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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-07-18, Page 7Y, 1919 amemenisesemeanent•eematees sage the berries - may be brmula and then in the ies, which are excellent cold meat. For the ur quarts of raspberries; nware bowl, pour over s of vinegar and leave icebox until the next )ff every particle of egar from the berries tr four additional quarts have been niece(' in a 'Save the berries for the tion.) Again let the negar stand over night kerning strain oft the kt to the boiling point. upfuis of granulated II for twenty minute rtight bottles. Two or •onfuls -of this vinegar e and chilled carbonat- e a most delightful and nk an a hot day. ierries.-Place the eight es (used (used in the vinegar) ee kettle and add eight ear, one cupful of boil- esebroken sticks of cin- lezen whole elattes and mace- (tied in a bit of Simmer slowly for 45 er they begin to boil,, snicee and stem 'eke berri ( hOtit Ce A: - raspberries have, the f the fresh fiert and are Ise as a sauce with ic6 :,•horteake. Allow pound theefruit aust the sugar. tit, carefeily, seeing that e well broken, then aid .1 mix thoroughly. Have crilized jars, tll to oyes- ! the berries and agar, dihers and hot, sterilieed al. Store in a cool. dart: Y THE HOME ) plants for Winter oiii Cuttings. Thing Destroys a Cone - Proportion of Whitey Wire Worms Defeating Fields klax is a Sniffles for a First Crop on Suck, by Ontario- Department et setture. Toronto.) MD the end of the sum - r, the amateur flower, ,wer often wonders helm ..- eoek or . geraniums is border can- be increase** ed by some other meanie ing up the old plants iu the last ii-araed method. perhaps, proved success- 5easons. By startieg faire Ward the end of Auguste chilly nights appear, it a young plants, more s tr all kinds of geranium* ering kind, or those liars nt leaves, or even title • eiver-leaved kinde, can bet rting cuttings or slips at :s. First of all n.htain a t about three inchekdeege Leo inches wide, aad from' twertty-four inches itt empty haddie (fish) hoz ry well. 'It should b,ami holes bored through the - drainage. Pack this box L moist, clean, gritty sand; rill make good stone more Then take the terminat- of the yetting growth et t four or Olve inches M. h shoot or cutting- having to six joints where lease*" d. Make the base of thsa below one of these node* . ts, malting a clean cut knife fiat across: Cuit the lower leaves, leaving leaves at the top. Cl* buds and blossom* Vale. Make a hole or drill - sand deep -enough to set he length of stems of Cute e sand. Water them well eep the sand raaist until e rooted, which should bit ix weeks' time. The boz out ofdoers in partial the first week in Senteme they case he taken int* When cuttiags an inch in length dig Uy from the sand without he roots and pot them small. 2Se inch pots ot bout two inches apart in I shallow boxes in a soil one part sand,. one part , and about six parts at soil enriched with. one pulverized cat,/ mantras Wit 1.1 re field. This teat iS best possible fertilizers pot plants. Set the young e window in a tetaperas 71) deg. Fehr., =sorties .perate r e. . College, Guelph. e done. They have seermti.e. xperience to' guide themt ervices cost you nothing; ir plan and you are assured -fortably heated home; and a nomical heating plant. eli you more about thia n. For S1e by SEAFOR' H LY 18, 1919 toigoimaia-dowinimmommuft nutbununnunnununnumununtinn eamps lkeoiiItlrnd .= • to the earth by ice manacles. But bn = the eight day• the 'walking boss tele- _ Ina , .11s. 4100, graphed his employer and that night - - - .... ar: ar a '‘i-7; = ,gan pu mg oft . parr after pair of- - - - the two men iiiet at Archer. Flint be- es "Mt= SO CkS .and his eyes werebrightas - .... OF ' = . though he had only traveled two miles : - . -SnOWS::E* ' -- TEM ' ‘,..... instead of . twenty through the bush Art .... . "" since ntornmg. , ' = "Pee got the route laideut and there = is only one bad hill upon it" he said throegh the ice of his moustache. "And ler = HARRY IRVING RE NE = , we , can get` over that rise all right G , - , - ..........-.. = with a couple a extra temns to yank' I - -...- . the sleds .up and plenty of straw on wage .... . I.. - Moffat, Yard and Co. , = . the downshoot to grouser them on the ....- = I , ...„ e.,a come -down. rii put an ice- road - fai 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111117 i through here that will make that a I Badger crowd see its shadow on ' (Continued from last week.) I Candlemas day or leave ntr-Pelt hang- / "Well, I guess the price is near . . _ ' ing the woods to make whiplashes of. ;* enough right, boys, if we can get to - A monthfrom now you will be able _ tre-,lier on the question of delivery. Of to skate from Camp 5 to Archer if - you feel like it" His employer look - course it is understood that time is the essence of this contract. when ed at him approvingly. , youdeliver those ties in ou d 1 "Of course we'll do it some way, can . at rcher, MrMeyer?" 1 but how are you going to get those A. The black brows of the Badger me big sprinklers going without snow?" he asked after tie while. "Yoh. cant contracted as he gazed deep into tie silent woods"Between April st sled them over the bare ground, of . and tenth, depending on how s n the c°1-irtei ancleh°w---ar-oey.. :, fi . g a ,ge break-up comes. But you may h Sure a slideway for the first t fp?" of one thing, Mr. Dunham, that stuff "Skin the river of its ice and lay o down the river with the , .. it before the sprinkles in slabs as we will eice go. Once over the -route with the and the man don't live who can beat water- sleds and -we can cement and that for quick delivery. The Badger broaden, it out quickly- enough if the comeany will do its damnedest -and angels:can do no more." Findlay sat cold keeps up, . I'll be hilaling ten looking at them in grim silence, and _thousand to the load before February • Dunham after giving him plenty of' ends, and that is something - o man o . time in which to make a bid, husked has done yet this neck wdeds a drcough from his voice and Went But of course it is going to cost some y - thoughtfully .‘ --, 111 oney'•eo' build that road." ' on . "All right,- I'll stand for - it," re - "Pretty late, but I don't, suppose turned John as he drew his chair to I can ask you to delider them by air ._ ship at those figuresOur Minds have the tattles Sitting silently beside the . walking boss he watched him as the met as to price, and, of muse, which one of you gets the. contract makes latter rapidly sketched a bird's-eye ° n difference to meBut inasmuch as plat of the country through which the o . road was to NOM& until with the cOm- Mr. Meyer spoke first and Mr. Findlay ing of midnight they arose and crept can't better the bid I suppose I might as well let Meyer-" into- their bunks. Duller, became the flush of theeheater and _thielcer grew "Hold on," brike in Findlay as his j ell, 1 theft -Oa -mat on the narrow windowt aw suddenly thrust itself out that burrowed through thkeetwe give you a fifty thousand dollar boted ,. that I will deliver those ties at Archer, of thecampThe oold came creeping March first, thirty days before Mr. beneath the door and the water In '. Meyer's date, do I get that eolitract ?" the ail in the corner thickened and Dunham glanced at Meyoze, -while the night lpreath et the ' er, and sleepers curled from their lip like- , Meyer staring at his rival said-ridthirig- wisps of • steam. The -1a6t red ember at all. So presently Dunham said in the hater expired with a crack, . "yes," and at that word Findlay akose. "IVIword for my bond in three the. pawings from the nearby stable - Y ceased and over all fell the hush of aays. Good day gentlemen." -, . beh The door closethe great north woods, unbroken save closed. behind him and the l by the fall of a broken limb and the remaining two sett-lookine g -at eh faint hunting: song of the distant .run- -other silently. What Meyer said ---ew en his tongue began working is entirely. ming Pack arm toms -7 MOW Four- o'cleck ,cante and the chere unprintable; what Dunham' said in consoling him was approibey crept from under his blankets "I'll this: : s "I'll get his ties or his Money and with the whirl of he_ alarm clock • still in his ear&. Shuddering with, the that is all I want He will probably cold he crept, into his clothing: and busted trying to carry it through en time and that will be satisfaction then stepped into, the biting:, air erit) ghk old manTake another iriatike i - enough foe yda. sorry 'o0A on 1___013±4 Overhead the stars ,were merine` and the moon was still leaguei . t. from her western labor. ,The cluiered So with that the incident ended. ' John Findlaystrode away as many glove' of lamps I. shone through . the -windows of the cook sphanty and the another victor has done, his heart steamy smell 9i breakfast filled 'els tthumping from the strife of battle but his r reason telling Ihim that benese as he hurrie-1,`Past, but the' hunk - Valise with its seventy slee ing men had risked too much. Long and bitter' had been the fight: that .he had tv° • t tie nigirt in these cold no " 0 0 s and t lose out now spelled ruin just as his star of hope was rising brightly above the horizon. Therefore it is not tce be 'ivritleredasst that he and Flint for the next week sat day by day in the little office of the sawmill as. _they smoked steadily -and spat ifitermit- tenly into the sawclast-filled box, but at the end of that time they arose to- gether as if by mutual agreement Slid shook the inactivity from them as a buffalo bull shakes away the dust - of his noonday rumination when he has finally decided to give -mortal battle to his enemy. "Of course there is only one y to do it and, that is to build an ice road from Camp 5 to Archer," said Flint. "We have sat around here for a week waiting for snow, but what there is of it on the ground now isn't as thick as a man'e skin. , But lay out a route and we'll put things through somehow. You attend to your end of the business which is to furnish the money and leave the work to me." So Findlay.- went to town and the walking boss disappeared in the woods. For - the next week Flint blazed his way through frozen tamarack swamps, across old slashings and over hardwood ridges while Findlay wait- ed to hear from him. The cold. was intense, the river covered itself with a foot of armor and more than once the lean wolf -pack kept -the lone woods cruiser close company as he swung campward in* the gloom or evening with their red eyes. upon him. End- letsly the deserted woods stretched away on every side and close above them the gay cloud masses sailed, but the wind blew steadily from the north and no snow came. Scarcely el inch of it covered.the ground, and the great s.ptinklers that had been built with a rush stood inert and helpless at the .112.!••••••••••.•••••, . - THERE IS OKLY ONE GENUINE ASPIRIN , Only Tablets with "Bayer Cross", - are Aspirin -No. others! HER • THESURONAik)SITOR, 1 humans . Noon--eame with WilsOn, Flint and. . the cook the -only inmates of the long tables of the shat4y. Silently they ate until the - walking -boss, finishing his meal, arose with a --kid- _4 the gesture at the e who lay silentlyi. "He make. me - grind insult; . He ay 1:--eat*e_ frog. By gar, r beat upon him like a drum. Is it not so, you wailiiing; boo?" ' "Looks that y, Joe,"' id Flint I , , swarnper. "Come with me," he said --venr.„ quietly. e dropped the reins brusquely. "I'm going down to that and ralsed'anot two hundred ii-Ounds log drive in the woods near Archer of dead weight- lir - his a-tinrk--. The aridstart that crew back here or bust. only unoccupied "'place in the sleigh was his .own seat and upon. it he things lip somewhat, After I have done .that.I want You to go on to the PlaWI ' thEi burden and flicked the store and wait there until to -morrow. sweat- from his forehead into the zero , Findlay Will be there, smile time. dur- air. Guess you and I will have tq= "Guess you = ' ing the day and I -Want to hear from hoof it Into cams, Lebeauo" he Sajel' him in regard . to -some telegraph over his shoulder. With a— quick leap 'Canadian was upon the sleigh, polee. He will probe out word by 'pee Into the cutter and trampling =the Riinih-eisre s beneath , they got and with the wind' whistling his feet as though they had been saw - past their ears event whistling down logs, clambered he human pile and the - glistening roadway, Six miles from its summiktglovirered down uttorS from camp thowalking boss drew hard the boss with the light of battle - iii- -on the reinte and motioned for his ing, in. his jet black eyes. "They are hi a log joint here to as `haGertsheloaawntih' therasp Filcifinat„ saw. voice coMptinion to dismount. 1 the left a little' NAY( - Neither Find- derisive laugh of, the great woodsman. Boandrthreipreohp0114.1inaigslow, any t elle. t reverberating_ d, into the for - liquor a3rn" soldthe , there is a saloon Iseeper from ' down : "I wish I remain! up - here. All the road wbe comes. up here holiday winter I skid logs in ze cold. Each time with a barrel of -whisky and gag day I make ten t'ousand steps in ze The Wonderful Medicine, Made From Fruit Juices and Valuable Tonics. MADAME ROSINA FOISIZ • 29 St, Bose $t., Montreal. "I am writing you to tell you that ewe my life to 'Fruit -a -fives': This medicine relieved me When I 'had given op hope of ever betng well. I was a: =Dyspepsia -had suffered for he ear years, in bull -like belto•Wings. and nothliag I took did me any good. "Ze walking boss -be DO good. He . . read about `Ftuit-a-tives'; and say. you .mus' not sleep, you plus' not eat, you mus' not take pleasure, but tried them', Alter taking. a feu) boxe.T, anknow entirely well. You have my permission tio publish this letter; as )))))) :will persuade other sitfferers from Dyspepsia to take -a-tives' and p-twelr. . MADAME ROSIN:A. FOISIZ. them going. You go on to the. stere snow. Each eight L rub down inY and wait there for Findlay while :I team and make heem shine like a take care of them." The swamper fol- Shoe. I am fatigue. I mos' ex-pirea lowing on along the toad was soon NOW 1,4m Lebeau, shall ride." Three lost among the trees: 'Flint tutning up steps and Flint; was opposite bimi. the tote road bitched his team a "You weren't too tired teofight, and hundred yards from the dive and ap- any-maeh-that-_can__figlwalk. Get proadhed it upon foot, his javte set off there." The dark face ofthe rimly. From the outside of. the door othersgrew still darker. • • - aised make you ridieale. laugh be- fore you. t Joe Lebeau, bes' -man in ze .woods shall aide. You tealldng '.13.6Fssfvebamhiln'u' testater Flint, now fee UP the road- and walking beside his ponies loliked back through the shimmer. Lebeau. was just staggering to his feet. rlie---moon-cjailedJugh and the black shadows of the forest lay heavily upon the clearings. Far away towards Loon Lake .again cense' the faint song of the running pack and the yells ; from the btinkhouse gradually ceased. Flint nerYing back on his way from Carap 2senhere he had gone to quell an in- cipient riot drew a deep breath of relief as*he threw open the office door - At Cainp 5. , '"They are sleeping all righttiow and will be in fair shape for me to break their backs, again to -morrow. • And most likely they won't hp another drop of fire -water. until- After 'camp breaks up in the spring. Aad.maybe. got to have yetis back in the *mods ;after all -e" his orehead roughened to -morrow and you must get back to as be thought of 'what they had done camp while you aredable to walk. I've for him' in the fast -three weeks - been .a 'patient Mil to -day .but 'I've Pmaybe after all that they have gone reached my limit. -.-1Now cleat' your- through • lately they___wete entitled to selves -out of here before,' clean you." their.. little jamboree., -Poor devils?, , Sullenly they turned him, shift- ing on their feet-a.nd -glancing at each other. uneasily. And seeing. • their doggedness' an, ominous glitter came into -the pupils ofthe as roughly. he shouldered' his way to the back 'of the, shack,and drew a small cylinder from his Pocket "Dynanfite cartridge With' a two -minute tail," he said as he set it upon the stove and held e flan - in match above it.' "You want, to e o dance anerdninirserereedobyou? unless you hike out itf here, you'll a be doing a quickstep, to -night for the devil.' Deliberate1y,. he lighted the fuse and took his tstand 'belitral the cartridge tvitlt his matot drawn. `Stern - and uhcoMpromisin „„, meeting their wild.eglanceeeem heektoked the incarnation o °Willtsana before him their crudet courage fiiiled as the hZiura.ge Of the lion. fails. before the unfathoniable eyes -of his keeper. No man knew' knew' just how far Flint would go e-nforcing., of Ian order and now ,none waited to seea Struggling,. curs- ing, ;roaring, they fought their, way out. of the door .and swent swarming down the road, while the bees ex - sit eal; so, Pete Mullett? Come you. tinguishing the fuse threw the. cart- -With me. Fallow Joe 'Lebeau and he rige far into the -woods. Down the I'Fruit-a-tives" is. the only medicine in the world made from fruit. , ".seeeeasisoeeerefers$2s5erstrielsize 25c. At all dealers or 'sent postpaid on .receipt of price ,by Pima -a - tives Linaited, Ottawa. pocket, -drew a -wide, _crude, circle up- on the boards. - "Bab,- you walldnges boss. Like a dog' you,.work us in ze cold to Make ze cursed ice road.. Like a loup garou you work us, and swing your Ak wheit fee moon shine, - Like a devil y eu Make ta noise when' we :inhale a - horse. to ;build you , ze cotderoy niore soon, Somebody 'say you can fight fast. He lie. I make you. at -square circle on' ze floor and give you invitation. I ex- plain to you 'ze pleasure of a -centest with ze fodt. I teach you la sav-atte. You weesh to learn ze- grand trick?" The gray eyes ef the Walking boss grew Inied at flint, but his :voice was silken as he made his ski* reply. "Not to -day, Jae: We have all had hard time of .it for the last month Ands I , -iaup guess- mos us,are a_ lit our or I , - ss •C arriedly he thrust his head within iti -. , teed just at present Go back tof your the dearvoicedhilong -vibrant bunk And take a good sleepWe Will peed you early in the morning." ! ' of "R-colel o-u-sti -o---1--1 o-u-st," then passed quickly to, the "Office" and .Leheau't hp curled and A flash Of his beg white teeth came from beneath openet the door. The tall or m- af ,Flint, already fully drtsssed towered is as he ground the chalk -under his- :sal:Moe him, the 'unshaven, weather heel*, : '4'W.1.10 need, -*'' t9.-VagKr?" ' "!' ' beaten face looking in the lartplight "Findlay, who needs' every- geoolroan as a mask cut from hickory bark ° .• he 'has. - And ynu are, one, of his best, . "on't mind it o much when Joe, :and: that is the reason' we let , DsI you lave the gray team., You ought get into action," said the walking boss. to, .appregiate that Much, ., anyway." to Findlayees the latter was break - Angrily the Canadian doubled his -fietg- big the inel of the Pail preparatory ' He as, he spat upon the floor. to his ' ,morning's ablutions `M'steur Fiadlay. Bat Cras hove I :stretched a pair of matele plaited aims . ' love. heemt I weesh him a Merry taivards .the ceiling. "I've been get- - ting up by moonlight _mast of the Christmas in the devil's cook shanty; time for the last thirty years; and I guess Pll be going to sleep by ' it pretty regular far the next thirty days aneavav Nktale- we are gettpg that ice road going., Generally mornings when I wake up and think what I have got to go through before I can turn in again, I feel like( turning over and teking a little nat for a couple af million years -id getting good and rested." Findlay looked at the speak- er over bis towel. - altzet time), you mus'Woirk, all ,day, all night, He crack his whip and you rims' leap. He shake ,his fist and you mus' break itOur back 'Bah! I prow weary of hint To -more I meet him in Ithe camp _and I crack his neek. I fix _ _ him fine." The door of the shack 'opened -a the tall form of' the - host toweled before thenr.-Motion10,88 he stood while his gray eyes settled h upon and before his gaze the tinnult sick- ened and died. The fight that hid raged a earner degenerated to a 'ecuffie, and the heavy leet of the? dancers grew still in the presence of -this man whet had deism them as no man ever had taefore 'Calmly, but With each word' foieefill as a bullet' Flint spoke. -"This thing has, got to, stop. I've • "Now that kind of talk makes Ind tired. What you need is a little ex- ercise te liven you op. You haven't -done anything hut sleep for the ,last four hours and you are g.etting hog fat and lazy. , But if you da a good job on that ie road ru give you- ap day off on Christmas. Come on to breakfast and quit kicking." He slip- ped his arm through that of the other and they followed the horn - call into the cook shanty, while the chore boy gazed after them in slacks jawed amazement. "Now what do you think of that?" he muttered. "Wants to sleep for two million years! /That walking boss' is certainly lazy." Flint built the rodd in a little less than three weeks, but he only averag- ed about one-fifth of the time asleep while he did it. As for the men_ who worked under him during that frenzied period, they cursed him without inteie mission -while the work was going on and are still bragging about having had a hand in it. First swamping out the road they filled the loww places with brush and broke it down beneath the hoofs of their heavy horses,- atid having thus made the foundation they laid ice %slabs before. the sprinklers. Beneath the constant flow of water frOTTI the four horse tanks it became like adamant. The road was finished on the twenty-fourth of December and it was a good thing to look at. Flint had grown pounds thinner, but, he forgot all about his less of flesh when • ; John Findlay after the last critical , inspection of the road took him by • the,hand and shook it without saying a word. Barring his natural gift in 'If you don't see the "I3ayer Cross" the way of handling higher -power ex: or, thetablets refuse thetn-they are pletives Flint was, not much of a eot Aspirin at 11:11talker., and he admired tie man who Your druggist gledly will give you the ;,eould express hin iself. as fluently as esnitine "Bayer Tab -Teta of Aspires" be- that by a handshake. 4 8u4 genuine Aspirin now is made by Christmasnsorning came clear, and tenadisns and owned by a Canadian i empany. bitterly cold, the woods deserted of in;Ti!r1::rst; iisn not a cent's wOrth of German totters, the travoix motionless in the she low snow and the great icehung At -Orin, all rights being pur- A h;t:.(.(1 f 1 Oni the U. S. Geyer-se:lent. spr nklers sleeping upon the roadway During the war, acid imitations were -that they had builded by sun, moon eold as Aspirie in pill boxes and various and starlight with their spoutings-thr. ,.(Inta'aters. But now you can. get Heavy feet crunched the brittle snow ,e.esenst easrie, plainly stamped -with without the office of Camp 5, and at safsey -Bayer Cross,"-Aspi in the first sound Flint thrust a heavy eroese ;set ev minions for Iles.dac e, autfornatic pistol into his pocket and r1.110t raraehe, Rheumatism, Lun- then leaned indolently against the logs. 1.1 to• (.`olds- neritia and Pain general tr• The next instant the door was burg • Handy tin oxes of 12 tablets -as. so open and in lurched a body of woods - larger eletytsr"i'packages. 1, men who crowding into the corner of 's tin dn . of Bayer Maxmfactuie eb'left the center of the room' hr s trade mark (regietered tbe iin in Ilenoaceticacidester Salicyliemid. empty, while Lebeau who led them, drawing a piece a chalk from his will show' you. joy.- . We will drink, we will dance, we will make ridicule. Come with Joe Lebeau." ' Out into the open air he swaggered, 'hie band behind him, and Wilson re- maining. behind heard them go rear- ing down the ite road towards Archer. And as the last yell died' away he saw the forehead of Flint wrinkle like a pool into which a stone is thrown while tense lines bound the lips to- gether. For Flint well knew that once fairly started on a big drunk the crew Would scatter from the Soo to Stur- geon Bay, and every 'day was almost priceless to him. now with the driving work that lay ahead. Moodily he stood. at 'the -window and stared into the silent woods, bat down in the cook shanty cook and cookee were grinning at each other delightedly. There would be few to feed that night, and even so brief -a respite was hailed with delight by the pair that foe weeks had cooked and washedthedishesf our times a day for seventy ravening DOCTOR FED AN OPERATION • Instead I took Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound and Was eiltred. Baltimore'Md.--" Nearly four years suffered frozn organic troubles, ner- vausness and head- aches and 'e very month would have to stay in bed most of the time. Treat - menti would relieve me for a tithe but my doctor was al- ways inatng me to hev,ean woperation. eot.,r,paister asked me o ti y Lydia E. Pink - 1 a`m's Vegetable C pound before cc enting to an operation. I.took five bottles of it and woods lane the runaways were fstag- geeing int0 the distaneee- wrangling; fighting, howling insanely, ..... - The afternoon sun tank instil it eeemed to rest on, the tops Of the western forest like- a broad gold piece . poised delicately. And the. walking boss, arising from a log- beside his cutter where he had sat for an hour -following the rout. climbed upon the seat, Back along the rough woods trail he .went until.' the gleaming ice road lay before him, then' turned up- on it. For three miles he drove rap- idly, the 'wind smarting his cheeks and the ice particles Cut from the road by the sharp hoof ir pelting him Hite flying fragments of glats. Then as his half galloping ponies swung a- round a bend in the forest road they suddenly arose upon theirhind legs with -wild pavvings at the air. Less tha •-1"i a dozen yards in front of them and Iying flat up.on his back en the ice was the first of the fallen. that Flint had feared would litter the homeward route. , "get out of the way," yelled the boss as with whip and bit he brought the rearing animals back to. earth. The steelcorks of the beasts played a tattoo upon the ice close to the motion- less form, and Flint, throwing his weight on the lines; pulled the broncos by main force against the whiffle - trees. INCORPORATO 1855 CAPITAL AND RESERVI "$8;800,000.. - _OVER 100 BRANCHES , Tolsoni- Bank is riee4y to adVise Merchants, niiinu/acturos and farmers how 'to, finance, iheir reijuireinents. . Savings Departments at every Branch . _ BRANtlIES TIIIS DISTRICT : Brucefield St. Marys tirkton Exeter Clinton Herisall . Zurich - ='rM2r . . fall frons above; he knew that ' the hausted, and he Confidently expected - I beast i that had! made them had but toovertake her long before that time • - very- recently passea 'Wolf tracks arrived: But as he ran the conscious:- were common things about -Casnp 5 ness was gesdnally forced upon him • ' and he now inspected these more from that het hael‘gita,diinderestiinated * curiosity than any other idea. . His !the agility and lung capaatty of thin • halt was but brief, however, and a , free -Moving' girl of the pines,for a few seconds later die was again upon fell tiventt minutes had already pass. his way. But a hundredyardsfurther ed and it was with difficulty that he - on he came to another dead.stop ;with could -longer distinguish her -footprints. - - aelaination, of Wonderment. ' in the . rapidly settling darkness of For there were Cother tra ks ins- the midwinter sky. He was becoming m printed, before him now, not thetracks alai -Med. lest he should lose her trail of aabeast but=those of a hu an, and altogether in the gloom when the that human was beyond the f shadow tracks, running fairly against a tree of a 'doubt' a woman.. •He'' inspected that had fallen and lodged, in the top Ithem- carefully and saw that she had of its; fe. llovvs, stopped abruptly. eorrie up the mein trail to this point, hesitated there and then branched. off t s(Continued .Next Week) ,upon a deer path that led- deep into - the woeds. A minute's survey and analysis of the'outlines told hire what - had happened at well as though he had stood upon the spot and 'seen it with his eyes The woman had come heu-ry- ing along the trail towards Archer, had accidently run across a couple of wolves, had became alarmed by their sullen refusal to clear. the Toed for her and. had gene down the deet path to avoid them. Why she had gone this distance within the woods he eould not even surnitse, but there was only one woman residing. in, Areher and that, woman was Barbara Findlay. He glanced at the darkening sky and whirling flakes and then turned upon the deer ttail and went trotting softly . alopg it. The one who had Made the trahles • before him had walked very feet 'and,. lise' now saw where she had stumbled upon a' hidden 'toot and fallen -starting to run after regaining her feet. Hequickened his gait as he saw the increased length of theefugi- There' it not much -Pleasure in this I doe's stride glancing from the trail weed for them -not -much-not much. Pit the first time since he had risen at four ktcleck that isierning the ,wallse ing 'boAs fumbled hisswatcb from bis noeket and glanced , at it. The , hands to the 'woods -about him from, time to time ii. the constant expectation of seeing her -close at hand.- He had no fear for her actual safety; at least not as yet, fbr he knewc the u,sbal cows pointed twelve, and seating himself bodts and tossed them betide the heat- faced them upon his bunk he .unlaced. -his long arhedir 7aensiof trhesealiberiledtesthlathlaatid sahlae7mbeudt boldly they would in all •er. • probability have skulked away o But "Guess I have been working wider her anxiety at suddenly leading herself forced draught myself lately-a.nywaY in such company must t have 'been - Could use up a good share considerable, and it was more with sleep the idea idea; ofeqUieting her Mentally than . httehberinirg° oinnellokrthlreesaer•sdiays. And .protecting her -physical being that this is the day Findlay told ine I could -have ofttif I made a good, job caused hilt): to desire . to overtake her as quickly as possible." e Still, one could -of that ice road, - be mattered. Wear- neve/. tell what hunger -goaded wild eyelids ;tell and his rugged, form. .seeined saft6i. -arid shrink- as the' hand' of the great restorer fell heavily upon, him. The chore boy entering .that.enoinentawerily aelproachecl him. ;"When shall I wake them iipt", he .asked. Fiat stared at: him. soon as they get good and a- sleep of . course. They won't !know whether they have slept an hour or a week." Thefl mackinaw and trousers, stoekings Mid all he* threw himself face downward upon the bunk. - "Get out of the way or I'll cut you into three pieces with the sittl run- ners," cried the boss still mare harsh- ly. But the legs of -the lu r jack only kicked spasmedrically and Flint, shortening his reins, leaped to the ice. "Can't leave you ,liere to freeze up solid, much as I'd like to," he° grunted as he dumped the limp • form beads long into the sleigh box behind. "But I'll make you pay for this. ride to- morrow." Onward .the ponies sprang I again with nervous leaps -the whip I flicking lightly over them, and with ; half way to Camp 5 covered and with but a single helpless I one Ins keep- ; mg' the driver's grip on the lines re- gone a: quarter of a mile before the laxed a bit and his 'face grew' smoother first-. big flake melted against the tip of his nose, and five minutesslater the At he next turn 42 the road it rough; air was hazy -with the downfall, By ened again, however, and the -first oath the tale he had .covered half a Mile that had escaped his lips that day the trail was begenning to rose it out- burst from him explosively. Fairly in lines, but he had been over it before, front of him and 'docked in each other's arms as they ha gone s p g remembered it and trudged. on without = CHAPTER V The train arriving et two o'clock the next day, twp hours late as usual on a run of<thirty-mileg;-brOught Find- lay with it. So greatly altered, in looks was Wilson that his employer looked at him without a glimmer of recollection that they had ever met before until the swanaiet made known his identity, whereat the elder nian first stared and then chuckled. "Guess you have eaten twiee as much of my grub as you have earned, let alone the _wages thet are coming to you," he grinned. "However, I don't begrudge food whea it does a inan as much good as, it has you. You look strong enough to pull this couptry out of the map by the' grub roots. Now run out to camp and tell Flint to get out an order for a thousand teie- graph poles, cedar, strict regulation. Tell him that I ain't in any partivlar hurry for them, but remind him that I am waiting. I don't suppose he will happen to have them in -his pocket, but if he has it will- be fortunate. From the looks of the sky and the feel of the air it it going to storm at last, and I would recommend' that you get your feeteetarted hitting that trail hard, and fast for I'd !hate to think it was snowing, on you't" He started up the hill withont inoee adoo, and Wilton thinking first -of the cozy corner of the cottage towards which his employer -was wending his way, and second of the long lonely trail that stretched between himself and the uncouth building which was his only home, glued his eyes upon the path and "hit it" after the manner of the logger's recommenclatiote As the camp owner had prophesied the snows *ere at last hangirt heavy above them. Masses of futl-bellied clouds seemed to rest upon the higher tree tops, drooping ash -colored from a mulatto sky. Nor had the •traveler btaet•tsw21.414-,d2e-allti alte 1T.t.4 $.121.1..!4- 1 less greatly augmented fair courage by her display of fear. However they ,LIFT CORNS .011 - .,PLLUSES Doesn't hurt! 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