SATURDAY

Seasoned Timber

By Dorothy Cnnflelrl i

CHAPTER ONE Somebody was knocking at ioor of the Principal's house.

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zhumps pasted in waves from ;he well-seasoned oak to the itones of the walls and to t.he' luiet air inside the hell. Thei

:toneo took the sound in and gave tone of it out, putting it secret- vely away into the silence where, "hey kept the other sounds which; tad lhrobhed against them for. .he last hundred years. The im- nresstonablc nir passed the knocks on up the stairs to the second. floor, and were home aloft to the; zhird story where they poured Lhrotugh the open door of a large tlant-ceilinged room in which Mr.i T. C. Htllme at sat his desk. .

He was the Principal. Thel mocks on the door two stories be- ow were for him. and he easily ilstinguished them through the much louder music throbbing From the rootn under his study.

He laid the magazine aside an .-an all the way down the two flights of stairs to the front door. Yet there was no need for haste. Everybody in Clifford knew that old Lottie Anderson, the only hired help ever in the Principals

house, did her work between breakfast and lunch and was never there in the afternoon. that. Mrs. Henry, the Professor's aunt, heard nothing -- except

music-that the Professor himself was the only nno who came when you knocked and that he was un-

ually in his study on the third floor. Nobody thought of going away if the door was not opened It once.

When he reached the lower hall and saw young Kemp through the leaded-glass panes at the side of the door. he stopped short. Mr. Huime lifted the latch, opened the door. "Hello Eli, what can I do for you?"

l-'.'lt transferred his attentive gaze to the Principal's face and asked. "Have you found out )9! whether that thing I sold you Iaves gas?"

i Mr. Hulme cleared his leaned forward a little the hoytin the threadbare suit- he was taller than Eli. who was not short-wand explained. soften- ing his rather harsh voice to I propltiatinf: tone, "Well, to tell you the truth, I haven't got around

throat. towards

tble at all. I've Just been too darn-

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.1 efforts to educate the brains he

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ll.s. Ships Lumber To New England

AHMERST. N. 5.. Oct. 8 -(OP) --Three experimental export ship- ments of lumber to the United states. graded to meet the require- ments of the New England trade. have been well received. 1 Maritime lumber bureau meeting was told here Tuesday.

A Burnu delegation. on hand to study American market reaction, felt that "important program" has been made toward n mutually sat- isfactory standard for lumber trod- int: between the Maritlmes and New England. it was reported.

In a discussion of United King- dom lumber trade, memberr stress- ed the difficulty of providing lum- ber at present high operating costs to the available markets. some ex-

it away and give you your money back." "Oh no, Ell. thlli.'s not, the trou-

ed busy ever since I got. back. get- ting things ready for school to open. l've been sunk in work! The accounts-the budget! Why. this very afternoon the Domestic teacher telegraphed that she's married and won't, be coming blck to teach. You must know therels a lot for me to do at this time of year."

"Do you know what your mile- age is now?" inquired the boy searchingly. ”Because if you donlt, how can you tell whether this'll give you more?"

''I get fifteen to the gallon," Mr. l-lulme affirmed roundly.

The grave young face before him relaxed. "Well. then I know it'll save ye something." said Eli, relieved and. without any formali- ties of leave-taking, went away.

The Principal shut. the door, but did not at once go back up the stairs. His memory crammed, as it was always forced to be. with the details of other people's lives.

set gloomily before him Eli's worthless, drunken. bee-hunting and muskrat-trapping father, his dull-witted, feeble mother, the

foredoomed futility of Eli": poor did not have.

The tall clock behind him struck six. It was time to begin to get Aunt Lavinia started to make her- self presentable enough to go out to supper.

Aunt Lavinia was poring over the music, her room silent for once, quiescent around her in its usual dust and disorder. Her head was bent so low over the tattered copy of the Mass on her knee that a straggling white lock brushed the page. she was not at all ready to go out.

"It's just Tim." he assured her. Recognition and relief flashed into her fine. deeply sunken, dark eyes. She relaxed. passed her hand over her eyes. "Oh. Oh yes. Tim. of course. Supper-time? I'll be ready in e wink." She pronounced it "r-r-raydy" with 3 scotch burr.

They made slow work of the descent, getting both her feet on each step before going down to the next one. because of that right lknee that could hardly bend at all.

They were now approaching their destination. Miss Peck. he saw, had changed the sentence on iher bulletin board. This board was such a one as churches use to an- nounce the name of their minister and the hour: of church service. she put on it all aorta of odd phrases. Today the movable alpha-

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GUARDIAN. CHARl..0TTET()WN

B. c. By-elections Doubts Anyone Are Annottnc.ed Led Into sin I VICTORIA. o-t.-t.-lo-tot-).m-it A

ish columbiala social Credit Gov- OTTAWA. Oct. 10-(GP)-A on".

ernment under Premier W. A. C. Bennett will face its first test late

in November. ited states Author and critic. Premier Bennett Tuesday n.nnoun- gfggieng lig:n?:e d”::,':?” 1:-fg .

cod by-elections will be held Nov. 24. "if necessary." in the ridlngs of slmilkameen and Ooiumbia. Nomination day will be Nov. 12.

The two seats were opened last week to allow Finance Minister Einsr Gundei-son and Attorney- General R. A. Bonner tc seek a seat in the Legislature. They were appointed after the June 12 pro- vincial election. '

Political observers see the

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Thursday no doubts "if anyone has ever been led into sin by a book."

-Dr. John Bakeless. professor at New York University. also told the court: '

"After nll.,the purpose of liter-

election as a double g.:'.':.'.Jle for Premier Bennett and his regime.

A minority government. social Credit has 19 seats in the 48-

member legislature. The G. C. F. forms the official opposition with 18.

pressed optimism that UnTtWIiih.g"- dam prices might advance.

stun is not to improve tannin but to expend our knowledge of life in many ,cuu."

He and Prof. Alan Booger of the University of Michigan defended the novel "Tragic around" by Erskine Caldwell. holed for his start: pictures of life in the deep south. Tragic Ground is one of several publications involved in '1! obscene literature charges ruins: the National News Company. a distributor of publlcstions.

In reply to the crown's silen- tion that the seized books contain "lewd. base, vile and lustful" pas- sage . Dr. Bskeleu said that Eng- lish iteratum would cease to exist if all characters of that kind were eliminated.

He conceded that the behaviour of some of the characters in "Tn- gic Ground" is "shocking and dc- bauched." But without such char- acters and behaviour. he held. no book on the deep south could be authentic.

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The boy stood silent for a mo- ment and then said, "Professor. it Lhat. thing's no good I want to take

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One Cent Sale

Mr. R. H. Jenkins, local Rcxall druggist, today an- nounccd plans for his semi-annual Rcxall Original One Cent Sale to he held October 15-16-17 and 18 in his drugstore at the corner of Great George and Kent Streets.

"The theme of the Rexail One Cent Sale this Fall is: iIi's Xour Chance to know Rexali and Save Money'," Mr. Jenkins said. The semi-annual One Cent Sale was origin- ated by the Rcxnll Drug Company in 1914. and has become an international institution. he explained.

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' . :'Ti'lifi- sale means that the people of Charlottetown and . vicinity Will be saved many hundreds of dollars on purchases i - i of necessities for good health. good grooming and good housekeeping," Mr. Jenkins said. "and it is the Rexall drug- gist s mayor contribution towards smashing high prices and helping to bring down the high cost of livlng."

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