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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-4-26, Page 2PART I. As I passed the partly open door on, the third landing I suddenly stopped.' From inside the darkened room there stale a melody, soft and ineffably. delicious. I am a music -lover generally, but now my brain was caught in a loop of siren sound, from which I had no de- sire to free myself. It seemed to eddy and swirl around me like the .breath' of incense. When its wailing notes were wistful, 1, too, felt exquisite yearnings, and when it rose into a rich and vibrant volume, my own heart throbbed to its ecstasy. Sud- denly—it seemed as unnatural as the abrupt ceasing of a stream it stopped. "Come inside, young man, come in- side," said a silky voice from within the room. Hesitating, I pushed open the door, and stumbled into the darkness. At the other end of the room, casting a little reflection outside its own orbit, was a dully glowing fire, sunk in the blackness like a great misshapen ruby. "You are the young man who has come to live in the top room?" asked the voice. "Yes, and you are-----," I began. "Oh, our mutual landlady, Mrs. Hain, has told you of me," went on the smooth voice. "I'm old Mr. Get - tie, the blind man, 'a little queer on top,' as Mrs. Hain always tells her new lodgers, 'but perfectly harmless but for the fact that his mouth was head.' " His laugh, as he ended, possessed all the silkiness of his voice, yet it was an eerie laugh. "I happened to be passing the door, and 1 paused to hear your violin," I hastened to say. "I heard you, young man. And; would you care to hear more of my playing?" Lifebuoy mazy he safe- ly used on the tender- est skin. It is . wonderfully cleansing for little hands, faces and bod- ies. Lifebuoy baUss have keaWi-- fnllualshy skins. The lnai etials tree; which Sn artliinot$ersanalila O iheway they are Made guarantee durable ,and 'S`9i tif fsdioly Service. Theltesnest muster our ears money ebuy. Askfor aantEr4 Mower Ilyneme. .'. AMESSMArrr PLANT: a . mRocxvf:.c ONT. "I would," was my reply. Somehow I..was feeling far from comfortable. "Then light the gas * * * No, Pll see to it. Light isn't necessary for me, but I know you'd prefer not to sit in the darkness." I heard him go to the gas bracket, and never once did he fumble. Soon the room was brilliant in the -yellow light, I looked curiously at the occupant. He was a small, old man, with soft silver hair and beard, His face would have held the usual placid expression of the sightless, but for the fact that his mouth was bent in a hard, re- pellent curve. His open eyes, dull, motionless, made me think of win- dows heavily whitened on the inside so that no one can see through them. He caught up his violin as though again to make it whisper and cry and sing with the cunning God had given his hand, but with sudden decision he replaced it on a chair. "So the fly, quivering with its gauzy irridescent wings through the sun -lit air of youth, has bravely entered the silken toils of the patient old spider," he said. "Why—why do you use such queer words?" I stammered. NURSES The Toronto 1tlospitel for bo r- ebles, in affiliation with yu.ilevue and A1Ilacl krospitals. New York City. offers a three years' Course of Train- ing to young women, having the re- quired education.. and desirous of be- coming nurses. This Hospital has adopted the eight-hour system, Tho pupils reeelve uniforms of the School, monthly allowance And travelling expenses to and from New York.' For further .information apply to the Superintendent, have barely finished tying you up. Yes, you are ready. I watched him as he stood with his vacant eyes staring before him. "Do you know why you are here?" He paused as though itwere possible for me to reply. "Nearly fifty years," he began again, with that wnderful silken qual- ity of tone, "have I been living in the great darkness., Always alone. Al- ways alone. It's not that. It's color I've craved for all my life—living, vivid color. There Is only one way in which I can obtain it, That is with music—the music of my violin." (To be concluded.) • MIna rd's Liniment for Corns and Warts So Often Roes. "How can I be sure 1 Love him?" "Well, dear, 'a glance at his bank book alight help you to decide," Adjustable. An ornamental metal dish holder has been iuvented that. can be adjust- ed to fit almost any round or oval cook- ing utensil, True potlfiteresa perked ,ease Bawd freedmen. It abnpdty coneeets lin treat- ing ctleeris ale you Peova to be treated yourr'aefd.—Ci iastea:fieik3.l THE POWER OF EXAMPLE.. Willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or unknowingly, we are all engaged He laughed, such a laugh as is born in setting examples for others. of eternal blackness It is rather appalling, when we stop "Don't you remember,"he said, to think about it, and many of us "that Mrs. Hain told you I was 'not would gladly evade the responsibility quite the thing'? It's nothing,my if we could, for we have no particular young friend. It's only that in the desire to pose as example -setters. But darkness I crave for color, and some there is no way of escape open. The words era colors. To me they are influence that one person exerts upon the same as butterflies are to you another is as old as the human rete, dazzling splashes of crimson and No man, no woman and no child can purple and green floating through the get rid of that fact. air." Of course, the kind of example dif- fers with the person. Not all examples "So you were not always—?" I are good ones, mores the pity;. for ventured for something to say. often bad examples are more ardently) "No, I could see until I was three. followed than good ones. Sometimes even now I can remember The impressions made upon young a great mass of wonderful brazen minds by books or pictures are very blue—the summer sky, I suppose * * strong, and are usually remembered But let me touch your face. I want throughout later life. Those who have' to tell if—." not had the privilege of reading and I shrank back instinctively, and of seeing pictures cannot be impressed then, ashamed, let him approach. His in the same way when reading books cold fingers came lightly over my face, later in life or when visiting the and though their touch was but mo- great galleries • in Europe. mentary, there was something queerly The influence of pictures was rather tenacious in their passage. For sec- interestingly told by a college pro- onds they played over my eyes, almost, fessor who visited the Manitoba lovingly. i prairies one summer. He spent ane "But I'm forgetting myself," wast night in a small shack andfound the his declaration. "I'm not doing the; mother of the family much depressed. duties of host properly. I'm selfish. t After supper she unburdened herself You must have a glass of wine with) of her grief, telling -the professor that me." the last of her three sons had just Ieft I demurred, but he insisted. With her to follow the fortunes of the other wonderful sureness`he went to a cor-1 two—'that is, all three had gone to sea. ner cupboard, and after a minute_gri The professor was not only sympa- so returned to me bearing a glass of:thetic but also interested in a scien- wine. It was port, sickly stuff, and frac 'way. Why had those three boys, curiously sweet, but J drank it as brought up so far from the ocean, well as I could. chosen to follow the sea? , He asked if He took up his violin again, and began to play. Whether it was one of the works of some master composer, a rare old melody, or just that he extemporized, I do not know. At first the music was wild, tempestuous, making me think of a storm, raging and hurtling across the earth in blind fury to destroy all things in its path. Slowly the storm died away, and in the sweet rhythmic whispering that followed I seemed to be near a tiny babe, resting on its mother's breast. I could hear their two breaths ming- ling in a curious harmony, broken only now and again by a sudden catch in the mother's breath as though she suffered some sudden fear for her tiny offspring. I was becoming drowsy. My eye- lids seemed to be swollen and heavy, and I closed my eyes. How sweetly the mother and babe were sleeping. Once I lifted my reluctant lids and noticed that those of the blind violin- ist also dropped over his empty shells of eyes. Again I closed mine. The music became softer and softer. My own deep breathing was now drawing in time with those I seemed to hear * * But I was floating away -away from the gentle rise and fall of those sleepy sounds. I .s' * * Slowly my brain returned to eon- seiousness. First I became aware of the peculiarly stiff position I was in. their father had been a seafaring man, or their grandfather. No; neither had ever seen the sea; both had been farmers. and various shades of red and .pink. You can grow them from seeds. They volunteer quite freely. The vines die down each winter, but cover the fence very quickly in the spring, and by midsummer begin blooming.—Agnes Hilco. WHAT A THING TO SAY! Emily, aged eight, had been spend- ing a fortnight with her aunt, a lady who had small experience with chil- dren and less patience. After the little girl had come home a letter arrived from auntie making a report of the visit. Mother, says Punch, read the letter • over and then called Emily to hear. "Emily," she said, "I'm sorry to say your aunt gives a very poor re- count of you. `Naughty, untidy, un - punctual, untruthful, ,inclined to be r' "Does auntie really write all that?" interrupted Emily. "Yes, she does." Emily looked shocked. "What a thing to say to the child's own moth- eri" she cried. RESIGNED. Bobby and Benny were respectively the sons of the one doctor and the one lawyer of a small, remote and ex- tremely quiet little community. They were next-door neighbors, constant playmates and devoted chums. They never quarreled; nor did one seem to dominate the other; they were equals in the pursuit of happiness. Then Benny visited an uncle in a larger town and was taken to the circus— and all was changed. As a man of the world who had visited far regions and had seen strange sights he asserted a leader- ship that Bobby did not question, but The professor was puzzled; it was a neither did he enjoy. Some weeks problem that interested him. Sudden- later he in his turn went away to ly he looked up and saw over the fire- visit relatives, and an aunt took him place a picture, in colors, of a white- with a gay group of young cousins sailed ship upon a blue ocean. The canvas was billowing and the waves were lapping against the ship. "Where did you get that picture?" he asked. "Oh, I brought that from my fath- er's house when I was married," the woman replied. "It has always hung there, ever since we moved to this house." "Now I know why your boys have gone to' sea," the professor said. "That was their ideal. From the time they were old enough to see .and to. understand anything they have heard the call of the sea—and so they have gone." We never know why we do some things in a different way from what. others do them, except that it is the way we feel they should be done. Old influences may have directed our ac- tions, the inheritance from other gen- erations. Individually we may be appalled by our personal responsibility, one to the other; but collectively, are we not glad that we are following one great Lead- er, who for our: sakes, suffered and died for us and rose from the dead, There was a burning pain around my that we, too, might have the ever- ankles and wrists, and I felt I was lasting? choking. EVER TRY PERNNIAL PEAS? I never realized the beauty of the my arms, wrists, and legs were cords, hardy perennial pea until I saw it binding me to the heavy armchair in growing and blooming on a fence. It ' which I sat, Something soft filled my is an ideal vine where a dense mass. mouth and pressed on my tongue, of green and beautiful blooms fit for while a handkerchief was bound tight- cutting are desired. ly around nay jaw.' A fence covered with them is a The next thing I noticed was that thing of beauty for weeks, and you the fire was now nothing but a dead can pick armfuls of blooms. If you. mass of flaky gray ash. I lifted my keep the soil rich you may have fine head, and saw that the old man was long stems to your blooms, especially standing by my side. He seemed to if you pick them closely to prevent. perceive that 1 had returned to con seeding. sciousness.' You can get them in white,: and red, " So the young fly has become en- meshed ' th b f h d Then my senses became normal. I opened my eyes with a start. Around In ewteo o e patient 1 spider," he. said softly. '; ' He calve forward, and once more his finger tips passed over my face, "Yes, you are ready," I heard' him say. 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It was his grandmother that had broken the news to him; and he ans- wered after only a short pause, adapt: ins one of the. old lady's phrases that he had picked up: "Well, gran'ma, it's a sore affliction, but strength has been given me to endure it. I can keep, remembering hard my circus had three rings!" 4r Plans for the FinnisJat government for harnessing water powers of that country lock to the production of elec- tric current that would. require the consumption of 2,000,O.00 tons of coal a year. The English language ' contains about twenty thousand words which are of French origin. Understanding is the first groat gleed in all human relations. Chew your food well, then use Wa LEY'S' to aid digestion. H also keeps the " mein clean, treat sweet, appetite keen, The Great Canadian Sweetmeat Such deformities as bow-legs and knock-knees are becoming • much less frequent owing to the spread oil knowledge of hygiene among parents ie: +1t -.. i.1•::r'.::Y. A Ps. 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