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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-10-09, Page 6Winigham Advance -Times. ot WINOIIAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning W. Logan Craig, Pablisher bscniption rates — One year $2.0c Six months $noo, in advance. To U. S. A. $.e.so per year. Advertising rates 021 applicaticm, Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Head Offiee, Guelph, Ont. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur etrice at reasonable rates. ABNER COSENS, Agent, 'Winghatr J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCID.ENT AND — HEALTH INSURANCE -- AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box 360 Phone 24( WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingharn Successor to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. • Successor to R. Vanstone Ontario Wingham 1. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store IL W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R Hambly Phone 54 Winghaan WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES roI.16.11t ExplETATIONS. Row 'Wireless. anti Cinema Oonepler Time and Space, A small band of gallant Men fought their way by dog sledge to the South Pole, while an anxiOtill Werld waited weeks for the et:ea:fleet crumb of news. Not uutil their little ship had limped back to the fringe of eiVilization was the cable able to limn the Arst news to us. And we marvelled at that. That was Polar ex- ploration—twenty years ago, says a writer in Answera. • An explorer flies over the South POle in an airplane. All tbe while he its thus making bistory he ie sending wireless messages to New York, 10,- 000 miles away. And down below on the ice two cinema camera -men crank that scene to preserVe it for ever. That is Polar exploration •in 1580. And we take it pretty much or granted. Admiral Byrd'e South Pole Expee dition is the perfect example of mod- ern exploration. Airplanes, radio, and the cinema, their possibilities are staggering in piercing the unknown. Byrd was at the southern tip of the world for eighteen months. With the exception of two nights only, he spoke by radio to New York every nigbal That is not all. Every day the New York newspaper reporter who went with the party wrote a "story," and the radio operators shot it through the air to New York, so that it was on sale in the streets of New York and other cities the following morn- ing, and in Britain a little later. 1)Vireletle obliterated space and time as a matter of daily routine. More than 325,000 words of news, and 20,000 private messages, total- ling over 8,000,000 words, were sent. Every day New York sent the men at the Pole a miniature reswspaper by radio complete enough to enable some a the party to keep abreast with their Stock Exehange invest- ments! On one occasion, when Byrd wanted scientific data, they sent bine a complete geographical treatise. The cinema also set up records. The Byrd Expedition film is a com- plete record from the time they left New York until their triumphant re- turn. As we have said, it shows Byrd actually flying over the South Pole. Films also kept the party in touch with home. Every Sunday night there was a cinema show for the raen, and the greatest thing of 6..11 was when the relief ship brought a spe- cial news -reel of the men's own fami- lies at home. It showed the wireless operator his own son whom he had never seen, for the infant was born after the expedition had. sailed! Ex- ploration -1930. A YOUTHFUL STAR -GAZER. DR. R013T. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Gradarate of University of Toronto, 'Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholtn Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST ever John Galbraith's Store. • F. A. PARKER • • OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated • Office Adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A. L & F. E. D1JVAL - -Licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, 'Chicago. Out of town and night calls ree- ponded to. All business confidential. • Phone 300. 3. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE .ngcnkg-THERAP,Y 'Mutat 2-5, 7-E, or in onpointraent Phone 101. J. D. McEWEN • LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r14. Sales of Farm Stock and Imple inents, Real Estate, etc., conducted -with satisfaction and at moderaa dames, THOMAS FELLS • AUCTIONEER • REAL ESTATE SOLD A. thorough knowledge of Farm Slott, Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD 13. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 6/3r6, Wroxeter, or address R, 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any. where and satisfaction guaranteed, DRS. A. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN ffiDENTISTS ce MacDonald Block, Wingliant Merschers Sister Helped Him In His Observations. • In the year 1738 a boy named Wil- liam Herschel wa.s born in Hanover. When he was still quite young lie e - ng lightly on the boy's square shout- "That young idiot wants money der. "A man can't see what is on again," he growled, his voice as sharp the cards until they're tipped, but it's always a fair gamble that between dawn and dusk I'll gather up my 'string of colts and crowd on. If I do, you'll want to come along?" He smiled at young Burkitt's eag- erness and turned away toward the ranch -house and Bayne Trevors, thus putting an early end to an enthusias- tic acquiescence. "They ,ain't no more men ever foaled like him," meditated Tommy, in an approval so profound as to be little less than out -and -mat devotion. And, indeed, one might ride up and down the world for many a day and not find a man who was Bud Lee's superior in the "things that count." As tall as moet, with sufficient shoul- ders, a slender body, narrow -hipped, he carried himself as perhaps his for- bear walked in the days when forests or sheltered caverns housed them, with a lithe gracefulness born of the the king made him Royal Astrono- mer and afterwarde knighted him. I perfect play of superb physical de- velopment. His muscles, even in the. Slight movement, flowed liquidly; he had slipped from his place on the cor- ral gate less like a man than like son -e great, splendid cat. The skin . •. of hands, face, throat, was very dark, long exposure to sun and wind, it "What Would You Say to Fifty whether by inheritance of because of "Wiping Out lif,i46.7,7-for Roton.strtio. aaatld have been difficult to say. 'The Dollars a Head," tion Well Under WIL eyes were dark, very keen, and yet and cmick as his eyes. "As if I didn't A* J. WALKER I liNiTtiftr, AND FITNEIZAIL SURVIICIE A, 3. VItedker seal Funeral Director and EmbairriCt. Of hone 100, Res. Phone 224, limousine Pivot ' CHAPTER I Bud Lee Wants to Know Bud Lee, horse foreman of th,e Blue Lake ranch, sat upon the gate of the home corral, builded a cigarette with slow brown fingers, and started across the broken fields of the upper valley to the rosy glow above the pine -tim- bered ridge where the sun was corn- ing up. His customary gravity was umisually pronounced. "If a man's got the hunch at egg is bad," he mused, 'is that a good, and sufficient reason why he should • go poking his fingers inside the shell? I want to know?" Tommy Burkitt, the youngest wage-earner of the outfit and a pro- found admirer of all that tactiturntiy, good humor and quit!: capability which went into the make-up of Bud Lee, approached from the ranch - house on the knoll. "Hi, Bud!" he called. "Trevors wants you. On the jump." Burkitt stopped at the gate, look- ing up at Lee. "On the jump, Trey - ors said," he repeated. For a moment .Lee sat still, his cigarette unlighted, his broad black. hat far back upon his elose-tropped hair, his eyes serenely contemplative upon the pink of the sky above the pines. Then he slipped from his place and, though each single move- ment gave an impression of great , leisureliness, it was but a flash of time until he stood beside Burkitt. - "Stick around. a wee bit, laddie, he said gently, a lean brown hand rest- : are the seventy-three colts worth, then?" "Right now, when I'm just ready to break 'ern in," said Bud Lee thought - folly, "the worst of that 'string it Worth fifty dollars. l'd say twenty of the herd ought to bring fifty dol- lars a head; twenty more ought to bring sixty; ten 'are worth, seventy- five; ten are worth: an even hundred; .seven of the Red Duke stock good for a hundred and. a quarter; the oth•7. •er four Red Dukes and the three Rob- ert the Devils 'arc wor•th a hundred and fifty a bead. The whole bunch, an easy,fifty-seven hundred litilniron item" He stared hard. at, Trevors a MO- inent. And then,' partially Voicing the thought' with which he had,grappled upon the Corral gate, lre :J*0 medi- tatively: "There's something 'peculiar about an outfit that will listen to a man offer fifty bucks on,a string like that." His eyes; cool and steady,. met Trevors' in a long look Which was little short of a challenge. • "just how far' does that go, Leer asked the manager curtly. "AS Jar as you like," replied the horse foreman coolly. '"Are yew. go- ing to -Sell those threeHyear-olds for thirty-six' hundred?" ! "YeS," answered Trevors bluntly, "I am. What are you going to do about it?" , "Ask for my time, 1 guess," and although • his Voice was gentle arid even plea,sant, his ;eyes Were hard, take my little string and move on." : • "Curse it!" cried, Trevors heatedly. "What difference does it make to you? 'AAThat business it is of yours how I sell? You draw down Your monthly pay, don't you? raised you a notch last month without .yorn• a.sle- ing for it, didn't I?" "That's so," agreed the foreman equably. "It's a cinch none of the boys have • any kick coming :at the wages." • • For a moment Trevors sat frown- ing Up at Lee's inscrutable face. Then he. laughed shortly. . "took here, Rad," he said good-humoredly, an ob- vious seriotistes's of purpose tinder the light tone. "I Want' to talk with you before yon do anything rash. Sit down." But Lee remained standing, merely Saying, "Shoot." - "I wender " explained Trevors, "if hard Years, 'Then, six months ago, just as his ambitions were stepping to fresh heights; just. as his hands were filling with newer, greater endeavor, there had come the :Mishap in the mountains and Sanford's 'tragic, death. Lee passed silently .through the courtyard. and .came to the door at the Lar end: The door stood open;' with- in Was the office .01 Bayne: Trevors, general' manager. Lee : entered,' his hat still far back' upon his head. • The sound of .his ! boots upon • the bare floor caused Trevors to look up very quickly. •. , ' Lee," lie said quietly. "Wait a minute, will your ,Quite a different type' from Lee, Bayne Trevor § Was licavY and: :square and hard. His eyes were the glinting gray eyes of a man who is .ferceful, dynamic, the 'sort of Mall Who is a better captain than licttenant, v‘rhose hands are strong to grasp life by the throat and demand that she starlet and deliver. • Only because of his wide and successful experience, of his initiative, of. his way of quick, decis- ive actiort mated to a. marked execti- tive ability, had Luke Sanford chosen Bayne Trevors aS his light -hand man in so colossal a. venture as the Blue Lake ranch, Only Because of the same pushing, • vigorous personality was he this Morning general. manager, with the uttlithited authority of a dic- tator over a petty principality. In a moment Trevors lifted his: frowning eyes from the table, turn- ing in his chair to confront Lee, Who stood lounging in leisurely. -manner against the doorjamb. the boys understand just the size of the job I'Ve got in my hands? You know that the ranch is a million- dol- lar outfit; you know that you can tide fifteen titles without getting off the home -range; you know that we are tieing, a dozen different kinds of farming and stock -raising. But you don't know just how short thernoney . There's that young idiot now, 'Hampton. He holds a third interest and I've gotto-consider what he Says,: even if he is a weak-minded, inbred pup that can't do anything hut spend an inheritance like the born fool he s. His share iS mortgaged; I've tried • to pay the mortgage off: I've got to .keep the interest up. Interest alone" amounts to three thousand dol- lars a year. Think of theft Then there's Luke 'Sanford .dead and .his 'one-third • interest left to atother Young fool, -a girl. Every two Weeks she's writing for a 'report, eternally butting in, making suggestiOts, ham- , pering me mitil I'm sick of the job." "That would be Luke's girl, Judith." ''Yes. Two of the three owners? kids, writing rne at every turn, And' the tithe& owner, Timothy Gray, , the only sensible one of the lot, has just up and sold out his share, and sup- pose be hearing next that some, superannuated female in an old lady's harm has .inherited.a fortune and has bought him out And now you, 'the best 'man :I've got; :throw me downl" "I don't seer'said Lee slowly, after a brief pause, "just What good: it does' to sell a good string of horses like they. were sheep: Half of that herd is real horse -flesh, I tell you" : "Well," snapped Trevors, •"suppose you are iright. I've got to raise three thousand dollars it a hurry. Where will I get it?" ''Who is offering fifty dollars a head for those horses?''' asked Lee, abruptly. "It might be the Big,Wes- tern Lumber !company?" "Yes." ' "Ub-huh. Well, you .cari kill the rats in your own barn, Trevors. go look for a' job sornewhere else." Bayfie Trevors, Ms lips tightly com- pressed, his eyes steady, a faint, Ern, flush in his cheeks, checked What words were flowing to his tongue and looked keenly at his foreman, Lee came a soldier in the Hanoverian 1 army. But soldiering did not inter- est William, and, as he could not get out of the army, he ran away to Eng- land and settled in Bath, where he stutlied musie and became an or- ganist. Then he gave music lessons, stud- ied mathematic/I at odd moments, and became tremendously interested in the scienee of figures. At last he began to calculate the distance which separated them from the earth. He spoke to his sister Caroline about is, an ilk!? Aatad,. ka. make tel through which to oliWt-ti the stare. So enthusiastic did Wil- liam toad Caroline become that their hofiee Was gradually turned into a, workshop fiad ere were kabala as teleseof4 When William was raring a eeti- cart Caroline would watch the sky; and when he was ,gazing through a certain huge telescope he had made she would sit beside hint all through the night and write down his observ- ations, • 'Then, On March 19, 1781, William made a wonderful discovery. He found the seventh great planet in the solar system, 'Uranusl k little later But whenever the flute of the great astronomer, Sir 'William Her- schel, is mentioned we think also of his sister, Caroline, who was an equallygreat astronomer. Without her help he might have been a poor teacher of music all his lite. FRikiCiVAIT X68,OUL Thur edgy; October Oth, 1930 boots making jingling 121(1Sie on the vetqu'lada, her riding -quirt swing front her wrist, had !stepped by hilts and was looking with bright; snapping: oyes from him to Trevors. ain Judith Sanford,' she an- nounced briefly, and there was a note in her young voice which went ring- ing, bell -like, through: the still air!. "Is. one of you men Bayne Trevors?" A. quick, shadowy smile came and went upon the lips of Bud Lee.: It struck him that she might have said it .just that way: "I am the queen Of England and I am running my own kingdom!". He looked at her with eyes filled with Open interest, arid cur.:- iosi ty, .making. swift appraisal 'Of the flush in the '81in-browned, cheeks, the ccinfusion of dirk, ctirling hair diStur- bed by her furious riding,' the vivid,. red-blooded' beauty' of her. • Month and eyes and:the verY carriage of the dark 'head upon. her • superb white, throat announced boldly- and tricorn - pliantly' that liere was no wax -petaled lily of a lady but rather a Maid whose blood, like the blood of the father before her, was turbulent and hot and must, boil like a Wild. mot ntait-strearn at opposition. , Her :eyes, a little dark- er than Trevors'; -were the eyes of fighting 'stock. ,Trevors, irritated already,. turned hard eyes up at. her from Under cor- rugated 'brows. He did not ,rnove in Iii chair. Nor did I.ee stir except that no* he removed his hat. ! Trevors," said the general manager curtly, "And, Whether you are jtidith Sanford or the queen Of Sian), I am busy right ,now." "Yen talk soft with me, Trevors!" cried :the .gir1 passionately, .you Want to hold, your job five atinutes1 111 tolerate none of your high and migh ty ,airst ' . Trevors laughed at her, a sneer in his laugh. "I talk the way I talk," he • misseered, totighlY. "If People don't • like the sound of it they don't have to listen! you round up those seventythree horses ar, d 'crowd them: over the .ridge to the lumber camp. Or, if you want to (Mit,: quit 'toW and I'll send a sane Man." The hot color mounted higher in the girl's face, a new anger leaped Ins irk her eyes. lal-devastated reminiscently grave Prom under have enou h to contend with already." Texea from the la deParinleilTilik0Aft are paying interest g . . and principal op the huge•cost of re- their black brows they had the habit "Meaning young Hampton, I take eonatruction. Textile mina and coal of appearing to be reluctantly with- it?" said Lee quietly, mines of the north eonstitute a- big drawn from some 'great distance to Trevors nodded savagely come to rest, steady and calm, upon :"relegram. Caught it over the line the rnan with whom he chanced to the last thing last night, :VVe'll have be speaking. to seel some horses this time, Lee," 'file gaunt, sure-footed form was Lee's eyes narrowed imperceptibly. lost t04To1nmy's eyes; Lee had pass- "I didn't plan to do any selling for ed beyond the clump of wild lilacs six months yet," he said, not in ex - whose glistening, heart -shaped leaves postulation but merely in explanation. screened the open coma about which "They're not ready." the ranch -house was built. A strange- "How many three -year-olds have elaborate ranch-hottge, this one, set you got in your string down. in the here so far apart from the world of Big meadow?" asked Trevors crisply. rich residences. There was a score "Counting those eleven Red Duke, of rooms in the great, one -storey, colts?" rambling edifice of rudely squared "Counting everything, How many?" timbers set in field -storm and cement, "Seventy-three." rooms now closed and locked; there The general manager's pencil Wrote were flower -gardens still cultivated upon the pad in front of him. "78" part of Pranee's industrial wealth. After the war the ruined strip from Lille down past Verdun could Pay little and needed with. Reindicting is almost complete. There has been spent about $3,300,- 000,000 and about a tenth that much remains to be paid. The work, in 1922, woe eetimated by the Goveru- ment as likely to take forty years. It has been almost finished in twelve. Interest eeemed a huge buMen on the country, for all the money had to be borrowed. Yet in 1924, according R to the preeidetit of the oubaix Chamber of Commerce, taxes from m the war area ore than paid the in- terest and no* prosperity has so greatly increased taxes that they promise to extinguish. the debt, That, of course, was the theory on Which Prance invested in reconstrtic- tion, And, as a matter of fact, °mists saY, the output of the region daily by Jose, the hali-breed; a pretty then swiftly meltiplied 11 by 50. Lee has been increased over pea-araa Age ;court with a fountain and many roses, saw the result, 3,650 set down with inet hiS regard with cool uticoncerra tires by religliding fo„ more seienti. out upon which a doge» doorways the dollar sign in front of it, 1 -le 'Filen, just as Trevors was about to s'41111‘0).\;1.yinilL'.1d:ceil)r(6:.tli:e‘tih\illsr,iaae.:(s:tliii?.11iel,:Yi,'saIric'nletvv1t1;eYari \is'al,,t'lii(°oricileillli \It'inlj:1:btlgtsebd 'o51-ettl,11:1111i IC:CI fCSjseot.laldilirlY:f.Ih°1:tY.o:sclia.cly'ilm' It ldrseiso-1 .°Iel bleeia-ft: look as though it would take you half there's • a square man left on the and tell the -cook I'm here and I'm hungry as a wildcat. Tell him and any of the boys that are down there Tre- vors is fired. They take orders from ranch! Go down to the bunk -house you know how. Goodness knows, you an hour to turn around!" here he could count nie out. I'm not that I've come to stay and that Tre- me and no one else, And hurry, if "But you see I had just told Trevors working for the Blue Lake any triore. send up one of the boys to take your "Thank you, ma'am," said Bud Lee. As I go down to the corral, shall I shrugged his massiv e shoulders. "How do I know what game you are 01) to?" can't bluff me for tWO SCC - ands, Bayne Trevors," she blazed at him. "You know who I am, all right. Send for Sunny Harper," she ended. sharply. "Discharged three months ago," Trevors told her with a show of tenth. "Johnny 'Hodge, then," she Qom- nanded. "Or Tod Bruce or Bing Kelley. They all know me." "To make room for more crooker she cried, her own brown hands balled into fists scarcely less bard than Tre- vor's had been. Then for the thirct time she turned upon Lee: "You are one of his new thieves, I suppose?" "'Thank you, ma'am," said Bud Lee, gravely. • "Well, answer me, Are you?" "No, ma'am," he, .told her, with nee hint of a twinkle in his calm eyes.. a little smile • under the last words, just as there was a little smile in 13ud Lee's heart at the thought of the boys taking orders. from a little slip of a girl. Inside he was chuckling, vastly delighted with the comedy of the morning. "She's a sure -enough little wonder - bird, all right," he mused. "But say, what does she want to butt in on a man-size job for, I want to know?" "Lee," called Trevors, " you take orders from me or no one else on this ranch. You can go now. And just keep your mouth shut." Bud Lee was turning to go out and! down to his horse when he saw the look in Trevors' eyes, a look of con- suming rage. The general manager's voice had been hoarse. "D—n you," shouted Trevors, "get out!" "Cut out the swear -words Trevors,"' said Lee with quiet sternness. "There is a lady here." "Lady!" scoffed Trevors. He laughed contemptuously. "Where's. your lady? That?" and lie leveled a scornful finger at the girl. "A rant- ing tough of a female who brings a, breath of the stables with her and scolds like a fish -wife. . . ." ' "Shut up!" said Lee, crossing the room with quick strides, his face. , thrust forward a little. "You shut up!" It. was .Judith's. voice as Judith's hand fell upon Bud Lee's shoulder, pushing him aside.' "If I couldn't take care of myself do you think I'd be fool enough to take over a job like running' flee Blue Lake? Now—" and with blazing eyes. she confronted Trevors—"if you've got any more nice little things to say; suppose you say them to me!" • 'Trevors' temper had had a.mple - provocation andnow stood naked and' hot in his hard eyes. In a blind in- stant he laid his tongue to a word which would have sent Bud, Lee at his' throat. But Judith stood between them and, like an echo to the word, came the resotmding slap as Judith's open palm smote Trevors' cheek. , (Continued next week) "Take no orders this morning that I don't give," she said, for a moment turning her eyes upon Lee. And to Trevors: "Busy or not busy, you take time right now to answer my ques- tions. I've got your reports and all they tell me is that you are going in the hole as fast as you can. What business have you got selling off my young steers at a sacrifice." "Go, get those horses, Lee," said Trevors, ignoring her Again she spoke to Lee, saying crisply: "What horses is he talking about?" With his deep gravity at its deep. - est, Bud Lee answered: "All L -S stock. Those eleven Red Duke three- year-old, the two Robert the Devil colts; Brown Babe's filly, Comet---" "All mine, every running hoof of 'em," she said, cutting in. "What does 'Trevors want you to do with them? Give them away for ten dol- lars a head or cut their throats?" "Look here--" cried Trevors angr- ily, on his feet now. ' • "You shut up!" commanded the girl sharply. "Lee, you ans\ver me." "He's selling them fifty dollars a bead," he said with a secret joy in his heart as he glanced at Trevors' flushed face. "Fifty dollars 1" Judith gasped. "Fifty ;dollars for a Red Duke colt like Comet!" She started at Lee as though she could not believe it. He merely star- ed back at her, wondering just how much she knew about horseflesh. Then, suddenly, she Whirled again upon Trevors. "I came obi: to see if you were a crook or just a fool," she told him, her words like a slap in his face, 'No. man could be so big a fool as that! You --you erookl" The muscles under Bayne Trevors' jaws corded. "You've said about en- ough," he shot back at her. "And even if you do owo a third of this outfit, I"1 have you understand that am the manager here and that I do what I like," From her bosom she snatched a big envelope, tossing it to the table. "Look at that," she ordered hims"You big thief! I've mortgaged my holding for fifty thousand dollars and I've bought in Timothy Gray's share. T swing two votes out of three now, Bayne Trevors. And the firkt thing I do is run you out, you great big grafting fathead! You wotid chuck Luke Sanford's Outfit to the dogs, would you? Get off the ranch. You are fired!" "You; can't do a thing like this 1" snapped Trevors, after one, swift glance at the papers he had whisked, out of their coverieg. "I can't, can't I?" she jeered. at him, "Don't you fool yourself for one little mintitel Pack your little truek and hatnmer the trail." "I'll do nothing of the kind, Why, I don't know eVen who you arei You fie via/ atm rnOderniting Diants, looked; wide vera,ndas with glimpses said nothing, The World's Population, ae pallened floore hayond of fireplaces aud long expttus- "What would you sty to fifty doll -- estimated at over 2,000 millions; if this had been not tmly the whirling again in hitt swivel ,chaie. For, until re- ars a bead for there?" aSked, Trevors, The population of the world is now " it continue* to increase at the Weer- headquarters of Blue Lake Ranch, but "Three thousand six fifty for tire age takinliki tait of one per cent„ this the hom es well of tbe thief of its' al owners, e . an or , w ose own efforts alone had made him at bunch?" I YOats, ever f d h "I'd say the same," answered.Lee tigure will be doubled in stillintFenieVett Odle**, fOrty-fivn4 man to be reeknnad with, deliberately, "that I'd say to a malt that akrei me two bits for Daylight tit* 'Mite, Of 161,14(4411.61kkibt14 6,11d tteintiO0100,111• ti Itirtidliift bi 0,001 iiter 46160eit 400160it 04 *sot. 4000"4° had followed his fanty here 'exten. Avely and expensively, al wing him tell this one lenvury of Irk many lean, ok Ladybird. 1 tist trattizally would- n't Say nothing at all,' Trevors smiled 'cynically, What speak, 'there came an interruption, The quiet of the morning was bro- ken ty the quick thud of a horse's shod hoofs on the hard ground of the courtyard, Iltid Lee in the doorway turned to see a etratige horse &awe up so that upon its four bunchee hoofs it ,slid to a, standstill; saw r slender figure, which in the early light he mistook for a boy, slip OW of e saddle, And then, suddenly, girl, the spurs of her little riding [font -Wats we a're gni&Irs fien with fit Sh showing of the British teams at the Empire Games just concluded at 'Hamilton. Ont., for we picked tip Oldie a lot Of IMOOTS, and if I May sa" so, math, • 1, very creditable' showing," 00.' enteut Of it T. Brita.n. in Gharge of the swimmers who luine 'up several new marks at the to-teting, He thought the Games would be of in- ealeulabie value to the Empire as a whole, sines they h fright alt parts of it tos,etttv at one bite and One place. The tnaiclen voyage of the 'new Canadian Pacific flagship of the Pacific, the Empress of Japata from Yokohama to Victoria, was completed in eight days, six hours and 26 minutes, beating the tree press of Canada record fox` the run, established hi 1918, by four hours and thirty minutes, it. W, Beatty. eheirman and president of the rail- way eoinpatty wired eongratula- thins to Captain n. Aikmstra general seperintendent of the Company's Pacifie steamship fleet, Records also fell on the Atlantic; -when the Ooro0011Y's liner Duchess of York travelled between Greenock, Scot- land, and QiiebecCity in 6 days, A/ hoets and 20 tairtutese'even better. ing the time hung Up by the Duck - tee or Iticlutlerid rilA tor 0010/000 ttio froth wart to 406ot voxitah ioa hundroo, taloadotottat