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Ontario Reformer, 2 Nov 1922, p. 3

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------ TrE--. ¢ ¢ ---- pn aad RE a Ean RE TWD BD wT we ci m m- st al sk th ad sh pe ite Ba Hi prem - oe PACE TWO OSHAWA, ONTARIO; THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1922 a A - - MT ---- --_-- "-- a EE ---------- Er mr rm ei. te EE ---- ee NG . v wo « leomment, and realized that her guest 'And Edith refilled his cup and' sat{those who have not braing enovgh to; "That is 4" good thought" agreed ness, but if in the making of the la {was not a boy, but a man. ydown besie him, leaving that For-|know it, are the greatest failures of (Mr. Duncan, but not a conclusive | money he used methods that resulted | Then Mr. Duncan talked about 8Yth quite on the opposite side of|all, because they think they have one. In reckoning the happiness a|in unhappiness, we must subtract gardening, and from that to Dave's land shovelled. And as Mr. Duncan with Mr. Duncan at the side walk.|a By Robt. J. C. Stead {hillions of tens of coal, holding them |not come from hooks, A good listen-|like that. So in order to make /L \ [in reserve until the world's Supply er can learn as much ag a good read [People happy, wouldn't the first step \ v {of timber for fuel should be nearing |er---if he listens to the right kind |be to make money, so it could be] Chapter VI Comtinued resentment, but again the kindli- | neagurable wealth of this great new! home the thought deepened in him explained to him the wonderful pro-{ "I am not so sure," replied his |%an do tq make people lappy like |vieions of Nature; how she had stor-ltutor, "The first thing for you to|Paving for libraries, and giving ex- led away in the undiscovered lands|learn is that all learning does cursionsg to poor children, and things lexhaustion, and as he told of the im- of people." And as Dave walked |spent in that way?" the room. And suddenly he was |attained success, and they have only man gives we must, of course, sub- [the unhappiness first before we can {gkill in backing his team to the coal-|very, very happy. And when he|been bhuncoed with a counterfeit." tract the unhappiness to occasions, [give him any credit for the happi- HE Ow UN( {chute, and from that to coal itself, {looked at his watch it was eleven "But a- man who has money is in| He may make a great sum of money, |1€88 he has created. And I am dis- | op O'Clock! p iti viv ' i " y Dave had shovelled coal all winter | a position to give more happiness | , fit creating happi- (Continued on page 4) g i but he had not thought about coal,| "I guess we didn't get any lesson [than one who hasn't," objected {Nd use much of it in g hapy I except as something to be shovelled to-night," he said, as he shook hands | Dave. "Think of all the things man with a million dollars During this philippic Dave had | ness of the man's manner disarmed jan in coal resources, and how thelthat it really had heen a lesson turned toward the woman; her thin | him. He was silent for a moment, |, heelys of the world-- traffic, and in-|and that Mr, Duncan had intended it face still wore marks of vefinement, | and then he said, "No, 1 ain't. That's dugtry, and science even were de- hat way. And he wondered what and even his uncultured ear recog-| what makes me sick now. I eame | ondent upon coal and the man who!remarkable fortune had heen his nized a use of English thgt indi-|in here intendin' to get an Sdex nandled coal, Dave felt his reds The air was full of the perfume' of cated a fair degree of ediycation.|tion, an' I never even got a star rising with a sense of the dignity |halm-o'-gilead, and his feet were But she was broken; crushed with | it, excep' for some things perhaps of his calling. It was no longer light with the joy of youth. And the joint cares of motherhood and | wasn't worth the money, There al-igiy ana grimy; it was part of the he thought much of Kdith, and of poverty, and desperate at the in- ways seems to be somethin else-- 1.0 ord; it was essential to Progress | Reenie Hardy. Justices of a system that capitalized |in ahead, ; land happiness--more essential hea) In subsequent lessons Dave was her sacrifices, He had heard much | "There always will he," said MF gold, or diamonds, or all the beauli-| igi initiated into many matters talk of slaves, but here, he felt, he | Duncan, "until you start." {ful things in the store windows. And jo. 05 parlour manners and conver- saw one; not in the healthy, well-| "I suppose so," said Dave, wearily, (ne had had to do with this wondev-|us go, © "vip Duncan placed the first fed men with their deep mutterings|,,q (ook up the reins, ful substance all winter, and not Un-i,,q vyeqtest emphasis upon learning against employers, hut in this hag-| "5 vi punean persisted. "You- [til to-night had it fired the divine! write, and to write well. They had gard woman from Whose life the, "not. in such a hurry with that spark of his imagination, The WMe 0 pyijgsophic discussions, in lamp of joy had gone ont in the | (eam » he said, "Even if you are [ticked on, and although he was CABET which the elder man sought to lead bitterness of suffering and physical | late--aven if" you should lose your [10 be at work, he almost dreaded the fy ov uy00r 10 the acceptance of exhaustion, | job over it-- that's nothing to get- jmoment when Mr. Duncan should fone wonid not fail him in the Ca name itis your saféguard He spent the rest of the day |jjj,g this matter of getting started (mention his lesson, But before that ei vain of later life, and when a con- alone, thinking, He was not yet sure | yyy, an education.' {moment came there was a ripple OF oyysion had heen agreed upon it was of any road, but he knew that his! [laughter at the doo? and a gird ia nyycants habit to embody it in "" ' s dene?" Dave) J : mind had been made to think, and Hg) 10 be Jeon interest, | tennis costume and a young man a, that his life was bigger that night : : J little older than Dave, entered. One evening they had a long tall A "Schools an' books cost money, an ER me evening 16) i i mg talk than it had heen in the morning. He |, elon) SVS bi Tolar " | "Edith," said Mrs. Duncan. Dave gn success, and Mr. Duncan had si i ' | might not find the right road at) '" wer will," said Mr, Duncan | 2708%€ LO shake hands, but then his gradually stripped the glamor from onge: on he sue hu least leave ' I ave Bog 1 think 1 SEG cyes fell full upon her face. "Oh, | wealth and fame and social posi- the old one. e felt a strange |"n start, k ek Avi know " he exclaimed. 1 heard "Phe / thing wor hile," hunger to understand all that had | plan-that might help, ang if it an \ : Lip The any. This War w Bile." and- | pe: vill also he a great)" 4 . hid : . Se : been said, He felt, also, a treme nd Deals to voy, wv My wife likes| Slowly he felt the colour coming man who contributes to the happi- ous sense of his own ignorance; pre-it i driving Sundays and some- to his cheeks. Had he been too fam- [ness of the world is a success, and mendoys, ut Boy SrusRing: 2 Tea Bo on week tay evenings, put 1lilinr? Should he have held that (the man who does not contribute to lzatioy gg ! he wor Waa bid lave so many things on hand that |beek? What would she think? But!the happiness of the world is a fail- be Teas 1 he studied |1 find it hard to get out with her. |then he felt her hand in his and hejure, no platicr what his wealth or out, and underneath was a sense al- |My daughter used to drive, but these knew it was all right, : position, Jvery man who lives long most of exaltation that he should new-fangled automobiles are turn-j And I know you," she was saying. take some part in the studies and ing the world upside-down and many "1 saw you------ She stopped and copy for Dave's wriling lesson. comes to know this jn time, Awl enough and has brains enough, ' AE ET aa Telephone Thanksgiving Greetings By Long Distance MORE FOR YOUR MONEY Takes and retains highest lustre, -- Less moisture -- More polish "Tell Tom I'm cutting the second joint of the turkey's leg--his favorite portion--this minute"--calls out Father, as Elizabeth answers the Long Distance call, In easy to-open slip cover cans MADE IN CANADA At All Good Stores perhaps aid in the solutions. It a buggy with it. They're just num- | it was her turn to feel the rising | was his first glimpse into the world erous enough to be dangerous. 1 {colour. | of Reason, and it charmed and in-!there were more or less they would| "ves, 1 know what yon saw," he| vited him. He would follow. [be all right, but just now every [took up her thought. "You saw me He went early to bed, thinking horse is suspicions of them. Well get up and go out of church because | over all he had heard. His mind was las [ saw you driving in here I said tol wouldn't sit und listen to a man full, but it was happy, 2nd, in' some myself, *There's the man for that job {say that God punished the innocent strange way, fixed. Even the morn-lof mine, if I can get him'; but I'mito Jet the guilty go free. And (| ing service came back with a sense of not rich and ! couldn't pay you reg- won't." There was a moment's si-| worth-whileness as he recalled it in (ular wages. But if I could square jence following this outburst, and Comfort Soap is i A : I an cxtre large the semi-consciousness of approach- the account by helping you with your yr, Duncan made a new appraisal v bar of the best ing sleep. . . The music had studies a couple of nights a week -- lof his pupil. Then it was time to] laundry soup. been good. . . . It had made || used to teach schocland haven't|introduce Mr. Allin Forsyth. Mr. | him think of spring and the deep altogether forgotten why, that|Porsyth shook hands heartily, but! woods . . . and water would be just what 1 want, Whai|Dave was conscious of being caught ; x 4 and wood smoke ) £ taup White Naptha Soap are good for ir It was about a far-away land "I never saw anything on four feet {him from head to heel. And the and Reenie Hardy. She was very I couldn't drive," said Dave, an' if glance was satisfied--self-satisfied like Reenie Hardy. you're willing to take a chance, IL am |[t wus such a glanee as Dave might | ---- When do we start {give a horse, when he would say, CHAPTER Vil "First lesson to-night. Second |"A good horse, but 1 can handie | Fortunate Fate, or whatever good lesson Thursday night, First drive jim. It was evident from that ! angel it is that sometimes drops un-|Sunday." Mr. Duncan did not ox laiance that Forsyth had no fear of | expected favours, designed that (plain that he 'wanted to know the rivalry from that quarter. And hay- | young Elden should the following | POY better hefore the drives were | ing no fear he could afford to he day deliver coal at the home of Mr. (commenced, and he felt that two|friendly. | Melyin Duncan. Mr. Duncan, tall, |Bights together would satisfy him | Dave had no distinet remembrance quiet, and forty-five, was at work in Whether he had found the right MAN {oe what happened just after that, his garden as Dave turned the team | Dave hurried back to the coal fy, 4 he was conscious of an over in the lane and backed them up the [yard and completed the day's worl | whelming desire to hear Miss Dun- long, marrow drive connecting with [In high spirits. It seemed he waste, ging" jpw like Reenie she was! the family coal-chute. As the heayy (at last started on a road hating just as he was beginning to wagon moved straight to its onjcc- might lead somewhere. After BUD-/ininic Ar. Duncan must surely have tive, Mr. Duncan looked on with Per he surprised his fellow labourers |p gotten his lesson, he heard her approval that heightened into admir- | bY schanging his Sunday clothes and |, uive him if she should sing. And do you say?" 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Douglas, | Manager Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station : : Latarti , stroe sading into! a | ation, Dave shovelled his load with- starting down street le aling int 'Ithen he saw Forsyth at the piano out remark, but as he stood for athe Tou dential part ol Mor I town 1w hy couldn't he leave her to do it moment at the finish wiping the [There were speculations that he had iy rear the butt-in?--and then he sweat from his coal-grimed face Mr. | seen a skirt" ; tooi | ear her fine, silvery voice rising | Duncan engaged him in conver-| Mr. 'Duncan met him at the does |in the notes of that song about the | sation. jand showed him into the living-l1.u4 where the sun would never zo | "You handle a team like you were (room, Mrs. Puncan, plump, mother-| 4,4, And suddenly: be re) born to it," he said. "Where did you |1¥. lovable in the mature womanhi- py, opie pad how lonely, how terribly. get the knack?" ness of forty, greeted him cordially. opr iply lonely he was. And he sat "Well, I came up on a ranch," |She was sorry that Edith was out; | with his head bowed that they might | said Dave. "I've lived with horses | dith had a tennis engagement. She |, Know. . . | ever since I could remember." was apparently deeply interested in| "You're a rancher, eh?" queried the young man who was to be her| And then, there were other songs, | the older man. "Well, there's no- |coachman. Dave had never been in and at last Mrs. Duncan, who had thing like the range and the open a home like this, and his eyes, un- slipped away unnoticed, returned | country. If I could handle horses accustemed to comfortable furnish- with a silver teapot, and = cups of | like you there isn't anything would |ings, appraised them as a Juxury. [delicate china, and sandwiches and hold me in town." There was a piano and a phono-|¢ak¢, and they sat about and ate "Oh, I don't know," Dave ans-|graph; leather chairs; a fireplace and drank and talked and laughed. | wered. "You get mighty sick of it." | with polished bricks that shone with "Did you get sick of it?" {the glow of burning coal; thick car ! Elden shot a keen glance at him. pets, springy to the foot; painted The conversation was becoming per- pictures looking down out of gilt sopal. Yet there was in Mr. Dun-|frames. And Mr. Duncan had said Plumbing, Heating and Repairs CHEWING GUM ; : - a certain appeal of sincere person-| more than that; there was an air "Yes, I got sick of it," he said [could feel although he could not de Boiler Room Repairs a Specialty "I lived on that ranch eighteen fine it; a sense that everything was years, and never was inside school (all right. He soon found himself] or church. Wouldn't that make you [talking with Mrs. Duncan about sick? . . .. So I beat it for |horses then about his old life on th=! town." ranch, and then about coming to | "And I suppose you are attending [town. Almost, before he knew it,| church regularly now, and night |he had told her about Reenje Hardy, | school, too?" but he checked himself in time. And] Dave's quick temper fired up in |{Mrs. Duncan had noticed it without | cap's manner a certain kindliness (he was not rich! And there was| { | ality, that disarmed suspicion. !a spirit, an atmosphere that Dave | | | | J. S. DICK At Purdy Co.'s Premises 82 Simcoe St. 8. ESTIMATES GIVEN Phone 942 Res. 369 : "My Boy was Starving to Death" "As He Was Getting No Nourishment He Was Gradually Wasting Away." "Here's a story which will interest | awaited his return as my sister had every auotlier. Before my boy was | written me that I would be surprised born, I was im such delicate healih {when I saw my boy. When my that the doctor dida't think I would | sister got off the train, I could not survive the ordeal. For weeks alter | believe that it was my own boy if! . he was born my life was despaired of, | she was leading by the hand. s0 I couldn't feed him and the poor | saw such a change in any ¢ little fellow was left to the care of | was fat and rosy and full ¢ friends. He wasn't naturally stron. | a happy smilel "White il No care was taken im choosing his | you done to him," I said. Why, , , food and his poor little stomach replied, 'I simply made him live out E use the words became so weakened that he couldn't doors, gave him good lcod--and j "perfect" only in keep anythi on it. As he was|here's the rcal secret, I gave him ett no mourishment from his [three bottles of Carnoul Refore he Food Bs was gradually wasting away. | had taken half a botile his whole Finally, in desperation, we sent for a | appearance bad changed. He got child speciali ad Be rd at my Bisavior, tus face Sook oi A olour and boy was starving fo death. ¢ gave | he wo ron round for hours at a . hie some medicine and advised a |time." The change in my boy is the perfection. Spots are re- certain diet. 'The child did improve | most wonderful event in my life. moved permanently by but somehow couldn't seem 20 pei am a regular 'fax' for Carnol and our methods and im- strong. This went oun for fourorfive | never lose a chance to boost it. As maculate harmony given years and the boy still continued | write I am Jookingoutof the window to garments, weak and y looking. He could [and when I see that rosy, active, not play like other children without | healthy child running round, J cannot having to lie down and rest. My | believe that he was once a puay, sister who lives on a farm mear the | delicate boy." connection with a striet guarantee, In the cesults of our workman- ship our customers find the ideal interpretation of "A trial will convince you" ~~ dentifrice you can ea~ sily use after every meal. said that she could fix him up if i I would Sa es to her, While 1| Carnol is sold by your druggist,' hated being separated from him, I and if you can conscientiously ei was ready to make any sacrifice to | after you have tried it, that it hasn' get him strong. He was away from done you any good, return the empty me for three months and it was with | bottle to him and he will ref und your feelings of great excitement that I [ouey. o422 PARKER'S FOR SALE BY WM. H. KARN, OSHAWA

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