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A Story of the Irish on the
Canadian Countryside

_ By PATRICK SLATER

By arrangement with Thomas
Allen, Publisher, Toronto,

CHAPTER XI.—Continued

_ The Marshall family were honestly
concerned about my condition of
health; but I told them I had got
medicine to take, and, worse luck, I
produced the bottle. The dose was a
tablespoonful night and morning be-
_ fore meals. Miss Elizabeth saw to it
that I took my medicine. It was
_ horribly-bitter astringent stuff.
_ “Tread on tht label that it is good
for most every ailment, Patrick, even
for fainting spells,” the solicitous
young woman told me, with a smile.
__ “So perhaps it will cure you!”
I kept away from the house and
threw my body into hard work in an
attempt to burn the fever out of my
pe system. I can sincerely recommend
a daily walk of eighteen miles be-
tween the handles of a bucking plow
_ to any young man who is love sick—
_ to be followed by a rest of eight
hours on a hard bunk.
_A day or two before Christmas
that year, Samuel Arnold drove up
i the lane to make his expected visit
on Miss Elizabeth Marshall and her
P family. Mr. Marshall was away to
_ town. So I stepped out to do the
honors and took the young gentle-
man’s team) Mr. Arnold said he
would go with me to the stable. It
had been a long, cold cutter ride for
the man—the snow crunched under
_ foot. He came muffled up with fur
cap and robes, but on alighting, his
legs were stiff and numb with the
_ cold. His purpose in coming with
me, I found, was to dandify himself
up for an effective stage entrance at
the house. Off came the fur cap;
‘and on he clapped a high silk plug
much affected by the young Irish
gentry of those days. The smart
# young man was wearing pants with
plush stripes and a black frock coat
with two buttons at the small of the
back. As he fingered his bow-tie
and turned to walk towards the
house, it occurred to me that I
might do him a kindly turn. He
Seemed a civil young man. He had
come a long way, and was entitled to
@ good run for his money.

“Pardon me, sir,’ I said to him;
“but the Marshall ladies have a pre-
judice against tobacco chewing. Per-
haps you better wipe your chin and
rid up the corners of your mouth a
little.”

Mr. Arnold took the suggestion
kindly.

“And perhaps, too,” I told him,
“you better leave your plug with me.
You might be forgetful and take a
chew unbeknownst to yourself like!”

I carried his grip up to the house
and ushered him in the front way,
which had been freshly shovelled for
the occasion.

That was one festal season the
Marshall parlor gave useful service
for its idle keep. Mr. Arnold prided
himself on his deep singing voice;
and his idea of a good time was to
have Miss Elizabeth play hymn
tunes for him on the melodeon. The
man’s voice vibrated the wire stems
on the wax flowers and penetrated
the remote fastnesses of the Marshall
house. After several days of it, the
committee rose and reported pro-
gress. Mr. Arnold apparently asked
leave to sit again at a later date,
Mrs. Marshall thought him an agree-

_ able young man. William Marshall
x3 d tried him several times, but
‘never struck Sparks strong enough to
light up a discussion of any kind.
Mr. Arnold pulled on his fur cap and
Grove away with a cordial invitation
to come again.

_ ‘The Rey. James Berry—that in-
corrigible matchmaker— wrote the
-and-butter letter. He reported
at the young man was very fav-
erably impressed.

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Miss Letitia was present to make his

intance. On the of
this visit, the young man’s mind was
not on hymn singing. He had driven
over to make ‘arrangements about
gettting married. He was surprised
and disappointed when Miss Eliza-
beth told him that, at the moment,
she was not thinking of marrying
any one.

It then transpired that Rey. Mr.
Berry, in the heat of match-making,
had overstepped his instructions and
that the clergyman’s limber tongue
had placed young Arnold in a very
awkward predicament. All his friends
and neighbors over home had been
told the match was made, and the
whole countryside knew that Arnold
was now off to attend to the details
of getting married to Miss Elizabeth
Marshall of Mono. An awkward
affair that, was it not? Arnold

| argued his side of the case with great

vigor, and spent a couple of days
trying to persuade the young woman
to take a reasonable view of the situ-
ation. Elizabeth did not see matters
ih his light. Aunt Letitia spoke her
mind strongly on the wisdom of the
girl getting a good husband with a
two-hundred-acre farm all clear, now
that the opportunity presented itself.
Quite a bit of pressure was brought
to bear on Elizabeth, but she was
adamant. Altogether, a very unhappy
time was had. Finally Miss Letitia
had one of her weak spells; and
Samuel Arnold threw up his hands
and asked that his team be got
ready for the road by two o'clock in
the morning.

Mr. Marshall asked me if I would
mind lending a hand by having the
visitor's team ready at that unearth-
ly hour. That was no task for me—
it was a downright, joyful pleasure.
I gave the Arnold horses oats enough
to send them steaming down the
road; and then I took a walk off
somewhere—I was horribly distressed
in spirit.

On returning, I found the house in
darkness. The air was mellow with
moonlight and vibrant with the rasp-
ing, pulsing hum of the tree locusts.
At the gate of the snappy new picket
fence, which now totters on its time-
worn way, I found the cause of all
the family trouble awaiting me. The
girl was in her bare feet and her hair
had tumbled down from a loose coil.

“Why, Miss Elizabeth,” said I, ‘IT
thought every one would be in bed
long ago. Bob and I were waiting up
to get Mr. Arnold’s team ready for
him.”

“Oh it's heart-broken I &m,” she
told me with a choke in her voice.

“Now, now, Betty,” said I to her,
‘t's this night time does it. The
shadows will all flee away with the
fairness of the morning.’”’

“Tf that old thing, Letitia, would
only mind her own business,” she
sobbed, “I know Ma would leave me
alone.”

The girl's face was pale in the
moonlight, and she was in distress.

“Why, Betty,” I comforted her,
“they're all interested in your wel-
fare, and they’re trying to plan the
best for you.”

“But I don’t want to marry that
conceited thing—with his singing,”
she burst out.

“The man might make you a good
home,” I counselled, “his folk are
highly spoken of.”

“But I don't want him” she
sobbed. “I don’t want him at all...
It’s you I want, Paddy!”

The girl's hair got tangled up in
her bare arms and seemed to blind
me. I could feel the sobs shaking the
curves of her soft, warm body. It
was Betty taught me a woman's
tears have a salty taste.

“Oh! take me,” she whispered,
“never to foresake me—because I
love you so.”

“Now, now, girl,” I told her after
awhile, “you'll always have Paddy
as a last resort. Sure, child,” said
I, “you'll never be a left-over like
your grand-aunt Letitia—I’ll guaran-
tee that!”

The thought touched a funny spot
and broke the spell the moon was
casting. cE

“I don’t know why they are all so
much concerned about my affairs,”
she complained, “why don’t they
leave a girl alone to live her own
life? They must want to get rid of
me!”

“Well,” I said, with a chuckle,
“they'll all be damn well concerned
about your affairs, Elizabeth Ann, if
that Aunt Letitia of yours spies you
standing out here in the moonlight
with your arms about the neck of
a no-account Irish papist.”

“Oh! well, anyway, you clumsy
Sweetheart,” she smiled at me
through glistening tears, “it’s ‘mea
culpa,’ Paddy, and you won’t have to
tell your ghostly father, John Sheri-
dan, anything about it.”

With that, she fled into
‘darkened house. .

“Come, Bob,” said I, when at last
I got my breath back, “let us go and
think this matter over.”

It was clear as day what was the
matter with Paddy Slater. He was
hopelessly in love with the woman

the

. old returned to the Marshall
in time. As luck had it

whose fresh young heart had burst
open, like a flower, in wild surrender

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there. In the hot heyday of his
youth, his blood was tingling with a
love sickness of which a country lad
once sang:

_“My beloved is unto me as a
cluster of flowers in the vineyards
of En-gedi . . . Behold thou art fair,
my love, behold thou art fair!...
Thou hast doves’ eyes. . . . Thy
teeth are like a flock of sheep that
are even shorn which come up
from the washing. . . . Thy two
breasts are like two roes that are
twins, which feed among the lilies.
. . . Thy lips drop as the hohey-
comb; honey and milk are under
thy tongue; and the smell of thy
garments is as the smell of Leba-
non. .. . Stay ye me with cakes
of raisins, comfort me with ap-
ples; for I Iam stick of love!”

—Holy Bible.
~ And Paddy Slater knew what un-
happiness that love would bring to
a family to whom he was honor-
bound by ties that snubbed about
the heart of a lonely barefoot or-
phan boy. Now, I ask you, all and
sundry, what should the miserable
lad have done?

I hung about the house till long
after two o'clock in the morning. I
could hear the heart-broken swain
snoring soundly, dragging a bow
over his base cord like a regular
fare-you-well. Evidently the man
was snugly till breakfast call. I
went into my own room and packed
up some working clothes in a clean
grain sack.

Bob was waiting for me at the
kitchen door. He was a crippled
dog, worn put with the weight of
his years. I felt heart-scalded to
be leaving him, and I knelt down to
try and explain matters.

‘Ym off on a long journey, Bob,
my friend,” I told him.

The dog stuck his long snout into
my face and whined querulously.
The old fellow was suffering from a
disorder that was a private matter
between two gentlemen; but while I
was around to do him little services,
he took an interest in the affairs of
the farm and got about without
much discomfort. But it seemed a
shame to be deserting him.

(To Be Continued)

The phrase “tickled to death”
originated in a Chinese torture, when
victims had the soles of their feet
tickled until they died in an agony
of laughter.

Two-thirds of the earth’s surface
is covered by water.

|sun” are the sum of the London

To Encourage Capital

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Still Undeveloped

Premier T, D, Pattullo told a con-
vention of Canadian and United
States mining men British Columbia
wanted to encourage capital invest-
ment because a “great portion of its
area was literally unprospected.”

The premier was addressing a
luncheon meeting of the joint con-
vention opened by the Canadian In-
stitute of Mining and Metallurgy and
the American Institute of Mining
and Metallurgical Engineers.

He said Fort St. James was locat-
ed at the geographical centre of the
province, but that almost the entire
area north of that point was un-
developed.

Mr. Pattullo mentioned briefly the
cordial relations between Canada
and the United States. He warned
his listeners that “we may think our-
Selves safe from attack but don’t
forget there can never be a major
world conflict without this continent
being drawn into it.”

He referred briefly to the proposed
annexation of the Yukon Territory
by British Columbia, commenting:
“and we may go farther than that
before we get through.”

Will Follow The Sun

Portable Classrooms In London’s
New School Construction
Scheme
Classrooms which will “follow the

county council’s new school construc-
tion scheme to be started next year.

The buildings will be of light and
adaptable construction, with sliding
walls, sun-roofs and portable class-
rooms.

Foot-baths, showers, toothbrush
brigades and rest periods on port-
able beds will be part of the daily
program.

Cooks With Sun’s Rays

Using twenty panel mirrors, a
California genius has devised a sun-
cooker which is not only capable of
cooking meats and vegetables with
the sun’s rays, but can generate a
temperature as high as 1,000 degrees,
hot enough to melt several metals,

The steel industry in the United
States alone spends more than $9,-
000,000 a year on research.

AMERICA’S CHAMPION COLLIE DOG

Lochinvar, (Irela of Glamis) America’s champion collie dog, wants to
get in the billiard game which his mistress, Miss Cherry Osborne of Long
Island, New York, played at the Banff Springs Hotel recently. Lochinvar,
himself worth $5,000, is able to earn the meagre salary of $50 per day as

@ movie star in Hollywood.

150 P:

States Designer Of Fying
Boats

A trans-Atlantic airliner capable
of dating 250
will be built “before long” in the
opinion of Oswald Short, designer of
Imperial Airways’ flying boats.
The liners would weigh 150 tons
and have motors which would de-
velop 6,000 horsepower. Caledonia
and Cambria, the Atlantic trail
blazers, weigh 19 tons and have ac-
dation for 30 y ers.
Short declared there would be no
technical difficulties in constructing
such large ships, but engines of suf-
ficient power would take time to de-
velop. The latest commercial air-
motor built at present develops only
1,500 horsepower. z
The Short plant! at Rochester,
Kent, has already turned out 22 of
the Imperial Airways’ order for 28
ships by the end of this year.
Short began as a balloon enthusi-
ast but after Orville Wright's suc-
cessful flight started building aero-
planes. In 1926 he scrapped wood
construction as obsolete and built the
world’s first all-metal flying boat.

Good Roads For Alberta

Province To Have 700 Miles Of Hard
Surface Highways By End
Of 1938

Alberta government expects to
have 700 miles of hard surfaced
roads in the province by the end of
1938, according to present plans,
Hon. W. A. Fallow, minister of pub-
lic works, announced.

All but a few miles of the main
highway from the international
border to Edmonton would be hard
surfaced by the eng of 1938 construc-
tion season, he said.

“Blottering” of roads is proceed-
ing at the rate of 10 to 12 miles a
week and it is expected 150 miles
will be completed this year, the
minister stated. About 150 miles
Were processed last year.

Previously hard surfacing had
cost from $10,000 to $12,000 a mile,
he asserted, but the government now
was hard surfacing at a cost of not
more than $2,500 a mile. The new
type of hard surfacing was similar
to work now being done in the
United States, he added.

A Quick Convert

A Communist agitator rode into
Hyde Park, and later leaning his
bicycle against the railing, mounted
a soap box and proceeded to address
the crowd.

‘If your family is hungry,” he
shouted, “raid a shop and take food
for them, and don’t care what any-
body says. If your wife hasn't got
a coat, pick the best fur coat you
can see, and ignore the conse-
quences.”

After several more minutes in this
strain, he dismounted from his soap
box, and his next words were:
“Where's the scoundrel who took
my bike?’’

Film Director: “The lon will pur-
sue you for a hundred yards—no

Fear ye not, stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord which He will
show to you to-day. Exodus 14:18,

The folded hands seem idle,

But if folded at His word

It is.a holy service,

In obedience to the Lord.

It is not the multitude of hard
duties, it is not constraint and con-
tention that adyance us in our chris
tian course, On the contrary it is
the yielding of our wills without re-
striction and without any choice, to
tread cheerfully every day in the
path where the Lord leads us, to
seek nothing, to be discouraged by
nothing, to see our duty in the pres-
ent moment, and to trust all else
without reserve to the will and
power of God. Godliness is the de-
votion of the soul to the Master, as

be its law, whose love is to be its
life. It is the habit of living before
the face of God, and not simply the
doing of certain things,

For Public Weal

Plan To Make Medical Services
Available To All Classes
Of People

Challenge to the medical profes-
sion in Alberta to take the lead in
formulating some plan whereby
medical services would be made
available to all classes of people and
at a cost within their means, was
made at Edmonton by Dr. T. H. Leg-
gett of Ottawa, president of the
Canadian Medical Association.

The science of medicine has ad-
vanced so rapidly, while
economics has been almost standing
still, that a serious disequilibrium
has been created,” Dr. Leggett as-

annual convention of the Alberta
branch of the association, and: the
College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Alberta,

One of the leading tasks facing
the medical profession in Canada
was correction of this unbalance, Dr,
Leggett emphasized.

A Japanese Pastime

Listening To Songs Of Insects Was
Considered Soothing
The traditional Japanese pastime
of listening to the songs of insects
is threatened with extinction. Films,
radio, jazz, cafes and sports provide
the entertainment of modern Japan.
For years regarded as a soothing ,
comfort, the song of night-singing ,
insects, captive in delicate bamboo
cages, are appreciated by compara-
tively few. One known dealer still
handles many bell insects, and dur-
ing the spring and summer months
as many as 100,000 are sold.

Almost every Japanese of moder-
ate means owns three or four times
as many pictures as he has room
for on the walls of his home. They
switch ’em around according to the

seasons,

Great Britain's longest electria
railway has just been opened be-

farther. You understand?”
Actor: “I understand—but does
the lion?”

tween Waterloo and Portsmouth, in
England, the non-stop trains cover-
2221 ing the 74 miles in 91 minutes.

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