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The Signal, 1912-7-4, Page 6• TlltnkDAv. JrLT 4, 1912 THE SIGNAL : _ iDER ONTARIO i0it Varno pulled up the bay mare to the middle of the road aloe at the objects 10 the abed, eplat Thplsere were two --that Is, o mein pointe of interest M Oiarp rel automobile. Tbe other was a yang man lying comfortably a the twat seat of the red auto pile. fast asleep. Incidentally, even to the'lay eye of ermines, there was wi titakaay something the matter with the red automobile. It was lop- sided. and the front part-Bue didn't know tbe technical term -bot the main feast part appeared to be dislocated. It looked like • toy tin auto that bad been stepped on Bet there was nothing the matter with the young man. He was sleeping peacefully, calmly, his knees elevated teotwltte, hla, arms folded like a slum- bering brave la edgy on Ma breast, cad Sue laughed softly to herself and booked up and down the road. It was deserted. between 6 and 7 hardly any one ever passed along the shore road. It was tbe dinner hour up at the tan. And people who knew robot they were about never took the shore road. anyway. not with red auto- mobiles. it was a abort cat, of coarse, to the inn, but primarily -and legally - it was a private road leading to tie Warne estate, and to Hartley Varian's Med the only blot on the fair face of mature in the summer time were sum- p,( boarders and red automobiles. Suddenly the young man moved ratt- iest/1y. Mosquitoes were pleatlhl in the abed* of the maples. He sighed. creed his eyes, caught sight Of the W . mare and sweat black road tart OA mit up. "Han be got back?" 1 The question was one of dazed coo- lers. Bus returned his stars with grave interest. I don't know what you mean. You nava bad some accident?' "8ome accident!" The young man became troubled and explosive. "We came mighty near killing ourselves and smashing the machine to spunten over that -that -rope. Didn't you see the rope?" "A rope?" Miss Varian's tone was mild and sympathetic. "Stretched across the road on pur- pose, and we rode bang into it. Wil- son, that's the chauffeur, has gone somewhere to get help. We missed the road • few miles back." "Were yon bnrtr "Just a little jolted. I presume the owner of the rope hoped for funerals" - "There was a funeral here n few days ago," interposed Miss Varian gen- tly. "That is why tbe rope was put up, I believe, to turn back any stray autos and prevent any more funerals. A red one ran over a calf"- "oaifr' "It wan • pet calf," reaumbd Mies Nadas firmly, "and ft was with its not*. It bad a perfect right to ram- ble a;bug thin road, and automobiles have*. It's a private road. Dlda't you bad the sign of tbe stone gate- posts ks you came In?" "The sign said simply: 'No Trespass- ing. `Tramps and Dogs Ke.p Out' I'm neither a tramp nor p dao. so 1 cams in." sign on the apple tree," be told tbe bay "Wed. the rope wasn't stretched for tuare.8 cars. a tramp or a dog." "Neighbors aren't trespassers," said escaped from the side comb transom. there was a preps mtement "My ant bonen essaanes,•" she eat& "No, Pr, ft Isn't; Ws Susie. sad your bale pad to be red. Remember the day you Climbed our wall and tried to get ep lin the Mg apple tree after a black. bird's best I tell you was there? AM your toot caught. sad you tumbled down, and I bad to dint up and take your shoe off before you could got your toot out of the cleft to the trunk. Ds you remember, Mhos Busts Fumbler He was IaugMsg now, Iambi'. wick- edly, joyously. Mtn• Varian blushed. hesitated, Aagibt the merry Ase ed the brown eyes of the trespasser and laogbed too. "1 remember. You did ase to call me that, didn't you?' "Aad It $U you yet," he retorted calmly. "Any one who'd sit and gloat over • poor str*aded, wrecked devil tot the sake of an idiotic calf is nothlag but • fresh kid. I'm going to ride hue with you, Sue. Sit over os the st11W side and give me those retas," "I shall drive began Sue reselat► ly, but the reins were taken from her. Down the road a figure was toning, and they waited. It was Wines, the chauffeur. "It's all night, Bob," be called. '1 saw the old man and fixed It up with him. He says to come on up to the bone, and he'll phone to Glanmore for some one to 81 the machine." "Wen, you'd better any and watch it until you bear from Glenmore, Wil- son," said. Bob Morrison kindly. "III burry ahead with Miss Varian." Wilson climbed wearily into the au- tomobile and watched t the road cart out of sight Miss Varian was silent It was eight years since Bob Morrison had left tireyrocks school, just eight years since his mother bad died and the great old house up on the bluff had been closed up. She had missed her neighbors. So had her father. Grey - rocks and the Maples were the but of the old estates along the $bore to bold out against the encroachment of summer hotels. She stole a side glance at the figure beside her, knowing hew warm his welcome would be at the house to spite of the red automobile. "Caught you peeking," laughed Bob, looking down at her and swinging the bay mare easily around the last MTV,- "Why ana"Why don't you say you're glad I'm home?" 'We heard you were going to Europe after you lett college," she said. "Well, I'm not," he retorted deliber- ately. "Dad's bad about enough city whirl, and I'm going to take this place and settle down bene at Greyrocks- that le, if my neighbors treat ma right." "The rope wasn't for neighbors." said Bue slowly, "lust for trespassers. And anyway a neighbor would know the way, the cross lot path over tiro wall, past the big apple tree. That's the way neighbors pass from Grey - rocks to the Maples." "We'll tear down the wall and travel erose lots every day, won't we. Su- sanne Susie Sue?" He was laughing, but then was aa dndercurrent` of serious intent tial brought the quick warm color to Sue's face. She wondered if he Was tbtsk- ing of the last time they had traveled cross lots, the day be had left for school, and at toe old stone wall be bad kissed her goodby and snipped 01 a lock of her uatr with his pocket- knife. Bob shifted the reins to his left band and reached for his inside pocket. From a small Russia lentber bill book be took a bit of curly red hair with a piece of black thread, boy fashion "It was red those days." he said thoughtfully, end Sue said 'never a word. "I hope there isn't any treep•ssing The trespasser was silent for the first time. Climbing out of his ma- chine, .be Strode over to the cart and looked' up at the girl to it. She was young, about seventeen. be thought Her waist was • white linea boyish affair that a very young person might be expected to wear, with plain tura down toiler knd short sleeves. The Whits linen skirt was short, too -ankh• lengti. He could see the low heeled tan oxford,- And bar hair was braid- ed an& wound around her bead like • misplaced aureole that had slipped del, Worse than all, she was laugh- ing at him. He knew It when be saw bar Ayes. Whombe spoke again 1t was with a hem obvious reference to his own you tell me where 1 a m 7" "Bever and a half miles from Glen - more. lieu missed the mato road about two Mies back. This leads to the Va- ria "1 that's where I want to gor ex- claimed the young man. "I thought Wilton was making for the tin. I am bosndefor Verlea's place." 'Tbit why did y o0 come In an auto- mobll,T Don't you know Mr. Various pereovall y r "Haven't seen him for years Ho most bee jolly old beggar to judos from the rope -real sweat„ neighborly disponi. tion. ljsan't bar "1 (bins be wog perfectly right and juatlaet3," said Miss Varian, with sud- den baygbt7 degasses . "It was ted Aeareel little calf, and 1t bslosSad to nee" The leant ease beSltn to sago liaise to a gradual dolalseaes et dr &ne ties it tree a sante to Meat. besatlM N stoned premelillOWI tel b sad fersbMwlodge. lseprovd Ms "Tit let tottyrhessa lagan and two soots thee 7M'e s Mots.' be said by Was oer1ae tat'bsd 1s Aar Me locks Softly. latHly. They wen dartang dee Mocks. cony. bjtalking Inge et Wes pangbre that hew their Isegieem gat Sue softly, and be slipped the red curt back in the bill book as they drew up before the Maples. It was his wel- come home. A Spoiling Lesson. MSS Thompson, whose form nature has endowed with all too ample curves, was giving her little nephew a lesson to spelling the other day. He had spelt b -e, be, and be, he, and now she was trying to get him to tell bee what me spelt "Listen, Bobby," she said earnestly. Theo closing her lips she ptonoanead the sound of • long m, and opening them the sound of a long s. "What does that spell?' Bobby looked at her and shook Ms heed. Again she tried. and this time. while proaoundng the sounds, she vig- orously tapped bar own rotund chest with bar plump torclinger. •'Maga, es. What letters am I say - Ing sad what do they spell?" she ask- ed, still vigorously tapping her chest "I don't know what ted letters ata," replied Bobby, watching the, pt forefinger, "bot I guess they spell tat," -New York Press THt MARKETS. Liverpool Wheat Futures Claes Irre- gular, Chicago Lower - Live $tech -Latest Quotation•. CHICAGO. July 1.-Cuoler weather over the entire spring crop country, with rains reaching a large part of the beet, made weakness the rule today In wheat The close, which was Mav7 at aoarly the bottom point of the ses- sion, showed a net decline of 1 1-4c to 1 7-ic. All other leading staples. too, finished at a toss corn 7 -Sc to 1 1-k, oats 1-4e to 1 1-!c and provisions is to 17 1-10. I'M air 1 market closed to -day 116 1►11ag�h0err to c lower than yesterday es tlhea3. and to %c lower as cora. At Beetle, wheat closed unchanged from IM - day last; at Budapest $c tower. Toronto Grain Market. Wheat, fail, bushel V* to a M Wheat, gwae bushel 0 N Rye, bushel 0 M Oats, bushel 011 t W Barley, bushel 0 M Barley. for feed • M 010 Peas. bushel 1 0 Buckwheat, bushel 1 M 1.* Toronto Dairy Market. Butter, creamery, lb. rolls0 37 Butter, creamery, solids 0 27 Batter, separator. dairy, Ib..• ss. Butter, store lots • Eggs, new -laid 014 Cheese, new, Ib • 13 Minneapolis Grain Market MINNEAPOLIS, July L -Clone. -Wheat -July, $1.40%; Sept., $1. Deo., 11.0111 to $1.001%: No. 2 hard, (1.11 No. 1 north- ern, $1.10%. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 71c to 7351c Oats -No, 5 white, Dec. Rye -No. t, 70c. Bran --131 to 111.30. Flour -First patents, Mu to b.s; *m- ond patents, 13.10 to 3616; first clears 11.5) to M.*; second clears, 1=70 to is. Buffalo Grain Market. BUFFALO. July 1. -Spring wheat dull, No. 1 northern carload" store, $1.1011; winter eaay. No. 2 red, $1.11 asked; No. 2 whlt,e P.N. Corn -Unsettled; No. 3 yellow, 10c ask- ee*Q:� No. 4 yellow, 771%c asked; No. $ loon{, Mc to 70%c; No. 4 corn, 70%c, all en trash thru billed. Oats-Uasattled: No. 2 white M%e ask - 0d; No 3 white, 561%c asked; No. 4 whits Who asked. Duluth Grain Market. DULUTH, July 1. - Wheat -Ne. 1 hard, $1.1x*: No. 1 northern, $1.11%; No. 2 do., 61.OgB to $1.00%; July, $1.10% asked; pt., ;LOW ASSERTING HERSELF. (fWE''ll6 bomb Democrats at our boe." r�' That's whet pa uaed to may Whoa some osis cess god asked him. "My folks Is lwllt that war." Pat that was when we lived back east, Vlore everythlsg was slow. eta moved o Colorado then. And ane says, "Are we,. mouser* "Or course we are'sairs pa. eerprtaae And mad as two a* sats. '!f anything is attend tiara It's that we're Democrats. You've lived with me soros twenty years >ay this time you should know " MO acrd 01 1a sanaatts tensa. But ma sat Are we, though?" Thea pa be almost threw • at. And, my, the air was blunt He said: "Our dads was Democrats. 1 guess that we ere too. Ifo robber tariff gets our vote; Fres trade's about our style. I guess we're Democrats, all right." And thee be tried to smile. "An right," says rna, "you can lust be Whatever sults you best. I genes that IVs your privilege, And I will not protest. It may be I'm a Democrat, OM I Mel ea no shelf. wee oat bore women have a vote, AM ell talk for myself." Taking Advantage. "Odr.,e e,. "It L an ill wind that blows nobody god" What's the illustration?" "Toa know that snippy Mrs. Stiles?" "Yea" "She's too exclaslve to exchange fancy work patterns with any of the neighbors." "Mean thing." "Well, today her very prettiest lunch cloth was out on the line and the wind blew it over the fence into our back yard, and I copied the pattern before I seat, It over to bee." A Legend e1 the Seven Stara To the naked este six of the Pir- ade, oe "Seven Star," seem to be of •tort the [ratee magnitude& wbSs the set toth ii Very dies Ths star. the legend says. Is Mesope. ens of the won daughters of Atlas sad w and bee panes= le a pas -i apes be tar bane. mar a atsatal. Tb other sisters as asserted Belle. Atefose gad Osten. married Neptune. Rleetra, Male sad Taygefa were wedded to Jupiter aa/ Stens to Mars. Poor Merops one - ed bemoan li $M7pbaa a boas. .0 metal, and was doomed to stoned diatom for bee rain get bass els fh1& her bsabil meet fhroegbist all steeaft7 rod a begs stele tap a WM Aa- astgate Os NMI sum* r woe11.11. gad Ms Sewer Meng Wit laMO L Just Liam Them. "Aren't mos just the meanest t111.g.r "What nowr "Here they have been buying and ming votes for years." "Wear' "Aad now that 1t looks as if women were about to get the ballot they begin to oaks a fns about bribery." Werke Seth Ways. "It 1s easy for me to get rid of a hired girl 1 don't like." "Bow do you accomplish this mar- vel?" arvele" "By making love to her. Then my wife Ores the girl at once." "That is one way to get rid of a wife too." Hard to Pleass. "What is be kicking about?" "His long bouts " "From 9 to 67" "Something like that" "He wouldn't want to work over- time If he had a job in the mint" frtS • Good For the Kind. '•-- "He la a One man, all right" fn "Ob, 1s her "What's the matter with him?" "Nothing. 1 wonder they don't elect him to membership in the woman's elub." Gave Him • Pleasant Half Hwa 'That check you gave me was so gam" "I was afraid it wouldn't be." "Theo why did you give it to mar -Roomed to please you so to get tt" Warns Seth Ways. "The king dubbed him a knight" "That is what mfdllt be called kitgbt- 1•g a dab." Have • Cars. Sheet folly, saki the poet Where 3t le Spins wide. Pot deal take fila es Stern. 1t might soma $rola•. 0 • 01 • 31 PERT PARAGRAPHS. Iia costs • lot t0 ten Wte • millionaire -abert a million Boilers. to fact Bone weans are so s•sotIoaal that they weep over their own good tock. It is MM be ears a competence, 11Ut barter still to be ea/aded with it The seam seise dees whet be can does weeders. Msay •mea eultirstes • pooch and reams • mint. CATTLE MARKET$. Union Stock Yards. TORONTO, July 1. -Receipts of live stock were 13I cars, consisting of 8630 cattle, 125 calves, 555 sheep and 630 hogs. Occenes•Ily • ceslrmd Bar MP pion Minos. by speedos the tests Same possess are mune mad They neatsrelly make thio sessetates ,tad 1M We are sseb Mer sealleSPONat w ..war Map ear ttl.ol1 M sewrr/ea est Iceman 1SiA Mew NO Holts awes. Butchers Good butchers were being quoted at from 67,0E to $7 76, with 57.40 as the pre- vailing price. The supply was good. Me- diums went from N to $0.50, with commons quoted at M to $6. Light steers and batt- en in this class were around 17.26. Cows. The market was decidedly off. with the supply very large. Good cows sold at from M to M.70; medium, from $4 to $6, and common tram N to N. The bulk of the salsa run from $4 to $4.60. Calves. The price remained about steady. at M for the good ones and down to N for the commons. Sheep A decline set in on heavy ewes, which sold down as low as from M to $4. Light ewes went from $4 to $4.60. The fluctua- tion was close. with no higher tendencies *bowing. Spring lambs were steady at figures from $7.76 to $8.75. Bucks were from $3 to $3.60. Hops. A, further decline was recorded. Too week's price opened at 57.46 f.o.b., and 1106 flat fed and watered. The supply was fairly good. ' Chicago Live Steck. CHICAGO, July 1.--Cattle-Receipts 31,- 000. Market strong for best, others week. Beeves, $6.76 to MA; Texas steers. OM to 17.5); western ste.ra. Ins to Pik' stockers and feeders, It to 11.46; tows sad heifers, 42.70 to 830. alvos X.10 to Kf. Hogs -Receipts 43.110. Market fe hew Light, $1.13 to IMO; mixed, 17.16 to heavy, $7 10 to 17.10; rough, $7.06 to AP y1gs. $6.3) to it bulk of sales, $7.45 Ie *.R. Sheep -Receipts 02.010. Market steady for sheep. Lambs, 1k to Inc off. Native 53 to M; western. 63.01 to M; yeast 54.01 to 10.30; lambs native, 43.10 to 57 western, $1 to mu. Cheese Markets. CANTON. N.T.. July 1. -some 30r11 boxes of cheese sold at 14%c, and ale tabs of butter sold at 371ie. WATERTOWN, N.Y., July 1. -Cheese setts on board here were 12,010 at 14c. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The J. F. Cairns departmental store in Saskatoon, Bask., was burned on Saturday. LOM will be over 5500,000. The election of Mayor Bernier of Levis, who was recently elected to r*prereat that county in the Quebec I,egialature. has bean contested. Kite Ilkeston bye-eleohion, caused by the appointment of Col. Seely u Minister of War, resulted in his re- turn with nearly 3,000 less majority. Prost visited Niagara district Sun- day night, but fruit growers declare the Crops were but little damaged. Potatoes and tomatoes were the chief stamen. the growers say. Ethel Orimth, 876 Yong* street. Toronto. while running on to the strut opposite her home yesterday afternoon was hit by • motor car, owned and ran by Dr. Ryerson of Unionville. She was badly bruised. Mn. Jamas M ; of Stanford ave- nue. Earleoourt. Toronto, gave birth to plats -two girls and a boy-yes- Mrday. They weigh two, throe and a half, ,and three pounds respective- ly mod it. doing well, u also 111s llthoagb the health of tits Doobcas of OuMgkt has improved so much that she hopes to be able to accom- pany the deka to the Maritime Pre vinous. it is not eargected that Her Royal Highness will attend say edi- ctal fanotioas. The body at • woman evidentt7 between 10 mod 10 years of age. wail taken from lite river at the Maid of the Mkt leading at the Falls yester- day. esMrday. It Is Whewd to be that of an Park Wheel tragedy victim. H nothing was marked P N. SUMMER FOOTWEAR With the warns weather comes the de- sire for something to keep the feet cool and comfortable. The coolest summer footwear you can get is a dainty pair of Canvas, White Nubuck, Russia Tan or Patent Leather Pumps or Gibson Ties. We have them in all the latest styles at the lowest possible prices. Barefoot Sandals, Tennis, Lacrosse and Bowling Shoes in all sizes. Trya pair of our Brown Bronco Shoes for every day. They can't be beat for wear or comfort. Repairing Downing & MacVicar NORTH BIDE OF SQUARE, WDBR Ctl. 81DE SQUARE, GODERICH. O-Pee-Chee Chewing Gum `Ni\ 11';' • I1 is made from the sap of the best gum trees that grow. v This sap is boiled down and refined until its pur- ity is assured. Then carefully packed in cakes, hermetically sealed and 'shipped to our big sanitary factory in London, where (by modem processes) it is made into O-Pee-Chee Gum and flavored in the making to Sw,IN Ile, tw Decent. Detroit. lsly 8. --Tire ywMattsp ab tnlanw thea for • time thgeedsRpi isallretloo les essay litrovadesit eirerad the pleat of the 1.. Tobe Co..missies a leas et Mar b MAO it is said that the plated was towed fes $NLON. The elfaMn el the Ire has mot been Waist suit all tastes. There's a lingering freshness about O- V Pee -Ghee you're surly to like. It is far smoother than ordinary gum and lasts longer. O-Pee-Chee is the one per- fect gum -"It's merits the tongue can tell" Sold by all dealers who sell the best gu' i. s.5 House Flies are hatched in manure and revel in filth. Scientists have discovered that they are largely responsible for the spread of Tuberculosis, Typhoid, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Infantile Dis- eases of the Bowels, etc. Every packet of WILSON'S FLY PADS will kill more flies than 30o sheets of sticky paper. MASSEY- HARRI S SHOP The place to buy all kinds of !'ARM MACHINERY Binders, Mowery, Hay - loaders, gide Stakes, Manure Spreader* Hain Wiwns and Cream Sep. orators ; also I.oudsa'e Hay Can, Pee10 sod 81101,. Molestecre•a, separatoar, SEOeoeetea4 Fertil- isers, Pumps for hand - po.eer and Ma$dnea; Osooline Engines and Windmills. And. 0 say t you most see our Buggies. We have ,t full line, all styles, and some of the best and moot stylish riga that ever came to town. 1 have a few Horses to set and soma Driving Harnew. I also have a House to rent_ • lovely place for summer. Call in and see what we have and rest a while. anyway-. ROBERT WILSON Hamilton Street, Oodericb 5turdy's IS:THE LACE FOR Pure Groceries ALL WE ASK IS A TRIAL Sturdy & Co. The Grocers On the Square 'PHONE 91 sorairotoiroosswootirworvisoiosswou Only line reaching ■11 Summer Rrsorti in Highlands of Ontann. including MUSKOKA LAKES LAKE OF BAYS ALGONQUIN PARK MAGANETAWAN RIVER FRENCH RIVER TEMAGAMI KAWARTHA LAKES Full summer service now in effect to all of above resorts. Write for full particulars and illustrated fold- ers to any Grand Trunk,Agent. aoseseekers' Excnrsio»s July 9th and 2Srd, August 6th and Mb, September Std and 17th, via Sarnia sir Chicago. Winnipeg and return, $34. Edmonton and 'roan. 912 Tickets good for sixty days. No change of cars. Special oak will leave 'Toronto 10.90 p.uto0 above dales, via Chicago and 9t. Paul, cartying through coaches and Pullman tourist sleeping cars The Grand Trunk Pacific Rail- way is the shortest nod quickest route between Winnipeg -Masks - loon -Edmonton. New fast express service between Winnipeg and Regina. Smooth roadbed, electric • ligated sleeping ears, superb dining car service. Leave Winnlppsegg 6 p.m., an eve Regioa 7 SAO., 8..katoon S.90 ►.m.. Edmonton 9 p.m. Ask F F. Lawrence, Grand Trunk Agent, Godericb, for full informa- tion, or write A. E. Duff. D. 1'. A Uolon Station. Toronto, Ont. CANADIAN PACIFIC EMPRESSES lftaea+d jsSramsl �w0o t June >a Jobb ibd Am. tit*• 11sh•es soma i ah.riones• own .01 ,hmmresp wet et J. Lei Most r P. a., t;l ween. Oat