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scratch of Warning The new car was certainly a jJoy to the eye as well as a poem on wheels. If she had not had that gnawing anxiâ€" ety at the back of her mind, Sonia would not only have been â€"very proud but very pleased with her husband‘s #* "I‘ll have enquiries made at once, promised Rellamy, when he had come to the end. "Thank youâ€"but remember, if there is anything in it, the pigeon is still exâ€" clusively mine. Understand?" "CGo awayâ€"I‘m busy," was his Chief‘s pretort "It may have something, or it may have nothing," went on Standish; and then, to the accompaniment of an occaâ€" sional chuckle from his listener, he procveeded to tell the story of his preâ€" vious night‘s adventure. "It must have been a very amusing scene altogether," was the acrid retort. "The main thing, however, is that you got away safely." Tiger gave him yet another jolt, "There never was any risk, you old cockroach! And now I ‘want to ask you one or two things. Do you know anyâ€" thing about a Professor Lablonde, who lives at a house called Pairlawns in Parkside, overlocking the Wimbledon Common?" "What mero?" "Exactly.,‘ "Curb the moanings; they‘re getting monotonous. On the other hand, I told him that several important members of the British Government were fully aware that I‘d made that call and that if there was any sticky work in prosâ€" pect, then all sorts of international complications might ensue and the balloon would go up with a vengeance. It was amusing to watch the blighter‘s face." 000000000 00 0 04000 00 % 0 0 o 6 0 o 6 # "I‘ve got a brain that‘s largely comâ€" posed of bread and milk â€" enlighten me‘‘. "That he wanted to meet you face to face so that he could study you at close quarters." "Well, he had his opportunity." ~~*Butâ€"don‘t» you that you fell for his scheme?" "All I know is that the fellow insulted my wife, and I had to warn him that if he did it again, he‘d be sorry." "Did he threaten you in any way?" "Not exactly. He just pointed out the elementary fact that I was on Ronâ€" stadtian soil,and that if anything hapâ€" pened it would be entirely my own fault." "You‘ll never curb that impetuosity of yours, I suppose?" he remarked regretfully as he struck a match, "I don‘t suppose soâ€"why?" Pellamy shook his head. "Don‘t you realize that sending those flowers was a very cunning move on Carlimero‘s part?" The amazed expression died on Bellamy‘s face. The Director of Q.1. sat down again and began to fill his pipe. "I should scornâ€"to have such a hobâ€" by," was the complacent answer. "Do you mean to say you actually visited him at the Embassy?" "I‘ve already told you so." "And did he receive you?" "Well, if it wasnt Carlimero it was a lifeâ€"size portrait of him. Look here, B.. I‘m scarcely the type of fellow to allow a Caronian mess like Carlimero to send flowers to my wife, especially when they‘re accompanied by loving messages." "Did he do that?" "Yes, Carlimero did send flowers to Ssonia, and it go my goat properly. So I went along to the Embassy, and gave him a general outline of what he must and must not do in the future." dayv RBellamy jumped up in his chair. "What fool thing have you done now?" he demanded angrily; "you‘re pulling my leg, aren‘t you?" y sSydney Horler Copyright 3 044484844844 441444444449 4441894948198 0890448889888 0880884884084 "Oh, you do, do you? Well, let me tell you that a good deal has happened â€"there‘s been another scshemozzle." The keen eyes of the older man glinted . "Do you mean to say that Carlimero has made another attempt on your life?" "If you prefer the stilted language, the answer is ‘Yes." At least, T suppose it was Carlimero, because it happened very shortly after T paid him visit at the Ronstadtian â€"Embassy yesterâ€" "You Fell For His Scheme" latest purchase, But her previous inâ€" Sir Harker Bellamy leaned back in tuitive feeling that there was some| his padded chair. ‘mystery about this hasty exchange of | "I want a reportâ€"I want to know’cars (in the ordinary way, Tiger never what‘s happened to you since I saw you did a thing of that sort without conâ€" last." sulting her) was more than cormflrmedI "Oh, you do, do you? Well, let me by her first look at Benny Banmsters tell you that a good deal has happened face as he opened the door of the car. â€"there‘s been another shemozzle." ' "Good morning, madam," he said m| The keen eyes of the older man his official chauffeur‘s style. THURSDAY. AUVGUST 18T, 1940 NOOOOQQQ‘OQQOOOQO‘QO 0 40 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 094 00 000000800080008808848484888444848484488484 Marked Down for Killing this got to do with Carliâ€" ‘"‘Thought I wouldnt get here for lunch," he cried, in his breezy way. "Old Satterthwaite wanted me to feed at the club but I â€" â€"why, what‘s the matter, old dear?" he broke off quickly. "And what‘s the matter with His Royal Highness here?" "I don‘t know," his wife answered, "he clawed me a moment agoâ€"I‘ve never known him do such a thing before." "Oh, madam, what a naughty thing to do," returned the parlourâ€"maid. "T‘ll get the iodine at once. One can‘t be too careful with a cat‘s scratch." Sonia was sucking the wound and looking reproachfully at Dick meanâ€" while, when the door opened again and Tiger burst in. Richard saves A Life "He seems suspicious of that top drawer, said Sonia, pointing. "He‘s been sniffing and making little cries for the past twenty minutes, But when For the first time since he had been a member of the Standish family, Dick spat at her. She was so surprised that she could only conclude that the aniâ€" mal was ill. ‘"Well, there‘s something very wrong with him; he not only spat at me just now, but did this," and she showed her the wounded hand. "It‘s so unlike him." _A A _.. 2. Dt ‘"Poor old Dick! What‘s the matter?”i "t don‘t understand at all, sir," she repeated. answered the butler. "I don‘t see how He looked at her in such a strange such a thing could have been done. manner that she was forced to the No oneâ€"no stranger, that isâ€"has even conclusion that there was something{enteled the room." And then, as a in that top drawer which had roused | thought suddenly seemed to come to his fiiry. What could it be? She knew i him, "there were the windowâ€"cleaners, from experience that Richard the Lion | of course." was a superâ€"intelligent cat â€" he had. "Windowâ€"cleaners?" evidenced this on too many DreVlOUS' "Yes sir. Carpenter‘s sent some men cecasions for her to have any doubt about halfâ€"past eleven, and said they on the subjectâ€"and, anxious to °@88 pnaqd received instructions from madam his mind, she put cut her hand to OpEN ; nerself to clean all the outside windows the drawer. this marning " This was getting beyond a joke, and she severely reprimanded him. Matâ€" thews, the parlourâ€"maid, happening to enter the room at that moment, Sonia told her to fetch the iodine, and then asked if she had given the cat anything to upset him? "No, madam," was the reply; "he had his usual meal this morning, and, so far as I know, he has not been given anything by the cook since." At that moment, she drew it quickly back again for the very sufficient reaâ€" son that Dick had clawed her. She looked at her watch. Unless he came in soon, he would be lunching at his club. And that would mean, in turn, that she would not see him again until dinner, The ache returned. Was she a fool to give this one man all the devotion that was in her heart? She didn‘t think so. A peculiar sound, frequently repeated, drew her attention to Richard the Lion. The halfâ€"Peéersian cat was cerâ€" tainly behaving in a very curious way; the noise she had heard was caused by his sniffing at the top leftâ€"hand drawer of the Chitppendale desk at which she was accustomed to sit when doing her correspondence, The cat was showing distinct signs of anger, and his fur was ruffled. It was twenty minutes before the luncheon tell was due to ring when she returned home. Her husband, the butler informed her, was not yet in, and feeling, as she always did, an intolerable ache when he was away from her for long, she went into the morningâ€"room, overlooking Street and picked up an illustrated magazine. ‘"What‘s the matter, darling?" she asked, getting up and crossing to him. "What is it, then?" Having given the address of her tailor, she leanea back and gave herself a penance. For being so naughty that morning she would promise not to ask another single question either of Tiger or Bannister until she had been awarded their confidence. "Good morning, Benny have to get you a new match the new car." She felt almost ashamed for being so cattish as she watched the expression of dismay come into Bannister‘s face. "Yes, madam," was all he replied, however; ‘"where would you like to go first?" by Sydney Horler enny. We shall new uniform to "My company is coâ€"operating in every possible way with the Dominion Government in helping to prosecute the war to final victory," Mr. Sherry said. "If we can advance the air trainâ€" ing program even in the small way of helping the Govermennt clear its title to land needed for the projected Windâ€" sor Mills airport, we are only too happy to be of national service,." uns Canadian Johnsâ€"Maprville Co., Limited, operators of the world‘s largest asbesâ€" tos mine at Asbestos, Que. An anâ€" nouncement to this effect was made toâ€" day by H. K. Sherry, viceâ€"president. The land is included in a parcel of 1900 acres originally sold by the British American Land Company in 1872 to Gharles Brewster in which a percenâ€" tage of the mineral rights was retained by the Land Company. Such mineral rights in the 25 acres to be developed into an airport were acquired by the Canadian Johnsâ€"Manville Co., Ltd., in 1930. Asbestos, Que., July 29â€"(Special)â€" Mineral rights in 25 acres of land needâ€" ed by the Dominion Government as part of its proposed airport at Windâ€" sor Mills Quebec, about midway beâ€" tween Richmond and Sherbrooke, will be donated as a contribution to the Dominion air training program by the "Well, so you let these men clean the windows, eh?" "*YCes, sir." "Did you recognize the men?" "No sirâ€"the man who seemed in charge explained that the firm had had a good deal of trouble lately and been obliged to take on some fresh hands, as he put it." "Including, it would seem, the proâ€" fessional snakeâ€"charmer. All right, Merritt: that‘s all. And not a word about this to the rest of the staff, you understand?" "Yes, sir. I‘m sure I‘m very sorry." "It wasn‘t your fault; forget it." The man‘s expression of bewilderâ€" ment was so obviously genuine that the fleeting suspicion which had crossed Tiger‘s mind was instantly banished. He would have hated to give more than a second‘s consideration to a trusted servant like Merritt having been a party to such an action; but there had always been the faint possibility, of course. ‘‘Mrs. Standish is too upset to be bothered now, but surely it‘s your jOob to send for the windowâ€"cleaners?" "Quite so, sir, but as madam was out, I thought that possibly she had made an exception, and had telephoned Carâ€" penter‘s herself." Canadian Johnsâ€"Manville Gives Land Rights to Govt. ‘"Tiger!" cried his wife in warning. But he had shut the drawer again before the reptile could use its poisonâ€" ous fangs. "You‘d better leave this to me, my dear," he said, going to her. *"I don‘t know how this has happened, of course, but you‘ve got to thank old Dick there for something â€" well, something very unpleasant not happening to you." "What are you going to do?â€"it may be poisonous ; it looked like one of those dreadful Black Mambas we saw at the Z0o the other day. You remember that the keeper told us that a bite from such a snake was inevitably fatal." "Get my revolver!" was the answer, "And tell Benny I want him." "Pull the string, Benny," ordered his master., The drawer flew cpen, the black ugly head of the venomous snake was seen darting upwards â€" and then came the crack of a revolver. When the butler came into the room, he saw an angry and determined employer. "Yes sir. Carpenter‘s sent some men about halfâ€"past eleven, and said they had received instructions from madam herself to clean all the outside windows this morning." Immediately there was a sharp hiss, and the ugly black head of a snake shot u;, through the opening! Whiie Sonia screamedâ€"she couldn‘t help it â€"Tiger swore. I tried to open it, he clawed me." "Well, we‘ll see what‘s the matter," summed up her husband, and pushing the cat on one side, he pulled open the drawer in question. "Good shot, guv‘nor!" exclaimed Pannister in admiration; but who was the dirty devil who put it there? That‘s wot I want to know." "Don‘t we all?" replied Standish. "Tell Mrs. Standish that lunch must be postponed for a few minutes whilst I have a talk with Merritt." "I want to know, Merrit, who has been here this morning. Did anyone call? Any stranger, I mean?" The butler shook his head. "No, sir: no one called this morning." "Then how do you account for a poisonous snake being found in that top drawer?" Yes, sit SIP. > you recognize the men?" sirâ€"the man who seemed explained that the firm had had deal of trouble lately and been to take on some fresh hands, in (To be continued) THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Those of us who can recall the Musâ€" koka region of forty odd years ago are glad to see what was second growth scrub at that time developing into real forest, thanks to firs protection. A Montreal surveyor visiting the Haliâ€" burton area for the first time sincé 1887 declared that what struck him most was the return of the forest. On his previous visit fiftyâ€"thrse years earâ€" lier, the country looked bare and desoâ€" late, having been laid waste with no thought for posterity. Lumbering and fires had completely ravaged it. . But now in 1940 a green forest of fine trees covered the landscape. The miracle had been performed by natural afforâ€" estation and was quite apart from plantation of evergreen and other tree> whereby the provincial government has various parts of Ontario. Canucks in Windsor Forest As a shelter for birds and game, a conserver of moisture, an attraction to tourists and a course of convinued timber wealth, restored woods are of inestimable _ value. In â€" Europe, | Of ccurse, the forests have long been carefully tended. Travelling through Germany in 1937, I was impressed by the fine woods of Norway pine and other trees scientifically plantsd and harvested. During the first Great War I saw Canadians lumbering the hisâ€" toric forest near Windsor Castle. Our military loggers were cutting down and sawfng into planks Scotth jfir which had been planted jJust seventy years earlier. The trees were of meâ€" dium size and the Canucks said they made fine timb3râ€"good stuf right from the roots and almost clear of bleâ€" mishes.. The trees had been ripe fotr the mill and the ground vacated by them would soon be planted with seed._ lings, including some Britiyi Columbia conifers. In the British woods and in those of France where some beautiful hardâ€" woods had to be sacrificed as timber for the roads and the Canaâ€" dians rather horrified the local people by their rough and ready lumbering methods. In the Jura Mountains borâ€" dering â€" Switzerland, however, the French muthorities insisted that our men fasten ropes to the top of The tree intended for the axe, so that in its fall as little damage as possible be done to smaller trees and saplings. But the operation had looked rather funny to me and I mentioned it to a titled young Englishman I met at Canadian Cor»s Headquarters in France. In later decades pine timber, squarâ€" ed by the daze and drawn down by train from the Georgian Bay region, (by DSR.) Pioneer days saw great wastage of timber in Ontario. Trees were reâ€" garded as the enemy of man and settlers clearing land burned up piles of the choicest logs. White pine, cedar, white oak, birch, elm, maple, ask were felled anda comnugned to the fiames. The choicest of black walnut were sacriâ€" ficed in the clean up, though recentiy a single walnut tree cut down on the grounds of the old Woodruff homeâ€" stead in St. Catharines sold for $400. Not so long ago Toronto cabinet maâ€" kers were actually buying up in the Niagara district, tence raus wnicn had been split from walnut. (But apart from lozs which could be sold at the few primitive mills, early settlers in the Ontario bush got also building materials, fence rails, road logs and potash from their trees. I ventured to remark that we had to have the lumber at all costs and that the trees in the desplated park would grow up again. But the gentleâ€" man referred to exclaimed, "They will not grow up again in my time" and stuck to his argument. We was justiâ€" fied: wood is a precious thing in denâ€" selyâ€"populated Europe. Witness the procession of villagers with baby carâ€" riages and go carts who came to carry off branches and slips when the Canâ€" adians began operations at Windsor â€"it was a rare opportunity to get fireâ€" The extreme value of wood in France was also demonstrated during the last war when one saw, back of the Canaâ€" dian lines, old Prench peasant women staggering along the roads bearing on Canada‘s Waste Wood Recalls Days When W alnut Burned was rafted in Toronto Bay for export to Europe via Quebec. huge rafts of logs were shipped across to American mills, and Canadian sawlnills marâ€" keted, mostly in the United States, prime white pine lumber at about $5 per thousand feetâ€"price is from $35 to $125 toâ€"day. Wreckage of a very old housu» in southern Ontario is apt to reveal beams marked with the axe, handmade laths and planks of white pine so wide as to be a curiosity in this day and age. Saw Muskoka 77 Years ago Pioneer lumbermen in Ontario were almost as ruthless in their treatment of the forest as were the first settlers. Only prime trees were logged, and what with dry slash and fires whole districts were devastated. A Toronto man who with a chum had visited Muskoka in the summer of 1863, once told me that even then the shores of Muskoka Bay were black with charred trees. Incidentally, the boys had gone from Toronto by train to Orillia, the endâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"steel, and thence by iLage to the hamlet of Gravenhurst. There were no summer cottages in Muskoka in days and the fishing was marâ€" vellous. When Canucks Trimmed Windsor Forest. Toronto Telegram: Ho, hum! It‘s no trowble for many folks to tell you all of their traubles. Save Waste in (/amada To us who know: t;hfln Optamo nort,h~ land with. â€"its seefmngly mim)%ab}e bush, such cultlvatlo?x and Dohé‘éz’ara-' tion of twigs seems mt,h\euplfilful and can never in.our time bes pecessary.»out. here. But even in Canadaâ€" éeliberat“ waste of wood is to be deporfldâ€"â€"and wood is still being wasted. A bulletin just issued by the Forest Products Laâ€" boratories of the Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa, states that with Canada at war an especial effort is being made to avoid loss of forest products. For instance, in pulp mills formerly considered as waste are now being treated in special refinâ€" ers to produce fibres suitabls for board fillers; corrugating papers, newsprint and building board. In Canadian mills waste liquor from sulphite pulping now yields bakers‘ yeast and vanillin. But much valuable material is still beâ€" ing lost. It is ¢eimated that annuâ€" ally more than a million tons of solids, dissolved out of pulpwood by sulphite process, are being dissharged as waste. Branmpton Conservator: The Red Cross appeal for blankets was answered as Canadian answer every like appeal. The Dominion‘s contribution was 57,â€" 731 of these necessary articles. Of this; number Ontario provided 24,863 and Toronto alone 13,000. Peel‘s conâ€" tribution was correspondingly as great Highâ€"grade Samples from Week‘s Run of the Press Walterton Heraldâ€"Times:â€"A woman in Alberta won $1,000 in a draw, and now the government is starting action to take it away from her. A person with $1,000 all at one time and one place is a bright and shining target for any government. Charlottetown Guardian: A new use has been found for old lace as a resualt of recent air raids in the Old try. _ Residents of one Welsh comâ€" munity discovered that old lace stuck against windows, provides the best proâ€" tection against flying pisces of glass. One householder treated every window that way. Monday a big bomb evplodâ€" ed outside the house but all the winâ€" dows remained intact. their backs great burdens of little branches to be us@ed As fuel in the farm bake ovens.. The branches «Hhad been harvested as a xegular Lrop fiom stubâ€" by willows. 4 7 New District Supervisor who has been appointed District Superviyy»r for The Empire Life Insurance Company in Timmins and the surrounding territory. Myr. Lawlor‘s new appointment w a s made after his outstanding success asj a local agent for this Company. IT'S a man‘s holiday . . . that the whole family can enjoy! Jasper, in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, offers golf . . . on an 18â€"hole championship course where smooth undulating fairways and inâ€" viting greens tempt every shot. And there‘sso much else! Trout flash in tumbling mountain streams; there‘s swimming, hiking, motor and saddle trips to the Columbia Icchield, Maligne Lake, Mt. Edith ir local Agent will gladly furnish you with par lars as to fares, limits, etc. | \ _ After all, Robert Browning himself, {once asked to clarify some obscure ‘lines, made this frank â€"confession: \‘"When I wrote that only God and |Robert Browning knew what it meant, {and now, alas, the knowledge rests exâ€" clusively with the Deity." | _ Highâ€"brow or low, the fact remains that Robert Service wrote a book of j poems that became a best seller. And ! that is an achievement, indeed. It is | worthy of a bit of research to discover how the miracle was wrought. Writer of Famous Sourdough Songs Back on the Coast (By Percy Ghent) bound train, they roared applause and Like Somerset Maughan, P. G. Wodeâ€" yelled for more. They ordered copies house and other literary lights, Robert of the book. They tailked about Sam W. Service, Canada‘s poet of the Yukon ; McGee and Dan McGrew to their has had his peaceful domestic esta.b-‘friends. And the unfeigned enthusiâ€" lishment uprooted, and sustain¢d severe asm of the western salesman brought financial loss by the lightning occupa-’orders and repeat orders at every call. tion of his adopted land of Prance by Songs of a Sourdough was a best seller the ruthless Hun. Service, whose alâ€" | that started its career in a prairie blizâ€" most emptyâ€"handed fiight took him Edition followed edition, forâ€" through scenes of murderous bombings tune followed fame, and the book is in ruined towns, is now on the way to still in steady demand. Canada, where he first found fame and We can readily appreciate the joy of fortune; and will settle in that city of | the snowbound drummers at their first beauty, Victoria, BC. recital of the Yukon yarns.â€" Thirty Although Service has lived abroad | YeArs ago we worked one whole winter for thirty years or so, he remains, perâ€"| on the Plorida Everglades, and shared haps, the most widely known and quotâ€"| a shanty with a tall Scotsman who rollâ€" ed bard of the Dominion. It may ‘be‘ed his r‘s and his big brown eyes with lamentable, but it is true, that for equal facility, To the native Crackers it was a neverâ€"ending thrill to hear every Canadian who can give you single line from Archibald Lampman or| David‘s rich Sceottish burr even in orâ€" even Bliss Carman, there are a score dinary conversation. who can recite whole stanzas from the Sourdocugh Still Sells Cremation of Sam McGee or shooting| But Dave had memorized the Service of Dan Like Kipling, Serâ€" rhymes perfectly and, sitting on a barâ€" vice wrote verses for the everyday re in the general store of an evening, workingman to read and approveâ€"the would string them off to an entranced man who, as a rule, would flee from | qudience of tomato farmers and orangs highbrow poetry as from a pink tea. growers. For miles they came to hear Such readersâ€"and their name, GOGd nim, and the strange tales of the chilly bless them, is legion, for they are many north told in that rich accent from over â€"find Browning as exciting as Euclid sea brought applause that often and the lofty lines of some Canadian ‘wound up in a cheetr. poets ags mysterious as the markings on | _ "angq therâ€"râ€"re sat Sam .looking cool Mars. But they do understand and‘angq calm, in the hearâ€"râ€"râ€"t of the thoroughly enjoy the virile verses Of | fuprnace râ€"râ€"râ€"oar Kipling or Service. We can hear David yet! Bank Clerk Won Fame i CDahert W Serviecs was n corresn»ondâ€" Service was born in Preston, Lanâ€". cashire, in 1876. At twenty he came to. Canada and headed westward from. city to city. For a while he settled in Victoria, the charm of which still drams. him. From Mexico to Alaska he wan-¢ dered for five years up and down the( Pacific coast. As a clerk in the Cana-‘ dian Bank of Commerce he was sent at various times to Vancouver, Kamâ€" icops and White Horse in the Yukon wilderness, It was at White Horse that most of the ‘rhymes publlshed Aas the Songs of a Sourdough wére written. In 1907 the book was published, and in a few weeks Service was famous. ;. . Toronto: Fn'm Refused It ‘But, t,heg‘e was, some : d1 ?tmgfi ground work. before: ’bha},’ fl'igfi o fame,. FyEb the wisest jof publishers Q%fi "t.u’ngs to -r;ogfiwé ‘A best | i§, thriist their way: Serquevwnt’ Tt maausct‘ff)t to a ‘Toronto. houfi., f it â€"cameâ€"not interested. It was. re’flba.‘ ed, and pruned of a few crudities, and sent out again. Again it was rejected. But the young bank clerk had faith in his book of songs and, it is said, opened negotiations to have the verses proâ€" duced at his own expense. Robert W. Service ,Driven Out of France, Returns to a few copies on a trip to the west. Out on the prairies, somewhere, the train with this salesman and other drumâ€" mers abcvard, became snowbound for hours. In search of amusement to brighten the long holdâ€"up, the book salesman went to the*@baggage car to look over his samples. He picked on the breezy ballads of Service. For In due course the Songs of a Sourâ€" dough were warbled, but never a soul stopped to hear them. But one of the travellers for the Torontc house carried Cavell, and other renowned beauty spots. Here, the world‘s greatest alpine playground, you‘ll d cover ])aspcr Park Lodgc, witz its individual 1« bungalowsâ€"its distinctive hospitality and pleast social life. Rates are moderateâ€"from $8 a da including meals. Rounding out a perfect holid. is your trip West by the airâ€"conditioned Continent Limitedâ€"an experience in itself. while he read them quietly to himself until he had finished the Cremation of Sam McGee. Then he jumped to his feet in genuine mirth. Blizzard Melped Sale "Listen to this, fellows," he called to the other drummers. And, presently, they drepped their cards and stopped their yarns to listen, spelibound, to the tale of the flery passing oi the frigid Ssam. Forgetting the disssmforts 6i a snowâ€" bound train, they roared applause and yelled for more. They ordered copies of the book, They taiked about Sam McGee and Dan McGrew to their friends. And the unfeigned enthustâ€" asm of the western salesman brought orders and repeat orders at every call. Songs of a Sourdough was a best seller that started its career in a prairie hbizâ€" zard. Edition followed edition, forâ€" tune followed fame, and the book is still in steady demand. We can readily appreciate the joy of the snowbound drummers at their first recital of the Yukon yarns.â€" Thirty years ago we worked one whole winter on the FPlorida Everglades, and shared a shanty with a tall Scotsman who rollâ€" ed his r‘s and his big brown eyes with equal facility. To the native Crackers it was a neverâ€"ending thrill to hear David‘s rich Scottish burr even in orâ€" Toronto Telegram: A man is taking his life in his own hands when he acts as a judge at a bathing beauty contest. ‘"And therâ€"râ€"re sat Sam ,looking cool and calm. in the hearâ€"râ€"râ€"t of the furnace râ€"râ€"râ€"0oar it We can hear David yet! Robert W. Service was a correspondâ€" ent in the second Balkan War. During the Great War of 1914â€"18 he drove an ambulance in France and for years livâ€" ed in Paris with his wife of French birth. He is the author of several novels and other volumes of verse beâ€" sides his Songs of a Sourdough. It was on that first volume, however, that his fame was achieved and has been mainâ€" tained. v® ‘net mM "geP@ e the joy of at their first ns. â€" Thirty whole winter and shared cai a best selle prairie hbliz dlition. fotr