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PAGE TWO OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1922 T = THECOW PUNCHER By Robt, J. C. Stead De ------ Good Luck is thought to go a long way, but Good Judgment goes farther. TO USE a om tte ---------- -------------- - have Sunday in September, 'in the first year of Dave's newspaper experience. '"'Don't take the defensive by gays [which such a mother could ing {given him, "I told only just what wad true," "I am twenty years behind my-| Dave called early, and found Hdith For there's more at that game might |gelf," he would reflect, with a grain a riding habit. be playing |smile, "Never mind, TI will do threa, "Mother If the truth were 'all told about |jmens' work for the next ten, and cay in the you. | then we will be even." [plained. "In other words, she doesn't "That may be bad poetry, but it's| And there was Kdith--kdith, who |wish to be bothered. So I thought good journalistic ethies." {had held him rapture-bound on that we woud ride today." | But after Dave had gone the editor |first Sunday in church--Edith who| "But there are only two horses," {called his business manager. "l|ipad burst so unexpectedly upon his|gaid Dave. ' {guess we'll have to raise Elden fol)ife that first evening in her father's| ya) » jLuirty dollars a week," sald he. "Ile's |pome. He had not allowed himself... o-oo s0 honest he embarrasses me, and T|any foolishness ahout Edith, It was! os | | is 'indisposed," as they society he page," she' ex- | |] | girl, and voice that Then, after queried the note in her {guess I need that kind of embarrass- <) face to which these terms would not apply. He found that the province of the police was not to enforce mor- ality, but to prevent immorality be- coming obnoxious. Anything, almost, might go on so long as its effects were confined to the voluntary par- ticipants. Under the sham of good hehavior was a world, known to the police and the newspaper men and few gthers, which refused to ac- ( (Chapter 8 Continued) A flicker amusement--or was it confession?--ran across the chief's | face as he answered, "Because we don't know what started it--and| Beecher is one of our best advertis- To say the origin of the fire is | unknown always leaves a smack of | suspicion. It is like the almost im-| perceptible shrug of the shoulder at the mention of a woman's name. \..¢ gandard conventions and lived You can't get away from it. And it} cording to its own impulse, And Is the advertiser who keeps the paper | pic world included so-called best alive. I know it's not idealism, but| ;iio0ne of both sexes. And they idealism doesn't pay wages and were good citizens. It seemed the paper bills, ad as long as readers ,mmyunity had two natures--a sort demand papers for less than it costs| 0 nr jekyll and Mr, Hyde on a to print them they will have to take ommunity basis. Splendid qualities, | second place to the rdvertiser. large-heartedness, generosity, were | Then all reports are to be colored |p ingeq and streaked through de-| to suit the advertiser?" demanded goog of selfishness and lust running | Dave, down into positive crime, . . And the No. Where a principle is involv-iyonqer was not what the papers ed--and we have principles, even it, inted, hut what they. left untold. | these degenerate days--we stand by| =" Ang he was glad he had met the principle, even if we lose the pat- poenje Hardy, She was an anchor! ronage: Our notions of what is for|apout his soul. , . And Edith Dun-| the public good have cost us a lot|,,p | of money at times. You see, the ex- ploiter is alwaye ready to pay his servants, which is more than can he said of the public. But where no real principle is involved we try to be friendly to our friends." With these fresh viewpoints on his profession Dave entered upon his work the followig day chastened hut determined. A]most immediately he found the need of acquaintanceships. The isolation of his boyhood had bred in him qualities of aloofness which had now to be overcome. He was not naturally a good "mixer"; he preferred his own company, but bis own company would not bring him mueh news so he set about dé-| liberately to cultivate acquaintance with the members of the police forea and the fire brigade, and the clerks in the hotels. And he had in his character a quality of sincerity {son of The Times at the reporters' absently to the clerk calling a list of names, his companion, with a grimace, intimated that there was something beneath the surface, "Pure fiction," he whispered, as the list was completed, *It would do you good to know who they are, {Shining lights, every one of them, And when they are lit up they can't be kept under a bushel. The police just had to do something. They won't be here--not one of them. Their lawyer will plead guilty, pay the fines, and everyone will be sor- ry--they were caught. Even his nibs on the bench isn't twice as hap- py. It was by good luck he wasn't with the bunch himself." It turned out as Carson Yredicted. which gave him almost instant admis: One of the leading lawyers of the sion into their friendships. He had City addressed the court, expressing not suspected the charm of his own | the regret of his clients that their he- personality, and its discovery, feed- havior had necessitated interference ing upon his new-born enthusiasm DY the police. He was full of suave for friendships, still further enrich- 2ssurances-that no disrespect to the ed the charm, nor annoyance to any member As his acquaintance with the work ©! the community, was intended, and of the police force increased Dave Ne pleaded feelingly for as great found his attitude toward mores] leniency' as the court might consid- principles in need of frequent read- CF consistent with the offence. The justment. By no means a Puritan, 2inimum fine was imposed, and he had, nevertheless, two sterling ile lawyer withdrew, bearing with aualitjes WMich so far had saved Dim the double happiness of having him from any very serious misstep, | Saved number of his personal He practised absolute honesty in all friends from a public exposure which his relatiopships. His father, drunk- Would have been, at least, embar- en although he was in his later T25SiDB. As the lawyer passed the vears, had never quite lost his sense Téporters' table Dave felt something of ecommereial 'uprightness, and Pressed into Ris hand, and heard the Dave had inherited the quality in full Yhispered words, "Split jt." degree. And Reenie Hardy had In bis hand was a ten-dollar bill. come into his life just when he need-| "What's the idea?" said Dave to ed a girl like Reenie Hardy to come Carson, when the session was over. into his life. . . . He often thought "The idea is that I get five," said of Reenie Hardy, and of her com-|Carson, "and both of ps forget it. pact with him, and wondered what |Cheap skate; he might have made it the end would be. And meanwhile |twenty. Of course the names were he found the need of frequent read-|bogus, but they ecouldn't risk men- fustments. He became aware of the tion even with that precaution. Easy fact Ha in every community there |picking, itsn't it?" are two communities; one on the| « En" i : " surface, . respectable, discreet, Shelton Set lovk auite a ventional; and one beneath the sur- [pews ; a -------- | "Oh, can that. You know we don't LIFE WAS MISERY | [Fc sieht, ds we'd wreck Society, or the ship of etate, or whatever it is we are all gil ' floating on, if we did that. We'd 1. was teading the other day |have every lawyer in this burg bu about Neurasthenia, about the large number of people who were troubled with this disease. It is Just what my wife had. She felt miserable all the time and was con- stantly . depressed. She would waken in the morning and tell me that something dreadful was going to happen that day. Life was nothing short of misery for her. a Dave get the much money already. What the world doesn't know the world doesn't {grieve over. And the joke of it is, | everybody thinks he's putting it lover somebody else, and while he's busy thinking that, somebody else is | putting it over him. So they're about even in the finish. Besides, if |you talk about principle, doesn't the ment, or I wouldn't be embarrassed." | CHAPTER 1X, While the gradually deepening current of Dave's life flowed through the channels of coal-heaver, freight- hustler, shipping-clerk, and report- or, its waters were sweetened by the] intimate relationship which devel-| oped hetween him and the members of the Duncan household, He con- tinued his studies under Mr. Dun- can'g directions; two, three, or even four nights in the week found him at work in the comfortable den, ov, during the warm weather, on the screened porch that overlooked the family garden, His duties as re- porter frequently called for attend- ance at public meetings devoted to all conceivable purposes, and he was at first disposed to feel unkifdly to- ward these interruptions in his regu- evident that Kdith was pre-empted, just as he was pre-empted, and the! part of honour in his friend's house was to recognize the status quo. . . Still, Mr. Allan Forsyth was unne- corsarily self-assured. He might have made it less ovident that he was within the enchanted cirgle, while Dave remained outside. His complacence irritated Dave almost into rivalry," But the hoon camarad- eries of Mdith herself checked it two ways--by her ownefrank accept- ance of him much as she would have accepted a brother in the household, and by her uncanny and unconscious knack of reminding him in almost every word and gesture of Reenie Hardy, She was of about the same figure as Reepie Hardy; a little slighter, perhaps; and about the same age; and she had the same quick, frank eyes And she sang wonderfully. He had never heard Reenie sing, but in some strange way he had formed a deep conviction lar studies, He raised the point with Mr. Duncan, ° "One thing I have heen trying to drill into you," said his tutor, "is that education is not a thing of kind. It is the whole world; par- {tables in the police court, listening ticularly the world of thought, feel-|)jgjon, man i ing, and expression. in the garden of garden itself, with its perfumes, and its sunshine an' rain. Yes, and its weeds, and droughts, and inseets, and worms. [There is a phage of education in the publie meeting, whether its purpose he to discuss the municipal! tax rate or the flora of the Rockies. Yon can't afford to miss any subject; but {still less can you afford to miss the audiences that are interested in any subjeet. They are deeper thal any book. There are all kinds of audi- ences. There is the violent audience, land the mysterious audience, and the sentimental audiew.ce and the whimsical audience, and the hystor ical audience--and every other kind. And the funny thing is that they are all made up of much the same peo- ple. Take a sentimental audience, for instance; a few passes, and you have an hysterical audience. It is a difference of moods, We don't think enough ahout moods, We all subject to moods, and 'yet we judge a new acquaintance by the mood he happens to be in--and the mood we happen to be in--at the {time of making the acquaintance ship. Another day, in other moods, he would make a quite different im {pression-----if the impression already made could he effaced. | have a the- ory that the world': sorrow is large- lv a matter of moods. 1 don't deny the sorrow, nor the need for, sor- row, nor the reality of it, but I d« believe there is a mood of happiness which even the deepest SOrrows cannot suppress. And the more you study people the more you will un- derstand 'moods, and, perhaps, he master of your own. And the man who can, by force of his own will, determine the mood in which he wiil live is master of the world." 50 Dave came to realize that every incident in the reportorial round was to he assimilated for its educa- tional value, and this lent a zest to {his work which it eouaid uot other- wise have bad. But the attraction of the Duncan household grew upon him, and many an hour he spent un- der its hospitable roof. Mrs. Dun- can, motherly, and yet not too moth- erly--she might almost have heen an It is not a flow- life; it is the its flowers, and er in a week, and they're making too older sister--appealed to the young by local (man as an ideal of womanhood. Her 1£9ft, well-modulated voice seemed to him to express the perfect harmony of the perfect home, and underneath {its even tones he caught glimpses of a reserve of power and judgment not |easily unbalanced. She was a wom- jan to whom men might carry their ambitions, and women their hopes, She was" so depressed that I ex. pected she would lose her mind and have to go to 2 sanmitarium and I kept wondering how I would get the money to pay for her. She could mot eat and had no appetite for food. She was ir- ritable and eranky most of the time. If she was crossed in any way, she would immediately work herself up into a violent temper. This worried me because she had always had a kind and gentle dis- position and mothing which was said or done scemed to irritate her. 1 spoke to our family doctor ab@t her and he said that her trouble was imagination and thot if she would try and forget about her depression and look on the bright side of life she would be all right. Of course I didn't dare tell her this because I knew she would into one of her tempers. "got over these fits of temper, she was always weak and ill and more than ever. 'The ' doctor & a tonic might help her and gave me a prescrip- on but this did not do her any She tried all kinds of other with the same result. Car- as recommended to me and I ish to that it is theleader Since taking it my completely. Now y for her meals 1 8 by 2 & Mr. J. M, Carnol is sold by your druggist, and if you can conscientiously say, after 'you have tried it, that it hasn't deme you any good, return the empty bottle to him and he will refund your money: 7-622 Sold by Wm. H, Karn, Oshawa, Ont. would that they should do unto you [aad all be assured How would you feel in their posi- |audience and wise counsel. And as tion? Dave's eves would follow her heal- "I tell you," said Carson, warm- | !1y. handsome figures as it moved ing up to his subject, "this is an in- |Noiseles about in / her domsetic tricate game, this life business, Prei-|duties, or as he caught the flush of ty seedy in spots, but, after all, most |Pcauty that still bloomed in her people are merely victims of circuin- [thoughtrul face, or as at rarer inter- stances. And if circumstances place |Y41s he plunged into the homest a five-spot in your hand today, ac-|4°Pths of her frank grey eyes, the cept what the gods bring you. To-|irag8edy of his own orphaned life morrow they will take it away. bore down upon him, and he rebell- "See this suit," he continued, in-|©d that he had been denied the start {dicating his attire, which greatly = or RC -- You Cannot out-classed Dave's. "A friend gave Ba or and Healthy, me that. I get all my suits that way. [Seep your When a scrap oceurs in a bar-room, a booze riot, or knifing, or some- » Write for fleas, Clear and I Eye Remziy Co.. 9 Laid Ohio Streot, Chicass thing goes wrong upstairs, I just mention that it took place in "a down-town hotel." Then I order my- | self a suit, or something of that kind, and have the tailor send his | bill to the proprietor of the joint. He pays. If he doesen't, next time Bible say to do unto others as you land little children their wonderings, | of sympathetic | that she would sing much as Kdith |gang. He was not yet psychologist enough to know that his admiration | for Edith was the reflex action to his [love for the girl who had so won- [dertully invaded his foothill life and One morning as he sat with Car- books or studies or formulae of anv|y, wonderfully changed the current In love, for ever {idols to represent his ideals for ever finding feet of clay Dave was not long in discovering that his engagement as coachman | was a device, horn of Mr. Duncan's kindness, to enable him [instruction without feeling |obligation for it When made this discovery he smiled quietly to himself, and pretended not to have made it. Two things were apparent after their first drive that nothing was further from the minds of Mr. Dunean's bays than anything which called for so much exertion ad a runaway, and that, had they been so disposed, Edith was entirely competent to manage them The girl had not lived in foothill town since childhood without becom- ing something of a horsewoman, Bui Dave pretended not to know that he was a supernumerary. To have aet- ed otherwise would have seemed un- grateful to Mr. Duncan And pres- ently 'the drives began have sirange attraction of themselve When they drove buggy on Sunday afternoons the party usually comprised Mrs. Duncan and Edith, young Forsyth, and Dave. Mr. Duncan w interested in ecer- ain Si ay afternoon meetings, It vas | Duncan' tom in the rear seat, for hetter riding qualities, and it had a knack of fall- ing about that Edith would ride in the seat with the driver. She caused Forsyth to ride with her mother, ostensibly a courtesy to that young gentl a courtesy which, it may conjectured, was not fully appreciate At first he accepted with the good nature of one his position secure, but gradually that good nature gave way certain tiness of spirit which he could not entirely conceal It became evident that he would have preferred other ways of spend- ing the Sunday afternoons. parks, for instance. or quiet the as in re- setting up .. And {of his destinies. 0 under he oven the to in the two-seated Cus to sit front as man he i" who feeis te to a walks through cotton-woods by the river The crisis was precipitated one fine Mi accept' vounded strange to him. a pause in which the colour slowly rose to her checks, 'There are only two of us." "But Mr. Forsyth?" y "He is pot here. tle may\{not come, Will you saddle the hogses and let us get away?" It was evident to Dave tinat, for ome reason, Edith wished to evade Forsyth this afternoon. A lover's quarrel, no doubt. That she had a preference for him, and was reveal- ing it with the utmost frankness, |never occurred to hie sturdy, honest mind. One of the delights of his companionship with Edith had been that it was a real companionship None ofthe limitations occasioned by any sex consciousness had nar- rowed the sphere of the frank friend- 'ehip he fely for her, She was to /bim almost as another man, yet in ino sense masculine, It seemed rath: {er that her femininity was of such purity that, like the atmosphere he breathed, it surrounded him, flood- ed him without exciting conscious- ness of its existence, Save for a cer- tain tender delicacy which her wom- "SALADA' IS GOOD JUDGMENT. Hu3 "The Tea that is always Reliable." anhood inspired, he came and went] Forsyth it did not cceur to Elden with her as he might have done with | that a man chum of his own age. 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