The Exeter Advocate, 1919-7-3, Page 6TREASURE HUNTING
ON DOMINION DAY
:Elsie and Glenn had apeizt several
surnirers at their grandfather's, but:
they had raver before been there so
early as June. When they realized
that they were going to miss Dom -
bion Day at home they looked very.
solemn.
"So far es I car: eee," Medd Elsie
so rer:y as they talkel the matter
over in .1.. hey'.cfe, -we're not going
to have a„, p:,� ;- all ,n•Dorrinle
n
ray."
Glenn cheek his ]read. "Vetere not,"
h' ^ reef. " rar..ifather iris:d have
taken us ar: er t., Meedewtelle, where
there's ,=i , *.tee to be a big cele!?. ati,.n,
ben - he got t>. visit eine peeple all
day ne y i
Elsie sighed. ••I with h.' wvaaetet :r
cf.tittere C ,..:r wistiu'ly.
Gr:zr eea i,<db.. wha leeppered to be
stardergthe ettei just below the
Inn twee:tee:re the seat 'ersation•
He eertee , t lete 'g, very theuget-
fue. 'ernes my _veil!" he said eo 4'ree
- self, S..oraet:: 1 g ::rust ne lone :3t>tet knwee to examine it. There wb'ts a
thee," rough drawing that kioked like a
He ;wee ep eer!y the next 11ernin ; !reap, and in the corner• of the paper
i w;it the eitice. When the were some word. printed crookedly..
�...: t. ee re id.;si r, he hail eaten his' The irrintirg said:
lea.teetet ecee ardent to. gel They If you would fin:?, ye berried trews-
r•, . eet j.. �l:e ver::ndah co See h`m .ire, note at what hour ye Shadowe
c:
Pee. eoet it? I eeepeee you net:ally y u' ie?ii,geet et,art of ye Shadowe go tee
eel .,, & ,a" % ,':• c tey._ ,a,•
1, tit:: nort'r.. to ye Reek in ye
here- teal, to _ er y. "'ire anys elree ie.,the*: iile:iSur'e seven Tardee
':'xta?d' cur el the .....s's
;tee eereee he tare.. e ed.
ely 'peeper thing to le on
.r
eters i . sen , lengery ane
en-, h. -gel. "Geed -heat, ereasere
they reached the spot, "It's like a
fairy tale."
She (lanced with impatience while
her brother climbed the trunk of the
tree. The hollow was only about
sight feet above the ground, and he
had often climbed to is and tried to
surprise the squirrels that used it for
a home.
"Tell me what you fine!" Elsie
erica.
Glenn reached ira:o the hollow and
drew something out. "It's a funny -
looking old envelope," he said. He
_ambled down in a great hurry*, -
THE CHEERFUL CHERV15
I look within.-. myself'
too idol.
It keeps my heart-
wounds ever sore..
should look out at
all the world
A>4a watch the other
people, more.
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The Great West Permanent
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I Am Content With Canada.
Of countries far and frmd have I
. bent their heads over the lay some distance over in the pasture,
They been tole;,
yellow old envelope. "Ye Mappe of Elsie stood en the place to mark it, And of the joys that fo eiar. travel
ye 7lyddene Treasure.' Glenn read while Glenn, consulting the compass,
t u There it was again: "Hidden measured off ten yards due north, At brings.
aloud, Of wonders, beauties one would fain
Trems.rre!" Ana Grandfather had the end of the ten yards he looked
behold
caked them treasure hunters. Things eagerly for the rock. Itis face fell. To stir the heart with fresh
began to look still mere mysterious, `There isn't a sign of a rock here!"' imaginings, -
Glenn ripped open the envelopehe saidan a disappointed tone; but
and drew out a folded pa-aer. He he marked the spot with a stake and And I myself in storied S.,.tzerlard
spread it on a broad, flat reek under came bast to look at the map. They Have watched the Alps in their
the oak, and they got down on their were both so impatient that they majestic calm, •
" of ye Oldie Oak Tree is at its shortest,
" Geer: f t i •air ae he then w .: t three 'iloi.res, and after-
_ reitee e le Penn.were rete eee ye Cha diary'.. Then from
T a...
`e 1
Fe.
eele -Tree e en.
netan
a it wee. erey enc
o" a, .r :ria ite Then
they n ell aeoui ani went
out :, pin17Itwee. net long, teeregh,
b". tree they ret n leere i the queer,
w . A.. Glen ran a:roes the yard
he did over a steno that wee
Il i4"" . ret c, i' the path. It was a
sirgetth etenc", nheut six ineaes ;an
Caen+ ki,ltee h. to one side. "That
v tin'- Fere ye tt:,ay.." he said, sere
prie
r -
pt.. e:'
-Leek:" calf Elsie, "There's a;
et .nig tied mine it."
'#irey tunnel the %tone over quickly
end feteei a foeleri paper slipped
ur ici. theen-leg. There was writing
inside the Felten but it was so strange
and wriggly thatelle!, could not read
it. They p1 : od over it a long time,
full >f eui• o it .. Then. they took it
tet the hese.. to get their grand-
mother to help them. Glenn had the
paper in his harm and stood trying
to read it with his back to the large
hail mirror. Then Elsie happened to
glance at the mirror. There, re-
flected from the surface of the glass,
was the writing, now as plain as
could he. This is what the children
read aloud together.
If treasure hunters you would be
Look in the hollow of the old oak
tree.
Glenn and Elsie were off like a
shot. There was only one old oak
tree on the pace with a hollow in it,
and in two minutes they had run
out of the : e rd, down the hill and
across the paeture to the edge of the
woods.
"Oh, what fun!" Elsie pa.,ted as Shadowe" was an easy matter. It
,..:a^ east to a Poste with an X on its
etenee S ; e, Then sight :mor*he by
weer erel gen Three Trees.. in a line.
From. m w e ee:n to Tree measure two
Yeriee dee naahe o:ed then one
1 .airy due west. At that Spot +lig,
r::1 you shall 1#e rtwardeil.
The ehi,,:ren ^would not make much
of the masa s0 they turned all
-heir attention to the writing. "Let's
ee=' sale shine. "It says, "When
the=neelow is e tartest: „
Elsie ti apped her hands. "That'
,will he when the sun is highest." she
cried.
"Good for you," said her brother.
"Of course it will." He felt a little,
ashamed that she should have thought
of it first.
They were so march excited that.
they could not stop to wonder what;
it all meant. But they agreed to tell'
no one the strange secret until they!
had followed out the directions.
By this time the sun was high, and}
there was no time to lose. The chil-
dren hurried to the house tc, make'
their ,preparations, When they came
back half an hour later Glenn had a
long measuring tape. a compass and
a little clock, and Elsie carried a
basket of luncheon. They spread out
their map again and sat down to
wait. It seemed best to go ahead
carefully, step by step as the paper
directed.
The sun climbed slowly and the
shaoow of the tree shrank more .,and
more, It was hard to wait, but
sandwiches and gingerbread helped a
good deal. At length the great mo
went came. When the shadow seemed
to be at its shortest, Glenn looked at
the clock. It was then exactly
twenty minutes to one. At twenty
minutes to four the real fun would
begin. They lrought some games
and books down to the tree to while
away -the time, and settled them-
selves again to wait.
It was a long afternoon, but
!twenty minutes to four carie at last.
1 To find "ye longest part of ye
could not bear the thought of a hitch
in -their plans,
"Maybe it meant to say due south,"
Elsie suggested; but there was no
rock thirty feet toward the south,
either.
"Wait a moment'." Glenn cried. "It
says in the ground! I know how to
go ahead now."
Ile hurried .to the house and came
racing back with a spade, The dirt
was soon flying wildly. After two
minutes of digging, the spade grated
on something,. "Here's our rock!"
Glenn cried.
After that, matters went more
smoothly. When the boy had
measured off seven yards due east
with his tape, there, sure enough,
was a fence post. A big "X" was
faintly but distinctly= marked en the
south side of the post.
The explorers studied their com-
pass carefully for north by west, and
when they had sighted the post cor-
rectly they saw three trees in line,
Things were beginning to be exciting
naw, sure enough. By the time Glenn
had measured two yards due north
from the centre tree and then one
yard due west his hands were
trembling. As for Elsie, she could.
do nothing but hop up and down,
"Now what?" they said, when they
had 'ome to the end of the directions.
"You shall be rewarded," they read
again, with puzzled faces. But there
was no sign of a reward anywhere;
only a stretch of smooth sand at the
edge of the woods..
"Maybe we are to dig again," said
Glenn.
Elsie eagerly offered to do her
! share, and between them they dug a
fdeep hole in the sand, but still no
i treasure came to light. They decided
ito stop for ten minutes.
Elsie took the first turn, when they
Ibegan again, and the third time she
stuck the spade into the ground it
struck something hard. Glenn seized
1 the spade with a whoop. "We've near-
! ly got it!"
i It did not take him long anter that
to finish the job. The edge of an
'iron -bound box soon showed through
i the dirt; a little later a handle came
into view. Then, as. Elsie pulled at
i the handle and Glenn pried with the
spade, the box loosened. All at once
Elsie staggered' backward with the
kbox in her hands.
It was an old battered box with a
fthatwasheld together
rusty hasp
with a wire. The children tugged at
the wire breathlessly. It came loose
at last, and they lifted the lid of the
box. Inside lay an oblong package
wrapped in old paper.- When they
had torn off the paper they found a
pasteboard, box tied with cord and
sealed with red wax. It did not take
long to open the second box. Inside
were two envelopes, one addressed
to Glenn, the other to Elsie: The
handwriting was Grandfather's.
Glenn got his open first. "A fifty-
dollar- bond! Hooray!" Glenn cried.
"1 have one, too," Elsie echoed.
Then they picked up the box and
read the message- on it: "Fcr two
good grandchildren, to help out this
Canada of ours."
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MOTHER -WISDOM
Parents Must Choose Ct refiilly Among What Seem to. be Con-
flicting Duties. It Takes Time as Well as Love, Wisdom and
Work as Well as. Sentiment,, to Tram Our Little People
Aright. Does it Not Pay?
By Helen Johnson, Keyes,
One summer I visited in the home of the corners andttbe hook:' and eyes
of a woman who had two of the in place on dresses,
brightest, happiest children I have', It happens to us all sometimes that
ever known. She was very fragile - we must choose between what is most
looking, but she seemed always ready, important and what is less important, •
to give time tothe children and to because we are incapable of perform-
do any thing which her husband sug-1 ing all things perfectly, In such a
Bested. His business carried him, case, is not out children's training
about the province and often she and th n most important?
the children went with him, piling, The choice presents itself most •
into the car at a few minute's' notice: frequently during the adolescence of
and appearing entirely untroubled by1 our boys and girls, when our own
any peculiarities of clothing or by strength has begun to grow some -
any unfinished task in the home, what less and when our children sud-
Fond as I was of these dear friends, deny fail us. After a period of some
I was sometimes inclined to be irri-. years during which these sons awl
tated by the unkempt appearance of daughters had grown ` increasingly
the family and the disorder in the independent of our care and increase
house, The comradeship between ingly helpful to us, they suddenly re -
husband and ',wife, however, and their bel against wort: and confinement and
chumminess with the lovely children make strange demands both for
shamed my criticism and seemed a' amusement and for eolitude. Their
,justification of the family life. characters confuse us with new probe
One day my hostess told me a leers as serious na any wh'eh infant:,.
story, She said that a few months holds, though: they concern the moral
after her second baby was born, she, life more than the body.
herself became seriously* ill. The; What shall we do? Shirk this
doctor warned her thea she had a ` problem: which came to us just as we
disease which she co;rid not hope to thought that we !zeal reached a eori-
overcome except be- z very care -free, fortable harbor in the stormy voyage
Ilas winged my farcy as we drifted' life. If ^she wvere to work bard, he' of motherhood? Shall we con:ees
by; said, or worry a great deal, she . ourselves too Imlay to study one,
Beside the oleander and the vine would have several vers of sickness, • again our chileiren's needs? Shah
I've dreamed beneath the soft; and then die. In telling me the storywe let them shirt for them to iw es, lied sky, 1 she confessed that utter despair had, their own way out of the newerma-
But I have never been mo deeply re de 1 ' filled her heart, She had two babies,' tions and emptations of their age?
tirxed ! a mortgaged house and a husband Shall we sacrifice our boye an: girle
By any loveliness of land or sea i who would never be a rich man. How to the perfeet housekeeping which ha'
Than when upon Canadian shores I've could she live a care -free life? Yet'.been our pride, continuing to give all
heard iif she did not do so, she must die! our strength to the material thing=
The lonely loon or curlew can to i The children would be motherless, her of home and sparing none for the
me. ! dear husband without his chose., come. spiritual salvation of our children?
! Panton. de shall we give ouii strela th tot c
Across our own unnumbered northern; The ansa er,,,came to her slowly-and'
salvation of souls which rite immor•
lakes, ; she said that at the time it was a tal and ~which God placed in aur
And over leagues of winding; g very painful answer, She saw that charge twelve or fourteen years be•
waterways, ! she must neglect her house, her fore?
Upon whose nameless shores the., clothes, her children's clothes in' meteors who can reach lihrariee
Ankl yellows in the soft aspen shakes autumnal! order to live to influence their char- slrnulal read several boot:' an tale suh•
asters and minds, jeeet of adolescenee. The libreriar
After a while she went home from will help them to choose these. They
the hospital and she began at once should understand how serious arc
(And, oh, to swing away where all is thehard task f • dust and the physical changes through wwhiel
Twee war as o ignoring a us �,
And fir, disorder. Of course it was disagree-. their children are passing. Thii
A d share the haunts of shy and able but her husband thought it not knowledge will give then sympathy
tameless things, I too large a price to pay for her life. with those strange tempers aha
To dip one's paddle in the liquid blue
And skim the water lightly as with
wings!)
When on the bread St. Lawrence
some grey day,
Among 'those islands wvrought of
mist and dreams,
I drift to realms of unreality,
Where all the world a lovely vision
seems;
Or when among the Rockies I have
eaurht
The sudden gleams of peaks above
the cloud,
And on the tumult of my quickened �
thought
New visions, dreams and aspira-
tions crowd;
Or thinking of the future and of all
That generations yet unborn shall
see-- •
The forests that for axe and plough-
share. call,
The wealth of golden harvests yet
to be.
I am content with Canada and ask
No fairer land than has been given
me.
No greater joy, no more inspiring
task,
Thanto upbuild and share her
destiny.
—Helena Coleman.
We have more to do with others by
our words than in :almostany other
way, so that the Golden Rule is to be
appi;ed especially to speech. We do
not want others tie speak unkindly of
us or harshly to us; we do not want
them to ridicule us or mock us or
find fault with us. Therefore' the
Golden Rule tells us w_ a are not to do
these things to them. .
A SONG OF CANADA.
You ask what land I love the most,
Canada, 'tis Canada
'Of this fair land T make my boast, -
Canada, 0 Canada!
From yonder broad. St, Lawrence stream
To where the Yukon waters -gleam,
Oh, fair it is as poet's dream,
Canada, my Canada!
See yonder fields of tasselled corn,
Canada, in Canada!
Where plenty fills her golden horn,
Canada, 0 Canada!
See how her wondrous glories shine
To yonder sunset's purpling line,.
Oh, happy land! Oh, land of mine!
Canada, ;0 Canada'
Go read, the story of thy past,
Canada, 0 Canada!'
What glorious deeds, what fame thou hast
Canada, 0 Canada!
So long as time's great cycle runs
Or nations weep their -Callen ones
Thou'lt not forget thy patriot sons.:
Canada, 0 Canada!
Fortenately she was gifted with a moods which temporarily change the
fine and well-trained mind and as she tractable children of yesterday into
lay resting hour after hour as she, the rebels of to -day.
had to do, she prepared the children! Though the adolescent boy or gee
for school, taught them to love poetry, craves solitude at times, he crave'
and good prose, educated their senses sympathy more strongly than ever
through hand work, and directed their; before. He is sensitive to reliwioui
cultivation of 'a small garden. By influences and if the eziurch and Sun.
'and by the little car was 'bought as day School and young people's so•
a health measure and a further op -,i cieties are wise in their manner el
portunity for family enjoyment. The; reaching out toward him, they wie
family found they could use it for exert a great and benign influence
educational possibilities and so they upon his development. Nature wit'
set about discovering all they could interest him and if he mints to make
about the country through which they special studies and collections . he
traveled, its geology, its vegetation should be given every encouragement
and its social life. This interested to do so. Despite the fact that bete
the children, too. e boys and girls seem very conceited
Presently a third baby cam, not a and impatient of criticism at this age,
delicate child, as one might leave ex- nevertheless they are easily dis-
pected, but a fine, vigorous infant couraged and need praise 'far more
who soon proved that she had in- than rebuke. They should not be al•
herited the excellent family brains. lowed to worry abeui their school
Did not this woman choose the work or, indeed, about anything, but
-larger thing—life and training of her should have long hours of sleep and
children? Of course it was unfor- excellent, nutritious food and sympa-
tunate that the choice had to be nia:de thetie treatment entirely free from
at all, for a well -ordered hoin.e is nagging though not of so exceedingly
beautiful and an education for:young gentle a kind as to kill in them the
people. Yet it was surely better to sense of duty and responsibility.
maintain the spirit of affection, of Such supervision and guidance re-
amiability and fellowship than to quire study, self-control, tier e. But
have become• a grumbling, irritable are they not worth while? Are they
invalid in an effort to keep dust out not our duty and our privilege?
• The Canadian Nation.
"Canadian to the core! Where
prairies roll,
And northward far to the untrodden
pole,
No limit East or West but bound-
less sea,
All this fair land is ours! and we are
free!
Down through the ages yet to come
and go
In this our land a nation strong shall
grow,
And send her produce o'er the
earth afar,
Nor shrink to guard her own in time
of war!"
Canada lags far behind the rest of
the world in the matter of child wel-
fare. "Save the babies". should be.
ourwatchword.
'Canada Product" will be a guar-
antee of high level excellence if the.
Canadian Trade Commission can ef-
fect it.
1
MR. FARMER
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It is the duty of every married man
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information to enable them to dis-
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hood.
The Canadian Trade Commission
literally "observe mankind front
China to Peru." Recent inquiries
about Canadian trade openings were
received coy the Commission in the
same mail from Shanghai and Lima.
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