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The Seaforth News, 1919-06-26, Page 6TREASURE HUNTING • ON DOMINION DAY Elsie and Glenn had spent several 'summers at their grandfather% but they had never before been there so early as June. When they realized that they were going to 'miss Doug I inion Day at home they looked very ' solemn. "So far as I .can sec," said Elsie soberly as they talked the matter over in the hayloft, ."we're not going to have any part at all in Dominion Day." Glenn shook his head. "We're not," he agreed. "Grandfather would have taken us over to lVfeadowville, where there's going to be a big celebration, but he's got to visit sick people all • day instead." Elsie sighed. "I wish he wasn't a • dodoes" she said wistfully. . Grandfather, who happened to be standing in the stall just below the hayloft, overheard the conversation. He came out looking very thought- ful. "Bless my soul!" he said to him- self. "Something newt be done about this." He was up early the next morning pottering about the place. When the children came down, he had eaten his breakfast and was about to go. They ran out on the verandah to see him off. "Let's see," Grandfather said as he took up the reins, "this is Dominion Day, isn't it? I suppose you usually celebrate Caeada's birthday." Glenn nodded silently. "We always celebrate," Elsie said. Grandfather turned the horse's head. "To be sure," he answered. "It's the only proper thing to do on July First," As he drove out of the gate he leaned from the buggy and waved his hand. "Good-bye, treasure hunters!" he called. Glenn and Eleie looked at each other. "Tren sure hunters?" they echoed. "What does he mean by that?' They decided thal it was only one of Grandfather's many jokes, Then they forgot all about it, and went out to play. It was not long, though, before they remembered the queer words. As Glenn ran across the yard he stumbled ever a stone that was lying directly in the path. It was a smooth stone, about six incaes long. Gienn kicked it to one side. "That wasn't here yeeter.lay." he said, sure prieed "Look!" said Elsie. 'There's a string tied round it." They turned the stone over quickly and found a folded paper slipped under the string. There was writing; ineide the papee. teat it was so strange, and wriggly that they could not read! it. They puzzled over it a long time,1 full of euriocity. Then they took it' to the 'Irmo., to get their grand-' mother to help them. Glenn had the paper in his hand and stood trying' hall mirror. Then Elsie happened to to read it with his hack to the large glance at the mirror. There, re - fleeted from the surface of the glass, was the weiting, now as plain as could be. This is what the children read aloud together. If treasure hunteis you would be Look in the hollow, of the old oak ee. Glenn and Elsie were off like a shot. There was only one old oak tree on the p.ace with a hollow in it,' and in two minutes they had run out of the yerd, down the hill and across the pasture to the edge of the woods. "Oh. what fun!" Elsie pasted as they reached the spot. "It's like a fairy tale." She danced with impatience while her brother climbed the trunk of the tree. The hollow was only about eight feet above the ground, and he had often climbed to it and tried to surprise the squirrels that used it for a honae. "Tell me what you find!" Elsie cried. Glenn reached into the hollow and drewsomething out. "It's a funny - looking old envelope," he said, He scrambled down in a great hurry. They bent their heads over the yellow old envelope. "Ye Mappe of ye Hyddene Treasure," Glenn read aloud. There it was again: "Hidden Treasure!" And Grandfather had called them treasure hunters. Things began to look stillmore mysterious. Glenn ripped open the envelope and drew out a folded paper. Fle spread it on a broad, flat rock under the oak, and they got down on their knees to examine it. There was a rough drawing that looked like a map, and in the corner of the paper were some words, printed crookedly. The printing said: If you would find ye hurried treas- ure, note at what hour ye Shadowe of ye Olde Oak Tree is at its shortest, then wait three Ffoures, and after- ward measure ye Shadowe. Then from ye longest part of ye Shadowe go ten Yards due northe to ye Rock in ye Grounde, then measure seven Yardes due east to a Poste with an X on its southe Side. Then sight northe by west and get Three Trees in a line. From ye centre Tree measure two Yardes clue northe and then one Yarde due west. At that Spot dig, and you shall be rewarded. The children could not make much sense of the map, so they turned all their 'attention to the writing, "Ieet's see," said Glenn. "It says, "When the shadow is shortest.' " Elsie clapped her hands. "That will be when the sun is highest!" she cried. "Good for you," said her brother. "Of course it will." He felt a little ashamed that she should have thought of it first. They were so much excited that they could not s'.op to wonder what it all meant. But they agreed to tell no one the strange secret until they had followed out the directions. By this time the sun was high, and there was no time to lose. The chil- dren hurried to the house to make their preparations. When they came bath half an hour later Glenn had a long measuring tape, a compass and a little clock, and Elsie carried a basket of luncheon. They spread out their map again and sat down to wait. It seemed best to go ahead carefully, step by step as the paper directed. The sun climbed slowly and the slnihow of the tree shrank more and more. It was hard to wait, but sandwiches and gingerbread helped a good deal. At length the great mo- ment came. When the shadow seemed to be at its shortest, Glenn looked at the clock. It was then exactly twenty minutes to ote. At twenty minutes to four the real fun would begin. They brought some games and books down to the tree to while away the time, and settled them- selves again to wait. It was a long afternoon, but twenty minutes to four came at last. To find "ye longest part of ye Shadowe" was an easy matter. It 7. e VW" "N11 at see., I/ i / '''k l'''• ee ! s fireeV '— ....e.,741 --e' fle Ili , e —aft ,,,,,.,..,,1111111M111111110111111111D Get a Bigger Pitato Crop MUN�I RO'S PARIS 6RE,01., POISON lbS6TRICTLY PURE] 1 Authorities will tell you that spraying is as import- ant as plowing and cultivating. Spraying saves your crop of healthy, full-sized potatoes that will command top-notch prices. The well-timed use of MUNRO'S PURE PARIS GREEN will keep your plants free of bugs and give Nature the chance she asks to produce good sound tubers, and Iots of them. Don't experiment 'with nev;-fangled "bug powders." Use the old reliable Munro's Pure Paris Green, that is sure and deadly in its action and never harms the plants. Ask for Munro's by name, and make sure you get it. At hardware, drug, grocery and general stores. Manufactured by ARTIRJR,IRWIN,I3YED MONTREAL Manufacturers, Exporters and Importers, Crown •Diarnund Faints, Chemicals, Dye Stuffs and • Tinners Supplies., TIDE CHEL'ETUL, CHEKIJD I1ookwitkrt myself too much. It tte e. Os rely keart - wounds ever sore.. should. look out at 2.11. tke world And watch th0 other people. more, 020 lay some distance over in the pasture, Elsie stood en the place to mark it, while Glenn, consulting the compass, measured off ten yards due myth, At the end of the ten yards he looked eagerly for the rock. His face fell. "There isn't a sign of a rock here!" he said in a disappointed tone; but he marked the spot with a stake and came back to look at the map. They were both so impatient that they could not bear the thought of a hitch in their plans. "Maybe it meant to say due south," Elsie suggested; but there was no rock thirty feet toward the south, either. "Wait a moment!" Glenn cried. "It says in the ground! I know how to go ahead now." He hurried to the house and came racing back with a spade. The dirt was soon flying wildly. After two minutes of digging, the spade grated on something. "ITere's our rock!" Glenn cried. After that, matters went more smoothly. When the boy had measured off seven yards due east with his tape, there, sure enough, was a fence post. A big "X" was faintly but distinctly marked on the south side of the post. The explorers studied their com- pass carefully for north by west, and when they had sighted the post cor- rectly they saw three trees in Things were beginning to be exciting now, sure enough. By the time Glenn had measured two yards due north from the centre tree and then one yard due west his hands were trembling.. As for Elsie, she could do nothing but hop up and down. "Now what'?" they said, when they had :ome to the end of the directions. "You shall be rewarded," they read again, with puzzled faces. But there was no sign of a reward anywhere; only a stretch of smooth sand at the edge of the woods. "Maybe we are to dig again," said Glenn. Elsie eagerly offered to do her are, and between them they dug a deep hole in the sand, but still no treasure came to light. They decided to stop for ten minutes. Elsie took the first turn, when they began again, and the third time she stuck the spade into the ground it struck something hard. Glenn seized the spade with a whoop. "We've near- ly got it!" It did not take him long after that to finish the job. The edge of an iron -bound box soon showed through the dirt; a little later a handle came into view. Then, as Elsie pulled at the handle and Glenn pried with the spade, the box loosened. All at once Elsie staggered backward with the box in her hands. It was an old battered box with a rusty hasp that was held together with a wire. The children tugged at the wire breathlessly. It came loose at last, and they lifted the lid of the box. Inside lay an oblong package wrapped in old paper. When they had torn off the paper they found a pasteboard box tied with cord and sealed with red wax. It did not take long to open the second box. Inside Were two envelopes, one addressed to Glenn, the other to Elsie. The handwriting was Grandfather's. Glenn got his open first, "A fifty - dollar bond! Hooray!" Glenn cried. "I /have one, too," Elsie echoed. Then they icked up the box and read the message on it: "Far two good grandchildren, to help out this Canada of .ours." The homes of a natioe ere its strongest forts. 514 To:INTEREST' • DEBENTURES. Absolute Security. ' interest pa le half. yearly. The Great West Permanent Loan Company. Toronto Office 20 King St. West. I Am Conte:id 1Vith Canada. Of countries far and filmed have I ".,been told, And of the joys that fo.eign travel brings, Of wonders, beauties one would fain behold To stir the heart with fresh imaginings. And I myself in storied Sw.tzerland Have watched the Alps in their majestic calm, And been by jasmine -scented breezes fanned, In tropic isles that bear the stately palm. • And many a fabled castle on the Rhine Has winged my fancy as we drifted by; Beside the oleander and the vine I've dreamed beneath - the soft Italian sky. But I have never been more deeply stirred By any loveliness of land or sea Than when upon Canadian shores heard The lonely loon or curlew call to Inc. Across our own unnumbered northern lakes, And over leagues of winding waterways, Upon whose nameless shores the aspen shakes And yellows in the soft autumnal haze. (And, oh, to swing away where all is new, And share the haunts of shy and tameless things, To dip one's paddle in the liquid blue And skim the water lightly as with wings!) When on the broad St. Lawrence some grey day, I f Among those islands wrought of a mist and dreams, If drift to realms of unreality, Where all the world a lovely vision a seems; • MOTHR-Vi tONI Parents Must Choose Carefully Among What Seeni to . be Con- • flicting Duties. It Takes Time as Well as Love,'Wisdom and Work as Well as Sentiment, to Train Our. Little People Aright. •Does it Not Pay? By Helen Johnson Keyes One summer I visited in the home of the corners and the hooks and eyes of a woman who had two of the in place on dresses. brightest, happiest children I haVel It happens to us all sometimes that ever known. She was very fragile-, we must choose between what is' most looking, but •she Seemed always ready, important and what is less important, to give time to the children and to. because we are incapable of perform - do anything which Iter husband eug- mg all things perfectly. In such a gested. His business carried hire: case, is not our children's training about the province and often she and tle most important? - the children went with hima' piling' The choice presents itself most into the car at a few minutes' notice frequently during the adeleecence of our boyo and girls, when mu? own strength has begun to grow some- what less and when our children sud- and appearing entirely untroubled by any peculiarities of clothing or by any unfinished task in the honie. Pond as I was of theSe dear friends, denly fail us. After a period of some 'I was sometimes inclined to be years during whieh these sons and tateel ley the unkempt appearance' of daughters had grown increasingly the family and the disorder in the independent of our care and inereas- houSe. The comradeship between ingly helpful to us, they suddenly re- htsbiind and wife, however, and their bel against work and confinement and chumminess with the lovely children make strange demands both for shamed my criticism and theined a amusement and for solitude. Their justification of the family life. characters confuse tis with new prob- Oho day my hostess told me a leets as serious aa any which infancy story. She said that a few months holds, though they concern the moral after her second baby was born, she life more than the body. herself became seriously ill, The What shall we do? Shirk this doctor warned her that she had a problem which came to us just as we disease -Mirth she could not hope to thought that we had reached a corn - overcome except by a very care -free fortable harbor in the stormy voyage life. If she were to work hard, he of motherhood? Shall we confess said, or worry a great deal, „she ourselves too busy to study once would have several years of sickness ' again our children's needs? Shall and then die. In telling me the story we let them shift for themselves, find she confessed that utter despair had their own way nut of the new emo- filled her heart. She had two babies, tions and temptations of their age? a mortgaged house and a husband Shall we sacrifice our boys an.: girls who would never be a rich man. Hi& to the perfect housekeeping which has could she live a care -free life? Yet been our pride, continuing to give all if she did not do so', she must die! our strength to the material things The children would be motherless, her of home and sparing none for the deer husband without his choseat colt- spiritual salvation of our" children? panion. Or shall we give our strength to the The answer came to her slowly, and salvation of souls which are immor- she said that at the time it was 'a tal and which God placed in our very painful ansveer. She saw, that charge twelve or fourteen years be - she must neglect her house, her fore? clothes, her children's clothes in Mothers who can reach libraries order to live to influence their char- should read Several books on the sub- acters and minds. jest of adolescence, The librarian After a while she went home from will help them to choose these. They the hospital and she began at once should understand how serious are the hard task of ignoring dust and the physical changes through whieh disorder, Of course it was disagree- their children are passing. This able but her husband thought it not knowledge will give them sympathy too large a price to pay for her life. with those strange tempers and Fortunately she was gifted with a moods which temporarily change the fine and well-trained mind and as she tractable children of vestertlq into lay resting hour after hour as she the rebels of to -day. lad to do, she prepared the children Though the adolescent boy or girl or school, taught them to love poetry craves solitude at times, be craves nd good prose, educated their senses sympathy more strongly than ever hrough hand work, and directed their before. He is sensitive to religious ultivation of a small garden. I3y influences and if the church and Sun- nd by the little car was bought as day School and young people's so - a health measure and a further op- eieties are wise in their manner of portunity for family enjoyment. The reaching out toward him, they will amity found they could use it for exert a great and benign influence ducational possibilities and so they upon his development. Nature will et about discovering all they could interest him and if he wants to make bout the country' through which they special studies .and collections he raveled, its geology, its vegetation should be given every encouragement and its social life. This interested to do so. Despite the fact that both the children, too, boys and girls seem very conceited Presently a third baby came, not e. and impatient of criticism at this age, delicate child, as one might have ox- nevertheless they are easily dis- pected, but a fine, vigorous infant couraged and need praise far more who soon proved that she had in- than rebuke. They should not be al - herbed the excellent family brains. lowed to worry about their school Did not this woman choose the work or, indeed, about anything, but larger thing—life and training of her should have long hours of sleep and children? Of course it was unfor- excellent, nutritious food and sympa- tunate that the choice had to be made thetic trentment entirely free from at all, ' for a well -ordered home is nagging though not of so exceedingly beautiful and an education for young gentle a kind as to kill in them the people. Yet it was surely better to. sense of duty and responsibility. maintain the spirit of affection, of Such supervisioxrand guidance ee- amiability and fellowship than to quire study, self-control, time. But have become a grumbling, irritable are they not worth while? Are they invalid in an effort to keep dust out not out duty and oilr privilege? Or when among the Rockies I have` f caught • The sudden gleams of peaks above s the aloud, • a And on the tumult of my quickened t thought New visions, dreams and aspira- tions crowd; Or thinking of the future and of all That generations yet unborn shall see— The forests that for axa and plough- share call, The wealth of golden harvests yet to be. I am content with Canada and ask No fairer land than has been given me. hjo greater joy, no more inspiring task, Than to upbuild and share her destiny. —Helena Coleman. We have more to de with others by our words than in almost any other evay, so that the Golden Rule is to be applied especially to speech. We do not want others to speak unkindly of us or harshly to us; we do not want them to ridicule us or mock us or find faulr evith us. Therefore the Golden Rule tells us we are not to do these things to them. A SONG OF CANADA. You ask what land I love the most, Canada, 'tis Canada! Of this fair land I make my boast, Canada, 0 Canada! From yonder broad St. Lawrence stream To where the Yukon waters gleam, Oh, fair it is as poet's dream, Canada, my Canada! See yonder fields of tasselled corn, Canada, 'in Canada! Where plenty fills her golden horn, Canada, 0 Canada! See how her vi,ond'rous glories shine To yonder sunset's purpling line, Oh, happy land! Oh, land of mine! Canada, 0 Canada-! Go read the story of thy past, Canada, 0 Canada! • What glorious deeds, what fame thou hast! Canada, 0 Canada! - So long as time's great cycle runs -Or nations weep their fallen ones Thou'lt not forget thy patriot sons. - Canada, 0 Canada! - The Canadian Nation. "Canadian to the corel Where prairies roll, And northward far to the untrodden pole, No limit East or West but bound- less sea, All this fair land is ours! and we are free! Down through the ages yet to oome and go In this our land a nation strong shall grow, And send her produce o'er the earth afar, Nor shrink to guard her own in time of war!" • Canada lags far behind the rest of the world in the matter of child wel- fare. "Save the babies" should be our watchword. 'Canada Product" will be a guar- antee of high level excellence if the Canadian Trade Commission can ef- fect it. R. FAR INVEST YOUR MONEY In an Implement Shed Ask your LUMBER , DEALER d • ' • . For 0, , 9 Plans and Prices. It is the duty of every married man and woman to possess the necessary information to enable them to dis- charge the sacred duties of parent- hood. The Canadian Trade Commission literally "obseeve mankind from China to Peru." Recent inquiries about Canadian trade openings were received by the Commission in the same mail from Shanghai and Lima. anatiganalea=aientaireientea-netnibeninaMilel 'cycle gyres STAND UP TO EVERY TEST Test them for quality and workmanship—test them for speed and mileage—test their sturdy service and easy riding—and you will find Dominion Tires "Un- questionably The Best Tires Made", Sold IT Leading Dealers 1 - . • ThIttlINAIIONAL LESSON JU-NE 29. , . Lesson MIL—Response to God'et Love, Phil. 3:7-14. Golden Text, Psalms 86: 12. The lessons of the past quarter have dwelt upon the highest subjects of human thought—God', Christ, the Holy Spirit, human nature, sinegrace, repentance, faith, obedience, prayer and love. What have we learned of all these, and what have we made out, own permanent possession to enrich Imind and heart? Our opportunity . has been great; have we profited by it? Three great outstanding fade we have learned; (1) That God is our Pathercin heaven, loving His children, even t e erring and lost ones, with a father's changeless love; (2) That. the gracious love of God_ in Jesus Christ and through His Spitit has entered into the world to redeem, re- generate and save; and (3) That our response to God's work of love In Jesus Christ is in sincere repentance, faith, doing God's will, prayer, and above all love, love both to God and our fellow men. This response to the love of God, which it is our high privilege and joy to make is described in the passage selected for to -day's reading. It is, Paul says: (1) The willingnetz to put everything else aside, to "count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord." It is (2) to follow Christ in the way of faith, doing our Appointed task as a service rendered to God, and so finding not a righteousness of our own devising, but "the righteous. ness which is of God by faith." And it is (3) seeking. to know Christ and, even through suffering, if it be nec- essary, to rise with: Him into the triumphant life of the Spirit, and to press forward in the strength and hope of this new life to the attain- ment of the "prize of 'the high calling of Gad in Christ Jesus," that in the life eternal. Our response, then, is in putting Christ first, in following Him, and in seeking to be like Him. Through Him we come to God. His presence with us now is in the reality and power of the Spirit. We truat in Him and yield ourselves to His command. He binds us to Himself by the indis- soluble bond of love. He gis'e eter- nal life. He is "abundantly able to save." It will be well, therefore, to make the review lesson centre in Christ, and to think chiefly of our relation to TIira, our choosing of Him as Lord and Master, our enlisting iti His ser- vice, our finding true life in Him. We may think also of what Christ is doing in and for the world, the spread of His gospel, His power over the hearts of men, His law of peace and good will, His supreme obedience to the law of love, which He would make, through His Spirit, the law of all the world. "0 Love that casts out fear, 0 Love that mists out sin, Tarry no more without, but come and dwell within, True sunlight of the soul, surround nee as I go; So shall my way be safe, my feet nt straying know." ••• The Flag Goes I3y. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of druma, A. flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines Three crosses joined in ordered lines. Hats offl The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by: Sea -fights and land -fights, grim and great, Fought to make and to save the State; Weary marches and sinking ships; Cheers of victory 4n dying lips; Days of plenty and days of peace: March of a strong land's swift in- crease; Equal justice, right and law, Stately honor and reverend awe; Sign of an Empire, great and strong To guard her people from tyranny's *fang: Pride and glory and honor—all Live in the colors to stand or fail. HaIs off I Along the street theta comes A blare of bugles, ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high; Hats off! The flag is passing by! Real "Pot Luck," stylishly dressed woman entered the restaurant. The waiter handed leer a bill of fare written in French, and said; "Please mark off the dishee you wish to order," -Could a woman deessed itt the height of fathion confess that she was un- able to read French? Taking the pen - ell, she made a few dashes, and the other read: 'tinner, 'as.," "March 20," "Vege. tables," "Please Day at the desk," "No tips." The waiter brought her a beefsteak and chirepotatoes, but the did net dare to raise a word in preteet. go" *fi