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Syrup of " and in a few hours all the foul, Heated. w'ste, undigested food. mice y ,, bile gently �, n snares out of its little is without griping, and you have a playful child again. Ask your gist for a bottle of "California ie of Figs," which contains full tins for babies, c tildree of all awe for grown-ups. 3enerai Meeting of the lank, held at the Head Lry, 192o, the following Bank as on the 31st MENT $7,000,000 0,000 00 495,707 05 180,00000 60,E 00 4,089 00 $ 6,000,000 00 7,739,796 05 re,. , .. , $13,739,796 05 $9,525,809 00 5,000,000 00 1,414,057 >5a: 878,911 22 973,956 16 197,532 96 1,168,405 41 606,451 47 129,765,123 77 $143,504,919 82 ,980,842 69 1r,843,726 00 x,100,000 00 ',170382 54 s6,287'08 3,857 96 98$,043 33 903,139 60 /90,080 39 { 34,525 62 L.96,115 44 "2,,v34 25 ;;:15,984 25 0,075,379 55 e6,248 68 51,488 62 6,S;1o5 41 3,46e 57 74,566 85 07,180 30 )4.500 00 2▪ ,650 84 � �y t�,l!is '}ry 73,429,540 2.1 $143,504,919 82 R• T; General Manager. MOLDERS th the books and seen e certified returns sere v ad yeziffrng the securities ranches on Decezn,er a LL Sheet esitihits as trig cording to the batt of Ea shown by the b cash and securities s it were k e4 and to bet in *cord wit& tb.. e been given to us and a' r oar static. itirrc, 121, Oso ota Asea & Dilsrest, FEBRUARY 6,. 1920. " ifill1I1111111111111miu11H1lililil1l111111111.14 David Harum by EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS -1899 'i11110111H1111Nl1111111111111111111111111111111' (Continued from last week.) "Mine'll fit ye,' he says. " `What'll your wife say to seein' me airifyin' 'round in your git-up 7' I says. He -gin me a funny kind of look 'My wife?' he says. `Lord, she don't know more about my clo'es 'n you do.' That struck me as bein' ruther curious," remarked David. "Wouldn't it you?" "Very," replied` John gravely. Y "Yes, sir," said David. when we went into the eatin' room -the table was full mostlyyoung folks chatterin' an' laugY g hin'. Price int'duc- ed me to his wife, an' .I set dowp by leen at the .other end of the table. The' wa'n't nothin' wuth mentionin'; .nobody paid any attention to me 'cept now an' then a word from Price, an' I wa'n't fer talkin' anyway --I c'd have eat a raw dog. After breakfast as they called it, Price an' • I went out onto the verandy anr had some coffee, an' smoked.. an' talked fer an hour or so, an' then he got up an' excused himself to write a letter. `You may like to look at the paper awhile,' he says. 'I've ordered the hosses at five an' if you like I'll show you. 'round a little.' "'Won't your wife be wantin' 'em ?' • I says. "No, T • guess she'll git along,' he says kind o' srrlilin'. "All right,' I says, `don't mind me.' .An' so at five up come the hosses an' the two fellers in uniform an' all. I was lookin the hosses over when Price come out. `Wa'al, what do you think of 'em?' 'he says. "'Likely pair,' I says, going' over an' examinin' the nigh one's feet an' legs. "Sore forr'ed?' I says, lookin' up at the driver. "A trifle, sir,' he says, tauchin' his hat. " `What's that?' says Price, comin' up an' examinin' the critter's face an' head. `I don't see anything the mat- ter with his forehead,' he says. 1 looked up an' give the driver a wink," said David with a chuckle, "an' he give kind of a chokin' gasp, but in a second was lookin' as solemn as ever. "I can't tell ye jest where we went," the narrator proceeded, "but any -way it was where all the nabobs turned out, an' I seen more style an' 'git-up in them two hours 'n I ever see in my life, 1 reckon. The' didn't appear:, to be no one we run across that, accorde in' to Price's tell, was mouth under five million, though we may 'a' passed one 'without his noticin'; an' the' was a good many that run to fifteen an' twenty an' over an' ° most of 'em, it appeared, was f'm New York. Wa'al finrly we got back to the house a little 'fore seven. On the way back Price says, 'The' are goin' to be three four people to dinner to -night in a quiet way, an' the' ain't no reason why you shouldn't stay dressed jest as you are but if you would feel like puttin' on eveiiin' clo'es (that's what he call- ed 'em), why I've got an extry. suit that'll fit ye to a "tee," ' he says. " `No,' I says, `I guess I 'better not. I reckon I'd. better git my grip ,an' go to the hotel. I sh'd be ruther bashful to wear your swallertail, an' all them folks'll be strangers,' I says. But he insisted on't that. I sh'd come to din- ner anyway, an' fin'ly I gin in, an' thinkin' I might 's well go the hull if I do anythin' or say anythin' 't you don't like,' says- I,. `don't say I didn't warn Ye.' What would you 'a' done?" i tr. Harem asked. ".Worn the clothes without the i 0 slightest hesitation," replied John. " RHEumATI "Nobody gave your costume a TORTURES thought." "They didn't appear to, fer a fact," sa avid, en I didn't either, after : Fd slipped up once or 'twice on the ' matter of pockets. The same fell brought 'em up to me that feteh the stuff 'n the mornin'; an' the ri was complete—coat, vest, pan shirt, an', eir, scat my—.! the outfit fitted • me as if it was . made fer me. 'Shell I wait on you, sir?' the man. `No,' I says, 'I guess I sit, into the things, but �mei>be, y might come up in 'bout quarter an hour an' put on the finishin' touch pants u 3 OrriwA Sr,, Huls,, P. Q. h mun Fora year, I suffered with Rhea. maim, being forced to. stay; in bed. Ss Happily Stopped Whet Ne Began To Take In -a-tires„ for five months. i tried all kinda�of ou medicine without relief and thought of Iwoald never be able to walk again. One day While lying in bed,/ rod abaft ' "Fr wit a -ti " the great fruit 'medicand it seemed just what I m• wed, so I decided to try lit._ The ji st sox helped girt sad tools the tablets a• regularly not#1 every trace of the Rheumatism. left me." LORENZO LEDUC. 50e. a box • 6 for size 25e. '- At ell dealers or sent postpaid = by Fruit -a -tires Limited, Ottawa. es, an' . here,' I _soars, 'I ghees that brand of eggs you give me this morn - in' 's wuth about tti1►0 dollars dpi ' «'Thank you, sir,' he says, grinnin , 'I'd like' to furnish 'enc right along et that rate, sir, an' I'll be up as you say, sir.' " "You found the way to his heart,' said John, smiling. "Myexperience is,"i xperlsaid David d ly, "that most men's hearts is located ruther closter to their britchis pock ets than they are to their breast pock ets." "I'm afraid t is so," said John. "But this fel er," Mr. Harum con- tinued, "was a • putty decent kind of a chap. He come up after .I'd got intoan' m togs an .pulled Yme here, pulled me there, an fixed my eck- tie, an' hitched me in gen'ral so'st I wa'n't neither too tight nor too free, an' when a got through, 'You'll do now, sir,' h says. " `Think I will?' says I. " `Couldn't nobody look more fit, sir,' •he says, an I'm dum'd," said David, with an assertive nod, `_`when I looked at myself in the lookin'-glass I scurcely !mowed myself, an' (with a confidential lowering of the voice) when I got back to New York the yery fust work I done was to go an' buy " the hullrig-out—an'," I otic—an he added g e "strange with a grin, as it may ap- pear, it ain't wore out yit." CHAPTER XXVII "Peoplet;,n't dress for dinner in Homeville, as a rule, then," John said, smiling. "No," said Mr. Harum, "when they dress fer breakfast that does 'em fer all three meals. I've wore them things two three times when I've ben down to the city, but I never had 'em on but =once up here." "No?" said John. '`No," said David, . "I put 'em on once to show to Polly how city folks dressed—he, • he, he, he! -=an' when I come into the room she set forwud on her chair are stared at me over her specs. 'What on airth!' she says. " `I bought these clo'es,' I says, to wear when bein' ent'tained by the fust famelies. How do I look?' I says. '"'Turn 'round,' she says. 'You .00'f'm 'behind,' she says, 'like a red- lieeeled snappin' bug, an' in front,' she • sols, :as I turned again, 'like a reg'lar Abilene. I'll bet,' she says, that yorettarn't: throwed away less 'n twenty • dollars eerie that foolishniss,' Polly's a very consercetitte person," remarked her brother, "and. don't. never imagine a vain' thing,: es the Bible ,. says, not when she knows it,. an' I thought it wa'n't wuth while to argue the point with her." John laughed and said, "Do you recall that memorable, interview be- tween the governors q the two Car- olinas ? "Nothin' in the historical lit'riture of our great an' glorious country," replied Mr. Haruki reverently, "sticks closter to my mind—like a burr to a cow's tail," he added, by way of il- •lustration. "Thank you, jest a mouthful." ' "How about the dinner ?" Jahr., ask - !hog, I allowed I'd wear his clo'es; 'but ed after a little interlude. "Was it pleasant?" "Fust rate," declared David. "T young folks ,was, out somewhere el all but one oPrice's girls. The', twelve ve w at the tableall told. to d. I r int diced to all of em in the earl i an' petty soon in come one of fellers an' said somethin' to Mis' Price that meant dinner was ready, an' the girl come up to me an' took halt of my arm. 'You're gain' to take me out,' she says, an' we formed a procession an' marched out to the kdinin' room. - `You're to sit by main - mer,' she says, showin' me; an' there was my name on a card, cure enough. Wa'al, sir, that table was a show! I couldn't begiri to describe it to' ye. The' was a hull flower 'garden in the - middle an' a worked tablecloth.; four five glasses of all colors an' sizes at' ev'ry plate, an' 'a nosegay, an' five six diff'rent forks an' a lot o' knives, though fer that .matter," remarked the speaker, "the' wa'n't but one knife in the lot that amounted to anythin', the rest of .'em wouldn't hold nothin'; an' the' was three four sort of bhiney slates with what they call— the—you 'n me-----" • "Menue," suggested John. "I guess that's it," said David, "but that wa'n't the way it was spelt. • Wa'aI, I set down an' tucked. my nap- kin into my neck, an' though I notic- ed none o' the rest on 'em seemed to care, I allowed that 't wa'n't my shirt, an' mebbe Price might want to wear it agin '.fore 't was washed." John put his handkerchief .over his face and coughed violently. David looked at him sharply. "Subject to them spells ?" he asked. • "Sometimes," said John when he recovered his voice, and then, with as clear am expression, of innocence as he could command, but somewhat. ir- reievantly, .asked, "How did you get on with Mrs. Price?" "Oh," said David, -"nicer 'n a cot- ton hat. She appeared to be a quiet sort of woman that might 'a' lived -anywhere, but she was dressed to kill --an' so was the rest on 'em, fer that matter," he remarked with a .l'sugh, "1, tried to tell Polly about 'em after wuds, an'—he, he, he!—she shut me up mighty quick, an' I thought myself at the time, thinks I, it's a good thing it's warm weather, I says to myself. Oh, yes, Mis' Price made me feel quite to home, but I didn't talk much the fust part of dinner, an' I s'pose she was more or less took up with Navin' so many fobs at table; but fin'ly she says to rhe, `Mr, .Price was so annoyed about your breakfust, Mr. Harum.' " Was he ?' I says. `I was afraid you'd be the one that 'd be vexed -at me,' " `Vexed with'you? I don't. under- stand,' she says. " "Bout the napkin I sp'iled, ' I says. `Mebbe not actially sp'iled,' I says, 'but it'll have to go into the wash 'fore it cin be used agin.' She kind o' smiled, an' says, `Really, Mr. Harum I don't know what you are talkin' about.' " `Hain't nobody told ye?' I says. `Nell, if they hain't they will, an' I may 's well make a clean breast on't. I'm awful sorry,' I says, 'but this mornin' when I came to the egg I didn't see no way to eat it 'cept to peel it, an' fust I knew it kind of exploded amid daubed ev'rythin' alit' over creation. Yes'm,' I says, 'it went off, 's ye might say, like old Elder Maybee's powder.' I guess," said David, "that I must 'a' ben talk - in' ruther louder 'n I thought, fer I looked up an' noticed that putty much ev'ry one on 'em was lool.-in' our way, an' kind o' Iaughin', an' Price in per- tic'ler was grinnin straight at me. " `What's that,' he says, `about Elder Maybee's powder?' " `Oh, nuthin' much,' I says, 'jest a little supprise party the elder had up to his house.' " `Tell us about it,' says Price. 'Oh, yes, do tell us about it,' says Mis' Price. TSC HURON EXPOSITOR says, TM he leave. that poor creature to suffer all that time? Couldn't it have been put, out of it's misery some other way?" ' y "Ws'sl marm," 1 says, `I never %pbut happenedb feller the PPe to know t set- out to kill one 0' them things with a . eh*, an' he put in most o" his time fer a week or two up -in • the woods hatin' himself,' I says. 'He I didn't mingle in gen�'ral aoei'ty, an' i in fact,' I says, 'he had 'the hull road. to himself, as ye might say, fer a putty consid'able spell.' " • John threw back his head and laughed. "Did she say any more?" he asked. minute!" aa' that,' I says to Mis' Price, `was what that .egg done.' "We'll have Co forgive you that egg,' she says, laughin' like ev'ryth ng 'for Elder Maybee's sake'; an' in fact" - said David, tau he "they all g d except one feller. He was an Englishman— I fergit his name. When I got through he looked kind o' puzzled an' says" (Mr. Harum imitated his style as well as he could), "'But ra'ally, Mr. Harum, you kneow that's the way powdah always geoes off, don't you know,' an' then," said David, "they laughed harder 'n ever, an' the Englishman got redder 'n a beet." "What did you say?" asked John. " "No," said David with a chuckle. "Nuthinr," said David. "They was All the men set up a great laugh, an' she colored up in a kind of huff at • fuatan' then she begun to laugh too, an'thea onee o'the waiter fellers put somethin' down in front of me an' I went eatin' agin. But putty soon Price, he says, 'Come, he says, 'Har- um, ain't you gain' on? How about that powder?' c , r r ` `Wa al, I says, mebbe we ha ought to put that critter out of hi misery. The elder ``'went down an? ,. boughtapound o'powder an had it done up in a brown paper bundle, an' put it with his other stuff in the 'bot- tom of his d'em'crat wagin; but it come on to rain some while he was ridiin? back, an' the stuff got more s or .less wet, sin' so when he got 'home he he spread it out -in a dishpan an' put se, it under the kitchen stove to dry, an' was thinkin' that it wa'n't dryin' fast en - as ough. I s'pose, made out to assist or, Nature, as the saying is, by stirrin' the on't up with the kitchen poker. Wa'al,' I says,- 'I don't jet know how it hap- pened, an' the elder cert'inly didn't, fer after they'd got him untangl f'm under whatwas left., of the wood- shed ood shed an' the kitchin' stove, an' tied him up in cotton battin, an' set his leg, an' put out the .house, an' a few things like that, born -by he come round a little, an' the fust thing he says, was, "Wa'al, wa'al, wa'al! "What is it, pa?" says Mis' Maybee bend ur, downover him. "That peo -der,' he says, in almost no voice, "that peowder! 1 was jest stirrin' on't a little, parr' it went o -f -f, it went o -f -f," he says, "seemin'ly—in a— " `Wa'al,' I says, the' ain't much to it in the way of a story, but seein' dinner must be most through,' I says, 'I'll tell ye all the' was of it. The elder had a small farm 'bout two miles out of the village,' I says, 'an' he was great on raisin' chickins an' turkeys. He was a slow, putterin' kind of an ole -footle, but on the hull a putty decent citizen. Wa'al,' I says, `one year when the poultry was corr- in' along, a family 'o' skunks moved onto the premises an' done so well that putty soon, as the elder said, it seemed to him that•, it was comin" to be a .ch'ice between the chicken bus'- nis an' the skunk bus'niss, an' though he said he'd heard the' was money in it, if it was done on a big enough scale, he hadn't ben edicated to it, he said, and didn't take to it any ways. So,' I says, 'he scratched 'round an' got a lot o' traps an' set 'em, an' the very next mornin' he went out an' found he'd ketched an old he -one -- president of the conp'ny. So he went to git his gun to shoot the critter, an' found he hadn't got no powder. The boys had used it all up on woodchucks, am the' wa'n'tnothin' fer it but to git some more down to the village, an', as he had some • more things to git, he hitched up 'long in = the fore- noon an' drove down.' At. this," said David, "ono of the wife ladies, :o# the all laughin' so't I couldn't git in a word, -an' then the waiter brought me another plateful of eonmethin'. Scat - my • --- - I" he exclaimed, "I thought that dinner 'd go on till king- dom come. An' wine! Wa'al! I be-% gun to feel somethin' like the old fel- ler did that swallered a-. fell tumbler of white whisky, thinkin' it was wa- ter. The old feller was temp'rence, an' the boys put up a job on him one hot day at gen'ral trains►'. Some- bodyast h' afterwuds .wads ho wit made him feel, an,' he said he felt as if he was sittin' n stxadt3le the meetln' house, an' ev'ry shingle was a Jew's-harp. So I kep' mum fer a while. But jest before we fm'ly got through, an' I hadn't said nothin' fer a spell, • Mis' Price turned to Me an' says, 'Did you have- a pleasant drive this afternoon?' Yesm , I says, seen thel I hull show, putty much. I guess poor folks must be 't a premium 'round here. I reckon,' I says, 'that if they'd club together, the folks your husband Ont. ed out to me to -day could almost sat- isfy the requirements of the 'Merican Soci'ty fer For'n Missions.' Mis' Price laughed, an' looked over at her husband. `Yes,' says Price, `I told Mr. Harum about some of the people we saw this afternoon, an' I must say he - didn't appear to be as much im- pressed as I thought he would.. How's that, Harum ?' he says to brie. • sa Wa'al,' Nin I w t I a� t kIn ys , I'd like to bet you two dollars to a last year'e bird's nest,' I says, 'that if all them fellers were seen this af- ternoon, that air was over fifty, c'd Y Don't Trust to Luck...me When ordering Tea, but insist on getting the reliable. - The Tea That Never Disa� �tS ;o- „s Black, - Green or Mixed 3: •• Sealed Packets Qnlyf be got together, an' some one was suddinly to holler "LOW BRIDGE!" that nineteen out o' twenty 'd duck their heads.' "And then?" queried John. "Wa'al," said d , David,"all on'em laughed some, but Priea-he jest lay back an' roared, and I found out af- terwuds," added David, "that ev'ry man at the table, except the Englis'- rnan, know'd what 'low bridge' meant from actial experience. Wa'ale scat my !" he exclaimed, as he looked at his watch, "it ain't hardly wuth while undressin','- and started for the door. As he *as halfway through it, he turned and said, "Say, 1 s'pose you'd 'a' known what to do with that egg," but he did hot wait for a re - Piet CHAPTER XXVIII - It must not be understood that the Harums, Larrabees, Robinsons, El- rights and sundry who have thus far been mentioned, represented the only types- in the prosperous and enter= prising village. of Homeville, and Dav- id perhaps somewhat magnified the one-time importance of the Cullotir family, y, although he was speaking of a period some forty years earlier. Be (Continued on Page Six) Dye That Skirt, Coat or Blouse "Diamond Dyes" Make Old, Shabby* Faded Apparel Just Like New. Don't worry about perfect results. Use "Diamond ti Dyes," " guaranteed to give a, new,rrch, fadenscafor to any fabric, whether woof, silk, linen, cotton or niixed goods,—dresses, blouses, stockings, skirts, children's coats, draperies,--everythingi A Direction Book is in package. To match any material, have dealer show you "Diamond Dye" ` Color Card. 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'You're gain' to take me out,' she says, an' we formed a procession an' marched out to the kdinin' room. - `You're to sit by main - mer,' she says, showin' me; an' there was my name on a card, cure enough. Wa'al, sir, that table was a show! I couldn't begiri to describe it to' ye. The' was a hull flower 'garden in the - middle an' a worked tablecloth.; four five glasses of all colors an' sizes at' ev'ry plate, an' 'a nosegay, an' five six diff'rent forks an' a lot o' knives, though fer that .matter," remarked the speaker, "the' wa'n't but one knife in the lot that amounted to anythin', the rest of .'em wouldn't hold nothin'; an' the' was three four sort of bhiney slates with what they call— the—you 'n me-----" • "Menue," suggested John. "I guess that's it," said David, "but that wa'n't the way it was spelt. • Wa'aI, I set down an' tucked. my nap- kin into my neck, an' though I notic- ed none o' the rest on 'em seemed to care, I allowed that 't wa'n't my shirt, an' mebbe Price might want to wear it agin '.fore 't was washed." John put his handkerchief .over his face and coughed violently. David looked at him sharply. "Subject to them spells ?" he asked. • "Sometimes," said John when he recovered his voice, and then, with as clear am expression, of innocence as he could command, but somewhat. ir- reievantly, .asked, "How did you get on with Mrs. Price?" "Oh," said David, -"nicer 'n a cot- ton hat. She appeared to be a quiet sort of woman that might 'a' lived -anywhere, but she was dressed to kill --an' so was the rest on 'em, fer that matter," he remarked with a .l'sugh, "1, tried to tell Polly about 'em after wuds, an'—he, he, he!—she shut me up mighty quick, an' I thought myself at the time, thinks I, it's a good thing it's warm weather, I says to myself. Oh, yes, Mis' Price made me feel quite to home, but I didn't talk much the fust part of dinner, an' I s'pose she was more or less took up with Navin' so many fobs at table; but fin'ly she says to rhe, `Mr, .Price was so annoyed about your breakfust, Mr. Harum.' " Was he ?' I says. `I was afraid you'd be the one that 'd be vexed -at me,' " `Vexed with'you? I don't. under- stand,' she says. " "Bout the napkin I sp'iled, ' I says. `Mebbe not actially sp'iled,' I says, 'but it'll have to go into the wash 'fore it cin be used agin.' She kind o' smiled, an' says, `Really, Mr. Harum I don't know what you are talkin' about.' " `Hain't nobody told ye?' I says. `Nell, if they hain't they will, an' I may 's well make a clean breast on't. I'm awful sorry,' I says, 'but this mornin' when I came to the egg I didn't see no way to eat it 'cept to peel it, an' fust I knew it kind of exploded amid daubed ev'rythin' alit' over creation. Yes'm,' I says, 'it went off, 's ye might say, like old Elder Maybee's powder.' I guess," said David, "that I must 'a' ben talk - in' ruther louder 'n I thought, fer I looked up an' noticed that putty much ev'ry one on 'em was lool.-in' our way, an' kind o' Iaughin', an' Price in per- tic'ler was grinnin straight at me. " `What's that,' he says, `about Elder Maybee's powder?' " `Oh, nuthin' much,' I says, 'jest a little supprise party the elder had up to his house.' " `Tell us about it,' says Price. 'Oh, yes, do tell us about it,' says Mis' Price. TSC HURON EXPOSITOR says, TM he leave. that poor creature to suffer all that time? Couldn't it have been put, out of it's misery some other way?" ' y "Ws'sl marm," 1 says, `I never %pbut happenedb feller the PPe to know t set- out to kill one 0' them things with a . eh*, an' he put in most o" his time fer a week or two up -in • the woods hatin' himself,' I says. 'He I didn't mingle in gen�'ral aoei'ty, an' i in fact,' I says, 'he had 'the hull road. to himself, as ye might say, fer a putty consid'able spell.' " • John threw back his head and laughed. "Did she say any more?" he asked. minute!" aa' that,' I says to Mis' Price, `was what that .egg done.' "We'll have Co forgive you that egg,' she says, laughin' like ev'ryth ng 'for Elder Maybee's sake'; an' in fact" - said David, tau he "they all g d except one feller. He was an Englishman— I fergit his name. When I got through he looked kind o' puzzled an' says" (Mr. Harum imitated his style as well as he could), "'But ra'ally, Mr. Harum, you kneow that's the way powdah always geoes off, don't you know,' an' then," said David, "they laughed harder 'n ever, an' the Englishman got redder 'n a beet." "What did you say?" asked John. " "No," said David with a chuckle. "Nuthinr," said David. "They was All the men set up a great laugh, an' she colored up in a kind of huff at • fuatan' then she begun to laugh too, an'thea onee o'the waiter fellers put somethin' down in front of me an' I went eatin' agin. But putty soon Price, he says, 'Come, he says, 'Har- um, ain't you gain' on? How about that powder?' c , r r ` `Wa al, I says, mebbe we ha ought to put that critter out of hi misery. The elder ``'went down an? ,. boughtapound o'powder an had it done up in a brown paper bundle, an' put it with his other stuff in the 'bot- tom of his d'em'crat wagin; but it come on to rain some while he was ridiin? back, an' the stuff got more s or .less wet, sin' so when he got 'home he he spread it out -in a dishpan an' put se, it under the kitchen stove to dry, an' was thinkin' that it wa'n't dryin' fast en - as ough. I s'pose, made out to assist or, Nature, as the saying is, by stirrin' the on't up with the kitchen poker. Wa'al,' I says,- 'I don't jet know how it hap- pened, an' the elder cert'inly didn't, fer after they'd got him untangl f'm under whatwas left., of the wood- shed ood shed an' the kitchin' stove, an' tied him up in cotton battin, an' set his leg, an' put out the .house, an' a few things like that, born -by he come round a little, an' the fust thing he says, was, "Wa'al, wa'al, wa'al! "What is it, pa?" says Mis' Maybee bend ur, downover him. "That peo -der,' he says, in almost no voice, "that peowder! 1 was jest stirrin' on't a little, parr' it went o -f -f, it went o -f -f," he says, "seemin'ly—in a— " `Wa'al,' I says, the' ain't much to it in the way of a story, but seein' dinner must be most through,' I says, 'I'll tell ye all the' was of it. The elder had a small farm 'bout two miles out of the village,' I says, 'an' he was great on raisin' chickins an' turkeys. He was a slow, putterin' kind of an ole -footle, but on the hull a putty decent citizen. Wa'al,' I says, `one year when the poultry was corr- in' along, a family 'o' skunks moved onto the premises an' done so well that putty soon, as the elder said, it seemed to him that•, it was comin" to be a .ch'ice between the chicken bus'- nis an' the skunk bus'niss, an' though he said he'd heard the' was money in it, if it was done on a big enough scale, he hadn't ben edicated to it, he said, and didn't take to it any ways. So,' I says, 'he scratched 'round an' got a lot o' traps an' set 'em, an' the very next mornin' he went out an' found he'd ketched an old he -one -- president of the conp'ny. So he went to git his gun to shoot the critter, an' found he hadn't got no powder. The boys had used it all up on woodchucks, am the' wa'n'tnothin' fer it but to git some more down to the village, an', as he had some • more things to git, he hitched up 'long in = the fore- noon an' drove down.' At. this," said David, "ono of the wife ladies, :o# the all laughin' so't I couldn't git in a word, -an' then the waiter brought me another plateful of eonmethin'. Scat - my • --- - I" he exclaimed, "I thought that dinner 'd go on till king- dom come. An' wine! Wa'al! I be-% gun to feel somethin' like the old fel- ler did that swallered a-. fell tumbler of white whisky, thinkin' it was wa- ter. The old feller was temp'rence, an' the boys put up a job on him one hot day at gen'ral trains►'. Some- bodyast h' afterwuds .wads ho wit made him feel, an,' he said he felt as if he was sittin' n stxadt3le the meetln' house, an' ev'ry shingle was a Jew's-harp. So I kep' mum fer a while. But jest before we fm'ly got through, an' I hadn't said nothin' fer a spell, • Mis' Price turned to Me an' says, 'Did you have- a pleasant drive this afternoon?' Yesm , I says, seen thel I hull show, putty much. I guess poor folks must be 't a premium 'round here. I reckon,' I says, 'that if they'd club together, the folks your husband Ont. ed out to me to -day could almost sat- isfy the requirements of the 'Merican Soci'ty fer For'n Missions.' Mis' Price laughed, an' looked over at her husband. `Yes,' says Price, `I told Mr. Harum about some of the people we saw this afternoon, an' I must say he - didn't appear to be as much im- pressed as I thought he would.. How's that, Harum ?' he says to brie. • sa Wa'al,' Nin I w t I a� t kIn ys , I'd like to bet you two dollars to a last year'e bird's nest,' I says, 'that if all them fellers were seen this af- ternoon, that air was over fifty, c'd Y Don't Trust to Luck...me When ordering Tea, but insist on getting the reliable. - The Tea That Never Disa� �tS ;o- „s Black, - Green or Mixed 3: •• Sealed Packets Qnlyf be got together, an' some one was suddinly to holler "LOW BRIDGE!" that nineteen out o' twenty 'd duck their heads.' "And then?" queried John. "Wa'al," said d , David,"all on'em laughed some, but Priea-he jest lay back an' roared, and I found out af- terwuds," added David, "that ev'ry man at the table, except the Englis'- rnan, know'd what 'low bridge' meant from actial experience. Wa'ale scat my !" he exclaimed, as he looked at his watch, "it ain't hardly wuth while undressin','- and started for the door. As he *as halfway through it, he turned and said, "Say, 1 s'pose you'd 'a' known what to do with that egg," but he did hot wait for a re - Piet CHAPTER XXVIII - It must not be understood that the Harums, Larrabees, Robinsons, El- rights and sundry who have thus far been mentioned, represented the only types- in the prosperous and enter= prising village. of Homeville, and Dav- id perhaps somewhat magnified the one-time importance of the Cullotir family, y, although he was speaking of a period some forty years earlier. Be (Continued on Page Six) Dye That Skirt, Coat or Blouse "Diamond Dyes" Make Old, Shabby* Faded Apparel Just Like New. Don't worry about perfect results. Use "Diamond ti Dyes," " guaranteed to give a, new,rrch, fadenscafor to any fabric, whether woof, silk, linen, cotton or niixed goods,—dresses, blouses, stockings, skirts, children's coats, draperies,--everythingi A Direction Book is in package. To match any material, have dealer show you "Diamond Dye" ` Color Card. 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