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"Father, are you going crazy?"
"If 'tis crazy, Molly dear, 1. have
already whit, Run on to church now."
Reports as to the condition of Wil-
liam Ross were again favorable the
following day, and an Thursday morn-
ing it was announced in the lobby of
the postoffice that he was up and
about the house. That night when
Dan came hone to supper Mary was
a -quiver with excitement.
"0, Father," she cried, "you were
right! Willy Ross's wife is 'back!"
"Yis?" Pleased surprise covered old
Dart's face like sunshine.
"Yes. I was at the station when
the train came in this afternoon, do-
ing the errand you sent me to do, and
elle stepped from the train seeming
half frightened and ashamed, and she
d`sft d S . ; ..a ed .e e I1S O1 " ., eLeg al%� r'°d: . !
looked
and dropped
broke down in tea , llfornoboder y
_.._... was there to meet her."
"And ye visit to her, Mary?"
,_-_._,..�....--.-_._._--.-- ;fie "I did, Father, of course. And she
told me she'd had a telegram saying
that Willy was very sick and could
she come. 'Twas not signed, the tele-
gram, but she had come just the same.
0, Father, site's the changed girl:
'Twas a jolt she was needing, too.'
"Yis?" Old Dan chuckled, rubbing
his hands together. "Go on, Mary."
"Well, I went with -her to the Ross
place, and Willy was lying on the
lounge in the front room when We
went in, and—and—I left them there,
the girl on her knees beside him and
their arms arotmd each other."
And then suddenly, Mary pounced
on old Dan and •hugged him.
"You blessed, blessed meddler!" she
half sobbed, kissing him upon the
forehead. "What is the secret of your
insight to the troubled hearts of
others?"
Old Dan's lips rested for an instant
upon -one of Isis daughter's pink
cheeks. "'Tis only me own heart I
have insight to, darlin'," he whispered.
"And listen—the day whin I told Billy
Ross's wife good-bye at the station,
and she was holdin' her chin up so
high, a big hot tear dropped onto the
back of me hand,"
(The End.)
SHE THOUGHT DRESS
WOULD LOOK DYED
By DAVID H. TALMADGE.
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PART TL ! be gain' over after dinner to have a
This was .'n and Dar., se;;yirea wont o two with the lad,
•`,° about young Bill R) and lti? I Slab:! :were the. nrel'miktaries, leaniiig
talk!,, alai } up so the visit of old Dan to the, bed-
wife—eh—what'sn that?" ,1: r;f t'^r, g Willinnt Ross ..:lo had
The v,� t came to him more bis- c 1,::en tip t0 uric,
tinetly as the talkers porgoaelied the
sa:d Dan taking the young
bu res. Dan sat holt' upright, his fare } i kt,'
t ,•a , haul in moth of his and gently
eXpxl•olf,-, Snrp and t..,l,:"tekll'I- ,>i1. t
In.aluntt'_ly he :agitated the �torde c kind it. "I as to CI71",lit] this
that came to hila, me rtldn' and T herd some grand
"The doctor says Williea•'+'t. live. s r`t,esio by a ;,incl that was in love."
None of us have the courage to till' The sick man smiled wanly.
him, poor Ile, ]ie should be OLIO `.Such music, Willy! Nothin' of dith
Would Dan McCar ti do it if we a ked in it—all life, life, life. Birds and
hila? He would be tete o --Shirr with' Iain with that song in their hearts
lli= biassed gift of word:•." ; can't die. It took the stiffness out of
Dansank hoer; upon the "_gas Ant? me_right lig, and that li was the
sth e: t one in the world, I dunno. And
greened eened softly. The sound of the e i,,g• that was over me eves—on the
voicesgracgraduallytie inc ICs3 dlstlill't. inside ---cleared away, and I saw clear-
Silenclent e again. The gi:n 1enk renewedly. And ma ears heard with under -
his song�rand Dan ;whet at hilts re .tan+iz21'.
iproaehfully. "Doc, Doc, Doc, ye dunno, ye dun -
':'Tis so it goes, little bird," he !no—lthe "bird said. Yis, Willy, that's
sighed. "Life is first one thing, that . whahe said. And whin he said it I
another. and for why? Where, I won-; laughed r;ght out, for 'twas a mis-
der row, will yet song go when yecage straight from God—or as near
die?" I straight as we can git it—and I'd been
The song rose higher, clearer,; hearin' old woman talk about town
sweeter. ! that the doctor had given ye up to
"Yis, is, y.is, I know, little bird—ye die.,,
should worry. But I'm thinkin' the The sick man's eyes distended.
song goes on just the sante, only we, "Are—are they telling that?" he
with our coarse human ears, can't whispered.
hear it" "They are, Willy. Ye are not goin'
to die, are ye?"
"I—I don't care much."
"But ye roust care, me b'y. Listen"
—he bent low over the bed, talking in
a low tone rapidly. When he had fin-
ished. his brow was beaded with per-
piration as if he had been toiling in
a midday sun. He waited.
Presently the sick man spoke.
"Dan," he said. aloud, "if you are sure
—positive—I will get well—if I can."
"You can," declared Dan.
"1 will then."
"You will—stick to that, Billy."
When he tiptoed from the room a
short tine later the sick pian was
sleeping, a smile upon his face.
But no smile was upon Dan's face.
The gravity of the sphinx sat upon
those rough and wrinkled features,
and he passed down the street looking
neither to the right nor to the Ieft.
He came again to the tree by the
river and bared his head beneath the
girl to us when he came home from blossoms. "0 God," he cried, "I've
the war? And how later he explained gone as far as I can, and I am leavin'
that she was homesick, poor dear, ye to do with it what ye see fit to do.
which was why he gat her father and Ye took me wife and ye took me b'y,
mother out for a visit? Ile sent them for why I dunno, but 'tis all right. I
the money, 'tis said by thein who • am tryin' to play the game square.
should know, and he bought her beau- i If ye want Bill Ross, go algid and take
tiful clothes and jewelry from the lit- . hire; he is not muss'. account here any -
tie fortune he'd got front his mother,1 how. But if ye don't want him and
and then she left him. It took the' t pleases ye to lit him stay, give me
life out of the loo.." I a light as to how I ant goin' to keep
"Yis, yis." Old Dan leaned back i me word to him, for I promised—I
from the table and reached for his pronzised—
s
p pe. "Bill would have dere better' There was a flutter amongst the
had he married a girl he knew—may-blossom above his uplifted face, arid,
like—•I du.nno. It's •1 lottery, mar- i peering, Dan saw the grosbeak nest,
riage is, for human •bein's, but niver small. cavernous mouths stretched
for birds. I wonder why? There's' over ts side to welcome the father
somethin' wrong with us, Molly and mother birds, newly arrived with
darliil>. • • worms, His worms delivered, the
"There is something „trona, with j ebirhuried to the praise -twig
Willy, Father,"rejoined Mary prac-'Ana gavedosong.
testily; "he has the pneumonia and, All r -r -r -right, all r-r-r-rightl" he
the doctor says he is going to die." moodytt'ilA ledroad siltile suffused Dan's face.
"Yis?" silenceOld DanDanlasled ed uned ll l M 5 ; "That's straight enough," he said,
had doneup'wh!
the dinner work.Then' "and 'tis a comfort, but how can�1
he caller! her to him and drew her' keep me promise to young Bill Ross?"
down' to the arta of his chair. "I'm 1 "Wzr-r-re, wi-r-re! 'Twill be all
thini,in' young Trill Ross is an easy! r-r-r-rig'ht!" warbled the grosbeak.
marl_, Molly a nice b'y, yis, but easy; his head, will,
iinwell tare aDgeed. Thanan k
ye kindly, Mister Bud.'
IIe was in a much more cheerful
r -count l frame of mind at salver than he had
writ trt .) fr,tksl'�c „s hrtri3 finally hewn a{ c'iilltar, olid when Mary told
t . , hu fail, him of having seen the• doctor coming
It knocked him Gut. he thought, and '"
of course whin he thought it slid, it from the Ross home and that Willy
was much improved, he had laughed
outright.
"How did you do it, you wonderful
Mae?" asked the girl.
"I told him, Molly, that his WHO,
would come back to him soon."
delivered hist tanwarranty and no- "Yee, Father—hut how?"
By'thin' will hilli him want tolive, and;"train, s,�tis buat likel "eali she come,
Father, after they have separated and,
all?"
"Folks may have inisjudged the
girl, derlin'. Folks have been known -
to do it ---good folks, too. I dropped
in at the station this afternoon on me
way home to—to look up trains a bit.
She can git Here Thursday if she
starts to -morrow, I am a nliddlin' old
fool, I .guess, but I have it straight
from God that 'twill he all right,"
"Froin—from God?"
"Yis, a bird told me."
He rose heavily to his feet and took
his way by a circuitous route home-
ward, his head bowed, his hands
clasped behind his back.
At dinner he was largely silent,
responding with his eyes to Mary's
animated recountal of the gossip she
had heard at church. He was a good
listener, Dan.
"And so:" said Mary, concluding a
story she had been telling, "Willy's
father gale Willy's wife the money
to go to her folks with, and 'tis said
he also gave her a piece of his mind
along with it. You know, after her
folks went back to the East the girl
groaned and grieved and made the lit-
tle home anything but a pleasant
place. She did not keep the house
clean. Her meals were little more
than half fit to eat. 'Twas hard on
Willy—him trying the best he could
to make a hone. Do you remember,
Father, how proudly he introduced the
swayed. And he has emotion where
he should have judgmint, Ile loved
the girl and tressrried bee and whin she
did, And whin the cold castle on hila
he thought it was goin' into pneu-
monia—was sure of it—he told ins so
himsilf--and of course ,it did. So
there lie is, all but gone, and his folks
afraid to till him that the doctor has
the time is short --•-maybe too short --
to give him the jolt, even if anybody
knew how it could be done. There are
but two ways it might be done, so
jar as 1 can figger with me biunderin'
lord hid—either he must be mad
enough to lige for spite or he must be
made hopeful onor.;h to live for love.
,Arn l right?"
"Perhaps, Father." Mary spoke
thoughtfully. "But he - has no spite
tin him, so it must be the other, and
that, I fear, is out of the question."
"Maybe not, darlin'. Anyhow I'll
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An old man going a lone highway,
Came at evening, cold and grey,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
The old man crossed at the twilight
dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for
him;
But he turned when safe on the other
side .
And built a bridge to span the tide,
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting your strength with
building here:
Your journeys will end with the elect-
ing day,
You never again will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm deep and
wide,
Why build you this bridge at even -
The
Trite buildlifted his old grey head—
"Geed friend, in the path I've come,"
he said.
"There followed after
A youth whose feet
way,
This chasm that luaus
to me
To the fair-haired youth may a pit -
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He, too, must t'roea in the twilight dim,
Good friend, 1 gilt bending this bridge
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"Long Is the rapture and short the
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Out of my heart that knows not
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Ringed with the strength of a hun-
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Afar and away will the coast lights
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"I, too," said the Maple, "in pride and
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Shall I yield my trunk to the saw and
plane;
1 must harden and beat in the drier's
kiln,
'Neath the rasp and
writhe and thrill,
Till fitted, at length, to
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Of a palace stately and fair and tall,
Under the moon and the starry skies,
Let me fall," said the maple, "again
t0 ris e ! "
Then softly answered the Balsam tree,
(Tho youngest child of the wood was
she)
"But I—by the .lord
grace—
Would beg •ef his woodmen a humbler
place,
For I would stand
• hearth,
While gently down the waiting
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Over the snow -clad hill and plain,
The feet of the Christ -child walk
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"For the forest glades may be fair to
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And far the ,sweep of the flowing sea,
And grand the palace, and tall the
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But love is dearest, and love is last,
And, ever and always, beneath the
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The test of loving is sacrifice."
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breast of the
the pumice
some niche
of the forest's
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SIGNIFICANCY!: OF EVERY.
DAY APPELLATIONS. .
The English Race. Carries ilt
Naeuc3 to the Uttermost
Parts of the Earth.
In the earliest days of the humari
family, all known persons, placer, and
groups, of human being; nnlst have
11adi names by which they were recce .
nizeci, .
The Marty cf these itamee t.,1 their
survival in civilization enables ueof,
ten to ascertain what lace': inhabited
districts now peopled by those of en-
tirely dillerent speech.
The llr,mea of mennt`?iw and fiver's
in many parts of England, for instaece,
are Celtic.
Ancient local names ere, as at rule;
purely descriptive, A river is called
by some word which merely signifles
"tile water," a mountain tatty have it
name which !means "the peak," "tile
castle," "the point,"
English place names generally stere
some Simple fact, and often denote
re more than property; the name of
a town or hamlet being formed by add-
ing "ton" or "hale" to the name of
some early landholder.
Quite often a• bit of even half ltu-
marcus description will eureive in
such a name, es when a stony, etarved
and weedy district is called Starv-
acre,
English Names in Many Lands.
The English race carries with it
the ancient names of au older people
into every continent, and titles given
to places in the Ilritish Isles may be
found in America, Australia, Africa,
and the islands cf the furthest. seas.
Touching pear,•?zt:l names, we find
that among most eivillzed races a
name, commonly derived from some
incident or natural object, is given at
the time of birth by the parents to
each child.
In some cases names of the earliest
races denote some phenomenon of
nature. No names are more common
among North American Indians than
those derived from sun., moon, stare,
clouds and wind.
Our English ancestors ha:d for per-
sonal names compound words, as, •
"Noble Wolf," "Wolf of War" and -lc
forth, tho names testifying to a some-
what primit!ve and fierce stage of
society.
Later came vulgar nicknames; as
"Long" "Black," "White," "Brown,'
etc. Other names were derviod from
the occupation of the person to whom
they were given as "Smith," "Fowler,"
"Saddler," etc,
Yet other names are derived from
places, the noble and landowner was
called "of" such and such a place,
equivalent to the German "von" and
the French "de." The humbler man
was called not "of," but "at" such a .
place, as in the name "Attewell" (at
well), or merely by the local name
without the "at," as in Wells."
Meaning of Well•Known Names.
Following are the origins of the
names of some countries:
Europe signifies a country of white
people, given because the inhabitants
were of a lighter co -or than those of
Africa and Asia,
Asia means "between" given be-
eanse geographers placed it between
Europe and Africa,
Africa, which formerly was cele-
brated for its abundance of grain, was
given this name, meaning "the land
of corn."
Siberia signifies "thirsty" or "dry.'
Italy signifies a country of pitch,
because it once yielded great (Dana.
ties of black pitch,
Britain means "the country of tin,"
Sicily denotes the• "courtly o
grapes."
Hibernia means "utmost" or "last
habitation," for beyond this, west,
ward, the P1 oenicians never veils
tuned.
Gaul, modern France, signifies "yell
low -haired," from the light hair of the
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Growing Sweet Pea Seed
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At the recent meeting. of the Cana.
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missioner, stated that the climate ane
soil ,of British Columbia were suet,
that he anticipated the western prgc
vince would become a bilge seed -grows
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As an evidence. of this a recent rad
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1 varieties,. It is further stated that the
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