HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1923-10-11, Page 67
By VEAL L FQXM .
(Copyright).)
T - , CRAFTER XIX. Sion •will be •eliminated on'aceolrnt of
Autumn's breath'wes fastfantail:4'1 mandarin's death,,, •
way the -torrihetetf summer, but "C,ttesai and Chit/petrel l �t sounds
r fan it had not mellowed the ger" lite the. Indian tales of our great
nous beauty of ,Siewera and shrubs, e:rarldmothets'
hearts migti?ue'"
attire was running wild in. a riot al "It's lust about as barbaric Heyriots. ht break; tragedyhe, here comes Li,.Scut him to the
.alit abroad gaunt and z•titiiiesa, but city this morning, He's edidentla
ie seasons rolled by rythll?ically and bristling With ,news cf sonar sort, the
rlaitoeted, j way lie's sprinting tip the path.
The Culvers had giVert up the idea; , " Well, .14, the city • isn't burned
£ spending the winter In Peking. The down; no uprising of the white race
rat of October was the day set foil ,or anything like, that?"' bantered
heir return 'to America, their final Heleti.
areWell to China, the land where they -"No, madam—much greater, much
ad met their greatest joy and their greater)" panted the .boy.
rearrest sorrows "St. Peter help us'" Helen put up:
• Irma Culver wondered how God her halide iii mock despair. "Came
ould let one-half the Worldsmile so now, Iii, -keep yotrr imagination steady,
naeelingiy while the ,other half boy, Out with the news. They say
loaned and writhed in agony. As she women sometimes, die of e'tiriosity„you
et with folded hands in her sun- know, and it would be reckless of you
renched and fragrant garden, trying to- kill two white women in • their
or her husband's -sake to coax back youth,”
T�illee that' it; Much killee-.-
Missee Weng Toy,"
"Good heavens!" Grace sprang to
her feet
"Speak up, boy," Helen's voice was
sharp with fright..
"Missee Weng:' Toy 'riot be inarcied
ever tion."
"Don't dribble; tell us everything, at
once."
"I tell—yes, I' tell—give me time."
"Who is dead For mercy's sake tell
us who is dead." Grace's voice was
hysterical.
Li drew himself to his full height
and in an important voice announced,
"The great Mr. Chu Sing he dead."
"Thank heaven!" Grace sank' weak-
ly back into Iver chair,' while the
shocked Li stood staring at her open-
mouthed.
"Do go on and be quick."
His mistress.' peremptory command
brought the boy to his senses, •
"Mr. Chu Sing killee --killee,by Miss
Weng Toy and great acted ruby of
Culver stolen:"
Helen stared 'at the narrator,
speechless. •
Well satisfied_ with the effecc of. Ins
words, the boy turned to spread the
joy -giving tlnilis among the servants.
"Here, come back," called his mis-
tress.;
Li i'eluctantly-halted.
"Have two ponies saddled at once.
'Yes, madam," and forgetting his
bow; Li fled toward the servants'
quarters.
There was grim silence between the
twe girls' as they act off for the Ctrl-
trength-. td her rebellious. body, :elle
tied to piece her life together into
•me kind of a reasonable. pattern,.
ut it seemedes if the more she tried
i e more like an impossible puzzle
becaipe.
Her religion told her God's ways
ere not man's ways,but surely, she
easoned, God did not take delight in
ealing death darts to peopl'e's hones!
'echaps Emerson's policy was, wisest:
xpeoting nothing, and being thankful
or moderate good.
And then slowly but surely a levo-
ution took place in Irma Culver's
:out. Her simple, single' faith in
rovidence enlarged. She saw the
orld as a great scaffold, where each
olat did Its share in keeping; up the
vhole. No single part was needlessly
trengthened or cared for. The Archi-
ect kept IIis eye' on the whole.
That was the ;self answer: to Irma's
retful questions.
She looked askance at her new be-
lef. What` could she cling to now?
er intellect had searched, had culled
acts until they stood stiff and straight
nd undeniable, but, alas, comfortless;
nd Irma's heart called for comfort:
A missionary called and again she
received the assurance it was the test-
ing time: God' was trying her.
"l3ut'why," she enquired, "should
God lead the to a' pit of black de-
spair? No, no; that may be your idea
or Goll,' but my mind can't conceive
such a petty deity as that. My idea
is that God has to disregard the in-
dividual in His great ' scheme • of
things. We are necessary sacrifices
that the wholemay some day be per-
fect." "
"Alt; no, any sister." The mission-
ary's face lit up with the light of per-
sonal faith. ''God tells us that not a
sparrow falls r but what Be knows;
,that if one lamb strays from the fold
e watches over it until: it returns;
;that the very hairs of oar heads are
umbered," .
"Yes, yes 1" Irma's voice was coolly
inpatient. "I once had that faith,
oo. - 'I would like to have it again.
it is comforting, but I'm afraid it is
-battered for all time. Don't, please,
isunderstand me. I'm not railing at
i' rovidence. I'm only cognizant of the
act that I'm but a grain of sand in
he great Architect's hands— a grain
When half way there Grace voiced a
thought that •had evidently been
weighing on her mind.
"If what your boy says is correct
about Tu Hee, we must do everything
in our power to free her."
"1 can't believe she did it, a refined,
delicate. girl like Tit Hee—no, it's too
ugly, too utterly melodramatic .te be
in the girl's category. Li has evident-
ly jumbled facts. These people are
artists with their imagination."
Grace wasn't convinced, however.
"Still, you can't be too sure/' she re-
joined.
•e-Io ned: We don't know all that's
been between them. She .may have
grown desperate, poor child."
"Weil, we won't be in doubt long.
f mere dust, -whose position in life The Culvers will certainly know every-
ould be shifted •-if.it interfered with thing that is td:be'known, as it's their
he perfecting of the vast structure" property that's been stolen."
Neil. Culver did not return to reli- As they neared the Culvers' temple,
ion' for solace, „as hie wife. He had knots of chattering, excited peasants
oulded .a philosophy of his own out dotted ; the paths, The two foreign
.f life, and on this he fell back when women were the targets of manycut•i-
the -second tragic blow fell. But in ous stares, as well as many extremely
pite of his continual assurance to personal comments.
imself' that law and order ruled the "What makes them so white?" was
niverse and that his place was here the 'audible query of one.
for some ultimate purpose,.his shoals The answer came readily in a "know
ders lost their old rigorous upright- all" tone: "Foreign devils; wash every
ness and his eyes had a tired look: ` day." •
They brightened, however, when But neither Grace:nor 'Helen found
Paul's name was on Itis lips: His head any diversion in remarks that another
lifted proudly and -there was a ring time would have occasioned amused
in his voice that could not be mis-. smiles and sallies. They both felt
taken. "Paul dead in his youth?" He they were in the shadoty of grim
smiled tolerantly at the sympathizer. tragedy.
"My son has lived a thousand lives "There's Mr. Reynolds," vemarked
every hour over there. Life is not Grace. "It looks as though he had
counted in years. He has accomplish- Just arrived from the city.".
ed more in his short life than 1 nave As they rode up, Reynolds turned
or ever can, even . if I pass twenty from giving his horse into the hands
milestones beyond the three score and of a• servant. His grave Page bright,
sten. Paul died for bis brother men, erred'perceptibly as he caught sight
Paul's death has brought the world of the.visitors;
earer to eternal light. My plan for (Tobe continued,)
dug Vas that he should be the evangel . -r
of China, but I never dreamed he Signs in the'
ould die the glorious death of a gnSky. .•
iartyr for -the whole world." Sighs of fair or foul weather are
Irma heard him one day, and her noted very carefully by country peo-
old on religion and life ebbed slowly pie. Some of ahem are more inclined
ack, That .night her husband came to believe in the'old sayings about the
pen her with Paul's photograph in weather than in any 'readings from
oftly and
er hands, reverently: to which she was talking barometers or the predictions of
weather inrophets. Here aro a feR':Old
"You gave up everything-: your
appy, joyous youth, this beautiful sawr
vorld; and •how you loved it, the Evening red and next morning grey
piing, summer, and winter of it! You are certain_ signs of a beantit'ul day.
rave up rhe. You died to make the It Lite cock goes crowing to bed; he'll
orld better, dear; and I mast not certainly rise with a watery bead.'
ar your sacrifice by blotting it with When blade snails cross Your path,'
-v tears," ' black clouds much mois titre hath.
Neil closed the door softly andrstole When rooks fly -sporting high ill air,
ut into the night.' Helifted his face ii stitlws that tvincly storms are near'.
o the starry heavens. The breeze
wayed the temple hells into soft When the peacock loudly bawls,,
usic, which mingled with a strong 0000 We ii have both rain. and squalls,
an's sob sent up to his God,- . If the moon shows like a silver
sbteld, be not afraid to reap your field.
But if she ' rises jialoed round-, "s0on.
CHHAPTDR XX. we'll treadon deluged groand.
"The God of Sport will banish us if A rainbow in the morning gives the
e keep this up' . shepherd warning; that is, it the wind
"I ogre with you," laughed Helen be easterly, because it shows that the
Anymore, rather mirthlessly, 'I't's rain cloud is.approaching the observer.
otnething for our minds we need." A rainbow at night is the shepherd's
• ace tossiti her reelect and bills delight; that is, If the wind be west-
nto the locker. "A,woodcutter, should erly,'as it shows that'the rain clouds
o my vocation -to -day.. I'm in a mood are lsasaing away. .
o demolish everything in sight. Ye If at sun-risingor setting the clouds
+odsl To think .that,thut girl's wad- appear of a lurid red color, extending
ing is only two days away and David nearly up t4, the zenith,' it is 51 sure
erass the sea -blissfully unconscioufi!" sign of storms ante gales of wind:
"Don't be. an idiot," snapped Helen, When you see gos a ier flying, be
Come up the the house aid Pll order ye sure the airr is drying,
t couple of ponies reedy."
WoutdrS't dare, I'd either Meals It the fog. lies close to' the 0001500
.be poor beast's neck or my own.' of the grotuul'until it is gradually dis-
'My dear Grace, you must let Fate slpated by the sun, the day will bo
;rye you a few tiffs. Yeti'inay as well bright and, Sine.
Oen and hear it, for he will anyway."
"Hilt ° oh, Helen, isn't it fire and
rhnatone 1 No, don't be alarmed.
hat's the limit I allow myself, but
is not even the vapor of my steam
0 -day. I'm in a peevishmood, My
friend. You had better- keep an eye
end clutch on. ane, for, I'sn liable to
onintif.) any satanic evil --even the
trdnapptng of the mandarin's mode,
V the way, what kind 'of a Wedding
s'ahe' going to have? Ono of those Only Shifted Her Ground
reathensh affairs, where • they parade "Well, what.diffetenee hes"the coin -
;heir bouachold linens and wares all ins into great 0010 made hi Mrs,
yet' fire city?" (labb?"
Helen nodded. "It Will take, ted Very utile -"gossips on the front
lave to complete the term -nom% Visit perch now instead of over the back
hg guests by the hundred, furniture fence,„
trade, ete. I think the big procea-
Take 9t home to
• the°kids
Have a packet in
yoi r" p(iol * ler on ,
eVer'4ready treat,
A 0l1101000 conte
tion Fend all'oid to
the teeth, plspetiteo
digo lien,
Settled in its
Kitty Packag
Deter icing Our Place -Names
Before the creation of the Geo-
graphic Board of Canada in 1897, no
central authority existed over the
Place-names ' of the Dominica Every
explorer and map -maker adopted malt
names and spellings as appealed to
him, and often travellers caused end-
less confusion by changing all pre-
vious names in the accounts of their
travels, Foreign explorers, also, visit-
ing :unknown parts of the Dominion
Would bestow nefties' more or less un-
desired by •Canadians. One map ap-
plied the name„ "Grand" or Elk"
perhaps tothe'river styled "Ottawa"
or "Athabaska" on another. Uni-
formity of nomenclature was rhe rea-
son ,for the creation -of the•Board.
A second reason was to avoid the
confusing, duplication of names es-
pecially within the same province. In
the days when the Indian, who did not
go far afield, roamed the woods and
plains, if two lakes in a region were
called "Trout Lake" or two streams
"Red.River," little confusion was like-
ly, but it is different in these, days of
wider -travel. Moreover,, few people
reflect on the inconvenieacc occasion-
ed by repetition, even to the twentieth
or thirtieth time, of such names as
Deer, Eagle, Fish, Maple, Red, White,
etc,
A third' reason was that the goo-,
graphic nouronelatntc, of 'Canada
should not be left in the hands of.a`
foreign body, as for example a board
in another 0,011t17 deciding through
its publications by what names rivers
and mountains of Canada should be
known,
The Geographic, Board was 'inform-
ed to regulate the Publications of the
Donninl4,11 Government only, but it was
soon recognized that the provinces.
had a right to be consulted respecting
names within their own limits, Are
cordingly in 1899 provision was made
for the appointment of representatives
Of the several provinces, which at the
sante time bound themselves to abide
by the board's' decisions. •
The function ofthe, board is not the
muting of features, but the regulatiou
of those sought to be bestowed by
others. At the same time, it has striven
to see that Canada's hicstory is incua.
porated in' her place-names, as has
been done, for instance, in the case of
the Thousand Islands in the St. Law-
rence, which hew the names of many
gunboats which sailed these waters iu
thewar of 1812-14 and In that _ of the
mountain peaks of the Rockies. 5511100
have been given the names of eminent
Canadian lighting men and of bottles in
whirls Canadian fought in the World
War. Information about namesis -very
easily lost if: not noted. For instance,
the town of ,Weyburn, Saskatchewan,,
was named by the 'late Sir William
Whyte of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way iu 1891 or 1892, lest the meaning
of the name is unknown.
The rules of the board include the
following three which will give an
idea of its workings; (1) Whenever
possible the local name to be given
preference. (2) When the priority of
a name hes been established by publi-
cation particularly in an authoritative
work, that name if possible to be re-
tained. (3) A name which has been
correpted or changed if not too firmly
established, to be restored to its or-
iginal form.
During the twenty -vivo years of its
existence oansiderable information lies
been recorded by the board .relative
to geographic names. A start - has
been made with the publication of this
In the shape of pamphlets -giving the
meaning of Canadian city names and
a certain number of place-names in
the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Neglected Instruments. : Piano is Foundation of
Some of the mere neglected wind ' Musical Expression.
instruments include the oboe, bassoon Parents who decide not to have
and French Born. These are the mere their child take up the studyot muaio
-delicate and difficult instruments of at all, sometimes out of misdirected
'the wind family, and while they are considoratbon for the child anti a de -
being taken up now more than ever sire not to oveiworlc.it, often wit -
before, they should in, reality be given tingly do the child 5 un
great injustice,
far more consideration, . Bach of these Quite apart from the question of cut -
instruments has a most important and tural development and the esthetic
interesting part.to play, and capable value of tnusic, no other art seems, to
performers are always sure of having give quite that degree of soul satisfy -
good engagements and good pay. If ing joy.
hundreds of those who are studying The musical life of the land is rich,
the piano and the violin would shift the fraternity of people who are in -
their energies to one of these wind in- terest0d inmusicis both large and de-
-strutnents they might possibly achieve sarable to enter. Even a modicum of
the .S11006,115 that they can never hope -talent which will permit simple im-
to achievie on th0 piano or the violin. .provisati4n or the rendering of
The flute, clarinet,,trutupet and trom-
bone are iivore generally taken up than
the oboe,.basson and French horn, but
even oh these inertia -rents good play -
ere are still too scarce, Flere again
'I don't now about that," retorted
operatic scores, gives a pleasure to.
the player and those about him that is
unequalled: But once childhood is
pasted, it is not so easy to take up'the,
beginnings of the study,and one is
are some real opportunities tor those cheated out of perhaps the richestate want to take up music as a pro- heritage civilisation has given tis, ani
fession. - made musically dumb by parents who
to beconse an a1'tist on any wind lacked either the foresight or the in-
instrument is, the work of a Medina. terost'•-lo start and push one through
Those who, go into the profession aro iliaearly, sometimes excruciating, but
-generally people in 'moderate or poor,
ussually well -repaid days,
circumstances and mtuly never get be. The piano is the' foundation of uiusl•
yond a certain degree of advancement. cal expression, Itis erten the ilium
because they are ruined for the future, dation of the composer, the guide of
upon receiving their first professional tate singer and the invaluable ally of
engagement. Thio engagement may every other sort of instrument, An
be :1n a dnnoe orchestra, an hotel, -or a ability to play it is the imperative
theatre 4•rehestrel and the pay,whilo need of all wayfarers into the realms
not enormous, to very attractive. Ili of harmony. To the Musical amateur
fact, to the person who has never be. it is 0 constant good companion and
tore earned money' it seems quite friend, '
fabulous. The young miteician at the
outset joins the union in whatever • Fishing by Wireless. -
town he might reside, and his first ! Vessels attached t4 the Carie 1!tin
I poi', if he has a regular erigagensent, Department of Marine and F'isller!es
Is far greater than that of the young p
t r laver, Some of the oung aro to be fitted with 'wireless apparat-
• doe oro t Y S y us: for the purpose of reporting the
rmisicians are so bai'P10c1 ivitlt this Movements of schools of fish, Tele -
first mon.eythat they refused to thine phone broadeastin,g apparatus; will al-
any further. to be employed for the sante purpose,
e "By this means ilehermen owning re-
A Young Octogenarian, celvtng sets will avoid frnitless or
Years wee. Weigh heavy like dull lead, nialltable tri 1s
But his are light, bright gems Instead,
Ariel what a generous treasury
For younger, enplets eyes to see!
He wears .hie Ycurs like medals Bung
Upon a hero always young
Or like the gay plumes of a knight,
Waving tlnclauntes through the fight.
too shown what boon long life may 110,
Slsnplo and sweet, wIth gayety,
Busy with perennial vest,
Loving sodloyal, bravo and blest,
For eature, wlroyn he loves, act well,
Weatves of that love a magic spell,
The Strength of sea and sky and bill.
Idnwraps kiln in Its virtue still,
New Can Opener.
A. can opener has been invented
flue turns back the edges of the tin
smoothly es it 15 cert,
A Bear Ott of ked.
The .ohaece to see a bear.tlrat had
been disturbed during its long winter .`
sleep came to me, writes a contributor
unexpectedly one extrereely veld De'
oeiilber night in a northern wend. Este'
ly dusk settlierg over the snow-olad ` •
Couttry had found me far trorn home
at the end of an unsuccessful huntta8
trip, and I had seught shelter at 15
near -by logging camp. 'While I was
sitting before the roaring stove cae ni
the loggers said tome in a matter -of
fact way that lust after he and hie
sawing companion had felled a Ince
across thetrunk of. '41. qld dead tree
lying halt burled in the snow they
were astonished to 5.01 a blade ben
paw its way out through the 1011810 01.'.
roots. and branches, `
Halt an hour later with my riilo held','
ready for instant use•]' stood peering
down into a cavity beneath the roots
of the dead,treo, but the flickering'.,
rays of the lantern In tho hands of the
logger, who had guided me, revealed.
only a flattened bed of dry moss and
leaves. Turning from the den, we Ole
oovered several paces away a sunken
spot in the snow packed' hard as if by
a large body. Evidently the bear hall
sat there for some time, and its warm
body had melted the .snow. On the
,evidence of frozen paw marks that
fringed the entire edge of the: inipr1S••
sion we decidd that the anineel had
been uncertain in :which direction to
suet forth into the snowy -and unnatural
World.
By the dull light of the, lantern we
followed the trail tor perhaps half an
hour. 'Up a small raviue it led us, and
in one place where it veered sharply
to the right we could see that the bear
had triedto dig into a frozen bank.' I
noticed too . that it had often made
wide detours to avoid climbing even
the slightest obstruction. hero It had
scratched the snow away until the
frozen ground was visible, and several
paces farther on it had hesitated as 'if
in ddub,t whether to' proceed or to turn
back.
I had. almost concluded that we
should never come upon` the old tel -
low when suddenly my guide who was
in the lead, haltedbalfway across a
snow-covered log. The next instant
an exposed' root sent hien sprawling,
and the light went out in the snow.
After much fumbling—for the tem-
perature was forty degrees below
freezing -we succeeded in relighting
the lantern; Then my conipanton
held It high above his head, and I with
my ride ready crept -up beside him and
peered over the log. •
Prepared as we were for nn angry
bear, we had to laugh at what we saw.
A shaggy black bear was sitting nbt
right with his back agaius•t a fallen
tree and his. head hanging for•teard;
except for turning his head slightly
from side to side he slowed few sign
of 'life. He seemed to be in a stupor;
our loudest shouts failed to rouse him,
Only once did heraise his head and
glance in our direction, and even then
I doubt whether those. dull, expres-
sionless eyes saw us;
It was perfectly clear that the •poor.
creature was in misery: so I raised
my rifle, •and at the report of ,it .the
bear toppled over with no more show
• of ferocity thati if he had been a stuff-
ed apecimea in a museum' of- nattti'a! •
history. .--
Incidentally, the pelt of the animal
was one of the most beautiful I have
ever taken in many days of bunting.
'Teth eef Malay .r$;'ide
�''yPi'OA£ i'1 � Vit..
'rhe Malays pa,: for mart lac nefrro
they celebrate It,", 7o lit i +etilfttg
cake or wear n wc?,.lbr.:, robe ee eet
auua!d for tyroid be u;, ropntab.c
disgreee, iteeortlitias .10 rbc+ ilia:ayan
code.
All time wedding.cxee,.t,:es ere paid
fon by 111e bride?gronei and Lim sum
whish covers them ion slat by hien to
the fatlier-iii-law-elect on the clay pre-
vlrius to that on w;7!'!i the ycuag Pisa
claims and reee'v00 his
rvifn, ;
I011 ibis tiny before her marriage the
girl's teeth 010 died l'eahting olid
music inteleperee etebol:tts ceremon-
iale, and if the lnaiclen moans her
11101115 are drowned in a 11 ondof m11511c,
Three days before the ceremony she
hes her hail: Cut short upon her brow
to e thin, straight fringe and, the nails
of ',both -liands and feet are cleanly
etahted with henna, .
I A MelaY bt•itie, exocpt ea her at.re
ventional marriage in'uamants and tier
many dower chains, wears elle ordiu-
arY dress, of a lady of reek.
Rapid Growth.
A new -horn infant sometimes
doubles its birth weight in seven days.
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