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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-05-16, Page 2;XFQSI MAT 19, 19 ponter 'Vstablish cl 1860 • _ • McPhail McLean, Editor., b1iS.hei at Seaforth, Ontario, ev; hursday, afternoon by McLean ros. Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. _ Advertising rates on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, May 16, 1941 sus warm weather at this ti e of year in this part of our Province, ' Proof of. this is the weather we had last week—and the frost. - We had the warmest April in 9ver half a century, but that is no guar- antee that we are going to have June weather in May. Far from it. We will likely have more cold weather and more frost. And what advant- age is it to have a tremendous early growth, if the frost gets to it? Be patient. The seed is in the ground and it never went into a bet- ter -seed bed. Nothing will harm it there for a week or two, or more. By, that time warm weather will likely be with us and more likely to stay. And with it will come the rains and the growth. There is plenty of time yet for both. • The Wrong Presumption Speaking of the forthcoming cen- sus, the Globe and Mail said in a re- cent editorial: "On June 2nd seven- teen thousand census enumerators, presumably all good Liberals, will sally forth with armfuls of nine dif- ferent kinds of forms for the 'decen- nial stocktaking of the Canadian people." •As far as this riding is concerned, the Globe and Mail's presumption as to "all good Liberals" is very wide of the truth. In this riding of Huron. and Perth, and, we understand, in a good many other ridings, the census enumerator appointments are made on a fifty-fifty basis—half Liberal and half Conservative. But even if it were otherwise, the Globe and Mail's insinuation is a lit- tle out of place considering the fact that this is only the second time since Confederation that a census has been taken under a Liberal Government, and that paper is fully- aware i3f how the census appointments were made on those other occasions. • We Haven't Time How Foolish Of Them In a terrific raid over London on Saturday night last, the Huns open- ed Westminster Abbey, England's historic shrine, to the sky; pierced the roof of Westminster Hall, consid- ered the most magnificent roof in the world, and smashed the Hbuse of Commons Chamber so severely that it will have to- be rebuilt before it can be used again. No doubt there will be great re- joicing in Berlin over these desecra- tions; no doubt in the minds of Hit- , ler and company and the German people they will have a picture of the English people and the people of the British Empire crawling in fear and trembling over these latest expres- sions of German might and ruthless- ness. How foolish of them. The German mind can not conceive of the action these atrocities have had on the minds of the people of Great Britain, of the Dominions and even the peo- ple of the States and the other few free countries. - Instead of fear, they have only aroused a greater determination, if that were possible, to see this war through to the bitter end, no matter what the price, no matter what the sacrifice. And when that day cOmes, what a reckoning there will be. That is some- thing the German mind can not con- ceive either. But it will. • WhereWill The Monep Come From? During the course of the next few weeks the people of Canada are go- ing to be asked to subscribe to a Di minion War Loan. Where, we are being asked on ev- ery side, is the money going to come from? We have been told over and over again by people that the last loan, War Savings Certificates, the Red Cross and other war effort's have almost completely exhausted the peo- ple's savings as well as their ready money. Well, here is one answer to the question: There is, on deposit in the chartered banks Of Canada, well ov- er one billion dollars in savings ac-, counts, held by the people of this Dominion. • The Right Thing To Do Ontario has no women members' in its Legislature, but this year two wo- men will be paid the full sessional in- demnity. At the final sitting of the Legisla- turesame weeks ago, it was ordered that the sessional indemnity of Mr. Campbell, Sault Ste. Marie, and Mr. Cross, Windsor-Walkerville, be paid to the wives of these two members. As both these members enlisted at the outbreak of the war and are now serving overseas with the Canadian: forces, that..was not only a generous gesture in their honor, but the right thing to do, and one that does honor to the Government. • Plentg Of Time 4 !Spring was weeks early this year and as a consequence much ploughing that could not be done last fall on account of the wet, has been com- pleted. In addition, seeding has been fin- ished, and seed seldom went into the soil under better conditions. But there is just one fly in the ,oiti*ent. There has been no rain and very little growth, and farmers ,beginning to complain. oUldi however, remember e are this spring. If • had followed the seeding would have been treiti/n- ni One, does not have to be so very old to remember when conversation was somewhat of a leisurely game, and very courteous withal. Something like the conversational command of a bygone day traveller who drove into a New Glasgow liv- ery stable and recorded by the Eastern Chronicle of Pictou; Nova Scotia. Instead of asking the livery stable boy t� unhitch and give the horse some oats, the traveller expressed himself in these words: "Extract the ehluine quadruped from the vehicle and establish thou him. Provide him with a sufficiency of nutritious condiment and the cus- tomary attention. Ere the heavenly aurora sinks within the western hor- izon I shall again repair to your ben- evolent institution, dedicated to the welfare of the dumb and :patient servant of man, and bestow upon you a suitable reward for the whole- some provender and generous hospi- tality, and depart thither to whence I came." Not so very long ago you 'used to hear men talk very much like that, but we couldn't do it to -day. With us conversation is rather brief, if not always to the point. And conunands' are even briefer. For one thing, we haven't got the horses or the livery stables. But we haven't time anyway. We are al- ways in a hurry to get somewhere, and in a bigger hurry to get nowhere. We drive our present day steeds into a garage and say: "Fill 'er up and grease 'er. Pay you when. I get back." And very, very often there is the mental reservation, "If I can't get away without it." No, we haven't the time. Very of- ten, not even to pay for things. • Can You Beat That? May 10th is, or used to be, "Inde- pendence Day," and a great day of national rejoicing in the Kingdom of Rumania. And to mark this auspicious occa- sion this year, Hitler sent telegrams to King Michael and the Rumanian Premier. Can you beat that? Runiania, ov- er -run, „down -trodden, robbed and pillaged"' by the Ilun, to be reininded of their Independence Day by Hitler. We woriderwhat the King altd the render really thought of those Coni.tulatoty telegratost 1...latateliOnClOma Picked From. Thi of Fifty and TWenttonie Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor May 19, 1916 The following am the results of the sight-singbag examinations in the pub- lic school children's elapses, the 'lames being in '.order of merit: Sen- ior classes (henors)—Gibehrist Liv- ingstone, Janet Grieve, Kathleen Ran- kin, Frances' Mich, Annie Brodie, Jennie Reeves, ,Lettie Storey; pass— term work only: Violet Rankin and Georgina Reeves, Thelma Johnston and Annie' Strong (equal). Juniors, from Miss Hartry's room (honors), Janet Cluff and Maybelle Rands (eq- ual), Margaret Case, Margaret McIn- tosh, Violet helper; pass, term work only, Daisy Hattaltoa, Vera litejley, Dorothy Kerslake (equel). Mise Beth- une's room (honors)—Anna Suther- land, Mary Hays, Laura Mole, Nellie Cook; pass, term work only, Mar- garet Thompson, Eleanor 'Harries. Walter Haines, formerly of the Do- minion Bank staff here, has enlisted with the 161st Huron Battalion. Mr. Robert Dundee, of Leadbury, has been notified by the Department of Fiducation that he will receive his first-class certificate as a teacher without further examination, when he works three months for some farmer. He has engaged with Mr. Calvin, Hil- len for the summer. . Mr. John Arnold, of Manley, the genial auctioneer, and his parents, in- tend removing to Dublin, where he ha -s purchased the O'Leary property. Mrs. James Cowan is, in Toronto' this week attending the graduation exercises in connection with the Uni- versity there in which her daughter, Miss Mary takes part, 'having obtain- ed her Bier degree. Mr. Frank Doh- erty has also obtained this degree. Mrs. Howard, Armstrong, of Con- stance, who has been the very effici- ent organist of that church for the pest nine years, resigned her position and Mr. George Clarke has been 111:11- animously chosen as her successor. A very pleasant social evening, was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Brintnell when their many friend's gathered to pay a tribute of respect to their son, Clifford, who has enlist- ed with the Huron Battalion. He was presented with a wrist watch and purse, which were presented by S. Shepherd and G. Habkirk. Mr. F. W. Hess has purchased the evaporator property east of Hart- leib's block in Zurich from 'Mr. Wer- ner and will tear down the building. A fine recruiting meeting was held in the Workman's Hall, , Walton, on Monday evening when W. Proud - foot, M.P.P., and Col. Clark, a return- ed soldier gave fine addresses. Wal- ton is doing well for the Empire. Mr. Isaac Jarnott, of Kippen, re- ceived a lightning shock on Monday last when he was feeding the stock in Mr. George Taylor's bare. A pig, which was within 10 feet of him, was killed. Phii,Osifer o • Lazy Meaclows4-: "GARbENING" • A man cau.talk In figures such as "fifteen acres in wheat . . . tweruty acres in, oats" . . and so on, but just mention planting a row of beets and see, what happens! How I love the seed catalogues! They come in the mail at that in-be- tween time when you are sort of tir- ed of looking at the mail order cata- aogUes and the implement folders haven't started coming. A profusion of colors bloom in the catalogues, and usually there's a coetest, to name something . . . or a puzzle of some kindlto solve . . . that passes away the time. Then come the bright Spring days. Mrs. Phil begins to start mentioning the fact that the garden gate is, brok- en . . . and -the gardeu fence needs fixing. By dint of shaming men in- to it, when she ilonsan old smock and a pair of gloves and attempts to fix the fence and gate, the repairs are finally made. About the time that seeding begins Mrs. Phil is positively angry over the • From The Huron Expositor May 15, 1891 Mr. John McGregor, of Stanley, left Clinton last Saturday for Huron, Da- kota, to see his brother, who is in a critical Condition from ihemorrhage of the lungs. While Mr. Bartel Howald, Zurich, was engaged in, moving the old Luth- eran parsonage for Mr., Christopher Hess, who bought it, he met with a very severe akcident :A Welt . of timber gave way striking Min an the side, inflicting such injuries -as to lay him up. " My. George Ewing, of Seaforth, who has been in the butcher bueiness for over 30 years, is intending to re- tire. Dr. McFaul, of Seaforth, has leased the .pleasant and commodious rooms in Cady's block end will occupy them as an office and surgery. Harry Punchard, who has .been in the Bank of Commerce in town for a _couple of years, has been promoted and changed to Blenhenn in the Coun- ty of Kent. Mr. Robert H. Ferguson, of Walton, has wed a pteer, 19 Months old, to Mr. W. Winter, for the handsome sum of $30. A petition to have a stage put on between Bayfield and Seaforth es be- ing largely Signed:. While Mr, Wm. Scott, worthy mer- chant of Bruceneld, was out driving in the country a few days ago be left his horse tied at the farm -gate while he went into the house. The horse pulled' the bridle off and ran airay. He finally got fastened between the fence and telegraph pole making a total wreck of the vehicle. Mr. J. G. Chesney, of Tuckersmith, recently sold to Mr. John McMann, of Seaforth, a pair of gelding 4 years old for $350. They weighed over 1,500 pounds each. Mr. and Mrs. David Mack, who were among the oldest and most highly re- spected resident e of the Township of Hay, left this week for Carberry, Man- itoba. They have lived continuously in Hay for 40' years. 'Mee Robert Fisher, of Brucefield, 'who has been, engaged with Mr. John Kaiser, blacksmith, hail gone to Kip - pen. One night recently While a young man named Pearce, who works for Mr. St. John, of Htflitett, wee on his *ay home on horsebaek, he was atop - ped by a parson named Dobson, who, he claims, pulled hem from his horse and assaulted him. The 'Mtge was set- tled in court. The post %Vice at Auburn was bur- glarized 'Wednesday evening of . last week. The loss was found to be $130 Which the thieves abstracted from 'three registered letters. They pried open the Store door by tieing chisels Which they Stele from a, carnage Weep near at hand, The bricklayers 'have detneeetteed work on the'nevr Altierleatt Hetel thb Britetiele aneektieet te hare' &MAP ed by Slirate tr. Thee hatie Wee &Mt- enenced en, t e Nettie liVelt stale end the releitikie ere tereer Oh .1. 0, Skdetie' ti fitra, iPtiaelnitre btholt0. fact that the garden hasn't been work- ed up. 'Phe ultimatum ip banded out Over the breakfast table, "Unless you work that garden up today, I'm not going to do any preserving this year." Needless to say, the garden is work- ed. up. You know what a garden looks like when it has been worked up. There's still the process of drilling it up into rows. Mrs. Phil generally has an- other battle on her hands to get the garden drilled in rows. Semehow men) folks never seem to mind planting early potatoes. One Part of the garden is set aside for this purpose and the cut potatoes dropped into the holes. Perhaps it's because we're looking ahead to that first day when "new potatoes" are Why does a man hate to plant a garden? Give him a package of beet seeds and tell him to start planting and see what happens. He starts off bravely, dropping the seeds as they should be. The sun warms up and the perspiration starts dropping . . and the chances are the majority of the akag ohas heap in a TOW. There whet puzzles Mrs. Phil. op cap, /levee imagine ihow' it is that the beetsseem to MOW quote regularly to a pertain point, 40 then there mill be a whole plaptation othen% One of the .plost exasperating Jobe ef. all lie regard to the garden in. my opinion is that of planting Dutch set - onions. You are by a very large bag of these very small whorls and' expected to plant them. Mrs. Phil supervises the job at first Every four or five inches an onion is to be gently pressed down in the ground and then' just barely covered with soil. Down the row you go . . . planing . . . planting . . . plant- ing, you begin to' wonder how many onions you have already planted, and how many bushels of onions you'll have in time. Onions . . . onions . . . onions! You begin to tumble - them in upside down and sideways— ane whatever way is the easiest. You begin to pray earnestly that a fertil- izer agent or a cream separator man will drive in. But they never come when they're wanted. Soon you're planting two and three and four on- ions in the one place . - . and fin- ally end up by burying about half the bag in a hole at the end of the row. Mrs. Phil can't imagine why the on- ions didn't plant more ground. I'm firmly convinced that women wouldbe further ahead to plant the garden themselves! hese h rc e oyes by .Los Arthur ruhningham CHAPTER IV SYNOPSIS • Lovely, red - headed Gillian Meade lives with her uncle, Col- onel Anselm Meade, at Rydal House, in Eastern Canada. Re- alizing that the family fortunes ere disappearing, Gillian makes up her mind to accept wealthy Jonathan Hillyer and save the old house, as well as provide for her' seventeen -year-old 'sister, Debor- ah. She meets Simon Killigrew, best friend of Jaffry Clay, to whom Gillian was, once engaged. Simon blames her for Jaffry's death. Driving with Jou to a week -end party at his house, Jon, tells Gillian that .Simon is looking for financing to publish Jaffry's poetry, and asks her advice. She urges him to advance the money. 'Gillian colored. "Yciu spoil me, Jon." "If so, my darling, Lshall continue the process as long as I live, since it makes you blush so prettily." - "I didn't know I could blush—any more. You're making me find 1,1ot of ehe things I thought I'd lost for good." "I want to make you love me, Gil lin." His lips touched her hair, spoke softly into her ear. "Not nom, Jon. Please not new. To night — you will tell me tonight. We had better go down now." "But there is a chance for me?" "Yes—oh, yes—theee is a chance." She saw him w.hen' sbe and Jon Hillyer were halfway down the stairs. He was standing by' the great sane fireplace and he. --was gazing if the. flames that leaped r.nd -Seethed, chaseng each other up the blackened chimney With a rush and roar. She saw hiM. in profile, Oean-dut, rugged, 'highbrowed, with a dreamer's look about him, an in- tonee look as if his thoughts were swift and vital. And as she watched him he turned from gazing at the flames and looked directly up at her. Their eyes' met with a sudden., deva- stating impact. She felt something like panic. ell face him, she thought angrily. I'll not give ground to him, not an inch. She tore her eyes from his. She said steleething- to Joe Then—she was among the guests, going from group to group with Jon. Four more couples' hae arrivece There were some she did not know. The intro- Cuctions took time. When, at last, it carne Simon -Killigrew's turn, she could give him, look for look. She was all right nOw. "You've met 'Gillian Meade." Jon made a statement of it "You were trespassing on her preserves, she tells me." "Believe me, I didn't know." He looked at Jon, not at her. "Well,no metter, Killigrew. She has forgiven you. I asked her about your propesition—left . it up to her, in fact. And I'm in the publishing businees. You come tie see me next Wednesday in Montreal and we can work out the details." Slowly, Simon looked from Jon to her. She saw the eolor ebb from be- neath his tan, saw his lips move. He said, "Thank you, Mr. HillYer. I— I'd like to see Jeff's work published— under any terms. Miss Meade has been more than kind." She did not again look at Simon Killigreee and presently she and Jon walked awaY. There were cocktails then and there was dancing and then dinner. Simon, had pointedly avoid- ed her. At dinner he sat far down the table oni the. same side and she could not see those angry eyes 'of his. a She laughed and talked With a forced gayety. Try is she wOuld she Could not forgot his presence. --e . Jane Craddock, who sat next 10 Simon, and eanle of the ethers, were talking about books. Simon bpoke of those he had pilblfshed and thope he hoped to publish. Someone, unthinle ing, Spoke of poetry and Jane CPA- doek Said-, "People don't read poetry these daye." The others listened then. • "It de- pends," teed Simon. "If the poetry is good and yet den strike a Mc/dent note, tb.-e publie Will :like It. we had snail a poet An Jeffry .Cree, .1mit it seems that the goiededie youdg." There was Amide the*, •Orthes Aimee bent to the table or Oast sty loots at Gillian. She gave no ' sign that she had heard. Someone bridged the gap by beginning totalk about dogs, and things again dewed smoothly. Still, for Gillian, the -dinner seemed to drag along interminably. There was hopelessness in her heart, hopelessness at the thought of ever winning Simon Killigrew's re- gard. He was cruel, as only the young and strong can be cruel. There would he no. forgiving, no re- lenting. "Why so quiet, Gillian?" Jon's hand touched hers. They were at the coffee now. She would be glad when this meal was ended. She wanted to wander but under the stars alone. She wanted to be with herself in all the world, save An -se, the only one who could look on her without too much condemnation. "I was dreaming. I'm sorry, Jon." "I hope they were pleasant dreams —of what will be." She did not anewer. Presently they left the table. She saw Simon Killigrew go off with Ton and' some of the other men to the stables., • Gillian wandered off alone, down a winding path among the pines and tall white spruce by .the lake shore. The path led 'down to a little jetty where Jon kept a speedboat and some canoes. She walked out to the end of it and sat down on a bollard. Tonight, she tlrought, will be a night of destiny, tonight will shape my life. After tonight I'll be where Si- mon and all the other Simons cannot reach me. ' She -heard a step on the dry planks of the. jetty She turned her head, and saw a tall figure walking slowly' towards her. He hesitated when he was close enough. to see her sitting there, then came and stood on the cap of the wharf beside her. "I was. looking fdr you," he said. "I stippose 'it is in order to thank you for putting "in e good word with Jonathan Hillyer. So I thank you." "You don't really thank' me." Af- ter. a brief look at him, ,at his dark face' in the moonlight,- she gazed off over the water at the deep mystery of the forest. . . 'My instinct was to refuse. 1 hated tie think that you •should have anything to 'do with—with even the poor things Jaffry left. How can you bear even the mention, of his name, without thinking that you might have strerched out -a- hand' to help him, and did not? How can you—?" "I can't—that's the answer!" She stood up, facing him,her head thrown hack, her arms straight at her sides. "I can't hear his name without suffering a private hell of My own. So 1 won't hear it, not from you, not from. anyone. He's dead now. Sometimes I think he's better off than I am. At least, he has some rest, some peace. I know you hate me for what you think I did to him. WhO -are you to condemn Me? I want you to know it doesn't mat- ter to me." "It wouldn't. I didn't expect it to. You are the glamorous Gillian Meade. Men break their necks—and their hearts—running after you. The great Jonathan Hillyer loves you, gazes on you with adoring eyes. You'll be his darling. Perhaps when: you're In his arms he will change to someone else —perhaps to a boy who was fool en- ough to think he loved you." She could listen to no more. She brushed past him, ran blindly, stum- blingly, up the jetty and through the silver and shadow of the woods. She heard' Jon* 'voice .Oalling, f'Glilian! Where are you, Gillian?" She did not answer. She would not have Jon see her like this, pant- ing, breathless, as if she had been pursued by fiends. She cowered in, the Shadowpla :ne_trurded- \stayed there, quiet es the night, Until ll'orier voice receded. . She walked sloWly back to the lodge. She wag all right nb•f. Almciet. she Could laugh .at Simon's verbal flagel- latiOts. • "Hello, Jon," she called gayly when she (law him coming d -own frim the verandah. , ''Aleci where were you'? I hunted everywhere." . "Oh, l' was- a little gitl lost la the Wootla Old.. the ,tertiel, LWieltett Watt fatind tto—or theyhei-it todtii .the Walt 1-,....ithkOW lie tried to ,goldileidle itt). So 1 rad add rand he 1. liOtird IYeti 1 *MOM Ott of breath the I tot:M.01e ansWee Jon laughed. He drew' her arm through his. ' "Come on, Gillian, let's get closer to that moon." • "Let's go all the way to the moon," she ameiThed. "And stay there." They strolled down towards the lake by another path. The moonlight was still lovely on Lac St. -Cloud. A road of shimmer- ing silver stretched across the water and her • feet were on the very edge of that .road's beginning,. Yet she might never walk on it. The night wind had come, sighing in the pines; poplar leaves, rustled their . eternal rustling—little, whispering, lonesome voices. She shivered. Jon bent to her solicitously: "I should have brOught a wrap for you, .Gillian. Shall we go back and get one?" "Please, no. I'm not cold." "But fancied you were shivering." ' She laughed. "Maybe because 1 was thinking of the poplar leaves: how they always shake and shiver, even when there is no breath of wind." "I don't believe it." eon was ever practical. "But. it's a pretty fancy all right. I often marvel at chaps who can. think up such things: To- me, it's only a tree shaking its leaves in the wind. The only tittle r feel the urge to utter beauty is when I look at you, Gillian, and then I'm: tongue-tied. Even as now—" "You don't need to talk, Jon. Your gentleness, your kindness — these. things speak with more sincere voices than the sayers of golden things. Sometimes a girl grows tired 'of Words, you know. Oh, .they do. things to you—ttiose lovely, singing things that some men can say; they touch something in you. But it's wit- chery, it's an illusion, it can do you harm." "There's a bench over there, Gil- lian," he said. "Let's. sit 1 do,. truly, find it hard to talk, now that the hour has come." They went over to the wrought -iron bench and 'sat down. He was silent for a while, as if looking for words. with which to, begin. She felt no stirring in her heart, no nervousness, no treacher- ous bewilderment; That was as it should be. "I love you, •Gillian," Jon said, his voice husky. "I love you, my dear. You are so lovely, Gillian. I don't ask you if You love me. What I ask- .4s ---thee right. -to —love—your to watch over you, to , keep from, you that dark shadow I've sometimes seen upon your face. As if wings were passing overhead, shutting off the light from you. I never want to see that again." "You will always, see it." He stared .at her, startled. "What do you mean? Tell me, Gillian. Yon must tell me!" She shook her head. "i dare not You are strong and .0 can se your strength. You are kind and I can do with kindness,. I'll go to you, Jon, if you want me. And try to be all that you want me to be." ,"I want you to be jest Gillian— just as you are now." He took her hand and carried. it to his lips He kissed it and pressed' it against his cheek.he For a moment sclung to him, trembling... She felt no joy, no triumph fie this moment. "Make a new life, a new world for me, Jon," she whispered. "Make me another Gilliam You can do that." "But can, I, darling? I would so gladly. I can make another mater- ial world for. you. I could Wild you a cite". And. yes—yes"—hie voice was eager—"perhaps with my love I can make you another Gilliam I don't know what -bothers you, but I think I can guess, at least in part." I ran never get away from the eurneury or it, 'MUM-. —thetegthee---ce was wrong to think that I could. She Said, "Yeyes, that is what I wait". He held her closely, etroegly. was afraid for her, and he seethed her with a Mainland proMisee. e. (Coetintied Next Week) A robbery had been eommitted 111 the English village, and a deteetiVe had been sent to investigate. "Mee yen peen ene'. tnysterlous strangers about here' littety?" asked the 'detteatiee of the eld. villager.. "Yes, *OP retitled " the old Wan. "TherP• Was & Than "ete‘"Vrith the dir- iaui at' '�0k a Digo ce rabbite ent e' Whiiiliteral*