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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-06-13, Page 7perly brewe d is absolutely wasmoataaraiaaaaarawalmaaaasafgeowima verage TRY See 'Drsake its use. ‘010021 Lvored tea 7 time packages For Sale by RY EDGE, SEAFORTH kings tool -yard are ir hard, so we luster Brown hree-ply heel trn—spun by vn quality into ployees to knit langer-wearing. in the mending king too. Good .own Stockings. oud of them. 'our dealer for ery. t Coss Limited t Welland 1,1•10., JUNE 13, 1919 , THE HURON orPosrro - INDIAN DRUM. By WILLIAM MacHARG and : EDWIN BALM*: -Thomas Allen, Publisher, Toronto (Contineed from last week.) The woman drew back and closed the door; the Water was hot now, and she made the tea and poured a cup for Constance. As she drank it, Con- stance was listening for the Drum; the woman too was listening. Having finished the tea, Constance returned to the door and reopened ft; the sounds outside were the same. A solitary figure appeared moving along the edge a the ice—the figure of a tall man,. walking on snowshoes; moonlight dis- torted the figure, and it was muffled too in a great coat which made it unrecognizable Ile halted and stood looking out est the lake and then, with a, sudden movement, strode on; he halted again, and no Constance got the kn,o4wletdge that he was net looldng; he was listening as she was, He was not merely listenmg; his body swayed and bent to a rhythm—he was counting something that he heard. Constance strained her ears; but she could hear no sound except those of, the waters arid the wind. "Is the Druni sounding now?" she asked the woman. etTee, Constance gazed again at the man and found his motion quite unmistak- able; he was counting—if not count- ing something that he heard, or thought he elteard, he was 'recounting and reviewing within himself som.e- thing that he had heard before—some irregular rhytlmi which had become so much a part of him that it sounded now continnelly within his own brain; ,so that, instinctively, he moved in cadence to it. He stepped forward again now, and turned toward the house. Her breeth caught aa she spoke to the woman. "Mr. Spearman is come ing here now!" Her impulse was to remain where she was, lesthe should think she was afraid of him; bue reahzation came to her that there might be advantage in seeing leini before he knew that she was there, fie e reclosed -the door and drew back into the cabin.. ee, vet?" he etiallenged. "Yes—no!" "-Which do you me rod' 'I know then. For hirn.—eh. For him!" .i bFor Alan Conrad? Tes," she ill'di knew it!" he eepeated. "He's been the trouble betvs en. you and me all the time!" 1 i - She made sie deni 1 of that; she had begun to know 1urrng the last two days that it was so. . "So you came to find him?" Henry went on. „ "Yes, Henry. Have you Any news?" "News?" - "News of the boats?" "News!" he iterated. "News to- night! No on.e'll 'hive. rnore'n one news to -night!" , From his slow, heavy utterance, a timbre of terrible satisfaction betray- ed itself; his eyes widened a little as he saw it strike ConStance, then his lids narrowed again. He had not meant to say it that *ay; lyet, for an in- stant, satisfaction to him had become inseparable from the saying, before that was followed by fright—the fright of examination of jest what he had said or of what she had Made of it. "He'll be found!" she defied him. "Bo found ?" "Same aew dead," she admitted, "but not all. Twenty are dead; but seven are not!" ' She looked for coefirmation to the Indian woman, who nodded: "Yes." He moved his head to face the woman, but his eyes, unmoving, remained fix- ed on Constance. "Seven?" he echoed. "Yon sasdheven are not! How do yob, know?" "The Drum has been beating " for twenty, but not for More!" Constance said. Thirty hours before, when she . had told Henry of t$' Drum, she had done it without belie herself, without looking for belief i him. But now, whether or not she 'yet believed or -simply elung to th superstition for its shred of hopes lt gave her a ;for he believed the unreasoning rstition and the and hidden. guilt. I" she reapted. en list,ening to ac -the Indian for the dead. of , one by one, for didn't sound for ding again, you oesn't sound' for irn!" i weapon to terrify —believed with all I horror of his sup CHAPTER XX terror of long -borne "The Druin Hen The Sounding of the Drum . - The Druni you've , Noises of the Wind and the.roaring of the lake made inaudible any sound of Inc approach to the cabin; she heard his snowshoes, however, screpe., the cabin, wall as,. after taldng, them' off, he leaned them beside -the door. He thrust the door open then. and came he did not see her at first and, as all day upon the Is Drum that sounded tine Miwaka; sounde all who died! But i him! It' e been. s know; but, Again, it him, Henry, not for "The Miwaka! at do you. mean he tarried to force the door gliut again , by that? What s th t got to do -with against the wind, she -watched him !this ?" swollen quietly-. She understood at once why' forward at her; the the Indian woman had been afraid of gainst her in, his te him. His face was bloodless, yellow, his bloodshot eyes. and swolleneloolcine, his eyes bloodshot his lips strained to a thin, straight line. He saw her now and started and, as though sight of het confused him, he looked away from the woman and then back to Constance before he seem- ed certain a her. "Hello!" he said tentatively. "Hello." "I'm here, Henry!" "Oh; you are! You are!" He stood dra-wn up, swaying - a little as he stared, at her; whiskey was UPOri Inc breath, and it became evident in the heat of the room; but whiskey could not aceount for this condition she witnessed in him. Neither could it conceal that conditio-n; some turmoil and strain within him made him im- raurie to its effects. She had realized, on her way up here what, vaguely, that strain within him must be. Guilt—guilt of some awful sort connected him, and had connected Uncle Benny, • with the Miwaka—the lost ship for which the Drum had beaten the roll of the dead. New dread of revelation of that guilt had brought him here near to the Drum; he had been alone upon the beach twelve hours, the -woman had said --listening, counting the beating of the Drum‘for another ship, fearing, the survival a same one from that ship. Guilt was in his thought now— racking, tearing at him. But there was something more than that; what she had seen in him. when he first caught sight of her was fear—fear of her, of Constance Sherrill. He was fully aware, she now under- stood, that he lied in a measure be- trayed himself to her in Chicago; and he had hoped to, cover up and to dis- semble that betrayalewith her. For that reason she was the last person in the world whom. he wished to find here now. "The point is," •he said heavily, "why are you here?" "I decided to come up last night." "Obviously," He uttered the word slowly and with care. "thslese you caxne in a flying machin.e. Who came - they beat rather in rhythm than. at with you?" "No one; I came alone. I expected regular intervals. Two came close to - to .find father at Petoskey; he hadn't gether and there was ae longer wait before the next; then three sounded been there so I came on here." "After him?" "No; after you, Henry." "After me?" She had increased the apprehension in him, and' he consider- ed and scrutinized her before he ven- tured to go on. "Because you wanted to be up here with me, eh, Connie?" "Of course not!" "What's that "Of course no:t" "I knew it!" he moved menacingly. She watched him .quite, without fear; fear was for 'him, she felt, not her. Often she had wiehed that she might have known him when he was a young man; now, she was aware that. in a way-, she was having that wish. • face was fluent e was threat a -- se muscles and She did not shrink back frem. him, or move; and now hel was not waiting, for her, answer. Something—a sound —had caught him about. Once it echo- ed, iced in its -reverberation but pen- etrating, and quite diatinct It came, so far as direction ceuld be assigned to it, from the trees teward the shore; but it was like no forest sound. Dis- tinct too was it from any smite of' the lake. It was the Drum! Yet, when the echo had gone, it Was a sensation easy to deny—a hallucination, that was all. •But now, low and -distinct it came again; and, as .before, Con- stance sew it catch Henry and hold him. His lips moved, but he did not speak; he was counting. "Two," she saw his lips form. The Indian woman paseed them and opened the door, and how the sound, Louder and more distinet; came again. "The Drum!" she Whiepered, with- out looking about- "Yqu hear? Three, I've heard. Now four! It will beat twenty; then we will kr eve if mire are dead!" The door blew ?roni hand, and snow, swept drifts of. the slope, s room; the draft blew t !lamp in a smoky strea the woinan's up from the led into the e flame of the .up the glass lethimney and snuffed it ut The moon- light painted a rectangle on the floor; the raoonlight gave a men, shimmer- ing worldwithout.Hurried spills of cloud shuttered away the moon for moments casting shadows which swept raggedly up the slope from the shore. The woman seized the door and, tug- ging it about against the gale she slammed it shut. She did not tiry at once to relight the lamp. The sound of the Dram was con- tinuing, the beats a fete seconds a- part The opening of :the door outside had seemed to Constance to make the beats come louder and more distinct; bet the closing of the door did not muffle them again. 'Salve," Con- stance counted to herself. The beats' had seemed to be quite measured. and regale/. at first; but now Constance knew that this was only roughly true; next beat then Would not mean another . death, Twenty-tetne had been her count, is nearly as she could count at I all; the reelmining agreed with what the woman had beard. Two had flied, then, since the. Drum last had beat, when its roll was twenty. Two more. than before; that meant five were left! Yet-a/sista/1m While she was appreci- ating this, strained forward,. staring at Henry; she could not be certain, in the flickering shadows of the cabin, of what she was seeing in him; still ' less, in the sudden stoppage of. heart 1 and 'breathing that it brought, could she find coherent answer to its mean- ing.. But stilt it turned her weak, then spurred her with a vague and terrible impulse, The Indian woman lifted the lamp chimney waveringly and scratched a match and, with unsteady hands, lighted the wick; Constance caught up her wootIen hood from the table and put it on. Her action seemed to call Itemw, to himself. , "Whet are you going to do?" he demanded. "I'm going out." He moved between her and the door, "Not alone, you're not!" His heavy voice had a deep tone of menace in it; he seemed to consider and de- cide something about her. "There's a farmhouse about a mile back; I'm go- ing to take you over there and leave you with those people" "I will not go there!" He swore. "I'll carry you then!" She shrank beck from him as he limbed toward her with hands out- stretched to seize her; he followed her, and she avoided him again; if his guilt and terror had given hermental as- cendency over him, his physical strength could still forge her to his will and, realizing the impossibility., of evading him or Overcoming him, .she stopped. before the uleasuro—a -Wild, leaping' rhYthrn. She recalled having heard that the strangeness of Indian- Mtleie to civilized ears was Re tinic4 the drums beat and rattles Sounded in a different time from the Song which they accompanied; there were even, in t times con - Now this strange, ir- some dances, three differe tending for smirertiacy. seemed reproduced in the "Not that!" she cried. "Don't touch niel" "Come with me then!" he command- ed; and he went to the door and laid his snowshoes op. the snow and step- ped into them, stooping and tighten- ing the straps; stood by while she put on hers. He did not attenipt a- gain to put hands upon her as they moved away from the little cabin to- ward the woods back .of the clearing; but -Went 8144 breaking the trail for her with his snowshoes. He moved forward, slowly; but he .could travel, if he had wished, three feet to every two that she could cover, but he seem- ed not wishing for speed ,bee rather fornelay. They reached the trees; the hemlock and pine, black and Awaying, shifted their shadows on the moonlit snow; ba,re maples and beeches, ,bent by the gale, creaked and cracked; now the hemlock was heavier. The wind, which wailed among the branches of the maples, hissed loudly in the needles of the hemlocks; snow swept from the slopes and whirled and drove about them and she sucked it in with her breath. All through the wood were noises; a moaning came from a dark copse of pine and hendoek to theie right, rose and died away; a wail followed—a whining, whimpering wail—so like the crying of a child that it startled her, Shadows smiled to detach themselves, as the trees swayed, to tumble from the boughs and scurry over the snow; they hid; as one looked at them,' then darted on and hid behind -the- Utz- trunks. Henry was barely moving; now he slowed still mere. A deep, dull reson- ance was booming above the wood; it boomed again and ran into- a rhythm. No longer was it above; at least it was not only above; it was all about them—here, there, to right and to left, before, behind—the booming of the Drum. Doom was the substance of that sound of the Dtum beating the roll of the dead. Could there be abiding in the wood a consciousness whith counted that roll? Constance fought the mad feeling that it brought. The sound must have some -natural cause, ehe repeated to herself—wavee, washing in some strange confonnation of the ice eaves on the shore, wind reveberating .within some great hollow tree trunk .as within the pipe of an organ. But Henry- was not denying the Drum! He had stopped in front of her, half turned 'her way; his body swayed and bent et, homing of the Drum, as his swollen lips counted its soundings. She could see him plainly in the moon- light, yet she ,drevenearer to him as she fell -awed his count, "Twenty-one" he counted—"Twenty-two !" The 'Druin was still going on. "Twenty -four -- twenty -five --twenty-six!" Would he count another? He did not; and her pulses, which had halted, leaped with relief; and through her comprehension rushed. It was thus she had seen him counting in the cabin, but so vaguely that she had not been certain of it, but only able to suspect. Then the Dram had stopped short of twenty-six, but he had not stopped counting because of that; he had made the sounds twenty- six, when she and the Woman had made them twenty-two; now be had reckon- ed them twenty-six, though the Drum as she separated the sound from other noises, still -went on! He moved a again, descending the steep side of a little ravine, and she followed,. OA of his snowshoes caught in a protruding root and, instead Of slowing to free with care, he pulled it violently out, and she heard the dry, - seasoned wood crack. He looked down, swore; saw that the wood was not broken through and went en; but as he reached the bottom of the slope, she leaped downward from a little height behind him and crashed down upon his trailing snowshoe , just be- hind the heel. The rending. snap of the wood came beneath her feet. Hed she broken through his shoe or snap- ped her over?- She sprang back, as he cried out and swung in an attempt to grasp her; he lunged to follow her, and she ran a few steps away and ini stopped. At *s next step, his foot. entanglen in he mesh of the broken snowshoe, an he stooped, cursing, to stip it off and hurl it from him; then he tore off the onefrom the other foot, and threw it away, and lurched regular sounding of the rum; she after her again; but now he sank a - could -not count with certainty those bove his knees and floundered in the - beets. "Twenty—twenty-him—twenty- snow. She stood for a moment while two." Constance caught breath and the half -mad, half -drunken figure waited for the next beat; the time of struggled toward her along the side Ole inte.r.val between the...measures of of the ravine; then ehe ran to where ;the rhythm passed, and sell only the the tree trunks hid her from him; but Under the surface a the man whose whistle a the -wind and th undertone where she could look out from the strength Enid dote tion she had of water so-unded. The Drumxt had beat- shadow and see him. He gained the admired, all the tune had been this en tite roll and, for the mement, was top of the slope and t-arned in the ter—this guilt. If Uncle Benny done, , „ direction she had gone; assured then, hadrrocarried it for a score, ef years, Vote it begins again," the wmnan apparently, •that 'she- had fled in fear Henry had liad it within him too. This whispered, "Always, - it Waits and of hire, he started -backentore swiftir then it begins over.' toward the beach. She Remove QatiSiones 111 ours THE Never -Failing Remedy for Appendicitis ' Indigestion., Stomach Disorders, Appendicitisand Kidney Stones are often =ma byGall Stones, and mislead -people until those bad attacks of Gall Stone Colic appear. Not one in ten Stone Sufferers klIOWS 'what is the trouble. 1Varlatt's Specific ‘011 cure without pain or oper- atiZr. sale at all druggists. Recommended by Umbach • Druggist, Seaforth, Ont J.W. MARLATT &CC/ RN ONTARIO ST, TORONTO ONT. To twenty-six, 'he had counted—to twenty-six, each time! That told that he knew one was living among those who had been upon the -ferry! The Drum—it was not easy to count with exactness those wild, irregularly leap- ing sounds; one might make of them almost what one wished—or feared! And if, in his terror here, Henry made , the count twenty-eix, it was -became he knew—he knew` that one was liv- ing! What one? It. could only be one of two to dismay him so; there thought of this In the week during which he had been eared -fer here, Alan had not 'leen Constauce; but there had been a 'peculiar and ezoetting ailteration in Sherrill's manner toward him, he had felt; it was siomething more than merely liking for him that Sherrill had showed, and Sherrill had spoken. of her to him as Constance, not, as he had called. her always before, "Miss Sherrill" or (tny daughter." Alan had bad dreams which had seemed impossible of fulfilment, of dedicating Inc life and all that he could make of it to her; now Sherrill's snanner had brought to him something like awe, as of something quite incredible, When. lee had believed that disgrae.e was hiozelisgrace because he was Ben- jamin Coreet's son—he had hidden, or tried to hide, his feeling toward her; he knew now that he was not Corvet's son; Spearman bad shot Inc father, Corvet had said. tut he could not be certain yet who Inc father was or what revelation regarding himself might now be given. Could he dten to betray that he was thinking of Constance—as—as he could ,not keep from thinking. He sieved not without daring to dream that Sherrill's manner meant that she eould care for him; and that he could not presume. What ‘4.0 MOL ONS CAPITAL AND RESERVE, $8,800,000 OVER 100 BRANCHES THROUGHOlid ANADA A General Banking Business Transacted. CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT BANK MONEY ORDERS SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT interest allowed at highest Current Rate 'BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT Brucefield St. Marys Kirkton Exeter Clinton . Heesall Zurich • /I #. • 0 0 0,0 0.44 0_0 00 0it 41.0 114111a,4 CDS 11 OD 1#11 • 0 11 sitstots-inses**Iiiits# per cent, were receiving less than the $15 a week whieh is looked upon as the minimum living wage in New York. Miss Elaine Jenldns, the only we - man railway chainmen m England, she had undergone for him—her ven- ture alone up the beach and that , who replaced her father as lie,ad of the Swansea and illumines railroad up - dreadful contest which had taken piece between her and Spearman—must re- foontt,hunisedeanianthatsiminecsrebasyedhethresfahreaewilyd main eireacstances which he had learns business judgment. ed but from. which he could not yet Women to the number of 26,638 were take conclusions. employed in AustraliAn factories in He turned to the Indian. 1916-17, an increase of 56Z. over the "Has anything more been heard of 1915-16 period Spearmaye Judah9" The French boarcl of trade employ - "Only this, Alan; he crossed. the merit bureau returns for April, 1918, Straits the seext day upon the ferry show an increase of 878,000 in the there. In Mackinaw City he bought number of women employed in all in - liquor at a bar and took it with him; dustries since.JUly, 1914. he asked there about trains into the Mrs, Theodre Roosevelt, jr. 'wife of northwest He has gone, leavini, all the oldest son of the late President he had. What else could he do? . Roosevelt, has been appointed a InelTi- Alan ' crossed the eittle cabin. and ber of the •eonnnittee of Republican looked out the window over the snow- women who are to co-operate with the Republican women's nationatexecutivel committee, which will encourage the participation of women in the coming campaign in the interests of the Re- publican party. covered slope, whert the bright sun had been only two, on the ferry whose rescue he had feared; only two who, was shining, It waS very still with - living, he would :have let die upon this out; there was no motion at all M the beach' which he had chosen and set Pines toward the ice -bound shore; and the shadow of the wood smoke rising from ,the cabin chimney made almost a straight line across the snow. Snow had covered any tracks that there had been upon the beach where those who had been in the boat with him had been found deed. He had known that this. must be; he had believed them be- yond aid when- he had tried for the shore to summon help for them and for himself, The other boat, whiels had carried survivors of the wreck, blown farther to the south, had been able to gain the shore of North Fox Island; and as these men had not been so liong .exPosed. before they were brought to shelter, four men lived. Sherrill had told him their names; they were the mate, • the assistant engineer, a deckhand and Father Perron, 'the priest who had been a passenger but who had stayed with the crew til the last: Benjamin Cor - vet had perished in the wreckage of the cars. As Alan went back to his chair, the Indian watched him and seemed not displeased. "You feel good now, Alan?" Wassa- quam asked.. * "Almost like myself, Judah." "That is right there It was thought you would be like that to -day." He looked at the long shadows and at the height of the early morning sun, esti- mating the time of day. "A sled is coming soon. new." , "We're going to leave here, Judah?" . "Yes Aland' Was 'be going to see her then.? Eie- citenient stirred him, and he turned to Wassaquem to ask that; 'but suds denly.he hesitated and did not inquire. Wassequam brought the mackinaw and cap which Alan had worn on No. 25; he took froin the bed the new blankets which had been fdrnished by Sherrill. They waited until a farmer appeared driving a team hitched' to a low, wide -mitered sled. The Indian settled Alan on the sled, and they drove- of. aside for his patrol, while he waited for him to die! She forced herself on, unsparing-. IY, as she- saw Henry gain the shore and as believing Ininself alone, he hurried' northward. She went with him, paralleling his course arnong. the trees. On the wind-swept ridges of the ice, where there was little S110*, he cquld travel: for long stretches fast- er than she; she struggled eto keep even with him, her ,lungs seared by. the cold air as she gasped for breath. But she could not rest; she could not let herself be exhausted. Merciless minute after minute: She raced him thus— A dark shapee-a figure lay' stretched upon the ice ahead! Beyond and stillefarther out, something which seemed the fragments of a lifeboat tossed up and down where the waves thundered and gleamed at the edge of the floe. Henry's pace quickened; here: quick- ened desperately too: She left the shelter of the trees and scrambled down the steep pitch of the bluff, shouting, crying aloud: Henry turn - el about and saw hetirshe halted, and she passed him with d rush and got between him and -*1st ,fornbLupon .the ice, before shettetritedessedefiteedehim. Defeat -.-defeat whetever fright- ful' purpose he had wen his now that she was there to 'Witness What he might do; and in hie realization of that, he burst out in oaths against her -- He advanced; she stood, confront- ing—he swayed slightly in his walk and swung past her and away; he went •ast those things On the beach and kept on along, the ice hummocks to- ward the north, • She ran to the huddled „figure of the men in rnaehinew and eap;,his face was hidden partly by the position in which he lay and partly .by the drift- ing snow; but, before she swept the snow ,away and terrine him, to her, she knew that he was Alan. . She cried to him and,. when he did not answer, she shook him -to get him awake; enet, she could not rouse Praying in wild whits/sees to herself, she .opened his jacket and felt within his clothes; he was warm—at least he was not frozen within! Noe and therp seemed some stir of his heart! $ tried to lift him, to carry bine; the to drag him. But She could not; he fell from her arms into the snow a- gain, and she sat down, pulling him upon her lap and clasping him to her: She must have aid, she must get him to some house, she must take him out of the terrible cold; but dared she leave him? 'Might Henry return, if she went away? ° She arose and looked about.. Far up the shore she saw his figure rising and falling with his flight over the roughs ice. A sound came to her too, the low, deep rever- beration of the Drain beating once niore along. the Shore and in the woods and out upon the lake; and it seemed to her that HeK'e figure, in the stumbling steps o its flight, was keep- ing time to -the d rhythm of that sound. And She stoned to Alan and covered him With her oat,13efore leav- ing him; for she dared no longer Henry's return. CHAPTER 1 •, The Fate of the "Miwaka" "So. this 'isn't your house, Judah?" "No, Alan; this is an Indian's how, but it is not mine. It is Adam Eno's house. He and hiswifewent some- where else when yob. needed this." "He helped to bring, me here then?" "No, Alan. They were alone here— she and. Adam's wife. When she found you, they brought you here—more than a mile along the beach. Two women!" followed, keep- she Alan choked as be put down the littie porcupine mein box which had started this line of inquiry. Whatever question,s he heft. asked of dudeb. or of 'Sherrill, these last few days had brought him very quickly ,baek to her. Moved by some intuitive certainty re- garding Spearman, she had corne north she had not thought of peril to her- self; she had 'struggled alone. across dafigereus ice in stoni—a girl brought up as she had been! She had found him—Ala/se-4th life almost eetinet upon the beach; she and the Indian woman, Wassaq-uam had just said, had brought hinistilong-thetshore. How had they manned that, he -wondered; they had somehow got Min to this helve which, in his ignorance of exe actly where,he was upon the raainland, he had thought must be wassaquara's; had been within him all the tune! she ha,d gone to get help— s His throat "You came up here about Ben COr" Constance let go her breath; the Mg out of Inc sight among the trees. I closed up, and his eyes filled as he The farmer looked frequently at Alan with curious interest; the sun shone down, dazzling, and felt almost warm itt the till afr. Wassaquam, with regard for the frostbite from whteli Alan had been Buffering, bun- dled up the blankets around him; but Alan put them down reassuringly. They traveled south along the shore, rounded into Little Traverse 'Bay, and the house of Harbor Point apneared among their nines. Alan could see plainly- that these were snow -weighed ancldbaarded up without sign of occu- ltation; but he saw that the Sherrill house was open; smoke rose from the chimney, and the windows winked with the reflection of a red blaze within. He was so sure that this was their destin- ation that he started to throw off the robes. "Nobody there now," ViTassaquam in- dicated the house. "At Petoskey; we `go on there:" The sled -proceeded across the edge of the bay to the little city; even be- fore leaving the bay' ice, Alan saw Constande and her mother; they were walking .at the water front near to the railway station, and they came out on the ice as they recognized the oc- cupants of the sled: (Continued Next Week) AeTIVITIES- OF WOMEN The .British ministry of labor re- ports that 633,818 women receieed unemployment pay from the signing of the armistice to'Febtumy 14th, but 158,000 of these have , since . found work To releaee men, for the army a six- teen year old Utah girl last year plowed and cultivated slaty acres of wheat .and beets, took care of irriga- tion gates bit the farrn„did the family 'baking, raised, .100 ehiekerts, .canned 660 quarts of fruit and vegetables and in her spare moments knitted socks and sweaters for the soldiers. In Indiana, no female under eighteen yeargtef age, employed in any manu- facturing or snereantile establiehihent, laundry, renovating works, bakery or printing office shall be required, or permitted to Work therein more than 60 hours in any one week, nore more than 10 hours in any one day, 'unless for the prirPose of making a Shorter day on the last (ley of the eget*. The Consinners' league of New York state, illustrates theeneed for as mum wag wage legdslatietebyf.citing figures compiled by the state industry' ceitrunis- Bien showing that of 61,1.40 women in factories and stores.: 'Who were' made the subjeet of a special inquiry, 15 The number of women wage earners in . Germany is greater than that of any other European country,. it beink estimated that at present a full third of tb.e economic labor of the empire is performed ter women. Their aver- age wage in nine iariportant industries range from 41 to 67 cents a day. Women members of the Bookbinders' Union, in Hartford, Ct., have been granted an increase in wages. - ence for permanent peace unanimously passed a resolution condemning the terms of peace, There is now before the Pennsylvania legislature a bill to provide for a. com- snission with power to fie MintrIUM wages for women and ehildrert work- ers in industrial plants and mercantile establisinnents. From January, 1918, to . February, 1910,. the woman's division of the United States employment bureau succeeded in placing 594,440 women in positions - throughout the United States. s. CASTOR IA Pit I. suidtbildren. lailYte Ion Mays BIRO saw the asuman of Lin OFF CORNS" - tamosomosoomma Apply few drops then lift sore, touchy corns off With fingers Doesn't hurt tit tit! 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Bricks in all Flavors • Look for Om Silvenvood'S Sign a Save the Mom Yon Waste and Earn Yon More Money VIM•••••• , lune Cost $4175 War &Wirers StAfraps Nog .1?;" kat* (0144Mi: aft this ssito duirtiosa‘ • How much of Your wages do yen . away each week on If you reckon it upwWprobshly . that at least five pat ara "Re snow wreaths If mu:. weekly w easily .75 cents of ihistr.4 before you know*, But suppose you said to your employer: "Each week 1 Want you to keep 75 -cents out of my pay envelope and invest it 'fir me in War Sovings-'Sbuips. As you buy elicit War Savings Stan* put, it 'in my pat envelope, and -to on do* fiat for a year. You will never reiis that 75 cents; But at the eml of the year you 4-41 have aver VISO iavireted in Saving BY then they AI be wortb easaiiirik mere thin ,939P91 *a by 1924 Hay will be worth WM, War SolfteltanitS. *re tbe Dominion GovernmentThey lave the whole resource* of Camas.as,Moir *sanity, the sante as Victory Loans, Aa4 tbey bear an dnusuldir VA, Tat* ciukh',. tie* at ant Deedto. Make Your &Pangs. Serve T* and Sem Your Coiniby-4nvest Thenv in. War