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The Huron Expositor, 1901-08-02, Page 6• 6 THE HURON EXPOSIT° AUGUST 2, 1901 BS TE SE ITY. Cenuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Sea PaceSimlic Wrapper Below. ITINIT small and as easy Ott twice as sugar. ADENEEISININIENNEY FOR HEADACHE,. CARTEKSI _..„ FOR DizziNESL MILE FOR RiuoUSIIESS. I vEll FORTORMD LivER: pi as. FOR .CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. ..., , nut THE COMPLEXION unlit_ „do: veretziare:Avajya ".-..0*• ..W.ecrwe. CURE SICK HEADACHE. VETERINARY TORN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario • Veterivary College. A . Miscue:sr of Domesti animals treated. Calls promptly attended to an charges moderete. Veterinary Dentatry a specialty. Lidice and residence on Goderich street, one door to! Dr .Scott'e office, Seaforth. 1112-11 LEGAL JAMES L. KILLORAN, B-arrister Solicitor. Conveyancer and Notary Publie. Money to loan. Office over Plokard's Store Main Street, Seeforth. 1628 R. S. 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A specific and antidote for Impure, Weak and Irn poveriehed Blood, Dyspepsia, Sleeplessness, Palpate - aloe of the -Heart, Live: Coirplaint, Neuralgia, Loss of Miumory, Bronchitis, Conguraption, Gall Stones, Jaundloe, Kinney and Urinary Diseases, St. Vault Dance, Female in egularielee and General Debility. LABORA.TORY--Goderich, Ontario. J. M. McLEOD, Proprietor and Mann facturer. Sold by J S. ROBERTS, Seaforth, 1601.1! To the public of Seaforth and surrounding country HAVING PURCHARED...-....mmmitilL TO THE SEIORN LAMBS. THE STORY OF TWO SOLDIERS,' A LOST CHILI AND A BLIZZARD, BY HARRY C. CARR. 1, The major grunted for the orderly. "My compliments to the adjutant, and I want him," he said briefly to the troop r who stood before him saluting. The major felt the need of consolation. In the heat of anger he had sent out a detachment of men in the face of a hlizze to hunt down a deserter. Trooper Dorca of C. Troop, had not only deserted t e night before'but had taken with him t e one horse that the major's daughter lik d to ride. Furthermore, the frequency f desertions had recently oceasioned offici 1 remarks, not from, but to, the major. The major was sorry now •that he h d sent the men ; he was particularly or y that Coleman, late of West Point, was n command. Coleman was a tiresome boy afflicted with opinions, and the major a od the mess had felt the need of a vacation from his society. When the orderly arrived the adjuta was helping his wife in the preparation the evening meal. A servant in her rig mind could not have been bribed to co to this post. He removed the long check;d kitchen apron, and cautioned Mrs. Adj tent about the gravy. Then he crunch d through the snow across the parade grou, d to the headquarters office. "Blizzard coining, think ?" milled t e major, hoping the adjutant would predi 1. balmy spring weather from the threateni g .r snow clouds. - " Yep," said the- adjutant, looking o t over the brown stables to the plains beyon " What you think about those men ?' -" Bad," said the adjutant. The major looked at the office baromet r and sighed. 'It was falling ; it had ben falling all afternoon. , " S'pose Coleman will have sense enou b to come back ?" The major, felt that i e was again asking the adjutant to make impoesible prediction. The adjutant replied that he didn't thi k it likely. You see, the adjutant did nit, have a high opinion of Mr. Coleman. "He might take the corporare advice suggested the major timidly. The adjutant gave a snort of derision a d went back to his gravy. As usual, t e major turned to Sergeant Hooley in t e hour of need. He and Michael Hooley le d learned soldiering when the major was a " shavetail " and Mike a daredevil trum eter. , It was decreed that •Mike ehould car orders to Coleman- orders that Would bri the detachment back to the fort. T next morning Mike swung his leg over a big troop horse that kicked up in the- biti air of the morning, and as the trumpeter the guard was coming out on the parade o sound Seat call for reveille, they started. Lieutenant Coleman, late of West Point, was not so much of a fool as the adjnta it affected to believe—no more of a feel, n fact, than the adjutant had been at his ag He asked the advice of the corporate an , better still, he took it - wherefore, only a few hours after Hooey's departure, te little detachment jogged into the pos . t i They were very cold, and Coleman was ve y humble, his education having begun. Th had skirted the forest back, and Hooley, keeping to the old coach road, had miss them. TheT first of the storm caught Mike a d his gray troop horse a few ,miles out fro the fort and drove him along before it un il early afternoon, when the eky cleared a nettle and he could' see about him. Straig t at -Aiwa. di - ahead, on the coach road, was anotIr horseman, miles away, but cle tinct against the snovv. The 'gray trocp hone pricked up his ears and broke into n easy ,canter. Presently the horseman ahead increased his epeed, too. As Hooley h If suspected, the man ahead was Dorcas, t e deserter. . The stolen cavalry horse had been trad d at a ranch down the country for an out t not quite so suggestive of Uncle Sam. T e broncho seemed pretty nearly used u Under the spur he would stumble ,into a tired, heavy lope for a little way, only o drop back into'a cow trot again. The fore t for which they were pressing was mil a ahead, and the horseman behind w e g aining. As they rode, the etorm dropped a cu tain of 8DOW between them, and Dore s wheeled suddenly aside into a °How whe e A stream triekled in springtime Dismoun ing, the deserter drew his kevo1ver a d crouched behind the pony, which he inten ed to use as a bulwark if it cane to a fight. His fingers were eo numb t at he cou d scarcely hold the pistol, and tile butt fro e to his glove. It was an anxious wait down there in t e hollow. He could not see the road, a d the minutes seemed very long. He hafd decided that his pursuer must have hatd time to pass when, from behind him, cane the sound of the snow crust breakipg, and his pony whickered. Dorcas turned like_ a flash, and, scarcely looking to see what was his target shot over hie -shoulder. .A thinf-mangy pony, shivering with cold, was breaking through the drifts, hie 'scant tail stream-ing in the wind. On his back was the tiny figure of a child wrapped hugely in furs so that nothing but her eyes was visible, furs, little feet were muffled in bundles of rags, which Dorcas could see at a glance were bound crazily to ,s, curcingle. The child was literally tied to the pony's back. , As Dorcas looked, the pony stumbled and went staggering weakly to his knees, while the snow beneath him became stained with crimson. The pistol bullet had struck the little beast squarely in the breast. As the pony sank slowly to the snow, the troop- er sprang forward and tried, with numb fingers, to untie the knots from the child's feet lest she should be crushed. But the knots would not come undone,,for his fingers were ueelesa from the cold. The pony swayed on his knees, choking with blood. Dorcas kicked and yelled, at him as he worked, and the dying horie tried in vain to struggle to his feet. Then suddenly the sureingle burst and the tiny rider shot into the air under the impetus of a powerful tug from above. Hoolev, who had come up mobserved, was sitting calmly on his troop horse. with the little bundle suspended in mid air from one powerful fist. He regarded Dorcas with a curious grin. i The deserter had dropped his revolver., and it lay freezing to the snow back by his pony. He did not move from his tracks-, but stood erect and looked at the sergeant with cool defiance. ' 3/ Hooley put the child gently on the ground. " Not wearing uniform.to-day, I See,' he said grimly, as he surveyed the fringed cow- boy chaps." - The _Meat Business I At the sound of his voice the forlorn little Formerly -conducted by T. R. F. CASE & 00. .1 trust, by strict attention to business and supplying a first class article at a reasonable price, to merit the patronage bestowed on the late firm, Wilt pay the highest market price for dressed poultry, gond-hides, skins and tal- ow. FRED GALL -8, Seaforth, Doctors and people agree that Scott's-Vmul. sion of cod-liver oil is the best thing to take for "don't feel (well and don't know why," especially babies —they like it-nien and *omen don't mind it, _but babies actually enjoy it. SEW" ,on /Art INAMPLC AND Ty E; COTT Et, 4troovve, firsi z Shoo;°"M'Agkorist:Leoneffee. IT MAKES WOMEN HAPPY; "I had been a sufferer for many years from nervousness with all its symptom and complications," writes Mrs. 0. N. Fisher, of 1861 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. "I was constantly going to see a phy- sician or purchasing medicine. My husband at last induced me to try Dr. Pierce' Favorite Prescription. After taking on bottle and following your advice I was so encouraged that I took five more bottles of 'Favorite Prescription. ' I continued tak-I ing it and felt that I was itaproving fasterl. than nt firk. I am not now cross and irrit- able, and I have a good color in my face ;I have also gained ten pounds in weight and one thousand pounds of comfort, for I am' a new woman once more, and you advice and your 'Favorite Prescription' i the cause of it" .1-yeeee". , ...„ 1.4 4/ ‘77ip • • • Ale'elk. )1,4 .figure between them tottered stiffly throng the snow, and leaned against the stalwar shoulder of the gray troop horee, wh ducked his powerful head and rubbed hi nose gently on the bundle of fur. The tin shoulders were shaking convuleively, an the two men could hear the mull -led Bobbin pf a child. Hooley looked very uncomfortable, and squirmed in his saddle. Dorcas did no move, and the wounded pony sank down on his Bide with a moan. The child kept on crying miaerably. " Why don't you do something fer—it ?' Hooley said irritably. Why don't you do something youri self ?" retorted Dorcas, not 'knowing what to do, but yearning towards the Bobbin little creature. - "Don't you talk back to me. pome ove here and take this kid—and—and--comfor it or something. Step out, now!" Hoole blustered, as if he were at egead drill. T an outsider it would seem that Darcas, as hundred dollar fugitive from juetiee, wa , entitled to a certain consideration ; but that is not the cavalry way. Dorcas jump ed to obey. ' The Tchild cuddled confidently in the trooper's strong young arms, and Dorcas blushed with pleasure. The sobbing al - moat ceased, and the blue eyes stared up at him, wide open. The two soldiers almoete stopped breathing. It was so wonderful. " I wonder if 'tis a little girl," said Dor cas in a coarse whisper to the non -commis sioned officer. Hooley peeked in ab. th bundle critically, as if to get official infer mation—not, however, for distribution among the rank and file. He looked wise,I but made no reply. 14 What you say we put back her littl hood end- see what she looks like ?". Bug gested Dorcas with great daring. • " Well," grumbled Hooley in assent, eager and excited, but trying hard not t show it. Dorcas very tenderly, but with fingers that trembled, forced the fur hood back an drew down the muffler that covered th lower part of -the baby's 'face. “ Gosh !" he 'ejaculated. Never in hi whole life had he seen anything so beauti ful. It was a sweet little face that turne up to them, surmounted by hair of golde brown. "What's your name ?" asked Dore& " Nora," answered the child, "D - smilin fain'tlyid she say Nora ?" asked Hooley, not presuming to address her directly. Dorcas nodded, "important at being the medium through which the oracle com- municated. , " Are ye Irish, Miss.?" Hooley lowered his vole as if he were in a church. "Ask the lady if ehe's Irish," he said to Dorcas. " Are you Ida), dear ?" whispered Dor- cas obediently. . " My name is Nora an' I'm four years old, but don't know what Irish said the child. " It's a good Irieh name anyhow," said Hooley, addressing the snow drifts and the poor po y, which by now had died: "Per- haps," h added, "her father and mother, or one o them, was Irish." "I'm old," whimpered the child, shiver- ing in D mail' arm. "Dor as, the young lady's cold," Hooley said sev rely. Dorcas hurriedly readjusted the hood and waited for orders. " Wh t'll we do with her ?" he said after. a pauee. ." Huh !" snorted HoOley in deep sarcasm. What Hpoley meant was : "1, Sergeant Michael ' Hooley, United States -cavalry, have recevered my equipoise, and hereby assume fell command • of this expedition. No suggestions considered." Dorcas under- stood. Hooleel made Dorcas get on the back of the gray troop horse, and handed up the baby into his arms. With a sniff of con- tempt, he took the bridle rein of the tired broncho, and they . started back through the snow drifts, following the traeks of Nora's horse. Hooley plunged along vigor- ously, his great trooper boots cutting through the snow ccuet at every stride. A wild look came into Dorcas' face for a moment. One plunge of the spurs, and bar- ring the chance of being killed by Hooley's revolver—and Hooley was too numb to shoot straight—he would be dashing across the plains towards the forest; then to the seaboerd and freedom ! It was the easiest thing in the world to do ; but the fur bundle snuggled up a little in his arms and Somehow he didn't. For a long time they waded through thi3 snow in silence. \Finally Hooley said : " How'el you come to akin out ?" Hooley referred to the informal severing of offi- cial relations between the caelalry branch of the United States army and William Dor-, cas, trooper. "1 gueis I was just feelin' that way," Dorcas said dully. And his 'eyes told the rest of the etory. Every soldier has felt it—the desperate stagnation of it all; the everlasting reveille and stables and guard mount and troop drill, with reveille and stables and guard mount and troop drill the next day, and the next day -arid the next and always. It seems that Way only sometimes. Hooley knew the feeling, too ; for he had felt it. " H'm !" he grunted, and stalked for- ward again for (is few minutes without speaking: ,v•• • " Well, the, next time yonget to feelin' that way," he said at last, "don't swop the beat horse at the post for a measely scrub like this to relieve your feelings." Dorcas made no comment, and the sub- ject of his derision was never mentioned be- tween them again. The rest of the short winter- afternoon they follOwed the weaving pony tracks, often losing the trail and being forced to retrace their steps in the search. The eleet was beginning to drive heavily, and the sun was going down dimly, when Hooley stopped again. He was riding the bronco, which eeemed refreshed and rested now. "1 gtiese the young lady just dropped from somewheres," he said despairingly; " the trail's gone now." " 'Twould be kind of bad to be ketched out to -night in the storm,". suggested Dor- cas, glancing down at the sleepy bundle in his arms. Hooley hesitated, and looked anxiously over the snow waste, "She must belong to somebody around here, and they'll be looking for her." But he suddenly wheeled the bronco aboet on 'his hind legs. "Come on," he said. "We'd best get back to the post road quick before nightfall." Down in a hollow where buffalo- once wal- lowed, they came upon an uncommonly big snow drift. The bronco shied at it with a snort of terror and bolted, but Hooky dragged him back on his haunches with the cruel spade bit. The gray troop horse stop- ped short and would not pase by. He fidgeted and danced under the spur, but turned aside and pawed the ground. Hooley dismounted and struck the drift cautiously with a heavy quirt. The enow fell, exposing the wheel of a wagon. On the side away -from the wind the sergeaut rapidly brushed more of the snow away, until the soldiers could see that the horses had ehied at anold fashioned white topped prairie schnoner. " That's my papa's wagon," volunteered Nora with chattering teeth, as she raised herself in Dorcas' arme. " Yourpapa's wagon," repeated Hooley, turning on her. " Well, then, where's—" The rest ofithe sentence was a heliograph signal from his eyes to Dorcas. " He tied me on -Nellie's back, and I cried, and papa cried too. an' then Nellie ran off. I was ridin' Nelly an awfully long time, and got dreadful cold, an' I'm dread- ful cold now. 'N I- want papa." Mies Nora tried to struggle out of her bundles, but Dorcas held her feet. " I want my papa !" she eaid fornlornly. "Dorcas," said Hooley, quickly, "1 think you and Miss Nora had best go for a little horseback riding while J look through this wagon." Dorcas rode away on the gray, cuddling the child in his arms with 'soothing words. Hooley climbed into the wagers. Tney found him tramping up and downin the snow when they came back. "No use looking around any further," he faltered. "1 guess the little girl came from here all right." "1 want my papa," came in a quaver from the bundle. " Your papa ain't here jus' now, dearie," said Hooley. "He has gone away some- wheres—quite a long journey, an' he won't be back for Quite a long time," And the rest was heliographed to Dorcas. "1 want papa !" sobbed Nora desolately and without logic. Hooky threw himself into the cow saddle and looked back over; his shoulder at the prairie schooner. "1 wish we could do something kind of religious," he said. " We ought to do something." " The ground's too hard to dig," observed Dorcas practically, " Yes," said Hooley, " that's so." "Might burn the whole businese. I sup- pose there's hay inside!' Hooley nodded. "Yes, hay and an old prospector's outfit; but burning'sno good. Let's leave it to the snow." And so they did—left it to the snow. The little caravan—the two troopers and the girl—pressed on as fast as their horses could stumble through the snow, but they had barely gained the divide above the wagon when the etorm burst upon them with pitiless fury. In a moment the horse- men could scarcely see each other through the mad drive of a blizzard, and their voices were torn and whirled in the wind, until communication became practically impos- sible. The horses Of their own accord stopped and lowered their heads before the blast. The bronco, with the instinct of his wild fathers, groped his way through the storm and huddled close against the troop horse. " Pass me the end of the picket rope. You'll find it on my saddle. We'll lose each other," yelled Hooley as his leg rubbed againstthe military saddle. His voice came in.distorted fragments to the deserter. " Can't—get—froze," came back through the blizzard. Hooley felt for the leather iiata which usually hangs by the side of the pommel of a Mexican saddle. It was a mass of ice. He tried to work it loose; but his fingers were feeble as a child's from numbness. "Can you undo one of your bridle reins ?" he roared at Dorcas. - Dorcas put the baby in his left arm and leaned in his saddle over the shoulder of the gray, his gauntlet elipping along the icy rein to the bridle. no use," he raid despairingly ; "my fingers won't work." Hooley, ever quick with devices, tore at his revolver holster until the catch gave. There was a malignant flash of powder in the darkness and the bridle dropped shot in two. The bronco jumped with a sharp start, but the soldier horse hardly 'moved. Dorcas passed the lope end over, and Hooley bent the strap about the pommel of the cow saddle. At least, they could not now become separated. , The baby girl was terribly frightened at the storm and in actual pain from the cold. Dorcas could feel 1er trembling and sobbing in his arms. • He 4enccl his overcoat, and tried to put a corn r of it over her. The blizzard struck hhi full in the chest and cut like a knife, but he only bowed his head and waited for orders. " We got—get back—wagon," he heard Poisons, hi the Blood Bring Pain and Death Uric Acid the Cause of Serious Or- ganic Changes, Fatty Heart, Bright's Disessee, Enlarged Liv- er, and Brain. Diseases. Foul poisons left in the blood by de- fective kidneys form what is known as uric acid. Its presence may be detect- ed by such ailments as dyspepsia, asso- ciated -with irregular bowels and scanty, highly -colored urine. 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At last the w gon loomed up again, a big snow drift b fore them. It made a slight break from th wing, and prese ng in close to the lee si e, thei, soldiers were sheltered a little frpm the! atorm. . 1Hooltd ildismount etiffly, and kicked a way. through the e ow to get under the wegon..Neitheruggested getting inside it, bese of that hich lay limply across 11 n . the seats Beneath the wag.n the air was still. The bl zzard I had piled up huge drifts against t e wenn box, an for some reason'at first u accountable, onl a little snow had blown in under the wagon During the lung hours of the night that fo lowed Hooley uncovered o t of the snow the hoof of a horse, whose d ad body, he sure ised, must He to wind - w rd of the wagon, checking the drift. Oae of the poor nags of he prospector had ca - ri d little Nora o rescue, and one had at yed behind te a ield her from the bli ZA rd snow. With infinite tr uble, Hooley loosen d t e cinches, and thew both saddles under t e wagon. He gi need pityingly at his old e mpanion of as ma y cempaigns, and then a the saddle blank t, which by a chance m ght save the bru e's life Then he tossed it under the wagon and left the horses to a ift for themselves in the storm. All night lo g the miserable beasts huddled close to t e wagon, stampin and crowding. Hooley spread hi heavy saddle blanket o • er the snow for a carpet, and the three p ople drew close t gether in a corner away fr im the wind. T ey sat with their backs t a wheel, the bab between the two sold. ie s, who had wrapped themselves Indian fa hioa in their bla ke . Nora's face was b ue 4ith cold, and she h d cried until She as haueted. By and b she fell into a t oubled sleep, and the so diem spoke toget er in low tones while t e storm roared ' and howled about the w gon and the hors pi neighed outeide. Hooley managed o light a pipe, and Dor- c leaned over the baby and lighted from H oley. For a lon time they smoked in dad silence. A at rmy night in the open w e no such novelt. to either, and the sold - ie s bore its rriserie stoically. Drowsing off into a troubled sleep, Nora h d fallen over agai et Hooley, and her M- U fingers, as she el pt, were fastened on his so dier blouse. Th sergeant had opened hi coat to throw a corner over her head. Te old soldier's rm dropped bashfully a out her tiny shou ders; and he held her el se. Dorcas wa watching them jeal- o sly. he sterm seemes to have been shrieking ar und the wagon f r bours, when Hooley rased the corner of his great coat for a ten - dr look at what the snuggled within its fo els. Dorcas saw he old sergeant start; se, his face turn ass y gray with terror. l "Good God," iiroaned Hooley, "she's fr ezing. to death !" He turned back tie coat,and Dorcas could se the marks of th4 frost on the baby's ten- d r flesh. It woul4 not have been difficult fo the soldiers to iave kept warm under the wagon, but the aby had been chilled through, and lacked! hthe vitality to heat her ti Yjedeserter pick d up a handful of snow, and began to rub hetr cheeks and her little sii b nose. Nora oke crying with pain, and tried to brush his hands away. Dorcas - si pped abashed. ' . " Go ahead ; do it some more !" said H oley grimly, hol ing the child'e hands. H rcas began again but Nora writhed and or ea out with gaspi g screams. 'Don't let him," she pleaded, clinging to H oley. " Oh, ple se, please don't let him! PI ase don't !" he was almost c nvulsive with fright and in torture frcim- the ain.e orcae threw do n the snow and crawled ba k into his blanke , `almost sobbing him. self. __ 'Go on ; come h ainsaid Heoley be- t een his clinched t eth. But Dorcas hung hi head and mutter d to himself. 'Come on," repe ted Hooley sharply, 'I'm not going td do it." ' You come over! here, and be mighty qu'ck about it," snarled the sergeant. i ' No, I won't," said Dorcas sullenly. i ooley started up angrily. "1 order you, do you hear ?" "Go ahead and order, but I ain't going to do it." It takes -a desperate pass for a regular to say that. l' I'll have you in the guard house, sir," said Hooley, biting the words out savagely. He did not at the tirne see the humor of his thleat. No more did Dorcas. He gathered his blankets about him, muttering some- thing to, the effect that it wouldn'e be the first time, and turned his back on the pitiful scene that, followed. ed once with honor in ash through the Indian es. He did that with. out it—as a matter of ge CO 0 U CCU ful du ooley was menti eral orders for a ntry with dispatc thinking much a rse ; but time and again during the fear - ordeal this night he almost balked at his Y. Oh, my God, I ca,u't go on !" he- said on e, ae the baby clung to his hands 'leg- gin , him to atop. The poor old trooper loo ed appealingly aI rose the darkness at Do cite ; but the de erter suddenly burst out weeping with the very pity of it, and ri e Ho ley could see his reat shoulders heav- ing with the deep an sobs. Hooley ac - cep d the answer, and scooped up another ha,dful of snow. :y and by it was d ne, thoroughly done; an covering the soft baby face with a scarf fro. his own face, H oley sank back weak and nerveless. The irl, tired out and ex- hau tied from the pai , let her bony bean dro into the hollow 4f Hooley's arm. She was only a baby, too wretched to think at all but to Hooley it seemed like sweet for iveness, and he was humbly grateful. Presently his voice went out to Dorcas in the ldarkneas, dull anI despairing. "Dor- cas,' it said "she'gcing to sleep. If she goes to sleep this night, ehe'll not wake up. "Shake her," eaid Dorcas eagerly. " I've been shakin' her. God help me, I've been almost beaten' her, but is no use. Sh e !won't hardly ope4 her eyes any Mo:e. Dorcas gave his pipe a few short puffa "Here," he eaid, drop a live coal on her.." The sergeant shuddered. "You're a brute_," he said vacantly. " wake her,' replied Dorcas simply. "You do it," pleaded the big sergeant abjectly. "Please do. I did the other." His heavy big voice, which had sent terror 'wriggling down the spine of many a hapless recruit, was quavering, and he held the de- serter's coat, clinging like a child. "1 ain't man enough to do it," said Dor- cas, shrinking back. "I'll give you five dollars if you will. I'll give it to you right now," said Hooley, coaxing desperately." "No, I don't." " Aw, come on. I'll give you a hundred dollars." Hooley was piling up whole months of saved up pay. "Go to thunder ! It ain't money I want," retorted Dorcas indignantly. " Well, won't you do it? Please Dor- cas !" 0' Imagine this from gruff old Hooley !" " Hooley," said the trooper solemely. "I'd rathier shoot myself, and that's just what Pm going to do before I do that." Hooley dropped back desparingly. '"Give me your pipe, he said. * , , * * * * "It's no more use," said Hooley at last, when she merely stirred and whimpered un- der the burning. He was utterly without hope now: . Dorcas shook off hie blankets and started forward on hie hands and knees. Hooley looked at him inquiringly. "I'm going to the fort for help," said the deserter 8 hortly. " Man, you'll never live through the storm." Doreae held out hie hand in farewell, " You'ye a brave man, Dorcas," said Hooley, as their hands gripped hard. ' "Tell; the major Pm sorry I skinned out ;" and Dorcas broke through the snow drift int e the storm. ' . But it seemed as if God tempered the blizzard that night to the galloping trooper, and the wind had died away when Dorcas, at the end of his terrible ride, fell fainting from Hopley's gray in front of the guard house at the fort. They do thingl quickly in the cavalry, and in only a litt e while the major and the doctor were clingi g to the seats of an army ambulance whicil careened madly as the four mules sped out tlong the old post road to Hooley and Nora. - The baby girl came through the storm un- injured,Ipt the blunt old army doctor sho. k his head anxiously at the major when they lifted Hooley into the ambulance. The; found him under the wagon, guarding the big fur roll out of which blue baby eyes peeped. , He had taken off his overcoat and wrapped it round Nora, leaving himself ex- posed toithe most terrible night of the win. ter. ! The doctor gave a sharp order to the driver, syho lashed the mules at every jump back to the post. He was a resolute West. erner, this doctor, and be frightened death away 'rem the bedside of Michael Hooky. In a week the old sergeant was able to be propped up, with pillows in the hospital, where he lay next cot to Dorcas. Luelty dog, that Dorcas ! They wound him up in red tape and then unwound him again. There was a court martial, and find- ings with a recommendation, and finally an act of mercy on the part of a mighty person; so Dorcas came off none the worse for his desertion after all. "The adjutant's lady is here to see you two fellers, the hospital stewart announced briefly one day, " an' she's got the kid." Every day thereafter they came to the hospital together, the adjutant'e wife and little Mies Nora. sNora sat on the edge of Hooley's hospital cot, and the sergeant told her how he got the deep white knife scar on his neck ; and explained to the adjutant's wife what to do when the cook book says eggs and there are no eggs on the reser- vation. * * * e The belle of Washington last winter—the most beautiful bud of many seasons—was an army girl who boasted proudly that, he had been raised in a cavalry post. The papers said that she was the adopted daughter of a distinguished cavalry officer brought in on staff duty. People with nothing better to do used to criticise her and call her eccen- tric, because she always wore her hair down on her neck when fashion decreed that it shouldn't be there. They did not know that she was biding a row of little scars burned in by live coals from a soldiel'e pipe. THE END. • Hay Fever Can be Prevented. Don't seek other climes at "Hay Fever Season," don't destroy your stomach and nerves by drugs—prevent the disease. Hay Fever is caused by germs that float about in the air and finally find lodgement in your throat and lungs. Medicine won't reach them there, but Catarrhozone will. Catarrh - ozone is sure death to germs. Start now to use Catarrhozone. Inhale it into the throat, lunge, nasal passages and bronchial tubes ; it goes wherever the air you breathe goee, and it will prevent and cure Hay Fever. Endorsed by not less than one thousand doc- tors in Canada and the IT. S. Sent to any address for $L00, forwarded to Fear, the druggist, Seaforth, or N. C. Poison & Co., Kingston, Ontario. • How the Sugar .Beet Pays. Here around Bay City the land is flat and rich. It is settled largely by Hollanders, with a liberal admixture of Americans of other origin. The farms are small and thoroughly tilled, and when e the farmers were first approached by the representatives of the sugar factories they showed much more than ordinary willingness to take up the experiment of sugar -beet raising. This enterprise on the part of the farmers is the more surprising, because the sugar beet culture represents an entirely different kind of farming from that ueually practised in America, a more careful or intensive farm- ing as distinguished from the exteneive farming practised by the producers of corn, wheat or hay. It more nearly approxi- mates the eystem in vogue in Europe, bor- dering, as it does, on gardenhig. By the EART ISEA Is a symptom of Kidney Disease. A well-known doctor has said, "1 never yet mad e a post-mortem ex- amisiation in a case of death from Heart Disease with- out finding the kidneys were atfault. " The Kidney medicine which was first on the market, most success- ful for Heart Disease and all Kidney Troubles, and most widely imitated is Dodd's Kidney Pills old system a farmer planted a field of wheat and paid no more attention to it until it was ready to harvest. But when beets are planted they require constant and costly at. tention during many months. In the first place, the ground must be much more there oughly prepared, plowed deeper, and more - carefully pulverized than for any other crop ; then the seeds must be soon with care in drills, and when they COMB up, the plants must be thinned out to give room for the beets to grow—work that requires the painful labor of knees and back during the. long, hot days of June. Weeds must alto. be kept down with perseverance' and -mitt- vation must go on steadily untilthe leaveare large enough to shade the ground. All this costs immense labor and care and ex. • ense, especially if the fields are large. The - farmer cannot depend en his own fainily to do all the work, but must hire hope and. women, and sometimes men to help with the thinning and wedding. In short, it is a much more scientific method of farming than that ordinarily in vogue in this coroatry ; le uses the land More thoroughly and profit- ably, and it requires much more business capacity on the part of the farmer. But it it costs more to raise beets per acre than wheat or corn, the profits are -correspond, ingly much greater, and a3 soon as the farmer can be made to see this great ad- vantage, he is usually more than anxious to - take up the work. The Bay City factory already mentioned, in common with many other factories throughout the country,. employing a man whose sole duty es to go through the country and interest the farmers in beet raising, showing them how the work is done, making eon - tracts with them, and then watching the crop the whole season, giving his advice and assistance wherever possible. At the time of -my visit at Bay City the beets were just ready for the harveet, and the great flat fields of them, covered with spreading green leaves, furnished an exUnple of farm wealth to be equalled in few other places in the country. The sizes of the crops of varione farmers Varied from two to three acres to - 180 acres, -all planted to beets. Every acre of these splendid farM8 will yield from 12 to 20 tons of beets, and the value per ton is from $4 upwards, according to the richness - of the beets in sugar. Say that the yield is. 15 tons to the acre and that the farmer re- ceives the minimum of price for his product, his income would then be $60 per acre, very much more than any other farm crop would yield.—From " How the Beet Sugar Indus- try is Growing," by Ray Stannard Baker, in the American Monthly Review of Re- views. THREE DAYS A 'WEEK Lost to Joseph Hamel for Years through Sickness—Dodd's Kid- ney Pills Have Made a New Man of Him. NICOLET, Q ue. , July 29 —(Special)—Jos- eph Hamel explains the reason of hie won- derfully improved health, as follows : "1 suffered with Kidney Disease for three or four years.- For two years I had to take two or three days a week off work. I was continually sick, and forced to wa& like an old man I had lost all my energy and became discouraged. After taking a' lot of medicines that would only give me relief for a while, I had the pleasure to happen on Dodd's Kidney Pills, having read of a case that resemble& mine cured by them. "1 bought a box, which made inc so - much better I persevered. After taking three boxes I was hilly cured. That was Mix months ago. I can recommend Dodd's, Kidney Pills to all who suffer with Kidney Disease." • • Wit and Wisdom, —" They say he comes from a good "What a long distance he must have - travelled." — Farmer (at a music shop, selecting as piano for his daughter)—" I think 111 take , that one ; it has a couple of good etrong legs." —"Who's the smartest boy in your clue, Bobby ?" asked the uncle. " 1 wsnild like to tell you uncle," answered Bobby, m ,od- estly, only papa says that I mustn't boast." — " By the way, Mary, what did your father say about the peachee in brandy .we' gave him ?" "He said that he very much appreciated the spirit in which they were - sent ." —Pensioner Oldstring---" Yes, gpvnor, have braved the jaws of death, and here I am." Old Gent—" And I've braved the jaws of my old woman for nigh thirtyyeare. Shake hands." —" Madam, I am soliciting for. home - charities. We have hundreds of poor, rag- ged, vicious children like those at your gate, and--"" Sir, those children are mine," and the slamming of the door eotil& be heard in the next street. — The firemen were industriously trylog to extinguish a blaze in a public house, the other night, when an impecunioue Irishman who had been drinking " on tick "said to, his friend in the brigade : "If ye 'ovens',, Mick, play on the ' slate.' " —" Which do you love most—your papa. or your mamma ?" Little Charlie—" I love papa most." Charlie's Mother—" Why,. Charlie, 1 am surprised at you I thought. you loved me most." Charlie—" Qat help it, mamma ; we men have to hold to- gether." — Tess ---1' How, is your club getting: along?" Jess—" Oh I we're getting a big. membership now, since we reduced the ini- tiation fee."'" Tess—" I told you five dol- lars was too much to expect any woman to. pay." Jess—“ Yes, we realized that, so we made it four dollars and ninety.eight. cents." —" Did you deliver my message to Mrs Smith ?" Boy—" No, sir. He was out and the office locked." Ernployer--“ Well, why didn't you wait for him, as I told your. Boy—" There was a notice on the door saying, Return at once,' so, of course, then came straight back." —In the email village of Howgate there lives a young worthy famous for his witty remark -a. On meeting the minister, the other day, he was asked why he wasn't at church on Sunday. He replied: Vt7elie sir, I just went to the top of the hill and took my field glasses with me, and they brought the kirk that near I thought heard them singing." • The Agony of Sleeplessness. Did you ever pass a single night in wakeful minty r tossing and rolling in bed, trying in vain to sleep and longing for morning to come? Can you imagine tb6 torture of spending night after night in this ware each -succeeding night growing worse and wollee This is the most dreadful symptom of Nervous 113.- haustien and Debility. You ean be gradually aint thoroughly cured of Sleeplessness by the upbuilairer lofluence of Dr Chase's Nerve Food. 11 cure? ie' nature's way, by creating new nerve cells and re- storing lost vitality. —Hon. -Senator George William Allan, of Toronto, died very suddenly at his resi- dence ha that city, on Wednesday morning' of last week. Mr. Allan rose at his usual - hour, and, after completing his toilet, com- plained of feeling faint. He was induced to - retire to his bed, where he fdl! asleep frbre‘ exhaustion, and passed quietly away about ten o'clock. Last spring deceased had * severs attack of la grippe, whieh affected his heart, and left him in an enfeebled stat. of health. He was able however, to ever - see the several large ent4prises with which he was identified up to within a few days of his demise. He was 79 years of age, Ina was born in Toronto, then known as Little York. His death causes another break ire the Conservative ranks in the Seneca. tnre Ti "c 70:00 rot akemaemben.isorf°atfn the henvy m. Asw.epted, but bun -luta who tre.dee:1 :4'3°y:offal heAee r rfs orth off.red '2 -;atter, which The 1ia 41*11114:111:. e:tiBreae talvtrbbinetrii 44:7401118 ig tyhesereis--d Theicaotionrialonkeus.., auu.ryriroweb:s.eiteayht::isidotreittikniis::.: g 'Smuts know cure 15 11 -JD raturaily the u1ler2 end them* anioas 0 afla of thbe°1°.7) it theI s:'Te bbepuat araryrt teto1: de due, ay -botA about forest Vein trees, briefly I, Trees -pretA3c winds.i:Treesare res - Trreesizegeske 4. Tees i r -a, 5. Trees regale. t The presence :4111:r$113161:TIrt;l13:7611:tehainttareadd. :16.1916:11:T13:eerese: ialThe-o; Tr-ees bee.omj beiintgis Thteadhee ht to !el, trees -will beer abih results may be al Ahroughout the pre .P0180/Irt'Sh]e FJie soothing power of Irimine.a.aVbrikehaseulilirenli er than any otherprowcr ; phi and drive kn 114, ati bd u r4 more p'i medicine heretofor rheumatism; Itles by Fear, the d A Tempe A cavalryman ka sendition. His comrades rilleetao glethehinb: gone to bed and t -from under his Ws one of his spurs -a trooper lay in a he -for a long time. A lisposieion and du, 'TiehRe; ‘n°11hel. slieltarfl eel looked at the si 41...ee,"L'ffell," he eaid • inc out a helpless tny boots last nigh •of my spurs. IagiraOt3 again." Laxative aTxa0 tfliveC Take I All druggists refun -ethbe x. 5e. E. W ' Lord Blesi There is another the Bev, John MC! lar -north on a recel tonne of a vervicel ton to join in if he precentor look in,' and said, " -here." 'I Oh," saia will sing the 4.* the precentor inter 44 We dint& sin '" Very well, the gentleman, "let n ;pity us " . Warta -Why do you ben known hew to cure Painless Corn Ext short order—you j .4ruggist has it iti It is said that a lAinter has almost joking as for talkie lag he was speaki ,girl whose portrait '‘ Her features have heard," said Seen the portrait Beautiful fore The artist, concise -ehin, mouth like "Mouth like 'friend in dismay.. fortune Do you ous and—what do " Only that it is madam,' returned gravity. THAT aching ilea takinz lane of HIM; -POWDERS. One po '26e, ae Was No R Ottaw-a des "The eitizen, Unknown to the This was Major's Hill Par J. Israel Tart -e' Who has power to construction of a the suspension 4raoking, was -431)*Yecl orders. The dapper 1 -uoeraliain was t shady avenue `breathing spot. the cinder path a "-& Dominion in the park, ncti diiiregard of the Alate. He pro Tarte back to the "-'Po you kno latter, eonaidemb tion of such an or Public Workes' " The officer 'rule made no a *feet. Es had gillete was no a taw the logic of -further argnmen the path. Que4tioned b