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"Father, are you going crazy?"
"If Itis crazy, Molly •dear, I have
already wint. Run on to chureh nova"
Reports as to the condition of Wil-
liam Boss were again f yvorable ,the
following day, and on Thursday stern,
ing it was announced in the loleby of
the postoi'fiee that he was up ei,-ad
about the house. That night when
Dan carne home to supper Mary wee
a -quiver with excitement.
"0, Father," she cried, "you were
right! Willy Ross's wife is backi"
"Yis?" Pleased surprise covered old
Dan's face like sunshine.
"Yes, ' I was •at the station: when
- the train came in this afternoon, do-
ing the errand you sent me to do, and
she stepped from the train seeming
half frightened and ashamed, and she
� &e5'rg • looked around and dropped
on a Sealed Packet is O'al.k" aTegGi�w^3.'`da her bag
.� and broke down in gars, for nobody
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was there to meet her."
"And ye•,;l wint to her, Mary?" .
"I'did, Father, of course. And she
told ma she'd had a telegram saying
that Willy was very sick and could
she come, "Ewes not signed, the idle -
gram. but she had come just the seine.
0, Father, she's the 'changed girl.
'Twos a jolt she was needing, too"
"Yis?" Old Dan chuckled, rub'b'ing
his hands together. "Go on, Mary." •
"Well, I went with her to the Rose
place, and Willy ',vas "Iyiug on the
lounge in the Trent room -when we
went in, and—and--I left thein there,
the girl on her knees beside him and
their arms around each other;"
And then suddenly, Mary pounced
on old Dan and hugged him:
"You blessed, blessed meddler!" she
half sobbed, kissing him upon the
forehead. "What is the secret of -your
insight to• the troubled hearts of
others?"
Old Dan's lips rested for en instant
upon one of his daughter's pink
cheeks. "'Tis only me own heaf'tt I
have insight to, darlin'," he whispered.
"And listen—the clay whin I told Billy
Ross's wife good-bye at thee station,
and she was haldin' 11er chin up so
high, a big hot tear dropped onto the
back of me hand,"
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PART II. bo g,in' over after dinner to have a
This w'r.s sarcnrm, and Dan, sensing word or two with the 1,?.};'
toloeng Bill Ross and his Such were the prcl' uinaries leading
1.•in' about � -
f
��� up to the visit c old Dan to thy, bed-
side of young William m Ross who had
The vo`ces, calve to himmore been geven upto elle.
tri }y as the talkers approached fare
"Willy," ssaid Dan, takingthe young
I n est. Dan sat bolt upright, his pace
e ,rir. .S'ln;' surprise and consternation
man's hand in both of his and gently
I iv luetarily he repeated the words stroking it. I was to church this
that came to Nen. rnornin', and I heard some grand
"The doctor says Willie can't live. music by a bird that was in love."
None of us have the courage to till The sick mart smiled wanly,
him, poor b'y. He should be told.' "Such music, Willy! Nothin' of dith
Would Dan McCartlin do it if we asked in it—all life, life, life. Birds and
him? He would be: the one ---him with' min with that song in their hearts
his blessed gift of words." ; can't die. It took the stiffness out of
Dan sank back upon the grass mid; me right lig, and that lig was the
groaned softly. The sound of the stiffest one to the world, I dunno. And
a fog that was over me eyes—en the
voices gradually became less distinct,
Sinside—cleared away, and I saw clear-
ilence again. The grosbeak renewed
ly. And me ears heard with under-
standin'.
"Doc, Doc, Doc, ye dunno, ye dun -
no—! the bird said. Yis, Willy, that's
what he said. And whin he said it I
laughed right out, for 'twas a mis-
sage straight from God—or as near
straight as we can git it—and I'd been
hearin' old woman talk about town
his song and Dan looked at him re-
proachfully.
"'Tis so it goes, little bird," he
sighed. "Life is first one thing, thin
another, and for why? Where, I won-
der now, will yer song go when ye
die?"
The song rose higher, clearer,
sweeter. that the doctor had given ye up to
"Yis, yis, I know, little bird—ye ale."
should worry. But I'in thinkin' the The sick man's eyes distended.
song goes on just the same, only we, "Are—are they telling that?" he
with our coarse human ears, can't whispered.
hear it." "They are, Willy. Ye are not goin'
He rose heavily to his feet and took to die,iare ye?"
his Nvay. bye a cirtuitous route home- "I—V don't care niucli." '
ward,' his' head bowed, his hands "But ye must care, xne b'y. Listen"
clasped behind his back —he bent law aver the bed, talking. in
At dinner he was Iargely silent, a low tone rapidly. When he had fin
responding with his eyes to Mary's ished his brow was beaded with per
animated recountal of the gossip she piration as if he, had been toiling in
brad heard at church. He was a good a midday sun. He waited.
listener, Dan. Presently the sick pian spoke.
"And so," said Mary, concluding a "Dan," he said aloud, "if you are sure
story she had been telling, "Willy's —positive—I will get well—if I can."
father gave Willy's wife the money "You can," declared Dan.
to go to her folks with, and 'tis said "I will then."
he also gave her a piece of his mind "You will—stick to that, Billy."
along with it. You know, after her When he tiptoed from the room a
folks went back to the East the girl short time later the sick man was
groaned and grieved and made the lit- sleeping, a smile upon his face. "
tle home anything but a pleasant But no smile was upon Dan's face.
place. She did not keep the house The gravity of the sphinx sat upon
clean. Her meals were i'ttle more those rough and wrinkled features,
than half fit to eat. 'Twas hard on : and he passed down the street looking
Willy—him treeing the hest he could neither to the right nor to the left.
to make a home. Do you remember, He came again to the tree by the
Father, how proudly he i.re.reduced the river and bored his head beneath the
girl to as when he came home from blossoms. "0 God,' he cried, "I've
the war? And how later he explained gone as far as I can, and I am leavin'
that she was homesick, poor dear, ye to do with it what ye see fit to do.
which was why he got her father and Ye took me wife and ye took me b'y,
rnother out for a visit? He sent them . for why I dunno, but 'tis all right. I
the money, 'tis said by them who ' am tryin' to play the game square.
ehould know, and he bought her beau- If ye want Bill Ross, go ahid and take
tiful clothes and jewelry from the lit- him; he is not mu;,le account here any-
tle fortune he'd got from his mother, how. But if ye don't want him and
and then she left him. It took the at pleases ye to lit him stay, give me
life out of the boy." a light as to how I ani gain' to keep
"Yis, yis." Old Dan leaned back inc word to him, for I promised --I
from the table and reached for his promised----"
pipe. "Bill would have done better
Clad he married a girl he knew—may-
Iike—1 dunno. It's a lottery, mar-
riage is, for human bein's, but river
for birds. I wonder why? There's
somethin' wrong with us, Molly
darlin',"
"There is something wrong with
Willy, Father," rejoined Mary prac-
ticalIy; "he has the pneumonia and
the doctor says he is going to die."
"Yis?" Old Dan relapsed into a
moody silence. which lasted until Mary
There was a flutter amongst the
blossom above his uplifted face, and,
peering, Dan saw the grosbeak nest,
small cavernous mouths stretched
over its side to welcome the father
and mother birds, newly arrived with
worms. His worms delivered, the
father bird hurried to the praise -twig
and gave forth song.
"All r -r -r -right, all r -r -r -right!" he
trilled.
A broad smile suffused Dan's faee,
"That's straight enough," he said,
had done up the dinner work, Then "and 'tis a comfort, but how can I
he . called her to him and drew her keep me promise to young Bill Ross?"
down to the arm of his chair. "I'm "Wir`r-re, wi-r-rel 'Twill be all
%uiili�in yatllr~ :Bill Ross is an easy r -r -r -right!" warbled the grosbeak.
Mark, Molly -a nice b'y, giei but easy i. "0, it will, will it?" Dan scratched
swayed. And he has emotion where
his head. Thin we are agreed. Thank
he should have judsrluint He loved ye -kindly, Mister Bird"
Ile was to a much mare cheerful
frame of mind at supper than he had
been at dinner, and when Mary told
t icnoelceci trim out, he thought, and him of having seen the doctor corning,
of ce,nre.e. whin lie thought it: dad, it
from the Ross home and that Willy!
"lid, And whin the cold conte an him was much improved, he had laughed
outright.
"How did you do it, you wonderful
man?" asked the girl,
"I told him, Molly, that his wife
would come back to him soon,"
"Yes, Father ---but how?"
"Py train, 'tis likely."
"Of course, but how can she come,
Father, after they have separated and
all?„
"Folks may have misjudged the
girl, dal}}n'. Folks have been known
to do it—good folks, ton. I dropped
i.n at the station this afternoon on me
way hoarse to—to look up trains a bit.
She can get here Thursday if she
starts to -morrow. I am a middlin' old
.fool, I guess, but I have it straight
from God that 'twill be alt ,right."
"From.. -.from God?"
"Yis, a bird told lee,"
the girl and married her and whin she
got homesick and no 'count and finally
Tint to her folks 'twee hard an Bill.
he thought it WAS gain' into pneu-
monia—was sure of it—be told me so
iensiif null of course :it did, So
there he is, all but gone, and his folks
afraid to till him that the (lector has
delivered hie dith warrant, and no.
thin' will help h:m want to live, and
the time is short. -•maybe too short -.--
to give him the jolt, even if anybody
knew how it could be done. There are
ut two ways it might be done, so
far as t clan Tigger with lee blunderin'
old hid—either he must be read
enough to 1}ve for spite or he !mist be
made hopeful enough to live :for love.
Ant I right?"
"Perhaps, Father." Mary spoke
thoughtfully, "But he has no spite
in him, so it must be the other, and
'that, I fear, is out of the question"
"Maybe not, datlin', Anyhow I'll
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An old man going a lone highway,
Cance at evening, cold and grey,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
The old man crossed at the twilight
dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for
him;
But he turned when safe on the other
side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting your strength with
building here;
Your journeys will end with the end-
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You never again will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm deep and
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Allin the wild and windy weather,
The trees of the forest wore talking
together.
"Shall I dre tl the axe?" the great Oak
sung—
"Long is the rapture and chart the
pang! -
Out of my heart that knows not
fears --
Ringed with tate streugth of a'hun-
dred years--
Tltey will far -bion a keel to (cit the
brine,
Afar and away will the casts! lights
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When. afloat c.n the breast of the
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"I, too." Paid the Maple, .n pride a anti
pain,
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i must hn'.'dan end beat In the driere%
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'Newt - the rasp and the pumice
writhe and thrill,
Till fitted, at length, to sot;io niche
itt the wall
Of a palace stately told fair and tall.
Under the neon anil the starry shies.
Let lee frill,' rald the maple, ttgc,in
to ri e!"
Then eofily answered the Datum. tree,
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(The youngest cu �d (sf the wood was
rho)
"But I --by the lord of the forest's
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For I would stand
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While gently down an the waiting
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Over the snow -clad hill and plain,
'rhe feet of the Christ -child walk
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"For the forest glades may be fair to
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And far the sweep of the flowing sea,
And grand the palace, and tall the
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But love is dearest, and love Is last,
And, ever and always, beneath the
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The test of loving is sacrifice,",
France Lost 973,440 During
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;4 coarding to.statistics furnished by
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Froin July, 1914, to July, 1918, the
population of France (excluding the
occupied areas) diminished by 973,-
440, while that of Prussia diminished
only 312.,827.
Before the war the population of
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DAY APPELLATIONS,
The English Race Ca'1'r les Its
Names to the Uttw a at,. st
Parts of the Feeteits.
In the earliest days of die Truman
fancily, all known persons, places and.
groups of hlUttan heirs must have
had IlatamFs by whieel they were recog-
nized.
Tho study e,l these nam: a. a their
survival in civilization enables ua of-
ten to ascertain what race -s• inhabited
dietritte now peopled by, these of on.
tireiy difeereut speeeh,
The namee of mountains and rivers
in luany p iris of England, for instance,.
are Celtie.
Ancient loyal] names are, as a rule,
purely descriptive.. A river is called
by some word which merely signifies
";aIle water," a mountain may have e
mama which means "the peak," "the
(7 te'
"the point." rat,
"
1t ,..h
place nai.i,,s generally state
scn.e simple fact, and often denote
no more than property; the name of
a. town or hamlet being formed by add.
ing "ton" or "hairs" to the name of
some early Iandhol•der.
Quite often a bit of even half hu-
marcus description will survive in
such a name, as when a stony, starved
and weedy district is called Starv-
acre.
Irnglish Names in Many Lands.
The English race carries with it
the ancient names of an older people
into every continent, and titles given
to places in the British Isles may be
found in America, Australia, Africa,
and the islands of the furthest.seas.
Touching personal names, we find
that among most civilized raees a
name, commonly derived from .some
incident or natural object, is given at
the time of birth by the parents to
each child.
In some cases names of the earliest
races denote some phenomenon of
nature. No names are more common
among North American Indians than
those derived from sun, moon, stars,
clouds and wind. •
Our -English ancestprs lead for ''pea'...
sonal 'names • nompound wards, as,`.
"Noble Wolf," "Wolf of War and so
forth, the naives testifying to a some-
what primitive and fierce stage of
society.
Later came vulgar nicknames, as
"Long," 'Black," "White," "Bro„ ei,"
etc. Other names were dervied from
the occupation of the person to whom
they were given as "Smith," "Fowler,"
"Saddler," etc,
Yet other names are derived from
places, the noble and landowner was
called "of" such and such a place,
equivalent to the German "von" and
the French "de." The humbler man
was called not "of," but "at" such a
place, as in the name "Attewell" (at
well), or merely by the local name
without the "ate" as in Wells."
Meaning of Weil -Known Names.
Following are the origins of the
names of some countries:
Europe signifies a country of white
people, given because the inhabitants
were of a lighter color than those of
Africa and Asia.
Asia means "between;," given be-
cause geographers placed it between
Europe and Africa.
Africa, which formerly was cele-
brated for ite abundance of grain, wast
given this name, meaning "the land
of corn."
Siberia ,signifies "thirsty" or "dry,"
Italy signifies a country of pitob,
because it once yielded great quant.
ties of black pitch.
Britain means "the country of tin,"
Sicily denotes the "country of
grapes."
Hibernia means "utmost" or "last
habitation," for beyond this, vests
ward, the Pltceuticians never ven
Lured,
Gaul, modern France, signifies "yelp
low• -haired," from the light hair of the
Gauls.
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At the recent meeting of the Cana.
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that he anticipated tate western pills,
vince would become a large seed-grat
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As an evidence of this a recent ret
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have entered into contracts' with seed
growers on Vancouver Island, to tint
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!rouses aro supplying ilia seed, which:
represents tho very newest and rarest
varieties, It is further stat:ed that flair
quality of the Vancouver Island seed
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