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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-04-22, Page 7hove clime hie timp,1ndaiug 1t, if he ' ttk SSi{�SI be gr..: vele this, ewer to',unt an,' even a aolataurId nuke as straight as ha co !Heide' Vitt, ,Dement vttildti.. wed d:•9047- pal 140 to do it, He would l m " ed to ! $how OM thing and admit b had dolts it, muelf lamp people a world With lllildton5 of like -proofs of in- -cbmp@tence. Logically, considered, the rake was built atraight and clean and healthy and happy. How, since then, it has developed in multiti0din- -oum less sane ,directions, and lost its nortttal straightness and proportions; I - am, singularly enough; lot entire- ly competent to explain with any de- gree of satisfactory detail. But it cannot be truthfully denied that this has rather 'generally happened. There are human beluga who are not beau- tiful, there are those who are not healthy, there are those who hate people 'and things with much waste of physical and mental energy, there are .people who are not unwilling to do others an .ill turn by word or deed, and there site those who do not believe that the original scheme of the race was ever a decent one. This is all abnormal 'and unintelli- gent, even the not being beautiful, and sometimes one finds oneself called upon passionately to resist a temptation to listen to an internal ,hint that the whole thing is. aimless. Upon this tendency one may as well put One's foot firstly, as it leads no- . where. At such times it is support- : ing to call to mind a certain un- deniable .fact which ought. to loom ' up much larger in our philosophical calculations. No one has ever made a collection of statistics regarding the enormous number of perfectly sane, kind, friendly, decent creatures oho fount a large proportion of any ' mass of human beings anywhere and everywhere—people who are not vic- t ious or cruel or depraved, not as a i result of continual self-control, but ' simply •because they do not want to be, because it is more natural and agreeable to be exactly the opposite things; people who do not tell lies because they could not do it with any pleasure, and would, on the con- trary, find the exertion an annoyance and a bore;-people'whose manners and morals. are good because their nature: preference lies in that'. direction. There are millions of them who in most essays on life and living which call forth eloquent condemnation or brilliant cynicism. It has not yet be- come the fashion to record them, When one reads a daily newspaper filled with dramatic elaborations of crimes and unpleasantness, one some- times wishes attention might be called to 'them --tit• their numbers, to their decencies, to their normal lack of any desire to do violence and their equally normal disposition to lend a hand. One is inclined to feel that the majority of persons do not believe in their existence. But if an accident occurs in the �s¢treet, there ure always several of theC who appear to spring out of the earth to give human sympathy and assistance; if a na- tional calamity, physical or social, takes place, the world suddenly seems full of them. They are, the thou- sands of Browns, Joneses, and Rob- insons who, massed together, send food to famine -stricken countries. sustenance to earthquake-devasted regions, aid to wounded soldiers or miners or flood -swept homelessness. They are the ones who have happen- ed naturally to continue to grow straight and carry out the First In- tention. They really form the ma- jority; if they did not, the people of the earth would have eaten one an- other alive centuries ago. But though this is surely true, a happy cynicism totally disbelieves in their existence. When a combination of circumstances sufficiently dramatic brings one of them into prominence, ' he is either called an angel or a fool. He is neither. He is only a human creature who is normal. After this manner Tembarom was wholly normal. He liked work and rejoiced in good cheer, when he found it, however attenuated its form. He wassa 'good companion, and even at ten year old a practical person. He took his loose coppers ,from the old bureau drawer, and remembering that he had several tunes helped Jaka Hutchind to sell his newspapers, he went forth into the world to find and consult him as to the investment of his capital. "Where are you goin', Tem?" a wonam who lived in the next room said when she met hint on the stairs. "What you goin' to do," "I'm goin' to sell newspapers if I can get some with this," he. replied, opening his hand to show her the extent of his resources. She was almost as poor as he was, but not quite. she looked him over curiously for a moment, and then fumbled in her pocket. She drew out two ten -cent pieces and considered them, hesitating. Then she looked again at hint. That normal expres- sion in his nice ten -year-old eyes 'had its suggestive effect. "You t ke this," she said, handing him the two pieces. "It'll help you to start." "I'll bring it back, ma'am," said Tem. "Thank you, Mis' Hulling - worth." In about two weeks' time he did bring iE back. That WAS the begin- ning. He lived through all the. ex- periences a small boy waif and stray would be likely to come in contact with. , The abnormal class treated him ill, and the normal class treated him well. Ile managed to get enough food to eat to keep him from starva- tion. Sometimes he slept under a roof and much oftener out-of-doors. He preferred to sleep out-of-doors more than half of the year, and the rest of the time he "did what he could. He' saw and learned many strange things, but was not under- mined by vice because he unconsci- ously preferred decency, He sold newspapers and annexed any old lob which appeared on the horizon. That education the New York streets gave him was a liberal one. He became acbustomed to heat and cold and wet weather, but having sound lungs and a tough little body combined with the normal tendencies already men- tioned, he suffered nb more physical CHAPTER 1. The boys at • the Brooklyn public school which be attended did not know what the "T." stood for. He would never Tell them. All be said in reply to questions was: "It don't stand for nothin'. You've gotter have a' 'nitial, ain't you?" His name was in 'fact, an almost inevitable sohool- boy' modification of one felt to be absurd and pretentious. His Christ- ian name was Temple which became "Temp." His surname was Barom, so he was at once "Temp Harem." In the natural tendency to avoid waste of time it was pronounced as one word, and, the letter p being superfluous and cumbersome, it easily settled itself into "Tembarom," and there remained. By much less inevitable processes have surnames evolved themselves as centuries roll- ed by. Tembarom liked it, and soon almost forgot he had ever been call- ed anything else. His education really began when he was ten years old. At that time his mother died of pneumonia, contracted by going out to sew at seventy-five cents a day, in shoes almost entirely without soles, when the remains of a blizzard were melting in the streets As, after her funeral, there remained only twenty-five cents in the shabby bureau which was one of the few arti- lecs furnishing the roost in the tene- ment in which they lived together, Tembarton sleeping on a cot, the world spread itself before him as a place to explore in search of a least one meal a day. There was nothing to do but to explore it to the best of his ten -year-old ability. His father had died two years be- fore his mother, and Tembarom had vaguely felt it a relief. Ile had been a resentful, domestically tyrannical immigrant Englishman, who held in contempt every American trait and institution. He had come over to better himself, detesting England and • the English because there was "no chance for a man there," and, trans- ferring his dislikes and resentments front one country to another, had met with no better luck than he had left behind him. This he felt to be the fault of America, and his fam.ilylwhich was represented solely by Tembarom and his mother, heard a good deal about it, and also, rather contradictori- ly,'a good.deal about the advantages and superiority of England, to which in the course of six months he be- came gloomily loyal. It was neces- sary, in fact, for hits to have some- thing with which to compare the United States unfavorably: The ef- fect he produced on Tembarom was that of causing hits, when he entered the public school round the •corner, to conceal with determination verging on duplicity the humiliating fact that it' he had not been born jn Brooklyn he might have been bornfin England. England was not popular among the boys in the school. History had rep- resented the country to them in all its tyrannical rapacity and bloodthirsty oppression of the humble free-born. The manly and admirable attitude was v to say," Give me liberty or give me death"—and there was the Fourth of July. Though Tembarom and his mother had been poor enough while his fath- er lived, when be died the returns from his irregular odd jobs no longer carte in to supplement his' wife's sew- ing, and add an occasional day or two of fuller meals, in _consequence of which they were oftener than ever hungry and colt!, and in desperate trouble about the rent of their room. Tembarom, who was a wiry, enter- prising little fellow, sometimes found an odd job himself. He carried notes and parcels when anyone would trust him with them, he split old boxes into kindling -wood, more than once he '_piinded" a baby whey its mother left its perambulator outside a store. But at eight or nine years of age one's pay is in proportion to one's size. Tembarom, however, had neither his father's bitter eye nor his mother's discouraged one. Something different from either had been reincarnated in hint from some more cheerful past. He had an alluring grin instead—a grin which curled up his mouth and showed his sound, healthy, young teeth,—a lot of thein,—and people Liked to see them. At the beginning of the world it is only recently reasonable to sup- pose human beings. were made with healthy bodies and healthy minds. That of course was the original scheme of the ' race. It would not DON'T DO THIS! LEONARD EAR OIL RELIEVES DEAFNESS and STOPS HEAD NOISES. Simply Rub it Back of the Ears and insert in Nostrils. Proof of snc- ,eee will Le given by the druggist. MADE IN CANADA ARTHUR SALES CO„ Sales Agents, Toronto A. 0. /marl, Ino., Bina. TO 5th An., 8. T. Cat For Sale 'hy E. UMBACH, Seaforth ei • MR. ALFRED DUBOISBLAU - 482 St. Catherine 8t. E., Montreal, "For three years, I was a ter -"le sufferer front indigestion, constant Ifea& aches and Constipation. I took various medicines for the trouble but nothing seemed to do me any good. Thea, a friend advised me to try Fruit-a-tiver: Now I am free of Indigestion and Headaches, the Constipation is cured, and I have gained considerable weight ;'and my general health is fine. 'Fruit -a -aver' is a ggnd medicine and I cannot say enough in its favor." ALFRED DUBOISSEAU. 'Fruit -a -fives' are made from fruit juices and valuable tonics—and are pleasant to take, their action being gentle and mild, yet always most effective. 50e. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. At all, dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit -a -fives Limited, Qttawa, Ont. deterioration than a young Indian would :suffer. After .staling news- papers for two yeors he. got a place as -boy" in a small store. The ad- .vanre signified by steady employe -lent waii. inspiring to his energies. He forged ahead, and got a better job and better pay as he grew older. By the time he was fifteen he shared a small bedroom with another boy. In whatsoever quarter he lived, friends seemed sporadic. Other boys congregated about him. He did not know he had any effect at all, but his effect, in fact, was rather like that of a fire in winter or a cool .breeze in summer. It was natural to gather where it prevailed. There came a time when he went to a night class to learn stenography. Great excitement had been aroused among the boys he knew best by a tumor that there were "fellows" who could earn a hundred dollars a week "writing short." Boyhood cdbld not resist the florid splendor of the idea. Four of thein entered the class con- fidently looking forward to becoming the recipients of four hundred a month in the course of six weeks. One by one they dropped off, until only Tembarom retrained, slowly forging ahead. He had never meant anything else but to get on in the world—to get as far asehe could. He kept at his "short," and by the time he was nineteen it helped hint to a place in a newspaper office. He took dictation fronr a nervous and hurried editor, who, when he was driven to frenzy by overwork and incompetencies, found that the long-legged, clean youth with the grin never added fuel to the flame of his wrath. He was a common young man, who was not marked by special brilliancy of in- telligence, but he had a clear head and a good temper, and a queer apti- tude for being able to see himself. in the other man's shoes—his dif- ficulties and moods. This ended in his being tried with bits of new work now and then. In an emergency he was once sent out to report the de- tails of a fire. o What he brought back was usable, ,and his elation when he found he had actually "made good" was ingenuous enough to spur Galton, LETTER FROM MRS. WHELIN Tells Remarkable Story of Sickness and Recovery. Toronto, Ont.—"1 suffered greatly rom weakness seemed to be tired all the time, and had no ambition to do any- thing or go any place. My nerves were in bad shape, I could not sleep at night, and then came a breakdown. I read of Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound in the newspapers and sev- eral of my friends advjsed me to use it, an it sure y put new life into me. Now a is quite able to do all my own work, to 1 J would strongly advise every suf- fering woman to give Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound a trial."- Mrs. CHARLIO WAISELIN, 272 Christie St., Toronto, Ont.: The makers (se Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound have thousands of such letters as that above --they tell the truth, else they could not have been ob- tained for love or money. This medicine is no stranger—it has stood the test for more than forty years. If there are any complications you do no understand writs to Lydia E. Pink- haffi Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Maas. hist, rtes, e lily oma had 1� .� • ld r ... or behind Of Ium e in a varae, to nee -Tares tr shed. ilea's• a flight o>?t literatda'e: He applied tdm- ,self to the Careful; study of news. papers- .tbeh:' POisita of view, their style of phraaing^He believed them. to -Iia perfect. Tia' attain ease in._ex. .pressing himself hs their elevated language he felt to be the summit sf- lofty ambition. He had no doubts of the exaltation of his ideal. His respect and confidence almost made • Galton cry at times, because they recalled to him dggye- when he had been nineteen and bad regarded New York journalists:with reverence. He liked Tembarom more and more, le actually soothed him. to have him about, and he fell into giving him one absurd little cbapce after another. When he brought in ',stuff" which bore too evident marks u1 utter ig- norance, he actually touched it up and used it, giving. him_ an enlightening, ironical hint or so. Tembarom al- ways took the hints with gratitude. He had no mistaken ideas of his own .powers, Galton loomed up before him a sort of god, and though the editor was a man with a keen, though wearied, brain and a sense of humor, the situation' was one naturally pro- ductive of harmonious relations. He was of the many who unknowingly came in out' of the cold and stood in the glow of Tembarom'. warn fire, or took refuge from the heat in his cool breeze. He did not know of the private, arduous study of journalistic style, ant it was not unpleasing to see that the nice young cub was gradually improving. Through pyre modest fear or ridicule, 'Tembarom kept to'hiinself his vaulting ambition. He practised reports of fire, wed- dings, and accidents in his hall room. A hall bedroom in a third-rate boarding house is nod :s cheerful place, but when Tembarom vaguely felt this,he recalled the nights spent in empty trucks and behind lumber - piles, and thought he o.is getting spoiled by luxury. He tohl him - that he was a fellow who always 'had luck. Ile did not know, neither did any ane else, that his luck wnuld have followed him if he had lived in a coal -hole Lt Was the eonromitant of his normal build and outlook on life. Mrs. Rowse, his hardworked land lady, began by being CA:mt'd down by his mere bearing' when he came to apply for his room and board. She had a touch of grippe, and had just 'emerged from a hewed affray with a dirty cook, and was inclined to battle when he presented himself. In a few minutes she was inclined to battle No longer. She let him have the' room. Cantankerous restrictions did not ruffle him. "Of course what you say goes," he said, giving her his friendly grin. "Any one who takes boarder, has got to be careful. You're in for a bad cold, ain't you"? "I've got the grippe again, that's what I've got," she almost snapped. "Did you ever try :.Payson's 'G. you know. Catchy name -ain't it? They say the nean that invented it got ten thousand dollars for it. 'G. Destroyer.' You feel like you have to find out what it means when you see it up on a hoarding. I'm just over grippe myself, and I've got half a bottle in my pocket. You carry if about with you, and Swallow one every half-hour. You just try it. It set me right in no time." He took the bottle nut of his waist- coat pocket and handed it to her. She took it and turned it over. "You're awful good-natured,"—She hesitated,—"but I ain't going to take your medicine. I ought to go and get' some for myself. How much does it cost?" "It's on the bottle; but it's having to get tit for yourself that's the matter. You wont have time, and you'll forget it." "That's true enough," said Mrs. Howse, looking at hint sharply. "I guess you know something about boardinghouses." "I guess 1 know something about trying to earn three meals a day -- or two of .them. It's no merry jest., whichever way you do it." ha ad , at it ' they )daft • l0000k o t"" whm, ion wanted: auyllti w &9 4 his saifient obaractaaiat es . 'Wait a bit, . Father - . we don't' know anything : about hiiiu yet," Anil Hutchinson murmured quietly, hop- ing that his words bad been lost in CHAPTER II. When he took •possession of his hall bedroom the next day and came down to his first meal, all the board- ers looked at him interestedly. They had heard of the G. Destroyer from' Mrs. Bowles and ,Julius Steinberger looked at him becausce they were about his own age, and shared a hall bedroom on his floor; the young wo- man from the, notion r•wnter in a down -town department store looked at Min because she was n young wo- man; the rest of the company looked at him because a young man in a hall bedroom might ser might not be noisy or objectionable, and the inci- dent of the G. Destroyer sounded good-natured. Mr. Jesse h Hutchin- son, the stout and diseentented En- glishman from Manches,er, looked him over because the mere fact that. that he was a new -comer had placed hint by his own rash act in the position of a target lar criticism. Mr. lfuiehinson had Some to New York because he had been told that Inc could find backers nnuene profuse and innumerable multi -millionaires fon the invention which hod been the haunting vision of his uninspiring life. He had not been met with the careless rapture which had been de- scribed to him, and he was becoming violently antagonistic to American capital and pessimivli' in his views of American institutions. Like Tem- barom's father, he was the resentful Englishman. p,NNYou Cannot any New Eyes �g tarett /r CCleael n IltallbyC nd trop a ren Promote a i�UR yam. Ere Remedy Night and Morning." Peep your Eyes Clean, Clear and Baaltep. Write tor Free Eye Care Book. RMAIa Era IlaaabCe..9 Eatable Stem. 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