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The Seaforth News, 1932-01-21, Page 6( 410) John Uri Lloyd o®® (Continued from last week.) gloom that settles over one twin), !haw- ing :economised his earnings until the "Now, under the twenty-year pos-' period df rest should :come to an in- dustrious man, ;finds the savings of a lifetime likely to swept aside by a epen- stroke. At last the tOorn Bug ,spoke: "Jedge, I :don't exactly grasp all the pints of yer speech, but I believe I kin see the drift of the thing,_ Ef 'I catch the;iidea, :this :paper es-ginuiner,an' **- ger Cupe told the truth. The lana' es mine?" "That is my present opinion." "Now let the ax a ;quistion, Jedge. tEl I am right, the deed 'calls 'fer: five thousan' acres of land?" "It does, Mr. Hardman." "The line begins at Clear 'Sprin'g boulder, runs ter Plowler's Valley road, then ter Bear ,Creek fork, then ter Fowler's Valley cross -road, then back ter the boulder. "Yes, so the survey record's." "Thet takes in old' man Sawyer's farm ?" "Yes.,, "Wall, Jedge," said the Corn Bug thoughtfully, "I lhai,nit much love fer the likes of ,him. There hain•t nohon- est 'bone ,in his body, and et goes with- out saying thet he cheated 'Widow 'L'onging out of thet very farm. You see, Jedge, with all respeot ter the court, the jaw helped old 'Sawyer to steal the land, and nobody knows et better than yourself, Jedge; but you needn't 'begin ter apologise now fer law's wrongs, .you 'would never git through. Oh, wall, the ,widder died in the poorhouse, and if I'hevmay say, old Sawyer will trot in Chet direc- tion. By the way, Jedge, if I am right, this deed calls fer the Humses boys' farm?" "Certainly, their farm is near the centre of the plat." "'Wall, sense 'them fellers got home from college they ihain''t nd 'count anyhow. They hold's up their heads and snuffs the air when they passes common folks. They talks ton high- falutin' fer sensible folks, anyway; they puts a nue- on. their ''lasses and a po- on their 'taters and sling an style Mike as though their' grandad hadn't worked in a deaden'in•'. Tris part of the world ain't goad enough fer sech stuck-up people. I guess I ?won't care ef they have ter mdve out of this section, and I take est nobody else will cry their eyes out. Howsomever, Jedge, how about the village? Does the deed call fer the village, Jedge'" "Yes.. Here is a rough map of the claim This cressmark represents Springtown." "Wrall, I declare. Alt these ' doer- yard lots and back' pas'tur'es?' "Every let, shouse and barn.' "Who would have thought the nig- ger knew so much. S'ii be a rich man, Jedge, a very rich man." The judge nodded his head. "The teacher's lot ?" session act of 117916, the tract specified by th'e warrant under consideration, were there no exceptional circumstan- -" :ees, wauld have been. outlawed Poing since and the warrant of .Colonel Hardman would have no value what- ever; but certain conditions !peculiar to this case, considered in connection ;with the amendment of 15151, render it questionable whether a court of e- quity would not sustain the claim of the heir. (True, Mr. Hardman has never 'held possession of the land, but •his dispossession: has been from no fault of his own, and This father was in the same predicament. His grand- father, the old colonel, located the Mand properly, obtained! a military warrant for it and recorded this war- rant, as I find,' in the Virginia Land Office, Where the fact slumbered un- seen, !He placed ,the document in the hand of an irresponsible party, in- structing him under certain con- ditions to give it to his son at a cer- tain time. This was not done, but in- stead, the paper was handed to an- other irresponsible party, and has ,now turned up after three quarters of a century. "The old colonel could not foresee the course the paper would take' the son knew nothing about the .docu- ment, neither did the son's son, . the present heir, who presented it to me at once on its discovery. The deed' has not been neglected by ,any responsible :party; the inheritors, in ignorance, of their possessions, have lived constant- ly on other possessions 'that lie adjac- ent to part of the land described, nvhile strangers have profited frons its use. The question is, •will the court dispossess those who are new in pos- session in order to give the rightful heir his just inheritance, or will the court take from Mr. Hardman a .pro- pertydf which, through no act of his own and no intention of his ancestor, he has been deprived' these many years? In my opinion, the land should in equity revert to Mr. 'Hardman, but we have here an extraordinary condi- tion that can only be decided by the Court of Appeals." The judge ceased, and silence such as seldom fell over the members of the circle ensued. !Perhaps each moan was waiting ,..for his neighbor to speak; perhaps all a'l'ike realised the significance of thatmomentous power resting with the court of last •resort. Then Mr. Nordman, the old gentle- ' 'man from above Stringtown, arose and moved toward the door, but stop- ping a moment, without any display of emotion, remarked: "Ther comes a time, Judge, when a-peiece of cold iron is mightier than the law; sled if 'this cold deed takes iti my land, I now warn tall within ,hearing that I will not be dis'passes'sed. ,My'ifather and mother lie fn the ,graveyard back Of any house, ,two children .of my own sleep by their side, and a'sp'olt under the willow is, Imauke'd for Mrs. Nordmas and my- self to rest in. I ido not fancy being buried in a 'publiel graveyard, and 'damn me if I will be buried in an- other man's land. 'When the sheriff steps into my front gate the 'must come armed, soh. It Will be a .fair fight,;, and as I am getting .olds and stiff, nay band may miss its -mark, but if it does, I will: •sleep under my Town 'willow=tree. Tell the s'her'iff, gentlemen, that when be comes to dies'possess me Of the pro- perty nay father earned, he' must be ready to draw a'b'ead the minute he steps inside the gate, sub." With a courteous bow the old' gentleman left the room. 'OHJAIFTER VI. THE SEArs'ORTH NEWS. stood looking me in the face. "Does you remember the day when three boys found ire laying in the briar, patch in theback paster ? Does you know Chet the other, brats mawk- ed and called me names, never maid what—ll kin remember them of I was in my cups?,, "Yes, sir." "Does you recollect thet you brush- ed the flies off my face and gut my that over my eyes and spread yer handkerchief over thet, and then went fer Cupe?" I hung my _head, Out my silence plainly admitted the truth of what he said. ''Go back ter yer seat child, go back. Jedge," he continued, "I gives thet boy .two thousand dollars ter ed- dycate htiursel'f with. He Ihain't strong. enough' ter work and he must' lain ter skin working folks of he lives speetable. Tv1ske a lawyer, a doctor, er druggist, Sonny, Remember, Jedge, when 1 ,dies this boy es ter have two th'ous'and dollars in gold and the little girl at my house is terhave my land. and 'a'll the rest. I adopt that girl, Jedge. (Cupe the nigger knows wthcare the money is, Jedige. "I have seen a few of the gold pieces, but haven't teche'd'it, and you must give it as S says. I was drunk once, Jedge; and more than once, but I ain't drunk naw.. You. see, Jedge, every drunk man ain't dead er a fool, no .more,than every dead man er fool air dunk. 'Better make your will in writing if you want it 'to be legal," said the judge. "Now, Jedge," the Corn Bug con- tinued, as if he brad• not heard the re- marks, "the teacherhas done a pile of good hereabouts. Ef R 'had known' whet was best fer me and 'leissened ter 'Cupe I would have 'been ed'dycated too, but there ain't no use in all of us trying ter be smart. Thi%e.mus't be safe gentlemen and some working- men in the world, there must be some ;ed'dyca'ted ,people, and some who don't know nothing. Et ain't the man who knows the most who air !happiest, and et ain''t the man wh'o has done the most good who gits the soft seats ter rest in. I'haven'tdone nothing fer no- body, and II don't deserve nothing from nobody, and here .I finds a loose plantation. The teacher has taught a pile of 'laruing ter others and made lots ,of folks rich .who have used, his laming, and he hain't got nothing but a house and lot; and ef 'these law fel- lers 'in Frankfort,' who don'✓ care a damn fer either of us, says so,he's ter be kicked out and Pen. ter git the lot. I don't want his lot though, and I won't have his lot, and i don't want yer lot, Jedge, either. But the tavern, Jedge, the tavern." "Thet's the, place fer me, fellers. I never believed that I'• could git • a chance ter .live in a tavern; thet's the next think ter fling through Heaven, Jedge. •Hows'omever, thane is some- thing ter say on the other .side of ev- ery quistion. If.I' gets rich and lives in a' tavern :then I kin git all the lick- er I wants. If I gits all the bicker I wants, I will drink so much dicker I won't have sense enough ter know 1 wants licker. Elf I' d'on'e know no- thing and I won't if .1I lives in a tav- ern, I can't want any more ticker. and I would as soon be dead as not ter want licker. This air a toiig'h' quis- tion, Jedge, fer sech a''feller as I am ter conum'drate. "Now, as ter the graveyard. What good will a graveyard do me ? I have stood -with my hat 'off in thet graveyard winter and in summer watching buryings,) -have seen moth- ers cry 'over their babies and have seen ch'i'ldren kneel around, the graves of their mothers. I have a grave- yard of my own • behind the :cabin, andthet's enough for ire. I• never wants ter own a public graveyard. It is hard enough, Jedge, ter hear'peo- p'le sob'b'ing on their own propertY, and if lI should own thet town grave- yard I"would feel as though'all-thsose oryings of orphans and s'obb'ings of mothers were around me. I'd' dream abottt then in the night, and I'd a- feard ter even .dritele enough ter - git happy d'ream's, fer a man who has dicker -dreams air very sensitive .and must have a clear con•science,' He mustn't have any devilment in his mind if he, air in his cups, else he deeaaus of snakes and sect. !Besides, Jedge, i kinder don't know about the vartue of the law when it comes ter elm graveyard case. 'If a person don't awn the six feet of ground he lies in, wheat does he own? It don't seem as if 'the Lord would bring; the people inter the world and grow 'em ter full size with'ou't` giving thein land enough ter hold •their - bones. I kinder feels' that it air a farce ,fer a feller with five thousand 'acre' of land growing up in briars and .persinintons ter say he owns the six feet of ground his dead neighbor lies in and who ,don't want no more ',than six by two, Guess, Jedge, the lawyers kin keep th'e graveyard fer their fee; they won't give me all this land fer nothing; they iaven't no feelings neither, and won't care if the graveyard their neighbors rest in is -ploughed up, • "Jedge,I amt talking altogether ter you now, but ant 'arguing ter myself as well. You ,see, Jedge, while I don't THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932. cast no reflections at nobody,, still I, borthood fifty years coming meat Janu- likes ter talk ter myself. ,Tihare' ain't ary, I have worked on week days and aro harm in that. GI-il .Squint Slick -um rested on !Sundays, and have lived as always talked out loud ter himself,well as. I deserved ter do. I wears an he wasn't no fool either. One time warm jeans clothes .and I never suf d asked him ,wl;at he did it fer. Yon 'fees with heat cr cold„lessen. ! an in see, -ledge, 1 ani given ter the same nay cups and lays out, Yo -urs all habit, and II 'kinder wanted ter git alt earned yer -homes and farms and you argument ready in ease some fly -up- owns them, law er no law. I don''t. the -creek person aske'd me consenting want ter throw any of you -Buis out of the circumstance.:-; Tlhe - Squire • nail the homes,ydu have saved, Mid Jedge, that he talked ter himself`fer three' you know that the city mint who once reasons. First, he liked ter talk iter a threw the 'widdea and ,childern inter smart man, and second, he liked ter the snow said tliaet rich men air ter hear a smart man talk. I have forgot- be pitied fer they Have ter make 'rules ten the olther reason, but it don't -they don't like .that bears hard on make na difference. You -all won't sante people. One of :the first ter go take no offence at my excuse, and 1 -would be the Widder (Drew. She can't only asks you ter remember that lI pay no rent; and the next would be tells thisstory as all excuse, 'fer it the orphan Ruby girls, they hain't got air 'dangerous ter'. say out loud tearno money. I knbiwa good many ath ethers what one thinks of lawyers..A er people in; the village who can't pay man air 1a'ver sire of keeping out of no rent—the Lord :only knows •laa'w their iclu'tches. They air after every- village people do make a:livisig, and body. 'Df s fellow hain't got nothing, rich hien like I am, going ter be can't he wanters ,what some other feller make -no allow'an'ces. Either pay ftp h t 't 1 t help er git out Take yer house .off the lot. Tihe Dilemma of the "Corn Bug" Expressive glances were 'cast a- ouind the circle when, Mr. 'Morelli -nen passed out, and the 'grocer remarked in an undertone "I don't envy , the sl%riff his job; the old than shoots, P;ke a ranger, -I 'will het a'hoss they don't sleep under the tree." Then the, circle' lapsed into silence.' Many ,hearts ,were'heavy over the disclosures the judge had made, and he, too, felt that ,Yes:' "The tavern lot?" "Yes." "The widder's?" queried the Corn !Bug, glancing 'at me. The widow was my ,mother: "Yes,,,. "Yer own tat, Jedge?" "Y,es: , "Gewhillikin.sl And the graveyard?" "The graveyard, too, but not. the tombstones." • "Tombstones, Je ly,e, ain'-t fit .fer no- thing but sidewalks; those who wants them kin take 'them. off my ground. Wall, I`l1'be a rich` m'an,'Je'dge; I kin eat what 1 wants ter, I kin drink what I wants ,ter." The judge . smiled and a forced smile went around the circle. • "Jedge, I 'don't want the two 'Miss Ruby's lot. These girls I have known sense they were tots. 'They speak softly ter' me, Jedge, and et kinder snakes me ,ashamed of myself—When I drinks too much I don't like ter meet them then. You see, Jedge, I sometimes drinks too much." "So I have heard:" "Wall, et don`t matter, I won't have that lot. Neither does -I want the widiler's property. Sammy," he call- ed', "came here, Bnb." I obeyed, and he .placed his hand on my .head and as o, anti pays a la er e git it, and the .lawyer never re- The flesh is weak, Jedge, and I tan nigs. Ibf he has got something, he bus afe'ard if ,th'is deed turns out ter be ter hire a lawyer ter .help him keep it. good, I will make nicla man's rules Dt air funny, Jedge, aint it, there airfirst, and shake s'hands with the law only one sire winner, and that air the second” and go ter the devil third. My lawyer. I am talking at random ter conscience will be ruined, 'Jedge; the myself, Jedge, and don't mean notb- flesh is powerful' weak. I d.oat't do no- ing pers'om'al1"body no h'arp's now; I works and "I know that you do not reflect on sleeps and eats and drinks and have a me," replied Judge Elford, "and I am clear conscience. I eats what I wants aware that many attorneys do disrep-' when I kin git it, and pays fer what utaibie things in the name of the Jaw. I drinks, and. am happy, and ain't !However, Mr, Hardman, were it not caring fer nothing nor nobody.,e for the law, Honest amen would be the "And this here paper,„ holding up prey of designers. Take this case of the deed, is the document what your own as an example; in my op- m'akes you-uns all this trouble, inion, the ICount of IAppea'Is will dis- Jedge?” possess me, .a man of law, of my life "You, understand its import" savings, and, were .I on the bench, "And makes me rich?' PROFESSIONAL CA'RD'S. Medical TDR. H. HUGH ROSS, Physician and Surgeon, Late of London Hos- pital, London, England, Special attention; to diseases of the eye, ear,. nose and throat. ..Office and resi- dence behind Dominion Bank.. Office, Phone No. 5; Residence Phone 104. 'DR. F. J. BiUIRROIWIS, Sleeforth. Office and residence, Goderich street, Snit of the United Church. Coronerfor ?the' County of Huron., Telephone ; No. 4;6. DR. C. MIAOICIAY,—C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trinity -University and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the 'College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. DIR..F. J. R. FIOlRlSITEIR—!Eye, Ear Nose and Throat, Graduate in Medi- cine, University of Toronto 1897.. Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye, and Golden Square throat hospi- tals, London, England, At Comm- ercial Hotel, 'Seaforth, 3rd Monday in each month, from 11 a.m. to 3p.rn. "DIR. W. C. SO9ROIAT.--Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Member of College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. Office in rear of Aberhart's drug store, Seaforth. Phone 90. Hours 1.30-4 p.m.,•7.30 -9 p.m. Other hours by appointment. and your case ,before me, iso self- "The richest man in the county." interest would influence in the least "Ain''t 'there no copy." ' my decision:" "NO.' "'I ax yer'pardhn, Jedge, said- Hard- "Conareds, it would be powerful fine man, "I war talking at random. I war fer a feller like me ter wear store days, eat `sardines not thinking of the go'o'd you law- clothes week y , and yers do, but of the 'bad._I sometimes and oysters' when I wants then, and 1ergits the good things what 'happens, drink eggnog all .the winter and julips' but hangs onto the other side, and all the summer. II't would be glorious that air the fault of,other people as ter git even with them Sawyers. • and well as myself." Humses and a few other skinflints 'CHAPTER. VII4, ' and stuck -ups. But ,I can't afford no "The Best of the Devil and the Law disgrace ter niy conscience. 1 dont Too." want ter turn widders and orphans 1T'he Corn Bug paused for a mom- -out of their homes; 1:.can't take rent ant, and went on with his rambling money fer land I did toot earn, and balk, which none present cared 't'o in, yet it's an awful temptation ter the terru-plt, kitn*111g that he had' some likes of 'me." object. in view that could only be -dis- He opened the deed, Looked at the covered by allowing 'him to finish in red seal, carefully folded it and tied his own way. it again, stroked -it lovingly, half "I'f that air deed air legel I will 'be thrust it into his pocket, turned tow- a very rich man, maybe too riolt. and the door, then reconsidered, carne !Somehow, perhaps it air possible ler back and drew the document out a feller ter be too rich. IB'ut ter the again. "It air an awful temptation, paint; if this paper '(ho'iding up the Jedge, ter the Pikes of 'nus. I tastes deed) is correct, Jedge, I will become the eggnog now and. smells the a landlord and 'own all this corner of julips." Then he stood meditatingly the country.?" and 'silent. "The law allows it" To be continued. "Every lot in the village?" "Unquestionably." "Every farm inside these dines ?" "Every 'woad, field , orchard'" and garden.' "Jedge, all these people will have ter` pay me rent? "Yes, or you can expel then" "Wielders, orphan's, .storekeepers, tavern -keepers, school teachers,, prea- chers, poor people, rich people?" „Yes," "I 'won't ,have ter work. I kin just put my hand in my pocket and take out a dollar when I wants ter?" "Well, it looks that way." "Nb'w, Jedge, what right:have I to this land? What have I done that, it should belong ter me?" "Thee law will give it to you if the Court -of Appeals so decides!' "Jedge, I hadn't done nothing on the tract, and these other people .have cleared the ,land, burned the brush, and ploughed up' the roosts. Mr. Nord - man told the truth, ; it ain't mire, law "The deed of y'owr grandfather •car- ries the land to his theirs." "Wall, perhaps yer law is, p'ower- ful enough ter make 'it right, but it seetns•. as if it helps steal. I ,guess, though, I ain't ter blame fer the law's mistakes, and if the land. ;s mine, -why of .course 'I must obey the law, "Lord, folks, but I loin live - High. +Perheaps it ain't beset to -live too 'high either. Sometimes' now I lives too high and ;sings boo loud and talks too inueh, Guess,' I' have talked too much, ter night. If I have niy pocket. al- ways full of motley, Jedge, wonit. I treat 'the crowd and won't I punish the eggnog! I'll be rich,` awful 'rich.. I'll hire a cler,k ter collect rents; I111 sit in an office and count money. 'It must be awful satisfying and elevat- ing 'ter 'levat-dng'ter count money all dray. I111 wear store clothes on week clays and eat sardines, and drink mint julips every day in. the summer, and eat oysters and drink eggnog every day in the winter. I"ll'buil•d my office next ter the tavern. This paper have : raised my calculations high, and: I have -leiu der been arguing and enjoying myselef out loud. There air two sides ter every quistion.'theough, as you have said more than once, and I had better hook a minute at the other side. "Jedge; I have lived in this neigh - SMUGGLING MONEY. Rum runners Have enjoyed. more or less publicity in recent years, but there was a time 'when ' Money Run- ners were a cause of trouble and an- xiety to the Customs authorities of the new-born Dominion. 'S'il'ver money from the United States was not always welcome- in Canada. Once upon a time it had to pay duty or be smuggled in. One can hardly imagine the Customs -Ex- cise ' Preventive Service 'today being enjoined to : show"increased vigil- ance" to frustrate the schemes o'f those rbent on 'bringing United States .silver money into Canada, 'but Cus- toms officers were so instructed in bygone years. Circular No. 51 dated at Ottawa, 15th May, 14969, and sign- ed by R. S. M. Bouc'hette, their Com- missioner of Customs and Excise, tells -the story. It says in effect that, as large_quan- tiitie's of American silver coins' were being brought into Canada without entry and payment of duty, the Col- iectars and their officers aloarg the frontier were to exert increased' vigil- ance to preve'n't smuggling; that travellers were to be questioned as to their possession of any United States silver, and that the officers .were to "seize and report any such silver which it may be aftemlpted to smug- gle." However, p'articul'ar care was to be taken in discriminating between a clear design to defraud th'e revenue, and' an unin'ten'tional breach df the law. 'ft-•enlj'oined upon the officers of the ,"greatest circumspection and courtesy in the pedformance of this delicate, id Lily." Dental DIR, J. A. MUN'N, Successor to Dr. R. R. Ross, graduate of North- western University, Chicago, I11. Li- centiate Royal College of Dental Sur- geons, Toronto. Office over Sills' hardware, Main St., Seaforth, Phone 151. DR. F. J. BIECHIELY, graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R, Smith's grocery, Main St., Seaforth. Phones, office 18'5!W, reseden.ce 1'85J, Auctioneer. 'GEORGE EILIJLOTT, Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Arrangements can be mode for Sale Date at The' Seaforth News. Charges moderate and satisfaction guranteed. 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