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This is one reason for the steadily growing vogue of "IDEAL" BRASS BEDS In your dealer's exhibit, you will see just the style to charmingly complete your bedroom. ALWAYS BUY AN IDEAL SPRING FOR AN IDEAL BED The Ideal Bedding Co., Limited : High-grade Boduteads is and Bedding TORONTO CAE ee ------ a" yr 17 N- Mrs. S. Beatty, Thomashurg, died Belleville police caught, bicycle on June 14th, aged ninety-two years. | thieves. They were tried at Tren She was born in Sidney township. [tom and given ten days each im jail Copyright, 1913, by STEWART EDWARD Doubleday, Page & Ce. » > He Tay Gown in one of the bunks and closed bis eyes. "You'd much better come up on deck into the fresh said Talbot. "Fire ahead, Yank. please!" begged Johnny. "Well." sald Yank, "when I drew that steamer ticket it struck me that somebody might want it a lot more than 1 did, especially as you fellows drew blanks. So I hunted up a man who was iu a hurry and sold it to him for £300. Then I hired one of these sail rigged fisuing boats and laid in grub for a week and went cruising out to sca five or six miles." Johnny opened one eye. "Why?" he demanded feebly. "1 was flggering on meeting any old ship that came along a little before the crowd got at her" Yank "Auld judging by the gang's rea: by hat just left, I should think I'd fig gered just right." "You bet you did." put in Talbot em- phatically. "it must have been mighty uncom- fortable cruising out there in that little boat so long," sald I. "I wonder the men would stick." "I paid them and they had to," said Yank grimly "Why didn't you let us in on it?" I asked. "What for? Job. So then sald It was only a one man I struck this ship and got aboard her after a little trouble persuading ber to stop. There wasn't no way of making that captain believe we'd sleep anywhere we could except cash, had to pay him a good deal." "How much?" demanded Talbot. "It came to two hundred apiece. sorry."' "Glory be!" shouted Talbot. *"We're | abead of the game. Yank, you long | headed old pirate? let me shake you by the hand!" "I wish you fellows would go away," begged Johnny. Thus at last we escaped from the isthmus. At the end of twenty-four hours we had left the island of Tobago astern and were reaching to the north. | so | I'm CHAPTER VIL The Golden City. E stood in between the hills | that guarded the bay of San | Francisco about 10 o'clock | of an early spring day. A fresh cold wind pursued us, and the | sky above us was bluer than I had ever seen it before, even on the isth- | mus. To our right some great rocks | were covered with seals and sea lions, and back of them were hills of yellow | sand. A beautiful great mountain rose green to our left, and the water be- neath us swirled and eddied in numer- | ous whirlpools made by the tide. i Everybody was on deck and close to the rail. We strained our eyes ahead shore of green hills. where San Francisco was located, nor could we find out. The ship's com- pany were much too busy to pay at- tention to our questions. The great opening out of the bay beyond the long narrows was therefore a surprise to us. It seemed as vast as an inland sea. We hauled to the wind, turning sharp to the south, glided past the bold point of rocks. Then we saw the city concealed in a bend of the cove. It was mainly of canvas, hundreds, perhaps thousands of tents and canvas houses scattered about the sides of hills. The flat was covered with them, too, and they ex- tended for some distance along the shore of the cove. A great dust borne by the wind that had brought us in vast fleet. We were immediately surrounded by small boats and our decks filled with , disint { were | were tidily laid up on stones as though + ognized the yenus at a glance. and saw two islands and beyond a | None of us knew | deep, and I should certainly have ven- swept across the city like a cloud of | smoke. Hundreds and hundreds of | vessels lay at ancher in the harbor, a | men. We had our first sight of the | genuine miners. They proved to be as | various as the points of the compass. Big men, little men, clean men, dirty | men, shaggy men, shaven men, but all | instinct with an eager life and energy I have never seen équaled. They addressed us gagerly, asking | a thousand Questions concerning the | gilngs very far away? Were the gings holding out? What were for We wi answered with the entho- | slasm ofan old timer welcoming a | newcomer to any country. Gold, plen- ' ty of it. They told us in breathless ' snatches the most marvelous tales. One sailor had dug $17.000 in a week. Another man. 2 farmor from New oue man. snatching a buckskin bag from his of its mouth to the a tiny cascade of | particles--the dust! pushed, crowding this marvelous sight. a sort of excited tr and tossed the stall uto the air. ~0 The hreeze caught It and scattered it wide. A number of the littie gMtter ing particles clung to my rough ceat, re they flashed like spangles. "Plenty where that came from!" cried the man and turn. J away with a reckless laugh. Filled with the wine of this new ex- citement, we finally succeeded in get- ting ashore in one of the ship's boats We landed on a flat beach of deep black sand. It was strewn from oue end to the other by the most extraor- dinary wreckage, There were levers, cogwheels. cranks, fans, twisted bar and angle {ron in all stages of rust and ition. Some of these machines hulf buried in the sand. Others more They tin, were of copper, wood. We ree- They were. one and all, patent labor saving gold washing machives, of which we Lad seen so many samples aboard ship. At this sight vanished the last remains of the envy | had ever felt for the owners of similar contraptions. We looked about for some sort of conveyance into which te dump our belongings. Apparently none existed. Therefore we piled most of our effects neatly*above high tide, shouldered our bundles and started off up the single street. : landed Lirass, Just iron, zinc, "Plenty more where they came froml" cried the man. The street was, I think, the worst i have ever seen anywhere. It was a morass of mud---sticky, greasy mud-- of some consistency, but full of water holes and rivulets. It looked ten feet tured out on it with misgivings. And yet, incongruously enough, the surface ridges of it had dried and were lifting into the air in the form of dust. This was of course my first experience with that common California phenomenon, and 1 was greatly astonished. An attempt bad been made to supply footing for pedestrians. Bags of sand had been thrown down, some rocks, a very few boxes and boards. Then our feet struck something soft and yleld- ing, and we found we were walking over hundred pound sacks of flour marked as from Chile. There must have been many hundred of them. A man going in the opposite direction sidled past us. ' "Cheaper than lumber," said he brief- ly, seeing our astonishment. "I'd hate to ask the price of lumber," remarked one of our ship's compan. fons, with w, and a number of oth. ers we wéte penetrating the town. We, walked on flour for a hundred feet or so and then came to cook | stoves. - 1 mean it. A battalion of heavy iron cook stoves had been laid side by side te form a causeway. | Their weight combined with the traf- fic over them had gradually pressed them down into the mod until their tops were nearly level with the sur- face. Naturally the first merry and | drunken joker had shied the lids into space. 'The pedestrians had now, el ther to step in and out of fire boxes or try his skill on narrow ledges, Next we came 'to a double row of boxes of tobacco. then to some baled goods and 80 off on to solid ground. When we bad gained the dry ground near the head of the street we threw down our burdens for a rest. "I'll give you $10 for those pineap- ples." offered a passerby, stopping short. Our companion quickly closed the bargain. ' "What do. you think of thst" he de- manded of us wide eyed and in the bearing of the purchaser. The latter grinned a little and bailed "a man across the street. "Charley," here!" ' The individual addressed offered some demur, but fnally picked his way across to us. > "How do you like these? demanded SH WHIG, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917. 'many coarse blue blankels the pineapple purchaser, showing his "Jerusalem!" cried Charley atm. } . "Where did you get them? | Want to sell 'am?' #1 want sonié myself, but I'll sell you three of them." "How mach?" "Fifteen dollars." "Give "am to me." The first purchaser grianed at our companion. The latter followed {uto the nearest store to get his sbare of the dust | weighed out. His face wgre a very thoughtful expression. | We came shortly to the Plaza. since called Portsmouth square. At that | time it was a wind swej ISS grown, | scrubby enough plot af ground. On all sides were permanent buildings The most important of these were a low picturesque house of the xun dried bricks known as adobes, in which, as it proved. the customs were levied: a frame two story structure kuown as the Parker House and a similar build ing labeled "City Hotel." The spaces | between these larger edifices were oe- cupied by a dozen or xo of smalier | shacks. Next door to the Parker House | stood a huge flapping tent. The words El Dorado were painted on its side The square itself was crowded with people woving to apd fro. Tut majority of the crowd const red or hive shirted miners. but 3 many nations and frames of seemed to be represented We saw the wildest Incongruities of demeanor and costume ide which the silk hat, red shirted combinai was nofhing. 'Fiey sirnek mouthed aud gispinz. bur seemed 10 attract mot the slightest attention from anybody else. We eyconnterad a nom ber of men dressed alike in suits of the finest broadcloth of which were Hued with red ilk and the vests of embroidered white hese men walked with a sort of arrogant fmportance. We later found that they were members of that dreaded organ fzation kpown as the Hounds whose ostensible purpose wax to perform vol unteer police duty. but whee real ef- fort was toward the Increase of their own power. These people all surge back and forth good shouted at each other aud disuppeared with great importance up the streets or darted out with equal busi mess from all points of the conus We tacked across to the doors ol the Parker House. There after sume search wns made we found the proprietor He, too, seemed very busy, bul spared time to trudge ahead or us up two rickety fights of raw wooden stairs to a loft, where be indicated four canvas bunks on which Jay openly NSS REGIE TERED TRADE MARK I TTI PRE ARERR Tet the Chocolate Girl Serve You Buy Baker's Cocoa MADE IN CANADA sot minds 1 on us epen f the coats ~All of our products sold in Canada are made in Canada, in our mill at Montreal. There we utilize the results of our 136 years successful experience in the manufacture of cocoa to furnish you with good cocoa of absolute purity, high quality and delicious flavor. Choice Recipe Book sent free. paturediy and "ide he as Perhaps a handred similar bunks oe cupied every available inch in the lit tle loft. "How long you going to stay?" asked us. "Don't know: a few days." "Well, $6 apicce, please." "For how long?" "For tonight." "Hold on!" expostulated Talbot, «We can't stand that, especially for these ac commodations. At that price we ought to have something better. Haven't you anything in the second story?" The proprietor's busy air fell from him, and. he sat down on the edge of one of the canvas bunks. "I thought you boys were from the mines," said be. "Your friend Llere fooled me." He pointed his thom) at Yank. "He looks like an old timer. But now I look at you I see you're greenhorus. Just get bere today? Have a smoke?" He produced a handful of cigars, of which he lit one. "We just arrived," sald Talbot, some what amused at this change. "Ilow about that second story 7" "lI want to tell you boys a few things," sald the proprietor. "1 get $60,000 a year rent for that second story just as she stands. 'That tent next door belongs to my brother in law. It is just 15 by 20 feet, and he rents it for $40,000." "Gamblers?" inquired Talbot. "You've gnessed it. So you sce | ain't got any beds to speak of down there. In fact, here's the whole lay out." | "But we can't stand $6 a night for | these things," expostulated Johnny "Let's try over at the other place." "Try abead, boys," sald the propri etor quite good naturedly. "You'll | find her the same over there and ev erywhere else." He arose. "Dest leave your plunder here until yon nd out Come down and have o drink?" (Continued Next Saturday.) eeom-- WALTER BAKER & CO. LIMITED Established 1780 he Montreal, Canada - Dorchester, Mass. TITER the sweeter it tast ¢e 8-- Train Kills Aged Woman Belleville, June ~Mrs. Jane Livingstone, an aged woman, was found dead near Belleville along the C.P.R. track. She was in her night- clothes, and it is thought she was carrying her boots in her hand when struck bLy the train. Evidently she arose out of sleep in an absentmind ed state, and, leaving home, walked out to the track. Both her legs were broken. 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