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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-08-01, Page 71,1919 W W1*!03PAIW '*4Mouftmin MIIMIRMONNIWOMMI, Mffimigim,ftwo, ormamomommom . ..m.***wwwiftihmeN)mwmftmoommi, woomamwsmelosersimaft, le pense 1 a scold- aldn't be • Stockmgis. rr. atselves to of special ter Bro*. !.rrianly BROWN'S1 STO.CKING ,n'sSister's Stock - iris is a splendid :Ing at a modervite [o -thread Eng1ISh isle stocking, that fit and wears very ck. Leather Shade hie and white. er,,* r-ar there wer - workers in as eearly dou of hostilities. here were ern hinery and co Great Brita 454,000 - France. led dur- ,) loyed in ort spin - n Over ning of the aareistice. has been increasing women at an elarming ; Banks and h r sister, 4awburst a. ea Cliff,, e the oldest wins in otee, celebra d their ecently, Federation ok nabOr tie/Inc City aesed a peeposes t te levy - on the gener I mem- rganizations to help workers. commission sent to by the Yoitg Wo - Association nd that both Fr nce and re better o ganized kinds of work in the 00 doughnuts in a John. C. Smith, of and Brigadr in the t won the international championship. ial workers ehow no g to former positions of all labor m his ade m to hold t eir pos- riment to r turnineo ors. • er chorus girl, no In Rowland Winn, of , has be ome a lilt of the death or •eild, her litisband'.,- hapfer of tee War an organization of sone in the service. , 2.000,Q00 hotel as a :le Chicagoans who r. of work in ' encour- i eion (luring he war. Garden coIlmission -dal to Mrs. !Francis iehigan. i I ' -ulture dill he made • for l3ritish iwornen. markable progrese tiring the wartime. ignition for! women •re is sienifidance in money in propor- • nnen's placement 'States iimploy- or moras. Women t ef the fund.. of the .,tled to cmli, term- eceording to the ' ef Princas Bay. irt .tyon, an to be earner in thiS Mill- . :,f)Sitifiri in favor of • hat in Great 3ritain ri 2,000,000 women ;tee whe will hot be ' we a the shortage en aged eigh0-five • eine years a rids - came all th° way o ttend the Jubiiee (naqien Miss. onary AUGUST 1, 1919 421,111111iiiiiMUM.1111WIMMIIIMM11111,15 4114y couzeen he hear a woodpe'cuair = 1 UP a tree rnek a agrand noise and he = .. ... bsay to me, Tete, What is it -she'll go E a = = r -r -rickety t ?" alk up ze tree Barar ., = I "Gar, say L "Zat ia ze American . = 'woodpeckair." *• ' . F.:. f "Ze great Arneriean woobeckair," 0 .. - 1E.i'll FA Snows = dam hard nose!' - - F..:: he say. !Well, ba' Creel She got a. = = i Were wolves and lottp .garaus -fol- . . -3 :, lowed in howling chants. Devil bats . - 57 , and rackaree bobs were canitu.ed,forth . by a : until) the listeners swore they could Ei HARRY IRVING GREENE = '' hear the whistle of . wings and the . - . = ! scratch of claws. Imps and devils did . = - MoffatYard and Co=Itheimturns and vanieh.ed and the plain , . . • = - = ', skeleton—that veritable backbone of = = 1, till that is •supernatural took his place VilitliiiiiiiiIIIMMM11111111111111111rin the center of the circle. He was (Continued from last week) introduced by "Sourdough" Casey, now but a year returned from the Al - Five minutes later a man, &me to askan snows, who spat reflectively in - his last rod and minute, dropped a 'to the distance as he made response heavily sleeping woman hit° a Flair I to a question, and threw, himself at full length upon , "Did I iver see aeghosta Wan. But the counter before the staring eyes of it was not until after he was dead. I the storekeeper. And while the latter Down in Newfoundland where I was was still rushing excitedly about in a- born they was as thick as fleas op. a 1 flurry of indecision the door was flung dog; yit divil a ghost did I iver„ lay open and Findlay, closely followed by eyes upon until wan. year ago come lien a dozen men, entered from. a long, thie very mirmit , 'Twas while Brady bootless day among the drifts; weary and me was sinickiin out Semin.ow way . beyond telling but calling for lanterns in an oulhut by an abandoned shaft, that the search might be renewed. The and without a human being' within jaws of the Logger were set like the twinty miles of us savin' two Frinch- taws of a trap; his face stamped With min what was prospectin' about a mile mental agony, his eyes mechanically beyont Wan avenin' Brady an's me flicking the store as all day they had goes over end raakes a party call on : atism for over 16Years, I consulted flickei the snow mounds, hoaTor-filled thirn. They was frindly and da,cent specialists,* took Medicines, used, kst they should find that for which enough in a Frinchininit waylotions; but nothing did me good. they searched; agonized lest they "Says Brady as we was about lavin't t I I to use ru-a- began "Fit, should not. Half way down the aisle, 'Come over byes; an' see us nixt Soon- - Then, HIMATISM formenlom• - "FRUIT.A.TIVES" Bun& kQuick • and, Permanent Relief MR. P. H. MOHUG4 108 Church Street, Montreal. • December 10th, 1917. 'Twas a great sufferer from Rheum- , • he saw the girl and stared at her for day. We 'kap& house in thot ould tves" ; and. in 15 days, the pain was an instant; than with a hoarse shout shack by the shaft, the batten a easier and. the Rheumatism iwas I sprang forward and took her face be- which is filt with brus:h. 'Tis an ile- better. . Gradually, "Fruit-a-tives" tween his palms. Finding it warm he gent shack with rale boards on the overcame my Rheumatism; and now, for five year I have had. no return ofethe trouble, Also, I had severe Ecz-ema and Constitatiou, and "Fruitmotives" relieved Me of these complaints ; and gave me .a good appetite; and in every way restored mae to health". P. 11.°MeHTJGH. • 50e. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. At dealers or sent past paid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont. ' lifted her as though she had been a floor an' a chimney lilee a steeple.' child and broke into a wild waltz Mooch to our surprise they but rowlt about the room as he hugged her to their eyes an' backed away from us him. Her eyelids lifted heavily and like scairt horsese at the sight of the whiskered face "'An' what's the matter 'with thim above her she smiled contentedly as dagoes wants i to know Brady. a 'It's with one hand wandering upward she scairt they* a us, but what the sin reached and patted the cheek. Her can it your landseape9 words came drowsily.. Lit's be after aoskin' the dom pagins.' "Take me home and It me sleep. So we begin palaveriii.' I'M awfully tirecli and besides—" "Welt by dint of mud" loud talldn' her eyes slowly turned to Wilson and in the sign language we found out seemed to be laughing at bum—"be: about uta Wanyear before twe.fellye sides I've been hugged enough for one had -lived in that silfsame, shack, an' day, daddy." wan, night , soraethin'. happened—a . screamin' an' hollerire of blackmail an' bloody murder. $o the nixt moenien over whit some Mays who was campin' near to find out the meanint of sich conduct. Divil a sowl was ° in the camp; but there was panty of fresh blood dried on the floor an' the ground Was trampled outrajim: Thin they Ion lowed up the tracks an' there at thel bottum of the shaft was the body of wan of thine dead beyont a1 savin',' his throat cut most reckless So they threw -brush down to eover him an' took after the other felly. Niver did they catch him." "How about •the !ghost?" broke in Sturgeon Bay as Siourdought stopped to relight his pipe. The latter nod- ded. - • "Yis, the ghost! He Will appear prisently. So Brady and me kapes on askin' but they only humped their shoulder and wiet away, lavin' us. Off we goes full of,woridermint "Tis abanshee they be fearin'a says ..1, 'an not be timptitn the' divil by stayin' in thet shack longer.' ' But Brady only kapes an thinkin' an' we -wint to bed. Along in the shank of the avenin' he wakes me up with his elbow: 'Hist,' says he, 'now listen? "An' there in the darkness of the shack I could hear somewari welkin.' The boards cracked under his feet an' iveryeonow and thin, he would heave a sigh like -a steam lingine. 41 'Avaunt ye beg -trotter,'. • yells Brady throwin' his boot through the darkness. An' at that there was shriek that lifted us clane onto the floor where we stood shakdn' and with our hair eisin' like the quills on a porky: Thin we struck a light, but niver a thing could me see that was not what it should. be, But • over to- wards the ould shaft !somethin' was wailin' an? we wint back -to bed and awaited devilopments, "But all was peaceful as Palm Soon - day until the nixt night. I was sleepin' with vein eye opin an' I knew -Brady was ateake because he .wasn't snotin.' Everythin' was as still as n cimitery, when ell at once the floor began creak - in' an' thin -comes a groan. that curdled me eystim 'Lt's limy! I whispers to Brady as: I crossed mysilf. . 'I dia- rernimber the • openin' wOene Of a prayer, but you start it off an' I'll join. in the chorus.' But Brady only chuckled. "'Stop your chucklin' you blas- phemous gorilla,' says I. 'Shame • be upon you for such disrespect in the prisence of the departed.' . Then Brady rolls ever and faces me. . . • "Hould your horses for a minit an' the beggar will have sometthirn to groan over. ° I set a wolf trap for hint., bad luck to the sleep-walldn' bogy, he breathes irf my ear .° An' the words was barely out from his teeth than there was a snap an' a scream:that made my skin feel like a nutmeg grat- er. Artaind the shack somethin' was flounderin' and sereamina' but the nixt minute it had got outside and we heard it clatterin' off into the distance. Thin up jumps Brady, grabs a lantern and follows the racket with me stumblin' along after with the sweat poppih' from my forehead like dew on a lily. "Straight up to the mOutli of the shaft the sounds led • us and thin all was silence. 'I got him all right, an I'll have him on exhibition toinorry,' grins Brady: ,An' the nixt mornin' I lowers him down the shaft with a rope and he throws the brush aside. An' there under -ut was the *Raton of a man with a wolf trap still tight to his ankle. 'Twas a most unusual experience." The silence fell and through the smoke Wilson watched them as they puffed at their pipes stolidly: There was no comment, no smile, not the glance of an eye to betoken the slight-. est disnredit of the story. A minute passed, and then Sourdough turned up- on the- watcher. "'Tis yoursilf we would hear from nixt, sor," he announced with wheedl- ing politeness. "An' email' doubt but your words will be most interestina" IThe circle stirred expectantly. -Just who this man of silence was they had •I not been able to make up their minds, . suffer! 'A -tiny- bottle' of I but now he was- to ad.dress them. Dona Treeeene costs cents at any Certainly he was no -woodsman, and it but a few t. Apply a don the had been this sime,Saiirdough'who had ame Storefew ro icorne, calluses and "hard. skinps on bot- , been the most persistent in demandt men of feet, then lift them off. I inge"Thin what!. the divil is net, ?" As When Freezone removes corns from -the • a lmebernian he ranked far' beneath lees or calluses from the bottom of feet, 1 them and they had ever- been upon tId11flb(eneath isleft pink and -healthy t the alert to Peer beneath his cloak of ertl never sore, tender. - or ir;itate4. : silence to see what manner of man CHAPTER VII Through the week following arist- mas carousal and the heavy fall of snow the ere* of Camp 5 toiled might- ily. As if in penance for their day Of stienteeus relaxation the complex - muscled, simple-minded sons of the :forest daily worked miracles of en- durance. The camp was buried to its eaves and1 the glistening ice road lay e buried half a fathom deep. Twenty- four lunging horses fought their way to Archer in the van of the first hastily constructed snow boat, a stanch craft with a "V" shaped nose heavily hal-- lasted with loge to 'give it draught, and which plunged through the snow billows leaving behind it a broad, foam like wake. A score, of ;shovelers floundered ahead of it, digging the *yeses out of the depths' when the eaurse grew too rough, or leaping a- board the craft for a ride when the sailing was fair and the boat riding • easily. The trip atthough only eight -Miles in length used up an eighteen - hour day, but the plow had left a deep trenchbehind it and the Worst part of the job ended...with the first joutney. Then the crew that had accompanied the snow boat ate and slept for half a dozen hours in Archer, after whichthey navigated the rough craft back again. The second round trip left the road in a, ,usuable condi- tion. Wilson who in the meantineehad retnined to the ,camp and his ax, was half the time waist deep as he swamp- ed, But the six days and nights of work like this found. the camp in smooth running or ler again The snow settl- ed quite a bit of its own accord, the skidways and tote roads became pack- ed and solid and sixor seven o'clock was once more the siandard hour for ending the day's toil.. Then. New • Year's day came and although tech- nically. recognized • as a holiday it found the men in the woods working practically as fusual. But they knock- ed off early that afternoon and were gathered around the heater not long aftei the first dusk of the evening. The shortness of the day's labor had • left them unusually surcharged with vitality; and being fresh physically their tongues moved with unwonted alarcrity. For a time' shop talk pre- • vailed, then a ,chance remark caught each ear and straight as a. weather- cock points into the wind the coriver- • sation was directecl to pure romance. For the woodsinan in his lighter raoods is a true raconteur and a humorist of no Mean ability. Of a sudden WM- nipeg plunged into the midst of the strange adventures of a cousin of his upon the latter'arrival in the • north woo, s. LIFT CORNS OR , • CALLUSES OFF Doesn't hurt! Lift any corn isr, • callus 04 with fingers - C might be concealed thereunder. Ex- ternally they 'rated him as their in- ferior; but as to his unrevealed pos- sibilities they had reserved judgment. That was because silence is .ever full of potentialities:. •- As for Wilson he now found him- self squarely cornered. To confess that he had nothing to tell; that he had no experiences and could ,invent none werth listening: to wotilcl be to their minds an open confession of his mental vacuitymwhereat the silence which they had theretofore held in mild re- spect would thereafter be regarded' as • merely the shroud of stupidity. He knew very well that he could not roihance up to- their *standard„ yet while he Was not able to serve them with a nure lie garbed as truth he might at least serve them with pure truth dressed, as •a lie; a wonderful truth, an astonishing, marvelous truth infinitely beyond their primitive coin - Prehensions Thinking rapidly he happened to recall the weird experience of the Siberian explorers who found buried in the ice of a thousand genera- tions the frozen body of a mammoth, exhumed it, thaWed „the prehistoric flesh before their fires and fed the diad tissue of thausandstof years, still cal ck with life-meing properties, to their famished dag.s. Nothing in the ,wild- est flights of fiction could sound more unreal to these crude minds than this elementary simple scientifictruth—the living of to -day e feeding upon fles°n that had walked the earth thousands of years before the great Nazarene had given the earth a new religion; 'before the first stone' was hewn for • eplivnx or pyramids; .before the Egym tiaris first emergedfrom the mists of the past upon the banks of the Nile and the Ganges—in a -past as un- fathomable as the 'future. The in- cident had impressed his mind greatly as he read it, and he was now able to tell it graphically ad .with • a wealth of detail, yes; even to elaborate it a, trifle at times as he puffed slowly at his pipe between sentences. And al he spoke their attention grew and grew until their tobacco ceased to burn and wide-eyed and open-mouthed they hennned him about in an ear -strained circle. He finished, knocked the "heel" frothhis briar and arising with de- liberation passed out into the moon- light, closing the door after him. For a moment fallowing his departure all within the bunkhouse was as tenet as thegrave, then to his ears came the voice of Sourdough, awe stricken, al- most reverent. , • '"An ilephant in cold storage for twinty • thousand years! An' they Ate his meat like 'twas tinderloin Niver before. did I hear such a CHAPTER VIII Six o'clock the next morning found Wilson, ax on shoulder, striding along the trail that led to the river. With the whinning saws ever eating .deeper into the •forest and leaving behind them day after day -mere scores of felled trunks new skidding roads must. be constantly ()constructed. He was now to work upon one that led to a 'rollway down which the logs were to be tumbled. Where the banks of the stream were low, the logs were piled at the water's edge where a few heaves from a cant -hook would send them into the current, but where the. shoresstowered they were accumulated at the verge of an incline. Back the woods he heard the commands lof a top -loader to the ground -men as the logs , were hauled to the pile on skids, where. they were wrapped about by a log chain and then by means of a primitive, sled -mounted derrick swung from the skid by horse power to the top of the pile. It eves fast work and dangerous, this swinging of ponderous tree trunks bodily through the air, poising them delicately uPon the crest of the top log and then. nesting 'them snugly with cant -hook and peavy, and , SINCE 61870 , 30g4314COUGHS 'WW1 EVQSITORA• grevvsome a.ecidents were of not infre- quent occurrence:" For though your true' loader is as keen -eyed and sure- footed as a mountain goat, yet the day sometimes comes when a foot slips, a working mate blunders or a well-trained horse miscalculates and then like as not there is a mangled body lying in the snow, Sharply th.# sounds of the Oiling crew penetrated the frostbitten •air, the welting call of the skynian to his partnere below, their grunted responses ahd the rattle • of chains. then suddenly there came a dull rumble and a warning yell that was followed by an ominous silence. Halted in his traekseby the dull roar and. ensuing quiet Wilson stood with eyes peering deep into Vie forest where he knew in all probability another grim tragedy had taken place. He strained his ears fer am:411er sound which would give him the exact loca- tion of the happening. For a space the stillness was abso- lute, seeming accentuated by the sud- den hushing of the cries as the still- ness of.a retain seems to be emphasized by the instantaneous stopping of a loudly ticking clock. Then he heard a combined groan and curse, and throw- ing hie ax aside he went running to whence the voice sounded. A moniebt later he arrived at the spot. Sturgeon Bay was -lying in. the snow, white of face and grimacing with pain but swearing at his mates without cessation. i heavy log pinned his leg to the ,gmetind and his escape from death had been narrow. But although he hurried his utmost, before Wilson • could lend a hand the rapidly working woodsmen had. refastened the logging chain and the stout horses once more lurched forward and swung the trunk into the air where it swayed above its victim:: Then they grasped the • fallen man and dragged him to a place of safetytwhere they began with. rotigh solicitude to-exaraine the injur- ed limb. • It was a bad fracture, cam - pound, comminuted, the splintered bones projecting through the- flesh be- neath the knee. The victian bolstered up by the lame of Pete Mullet, watched their crude diagnosis as he called down picturesque misfortune g Upon the heads of the authors ' of the accident. Wileon was holding the injured leg in position as beat° he could while the others tightly bandaged it with strips torn from their clothing, and now he asked incidentally ",how it had hap- pened. .Sturgeon Bay's'• reply was pregnant., with a great disgust "I was the .skym,an and tbaf— Canuck cant -hook Jack below was heaving up a top log. I yelled to him to throw the Saginaw inte her, but. instead of that the pea -cracking. boon skipper StCroixed her .and she buck- ed up and cracked off one of my stems." ' •They grinned In the midst of their ministerings, abusing the patient in • kind, and having fieished wrapping the leg quickly made er rude stretcher of saplings • and bore him away. -The -swamper watched them as they dis- • appeared camp:ward, the maledictions of Sturgeon Bay coming back tie his ears long after the boughs had. screen- ed him, then returned to hisethrowme aside tool. The accident had depress- ed him more than a little. There had been. something in the attitude of the woodsman as he ,had lain in the snow that had been grewsomely sug- • gestive of the way -Greyferd had fall- en, and not since 4e few days fol- lowing that teege4ymnacl be been eo •ifoul weary, Andtthat.Barbara Find- lay had come- into-, his life, radiant and unforgettable he regarded as an additional misfortune. That he ad- mired her more than any other wo- man he had ever.knowne that of late he had thought of her more than all other :things combined, andthat her presence had quickened his pulse as no other pee, sence ever had, were mat- ters of Which he eauld not but take cognizance in his moments of intro- spection. Yet that he, a' hiding crim- inal, should became more than ' idly interested in any Woman would be td compound folly airith crime and add fresh coals of • siiffering to those al- ready heaped upon., hiin . To fall in love—nothing could- be more impos- sible. Doggedly he trudged on. He was walking along a beaten path with his ' eyes. glued upbn the trail . and . his rubbered feet fang almost ndiselessly. -A fallen log lay before him and he swung himself up- on it with the involuntary stealth of: those who walk alone in the empty halls of silent places. Happening to glance a trifle further 'ahead he a- bruptly ceasedall movement. A dozen yards away a 'large animal lay sleep- ing in the snow,: the -silvery gray coat harmonizing almost perfectly with the • bed upon which it lay and the broad antlers uprising in.. a pronged. crescent. Neither eountl nor -scent had betrayed the advancing man and the buck slept On unconscious, fairly within ax hurl: There was a fresh, w\mnd as thouth made by sharp fangs upon his flank, and the soundless of his sleep betokened ,hard running and exhaustion not many hours past„ "Good moniing," called Wilson from his perch. With a snort the buck raise' hs head. and fore quarters, and with front legs pread far apart and stiffly braced, sat for a moment in strange awkwardness, as he Oared uncompre- hendingly at the one who had aroused him from his dreams. Then he arose upon all , fours, -wheeled and began leaping high in the air with the easy spring of a bounding rubber ball. And so slow, so effortless and so rbythmle were his motions that the watching man thought he but sprang idly up and downan one ,spot until his rapidly •diminishing size told hirn that tase seemingly purposeles.d leaps were in. • reality tremendous forward bounds that sent the great silvery -gray body fairly w,histling through space. For a hundred yards -he ran straight away, then angling from the trail cleared a fallen, top the height of a man's head with half ,e yard to spare between his knees and the topmost branch, vanishing like a gray specter in the ' brush. It was a display of running and vaultipg incomparable, and the , sight of it aroused the watcher's ; admiration hugely. • "GOod-by and good luck to you, old' mane" he • called into the emptiness where the deer had been a moment be- fore. "May you always be able to . show your enemies as clean a pair of heels as you do your friend." He leaped from the log and went on down the trail as he marveled at the distancethat lay between the imprints •of the hoofs. 'throughout that day Wilson work- ed even harder than usual. Despite - , all efforts to lighted them, his spirits remained leaden and he sought by shier -Violence of exertion to banish the dreary mental pictures that insisted upon arising before him. Five o'cl cle came witb the gra* of midwinter tvi- 1ight elose upon it, heavy clouds bl r - ring the sky and a shifting wind tliat awoke the voices of the. firs. Across the river over one -the hardwood ridge the wolves had been in full cry for an. hour past, their voices now re- ceding, now approaching as though they ran some game that circled wide and fast. The tumult was steadily growing in volume now, eager 4ncl sharp, leading straight towards bine and he rested on his ax as he fastened his eyes on the river upon which it seemed eaeh moment.the yelling pack must burst into full sight. An ' in- tent later a magnificent buck shot 'out of the forest onto the snow -spread ice, a great silver-gray fellow with a fresh scar upon his flank, and who taking to the level surface tan diag- onalle across towards ;where the man stood: And scarcely was he well clear of the cover than a full score of gatmt brutes burst into sight on the other side and went leaping across the ice in full chorus. I For a morAent the swamper's heart stood still as he recognized the gr nd brute as the one of the morning ve om he had prayed might ever show his enemies clean heels. But no longer the great one ran with the effortless grace of a bounding rubber ball, .but heavily, and doggedly—as the gazing man had run the last mile of his great rice. And now fairly in the rniadle of the river, with his lolling foes hem- ming, .him close about and one tongued brute brute leaping back and forth • before his nose, the buck spun about. Softly gossiping winds had whispered to the pack that he was near and the - ever tela -table snow had led them to the covert where he had hid. 111 luck had led ban into a pit where a fall had lamed him, and now the remorse- less ruler of the wilderness, whose de- cree has ever been that no wild thing shall die a natural death, stood ever him thumbs down.- Knowing that he • was about to die the buck lowered his antlers and charged, and Wilson cheer - •ed him on with a wild yell as he saw a howling form •ge down before the pron.gstand knife-like hoofs of the dy- ing' warrior. But he was hopelessly outnumbered and exhausted, while the -cunning ones that had run him in re- lays, were fresh and famishing: Strug- gling bravely he went down, buried be- neath them, and in a moment more his sufferings were over., Dusk crept from out °df the *Nils and threw its first fold ' aver the tra,gedy of thet river, and- the man tamed campward and left the snarling pack muzzle deep • in tiiwarm blood that had the mom- ent lfoie spited so strongly through the perfect form of their quarry. 1 But it was a dee of accidents nd bloodshed and he was not done *th it yet. Back in camp he 1earne of another disaster. Jimmy' Herd Boats, partner of Big Ben, had. had his ribs staved in by the back Ida of ao tree and was already being conveyedl to the railway upon a! sled. That night for the -first time during the se on the scaler's figures on the 'buck ng board, -where.the day's cut of the rival crews was chanced in all men's view, showed that another crew had denac gTeater wonders since morning thani had Big eBen's. And g1oornin osreiI the misfortune to his partner, ndl stung by the humiliation of behig 4ut- done in his, labors that giant sat ii a corner without a word spoken the whole evening through. . • It was a day that Wilson was glad to see passefOrever and he crawJed into 8,.. his blankets immediately ter supper. Yet in one way it brought its compensation. . For out of it grew an incident `deemed remarkable even' a- mong the °mighty deeds of the giants of that snows. CJIAPTER IX • He came squeaking over the surthe his broad, hide -interlaced foot ar stringing the blurred signature of he snowshoe -behind him. Up the step, bank of the stream he zig-zagged hia weir amongtt the dark firs and p le birches until he reached the hardve od, of the ridge top, and there paused or a brief inspection. To his left lay fphe steep plunge of the south eide of 1he hill, ending in e cypress swamp ch4k- ed with the white groves of its bured dead; back of him the dark frin ed river, glimmering unspotted in the moonlight; before him the endless Serest that stretched away and away until it sickened and died at the edge •cif -the polat circle. Hitching his p k high,er on his shoulders ani sbapifrig his course 'so that the moon sh ne full in his face, he Went shuffling a1ong the spine of the ridge with the swi ing gait, of a caribou. For nearly a mile he traveled rap d- IY, tnen halted. Just before him the shoulder of the hill' fell sharply away, and in the hollow below half a dozen low log- structures 'squatted with y1 - low fans of light streaming from the narrow windows across the snow. ge descended and plunged among- them. From the first structure came the munchings and stampings tif many horses, from the next the shrill whistle of the still! telling cooke.e, from Ow third and largest, the hum of many voices. Hesitating for but an init.* before the door he jerked. the latch Up, and stepped within. The -buzz of the voices instantly% ceased_ and through the smoke-fOg three ore pairs of eyes gazed at lune with the unwinking frankness of men i who compliment each other with curses 1 and whose idea of a mild reproof is a blow that does not permanently dis- able.. In the center of the room La ' smell w s heater was roaring_ aryl the held' of rapidly drying gari strong in his nose Unwinkingly he returned their stare until- at last the voice of Winnipeg broke the silence. • "Iinjun, by Gar!" , In atiemstant pandemonium arose From deacon bench, bunk and stoat arose the telling sentences of a Stymie, the. quick tetort of a Celt and the bur of a Canuck, until Flint striding fropi out of the gray gloom stood befoire the visitor. "What's the trouble, Injun?" he ' demanded, Impassively the other answered him. g- "No trouble 'tall. Cold in woods. Me stay here all night, mebbyso." , • With a brief nod the walking boas turned away and the red man, kicking his feet from his snowshoes, threw Ms • pack upon an empty bunk and seated himself alone in a corner. - For it s the unwritten law of the north 'woods 4.. 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And neither should he, hold- ing his peace, have questions asked of hien the 'answering of which might cause embarrassment. • Gradually the hum of the voices sank into a drone , and the drone into a silence as the wearied. toilers east off their outer clothing and crawled into their bunks - for the deep sleep which should leave ° them giants refreshed for the giants' work of the morrow, the last intell: igible sound being the drowsy query of Sourdough whose bunk was next to the door. • "An' Swanson? Did ,ye wind up thot dom thermtapeter?' Scarcely, so it seemed to them, had the hands of the tiny clock had thee to crawl an inch than the long drawn Call of the chore boy ringieg in their ears brought them to the floor where they dressed in a dozen breaths and then filed through the door to the long breakfast tables. And the Indian fol- lowing closely in their steps ate as the white men did, silently, hugely, then stepped into the open air without. The sky was leaden and the air bit- terly cold, while upon his head and shoulders frozen particles of. snow ;rattled like fine sifted sands. Out of the morning's. gray Flint came striding and the gueett let fall a detaining hand upon the white man's sleeve as the latter passed. The boss whirled upon hina impatiently, -• - (Continued Next Week) NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE • A patent has been granted for a de- tachable rifle sight coated with a light radiating pigment so it can be seen at night. A Seattle inventor has patented a newepaper stuffing machine that does the -Work of fourteen men' in placing sectinns Of paper together. Faench scientists have obtained 14 per eent of sugar and 60 per cent. of alcohol from a cactus that grow i pro- • lifically in Algeria. For bathing infants *a folding cabi- net has been patented which iselt- -tinded-iivei a 'bathtubforsus- pended basin holding 6. baby, A Pennsylvanian has invented a lawn mower with corrugated- blades that are intended to hold and cut tough blades of grass that would slip through, slanting blades. A method for extracting an astrin- gent juice from persimmons having been invented in the United 'States, Japan has received an order. .for two million young persimmon trees. Chair of aeronautics have been estanlislied at the universities of Cam- bridge and London and various aero- nautical scholarships have been insti- tuted in England. Though French scientists have Con- structed the world's most powerful electro -magnet it is expensive to operate that its use is limited to lab- oratories. Adjustable frames to fit heating radlators has been invented whichcan be covered with any desired material to exclude dust from the radiator crev- ices. A Spanish engineer has invented, a straw compound fuel Which is claimed be have advantages over coal when used in locomotives and agriciiltural tractors. •- Using a single rear wheel for steer- ing, a self-propelled, threshing ma- zhine has been designed, ..,supplied -:vith power -by a 40.horsepower ker- esene engine. • Grand Fleet Did Its Duty Silently and Efficient'y Throughout the Great War HEN Admiral Sir David Beatty hauled down his fiag as commander-in- chief of the British Grand Fleet, on the dispersal of that geeat fighting force, he signalized the bringing to an end of one of the most remarkable incidents in the World's history. 'Those who understand best what the estauggle just °ended meant and means realize most clearly how entirely futile is any attempt to esti- mate.the share of any of the Allied nations in the war, any attempt to apportion praise and honor. There is one point, however, upon which all are agreed, namely, that if jt had not been for the remorseless, dogged stand of the British Grand Fleet, from that August morning, nearly aye years ago, when it suddenly "disappeared into the -Unknown," un- til the day that it lined up outside Scapa flow to see the German fleet come in, humanly speaking, the win- ning of the war by the Allies would have been impossible. And it -Wes done in silence. Save for a sudden hurricane of sound off Heligoland, off Jutland, off Zeebrugge, which, foi- a moment, compelled the world's at- tention, the work of the Grand Fleet was, for the most part, a silent work, and, as Mr. Lloyd George put it on a famous occasion, 'taken for gram- • Day by day, all through th( great struggle came the despatches and bulletins from the theatres of war in •France, 1 eltalyi Mesopo- ATMERAL BEAITY. tamia, in Palestine, and elsewhere* But the story of the doings of the Grand Fleet as it doubled, trebled, quadrupled itself 4n strenetb; as It silently drew the eordon over against , Germany closer is only now begin. ning to.be told, Night and day, une remittingly, in all weathers, thrOugb. four and a half years,. the ships ot the Grand Fleet patrolled the gray waters of the North Sea, arways on the alert, always with decks dented: for action, and always, and as a root - ter of course, running the risk of being sena to the bottern by a chance torpedo. For, to quote Mr. Lloyd George again, "there has been no break in the "navy's work. No dark- ness has rested it, 1143 weather and no winter has stopped it. illever baa the navy come into winter quarters. The fight has gone on without ceasing." And it was a strangely impersonal figbt. In the old days of naval war- fare, -when, one v Richard -Grenville cheerfully tackled a whole Spanish Armada off Flores, in the Azoreie when the Roundhead Blake convinoe ed the Dey of Tunie of the error or iiis ways, or Nelsou chased Ville- neuve to the West Indies and back again, there was man- a chance for even the yi; oungest idshipinam to "distinguleh himself." But in the great silent work of *tlie Grand Fleet, during the .years of the Great War, only Very few oite,ere and very few men were ever beard of WY the world outside, "Hero" is a word that is lightly used to -day, so lightly as to be alnaost meaningless, but if "a very gallant gentleman" be a sound definition of the word, end it seems. to be the soundest that can be offer- ed, then there were many such in, - the British Grand Fleet. It is, perhaps, because all this le so surely recognized that the British press, in commenting on the diapereal of the Grand Fleet, singles out two) men for special tribute as typifying all the others. Admiral Viscount Jellicoe as the organizer and leader„ the man who, in those terrible first months, when Great Britain was struggling -against fearful odds, stood in the breach, and held It, and Ade rairal Sir David Beatty, the coura,ge- eus leader and the "great. fighter," who finished the work that Lord 'Jellicoe began. Behind these two Men starid 430,000 others, whose aim and achievement was a simple faith- fulness to that great tradition of the British Navy that every man should, "do, his . duty," • Skunks. Skunks become ' quite contentedwhen domesticated and the objec- tionable odor that has made this ani- mal offensive, yet whkh saves it from its many enemies, is rarely enema/lee tered on a fur farm," says the Argoee,tet, The odor is notieeable. only whele the skunk is put on the defenoive, and on fur farms it is easy to avoid arousing its anger and excitement to the point:where it is obliged to use Its only Means of defence for its own protection. Skunks Are as playful as kittens and always better natured* Not flo Stela •China's position as one of the sick nations of the earth does not seent so -hopeless if one considers -what her nattral resources are. "No man," says the World Ont - Took, "has computed them, There is enough coal in the one province a Shansi to last the entire world for some hundreds of years. t "China has also great Iran mines, The copper /nines of Szechwan and Yunnan are very rich and may make China the greatest copper producing nation in the World. She is now pr9-• clueing a large amount of antimony. There are possibilities of gold and • silver in North China and in the mountains of Eastern Tibet. t'Lliere are even unheard of possi- bilities in Chinese agriculture. Their land is eonstantly enriehed and irri- gated, and after 5,000 years the-Chi- neee farms still average from two to four crops a year," - Jamaica Wants 'Fleur. Jamaita, expects to import this year 227,500 bareels of Dour, chief- ly from Canada and the etiniteei.