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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-01-25, Page 10EY KATHA.RINE, SUSA1NNA a PRIlCHARD Cop'y'right by Hodder Iwai Stoughton. i Ann H r ty's Davey made his way1 She had not told him what had hap - to where on en open space of land the pend while Conal and he were away church had been built. Wirree,ford had •--show the 'Schoolmaster had it tp out its lights—garish oil flares and her one day, suddenly: rush candles—and the little fires light- "It's very dark, Deirdre. Is there edbefore the boors of the ,houses to going to be a storm?" keep off sand flies and mosquitoes, The sunshine was blank and golden kmouldered in the dusk, sending up out' of doors. wreaths of blue smoke "No," she had said, Iaughing. He had made up his mind as to what "There's not a sign of one." 'he.was going to do. During the week. "Where are you?" he asked, his i Conal had been mustering and brand- voice strange and strained. ing the cows and calves drafted from "Why, I'm here just' beside you," the scrub mob. Davey had worked she replied. had scarred with Mait of the calves e. H with him, and ninny CHAPTER . XXXIV, !gossips *aide how moral and elation- 1'and's double- M. "I can't see you;' he cold. "T't's the Davey was en his way to Steve's 1 going he might not make Wirreefortl were the progeny of his father's cat-' dark, Deirdre! My God ... it's the when he saw that the wooden church. before he was'dons with it, ( tie. Half a dozen cows bore the D,C• `darl.-." • with a zine roof, which had just been; Davey waited and witched. braud under their thick hair. Conal For a long time he had at staring built eta Wirreeford was lighted; anal .When the people came filing out of had wanted to pay him off. He had • while she knelt beside him, crying, that people were going ince it !the doorway, he edged along the fence told Davey that there was no need for nourmurieg eagerly and tenderly, try- It. aearl evening the sky clear: so that he could see their faces as they him to 'burn his fingers with this 'busi- ing to soothe and to coinfort him, ]tut above the sharp outlines of thebuild-d passed under the flare of an oil-ean nese, and that 'he could run 'the mob from that time the dimming and eh- ing, a few stars quivering in the lira -' ever the door. Ito the border, or to Melbourne, aerese literating of the whole world had be- pid'tviiig•ht. There were not many of them, twoithe swamp, if the south-eastern rivers gun for him. Daveypulled n his horse to stareIor three women and children, and. an; were clown; but he was shorthanded, The heavy darkness had passed. It at the reh. The lace had been old roan or two. They gathered and 'Davey knew; a sense of obligation was not all night yet, but a misty twi- buildin a longwhile. This was the' were talking about the gateway when' urged him to stick to Conal until the - light. He had forbidden her to speak first tirne he ad ;seen' it up.and 1Mary Cameron came out. (whole of the snob they had moonlight- of it, so that Davey did not know. finished. i Davey saw her .face under the light ed together was disposed of. 1Conal and Steve had gueown ssed, but In the paddock beside it was his:for a moment. There was a shine of Conal had adlvns intod on a hgetting a tit tie the Davey', ind,busywith its what was robe father's carry -all, and the grey horse tears on her cheeks. Her figure, cows andDeng on about him. Itz had roused tes!d'e it wase eold Lass's lot his ed grey dress he itlnew so usedto be. Her lit-Iandcl bad run a hundrock below ed ofthe day Maaitland's every loyal and fighting instinct in ter. A vague heart pain caught st his'td thinner breath. The wind Drought the strain tie straw bonnet wr_s pressed down' fattened beasts with them. IIe meant him to see his mother with that look of ea plaintive hymn. They must be close on her head, her shawl drawn to make a start and have the mob on of suffering on her face; his father inside, his mother and father, he told over her shoulders. She hurried from the roads early next morning, i in the way of becoming had bfcNab's prey himself. Hegot off his horse and led the church without speaking to any- There was a race -meeting in ththat —losingyounall years that t he hadshgai g ed her into the eep shadow the paling one. He saw her hand flutter' out to long paddock behind MeNab's city by fears into the pigs'. trough fence threw. A longing to see them the pest by the door as she felt for Friday. seized him. He stood there trying to the step. Conal and he had come into the Wrr- McNab had set for him. of hear their voices. "She's been crying and saying 'her nee to show themselves before starting! It was that stern righteousness After a moment he thought he could prayers for me," he told himself with off on their -overland journey. Almost his, his sober, stolid virtue, which had hear his mother's'voice, frail and pain and self-reproach. every man in the countryside was givendg Cameron no homagelce ef the country - ed sweet, in the singing. He remember- He waited to see Donald Cameron there., ed how she had sung to him once, how come from the church and join her. Davey wonderd why the School -side that his wealth and property she had sung over her spinning wheel A girl—a fair-haired girl—detached master had not come down to the alone would not have won for him; smiths quaint little song it was. The herself from the little gathering about township with Conal and himself. He they .had cloaked even his meanness different man see their with a sombre digin y brought e put out his Minds had been'asip, t and return, very silent, scarcelg stirring him the half -jesting title of the Laird from his chair in the back room, while of Ayrmuir. f d j tune of it went flying through his brain with the tap -tap of the spinning wheel. Haw gay and dear her voice had been. He remembered how he used to love as a child to sit clutching at her dress when she sang like that. And the old man! In that moment of loneliness he forgot the hard speaking and bitterness there had been between him and his father. A wave of tend - the gate and went towards her. "Oh, there you are, Mrs, Cameron, dear," she said, "I was waiting to help you put Bess in!" Davey knew her voice. It was Jessie Ross. His heart gave a throb of grati- tude. The young parson came out and slammed the church door behind him. Davey's glance flew to the paddock. criers overwhelmed him, Pride and Ile could see his mother's grey -clad a longing for their love struggled in figure moving about among the ve- him with a physical hurt beyond en- hicles and the horses, durance. He determined to stand there and wait to see them come out of church. Friday night, services after the cat- tle sales were an institution as new as the church. They had been organ- ized so that christenings, marriages, and some soul -saving into the bargain, might be done while the hill folk were down for the sales. McNab bad done his best to move the parson'who had accepted the Wirree as his cure of souls, but the young man stuck like a limpet, and there was no telling, the INVENTORS • Manufacturers always consider good _ Inventions, Fortunes are made from New Ideas to suit modern times Send for free list of Ideas Circulars. 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But it was out of range of the light that Mary Cameron had drawn up her horse. She sat very still, The outlines of the vehicle were ruled black against the starlight which rested wanly on her figure and on the sturdy, grey horse. "What on earth is she waiting for?" Davey asked himself. He was going to her when the side - door of the Black `Bull—the door of MeNab's parlor, as he knew --opened. Donald Cameron stood in it for a mo- ment. Davey saw MoNab behind him, his crooked figure and twisted face with the withered fringe of hair about it. Cameron staggered across the stretch of gravel to the buggy in which his wife sat waiting. He climbed into it. "Will you not let me drive,Don- ald?" The clear sweetness of his mother's Fresh in Ti tr`p•, a ,, Zc with the ess r.f Fresh Fr : t ERE'S a new package of Sun - Maid Raisins that you will. want to try— dainty, tender, juicy, seeded fruit -meats packed in tins. The tin keeps all the flavor in. No matter when or where you busy them, these raisins have the freshness of fresh fruit. Especially delicious in a cake or pie—and all ready, too. Try them next time you buy raisins. See how good they are. Mail coupon for free book of tested Sun - Maid recipes. THE SERIOUS ART OF I� BEING', FUNNY No less,Iearn+ecl'ludivlduaf than Selo mon himself is' reemeaie'ible for the statement` bleat "A menu heart doeth good like a. medicine." In those'Olair- ried ebusY, strenuous days ore is oeir titled, to at least one good laugh every twenty-four bowie, elere two 'principal 'sources from which thee+) laughs must be drawn are front books tend from folks, and of course,` after' 311, the printed page is merely file vehicle which another uses to talk to you. OUT Suppose we should make up miutis to obtain at least one dose ot. this medicine of mirth each day; to flint anall-around setesfa a:to+ry prepara- tion, properly admindetened by the right person, one w1io knew hde busd- ness, would involve mere aomliilaar tions than you might thick. It is not so easy to make some people laugh, and, that doesn't signify that they 'ire stubborn or grouchy. You eau recall an experience Mee this: • may- be- You are v1'ealing cane family, for the first 'time. One member of the household hasn't arrived yet. It may be the tether, the mother, or ono of the child+reit• We'll say it's a boy about eighteen. • "You mustn't leave till you meet him," the nether remonstrates, "He's the life of the family, Why, j keeps us all in an uproar of laughter all the, time. He's such a tease!" So after you've wilted a bit, the gawky, stupid, prom �seag young come- dian puts in an s pl earance. It mal turn out that he is bubbling over with, jokes that were published in Noah's (To be eon one Almanac, or his tendei ey toward Deirdre hovered, never very far fbym mirth may vent itself en pranks such him, anxious and protective as a Mfnard's Liniment for Burns & Scalds. mother -bird. as playing tag with his big sisters and pinching mother or !riding dad's pipe, or some other oeiginad etuut. .Por a joke to be successful, these requirenuemts are essential, to wit: It must baa joke. That is', there must be a positive "punch" to it. It rnusen't be fanapy to just a few; it must have about it a sort of uelver- sality. over." It must be properly"put Froth. beef, a little cold bread, a few potatoes, a tinge of anion, taken separe etely or mixed haphazard, don't sound 10 good as—what is good, end what everybody admits is greed, notwith- standing the harrnlese Emit we have all had about Ft. Hash, of course. The art of telling a joke is much like the art of taktng crude stuffs and combine hug them into a happy whole. And Lest we forget et, deal lough et Mir alisimorltwhee. n you tell it. all means be After you have told it., if nobody lauglus, don't repeat it, for your audleOce will laugh even less if they must suffer lis tenisng to the repetition. If you are temperamental—that is, it you are noticeably self-comscicbs, or if you are over-s+cnloue of nature, cr incliared toward deepou+den+cy, or if you belong to the restsl•ved, over'-degnUled class—You had better' not attempt tell- ing a joke at all—ate-east until you can overcome seine of these peeul'htrities. Many a good joke has been spoiled by the teller. To be funny to others there must be about us an atmosphere of complete relaxattua, ease, abandon, off- dtum oven lrau+dness and spontaneity, dv„ Don't tele year Joke to the wrong hot graham gems or Boston brown Mis. tiny p'1 voice came to the toy's ears. a a 4 crowd. Don't you think it rvruld be "No,"Donald Cameron said un- Sandwiches from graham loaf and Children. rex w„tet • right difficult fora college rrofes,so'r steadily. "Tl 1' cold t 1 h With profound b 1 of in the edema.principle of the flute, music the atom!- to amuse a railroad englue^i? will• Davey was stupefied t h best bread madewith yeast taught music without tote reading tett! Are you coming i• Dna string could be made to play more back, Music d tl f Ab • ut the HOUSe Wholesome Cold Weather Breads. drop clean from the spoon. This wi 1 Good graham bread is wholesome' make two loaves baked in individual and delicious at any time of the year, I loaf tins. but if there is a time when it seems! For breakfast gems we use a plain to just fit the appetite a little better I loaf recipe and bake in well -greased than any other, 1t is when the crisp gem pans in a hot oven. cold days of autumn and winter ares Nut loaf -2 large eups buttermilk, with us. 34 cup melted shortening, 1 tspn. soda In many modern homes the value of ; and one tspn. baking powder, 1 tspn. graham flour is underestimated. The' salt, 1 tbspn. white sugar or light graham that makes the most delicious syrup, 1 cup white flour, 1 egg, 1 cup and nut -like bread is ground at the, chopped nut meats, 1 cup chopped mild directly from the farmer's wheat- i raisins. It will be slightly coarser than the! Add graham flour to make stiff bat - sacked graham procured- at the gro- ter, beat well, put in loaf -tin, let rise eery and much sweeter and better fifteen minutes and bake in medium stand savageown imusic, and if they ts like the pmii�f flavored. By asking the miller to give oven. your wheat what is called "the first! Raisin loaf is combined the same as them. peoples, Fromtthe child's love oan savage i Y Sum.®i ai Raisins Sun -Maid Raisin Growers Membership 21,000 Dept. 000, Fresno, Calif. Raisins furnish 1560 calor- "M'����"�®� ies of energizing nutriment � CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT per pound in practically pre- digested form. Sun -Maid Raisin Growers, Also a fine content of i Dept, 000, Fresno, California. food iron—good food for the blood. Please send me copy of your free book, You maybe offered other 1 "Recipes with Raisins:' brands that you know less wen than Sun -Maids, but NAME the kind you want is the kind Insist you knowisgood. . Y STREET therefore, on osSun-Maidore brand. They coat no more than ordinary raisins. I CiTr_- rack" you will have a nutritious and plain loaf with one cup of choppe highly delightful breakfast food. Cook raisins added. this the same as cream of wheat and Boston brown bread -1 qt. good but - you will ask for nothing better. `termilk, is cup melted shortening, 1 Hot graham gems are a welcome ad-' tepee salt, 2 tspns. soda and 1 tspn. dition to the breakfast table on a cold baking powder, 1 cup molasses or morning. In one family where the sorghum, 1 cup white flour, 1 cup corn mother was a splendid cook the writer, meal, 1 cup rye meal, recalls that when winter approached! One egg and enough graham flour to the main part of the Sunday morning. make stiff batter. Steam three hours breakfast was always baked potatoes, in pudding basin or baking powder and graham gems. When you have cans and bake twenty minutes in me - baked beans for supper try serving • bread with them, • Educational Value of Music to Little level she would gradually lift him to higher forms. He would understand each stage as he reached for it, and his work always be at hie own level. Mrs: Coleman believes 'that it is pos- sible for a child to receive from his mother and father in the home in the first seven years of his life musical training without set lessons or prac- tice'hours that will be of greater value to him than twice seven years' etudy in any conservatory after he is grown. Coleman's in • pupils s began t the drum and rattle stage, played Pan pipes until they found out the PIO HER! OVE C; 7ILD'$ BOWELS "California Fig 8"yrup" is Child's Best Laxative ea t y. teres no woman living filled with rocs port, cheese or, t a pro'oun e r 11 drive me while I can lay hands on i der tar of the resonance Egyptians until they Double ora jelly, are ideal for the school lunch tional valve of music to litt.e children, p a reins." box. ! Mrs. Statis, N. Coleman of New York discovered how resonance could be Motorist—"Why don't you get out The Music p ea,hinag Pro - Tho four -wheeler moved away over y _ e found foe strings, strummed the lyre of the way?" E l eSui�L*n. th the long winding road to the hills. For those troubled with poor diger thought that clnldeen should first b and p svo harp and learned how Victim-•-"wl The sign board of the Black Bull, with' various forms of graham bread for a red eyes on its dingy white ground, family of six: was just visible. The glare from the Plain graham bar lighted it. "That's why she goes to church alone The old man's drinking," tie ion the es' rea is i aug re v" , sic an the profession of music "So McNabs got hint," he muttered, sponge and part or all graham flour. "Why not," she said, deliberately, .em- than one note. and so made and played - ' tetching in Oana'`+z have receive:! an at the ramshackle The following are a few recipes for ploy the child's natural way of learn- itive fiddles and lutes and Minard's Liniment for Coughs & Colds. immense impulse through for crgani• lancingshanty. thought. He turned to look after the buggy. It was bumping and jolting over the ruts and barking the road -side. Davey held his breath; he saw the mare buck and then take the log -culvert over the creek two or three hundred yards from MoNab's. "He's not fit to drive," he told him- self, and' swinging into his saddle, set off down the road. "He'll turn the wheel on a. log, or drive off the road. She knows. That's why she wanted to drive." He followed at a little distance all the way through the hills, Sometimes he heard his mother's voice, patient and yet edged with a weariness and) despair, exclaiming: "Mind there's a, bad rut to the left!" or "You're driv ing too near the edge of the road,• Donald!" But steadily, without reference to, either of them, the little horse kept to' the track. Davey followed them all! the way home, to the very gates of I{ the house in which he was born. Then he turned back into the shade of the: trees again. Once his mother had! looked round and seen the watchful; horseman. She had not been near enough to see: his face. Be rode in the shadows. Bat he 'had seen her face' Even a sick child loves the "huity and it was a revelation to him. taste of "California Fig Syrup." If the A woman must have a good deal of courage to drive beside a drunken man little stomach is upset, tongue coated, , in the hills at night, he knew. The or 1f your child Is cresol, feverish, full look on her face hurt him. There were of cold, or has colic, a teespooaiful will death gaps at a dozen places on'the anever fail to open the bowels, Iu a few hours yon can eee tor yourself hew thoroughly it works all `'Ire oonstipa- tibn poison„ sour pile and waste from the tender, little bowels end gives you a well, playful child again, - Miliions• of mothers keep "California Fig Syrup" handy. They know a tea, spoonful to -day saves a Stick Child to. morrow. Ask your druggist for gennr- iaro "California rig Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of rill ages printed on bobble. Mother! You rsus'teeleer"California" or you may cot au:,-imltattoai•fld syrup, loaf -1 qt. good but -i termilk, 1s cup melted shortening, 2, tsps. soda and one tsp. baking powder,' 5i cup molasses or sugar•, 1 cup whitel flour or one egg. Add one tsp. salt and enough gra- ham flour to make a batter that will ing until the physical process becomes easy?" Mrs. Coleman says initiative singing may begin as soon as a child begins to talk, or even before. Simple dancing at three or four results in the cultiva- tion of rhythm. Mrs. Coleman then had the idea of treating her 'children as little savages. They could under - road; rind, Donald Cameron was as stubborn as a mule. Neither the mare, nor his'wife, could have saved him if he had taken it into his head. to drive in any given direction. Davey wondered how often his mother hal driven like this before. Be vowed that she would never clo, it again—if he could 'help it. CHAPTER XXXV. After the sales on the following Fri- day, when the dust of the yards was heavy in the air, and the stock horses stood+ in irregular, drooping lines out- side the Black Bull and Mrs, Mary WOMEN JOCKEYS IN ENGLAND Hors:: r +tag icr women is becoming an interesting feainro of English racing eve -its. 'The picture shows 0 winner being led in after a race in which the rode "Bo -Beep:' upon prim banjos. Dye Any Garment or Old Drapery in Diamond Dyes Buy "Diamond Dyes" and follow the simple directions in every package. Don't wonder whether you can dye or. tint successfully, because perfect Isome dyeing is guaranteed with Diamond Dyes even if you have never dyed be- fore. Worn, faded dresses, skirts, waists, coats, sweaters, stockings, draAeriee, hangings, a " 1 i verything be zatnc+n of asaoclatioas of nius!c beach- Shirked the Trouble. ers in various cities of !faro countr:es. A ScotelianaMn alt e dearth left his Those pioneers whoinaugurated such property in equal shares to his two associaticnt3 in Menne years had the continuedsons, who continued to live most con- vision to s+ee that if the art of Music tentedly for many years. At Last, how- was to be identified as a profession ever, one of them said to the •oth'er: teacher tit anizationo would unquea- "Sandy, a'e'rie gettleg to be anld ttoa:trbly ocnimand nes+pect and admira- l -nen; you take a wife, ear' when I die, tion of the public. Some !clave fortun-' you'll get my share o' the land," ately lived to witness at this' time re - "Na, Na, Thomas;" ea1d theother, sults Eynon their initial struggler which You're the youngest and the mast live are fax beysxnd their m'c 't extravagant II; you tales a wife, and when I die dreams. you'll got ms+haae, anon:' Only a comparatively few years ago Z1:at'e y always the wary wi' You, the inusee teacher had very el+lgl'ct Are - come like new again. Just tell. your Thcenael," sold the first brother, when feselana'1 standing la the community. druggist whether the material you there's any fast or troubee, I must With the exception of a few bobber wish to dye is wool or sills, or whether take it all; you'll do nnething.'' known teochen in eolleg'e and a few It is linen, cotton, or mixed geode..• who were fortunate enough to' boast Diamond Dyes never streak, spot, 1 1f there were no clouds, we. should rituclbos in leo great c'.t1ou, music fade, DT run. joy teachers were loeleall neon with very Seekers. The. little paIli-climbs to look for the! sky, And the brook goes down in quest of the sea, And men have ,sought for Infinity Apart fropi the common ways• that lie We:ere humble toil has birth- ` And gold is won in tie sweat: of brow. But a wise tree stands with its fest the erth, And. gathertos the stars iia a topiuc t bough. —Mar ._ y Brent Whiteside. Long Meals. Thomas A. l ldison is non muoh,. given to humor—he is fat ton busy for that ---but he has ono pet yarn that be is never tired of repeating: A man from the country one day came to town and put up at a first- clese hotel. He went to the office and asked the clerk tvhtut Teem the times of the meals.' "Breakfast, 7 to 11,". aesiwered the clerk; "lunch 11 to 8; tea; 3 to 6,; din- ner, 0 ;to 8; marl supper, 8 to 12. "Wept!" shouted the astoritthud visitor, "then am I going to get tirne to saethe town? After Every Meal Ch w y b8EF 100C$ Wens, 'thein use r IIGLEY'S iia aid. digestion. H also keeps the teeth cleric, breath sweet„ appetite keen. The, Great Canadian Sweetmeat little more regard than house to house oanvaseers. Now gatherings of teach- ers compel as much considerations as tlioee of laWyea i, doctors, bankere, and mordants. Through such organitea:ttren, through recognition coming through unlversd- ti s: and colleges, though innumerable clubs and el:cough tb i ever expanding deadly prose. and nmistoaf periodicals music is now Identified as a calldng of high importance, .p Helpful Wind. waii+:tr on his+ recent viva to this con- tiu•ewt Mart:lal Iicwh made a witty re- ply to a man who, when one of the gueeta at a• dimmer panty In Denver, G+:vea by a panty of Anv:rriewne, book exception to Fu encb politeness, "There le nothing lit et but wind." he mild with questicatabe baste. "Neither is there anyilt trig but wlanl in a poiemnvat?to tenet" . r+etcu.ted the g:1lleant nuersdtllrly' • "yet: 11 eases the jolts along life's bt ii - way wonderfu'l1y."'• Freight by Aerial. An aerial cable 111, for the trans, . gortation of freight wJl1 bo built in Venezuela between Caracas and La Cuayra, rein s r 1'