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There from the usual e, which means wall race under in the deed of -universil rules her assiduously interfere, Sir eth attempt to a should be sail- abably in June. - which the Irish s designated as ag against the ,. completed in sup. is in- bis sixty - • 1851 of poor mg a nomadie which brought d into America, he learned the erprise," before fifty he ha& is fortune, he has chosen, cell in England, a. under its own yet seaworthy, ist the leanest brought out of f American de - e Shararock has -leas, and three a Reliance has ,e last time in ,•epetitive dis- mved only as a as ambition. amulse has be - of Sir Thomas' t once, in 1901, Lees pyramided the tea coin- kft of them after malted: ampany. Bring is always in- arkback to the [isious. Early in. messenger boy eisgow, Tommy surpassing love imch time as he are among the here boats that :owe to port. e declared often day he would et sailing yacht siace his fin- -d son effort he sins nor money unsummate hit DECEMBER_ 19, 1919 • • •••••••---"•—••. THE HERO OSITOR " He was beaming with satisfaction and al1111111111111t11111111111111111111111111111111fe rustling with importartee. several David times during the afternoon he appear- • ed to be on the point of confiding his •news, but in the face of the inter- ruptions which occurred, or which he feared might Chet* the flow of his corriniunication, he managed to /re- strain himself still after the closing of the office. But scarcely were the bY • shutters up (at the Willing hands of EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT Peleg Hopkins) when he turned to John and, looking at, him sharply, said,"Has Dave said. axiythin' 'bout my- leavin'?" Harum TORONTO _WILLIAM BRIGGS -1899 "He told- me he expected you woukl nothing and eared less about the Force • CHAPTER XVI. Some weeks after John's assumption of his duties in the office of David Harurn, Banker, that gentleman sat reading his New York paper in the "wing settinnroom," after • tea, and Aunt Polly was occupied with the hemming of a towel, The able edi- torial which David was perusing was strengthening his conviction that all the intelligence and virtue of the coun- try were monoplized by the Republican party, when his meditations were brok- en in upon by Mrs. Bixbee, Who knew li I llillilio eillilllieffilill11111111111M11' stay as long as raight be nebessary Bin, or the doctrine of protection to to get me well started," said. John American industries. (Contin led froni last week.) non-committally, mindful Of Mr. Hare "You ain't said nothinfer quite 'a um's injunction. It was plain from the expression of ' "Jest like him," declared Chet. Mr. Molding's countenance that his "Jest like him fer all the world; but confidence in the strength of nis posi- the fact o' the matter!' is 't I'm goin' tion was not quite so aseuren• as at to-morron I s'pose he thought," re_ fast as c'd be expected," said David, first, but he maintained his attitude fleeted Mr. Timson "thet he'd ruther between two lines of his editorial. as well as in ham lay. . you'd find it out yourself than to have "In the lust place," David began to break it to ye, 'cause then,' don't his assault, "1 didn't lend ye the mon- ye see. after I was gone he c'd lay the ey. 1 borr'e 1 it for ye on my indorse- hull thing at my door." anent, an' charged ye fer dein' it, as ' "Really," said John, "I should have I told Ye at the time; an' another said that he ought to have told me.", thing that you appear to forget is that "We'll," said Chet encouragingly, you signed a paper c Latin' that you "maybe you'll git along somehow, was tenth., in good and berailable pus- though I'm afraid you'll have more or scents, free and clear, over five hun- less trouble; b.ut I told Dave that as dred dollars, an' that. the statement fur 's I c'd see =ebbe you'd do 's was made to me with the view of well 's most anybody he c'd git that havin' me indorse your note fel' one- i fifty. Recollect that?" David smiled ; didn't know 'any o' the customers, an' hadint never done fitly o' this kind o' writnly at the look of dieconcert which i Work before." in spite of himself, appeared in Bill's :, "Thank you very much," said John: face. 1 1 And so you are off to -morrow, are "I don't remember singin' no pai.)- I you?" er," he, said doggedly. t I "Got to be," declared Mr. Timson. "Jest as like as not," remarked I ',lad 'a' liked to stay with you a- spell Mr. Harum. "W -hat you was think- longer, but the's a big concern f'm ing of about that time was gittin' i out of town that •as soon as they while about the bank," she remerked. "Is . Mr. Lennox gettin' along all right?" , `Guess he's gettin' into condition as "It must be awful lonesome fer him," she observed., to which there was no teply. "Ain't it?" she asked after an in- terval. "Ain't what?" said David,. looking up at her. "Awful lonesome," she reiterated. "Guess nobody ain't ever very lone- some when you're 'round an' 'got your breath," was the reply. "What you tallcin' about?" • "I ain't talkin' about you, 't any rate," said Mrs. Bixbee. "I was say - in' it must be awful lonesome fer Mr. Lennox up here where he don't 'know a soul hardly, an' livin' at that hole of a tavern." "I don't see 't you've any cause to complain long's he don't," said David.; hoping that it would not come to his sister's ears that he had, for reasons that money." heard I was at libe'ty wfote for me of his own, discouraged any •attempt Bill, with a pretence of incredulity. I hadn't ought to keep 'em waitin'n "an' he ain't ben very lonesome day - to come right along up, an' I s'pose on John's part to better his quarters, "I'd like to see that paper," said "You'll see it when the time comes," ! "No, I should think not, said John. times, I guess; so fur, 'thout he's ben asserted David, with an emphatic nod. 1 "And 1 congratulate you upon having He squared himself, planting his feet i located yourself so quickly." apart, and, thrusting his hands deep , '"Oh!" said Mr. Timson, with in - in his coat pockets, faced the discom- 1 einable complacency, "I hain't given fted yokel. I myself no' worry; I bain't lost no "Do you think, Bill Montaig," be sleep. I've allowed all . along that said, with measureless contempt ; Dave Harum'd find out that he wa'n't "that 1 didn't know who I was dealin' ' the only man that needed my kind with? that 1 didn't know what a low- : o' work, an' I ain't manila' any dis- lived, roost-robbin' skunk you wee? i respect to you when I ,say 't— an' didn't know how to protect myself -.l "Just so," , said John. "I quite agin such an'muls as you be? WU, I understand. Nobody, could expeet to I did, an' don't you stop thinkin' l, take just the place with him that you 'bout it—an'," he added, shaking his i have filled. And, by the way," he Inakin' work fer himself to kill time, "What do you mean?" "Wa'al," said David, "we' found that Chet hadn't done more 'n to give matters a 'lick an' a promise in most a year. He done just enough to keep up the day's work an" no more an' the upshot on't is that John' t had to put in considerable time to git things straightened out." 'What a shame!" exclaimed Aunt Polly. "Keeps him f'm bein' lonesome," remarked her brother with a grin. finger at the object of his Se°111, I added "as you are going in the morn- '' "An' he ain't had no time to him - "you'll pay that note or I'll put ye : ing, and I may not see you again self!" she protested. "I don't believe where the dogs won't bite ye," and i would you kindly give me the Iasi you've made 1.1D year mind yet wheth- with that he turned on his heel and I balance sheets of the two ledgers and er you're goin' to like him, an' I don't resumed his seatBill stood for a ; the bill -book 1 suppoSes of course, believe he'll stay anyway." minute with a scowl of rage and de- 1 • that they are brought • down to the i "I've told mor 'n forty-leven times," feat in his lowering face. I first of the month, and I shall want said, Mr, Harum, looking up over his . i "Got any further bus'nis with me?" ; to •have them." paper, "that 1 thought we was goin' inquired Mr Harum. "Anythin' more i "Oh, yes, certinly, of course—we'al to make a hitch of it, an e er n y 't I en oblige ye about?" There was ,; 1 ,guess Dave's got 'mu," replied Chet, hain't Said nothin' bout leaving, an' "He done jest right," declared Aunt no answer. looking considerably disconcerted, "but I guess he won't fer a while, tavern or Polly, wee' you know He don't ye "1 asked you," said David, rising I'll look 'em up in the morninn My no tavern. He's got a petty stiff now ?" ' 1 -his voice and rising to his feet, "-f ) train don't go till ll ten o'clock, an' I'upper ED- of - his own. I reckon," David "Wa'al," said David, "f'm his stand- voni i had any further bus'nis with ! see you 'bout any little last thing further remarked, with a short laugh, point—f'm his standpoint, I guess he • i in the mornin'—but I guess 'I've got causing Mrs. Bixbee to look up at did, an'," rubbing his chin with two "I dunno's 1 have," was the sullen I to go now on account of a lot of him inquiringly, which look the speak- fingers of his left hand, '"it's la, putty response. 1 things. .Yea c'n shut up, can't ye?" ex answered with a mod, saying, "Me durn good standpoint too. ltve ben "Aill right," said David. "That i Whereupon Mr. Timson made his an' him • had a little go -round to -day." lookin' for an honest man fe quite a bein' the -case, an' as I've got some- , exit, and not long afterward David "You ain't had no wards, hey ye?" •nurlaber o' years, an' I guess I'ie found thin' to do beside wastinn my...time on , came in. By that time 'everything she asked anxiously." ' ' • hinen . 1 , churn° what you mean,' says Jim, 'Yes ye do, goll darn ye!' says Dick, ye do. You didn't never kill that calf, an' you know it. That calf died, that's what that calf done, Come, Ent:salmi Disease Which Causes now, own up,' he says. 'Wenn' says Jim 'I didn't Idll it, an' it didn't die Consiflerable Mortality, •-• HOPELESS • ammalmomma But "Frult-a-tives" Brought Health and Strength 29 Sr. ROSE ST., MONTREAL. "I am writing you to tell you that I owe vity /•iech io "Fruit -a -lives". This medicine relieved me when I had given up hope of ever being well. I was a terrible sufferer from Dyspepsia—had suffered for years; and nothing I took did me any good. I read about "Fruit-a-tives" and tried them. After taking a few boxes, of this wonderful medicine made from fruit juices, =now entirely well" Madame ROSINA FOISIZ. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 250. At all dealers or send postpaid by Fruina-tives Limited, Ottawa. igether. " take care on 'em,' I says. 'They mayn't be good enough to send down to New York,' I says, 'but they'll go around here all right—jest as good as any other,' I says, 'long 's you keep movin'n " - "David 'Hamm!" cried Polly, who, though not quite eomprehending some of the technicalities of detain was ful- ly alive to the turpitude of the sug- gestion. "I hone to gracious he didn't think you in eernest Why, s'pose they was Passed around, wouldn't some- body git stuck with 'em in the long run? You know they would." Mrs. Bixbee occasionally surprised her brother with unexpected penetration, but she •seldom got much •recognition of it. • "I see-: by the paper," he remarked, "that the' was a man died in Phel- adelphy one day last 'week," which piece of barefaced irrelevancy elicited no not* from Mrs, Bixbee. "What more did he say?" she de- manded. • "Wa'al," responded Mr. Harum with a laugh, "he said that he diddn't see why should be a loser by his mis- takes, 'an' that as fur as the bills was concerned they belonged to bine an'. with that," said the narrator, "Mister Man gits 'ern out of the draw an' jest marches into the back morn an' puts the dun' things int' the fire." LAO OF nuther—it jest kind 0' en out.'" ..M.,••••••••••••••=•••••••• John joined in the laugh. with which tNo Known Cure for the Trouble— the narrator rewarded his own effort, ' Immediate Wiling Recommended and David went en: "Yes, sir, they —Turkeys Affected Should Be jest petered out. Old Billy, Billy Rept prom Other Birds—Band- • P.'s father, inheritid all the prop'ty— ling Asparagus After the Cutting never. done a stroke of work in his life. He had a collidge education, Season. went to Europe, an' all that, an' before he was fifty year old he hardly ever come near the old place after he was growed up. The land was all farmed out on shares, an' his farmers mostly bamboozled him the hull time. He got consid'able income, of course, but as things went along and they found out how slack he was they kept bitin' off bigger chunks all the time, an' some- times he didn't git even the core. But all the thee when he wanted money— an' he wantenbit putty often I tell ye—the easiest Way was to stick on a morgidge; an' after a spell it got so 't he'd have to give a morgidge to pay the int'rist on the other morgidges." "But," said John, "was there noth- ing to the estate but land?" "Oh, yes," said David, "old Billy's father left him some consid'able pers'nal, but after that was gone he went into the morgidge bus'nis as tell ye. He lived mostly up to Syrchester and around, an' -when he got married he bought a place in Syrchester and lived there till Billy P. -was about twelve or thirteen year old, an' he was about fifty. By that time he'd got 'bout to the end of his rope, an' the' we'n't nothin' for it but to come back here to Homeville an' make the most o' what the' was left that he didn't make the most -on't to —an' that's what he done, let alone any pertiener. Mis' Cullom, his wife, wa'n't no help to him. She was a city woman an' didn't take to the country no way„ but when she died it broke old Billy up wus n ever. She peaked an' pined, an' died when Billy • P. was about fiftee nor so. Wa'al, P. was about fifteen or so. Wa'a1, long somehow, an' the boy went to collidge fer a year or so. How they ever got alorig 's they did dtumo. The' was a story that ,some far-off 1 ft ld Bill some money, an' relation e o y y, an' „guess that an' what they got off'm what farms was left carried 'em along till Billy P. was twenty-five or ' so, an' then he up an' got married. That was the crownin' stroke," re- , marked David. "She was one o' the village girlso-respectable folks, more 'n ordinary good lookin" an' high step -- pin', 'an' had had some schoolin% But the old man was prouder 'n a cock - turkey, an' thought nobody we'n't quite good enough fer Billy P., an' all along kind o' reckoned that he'd marry some money an' git a new start. But when he got married—en the euiet, you know, cause he knowed the old man woulditick—wa'al, that killed the trick, an' the old man. into the bar- gain. It took -the gulanstion all out of him, an' he didint live a year. Wa'al sir, it was curious, but, 's I was told, such wuthless pups as you be, had been put away, the safe and "Wa'al, we didn't have -what ye "An' be you goin' to let him ose that putty much the hull village sided with thank you to git out There's the i vault closed, and Peleg had departed might Call woeds. I was jest tryin' fifteen dollars?" asked the practical the old man. The Culloans was kind door," he added, pointing to it. ,with the mail and Lis freedom for the a little experiment with him." Polly, fixing her brother w,ithe her o' kings in them days_ an' folks wa'n't "He, he, he, he no, ho, ha, h -o -o -o" rest( of the day. e "Humph," she rematked, "you're Al- eyes. so one-man's-good's-aaaotherish as they eame from the wirifmat of Dlek-Larabee. rinee'al.° - ;teed Mi Harum, lifting was tryin' exPeements on soneebody, , "Wand," said Davi , . eth a short sd wi be now. They thought Billy P. done This was too much for the exasperated i himself td a seat on the counter, "how an' you'll be liable to git ketched at 'laugh "what c'n I do With such an wrong, though they didn't have nothin' ' it sortie day " obst'nit critter 's he is? He jest to say 'gainst the girl neither—an' she's very much respected, Mis' Cul- lom is, an' as fur's I'm concerned, I've alwus guessed she kept Billy P. goin' full as long 's any one could. But 't wa'n't no use—thanns to say, the sure thing come to pass. He had a nom'nal title to a good deal o' prop'ty. but the equity in most on't if it had ben to be put 11D wa'n't enough to pay fer the papers. You see, the' ain't never I ben no real cash' value in farm prop'ty in these parts. The' ain't ben hardly' a dozen changes in farm titles, 'cept by inher'tance or foreclosure, im thirty the suggestion that it would be better "I asked him to let me have the years. So Billy P. didn't make no to let, the two have it out by them- balance sheets, and he said that you his readifig. _ "Be you m any hurry?" he asked. effort Int'rist's one o' them things selves. David came back rather must have them, but that he would "Be ye goin' to tell me. or—air ye John said he was not, whereupon that keeps right on nights an' Sun - breathless and very red in the face, come in in the morning and—well, toe 'shamed on't?" she added with a ' Mr. Hamm hitched 'himself up onto a days. He 'jest had the deeds made . but evidently in ewceedingny 'good what he geld was that he would see me little laugh, which. sometimes turned , high Office stool, with his heels on the out and handed 'em over when the humor. in the morning, and, as he put it, loek the tables on her teasing brother, , spindle, and leaned sideways upon the time came to settle. The' was some I "Scat my !" he exclaimed. after any „little thing." "Wa'al, I laid out to try an' read desk, while John stood facing him -village lots though that was clear, • "Hain% had such a good tussle I dun- "E-um'm!" David grunted. ewe this paper," he said, spreading it out with his left, arm upon the desk. that fetched him in some money from on his lap, "bub," resignedly, `I guess "John," said David, "do ye know the no when." • won't do no such a _thing. We've seen . . time to time until they was all gone.' - , Bill, and he erred (to put it mildly) have, you made out? All 0.K, ?" in raising his arm and advancing a 1 'Ys," replied John, "I think so." step toward his creditor. He was not I "Where's Chet?". "Exceptin' on you," said David. backed into the britchin', an' 1i could - ."You don't think I'd try any experi- n't do nothin' with him." Aunt Polly swift enough! to take the second, i - "He went away some few minutes ments on you, do ye?" sat over her sewing for a minute or however, for David, with amazing I ago. He said he had a good many "Me!" she cried. "You're at me -two without taking a ,•stitch. isuickness, rushed him out of the f things to attend to as he Was leaving the hull endurin' time, an' you know "I'm sorry you done nt," she said door, down the passage, and out of the ' it " front door, which was obligingly held open by an outgoing client, who took in the situation and gave precedence in e morning. at last. , "E.--um'm!" said David incredulous- "Wa'al, but Polly," Said David in- "I dunno but I did make ruther a ly. "I guess 't won't take him long sinuatingly, "you don't -know how in- wiess of it," admitted Mr. Harum. terestin' ye be." CHAPTER XVII to close up his matters. Did he leave to Mr. Mantaig. His companion, who everything in good shape? Cash all Glad you think so,' she ec ate , It was the ,23rd of December, and so far had taken no part. made a right, and so on?" with a sniff and a toss of the head. shortly after the closing hour. Peleg motion to interfere; but John, who "I think so," said John: "The cash "What you ben up to with Mr. Len- had departed and our friend had just stood nearest to him, caught him by is right I am sure." .. locked the vault when David came into nox?" , the collar and jerked him back, with . "How 'bout the books?" "Oh, nothin' much," replied Mr. the office and around behind the Harum, making a feint of resuming eourter. "Bill's considered rather an awk'ard customer," remarked Dick. "I guess she ain't had no such handlin' fer quite a while." "Sho!" exclaimed, Mr. Harem "The' ain't nothin' to him but wind an' meanness. Who was that feller with him?" "Name 's Smith, I believe," replied Dick. "Guess Bill brought him along fer a witness, an' I reckon he seen all he wanted to. Pll bet his neck's aching some " added Mr. Larrabee with a laugh' "How's that?" asked David. "Well, he made a move to takle you as you was escorting Bill out, ah' Mr. Lennox there caught him in the collar, an' gin him a jerk that'd landed him on his back," said Dick, "if," turning to John, "you hadn't helt holt of him. You putty niet broke his neck. He went.off—he, he/ he, he, ho! wrigglin' it to mako sure." "I used more force than was nec- essary, I'm afraid," said Billy Wile, liam's pupil, " but there wasn't mucli time to calculate." "Much obliged, said David, with a that if he gits in the fust word, he'll money'? Git any bad?' I says. take the pole.. It don't matter any- he says, colorin' up a little, '1 don't lom house, an' that Billy P. (folks nod. used to call him Billy P. 'cause his "Not at all," protested John, laugh- wa,y, long; 's he's gone. guess you konw how man I may have took in Y father's name was William an'' his ng. "I have enjoyed a great deal an mp c n pull the load, _can't .we 9 " an' paid out agin witheut kriowin' and he dropped down off the co,unter Ste be says, 'but the' was a couple was William Parker), an' that Billy this morning,"P. 'd jest 's like 's not be president. and started to go out. "By the way," "It lia,s been ruther pleagant," re- • •ek m .w sentba from Ne York out o' that I've changed my mind some on the 1 the last of him, you bet, an' a good t am t no use. Do ye ow whata Widdo Cu oin • • but one, an' that's the one Mis' Cul - riddance. He'll take the nine o'clock nount'fit bill is?" he asked. "No," said i John, "but I know who tom lives on now. It was consid'able . to:night, that's what he'll do. I dun -no 's I ever see one," she she is—a tall, thin woman, who walks le more'n a lot—in fact. a putty sizable said, "but 1 sp'ose I do. They're with a slight stoop and limp. 1 notic- Drawed his pay, I guess, -didn't he?" place. She thought the sun rose an' "He said he was to be Paid for this agin the law, ain't they?" ed her and asked her name because "The's a number o' things that's there was something about her looks set where Billy P. was, but she took : month," answered John, "and tOok ; a crotehit in her head, and wouldn't . six y • h t ht " agin the law," remarked David, dry- that attracted my attention — as ever sign no papers fer that, an' lucky fer -him too. The' was a house on to it, an' he had a roof over his head anyway when he died six of seven years after he married, an' left her with a boy to raise. How site got a- long all them years till Chet -ley got big enough to help, I ewan! I don't. know. She took in sewin' an' washin' an' Went out to cook an' nurse, an' all that, but I reckon the' was now an' then times when they didn't overload their stomechs much, nor have to open the winders to cool off. But she held onto that prop'ty of her'n like a pup to a root. It was putty well out when • Billy P: died, but the village has grow - fin out of town 't he's goin' to." ed. up to it. The's some good lots 1371, "Yes," said David, nodding his head "Wa'al?" ejaculated Mrs. Bixbee absently. "What was it he said a- after a moment of waiting. bout them steatements?" he inquired „Wa'al," said David, "the' ain't much after a moment." to tell, but it's plain I don't git no "He said he guessed you must have peace till you git it out of me. It on thirty year, an' darned little else was like this: The young feller's took good share o' the time, I reckon." holt everywhere else right off, but , "She has that appearance certainly," bandlin' the money bothered him con- 1 sid7rable at fust. It -was slow work, said John. "Yes, sir," said David, "she's had a an' I c'd see it myself; but he's nettin' putty tough time, the widtlo' has, an' the hang on't now. Another thing 1 ! yet," he proceeded after a momentary expected he'd run up agin was count"- . pause, "the' was a time When the fits. The' ain't. so very many on 'em: Cullomi was some o' the king -pins round now -a -days, but the' is now an' , o' this hull region, They used to own then one. He allowed to me that he , (*after on the county, an' they lived was liable to get stuck et fust, an' I . in the big house up on the hill where though.tsome time she might have seen better days." - "That's the party," said David. "She has eeen, better days,_ but she's eat an' drunk sorro' mostly fer gotta' "E-umni." was David's comment. "What'd he say about leaving?" John laughed and related the con- versation as exaetly As he could. "What'd I tell ye," said Mr. Harum with a short laugh. "Mebbe he won% go till to-morroe after all," he re- marked. "He'll want to put in a little more time tellin' how he was sent for in a hurry by that big concern reckoned he would. But iI never said ' Doe Hays lives now. That was con- could be cut out ont, an' it backs up ; . "Upon my word I can't understand nuthin' about it, nor ast no questions sidered to be the finest place any- to the river where the current's enough . it said John, "knowing that you can. until to -day; an' this afte non I come wheres 'round here in them days. 1 contradict him." , . in to look 'round an' 11 ays to him, used to think the Capitol' to Washing- to make a mighty good power fer - "Wa'al," said David, "he'll allow 'What luck have you h d with Your : ton must be somethin' like the Cul- a lectric light. I know - some fellers 1 that are talkin' of startin' a plant , here, an' it ain't out o' sight that they'd pay a good price fer the river front, an' enough land to build on. Fact ort is, it's got to be a putty - valu'blen piece o' prop'ty, more n she caniates on, I•reckon." marked David with a ebut he said, halting a moment, "can't you package that went down last Friday." . . come in to tea at six o'clock? I want "hat was they?' I says. you musn't cal -late on havin' such fun eviry morning." to make ye acquainted with Polly, an' " 'A five an' a ten,' he says. • she's itchin' to see ye." "'Where be they I says. u subject of presidents since I was a boy." HeretMr. Harum turned on his stool, o n went into e smess o ce, put his right hand into his sack -coat leaving the banker and Dick. "I shall be delighted," said John. " 'They're in the draw there—they're pocket, extracted therefrom ssart of "Polly" said David " I've ast the ruther int'restin' objects of study,' he a paper of "Maple , Dew," and re - "Say." said the latter when they - ' ' young felleIne come to tea, but don't nuiys, kind o' laughin' on the wrong plenished his left cheek with ari ample were alone, "that young man o' your'n you say the word 'Eagle' to . him. - ski!: of his mouth, - - wad of "fine-eut." John took advent - '8 quite a feller. He took care o' that You c'o show your ignorance :bout , • "Countin"em in the cash?' I says . age of the break to head off what big Smith chap with one hand; an' -.! all the other kinds of birds an mil- , an' with that he kind o'reddened up • he bad reason to fear might turn in - say, you en p git round on your i ne' mals you _ain't familiar with," said ; again. `No, sir,' he says, 'I charged to a lengthy digression from the mat - 'bout 's lively 's they make 'ern I ' . the unfeeling Iwother, "but leave 1 'ern up to my own account t' T' • a I _ ter an hand by saying, "I beg pardon, guess. 1 swan!" he exclaimed, slap- ping his thigh, ancte shaking with eagles alone." I kept 'em to compare with: but how does it happen that Mrs. e laughter, "the null thing head -ant. ,"What you up to now?" she asked, ' "You hadn't ougat to done that,' Cullom is in such circumstances? shouldered any show I seen lately." but she got no answer but a laugh. ; 1 says. , Has the family all died out?" And then for a while they fell to talk- From a social point of view the en -1 " 'You think I ou, ght to 'a' put 'em in "Wan" said David,„"they're most ing of the "sorra colt" and other - terfainment could not be described as ! the fire at once? he says. on 'em dead, all on 'en', in fact ex- , ' things. a very brMiant success. Our friend • " 'No,' 1 says, 'that wa'n't what I ; cept the widdo's, son Charley, but as :, i was tired and hungry. Mr. liar= 'i meant. Why didn't you mix 'em up , fur 's the family 's concernedsfnt more CHAPTER XV. was unusually taciturn, and Mr& i, with the other money, an' let 'ern go 'n died out—it gin out! 'D ye ever . Bixbee, being tinder her brother's m.' when you was payin' out? Anyways: ' hear of Jim Wheton's calf? 'Wa'al, When John went back to the office terdict as regarded the subject which, : I says, 'you charge 'em up to profit Jim brought three or four vealii%„into after the noonday intermission it was had it been allowed discussion, might an' loss if you're gout' eo charge 'em town one spring to sell. Dick Lara - manifest that something had haPpen- have -Opened the way, was at a loss to anythin', an' let me have 'em, 1, bee used to peddle meat them days. ed to Mr. Timson, and that the some- for generalities. But John after- . Ws. Dick looked 'ern over an' says, aLpok thing was of a nature extremely ward got upon terms of the friendliest "'What'll you do with 'em?' ke says here, Jun,' he says, 'I guess you , got gratifYing to that worthy gen.tleman. nature with that kindly soul. t to me, kind e' shuttin* his jaws to. a 44deakixt" in that lot,' he says. 1 • • (Continued next week). 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HE disease of turkeys com- monly known as blackhead (entero -hepatitis) is one that has caused untold b.avoe to the'turkey-raising industry in North America. It is responsible for more sickness and deaths among turkeys thtn all other diseases com- bined. It has practically stamped out turkey -raising in. many distrilets. It is an infectiouo disease primarily affecting the intestines, more parti- cularly the caeca. (blind pouches) and later the liver. It is mused by -Entanaoeba maleagridis," a minute unicellular animal organism to see which a high power microscope is necessary. This minute organism is picked up with the food on infected soil. On reaching the caeca with the passage of food It penetrates the Mu- cous lining where it induces inflam- mation, congestion, thickening of the caecal wails and ulceration. The contents of the caeca thicken into; a cheesy or hard dry mass mixed with blood and. broken-down epithelial tissue from the mucous lining of the caecal walls. While this condition of the caeca is developing some of the entamoeba make their way to the liver„t-where they establish themselves and mul- tiply. The areas of the liver tissue in which the entarttoeba establish themselves soon become necrotic, that is they degenerate and the. On. post-mortem examination- these ne- crotic areas are very noticeable as whitish or gray, round to irregular, flat or slightly sunken patches in the liver tissue. Sometimes as much as sixty per cent. of the liver tissue Will be composed of these necrotet area.s. • SINCE 180 30INFICOUGHS nun Rests, &freshet. Seetbeal Iteels---Keep your Eyes Strong and Healthy. If they Tire„ Smart, Itch,or Burn, if Sore, Irritated, Inflamed or Gomilated, useMmine often. Safe forinfant or Adult. At allDruggists in Canada. Write forFree Eye Book. Marine Company, Chicago, U.S.L. v, ar•••••••••• ••••••••••¢0.01•11. 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