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The Huron Expositor, 1917-03-02, Page 7rio ae . and had; eztey, the enturies. eiery's ehse d that he notoreous Madarest rere put lip for sale ea diarist, desert's- - "quite a Pares - It leas the dret etonetI on. steel iaele ite nebut in Eng- I.'e reign. 917 e, when employee cr of, tbe Edinburgh a as esk dent ally dla- ek.e a horse, king [ant, Vale te is house. • /ir to /ha, -lin erovemeet A IV turned eveet itcount. The ees, he set MS thee days coAt- ne. ke: -She Lay of` 11 dote et age in the tlie pear* 02, a. dio- eer wIfl Wts a front Sadre111et sent tile reria a Irzsate telegram Rows: 1Tay we sing ide next Sunday hyrax .Lace. Perfect Peacer' e, and promptly: "No; 2'69, `Ceristian, Seek = 1Wire 11 MEM P E old maedy. Burdotit has been on the market years and we claim, witk- contradictiora'that there medicine on the marlemil a compare with_it for the -.-- urbauces (ttf the1--...omaela • Colborne, Ont, writes- e to say that 1 have moat -Mood Bitters. For a ed with indigestion, ever gave me any relief, t time. 1 bought /mend B. B. Inane our densest; d can honestly say 1 cm inything 1 want without ny bad after-effects. it is the only medicine I • If from ad Bitters i manufactured IeinartraN Co., Limited, sugar, why not ind in Canada liable Redpath. 3 hestqtr psopormaxamenstwasmiaftintififfil 01J2 I CENT "CASCARETS FOR zavER, AND BOWELS am:81.ea•••••••el••••••••e Cure Sick Headache, Contipatkn, Biliouseess, Sour Stornech, Bad Breath--Candr Cathartio. No da how bad yourah liver, awn - or bowels; how much your head bow miserable you are from eenstipatton, indigestion, biliousness and sluggish bowels --you always get eith Cast:amts. They inure- diately cleanse ,and regulate the stom- ach, remove the sour, fermenthig fowl and foui ,gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry off the con- stipated waste matter and poison from the intestines and bowels. - A 10 -cent box froth your druggist will CHAPTER XV., keeri your liver and bowele clean; stomach eirweet and heed er for The Shot In The 108813. 111011018. They work while sleep. I- ; Dielcsie walked hurriedly through —e-,sesette the dheng room and out upon the rear porch. Her horse was standing where IL R. ELM she had left him. Her heart beat fur- mihriateri benigehei oeneesancer and t iously as she caught up the reins, but Wan Plle, diollattor for The ,Dtmst she sprang into the saddle and rode asi gash; Of in rear the rtage. rapidly away. The flood of her temper ollo 'Soak befortb, Nosey to lees; had brought a_ disregard of cense- . wavoidasrpragmir .Whisperbolg by Frank 11. Spearman (Continued from last week.) ANI111•1•11P•P quelicee it was in the glow of her eyes, the lines of her lips, the tremor of her 3 M. eawrnostrils as she - breathed long and ginflotof,, gelleitor, Coaveysacelf sad deeply on her flying 'horse. polio, Office up -stairs over When she checked Jim she had rid- tardituro store, lista *trait, } den miles, but not without a course 1 MO M. nor without a purpose. Where the 1, - roads ahead of her parted to lead down the_riVer and over the Elbow Pass to 1 HOLainaltlia arAiteir, moucitett ceavenjecem Medicine 'Bend, she halt,sd within al clump of trees almost where she had ! aboinakiNiftiat aftiairremeollator. aleforaetyllete-ca,2*.losu. li!gnt see.ii IfeCloud. Beyond lgission wow for asie. office, la wows .lu.ountains the sun was setting, in a fire ; 1110 sitztet, Bastortb, te that which glowed under her eyes. She could have counted her , heart -beats. as the crimson ball sank ; below the verge of the horizon and the ?PAWN_ 00T.IULLORAN AND shadows threw- up theisilver thread of 000KRI I the big river and deepened across the . wiribten, dodenora, Notaries ; heavy green of alfalfa fields. Where alleg Whey to lend, In genforth on -Hca- Dicksi sat, struggling with her alio soak weekoffice in Kidd mock, ; bounding pulse and holding Jim tightly 111411routtfoot, KO 3. L. Killoran, a I in, no one from the ranch or, indeed, 1111 Di 00,11*4 I from the up -country could Pass he seen Shewas 'waitin for a horse- rnn,-andthesunhad--setbutafew , i minutes when she heard a sharp gal- l. 1, TETBRINABYL lop coming down thg upper road from ` the hillsfor her! If you had got into the pass INABBURN, Y. 0, • • All her brave plans, terror-stricken me," declared Dicksie, urging Jun and t on time i you could not have got away . " wow arrouste a outgrip yeeetitii at the sound di of hoof heats, ;ed looking directly at McCloud for the —the cards were stacked for you. He THE HEALTHIEST ONE IN THE FAMILY 0.831•1A•NEINTAlt•fa • No Sign Of Dropsy Ana Kiiney Trouble Naas Wang "FRUIT-A.TIVES" flarric Witieftga Port Robinson, Ont., July 8t1s, 1915. "We have used "Fruit -a -three" fa our house for over three yearsandhave always found them a good medicine. Our little girl„ Hattie, was troubkd with Kidney Disease. The Doetor said she was threatened with Dropsy. Her limbs and body were all swollen and. we began • to think she could not live. Finally, we .decided to try "Frult-a-tives". She began to show improvement after we had given her afew tablets. In a short time, the swelling had all gone down and her flesh began to look more natural. Now she is the healthiest one in the family and has no signs of the old ailment. We can not say toO much for "Fruit-a- tivee" and would never be without •them". WILLIAM WARREN. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25e. • At all dealers or .sent postpaid on receip t of price by Fruit &tires Limited,. i Ottawa. . ; ion from Whispering Smith. So she , HURON EXPOSITCR ,•-•‘••••••••••••.••••••••. great luck that he missed you." "Who missed Me?" "The man that was after you," "The bullet went thorugh my hat." 1 "Let me see the hat," McCloud produced it It was a heavy, bread -brimmed itetson, witha bullet -hole cut cleanly through he front and the back of the crown. Smith made McCloud put the hat on and describe his position when the shot was fired; McCloud stood np,- , and Whispering Smith eyed him and ; put questione, "What do you think ef it?" asked i McCloud when he had done. Smith leaned forward on the table and pushed McCloud's hat towarf's him as if the incident were closed. "There is no question in my mind, and thvre never has been, butAliat Stetson puts up the best hats Wore on the range," : McCloud raised his eyebrows, "Why, , thank you! rour conclusiona clear 'things SQ; After you speak a man ' , has nothing to do but guess" .1 "But, by Heaven, George," exclaim- ed Smith, speaking with unaccustom- ed fervor, "Miss Dicksie Dunning is a hummer, isn't she? That child will I have the whole range going in anoth- er year. To think of her standing up and lashing her cousin in that way when he was brow -beating a railroad man." "Where did you hear about that?" "The whole Crawling Stone coniv• try is talking about it' You never told me you had a misunderstanding with Dicksie Dunning at Marion's. Lossen up!" . "I -will loosen up in the way you do. What scared me most, Gordon. was waiting for the second shot. Why didn't he fire• again?" "Doubtless he thought he had you the first time. Any man big enough to start after you is not used to shoot- ing twice at two hundred and fifty r yards. He probably thought you were ' falling out of the saddle; and it was • dark. I can account for everything but your reaching the pass so late. wHow did you spend all your time be- tween the ranch and the foothills?" McCloud saw there was no escape from telling of his meeting with Dick- sie Dunning, of her warning, and of • Isis ride to the gate with her. Every point brought a suppressed exclama- When sufficiently urged." McCloud opened the r drawer of the I table and took from it e revolver. Whispering Smith reached out his hand, for the gun, examined it, and harerd it back. "You don. like it." Smith smee 41 sickly approbation. "A forty-five gun :with a thirty-eight bore, George? A little light for shock; a little light. A bullet is in- tended to knock a man down; not ne- cesarily to kill him, but, if possible, to keep him from killing you. Never mind, come on!" At the foot of the stairs Whisper- ing Smith stopped. "Now I don't know where we shall find this man, but we'll try the Three Horses." As they started down the street 'McCloud took the inside of the sidewalk„ but Smith dropped behind and brought , McCloud into the middle. They failed ; to find Du Sang at the Three Hores, I and leaving started to round up the street. They -visited many places, but each was entered in the same way. 1 Kennedy sauntered in iirst and moo- I saw Du Sang. Mc -1 ed slowly ahead., He was to step aside an--- only in ease he d "dugouis for t ,nt.• A mo- •END STOMACH TROUBLE, Cloud in every instance followed him , with an edtrenchLug tool is defeated GASES OR DYSPEPSIA. gave ;you your life," he muted. "Good Association of the Ontario Idittilleti College. Treata diseasen of 011Paatettic Animals Its the Witt aro& prfacIpleo. Dentistry and Milk -Per- ** OPeotalty. Office opposite Dinies SOK ifala stretk Iliesforth. All or - Pape left at the hotel will receive prompt I gillitelolk Night rails readout at the 1. del* 300321 11'. s. , • "• NOW *Mute of °ataxic? Vete-ru- e* College. All diseases _ of Domestic Illialthe treated. Calle • promptly attend - OLIO sekd charge, moderate. Veterinary 11101101411 a specialty. Office- and rel- ______ as fioderich street, one door east 1111Cir, DrOlit'a offies, freaforth. from her utterly. She wes stunned by • Kr t t• ttki uld I ex. lainoverestimated you a little,George; just a _ Manna 1 Made it With my Saline but I used ft_ ugar On actount of its Fine gyanulation it dissolves instantly ette, clear 108 2 & 51b.CartOne, 3.0t 20& 3..00 Sitektd tion to try and co t a chimney with Whispering Smith just behind' amiably surprised. They spent an by five eotet to one. morn , hour in and out of the Front Street ' resorts, but their search- was fruit- less. f "You are sure he is in town?" asked Kennedy.The three men stood deliber- ; ating in the shadow of a side street. I "Surer answered Whispering Smith "Of course, if he turns the trick he wants to get away quietly. He is ly- ing low. Who is that Farrell?" A man passing out of the shadow of a is breaking—rcty first night in the trenches comes to an end." "Pape's Diapepsire' makes Sick, Sour, Men of twenty-eight have not acs Gassy Stomachs eureiy feel fine cumulated Aagreat etore of biographi- in five reinutea. cal data for their admirere, but Mr. ; eackson passes on cuese: "He was one of that numerous 1 galaxy of British :lull who, without -any external persus.eion, linked up at the beginning. Ha was 'in it' from. the early days of Armageddon, and 1 shade tree was crossing Fort Sureet before the expiry of three months a hundred feet away.I from the fatal 4th of August, he "It looks like our party," whispered found himself a second lieutenant, , Kennedy, "no stop, a bit!" Theeee. 1 sludging about in the mud of Fland- • drew back in the shadow" "That is era • He is novr tweilty-eight years I)u Sang," said Kennedy, "I know his old and a captain of his regioaent. hobble." The feet -irrhich will surprise people (Continued Next Week) and not a pseudonym, for he is the most is that his naexte is a real name, .74xetaxe,04,440,-44,4- son of Major Thomas Bairnsfather, of the Cheshires • who is acting as Inc War or of Laughter If what you just ate is souring on ' your stomach or lies like a lump of lead, refusing to digest, or you belch gas and eructate sour, uedigested food, or have a feeling of dizziness, heartburn, fullness, nausea, bad taste In raouth and stomach -headache, you can get blessed relief in five minutes. Put an end to stomach troubleforever by getting a large ilftpeent case of Pape's Dia- epsin from any drug -store. You realize in five minutes how need- less it is to suffer from Indigestion, nyspepsia or any stomach. disorder. "nn the ouickest, surest stomach doe- ' -.le' the world, it's wonderful. 3 District Recruiting °facer Strat- • ford -on -Avon, where the fampe has lived tor many years. The Bairns - fathers are military folk, and Bruce was born in India. As a boy he was , brought to Englaaid, and, Like the Laureate of Tommy Atkins and the MONG all the war -lords one • army, Rudyard Kipling, he was sent Would not look to and a to thelamous echool at Weetward "War -Lord of Laughter"; Ho, which everybody knows is the tcene o' Kipling's school-dayc and meant to stop 1VIceloud and speak e little. Good men make mistakes exp ain. I arn famous for but this title has been the scenario of 'Stalky & eeo ' He the suddenness of the crisis. She had "Let me 1 to him, but before she could summon explaining " urged McCloud. spurring too. tThe sport of circumstances that we 1 arel owme The sport of circumstancesr, eaarned by Bruce 13airnsfathen. inherited the setistie tense from his you tell me what I should "Nwhim war -cartoons have made all Mother, who is a painter of consid- horselsack dashed past within a few be doing while you were explaining ?"-' tell how you heard so arable abilitzy, and his earliest sketch- es are memories of his Indian expert - her courage a tall, slender man on "And will ee 6 di th she asked. much about it, Gordon, and where?". England laugh. To these he has "Through a friend, but forget it. lately added a book' called "Bullets horse less eteady than Jim would ,for the in • ed." .."Yes.. "Do you. know who shot at me?" philispophy, revealed by pen and plc- / touched him as he flew by, and a - "Perhaps getting ready .a first aid and 13illets," and his whole War' I feel 3aurs if I ought •to run awayni "I think I do too I think it was ! he.ve shied under her. Dicksie caught e —she had seen only the eyes, oddly 'nonsense" as "the' purifying and d id d t "I rifle at the barbecue—What was his 1 11 *th th ture, sb.ows no tolerance of such KING ALBERT'S SUBJECTS ARE her breath. She did not know this man . kin f Si 1 i upliftinF, qualittee of warfare.". Int . compromise, I suppose. You. muse name . He was wor g or ric a r, deed, lie sees it for what it is," declared Dicksie since she had clearlythe fellow that shot so we e NOW VICTIMS OF GREED. ec e no o. t willhave to be a 7 bright in theitWilight as he passed— have come trona the hill road, and perhaps is yet. Sea- To -day (London), "a nasty business but he was not of the ranch. He must she not ride farther the nthe first gate and says Mr. Holbrook Jackson, editor of concluded, down which she herself had let us take the trail instead Of the ; "You mean Seargue, the Mountain just ridden . He *DS somewhere from road. Now inake your horse go as cowboy? No, you are wrong. fast as you e of rand -andiblood and other un - But McCloud's horse though not a can aial I will keep up." grue is a man—killer but a square one.; 1 speakable things, and he makes his a statue and rode like the wind. • "How do you Imow?" • I laughter mainly out of the sturdy the North, for he sat his horse like But the encounter nerved her to her wonder, went too last to suit his rider, will telt you some e— Pluck and will to endure of those amegreart _ resolve. Some ea ett momen passe , mg him and keeping up the °converse - h d'vided his efforts between check- was not Seagrue." ne o Irsg! t. tiVOUtilp despleeteeene grousings wed 1 d ts d ° .1 • • 7 rankers Who are determined. to sae it ".0 f Dinuir 0 men, 'was- et. and McCloud, galloping at a far mild- tion Wh M Cloud dismounted to 'Stormy Gorman • .—• erawce toward the fork of the eoads, • ' their discomforts." Like all great en e o te d t d' h' "No no a very•different sort i,.'.1 Fa , an s. oo inte. PAL W. 4. G pd.A., KB, checked his speed as he approaehed. P 4.1 h • hat humor, Bairnsfather's la "allied to , Etc. Honor Graduate I ne eaW a woman on horseback ai ing twi ig t with his. hat m his hand and ! §tormy is a wind -bag. The man t 4.. to ( o— _tote makes you laugh at --------- . his bridle over his arm, he was telling if after . you is in town is ,' • '3* the most desolating things not lee - Ph ad /*varsity of Toronto,„ oh wars: ' in his pa 1 gal:iodates,. Brucefield, Ontario.. "Mr. McCloud!"I a stony about Marion Sinclair, and . and he has come to stay until he finish- • 3 I Dicksie in the saddle tapping ber knee esdkri 3ob." eause they are laughing matters, but • NT, EARN, _IMAM, Blchatcond *rest, London, Onti„ Ppeciallet: Surgery and Oenito-Urin. fir* Mimes of me* and Women. DR. 'GEORGE HELLMANN. %teapot lc Phssiciatt _of tiloderich. gpsehtlist (womeren ind children's Mimes, rhetenatism, acute, chronic sad aervons disorders, eye, ear, nor Sad throat., Consultation free. Office m Cady Block, over W. G.Willis' oe Item Seaforth, Tuesdays and Fridays cra. till 1 p.in. ALMANDElt MOM PrOicten. (ti Surgeon - *Mae ateld ltealdram pan Street., MO, 7); Hemmed D. X. PECK kkadasite Of isoalty .of.Medinine, W- ell Viiverffitt, Ilisittreal4 "Meister of *allege of Physician, rad Burgeons of glabirlo; Licentlater of' Medical Oomacii Olinada; Post-Gradsate member of assIdeat Medical Staff of General gios- pha, Wet -real, IOWA; PM? Om lisiora east of Past Office, Phone it *mall, Oster*, Sues, Iliii••••••••••••••1, with the bridle -rein 'Was looking idown • e devil! That's what makes "Miss Dunning!" ; • - "I could not forgive m self if 1 and past him as if the light upon his ' your eyes so bright, is it? Do you ! waited too long to warn Ings who are surprised to find them - waited that face was too bright. Before she would. know him?" selves swept into this maelstrom of threats have been made against your start away she made him remount, ; "I have seen him. You may see .him life. Not of the kind you heard today. deetruction." We see here some of and he said goodbye only after half yourself if you iwant to." , his evocations by pencil: My cousin is not a murderer and nev- a promise from her , that she would 1 "I'd lake nothing better. When . "The most difficult of all artistic+ er could be, I am sure, in spite of his show him sometime a trail to the top i "To-night—in thirty minutes." Mc - 3. BUBSOWft OMNI nod reeldence-gaioderich street risk of the Methodist church, &Worth. Mamie Ida, 1. Cormer for the County tedk; but I was because of their curious juxtaposi- tion to rather bewildered. human be- Ville. WOW E 'MCKAY, firiett, gradusais of 'Victoria and Stases of Physicians and Suzgeolid• Sta Arbor, and member of the Ontario Serower for the °meaty of tires. Op hfselfay, 1.4ACT- graduate of Trinity Whereas, and gold medallist of 'Prim- a liedioal Colles; member of the Col- lege of Physicians and ihmgeons, Qatari°. 1 Pine H. HUG ROS Janeeluate Uneveasety of Toronto okmeany eienneene, 01 L01 - Y� toAck bus -scone of Un - *Oki 4rAtioses golAra4 rut ulalzurg° leeinronti lecnesoi oe, tenleago ; irevyal upu- eaoaaoo eneeilkino, atteuxiOn, nan6innen Art*AWnztt-I voteetie Anneenete% -LArw-twrile menpauo, reano,e—eeene. leenaitiOna isstea, heigioxen, irDUIle AO. at ALE:1-kt, • Selaerfaseese S.41.1,111t a-Ica/sea main:an rensaosene creation of char- iat' the ng dreadful of Bridger's Peak, with a view of the Cloud clTh osed his desk. ere was a rap achievements actor. And jis the thought that if anythfrightened ust as Dickens created Peace River on the east and the whole ' at the door. i ldr. Micawber and Rudyard Kipling should happen his name worlde rag- Mission range and the park country ! That m must be Kennedy," Sergeant Mulvaney, so Bruce Ballw- in this country to be feared, and it is on the North. Then she rode away ' Smith. "I haven't seen him, but I Is tatter has given us Old Bill and Our ged into it There are enemies of yours against these that I warn you. Good- . at an amazing run, nodding back as he sent word for him to meet me here, sat still holding his hat above his head.. The door opened and Kennedy entered Berl, the two characteristic Tommie.' of the early days of the great war. night. 1 McCloud galloped toward the pass the room. Whisper - giving ine a chance to thank You. ex- , with one determination that he would , "Sit down, Farrell," said Whisper- titSurely you won't ride away without claimed McCloud. Dicksie checked her have a horse and a good one, one that ing Smith easily. "Ve gates?" , could travel with Jim, if it cost him "How's that? horse. "I owe you a double debt of " am anx- his salary. He exulted, as he rode, "Wie geht es? Don't pretend you gratitude," he added, "and I m -,* desire noth- for the day had brought him every- can't make out my German. Ile i ions to assure you thatt thing he wished, and humiliation had trying to let on he is not a Dutchman, ing that will injure your interests in. been swallowed up in triumph. It observed Whispering Smith to Mc• - They are both unforgettable, The "I know nothing about those mat- ' any way m crossing your lands. was nearly dark when he reached the Cloud. "You wouldn t believe it, but crest between the hills. At this point I can remember when Farrell wore f_ontritnye_privew,ith hill walrue moustache, and 1 alaklava helmet, erything. It is groiving late and you the southern grade of the pass winds wooden shoes and lighted his pipe andu ters, because my cousin manages ev- ' the latter, wita his smooth upper with " sharply, whence its name, the Elbow; t a candle. He sleepa under a fea- lip, failing jaw, and dangling cigaret, have a good way to go, so goodnight.rbut from the head of the pass the ther bed yet. Du Sang is in town,. finitin.g his surpriee and anxiety al - "But you will allow me to ide back to the house with you?" grade may be commanded at intervals Farrell." :plays up against the superbly tynical ana".4Weielielta 7.01-UninA. Metnentiett naerennen atewieekeener. jr E,DpL COLLOSA;-.A. 0416ti, cetot#voiNiAtict-A AFTPIkAlailk);40tilki* Pr 14,04 tu"kuri Vi1444 14'c' I'M411. Latitfijakk At,a11,41.14.1, • .1.7,1p Aux,pwahsamr $4.‘,41Ait telksurikapik usatteAL- gamitio.g 940.4 0.3000....*DiAvm apdar.11644L-tati, /14 4 LUNA% telmemed. a-aotioseer for the OM ast Maros, atteaded parte at the. Ormaty, Serpa Tafalt si pateakee danfaose sad daskatsinswat reasanatole rheas As. OK it bein illoPisr: Centrals Ps 0,L 11 Mk Orden telt at TIM Maros Mx poultst or swath, prim* two tim , Once having made the acquaintance of these gentlemen in khaki and mud, they become friends for life. Old' Bill is -the type of the hardy vet- eran who has been 'out since Mons,' and Bert ie the raw recruit who hae yet to learn the tricks of the trade. 1 for half a mile: Trotting • down this "Du Sang!" echoed the tall- num "Oh, no, indeed, thank you." omb of Bill. le hat, for instance, road with his head in •a whirl of ex- with a mild in.terest as he picked up citement, McCloud heard the crack of a ruler, and throwinHt his leg on the I "It will soon be dark and you are could be more typteal of the peculiar cockney humor of so many of our "No, no, I am quite safe and I have ' a rite at the same instant he felt a edge of the table, look. cihetownerfuli Bert, arriving in the trenches and alone." fleabag men than the picture of only a short ride. It is you who have on all brave men very much alike. Visiting. friends or doing buoinesie?" . sharp slap at his hat. Instinct works "How long has Du Sang been in pointing to what looks like a rough - tar to go, and she spoke again . Jim, who started briskly. ' i McCloud dropped forward in his sad- dle, and, seeking no explanation, laid "Miss Dunning won't you listen juat his ,head low and. spurred Bill Danc- e. oinent, Please don't run away!" nig s horse for life or death. The M oud was eying to come up wit horse, gime amazed, bolted and swerve over with him. Want. to go . her. "Won't you hear me a moment? ed down the grade like a snipe, with Kennedy slapped. his leg with the 1 have suffered some little humiliation ' his rider crouching close for a second ruled. "I always want to so, don't today; I should really rather be shot shot. But BO second shot came, and I?" up than have more put on. me. I am a `He is after your superm . ly fashioned doorway in, the earth, He has been here since four o'clodk and asking Bill, Is Ulla right for I reckon, and I've ridden a hard road to -day to get in in time to tat. it seadQuarters?' to be told — . . e A. 9 1 change at Oxford Circus!' Or the lateghter-provoking pathos of the heroes leaning up against some sand- bags beside a she t. ered cottage, and saying. "Ow lime. are ---you up for, Bill7"Seven ye:ire."Yer lucky— I'm' duration.' Tnere seems to be a subtle hint here as to the probable after another mile McCloud ventured "Far,rell, if you hadn't been a rail - man and you are a woman, and it is to ake off- his hat and put his finger road man you would have made a already dark. Isn't it for me to see through the holes in it, though he did great undertaker, do you know that I" ERMANY'S virtuous protes- tations that her deportation policy in King Albert's lit - tie country is a social nes- !, cessity regitieed by the conditione of 1 unemployment arising from the Brit- ( isb. blockade are once more punctur- ed, this time by the Belgian Minister at Washington, M. Havenith, who I says that Germany herself is re- 0Beeoignisalbul,einfdousr tthrye. prostrate state of The world knew this before, but it is well to have an authoritattve statement from the Belgian reprasen- tative the American capital Not only did Germany overrun the little country in 1914, slaughter in - 1 numerable civilians and lay waste 1 populous towns but ever since her 1 initial outrages she hen systematical- ly sapped the life blood of the king- dom. Even new Belgium is paying a monthly war tax of eight million dollars --more than a quartereatillean 1 dollars a day. To what elide Why 1 has Germany imposed this burden upon her? Bella= haa committed no wrong. I She simply endeavored, at the time of the unlawful Invasion of her ter- ritory, to protect h•erself. But; pre - V1,01113 to the war, she had been pm- you safely to the house? Won't younot. sto.p his hohrseto inak eth x Kennedy, slapping his leg,s ow length. of the war! And I always at least pretend I can act as an escort arninatnmw . en ey reacheee- d theivory tee teeth. "You have such an in- , lake the trench picture illusehatted ' make a poor figure trying to cayou open coun y the horse had settled in- stinct for funerals " added Whispering DY star-sh, ell wit tee veteran lean - and let me go with you? I tch should tr to a fast, long stride that not only -re- Smith. ing up against the °parapet with a Dicksie noddly naively. "With that • ; deemed his reputation hilt (relieved "Now Mr. Smith! Well, who are on horseback—" piec,e of bread or. the point of his his rider's nerves. we waiting for? I'm ready,'„' said bayonet in the process of being - horse." 1 When McCloud entered his office it Kennedy, taking out his revovler and "With any horse—I know that," said' , " toasted at a battered fire -bucket. McCloud, keeping at her side. I was half-paet nine o clock; and the exainining it. "But I can't le you ride back with i itir the Wareeick.st"Naor says BilI, lights was to draw the winclew-shades. asked , if he should take a gun. x ou . The novice appears with, 'Is this 'ere first thing he did before turning on the McCloud put on the new bat and eharacterietic scorn Inden- He examined the hat again, with sen- are really accompanying erne as my w burg's blinkin • light nf ntry ' sations that were new -to him—fear, guest, George," explained Whispering • g a - Not unlike his drawings is the resentment, and a hearty hatred -of Smith, reprhaelifully. 'Won't it be trenches. Most writers would see FOR "LIVERISIINESS" U S E MILBURN'S LAXA-L1VER PILLS THEY NEVER FAIL TO DO GOOD. Mrs. Shellsworth, Halifax, N.S., writes: "I take pleasiere in writing you coneerning the great value I have re- ceived by using your Milburn's lame - Liver Pills for a sluggish liver. When my liver mit bad I would have severe head- aches, but after using. a couple of vials of your pills I have not been bothered with the headaches anY more.' Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills clean away all waste and poisonous matter from the system, and prevent as well as cure all complaints- arising from a liver which has become inactive. Milburn's "nem -Liver Pills are Mc. a vial, or 5 vials for $1.00, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by Th a T. Minimax CO., LIMITXD, Tormao, Ont. Du vignette of his first night in, the his enemies. 13ut all the while the fun to shove this manright picture of Dicksie remained. He Sangs nose and make him bat his eyes thought of her nodding to him as they he added to Kennedy. " Well, put parted in the saddle, and her picture one in your pocket if you like George, blotted out all that had followed. provided you have one that will go off CHAPTER XVI. At The WieMnp Two nights later Whispering Smith rode into -Medicine Bend. "I've been up around Williams Cache," he -saki, answering McCloud'sgreeting as he entered the upstairs office. "How goes it?" He was in his riding jig, just as he had eome from a late sup- per. When he asked for news McCloud , told him the story of the erouble with Lanee. Dunning- over the survey, and added that he hd referred the matter to Glover. He then told of his unpleas- ant aurprhee when riding home after- ward. "Yes" assented Snaith looking with feverish interest at MeCloud's h.ead; "I heard about it." "That's odd, for I haven't said a word about the matter to anybody except Marion Sinclair, and you bave- n't seen her." "X heard the ""I entera& dreadtally with rny back for lkiest years. I bare taken six boxes of aul MIAS aid now e pave not the sign of as sal* or pain in ray back. There 15 Mig that can hold a place with GIN fee =tag PAIN in the Back to widish women are subject. Millanor P. Ripley." He.. box, or btixas for $2.50 at aLl 4411=4 To' a ittaa amine Will be sent IldigiDWG & CHEMICAL .tn* Linelneen amites, Ont. 79 here an opportunity ror pathos; but 1 Second-Neutenarie Bairnsfether thus began his romantic life in the mud of Flanders: "Here we Were, now wetter than ever, cold as polar bears, sitting in thils h.ygroscople catacomb at about. 2 ;Ian. We longed for a fire; a fire was decided oa, We had a fire- 1 atarted life as a biscuit - tin ---a few 'bits of damp wood, but ; no eohe. . 'We had some once, I'm sure!, Wh,y,reet eourse, we built It into the dam!' own cane the dam, 1 out came the coke, and in came the! .water. However, we preferred the 1 water to the celd; so, finally, after many exasperating efforte, we got a , fire going in the bucket. Five rain- 5 utes' bliss followed by disaster. The 1 fire -bucket proceeded to emit such „• dense volumes of sulfurous smoke i that in a few moments we couldn't see a lighted match, We stuck it a short time longer, then one by one dived into the water and out into the a:1.r, shooting out of our mud hovel to the surface like snakes when you your water down their haws Time aiW, 3 a.m. No sleep; rata' , water smoke. A hoard nteettag habit ed1ateIy to St* Alteillila medieval Moore oil which the wheie German programme of conacieteeleszi aggression is based. Germany has deported more than, 120,000 Belgian 'workingmen. Gne- protesses to have taken only the un- employed, -but there is an abundance of testimony to the contrary. Ner methods, as well as the deportation, itself, have been eruel tit the ex- treme. M. Havenith does not en- large on this point, but be might4 properly have done so. All be $ays-1 that the Belgian exiles exe,ept in ° very few instances have refused to work tor Germany and that "nee every 033.11i of them has ehosen rathe , the band' treatment, the privation the suffering, which pe enew Woulte be 1i12 lot, rather than aid Geraister in her struggle against his brothertee The more Germ:my "explains" the Belgian deportation, the worse br, course aPeears, Her treatment eel her defenceless neighbor b.as beer _rem, tlt jegni1g ef ibe still continies—to e,a linae-uese cord of unpardonable and unforget eable greed. House of'Comi ons Shocked. Mr. T. P. O'Connor, in T. P. Journal, tells of a scene one night ftti the House of 031-1111011b, eaused by nothing greater than some form of beetle that -had sleea.yed on the fenoil of the Houserhe beetle was large light in color; It fascinated and con- centrated the attention of the w , House; It looked, indeed,.alinee If it were some rattlesnake or zont other noxious animal that benumbed( ; its victims before it attacked theme And just as the House was eneagede I, in this extraordinery forgetfulness of3 • its real business there walked up t,hep noor of the House a daring member; :he saw the beetle or whatsoever the , ugly and affrighting thing was, and 1 trampled on it with a particularly! "broad and thick -soled boot At oneei Ahem rose from the whole house a groan of disapproval' and the poors i member had to hurry to hie seat, abashed and pursued by this chorus a disapproval. Red Gross in Scholils. Proposals to establish a course Chicago high schools in military work for girls, teaching them to act as Red Cross.) nurses and first-aid workers, is uncler eonsideration by the local board of education as an adjunct to the plans for military training for school boys, now under way. If the plans are z'aerpted hy the, hoard of edueation dieoek will he done by the women lee 'ners. KING ALBERT reroute and Germany had no 00 punctions in compelling her to pay a levy on her material weUb. Whatever the explanation or zu fuge, the real reason is that Begiu111. has the money and Germany needs- it As the Belgian Minister at Wash- ington says, raw materials, machine*, and. tools h2,Ve been. "reellisidoiAlifrd in Belgium and sent lo German sell. The result of course is that indus- tries have been hampered and unem- ployment has increased. dleneral von Bieeing, the Military GOTeritar, has openly said that his business is to guard the interests not of Belgium but of German -Y. 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