The Signal, 1912-12-12, Page 6• Tommast. Dzontssa n. 1Stl
THE SIGNAL : GODERICH' ONTARIO
11) aliY e T nuA
int by Amsrlean Plies emssbtlse.
NI, two, three, four, Are, six.
seveu." Kathryn counted
twice on her slim brown en
gats. acrd each time she **b-
ed • doleful sigh. "Seem unlooked
for guests coming to eat Christmas
dinner with aa and not a sign of any
Christmas dinner or of the wherewith -
a1 to procure It. There isn't a thing
but bacon and potatoes and turnips in
the hoose unless' it L an onion or two."
"You forget the quash. Kathryn."
mildly interposed her brother Tom,
with mock serious visage and dancing
Ufa
Kathryn, fresh fron4 boarding school,
bad attempted an elaborate and ultra -
scientific garden the summer before
with tangible results In the form of •
single well grown squash, drought, UI
management and various pest. having
played havoc with the other things.
Kathryn's dreams of a tidy Income
from the sale of treeb vegetables and
of a possible prise at the fall Lair van-
ished Into thin air. But the squash
was teuderly borne to the cellar by
Tom and nrrfuly guarded as a me-
mento of Kn.'iri'•Ye brave it futile at-
tempt to sieve , the evil day when
the dreaded mortgn 'e, like n dark bird
of prey, should swoop down and carry
off the little home.
Kathryu war t•ou,idered a very elev.
er girl at boarding acbool and by all
her legluu friends at horn.. She could
paint strange birus that a naturalist
would have beeu et a lose to ctasstfy
end flowers uuknoss u to the science of
botany, do fancy sewing and nwrveluur
embroidery, and write charming verse.
though, alas, the editors were surpris-
ingly obtuse to the latter fact! Be-
sides which she was able to talk vol
ubly !t) I•Yeucb and coald rattle off
D ome lively two steps and schottisches
on tbe piano -12 she had possessed such
an tustruweot
But none of these accomplishments
were exchangeable for COLD ut the
realm In the little country village on
the outskirts of which they lived, and
as they bad only Tom's meager salary
as a grocer's clerk to fall bark on, It
soon came to pass that shabby gar-
ments and the plainest of plain tare
were the order of the day, in their
tc,usehold. Kathryn's angers itched
to help her brotber bear the burden
of support. She longed to add her mite
to the family lm••ome, but as yet had
not struck her "nlrbe." She did not
know quite enough to teach, and there
was no vacancy In either of the two
village dry goons stores.
On this Christmas eve there was lees
than a dollar in the house, and be-
sides herself, her mother and Tum,
they had received notice that seven
guests would be with them for the
Christmas holiday -distant relatives,
wbo had standing Invitations to"come
up to our house for Christmas some-
time." and who by a coincidence bad
chosen the same date to accept the in-
vitation. There was Aunt Mettle and
her twin boys, Cousin Wilbur and his
n ew wife, Auut due and Uncle Hiram
-quite a tableful at any time. and cer-
tainly an enormous crowd to be provid-
ed with Christmas dainties with a fund
at lees than a dollar.
It began to look aa if they must
break their rigid rule never tea 'go in
debt. even for the necessaries of I11*,
and ask the village grocer to trust
them, a very bdmillating alternative.
After Tom's brilliant remark. which
abs had been expected to take as a
K. eels QiAMSIT. a.QtiST. sad DEVI T HONG
Def, psee tree leer --nab/ Too dotal eves
s ro:•ae1 KIND et del\ fear good..,. assn.,
.t -.a.1111161•11.•• teW
r.. ere ressL. .
Sire the I.e. Cater Geed, Nosey eo..sM...d
a est« ac•t•. rondo. of Drat... •..• .tsr
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LSRYS
s :•Nasal Sires
t' ' • •
rarely humorous hit, Kathryn gaged
at him admiringly for a monism
"You think you're funny, Tom
Wrennet, but you're not," she told
bltn. "Squ•ah pie will be a grateful
addition to our boiled potatoes and
turnips and oolong and other Christ-
mas dainties. Surely no one ran say
that I blistered my Angers and freck-
led my nose In vale over that ger-
man.
rbas, slit.. :y oue and lonely product
Is to feed the Christmas guest"
"Never mind, rhlldren," broke in
their mother, laying down the letter
that had just curve Nom Aunt Mot-
tle. attnouncIng the arrival on the
mor, ,ng train of ber•elf and her twits
boyo. "we can et least do our beat to
make our guests feel at home and try
to enjoy their visit It is hard not to
he able to entertain tbem as tbey have
...in the pant. but what can't be cured,
uti know, moat be endmsd"
"Mother's a briekr exclaimed impar
sive Torn. "Aad I move that we ten
der her s rote of thanks for her little
Cbrlatmas apeecR" Wberenpon be
gave her a rousing kiss and a bear
bug and went out into the yard ace
d own Into the cellar atter the squash
When be rime up from the depths or
the dark/mots cellar to where Kathryn
stood expectantly waiting, be dropped
limply no to an opturoed box neer by
anti fanned blmaelf weakly with bla
Md hat. He opened his moots twke
in is rain and apparently desperate at
tempt to streak and thew subsided Into
Pilfers
"Toon W ren tiet" demanded ells Me-
ter.
eeter. giving him an Iapattest shake.
'
drip yteir Denson.• aad speat what's
the matter?'
-Ire-tee gseer gasper TOM. gaits
as 11 •1r bad bean a dlaseu4 sort
bra instead et • warty and Mabel•
vegeta hie.
'Gamer .ebbed bb cheer Mertede-
iammty "Who womb viral s •tees.?
Legit the tamers aad same with me
M b seer womb wars N oath OM
mow MOD -lays W OftegittV ilM0
�
Mat Ti. was these years Mr =der.
Ti. elbetllaaty° procured the Mebarni
ifrea the woodshed, and together the/
expleeed the abler. the had tenet •
let et time then when shebed gest
returned frets homilies wheel OWN
sheet with the vale hope et lessee,
gra.dtather 'Car's mosey. de bad
cease to make W hose wtth them a
few Warne peseta.+ to Ms death from
MI age oats the year before, aad once
they bad caught blas playing with a
heedful of gold pieces as • child would
amuse Melt with a let of pebbles. Se
bed quickly blddee them trots right.
.bwever. with Ma nervous. Mallet
begs aad though be sometimes bab-
bled of his "treasure" and W nee,
tune" ao one ever saw them agate.
Ooh Kathrya had surprised bit
coming out of the cellar with a shovel
la his Mad, the damp earth stuff cling-
ing to It, and be had slipped away
guiltily. After his death she remem-
bered the tocident and sormlaed that
he had buried bis money in there for
safe keeping. It meld not be mach.
of coorse. not more than =100 or so,
bat that would be a fortune to them
in their present Wakened circum-
stances, and .be felt It no wrong to
the dead man, wbo had been but little
more than a child, to unearth the mon-
ey and put It to good use, for It did no
one any good in Its hiding place.
But months of vain searching had
dispelled the hope of ever finding tt,
If It had been concealed there, and
now she gazed a little disdainfully at
the deep boles and beeps of dirt which
marked her former efforts. Suddenly
she underwent a revulsion of feeling.
The little excavations and correspond-
ing mounds of earth seemed to her
overwrougbt mind symbolical of her
constant effort and conataut failure to
be of use to In. -self or tbose she loved
"Oh, Tom!" she moaned. burying her
face In his coetaleeve and trying to
smother her sobs. "1 wish I could do
something -anything -to help you. It'a
a shame you and Betty have to put
off your wedding just because you
have us to take care of. and me young
MD was TIE —
CHAIST CHILD BORN?
i T is sot generally bows that there
is • grave question as to we
actual date of Christ's home.
For marry moturloa we bare
celebrated Christmas ou Dec. Lai and
Mee sot troubled ourselves with
ehresologial Inquiries. That counts
le ee doubt ressooabie aad proper. toe
the eburcbas bate •aactlosed It
As a matter of tact, few modern
theologians and eIro•otogtsts agree as
ell the dab Of the birth of the Mvtour.
What most of them agree In, bowever,
b that It did not occur on Ora 25.
A point on wbleb these is still mon
•nanlmity Is that Christ was cot bora
le the year whish we call 1 A. U. Me
was bora at least tour years earlier.
The present method of c000tittg the
years was Introduced by the nomas
abbot Dloeysius Ezigaua in the sixth
cautery and came into general use
two (notaries later, during the reign
ort Oharlemagoe. Hs placed the Na-
tivity on Dec. 25, 754, A. U. O. -L e..
after the founding of Roma Nearly
all chronologists agree that be was
wrong by about tour years. Cbrtst,
according to them, was born 750 A. U.
C., or 4 B. C., 11 not earlier.
Mach evtdeoce le offered In support
of this. Accrerding to alattbew 11 I
Christ was born In the days of Bing
Herod I. or the Great. wbo died, ac-
cording to Josepbua, at Jerlcbo A. I. U.
750, Nat before the Passover. ills
date has been verified by the astro-
nomical
sttonomical calculations of the eclipse of
the moon. whirl) took plate on Merril
18 In the year 750 A. U. t:., a Kew
days before Herod's death.
Allowing two mouths or more for
the events between the birth of Christ
and the murder of the innocents by i
Herod. the nativity must be put t' t: -k
at least to February or Januar) . .50
A. U. C. or 4 R. C.
The star wbtf•b guided tbe wise mea
has been brought Into service in the
attempt to fie the birth of Christ with
scientific accuracy Between 1603 slid
1604 the great astronomer Kepler ob-
served a (wajunetlon of Jupiter and
Saturn, wblcb was made more lumi-
nous by the addition of Man in the
month of March. 1604. In the autumn
of the same year he observed near tip
planets Saturn, Jupiter and Mars a
new fixed star of uncommoD brillisacy.
It was blasting and glittering "like
the moat beautiful and glorious torch
ever seen when driven by a strong
wind" and seemed to Kepler an "et-
ceedingly wonderful work of God."
He tbougbt that this pbeso.eooe
might lead to the determination of the
date of Christ's birth. By careful axle
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The Chalice of Courage
` se
eteseet eeP
s
"Komar r sex axobLutiD.
and dro•g. Just as moos se Wuistmes
b over I am going to try to get a
place to do Common housework. 1
jest can't stand for you to have to
bear all the burden."
"Such, little ataterr Tom drew her
dose, with big brotherly sympathy.
-It hasn't quite come to that yet. and
you mustn't think of leaving home.
Tau are not strung .sough for suck
work."
Drying bar eyes as best abe could
she began looking around firer the
squash. Sbe found it at lest-tt bad
only rolled Into OD, of the boles that
she bad dug sear the wall Tom held
the lantern sear and abe polled It out
of the bole. la doing which sae dislodg-
ed the earth from the wall above and
down came a rain of damp dirt With
tt came a small glue jar wblch bad
*Meetly been imbedded la the wail
With a wild cry Kathryn seized It
and beid It op to the light of the Iaa-
tern.
"Moneyr atm gasped. "Gold pieces
aad greenback& tkaadtathees for-
tune. Tom! Come upstairs, ealckt
Never =ad the.quesbr
A moment later she poured the mousy
into ber emanated mother's lap aad
was counting It over, tr. Wig with
joy mod excitement
"O.., two. three• foam. eye, six, me -
se," abe counted as abe had dose am-
ber la the 'vetting. oey tale time there
was no Crow• Go bir teem. "Reveal
buadred dears ---e hundred for each
camel Surely that oegbt is teed 'eml
Was there ever *web leek? Why. That.
It w111 pay the .ort age and give yea
• hest egg Ia the beak, and we can
h ave sixes pew aid sew yen can Mlle-
ry SetV. aad we can Rave her b
dosser tomorrow aid • big fat turkey,
and we wos't he vs >• go la debt, aad
wVl sate the turkey with *Mere aid
P at • thew mrost 1• Aust Maine's
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=ha= Mum puddles she enaberry
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By CYRUS
TOWNSEND
BRADY
'ria OZIOIM
(-elation he ascertained that a similar
conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.
with the later addition of Man and
probably some extraordinary star, took
piece repeatedly between the years
Ter aad 748 A. 11. 0.
The discovery of Kepler was CMOS
Mpsates until the nineteenth century,
when It was idepeedesty confirmed
by several ennead astronomers.
among them Behobest of St Peters-
burg,
etersberg, ldaler and Be ncke of Berlin and
Pritchard of London.
The majority or theologians agree
that the date of Christ's birth mono*
be axed accurately from the New Ta. -
tamest oe from any other source,
A Perfect Shri•tmee.
Inst am try to Imagine what a scale
the world would present if all man the
earth around could hays and enjoy one
perfect 0brletmas-one day in which
the Christmas spirit should manifest
Itself in every =eau heart le all 1m,
happiest. truest, largest met Mob
What • foretaste et A. mUI•.obm
suck a day would 11.1 What sorrow.
would be mitigated, what misery car
sagged. whet enentlea jealears, ella
terse.., would be batted newer to b•
renewed! Baca a C1 btems eyes fee
ear day would he a source et luster
arsble bla.ing to the wortd, It could
sot tail to break the Casae et buena
e sigebsses beyond r.etee.ltes aad she
essay whim of 11i.d.•ts and geed
will Bowing. sever to erase Wblls
sash a Arietmas, .,as ter • day. ms
extol only to tae nalm eat dreams. tt
wltW or power M rhe met ream
Wag tairletass s•s•srably Mise k by
trombones or whims late elude, b
maths/ the bast est ear smut she sp
Perth la to rhe tete • tittle MOM
ee aad • Mtn• sweeter ter theme emus
• lied • rale ttwnr Thee the We we
.seg Indy wish ter all .aatheg.-(.gr
We Weeny.
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'1 than tars." her+lisa
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A
Masterly
Romance
of a
Man and
a Maid
Alone in
the
Mout
Co�of jw
ado
No `e sound
lb poll dozy
saliii pihi
is Marg-
QA Weston story of love and advah're,
but one unhlie any other ever before
written. Mole, powerful, and with a
fascination that will hold you a willing
and pleased reader to the end.
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