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• DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, .
University ,of Western Ontario. Mem-
ber of College of Physicians and
Surge`bns• of• Ontario. ,,Office, 43' Gode-
rich Street, West. Phone 37.
Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay.
DR. W. C. SPROAT
Physician - Surgeon
Phone 90-W. Office John St., Seaforth.'
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DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderich St.,
east" of the .United Church; Seaforth.
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
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• DR. HUGH H. ROSS •
Graduate' of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
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Ontario; passe graduate course in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ;
Royal ' Opthalmie Hospital, London.
England; University Hospital, : Lon -
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to, Faculty of Medicine
Members of College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of
New York Post Graduate School and
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p.M. 58' Waterloo Street, South, S•trat
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• DR. DONALD G. STEER
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario. Mem-
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(Continued from last week)
She rose -and leaned against him.
'Oh Roy, you and I to keep shop te-
ther; you and I -us �lw,o-'and in
dear Carwlck-and •all under the die.
Positions of my ,blessed Mr. Twig.
And every par poor young men and
Women getting" -she dimpled again
-"a shove on from behind with the
lVlelincourt MVIondes."
He pressed her closely- in both
rms; then, lifting a curl whispered
nto her ear:
'Listen, :Samela, the snarriage game.
[.should like to.marry the rich young
man when he had sold all that he
had and given 'ft to the poor." •
In an ecstasy that was beyond
ypeeah Samela clung to' him.
Presently, after a warning little
mock, Mrs. Remembrance came in.
"Oh, how beautiful yen. look!" she
ried in -her gentle voice. "You are
ietrothed!"
Samela rani to her. "Yes, betroth -
d. Give us your .blessing."
"May you love that which is love -
y," she said. She turned to her con -
in, "Roy, there is something else I
'cant to give , to you for you to give
o Sample." In a flash Samela knew.
'Lt will'
'be my • circlet of ,happiness,"
the said, and again she was grave as
u Statue of memory,
Presently she had to go, and in
lie hall Roy took his hat.
"No, Roy, don't come with me, not
o -night. I shall be home in two
:winks, and I've a whole stack of let-
ters ,to answer."
"Give me you- violets," he whds-
ered, 'She shock h.etr head. "No, I
,ouldn't. I want them - fee sonle-
:odry ase." '
"Kiss Me then -a lover's kiss."
* * • * . *
Everything was silent in .the gim-
rack -little villa, when, just before
midnight, the bell began to toll out
the old year. .Samel•a stole down-
stairs in her stockings, . slid 'back the
t'olt and the key, slipped into her
shoes, and was out under the, glitter
-
ng stars running like a ,shaadow up
the Carford Road. Soon, climbing 'a
fence, she was 'in the field giving. on
the eemletery, and, 'climbing again,
she dropped down close to the little
plot of turned -up ground under which
ldr. Twig was lying: In the silent
grave no conversation, no '•voice of
lovers, nothing's heard -and 'she had
this to tell. O'h somewhere,, some-
how, It must get through. She knelt
down and laid the violets of tier be-.
trethal .night at the head .of the little
raised mound, ' then, stooping still
more, she kissed the frozen soil.
Midnight struck, and the doleful
boom of a single bell changed to a
six's merry clanging. Samela -stood
listening. Mr. Twig was 'safe ,with
the old years., immortal in her 'love
and memory and herheart's thanks.
The new year was hers and Roy's,
and it would be always for them. the
year of years -•the year when they
set out for Lyonesse with magic in
their eyes:
The next evening, when Isabel' was
covering a large piece of foolscap pa-
ter with her perfect calignapihy, and
Mr. Mallassy was reading again The
Life of Dr. Dale; and his wife was
putting a wheel of a patch into his
pants, Samela announced,. very gent-
ly, that she was going to be married.
Tuscan gave effect to. the announce-
ment 'by,gettin'gAup-from"'the fire and
stretching 'him -self in a •comfortable
gesture which insinuated that the
news would make little difference to
his own particular set of circum-
DR, .1. A.. McTAGGART
Graduate Royal College, of Dental
Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Hensall,
Ont. Phone 106. '
• AUCTIONEERS
stances.
"Married, my dear?" said Mr. Mal-
lassy.
"Married!" Isabel echoed, and that
strange sensation which had first ov-
erwhelmed her when Saniela told of
her rejection of a rich young suitor
again went pulsing up and, down her
spine. Without even raising her head,
Mrs. Mallassy put another herring-
bone stitch into her patch and,' With
a pin in her mouth, ' asked -''if' -they
'were to bo told the ' young man's
name.
"Take that pin out of your mouth,
Mother," Isabel owed. "Why don't
you cure yourself of such a dangerous
habit?. And like a sempstress!"
H there was a phrase that should
n,ot 'be used in the presence of a
Headmistress", it was surely the phrase
used by Mrs. Mallassy. "Mind your.,
own p'e and q's, my -dear."
"It's Mr. Melincourt-Roy," said
Samela.
"My child!" cried Mr. Mallassy, and
his face was as a dry place on which
a fountain has splashed: and the sun
sparkled. "Mr, .Melincourt! Then
this sad event of Mr. Twig's death has
given you back your senses?"
Samela shook her head. "Perhraps
you won't think so', Father. Roy is
coming into my.business; we are go-
ing to share it together. •We shall
have to work very hard and live very
carefully; Hoy is, relinquisuing,,:_his
father's fortune, every penn-of
"Rut that is madness!" Mr. Mal
gassy cried, "immoral madness. It
Must not be permitted.
Samela smiled. "Of course in is
madness. 'But not immoral: Mad-
ness is either grave or merry. .This
is nerr3 'madness, and it is makingus
both very haptpy', Father."
"If you have induced Mr, Meldn-
court to do this, Samela, you are .a
..very wicked' girl."
"I don't think 1 have. But even if
t
had, it can't be wicked to convert a
;eating man from idleness to indus-
try."
"No one can lie idle' who possesses
-wealth-. It is an industry in itself."
'"it didn't seem to make Roy very
industiii'ous, it, may Americans, but
rot Englishmen," said Saniela. "I be-
lieve Ainertcans ge on working What-
ever their pile, but rich Engiisth run
themselves into sheep and follow the
bell -wether through a!t :ivlte" kiC?dg'es:
to the 'iutver}a; tiietx . +high the Lon-
HAROLD DALE
Licensed Auctioneer
Specialist in farm" and -household
.- sales. Prides reasonable. For (Tides
ondlflformation, write dr phone Har-
old male,... Phtifie 140, SetifO'rth, or
SOON at The Ertiiotiitor Ogled.
lax
r,•r,'', ''-''&'
don' . season; then 'to ''..the .Isle' of
Wight; then to the et:tres ; 'then to
Scotland, with all the race meetings
in between. I decline to call that in
diustry, Father. IP Roy has been sav-
ed from that footling. little • way 'of
living -well I think he should rub hie
traaser, knees into 'holes with thank-
ing God for his escape."
"You Speak as a wild -"woman speak-
eth; Samela," said Mr. •M'allassy in: his
Sunday. voice, "Isabel, I think you
are the, person to talk to Mr. Melin-
court. You will know how 'to meet
gamete's wildness; with which I am
afraid she has infected him, with your
own wisdom."
Mrs. Mallassy, having finished her
patch-, held the pants up to the, gas-
light to look for more thin places. She
still had a pin in her mouth. "I
wouldn't lay a bad sixpence on Isar
bel'•s chances," she hazarded.
"Please, Mother, spare us the lan-
guage of the stable," said Isabel with
a ' 'orucifled expression. Then she
looked. at Samela. This contamina-
tion of their mother was her doing,
her final deed of darkness.
"What does Mr. Melincourt propose
to •do -'with his money?" asked Mr.
Mallassy 'presently.
"To turn It into an endowment.
Perhaps a tiny slice of it will send
another Isabel to Oxford,"
"Kindly leave my name qut of the
discussion, Samela, please," said Isa-
bel very peremptorily.
"But your 'case is very a propos,"
Samela insisted. "Where would you
have been without Sir John Mill? It
isn't pleasant to meet Sir John, we're
under such a laying -flat obligation to
him The Melincourt Monies will be
ouite imper s'onal. No' one who profits
by them will ever 'meet Roy. Meet-
ing ''a benefactor is too big a strain
to lay 'upon anybody:"
,"You're right, •Samela,:' sail her
mother. ' "It takes all the strength
out of .your muscles •and sends you
into a cold sweat."
"Mother!" Isabel cried 'mere deep-
ly crucified. But by now Mrs. Mal-
lassy had got far beyond turning. She
was learning the joys of •attack. ,
'"Every time Sir John' Mill says to
Me 'And how is the Headmistress of
the 13eadford High School Poi -Girls?'
I wish, Isabel, that you were in a
draper's shop. Sir John wouldn't
have to put his hand in his pocket to
send you there." She held up the
pants again. "How you do rub; Sam-
uel," she added..
Both Isabel and her father were in
a shocked condition that was beyond
speech; while Samela felthat the op-
pressed atmosphere wend lift the
roof of the gimcrack little villa.
"Oh dear!" she said at last.
"What is the 'matter now?" Psabel
inquired acidly.
"I said 'Oh dear' because we all
seem to be, sitting in such a mudldle.
It's like poor old Mr: Knib putting his
peppermints in with his pear drops."
Isabel curled her lip at the homely
metaphor. "Tire muddles in our lives,
'Samela, have all been caused by you
-and now you have enlisted mother
as a disciple to your perverted creeds.
"Ideas," said Mr. Mallassy-,. He de-
tested the word creeds.
"Well 'ideas,'" said Isabel, and
smiled at her father. He smiled too.
Their relationship at least was unini-
paired. Samela herself smiled at the
smile. It made the atmosphere less
heavy.
"When Sir Joshua Reynolds found
things were going wrong," she said,
"he used' to say Michael. Angelo or
Van Dyck and it eased him at once.
You .think of a beautiful name, 'Isa-
bel."
"That is pure self-delusion, Samela,
of the false and silly nature of •sug-
gestion-"
"Oh no it isn't, at least let's try
it. You say a name, Father."
"The Lord Jesus Christ," replied
Mr. Mallassy promptly. Samela wait-
ed, but in the silence the air only
-grew, heavier. Mr. Mallassy •took up
.'pr: Dale again, but only to lay it
down. Temporal 'mutters were tco
importunate.
"Who will arrange all these en-
dowments for you if you persist in
them?" he asked
"Why," cried Samela„ -beaming all
over her face, "I never thought •of
hem. Of course he will help us; I
will write to -morrow, to Sir .Matthew
'Thomas." She smpothed out Lady
Mill's nun's veiling nightgown - the
last she would ever make for her as
more serious things than nightgowns
were now awaiting her attention -and
stood up. Her father looked at her
with frank astonishment. She spoke
of one of England's greatest K.C.'s
exactly the same tone as that she us-
ed for Mr. Knib.
"And now where are you going
to?"
"Now, Father, I • am going to Roy-
and
oyand love,"
She kissed, her Mother, and picking
up Tuscan, rubbed •the white patch
under his chin with the massaging
touch. that sent him into an ecstasy.
Then she looked at her Father and
Isabel, 'hesitated, sighed, and went
out without a word No blue bow
had been wreathed round her be-
trothal in her family circle.
Isobel returned to her sheet of fool-
scap paper and wrote with apparent-
ly her usual air et diligence and
perspicuity. She did ndt know herself
that she was making her compact
columns of the single ...,.word time-
table.
bars. fr•eseldlY they caing rolnling
up • the.suntkezl"'stairs, overmatching in.,
their ecstasy even the birds.
"�ilell,"
.said Sir 'Mattlhew, taking
Samela's two hands ane' smiling into,
the violet eyes that tiashed back to
him an enchanting smile, "well -
here's a story, for the newspapers."
- "The newspapers!" Saflsele echoed.
"I suppose you've never thought of
the -newspapers?"
"Never," said Samela very emmplhat-
ically, as Roy took off her coat. -
"Well, It wonft take them very long
to think.of you." Sir. Matthew looked
at Roy... No, lie would not have very
much to offer that day in the have,
of
conversation. He,, very, clearly, was
at that • moment, that' intoxicating
moment, of a young man's- life when
he is beyond speech,
"Where will you sit?" Sir Matthew
asked.
"Oh, one can't sit in this -beautiful
room," Samela- replied "Kneeling is
the only attitude." She knelt on the
.superb tiger -skin before the fire, and
looked with all her eyes at Sir Mat:
thew's household gods... , ')lea she put
her hands together, playing at the
devotee in silent adoration.
"Stars and Garters," cried Sir Mat-
thew. "What a ring you are wear-
ing! That must have rifled the Mel-
inoount Monies."
Samela unclasped her fingers, and
in the glint of liquid spring sunlight
that seized upon her cirdlet the mind
of the diamond flashed into the soul
of the sapphire and on to th'e heart
of the• emerald. She shook her head,
"Not a farthing." she said. "Oh, Sir
Matthew, this ring .has such a beauti-
ful story." She turned it mune an
her narrow finger. "It was once as
ugly as lust, and i.t is now a's lovely
RS' love. It was' 'bought in corrup-
tion-"
"And it is worn in interruption,'"
he 'ended quizzically:'
"So long," she quizzed in her turn,'
"that it doesn't come, to close • quar-
ters with you." She got up and car-
ried• her jewelled finger to him for in-
spection. He put on this glasses.
"A very lovely jewel," patting her.
hand. "Ands what a charming frock!"
•"She doss look sweet, doesn't she?"
said R,oy.
"Roy looks rather a darling, too,
doesn't he?" said Samela quickly;
"Not at all a bad pair' to face the
camera," Sir. Matthew conceded.
"The camera!" Samela echoed, ,
"All the cameras of England: Only
.the completest Miss Inivbcent would
have forgotten them. A handsome
young man renounces his own wealth
and the world's wickedness not to en-
ter a.m'onastery but to near:»y a bed"
teous maiden and set'upi"w~ith her in
a famous inherited serefjnipity shop,
and you think the tale .,pf high ro-
mance will escape the newspaper
men."
"They wouldn't come to little Car -
wick," said Samela shaking her curls.
"Wouldn't they? The hero of a set
of circumstances not half so romantic
as these went down not very long ago
to a smaller place than Carwick, and,
woke in the morning to And levies' of
them at his front door. He stole out
to a sort of outhouse in the garden,
not a pleasant place at all, and though
nobody saw him go, prowling about
with their noses to the ground the
newspaper men smelt his footsteps as
a dog a rabbit, and tracked him down
and besieged his strongli'old. His suf-
ferings were awful and when, at last,
he had to come out and face the mus-
ic ho didn't make a pretty'photograph
at all." Samela blanched. "But w't
won't let it spoil lunch," said Sir
Matthew, regretting, when he saw her
white face, the purple tones of his
picture.
"I shall set- Mrs. Crane on them,"
said Samela after a moment's thought.
"She's a charwoman with a scrubbing
tongue. Yes, weal lock the door and
arrange Mrs. Crane on the step. She
will -give them- what she, calls bully
beef."
"Perhaps that will be ample pro-
tection," Sir Matthew reasurred her.
"Let me take yowin nicely to lunch."
"Oh, Sir Matthew," 'Samela paused
and looked down the 'staircase, "what
a superb cat!"
"The Temple is full of cats," he
told her. "You must know that."
"I'd forgotten them. They are the
complete Justification of the 'Law."
CHAPTER XVIII
The Temple Gardens, were all Jerk-
ed and dimpled with crocuses, sand the
birds were having their Bret practices
of the s'eseetre-and realizing what a
deficiency there was its their tech-
nique though their emotion was a
well bri.mmmdng over --'when, Sir Mat-
the`u .waited his two 'Visit'ors at the
bea'ttifti'l old oak door of ales chain -
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a,'her,�'2r�'1 -• 9
fiRo?� ranch �'r, lai4 $ir i$i%!i
'r 1 sA44 you a P.h#�.tl ,gr'
z miea4e--'raves tt4iwc ter -Oaf
f,;bout tlae' price', •
?Vd
1" P,
•'It sounds like tailing it to the t a>
Turd inl PrayRr,." salol .Sr •M ,+ iherw inF, ,.,f lear}R,ni
a
-+tnnTr rn 7
pas quizzing way, who merely rasceta$
'ti1To one, remenptberdng HiI *Prey, `t ,pars i Adif94 0
wquld•nceuse You of taking yow 'bills :ferfabie� lay ,bil+i.?_•
to that` • quarter for Consideration,' thein~flown his nos
quizzed Samela in her turn.. • ;dowed'ra,i 4t sada! tie t�e
"Deuce!" said Sir Matthew with a.'po>l of great, assistane,,
satirical little 'bow. ."Rat :now we help T can give -Pa 'tlfo v alo
7YUn�t P tO"11U817i6 1 owty'ofl, l �1 .Ciild;ren. i8 dour d4ilw. 1"1P'Al+e'Po't�1
there are enough chairs' nd founds t r m, trio a 7'
a Li.Ad. .o � awn 13a ... , ��r r ae�`, f .,
tions and medele and prizes and en. Ilounid tine i,► eautifu,t.OhanglliePs hunF
dowsraents and rewards of every kind for a McMent the ataners0ere of hene-
aiready?" dictiont
"There are certaiu'ly"sufficient. av- Sir Matthew walked with thailn to
ensues, along which the rich clan get the *teanple'Station, and, when he'had
richer." Samela replied, "but 'not near- said good-bye took a turn, with hinu'a
ly enough of those along 'which -the
poor can get merely comfortable. Can
you seriously supp4ise, Sir Matthew,
that all the right men are going to
Oxford, or that a11' the right 'people
are getting their books .published, or
their desiggis •accepted, or their plays
acted, or •their sermons listened to,
or their experiments worked out?
Looking round, I think we're . very
much a nation of little round pegs
•slithering about in big square holes."
Wtro are the right people?" Sir
Matthew asked:
"I'm dreadfully afraid I'm lunching
with ;one of them; you, Sir Matthew,
with' your glory and your emoluments
and your prestige and your •tradition
express, pressed down and running
over, what the English understand by
the right person -just as Roy, when
he is helping -me to keep Mr. Twig's
shop, will be wrong from his`head to
his toes. You express it very beau-
tifully." Sir Matthew bowed again.
"Everybody expresses it beautifully
who -is expensive. The English adore
expensiveness. In our national scale
of worth what chance has a poor, but
very saintly, Baptist Minister against
a rich rogue? There are comrplacent.
people who say genius always get
through, that even talent invariably
gets its head above water. Do you
honestly believe that you would have
been where you are, Sir Matthew, if
your father had kept a stall in .a mar-
ket? If you do believe it we can call
'Pippa in at' once, and not only ask
her for her song but applaud it. All
is •right With the world when a mar-
ket -stall boy is thrown a rope long
enough to make him Archbishop of
Canterbury or a. stunning KC."
"Family isn't what' it was," said Sir
Matthew.
"But isn't it staggering to think.
what it has been?" .S,ariela asked.
"When I. read social faltily history I
turn quite faint. Remeni.b,sr the ges-
ture of that Duke of -Hamiltoti who
built a huge mausoleum and brought
to it the' dust of his ancestors. 'What
a sight it will be on the Day of
Judgment when eleven Dunes of
Hamilton rise together from the tomb!
That Day of Judgment, Sir Matthew,
isn't it amusing? , The great God ask-
ing, rather sharply 'What's that little
row of people over there all by them-
re'ves?' and St. Peter peering along
v•ith his big black eyes and answer-
s 'O,!i those are the English
:sings.' "
"And what do you suppose He'lldo
about them?' said' Sir Matthew.
"He ' can't do anything. His hands
are• tied -tied so beautifully, so di-
vinely, in the knot that the First shall
be Last and the Last First."
"But you are going to make First
with these Melincourt Monies," Sir
Matthew parried.
"We are going to make a difference
between Firsts and Firsts" off their
own bat," Samela parried in her turn.
"Firsts off your bat, my dear young
lady."
"Oh, Sir Matthew, that's not right
at all. Firsts off' their own bat and
the Melincourt of Madame Du Def-
i'and-'Mr. Twig was always quoting
it -II n'y a que le premier pas qui
route ---costs money in this case, but
she' said it of the poor saint who
started off on this long journey carry-
ing his 'own head,"
"It will be a big business," said
Sir Matthew, laughing at the 'sad pie-
ture-'.'the • constitution of a Trust,
wiith national trustees, and. machinery
by which their successors are elected
and judges for ail the weird pictures
and the .dishevelled plays and -the S't.
Vitus's dance ,novels which prizes al-
ways, .invite. Do' you intend more
scholarships to the Universities? A
thousand pounds for a university car-
eer commends itself to me far more
than a thousand pounds for a baroque
shop front or a futurist sideboard
that has its legs in the air. And of
course you are manufacturing critics,
andtwI have great sympathy with the
definition of he turned critic, like all
weak men who do not fulfil their
early promise.'"
The definition brought out Samela's
dimples.- "That's very encouraging,"
she .beamed. "Because, as we have
very few critics of any sort, it should
follow that we are a nation of strong
men who have fulfilled themselves."
"Which, as Euclid says, is absurd,
Sir Matthew ended.
"The question of the critics, the
judges, is very,important, isn't it,
Roy? Not like by like is the golden
rule, The novelist mustn't be judged
by novelists, or the picture by art-
ists, just as if women are to be criti-
cised properly it can't be done by
other women but by men."
"'And men by women?" Sir Matthew
asked.
Samela nodded. "I think it is the
misfortune of men that women haven't
done enough •of it Men have said
everything about women, and ,women
nothing at all about men." ti•,,
"Suppose you rectify the omission,'
Sir 'Matth'ew teased.
"I'll consider it,'-" Samela
"Already the title occurs
That's What 'You Are."
The profits from that venture would
r think,' worry you, my Puritan lady..71
In the little panelled dining room
Samela drew cap a fourth Chippendale
chair to the table. "Mr. Twig is sit-
ting there," she said. "He would
have approved of your chambers, Sir
'Matthew." ,
"He did."
"He did?" ,Samela repeated. "Hess
he been here, then?"
"Twice -to sketch out the boundar-
ies of this Kingdom of Utopia."
"Did you know that, Roy?" He
shook his head. "I am sure," ' said
Samela, "that at this present moment
Mr. Twig is manoeuvring places for
us in Heaven --getting St. Theresa's
place for me, and St. Francis's for
,you, Roy, and seeing that, the. seat
Satan sat on before he was rude and
had to go is awaiting. your occupation,
Sir Matthew." .. •
"I could rdo with a little piece in
*at corner," 'said Sir Matthew look-
ing round his Chamber a'<1th a smile
roused by the saucines `6f her sug-
gestion, "got anything?"
Samela considered. "I've a perfect-
ly exquisite..little Powdering stand,'
she said, "belonging genuinely to the
'lays when 'the gallants 'slid ashe and
powder their pereraniums all the
year long,' and complete with puff -
'box in the, middle, bawl Eft the top
and ewer at the bottom. Gb, it's a
little beauty."
"How much?"
"It's rather . ex'pensive, . 'Sir 1VIat-
901' acre
yielld
fodd;' and 'total'
will lh
most unwonted ,occurrence, round the 'aortas to be in the' to ge
gardens., , He had been night. All
through the interview Ray lead hard-
ly spoken. Be.had merely hung upon
his 'love. • Before the sum and sum-
mit of human ha4ippiness in a 'delicious
marriage even, the golden crocuses
lost "their loveliness. Samela had
quoted Madame Du Deffand apd back
in his chambers Sir Matthew took
down Voltaire's tribute to her. Ha
found it in..a,. moment, for Sir Mat-
thew knew his, Voltaire better even
than Samela her beloved Marquise.
"Qui vous volt et qui vous entend
Perd bientot sa philosophies;
' Et tout sage avec Du Deffand
\"audrait en fou passer sa vie."
He felt that the lines could be ad-
dressed to Samela herself. With eyes
to look at' his wife and ears"to listen
to her, Sir Matthew had no fears that
_Roy, stripped -even of his fortune,
would ever find 'himself stumbling ov=
er a devastating remorse. What an
educationist Mr. Twig had proved him-
self! To him only life mattered, and
he had regarded literature as nothing
else than: the history of life, and on
such a history he had brought his
pupil up.
Sir Matthew closed his Voltaire,;
Are our schools, he wondered, using
all the wrong books!
(Continued Next Week)
arm Notes
Boys' 'inter -Club Contests
The. advance of club work in On-
tario was evidenced at the Ontario
Agricultural College on Friday, Oct..
23, when 118 teams of two boys eaoh
represented a similar number;' of agri-
cultural clubs in keenly contested
judging competitions' and oral exam-
inations. s
,
These boys represented clubs in
the following projects: Dairy Cattle,
Beef Cattle, Swine, Foal, Grain and
Potatoes. The competitions, consist
of submitting the contestant to test's
of their ability in judging classes and
answering questions pertaining• to
their year's work.
The winning clubs in Dairy Cattle,
Beef Cattle,, Grain and Potatoes will
represent Ontario in the Dominion
contest sponsored by the Canadian
Council on Boys' and Girls' Club Work
at the Royal Winter Fair.
Clubs Organized in 1936
No. of Member -
Calf Clubs
Swine Clubs
Foal 'Clubs
Poultry Clubs
Grain Clubs
Potato Clubs
Boys' Home Garden
Clubs 18 271 •
Girls' Home Garden
azd Canning Clubs 56 77S
Girls' Home Making
Clubs 237. 1484
Lloyd Metcalf of Bowmanville and
Wesley Werry of Hampton,' of 'the
Dunham County Calf Club, were suc-
cessful in securing the highest score
in competition. with 29 other clubs.
Second place ,was taken by Grant
Heslop of Freeman. and Clarence
Kingston!' Palermo, of Halton Coun-
ty, in Wk.Dairy Calf project.
The Ilderton Calf Club of Middle-
sex County represented by Duncan
Fletcher, Ilderton, and George F.
Robson, Denfield, and closely follow-
ed by Alfred AlIin, Bowmanville, and
Howard Millson, Enniskillen, of Dur-
ham, County, were the two successful:
teams in a competition of 15 clubs in
the Beef Cattle Club project.
The teams from the Sinlcoe .Junior
Swine Club and the South Ontario
Swine Club composed of the follow-
ing members, placed first and second
respectively in the Swine project -
Victor Small, Stroud and Edward
French, Waverley, of Siincoe-W. A.
Gray, Locust Hill, and D. Ross Will-
son, Locust Hill, Ontario County.
The introduction of Foal Clubs in-
to the competition proved a very m-
iller 'contest and thirty teams cora-
peted% The Dufferin ,Foal Club re-
presented by Glen Ledlow, Orange-
ville, and George Reid, Orangeville,
won first place and Jack Whittington,
South Monaghan, ' and Fred Brown,
Millbrook, of , the Millbrook Foal Club,
of Durham "County, won second.
The Grain Club competition was
keenly contested, with the Durham
County team winning over the 'Peter-
borough White Winter Wheat Club by
the narrow margin of two points,. The
members of the winning team from
Durham County were 'Mac Walker, of
tampbellcroft„ and Carl Nichol, Port
Hope, and of the second team -Jas.
Moore, of Peterborough„ and Eric
Douglas, of Peterborough.
The Potato Club team of Alliston,
South Simcoe, composed of Arthtih
Ranting, of Alliston, and Frank Gif-
fen, Creemor'e, will represent Ontario
in the Dominion finals. The second
place was secured by Lloyd Cum-
ming of Barrie and Gilbert Baldwick,
Barrie, in North Simcoe District.'
During the day and evening, the
contestants were addressed by the
Bion. Duncan Marshall, Ontario Min-
ister of Agriculture, and Dr. G. 1.
Christie, President • of the Ontario
Agricultural College, Guelph.
To the winning teams, sliver troph-
lee were 'presented by "The Farmer,"
an be a cr t c at all?"
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thew. Mr. Twig didn't like the ,price "Oh•, Sir Matthew, I said 'immense-
serious.'
Current Trop Report'
he paid for it a bit, and lie was very' ly serious.' Thinit .of the Monies as The October erop report gives a re-
and ofthe Wee thing; It, will be. a fetters 'off cruel eit'ctinntsta:nce,", view of conditions in Ontatlo "as' coiit-
f g
Sir
of ul r 'or-
,d
a large staff re a a
ile by5
r Matthew .Put hando sg
.-1 hison It ph
i py
grief to sell ' It at• all, testis anything
promised
to me-
Clubs ship
63 1093
6 89 ..
41 710
6 111
45 • 795
30 546
In years at' the ' eommenoi
Ault. and again at .the
temiber, have improved treaelli
.and are now:in ziorrmal to:;abpv .,
?nal condition throughout Most once
province. Farmers increas8,; "�
acreage of fall wheat this sasses`
fields have an exceljenh• appeaa;gpe,
A large acreage of mew "seediaug
hay and clover was so badly ani
by the' drought in Central an
ern Ontario . that it was ploughe,
and the remaining acreage in' thin
tion,. although greatly ' her efitt'
recent rains, is very spotty 'and CQ2
siderably below . average in appear
anee. In Eastern Ontario the aa.,
age; of n�iw seeding&. is about nolle " 1'
and with plenty of rainfall' all season',
stands are in good" . shape.Fail
ploughing has been done under Pair- < '
ourable conditions there. '
The Ontario Horse Breeders' A�ssoCia-
tion, Ontario. Field Crope and Seed
Growers' Association and', Mr. J- T
Casein. -
lie
fe
ler
'wt
Samela took the lapel of his coat.
"Sir Matthew, please be immensely
serious for a minute. You are not
really a critic of the Melincourt Mon-
ies, are yon?"
"As I amt not a weak man who has
rot fulfilled his .early promise how
c i i{ li?"
Soil Testing "Service Given
At Guelph Winter Fair
Through the courtesy of the Oa-
tario Agricultural College; farmers
mray. bring samples of their soils to
the Guelph Winter Fair this year, and
have them -tested free of charge. . A
knowledge of the lime, 'phosphorous
and 'potash requirements of their soil
will enable the farmers . to purchase
their fertilizer requirements on" a
more sensible and economical basis.
This is only one of several fea-
tures of the seed department at the*
Provincial Winter Fair whigh. ;well
make it of unusual interet to "farm•.
er visitors: The College will also"
have an attraction educational exhib-
it which will include a display of
some of the newer and more-
promis-ing varieties of grain, such as the
Erban Oat and the Nobarb Barley,
With the co-operation of the On-
tario Corn Growers' Association a
special '"display of commercial and
seed grades of cern will be featured,
as well as information• as to varieties,
culture and uses of this' important
crop.
96te 91)
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South
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensall
Exeter
North
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Exeter
Hensall
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton ..
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingham
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P -M. •
1.55
2.11
2.23
2.30
3.0$
3.27
3:'35
3.41"
3.55
A.M.
10.42
10.55
11.01
11.09
11.54
12.10,
12.19
12,313
12.34 '
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
East
A.M. P.M.
Goderich 6.40 2.30
Clinton . "" 7.03 3.00
Seaforth 7.17 3.16
Dublin 7.28 3.29
Mitchell 7.37 3.41
West
,Mitchell
Dublin
Seaforth
Clinton
Goderich
11.19
11.27.
11.43
12.12
12.22
9.33
9.41
9.54
10.08
'10.34
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
East
P.M.
Gederich , . ' 4.20
Menset 4.24
McGaw 4.33
Auburn 4.42 ..
Blyth • 4.G2
Walton 5.0'5 --
McNaught 6.15,
Toronto 9:001'
West
-1 A.M,
Toronto ... $
McNaught I. 30 3G ,t,
Walton , • •, Jn'�oh .,:,a?,
Blyth
Auturn u- 1
T4bGow .... ,
Menset
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