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Zurich Herald, 1920-01-29, Page 6"SALA ,. ' 9 Tea is c ragrant and of Delicious Flavor, stimulating ula ?'ng it° and �7re hPn; gn "Watch fer t.t`•': Name" on every genuine ser kd 6877 27 Years in Public Service. Bdk,A Nack'alimmiNavat, w.v%"a Gertrude Came to • Cherry Va .ley BY FRED J. ST. JOHN � A 1I6, tal, 't WS.ai . fi Milk ` AIMS& vm, ra. na CHAPTER III. I have a chance to ,vork and keep John never knew how he reached young and—beautiful. Will you the scene. The doctor, who was only! come?" slightly shaken, released the uncoil -1 Her arms went up about his neck serous girl from the wreckage and; and she pulled his head down very carried her up to the house and laid' close, so close that he could hear her on the bed in the room which had laid,' plainly her low -whispered "yes." been lovingly planned for her own. I As the sound of an approaching The do.otor's hurried examination! automobile came from the drive way, revealed that, aside from the shock,' she smiled through happy tears and and a painful but not serious bruise said, "I think that's Mother coning over the temple, she was uninjured., now, Tell me this before she conies: When she opened her eyes her glance. where did you get the idea for all the fell upon John. !wonderful improvement you've made The doctor advised that she be here? I heard all about it—I've not kept quiet for a little while and Old been asleep!" Martha took her tenderly in charge. "It was from an article I read in John suggested that he would drive a farm magazine someone sent me." into town and bring her mother but A smile of mingled mischief and Gertrude had another plan. tenderness spread over Gertrude's "No!" she said in the imperious face as she said within herself, "1 way he loved, "someone must come wonder if I ought to tell him that I after the doctor and they can bring sent him that magazine?" Mother out. I want you to stay right John Hadley and Gertrude Allison here, I had to come clear out here and ! were married in June and began life get almost killed, in order to see you,' together in the old Hadley home, now and now I shall not let you run made into a modern home, on the hill away." at the head of Cherry Valley. Assured that his patient was in no ` Since Gertrude had spent many danger, rather upset in his own mind,' vacations with her grandmother, on as well as shaken physically, Doctor'the farm, she knew about what to Barker returned to town and John, expect from life in the country. After sat down beside Gertrude. 4 she had gone into the details of the "Tell me, what you've been doing , housekeeping with Old Martha and all winter," she said. "Aren't you; had formed a speaking acquaintance dreadfully ashamed of the way you've' with all the horses and cows, the neglected me? 'Fess up, 'Sir!" Icalves and chickens about the place, "Well," he began "when I left you, ; she began to inquire about her neigh - I promised to work out a plan that' hors, would make you satisfied to come out' ' "They're all fine neighbors— and here and be a farmer's wife. I thought ` they'll like you," he said and right I could figure it out in a week oi? over there, across the creek, are the two, but—" j fciks you'll like best. "You've failed?" she asked, her "That's the home of Uncle Sammy heart beating in her throat. i and Aunt arah Anderson, two of the John looked out across Cherry Val-' finest old people you'll find anywhere. ley, to where the sun was setting in; Uncle Sammy is a bit tight-fisted a glory of color. The words he and inclined to hold pretiy hard to f longed to say would not come. I his own ideas, but Aunt Sarah is just "John," she said finally and reach- a dear and—" ed out to pull him down to where she! "Just wait a moment!" Gertrude could see his face, "do you still --like. laid admonishing fingers over his me—a little?" 1 lips. "You'd better let ole get ac- "Very much, Little Girl," he an- quainted with them in my own way, swered gravely, ! or I'll be disappointed sure," "Then, John, I've decided we won't! "They've been a second father and wait for you to work out any plan.! mother to me." I'm ready to be your wife and take ; "Yes, I know, and you've told me whatever life offers, here with you, about Aunt `Sarah's cooky jar and on your farm. Will you take me on, and how your mother used to pretend those terms?" Ito be angry because, when you were "I'm afraid it's too late, Little a little fellow, you liked Aunt Sarah's Girl," John's voice sounded very cookies better than you did hers, It's strange from out of the dusk that had, too bad they had tlo children of their begun to gather in the room. ! own to eat the cookies, too." "Wh-what—what do you mean?" 1 "Oh they had, two boys and a girl! she asked, shocked and surprised by And they did eat cookies, a tremen- the unexpected rejoinder. i dous lot of them. I still think Aunt "Will you just close your eyes a' Sarah must have worked some sort minute? Now hold tight. Wait a, of magic to keep that jar supplied. I minute. Now! Open your eyes!' i never knew it to fail. The boys left With the word he pressed a button the farm as soon as they were old and a soft, clear light filled the room, enough. They both married and live "John! Electric lights! Now I! away from here, They hardly ever know what you've been doing!" I get home." "It's too late for you to come the 1 "And the girl?" questioned Ger- way you were willing to come, for trude. I've found the way to take care of j "The girl," said John slowly, "the the burdens you dreaded so. You'll girl didn't like life on the farm any Fearful Ravages of S all ox Who, up to date, may be properly called the greatest individual bene- factor of mankind? Surely, Jenner, who discovered vac- cination as a peventative of smallpox. Of all the pestilences that afflict mankind, smallpox has by far the worst record as a destroyer. Not much more than a century ago it was reck- oned that one-fourth of the human race bore in blindness or disfigure. ment traces of attack by this fearful plague which at times wiped out whole communities. The malady was so cornmon that those who escaped it were considered lucky. It killed 500,000 people an- nually in Europe. Thus, when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, British am- bassadress at St. Petersburg, wrote home describing a process of inocu- lation with smallpox virus as practiced in Russia for preventive purposes, her letter made a great sensation. This, mind you, was not vaccina- tion. It meant inoculation with the actual virus of the disease. Lady Mary had her own children treated in this way. In 1722, after successful eeperinients on condemned criminals, two children of Caroline, Princess of Wales, were inoculated, snaking the practice popular. The treatment produced true small- pox, usually in a mild form, but some- times fatal. It was taken up in this country, and Benjamin Franklin caused his little son, four years old. to be inoculated. The child died. What finally caused the treatment to be abandoned was the discovery that the inoculated patient immediate- ly became a source from which small- pox was spread by contagion, the to- tal number of deaths being thus con- siderably increased. Long before Jenner was born there was a belief current in England that a certain pustular disease of cattle, known as "cowpox," did, if accident• ally contracted by a human being, render that person immune to slnnall• pox. A Gloucestershire milkmaid told Jenner that sho had, l;o fear of small- pox because she had ]cad cowpox. This, set him to thinking, II]s first experiments were perform- ed on children, and he called his in- oculation process vaccination because "vaeca" is the Latin word for cow. These proved successful. better than the boys did. Uncle Sammy was somewhat of a 'driver' in his younger days and they all worked pretty hard, She went away too. I never knew the straight •of it exactly, but she died away in Toronto. I can't give you all the details. It's the one big sorrow that has come into the Anderson home. Uncle' Sainrny and Aunt Sarah never men- tion her name . . .They'll be corning over some evening soon—and you'll like them," Uncle Sammy and Aunt Sarah, soon after this, came to spend the evening. Uncle Sammy was about as Gertrude had pictured him, lean and tall, with his upper Hp bare and a thin brush of gray whiskers which moved briskly up and down with every mo- tion of his chin. Her heart went out with a rush to the little ninety -pound, blue-eyed, gray-haired woman who put her arms up around Gertrude's neck and drew her down to whisper that she'd •been John's Aunt Sarah fog a good many years and she just wanted to be hers. It was pleasant out on the big ver- anda, under the soft glow of the elec- tric light and soon the four were chat-, ting with all the ease and cordiality of old neighbors. "I declare! A fellow could sit out here and read after night, couldn't he!" exclaimed Uncle Sammy. "I sup- pose this light is some of your new fixin' we've been hearin' about, John.. Well, this is right fine." "I think we'll get more good from this veranda this summer than al- most any room in the house," said Gertrude. "I tell John that for the few hours he has to loaf or read each evening he ought to be thoroughly. comfortable, so we've fixed up the veranda with this table and light, and John can stretch out on the lounge or nap in his big chair if he wants to. We're looking forward to a great deal of comfort and satisfaction for the next few months right here on this. big veranda." This led to the whole subject of ;modern improvements and the young folks showed their visitors the olds new -made home proudly explaining the operation of the many labor-sav- ing and eomfort-giving appliances. Uncle Sammy displayed only mild l enthusiasm over most of the changes that had been made but he was man- ! ifestly pleased with the lighting fea- ture that made it possible to stand at the kitchen door and light up the 1 barn. "A feller might save some stock, on account of that," he said. 1 He also thought the running water, forced by the pressure pump a good thing, since it permitted the piping !of fresh water to the stable and the sprinkling of the garden, without any hand -pumping. But he snorted with good-natured disdain at such electrical "gimracks" as Gertrude's toaster, coffee pezco- lator, and at the tiny breakfast room.• Aunt Sarah was delighted •at all The skin of the whale is in places she saw and especially at the kitchen' as much as two feet thick. . sink with its handy faucets and at. There are fewer daily newspapers the "mighty convenient" bathroom. They both thought it a fine idea to be able to run the washing ma- chine and churn without the usual accompaniment of labor at crank and lever and Uncle Sammy could only resort to his favorite expletive, "Cracky Bob!" when John turned on the little electrical motor and started up one machine after another. On the way back to the veranda, Aunt Sarah lingered a moment in the big living room, her hand on Ger- trude's arm. "I'm so glad you've kept things the way they used to be—here," she said - softly. "It looks almost as if John's mother were keeping house." "Then you'Il be sure to feel at home when you come to see me," answered Gertrude," ''ante," as she gave the wrinkled hand on her arm an affec- tionate pat, "I want it to be very Often. Now remember!" "John," said Uncle 'Sammy as they passed through the gate and turned to say goodnight, "1 was sayin' to Sarah as we carne over, that the old path is aettin' considerable grass - grown. Now you young folks are spry and active and I want you to get it wore down as bare—as bare—" he hesitated a moment as if oppres- sed by the shadow of painful memor- ies and Aunt Sarah finished for him; half -sadly, "as bare as it used to be when your mother was alive and you young folks—" (To be continued.) 1 1 111 1 1 HEN you buy a phonograph you want to be sure that you are get-. ting the best instrument to be had for the money — one that will give lasting satisfaction. But how can you be sure unless you know what to look for? This book outlines the vital points that should be considered. 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