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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1919-9-25, Page 6PAgE 6 'rag THINS CLINTON NEW ERA, 7 Plain Langxaageo • You'll find that common words, simple explanations and quick action ore the rule at the Willard Service Station. >t is part of Willard policy to make it easy for every user of a Willard Battery to getthe most out of it. Sp our instructions are plain ; 1 -Add pure water. 2 --Take hydrometer test every two weeks. 3 -If hydrometer test is less than 1.285 at any twq successive readings corns etraifht° i0 the'Willard Serv- ice Station. dr*� 1 Fee r 1 fi 14"� 1. t•r., 11,� r,)�,^;s-)�1 .y FLe �ptl .1 YPbip.a �11L? �sJtl s qj,+<✓ is year Wiela; d Service Station. Storage Battery recharged and C)vcrhauled. AccessorieS for Automobiles and bicycles. I'Iaona t 0 . Residence 140 CLINTON, ONT. LIME POULTRY WANTED 4000 CHICKENS —0- 2000 HENS —0-- 1000 DUCKS —0— Each week from now until the end of December, we pay for all Poultry on a quality basis delivered with empty crops. We pay special prices for properly milk -fed poultry, and we would strong- ly ldvise all producers to finish their poultry as it will pay you to do so. Gil11-� a leis & Cly., Limitt;it • The up-to-date Firm (Minton Branch Phone 190 N. W. Trewertha, Manager-, or Holmesvilie 4 on 142. PIANOS; Before purchasing your new, piano or organ let us show you the newest de- signs in several well- known and old establish- ed makes. INSTRUMENTS RENT- ED AT MODERATE PRICES PHONOGRAPHS See our stylish cabinet designs in the best makes. C. Hoare' Better Pay The Price Don't he tempted to choose cheap jewetery. Far better to pay a fair price and know exactly what von are getting, Ton will never be sorry --for as a matter of money, it is easily the most economical. That bas been said so often that everybody by this time sbould know it -and yet there is no scarcity of cheap jewelry in the land Now to azet personal -If You would like to mise that sort altogether - DOME T EBE If you would like to buy where nothing but high qualities are dealt in -DOME tIJ2RJ And oven sit that, no person ever acid unr prices were unfair W.R. ejar`untei Jeweler and Optician nor of Marriage Licenses Sees. eorn ON HAND Wisconsin No. 2; Bailey; Improved Learning and other varieties Gold Medal Binder Twine $27.00 per cwt. HAY WANTED ' ROBO cr eP � ta'• , f 4 Sii Copyri�htlr�hirr Dkal1N&Ca, CHAPTER 1. Widclr introduces a Lady and Two Gentlemen. Dressed In n plain white shirtwaist skirt a1 lack cloth and an equally plain b Mils IIazel Weir, no weekdnys, was merely u unit In the ace of Harring- ton to Bush, implement manufacturers. Neither In personality nor In garb would a casual glance have dlfferentl- aced her from the other female units, nem/pied at varl,tu:t desks. A business office is no place for a woman to ]-a- rade her Pere ntnl charms. The rocas- ! are of her worth ,chore is simply the measure of her efficiency at her mu- 1 chine or ledgers. 4t Dot If tiny mem- ben of the firm had boon asked want sort of a girl Miss Hazel Weir might he, he would probably have replied - tend with utmost truth -that Miss Weir wsa a capable stenographer. But when Saturday evening released Miss Hazel Weir from the plain brick office building, she became, untilshe donned her working clothes at 7 a. m, Monday morning, quite it different sort of a person. In other words, she chucked the plain shirtwaist and the plain skirt into the discard, got Into such a dress as a normal girt of twenty-two delights to put on, and de- voted half an hour or so to "doing" her hair. Mise Weir then became an entity at whidtfew persons of either sex failed to take a second glance. Upon a certain Saturday night Miss Weir came home from an informal little party escorted by a young man. They stopped at the front gate. "I'll be here at ten sharp," said lee. "And you get a good beauty sleep tonight, Hazel, That confounded of- fice! I hate to think of you drudging away at it. I wish we were ready to-" "Oh, bother the office!" she replied lightly. "Anyway, I don't mind. It doesn't tire me. I will be ready at ten this time. Good night, dear." "Good night, Hazier" he whispered. "Here's a kiss to dream on." Miss Weir broke away from him laughingly, ran along the path, and up the steps, kissed her finger tips to the lingering figure by the gate, and went in. Bed," ,she soliloquized, "is the place for me right quickly 1f I'm going to be up and diesoed and hove that lunch ready by ten o'clock. I wish I weren't such. a sleepyhead -or else that I :weren't a 'pore wurrkin' gait.'" .'$t which last conceit she laughed 'softly. Because, for a "pore wnrrkin' gurl," Miss Weir was fairly well con- tent with her lot. She had no one de- pendent on her -a state, of affairs which, if it occasionally leads to lone- liness, has its compensations. Her salary as a stenographer amply cov- ered her living expenses, and even per- mitted her to put by a few dollars monthly. She had grown up In Gran- ville: She had her own circle of friends, So that she was comfortable, even happy, In the present --and Jack D'I narrow prOpOaeu t0 Settle me pton- lein of her future; with youth's op- timism, they two considered it already settled. Six months more, and there was to be a wedding, a throe -weeks' honeymoon, and a final settling dopa in a little cottage on the West side; everybody In Granville who amounted to anything lived on the West stile, Then she would have nothing to do but make the hone nest cozy, while jack kept pace with a real-estate busi- ness that was growing beyond lits moat sanguine expectations. She kissed her finger tips to him again across the rooftops all grimed with a wir. er's soot, and within ,fif- teen minutes Miss Weir was sound asleep. b b b „ 5 5 5 She gave the Ile, for once, to the say - Ing that is woman is never ready at the appointed time, by being on the steps a full ten minutes before Jack Barrow appeared. They walked to the corner and caught a cur, and in the span of half an hour got off at Granville park, The city fathers, hampered in deys gone by with lack of municipal funds, had left the two -hundred -acre square of the park d5'retty much as nature made it; that is to say, there was no •ornate- parking, no attempt at land - settee gardening. Granville park was a bit of the old Ontario woodland, and as such afforded a pleasant place to loaf in the summer months. When Jack Barrow and Hazel had kintehed their lunch under the trees, in company with a little group of their acquaintances, Hazel gathered scraps of braid and cake Into a paper bag. Barrow whispered to her: "Let's go down and feed the swans. I'd just as soon be away from the crowd." She nodded assent, and they depart. ed hastily lest some of the others should volunteer their company. It took but a short time to reach the pond. They found it log close to the water's edge, and, taking a Beat there, tossed morsels to the birds and chat- tered to each other. "Look," she said suddenly; "here's one of my esteemed employers, If you please. You'll notice that he's walking and looking et things just like um or- dinaty, everyday martale." Barrow glanced past her, and saw a rather tall, middle-aged man, his hair ttaged with rag, a fine-looking man, dressed witheeeding meaty, sven to a dower in hie coat lapel, walking slowly along the path that bordered the pond. His >rtaze wandered to them, and the cool, well-bred stare gradually gave way to a slightly puzzled expression. He moved a 'step or two and seated himself en a peach. Miss Weir became aware that he was looking at her most of the time as. ehe eat casting the bite of bread to the swans and ducks.. It made her self-conscious. She did not kpow'why she should be of any partic- ular jata.»••' c a Package before the war c a Package during the war c a Package NOW THE FLAVOUR LASTS SO DOES THE PRICE! NO MORE NERVOUS HEADAC Since She Tried "FRU T'A-TIVE$", Tho Famous Fruit Medicine, '70 MISS ANNIE WARD 112 Hazen St., St. Tolrn, N.B, "Tt is with pleasure that I write to tell you of the great benefit Ireceived from the use of your medicine-, 'Frail -a -lives'. I was agreat sufrerer for many years from 11'crvaus Head. aches and Caaslifafion. I tried everything, consulted doctors; but nothing seemed to help me, tmtil I tried 'fruit -a -fives'. After Thad taken several boxes, I was completely relieved of these troubles and have been unusually well ever since." Mass ANNTL WARD, 'Fruit-a-tives' is fresh fruit juices, concentrated and increased in strength, combined with finest tonics, and is a positive and reliable remedy for headaches and Constipation. 60c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25e. Atall dealers or Fruit-a-tivesLimited, Ottawa. "Let's walk around a little," she sug- gested, The last of the crumbs were gone. "9.11 right" Barrow assented. "Let's go up the ravine." They left the log. Their course up the ravine took them directly past the gentleman on the bench. And when they came abreast of him, he rose and lifted his bat at the very slight incli- nation of Mies Weir's head. "Row do you do,. Mian Weir?" said be. "Quite 1, pleasant afternoon." To the best of Hazel's knowledge, Mr. Andrew Bash was •little given to friendly recognition of his employees, particularly In public. But he eeemod inclined to be talkative; and, es she might a slightly inquiring glance at her escort, she made the necessary in- trodsetion. So for a minute or two the three of them atoed there exebang- Ing polite banalities. Then Mr, Bush bowed asd passed on. "Bt's ons of the bkgeat Vag in d inurrtlle, • they . say," Tack observed, "1 wouldn't - mind baring some of his liminess to 'handle. Re started with botkiag, too, according to all accounts, New, tiottra• what I cell success" "lPub, yes,, in a business way he's a srleeeits,t" Aasel:rewponded..;;"But he's awfully cart meat of the.tlpre around the once. I wonder what ;made him thaw met so todayt" • And that gnestton recurred to her mind again In the evening, when Jack had gone home and she was sitting in her own room. She wheeled her chair around and took a steady Iook at herself in the mirror. A woman may never admit 'extreme plainness of fea- ture, and shit •may deprecate her own fellness, If -the be possessed of fair: num, but she seldom has any illusion absnt one or the other. She knows. Hazel Weir knew that she was far above the average in point of looks. She was smiling et heyself jest as the• had been smiling at Tack Barrow while they asap the log and fed the awaits. But ven though Miss Weir was twenty-two , and far from anso- plesticated, it dtd not strike her that the transition of . herself from a de- mure, businesslike o®ce person in so- ber black and White to a radiant crea- ture with the potent Influences of love and spring brightening her eyes and lending a veiled''caress' to her every supple movement, satisfactorily no- emunted for the sudden friendliness of Mr. Andrew Bash. Mina Weir was unprepared for what subsequently transpired as a result of that casual encounter with the man- aging partner of the firm. By the time Get Your Dips e in Shape Many ailments are caused by stomach weakness, Faulty digestion leads to biliousness, sick lie: c!ac:., dizziness, sallow skin and eruptions. Main t t:.i z_ healthy condition of t`• -lo stomach and you will get rid of the chief cause Of your sufferings. Do n_ct neglect the laws of health. Keep eep stomach, liver and bowels in order by timely use of lae IseoSldaee-seu2colt4 odtitet, ibg,5 one went to wow on lllonaay tuorifa11 she bad nhrlopt forgptteu the meeting - In Grenville Palk. • Hazel's work cogslsted largely of (Notation from the shipping manager, tetters relating to outgoing consign- ments of Implements. r It wits, therefore, eemctlting of a surprise to be called into the office of the managing partner on Tueeday aft- ernoon, Bush's private steaogrnpher sat et her machine in one cornet. Dor, Bush turned front his desk at Hazel's entrance. "Mies Weir," he Bald, "I wish you to taho Borne lettere," Hazel went back for her notebook, wondering mildly wily she should be called upon to shoulder a part of Nelly Morrison's work, and a trifle duhlous at the prospect of facing the iupld.fire dletation Mr. Bush was Buhl to inflict upon his stenographer now and then When elle was seated, Bush tools ftp a sheat of lciter,s, anti dictated replies, Though rapid, bus enunciation waa per - "That's All, Mise Weir," He Said Po. !Italy. feetly clear, and Hazel found herself getting his words with greater ease than elle eieeted. "That's all, Miss Weir," he salt?, when he reached the last letter.'"Brink; those in for verification and signature as soon as yea can get them done." In the casino of time she completed the letters and took them boat Bush glanced over each, and appended ids signature "That's all, Miss Weir,"'he'saki po- litely. "Thank yon." And Basel went back to her ma- chine, wondering why she had been requested to do those letters when Nelly Morrison had nothing better to do than sit picking at her type faces with a toothpick. She learned the significance of It the next morning, however, when the of- fice boy told her that she was wanted by Mr. Bush. This time when she ea-.tered Belly Morrison's place was .vacant. Bush was going through kis mail. Re waved her to a chair. "Just a minute," he said. 'Presently he wheeled from the desk and regarded her with diseaaeerttng iraakneas--as If he were appraising her, point by point, so to speak. Thursday, Septeinber, 28th, 1919. Its ASSAM quality gives it that rich. flavor Solid of y Ian sealed packages ",l. 122 sr4; , +al...:.. a,'f e_eeet..C7eles:L.,... �S:sJ,=:iTa X;eM'f•�T.,r", <r.d S«:t!'i.__L ..,,:r ?"y°' -•ray--air-dletution to you yratr rciay was In the nature of a try -oat, Miss Weil," he Anally volunteered, "Miss Morrison has asked to be transferred to our Midland branch, Mr. Allan recommended you. The work will not be hard, but I must have someone de- pendable and discreet, and careful to avoid errors. I think you will manage it very nicely if you• -air -have no ob- jection to giving up the more general work of the office for this. The salary will be considerably more." "If you consider that my work will be satisfactory," Miss Weft began. "I don't think there's any doubt on that score. You have a good record in the office," he interrupted em111ngly, "Now let us get to work and clean up this correspondence." Thus her new duties began. '.there -was an air of quiet in the prlvzte of- fice, a greater luxury of appointment, which suited Miss Hazel Weir to a nicety. The work was no more diffi- cult than she had been accustomed to doing -a trine less In volume, and more exacting in attention to detail, and necessarily more confidential, for Mr. Andrew Bush had his finger tine On the pulsing heart of a big business. The size of the check which Hazel received in her weeny envelope watt increased far beyond her expeetetiona, Nelly Morrison had drawn twenty dol- lars a week. Miss Hazel Weir drew twenty -five -a substantial Inbreaae over what she had reeelved In the ship- ping department. With that extra money there were plenty of little things she could gayer the home she and Jack Barrow had planned. Things moved along in routlhe chan- nels for two montes or more before Bezel beca'me actively aware that a subtle change was growing maaiteat in the ordinary manner et Mr. Andrew Bash. She shrugged her abeethees at the Mal et first. But ehe was a yaw E X; 'moreover, a woreaaa of Intit2>garia, heperceptive faculties astfra0' keen. The first symptom Nan Moretf, data- ty; bouquets of whichme to slow 0a his desk. Coincident viilh tkflr, ]Oa hails evinced an dace :atlas to ,thil t lute talk on subjects nowise slated to besieges. Bared accepted the IRO - 'ate to 12ik-'ata.to her sex reluetantiy, girls' hits no aceuragement to overstep the mu- tual bounds of cordiality. She was ab- eelutely cure or nerseir 1100 or nor Mt. for Jack Barrow, I•'urtirermoro, Mr. Andrew Bush, though well preservedd. Was drawing close to fifty -and afro was twenty-two. That In itself reassured her. Thus the third month of her tenure - drifted by, and beyond the telltale glances aforesaid, Mr. Bush remained tentatively friendly and nothing more. Hazel spent her Sundays as abs had spent them for a year past -with Jacit Burrow; sometimes rambling afoot in the country or In the park, sometimes indulging in the luxury of a Hired buggy for a drive. But Mr. Bath took her breath away at a time and in a manner totally un- expected. He finished dictating a batch of letters one afternoon, and sat tapping on his desk with a pencil. Ha- zel waited a second or two, expecting him to continue, her eyes on her notes, and at the unbroken silence she looked up, to dad him staring fixedly at her.. There was no mistaking the expres-• cion on his face. Hazel flushed and` shrank back involuntarily. She had hoped to avoid that. It could not be, anything but unpleasant. She had small chance to indulge In reflection, for at her first self-consctone. move he reached swiftly and caught her hand. "Hazel," he said bluntly, "will yam merry met" Miss Weir gasped. Coming without. warning, It dumfounded het. a An4' while her prat natural Im alga wake to answer a blunt "No," she was flu toyed, and so took refuge babitnd t, show of dignity. "Mr. Sushi" she protested, and .trifler to release het hand. But Mr. Bush had ne intention et' allowing her to do that. "Cm In deadly earnest," he eeltd.- "Pm loved you ever since that da' I saw you in the park f : the simian. I want you to be my wife:. Will your' Continued next Week. f fLes Cotton Root Col ijiiu tit, • ii safe, reliable reee, aliwp, medie,•ne. Sold in three de. green o1 strength --No. 1 Eft. No. 2, a8' Na 3, lis per boat ' Sold by all diNguefe, or cont prepaid on reee7D0. o/_ prices. diose. pamphlet. .:Ad4reei; ms COOK MeataimE cod mamma. ps.edr alslw.l, Booze Costs Years of Life' Insurance Records Prove Moderate Drinking Increases Death -rate 55% LE Insurance figures prove that the excess of deaths among moderate ,drinkers over abstainers runs from 11% to 74%. It is the business. of Life Insurance.Companies to know the risks a man takes when he uses Iiquor. These Insurance men have no theories to prove and no doctrine to preach. Their figures are as cold as ice, and they make you pay for the risks you run. To them it is simply business ---a matter of dollars and cents. But to you it is a matter of life and death. Actuarial Comparison of Death Records Ages Total Abstainers Moderate thinkers Ekcess Deaths Among Moderato Drinkers 20-30 4,221 4,617 11% 30-40 4,201 7,041 68% 40-50 6,246 10,861 74% 50-60 13,056 18,524 42% 60-70 29,078 34,568 19% From tables prepared by R. H. Moore; Actuary of the United Kingdom Temperance and General Insurance Company, based on Records of over 60 years' experience, Are You Willing to Die Before Your Time for Sake of i ooze? THE number of deaths among moderate drinkers averages 35% higher than among abstainers. If you have habitually taken two glasses of whiskey per day or the alcoholic equivalent in beer, your chances of dying before your time are double those of total abstainers. It has 'been costing total abstainers yearly millions of dollars in pre- miums to help to pay for excessive deaths among drinkers! Can we afford such waste of Life and money in the face of the war losses of money and men? Vote "No" to repealing the • Ontario Temperance Act, and "No" to rendering it practically worthless by the proposed amendments. v: --Four 1 ix os Answer every question on the Referendum Ballot with an X under the heading "No," and herein fail not, or your vote is lost to Temper- ance Progress. Ontario Referendum Costunittee JOHN MACDONALD; D. A. DUNLAP; ANDREW S. GRANT; Chairman, Treasurer, Vice-Cjlairrnaas anti Secretary 0001 Excelsior Life )31dg.,'Toronto) 6