruning shears, which can be carried in a pocket.. A long -handled pruner may prove useful and can be used all the time by a man on the ground, but the saw and shears are sufficient on a one-man job where a ladder has to be moved about anyhow. The good condition of the saw - teeth is the most important matter in regard to the pruning tools, and a man who can file his saw properly is worth as much more than another, as it will cost to have the satyr filed every clay. •Binks--Well, if you ever see two men in a corner and one looks bored to death, the other is John son. ete