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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-08-20, Page 4THURSDAY, AUGUST 20th, 10«d THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE T “GOOD PENNY” by BARBARA WEBB '15 ^llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll “I telephoned her. She’ll be up on the noon train, But I’ll drive you both back. I want to get acquaint­ ed with this Aunt Mary of yours. Sam says she’s all wool and a yard it’slong, whatever that means, Sam’s expression.” Judith smiled, “They like other, iSam and Aunt Mary, treats him as though he bad boy.” “I wonder how she’ll “(Like another human least. each She were a big treat me.” being at That’s Aunt Mary’s gift.” Meeting Her Father ^^joassed, ,Judith_grew in­ knew thinking -of Clio. “Daddy,” she leaned close to him and took his hand, “you aren’t well You aren’t like yourself. You must try to be more—more alive. I can’t bear to have you in here without even hoping, trying for something >etter. I’m doinig all I can to help, but you’ll 'have to- hel-p some, too.” “What are you doing, Judy?” Changes the Subject She purposely misunderstood his question and launched -into" a de­ scription of her work at the night club. Aunt Mary’s coming, talk about herself and Sam and Gilbert, even about iS|pencer and his struggle with Sam on tlhe front lawn of the Whether she could finished “you see, was “I you (house. Chester listened, he was interested or not, not say. “And so,” she with forced cheerfulness, I’m busy and earning a lot of money and having a pretty 'good time of it all around.” “I’m glad, Judy,” And he glad, more than glad, relieved, didn’t think it would harm much, my being sent here. Better let sleeping dogs lie, Judy. And I'm an old dog now, not much longer to live or bother any one.” “I can’t be really happy until you are free, Daddy,” she said. Chester moved his shoulders ir­ ritably. “Don’t be foolish, Judy, I’m all right here. Let me alone.” His tone was sharp. “At least he’s more than alive,” thought Judy exultantly. She would say no more now about pardon, par­ ole, new evidence. There was noth­ ing definite to tell him about any of them. Wait until she had some­ thing concrete to- confront him with. Then perhaps, surely, he would awake from this apathy, this life in death. The prison smell came to her. From somewhere there was the rhythmic tramp, of feet. All the de­ nial of activity, of light, of life that prison meant seemed concentrated to her in the figure before her. She was moved to pity so profound that she felt it like a physical ache. His voice shook her out of this trance. “Have you heard,” he hesitated, then suppressed eagerness led him on, “have you heard any news of jCIio?” Judith shook her head. lllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllhT ‘•Will you write to her, Judy? Af­ ter all, she’s your mother. She took are of you when you were small. She was a beautiful mother, Judy. I uesd to come home and find her with you, she looked like a madon­ na, a saint. You were the best- dressed little girl on- our street. I— I’d like to 'have her know I’m all right, that I'm not—not too unhappy I shouldn’t want her to think I am suffering, Judy.” Still Thinks of Clio Judith swallowed the bitter* words she wanted to say. “I hadn’t thought or writing to her, Daddy.” ■L “Please do, Judy. Please. Alght answer. (She might tell ^■fcshe i? well auu happy, some- about 'her life. If she writes ^■ou, Judy, bring me the letter. Kive—I’d give anything for some of her.”^Kow he was alive. Judith’s heart ^Ved intolerably for him. Clio- was obsession. Not even her flagrant ^■ertion of him, (her present life ^■h another man could deaden his for her, Only (thought Judy, it Hasn’t love. It was idolatry, a ■readful thing, not a lovely one. ■ “I’ll write .to her if I can fcddress,” she said. B “Mrs. Stevens will have ftnust know where (Clarence Lludith, do you know, jkeard whether she is getting a di- ■'orce, Mrs. Sitevens from Clarence?” ■ “No, I haven’t, Daddy,” ■ “She should. Then some day Clio Kn marry 'him. B1Judith gasped. Chester laughed a Bort, hard laugh. “I haven’,t long R live,” he said. “Clio will be free B time, 'maybe not too long a time Hfther,” ^■on’t. Bt of she ^■es. ^Kng in here, not to think of it,” caught her ibreath, “It’s terrible ^Blive in prison ... to die here.” B^m sorry, dear,” said Chester ^Bnbly, “I shouldn’t have said that, write to Clio, Judy. I know she Bg^ be glad to know you are all right. 'She may answer, you know, and then, through you, I’ll have word of her. Give her my ... . no, she wouldn’t want my love, Tell her,” he thought deeply and then his face lighted. “Tell her I have no regrets, none. Not one. Be sure to put tlialt in yqur letter, Judy. She’ll understand. No regrets, not one. That’s my message to her. Maybe she’ll send a message to me.” Judith marveled at the change in him. Just to talk of Clio wakened him to hope. Judith couldn’t un­ derstand. Almost she despised what seemed to her an -ignoble passion. If this 'was what love did to people . . . she had renounced it once 'herself to Spencer, and 'then had let her heart trick her into feeling it again for him. They talked a little longer. Once she tried to speak of her hope for a pardon, but Chester brushed that matter aside. He lived in the past. He spoke of days When Judith was small and Clio was lovely and faith­ ful. Of the future all he asked was assurance that Clio was happy, and Judith traded on this, usinig it to persuade him away from despair. He was better when she parted from .him. She felt sure of that. She promised to get the letter off to Clio at once and left him calculating the time it would take to an answer. “You’ll come again, then, “Yes, Daddy.” ‘And bring her letter?” “Yes. Right away. Just as have it.” She went then to talk with the prison doctor. Chester was well, enough, the doctor said, a model prisoner, in fact. Nothing organi­ cally wrong with him. A little dull maybe, 'but what did you expect of a -prison High spirit? .Hardly. True Chester was more t'hah usually quiet had long (periods of depression, yet, sometimes it seemed as though the main spring of his existence were broken and beyond repair. He had regular work, he liked routine, he was all right. And with this she had to be content. (She walked through the long cor­ ridor, heard the clang of automatic closed igates, glimpsed men in gray going about their tasks. The burden of all t'he sorrow confined in all those walls lay on her shoulders. $ She you find her I She must, she must get Chester away from there, where she could heal him, restore him to sanity, see him stand upright among -men again iShe lifted her head. “I’ll get him out,” she vowed. The last gate clanged behind her. She walked into the room where Gilbert waited. If, through him, through marriage to him, through anything he wanted of her, lay her father, hesitatingly, Her face strained and circled. She was strung up to the pitch of hysteria. Gilbert looked at her. “Take it easy,” he adised, “you’ve got the prison blues. Every visitor 'gets ’em the first time he comes, Sometimes I think it’s worse for those outside than it is for those who are inside.” She relaxed a little, “Maybe,” she murmured. “We’ll drive down to the station to wait for the train," Gilbert went on, “I’m glad I sent for your aunt,” You need a friend with you now.” “Don’t you count as one?” Judith asked. But if Gilbert heard her, he made no answer. ■7 J IK the path to she would freedom for walk it un­ was white.her* eyes L CHAPTER XV it. She is. And have you Don’-t,” said Judith fiercely, I can’t bear it. I’ll get you here and you can divorce her can divorce you, do what she But you’re not 'to talk of All-Out-of-Sorts! / Nervous, Irritable, Pee; k Tins may be duo to lack over business, the too fr< tobacco, the keeping of Iat' REALLY One pad kills flies alL-day and every day for 2?’or 3 weelydF3 pads in eachday for i£or 3 weekjpo pads in each packet./No spraying, no stickiness, no ba<|?odor. jWtsk yonr Druggist, Grocery or General Store. 10 faaffs PER PACKET WHY PAY MORE? THE WILSON FLY PAD CO., Hamilton, Ont. I1" 1 ” J ■” ' L ‘ ii i or knew of it said, Judy?” soon as of pro,^r rest, the worry le ... - 1 “ o 0 hour/ the never ending drudgery of housework, but wha/ever the cause you have been putting too hea^ st/ain on. the nervous system. If you are tired, listless, .^u/tablc, distressed, you will find in Milbum’s H, tnx, Pills a remedy to make the weak nerves strong, the shaky nerves flrm, a medicine that will help put you on your feet again. f tea, coffee. or I lived inqulr- or on I somebody That was a strange drive back to t'he apartment. Judith was to tired, too exhausted from the experiences of the last twenty-four hours to real­ ize how strange it was. In a sort of haze she saw the round, sensible figure of Aunt Gilbert was polite. Aunt Mary was hei* quietly cheerful self. She asked about Chester, re­ marked on t'he luxurious appoint­ ments of Saunders’ automobile and settled herself 'comfortably in it as though long drives with ex-gang­ sters were a part of .her daily ritual. Gilbert’s bodyguard did the driv­ ing. Gilbert sat in back between Judith and Aunt Mary. Half asleep, Judith heard their conversation. Snatches of it were to return to her in t'he days that followed. She even at the time that some was important to her. ‘An or-phan,” Aunt Mary pityingly. “Worse than that, really,” Gilbert answered. “Some orphans are well cared for in homies or put out for adoption. I’ve been on my own since the time I was 8 years old. in the gutter.” ' “Slept there?” Aunt Mary ed. “Sometimes, or in parks, boats in the 'harbour, wherever -could find a place that wouldn't make me move of.” “But the winters?” Gilbert laughed. “The jungle— those houses made out of packing boxes with old tin cans for roofing Bums, hoboes winter in them. The -poor are good to the poor. I kept warm, sold papers, stole food from pushcarts, stole other things, We had a igang.” “You never went to school?” “Nights. When I was older. I wanted to- get ahead. I had an awful time learning to talk. I can still talk the other way, sometimes I do­ it unconsciously when I get excited. I always talk out of the sire of my an-outh, crook slang, when I deal with crooks. They know me,” “You kept out of jail?” “Yes. I know how to. I spent two days in a reform school, went there willingly when I was 15 because I thought I'd learn- something.” “And you didn’t?” “I knew more than they did,” Gilbert laughed, “more of how to make a living dishonestly; that’s all the reform school teaches, that and a lot of whining sentiment.” What Gil Wants “Do you always tell peojple about this?” Aunt Mary asked, “No. You’re getting it out of me, you know.” “Yes. I’m interested. I won't tell any one.” “You wouldn’t need to. My story is known. They say things of me that aren’t true along with those that are. Plenty. I let it go. past a lot of it. I don’t have to for a living now.” “Not fruit from pushcarts, way,” said Aunt Mary. Judith opened (her eyes to see a slow red rise in- Gilbert’s face. “You are like the rest,” he said to- Aunt Mary. “You’d never believe me cap­ able of anything 'good.” “No.” She shook her head. “Not entirely. If something good is also good for you, something you want, you’ll go- after it. You’re one of the strong people. You get what you want, good or bad. I can see that.” ‘I want power,” Gilbert muttered. “I’ve always wanted it. When I iget it I’ll remeimlber the kid I was, liv­ ing on the street. I’ll go easy with the kids that live on the streets now, There are plenty of them. The breed doesn’t j die out, you know.” “Will it hel|p them to go easy with them?” \Aiunt Mary probed. “It will help me. I’ll feel better.” Aunt Mary looked at him, “It’s iqueeb’,'” (she said}, “how- 'even the hardest people want gentleness in their lives. You do. Have you never looked tor it?” “Yes. In women. Two -of them." They’re the hardest of all, women- are. The most selfish. The clearest headed. They go straight after what they want and never look back, never hesitate, the way a man Will.” What 'happened?” “What happened? Oh, the women, you mean, I married both of them. The first one left me, got a divorce when I struck a streak of hard luck too. had no money. (She’d conne up from the streets, too, but she’d forgotten what it was to be (poor. She couldn’t live on- mulligan when the steak was gone from the icebox. The other— she divorced me. I got drunk, beat her up on account of another man. She married him later.” “Children,” said Aunt Mary spec­ ulatively. “From those women? Not much. They were my kind, I tell you. That was fifteen years /back. I was too crazy young and hot-blooded to keep from -'marrying them. I wasn’t going to bring any more of that kind into the world. I had that much sense. They didn’t want kids, they weren't mothers, not the girls my gang had to do with.” “But now?” There was a fine sweat on Gil­ bert’s forehead. Why he talked like this, Why, sented telling round placid, mont, even like her. iShe stood for all the things ‘he dispised. But he re­ spected her. He trusted her. . He wanted to talk. “Now?” he answered her question laughed harshly, “I’ve a yen for respectibility. A good wife, child; ren, home—<1 want them.” “Why?” He considered. “Not,” ‘he said at last with final frankness, “for what they are in themselves, but for what they can bring to me. In ten years, if I’m careful—-I’m 40 now—people will forget that I’ve been a gutter brat, a gangster, a crooked politic­ ian. They’ll say I’m a good fam­ ily man-, I help the poor, I’ve a lovely wife, beautiful children. They’ll vote for me, elect me to high offices. If they bring up my past, it will be to show the con­ trast, to show what I was, and what I’ve become ... a reformed citL. zen, upright, trustworthy.” “But you won’t really have changed,” Aunt Mary observed. “Y'ou’ll still be 'using any means you need to gain an end. That’s**., how you are. The leopard still 'has j polka dots, no- matter how often he ( takes a bath.” -* (Continued next week.) Why he even while he re- it he found comfort in the of his story to this rosy, woman, gray-haired and from a quiet town in Ver- he had no idea. He didn’t I’m steal any- WHAT OF ROADS? The establishment by the Domin­ ion Government of a Department of Communications calls to mind some great policies of the past which have left distinct impression upon history and progress. Inland communica­ tion was a more difficult problem than by water, and the Romans solv­ ed it magnificently in their day with -wonderfully constructed roads. Speed in travel was greatly acceler­ ated and territories opened up for organization and development. It was in the beginning a military po­ licy. More recent history tells us that the pacification of the Jacobites was brought about speedily by the build­ ing of roads after the last Rising. It was a military undertaking also car­ ried out by soldiers. The most outstanding example of road policy carried out in Canada in the early days was the great high­ way which was built by the military from end to end of Ontario. Its wes­ tern terminus was Windsor. It be­ came known as the Governor’s Road in honour of Governor Simcoe. It stimulated settlement and trade and did a remarkable social service. Today iwe .have over 400,000 miles of highway in Canada, of which (close to 100,000 are surfaced. Truly a (marvellous development in than a century and a half. This information comes from Transportation Branch of the mionion Bureau of Statistics. Hay Council The regular monthly meeting of the Council of the Township of Hay was held in the Town Hall Zurich, Tuesday, August 4th, with all mem­ bers present. The minutes of the July meeting were adopted. Communications disposd of: From P. S. Inspector E. C, Beaconi, advis­ ing 'Winners of Soldiers’ Memorial (Scholarships for 193 6: 1st Chelsea Thiel; 2nd Vera Flaxbard; 3rd Ruth Brown. From!'A. E. Wilson- re riot insur­ ance. Filed, From Bell Telephone Co. re distri­ bution of telephone assessment in Hay Township between public and separate schools. Filed. From Silverwoods re distribution of tax between (piublic and separate schools. Filed. From Board of Trustees, Zurich, Police Village, asking that a rate of eights mills be levied on village pro­ perty for 1936. Rate included In resolution. Following resolutions were passed That the following rates be struck and levied on the ratable property of the Township of Hay for the year 1936 and that Clerk prepare a by­ law for meeting rate all rate 1.3 mills; Unemployment .2 mills; Zurich Police Village 8 mills; General iSchool rate 3.25 mills Dashwood Police Village 9 mills; Spec. School rate USS No. 1, none; No. 2, 1.1 mills; -No. 3, mills; No. 4, 16.10 mills; No. 6, 1.(5 mills; No. 7, mills; No. 8, 1.4; No. 9, 1.4; No. 10; No. 11, 1 mill; No. 12, 1.5; U.S.S. No 13, 1.6; No; 14, 1 mill; U. No. 15, 1.6 mills; U. No. 16; Sep. No. 1, 10 mills. That by-law No. 7, 193 6 provid­ ing for borrowing of money requir­ ed by Zurich Police Village to pay for street improving be read three times and finally passed. That Henry Eickmeier be award­ ed the contract of painting the ex­ terior of the Town Hall at price of $52. That accounts covering payment on Township roads, Telephone, char­ ity and relief and general accounts be passed. . J. Oesch, road 8, $1(6.60; G. J. Thiel, Z.P.V., $11; G. Jeffery road 15, $9.80; M. M. Russell, road one, $1; M. Corriveau, road 17, $6; P. Schade, road 13, $4; C. A. Robin­ son, road 6, $4; S. Ropp, road 2, $15.70; A. Smith, ro-ad 8, $11.05; H. Steinbach, road supt., $2 6.95; T. Dinsmore, road 18, $12.20; S. Mc­ Arthur, road 1, $8.45; U. A. Phile, road 14, $6; A. Mousseau work at crusher, $1.1.30; W. F. Jennison, crushing and trucking $673.51; Do­ minion Rd. Machinery Co., repairs $1.33; F. J. Haberer, road 7, $7.10; Zurich street improvement $3414.- 08; J. M. Richardson, road 5, $7.- 50; F. E. Denomme road 10, $17.- 45; W. Farrell, road 18, $15; Can. Oil Co,, account $1; A. Riechert rd. 14, -$5.65; T. Steinbach, road 8, $17.- F20; O. Greb, road 6, $8.15; G. Sur- ferus, road 9, $17.40; R. Adams, rd. 10, $5.40; G. Brock, repairs to grad­ er, $5; J. C. Salmon work at crush­ er $4; T. Welsh, gravel $3 6. General accounts, S. Oestric'her sheep killed $9; C. Siemon, pay list Z. drain $7.- 60; G. Merner, calf killed, $10. Tele­ phone accounts: Bell Telephone Co., tolls May to June $144.16; North­ ern Elec. Co., material $116.34; Na­ tional Revenue of Canada tax on tolls, $30.89; H. G. Hess, salary, $165.00; P. Mclsaac, repair. Khiva circuit and sundries, $36.60; Treas. Stephen 1935 rates refunded $14; E. R. Guenther cartage .50; P. Mc­ lsaac trailer license $3. Charity and Relief: Ontario Hospital for indig­ ent $10; Treas. McGillivray re bridges $'6.02; S. Hoffman rent $3.- 50; J. Gascho & Son tgrocehies $11.- 24; A. Melick, milk $2.94. The Council adjourned to again on Tuesday, September 1st, I. 30 o’clock in the afternoon. A. F. HE(S'S, Clerk Exettr GhtutH-Ahtnirate Established 1873 and 1887 at Exeter, Ontario Published every Thursday morning SUBSCRIPTION-— $2.0(0 per year in advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each insertion for first four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of six Reading notices 10c, per line. Card of Thanks 50c. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per line. In Memoriam, with one verse 50o, extra verses 25c. each. 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BEAVERS Secretary-Treasurer Exeter, Ontario I GLADMAN & STANBUBY Solicitors, Exeter Cedar Chests AND NEW FURNITURE^ Also furniture TemodellWnto order. We take orders tor jUFkinda of ca­ binet work for k^nens, etc DASHWOQEfPLANING MILL' }3^' NEW AUTO PLATES ARE EASILY READ Officials of the Motor Vehicles Branch, following extensive tests and having received the opinion of both provincial and municipal police forces are confident that the 1937 license plates for passenger cars will be read easily. The new plates will have the let­ ter in the centre of the marker with the number divided and embossed on each side, “We have gone into it very thor­ oughly, and we believe that the new plate is easier to read than the old style,” stated J. P, Bfckell, registrar of motor vehicles. “Wo have taken the matter up with the police and they are of the same opinion.” As next year is coronation year, the marker will carry a white crown in each comer,