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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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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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?’’

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

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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

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