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The Seaforth News, 1929-12-26, Page 7through the station, and the gine draws up to the platform an comes\to, a stop„ Soldier boys hastily climb "from the coaches, and for the next few minutes are busy kissing, hugging, and shaking hands with rela- tives and friends, Sister Angela'st,big brother Tom had spied heA,blackelad .figure before the train had come to a, stop and you may be euro he was at her side before you could say "Jack Robinson." And now they. etand conversing, watching With pleased faces, the many happy re- unions of mothers and sons, brothers and sisters, and husbands and wives. As they stand there, a voice behind them is raised in anger, and the voice seems .. familiar to Sister Angela. Clutching her brother's arm, she turns and looks at the speaker. He is a handsome, broad -shouldered young fel- low -a returned soldier. A stylishly - dressed young woman — presumably his wife -is pressing him to do some- thing, and he is protesting: Sister Angela presses her brother's arm. Answering the pressure, the big I: fellow looks at her, and following the direction of herr eyes he sees the, young soldier and bis companion., .He• gives a violent Start, and his hands clinch. Sister:' Angola again touches her brother's arm. "Let us go," she says, and she ie looking very pale. or'a moment Tom stands glaring at the other soldier and his com- panion, but finally he walks, away with his sister. When they reach the street, she speaks again: "So he isn't dead,,, after all" she says. "110/' he answers sharply." q guess it was her doing." • "But why should she want to de- ceive Le?" "Site wanted' him tor. herself, I guess." with her." "I wonder 1f he is happy "Well it doesn't look that way to me. Why, she was actually quarreling with him before he was home two minutes." - "And she deceived him?" "0f course she did. First of all, she mold you he was dead. Showed . you the paper with the notice in it. By the way, her uncle owned that paper. ,Then, when you took the veil, she probably wrote to him. Sympathized with him, and all that, -and the result Was he married her. I only wish—" and the big fellow looked positively murderous. Once more Sister Angela pressed his arm. "Never mind; Toni," she said, and oh, the sadness in her voice; "ne doubt it is for the 'Jest." Tom stopped . and regarded her. '"Yes, my sister," he said, "n0 borsht it is forthebest" and there in the street with . tears in his eyes, he stooped -and kissed her. w et I? til th frequently se :iasily wet fist h cheeks ate ache and fished;" Stats. year appetite. limns' Pink Fills druggist's or by' paid, at 50 cents The Dr. Willia. Co., Brockville, Bend for free•600 to Bat and How IN "lige "A HOUSEHOLD MANZ IN 04 COUNTRIES". England's Trade Goes Over To Trade Throughout.. Unite Kingdom Maintains Steady Volume Despite Seasonal Increase in Unemploy- ment; nemployment;- Iron, Steel and Coal Show Gain London. --Despite the seasonal .in- crease in unemployment, British in- dustry enters the winter months wfth twined: From analyses made by the all casings shonid bet g be tires inspectio regular rou tion for gaso estimated that n tire trouble Is cam_ tion. There are a few po 5 for in keeping the recon its volume of production steadily main- tion pressures, Tire va Board of Trade, the. British equivalent to the Canadian Dept, of Trade and Commerce, the following facts emerge: Industrial activity in the United Kingdom in the third quarter of 1929 was 1.4 per cent. lowcr,than the second quarter, but, about equal to the first tiro can be prevented quarter. It was 10 per cent, greater flaps have also been 'r than in the third quarter of 1928. avoid the pinching of All groups of indastries compared the toe of the tics and 1 with the third quarter of 1928 show vary in width, and the improvement of between 9 and 10 per necessary in order to cent. results: The volume of production, the Board Small cuts in the ti of Trade comments, would thus appear he looked out fo . to have been more steadily maintained end of unexpected trc this year than last. The output of uts when least expecte coal in the third quarter of 1929 'ex- and it ud and sand wort ceedsd rho same .period of last year by these' idle cuts, rot nearly '1,250,000 tons, the highest in- crease recorded since 1921. Exports absorbed 4,000,000 tons of the Increas- ed output. C*mparod�l I s the pre - g en vious three .months' Period a present A , loises from figures show alt. increased output...of gym, Still, 1,000,000 tons, he growth Troia and steel. pro idiot: in th"iar,t :add the Cole- three , by newyear, one condition, This will riga nut on:the base pf should be tight: topre from "creeping." tube to the rind in cal are not removed for.h Armistice Day Kappa in the Nation and A,then- aeuni (London) : The vast outpouring of eloquence on and about Armistice Day is usually a weariness to me, The - note of insincerity is so patent in much of it. A ritual of appropriate senti- ment has: become fixed, and it is dead and dreary with convention. The two - minutes, elle is a great conception, but two mina e5+ is not lon ough to thtY.� compensate4fo Press, Pu1pi there are h" of ' of 6anit' bring about deterieral Let th 'repairman give cuts l mediate atter yourse Kl