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FARMS FOR SALE
1111 ACRE FARM FOR SALE. • OWNER
will sellonreasonable terms for quick
, gale. Apply to R. S. -HAYS, seafortb, Oat
21366-tf,
FARM FOR SALE. -100 ACRES, LOT 80.
Concession 8; Hibbert. On the premises
there are a brick house, two bank barna,
garage, two good ells. ouring‘creek, three
acres of hardwood bush. wire fences and the
drained. Rural mall and telephone; lye miles
from school; 7,,4 miles from Seaforth. Apply
to MRS. CHARLES YOUNG, Staffs, Ont ,
8909-tf
FARM FOR SALE.—FOR SALE 20 ACRES
cleared land, situated one-quhrter Be
east of Bruceheld on the M511 Road. 08 ;the
premises are a two story brick house, with
eight rooms and wood shed, frame barn,
40:30; driving abed, 22x42, ernd hen house,
10:17. Will be sold on reasonable terms. -
For further particulars apply on the premises
or address JACK ROSS, Brumfield Post
Office.. 29114,'.
FARM' FOR SALE.—FOR SALE LOT 17.,
Concession '8. McKillop, containing 100:
acres. There are on the premises a good
frame housi°; two.barna, one large barn 40x88
on tone and cement foundation: one hay
barn 30050, also. a shed ioinldg two barna.
The land is in a good state of cultivation,
well fenced and drained; a good orchard and
two good wells, one drilled well, water 4
feet from top; also 12 acres df hardwood
bush. ' This farm is situated 8 mhos from
the Town of Seaforth and will be sold rea-
sonable. For further particulars apply to
SAMUEL SMITH, Lot 15, Concession 9.- Me-
Hillep, R. R. No.' 1, Dublin.. 2905-tf
FARM FOR SALE.—FARM OF TWO HUN.
dred acres adjoining the Town of ,lea. -
forte, conveniently situated 5. all eheraka,
schools and Collegiate. There L 'a comfort-
able brick cottage with a cement Nteben•'
barn 100x88' with stone stabling underneath
Ear a horses. 70 head of cattle and 40 liege
with steel stanchions and water before .1)
stock: Otter carrier and feed carrier and
two cement silt* ; driving shed and plat.
Farm Acute*. Watered by a neck well and
windmill. The fern, Is well drained and in
a high- °tate of cultivation. The atop L all
1n the ground—ehofle clay Roam- Immdt
ate precession. Apply to M. BEATON, u
B. 2, Seafortb, Ont. 21874f
WARM FOR BALE.—FOR SALE, LOT 1,
Concession 11,' and west half of Lot 5,
Concession 10.. H.R.S., Tackeramith, con-
taining 150 acres. There are on the premise
a good two-story brick house with late roof.
large bank barn 100x89 feet with first elms
stabling, water in the barn, drive shed 26x76,
pig house end hen house. Two good spring
wells, also an overflowing spring- e
farm le all cleared but about 20 acres. e
good hardwood bush, principally maple All
well fenced and .the drained. Eight aero
• of fall wheat sown, 40 acres ready for spring
aro The farm I eituhted 7 miles from
forth and 4 miles from .Bengali, one-half
ile from school: rend mall and 'phone. Will
sold on as terms. Unless sod S
easy 1 by prang
oS5lyll be for rent For farther partioalan
y oa ffie premises, or address B. R. 8-0
7. Kipper.— ANGUS 'MoKINNON. 2868$,
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y.
HEAD OFFICE—SEAFORTH, ONT.
OFFICERS:
Connolly, Goderich = - President
Jas."Evans, Beechwood, vice-president
D. F. McGregor, Seaforth, Sec.-Treas.
AGENTS:
Alex. Leitch, R. R, No. 1, Clinton;
W. E. Hinchley, Seaforth; John Mur-
ray, Egmondville; J. W. Yeo, Gode-
rich; R. G. 'Jarmuth, .Brodhagen.
DIRECTORS: •
William Rinn, No. 2, , Seafortb;
John Bennewies, Brodhagen; James
Evans, Beechwood• M. McEwen, Chin-
ton; James Connolly, Goderich; Ale;
Broadfoot, No. 8 Seaforth; J. G.
Grieve, No. 4, Walton; Robert Ferris,
Harlock; George McCartney, : No. 8,
Seaforth; Murray Gibson, Brimfield.
. NOTICE
Any Patrons with. Seaforth
Creamery Cans 'and not going to
use them to send cream to us this
seaebn, will kindly return them
to the Creamery. These are our
property and only loaned. to
...patrons, and must be , returned
in •good order.
The Seaforth Creamery.
2884.tt
CROSSSE' ,DUNLAP.
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New irk
"Now there was .. y epusin, Eliza,"
Missy Sally. Ruth Dexter. once said to
)flet `wh•e '.waif;,, forced 'to•make her
'home for thirty yeers.in Vienna! She
married an attache of the Austrian
legation, , you 'knew; met him while
she- was visiting i11 Washington, and
'she wag such a .pretty girl and he
was such a;charming man that they
fell in love with each other and got
married. Afterward his family pro-'
cured him a very ipfluential post at
court, and of course poor Cousin Eliza
had to stay here with him. Dear
mama often said she considered it -a
most touching proof 'of woman's wiles
•lingness to sacrifice herself for
there's no doubt it must have been,
very hard pn poor Cousin Eliza. She
was 'born and raised right here in
Appleboro, you see."
Do not think that Miss Sally Ruth
was anything but meat transparently
sincere/ in thus sympathizing • with.
the sad Pato Of'popr Cousin Eliza,who
was born and raised in Appleboro,
SouthCarolina, and yet sacrificed her-
self by draging out thirty years - of,
exile in the ,court circles o£ Vienna!
Any trueborn ,Appleboron would be
equally sorry for Cousin'Eliza for. the
same reason that Miss Sally Ruth
was. Get yourself born in South Car-
olina and you will comprehend.
"What did you see in your travels
that you liked moat? I Was curious:
to discover from an estimable' citizen.
who had spent a 'summer abroad.
General Lee's standing stat.
ue in , the Capitol an' his recumbent
figure in Washington an' Lee ciap'el;
of co'se!" said the ,colonel' promptly.,
!'An' listen hyur, Father De Rance. I
certainly needed' him to take the bad.
taste out 'of my mouth an'''the red out
of my eye a'tter viewin' Bill Sherman
on a brass h wee in. New York, with
an angel that'd lost the grace of God
prancing on ahead of him!" He ad-
ded reflectively; "I had my own
ideah as to where any angel leadin'
him was moat likely headed for!"
"Oh, I meant' in Europe!" hastily.
"Well, father, I saw pretty nee:
everything in Europe, I reckpn; like-
wise New York. But comin' home I
raft up to Washington an' Lee to vial
the general lyiri' there asleep, an' it
just need one glance to assure me
that the' reatest and 'grandest work
of art in this round world was rig'lt
there before me! What do folks want
"torush off to foreign parts for, where
they can't talk plain English an', a
man can't get a satisfyin' meal of
home cookin', when we've got the
greatest work of art an' the best
hams ever cured, right in Virginia?
See America. first, I say. -Why, suh,
I,was so glad to get back to good old
Appleboro that I left everybody else
wait until I'd gone around . to the
monument an' looked np at our man
standin' there on top of it, an' I foubd
myself sayin' over the names he's
guardin' as if I was -sayin' my
prayers: our names.
"Uh huh, Europe's good enough for
Europeans an' the Nawth's a God's
plenty good enough for' Yankees, but
Appleboro for me. Why, father,
they haven't gqt anything • like our
monument to their names!"
They haven't. And I. should hate
to think that any Conferderate•hiving
or dead ever even remotely resembl-
ed the gray granite one on Our monu-
ment. He is a brigandish and beard-
ed person. in a foraging cap, leaning
forward to rest himself on his gun.
His long skirted coat is buckled tight-
ly about his waist to , form a neat
bustle effect in the back, and the
solidity of his granite shoes and the
fell rigidity of his granite breeches
are Much as make the esthetic, shud-
der; one has to'admit_that.as a work
of. art' he is almost as bad as the
statues cluttering New York City.
But in Appleboro folks are not crit-
ical; : they see him not with the eyes
of art but with the deeper vision of
the heart. He stands for something_
that is gone on the wind and the
names he guards are our names.
• This is not. irrelevant. It is mere-
ly to explain some thing that is in-
herent in the living spisit of all South
Carolina; wherefore it explains my'
Appleboro, the real inside-Appleboro.
Outwardly Appleboro is just one of
those quiet, conservative, old Caro-
lina. towns where, loyal to the cus-
toms and traditions of their fathers,
they would as lief whitewash what
they firmly believe to be the true and
natural character of General William
Tecumseh Sherman as they would
their own front fences. Occasionally
somebody will give a backyard hen-
house a needed coat or two; but p
front fence? Never! It isn't the
thing. Nobody does it. All normal
South Carolinians come into the
word with a native horror of paint
aneYwhitewash'and they depart hence
even as they Were born. In consequ-
ence, towns like Appleboro take on
the venerable aspect of antiquity,
peacefully. drowsing among' immem-
orial oaks draped with long, gray,
melancholy moss.
Not that we .are cut off -from the
world, or that we have escaped the
clutch of eommei'ce. We have the
usual shops and stores, even an em-
porium or two, and street lights un-
til twelve, and the mi'l's and factory.
We have the river trade, and -two
railroads, tap our rich territory to
fetch and carry what we take and
give. ' And except in the poor parish
of which I, Armand De Rance, am
i;.
or "uncials#i1Rd
*On" ati nt'*
;st, cted, It 44# town wh e farµ
flies live. in houses that bav ' abe1thr
ed , glille}+at 00:; pf nm
e ae name;
ushlg fgrir tune .that Was' not new
3anhde1 hearreWnco'amg enhrad j tthhee scwtB
side,
Almost everybody hag a gar
`Sen, full, of old—fashioned shrubbs end
flowers, hand fine trees., In" slxleh
place, nen and womele •grow old ser-
enely ,and ° deligb fylly, and:, youth
£loup hes all .the fairer for the rieh
soli which has brought It forth.
One has tent' -four hours to the
day in a South Carolina toWplenty
of time to live in, so that one can
afford to do things unhurriedly and
has leisure toibe neighborly. For
you do have neighbors here.' It is
true that they. know all your business
and who and what your grandfather
was arid wasn't, and they are prone
to discuss it with a frankness tq
make the scalp prickle. But then,
you know theirs ton, and you are at
liberty to employ the same fearsome
frankness, provided you do it. polite-
ly and are not speaking to an out-
sider. It is perfectly permissible for
you to say exactly what you please
about your own people', to your own
people, but should an outsider and
an -alien presume to do likewise, the
Car:dijne code admits of but one
course of conduct; borrowing the
tactics of the goats against the wolf,
they close in shoulder to shoulderand
present to the audacious intruder an
unbroken, and formidable front of
horns.
And it is the last place left iq all
America where decent poverty is in
nowise penalized. You can be poor
pleasantly a much rarer and far
finer art than being old gracefully.
Because of this, life in South Caro-
lina ,sometimes retains a simplicity as
fine and sincere as. it is charming.
I deplore the necessity, but I will,
be pardoned if I pause here to be-
come somewhat personal,, to explain
who and what I am and how I dame
to be a pastor in Appleboro. To
explain myself, then, I shall have to
gn back to, a spring morning long
ago, when I was Lot a poor parish
priest, no, nor ever dreamed of be.
cbsning one, but was young Armand
De Ranee, a flower -crowned and sing-
ing pagan, holding up to the morning
sun the chalice of spring; joyous be-
cause I was of a' perishable beauty,
dazzled because life gave me so much,
proud of an. old and honored name,
secure in ancestral wealth, ' loving
laughter so much that I looked with
the raised eyebrow and the twisted
lip at austerities and prayers.
IS ever I reflected at all, it was to
consider that I had nothing to pray
for, save that things might ever re-
main as they were; that I should''re-
main me, myself, young Armand De
Rance, loving and above •all beloved
of that one sweet girl whom I loved
with all my heart. Young, wealthy,
strong, beautify', loving, and beloved!
To hold all that, crowded into the
hollow of one boyish hand! Oh, ' it
w,as too much.
I do not think I' had ever felt mg
own happiness so exquisitely as I did
upon'that day which was to see the
last of it. I 'was to go a-Maying
with hei who had ever beep as my
own !soul, since we were children play-
ing together. Sb I rode off to her
home, an old house set in its walled
inclosure by the river.„ At the door
somebody, met me, calling me by my
name. I thought at first it had been
a stranger. It was her mother. And
while I stood staling et her changed
face she took me by the.hand slid be-
gan to whisper in my ear.. ..what
had to know. Blindly, like one blud-
geoned on the head, I followed her
into a darkened room, and saw what
lay there with closed eyes and hair
still wet from the river into which
my girl had cast herself.
No, I cannot put into "words just
what had happened; indeed, I never
really knew ,all. There was no public
scandal, only great sorrow, But I
died that morning.. The young and
happy part•of me died, and, only half
alive I walked about among the liv-
ing, dragging about with .me the
corpse of what had been myself.
which none saw but 1, I°was blind to•
the beauties of earth and deaf to the
mercies of heaven, until a great Voice
called me to come out of the sepulcher
of myself; and I came—alive again,
and free, of a strong spirit, but with
youth gone from it. ' Out of the void
of an irremediable disaster God had
called me to His service, chastened
and humbled.
"Who is weak and P -am not weak?
Who is offended and I burn not?"
••And yet, although I knew my de-
cision was irrevocable, I' did not find
it easy to tell my mother.- Then:
"Little mother of' my heart," I
'blurted, "my career is decided.. I
have been called. I am for the
church."
We were in her pleasant morning
room, a beautiful room, and the lace
curtains were pushed aside to allow
tree ingress of air and sunlight. Be-
tween the windows hung two objects
mymother most greatly cllerished—
one an enameled Petitot miniature,
gold -framed, of a roan in the flower
of his youth. His hair, beautiful as
the hair of Absalom, falls smut his
haughty, high -bred face, and so
,tnagniificently is he clothed that when
I was a child I used to associate him
•n ray "FRP
rulers; 9 r " ergeota
o,f th.las usslra ung
girdled with" a` it en thea loll.
exceeding ins y:d re' upon the .
{loader h'1 `their P ees,to look to
which ,AhoIb "doted' lapon
when bee eyee, fin them..portryed
upon,• the wal�a iri f 'bion "r
e otlte; �.R. � an, engira}�r-ink
Gond for tree bolt
giving full partic-
ulars_ -of full_
Wordcfamous preps
aloadtNfpr Epaepsy
and home Fits --simple
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eat that same man Brava Old and
stripped',ef be uty �'lld of glory, as
the. leaf that fa µ - the flower that
fades. The Bomber' abit of an or-
der his replaced *gimlet and gold;
and sackcloth, set* Between ' the
two ;ppictures hanggrgl ,an old crucifix.
For -that is Armaotd je Rance, glor-
ious sinner, haildsonest, wealthiest,
most gifted Mai Clot' 'bis day—and his
a day of glorious nen; and this is
Armand. De Rance,''become the sad
austefe reformer of'La Trappe.
My mother rose ' ,'walked over to
the Abbe' pictureex}and looked long
and with' rather frightened eyes at
him. Perhaps there was something
in the similarity to:'his of the fate
which had come upon me who bore
his name, which caused her to turn
so pale. I also am an Armand De
Rance; of a cadet branch of that great
house, which emigrated to the New
World when we French were found-
ing colonies on the banks of the Mis-
sissippi.
Her hand went to her heart. Turn-
ing, she regarded me pitifully.
"Oh, no, not thatl" I reassured
her. "I am at once' too strong and
not strong enough for solitude and
silence. Surely there is room and
work for one who Would serve' God
through serving his'' fellow men, 'in
the open, is there not?"
At •that she kissed me. Not a
whimper, although I. am an only son
and the name dies with me, the old
name of which she:; was so 'beauti-
fully proud! She --bad hoped to see
my son wear my father's name and
face and thus bring, back the lost=
husband' she had so. greatly loved ;
she bad prayed to- see my children
about her knees; and it must have
cost her a frightful anguish to re-
nounce these sweet- . and consoling
dreams, these tender and human" am-
bitions. Yet she diet so, smiling and i
kissed me -on the brow.
Three' months later I entered the
church; and because,I was the last
De Rance, and twenty-four, and the
day was to have been my wedding -
day, there fell' upon me, sorely tee
gainst my will, theekalo of sad ro-
mance,
'Endeared thus to the young, I sup-
pose I grew into' what I might call
a very popular preacher. Though
I myself cannot see. that I ever did
much actual good, si8tce my friends
praised my sermons for their "fine
Gallic flavor," and I made no ene-
mies. r'
But there was no rest 'for my spir-
it, until, the Call came again, the Call
that may not be slighted, and bade
me leave my sheltered place, my
pleasant lines, and go among the
poor; to save my own soul alive.
That is why and how the Bishop,
my old and dear friend, . after long
argunient and many protests, at
ength yielded and had me transfer-
red from fashionable St. Jean Bap-
tiste's to the poverty-stricken mis-
ionary parish of sodden laboring
folk in a South Carolina coast -town:
he meant to cure me, the good man!
I should have the worst at the auto
set. 1 -
"And I hope you understand," said
he, sorrowfully,- "that this step prac-
tically closes your career. Such a
pity, for you could have gone so far!'
You might even have Worn the red
hat. It is ,not hoping toe much that
he -last De Rance, the namesake of
he great Abbe, might have finished
s, an American cardinal! But God's
will be done. If you must go, you
must go."
I said,' respectfully, that I had to
go. •
"Well. then, go and 'try it out to
the uttermost," said the Bishop. "And
it may be that, if yoµ do not kill
yourself with overwork, you may re-
turn to me cured, when you' see the
futility of the task you wish to un-
dertake." But I was never again to
see his kind face in this world.
'Aird then, as if to cut -me off yet
more completely from ail ties, as if
to render my decision irrevocable, it
was permitted -of Providence that the
wheel of my fortune should take one
last revolution. Henri Dupuis of
the banking house which bore his
name shot himself thropgh the head
one fine morning, and as he had been
my guardian and was still the execu-
tor,of my father's estate, the whole
De Rance fortune went down with
him. All of it Even the old house
went, the old house which had shel-
tered se many of the name these two
hundred years. If t could have griev-
ed for anything it would have been
that. Nothing was left except the
modest private fortune long since se-
cured to my ,bother by pay father's
affection. It had been a bridal gift,
intended to cover her personal ex-
penses,her charities and her pretty
whims. Now it was to stand between
her and want.
Stripped all but bare, and with one
servant -left of all our staff, we turn-
ed our backs upon our bld life, our
old home, and faced the world anew,
in a stltnge place where nothing was
familiar, and where I who had begun
so differently was destined td grow
into what I have since become—just
an old priest, but with smell reputa-
tion outside of his few friends Ind
poor working -folks. There! That is
quite enough of mel ,
p; Ij him a rl jP �tia �
slgly . r
if it wAorta'
d noui i
a better riA ltr'kaad
Thus th s ic, a apo ,fin
faith .nsf t heir et iniate, of thet�hi4
hi the sen of thingtir, as evdde at..
by these pry f round,, hers
cased, Madame AeRanee neither
surprise) ek/amusement.'. ;She under
'stood. ,Shie shared many of the
prejudices, and she of. all women
could. appreciate a pride that was al-
most eAual' to=.her own. , When they
initiated ler.in a the inevitable and
inescapable Carolina game of Match-
ing' Grandfathers, she always had a
Roland for their Oliver; and as they
;generally. -came back .with an Oliver
to match her Roland. all the players
retired with equal.honors and mutual
respect.. Every door in Appleboro
at once opened wide to Madame De
Rance. The difference in religion
was obviated by the similarity of
Family,
Fbrtunately, too, the Church and
Parish house were not in .the mill dis-
trict itself, a place shoved aside, full
of sordid hideousness, ribboned with
railroad tracks, squalid with board-
ing-houses never free from the smell
of bad cooking, sinister with pawn-
shops, miserable with depressingly
ugly rows of small houses where the
hands herded, and all of it darkened
by the grim shadow of the great red
brick mills themselves. Instead; onr
Church sits on a tree -shaded corner
in the old town, and the roomy white
piazza'd Parish House is next dpor,
imbowered in the pleasantest of all
gardens.
That garden reconciled my mother
to her exile, for I am afraid she had
regarded Appleboro' with somewhat,
of the attitude of the castaway sail-
&, toward a desert island—a refuge
after shipwreck. but a desert island.
nevertheless, a place which' cuts off
one from one's world. 'And when at
first the poorr uncouth, sullen crea-
tures who were a part of my new
charge, frightened and dismayed her
there was always the garden to fly
to for consolation. If she couldn't
plant seeds of order and cleanliness
and morality and thrift in the sterile
soil of poor folks' minds, she could
always plant seeds of color and beau-
ty and fragrance in her garden and
be surer of the result. That garden
was my delight, too. I am sure'no
other equal space ever harbored so
many birds -and bees and butterflies;
and its scented dusks was the para-
dise of moths. Great wonderful fel-
lows clothed'in kings' raiment, little
chaps colored like flowers and sea-
shells and rainbows, there the airy
cohorts of' the People of the Sky
wheeled and danced and fluttered.
Now my grandfather and my father
had been the friends of Audubon and
of Agassiz, and I myself had been the
correspondent of Riley and Scudder.
and Henry Edwards, for I love the
People of the Sky more 'than all cre-
ated things. And when I watched
them in my garden, I am sure it was
they who lent my heart their wings
to lift it above the misery and over-
work and grief which surrounded me;
I am sure I should have sunk at
times, if God had not gent me my lit-
t1e� friends, the moths and butterflies.
Our grounds join Miss Sally Ruth
Dexter's - on one side and Judge Ham-
mond Mayne's are'just behind us;
so that the Judge's black Daddy Jan-,
uary can court our yellow'Clelie over
one fence, with coy and delicate love -
gifts of .sugar -cane and sweet -potato
pone in season; and Miss Sally Rhth's
roosters an dours can whole-hearted-
ly pick each other's eyes out through
the other all the year round. These
are fowls' with so firm a faith in the
Mosiac code of an eye for an eye
that when Miss Sally Ruth has six
blind of the right eye we have five
blind of the left. We are at times
stung by the Mayne bees. but freely
and bountifully supplied with the
Mayne honey, a product of fine flavor.
And our little dog Pitache'made it the
serious business of his life to keep
the Mayne eats in what he consider-
ed their proper bounds.
Major Appleby Cartwright, our
neighbor to the other side of Miss
Sally Ruth, has a theory that not a-
lone by our fruits, but by our ani-
mals, shall we be known for what
we are. He insists that Pitache wags
his tail and barks in French and con-
siders all cats Protestants, and that
Miss Sally Ruth's hens are all Pees-
byterians at heart, in spite of the
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There was one pleasant feature of
our new name that rejdiced me for
my mother's sake. From the .very
'first she found neighbors who were
friendly and charming: - Now my
mother when we came to Appleboro,
was still a beautiful woman, fair and
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fact that her roosters are Mormons
The Major likewise insists thatyou
couldn't possibly hope • to know the
real Judge Hammond May'p a unless
yon kneW his pet cats. - You admire
that calm and imperturbable dignity
that aphii'nxlike and yet •vigilant poise
of bearing which has srppaade Judge
Mayne "so notable an ornaiment of the
bench? It is purely feline: ' "Ile
caught •ft from his eats, suhz he
caught every God -blessed bit of it
from bi`s cats!" -
As one may perceive, we have dee
lieious neighbors!
When we had been settled in Ap-
pleboro a little more than a year, and
I had' gotten the parish wheels run-
ning . airly smooth, we discovered
that by my mother's French house-
keeping, that exquisitely careful
housekeeping which uses everything
and wastes nothing, my salary was.
going to be quite sufficient to cover
our modest menage, thus leaving my
mother's own income practically in-
tact. We could use it in the parish;
but there was so much to be done for
that parish that we were rather at a
loss where to begin. or what one
thing to accomplish, among so many
things crying aloud... But finally,
tackling what seemed to us the worst
'of these crying evils, we were able
to turn the two empty rooms upstairs
into what Madame pleasantly called
Guest Rooms, thus remedyinge-to the
beat of her ability, the absolute lack
of any accommodation for the sick
and injured poor. And as time paes-
ed, these Guest Rooms, so greatly
needed, proved not how much but how
little we could do. We could only
afford to maintain two beds on our
small allowance, for they had to be
absolutely free, -to help those for
whom they were intended—poor folks
in immediate and dire need, for whom
the town had no other place except
an insanitary room in the jail. You.
could be born and baptized in the
Guest Rooms, or shriven and sent
thence in hope. More often you were
coaxed back to health under my
mother's nursing and Clelie's cook-
ing and the skill of Doctor Walter,
Westmoreland.
No bill ever came to the Parish,
House from Dr. Walter Westmore-
land, whom my poor people look upon
as a direct act of,Providence in their
behalf. He is an enormous man, big
and ruddy and baldheaded and clean-
shaven, with the shoulders of a coal
beaver and legs like a pair of twin
oaks. He is rather absent=minded,
but he never forgets the down-and-
out Guest Roomers, and he has a
genius for remembering the mill -
children. These ale his dear and
special charge.
Westmoreland is a great doctor
who chooses to .live in a small town;
he says you can save as many lives
in a little town as s big one, and folks.
need you more. He is a socialist who
looks upon rich people as being mere-
ly poor people with money; an ideal-
ist, who will tell you bluntly that rev-
elations haven't ceased; they've only
changed for the better.
Westmoreland has the courage of
a gambler and the heart of a little
child. He likes to lay a huge hand
upon my shoulder and tell me to my
fieeth that heaven is a habit of heart
and hell a conditinn of liver. I do
not always agree with him; but along
with everybody else in Appleboro, I
love him. Of all the many goodnes-
ses that God has shown me, I do not
count it least that this good and kind
man was sent in our need, to heal
and befriend the broken and friend-
less waifs and strays who found for
a little space a -resting place in our
Guest Rpoms.
And when i look back I know nnw
that not lightly nor fortuitously w
I uprooted from my place and my
people and sent hither to impinge
upon the lives of many who were to
be dearer to me than all that had
gone before; I was not idly sent to
know - and love Westmoreland, and
Mary Virginia, and Laurence, and,
above all, Slippy McGee, whom we of
Appleboro call the Butterfly Man.
CHAPTER II
The Coming of Slippy McGee
On a cold gray morning in Deeem-
ber two members Of my, Hook, Poles,
little
puke but little English, and at'•.
t very badly, ,were ruk,t uig
to their daily toil in the
tory. It is a- long 'walk°a "
Toles' 'fib.
` l quarters bo tile. Sa • ,181
the work people must start ear, y' f
one is fined half an hour's time ifl'o1
is live minutes late." The adhortcut
^down the railroad . trades: that'
through the mill-diatriet,•-for •w!
cause we bury a yearly toll‘of,
childrenof the poor. f;: ,t -
Just beyond the freight eheeds,<aig4,.
nal tow and water tank, kaa grade -
erossing where, an many terriibl
things have ± happened.' that the col
people can that place Dead Mar,
,Crossin' and warn you 'not to go
there of nights because ,tire;
tower is haunted and ;finger luifk
the 'rank growth behind the _ware r
tank, coming out'.to'show thenisely
after dark. If you must pass it thea
you would better turn your' coat in-
side out, pull down your sleeves' over
Your hands, and be very careful to
keep three fingers twisted for a Sign.
This is a specific against most ha'ntg
though by no means able to 'care
away all of them. Those at Dead.,
Man's Crossin' are peculiarly Maio-
gnant and hard to scare. Maum Jin -
key Detette 'saw one there once," core.
ing down the track fasteie •than an'
express train, bigger than a cow, and
waving both his legs in his hands.
Pcor old Maum Jinkey was so scared
that she chattered her`new false teeth
out' of her mouth, and she., never
found those teeth to the day of her
death, but had to mumble along as
best she could without them. •
Hurrying by Dead Man's Crossin','
the workmen stumbled oiler a man
lying beside the 'tracks; his clothing
was torn to shreds, he was wet with
the heady night dew and covered with
dirt, cinders and. partly congealed
blood, for his right leg had been -
ground to pulp. Peering at this hor-
rible object in the wan dusk of the
early morning, they thought 'he was
dead like most of the others found
there.
Continued next week.
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RELIABLE SALES AGENT
for thie district to sell nor Fruit. Ornamental
Trees, Flowering Shrobs, etc.
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This agency is valuable -our stock
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Address plainly. Canada Mushroom Co.,
Dept, 89, 260 Garden Ave., Toronto.
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A difference of 8 cents per pound
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