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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1926-08-27, Page 7s �+t 2 4 (continued from last week The Colonel noticed a calm. little smile fringing her generous mouth. He ' wished he could tell, by intuition, what she was thinking about - and what effect a hot wild -blackberry pie was ultimately to have upon the val- ue of his minority holding in the Laguna Grande Lumber Company. CHAPTER IX Not until dinner was finished and father and son had repaired to tb.e library for their coffee and cigars did Bryce Cardigan advert to the subject of his father's business affairs. "Well, John Cardigan," he declar- ed comfortably, "to -day is Friday. I'll spend Saturday and Sunday in sinful sloth and the renewal of old acquaintance, and on 'Monday I'll sit in at your desk and give you a long - deferred vacation. How about that programme, pard?" "Our affairs art in such shape that they could not possibly be hurt or bettered, no matter who takes charge of them now," Cardigan replied bit- terly. 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Your name or your ancestor's may be In the list. Send $1.00 (one dollar) at once for book. International Claim Agency Dept. 296, Pittsburgh, Pa., U. S. A. 2930 -td LONDON AND WINGHAM North. a.m. p.m. 10.16 6.04 10.30 6.18 10.35 6.23 10.44 6.32 10.58 6.46 11.05 6.52 11.15 6.52 11.21 6.5q 11.35 7.1.2 11.44 7.21 11.56 7.33 12.08 7.45 12.08 12.12 7:55 Exeter Hensall Kippen Brucefield Clinton Jct. Clinton, Ar. Clinton, Lv. Clinton Jct. Londesborough Blyth , . .. Belgrave Wingham Jct., Ar Wingham Jct., Lv Wingham South. 7.45! B.M. p.m. Wingham 6.55 3.15 Wingham Jct, 7.01 3.21 Belgrave 7.15 3.32 Blyth '7.27 3.44 Londesborough 7.35 3.52 Clinton Jct. 7.49 4.06 Clinton 7.56 4.13 Clinton Jct. 8.03 4.20 Brucefield 8.15 4.32 Kippen 8.22 4,40 Hensall 8.32 4.50 Exeter 8.47 5.05 C. N. R. TIME TABLE East a -m. p.m. Goderich 6.00 2.20 Holmesville 6.17 2.37 Clinton 6.25 2.52 Seaforth 6.41 3.12 St. Columban 6.49 3.20 Dublin 6.54 3.28 West A.M. p.m. p.m. Dublin 10.37 5.38 9.37 St. Columban10.42 6.44 Seaforth 10.53 5.53 9.50 Clinton 11.10 6.08 10.04 Holmesville 11.20 7.03 10.13 Goderich 11.40 7.20 10.30 C. P. R. TIME TABLE East Goderich Menset McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto West. a.m. 5.50 5.55• 6.04 6.11 6.25 6.40 6.52 10.25 a.m. tip slito 7.40 Me 1atl fht . 11.48 'Waite,. 12.01 $iii 12.12 0 12.28 ,,.4...! Y.iYY... a1t2f.84 .yciaCisb.Yii.Y•r 12 41 ++►sir -2445 hie fttlallf .000k gtoi;'. l'e he.._, *like the !' tail The. Aid mon.* "The Sq ,Crq eh?" Once get 'ted,' Again, the old" raft a dd wrote.1fl all a12otit le*t" 'Yoe clue ti.nued. "Toe had hen,OW e ; rub ala- ever way :he ternieleeee et etua1Iy. b1 eked in feet, dist the ou1y pleaaur'e. he has derived a from hie itivestmene Once . is the , knowledge that he owns two thousand acres. of timber Stith the e Kelusive right' to • Pay, taatest on.v it,. Walk in it, leek at et and adriire j -- in fact, do everything except log it, mill it, and realize on kis investment, It must make -him feel like a baily jackass." "On the other hand," his father re- minded him, "no matter what the Colonel's feeling on that- snore may be, misery loves 'company, and not until I had pulled out of the Squaw Creek country and started logging in the San Hedrin watershed, did I re- alize that I had been considerable of a jackass myself," "Yes," Bryce admitted, "there can be no doubt but that you cut off your nose to spite your face." There was silence between them for several minutes. Bryce's thoughts harked back to that first season of logging in the San Hedrin, when the cloud 'burst had caught the river filled with Cardigan logs and whirled them down to the bay, to crash through the log -boom -at tidewater and con- tinue out to the open sea. In his mind's eye he could shall see the red - ink figures on the profit -and -loss statement Sinclair, his father's man- ager, had presented at the end of that year. The old man appeared to divine the trend of his son's thoughts. "Yes, Bryce, that was a disastrous year," he declared. "The mere loss of the logs was a severe blow, but in addi- tion I had to pay out quite a little money to settle with my customers. I was loaded up with low-priced or- ders that year; although I didn't ex- pect to make any money. The orders were merely taken to keep the men employed. You understated, Bryce! I had a good crew, the finest in the country; and if I had shut down, my men would have scattered and -well, you know how hard it is to get that kind of a crew together again. Be- sides, I had never failed my boys be- fore, and I couldn't bear the thought of failing them then. Half the mills in the country were shut down at the time, and there was a lot of distress among the unemployed. I couldn't do it, Bryce." Bryce nodded. "And when you lost the logs, you couldn't fill those low- priced orders. Then the market com- menced to jump and advanced three dollars in three months-" "Exactly, my son. And my cus- tomers began to crowd me to fill those old orders. Praise be, my regular customers knew I wasn't the kind o!' lumberman who tries to crawl out of filling low-priced orders after the market has gone up. Nevertheless I couldn't expect them to suffer with me; my failure to perform my con- tracts, wile unavoidable, neverthe- less would have caused them a severe loss, and when they were forced to buy elsewhere, I paid them the dif- ference between the price they paid my competitors and the price at which they originally placed their orders with me. And the delay in delivery caused then further Loss." "How much " "Nearly a hundred thousand - to settle for losses to my local custom- ers alone. Among my orders I had three million feet of clear lutnber for shipment to the United Kingdom, ami these foreign customers, thinking I was trying to crawfish on my con- tracts, sued me and got judgment for actual and exemplary damages for my failure to perform, while the de-, murrage on the ships they sent to freight the lumber sent me hustling to the bank to borrow money. He smoked meditatively for a min- ute. "I've always been land-poor," he explained apologetically. "Nev_•r kept much of a reserve working -cap- ital for emergencies, you know. When- ever I had idle money, I put it intn timber in the San Hedrin watershed, hecause I realized that some day the railroad would build in from the south, tap that timber, and double its value. I've not as yet found reason to doubt the wisdom of niy course; hut" --he sighed --"the railroad is a long time coming!" John Cardigan here spoke of a most important factor in the situation. The crying need of the country was a feeder to some transcontinental railroad. By reason of natural bar- riers, Humboldt County was not eas- ily accessible to the outside world except from the sea, and even this avenue of ingress and egress would be closed for days at a stretch when the harbour bar was on a rampage. With the exception of a strip of level, fertile land, perhaps five miles wide and thirty miles long and contiguous to the seacoast, the heavily timbered mountains to the north, east and south rendered the building of a railroad that would connect Humboldt County with the outside world a profoundly difficult and expensive task. The Northwestern Pacific indeed, had been slowly building from San Fran- cisco Bay tip through Marin and Son- oma counties to Willits in Mendocino County. But there it had stuck to await that indefinite day when its finances and the courage of its board of directors shoul'r prove equal to the colossal task of continuing the road two hundred miles through the mountains to Sequoia on Humboldt Bay. For twenty years the Humboldt pioneers had lived in hope of this; but eventually they had died in des- pair or were in prooess of doing so. "Don't worry, Dad. It will come," Bryce assured his father. "I't's bound to." "Yes, but not in my day, And when it comes, a stranger may own your San Hedrin timber and reap the re- ward of niy lifetime of labour." Again a silenee fell between them, broken presently by the old man, "That was a n>,istalre-logging in the San 'Iledriti," he. observ`ed.. "'X had m1' lesson that first year, but 1 didn't heed it. If I bad abandoitted ;lee camps there, poclt ted i iy �.144e, pal' ' Colenel Petlningtniti •" tWo dog, . f oft d `'.ee; uttin d'hen,they' t Extraet Tale 'Chock-full `o r ae a that are ext �d a liverof the coil- the,.`t'ha't are a realbel to � ;lli ?cu down, ripen .and women.. Try these sugar;coated ,:tasteless tablets • for ' 80 aY0-74f they (fon't help :greatly, get your niquey back. One woman gained tan pounds in twenty-two date • ,Sixty tablets; sixty cents. Ask any druggist for McCoy's Cod Liver ,Extract Tablets. Direc- tions and formula on each box. "Get McCoy's the original and genuine." my old logging -road, I would have been safe to -day. But I was stub- born; I'd played the game so long, you know -I didn't want to let that man Pennington outgame me. So I tackled the San Hedrin again. We put thirty million feet of logs into the river that year, and when the freshet came, McTavish managed to make a fairly successful drive. But he wars all whiter on the 'job, and when spring came and the men went into the woods again, they had to leave nearly a million feet of heavy butt logs permanently stranded in the slack water along the banks, while perhaps another million feet of light- er logs had been lifted out of the cl'iannel by the overflow and left high and dry when the water receded. There they were, Bryce, scattered up and down the river, far from the cables and logging -donkeys, the only power we could use to get those mon- sters back into the river again, and I was forced to decide whether they should be abandoned or split during the summer into railroad ties, posts, pickets, and shakes -commodities for which there was very little call at the time and in which, even when sold there could be no profit after deduct- ing the cost of the twenty -mile wa- gon haul to Sequoia, and the water freight from Sequoia to market. So I abandoned them." "I remember that phase of it, part- ner." "To log it the third year onlymeant that more of those heavy logs would jam and spell more loss. Besides, there was always danger of another cloud -burst which would put me out of business completely, and I couldn't afford the risk." "That was the time you should have offered Colonel Pennington a handsome profit un his Squaw Creek timber, pal." "If my hindsight was as good as my foresight, and I had my eyesight I wouldn't be in this dilemma at all," the old man retorted briskly. "It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, and besides, I was obsessed with the need of protecting your heritage from attack in any direction." John Cardigan straightened up in his chair and laid the tip of his right index finger in the centre of the palm of his left hand. "Here was the sit- uation, Bryce: The centre of my palm represents Sequoia; the end of my fingers represents the San Hedrin timber twenty miles south. Now, if the railroad built in from the south, you would win. But if it built in from Grant's Pass, Oregon, on th:• north from the base of my hand, the � terminus of the line would be Sequoia, twenty miles from your timber in the San Hedrin watershed!" Bryce nodded. "In which event," he replied, "we would be in much the same position with our San I{t'rlrin timber as Colonel Pennington is with his Squaw Creek timber. We would have the comforting knowledge that we owned it and paid taxes on it but couldn't do a dad -burned thing with it!" "Right you are! The thing to do, then, as I viewed the situation, Bryce, was to acquire a body of timber north of Sequoia and he prepared for either eventuality. And this I did." Silence again descended upon them; and Bryce, gazing into the open fire- place, recalled an event in that per- iod of his father's activities: Old Bill Henderson had come up to their house to dinner one night, and quite' suddenly, in the midst of his soup, the old fox had glared across at his hast and bellowed: - "John, I hear you've bought. six thousand acres up in Township Nine." ,John Cardigan had merely nodded, and Henderson had continued: "Going to log it or hold it for in- vestment?" "It was a good buy," Cardigan had replied enigmatically; "so I thought. I'd better take it at the price. I sup- pose Bryce will log it some day." "Then I wish Bryce wasn't such a hoy, John. See here, new, neighbour. I'll 'fess up. I took that money Pen- nington gave me for my Squaw Creek timber and put it back into redwood After Every Meal ' It doesn't take much to - keep you in tri. Nature only asks a little help. Wrigley's, after every meal, benefits teeth, breath, appetite and digestion. A Flavor for Every Taste ro's tweli o build to get arid` ., I a?av&n't tlrtotti to :maks. the Y cadet With m e, a ghli, and v road and operate list•froi teres' ", .. "I'll not throw my time of life, 1:ellenit the worry 'of • building and operating twelve 111, rt, either. still, you troubles. ,ea ,:.ging.-road the mill, fly money throw in build the joint in- • u, Bill, at lit to have fl intaining, Wof private railroad. But I'll loait„ $iLt, without security --e a. "You'll have to take unsecured note, John. Everything 've got is hocked." "-the money you neeij to build and equip the road," O..' d Cardi- gan. "In return you are to shoulder all the grief and worry of the road and give me a ten-year contract at a dollar and a half per thousand feet, to haul my logs down, be. tidewater with your own. My mislhnum haul will be twenty-five million .feet annu- ally, and my maximum • fifty mil- lion-" "Sold!" cried Henderson, And it was even so. Bryce came out of his reverie. "And now?" he querier of his father. "I mortgaged the San Iiiedrin tim- ber in the south to buy 1 etimber in the north, my son; then. after I com- menced logging in my new holdings, came several long, lean years of fam- ine. .i stuck it out, honing for a change for the better; I couldn't bear to close down my mill and. logging - camps, for the reason that I could stand the loss far more readily than the men who worked for me and de- pended upon me. But the. market dragged in the doldrums, rand Bill Henderson died, and his boys gut dis- couraged, and---" A sudden flash of inspiration il- lumined Bryce Cardigan's brain, "And they sold out to Colonel Pennington," he cried. "Exactly. The Colonel -took over my contract with Henderson's comp- any, along with the other asset.;, and it was incumbent upon him, as as- signee, to fulfill the contract. Fur the past two years the market for red- wood has been most gratifying, amt if 1 could only have gotten a maxi- mum supply of logs over Penning - ton's road, I'd have worked out of the hole, but " "Ile manages to hold you to a min- imum annual haul of twenty-li million feet, eh?" John cardigan nodded. "He claims he's short of rolling -stock - t.ha: wrecks and fires have each:messed the road. He can always Lid ex-' cures for failing to spot in legging - trucks for Cardigan's logs. L'i:l Hen- derson never played the game that way. He gave me what I wanted and never held me to the minimum haulage when I was prepared ' i give him the maximum." "What does Colonel Pennington want, pard?" "He wants," said John " Ydigan slowly, "my Valley of the Giants and a right of way throorgh my land from the valley to a leg -dump on dee; water." • "And you refused him?" "Naturally. You know my idea,' on that hig timber." His old head , sank low on hi, breast. '•Folks call m Cardigans Redwood: now,tth murmured. "Cardigan', Redwoods and Pennington could cut t Bryce, the man hasn't a so "Rut [ fait to see what Cardigan's Redweeds lin.t. the impending ruin of the Redwood Lumber ('omhai.y, reminded him. "We ha•. •• timber we want." "My ten-year cont rar•' h. more year to run, and noon to get Pennington to r. nr was very nice and s c..e! i• named me a freight-r:r•.•, newal of the contract five years, i of three dollars per th ...-and feet That rate is prohibitive II. puts us nut of business." FROM TO 'AM n i4s if``� (Un1Ian Stat 1'ra!) Sept.;. 3 12. i rtM F Special through cars from other principal points connecting with the above Canadian' Nationat:A"t'nts," THROUGH TRAINS -COMFORTABLE COLONIST CARS-APOS„„ ,}'f;$; FOR wit Purchase your ticketa,to Winnipeg via Camellias National Railways lvl eth r At arkpl; your West is a point on the Canadian National. Tickets and all inf xuiatioa from i+t rest Age Travel CANADIAN D/A,,, NA TION Sumner," he said, "I shouldn't have growled - so." "Well, you're forgiven -for several reasons, but principally for sending me that delicious blackberry pie. Of course, it discoloured my teeth temp- orarily, but I don't care. The pie was worth it, and you were awfully dear to think of sending it. Thank you so much." "Glad you- liked it, Miss Sumner. I dare to hope that I may have the privilege of seeing you soon again." "Of course. One good pie deserves another. Some evening next week, when that dear old daddy of yours can spare his boy, you might be in- terested to see our burl -redwood -pan- elled dining room Uncle Seth is so proud of. I'm too recent an arrival to know the hour at which Uncle Seth dines, but I'll let you know later and name a definite date. Would Thurs- day night be convenient?" "Perfectly. Thank you a thousand times." She bade him good -night. As he turned from the telephone, his father looked up. "What are you going to do to -morrow, lad?" he queried, "I have to do some thinking to- morrow," Bryce answered. "So I'm going up into Cardigan's Redwoods to do it. Up there a fellow can get set, as it were, to put over a thought with a punch in it." "The dogwoods and rhododenhron are blooming now," the old man mur- mured wistfully. Bryce knew what ' he was thinking of. "I'll attend to the flowers for Mother," he assured Cardigan, and he added fiercely: "And I'll attend to the battle for Father. We may lose, but that man Penning- ton will know he's been in a fight before we fir He broke off abruptly, for he had just remembered that he was to dine at the Pennington house the follow- ing Thursday -and he was not the sort of man who smilingly breaks bread with his enemy. CHAPTER X For many years there had been installed in Cardigan's mill a clock set to 'United States observatory time and corrected hourly by the telegraph company. It was the only clock of its kind in Sequoia; hence folk set. their watches by it, or rather by the whistle en Cardigan's mill. With a due appreciation of the important function of this clock toward his fel- item! Oh' 1"w-IA."' old Zeh Curry, the chief ! " !engineer and a stickler for bring on he loss of I time, was most meticulous in his do with whistle blowing. With a sage and Cardigan;},]eL'elk,tand fiatrpartieeularly greasy his son : hand gra-ping the whistle -core!, Zellall th•t w„i;!d way. moil the clock registered t 1e'xactly six -fifty-nine and a half-- y 1 b I tried whereupon the seven o'clock whistle cvit. ee , would commence plowing, to ,ease in - but ---,he ; start.} x upon the stroke of the hour. fir a re- I: weoldReh's pride and hoax that, with a single exception, during "Not necessarily," i,'.,•••• returned 1 evenly. '•ITlnw about •1..• Mate rail- road commission? Hass'. it got I something to say a}i"o' rates?" "Yes on common r:rrr:ers. But Pennington's load is n i r (vete ing- l ging-read; my contra- e 1 expire next year, and it, is n"' incumbent upon Pennington to re:.• •.v it. And ane can't operate a sn,+::..:1 without Jogs, you know." "Then," said Bryce ••i'•nly, "we'll shut the mill dawn wh• i, '!e, log -haul- ing contract expiry., he ! e ur timber as an investment., and ' 'he simple life until we can sell • r a trans- continental road build-. e Humboldt County and enables e, start up the mill again." John Cardigan shoes. '.. liaad. "I'm mortgaged to the la;' ;fenny," he confessed, "and Penneee. has been buying Cardigan Redw•• ,•1 Lumber Company first-mortgni-e ''ends until he is in control of the < . n. He'll buy in the San Hedrin timber at the foreclosure sale, and in order to get it back and save something for yoti out of the wreckage, 1'14 have to make an unprofitable trade with him, I'll have to give him my timber ad- joining his north of Seeuria, togeth- er with my Valley of the Giants, in return for the San Helen timber, t., which he'll have a sheriee deed. But the mill, all my old employees, with their numerous' depenelr•nts-gone, with you left land-poor end without a dollar to pay your taxes. Smashed -like that!" And he drove his fist into the palm of his haul. "Perhaps -but not without. a fight," Bryce answered, although he knew their plight was well-nigh hopeless. "Pll give that man Prnning.ton a run for hiss money, or I'll know the rea- son." The telephone on the table beside him tlhkled, and he took deeen the receiver and geld "Hello!" "Mercy!" came the clear, sweet yoke of Shirley Sumner over the wire. "Do you feel as savage as all that, Mr. Cardigan ?" ' Frit the decdnd time In his life the thrill '611 t ,wag akin to pain dile to CO Ea laugbtedw ''• ' +il rm 414 the sixteen years the clock had been in service, no man could say that Rel had been more than a second late or early with his whistle -blowing, That. exrept.ion occurred when Bryce Cardi- gan, invading the engine room while Zeh was at luncheon, looped the it the ens! danel,•d • seven fent above ground. As a con- sequence Zeh, who was a sh;,rt, fit little man, was furred to leap at it several times hrforr surress crown- erl hi. rffnrt.c and the whistle blew. Thereafter for the remainder of the day his renew tottered on its throne, due to the fart that. Tlryce induced (very mill employee to call upon the engineer and remind him that he must he growing of 1, since he was no :on,>er dependable'. On the me.rnin,: h,llow•ing Ru y •" Cardigan's return to Sequoia. 7••b Curry, as per custom. started his 'n• gine at sic fifty•eight. That. Bane the huge handsaws two minutes in whir} to nt.tain their proper sport and ,ifferrlyd Ilan Kenyon, the !r•.i 1 sawyer, ample time to run his strae, Ing -carriage nut to the end of the track; for Daniel, too, was a reliable man in she matter of starting his daily uproar on time. At precisely six fifty-nine and a half, therefore, the engineer's hand closed over the handle az the whistle - cord, and Dan Kenyon, standing on the steam -carriage with bis hand on the lever, touk a thirty-second squint through a ratner grimy window Inez. gave upon the drying -yard and tale mill -office at the head of it. The whistle ceased blowing, but still Dan Kenyon • stood at his post, oblivious of the hungry saws. Ten seconds passed; then Zeb Curry, im- measurably scandalized at Daniel's tardiness, tooted the whistle sharply twice ; whereupon Dan woke up, threw over the lever, and walked his log up to the saw. ifor the next five hours Zeb Curry had no opportunity to discuss the matter with the head sawyer. After blowing the twelve o'clock whistle, however, he hurried over to the din- ing -hall, where the mill hands already lined the benches, shovelling food in- to their mouths as only a lumberman or a miner can. Dan Kenyon sat at the head of the table in the place of honour sacred to the head sawyer, and when his mouth would permit of some activity other than mastication, Zeb Curry caught his eye. "Hey, you, Dan Kenyon," he shout- ed across the table, "what happened to you this mornin'? It was sixteen seconds between the tail end o' my whistle an' the front end o' your whinin'. First thing you know, you'll be gettin' so slack an' careless -like some other man'll be ridin' that log - carriage o' yourn." "I was struck dumb,' Dan Kenyon replied. "I just stood there like one o' these here graven images. Last night on my way home from work I heerd the young feller was back -he got in just as we was knockin' off for the day; an' this mornin' just as you cut loose, Zeb, Ill be danged if he didn't show up in front o' the of- fice door, fumblin' for the• keyhole. Yes, sirree! That boy gets in at six o'clock last night an' turns to on his paw's job when the whistle blows this mornin' at seven." "Young mean young Bryce Cardi- gan?" Zeh queried incredulously. "[ shore do." "'Tain't possible," Zeb declared. "You seen a new bookkeeper. mebhe, hut you didn't see Bryce. Ile ain't nr such hog for labour as his daddy before him, I'm tellin' yon Not that there's a lazy bone in his body, for there ain't, but hecause that there boy's got too much sense to come bol - 11n' down to work at seven o'clock the very first mornin' he's hack from Yurrup." "I'n, layin' you ten ton one 1 seen him," Dan repliers defiantly, "an' what's more, I'll het a good cigar -a ten -center straight--thr boy don't leave till six o'clock to -night." "Ynu'rr nn," answered the chief engineer, "Them's lumberjack hours, man. Frim seven till six means work • an' only fools an' hisses keeps them hours," The head sawyer leaned across the table and pounded with the handle of his knife until he had the• attention of all present. "1'm a-goin' to tell ynii young fellers somethin'," le, announc rel, "Ever since the old 1 ss got so he couldn't look after hi t,usiness eith his own ryes, things been Join' to blazes round thi'mill, but they ain't n -gain' no n. mini do i know? Well, 1'11 tell Ali this forenoon T kept. my office doer T can see it th. a mill winder; an' I'm tellin' h„ss didn't show up till ti` which the old man ain't nes a ten o'rinrk hotlines man time. T)nn't that prove the hr.. hie place?" Confused murmurs of affir and negation ran tip and dry ',,ng table, Dan tapped wi knife again. "Yon hear me, ' nrned. "Thirty year T've her in' ,T„hn C'ardigan's log-carri. 15 MAO forgang' .nf.,:. t ea world ramous arati9afor' 1u arn[i, 1t'its• . metres t taxer 80, ves'snccesa n ,,nate from alb - ofthesseek- over loon hr ape tear Write at olaaates TRENCH'S REMEDIES LIMITED ! tat.Ja fes' Cbambers, 79 Atielaifle all. Toronto, Ontario thirty year I've been gettin' every - thin' out of a log it's possible togit out, which is more'n you fellers. at the trimmers can git out of a board after I've sawed it off the cant... There's a lot o' you young fellers that've been takin' John Cardigan's money under false pretenses, so if I was you I'd keep both eyes on my job hereafter. For a year I've been claimin' that good No. 2 stock has been, chucked into the slab -fire as ' refuge lumber." (Dan meant refuse lumber.) "But it won't be dope no more. The raftsman tells me he seen Bryce down at the end o' the con- veyin' belt givin' that refuge the once over -so step easy." "What does young Cardigan know about runnin' a sawmill?" a planer - man demanded bluntly. "They tell me he's been away to college an' travellin' the past six years." (Continued next week) The sale of the collection of mod- ern pictures and drawings belonging tc Mr. John James Cowan, of Edin- burgh, at Messrs. Christie's, realized a total of £10,021. The top price, £997 10s., was given by Messrs. Ag- new for E. Manet's, "The Ship's Deck," which was exhibited at Kirk- caldy last year. Others j>0. you can! To sell people one has never seen - by Long Distance - may seem strange to you, but it is being done every day. "I sell by I,nng Di.,t.ance to points 200 miles away," writes a hardware mer- chant, "and never see the customers." "A man called at our store the other clay" - writes an- other merchant, "I recogniz- ed his voice at once. i had been calling him by Long Distance for months, but had never seen him,' That is how Long Distance, by expanding the selling area is enabling merchants to sell far more in n day than their fathers ever dreamed of sell- ing. Be fair to yourself, and to your business. Give Long Distance a chance to do for you what it is so successfully doing for others. asters Wanted GOING RErURNINiG From WINNIPEG Plass cent per mite, starting point to Winnipeg To WINI1PEt Pius �y rent per mile to point. hes-and, but not west of Edmonton, Marl. Orel rind Calgary $20 From Stations in Ontario, Smith's Fella to and including Toronto on Lake Ontario Shore Line and HnvelocktPeterhoro Line. From all Stations King,tton to Renfrew Junction, ineluaive. From all Stations Burketon to Bobcay,reon, inclusive; l�o ranel to Port McNioon and adjacent territory. (y From ns on uu Stations Toronto Sdb- direct Line. From It Stations . - ons in Ontario, Spwith and West o Torohio to and ilia udinr Herni{ton, Welland, Niagara Falls and Windsor. ept From all Stntione on Owen Sound, -Walkerton, Orangevillq, Teeawater, Elora, Liatowell, Goderich, St. Marys, Port Burwell, land St Thomas Benches.m . Froin all Stations Toronto and North to Bolton inclusive. 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