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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-10-19, Page 7*CONNELL & EATS, Barristers, Soli4I4ora, Etc. FataA4 D,`M Connell - I , Glenn Hays r> IYFOI1W. ONT. Telelhone 174 K. Iq McLEAN • Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. SEAFORTH - ONTARIO Branch Office - Henson Hensall Seaforth Phone 113 Phone 173 -' MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. MCMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagziostic 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 on the second and last Thursday in every month fromt to 2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and„ Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5.VI 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 1' Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthai- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitaI, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL $OTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic first 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. esessisesieie (Continued &but last week) and wringing • gasping enelaanations The force in the height of those from those who were just straighten- ing themselves up at her sides. Hard- ly had this and its consequent ex- citement passed, when the Night Queen was struck by what appeared to be a dangerously big sea, causing many of the spectators to catch at their breath and Mary to cry, "Oh!" the while she involuntarily clung more tightly tothe coping atones, and the 'tenons at her elbows gave her rapid enquiring glances. During per- haps a quarter of a minute it was difficult to tell whether or 'not the boat had gone over, ,so smothered was she in foam and flying spray. This happening' drew from Bella a little scream, which no-one heard ex- cept .herself. Mary held her breath, feeling that her senses were leaving her; but she was jerked back to a very live condition of affairs by an- other icy Spray stinging her face, and making her immediate companions duck uselessly below the top of the wall. Bella, at her better point of observation, snatched at the, long, cheap lace curtain, behind which she partially stood, and gasped, "Thank God!" Then it was seen that the breaker had scattered more in spray than aught else. The Night Queen was safe and still pursuing her gallant way toward's the wreck, the leeside of which she reached without any real mishap. ' In a few minutes she bad the four survivors aboard, had turned her starboard quarter to the freshing gale, and was running for the harbour, like an unwinded stag that had small feat of hounds behind. Now a ringing cheer was carried to, the breeze, from the outer part of the. jetty, across the harbour to that gathering on the road; it reached Bella, who heeded it not, so keenly was she watching its cause. The great shout was also heard by Mrs. Kingsworth, who at once turned to a neighbor, saying, "That en be vor Derry, 'sure enough. Oh, 'tisn't the likes o' him az go out in a boat ev'ry day!" But the smile on her thin face was as false as ever; for, al- though few persons knew, it, she was one who never smiled without some ironical or subtle and more sinister meaning. Even as she turned again towards those stressful doings in and beyond • the harbour her secret thought was that all the other sea- going men j,n the place were "nin- nies an' worse." Still the Night Queen was not out of danger; she might take a combat- ing breaker over her quarter and fill up at a sweep; However, Derreck and one of the rescued hands were Petting out a reef, to lift• the boat along more lively. The seafarers told this to others in the crowd, and the tense feeling of them all began to lessen. Here -some cries and new co'inmo- tion on the inner side of the jetty drew most of the people there in that direction, to' find that the hubbub was due to the other boat having arrived with the body of the man from the wrecked boat. Of his- deathly face and limp figure Mary had too close a view, she having been carried off her post of vantage by the surging of the crowd in its fresh excitement. That too significant pallor and still- ness sent a long -remembered shudder through her; it was a sight she •was to recollect, in horror, at a more tepse time than even the present one: Instantly -he. was hurried away -pres- ently in the full, yet unheeded, view of Bella -to the first house at the beam -seas and the sheer weight• of wind was putting the stout Night Queen unpleasantly close , to, the lim- it of her endurance. A few inches further heeling over under press of sail,or a couple of oceanlurchers higher than usual, and over she must have gone. Those persona• who were on the harbour -side of - the crowd threw swift glances -from one frail craft to another, momentarily expect- ing that some disaster would happen to one or both of them, Mary was one of these, in thought. Her new position made it easy for her "to glance to and from boat to boat; and while she, who had as yet but little knowledge of seafaring matters, gaz- ed in deep alarm at the outgoing one, her silent prayer was as fervent as her trust In divine .protection great. rn the meantime the har wall by the roadway was topped, excited heads, arms and shoulders, mostly belonging to persons from Up- per Town and New Town; so were all the windows in The Row and the • straggling shops and houses further on. Amongst these was the agitated face of Bella; who had now realized what an "exhibition she had made of ,herself" in that hysterical spell on the jetty. Partially in consequence of this her tears were flowing- freely, but more because of the danger in which the .Night Queen was threshing its way out to the rescue; for Bella knew, as she narrowly watched the boat, that'it was likely to go over,at 'any moment. What if she had flirted with Bob Aplin? What if, in weak moments, during. Derreck's occasion- al voyages and quite unsuspected by him, she had even given Aplin en- couragement, to the extent of unlic- ensed conversation? -had she not still "kept him at arm's length," and always loved her husband far ' too much ever to be unfaithful to him? That was why she had now no eyes for anything but Derreck's danger. Aplin' might go to the bottom of the harbor there and then; and Bella would be sorry for him, his old folks and his sister. But all her attention, all her worry and all that half-con- scious prayer within her would be for Derreck, out there in that wild sea beyond the pier -head. At the same time, by, the further part of the harbour -wall, Mrs. Kings - worth stood, as closely watching her son's boat as Bella was, upbraiding openly everybody and thing that she could think of, in her heart calling all the other- men cowards for- not going out in Derreck's stead; yet in no -wise forgetting the open door of her shop, across the road behind her and quite ready' to "zlip in" to the needs of any chance customer who entered. Whether or nether husband was ti, the ,Night Queen, as usual, Mrs. Kingsworth had no knowledge, did not pause to think, and would not have spent words or thought on the matter had she known that. he was there.. It seemed as ff the old, dou- ble sort of township had quite emp- tied itself and drawn. out much of its newer portion, too; so thickly and so strenuously were some two-thirds of the harbour now surrounded by all classes of persons. From elegant firesides, as from tarred nets and washtubs, they had come pell-mell, quickly to be just so many humans, all actuated by the same intense feelings -wonder, fear, charity in a passion, conflicting desires, and that common trait of the spectator, the absorbing wish to direct where he 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 London, Lv. Exeter .• Hensall • Kippen Brucefield Clinton, Ar. Clinton, Lv. SOUTH Bracefleld „-.•.. Kippen Hensel' Exeter London, Ar. .r as ur- with A.M. 9.00 10.17 10.34 10.43 10.55 11.20 P.M. 3.10 3.32 3.44 3.53 4.10 5.25 C.N.R. TIME TABLE EAST Godericb Holmesville .. Clinton ' Seaforth St. Coiumban Dublin Mitchell Mitchell iDubiin WEST St. Coiumban Seaforth Clinton Qloderich A.M. 6.15 6.31 6.43 6.59 7.05 7.12 7.25 11.27 11.37 11.40 11.51 12.04 12.35 P.M. 2.30 2.50 3.13 3.21 3.27 3.35 3.47 10.33 10.44 10.56 11.10 11.35 C.P.R. TIME TABLE OAST tioderich Meneset McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton Ibtchl'aught Toronto ',3C'oronto McNaught Walton 931yth :Auburn *c(iiaw M ntetaet . b likottertott .......0 b......... WEST ,. the iggledy pigOlecly Vtreeession we;ot -some of its anembers: in oilskins, others. in sea -boots and reefers, many with bare arms and heads, and here and there silk and laceand fine cloth and gentle • features; most of them being wet, a few fairly drenched, and all of them joyously excited at the rescue; while the younger portion of the gathering was naturally exhilarat- ed by the rush of wind and seas -a nature -movement that never fails to communicate some of itself to healthy humans. • It was a fine sight, Bella saw it as such, and for a moment she was piqued at having no share in any of it -she who ought, to, have been there by the side of her)tail, handsome hus- band, with all eyes on her and him; but was hiding, in a way, . at her. chamber -*indoor, her face marked by those recent tears, the drink and hy- steria, her frock limp and tawdry, she miserable and growing more so as she watched Derreck and Mary at the head of the crowd, the while she became conscious of a dim dislike of something in what was so .fixing her whole attention. Yet it all seemed to -be so natural and so simple -ex- cept to ;Mary, who was beginning to feel curious little touches of. guilt and shame which was hardly shame --that barely anyone else thought of singling out Derreck and the tall, fair girl as a two -fold object of spe- cial consideration. To both of them it was no more than just the right thing to' do, and. he knew that her mind was as pure on• it all as ever had been the mind of a woman in love. As the involuntary figure -heads of the pier throng,• it was inevitable that some persons, who knew them well and had witnessed that scene when the cork -jackets were put on, should contrastthe wife with his friend of wife and husband; also that in the minds of a few of the elders, who commonly ,spoke of Derreck in his step -father's name, there should be a toueh of ordinary, passing re- gret, such as, "'Twas a pity young Kingsworth hadn't a -married ole Milroy's nice." Even this was most- ly due to the physical appearance of Mary and Derreck together. But they did not know of that shamed wife's face at the window there. The small ins and outs of her mind -which was now feeling itself snubbed in a pe- culiar way -the believiees and the doubtings, both of sellsand others; the little pieces of strength today, which became weaknesses on the morrow; the fine resolutions, as to self -governance and service to Der- reck, made in times of sobriety and penitence, to be forgotten or dubbed foolish when drink or some natural inconsistency came along and chang- ed her opinion: all these traits were unknown to those outside judges of the situation. Yet there was no denying it; Bella knew it and had lately, in her weak way, cast about her for some means of putting a new face on the matter -she was a but- terfly, not as far as men were con- cerned; but in all other things, such as aim in life, fixity of purpose, atti- tude of mind in a given effai>;,, even down to the pledging of her word in trivial matters, she had always been a piece of human thistledown. Now she gazed particularly at Mary, involuntarily remembering how they had made each other's acquaint- ance at 'the head of the jetty there, also that' wonderful brightening of Mary's eyes when Derreck, at their first meeting, talked of his'Baltic voy- age. Bella had never seen a great Moot o lees what he thinks would be a bete ter jetty, there to be strip ter way than the one which is being ped and every possible means ern followed. i ployed to restore animation. As four Now Derreck and Kingsworth were men carred him along, the Night hauling the wind a little, bringing Queen swept around the jetty -head those big seas more on their bows, and was at the steps before some of thus fetching' heavy sprays over the crowd knew of her being there. them, but reducing the danger of .Her arrival was the signal for an - their being swamped. In the mean -other wild cheer, that seemed to defy while Aplin and his mate bad reach both raging wind and seas; but these ed the wreckage and were striving to had collected their inexorable tax. get at the men amongst it, without Mary's heart was too full for her to having their own craft stove in. This express her joy in the violent manner u as a difficult task; but, with the of those about her. When, the.. res - row of strained faces and eager costs and rescued had gained the hands and tongues along the top of tumult on the jetty, and praise and the wall close by them, they succeed- compliments had gone from mouth to ed in dragging the body into their mouth in all directions, •she went boat and getting away again, just be quietly up to Derreck and said: "Now come home to Bella -she will fore tide and seas threw the broken be in a way till she sees you safe spar and its boat. Violently against in the house." the inner wall of the harbour. At this There was a sudden change in his point almost all the watchers were gazing at them, and a great hurrah bearing; that glow of animation, so up at their success -seeming to went rare in him of late, went hurriedly smack against Bella's bedroom wipe out of his face. Without a word he dow, as she, ignoring all else, kept turned slowly from his delighted i her gaze fixed on the Night Queen. townsfolk -in whose hearty tom Then practically everyone on the cid mendations be had forgotten all his troubles and found a brief, long -lost pier turned quickly and eagerly to the .other boat, which had already pleasure -and moved along towards the roadway, Mary at his side, and shipped a part of one awkward sea, yet had now covered half the din- an abrupt, half -curious, depressing tante to the schooner. Here Mary's silence on them both. But they were aievated position was of great ad- not allowed to continue thus, as if vantage' to her; and at this juncture the crowd and all things behind them it was speedily shared by three or were not of their kind. As they mov- fur other persons, who scrambled up ed off, Kingsworth and the, three men our and the boy from the wreck followe3, 8.20 beside her, ng every. foot of the as a matter of course, immediately in MiltingP,M, pile' of gear a d casts. As she turn their footsteps. Aiinast at the saime 12.04 ed from the fascination of watching instant 'longshoretnen and townapeo- 12.15 that struggle with death in the liar le closed up the rear, the young 12.28' bour, a sea thundered against the ones hurrying forward abreast cif 12.39 outside of 'the jetty, sending up 12.47 sharp spray that hit her face, malt- Dez'reek and' Mary, 1111 there VMS not 12.54 leg her clutch at the top of the Wall, a 'petSon left near the ieti#�i Itehd. SO teee , ely of the Ike ad ly0, s ell, a miofOE ttaue< spoken of only WI "that girl's infatuation" or "that mans madness," And in her walk of life a strong friendship by a :01000 roan or wernan for the fife partner of o,nother was apt; :a happening to be t,'ktp}4i4 gpil and blamed especially whew 'tha .Refaider was a, $txA.. of Mary's Mud, I3trt'-snow theft 'aygs a new feeling int Pella's heart, a; b erness• that. was tau poran 1iy..dee)? eaonah: •to be foreign to zt--ask hand° 'acacia' fnzpbilOg with .,'lite ;hem of, the. icing ieartaft, she shivered, as the gale struck the window', yet forgot her miserable physical condition and was conscious lily of that vague, dawling• something -which a keener rpind or stronger heart would at once have known to be jealousy --and of the strong nature; that lay behind the meeting ofthose t%vo crowds at the juncture of the roadway and the jet* ty. Bella saw the surging of the ex- cited' people; she took in all that was spectacular in the affair. But instantly all her faculties were fixed afresh on the handsome pair, about whom, es they now talked to each other, the gathering moved so heart - fully, and at whose heels the drip- ping rescued came -trophies of his courage and skill brought as guer- dons .to her high, awarding sense of duty and commendation of his action. Yes,' to her; in a hurried, muddled, heaped-up sort of 'manner Bella saw all this -saw that Mary was getting what •ought to have been •hers; was carrying it in that "lady -like: way of hers," as she (Bella) could not have carried it, and (the wife thought, with a flash of generosity which of- ten marked her doings and opinions) was more deserving of it all than she herself could ever be now. It was such a biting draught of the gall - dregs of loss and conscious impot- ence as Bella had never before Last: ed, as no happening of less.spectacu- lar and dramatic , power could have carried into her mind. The ,wild, foam -ridden sea; the 'spray -washed pier; the turbulent harbour; the wind battering at the window -panes; the neutral browns, greys and blue - greens of it all; the two parts of that converging spread of human eagerness and enthusiasm; that re- cent passing of death, almost close enough to chill the unheeding - all were alike unnoticed by Bella, as were those deeper significances which did not touch her personally. During some two or three minutes she was a strong woman centered on the most vital point in her life. Yet it was not Derreck's fault, nor was it Mary's, that they should be together at such, a time, in such cir- cumstances, side-by-side and con- spicuous to all, although loosely shouldered by others, when Bella ought to have been, in her friend's place. Despite Mary's subdued pride in the moment and the occasion and Derreck's returned pleasure in the whole affair, it . was not in their thoughts that they were "makinga show of themselves" -as some per- sons said afterwards -nor that the shameful wife was peeping obliquely at them from between the edge of her bedroom -curtain and the window - frame, the while her heart burnt as she saw herself vaguely injured and aggrieved by what was . ,going for- ward. In the waning light, for gloaming was •, beginning to deepen, Bella watched the roadway crowd mingle with those who came from, the old pier, as the latter made their way on to• the quay -road, without a thought that they were. making a triumphal procession; although Derreck now felt, in a way, that this was the very stuff of which life was made in its heights. Bella heard a great shout of praise and approbation go 'up from near her own front -door to the foot of the jetty, then spread along the jetty itself, behind those centre piec- es on whom her eyes were so intent- ly fixed that - even while she was again vividly conscious of the w)iole concourse of animated faces. flying P.M. 4.35 4.40 4.49 4.58 5.09 6.21 5.32 9.45 ?taps, bar heads, aiod4 iced &i nowt and a.11'-�tbe: ''w`liaie" Pa': oment sled her." shut ort<I 1:74d1:41 ovo revelled' do�r°zI 't11 k e '`r ary Si k so tlprlght, o:itwardly Geil�r{f have logely . the joy, 'Was now dearti to'her. Tien, as the rearing Of 01 wad bulla at the base + of the;i m.ed to drown the human note , dfldigkt, whicb the breeze • bad dung° Vit• RelbL's wli! t1 w sbe noticedtom tro13.04n.' at 'Glee w.oar of ttse xo .away' throne, the heado whS4i 't?!At3' part- Izag, . zi. z the 'Custom. "i[aolaae,_; •to let the, ehief actor# thropgh. ' Half shin ute later Derreck''ls ,Methee bustled' aleng the lane that had bean opened for her, at her shas'Purgency, and' up to Derreck she bent to add her' brief share of quickly worded praise;; which was given more as a seemly approval to be said shortll,..wimpress- ed deeply and no further mentioned, than' aa a mother's blessing on a roic deed. And when she • .added n mediately, on her - son's .safe re- to n, "An' the Lor'• Hisself be thank't," every. hearer, except those from the schooner, knew that 'there was not much weight to be attached to this oft -used phrase of Mrs- Kings- -worth's; not but that she was glad, very glad in her way, to see Derreck still safe on his feet. Her drawback in all such matters was that neither religion, reverence nor gratitude had much share in her composition. In some proof of this it was often re- marked afterwards that "although her long-sufferin' husband had gone through the zame dangers and dez- arved the zame praise as her zon, zshe had neether look nor word vor him." No, to her first son, her only surviving child, she had given her all; and the wormwood of her life was that "'ee was ztill may a bit of a viszherman, w'en 'ee might a -bin uiazter on a vine zschooner or a brig mebbe, but vor that trollopzin' zlattern of a wife" - a ... fact ...which Mrs. Kingsworth could never forget and always had near her tongue in one form or another. Even now, be- fore that six -worded, half -meant "thanks" had more than died off her lips, the sight of Mary at Derreck's side was enough to make his mother lean sd'ine way across- him, towards Mary, and exclaim in that quick, in- cisive manner of hers, to the sudden strange •dislike. cd? re 4 increasing of Mary's to her: "Oh, me dear, that you ought to bin in agone!-not yon'!" - "Mother." It was one of rarely uttered sharp cautions; and, together with his eye -signals that strangers were at their• elbows, it had the desired effect. He had stop- ped his mother's utterance entirely for Mary's sake; but not soon en- ough to prevent a sharp flush in the girl's pale cheeks. And Bella saw that 'glow; she knew her mother-in- law very well, and a right prompting that came of this knowledge, that flush and the situation generally -and abrupt instinct, springing from be- yond the reach of her intelligence,' made her divine somewhat the cause of Mary's agitation. Like a flash the incident set Bella's mind off at a tangent. That quick brewing of vine- gar was in abeyance; the budding de- termination became as nought and was trust into the background. Bella was her true self again. She might resent Mary's being so much one with Derreck on such an occasion; but, side-by-side yvith some real love far the girl, there was in her heart far too much stropgej hatred of Mrs. Kingsworth for her to allow the old woman even the briefest and simp- lest of triumphs where she was con- cerned. Besides, she had been out of this pageantry all too 'long; a few minutes more and it would apparent- ly all be over. Here was a chance to snatch a small share at the last moment -a theatrical share. So, true to the inherent weakness of her na- ture, that proneness to abrupt chang- es of mind and unconsidered actions, be the place az these two year Derreck's up rattled tl1. tlowt: in rush '. of ane Salt spun la to " the waist, "bravo! Dezry'T' YnstalRt. iity/ ,k kerehi, d, " Brayo will).' l*n► prelld of kilo <'4. i bravo for you,' Bella!:,-.-you,bo a good ianl, toot shouted 'Bob Aplin, from: amongst the further side of the:! crowd, near the chili actors': k .Ashes - Mortibcation and disap> pointment were largely Bona's umph. She knew the meaning of lin's..laudation as no one else lcna' it; and it filled her with abrupt t',�i sentment and a certain: nausea turned her attention immediately :on herself. In place of that, sudden de- sire to wrest bier share of the, eb.o*, and let Mrs. Kingsworth see that she was as muoh alive as ever, she saw herself leaning over the gaping con- course -with its •sprinkling of= fuer folk from New Town -her hair awry, , l'er face Streaked (she felt sure that everybody could see the• marks), and all the smartness gone from her "af- ternoon bodice." What, came. • the swift thought, if Derreck's mother had known why handsome,daring and showy young Bob Aplin.had flung that praise at her! Feeling rather sheepish at what she had doge; .-yet --- knowing not why, nor that she ' ha,d ' made Derreck and Mary uneasy in different degrees, she hastily with- drew and closed the window - just as Mary edged her way through the crowd, entered by the front -door, and hurried upstairs to help Bella is making berself presentable; while Derreck, Kingsrvorth and the crowd accompanied the survivors to an ina further along the road. (Continued Next Week) Speeding Release of Men for Farms In ensuring the speedy release of. men from the armed forces for farm work, Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, Min- • ister of Labour,. says the Agricultural Labour Survey Committees which were set up last winter in each of the thirteen mobilization divisions of the Dominion, under the sponsorship of the, Agricultural Employment Divi- sion of his Department; have been doing a good job. The. Committees have close contacts with the armed forces and have been -successful in seeuring the release of men. • Since July lst of this year, more than 5,000 applications for the release of farm workers have been reviewed. The Committee consist of provin- cial directors of Farm Labour, Re- gional Employment Advisers, repre- sentatives of Mobilization Boards, • • and representatives of the armed forces, and are thus aided by men- who enwho are conversant with, the prob- lems of agriculture, including those of farm labour. - While the • Committees deal mainly with farm workers, they also advise in some areas on the release of men for logging, fishing, and food process- ing plants. The Committees also ad- vise farmers and others in basic in- dustries on the procedures involved ' in securing men from the Services who are anxious to take up work in any of these dines. Made From Wood, Shimmery, Rayon Resumes Peace Role • !At'ter•I �p1 ;brel rllui Ali at lb , vital but prosaic role in war, rayon left. into kos6 i cr n wood; lra6c reap its Sl at ' dI slob or ., 'o'vid 1§6a ty did,. olla to,,: '' in+ t di : 1* 01ji 1 4tura beio kirk lit • 'i tin