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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1932-08-05, Page 7Il llv it 1 •n ,y t: r- o- as ry rt. to t. 3y to ree rs. WS fret. dt .f A rn. '404 0�• 4 r r re' o ST I5 ,1932. RU ' . URE.SPEQIALIST Rupture aricocele, Varicose Velma Abdominal Weakness, Spinal Deform. y, Consultation free. Call or write, J. G. sum, British Appli- ance 'Specialists, 15 Downie St., Strat- ford, Ont. 3202-25 LEGAL Phone No. 91 • JOHN J. HUGGARD Barrister, Solicitor, . Notary Public. Ete. Beattie Block - - 'Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyance; and Notary Public. 'Solicitor for, the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money, to loan. ATING IN THE. W ILD BY OTTWELL BINNS -° (Continued from last week) They turned from the storm -ridden lake to the shelter of the great, woods. The trail was not a good one; but the snow among the 'gees was far from beings the hindrance it was .in the open; and though their .pro- gress was slow, on the whole it was steady. Except for forced halts to unravel the harass when it caught in the bushes,they did net stop for two hours, but pressed on until they reached an open space in the woods, which they crossed in a smother of blinding snow, • On the other side of this break they came to a fresh spur of forest, and when they had pene- trated to the shelter of the trees once mare, ,ttlg,,%rst voluntary halt was made. Theis for the first time since the march had begun,, Ainley spoke to the .girl. "Comfortable, Helen?"' he asked. "Ae comfortable as possible under the circumstances," was the reply. "I• am sorry I can do no better," replied Ainley. "But we are in dan- ger still, and a little hardthip 'is bet- ter than the ,gave risk of life." "Oh!" answered •Helen.' "I do not mind the 'hardship." "That is what I should expect of you," 'answered Ainley quickly, "but it is not for long. that I ask it of .,you. In another hour or so we shall be safe, I hope, then we will camp until the storm is•over." "Of whom are you afraid?" asked Helen. • "Indians! We were forced to shoot three of your captors';. and those of their friends ,who were following on behind may feel impelled to try and avenge their deaths." "Oh!" said the girl; a note of such efident disap.pointment in her tone, that Ainley looked at her quickly. "Why do you speak like that gets en! One would think that you were almost sorry that I had delivered you from the fate awaiting you." "Oh, it is not that!" replied 'Helen quickly, '"Though of course I ,do not know what the fate was. Do you?" "I "I have an' idea," he said, "and I will explain_w'hen we camp. Just now I' must have a word with my men: Coffee will be ready ,ina. few -mina-tees and, there will be bacon and biscuit, which 'if not exactly appetizing will be sustaining." "I s1i.all not mind -bacon and bis- cuit," answered Helen, and as Ainley walked away a look of deep thought came on the girl's fate. Was it true, she asked herself, that he was afraid of the pursuit of re- vengeful 'Indians? She remembered Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, the sledge which she had seen fat - University of Westeen Ontario, Lon- lowing 'behind, a sledge accompanied don. Member of 'College of Physic-, •by only two men, and the evident lens and Surgeons of Ontario. Office' anxiety it • had occasioned her chief Aberhart's Drug Store, 'Main St , captor, and one thing fixed' itself in Seaforth. Phone 90. her mind with all the force of a con- viction, namely, that whatever Gerald Ainley thought about these men be- hind, her captors knew nothing what- ever about thein, then she remember- ed the revelations made by the half- breed. IHe had owned that he had attacked the •cabin and captured her for a price, a great price paid by a man who loved her. Was that man Gerald Ainley? It was an odd coin- cidence that he should have been waiting just where he was, which was 'quite evidently the place where the half-breed had been making for. His words of greeting made it clear that he had been expecting to meet her, but in that case how did it come about that he knew she was in the neighborhood. Was he indeed the man to whom af6 half-breed was looking for the price? If, so, ,why had he so ruthlessly shot down the men ,who were his confederates? C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- 'In'stantly+,.. an explanation that fit- ity University, and gold medalist of ted the facts occurred to .her. He Trinity Medical College; member of had shot down her captors in order the College of Physicians and Sur- to conceal his connection with them geons of Ontario. and with the attack upon the cabin. She remembered the man whom she had seen, and her odd fancy that he was a white man, and recalled her lover's conviction that no bodily harm was meant to her, though the; same was note true of himself, and a very deep distrust of Gerald Ainley surg- ed in her heart; a distrust that was deepened 'by her recollection of the policeman's story of the forged bill, and the sheet of foolscap which had been in her lover's possession. But of this distrust she gave no sign when Ainley approached her, bearing food and coffee. She accept- ed the situation as if it were the most everyday one in. the world; and she listened to the few words 'that he had to say with real inter- est: "We shall resume our march in twenty minutes or so, 'Helen; but as I said, in an hour or so, we shall he beyond pursuit. Then, when we have camped, you shall tell me the story of your adventures." "Yes," she answered quietly, "and you shall tell me exactly how you came to find one." "That is a long story," he answer- ed with a slight frown, "but you shall hear it all in good time. It has tak- en me months to find you, and I had almost (begun' to despair, when a fortunate chance gave me the clue to your wherealbouts'." "What chance was it?" asked Hel- en quickly. "To aitis°we9r that," he answered de- liberately, "is to forestall my story." Then he smiled. "You must be pat- ient a little while longer, •as I am, and when you have heard it, .I hope you will not deny.' me my reward?" "Oh," she said with a little touch of seorn creeping into her tones. iiconor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- "Yom have !been working for a .re- tional School for Auctioneeting, Chi- 'ward?" "Nb," he replied sharply. "My toil cage. Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- has been a labor of love. You must ehandise and Farm Sales. Rates in know that, Helen! Though it is keeping with prevailing markets. 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Phone: 'Office, 185W; resi- dence, 185J. AUCTIONEERS OSCAR KLOPP thing about my uncle? a Did he send you after me?" "He invade me head of the search - party, (because he knew I loved you, and he hinted that when I had found you I (might go to_ him. You under- stand, Helen?" "Yes,': answered the girl enigmat- icaIly. "I think I° do." Looking at her, Ainley saw that 'there was nothing to be gained by pressing the matter further at that moment; and excusing himself he went to give orders to his Indians. A short time later they resumed their journey, and travelled steadily for something more than an hour; then almost in the dark they pitched camp for the night. A substantial meal was prepared, of which Helen par- took in the shelter of a little tent which had been erected • and when she had fiidshea the meal, she seated herself by the big fire which had been built. Ainley also seated hitmself less than a yard from her; and without giving .him a chance of asking for her story, she instantly demanded his. "Now," she said, as lightly as she could, "you shall tell me everything. low you searched for me, how you get on my trail at last, and the fate from .which you saved me this morn- ing." Ainley( would nave preferred to hear ter story .first; but he did not dE'nnr to her• suggestion, and with a little deprecatory laugh he begen. "Ib is not very easy to talk of ones own doings, but I will do my best to avoid boastfulness.", Then, carefully picking his words, he described the anxiety her non-r•e- ,.r: n' to her uncle's camp had given rise to; and' the preliminary search made by himself and the Indian Joe. As he described his own feelings of despair at the finding of the portion of her canoe in the drift -pile beyond the, falls, his voice shook with quite genuine emotion, and Helen moved so as to bring her face a little in shadowwhilst she watched him. In that moment she momentarily forgot the distrust which her own question= ing had awakened in her, and listen- ed absorbed whilst he narrated the discoveryof the brooch, and the new hope it occasioned; since it afforded' evidence that she was' in all probab- ility' still alive. Then he broke off sharply. "You were, saved from the„ raver, somehow, by that fellow Stane who was up at For 'Malsuh; were you not?" . "Yes! How did you know?" 9 got his. description from a half- breed who had met and hailed you going up the river in a canoe towards old Fort Winagog." "But we met no half-breed," said' Helen quickly, her distrust awaken- ing in full force. "You met no half-breed?" The surprise in Ainley's face. was quite genuine, as Helen saw, and she re- alized that whatever was to come, this part of the man's" story was quite true. "No, we met no one, and we never reached Fort Winagag, because our canoe was stolen whilst we slept." "Is that so?" Ainley's face grew dark as he asked the question'; then a troubled look came upon it. "The man must have lied to me," he said, "or have told me only half the truth; but he must have seen you, or how did he know that the roan who was with you. was Stane?" "Perhap:i he was the man whostole our canoe," said, Helen.. "Yes," answered Ainley, "that will be it. But -e-" He broke off without finishing. "Anyway," he continued after a moment, "following his state- ment, I went up to old Fort Wine- gog, but found no sign of you, then back by another and a quicker route that 3 might tell your uncle of the lack of news, and organize a regu- lar search. After that, I started to beat the country round about stead- ily. Rodwell sent news of you to all the Inefians and trappers in the coun- try, whilst your uncle promised a re- ward. For weeks I searched and ail in vain; then one day an Indian girl came with a story of a white man and a wonan living in a cabin on a like and though she did not know their names she •was able to -tell me that this man and woman were Stan and you:" "Who was the girl?" asked Helen quickly. , "It was that Sndian girl who was up at Fort Malsun!'" "Miskodeed!" cried Helen. "That, I (believe, was her name. She looked on Stane as her lover and she did you the honor of being jeal- ous of you!" Ainley laughed as he spoke. "Abtur'd of course - But what will you? The primitive, un- tutored heart is very simple in its emotions, and the man was her par- arnour!" It••is a lie!" cried Helen hotly. "He had spoken to her only twice in his life." "He was scarcely likely to own to anything more, •tie you," answered Ainley, "and in any case I am giving you the Indian girl's version; that it accords with my own belief is of lit- tle moment. What I do know is that she cared nothing about the reward your-uncile offered, and that her sole purpose seemed to be to remove you from Stane's company." •• "And when you heard?" asked Hel- en prompting him as he fell silent. "When 7 heard, I did not wash time. I made a bee -line for the cab- in on the lake, taking the girl with me. 'I arrived there last night,-,---" "lira?' long were you nn the way?" interrupted .Helen suddenly. "Four days." "And Miskodeed was with you all the time?" "Of course!" answered Ainley a trifle uneasily. "She was our guide," "I see," answered Helen quietly. . 'lets She' made ° no further comment on, the Indian girl, --but she knew now that Ainley had departed from. what- ever truth there was in his narrative, for Miskod'eed, on the 'sure evidence of her own eyes, had been at the In- dian eneam(pnnent when he claimed she had• been with him. She listened `quietly whilst. Ainley continued: ,,,,"as I was saying, .I arrived in the neighborhood of .the cabin last night to find you 'gone " "And Mr. Stane?" she asked al- most breathlessly. "Did you find him? Did you see 'hini?" Ainley shook his head.. 'INo, I did not see him myself, but one of my men turned- a body over that was lying. in the snow. 'It was that of a white man, who could be no other than Stane!" Helen 'flinched at the answer which confirmed what the half-breed had said to her about Stane being dead. She looked away,.not wishing Ainlev to see her ..face at that moment, whilst the hot tears welled in her eyes, and the man, choosing to dis- -regard her manifest sorrow, continued his story. "We found an Indian in the snow, who' had been wounded in the fight,,as he told us, and on pres- sure he gave me the information that you had been carried away by a• half breed of the name of Chigmok, who, as the Indian averred, was making for the lake of the Little Moose, that' is the .lake where 'we rescued you. This wounded man also informed us that Chigmok had a pamp on the lake, gave us instructions how to, find it, and volunteered the furtherinforma- tion that Chigmok was taking the longest route to the lake, since that was the easier way for a heavily - loaded sledge. There 'was a shorter way, as he informed us, a way which, if we travelled hard, would bring u; to the lake . before 'Chigmok himself; and after considering the matter carefully I decided to take the short- er•route, and to await your captor at his own camp, since, as he had no reason for anticipating pursuit, ' the surprise would be all the more com- plete. We arrived there in good time and- Well, you know ,the rest, Helen." "Not nuite," answered the, girl in a netters, toneless voice. "You have net yet told me what this man Chig- niok proposed to do with nae."' "Well, the wounded Indian told •us that he had fallen violently in love, with you,..and that he proposed to, :rake you his squaw." . "All!" Ainley interpreted the exclamation in his own way, but looking at the girl was surprised by a look which haci cone into her face. Her listless- ness had fallen from her. There was a look of absorption about Fier which puzzled him, and he wondered what. she was thinking of. He did not know what hex,_eaptor had' revealed t'e her, and so never dreamed the truth, which was that. Helen was thinking that ' for the second time he had fallen from, the truth in his nar- rative. But again she gave -no fur- ther sign. Fon a little time she sat there grasping at the hope, the very little hope it gave her. He had lied twice .she was sure. ' What reason was there for supposing that the other parts of his narrative were true? He had owned that he hal not seen Hubert Steno's body, and that he had taken the Indian's word. But what if that were a -lie,' what if after all there had beeruno body -what if that, like the other things, was a fabrication? It was true that the half-breed had said Stane was dead, but that might be a mistake. A faint hope stirred in her heart and she determined to ,question Ainley'e twos Indians as soon as the oppor- tunity arose. Then a new thought came to her, and she turned quickly to Ainley. "Tell me one thing," she said. "When you arrived at the cabin the attack was quite over?" "Q''te,'• he answered. ., "A d yo did not take part in the: fighti You fired no shots at the tg attackers?" "No," he answered. "They had gene When we arrived, all except the wounded Indian who gave me the in- formation." . "Then who was it?" r.he cried. "Who vac; it? I do not understand what you mean, Helen." "Some one fired on the Indians from the wood and he kept on firing as the •Indians bound me to . the sledge, and even after we had begun to flee." Ainley rose abru-ptly to,his feet. It was very clear to the girl that the information she had given him had sstonished,him. His man ner betray- ed perturbation as he replied in short, jerky sentences: "You amaze me! What you say is -most astonishing. Are you sure? You have not dream- ed 'this by any chance?" "If I have," answered Helen, "an- other skated' my dream. For when I heard the shots I thought that Mr. Stane had fired them; it was the half breed who told me that 1 was mis- taken, and that the shots had been fired by some one in the forest." Ainley's ,perturbation did not sub- side at this further information. There was in hie fare a look, of agi- tation that amounted almost to ap- prehension. "I do not understand it at all," he said, more to himself than to Helen. "It is beyond me. Good Heavens! Is it possible that Stane escaped after all? 'Hle-'--" "I thought one of your men saw his body?" interrupted Hetet quick- ly"He• certainly saw the body of a white man, or so he avers, and 1 had no reason to suppose that it could be any one else!" "Then," saki the girl, "you are not sure?" " but 1' em mwa'lljr' eertaip, WAS 'fit why worry ah tit 'g azie? *.mead o; alive he can he at/thing' Y}111�, The girl turned t6. ,htm ei'iai'ilty and there was asfiash'in her eyes afd a 'oak on her face that startled bine "Dead pr alive," she said ejureklyr "he is more to me than you ever can bet"' • "Helen!"' Thera was a note of an- gry (protest in .Ainley's• voice. "You .cater not thinly what you are saying. You must have forgotten how I love yme.," """No," answered the girl deliberate- ly. •"I have not forgotten." "Then you are forgetting what's• I• have endured for you --a11 the . toil and travail of these weeks of `search -the risks I have taken to And you, the risks I took this morning. Stane may have done something heroic in saving you from the river, I don't know; but I do know that, as• you told (nue months ago, you are a hero- worshipper and I .beg of you not to be misled by a mere romantic enio tion. I. have risked my life.. a score of times to Serve you. This morning I saved you from something worse than death,. and .surely I deserve a little consideration at your hands. Will jou not .think again? Since heroism is your fetish, can you find nothing heroic in my labors, in my service?" The man was' in deadly earpest, 'pleading for something on which his heart was set, and whatever dissimu- lation there had been in his narrative, there was none whatever in his.plead- ings. But Helen remembered how her lover had gone to prison for this man's deed, and her heart was like a flint, her tone as cold as ice as she answered him, ' "You do not understand," she .said, "you have not yet heard my story. When you have, whatever I may owe you, you will not press me again." "Tell me thestory then," , cried Ainley in a voice hoarse with passion. "And for God's sake, be' quiek .about it!" CHAPTER XXIII • A SURPRISE FOR AINLEY "I will," answered Helen coldly, and without further' preamble began the narrative of all that had befallen her from the time she, had left her uncle's camp to inspect the beaver colony inley listened fol• a long time with o ,, tlerruption. Much of the story he already knew, though the girl wa,s unaware of the fact; much more he had guessed, but some things were unknown to him, and when she gave the account of Stane's accident at the deadfall and of the camp she had made there, he broke out in chagrin: "That explains how 'it was we never found you. We must have passed within a very' few miles of you." "You were once within a quarter of a mile of me." "How do you know that?" he cried. - "Because I sawyou and the In- dian Joe piteh your camp on the' shore of the lake." "You saw he .began; and then stopped, staring at her with incredu- lous eyes. "Yes! I watched you make your fire, and then I went back to camp, and put out my own :fire." "Why;?" he demanded harshly, though he had already guessed. "Because I was afraid you would discover me," answered the girl calm- ly. "And I, with a joyful' heart, watched you departing in the niorn- rnAinley rose suddenly to his feet. "Helen," he cried hoarsely, "do you know what you are saying? You are telling me that you were glad to be left alone in this god=forsaken wild- erness with a man who was a /dis- charged convict! I wonder what our world would think of that confes- sion?" "I do not care what our world, as you call it, would think about my ac- tion, These few months in. the wil- derness have made me think little of those 'conventions which have such rigid observance the letter but are cutraged in the spirit every day." "Our acquaintances would say-" he began, with a note of bitter malice in his voice, but Helen interrupted him. , "I wonder what our acquaintances would say if they knew everything about the crime for which Hubert Stane became a convict?" • As she dealt this blow the girl looked at him with ruthless eyes. Now she was. defending, not herself alone, ,but 'the memory of the man she loved, and who out of considera- tion for herself had only declared hi; love when he was going out to meet. his death. That thought made her merciless, and as she saw hint waver under the weight of the blow and hip face grow white as the snow about them, she continued unflinchingly; "No, not in the sense you mean; a ;aitdilii(54ne:geP°:.ing4:-'°;74.39 ,. evidn 1 , Fort Nalsnirr, (fie. to equip an ennsietittieMe and. recover that evidenge gni, O bak to the world, h order 'to e'leax memory of the then whole yotv so deeply wrged.": "There willonbe no need tor. or t'.hat fortunately "' a , Mike Yardely;aiSj. `- :voice behind her, 'The girl jumped to her feet in s'ur. .prise. And Ainley took a quiek step forward as a maxi emerged franc the. •shadow of the trees into 'the circle of the firelight', it (was the fliounted• policeman,. Dandy Anderton, and be. hind him came another man at when Helen stared for a moment incredu- ously, then with a great cry of joy ran to meet him. "Hubert! Hubert!" "Yes!" he answered, slipping an arm about her. "But I thought -I thought -,--l! "I was afraid you (might think so," he replied in answer to her unspoken thought. "But that could not be helped. I followed after you as fast as I could, and I was at your heels when your captors were shot down on the lake and the snow came on." o'Qh, how glad. I am that you are alive! That you have' found me." • She rested against him well con- tent, and Stane's arm about her tight- ened its grip; then they came back to the little world about them, at the sound of the'. policeman's voice. "Didn't know me, Ainley? I dare- say not. I'm not quite the tailor's mannikin that I was in the old days at the Varsity. Got a' man's' job now, you see. And that reminds me, I'm here on duty. I happened to be up the Little Moose when that shooting took place this morning. . There's a couple of dead' Indians up, there, and as I guess you had something to do with their sudden deaths I shall have to call on you for an explanation, you know.le'" Ainy looked at • the policeman without Isar, and then for a moment his eyes turned and rested on Helen an,d' Stane standing together in the shadow of a --"great fir -tree. It must have been a .moment of exceeding bitterness to him, but beyond a short abrupt laugh he gave no sign of hi.; feelings. He turned again to the policeman. Apparently. he was per- fectla cool arid salf-possessed. He. waved a hand towards the fire. "May as well make ourselves com- fortable. It's rather a long story I have to tee Where are your dogs?" "Back in the wood -anchored. I'll slip back and fetch them." "Nro," said Stane, "I will go back for them•" .He turned and Helen turned with him. "Youind!" dont .!miind?" she whispered.. "M She walked by his side, a hand On his arm. Once when •they were well in the shadows of the wood they stop- ped, and with his arm about her he kissed her. "My dear!" he dear!" Helen said nothing • immediately, but gave a little sobbing laugh of gladness. Then after a moment she asked: "I1ow did you escape? How did you find me?" "It is too long a story to tell you the whole of it just now. But•right in the nick of time, when I was ex- pecting to die, the owner of our cab- in, Jean Benard, carne back. He sav- ed my life; but as he knew nothing about.':yotr, the attackers got away with you, but as soon as he heard my story he got ready to pursue, and having found out that your kidnap- pers were making for. the Little Moose we took a short cut and wait- ed for you. We were at your heel, when the rifle's fired from the shore whispered, "my " "Then you were with that second sledge?" - "Yes, I and Jean Benard!" • "I saw you and I wondered," cried Helen. "But the half-breed had told me you were dead." "We lost you in the snow," said Stane, continuing - his explanation, "but found Anderton, and though the snow was as bad as ever, after time we started to search for your trail. Jean Benard found it deep in the wood where we were searching, knowing the lake was impossible for .any one to travel in the storm, and after he had made the discovery, An- derton and I started to track you." "And where is Jean. Benard?" ask- 1 ed Helen quickly. "I want to thank I him fol• saving you, for bringing joy back •to me when I thought that it - was dead far ever." "He is following us; he will be here, presently." "Then I shall see him?" "I hope so. But we must hurry on, 'dear. The dogs-" "Bother the dogs---" "But I want to hear Gerald Ain- ley's explanation. It is important that I should." "I have already heard it," said Helen quickly. "'It is full of lies." "You think so?" "I know it." • "All the more reason that i should hear it with Anderton. There is much more behind all this than you know, Helen." "Perhaps I guess something of what lies behind." "I do not think yoa can. It is an e traordinary story, 'and there will hra denouncement presently that will s r -prise Ainley. Come!" They moved forward together, found the dogs and having righted the sledge by which they had been anchored, they returned to the camp. Ainley, pipe in hand, apparently quite cool, was talking. He gave one glance at the couple as they re -en - t -red the circle of light, watched Stene for a moment as he stooped to =harness the doge, and then con- tinued the story h had' beeh telling glibly and evenly. "If they knew what d know they might say that I had made a wise choice in remaining with a' convict who had suffered for something of which he was innocent, instead of going with the man who sent another pian t, "Helen! You are mad! mad!" cried Ainley in a voice so wild that one of the Indians, dozing at the other side of the fire, started suddenly to his feet, and looked around him as' if for enemies. Ainley saw him and check- ed the othee wild words which sprang to his lips, and after a moment the Indian sank down on his haunches and dropped lois' chin on his breast a -e gain. "No," answered Helen' calmly. "I am not mad, I am telling the truth, as you gave me evidence just,'now. You did not let me finish my sent- ence. You knew what I was going to say. Ho* did you know it? You could not have guessed it if the facts had not been within your knowledge, She .broke off ,and was silent for a moment whilst Ainley stared at her with wild eyes. "I may be in your debt for what happened this morn- ing. I do not know, frivol do not, cannot trust you; but I will never for- give you for what the man I loved suffered, Ne'verl" '"You believe some .,lyin:g tale of Stane's?" said Ainley in a sneering attempt to cover up his own discom- fiture. "I believe what he ... told me, I would have believed it on his word alone, but fortunately the matter does YOI,IR OROER RHS. , US FOR PRICES Look The ML of The ,., tjlaILLy' Books" THE HURON EXPOSITOR Seaforth, Oittrio. Phone 41 mak is what the Indians call a bad man -but perhaps you know him?" 'He broke off and looked directly at Anderton as he spoke, and waitedfor a reply. The .mounted policeman nod- ded, and as casually as he could re- plied: "Yes, I have met him. He• is•~ -no good." (Continued next week) WIT AND WISDOM Some of the cars sold this year, we understand, have floating pay- ments-Wirmipeg Free Press. An apple tree near Fredericton, N. B. now carries 107 grafts. What politician can 'beat this? -Woodstock Sentinel- Review. While there have been many not- able' shifts and changes here lately, the congressional record remains un- alterably drey., Nashville Banner. . Even good writers can write toe much, and bad writers cannot write too little. -G. K. Chesterton. "What's the use of going camping"'' Asks Eph...Kiljoy, of Newport, "when ou can get all the mosquito bitty nybody could desire without stirring off the front porch?" - Harrisburg elegraph. Visitors to the library of the Brit- ish Museum number more than 1,- 200,000 every. day. There are over, 4,000,000 volumes on the sixty miles (Pf shelving. -London Answers. Watch out next Saturday evening. There were 5,763 accidents from slip- ping in bath tubs in New York last year.-Kiteh•ener Record. One of the strangest sights in the -world is on a mountain_,,top of Luz- on, Phillippine Islands.' cloth- ed and sitting in groups of front 10 to 25 each, there are hundreds of bodies• of Igorots which- have been 'Mummified by the hot, dry air -their method of 'burial. It resembles a vast picnic. -(Collier's. * * * 'Why aren't girl scouts taught to do one good left turn a day? ' "Having got the news, I made straight for the cabin, and had the ill -luck to arrive there half an hour too late. One of the mep foul d a dead man, who, from the description, I mistook for Starve -there, and we• also found a wounded Indian, who, with a little persuasion, told us what he knew, which was that a half-breed of the name of 'Chigmok, inflamed with love for' Miss Yardely, had car- ried her off, designing to make her his squaw. I understand this Chig- LONDON AND WINGHAM South. p.m. Wingham 2.05 Belgrave 2.22 Blyth 2.33 Londesboro 2.40 Clinton 3.08 Brucefield 3.26 ' Kippen 3.33 Hensall a I 3.39 Exeter 3.53 North. 1i131104+e4 Exeter Hensall Kippen Brucefield Clinton Londesboro Blyth - Belgrave Wingham 10.59 11.12 11.18 •11.27' 11.58 12.16 12.23 12.33 1247 C.N.R. es - East. Goderich Holmesville Clinton Seaforth St. Columban Dublin Dublin St. Columban Seaforth Clinton West. H'olmes�ille Goderich a.m. 6.35 6.50 6.58 7.12 7.18 7.23 p.m. 2.40 2.56 3.05 3.21 3.27 342 11.24 • 9.12 11.29 11.40 9.2& 11.55 9.39 12.05 9.53 12.20 10.05 " C. P. R. TIME TABLE East. Goderich Menset McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton McNau, ht . - Torontb West., a.m. 5.50 5.55 6.04 6.11. 6.25 6.40 6.52 10.25 8.111. Toronto ....r, 7.40 McNaught .. 11.49 12.01 12.12• Auburn 12.23 'MeGew �.. 12.84 Menet 12,41 Goderich 12.46 Walton Blyth ,nt `wl