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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-12-21, Page 7• '4F ,,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 4... 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! "Look here, that Mayne kid's deo t t cg h w 0 I aP f b n in S th U He SW CIMINO � rroe Preside a Clea�nnr,Meeltiotioritles YLS �UR ' I4Mau bad Mom "lr limp rear Eves Calash Mar eap soatlito WrItoter liver 2lidseewtorto.0soeve M Mw iWM1 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 th th wi lo ev th Ou sp ac we th an th of the it? pa of rig sih gel nex do he gre me itas bow tha he mu 7711 and ard nrd wan And ing nev who hnn fel toni once mos innu ed the Wes 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 513e f .1 OWEN TO C00014*, epLare AND Min. 00110t• WHEN TIVE•lEp WIT.. THAI' REntEtlY ROBE RITE;.7Apt EXTR ACT OF COO of HIE ho Th ha lie 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 STRATFORD, ONT. Prepares young men and young NVOTIlen for Business which is now Canada's greatest profession. We assist grade - ORA tO position', and they have a practical training which en- ables them to meet with suc- cess. Students are registered each week. Get a free catalogue and learn something about our different departments. D. A. McLACHLAN, JUNK DEALER I will bey all Ibimis of look. Mb* Wed ard Pool. WIll pop good priM sr. A/Pokr Moo 1711.,