THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNEI.LSBURG. PA.
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Everyone Should
Drink Hot Water
in the Morning
Wash away all the stomach, liv
er, and bowel poisons be
fore breakfast.
To feel your best day In and day
Ml, to (eel clean inside; no sour biie
to coat your tongue and sicken your
bioatti or dull your bead; no constlpa
Con, bilious attacks, sick headache,
colds, rheumatism or gassy, acid atom
ken you must batne on tno insiilo like
you bathe outside. This is vastly
more important, because the skin
tores do not absorb impurities into
the blood, while tho bowol ports do,
ays a well known physician.
To keep these poisons and toxins
svoll flushed from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels, drink before
breakfast each day, a glass of hot wa
ter with a teaspoonful ot limestone
phosphate in it This will cleanse,
purity and freshen the ertire alimen
tary tract, before putting mure food
Into the stomach.
Got a quarter lound of limestone
phosp'iute from your druggist or at
the store. It is Inexpensive and al
most tasteless, except a sourish
tinge which is not unpleasant. Drink
phosnhatcd hot water every morning
to rid your system of these vile poi
sons and toxins; a. so to prevent their
formation.
To feel like young folks feel; like
yon felt before your blood, nerves and
muscles beca.ne saturated with an ac
cumulation of body poisons, begin this
treatmont and aboe ail, keep it up!
As soap and hot w ater act on the skin,
cleansing, sweetening and purifying
o limestone phosphate and hot watet
before breakfast, act on the stomach
liver, kidneys and bowels. Adv.
Nailing a lie won't always keep It
down.
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The little word "if blunts the
point of many a sound argument.
swamp-root fou
kidney diseases
TVre is only on medicine thnt really
stand out pre-pminent ns a remedy fur
tWase ot the kidneys, liver and bladder.
Dr. Kilmers Swump-Koot stands the
kiehfft for the reason tint it his provrn
to I ju"t the rereily needed in thoiis.iniln
pnn thousands ot even the mnH distress
inn cases. Swamp llont, a physician's pre
scription lor special ilica?es, makes triemls
quirl.ly because it nul'l and immediate ct-.
feet n soon realized in most cnev It is
grntle, nealing vegetable conipou-d.
Hart ircatment t once. NMu at. all dnn
Stnrr in nottlci ot two sues lifty cents
and one dollar.
However, u yon wish first to tet tliis
rent preparation send ten cents to Dr.
ilmer i, Co., ISin:;!iamtnn, N. i ., tor a
sample pottle. Win n writing be sure tnd
S&eul.oa this paper Adv.
Hume "alert.
A man from "upstate" had gone tn
theater In New Y rk. In an inter
vnl between the nets he turne.i to
the metropolitan who bad tne Beat
next to him.
"Where do all them troopers come
from''" he Inquired.
"I don't think I understand," said
the city dweller.
"I mean them actors up yonder on
the BtuKf.," explainod the man from
far. "Was they brought on cpcclaliy
for this show or do they live here .''
"I believe most of them live here
In town," said the New Yorker.
"Well, they do purty blamed well
for home talent." said the stranner.
Philadelphia Chronicle-Telegraph..
Exceeded Instructions.
My little granddaughter was Invited
to luncb at a ccihbor'a. She Is rain
er notional In her eating, (in Icavii.g
I paid to her: "Now, If there is any
thing put on your plate that you do
not like, don t t.iy anything. Just
Hi.! a little of It if you can, but make
no remarks."
On her return she said: "Grandma,
there was a di.h that I don't like
(beans). I didn t want the folks to
know that I didn't like them, so 1 ate
two dishes." Exclui ngi-.
Pers. stent.
"Be sure and git the right tooth,
doctor."
"Don't worry, t il get It If I have
to pull out every tooth In your head "
Life.
STOPPED SHOUT
Taking Tonics, and Built up on
Right Food.
The mistake Is frequently made of
trying to build up a worn-out nervous
system on socnllec tonics.
New material from which to rebuild
used up t!?"ue cells Is what, should be
Supplied, rnd this can be obtained
only from proper food.
"I found myself on the verge of a
nervous collapse, Cue to overwork and
Study, nnd to illness in tho family,"
writes a Wisconsin wouan.
"My friends became alarmed be
cause 1 grew palo and thin and could
not sleep nicjits. 1 took various
tonics, but their effects wore off
shortly after 1 stopped taking them
lly food did not seem to nourish nic.
"Reading of Grape-Nuts, 1 determined
to stop t'..e tonics nnd see what a
change of diet would do. I nte Grape
Nuts four times a day with cream,
and drank ml'k also, went to bed
early after eating a dish of Gra,ie
Nuts.
"In about two weeks I was sleeping
soundly. In a short time gained
weight nnd felt like a different woman
Crape-Nuts and fresh air were the
only sgonts used to accomplish the
happy rcrults." "There's a Reason.'
Name given by Postura Co., Cattle
Creek. Mich.
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The Heart of Byving'eE-Roe
Night Wind Illustrations by Ray Walters
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i A STORY OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST
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CHAPTER I.
1
Out of the Vine Maples.
Slletz sat. her knees drawn up to
her chin, on the flat top of a fir
stump. Beside her lay Coosnah, heavy
muzzle on huge paws, his eyes as pnle
as the girl's were dark. They were
hlll-brcd both. Perhaps that account
ed for the delight both found in lb"
solitude of this aerie, where they
could look down toward the west on
the feathery, green sea of close-packed
pine nnd fir. of spruce and hemlock
and toward the cast on the narrow
strip of tide-water slough and the un
palmed shacks of the lumber camp
huddled bove Its rollway. It was
the maRiiiticent timber country of the
great Northwest.
Slletz was wondering, as she always
did, how far the mountains ran to the
south, how far it was to that 'Frisco
o which she had heard so much from
the tramp loggers who came and went
with the seasons, their "turkeys" on
their backs and the Joyous liberty oi
the Irresponsible forever tugging at
their eccentric souls.
Over the facing ridge she knew
that the cold Pacific roared nnd
coaxed on the ships, to play w ith them
In the hell of Vancouver coast. She
could hear It sometimes when the
pines were still; yet the had never
seen It.
She had pictures of It In her mind
many pictures. She knew well how
It would look when she should see
It a gray floor, a world of It. Bhot
through with the reds and purples of
a tardy sun. Of 'the cities she had
n. clear pictures. They were artlliclal.
man-made, therefore alien to her, who
knew only naturo. though she had
listened intently to roaniers from ev
ery corner of the globe; for Daily's
lumber camp had seen a queer lot.
It all resolved Itself Into these
dreams when she sat on the edge or
a fir stump, or, better yet. In the ex
alted cloud high airiness of the very
tipex of the Hog Hack.
There had been no sun, neither to
day nor for many days; nnd yet there
was as surely prescience of approach
ing night as If shadows forewarned
Slletz had hoped for a break, one of
those short t.igeants when the su-.i
should shoot for a moment Into the
gloom transfiguring the world. Nov.
as she scanned the west, the dog sud
denly rose from betide her. peering
down v.ith tils huge head thrust for
ward, his pendulous ears swaying A
hundred feet below In a tangle of vine
maple something was laboring. Prcs
ently the slim trees parted and out
of their tangle struggled a horse, a
magnificent black henst with flaring
nostrils and full, excited eyes. After
every few steps It turned Its head to
rjght or left with the Instinct of the
mountain breed to zir.'iig. anil as often
the man In tho saddle pulled It sharp
ly back
With the flr't sight of the intruder i
tho girl on the high stump had sprung
up. leaning forward, n growing excite
ment In her face. It was the horse
that caused It. Something was stir
ring within her all suddenly and her
heart bent hard. She gripped her
braids tight In both hands and swal
lowed
"Plunderer." she said aloud. "Oh.
the blunderer!"
Then she cupped her hands at her
lips and called down: "Let him alone!
He knows how to climb! Let blra
alone'"
The man looked up startled, and
tightened his grip on the rein. Tho
gallant animal went down upon its
side, rolling completely over, to lodge
feet downward, against a stone The
man swung s'dewlse out of the saddle,
saving himself with a splendid quick
ness. Pefore he could gather b'm
self for action the girl tore dovn upon
him.
"What have you done?" she cried
wildly, "what have you done to It?"
She dropped on her knees and her
hands went fluttering over the b'nek
head in a veiy passion of pity, touch
ing (he white star on the forehead,
smoothing the quivering nostrils.
"Why didn't you let him climb his
own way? He knew-hes a hunch-
grasser.
Nothing could go straight
up:
She raised her eyes to him and he
saw they were burning behind a lllm
of tears, fie naw also what gave him
a strange feeling of stuck a fain',
hlue tracery extending from the leit
corner of her lips downward neatly
to the point of the chin, a snarpiy
broken fragment of a tattooed design.
Hr pves were verv dark and her hair
HAD NOT THE SAKE RESULT
Soldiers Saw Great Difference In Re
wards Offered by the Two
Hospital Nurses.
There Is on the firctnn roast a little
senslde resort nestled In on admirable
setting of rocks ond groves and
equipped with a Grand Hon! of the
leach, which has been transformed in
these Radly changed days Into a hns
pltal for wounded soldiers of France
Kor all that there are other people
on the sands besides the convalescent
heroes, and especially any number
of pretty wemen, always ready to lend
their help to the doctors In charga.
Among these a charming dancer from
the Iheoter of Vnrletes In Paris wa?
particularly lavish with her atten
Hons to the soldiers. One dny when
she was present a big. dark fellow
from the South manifested an Invln
elble repugnnnce to a bitter dose
which, by the doctor's orders, be was
to drink.
"If you are a good boy and do whai
he doctor tells you," said the dancor.
vou may kiss mp."
j't-j nr" p-j ?Vv-.
parted arter the first .ashlon of won
an. was straight and very dark also.
Th accusing words irritated nlru.
"You re right." he said coldly, "noil
lug could In such a country. Btan
back, please. '
Slletz looked up at him end Instlnc
lively rose to her feet, though 'i
slim body was alert with an union
scions readiness for prevention ot
something.
Uui il.tf man only stepped to the
block's head, tightened the rein a bit
and clucked encouragingly.
"Come up, be said sharply, up,
boy!"
The horse stretched Its head for
! ward, arched Its neck, gathered Its
feet and lurched mightily upward
finding difficulty and floundering a
little by reason of the stone which had
saved It from rolling down the tnoun
tain It placed Its feet gingerly, brac
ing against the declivity. aliooU Itself
vl.-orously, drew a good, long breath
and turned Its soft nose to Investigate
the girl. With a little gurgling cry
her hands went out again to caress
It. hungrily, forgetful of the man. he
face alight with the Joy of Its escape
from Injury. She smiled and passed
her hands along the high neck, over
the shoulder, down to the knee, bend
Ing to finger with a deft swiftness the
fetlock nnd pastern.
When she looked up again shf
smiled at the man frankly, her anger
gone.
"He's all right, but you want to give
him the rein. He knows how to go
up all right. All Oregon horses can
climb If you give them their time and
way."
He slipped the bridle over bis arm
"I'm looking for Daily's lumber
camp. Can you tell me how to gel
there and how near I am?"
"It's right over the ridge. You'll
see It from the top!"
"Thanks." he said, lifted his soft,
gray hat perfunctorily and turned mp
the slope.
fie took the ascent stra'snt. with a
certain grimness of purpose Soon he
felt a slight pull on the reins toward
the left, which slackened Immediately
to repeat Itself to the right. The black
was trying to zigzag In the narrow
"Blunderer!" She Said Aloud.
play of the confining bridle. After an
Interval that tried him severely In
muscle and breath the stranger
reached the sharp crest of the ridge
llelow him lay the valley, the wind
Ing slough, the yellow huddle of the
camp, the toy railway, with Its tin v
engine the donkey whose puffing rose
in a white spiral, the rnllways and
the hr.ge log trail winding up the
other slope like a giant serpent. Even
as he looked there came the staccato
toots of the whistle-bob whose Invls
Ihle line crept away Into the hills
above the cobles, the engine got down
to work with a volley of coughs, th-'
spools screamed and the great steel
rope lifted heavily along the trail
Presently a long, gray shane. ehnsi
ly ond sinister, came creeping over the
lower ridge, gliding down the face of
the h'lls. silent, relentless, a veritable
thing of life. He leaned forward,
watching It come to rest above the
rollway. halt a little while the antlike
men darted here and there, and then
roll sldewise Into position against the
stays.
When the small play of the woods
was over. Inst ns be started down he
Instantly and with one gulp, the hie
'el'ow swallowed the stuff, wiped his
great mustache, and claimed his re
ward. II was all done so prettily thnl
even the hend surgeon permitted him
fclf to smile
But the real comedy began when the
hend nurse, a matron turning hrty ap
beared next morning and announced
"Kvery one of you who takes hi
medicine will hi allowed to kiss me '
The effect was Immeuiate Kach
and every rntleni r.inde a fsce and put
down on the table beside in in the dose
which he had been about to swallow
Now the head nurse Is goodness
Itneif. and her goodness Is well spleen
with wit. She was the llrst to laugh
at the result of her Invitation. Then
she pretended to be angry.
Not Surprising Novsoays.
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lanced Involuntarily back along the
ay be had como.
The girl still stood by the bowlder
ooklng up. her face Illumined by thai
Ight ho had noticed, end he was quick
nough to comprehend that It was pas
lonato longing Tor the big black be
hind blm. She had forgotten his pres
ence. Out of the ferns had crept the
mammoth mongrel. They two stood
together In a subtle comradeship
which struck blm by Its Isolated sulll
cleucy. CHAPTER IU
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An Amazing Arrival.
It was quitting time quitting tlm
In the coast country, which means
whatever time the light fades. Pres
ently the loggers came creeping down
the trail, sturdy men In spiked hoot
laced tn tho knee, blue flannel shirt,
and. for the most part, corduroys
They Hooped down to the cook shack
a long building of unpainted pine Its
two side doors lending, the one Into
the dining room, the other sheltered
by a rude porch. Into the kitchen.
Inside, "Mn" Dally, a white haired
general of ratals and men In their or
der, creaned heavily from oven to
pine sink, her placid face flaming with
the heat of the great steel range.
The eating room was long and nar
row. Its pine floor Innocent of cover
Ing. From end to end ran two long
tables, neat In white oilcloth with In
tervnls of catchup bottles, pepper
sauce, sugar bowls, cream pltrher
and solidly built receptacles for salt
and pepper. Along both edges stood
un army of white ee.rthenware plntes
Hanked by bone-handled knives and
forks and tin spoons.
At the west, beside an open door,
was a high pine desk littered with pa
pers. a telephone hung at one aide A
small table stood before a window
with a rocklrg chair In proximity
one of those low. old-fashioned rock
Ing chairs that old women use. and
that Invariably hold a patchwork
cushion with green fringe, and a white
knitted tidy. That rocker was part of
Daily's camp. It had followed the
march of progress as the camp cut Its
way Into the hills.
"It's my one comfort." Ma was wont
to say. "though land knows I don't
get to set in it more'n a quarter what
I'd like."
As tha loggers slid noisily on to the
henches. their caulks giving up the
mud they had held purposely for the
swept floor. Slletz came and went, set
ting the substantial viands In the
open spaces left In the expanse of
white oilcloth. She exchanged a word
here and there, always a sensible
word, something of the work, the day.
or the men themselves. She was put
ting a plate of cookies, sugar-sanded
with currants on top, between Jim
Anworthy and a b'nckhalred Pole
when a foot struck the step nt th"
west door. There was something In
the sound that drew every head
around at once. A stranger stood
against the misty darkness between
the jambs.
He was - young, apparently about
twenty-five or six well set up, with
straight shoulders above narrow hips
and a poise that claimed Instant at
tentlon. He removed his soft hat
holding It In his hand, while his
bright, blue eyes looked Impersonally
over the room. Over his shoulder a
pair of big dark ones peered anxious
ly, while a black muzzle with a small
white patch nosed bis elbow aside.
"John Daily?"
It was a call that demanded, not a
question.
Frcm the head of the nearest table
a giant of a man. easy natured. lax
featuted. loose Joints banded together
by steel sinews, rose lumherlngly.
"I'm hira " he said.
The man In the door brought his
eyes sharply to focus on his face, read
ing It with lightning rapidity.
"I'm the Dlllingworth Lumbor com
pany or most of It." he said clearly.
"and I've come to stay. Where shall
I put my horse?"
There was a startled silence after
these amazing words. An unexpressed
ejaculation went from face to face up
and down the tahlea Then John Dally
showed why he was the best foreman
In that region. He got himself loose
from the end bench and walked over
to the door.
"All right. Mr. r
He waited easily, as If It was per
fectly natural for strangers to drop
from a hilltop and announce them
selves the ruling power of the country
or more strictly speaking one of the
ruling powers, for there wer twt).
RESEARCH STOPPED BY WAR
Observations cf Wireless Telegraphy
on a Large Scale Had Been.
Planned by Nations.
World-wide co-operative observa
tlons In wireless telegraphy were
planned by a committee of Hie Hrltish
Association for the Advancement ot
Science, which reported at the Aus
trallan meeting a year ago this sum
mer that the project had been cordial
ly embraced throughout the British
empire and In other countries A
variety of statistics were to be ci'ioct
ed three days each week and suitable
forms had been distributed on a Inrge
scale. Thi" outbreak .it the European
war. however, wrought havoc with
this undertaking, which had promised
to throw light on several obscure que
lions In radio-telegraphy, and onlv a
few stations In India. Australia Chu
adp. the West Indies and the United
States are now keeping up the wm
Private wireless siutlons thrniighuii'
the British empire were either dis
mantled or taken over nv iroMiarv au
Uinrliles while uvl and other official
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"Sandry," finished the other, "Wal
ter Sandry from New York."
"Come In, Mr. Sandry you're Just
In llmo."
Tally turned back to tho lighted
room.
"Slletz, give Mr. Sundry my place
Harrison, I'll have to take your filing
shed for tonight. Tomorrow we'll lis
things In better shape."
The saw-flier, an Important person
age and one to be conciliated, frowned
In his plate, but the foreman had lost
sight of blm. He reached out a buge
hard hnnd and took the bridle-rein
from the newcomer.
Already this man was standing In
side the rude building, with a high
headed air of force, of personality that
mndo Itself felt In the most stolid na
ture present. He glanced down the
double line of faces and for a second.
Just a fractional, fleeting moment,
seemed to hesitate. Then he laid bin
hnt on the small table, walked round
to Daily's empty seat, swung a leathei
puttee and a wed built shoe over the
bench and sat down. He was In place,
nnd a vague feeling of adjustment, of
solidity, accompanied him. as If he
was thoro. as be Bald, to stay. ICverv
man In the room felt It; and one of
those strange sensations of portent
communicated Itself to them, as when
the everyday affairs of life come to
a turn In the road.
Dnlly's was on tho evo of a change
Tho girl was putting a thick white
plate, hot from boiling water, before
him. deftly laying the simple cutlery,
pushing back an Intruding dish
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It Was a Call That Demanded.
There was an air of detachment about
her. No portion of her garment a
touched hi in. She was always so.
aloof In a quiet way. Now, as she
tended the stronger silently, one oi
her long braids slipped over her sbnul
der and fell across his hand. He drsw
away from the contact sharply and a
dozen pairs of eyes saw the action.
"Hell!" murmured a man at the
other side in mild amazement.
But not even the Importance of the
arrival of the Dlllingworth Lumber
company could keep silent this bunch
of men from tho ends of the earth
They were free Innces. following
wherever fancy nnd the lumber camps
led them through the mountains ami
the big woods, contented In this place
or moving on, bound by no rules, as In
dependent and uuholduble as the very
birds of the air.
In three minutes the laughter was
sweeping gustily again, accompanied
by the solid clink of cook bhack dishes,
the clatter of knives for the most part
used as very adequate shovels, and
Walter Sandry was forgotten or
passed over.
An hour later he stood alone In the
middle of a tiny room at the south
of tho building, looking fixedly at the
yellow flame ol. a glass hand-lamp on
a stand. Under the lamp was a woolly
mat of bright red yarn, a wonderful
creation under that a thin, white
scarf, beautifully clean, the Ironed
creases standing out stilfly. Beside
the tamp lay a pink-lipped conch shell
and a Bible.
Sandry looked longest at the Bible
beside the lamp and presently he took
It up curiously, fingering It with a quiz
zical, weary smile.
Its edges were thin and frayed and
he noticed that It was greatly worn
Walter Sandry smiled and glanced
at random through the book.
"Motherhood." he said half aloud,
"Is thero nowhere a father? a dear
old chap of the earth, a gentle old
man with white hair? One who has
raised j son " As If In answer to the
whimsical words, the fragile leaves
separated at tho tragic record of King
David and the words of that ancient
father-heart stared up at him. "Oh.
Absalom, my son. my son!" vital In
their anguish. With a snap he closed
the hook, holding It tightly clasped In
his hands while he stareJ Into the
flame of the lamp with knit brows and
twitching tips.
It was as if the fateful cry hud
touched some sore spot ill his heart,
set throbbing some half-healed pain.
For a moment a shadow as of a vague
remorse darkened his cxnresslvq turn
8J,I"" stopped all purely scientific
observing. Similar conditions pre-
j vailed in the other belligerent coun
tries. The same circumstances led to
the complete failure of the extensive
scheme of special observations planned
In connection with the silur eclipse ot
August zi, I'JH, except for a few ob
I servntlons made in Norway and
1 Sweden.
Sea-Wall Proved True.
The value end durability of the
great sea-wall built at Galveston fol
lowing the disaster of ltiou were amply
demonstrated on August 17 and IH
when a storm probably equaling In
fury that which devastated the city lfi
years ago. swept the harbor. Com
munlcutlnn across the six-mile arm of
Ihe sea between the Texas mainland
and Galveston immediately was cut
off the concrete causeway tn which
the railroads enter the city having
been breuched. The wind and sea
j hurled lhniselves upon Galveston for
two days ana nignis. nut ine greut
concrete sea wall successfully resisted
the furv ot the elements, ullhonpti ibe
I rain turned the streets Into rivers.
Then a resolute strength uiiionou
his lips and he laid the Elble gently
down and blow out the light
It was cold In the little room and
the rain was dripping from the caves,
CHAPTER III.
The Wondrous Hills at Dawn. X
He was awakened next morning by
the thunder of heavily shod nmn storm,
Ing In from tho bunkhouse. The smelt
of cooking was in the air and tho
crack under bis door showed lamp
light 'the rain was still dripping softly
from the eaves. 'As Sandry came Into
the eating room the old woman of the
kitchen was looking over the crowd
of men as Impersonally as be himself
had done tho night before, with a
poise as assured and a subtle force as
strongly indicated.
Her bright, o!d eyes, blue as his
own, met bis lifted glance as be hesi
tated. "Sot down In the place you had iast
night, Mr. Sandry." sho said In a rich
voice, "It's yours now. Joun'H move
down a notch."
fahe went back Into the mysterious
region of pies and doughnuts, and
Sandry was conscious of a slight feel
ing of wonder. He was already taken
in as one of the family In a subtle
way. and It did nut quite suit him to
be so. If he missed certain lifelong
attributes of service and surrounding,
If he took his place among those
rough men with an Inward tremor of
rebellion, ho mude no Blgn.
Again the girl he had met on the
farther Bide of the mountain tended
In silence, a trifle more aloof. She
was clad In the same sort of blue flan
nel shirt the men wore, with a rod
tie under tho turndown collar and a
rather short blue skirt showing her
feet laced trimly Into miniature boots
The latter were even full of small
steel caulks.
It wt.s still dnrk when the loggers
trooped out into the fine rain.
John Daily came to him. ,
"Now. what would you like. Mr. San
dry?" he asked. "Will you como Into
the hills with us, or would you rather
rest around cnmpT You como a long
ways, I guess."
"Yes. From New York."
"I was thnkln yesterday mebhy
you'd rather just loaf around "
"Yesterday? Did you expect me?"
"Oh. yes. I got a letter from Mr
Frazer last week. He said the com
pany had mode a change and I might,
look for a visit."
"I think I'll go about." said Sandry
Outside It was fresh and slightly
cold. A thick white fog struck him In
the face with an almost palpable
touch. It lay close to the earth, a
sluggish monster spread down In the
valleys as If for warmth. Through
Its enshrouding whiteness a lantern
gleamed faintly across the slough.
Already the little locomotive was
getting up steam and the donkey
showed a red throat for an Instant as
McDonald shoved In more wood.
From ahead came shouts and a
laugh or two as tho men straggled up
to the rollway.
Thero wore five cabins set around
on the edgo of the small, sloping
mountain meadow which gave back
ground for Daily's camp; and in all
tho windows lights were gleaming In
one cabin a door opened and a man
came out, stopping a moment on the
sill o reach up and kiss a woman
who stood silhouetted against the
light, when the door closed and Sun
dry could not see the man, though he
could henr his footsteps. The fore
man swung ahead In the path.
"They's a foot-log here," he sold,
"tidewater slough. 'Taln't deep."
They stopped at the foot of the
ridge where tho. donkey, the rollway
and the track terminal huddled
against the bold uplift, and Dnily In
troduced him to Hastings and Murphy,
the latter of v.hom hung out of the
window of bis diminutive cab and
peered at the stranger out of laugh
ing eyes whoso forbears had twinkled
on Donegal's blue bay nnd Erin's red
checked daughters with Impartial Joy.
"Ah. Misthcr Dlllingworth." he said
heartily, "an' phat d'ye t'lnk av the
West Coast now?"
"Sandry. Murphy," caught up Dally
easily, yot with a warning note.
"Shure! Sandry 'tis! Excuse me,
Mister Sandry, but ain't th' scenery
folne?"
"Vhnt I've seen, yes, Murphy." an
swered Sandry after a slight pa wo
As he turned after Dally the Irishman
stuck his tongue In the corner of his
Mps nnd drummed a nitnuto on the
sill, the broad smile lessening on bis
reckless face.
"An' phat d'ye know about thot?"
he asked retrospectively of the fog.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Scientists Interested in Find.
At a recent scientific- gathering. Pro
fessors Edgeworth. David and Wilson
described a completely mineralized hu
man skull found near Warwick, Jn the
Darling Downs of Queens, nnd It
probably dates from a period when Ibe
great fossil marsupials were still llv
Ing. and is earlier than any other hu
man remains hitherto f'uud in Aus
trulla.
Was Not a Roman.
While a sergeant of a certain Brit
Ish regiment was engaged with a conr
pany of the National Reservists a
short time ago In physical drill a
drill that demands, to say the least nt
It. a small amount of agilliy-a pri
vate, who looked as If he had been
younger In bis dny, complained io the
non-commlBslnued officer In charge
that he was too old for that sort ot
practice.
"How old are you?" satd the In
structor. "Firty-thrco," said the private. '
"Why." exclaimed the Instructor,
"the Itomans used to do this sort ot
thing at the age of sixty."
"That may be," said the private,
"but tta not a Itoman; I'm a Wesley
an." Lucky English Angler.
A lucky angler, on the llrst expert,
ence of fishing, has caught at Staines,
England, a golden tench, slated lu be
1 the first caught In the Thuuies for tb
last 2ti years. It was H lncnegjnn
and weighed one pound and touriteo
ounces.
i CONSCRIPTION
IN GANADA
No War Tax on LandEmbargo
on Shipment of Live StocK
Removed.
During the prevalence of the foot-and-mouth
disease In some portions ol
tbe United States, an embargo wnt
placed upon interstate shipments.
This also had an effect upon ship
ments to Canada, and necessarily an
embargo was placed upon tbum mak
ing It almost Impossible for upwards
or a vear to ship cattle Into Canada,
from the United States. This was es
pecially hard un the settler. As u re
sult. Western Canada lost a number ol
settlers, they being unable to take
their' live stock with them. Canada It
practically free from horse and ca'tle
diseases, and the wish of the authori
ties Is to keep it so.
Recently, though, an order hns been
Issued by tbe Department ot Agricul
ture, removing the embargo, ami set
tlers are now free to lake In the nmn
ber of head of horses or cattle tnut are
permitted by the Customs authorities
and the freight regulations. This will
be welcome news to those whose in
tention it is to move to Canada, taking
with them stock that they have had In
their possession for six months, and,
which It is the Intention to use on land
that they will farm In the Provinces
or Manitoba. Saskatchewan or Alberta.
There are thousands of splendid
homesteads or t (JO acres each in any
Of these provinces, that diuy be hud
upon the payment of a ten dollur en
try ree and fulfilling the requisite liv
ing nnd cultivation duties. These
lands are well adapted to the growing
of all the small grains, and besides,
having an abundance of grass, and suf
ficient shelter, they are well adupted
to the raising of stock.
If one prepares lo purchase land,
there could be no better time than the
present. Prices ore low. and particu
lars may be had from any of the land
companies, of which there are several,
or from the Canadian Pacific and Ca
nadian Northern railways, whose hold
ings are in the older settled districts,
and whose terms are exceedingly easy
to tbe settler. Wbat these lands will
do In the matter of production cannot
be more strongly emphasized than in
reading the reports or the crops
throughout ail parts or the Canadian
West In 1915. Yields of 6(1. tiu. and as
high ss 70 bushels of wheat to the
acre were numerous, while reports or
yields or from 30 lo 45 bushels per
acre were common. Oats as nigh as
1 .10 bushels per acre are reported, 60
and bushels per acre being ordi
nary. The prices realized by farmers,
have pluced most of them on "easy
Street."
Lately there have appeared articles
In a number of United Stales news
papers to the effect that there was con
scription in lanada. or that such a
law was likely lo be put Into e.lect.
We have it from the highest uutliority
in the Dominion that there is no truth
In the statement. Sir Hubert Horilen
at the opening of Cauudian parliament
ou January 1 7 Iti, suid:
' In the first lew months of the war
1 clearly stated thai there would not
be conscription in Canada. I tepuut
that stutement today.'
'I Ins statement should set at rest
the conscription talk that hus been so
freely used to influence tbosti who may
be considering settling in Canada dur
ing the war.
It has alHo"T)een said that there was
a war tax on land. I tun. Dr Hoc ho.
Minister of the Interior, over his own
signature hus denied this, and tbe pre
miers of the different provinces Join
In Baying such a report is absolutely
nntrub. and has no foundation what
ever in luct. nor Is there likely ever
to be any such tax upon land in
Canada."
The general prosperity of Western
Canuda farmers and buuiness institu
tions is such lluj Canada is wen able
to take care of the extra war expenses
without any direct war taxation This
bus been well Illustrated by the mug
nilicunl response to the Dominion Gov
ernment's recent boud issuu, which
was more than doubly subscribed lor
within the lirst eight hours of Its be
ing offered lo the public.
I The above appears us an advertise
ment and is paid tor by the Dominion
Government which authorizes us pub
lication.!
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