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My Son Harry
By CAROLINE 'LEE JENNINGS.
CHAPTER IV.
"I'd dike to board right along here,
Mrs. Smith," he said, smiling at me,
"Stay as long as you can," I told
him, "I'd just as soon take a few
boarders as .not, now that Harry has
fixed things up so easy for me."
"So Harry has been helping out a
little?" he asked, so pleasant and nice I said. "Why, it just runs itself,'
and se interested. he answered and he and Anson spent
"Why, Harry has bought the place," the rest of the afternoon looking at
I said, and then, someway, I got to it. Harry says I must have station -
talking about my boy and I told him ary tubs to go with it. I am going
how sickly he was when he was born to write to Mr. Walters to -morrow
and talked right down to where he and tell him to come and visit us a
had come home and done so much that week next summer. And I'll do his
I didn't have any mere work to do washing for him, too.
worth speaking about. I never knew December 29. Christmas is over.
I could talk so much and I fright have Such a nice Christmas. Harry went
been ashamed of myself only lie seem- away the first week in November but
.ed te like to listen to me. he hired a good man to do the work.
I was sorry he had to be, as he He and Anson get along fine together.
put it, "bumping along' the next day Barry said he had to leave on account
and so was Anson. We don't often of !niportant business but the idea of
have company. He has promised, to his getting married keeps coming
come again. He had This hand on back to rte. He sent me the makings
Barry's shoulder when he said good- of a gray side dress, with shoes and
bye to hint and theylooked at each stockings to match, and he sent An-
other so steadily and long. it made son a fur coat. Anson said he was
me feel queer. in hopes he could get me the dress
"Salt of the earth, my boy"' I heard next summer and I saw he seemed to
him say and Harry's- lips seemed as feel hurt but I said, "Good lands, An -
if they trembled. They must be great son, a man can't buy feed and grain
friends. and groceries and silk dresses, too!"
As I was sitting in my rocker this and he looked happier and said that
evening, all of a sudden Harry came fur coat was what he had been need -
ever and picked me up in his arms ing for a long time. We worried
and carried me over to Anson who some about the cost but Anson says
was nearly asleep in the big arnitliair. as long as Harry does not tell us how
"Rock her awhile!" he said to his much he saved, it's not for us to in -
father. "She does not weigh over a qt -ire. But he must have earned 'way
hundred pounds, so you won't find her more than ten dollars a week.
tee heavy," ami then he walked right January 25. I have been reading
out of the room. I never saw such a aloud evenings to Anson and Jim.
boy m all my life, Anson and I were Harry sent us books by Mark Twain
both dumb for a minute. Then 1 and they are so funny that even An -
started to get off Anson's knees and son has to laugh. Jim chuckles most
be said, "Why not sit a second, Moth- of the evening. He is such a nice
. er?" and so I did, blushing like a silly man, so polite to me.
girl and my heart pot_nding, His March 5. My gray silk dress is
exms around me seemed so good and finished and it is so pretty. I found
I smoothed back his thick gray hair a style in one of the magazines and
with so much love, I was afraid he sent for the pattern. Jim says I look
would notice it. Anson was never like a little china doll; I don't know
much of a hand at showing his feel- just what he meant but I knew he
Ings but as I sat there on his lap to- meant well and so I said, "Young man,
night, we had a quite a little visit. you say that because I always call
Anson is an awful good man, once
you understand him.
October 28. What will happen ..ext!
The telephone rang yesterday. It
was George Lang at the freight office.
There was a big box for me. Harry
went after it. It was a washing ma -
chine that runs by an electric motor,
the same as the churn and the separa-
tor. And it was from Mr. Walters!
The idea! Harry was as pleased as
could be and wanted ine to hunt up
some wash and use it right off, but I
said I guessed I'd wait for Monday.
"And you will have to run it for me,"
wife and Mr. 'Waftere,. I .did 'not.
have time to do my house ckaning
but I fixed upthe front rolmas* as welt
as I eould and baked up everything
I could think of and then Just sat
down and waited, I couldn't eat and
I slept only an hour or so at time,
waking up, remembering :and staying
awake. Harry was bringing his wife
home, to his 'home, his own home that
Anson had sold to him, And if she
happened not to like us, if we should
be too old styled, too old anyhow, for
her to want Around—what would hap-
pen then? "Oh, God," I prayed, over
and over again, "don't make me have
to leave my home! Make her like us
—melte her like us!" for 1 knew, no
matter what Harry said, if she did
not want us, we would have to go.
I was glad when the day' for their
arrival finally came, for I could not
have stood it much. longer. Anson dream -another T have been looking
was mighty uneasy, too, and when for"
afternoon came, he went ont to help «But your. own mother?" 1 asked.
Jim in the barn. "You can call me, "I have never known my own moth
when they get here, he said and er, dear. She died when I was born!"
when I asked him if he wasnt going ,t remember what else we
hewasn't,
as u he said, no
to are p,
and I knew by that just how he felt.
He did not want to do any different
from what he always did and she
might as well see him first as last, in
his work clothes. That was what he
meant, So. I was standing in the
doorway, all alone, when Mr. Walter's
big red automobile drove up to the
gate. My eyes went right to Harry's
wife. I could not spare time. to look
at the others, I just wanted to see
her. Afair-sized girl, bundled up in
a big furry coat, got out and turned
and saw me. I didn't go down the
walk to meet her, I wanted to but I
couldn't. I just stood there and look-
ed. And she looked at me and stood
still, too. Then, all of a sudden, she
slipped out of her coat and. came run-
ning.
"Oh, Mother! she cried and I held
out my arms to her.
I got so faint, they had to put me
in a chair and get some water for !,What?" he said sure '1sed.
me to drink but I soon was better "That she picked him out. She.
and able to Talk. would never forgive you."
"I think it is because can see you rd a
ethers demanded to know the joke
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tity price to the tlrst 2-5 buyers of style 160W. Oak. Also
the first 80 buyers of style 110E. Oak or Mahogany.
First 25 buyers of 150W. Oak. Regular, each, $145.00, for
$100,00.
First 30 buyers of 110E. Oak or Mahogany, Regular, each,`
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.you in to have some hot fried cakes.
Anson liked it too, I could tell by the
way he looked. I go into the front
room and peek at it every day.
May 14. Harry is borne—and not
alone. He wrote me a week before
he came and said he was bringing his
I can reme If .you ;wouldn't say that to your
1 and•set Tw[shIc
cud
about.
,.
talked
to
it all down, so I could read it over neighbor, don't say it•about. her.
often in time to come. I only know -
that with'Harry on one side of 'me
and his wife on the other and Anson
M Walteran
Mlnard's Liniment Relieve' Colds. Eta
shaking hands with.
thought of the many cutting things
I'd said about' other folks, and no
doubt all of it as. unjust as this.
A certain sort of criticism has its
place. But it's.the face to face sort.
r,
Jim wanting to know which room to ,A Little More Information
put the trunks in, I was prettywell
stirred up. But after a while, 1 made
a 'cup of tea and brought some fried
cakes and Mr. Walters explained to
me, while he ate five of them, that
Marion was his own daughter and
how her mother had died when she
was a baby,. and what a time he find amusiagiy shown by this stagy,
had, bringing her up. And then he•�. A British admlirlstrative official,
said what had worried him most was stationed in a village in the interior
the fear that she world m'aiT3'a some
her of Africa, just after the outbreak of
"worthless cad" who would spoil the war received the following tele -
life and how pleased. he was when she gram from his bureau chief: "War de
picked out Harry. elated. • Arrest all enemy 'aliens at
I frust have font pretty gay then,
for I leaned over' and whispered to once:'
him not to ever say that out loud. Two days later the bureau chief was
handed the following reply: "Have ar-
Needed.
The suddenness with which the
great war broke out, and the confusion
of mind that overtook persons who
were not in a position to follow closely
tite course .of events- day by, day, , is
I won
He laughed. so ha t that, the
are—what you are," I said lamely but
but he waved them off and refused
to tell them.
"It's just between Mother and me,"
he said.
"I know Harry will be good to
her," I told him, later on.
(To be continued.)
wanting to explain. Somehow, words
wouldn't come.
Harry was kneeling beside me and,
looking at him, I saw he understood.
"That's right, Mother," he said, "she
is just what she is." Marion -that
is her name—slipped her arms around
me. "And you are just what I have
Merchants Bank of Canada
Reports Record Progress
Marked Expansion in Assistance Bank Has Given to Canadian
Trade and Commerce. Saving Deposits Show Large Increase.
The close association established
by The Merchants Bank of C.anada
with the expansion of the business
and industry of the Dominion is
strikingly shown by the semi-annual
statement of the Bank, to October
30th, 1920.
The Merchants Bank, with its com-
plete organization throughout the
Dominion, is known for the special
'assistance to growing and expanding
Trusinesses and the report now issued
shows that it has been particularly
active in this direction during the
hast year. This is reflected by the
increase in current loans and dis
counts to easterners to $120,515,403,
as compared with $102,346,514, a gain
of $18,168,889.
dreamed of for years You too are
just what you are, and that is, the Minard's Liniment Fgr Burns. Ete.
My Good Graham Bread.
My Graham -bread recipe is simple,
the bread is always the same and
very good. I use a good. starter.
First, I boil four medium-size po-
tatoes in plenty of water. When they
are well done, I drain off the water
and with it scald one cup of sugar
and two of white flour; the sugar
prevents the flour from lumping and
hastens fermentation. I add more
flour if it is needed to make the
sponge of a slightly clinging consis-
tency. When this is cool enough I
stir in the starter, cover, and set to
rise at a temperature of about sev-
enty degrees. When the mixture is
quite light and foamy I sage out
nearly half a pint which I keep in a
glass jar in a cool place. Then I add
to the sponge in the bread mixer,
enough waterto make two quarts all
together, the smoothly mashed pota-
toes, one cup of raisins, half a cup of
salt, half a cup of brown sugar syrup,
half a cup of melted shortening and the
flour. Graham bread should be made
a trifle moist—never stiff. Add flour
when you mold it, if it is inclined to
adhere to the hands. I use for two
quarts of liquid, two quarts of white
flour and nearly three of graham. But
in all cases I use white flour for mix-
ing the sponge. -
In the winter I start the yeast in
the afternoon and mix the bread at
night. But in summer, the entire
task, from start to finish, is complet-
ed in one day. I let the dough rise
twice and the loaves also.
A further substantial gain in sav-
ings deposits indicates that the Cana-
dian people are practising habits of
thrift. Daring the year the savings
deposits of the banks have been drawn
on heavily to meet payments for the
last Victory Loan campaign.. Not-
withstanding this development, the
Bank shows a gain in savings de-
posits of $4,628,040 and total deposits
now stand at $170,634,061, up from
$166,006,015.
Assets at New High Level
As a result of the expansion, the
total assets established a new high
record by crossing the $200,000,000
mark. They now total $209,450,448,
against $198,506,572.
Increase in Capital
With a view of increasing its
facilities to the farmers and mer-
chants and the manufacturers of the
country, the Bank has provided for
an increase in capital and as a re -
suit the paid-up capital now stands
at $9,955,970, an increase to date of
$1,614,434. At the same time the
reserve has been increased by 4,-
400,000 and now stands at $8,400,000.
Both these amounts will be further
increased by the instalments still
outstanding.
aealsere
Shareholders will take particular
pride in the steady expansion shown
by the Bank. This development has
been the result entirely of the round-
ing out of its organization and ser- and a suit six months behind the thshe
metil her l works
on,
fi 1 d with ,ehy mo -
vice throughout the country. With veiling mode. Not the least of the
more active trade conditions, the Bank nice things is the fact that life is so pain. She is always smiling, but not
is now in a position to reflect the mush easier after you get over caring! always dressed in the very latest
benefit of the complete organization about trifles. But that isn't the one mode. a o as she arose to sing
which has been gradually built up I had in mind when I started to Not long g
over the entire Dominion,
The general statement of assets philosophize on the compensations of two young girls turned their guns on
that age known to some flippant per- her.
the previous year, s'howe as fol-
and liabilities, with comparisons with sons as "the sere and yellow." "I don't see what there is in her
The thing I had in mind was that to rave about. Who ever told her
we get over making the snap judg she could sing?" "If she's doing it
s of youth, ou u judgments s I an't
almost always based on appear hear her anyway: Always ,grinning
our friends for their wearing quali-
ties; when we learn not to impute
motives. Then we really begin to get
the most out of folks.
Long about that' time we begin to
stop criticising. That's mighty hard
for a lot of us women, but there
comes a time, though, when we do get
over it. My! Don't we just love to
do it, at certain periods of life. What
a lot of fun it is for a bunch of us
to get together and pick the ones who
aren't there, to pieces. "Why doesn't
someone tell her how awful she looks
in that hat?" "My dear, did you ever
see anyone so stuck up over •a little
bit of money?" "No wonder he never
stays home nights; she's continually
nagging," etc., etc.
But why go on. We've all been in
on them, and we've all been out of
them. And the funny thing is, that
when our tongues are running fastest,
we' never think it may be' our turn
next. In fact, down in our heart of
hearts we feel quite sure they wouldn't
talk so about us. Why, there isn't
anything about us to criticise! They
wouldn't? And there isn't? Well,
if you could just place a dictagraph
in the room next time you were to
be among those absent you'd get an
awful shock. And the funny thing
would be that they criticise you for
traits'whioh you count as your virtues.
It's so easy to pick flaws. And
often so unjust. There's a certain
public entertainer who .is extremely
popular in her home town. Her
friends know her as an unusually
brave woman who has worked her
way well toward the top in the face
of ill -health, and with the addedAnd
den of two children to support
About Criticizing.
There are many nice things about
growing, well, not old, but then, along educate. She has succeeded in the
face of odds which ordinary' women
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1220 1919
$ 30,680,351.09 $ 25,642,186.x3
7.500,000.00 8,000,000.00
21,114,908,29 36,240,352,41
3,837,371.14 3,870,811.91
8,254,686.81 6,843,017.57
120179,236.65 3.416,848.99
, 515,463.60 102,846,564.87
5,840,428.89
329,234.27
4,636,281.80 8,578362.16
2,491,664.85 751,608.04
3,1.92,734.42 5,663,261.78
706,607.02 638177.03
420,000.00 817,000.00.
1209,460 443 23 $10$ 506,572.00
$ 0.955,370.00 $ 8,341,535.30
8,660,774.98' 7,574,043.33
17,707,977.00 15,827,873.00
170,631,061 , 00 166,006,015.24
2,401 364.86 167,606.04
20 +;450 44" 3 $193,606,6y2.900
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with?"
19 9.
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12,290 poet -offices, as against 3,638
in 1867. There are also 3,733 rural
mail delivery routes in operation.
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alertY thf l' d t for me she can sit down. c
are
aces. Somehow young folks never! and sini.pering." . "Where did she
can seem to get over judging by looks,' ever get that dress? If I was going
whether it is a person, a house or •a.
pullet. They have to be taught to
look for the points that really count
when judging. And when folks are smothered tones,because of thea t -
up fox consideration they are much legs of indignant glances directed to -
to appear in public, believe me I'd
have some decent clothes."
I`urther remarks were given
more apt to judge by the clothes,
finger na,iis, care of the hale and cut
of the coat than. by any points of
character.
It is only after several: sorry 111/S -
takes that we learn to leek beyond
the surface. Some of us have to lend
money three times to promising look-
ing new friends before we get our
wards them by folks who were try lig
to listen. It was all so unjust, 1:
wanted to tell the girls that the smiles
which• they objected to were forced to
cover actual pain. That the money
which might have bought a smarter
frock had gone to the ante -tubercu-
losis society. . I wanted to slap them,
as a matter of fact. But I didn't do
eyes opened. Others learn after they anything, because they were young
lose the first ten dollars. And it is and ihoug111•lesa.. I couldn't help a
nice to reach ti.a 'stat:o where we '!ole t et stabs sf senzeiencet too, as I
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MISCONCEPTION OF
BRITISH MINERS
DUE TO IGNORANCE OF
GENERAL PUBLIC
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Idea That They }3etong t� In—
ferior Class and Are Given
to Drink is Erroneous.
A writer in The London Daily levee•
blames ignorance for a common nils
conception of the British miner. Many;
people,' never having met a miner, be-
Iteve him to belong .to an inferior class,,
given to drink, gluttony and wife -
beating.
"There are *liners in all these cate-
gories, uo doubt," lie says, "'but the:
generalization is no more true than it.
in.
would. be of the co•iton operatives
Lancashire, the steelmakers of 'Shef-
field, the boilermakers of Tyneside,.
the shIpLullders on the Clyde, the•
bricklayers of anywhere, or the aristo--
cracy of any civilized or uncivilized
country. They have suffered serious -
disadvantages (these are recorded in•
the chronicles of industrial hastory),.
but they have wonderfully surmounted.
the•: cruel realities of their euviron-•
meat,
"Look at them in Durham, where,
they have so far risen to a send oV
communal responsibility that they -
have taken up and do actually carry'
out the administration of the county.
A majority of the members of the,
County Council are mea who go down.
in the pits to get coal.
Working Out Problems.
"Their leisure time la spent i.- work-'
ing out the problems of developing the.
educational system, the improvement.
of roads, the betterment of sanitary
couditions and housing to the colliery
villages. They are only miners, but
they are potting to shame the achieve-,
meats of some administrative bodice
in which the `governing clans' holds:
the reins.
"A mining town is not a lovely'
thing. There is no getting away from_
the dirt. Like other North Country-
industrial
ountry
industrial centres, It has a street ugli-
ness peculiar to itself. There are un-
tidy women about, and men lounging:
at street corners. Travis come in
labelled "special." There is a distant.
clatter of clogs, and men covered with
coal dust swing' noisily through the
street. Their faces are so smeared
and streaked that the form of them.
is caricatured. They hurry to their*
cottages. Some are wet to the skin,.
and they .must change quickly. In a> -
hour or two they are on; the street
again; the younger ones smart and.
well dressed. Of the alder mon there"•
are few who are not crippled .or scar-
red. Every one of them has faced
death.
"Go with the miner to his cottage in
a street as- narrow as the builder: w-
allowed to make it. There is n
den back or front. There is no
for the children inside; no playground
but the street. Yet there are white
curtains at the window, a parlor heav-
ily furnished and a spotless kitchen.
"Some people say that the miners
take a narrow view, and can only see -
their own part in the life of the com-
munity. I have not found evidence.
of this. I have mown many, in vary-
ing degrees of intimacy; I have lived
with them as their guest, accompanied
then! to their meetinggt'discussed with
then! their problems in relation to-
other
o
other industrial questions, and they
have not taken a narrow view.
"It is the fast that the problems
of their own industry are so numerous
and se complex that much time is
silent in hammering them out. They
do understand a good deal more of
their industry than comes to public
knowledge; and they smart under a.
dense of much injustice.
"I have found, too, that they take a
keen interest in their work, and that
they talk with practical knowledge of
the structure of the material they
handle—though I have suet a minor
(he was the butt of his fellow work-
ers.) who accepted literally the chrono-
logy of the Bible, and would not have
it that coal was ever vegetation. He
was as much a curiosity as the flat -
earth theorist."
.Discoveries.
Every wife knows that the first
places on her husband's shirt to wear
ottt are the collar and cuffs. I find
that, at the cost shirting is now, it
pays to sit dawn and rip the collar
and euffs out of their respective places
and turn the inside of each out to -
the right side and fasten back to the
shirt. This makes the shirt look
nearly new. T have been married for
nearly eight years, and know this to
be one of the. greatest savings that
I can accomplish.—N. E. H.
When making over suits and dresses
1 never neglect to 'brighten up thEi
old buttons :I ata using on the new
garment.
1?ear buttons which have become
e
1 bu ton w t ..
dull and old -looking may brighten-
ed by soaking them in olive oil or a
good quality machine oil. When you
take them out, rub then! hard with.
powdered pumice, teleran powder, o
a good nail polish. They will look
1•fke neat. The steel buttona which.
are so popular may be cleaned with.
a toothbrush and suds, If they are
rusty, use .a cleaning powder. Dry
thoroughly and. polish. Ciut jet Pout-
tons often look dingy from the dust
vrhieh has collected in *e design.
i Clean them - •by bruwtingvigorou;a3y
with a soft brut).-.•M,,v
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