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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1939-03-10, Page 711 1t MARCO 10,1939 LEGAL DANCEY & BOLSBY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. LOFTUS E. DANCEY, K.C. P. J. BOLSBY GODERICH - BRUSSELS 11-17 ELMER D. BELL, B.A. Successor to John H. Best Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Publie Seaforth - Ontario 11-11 McCONNELL & HAYS Banisters, Solicitors, Etc. Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hays SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone 174 3693- ' VETERINARY A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary Col- lege, Unaivereity of Toronto. All dis- eases of domestic animals' treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or {tight calls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensail, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scottish Ter- /dere, Inverness Kennels, Hensald. 12-41 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto J. D. COLQUHOUN, M.O., C.M. Graduate of Dalhousie University, Halifax. The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and thereuptic equipment. Dr. Margaret K. Campbell, M.D., L.A.B,P.,. Specialist in diseases in In- fants and children, will be at the Cliiic last Thursday in every month from 3 to 6 p.m. . Dr. F. 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 pen. FreeWell-Baby Clinic will be held on the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 .to 2 p.m. 3687- W. C. SPROAT, M.D., F.A.C.S. 1. Physician and Surgeon a Phone 90 Office John St., Seaforth. i .r'r' ilei": s 12-88 P f DR. F. J. BURROWS v t. Office, Main Street, over Dominion v Bank Bldg. Hours: 2 to 5 p.m. and w 7 to 8 p.m., and by appointment. a Residence, Goderich Street, two doors F west of tame United Cburch. Phone f. 46. P 12-88 h g I DR. HUGH H. ROSS w Graduate of University of Toronto, la Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of s Ontario; pass graduate course in it Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; I, Royal Opthtalmfe Hospital, London, v England; University Hospital, Lon- p den, England. Office+ --Back of Do- e minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. t Night calla answered from residence, h Victoria Street, Seaforth, ital..). 12-38 DR. F. J. R. FORSTER f' it Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat u Graduate In Mediofne, University of b Toronto. • h Late assistant New York Opthal- s, mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's a Eye -and Golden Square Throat Hos- s, pitad, London, Eng. At Commercial f, Hotel. Seatortth,' third Wednesday in r eeeb month, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. 53 Waterloo Street South, Strat- ford. y 12-87 DENTAL DR. J. A. MCTAGGART Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Heneall, Oat. Phone 106. 12-37 AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer gpeciaiistt is °.farm and household sales. Pricey renewable. Fordates stud information, write ar p1IGtie Trate old Date. - Phone 149, Seaforth, or apply at The EapOsitor Office. 12-47 'West are your political symupa- tthies, Comrade?" "I'm against the Government," `But there le no Government- This Is commplete anarchy." "Men I'M against the anarchy." • First Dictator: "Hello, how are Yen?" Second: "Pre feeling great." First: "O, curse, but. I !mean, how 9a every* thing?" ' .• til* Vs "Pa, w a ship called a she?" "Because her rigging costs More than. hor heft." l a ;a apture eyond by KRTNRRIgE IIERlp BURT SIXTEENTH INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS Jocelyn Harlowe, raised in a Fren o i conyent, at 'the age of eighteen, joins her mother, Mar- cella, in New York. Worried about her safety, because she is unfamiliar with the modern world and has developed into a' beauti- ful woman, her mother's Brat wish is to get her safely married. At- tending ttending her first ball, Jocelyn meets Felix Kent, rich, handsome and nineteen yeprta older than herself. Eecouraged by her mother, she and Felix quickly be- come engaged. Alone in her apartment one night* a cripple, Nick Sandal, enters by the fire - escape, confides in her that be is her father and that her real name is Lynda Sandal: Uneer- tin about whether she wants to get married so quickly, Jocelyn goes to talk things over with her mysterious father. There sibe meets Jock Ayleward, a gambler, who gradually interests her more and more. When she mentions the name Felix Kent, he tells his story of how he was 'a mining en- gineer, worked 'under Kent and - was sent to jail for making what was adjudged a false affidavit. One night Jocelyn goes . to a par- ty with her father and Jock. Sud- denly, during a dance, Jock rush- es her out and says he is going to take her home, thus saving her from seeing Felix there danc- ing with a gangster's girl. Alone with Jock, he kisses her passion- ately during a moment, they had alone; she says that she will search Kent's safe for papers nn the case and won't marry hint if she finds what Jock says is true. When asleep one night, Jolecyn's mother wakes her and says that her jewels have been stolen and Jocelyn suspects Jock or her father. She goes to see her father who seems to know nothing about the jewels. She meets Jock there who kisses her against her will. But she tells him she will search safe,r the which she does. Site finds papers showing Jock's stoty to be true, and Felix is arrested.. Nick, meanwhile, returns the jew- els and begins to tell Lynda •the story behind them. Painfully he rose. - "This is rotten for you, Lynda. et's get it over. Your mother took lover and thought him a better ,an than me. And he had a fortune n jewels in his pocket which she, Dore ignorant child of wealth, aacted belonged to aim. And she -as afraid of me. So they would oke the Marquise's jewels, and they ;ould run away, Julian and 'Cella, ith their grnrs, to South America ad live ,there happy ever after. Ed so again, in -the immemorial aehion of Pantaloon, some instinct inched the husband awake and back e carne unexpectedly to his little olden Californiia house. Moonlight, remember. Soft. Summer. But they 'ere indoors. It was night. And very -44711;g was ready-. The jewels ay between them on the table. "I said what Pantaloon always ays, Julian was, not patient under �s•ulmt. I struck. him. He was armed [e would have shot nie, Lynda," his oice left him and he -began to whis- er, 'wh,e would. have shot me. I was o cripple in those -days and I got e pi•stot away from tam and I shoe m,.,. Lynda heard herself asking, "You killed him, Nick?" "Yes. Instantly. And almost be• rre I could stand up from ascertain- rg this, the police were on top of „ "It wasn't only the shot that had rought them. They were bot on [entree's heels. That was one rec- on why the was far South America t once. The noble aunt had. grown mvicious. The police were looking r the nephew of the Marquise de [ontre'e. .this, that and the other thing was said and done, I was tried and con- victed of rola nslaugrtter and sent to p'r'ison for the smatter—,adpnost of your lifetime, Lynda. • " "They thought that Julian and I had quarreled, o4ar the swag. Lord, throw they tore my house to pieces looking for the jewels! It's a won- der you weren't flayed in the search. Lord knows where 'Cella kept them. Bttt the police couldn't pin anything on me. For lack of evidence, I wasn't tried for theft as well as for murder." "And she didn't tell? I mean, at the trial, she didn't try to help you by tending the truth?" "She didn't tell. She kept the jewels." Nick drew -himself almost roughly from her comforting. "Until that night when you both came out from the ball, Lynda, where you were dressed as Juliet and as lovely as she, I had not seen 'Cella since the.'last daay of my trial. 1 hated her afresh. The aspect of cold virtue she wore, the look of sanctity , and when I saw you so dutifully in her power I began to ewe- her.That envy grew. I began, you see, to love my own daughter. I was jealous, ashamed, unhappy. And so, because I thought that it would tear away her mask and expose the backgrounrd..•of her piety, 1 stole her jewels. ' "The ones I returned were imita- tions. I still have the real germs. I wanted you, Lynda, to see her in her true colors so that she'd not be able to influence you against me in. the end!" "Oh, Nick, Nick, Nick!" They looked at each other then with their wasted 'and faintly similar fac- es and • their wet, strained eyes• and contrived, for each other's sake, a sort of shaken laughter. At the end of that laughter, Lynda, halving risen asked, "Won't you tell me something about—Jock?" Jealousy crept back faintly into Nick's face. • "Not much. to tell about bins, He came out of .prison the same day I did. He'd had his three years of hell,poor devil! curl. VPe'd both been en- gineers. That drew us together. I taught him the gambling game." It was not until several days there- after, that the papers began to blazon the story of a certain Felix Kent.— his wealth, his . possible erime, 41 is treachery. The law court in Chicago was set for a scandalous trial, not the reopening of an ancient indictment of one unfortunate engineer but a new trial to prove Kentts embezzlement of his fellow citizens' funds.` Kent was very expensively and very ably repre- sented. Jock's story, in one form or another, ran to columns; and already the Elaine of Jocelyn Harlowe had been mentioned. Nick tarried the first edit itnr to Lynda and was then tolyl what she had done, the history of her search, her capture 'and her tra- gic victory. He heard it without comment. Lynda, meanwhile, in I:,er own fash- ion, prowled the room. It was ten o'clock of a gay spring morning. "I won't talk about it, Nick. I don't want to see the papers. I want to go away until il's over, please." "Well, 1 was about to suggest an adventure. Will you oome with me to France?" "Nick, can we? is it possible?" "1 mutt go, you see, and since I'm a cripple [ need some help. Besides, for my intention, two travellers might perhaps be safer than one." "What is—your intention, Nick?" "To return to the Marquise de Mon - tree icer jewels." "That's what I meant to do, some day." "To -day is best, for nate and prob- ably for you if you do want to get away from this. He flicked the scat- tered newspapers. In secret, the two conspirators made their preparation and set their date, Nick got the passports, bought the tickets, Then Lynda, all dressed for travel and holding .in her hands a leather case which contained her toilet 615onot yea," he warned her. "Well, as soon as I saw that he was dead—before the police eaure in —I had told 'Cella to go to her room and, to lock herself in. Her story would be •this: that she had gone to bed and to smleep. That the quarrel bad wakened her but that she had not dared to come out to as. That the cuarrel was between two gamblers who brad come in late. And than it had ended in Julians dearth, at my hands by itis pistol. "She went to her room — where you were eleeping quite peacefullyt--- and locked her door. But with her . she carried Moiltree's jewels." "Nick, what dill they do to you?" "Arrested roe, of course- After ry p4; articles, her money' and the jewels, sat .down beside her wiepw to wait for Nick. He had been living in his old rooms and was to come for her .act eight -thirty. The clock chimed. Startled., she saw that it was already nine, that' Nick was vinery late. She began to be alarmed. Passengers were sub - posed to be aboard liy ten. . She 'phoned the desk but was told that there ,had been no call_ She had hardly hung up the re- ceiver, ..when shrilly the mechanism rang. She knew Fuji's queer little voice: "This Mise Har -lo?" Uyere "Please. Lady .,cotme see Mis-tair Sandal. He say. Velly meed -den sick, No can come. No cra n get to 'phone. Please, lady come his room now." "Tell him I'll be there at once." She got out quickly • at the door, told her driver to wait and, keeping the small caste with its' priceless con- tents in her hands: She climpbed up the three well - remembered flights and hurried in at Sandal's unlocked door. He was . not in Ole stripped front room. She called hip, and went through the bedroom door. Quayle stood against the entrance door. He was smiling stickily. "Don't yell," he warned her. She saw that in his pocket a lump thrust upward, thmeatehing her. 'Look a -here, girlie, I'm on to Nick and you. You .gat the lady's sparklers and you're going to beat while springtime's hurdy-gurdy made incongruous melody beneath t h e Sun -filled window, and his pale young daughter wept. '0 The rank outsider was. buried in the Harilowe burial lot and lay there. "Where is he?" Lynda whispered. "Not far away. I found he didn't have the stuff so I gat Fuji to call you. Don't yell. 1 got lehe in a clos- et out there. bt's not even locked but he's tied up.. But "look aahere, you can) go away with me if you like. 'On my word' of 'honor.' I got a real fan- cy for you. But if you don't like to, that's:. all right with me too. Only just hand me over the ,sparklers. If you make a row I'll part a bole in your pretty carcass and take the stuff. It's in, your bag there?" She shook her head. He took the -case from her, opened it and, with- out freeing her from any fraction of his watahfullneas which was as cold and as intent as a hurting cat's. he quietly pocketed the gems. Ttreu he began to back towards the doer. As be stepped from the doer, Lynda's. crazy courage flared up, as though her brain had been saturated in crude oil. She darted after him. As he fled down the stairs, she drew in her 'breath to shout, but Quayle stopped ` pp d below her and, witlm ,r hide• ous white grin, levelled his gun. Be- fore her voice had left her lips, he fired. There was, with her sisortened wailing .cry, a shock of sound. Quayle scuttled down and out past grinning Fuji who had the front door open for his gold -line! exit. Lynda lay crumpled near the banis- ter over which she had Penal for hid intended outcry, Below her on bee stairs, on the very sarin where Quayle had paused to shoot, was the dead body of a man._ Help•igg herself up by„ -,the railing a•:141 moving shakily .down, she found Nick Sandal. She sat there un the step and held this peaceful head upon her arm, The police found them, The police took them away and, next morn- ing, the Marlowe fancily lawyer having been suname tred, the police delivered them at Marcella's apart- ment. 'There, then, Nick Sandal watt laid in a roan* sweet with flowers, untroubled by sociai distinction or by any sense Of his inferiority. The law- yer, the clergyman, Cousin Sara Mui - let, Jooelyn and one other stood be- sidco the grave. This was Jock Ayie- ward. She could think of no one else pnesently, remember no One else. Every look of has mobile faoe was hers; every turn of his strong and graceful body. It was Jock's turn now to climb up .hint of the dust. But why must it be away from her? She saw, turning, stiff with trouble and with w'earhresa, that he was in the vestibule. He came toward her, looking tali and grave and white. "Have you read the papers, Lyn- da?" Her "net" was inaudible. "I've got my verdict. I'm cleared. Don't try to speak, Lynda. I won't stay. I know What you must feel to- ward me. I've spoiled your life . . or' you think so. And I've dared bo came there to thank you for giv- ing me the power to do it. Since I Last saw you, you've been hurt hor- ribly. And 1 went away and .left you to go through with it alone. It's beastly. I'm ashamed. But," he held out his hands, "but no one will call them a thief's f[•n)gers again. Nor my mouth a convict's mouth. And". I love you, Jocelyn. Harlowe. Life is ahead of us, although there has been so mudh pmar[n behin--and I have a manta tor 'hoping,"cb "It's ,too bad we're n,;l .in sympa- thy, Jock I haven't any mania for hoping and very little patience at all with pain. Your talent will be wast- ed. And I think it was never Jooelyn Harlowe that you loved. I am Lynda Sandhi. I am tired of unhappiness, And I've been lonely. Ca'n't yen. have a mlania for being happy here and now?" At that they were together and out of reach of fear. The Little Master, temporarily conquered, vanished into thin* air and it seemed to Lynda that in has place was the sure promise of splendid happiniestg. THE END "What's the best side for Uncle Sam to take in European affairs?" "The outside." • Feet Salesman.: "I memdte a lot of friends for the oom•pany today." Second Salesman: "I didn't sell a thing either." • Father: "There's •plentty of time for Lizzie to think of getting married. Let her wait until the right man comes along." Mother: '°Why, Father, I don't see why she s'bould wait. I didn't." 11 act ..V eva. (Orindeneeri from Natur jt A grotesque tribunal conv,eiied in the ana ket peace of Zurich in the year • 1442. Rated n-agistrates sat on a dais .in front of the courthouse; a withered 'beadle lifted the ,black wand of his office and cried "Bring forth the accursed ! " Imprisoned in a heavy cage, the accused was dragged in. Hd was a huge wolf, about to be solemn- ly tried for the killing of two little gide! A learned prosecutor opened the case; an equally learned attorney de• fended the brute. Legalisms flew back and forth, authorities were quot- ed, witnesses testified. At length the shaggy prisoner was found .guilty and was condemned to die. by hanging en the public gibbet. Amid' the huzzarh- ing of t'he multitude, sentence was ex- ecuted. Animal trials rank among the most fantastic ceremonies of the Middle Ages. Nor were they uncommon; one legal historian lists 200 In a sin- gle century. Witness the bizarre performarJee in the old Norman town of Falaise in 1386, when a pig was tried for killing an infant. The trial was made a fes- tive occasion, witch the whole popu- lace turning out. The court gravely, decided that the pig should he be - beaded. The luckless•. .porker was then dressed in human clothes, and was whipped and maimed before be- ing brought to the block. Infanticidal swine were the com- monest offenders among domestic an- imals. Roaming freely in the towns and villages, they were a'sort of sani- tation department, to be found where - ever there was garbage or filth, and were so ferocious that a small child was not safe in their presence. At Sevingy in, 1547 a sow and her six little pigs were tried for killing and eating a child. The lawyer put up • such an effective defense that on- ly the sow was executed, the off- spring being exonerated on the ground that they were young and their mo- ther had set a bad example. Three weeks later, however, these same six little pigs were again in court, be- cause their owner refused to give bond assuring future good behavior; he was afraid that the maternal crim- inal trait would show up in them. The son of a young Burgundian swineherd was killed on September 5, 1370, by three sows that seemed to have feared an attack on their young. The entire herd was arrested as ac- complices. But the owner pleaded that the young pigs ought, to be ac- quitted, and the Duke of Burgundy, impressed by the plea, delivered judg- ment that only the three sows were to be executed, "notwithstanding that the others lrad seen the d'eatir of the boy without defending him." Ferocious bulls, too. were tried. In 1314 at Moissy, a bull gored a man so severely that ,he -died. The animal was imprisoned in the town jail along with the human prisoners, as. was cus- tomary with larger animals brought to trial, and sentenced to be ,hanged ori the town gallows. The court of Dijon condemned and executed a horse for homicide in 1639. and a mare was burned to death in Aix as late as 1691. by order of the highest judicial t 'hunal of the province. Both aninete were judged Gin 1114,ead: S Plaeff0 be Ptissesaetf, by': tl'elmo ; testiOpA also •proved that theirC.rii?ares Jho < been •prereditated?' lmu the ease of rodents and insects, which were hard to seize in large numbers, the eeclereastlra1 rntber than tae civil courts had altmisdietime --on the theory, apparently, that what the civil law could not do, an anathema, would. After several sped mens• of the cuipzitk were tried, con- victed and solemnly put to death, an anathema was pronounced upon their fellows. All manner of legal technicalities were invoked in animal trials. It was `tj; .. '.i Dodd'sKidney 1 iijiing toes lure a dl+� Dodds i pr, tt; iP ice thus that the ..great y nah jurist, ,oche, dolor anti' eharactPrietie d1r Bartholomew Cihasase , made his re- Snakes and elute were hornets putation in 1521, - r a young law yer, he was appointed' by the court to, defend r'a'ts which had destroyed the barley crap of the province of Autun. When the rats failed' to• ap- pear in answer to the custoomary first summons, he auecesstully argued that the citation had been too local and that, -since the case involved .all the rates of the diocese, all of them should be summoned. Once more the rats paid no atten tion, whereupon Chassenee claimed that his clientswere afraid to stir out of their holes because of "evilly disposed cats" belonging to the plain- tiffs. Yet a citation:, he argued, im- plied protection of the individual on his way to and from court. It was only fair, the added, that the plaintiffs put up a heavy bond, to be forfeited if his clients were molested* The court considered this, plea -valid but the plaintiffs refused to put up a bond and the case was dismissed!A lawyer appointed to defend a bear that had ravaged-.. Schwartzwald+ vil- lages in 1499 raised the awkward tedh- nicality that it roust be tried by a jury of its, peers The argument ov- er this point delayed the trial 'for more than a week. . Even mad, dogs were formally tried and convicted as murderers. More- over, it was expressly stated that a mad dog should not be allowed to plead irhsanity but should be punish ed with progressive mutilation, cor- ' res ponding to the number of people or animals • it had bitten, beginning with, the loss of its ears, then the tail, ar.dm extending to the crippling of its feet. After these barbaric' tor- tures were over, the animal was leg- ally killed. During trials, the rack and other torture devices were at times used on animals to extort con- fessions. Squeals and cries of pain from the tortured beasts were con- fession of guilt, I Animals were sometimes accepted as witnesses is the courts: one man, accused of having committed a mur- der an his own house, appeared be- fore the tribunal with his cat, dog and rooster. When he swore in their presence that he was innocent, and the animals made no remonstrance, he was acquitted. If the man were lying, the Lord was supposed miracu- lously. to give speech to the dumb ani- mal. rather than permit a murderer to escape justice. Practically every animal and insect 111141 its day in the medieval courts. Black pigs, cats, goats and dogs went on. trial with the scales of justice strongly tipped against them, . for black was thought to be Satan's fav- - hung in basleets and burned, twee j%it' lie boni'ires--all with a legel.>. of oounse. No rational explanation, 'bas ever been ativancedl for these antl'.0 al t Apparently tale medieval, mini' believe"„ ed that animals werepaseessed Of the dents --or, as it sometimes ale/a:mere.. were the devf 1 himself, masquerading as a sow or :r goat. Often the &tale were Merely sadistic .spectacles in a day when. entertainment was boot brutal and scarce. Throughout the Middle West all livestock auctioneers are designated by the 'Their ,:Phot of "Col onee" Their success• 'as auctioneers . depends on their ability . to think straight and fast on their feet in front of a crowd+. Tile quick wit so devel- oped is well iIlustratedt by a pasbage of 'words between "Col." McCracken land an opposing heckling lawyer in a suit to determine the idlentity of a famous pure-bred boar, the pedigree of which had been questioned,, 1 "What regiment were you Colonel of, 'Col.' McCracken?" queried the at- torney. 1 "I reckon you'd call it the 'Hog Bri- gade,'" replied the "Col." "Come, come, now," 'heckled the at- torney, "I asked you a legitimate ques- tion and 1 am entitled to a non -jest - 'inn reply" "Well," replied McCracken, "you see it's like this: 'Colonel' in front of my name is just like 'Honorable' in front of yours. --it doesn't mean a thing!" .%ti 9figie44 A QUIET, WELL CON'tJC.TED, CONVENIENT, MODERN 100 ROOM HOTEL—a6 WITH HATH WRITE FOR FOLDr.R TAKE A DE LUXE IAX1 FROM DEPOT OR WHARF—:.5c Author of : "Daphene Deane" "Mystery Flowers" "Sunrise" "April Gold" "The Substitute Guest "The Strange Proposal" "BRENTWOOD", is an enchanting new romance by the beloved Mrs. Hill. - Marjorie Wetherill had always known that, she was an adopted child. Her foster -parents had made no secret of it, but when they died, it was only natural that Marjorie should seek out her own people , . . Mrs. Wetherill, whom Marjorie had loved deeply, had left the girl comfortably provided for, but as the Christmas season drew near, Marjorie was consumed with the desire to go to the family she could call her own . . Evan Brower, a handsome young neighbor whose family had been friends of the Wetherills for years, and who was now urg- ing his love upon the lovely girl, advised Marjorie against it . . . But there was a need within her which drew her oil What Mar- jorie found in the shabby little house on the outskirts of the city wrung her heart with a misery beyond belief. How she was able to restore her own people to Brentwood — dear old "BRENT- WOOD," the home and life to which they belonged, and how her own life was adjusted by a love more wonderful than anything she had ev€`'r known, grows into a vivid and memorable story un- der the inspired pen of Mrs. Hill. Watch for the opening instalment --- In The Huron Expositor NEXT FRIDAY, MARCH 17th to