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AR AH ANN, COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! On and after first of May Coal Sales will be for Cash Only. BOOTH & CO. Phone 133. Nt em, 20 MINUTES That's all. Twenty minutes after taking a ZUTOO tablet your headache will be one, of these little tablets--safe, reliable and harmless as soda--will cure any headache #11 20 minutes: Or, better still, taken when you feél the headache coming on, 2a ZUTOO tablet will ward it off --nip it in the 'No Headache LIFE twent thi IMPERIAL % the last ¥ Years have heen Canada, According te the last fvallable figures the assets of the Imperial Life are almost as creat fx the combined assets of the thirteen other companies. J. B. Cooke, Dis.Mgr. 832 King St., Phone 503; Residence 812, book's Cotton Root 4 safe, reliabie reguinting medicine. Sold tn three de rees of Jirtngth--No. 1.8 @ BUSINESS CHANGES NAME The confectionery business of Baker & Co., 302 King street, will from now on be known as Crothers' King St. Bakery Charles Barnum, who has been doing the baking in this stand for twenty-five years will continue to do so and also look after the management of the store ' Quality the best, will be our motto, Phone 141 RDS FURS Fox, Sealskin, Beaver, Ermine, etc, etc, can be cleaned very sucddsstully, and in this connection it may be remarked that dry cleaning is also a splendid pro- tection against moths. We do not undertake the dyeing of furs. § 3 PARKER'S DYE WORKS UMITED i 69 Princess Street, King- ston, Ontario. I ------ (The Whig's New Serial Stor THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1 STEWART EDWARD WHITE Copyright, 1913, by D>ubleday, Page & Co. PROLOGUE HE gold fever of "49 is now a chapter--and a very thrilling one, too--in our national history. Mr. White has made that feverish time live forever im thisstory. It is avery wonderful piece of work. He has recreated the past, and we go with bated breath through the scenes he pictures with so much vividness. "Gold" has special interest at this time, because part of the story is laid in Panama, the toute taken by the gold seek- ers. If your heart has ever beaten a little faster at the thought of those adventurous days, you will follow the for- tunes of this little party of four with real delight. CHAPTER 1. Oh, Susannah! OMEWHERE in this story I must write a paragraph exclusively about myself. The fact that in the outcome of all these stir ring events I have ended ns a mere bookkeeper is perhaps a good reason why ome paragraph will be cnungh. In my youth 1 bad dreams a-plenty. the event and the peculiar twist of my own temperament prevented their ful fillment. Perhaps in a more squeam- ish age--and yet that is not fair either to the men whose destinies I am try- ing to record. Suffice it, then. that of ~0 From every stage. on er ery street cor- ;. ner, In every restaurant and hotel it { was sung, played and whistled. At the sound of its first notes the audi- ence always sprang to its feet and cheered like mad. The desire to go to Eldorado was universal and almost irresistible. The ability to go was much more circum- seribed. For one thing, it cost a good deal of money, and that was where I bogged down at the first pull. Then, I suppose a majority did bave ties of family, business or other respousibili- ties impossible to shake off. But we all Joined one or more of the various clubs formed for the purpose of get- ting at least some of their members to California, and discussed heatedly the merits of the different routes, and went into minute aud fascinating de- tails as to processes of which we knew less than nothing. and sang "Oh. Su- sannab!" and talked ourselves into a glorified fever of excitement, and went home with our heads in the clouds. Once in a great while some of these clubs came to something--as a body, 1 mean--for individual members were constantly working themselves up the summit of resolution to rush headlong and regardless down the otber side and out of our sight When a man had reached a certain pitch of excitement he ran aguck. He sold anything, de- serted" anything. broke through any- thing in the way of family, responsi bility or financial lacks in order to go. But, as | say, occasionally one of these clubs pooled its individual resources and bought some old tub of a whaler or outfitted a wagon train and started off. But generally we got ouly as far as "Oh, Susannah™ | remember once in coming out from one of our meet- | ings finding my«elf ext a solemn and | village. earnest youth originally from my own He walked by my side for several squares lost in a brown study. Then suddenly he looked up. "Frank." said he, with conviction. "1 believe I'll go. I know most of this | talk is wildly exaggerated, but I'm put | sensible enough to discount all that sort of thing aud to disbelieve absurd stories. I shan't go with the slightest notion of finding the thing true. but will be satisfied If | do reasonably well. In fact. if I don't pick up more | than a hatful of gold a day I shall be these men I have been the friend and | companion, of these occasions 1 have been a part. and that the very lacks | and reservations of my own character that have kept me to a subordinate po sition and a little garden have prob | club, but nearly all young. perfectly satisfied." Which remark saffictently indicates | about where we all were. We had many sorts of men Wm our One in es | pecial early attracted my attention and i ably made me the better spectator. | Which is a longer paragraph about my- self than I had purposed writing. Therefore 1 will pass over briefly the various reasons, romantic and practi- cal, why I decided to join the gokl rush to California in the year 1849. It was in the air, and I was then of a roman: tic and adventurous disposition. The first news of the gold discovery filtered to us in. a roundabout way through vessels to the Sandwich is- lands, and then appeared again in the columns of some Baltimore paper. Ev- erybody laughed at the rumor, but ev. erybody remembered it. The land was infinitely remote, and then, as now, ro- mance increases as the square of the distance. There might well be gold there, but more anthentic were the re- ports of fleas, rawhides and a dried Up coast. Minstrel shows made a good deal of fun of it all, I remember. held it through all the changing vicis- situdes of our mauy meetings. 1 say attracted me, though fascinated would be perhaps the better word. for after the first evening of his attendance I used deliberately so to place myself | that I could watch him. A He came always in a rather worn military cape, which on entering the | door he promptly threw back in such a manner as to display the red lining. This seemed an appropriate envelop- ment of his flaming, buoyant personal | ity. He walked with his chin up and Then, when we were of a broad grin, i came the publication of the letter writ- ten by Goverfior Mason to the war de- partment. That was a sober official | document and had to be believed, but it read like a fairy tale. "I have no hesitation in saying" | Wrote the governor, "that there is more gold in the country drained by the | Sacramento 'and San Joaquin rivers than would pay the costs of the late | war with, Mexico a hundred times | over." he then went on to re port in detail big nuggets and big wash- ings, mentioning men, places, dates. in his back straight and trod directly on and over the ends of his toes so that he seemed fairly to spring with vigor. His body was very erect and tall and pliant, bending easily to every change of balance. If I were never to have seen his face at all I should have placed him as one of the laughing spir its of the world. His head was rather small, round, well poised, with soft gray and contemplative on the world about them, so that one got the in- a circumstantial manner that carried | Stant impression of a soul behind conviction. Our broad grins faded. The min. | that weighed and Judged they were not laughing eves at all Strels' jokes changed color. As I look a re satived fhe Ippression back it seems to me that I can almost OF 'the man's bearing. See with the physical ere the broad restless upbeaval beneath the surface | of all society. The Mesican war was | Just over. and the veterans--young vet- { erans all--filled with the spirit of ad- venture turned eagerly toward this glittering new emprise. Out in the small villages, on the small farms, the | er, for news was talked over seriousiy, al mest without excitement. as offering a possible means "of lifting the burden war resources, mortgaged their possessions, to equip and send their single stfong- est members to make the common for tune. | | | a lowing delicately the tions of the spirit within, or whether bad laid. Families strained their | ff Was a purely fortuitous effect of light and refraction no man was ever able to say. Then came the song that caught the | ® devil behind the steady control of a popular ear, and the rush was on. | clear brain. His name, | soon discov- Most great movements are done to song. geperally commonplace. It was $0 in this Instance. "Oh, Susannah!™ or rather a modification of the original made to fit the occasion, first sung in some minstrel show, ran like fire In the tinder of men's excited hopes. fo ered. was Talbot Ward. At this period I was sta an assistant bookkeeper to a porting firm. They were enterprising" people, and already they laying plans te capture some of the Call trade. The office talk I concern. nN y| ol } ig the pa { ment of arms tains and of €Wws wy imagination sum of $9) per week alope in the world and possessed no other resources, the saving of the £uw agreed upon as. the least sum which it was possible té get to Califer- nia was fairly out of all gyuestion One evening alter the meeting. I received the vast to with me. never exchanged a word. "In New York long" he demanded. "Aboutsix months," 1 told him. ed. "Where?" "Ashbury. in Vermont" I replied. without the slightest feeling that he | was Intrusive. He stopped short in the street and but without comment. "I've been watching yon fool meetings." said he, falling into step again In spite of myself 1 experienced a glow of gratification at having been the object of his interest. "Fool meetings" 1 echoed ingly. "Suppose by a miracle all that lot could agree and could start for Cali fornia tomorrow In a bodv--that's inqnir he countered--"would you with them ~ "Why not? TN "Martin Is wby not, and Fowler is why not. and that little Smith runt and six or eight others. They are weak sisters. If you are going into a thing go Into it with the strong men. I wouldn't go with that crowd to a snake fight if it was twelve miles away. Where do von liver" "West Ninth street." "That's not far. Have you a good big room "I have a very small hall bedroom." I replied wonderingly. "A number of us have the whole of the top floor." Somehow, 1 must repeat, this unex- plained intrusion of a total stranges into my private affairs did vot offend. . "Then you 'mnst have a big sitting room. [How many of you?' "Four." "Can you lick all the others?" I stopped to langh. By some shrewd guess he had hit on our chief difficulty as a community. We were all four country boys with a good deal of re- sidnary energy and high spirits, and Wwe were not popular with the tenants™ underneath. "You see, I'm pretty big"-- I remind- ed him. "Yes, I see yon are. That's why I'm with you. Do you think you can lick me?" I stopped short again in surprise, "What in blazes"~ I began. He laughed, and the devils in his eyes danced right out to the surface of them. "I asked yom a plain question," he said. "and I'd like the favor of a plain answer. Do you think yon can lick me $s well as your rural friends?" 71 can." said 1 shortly. ""He ran hisarm through mine eagerly. "Come on," he cried, "on to West Ninth!" We found two of my roommates smoking and talking before the tiny open fire. Talbot Ward. full of the business in hand. rushed directly at the matter once the introductions were over. Our arrangements were very simple. The chairs were few and pusbed back easily. and we had an old set of gloves. "Which is it to be?" 1 asked my guest, "boxing or wrestling?" "I said you couldn't lick me," he re plied. "Bozing is a game with rules. It isn't fighting at all." "You want to bite and gouge and scratch. then?" said I, greatly amused. "I do not. They would not be fair. A fight's a fight, but a man can be de- go > "Do you think you can lick me?" cent with it all. We'll pat on the gloves, and we'll hit and wrestle both in fact, we'll tight" He began rapid'y to strip. "Would you expect tu get off your clothes iu a real Aight?" I asked him a little sardounically. "If | expected to fight. yes'™ said be. "Why not? Didn't the Greek and Ro man and Hebrew and Hun and every other good old fighter 'strip for the fray' when he got a chance? Of course! Take off your shirt, man!™ 1 began also to strip for this strange contest whose rules seemed to be made up from a jodicions selection of gen- eral principles by Talbot Wand. My opponent's body was as beauti- ful as his head. The smooth white «kin covered long muscles that rippled Leneath it with every slightest motion. The chest was deep. the waist and hips narrow. the shudders well round. el. In contrast my. own big promi | what ther are organized for, | believe," } | | { As 1 was quite | with my great surplise. Ward fell into step | We had up to that moment | "Farm bred. of course?" he remark. | looked me up and down reflectively, | at these | -crush him. 917 N PAGE NINETEE has a most delicious unquestioned and its J BAKER'S COCOA. 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But in a genuine fight within the circumscribed and hampering di mensions of our little room I thought my own rather unusual power must The only unknown quan tity was the spirit of gameness of us two. I had no great doubt of my own determination in that respect. | had A A A A A a A hes r 1 seeped judzed personal encounter. And Talbot Ward seemed to show uothing but eager interest. "You don't show up for what yon are in your clothes." said he. *"This is going [fo be more fun than | thought." My roommates perched on the table and the mantelpiece out of the way. | asked the length of the rounds "Rounds!" echoed Talbot Ward. with a flash of teeth beneath his little mus tache. in a real fight?" (Continued Next Saturday.) THANKFUL MOTHERS. Mothers who have once Baby's Own Tablets for their ones are always strong in their pra se" of this medicine Among them is Mrs. Marcelle Boudreau, Mizonette, N:B., who writes: "Baby's Own Tab lets ave the best medicine I know of for little ones. 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