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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-07-25, Page 7Y 9 dest good tP1 CO.taftlaataASS., IMISMINIIIMIONNIIM111101101111, sear - Less ,onger lealthy boy , is. Mit you can will give jiim. tier for -Buster 0t. from eXt-ta -long itkosure Of BuSter yarn. Our en1.- )1' ateeeial skill LS lily finished, for we :ter Brown hosiery. rt own durable Limited Vella/id iunshine_ If-urn/tee is installeel arid d snap tests It that yoU • .yeur intrestnaent raS wisely made or not. hanee on it. tof itunder the 1VIcClarrs engineere will plan your ;charge. Nhey will guaran- enace, installed -according s your home comfortably -e of this service. ie, well -heated heme. For Sale by EDGE „ SEAM T e JULY2, I.91.9, fal110111111111111111111.1111111111111111e7111101110L- s. • •-• , Min WM • . • . . _ Ma . . IIM . . ••••• , W HE Snows =NM by . . HARRY IRVING GREENE MM. . • Moffat, Yard and Coe = • laiow." : ‘Ideealet us hurry oh," she replied. now serious for the first time. But their imOgress was but half as rapid 'Waughthey made all speed possible , 1 - as it had been before wandering from • the trail. _ Brush heaps barred their: way and fallen trees too high for her to clamber confronted them ita nearly every turn, while through the gloom ad falling snow they could scarcely See a yard in advance: Half an hour 'passed, and the labored breathing of the girl as she followed in his tracks bespeaking a pace' to rapid, he WAS at the point of ceiling a halt when the woods broke before them and overhead = he saw, not the black roof ca the forest 5111111111MMMMIIIIIIIIIIII1111111111111111K but the misty gray of open sky, while' ' • close at hand and rising aContinued from fest weekbefore • ore - him in their shrouds were the ghostly ad rfenuine "Bayer Zablets of Aspirin" pa . ‘ Stepping beyond the tree he search- shapes of half a dozen buildings. in a "Bayer" Package plainly, marked ' a . ed for their continuation bathe snew With a deeply -draw breath of relief he I with thesafety "Bayer Cross, was trackless and he paused in be.. led her on until all at once there Gamine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" wilderment And just as he had loomed before them that for which he are now Made in Canada by a Canadian readied the conclusion. that she must had -hoped. Scattered throughout 'the CamaarhY• No German interest what - have vanished into the air, from above pineries are • scores of ,abandoned log - him there came a small voice half ging camps, and it was upoti one of plaintive, half mocking, that called; these long -deserted places of former "Here 1 am mister," and looking up ' .industry that they had chanced in he saw a snow -shrouded `figure huddl- their band rambles. Joyfully the ed in the slanting tree top .a dozen feet above his head. She had become tired front her run, chanced across this fallen trunk with its comparatively easy incline and, scrambled lip it to ••••,-.••••: 0 HAS apAYER CROSS" -,, •-•,, ExPosrroR towards him her sob hair glistening'? -11,1a -scooped the eneW from a fallen beneath the him, as be paused upon trunk and they seated themselves up- on it, and here they ate the chilled t h tel -tar: sohnollyd 1.1 0 p e that you will sleep durich rested ' for the better part Soundly, Rap upon the door of the of an hour, ; The food and respite I cook shanty should you become alarnp brought them newatrength and a pipe - ed. But of course there can be nothia ful of tobacco comforted the man Tablets without "Bayer Cross at to ' alarm raa." , ',ate not Aspirin at all leader struck a' match and bade her. follow han. The refuse of a deserted kitchen lit- tered the floor. Battered pots and pans unworth the carrying away, a "spider" -with a broken handle, barrels safety among the branches, and he and shrunken pails confronted litre but; smiled to himself at the figure he . must have cut from her viewpoint as by the .aid of more matches he saw - he Crept around beneath her with nose that the wood -box was well filled. Selecting a piece of pine for a torch almost in the sirow. He seated him- br he lighted it and entered the bunk - self upon a log and looked up at 'house with the blaze held high. Dis- "Well!" he exclaimed after a mom - carded blankets, ragged but still ius- era's pause. able in case of emergency, abounded "Quite well—thank you," came the upon the deacon seats and bunks and answer to the accompaniment of a chattering laugh: "Only somewhat the sight of the mammoth heater in the centre of the room brought him chilly. Won't you come up?" - joy. Here they could at least be safe , "Better come down. It's snowing up and fairly comfortable until morning, • there," he suggested. She shook her head and a feathery puff toppled from and with, no further ill coming. from the -mishap than a night of acute - her red toboggan cap onto his uptarned face. "No. I am afraid of the wolves." He answered her with a trace ..of the half meckerY with which she had first seluted him. "is it possible? Now do you know from the way they ran I had supposed you were chasing them." Then arising he went clamberieg up the incline his rubbers gripping the rough surface firmly; and reaching her held out his hand. "Come with me," he commanded. For an instant she peered. into his face through the semi -darkness and then uttered a= little triumphant laugh. `I thought I recognized year voice. I know you in spite of your • s disguise. Your are the one who—" "Yes, I know," he interrupted e trifle Impatiently because of the late- ness of the afternoon and the real necessity that they lose no, time.: "The last tie saw you I helped you • upt.I . Now am going' to help you the lighted window by the growing down. Take my hand and feel yours blizzard the flekes seemed iphosphoree way with your feet: If you slip I'll catch Yela" scent streaks that merged with clouds ' of clim, 'meteor -like dust as the wind "Then yau may be sure I will picked up Whole 'snow -banks bodily not slip." and hurled them by. Although it was He secretly wished that she would, still but early evening, beyond the but nothing came of it and a moment glow of the candle the outside world later they were upon the snow.' Be- was but a' snow -swept darkness, yet neath the closely woven canopy of .within the narrow light circle where, - evergreens it was almost dark, an. • the snow -bound .pair sat the rude it was only after a sharp- search that the Man was able to ferret put hi tracks of aye rainutes before. "Kee -close behind me wed tell me how it worry for the girl's father, To start a fire -in the heater was but the work of a smoky minute, and together they seated themselves upoia the benches and watched the first pink blush of the roaring iron monster blossomdinth the red of a rose. Then aeOusing bins - self and. searching 'further with - his torch, the man found a lantern with a broken chimney containing nearly half a candle within it, and this he lighted: and set Upon the window sill close: beside her. Outside ,the logs the acrest. was roaring like surf upon a rock beach, and once from out of the heart of' the woods there was borne to them by the whipping gale a howl that °made eacli look into the other's eyes with a meanina imiles And in truth, the thought that two feet of solid logs separated them from all that howled d roared without was cause for Bing. • The snow feilfaster. • Whirled past corner was almost inviting. • Neither woreep _nor Ten had spoken. for man minutes'alse sitting- with his -eyes fas enednpan the snow gusts that whirled happened as we go," he suggested as by the -pane. and she with her chin . he started back along , the way they in •her .palma and an expression ofz, had come. 1- ' wistfulness hi here eyes, that, were She followed him. "I 'bad • gone •overhung and shaded by long - dark over to visit Mrs. Evers whose hus- .- lashes ale ferns overhang and shade • band has a small farm over easta deep forest pools. Her lips were tight - She is the only woman I know' a- ly closed and her fpreaead wrinkled— round here and we visit back and 1 in fact her whole attitude so thought - forth SometimeS. It is only. Ithree 'bound that the minaturning from the , miles from Archer to 'their house and snowflakes to her became instantly I can walk it in a hour, when the trails are goocL We did not notice the Marne coming this afternoon and I talked on until the snow began to fall: Then I can e ae quickly as I could to -get • ner for -daddy. I had not gone far w -h n I met some woldrea They were ry impudent and did not get- out of y way when I ordered them to. . "shooed" them and shook skirts but they only grinned at me—such a disagreeable grin. Tien I screanied in their faces as loud as could and they hoWied Most dreadfully. I must confess that became a little fright; enact and thought I would go down the deer trail and go aroimd them, but they came along on each side of me ,until all I could think of was Little Red Riding aleod. I was watching them instead Of the trail and tripped and fell and they acted so • pleased to - see nie down, as if they were going to leap on me, that I jumped up and ran as fast as I could although I knew it was feolisla • They kept on . trotting! beside me and when I got, to that tree I daubed it and waited for you to come. It was their eyes and teeth that frightened. ma—they were perfectly wolfish." "You waited for me!" wondered the stooping leader. "What on earth made you think I would come ?" She chuckled. "Well, of course I • meant 'you' in the plural sense of all mankind. I knew some of. you men would come and drive thern away be- cause women don't get eaten up by svolves any more to amount to much. with snow he filled one from a drift and Where do you. suppose they are klow?" set it upon the stave. ."Good cooa?"- he inquired anxious- ly. • "Magnificent." He sincerely hoped that shwas, for the inadequacy of larder and utensils. demanded that cunning hands -should do :the eninistering. With his pocket knife he opened the tomato can, while, the girl scrubbed the potatoes and onions irip cleanliness. Then he One- • ed the ham under her directions and watched her admiringly as With sleeves tucked up she hovered 'about the. stove With testing fork.. But at the end of what seemed eternity, potatoes and ham, onions .and eomatees passed. her rigid inspection, and with each dish served hot and hunger inspiring. them they . sat dawn to the feasting board- he at the • end of the: long inquisitive, 'You seem to be thinking very hard. about soxnething.,a he ventuted at last. "And I am," she rejoined quickly. • "May e ask for what?" • . "You may. I ate thinking of -my stomach. - It is a vacuities!". . - He got nape his feet, suddenly re- alizing that he also wished very much to eat. "If you Will come with me we will forage," he said. Instantly she was at his side and together - they croseed the:gale-swept aissegearay and. entered the cook shanty., There she topic the lettere froire him and held it .high while he searched the shelves: =among the Odds and eitd.s, bringing forth from time -to- tiriee hidden treas- ures;- first a can af tomatoes that had been, overlooked by the departed oa- cupants and 'upon. which -theydpounaed greedily and disputed:as to who should have the larger share. Note followed a few spoonfuls of salt mired in the 'bottoms of as bag, and carefully hoard- ing this ;they descended to the root -cellar-where they found a dozen pota- toes not much the worse fer ege, as many onions it fair repair and a Pea- eion of a smoked ham, mold -encrusted without, but still.wholesome about the bona All these treasures they .bore aloft and scattered upon the long table beside the salt and tomatoes as the gross results of the search. From. out of the. tin litter he selected a few of the least battered dishes, bent them back into a semblance of shape, and having scoured them - thoroughly Wilson halted and ldoked about, then drawing his clasp knife cut a stout sapling. to the length of a staff and began trimming it. "Oh, sneak- ing off in the brush somewhere. They won't came near us," he rejoined ab- sently. The glen eyes . were watch- ing him narrowly. `Then why are you cutting that cudgel?" "For a Walking stick The Waves ' are the least of my troubles. But • .there is something else that is really worrying me. I can't find the trail." "The`n we are lost," .she exclaimed with. a matter-of-fact air that caused him to turn his face away to hide its smile: - "No, it is not quite as bad as that. We are not lost—we, are right here. The trail is lost." table like a feudal lord within the "Then I suppose we Will have to sit great banquet hall of his rough castle; here in the snow' all night." Wilson negatived 'with his head. "We will have to do a good' deal more than that. Hear those pines rustling—feel that puff of wind! It is coining from the north and that means it is going, to be bitterly cold before long. We will have to keep cm- moveng, at least as long as we can see. well enough to keep from running to things. Then, we may strike some -old tote road that leads to town. Tell me if you get too tired and we will stop and build a flre. But we had better keep on going until you are pretty well played out Besides, your father will be rather worried, you she at his right as lady over all, his faithful ally and wiSe counselor. Then they ate, and ate. She asked him. how he liked her mit Resist Refreshes. &RAM' •!feels—Keep your Eyes 'Strong and Healthy It 1 they Tire, Smart, Itch, or Burn, if Sore, Irritated, I OUR 'Inflamed or Granulated, ; use Murine often. Safe for Infant or Adult At all Druggists in Canada. Write for Free Eye oak. tierine Company. Chicago, Ili S. 51 mightily, but -With dread of the dark - She told him that she would and be nese a long night in the snow upon fiessed without. "Then we will meet them tiles/ arose mid stiffly plowed on. at the breakfast table. Good -night.", For another hour they made as good I -"GaAs/light. the morning, but at the end of that ' speed. as they had averaged during timeealthough she struggled her brav- est, nature began. to fail her and the 1 giralagged until the pace degenerated IMornieg carrxe, gray morning, with to little better than a crawl. At three the wind fled into the south but the o'clock, and but a moment after she snow still falling.' heavily. Barbara was preparing the Morning meal from the remnants of the night before when .• CHAPTER VI had once more' flatlY refused to eitl er pause or permit him to assist her, she sankelitnelY in her tracks without a Wilson came into the cook shanty, somica her head pillowed upon. the . snow covered, froth It short scouting snow. Wilson had long feared that expeditipn. They breakfasted as they +his Minute. would come, and now was d had supped, diScuasing the situation beside her almost before she struck ever, all rights beteg purchased from the pro and con. The man summarized the 'yielding mass. United States Government - s were conditioni. He kneeled and rested her head in • During the war, acid imitation sold •as Aspirin in pi"It has been snowing like this for the crook of his elbow. Her eyes Fere! other contll boxes and varjous ainers. The aBayer Cross" is eighteen balite and it is new nearly half closed, her breath comingin gasps your only way of knowing that you are knee-deep on the level, and. the Lord. and her bosom heaving spasmodically. getting genuhie Aspirineproved sole by only knows its 'depth where the drifts He withdrew the arm that supported millions for Headache, Neuralgia, Colds, I have formed. Anyway, they have her and her head toppled against his Pain .generally. . I house.' I inight,be able to get through • nearly unconscious = and incapable of c imbe o e ears o, very d t -breast where she lay eaterly spent, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, and for larger razed `‘aayer" leakages can be my time and picking my route, but ' drew the blanket alase around her, as as far. as Archer by taking other than involuntary movement. Be Handy tin boxes f 12 .tablets—alsa !. the snow oxes o had at 'drug stores. I I don't believe any woman could last he had aerre earbee in the tley, and Aspirin is the trade mark (registered long in the -Ilea of going that is be- making hr as comfortable as he could • in Canada), of Bayer Manufacture of tween here and town. So thereit is Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. <, and here we are" "And just.where i `here'?" "I dent know exactly, but I have recovered my bearings to a certain extent. • I should guess that 'here' is not over five miles from your home as the crow flies. But it would be con- siderably further along the route one twhoinug.,, ldshave to pick to get around "Yoe know the right direction, then, should you deeide as start?" • "Approxithatelyr think I could hit it 'close enough fer all practical purposes. But it might take me all day to make it, and that would leave. you alone meanwhile .and nearly all to -night while they were coining, back after, you." The girl lost no time in expresgng her views on that sale- ject. -F`I would not, stay here alone that length of time, if the snows were as deep as the deluge. I know I would be safe enough, but the loneliness of it would be unendurable.' I would rather flounder through the 'drifts until I be- corhe exhausted, rest for a while and then go on again untiLl finally reeched somewhere. And besides, poor daddy will be nearly insane. 'Until he gets me back: We must try' and break throrigh." The man -weighed matters upon las mental scales. It might be days be- fore the searching patty, now undoubt- edly upon iteway happened to stumble. upon this half-forgoften camp far from any direct trail, while as for himself, as able-bediea a man as the woods knew to sit halplessla within doors and wait to be;rescued from a snewbank would not only be.the super- lative -of ridiculous, but Would make ban forever the laegaing. mark of the wciods. Still, the saltation had its dif- ficulties. inaemu.caal she had de - 'dared that: she eieeeirld eastareinain 14; hind, he mist' takeZhOt.With him. Yet he scarcely sale lioae he eo-Uld accom- plish' that1 all derattded mienher • strength and eta/Tana. They finished, their meal and. arose, Wilson buttoning his maehinaw elosely about him and lidding . her paipare for the journey,-, which She did' by. a slight shortening of her walking- shirt and putting on her cap and mittens. Then rolling up the inost serviceable of the blankets which he slung over his shoulder and thrditieg kt piece of meat and a couple ' of 'boiled potatoes into, his pocket they, plunged, waist. deep into drift that lay jast.beyand the passageasay.• , ,- Save in narrow area :s wheFe.the gale howling down the forest Alleyways lied swept the sneer aside like a stiff broom and left the lower. arewth eiposed, the brush bad disappeared entirely, or at best stood with but its tips above, the surface like the &Igen of a drewn- • •ing man who clutches at the empty air. Smothering masses of feathery softness had transformed the dark green roof of the .forest into a blur of white from Which puff ball's noiselessly. The .blaeksmith shop; the lowest of the buildings; was but :a mound; the clearing d'spotlese smooth billowed sea. Wits* • two yards - in advance of the girl, plowed a deep trail around the drifts while she, hampered by skirts and inferior length of limbs followed laboriously. 'When, as often happened, he floundered into .e. hole he . . cooking, purposely letting • her long' lashes fall and coquetting. with - an onion as theugh it had been the cherry at the bottom of a glass. The 'en- thusiasm of his reply was botuidless as his heavily ladan fork paused mid- way in its upward flight. -"Immensely. Never have I tasted 'its equal, even hi alley chop houses whose fame has gone around the world." He ceased speaking abruptly, for the, long lashes had flown -upward And she was looking at him steadily. . 4 did not lendW that road monkeys dined at such places," she . returned with a queer smile and a aaight ema phags upon the obnoxious ,tatle. The man flashed, self angry at his slip. ' "They dont,"„he muttered. "Then you have not always been- a ioad inonkey," she breathed . as if greatly relieved. "What were you aefore .you became one?" "Leave off the 'road' and ytiu -have youreaswer." • The tinge.of sharpness in his reply told her that the question had annoyed him and her enjoyment grew accordingly. Deliberately she ' baited- nhanISsuppos, • e you used to fre . quent such places in your 'salad aollege days before your father disowend you With a sixpence because of your reck- less eating debts. That is the . way it usually happens, you know.. Only ia- steaa of going west as a cowboy -a) I ' ter become ae great cattleman, you me north to become a rich road monkey." Her smile was of the friend- lieet and her inflectiOns-the most in- nocent, but the taunt in her eyes challenged the impatience that ' had been bellied his last words. He be- came nettled., . "You have guessed wonderfully. ut of eourse those ' were --freshman days for me and you were preparing for Vassar. , I think I remember meet- ing you., A band of us escaped from our reservation one evening and came over to your town, and. by some won- derful - coincidence fell in 'with yoer bevy. We all took the war path to- gether. The fearful ice cream orgie that followed ruined me." She nodded in the most matter-of- fact aray .possible. "Of course. I remember you distinctly now You were a great athlete or something. or other, land when our joint war party was discovered.—goodness how fast you ram" "Almost as fast as though I had. been hasing a wolf," he returned. malici usly. , She smiled sweetly. "Much faster. Did you run all the way up here?" He refused sto answer, and during the • reet af the meal ate -with few words uttered, While the. girl wonder- ing if she had really wounded him watched him covertly. The meal finished he washed the dishes for her, and as there was no cloth at hand, dried them by turning. them- upside down - over the stoae. She was still sitting, on the bench ;before the table and he saw her endeavor to hide a .yawn. • "I will get a ;couple of blankets and sleep here in the cook's bunk by the stove. You take the bunkhouse and the lantern." he said. She nodded her approval, admitting that she -was tired and arose promptly. Screening° the lantern from the wind of the pas- sageway he escorted her to the ad- joining building. hung the light upon a peg and gathering ap his blankets, stepped back to the entrance. She was ,standing by the heater, her back $ , LIFT OFF CORNS! Apply few drdps then_lift sore, 2 touchy corns off with •• fingers En . Dasn't hurt e bit! Drop little Freezone on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then you lift it right out. Yes, magic! . . . A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a few ce.nts at any drug store but is suffi- cient to remove every hard corn, soft .• scanned he silent, trackless forest that lay i front -of Min. He did not ' tail* thatit could be more than a mile to hie house, but she would not be capable �f further exertion for hours—perhaps days—and the early darkness was already beginning to gather. To leave her alone in the snow while he went on, trusting to chance to get back to her before she froze was not to be thought twice; while to carry her the distance that lay between where he kneeled and Archer would be an almost Ilerculeae. feat under the conditions that existed, yet, ether he must do it or else, build- ing a fires watch over her through the fifteen hours intervening until morn- ing. Aud to exposure like that he dared. not risk her in her exhausted state Most of all sae needed food, hot drinks, the warmth and' comfert • of a bed, and these he decided Ishe should have if human effort could take her to them. Could he have slung her over, s back after the manner of an Indian man carrying a papoose his labor uld have been lightened a half* but h had no means of doing that, so he raised her in. his arms and started on. At the end. of two hundred yards she opened her eyes and 'feebly beg- ged to be • allowed to make her own way, and, in order to humor her Mid convince her of the folly of the 'request he placed her upon ber feet. Instant- ly her strengthless limbs gave way! and .only his arm about her waist pre- vented her from falling. In thie .posi- tion he held her while he took a mom- • ent'e breathing spell, after which, he raised her and despite her protesting struggles carried her on, seeing that she had fallen asleep in the 'Midst of her assurances that she was now able to walk nein. He did not succaea in getting quite ,as fez this tline aslaion the first effort. The clutch. of the athaidaa araaabeaffilialge tipOlritliti and the dead weigat 'of - her body tug- I ged at his arms Suiceasingly. A hun- dred and fifty wading steps he made and then was forced to lay her gently upon" the snow until returning breath and strengtb. promised hien brief aid During the war there were nearly again. So on and • on in steadily di- IviT0a0ri,060us0 minishing stages, his breath labored women.o ccu pa t employedion s , nnn c Francer e increase in and painful, his knees trembling Mel , , over 200,000 over the number. em his arms threatening to leave theivaployed in normal times. sockets beneath the numbine strain, 1' A worearas capacity as worker is Wilson toiled as gamely as he had long , 'estimated at from '75 to al) per cent ago in that never-to-helot:gotten rim. ',as compared to that of a man workea. Time and again aespair was upon him 4 successful campaign is being wag - when after a breathing spell be 'ed among the women bookbindery stumbled about feeble effort • to workers in Jacksonville, Pia, and raise her, yet, each time the more nearly every worker bas become a strongly -recurring fear of a night in !member of the 11/1i0TI, - the snow, coupled with the thought of her own dauntless • coure,g,e that had 41•••••••••1011.•,,JORIrell., Incorporated in 1855 CAPITAL AN,a) RF.,SERV7 $8,000,000. , OVER 100 BRANCHES HE MOLSONS BANK OPEN: A SAVINGS ACCOUNT _ wail, THE IVIOLSONS 1,ANIC And pay yonr accbunts by cheque. Y\on 'avoid the risk, of 'parrying sums of money, and the cheque is anlabsoiute receipt. Interest allowed on deposits. • BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT Brecefield St. :Marys ;Britton Exeter Clinton Hensall Zurich. brief interval of kneeling and he had to exert all his, strength to arise a- lone. And at that thotight pf how short the distance was to a more - sheltered place and how little -strength it would take to bear her there, a feel- ing 'almost of savagery earose within him at his impotence. "I'll make it if it kills me," he muttered, and pulling her up ahrost lands over hand he got her free of the snow. Then like a drunken man he went sth gering on in his last effort of the daj. And then s he reached the se 't, the trees pened before him as tho gh there was o such thing, as sa fores upon earth ; d the half dozen lightsof Archer a 'tided close before his yes. (continued Next l'iVeek) NEWEST NOTES OP SCIENCE A, Patent has been 'granted fora de- achable rale sight coated with a light dieting pigment so it can be seen at *gbt. A Seattle inventor has patented e ewspaper stuffing machine that aoes he work of fourteen men in placing ections of paper together. • French scientists have obtained 14 er cent. of sugar and 60 per dent. of leohol from a cactus the grows pro- ifically in Algeria. For bathing infants a cabi- et has beep patented ended over a bathtub fo ended basin' holding a b Paper was Made from bia more than ten petn he method was introduc n the thirteenth centur A new eleetric-,bicsrcle arried on the front for ewel in the back to mak rear light as well. A Pennsylvanian has awn mowee with eormu bat are intended to h elle was arobably gresates% matliematicia,n of antiquity. He watt inspired primarily by the 'tweet pare science, rejoicing in the truth be- cause it is the truth and feeling a certain contempt for the applicattoass a truth in the way of supplying our grosser needs; and yet he was . great practical inventor and had a wide range of knowledge of phone- mene. He founded the theory of hydrostatiee and contributed effec- tively to the initial development ot mechanics and of astronomy." And of Fermat:— "He seems to have cultivated oere tain parts of raa.thematics for -the - pure love of their beauty. Frobeilal he was hardly conscious of motive el all, since his activity was so -needy& spontaneous, and gave new in:ipotesi to certain isolated studies." Newton, the- writer thinks—. "was undoubtedly moved *insarillx by a desire to understand and hikes, pret natural phenomena. ,To thioebei. thre, therefore, we owe his of the differential and Anteigrell calculus (shared with Leibnits), the f of celestial Aleohardes sat rational mechanics in general, emit the consequent development of ale. plied raatliematics in many Beide est' selenee." _ Why Marry? At a "husband's night" of s am. mares club a feature of the enter- hich, Ig ex- ta...zaent was the answering by the use, a sus- men, on slips of paperi, of they/yaw by. 'Wm, "Why should a. wane= inagradr. rags in Ar- and by the women. -of the quetlite., les' ago and 'Why should a Man ma,rry?" A Prise . into Europe was offered for the beet answer tee . each of these questions The beet Neap to be Ittaleg answer was - adjealged te lrol has a red this:, "Because in thateWay a 1701111111111 it setae as wins perfootion"—a kid of doable- / - edged leompliment to each sex. Mil invented a ir0111411's prise went to this knanierel 'il know no reason why a maw Amoeba id and 'if self-effacement lEaaalara—al bite of sitbtie fesalnies ated blades self-effacerient that seemed so ine- ough blades of grass th t would slip awarding committee. The shortest usual la these days that it -"kit" the 'hrougle slanting blades. 4..annir!hvaeari.,tievdgaiiyne4th...44e 41Uteeli. ent juice from: persim on A•mathed for extract ea haying answer given. to the question, "Whig an astrin- y, States,. cause eatereaceer, not autiotriness., ill *II many." The, longeet was alive 4114a, should a wom.an marry?" was, eill. . , . _ ; nappiness.oy marriage a, woman coo- is6k- fiV,..etw° , object of life; and in sacrificing her nillion young persimmon - trees. ' - I stablished at the -univeraties of aam-1 fairs Chairs of aere,na,utics have deem ' . . . . eharacter on a man. and 'wing ridge and London and various aero- 1 !At wfueuifrkiererown t:rsestit;iture, wratoluer tkeheapeetfaciii: autical scholarships have been insti- ted in England. . tion, "Why iliould a Mall 161217?" and opposite it simply drew a,pictsioa of a pretty sere Another *rower te the same Atm 13. was; "To save that extra- tho d on his inemne tai.d• THE TOLL OF WAIL dri'ven .her ;on until uncon- sciousness came, nerved his benumbed Fifteen mum Grave as Result of muscles andi brought bun ev.entual of her courage before; had eiever ad- • Conflict ,success. He had never seen a woman There hwie been busy days in the harvest fields of death lately, says mired. one half as much. And while the Thrift Magazine. Fifteen million her beauty was beyond all controversy, -new-roade graves are Scattered over it -was fully matched by .her indornit- the lends of the earth or hidden away abTe courage and cheerfulness under in the depths of the seaa • = circumstances when many a ina-n would ,From the best inforin.ation obtain- nitiv-erelasiisdtadnorre. beaten n tohewkiiiiimewperbiGw eghtieg men are as follovis: Ger- rig able the total death statistics of Ger- miserable she had been when he had Many, 2,000,000; Aut3tria, 1,000,000; found her at nielitfala roosting in the Turkey, 250,000; Bulgaria, 150,000; treetop with the hitter cold of dark- Russia, 2,500,000, France, e 1,300,- riess clpse at hand and the gaunt 000; Great Britain, 800,000; Italy, -brutes eniffine at her form so. close 500,000, and the United states, 50, - happened, hand at utterancelaugh forced up- 0440. In addition to which there are turned about, floundered out again and anedin: Yht.tml.eervafisr. s chose another course,.going frequently from between teeth that chattered with back to her side to assist her after a "fall. It was severe work even for him with his strength and leg reach; for the girl it was next to impossible. Her deep breathings were. distinct to his ears, and several times he paused to ask her if she would not stop for a brief rest but each time she said "No' and courageously struggled on, An hour of einterrupted wading pasSed and he estimated that they had put a. mile behind them, when an ex- clamation from behind caused him to wheel about and he saw that she had again fallen. Instantly he was at her side; But so .acute had ,ber exhaust-: ings of breath become that instead of assistingher to her feet he forced • her to remain sitting in the 'MOW. And though both were perspiring free- ly from -their' exertions as they halted, scereely,a minute had bassed in an - activity before the razor-edged air had and . the s "had. set e blanket it snugly about her, and commanding that she Cut • through their clotlue Chill. moisture of their sr them shirring. ale (Ire*. t from his .shoulders, wrappe sit still for a while went el making a trail. • Fifteen mi she had • caught up with hi Floundering and wallo brieflly at times that she mi her breath, they struggle noon came with perhapsba tance coverect But the g ,her determination and cl. en manifestly walking upon the verge of domplete exhaustion. His isympathy for her was great, and that she man- aged to retain her cheerfulness to the extent that she did,- astonished him. Physicaly she mirght collapse and men - corn or corn between the toes„, and the tally she might despair, yet the smile wiy ahead utes later g, halting ht regain on until the dis- rl despite ance was 'cold and fear. Then, too, their atua- tioa in the deserted cam -p had been try- ing to her—would have been to an woman of refinement—yet • she ha turned it into a jest, and had carrie the 'jest through to the end withou faltering. Arid last of all herstruegl through the snow that.very day! We I she had .taught him a lesson whi he would always remember, for h too, would hereafter meet the lee able with better grace. Why not pentanee. with a smile as well as wi a frown? Blessed be she for h tearlings. calluses, =without soreness. or irritation. Freezone is the sensational discovery ef Viucinnati genius! 1, It is woederfu1. was almost as ready wen her lips aa when they had sat at ease behind. the log walls of the camp. The ..sun sinking behind* a rid left him leahing against e tree his right arm hooked around it support as his left encircled his b den. He had done his best, but the the millione who save tb e blood of their hearts for • Belgium, Serbia, Roumania, Montenegro and other countries. Se, if all the soldier's. could come marching back from their graves to -day, they would form an, army not less thaii 9,000,000 strong. And who Can count those other millions Who have been -butchered in their homes, or hate starved, or have perished at sea; or the millions more that still must go frdm wounds, lack , of food and broken hearth? Even the pestilence of influenza, th or darkness was but a matter of min ad the forest seemed as endless a, the beginning. Hp drew off MS 'tens and felt for her, cheeks wrists. They' were cold and he ANENT roams. Qiiacks ,and Doctors In the' Dark Ages. Do you regard 'cold -cream as as • ultra -modern palliative?, Or pure food and drug laws' as a - comparatively recent type of lees- Iation? Or the familiar "cure ail" ail an up-to-date quack device tor the twentieth century credulous? You are wrong. Most people at some time or 4,2*- . other use cold cream. It seems -quite a modern luxury, indispensable ahke to peer' and pert and adapted, to many and varied uses In fact, on. traveler tells recently of baying some of his cold erea-m eaten by if fat, hungry valet in Germany. flot we are ine,lined to regard it as a fahty modern product And yete 413ZgUell.. tum Refrigerans," cold ream, has come down to us from Roman day& The first formula is attributed tee Galen, who lived and wrote in the second century. What we use to-dayl is practically the same, though "Doe - tor" Galen's original forraula, Sas imitated and "improvOd" hundreds of Etmthapeesr.or Frederick II of SicilY, in 1240 or 1241, published the first pure food and drugs act. He was about 700 years ahead of Dr. Wiley, for he specified strict regulations of the standard of drng purity, and proVid- ed for drug inspectors, and fined all offenders. ' The practice of medicine Was alas 4e. are told by medical scientists, regulated )k PhYslelau was reettredli great ithwagrir fan successtotboaZabeer. nEvterya. tbeefhoreavehea codluipidomastudfroy mmedieble;a universigzthenii lowed by some kind of pestilential he took a .three-year course in the disease, and, while the curse of in- fluenza, which has caused a death roll of 6,0 0 0,0 00 human beings, can- not be charged directly to the con- flict, a ;very large percentage of the fatalities must be se listed. This school of medicine and one yen* practice under a practicing physi- cian. Special post -graduate west anatoray was required if he was et do surgery., , .M1 this was in the so-called "dal* 7. disease is knowa to be at least ii00 ages" - Even the fees of RhYsletalms Years old, but never before has it and pharmacists were strictly reign - I assumed such malignant form be- lated by law and vrere in purchasing na cause the war had brought about a value about the same as the charges down at once and began chafing t em general' condition of low physical re- of the present day. 1: 11 sat sistatice among all niankirelnot allowed to Own drug stores as he gazed at the unutterable wear - drug adulterators were severely iness of her fa.ce with its sweeeing 1 Isiggerers. with. - lashes now resting .upon her cheaks. i In the Scientific Monthly Prof: Mithradatium was the nr great antidote of Rome tvFboregirningetful woefarihrtss°17s haelaTtowsten1 oeurt- RDCarmic 1 of Illinois, differeiatiatet among and . hael, of the University It had from 40 to 50 to her in deepest sympathy. " oor characterizes several if the world gredients' feW of NV h i* tee girl," was his thought "How s me famous mathematiciane. M e d i ci nal value these drugs sr man will long for you one of t ese "We begin with Eaelide' writes . ,e days. How he -will strive for ou, Dr. .Carmichael: ho y. and if he wins—gods' What a * "hIt rema.inett at extent he was an orig- he will get." Andromarhu- To w e !nal investigator is unknown, but he not otherwise his elethents t,Alc)ntilhch':1,stal,.,(7 he looked aroimd in a last survey.11 was too dark for :. . - him to carry her The chafings warmed her wrists and , nragthe twhoarkve inede important contribu- It tive°ollsula of his predecessors.- It is ‘.-")11:‘,;ue quickly have supplante4 - '3-- any distance further, yet cord reach the other 'side of the ridge pott clear that he took delight both in whicb they now stood they wceil be the -beauty of the content and of the P. shelterea frora the north 'Wind and form of his work and that hede- r there he would make his night Ere. . veliMed- it Pri14a:rilY fr°311'the ic`te 01 Once more he tried to lift her but his I 'truth for its own sake." legs seemed to have frozen stiff inbis et ATchimedes.... he says:- -3 ••••