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Abner Cos ens
IUSINESS CARDS
WELLINGTON MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE CO.
Established 1840.
Head Office, Guelph, Ont.
Risks taken on all classes of insol-
ence at reasonable rates.
ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham
J. W. DODD
Office in 'Chisholm Block
/IRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT
AND HEALTH
--- INSURAN'CE. --
ANL) REAL ESTATE
P. O. Box 366. Phone 198.
WLNGHAM, - ONTARIO
DUDLEY HOLMES
I�AR',RISTER,SOLICITOR, ETC.
'Victory and Other Bonds Bought and
sold.
---Office—Meyer Block, Wingham
R. VANSTONE
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC.
Money to Loan at Lowest Rates.
Wingham, - Ontario
J. A. MORTON
BARRISTER, ETC.
Wingham, - Ontario
R. G. FI. ROSS
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry.
Office Over H. E. Isard's Store.
W. R. HAMBLY
B.Sc., M.D., C.M.
Special attention paid to diseases of
Women and Children, having taken
postgraduate work in Surgery, Bact-
,eriology and. Scientific Medicine.
,..,Office in the Kerr Residence, bet-
ween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap-
tist Church.
All business given careful attention.
'Phone. 54. P. O. Box zt3.
Dr. Rob'. C. Redm .i, nd
M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.)
PHYSICIAN: AND SURGEON
Dr. Chisholm's old stand.
DR. R. L. STE ART
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
; Office in Chisholm Block
Josephine Street. Phone 29.
-r. Margaret C. Calder
General Practitioner
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine
Office—Josephine St., two doors south
of Brunswick Hotel.
Telephones: Office 281, Residence 151.
DR. F. A. PARKER
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
All Diseases Treated
Office adjoining residence next to
Anglican Church on Centre Street,
--Open every day except Monday and
Wednesday afternoons.
Osteopathy Electricity
Telephone 272.
J® ALVIN FOX
CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY
ELECTRO -THERAPY
Hours 10-12. 2-5. 7-8.
• Telephone 191
B. 1edNNES
CHIROPRACTOR
MASSEUR
Adjustments given for diseas's of
all kinds, specialize in dealing with
children. Lady attendant. Night Calls
.responded to,
Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont.,
in the house of the late Jas. Walker.
Telephone 15o.
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Phones: Office to6, Resid. 224.
A. J. WALKER
FURNITURE DEALER
— and
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Motor Equipment
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NVI
"The Smoki n
]33r Robert • f. C. Stead
from a nail beside his bed; he could
hear the suspender buckles rasping
I 9 lightly against the board wall as they
stirred. The few drops of rain which
had awakened hint lulled and died
down, then gathered again for a more
determined assault, Pat -a -pat, pat -a-
pat, pat-a-pat,like some myriad -footed
creature of the night they sprang up-
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This prairie homestead, prosperous,
no doubt, in a gross kind of way, in
the kind of way that is pleasured by
acres and bushels and droves of stock
with its rough buildings, its simple
customs, its labors, its drudgeries, its
flickers of humor, • its pathetic sha-
dows, its unconcious tragedy—this
was to be the school of his post -gra-
duation. What characters, what ma-
terial to his hand! Jackson Stake,
himself a broad-girthed boy of sixty;
Susie Stake, a domestic treadmill, but
a treadmill with a heart, and a heart
which, in some unaccounted way, had
been set pounding again by the pres-
ence of the boy Reed; Gander and
Grit, all -wise and self-sufficient; Ha-
milton, deep in the happy embarrass-
ment of his love for Elsie Fyfe; even
Reed, a strange light from out of the
darkness—what subject matter for bis
study! And Minnie. A gust of re-
action swept him at the thought of
including Minnie in his investigations;
of impaling her as a '•are specimen
and subjecting her to the microscopic
scrutiny of the eye of science. Yet
not the least of the material to his
hand was she, and science must not
be impeded by the clamor of the
heart.
As Cal turned these new thoughts
in his mind he smiled at the complac-
ent ignorance in which he had written
his prize thesis on "The Reaction of
Industrialism Upon the Rural Social
Atmosphere," Here, now, was no
musty text -book; here was life, throb-
bing, pulsating, grinding, to which
the text -book bore no closer relation-
ship than does the photograph to the
living soul.
it was too tremendous to be taken
standing, and Cal sought poise in the
prairie fields. Fancy injecting ideal-
ism into this clay; substituting art for
materialism;; living for being alive;
implanting an intellectual conscious-
ness; attuning minds to the infinite
reactions of Truth; broadening hori-
zons until they included the world,
the universe itself! Cal walked the
fields by himself, his soul afire with
dreams; forgot his midday meal, and
came out of his trance only when he
discovered that the family were pre-
paring to attend church in the district
schoolhouse, that the Dodge • was
drawn up at the door, and that Min-
nie was dressed apparently for walk-
ing rather than riding.
"Dad will drive, of course," she ex-
plained, "and Mother will ride with
him. Hamilton is over at Double.
F's, and you three men will fill the
back seat. I don't mind walking; in-
deed, I don't. I rather like it—"
So Cal said something about liking
to walk, too, and with Reed in the
back seat it would be crowded, any
way, and it was only a mile . and a
half, wasn't it? And perhaps they
had better start at once. And pres-
ently he and Minnie were tracking to-
gether the winding trail through the
poplar groves to the highroad.
The sun poured down upon them
as they walked, and they sought the
grass at the side of the road to escape
the dust. In his left hand. Cal carried
his soft hat that he might the better
enjoy the breeze which from time to
time teased through' his hair, but his
right swung free and in dangerous
proximity to Minnie's left. He had
thought he would have much to say:,_.
but they were strangely silent; they
had not found a conversational point
of contact, and to grope for one seem-
ed too obvious. He caught himself
in furtive glances at the trim figure at
his side; glances of appraisal; glances
that took note of the flurting curls of
her bronze hair, of the long lashes
over her brown eyes, of the mould of.
her lips, the . curve of her neck, the
white V of her bosom, the swing of
her limbs, the lilt of her ankle. He
told himself he was studying her;
that she was part of his field of inves-
tigation. Exhibit A! Absurd. Yet
what else? Anything else 'would be
still more absurd.
"I thought perhaps you would want
to talk, as well as walk," she said at
length. She was master of a sidelong
glance charged with menace to the
cause of science.
"I do, tremendously," he answered.
"Perhaps' that is why I can't."
The explanation seemed to satisfy
her, and again they walked on in sil-
ence,
"At any rate I'm glad—we're all
glad—you came," she volunteered
when they had crested the knoll that
commands the school. "That was
why I had to leave the farm.",
"I don't understand."
"A girl must have some one to talk
to," she told him, frankly. "I felt
that I was just—drying up— on the
farm. Not that it's so much better in
Plainville, but at any rate there's not
on his cedar shingles; he could smell
the drudgery. You haven't talked mucic the damp odor of the cedar filtering
yet, but I'in sure you can, and you through the roof and filling his little
will. You see, I've been studying room. Presently there was a splash
you." of water as it gathered in little pools
Exhibit B! Ahl Well, that was fair•, under his eaves; and always the my -
and two could play at it. rind -footed pat -a -patting on the roof.
At this moment the Dodge swept Reed stirred in his sleep, projecting
by'U 'Uterus and other cars were raising a corner of himself into Cal's section
their. dust -clouds in the distance. of the bed, and Cal gently but firmly
When they cane up to the school a unkinked himself. With a strong
little group of farmers was assembled Band he straightened the sturdy little
on the shady side of the building, dis- limbs, apparently hopelessly entangl-
cussing the progress of their seeding ed among themselves and fragments
and tate prospect of rain. A blue- of blanket, and pointed them . in the
black cloud, already forming in the direction in which they should be
west, gave point to their prophecies, pointed, Then he rested back in the
but their absorption in cropsand luxury of the rhythrn of the rain on
weather was not so great that they the roof; linking his fingers palm-,
failed to note the young man walking upward on the pillow and nesting his
with Minnie Stake, and to encourage head in the warm junction of his
certain gentle surmises, more hinted hand, he lay in a quiet ecstasy of
than spoken,. As other cars came up spirit that was very new and wonder
other farmers joined the group, while ful. It did not occur to him to quest -
their wives and daughters took seats ion whether that spirit was quite • sc-
inside the school. ientific. One. question only had flut-
IIt may have been quite by accident, tered through his semi consciousness,
'but. Annie Frawdic was at the door, beating a tattoo on his brain to the
"Hello,. Minnie," she greeted them; accompaniment of the patter on the
"who's your friend?" roof; a vague wonderment whether
"Oh, this is Mr. Beach, Cal Beach, or not .Minnie had reached Plainville
'Miss Frolic." before the rain,
"Glad to meet you, • Mr. Beach," She had. Gander had let her down.
said. Annie, as she extended her hand. at Mrs. Goode's boarding' house and,
Then, while Minnie's head was turned his mood of impatience having now
aside for a moment to take note of given way to that of one who has an
those who were in the building, she amplitude of time, had gone strolling
added, so to voce. "For the second down the streets of the little town in
time, remember my predictions, •and search of such adventure as might be
take them as a warning." • afoot at eleven o'clock of • a, Sunday
And as Cal returned the pressure evening. It was well after midnight
of Iter hand, which hail not been pre- when Minnie heard the shifting of his
maturely withdrawn, he mentally reg- gears, for the girl was still awake,
istered-Exhibit C! _ turning over in her mind the events
CHAPTER EIGHT 'of a day long to be remembered as.
.Cal found a strange new zest in his eventful. She admitted having be-
labors all that week. The thought conte interested in Cal Beach. He
that he could combine practical re- was a new type, and she was fond of
search in sociology—a sort of post- studying types. It had been the mon-
graduate course in his specialty—with otony 'of types, perhaps as much as
the equally practical business of mak- the cow -drudgery of the farm, which
ing a livelihood and re- establishing had goaded her to a school of steno -
his health was a particularly encour- graphy in Winnipeg, from, which she
aging and inspiring one. In an in- had returned to be reimmersed in a
stant it drained the drudgery from his monotony of types in the village of
ttoil, revealing those rich social depos- Plainville. These farm men, these lit-
hs which drudgery so often conceals; tle-town men, she knew thein all; she
it gave purpose to his life; it invest- "had their number", as she confident -
ed the meanest surroundings with my- ly assured herself.
stery and romance. ( This Cal person was different. Per-
He had talked with loosened tong- haps no better, but different. At any
ue to Minnie that night, until Gander, rate he could! talk; she had found that
with inopportune impatience, had rac- out. She had prodded him out of his
ed his engine to a roar as he awaited shell as they sat in pleasant proximity
her in the car. She had sprung to her on the cushion of the old Ford in
feet from the Ford cushion where she front of the 'granary. She had led
had sat at the front. of his granary,
him to talk about himself as the easi
with a deft hand whipping the dust est angle of attack, and he had told
from the fringe of her skirt as she her something of his plans, and of
arose. how they had been interrupted by the
"I must go," she had said. "Broth doctor's edict, and of how he hoped
ers get in a beastly hurry just soon to be able to take up again his
when—" study of sociology. 'She remembered
But she stood before him and did how she had laughed when he said he
not ao. Then— might find the material close at hand,
and how she had banteringly inquired
if she was to be a subject for investi-
gation, and how he had over -denied
it. Well, he was very interesting, andl
we should see what we should see.
He had not told .her much about
Reed; rather dried up on the subject
of Reed. A winsome kid who walked
right into Mother Stake's arms. Well,
Mother needed something of that kind
to keep her soul alive... Of course,
people would talk, but let them. They
always did. ...Cal seemed rather to
like her. Of course,' nothing serious.
That would be nonsense. But . Cal
Beach was a chap a girl could be
proud of, even if he was her father's
hired man, and she might show some
of them a thing or two at the summer
'picnics. She was glad she had worn
her 'new skirt and her silk stockings
'out to the farth over Sunday. Let's
'see—how much had she coming from,
the law office? She fell asleep while
imaking calculations of her .assets,
present and prospective, and a budget
of expenditures, most of which had to
Ido with the ladies' wear department
lof Sempter &z Burton's general store.
'In the morning the skies cleared
and the rain stopped, .and the seeding
and plowing were resumed where they
had been left off Saturday night. But
as Cal followed his machine up . and
down the length of tate oat field the
vague schemes which had been pleas
aptly tormenting his mind began to
take more definite form. Jackson
Stake was an amiable and easy-going
farmer, addicted, as Cal had learned,
to only two vices—occasional overin-
dulgence in "formalin" and a mania
for attending auction sales and buying
wholly unnecessary and usually obso-
lete equipment which he dragged
home behind a wagon, or in it, in ex-
change for a lien note so drawn as to
complicate his .title to all things here
and hereafter. It was Mrs. Stake
;who had told Cat about it,
"They've perliibited liquor," she
"Can you drive a Dodge?"
"I can easily learn. It's a little dif-
ferent—"
"You ,ught to learn . ."Good
night." And she was gone.
That was an idea. -That was some-
thing to think about. It gave him a
pleasurable little thrill of intoxica-
tion, like a very little wine. It inay
have been unscientific, but it was very
enjoyable, and he nursed -it until he
fell asleep. • o
He must have slept lightly, for he
was awakened by the first patter of
rain on the shingled roof. It was
very dark; so dark that he could not
see his hand when he raised it before
his face. A cool breeze carne in
through his open window and stirred
his workday overalls where they hung
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J. A. WALLACE,
WINGHAIVM BRANCH,
Manager,
dasufasseumeamesumunomarzrznis
said, "an' that's all right as far as it
goes. Jackson don' get goin' as of-
ten as he us' to, though T mus' say
when he does start he goes. further,
an' now w if they'd jus' perhibit auction
sales p'rhaps we might get our feet
under us. He fair loses his head at a
auction sale. Go out to the boneyard
some day; I call it the boneyard, jus'
beyond the cow stables, an' see the
old machinery he's got piled up there.
Enough to mor'gage a township. An'
me chorale' butter—"
That was tire thought which came
back to Cal. Jackson was amiable
and well disposed, and here lay the
opportunity to remodel the farm as it
should be remodeled. Of what -use
would be . permitted "to overhear as•
though by accident. But .what of
that? Minnie would understand—
He took the first opportunity to.
investigate the . "boneyard." It lay,.
as Mrs. Stake had said, behind the
cow stable. It consisted of a consid-
erable area of land strewn with rent- -
nants of all kinds of farm machinery
and overgrown with a rank crop of
last year's weeds, still standing stiff
and; wooden after a winter's snow.
Two self -binders, with reels in a state
of partial collapse, and the hollow
hull of an old grain separator, pirated:
by all the community in search of -.
metal pulleys or fittings formore mo-
dern machines, first attracted his at -
was his higher education if It could tention, and he gazed on them as one -
not grapple with a situation of this might gaze on the ribs of a wrecked.
kind; if he must leave this farm as ship protruding through the sand. As.
crude andugly as he had! found it? he strode about among the weeds he
Of course, he would have to meet the
opposition of Grit and Gander. The
two geegees, he called them, in re-
venge for the sobriquet of D. D.
That opposition would take the form
of ridicule, of ponderous mock -respect
and ,weighty speculations which he
became aware that he was walking on
a veritable pavement of 'discarded
machinery. With a stick he prodded:
up a set of mower knives, the rim of
an old wheel, some fragments of hay -
I rake. Then. a' thought. struck him.
(Continued next week)
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"THE ENSEMBLE'S THE THING" SAYS DAME FASHION
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And here's the ensemble with a dif-
ference, ladies. Milady's frock of
printed satin with pleated front and
free falling collar has its match in the
facing of the Kashmir coat,
It's simplicity recommends this mo-
dish ensemble as TIDE thing for late
Spring and early Summer. It's a cos -
:nine that serves three purposes that
of a coat, a dress and a suit (when
coat and dress are worn together).
To complete this charming ensem-
ble one's hat, hosiery and shoes must
be of a harmonizing color, The fav
orcd shades of beige, cocoa and wood
have been effectively combined in the,
costume illustrated
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