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ies' Wit-I In "min" only. trot on (an. In My requires In- temit tram-out. Stop dragging! It“ soothing. mutating "St. hook OW' right Into your sore. am. will: join". um! relic! com" m. "Bt. Junk on" I. I hut-Ion then-nun} mum: {in - “amt-to and cant V 14-h? "r. 4Nit e0rrtNutrttrttrr. CR 0 “I tret MI. ot 0M. pon- ' ae MM OK" " Any drtte C', but I I...“ m'll ' l 7 Manson, M “I've driven a team." Cal an- swered, recalling a week-end when he had taken Reed to the country, and had functioned on the reins of two downheartnd rings then placed at his disposal. But a line spirit of confidence was bubbling within Utitn. It was the climate, the air, the sunshine. the his spaces. the big horses. the his menl or something. Perhaps Minnie. At any rate he wns beginning to understand why the only thing a Westerner (eels apolo- egtic about Is having to apologize for anything. 'Sure, I can drive a) team." he asserted. ‘ Something about the twinkle In the old man's one not Cal macr- lng In: which Ind been paying with the other. Perhaps Jnckmn "You should, at forty dollars a month," the farmer remarked drlly. "But I suspec‘ what you have in mind is an Ontario team. Two horses. Can you drive tour horses?" " never have," Cal confessed. "Well. It don' come without learnin" " lakes a bit of eddlca- tion to run a (grim -you‘ll find that, an' you may'a well sun at the' bottom. Suppose you go along with Gander tttits" memotm an' keep‘ your eyes tut' on: open. "I hnot by tomorrow how drunk I was whom l mm rem." I “Hat'- Bo," aha aid. looking " hi. curiously. as though she were mining some kind ot specimen M. liter n mule, "That'. so, Pail-pl i don' lee it quite straight, thinkin‘ to much o' Minnie. You 'ott' know her, ot course. Well she‘- - by "ttqttttte- my only daughter, twenty-one in June, an’ I set I heap‘ by her. When I was raising tttel kids. diarin' all day' an' dunderin" ‘mnnd halt the night with sqnuvi- ing hnhies. l meta say, 'Wait till Minnie grow: ap.' Minnie we: the youngest. exoep' Hamilton, tut' she was my only girl, an' I sort o' set an extra store on her, as you might say. l-suppone mothers have a sort o' sympathy for their girls that they don' have for their boys; they know what's aha-d ot 'em. Well. I useta keep up those times with promis- in' myseli that when Minnie grew up her tut' me'd sort o' hit it or! together. But would she stay on the farm? Not for the soul or sake o' her. She's thumping one o'.them writing machines in a lawyer's of- nee in PitustrMr--thoutrh wha' they have to to write about"so much in Phlnvllie beats me-tut' Um still scrapin' the pots tut' pans" Jackson Stake met him in the yard. "Can you handle horses?" he demanded. “It's not that she wanted to hurry us ot, to work," Cal summed it up to Mme". " She had shown a little more ot her heart than she intend- ed-to a stranger. And not a bad heart at that, or I'm mistaken. . . I wonder about this Minnie." wl' ye house. Something susplclously lilu mus- ture gathered in the old woman's eyes and sent her reaching for the corner or, her apron. “Land's sakes, you're long eaters!" she suddenly exclaimed. "The men’ll be wantin' you help with the teams, though If you‘re Just from the city I reckon they mm' be mlssln’ much. Bat you may as mm jump in at once, as they say. an' get your tet wet. Away Ouch! Aching Joints, - Dab Rheumatic‘Pain . “I!!! than not," cu natural to can»! her. “For enmple. I've but In". the any tor the tum." an Pun right out with small it!” bottle of old "St.s Jacob. on." to I". It. m:'- why everybody”: Irwin tho ur- for tho city." yet" Flu: tout-d on u him?" the [and vqtteet,rt-Uttrtit .tNtettr-tsodrqr- In. an. am no to“ Ian- a can» " the u m (on will no: on In} “wind-Wit 'it"atsaat-trira3roNrrtttrrs.; She waved them out of the w Ther had used onto! the has Into an “(aged am. "only " tore than. with an m g... I. tho dun Ion. - . tic-whom “No-n! whtet m w " be a. In“. tt "mqtP" g a. and m . an. m a a... - . M! . Qrrt99tieth. at ( Cal felt a. delicacy about taking ‘an explanation of Gander". own " ‘t‘ellntion. and Gender othsrod none. evidently quite overlooking the peed ot it, It wee not entirely u- noclated with ht: teen. lexlhle neck. When he was t boy ot (anneal or tttteen years. his voice, In so!” thrown those contortlone peculiar to the volree of boy- 01 about that use bed shown I tendency to heel: on! in I goose-like hoe}. To (len- der's greet emttarrattmtiettt the-e hanks would come It the most lu- opportune menu “I wholly without notlce, so that the that run-l stetement. hem In . tune} and respectable note, ended ml something suggestive of e Mld‘ goose ptptnl to Its mete. Someone celled him Gender. all under stuck; lt had muck no long and In eel! that he hed elmoet forgotten he had e etrete- m: VIM perfectly good end only may "Oh. I dunno. His name's Fraser Pyle. so we cut it down to Double P. School teach here, Annie From "T yon‘il be going to her, Reed, once you get tustied--aars it means very very loud, but I don't see no com neclion. Ham's a bit so" on Double F‘s daughter Elsie; tha's what Gr" was kiddin' him'abant at noon, you remember, when he was washin’. Nice girl, though. Her nn' Minnie meta be back an' forth a lot. Aam's name is Hamilton, at course. but he just gets Ham, ttxeep' from Monika? 'Hamburger Staked we all him1 sometimes, for (an. An' Grit; ( guess than; his real dune; donno;; sometimes i all Gt Dinty Hoon.‘ Looks a bit like 'lm, I‘ll say." _ "Whr do you call him Double I?” Cal inquired. "You seem to have such funny names." The great bay at the aight an- swered with a. tshtttrle of his body as much as to say. "Sorry, excuse me this time," and switched his tall at an imaginary fly. over P." l "She's beett-hamiin' us a line o' wood weather, I'll say," Gander re- marked, by My ot conversation. "That's one thing about a farmer; he can"t make his conditions. He's got in take the weathél- God sends him, an' make the best of it. We're ploughing now tor oats; Grit and Ham ploughinVatt' me following wi' the. seeder. Sixty acres yet to plough for oats; then forty more for barter. Double F was trarirttr,-, that's him lives over on the next) farm to the wesi~as he has a hun- dred acres in oats now. but} bet he ain't. Double FY always has more at seedtime than ‘when the bushels are counted trom the threaher. Giddan, Jim! What you trippin' , Gander, chirped to his team and they were on their way, the idle traces. flung over the horses' broad backs. jingilnx pleasantly on they went. Their road lay along a nar- row lane between two sagging wire tones. with black. moist tiehht, ploughed and seeded. on either side. innumerable blackhlrds fluttered along the sushi: wires. Prom the early sown field to the left the first taint flush of green peeked up bet- ween the serried ridges made by the drill. A hot sun poured down trom I sky ot polished steel. cloud-j less save tor two tufts of wool dangling alrily in the northeast, l or... 9° all]. “In can; Ae-." no and I“ m me. in" contact- ed' "ttxr" hi- m or!" in what wk: on I cm ot lumen. thrs hllll it was because Proton-or Sterndnie. Doctor ot Philosophy, land I not ilk. Condor”- that he leaped into Cll'l mind at the mo- jmem. Or perhap- it on Golden ‘quiet. confident efficient manner} that summoned Storming up ttom; memory. “Funny ominous,” Col thought: "Old Storminla. Ph. D., and Garden Sake occupying;r the same brain cell in my lumber room. Doctor ot Philosophy one! none on- vineer. Teachers, both ot 'em." And then, the momentum of a new thought carrying him ott his bal- once, he took 3 mental slugger un~ der the question whether or not Gander sum; was the greater teacher ot the two. . . Ceruinly, for the moment at last, the more important. m. at. a! Srt'tth'tg {to unab- w I. u u I. ”It by. t. “Win you - In. low tak do an?" Cat and. “la! no at an hut-m a! It In my hand. I'll any " you [In me n glam.” l, under turned a not “M1 look tUNMt In. "Now you’re m4 "".h"0-rtt.mrir-iiirq when WNF- ' may. tour but... “a he! " like Count" on m. M an. ambumulient tho-o tome " tho most It unant- - - r. so am the most M. Mn In A m on pr, an nub-main": in; ”Mu-mum... ”an“ mmmtthrmmm. mun-0mm” and. the but" It on“. ’W'hon you no "I‘l'h. co m on hardly to! mud. Net tn Roi Pup WRIunMyonvm I". a. - ”norm Ntteuq I. not Maw-M. m but Pm Hr" mu In: much. Presently up from the emblem of the old Ford tune the mound breathing of two tired armor! sleeping the sleep of labor and col- temment. while the not red an of sunset ruled out ot the was! Ind, the still hull: ot night settled our the fteidg ind null-lea. "No story tonlght. Reed," he “Id. "Too big a day, ttttd too much to think about. Say your verse and iet us mu In." And Reed, cnnibing on his knee tor a good-night cum“. said. "Gee, but We grout to be I farmer. When I grow up Jr coins to be a farmer, with a ot of " horses, and a grunnry, und . un- nintt mill. and everything." Tired, hungry. happy, Cal turned with his team to the farm-yarn " the close of the day. Mrs. Sign: could Bot pile his plate too high a supper. and when the chores were done, he and Reed ware ready for Cal handed over his pouch. and pressed on in high spirits. it was plain that his adaptability had made an impression upon Gander. “Funny world," he mused to himself. " he thought ot Gander._ "Not a M scout, though. and that D.D. talk of his is just iun. Still, it‘s plain he thinks himself the bes_t_ gum ot the two. And, damn it. he is--that'a the joke' of it. Weil, he won't be, before long. l'll pick this up in no time. oh boy, feel that air! The!!! in going to hare lungs like a bellows before fail." And no the day went on. By four in the alternoon Reed tired of fol- lowing the seeder up and down u. like a mighty shuttle. it wove a web a mile wide from fringe to fringe, land went back to the them. yard, where he interested himleli in a long and critical Inspection of the old fanning mill. About the same time Gander pronounced _ commendation upon Cal. “You're; doin' 0. K." he said. “Take a round‘ by yourself an' lend me some to-‘ bacco." “Nothln to It," he remarked: “no thln' to It. Old Jim than known the job as well u I do. All you got to do In watch that you're um: touching your last POW, 11mm} overlappln' it. " yen overlap tt'tt a whale o' need an' time; "Jon don't touch it means a strip not lowed. Nobodr'U know about it not. but lune whole mattrttborhood'tt know In‘ ‘3 month trom now, when the crow comes up. au' they‘ll say to me. 'Gander, you must o' been borie eyed when you sowed your ontl.‘ an' I'il have to any, 'Not me. It in that D. D. at ours, his adulation havin' been neglecteth in his youth) Try it," and he thrust the relns Into Cal's hand. "Watch your min wheel there; it should run right 'In the track we made Cotttitt' down, an' keep an ere now an' agalu that the grain ls workin' through all the tubes; sometimes they get plugged up. do to ll!" haiatofmmmmm the and ot the Beld thes you" tam, ed, tlmost " their ovn “cord. ind would have stand back .lnd not Gander stopped them with A ten. Mon on the reins. The tuid In: Laue Ions. and it was nccomplishod without I told. nave Owner’s vole. ambit!!! raised in admonition of his horns. The but ot the Inn was “up!” with a cool breeze which and: up partial» ot dust from the machine, so that it seemed to be mum I miniature. low mam cloud. At eottattrtq than. It as mun-don! " tpst-ttne. Red Pepper tuat Stops Backache If: he Ila-Oahu, hula] I. u Wot-banana”..- hi... n In v", t.taremths. y". ".ttrRoeddueset-.nttstr. ottMNtrtatttu.-t..artts. (To in Conan-d.) it otrprrtttht, man. In wan-n. An Me a. L tom "mmu'a to - an. In... " was mum Mtteoq'seerhnn-' mm "In." an a. my.“ nu mnun worm .../.. a-ttsa-te-tagar-r Iguanas-u m“- M" alumna .......I "ttetotu--.i-- lute. to an: "In. - In a 'i.,- “mar _ -- L';;r ('k"'kr,"J'1%"Th1'%Qu'e'J'ul',',T, J.H.Ioou m 'tee, 'Per' Jam 6tmrtttr P. . that: loan was tn math ml: - In. an “mum of m I. in! been found It In: In the In“. Malone. . "Now, look hm. Iona," - the Ndeq "with”. “01.1 I (In m gm twin next door, "mother ml- to how " you will land not your new mechanical (was payer this arm-non." _ 'tr-r. "in II. on!“ to It" I (Wm-“nu duleo?” . _ "No, min. '0’" and of due- [lg to it. a. cum to to.» It (I‘M for . couple of in." no 1»,th Now Na Would Improve It "What Bo you think of our scheme for the elm-tau decon- tlona?" OM “and. " u to holly our haul lava." f "Very mod." he "plied. "but por- Ioluln I would mm mistletoe over you.” The drug clerk Wu leaning list. least, mine! the prescription coun- ter, the very picture ot indolonoe. "anen‘! you my Ambition " all, my boy?" kindly inquired a. ttot. idioms old (autism. "No," responded the clerk drum- ity, "but I hue something Just an “‘md-you have . good time, Harry, at Orrin'l “my?" “I should lay no!” responded Harry enthuauulculy. "Why mm. In had to an ttrt, with me three nights. I was so sick." om Manure of I Good Time Harry had “tended the Christ. mu party of B little trend ind en- joyed it very much. especially the candy and other goodies. A few darts later the mother at his lime host met him and Baud.. "Ptt," lnqulrod I uven-yurold seeker "ter the truth, "I: it true that trettoorteueher. get mid?" "Certainly It In." laid the father. "Weil, then." and the youth in- dlgnnnlly. "that lln't right. Why should the teachers get paid when us kids do all the work?" The clerk looked It her with the "rdort'bdottbt-rmtrorord-madam" at mansion indigenous to cloth. “That's very drums." he aid. “The elephant must hue had [the teeth." ' . She was condomtory In her mnnner. " refuse to his thin - cutter," she dochmd “only. "be. cnune it is, not Ivory, and l nut to use it as I Christmas gift." "Oh, I'm no lorry he hn’t the nu: to be eotsttratthted. In. B----. Here’s my huh-ml om here," The ceremony ve- over when an elderly friend of the bride veddled up to extend lie good whine and oomtuintione. Trstttsetunatartr he could not distinguish between the bridegroom end In mum-uni suitor end congntuleiod the letter. Witnessing the you. nun! emu bemonpnt, the bride turned o"") ly, saying: “clout” marked the mm Inn-bud. a the Christm- dlnlor. "that than in muting not; with this can.” "That than that you know About It." but“! the Mid. trium- phantly; "beam [man tn the catty, “um it In. one}. tho an. pines ain‘t than I” lion." .trtaaetwertrtab'aus. “a.” _ W‘s-hunt.“ ."FH'trt.ot'eer-eMtr-_ 'br-ran-tte-eu. WWII-mm “on. uh- mrp'nu. we "rt W Prqrtred NM 1mm t "t,"u"g1,lt,t',',,,1 Waterloo 2.tl."",C,,. m... 'id,,,,. Mutual Fire L. she tuna to keep It quiet m... ot - BO the)», Insurance o." _ ,riiricroro, Company om Way to Do Howl». Him Out Pom of "atm' Rank Injustice Otto Way om ," sud 'tho mm n I- ”than do- " Wish! "" All". ova Ohm MVIINIIN‘I’ DIN.” 0100,01» Moon and We" AND WNITEWAOHING can " TH! WATERLOO VULCANIZINO WORKS SPRAY, PAINTING Don‘t stay tstutted up! Get a small bottle of Mr: Cream Balm from your drugglst now. Apply a little of thls fragrant, antiseptic cream In your nostrils, let it penetrate through every " passage ot the head; soothe and heal the swgllen. unnamed mucous membrane, triv- Inn you Instant renal. Ely‘s Cream Balm ls just what every cold and caurrh master llu been seeking. It's just sphndld. All! What relief! Your clogged: nostrils open right up, the air Bus? murrs6 of your head are clear and? you can breathe freely. No more! hawking. shuffling. muscous dis-1 charge. headaches, dryness-no) “tingling for breath at night. Four, cold or catarrh ls gone. i "iumotmttoremormrovmtt,worsor.-reootmir, m .1 King Bt., North . . Wuerloo IIIIINI'IIIHII l0rNHooIt_qrqn I-mm IIHI ll IN " a) ‘ln 7 Wingham's Mayor is not always initiated in this way-sometimes, it In said, with tlowers-trat in this use the irate lady evidently enter- tllned sentiments that she felt must be expressed with feeling. Mayorelect T. Fella of Wingham was duly initiated Into otrice when a prominent' society lady ot Wing- ham met him near his home my! behbored him over the head Gu arms with a stick. me. It was Brrventrtive feet high, with a greet atm- " the top. There were thousands of colored lights in the branches. and when trumpet mote. wunded hom the tower on Chriltmae Eve the ear burst out into dealing white radiance, while the great chorus, led by the band, an; a beautiful old carol. One by one the colored lights fleshed, leap- ing from branch to branch until the whole tree was a blazing mass. _ WOMAN BELABORS NEW MAYOR OF WINGHAM WITH STICK One of the ttrat outdoor trees In ‘erected in Madison Square. New York, In 1918. It m such . wonderiul “was: that the an! year my other eme- Md Christmas (ms teo. Another tree stood on that old historic spot. independence‘ Square, Philadelphia. last Christ- "tomVmet there Are thou-und- "rt don children who never has in“; and no doubt this but luri- ed the human Mom ot can." mum trees. about which both rich and poor. with the true spirit bl Christan: in their hearts. could “the: with merry mating. and Joyoully tq6T that each had a real oart in it nil. What a glorious idea! m u a grub! in Dunn'- unr-hmu an” at Bord ttmes --00 bright. light. "munch: the Moo-om and the gitta the (rut. No wonder we love Christ-us tron. ad how formant. no the Many who hue them In their Apply Cream in Nostrils to Open Up Air Passages. 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