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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-04-30, Page 6THE WINGHAM ADVANCL-TIM14S Thursday, April 39th, 1931 `bngham Advance -Times. W„ Logan Craig - Publisher Published at WINGRAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday !Morning ' ubseriptian rates One year $2.00. Six mouths $1.00, in advance. To U. S. A, $2.50 per year. Advertising rates .on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co, Established 1840 Risks taken an all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. J. W. DODD ".Two doors south of Field's Butcher shop. VIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, 'Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham :Successor to Dudley Holmes J. I.I. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham. - - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. C. H. ROSS T. DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (mond:) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR.DR.R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, 'Faculty of Medicine; :Licentiate of the ?ntario College. of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. C. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence nem to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 e.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Vractitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res - winded to. All business confidential. Phone 300. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. Phone 191. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON. AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter., or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed, DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office ,,MacDonald Block, Wingham. A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. J. Wallows 1'.icetnsed Funeral Director and Embalmer. Office :l'hotte 106. Res. Phone 224. Latest Lin otiaine F.anetal Coach, e49744,ayr kPRwt-resp wo+z+arm aMittel wwaaua t{(srx sl; -KATHirEEN Maggie Johnson, who father is a letter -carrier, is the domestic drudge of the humble home where her moth- er does little except bemoan the fact that she has "seen better days" and her sister, Liz, who works in a beauty shon, lies abed late. Maggie has to get the family breakfast before she starts out to her job in the Five -and - Ten -Cent Store. There's a new boy at .the Five -and - Ten, .Joe Grant. He tells Maggie he has been assigned to work as her helper in •the stock room. He seems rather dumb, batt Maggie helps him through his first day at the store and shares her lunch with him in a tub- by -hole of a place that belongs to a mattress factory next door to the Five -and -Tett, They are looking over some cheap picture cards. One of them has a motto that strikes Maggie's fancy. "The way to begin the ideal life is to begin." She and Joe talk about that and Joe is surprised that the girl has higher standards than he had suspected. When ,he goes home that night he is thinking about Maggie. And his home is the home of the owner of the Mack Five and Ten- Cent Stores, though Maggie does not suspect he is the boss' son." Maggie, at home, begins to suspect. that her mother's complaints are due to that lady's belief that happiness depends upon material things, while at the store she continues to sur- prise Joe by her appreciation of the realities of life. Joe knew that Maggie was falling in love with him before Maggie dis- covered it. But he was a little slow in discovering that he ,in turn, was falling in love with Maggie. But he admitted to himself that his admira- tion for her was growing, and the girls in the store began to notice something defferent about her. Maggie's interest in her job stim- ulates Joe's own. He begins to think perhaps it isn't so bad after all to have to work in the store. And he and e Ma�gt ibegin to talk about love. g NOW GQ ON WITH THE STORY She had begun by laughing, boldly. But she sobered, to listen to him, lashes wide, lips slightly parted, little felt hat pushed back to show a film of gold across her earnest forehead. The colour had ebbed from her face, and putting her elbows on the table, she had covered her face with her. hands --those small hard, red hands that Joe found so infinitely pathetic. "God help me, it's that way with me now, Joe!" . she whispered, not meeting his eyes. Thep walked back to the store in absolute silence. One night in early February, it chanced that at the Merrill table there were dining three men: George Howard Merrill, president of the en- tire chain of stores, his trusty right- hand man and general manager, one Frank Flint, and the son of the house Joseph Grant Mackenzie Merrill. The last named was included in the party merely because he happened to be in the house, with no dinner en- gagement and because a wild rain was falling. George Merrill cared no longer whether his son and heir came or went. Yet he had blindly idolized his son. That young Joe had shown a lam- entable indifference to society, and had flunked in college after disposing of a small fortune in various idiotic, if not actually harmful ways, had been a hitter blow to the father's honest, hard-working pride. Since, however, he was actually liv- ing, they had begun, for the first time in his twenty years, to permit iliac, in their disgust and disappoint- ment, to find his own level. So that on this particular evening, upon seeing three places set at the family board, his father, scowlingly interrogating the butler, merely shrugged when the answer was that the third place was for Mr. Joseph. "Oh, he don't matter!" said George ;vierrilt. "We want to talk business, But Mr. Joe's all right. He won't hear a word we say!" "I wish he. would," Frank Flint, a big, rosy, silver -headed man, said po- litely, "We want that boy in the business, some day." Mr. Merrill responded • simply: "Frank, 1 don't know what he's do- ing, or what he wants to dol They're too much for me, nowadays. He's busy about something ---it won't last Bttt while it keeps hint out of mis- chief -or out of jail-'— " "I'd be glad enough to have him get interested in the Mach,' If he seems to 'catch on to anzthing toy iJfu� 1 1.•.�:',: I.;A:i,'14�i�J.4'fifli�l��6• night, as we talk, Frank, see if yuu can draw him out." "Sorry, to be late," said Joe, at this "You're not late," his father assur- ed him ungraciously, •Sometimes, in the course of the last few years, his disappointment in this boy had risen to actual hatred. But just of late, ever since, in fact, that terrible scene when his mother had called him a "commoner, with- out one le sin gentlemanlyinstinct in his mind or soul," and when he, his father, had shouted at Joe that he was no better than a pickpocket, there had seemed to be a queer change in the boy. "Tired, Joe?,, "I beg pardon?" "Say you look tired, my boy. Re- search-" said George Merrill, with a wink for his general manager. "Nope. Yes, I 'am a little tired. Not much," Joe said unsatisfactorily, falling upon his soup. Then Joe said mildly, in a pause: "You say that it's the .ruined stock that costs in the Mack stores—not the labour. I've thought of that. It seems to me that every day enough collars and writing paper and candy and toys and socks fall on the floor and are trampled to set up a separate branch!" "Where's you get this, Joe?" ask- ed his father. "I went into—Number Seven, I think it is, said Joe. "On Eighth?" "About there." "That's Number Seven. Good for you! I hope you got service," said Flint. "They have a great staff there," said Joe. "That's a good store. That's a good store," Flint agreed. "What occurred to me," Joe lei- surely said, "was that you—we, I might say—could handle all that small stuff very much better with an automat. "That's an idea, Joe, but unfortun- ately, it's not practical," his father said genially, comfortably. Ri 5 e r "I've got two seats," George Mer- !rill er-!rill displayed them deprecatingly, "I was going to take Flint," he said, "I'd like to see that darn show again," Joe said. Fifteen minutes later, they left the house together. It was the first time Joe Merrill had gone to the theatre with his father since the day of his fourteenth birthday treat. "I passed along that idea of yours, about having an automat for the no- tions, to one of the heads," Joe told Maggie. "I took the credit for it, too! What macje inc feel rotten was that I didn't 'say that you had first thought of. it." 'Oh, yell, we sort of worked it out together, that day we were at the automat," she said, anxious to re- assure him. "Worked it out together nothing! You began it, it' was entirely your. idea." "But what's the difference, as long as one of us gets the credit?" she asked innocently. Joe could only laugh uncomfortab- ly. • When he event downstairs an hour later, he managed" his own way thru the moving river •of the departing employees of the Mack ,and found himself beside her. "Why so fast, Maggie?" She raised blazing eyes to his. "How dare yo uspeak to me! You ought to be ashamed to speak to me! I ,hate you!" "For heaven's sake, what's the mat- ter?" Joe stammered, aghast. But she went on quickly, shabby little untidy head held high, and dis- appeared in the crowd before he was able to catch her again. - Joe walked briskly toward his car. He got into it and drove toward Goat Hill. "My gosh, I never saw her like that before! I wonder what the deuce I've done?" he kept saying aloud as he went. The dinner e d nner was at the club to- night; it was for pretty Katrina Fair- child. Millicent, next to Joe—was beating powder into her rather. .� ✓.age--'-- ryh- r..%ua'r .f'h "That's an idea, Joe, but unfortunately it's not practical," his father said, genially. Then his eye and the eye of his general manager met. "Why isn't it practical, Frank? It works all right on the food—they're opening those damn nickel -in -the -slot places all over town," George Merrill said. "They're practical." "We -ell—" Frank Flint hesitated. Joe broke in: "Take the whole back wall of a store and handle the five and ten cent stuff there. Let 'ens drop pen- nies for their spools and soap and ink and pencils and can openers and hairpins, You could have a girl there to change their money--" "I'm not at all sure, Joe," said his father explosively. "Pin not at all sure that you haven't given us an idea." "I could look into that, Mn Merr- ill," Flint said. "It might. --catch on, Mr. Merrill, It woiild be an exclus- ive Mack featttre, you know." "Frank, the more I think of that, the more I suspect that—there's sornetling—in—it," George Merrill, drawling his words 'portentously, said slowly, "When could you see Burke?" "See . him to -morrow." "Take that up with him, will you, Frank? Fincl out who makes that machinery. We night as well look into it, anyway." Joe wantedto keep that `look in his father's eyes, that proud,' vindi- cated look that said: "This boy of urine isn't—such—a.... damn'—fool, af- ter alit" An hour later, he was reading in his room when his father carne, ra- ther shyly, rather awkwardly in, The hay had taken the trouble to come upstairs Joe reflected, gratified. "foe,seen that girl who sings that 'Mouse -trap' thing, in the Revue?" "Yes, .air, Saw it opening 'night." coarse -pored, dolouriess skin with violent jerks of her elbow. Every onein the room was bitter- ly bored: guests, waiters, musicians. Millicent asked languidly: "When are we going to announce it, Joe --Don't interrupt me, Marion," she said to another girl, who leaned across the table for a hysterical con- fidence. "I'm proposing to Joe Grant." "It can't be dont, I tried it myself, didn't I, Joe?"said a third girl, hand someJo and big. on' "I don't seem to' .remember that,, Carol," e said, eating. "But some when n I've had too many cock- tails tails o of you girls will get me, at'! and that'll be that." There were ere shrieks of laughter, and he then t conversation steldenly died, nobody and n dy could think of anything to say. Conversations were entirely per- sonal, usually : first -personal at that. "My dear, I—well, I—well, if you ask me -I couldn't—I told °Mother- I—she and I -but it isn't, as if I— exactly. I couldn't—I "simply—if you could have seen me—" "Marjorie, did you see Mrs, Madi- son?" "My dear—wasn't that terrible!" "Oh, well, my dear, if she would bring that impossible girl—" "Well, exactly!" More lip -red, more powder, more cigarettes, "Of course, Mothee felt dreadfully about it," "Well, but, my dear!" "Well, exactly ---that's what I said to Mother." * * "Listen, Maggie, you can't keep this up, Sooner or later ,you'll have to ntiake it tip' with me and tell me what the trouble is, so why not now?" Joe pleaded, -She was in the hardware depart- ment, and was attempting to straigh- ten up the counter..1Vhen she heard Joe's voice, close beside her, she brought her proud little chin up with a jerk, her cheeks crimsoned, and her tone' was cutting, if a trifle shaky, as she said:., „You broke my heart. But it does- n't matter, Please get out of my way." Joe was 'honestly. staggered. "Hove, in the name of St. Pete, did I break your heart?" We'll not-" she was being mag- nificent—"we'll not discuss it," she said. "We will discuss it," said Joe. "I haven't done anything, and I object to your acting this way!" "Oh, no—no!" she said, in a low, trembling voice shaken with anger. "Oh, no. You : didn't take Paulo Younger, to lunch, and pay for her lunch, at our place—at our place!— and _ then walk with her, and stroll around the streets with her, and have. all those horrible girlsat the lamp- shades making fun of me, and saying that Paula had gotten you away from me." "Now, listen, Maggie—that's utter- ly ridiculous. In the first place, I went in, alone, alone—to have my lunch at the Old South Tea Room— but I swear to you I went in there with no more idea that Miss Young- er was lunching there than you had! I saw her at an empty table—the place was packed, and, naturally, I sat with her." "Oh, naturally!" Maggie said, trem- bling, beside herself. "Well, would you have me cut the girl?" Joe asked, warming in his turn. "I sat with her, and later I paid the tip, twenty-five cents, and our bill for two sixty -cents. There! If I'd known that you expected me to asic permission—" "I'll never," she gritted between her, teeth, "I'll never speak to you again !" She had finished her task now, the hardware counter was in order, and went down to the girls' washroom, washed her hands and, after a while, her tear-smollen eyes in cold water, and wiped them on the soggy lengths of the exhausted roller towel. (Continued next week). 'fHE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON F LESSON XVIII -May 3 Jesus in the Home of Zacchaeus.— Luke 19: 1-10 ' Golden Text.— The ' Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.—Luke 19:10. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING. Time.—March A.D. 30, about ten days before the crucifixion. Place. — Jericho. The house of Zacchaeus was probably outside the walls, where the wealthier people lived. RESOURCEFUL ZACCHAEUS Anct he entered and was passing through Jericho.. "It was in the fair city of Jericho, gay with its palaces, beautiful with its palms and abun- dant. growth of trees. And behold, a man called by name Zacchaeus. "Zacchaeus" means `pure' and the victims of his tax -collector's tricks must often have sneered that a "pure" man's' life should be so stained with cruelty. And he was a chief publican. "It was only natural that Jericho, from its position close to the fords of Jordon , (Josh. 2;1), and as the frontier city on entering the land from Peraea, set, too, as it was in the 'richest plain of Pales- tine, and that which abounded most in the choicest production of that favored land, in the rare and costly balsam above all, should be the seat of an officer of a somewhat superior• rank, who should there preside over the collection of the revenues of state." And he was rich, He had agreed to pass along to the Romans certain suits, and was allowed to ga- therr up from the oppressed people through his subordinates that and :as.; much more as he could, to supply their profit and his own—an iniquit- ous system, productive of great wealth to publicans and of much mis- ery for the poor people. And he sought to see Jesus who he was, One thing about this mail Zacchaeus isnot mentioned in the story but is implied in it he was possesst:d of a great unrest and re- morse, He had been a bad man and he knew it, And could not for the crowd, Crowds often get between the seeking soul and Jesus, Our souls need all their strength to get by these throngs and reach aur Sav- iour. Because he was little of stat- ure, Short .Irian are heavily handi- capped, but some of the mightiest men the world has known, stteh as Napoleon, have been undersized, Andhe ran on before. Probably there' was one main street in Jeri- cho through which Jesus must pass on his way westward to Jerusalem. Andclimbed up into a sycamore tree to see hien; for be was to pass that way. Not a dignified proccedure for a government official, but when an earnest main has an enol to gain he throws dignity to the winds; , and lie knew that he . could not be more scorned than he was already. JOYFUL ZACCHAE,US. Aud when Jesus carne"to the place. Doubtless he ' had been looking ahead to it, eager to meet one who was so eager to meet 'him. He look- ed up, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down; for to- day I must abide at thy house. No- tice how eager ' is Christ with His "Make haste." He is as desirous to meet the sinner as the sinner is to. meet him. And he made haste, and carne down. The little man fairly tumbled out of the tree in his eagerness, And received him : joyfully, • Never before had the house of Zacchaeus known such joy. '.It is indeed a blessed day when Jesus enters a home. And when they saw it, they all murmured. "In this loss of favor with the people observe another in- stance of that constant sacrifice of himself which Jesus made in behalf. of the castaway." Saying, He is gone in to lodge with a man that is a sin- ner. The master was ready to incur suspicion, ridicule, hatred in order to put himself in open alliance with the better nature of that man whom he would help." REPENTANT ZACCHAEUS And Zacchaeus stood. Probably at some time in the midst of the meal.' And said unto 'the Lord. He ad- dressed Jesus directly because his new course of life was due entirely to him, and to him he would make the proposed sacrifice. Behold, Lord the half of my goods I give to the poor, It was a noble offering, re- ducing his living to one-half at a stroke. It marked heroic possibilit- ies in the man. And if I have wrong- fully exacted aught of any man. Zac- chaeus knew his past, and knew that it was well-known throughout Jer icho. And Jesus said unto him, Today is salvation come unto this house. It was a case of sudden conversion. Perhaps any one but Jesus would have said, "Wait a while; see wheth- er he holds out or not"; but Christ could read the heart and knew that Zacchaeus s was saved s e from the old a . bad life and into the eternal life of heaven. Forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham. The Jews held that Zacchaeus, in collecting taxes for their Roman masters, had forfeited his Israelitish .birthright, but Jesus announced that he had regained. it. For the Son of Man. Christ's fav- orite name for himself, one or the great Old Testament names for the Messiah (Dan. 7:13, etc.), a name adopted by Christ as expressing the truth that, though perfect God, he was also perfect man, representative man, suffering for the sins of man- kind. Came. He came to earth, in- to our human lot, gladly resigning the bliss of heaven. To seek and to save that which was lost. We find in this text Christ's estimate of the condition of humanity. It is some- thing that is lost. 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