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ilwt femrrirrt v aa31 tttmmojlv ho i the acton freepress 4mitllmiuihiiiuuueee qu jffree hrrae ftfystt fttnnj the gold of the rainbow mhjjnad shanbl boowbll jl 1 m alopw beyond iuinbow kj greek up lait cribuou clow in the vwt had faded to t pal wnbor and even that aoon would be otetuied by the ateaithy feeeptaff dtuk a faint haw alone the horlaon and a new tan in the air warned of approachtae win ter lyrm borton teniing in some vague inner way the perennial tragedy of decay shivered involuntarily as he atraleiitcned up running orimy flnrer through bla rouffh sunbleached hair an unaccountable feeling of foreboding seised him although be had spent an unusually profitable day istrmng that peter had not called hlmjbaek to camp before this surely he must have re turned long ago from his days outing suppose he had met with some accid ent for peter was not the woodsman xynn was who had spent most of bis twenty years out of doors suddenly anxious lynn aocktod that be had better oet baofc to camp as quickly as possible oalberlng up his meager equipment of pick shovel and pan and n sure that the bag of gold which represented the results of bis labor was securely fattened he set out for eamp just before noon be had become so rngrossed la his work that he had com- pletely forgotten the sandwich he had token with him that morning he re membered now that it still lay in the hollow of the stump where he had placed jt some time hours earlier have to look for it when i come back next r he said with a grin he quickly sobered uowever as he rounded the bend in ihe crclc which had hidden the camp riuin view ihe place appeared strangely desolate and deserted hey ifele he shouted his long stride quickening to a run unreanonlng anger gripped him where dn earth was plcr and why could not he have gone along with lynn as usual instead of itubbornly insisting that he wanted u spend this last day at rain bow alone with a return of the hurt they had given him thai morning peters a faint rustle of paper the door opened na he was facing a pair of hostile brown eyes one swift glance had re vealed to him that peter was eating his supper and that tt consisted of a loaf of plain bread hello crile he had said trying to despise myself act as offhand as possible thought what happened hidden in their dark breasts ed he had belter go to bed when he awoke the sun was shining brightly par a moment the events of the evening before seemed only a bad dream the next moment be was won dering if he actually had lost his mind there on the hook where it had hung all summer dangled peters red sweater why what leaping from his cot he whirled to confront a haggard figure which had appeared in the doorway of the tenl finally peter broke the alienee well lynn ive come back but pete i dont understand why did you where- were peter walked over to his own cot and sat down leaning his head in his hands lynn he said in a voice you cant possibly desplse roe as much as i i want to tell yaw and then you wont id stop in for a while that l is if youre not going out how dye do peter had returned stiffly i dont believe t know to whom i am indebted- horton he had said lynn horton is my name f peter had watched him warily a hint or sympathy and lynn had known that his chance to help peter would be lost something perhaps his utter lonllnesa and extremity had broken the suface of peters pride come in horton he had invited i guess i need to talk to somebody utile by little the story had come out peters mother had been dead for ten years his father a brilliant law yer wanted the boy to follow in his footsteps peter and his father had spoken angry words he had told lynn dad thinks its just a childish idea he said that if i would enter harvard law school hed see that i had everything i wanted but id be a flop as a lawyer and i believe i might amount to some thing in engineering i kind of burned up and told dad to keep his money id net out and earn my own education i left for western the next day without telling him where i was going with a bitter smile lynn recalled how tils heart had gone out to peter that nutht he had insisted on making him a small loon a few diys later lhe manager of the blue oooso had sixiken to him about needing another student waiter this had seemed al most an act of providence peter had obtalntd the job and thus was assured of hbi meals until the end of the school year only a month before his death mr horton hud sluiced a claim in the moun tains name hundred and fifty miles words now came back to lynn for iloru of the uiue town or big rock gikxlneas sake go on and let me alone where wm university was located make your dollar a day if you can ii i r y hp tuul told peter it hadnt been for me striking it rich of na jlw j summer at last week where would wo be you rlunbow crtvki u plftcc wb4 nown may think youte good because you know j pannng mw when he had invited your way around out here a little beticr ft u bo rlong m hls nn ht than i do but youte pretty bad when it rlmost fxtxhlc6a with grau- i hide in id cxrlkmrnl n condition foreign i to peier tlu- two had ogreed that mnor lynn was furnishing the location comes to finding gold insult be had added night ol you peter crur had then with deliberate im sick of the stalked sway und tht- supplies two thirds of the total lynn had silently watched hni depart i profits should go to him the remainder his angry wordsliad deepened tlk ming o jje quarrel which had occurred a few days telorv aad lynn liad hoped tha it was burled forever i now pettr wus not in camp a feeling of panic awep over lnn h began bhouing fvters name again this time more loudly but only hit echo uf nls own voice answered hlin he dashed into tin tent uiey shared looking vainly lor binc reaaourinb sign pcrtuuw peter had fallen asleep no iut was there suddenly lynn iiotlcrd itiat uie plate had a strangely cmply loo tic splosh of cokw mad- by pelerb old red aeaivr was gone and petcra cot was denuded f ta tilaukiu only then did trie grim truth penetrae peter had dclloei ately run away i itasedly lynn went ovr u uin cache behuid a clump of bustus ac1 uuoovrr- etl the bo of ukit gold li was nil theic even the utile oack uf miftgt la nw undislurbed when tie shook out the contents however they were only j rvugh stents in plan of lhe lunpt oi gold hours later silting before the rmtxrs of hu camp fire ltin revlewrd tn his mind the events of the pant year he and peter had both enrolled a ltesh- j men at western uiuwttlt uie pevuo fall his blue cyra darkened lui pum as lynn recalled the double tragrdy of the itulomoblgaarklem wluch iumi rao- bed him of both rather and mother little noii- tliau u var ago when affair were t ratfili oned up he had touiui him self in puaseffskm of a battered old car ratuebuuca a llkxiand dolln and a detenrdxiatton to put htmel ihnmgh mining school tie tud enverrd w l nveiily and their lie had met peter crile from back out 33wy had taken rooms in tlu- ime louse but peter had not invluxl fritnd- to be peters share riiinbow creek they had found was u small but swift mountain suream me time in the iost u great slide of ruck and hhalc liad caused tlic stream t chaiisi it course it was the old wuur course tluit cut diagonally across i he clulm that the two had decided to work for gold ttiey had needed water 1 uneiver to do even their simple pon- nnu und lud to divert enough of the ktream for ueir purpose this was hard buckbreuking work with pick and hpude all this umr petr had been irudly impatient when tlke hud finally made ucluiniiej urge enough to supply them wllh the tuheasary water the pay dirt was dls- trsslngly lean they had worked dog- tredly u uveratfv a dollar a day u piece and almost before thcy had known it septembet raid come they had planned u leave mxin in order to reach tg rook tn time to enter school hie unlookedfor had then tuippened ciie tiftrrnoon peter had decided mort- l tliat he v1lb going down rainbow to a ledge he had nouced to try his luck uicre i3ome two hours later ljtlll had heard a lrlumpluint yell oodl oold nuggets ive made a strike lynn had been as thrilled and excited ua peter a feeling of hot injustice stole over htm now however aa he recalled ivtrrs words when he had spoken if tlu wonderful addition this would make to the college fund every word of their angry quarrel came back u him you dont think youre going to share in this do you peter had said v 10- 1 ntly this ls my rind yours lyiui liad thought he hud iitasuudtrstood well weve worked all summer the way you wanted to peter had declared and most of the labors been for reed to be bothered with nw anymore plrst i want you to know that rvo brought the gold nuggets back and they are all yours suppose we settle that later pete said lynn gently and now id like to know where youve been a crooked smile touched his lips as peter answered well vrcauy havent been so for but two learned a lot some things ill never forget he paused a moment and then went on i got back to camp about noon yester day still angry and feeling sore fur myself i decided to take one more look at the nuggets and then get to work at pocking but when i saw the gold it seemed to sort of blind me so i took the nuggets packed a few things and set out then i began to think of dad and how he would scorn such on act i knew i could never face him if i didnt come bock and make things right i hurried to reach camp before you re turned but somehow i lost my way by the time i got here you had returned and i dldnt have the courage to face you at first i was going to leave the nuggets after you had fallen asleep and then leave but i knew that would be cowardly i learned last night lynn that ood is very near under the pines and now theres just one more thing i am going to write to dad and tell him where i am i con now how wrong i have been in not telling him it wus just my silly drtde i know that when i tell him what a real friend you have been to me he will be glad lo loan ou all the money you need to finish our course and whoa there pete lynn inter rupted let me do a little of the talk ing in the first place we are still part ners the same as ever the fact tha you did come back squares everything between us and we need never men tion this affair again in the second vlace weve made enough ourselves to get through school this next year but i dont sec how pete listen to this 1 made u strike yesterday i dug into a pocket of slugs tn that old creek txd thatll knock your eyes out from the weight td theyre worth about fifteen dollars at the very least peter seemed to be swallowing some- v thing oh lynn he gulped words failed him what could he say in the fnre of a friendship like this new minvbae msoovsbbd in kabtntn canada the possibility of a new mineral being added to the list of thnae now produced in canada is foreseen as a result of the recent discovery by m p ooudge of the bureau of mines department of mines and resources ottawa that certain large deposits of crystalline limestone at rutherglen ontario and bryson quebec contain from 30 to 40 per cent pf a magnesium mineral ltnown as brudte the commercial aspects of these de posits as a source- of bructte are now being investigated by the bureau jpf mines magnesium minerals such as magnes- tte dolomite and brudte have come into greater demand in the past few years for the making of refractory products and as a source of magnesium metal deposits of dolomite are abundant in many parts or cnnoda magncklte is found in british columbia and deposits of magnesltlc dolomite are worked in argcnteull county quebec but hitherto pure bruclte which contains a higher percentage of magnesia than either magncsltc or dolomite was not known to occur in this country qt0keb bkooonttion old scottish ilotiseholdermsggle ye ha served faithfully for twtmtyftv years n frae now on we will regard ye as a member of the famly as such ye will receive nae salary his fekason jeannle why dont you eat your apple bandy sandy im waiting for jock smith to come along apples taste much better if theres another boy looking on what do you tftinkt not ttucft bettot bon dad i ham managed to raise two dollars father good youth should try as early as possible to make himself m- dependeent of his father what did you do to get jt bon borrowed it from mother economy that hurts mollere was asked why in some coun tries the king may assume the crown when 14 years old but cannot marry until he is ib because it is more difficult to rule a wife than a kingdom was the reply for several days macdougall had suf fered agony with the toothache and his wife asked him the inevitable question why dont you hoe them oot mac between groans replied itll cost a lot o silver toe hne six drawn maggie maggie hell no charge malr than hve boo with gas mae five bob phone and ask him hmv much hell charge just to loosen them ive uwful mrong fins 13 an apt linguist a french mistress was instructing class of small people in the elements of her language one little boy on being asked o repeat a certain sentence hest- tsjted and the teacher began helpfully ces yeux the pupils eyes brightened sea me he answered triumphantly here it is an old ladys advice on choosing a gardener look at his trousers if they atw patched on the knees you wane hjaa if theyre patched on the seat yod dont where they were how many brothers have you two nllve and one in america borrowing newspapers recently we have been trying to col lect outstanding subscriptions because we need the money and because outsld advertising is based on paidup subscrip tions it is surprising what tales we hear one woman who has been a subscriber for years had through no fault of her own gotten behind she came in to talk the matter over and she said three of my neighbors get the echo from ua every week and they ail have more money than i have she told us who they were and we smiled when we beard of one for we remembered he cancelled his subscription because he received a bill when it was overdue ho hum there is one satisfaction and that is they all read it whether they pay or not a weekly paper is like a wlfe every nun should have one of his own wlarkmj echo his objection teacher why ore wars objection able pupil- because they make history i too bad txr joe j us tall mean he used to say j lit- meant to have his right of way so he didnt us ten look and stop they towed joes flivver to the shop and in the course of a week or two they had it about as good as new but although they hunted high and low they found no extra parts for joe i workmens compensation sure enough it 1 easy to identify the owner of the ear lie li the one who after you pull tilt door shut j1 vtvs opeiis it ufciiln und slams it harder there were s00b accidents reported say lo the workmens compensation board hundred during october as compared with 5121 during september und 6556 during oc tober a year ago i the total benefits awarded amounted u 59431885 of- which 150115005 was for compensation and 19316880 for medical old to dule this year there have been 50093 accidents reported to the board as compared with 58225 during the cor- responding period of 1937 and the bene- j fits awarded amount to 627740108 as against 501457057 to the end of oc- i tober lost year j grapefruit 25c medium large marsh seedless parsnips 4 fresh and clean ths for 9c onions nice itis size for 9c nothing then when i strike out for lines he was a handsome lad witn myself and make a find you want two- carrots 5 delicious cookers f lbs for f c crisp bhwk hair dark eye and an easa of bearing that had marked him as coming ftvtm a family or wealth and culture ii clothes were of excellent cut but afer a time lynn had nouced that lia been sulky and unfriendly they were growing a little worn t the ing ine gold seemed to have thirds or it that was our agreement u nether you like it or not for days afterwards however elbow and cuff the hy tn february which marked the beginning of their friendship came back to lynn now meeting peter on the steps with a package under his arm be had been fctruck by the sudden sus picion that the young man looked almost hungry he had decided to investigate after hl4 own plain supper at the blue ooose cafe wtiere he had worked part time for his maaja ha had knocked u the door of peters room i he had heard pete t ivtrr i f-ind- i robbed him of nls ivmiai fairness lynn knew tliat older and wiser men than peter had been blinded by the gleam of gold but ije had felt sure that peters lnnae honesty would assert itself silting alone before the fire now ik- iimi to dn it himself deceived the fire had almost burned itself out and lynn shivered in the pale light of the star the dark wall of the pines seemed to be crowding in upon him whispering of some secret they kept apples grimes golden lbs delicious for 1 raking or eating etc 14c grapes emperor 3 lbs sweet and fresh oc large berries wjc cabbage firm and green heads nice sue each turnips 5tti5 tahle quality waxed fur 5c 9c bananas gulden yellow nice size per dozen 23c oranges nice size sweet and juicy dozen 15c mtshrqoms iuitter flret grade priced to save carrolls limited performed operation on five famous sisters the ruinous dlontie quints were reported in fine tlnine und demanding tin following the removal of their tonsils and adenoids the operation was perform ed at their callander home by eh d e s wlahart of the toronto hospital for sick children a view of the above with the nune nnd doe tors whnwerc of them grouped u round it 1 en ut ri nurse jeuu mas ten who octd an operation dr da foe dr alan rn who administered the anaesthetics nure table upon which the operations were performed ts shown son and dr john mccrerdy carrolls burford peaches halves hi atc x c mixed peel pound 21c sdtd lbi raisins pod 15 c loch lomond sandwich biscuits 2 ibs 25c out bi1 sfmfhvni ot macaroni found 5c out good old cheese pound 23c maple leaf pure lard 1pkollc pork rolls pound 21c out slcad sid bacon pound 27c i green valley 2 15c g vm tomatoes 2 no t ui 15 el bnd blueberries no 9 tin 9c our fresh rolled oats 5 19c out dand tea ib pi 41 c cmom bl p owd e r tooi ln 1 silver ribbon tomato juice 2 2501 tins 15c s ii wl1 beans a pound h codfish lib p 15 silver star pastry flour 24ltibag45c maolfiri oclock j2- badtima 4j frys cocoa lb i 19c mihwinniheaa 5string corn brooms each carrallt limited mill street store closed wednesday afternoons free delivery puonb 158