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PAOE TWO EHB ONTARIO ATiaUS TfTTTftHDAT. OCTOBER L'B, 1015. ! THE ONTARIO ARGUS IM i;l1siii;d RVERY THURSDAY Entered in the poHtofflr-e nt in, for transmission through tilt mail- M H i"ii ! II mntter. W.C, MA RSI I KINDS OF ADVERTISING Upon embarking in business the lirsi problem Unit faces the merchnnl is how t gel rtiBtomen. He shirts out alter business. Thai is advertising. Hi personally solicits trade or adopt", some other means of advertising his business. Bui one thing is certain, if any business is ever limit up i( is built Up through the medium of advertising. Every business man must admit this, r why liol atari a business Under ground and the proprietor sit down waiting I'm trade to conic U 10111.' A well kept : tore in ;i good location, stocked with good goods at reasonable prices is an mlvcrtisc- incut. A merchant .-1 1 1 1 t hide his lighl under I buah- el of HUceess. lie inil.sl iidvertise. There arc various ways of advertising, and for the sake of Convenience and in the order f their im- portanee we give them here1: 1st. Personal Advertising Whew the merch ant personally solicits business. 2nd. Personal Letter Advertising Where the merchant writes personal letters to stimulate busi ness. :ird. Newspaper Advertising Where through the newspaper the merchant gives business news each week to thousands. Ith. Circular and Other Advertising- Where through circulars, bills, bill boards and all other means of publicity effort is made to influence the trading public. There is no denying the advantage to 1he iner- chant in personally soliciting business, cither vinit- iiig prospective customers personally or Writing them personal letters. These are very effective ways of - advertising, and at the same time very expensive ways of advertising, Newspaper advertising is the next DSSt means of sdvertising and, prices considered it is by far the best advertising, The administration program would avoid a good many millions of this by the unique and probably not very prac tical scheme of a continental army trained during two months' vacation time each year. Soon there will he plenty of chance for political dis cussion over this issue, despite the fact that both parties are for it. ' In the mean time the American people will study the question entirely apart from the arguments of politicians. This is a simple question. There are no such Intricate question! as in a tariff law, and the people do not have to go to school to learn the rudiments of the subject, as in the ease of currency legislation. It is as plain as can be. On ly good, common hard sense, patriotism, and cool-hcadcd-ness are needed. The latter is important. There is apt to be a tenden cy to lose our heads when we contemplate the war in Bur Ope, and think about the possibility of our becoming en gaged in such a conflict. If the democrats get into a dead lock, and the republicans score them, or poke fun at their efforts, the people will act wise judgment just the MUM HALLOW EVEN OR HALLOWE'EN . 'iM Tie name popularly given to the eve or vigil of All Hallows, or festival of All Saints, which being the 1st of November. Hollo we 'en is the evening of the 31st of October. Iii England it was customary to crack nuts, duck for apples in a tub of water, and perform 1 other harmless fireside revelries, which were surviv- sis of the festival of Pomona, on the 1st, of November. Still older were the Halloween tires, survivals of )ru- niieai ceremonies. THAT "ANTI DUMPING" LAW." PREPAREDNESS. JPho question of national preparedness, already an im portant subject of discussion throughout the country, is destined to be one of the leading topics of debate ill con gress, and doubtless the issues which will be moulded into more crystal Lied shape through the process of legislative deliberation will be still more regarded ;is vitally import ant by the count ry at large duriug the next year. The question, however, is not, and should not be, a partisan political issue. Politicians in both the leading parties will strive to make the most of the movement which has become a popular subject everywhere on ac count of the war in Europe and what may have seemed our rather narrow escape from being dragged into the conflict. Bui neither the republican or democrat party will champion the cause of adequate national defense to the exclusion of the endorsement of the opposing party. The difference will be over the extent the nation should go in providing for a larger increased army and navy, and discussions of the various plans for making the in crease. It is generally a reed thai the subject of national de fense meets an affirmative ivhmhisc from the great major it of the American people, Therefore the astute leaders of political parties will sec to it that their part) takes ad vantage of the popularity of the movement by endorsing it. This is one time where the democrats have the start on the republicans, for being in power it naturally falls to them to take ih oiosl practical wax of endorsing prepar- ( dness by beginning to make the preparal ions. Political parties seldom agree on the wisdom ot enact Lug am class of legislation, where one of the parties lias taken the had in framing, or attempting to pass, the legis lation. There is usuallx some llaws to pick by the other side even if the subject matter is most salutary. If the democrats were unanimous on the question of national de fense, and xvMild prompt !. eiia.t laws to that end, doubt less the republicans would swiug around to the other side, arguing that it Vul been overdouc. But in this ease there is not b) am nicAiis harniouv among the democrats. Then there ia the gresl stumbling block of paying the bills in tin' face of on iueroaspig deficit. Secretary RctlMeM of the department of commerce is laboring under the delusion that a federal law against "dumping" foreign products after the war will adequate Iv protect American manufacturers. The law would try to prohibit foreign countries from selling in the United States at less than cost. Such a law might help some, but it would not affect the difference between cost of produc tion abroad and at home. Labor is much cheaper in Europe than in the United States. It is less eftVient in many cases, but the differ encc in efficiency is not great enough to make the cost pro duetioii in Europe as high as it is in the United States. The democrats don't like to confront the problem. says the Tacoina Ledger. It is pointed out by the Ledge)' that the war has stopped the importation of numerous pro ducts, and several factories have opened in this country or plans have been made to open factories and furnish the articles heretofore coming from abroad. Secretary Red Held recognises the danger to such enterprises of Burope- an competition when the war is over. "I shall recommend in my annual report," he says "that unfair competition from abroad shall not be permitted to injure a legitimate American industry any more than it is permitted to do Ki in our domestic Held." We have a law against unfair com petition among industries of the United Slates, but none against unfair competition with our industries by the in dustries of Europe. If the cost of production were as great in Kuropc as it is in the United States, then an anti-dumping laxv would be sufficient, hut the fact in many lines tin st of inanu factur in Kurope is less because wages there are so much less than they are in the United States. Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, a member and former chairman of the democratic national committee, came out Hat some time ago in favor of a revised tariff law to pro tect new industries starting up because of the European war, and he undertook to prove that Andrew .Jackson and other great democrats favored a tariff for protection, lie contended that the republican party had no right to a nm nopoly of the doctrine of protection. But his attitude seems not to have convinced the Wilson administration, which has proposed as the only remedy a federal law a gainst "dumping" by foreign countries. Secretary itcdHcld says he has a frank preference for a method having to do with tariffs or duties. It is becoming increasingly evident that the next na tional campaign will be fought on the tariff question. The republicans will have effective lessons on the merit of the protective tariff because of the new industries that have .started up or are proposed since the war stopped imports tioiis of Various product! from Kurope. WEAL NAVY 0y William Hamilton Osborne, AUTHOR OP "ftCO M0U5C"R(WNING FIGHT" "cATSPAwr'oiue ouoae.-eTC NOVCLIZCD FROM TilE PHOTO PLAY Of THE M16 NADC PRODUCED BY PATriC CXCHANGC, INC. 8YNOPSI8. field She heard the Mingle of an ox I On tho day ft th- -ruptlon of Mount an then auddenly from the rear of j'elrfl Capt. John Dunlin of tli- ati uiner .. . . ,, , .,, Prtncaa. mcuH throc-ynar-old Ann. tta th bungalow a strange trio entered lllnirinfi from nn open bum. but I forcud the arena of event lu ii'-.o brhlnd In r futhur and hla com- . . . , w,.i ,io panl.ma. lllngton la aaaaulted by if r Ponto, a fat little Mexican who nandes and Conto In a vain attempt to boanteri ever Of hla Altec blood ;cl papera whli h lliiiKton has iu.im.ik. I , . . ,... ,a,ii- j i-r to aanJT aboard tba rrinroaa with Mi crawled behind primitive and Inef riaticbter. pnoura proving bin title to tbe fective plow. lual lalund of rinnabiir. Iltngton'a Injury .. ,h i a ii--n.,tv na. caut.-a hla mind to brmmo a blink. And the team! A strangely as sorted team wm this. On tho rlKht, SECOND INSTALLMENT THE YELLOW PACKET CHAPTER VI. The Whlplaah. Hernandoi stepped out upon tho with Ita head thruat through a wooden yoke, wub an ox On the left hand , aide, alao with hla head thruat through wooden yoke and with hla brawny I ahouldera tugging, ever tugging, at the plow, thcro waa hitched a man. J'onto, curalng, ralaed hla whip and brought down hla laah time after time with atrtct Impartiality upon the ahoul porch of tho .low-roofed bungalow Mo deru of the ox and upon tho bare back moved with laiy atrldoa He waa proi- of tv- ,, FAITH IN OOETHALS The American DSOple heard with satisfaction that Col. (locthals had decided to withdraw his resignation a.s .uv ernor of th Panama canal zone and stay w ith the job until the vexatious question of slides has hcen entirely settled. This problem ll one which would give much concern if it were not for the confidence felt in the builder of fthe canal that he will he aide to solve the difficulties of the situation in a short time. Ahout one bundled ships have been tied up at tbe oa ual on account of slides, and the assertions of the officials when the first earth movement occurred that they would soon have the canal open proved to have hcen premature There is no reat engineering feat necessary to remedy the Condition, according to experts, but there simplx must be removal of the earth that hlocks the channel util sudi time as the movement is checked hy reason of the natural adjustment of the looSS earth to the new conditions ariating from the artificial displacement of a vast amount of dirt. The task seems simple to state, but iyantic in its fulfill ment. At any rate Obi (ioethals is the man we want there until the difficulty is settled. peroua apparently, thla Portugueao, Hernandoi. Here wum no evidence of advoritlty nor of hard luck Yeara be fore ho had eacaped from the eruption of Mount I'ulee In Martinique. Now it waa the year 1915. It waa January of that year. He waa located nay, comfortably eatublinhed on hi:' own plantation In the aouthern waters For months or yeara who kuowa? he had lived a life of easo upon thla Island Juat off tho roast of Porto Rlcn. Hernandez strode to tho table and tapped a 1). II. "Inez," ho cried sharply, "bring me drink." He waa a Portuguese, thla Hernundex, tall, plunder, (lurk. The expression on his faeo waa sinister. and across hla face waa an old-time mar pkititcd by a saber stroke. Will. .n a woman hud been humming humming tittle snatches of familiar Spanish uongs. At his command the humming ceased There was an ex clumation of rage ot feminine rage. Ines Castro stepped out upon tho ver auda. "I am no servant," she exclaimed angrily, "to be summoned by a bell" "I Mink." said ll.rmiiidi-z sharply, "give me drink." She poured It out for him and hand ed him tin- glues. "May I hope it i-hokes you," she exclaimed, stumping Uer foot. "Stop your Fimrllbg there, you Span ish cut," exclutui.il Hernandez, "and listen tn i. it- I have an order from I 'hi to ith o that 1 must fill and fill tonight." liuv was all attention In a moment "How much do they waul?" she u;ik'd "Fifty pounds of gum opium," said h.T lord ;md niasiir, "and twenty pounds of fluke cocaine." He strode into the bungalow and approached a rude fireplace at the farther t ml of the apartment He stooped ami threw bock tho corner of a many-colored rug that partially con cealed tin- tiles The tiles were loose ly set lie removed u dozen of them Hernandoi Just then appeared on the veranda bearing with him a large wicker Uress-sult case. Hernandet, slowly smoking a nana telu. scanned the horizon. Suddenly his eyea narrowed. He strode swiftly Into the living room and aa awlftly back again and lu hla l.auds he bore a pair of up-to-date blnoculara. He held them to bis eyes and carefully adjusted thorn keeping them trained upon a speck, a mere aeck, that had appeared upon the surface of the sea. With a bound ho was off, circling the bungalow In tho opposite direction from that which loiito and his Ill-assorted team bad taken. He met him half way "Ponto," he exclaimed, "we shall have visitors Unhitch tho brute. Oet pickaxes get apadea." Hernandes led the way to the fore ground between tho veranda end of tbe bungalow and the shore. He pointed to a well plowed strip of ground. "There," he cried, "at that spot. Dig dig like the very devil." VrSviSvwv ;xMtEk-F E aas hv ilb as CHAPTER VII. The Clue- Hernandes returned to the veranda and seized the glasses once again He passed them to lnes "Tell me what you see," he said Tho woman ahuddered allgbtly. "Government vessel," she returned. With the womun at bis side he strode into the huge living room, A moment later he reappeared tug gtng with him a small steumer trunk With her aid be carried it to the ve i .uula. then they wuut buck for an-otiu-r and another and still another "Senor," exclaimed Ponto, from the Inner edge of a small pit thut he and the brute had finished digging, "behold. tUo tusk Is now complete." "Come tlu'n." cried Hernandez sharply, "dump these in." Half an hour later and half a mile from shore a revenue cutter stopped Its engines and later dropped 041 an chor. Another half an hour and Hernandet and his dark-haired lues sauntered shorewurd and stood bowing on the crazy little wharf. They wailed culm ly, the woman smoking a clgurctte and Hernandez enjoy iug His punelela, 1 1 1 1 I I I ill.. Illllll'd Did .lr. 1. ,.,. 1st II... I wharf life-saving service at Seaport, N. J.. u - -a . .1 ' swung down the narrow lane toward Hernandez deftly caught the rope a. beach , he J it waa thrown toh m terv.nlug railroad track, a train hr ,, "' ",d ' mcey pulled ln-a shore train from New m Tw.rr.nt" uve"ul York It. last two car. blocked Near r . t 1 a ! v . I ".'" iuwru me uracil anu 11 'v iiui t'luuuit- 11, an. ue aaiu. a and Us return. Each time it hod coma In this direction each time returned from thla direction." "The point la," went on the officer, "Just this: Thla la the only point south of Porto Rico within a given distance. The kicker owned by our informant, when it left It. owner, nulled direct toward you and returned direct from you. Possibly I am on a fool'a errand, but I've got to do my duty." "Permit me to escort you, senor," aid Hernandet. An hour later tho offloer was seated on the veranda waiting for hla men. One by one they filed In and reported. "No go, air," they all aald. "We're covered the whole place. There'a not an ounce of gum nor a penny'a worth of flake." The officer shook his head and dis missed his men. "Ton were .peaking." he remarked, sipping hi. glas. of Ice-cold vlchy, "you were .peaking of the Martinique eruption." "Of that," assented Hernandet, "and of aomethlng else the steamship Prin cess of New York." "Why," .aid the officer, "she was burned, that tramp burned two days out from Martinique." Hernandet'. eye. narrowed. "How do you know, .enor?" he queried "i know," returned tho olllcer, "be cause I was a aeaman on the gunboat Eaglet and the gunboat Eaglet res cued the survivors of the Princess." "Senor," said Hernapdet gravely, "I would hear about this Princes, of New York. She stood by, senor I remem ber well, for I tlmiii-.hi my laat hour had come she atood by to succor refugee, and I with my man Ponto here I waa a refugee. I fled from the amoke and lava of Mount ' back In 1902" "Were you on the ateamer Prin ess?" naked the oHlce. "No," returned Hernandet, "they would not let us on; they beat us back Uut a strange thing happened. senor. There were four of us, myself, my servant Ponto at d an American named Illngtoa." "Four of you?" Queried the officer. "Ah," aald Hernandez, "there was a fourth member of the party w. had put off tn a leaky boat. She waa a baby girl a child. Hm waa the 4a--Mr of tbl. Illugton." The officer leaned forward. His mind was at work. His memory trar eled back over aome thirteen yoara. He nodded "lllngton," he repeated. "A child a baby girl. I remember now." "That baby girl, senor, boarded the ship they took her out of all her party her and her native woman servant" Tbe officer hlapprd his thigh "I re member now," he said. "I rememboi all about It. Let me see. It waa com m-'ii talk aboard the Eaglet. This child enme aboard with the wife ot the Prlncena' captain She had two boya with her and thla little girl. I don't remember tho girl, but she waa young, a.y five yeara old The cap tain's boy I remember well he alept In my hammock tbe first night he came aboard. I remember him But .there waa something about the girl wait, 1 have it. A bag of gold Span ish pleees most of them. I think or maybu French A bag of gold and something else. Some note or pack age aome mystery at any rate, aa 1 recall." Hernandet knocked the ashes from his panetela. "You dou't say no, aen or," be replied, with a .bow of Inter est. "A bag of gold and a mystery I knew nothing, of all that I wonder what has become of lllngton Hy the way, senor, what became of tho sur vives of the Princes.?" The officer uodded "We landed them at Brooklyn navy yard. They were people from tbe North, New York or thereabout.. Curiou. about this little girl 1 had almost forgot all about her. I will have to look her up somehow some day and see what he history I. and what the mystery waa." Hernandet shrugged his shoulders. "Like looking for a needle in a hay stack, officer," he suggested. "Oh, no," said the officer, "they've got the record in the Brooklyn navy yard. I can easily And out." lie rose and held oat his hand. "Sorry to trouble you, Mr Hernandet Duty 1. duty and the government is no r spector of person. " CHAPTER VIH. The Flash Flare. N'eal Hardin of the I'nited State take you at your word." Mr Hernandez," went on the offi cer, "a Porto ltican fisherman reported to us yesterday that hi. kicker had been hired three times by a notorious negro smuggler that three times be had w.iucjud the d'a';rVurfl..of h.ls last was forced to wait until tho tral pulled out again Meantime, while th train waa stationary, a aiugle pas.eu ger alighted a smartly dressed young woman. She .topped, once she had alighted ajidlntejJuJfir in uncertain (Continued on page 5.) OUR JOB WORK ADVERTISES ITSELF 'I Hope It Chokes You!' claimed. She Ex- then he threw back an opening a 1 1 trap door in the floor beneath Inez , watched h!m until he disappeared Into this wide hole Then she glided I ut -.0 the veranda She poured out a 1 tiny drink and toaaed it off She lit a I cigarette. . li-U'ia -xr Igy. a. r-rtially plowed m We are ever ready to give you an estimate on Up to Date Printing. We Strive to Please GIVE US A TRIAI We Guarantee to Please 1 1