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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-10-05, Page 7•1" 4. ft k r 4 4 < 4 4 4 • 4. 1 4 1/4, 74.77 77777 .,eeeeeeeeelee, r•Htfterop 491401torar patootb. wieconnelt Glenu•Rays saxvouni, ONT. TelePliOne 174 L MeLEAN Barrister, Solicitor, Etc., SEAFORTH - ONTARIO Branch Office - Heneall Sea.forth Phone 113 Phone 173 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC OR, E: A. McIVIASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto The Clinic is -fully equipped with ;complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics equipment. 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 3 to 5 p.m. Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held en the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR, H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones; Office 5-W Res. 5-J Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W : Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat. Hos- pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month,, from. 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic Erst Tuesday of each month. 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea - forth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. W. S. O'NEIL, DENFIELD If you want to realize greater re- turns from your- auction sales of live stock and farm equipment, ask those who know and have heard me. Fif- teen years' experience. • Sales con- ducted anywhere. For sale dates, Phone 28-7, Granton, at my expense. 3979-tf LONDON and CLINTON NORTH A.M. London, Lv. 9.00 Exeter 10.17 Ilensall • 10.34 Kippers 10.43 Brucefield • 10.55 Clinton, Ar. 11.20 SOUTH Clinton, Lv. Brucefield '<Innen Hensel! Exeter London, Ar. C.N.R. TIME TABLE EAST 3.10 3.32 3.44 3.53 4.10 5.25 A.M. P.M. Goderich 6.15 2.30 Holmesville . . . 6.31 2.50 Clinton • 6.43 3.13 Seaforth 6.59 3.21 St. Columban 7,05 3.27 Dublin 7.12 3.35 Mitchell 7.25 3.47 WEST Mitchell 11.27 10.33' Dublin 11.37 10.44 St. Columban 11.40 Seaforth 11.51 10.56 Clinton 12.04 11.10 Goderich 12.35 11.35 C.P.R. TIME TABLE EAST P.M. Goderich • 4.35 Wieneset 4.40 McGaw 4.49 .Anburn 4.58 Blyth 5.09 Walton 5.21 1Mcbraught 5.32 Toronto 9.45 Toronto MeNaught Walton Birth WEST ...... • • • • Auburn IMcGavt Iteneset , ClOderich ‘..„, A.M. 8.20 P.M. 12.04 12.15 2,28 39 12, / 12, to (COntinned from last week) Partially dieturbed by his wade 'bUt still stupiiied, Bella, sat up, breathing heavily, and half -drunkenly asked what 'was the matter. Regardless of her, now that some of the lefty of the situation had come back to him, Derreck picked up the paper and saw that it was Mary's poem. So far he had not read it, although he was so much interested in her efforts of this sort. Up to the present his mind had been wholly occupied by the circum- stances of his hoMe-coming and Mary's. letter. Now, while Bella mut- tered disjointedly and slowly began to gather .some inkling of matters around her, he read: "0 Star of my destiny, where art thou hidden? Bast thou, too, hem, as the things which are not? Have steam that are fortunate over thee [ridden Denying- thee aught of the jay of thy lot? "Dest thou, in thy strength and fall pride of desire, ' • Lie helplessly folded ta darkest of gloom? And striving to pierce it, till Madness's fire Seems filling thy veins with a premature doter I "Or dost thou unknowingly shed ail illy gleaming - On some barren apot of a mist -shrouded world ? Or, say, art thou wandering in azure fields dreaming. Forgetful of sll in thy passion empearled ? "Oh Star, in thy climbing too long thou bast taken, Too much hast thou hung 'Swixt the day and the night! Up, up Ij4to yonder dark spaces so forsaken, • And plour out the richness of all thy loan- ed light" Bella was gradually regaining a clearer, but a still confused idea of existing circumstances... She rubbed her swollen eyes with her knuckles, .looked at her husband, blinkingly - for the strong, afternoon sunlight was glaring straight across the room at her -and said uncertainly, she being hardly sure that she was not dream- ing, • "Hello, Derry . . . you're back, then?" He made no answer. His fine, stal- wart figure, in a light reefer -jacket and trousers of rather worn blue serge, stpod out clearly from the gaudy flowered fire -screen, the tawd- ry mantelpiece ornaments, the cheap piano, and the many -sectioned black and gold overmantel-all of which had been Belia's choice when the house was furnished, and were 'still objects of pride in her better mom- ents. In sheer bravado she began to hum a snatch.. of music hall song. While the middle part of the mirror behind him showed the back -of his head to be well shaped, his hand- some young face and trim beard were slightly bowed over Mary's poem,: The wife, in her crumpled and soiled pink muslin frock and cheap insertion, was hardly seen at the moment. 'His mind was full of the heart -cry under his eyes, the half -veiled love -cry of one to whom he had been kind, yet no more. He saw Mary writing it by the light of the lamp, as a soul -stirred girl might write to an affectionate brother, .and here, and there scratch- ing out .a word to replace it with an- other. He saw those big, kind, dove- like eyes of hers brimming with un- shed tears.. He felt the poignancy of her lonely heart, the despair of that great love which had come so natur- ally and simply from her self-sacrific- ing nature for well-nigh a year and with no thought but service; and he understood, as no one else did, her temperament, her ideals, her disre- gard of what ' she considered to be foolish conventions, and these impel- led, unstudied, lyrical expressions of joys and sorrows -more .of the lat- ter, by far, alas, than of the former! --which no one but he had ever seen. Aid a lump gathered in his throat that he could see no balm for her in the bitterness of his own life. No, he did not care for the poem as he liked those simple, direct heart - bursts which she had previously giv- en to him., and of which he now first saw the real meaning. There was scmething too remote in the verse for Derreck's whole -hearted liking. He was ,no critic, but 'he knew what came from the heart and went to the heart; as he knew that this had come from Mary's heart, yet did not ccntain that same human note which had marked the other pieces. "Derry , . . Derry, it is you -isn't it?" said Bella, with a touch of petu- lance and more apparent knowledge of things around her, as she put up one hand to feel the condition of her rather tousled hate He raised his eyes from the paper to her face. "Won't you come and kiss me, new you've come back?" she asked, in an injured sort of way. Derreck was beginning to answer when the window, which closely flanked the roadway, was darkened by a figure; and he turned in that direc- tion, to see the face of Bob Anita' pressed close to a pane, then to bear him call, as fie jerked his thumb to - Wards the harbour - "Tide's a risin' fast!" Derreck waved his hand. Aplitt dis- 'app'eared, and Derreek turned again to his wife, noticing a sudden frolttt ti her We and that she appeared to .54fi.(• have become almest 'sobered abrupt i. She looked ;up at him, the frown vanishing, and oepeated; "Won't you Come and kiss me, 'Der - "Yes, Bella -when you've made yourself respectable," he answered quietly, as he put the letter and poem into his pocket, an&j strode out of the room; this, and unmeant threats to go away, being the utmost punish- ment that he had so far put on her at such times. Leaving Bella asking in half -distracted petulance for Alice, and in eome-fear lest she should fol- low him into the street In her pres- ent state, if he went out by the front door, Derreck made for the back of the 'house, to go around The Row and aboard the brig again, saying to himself that on the occasion he would keep her German "faring" till she be- came mere deserving of the present. In the yard he, met his mother, her hen -like face appearing to be sharp- er than usual. She was a small wo- man of fifty-three years, robust health, quick eyes and a vigor of teanner.and action that was not 'lik- ed by her neighbors. -Their greetings were those of a dutiful son and a mother who had never ceased to be a monitress. Anger was strong On her face; at the same time he knew -as her husband and Bella knew - that she could practice dissimula- tion "with the next one." "I didn't think az you'd a -bin -up yet," she remarked, after the greet- ing. "I on'y just heard az your brig was in. Ha'e you a zeen her?" "Yes. Have you got Alice?" Der- reck replied, with barely a peep of the sorrow in his heart. "Aye, zshe be up along o' me -the little pet! An' this good-vor-nothin' trollopsi-Not. vit vor a zscavenger's wife, that zshe baint! No zooner zshe a -left 'an here zshe be -drunk az a fiddler's dog!" . said 'Mrs. Kingsworth vehemently. She had a curious lisp which caused her generally to put an 's' after the usual vernacular 'z'. "Never mind me, mother," Derreck put in, drowning the remainder of her words. "How is Alice?", "Zshe be all right an' happy up at the zshop-poor little- dearie!" "An' me with ne'er a one to lift a hand to help; an' zshe a guzzlin' here, dirty an' doin' nothin'! ,Worst wife az -ev- er I a zeed!" Then partially to her- self she added, "Wish to the Lor' zshe was dead!" "Well, anyway, say nothing to her about it, mother. I've spoken to her -she'll pull herself together now. I'm going aboard and shall be back by-an'-bye-mebbe a couple of hours or so." "M'm that's the way az you young fellers makes a bad wife worse," was. Mrs. Kingsworth's comment, as she continued her • way towards the back door. "Howzumever, I'll go in an' put things a zit zstraight t'o'- 'ee to come back to-Zarah May's mindin' the zshop att' Alice for me a minute. 'Tiz a God's pity az Mary -ah!" And up went her hands expressively. She did not know that to Mary she was an object of instinctive dread and dislike. - "Well, if you will; but mind you say nothing to Bella -she'll only be worse, if you do." Thus, with this emphasis on his part, and sident, hp - biting rebellion on hers, they parted. He knew how useless it would have been, under present xircumstances, had he endeavored to persuade her to go back to her shop and leave his home affairs to him and his wife. He also knew that Bella was now in for a conflict with his. mother; .but, al- though he usually protected her against the elder woman's sharp tongue, he hurried away, thinking that she deserved all she- would get on this occasion. - future better than his own life bad been. Since le --a migrant from the north -Devon el:Tat-could first re - Member the sight of anything the melt had been daily ofore his eyes; and he knew it, only as, within sight, of land, a wolfish, begrudging giver Of a living. Whea the last- rope was coiled out of the way and everything made snug and neat, Derreck went to the rail and said to Kingsworth, between whom and himself there had already occurred hand -signals of greeting, "I'll be -ashore in a few minutes; dad. How are you?" "Oh, decent, Iad - decent. How do'ee be yotirself." "Quite fit. I won't be long. . ." "Where be goin'?-hom'?" Kings - worth asked, as they cleared the knots of idlers, to whom the incom- ing of such a vessel as the brig was rather an unusual affair. "No -let's go up along Greenaleigh. I want to be away from here, away." His stepfather looked steadily at him, saying, "Things wrong agin' at hom'?" Derreck nodded. In silence they walked together along the jetty, turn- ed to their right, left the little port behind them and wound their way up the seaward side of the bluff that on the northwest, overhung Upper Town, Quay Town • and harbour. There they sat down, as the sun in its summer splendour went down -to- ward the western sea, beyond Por - lock Bay, out of which Derreck had come with such fond, hopes as to the complete happiness of his return. From an inner pocket Derreck hand - High water being near at hand. Derreck went straight aboard the brig, meeting acquaintances and fam- iliars on the stone jetty; but his mind was too full of thought and his heart too heavy with sorrow for him ,to give more than a passing word-of- mouth or a nod to anyone. The work of warping the Vessel into her berth, putting out head and stern ropes and springs, clearing up the decks and making everything "ship ,shape and Bristol fashion" did not occupy more than a couple of hours. This ended the day's ,work and. the -'voyage, and all but the rni.Vr-cis the owner's represenfative=were free to "pack their bags and go ashore." In the little sicrowd on the quay, watching the brig hauled in and moored, was Derreck's stepfather - a longshore- ;matt of rather eltort, square build, a broad face and etubbyIy beard. He had married Derreck's mother when the boy was eighteen months old (a little over a year after the loss of her first husband, who was capsized 4n a. squall just outside the harbour); had followed his own two children to the hallowed resting place in TJpper Town, then had pinched and saved that his stepson might serve a .four years' -apprenticeship to the Bristol owners of some small coasting craft. For when Dermot had sh4wri a de- sire to go to sea, much against the Inother's bold, sharp logic en the ev- ils Of a seafaring lite, Itingsworth, in his Very quiet way, had done all that e eeilld to make his stepson's ' •f.f3.0.Qr 4004";' .'1-9*"[PAgg*ASV, 1I IW h JI "4 ----'r t -boht t4 g1*1140' ferts,fop beres.s.•'4$4er z4reFti'19,*:1451 140- 414de , !Opt:tegraaz if, ycal »a#0 14011V raOtel. all' a C,Pliple day# at unee, Derry"ia0.4'irtf" en, biggirdi Upper eanle AO% U4)4 on the leWer one. 1410 JAI* ten, tures „generally tbere Was Stre4gtil, in spite of the flesh. "It does." ."An' all that zehoolin' an"prentiee- ship an' larniu' French an' all that a wasted," said the elder man, in dole- ful resignation. "Ay, and ,a master's berth, for me soon as 1 get a ticket, which I never shall at this rate," was Derreck's re- joinder, made In a similar tone. "Wouldn't a -bin any wus for you had 'ee let hizzelf go all alang, rzetead 'o heir)! a good zon an' a zsteady huS- band-zame wi' me, Derry -latterly that is. Zeems as if we was both cussed in wives:" And while he look- ed down at the immutable sea, he stroked that stubbly beard, which he clipped into neatness every Sunday morning, "Oh, 1 don't know that's it as bad as that, dad. Maybe Bella would be better nearer to her own people. She may feel it more than she shows - away from them altogether like this," said Derreck presently, heaving an unnoticed short sigh, and anxious to make every possible allowance for his wife. "Don't 'ee be mistook, lad. 1 owes Bella no ill-wiII, 'cept a zort 'o wish az'zshe'd a -mend for your 4ake; but 'ee can take it, Derry, az when a woman gets to her pass zhe don't a -mind tuppence whether herenother 'r the man in' the moon zees her. Nort cans't change 'em." Unaware that Derreck was then, in a negative sort of way, thinking of this very subject, he was about to say again that perhaps it would be better if Derreck were to take the child and leave Bella, for a While at least, to see if that would cause her to let • ,0,, ar4n40.1 grun )aek1Re T?,41.d,-)3e4urv...,' • leaye her • 4 331.141er.A444*..0:. taking thie PP*tif .itita AS a, IttlA of Piltligilaille he haNhag seMellVelt iagtif4{. such ciebaSioPS, Plat, and never returti,4;".410i 4, INA 44 she be---allus,.bright an* so /4.11.011. elder iJ 4te h044, zhe look -don't eare a braie teethe in' what zhe Zee to z,onve az zail ztraight," the elder man, c01* mented, as if more to himself than to Derreek. Mary was some four months short; of being twenty yeare of age. "Ay," said Derreck, in the same gloomy tone, turning his face sea- wards, "she's a pattern to more than Bella, and got enough religion, too, I've learnt a bit from her, myself; I don't know what I should do -With- out it, quite." "You be about right, Derry. A man baint worth uch en the w'ole gen'rally, 'nless he's got zome o' the ballast o' religion in him; 'ee be like to get top-heavy otherwise 'tiz a zort o' zentre board to him in bad weather. An' thee 'be godless days, zure enough." "Yes, father; but it has to be re- ligion of the heart, not the head, it seems to me." "Just zo; an' liztet zpecially re- quired for en to make a zhow on it every Zunday, zo be az 'ee hev it for gen'ral use at the back o' things like, an' for tittles o' trouble an' that." "His bad . weather?" "Aye, lad-zame az we be a-hevin'." "Seems to me we shall get a bit ef it tonight, by that rising to the west'ard there." He had decided not to leave Bella, so he wanted to •0,4•••...***,r, 40, SGk OW:4W- •...., ,4r fly, '11;' • wgo *4' the letter 044, So they •tai4e4 p.te sag,' eea-the 1d,,-; fresh deSPite, ages, never nionoOnenOtr'i lar. In the meentiXn.:4'44,0,e,VO:', gan its low west -nor' -west,- arid 'Inneee414, wavelets rippledP9111410gli',',4 beach at the foot of the 1$).10F; winters of murderous -hreakerli swept along in their seetbing';:.:„ and winters of more -wollid sfq#OWIft, Then, as the shadows were, thiel0)114- ing over the little, old town, :roofs and gables, and the fent.,*antW• and yards in the harboUe were coming indistinct, the two men arose and threaded their way down to4ite, ',- elder One's cottage; there they, •prte ed company -the- one to go in enrt ' prepare his Own supper; the other, - thinking painfully of the joyous hours which might have been spent over those delicacies and little presents, that lay ;secretly in his berth abroad the brig -to return home to his half; careless, Wf-repentant „and • sorrowful wite, his prattling child, and a peace that came solely out.of his avoidance of the unpleasant sub- ject. (Continued Next Week) • , •, „ • , * BEEF - 140,006;00 Ibs stdl to be shipped • "tr POF.K. -100,09P;900 Ibs still to', be ihipped:%, * CANNED; 713.T:00,000 lbs. 7 MEAT .stiii',..11?,ise'shipp id. The United Kingdom and liberated Europe rely on for Canada 225,000,000 lbs. this year. II Wit /11* fa/ t rift PRI For Mt For Par Par FaitIF . 1 1 We supplied only 85,000,000 lbs. to August 31, The United Kingdom and liberated Europe rely on Canada for 450,000,000 lbs. this year. NIPVVVVVVVV410.111PN We supplied only 350,000,000 lbs. to August 31., The United Kingdom and liberated Europe rely on Canada for 114,000,000 lbs. this year. *04* WWiii000WW00 We supplied only 44,000,000 lbs. to August 31. In most liberated European countries, there is a desperate shortage of meat. As a great food -producing nation, Canada must, can -and will - help to meet the emergency. The job will not be finished at the year's end. Food scarcities in Europe will continue until the nett harvest. * * * This year, Europe is relying on Canada for a minimum of 789 million pounds of beef, pork and canned meat. Up to the end of August, only 479 million pounds had been sent. How soon can we bridge the gap? Livestock marketings are normally at their heaviest in the last four months of the year. If we are to help feed the hungry peoples of de- vastated Europe, this is the time to make our greatest effort. * To do our part, we must reduce our own, consump- tion of meat and also assure that everyone in Canada gets a fair share. That is why rationing is necessary. MEAT RATIONING ADDS TO EVERYONE'S WORK The producer who slaughters, the retailer who sells, the consumer who buys and eats -they all play a vital part. AS A CONSUMER, HERE IS HOW YOU CAN CO-OPERATE 1. Try to plan your meat purchases before leaving home by determining what cuts you intend to buy and their approximate weights. 2. Make sure you have enough valid coupons and tokens to cover your proposed purchases by referring to the Consumer Coupon Value Chart and the Coupon and Token Calculator. Copies may be obtained from your Local Ration Board or Ration Branch. 3. Know the dates your "M" coupons become valid. 4. Do not buy more meat than you really need. 5. Avoid shopping at rush hours. 6. Be patient. Remember your butcher may have inexperienced help. HELP YOUR BUTCHER TO SERVE YOU WELL THE WARTIME PRICES AND TA',.ADE BOARD $4'7`;•'0'qA., '1•••••• 5- •