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REBURN, "Phone 142, Diary co 353 Mouldings, Water Troughsy -UNPR A bank prepared. = PAID-UP CAPITAL RESERVE FUND BARRIE BRANCH, BENTON OF THE | | Serial Publication rights ; Foreword | 'The scenes of this atory belong to bygone di 'As tho passer-by views the ugly half-construeted railway terminus which now sprawls itself over the original site }of that historic group of Police buildings, jknown as the "Post,"" little does he up- preciute the pangs of real regret which stir the hearte of old members of the Force, a they recall associations of earlier years Scattered now beyond the writer's ken | ure those good fellows with whom he served |in years gone by. They were men of a type {fast disappearing, with whom any one would have been proud to ussociate and call "comrades." No longer do those once lorderly grounds resound with the clear inotes of the trumpet-call, the neighing of | troop-horses, or the hursh-barked word of Jcommand. 'Gone is the old Guardroom st the guter of the main entrance. The spot whore the O.C.'s house Ixy balf hidden Jamidst ite clustering shrubbery and trim, well-kept Iown andl kitchen garden, is now bu on drab area of railway tracks, Mins- ing in the towering flag staff, from whos top-gaff, visible for miles uround. there flew from "Reveille" to '"Retreat'" the brave emblem of our Empire, But today, whtic these lines are being penned, many members and ex-members of the old Force are still sternly serving thut flag: gaining well-deserved military honors. | shedding their blood, and laying down their lives in the great and terrible struggle for |supremacy between Human Liberty, snd [Iron Oppression that overshadows the | world, : | Ave small wonder that the sight of 'he old spot awakens strange memories in | hone of us who were stationed there in our |youth, Members of a force of comparative: 'iy small numbers. it ix true, but with a reputation for efficiency, discipline, and leer adherence to duty which haa rarely | been equsled. and ia too widely known to 'need sny further eulogy iti thix wory. R.8.K. | | PART 1. CHAPTER | "We've some of us prospered, and some of \ wut failed, But we all of ux heave a sigh When we think of the timés that we used | to have L |_ In those happy days gone by. |When we used to whistle, and work, and | ing, |Muke love, drink, gamble, and have our ' fling ; | Caring little for what the morrow might i bring-- | In those good old days gone by." With the outlines of its shadowy white walls and dark roof sithouctted in sharp relief against a glorious full moon, the big main building of the 'old, Mounted Po- lice Post of L Division stood forth--lik: Jone monument to the majesty of British Law. A turfed "square," framed within horder of whitewashed stones. lay at ite front like s black carpet. Clustered ahout the central structure were the long, low- 'lying guardroom, stables, quartermaster's ctore, spd several smaller adjacent buildings comprising 'the Barracks:"' Stray patches f silvery light illuminated the dark re- cesses between them. It was a perfect ight following on unparalleled June day in sunny South Alberta. ; The 'Post,"" with its shadowy outlines, presented a atriking contrast to its activ. ity by day. In the daytime gangs of pris- seen tramping sedately here whd there. en- \ gaged on variou jobs about the 'carefully Kept groimds, An armed "escort" follow: ed grimly behind each gang. Police teams, hitched to buel is und heavy, high- |seated transport wakons arrived and |parted with a clas Mounted men, on big upstanding horses, came 'and went continually, ench rider intent upon his own particular mission. "At the guardroom, the 'quartermaster's store and the orderly-room the sume ordered action and busy preoceu- pation were noticeable, 'The only sounds that disturbed the peace ful serenity of the moonlit scene' proceeded. from a lighted open window in the centte of the main building. where the men'e quarters and the regimental canteen were located. An uproarions hilarity resounded 'rough the stillness; the shrill yaps of 3 pup and the tinkling of a piano rising above the tumult of song and laughter, 'These jovial evidences of good fellowship floated across the square, not'unweloomely, to the ears of a solitary rider, whose weary horse was bearing him slowly along the hard graveled driveway which led from the mein gateway to the atables, Diamounting 'somewhat stiffly, the man stood for a mo- ment, listening to the of 'revelry. He gazed silently tows seemed ood chi Then 'suddenly turaitig on. bis heel, he Me half ubbing down. and attending Alter otetiousy, if mechanically, scrupulously, PAREDNESS ' --FAILURE account is an assistant in character building. confidence, independence and pride which increases effort and paves the way to success. Open an account to-day and bé THE CANADIAN BANK " OF COMMERCE, A Tale of the R.N.W.M.P. by Sergt. Ralph S. Kendall through special arrangement with owners of copyright. Memories | Then art Fb 4 5 his destination, lend- Sihend -waaris 08 38 ination, : : It establishes the $15,000,000. $15,000,000 H, M, Lay, Manager. . ROYAL MOUNTED secured by The Examiner imal's wants, the horseman emerged from the stable, locked the door, amd walked | slowly scroas the square to the Canteen. Duly arriving at his cheerful buven, the neweomer opened the canteen door' and for « moment or two silently contemplated the all-familiar scene of a large, well-lighted room with a bar at one end, behind which, on rows of shelves. were ked various kinds of dry provisions, tobacco in all ite & mounted policeman's requirements sup- plementary to his regular "kit." Seated around small tables, playing cards, or else perched upon high stools ngsinst the bar. he beheld a score or so of bronzed, soldierly-looking men of all ages ranging from twenty to forty, They were dressed variously--some in the regulation uniform of the Force--i.e., séarlet serge tunic. dark-blue cord riding breeches with the broad yellow atrine down the wide, and high brown "Strathcona" _ boa straight-sbanked, "cavalry jack" spurs tached, Some agsin---with an eye to com fort alone--just in loose, easy, brown duck "fatigue slacks."" Many of the older mem- pers might have been remarked wearing the active-service ribbons of former cam: paigns in which they had served. Their day's duty over, careless and jovial they aat, amidst the tobacco-smoke-hazy atnosphere, smoking und drinking their beer and exchanging good-natured reparter which occasionally was of a nature that has caused a cortain great writer to affinn, | with well-grounded convietion, that 'single men in barricka don't grow. into plaster saints." Poor enough stuff it was for the most part, I fancy, but there! . . . we were gaaily gptixfied--we were not to be over-fistidious in the Canteen. and anyhow... it passed the time away. At the piano was an ex-Dublin Fusileer, with a comical face and an accent suggest- live of "Silver Street." who acted ax gen- eral accompenyixt, His own vocal talent was being contributed juet now, und a jchorus of shouts, banging of beer tankards jand stamping of feet greeted his song. The Orderly-room Sergeant, Dudley. tall, good-looking fair man about thirty, who, leaning on the bar alongside, was en- deavoring amidst the din to carry on a con. versation with a corporal named Harrison, turned somewhat wearily to the maudlin vocalist. "Oh, now, for the love of Mike! . . 2 try an' forget it, Monk, do!' he drawled. «an if there out you there "Charity begins at home! . . warn't enough Packet in here wi adding your little pipe! .. . sitt all bumped up an' bawkin' away like old crow on his native muck-heap! He faced round ogain to the grinning corporal. "Say, Harrison," be resumed, "don't know if Benton's come in yet, do He lowed his voice confidentially. father's' called him in abaut, eomething and I want to see hin directly he lands in iret crack out of the box." His eyes, wandering vaguely over the noisy crowd as he spoke, suddenly dilaved with surprised recognition as they lighted upon the newcomer, whose unobtrusive en- trance amidst the somehow escaped his notice. | "Talk of the devil" he ejaculated with easy incivility; 'why here the beggar is! Why, hello, Ben! How's things going in Elbow Vale?" The object of this familiarity, walking silently forward to the bar with a whimsical smile on his bronzed, dusty countenance, merely opened hia mouth to which he point: ed in dumb show. "Dear me!" remarked the Orderly-room 'oners in their checkered jail garb were to be'| Sergeant, sympathetically, 'ox bad as all Sergeant, Benton The "long ' teen orderly arrived and disappeared, sther following speedily on top of i frecipient then, his thirst temporaril turned to the two non-coms. 'There remains engraven indelibly upon the memory of the writer, ax he recalls the striking personal' appearance and quietly forceful character of Ellis Benton;~s-elight- forms, and miscellaneous odds and ends of | ts wih| 0. . + | Orderly: general revelry had | -|an exchange, yet the heads of the Depart. Sieereste:| Fer was 2 : looking. pale grey. eyes, fin fect under TEMPL S Shik, rk, eel browse whieh, we RAZ-MAH 'st times with a somber light li log fire in. thelr depibe=-éyes that CAPSULES were vaguely disturbing, bidding you be- ware -of the man's ruthless anger when aroused. Altogether it was a remarkable face with its indefinable stamp of ifon-willed, quietly reckless courage,' indicative of a strenuous past and open with the lities for good or evil alike, .as caprice should hap- pen to sway its possessor's varying moods, And yet, strange to say, in spite of his |hard-bitten. cynical exterior and charsc- teristics thet verged sometimes on actual brutality. deep, deep down in his complex soul Ellis Benton hid on almost womanish tenderness, coupled with a sensitive artis- tic temperament that few were sware of or would have credred. In figure he was splendidly proportioned. Not overly tall, but with the lean, wiry flanks, broad, square shoulders, and slim waist' of the trained athlete that denoted great sctivity, und the possession of immense concentrated streng*h whenever he chose to use it. The "Ste'son" hat. tipped buck, exposed slight- ly 'graying, closely cropped brown bi But the young-looking face dispelled once the first impression of age, for Fllix wan only thirty-eight. Hie well-fitting uniform. consisting of « "stable jucket™ of the regulation bi duck. on which were noticcable the [tinguished Conduct." snd the "King's Samples may be bad at Croslund's Drug Store f in Toronto and the metropolitan cities, aud the ruinous postul rates mainly benefit: the daily papers of the same class of cities, "Is it not time the metropolitan papers of Canada abandoned this policy of prac- tically depending upon the charity of the country for the delivery of their mail ed- itions? Is it not sbout time that the post office depar:ment followed the example set by the United States postal department of charging the newspapers something like an 'adequate sum for the service rendered? -|Here our Government charges one-quarter of a cent per pound, while, as previously pointed out, the United States Government of 150 miles from ished Cons 's"" jaf the postal service in thie country be- |nnd "Queen's" South Afrienn campaign | cause of ia population being very scattered, | ribbons. riding-breeches. boots and spurs. | must be far greater than in the United [was thickly covered with dust, for he hed |States. and the Cansdinn Government islden into the Pox: from his detachment | would be justified in making it chnrgee to ch lay, many weary miles to the south. | newspapers fully equal to that charged on "Well." he remarked to the Orderly-|the other aide of the line, The dailies |reom Sergeant and. with nignifiennt em jand business houses in the smaller cities |phasis, "what's doin' now?" Jand the weeklies throughout the country For the most part he poke lasily in the | are made the greatest sufferers by the ui- slipshod. drawling vernacular scauired from | terly inadequate postal charges which ben- tong residence in the West, though when oc: | efi» only the dailies in the larger cities jession arose be could rever' naturally and! and the big mail order houses. jessily to the educated speech of his early| "Nearly all that bus been said regarding | upbringing. newspaper postal rates applies to the | Dudley did not ot firet renly. but shot | adequate charges for parcel post matter.' ja warning, almost impercepfible, sidelong | ---- | elance towards the crowd, enjoining eilence.' what An Old Editor Thinks of the Bible | Obeyine the other's gesture. the detachment | (Hacathon "Spectaises 1 [sergeant held his peace awhile. and pres! caseteg A. Dana, the veteran editor of jently the two men. moving away from the |. CIT yeu, gus' "wna poe of the abloet | men in bis profession, dropped polities once tebles and began: to talk earncs'ly in low tones z | a dap / [RR ther." concluted the Onlerly-room | told sm intlletuel audience in, New York 4 {hie opinion of the Bible as a valuable book |Sergeant. "'is what the old man's got you |? . 4 infor. Did you make a good job of it? |19 Udy. Here is e paragraph from that Benton's ale, deeply ct eves began to | Feeture that may be on inepiration to the clow with cheir peculiar bsleful light, | rewvlere of these musings to turn to tbe Hy oo i Old Book now an@ then a a safe guide: | PI 17 abid 17 he echoed mirthlesy." "Well |OT oes no book from whieh, more val T should smile! . . . Ao' Tl make a better | = one atill when T go herk Til bash that Usble Trewons can be learned. Tam oqn- brute till he spits blood!"* [eidaring 16, now nok: sem Sesion' beck: He uttered the threat in an even, pas-, but a & manual of utility. 'There' ie per- ined vo fi PSS | haps no book whose style is more auggestive sionlom unraixed voice, as if it were just | Dok whos pene ence the merest commonplace .renvark ond more Instructive, from which sou learn |. "Doudley summarized. briefiy. ina. tense Tove directly that sublime simplicity, which 4 : te lundertone. the thing that Benton need not | D°Ver exaggerates, |he. recarding him closely mennwhile with | greatest event with solemnity, of eoure, enti giebi-e 'but without sentimentality or affectation; jpghtly anxious aves. | The bronzed. reek: | none which you open with auch confidenee nose---wore terribly ruthlest expression |juxt then, | "Oh, now, forget it. Ben." wax his half jtoking admonition, 'What's the use of }vou runnin' amuck agvin an makin' bad worse? . , That won't heln matters ono / little bit . an' you know i."" | Rltix remained very atill for some time, staring a' his companion with an absent, brooding fsce. "Just think what it'd mean." pursued Dudley, 'Ax this matter s'ands just now | you have got a reasonable show of getting | sway with it; but, T tell you flat. old |enow these days. man recond edition of it wouldn't | to watoh one getting started as it is to wit- | 'ou know what 'Father's' like in| ness a team of homes trying to pull out s m. You never know which |oad, There's thix difference however: The « You'd be| motor driver may get ns-mad and use the don't |name kind of Innguage. but he doesn't no hook like the Bible. When you ge into a controversy and want exactly right answer. when you are looking for an expression, what is there that clones a dis pute like a verse from thé Bible? What is it "hat sets up the rieht principle for you, which pleads for a policy. for a cause, 's0} much as the right passage of Holy Scrip- ture?" No Crue! Beating of the Motor Motor trucks frequently get stuck in the It's just as interestiog wav he's goine to jump. . 'broke' for a certainty, onyw want to see your name in 'G.O.' way... Come, now! will you be a wise uv an' liven to your Uncle Dud?" > 'Thus he pleaded with the man who wax to him comrade and a sincere friend, "Oh, well." responded Benton at last. | . with an oath. "T euese TH let | un on thet xtiff thin time: T handed him enough to Inet for a bit, anyway, o that's some satisfretion."" | He bit off the end of a cigar which the | other hended to him. continuing: "Oh. T'll} ket swav with it all hunkndory, . . been fon against. it before . . lote of times. . .| |Gueee Tenn make the ervde--that in, if 'Father' does come to Orderly-room in, nny: thing like a good temper tomorraw."' Just then the clear Iong-drawn-out, | weet notes of a trumnet-call rounded out: | side on the square, The Orverly-room Ser- geant looked at hix watch | "Hello! . . . didn't know it was #0 Inte!" he rincul "Come on, there! Turn out! . . . 'Fire Post's' just gone!" And the Canteen gradually emptied ax the men departed noisily to their respective barrack-rooms. (Continued next week.) that | lambaste the motive power of 'his car-- ie | Oakville Record, Cleanliness and Health There is neither age limit nor exemption-- every man, woman and child has a daily fight to carry on against germs and microbes of disease. Use ~ LIFEBUGY HEATH SOAP for a victorious and delightful toilet, for a refreshing bath,and for a thorough cleansing of the home. Pi eortete peer te Lifebnay sthes-- fy venish- Postal Charges The whole system of post office manage ment is badly in need of revision, anys ment sppear to be blissfully oblivious of anyfhing that needs re-adjustment. the beginning of the war sn extra cent was placed on letters, This was a war tax imyosed to increase the ordinary rev- enues for war purposes. Now that the was is over there has been no attempt to remove this tux nor to justify its retention by increased costa in the Department or otherwise, At the sanfe time the Depart- ment refrained from increasing its charges for parcel past or the rates for oarrying id delivery of newspapers, Thé St, Cath- aritiee Standard says in discussing this mat- ter in detail: 'Years ago the post cTice department knew thot it was losing immense auma cf money on the carrying of newspapers ut the rate of one-quarter of a cent a pound, Lut they have since then provided delivery cities which previously did not enjoy a service of that kind, and rural mail services very generally throughout the country. And yet, though costs of every kind have inereased. no advance bas been made in the charge for carrying and deliv- ering newspapers. The same applies,to the parcel' post service, Express. rates have beet greatly alvanced on general merehan-| but the Government still carries 4 at pro-war tates, The main bene- a of. which are the big mnsil houses T BL DaXe\ ale" Toronto, Ont. cag A. Cae 4 ath + ~ NS "Thursday, February 42, iF i Studio in King Block, Barrister, Solicitor for obtaining wills, guardi General Solicitor. Notary, charges from one und one-half cente per |¢ Phone Main 5874, H. J. Welch, C.A. 6.Herbert Ave., 18 ALL THE NOTICE WEN! entary exams, of ry of music 'or University exams, Studio: King Block. Phone-424. MVATLE-V. RICE Organist and Choir leader of Collier Street Methodist Church Tedthor of Piano, "Organ and Singing Pupils prepared for Toronto Conservatory Exami linations 4p Phone 366 - LEQAL ~ ALEXANDER COWAN c ging probate of janship and sdministration, and Conveyancer, etc. fiew: Hinds' Block, No.'8 Dunlop street. 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