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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-08-17, Page 6•dltorlal pages LUCKNOW SENTINEL "The Sepoy Town" letters 28 Bells Street, Cambridge (Lf), To the Editor; The 1981 Lucknow Agri. cultural Society Art and Craft Pair has just drawn to a close, and my husband, Jules and 1 feel that a vote of thanks is forthcoming to El. nine and Ross Errington and their cotnmittee, who organa Iced the show, for their hard work, and careful planning before hand, This was our fourth year in Lucknow, and the friendli. netts of the people and the members of the comtnittee, keeps us coming back to your well run, successful show, We are grateful to Lois and Glenn Walden, who opened their home to us, and saved us a long weary ride back and forth to Cambridge, Such hospitality keeps small town Ontario "alive and well", Our "towns" in Cambridge have lost their special quality due to amalgamation, 1 hope you never suffer that fate, May we all be well, and together, in Lucknow in 1914, and for many years to tune, Rev Spiegel, Hestpeler a Cambridge, Established 1815 THOMAS A. THOMPSON - Advertising SHARON J. DIETZ - tdltor PAT LIVINGSTON - Office Manager JOAN HBLM - Compositor MtRLP l LL1O1'T - Typesetter Manager Luelmow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 17, 1983—Page 6 Business and Editorial Office Telephone 529-2622 Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2H0 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0641 Subscription rate, 515.25 per year In advance Senior Cltlten rate, 912.75 per year In advance U.S.A. and Foreign, 938.O0 per year In advance Sr. Cll, U.S.A. and foreign, 536,00 per year in advance The Ltteknow Contingence preparing to leave for the ftlel Rebellion on Campbell Street in front of R. Graham's Cheap Cash Store and J. Mathes Hard= ware, ( Contributed b' J, Graham, Saint John, lq,D,) A living history lesson To the Editor; It was indeed a great pleasure to receive an invitation to the recently held Lucknow Jamboree, 1 was thrilled and very happy to join with the many thousand, in celebrating this auspicious occasion which was very successful, The weather was tremendous and so were the floats, The occasion reminded me of the Dungannon celebrations, 1 went with Ben Case (93 years young), who resides in Georgetown, To meet and chat with friends, former students and teachers of Lucknow District High brought back rich memories of a great year at Lucknow, (196445), 1 think history was created in Lucknow when we hoisted and unfurled our new Canada Maple Leaf Flag fottyafive minutest ahead of the official hoisting time, We did not have a flag so we borrowed the Post Office Maple Leaf Flag frtun Mr, Cameron on condition that we return it for the official hoisting time, Elwin Hall assisted in the ventute, 1 gave an emplanation and the importance of our new flag over the PA, system and then students and teachers stood in the snow and witnessed the hoisting of the Maple Leaf flag by Principal Mel Goyette and myself. This was a living History lesson and a lesson in cooperation, My congratulations to all the organizers of the Lucknow Jamboree. Sincerely, TOM llamautatsingh, Georgetown, Ontario. Chainleiters are illegal A form of chain fetter has again arrived on the scene. Thus particular one appears to have originated somewhere in the United State., and claims to be legal. 1t is not legal in Canadal Any form of chain fetter that requites you to send in something of value, be it motley, liquor or whatever, is Illegal and falls under Section 189 of the Criminal Code. As the originators nators are usually otntlteawn, the chances of prosecution are very slim, Grain fetters should be dealt with in only one way -- the waste basket route, G. d. Gaefer, Provincial Constable, #27 No. 6 Distort Community Servic7e§ Co=ordnialtor. redtrees by don canpbell it was almost nightfall when five Indians came towards the Church of Redtrees. Two were pulling Chippy Chisholm's sled upon which was not a deer but Chippy Chisholm himself covered with furs for protection. Behind the sled one of them carried Chippy's musket, powdet hotn and a few light belongings. Bringing up the teat were two mote bodkins carrying a pole across their shoulders from which hung the fine dressed carcass of a deet. As they approached the settlement, Chippy Chisholm came to life and pointed in the direction of his cabin, but if the indians understood his words. they paid no heed to them. This foolish old man they had found i -n the snow meant nothing to them. In their way of life, old folks who could HO longer hunt were useless to any community. They had howevet, recognized that Chippy came ftom the place where a man spoke words of wisdomm, not unlike the logic which they themselves had understood and believed across the centuties. 1 -his message was that all things wete guided by the great spirit. So it was, that in bringing Chippy Chisholm back to Redtrees, the Indians wete simply fulfilling an obligation to the Reverend t in -scan MacLeod, who, in the past f.ad btoisght spit itvial comfort to the Indians of the wilderness. Thus they listened or spoke to no one in the community of Redtrees, except Mac- Leod. fie they regarded as a brother; a span who uttdetstood the life beyond. f#e was in fact the only white man with whom they had anything in common. They called hint "The little spirit who rode the horse". The Reverend Duncan MacLeod had heard the news of Chippy's disappear- ance and of course, he had prayed in the church in that ptofound silence of a weekday mottling, But he was in his house when the Indians pounded toughly upon his dour. When MacLeod went outside and to his utter astonishment found Chippy alive and well, laying upon the sled. he began to thank the Indians for their rescue mission. They left Chippy just where he was upon the sleigh and dropped his musket and belongings by his side. The two Indians who carried the deet, let it fall, pole and all into the snow, then without a wotd they turned and jogged in a loping run through the snowy and iota the bush. Wht t Elizabeth Brodie was given the good news, she half ran and half stumbled back 1htotigh the snow to the cabin. The Fite was burning bright and upon the kitchen table was the carcass of a deer which chippy, apparently no wotse fot his ordeal. was skinning very carefully with a hunting knife. Elizabeth had been mote thankful than words could convey when she knew het husband had survived. However. when she saw hint nonchal- antly cutting up the carcass, appar- ently oblivious to all the concern he had caused to the community. she let go a blast of rebuke which even Chippy himself could never have believed possible. As she raved on, he seemed to pay no heed to her, pausing only to go to he fife and light his pipe from a sliver of wood. When she had fiivished her tetry ke, she was almost i reaathless. At this point, Chippy took his pipe from his mouth and smiled in a mischiev- ous, almost boyish kind of way, "Did 1 no tell ye I'd bring ye a deer and that we'd be feasting on it when 1 came back Name? Well, I'm home, 1 got the deet and 1 may be a day late, tizzy, but yell hae the feast 1 promised ye." When Elizabeth's wrath had sim- mered and a Mtge piece of venison had been cooked for the evening meal, they sat down to eat and only then did Chippy recount his adventure. Chippy told her how he had passed into that world betwix and between, where the body succumbs in peaceful bliss to the inevitable, where the cold no longer torments the flesh. I -le spoke too of how he had thought the voices he heard were voices of seamen long gone. of the wind in the trees being the wind in the rigging of a tall ship and the snow, the salt spray from the bow of a ship. In reality, the voices he heard were those of a band of Indians who. like himself, had been following the tracks of the deer. Elizabeth questioned him on how the Indians had managed to bring warmth back to his body, for she scatcely believed he had been on the btink of etetnity. Chippy was reluctant to tell het the whole ttuth, but when he was pressed for details he gave them without too much elaboration. ,There is only one way in the bush tae bring back warmth to a body when there's nae fire and that is by another body." he said. "There were Indian women in the band and that kind o' work is woman's work." Elizabeth was shocked, but she pressed him no more for details.