The Clinton New Era, 1919-10-16, Page 7ill
'Thursday, October 1.6th, 1919,
Plain Language.,
' You'll find that common
Words, simple explanations
and, quick action are the
rule at the Willard Service
Station.
It 113 part of Willard policy to
make it easy for every user of a
Willard Battery to get the most
out of it. So our instructions
are plain ;
1—Add pure water.
2—Take hydrometer tees
every two weeks.
3—If hydrometer test is
less than 1,285 at any two
successive readings comae
straight to the Willard Serv.
ice Station.
J. Ht PYV fII , Garage
is your Willard Service Station.
Storage Battery recharged and
• Overhauled. Accessories for
Automobiles and bicycles.
Phone 80 : Residence 140
CLINTON, ONT.
LIVE POULTRY WANTED
4000 CHICKENS
—0
2000 HENS
—0-
1000 BUCKS
0—
Each week from now until the end
'of December, we pay for all Poultry
'on a quality basis delivered with 'empty
crops. j 1 ell
We pay special prices fee': properly
milk -fed poultry, and we would strong-
;I;v advise all producers to .finish their
tpoultry as it will pay you -to do so.
Grow la lots & CJ,,' �i11111C��
The up-to-date Firm
Clinton Branch Phone 1190
N. W. Tre' '.rtha, Manager
or Hoimesvlile 4 on 143,
PIANOS!
Before purchasing your
new piano or organ let us
skew 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 be tempted to cbuoee cheap
jewelery. Far better to pay a fair
price and know exactly what you
' are getting,
Yon will never he sorry—for ae a
matter of money, it is easily the
most econornieal.
That has been said so often that
everybody by this time should
know it—rind yet there is no
scarcity of cheap jewelry in the
land
Now to get personal —If you world
like to miss that sort altogether—
DOME HERE
If you would like to buy where
nothing hit high qualities are
dealt in—COME HERE
And, even at that, no person ever
said our price» were nn fair
e .eoug ter
Jeweler and Optician
I1CF of llarrifttre Licenses
ON HAND
Wisconsin No. 2; Bailey;
Improved teaming
and other varieties
Cold Medal Binder Twine $27.00
• per cwt.
BAY WANTED
IoaD i MeLOD.
'-6c.✓ v t
Si '; ti
?yarms, O &CA.
Barrow appeared at last. She went
down to meet him before he rang the
bell. J'u.n behind him came a tall
man in a gray suit. This individual
turned in at the gate, bestowing a nod
upon Barrow and a keen glance at her
as he passed.
"That's Grinell, from the Times."
Barrow muttered sourly. "Come on;
let's get away from here. I suppose
he's after you for nu interview."
Hazel turned In beside him silently.
Right at the start she found herself
resenting Barrow's tone, his manner.
She had done nothing to warrant sus-
picion from him. But she loved him,
and she hoped phe could convince him
that it was no more than a passing un-
pleasantness, for which she was no-
wise to blame.
"Hang 'it!" Barrow growled, before
they had traversed the first block.
"Here comes Grinell ! I suppose that
old cat of a landlady pointed us out.
No dodging him now."
"There's no earthly reason why I
should dodge him, as you put it," Ha-
zel replied stiffly. "I'm not an escaped
criminal."
Barrow shrugged his houlders in a
way that made Hazel bring her teeth
together and want to shake him.
Grinell by then was hurrying up
with long strides. Hat in hand, he
bowed to her. "Miss' Hazel Weir, I
believe?" he interrogated.
"Yes," she confirmed.
"I'mon the Times, Miss Weir,"
Grinell went straight to the business in
hhnd. "You are aware, I presume,
that Mr. Andrew Bush willed you a
sum of money under rather peculiar
eondiUons—that is, the bequest was
worded in a peculiar way. Probably
you haveseena reference to it injthe
papers. It has caused a gre t�i,,�of
interest. The Times would b eared
to have a statement from you which
will tend to set at rest the curiosity, of
the public. Some of the other papers
have indulged In unpleasant innuendo.
We would be pleased to publish your
Side of the matter."
"5 have no statement to make," Ha-
zel said coolly. "I em not In the least
concerned with what the papers print
or what the people say. I absolutely
reface to disease' the matter."
Grinell continued to point eut—with
the persistence and persuasive logic of
a good newspaperman bent on learn-
ing what hie paper wants to know-
the desirability of her giving forth a
statement, And in the midst of bis
*fj;nment Hanel bade him a curt "good
evening" and walked on, Barrow kept
step with her. Grine!! gave It up for
a bud job, evidently, for he turned
beck.
They walked ire blocks without a
word, linnet glanced at Barrow now
.as than, (sad observed witk•aes untrue -
hatable *Meg of the heart that he
was suUaa, (mealy reseaifgl, atupi.
"Mute'bo,," oho said soddenly,
Wet lie llw freo. MIMI 70e1 •d*a't
blame me because Mr. Bush wills me e
suni of money in a way that makes
people wonder?"
"I can't understand it at all," he
said slowly. "It's very pecullar—and
deucedly unplensunt, Why Shouldhe
leave you money at all? And why
shogld he word the will 88 he dl,.?
What wrong did he ever do you?" -
"None," hazel answered shortly. His
tone wounded her, cut her deep, so
eloquent was It of distrust, "The only
wrong he, has done me Iles In willing
me that money as he did,"
"But there's an explanation for
thnt," Burrow declared moodily,
"There's a key to the mystery, and if
anybody has It you have. What Is it?"
",Tack," Hazel pleaded, "don't take
that tone with me. I can't stand It—I
won't, I'm not a little child to be
scolded end browbeaten. This morn -
Ing when you telephoned you were al-
most Insulting, and It hurt me dread-
fully. You're angry now, and suspi-
cious. You seem to think I must have
t done some dreadful thing. I. know
• what you're thinking. The Gazette
hinted at some 'affair' between me and
Mr. Bush; that possibly that was a
sort of left-handed reparation for ru-
ining me. If that didn't make me an-
gry, It would amuse me—It's so absurd.
Haven't you any faith 10 me at all? I
haven't done anything to be ashamed
of. I've got nothing to conceal."
"Don't conceal 11, then," Barrow
muttered sulkily, "T've got a right to
know whatever there is to know 1f
I'm going to marry you. You don't
seem to have any idea what this sort
of, talk that's going around means to
a man."
Hazel stopped short and faced him.
Her heart pounded sickeningly, and
hurt pride and rising anger choked her
for an instant. But she managed to
speak calmly, perhaps with added.
calmness by reason of the struggle
she was compelled to make for self-
control..
'If you are going to marry me," she
repeated, "you hare got a right to
know all there is to know, Have I'
refused to explain? I haven't had
much chance to explain yet. Have I
refused to tell you anything? Would
any'reasonabbt explanation make an
Impression on you In your present
frame of mind. I don't want to marry
you if you can't trust me. Why, I
couldn't —I wouldn't—mgzy you any
time, or any place, uadirr'those con-
ditions, no matter how much I may
foolishly care for you."
"There'. just one thing, Hazel," Barr
rely pereloted irtubbornly, "There maid
have been something between van and
Bath. You're not helping yourself by
getting on your dignity and talktat
about sty not trusting you, laetend et
expia.tatag thee* tbiaga,"
A IOWA bine NM," Plates tole! -bit
p$dst)T. "Mr, !Hash asked ate be Mara
lalm, I refound, of soars,
"Yea .r ttmad l" *anew tats& vpw
ei►ti lltl. "lRgt dela mom bah'a
c a package
before the war
c a package
during the war
c a package
THE FLF U- U
SO DOES THE P
LASTS
ICE!
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1'Jhle: CLINTON NEW ERA
OPERATION WAS
NOT NECESSARY
"Frolf.a-lives" Restored Her
To Perfect 'Health
15111'A1'n'IiAu livrla,, nroz,Tar.AL.
"For throo years, I.m1""ered great
pain 1u the lower part of my body,
with swelling oe bloating. I saw a
specialist who said I must tindery)
all operation, I refused,
I heard about "I+'ruil-a-lives„' so
decided to dr!' U.
The first box gave groat relief; and
I continued the treameut, Now my
health its excellent—I am free of
paha—nnd..I gke "Fruit-a-tives" my
warmest than17",
Mine. F, GAREA,U,
50e. a box, (i for$2.50, trial size 25c.
.AI; all dealers or sant postpaid by
Fruit -a -fives Limited, Ottawa. '
jumped at the chane."
"Jack!" she protested.
"Well," Barrow defended, "he was
almost a millionaire, and I've got noth-
ing but my hands and my brain.' But
suppose you did refuse hint. How does
that account for the five thousand dol-
lars?"
"I think,"! Hazel flung back passion-
ately, "I'll let you find that out for
yourself. You've said enough now to
make me hate you almost,. Tour very
manner's an insult," ,
"If you don't like my manner—;'
Barrow aretorted, stormily; Then he
cut his sentence in two, and glared at
her. The twin devils of jealousy and
distrust were riding him hard, and .It
Sashed over Hazel .that in bus,mind
she was prejudged, and that hr`'ex-'
planation, if she made it, would only
add fuel to the flame. •
She turned,ebruptly and left him.
What did It matter, anyway? She was
too proud to plead, and it was worse
than useless to explain.
Even so, womanlike, she listened, ex-
pecting'to hear Jack's step hurrying
up behind, She could not imagine him
letting her go like that. But he did
not come, and when, at a distance of
two, blocks, she stole a backward
glance, he had disappeared. '
She returned to the boarding house,
The parlor door stood wide, and the
curious, quickly averted glance 'of a
girl she knew sent her quivering up to
her room. There was only one'cheer-
ful gleam. She loved Jack Barrow,
She believed that he loved her, and
she could not believe—she could not
conceive—him capable of keeping
,aloof, obdurate and unforgiving, once.
he got out of the black mood be was In. -
She was still sitting by the window;'
watching the yellow crimson of the:
sunset, when someone rapped at her
door. A uniformed messenger boy
,greeted her When she opened it
"Pjtekage 0ot',,Mles Runes Weir." .
'She signed tie delivery meet. The
*ddreae on the package was In Jack's
baadwritlog, , A box et elltse*}ates,
or seats .little pence offering, maybe.'
That warlike Jack whoa he was sorry
fir anything. They had quarreled be-
fare --o'er tabes, too. •
Mho dylsedtit bairHly. A'swift heart -
Waking followed. le tile. .scall carat,
Ward box rental a Mese- sglrt, sal
threat la It a nisch gold slleltpta
tillR catty .thing ebe bat am gibes
Jick 11•aeawr, There•.was ao >roesgga
She! needed near be mldl¢stsad,
'The epurkle 'of the =nail dleteead
ea her Inger drew her ens. tale,
'limited' him ring over the kantlltle, said
dropped It on the dreater, What. the
face in the silver frame mulled ate at
her,. She eared tit the picture for one
long minute fixedly, with uaebaaglttg
espreIslon, and suddenly she swept
it from the Breuer with a savage
sweep of her hand, dashed it on the -
door, and Stamped It shapeless with
her sllppered heel.
"Oh. obi" she ramped. "I hate you—
bate non 1 I desalts you14
And toar, 8i,e no, acme-
the
crnarthe bed and sobbed h;rsterlcally into
a pillow.
Through the night Hazel dnzarl fit-
fully,
itfully, waking out of uneasy sleep to
Ile staring, wide-eyed, into tile dark,
every nerve In her body taut, her mitatl
abnormally active. Grief and nage:
Flung Herself Across the Bed and
Sobbed Hysterically Into a Pillow,
by turns mustered her, and at tlay-
preak she role, heavy -lidded and phys-
ically weary.
The first thing upon which her gaze
alighted was the crumpled,photo In Its
shattered frame; cud, sitting on the
side of her bed, she laughed at the
sudden fury In which she, haddide-
strayed it; but there was no mirth
in her laughter.
She gathered up the bits of broken
glass and the bent frame, and put
them in a drawer, dressed herself, and
went down to breakfast, She wee too
deeply engrossed In her own troubles
to notice or care whether any subtle
ohmage was becoming manifest in the
attttilde of her feilow boarders. The
Worst, elle felt aero, bad already oven
0
She hnd g lIttle tune to spare, acid
that time she devoted to matting tip
n package of Barrow's ring and a few
other trinkets which be had given her,
This sho addressed to his oflleo'und
posted while on her way to work,
•She got through the day somehow,
etruggling ngalnst thoughts that would
persist In creeping Into her aunt and
stirring up emotions that. she was de-
termined to hold in cheep., Work, she
knew, was her only salvation.
And so she got through the week,"
Saturday evening came, and she wont
home, dreading Sunday's idleness, wilt
Its memories, The people nt Mrs.
Stout's esi:nbiishment, she plalpty
saw, were growing. n trifle shy of her,
She had never been on terms of Inti-
macy witlfany of them during her shay
there, hence their attitude troubled
little after the first supersensitiveness
wore off, But her own friends, girls
with whom she had played in the pine•
fore -and -pigtail stages of her youth,
young men who had paid court to her
until Jack Barrow monopolized her-
she did not know how they stood. She
had seen none of them since Brash
launched his lost holt. Barrow she
had passed on the street just once, and
when he lifted Ills hat distantly, she
looked straight ahead, and ignored
him, Whether she hurt him as much
as she did herself by the cut direct
would be hard to say.
When Sunday noon arrived, and the
phone had failed to call her once, and
not one of all 'her friends hnd dropped
In, Hazel twisted her chair so that she
could stare at the Image of herself In
the mirror,
"You're in fair way to become t;
pariah, It seems," she said bitterly.
"What have you,done, I wonder, that
;you've .lost .your lover, and' that Alice
;and May and Hortense and all the rest
of them keep away from you? Noth-
ing—not a thing—except that your
looks attracted a man, and the man
threw stones when he couldn't have
hi's way. Oh, well,,, what's the differ•
eucer re rve set two goon Wile" nue
you're not afraid of Work."
She walked out to Granville park
after luncheon, and found n sent on a
shaded bench beside the lake. People
passed and' repassed—couples, young-
sters,'
oungsters,' old people, • children. It made
her lonely beyond measure. She incl
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For Infants"and Children
3n Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
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24 Years the same
"good" tea
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TEAgoodq
is -tea
5,
Sold only in sealed packages
never Peen [solulw .,woug Pur own
kind before.
A group of young people came slum
tering along the path. Hazel looked
up as they geared her, chattering to
each other, Maud Steele and Bud
Wells, and—why, she knew every one
of the party.' Hazel caught her breath
ns they came abreast, not over ten feet
away. The three young men ralr.ed
their hats self-consciously,
"Hello, Hazel!" the girl sald.
But they passed on. It seemed to
Hazel that they quickened their puce
a trifle. It made her grit her teeth
In resentful anger. Ten minutes later
'slhe 'art the park and caught a car
home. Once in her room she broke
down, --
"Oh, 5'11 go mad If I stay here and
this sort of thing goes on!" she cried
forlornly.
A sudden thought struck her.
"Why should I stay here?" she said
aloud. "Why? What's to keep me
here? I can make my living any
where." •
"But, no," she asserted passionately,
"I won't run away; That would be
running ,away, and I haven't anything
to be ashamed of. 1 will not run."
seemed less hard. But there was no
such ear. Her friends kept away.
Saturday of the second week her
pay envelope contained a brief notice
that the firm no longer required her
services. There MIS no explanation,
only ,perfunctory regrets; and, truth
to tell, Hazel cared little to know the
real cause: Any one of a number of
reasons might have (leen sufficient.
But she reetlzed how those who knew
her would take it, what cause they
would ascribe. It did not matter,
though. The very worst, she reasoned:
could not be so had as what had al-
ready happened—could be no more dis-
agreeable than the things she had en-
dured In the past two weeks. Losing
a position was n trifle. But it set
her thinking again.
She stopped at a news stand and
bought the evening papers. Up in the
top rack of the stand the big heads of
Rn aaanrtarl int of western nnnar•ca
Continued next Week.
Women who are kssing
. still the idea kept recurring ro her, I weight and energy—who
It promised relief from the hurt',,f
av ]lt9i�k�3et^l®31ISSlge�'l languid—
had�rted faces and coolness where she
had a rigl_t to e...pect sympathy and , need the heats'hxuIeffects of
.:riendship.
The legal notice of the beeriest was
mulled to her. She tole np the letter
Awl threw 1t in the fire as If It were
some poisonous thing. The Iden of
accepting his money stirred her to per-
fect frenzy. IP she could have pppred
the whole miserable tale foto some
sympathetic ear she would have felt
hettar. arid. an eh dnv world hnva
ecb
ti
iJReaot ScL• cf arty litodic;as in ties World,
Sall
o ok to the tare
Begin with the Boys
HE glorious victories of Drake and Nelson: were des.
tined to be t6 foundation of our Empire and the
guarantee of the freedom of the seas, which • makes
possible the vast international trade of Britain and
her Dominions.
And yet when Drake and Nelson chose the sea as their life-
work, who was, there to know what would be the overwhelming
consequences oftheir decision?
Aims of the
NAVY LEAGUE
OF CANADA
To emphasize Canada's
opportunities and respnn-
sib,(ities OH the sea.
To raise funds for the
relief of our mordtant
seamen, injured 1» the
war, and for dependents
of those who were billed,.
To maintain sailors' homes
in our ports, -
To train boys and young
men for our merchant
ships by the organization
of Boys' Naval Brigades.
Pe aro„ :
H.R.H. THE
PRINCE OF WALES
Dominion Pro8ident:
COMMODORE
AEMILIUS JAavIS
ELSfor '5'
Today, if you have any question in your mind
as to whether you should support the work
of the Boys' Naval Brigades, study the
matter'with an eye to the future. Get clearly
in mind the tremendous importance of Can.
adian products reaching foreign markets,
which can only be,assured by the building
of a great Canadian Mercantile Fleet, rnarr-
ned with Canadian Seamen!
We may build ships by the thousand, but if
we cannot man then] ourselves our position
is still economically unsound. If we do not
train Canadian lads to man our merchant
feet, we shall be left behind in the race for
export markets—we shall have missed the
greatest opportunity for trade expnncien in
all history!
What will YOU d,3 to help some Canadian
boy who is anxious to learn seamanship, and
so be of the greatest service to his country?
Let your contribution to the fund be a
worthy answer. Help them by giving!
God ! have done my duty! "
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�'ec aC8aist S Mdt's
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October 21-22-23
To
ail �.fs.e— Seas.•.:'
Campaign Committee for the Province of Ontario
Chairman; Slit JOHN' C. EATONVine•Choirmaat A. M, IOBBERLIN
em re JiB
BDMUfi)0, WALKER Assistant Treaoureim N, L, MARTIN
34 sting Street Wont, Toronto