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,,1' DECEMBER 21, 1923.
DZ, F. J. IL FORMER
=liar, Nose and Throat
t• in Medicine, Univertdty et
Lata assistant New York Opbthal
end Aural Institute, Moorefield's
and Golden Square Throw
1'e, Londoonp,, Eng. At Com
1. Seaforth, third WsdaNadeg in
eeeh month from 11 a.m. totpp.m
Waterloo Street, South, Stretford
nem 1167, Strattold.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
a nadaat� � (� e'�j
nary
11 0!' domestic animals treated
IJOunty of Toronto. AB
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the moat modern pncniplss.
reasonable. Day or night
situptl7 attended to. Omae on
Street, Renw11, opoos is Town
Phone 11 6.
LEGAL
R. 8. HAYS.
sue Solicitor, Conveyancer and
Public. Solicitor for the Do
Sank. Olfice in rear of the Do
auffilen
Bank, Seafort - Money to
BEST A BEST
Barrister*, Solicitors, Convey-
son:4n and Notaries Public, Etc
Moe in tie Edge Building, opposite
Tba Depositor Office. ,
E ROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND
HOLMES
Punsters, Solicitors Notaries Pub
Mb ete. Money to lend. In Seaford
M Monday of each week Office it
EWE Block. W. Proudfoot.
iL Eilloran, B. E. Holmes.
•VETERINARY
F. HARBURN, V. V
Senor eradnate of Ontario Veterin
eCollege, and honorary member of
'ti dieal Association of the Onurie
Waterinary College. Treats diseases of
.11 domestic salmon by the most mod
ens principles. Dentistry and Mill
Hisser a specialty. OIDIDee opposite
lock', Hotel, Main Street, &afortb
Aia orders left at the hotel will re -
ulna prompt
at the oaffice Nigh. calls
JOHN GRIEVE. V. 8.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin.
sal College. All diseases of domestic
s•si�a� treated, Calls promptly at
%oiled to and charges moderate. Vet
aft/my Dentistry a specialty. Office
can residence on Goderlch street, one
4eee east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea-
�ir.
MEDICAL
DR. G. W. DUFFIN
Hensall, Ontario.
Office over Joynt's Block; phone
114. Office at Walker House, Bruce-
' field on Tuesday and Friday: hours
2 to 5 p.m.; phone No, 31-142. Grad-
. mate of the Faculty of Medicine,
Western University, London. Mem-
ber of the College of Physicians and
surgeons of Ontario. Post -Graduate
member of Resident Staffs of Receiv
ing and Grace Hospitals, Detroit, for
18 months. Post -Graduate member
of Resident Staff in Midwifery at
Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit, for
three months.
DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY
(Bayfield.
Graduate Dublin University, Ire-
land- Late Extern Assistant Master
Rotunda Hospital for Women and
Children, Dublin. Office at residence
lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons.
Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.
Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2868-26
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderick .tree•
spit of the Methodist church, Seaforti
Phone 46. Coroner for the County o,
Koren.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay honor graduate of Tri:
Sty University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
tie College of Physicians and Bur
,lona of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
baenity of Medicine, member of Col
!sl of Physicians and Surgeoas of
Ontario; pass graduate coarse. Is
Ciieago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Loa-
,doa, England. Office—Back of Do-
adnlon Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Wig t calls answered from residence
.A4tt.
street, Seaforth,
• _ AUCTIONEERS
- THOMAS BROWN
Licensed auctioneer for the conaties
of Huron and Perth. Correspondence
arrangements for sale dates can be
retie by calling up phone 97, $eafortir
ws Tie Expositor Office. Charges mod
mate and satisfaction guaranteed.
Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na-
tional School of Auctioneering, Chi-
cago. Special course taken in Pure
Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer-
chandise and Farm Sales. Rate..a in
keeping with prevailing marl.et. Sat-
isfaction
as.isfaction assured. Write or wire,
Oscar Klapp, Zurich, Ont, Phone
10-83. 2866-62
R. T. LUKER
Ideenned auctioneer for the Curatj
d Huron. Bales attended to la ell
parte of the county. Seven pure' es-
psisnes in Manitoba and &abate -he.
•see. Terni reaionaIla. Phone No
lits r 11, Zxeter Cautions F. 0.. R
S. No. 1. Ordure lett .et The Same
iWise,, Ssafoith, promptly
11100101.
SLIPPY
McGEE
SOMETIMES KNOWN A8.
THH BUTTERFLY MAN
MARIE CONLVAY OEMLER
CROSSET & DUNLAP
New York.
(Continued funs last slam)
So thinking, I- went In and watcbedi
John Flint finish a mounting block
from a plan in the book open upon
the table, adding however,. 'certain
Improvements of his own.
He laid the block aside and then
took a spray of fresh leaves and fed
it -to a horned and hungry caterpillar
prowling on a bit of bare stem at the
bottom of his cage.
"Get up there on those leaves, you
horn -411p horror! Move on.—you
Iepiddr&rous son of a wigglejoint, or
I'll pull your real name on you in a
minute and paralyze you„stiff!” He
drew a long breath. "You know how
I'm beginning to remember their real
names? I swear 'em half an hour a
day. Next time you have trouble
with those hickeys of yours, try
swearing caterpillar at 'em, and you
will find out."
I laughed and he grinned with me.
Say; said he, abruptly. "I've
been listening with both my ears to
what that boy was' talking to you
about awhile ago. Thinks he can
busk the Boss, does he?"
"Perhaps he may," I -admitted.
"Nifty old bird, the Big Un," said
Mr. Flint, squinting his eyes. "And,"
he went on, reflectively, "he's sure got
your number in this burg. Take
you by and large, you lawabiders are
a real funny sort, ain't you? Now,
here's Inglesby, handing out the tit-
le kid's their diplomas come school -
losing, and telling 'em to be real
ood, and maybe when they grow up
aril have a job in pickle for 'em—
ork like a mule in a treadmill,
welve hours no unions, and the cor-
ner to sit on the remains, free and
gratis, for to ease the widow's mind.
nglesby's got seats in all your
hutches—first-aid to the parson's
ants -pockets.
"Inglesby's right there on the plat-
orm at all your spiel -felts, smirking
t the women and telling 'em not to
other their nice little noddles about
nything but holding down their ne-
ural jobs of being perfect ladies—
in't he and other gents just like him
(ways right there holding down the
atural jobs of protecting 'em and b
g influenced to do what's right
ure he is! And nobody howls f
he hook! You let him be It—hi
ith a fist in the state's jeans 'up
e armpit!
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ed him all of one night with a doe-
perately iii millworker, "but he cer-
tainly has two hands; he known how
to use his ears and eyes, he's dumb
until he ought to speak and then he
speaks to the point. Father, some-
thing knew what it was but when
you and I were allowed to drag that
tramp out .of the teeth of death! Yes,
yea,' I'ta certainly glad and grateful
we were allowed to pave John Flint,"
From that time forth the big man
gave his ex -patient a liking which
grew with his years. Absent-minded
as .be wee, he could thereafter al-
ways remember to find such things
as he thought might interest him.
Abpleboro laughs yet about the day
Dr, Westmoreland Sot some small
butterflies for his friend, and having
nowhere else to put them, clapped
them under his hat, and then forgot
all about them; until he lifted his hat
to some ladies and the swarm of in-
sects flew out.
Without being asked, and as un-
ostentatiously as he did everything
else, Flint had taken his place in
church every Sunday.
"Because it'd sort of give you a
black eye if I didn't," he explained.
"Skypiloting's your lay, father, and
I'll see you through with it as far
as I can. I couldn't fall down on
any man that's been as white to me
as you've been."
I must confess that his conception
of religion was very, very hazy, and
his notions of church services and
customs barbarous. For instance, he
disliked the statues of the saints ex-
ceedingly. They worried him,
"I can't seem to stand a man doll-
ed -up in skirts," ho confessed. "Any
more than I'd be stuck on a dame
with whiskers. It don't somehow
look right to me. Put the he -saints
in panty instead of those brown ki-
monas with gold crocheting and a
rope sash, and 1'd have more respect
for 'em."
When I tried to give him some
necessary instructions, and to pene-
trate the heathen darkness' in which
he seemed immersed, he listened with
the utmost respect and atention—and
wrinkled his brow painfully, and
blinked and licked his lips.
"That's all right, father, that's all
right. If you say it's so, I guess it's
so. I'll take your word for it. If
it's good enough for you and Madame
there's got to be something in it, and
it's sure good enough for me. Look fo
here: the little girl and young Mayne II Fl
have got a different brand from yours ed
haven't they?"
"Neither of them 'is of the Old r w
tr F'aith." an
e "Huh! Well, I tell you what you fo
do: you just switch me in somewhere th
or between you and Madame and him
m and her. That'll give me a line onto de
all of you—and maybe it'll give all las
of you a line on me. See?" sk
I saw, but as through _ sh
tre
he
in
cr
dr
an
it's done I don't know; no nor no
man since the world was made knees,
or could do 41 himself. What does
it? What gives that mall these dead -
alive thing hear in the dark7 Whst
makes a crawling ugliness get itselt
ready for what's copting-.how deco
it know there's ever going to"bs a esti
or that it'll hear it without fall?"
"Some of us call it Nature: but
others call it Godo sal/ L
"search met 1' don't know what
it Is—but I do know thsr's got to be
Something behind these things, any
how," said be, and turned the !Jays
-
ells over and over in his palm, star-
ing down et it thoughtfully. lie had
used Westmoreland's word., once ap-
plied to his Aiwa case! Oh;' yes, there
is Something, because I've watched
It working with grub getting 'em
ready for five -inch moths and hand -
colored butterflies, Something that's
got the time and the patience and
the know-how to build wings as well
as worlds.". He laid the little inani-
mate mystery aside.
It'e come to the point, parson,
where 'I've just got to know more. I
know enough now to know how much
I don't know, because I've got a peep
at how much there is to know. There's
a God's plenty to find out, and it's
up to me to go out and find it."
"Some of the best and brightest
among men have given all the years
of their lives to just that finding out
and knowing more—and they found
their years too few and short for the
work. But such help as you need and
we can get, you shall have, please
God!" said I.
"I'm ready for the word to start,
chief." And heaven knows he was.
His passion transformed him; he
forgot himself; took his mind off
himself and his affairs and grievanc-
es and hatreds and fears; and thus
had chance to expand and to grow,
in those following years of patient -
est effort, of untiring research and
observances, of lovingest study. Days
in the open woods and fields burned
his pale skin a good mahogany, and
stamped upon it the windswept
freshness of out of doors. The hunt-
ed and suspicious glance faded from
his eyes, which took on more and more
the student's absorbed intensity; the
mouth lost its sinister straightness;
and while it retained an uncompro-
mising firmness, it learned how to
smile, He was a familiar figure,
tramping from dawn to dusk with
Kerry at his heels, for the dog obey-
ed Mary Virginia's command liter-
ally. He looked upon John Flint as
his special charge and made himself
his fourlegged red shadow. I am
sure that if we had seen Kerry ap-
pear in the streets of Appleboro
without John Flint, we would have
incontinently stopped work, sounded
a general alarm, and gone to hunt a
r his body. And to have seen John m
int without Kerry would have call -
forth condolences.
Sometimes—when I had time—I Gf
ent with him moth -hunting at night;
d never, never could either of us'
f
rget those enchanted hours under
e stars! ' h
We moved in a quiet fresh and m
wy, with the night wind upon us
ke a benediction. Sometimes we th
irted a cypress swamp and saw the ti
allow black water with blacker th
es reflected upon its bosom, and "r
and the frogs' canorous quarrel- "f
go, and the stealthy rustlings of m
eatures of the dark. We crossed ,a
earning; fields, and smelt leaves
d grasses and sleeping flowers. We io
saw the heart of the wood bared to
the magic of the moon, which re
vealed a hidden and haunting beau
ty of places commonplace enough b
day; as if the secret souls of thing
showed themselves only in the hul,
dark.
For the world into which we step
ped for a space was not our world
but the fairy world of the Little Peo
pie, the world of the Children of the
Moon. And oh, the moths! Now i
was a tiger, with his body bandet.
with yellow and his white opaque
delicate wings spotted with black
now the great green silken Luna witl
F'
eeod for_
part�
uhvs of Troach's
audit-tamoua prep -
and Vito--
Epaetar
an,�add Vite
home trcatutuwat.
means. ,ei.aopuN. fnw
nnuar0aMau+a
aaauwaa.bssalo,uod sty
•
ly resentful. He would never again
be able to run, or even to walk rap-
- idly for any ieagth of time, eltbough
u he covered the ground at a good
and steady gait; and as be grew
mpre and more accustomed to the
limb there was only a slight limp to
distinguish him. The use of the stick
he thought best to carry became per-
ethat stickave seen Kerry wben his master carry-
ing
forgotten all about It.
Meeting him now upon the streets,
pscrup-
ulouslyoinly but brushereally
hie linen iwell mmaculate,
atee,
and with bis trimmed red beard, his
eyeglasses, and his soft hat, he con-
veyed the impresison of being a pro-
fessional man -_ say a pleasantly
home and scholarly college profes-
sor. There was a fixed sentiment in
Appleboro that I knew very nuich
more about Mr. Flint's past than I
would tell—which was perfectly true
and he
had seen t betters daysed ; that he that
had
been the black sheep of a good family
gotten into a scrape of some sort,
and had then taken to travelling a
rough road into a far country, eating
husks with the swine, like many an-
other prodigal; and that aware of
this I had kept him with me until he
found himself again.
So when folks met him and Kerry
they smiled and spoke, for we are
friendly people and send no man to a
Coventry without great cause. And a
there wasn't a child, black or white, g
who didn't know and like the man f
with the butterfly net.
The country people for miles a- o
round knew and loved him, too; for t
he walked up and down the earth and
went to and fro in it, full of curious e
and valuable knowledge shared free- 1
ly as the need arose. He would s
glance at your flower -garden, for b
instance, and tell you what insect s
visitors your flowers had, and what t
you should do to check their ravages. g
He'd walk about your outbuildings
and command white -wash, and talk to
about insecticides; and you'd learn S
that bees are partial to blue, but flies
are not; and that mosquitoes seem to th
dislike certain shades of yellow. And th
then he'd leave you to digest it. in
He was a quiet evangelist, a fore- m
runner of that Grand Army, which P
will some day arise, not to murder fu
and maim men, but to conquer man's in
eadliest foe and greatest economic tr injurious insect. bl
It was he who spread the tidings ge
Corn and Poultry and Live Stock to
lubs, stopping by many a lonely cu
arm to whisper a word in the ears co
f discouraged boys, or to drop a lik
int to unenlightened fathers and Ru
others. in
He carried about in his pockets kn
ose invaluable reports and bulle- I I
ns which the government issues for - ne
e benefit and enlightment of farm- hl
s; and these were left, with a word gi
praise, whore they would do the th
oat good. An
Those same bulletins from the Bur- wi
u of Entomology had planted in hi
hn Flint's heart the seed which - he
re such fruit of good citizenship.
e whole course of his early years
d tended to make him suspicious of
vernment, which spelt for him po-
e and prison, the whole grim ma -
brains of it. trained' and p
rte?' It isn't the governme
ult if the stupid and ignorant
Utah thwart that aim, is it?"
He said nothing. But he read
re -read the bulletins I had, and
tor more, which carpe to him p
ly. They didn't know him, at
Bureau; they asked hint no quer
he wasn't going to payanybod
much as a penny. They sun
that the man who asked for
and information was entitled to
they could reasonably sive him.
theof co
That /Fare as a and why her found
self in touch with hL Uncle Sa
source hitherto disliked and tis
ed. This source was glad to put
trained intelligence at his service
the only reward it looked to was
increased capacity to succeed in
work! He simply couldn't dislike
dietru.t that which benefited bi
and as his admiration and respect
the Department of Agriculture
unconsciously his respect and adm
tion for the great government be
it grew likewise. After all, it
his government which Was reach
across intervening miles, conveys
information giving expert instruct
in telling him things he wanted
know and encouraging him to
right on and find out more for b
self!
Now if he had aaked himself w
his government could do for him,
had to answer: "It can help me
make good."
And he began to understand t
this was possible because he obey
the law, and that only in intellig
obedience and co-operation is th
any true freedom. The law no ion
er meant skulking by day and terr
by night; it was protection and pea
and a chance to work in the ope
nd the sympathy and understands
nd comradeshisof decent folks. T
overnment was no longer a bru
orce which arbitrarily popped
nto prison; it was the common w
f a free people, just as the law w
he common conscience.
I dare say that he learned all th
asily, or all at once, or even willin
y. None of ua learns our great lea
ons easily. We have to live the
reathe them, work them out wi
went and tears. That we do lea
hem, even inadequately, makes th
lory and the wonder of man..
And so John Flint went to schoo
the government of the United
totes, and carried its little fax
books about with him and taugh
em to others in even more nee
at he; and heckled hopeless boy
to Corn Clubs; and coaxed suite
others and diasatisfi girls i
oultry and Tomato Cubs; and wa
11 of homely advice pon such liv
g subjects as the spr ying of frui
tees, and how to sa them from
ight and scale-insec , arid how t
t rid of flies, and cut -worms, an
fight the cattle -tick, which is ou
rse; and the preservation of birds
ncerning which he was rabid. Hi
ing for birds began with Miss Sall
th's pigeons and the friendly bird
our garden. And as he learned t
ow them his love for them grew
have seen him daily visit a wren'
st without once alarming the littl
ark -eyed mother. I have heard hi
ve the red -bird's call, and hear
at loveliest of all birds answer him
d I have seen the impudent jays
thin reach of his hand, swear at
m unabashed and unafraid, because
fed a vireo first.
I like to think of his intimate
friendship with the wholesome coun-
try children --not the least of his
blessings. He was their chief visi-
tor front the outside world. He knew
nderful secrets about things one
dn't noticed before, and he could
ke miracles with his quick strong
gers. He'd sit down, his stick and
apsack beside him, his glamorous
g at his feet, and while you and
tr sisters and brothers and friends
inked
nt's
and
and
seat
rompt-
the
tions;
mea
advice
all
and
urea.
him -
trust.
its
and
his
his
or
;
for
grew,
ira-
hind
was
ing
inn
to
go
im-
hat.
he
to
hat
ensu
ere
or
ce,
n,
ng
he
te
m en
ill
as
is
g_
h
rn
t -
t
d
veto
s
a
e
y
0
d
right. It's ygtt good guys that areoroup a glass dark
to blame. We little bad ones see you must the matter rested. And I
kowtowing to the big worse ones, and 'rust a all been
ableity set tet that I
we have Flintever really
to get a what
get to thinking y can come in John really believes he believes.
under the wires easy winners, Coo.
owever, let me tell you something
hile I'm in the, humor to gas. It's
is: sooner or later everybody gets
eirs. My sort and Inglesby's sort,
e all get ours. Duck and twist and
turn and sidestep all we want, at the
d it's right there waiting for us.
th a loaded billy up its sleeve:
urs! Some fine day when we're
oking the other way, thinking we've
en got it on the annual turnout of
e crops up Broadway for class, why,
rs gets up easy on its hind legs,
its on its mitt and hands us ex-
tly what's coming to us, billl and
wake up sitting on our necks in
e middle of day -before -yesterday
d year -after -next. I got mine. If
was you I wouldn't be too cock -sure
at kid don't give Inglesby his, some
these days, good and plenty."
'Maybe so," said 1, cautiously.
'Gee, that'd' be fly -time for 'all
good guys in this tank, wouldn't
" he grinned. "Sure! I can see
now, patting the hump on their
ns where they think the brain-
tch sprouts, and handing out hunks
con to the Lord about his being
ht on his old-time job of swatting
ners in their dinners. Yet they'll
of them go right on leading them-
ves up to be trimmed by the very
t holdup that's got the nerve to
them! Friend, believe a goat when
tells you that you stillwater-and-
enpasture sheep are some bag of
Thank you," said I, with due
eknesh.
Keep the change," said he, una-
hed. "I wasn't moaning you, any-
. I've got more manners, I hope
n to do such. And, parson, you
't need to have cold feet about
ng Mayne. If you ask me, I'd het
limit on him. Why, I think so
ch of that boy that if he was a
ster I'd put the gaffs and my last
a0 on hint, and hack him to whip
rything in feathers clean up to
theaded eagles. Believe me. he'd
it!" he finished, with enthusiasm.
ewildered by a mental picture of
aurence with ruffled neck -feathers
steel spurs, I hurriedly changed
subject to the saner and safer
of our own immediate affairs.
Yep, ten orders in to -day's mail
seven in yesterday's; and good
era for the wasp -moths, single or
ether, and that house in New York
is steady supplies from now on.
here's a fancy shop wants a
07/ trays, like that last one I fin -
'1 We're looking up," said he,
nlacently.
he winter that followed was a try -
one, and the Guest Rooms were
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CHAPTER VII
The Going of Slippy McGee.
Little by little, so quietly as to be
unnoticeable in the working. but with
cumulative effect; built under the
surface like those coral reefs that fin-
ally rear themselves into palm -crown-
ed peaks upon the Pacific, during the
year's slow upward march had John
Flint grown.
Nature had never meant him for a
criminal. The evil conditions that
society saddles upon the slums had
set him wrong because they gave him
no opportunity to he right. Now
even among butterflies there are oc-
casional aberrants, hut they are the
rare exceptions. Give the grub his
natural food, his chance to grow, pro-
tect him from parasites in the mean-
while, and he arill presently become
the normal butterfly. That is the
At a crucial phase in this man's
career his true talisman—a gray
moth—had been put into his hand;
and thereby he came into his right-
ful heritage. 11 4, -
I count as 07IC of my red-letter
(lays that on which I found him
brooding over the little gray -brown
chrysalis of the Papilio Cresphontes,
that splendid swallowtail whose hide-
ous caterpillar we in the South call
the orange puppy, from the fancied
resemblance the hump upon it bears
to the head of a young dog. Its
chrysalis looks so much like a bit of
snapped -off twig that the casual eye
misses it, fastened to a stem by a
girdle of silk or lying among fallen
I w-atched it ooze out of an egg
like a speck of dirty water. I watch-
ed it eat a thousand times its own
weight and grow into the nastiest
wretch that crawls. I saw it stop
eating and spit its stomach out and
shrivel up, and crawl out of its skin
and pull its own head off, and bury
itself alive in a coffin made out of
itself, a coffin like a bit of rottin
wood. Look at it! There it lies,
stone -dead for all a man's eyes ran
"And yet this thing will answer a
call no ears can hear and crawl nut
of its coffin something entirely dif-
ferent from what went into it! I've
seen it with my agm eyes, hut how
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chinery which threatened him and wo
which he in turn threatened. He had ha
feared and hated it, it caught men ma
and shut them up and_ broke them. fin
If he ever asked himself, "What can kn
my government do for me?" he had do
yot
twi
The first thing he had ever found roll
worthy of respect and admiratien in p,c
this same government was one of its dow
you
"Where'd you get this?"
"I asked for it, and the Bureau efUun
s'en"Ot hit!'" You've got a friend there!" too,
out
any one interester enough to ask for you
par
"You mean to say the government stip
gets up things like this—pays men you
to have 'em printed --and then gives nut,
'em away tn anybody? Why, they're at
to find out and write 'cm up—paYs
"Yes; hut they are neverthelhss PO,
qutte free. I have a number, if you
uld like to go over them, Or you
send for new ones."
an
me
iu
long curved tails bordered with lilac
or gold, and vest of ermine; now some
quivering Catocala, with afterwings
spread to show orange and black and
crimson; now the golden -brown lo
with one great black velvet spot; and
now some rarer, .shyer fellow over
which we gloated.
How they flashed and fluttered a-
bout the lantern, or circled about the
trees upon which the feast had been
spread! The big yellow -banded
sphinx whirred hither and thither on
his owl -like wings, his large eyes
glowing like rubies, hung quivering
above some flower for a moment, and
then was off again as swift as
thought. The light drew the great
Regalis, all burnished tawny brown, P'm
striped and spotted with raw gold ; can
and the Cynthia, banded with lilac,
her heavy body tufted with white.
The darkness in villich they moved,
answer: "It can put me in prison
d keep me there; it can even send
to the Chair." Wherefore g-ov-
nment was a thing to hate, to in.
neighbors hung about him like a
ster of tow -headed bees, he'd turn
ew sticks and bits of cloth and
ne and a tack or two, and an old
er-skate whe.el he took out of his
ket, into an air -ship! He could go
n by your little creek and make
a water -wheel, or a windmill. He
111 make you marvelous little men,
ny little women, absurd„ animals,
of corks or peanuLs. He knew,
just exactly the sort of knife
r boy -heart ached for—and at
ting you found that very knife
pod into your enraptured palm.
might save the pennies you earn -
by picking berries and gathering
, but you could never, never find
any store any candy that tasted
the stieks that came out of his
kets, and you needn't hope to try.
He had the inviolable secret of that
candy, and he imparted to it a divine
flavor no other candy ever possessed.
If you were a little doll -less girl, he
didn't leave you with the provoking'
promise that Santa Claus would bring
yon one if you were good. He was
so sure you were good that he made
you right then and there a wonderful
(-loll out of corn -husks, with shredded
hair, and a frock of his own handker-
chief. When he came again you got
another doll—a store doll; but I think
your child -heart clung to t,he corn -
have often wondered how many little
smuggled against John Flint's
cent lireasts cradled thorn; how ninny
horne-rnade dollies; how many inno-
Ho fellow carried his knife to
bed with him, afraid to let it get out
of reach of a hard little hand, be-
etles, he might. wake up in the morn-
ing and find he had only dreamed it!
N.,, hardly think the country child-
ren were the least of ,Tohn Flint's
tilie,sings. They would 111111 to meet
ltini hold on to his hands, drain him
•T and there to show him what.
wonders their sharp eves had diSetw-
cr-o1 j 1'1(.0 his last visit; and give him
‘rifti shining eyes, sorb COCCl/MR and
:;at,irpillars, and insert, as they had
ealled him the Butterfly Man, a name
spread over flut whole country
tide. if yini had asked for John
Flint, folks would have stared. And
if' 1,71 described him—a tall man in
!s:orfolk suit, with a red beard and
red ring, and an insect case;
"But why do they do it? Where's
the graft?" he wondered.
"The graft in this ease in common
the light which for a moment reveal- seri
ed them, seemed to make their colors; run
alive: for they show no such glow and pm
glory in the common day; they pale 0°0
when the moon pales, and when the lmu
sun is up they are merely moths; t ryi
they are no longer the fantastic glit and
tering, gorgeous, throbbing Children
of the Dark.
Home we would go, at an hour
when the morning star blazed like
lighted torch, and the pearl gray sky
was flushing with pink. No haul he
hail ever made could have given him
such joy as the treasures brought
home in dawns like these, so free of
evil that his heart was washed in the
night dew and swept by the night
wind.
My mother, after her pleasant
housewifely fashion, baked a big iced
cake for him on the day he replaced
his clumsy wooden peg with the life-
like artificial limb he himself had
earned Mal paid for. 1 had wished
more than once to hasten this desir-
able day; hut prudently restrained
myself, thinking it best for him to
work forward unaided. It had taken
months of patient work of frugality,
and planning, and counting and sati-
ng, to cover a sum which, once on a
ime, he might have gotten in an
our's evil effort. And it represent -
d no small achievement and marked
n small tidy/ince. so that it was
Tally the feast day we made of it.
hat limb restored him to dignity
e seemed to have abdicated. It hid
is obvious misfortune—you could not
t first glance tell that he was a
ripple, a something of which he had
een morbidly conscious and savage,
se in operation. If farms can be
with less labor and loss and mere
fit anil pleasure. why, the whole,
ntry is benefited, isn't it? Don't
understand, the government is
ng to help those who need helm
therefore is willing to lend them
Take it home to
the kids
Have a packet in
your pocket for an
ever -ready treat.
tin and an aid to
the teeth, appetite,
Sealed in its
Purity Packa
To be eontinned next. week.
All tonnage records of shipping
passing through the Kiel canal will
he broken this year,
.:6ar
CI&
Geo. Liffey
BUYER OF ALL anal' oir
pRoDuat
An kinds of Produce and Live ellia '
Dressed Poultry in any quantity
bought at highest cash prices. De-
livery any day but Saturday.
New Produce Store in the Beattie
Block, in the store formerly MOW.
pied by Mr. A. MeQualg.
George Lilley
PHONE 192.
Hospital for Sick Child=
COLLEGE frr.„ TORONTO.
Dear Mr. Mditor:—
Recent discoveries ist meatus}
science have called attestion to tit*.
great service rendered by an IMNAP.
date hospital through facilities pro-
vided for research. Probably few
laymen appreciate the amount qt -
this work conducted under tbs.
auspices of the Hospital tor Sick
Children. Yet it is only by Intensivw
study of the causes of children's.
diseaees that the hospital staff has '
been able to establish a world-
famous record for cures. Statistics
show that the rate of Infant mortal-
ity in thin Province has been steadily'
decreasing, until It ia now among
the lowest in the world. What that
means is that hundreds of Ontario -
parents owe their children's lives to
the research work in the laboratories
of the Hospital for Sick Children.
Although the doctors give their-
servioes freely, the bills for equip-
ment add up annually to a good
many thousande of dollars. BM in
view of the results attained. I feel'
that not one of your readers will
cavil at the money so npent, and I -
confidently venture the hope that
many of them at this Christnvas sea-
son will wish to enrol themselves in
the Hospital's campaign on behalf or
Ontaricatt childhood.
To carry on this research work
there Is not one cent except what
conies In from voluntary subscrip-
tions. Ft* the care of the children
occupying- hospital cots there are
certain statutory mete, but these
represent scarcely more than half
what the Hospital needs. Last year,.
for instance, the Hospital doctors
looked after an average of 253 in-
patients and 192 out-patlenta daily.
Quite a colony of ailing youngr3terst
And the expenditure — although
whittled down to the minimum com-
menaurate with efficiency — was
$118,917. The income to the extent
of at least $100,000 depends upon
the regard which the people of On-
tario have for the Hospital's work
and the generosity with which they
express that regard.
May I ask you, Mr. Editor. to Point
out to your readers that since :the -
establishment of the Hospital tor
Sick Children, at least four more.
Ontario youngsters in every hundred
have survived the trials of child-
hood!' For with that simple state-
ment of fact brought to their atten-
tion I feel sure that many of them
will bestow their benediction upon
the work ot the Hospital for Sick
Children by sending sorne Christman.
gift, according to their weans. fa
care of the Secretary -Treasurer. at
67 College Street, Toronto.
Faithfully yonrs,
IRVING E. ROBERTSON,
Chairman of Appeal Comm1ttee.
Since the Hospital Opened Its.
Doors In 1875, 65,231 in-Patienta
Treated — 603,055 Attendances et
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