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The Blessed Meddler
By DAVID H. TALMADGE.
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PART L
Old Dan McCarty, starting for
church one June morning with his
pretty daughter Mary—his wife had
gone on to the greater service in giv-
ing Mary birth some nineteen years
before and his son had been killed in
No Man's Land the previous winter—
paused at that point in the straggling
village street where the road to the
river crossed.
"Dal?in', said he. '•I've thought of
somethin'. I'll go down this way to I
see—to see if I can find a feller. Ye
go on to church and I'll come later;
'tis early yet."
Mary laughed. It was an old story
to her. "All right, Father; but you'll
not be at church at all, that 1' know.
Don't get your. Sunday suit ditty,"
Dan looked down at the black suit
which had been his Sunday best for
fifteen years. "No danger, darlin';
dirt won't stick to it, Sure, I think
I'd slide out of it mesilf ,if 'twos not
buttoned or, although," he added re-
flectively. "'t;s liss smooth on the in-
side than 'tis on the cutaide, owin'
ivaylike to the pews in the church
beim' harder than mesilf. Last Sun-
day—did I tell ye ?—a bee lit onto me,
and a bee with his stinger and the
hooks on his feet and all should be
able to stick to anything. But that
poor little bee slipped down so fast
he didn't have time to start his buz-
zers, and—and he broke his nick. 'Tis
a Missed daughter ye are, Mary, and
'tis a pity ye have such an old goose
for a father."
"If I'd my pick from ten million
fathers. I'd have chosen you," said the'
girl. "Go an to the river. I •I under-
stand,"
"Y is, but," Dan put out a restrain-
ing hand, "I am not goin' to fish,
darlin'."
"I know it, Father; you are going
to your church, that is all. Don't think
I don't know, for I do, and that is all
right."
She went on a few steps, then turn-
ed and waved her hand, smiling.
"Roast beef and apple pie for dinner,"
she caller!; "don't be late."
"Diver fear."
OId Dan took his way slowly do,vn
the flower -bordered road to a certain
spot near the river bank where a wild
apple tree laden with bloom scattered
the sunshine in countless flecks upon
a carpet of green. It• had long been
a haunt of his in the lazy hours of
the spring and early summer, and lit-,
tle by little he had builded up a
theology there, quite to his liking,'
quite free from any offense to the,
organized church. When the rains
were on or when the chill winds blew
he sat in the old family pew with I
Mary and frankly twisted and fidgeted!
and dosed. But when the air was soft;
and rich with the perfume of blossoms
and fresh -turned earth, and the river
sang in harmony with the birds, which I
it did not do in the winter days. he,
yielded willingly to the truant call.
A pagan he was perhaps. The pas- ;
for of the church had referred to him l
in that term, but in a tone of voice!
which had in it little of impatience.
.Afterwards the preacher had Said—
and the statement was passed about
from the church social, where it was
'uttered, to the political and civics club
at the eoreser store and to the black-
smith shop where the village heathen
were went to congregate, and had in
short a universal circulation so far as
Typica extended into the universe ---
that Dan was a blessed pagan. This
afforded Typica folk a topic for specu-
lation. What is a blessed pagan? The
village has never fully agreed upon a
definiticn. There is a general agree-
ment anone the mothers that Dan
?a ail rich.= haat jz 7tnt t! be morn,menaces as a Model ?or the children.
.A Thai a:1t Wliitlen ands -children, res-
r-
poet; luta.Pew understand h.itn, A
rough man of gentle .impulses. A doer
Of good.deeds ut a growling, pepper -
Isla man when well-meaning folk would
heap praise upon him. A tobaecoish
Tuan and a mer, upon all occasions, of
hits:nax,'".e too strong and 'force'ful to
entirely meet the approbation of all
his aeauniee.enees.
On this particular S•lnday innrnieg
Dan heard music before he came in
full sight of the wild apple tree and
lie I anti e l his steps' somewhat. A
gr eale vouple were occupy,ing the
tree, e,< e ,; 1A1 tt a temple and a
- nee! r. lean e, and the gei'"le!ztls ,, gees -
heel: religiously devoting a pas-
tier: ' r , eh day to song. The fact
1 t 1 :: lady gi rhealc sat on a ntim-
egen and looked bored and et-
casionaily scolded because she was of
the feminine gender—which calam-
itous error the gentleman grosbeak
would have been unable to remedy
even had he been informed in time—
deterred him not a particle in the
exercise of his warblous inclinations.
IIe was perched on a swaying twig
near the very top of the tree and was
simply letting himself go, as the say-
ing is, this Sunday morning. Possibly
the first hatchling was a boy. Perhaps
his breakfast had been unusually sat-
isfying. It may be the lady grosbeak
had twitted a bit of sympathy to him
because he was compelled to sleep on
the precarious edge of the nest. Not
much is required to make a man feel
like singing at a certain period in his
family affairs, more especially when
worms are plentiful and the weather
is to his liking.
Old Dan removed his coat and
stretched himself upon the grass with
a grunt of satisfaction.
"Sure, he's a whole choir in him-
self," he said, addressing the gros-
beak. "And," he added presently, his
eyes roaming in a leisurely way about
hills, "he has a congregation—quite a
typical one—yis; thim yiilow-topped
weeds yonder, noddin' wise and
known' nothin'; yis, and there's a
little snake wigglin', and bugs buzzin'
—aw, my!" He chuckled at the con-
ceit and lifted his eyes to the tree
again. "'Tis to the glory of God
ye're singin' so grandly, Little hitt',
for 'tis God that gave ye somethinto
sing for, and 'tis grateful ye are.
Maylike ye can see God—I shouldn't
wonder, but we we can only feel Him,
we that are not so very wise; and
that the spirit of it was not in har-
mony with the situation, spat vigor-
ously. The twig at the top of the
tree rose and fell in the breeze and
the grosbeak sang louder and louder
in the exhilaration of the movement.
Old Dan's eyes closed. "Thou shalt
love thy God with all thy heart—yis—
and keep his commandmints, he mur-
mured. "Do unto others—yis—as ye
would be done by—Iit not ver lift hand
know what yer right hand doeth—hilp
one another—'tis a small price to pay
for the dibt we're owin'."
There was a sound beyond a clump
of bushes between the tree and the
river, and Dan's eyes opened. He
raised his head, listening. The gros-
beak was suddenly silent.
"'Tis Hadley Ross." Dan told him-
self presently, "and his sister Emma
Crowther, and they've come out on
the river bank for a bit of a walk and
a talk over family matters. They're
thim of us that are very wise can't
do even that."
(To be concluded.)
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The Spare Minute.
Oh, what will you do with the minute
'to Spare—
The gay little, stray little minute to
spare—
That Domed from the clime
Of old plenty of time,
With never a worry or care?
We'd better beware of the minute to
spare,
The wee little, free little minute to
spare,
And never refuse
The minute to use
Tbat's always so ready some bueeerl
to bear.
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The only quadruped that t ms .A proeeas has been diseovcred
swim is the camel.
Keep Mtttard'! Linimen
A Climb to Fame.
To be decorated for climbing a tree
seems at first inappropriate, but the
photographer in a story told. by Mr.
Hugh C, McClung went to such 'pains
to get a good picture of the ancient
temple of Angkor -Vat in Indo-China
that the King of Cambodia decorated
him and made him a mandarin.
Quite suddenly, says. Mr. McClung,
we came upon the temple, which stood
in a parklike space surrounded by a
moat, Because the forest trees tower-
ed above- the very walls, I found it
iznpossible to get a good photograph
of the entire collection of ruins until
I found a tree that overlooked them.
The lowest branch was one hundred
and five feet above the ground, anti
the natives pointed out that the tree
was covered with vines infested by a
poisonous variety of tree viper, and
that it therefore would be plain
suicide for anyone to attempt to climb
it. But we persuaded them to remove
the vines, and had them lash a bam-
boo ladder to the lofty trunk, and
build a platform on the lowest branch,
which overlooked the ruined Vat.
I then climbed comfortably to my'
perch and hauled up my camera, aI-
though, as some of the natives pointed
out, the sun had dried theepalm strips
with which the ladder was lashed and
there was still a chance of meeting a
stray viper or two.
A summons to the palace at Pnom-
Penh arrived shortly from the ruler,
King Sisowath. When I entered his
presence, he sat in an elaborately
carved chair of mahogany in a room
that was hung with the royal Cambo-
dian colors, violet, red and yellow,
and was furnished with teakwood in-
laid with mother-of-pearl.
I recollected having heard it was
proper to kneel in the presence of a
potentate, so with all the grace I
could command I knelt on one knee.
But King Sisowath rose and said,
"No one who has risked his life as
you have done, not only for the glory
of Cambodia but for the education of
the whole world, can kneel before me.
As I pin this medal upon your breast,
I know I lay it upon a heart that is
true to the great traditions and his-
tory of the past. In making you a
!Mandarin of the First Order, I rely
upon your loyalty, your honor and
your manhood always to be worthy to
wear the King's colors and the King's
emblem."
Then he pinned on nie a decoration
of royal colors, the red, violet and yel-
low ribbons made in the royal palace
at Pnom-Penh, with the gold medal
made by the King's own craftsmen.
Finally, he presented me with a liaiiit
illumined parchment written in
French and Cambodian script, signed
with his own seal.
Do Brutes' Spirits Return?
With such quantities of spirits run-
ning around loose, why not a few re-
presenting departed animals?
There is plenty of testimony indors-
ing animal ghosts. In India there are
ghost ,elephants and ghost tigers that
haunt the jungle. And natives of
that country are restrained from abus-
ing animals by a belief that the pilau
tom of any mistreated creature will
surely come back to bring misfortune
to the offender.
Andrew Lang quotes a well-known
naval officer as speaking of an occa-
sion when the latter was visiting at
the country' house of a friend and a
well-known bark was heard outside
the door of the room where the two
men sat.
"'Why, there's old Peter," said the
officer.
"Peter died since you were here
last." replied Isis friend.
A fox terrier that was in the room
whined and trembled violently. The
door was pushed open and the pad -pad
of a big dog's feet on the floor was
heard. No clog was seen, but the in-
visible ghost of one walked to the
hearthrug, shook itself and then flung
itself heavily down, the jingle of its
collar being distinctly audible,
Scandinavian peasants firmly be-
lieve in a "pale horse," which, when
a man is about to die, comes and
stands before the door of his house—
white, shadowy and ghostly in the
night. When his last breath has been
drawn he must perforce mount the
spectral steed and ride away.
In the West Indies a sight of the
"rolling calf" presages death or ter-
rible misfortunes. The negroes are
dreadfully afraid of passible encount-
er with it at night, It is white, of
enormous size awl with eyes that
blaze like hot deals,
;' illlam Thorp, a learned student of
such manifestations, writes of a phare
tom shark that haunts the waters
about Nassau, In the Bahamas, where
it is known as the ''harbor master." It
shines with a weird phosphorescent
glow even in the daytime, and though
hooked on many occasions and pulled
in, it invariably vanishes from view
at the bust inoniont---simply melting
int a 7xcthirtgnees.
in the house.
England whereby a rustless steel
heretofore used solely for knife blades
can he made into cooking utensils.
Inflamed Tonsils.
Inflammation of the tonsil occurs
in several forms, some mild and some
severe. There are chronic tonailitis
and two forms of acute tonsilitis—a
simple form that is important only
because it niay be mistaken for diph-
theria, and a severe suppurating form
of great severity that is often called
quinsy.
In the simple form of acute tonsil-
itis the tonsils are red and swollen
and the surface is studded with whit-
ish patches. At the beginning there
is more or less fever, the throat is
sore, and the patient feels sick and
is prostrated out of all proportion to
the real gravity of the disease. The
fever lasts only two or three days, and
as it falls the tonsillar inflammation
subsides. But although the patient is
left very weak, he rapidly recovers
his strength, as a rule, and by the end
of a -week from the onset of the at-
tack he is usually as well as ever. The
chief importance of this form of ton-
sillitis is the superficial resemblance'
that it bears to diphtheria, or rather
the danger that diphtheria may actu-
ally be present and mistaken for sim-
ple tonsillitis.
In simple tonsillitis the exudation
is in the form of a thick membrane;
in diphtheria it is the secretion from
the inflamed glands in the tonsils,
which exudes from their mouths and
coalesces to form patches of some ex-
tent. Examination of the material re-
moved from the surface of the tonsil
establishes the diagnosis, but often
the physician gives an injection of
antitoxin to be an the safe side.
Chronic tonsillitis may follow a
succession of attacks of acute tonsil-
litis or it may begin insidiously and
be recognized only when it has be-
come firmly established. The tonsil
is usually, though not always, enlarg-
ed, and numerous yellowish points are
seen on its surface, which are'collec-
tions of secretion at the mouths of
the numerous crypts or follicles in the
tonsil. Sometimes the tonsils, al-
though not enlarged, are chronically
inflamed and serve as reservoirs for
masses of bacteria which secrete a
toxin that poisons the whole body and
causes anaemia, or gives rise to rheue
matic attacks, to heart trouble, or
other serious maladies. In many such
eases the teeth are blamed for the
trouble, but if an X-ray examination
shows then to be sound at the roots,
they are not responsible; and even if
they are abscessed, the tonsils should
be examined as possible accomplices.
If bacteria known to cause systemic
disease are found on the tonsils, the
tonsils should be removed or most
thoroughly treated to remove infec-
tion.
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Edible Binds' Nests.
Tho edible birds' nests, ,so highly es-
teemed as a table delicacy in the
Orient, are made in cup shape and
attached to the face of a rock—often
in perilous places, where the business
of gathering them is attended with no
little risk. They are built by a species
of swift, and are composed of a gela-
tinous secretion fro'n glands inside
the mouth of the bird.
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If you receive' a sudden
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vitation you can feel con-
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at your best. In but a few
moments it renders to your
skin a wonderfully pure,
soft complexion that is
beyond comparison.
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WHEN GIANTS
ROAMED THE EARa
ORIG!NA.L HOME SAID TO
BE PATAGONIA.
Tallest People in the World
To -day Average Nearly Six
Feet in Stature.
The original land of 13robdingnag
seems to have been Patagonia.
When the famous voyager Massollalr,
on his trip around the world, discover-
ed that region in 1520, he saw in the
sands of the seashore the prints of
human feet so huge as to astonish him.
Hence the name he gave to the coun-
try—"patagon," meaning a big and
clumsy foot.
Afterward he came aerosis some of
the natives, whom he described as
giants. This was true enough; for the
Patagonian aborigines are the tallest
people In the world to -day, the men
averaging nearly six feet in stature,
while individuals exceeding* that
height by four to six inches are not
rare.
Subsequent voyagers kidnopped
some of these giants and carried '
them back to Europe. where they
were exhibited as freaks.
The Patagonian natives are callers
Telmelches. They are nomads; a
"horse people," like the Sioux, and,
live in tents made of skins with a
framework of poles. These tents are
in effect portable houses, having
several rooms.
They wear meat curious boos, made
by stripping the hide from a horse's
legs and sewing up the ends, with the
hoofs removed. An instrument of the
chase used by tliom is as peculiar to
these people as the boomerang to Aus-
tralian savages. It is the • bolas," a
rope of hide to which are attached€
from two to four round balls of stone.
When thrown, it winds about the legs
and body of the quarry in such fas-
hion as to render the latter helpless.
Its employment demands much great-
er skill than does that of the lasso,
for an unskilled person in casting it
may easily kill his horse or even him.
self,
Giants of Hideous Shapes.
The ancestors of the Tehueiches oC
to -day seem to have successfully do-
mesticated an extraordinary animal
which Is doubtless now extinct. It
was a giant sloth, related to the mnega-
therium, and was about twice the size
of an ox, measuring ten feet from
snout to tip of tail. So clumsy and
sluggish was this "griffin beast" (as
science has called it), that one might
easily imagine a whole day consumed
in leading it to the water of a near -by.
stream and getting it back to its
stable.
The word "stable" is used advised-
ly, inasmuch as the old-time Pata-1
gonians seem to have kept the crea-
tures in. stone -walled pens. Remains
. - eraes.ce.
_ _, _ _ _ __ of Some of these pens are fot:nd ta-
�,�,�, day, and excavations inside of them
Now is Paint time
Brighton up the exterior and interior of your home,
all traces of Winter's dullness with
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fabs cl can be cleaned and made to look as fresh
and bright as when first bought.
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Is Properly Done at Parker';
It makes no difference where you live; parcels can be
sent in by snail or eitpress. The same care and atten-
tion is give». the work as though you lived in town.
We will be pleased to advise you on any question
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Pc'irker's DyeW�rks Ll
ohm rs e s
•�i�. 1Vv4'c j} Sfiro
'Toronto
to
have revealed great stores of hay, to-
gether with bones of griffin beasts,
quantities of their droppings, batman
bones, and hones of an extinct species
of horse and an extinct cat that was
larger lhau the biggest Bengal tiger. a
Also were found pieces of g.:iltin
beast hide, one fragment three feet
long having been divested of hair ap-
parently by a scraper, Sotne of the
bones bare marks of fire, snggestiug
that the animals were kept and
slaughtered for meat. It is even pose
Bible that they yielded a supply of
milk. Bones of small individuals dug
up are thought to indtQate perhaps
that the creatures were bred in cap-
tivity. '
Not very many centuries ago there
were on this continent three specie§
of giant sloths. C)ne of them, the
megatherium, ranged as far north as
'Virginia. Another, the "mylodereit*
ranged through. South America port 'e,
I ward to Oregon. Third was the grIf,
tin -beast, which was -exclusively South
American, It was covered with long
yellowish hair, and, like Its congeners,
fed on grasses and the foliage of
trees.
More anciently there lived ill Petal
gonia a giant bird which appears tp
have been the most remr;rkable few''
ever known. It stood eight feet high'
on sharp -clawed Feet, had a neck aa.
thick as that at a horse, and could nee
fly, its wings being very email. It w0,8i,
a cunsoriai (running) bird of prey,
monster of the heron family. Ili fagttl
!it was by far the biggest bird of press
that ever lived, and probably attacIir
I ed with success large-sized animalith!
Its head was bigger than that of it
horse, and its huge beak :harp as an'
ice�pick,
Add massive limbo, and you have a
deseriptkn et title formidable feather-
ed creature---tha giant of its kind in
the Land of Chante.
Great things come naturally to him
who has done small things well,
The mind is the real nien, and the
mind can be as young at ninety as it
is at twenty -ogle,