The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-31

Out In the Muskoka logging country
a successful minister of the gospel
must comply with a long list OF re-
quirements. He must not only possess
more book and spiritual knowledge
than his parishioners; he must kno"
at least enough about farming ana log
ging and the tanbark industry 10 us
cuss these matters intelligentiy. Apove
all, he must appear to believe that he
knows nothing at all.
But when the Muskoka residents 90
take a minister to their hearts tney
are loath to lose sight of him; apt
also, to take it out Of the man VINO
succeeds him, slightly. Which was
the reason why Archer Gallupin, the
young man who assumed the spiritual
care Of about twenty-eight square
miles of territory when Providence and
the Bishop saw fit to remove goou oiu
Father" Andrews to Toronto, WON
dered why the Muskoka country peo-
ple had been described to him as SO
hospitable and warm-hearted' anu
kindly.
Everything went against the young
minister from the beginning. He was
Just "out" from England to commence
with-a delicate younger son sent OUT
to Canada for the sake of the weak
heart which bore testimony to the
failing health of his mothers family;
he had a positive manner. for seconu
disadvantage. For a third, the hgnt
trotter and lighter cart which he In
sisted upon purchasing, against the
unanimous advice Of his scattered par
ishoners, utterly failed to meet with the
dire disaster predicted for its first en-
counter with the mud of the rainy sea-
sons; fourthly-but the list is too long
for recounting.
The inevitable happened to the
young minister, Of course. He found
the first winter so exhilarating that,
| following the usual course of the
green Englishman," he declined to
protect himself sufficiently, and &C
quired a severe chest trouble, two froz-
en- ears and a frosted nose, which
cleaned brilliantly all the next sum-
mer as a result of his foolishness; ne
gloried in the first summer, shivered
through the first autumn, and only
nerved himself to face the second WIN
ter by sheer courage and dreams OF
the second spring. He fell in love
with the belle of the Rippleville CEN
! ter and was snubbed and tormented
and detested by all the yo--g men OF
that locality in consequence. He ap-
preached the goodbye season. when
all the hardy young fellows go of to
1.-The camps" for the winter, with sad
heart and bitter sense of failure. he
/ was not invited to attend single
goodbye party" and when he told
some of the prospective campers that
he should probably visit them before
Christmas, since he regarded the Nc
Inness logging camp, at least, as with
in his spiritual boundaries, they
laughed at him openly.
ride forty miles to visit with us
'shanty-men, jeered Bill Hardness
brother of the sweet girl whom the
young minister longed after; when
see you I'll expect you, Mr.. Gallupin
an not afore"
Still, the time came when the min.
lister proved his pluck and prowess
and when, from a logging camp pes
to hang jokes on he was transformed
to logging camp hero. The manner
of his apotheosis was as follows:
1t WIS the week before Christmas
and the young minister, making his
Christmas visits to his parishioners
had raversed many miles of hard
packed snow in the light cutter which
had replaced the debated cart. HI
drove up the side road" to the Hank
ness farm just about nOontime. HI
had promised himself to accept the in.
evitable dinner invitation and to ge
thoroughly warm. During the second
winter the Unfortunate 'greenies' are
usually bone cold" perpetnally, and