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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
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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-
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HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED-
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to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic
Erst Tuesday of each month. 53
Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
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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
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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
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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
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.itita AS a, IttlA of Piltligilaille
he haNhag seMellVelt iagtif4{.
such ciebaSioPS, Plat,
and never returti,4;".410i 4, INA 44
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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
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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)
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* 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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