Daily British Whig (1850), 23 Feb 1922, p. 11

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SDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922, THE JUNIOR BRITISH WHIG BIGGEST LITTLE PAPER IN THE WORLD ghlomeTajent Playsg BLACK AND WHITE THE RURDY.GURDY MAN was hurt, and Jou and 3 used to Scene: A poorly furnished attic|&0 down on the side 0 listen te room. A pale-faced little girl is aft | the hurdy-gurdy music? ting in a big chair, wrapped up in a| HILDA: Yes, and one time we fol- comforter, 80 that only her face peeps|lowed a grind organ man with a mon- out. Hilda, an older girl, is busiily | key away down the street and got lost Sweeping, humming a little as she|and the nice big policeman brought us 'works. home. : I won't sweep very hard so MIGNONETTE: I remember. We that the dust will make you cough, never told mother, asd we? Listen] : I don't mind the HILDA (sticking her head out the . window again): He's right in front of dust. It seems that it must be nearly spring, Hilda. I can smell it coming this place now. MIGNONETTE: I used to dance and In through the cracks in the window. HILDA: And you'll smell something dance all around over the sidewalk else soon, too. In a jfitfy I'l put on when I was such a little girl and the hurdy-gurdy man came around. the fire the finest stew you ever tasted Mother doesn't know I'm having stew. | fa iz SC A00L BTUDY SPORTS _ White Pine is again quite reasonable in : price. And when we say White Pine, we mean White Pine, the Ottawa Valley kind that is lasting and easy to work, Allan Lumber Co. Pp hone 1042 - = oe Victoria Street IE "I shall never be-able te hedt at all," sald Mrs. Polar Mig must be fully twenty-five degrees above zero." "1 understand it gets even warmer," her husband grumbled. "Oh, for a nice ice fice to sleep on!" commotion in the place on the left, and Mr. and Mrs. Bear saw that they were to have neighbors. "Good heavens," sald Mrs. Polar Bear, "will you look at the bear fam- ily that moved in next door. They're both of them as black as can bel" Mr. Polar Bear stared, with open mouth. "So they are," he sald. "Imag~ ine UH next to such 4 people. Tin cring o the city dirty Je for them. Thank goodness we have enough self: "Those people next door," sald Mrs. Black Bear, "can't be respectable. Their hair is all bleached, instead of being as nature made it. We'll have nothing to do with them." And the keeper never could under stand why the Black Bear and the Polar Bear families stay always at op- posite ends of their cages. --p sei TO-DAY'S PUZZLE WHOS, UHOT, TOBO, LEFR Rearrange these groups of letters to make words, then arrange the words so that the diagonals from the upper left hand corner to lower right spell something to wear. Answer to yesterday's: of the book is "Treasure Islandg' '! words are: tree. run. sail, sad, Kennicott was heavily pleased by her Christmas presents, and he gave her a diamond bar-pin. But she could not persuade herself that he was much interested in the rites of the morning, in the tree she had de- corated, the three stockings she had hung, the ribbons and gilt seals and hidden messages. He said only; "Nice way to fix things, all right. What do you say we go down to Jack Elder's and have a game of five hun- dred this afternoon?" She remembered her father's Christmas fantasies: the sacred old rag doll at the top of the tree, the scoro of cheap presents, the punch ana carols, the roast chestnuts by [fe fire, and the gravity with which | CURES Coughs, Colds, Grippe, Bronchitis, hooping Cough, Asthma, Ete, Sa cpcrtin of TAR anf th mined curative virtues of cop. IVER on. °° os ¥ Colds; when neglected or badly 'treated give rise 8 consequences of suchagrave character that youshould not risk using inferior preparations. 1a MATHIEU'S SYRUP fs the nine remedy whose mn iS cated to crop up macy bmiations of Sequels ON SALE EVERYWHERE ' The name The Within 5 Minutes of Everything Worth While Hoel Beeslin Frvaina Bock * St. the judge opened the children's | scrawly notes and took cognizance of demands for sled-rides, for opin- s | ions upon the existence of Santa Claus. She remembered him read- Wrecked Her Nerves | Township Comncils = a collision in the Halifax, N. S., Har- | life and laying a large portion of the members all present. Minutes of last the inhabitants. accepted and they receive $9 each.-- that time and went through this try- re bill for gravel, with power to act. lows:--*"1 was living in Halifax at C. D. Yorke receive cheques for not do my housework. I wouid take ried. Moved, Reynolds-Cronk, that "I saw Milburn's Heart and Nerve and they helped me so much I took fore next meeting.--Carried. Moved, Tyna; Indeed you did, just like a Shel Da 20 Surivised. anyone suffering from heart and] Beattie; sheep valuator, Thomas Nhat thera 18 to eat. ou've been getting Tironger. vous shock we would reco d u mmend our : would walk, all right. Youre fe Wagar, * that , council join Municipal entire nervous system and st - even to stand up for one little minute. rangth ~--Carried. Moved, J udge-Wagar, } . nal heart and nerve food, having been ho, t . Ha t * two girls listen, it comes nearer.) po-he won't go sway ent yu téam and fifteen cents per hour for since I've heard one. De you mind if] {h® money left to buy the stew with. mailed direct on receipt of price by issued: Auditors, L. B. Bateman $9, the draft. any good now, I want hurdy-gurdy sheep killed, C. Sills $41.60, C. D (Hilda goes over to the one window HILDA: No, he's started another table. But I had to operate, of course . 4 cipal Association, 6.--Carried. house next door. Isn't that the pret- i Just happened to thi ip 3 ou re. "You knew all the time that member when 1 could before the music continues. Then it begins =George A. Smith, Olerk. ! Haven't found the money? Were operating?" awa; ven" u fou e mon y yo Lapum, Wilton, Feb. 20.--The death of d i) d going! (She stands up shakily an CHAPTER XVI HILDA: Mignonette! You you're : 17th following a few weeks' illness +3 forgot I couldn't walk morning, conducted by the Rev. H. glowing.) Mr. Brown is survived by his widow the picture show some day, but I'm an sive Xm Die dius to com recovered from her recent operation Switzerville, spent a few days at the few days at the home of J. B. Miller. ly at the home of Freemont Mills, By SINCLAIR LEWIS on Sunday evening last. A 'heavy THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. 11 ---------- The reader will, no doubt, remem- 1 bor and one of the munition ships HINCHINBROOK, city in ruins, and causing a great meeting adopted. Moved, Cronk- Mrs. Winfield Dill, now of Wind- Carried. M 1, Cronk-Reynolds, ing experience and the shock wreck- ~--Carrled. Moved, Cronk-Reynolds, the time of the explosion, and ft sheep killed by dogs upon signing such nervous spells I would be under collector's time be extended, collec Pills advertised, so I took two boxes, six more, and now I am completely | Judge-Wagar, that the following of- MIGN : Bhe's so tired when nc x r nerve trouble." erve trouble. Howes; truant officer, George A. HILDA: But she'll niotics this, I can | jog jo, 000R Betting so much stronger, ous E wo Jos walk, of hiwse's Heart and Nerve Pills. | Ween, thai ou G. Smith, clerk, be en the weakened organs. Milbvrn's Oh, I love that hurdy-gurdy! He's that the wages for special work be him, Elda? on the market for the past 27 years, HILDA: I do believe it's a hurdy-|® D727 to throw him, Hilda men.--Carried. Moved, Cronk-Rey- 1 open the window just a little bit, Mother gets paid again to day, you the T. Milburn Co., Limited; Toronto, W. H. Hill $9; reg. of BMD, G. A. MIGNONETTE: Open ft, please. I gue He's stopping! He's stop- fumes are mighty inflammable, es- S08 over 19 Yorke $36, William Goodfellow $16; and raises it a little. i Ln look in the bu Discs again £2 eau --Wwound chuck-full of barnyard filth tiest thing! MIGNONETTE: Hurry, Hilda, hurry! Coungil adjourned to meet at Picca- Both you and I might have been | o to die away.) ---------- Oh, I want him to play some more! Sure, Didn't you? Why, what's taken A 10w aio foun atbakily and Levi Brown, an aged resident of La- walking! of pneumonia. The funeral services "me fda catch Satch Ime, Hildal . (Hida catches hor J. Latimer. The remains were plac- HILDA: Oh, my dear! I found = and one son Fred on the homestead. going to run down the stairs like mad to return to her home on Wednesday r home of Eldridge Babcock. Mrs. MAIN STREET Nad de Harman a Rev. Dr. Baker, Belleville, occupied electric and rain storm visited the il Absolute Evidence in Favor S-- * - . 4 5 (Halifax Explosion A ber when a few years ago there was | was blown up, causing great loss of Parham, Feb. 18--Council met; deal of suffering and distress Among | Reynolds that auditors' report be , N. 8, was living in Halif S02 Eo IIL BL rat tae Pore ead oh arnold ed 'her nerves. She writes as fol- that C. Sills, W. L. Goodfellow and wrecked my nerves so that 1 could the necessary declaration, etc.--Car- the doctor's care. tor to settle with the treasurer be- relieved. I can recommend them to | ficers be appointed: Board of Health, do it once. she comes home she doesn't notice]. rors asain, Just T 1 th h fer 1 shock ose Who guffer from ner- Smith.--Carried. Moved, Judge- And the doctor said that one day you tell you. . And you a8 the best remedy to to: MIGNONETTE: But it hurts so, 83D the a delegate to attend the convention. Heart and Nerve Pills are the origi- playing the nicest piece ever. I do thirty cents per hour for man and . HILDA: Not a penny, I used all Price, 50c. a box at all dealers, or gurdy! It's been the longest time nolds, that the following cheques be » Ont. : Sear? a Wt think you will be dn] CRG co EE: But that doesn't do Smith, $9.76; sheep valuator, $5; want to hear ft. 1 pecially with that lamp right by the ? express, L. B. Cronk, $1.20; Muni- HILDA: It's playing in front of the I just happened to think I have some that way." MIGNONETTE: Hila, do you re- (There 1a a little silence, during whick dilly Baturday, March 18th, at ten blown up? You kmew it while you MIGNONETTE: Hilda! He's going ) Late Levi Come call to him! Call to him! He's the matter?' Hilda comes into the room.) pum, near Wilton, occurred on Feb. aT ONONBITE: . 1 was going to call were held at the home on Sunday im. and helps her into her chalr, her face ed in the Wilton vault. The late dime I'd been saving towards going to Miss Marjory Storms has so far and give him the dime to come back of last week. Miss Annie Watters, Robert Miller, Sydenham, spent a two sous, Verona, spent a day recent- * he Story of Carol Ken T e Y C nicott the pulpit of the Methodist <hurch vicinity on Sunday evening , An High Class Hotel with Moderate Rates Popular priced Club Breakfasts A Cafeteria--the last word in up-to-dateness~just opened RATES i Single Room with bath . $3.00 $j Double Room with bath - 6.00 | ERR : AGENCY FOR ALL 5 ~ OCEAN STEAMSHIPS / 1off the road, i wheels in the ditch, i they were jerked back as the horses Bave for his presence, 'the world and all normal Mving disappeared. They were lost in the boiling snow. He leaned close to baw, "Letting the horses have their heads, They'll get us home." ' 'With a terrifying bump they were slanting with two but instantly fled on. She gasped, She tried to, and did not, feel brave as she pulled the woolen robe up about her chin. They were passing something like a dark wall on the right. "I know that bam!" he yelped. He pulied at the reins, Peeping from the covers she saw his teeth pinch his lower Hp, saw him scowl as he slackened and sawed and jerked sharply again at the facing horses They stopped. "Farmhouse there, Put robe around you and come on," he cried. It was like diving into icy water to climb out of the carriage, but on the ground she smiled at him, her face little and childish | and pink above the buffalo robe-over her shoulders, In a swirl of flakes Which scratched at their eyes like a maniac darkness, he unbuckled the harness, He turmed and plpdded back a pon- derous furry figure, holding the horses' bridles, Carol's hand drag- ging at his sleeve, : They came to the cloudy bulk of a farn whose outer wall was direct- ly upon the road. Feeling along it, he found a gate, led them into a yard, into the barn. The interior Was warm. It stunned them with its languid quiet, He carefully drove the horses into stalls, Her toes were coals of pain. "Let's run for the house," she said. "Cant. Not yet. Might never find it. Might get lost ten feet away from it. Sit over in this stall, near Ming out a long indictment of him- self for .being a sentimentalist, against the peace and dignity of the State of Minnesota. She remember- ed his thin legs twinkling® before their sled-- the muttered unsteadily, "Must run up -and put.on my shoes--slip- pers 8g cold." In the not very ro- maritic solitude o¢ the locked bath- roo:n she'sat on the slippery edge of tke tub and wept. 1" Kennicott had five hobbies: medi- cine, land-investment, Carol, motor- ing, and hunting. It is not certain in what order he preferred them. Solid though his enthusiasms were in the matter of medicine--his admira- tion of this city surgeon, his con- demnation of that for tricky ways of persuading country practitioners to \ bring in surgical patients, his indig- nation about fee-splitting, his pride in a new X-ray apparatus---none of Relieves Rheumatism It does all the good work of the old. mustard s blister. Doctors and nurses often rec. ommend its use, Pay postage. without the of Ground Cylinders All high grade automobiles engines manufactured in this another Il er 1 oes country as well as in Europe have their cylinder beres finish. IL S hg Phen To ed by grinding. Some of the American cars that might be aurgieal oper. [ii mentioned are: ' Dr, Chases tatmens wit refs voi af AEE te nd | Hudson Kissel LaFayette Lincoln Locomobile ¢Marmon Apperson Brewster Cadillac . 5 Cunningham ; Dorris Franklin ' Haynes Mercer Templar Holmes Packard , Winton In fact, 849% of all the manufacturers of pleasure cars Peerless Pierce Arrow Rolls Royce Standard $ * Stevens Duryea Stutz » use engines with ground cylinder bores, and 919% of the come herctal motors are ground. Heald Machines are used ex- clusively. Automobile owners we have one of these Heald Cylinder rinding Machines, and can guarantee first class work, Ground Cylinders is a Selling point with many cars, R. M. CAMPBELL, Corner of Queen and Wellington Streets. Automotive Grinders these beatified him as did motoring. | === -- He nursed his two-year-old Buick Queen Vietorda, of Spain, recentl y even in winter, when it was stored in gave her first sitting to the sculp- the horses. We'll rush for the house when the blizzard lifts." For particulars apply to:-- » J.P, HANLEY WE BUILD HOUSES ON TERMS THAT WILL SUIT YOU Kingston Oement Products H. F. NORMAN, Manager OFFICE: 69 Patrick Street Phone 780w. AH TNHNRE hh "I'm so stiff! oN! MAE. 9 Lil iiiiiiiiicn senses Baxonta 10 srseinaniiin «+ .Caronia "._ Moutreal to Liverpool ¥ 8lJune 10{July 15 ... ....Albania yi 20|June 24[July 29 ~Tyrrhenia + July 8{Aug. 12(Sept. 16 ...,....Ausonia breasvan aad London May 13)June 17)July 23 sviveesvAndaniy 'May 27|July 1jAug. 5 ¢:eesione, Antonia ANCHOR LINE T sauetbrsine din nvavnia Algeria Mar. 4jA 8[Ma 3 pr. 12 a ; Alar. oy te Gates 3 3 §May 37 une 3 a calls at 3 3 a vaioe APE. ssseav APE. 3 0 ANCHOR LI LN ETS N.Y. to Fe 1 Wess Er sehen Peas I can't walk!" He carried her into the stall, strip- ped off her overshoes and boots, stopping to blow on his purple fin- gers as he fumbled at her laces, He rubber her feet, and covered her 'with the buffalo robe and horge- blankets from the pile on the feed- box. She was drowsy, hemmed in by ithe storm, She sighed: "You're so strong and yet so skil. ful and not afraid of blood or storm Ort "Used to 1t. Only thing that's bothered me was the chance the other fumes might explode, last night." "I dont understand." "Why, Dave, the darn fool, sent me ether, instead of chloroform like I told him, and you know ether Cres heres anya y . r.. 1 . Apr. 19/May ne 14 May 10/June fui B Sa + Also sails Boston, Mar. 28, N.Y, & Southampton Ro {Apr sefhesy Ths May 30[Juhe Soituy ans N. Y. Ply, iy Ry 15 a 17 N.Y. te (via Moville) Caerane Also Liverpool Boston TO LONDONDERRY 31 iy Sova a AQUItAREa Banta i.Saxonia y IB ead onia Caronta AND ; Apr. 18|May July 13 sesve. Assyria the stable-garage behind the house. He filled the grease-cups, varnished a fender, removed from beneath the back seat the debris of gloves, cop per washers, crumpled maps, dust, and greasy rags. 'Winter noons he wandered out and stared owlishly at the car. He became excited over s fabulous "trip we might take next summer." He galloped to the rafl- Way station, brought home railway maps, end traced motor-routes from Gopher Prairie to Winnipeg or Des Moines or Grand Marals, thinking aloud and expecting her to be effus- ive about such academic questions as "Now I wonder if we could stop at Baraboo and break the jump from La Crosse to Chicago?" To him motoring was a faith not to be questioned, a high-cuurch cult, with electric sparks for candles, and piston-rings sing the sanctity of altar-vessels. His liturgy was composed of intoned and metrical road-comments: "They say there's a.pretty good hike from Duluth to International Falls." Hunting was equally a devotion, - {fall of metaphysical concepts veiled from Carol, All winter he read Sporting-catalogues, and thought about remerkable past shots: ** "Member that time when I got two ducks on a long chance, just at van- set1" tor, Benlhuer, for the equestrian colonel of the cavalry regiment nam- Colona th rey meet 4 ed after her. 1 we" Your New Rubbers... guaranteed to ar any

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