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Waste. It 'is easier te make' money than to Save it. 'ESTABLISHED 1855. PRODUCTION , Increased effort and efficien- cy in labor, more economy and |. _ Jess waste in living, building up| capital by harder work and greater savings, will enrich you and your coun- try. The men'and-women at home must produce more to 'cover war's Bank of Toronto will help save what your increased effort provides. 11 Branches in Tororito 119 Branches in Canada 'Ti E 'Assets BA NK OF Branches at Barrie and Allandale, H. T, BEECROFT & CO, _. BANKERS Established 1879. Transact a General Banking Business. Notes: cashed or collected at the -fMmost favorable rates. . _ We cash Cheques*drawn on any @ank-in Canada or the United Btates, - ON 8 collected. Acvount: . Sterlizg "Exchange bought or wold. Bpe {tention will be given "to the accbmmodation of farmers. < fm this locality. 3 Money th Loanven Mortgages. Agency Mjife Assurance Gotnpany of Canada. Office Hours 10 to' 4. T. BEECROFT; Manager. Your Reading Needs Are Well Supplied ehh Scott's - Bookstore quency bi lately. You can tonight: He smi Fr e i - titted o Jas. Arnold Fire & Life Insurance Agent day "had y». RealEs te and Money to Loan A numberof Valuable Farms and Town Properties for Sale on the most reason able terms. . BANK OF TORONTO BUILDING BARRIE 6.6, Sinith & Patublished 1869 Co, UNDERTAKERS 'Open Day and Night pidation; house seribrd, Morgue and Chapel it" fin connection GARRIE, ONT. | iny too, good Fone $2: | a matter he All kinds, of small' repairing. My wife Prompt § ce. Touring Car for . bire--Motorcyele for sale, ; TURTON'S. GARAGE Phone 484. 18 Clapperton st. 1 thinutes; which he . . W. D. Minnikin Licensed Embalmer Proprietor THE BARRIE UNDERTAKING ARLORS (Succensor to the Kate Meaford Webb) } Full' line of all the latest: Casketa kept in stock, in-' cluding Grave Vaults and Oak Shells, Open Day & Night. Phone 431 . W.PLNellty, Funéral Director A and. tell Vane: folded +the speak. There "Oh Y indeed, I ) -- ee Plots BROWN HE BEST IN BAKERS' BREAD BOR TI ing room . "Head the advts. You can save "money hy doing ov. ' ed by the domestic. to the office each morning, them,. will you?" he To! her surprise, she wi with Monk and his guests time, tind she went downstairs in some tre: wax the onl: ""Spimg whut?" he asked jerkily. f in. your house and enjoy-| the wonderful uevise of being with Hellier fare much/that' blinded her to everything else. "Staying h myself doing nothing. You 1 {661 that it js Wrong | if me to necent all this kindness. "Nonsense, chil quickly from his. chi the room, -He. edie bsick in. abo embarrassmes "know what to say. What can Tay? H can you be so'good to me, Sir Glare? But, thing more about.it, but go into $73,114,000 TORONTO SIMS, Manager. Coralie Stanton and Heath Hosken After /she had gone, Vanessa found that her life. took on a different aspect, by little the official side of it was swamp- At first she still went in the big car inereasing: fre- with Monk but. with e sent her back to Dunbury about lunch time; always finding 'some appar- ently 'good. reason, an¥Pentrusting her with some eominission to execute for him. Then, one morning,. about a fortnight after Theodora's departure, Monk. looked at her) across the breakfast table. ""DHere's no need for you to go to: the| office this morning," he said. | ate correspondence "My. priv. has been very. light There's not enough. for you to-do Mr, Pottlebury arid "Lord Maneroft are coming to dini stay at home, A Savings Account at the Little Al weeks in Venice, and the feeling of stagna- world. across the» Piazza towards Cook train de luxe. blinding, and she was holding her pi very Iw, so she nearly collided with him. "Pardon, madame," she heard a fam iar voice 'say--s voice that time she -heard it. Bhe lowered her sunshadé. All the bore- felt, and beld out her hand in greeting, "Mr. Hellier!"" she exclaimed. "He had very' close friendship had sprung up be- tween them. "How delighted to meet you, Lady Monk!" he said, His quiet voice was very cordial, "Have you been here. long?" "Nearly 'three weeks," 'she answered. "And you?" x "I arrived yesterday."", "Oh, isn't it a wonderful place!' she exclaimed. There was a vehemence, al- most an ecstasy of admiration inher voice She turned, and Hellier walked -beside her slowly down the wide square, She had*for- gotten:that she was on her way to Cook's to book her berth for the homeward jour- |Aey. She had forgotten all her boredom; Venice was no longer a-filuce in which one stagnated, no more a(dead, sleepy, decayed place. It was the centre of life;.it was too beautiful for'words. They talked of all sprts' of things, chiefly caninected with Venice. To her momentary surprise she found that he, was staying at one-of the small typically Italian hotels on a side canal at the back 'of St. Mark's Square. It was very) like him, she thought in refleétion, She Avas interested enough to have found outvall sorts of things about him, and one of them wax that he had the simplest tastes in the world, } They had tea st Florian's, and-He walked with her to. the steps of the Piazetta and saw her. into the gondola. She told her friends' sbout.him, and they invited-him to dinner the next night. When tion was upon her that-comes to all those who are not able to absorb' themselves en- | tirely iti and become one with the wonder- ful city that is like none other. in. the whole She bought a French novel, and strolled | 's office, | where she intended to book a berth on the| Half-way she met a man. The sun was) 1 had sent a strange -thrill through. her the: very first dom of 'her spirit vanished,' She smiled, revealing the extreme pleasure thet she | been staying at Neu Reichwurth, and @ greatest we have. As have enemies, I-have m not know" him," she said. sume 'Yes--I'am ss_certain as 1 . | ization. in her voice. ied. tory is a hotbed of almost \eruelty and misgovernment. wretches who ever li heart. ly, "There /given to the matter. to find out." "Tell me there."" seen, apd, softened by his fluence able self-seeking 'where before the trade pens," he said in conclusion things I could not tell you. for no woman. to hear, Do Her face was averted' from her dips came a sound*like a could not h word stabbed her, she suw herself through the other person. vile as all that? See that everything is nicé for | her friends departed she stayed. om, Venice, | she had never understood, jiled, at .her, f-no further, disturbance. * pissed like an hour, But they were charming to her, and treated ker like the daughter -of the Tn another -week she renlized that that way her position could be de- meanwhile, came to hér'for, orders just "as -if she were the inistress "of the house. 'She 'was tod independent in spirit to take up this position without protest, pleasant though she found it, and little though. she; food seemed insipid to 'her, and the well- desired to return to. her-dry office Work. She took-thé opportunity she and Monk were' alone, and the ser: wants had left the roonr: "Sir Glare," shé began, somewhat - tim. "I feel that I ought not to be doing *The servants, to me, and kd he said. gruffly, "As of 'fact, id this house wanted a woman. obliged to. be away so 'much ut five with » flat parcel in his hands, Inid on the table:by the girl's ii Have a:look at i me how you like it ¢ No, don't th fingers that trembled with had 'untied the string, "un: e ins She gagpeil and. turned crimson. were tears in her eyes. "T don't low she exclaimed at last, cannot take it. - "Nonsense! Why shouldn't you take There's no harm in my giving you a trin- 'ket like that: 'object? Good: Lord, your father, awkwardly, "Now, don't let, me Do you. think Lorion 'would I'm old 'enough to be he Taughed 2: little hear any- the draw- snd put it on." at Vanensn resigried herself to, Not' that there was: much And and buried himself in his newspaper again in a manner that ad bidden to dine It was the first t dinner, when you are of far more use| . | Nero. "Tr's n little present 'I've: bought. you,") mood, -He had received bad news from he raid, without looking nt her.. '"Yes, yes, | his mines in Mexico, A manager in whom T want you. to have it. | ;, and discovered inside' | Hellier éaid, when' he had told | jeweller's leather case, and, when sk@ op- |'ened it: there was, revealed, reposing velvet bed, a string of small but. perfect' pearls. The, girl found it' impossible to she said, was -a perfect rest cure. it, and went to the Grand Hotel. They. strolled up and down, while the 'ion of well-being and vontentment. It with this man in this crowd, | asked her to dine with him, gladly, and he took her to a small Italian restaurant. where the dishes looked. slarm- | ing, but_turned Gut to be most excellently good. 'The next day he dined with her at -\ening's repast. She. told. biti 'so, and he promised to tuke her to other similur places. Graduully: they came to taking all their meals in little, out-of-the-way places: - It wus a délighttul life to 'Theodors, It was So they, grew very - confidential, and | Theodora found: herself tulking of things that-she never'mentioned to » soul, opening | het wayward, imperious heurt to the man | who bad unconsciously guined such ascen- .daney over her, and becoming ss a child in And, look here, wait a moment,' he went | huinbleness and' simplicity: when she was in 9 nervous, fumy voice, as he rose' in bis company. and went out of It was:just "over week after Theodo | had transferred her quurters tothe Grand Hotel thut they were dining at the Capello 'Hellier was in. » somewhat grave he hud hed implicit' trust hed turned-out to y be a deoundrel, who hyd been running the thank. me, my deer.- It's nothing at all."" | ming entirely: in his own interest, and had | now disappeared with » large sum of money. It is the ides that is so. hateful to' me," compan- jon the 'cause of * bis preoccupation, . on whioh she had playfully remarked: "The money loss is very slight, afterall. But to have: trusted' person: and to find 'him un- worthy of trust. Can you imagine anything more galling? "To me it is the worst appoiitment in .the world. .It must be' to anybody who has sny~belief in human na- ture, I.would rather hate a person whom I could trust than love one who was-un- trustworthy. : "Oh, that is « bard saying," she ex- Her friends, who were booked for « round of | visits, wanted to leave the Palazzo open for \her to stay in, but ehe would not -heur of Vanessa-eonferred with the cook sbout | the/idinner, 'océupied herself pleasantly a-| .'The first night when she wis alone' she bout the hoyse, arranged lowers, read, and | met Hellier in the Pinzza 'after dinner. went out for a walk, and-found that the) |munigipal band played umbitisus operatic | silections." 'Theodora experienced -2 kensa-| was pleasant above all things to: be alone | in the first. instance The next evening he called for her after dinner at her hotel,, and-they went to the | Piazza togrther. The evening after that he She accepted | her hotel,' and the ordinary French hotel to-do and respectable hotel guests seemed commonplace and uninteresting after the pieturesque experience of the previous ev-| ---- CHAPTER XXV. denly und violently come into timent that Hellier's influrtice be the person 'she really was: The consequence was the sell out every shilling' communication: with him_by 'was.in Brussels again, sh¢'di She wired him arhitrar tire holdings". His reply She sont another message: immediately. Come. here." wily. He arvived: the following She wondered what into her sitting room. travelled here at great myself in order to explain it would be dangerous "going to find:.a buyer? it in impossible." "T rege = | for forty years, | That duri tims every soldier who, fequires it shalt havé free hospital secommodation for three months each yesr; that doctors using" the their dervices free. to soldiers; that any time the Board of Ref: feels the 'soldiers are. not receiving |B hospital must give erences fe is'no limit to the number of 'all must be generally. looked: after. 'ami -not so sure of that,"" dai with a smile. 'But your husband is. dif- ferent. He is a public mian--one of the he is bound to made money ;| portion outlast his en- *"You believe in Glare; although you do 'ou mean over the B.I.R.C. busin Phe vilest thing on earth, think' it is greatly exagger-' essential branches of the service behind the "T know it is not; Lady Monk. I hav been' all through the territory. The terri?" condition are permitted to go to.the front | unbelievable: fj about it--what 'strongly by his personality, saw horror and wickedness and unpardon- He iheard it, and put it down naturally to the geritleness of her woman's heart. Sh trust herself to speak. For the first time consisting of the one word, "Impossible. came to her hotel immediately. the hotel thought of her visitor when be was shown In Venice Van' Ost looked. more appalling 'than ever. "IT didn't. understand" your Van' Ost,"* she seid, having invited 'him 'to be ited. ' "7 gm* sorry, 'chere madame; inconvenience to Orillia Hospital By-Law This week the ratepayers of Orill on the Soldiers' Memorial Hospital bylaw. The passing of the bylaw means that an- amount of $1,456 shall be raised every year his length of |. of an "I know enough ,of: hit. to be certain that he is vilely traduced,"" Hellier re- ess 2" sit here that he has nothing to do with thut vile organ- "Is it so vile?" There was a little catch" 544, ." he replied. ~The people who are responsible-are the-most: inhuman | of the considerable number of men in_re- ed. Their hands are | gorye mi stained with blood;.their money is accursed. not mean--he existence of Ht can bring them nothing good." ""But what if they don't know?" Her" units when urgent voice faltered. A cold hand clutched at her "They must know," be answered' stern- has been enough publicity If they. had any doubt, they could bave taken the trouble you saw He told her some of the things'he had presence, 'in: she she had only seen the exigencies of the carrying. on of "And that is not a half of what hap- "There: are 'They are: fit yon wonder now that say that the-people responsible for this are'fiends who are not fit to live?" him, From moan. eyes of on- Was she -really 80 vile--so She had never thqught ; The Great. Confession Theodora Monk would have found it hurd to say whether or not she was thank- ful for the new influence that had so. sud her Tife. Ger. tai, if was that, ima way, she dreaded it Tt was not, perhaps, a very exalted: sen awoke in her it was mainly an ab- solute terror of being found out by him: to same, She was possessed. of only one slesire, to. sever her' coninection-with the ,black -business, 'to worth of inter that she held in the BRC, to have no} niore dealings with the infamous organiza: tion thyt traded' in men's blood. She found. it impossible to uct awithout Vari Ost,-and. was four days erting in'o egraph. He réd finally. awas laconic, reached her. when he was already on -his| evening, .and. people telegiaim,, T havg to you. At the present moment you cannot get rid of your shares. . It is quite. impossible. Besides, It , Where sre You," 'shé-suggested boldly, (To be continued) 18 Vote yall have | that sdidiers, . taken care of, treated free, and */ Straw, ton .. {| Pigs, Tamwortl ARMY NEEDS MISUNDERSTOOD -- | Popular Misconceptions as to C.E.F. Are! > Being Cleared Up. : Ottawa, 'Sept: 24-- 'Serious _"niisunder standings with regard to the Military Ser- viee Act are.being cleared up aa a result of the educational campaign 'now being. 'Pouneil. conducted by the Military Service || PIANO VOCAL LESSONS. In 'vocal 'This non-partisan body' is stow. established | 04° attention ix given to Voice here and its activities cover the: Dominion | > duction, Pupils prepared for AT.CM. degree in both: piano and vocal; jalso ele - from coast to coast. mentary exams. of Toronto Conservatory Tt has been found out that the majority of people had ani idea that men selected) Myre Soe University's Aten King Block. Phone 424. s for-service under the Military. Service Act | MISS ELSIE NELSON would be paid st the rate of » few cents af day, this being part of the popular concep. | ~~ TEACHER™OF .PIANO AND THEORY. Studio at 133. Collier Street. Phone 186.' Barrie, ight 'studio'on Wednesdays. Voices tested free. i | 7 i tion -of -"conscription.""". As. 2 matter of jfact, of course, selected men will -receive tly 'the same pay as those who have volunteered; with all: the incident&!' bene- fits: from the various. funds. |. Again, there was an idea widespread that Fall the men who-haye gone: overseas are fighting troops, ready. to enter the trenches at.a moment's 'notice... This idea was at th~ root of much honiest disapproval of the tary: Service Act, which was held to: be LEGAL. ALEXANDER COWAN ' Sucerssor to Lennox, Cowan' & Brown Barrister, Solicitor for obtaining: probate of wills, guardianship and adniinistration, and 'As a matter of fact, again, ; General Soliditor, Notary, Conveyancer, ete. 'there are a hundred and one-different and:|Oflices: Hinds' Block, No. 8 Dunlop St. {Money to loan. | > lie BOYS & MURCHISON Barristers, Solicitors, Notary Public, Con- veyancers, Etc, Money to lodn 'at lowest . rates of interest; Offices: 13 Owen St, (in the premises formerly ocoupied by the Bank of Toronto), Branch office, Elmvale, Ont, W. A: Boys, K.C,, MP. D. C. Murchison STEWART & STEWART BARRISTERS, Solicitors, Notaries Public 'and Conveyanters. Money to loan: in any sums at lowest current rates. Office:~ 13 Owen St,, Barrie, Ont. D.-M, Stewart. pec Ssh he hi ee ta - CHARLES W. PLAXTON BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC, 606 Coutinental Life Building, southeast corner Bay and Richmond Sts, 'Toronfo. - patios cence ia ae a 'DONALD ROSS, LL.I BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Bank of Toronto 'Building, Barrie. Money to loan. 5 GRESWICKE & BELL | BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS' FOR THE Jines' for which:men are constantly, needed. Besides; only mien in the highest physical e trenches, To understand this actual, sitaation.is to appreciate that the existence not iean--and in thts, ease, does lequate rein- 'forcements fit and ready to. join-particular y needed to save the mil- itary situation, SATURDAY MARKET A great amount of fall fair prize vege- tables and fruit were brought to. market on Saturday. Several members, of the radish and cabbage families were noticed. Pluins of various kinds were on hand, and seemed' sé high in price for theve home-grown ones as the earlier imported ones, Many bask- ets of tempting apples, mainly Duchess 'and-| Supreme Court of Judicature' of : Ogzario, Yellow Transparents, went as high as 40c | Proctors, Notaries, . Conveyaricers, "ete. per basket. An officer of the law, was on|Money to loan. . Offices:"in Rojs Block, hand to protegt the buyers from short-'Burrie. W. A. J. Bell, K.C. weight butter, He confiseated geveral') prints and disposed of it.at proper weight. | Butter. is much too high in. price for the| erege householder without -- the. added | burden of under weight, . Eggs sold most! in basket lots at 41c. dozen: Average prices were as follows Butter, Ib.,. Begs, dozen 2. 2... Fowl, Ib., dressed Chick+n, Ib.. .. . New' Potatoes, pect New Potatoes, bag . Cucumbers, basket, .. Tonidtoes, 'basket... 'Tomu'oes, green, basket Plum Tomatoes, basket Onions, dried, basket'. . MEDICAL DR. H. T. ARNALL ly | Olfice and, Residence Corner of .Toronto nd Elizabeth Streets; opposite Elizabeth |St. Methodist Chureh: 'Telephone: 167. 43:45¢ | DR. W. A. ROSS |sician, Surgeon, ete. 5¢ Dunlop St, Barrie. 00.) Office and, Residence, Telephone 165. DR. E..G. TURNBULL, (McGill), (Successor -to. Dr. R. S- Broad). Office 'and Residence; corner Elizabeth and Bradford Sts., Barrie, Phone 105, e Onions, 'green, buich of doxen .. Cabbage, head . Corn, 'Golden Ba W. A. LEWIS, M.D: CM. tam, dozen :. Beets; bunch Collier St., Barrie. Apples, basket : Crab Apples, basket.» Apples, Duchess,"bbl.. ..°. Apples, Yellow: Transparent, | Blue Plums, basket .... | Japanese Plums, basket [Vegetable Marrow, each DR. MORTIMER LYON bbl. 81. wis 2. 1, $1.00 'eases of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.- Con- . 80¢|sultation hours. 11 a.m: to 5 pm. and by: 1c appointment, Toranto Phone 'Nor-h 3326, O5¢ | Barrie Phine No? 050 = CHIROPRACTOR: Summer Savory, small bunch . Thyme, bunch |. Pepjer-griss, bunch' .. Sines Turnips, White, bunch of three . Cream, quurt <. .. = Buttermilk, quart. . Hay, new,.. ton . DR.VYLA Mz FIN! U, ©. C. Graduate: . Office 'and residence, 21 * | McDonald "St. Rarriei - 'ACCOUNTANTS: NEAR-BY MARKETS, LAWSON, WELCH & COMPANY Orillina--Wheat $2.15, barley $1.15-$1.25,|CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, _ Crown oats 55-60c, rye. $1.65-81.80, peas $1,50-| Life Building, Yonge-Street, Toronto. $2.50, butter 37-89, eggs 38-40, chicken 25- poe ey eee Zo, potatoes 75-$1.00. 5 F, Lawson, H. J: Welcl Collingwood---Wheat $2:15, outs 60-78c, barley 85-$1.00, butter 36c,, eggs 40-42c, potutoes, bag, 80-90c. Alliston--Wheat $2.00, barley°$1.10, peas $2.00, onts 502, butter 38¢, eggs 38¢, pot: toes $1:00, chicken 20-22c, 9 =~ Beeton--Butter 38-40c,. eggs 42c,. live chicken 16¢. Ib. ; G. H. Playle, JAMES PATERSON _ Licensed -Auctioneet "and Appraiser For County of Simeoe: to com: duct -Sales,.at reasonable rates, 'Satisfaction guargnteed. 120 Bayfield St. Phone 19! Orders left 'at A. FA. Maleomson's office will receive prompt. 'attention'. . : Se SIMCOE MARBLE WORKS Barrie. G, W. J. Eastman, Prop. R. G. Maniel, Mgr. Dealers: in Granite and Marble Monuments and Tablets. Only best, mater! inl used and first-class workmen' employed. Prices, always right... s ee Miss.'Doane. is the only one ini Barrie 'and 'Allandale: who hendles corsets filled with Spirella boning. Tt ix unbrenkable, non- rustable, flexible, hygienic; sanitary. Fit 'guaranteed. Maternity and nursing feature specials. Brassieres, blouse. fc mimes Saturdays: Oct, 2 and 3, Coldwater -Fair, WOMAN COULD 'HARDLY STAND to Health by Lydia | i 's. waists. At home 16 Chitlotte § assortm: | Lumber,