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The Seaforth News, 1926-10-28, Page 6T87 Truly satisfyingt on1 ► 43c per % lb. MIRACLE You may not like . Joseph Bishop, but.. this story of the a* kerning of his cramped soul will hold you to the last word. BY SOPHIE KERR. PART It strength about the house and barn, at strange choking words . that could pg?„ your bidding. His mother tried t - "Why should dull and-bruthl,menl et Bite you be given a treasure you can- : not-understaatdnor cherish? I do eve know..' All you have, done you justify to Yours elft I"'eve no doubt, by the kliblicel verge that says, Children, obey your patients' Drd you evegread I on, Joseph Bish'o'p? It is' a command of equal weight. It says: `Parents, +' provokenot your children to wrath.'; Woe unto you, Joe=ph; Bishop, for you i have broken your sons life,: and: his spirit, and taken- Ills. youth front hint' and justified youzself'thei•ein! Woe unto you for, veer • thick'" selfishness, your vicious self -complacency, that, has become to yeti a curse! Get down' on your knees this instant and kneel in humility before your -Maker and pray that your son's life may t -et be spared to you, and that you maybe given an opportunity to repair ;a little of the wrong_Sou have done. Offer Him brokeand contrite heart, and He will not despise it. This is .His glorious promise to sinners, yea, even to such as you. Dewn,on your•. knees, I say, and cover your•, face and approach with me the throne of Almighty,God." The • momentous denunciation and; conlmar,d: beat on JosephBishop like' whips: Beneath their violence the greet, thick man: crumpied down upon the floor, a misshapen, sprawling mass of quivering flesh. His head lay }fee on the seat of .the chair and painful tears oozed slowly from his eyes, mingling with his sweat, stinging his flesh, hurting .him. His voice broken of its surety and arrogance came in "n0 I hear you correctly, Jose gg o pre hardly be understood O God, he he asked et last.' "You are telling me vent it, and 'to shield him, and you hardlmerciy to sinner," " that Robert is not dead, but that you -b x-sd and taunted -her. Not until leered.en he scam- wishttpect him tom see to it orty, a dth at you is a in turn she would threatened you and told ' Cld Parson Wayne dropped beside Yellgo back to her people him. 'lie had preached the greatest revival sermon of his life, He had kindled to flame the divine spark ht a clod of humanity where it was so faint as to seem not to be. He had used the scalpel of truth to cut through the im- penetrable callosities of egotism and ignorance to nerves not yet quite in - sensitized by their thick covering. Now he lifted up his voice in prayer, and his ,petition rose with the scent of the honeysuckle toward Him who had created both man and blossom. A little later the motor truck, driven at breast -neck speed, turned in at the Bishop farm lane. Beside Joseph ton the driver's seat sat Parson Wayne,' with somewhat less of the spiritual magistrate and more of the benign saint about him. As for Joseph Bishop, something^ -snore humble' looked from his eyes than had been there for many a Y. 88 requires 4 aItry dollar a week"You; go in first, will you, Parson?" q Yards 89 -inch ligated taken from his he asked. "I'm afraid." 'So the old material and y yard 36 -inch plain learning he so craved and thirsted for. + Molly came down to meet them, and !I shall tell how you gave him no' Molly was changed too—a Molly years Yes, the old minister was certainly I chance to go to high school, but kept iYou'.ger, radiant with hops all through getting in his dotage. He, Joseph, him on the farm, like as a slave. How her faded weariness. Bishop, never heard.so -many fool his gallant and questing spirit, still "Just a little while ago," she told questions. Still, he answered them as f longing for education borrowed Howl n "theg ' best he could. fromIbooks, them, fever broke, and he come "She could ring the bell and call th them whomsoever had them, and read en out of the fie! a eto secret drinking up the beauty wisdom othe world—yes, in sec - wing well that ifyoufound it out you would beat him D member how he planted flowers brought from the woods about your bared e. n how you oral, supposing a death occurs in the neighterhood, shall take precedence of his?" "Yoe," said Bishop. "You see, I heat.d that Mardy Graham's wife was pretty bad," The old minister still sterid at !tint. ''You want me, I gather,. to preach Itobert's funeral sermon—when the time arrives for it—in a way suitable to as w+il your give hce imtthat�•lributelwhich l;ts character deserves?" ''V1'ell, of course, he's my only boy." Who : is with him now? His mo- ther?" `'Yes, Molly's there." "No one else?" autumn until the last of the husking "No, not now; but I'm aiming to was done. Even so, he led his classes. fetch Lottie Sanders as I go `home, to ff I shall tell how you denied the request cook and keep house till it's over." hof your wife and son that tire.school- "But suppose Robert should die•in teacher should board with -you, and in your absence, alone there with his the consideration of the sum of mother, Do you actually mean that there is no other human being within call to be near her at an hour Iike that?" did you desist, and then only partial y: "But, look here, Parson, —I did all those things at that age. .A. little roughing's good for a boy. Boys oughtn't to be coddled and petted." "Be silent, Joseph Bishop, until I give you leave to speak. Into this funeral sermon for your son.I shall put the story of how he grew up a lovely, promising boy, with a mind so keen to learn that not even all the obstacles you put in the way of his schooling could prevent him. 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Seemed to old brilliant eyes held Joseph Bishop dug them up and threw them among me somehow as if he wasgettin fu r - in a strange sort of hypnosis. et seem- your swine? How, from time to time, ,thee away and didn't want tog come ed as if the old parson was looking you gave him sickly young animals that back—and then, all of a sudden, he did deep, deep into him, probing him,: needed special care and urged him to want tog So back ho come. It was searching hint, with probes of sharp :nurse them, saying they should be his like --it was like -a miracle, if tnet fibre t t cut tsn that haat some ben iown. Once a lamb—wasn't it?—and don't think it's wrong to call it that-" before:once a colf, and once boon disturbed. He twisted uneasily J When he had faithfully afu.fi le chs ister�iGt-Led doubtfully at the old min in his chair, something of his great I part of the contract, you sold those The old man smiled.` cloak of self-assurance and self -!animals and kept the money for your- "It isn't wrong to call it a miracle," esteem was cut away by those merci- self," he said. "But I have seen n great one less eyes. "I only saved it for hint," cried out this day." And he looked at Joseph And he had always thought Parson Joseph Bishop. "He was to have it Bishop, who had found his fatherhood. Wayne a little man. Now, as he rose when he was twenty-one." (The End.) his he old Joseph, he seemed andleaned tower tower na preachereve on Pitilesslhat ou y, "for you strange and awful majesty. His voice are a grasping man and a hard man. rang out as it used to ring out in great i An immortal soul was given into your revivals of the past. He pointed an keeping, an immortal soul, and a beau- accusing finger, straight as a lance, tiful, generous nature, a mind of infin- and like a lance, its accusation struck!ite possibilities. What have you done? through to the shriveled soul of Joseph You have chained that boy to • your Bishop. plows and cultivators, stalled him "Yes, Joseph Bishop," said the old among your cattle. Husks instead p of sot Roberrtin tdiiesble I willep each his yourunRion. ithe bread l these things I e have e shall telloiti eral sermon. And it will be such a Robert's funeral sermon. funeral sermon as never before was "And more. It was not poverty in preached in this town—perhaps in this material riches that made you do this,. world. I will tell you about it. I I Joseph Bishop, for you have prospered shall begin with his babyhood, when he in this world's goods, but the poverty was a frail and nervous child, made so; and meanness of your own nature: because you insisted that his mother I This illness of which your boy lies dy- should cook a big dinner and supper ing came on him because you chose to ' for your barn -raising when he was ten: bind his body in the hardest, most days old, and When she should sti11(monotonous labor, to fetter his winged have been in bed. I have verified that I spirit, and to shackle his ardent mind, story. From her breast he was suckled+You will stand before God on Judg- with the weakened nerves and lowered ment Day his murderer—and as sure - vitality that comes from such an out -11y as God rules in his heaven, Josoph rage on nature. That will be the be-. Bishop, you will burninthe lowest pit, ginning of my funeral sermon, Joseph of hell!" His voice accused, condemn - Bishop. ell scarified. Ile went on: And the next thing I shall tell in "I ani ashamed to the depth of my that sermon is how, at five years old, ;being that I have done nothing about he was taught to weed in the garden 1 this before. I was fond of your son; and to do chores far beyond his infant I gave him what books I could, talked to him, encouraged hint to look for- ward to a time when he would no long- The prospect that woven soon may 00 be your chattel. I knew when he,be found an the bridges of Atlantic made his Iast p' -ea to you to be allowed:liners liners looms in sight with the taking a little extra schooling,, and was de -I of a marine second engineer's "ticket" hied it, that Is had come near to the trietoria hrurninorul, ttvauty-eight. IYbreaking point. He had lost hope,1 by (iaeen Vic- outh is impatient, and rightly so, £ori She is the first year-old god -daughter . of woman to the day is short and no titan knows toric. S re - when the night cometh. I'should Ilave celve an engineer'a certiiica•ta, to:d hint to leave you, to go his own; She homed the Blue Funnel Ilnor \. t/icy' • iway in freedom. But the empty con-1An_chisee as junior engineer two years ventiens of this foolish little world 1 ago and has made six trips Good taste andgood healthabout us Held me back. You were to •Ons- one of my flock. If 8 di not trolls and t}ic Past: She is rejoiliin demand sound teeth andrd this I would the liner for g he accused of meddling, Now l am o more sea experience be-' , si ee r v threat nor fore r _e I am accessory the o e taking the evanaina•tho Lore murder n a first The use of Wrigley's ce 1 • Of your son, Joseph bishop. engineer's ticket, wheel will make her It seems to mo the a full-fledged . crowning touch u 1 fledged viaaxndrew, qualified to ing gum after every meal takes to your brutal stupidity that you I iaerform all the miracles expected care of this important item of should come' to pie and ask me to from a Scotsman at sea --but content areo ft h lone in a delight. preach year son's funeral sermon to use language which to him would p S'gi g while he still lives. This, I suppose, is' be a terrible. handicap, ; fug, refreshing way—by clear. an example of your vaunted forehand- 1111ws,Drutntrrvnd has worsted all the ing the teeth lof food particles � about being a for ltandedoften aman rd oJosebra h usual watches, and 1t is pointed silt, and by helping the digestion. 1 Bishop, but I never knew it would lead it would have been less. difficult and ' unpleasant to have her qualify for a master's ticket, The Sunk. "Out in the country where 1 spent aur s n m vacat' n SOTI, and come to me .on such an y o ' they gave mo one of Y errand! I cannot express to you the those three -season beds." "Never hoard of then•" "No spring!" M!nard's Liniment for toothache, A•FIlling' Station. "You say you've eat come from a filling station? Why, you don't own a car." "No, but I've just eaten at. a cafe." IAinard's Ltnimont for.brulsse. Sailor's. Will on Egg Puzzles London Court When is a,will not a will? Whether • the amswer is "when it is an egg" is a "„k problem which all the solemn ma - H chinery of the probate court in Lon• country" e— Fes -:I wits brought: up in tiro1don has been set in notion to solve. 1 The wi11 is that of a sailor who short- She—"Welt, you'll never bring mei ly before his death at sea inscribed on up there," a brown shell of a hen's egg four words; "Mag everything I 8082028." ht stoome Queen Victoria's God -Dough- HoTuhsee wegghileis learncued briefsdyat areSbeingrset ter Gets Marine Engineer's 'prepared for and against the whin Certificate, vapidity, The chief points at issue are whether a witness was necessary and whether the sailor is entitled in this case to the privilege generally con- ceded to sailors at sea of making wills without conforming to the customary rules• The result is a sweat breath that you to an act of such callousness and shows care for one's self and eons I lack of feeling that I can liken it only sideration for others --both marks i; to killose andild perhapssdevour' the wothat cluster md- of refinement. 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The sine land its planets; therefore also tlic eartlit :as well. of 'the Mulley. W:yY—In''Short practically,al . stars vis- ible'at night---mgve through epaeo at a speed :of 700, -kilometers -a •secnd, according to Prof,' L. Courvofsler`'of the observatory in Neu-Babelebeerg, near Potsdam. This•figureis not only 'interesting in itself, but the fact that It has actually` been,deterntined is said to be of the greatest. importance,_ since, according.; to the theory •of relativity, it should' be •impoesible"to `-ascertain She Speed of the earth throigh'spoee. Professor Ccuryotaier based his ex. Derimente- and calctzlatione en thee- : theory ;of -•the Dnteh eastant, Loran¢, who maintained that obiebts,traveling at great "speed am -tract in the diked. ion, in, tablet', they are moving, ; andi that, therefore, the earth would be- come flattened at the front and back In its oott;:se, Such a change an the • silage of the earth, according to Lorenz, would result In a change of the direction and in the strength of the earth's gravity at the paint where it iseftattened, Owing to the earth's' rotatory . mo- - tton, every part et .1t mutt once In each 24 hours face -once the front and once the rear in ha journey through space; the- result being that every part will be flattened while it does'so and will experience certain {changes of the direction as well:es at the strength 01 the earth's gravity. ' Each part of the earth, therefore, Will experience' '- certain fluctuations ofgravity within 24 hours. Now Professor Courvoisder has actually discoveredsuch fluctua- tion of gravity, from which he has deduced that the earth must be travel - ing at a'apeed of 750 kilometers a .. second through space. Ho employed several independent methods .for de- termining this, each of whleh led • to the same result. Shifting of the Zenith. A'change of the direction' of gravity, for instance, would manifest itself in a .shifting of the zenith' recognizable by measuring .its eistanao from OW, tale stars. Such shifting of the•zenith was dtscovei•ed' by Professor, Cour-, yoieler, and its extent pointed to a speed of the earth of 760 kilometers a second. .A change in the strength of gravity can be ascertained with the helii, orethe speed of the pendrrlem of clocks. PIere the research work of the astronomer was greatly .aided 'by the transmission of time signals by radio. The results obtained iu•this direction also pointed to a speed of 750:kilo- nieters a second. Professor . Courvoisier. verified his discoveries by a third method,. using a mirror of quicksilver acid so arrang- ing two telescopes against its surface that he could see the cross of one in the cross of tiro other. fie than 'no- Hoed that the cross of one telescope fulfilled certain movements which he attributes to movements of the mir- ror called forth by changes in the The great thing in life is to learn to earth's gravity. The mathematical cal - learn and to keep on :earning to Iearn.2 culation•s based on this experiment a1 - so tudigated a,ppeed of 750 kilometers a second. 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Along the side of the island I Wrist, lhrcugli the narrows between this land 'and B1aiee's, past. the long shoe, where the water ma,n,les beckon and white birches, lean over to eve their reflections, past high c11rle with ferns, and little cedars growing in the creivices. The boat was beached on the °sand,.I climbed a steep 11111s crept under a fence end my wa.1k began: Up- hill and down through groves of maple and hemlock, by •the shore of ponds, over matt bridges, the road .wandered on. A el-dm:aunt sltigipedl along the torp of a fences hie cheek•pockets• bulg- ing with corn filched from a near -by barn. His taitcolored back was mark- ed with the long brown• stripes left by the old squaw's, fingers when, accord- ing to the Indian legend, she tried to grasp Mire father of tel chipmunks, and. failed to hale him. On the topmost twigs of the implants goldfinches were swinging, 'spots of shinfing yellow agteinst the blue. They are the most charming Mee bdrd:s, so fear es© and ao friegdly, . They flutter out .over .the lake with a dancing, but- terfly flight, twittering ease calling in gentle, coaxing tones. In nesting time they hang on the heads of thi•etle% bust'sy.plucleing off down for lining for theirmss " s' s, they I,.mch an the' mal- lens and ,gather seed £son • every stainding weed, working energgatically, then• block caps set perkily over one oye. . Clay little triode, thiels who§o ldfe deems a Jostens holiday It was. -a shining, •evilt events -g, with every tree, rock and overhanging bush reflected as in a meteor... The drift" wood along the -shore inct its picture at the waterline, object and reflection &tabled to look Like skeletons of giant crayflslt, long lizards or huge 8rpddere and crabs. The purple .martins Were ftying:low, flocks of them, goleg home to sleep. Every evendeg they wheel out • over the lake with twittering, cried, little dealt shapes algalnet a painted sky. When darkness Lolls, we hear them still :twittering and balking together while they settle for the night, ---Laura. Lea Davidson, in "Ieres of Eden." tri