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The Clinton News Record, 1937-11-11, Page 2PAGE 2 THE ;,CLINTON NEW S-BEd:Mb • "COFFIN SHI BY FRANK H. SHAW The mate wanted to be brutal; but ragged though the newly found sto- away was, there ` was something in his smeared; face that checked Mr. Fallon's indignation.' "What've yea; got there, mister?" Captain Beswick challenged from the spray -washed bridge deek. "Something they found in the chain - locker, sir -stowaway." The Chambe- ley plunged her snout into a wave and lifted some of it over her forcastle. "Bring him here.", commanded Cap- tain Beswick. And whenthe sorry derelict was there, he asked: "You know it's a gaoling job, stowing away? What made you choose this ship anyway?" "I once commanded her, sir," said the stowaway, "I shouldn't have come except that I was starving ashore" "Lies won't get you anywhere," snapped the skipper. Because of; the spray he stepped inside his cabin door. "You'll find my name inside the chronometer box lid, sir — James Foden, I" was her first captain." Cau,- tain 13es-wick scratched hishead tilt- ing his sou -wester to do it. This man was very old: emaciated to starve: tion -point. But he had steady eyes. Beswick every time he wound the chronometers, had wondered what sort of a man Captain Foden was Noiv he knew. The Clinton . News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses. $2.00 to the U.S. or ether foment countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option, of the publish :r. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the Label ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- eient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8e for each sub- eequeiht insertion. /leading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once for 85e, each subsequent insertion 15c. 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Parties desiring to effeet insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- c ion to any of the above officers ad- dres a to theirti s d respective roe est offs- ces. Losses inspected by the directors who lives nearest the scene. I n c l4. r i "Any proof ? ” he asked. "Just my word, sir and this." He tendered a packet of worn papers; they were testimonials of service, and they were good ones. "Step in here," said Beswick., "All right, mister. " The mate went sor- rowfully away, He liked to have someone to bully -an old worn man would have been exactly right. , "I'm more than willing to work,- sir," ork,sir," said Foden. "But they thought I was too old. I have been hungry for a long time." He shivered, remem= hexing how he had waited in dreary queues forthe coffee and sandwiches: of charity. "But hadn't 'you anything saved?" "Yes; only—it event." To. save his daughter's husband. from' disgrace, he might have added, but did not. "And these owners did not grant pensions" Beswick knew that. The line was characterized by a stinginess rare. even in the, tramping trade. "They put me ashore in favor of a younger man," Foden. explained. "Breakfast, sir," announced the • steward, Foden was ragged, foul with chain -locker foulness "Bring it up here for two, steward." "I'm hardly fit for the fo'c'sle, cap - thin," Peden demurred. Beswick in- vited him to his bath -room; raked out an old jacket: Then he watched the stowaway eat. "I'd go slow, if I were you," he advised. Foden apologized, explain- ing how many days had passed since he tasted food. "I'll be able to work with the best, though," he stated. "It looks to me as if the owners owed you the run of your teeth, any way," mumbled Beswick, feeling ashamed to' be in such employment. "I'nn not surprised to hear how you've been treated, of course. I -wouldn't be here if anything better offered, believe me," Suddenly Foden broke down, the food appearing to choke "I served them faithfully, and they put me on the beach, • captain," he gulped. • "For thirty years I served them." Beswick sympathetically re- cited some of the scurviness.tha.t had been served out to himself. • "I don't know what it was like in your day," he wrathfully said, "but nowadays they- won't even insure their ships— they take their chance, under- writing 'cm themselves, They'll chuck me on the scrap -heap -without a second thought, ig they can find a cheaper man." After a while: "And if they find I've given you a Passage aft here -and that steward's an ownet's man—they'd welcome the excuse to fire me. So you see how it is." "I'd be glad to go in the fo'c'sle, sir." .. "With that crowd of dock -rats! There's a spare bunk in the bo'sun's room, as you'll remember. That's the best I can do." Actually Captain Foden hadn't told every thought actuating him in tak- ing this desperate remedy against starvation, His one chief hope was that he might die—die at sea, where he had spent the hard, worthwhile years of his life—and be decently sewn up in canvas and dropped override to avoid the stigma of a pauper -funeral. He'd seen too many to relish taking part in one! • He had, he admitted to himself, ta- ken it as a sign when he discovered the oid'Cambeiley at the dock, where he had padded—sore' of foot, dreary of soul in a futile search for employ- ment. Stowing away had been easy to' a man knowing every inch of the ship, as he did, "Thank you, cap'n; I take it kind ly," he said. - And after that he 'fair- ly earned his keens Old though he was, he could tire outmast of shiftless youngsters; and when it came to tak- ing a helm -trick, there wasn't one a- board to touch him. Being active and on open water did him a power of good. Regular meals helped. • Captain .Beswick used t o yarn with him during his spells at the wheel. They decided that the owners were paragons of meanness. "It's what I've got to look forward to," grumbled Beswick. "Well, I owe them nothing. When I look at you and see what they did to you, I feel tike---" "Still they keep ,you alive," urged Paden, doing miracles with the wheel. The Camberley was an ugly and a dirty ship: she wallowed grievously in any sort of seaway, But Foden ould keep her moderately steady. He had lots of time for thought: he was a slow,ship. It was already nderstood that Captain Beswick ouldn't surrender him to the author - ties when port was reached. He pen- dared over the raw„ days that had atrophied -his soul. It had been an incredible, struggle o keep alive: only an old sailor's'in. grained toughness permitted survival. f the owners had granted hint even a trifling pension it would' have been ifferent-but no they've discarded I'm like an old boot when his period of usefulness was ended, CANADIA AILW VS; Tria TABLE ' Trains will arrive at and depart from, Clinton as foll'ow's: t Buffalo and Cederiek lily. Going Bast, depart 7.03 aan. Going East,, depart 11.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.45 p.m. Going West, depart 10.00 p.m. d London, iTurea & Brace h Going North, ar. 11.25 Ive. 11.47 p.m. Going South ar. 2,50, leave 3.08 pen. justice in this ',situation: the owners unwittingly tupporting the man they'd- thrown aside.. He had no 1cpm, punetion,in accepting their unrealized hospitality but there was- a- quality' in hint that made him work fiercely to earn it. Even the mate admitted he was, an asset to the shits, as Cline went by When the Chamberley was hit by a typhoon in the' China Sean and put ee her beam -ends with cargo shifting, it was Foden who went below first to set things right: who led the men when the boatswain was jammed be- tween shifting packages and put out of action. That,breeze shook the old Chamber - ley badly;. -Reaching port - Captain Beswick indented for a complete Over- haul; something was strained in the tail -shaft couplings, but he .got peremptory orders to carry on: foreign dockyards put their cha�i- ges thinking they held a monopoly. "We've get, to take her home as she' is," he told, Foden in a: disgruntled way. "If it ''easn't my bread and butter,: I'd chuck up the whsle dirty business." • "They did that to me, many a time,' Foden admitted.. "And if T protested they asked me what I thought they paid me wages for!" "They dou't deserve decent service," growled Besweek. "However!" He had a 'wife and family to support. Pickings were small—the owners saw to that, A number of the crew deserted prior tc the Chamberely leaving her last port on the homeward . run. Others, beach-combers for the most part, were shipped in their stead. It was found possible .to sign Captain Paden. on the crew list at the regula- tion wage;. • "Not much .for a shipmaster, but It'll give you a few pounds in hand when we get home," said Beswick, In a dozen ways Foden hoped he wouldn't make the home port at all. There wasn't anything to be afraid of in dying not at sea. It e'ns only in common lodging houses that death was affrighting -=sometimes he heard the rattle of wheels as pauper coffins were. hurried to obscure graveyards. But he was a warrior: so long as life endured in him he intended to go, on struggling, just as he had always done. But in the middle of the North At - !antic, mirl-twintee it was the Chatn- berely's tail -shaft 'snapped like a rot- ten carrot She fell off into the trough and the seas made a clean breach of her. She was quickly battered into the sem- blance' of a wreck. Foden led the crew in rigging a sea anchor that might keep her afloat until assistance ar- rived. The SOS was sent out. It was answered by swagger liner, carrying the mails, qualified to save life, forbidden to take a wreck in tow. A lot of water was in the Chamberley's holds, and it seemed to be increasing. The dock -rats started to 'sing: "Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Times are bad and wages low. It's time for us to leave her!" The crack liner swaggered into sight, ablaze with lights, her Morse lamp winking vigorously. The wea- ther' was moistening, if anything. At the Chamberley's wheel Foden was de- ing o- ing his utmost to keep the ship steady. "Ile says he'll take us off," said Beswick. "He's all that's answered our call, and the glass is down lower than I've ever seen it." Then, drench- ed and bitter as he was, he chuckled: "The owners will wish they'd insured the damned coffin; I'll bet, It serves 'em right for • shilling - scraping hounds. "She might be worth fighting for still," said old Peden. "Here's one that's sick of fighting. tike as not they'd fire me for letting her get into this mess, though it's their own fault. I warned 'em. about that tail -shaft I don't owe them a thing, not a thing," Then he raised his voice even louder: "Tell him we're abandoning," he said to the mate, and the Chamberley's Morse lamp winked across the foamy waste The line effeeted a mighty snappy tescue, giving her passengers some- thing exciting to write up in their diaries., She. spread- oil over the yeasty seas, and sent her own boats and there was not much of` a scramble by the ChamberIey's crew when the boats came alongside. It was only after the muster was made and the liner well under way again, heading resolutely into the ever -worsening storm, that it was discovered Foden. was missing, He must, the crew decided, have met with mishap in lowering himself down to 'the . beats, or a sea had im. A o d man ha n crushed hi n I d 't a chance. "Anyway, that's the way he want- ed to die: he told me so often." said Captain Beswick to his mate, A,nd that was really Foden's inten- tions in remaining beheld. This heavy work had weakened him. It was un- likely that he'd ever secure another berth with Beswick out of a job, How could a man finish better than aboard the old ship he'd commanded in her prime? In a way it was a Viking's death. But a man didn't take even death lying down. Sine(' the boiler' -room was flooded, and the ,tires out, he managed to raise a head of cream ht the donkey boiler, and when suffieieat Was made,' he started the pimps, 1't wasn't possible for One to do 'much het the mere net of fighting inetneed him. And 'a good sited ship like the the tiauper shells Into which they packed down -and -Pule when their time comes. He went oe pumping for three days and nights, getting himself food as he could, Other men might have 'looted the medical comforts and fin- ished that way -drunk to the world. But old ];'odea had never been scared of death, and years of command had accustomed him to loneliness. , Then a full -powered freighter, with no mail contract, loomed up out ef'the lessening smothers, and her skipper mw what he .considered was a plum worth the ,picking. Salvage wasn't as common as all that. He sent a boat over with a line. Capt. Peden hailed the mate as he' came alongside. "She might float, if you sent a few hands to keep the pumps going," he said. "And she's got agood cargo inside her." The Prometheus toWed the Camber- ley fifteen hundred miles to port, and most of the way Foden took the helm because the old, ship needed hut -lour- ing. When she was securely moored, he went to see the owners. He felt younger than he had felt for many a day. "If I'd deserted her you'd have had to pay for her as a derelict," he said. "As it is, it's a case for arbitration but you'll save thousands .thousands. Yea chucked me ashore to starve, and I've put money in your pockets. So long as a single living man is aboard a ship she isn't h derelict. I took command—because she's a ship." "And what sort of reward do you expect?" asked the owners, recogniz- the truth of what he said. Unin- sured as she was ,the 'total loss or complete salvage of the Camberley crust have brought them near to ruin. "Give me command of her when she's repaired," said old Foden stur- dily. "There's lots of life in both of ua still." "Since Captain Beswick tells us that he intends to seek new services —very well," said the owners. `London Answers.. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD There are 1+,464 Boy Scouts and leaders in Iran, and 33,413 in Iraq. Quebec to Encourage Scout Camping In National Parks Plans for special camp sites in the Laureittides National Park of Quebec for Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and other young naturalists were announced by the Hon. Onesime Gagnon, Provincial Minister of Mines, Game and Fisher- ies, on returning from an October in- spection of the park area. Boy Scouts Win More Scholarships Two of the year's important east- ern scholarships, one of $1,000 and the other of $675, were captured by Boy Scouts. The first, the Lord Ath- olstan McGill entrance scholarship, was awarded Patrol Leader George Lefebvre of the 1st Huntingdon, Que., Scout Troop, and the second, a Pro- vincial scholarship at Queen's was won by Troost Leader Donald Cornett of the lst Smiths Falls Troop. A Rope Spinning Missionary Boy Scout rope spinning has not been thought of as training for mis- sionary work. Forster Rover Scout Firmin Sauve of Ottawa, home on furlough from a station of the Chris - tion and Missionary Alliance at Tim- bucto, on the southwestern fringe of the Sahara desert, told of the success of a demonstrationof rope spinning 'n helping establish friendly relations with the fierce fighting, long unap- proachable Tauregs, or "veiled rid- ers" of the great desert. A display of rope spinning in the market place 01 Timbucto attracted the attention of a group of the veiled camel men and a demonstration of walking on the hands and other gym nestle Stunts which appealed to their lova of physical prowess finally es- tabliehod a friendly understanding. In return the young Canadian was taught the desert way of making fire with flint and steel and some myster- ious quick -igniting tinder, and other desert"scoutcraft," As a souvenir he brought back it Taureg •fire-malcine. set. in a goatskin case givenhits by a :former chief of desert raiders who had accepted Christianity and become a goad citizen, The format. Ottawa Rover Scotit de - clamed his Scout training had been at ' great value to him :in many ways in his missionary worlc. Under the auspices of the Poultry Services, Live Stock Branch, Domin- ion Department of Agriculture, the. Ontario Department of Agriculture, and the Manitoulin Co-operative Tur- key Growers' Association, the twelfth annual All-Manitoaiitt Turkey Show Will be hold at • Mindem.oya, Mani- toulSn Ishtnd, on October 27 artd 28, 1087. There is a heavy demand and a very good market in the eastern Uni- ted States for 'frozen blueberries from Canada and Newfoundland,' packed stxhighi;, witheut,sugar, .in, 30 lb.' woo- den lugs' paper It ed, and in 15-1b, tuba peeked four to the crate. Cana- Ilan nupplioe conte principally from Noln Ieotia. There was something like poetic Cbamberloy was a better ec'C;fiit thee THURS., NOV, 11, 1937. Keep your whole house summer -warm this winter with HAMCO--the dustless, smokeless, wageless Coke. It will save you money. Save you work and worry, too, ; for HAMCO is soeasily regulated - so light to handler and leaves far less ash. Arrange for a trial ton of this clean economical, dependable fuel. Order from your local T A M C 0 dealer — he deserves your fuel business. ✓s `a�Y �fi �1rY tin HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED HAMILTON, CANADA IIAMCO COVE sold in Clinton by: A. D. McCARTNEY VICTOR FALCONER J. B. MUSTARD COAL CO. W. J. MILLER & SON ,Wl.".a.r.e. o"r ,.'.".sfea".es esu .e.i0d','ut.."i e°aa.e.S.t.s.°.aa'.e na.°a°.°o .°a a .•et and was for years a member of par - .a re Bement. He married well, as the say - YOUR WOlal1 AND MINE ing goes. In the course of the years, this man lost everything in the way (Copyright) ;• of wealth, but there was not lost that .: }pride in the honour of the family by JOHN C. RIRK`VOOD •`, name. yr of aiiww•,i,,www.+, w.,,,,yi. ,•wiw .Nm,nee.e. ,.,.,,....,3 One son died in his 20's; the other "He comes from ason lived 'to be age 65 ate so; a good family," retail store; one became a civil ser- daughter remains. The children never is a remark you hear made frequent- vent. But never did these sons be- lost their sense of "family". To keep ly, when conversations are about per- come "common". They dressed well. the family name unspotted was ever sons. Just what is meant by "Good i They watched their conduct. They a purpose. family"? In countries where there. never became ruffians. They never, is an aristocracy, "good family" may bad literary aspirations. They eves r mean connection by blood' with a tit- sought the limelight. On the contrary, I I am witnessing the rise of conte led family; but what does "god fam- they shrank from it. They had obvious "good families". There is the case of Ily" mean in Canada and in the Uni-,dignity. They had and cultivated the son of a man who himself was rod States? goodthey mawerennerof tmilliterate, and without any family In these countries—and particular s,.he "good their famcoily" classmunity- background. The son of this than ly in Canada, where most families ification. This family and all itsbecame a doctor. He holds public of- htave no known history beyond a hun-' members have been remembered by Tice, lie is ambitious and forceful. dred years or so—"good family" all knowing them as being proud of In the next generation or two, his means a family that has kept its their name, traditions, descent and descendants may be regarded as com- name clean, that has prospered, that manner of living. The lamentable ing from good stock and from a "good has educated its children, and that thing is that there are none to carry fly' has held and holds a moderately good on this family's name; there are no! It is the same in the case of the social position. grandchildren, grandson of a man whom I knew. We have in this country what are I recall another family—also Scott- This grand -father held a very lowly called "old" families. Possibly these ish in origin. The father came to position, and was always poor. His families two -three-four generations Canada to farm. He brought very son grew up after a fashion, much ago had British ancestors of ample little money with him. He settled in like a weed; yet always there was in means and some culture, and stood a community where circuitstanees of'andfather and son a Consciousness out from the common mass by vir- neighbours were about those of the ,gr of good descent. Now the grandson tue of their wealth, their ability to man and wife of whom I write. But is head of a Large industrial company, have a fine house, their participa- this Scots family had pride, I do and he married a wealthy woman. In tion in public life, and by reason of not moan hauteur. The father and their community they are socially self-assertion. They may have had mother were kindly -natured, simple prominent. Their children believe that good family tradition, and their 'in their manners, and neighbourly.. their parent are "good family". family pride kept them on inherited They lived decently. They observed! There is another man, now a multi- levels. Also, these "old" families the niceties of life—in the- furnish- millionaire His origin was lowly, stuck to the same community through' ings' of their home, in their manners, but wealth has given this man great several generations. in their dress and speech. Pioneer- prominence. He and his wife delight To belong to a "good. family" one ing tail never dragged them. down to be in the public eye, but'not eheap- must be able to show that members from set levels of living, Their speech ;It'.They have a superfine home and are of the fancily held high public office, never deteriorated. There was always hospitable in exceptional degree. Al or were identified with the prefer` an esteem of learning. lienor' was ready the world regards this man, hit Bions, or .had wealth in goodly a- precious. There was courtesy shown wife and his children as constituting mot` or hind social eminence. If by every member of the family to . a "good family". ones people were tradenton,' or ma every the member. There was no + It is laudable in any man or wom- tisans, or engaged. in hand -soiling, bickering. There wa a love of books an when he or she endeavours' to clothes -soiling labour, then they were and culture. One son become a doe- found a "geed family". One founds not of the "good family" class. Even tor. Another went to "the city" and a good family name when one seeks dee- d one's parents or grandparents found clerical work, and later was and achieves cultural elevation,when were teachers or preachers or law- yers, this superior kind of employ- ment did not n.etossarily make them a "good family" appointed to public office. Another one keeps the family name untainted, ohm became connected with af;nancial when one renders notable public or company. One son remained a farm --community service, and when one er. A daughter -indeed, two daught 'gives his or her children a good edu- ers-became a school teacher. One of cation, them became head of an educational Let me recall some "good families', institution; the other a nurse. But The science Museum of London, known to rue, never was there any lowering of England, paeserves the story of Agri- Family No .1 had a Scottish oil- ideals; never any slackening of pur- cultural engineering evolution from gin. The parents came' front scot "goodpose' to live finely. Truly, this is a the earliest days. It contains early land. The'father was a minister. It farrtily". !examples of the most primitive imple- was obvious that the parents had mems and many other implements of what is called a. "good bringing-up." Take the case of another family. historical value, including specimens I suppose that in Scotland they were The originals, so far as Canada is of the original reaping machine in - well connected. They had a measure concerned, were farmer folk. The vented by Dr. Bell in 1826. of aloofness. They had high living brothers and sisters lived in log huts. standards. The mother was "severe" But there was a quality of forceful - in her manner, with fine poise. They nese about the children which led were cultured. They settled in a some of then toward the professions. CAN'T TAKE IT Here lies a young' salesman named Canadian town, where their children Two sons- tool' up newspaperwork. Phipps Who me were born. These children acquired One of them sought political honours -widowed on one named Bloa his trips, A. ' ck, from their parents a degree of aloof- in Great Britain, and became a mein- Then died of the shock, nes which kept them from mixing ber of the British House of Commons, when he eery there were six littler freely with others of equal age. The One of his nephews became a famous chips. children grew up\with fine- traditions.' short -story writer, another pro- Their p education was not a particle vincial premier. .Cousins achieved better than that of other children: distinction.. Always the members of When the "boys" went to work, the this family had an awareness of a Work which they took up was ona par good descent; and none has soiled the with that being done by others. One family record. Quite emphatically the or two went into a bank; one became k a .'a are a "good family" a lawyer; etre became a clerk in a .I am thinking of another family PIPE TOBACCO FOR ',A. Mri.D bOt' SMOKE',