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| {IAPAN YER). 'Fresh from the gardens' i | LIMERICK CORNER Joyous Jingles By In they come on every mail; piles of them. Young folks, old' folks, gay folks, prim folks, all are taking a hand at this fascinat- | ing game of writing Limericks, Mrs. Eitie Katon of Athens puts her ideas on the subject into rhyme in the following verse: -- I won a dollar with G And row I think the tea I'll try. To make a rhyme is But it doubles up when you win some mon'. me of our cunlribulors are ne : and name cf paper, ible to send pri '¢ NO Lames | il facilitate har a cach case. Chredded Wheat - 2n old ¢hap in Powassan, n't teil his name; its not Daw- son, he couldn't eat f died Wheat d, rroved a God-send on. an old gu! from Nevada, ons of tea for Bravada, iil to hor friend. 1 please me no end 2d fetch mo a ton cf Salada." Mrs. A. McNeil, Norwood, Ont. Gilletts Lye There once was an old-fashioned lady, housekeeping was a bit shady, She bought Gillett's Lye And madg the diet fly Xow she's clean as her neighbor, Miss Grady. Ettie Eaton, Whose Baby's Own There was a young baby named Chummy, Who had a bad pain in his tummy, Tha Doctor did phone "Glve him Baby's Own" Now he painlessly smiles at his mummy, Wm. Geden, South River, Ont. R.R. No. 1. Bayers Aspirin There was an dld lady ng else she extolled yeu "try this Aspirin Bayer, Ben Shendalman, R.R. No. 1, Cedar Valley, Ont. Eo named There is plenty of enjoyment for the whole family if all join in the fun of writing Limericks, Any nationally advertised article or service found in this. or any pre- vious issues of this paper may be made the subject of a limerick, SL "I have spent nearly five thousand pounds on that girl's education," com- plainéd the aggrieved father, "and here she goes and marries a young fellow with an income of only two hun- dred and fifty a year." "Well," said the futond of the-family; "that's five Pei Cont em your inverimenf. What more can you expect in these times?" ---- ee ee Boy (reading): "And she sailed down the river." Teacher: "Why are ships called 'she'?" Boy: "Because they need men to manage them." Dry mouth and parched throat ave grateful for the "refreshing coolness of Wrigley's Spearmint. Wrigley"s whitens teet a serious omission as it is, of course, es if won. il the writers will identify themselves the ing if each limerick is submitied on a eet of paper with nome and address and name of paper Gifted Rhymsters. illett's Lye, plenty of fun, glecting to give name and The first two published this Royal Yeast There was a bright maiden In Clin- ton, Whose bread made a hit young Linton, Its easy to make With Royal Yeast Cake And now she's a Linton of Clinton. with Christies Biscuits is a plump boy Dover, Who-think he is living in clover, With Christies apleaty A big box he'll empty And laugh at the M:D.s of Dover, Jack Lauder, 179 Bingham Ave., Toronto. There in Port Athens, Ont. Santa Fe. R.R. When I got to the south on a jour- ney, Bald a man by the name of Me- Burney, I take the best way The old Santa Fe And enjoy every mile of the Jour- ney. JHS, Trenton, Ont. Patents by Ramsay "Tis sald that you never should mention, Your newest and smartest tion, But Ramsay -& Co. Are right in the know To patent your latest Inventicn, Mr. Arnold Hoedzin: Clandebey intea- , Obt. Ce William's Pink Pills A stomach restorer was souht for, And by dealers supremacy fought for, Dr. William's Pink Pillg For all stomach ills Was the cure that they sought and they fought for. Mre. C. E. Muffett, Bancroft, Ont. One dollar will be sent for every Limerick accepted. Glve name and address and name of this paper. Write: Limerick Editor, Associated Publishers, Rooms 421-5, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto 2. rr -- «« HE LEARNED "How did that old chap become Buch a successful parachute jumper?' "He had the lifelong habit of car- rying an umbrella even in March." "The Bank When 1 walk down Thieaineedle Street I hear the multi tudinous feet of those who crawl and limp and caper for the love of a handful of crumpled paper. And song of them find it, while most of them lose it, but all of them dle before learning to use it. --Humbert Wolfe ((London), oie hak in the Spectator x ~your--husband won't! CHAPTER Xvi. Azain one of those agonizing waits, reking to the two men whose future fepended largely upon the happenings atop the range. Far on thé other side, fizhting slowly upward, was a freight train jcaded with the necessary ma- tgrials of a large sawmill 'Guess it's all off," came at last. "The general superintendent in Den- ver's on the wire. Says to back up everything to Tollifer, including the plows; -and-give up-the ghost." a "Give it up?" Houston stared blank. y at the telegrapher. "But that's not railroading!" T "I know. Pll call Denver." He turned to the key and hammered doggedly. Only soggy deadness an- swered. The line was gone! "It'd take a guy with a diving suit to find some of them wires, 1 guess," the operator hazarded, as he, finally ceased his efforts and reached for his coat and hat and snowshoes, "There ain't no use staying here, You fellows are going to sleep in town tonight, ain't you?" There was little else to do. They fought their way to the rambling boarding house. Morning brought no relief. The storm was worse, and they faced drifts waist high at the doopway. Two hours later, the agent once more at hig dead key, Ba'tiste turned to Houston. "Eet is no usc here," he announced. "We must get to camp and assemble the men to help those who are not for- tenate. There is death in this storm." Again with their waist-belt guide lines, they started forth, to bend against the storm in a struggle and at last to reach the squat, snowed-in buildings of camp. There, Batiste assembled the workmen in the bunk house. "There are greater things than this now," he announced. "We want the strong men--who will go back with us to Tabernacle, and who will be willing to take the risk to help the country- side. Eet is the danger ahead. many of you will go?" One after another they reached for their snowshoes, silent men who acted, rather than spoke. Guide linés were affixed. Huddled, clumsy figures of white, one following the other, made the gruelling trip back to Tabernacle. "Already the re- ports were beginning to come in, brought by storm weakened, blizzard- battered men, of houses where the roofs had crashed beneath the weight of snow; of lost ranchmen, of bawling cattle, drifting before the storm--to death. It was the beginning of a two- weeks' siege of a white inferno, The whole World was one great, bleak thing of dreary 'white--a desert in which there was life only that there might be death, where the battle for existence continued only as a mat- ter of instinct. And over this bleak desert went the nien of the West Country, silent, frost- burned men, their lips cracked from the cut of wind, their eyes blood-red with inflammation, struggling here and there with a pack of food upon their backs that they might reach some desolate home where there were women and children; or stopping to pull and tug at a snow-trapped steer and by main effort, drag him into a barren spot where the sweep of the gale had kept the ground fairly "clear of snow. A two-inch crust of snow formed over the main snowfall, permitting small sleds to be pulled behind strug- gling men; the world beneath had been frozen in, to give place to a new one above. And with that: : : "It's open! It's open!" The shout came from the lips of the telegrapher, waving his arms as he ran from the tunnel that led to the stationhouse. "It's open! I've had Rawling on the wire!" ' "Rawlins?" Houston had edged for- ward. "There's not a chance. Get Denver on the wire. Then take this message to every newspaper in the city: : "¢ Can't you help us? Please try to start campaign to force Crestline Road to open the Pass. Women and chldren are starving here. We have been cut off from the rest of the world for two weeks. We need food--and coal. Road will not be open for four or five weeks fore under ordinary cir- cumstances. This will mean ceath to many of us here, the wiping out of a great timber and agricultural country, and a blot on the history of Colorado. Help us--and we will not forget it. "'THE CITIZENS OF THE WEST COUNTRY,» "Sounds good." The telegrapher putting it on the wire. én. the wire in Denver!" Judge: ! support youl suppose you ean Mrs, X: "I cap. In the firs he doesn't have a job and mover did. | Second, he doesn't give me any money prove "I when he does ha hind, ho Jolt me' the day. after we Ap---- he shouted. "A joint message. They've taken up the fight!" still came and went. During this per- jod of uncertainty Houston met Ba- tiste Renaud, returning from the lake region, to "In eet How | 'He jumped. | "oil swirled, the sors] Keep at work wher there are the wo- thero are the cattle who are dying, a broken 'thing., Phey know that we do mot get our 'machinery! They think brought Houston to a sharp knowledge of conditions. They had given, that the rest of the country might not suffer. Their enemies had worked on, fired with the new hope thatthe machinery necessary to carry out Houston's eontract would not arrive in time, A shout had come from the distance. | Faintly through the sifting snow. they could see figures running. Then the words came: "They're going to open the road! They're gong to open the road!" A message-bearer came from the station. "It's the M. P. & S, L. Ac- cording to the message, the papers hammered the stuffing out of the Crestine road. The other road saw a great chance to step in. It's lending the men and the rolling stock. They're going to open another fellow's road, for the publicity and the good will that's in it." Two pictures flashed acrues Hons- ton's 'brain; one of a snowy sawmill with the force working day and night, he was 100aiug to the dram, hag- gard features of an unconscious wo- man . when all the surrounding country cried for help; another of carload after carload of necessary machinery, snow-covered, ice-bound, on a sidetrack at Tollifer, with the whole, horrible, 'snow-clutched fierceness of the Con- tinental Divide between it and its goal. In the night he awoke, again think- ing of it. Every possible hand that could swing a pick or jam-a crowbar against grudging ice would be néeded up there. A mad desire began to come over him; a strange, impelling scheme took hold of his brain. They would need men--men who would not be afraid, men who would be willing to slave day and night if necessary to the success of the adventure. Long before dawn he rose and scribbled a note to Ba'tiste Renaud: y 'I'm going over.the range. I can't wait. They may need me. I'm writ- ing this, because you would try to dis- suade me if 1 told you personally. Don't be afraid for me--T'1l make it somehow. I've got to go. It's easier than standing by: ? "HOUSTON." Then, his snowshoes affixed, he went out into the night. The storm cjouds were thick on the sky again, the snow was dashing about him once more. He floundered aimlessly, striving by short sallies to recover the path {rom which the storm was driving him. Dawn found Lim at last floundering hopelessly in snow-screened woods, go- ing on toward he knew not where. . A half-hour, "her he stopped. Fifty feet away, almost covered by the changing snows, a small cabin showed faintly. His numbed hands banged at the door, but there came no answer. He shouted; still no sound came from, within. The door yielded, and climbing over the pile of snow at the step, Houston guided his snowshoes through the nar- row door, blinking in the half-light in an effort to see about him.There was a stove, but the fire was dead. At when there is the country that is like} tliey have a chance--for the contract!" | It 2 : men and the babies who statve, when | = | Made by The the one little window, the curtain was drawn tight and pinned at the sides +£ othe sash. There as a form of some one beneath the covers:| 'Houston called again, but still there came no answer. He was looking into the drawn, haggard features of an] unconscious woman, the eyes, half- open, yet unseeing, one emanciated hand grasped about something that was shielded by the covers. . Houston forced himself even closer. He touch- ed the hand. He called: Agnes!" The eyelids moved slightly; it was Canadian Shredded Wheat point, mor i Houston could say no swer. Quietly he turned to the stove, red-hot now, and with snow water be- gan the making of gruel from the | supplies on the shelf. 'Y we r Company, bid. ® "Dead. Tt died--yesterday Ee Tothing in' an- Forcing himself to the subject, Houston asked a question: "Where is he?" "Who?" Sudden fright had come into the woman's "Your husband." (To be continued.) the cnly evidence of life, save the labored, irregular breathing. Then the hand moved, clutchingly. Slowly, tremblingly, Houston turncd back an edge of the blankets--and stood aghast. $ On her breast was a baby--dead! FARMERS Requiring British help--Single men, women or families, to assist with farm work, should write Rev. Alex. MacGregor, 43 Victoria 8t., Toronto. | These people will be arriving after March 16. i tl CHAPTER XVIL Soon water was boiling. Hot cloths went to the woman's head; quietly, reverently, Barry had taken the still, small child from the tightly clenched arm and eovered it, on the little table. And with the touch of the Small, life- less form the resentment which had smoldered in Houston's heart for months seemed to disappear. "I'm sorry--Agnes. Don't be afraid of me, I'll' get help for you." "Don't." There was the dullness that comes when grief has reached the breaking Use Minurd's Lininment for the Flu. FOR RALGIA New ; You doubtless depend on Aspirin well known that Aspirin means Rayer Jip ons, the Tablets will be stamped With "'Bayer Cross' to make short work of head- aches, but remember that it's just as dependable an antidote for many other pains! Nr Many have. found real relief in an Aspirin tablet. Or for toothache; an effective way to relieve it, and the one thing doctors are willing you should give a child-- of any age." Whether to break up a cold, or relieve the serious pain from neuritis or deep-seated rheumatism, there's nothing quite like Aspirin. Just make certain it's genuine; it must have Bayer on the box and on every tablet. All druggists, with proven directions. Physicians prescribe Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart As ¥ indi Man A Aspirin is the trade mark (registered in Canada) in cating Bayer ufacture, he. Dubie apeinet pater re, fo a | luck continued. Susstertmot holes in the bot- large shallow granite, tin = * alumium pan. Then thoroughly ; mix equal parts of pulverized manure and rich garden soil. Fill the th this mixture, packing WI well, and sprinkle it with rain water: until it is quite wet. Place the pan pan and the top of the flower pot or jardiniere containing the large fern. are the same height. Underneath the frond along the stem and under the leaves you will find tiny, dark green spots. These are called spores. or fern seed and are very vital to th fern plant." Handle the frond as. little- as possible. Carefully lay it over the pan, being sure you do not. . bend it to break even the tiniest por- tion. Take a number of small wire les ,and press them "over the stem of the fern to hold it and the leaves securely against the soil. Do: not molest it for at least a week, by which' time the spores should have attached themselves securely to the soil and the tiny new ferns started to- Brow. "When the young plants," con- tigues this writer, "are about three "|inches high they should be separated. Flower pots made of pottery seem to. be the ideal container for any kind of a fern. - "For these small ferns use small flower pots, Wash the flower pots. both inside and out until they are per- fectly clean. In the" bottom of each place a layer of coarse gravel, then fill with pulverized manure and rich. garden soil such as you used in the pan when, starting the new plants. In the center of each potful of e:rt make a good sized hole snd fill it with water. When this has drained away lift the plants with as much soil attached as possible and place them. in the holes." Tables Turned on Card-Sharpers Three men arrived recently at East. bourne, between Brighton and Hast- ings, England, and put up at a fash- ioflable hotel, saying that they had just missed their steamer at South ampton, although it later developed that they had not been allowed to go: on board, having been recognized as card-sharpers of international repute. At the same hotel there was stay ing an elderly, kindly faced man who appeared to be a wealthy London mer- chant, or possibly a banker, enjoying his Christmas holiday. - As is usual when the quarry is sighted, two of the trio broke from the third, appear- ed to have no acquaintance with him, until he had made the acquaintance of the elderly man. Then the latter was asked to make a fourth in a friendly game of cards. He consented. The game started without stakes. and the elderly gentleman won. Then one of the trio said. 'Perhaps his Juck would not continue if we played for small stakes." They played for small stakes and the London man's Then the stakes. were made higher and he lost. He continued to lose until the tally which bad been kept after the stakes were raised showed that he owed about $3,500. 5 Thew victim candidly admitted that. he did not have that sum with him but that he would draw a draft on his. London coficern, which he hoped would be satisfactory, Se he made out a-paper addressed to BEmbankment, S.W.I, where he said his place of business was, and where a man named "Newhall" was asked "to <hold: the: bearers." The elderly man signed the paper, folded it and handed it to the trio, saying: - ere, you present this at the ad- ven and you will get what is They unfolded the paper and once. objected to, the message--there was no mention of thes £700 due. 10h, that's quite all right," said the Londoner. "I'm good for any amount there. Of course, you will only ask - |for what I owe you and no more." The three held a consultation and > then decided. to interrogate the clerk, They sligwved im on'a box or stool 80 the top of the