HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-01-20, Page 7THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1938
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The ,report includes six general 'find-
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Eagle's View of Rio for Cruise Members
Mot flying nor rolling down to
II Rio but leisurely sailing there
aboard a luxury liner will go a
happy crowd of winter cruise"tour-
lste next January when the Can-
adian Pacific liner Empress of
Australia heads south from New
York January 15 on a West In-
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ecause its harbor was discovered
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other ports would have to show
much to rival this claim, and
there is hardly a doubt that the
Empress of Australia's cruise pas-
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"Rio fans."
From the heights of the lofty
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Christ, and from the summit of
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Loaf," members of shore excur-
sions will have an eagle's eye
view of the city and harbor.
Tlirilling in itself Is the ascent of
the Sugar Loaf by aerial cable -
ear in two 'rides, first to the half-
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Besides these two excursions
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Rio is not the only port of call
on this cruise. Barbados, Grenada
and Jamaica are islands that will
be visited during the 32 day trip,
while on the mainland of South
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will share with Rio the attentions
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the Empress or Australia, the
cruise ship that will visit Rio.
A HARD PULL
On the enol Of Long Wharf sat Cap-
tain Holcombe. Nate Ryder, Peter
Simpson and Little Abner. The wharf,
gray and shaky with age, stretched
out from the grassy bank, over •tile
pebble !beach, out into the blue tide,
like a long arm of the small town,
ready to grasp from the 'broad water-
way whatever of life and •industry
came within its reach. It caught but
little nowadays. Now .and then an oc-
casional coaster took on a load of ice
or .fish :or dumber. Between times
Beachport went to sleep and dreamed
of her former !prosperity.
Captain IHolcom'be's weather-beaten
face had smiled through a 'bong life
voyage. It WAS crossed and recrossed
Eby bad -weather marks of contrary
'gales, but certain humorous dines
spoke ,of northwest 'breezes and fair
winds. Nate and (Pete were big, bronz
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SEAFORTH. ONTARIO.
ed mien mates on coasting schooners,
taking. an idle day or two 'between
trips. 'As ,for Little !Abner, he was lit -
file only in name: 'This appellation had
stuck to him in spite of increasing
inches, and only strangers saw any
humor in the situation.
It was a still afternoon. The only
sounds which 'broke the quiet were
the swash of the lazywaves against
the rotting •w':harf, and now and then'
the insistent call of the August insect.
"The 'Byron IP. !Thorne' will have a
good chance out to -night," remarked
Peter, ,languidly letting Itis eyes wan-
der over the !bay to the horizon -line.
Captain Holcombe remarked, "Dir-
ty to the suith'nd:"
"Guess it's only 'loon[."
"Well," returned the captain, "web -
be it is and 11161)e it ain't. If ,it 'was
anything else in question you might
calculate. But 'fog!' Scott! There
adn:t anything uncertain'er in this
world of uncertainties. A cyclone's
steady -going compared to a fog. You
think _von are in rfor it, and -whiff! the
sky's 'clear as a 'Again you 41010'1
see the bowsprit from midahips for a
week Of days."
"'that's so," asserted Nate.
Speaking of ,fog," went on the old
man "snakes ine think of the summer
of 'tis. I' never See anything like that
before '01' since."
''Where Was you: ' asked J'eter
Little Abner, who was .fishing, edge':
nearer and kept one ear tented to-
ward the captain.
"Off :East 'Paint, avhaling. 1 shipped
that year as state in the 'Ellen Mary'.
but :before r was through the voyage
111 he blowed if I wasn't everything
••, I
front calm goy to captain. \\-hat with
being sick and ,getting hurt. 'we had
so many laid up that we all had 1“
turn to and get the day's work slope
somehow. ,First the captain he sailed
in with a spell of ailing, then Big Jim
broke his leg falling off the foreyards.
I was ship's doctor!" .and Citptain
Hol cruel) e chuckled.
"Know anything about doctor ing?"
asked 'Peter, The cap'tain's 'blue eyes
twinkled 'beneath their shaggy 'brows.
"Well, ,perhaps not just according
to the medical idea. My .sister she
marrieda man who was sbudyilvg to
be a doctor. 'He give ,it up 'before the
first year was out, •and :went intothe
canning ,business. 'but it [kind of ,gave
us a ,feeling sof belonging to the pro-
fession. That's why they hit on me
to ,fix Big ijim's leg, '1 must say 1 was
staggered for a bit.'I'd never seen a
broken leg, amts![ less meddled wit!!
one. But common sense helps you
along all right. if only you don't hin-
der .1 1, and I argued it eat in my mind
that what tha tleg wanted was a
chance to menet itself; I .madeit fast
to •a- bit •of broken oar, dashed it well
with rope yarn, and 'wrapped it up in
a ,piece of old sail, and nature 'did the.
rest of the ,business,
"Wa'n't he lance?" asked Pete,
Wel!, not :to speak of. It put ,his
steeping -tackle a bit :out Of gear and
he couldn't paint .according to com-
pa:ss. But nothing to hurt. The boys
called me `Doc' after that, and my
work was cut out for me the rest of
the 'Voyage. I never see anything tike:
it. Seemed as if we had a Jonah on
board. Bad luck with • whales, too.
They eeae as scarce as barnacles on
the topmast.
"Then the fog shut down, and for
three mortal 'weeks we much as ever
'knew- 'where.we mons. gag! It was
001511 We ate it and 'drank it, and it
got into our ,heads until the couldn't
think clear. 'We was soaked .from
stent to stern, and the Wren was fair
crazy. There ain't nothing lonesomer
than a 'fog. 'Il oil,' says :Angus Mc-
Donald. He was a big, 'red-haired
Scotty. 'Mon, 1'd gic a good bit o'
siller to. hoe ane u' tun gran'feyther's
sermons/ Mang!' 'Filly?' says I.
'They're the driest things I 'ken,' says
he.
"Then ,Galley Joe's ;finger had to
come off, and 1 was the one to do it.
He'd got it poisoned with a fish-
hook."
"1 don't believe II'd have nerve to
do that," commented Nate.
"You can always do a thing you
have to do," returned the captain,
"''!'w'an't So 'hall --that is—(lot for tile.
Galley Joe didn't seem to find it real
amusing, It got along all right and
healed 11p real pretty. glut that .wa'n't
my hardest job, not by a long shot."
"I'd like to know :drat you could
have harder'n cutting oft a finger?"
asked Tete.
"1 should think that was easy sail -
Big compared with the caller," said
Pete.
"Fleck, it wa'n't. I'd rather ,null a
loaded gundalow single handed
1101, nst the tide Chau pull another
tooth like •that, it etas a corker of a
double tooth, with a huh as •b14 11A
my tit That is, speaking eonlp cr tt-
1, r-ly, 1'11r 111311 had 0 toothache of
about as big a size its he could hold.
11 ached unmercifully, and what with
the :wile and the fog, he had about all
he could steer under. it never let up,
night or day, and all the poultices in
the sin,, would not stop it. i reckon-
ed that the right course was for it to
conte' out, but the man wa'n't set .on
having it dente, and I •wa'n't set on
doing it. t1 was getting kinder sick at
the medical profession.
"At last he couldn't :stand it any
longer. Neither .could the rest. thio 1
said Id get it out somehow. All the
tools 1 had that was appropriate was
a small monkey -wrench and a jack-
knife. but 1 thought that with them—
and me,—t teas mighty strong in
those days,—the tooth wouldn't stand
much of a chance.
"I` was a eonsarned long time
bringing that man to the .point. He'd
take in -.ail as quick as I'd ever take
up that wrench Rut after jibing. 2nd
hauling and tacking 01)011 1, he 'finally
dropped anchor, opened his mouth,
and said, 'Lether go!'
"The Roock rf lb ratter ain't: set
firn,er'n that tooth was I screwed on
tine' hockey=weench as tight as I
could get her, marl then I hauled for
a11 T was wort![. But it never budged.
{air but he hollered!
"T remembered that the gums kind
o' anchor the teeth, so 1 got in`a. little
work with the lack -knife. Then I
took a turn with the wrench. !After a
time 1' icrlced the 'thing loose in its
moorings. and omc. she carte with one
big haul. Man! 1 never was so tired
in II11' ti•fe.".
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"It couldn't have been much fun
for the other felllow," remarked Nate.
"But I don't see how it 'was worse for
you than cutting off a ,finger.'
,Captain Holcombe thrust his horny
hands deep into. his pockets and
looked up at the sky'
"Well—it was," he drawled. "You
see, the ,finger was 'Galley' -foe's."
"What has that to do n'fth it?" in-
quired 'Pete.
The captain rose stiffly, "il•Iy bones
feel as if we wase going to have a spell
of weather." he remarked. -"About the
tooth --well, it made a heap of differ-
ence, It's bad to pull a tooth. and it's
worse to have one pulled; but when
both jobs are put on the same malt
at the same time, it's a !serge moven
human nature eau stand You see,
that tooth happened to be mine!"
'The captain 'walked atvay, and sil-
ence fell on the little ;group. Then the
long, discordant bray of a,horn broke
in upon the stillness. 'Little Abner.
wound up his fish -line and leisurely
obeyed the summons.
Nate and Pete sauntered up to the
village store, and the old wharf was
left deserted in the soft, :golden twi-
light.
RATISBON
The oratorical repertory of every
school boy probably includes Brown-
ing's ,poem ,beginning:
You. know, we French stormed
IR'atisbon.
The reader of memoirs, 'however, ,par-
tictelarly those of !General Marbot,
realizes that IRatisboh, battle -ground
though it was, had its humorous
aspect and was not ,all tragedy. Mar -
bot says:
It was ,first at Ratisbon that the
only when the emperor 'hims'elf had
pinned the decoration on 'his breast,
and he seemed infinitely more satis-
fied with that than with his gift of
twelve hundred francs.
"Then 'you count as nothing the
seven wounds that I :received at Ar-
cola, at Lodi, at. 'Castiglione, at the
Pyramids, at St. Jean •d' Acre, at
Austerlitz, at ,Friedland! My eleven
campaigns '1t1 Italy, in !Egypt, in 'Aus-
tria, in :Prussia, in !Poland, in—"
But the emperor, laughingly inter-
rupting his torrent of words, cried:
'Now you're getting at it! Yoa
should have begun with this at first.
These- caoilpaigns are worth more.
than a melon. I create you Chevalier
of the .Empire, with an anuuity of
twelve hundred francs, Are you satis-
fied?"
"But, sire. I prefer the .crass!" cried'
the grenadier.
"And you have it, since I have
made you chevalier," was the reply.
"But I would rather have the
cross!" And the simple-minded sold-
ier. refused to budge. it took all sorts
of persuasions to set his mind at rest
and make him understand that his
title of chevalier here with it IL
honor of the cross. 'He was sot fie I
emperor endowed the common sal('
iery, Making them at once Chevah:rs
of the Empire and Menthe' • of tit_
Legion of (Honor. The present -trim,
of c ndi:datea were math ,y the head;
of divisions, but the enineror allowei
:'lose soldiers who believed that they
merited this !toner to conte before
hint, and he alone judged and -decided
their worth,
Earns Promotion
H. C. JAIVTES, wlio 05 February
1st becomes ,assistant general pas-
senger • agent, Canadian' Pacific
Railway with headquarters at
Montreal. Mr. James is atpresent
district passenger ; agent for the
Conipany at Saiiit John, .PI.B., and
brings a wealth of experience,
earned during' his 23 years Cana-
dian Pacific service, to his new
post.