THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1923. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG IF WINTER COMES Had Bad Pains In | Her Heart + | in its puppef show as to upturn a caul-, @/ { | dron of world war upon the puppets, | \ ; il | PHONE + | may be imagined biting its fingers in ? | some ¢hagrin at the little result in par- . Nerves Were Very Bad Mrs. John Case, R. R. No. 4, St Catharines, Ont., writes: * I wish to say that I have been bothered very much with my heart and nerves. I doctored with two different doctors, but did not find much relief. I would have such bad pains in my heart, at times: I would be almost afraid to move or breathe, and at night I could not slesp. If the pains in my heart were gotie, my narves would be so bad I could not le still and would only get a little sleep by being tired cut. My stomach was also very bad and I could eat but very little, and then only certain things or I would have so much distress which always made my heart worse. 1 had' been suffering for nearly two years until one day I was talking to our druggist about the way I felt, He advised me to give Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills a fair trial. I have now taken five boxes and am feeling 90 much better, 3 bm able to do my own work, and ia eat anything I se « wish. 1 canpot Mifburn's Heart and Nerve Pills too highly." Price 50c. a box at all dealers or mailed diréct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co,, Limited, Toronto, Ont, RsWorM PowpErs IN THE HAVE OF THE MOST 1AL CONTAIN NO NARCOTICS Hotpoint Appliances MIS-CAN-AD-A VACUUM CLEANERS 72 Printesalitroct. Phone 498, \ ' $1 { borough .| be wearing a suit of deep brown tights "| bathed. | "Absolutely nothing wrong with you? 4 | ticular instances. Copyright In Canada, 1923, by McClelland & Stewart, Ltd, Publishers, Toronto. BY A. 8 M HUTCHINSON He had sat down and was about to pour himself out some tea. He put down the teapot and got up. "Look here, do me a favour. They're dead, both of them. Don't say anything more about them. Don't mention the | subject again, For God's sake." He went out of the house and got his bicycle and set out for the office At the top of the Green he passed young Pinnock, the son of Pinnock's Stores. Some patch of colour about young Pinnock caught his eye. He looked again. The colour wad a vivid red crown on a khaki brassard on the young man's arm. The badge of the recruits enrolled under the Derby en- lstment scheme. He dismounted. "Hullo, Pinnock, How on earth did you get that arfhlet?" "I've joined up." "But I thought you'd been rejected about forty times. Haven't you got one foot in the grave or something?" Young Pinnock grinned hugely. "Don't matter if you've got both feet in, or head and shoulders neither, over at Chovensbury today, Mr. Sabre. It's the last day of this yer Derby scheme, an' there's such a rush of chaps to get in before they make conscripts of 'em they're fair letting anybody through." Sabre's heart-- that very heart! -- bounded with an immense hope. "D' you think it's the same at Tid. "They're saying it's the same every. where. They say they're passing you through if you can breathe. I reckon that's so at Chovensbury anyway. didn't hardly look at me." Sabre turned his front wheel to the Chovensbury road. "I'll go there." VII At Chovensbury the recruiting sta. tion was in the elementary schools. Sabre entered a large room filled with men in various stages of dressing, od- orous of humanity, very noisy. It was a roughish collection: the men mostly of the labjuring or artisan classes. At a table in the centre two soldiers with lance corporal's stripes were filling up blue forms with the answers to gues- tions barked out at the file of men who shuffled before them. As each form was completed, it was pushed at the man interrogated with "Get un- dressed." Sabre took his place in the chain. In one corner of the room a doctor in uniform was testing eyesight. Passed ont from there each recruit joined a group wearing only greatcoat or shirt and standing about a stove near the door. At intervals the door opened and three nude men, coat or shirt in hand, entered, and a sérgeant bawled, 'Next three!' Sabre was presently OI the two who companioned him one Was an undersized little individual wearing a truss, the other appeared to of the three out of which his red neck and red hands thrust conspicuously. Sabre rea- lized with a slight shock that the brown suit was the grime of the un. Across the passage another room was entered. The recruits drop ped their final covering and were dir. ected, ohe to two sergeants who ope- fated weights, a height guage and a medstiring tape; another to an officer who said, "Stand on one leg. Bend you to#s, Now on the other. Toes. Stretch out your arms. Work your fingers: Squat on your heels," The third recruit went to an officer who dabbed chests with a stethoscope and said, "Had any illnesses?" When the recruit had passed through each per. formance he walked to twé officers seated with enrolment forms at a ta. ble, was spoken to, and then recover. ed his discarded garment and walked out. The whole business took about three minutes. They were certainly whizzing them through. Sabre came last to the officer with the stethoscope. He was just polish- ing off the undersized little man with the truss. "Take that thing off. Cough How long have you had this? Go a- long," He turned to Sabre, dabbed perfunctorily at his lungs, then at his heart. "Wait a minute." He applied his ear to the stethoscope again. Then he looked at Sabre's face. "Had oy illne ?" "Not one in my life." Shortness of breath?" "Not the least I was in the XV at school." Sabre's voice was tremulous with eagerness. the doctor's eyes appeared to exchange a message with him. They gave the slightest twinkle. "Go along." He went to the table where sat the | two officers with the paper forms, "Name?" "Sabre" The officer nearer him drew a form towards him and | dashed poised a fountain pen over it. Sabre felt it extraordinarily odd to be stand- ing stark naked before two men fully dressed. In his rejection at Tidborough the time before this had not happened. "Any complaints?" a - Sabre wag surprised at such consid- eration. He thought the reference was lo, his treatment during examination. - 0." 3 The officer, who appeared to be short-tempered, glanced again at the form and then looked quickly at him: "Oh, 1 thought you meant--" The officer was short-tempered. "Never mind what you thought. You ear what I'm asking you, don't you »" order was given. The sergeant then discharged: "All recruits past the doc- tor proceed to the room under this for swearing inn When sworn, to office adjoining for pay, card and armlet. And gat a move on with it!' VIII The most stupendously elated man in all England was presently riding to Penny Green on Sabre's bicycle. On the breast pocket of his waistcoat, specially cleared té give private ac- commodation to so glorious a prize, were a half-crown and two pennies, the most thrillingly magnificent sum he had ever earned, --his army pay. His singing thought was, "I'm in the Army! I'm in the Army! I don't care for atiything now. "By gad, I can't be- lieve it. I'm in the war at last!" His terrific thought was, "Good luck have thee with thine honour; ride on . . . and thy right hand shall show thee terrible things." He burst ifito the house and dis- charged the torrent of his elation on to Mabel. "I say, I'm in the Army. They've passed me. Look here! Look at my Derby armlet! And look at this. That's my pay! Just look, Mabel-- two and eightpence." He extended the coins to her in his hatid. "Look!" She gave her sudden burst of laugh. ter. "How perfectly ridiculous! Two Two and eightpence! Whyever did you take it?" "Take it? Why, it's my pay. My army pay. I've never been so proud of anything in my life. I'll keep these coins forever, Where shall I put them? He looked around for a shrine worthy enough. "No, I can't put them any- where yet: I want to keep looking at them. 1 say, you're glad I'm in, aren't you? Do say something." 8he gave her laugh. "But you're not in, You do get so fearfully eseited. After all, it's only this Lord Derby thing whete they call the men up in age classes, the papers say. Yours can't come for months, You may not go at all He dropped the coins slowly into his pocket, --chink, chink, chink. "Oh, well, if that's all you've got to say about it." "Well what do you expect? You just come rushing in and telling me with. out ever having said a word that you were going. And for that matter you seem to forget the extraordinary way in which y8i went off this morning. I haven't." "I had forgotten. I was upset. I went off, I know; but I don't remem- ber" "No, you ony swore at me; that's all." "Mabel, I'm sure I didn't." "You bawled out, 'For God's sake.' I call that swearing: 1 don't mind, It's not particularly nice for the servants to hear, but I'm not saying anything about that." His brows were puckered up. 'What is it you are saying?' "I'm simply saying that, behaving like that, it's not quite fair to pretend that I'm not enthusiastic enough for you about this Lord Derby thing. It isn't as if you were really in the Ar. my" . He wished not to speak, but he could not let this go. "But I am in." "Yes, but not properly in--yet. And perhaps you won't ever be. It doesn't seem like being in to me. That's all I'm saying. Surely there's no harm in that?" He was at the window staring out face the garden. "No, there's no harm hh it. "Well, them What are we arguing about it for?" He turned towards her. "Well, but do understand, Mabel. If you think I was a fool rushing in like that, as you call it. Do understand. It's a Govern. ment scheme. It's binding. It isn't a joke" "No, but I-think they made it a joke, and I can't think why you can't see the funny side of it. I think giving you two and eightpence like that--a man in your position--is too lovely for words." He took the coins from his pocket, and jerked them on the table before her. "Here, pay the butcher with it." IX But as he reached the door, his face working, the tremendous and magnifi- cent thought struck into his realisa- tion again. "I'm in the Army! By gad, I'm in the Army. I don't care what happens now." He strode back, smil. ing, and took up the money. "No, I'm if I can let it go!" He went out jingling it and turned into the kit. chen. "I say, High, Low, I'm in the Army! I've got in. I'll be off soon. Look at my badge!" They a hate now!" ¢ sa ly, "Pri good, eh? Isn't it fine! Look at tr my pay. Two and eightpence!" The chorus, "Oh, if ever!" High Jinks said, "That armiet, sir, that's too 'fose. It don't half show down on your 'elbow, sir. You want it up here." "Yes, that's th place. Won't it stay? "Ill put a safety pin in, sir; and then to-night shift the buttons. That's what it wants." "Yes, do, High- That's fine." He held out his arm and It was Sabre's first experience of a | girls manner with which he was to become more familiar. "Sorry. No, nothing whatever." ho fountain pen made a note. "Get of gd He could have shouted aloud. He thought, "By God!" In the dressing room a sergeant, yet!" bawled, "All recruits ["--paused and glared about the room and drew breath for further discharge. This man neism Sabre was also to become ac- customed to: in the Army, always "the cautionary word" first when an a Jolly Thumbs, I don * want bayonets in me Glorious! Glorious! And what would d ou not Nona say! CHAPTER x } !lenged and beset. As vegetation be- | neath snow, so individual development | | beneath universal calamity. Nature per ! sists; individual life persists. The snow | melts, the calamity passes; the green | | things spring again, the individual lives | are but approached more nearly to! | their several destinations. Sabre was called up in his Derby | Class within eight weeks of his enrol- | ment,--at the end of February, 1916, He was nearly two years in the war; but his ultimate encounter with life | awaited him, and was met, at Penny Green. It might have been reached precisely as it was reached without | agency of the war, certainly without his 4rms blazed the khaki brassard, in | PATHICIPation in it. Of the interval only those few events ultimately mattered which had connection with his life at | home. They seemed in the night of the | war transient as falling stars; they proved themselves lodestars of his des- tiny. They seemed nothing, yet even | as they flashed and passed he occup- ied himself with them as the falling | star catches the attention from all the | fixed and constant. They were of his | own life; the war life was life in exile. | And, caught up at last in the enor- | mous machinery of the war, his feel | ings towards the war underwent aj great change. « First in the training | camp in Dorsetshire, afterwards, and | much more so, in the trenches in| Flanders, it was only by a deliberate cffort that he would recapture, now and then, the old tremendous emo- | tions in the thought of England chal. | He turned to it as stimulant in moments of depression | and of dismay, in hours of intense and | miserable loathing of some conditions | of his early life in the ranks, and lat- er in hours when fatigue and bodily discomfort reached degrees he had not believed it possible to endure--and go on with. He turned to it as stimulant and it never failed of its stimulation. "I'm in it- What does this mattér? This is the war. It's the war, infernal devils . . . If these frightful | things were, being done in England! | Imagine if this was in England! Thank God I'm in it. There you are! | I'm absolutely all right when I remem bér why I'm here." And enormous exaltation of spirit would lift away the | loneliness, remove the loathing, ban- | ish the exhaustion, dissipate the fear. | The fear--"And thy right hand shall | show thee terrible things."'--He was | more often than once in situations in | which he knew he was afraid and held fear away only because, with his old old habit of introspection, he knew it for fear,--a horrible thing that sought mastery of him and by sheer force of mental detachment must he held away where it could be looked at and known for the vile thing it was. In such or- deals, in Flanders, he got the habit of saying to himself between his teeth, "Six minutes, six hours} six days, six fnonths, six years. Where the hell will I be?" It somehow helped. The six minutes would go, and one could be- lieve that all the periods would go,~-- and wondér where they would find AY {it yourself. pet. Think and act today. $720 PRICES PER SQUARE FOOT clear Quarter Cut Oak .....Z5c¢. No. 1 Quarter Cut Oak Clear Plain Oak No. 1 Plain Oak ..... § No. 2 Plain Oak § Clear Birch and Maple . J. No. 1 Birch and Maple 8 % 3-8 No. 2 Birch ALLAN LUMBER CO. Victoria Street. Phone us your order today. have to do is state the size of the floor to be covered. Scaman-Kent Beaver Brand Hardwood Flooring is so perfectly matched and milled that anyone can do the work. Think of the beautiful floor--the everlasting satisfaction you will have by spending just a little more time than it takes to put down a dusty, germ-laden, old-fashioned car Nail down that bright idea SEAMAN- All you --ONLY--- for a floor size 10x12 ft. 4 and Maple 6c "Phone 1042. = he read on to Mabel's further reflec. tions, on the new enterprise: course she's not our class but "she's "ot | the lof { that ha one. % : But mote than that: now, caught up in the enormous machinery of the war, he never could accept it, as other men seemed 10 aceept it, as normal and na- tural oceupation that might be expect. ¢d to go for ever and outside of which was nothing at all. His life was rot here; it wad at home. He got the feel- ing that this business in which he was caught up was a business apart alto- ether from his own individual life--~a id of trance in which his own life was held temporarily in abeyance, a kind of transmigration in which he occupied another and a very strange identity; from whose most strange per- sonality, often so amasingly occupied, he looked wonderingly upon the iden. tity that was his own, waiting his re- turn. And it was when, in thought or fleeting action, he came in touch with that old, waiting identity, that there happened the things that seemed tran. sient as falling stars but moved into his horoscope as planets, --and remain- ed. > >" 11 , He first went to France, in one of string 'of Service battalions sprung out of the Pinks, in the June following his enlistment. Ma. bel had not wished to make any change in her manner of life while he was still in England in training and she did not wish to when, at home three days on his dtaft leave, he dis- cussed it with her. She much preferred she said, to go on living in her own home. She was altogether against any | idea of going to be with her father at Tidborough, and there was no cousin "or anybody like that" (her twe sis. ters were married and had howes of their own) that she would care to have in the house with her. Relations were all very well in their right place quite ladylike and on the whole I'think it just as well not to have a lady. It might be very difficult sometimes to give orders to any one of one's own standing." ' He didn't quite like that; but after all it was only just Mabel's way of looking at things. It was the jolliest possible idea. He wrote back enthus- jastically about it and always after Effie was installed inquired after her in his letters. But Mabel did not reply to these in- quires: 111 He was writing regularly to Nona and regularly hearing from her. He never could quite make out where she was, addressing her only to her sym- bol in the Field post office. She was car driving and working very long hours. There was one letter that he never posted but of the existence of which he permitted himself to tell her "I carry it about with me always in my Pay-Book. It is addressed to you. If ever I get outed it will go to you. In it I have said everything that I Bruises~-strains mn mh have never said to you but that you know without my saying it. There'll be no harm in your hearing it from my own hand if I'm dead. I keep on add- ing to it. Every time we come back into rest, I add a little more. It all could he said in the three words we have never said to one another. But all the words that I could ever write would never say them to you as I feel thend. There! I must say no more of it. I ought not to have sald so much." (To be Continued.) Montreal Sells Coal Stocks. Montreal, Feb. 7.--With the ad- vent of the mid-winter season and with the knowledge that it was op- portune now to ease the coal situa- tion in Montreal, it was announced at the city hall that the city authori- t'es had beguh to sell coal from their supplies, #aid to be 5,000 tons of Am- ¢rican anthracite, The price is $16 a ton, the| buyer accepting delivery at the yards of the city in the west end St. Henri suburb. About 256 tons have already been sold, not more than five tons being sold to indivii- ual buyers. Apply Sloan's. The blood circulates freely and normally again. The pain ful congestion is broken up it would have oy ; . sister." 3 Life, when it takes so giant a hand | but sharing the house with you was not their right place: She had plenty to do with her war work and one thing and another; if, in the matter of ob. viating loneliness, she did make any change at all it might be to get some | sort of paid companion: if you had any one permanently in the house it was sue better ef 10 hive some one in a de- pen it fot as your equal, upsetting things. : The whole of these considerations tittle Effie! How jolly been! Like 3 jolly little He puckered his brows a little as 17 46j For Firewood A cholee lot of Hard and Soft Wood tiways on hand. Sea us first, CHAS. BEDORE & SON, 274 NELSON ST, . H. A. STEWART Dental Surgeon Wishes to announce | that he has resumed ff his practice, cor. Wel- | lington and Princess | Streets. Phone 2092. Dr. H. A. Stewar IDEAL _ BAKERY TRY BURNS' WHOLE WHEAT BREAD THE STAFF OF LIFE W. BURNS, 61 Frontenac 8t., North Phone 18268w. We Have Just Received a Large Shipment of Clothes Hampers, Clothes Baskets, Waste Paper Baskets Market Baskets at remarkably low Call to see them at-- Selling prices, W.H. Cockburn& Co. 151 WELLINGTON 151 PE At Ottawa everybody is satisfied {with the results of the generel el- | ection in the province of Quebec. Cobalt man accused of stealing carload of elothing destined for Northern relief will go to jury fur trial. Almost a Fool-Proof Investment Chain Stores The outstanding success of the Chain Store busitiess in Canada bas been achieved by Dominion Stores, Limited, which now opératés a chain of 190 grocery. stores in the Province of Ontario: 62 are located ia Totonte, 19 in Hamilton, 9 in London, and the remainder in other profitable centres. The Company's net profits have grown from $84,692.12 in 1920 to over $100,000 io 1928, ~ Thess Class "A" shares are the premier security of the Company, and dre and dividend: ferred both as to assets nome projected. pre- 8. value. Theres are no Bonds ahead of them, and The nssets as certified in the last Bal- ance Sheet are over $200 per share on the stock outstanding, so that each shareholder will have & 100% margin of safety for his equity in the Company. The success of the Dominjon Stores, Limited, has been remarkable. And om our investigation of its businéss we feel that we may recommend theses shares on every ground of safety, earning power and the prospeet of reasonable appreciation ia Price $100 Per Share, Carrying a Bonus of 25% Common Stock Send orders to one of the undersigned, or write for a complete prospectus. - Housser, Wood & Company 12-14 King Street Enst, Toronto / Bankers' Bond Company, Limited 60 King Street West, Toroato Brouse, Mitchell & Company Faehaugs