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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1915-10-01, Page 74. .,1,...,1.1.1.11111111)1.”11111/11411141/11111 *Alvin -1U tiririft.111.1.11.**14 Z. 7.. 1-` —bow to Insure It— The regular use *' -of Lifebuoy Soap insures a healthy, clean glow- ing skin. And because it is healthy, your coini. plexion will be clear and velvet like. The mild carbolic odor van- ishes after use, leaving a eenseof utter cleanliness. -2 .2 se. a b. IN • al MI .1111,1,1s1.1 .1t,.etig4.1.1111 tttttttttttttttt 111116.1.111.141• • .1 1P,1 "Ill I :Is" II, If .1.,!n ER 1.1915 "willigingsagoimgesmeesemisseta. eissseemeaseseamese .0 establish a home for taus -flow inadequate. LjQ wonldn't begin to singers,Lifee isy Women. en ef affairs?" She'se the neigh, -Judge- nlentioned. f a long finLly line." , has had plenty o rope Inge. piained. mert cry nt a wedding cnow that ail men are ee Prem. g Steps. r. Peggy dance? Patrice Ling steps to learns -- an. nancial. root of all evil," and • improve the fruit m the Acts. t suit will be finished s -Tailor or divorce? - :WARD -$100 iper will he pleased to kern dreadeddisessethat soienee all its stages, and that ia a Cure is the Only positivis medical fraternity. Catarrh dinelt„ requires a onnstitu- I's Catarrh Or is taken in - y upon the blood and naueou-s r,b1reby destroying the fowl - ad :dying the pcktisat, etre 3tiration and assisting na a Cite proprietors hareso much gers that they offer One Hun - se that it fails to ere. Sand uEEy & CO, Tolado, 0; ice 76e. ills for eonstip3tiotr. LTJEf FRUIT developing in many ideal a citizenship tion Of the fair -play in all the business Even our government ,esty, thrift and econ- was escially left to sdclieion to this, husi- ss are adopting a ted attitude and giv- e to the service they .the money they re- , •_ • Ir. :A.PSPle'' of this eew iaowli in the fruit country, which has large a procortion. s having charge of _ tender fruit e tbcr- dine. peaches, etc.) nxious to place the and diAtriltution on pubIi.• service. it lestribute their pro- -Jet ,here win be rta to 1.«-t in such a waY n..; shall have full z,mey. During tee j has e had an op- :ea...leg the bueiness es Lee peaches. 'rower's. dealers and E.• in. ie a few ceatres ea" ordinances that i'.,usiness of market - is it should be pos- f5 to get better ser - ever had in the get good sound at a fair price and raasr be able to to make them aa snensesennereseen on are being over-, plums or tender the facts to. me, nil date of making the district from et-urro ig will .ave..= been where pnvicular time.' •ernietreed I shall ensee so that we e who is trying to tlsyear v,nea e0,11:?* his part etrickee country. nital the fruits is cat:maim; to he e",:pire rir.e(-• t1.11. an :t i(les:r(d in such a way the rest of the ryor is ask - L grower to -enter in par- e:env, tet let- -ate that the :.tty be exposed innolaints will be ‘-ftt,r, .• SE'L. that reef. J this sea- , of pat riotic who wish -to to it tLat for hie OCTOBER , 1915 NAT CATAR II IS It has been said that very third person has Catarrh in som fonn. catarrh Science has shown that often indiCates a genera, weakness of the body; and local treatments be the form of saes and Vapqa do little, if any good, Toaorreetfltstarrh you should. treat its eanee toy enriching your blodid with the 4-19ml in Scott's Emulsion which is a amethcinal food and a buildineetonic, free front any harmful drugs. Try it. Scott & Downe, Tozonto, LEGAL. R. Ek ITIALS Barrister, Solicitorr, Conveyancer and notery Public. Solicitor for tee Dom- inion Bank. Office, in rear a the Dom - taloa Bank, Seaforth. Money to Barrister, Solicitor, Convey and Mary Public. Office up -stake, over wilkees furniture etdre, ata1n'3etaeet, Ileatorttt , ,t I _L i HOLillittalorfa Sweater, Solicitor, Conveyer!c and rarest /or sale. Office, la Scotta(fblock, Mein etreet, Seeforth, PROUDFOOT, ICILLORAN ArD ' PROUDF.00T, Sotare Pnllc S011eitor for 'the Cana- dian /bait of Commeree. MOM/ to an. Dwellers, Solicitors, Notaries Peblic, 'OW *SU to and In fleaforale on atone day of each week. Office la Kidd black. VETEEINA.RY • JOHN GRIEVIa 17,. a Honor graduate 0 Ontario. Venee 'n- ary College. :All diseeses of Dome tic ledmals treated. Calls promptly atte ti- ed toand chargee moderate. Vererina 1 Dentistry a specialty. Office and resi- dence on Goderich street, one door eati Of Dr, Setat's office, Seaforth, 1.,t , tk F. ISARBURN, V. S. _ Honor valuate of 'Ontario Vetetin; say College, and honorary member et gbe I. teal Association of the Onter* Veterinary College. Treats diseases otl all Domestic *Animals by the mot* tro0 ern principles. Dentistryeand Salk Fev-I, es a epecialty. Office opposite Dick's" Rotel, Main streda Seaforth. All or- ders left at the hotel will receive prompt atenit1011. Night calls received at the afflee., ( Ja *a1213)DIGAL a 3, W. K.A.RN, Richmend street, London, Otia Specialist : Surgery and aenito-Urin ary diseases of men and women. DR. ,GEORG) HEILEMANN. Osteopathic Physician of Cloderich. Specialist 1. women's and children's diseases, rheumatism, acute, chronic sad nervous disorders, eye, ear, nose aid throat. Consultation free. Office at Commercial Hotel, Seatorth, Tuesday sad Fralaya, 8 aan. till 1 pan, Dr. 3. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty' of Medicine, Mc- Gill University, Montreal; Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Council of Canada; Post -Graduate member of Resident Medical Staff of General Hos- pital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office two doors east of Post Office, Phone 56, Hensel', Ontario. DR. F. J. BURROWS. Office and residenee-Goderich street, east Of the elethodist church, Seaforth. ?tone No. 46, Coroner for tb.e County. of Huron, DRS, SCOTT & MCKA.Y. J.eGi. Scott, gradaete of Victoria and tiollege of Physicians and Surgeons. Aim Arbor, and member of the Onto -do Cormier for the County of Hoon. C. MacKay, hoaor graduate of Trinity Uelveeeity, and gold medallist of Trin- ity Medical Collen ; Member of the Col- lege of Phyeicians and Surgeons, Ontario Wit Et HUGH ROM t _ Graduate ca University of Toronto rieulty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Phyeicians and Surgeons of On- tario; pass gradeate ceurses LaChleego Clincal School of -Chicago; 'Royal Oen- balmic Hospital, London,. England, 'University College Hospital, London Ragland. Office -Back of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth, Phone No. 5. Night calIs answered from residence, Victoria saran-, Seafor AUCTIONEERS. I 'IlliOnfAS BROWN. Licensed auctioneer for the countiee of Huron and Perth. Corte.spondence rangernents for Kale dates can be mad by calling up Phone 97, Seaforth, or --The Expositor office. Charges enoder ate tend satisfaction guaranteed. . R. T. LUKER, Licensed auctioneer for the Co ty of Huron. Sales attended to a parte of the County. Seven ye • rs' ex- perience in Manitoba and Stoke. heevan Terme reasonable. Phone No. h4, R. 1,-8, Exeter. 'Centralia P. 0. R. R. No. 1. Orders left at The Huron Ex- positor Office, Seaforth, promptly at- tended •to, JOHN ARNOLD, Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Heron and Perth. Arrengemente for sale dates can, be made by callingrep Phone 2 on 28 Dublin, or 41 Seafortia, see the Expesitor Office. Charges mod- erate and sa t isfaction guaranteed. B. S. PHILLIP& Liceneed auctioneer for the counties et Baron and Perth. Being a practical farmer and thoroughly understanding tlie vette et farrestock :and implements places ase in a tetter poeition te re- • adze good pricee. Charges -moderate. •ilatistactlua gearanteael or no pay. Ail orders left in Exeter will ae promptly atteaded to _ *0\\°\1119'111111111h1101091Iii it - "What -was?" He marked with anxi- ety the "incredulity in her tone. "It was about Aunt Clara," he said. "Your Aunt Clara!" she repeated. you mean your mother's sister. who married Mr. Ferry of Dayton, 111.?' "Yes -Uncle John," returned Penrod • sorrowfully. "The trouble was about himL" Miss Spence ft. -owned a frown which • he rightly interpreted as one of contin- tied suspicion.. "She and I were in school together," -be said. "I used to • knew her very well, and I've always heard her married life, was entirely haPpy. I don't" - "Yes, was," he interrupted, "tuitil last year when Uncle John took to running with traveling men"- "What?" - "Yes'm." He nodded solemnly. "That weerav was what started It. At first he a good, kind husband, but these t- eling men would coax him into a sa they ales unt you hich yell un loon on his way from work, and got him to drinking beer and then , wines, liquors, and cigars"- "Penrod!" "I'm not inquiring int? your 'A Clara's private affairs. I'm asking if you have anything to say w Would palliate"- "That's what I'm tryin' to tell about, efleP Spence," he pleaded, 4'lf you'd jest only let me. When At Clara and her little baby tleughter got to our house last night'-' • "You say Mrs. Ferry is visiting your mother? ,..,......„--.- ,...---,-, 4 • A k .-_, . , "Yee'th-not ' Just visiting -you see, sbe had to come. Well, of course, lit, tle baby Clara, she was so bruised uel and mauled, where he'd been hittita \li er with his cane"- l' "You mean that your uetcle had done , euch a thing as that!" exclaimed Mise StAncei suddenly disarmed by this Scandal. "Yes'm. And mamma and Margaret ad to sit up all night nursiza little lara. 3 And Aunt Clara was in such a sate somebody had to keep talkin' to her, and there wasn't anybody but mei tq do it. So I" - "But where was your father?" she c led. ',Ma'am?" 44 -Where was your father while"-, "Oh, papa?" Penrod paused, reflect- ed4 then brightened. "Why, he was doWn at the train waitin' to see if Uncle John would' try to follow 'em and make 'ern come home so's he could. peAsecute 'ern some more. I wanted to tIo that, but they said if he did cotIe I mightn't be strong enough to tun himoand"- The brave lad paus- ed- 113gain modestly. Miss Spence's ex - pre sion was encouraging. Her eyes wer wide ,with astonishment, and ther may have been in there also the min led beginnings of admiration and 1 self eproesh. Penrod, warming to his wort;• felt safer every moment. "Ad so," he continued, "I had to sit u with Aunt Clara. She had some pretty big bruises, too, and I had to" - "B1 why didn't they send for a doc- tor?"I However, this question was only el flicker of dying incredulity. "ON they didn't weet- aut, doctor!" exclalbsed the.iniipired realist prompt. ly. "they don't wept anybody to hear about t, hecalise Uncle Sohn might re. forrn-4tnd tlferivhere'd he be,if every- body knew he'd been e drunkard and whipped his wife and baby daughter?" "Oh!' said Miss Spence. . - "You see, he used to be upright as anybod ," he went on explatailvely. "It all grin" • - • erteca ayes, Penrod." It all commenced -troth the first da he let those traveling men e.oax b14n into the saloon." - Penrod narrated the downfall -of his Uncle John at ength. In detail he was uoth- ing shoi of plethoric, and incident follewed ancident, ketched with such viyidnes ,1 such abundance of -color and s h ve }similitude to a drunkard's ens a ronkard's lifeshould be that had Mlst Spence pessessed the ratker chilling a tributes of William J. Burns himself te last trace of skepticism must haie vanished from her mind. Besides, I4iere are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one Q them is that he has taken to drink. And in every sense it was a moving picture which, with siniple but eloque t words, the virtuous Pen- rod -set Ise ore his teacher. His eloqaence increased with what it fed on, 4uiU as with the eloquence so with s lf reproach in the gentle bosem of tie teacher. She cleared her threat wi difficulty once or twice during his escription of his minister- • ing- night • ith Aunt Clare. "And I said to bey, `Why. Aunt Clarde _What's CA TORI For 7 flints and Chi" fen 1, — In Use or Over 30 Years Aiwa/Ile Signature ceIff _ 4 the use of Olin'on sb about it?' And said, `Now, Aunt Craraeall the crying In the world can't make things any better.' And then she'd Plat keep catchini .hold of the and sob and kind of holler, and I'd say; 'Don't cry, Aunt Clara. • Please don't cry'" • . Then, under the influence of some fragmentary survivals of the reepecta- ble portion of his Sunday adventures, his theme became more exalted, and, only partitilly misquoting a 'phrase from a psalm, he related how he had • made it of comfort to Aunt Clara and • how he had besought her to seek high- er guidance in her trouble. The surprising thing about a struc- ture such as Penrod was erecting is that the taller it becomes the more ornamentation it will stand. Gifted boys have this faculty of building mag- nificence upon cobwebs -and Penrod was gifted. Under the spell of his really great performance, Miss Spence gazed more and more sweetly upon the prodigy Of spiritual beauty and good- ness before her, until at last, when • Penrod came to the explanation of his "just thinking," she was forced to turn her head away. "You mean, dear," she said gently, "that you were all worn out and hard- ly knew what you were sayhig?" "Yes'in." "And you were thinking about all those dreadful things so hard that you forgot where you were?" "I was thinking," he said simply, "bow to save Uncle John." And the end of it tor this migaity by was that the teacher kissed him! CHAPTER VII. Fidelity of a Little Dog. - HE returning students that afternoon observed 'that Pen - rod's desk was vacant, and nothing could have been more Impressive than that sinister mere emptiness. The accepted theory- was that Penrod had been arrested. How breath taking then the sensa- tion when at the beginning of the second hour he strolled in with inimi- table carelessness and, rubbing his eyes, somewhat noticeably in the man- ner of one who has snatched an hour of much needed sleep, took his place as if nothing in particular had happened. TbiS a,t first supposed to be a superhu- man exhibition of ,sheer audacity, be- came but the more dumfounding when Miss Spence, looking from her _desk. greeted him with a pleasant little nod. Even after school Penrod gave numer- ous maddened investigators no relief. MI he would consent to say was: "Oh, I just talked to her." A mystification not entirely uncon- nected with the one thus produced was manifested at his own family dinner table the following evening. Aunt Clara had been out rather late and came to the table after the rest were seated. She were a puzzled expres- sion. "Do you ever see Mary Spence now- adays?" she inquied, as slee unfold- ed her napkin, addressing Mrs. Sebo. field. Penrod abruptly Set down his • soup spoon and gazed at hie aunt with flattering attention. "Yes, sontetimes," Said Mrs. Mee - field. "She's Penrod's teacher." "Is she?" said Mr. Ferry. "Do you"- She paused. "Do people think her a little -queer these days?" • "Why, no!" returned. her sister.. "What makes you say that?" "She has acquired a very. oddmane. ner," seal Mrs. Ferry decidedly, "At least, she seemed odd to me.' I Met her at the corner just before I got to the house a few minutes ago, and aft- er- we'd said howdy de to each other • she kept hold of my hand and looked as though she was going to cry. She seemed to be trying to say something and choking" - "But I don't think that's so very queer, Clara. She knew you in ached], didn't she?" "Yes, but" - "And she hadn't seen you for sc niany years I think it's perfectly nat- ural she" • - "Wald She stoodthere squeezing xissi hand ancl. struggling to get her voice, and I got really embarrassed, and then finally -she said in a khid of tearful -whisper: `Be of good cheer. This trial will pan.'" "How queer!" exclaimed Margaret. Penrod sighed and returned some- what absently to his soup. "Well, I don't know," said Mrs. Schcs field, thoughtfully. "Of course she's heard about the outbreak of measles In Dayton; since they had to close the schools, and she knows you live there" - "But doesn't it seem a -very exai ,gerated way," suggested Margaret, "to talk about measles?" "Waitr begged Aunt Clara. "After she said that she said something even - - • - _ queerer and then put her handkerchief to her eyes and hurried away." Penrod laid down his spottn again and moved his chair slightly back from the table. A spirit of prophecy was upon him. He knew that sortie one was going to ask a question, which he THE HURON EXPOSITOR THIS WOMAN'S -Tenet are you doing thefor • 1 I "Why under the planer I "Well," the boy returned with grave SICXNESS hswereetnthesibaki•I'lig.7as just k nd of sitting 1 "All right," Mr. Sch field, rather i touched, returned to the 'digestion of • a murder, his back once more to thepiano, and Penrod silent] drew from beneath his jacket (wher he aad allp- ped it simultaneously wit the sneeze) • a paper backed volume e titled, "Slim - sr, the Sioux City Sque ler; orp 'Not Guilty, Your Honor."' • In this manner the readhere club con- tinued in peace, absorbet. contented, the world well forgot -un a sudden, violently irritated slam bang of; the front door startled the members, and Mrs. Schofield burst into the room and - threw herself into a chair moaning. • "What's the matthr, manuna?" ask. ed her husband, laying asi e his paper. "Henry Passloe Schofied," return- • ed the lady, al don't know what is to he done with hat boy; I d not!" "You mean enrod?" • , "Who, else could I nietuar She sat up, exasperated, to stare at him. "Henry Passloe Schofield. ou've got ' to take this Matter in your ands. It's [ beyond mei"- i e Quieldy Yielded To Lydia E. Pinkbanes Vegetable • ( Compound., Baltimore, Md. -"I am • more than glad to tell what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound did for me. I suffered dreadful • pains and was very irregular. became alarmed and sent for Lydia E. Pinkhanes •Vegetable Com - .pound. I took it reg- ularly until WAN without a cramp Or pain and felt like . another person, and It has nove is been x menthe, shIcsel took any medicine at 44.11* -hope4my little note will assist you in helping other wo- men. -I now feel ,pelectly well and in the best of health. --Mrs. AUGUST W. 1ComMaa, 1632 Hollins Street, Bal- timore, , •• Lydia E. I'inkham's Vegetable Com- pound, -.mode fronitnative roots and • beTbs, contedns noliarcetie or harmful drugs, and to -day holds the record of being the most successful remedy for female ills irrat know of, and thousands - of 'voltintartlelitimonials on file in the Pinkhain. laboratory at Lynn, Mass., aeeni to prove tl2is fait. For thirty years it has been the stand- ardremedy for female ills, and has re- stored the health of thousands of women who have beenIronbled with such ail- ments as displaceinents, inflammation, ulceration, . tumors, irregularities, etc. If you want -s p ec la 1 advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Med- icine ( confidential ) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a, woman and held in strict confidence. reit n3Ight better remain unspolien "What was the other thing silo 'said?" Mr. Schofield iuquired, thus ire- , mecliately fulfilling his son's preinuni- don. "She said," returned Mrs. Isarry slow- ly, looking about tne table; "she sdid. 'I know that Penrod ts a great, great comfort to you." There was a general exclamation of surprise.• It was a singular thing,- and in no manner may it be considered complimentary to Penrod that this speech of MissSpence's should have immediately confirmed Mrs. Ferry's doubts about her in the minds of all his family. Mr. Schofield shook his head pity- ingly. "I'm afraid she's a goner," he went so far as to say. . "Of all the weird ideasl" cried Mar- garet "I never heard anything like it in my lifel" Mrs. Schofield exclaimed. "Was that all she said?" "Every word!" Penrod again resumed attention to his soup. His mother looked at him curiously, and then, struck by a sud- "Wait! She stood there squeeziag my hand and struggling to get her voice. den thought, gathered the glances of the adults of the table- by a significant movement ef the head, and, by anoth- • er, conveyed an admonition to drop the subject until later. Miss Spence was Penrod's teacher. It was better, for inany reasons, not to discuss the sub- ject of her queerness before him...This was' Mrs. Schofield's thought at the time. Later .she had another, and it kept her awake.The next afternoon Mr. Seb.ofield, re- turning at 5 o'clock from the cares. of the day, found the house deserted and sat down to read his evening paper in what appeared to be an uninhabited apartment known to its own world as the "drawing room." A sneeze, unex- pected both to him and the owner, in- formed him of the presence of another person. "Where are you, Penrod?" the par- ent asked, looking about "Here," said Penrod meeldy. Stooping, Mr. Schofield discovered his eon squatting under the piano, near an open window -his wistful Duke ly- ing. beside him. . Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO R 1 A saneese - "Well, what has he" - "Last night I got to thinting," sh began rapidly, "about what plara told use -thank heaven she and a Margaret and little Clara have gone ao tea at • 0,011/3111 Charlotte's -but they'll be home etinon-about what she said alsout Miss Broulae"- ; ; "Yon mean about "Penrod's being a; comfort?" ' "Yes, and I kept thinking and think - Ing and thinking about it till II couldn't stand it any"- ; t y George!" ehoete4 We. Schofield ,etartlingly, stooping to look under the piano. A statement that he aad sud- denly remembered his 8031'13 presence would be lacking in* accuracy, for the highly sensitized Penrod was, In fact, no longer piesentNo more was Duke, his faithful dog. ; ' "What's the matterr' I , 1 "Nothing," he returned, striding to the open window and looking out ,"Go on." 1 "Oh!" she moaned. "It must 14 kept from Clara. And I'll never hold up my head again if John Parry -ever hears of it!" "Hears of wbat?" . "Well, I just couldn't stand it, I got so curious. And I thought, of corse, if Miss Spence had become a little unbalanced it was my duty to know it as Penrod's mother and she his teacher. So -I thobght I would just call on her at her apartment after school and have a chat and see. And I did, and -oh" -. "Well?" t ; "I've Alit come from there, and she told me --she told me! Oh, I've never known anything like this!" ; "What did she tell your . . Mrs. Schofield, making a great ef- fort, managed to assume a temporary appearance of calm. "Henry," ske said solemnly, "bear this In mind, whatever you do to Pe4rod it must he done in some place wh n Clara won't hear it. But the first t ng to do is to find him." Within view of the window from which Mr. Schofield was gazing was the closed door of the storeroom in the stable, and just outside this door Duke was performing a most engaging trick. , Hls young master bad taught Duke to "sit up and beg" when he wanted anything, and if that didn't get it to "speak." Duke was facing the closed door and sitting up and begging, and now he also spok.e-In a laud, alear bark. There was an open transom over the door, and from this Idescended-burled by an unseen agency -a can half filled with old paint It caught the small besieger of the labor on his thoroughly surprised right ear, encouraged him to some remarka- ble acrobatics and thrilled large por- tions of him a dull Jblhe. Allowing only a moment to perplexity and decid- ing after a single and evidently unap- petizing experiment not to cleanse him- self of paint, the loYal animal resumed his quaint, upright posture. Mr. Schofield seated himself on the window sill, whence he „could keep in view that pathetic picture of unrequit- ed love. "Go on with your story, mamma," he paid. "I think I can find Penrod when we want Min." And a few minutes later he added, "And I think I know the place te do It in." Again the faithful roice of Duke Wag heard pleading outside be bolted door. • •* • • * • Penrod entered the schoolroom Mon- day morning - picturesquely leaning upon a man's cane, shortened to sup- port a cripple approaching the age of twelve. tfe arrived about twenty min- utes late, limping deeply, his brave young mouth drawn with pain, and the sensation he created must have been . a solace to him, the only possible crit- icism of this entrance being that was just a shade too heroic. Perhaps for that reason it failed .to stagger Miss -Spence, a. woman so saturated with suspicion that, she penalized Pen- r•od, for tardiness as promptly and as IP YOUR CHILD- IS CROS14, - FEVERISH, CONSTIPATED Look Mother! If tongue Is coated, cleanse little towels with "Cali- fornia Syrup.of Figs." Mothers can rest easy after giving "California Syrup of Figs," because in a few hours ale the clogged -up waste, sour bile and fermenting food gently, i reeves out of the bowels, and you have i a well, playful child again. Sickchildren needn't be coaxed to take this harmless "fruit laxative." t Millions of mothers keep It handy be-' cause they know its action on the , sten-tech, liver and bowels is prompt 4nd:sure. Ask your druggist for a 50 -cent bot- tle of "California Syrup of Figs," which contains directions for babies, children at all Agee an ga:owa-upe, 1 1 comfy as if be htia been it mete- or- dinary, uninutilated boy. Nor esemal she entertain any discussion of the justice of her ruling. It seemed almost that she feared to nrgue with him. However, the distinction of tape and IsivinhicPit rheemapthreetrdactteod brain; 'intco"tshceAnNt:':el: -until Thursday evening, in fact, When Mr. Schofield, observing trom a win- dow his son's pursuit of Duke round and round the back yard, confiscate,' the cane, with the promise that it should not remain idle if he saw Pen- rod limping again. Thus, succeeding a. depressing Friday, another Saturday brought the necetssity for new inven- tions. It was a scented morning in apple blossom time. At about ten or the clock Penrod emerged hastily from the kitchen door. ,His pockets bulged abnormally, so cltd his cheeks, and be swallowed with difficulty. A threat- ening mop, wielded by a tookilice arm in a checkered sleeve, followed him 'through the deorway, and be was pre- ceded by a small, hurried, wistful 'dog with a warm doughnut in his month, The kitchen door slammed petulantly, Inclosing the sore rice of Della, where- upon Penrod .and Duke seated them- selves 'upon the pleasant sward and inimediately consumed the spollp of their raid. , , •- From the cross Street. which formed the side boundary of . the Schofields' ample yard came le jingle of harness and the cadenced clatter of a pnir of trotting horses, and Penrod, looking up, beheld the passing of a fat ac- quaintance, torpid amid the conserva- tive splendors of a rather oid fashion- ed victoria. This was Roderick Maga- worth Bitts, Jr., a ' fellow sufferer at the Friday afternoon dancing:class, but otherwise not often a companion; •a home sbeltered lad, tutored private- ly and preeerved against the coarsen- ing influences of rade comradeship and miscellaneous information. Heavily overgrown in all physical dimensions, ' virtuous and placid, this cloistered mut- . ton was* wbolly uninteresting to Pen- rod Schofield. Nevertheless, Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Jr., was a per- sonage on account ef the importance of the ningsvvorth Bitts family, and it was Penrod's destiny to increase Rod- erick's celebrity far, far beyond its present aristocratic limitations. _ The Magsworth Biases were impor tant because they were impressive. There was no other reason. And they were impressive because they believed themselves important. The adults of the family were impregnably formal. They dressed with reticent elegance and wore the same nose and the seine expression -an expression which indi- cated that they knew something ex - visite and sacred which other people could never know. Other people in their presence were apt to feel myste- riously ignoble and to become secretly uneasy about In:least:ors, gloves and • pronunciation. The Magsworth Bitts manner was withholding and reserve though sometimes gracious granting small smileg as great favors and giv- ing off a chilling kind of preciousness. Naturally when any citizen of the com- munity did anything unconventional or Improper or made a mistake or had a relative who went wrong that citizen's first and worst fear*was that the Mags- worth Bittsee would hear of it In fact, this painful family had for years terrorized the community, though the community had never realized that it was terrorized and invariably spoke of the family as the "most charming cir- cle in town." By common consent Mrs. Roderick Magsworth Bitts offici- ated as the supreme model as svell as critic in chief of morals and deport- ment for all the unlucky people pros- perous enough .to be elevated to hei- acquaintance. • Magsworth was the important part of the name. Mrs. Roderick -Mags- worth Bitts was a Magsworth born herself, and tbe Magsworth crest deco- rated not only Mrs. Magsworth Bitts' note paper, hut was on the china, on the table linen, on the chinniey pieces, on the opaque glass of the front door, on the victoria and on the .harness, though omitted from the =den hose and the lawn mower. Natpaelly no sertsiblO person dream- ed of connecting that Itrustrioue crest with the unfortunate and notorious Rena Magsworth, whose name had grown week by week into larger and larger type upon the front pages of newspapers owing to the gradually in- creasing public, and official belief that she had poisoned a family of eight. However, the statement that no sensi- ble person could have connected the 'Magsworth Bias family with the ar- senical Rentetakes no account of Pee- red Schofield. CHAPTER VIII. The Two Families. , ENROD never missed a murder, a banging or an electrocution • in the newspapeta He knew almost as much about Rena Magsworth as her jurymen did, though • they , sat in a courtroom 200 miles away, and he bad it in mind -so frank he was -to ask Roderick Magsworth Bats, Jr., if the murderess happened to be a relative. The present encounter, being merely one of apathelle greeting, did not af- ford 9ie opportunity. Penrod took off his cap, and Roderick, seated bet -amen his- mother and one of his grownup sisters; nodded sluggishly, but neither Mrs. Magsworth Bitts dor her daugh- ter acknowledged the salutation of the boy in the yard. They disapproved of him afna person of little consequence, and tt little bad. Snubbed, Penrod thoughtfully restored his cap to his head. le boy can be cut as effectually as a man, and this one was' chilled to a lo.w temperature. He wondered If they despised him because they had • seen a last fragment of doughnut in his band; then he thought that per- haps it was Duke who had disgraced him. Duke was certainly no fashion- able looking dog. The resilient spirits of youth, how- ever, presently revived, and, discover- • ing a spider upon one knee and a bee- tle simultaneously upon the other, Pen - roil femet Mrs.. Roderick Magsworth _ Bitts in the course or "soxfid 'experi- ments infringing upon the domain of Dr. Carrel. Penrod's efforts.; with the. .ald of a pin, to effect a transference ofi living organism were unsuccessful, but be convinced himself forever that a; spider cannot walk with 'a beetle's. legs. Della then enhanced zoological. interest by depesiting upon the beer porch a large rat trap from the -cellar,' the prison of four live rats awaiting execution. - Penrod at once took postiession, retir- ing to the empty stable, where he ife- stalled the rats in a small -wooden boxi with a sheet of broken -windeiv heid down by a brickbat, ever the top.: Thus the symptoms of their agitation: when tbe box WO Shaken or hammer -I ed upon could be studiea at leisure!, -Mtegether this:Saturdayi was starting; splendidly. , After a tiede the student's attention' was withdrawn from his specimens byi a peculiar smell, which, belng follow- ed up by a system of selective sniffing,' proved to be an emnation leaking Into the stable from the alley. He opened the back door. Across the alley was cottage which' a. thrifty neighbor had built on the rear line of his lot and rented to ne- greets, and the fact that a negro -family was now in process of -mog le was manifested by tbe presence of a thin mule and a ramshackle wagon, the latter laden with the semblance of a stove and a few ether unpretentious household articles. t A very small darky boy stood near the mule. In bis band was It rusty chain, and at the end of the cbain the delighted Penrod perceived the senrce of the special smell he was tracing -a -large raccoon. Duke, who had shown not the slightest interest in the' rats set up a frantic barking and simulated a ravening assault upon the strange animal. It was only a bit of acting, however, for Duke was an old dog, had suffered much and desired no un- necessary sorrow, wberefore he con- fined his demonstrations to alarums and excursions and presently sat down et a distance and expressed himself by intermittent tlareatenings In a qua:vers Ing falsetto. "What's that coon's name?" asked Penrod, intending no discourtesy: "Aim gommo manie," said the small darky. "What?" "Aim golainto, mune." "Whit?" _ The small darky looked annoyed. "Alm gommo mame, I hell you," he said impatiently. Penrod -conceived that insult *as la. tended. • • "What's the matter of you?' he det Utanded, advancing. "You get freak With me and I'1151,-- "Hyuh, white boyl" A coloredyouth of Penrod's own age appeared ilk doorway of the cettage. "Yon let 'hat brotlauh mine alone. He gin' do noths in' to you." , o "Well, why caul -he answerPte eat, "He can't. 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