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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1940-10-24, Page 6PAGE SIX , ,qt!A, a ,. i?•.a t'a'1 }'N GY t•�, �,tt .r3 4^..elY 130 ,. Then, passing to the deck, silent and steady, no signs of pain upon his face, so had the calm come to him, as to Nature anti. this beleaguered city, before the whirlwind, he looked out. .upon the clustered groups of boats tilled with the flower of his army, set- tled in a menacing tranquillity. There lay the Light Infantry, Bragg': Ken- nedy's, Lascelles's, Anstrnther's Reg- iment. Fraser's Highlanders, and the much loved, much blamed, and impe- tuous Louisburg Grenadiers, :steady, indomitable, silent as cats, precise as Ittathenuttleians, he could trust thein, as they loved. his awkward. pain - twisted body and ugly red hair. "Dam - Isle. Jack, didst thee ever take hell in row before?" said a sailor from the Terror of France to his fellow once, es the marines grappled with a not. ilia of French lire.ships. and dragged -heni. spitting destruction. :,tear i(1 the fleet, to the shore, "Nay. but I've beet in tow of Jimmy Wolfe's red i head; that's hell -fire. lad!" was the I reply. From boat to boat the General's eye passed. then shifted to the ships—the Squirrel, the Leostaf, the Seahorse, and the rest—and lastly to where the army of Bougainville lay. Then there came towards him an taker, who said quietly, "The tide has turned, • sir." For reply the General made a swift motion towards the maintop shrouds, and almost instantly lant- erns showed in them. In response, the crowded boats began to cast away and, immediately descending, the Gen- eral passed into his own boat, drew to the front, and drifted in the cur- rent ahead of his gallant men, the ships following after. It was two by the clock when the boats began to move. and slowly we ranged down the stream, silently steered by the current. No paddle, no c•rcaking oarlock. broke the stillness. I was 111 the next boat to the Gen. eral's for, with Clark unit twenty. two ether volunteers to the forlorn here:. I was ie show the way tip the Ite•ights and we were near to his per. se:; ler over two molts that !light. Ne morn was shining. but 1 .v(ulef Fee 1'iati111y:.end blue, when h,.,ts t at-s.st tatit heli. he saw ale. 1 - ra it h, -If thy.. 01 - !!.are.. Ir -e lr t hi4.fi 4111' u ..ct. 1, 1 here:. ,. sir. r.;,, .'I1 soli *1.;-i- 1101,1wi ,.tz•,1 r rctn .. t11iiiFhil;110111 3r, site :^lite.. acrd aaiti. "Ito' uiel atr" -Seventeen, sir," was the reply. "It is the mast lasting passion:' he said. musing. It seemed to me then, and 1 eti11 think it, that the passion he meant was love of country. A moment after- wards I heard him recite to the offi- cers about him, in a low, clear tone. some verses by Mr. Graythe poet, which I had never then read, though I have prized them since. Under those frowning heights, and the smell- of our distant roaring thirty-two pound- ers in the air, I heard him say: "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me." I have heard finer voices than his— it was as tin beside Doltaire's—but something in it pierced me that night, and J felt the man, the perfect hero, when he said: "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour -- The paths of glory lead but to the grave." Soon afterwards we neared the end of our quest, the tide carrying us in to shore; and down the dark heights there came a challenge, satisfied by an officer, who said in French that we wereprovision boats for Mont - to .:.w•k4 calm: these, we knew, had been ex- pected! Then came the batteries of Samos. Again we passed with the sante excuse. rounded a headland, and the great work was begun. The boats of the Light infantry swtmg in to shore. No sentry chall- enged, but I knew that at the top Laney's lents were set, When the Light Infantry had landed, we twenty four volunteers stood still for a mom- ent, and I pointed out the way. Be- fore we started, we stooped beside a brook that leaped lightly clown- the ravine and drank a little runs roil water. Then I led the way, Clark at one ,side of cue. and a soldier of the Light Infantry at the other. it was hard climbing, but, following our ea'e- 1111 steps as silently as they might, the good fellows ['Mule eagerly on. time a rock broke loose and 051114' tumbling down, but plunged into a thicket, where it stayed: else it night have done for us entirely. I breathed freely when it stopped. Once. too, a branch cracked loudly, and we lay sti11; but hearing nothing above, we pushed on, and, sweating greatly, carte close to the top, Here Clark and i drew back. for snc'h honour as there might be in gaining the heights first I wished to go to these soldiers who had trusted their lives to my guidance. I let six go by and reach the heights, and then I drew myself up. We did not stir until all twenty-four were safe; then we made a dash for the lents of Laney, which now showed in the first gray light of morning. We were dis- covered, and shots greeted us; but we were on them instantly, and in it hutment 1 had the pleasure of putting a bullet in Laney's heel and brought him down. Our cheers told the Gen- eral the news, and seta hundreds of soldiers were climbing the hard wily that we had conte. And now, while an army nllmbed to the heights o1 Maitre Abraham, Ad- miral Saunders in the gray ,lawn \vas hamlclr tiuc 3lnutcalut's e ue'ampmeitL and beans lille4 with uuuinr.s and soldiers drew to lit, P,eanport flats, as if to hind there: while 01:4,, beanies. ::lulls and c(tet•ass s were Marled from Levis upon the town, 1e- eeivine Alum 01111. At lust. however, sit pre ting, he rode teeards the town act six Welted: and saw olir stutter ranks spread across the plains bet - iv,., -1' hitt and Bougainville, .sod on the (Test. r:'airer to him, ( eine its 01(it ettiazenlena, the '((141!'•-r •nein ltnttaa1014 qt' Gui(0tll4 ,=140111(1 11(0 day before have occupied the very ground held by Laney. A light rain falling adder] to their gloom, but cheered us. It gave us a better light to light by. for in the clear September air, the bright sun shining in our faces, they would have had us at ad- vantage. 1n another hour the gates of SL John and St. Louis emptied out upon. this battlefield a warring flood of our foes. It was a handsome sight: the white uniforms of the brave regi- ments. Roussillon, La Sarre, Guienne, Languedoc, Bean, mixed with the dark, ext+itable militia, the sturdy burghers of the town, a band of cour- eurs de hofs in their rough hunter's costume, and whooping Indians, painted and furious, ready to eat us. But there was bungling with them. Vaudreuil hung back or came tardily from Beauport; Bougainville had not yet arrived; and when they night have pitted twice our number against us, they had not many more than we. With Bougainville behind us and Montcalm in front, we might have been checked, thortgh there was Ito roan in all our array but believed that we should win the day. I could plain- ly see Montealnt, mounted on. a dark horse, riding along the lines as they formed against us, waving his sword, a truly gallant figure. Fie was answ- ered by a roar of applause and greet- ing. On the left their Indians and burghers overlapped our second line, where Townsend with Amberst's and the Light Infantry, and Colonel Bin' - ton with the Royal Americans and - Light Infantry, guarded our flank, prepared to 'tweet Bougainville. 1n THE SEAFORTH NEWS CANADA TURNS OUT MORE PLANES 4 R \\'itlt each month of war the humming wheels of the Canadian aircraft industry reach a higher tempo in their song of promised victory. In this photograph a worltmttu is shown ne lie attaches a wing -tip light to a Lysander army co-operation airplane. A considerable number of tit tee machines are being made in Canada for both British end Canadian use. 'aifrrl�a�tii',ukt !Ol vain our foes tried to get between our right flank and the river; 01 - way's Regiment, thrown out; defeated that. 11 was my hope that .Doltaire was with Moltcah11. and that we might meet and end our quarrel. 1 carte to know afterwards that it was he who had induced ltlohlc'al111 to send the battalion of Gulelnre to the heights above the Anse du Foulon. The bat- talion had not been moved till twen- ty -foul' Hours after the ortiet' wee given, or we should never have gain- ed those heights; atones rolled from the cliff would have destroyed 1111 army 1 We waited, Clark and 1, with the Louisburg Grenadiers while they formed, We made no noise, but stood steady and still, the bagpipes of the Highlanders shrilly challenging, At eight o'clock sharpshooters began fir- ing on us from the left, and our skir- mishers were thrown out to Bold thein in cheek, or drive them from the houses where they sheltered and galled 'rownsend's meu. Their field pieces opened on us, too, and yet we 410 nothing, but at nine o'clock, be- ing ordered, we lay down and waited still. There was no restlessness, no anxiety, no show of doubt, for these men of otn's were old fighters. and they trusted their leaders, Ft'om bushes. trees, coverts, and fields of grain there carne that constant hail of fire, and there fell upon our ranks I a doggedness, a quiet anger, w'111(11 grow• into a grisly patience. The only pleasure we herd in two long ]ours was in watching our two brass six., Pounders' play upon the irregnuur ranks of our foes. making ,'ournefon, (cul '1'Owuseed drive hack a deeteh- rept or eiteath•y from cap Rouge'. which '-(11511 to break ear I•it tintilc and 41 1111 iib Ill t01(11. We Ives seen the >nlrs go down, 1140 14(01 1ed light of (acus break ur'1 tire• Nil ](1 e} city and the heights of. t'hailesbourg, we had Watched the silo ru110• 11p, and ,hen steal- 0(1:115 behind the 1,1aw-ravelling r1011s and h101510g mist; we had looked across over unreaped earn - fields nod the dull, slovenly St, ('hlu•h•s. knowing that inulless lea- gime of country, . north and south, east and west, lay in the balance for the last time. 1 believed that this day would see the last, of the strife be- tween England and Fraise for domin- ion stere; of La Pompadour's spite which I had roused to action against my country; of the struggle between Doltalre and myself. The public stake was worthy of our army—worthy of the dauntless .sold- ier who had begged his physicians to patch him up long enough to fight this fight, whereon he staked his re- putation, life, all that a elan loves in the world; the private stake was more than worthy of my long suffer - tugs. 1 thought that Montc'alm lied waited for Vaudreuil, hut no, .At ten o'clock his three columns came dawn upon us briskly, making a wild tattle; two columns moving upon, our right and one upon our left, airing oblique- ly and constantly as they marched. Then cause the command to rise, and we stood up and waited, our muskets loaded with an extra ball, 1 could reel the stern malice in our ranks, as WO stood there and took, without re- turning a shot, that damnable lire. Minute after minute passed; then ca1116 the sharp command to advance. We did so, and again halted; and yet no shot casae from us. We stood there,fnaclive, a long palisade of red. At last I saw our General raise his sword, a command rang flown the long line of battle, and. like one ter- rible cannon -shot, our muskets -sang together with as perfect a precision as of a private field of exercise. Then, waiting for the smoke to clear a little, another volley carte in chop- py waved of sound, and again in a persistent - clattering, Then a light breeze lifted the smoke and mist well away, and a wayward sunlight Showed our fee, lilts a loug white wave re- treating from a rocky shore, bending, crumpling, breaking, and, 111 a1 Mad - red little billows, fleeing seaward, Thus checked, confounded, the French army trembled and fel] back. Then I heard the order to charge, and from neatly foto' thousand throats there came for the first time our exultant British cheer, and high over all rang the slogan of Fraser's Highlanders, To my loft I saw the flashing broadswords of the clans- men, ahead of all the rest. Those sickles of death clove through and broke the battalions of La Sarre, and Lascelles scattered the soldiers of Languedoc into flying columns. We on. the right, led by Wolfe, charged the desperate and valiant then of Roussil- lon and Guienne and the impetuous slun'pshooters of the militia. As we cattle on I observed the General sway and push forward again, and then I lost sight of hint, for I 01140 what gave the battle a new interest td me: hol- taire, cool and deliberate, animatiug and encouraging the French 10001111• 1 moved in a shaking hedge of bay- onets. keeping 1(15 eye upon hien; and presently there was a1 11aud40-hand melee, out Of which I fought to reach him. 1 was making for ithl1, where be now s,110111 to rally the retreating tedium's. when I noticed, not far away, Gabord, mounted, and atttcl:- ed by three gre'nadier's, Looking bac]: 11000 I see Idut. with ]tis sabl'o ((10 tint; right 011d left, as Ili, drove 1111 Lor -t' au nuc gr„na,lier. who (11115ed and fell en the slippery ernlnal while Ihn home rode oil hila. halle•rin5 4ththillely Hewn swept the sabre, Mud (11-1+00 (]trough the e,•h,0k and Asia of note foe: another sweep, and bayonet of the other was struck aside; and aunother, which was turn- ed aside as Gabord's horse rale dewli. bayoneted by the fallen grena- dier. lint (labord was on his fret again, roaring like a bull, with 0 wild grin on his face, as he pertly turned aside the bayonet of the last grenadier. It ca05111 ]tint in the flesh of the lel] side. He grasped the musket -barrel, and swung his sabre with fierce precision. The man's head dropped back like the lid of a pot, and he tumbled into a heap of the faded golden -rod flower 'which spattered the field. At this moment I sttw Juste Duv- arney making towards me, hatred and deadly purpose in his eyes, I had will enough to meet bin, and to hill him too, yet I could not help but think of Atixe. Gabord saw him also, and, being nearer, made for me as well. For that act 1 cherish his mem- ory. The thought was worthy of a gentleman of breeding; he had the true thing in his heart, IIe would save us—two brothers—from fighting, by fighting me himself! • J -Ie reached inc first, and with an "Au (liable!" trade a stroke at Ana. It was a platter .of sword and sabre now. Clark met Juste Duvarney's rush; and there we were, at as line a. game of .cross-purposes as you can think: Clark hungering Inc Gabord's life (Gabord had once been itis jailer too), and ,Juste Duverney for mine; the battle flaring on attend of ns. Soon the two were clean cut off from the French army, and must light to the death or surrender, Juste Duvarney • spoke only -once, and then it was bet the rancorous word "'Renegade!" nor dict I speak at all; but Clark was blasphemous, and THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940 WOMWR PROFESSIONAL CARDS MEDICAL Gabord, bleeding, fought with a gut- tering relish, "Fair fight and fowl for spitting," be cried. "Go home to heaven, dick- ey -bird!" . Between phrases of this hind we cut and thrust for life, an odd sort of fighting. 1 fought with a desperate alertness, and presently my sword passed through his body, drew out, and he shivered, . fell --where he stood, collapsing suddenly like a bag. 1 knelt beside( trim and lifted up his, head. His eyes were glazing fast, "Gabord! Gabord!" I called, grief- stricken, for that work was the worst I ever diti in this world, He started, stared, and fumbled at his waistcoat. I quickly put my hand in, and drew out—ate of Math- ilde's wooden crosses! "To cheat—the devil—yet—alto!" he whispered, kissed the cross, and so was done with life. When I turned from him, Clark stood alone beside rte. Dazed as 1 ; did not at first grasp We significance • of that fact. I looked towards the town, and saw the French 'army hustling into the St. Louis Gate; Salty the highlanders charging the bushes at the Cote Ste. Genevieve, where the brave Canadians made their last staid; saw, not fifty feet away, the nohlest soldier of our time. even General Wolfe, dead in the arms of 1111. Henderson. at volunteer in the Twentysecoud1 and them, al- most at my reel, stretched out as 1 had neem him lie in the Palace court- yard two years before, i beheld Juste Duvarney. But maw he was beyond all friend- ship or rerum1iliattiau--1'ol'ever! WORLD'S LONGEST JOURNEY From Tibet to the Argentine by Camel. Ship and Train The betee'st journey in the we•r:o has been covered by the ('as 111(4, goods sent Miring the, last six month front :;cotiund to the Argentine. - 11 began im the mmititaine of 1'i1 1. t'hin'se tn<•rchattt, still travel 1:y cannel from 'Tientsin 10 Tibet over the road cure trod by 111an•ee Polo. the Venetian merchant adventurer of the thirteenth century. They go to hay from mountain herdsmen the fleece of the Tibetan goat. 1t is the lightest wool in the world, From Tientsii the wool is shipped in bales to Scotland. In Hawick it is span and ]utted into garments which are thou shipped to Buenos' Aires. ht the last six months the Argent, iue has taken from Scotland more Cashntir goods than in the previous twelve. To -day smart women in Buenos Aires can amuse themselves as did the great ladies of the 13th century with their vast shawls of Indian silk. They can tante a Braemar juniper and draw it through a wedding ring: one of the most popular of these junipers weighs only 21/6 oz, A few years ago the demand in the Argentine \vaa for the heavier weights. Central heating has charged that, and lightweights are to -clay the vogue. The stand collar, introduced three years ago, is standard now aid tltie season's popular shades are bottle Or - tartan green, jade, wine, marina, :Royal blue a.rtd Mauve, A. package, a hamper, a (box, or a 'barrel ,of alpjplos at the present time constitutes one of the most .seasonal and acceptable (presents to the'family - or oto tfriel ds. It also beetles 'Canadian 'marketing. { By eating apples ,dither cooked or "A fool and his money are rate you can ',help yourself Bio IheaUth parted." and 'help the ,Canadian fruit grower I "Who got yours?" SEAFORTH CLINIC Dr. 11, A. McMaster, M -B„ Graduate of University of Toronto. J. 11 Colgnhoun, M.D., C,M„ Grad• uate of Dalhousie University, Halifax. The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern x-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and therouptie equipment. Dr, Margaret K. Campbell, M.D., L,A.B.P., Specialist in Diseases in Infants and Children, will be at the Clinic last Thursday in every month from 3 to 6 p.m, Dr. IP, J. R. Forster, Specialist in Diseases of the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat, will be at the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 4 to 6 p.m. Free well -baby clinic will be held on the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A.,M,D. Physician and Surgeon In Dr. H. H. Roes' office, Phone 6 J DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in IVledicine, University of Toronto. Late Aseiatant New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, Moorefleld's Eye, and Golden Square throat hoapitala, London, Eng. At Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month from 2 to 4 p.m. Also at Seaforth Clinic first Tuesday in each month. --63 Waterloo St., Stratford. Telephone 267. MARGARET K. CAMPBELL, M.D, London, Ontario Graduate Toronto University Licentiate of American Board of Pedi- atrics, Diseases of Children At Seaforth Clinic, last Thursday alt ternoon, each month, AUCTIONEER GEORGE ELLIOTT, Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron, Arrangements can be made for Sale Date at The Seaforth News, Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed Pe W. AHRENS, Licensed Auction• eer for Perth and Huron Counties. Sales Solicited, Terms on Application, Farm Stock, chattels and real estate property. R. R. No. 4, Mitchell, Phone 634 r 6. Apply at this office. HAROLD JACKSON Licensed in Huron and Perth Coen - ties, Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, write or phone Harold Jackson, 658r12, Sea - forth central; Bruceileld RILL Watson &Z. 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"Madan," remarked a conscienti- ous pork dealer to a woman who wanted to purchase some sausages, "I don't think I ought to sell you any, as the last I sold from the same lot contained trychnosis." "Never mind that!" returned the housewife. "John told me to be sure and have sausage for breakfast. I don't eat 'em myself." soon