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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1916-12-21, Page 8Glirlstnlas .6root1ns W@ a0aln thank our mangy cus- tomers for their patrooa0e, an0 wish them one antl all a Briuht and tii chrIsts and a ?rQpCr011 NC! Year , We Anus have on band a full stock of Ghristmas Dainties, Gimme Frults, Nuts and Gandles, ,t6. Give Us a Gall or 'Phone No. 46 -�: J. M6[wtD, The GroGar • INVITE YOU NAND SEE OUR S CA DIES TOR SIGNAL GODERIOH • ONTARIO ______flARLAN'3 CM151141A i.,----2::-..,11„ r... -r7? ----,-.7,' -..3 . `Y-'...' • >» Jm, ft fCtiRENBACtiCR N * _ e ACK IHARLAN stood be- fore his desk dressed for the street when a lowish voice broke the silence of the once with "What you got in all them bun- dles, Mr. Gridley'" 1t was the office boy, Jim, talking to Gridley. Harlan's manager. �__ _«These bundles' Why. here's a drum, and this is an electric railroad. and here's a game of parched. Did you ever play parches!, ]1m' It's a greet game. on right. My boy .Al gate so excited when he can put one over on me and wlu a game he can hardly keep from whooping!" "They're all boys, ain't they?" In- quire the office boy. I "Yes, and glad of It, too." answered Gridley. "Here, Jim. Is something fur your Christmas, and hope you'll have a nice day!" "011. thanks. Good -by. Mr. Gridley Merry Christmas." called the toy as the door dammed atter the overladen Gridley. Harlan slid down the top of his desk with a bang and left the office What • happy little hurtling fellow Gridley ' was; a little shrimp of a man, and yet he always seemed to radiate pleased self -Importance and good cheer' .11m i caught sight of Harlan a he was go- 1fig out the front door. "Merry Christmas. Mr. ltarlan;'-ks called. "Thanks for the check and Merry Christmas to you!" "Merry Christmas, bah' What dues Christmas mean td me now, anyway! Christmas is a time for fouls and ba- bies," muttered Harlan to himself as be walked to the street car, flrst tell- ing the wafting chauffeur to drive home without bite. And when he got to the car he walked up on Market street; he felt he could not bear the TO COM=BS HRIStM ANCY jam•-:__._._. OVSTE FOR CHRISTMAS THE most ti1111 III remembrance at this holiday season is a pair ' , f comfortable Slippers. The range of Juliets, So\Cosy and leather Slippers in a variety of styles and colors are worthy of inspection. We are ready to supply your wants with Shoes in the highest qualities. bountiful varieties and moderate prices. SKATING SHOES AND MOC- CASINS ARE NOW IN STOCK. 41111‘,. REPAIRING _, GEO,. MacVICAR North side of Square r THF?t ANI ARY MEAT MAR is ET We Will HaveChoice Assortment of Christ1as Beef Baby ef Veal Lamb anis Pork Next W k Also Fowl of all KItds Get our prices on Beef by the Quarter to:he de- livered after Christmas or sooner if you wish. A choice stock always on band, including the celebrated Kincardine Bacon. Satisfactisa Guaranteed Orders Called For 'GIVE VS A TRIAL N%,jay Cash for all Kufs of Hides and Tallow r THOS. LEGO, The Square JJ Polito Advertise in the SIGNAL The ewe Felled to Interest Him. inside o a stuffy car. The street at least held variety of things to divert ones thou s. Christmas . orations were on all the buildings; Wreaths dangling broad red ribbons bung in most windows and every corner was s Jumble of green and red where the flower venders were selling holly, while "Merry Christina'" he beard Op every side. Great bunches of cherr}.laurel and eucalyptus boughs made a veritable canopy over the flower venders' stands, where flashed red and white and yellow carnations, red and green Christmas wreaths and holly. "Holly here. mister; only 16 cents a bunch, two for two bits. Take a bunch home to your bite," and a dower ven- der poked a bunch of holly into Har- lan'. face. "No, no!" he cried, brushing the vender aside; and walked on. At last, unable to stand It longer he Jumped into a waiting taxi and called out bis home address. At first he peered from out the taxi; but every window seemed to hold a Christmas wreath and he soon gave up glancing out the window to stare straight before him into the dim- ness of the cab. When the taxi stopped, he sprang out; paid the tare, and let himself into the bones with h is latch -key. A woman In the white apron of a nurse -maid was Just ascending the broad statrease u 1e came into the hall. She bad a child with her but Harlan did not see the child; the o ars. was too quick in running up the ,"I'M sick of seeing that woman slink W ay like a thief every time L enter • room wbere she's bad the child. Why Eider the sus don't she stay' away from this part of the house al- together like roe ordered her ter stabled the tats. ate. Wed hie soul R. illy ►L hat and overcoat ea the hall rack. and striding lute) the living room, be Sung himself Into a large leather armchair and tried to read the svafug paper But the news failed to Interest aim somehow tonight; cad e s twtll`kt came on and the roum earken • found himself staring Into the to Are. How things one can Imagine In the elms of • greets Are! And, an the man sat there all huddled In the big armchelr, all the dear days of the dead put came trooping out of the coals. As omoe room he saw first, with himself sitting at a desk and • falr-hatred girl at • typewriter In the corner. The girl was poorly dressed but the sweetness of her smile capti- vated the man at the desk. And In this nest picture he heard the man asking the girl to become his wife. • hillside flooded with moonlight he be- h eld next—the picture of an evening from out their boneymoon, with thief" sitting on that hillside in Sid shadow of the tall, dirk, sweet sweU- Ing pines that loomed up as • back- ground. Here there were no more visions tor a time, while the man sat staring dry-eyed into the ere. The scene of the next picture was laid In the sitting room. She was 1n a low rocker by the window, sewing On sumo blug soh and white. Every once while she looked out of the window... Through the window he saw an autogtesp in front of the house. and the mag\who got out and entered the house wee himself. Elbe heard his step and pat with her hands loosely crossed on the sewing as he entered the room and stepping behind the rocker, put his two hands over her eyes 'risen she drew down his .face to hers and kissed him on both cheeks and then on the forehead and eyes and mouth. At tide, Harlan buried his head an his array anile a dry sob shook his throat. \\ "Oh, Nadine, Nadine, why did you leave me!" h• sobbed. tie turned from the Gaming coals and its eye fell upon a Christmas tree all decked with shining ornaments. It was a real tree, He knew 1t was tker• fur the child; and was annoyed at the thought of the cause of her death. He Itt his pips end leaned back for a smoke. through the blue smoke haze the t became an airy phantom dream -res. A ladder leaned up against 11 and at the top of the lander. high up, and half hidden by the pungent green boughs, stood a golde1-hatred woman. And he was standing beneath the tree, steadying the ladder with both bands. She was putting the last touches to the tree. She held a shining bright tinsel in her band; and God, what was this she was saying' 'Look, sweetheart, how bright the star Is' Ah, dear, next Christmas the baby will be six months old, Just old enough to notice things, and Um sure he will notice Wit star. flow won't he' Don't you think w. dear'" "Come down. Nadine. come down; I am afraid you will fall," he heard himself cry, and then as she laughing- ly descended the ladder. he clasped her in his arms before she reached the bottom and kissed her agrin and again. "You big story teller," she laughing- ly reproved him, "you weren't a bit afraid I'd fall; you Just wanted to hug me!" "What It I did' Now what are you going to flo about it'" be was demand- ing --when the girl faded, and that dream picture of blmselt In other days vanished and nothl was lett but the Christmas tree. - Harlan pulled his chile, away from the flre and over to the window, Sud, sinking back Into Its depths. he watched the glimmer of the windows In the houses across the street sad their soft shine on the pavement. � \ ile must have dozed a long time, for w n he awoke the arc lights in the str were lit and a bright shaft of light 1 across the room, and pres- ently Into this shaft of light came stumbling a little white -robed figure. it was a little boy In 111a nightgown. 11e walked over.,to the Christmas tree an& teyed playfully with the ornr the lower fits dangling braacbes. "Pretty. pretty things!" be kept say - Ing over and over in ■ soh little voles. Awakened from a drranliess slum- ber, the first thing Jaek Harlans mind reverted to was the dream picture of bis wife In the Christmas tree. And this was the child. his child and here. He beard her voice again. "Next Christmas he will be sit months old, Just old _enough to notice things, and he wild notice the star: It 1s so bright." Had be noticed it than Bret lone Christmas when everything was so deselate in that household! Ab, there had beep no treel And the neat Christniss, when the baby was a year and six Months old, the nurse had asked if mks might get • tree and Har- lan had said "No" This year she had bought one wtthout asking, and Har- lan arlan felt thankful- to her and etraagely glad. What was the saying to kite Self? "i wanted to see the star. the star, but nurse wouldn't let me wait 'cause my papa osis cumin' Atf' now the star's all gene; ft's all dark ere gone but an' 1 don't see tt no seer+--ee more " The eked broke Into a little huddled beep. sobbing in the shadows at the toot of the tree, and a stray ray of Jght coming tbrnrgh the bale doer fell S pon his fah head. With a ,tined cry of remorse and pity Earls* gathered the trembling ]tile tore tenderly in bis arras and pointed Mit the tinsel star at the tee if the tree, while the tsars of e thbld Mthe Mingled with kis. W e great WIWI • • . •ser - • PROGRESSIVE AUSTRALIA. Mom for More Technical Education to the (bm0uawealtk. The war's loduence upon trade, and above all upon the development of bome Industries, again shows it- self In the technical education move- ment In Australia. Brunswick, In Victoria, has recently established One promises for the purpose of giv- ing Instruction in the technicalities of special industries, handicrafts, and so on. Approximately £10,000 has been expended upon the erection of the school and workshops, the cost to be defrayed by the education de- partment. Pupils under 14 years of age will receive tree tuition, but a nominal charge Is made for those above that age. Three hundred and fifty scholars have now been enrolled, 200 of whom attend the junior class- es in the day time. The establishment of this school is part of the Government's greater de- velopment scheme. This sehemte comprehends the building of techni- cal schools in all the provincial cen- tres, as Well as In the cities and the Improvement of all existing institu- tions of the kind. The question of compulsory attendance is also under consideration and the charge on the rates for tbe establishment and equipment of the schools. Australia 1s, of course, as yet, far behind Am- erica, Germany, or Switzerland In technicaleducation. As stated above, the present prominooce of the quer. tion Is largely due to the impetus. given by the war to Independent bome industries. An Interesting lecture was recently delivered in Australia by the chair- man of the Australian Native Associ- ation on the great question involved le the Government's scheme, and nn tbe allied question of apprentice- ship. The proposal was made tbat after two years' instruction, an ap- prentice should be tested by exam- ination to see whether he was fitted for his trade, and later by a final examination for a certificate of com- petency. Further proposals were made from the comparison of the vocational committee in America, which makes' a special study of a toy's Individual bent, and of the Fromm!), Swiss, and Ruulan systema for the practical and theoretical training from start to finish of boys in any particular industry. The lec- turer thought tbat local schools sbould,confine their attention mainly to the instruction of students in the technicalities of the particular Indus- try which existed in that locality. He advocated free education for the student to be provided by tbe Govern- ment and the municipal councils. For a Greater Canada. There 1s a movement on foot in Canada having for its objective the inclusion of the Bermudas and the Britlsb West Indies In the Dominion. The inspirers of the movement in- clude a number of prominent Cana- dians. who have banded themselves together as the Canadian West In- dian League. Tbs proposition has not as yet posed beyond the embryo tic stage, but It is believed that the people of the islands would g I- ly welcome the change. if the pro- posed union should be effected. Brit- ish Honduras and British Guiana— and possibly the far away Falkland Lalanda--might also be included in the eonselidaUoo. Newfoundland. which has bitherto persistently re- fused to become a part of the Do- minion, would probably relent and Glum complete the unification of Britian America, if the rest of Brit- ain's colonies lo the Western Heinle- phere should get together. Newfoundland has a population of about 250,000. and tbe other British American colonies have altogether rather more than two million people. The white lahabttants of the Bermu- das constitute about two-Ofths of tbelr population, but the whites In the Britisb colonies to the southward barely exceed two per cent. of the inhabitants. The proposed annexa- tions would prove a drain upon the Dominion treasury, but would result in a profitable trade between Canada and its tropical friends. The great prosperity which has come to Porto Rico glace tbe Stare and Stripes were rallied over it would, although In a lesser measure, be experienced by the British American tropics under • free interchange of products with Canada. Tbs Canadian market itself Is a great one, and Canada can con- sume all the sugar, tobaccs, and other products that the British Am- erican tropics have to gall. 11 sfs� HOLIDAY RATES 1 FOR CHRISTMAS SINGLE FARE December 23, 24 and GOOD UNTIL DECEMBER s6th FARE AND ONE-THIRD Dec. 21, GOOD UNTIL DECEMBER nth 22, 25 23, 24 FOR NEW YEAR'S SINGLE FARE December 3o, 31, January 1 GOOD UNTIL JANUARY end -- FARE AND ONE-THIRD Dec. 28, 29, 30, 31 GOOD UNTIL. JANUARY 3rd -. • Get your•tickets from the down -town agency and avoid t'he rush at the station. Money refunded if ticket not used. • MONEY ORDERS TELEGRAPH EXPRESS Call telephone,ntuntier 8 for first-class service. F. F. LAWRENCE & SONS msammommismoisolekameiwalswwwwwww. slmsmilmommsosta,• L Y_ Heintzman- 6 Co. Pianos and PIsyer Plan Victor Victrolas and Edison Phonographs Records. Violins. Cases and Bows. Harmonicas. Accordeons, Music Rolls, Holiday. Gift Papeteries. Christmas and New Year's Folders sod,.C'errla. Hymn, Birthday and Psalm Book4- Bibles. Testamen•s. Etc. Snapshot Albums and Fittings of 111 kinds. ALL OF THE LATE POPULAR AND PATRIOTIC SONGS IN STOCK OR PROCURED ON SHORT NOTICE ! - Wishing All Our Customers A Very Merry Christmas ! JAMES f, THOMSON Music and Stationery Store. West Side Square, Goderich dna, wtio do + diilr UMI. of lli fishAp tl+ tlf Ili tiAb ti filft; F i 3 fnerrg Cbritmas TO ALL WHO HAVE TO DO WITH the 13rophe' tubto WE send good -will to those we serve and to E those who serve us , and we ask as much !' as we send; Jbelfeving that friendly busi IF is the best business.., -VVe wish every proper ' F nineteen sixteen's mist joyous time to all I = - - E- r % IC Any quantity of dry heeMMook dabs a. Wt. trusser tar summer wood at MaaJiwan's 3 phone BLP). 52.011 per cord. \\, if ' ortumuTr.t1 tiTMtT !IST fngi.pTf iforft fftT•0•tit THE "A. B.C." -OF RAILWAYS THE BOX CAR gN the carrying out of ifs werV there would be d11fi catty le finding an Inetrumeet that has been of more asetstanee to modern Inde try than the tretgkt ear. Its near are manifold, from a trstec handling point of view, for It serves silks the shipper of mer- chandise, the coal dealer and at times the livestock map. Pellet we consider the bistery gad davlepnfest nt the fretgbt ear we find there a reflection of the rapid pregr•es made 111 tie lednstrtal world at rseest retire 1' 1e but a abort time age, eemparativti!, "thee the etaliVtd Mr, of lips wee4M •enattltctlea, bad a •1 maximum earrytna carrrtty of only thirty thousand pounds. Sad today we have the modern car equipped with heavy trucks and constructed of steel through. out, trtnspc:ting lit ha speed a load of from nlsety- Ove to one hundred Sed ten thousand pounds. 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