The Seaforth News, 1926-10-07, Page 2It. Is in err class by itself. Ask for it.
he Walnut Tree
BY ROSE WILDER LANE.
PART- L
When Aunt Sally Gordon saw the
car at the gate and the strange man
coming on foot up the hill; she thought
he was another tourist needing water
or gasoline. She hoped it was water,
There was plenty of water in the well
at the back door; anybody was wel-
come to it, and Aunt Sally liked to
talk to the tourists while -they drew
it up. There was an air of freedom
and adventurousness about them,
But if the man needed gasoline she
would have to charge him thirty cents
a gallon for it. That was the price
James set; James said if folks didn't
have sense enough to fill their tanks
at the filling stations they could pay
for their foolishness. So whenever a
tourist stopped, Aunt Sally, hoped it
was water he needed.
She had poured hot swill into the
hogs' buckets, and was stirring the
so
stick,
a
dry feed at the bottom with
-it would be well soaked and appetizing
for the hogs. James was proud of his
hogs, and very particular about their
feed. While she stirred, the, stranger
came almost to the door. He stopped
and stood looking at the old walnut
tree. Taking off his hat he said',
"Good morning! Fine tree you've got
there."
All at once Aunt Sally's wrinkled
face -had something shyly girlish mit.
She said, "Yes, I guess it's about the
biggest walnut in, Green Valley."
The stranger said "H'm" while he
• looked, at the tree. "Where'll I find
the man of the place?"
Aunt Sally told him that James was
in the granary, beyond the barns.
"That's the feed grinder you hear,"
she said. "F,olIow it up cnd you'll
find him." She added sympathetically,
"But you'll just be wasting time try-
ing to sell him anything."
The young man smiled again and
went confidently toward the barns.
It was ahnost eleven o'clock, and
the cream separator not scalded yet,
nor dinner started. And Aunt Sally
had meant to churn that morning.
Tiine had been when she could do all
the housework, neillc half the cows,
take cure of the hens, get a week's
washing out on the line, and have the
vegetables gathered Mi-tc ^ready to cook,
by eleven o'clock. The children were
small tl.en, too, and she had to look
after them, But now the children were
all grown and gone, there was nobody
but herself and James to do for, and
yet it seemed as though she never
a caught up with the work.
After a while Aunt Sally saw the
stranger going down to the gate,
whistling. He got into the ear and
drove away.
She had the dinner on the kitchen
table when James came in at noon. It
saved work to eat in the kitchen. It
was easier to wipe off the oilcloth than
to wash and iron tablecloths and nap-
kins, Then it wasn't necessary to
sweep and dust the dining room every
day. The front part of the house was
hardly used at all any more. James
had no use for folderols, and saw no
' use in wasting tine and strength on
them.
When he had taken the edge off his
appetite James looked up from his
plate and said, "I sold the walnut this
morning."
Aunt Sally repeated, amazed, "The
walnut?"
James said, "That fellow that was
here, seems he's working for a com-
pany that's buying up walnut trees
to make furniture of. He thought be.
was going to get that tree for fifty
dollars, but time I got through with
him he gave a hundred."
It seemed as though Aunt Sally
couldn't believe her ears. She said,
"A hundred dollars?"
"One hundred dollars for that old
tree;" said James. He took a long
drink of coffee, wiped his mustache
with the back of his hand and said,
"There's no tree on earth worth a
hundred d 11 tobut I guess
dollars, he case halve ,{t~'
"I guess I can a s"aya
money,,,;
"We've got mo r(bj'i ark welve thou-,
sand dollars in Uan+dai Aunt Sally)
said., "And the fOril d ill`'=I don't
know but it.'s worth•' something, to ine.
to have that treershadingithe kite hen
in sJ sumer?"
James said, "Oh; you won't miss it
much. Walnuts aa•"en't much good for
shade."
Aunt Sally didn't; reply. ; She had
never atiewered James when he dispos-
ed of a subject in that way. James
was a good man, and one of the best
farmers in Green • Valley; people na-
turally accepted his decisions. He had
always provided for her as well as he
could When they were first married
she had never asked him for anything;
they were then so poor that he needed
said, James
use for the
every cent for the farm. As he pros-
pered he had begun to buy her dress
goods, and other things—a sewing ma-
chine, few
chs On
a
patent churn. chine, Y
years after he had his big barns and
silos he hsid built the new house. Later
he had let her keep the egg. money, to
save or spend' as she pleased: ,Yes,
James was a good' man, and sensible.
She had always said to herself, "James
knows best."
When the dishes were washed Aunt
Sally brought her mending and sat
down. Her 'needle went in and out as
usual. But every moment she felt.
less like herself. The kitchen 'seemed
stuffy to her,. and ugly. She kept
thinking of the tree out,in the cool,
wide moonlight. It didn't seem right
to kill it. "I'm getting nervous as a
witch," she thought.. At last she said,
"James, it isn't as if we needed the
hundred.;' •
James made a vague sound and stir-
red a little in his chair. In a minute
he said, "Hogs are up another cent."
He hadn't heard her. He 'paid no
attention to her. Aunt Sally's needle.
wobbled. • She dropped the mending in
her lap, pushed. up her glasses and
oars me, looked at James. He sat there, read
he knows how he'll get his money out ingnon down the market reports. Aunt
of it," James got up. "I'm going over Saly's angor frightened her. It was
to Morton's," he told Aunt Sally. "Jim wicked to be so angry. And at James,
s for nothing at alit/ She tried to be
says he's got a Likely heifer
for
In a few minutes Aunt Sa7yheard sensible. They were just an old
1
the engine roaring backward out of couple, sitting in their kitchen, after
thearae and then the car -rattled thirty-five years together. ; It was na-'
g g turd he didn't pay much attention to
under the walnut and doom the hill. her
It was a little ear, battered and "If I was a hog he'd pay attention
muddy, its front fenders held together „ she thought suddenly.
by' wires. The car was like James; There's money in hogs." It Horrified
went foolish iht ahol.over about it, but it her to think• such a thing of James.
right ahead. the road. "I don't know what's getting into me,"
Aunt Sally cleared the table andon a
began to wash the dishes. The window thought, wiping her glasses windowcorner of her apron.
(Ta Ue concluded.)
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mint.flavorecl gum inside.
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AFTER EVERYMCAL
by the worktable looked out into the
lowest, branches of the walnut tree.
All the little leaves, in pairs up their
stents, were yellow now; they were' like
fountains of yellowness at the ends of
the small branches. Among them there
was a frisk of plumy tail; a squirrel
invading the great tree for its harvet
of nuts. Aunt Sally turned her head;
through the other window she could
see the sgairrel sitting upright on a
ISSUE No. 41—'26.
Mlnard's Liniment for bruises.
Poem MayAllude
Kipling's
to United States.
ReViewere'give nisch space in .the
papers to Rudyard ICipling's new
book, sate a Lohdon despatch.
One poem particularly attracted the
big gray limb, holding a nut tightly attention of sore reviewers, who see
to his little breast. He was a young in it au obvious allusion to the United
squirrel. Auntslly hoped the cats States in connection with the great
wouldn't get him. war. The poem is entitled "The Vine -
Thai old tree had been a sight of yard," and the first and concluding
verses are: ,
company for her. It gave her an empty
feeling to think of its being gone.
There would be nothing left to look at
but the barns.
The tree had been hardly more than
a sapling when she and James were
married. Thirty-five years ago. Aunt
Sally had a queer sensation, thinking Sines leis back.had felt no load,
of all those years. She and James had Virtues still In Brim abode.
been young then, and now they were So he swiftly made his own
old; all those years had slipped away
Y
from them almost unnoticed. Every
spring the tree had put out its new
young leaves; ' curled together like
baby hands at first, then opening out,
above yellow tassels of blossom, then
spreading in green tufts, Dike -palm
trees. Aunt Sally had never seen a
palm, but the many little branches of
the walnut, standing up with those
green tufts at their tops, had always
made her think of .palms and deserts
and strange foreign peoples.
Then in the summertiine, the rustl-
ing shade of the tree, full of birds,
At the eleventhhourIle carne,
But his wages were the same
As ours, who all day long had trod
The winepress of the wrath of God.
Those lost spoils we had not won.
Big Money for Ford Owners
Selling Eclipe Shook Absorbers,
Spring Controls and Lubricator.
Write twos particularp•. - -
The W..0. ASTLE SALES Co.
Sridgeberg Qmt.,
IN IRADIO YES, THIS'S
,
A :BA'L`ITYLS YEAR!
- iudging 1:0m public demand and the only Is it a Canadian development, but
report frclni the various, Radio Shows'
in the United States and at the Cana.
diem National Exhibition; the tendency
In radio this year is. undoubtedly to-
wards Batteryless_Seto. The real and,
only truly batteryIess set le, of: course,
one that uses Ilia raw alternating cur-
rent in'the tubes direct frena the light
socket -in which batteriesare totally
eliminated from the set --and it so elimination of all batteries.
happens that the only real set of this A very interesting book entitled
character that.ls exhibited this season "Evidence" containing letters from
is a Canadian s-aeliievement.known `.as owners of Rogers Batteryless Radio
the Rogers, Batteryless Radio. Sets throughout Canada, can be se,
• This set exhibited at te•Canedian cured by anyone on request to the
Q.R:S. Maisie Company 'of Canada,
Limited, 500 King Street West,
Teir!onto, Ont,
i m
e delivered thence
went 4 '
Wedging hien no recompense,
T!11 he portioned praise or blame
To our works before he came.
Till he showed ne for our good—.
pea to mirth and blind to scorn --
How we night have best withstood
Burdens that he had not borne.
Scotland's Oldest Burgh.
Rutherglen, a busy community near
And in the fall the :eaves were always Glasgow with a population' of 29,000,
yellow like this. Then the winter came, reeeiitly •e 1ebreated; its eight-hun-
and all the gray branches were outlin- dredth birthday. It is said to have
ed in white snow' Every spring, every received its charter as a royal burgh
winter, every summer, the tree had
been the same; yet all the time imper-
ceptibly growing older, growing larg-
er, spreading roots and branches far-
ther into earth and air.
' Aunt Sally thought of the axes cut-
ting into it. Killing the Old tree,
She did a strange thing. She left
the diel, water cooling and went out to
look at the tree, She stood by the
•Ei
from David I. he 1126.
Although once a royal residence,
Rutherglen Castle was demolished in
the enghteenth century, but was gar-
r!eoneil by the English daring the
wars with Scotland. Bruce lay siege
to it on several occasions, but his
brother Edward eventually captured
,the castle in 1313.
History is also linked with the old
DEAL
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1416
SIMPLE LINES ACHIEVE
%SMARTNESS.
Perennially practical, smart and be-
coming, the one-piece frock belongs in
every well-equipped wardrobe. To
itemize the "features" in the model
shown here, there is the high or low
collar, button -ornamented trimming
tab in front andback, and bloused ail-
houette effected by a narrow tie belt.
Inverted plaits in the side seams con-
hand,
shading her eyes with her church steeple of "Raglan; as the na-
hand, and looked at it. Its yellow top tor" call it. .It marks the site of the
was high against the sky; its branches original church In which a truce be -
spread over the low kitchen roof. The tween England and Scotland was sign
gray trunk was sturdy above the 671 in 1291.
heavy roots that gripped the earth. Ti is I , ,,,la �i ours.
The. tree was still young and strong.,
It might live .a hundred years. It
might be living when her grandchil-
dren had grandchildren of their own.
James had sold it to be killed, for
a hundred dollars.
That night at supper she said to
James,. "Did that ntan pay you for
the tree?"
James said, "No, I told him to bring
the cash when he conies to cut it down.
If I'nr not here you get the cash before
you let them lay ax to it. I guess he's
straight enough, and likely his cheque
is good, but there's no need to take
chancels"
"I don't see any need to sell that
tree, ,James," Aunt Sally said. ."It
isn't es if we had to have the hundred
dollars:"
"Any time any man wants any tree
of mine more than he wants a hundred
A Frenchman called to see a friend
and announced: -
"I call to see lir, Brown."
Maid—"You can't see him, sir; he's
riot up yet." '
Frenchman—"Vat you tell? I cons'
yesterday, and yousay, can't see heem
because he is not down; nor; yon say,
can't see heem because.he -is note sip.
Vat you mean? Ven wil he be in ze
middle?" -
with'ovcr a years steady progress be.
hind it and now mitering on its second
year,' 11 has proven an undoubted-sue-
dess.` The 1927 Mgdsle of the Rogers
possess every. convenience, including
shigle-dia1 cout•rol, super -power am-
plification, volume. control, metal
shielding and elimination of the aerial
in most Cases.in addition 'to the total.
National Exhibition probably'attraeted
the most interest of any Radio, •includ
ing'inany from the United States, Nat
tribute the fluidmotion, while long,
tight sleeves proclaim its Parisian in-
spiration No. 1416 is for misses and
sEiall; women and is in sizes 16, 18 and
20 years. Size 18 (36 bust) requires
27/e yards 5d -inch figured material,
and 14 yard 36 -inch plain contrasting;
or 31 yard's 89 -inch,' if made all of
one material. 20 cents.
Our Fashion Book, illustrating" the
newest and most practical styles, will
be of interest to every home dress-
maker. Price of the book 10 cents the
Copy;
HOW, TO ORDER -PATTERNS.
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or•coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each- number and
address your order toPatternDept.,
Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade-
laide St, Toronto. Patterns sent by
return mail.
The Best Trick of the Week.
Allow your wrists tone tied to-
gether with a length of string between
them. Then sliiow a bracelet or metal
ring and state that -you can make It
pass rinstantly on to the string be-
tween your wrists. You turn your
back for two or. three :seconds, and
when you again show your hands
there is the ring on the string, and the
knots at your wrists have not been
"tbuched.
A "duplicate bracelet of ring is re-
quired for this trick. . Have it con-
cealed up your right sleeve, on your
arm. When you turn your back, drop
the,original ring in your inside pocket,'
and slide the duplicate ring down -your
wrist, over your handy. and on the
string. Thus the mystery is perform-
ed.,
erform-ed.,
Cheap rings suitable for this trick
maybe purchased at a hardware store.
"'Those Who Come."
Those who come from mpuntall
-.Heights ,
Into the city street%,
Clothe themselves with woodland
'flowers,
Roses wild and ,sweet.
make them wings of violets blue
For city winds to wander through
That passers-by may wonder why'
The thought of mountains crossed
their sky.
—Flora Lawrence Miers.
•
Not DarlS I antern Jawed.
She "You're very intelectual-and
bright, Mr. Jones, but you're lantern
'stand -that.
a edan•dIcant
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Jones (gratefuNy)—"Thank heaven
you don't think inc dark -lantern
jawed at least!"
Mlnard's Linimant for toothache.
With Alt Respects.
"Ourmothers looleed like open um-
brallas-1° •
"And our daughters .:'like closed
STORIES 'Or :WELL..
KNOWN PEOPLE
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Kings and Commoners.
It is rather a curious anomaly that
Socialists are.,among those who show
the greatest personal appreciation of
the Royal. Family.: "What I'd" like to
see," cried it very "Red" orator' at
an outdoor meeting 'in London, "is no
King at all—meaning no disrespect to
the present King, of course, and willing
to lot him have his run out." Another
Socialist met the Prince of Wales re-
cently and announood afterwards, with
some surprleo, that -"'E was a very
nice young feller."
The _Royal Family, on their side,
show equal friendliness when the re-
strictions of of,ce allow. The other
day, at a public function, the King
oke to a Labor loader' who remind-
ed ,
ed
"Last time you saw me, sir, I was
in my working clothes, melting shell
fuses." -
The King smiled as he answered;
"I am glad I do not often have to
wear 'what some people regard as my
working clothes—a' crown and robes:"
The smile was so friendly, and the
day so sun ny, that the f.abor man re-
sponded:
"It would he a bit 'ot on a day Like
this, sir!"
0 The Ring laughed. Henry the
Eighth would have, replied: "Off with
his heads"
The ordinary weigh of the, human
heart is 91/2 oz., and in size the organ
is equal to the closed fist of the per-
son to whom it belongs,
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E old-fashioned wash -day is gone.
With it has gone, the everlasting
rub -rub -rubbing gand: ugly hands,
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lame backs, frazzled nerves and sort
tempers and a soapy odour all through
the house, ,
Instead' you use Rinso ,and part of a
morning for the weekly wash.
You change the hard work of washing'
to just rnnsinago
Just smak the 'clothes a couple of
hours or over nicht in Rinse: suds,
rinse, and that's a$r Simple. Efficient.
Time saving. Labour saving.
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ou't Rinso. Twelve leading washing
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• Happy Bachelors.
As far as I can see, married fife is,
so much worry. I am siu•s;0 should
have been dead Song ago if I had mar
rIed. Thank Heaven -I am a• 'con--
firmed bachelor•!"
Tisis statement conies from the lips,
of -Sir Harry Poland, K.C., and as he.
is new ninety-seven, it Must be admit-
ted he is a good ,advertisement for •
bachelorshipp He was called to the
Bar before the Critaean War -and leas
barred matrimony ever since.
His case is different from that of
anobher veteran bachelor who was
0 oe 'chalk n e bya member
u e dof the
g
opposite sex.
"Do you mean to say," she exclaim-
od, that you have never married?" -
"No," the bachelor assured her
gravely, "I have never married."
"And—you have. lived a happy life?"
"Peaceful, at all events."
She frowned. -
- "Life wasn't made for peace—IS was
made . for adventure," she retq'rted.
"You ought to have married!'
The bachelor regarded her gravely,
then responded:
"Frankness for frankness. In sixty-
nine years . of bachelor life, I Have
asked fourteep wdmen to marry me,
and they, all said, 'No,' " '
The Man Who Crowns Kings.
Although the Primate of All Eng-
land; the Archbishop of Canterburp—
has .not the great power to -day that
his predecessors enjoyed, he is still
the most privileged. person in the
realm after the Royal Family. .
In the table of precedence, in which
is laid drown the exact order ot all
the nobility of the country, the Arch-
bishop follows the ambassadors of
foreign countries, who take their high
place, as representatives of the ruling
heads of their countries, *Excluding
these, the Archbishop comes immedi-
ately after the nephews of the King.
He controls the Church of England,
and has thirty bishopric, in his own
province, his junior colleague, the
,o i 'Primate
I eels
Archbishop of who a
of England, having but twelve. The
precedence of Canterbury over York
is denoted in their titles, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury being Primate of
"All England."
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has
the King and Queen as his "domestic.
parishioners" wherever they may be
In residence, and he has . the right of ..
crowning the King and Queen at their
coronation.'
He is an ecclesiastical cemmissioner
for England, meaning that he is one
of the commission that handles the
moneys of the church. He is also a
trustee of the British Museum.
The Archbishop has the unique
right of being able personally to grant
degrees in music, law, medicine and'
theology. _
This right wag given to the Arch-
bishops of Canterbury by Henry Wit.
and has never --bean reryoinsed. The
degrees are known 'as ' Lambeth De-
grees-," after the Archbishop's London
palace. '
The present Archbishop, Dr. Ragdali
Davidson hasheld hs'res ansffil
s.
post for twenty-three years:—L.S.D.
Rabbits Excavate Roman
Villa.
Rabbits have been responsible for
the fining of an old Roman villa at
Ashstead, near Epsom, in Surrey, In -
excavating their burrow they had dug,
out bits of tile and • plaster, and
aschaeoiogls,ts undertook ;more s9'
tematic work than the rabbits were.
capable of: The remains of a lenge.
vita were discovered with bath, coir
ridor, and, up to the present, this
main rooms. It- has been found tat
the walls' had been niade of large.fliiii
with glass windows which werbfof•a
light blue color, Among objectsounit
were coins of the reigns of-.Clabdiue,
Vespasan, Trajan,and Hadrian; a.forct -
century howl which had, been brgksf
and riveted; a clay inkdot and a of,�,y
incense .burner. Plenty of oyst
aholis and debris of bones from coo
ing were also found.