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BY EDITH BARNARD DELANO.
the little district school that
weathered the winter storms beyond
the crest of the hill, she had always
stood head of her class. The teacher
said she was bright; other people said
she was smart. Her facility with her
studies gave her distinction in school
and the folks at hone were proud of
her.
She was the youngest of the fam-
ily, but she passed her next older
sister by two grades and was in the
same class with her brother, who was
smart too. She adored Henry, and
it was he who said at supper, before
the whole fancily, the day they gradu-
ated from the district school:
"I'm goingto work. But Addie's
got to be a teacher. She's got to go
to high school, pa, and be a teacher."
For in the opinion of such people
at that time, teaching was not work,
but a calling, ranking only below the
minister's in dignity. So to Addle
that pronouncement of Henry's seem-
ed as momentous, as magnificent as
the announcement in the dawn of a
Zritish Prime Minister to the young
Victoria. A kingdom was being offer-
ed her.
All the family stopped eating and
looked at her. Then after a moment
their father said, "Why, yes. I guess
maybe that's so.
She worked for her board during
the four years of high school, but at
their end she was given a little school
some twenty miles down the valley.
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fresh, clean and
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At last she was a teacher, conscious
of the aura of consecration that sur-
rounded her profession in the eyes of
her old neighbors and the new ones
near her school. Before the first half
year was aver she was conscious of
something else far more invigorating.
She had a gift for teaching. She
could make things plain to her pupils,
by her gentle persistence urge even
the most reluctant of them along the
path of study. And uothwithstanding
her gentleness, or perhaps because of
her patience that was never ruffled
or hurried, even the big boys became
submissive to her discipline. It may
have been that her mere personality
kept them in order.
"Even the toughest of those big
boys mind you, don't they?" asked
John Moore, one day.
He had come in a buggy to drive
her home over the muddy roads of
April, for she boarded with his sister
a mile or more from the school. He
had sat in his buggy and silently ob-
served the small final scene of the
school day. Some of the older boys
were making a mud slide from the
schoolhouse steps to the road. Addie,
from the doorway, said quietly:
"Maybe you'd better go home, boys."
Of course they appeared not to hear,
and covered their departure with sun-
dry cuffings and scramblingss. Addie
picked her way around the slide to
the buggy. She laughed a little at
John Moore's remark.
"My brother Henry says I'm real
good at training all sorts of critters," 1
she told him. "There's nothing I like i
any better than training a colt. And
all our hens follow me around, all over j
the place. I'm real fond of young
things."
Young things. John Moore looked i
sideways down at her. She was so
young herself, and so pretty. He' o
could see her with the colts and the:
hens, and children. He was only e
few years older than she was, and al- fa
ready she was becomir desirable in
his eyes.
He was working and saving toward c
n farm of his own; some day .. d
But not yet. He fest himself unworthy;
of her; but before the second year was,
over his sense of unworthiness was f
borne down by a stronger feeling,
Before she went home for the second:
summer they were openly "going to-;
gether." In that time and place, that
fixed them in a definite r•e.ationship. B
That summer her sister, nee, was
married, Almira had married while,
Addie was fn high school, and lived
"It's awful for me, without °you
said To in.
Addie trembled toward him.
know. Oh—I ]snow, But she's ju
like e child, John. How could I. lea
her?"
John laid his hand over hers. "We
would have children, too," he said, and
was standing in front of them his
'I
st
ve
Addie began to cry.
John came again and again. T
last tiine he said, "You don't love m
enough, that's why," They we
standing beside his buggy in the la
twilight. She'covered her face wi
her hands, then ran away into t
house.
Their letters ceased after that. Th
following spring, when Almira can
out to spend the day, she said, '
guess maybe you heard about Joh
Moore's getting married. Fol
thought he was going to pick you, one
time."
Her mother lived on for nine year
More she died; their father becam
ill with cancer and Henry had corn
home to carry eh the farm. Lookin
back, it seemed that her mother's it
nese was]easier to bear than her
father's; he never lost the use of lri
tongue.
When things got to going w
Henry married. He was forty at th
Addie a few years younger.
married a nice girl. It was right tha
man should marry.
"I'm going to get me a schoo
Addie told them one day
mo• nth ar so • after the wedding,
"Shol" said Henry, "Why, you'
always have your home here with us.
It was not that Addie doubted h
welcome, not that she wanted to lea
them. Only, to be a teacher again ..
So she did what she couist to find
school; but there were young girl
everywhere looking for the sam
thing—and finding it.
In the end she went to work for of
Mrs. Stoddard in town. It was a bi
house, with lots of fine things in it
Mrs. Stoddard liked her carpets ewep
and the rugs taken out and beaten
Addie grew thinner. After some year
Mrs. Stoddard died, and left all he
money to the missionary society, ex
cept twenty-five dollars to Addie.
Just at that time Henry's four chil-
dren came down with scarlet fever, so
Addie went back to the farm.
As it happened, it never did seem
the right time for her to leave anti
Henry's family had increased to seven
After a time the older children were
big enough to help, and Addie began
to think about finding a school again.
She tried every way she knew. Once
the school board lilt her substitute for
a week.
Then Almira fell down and broke
her hip. Both her daughters were
married. So of course they sent for
Addie. Almira's husband gave her a
nice pocketbook for Christmas.
Next year she went to keep house
for a widower with four children. She
felt she must earn some money, and
save, so she would have something
aid by for her old age, She stayed
n that place until the widower mar-
ried again.
She went back to the farm for a
good rest, and because she wanted to
see them all, especially the baby.
All the children loved her. They
minded her better than they did their
wn mother.
She would not have stayed there as
long as she did, though, except for the
et that there were measles and
whooping cough in the school that
ear, and one after another of the
hi:dren came down with them. It
id seem foolish, but Addie herself
took the measles.
It was provoking, too, and made her
eel ashamed, that after the measles
she became rather deaf.
She became increasingly aware that
Henry's house was crowded too. It
wasn't that they did not want her,
ut it seemed better to find work
somewhere.
She went to keep house foe a very
old lady who was even deafer than
she was. It seemed—we:l, queer, to
e in a house so quiet, without any
hands in his pockets, just as' he used
to stand when he was a baby. He
FORBEST! 5 S laughed a Iittle, bent toward her.
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with her husband's family in the near-
est town. Two children bad come, and b
•
Almira had settled into a state of c
disheartened, querulous ill health,!
The preparations for Ellen's wedding' y
meant more to Addie than Almira's o
had. For one thing, she helped Ellen o
sew; and while she sewed her thoughts o
wound themselves into dreams. 1
Before the next summer came. John 'h
Moore told her that he had almost it
hildren.
ut she stayed in that place four
ears, until Henry's wife died. His
Nest daughter was married, the next
no was teaching school, another was
B in the normal school, studying.
Sometimes she helped the baby with
is lessons. His name was Prank, and
was silly of her always to think of.
That was what happened the day of
enough to buy his farm. He had set- h
tled on the one he wanted; there were w
im as the baby. But that was the
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many for sale in those days. He took
her one day to see the house. It need- b
ed a bit of new roof, and paint and m
bright papers. They would not need le
much furniture at first. If his first s
year's crops were good, they could be t
married the following year. She was A
went back to the city Molly put her
arms about Addie's neck and kissed
her."You're so wonderful, auntie," she
said.
"Sho!" said Addie, because she did
not know what else to say
It seemed stranger than ever, after
they left, with only herself and Hemy
at home. Still and all, she thought,
she and Henry always Iiked being to-
gether. Even now they had their
Jokes, for Henry never minded her
being a little deaf. Fortunately, her
deafness had never increased; some-
times she caught things quite well.
ay she fest about him,
After a time there were only two,
oys left at home. Then the older one
arried, and Frank went off' to col-
ge. He worked his way through and
ett:ed in the city. After a year arj
wo he brought his bride to see them.
ddie loved her at once. Before they
calmly happy; but in April got the
letter calling her home. Her mother
had had a stroke, and there was no
other woman in the family to take
care of her.
Mrs. Hurd never recovered her'
power of speech, never again could
do more than make her wants known
by sounds of which Addie alone knew.
the meaning.
After a year or so, she could be'
dressed and set in a chair by the
stove or the window. Addie had never
a moment of impatience. As the toil-
some months wore en, her mother
came to seem like a baby to her.
Sometimes she would kiss her moth-
er's hair after she had brushed_ and
knotted it. Sometimes she would put
her cheek against that nerveless ono.
Sometimes she would say, when her
mother whimpered, "There now, my
baby, you be good and let Addie get
on with her work."
She and John Moore wrote to each
other, and sometimes he came to see
her. He was working hard, and at
last, on a Sunday, when Addie had
cleared away the midday dinner, he
asked her to go for a drive with him.
Her mother, from her place by the
window,'. made strange inarticulate
sounds.
"She don't want me to go," Addie
' interpreted. "We'l'l just sit on the
porch steps, John."
He told her about the house. He
, had it ready. His planting was done,
' and in the pause before haying time
he wanted to be married. Addie turn-
ed very white.
"You see how ma is, John. There's
nobody else but me to take care of her.
• She's so pitiful, too, having to sit
there like that. It must be so awful
for her."
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Henry's funeral. Most of the chil-
dren came home for it; two lived too
far away. Addie knew they had talk-
ed about her a good deal, during those
days. •
On the afternoon after the •burial
they were sitting in the parlor. They
did not think she rou:d hear.
"There isn't a spare inch in my
house," said one of Almira's laugh, -
tees.
"I'd take her'," said Henry's eldest,
"but when your children are as old as
mine are there's always young com-
pany. I never know how many I'll
have."
Frank was out of the room, but
Molly was there. As far as Addie
could see, she was taking no part in
the discussion; she was smiling a
little, aloof from them all.
The wife of the oldest boy was ,
speaking. "It's awful," she said, "to
think of •rn old person's not being
wanted. Why, she's only seventy-
! four. She can do a good day's work
j yet. I think it's the duty of one of
the nieces to take her"
Frank had come into the room. He
was a big man, and they had all been •`
conscious that his success in the city
had made him—we 1, different.
"Are youtalkingabout auntie:" he"
asked. 'Because none of you can have j
i her. Molly and I have wanted her
ever since we were inarried, but wo 1
couldn't take her away from pa."
Addie began to tremble: Moly
,crossed the room and sat down beside
• her, putting her lips close to the old:
woman's ear. "I want you to teach
mp" she said.
Addie choked for a moment, ;coked'
off as at something afar. "Why, 1
haven't been a teacher—for--,`fifty
years," she said.
"I want you to teach me," said
Molly, "tb bring tip my children as
well as you brought up Frank. T.
want you to teach as to live the way
you have."
Addie's eyes turned to Franit. Hs
Mlnard's:Liniment used, by Phgelelans.
"Remember when I used to forget
and •call you.ma''" he asked. "That
was funny, wasn't it?"
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That is why:—
YOU CAN IF YOU
WILL
•
People sometimes believe in us
much more than we believe in our-
selves. It may be that we know better
than anyone else where our tleflclen-
cies lie, and get the impression• Chet
we shall always be their slave. Thus
we coe to say, much toe frequently,
"I canm't.,,
Given good health, there isnothing
in the"world to stop you from .succeed-
ing if you try. Call -to mind the people
you know and have readabout who
have fought' against great od'le, and
often their own disabilities' acrd have
gained their end because they believed
,that they could.
Mlltun wes blind when ire gave us
"Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Re-
gained," Lord Byron and Shakespeare
were lame. Beethoven was deaf.
Alexander the Great was small of sta.
tura. Nelson was delicate! so was Na-
poleon Bonaparte. Think of the
moderns and their difticultles. Arnold
Bennett wrote from New Year's, Day
to New Year's Eve before any editor
took his MSS: Corks sweated in his
bakehouse. Kipling started in obscur-
ity in India, Each one of these said
to himself: "I can if I will." They
willed and theydil!
"Ours is the world and everything
that's in it" if we will only lay claim to
1t. There is, nothing to prevent us
when we make up our minds to go for-
ward. Our strength is tremendous
when one conies to think of it.
The psychologlets speak of thls as
auto-suggestion1 that lo, a man may
say to himself: "You can .11 you will,"
and he invariably does. It doesn't
mean an over -abundance of confidence
or swell -headedness, but just a quiet
belief in one's own powers to accomp-
110h a task•
We meet some who say they have
tried this and it doesn't work, There
are people who interpret this self-con-
fidence as running one's head at a
wall and reeling back: It is not that
at all. The greatest thing a mau'has
in his mind. All is controlled by that.
Nothing has yet been accomplished
but that someone has said, "I can do
that." If aman's mind tells. him he
can—be eau; and there will be no
breaking of skulls in the effort!
The greatest mistake we ever make
is to sit with folded ]rands and say:
"Well, I can't manage it!" Whether
it be the job of daily work or the learn-
ing of a language or an act of service
to a neighobr, if we make up our
minds that we will do it we shall find
ourselves succeeding.
The twiddling of thumbs or the be-
lief that anything will work itself out
automatically is a stupid, delusion.
The "word "can" comes to us from
the Anglo-Saxon word which means
"to know." So that whatever we may
know, whether it be by instinct or
otherwise, we 'are apt to porform. It
is wonderful what we know and can
remember. There may be much we
don't know, but it is surprlc ing how
much we do know; and because we
know, we are able.
Now, believe in whatever end who-
ever you like; but amid all your be-
liefs, put these two first—your belief
in God and then your belief in youa'-
self, Nothing can help you like theee
two beliefs, Let them dominate your
life, Find your iitie 01 acttvlty and
Then say: "In the name of all that is
best and noble 1 will win through,
You will. and others will recognize it.
Two F1ighta.
In his volume of Early Reminis-
cences Mr. S. Baring -Gould relates an
amusing coincidence.
As a little boy of not more than five
or six years old, he was driving with
his father and mother from the family
home at Bratton to Lew House, to
visit his grandparents. The equipage
was a gig, and he was tucked snugly
on the floor at the feet of his elders.
In descending Lew Hill, he says, the
horse trod on a rolling stone and fell.
Thereupon my father and mother shot
lilte a pair of rockets over my head
and the splashboard and fell into the
road. I burst out laughing. My fath-
er was very angry with me, and my
mother looked distressed. When re- --
preached, I said:
"I could not help it; you both looked
like rooks taking flight from a field
where you had been feeding,"
"You bad, unprincipled boy!" said
my father wrathfully. "We might both
have broken our necks." —
"Olr, then I should have cried and
not laughed.'
]3u 1, my dear," put in my in other,
"it was so rude of you to say we look•
ed like rooks,"
"1 love rodeo," said L
Just fifty years after this I was driv-
ing iny wife dawn the sans hill in a
dogcart, when I told her ibis store. I
hail hardly concluded when—bother
it! -at the game place downwentthe
hnr�•s an;l I shat nut.
No bones were broken, but the
knees of my trousers were horribly '
lacerated. None who have not formed'
such an attachment ern comprehend,
how lovable an old pair of trousers
may ire to one, As I w'ss conteniplat.
• iag the rents, I hear;? my whir laugh.
and I looked up half•reprcachfully, half.
angrily,
"Ycu really looked like an old crow
taking flight," said she mischievously.
But, observing that'I was not placated,
With 0110 of herpleasant smiles ,she
added:
"I dove an ctrl crow."
You ]nay kill men, but you cannot
kill a great idea. --Joseph MazzinL