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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1928-04-27, Page 76U ItG (Continued r., :'.:t weals) "Ah, Shorty," he cried grimly, "we have got you at last, ells? Put out your hands." - 'Without protest, with the same queer smile on his face, Marley obey.: ed. There was a little click of steel, and he dropped his locked wrists be- fore him. wYou're - Mr. Carleton, aren't you?" The newcomer had swung to the desk. This 1i stem Gamete Sire 8f1. 66a. u 1I6jfe.. Oar wawa and Oran ¢® auk any »r,- a] j ,°1DRE-PROOF, ready -cut, com- at pact, Preston Garages are perfect in design and a source of re satisfactiozi. They resist thieves ... last ... am handsome in ,:appearance . - . low in cost. Write for free garage folder ^ All It :ata PRESTON, ONT. Toronto - Montreal Succeosor to Metal Shingle & Siding Co. Ltd. itd Outdoors or Indoors whatever your teal's. let WRIGLEY'S refresh you — allay your thirst, aid appetite and digestion. Helps keep teeth clean. Aff err Emery Mehl! ..................... rX. fill u,'tn,. S&nt7a apt.ye» tette y9ataa tR Faaah into ;his kb..pause Carieton;'s et WOal es --and he uridepa Viar llay had written the 1ettt usOlf? and signed his, Carletom's . " k and, too, it was clear em1Da aP, the telegram he h puzzled ova els tie previous afternoon. it was ly- ing ying before him on his desk. PLiisaryes dropped to it: <`Will be on band oaa arrival of Express. (Burred) Den - "We can'tgive you any reef $P t for him as you requested," goaatinued a ea - burn, drawing a papas' ant . of his pocket; "but here' an .acknowledg- ment that has capture is due to in- formation filernished- by you. I guess that will a,nsawer the purpose. You won't have any trouble getting the reward," IHIe handed the pa, =r to Carleton. The super took it mechanically, and started as it crackled in his fingers. "Now," said i:epburn 'briskly, "I don't want to appear abrupt, but there's a local east at two -twenty, We'll move along, Shorty. Good-bye, Mr. Carleton. Next time you're in Denver look us up." He took Mar- ley's arm and moved- toward the door. "Don't—!tell her, Mr. Carleton." There was a catch in Marley's voice and the words came low. Carleton did not answer. He was staring at the paper in his hand— Marley's price. Regan had turned his back, with a hasty movement of his fist to his eyes. "Don't tell her"—the plea came a- gain from the doorway. Carleton tried to speak, and his voice broke; then' he cleared 'his throat. "She will never know, Marley," he said huskily. 44 alb Q ftl Wtoal 1illp '711;0 %%14,917oe Twice; e he©,: ]Fliead ehs5,- Paai i 'len feetand legs, Natrvtiusness, ]k stleas- ness, frequent but scanty urinat en with burning and pain, gettintnp- nights—are some of the more. ou- blesoane signs of Meddler Trouble. that should hay prompt attention before they reach s►•iraore eeridua. atagel No natter bow stubborn your c may Seem to he or how unapt' medi- cines you have tried without results-..-. don't think your condition is hopeless. or the natural consequences of ad- vancing vanding year's until you have tried the special new treatment of a world ,known chemist, called "SYIROL" Tab- lets. On a strict guarantee of money back on first box purchased if you do not receive swift and -satisfying re- lief -'-any good druggist will supply you with "Syrol" Tablets in sealed packages containing two weeks' sup- ply. If "Syrol" Tablets bring great relief inside of 48 hours and • a won- derful improvement inside of two weeks, you should be greatly pleased —if they do not help, they cost you nothing. Ask your druggist to -day. seemed to have same special faculty for absorbing things on the jump. There's no other way to account for it; for, otherwise, when it came time for hini to take upon his shoulders "same of the burden of the MacGallag- han household, he wouldn't have been able to write his awn name, whereas, as a matter of fact, Spud could do a lot better than that—a whole lot bet- ter. There wasn't any question, of course, as to what Spud would do to make his mark in life. No boy in the Iittle divisional mountain town ever had but one idea on that score. There wasn't -anything to it but rail- roading. If you 'were born in Big Cloud, you started in railroading as- soon ssoon as you were old enough, and sometimes when you weren't. . That was all there was to it. There wasn't anybody in Big Cloud but the rail- roaders who counted for anything, ex- cept the Indians 'who strayed in from the reserve, and strayed all over the town, and sold home-made relics to the tourists on the station platform. but who, socially speaking, were out of the running anyhow. Even Spud himself had a hazy idem he was going to be a railroader. All this naturally obviated any vex- ing parental worry anent a boy's fu- ture in Big Cloud. The only compli- cation came from the boy himself in his effort to make choice between the engine crews, the shops, the train - master's department, or, the key— not that the complication is to be made light of, far from it! With most of the boys it narrowed down to a choice between wearing brass but- tons and a swell -uniform and twirl- ing a nickel -plated ticket punch roy- ally. around his forefinger, or being an .engineer on a fast- run with his head stuck out of the cab window of a ten -wheel mountain racer, streaking it with every right on earth from one end of the division to the other. The intermediate steps, of course, the kids bridged with one single and majestic leap of the imagination; but, at that, it was a pretty stiff proposition for a boy to make up his mind about. Spud, however, was perhaps the ex- ception that proves the rule. When his -father asked him about it, Spud said: "It doesn't matter." So old John, being in the round- house, naturally tackled Regan on the subject. He hit up the fat little mas- ter mechanic for a job for Spud one morning as Regan came in through the round -house doors. Regan sparred for wind from the start. "H'm!" said Regan cautiously, as he eyed the old wiper. "A job for Spud, eh? I dunno! It seems to me I'v'e heard a few things about him!" Old John clawed earnestly at Reg- an's sleeve. "Listen here, Regan!" he said an- xiously. "Yez have been listenin' to tales out av school. Listen, Regan! Shure ut's mesilf thot knows the lad, an' wot he don't know, I dunno. He can read an' write ilegant, an' he's better at figures now nor ever I was in me life." "If'm!" said Regan. "Regan," said the old wiper, in sudden dismay, "Regan, yez weren't thinkin' av not givin' the lad a jab!" Regan pulled at his scraggly little brown moustache. "How old is he?" he enquired. "Thirteen," said old John. "Thir- teen—cpme next Sunday." "It's an unlucky number," said Re- gan—and then he screwed his eyes up ] VIII "IT DOESN'T MATTER" As far back as any one on the Hill .Division could remember the boy, which was going back to the time that old John MacGallaghan spent everything but the odd change on a month's pay check celebrating the ar- rival of an offspring that he had giv- en up hoping for years before, every- body had always called him Spud. Why? Nobody knew. But then, nobody knew, for that matter, how the kid ever lived or, more. pertinently—why. Buil (Spud managed it somehow—in spite of the bag of candy sticks that accounted for the odd change on old John's pay check being diverted into more sober and solid channels, as you might say. Old Jahn bought the candy about half way through the celebration, being suddenly minded of what the celebra- tion was all about, and Mrs. MacGal- laghan not being very well at the time and not on hand to interfere, the infant, in the soap box that had been rigged up as a bassinet, and temporarily relegated to the front room by one of the neighbors who was looking after Mrs. MacGallaghan; got the taffy—and-got black in the face wifib colid and convulsions. Little Doc- tor 1'rdcTurk . spoke. frizzled -words. when he got there, started the cele- bration on its way again by kicking old John bodily out of the shanty, end sat up with the patient for the rest of the night. Spud lived. Nobody ever . said Spud was hand- some, not even his mother—which is some concession. The plain English of it is that Spud wouldn't have had a look -in for a prize at a beauty show even with a blind man as the judge. He had eyes and nose and mouth just like any other boy, only with Spud they didn't seem to harmonize into any classical effect. Including his features, which were a round knob of nose, a very sizable mouth, acid very innocent blue eyes, he was kind of all ragged, from his hair, which was a sort - of carroty brown, to his clothes, which were -mostly patches sewn around the holes in old John's cast-offs. Not that anybody ever held the boy's clothes up against him. Everybody knew that the MacGalla- ghan's weren't rich. Wiping in the roundhouse, even afteryou've wiped for fifteen years and get to drawing one -forty-five a day on account of long service, wasn't enough so that Mrs. 1lilacGallaghan could dress Spud up in any Little Lord Fauntleroy fix- ings even on Sundays. Take it all around, appearances were against Spud from the start—but, according to Tommy Regan, that wasn't the seat of Spud's troubles. Regan said the trouble was that Spud lived up to ap- pearaitces. Maybe it wasn't altogether Spud's fault that he began to grow up, too, in a sort of ragged way. Spud had to play second fiddle to Mrs. MacGal- laghan's washtubs, because the wash- ing Mrs. MacGallaghan did was what bridged the gulf between old John's pay check and the bills; and when she wasn't washing she was cooking, and when she wasn't cooking she was eternally" and everlastingly sewing, and mending, and putting on patches. And as far as old John was concern- ed, Spud never had a hope when it came- to either precept or example. Enrerybody liked the shiftless old wip- er, who, starting out 'with no more ambition than a stray cat, attained that ambition before ever he got started, and had everybody else on the Hill Division faded into oblivion when it came to immunity from ever `worrying about. anything. Old John, with hie black gutty, and his grin, and his greasy overalls, was liked by everybody for exactly what he. was — a good-natured, happy-go-lucky, the - Lord -will -provide sort. Years ago he had got the habit of just letting things slide, and he still had the habit when Spud was 'born, and he just naturally kept on letting things glide—including Spud. Maybe there is something in here- dity, When Spud got old enough he went to school—on occasions. There Wast any truant officer out there in Rig •Clou, d under the shadows of the *oclties in those- days. "blot that it mattered; pperhaps. One wouldn't Riarre dents any good, so far as Spud Vast .eoficeitted2 It. wee astonishing, t oiz h; what the 'boy picked up, con - "It was a delightful sur- prise" — writes a Toronto subscriber — "to.find that I could talk to my Mother as far away as Sarnia for only 65 cts, by the Evening Rate. I'm sure few people realize how very little it costs to telephone even to points as far distant as Sarnia, by the Everiing Rate, and you would do the public a ser- vice by emphasizing this point." This is only one of many . instances showing that many people do not know how Row the Evening Rate on Long Distance is. Call urn our oue Mit „, ageand plc him the Evening Rate, to some point you ars particu- larly interested in. Sap will probably be knaed; Gtr n1 •. 0133 hs_toolg ytut fore be WAS t aA , , Mal changes, ., • Old Intact weutt'`Istgalds news to the est Mins. hire Me:40 her delight, and to rte?¢ ed income iu PrOalalaPt t teed herself to a 'half day, 4 .after about forty years of soft asap and ands and wash tubs. Spud was the y' one who didn't seem to be intested; old John might as well save been:talking about the weather- --though it ..1dial occtlr to Spud, Iater on over. the . $-ipper t able, to ask one „question '''INllhat kind of a job ,have I got in the shops?"' he enquit;,staring at his father around the kerosene lamp. "1 dunno," said old ,Jahn. "Regan didn't say." Spud had picked up, an •eanazing lot of things, and he 'didn't seem to have overlooked much in the picking. He had even commenced to got a grip on philosophy—of a sort. • "Well, it doesn't matter," said Spud inoonsequentiafly, Wlhieh wasexactly whas. he said to Regan- a month later, in ge,ierence to a little matter of some forty gallons of machine oil that, wending its way from the barrel tap across the floor of the storekeeper's domain, disap- peared in a sodden, greasy stream, following the handcar tracks under the door, in the general direction of the blacksmith's shop—for whose use it was not intended. "It doesn't matter," said Spud, fac- ing the irate master mechanic — and said it because, being a little fright- ened, it was the first thing that came to his tongue. 'Habit wasn't letting go its grip any. "It -doesn't matter," said Spud, whose attention had been diverted to something other than the tap during the process of drawing off a five -gallon can for a machine shop requisition. It took a lot to make Regan lose his hair—what he had left of it. Nev- ertheless Regan was red in the face as he eyed Spud, and did a sum in mental arithmetic with forty gallons of standard, grade I. oil at one dol- lar and fourteen cents per gallon as the prime factor. But the trouble ig an ne aha n&ci took mars^ break tale faeGallag- sin beamed the inereas- M©t ir` en r. Eh -ink Down st 40 Seven Out of Ten Are Victims of Bladder or Prostate Weakness. Tells Tow Dr. Southworth's "Uratabs" Bring Quick, "Amazing Relief. gislb L Prc Overwor• -ed, sail Bladder Weakness an trouble bring on so m Kidneys, state Gland distressing and often serious ailments -that ev- ery sufferer from Lameness, Pains in Back and down through groins, Scanty but frequent and burning Urination, Getting -Up -Nights, NervousIrritabil- ity or Weakness and Lack of Vital Force—should test the proven value gear All au . ri°t n'i 00. Rlondoau, Out , Apr. 2 (Speciaa ftl have need' your Dodd's Bain° Piles -to sone extent end rind taenia t:, he all yon claire" writes Mr. Serb l'a Lewis; 77 Catbeart Aer , Itonndeau, Ont. "They take away ell • irritation f and at once give a wonderful relief , I would also recommend Dodd's lady nay Pills for any kind of lsdsaey troaat'ble." The road to good health lies through the kidneys. If they are kept strong and{well, all the impurites are strain ed out of the blood. If they are weak and out of order, that impurities stay he the blood and disease is the sure result. Dodd's Kidney Pills are purely and simply a kidney remedy. They strengthen the kidneys and enable them to do their full work of strain- ing the impurities out of the blood. Healthy kidneys make a healthy body. There is no reason wby anyone should continue to suffer when Dodd's Kidney Pills can be obtained from druggists everywhere, or The Dodds Medicine Co., Ltd., Toronto 2. Weis that the unhandsome features, now somewhat modesty averted from his gaze, topped only the small and diminutive figure of a boy. It didn't appease Regan's wrath any, not at all—but Regan was not without dig- nity fitting any occasion. Regan choked. "Get out!" said the master mechan- ic apoplectically. And 'Spud got out. Maybe it was old John's cajolery that got Spud back again into a job; or maybe it was the Klondike boom that was just opening up, and which, to say nothing of the tourists's spe- cials that were running in sections and crowding on each others' heels and demanding double shifts from the crews, was spreading its contag- ion through the Hill Division itself until the pay roll began to thin woe- fully from the gold -itch casualties. Maybe the scarcity of labour had something to do with it—maybe not. Regan didn't commit himself. But, anyway, at the end of a month, Spud went back to work. He . went into the roundhouse this time with his father. Old -John swore by all that was holy, and gave Regan his solemn word for it, that he'd keep his eye on the boy. And old John meant it, all right. He wasn't making any rash promises, either. He had been keeping his eye on Spud since the night he had given the young man taffy to suck in the soap box, and he didn't see any rea- son why- he couldn't keep on keeping his eye on the boy. Maybe it wasn't the sort of indorsement that a bank would take on avowedly questionable paper, and maybe Regan was sophisti- cated enough to be a trifle leery about it; but, anyway, Spud went into the roundhouse—to make himself gener- ally useful. Spud staved there longer than he of Dr. Southwonth's URATABS at had in the shops. There was quit': once! enough to keep the boy busy; what Amazing testimony of Physicians with sweeping and cleaning up, and and -users gives convincing proof of the remarkable power of URATABS —a special prescription successfully used for more than 40 years in the private, practice of Dr. H. C. South- worth. After only a few days' use, a startling improvement is often not- iced—as a multitude of alarming symptoms begin to disappear. 'Dhrough special arrangements and to benefit those who cannot personally call on the Doctor, URATABS can now be obtained from any good, local druggist on a positive guarantee of money back if not fully satisfied. Sa if you need a medicine of this kind, try URATABS•to-day. ill MERE Els Orf running errands for Clarihue, and acting as helper to the roundhouse fitters, there was quite enough to keep : everal Spuds on the jump, but there wasn't any one particular or prolonged job that kept him with his nn=e clamped to the grindstone, or un- der anybody's watchful eyes for any length of time at a stretch—except old John's. Spud figured it out for himself. Spud figured that, being at every- body's heck and bidding, everybody' would figure it out that somebody else had, at the moment, a prior lien on his services when he did' not respond to a call; also he figured out that the X.721 V4,0 sts V i✓ ?nr&aich yore itivkca value you'll find them expectation ap this `Puisne eau 4, Price." 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Let . your own experience confirm the reasons for its growing success. 2 -DO $ a 5 sI AT 'FACTORY, OSHAWA Government Tries and Spare Bare Eat= General Motors' own deferred payment plana . . . =JAC affords you the simplest and moat economical ray of buying tour Oldsmobile OM Rune. o-2a-4-aac THIS SZa41TORTIEI o ®IS T ARI(D PRODUCT OF GIENEIRAL MOTORS OFF CANADA,LIIMi IB1 o_ fitters would even manage somehow to make their minor or emergency repairs without his assistance, and that it really didn't matter how infre- quently he swept out the roundhouse because it was bound to get dirty a- gain—and also that the back windows of the roundhouse, when there was, as there always was, an engine or two on the pits to hide the windows from prying eyes, had been built especially for his benefit. It was easier, a whole lot easier than sneaking out of school, and school hadn't bothered him very much even in that way. 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Not only doe's this great healing antiseptic oil promote rapid and healthy healing in open sores and wounds, butboils, abcesses and ul- eers that are discharging are almost immediately relieved and cleanly healed. In skin diseases its. action is little less 'than magical. The itching of eczema is instantly stepped; the eruptions dry up and scale off in a very few days. The same is true of barbers' itch, salt rheum and other irritating and unsightly skin trou- bles. You c:an obtain Moonee Emerald Oil in the original bottle at any mod- ern drug store. It is safe to use, and stdeein the 'ardent way he devoted failure in any of the ailments noted ;himsel to got/hero anthe .out -of- above' is neat to itepo>isible. C. Aberr- doors,- and nature generally. spud hart"can supply ran at any thne. • �€1 m. r A. aa