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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1926-07-15, Page 6etter T52 E.conom7 inits rich dretwitrog freshness. PASSIG OF .FLOI"_ ; VEL AWES � P GARDEN `, 1 - �`WER E By 'Mrs. Walter Burritt Moore On my last day in Antwerp, -a bit satiated with Rubens and not avorse to losing for a few hours the -full re- sonance of the cathedral chimes, 1 de- cided on a -visit to the,Jardin Bete ntque, It -was 'a Saturday tit late May -the height of the season, golden sun 1 shine, soft sea -breezes, everything green, everything rosy in 'full efflores nonce, all life at its gayest in this pie- turee'que old, Belgian capital. Once within the wide gates of •the, garden, I noticed the crowd taking ap- parently- one direction along the emooth, wide pathway, bordered with waving palms and: drooping Pepper On a raised platform, within the pa- viIibn, stood a large tub and, Within the tub, was a tall plant with long, pointed leaves and; orowned by one, magnificent flower crew white,' lily- like, ily like, with orchid suggestions; violet edges to the long, curling petals; Pur- ple in its richly folded heart. This, one flower. It was, all, but it held the stage. A silent, unsmiling crowd, genteelly Freuch, prosperous looking men, pret- ty women,' some sturdy Flamands; a - few .beautiful children, awed, ourieus, the musicians, in the distantoroliestra chairs, silent also. One elderly man stood -within the rope that guarded the ' platform, or sat in the one cliaiar,;al- ways watching the flower— w Y g slightly2on it's, long, Blender stalk. "Le pod tree ho'nmte, la belle flour, o'est 1e destin;" murmured a. voice be- side me. I turned. an' inquiring look upon the fine, sensitive twee. "Yes," she ewhlspered, "'the superintendent - ho has waited for it so long and now, to see it die'' "Die!" I breathed; ':now;that gor- geous flower?_'. - "Not so g rgeoue' as an hour ago. See the plc rd near platform.' Trans ated, it read - • •A variationof the .Agay4 Amaryl- lidaoaae; first blossom in t\renty-foul years. It bloomed at noon to -day; it will die about 6 o'clock, My watch Marked five! and twenty nitnutes'of�-anti, as I•edanned the long, ca t s 1 u creamy' )?etal`s, I; saw thele shrink- shrink and ,droop Men held their evatches'•3li wafted one your i girl in ,front : tilt tduched liar Otos ur- tively, 41l-oy fi iltbi'e fixed. inion beauty, —Beauty pausing, dying, -, One thought of the long years, tern, .summer* iu the dark' earth; : the brooding,reeeilirig up 'toward the sun and air and then this tardy realization, this short fruition in the glory o BY, ARTHUR B. ItEEV13; CIIAPTER IV.—(Coznt'd.) Dick was too well trained to cry out or even to shops by his expression that he had: seen, but, aside, he jogged Ken's elbow and motioned to IGen to 100x, Ken, too, saw 'and the boss'had•just about :determined' not to let Hank know that they knew he was watching, but to contrive some'way to get around lune- and, in turn, watch -the spy, when 'Hank- took the bolder course. It showed how, essentially crafty' the boy -was. - Hank' stepped boldly out from the The thing leeks suspicious to'me— shrubbery now. There was a sudden trouble was; to "be 'prepared."`P He, ewes; .a _a lendid. boxer:: Beaton' had totight him some football and wrest lin,..toa• Ken had expected it• -and wag' not dleappointed :Bank wait not 'one to. fight lair. When one encountere his like one must be prepared for all sorts of mucker.tricks. Ken. wen, an.d'Hank got away with none of ,it. Instead, in about as.eharp an encounter as flank had: ever experience in his short life the bully was worstod. 5-... bore some marks of Flank's yineher work, bed it was net long bee find out out . f he. find the bully begging., for Randall and the flivver, ego if it e mercy. Ken had *on any Way you and see what you can eh ore true and, if you' can, find out where loolee1 at it.: He :et Hanle get up Hank got his money. I'll gamble he where ho ad fallen from the last well never got it from his folks." directed Wow, "That's all Fight, ICen,:but hove are : Hank did so, edgqed away, then slid - you going to .get away with it,‘ when denly started: up the' dock running as you get out to the 'Scooter'? What he caught sight of one of his cronies,. are you going to .tell thein?" the tqwin bum. He turned, still taunt "The truth, of course—at least sof Ing Ken. (To be continued) much. •as 1 want 'than to know. My allowance is shot. I'll tell them I want - Maybe ,. 'll .et me --- -- - - --- - job Homely ` higigs. to earn some money just like Hank. and I'll learn'something about them. , It is the • homely things, the, every- day, common things that linger 1n the. memory. The flaming colors of splen- dor: and glory may momentarily en- chant, but is it not the softer tones of 'timate familiar •objects that es e thought vibrating with tenderness thie 'mystery craft anchored out change ;in his attitude, Ile'might be but he was on the lob. there?' b Ken -stepped in the skiff and started. eHerr you had e rob cry last "SolonAg, Dick." u t t th night," : Hank sauntered Over as if "So long, Ken. See you later." ? nothing had ever 'happened such us Ken pulled -lustily at the oars, for- When Spring comes we enjoy most the their• detecting his spyang. • he vitas a born water rat, had, been, "How' did you hear?"' Ken still raised about )ockledge'-harbor, knew brown 04 the earth on the:'Iittle hills g'newedthe.soldering iron. one never •swimming an :boats from slznost his that first show through the enow,-the knew whet a treacherous lad ?Ike ab da s. It as, net long. befer.Q Dubai -Willows • along the edge of "the Il4iOver ght bung t n he was ya�j�proa�rig the. eonverted fields, the shrill piping of the frogs, "Over my radio. 1 hpught anew cruiser.' Mb one seemed on deck.: - _the Mayflowers, grid the misty haze of set, you know, You' otrghht to get-, tte ' 'Sceoteri ahoy!" -shouted 1 e0 es' young leaves upon the willows.' li� Wiles. Eine tube t" he rowed about tt looking for Some So it is that man may spend his boy - mak kheeesthe tps be logy n jeaie . nhow toget aboard. most beanitifirl lake p pi ns'of life andhood beside the oust'. It, seems • to e born in porno Whatcher' want?" `A roughneck or river yet in after years when he people. I tat'anr he missed out. _in seelor had bubon;deck and was ants ' exp�oty,�Ing Fiertil� a Jams and 10 e f or`• veein the:bo un raciously.- stops to remember, it feat' be a little rt1 :311 er to be jealn is or to..en age ;T g y " r bay or cove' somewhere that is recall-. �1 I wenn a job xeturned IGen: n anti htlro Worship. }�Vyeither of % in „you 'de, ph1J' The' sailor reached , e Ifttie depression in the shore ad mqcit money; but that vVas Palouse d n t the deck seemed to pick u where` the mud turtles to their wet, heir -allowances were strictlylimited. °w ° then to turn a valve. You glistening armor crawl out on the their - Y something, It was a part of h t the Dae wag ilio Want a job, do you? Well, take•thatl", rocks to sun themselves, Where the knew, fi waver, t Ile straightened up, and as he Aid dragon flies hang over the water lilies, earns with Hank. He was no more so he pointed whose connected'witli and the bulrushes grout along the than they. Yet here he was buying a a powerf ul' pump; full at-, Ken. Ken a n { banks. new five tube set—whale -they Were .was eating on his oars. He received _ tdnkert , assembdng parte purchased i. force of the water and it al- In loveliness there is a oertain ele- ment of placidity that may be missing 1 L this w s a'catch in.it somewhere and they not the drenching, mghat Ken feared. rt in beauty, .and while these homely May day—now only the remnant of a •determined to find out. They were Was the rapid fillng of the skit. He things that we cherish may not be pos blossom i -wilted, tend? sTheb,'end- )roman: They were curious. ed 'Then stir - Ken. great, Hank," commented *would soon be sunk. He seized the Dazs sassed 04 any surpassing beauty, they Yng low. Was it the .Lien. "Where ltd you. get the money?", and niothree or d he :angeeof theur °hose. kes was wt lie old usually fence that zigzagsess. An octose' a Heil adopted a sort of swag er ro i n Tran hard a raucous 'laugh weather-boaten•butld g stony. pasCure, a h red perhaps by a vagrant zephyr, the pale flower;nWaYed, its petals opening, disclosing the long, trembling stamens, the purple Daly- bnly, in, a moment, to shrivel and teflon its • bending stem, inert, prone amid the enveloping green leaved. The gray-haired :watcher on the plat- form shut hl@ �vitclt with a Snap. Was it a signal? %%in flutes and violins If either of his two: questioners ad, from the hold. Ile could ha'vesworn hadtheirway they would have knock- 'that:was the voice of Hank Hawkins. ed hit bloats off, and very -properly, fort g Cha rind and wet, Ken bailed out that swagger. However, they did the more 'manly`- and alevor thing; res- • the skiff, then pulled back to the shore. trained' themselves, kept temper and He sat down on the landing stage to pets,. wait -and to think. Ile had time: He p would wait until Hank came ashore. 'Earned it!"was Bank's superior was well that Ken had time. response. He might have been a mixt!-!:Hank was in no hurryto come Webers. l.i his . own estimation,a d ing, a rickety cart of our childhood days that•we-remember,*every time we see e. child trundling his little cart along the street: these -are the cherish- ed things of thought These dear, homely things of mem- ory. however, often possess great: mi noun to tr an beauty. But beauty in' its generally o But.the mornin g sun was su Y accepted meaning is' not its index of slow, sat et ai rico as the audience fell -made Hank. . the time' was not -wasted. At least .diverse, way deep Again Ken restrained himsef. en • a d In '-out aate his drench,, their value. The' pins that. stood so drifted quiet -lilts out chars ing into There was no use picking a flght•evith K An other by would have con- proteotingly .front -of the old home chords long thil(lawn , h lug y y the slow rhyth` i of a solemn mere h Try the Reverse. We all know the, joy of light after a dirk night, health attar sickness, possession after, poverty, and 80 on. To value anything aright we need know the tendency of ite reverse. Let us apply the idea to one or two phases of life. For instance, how of- ten we. hear a pereon,,say: "I am a8 good as you are"; or, I ant as import- ant as sire ie." It may be true; but such phrase are alway indirect:com- ppIlament to the other person, and they beeome'dfrect ones as soon a8 we turn them about. There is a whole worlds of difference, when we say, "You are "good a8 ant," and that is really what the orig. Mal phrase means, though the speaker There' 1s nothing in .the world seam: portant In'deaTing w4th oharacter as>to flnd•t'hs beet.. ' ' We are not 'aIWayB''aware of the seam and we don't see-the$wouadts of many a lite we are ,,tempted to eon- demn. It we knew all we might, for- give all. We think we know; and, lit-" Corer that much has-been hidden from ,mm. - Had ,we the, trials ,of some it is giiitb possible that our •aohleventen'ta would' be fewer than theirs. There may be a score of unpleasant things about a mum, but so Iong as there is one good feature it do worth our: Wh!'leato tide it. Try for one' week tie put the one good feet of another's lite by the side, of the many things which you dislike and you will be sur- prised how happy you 11 be. does net intend it when he utters it. Theeo is still far moire .good in the Perhaps° It is one of the best ways of world than badness. As we look appreolating another's worth- and our round WO can find. many a gem in own foolishness', 1Ve epealt of some ether Bellow whotn we have known for years nand say:, "Yea, he's' a Splendid fellow, but he has a bad temper." We are always putting in the "buta." You can damn a malt's reputation, wad career by a 'tut," • ' Why say' anything about tike "but'' rough places and many a flower among the weeds. = ` Gloiing Acres. The moon rode high and clear, cut- ting the dark, distant ilea with a wide belt of rippled gold; but the moon --' at all? Would It be just as well to looked far and pale; a' painted inani- finish the phrase with the -word. "fel- -10w?"" Or, if- we must use the word "but,' how would it be to put It thus: "He has ,a bad temper,. but ho is..a splendid fellow." ` It makes, a big dif- ference, doesn't it? We -talk of being "sorry"; having "sympathy," and- so on, The words aro frequently 'superficial, empty; In- stead' of talking so muck' It would be as well. • to do.a bit at these things. True sympathy 'never moves about empty-handed.' In order to ease our conscience . sometimes, we say: "Ta would lend a hand, only I ant not sure whether I am 'wanted there." Now just' reverse it and note bow it reads. It ceases to • be a theory awed becojneS at once a definite accomplishment: The work is done though we are not sure whether a man from whom you wanted in- seined his time int inking of waye-o3' were beautiful,' but though We. More, formation "Is that'so?""he inquired, tri K human HO beautiful than other "pines "they seem cadtir- . ge ng even. en was lee fall hardest. wanted to square. accounts with Hank. snore precious and lovely. The lilac Those who are w r - But there wan greater, more import --';bushes that grew by, the gateway -are Hairlt tuns disarmed by Ken's ing a { not -to bo``compared •witli,tlie'roses'id hating mannan - "Woxking for boats .5.1 business in ltand.,I{en'waned with !n the harbor," ho replded, tmixed motives. '' the florist's Window, ye$ diose roses. "1 tried that, but didn't make It was the better liars of -an gala by their beauty can never displace the Much.". befoi'e Ken cou`.d descry, a boat lower- " ed from the davits of the "Scooter" lilac •bushes in our thought. And In "Yon didn't pick the right boats. almost every ease- It is the humbler "Which one did ,you pick?" and thin make sure that it was Bank •ailing off in it for shore Ken. kept flowers that we remember, Mayflowers mate thing compared with the thous- ands of living lights that glowedon every 'branch of.every tree. Even the tall autumn flowers had every plant its lantern, The terraces were picked out with light, the outlines of the great house sparkled with blue and groan and ruddy lights. Each tree and: shrub was heavy with a fruitage of radiant lanterns. They swung fairy-like above the grass. A junk of lanterned'lights rode , on the moat: The draw-bridg$a was. Jeweled 'with a,network<of'lan- terns, each lantern lit. It Was a. carnival of colored lights. Half the shops' in Britain that stocked Chinese lanterns bad been ransacked for these. An•army of decorators had hung them up, busy. at it from sunset till 'now. Round Paper lanterns, tail cylinders, odd -shaped os, great and people are glad we have done it: -. So small, alone, festooned, in flowerlike .inany'a-:good tbing_,is omitted just be-' groups, bouquets of lantern—and tsymy cause we make the. excuse. Thele -1s lantern lit; solitary, lanterns skillfully an`•old Greek,, saying -which rune:— suspended as 1f floating hx the air, Swift kindnesses are best, a long de- crinkled lanterns, • boat -shaped ' lan- lay terns, Smooth, lanterns.' painted, Inn d In kindness takes the 'kindness all terns teaseled, lanterns, fluted•'lan away. • terns:- bell-shaped lanterns,— from • Any bright thing can be blackened -every 'Motet and crevice' where string according to our use of it.-' EqualIy 00 Would, catch or wire hold, some Chi - the drabness 'can be .polished away. nese- lantern swung 'and glowed; 'for, glowing acres the old place glittered with Air light.--Louise'-Jordan Man, "The Feilet of Lanterns:' Linotype. what are -these .whirring wheels. ;end rattling bars, ` This wilderness of cdgs add cams and kegs, This clicking buzz like large platonic : been, Singing its songs off f 1d alums and stars, l4f Of Halitean•and ill, decaying czars? g and the wild rosea that grew insuch profuse simplicity by the roadside. We remember the surrouuling beauty, but it is the simple, common object that is planted firmly in- the garden of our remembrance. • Hank hesitated. "You can horn on the aide of the dock where the sen hi there I'm solid with those people: shone hottest but where Hank could I don't mind if I do tell. The ,Scooter. Used to lie a sub -chaser until these not see him and through the piles he ht it and made a could watch the progress of the boat rich people bong from the cruiser to the landing stake. yacht out of. it. Some Wel'boal, so work Just as Hank moored the rowboat ThatWhen it's i, , port. We, ow." That reminds me,, I got a date now." 10 the float and turned to ascend to Hank had been looking at his watch. dock, Ken emerged. Ken wse quiet but Ho made off and, as ho did, `Both there warts; a look of gleaning in Ken's Ken and Dick ala not Look up so . as I eye 0114 1 s' boded o{good. for lead Hank. been: to Iet' him know that they cared. ' "If you believe that VII tell . you about to say something of his involun ' another!! exclaimed Dick, the doubter, tary shower bath, but thought hatter • "Is he gone dowti'•the trail?" l of it It is always we:l in a case like eyes!, • that to :et the otherfellow do the talk- "That fellow will stand watching, lag. Then you clan gauge your actiops Disk. I waisted him to get out, of by him, take advantage. sight before I made a move.: But he Hank laughed. in his •irritating said"soiifetlting to me -the other daySmart Aleck manner. Still' IGen reit- about es about Vire and Ruth, to<i that I didntrained himself. Quickly Hank glanc- like. I'm going to watch that fellow ed about to make sure that Ken was and you'd better conte along,. too. He a: -one before going further.,' go ayes ti took the upper trail on tite.c iffs. We'll Satisfied. Then he laughed in a eon- takethe lower on the shore. l'd like temptuous; manner that sit ICenb. Looked That Way: ' to know some more about that. 'Scoot- blood. boiling. His righteous anger Little Bird (to pouter pigeon)—'Say, eta' It's a mystery craft, anyhow. It's was mounting by the moment, mister, did .?ettswai'bty a balloon?" suspicious—Hank knowing all :about:. Sayl: taunted, Hank with an ex __- 1 that; as crating bravado. ''?-Was that rob -1 the robbery so -early and Al p " 1 Charles L) Dickens. hanging around here, watchingr until here an.inside job?To i .ens. we caught him et it. Come on I" 1 Ken was no less angry at Hank for I owe so many happy hours to you:. The: two scouts disappeared down what has happened, for he knew the So many joys your pen has 10 70 me: the shore trail, sailor had been put up -to it by Hank. The homelike English rooms I've wan• •' It was'conduct clearly:unw issue. a• dared through, - scout. But here was a new Issue,in jetted into the :tatter by Hank. The hours I've spent le eager ecstasy "What do you mean, inside job? C NWith Oliver,ell old Scrooge and Little returned Ken. , 0 millions of women the $5,000 Guarantee of Puri' -carried by every bar of Sun' light Soap means:- - Cleaner clothe 6 Sweetismeling clOtlletd New400 ' clothes -.: 't1� life Sunlightprolongs . e s�. Soap r ,fabrics. The Largest Sell%g Laund Soap in t ;-world !111111•Hiflt�li�lf i#i{Ilti J..E'ver Brothers Limited,Toronto Bold, Everywhere 5.79 Open Your Windows: , in Nature's Study. Everywhere I walk In these pleasant I By slow degrees the summer bloom - summer days and evenings Lam faded ed. Green came instead of white; by open windows. From out of ane rainbows instead of icicles. The window that `had often attracted me grounds about the Hall seemed the in - 1 heard this morning 111e happy'sound, carnation of a summer awhtch had of childish laughter. All through that taken Years to ripen to its perfection. cold weather that house had remain;1The very grass seemed to have, aged ed so dark and silent that, I had won-- into Perfect youth in that "Haunt of dared who luhsbited:=it, and had ter -1 anpient peace": for surely nowhere tainly never, suspected children. I else.. was such -thick, delicate -bladed, The open windows are et their' best delicate -colored ,. grass , to be seen. in' -the evenings just after dark' when Gnarled old trees of may stood like the family' circle has- gathered, to- altars of smoking perfume, or each. gather for a few' minutes before going like one millibn petalled flower of up - to bed, and their chatter and laughter, baved whiteness --or of tender roal- mingled with the music of a piano or nese, as if the snow which had covered a loud -speaker, come floating to the It in winter had sunk In and gathered shadows 'ea waves- of gold or crlmson warmth from the tece,,and now crept 11511. . i out again to adorn the summer, The How .different It all seems • to the long loops of the laburnum hung heavy dark; dismal Appearance of the streets with gold towards the sod below; and down which we used to plod our way al : the, air was full of the fragrance cd the few months ago, when every house young. leaves of the limes. Down in seemed to say that ebb last thing it' the valley below, the daisies. shone In would want to do would be to open its all the meadows, varied with the but windows and let anything out or may tercup and th oelandine; while In thinghl by fraternising with anybody. 'damp places grew large pimpernels, It ie the same with some of. the poo- and along the sides of the river the pie I meet. Some who in the winter. meadow -sweet Btpod, amongst the time passed 'me by regularly with reeds at the very edge of the water, never a Word, now greet me just as breathing out'the odors of dreamtul regularly with a smile, and will. even ; sleep. The clumsy pollards were each fall in.step-.with' me and discuss the; one mass of undivided green. The mill weatbe"`'i, our gardens, and the Test„ wheel had regained its knotty look, Mateheb. They . seem eager to know ;with its mo and its dip and drip, as me and to let me know them. .But i It yielded to the slow water, wbich aver'body 1 meet 'theta days Is, not? would have,tat it alone, but that there like that, and to those who are not 1 1 was no other way out of the land to 'Weald say: "Open your windowsi" Go the sea, a. home and open the windows of your 1 i used to wander about in the fields house to•let the sunlight in, • Go home and •woods, with a book In my hand, at and open flip windows of your soul to. which I often did not look the whole let the sunlight of human sympathy day ,and watch yet. I lilted to have with and the winds' of fresh experience me. And I seemed somehow to come cleanse •you of the encrusted cobwebs- back with moat upon those days la of the winter years. I which -I did not read. In this manner Do you think your house .wotrltl be , I prepared almost all my sermons that half so nice to live in just now if it Bummer. had not'received some weeks ago the For I always found the open air rho t Spring -Cleaning? I1 was I eniai lynsth ce upon me for rho s'hoelc D amesh g turned thoroughly upside down.'' If t production of religious feeling and you want to enjoy the bast of summer thought. i had been to try In •our mind and soul you should have ( whether it might not be led with me y i given them the shock o 'd good shake- by the fact that our Lord seemed to up. Itis• not o0 late to 'do it now: I take so much delight in the open air, • Once the windows of your soul ii18 and late in the day as well as early in open, see that they are kept open,lthe morn'ing would,cl�inib the mountain Obey your friendly impulses. 11 you 1 to. be alone with his Father. I found feel you -would like to :take friends thins it he1$etl .me to glue n reality to with anyone tip not let a false shyness everything that I thought about if h strand in your way. Suppose )wou have only conteidpiated it tinder the high worn` sober colored clothesell your lite utrtroubled blue, ividh the lowly green and you -suddenly think';y'ou would like benath my feat, rind the wind blowing brigiit.ealors; donit be `afraidl , They on ere.; . CHAPTER V. THE-11SY$TERY .CRAFT. Swinging'id:y in ,the snappy south-. Hank laughed in a superior man- 'While wandering through London's West breeze, out in the Rockledge bar- liar. "You don't know, 'bet 1 know." less -known streets bor, lay u' rakish Converted eco He. lowered his -voiC?.• "Your sister, Completely happy in the gentle spell `cruiser which had : emelt duty during Ruth, and the bnicli, all of thein, the war, but now had been sold by the Ruth, Vita, G:ern, Itae, Dick, Prafes- The very mention of your pante re ar Vario-;est a lot of .money last government and overhaued. refitted as'a yacht. She was a very business- week•bettin r on the races at Belmore I love them all—Micawber, Chuzzle- like looking, acht;"too, and not the Park, Some sports! You didn't' know wit, a le thingon her was her were over these,1,1188 Bels Tax/tweed, David Copper - leapt noticeable b skint—but my:£elks vvY . radio creta . on the mast. , saw 'em, told mel You bettertell,' " field; - It: as evident that a:tholigh her;- t watch Ruth—see? 1 e a blazing lc I love to sit was your mother a Beside g g captain, Nelsen, was aboard, her 0Wti-, •'That WAS more than Ken could,.And to their old-time invitation yield, er was not. The Scaotar," as her stand: Fie had been.drenched and in -.Dear friends the are, comrades be- that appeared on she tern!,; was gulled himself. But no one could cast . loved and true, anchored quietly in Rodt:edge, but reflections on hisi' sitter Ruth. Hank'.. • that did not mean that she was not had overri:uyed his 'hand.. You can- And all their constant charm 1 owe actively in :conmeisreone Far frons not rub" .things in on a boy,of Ken's to You! that. Nesen•W s acaiptaitt;alwayy on.- unsent. and-get:away: with it. .--I0leenor. G; R. Young. t tomrexan t, the job. Neverthe ess if one had had i h ne wt at'tilnl ICen, nailed in. 11 — tiro fact -V'J .<L. k, the ad closet' view of her' crew; an i ,. was sane scrap, for Bank had "—' ' ---- a • f Nelsen hint elf one would not haveo. But Ken had lived Tek for some high speed printing 011 S vantage sib y ilii ag been much impressed. '1 he crew of sensibly and clean and his motto foe presses' is fedle them by air pressure, the "Scooter" Wag not such as to ing 'Carry it wZw 's wit yep' y^ V. liGtsEV: JKesps 11e `11 cicala, Meath g.trects appetite keen anti digestion go9t1;> C cnt'•`gfteP- :yam c, eking • This sentient thing wlros'o hot thoughts freeze To cbing elegs that carry tragedies And miri;h—abstractions and particu• Its reaching rods ;re fingers and Ira Connpanel'to, welclh' all tteshy 110 1ra1] Fleet 110, tsireIess treating • ,thei 2ttoo• o"'s.,tudlc s,. ejgi t},else al• write skilled egel ' !v o. 28,20 Tf it be, stilled,silonee lits cline —ilea hands re, fast • varied h. m.ir t t Cl It d 11' l'm Rohm. to take the Paer's,iortboet lle;en . Nocmanton, ,ler nLis h troinap lai�tyer, firs t. he drdrniited to tl a s cone. lusts bete are' ,:o out 10 lh,.<'.Scl>ntei,' inner• Tem .le and to practise•in the, hh„hest:courts in'Great Britain. d thee. 001lot!; ]ic1', t,c til t.p to `iP-� vr..age p spire confidence.- Indeed it was quite the reverse. One might have -said that the creat was evil .00kieg. And he' Would ,not. have been far wrong, Paoli below now appeared a boy. It was Hank Hawkins. He had evident:y' come aboard to impart setae 1nfoema Lion to Captain Nelsen which the cap- (lin was later to ti•ansnut somewhere' -at a pre -arranged time over the radio. As Hank stuck his -head out he scan- ned can nedthe shore Sery closely, then reach= 1 ed -for marine glasses, turned and spoke helo'iv: ""There's' that boy,''K@tn Adams, on the shore, now, where he followed pis. 1,1 looks -to me as if he was conning out here. Give him a hot re2•aption. "You bet! No spies!" came a gruff •rejoinder, " Hank was: right. On the -landing; stake on the shore of the harbor Ken and Dick were standing. They had hastened in: trailing:IIank. but Hank hai3 had 11 St•trt of them, had arrived at the'landing stage first andihay had seen him .puttit>g, ofF: to a tender for the "Scooted-." ' For some ten hen and D:cl: stood on the landing stage, debating.- "0f course we want to hind out about ]tank' and that. 'Scooter,'",considered .?Len: "But then -Jou •remember the other day, before: h -tog' us - about buying this radio, -.ire ltd life was buying, a flivter° had.r.ul a,tiero it. ef. n hun- dred do re en ! o; t nr _e an e ? vvitl:do you good. • -I I therefore .Sought . to find an Then If you keep t•he wind /am open- hv0en the open-air Y easy passageata often enough anti long enough to let' mood and 6he church mood, so as to so many nneeneiul things ;blow 01 • be able to _bring into the church to short your inner house will be se fall of :much. of. the fresh air, and the tree - brightness radiating and breeziness that you will music and the color -harmony, and the be radiating it opt again: gladness over all, as might be possible, There are people like gardens, al- end. in order to do this, 1 thought all - nusaph radiating r are pebpinvitte like at- - to sermon over again iu the afternoon th se homes Thera are also people like thane does withdthe open windows. mut as it shone slantingly through the stained window, and in the falling light beIt dall yon good take pass them i told to thereof and the gathertng dusk of the cb allowed le ra peep ght. the twilight: Front "Annals of a Quiet ab armed circle'vf thelr'lamp•light. CI er;Tommy "Tommy," said the teacher, conte to the Chap and point out Australia to Pompeii? "Yes, my dear, but it ,was frightfully in need. or repair!" la'oighborhood," by George 'MacDonald." In Ruins. " Wien you were in Italy did you see the class." '"Pommy did sn. ' "Who discovered Australia, George?" theteicter asbed the next boy. "Tt pis",y did," was the reply. Bltspast Wine Barrel '2vino famous-Hetdelbsrg, wine barrel; once the largest of its kind in the world, la surpassed in sloe by a new beerel at ]7t•ltviile-on=the-$hire. 'it holds 283,8.00' quarts or -Rhine wine. it is 49 feet long e3 feet wide and nosey l0 feet high' ='rho Beide:berg barrel has been. dry for many years, but in the' days df its ,usefulueps it eId 200,761 quarts:- • Youncl 131,1 is Voraeicus.. A fledgling bite Will eat more ,;Ming' t ecceits t eight in Worms_butemea 11131ise-end .starOl - 'r`'• Rich City of Old Das. 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