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vw \ ni rn "North of Fifty-three " by BERTRAND W, SINCLAIR CHAPTER XIV--Continued Her mind wag winter there, anf --provided he 'had 'no o They had to winter somewhere, "Oh, yes, I Ho, AM'righ "That's settled." 1 And, as was his habit when he had come to a similar conclusion, he re- fused to talk further on that subject. but fell to speculating Idly on' New In which he whs presently York, aided and abetted by Hazel, never invaded Manhattan, cities, New York, she was' tondtrafhed to" e traversed Broadway and other world. known arteries, and felt'a trifle Yubl in piloted her to famous cafes, and to equally famous theatres, She made ! iticent con on of sights and sounds Made an unforget: admit, rather overwhelmed" heér, 'Sh ous amid the unceasing crush, sundry reliases' in shops. The huge cofiglom table impression upon her,' @ pen keenly the colossal m tude of It But she felt a distinct wave of relief when they were Granville bound once more, In a week they were settled com- e up ta spend the fran nad 80 choice, py! we'll winter here," Bill acquiesced, vita iH , Who had "nor, 'for that matter, any of the big Atlantic the big thing while the 16H& Is being developed, "br ng the start 18 edsy. These Yello talked to are dead anxiobs to get TW," *' wi fi "But"-- her knowledge of husiness method Hor, ted 'a gifticutty=-'you can't sell'st. Xin ® aon] hat has no real foundation--yet. Don't you have to ocate those calms first?" "Wise od head; you have the idea, all right." 'He smiled. '*'But this is not a stock-jobbing proposition, I wouldn't be in on It if it were, helleve me, It's to be a corporation, where not to exceed six men will own all the stock that's issued, And so far as the claims are concerned. I've got Whitey Lewis located in Fort George, and I've been burning the wires and spending a bundle of real money get- ting him gtub-stakeéd. 'He has got four mén besides himself all ready to hit the trail as soon as I give the word," "You 'won't have to in quickly, "No," he murmured, "It {isn't ndcessary, at this particular stage of ,| the game, 'But I wounldn't mind pop- ping a whip over a good string of dogs ' just the same." "B-r-r-r!'" she stiivéred involuntar- ily. "Four hundred miles across that go?" she put rani Ema en a A A a a IRIN across th e windows of the brokerage office in which Paul Lorimer was housed. FREE GOLD MINING COMPANY P. H, Lorimer, P, J. L. Brooks, Sec.- Treas. William . Wagstaff, Mgr. So it ran. Bill was commissioned in the army of business at last. CHAPTER XW A Business Journey, "I' have to go to the Klappan," Bill apprised his wife one evening, "Want to come along?" Hazel hesitated. Her first instine- tive feeling was one of reluctance to retrace the nerve-trying trail. But neither did she wish to be separated from him, "I see you don't," he observed dry- ly. "Well, § can't say that I blame you, It's mw stiff trip." "I'm sorry I car't fee any enthusi- asm for such a journey," she remark- ed candidly. "I could go as far as the 'coast with you, and meet you there when 'you come out, How long do you expect to be in there?" "I' don't know exactly," he replied. "I'm 'not going in from the coast, though, I'm 'taking the Asheroft- Fort George Trail. I have to take in a pack train and more men and get work started on' a decent scale." "But you won't have to stay there all summer and oversee the work, will you?" she inquired anxiously. "I should," he said. For a second or two he drummed on the table top, "But is there any real necessity for you to stay on the ground?' She pur- sued her own line of thought, *I should think an undertaking of this size would justify hiring an expert to take charge of the actual mining op- " FAITH AND FACT "In all 'matters of business or law I use my reason, and accept the evi- dence of fact." But when it comes to a question of religion 1 Jay aside my reason altogether, do not ask for the evidence of facts, Hut accept the truths of religion by faith." So sald a well-known Canadian lawyer, a deeply religious man of the old school, To many people this is a very commendable attitude to take. To others, equally sincere, it is an impossible attitude, "Tt sets Faith over against Reason, and depicts them as enemies battling against each other, It sets Faith in opposi- tion to Science, and pitcures them as two rival champions entering the lists to do battle, Because of this at- titude many reasonable men and many scientific men have come to look upon religious faith as mere cre. dulity, as that ignorance or simplic- ity of mind which leads people to accept as true that which can never be proved. Ever as acute a reasoner as Professor Huxley fell into this er- ror when he wrote: "Theology claims that the just shall live by faith; science says that the just shall live by verification," Thé truth lies in quite another di- rection, Faith is not the opposite of reason. It is not the enemy of sci- ence. Far from it. Faith goes be- India, In that faith they strove and labored for years until at last their faith was rewarded by discoveries of Jmmeasivable wonder to mankind. Livingston® had faith that he could yet unlock the hidden secret of Af- rica and make possible the healing of its open sore, In that faith he spent his life in apparently fruitless and unrewarded toil, and died on his knees in Chitambo's village in Ilala. But his faith brought victory for sthrough it Africa's secret was un- locked and the means found to heal Africa's sore, It is the same in science. Every great and scientific fact has heen be- lieved in by scientific men long before it was prov by physical demons- tration. Du the Peninsular War, geons, shocked by the sufferings of men on whom they had tq operate without anesthetics, believed that a day would come when meaffs would be discovered to render men uncon- scious to pain Juring operations, In that faith they sought and search- and discovered one partial anesthetie after another, until Dr, J, Y. Simp- son of Edinburgh in the forties of | last century learned the Wvalue of {chloroform to render people insensi- {ble to pain.. It was the faith that |'there was such a thing which led them on to the discovery. Fifty years ------------ be as much as 3,600 deaths from yel- more than a hundred years ago sur-| low fever in a year, there is now not one case in a whole twelvemonth. Dr, Finlay's faith in what he could not prove has been the salvation of untold multitudes of lives. This is true of every phase of life. We walk by faith, not by sight. We live by beliefs, not always by proefs and evidences, We are hound to~ gether by bonds of trust, not by com- plete verefication of each other's trustworthiness and honesty, It is faith in each other, faith in possibi- lities, faith in future, faith in ef fort and endeavor which spurs us on to whatever of value we accomplish in lite, Byéry effort we make, every JAnvention we produce, every adventure we launch out upon, every forward step in life is born of faith in things which cannot prove by material evidences, but in which we believe and on which we venture Our faith leads to verification and vindi- cation. It is the same with religion, Faith is not contrary to reason, neither is it opposed to scientific verification. It goes before, It leads the way. Lit- tle by little, slowly through the years and ednturies, the great prin ciples of our religious faith are con- firmed by reason and verified by sel- ence. More and more, thoughtful men are realizing that the material life of this world is dominated by the spiritual, and those great spirituai truths of Ged, the spiritual essence of life, the soul and Immortality, which have been laughed at by some as the credulity of the simple, wil be accepted as verified facts of exjgt- ence, Faith will have led to Fact, (Copyrighted by British and Co. lonial Press, Limited). ONE AT A TIME Rub--Are you engaged to Mwry? Dub--No, but I'm on her waiting list, --Kansas City Star many HEADACHE and dizziness are among the symptoms resulting tions. 'Won't you have this end of ' ago Sir Patrick Manson, who re- from disordered digestion and 1oraMY In ua deiiciie of hole Owe eratlo y fore redson; leaps out into regions : five rooms in an up-to-date apartment house, And since the social demands on Mrs, William Wagstaff's time grew apace, a capable maid and a cook were added to" the "Waghtat? establishinent. Thus she was relieved of the onus of housework. Her time was wholly her own, at her own disp®sal or Bill's, as she elected, But by imperceptible degrees they fiversd roads in the swirl of life which hdd caught them up. There were 80 many little' woman affairs where a Man was superfluous, flatly "Hen piirties," he More and more he re- came to take There were othéts which Bill refused to attend, dubbed them. mained at home 'with his books. Sometimes wonderi much out of the holiday as deep snow, flesh-searing cold. I don't envy them the journey." through that steady, She eame over and stood by him, playfully rumpling his brown hair with y "I'm glad you'ce found something | her fingers. caught herself if they were getting as they to loose that pent-up energy of yours on, Billy-boy," she said. "You'll make a success of it, I know. I dont' see why you shouldn't make a 'suecess of any kind' of 'business. But I didn't think you'd ever tackle business. You have such pecullar views about busi- ness and business practice." "I despise the ordinary business éthic,'" he returned sharply. "But I can exploit the resources of hature. And that is my plan. If we make money it won't be fllched by a com- plex process from the other feéllow's pockets; it won't be wealth created it to look after?" "Lorimer and Brooks are eminent- ly capable of upholding the dignity and importance of that sig nthey've got smeared across the windows downtown," he observed curtly. "The chief labor of the office they've set up will be to divide the proceeds. The work will be done and the money made in the Klappan Range. You sabe that, don't you?" "I'm not stupid," she pouted. (To he continued) into which reason only penetrates slowly and haltingly, Faith ig the forerunner of science, zoizing hold of pnd making use of great facts which sicence is unable to verify perhaps for centuries, Faith is the forerun- ner of all discoveries, ull adventures into the unknown. ' Columbus had faith that there were lands beyond the Atlantic Ocean, and Vasco da Gama had faith that around the southern end of Af rica he could discover a new route to cently died in London, then a young doctor in Formosa, eam: to. the eon- clusion that malarial fever was caus- ed by the anopheles mosquito, He could not prove it, but dealt with ma- laria on that hypothesis. His faith ted British army doctors te inves'!- gate and test, and at last to prove that his hypothesis was true, And { because of his faith some of the fair- | est but most deadly spots on the earth's surface have been made healthful homes for men. Thirty | years and more ago Dr. Carlos Fin- lay of Cuba came to the conclusion that yellow fever was produced sole- ly by the bite of the stegomya mos- quito. He could not prove it, hut did not lost faith. During the Spanish- American war, army doctors with every means at their disposal investi- gated, and found that his faith was non-assimilation of food, If neglected, chronic ll health or disease may follow. A toning up of vital organs generally is needed and Tanlac, by its easy and natural action and influence, has proved itself to be the ideal corrective agent to strike at the 'root of your trouble, by shearing lambs in the 'market, by sweatshop labor, or adulterated food, or exorbitant rental of filthy dealing! No. 3--NIAGARA-BY-THE-LAKE with. I'm not overly anxious to get| Now for a change of scenery and [Into it with them. But it promises |jocality we turn to Ontario and to | action some sort--and I have to jt first provincial capital of Niagara, do something till spring." {or Newark as it was first called. In the spring! That brief phrase A Magnet name is Niagara, for it set Hagel to sober thinking. With includes not only the Little Town of | April or May Bill would spread hiS|oyr Little Trip, but the River and wings for the North. There would be|ipe Falls and the Park that draw no more staying him than the flight ,,jjjions to their attractions. But the of the wild goose to the réedy nesting 41g town will keep us interested in | grounds could be stayed. Well, & ino meantime; the other spots can Summef in the Nore: would not be s0|,qy ft is a town-with-a-history, idgnr B Sed ut Sto Hated 10 like many another Canadian centre; y 8 e {@ history that touches on 2!l the out- to template 'hanging her beau- standing events in-our national life; titully furnished apartment for a 108 | ihe day of the Indian: the rule of cabin in the woods. {the Frenchman; and the later and should have gotten, as théy had plan- ned to get when they were Struggling through that interminable winter, She | was. But not Bill. If she ventured to give a tea, he fled the'house as if from the plague. He made a¢quain- tances of his own, men from God only knew where, , individuals who occasionally filled the dainty apart- apartment with nialodorous tobacco fumes, and who would cheerfully sit up all night discoursing earnestly on any subject under the sun. But so long as BIN found Granville habit- able she did hot mind. She wished fervently that Bill| would take up some business that would keep him in touch, with civili- zation. He had the capital, she con- sidered. and there was no question of | justified. Their discoveries made possible the building of the Panama Canal, and in one - single city of S6uth America, where there used to Tanlac is sold by all good druggists Historical Society, full of articles of the deepest interest, helping to make the past live again. There is the Court House, with its memories of the Mackenzie Rebellion of 1837 and of slave riots, the old Parliament Oak, and Navy Hall, in which the first Legislative Assembly under Governor Simcoe was held in 1791 Many a residence is full of ghosts of the past and many a street recalls the same past in its name. Try this Little Trip. (Copyright by British & Press Limited.) Colonial POSITIVE PROOF Ethel--Are they engaged? his ability. Her faith in his power to | encompass whatever he set about was | strong. Other men, less gifted, had acquired wealth, power, even a miéea- | sure of fame, from a less ausp beginning. Why not he? ieogs But she cou never quite bring ehssie to put it in so many words to ® 2 2 2 FF 2 WF The cycle of weeks brought them #o January. something of a routine in their daily lives. Bill's interest and participa- tion in social affairs became neglig- ible. When he was not absorbed in a book or magazine, he spent his time in some downtown haunt, having Acquired membership in a club as a concession to their manner of life. Once he came home with flushed face and overbright eyes, radiating am odor of whisky. Hazel had never seen him drink to excess. She was correspondingly shocked, and took no pains to hide her feelings. But Bill was blandly' undisturbed. clear the horizon. Let us avoid re- crimination. Good night." A week 0 rso later hie became sud- bef Still she had hopes. If he plunged They had dropped into into business associations with Jim- | mie Brooks and Paul Lorimer an others of that group, there was no! telling what might happen. His in- interests might Become permanently identified with Granville. Bill informed her from time to time as to the progress of his ven-| ture. The company was duly incor-| porated, with an authorized capitial | of one hundred thousand dollars, five thousand dollars' worth of stock | being taken out by each on a cash | basis-"the remaining seventy-five | thousand lying in the company's trea- sury, to be held or sold for develop- ment purposes as the five saw fit when work began to show what the claims were capable of producing. In early March came a telegram from Whitey Lewis saying that he had staked the claims, both placer and lode that he was b d out by esent dominance of British rule. You cannot "do" old Niagara on a single visit; I've made about a lundred and always find something new of interest. You should, more- over, make this Little Trip, if done in the flesh, leisurely, for it is a feisurely burg. It's bad form to hurry or get excited, or evea run to catch the boat for Toronto across Lake Ontario, or Queenston, up the river eight miles. Its a sot of Sleep) Hollow, and blessed be tha: there are such places left. Well, what first? Here's a church handy; the old parish Church of St. Marks, by the way. What a s'ory it's warsburned bricks could tell--of the firing of the place during the war of 1812, of the hangman's tree in the graveyard, and of the sugges- tive |epitaphs' on the moss-grown the Telegraph Trail to file at Hazel- ton. Bill showed her the message-- wired from Station Six. "I wish I could have been in on it --that was some trip," he said--and there was a trace of discontent in his tone. "I don't fancy somebody else pawing my chestnuts out of the It was sure a man's t or the memorial tablets with- in. Bits of earthworks can still be traced in this quiet God's Acre, and many a soldier here rests in his nar- row bed of soil. Not far away is Fort George, in excellent preservation, with earth- works complete as to outline and an ancient powder magazine trying to hide itself within the enclosure. Here is the sycamore tree under which General Brock's body lay for a few years and here, too, the gateway out of which he galloptd on that early October morning of 1812 to Queen- ¢ ston Heights and to his death. Down by the Lake, the less impos- ing walls of Fort Mississauga are in- tact, a little fortess that escaped the is had in the barracks of Butler's Rangers on the Common, 'queer old Clara--Not yet. He still hires a taxi when they go to a show. --New York Sun HE GOT HIS "Was that fellow who was engaged to two girls properly punished?" "He was. One of them sued him for breach of promise and the other one married him." THEN ln | | » - LJ ' J i | :