The Seaforth News, 1926-05-20, Page 6For
Boys and Girls
THE MYSTERIOUS- EGGS.
By IMOGENE H. SYKES
The two boys seated on a log were and site looked up in his face plead -
too deep in conversation to see that ingiy.
they had a listener -en anxious,' Laurie stared, shuffled his feet, then
timid one -who bobbed up and down "said, in a startled tone:
from behind the wood -pile, -like a ". "Do they feel it, Madge?"
peripatetic cork, as her interest int The litt:e pale faceflushed.
the subject led her from time to time "Would, mother feel it, Laurie, if
to be less discreet and risk discovery, wo were stolen?" •
Such a little, loving face, not strong!- .. "But it isn't the same -these aro
and brown -tinted like the ruddy lads,' only birds!"
but pale, earnest, and filed now with' "It is the same. The love is all,
deep pity. the same; and, oh, Laurie, think how
...Poor little birds!" she murmured, little they are, and yet they can
as she crouched close to a big log, !,grieve their pretty throats all hoarse
and hid her face to sob, "Oh, if only and shrill Don't steal the mother
Dan wouldn't!" bird's eggs, Laurie, for I shall hear,
Then a big sob scared her, as it them calling all night long, and I
struggled up hard from her pitying can't bear their pain."
heart, and holding" her handover her, The boy looked down in the little,,
mouth, to smother its mate if it earnest face, and snugged her up tot
should come as .strong, she peeped him with a sudden impulse of aSkc-
over the wood -pile again, and found tion. It was always thus., Madge
the conference ended, and the largest could do as she pleased with him,
boy on foot, ready to trudge off withwith that loving little voice of hers.
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a grin of satisfaction on his ugly,' "All right, Madge, girl," he lard,; ` „-_ _ ..se "` I,
freckled few.
"I didn't see it that way'
OIL BOOMS STll VIRTUALLY WHOLE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA
The little girl watched him tear- before; and it is cruel -you're right
Sully. j in that. But how about my rabbits?"1 Map 'showing the section of Alberta hi which the oil boon is strongest
"He's big enough and cruel enough: Madge became keenly alive to his at the present time. The threemost active fieide are the Turner Va ley,
to hurt anything," she thought- disappointment.
"even me. And what chance have "You want them, Laurie?"
the poor birds?" "Awful bad! They're beauties."
The boy left on the log sat digging "And you have to pay in eggs?"
a hole with his boot -heels, with a eagerly.
meditative air. "Dan's making a co`•lection to sell,
"I say, Dan!" he suddenly called and wants eggs worse than rabbits, the board with a scared expression
after his retreating companion. just now." and edging his legs away froml't.
"Can't you say less for the trade? . "Would -would turtles' eggs do? "What trick, Dan? Isn't is all fair
Conte, now, twenty more eggs for the. cried Madge, all aglow with a brtl- and square with the eggs?" asked
rabbits -that's fair!" pant idea.
Dan paused, looked back, and near- Laurie nodded eagerly, seeing him-
ly caught the listener on one of her self almost in possession of the much -
eager bobbing -up trips, causing her coveted rabbits.
to sit down suddenly, in her fright, "I have a whole boxful of ground-
and shake as if the rough boy had' turtle's eggs," went on Madge, with
seized her shoulder.
south of Calgary, Wainwright. and Lloydminstor, the two latter situated east
of Edmontou. in the 'Wainwright field, a well financed by Toronto capital
"blew in" recently. Drilliug operations are also in process in at least half a
dozen other secede is of the province.
delight. "When Jacob was plowing,
"Twenty?" muttered Dan, crossly., the other day, lie turned up a nest just take 'cm back, an' give me my
"You want ern for nothin'!" with eighteen eggs in it, and brought lop -ears, An' here's your knife. I.
"Well, then, my jack-knife thrown it to me to keep. He put all the don't want no more to do -with -you."'
in -you want that, you know -that's eggs in water to chill them, so they Laurie listened astonished, and 'me
fair, isn't it?" wouldn't hatch, and I put the box chemically received 'the knife; then
The jack-knife had the desired el- away on a shelf in the store -room, his eyes fel] on the box, and he back -
feet, and Dan lounged back eagerly to show you, and forgot all about ed up to Madge and clutched her.
to close the bargain, and promise to
it." "Look, look!" he cried,. in fright.
deliver the lob -eared rabbits as soon "And you'll give them to me?" cried "It's -it's walking!"
as the twenty birds' eggs were given Laurie, on his feet in an instant. It, certainly was -slowly and myste
him, carrying off the coveted knife "If you'll never rob nests any rfousIy, without assistance from mor-
tis part payment. more," grave:y stipulated the little sal hands, the box began moving
The little girl watched him around woman.along the plank!
the corner of the barn and across "I won't! Come on! let's get the
half the corn -field, before she gained box, and carr it at once to Den, Dan made a leap and gave a yeti
and bring back our bunnies, for you ss
e he carried his precious legs out
shall have a share now." of reach of this strange, wooden
With glad eyes, Madge San on be- thing that p6ssessed such unknown
lower. Madge clung to Laurie with
side the eager lad, and soon pat into pale face and wonder -struck eyes.
his hands a long box, heavy"' The lad was speechless.
speckled treasures. "It's a -been Bain' that since sun -
One glimpse at them, and Laurie rise gasped Dan, his freckled face
was across the field with flying feet, as white with fear as the sunburn
to conclude his bargain. would permit, "an' it waked me up
Madge waited beside thi, fence for testi of the horn, a -crawling over
hire, her earnest tittle face turned up
Laurie, in wonder, while Madge fixed
a puzzled look nn the box, which
seemed to her to be mysterious.
"Squar'1" cried Dan; wildly. "I
reckon you'd think 'enc anything else
but squar', of you'd a -seen 'em dein'
what I seen with my own eyes. You
courage to creep out of her hiding-
place and approach her brother.
"Laurie," she said, timidly.
"Hello!" be cried, looking up.
Then, catching sight of some splin-
ters in her brown hair, and two or
three curly shavings clinging to her
dress, he added, scornfully:
"You've been playing sneak, you
have! Just like a girl!"
"It's no Welt •e, Laurie, than rob-
bing birds' nests: and I didn't think to watch the flight of :two merry birds --
you could be so cruel!" half sobbed overhead
the child, fee=ling his contempt keen- A cheery shout from Laurie, as he
ly; for he had hitherto always said toxo up to the rails, and clambered
she was almost as good as a boy, and over as best he could with his army
now -now she was only a girl, and burdened.
she felt very sorry for her sex! Madge peeped at the smooth little
"What 'made you do such a mean creatures.
thing as listening?" demanded they "Dan is just wild over those eggs,
boy, half ashamed, and pulling her Madgie girl; he likes them better
down on the log beside him, "You , than eggs."
know I hate a sneak!" 1 « ,
i I m glad, Laurie, 'cause the
"I knew it, Laurie; but 'deed I'm , mother turtle won't grieve, you know.
not that!" pleaded the girl, touching She leaves them to look out for them -
his, arm softly: "Pin so 'fraid of that, selves, Jacob says."
bad Dan Duckett that when he comes i She aided him to make a new home
round here tn,,' heart ,fust comes up for the sleek pets she had helped
in my mouth, and something says, • to gain, grateful in her gentle heart
'Don't let hire say notch to Laurie-, that no mother -bird would wail out
he means mischief!' So I hid behind• side her window again, for the little
the wood -pile when I saw hint come
'cross field, to hear if he was going; ones her brother had robbed her of.
to do you a mischief." I If Dan was wild over his eggs the
"Pshaw! nonsense!" hoasting]y re-: night before, he certainly was wilder
torted Laurie, touched none the l.e.ss'' the next morning; for when Madge
by her love for him, but disdaining. and Laurie arose early to take a look
to show it. "We were only making.at their new pets, they found him
a trade of birds' eggs for a pair of coming around. the barn, the picture
lop-eared rabbits. 'Where's the harm of fright and indignation.
in that?" He was dragging a 'flat board he -
"Ask the poor mother -birds, ( hind him, by a stout string, upon
Laurie, when they come back to their , which rested the long box, in which,
nests, and find all their pretty'' Madge had placed the turtle's eggs.'
speckled eggs gone, and their moss-: He met them with an angry gesture, i
covered nests cold and empty!" softly. "What do you mean by playing
said the tender child-vo•ice,as both such a trick On eta, Laurie Burns?"
little hands clung to the lad's arm, he demanded, looking backward at
REG'LAR FELLERS -By Gene Byrnes,
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MRS. MERRIL!
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my feet. I put it in the corner near
my straw -bed in the loft, an' blessed
if it didn't crawl right "over to me!"
Laurie gazed at the box as it slow-
ly reached the edge of the plank in
its mysterious movement.
"What's the matter with it," he
asked, soberly.
"It's got the Old Nick in it," be-
gan Dan, in an awe-struck tone, keep-
ing off from' it. "Yah, I knew it,"
lie yelled, as the box topp-ed over
with a. rumbling noise from inside;
And with hair on end, he tore
across the bare -yard, took the rails
at a leap, and made for home in a
perfect frenzy of fear.
• A hearty shout pursued him from
the barn -door; where Jacob, the farm-
hand, had quietly stood a spectator
of the scene.
Madge ran to hint, and caught his
brown hand eagerly.
"Don't be scared, missee," said he,
heartily; "tain't nothin' but the
young turtles that's hatched spite of
the ducking I gave the eggs."
And drawing- back the sliding lid
of the box, he let loose eighteen little
black turtles, active and lively as
' crickets, and eager to get out of
1
their close quarters, to which their
restless movements had given suffi-
t tient ifnpetue to cause it to move.
They tools to their legs now, quick-
ly enough, end all but two were soon
THE ALABASTER
BOX
Phrases there are that linger lovingly,
Like gentle bands Iaid on a child's soft hair
As 11 to leave a benediction' there ;
Jeweled words there are that sparkle like lime clew
And make the flowers of thought to burl anew -
They fad upon them so reffesbingly. -
"An alabaster box of precious. ointment"
Is sorb a phrase, so nmarvelou:lywrought,
So gemmed with radiant, uplifting thought,
That settee 1 take it from my area, rule: crest,
Its beauty flows shoot ine like the rest
And head: of heavenly anointment,
!Lich colors their n' etest odors blend;
I see the house cl 1.r i r,,";1 Pharisee,
And through its Int U> u( polished porphyry.
Mary, the Magdalen, witl>estately tmeail--
Despi•te the unbound pais and contrite head -
C'omes seeking Slinm who dared to be her Prime,
For sweeter drops than sandal find release,.
When those pure tears of penitence are soured
in.lmmble gratitude before her Lord:
More precious than the alabaster jar,
Itis loving words of absolution are
Saying, "Thy faith Staph saved thee, go in peace!"
1 think that t should like to beep my heart
As pore as alabaster -and es sweet
As sandal wood the oil to lave leis feet,
"An alebasier box!" Ah, let me bring.
In a 'clean vessel." each new offering,
That in 13is purity I may halve, part!
-Lucie Ilaekeil 1•Iril, in Christian
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ARTICLE No. 32
No discission of the proper take-out
of partner's no-trump is complete with-
out an analysis of the talte-out based on
distiibutien..Very Sentiently you will
hold ti hand containing good cards and
good help for ;a no=trump bid, bnt also a
singleton or void suit which makes the
no-trump bid: a doubtful proposition.
With this type of hand try to find the
suit bid that best fits the 'combined
hands of yourself and your Partner. For
example, suppose your partner bide no-
trump, second hand passes, arid you
hold the following hand:
Hearts i, 5, 2
Clubs K, 7
Diamonds -A, 10, 8, 5,3 , :
Spades - 3, 4, 2.
'Hearts - A, K, 7, 6
Clubs -A, J 9;8,2
Spad
Diamond8977,45
= -
es -
With
this hand youshould bidtwo
heaits and if your partner bids two no-
trump, bid three clubs. It is a strong
hand and ought to make game at either
hearts or. clubs. On the other hand the
opponents may make..a five card dia-
mond or spade suit against no-trump
and so save game.
The hands of all four players were as
follows: .
Hearts A, K, 7, 6
Clubs -A, J,9, 8,2
Diamonds -
-Spades-9, 7, 5
Y
Z.
Hearts -Q, 9, 8, 3
Clubs e-- Q, 10, 4
Diamonds --J,„7, 2
Spades - A, Q, J
Z bid one ne-trump and A passed. If Y
passes, B will pass and A will open the
five of diamonds, thus malting five
diamond tricks and saving game. If Y
bids two hearts, he will snake a small
slam,quite a difference. The distribu-
tion of a hand will frequently warrant
a take-out with a minor suit. For ex-
ample, if partner bids one no-trump and
second hand passes, bid two clubs with
the following hand:
Hearts - 6, 5
Clubs -A, Q, 10, 9, 7, b
Diamonds;--- A; J, 9, 5
Spades- 7
This hand is good for five odd in clubs
aria only two odd in no-trump. Always
take out with any seven or more card
minor suit' irrespective of the distribu-
tion. With hands divided 6.4-2-1 or
6-3-3-1 or 4-4-4-1 or 5-4-4, try to figure
out a way to play the hand at suit bid
rather than no-trump. Hands of this.
type seldom go game at no-trump and
represent the typical distribution take-
outs. -
The following hands were given as
problems in the preceding article with
the understanding that partner has bid
no-trump and second hand has passed:
Hand No. 1
Hearts -10, 8, 2
Clubs' -7, 5
Diamonds - A,.10, 8, 5, 4
Spades - 8, 4, 3
With the foregoing hand the partner of
Hearts- 7, 5,'2
Clubs -K, 10, 6 Y
Diamonds - none : A
Spades -K, 7 Z
Hearts,- 10, 4
Clubs -6 5, 3
Diamonds- K, Q, 9, 6
Spades --K, 10;, , 3
the no-trump bidder should pass. There
is no reason for a hid of two diamonds.
Hearts - K, 6, 5
Clubs -9, 5
Diamonds J, 7, 3
Spades J,10,8,3,2
With the foregoing hand the partner of
the no-trump bidder should bid two
spades. The hand is'of no possible help
to then -trump and so comes under the
rule for an obligatory take-out.
I•Iand No. 3
Hearts -A, 4 -
Clubs -.7
Diamonds -TT 10,9 4,,3,2•
Spades -A, K, Q,4
With this hand the partner of the no-
trump bidder should bid two spades.
There is a bad distribution for the no -
trump.
Band No. 4
Hearts A, J, 9, 6, 5
Clubs -A, 5
Diamonds -7 6, 5, 4
Spades -A, 3'
With this hand the partner of the no-
trump bidder should bid two hearts. It
looks like game in hearts or no-trump,
•butthe hearts is a safer bid. As a matter'
of fact, there was -a little slam in hearts
and only two odd in no-trump. "The
stronger the hand, the better the take-
out."
Answer to Problem No. 16
. Hearts -Q
Clubs -Q;"J 8, 2
Diamonds 10, 7
Spades - none
Hearts -K, J, 3
Clubs -none
, Diamonds -8, 2
Spades -A, Q, 6
Hearts are trumps and Z is in the
lead. How can YZ win five of the eight
tricks against any defense? Z'should
lead the king of hearts. On this trick A
and B. must decide which one is to be
in the lead at trick three so 13 should
play the eight of hearts. Z should then
lead the jack of hearts and discard the
eight of clubs from Y's hand. Either A
or B may take the lead at the third
trick. •Suppose B plays the nine of
hearts at trick two. Then Z plays the
trey of hearts and A wins the trick with
the seven of heart's. },' should now dis-
card the seven of diamonds. A cannot
lead spadesfor if he does, Z will make
three tricks so he must lead a club. If
he leads the king, Y should play the
jack. "If he leads a low club, Y should
play the jack and lead back tite queen.
If A takes that.trick, he cannot force
Y in the lead for Y has thedeticc of
Hearts -9, 8,4
Clubs -none
Diamonds -K, J, 6, 5,3
Spades-- none
clubs. A must therefore lead the spades
to Z's hand. -
Suppose, however, at trick two, B
plays a low heart. Z should then lead
the trey of hearts, Y should discard the
deuce of clubs and B wins the trick with
the nine of hearts. He must lead dia-
monds. He cannot lead a low diamond
for if hedoes,.Z will win the trick with
the eight of diamonds, lead the ace and
a low spade. A will be in the lead and
must lose a club trick. B cannot -lead
the king of diamonds or if he does Y
will win two diamond and one club
tricks. B roust, therefore, lead the jack
of diamonds. Y wins this with the queen
and leads the queen of clubs. A must
win' this and lead a club. Y wins this
trick and leads the ten of diamonds --
which B wins and''returns a diamond
which Y wins with the seven,.
A ROMANCE OF
POWER
Gariada's Remarkable Premlers:
ti
The career which the Weyt1olde in
store for the youlit of enterprise and
i �bllits, lsowever• huntilie Itis origin, is
well exemplified in the histories of
three men who have reeched the high-
est office in Aliteiita.' Saslcatchewan,
and.Manitoba. '
Twenty years ago, In Croft;' Leices-
tershire, a, youth tIlstened to the story
of a farmer who returned' from Cuu-.
a:da. He was inspired at what he
beard, azdrd • altliaugh only seventeen,
succeededgetting his parents' con-
sent to go there,Ii(3•,tonls a job at two
pounds a,month,sthirty miles beyond
the end' of flue railway in Saskatcho-
wen.
7u the following year he took ftp a k,
farm, and in the next year Iso brought
out hie parents.. Twenty years from
the date of his arrival he was Premier
of Saskatchewan: Recently pe enter-
ed the Cabinet at Ottawa. as Minister
of Railways,
Paving the Way.
Two other Western Premiers, Brac-
ken, of Manitoba., who is two years -
older than Dunning, and Brownlee, of
Alberta, who Is a year his setpior, are.
naives of Ontario. which province
turnishes•no less than 42 per cent, of
the members of the present provincial
and Dominion legislatures, lir•:token
canto West as an officer of the Do-
minion Department of Agriculture, and
got a high executive appointment in
that sphere when the province Wag
constituted twenty-one years ago.
Brownlos•s tame West about the
seine time. Having been admitted. -to
the Bar in the Bast, he wandered from .
town to town hi Alberta, looking for a
place to start in the law. Ile sprang
into note at once as counsel for two
bigagrarian organizations, the United
Grain Growers and United Farmers.
The three men, bending their backs
to the task of paving the way for the
new settlement of the West. aocasionne
ally met, and compared notes of pro.
gress. The first of the three to enter
Parliament was Dunning. •
A Striking Likeness.
Ise had for six years been associated
with the development of the Sas-
katchewan Grain Growers' eaoci•a-
tion, which owns the largest ee-vper,a-
tive elevators in the world, and was
on a Federal Royal Contm•tssiou on.
ritual coedit and grain marketing. He
was elected' in 1916, and was framedA-
!
ate -Il' given the portfolio of. Finance.
When Premier Martin resigned, .in
1922, to go to the Bench, Dunning be-
came Premtcr,
The similarity in the careers. of the
Alberta and Manitoba Premiers was
continued in the method of their en-
try into Parliament. When the United
Farmers swept Alberta in the elections
of 1921, Brownlee was asked to talcs
the post of Attorney -Genera and was
responsible for miooh of the radical
legislation that marked the regime of.
Herbert Greenfield, whose he succeed.
ed last mber.
In Eh•eNoveyear fcllotviug his entry into
the Alberta Legislature, the farmers
swept the province of Manitoba, and
the Winnipeg convention unanimously
elected .Bracken as their leacher,
- Dunning was Premier at thirty:
sseveli, Bracken at thirty-nhio, a fid
Brownlee at forty-one. The record of
Sir Richard McBride, of British Colum-
bia, of being sleeted Premier al thirty.
two years, still, however, stands un•
touched.
Liters Oenidom Iran
witted to Next Generation,
Literary genius is seldom inherited
by the children of famous authors, ac-
cos•ding to Dr. Clifford SmYLh, editor •
of the International :Book Review. But
the torch that was -1 meld s•o high by the
lost in the grass and bushes about
the b'arn. These two little chaps
Jacob kept far Madge, carving her
name on their shells, and when they
grew larger, training them to pull
in harness a little, woven carriage of
straw, which his rough, brown hands
grew gentle enough to do, in his
work of love for the tender little
maid. '
Dan learned' the truth of the mys-
tery,"but was ashamed ever to come
near old Jacob's . ridicule, and thus,
happily, Laurie was relieved' of a
dangerous 'companion, and little
pledge made happy in her love for.
the glad litt:e. Bird -life.
(caryrigl1E 1626;ti "y`The•Batl- Syndicate,•,Ine,)
To a Versifier.
Happy who In his verse can gently
steer •
lrlam 'grave to light, from pleasant to
severe: -
His works . will be admired wherever
found-
Anel aft with buyers will be compassed
round.
Boileau-Despreaux,
originator, he amends, though not car-
rued on in the field of literature (hoes
light other paths that Manually treads,
and he cites as an example elle daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who has
devoted her life to the relief of Dancer
victims among the poor,
"How Mu•ah. of his ownpeculiar gifts
a 'genius' transmits to his offspring,"
Dr Smyth says, "is one of those prob-
lems. that the aludents cif such nt tters
Miss ,Barbara Wooten, youthful frequently find of stimulating interest,
British economist, at the age. of 28 although surprisingly lacking ,in dot
ears has been made a college press- finite results.
l
dent. She will head Morley College' "Depending in a_generul way upon
for Working Men and Women,
The Pr®ressof Elimination,
JUS' LET
l3UTTONHEAD
TASTE SOME
OF EAGH-' CtLt.
NE GONGS TO
'ME Rl&HT
the aseammeed working of the law of
heredity, it is reasonable t.oexpect
that a greet man's children would in•
herit his greatness. fact, however, is
in this matter quite at varienca whit
plausible theory.
"Literacy h!s,tory eeeins to silctr that
great genius, ee far as the transmis-
sion of its own special qua:spy gees, la
uniformly sterile.
"A Dickens; a Thacksray, a Trol-
lope, a Tolstoy, a She fey, and a Mil-
ton do net bequeath the full fire of .
their genius to their chillren Never -
the less,'i•nsearabic though 'hie tact of
Sot tity seems to bo one cannot -1i elp
'believing that _ the strong emotional
and intellectual impulses that combine
to produce some singe great genius
are not lost to lila immediate posterity,.
although these impulses may be trans
milted in varied and divided foaan. And
there is historic warrant For this be-
lief."
Out of Date.
Little Jot ---"Mummy; what's this
funny thing I've. found?'
Mother- "T!hat'o called• a hairpin,
dear. It you, take 11 to granuy siie'11
::stow you bow it was used."