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",' MORTGAGE SALE Under and by virtue of the powers contained in a certain mortgage which will be produced at the time of sale, there will he offered for sale by public auction, on Monday, the 29th day of No- vember, 1915, at the hour of two o’clock in the afternoon, at the Hotel Grimsby, Grimsby, Ont., by James A. Livingston, auctioneer, the following freehold pro- (perty. namely: ALL AND SINGULAR that certain par eel or tract of land and premises situate, 'lying and being in the Township of Salt tlt's.et, in the County of Wentworth and (being composed of thirteen and one-sixth (13 1-6). acres of land purchased by Jas. {Harper from Jonathan R. Pettit and be- Ing the south thirteen and one-sixth (13 1-6) acres of that parcel of thirty- nine and one-half acres purchased by James Harper from Jonathan R. Pettit and described in the conveyance thereof as follows: Being composed of all that portion of lot number three (3) Conces- sion (1), said township lying south of the Great Western Railway Company's property cunning through the said lot number three (3). siJcond1y:--Twelve "and Che-third (12 1-3) acres of land and {being the middle twelve and one-third mores of the thirty-nine and one-half (39%)..acres of land purchased by James Harper from Jonathan it. r'ettit and ‘being described in the conveyance there- of as being composed of that portion of lot number three (3), concession one (1) in the Township of saltfleet, in the (”innan of Wentworth and lying south' in the Township of Saltfleet, in the County of Wentworth and lying south' of the Great Western Railway Company's property and running through the said ttrt' number three (3). Terms:--The property to be sold sub- Ject to a reserved bid, the purchaser to assume a first mortgage on the lands for $8,000, pay a deposit of 10 per cent of the purchase money at the time of sale and sign an agreement to complete the sale and pay the balance within 15 days there ' The said ‘lands are improved and are well adapted for fruit growing purposes. of: "For further particulars and conditions of_s_ale apply to _ HARVEY OBEE, w' W 710 C.P.R. Building, Toronto. H. Sollcitor for the Mortgagee. Harry S. German, who has been the chief promoter of the Monroe, Mich., meeting, and likewise one of the most active horsemen of the Wolverine State, has been mentioned we the probate successor of the late George D. Conner as secretary of the Short Ship Circuit, W. W. KIDD Koo & FARRELL MONEY TO LOAN The Hamilton Provident and Loan Society Deposit in our Savings De.. partment, 3 h% interest paid, half yearly. Cor King and Hughson Wall Paper 1_1s_ptl This is an opportunity to add to the comfort and enrichment of your home by using Window Drap- eries which perfectly carry out the general tone of your Wall Paper. An exceptional opportunity to decorate your room at small cost. Room, complete, Wall Paper, Bor- der and Ceiling, with Draperies for one window. 51-53 King West, HAMILTOM PHONE 658 'our per dent. paid on de- posits running for one . year or longer Private and Company Real Estate and Fr Insurance Office Main Street, _ GRIMSBY. retonne Special Special low price $4.75. Rooms up to 12x12x9 lnough Wall Paper and Cretonne for a room, HAMILTON MONEY TO LOAN Valuator at Grimsby W. B. CALDER . C TURNBULL Only $4.75. D. CAMERON, Treasurer. G. T.,FARRELL Sts "The Lama's Goat." N the front parlor Melissa Tripp, a buxom young woman who was pinched so much in the middle that she bulged every place else, east herself bodily upon Violet Bonnie with a gurgling gush. "I'd have known you anywhere," de- elared Melissa, standing back to sur- vey her mother's friend. "Pve had your lithographs and photographs in my bedroom for years and years and years. It's astonishing how slightly you’ve changed since I was a little bit of a girl. There is no difference at all that I can see, except that you’ve put on a lot of flesh." "Of course, child, you don't mean to be catty," returned Violet resignedly. "I thank you for the compliment, but I may as well tell you in the begin- ning that I'd as lief have fireerackers set off under my chair as to have any- body say years and years and years or mention fat." Suddenly her brow cleared. and' she smiled serenely. "How much you look like your moth- er," she observed in tuttistied retalia- tion. Melissa stiltened immediately. “How funny!" she said. and forced a laugh. "You don't remember what mother looks like, I guess." “I’m not so old that I'm losing my memory. too," retorted Violet. though very cheerfully. as she distinctly re- called the awesome features of Martha Tripp. whose mere appearance in any gathering was a signal for a snicker. " remember her so perfectly that I can seem to see her standing before me now." Melissa stiffened still more. “Really. Pm very rude," she confessed, taking refuge in her society manners. "Allow me to introduce my dancing master-- Professor Flopsie. Mrs. Daw." Professor Flopsie, a lean little man with lean little Whiskers. mustache and hair, all of them parted exactly in the center, advanced three paces, toe ing out nicely and bowing gracefully with each step. Straightening. he threw back his head and shoulders and elevated his right hand as one about to take his partner for the cotillion. He seemed almost to be waiting for the music. T Not knowing what else to do With the hand. Violet Bonnie wag- ged it and let go. "Pm delighted to meet so famous an exponent of the Terpslchorean art;" announced the professor in a lean little voice and wound up that observation with a tiourish and a bow. Violet Bonnie inspected him with frankly amused curiosity. “Thanks,” she acknowledged. "That’s one they; never handed me before, anyhow. Bit down and have something. on, Johnl" and she called the butler, who was passing in the hall. "Call for anything you want, professor. I will say that my husband knows as well how to stock a buffet as any bartender on Broadway." _ , "If It’s not too much trouble. I think I should like a little tea," observed the professor. "WeNe had a very fa- tiguing Journey." "I shall take tea also.” declared Miss Tripp, eager to establish her principles " the first opportunity. "Nothing stronger shall ever pass my lips. I have heard about the temptations that assall young girls on the stage." "Oh, hush," admonished Violet. look- Ing her_over anew. "Somebody’s been stringing you. It you find any tempta- tions you'll have to overtake them," a conclusion at which Miss Tripp visi- bly bridled. "John, take Miss Tripp’s things to the Looey Cons room and bring some tea and waters! Whero’l your luggage...professor?" Violet Bonnie Inspected Him. CHAPTER XII. “! regret mat 1 cannot remain." re- sponded the professor. "I merely came to see my star pupil launched upon the successful career that i am sure she will attain under your patronage. For three years Miss Tripp has been taking weekly. lessons at my academy instage and society dancing, fancy steps, par- lor deportment, conversation and per- sonal charm. ’Lissa!" and he archly held up a warning finger. ’Lissa promptly uncrossed her feet; "To be quite frank with you, Mrs. Daw, it would mean a great deal to me to have a success graduated from my acade- my. Many young ladies have come oct of Bq11arnosett equipped with all the graces and arts which the Flopsle academy of dancing and department could bestow upon them, but none or them. so tar, has seemed to possess the force of personal character neces- sary to create a furor in the dramatic "tiiiiiitItiiiiiimitiiimi1mmltiimtmtill a pleased public sings the praises of our Bakery. Because we use only the best grade of flour and the purest ingredients for our cakes and buns. Give us a trial and you will be with the majority. Order your XMAS CAKES early and be with the first. GRIMSBY BAKERY THEAL BROS. GRIMSBY - PHONEI08 on Monday, the Sixth Day of December, 1915 Administrator’s Sale Of Valuable Residence and the Contents Thereof Pursuant to the Devolution of Estates Act there will be offered for sale, by Pu- blic Auction, at the late residence of Elizabeth Macdonald, William St., Beams- ville, Ont., FAST "DAILY" SERVICE At the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the following property: , ALL AND SINGULAR that certain par cel or tract of land and premises in the Village of Beamsville, in the County of Lincoln containing about three-quarters of an acre, and being the north part of lot number 12 ot the Harris Farm and 10442 square feet west of the said north part of lot 12. The property is situate on William St. and has a frontage of 75 feet by about 600 feet. ' Partlculara from J. H. Culp. Agent, Grlmsby, or write M. G. Murphy, D. P. A., Toronto. Upon the property is a 1% storey frame dwelling house, containing six rooms and an unfinished bath room; also a hot air furnace. - - A "ffiirfris' will also be offered for sale a quantity of household goods and about four tons of coal. .- - "iFeriGr--Yrehidna1 property, cash; real estate, ten per cent deposit on day of sale and balance in 30 days., “A Solicitor for the Prudential Trust Company Limited, administrator with the wlll annexed. JAS. A. LIVINGSTON. Auctioneer. Dated this 12th November, 1915. "iiortirther. particulars land conditions of sale, apply to Apples Wanted ! We are prepared to buy apples in any quantity, suitable for pealing. Pricest the very highest Apply to EDW. TODD Dominion Canners Grimsby, Ont. CANADIAN PACIFIC EGGS WANTED in any quantity from a half dozen up and pay Highest Market price JAS. A- LIVINGSTON Grimsby, Ont, TO WINNIPEG A VANCOUVER New Laid Eggs Leaving Toronto 6.40 p.m. Through Trains-No Change See that your ticket reads Via THE TRANS-CANADA SPOT CASH In All Quarters Bring in your Eggs am prepared to buy H. H. COLLIER, , INDEPENDENT. GRWRBY. OMAR"! AND profession and so render the Flopsie academy a recognized preparatory school for Thespian laurels." and into the professor) old eyes-which, alas. could not. like his hair and beard, be brilliantined into youthful gloss-there came a wistful look, which Violet Bon- nie could interpret much more accu- rately than she could his speech. "I get you." she said with a quick sympathy for all the polite little map's weary. plodding. waiting years. "it We can make a winner out of Melissa all the stage struck Tessies and Ma- mies in Squamosett county and as far over' the county lines as Hookersville and Snag bay and Fiddler’s mills will streak tor the Flopsie academy and pay fancy prices to be turned into real actresses." The modest little professor blushed to find his plans stated so crudely, but he did not deny the accuracy of Violet Bonnie's deduction. "Well, I'm for you!" announced Vio- let heartily. "I'lrdo the best I can," and she studied Miss Tripp with more sober calculation than she had yet be. stowed upon that young woman. "There's one thing in Melissa's favor.-. she ain't cross eyed!" "I'm not old." retorted Melissa, with a sniff. "I should like to remain until you have seen Melissa dance," hastily said the professor, his heart sinking against the time when he should leave these two women together with no diplomat between them. "Perhaps Violet Bon- nie will be good enough. 'Lissa. to have you shown to your room and excuse you long enough to put on a dancing skirt." "l know it takes a certain type ot figure to wear them," responded Melis- sa complacently. "You probably would not dare. I can wear almost anything. By the way, I suppose 1 shall have to wear tights. I am willing." "Sure." agreed Violet. "She never could dance in that bobble thing. Be sides. they've gone out, Melissa." "You'll have to put shapers under them," stated Violet, not as a retort, but in mere critical Judgment. "You've got skinny legs. I can tell from your arms. But don't worry about that, child. If you can get the dance across We can " you all up so that from the front you’ll look like the first fairy. I'll tell you what I'll do, professor. If Melissa can show me anything at all that looks like the goods I'll make life miserable for the managers in this town till they give her a tryout. Then it’s M to her. If she falls down I'll go on record that I learned to dance in the Flopsie academy myself, though I really learned to dance by following the hand organ. and 1 got a double Shume by the throat while I churned eight pounds of butter a day with an old fashioned dasher churn." “‘1 wish that were true." sighed the professor. "It would be the making of me to have the Impression abroad that friolet Bonnie learned at my humble school." " “We’ll have it true. then," declared Violet graciously. "A lie like that won't hurt my conscience three min- utes. I mess I‘ve told a million to accommodate my friends, and I still have a hearty appetite." “I got my fingers crossed. kid. Let's can the dressing room asides," laugh- éd Violet. laying away her rancor as suddenly as she had conceived it. "A little spunk’s a good thing to have; but. Lord, we have to live together awhile, 50 what's the use ot being catty? Come on. I'll introduce you and the professor to the jury before you go up to dress. 1 hope we got some of your music on the player piano; but, if not. Blackie can pound the piano till it hol- lers for mercy. You ought to hear him turn 'The Holy Gity' Into ragtime." "Yoa look hearty." admitted Melissa. who stood waiting in the doorway. Blackie played. Melissa danced. the professor beamed, and the jury repress- ed its emotions; then iviolet Bonnie. ac- knowledging the dances to be a "seream" and burning to shriek. bun- dled Melissa and the professor off to get ready for dinner and collected the Wallingfords and the Daws into the comfortable library as quickly as pos- sible. _ "Well. you see what I'm up against. don’t you?" she demanded. a trifle de. tiantly. “It’s a joke," declared Wallingford sympathetically. "It seems to me you’ve overpromised yourself. Vi." "I'd let my half run for Sweeney. too, if I could." responded his wife; Ibut I can’t do it. This poor little jay town dancing master has got to my soft spot, darn him! It’s on his ac- count I have to do something for Me lissa Tripp, and I don't know what it can be unless I give her poison. She ean't dance, she Can't sing. she has no face nor figure and she hasn’t got that something inside her that wins you. Me ain't tit for anything but classic danees." "I know it" she admitted. "I wish these helpless. sad eyed people would stay away from me. They get me go- ing, and the first thing I know I've of- tered to shed sunsnine along their pathway forever." "I don’t feel very much of a tug at my heaftstrings on account of this Me- lissa person," remarked Blackie. pull- ing thoughtfully at his mustache. "Of course, you saw her first. " and she’s all yours. but if I owned half of her I'd go out to a nice circular race track and set my hair’s steering gear to the cor- rect curve and give it a shove and tell it that' Sweeney was looking on." "Why not classical dances?" Mrs. Wallingford soberly Inquired. "We might if we were clever enough about it, work her into a tad. She’s very ugly. but if we were to accentuate that artistically and give her elaborate stage settings and some unique adver- uslng”- She paused. finding the as- tonished eyes ot the other three upon her. colored and was silent. "Why, look who’s here!" exclaimed her husband and patted her upon the shoulder. "I think I'll have to take you in with me, Fannie, on my next business stunt." "I've been keeping bad company for years," Mrs. Wallingford retorted. "Really, though. I'm a' good deal like Violet; I seem possessed with a de- sire to help our forlorn little Professor Inopsie." “He’s a cute enough little man," agreed Wallingford, "but I don't see a chance for a novelty high brow dance. They've had freak wrigglers from all over theglobe." "There's one country they haven't come from pet," advised Blackie. "I haven't seen any sacred dancers from Lhasa." "La who?" demanded Violet Bonnie, slipping from the arm to the seat of her chair and leaning forward with ea- ger interest. "Lhasa, the big noise town of Tibet. you know. Mostly religion and dirt. from what I read about it. Lhaa. the sacred dancer from Lhasa. That sounds bad, I guess. eh? There's just two places they'd eat that tttF-ttt a pumpkin circuit county fair or some place near g'orty-seeond street and Main Stem." "Tibet," mused Wallingford. “Seems to me I've heard of that place. but I know I never worked it. Where is it?" "It's some place on the other map," replied Blackie. "Nobody knows any- thing about it. No white man ever got away from there alive, so we can do whatever we please. They have long haired goats. I know that much. and the people are so mud ugly they have to wear blinders to keep trom seeing each other." "What a chance that gives Melissa!” said Violet with earnest enthusiasm. "I'll work up the turns tor her myself. The ‘Dance of the Sacred Goat." That ought to be easy for her. She looks the part, and all she’d have to do would be to hop. and she does that swell. We could even buy up a lot of goats and introduce 'em into the scene. with a mob of supers to be the high priests and such things. Go to some good costumer and have him work up a lot of correct historical costumes. only fancy, and get a good electrician to figure out a lot of light effects. Then get us a good press agent. and we’re all to the merry." "I don't see why I was ever born!" wailed Violet. "I hate trouble. It’s such a bother!” "Then there's only one thing left," asserted Blackie, who was bound to remain cheerful, though the heavens tall. "Well have to make her the plot of a musical comedy. Lhasa, the sacred dancer of Lhasa. in ‘The Lama’s Goat.’ I guess you couldn’t burn up the billboards with that. and a good, nervous press agent could have the time of his sweet young lift." Wallingford shook his head. "Prn afraid of it," he objected. "You might fill a few matinees. but there aren't enough freak hunters. even in New York, to keep her hopping very long. They wouldn't even give her the price in vaudeville. for while vaudeville ls full of bunk, they're particular about what kind of bunk it is. and the Mon- day afternoon tryout would be about all that the 'Dance at the Sacred Goat' would pull.” “Blackie. on the level, you’re the only husband I ever really 1ovedl" avowed Violet fondly. "The others only had money, but you’ve got brains. You’ve fixed it all up for us. The musical comedy goes. Jimmy, you say you ain’t going to do anything for the next six months, and If you don't, it’s a cinch that Blackie won't. So you can both just pitch in and impresarlo Me. lissa Tripp till you’re black in the face The only trouble I see is in getting a theater for her." "Why, Tri, you have two theaters." protested Mrs. Wallingford. "Help."' shouted Violet. “You don't suppose Pd put a hoodoo on one of my own places, do you? They're both do- ing a good business, and Pm like all "Why not the hoodooed Avon t" sug- gested Wallingford to Blackie with a smile. “The Avon!” exclaimed Violet Bon. nie. “Well. here's where good old Dan Sickels gets a fresh start! mn stout for Dan and for the Avon, and I think it will be a. mascot for ul. Buckle, you hunt up Dicky Dolger. who wrote the book of ‘The Pink Canary: Ind I'll get him right to work on I the other theater owners-the more money Pm making the more scared I am." “Help!" shouted Violet. IHE FAMILY "fnirt-littt" it me Standby in This Ontario Home SCOTLAND, Oat., Aug. 25th, 1913. "My wife was a martyrto Constipation. We tried everything on the calendar without satisfaction, and spent large sums of money, until we happened on 'Fruit-a-tives'. We have used it in the family for about two years, and we would not use anything else as long as we can get "Fruit..a..tives." WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1915 J. W. HAMMOND. 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