ABLOTSFORD,

wo bours after cat |
sestion as they call it.| when you know this better mc

Ss acid.

With an alkali. The best way,

physicians One spoonful in

toms disappear in five minutes.

Too uch

Correcf it) And you will never suffer from e
the |acid When you prove out this eas’
guick, harmless and ofictent way, is | lief. Please do Thatfok
Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia. Tt bas re- | sake—now.

meined for 50 years the standard with |
: water | Milk of Magnesia proscribed cy physi-
“hee ee aman times its volume in cians ror 50 years in correcting excess
stomach acids, and at once. The sym-| acids, Each bottle contains full direc-

burning tree, too, are exposed to the

fall of branches, Even a small bough,

hurtling from the dizzy height of

liordly cottonwood or fir, will break
ja man’s limbs.

Wilkinson picked up a falling HH

|

|

| “Who will go with me?” he called.
Gillis stepped forward with wedge
and hammer. |
“Nothin’ doin’" sald little Blacktie; |
“Wilkinson here has a wife and kId,)
an’ Jack has brains enough to-be our}

poss. Me and Hoop-la ain't got
neither, we're just a coupla rough:
necks. Whadda you Hoop-la?"

“Ye betcha,” came vigorously)

from Blackie's pal.

Two men were sent with them to}
assist in clearing a space at the foot}
the big snag. A few minutes later |
the twang cut, mingled |
with Blackle's happy song, sounded|
above the crackling of the fire.

Wilkinson pointed to the southern
|tions—any drugstore. sky, where heavy nimbus clouds

You will never use srude methods

your own
¥ of the cre

Be sure to get the genuine Phillips’

- — | were massing. “At last! The blessed
daylight,” said Wilkinson grimly | rain is coming!” he cried in a voice

THE CRIMSON
WEST.

— BY —
ALEX, PHILIP

Published by Special Array
With Thomas Allen, Publisher.
Toronto, Ont.

They nodded a tired assent. Wilkin. | of thankfulness.
son and Donald with twelve! ~ A stronger gust swept through the
patrolled the fire area throughout | valley to send a surge of flame from
the night. the giant cottonwood’s topmost
The next morning broke sullenly| branches. There was a sharp cry
in a dull haze. As the first streaks of| of warning as a limb broke off with
light heralded the coming of the new) ® splinter-crash and came roaring to
day, the fire-fighters again took up| the ground, sending up a swirl ot
their posts. Men from the other mill dust. A strangled cry of pain, ani-

arrived, and another day of battle mal-like in its intensity, cut the air.

CHAPTER XVI.—Continued.

their roots. Sparks from
tree-tops crossed the fire-bre;

by sun and fire,

gamely to his task.

“Every little bit ‘elps!’

foot caught in a root to send

stretched.

with the fire. Let the blighter burn.’
hill. His face
the cloth by flying sparks.
face in the cooling waters.

“"Bllo,

bottle of beer?”

growled huskily.
“T s'y, Wilkie,”
“these Forestry jobs are a snap.

ery?”

task.

Connie brought reports that
held, but spot fires were kept
human efforts of ‘the fire-fighters.

intensity while the sun
With darkness the

breaks, but
pot flying.

sumed.

The fire-fighters, their

well-earned food and rest.

From up the mountainside came a
drumming roar and the rending
crash of trees as the fire undermined
ning!

and|
started other fires. To combat these,
water had to be carried up the steep
hillside in’ pails. Andy was among
those delegated to this arduous task.
For hours he staggered from stream
to hill and back again with a brim-
ming pail in elther hand. Scorched
the perspiration
streaming down his face and sting-
ing his eyes, the little hero stuck

“J ‘ired on this ‘ere job as a cook,”
he grumbled, “ng as a blinkin’ wa-
ter-spout. Strike me pink, if the wa-
ter I've carried today was sprinkled
in ‘ell the devil’d be out of a Job. Oh,
well,” he added resignedly as he fill-
ed his pails and turned to again as-
cend the hill, “as Methusalem said.
These two
buckets myke exactly four million, |
two ‘undred and six gallons that I’'ve' Connie was on her horse and after
carried this d’y.” At this instant his him at swift trot. As he neared the
him screen of smoke,
sprawling on his face rolling down his galt to that of a mad runaway,|the next wet and disagrecable.
the mossy hillside, the pails clatter-/and with the small rider lying prone spite of all
ing after. He lay where he had fallen,!on his bare back disappeared from
flat on his back, with arms  out-| View.

“There,” he soliloquized,
“that was the wisp of straw that

—proke the clephant’s back. To ‘ell, heavy smoke welled up

sat charred ground. Terror possessed the
Wilkinson came wearily down the
was blackened and
Dlistered, his hat gone, and his shirt
‘a network from holes burned through
He)
sprawled on all fours by the stream, |
drank sparingly, then plunged his)

Wilkie!" shouted Andy,
“ow would you like to 'ave a cold

Wilkinson seized a stone threaten-

ingly and glared at his tormentor. smoke. Then a
7 5 glad cheer burst from
“Men have been killed for less,” he|/tnem as horse and rider

grinned wae Donald swaying drunkenly in _the|

«you ‘ave the nerve to collect a sal-

The district ranger was too tired
for speech. His swollen face puck- i woe ai

Sais fn aclarrfielein a) is ioetesestcn OTD Jooked about him. “Where's Connie?""| cq has been revealed with the death
the hill, and Andy came stiffly to his
feet and resumed his never-ending

the
fire was being held on the north and, kept the entire crew engaged.

check only by the almost super-

Forest fires reach the peak of their
is hottest.) innumerable fires.

ywind subsides, |

and, especially in the mountains the) or we will be fighting spot fires in-
~ heavy dews are a never-failing help.| definitely,” said Wilkinson.

‘The sun, showing blood-red through)
the smoke, now sank behind the hills'lumber-jacks knew the danger at-
and a blessed coolness filled the air.
The fire smouldered along the fire-
the dreaded sparks were) skilled
The trembling roar dim-| drive the falling-wedge to lay the
{nished to a steady crackling where) tree within six inches of the desired
fallen trees were being steadily con-j-spot. With a hollow tree the task is

shoulders! decayed pulp the wedge may not pro-
drooping, and wavering from sheer}
weakness, plodded down the hill for

u'll have to be at it again at

with the fire demon was begun. An “Blackie’s hit,” screamed Hoop-ia.
attempt was made to check it on the Blackiie lay on his face, his cloth-
west front, high up the mountain-|ing afire,. pinned down by the shat-
side, where the fire had crept | tered limb. With a heave of power-
through in the night to a small level ful shoulders Hoop-la flung the
plateau. At ten o'clock , the wind| crushing weight aside, and his big
came suddenly, and with it the fire} hands quickly smothered the fire in
broke through on the south-west cor- the clothing of his fallen comrade.
ner with a deafening roar and rushed| Gently he" raised the stricken man
through a stand of dead trees with} in his arms and bore him beyond the
ever-increasing speed. range of fire.

Donald shouted a quick cry of “Blackie! Oh, Blackie! are you all
warning to the men who were in dan- right?” he questioned fearfully as he
ger of being cut off by this break.| looked down at the quiet face that
They came on the double quick held the grey pallor of death.
just in time, as a lurid wall of flame “Call the doctor and bring a
shot up the hill over the path they stretcher,” sharply ordered Wilkin-
had traversed. son.

“Are the men all out?” questioned
Donald.

“Andy isn’t here!” said one of the
men excitedly. 5

Donald seized the speaker's arm.
“Was Andy with you?”

The man nodded.

Donald’s face set in grim lines,
Whirling quickly, he ran straight to-
ward the line of fire. With a bound

(To Be Continued.)

A DANGEROUS MONTH
FOR THE BABY

Mothers Always Dread
Blustering March Days
No month of the year {s so danger-
ous to the welfare of little ones as is
March—the month of quickly chang-
ing weather. One day is fine, the
Pegasus changed) next cold and blustery. One day dry,

the

precautions the
ones will take colds and these colds
| often lead to.more serious troubles.
Mothers, when the first s toms

At this spot the fire had spent its) appear—sneezing, redness Bort the
fury in the first mad rush, but aleyes, running nose—Baby's Own
from the|

will rapidly break up the cold and
y hi seri -
horse, but the calm yoice of his mis- preven Ue) pre) eet eus con Dee

tress urged him on. Crimson embers)
d about her, heat, Own Tablets in the home always feel

4
safe—just like having a doctor in the
Gcareledl ven stere rent Somoncee ot house. The Tablets are a gentle pur}

|a blast furnace had been opened. A’ thorough laxative that sweeten the
blazing branch fell with a rushing) stomach and regulate the
sound, barely missing the horse's
head. Sharp reports from the tree-
tops made the plucky cayuse shy in
@ panic of fear. |

digestion and relieving the baby of
the many childhood ailments whigh
are the direct result of a clogged
condition of the bowels or a sour

Filled with apprehension, the) stomach.
crowd of fire-fighters stared with| Baby's Own Tablets are sold by all
tense anxiety into the drifting medicine dealers or by mail at 25

cents a box from The Dr. Williams’
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.

“Robot” For Nine Years

rear. Ready hands held water to Expert Chess Player Fooled Patrons
Andy’s parched lips and bathed his Of New York Museum

hot face as he lay panting on the) The secret of perhaps the strang-
ground. He sat up with an effort and) est “robot” ever exhibited in Ameri-

Andy clinging to Connie's stirrup and)

had stolen) of peter J. Hill. Thirty years ago in
New York city, the proprietors of a
dime museum astonished their cus-
| tomers with an “automaton chess
player.” Thousands, including many

ie asked. But Connie
quietly from the scene,

By mid-afternoon the main body
of the fire was apparently under ee
|trol, but the persistent spot-fires

fender. Sparks from its lofty blaz-|
ing top were floated by the breeze!
to land on the dry ground, starting

masked and
chess player,
for nine years, shifting the pawns on
board with jerky, mechanical move-
ments, maintaining silence and keep-

disguised.

“That tree will have to come down

| he played.

Silence fell. Everyone of those}

| Miller's Worm Powders act
tached to the falling of a rotten, tnoronghly*that stomachic and in-
blazing tree. In sound timber the

“fafler” can cut the scarf and
inconvenience to the sufferer.
dre painless and perfect in
and at all times will be
healthy medicine, strengthening the
much more diifficult, as in the soft,
| vide sufficient leverage to swing the  Pelng an effective vermifuge, they
enormous weight, and the tree may
crash from any angle.

Men working at the butt of a

effects,

Co-Operating With Board

—— = = The Saskatchewan markets

—

Nearly eve
throat is sore—0:
then the chest is
daily with
Is any sign of
penetrate deeply—congestion will
quickly. Many a dangerous casi
home treatment.

Of course it is al
purpose imm
purge the sy!
wastes. - ~
This combination
very effective for Grippe,
w give very satisfac recut.

affected. A safe

Simple Precautions Against

Sore Throat — 0 86

Health Authorities Point Out The Necessity Of Treating The Simple Cold
At Its Beginning

ry case of “Flu” starts with a simple cold.
ften just a little hoarse—soon the infection goes lower—

“Nerviline’—this will keep the throat free from germs, If there
tightness in the chest, rub on Nerviline—every drop will

e of “Flu” can be avoided by this simple
ways wise to take some relaxing medicine, and for this
diate results will be secured from Dr. Hamilton's Pills

stem of impurities and carry off a lot of disease—breeding

treatment of Nerviline and Dr. Hamilton's Pills is
Influenza, Bad Colds, etc., and can be relied upon
°

co-operation branch
ment of agriculture is working with
the

FLU

to secure valuable advertising” for
Canatla, When an order is placed

The Danger Signal with a Beat concern, for machin-|
ery or any other commodity, the

marketing board is notified and the

firm that has the order gets plac-

ad

At first the
made goods.

plan is to gargle the throat three times ‘ ¥
Traveller (at country

tion): “Do the

fast trains eyer s
nere
Porter; “Yes, wi

here once,”

be relieved—the cold will break up

they

greatly decreased as compared witt
1914, the present strength
101,000 as against 146,000.

Colds.

Mothers who keep a box of Baby’s}

| Jerusalem, across India and China,
In| New
litte) Canada where there are over 7,000

Fablets should be given at once. They| Ganada, he said,

bowels, | dent, as the finest war memorial he
thus driving out constipation and {n-| hag seen.

A
internationally known players, tried
east. The fire-break on the south) huge cottonwood, standing just with-| in vain to defeat the. ‘mechanical

in| in the fire-breaks, was the chief of-) yan.” ‘The robot in reality was Hill,|

An expert}
he sat in the museum}

| ing his secret from those with ener

80 |

testinal worms pass from the child| stones, from. various solidified drugs,
without being noticed and without] put we today are totally
They! gark” as to what drugs they were
action, |
found a

infantile stomach and maintaining it
in vigorous operation, so that, besides

are tonical and health-giving in their

and
of the depart-

3ritish Empire marketing board

ards telling of the order received and
ising the purchase of Canadian-

had a smash-up

The English navy personnel is

i

being

Minard’s Liniment for Coughs and

Fourteen-Day Trip Inland Takes
Only One Hour

Aeroplanes have made gold mining
possible in New Guinea, but the ex-
treme climate adds a great deal to
the hazard of flying, aceording to
Lieut, Kenneth Frewin, an airman
of the Mandated Territories Airways,
who has just returned to Sydney,
Australia, from the big island,

In less than two years gold worth
more than $12,000,000 has been taken
out of New Guinea chiefly because
aeroplanes have made the remote re-
gions accessible. The flyers have
been compelled to take tremendous
risks, according to Frewin.

“The difficulty in New Guinea,” he
said, “is to obtain a sufficient num-
ber of pilots, as the average man can
only ‘stick it’ for from three to six
months because of the severe condi-
tions, the prevalence of fever and
malaria, and the lack of fresh food,
“Although the distance from the
Bulolo gold fields to Salamoa beach
was only 40 miles, the journey took
nearly a fortnight, because of a bar-
rier of rugged mountains rising
from 10,000 to 15,000 feet nif,” ho
sald. :
“The trip to and from the coast
was negotiated by native boys, many
of them dying on the way. Even the
strongest could not make more than
a few trips, on each of which they
carried a load of 50 pounds, taking
gold to the coast and provisions to
the fields. It was realized that the
gold, although plentiful, would not

Save Mone

Full: Directions
with each .can

Be Sure You Get The Genuine
GILLETT'S FLAKE LYE

War Gave Commission
Is Extending Work

Thousand New Cemeteries Have
Been Opened In France and
Belgium

That the next war would see the
obliteration of whole families and
whole communities, worse than the
days in Egypt when a great cry
went up that the first born of every
family had died, was envisaged by
Colonel Henry C. Osborne, C.M.G.,
Honorary Secretary of the War

safe, Doctors have told her so.
take it to stop a he
relief of neuralgia, neuritis,

sure it’s Bayer—the genuine
directions for its many uses.

The nurse tells you to take Aspi

headache or check
rheumatism; even Jumb:

Aspirin.

hat it is
in because she knows t
It has no effect op es eee
a cold. For ees a

At druggists, with proven

Trademark Registered in Canada

G9ASPIRIN-

pay under those Mules
were pressed into service but the
journey was too rough for them.”
‘The use of aeroplanes was then de-
cided upon and while the first ef-
forts to reach the goldfields were
|clumsy and only partially successful,
aviation has at last been established
on a fairly permanent basis, accord-
ing to Frewin. Aircraft has reduced
the journey to the fields from 14
days to one hour, The miners had
plenty of money and the pioneer avi-
ators were paid handsomely, the re-
sult being that many new companies
entered the field. Now several of the
gold mining companies operate their
own ’planes.

Grayes Commission, in a speech at
the Empire Club luncheon in Tor-
onto. Colonel Osborne is the repre-
sentative of Canada on the Commis-
sion.

The work of the Imperial War
Graves Commission, he stated, is
financed by the different countries
of the Empire, in proportion to the
number of their graves. Great Bri-
tain bears about 80 per cent. and
the remaining 20 per cent. is divid-
ed up among the other countries of
the Empire. Canada’s share being
about 8 per cent. x4

In France and Belgium, 1,000 new
British war cemeteries have been
opened, with 300 to 10,000 graves in
each, and in addition 1,500 plots in
Paris cemeteries. The work of the
commission extends from the Baltic
to-the Bosphorous, from Antwerp to

Western Horse Shipments

Twenty-five Thousand Sent To East-

ern Canada Last Year
Western horses to the number of
25,000 were shipped from the prairies
to Eastern Canada last year. Most of
these horses came from Alberta and
, and were di d of
principally in Ontario and Quebec al-
though some were shipped as far as
Prince Edward Island. The ship-
ments varied from heavy draught
animals to light range stock and
about 5 per cent. were unbroken. A
carload of -these unbroken range
horses of Percheron and Belgian
breeds, was shipped into Paisley,
Ont., recently and sold at public auc-
tion, realizing an average price of
$71 for the 21 head. .

Zealand and Australia, and in

war graves in 1,500 different places.

Colonel Osborne described the
cemeteries as beautiful places.

Hight sites have been allotted to
in those places
where she played her most glorious
part in the war. Each is marked by
a great 15-ton block of Canadian
granite. The monument at ‘St. Ju-
lien, he said, had been described by
the Daily Graphic special correspon-

The uncompleted monument at
Vimy was of imposing proportions
200 feet square and 125 feet high. It
had been designed-by a prominent
‘Torontonian, W. S. Allward, and con-

An armored vest and a breast ma-
chine gun, which starts shooting

tained ‘a good deal of statuary. It) when the wearer raises his hands av
would shortly be completed. the command “hands up,” is a new
The work of the War Graves) creation for bank guards and night

Commission ,the colonel concluded,| watchmen. .
was a symbolism of Imperial unity;

it might well stand as a pattern for

Wife (during quarrel)—You're be-
It

Little Helps For This Week|

~ Canada’s Chinese Population

Gave Total Num-

Last

“In God have I put my trust; I
will not be afraid.”"—Psalm lvi. 4.
Oh, heart of mine, we shouldn't

Have, “you know!

What we've met of stormy pain,
And of sorrow’s driving rain,

We can better meet again,

If it blow.

We have erred in that dark hour
We have known;

lone.
Were not shine and shadow blent,
As the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With His own.
For we know not every morrow
Can be sad;
So, forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,
Let us fold away our fears,
And put by our foolish tears,
‘And through all the coming years
Just be glad.

—James Whitcomb Reilly.

lines—Spanish Proverb.

Education By Mail

Cost $13 a Pupil

Rural corresponaence

according to information tabled be-

of the Legislature.

correspondence classes.

Whales have the largest brains o!

other Imperial commissions. He
made an exhortation to rejoice in
Canada’s British heritage and paid yi
tribute to the solidarity of senti-
ment, common loyalty and free co-
operation throughout the British

coming

‘ous
Husband (hopefully)—How soon?

will soon be*impossible to live with

Wisdom is knowing the thing you

7,000 grams.

Use Minard’s Liniment for the Flu.

jan living in Paris, remained in th

Empire.

important tomorrow.

are anxious about today won't seem

his own construction.

Worry so!
What we've missed of calm we
couldn't

When our tears fell with tne shower
All ali

God writes straight on crooked

B.C. Rural Correspondence Courses
school
courses in British Columbia, cost $13
# pupil, while the ordinary public
school student costs the province $70,
fore the public accounts committee

The committee was informed that
| 350 pupils in out}ying parts of the

province obtained their elementary
school education by means of the

all mammals, the largest on record

In 1906 Santos-Dumont, a Brazil-

air 21 seconds flying a biplane of

ber As 55,706

According to reports tabled in the
House of Commons, three Chinese
immigrants were admitted to Can-
ada during the fiscal year 1927-28,
two of whom were women. Two
students coming to attend Canadian
universities were admitted as non-
immigrants. Eleven Chinese were de-
ported during the year.
The registration carried on during
1923-24 shows a Chinese population
in Canada of approximately 55,706.
Of this number, 48,305 were males,
1,302 females, and 6,099 children un-
der 18 years of age. Of the total
British Columbia had 31,116 Chin-
ese residents. 4

The number of Japanese entering
Canada in 1927 was 511, and in 1928,
535. Of the total for two years, 273
were adult males, 557 adult females,
and 216 children under 18 years of
age.

GOOD ADVICE
FROM MOTHER
~ OF SEVEN

Recommends Lydia E.
2 Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound

Toronto; Ont—“I began takin;

Vegetable Compound for nerves ani

=yother troubles and

ft

S|

tario,

Made Mysterious Jewels

In Goa Stone Was Secret
Known Only To Jésuits

Goa, a settlement on the west
| coast of Maia, has for centuries beep
| the property of the * Portuguese |
| Shortly after their occupation, the
Jesuits appeared and set up a monas-|

Drug

ee mere

\tery, and it was there that a spe-
| cial sort of “jewel” was made, The
|Jesuits made these stones, which)
have come to be known as ~Goa

“in the)

composed of and how they were

made.

Bach stone was mounted in a sil

ver filigree case and represented fine — =
examples of old workmanship. » :
| When the owner of the stone was S
troubled with indigestion he had only

\to scrape off a small portion of his / > ea

| stone, and drink it in a glass of wa- a as ns, oA es

ter, and he was quite all right in a
few moments.
Goa stones today, however, are

tron,
| very rare and are only to be found in makes light Lut strong

stables, poultry houses,

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