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EDGE i THE POST OFFICE (By Newton MacTavish in The Can- adian Magazine) ' The place and importance of thepost office, except in large cities, diminishes year by year.. Several causes appear. The newspaper undoubtedly was the first, buit never was so great a factor as it s been since the establishing of rura routes. Nor was the tele- graph. The telegraph, indeed, never got close to the isolated village or the farm, but now the telephone, the great- est factor of all, has revolutionized ) the social life of the country districts and robbed the general store and the post office of their erstwhile import- ance as centres of gossip and dis- seminators of news. The post office- of forty years ago as it is recalled by at least one person had many characteristics that were common to most of the 'post offices at- tached to general stores -throughout rural Ontario.. It had, for one thing, an imposing false front that extended up above the second story, a type of architecture that still obtains in equally ludicrous proportions in many new 'towns throughout the West. A verandah stood up as high as the second story, with a platform and railing on top, and on to it my aunt oftentimes used to step from the up- per rooms when she saw a little lad toddling across the , street to get a bull's eye or stick of taffy. "What are you after now?" she would say, as she leaned over , the railing and smiled down at the youngster with as sweet a smile as anyone could wish to see. And then. some wonderfully tall man who hap- pened to be sitting whittling on the platform below, or perhaps it might have been my uncle from the store,. would lift him up to my aunt, who would carry him inside and show him the goldfish and regale him with jelly cake and •dandeloin. wine. Pity all little boys who haven't any aunt liv- ing above the post office, above the store, just across the way! The old mail -carrier used to drive up the hill about three -thirty in the afternoon of every lawful day. . From the verandah it was a great sight to see him corning,. his old gray nag tugging patiently against the incline and the dust gray wheels of the buggy following, round after round. But it was a greater sight to look down on him as he stopped in front and waited for someone to lift the mail -bag from the box at the back. For he was so old and so fat and so sottish that it must have been im- possible for him tomove from his seat except when he rolled out at the end of the journey - in some re- mote part of the universe away back He himself beyond the Boundary. H was always referring to the Boundary for by it he timed and measured and weighed everything and it was to it, and perhaps even a short distance in- to the strange realm beyond, that this same little boy hoped some day he might adventure. Perhaps elsewhere, apart from fic- tion, there have been young mail - carriers, with young horses and new buggies, but all that I have ever known have been old, and everything about them has been old. They have been wooden -legged or palsied or slightly touched above the ears. All but one. Him I recall because he had a -French name, wore long hair, was Pere Goriot come to life again, and mostly because he came into the vil- lage late one night, oh, very late, so late that all little boys should have been 'in bed and fast asleep. I him for e to beled out to see coaxed he stoodthe road,a in middle of the lantern upraised in his hand, a spot of light in all the circumambient dark- ness. Something had happened, I know not what, but as we drew closer lou h anxious look on the I could see the er villa s who had faces of the few g waited for the mail. What attracted me most of all was the lantern, for it was much larger and d different from the newer kind that my father used when called out on dark nights to attend the sick. It was very, differ- ent from/the electric flashlight in use toy day! The old mail -carrier held it up and opened one of its four win- dows: Then I got a glimpse- within and saw fluttering there what must have been the flame from a stout tallow candle. "I'll have to go hack and look for it," he said, and he pinched the light with long, gnarled fingers. I never knew what it was he went back to look for, and I never saw him again. Perhaps it was his youth. Perhaps it was the young wife whom my father told me " he had brought there to languish and die. He had come from the land of Jacques Cartier, my father told me, and I knew he a was far tilt n • countryaway, meats even away beyond the Boundary. Old Bill had a wooden. leg, and I am not sure, as wood was cheap then, that he had not also a' wooden head. He had at least a phenomenal capac- ity for conversation, and peculiar as it may seem to most persons, he lov- ed to talk about - himself. The things that he had seen and done seemed never to weary his otherwise lymphatic mind, and if be had a pas- senger going- out to take the train the time would fly and he wouldn't notice it going. And most of all he loved to 'tell about what he had been. First of all, he hadn't - always been a mail - carrier. Why, bless you, he had been before the mast' for fifteen years, go- ing round the Horn, back and forth twenty times, and flaunting it in al- most every port between Plymouth and Singapore. He had been a chem- ist in the Old Country for twenty for tenhvead rsauorbay had been ht oa gral in ve-dig- Wellington; had been a Methodist parson for twelve years, a jockey for nine years, an • actor for eighteen years, playing mostly the 'roles of heavy villain and low comedian. He had kept'a tavern in this country for five and twenty years, and never would have qaja bad the rheumatism not struck am - so hard : that he couldn't - raise his arms as , high as the bar. In all his many vicissitudes he must have served at least 114 years. "You, must be a pretty old man," someone would remark. "I am." he would reply. `#I'm just neat sixty." He had been. just neat sixty for five years that _We could count. - - "But how did you lose 'your leg, Bill?" This question always caused an em- barrassing silence. "How did it happen, Bill ?" After much baiting Bill would heave a deep sigh and answer almost inaudibly; "I never knew.". - "It was in the Crimeer," he would proceed if permitted to do' so, "and we wuz 'all fightin' like 'eft, when somethin' seemed to bust. and blow up, and blow down and both right and left to once. . . . When they picked me up I wuz minus one leg and most o' my faculties. But I come to in about a fortnight. After that I quit the army and became a solici- tor. It wan't no good, there bein' too many solicitin' 'after the wan And that's 'ow I come to come to Canady. Leastways, It wuz one o' the .reasons." Nobody ever quite knew the other reasons, mostly because Bill himself couldn't compose them to his own satisfaction. He was most likely to impart secrets when tight with liquor, a Condition that was not uncommon to the man -or to the day. But per- haps there was some condonement. Carrying Her Majesty's mails was pot at best a very enlivening occupa- tion, and for that reason, if not for one more human and personal, we might sympathize withthe man who while waiting for the train to arrive preferred convivial company round the big box stove iii the . tavern to the chance acquaintance of the sta- tion platform. But whatever the reason, Bill oftentimes - was visibly in his cups, and one memorable oc- casion he fell asleep and permitted the horse to run the buggy into the ditch, break away from the shafts and leave the snail -carrier low and wet, mired by the roadside. In course of time, as was natural, Bill awoke, and as he dict; so a man corning along on foot overheard j#inl talking to himself, "Be I Bill Bailey or baie't 'a?" he said. "If I be Bill Bailey, I've lost a horse; if I bain't, I've found a buggy." A On another and similar occasion Bill fell asleep but never woke again. They found him,r lifeless, at the end of his journey—back near the Bound- ary. Bill was succeeded by old Jim Hay, who was quite as old as Bill, much more helpless and amazingly less gar- rulous. Indeed, Jim' Hay never was known to say anything. He just sat in the buggy, sticking out over the edge of the seat like a sack of wool and breathing and wheezing like a horse with the heaves. He never touched the mail -bag, but waited until Someone eager for his letters_ would carry it into the post office and then put it in its place again. .I loved to look down from the verandah above and watch old Jim jolt forward and then rebound when at lepgth the buggystopped edabruptly tl Y used to ofstore.I infront the won- der who put the brass padlock on the mail -bag and what was the meaning of the Queen's insignia. But I never knew for nobody ever told me that institution of lust n office the post o e was an P t Majesty Most GraciousM jea Ywhose birthday we celebrated by going fish- ing every twenty-fourth of May.But one way or another I came to know about the people who passed beneath the verandah, all loyal subjects of the' Queen, even if unappreciative of her graciousness, There was big Jim Hill, who al- ways was expecting a letter -from a brother who had gone over to Michi- gan; and little Billy Smith, who couldn't read anything he ever did get. But even if he couldn't read he liked to look at the writing and the little picture of the - Queen's head stuck on the outside, Even if he couldn't read, he liked to hear about Joe Bake's fine field of wheat, Norden's fat cattle, and the latest additions to the population. It seemed to be in- credible, and yet everybody knew it to be true, that Joe would consume a big basin of thick sour_ milk, with- out stopping for breath, every chance he got, and if it hadn't been for the mail -carrier he would have been the fattest man in all those parts. Nor- den was noted for his -Holsteins, and indeed only for these estimable cattle our community would have - received but scant notice outside itself. - - Norden long had been regarded as an impeccable bachelor, and when at length he astonished the people by taking time from exporting cattle to import a wife the attention of the whole neighborhood was turned from stock -raising to house -keeping. But shortly thereafter Norden fell ill of a fever. So ill indeed did he become that he supplied a new and sole topic of conversation. Some persons _said that he must have contracted tee disease wherehe was away getting married, and others blamed it on the sWamp at the back of his farm. One of two ventured the opinion that it was a result of washing in ;tater from a staP;nant cistern. At any rate he came out of it with impaired hear - ger, when out of luck, for five years, 3 ing but a thankful heart. digging the grave that received the Joke Bake, too much occupied with last mortal remains of the Duke of sour cream and the contents of a NOTICE Luring the months of July and August our place of busi- ness will be closed on Wednesday aft- ernoons. N. CLUFF & SONS SEAFORTH, ONT. well -stored .pantry, had heard of the marriage but not of the fever. And when the two met at the post office, ore Saturday night when there was a good audience present, Joe attempt- ed in his own way to congratulate -the groom. ` "Well, Norden," he began, "I hear you've gone and 'got married." "I was pretty bad,'' Norden. re- plied, "but, thank God, I'm better now." From the verandah one afternoon we saw the mail -carrier approacll, stop as abruptly as usual, jolt for- ward, rebound into the seat and then settle down like meal in a sack. Pres- ently my uncle came out to get the mail -bag, but it was not there. "Jim," he said, "where's the mail- bag?" - Jim looked straight in front for the space of fifteen seconds, then he reached for the whip. • He turned the horse's head back towards the north, and letting the whip descend, started off again, the 'old horse ,on the 'gallop, careering pellmell down the hill. The buggy rocked from one side to the other like a boat in the trough, and old Jim rocked with it. We saw him dash past the carpenter's, ,past the blacksmith's, past the cobbler's, past the mill, past the township hall, be- tween the poplars, over the bridge with a booming sound, across the lull stretch of the valley and up the con- fronting hill.. We saw him strike the long five -mile course that loomed a- head at the top, all the while striking the horse with the bitter end of his bitter lash. . Not one word had he uttered, for Jim was a man of sil- ence, epee, as silent as a Trappist, and yet he knew how to make the unfortunate beast suffer for the failure of his ewn memory. We saw him, still swaying from side to side, grow smaller and smaller as the road dwindled to a point at the horizon, and ,there at last he dis- appeared from our,vision, absorbed by the enveloping landscape. But at that same point, half an hour later, he reappeared, a .speck coming out from the mist. He came as he had gone, swaying and lurch- ing, staring straight abeed, but ut- tering never a word. His rage was too great for mere verbiage. Thus, having no outlet, it settled back with- in himself, and should be a warning to us all not 'to let the molehills of our every day grow into mountains. For it . was Jim's last journey. " Like old Bill, he was found, an inert mass, somewherebacknear e ar t he Boundary. And the forgotten mail bag lay at his feet. - They talked about old Jim for a while, -but soon he became, as we all must become,- a neglected memory. His place was taken b Ysnother oldd with who was afflicted w th t h e dance of St. Vitus, and who indulged in a veritable passion for being late. I lh'ave s'ometimes thought that the people used to like it better when he came late: it gave them a reason for sitting around the store and talk- ing Omit old times. Yankee Tom dearly loved to tell about the time he killed a wildcat with a frozen turnip back in Gormaly's bush. And Long Archie alwayswaited with par- donable impatience to tell about the 'time he drove the sorel mare from Tuckersmith home with rain falling in. torrents- a few feet behind him all - the way but never catching him • "Speakin' of wildcats," Angus Mc - Alpin would begin, "makes me think of the time the bear broke up the threshing at Mike O'Hara's. Mike's son Pat, who went out to Manitoba, could get more work out of a set of horses than any other man in Amer- icky. He swung as pretty a Iash as a u d whistle n o like f o you ever saw and si-reen. Well, one day they were threshing at the old man's place, and, as it began to look like rain, 'long about noon time the old man was gettin' anxious. The dinner bell rang, Pat stopped whistling, the horses stop- ped, the machine stopped and the men stopped. "They had just go sot down at din- ner when someone sighted a bear hik ing for the bush across the back lot. Everybody jumped. up and two or three of the men started after the bear, headed by Pat carrying an old musket. Mike didn't say nothin'. He just sat down on a block of wood outside and began to whittle. It looked more than ever like rain, and 1 someone said casual like that there wasn't much chance of 'gettin' done that day, which made Mike whittle all the faster. They couldn't get started up again, with -four men off, so they just had to stand there and wait. In a little while Mrs. O'Hara came to the door. " `What's the matter?' she lookin' at Mike. • " `Nothin'. " `Thee. why ain't yez threshin' ?' "'Pat, the divil, and Bill, the divil, and Martin, the divil, and. Jerry, the divil, ie takin' a holiday.' " `Where hev they gone to?' - " `All gon, to hell with the •bear.' It 'didn't take much to remind the blacksmith of the time be shod Charlie Mason's klood stallion, away back in the days\ when they made horseshoes by hand and fashioned nails on the anvil. - "It must have been twenty—let me see. . . ." he would begin: "It was the year Betsy Jordan died." "The year of the black frost," some- one would remark. "It's twenty years ago if it's a day," the blacksmith would insist, be- ginning all over again. - "Do you remember Charlie's two - ,wheeled cart with the spring seat?" another would ask, breaking in. But before ;anyone could answer some unappreciative listener, some restless mortal who had no recollec- tion of the late sixties, would inter- rupt with the inevitable question, Any mail for me? F asked, HEAR The . Minister's Bride to be presented by THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, KIPPEN Tuesday, June. 29 ,at 8 o'clock. MR. ROBERT Adults Children - WHEN SHALL WE START HAYING A certain section in Ontario hada a reputation among hay buyers because of the over -ripe condition in which the hay always reached the market. "The trouble with those fellows," remarked one buyer, who had made a poor turn- over on the Montreal market, "is that they don't start haying till after the Orange. Walk." The "time to cut" is 'lust as important in haying as the "how to cure." Conditions vary muchn - o_ indi- vidual vidual farms that it would be difficult to lay down any rules which would apply to all cases, but the general principles are the same. The time of cutting will determine the ease of curing, the losses in curing and handl- ring, -and the amount of after growth, Yield, digestibility and palatability are influenced, not only by the time of cutting, but also by the methods of . handling. , In timthy, the total amount of dry matter increases up to the time the - seed is formed, and then there is a decrease till the plant is ripe. Quite contrary to the opinion generally held, the feeding value of the hay does not increase with this increase of d_ry matter, as the amount of fibre rapidly increases, and the fibre, or woody part of the plant, is not easily digested. The total amount of the digestible food constituents- is greatest between and l bloom a is in full the time the plant tti the time the seed reaches the early dough stage. To secure the largest amount of digestible nutrients and the highest palatability, therefore, timothy is best when cut shortly after full bloom. Timothy is one of the easiest plants to cure for hay. There is little loss from the leaves or other parts of the plant falling off. Considerable loss maybe caused by some of the .di- gestible parts of the plant being bleached out if rain fall on the. hay after it is cut. The bleaching, which follows wetting of the hay, also re- duces its value, as it evidently de- creases its palatability. With red and alsike clover the amount of dry matter increases with maturity. The amount of the diges- tible food substances is greatest when the plants are in full bloom. The best time for cutting i ng .thea e crops is from the time they are in good bloom till little more than one-third of the blossoms have turned brown. In handling and curing the clovers there is liable to be considerable loss from the leaves falling off. This difficulty becomes greater as the plants ap- proach maturity. A large portion of the food value of the clover is in the leaves, and every effort should be made to retain them. For this pur- pose the earliest possible cuttings are recommended. In cutting a mixture of timothy and clover, the fact that they do not mature at the same time will make it more difficult to decide on the proper date.. This - is especially true of red clover, which ripens from a week to ten days ahead of timothy. For this reason it is better to cat a few days later than the best time -for the clover, and nearly a week earlier than is best for timothy. Alsike ripens at nearly the same time as tim9thy, and, for this reason, these two plants are bet- ter suited for growing and cutting together, on soils suitable for alsike. The influence of the time of cut- ting on the aftergrowth is also worthy of consideration. Red cloned, cut any time before full bloom, gives a good aftergrowth if weather conditions are favorable. With later cutting little aftergrowth is produced, Timothy, if cut early, gives some aftergrowth, HANNAH will assist. ▪ - - 35 cents - 20 cents but will not produce two crops, and little or no second growth takes plaee i% the plant is not cut before it has passed the full (or second) bloom stage. In securing seed from - timothy and clover, different methods of cutting inust be followed. The seed of timothy is secured from the first, or main, crop, and that of red clover from the after growth, or second crop, while with Alsike the seed must be secured from the first crop, as it makes little second growth, When - timothy- is left for seed, it should be allowed to stand till nearly ripe. If - a crop of red clover seed is desired, the first crop should be cut at least a week before full bloom is reached, to allow the second crop *to make a good start. Alsike shells very easily if allowed to ripen fully, so when leav- ing for seed, it is better to cut a few days before this condition is reached. Weather conditions are likely to have more influence on the time of cutting than any other single factor. As timothy matures in what is usual- ly the warmer and drier part of the summer, less difficulty is experienced with this crop than with the clovers, which mature earlier when the weather' is often more unsettled. As the en- tire crop cannot all be harvested at the same time, some must be cut be. fore or after the best stage is reach- ed. Where crops maturing at dif- ferent times are grown the difficulty is largely overcome. For instance, the, order of cutting might be arranged somewhat as follows: Red clover, alsike, timothy and clover, and timothy alone. Delays due 'to wet weather and other unexpected circumstances often interfere with the haying operations,. and. if a week or more is 'lost, much of the hay crop may have passed ite. best stage for cutting, and a 4 -serious loss in -feeding value will result. The - object, therefore should be to so ar- range the work of cutting ,and curing that the largest possible portion of the crop faill be saved in the best eon- dition; Farm and Dairy. ere HURON COUNTY TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION The annual meeting of the Huron County Temperance Association was held in Seaforth on Wednesday after- noon and evening of this week and was well attended, nearly all parts of. the county being represented. The principal, speaker at both eessione was Rev. A. D. Grant, D.D., chief executive officer of the Provincial Referendum Committee. Dr:: Grant explained the plan of campaign of the central organization. Dr. Grant stated that to save the Government the expense of making new voters' lists, which would cost about half a million' dollars they had agreed to accept the old lists on which he said "weesecured an. overwhelming major- ity 'last ajority'last October, and should increase it this year." The speaker also point- ed out the. immense saving to the temperance`'forces in this regard, as it did away with the necessity of providing a force of secretaries to check registration. The Central Referendum Commit- tee have planned a short intense cam- paign which will be largely confined to a period df four- tp six weeks before the actual voting.' They felt it was not necessary now to educate the peo- ple on the advantages of prohibitions, but will confine their efforts to com- batting the apathy of temperance workers and the feeling of reaction which, Dr. Grant said, had set in in the larger cities. There is a feeling prevalent in some cities, notably Y in Toronto, that the prohibition - had gone far enough and should not further restrict the consumption of liquor. "This is all wrong," he said, "as the importation of liquor to a. considerable extent nullifies es the vic- tory- won last year. There is no doubt, of the verdict of the rugal districts, but we do not want to have our ma- jority pulled down by an adverse vote in some of the large cities, _ "In some respects" Dr. Grant said, "the present system is even worse than the old licensed system, as' it takes the consumption of liquor right into the home where it cannot fail to have an: evil influence on the growing boys an dirgirls." The. total cost of the campaign as outlined by the speaker, will be about $100,000 instead of .$500,000 as estim- ated by some speakers, This' sum it is proposed to divide proportionately among the counties wle the local' committees will add the necessary sums to carry on their work, thus mailing one call for funds from .the peolile interested in temperance. The local bodies will then turn over their share to the Central organization. The plans of the central committee include new s a er advertising,ing: pos.: ters and an attractive pamphlet that it is proposed to put in the hands of every voter. - At six o'clock an excellent banquet was served in the school room of the Presbyterian church at which over one hundred sat down. The reports of the varheas conn- mittees showed the association- to have had a very successful year, and - a balance of $100 remains in ,the - treasury. The following . officers were elected: Hon. President, Dr. A. J. Irwin, Wing- ham; President, J. A. Irwin, Clinton, Vice -Presidents, R. J. McGaw, Gode- rich; J, T. Wood, Brussels; Rev. A. M. Boyle, Belgrave; Mrs, A. Me- Guireti, Brussels; .Mrs. B. W. F. Beavers, Exeter; Mrs. A. T. cooper, Clinton; Secretary, W. H, Willis,.. .Wingham; Treasurer, A. M. Robert - sop, Goderich; Representatives, S. Bennett, Wingham, North Huron; James Cowan, Seaforth, Centre Huron; C. Harvey, Exeter, South Huron,