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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-11-4, Page 6Fine Quality If TS7 i fyi ,—only 43c Per % ib. I'ACLES You may not like Joseph Bishop, but this story of the awakening of his tramped soul will hold you to the last word. BY SOPHIE KERR. PART H. "Do I hear you correctly, Joseph?" your bidding, His mother tried to pre- hardly be understood. "0 God, - he lie asked at last. 'Tau are telling. rile vent it, incl to Shre-d frim, and • you merciful to me --a shiner," he stem that Robert is not dead, but that you tsh eati! neturn d hreat n dtaunted he . ood t totd meted. i expect him to die sheerly, mid that you you she would go back: her eo le Old Parson Rayne dropped beside wish me to see to it that no other fun- p p him. He had preached the greatest eral, supposing a death occurs in the did you desist, and then only partially: revival sermon of his life. He had neighl erhood, shall take precedence "But, look here, Parson --I did all kindled to flame the divine spark in a cf his?" those things at that age. A little clod of humanity where it was so faint "Yes," said Bishop. "You see, 1 roughing's good for a boy. Boys as tq seem not to be. He had used the heal d that Mardy Graham's wife was oughtn't to be coddled and petted." scalpel of truth to cut through the r n- pretty bad." "Be silent, Joseph Bishop, until 1 penetrable callosities of egotism and The old minister still stared at him. give you leave to speak. Into this ignorance to nerves not yet quite in - "You want me, I gather, to preach funeral sermon for your son I shall sensitized by their thick covering. Icobert's funeral sermon—when the put the story of how he grew up a Now he lifted up his voice in prayer, time arrives for it—in a way suitable lovely, promising boy, with a mind so and his petition rose with the .scent to your place in the community, as keen to learn that not even all the of the honeysuckle toward. Him who wll as to give him that Tribute which obstacles you put in the way of his had created both man and blossom.. his character deserves. schooling could prevent him. I shall A little later the motor truck, driven •`Well, of course, he's my only boy." tell how he was always taken from at break -neck speed, turned in at the "Who is with hint now? His mo- school early in the spring to help with Bishop farm lane. • Beside Joseph on ther?" the farm work, and how he was never the driver's seat sat Parson Wayne, "Yes, Molly's there." permitted to enter school in the with somewhat less of the spiritual "No one else?" autumn until the last of the husking magistrate and more of the benign "No, not now; but I'm aiming to was done. Even so, he led his classes. saint -about him. As for Joseph Bishop, fetch Lottie Sanders as I go home, to I shall tell how you denied the request something more humble looked: from cook and, keep house till it's over:" of your wife and son that the school- his eyes than had been there for many strength aboutethe house and barn, at strange choking words that could "Why should dull and brutal mien, like you be given a treasure you can- iaot understand nor cherish? I do not knoi'v. All you have done you justify to yourself, I have no doubt, by the 13iblical verse that eays, 'Children, obey your parents,' Did you ever read on, Joseph Bishop?' It is a eommend of equal weight. It'Gays: 'Parents, provoke not your children to wrath,' Woe unto You, Joseph Bishop, for you have broken your son's life, and his spirit., and .taken his;youth from hire, and justified yourself therein! Woe. unto you for your thick selfishness,: your vieiaus self -complacency, that has become to you a curse! Get clown on your knees this instant and kneel in' umility before your Maker and pray that your son's life May yet be spared to you, and that you may be given an opportunity` to repair a little of the wrong you have done, Offer Him a m brok.and contrite heart., and He will not clospiee it. This is His glorious promise to sinners, yea, .even to such as you. Down on your knees, I say, and cover your face and approach with me the throne of Almighty God." The momentous' ` denunciation and command. beat on Joseph Bishop. like whips. Beneath their violence the great, thick pian crumpled down upon the floor, a misshapen, sprawling mass 'of quivering flesh. His head lay limp an the seat or the chair and painful !tears cozed slowly from his eyes - :mingling with his sweat, stinging his flesh, hurting him. His voice, broken of its surety and arrogance, came in "But suppose Robert should die in *Becher should. board with you,'and in your absence, alone there with his the consideration of the sum of one mother. Do you actually mean that paltry dollar a week taken from his there is no other human being within board should give Robert the extra •max led the way. call to be near her at an hour like learning he so craved and thirsted for. Molly came down to meet them, and that?" I shall tell how you gave him no Melly was; changed too—a Molly years Yes, the old minister was certainly chance to go to high school, butkept youeger, radiant with hope all through getting ` in his dotage. ; He, Joseph him on the farm, like as a slave. How' her faded weariness. • Bishop, never heard so many.' fool his ,gallant and questing spirit, irit still "Just . a little while ago," .she told questions. Still, he answered them as longing for education, borrowed books them, "the : fever broke, and he conte best he could. from whom all sweat and opened his eyes and ii whomsoever had them; and read , p Y "She could ring the bell and call the the4n in secret, drinking up the beauty spoke to me as natural as if he'd just men out of the fields if she really need- and wisdom of the World= -yes, in sec- waked up in the morning. And I gave ed anybody. And I'll be back long ret, kcmowin well .that ifyou found it hint some milk, and he turned over ,, g y before undoand dropped '1 i s sundown." out ouoffto s ee like a baby. would. beat pini. Doyou - There was a long silence in the member •how ' heplanted flowers Oh, Joe, Doc Pruitt don't know every. ' room, while the old man stared at the brought from the ods about your thing. But I tell you—there was Some - ger one. Something in those wise base and rigid home?" And how you thing, strange to it. too. Seemed to ,.; old brilliant eyes held Joseph. Bishop dug them up and threw them, amo gi me somehow as. if he.was getting fur - in strange t s r n sort of h -yourher awayand.: didn't -want -to come ge -piesis. It seem swine. How from time to time, f ed as if the old parson was looking yougave him'sickly young animals that back—and then, all of a sudden, he did CC deep, deep into him, probing him, needed special` care cand urged him to !want to! So back he come. It was f ` searching hint, with probes of sharpnurse them, sayingtheyshould be his ( like—it was like—a miracle, if you metal that cut and tore at some sensown. Once a lam-.-asn't it? -=-and (don't think it's wrong to Ball it that—" tive fibre of him that had never before once a calf, and once a half-dead colt. I she .g:ar_ced doubtfully at the old min - been disturbed. He twisted uneasily iWhen he had faithfully fulfilled his I is ter. in his chair, something of his grea part of the contract, you :.old those The old man -smiled. cloak of self-assurance and self- animals and kept the money for your- "It isn't wrong to call it a miracle," esteem was cut away by those merci- self." - less eyes. I ` "I only saved it for him," cried out And he had always thought Parson Joseph Bishop. "He was to have it Wayne a little man. Now, as he rose when he was twenty-one." - behind his desk and leaned tower' "I believe that you Iie," the old Joseph, he seemed to tower in a preacher went on pitilessly, "for you r strange and awful majesty. His voice are a grasping man and. a hard man. s rang out as it used to ring out in great An immortal soul was given into your revivals of the past. He pointed an keeping; an immortal soul, and .a beau - accusing finger, 'straight as a lance, tiful, generous nature, a mind of infin- a day. "You go in.first, will you, Parson?" he asked. "I'm afraid." So the old • he said. "But I have seen a great one this day." And he looked at Joseph Bishop, who had found his fatherhood.. (The End.), and like a lance, its accusation struck ite possibilities. What have you done? You have chained that boy to your plows and cultivators, stalled hint. among your cattle. Husks instead of the bread of life have been his por- through to the shriveled soul of Joseph Bishop. - "Yes, Joseph Bishop," said the old parson, in terrible solemnity, "if your son. Robert dies I will preach his fun- tion. AU these things I shall tell in eral sermon. And it will be such a Robert's funeral sermon. funeral sermon as never before was "And more. It was not poverty in preached in this town—perhaps in this material riches that made you do this. world. I'will tell you about it. I Joseph Bishop, for you have prospered shall begin with his babyhood, when he in this world's goods, but the poverty was a. frail and nervous child, made so and meanness of your own nature. because you insisted that his mother This illness of which your boy lies dy- should cook a big dinner and supper ing came on him• because you chose to • for your barn -raising when the was ten bind his body in the hardest, most days old, and • when she should still monotonous labor, to fetter his winged have been in bed. T have verified that spirit, and to shackle his ardent mind. 10 Oar" y You will stand before God on Judg- with the weakened nerves and lowered meat Day his murderer—and as sure - atom la her breast he was suckled vitality that comes from such an out- ly as God rules in his heaven, Joseph rage on nature. That will be the be- Bishop, you will burn in the lowest pit ginning of my funeral sermon, Joseph of hell!" His voice accused, condemn - Bishop. ed, scarified. He went on: "And the next thing I shall tell in "I am ashamed to the depth of my that sermon is how, at five years old, being that I have done nothing about he was taught to weed in the garden this before. 1 was fond of your son; and to' do chores far beyond his infant I gave him what books I could, .talked to him, encouraged him to look' for; ward to a time when he would no long- er be your chattel. I knew when he made his last plea toyouto be allowed I a little extra schooling, and was de- nied it, that he had come near to the' breaking point. He had lest hope. i Youth is -impatient, and rightly so, for , the del, is short and no man knows - when the night cometh. Y should have told him to leave you, to go his own; +.1 t t f." ' `e..i Good taste and good health demand .and sound _tooth and sweet breath:• utq, of Wrei.. '0 s chew- �V* lug gum alter every meal takes care of tl:.,is important item of personal, hygiene in a delight. ful, refreshing way—by clear' ling the teeth of food particles and by helping the digestion, The result is a Sweet breath that x'1rowA care for: one's self and cons sidet'atlon foe oth.ess -,•froth Marks of trcfinement- Asa: for GG38 GL ; •tor 44 -sate way in freedom. But the empty con- ventions of this foolish little world about us held me back:' You were not e of'myflock. If I did this oneXwucl o1 be accused of meddling. Now I ani' 'worse. I am accessory to the murder ofelmz your son,Jo.. Bishop. p p "It seems to me the crowning tough to yotir brutal stupidity that you :should come to me and ask me to preach your son's funeral sermon while he still lives. This, I suppose, is an example of your vaunted foriancl- 1 edness. I have often heard you brag about being a forehanded man, Joseph 13ishop, bet.I never knew it vould lead. you to an act of such. callousness and Zack of feeling that I can. liken it only to those wild beasts that cluster round to kill and perhaps devour'the wound- ed, ed, old, amid sick of the peek, At such time you leave your wife alone with your son, and come to me on such an errand! I cannot express to you the horror I feel for you, the horror of What you must be, to have, done this thing'. At first I could not at all be. lieve that you meant what you said. Zie---"Yes—I was brotsrglit up country." She—"Well, you'll never bring me up there." the Queen Victoria's. God -Daugh- ter Gets Marine Engineer's Certificate. The -prospect that women soon may be found on the bridges of Atlantic liners looms in;, sight with the taking of 'a marine second engineer's "ticket" by Victoria Drummond, twenty -eight- year-old god -daughter of Queen Vic- toria. She is the first woman to re- ceive an engineer's certificate. She joined the Blue Punnet liner An:obises as junior engineer two years ago and has inade six trips to . Aus- tralia anal the Eat. She is rejoining the liner for more sea experience be - form taking time examination for a. first engineer's ti`eket, which will make her a. full-fledged 1ilacAudrew, qualified to perform all the nifracies expected from a Scotsman at sea—but content to use language which to him would be a terrible handicap. -]1lise Drummond has worked all the usual watches, and it. is pointed out, it would have been less difficult and unpleasant tohave her qualify for a masters ticket. T'he Bunk. "Out in the eountry where 1 spent my vacat!rm, three gave tee ono of those three season beds." "Never beard of them." "No spring!" t�ilrtamtl'a t.inlr.7ant toe todthachii 54 DFA 009 YOUTHFUL AND SLENDERIZING • IN LINE. 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This figure is not only iuterestiug in itself, but the fact that It has actually been determined is said to be of the greatest lniportanoe, since, aocortling to the timeoey of..relativity, it shout i , be .impoetsible to ascertain the speed of the ;earth through epaoe. Professor Courvoisier lased his ex- perimeutis and calculations on the` theory of the Dutch savant, Lorenz, who maintained that objects traveling at great speed -contract in the direc- tion iii which they are moving, and that,. 't'herefore, the earth would be- Mite ecommie flattened at the front and beck in its oourse, Such a change in the shape of ' the earth, according to Lorenz, would result in a ohauge of the direction and in the strength of the earth's -gravity at time point where ,11 is fiatteued. Owing to the earth's rotatory'mo tion, every part of it must onoe in. each 24 hours face once the front and °nee the rear in ite journey through space; the result being that every part will he flattened while it does so andwill experience certain changes of the direction as well as of the •strength of the earth's gravity. Fleck part of the earth, therefore, will- experience cartels fluctuations of gravity within 24 hours.` Now Professor Courvoisder has actually diseoyered such fluctua- tions of gravity, fromwhich he has deduced that the earth must be travel- • ing at a speed of 750 kilometers a second through space. He employed sevenel independent methods for de- termlning this, each of vhioh led to the same result. Shifting of the Zenith, A change of the direction of gravity, for instance,. would manife6t itself in a shifting of the zenith recognizable by measuring its distance from cer- tain stars. Sues shifting of the zenith was discovered by Professor Cour- voisier, and its extent pointed to a •, speed of the earth of 750 kilometers a second. A change in thele strength. of gravity can be ascertained with the help of -the speed of the pendulum of clocks. Here the research work of the astronomer was greatly: aided by the transmission of time signals by radio. The results obtained in this direction also . pointed to'.a speed of 750 kilo- ' meters a second. Professor Courvoisier 'verified -•his ' iscoveriee by -a third: method, nsins ' a mirror of quicksilver and so arrang- ing two telescopes against its surface that be could ales the cross of one in the cross ;of the ether. He then no- . ticed that the cross of one telescope fulfilled certain movements which. he attributes to movements of the mir•-e. rot •called . forth by changes in the earth's gravity. The meti.ematical cal-` Sulatione based on‘this experiment al- so indicated •a speed of 750 kilometers a second. That the MiI•ky Way and the other stars are traveling at the same speed through the ether Profes- sor,.Courvoisier• deduced in a most in- genious manner from the, nebular spirals. " • Island Friends. I pastiness s 'ainamer,pail, <sti ,ped ;in a . rowboat and started off down the take.,,, ., Aleng the side of the island I went. thromg'h ,the narrows. between this .land and •Blake's, -past the long shore,, where the water maples beckon and white birches lean over to see ' their reflections, past :high cliffs; with ferns and Tittle cedars growing in the ceervices. The boat was beached on this, sand, I climbed a strep hill,, crept under a fence and my_waik began. Up- hill and down through groves of maple. - and hemlock, by the. shore of pom}de, aver weal bridges, the road wandered en. A chipmunk. skiep.sd - along the top of a. fence, his •cheek -(rackets- l u1•g- Ing with 'corn filched. from a near -by born. His tali col'c'ed book -was mark- ed with the long brown strippee loft, by the old squaw's, fingers Where, accord- ing to the Indian leiee,nd, she trdted to, gratip the father of ail, ehipmoaks, and 1 fabled to hotici him. , On the topmost twigs, of the popisas goldfinches were swinging,, spots os shining yiellow against the blue. "They are the most charming little Mode, so fearlese- and so friendly; They flutter tut, ever the !aloe with a dan,civg, bub• terfly flight, twittering and wailing amt gentle, coaxing tones. In nesting tinmie. they hang cal the heads' of thfatlee busily eluekming off down foe lining for tbcir masts; they: perch . on the` mut- - !•air ms arid gather• :need " fr'om every standing weed worlt.ing energetically, their black caps set •pefkily aver one eye. Gay little birds, thele whole. lite ele•enzs a joarous'liolatla.y. It was a 'Wilting,. skin eyelike g, with every tree,,' rock and• btroilitteging busk reflected as in a. to au'or, The drifts wood along the shore ftlst its pleture atthe waterline- object and reflection dosibled to took like skeletons of giant crayilsh, Pang 1012ardc or huge soldiers' and crabs. The purple tnertins weave flying flow, hocks of them, going home to sleep. Every they wheel out twee the ;Aloe With twittering. ernes, littlio 1ea'k ShIVES agab:tat a painted sky. When darkriteini Yells, We hear' them still twittering mild talking tcgetli•ar while they oeitly far theh• night.—Laura r eo 'Dav1 taoat, in "tete* ot.ttleax "